iJont Live Yourself
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THE BANK
fflOUGH ITALY
By Kit-hard Harding Davis
I At liomo wo talk glibly of n world
,u Hut beyond speculating in mti
i tiona ami an lo how many Ameri
cans will he killed by the next sub
I liirino and how many letters the pre
r dent will write about It, we hardly
( ppreciato that this actually is a war
d the world, that not only in Europe
1 ut that all over the nlob, every ship
of Htate, even tho it may by trying to
ttcer straight courHC la being violent
ly rocked by it. Even tho individual
i i ho moves from country to country
i locked by it, not violently, but con
t itioUsly. It is in Ions of time nuy
I loney he feels it most. And as he
I iivehi he learns, as he cannot learn
i om a map, how fur-reaching arc the
i .unifications of this war, in how many
( fferent ways it affects everyone. He
toon rotiK'H to accept whatever hap
I ns as d rectly due to the war. F.vcn
hen tho deck steward tell3 him ho
c nnot play shuffleiioard because ow
i the war tliero ic no chalk.
Two days for Passport.
In times of peace to got to this, place
fiom Paris did not require more than
x days, but now, owing to the war
i making the distance we wasted fif
t 'on. That is, not counting the time in
Paris required by the chief to issue the
1 u port without which no ono can
hi vo France. At the prefecture of
pi ice I found a line of people Flench
I liana, Americans, English, in col
himns of four, winding thru gloomy
1 nils, down dark starways and out
I 10 the street. I took one look at
t to line and fled to Mr, ThucKtira, our
distil general, land thanks to him, was
lit more than an hour obtaining my
1 isser passer. The police assured mo
I might consider myself fortunato ns
I i Mini) they usually spent in propar
i f a passport is two days. It was
lull necessary a vise from tho Italian
t nsulate permitting me to outer Ifca
from the Greek consulate to enter
C eeco, and, as my American passport
i id nothing to Serbia, from Th.ickara
I vo more vises one to get out of
Franco and another to invade .Serbia.
lanks to the war, in obtaining alt
t'lese autographs two moru days wore
isted. I peace times one had only
to go to Cook's and buy a ticket. In
those days theie was no more delay
than in reserving a seat for tho theat
er. Summer Resort no More
War followed us south. Tho win
dow's of tho wagon-lit were plastered
With warnings to be careful, to talk
to no strangers, that ho enemy was
1 tuning. War had invaded oven Aix
1 Haines, most lovely of summer
) 'easuro grounds. As we passed it
v .is wrapped ir. snow. Cat's Tooth J
t :it toweis between Ai.xe and Cham
be ry and that lifts into the sky a great'
'oils two hundred feet in height, was
i il white, the pine trees around tho
1 e were white, the streets were
v ilte, tho Casino des Flours, tho Ccr-
c e, the hotels. And, above each of;
t'lem, whore once was only good nuitdc
j ood wines, beautiful flowers and hae-'
cirat, now droop innumerable Red
.oas flags. Against the snow covor-
i hills they were like little splashes
A Desk Phone
Because it takes IchM of your time
and energy lo anmser.
Ht't'niiM the convenience will muni
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Dividends
lleiiuue ou ta lek In dollar
and ii'iilH (Iiuii In the punt.
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rtnU per ninnlli teb limn one mil
u llll).
Coos and Curry Telephone Company
lause lo Regret It
because you reg'ee'ed placing
your valuables in a safety de
posit vault. Many have re
greted their tardiness inacting
fires and burglars have cost
them dear. Anything valu
able is worth taking care of.
Our vaults are fire and burglar
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tion. OF BANDON
IN WAR TIMES
of blood.
Different in Hay
War followed us into Italy. But
from the war as one finds It in Eng
land and France, it differed. Per
haps we were too far west, but, ex-
cept for the field uniforms of green
and the new scabbards of gun metal
and, at Turin, four caroplanes in the
air at the same time, you might not
have known Italy was one of the al
lies. For one thing, you saw no
wounded. Again, perhaps it was be
cause wo were too far south, and west
and that the fighting in the Tyrol Is
concentrated. Hut Bordeaux is farth
er from the battle line in France than
's Naples from the Italian front and
die multitudes of wounded in Horde
nix, the multitudes of women in black
in Bordeaux, make one of the most ap
palling, most significant pictures of
this war. In two days in Naples I
Jul not sec a wounded num. Hut many
Germans and German signs, and
no ono had scratched Mumm off the
wine card. A country that is one of
tho allies, and yet is not at war with
Germany, cannot claim to take this
war very seriously. She even leaves
herself open to suspicion.
Has Italy an "Object?"
In Naples tho foreigners accuso Ita-
of running with the hare and the
hounds. They nsk what is her ob
ject in keeping on friendly terms with
tie bitterest enemy of the allies. If
there an understanding, that after the
war, sho and Germany will together
arve slices off of Austria? What
ever her ulterior object may be her
present war spirit does not impress
the visitor. It is not tho spirit of
Fiuuce and England. One man said
to me, "Why can't you keen the Itali
an-Americans in America? Over
there they earn money nnd send mil
lions of it to Italy. When they come
here to fight not only thai money
stops but we have to feed and pay
them."
It dill not sound very grateful. Nor
as tho Italy was seriously at var. You
do not find France and England, or
Gerimny, grudging the ma .vho ve
turns to light for his country his ra
tions and pay. And Italy pays her
soldiers five cents a day. Many of
the reservists and volunteers from
America who answered the call to
arms nre bittterly disappointed. They
expected to be led at once to the fir
ing line. Instead, after six months,
they are still in camp. The families
r.ome brought with them are in great
need. They are not used to living on
five cents a day. An Italian told me
the heaviest drain upon the war re
lief funds came from the families of
these Italian-Americans stranded in
their own country. He also told me
his chief duty was to meet them on
their arrival.
Italian Kohs Italian
"Hut haven't they money when they
arrive from America!" I asked.
"That's it," he said, naively. "I'm
at the wharf to keep their country
men from robbing them of it."
At present in Europe you cannot
take gold out of any country that is
at war. As a result, gold is less val
is Cheaper!
of Service J
uable than paper, and when Iexchang-
ed my double eagles for paper.I lost
But I did not really lose, for as I had
turned in the gold in France, I receiv.
ed a beaut ful certificate "suitable
for framing," which testifies that un-1
selfishly and patriotically as a true
son of France instead of hoarJinp ny
gold, I surrendered it to the republic.
And would I accept and perpetuate
that erroneous and indeserved tribute
by framing it? I would.
French "High Finance."
On the advice of the wisest young
banker in France I changed, again at
a loss, the French paper into Bank of
Engb-d notes. But when I arrived in
Saloniki I found that with the Greeks
English bank notes were about as po
pular as English troops, and that had
I changed my American gold into
American notes, as was my plan, 1
would have been passing rich. That
is what comes of associating with
bankers.
At the Italian frontier a French
gentleman had come to the door of the
compartment, raised his hat to the
inmates, and asked if we had any gold
Forewarned, we bad not; and taking
our word for it, he again raised his hat
and disappeared. But, on leaving
Naples, it was not like that. In these
piping times of war your baggage is
examined when you depart as well as I
when you arrive. You get it coming
and Koine. But the Greek steamer
was to weigh anchor at noon, and at
noon all the port officials were at de
jeuner, so, sooner tnan wait n ween
for another boat, the passengers went
on board and carried their bags with
them. It was unpardonable. It was
an affront the port officials could not
brook. They had been disregarded
Their dignity had ben flouted. What
was worse, they had not been tipped.
Into the dining saloon o the Greek
steamer, where he was at lunch they
hurst like Barbery pirates They
ihrieked, U ey yelled. Nobody knew
Alio they wre, or what they wanted
Nor did they enlighten us. lliey on
ly heat upon the tables, clunked their
.words, and spoiled our lur.ch. Why
.vc were accused, or of what wo were
iccused w) tould not detiiniine. V.'i
't'.guely re. ogjiized ou names, nnd
tood up, and while they continued to
Cat upon the tables c Greek 3leward
-xplained they wante-i our gold. I
howed them mv bank notes andwas
dlowcd to return to my garlic and
cal. But the English cigarette king
I n each t.toks send.t son.) millions
i cigarette i to the To rmies in the
m ches, ptnj oiec to make a te-t i.msc
! it
"Let George Do it."
'I havo on me," ho whispered, "four
'nglish sovereigns. I am not taking
hem out of Italy, because, until they
tossed tho border in my pocket, they
vcre not in Italy, and as I am now
raving Italy, one might say they have
ever been in Italy. Its as tho they
vero in bond. I am a British subject
ml this is not Italian but British gold
shall refuse to surrender my four
ovreigns. I will make it a lest case."
Tho untipped port oflicials were still
angling their swords, so I advised the
igarotto king to turn in his gold.
Iven a Greek steamer is better than
.n Italian jail.
"I will niako of it a test'ease," he
epcated.
"Let George do it," I urged.
At that moment, in the presence of
11 tho passengers they were search-
n g tho person of another British sub
set, and an ally. He was one of La
y Padgct's suit. He was in uniform,
nd as they ran itching fingers over
lis body, he turned crimson, and the
est of us, pretending not to witness
.is humiliation, ate ravenously of
oat's cheese.
The cigarette king, breathing de
fiance repeated. "I will make of it a
est case."
"Better let George do it," I urged.
Ami when his name was culled, a
name that is as well known from Ka
valla to Smyrnr. in tobacco fields,
.weetmoat shops, palaces and masqu
es, as at the Ititz and the Gaiety, the
cigarette king wiacly accopted for his
four sovereigns Italian llres.
At thoir rnto of exchange, too.
Iater, off Capri, he asked, "When
you advised me to let George make a
test case cf it, to which of our fellow
passengers did you refer?"
Another War Order
In tha morning tho "Adriaticus"
picked up the had falls of Messinn,
but histoid of mnkinir fast to the
may, .mchorud her length from it.
This appeared to be a port regulation.
It enables the boatmen to earn a liv
ing by charging passengers two francs
for a round trip of fifty yards. As tho
wrecked city ceeina to be populated
only by boatmen, rowing passenger
ashore , the chief imluitry.
Ktriktn Mrmlim
The Htrikuri neuiwrt look te tho r.u
eivntiy us lunt week the German ar
my hud vimti-d il. In Framv, ultho
wur tlll etnlum, Imviu wrecked y
llu (ionium urn ulremly rebuilt. Hut
Ah4'h ftr (our yiMM if M'r', In
4ill h Jul". Hi- .ffuii tliut uj.pur
I'M hut la' nud lo ruMr! It. fhv
u.lii!fd I lib I t7 pniiUd ho
imnm ut tlm tMihjult huw )m
exactly as she is today. With, In the
streets, no sign of life, with the in
habitants standing idle along tho
quay, shivoring in the rain nnd snow,
with for background crumbling walls
gaping cellars and hills buried under
ncres of fallen masonry, the picture
was one of terrible desolation, of ne
glect and inefficiency. The only
structures that had obviously been er
ected since the earthquake were tho
"ready-to-wear" shacks sent as a stop
gap from America. O.io should not
look critically at a gift-house, but they
are certainly very ugly. In Italy,
whore every spot is a "location" for
moving pictures, whore the street cor
ners are backgrounds for lovers'
trysts and assassinatiois, where oven
poverty is picturesque, and each land
scape "composes" into a beautiful and
wondrous painting, the zinc shncks in
rigid lines, like the barracks of a min
ing camp, came as a shock.
Sympathetic Americans sent them
as only a temporary shelter until Mos
sina rose again. But, it was explain
ed as there is no rent to pay, the Ita
lians, instead of rebuilding, prefer to
inhabit the ready-to-wear houses. How
many tourists the mere view of thorn
drives away, no one can guess.
There's a Reason j
People who linger in Naples and by
train to Reggio join the boat as Mes
sina never admit that they followed
that route to avoid being seasick. Sea
sickness is an illness of which no one
ever boasts. He may take pride in
saying, "I've an awful cold!" or, "I've
such a headache I can't sec!" and will
expect you to feel sorry. But he
knows no matter how horrible ho suf
fers from mal de mer, he will receive
no sympathy. In a Puck and Punch
way he will be merely comic. So the
passengers who come over the side
ut Messina always have an excuse
other than that they are dodging the
3ea. It is usually that they lost their
luggage at Naples and had to search
for it. As the Italian railroads, which
are operated by the government, al
ways lose your luggage, it is an ad
mirable excuse. So, also is the one
that you delayed in order to visit the
ruins of Pompeii. The number of
pcoplo who have visited Pompeii solely
because the bay of Naples was in an
ugly mood will never be counted.
A TKIBUTE OF RESPECT
Sadness hereabout is general over
the demise of Mrs. Mary (Gibson)
Thrift, which occurred at her homo on
Thursday, Jan. 13 1916, at the age of
12 years.
Deceased was born at EUcnsburg
now Gold Beach and was eldest, of
three sisters, Mary, Henrietta, Jean-
ette, the second having espoused a re
ligious life and retired is known as
Sister Mary Aquinas.
Deceased was united in marriage
with Edward B. Thrift, May 14, 1899
and to the union have been four child
ren, two boys nnd two girls, all whom
including her husbad, survive to
mourn the passing of a kind, indul
gent, wife, and a loving tolerant ad
humane mother.
Deceased along with her two sis-j
ters above mentioned, entered Mount)
Migei college in lH'JU, wnere tne more ;
immediately useful sciences nre taught
nnd whero artificialities of behavior
are eschewed, and naturalness and
right thinking aro sedulously encour
aged. Wherefore ith as occurred that
deceased had endeared herself to a
very large circle of friends and ac
quaintances to a degree seldom equal
ed, in the intercourse of mortals with
their kind.
None knew her but to hold her in
highest respect for her many humane
and nimable qualities and. helpful
traits, and none will remember but to
grieve over our common bereavement.
Interment took place at Denmark,
cemetery on Saturday, Jan 15, where
the obsequies were witnessed by a
very largo attendance of people con
sidering that the day was the nost in
clement nnd forbidding of the season.
Tho husband, sisters and the two
sons nnd two daughters as well ns the
aged and honored father, Mr. M. B.
Gibson, are objects of sincerest con
dolence in their great bereavement by
their whole circle of acquaintances.
I. II. Upton in Port Orford Tribune.
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On the Alaska const tho salmon pack
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feet of timber a year from the Chug-
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It is estimated that 100,000,000
pounds of beef land mutton aro soldi
each year from herds and flocks oc-
cupying tiw National Forest range.
limber trrsimst on the National1
Fo rents is no longer important in am
ount or character. The incentive has
been largely removed by tho availabi
lity of National Poreht iluiiijge und
er free use or reasonable terms of
sule. New tn'puH rases aro unuul
ly the rtult ut unintentional error
in reg-rd to Mile or the looutlun of
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Tho Forest Sorvico is co-operating
in game protection under definitely
agreed plans with the States of Ari
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do, Montana, and South Dakota.
MEATLESS DISHES.
DINNER MENU.
Tomato and Onion Tie.
Buttered Ueeta. Green Peas.
Lettuce Hearts. Red Dreiulng.
Raised Hlicults!
Huckleberry Pie. Cream Cheese.
Iced Tea.
Tomato and Onion Pi.
PARBOIL some onions, sllco them
and fry In butter tintli colored.
Dip some tomatoes Into boiling
water, skin and sllco. Lay alternate
layers of tomato mid onion In u pie
dish, sprinkling encli layer with bread
crumbs, small pieces of butter, salt ami
pepper. Cover with miiHlicd potnto.
Score with a fork and brown In tlu
oven.
Tomato Rice.
Wash two ounces of rice thoroughly
nd cook It In half a pint of milk until
quite soft and flavor with salt and
popper. Tnko one pound of stewed
and sieved tomato nnd bent together.
Stir In one ounce of butter and cook
until quite moist, but not wet Serve
very hot nnd, If liked, strew grated
cheese over.
Tomato Rice and Egga.
Serve the tomato rice In a fireproof
dish with poached eggs on the top.
Stuffed Tomatoss.
Prepare the tomato rice ns before.
Take the necessary number of large
dry tomatoes, dip into boiling water,
skin, cut the tops off nud remove some
of the pulp (the tops nnd pulp can be
used for the puree). Kill the tomato
cases with rice. Scatter with flue
browned crumbs, seasoned with celery
salt and cayenne. Put a little piece
of butter on each nnd bake on a
greased tin In n moderate oven for
about twenty minutes. Serve hot
Vegetable Curry (Hot or Iced).
Weigh Ilvo ounces of margnrlue.
I Chop very line four medium sized
. nH
Melt the margarine and cook
tuo ollloiw lu u uutu tney aro doop
Kold brown, a process which takes
time. Mcnnwhllo put on a saucer In
the oven a tablespoonftil of curry pow.
der and leave It for ten minutes and
then mix It smooth with n little milk
or cream. Add to the ouloii mixture
and cook gently for two hours nt least,
stirring now nnd then.
Cut into neat squares one smnll
vegetable marrow, n small peeled cu
cumber, ono raw npple, two tomatoes
(peeled) and some French beans with
the strings removed, nil of which have
been previously cooked. Place In the
curry mixture and cook gently for thirty
minutes. Serve very hot with well
boiled rice or ico It.
Almost any leftover vegetables may
be used In the curry, such as peas,
cauliflower, broad beans, etc.
' Chicago, III. The mysterious "pep
per bandit," who has been holding up
pedestrians for mUny weeks was ar
rested recently. He was an anemic
boy, 18 yaars old, named Fred Loguc.
He confessed nineteen holdups, all ac
complished with a toy glass pistol.
South Bethlehem. Pa. Joseph Dan
zko arrived at this place recently with
10-months old child strapped to his
Ijack, on his way to New York. He
had walked with the baby on his back
from Canada, a distance of 250 miles.
kee,,jn(, the child alive on crackers and
waujr
Columbus, O. An apple pie which
won a prize of bushel of apples at tho
O. S. U. apple show, was baked by a
five-year-old cooking marvel Esther
Itae Johmon, She wait pitted in the
contest with eventy-fivu housewives
mid one man. The prize was a spe
ila I one u warded for the excellent
I cooking.
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COQ'UILLE VALLEY COVERED
WITH A BLANKET OF WHITE
Tho heaviest snow fall in seven or
eight years occurred in this valley on
New Year's eve and the first day of
the year. Tho residents in tho valley
frequently got glimpses of tho snow
on the high hills to the south of here.
but for them to see at close range and
actually handle any number of thesa
"crystals of frozen vapor" is a rare
treat, and Saturday saw many a
young American getting nis urst
practice at "sno balling" while some
of with whom it has almost become a
lost art had a chance to get into trim
and "come back".
About three inches of snow fell and
remained on the ground Saturday and
Sunday and there were a few traces
of it left on Monday. The snow
which was wet and heavy in fact rain
fell with it nt times, lodged in tho
boughs of the spruce firs and myrtles
cnucausing them to break, and in this
way there was considerable damage
done to telephone lines in various
sections. Myrtle Point Enterprise.
YELLOWSTONE WAS
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
The steam schooner Yellowstone ar
rived olf the bar this morning at 8
o'clock but owing to rough watc1.',
stuyed outside until ten o'clock, when
sho entered.
The Yellowstone was passing Coos
Hiiad at the time tho worst of the
thunder storm was prevailing, and re
ceived a bolt of lightning which struck
the foremast and scattered down tho
guys to the deck. No particular da
mage was dono the vessel, excepting
tho mast head light was demolished.
The sailors on deck were slightly
shocked but no one was injured. Cap
tain John Fngerstrom while speaking
of the storm, in California last week
said tho Yellowstone was lying in
Oukland creek and the wind was so
strong it drove the vessel against one
of the wharves and broke one of the
rails. "Records" Captain Fagerstroni
fi,id, "showed the storm was the
worst that had occurred about San
Francisco Bay in 20 years. Marsh
field Record.
Hood River, Ore. A sturgeon which
lias been a captive in a small pool for
over ItO years, luis been released by
Mrs. Sue M. Adams Armstrong who
owned him. The fish had grown from
a small one to over six feet in length.
Dazed, at first, by his freedom, he
quickly recovered himself and disap
peared in the deep channel of the
Columbia river,
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