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This Is The Celebrated ANRER-HOLTH SELF-BALANCING CREAM SEPARATOR It Will Increase your dairy profit! 30 to 40 per cent If you nre sklmuiiiiK your milk by the old hand method. ir WILL SAVE YOU TIME, na the bowl, discs, find timvtire can he thoroughly cleaned Id five minutes. IT WILL SAVK LA HO It, AH U la the ens ltat running cream separator iu the world. IT WILL HAVE KKI'AIR EXPENSE), because It has fewer mechanical iitrts than aiiv other separator. IT IS THE ONLY SEPARATOR where the skimmed milk Is delivered from the top of tbe bowl and the cream from the bot tom. No intermixing. IT IS SELF-OILING, and so clean and sanitary that It could even be placed in your parlor without disagreeable resuItH. It is built with the accuracy of a watch and tbe strength of a motor. THE ANKHR-HOLTH SEPARATOR WILL SKIM MORE CREAM, OF A HIGHER QUALITY, that will make more butter, than any other cream separator on tbe market, ami we have tbe proof to sus tain this statement. We want you to know more about this great Oenm Separator Write for discrip uva catalogue. THE J. C. BOBINSON CO. 44 First Street Tortland, Oregon CARBON PAPER & TYPEWRITER RIBBON Simmons Carbon Paper Co., $09 B. 69th North. All klnd.s of carbon paper, extra durable typewriter ribbons. AGATE CUTTERS & MFG. JEWELERS Jewelry and watch repairing. Miller's, 355 Wash. St., Majestic Theater Bldg. AUTO ACCESSORIES Motors, gears, bearings, wheels, axles, and trailers, We wreck all makes of cars and sell their parts at half price. David Hodes Co., N. Broadway and Flanders. ACETYLENE LIGHTING SYSTEMS. l'llot Generators installed. All kinds of Supplies. J. W. Clancy 333 E. Morrison St. MACHINERY Cut your own lumber on a Wheland ! Portable Sawmill. You will save time ! and big money on your next lumber bill. I With this sawmill you can supply the j lumber needs of your neighbors also. The price Is reasonable, and the profits will ! soon pay for the machine. Write for I catalog and full details. Clyde Eqpt. Co., 18th and Thurrnan sts., Portland Ore. BULK GRAIN ELEVATOR ANNUAL COST OF HIGHWAYS Construction and Maintenance Involve Expenditure of $300,000,000 Burden on Roads. (Prepared by the United States Depart- Road construction and maintenance In the United States Involve an annual outlay of over $300,000,000, a sum (Vhlch. If capitalized at 5 Der cent. would represent an Investment of $0,- 000,000.000. As recently as WKi there were nnlv 100,000 motor vehicles In the United States compared with nearlv fi.000.000 of 1917, while In 1904 the total outlay New Treatment for Seed Oats. Under a new system of treating seed oats to prevent smut, which Is recommended as a great labor saver by experts at Perdue university, a so lution of one pint of formaldehyde with one pint of water. Is mixed which is enough to treat seed for 20 acres. This is applied with an atom izer sprayer. The seed may be sown within five hours or it may be stored and kept until sowing time. This smut treatment may be made now as the seed will not get damp enough to freeze and spoil. After treatment it should be covered with disinfected sacks or tarpaulin to keep the fumes at work. Farm Life. n Any Size. None Too Small; None Too Large. WOOD $1.00 Without Bath $1.50 With Bath Weekly Rales Monthly Rales NORTONIA HOTEL PORTLAND. ORE. Central Location. Beautifully Furnished Excellent Cafe. 11th and Stark. OR W PmNPRFTF iDvealigalt Consliuilion at low. Ore., and. Milton, Ore. FRANK C. BURRELL CO. PORTLAND, Lewis Building OREGON FIVE DAYS' FREE TRIAL on guar nnteed K'luill ma chined, We are a ho aKontH for tile WOODSTOCK Write'for.booh let -The- Rebuilt Typewriter Co 304 Oak M., PlflM Ot. FISCMERS AUTO BED E. HYDE, lnt Representative 66 Sixth St., PORTLAND, ORE. Sleep on your Seat Cushions. Compact Fit, under the rear seat Write for circulurs. Agents Write for Special Offer EVERYTHING FOR THE OFFICE Dffice Furniture & Appliances PRIN TING .: ENGRA VING :: BOOKBINDING ttMHHLL C0RO 200 Room. 100 Bath, Near Both Depot, Fireproof Hotel Hoyt Corner Sialh and Hoyt St,.. Portland, Ore. LOU taWS, Manager. RATES:-76c to tt. BTECIAl. -Wcok or Month Dogs Have Dreamland. That the primitive man dreamed we have no doubt. Even animals do that. All ot us have Been aleepiiitr dons ko through tbe Incipient movements of a chase, accompanied by Taint yelpings, and the unmistakable muscular action which would curry them In pursuit of their quarry If exaggerated hy the greater vitality of wakefulness. Extremes. Heaven ilty the woman whose has hand is so wild that she can't control htm. or thn one whose spouse Is so good that he's monotonous. Rich mond Times Dispatch. A Fatal Mistake. "I was once a successful physician," remarked a seedy looking Individual In a railway currlago to a fellow trav elor, "with a largo practice; but ow ing to one little slip, my patients left me, and now I llvo from hiiiid to mouth." "What was tho slip?" "Well, sir," replied the ex physician, "In filling a death certificate for a pa tlont who had died I alisent mludcdly signed my name In tho space headed, Cause uf death!' " Exchange. The Light Ahead. What lightens labor, sanctifies toll and makes a man good and strong, wise and patient, just and benevolent, both lowly and great, as well as worthy of Intelligence and freedom, Is tho perpetual vision before him of a hotter world beaming through life's shadows. Victor Hugo. Liked Frederick Best. Marjorie Is fair and feels real proud of her pretty blue bonnet Tho other dsy she came home from kindergarten and said: "Frederick telled mo my bonnet is pretty, but James said 'High cost of living' at me." CF " y complete: line pr steel New Houston Hotel and Kvvreft Sts., Portland, Ore. ur Itlonkn from Union Depot. Two block i from New IVrntolIico. Modern and fireproof Over KM) ouUide roomti. Katun 76tr to t2M. CHAS. G. HOPKINS. Manager, J Ready and Willing. Tho village Idiot gaped so long at tho village grocer that the worthy man became irritated. "Look here, what you starin' at? If you can find a man homelier than your self, kill him!" The village idiot went ih search of a man uglier than himself, and one day ho found one. He tapped him on the shoulder. "I've got to kill you," ho said, smil ing amiably, "You're homelier than me." Tlie stranger turned and looked at the oilier for a full minute. "Am I?" ho said "Then for good ness sake, kill mo!" New Idea. Tribute to Friendship. "Friends," said John Hay, "are the sunshine of life. All men seek sun light, noil every man seeks a friend after his own kind and nature. The best anil most. Intelligent of lis admits the unity and value of friendship; (he worst am most Ignorant of us Is unwittingly tho belter for knowing some friendly companion." Atlantic Monthly. Had His Nerve. Man (nl the phone, to man at. the oilier end of the wire) "How dare vmi talk In me like that! You're not my wife!" Fasting to Induce Dreams. Fasting for the purpose of Inducing dreams may he traced hack to a very early period. And tho foromost be Hovers in dreams were our own pic turosque Indians. History tollB us of certain tribes who enjoined rigorous lasting among children from a vory early age. during which ttnin Bpectal attention was paid to their dreams. Simple But Good Advice. "Don't bother loo much," said Uncle Chen, "'boul puttln1 yob bes' foot for ward. ,Ies' keep both feet movln' till you gits whar you'l gine to." To keen clean and heatthv take Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regu late liver, bowels and stomach. SHIP Veal, Pork, Beef. Poultry, Butter, Egg, and Farm Produce. to the Old RattaUa KVenUnl house with a record uf 46 yuam of Suuui,' 1 iwUiiiu-s, and ba aaaurmt ot TOP MARKET PRICES. F. M. CRONKHITE, 45-47 Front ItrMt, Portland. Oragon Youngsters Generally Do. Hartley was visiting his aunt for a : few days. A friend asked him if he went to school. He admitted that he had not been yet, but volunteered to tell her various things which mamma hail taught him. Then with a sudden bright expression ha added: "And 1 know some things I've never been teachedl" FRED DUNDEE MOTOR CAR REPA1RINC MACHINE WORK MAGNETO SERVICE STATION ALL KINDS OF WELDING CYLINDER GRINDING PROMPT ATTENTION TO ALL ORDERS Broadway at Flanders, Portland, Or. Your Best Asset A Clear Skin Cared for By Cuticura Soap P. N. U. No. 27, 1918 Earn More Young Women and Men lltislnc crifit for trained mindn. Ciragu your opportunity Kni.rH new In Northweat'a hunnu hunlmw nillnta. hrhnkv-Walkrr. Portland f rvo Catalua. Hides, Pelts, 1BS Wool & Mohaii M il km. Wife k rnm uCawai Tap. "2 THE H. F. NORTON COMPANY, Poruand. Or... Soaltk-. Wn H.UIninaa Wn. Vitrified Brick for Paving Country Roads Filling the Joints, First Coat. In money and labor on the public roads aggregated only 80,000,000, compared With some $300,000,000 for I1I17. Thus the pulillc roods have been changed with bewildering rapidity from the stains of the purely local ullilty to that of a utility of national importance and scope It Is well known that the railroads of the United Slates are unable to carry the enormous truffle now offered for transportation, and It Is to be expected that the public roads will from now on have added to their present traffic bur dens such freight as may be shifted to tin-in to relieve railway congestion. It Is beyond question that for pas senger haul the public roods are used to n greater extent than the railroads. These Impressive conditions-have been created within the span of a single generation. tin July II, 1916, President Wilson approved a measure generally known us the federal-aid road act, which car ried an appropriation of $75,000,000 to iiiil the stales In the construction of rural post roads and $10,000,000 to bo Expended tor the construction and maintenance of forest roads. BUILDING ROADS IN ALASKA Road Commissioners Find Trouble In Maintenance on Account of Nar row Tired Trucks. Alaska has been building roads since 1005. It lias built !'-'" miles of wagon roads, ll'J'.l miles of winter sled roads and 2,210 miles of trails. One of these roads was built for motorcar traffic, but more tluiii 260 trucks and passen ger cars were In use over them at the close of the last fiscal year. Much damage has been done to the roads by heavy narrow-tired trucks, and the board of road commissioners finds troubles of maintenance with them always. In addition, they found 11 necessary to build a five-mile road along a hillside last summer by cover ing the road bed with willow cordu roy and surfacing the corduroy with gravel because the material underlying the locution consisted of six feet of gravel on the bed reek, forty feet of clear Ice on the gravel ami two feet of moss anil tundra on top. How Could She? "Ah, Rosle," I said, as I held her pretty little pink hands in my big burley brown mitts, "you have told me repeatedly that you love me and that you would fulfill my every wish. I have done everything, you requested of me. Your whimaied wish has been my one desire. We have gotten along perfectly together and wonderfully noble thoughts have raked my brain. After all this, how could you put such a high polish on your finger nails when you know I like a dull finish!" Penn State Froth. It Works!Try It Tells how to loosen a sore, tender corn so It lifts out without pain. ---..-,'.-, , No humbug! Any corn, whether hard, soft or between the toes, will loosen right up and lift out without a particle of pain or soreness. This drug is called freezone and Is a compound of ether discovered by a Cincinnati man. Ask at any drug store for a small bottle of freezone, which will cost but a trifle, but Is sufficient to rid one's feet of every corn or callous. Put a few drops directly upon any tender, aching corn or callous. In stantly the soreness disappears and shortly the corn or callous will loosen and can be lifted off with tbe fingers. This drug freezone doesn t eat out the corns or callouses but shrivels them without even Irritating the sur rounding skin. Just think! No pain at all; no sore ness or smarting when applying It or afterwards. If your druggist don't have freezone have him order It for you. Adv. iii GERM IS CAUSE OF CHOLERA A Dialogue In 1920. 'Hello, old man! Been abroad, haven't you?" "Yes; just got back from Europe. "Have a pleasant trip?" "Fine! I wasn't air-sick a minute." Exchange. True Repentance. Henpcck If you steal I don't care what you'll repent it some day. Henderson Foolish idea. Didn t you ever steal a kiss? Henpcck Yes and I married the girl, too. Brooklyn Citizen. Quite Enough. "You've been out with that tough gang again." "I suppose you can read my mind," he retorted defiantly. "No, but I can smelt your breath." Kansas City Journal. Somewhat Mercenary. Donald was having a birthday party. The children were alt enjoying them selves when the doorbell rang.' Jump ing up, Donald went to the door. Standing looking at the child, he said: Say, mamma, Freddie is here, but he didn't bring me a present should I let him in?" PERMANENT ROAD IS FAVORED Saving In Cost of Rebuilding Would Pay for Them In Comparatively Few Years. A writer on the advantage of per manent highways makes the point that the saving in tho cost of rebuilding would pay for them In a comparative ly few years and then there would be a prospect of valuable returns. The thing would be like making a few pay ments to secure an annuity. Wherever the money can lie raised there should be permanent highways. That Is the good roads gospel par excellence. Poor Roads a Lois. The farmers of the United States have been allowing $,ttk).(Kk),utH) In real money to escape from their pock ets each year because of poor roads, according to experts. Cart Before Horse. Putting the cart before the horse Installing truck Hues before building adequate roads. Cause of Mottled Butter. Mottled butter is caused by the un even distribution of salt. Soil for Sugar Beet. Tbe sugar beet needs u tleeply loos ened, well-mellowed soli, uniformly mixed and offering the root easily uvullnhlc plant food. Modern Potato Growing. Modern potato growing Is most suc cessfully done through a combination of bruins unci horse power. Treat Potatoes for Scab. Beforo cutting the seed potatoes In pieces It Is advisable to treat them for scab. Fraternity. We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our hurts will be made much of to be content with lit tle nurture and caressing and help each other the more. George Eliot. To Avoid Premature Old Age. Men wear out too soon. In many vocations a man is an old man before he readies his fortieth year. This is premature and for the most part un necessary, and It constitutes a serious nutional economic loss. By improving a man's physique and assisting him to form healthy habits, ten or 15 years can be added to ills industrial effi ciency, and a substantial contribution will bo made to the wealth and pros perity of the country. Optimistic Thought. Retreat is better than certain destruction. No Paragon. "Is your new office boy well be haved?" "Generally." "What do you mean by 'generally'?" "Not particularly." Boston Transcript. HOW THIS NERVOUS WOMAN GOT WELL Told by Herself. Her Sin cerity Should Con vince Others. Christopher, 111. "For four years I suffered from irregularities, weakness. nervousness, and was in a run down condition. Two of our best doctors failed to do me any good. I heard so much about what LyuisE.Pinkham's Veget able Com pound had done for others, I tried it and was cured. I am no longer ner vous, am regular, and in excellent health. I believe the Compound will cure any female trouble. "Mrs. ALICE Heller, Christopher, III. Nervousness is often a symptom of weakness or some functional derange ment, which may be overcome by this famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pinkhani's Vegetable Compound, as thousands of women have found by experience. If complications exist, write Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass., for suggestions in regard to your ailment. The result of it long experience is at your service. Principal Factor of Prevention Is Serum Treatment Developed by Agricultural Department. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) The most destructive ailment of swine is hog cholera, which kills ap proximately 90 per cent of all hogs that die of disease. It is caused by a germ readily transmitted from sick to well hogs and may, at times, remain active in the soil and other materials for long periods. Hog cholera has taken from the swine raisers an aver age toll of $30,000,000 annually, for the past 40 years, and the loss has been as high as $05,000,000 in a single year Thus for years tho hog Industry has been greatly handicapped. The enor mous number of animals destroyed has been due largely to the rapid sprea of the disease and the Inability of farmers to recognize the aliment, anil In many Instances to the lack of at tention to proper precautions to pre vent Its Introduction. The symptoms of hog cholera are not sucti as readily to distinguish it from certain other diseases of swine, and a sick pig al ways should be regarded as a possible danger to the entire herd. Therefore any pig showing signs of illness should be separated from the other animals. The principal factor of hog-cholera prevention is the preventive serum treatment developed by the bureau of animal industry of the United States department of agriculture. There are two methods of treatment. The sim ple method, serum alone, protects ani mals so treated for n limited period only, difficult to determine but usually ranging from three weeks to three months. The other method, simultane ous inoculation, consists of tbe injec tion of serum at one point and a small dose of hog cholera virus at some other point, usually in the opposite side of the animal. The great advan tage of this treatment is that it gives permanent protection to the animals in practically all Instances. However, this Involves the use of virus, the ac tive agent of cholera, and should, therefore, lie intrusted only to skilled persons. The bureau of animal Industry is now carrying on hog-cholera preven tion work in 31 states and has n force Sapolio doing its work. Scouring forUS.Manne Corps recruits. Join Now! CNOCH MORGAN'S IONS CO. APPLY AT ANY POST OFFICE for SERVICE UNDER THIS EMBLEM Men who wear this emblem are U.S. MARINES AS A SUPPORT for exhausted, nerv- oub, overworked wo men, nothing can do as much as Doctor P 1 e r c e'B Favorite Prescription. It reg ulates and assists all the natural func tions, never conflicts with them, and it strengthens and builds up the female system in a way of Its own. Nursing mothers and women gen erally, will find It exactly fitted to their needs. It lessens the pains and burdens, and ensures healthy, vigorous offspring. You will escape many ills and clear up the coated tongue, the sallow com plexion, the dull headache, the lazy liver, if you will take a pleasant laxa- tive made up of the May apple, Juice of the leaveB of aloes, root of jalap, and called "Pleasant Pellets." You can obtain at almost any drug store in this country these vegetable pellets in vials for twenty-five cents simply ask for Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. Sold for fifty years. Adv. Dandruff and Itching. To restore dry, falling hair and get rid of dandruff, rub Cuticurn Ointment Into scalp. Next morning shampoo with Cuticurn Soap antl hot water. For free samples address, "Cuticura, Dept. X, Boston." At druggists and by mail. Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50. Adv. The Limit, Two colored men were overheard deep in a discussion of various phases of dumbness. Finally, after a number of illustrations had been cited, one capped the climax by observing with great seriousness, "Yes, suh, dat nig ger wuz dat dumb dat when he died and dey opened his bald at de morgue dey found his brain hadn't never been used." 1 President's Power Supreme. In time of war the president of the United States is commander in chief of the array and navy. The members of his cabinet are responsible to him personally, not to congress. None of them may be removed without his con sent, except by impeachment Botanical Wonder. The oldest botanical work in the world is sculptured on the walls of a room in the great Temple of Karnak at Thebes, Egypt. It represents foreign plants brought home by an Egyptian sovereign, Thothmes III, on his return from a campaign in Arabia, says the Family Herald. The sculptures show not only the plant or tree, but the leaves, fruit and seed pods separately, after the fashion of modern treatises. Two Kinds of Talk. Talk is abundant and cheap, but tbe right kind of talk is rare and expensive. Keep Striving. Longing to share our troubles, or losing courage if fortune's wheel re fuses to turn in our favor, is about the most unwise course we could possibly follow. Far better to keep quiet about all distressing setbacks, become inter ested in some form of work and brave ly go in to win. True, one cannot al ways recoup one's fortune, but life offers many other compensations very much worth while. Means Disbelief In Self. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbe lief in great men. Carlyle. Happiness In Love of Books. No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the rich est and happiest of the children of men. Langford. Handicapped. Mr. Bacon What's the baby crying about now? Mrs. Bacon Why, the poor little thing has both hands In her mouth and she hasn't any place to put her toes. Yonkers Statesman. Term That Is Misapplied. The name daisy is said to have been given to the plant by the poet Chaucer, in the fourteenth century. He noticed that the petals folded at sunset and expanded at sunrise, and therefore called it day's-eye. Therefore, our best girl, who appears brightest in the evening cannot truthfully be called "a daisy." Figuratively Speaking. In a recent breach-of-promise case the defendant, who was sixty-five years old, was described as having "one foot In the grave and the other on a banana peel." Boston Transcript. Optimistic Thought. The offender feareth retribution, but the innocent feareth fortune. Sore Granulated Eyelids. Eyei inflamed by expo sure to San, Dm t and mat quickly relieved by PJM l.VKS Eyetteraedy. No Smarting, m"0 w just Eye Comfort At Druggist! or by mail 50c per Bottle. Murine Eye Salve in Tubes 25c. For Book si Ihe Eye TIES ask Murine eye atemr.oy Li., i Preparing to Administer Serum Treat ment to Prevent Hog Cholera. of 100 veterinarians actively engaged In assisting state .forces in applying control measures. In the last few years losses from the disease have been re duced over 50 per cent and from Held reports the Indications are that losses will be further reduced during the present year. The work already ac complished hy the department of agri culture and state authorities bus fully demonstrated that losses can be re duced and hog cholera controlled by the Intelligent use of antlbog-cholern serum and the proper application of quarantine and sanitary measures. However, In order to pursue the work stilt further, It will be necessary, as In the past, to have the support and co operation of farmers, stock raisers and others Interested in the suppression and control of infectious aud con tagious diseases of live stock. Out breaks of hog cholera should be promptly reported to the proper state authorities, either directly by wire or through the county agent or local vet erinarian ; Infected hogs should be re stricted ; neighbors should lie warned of Infection ; dead hogs should be prop erly disposed of ; and sick ones treated as early as possible. Antihog-cholera serum is produced by a number of agricultural colleges and by numerous commercial firms operating under license from the Unit ed States department of agriculture which requires that a label be placed on the serum containers showing the license number aud n serial number so that any consignment of serum can he investigated, If need arises. Farmers should know how and where to obtain serum promptly in case of need and where to secure a competent man to udmlnister the treatment CLEANLINESS WITH HOG HERD One of Biggest Factors In Preventing end Controlling Serious Diseases of Swine. (Prepared by ti United States Papart mnt jf Agriculture.) Intestinal worms, lung worms, and skiu parasites levy a burdensome tax upon the profits of hog raising. Abso lute cleanliness will be found valuable In preventing and controlling these troubles, as well as the more serious disease! hog cholera and tuberculosis. BILLS The Packer's Bill for Live Stock For the first six months of our operations under the Food Administration, ending April 30, 1918, Swift & Company paid for DRESSED WEIGHT LBS. live stock - 1,558,600,000 $323,800,000 For the same period in 1917 1,338,300,000 $210,400,000 Increase in Weight 16'2 220,300,000 Increase in cost 54 - - - $113,400,000 The Consumer's Bill for Meat must necessarily have increased correspondingly, as Live Stock prices and meat prices fluctuate together. When the producer gets high orices for his live stock, the con sumer's meat bill must neces sarily be larger. Year Book of interesting and instructive facts sent on request. Address Swift & Company, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois Swift & Company, U.S.A. .