THE
SUBMARINE IS REAL
MENACE TO BRITAIN
HERMISTON
HERALD,
Cannery Contract Awarded.
Fontana NEWS ITEMS
Lewiston, Ida. — President
of the Oregon Packing company Thurs
Of General Interest,
day awarded the contract for the con
struction of a branch cannery at this
point to Frank D. Booth of this city on
his bid of $11,000. The structure will
be 100x150 feet, with an open plat
form additional, 80x100 feet. The Improvement Plans for New
David Lloyd George Urges Strict main building will consist of one room,
State Buildings Due Soon
with no posts, 12 100-foot trusses be
ing used in supporting the roof. The
Economy on English.
Salem — Plans for the new state
contract also calls for an additional buildings which were provided for by
structure 20x30 feet, of re-enforced
concrete, for a boiler room. Work on the legislature are expected to be un
the foundations will be begun during der way soon.
the coming week, and the contract
The most important building work
calls for completion by May 1. Wil at Salem will be the construction of a
liam Crapo, who will be the manager,
is contracting with growers for fruits wing to the receiving ward at the Ore
Must Take Drastic Measures Against and vegetables.
gon State Hospital. The legislature
appropriated $60,000 of the $65,000
Ruthless Warfare of Germans or
asked for that purpose. The receiving
Lumber Fraud Charged.
Nation Will Face Disaster.
ward
was constructed a number of
Chehalis, Wash. — Attorney G. E.
Hamaker, of Portland, acting for G. years ago, but one wing was left un
A. Onn, a prominent Southwest Wash built.
The object of the ward is to receive
London—David Lloyd George, the ington lumberman, of Pe Ell, has filed
British prime minister, Friday pre a $125,000 damage suit against the patients, examine them, and if possi
ble cure them before they ever enter
sented to the house of commons, in a Montesano State bank, National bank the asylum proper.
In reality the
of
Tacoma,
Givens
&
Hibbell
Logging
speech lasting an hour and a half, his
ward is considered as the State Hos
company,
Fred
Wilson
company
and
program for coping with the serious
pital, and a patient received there,
situation arising from the shortage of Polson Logging company.
cured and discharged has not the rec
The
complaint
alleges
that
on
April
shipping space, depletion of food
ord of ever having been in the asylum
25,
1912,
the
defendants
agreed
to
stocks and the German submarine
form a corporation to handle in trust itself.
menace.
The building as it stands now is
The premier advocated the increase property owned and controlled by the used only for the reception of women,
plaintiff.
The
complaint
further
al
of home food production and the cur
and no male patient ever has been
tailment of non-victual imports. To leges the defendants, with intent to committed to that portion of the insti
defraud
the
plaintiff,
sold
the
Syver-
this end he outlined a plan for speed
tution. With the construction of the
ing up the farmer by guaranteeing son Lumber company to the Hoquiam new wing it will be ready for the re
good prices for commodities over a Sash & Door company for $25,000 ception of male patients, as well as
period of years. This he supplement when its real value was $150,000.
female patients.
ed by the announcement that the land
$43,070 Cash in Ranch Deal.
owner would be forced to cultivate his
Hill Promises to Help.
Pullman, Wash.—One of the largest
land.
The speeding up of the farm laborer cash farm deals of recent years was
San Francisco—Louis W. Hill, pres
was provided for by the premier by consummated here when Arthur J. ident of the Great Northern railway,
guaranteeing him a minimum wage of Holster, a recent arrival from Finlay, said here recently that although his
25 shillings per week instead of the Ohio, paid $43,070 in cash for the A. road does not connect directly with one
present 14 to 18 shillings.
M. Durkee 465 acres three miles north now being advocated for Central Ore
By curtailment of imports, Mr. Lloyd west of Pullman.
gon by R. E. Strahorn, of Portland
George said he expected to reduce the
The purchase price was on the basis and Spokane, the Hill interests would
demands on cargo space by several of $92.50 an acre for the tract, which encourage this development.
million tons.
Foodstuffs, of which is improved with outbuildings and res
Strahorn’s lines, centering at Bend,
16,000,000 tons were imported last idence. The new owner will take ac Or., would connect the vast Central
year, will be cut nearly 1,000,000 tons tual possession of the place next fall, Oregon country with markets north,
by lopping off certain luxuries. Paper when the lease now held by G. W. Ger- south or east, and afford development
users who already have been consider ralts will expire.
to a tremendous territory.
ably curtailed, must henceforth get
"We will encourage and by no
along with only half the supply they Water May Cover Large Arid Tract. means oppose Strahorn,” Mr. Hill
are now receiving, thus saving 640,000
North Yakima, Wash. — Announce said. “In fact, I should like to see
tons. Certain Savings also will be-
ment that the government has with him fill the gap.”
effected in the import of ore, which drawn
from entry large tracts in the
now amounts to 8,000,000 tons annual
Bridge Wrecked by Snow.
ly and in lumber, which at present is Naches, Wenas, Selah and Moxee val
Eugene — The Stafford bridge over
leys,
and
along
the
slope
of
the
Rattle-
4,000,000 tons.
Mr. Lloyd George said that for some snake hills-in the Lower Yakima val the Mohawk river near Donna col
ley, is understood here to indicate that lapsed under the weight of snow Wed
time there has been a shortage of ton the
Reclamation service has taken up nesday, according to word received in
nage required for the general needs of
for
service development a high-line Eugene. The structure, which is one
the nation and even a slight shortage
in the tonnage for military purposes. project which will bring under water of the oldest bridges in the county,
hundred thousand acres not was to have been replaced by a new
The nation should realize absolutely several
now included under canals or pumping bridge next summer.
what the conditions were.
A barn belonging to Ralph Sears, at
“If we take drastic measures,’’ he systems.
Creswell, collapsed, killing several
continued, “we can cope with the sub-
Flax Fiber Seed is Sold.
head of cattle.
marine, but if the nation is not pre
Salem, Ore. — The first carload of
The Willamette river at Eugene is
pared to accept drastic measures for
dealing with the menace, disaster is flax fiber seed ever shipped out of the rising slowly, but there are no indica
state left Salem Thursday night, con tions of a flood.
before us.’’
signed to Conrad, Mont. It was sold
Spuds Rise SI a Mile.
by the State board of control to a flax
Thirteen Killed, One Hundred
fiber company in that state for $2 a
Gaston—Oregon potatoes increase in
and the shipment contains value at the rate of $1 a mile as they
Hurt by Tornadoes in South bushel,
1500 bushels.
The seed comes from travel East.
A car of 655 sacks
Atlanta—Thirteen people are known the State penitentiary flax plant.
standing on the track here is worth
to have lost their lives and more than
$2500.
When it reaches the New
100 have been reported injured in a
York market, its value rises to $6000.
40 Cents Paid for Wool Clip.
series of tornadoes that swept portions
North Yakima—The Portland Wool The highest price ever paid for pota
of Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi en Mills company has purchased the toes here was received by farmers
Friday. The most serious loss of life Dan G. Goodman wool clip of about from J. H. Westcott & Son, who gave
was in Middle Alabama.
20,000 pounds for 35 and 40 cents per $3.25 a hundred. Twelve cars of Bur
Seven persons were killed in the pound. The high price, a record-break banks have been shipped and six more
Hollins-Midway-Stewartsville section er, was paid for coarse wool from are awaiting cars. Many farmers are
of Alabama, and at Whitesett, Ala., Shropshire ewes. Goodman’s was the holding for higher prices.
four negroes were killed in the destruc first clip in the valley to be sheared.
tion of their cabins.
West Quits Land Agency.
Much timber was blown down and
Oswald West has resigned as agent
many residences were damaged. Two IOO Cars of Yakima Apples Shipped.
North Yakima, Wash.—Apple ship for the Federal government in the ad
negroes were killed at Lithonia, Ga.,
where at least 60 small dwellings were pers here believe that growers are judication of taxes on the Oregon &
demolished. Six children were injured holding much larger stocks than they California grant lands. The ex-gover
have supposed. A large proportion of nor says he was just about through
in a storm at Georgetown, Miss.
the 100 carloads shipped out during with the work, anyway, but that “the
the past week came from growers.
legislative monkey-wrench,” as he
Cougars Killed in Barn.
termed it, thrown into the machinery
Eugene, Or.—While hunting eggs in
in the shape of the Bean bill, which
his barn near McKenzie Bridge, 45
authorizes the county assessors to re
store the lands to the taxrolls, makes
miles east of here, Walden Trotter
Saturday discovered two huge cougars
it impossible for him to continue in
who had sought shelter from a severe
event.
any
Portland— Cattle— Steers, prime,
snow storm. Two cows stood in the $9.5009.80;
fair
to good, $9.000 9.40;
Bill Yet Missing.
barn unharmed by the beasts.
$8.50@8.80; cows, choice,
Salem
—
Although
Attorney General
Trotter, aided by his dog, killed one medium,
$7.75@8.00; medium to good, $6.50 Brown held a conference
with Chief
and wounded the other. Thinking he @7.00;
ordinary to fair, $6.5007.00;
had killed the latter, he approached it, heifers, $6.5008.50; bulls, $4.50@ Clerk Drager, of the house of the re
cent legistuare, relative to the mys
only to be attacked.
calves, $6.00@7.25.
He finally succeeded in killing it 7.00;
tery of the missing Polk-Marion coun
Hogs
—
Light
and
neavy
packing,
with his clubbed rifle after being badly $12.75@ 12.85; Rough heavies, $11.65 ty bridge bill, no formal opinion has
been given by that official as to wheth
lacerated in the struggle.
@12.00; pigs and skips, $11.65@ er
a substituted bill with the same
12.00; stock hogs, $10.50@ 11.50.
wording might be sent to the governor
Postoffice Help Scarce.
Sheep—Yearling wethers, $11.00@ and
become a law, or, if the original
Butte, Mont. — The United States 11.50; ewes, $8.75@ 10.00; lambs,
bill were found, it still could go to the
postoffice cannot get sufficient help to 10.75@13.00.
operate the local postoflice. A civil
Wheat—Bluestem, $1.63; fortyfold, executive for his signature.
service examination has been postponed $1.59; club, $1.57; red Russian,
Grange Opposes Bonds.
because there were no applicants. $1.55.
Eugene
—The Lane County Pomona
There is no eligible list and there has
Millfeed — Spot prices:
Bran,
not been any for months. The govern $27.00 per ton; shorts, $30.50; rolled grange, the largest county grange or
ganization in Oregon in proportion to
ment pays from $66.33 to $100 a barley, $42@ 43.
population, at a meeing held at Santa
month for clerks and carriers here,
Corn—Whole, $48 per ton.
Clara
Tuesday adpoted a resolution op
whereas common laborers receive
Hay—Producers’ prices: Timothy,
$4.50 a day. Nobody wants the gov Eastern Oregon, $19@20 per ton; al posing the issuance of $6,000,000 pav
ernment jobs.
falfa, $14016; valley grain hay, ing bonds by the state.
$12.500 14.
Vocational Bill Signed.
Butter—Cubes, extras, 39c; prime ÎTMATILLA PROJECT. OREGO N,
Washington, D. C.—With four dif firsts, 38c; firsts, 36037c; jobbing ! ~ Sixth Unit. Public Notice. Depart-
of the Interior, Washington. Feb.
ferent pens made especially for the oc prices, prints, extras, 42c; cartons, I I ment
23, 1917. 1
In pursuance of Section 4 of
casion at a boys’ vocational school at 1c extra; butterfat, No. 1, 43c; No. the Reclamation Act of June 17. 1902
(32 Stat., 388), and acts amendatory
Buffalo, N. Y., President Wilson Fri 2, 41c, Portland.
thereof and supplementary thereto, and |
day afternoon signed and made law the
Eggs—Ranch, current receipts, 250 particularly the Reclamation Extension
Act of August 13. 1914 (38 Stat., 686),
Smith-Hughes vocational training bill. 26c per dozen; ranch, candled, 26 public
notice for the Sixth Unit of the
It provides Federal co-operation with 27c; ranch, selects, 39c.
Umatilla Project. Oregon, Is hereby giv
en.
as
follows:
FOR WHICH
the states in establishing industrial
Poultry—Hens, 18020c per pound; WATFR WILL 2. BE LANDS
FURNISH ED — Wa- |
schools, appropriating $1,700,000 this springs, 18020c; turkeys, live, 200 ter will be furnished under said project
the irrigation season of 1917, and 1
year and increaasing to $7,300,000 in 2 2c; dressed, 260262c; ducks, 22024c; in
thereafter, for the irrigable lands of the
Sixth Unit shown on the farm unit plat
nine years.
geese, 121c@13c.
of the following township of the Willam-
Veal—Fancy, 14 l@ 15c per pound.
ette Meridian, to-wlt: Twp 5 N . R 28
Schumann-Heink is Hurt.
, Pork—Fancy, 15)0 16c per pound.
E., which plat was approved by the Sec- |
of the Interior on February 23.
Potatoes — Oregon buying prices: retary
St. Louis — Madame Schumann-
1917, and is on file at the local land;
office at La Grande, Oregon, and at the
Heink, opera singer, suffered fractures $303.25 per hundred.
of the Project Manager, U S
Onions—Oregn buying prices: $10.00 office
of two ribs and a sprained wrist, and
Reclamation Service, at Hermiston, Ore
per
sack,
country
points.
gon
3
WHEN AND HOW TO MAKE
probably was injured internally here
ENTRY FOR PUBLIC LAND- Home
Wool—Fine, 28035c; coarse, 3 3@ stead
late Friday night, when an automobile
entries for the farm units shown
on said plat embracing public lands of
in which she was returning to her ho | 36; valley, 33@41c.
the United States may be made on and
Hops
-1916
crop,
4@8c
per
pound;
tel from a concert was struck by a
after March 15. 1917, at 9 o'clock A. M ,
I contracts, 10@llc.
at said local land office at La Grande,
streetcar.
About Oregon
AU IMPORTS TO BE CURTAILED
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT
HERMISTON,
OREGON.
Oregon.
Every person desiring, to ac
quire any of said public lands must exe
cute a homestead application subject to
the provisions of the reclamation law in
manner required by law. which, with the Mistake la Too Much a General One
required fees and commissions, accom
In Neglecting the Present for
panied by certificate of the project man
the Future.
ager as to the filing of water-right ap
plication and payment of water-right
charges as hereinafter provided, may be
Presumably every young man
presented to said local land office, in
person, by mail, or otherwise, during a knows, as a physical fact, that he can
period of five days prior to the opening,
to-wit: On and from March 10, 1917, to do nothing next year which he cannot
and including 9 o’clock A. M., March 15, in some degree, do today. He will not
1917.
Applications presented after said
period of five days will be filed and grow wings or overcome the law of
noted in the order of their receipt. Any gravitation or subsist without food.
application not based on a prior settle-
ment right will be subject to valid settle- Rut he Is always prefiguring a future
ment claims asserted in the manner re in which his mind will operate differ
quired by law.
4.
SIMULTANEOUS
FILINGS FOR PUBLIC LAND.—Appli- ently. The time will certainly come
cations reaching said local land office when he realizes that there is no fu-
within the said period of five days, will
be held and treated as simultaneously | ture, but only an indefinite extension
filed, and the register and receiver will of today. The important question is
dispose of them as follows: (a) Where
there is no conflict the application will whether that time will come early
be allowed, irrespective of whether set enough in life to do him any particu
tlement is alleged, (b) In case of con
flicting applications and only one of the lar good.
applicants alleges prior settlement, his
A lazy man cannot possibly make
application will be allowed and the others
rejected, (c) If two or more conflicting himself industrious in the future; or
applications, each containing allegations a tippling man. sober; or an extrava
of prior settlement, are received, a hear
ing, restricted to those alleging such gant man, economical. If it is done
right, will be ordered to determine the i at all he must do it at an immediate
priority of right, (d) Where there are
conflicting applications in which no one present moment—at some “right now !”
of the several applicants claims prior No man ever saved a penny in the fu
settlement the register and receiver will
write on cards the names of the several ture. or ever will. He has got to save
applicants, and each of these cards will Í the penny In his hand at the moment
be placed in an envelope upon which
there is no distinctive or identifying or he will be broke to the day of his
mark, and at 2 o’clock P. M., on the date death, the Saturday Evening Post in-
of opening to entry, if practicable (if not,
at the same hour one day later), after sists. That is clear enough to any-
all the envelopes containing the names of | body who will think about it. To save
the several applicants shall have been
thoroughly mixed in the presence of such the penny in hand he must resist the
persons as may desire to be present, they temptation to spend it. Imagining
will be drawn and numbered in order.
The cards as drawn and numbered will himself next year ns resisting the
be securely fastened to the applications temptation to spend a handful of pen
of the respective persons, and the appli
cations will be allowed in such order. nies will do him the same good that
Applications conflicting in whole with the drunkard gets out of imagining
those previously allowed will be rejected
Every
in the usual manner. 5. FAILURE OF himself reformed next year.
APPLICANT
TO
OBTAIN
PUBLIC year that he does not resist weakens
LAND APPLIED FOR —Where any ap
plicant fails to obtain land applied for by his ability to resist.
him he will be permitted to elect whether
Titis spending business is ns much
he will amend his application to embrace
other lands not affected by pending ap a matter of habit as tippling. It is
plications and otherwise subject thereto within the knowledge of. everybody
when such amended application is pre
sented, or withdraw his original applica who has the ordinary circle of per-
tion without prejudice.
In the event of sonal acquaintances that, after a cer-
such withdrawal the fees and commis
sions will be returned by the receiver, I tain time, the man who lives up to
and the water-right charges deposited the limit of his income—which, about
will be returned by the project manager,
upon surrender of the certificate of nine times out of ten, means a little
filing
6.
WARNING AGAINST UN Deyond—accepts thnt ns n normal con-
LAWFUL SETTLEMENT UPON BUB
Lie LAND. — No person will be permitted dition nnd just automatically spends
to gain or exercise any right whatever | whatever he gets.
under any settlement or occupation of
At twenty a num lives largely in nn
any of said public lands, begun at or
prior to 9 A. M.. March 15, 1917; pro- Imaginary future. At thirty lie seems
vided, however, that this shall not affect
any valid existing right obtained by set still to have fairly incalculable pow-
tlement or entry while the land was | ers and opportunities to draw upon.
subject thereto.
7.
LIMIT OF AREA
FOR WHICH WATER RIGHT MAY BE At forty he begins to realize what he
SECURED.—The limit of area per entry | fully knows, probably, at forty-five—
representing the acreage which in the
opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, I namely, that he has already spent his
may be reasonably required for the sup ! 'uture, in the sense that he has large-
port of a family upon such lands, is fixed
as shown upon the plat for the several I ly shaped and fixed it; so that It will
farm units. The maximum limit of area contain nothing essentially different
for which water-right application may be
made for lands in private ownership shall | from what he himself has already put
be 160 acres of irrigable lands for each ' Into it.
land owner.
8.
APPLICATION FOR
If he can realize by thirty that he
WATER RIGHT.—All water-rigat appli-
cations, whether for public or private is spending his future every day it will
lands, must be made to the Project Man-
ager, U. S. Reclamation Service, Hermis- be a good thing for him.
ton. Oregon, upon forms provided for that
purpose.
Every application for public
lands must be accompanied by the prop
Cooking by instinct.
er initial water-right payment, which will
In the kitchen of an old monastery
be accepted by the project manager in
the form of New York draft or money n France a group of British women,
order payable to Special Fiscal Agent,
U. S. Reclamation Service, Hermiston, ill of good education, are cooking and
» regon, or in currency.
Each water scrubbing and washing up all day long,
right application for public lands must
be for a specific farm unit, and more and they have been doing it for many
than one person may make such applica months. The way they cook potatoes
tion for the same farm unit. A certifi
cate of filing will be issued each appli is a thing to write poetry about, and
cant by the project manager. Filing of lie French soldiers who have eaten
water-right application and issuance of
certificate give no preference right to them will tell you that they want to
entry on public lands.
Only when the go back to that monastery, which is
project manager is notified by the local
land office that an entry has been al now a hospital, because the food is so
lowed, will acceptance of the water -right good. Not only do those women cooks
application be endorsed thereon. Where
upon all other water-right applications f the educated classes cook well, but
affecting the farm unit in question, with they are economical.
payments made, will be returned to the
Another English woman, who before
respective applicants upon surrender by
them of th e certificates of filing issued the war knew nothing about cooking.
by the project manager.
Water-right
application for lands in private ownership Is a past mistress in the art of making
may be made on and after date of this apple dumplings, as many nn English
notice
9.
CLASSES OF CHARGES
FOR WATER RIGHT—The water-right soldier, as well as a few English sail-
charges are of two kinds, to-wit:
(1) >rs, will bear witness.
When asked
A charge against each irrigable acre to
cover cost of construction of the irriga how she learned, she said that a
tion system, termed the construction French friend of hers had lent her her
charge: and (2) an annual charge against
each irrigable acre to cover cost of opera cook for 24 hours, and during that
tion and maintenance of the system, time she had made rapid progress In
termed the operation and maintenance
Then there was the
charge. 10. CONSTRUCTION CHARGE. many tilings.
—The construction charge shall be $70 handy man about the canteen, an Eng
per acre of irrigable land, payable as
follows: (a) For lands that were prior lishman, who had lived in France for
to August 13, 1914, subjected by contract many years. He taught her a great
or otherwise to the provisions of the
reclamation law, said construction charge deal. But as to the tarts and the ap-
shall be paid in ten equal annual Instal ple dumplings, she must have learned
ments, the first of which shall be paid at
the time of filing water-right applica - lo make those by instinct, for no one
tion, and subsequent instalments shall has taught her how to make the paste
be due and payable December 1 of each
year thereafter; provided, however, that or keep the apples dry.
if water-right application, subject to the
provisions of said Reclamation Extension
Act, or an acceptance of the provisions
Author No Asset.
of said Act, be filed within six months
At a local bazaar they were offering
from the date of this notice, said con-
struction charge shall be payable in autographed copies of books by In-
twenty Instalments, the first of which
shall become due and payable on De dianapolis authors.
cember 1 following the date of water
“Here is a very delightful book, suit
right application, and subsequent Instal
ments on December 1 of each year there able for a gift, and autographed by
after; in which event the first four in the author.
Only a dollar and a
stalments shall each be two per centum,
the next two instalments each four per half.” said the smiling manager of
centum, and the next fourteen each six the booth.
per centum of the total construction
“A dollar and a half!” gasped the
charge
(b)
For the remaining lands
an initial payment of five per centum prospective purchaser, a little woman
of the construction charge shall be made
at the time of filing water-right applica- who held her tempted purse close to
tion, and the remainder of the construe
her breast.
tion charge shall be paid in fifteen annual
“Yes, a dollar and a half. The au-
Instalments, the first five of which shall
each be five per centum and the re j tograph, you know, has an especial
mainder each seven per centum of the
total construction charge
The first of | value.”
said fifteen annual instalments shall be
"Why, I can get a copy of that
come due and payable December 1 of
the fifth calendar year after the initial i book at a downtown store for a dol-
instalment, and subsequent instalments lar.”
shall become due and payable on Decem-
“Yes, I know you cun, but not au-
ber 1 of ear h ( alenda r y ea r t her eafter
11 INCREASED CONSTRUCTION tographed by the author.”
CHARGE IN CERTAIN CASES —In all
The prospective purchaser’s face
cases where water-right application for
lands In private ownership or for lands suddenly took on a look of high wis
under entries not subject to the Reclam
ation Act, shall not be made within one dom and then she blurted :
year from the date of this notice, the
“Oh, well. I know who wrote It, any-
construction charge for such land shall
be increased 5 per centum each year un how.”—Indianapolis News,
til such application is made and an ini-
tial instalment is paid
12
ADVANCE
P A YM ENT OF CONSTRUCTIO N
Titled Lady as Shoemaker.
CHARGE PERMISSIBLE—Any water-
It is an Interesting fact that, al-
Tight applicant may at his option pay in
advance the whole or any part of the though the women of the United King-
construction charge owing by him within
any shorter period than that prescribed dom have invaded most employments
by this notice
13
OPERATION AND
M aintenance charge The opera that formerly were followed chiefly
tion and maintenance charge for the ir by men, the shoemaking trade has not
rigation season of 1917 and thereafter experienced much change In this re
until further notice, shall be 11 40 per
acre of Irrigable land whether water Is spect. Yet, little over a hundred years
used thereon or not, which will entitle
the water user to four acre-feet of water ago, shoemaking was one of the “em
per irrigable acre. Additional water sup ployments of high society” In London.
ply will be furnished at the rate of 15
rents per acre-foot.
All such charges Lady Sarah Spencer, In a letter to her
will be payable on March 1 of each year brother, written about the year 1808,
for the preceding Irrigation season, ex-
cept that when original water-right ap says : "In the evening we divide our
plication is filed for lands entered after time between music and shoemaking,
June 15, In any year, the first payment
of such charge becomes due Marc h 1 of which is now the staple trade of the
the second year thereafter
14
PLACE family. I am today In a state of great
AND MANNER OF WATER CHARGES
—All water-right charges must be paid vanity, for I have made a pair of shoes
at the office of the U S. Reclamation —there is news for you. So If all oth
Service at Hermiston, Oregon, In casi, er trades fall I shall certainly estab
or by New York draft, or money order,
payable to the Special Fiscal Agent, U. S lish myself, cross-legged, at the corner
Reclamation Service
ALEXANDER T of an alley to earn a livelihood in the
VOGELSANG, First Assistant Secretary midst of leather, awls, and hammers.”
of the Interior.
TIME TO SAVE ONE’S MONEY
SENSE BEING LOST
LONDONERS UNABLE TO GROPE
THEIR WAY IN DARKNESS.
Philosophical Review of Warfare’s
Needs, and of Past Days, Has Not
Brought Citizens to a Proper
Realization of Conditions.
A few months ago I chanced to be In
what official language would describe
as “a certain northern town” at the
time when lighting restrictions were
being newly enforced as a precaution
against air attacks. Loud was the
outcry of persons who had bumped in
to the lamppost and tripped over the
curb upon their homeward way, and
who had even found themselves un-
able to identify their own homes with
out the aid of an electric torch.
And yet the curious thing was that
even such restricted street lighting ns
remained would have been considered
a really handsome illumination by our
forefathers and would indeed be con
sidered so today by dwellers in rural
districts where the street lamp is un
known, C. Fox-Smith writes in the
London Chronicle.
What is happening to us—or. rather,
what was happening to us In the days
when the daylight, in towns, was de
posed before its death by the glare of
gas and electric light? Were we not
rapidly losing the very last remnant
of that faculty of seeing in what we
call "the dark," which is really quite a
natural part of our equipment, being
a sort of combination of the senses of
sight, smell, touch and hearing?
As a matter of fact speaking broad
ly, what most people call "the dark”
is not darkness at all. How often, for
example, do you hear a person who
has Just emerged from or who lifts a
blind to look through the window of a
lighted room exclaim: "What a pitch
dark night!”
But once leave the bewildering
lights behind and it will be seen thnt
the apparent darkness was really more
than half caused by the light itself.
Pitch darkness seldom exists except
comparatively, never without some ex
traordinary condition, such as fog or
very dense clouds. One does, of
course, remember one or two such oc
casions of a blackness impenetrable
as a wall and almost as tangible to all
seeming. But they are rare enough to
be noticeable—even to cause surprise,
as if they were somehow abnormal,
which would not be so if pitch dark
ness were common.
It is rather strange to reflect that,
until the coming of the lighting re
strictions, most of the present genera-
tion had never renlly seen the town at
dusk.
And yet what a peculiar charm there
Is now about the coming on of dark in
a city. There is, let us frankly admit
It, a touch of the sinister about the
dark mouths of narrow streets which
by daylight are but the most common
place and sordid of routes to the backs
of shops and warehouses.
But they are for the time romantic,
ns well as sinister ; there is a some
thing Stevensonian about them, Stev
enson of "Doctor Jekyll” and “The
New Arabian Nights.”
Darkness is the fairy godmother of
commonplace buildings. It brings
them gifts of breadth, of massiveness,
of dignity. This pinchbeck incrusta
tion, that shoddy bit of construction,
it transfigures with a wave of its
wand. Seen simply as a broad effect
of light and shade, or rather of shad-
dow and deeper shadow, the newest
building is at one with the old, the
tawdriest with the most austere.
It was Just nt the corner of Welling-
ton street the other night that I sur-
prised one of those wonderful mo
ments on the edge of darkness. In
the light of its few and shrouded
lamps Kingsway gleamed faintly, like
a frozen river under stars. Vehicles
loomed up for a minute and were
gone, motorbuses, laden lorries strain
ing toward Waterloo, a motor ambu
lance with Its Bed Cross gleaming al
most luminous on a white ground like
the device on n knight’s shield In a
dark forest. The faces of passers-by
were seen in a moment in the light of
a street lamp, then swallowed up In
the darkness. And above It all the
stars—the same stars thnt looked up
on the shell-racked glory of Verdun,
| the remnants thnt were Ypres and
| Reims; upon the trenches, the hospl-
tills, the silent dead ; nnd the ships at
! their stately vigil In the northern seas.
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The Higher Duties.
All the world complains nowadays
of a press of trivial duties and en
| gagements, which prevents their em
ploying themselves on some higher
ground they know of; but, undoubted
ly, if they were made of the right stuff
to work on that higher ground, pro-
vided they were released from all those
engagements, they would now nt once
| fulfill the superior engagement, and
. neglect all the rest, as naturally as
they breathe. They would never bo
caught saying that they had no time
for this, when the dullest man knows
that this is all thnt he hns time for.
No man who acts from a sense of duty
ever puts the lesser duty above the
greater. No man hns the desire and
the ability to work on high things
but he has also the ability to build
himself a higher staging.—Thoreau.
At Home and Abroad.
“Solomon was the wisest man, wasn’t
he?”
"I’m not sure,” replied Miss Cay-
enne. “Of course he managed to get
a reputation with the public. But
Cd like to know what some of those
wives had to say about him."