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HERMISTON
HERALD,
AN UNFASHIONABLE FISH
Fine In Flavor and Food Value, Yet
M. D. O’CONNELL
OREGO.
It seems as It there are fashions in
fish just now as there are In wearing
Entered as second-class matter. Decembe
apparel. A fish that brings In German
. 1906, al the postoffice at Hermiston, Oregon
markets nearly four times as much per
pound
as our fresh mackerel and con
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
siderably more than haddock Is thrown
One year
...........
-...... $1.5
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Six months
-7 away by our fishermen because no one
Subscriptions must be paid in advance.
wants to eat it. Yet those who eat it
Hermiston. 10:00 a. tn.
praise It for Its delicate flavor. Even
Umatilla, 10:00 a m.
the English like It. Every year they
Everybody welcome to these ser-
consume 3,000 tons of It. Yet we will
vices.
have none of it.
This fish is known as the goosefish,
METHODIST CHURCH
anglerfish, devilfish and monkfish.
Sunday school IO a. iu.
True, its appearance is against It, but
Th o. Parks, Supt.
still the epicures in England and Ger
many demand it because it is delicious.
Pi eaching Ila tn.
Analyses made by the bureau of fish
Epworth League 6:30 p. m.
By
eries on samples show that goosefish
There will be no preaching at the
EPHRAIM DOUGLASS ADAMS
contains considerably more protein
Methodist church ou Sunday night-
Executive Head, Hletory Depart
than flounder, slightly more than a cod,
until August.
ment
a little less than halibut and consider
Sunday school at Columbia 2 p. m.
Leland Stanford Junior University
ably less than sirloin steak.
Frank Waugaman, Supt.
The goosefish has an average length
Preaching at 3 p. in.
"The object of this war is to deliver of three feet and Is broad and flat,
the free peoples of the world from the somewhat resembling the flounder In
menace and the actual power of a vast
general outline. The only way to get
military establishment controlled by an
MICKIE SAYS
It. says a Philadelphia woman, Is for
the housewives to club together and
/I BOQUEEME ME) \F WE’O
proceeded to carry out the plan without
regard either to the sacred obligations demand it. At the present time fisher
/ Ser VP SOME OF THS
of treaty or the long-established prac. men do not take the trouble to bring it
tices and long-cherished principles of In
copy JesT LIKE w COMES
ternational action and honor; . . . This home, but discard it from their nets.-
IN, WITHOUT MAKIN’ NO
newer Ie not the German people. It Ie Popular Science Monthly.
CORRECTIONS NER RUTHIN’,
the ruthleee master of the Germen pee
HERMISTON
WHY WE ARE
AT WAR WITH
GERMANY
SOME OF THE INTELLECTUAL
LIGHTS AROUN’ THIS HERE
NECK O' THE wooos’O LOSE
\ THEIR REPUTMONS FER
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior, U. S. Land Office at
I.a Grande, Oregon, June 11. 1918.
Notice is hereby given that Thomas F. William
non of Hermiston, Oregon, assignee of Annoi O
Skinner, who on May 20th, 1905, made Desert Land
Entry No. 01050, for S’NW% and N‘SWW sec
tion 15, township 5 north, range 28 east Willamette
Meridian, has filed notice of intention to make
final proof to establish claim to the lami above
described, before W. J Warner, United State:
commissioner, at hin office at Her miston, Oregon,
on the 6th day of August, 1918.
Claimant names as witnesses: William J. Dob
ler. William Lacy. William T. Roberts, and Wil
liam B. Spinning all of Hermiston, Oregon.
C. S. DUNN. Regiatei
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A Good Show
What Are You
Worth?
Have you any idea? Did you ever
capitalize your wages and figure
out? This Is the way to ascertain how
much your labor is really worth.
For instance, a man who has saved
$20,000 and invested it at 5 per cent re-
cebes an annual income of »1.000 a
The clerk in the office or the wor
man in the factory who gets $20 a
week therefore receives the income at
5 per cent on an investment of $20,000
He is a $20,000 man that is, be Is
getting as much week by week as the
man with $20,000 who depends solely
upon the income from his investments
and who does not work for a living.
The man who earns $40 a week has
about the same income as the investor
with $40,000 put out at interest at 5
per cent.
Bo labor is capital. It has a market
value. It can be called a commodity
because It can be sold by its owner the
same as any other possession he may
have.—John A. Bleicher in Leslie’s.
keep on minding our own business
and to let other nations do the same
A military autocracy that proposes
to conquer the world must be de
feated, to the point where It renounces
"Ol hear that Casey ts havin’ trouble
meddling with other nations, great or
•mall, or there It no peace In the wid his belter half
"Vis, she wants to be the whole
world
That Is the issue at stake,
Pearson’s Weekly.
and In it rents our safety and the thing
safety of the world
Nature Ills all her children with
something to do Lowell
This Ie the fifth of
articles by Professor Aiima
Examine this one if you have
not, and get our figures on
same immediately.
Shotguns In War.
A Concession.
"After looking at the postal stampe
of other countries, I hare come to the
conclusion that you can't beat ours”
"Maybe not, but, all I be same. It gets
lots of lickings." -Exchange.
Have You a Coal Bin?
year, or about $20 a week.
That shotguns should be largely uti
lized In modern warfare is the conten
tion of a number of military experts.
It Is pointed out that such guns would
be particularly useful to sentries at
night time, as an intruder might more
easily be crippled and captured by a
spreading charge of heavy shot than by
a single bullet. Moreover, a person
ole. ... It Ie our business to see to
moving quickly might often be missed
t that the hletory of the rest of the
by a shot from a rifle, whereas a snap
CLAWS OF THE CANARY.
world Ie no longer left to Ite handling.
President Wilson, Auguet 27, 1917.
shot from a shotgun in semidarkness
DEMOCRACY VERSUS AUTOCRACY They Should Bo Carefully Trimmed could hardly fall to find its object.
In the trenches shotguns could be
Every Few Months."
It is commonly said that this war
used with success. A shotgun loaded
As
a
canary
grows
old
it
will
be
no
Is one In which America was forced
with about forty-eight grains of pow
to take part In order to “make the ticed that its claws get long and catch der and one and a half ounces of big
What on the perches and wires as It hops
world safe for democracy,
about the cage. In a state of nature shot, with about twenty-five pellets,
does the phrase mean?
would be of much more value than the
The theories and acts of the Ger the activity of the bird as It moves
rifle, as during a night attack, either
about
on
the
ground
or
among
twigs
man military autocracy definitely deny
tor attack or defense in semidarkness,
the right of the people of a state to and limbs keeps the claws properly
a single charge would hardly fall to in
rule themselves The German people, worn down. Confined In a cage, the
flict serious wounds on one or more of
canary
Is
less
active,
and,
while
the
in spite of forms of government that
the enemy.—Exchange.
make a pretense of popular control, rate of growth of the claws remains
have no such actual control over their the same, they are subject to much less
The Swiss Admiral.
governors as exists in democratically abrasion.
It is necessary therefore to trim them
“As much business as a Swiss admi
organized nations, In those nations
the governors can De removed by a with a pair of sharp scissors every few ral” is a term sometimes used satirical-
vote of the people In a general elec months. It is important to watch the ly. But the little inland nation actual
tion; in Germany the people have not condition of the claws carefully, as by ly had an admiral once. He was an
Englishman, too, a Colonel Williams,
catching they may cause a broken leg
this power.
who Joined the Swiss colors In 1799.
The aristocracy of Germany under In each claw a slender blood vessel ex
stand this difference, and are afraid tends well down toward the tip. This This Colonel Williams got together a
of the spread of democracy In Ger may be seen on close examination small fleet on Lake Zurich and was or
many. The whole, much admired "effi through the transparent sheath of the dered to oppose the French army, which
ciency” of Germany fa primarily due claw. In trimming cut well beyond was preparing to attack the Austrians
to a desperate and constant effort by this canal and take special care not to and Russians massed near by.
The French attacked their allied foes
Germany's rulers to divert the German break the leg while handling the bird.
In cage birds the horny covering of and routed them. Admiral Williams
people from thoughts of self govern
ment, by offering them material pros the bill as well as the claws sometimes calmly watched the battle that was in
perity.
And the rulers have sur becomes distorted through growth with progress on land. Then, enraged at his
reeded. One of the causes of this out sufficient wear. The tips of the own inaction, he discharged his crews,
mandibles may be pared down with a scuttled his vessels and went back to
war was the necessity, by still fur
ther “glorious acquisitions of terri sharp knife, but care must be taken England.
Switzerland now has one armored
tory," to hush the murmuring« 01 not to cut deep enough to reach the
quick.
—
United
States
Department
o
boat
on Lake Lucerne, but its com-
political discontent In Germany, Vic
mander Is only a captain.—Kansas City
tory In war, every so often, is a nec Agriculture Bulletin.
Star.
etiity of the German system. “It is
If She Ware Free.
for eocial as much as for national
A Father Vaughan Story.
A woman of criminal tendencies
and political reasons that we must
Father Bernard Vaughan, the famous
fix our minds Incessantly upon war.' serving a prison term was asked, "If
“Success Is necessary to gain Influ you were given absolution, freedom t English Jesuit preacher, says what he
enee over the masses," wrote Bern spend one night in the great city whol means and means what he says and
hardi; and General Von Biasing, Just ly uncontrolled, where would you go- Is never afraid of directing his criti-
cisms even against the most powerful
before his death, wrote a "Politics’ to the theater, dance hall or where?’
Testament,” since largely circulated In She replied: "I would choose a warm sections of society, especially the idle
rich.
Germany, In which he argued for the night after a rainy day, a night when
An amusing reference was once made
all
the
electric
lights
wore
halos
around
retention of Belgium, because, unlest
to the fiery methods of denunciation
t were annexed, the preittge of tht their heads and everything was foggy
military autocracy would receive a I'd go to the park and walk for an hour he employs when In the pulpit. He
up and down the paths, where I could had been preaching in Rome and had,
fatal blow.
Are we—are the Allies—then fight see the reflections of the misty lights as usual, dealt out plain truths about
in the wet stone pavements. Then I'd everybody with his accustomed force.
Ing to impose upon Germany a dif
like to go to some quiet place where I One of the cardinals remarked that
feront system; Is that the meaning of
could
hear organ music for another lie preached like an Italian. “Yes,”
'making the world safe for democ
hour. Then l'd go to bod satisfied said another dignitary, "but he is an
racy?"
But before I got to bed I'd open and Italian. He was born on Vesuvius,
Elihu Root says that Americar
and we only sent him to England to
democratic Ideals Include "liberty not shut my door for five minutes steadily
cool.”— London Globe.
I'd
want
to
know
thatit
wasn't
bolted!
for themselves alone but for all who
—
Buffalo
News.
are oppressed.” Lloyd George asserts
Salt and Toothbrushes.
that It all countries had been demo
Our dentist tells us a very Interest
Father Fail. Again.
cratically organized, this war would
Did you ever watch the bright young ing thing. Ordinary salt is one of
not have taken place; that this war
man father has picked out as the man the best methods for sterilizing tooth-
will determine not merely interna
tional relations, but will affect the with a future and invited home foi brushes that are known. But not only
because ft sterilizes is it so excellent,
lives of peoples within their own no dinner?
The B. Y. M. has read somewhere in but because it has the effect of soften
Itone. for generations to come; that
this war is to end In “International his youth that R. Y. men are supposed ing the bristles and making them ex-
democracy,” I. e„ In liberty, equal to fall In love with and marry the pand in a way. One of the troubles so
Ity, and fraternity, between nations boss’ daughter. And ho sits and stares frequently met with is that the bristles
great and small General Smuts, for a her, nervous as the dickens because come out and are swallowed, causing
merly a soldier against Great Britain he can't decide which is worse—losing appendicitis. The salt causes the bris
tles to swell and so remain In the
tn South Africa, says that the essence his job or following precedent.
And the daughter plays the tune she brush. This may be but another of
of this war Is the question whether
governments should be founded on knows on the piano and wonders the several million theories. It Is im-
military might or on “principles of "Whatever possessed father to bring portant, however, that bristles do cause
appendicitis.— New York Globe.
equity, justice, fairness and equality.” that around here?”—New York Even
Ing Sun.
Various writers have depicted this
Substitute For Tobacco.
war as a teit of democracy, to de
A Slap at Her Complexion.
Throughout the tropical orient the
termine whether democracy can ad
“Is it true that Mrs. Dub walte and natives employ a substitute for tobac
just itself to an emergency so that by
sheer efficiency it shall at least equal Mrs. Twobble are no longer on speak- co consisting of a slice of areca palm
nut, wrapped In betel leaf, flavored
the efficiency of a military autocracy, Ing terms?"
"Yes. I fear the breach will never with a fine lime made of native sea-
and assert that on this ground alone
shells and colored with carmine. The
the future government of all the ns be healed."
"What did they fall out about?"
habit Is universal, especially with the
tions of the world Is at stake Will
"They met on the street one day women, and sellers of “betel nut" may
Crooks, the British labor leader, says
this war "ta a people's war. We are all Mrs. Dubwaite said to Mrs. Twobble. be seen on many of the street corners
In It, the man at the village pump and My dear, how do I look?’ Mrs. Twob- tn Saigon and other cities of Indo
In the fields, the blacksmith, the car hie kissed her effusively and said, ‘My China.
penter and joiner, the shipwright, and dear, you are a work of artr"—Bir
•
Handsome Serenity.
the man of leisure. We are standing mingham Age-Herald.
"George Washington was never guilty
together because we are fighting for
of deception.”
Water Soaked.
liberty."
"The Glithers baby threw a big bun
"Maybe not. 1 don’t believe, in fact,
Yea, this war Ie one tn which ideals
of government, of Individual liberty, die of stock Into the fire yesterday that he ever looked like his pictures
on our postage stamps. But, of course,
of civilisation Itself are In conflict morning.”
"What a loss! It was destroyed, of he wasn't responsible for them."—
Democracy la lined up against autoc
Washington Star.
Ie tn absolute fact a course?"
“No; Glithers bought the stock from
war of Ideala. Rut we are not fight
Ing to impose our Ideale upon any a promoter. It was too full of water
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