HOOD RIVER GLACIER, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1912
DEALING IN STOCKS.
SEA POSTOFFICES.
Handling and Sorting the Mail Matter
Know What Yu Are Buying Befere
Inverting Your Money.
TV hear of fortune quickly mad
In Wall street, of miner who bare
accumulated eoormoua wealth by
lucky itrlke, of Invention that bav
made In ren tor rich. But bow many
of these Instance! are there?- Just a
few, while counties thousand anl
bundred of thousand have lost every-
thing In unsuccessful venture.
The prosperous, successful man or
woman t the one who bny with
knowledge of what be or ahe la buy
ing, whether It he a piece of beef, a
dozen of egg, a borne, a bouse or
a'.ocki and bunds.
Money ha been made In Wall strent
and will continue to be made. ThoM
who buy atocka when they sell low and
sell them when they advance must
mtka money. The operation la do dlf
fereut from buying; a house or a farm
at a bargain and selling; It at a profit
Hut one should exercls Just us much
rare In one transaction as In the other.
Have nothing tu do with those who
offer glittering opportunities to get
rich quickly. This will save your
money. It may sound very nice to
say that one owns a thousand sharp
of a gold, silver or copper mine with
a lnr value of $10,000 and that cost
the holder only $50 or $100. Hut what
use Is such a certificate unions It has
real value? Better put the $50 or
$100 In one share of a dividend pay
ing stock and he satisfied with mod
erate returns and a moderate profit on
any advance the Block may enjoy.
Leslie's.
EAGLES IN COMBAT.
Fury of the Belligerent Birds In Their
Duel In the Air.
An old time observer In Maryland
says that the Lantern Shore euglescau
fly faster, remain In their lofty flight
longer and descend from It to the earth
with iuoi velocity than any other cre
ated thing with wing- He also says
that the fierceness of the eagles and
the tenacity and power of clutch they
can put Into their Immense talons are
beyond belief, and he cites as an In
stance of It a fight between two of the
big birds that he once saw.
Just what Incited the two eagles to
the combat this spectator of the fight
did not know, but they came together
high In the air. A long time the two
fierce birds fought with beak and
talon and wing, rushing upon one an
other, delivering their blows and re
treating for advantage In a new at
tack. Then at last they clinched and
fought at clone quarters.
In that position they came plunging
to the earth, but neither made any ef
fort to stay the fall, so desperately In
tent was each on the savage battle.
They struck together In the freshly
turned furrow of a plowed Held, and
the Impact failed to separate them or
to cause au Instant's delay lu the fight,
and the coming on the scene of a mau
with a club, with which he at once
took part In the battle, did not distract
their attention from one u not her, and
the man killed them both. Their tal
ons were burled so deeply In each oth
er's flesh Hint to separate the two
belligerent eagles It was necessary to
cut off their legs. New York Sun.
Married Young to Beat Smallpox.
When I was a lad the number of
people whoso faces were pitted with
Binullpox was legion. "Blind from
smallpox" was on the card worn by
most of the unfortunate street beg
gars who had lost their sight.
The anxiety of parents to have their
daughters married at an age which
would now be couHldered almost scan
dalously Immature was one by-result
of the frequency and severity of small
pox. If u girl's face were marred her
prosiHK'ts of matrimony were, of
course, impaired, aud the ambition of
mothers-so common was smallpox
was to see their daughters safely mar
ried before they caught the dtsenso.
From Walter Gllliey's "Recollections
of (Seventy Years" In Nineteenth Cen
tury. What Life It.
Nothing Is of real value In the world
except people. Never hurt a person by
a wrong thought or by word or by act.
Never hurt each other. Then go on
a big discovering expedition and find
each other. Never say, "That person
has nothing In htm," for that only
means that you haven't found It yet.
Then, last of all, never think you are
the only person. You are Just a part
of "each other." You are not somo-
body and the rest of us everybody
else. We are each other. Life is each
otherness, not everybody -elsenesh. St.
Nicholas.
The Hornbill.
The hornbill, a bird which Is widely
distributed in India, the Malay archi
pelago and Africa, has a very loud
note. Its call has beeu described as
between the shriek of a locomotive
uud the bray of a donkey and can be
heard u distance of about u couptu of
miles.
Twitted.
Illcks I hear that Brown's speech
at the club dinner last nlht was unite
funny. Wicks 'he opening sentence
was -very! Ho rose and said, "While
I was sitting on my thought a chair
struck me." Everybody roared. IW
tou Transcript
Comjuiny.
A crowd is not company. Faces are
but a gallery of pictures where then
is no love, aud talk but a tlukllng cym
bal. Francis Bacou.
When men are pure, law are use
less; wbeu men are corrupt, laws are
brokeu. -Disraeli.
Lemone Six.
Mrs. Beuham Father gave me away
wheu we were married. Beuham
Your father has been quite a fruit
dealer. Mrs. Beuham What do you
mean? Beuham lie has married off
tdx daughters, aud any man who cau
unload half a dozen lemons In that
way Is a good one. New York Tress.
No Malic.
Farmer (to horse dealer) No, I don't
bear you no malice. I only hope when
you're chased by a pack of ravishing
'ungry wolves you'll be a driving that
'owe you sold me. London Tit Him
en Ooean Liner. ;
Every one 1 aware that large quan-:
tlry of mall comes from Europe. Prob
ably most persons assume that It Is !
dumped off the steamers In bulk and'j
sorted and routed In the postomce or
the receiving port. Such a system
would result In hopeless congestion,
and practically all of the 15,000.000
pound of foreign mail matter receiv
ed at New York on an average of re
cent vears Is ready, sorted aud sacked
nhen the steamera make port. This
work Is done In the sea postofflce
aboard the ship and mean day
saved In the time of delivery of mail
matter Intended for Inland point.
In the huge mass of mail brought
Into New York each year there are on
an average (.000.000 separate pieces,
many thousands with inadequate ad-;
dresses, yet to such a degree of etfi-1
clency has the operation of the sea,
postotbees been brought and so care- j
fully Is the work done that less than
WK errors are made annually. As the j
entire quantity of the ocean mnll re-;
reived in n year would fill 2.200 stand
ard mall cars an almost Incredible ac
curacy W Indicated-less than one er
ror of any kind whatever for every
four carloads of mail.
Congress authorized the sorting of
mall on board conveying steamships lu
1MK. but It was not until the year fol
lowing that any systematic effort was
made to do so. The work of the sea
postolllce Is very similar to that of the
railway mall service. On board a
largo liner there will be usually two
United States clerks, two In the em
ploy of the country from which the
steamer sails and several subalterns
or Mirtets. This force will on an aver
age trip open and sort from 800 to 000
sacks of mail, probably consisting of
rio,iK(0 ordinary letters and 4.000 reg
istered letters, besides 1250,000 par
cels and periodicals. Mall for New
York city is distributed and separate
ly sacked for each of the stations and
that for the United States generally
according to a schedule which has 123
divisions. In addition to the mail for
the United Slates, the sea postofflce
clerks must sort that destined for Cu
ba. Mexico. Canada aud the orient, a
great deal of the hist class being for
warded by rail to San Francisco aud
thence by steamer.
To facilitate matters two mall boats
are maintained at New York, and these
meet incoming s'enmers at the quar
antine station, one taking on tne man
bags Intended for direct delivery to
trains mill kteanilni; directly to the
rallwav stations alonu the river front.
the other Hint for New York city and
such others us require rehundllng. The
sea nostoIDces cost the government
something less thun $3,000,000 per an
urn. uurper a.
Dismal Outlook,
Why do you look so unhappy?"
"Well, you know I'm pretty well
busted."
"Yes, but you nlways were, and yet
you've boroo up pretty well. What Is
the particular trouble today?"
"I Just proposed to the girl I love."
"Ah! And the answer was unfavtr
able?"
"I don't know."
"You don't know? Why, what do
you menu? Surely you must know
whether she accepted you or rejected
you."
"That's Just It. I asked her to mar
ry me, and she said bIio would. Then
I asked her If she was sure she could
be happy with a man who had no
money, and she said ahe could She
said she bad always preferred buying
things on credit anyhow." Cleveland
l'lulu Iealer,
The Story of a Profile.
On tho facade of the Palazzo Vec
chlo, at Florence, to the right of the
central entrance, the prolilo of a man's
head Is traced on the marble, the au
thorship of which Is ascribed to
Michelangelo. The story runs that
he and a friend made a bet as to
which of them would draw a head
best with their backs to the wall, a
bet easily won by Michelangelo, for
ho traced a perfect protlle, whereas
the other produced only a wavering.
Imperfect outline. The story further
relates that the tool used was a nail
Both drawings ure carefully preserved
A Sculptor's Slip.
How many know that the only fault
ever found with the splendid eques
trlan statue of Washington tu the Bos
Ion I'ublle garden, made by Thomas
Ball, was the fact that the horse has
no tongue. It Is one of those minor
details that were discovered long after
the statue had beeu put up Ball's
Governor Andrew at the statehouse
has all Its proper members.-Boston
Journal.
Apparently.
"Well, Quigley, what do you kuow?"
"Too much, I guess. I've beeu re
Jected as a Juror six times lu succes
sion." Chicago Tribune.
The Flag at Trenton.
The flag "that Washington had with
blm when he crossed the Delaware to
uttm-k Trenton" was not the "stars
and stripes." Washington crossed the
Delaware In December, lTTt!, and the
stars and stripes did not have an ex
istence uutll the June of 1777, when It
was voted Into being by the congress.
The flag that waved over General
Washington on his way to and from
Trenton consisted of thirteen stripes,
alternate red and white, as at present.
with a blue canton emblazoned with
the crosses of St. George and St. An
drew, as lu the British flag. The first
time the present stars and stripes were
flung to the breeze was ou the day of
the battle of Orlskany at Fort Stau
wix, Aug. C, 1777. New York Ameri
can.
Bad Shots.
A certalu Yankee was touring through
Devonshire, and, calling at an inn, be
ordered some of the famous cider. Not
finding it to be what he had expected,
he Inquired how It was made.
"Oh," said the publican, "we stood
a barrel of water at one end of a room
and threw applies at It."
This caused a general laugh, but the
Yankee was equal to the occasion.
"Waal." he said, "1 guess you didn't
hit Is very often." Loudon Idea.
KEPT ABOVE GROUND.
Ingenious Way Major Hook Evaded
the Terms of a Will.
Among Ingenious ways of evading h
will tho plan followed by Major Hook
and recorded In "Ancient, Curious aud
famous Wills" may be commended:
A county newspaper some years
ago recorded the death of a Major
Hook and spoke of blm as "a singular
character." "He died." says the re
port, "on Monday sennight at bis
house, 11am street. Hunt common. lie
was an olliccr In the Hast India com
pany' service and reached the age of
seventy-five. His house was remark
able for Its dingy and dilapidated con
dition." Ills wife had become entitled to a
life annuity, bequeathed to her lu
these ambiguous- terms: "And the
same shall be paid to her as long as
she Is above ground." When, there
fore, the good lady died her husband
very naturally objected to forfeit his
Income by putttug her below ground
and ingeniously devised a mode of
keeping her lu a room which he allot
ted "to her sole aud separate use,"
placing a glass cose over her remains.
For thirty years he thus prolonged bis
enjoyment. If not of his wife's society,
at least of her income.
Da Vinci't Writing!,
Although Leonardo da Vinci was a
voluminous writer, he never published
a single line during his lifetime.
After the master's death In France
his manuscripts were taken back to
Italy. His heirs proved unworthy,
and the precious writings were grad
ually dispersed. lwse pages were
ofteu detached and were either given
away as relics or stolen. No attempt
was made to publish nuy of bis
treatises, except that on painting, for
more than 300 years after bis death.
This was partly owing to the great
dlihYulty of deciphering his handwrit
ing. Iig Vinci was left banded aud
always wrote lu oriental fashion, from
right to left. Besides this, his orthog
raphy Is peculiar to himself. He ab
brevl.ites some words and Joins others
together and employs neither stops nor
accents. l.undon Chroulcle.
A Chalmers vSales Record
On February first, the Chalmers Motor Com
pany, of Detroit, had shipped 67 of its entire
output of 1912 cars.
Nearly all of these cars have now been deliver
ed to buyers. Chalmers dealers have only a few in
their show rooms and none in storage.
"This is another Chalmers year." Our busi
ness is 42 ahead of our biggest previous year.
Our factory has been running full force day and night
all season. We have run full force in most departments
all night, as well as day, all through the winter the so
called "slow season" of the automobile business.
Yet we have not been able to catch up with orders or
get a stock of cars ahead for the Spring rush.
In New York City-the most critical market and the
most competitive in the world, where all the cars of all
nations are shown the Chalmers leads all competitors in
its price class this year as it has every year since 1 908.
Our New York dealer has already delivered more
cars than he had sold up to April first last year. He has
eighty retail orders on his books for Spring delivery, and
is taking more every day. He recently sent us on one
day fifty-four orders for immediate shipments. More than
a million dollars' worth of Chalmers cars will be sold in
New York this year.
In other places-Chicago, Newark, Portland, San
Francisco, New Orleans, Columbia, S. C, Dallas, Los
Angeles, and many others-the record shows that Chal
mers cars have this year outsold all competitors in their
price classes, in some instances all rivals in all classes.
There has been keen rivalry all vear between Chicago,
San Francisco and Los Angeles for the honor of leading in
Chalmers sales outside New York City. Once Chicago
led, then San Francisco, then Los Angeles. On February
8, we received orders from Frisco for 4.'J cars for immedi
ate shipment, which again put them ahead. But the
others are crowding close.
Now why do we print these facts here? Simply be
cause we want buyers to realize the actual situation in the
automobile trade and especially the actual situation re
garding Chalmers cars. Thus we may help you avoid a
disappointment later on.
A lot of people have made up their minds to buy cars
-to buy Chalmers cars. Yet they delay placing their
orders for no other reason apparently than the very
human one of putting off today what we think can be left
until tomorrow.
What is the result? Simply that the cars which should
have been shipped to your dealer for you and your friends
are shipped elsewhere to some other dealer whose cus
tomers were more foresighted. In the end, of course,
this will mean that many people in certain localities who
want Chalmers cars won't be able to get them.
Gilbert Implement
For County Commissioner
I hereby announce my candidacy for
County Cumniisaioner of Hood River
county (iibject to the will of the Repub
lican voters of said county to lie ex
press d at the primary election on April
11, llllLV If nominated and elected 1
shall endeavor to look after the affairs
of the county as carefully as I look after
my own afiairs. K. 1'. Kiiikay.
paid adv. Apr. IS
.
HARD METALS.
They Come From Titanium and Are ae
Firm at the Diamond.
The diamond has ever been regarded
as possessing one quality that placed It
beyond rivalry namely. tha.t of hard
ness. There are several gems that com
pete wllh It in beauty, and at least one
the ruby - when of rare size outranks
It In costliness, but none in the whole
list equals it in hardness. The hardest
steel cannot equal the diamond in that
respect.
Hut there are at least two products
of chemical experiment that have
proved, according to French chemists,
to be as Intel as diamonds. These ure
produced from the rare nie'.ul titanium.
One experimenter. It Is claimed, suc
ceeded in preparing titanium In the
electric furnace. In the pure form It
N much harder than steel or quartz,
and when combined with silicon or
cailmu so as to form a sllioide or bo
rlde of titanium It matches the dia
mond Itself lu hardness.
Titanium resembles tin In Its chem
teal properties, and it Is the character
istic element In the beautiful red and
brown crystals of rutile. These, In the
shape of needles, are sometimes found
penetrating large white quartz crys
tals, forming gems that the French
call "love's arrows." New York Tress.
The Diitent Uncle.
Shortlelgh My Uncle Frank Is a
veritable Klondike. I.onglelgh-Why.
how's that? Shortlelgh Has pleuty of
wealth, but Is cold and distant. Smart
Set Magazine.
Misleading.
Mil eg (applying for a Johi-'Sir. I am j
honesty itt if '
I'nspectif. Kinplover-Indeed: I Im
agined it looked different. -Hoston
Transcript.
This monogram on the
radiator stands for all
you can ask in a motor car
Candidate For Congress.
John 1'. ( lerry) Risk.
The Progressive Republican candid
ate for congress. "For Rossevelt an. I
progressive policies against Taft and
standpatism." Always a true friend of
the Oregon System. The only candi
date for congress who dareg to oppose
the Trt't administration and the old
time political machine. Paid adv.
Ernest C. Smith, Candidate for District
Attorney.
I herebv announce my candidacy for
the Republican nontination'or Histrict
Attorney for the Seventh judicial dis
trict, at the primaries, April llJ. 1 will
personally prosecute violations of the j
law and assist otlicers in conducting the j
business of Crook, Hood River and j
Wasco counties in a vigorous, prompt'
and busines-iike manner, if nominated
and elected. j
KRSKST C. SMITH i
Don't ride miles out of
your way to get Rub
ber Stamps, but drive
direct to the
9m
GLACIER STAMP WORKS
For Your Perfect Printing Rubber Stamps
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Perhaps you think that if you don't get a Chalmers
you will get some other car. But even here you encounter
the same difficulty. For if there is any other car that
offers you as good a buy as a Chalmers, the same sales
conditions hold true concerning it as hold about the Chal
mers cars.
Besides, if you've made up your mind you want a
Chalmers, why you want it, that's all, and you will be
disappointed if you don't get it.
Several other companies are doing a record breaking
business this season, as we are.
And if you have made up your mind to have any one
of these few leading cars a Chalmers or some other
then we say place your order just as soon as you can.
Conditions are changing in the automobile business.
The stronger concerns, those building the best-value cars,
are doing more and more of the total volume of business,
and will continue to do so. The best goods and best or-
ganizations will always win in the end.
Five years from now it will be much easier than at
present to choose an automobile the ones that offer high
dollar for dollar. value now are the only ones that will be
on the market then.
The increased sale of Chalmers cars this year is proof
to us that our policies have been right. We have built
good cars. It hasn't beeri a question first of "how many"
but "how good." Not a question of how much profit we
could make in a year or two, but how we could build a
foundation for a business to last many years.
If you want to buy a car any time this spring order it
now. Spring is coming quickly. .Some of these days soon
the sun will shine the air will be warm and enticing.
You will want to be out and on your way in your new car.
Therefore order now. It takes time for orders to be
sent to the factory; for shipments to be made; for freight
trains to make their journeys.
Give yourself a fair chance to have the car you want
when you want it.
Whether or not you order right now won't make any
difference in our total volume of business. We can make
only so many ears and make them right, and we shall not
push our production past that point.
These cars will all be sold, so far as the factory is
concerned. That is absolutely certain, because we have
only 33 per cent of our output yet to ship. So believe us
when we say that if you want a Chalmers car you should
see your dealer and order now.
Chalmers "30" five-passenger touring car, four-passenger torpedo
$lf0O, three-passenger inside drive coupe $20tX).
Chalmers "Thirty-Six" live-passenger touring car, four-passenger
torpedo $1MH), two-passenger torpedo roadster $1!KM(, Jierlin limousine
$M250, Cab Side limousine fctOOO.
Chalmers "Forty" seven-passenger touring car, four-passenger
torpedo $27 fit).
Chalmers "Six" eeven-passenger touring car, four-passenger tor
pedo frSL'oO.
Company
For State Senator.
To the republican voters of Wasco and
Hood River counties:
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for state senator for the sixteenth
senatorial district of Oregon, subject to
the will of the republican voters of said
dietiictto be expressed ut the primary
election to bo held on the nineteenth
day of April, 1!'12
lam a progressive republican, and
believe firmly in the Oregon system, the
primary law, including statement num
ber one, the initiative and the referend
um and recall, and firmly believe in the
extension of power of the people, and if
nominated and elected I will use my
best efforts to promote the interest of
the people of my district and the state
of Oregon, and favor all laws to further
restrain and control the operations of
the big corporations.
finals 1). .1. COOPER.
Candidate for County Surveyor
To the Republican voUrs of Hood
River county :
I have announced myself as a candi
date for county surveyor at the coming
primaries to be held April 19, 1912.
If nominated and elected, the duties
of county surveyor will receive careful
and efficient consideration. Extensive
plats and field notes have lieen accumu
lated by my ofti.-e during the past 12
years, which are of great benefit in re
tracing old lines and making new Pur
veys. If I am elected this information
shall at all times be for the use of the
public.
I favor goo ! roads and shall cooperate
with the county court and the public
to the bftt of my ability in this matter,
paid adv Apr. 18 L. A. Hkndersos.
Cure for Cancer
k Hrderson wLsllfs t0 announce to the
public that she has successfully treated cancer for
Wrf alVifS a11 b from ?his disease
to consult with her before go ntr elsewhere A mro
guaranteed or money refunded.
Mrs. O. L. Henderson
Ramona Hotel phone 24g.x
W. A. Bell for District Attorney.
lo the Republican electors of Crook
Hood River and Wasco Counties:
I herebv annonnpa mvnuir b a
j u v i a vain
date for the Republican nomination f.
i emiiin miuniey ai tne coming 1'ri-
; mary, April 111; that I have resided in
n.c iMiini'i twenty uvc years, at f nne
ion- nun me iiaiies, wregon, ami
! been in the active practice of the
have
lor the oust pH'l.toon Vl-kO I'D that
r (- . viu a, Mint, ii
I nominated and elected, 1 will during my
if
hi oi uiiiue uevoie my entire tune t(
the duties of the office to the exclusioi
Of Other laW bllRinoBQ an.l rritta .. ......
.....Ju, , Tv .njr pl -
sonal attention, and first consult ration
io toe uusiuess oi me otnee, and
will
prrsuimiiy assist tne olhcers in
COIintV with the pnfnr.nmtil ,
each
the
ex-
Criminal Law, and especially will I ex
v.. ,jocu iu luiorce me law ag:
Vice, immoral net a ami tl.a ,rtt
against
- - " viaiui.
white slavery.
Paid adv. W. A. BEf.I
n
Candidate for District Attorney.
To the Republican voters of Wasco,
Crook and Hood River Counties:
I hereby announce my candidacy for
the Republican nomination for District
iiumey ior me seventh Judicial l)is
,rct comprised of Wasco, Crook and
Hood River Counties at the coming pri
maries to be held April 19, 1912. If
nominated and elected, the duties of
the District Attorney's office will always
fully have first consideration. I shall
strive to enforce all laws.and protect, to
the utmost of my ability, the interests
of the whole people of my District. I
Pledge myself to give my personal at
tention to the needs of the Counties
comprising the Seventh Judicial District.
A-18 CARLTON L. PEPPER.
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