tfUHsnAV, incKMiii:n :o, into THE EVENING HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PACTS TtVK ., m '. '. -wW Annonncement-To-The-Public Having purchased the grocery business of Roberts &'Whitmore located at 8th & Main we will be open for business the 2nd of'Janu ary and earnestly solicit your pat ronage. We will endeavor to ihain tain the same standard of BUSI NESS, QUALITY and SERVICE conducted by them. Give us a trial that's all we ask. SERVICE, QUALITY and COUR TESY our motto. . I .v HOUSTON and PHELPS Phone 421 8th and Main Sts. L ALLEGED FORGER I tcrm ,n the 0reBon PrBOn may arise from a desire to dodge a re WAIVES DELAYS turn to that Institution. TO RESTORE HISTORIC SPOTl City of New Orleans Taking 8tepe rrtntrve and Beautify Dlenvllle'a Landing Place. An effort In bring made In New Or leans lo restore the old historic pots around tlic rlty. Willi the restoration of the old IMnce d'Anoes, the rehabili tation of the Cnblldo and the Pontnlbn apartments which surround It, and the preservation of alt an nnnrtlstlc ren ter for the old French and Spanish qunrter, an effort Ik being made to re Btorp arid preserve the landing ptnre of Bienville, where he first ret foot on the high land, In 1720, at the place he was destined to convert Into Nouvellc Orleans. This landing place, which lies on the river directly facing (he Place d'Armes, which Is now Jncksnn square, Ik covered with the switch truck of the Southern Tactile and ptihllc licit rnllrnndK, and with a part of trie large steel warehouRe belonging to the hoard of commissioner of the port of New OrleatiK. Supporters of the Louisiana Blnte museum have appealed to the mayor hnd the varlouK civic organizations to have these shwls and rnllrowd tracks removed nt once, Inasmuch ns the land, clear from the Cahlldo to the river Itself, was expropriated Rome time 11 co to he put In historical and artistic reserve. Ah all the water front of New Orleans and .the east hank of tly river belongs to the city and state forever, the completion of Ihe artistic center In fiure of accomplishment. WORK OF PUNT INVENTOR ACCEPTED MANDATE OF FATE Prank King, alleged to have pass ed Home $600 worth of forged checks on the First State & Savings bank last October, is in the local Jail, hav ing been brought back from San Francisco where he was captured by detectives by Constable J. P. Morley. King, also known as Pred Ford and Clifford BuBh, waived prelimin ary examination, which is taken ns an indication that he is preparing to plead guilty and take his medicine without trial. Under the name of Hush', the prisoner' Is said to have escaped from the Nevada state peni tentiary at Carson City, Nevada, and his willingness to take n cbanco on ITAKKS HKX),I THY FOR 1 AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP. Walter Frahlg, local automobile i mechanic, has filed application for citizenship In the circuit court. This lis Frahlg's second attempt for natur alization. Ho Is a German subject fand during the war period tbe fed- teral authorities held up his admis sion on some technical ground, it is jsnld. In nny event his first applica tion outlawed and be has now filed in second petition. He must reside in I the United States for two more years I before his final hearing. Young English 8oldier Proved Him- self Worthy When Called to Poal- tlon of Responsibility. When nudynrd Kipling's "ihe Mnn Who Would lie King" was published It was regarded as an excursion Into the Improbable, If not the Impossible. It wiir the Anglo-Saxon Imagination accepted by the colorful Hindustani civilization. Hut the sober chronicles of the war huve outdone Kipling. Thorneycroft, a twenty-two-ycnr-old British trooper, found himself stranded In Turkey after Townshend's Ill-fated offensive. Nothing daunted, he accepted his pre dicament im a mandatory of Fate. He proceeded to rule over a territory con taining 60 -villager and Cd.OttO people. J and he ruled them until relieved by 1 the martial law brought by Allenby'R troops. The Hon of a hotel keeper of Bristol, he proved at the test that he was of Imperial fiber. Truth Is stranger than fiction. It always has been and always will be, with Tommy Atkins or his first cousin, the doughboy, as protagonist. Each possesses the comic spirit that means adaptability, no matter what the emergency. Hit Skill Produces Variations That Nature Would Require Thousands of Year to Accomplish. With a watch glass and a fine enm elVhalr brush the plnnt Inventor per forms miracles. He causes more changes In six generations than Nature, unaided, would produce In 100,000 yearn. Two plant may be growing In his garden, native of countries sep arated by continents. Tbelr struc tures, habltK, hereditary tendencies and Identities have been preserved through thousands of jears. The plant Inventor takes the pollen from one, tranKfers It to his watch glass, carries It to the other, and from the glass transforms it to the bloom. The resultant need Is siiwn. The new plants may resemble one plant or the other, or they may he like neither, or they may he the veriest monstrosi ties. There are thousands of disap pointments for one success In the work, Luther Rurbanb chose one Reeding out of CTi.OOO when he Invented the primusberry. The rest were remorse lessly destroyed. The new primus berry Is a cross between the raspberry and the blackberry, but Has a fruit much larger and finer than either. Mr. Burbank has produced 300,000 vari eties of plum, 60,000 peaches and nec tarines, BOO almonds, fi.OOO walnuts, 3,000 apples, 2,000 grapes, 2,000 pearn and thousands of different kinds of berries, (lowers and vegetables In equal profusion. WE HAVE A LIMITED.JSUPPLY OF WELLMAN'S Pure Maple Sap Why nof place your order for some of this wonderful syrup? We guarantee-it absolutely pure. Also have a good supply of Silver Thistle, Tea Garden, Log Cabin and Uncle John's, which are all high grade syrups and will please the most delicate taste. Then there are a few pails of Arkansas Silver Tip Sorghum left yet. Phone your order to 200. ' , The Sunset Grocery WEALTH IN BAMBOO GROVES Try 'tin. Herald Want AOtv t z Marshal Joffre a Catalonlan. PosKlhly with more reason than the seven claimants to the. birthplace of Homer, Catalonia makes out a good I case for asserting that Marshal Joffre I belongs to her by right of fc'.rth. The i great estopper of the German first of I tensive Is a native of Perplgnan. where the Catalonlan race predom inated In past ages and where today I are found many families which still retain Catalonlan customs and lan guage. Leading business firms of Catalonia, seeking to establish a tangi ble claim, have appointed a commit tee which ls''to prpceed to Paris and present a sword to the great warrior, unless be fulfill a promise mode at the peace conference that he will visit Catalonia, In which case the presenta tion will be made at Barcelona. This, of course, would be the occasion of a great celebration. ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE PUBLIC Having disposed of our gro cery at 8th and Main Sts. to Leo Houston and Law rence Phelps, all of our fu ture business after January 1st, 1920, will be conducted at our 6th and Main' street store. ROBERTS & WHITMORE Telephenes: g5 r Mexicans Hold Strange Beliefs. Few countries are richer In strange beliefs than Mexico, writes Charles Bernard Nordhoff in the Atlantic Monthly. There the witches Assume the eyes of cats and lilt through the night on vampire's wings. A brisk business Is done In love potions and candle flames still point the way to burled treusure. The Mexican Inherits his cruelty to domestic beasts from both the Spnnlnrd and the Indian, nnd his superstitions may be traced to the same double source. Eccentricity Is not understood In Mexico. The native Is a lover of for mality, and one Is judged largely by witcimil things. Each mnn dresses nccoidlng to bis station, nnd It is un thinkable thnt a well-to-do man should ear a straw sombrero or curry a scrape; the peons would be tbe first to Jeer nt him. Their Cultivation in the Southern States Is Expected Scon to Be Recognized Procedure. One thinks more readily of an Amer ican farm with a wood Jot than of one with a bamboo grove, but bamboo groves may yet become common In the southern states, If the Idea of "In struct the farmer" In the desirability of planting them makes reasonable progress. It will be a new Idea to the farmer, and he will have to think It over. Meantime the country has one important bamboo grove flourishing in the state of Georgia, where It stands In the custody of the United States department of agriculture, to Rerve as an object lesson. The young bamboo shoots provide an early sprine vege table, said to have a flavor much like that of sweet corn, and the stalks hnve a wide range of lises which should mnke a bamboo grove profit able. It Is worth the fanner's consid eration, for example, that millions of , small ennes are yearly Imported from Japan, and fishing rods made out of them, for w hleh the United States pays annually about $5,000,000. TRUST CONTROL IN ARGENTINE Hard to Account f or Figures. Statistics tnive recently been pub lished in Gernnny which are so strik ing that the Medical Record's Geneva (Switzerland) correspondent says they "need confirmation." It Is stated that for every 1,000 boys born in the later years of the war, 1,086 girls have been born. Before the war the ratio was 1,000 boys to 1,024 girls. "Noth ing," writes the correspondent, "Is known with certainty as to the con ditions that determine sex In the hu mnn species, but there Is quite a large amount of evidence In support of the generalization that during wars and famines, when the conditions are gen erally adverse, especially with regard to nutrition, the proportion of male relative to femnle births Increnses. If there Is 'any foundation forthls gen eralization, then we must conclude either that the figures are wrong or that Germany was rr.lghty well nour ished during the war, or else that some entirely aberrant Influence was at v ork." Painstaking Work. A French critic who complained of the busty composition and lack of flue writing among his compatriots diew from M. Pierre Loujs, the author of "La Fenimo et le Puntln," a pained nnd pietise denial of the charge. M. Louys, who 1ms not published an thing In seeial j ears, says that he hnsbeen diligently occupied on a woik which ho rewrites ntul corrects n hundred times to each page. This and other uorks whlih he bus not jot considered worthy of publication hao accumu lated until he has on hand more than 200 pounds of mnnuscrlpt. The Croix de Guerre, The crnlx de giierie, corresponding to the military cross of Itritnln and the Iron cross of Germany, will be notice able hencefoith on the breasts of Frenchmen, civilian as well as military, who have been distinguished by being mentioned In the dispatches. It Is made of Florentine bronze, about an Inch and a half In diameter, with crofesed swords between tbe arms. Koran Brought Up to Date. It Is not surprising that most of the Arab populntlnn should be illiterate since the lnngiinge used In writing nnd printing Is literary Arabic, the very same ln which the Koran was com posed 12 centuries ago. It has been preserved Intact, while the spoken tongue has-grndiinlly changed, as spoken tongues will. Literary Arabic today Is about as much like the an cient language ns Latin Is like French. Ninety per cent of the people do not understand the language ln which the books are written. An Intel estlng experiment hns been begun by Hev. Percy Smith, a mis sionary In North Africa, who Is trans lating the Bible nnd the hymns of the church Into the oullnnry speech of the people, instead of In literary Arable. Chi Istlnn Herald. BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 20. (By Mall). A committee of the chamber of deputies bas discovered after more than a year's investigation that Argentina is afflicted with "trusts." Wine, flour, lime, pola'.Iei, meat. and oil and naptha are described in a recent report of the committee as under the control of "trusts" wnich have been able to flourish and main tain high prices chiefly because of high protective tariffs or favorable railroad rates, It is charged. The committee finds that tbe "most typical 'trust' " in Argentina (the word "trust" is put in quota tion marks throughout the report) is the "wine trust" in the great grape growing province of Mendoza on tbe slopes of the Andes. It is charged that this combination of wine pro ducers is an "official trust organiz ed by the law of the province" which is able to pay the cost cf the greater part of its administration out of "the local privilege created by the monop oly of wine." Destruction of grapes and wine, exportation of wine -t i low price and maintainance of a high price in Argentina are alleged. The "trust" is able to exist, the report says, by virtue of high customs duties which discourage the importation of ordi nary wines and by the aid of the na tional banks. Reform in the ad ministration of the banks and in tbe tariff laws is demanded. The committee names the Stand ard Oil company, of the United States, as the "trust" which controls kerosene and naptha in Argentina. The report sets for that that this " 'trust., norteamericano del petro lea" has in Argentina a "powerful subsidiary company, divided in ( its legal aspect into one section of pro duction, another of marketing and transport." "The commercial practices of this 'trust,' " says the report, "are those of a monopoly which wishes to ex- BABY GIRLi ARRIVES A baby daughter arrived at the home ot Mr. and Mrs. Ben Mitchell last night about midnight. Mother and daughter are doing nicely and father wears a smile that won't come off. . CUT FLOWERS Carnations Roses, Violets Floral Designs to Order KLAMATH FLORAL CO. Phone 337M Delivered anywhere in the City new power is waniea. i ln the neiu or resenrcn in connec tion with automobile underwater tor pedoes, there needs to bo developed a new source of power, said Hear Ad miral Ralph i:arleU. S. N chief of tho bureau of ordnance, at a recent . meeting of the American Chemlcnl so- I clety. Tho present souice Is coin- ! pressed air nnd the new source must i be of gi enter potentlnl per unit vol- I ume and weight nndjie nearly as eafe I to handle mid" store on board ship. Oxygen has been proposed but Is too dangerous to handle. Quite Hengllsh, This. "Houtl" cried 'the umpire ns the wicket keeper mnde a catch. "Look 'ere," protested the batsman, it wnbn't off my, bat, it was off my ead." "Ob!" said the umpire. "My. mis tnke.I'eard the ball 'It wood and I sup posed it was off the bat." Boston Evening Trauscrlpt. LIBERTY THEATRE "THE TICK OF THE PICTURES" H .W. POOLE, Owner. HARRY BOREL', Musical Diiector TONIGHT "THE DEVIL'S TRAIL" Starring Betty Compson and George Lar kin A thrilling story of the Northwest Mounted Police New Year's Day Petite VIOLA DANA in "SATAN JUNIOR" During the matinee reports by plays will be given covering tlie Oregon-Harvard game at Pasadena. A spocial leased wire is being Installed in the theatre and an operator will be at the key during the entire game. Come early and get gcod seats. Regular prices. tend even more and consolidate. There Is no proof that the 'trust' has determined upon increasing the price of kerosene and naptha in th9 country, but it is certain that its prices represent a relative increase, that is to say, with relation to the cost of production." Argentina's defense against "this international anl almost world-wide monopoly," the committee says, con sists of encouraging commerce in and production of all other materi als capable of producing light and heat and developing the production of petroleum as a government enter prise "since every private enterprise will be annihilated or absorbed by the 'trust.' " Dealing witb meat, the report says that the exportation!' this commod ity is "in the tends) of great com panies which are subsidiary to still more powerful foreign companies tending toward capitalistic monopo ly." ' The committee recommends that Argentina organize its own meat industry with municipal and regional cold storage plants and en ter into direct relation with the great foreign markets of consump tion. Finding that a milling1 trust exists, the committee declares that laws against extortionate capitalistic com binations are necessary and that "we should educate ourselves economi cally and politically for the social ization of this industry." ' 1 ' m 3 1Mi4WVWWW1