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THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 23, 1916, FOOD FOR SKEP By JOHN BARTON OXFORD TIGS TTST as the first gray streaks in the sky to the east were herald ing the approach of day, tho weird, nerve-racking walls, which had Bounded intermittently since midnight from tho branches of a maple close t ) the bedroom windows, began again. Scarcely had the iirat nieluncboly note shattered the frosty stillness when tho back door was opened cauti ously, and down the step3 came Cap lain Solomon Beale, the collar of his -hastily donned overcoat turned up about his neck and his bure feet thrust into a pair of well-worn carpet jullppers. 'Ia one hand he bore a stout gunny- Hsclt; in tho other was a sauoor olM -vivaiii, wiiioit iiu uuiuiiuvu gingerly uu lie tiptoed to the foot of tho maple. High up in the branches above his head, a furry ebon ball, crouched on one of tho spreading limbs, showed lilm the jiosltiou. of the enemy. i The captain's lips sot in grim de termination. He bold out the saucer of cream In entlclug fashion, the while he strove to work something like blandishment Into a voice of uu ii4iiul gruffuesa. 1 "Come, kilty, come!" ho coaxed, but tho black ball above him, possessed, Hueaiingly, of soino inkling as to the true Inwardness of the cuptaln's sud den hospitality, refused to venture from its retreat. A pair of green eyes stared down at bim, us if already thay more thun half suspected the treachery ho was planning. I Captaru Beale put down tho saucer at the foot of the tree and moved away a few paces. There was a light movement of the branches, the sound or outspread claws upon the bark, mid down the trunk cumo the cat, milffed suspiciously the contents of the saucer, and then began to lick the rr.jan with a rel!uh that was most apparent. Til r-t-iti r::nr.'-,;lcn ttr.ta Ojul'In He took one cautious step forward, and thun another. Engrossed In the feast before it, the cat paid not the least attention to the stealthy ap proach. It was only when the captain was close beside it, that It conde scended to turn its attention from tbe cream, and then it was too late; tor the captain, with an agility surprising in a man of his years, suddenly leaped forward and caught the black body by tbe nape of the neck. Vainly did the cat give vent to its outraged feelings; vainly did it strug gle to effectively use its teeth and claws. In a trice the captain bad thrust it Into tbe gunny-sack, tho neck of which he tied with a piece of stout twine. 1'anting, but triumphant, be laid the wriggling bundle, from which came the sounds of a lost soul in the deep est woo, upon the ground. He turned to cast a hurried and guilty glance at the windows of the house next door, half expecting to find there numerous protesting witnesses to his perfidy; hut the windows of the house next door remained discreetly curtained. Thanking his lucky stars for this de lleverauco of hlB enemy into his hands, Captain' Eeulo picked up the sack, bore It into the house, and went upstairs to array himself somewhat more fully. It was only too obvious that a man, bearing a bundle of such liveliness as I he sack bade fuir to be, could never hope to go through the vlllnge streets In broad duyllght without attracting unpleasant attention to himself. Therefore, as soon 01 the captain had completod a hurried toilet, he came into the kitchen, took up I he sack, and while yet (he town was wrapped in slumber, made his way to the water front, whore bla schooner, a Ut tlo craft c.f somo hundred tons, lay at tiio docU, her cargo cf polatoea nbcarJ, -11 rre?y to :.-'i : IV -err.:-: l!t. morning the captain was not without a certain breathless anxiety as be hur ried along the silent, deserted streets, the gunny-sack over his shoulder and the cat within it sending out soulful protests every step of the way. Indeed, it was only when he gained the dock, scrambled aboard the Lu clnda, and tossed his burden uncer emoniously into the spare stateroom of tbe little cabin, that he found courage to draw a long breath. "There, drat ye!" he apostrophized the suck, "squall your ln'urds out now lor all 1 care or for all the good it will do ye! I'll learn ye to come sneukiu' round that maple by my bed room every night I try to stay ashore, keepin' me awake with your Infernal yowlln'. Go on; keep it up now; don't mind me! Have your fun while you can. I cal'late you've pretty nigh yowled your last yowl, aud spit your last spit. I sura, I'd heave you over board now, if it wu'n't for the tide I akin' you ashore and them Rider folks next door gettin' suspicious that I drowned ye. I'll Jest keep ye trussed up In the bag till we git outside, aud then over you go like the wuthless carcass you are. I guess likely next time 1 stay ashore here in my own house I'll git a little more peace, so fur as you are concerned, anyway." If 3 slummed the door of the spare stateroom, crossed the cabin, and threw himself into h!a own berth to snatch what Bleep he might, before it was time to start for Hockvllle with the cargo. He was awakened somewhat later by the sound of heavy footsteps on the deck over his head, lie arose and went up the conipanionway to find his two foremast hands, and Joe Itlalr, his coo!:, but Just come aboard. "All right, boys," he greeted them cordially. "Olud you got here bright and early. May as well git under way right oft. Tide's Benin' jest right for us now. (lit breakfast goln', Joe. Look alive there, for'ard. Cast off them lines." In a few moments the Lucinda was drifting with the tide away from tbe dock, and presently, with all sail set, she went careening across the bay toward the open sea. It was after he had eaten one of .Toe Blair's excellent breakfasts that Captain Beale's mind returned to the spare stateroom and the sack therein. He arose from the table, and, thrust ing bis head out of the conipanionway, mentally noted the schooner's posi tion. Far away the shore was but a huzy blue line; while just over the port bow loomed the gray shaft of the lighthouse on Flat Island. The cupinin chuckled. 'This la r.j gr.nd as any place," he ' 1,1 hli,c:'lf. "Tho tids'll ii3vcr wash Cy pi iK-ro " He descended tr the cabin, opened the stateroom-door aud drew out the sack. With much vocal effort, the unwilling tenant had well-nigh ex hausted itself, but as the bag was lifted it summoned sufficient spirit to send up a last wall that would bave killed the last spark of pity in the captain's heart, had such a spark ex isted. As it was, he stolidly carried the bag to the deck, and looked about for a convenient piece of scrap-iron to serve as sinking-weight. He was intent on bis task of se curely lashiug a piece of spare thai to the neck of the bag when Joe Blair, with a basket of dirty dishes oa his arm, came up from the cabin. . He spied the captain seated on tbe bitts forward and made his way thither. "What you goln' to do with that, cap'n?" he demanded. Captain Beale went on with his work without so much as looking up. "I'm goln' to heave this bag over," said he. "So? What yer got In tbe bag?" The contents of the bag answered for itself. There came from Its depth a wall of misery that would have melted the heart of an idol. Joe Blair started perceptibly. He let down the basket of dishes and looked accusingly at his superior. "It's a cat," he said. Captain Beale bristled. Hard lines appeared about the corners of bis mouth. "Well, what of that?" said he. "What you goln' to do with that cat?" the cook questioned in a tone that boded trouble. "Do with it?" tbe captain snapped. "What do you s'pose. D'yer think I was goln' to use it for a Agger-head? I'm goln' to do jest what I told yer I was heave it overboard." Joe Blair's brow darkened. He pushed buck bis soiled cap and scratched his head in doubtful fashion. It was plain he wanted to speak his mind, and yet felt some hesitancy in doing so. He shifted from foot to foot, and looked helplessly at the basket of dishes at his feet. "Say," be ventured at length, "say, I ain't exactly what you'd call a su perstitious man, which ain't sayln', neither, that I ain't got my peculiari ties. But I was on a vessel once the old Starlight, bound for Mara culbo, it was and they had a cat aboard that took sick, and they hove it overboard; and after that " "Yes, yeB, I know," the captain In terrupted irritably. 1 "You've told me all about that once or twice before. There ain't nothin' like that goln' to happen this time.. This ain't the ship's' cat. It's one I fetched aboard ..irr.sco to drowned." " t I'cn't m.ako no difference," the 1: maintained doggedly. "It's luck to heavo a cat brer, no matter where it came from, nor bow it got aboard. Say, what color is It?" "Black," said the captain with in cautious truth. Joe Blair fairly gasped. "Black!" he cried. "Say, you don't mean you'd heave a black cat overboard, do ye?" "I ain't so terrible partial as to colors," was the captain's sardonic response. "Don't you go to hoavln' no black cats off'n this schooner!" the cook said in a shaking voice. Beale stiffened. "Se here, you blasted grease-skimmer," he bellowed, I "I'm cap'n of this craft. You want to remember that. I shall most proba ; bly do about as I'm mind to, and that blasted cat is goin' over see?" "If she does," the cook threatened, "I'll git out of this schooner see'f I don't. I'll git out of her as soon as we git to Rockvllle If we ever do," he ended gloomily. The threat struck Captain Beale in a vulnerable spot. The oue boast of his otherwise modest nature was of the superiority of his cook. All too well he remembered the galley regime before Joe Blair had shipped with bim. All too well he pictured the j soggy biscuits and the greasy bash of Joe s predecessor. What mattered the cat's presence for a few days, anyway? He could manage to take the pest ashore when they arrived at Rockvllle and lose it somewhere. The main thing was to get rid of it. Where or how were secondary con siderations. Therefore Captain Beale unbent. - "Well, if you're so terribly touchy about it, take the critter into the galley, then," he commanded, "and keep her there out of my sight until we git to Rockvllle." "I tell ye I ain't what you'd call a superstitious man," the cook reiter ated, "but you'd, got into some kind of a scrape if you'd drownded her." He picked up the sack and slouched off toward the galley. Captain Beale, with a grunt of dlsgUBt, as much for his own weakness as for the cook's, stalked aft to the wheel. It was ideal weather that followed them that trip. The wind held fair and brUk; the fogs, usually prevalent in those waters in the early spring, were conspicuous only by their ab sence. In the galley Joe Blair made friends with the cat and fed jit upon the best the lockers afforded." "Havln' a good run of it this trip, ain't we, cap'n?" he observed to Beale the third day out, with a grin that angered the captain. "Couldn't be better as I see," the skipper replied. "Know vh.it makes If?" the ccok questioned, with a meaning jerk cf his hend. "It's the cat." VT"r was it ,v'y tbe propitio:r weather that Joe Blair ascribed to the cat's presence. When they discovered the old leak, that bad caused them more or less trouble the last trip, had stopped, it was the cat according to Joe. Nothing but the cat saved one of tbe foremast hands from serious Injury when he fell from aloft, and, by something in the nature of a mira cle, landed unhurt upon his feet on the deck. Again it was the cat that steered them into a school of polbclt, and brought the cook the luck of land ing some hundred and fifty pounds of them as he trolled a line astern. Day by day the cat's benign Influ ence grew apace; and day by day Captffln Beale waxed more wroth and disgusted. "Say, after the luck we've had this trip, 1 duuno as I should want to go to sea agalu in this schooner, it t'le cat wa'D't along,1' the cook confided, and the remark set Captain Beale to thinking and planning. Plainly the cat was becoming all too popular. She bade fair to be a permanent fixture unless something was done to shadow her with dis repute. Somehow or other suspicion must be brought to rest on her. Cap tain Beale meditated long and deeply. "I don't want to lose such a cook, and I'll be eternally cuased if I'll have a cat aboard," he ruminated. "I guess likely the best way out of It is to bave something nuljicky happen while she's aboard. Something un lucky, that's the ticket," he repeated with a chuckle, a plan already be ginning to unfold itself to bis mind. Long that evening Caplain Beale tat before the little table ia the cabin, figuring laboriously. "She's got to go on the ways before long and have some aew plank in her bottom, anyway," he mused, the while a smile of satisfaction wreathed his homely fuce. He consulted an al manac at his elbow. "Now, if she was to bit Shovel Rip Ledge to-mor-rer, say about six in the evenin', the wust she'd do would be to hang there till high tide, long about nine, and, maybe, pound out a plank or two. She might jest aa v-11 go on the ways this trip as any. That's the ticket; let her pound out a couple' of plank while she's hangin' on the ledge jest enough to git her leak in' so'st all hands, includin' the cook, will bave to work tho pumps for dear life the rest of the way to Rockvllle, and then lot's see what becomes of that cussed cat's reputation. I'll bet they'll heave her over themselves." To aid the captain In his plan, the next afternoon a gray mist began to rise from the sea. Steadily it thick ened, until by five o'clock it was an impenetrable pall. In the bow the fog-horn in tho hands of tho lookout l oomed and lij'-i-i In fn iw'ir through the dun-colored walls that had elcsed about them. . Captain Bcalo glanced into the binnacle, beaded tho schooner a point farther to the south'ard, and grinned.. Presently by the bllts he could se the lookout straining his ears be tween the blasts of the horn, evidently; listening Intently. Full, well the cap tain knew to what he was listening;! for already through the mist he could hear the dlstnnct moan of the whistling-buoy, which marks the outer edge of Shovel Rip Ledge. The Bound grew steadily plainer. Captain Beale's grin widened. At last' tbe lookout hailed: , "Whistlln'-buoy dead ahead, sir!" 1 Tbe skipper made a great pretense of listening. "I don't hear It," he de clared, and held his course. Tha lookout seemed a trifle uneasy. In t moment he was hailing once more: "There it goes again, sir. Whistlln' buoy dead ahead!" Captain Beale affected a fine scorn. "I don't hear no whistlln'-buoy," ha maintained, "but I can hear some old freighter groanin' oft there." Tha lookout's next hail, which fol lowed almost Immediately, was a wild yell, while be tore aft at bis best speed. "Breakers, sir, right under her bow!" he howled. And then tha schooner Btruck. There was a shock, a Jolt, a grind ing sound. The little craft shivered from stem to stern. Up the galley conipanionway came tumbling tba cook. , "Lord help us!" he yelled as tha familiar groan of the whistling-buoy; smote his ears from close quarters, "We've hit Shovel Rip Ledge!" There was another bump a series of bumps; the schooner stopped, surged ahead, then stopped again. Then the grinding beneath her keel began onee more; slowly she forged' ahead. They could plainly bear tha surge under her bows. "Judas Priest!" shouted the amazed skipper. "What do you make of thatf Dummed if we hain't hit Shovel Rip Ledge, and gone clean over it! Start the pumps, quick!" ! In a trice the pumps were shrieking ; their protests. i "How much water's she takln'?" tha skipper demanded. "Not a drop, sir," tha men at tha pumps answered. a Captain Beale wiped his forehead. For a time he stood staring stupidly at the binnacle before he put tha schooner back on her course. Then the cook came , running aft with a black, furry body In his arm. "Say, will you believe It now?" ha shouted. "Ain't there something in it, Would you ever got off'n that lodge, much more gone over it, if it hadn't been for the cat? Ain't it a special providence you fetched her? I'll tell ye one thing, I ain't goin' to sea again on this schooner, nor no other, with out a black cat aboard." The skipper burst into a great roar of laughter, which left the cook star ing nt him In open-mouthed wonder. "You win," said Captain Beale, when he had somewhat recovered hia breath. "I'm most bsginnin' to thlntc myself there's romethin' in it. That rat claya .".ecr.nl." ' f. ?- - ANNUAL CONTESTS New York, Sept. 2.1.- The ' niinnnl ihiiiiipioiihhip contexts of the New York Athletic club will be held today at Ttuvers Maud. The events Include u two mile steeplechase race ami pantnth Inii contexts. National championship jiioIhIs will lie awarded to winners, gold for first place; silver for second mud bronze for third. The pentntlilun wi 1 1 be composed of the following ev ents: running broad Jump, throwing Hie javelin, SOU meter run, throwing Hie discuss, and l,fi(0 meter run. Letters to Annie Bodie Whose Home Is Anywhere MUM EIOT WATER IF YOU PESEffi A ROSY COMPLEXION Sayt w can't help but look better; "and feel better after an Inside bath, Dear Annie: Jiiiiinie Tuttle, who bus recently returned buck to your tuwu, savs lie thinks lie made quite nu impres sion while in Snloni, does lie J Well, he's right all right, it goes against human nature to concede the glory thul another person claims fur himself, but .liintuie's correct. It nitiy lie t tint lie told you how he iniiilo the impression. Also it uinv be he did not. He made it by attempting to walk across a piece' of new uivciiif nt out on the fairgrounds read. I Folks here expect the f uirnrounils ; road to be all paved before the state I fair, but if it isn't finished it Willi be almost finished, us Sum Dawson said he was lifter he'd sneaked into the! nuiitrv in tho dark and hurriedly long itruiK or rinisiiing ; it began, and yet war breaks out in Turner, Oregon, about us frequently us it beraks out in the Balkans, not to mention the Oregon state prison-and the Oregon board o'f control and the South ern Pacific car shortage and the Sil verton revival meetings. There would have been n war in North Salem too if Tommy Wiggins hadn't blown one of his little lungs into bis new cornet, lie plays with one lung now nail it is barely audible, and by the time ho grows another lung he will hnve become sufficiently proficient to curry joy to the neighborhood bosom instead of the sentiment lie has been carrying to tiiem. There's no sense niiywnv in a perfect ly untutored footer tooting "(led Save Senator Would Have Income Tax Receipts Made Public vious mill nnrbfd when from bowels, tiie 1... l.nut tf....l ..it..' li.tut J II limn v"i' i'i-ni 11 11,1 1,1, .-in- n ... ... is to enjoy au inside bath each niorn- 10 hush rruiu 1 no svsu'in me " .. .!..(, 'a until., unil. 1 1 I" 1.1 II II t It t i 1 1 II H poisonous toxins before it is lib . . . . .1 1.1 ... I ,.. - . -....I 11110 me moon, .iosi hs i-um, .. 1 i..n.-.. 1... 1.;... 1 . ..A. wui'll 11 inn nn, ii-iii- m-ii.ini u tu 111 amount of incombustible nmlerial in the form of ashes, so the food ami drink Inken each day leave in the ali immtary organs a certain amount of indigestible material, which if not climated, form toxins and poisons which are then sucked into the blood through the very duets wiiuh nro in tended to suck' in only nourishment to sustain the body. If you want-to see the glow of healthy bloom in your cheeks, to see your skin get clearer and clearer, you lire told to drink every morniiitf upou arising, a K'"HH ' 'l0( water with a teaspoonfiil of limestone phosphate In ,1. i..h m linrtulesH means of wnsh- waste material and toxins ........ ....I. II,.... Ll.lnvu mill It- PH'at,,,,, M.V., n'',i."B ...... ,L I I.. .,t..,,ilu,,i .... an, I IIOWCIH, IllllS Cii-miiMMH, .v....tH ..- ,1... ....,!., ulimnn tiirv- trn,t iuriiYiiiK ii'w i-um.' n ...... j before putting more food Into the stom ach. Men and women with sallow skins, liver spots, pimples or pallid coin pleMon, also those who wake up with a coated tongue, bad taste, nasty Imath, others who are bothered with headaches, bilious spells, add stomach or constipation should lygin this phus phiited hot water drinking and are asmireil of very proiiouncod results in one or two weeks, a ....at-tup n.iiiiwl of limestone iihoS- Vhate costs very 'little at the drug IS SUIIICICIH Hi ueiinMi.-M ..... as soap and not wnier III.... nn.l .tlnttllkfll, IhO t-it'Uiises, piiiiiii- nun --- skin on the outside, ho hot water and 1- . 1 1.-1 . ..n illkliltfl jiniesioiitt piiuspiinie mi o iiruiins. We must always consider that ii.tni'imt amtilulinii is V'ustlv tllorO im- u.rtiit.t (linn outside cleanliness, be Kin tiore 110 noi um . - l . L.I I M.k:i.. hn inro luc .uiouu, s"n the ctore but that just cleanses i-nuto tho iimiii ri t i.ia . Imwel pores do. ' U " ,e"i f tha ov ! ' ' '':."' ? 1"'. .-K'.',orood in mind prior to me nccuioiu. Mini siiys finishing oil is perfectly harmless, but yet it was the but that Of course his folks said "JSttir Spangled Banner, didn't make it so. ti . . . 1 ;. . ...mi . mi.- If. ti,.. w..v with a eno.l main- thie.s . !"" ' l-r. g ess. . e i llie world, nei'fectlv harmless, but ' 'I'M growers e no 11 S .." u " vet Silence is u powerful eloquent thing. It 's easy for some people too. You may hnve noticed that the person who con fines himself entirely and strictly and ri u id ly to the truth is silent a good deal of the time. If he wasn't his business would full off and hi standing ill so ciety wouldn't be deuce high. ion re going to iniss the on ml con certs. Friday uight wus the Inst one for the 1PHI season, and the weather bu reau or the Southern Pacific rnilrond or whoever it is that arranges such things in this country fixed up a real Imita tion July night with a perfectly seruinp tuous sunset and nil Hk trimmings for the occasion. And the music was swell, ns Shnkespenre says. Music goes considerably more into the hiiuinu tireust when the weather is warm thnu when it isn't. It rs good deal like maple syrup and hot cakes, only different, the Inst named combination requiring more or less chill in order to produce the desired intermedial conse quences. And, speaking of consequences, our troops nro buck "from the Mexican front. They weren't railed 011 to fight any battles in the war one, so they brought the rone home with 'era audi managing to keep the town newspapers and the street gossips keyed up to con- h mn.l it? ,i.. limit fine fllilHT 1 . ,..!.. .1.. ..,..,.. ,i-.i ti., began todnv 'J m they .hied .e fair grounds for the Business off and Tefused to fight. If they had ,!'n. R.;inK association meet, to be- market. Some yards aren't being picked at nil because lice am) mold got started first, and some aren't being picked because nu epidemic of hook worm or something broke nut among the pickers, and a few are going nheiid about as they nlwnys do. A newspaper reporter asked a promin ent hop grower yesterday how things were likely to come out after all, and the p. h. g. said "Hod knows." This looks ns if the hop growers are playing the game on the same principal ns the Kiiropean armies, but they hud never been suspected of it before. A letter has been received here from a certain woman who got plumb disgusted with Oregon and went back to her form er home in the east about six mouths ago. She snys in the letter that there is only one thing she'd like to see from Oregon. Otherwise she is perfectly con tented. Thnt 0110 thing is a draft just big enough to cover a railroad ticket to Portland mid the most reasonable kind of expenses. She is willing to walk up from Portland. Now what do vuu think of that! OOOOl.KS. By Paul 0. Husting (United States senntor from Wisconsin) in my judgment, no valid argument has ever yet been advanced why in eome tax records should not be publish ed or nt least open to the public for in spection. if certain individuals evade or es cape, in whole or in part, their proper tax, just to that extent, llie amount s'o eviided lias to be mnde good by those who make full and honest returns of their property. Kvery tnxpnyer has a right to know what every other tax payer pays. Men will dodge taxes. I do hot think this due so much to inherent dis honest ns to inefficient administration if the tny laws. I believe most men are willing to pay . . : a '.... ,1,.,;. '.!. tneir tuxes ir ussiucii mm i"in low citizens pay theirs. Because of imperfect, loose and ie quentlv disolioncst assessment meth ods, it is not unusual for men to en gage in a practice acquiesced in if not sanctioned by the authorities, to dodge their taxes. Often it is considered clever for men to get the best of their neighbors in concealing property. Men boast about It and n sort of rivalry has sprung up between them on the point. ti,..,- ,in nnt utmi to think that tnev ore cheating their fellow citizens who do pav their just taxes. They do not stop to think that they arc "welchers ' or "sioiigers , on society, oome m these are men who ordinarily would spurn the idea of sponging on their fellows or cneatiiig tlieir partners. Some one has estimated t'nnt this government loses annually :Iih),000, 000 by income tax dodging. This may I... n i-nrv hitili estimate. 1 .110 inn know. I do know thnf millions of del- Phil to Revive New Orleans Racing On Big Scale New Orleans, I.n.. Sept. 2.1. Work on the old race track at only given the boys a chnnco nt em it wouldn't be necessary now for the folks in the, old home village to huntor the Ueligereniy out of the fellows by de (jrees before it bursts out and hurts somebody.' War seems to rome more or less nat ural to the average human animal. It is kO In this peaceful valley just as much as it is in vallevs which make no claim 10 nencefulness. We've been deploring the unpleasantness in Kuropo ever since j'j,' gin Uccemner in ami continue unui tne middle of February. The question of reviving racing here has split thP community into warring factions for a long 'me. Leading eiti itens, including church dignitaries, have taken a hand 111 the Jmttle, Dr. MncDiarmaid, president of the racing association, said today that there will be no Interruption of the races ia spite of the many protests. Judge Joseph 11. Murray win again presiue as in exceptional cases it may cause trou ble or inconvenience. Publicity is the most efficient hand maiden of such administration. War Delays Aeroplane Mail Route Starting In Alaska Country (By V lilted Press) Washington, Sept. 2.1. Uiicle Sam's aeroplane mail route into Alaska, con tracted for some time ago, cannot start because the Kiiropean war is gobbling up nil the aeroplanes as fast ns they're made. Second Assistant Postmaster fioneriil Prneger, who is in chnrge of ftie new air route between Seward and Iditaroil, Alaska, is in high hope that the route will be in operation by spring, he said todnv. The air line will take the place of the old Miilamute Trail and instead of listening for the postman's whistle ns most persons do, the Alnsknn folk will strain their ears for the whirl of n "00 horse power motor high up ia ll.a nip Karl L. Byers, an Alnsknn capitalist made a bid for the aeroplane service contract that was acceptable to the gov ernment; and lie is trying hard to get the areos. DEATH NOT TO BE FEAKED Death, I know not whnt room you are abiding 111, But I will go on my way, Reioicini; dnv by day, Nor will I flee or stay if del- t ,nn,l iii tlie i.nth von mnv I,,,.- .r l.riiiierlv unvnble taxes under! . ;.. , --. ve IILUI1IK the. income tax law arc lost to the; I nited States each year because or t know. not if mv small bark be false TCturns. A corps of inspectors", m,ar:n vou iincnviiriiii these tax evasions nae added millions to the tax receipts. ' Rut if you are at sea. Still shall my sails float free. " whnt ia tr he will be: Nor will I ninr the happy voyage by tearing you ri. i.nn nf sii.recv ahoiild he remov ed and nil these records exposed to tiie light of day. Men will not evaue tneir ......... :n ill... f.i. .l..l.i..timl iii.m-b 11 1 11 . . . ........ . . 1 The loudest protest against u,".v ! peath, I know not whnt hour or spot naturally comes imm m,.- ...-.. vou wajt for me pay the heaviest tax.- Not daring to' jy days untroubled flow; llttilCK tne lliiume 111 .i....... j 1. iivmif 1 fiuniiiv illinium i" l II 1 1 I'll'n'l ........... When such income constitutes the basis upon whic'u their just tax is com puted then their tnx return becomes a public document. If it should be shown that the in jury to private business by reason of tuiMii'it V 1111' Mental tn' the assessment and collection of the income tax is out of all proportion to the belief its deriv .i from thnt sort nf taxation, the tax .tl.l lw slinlislmd. but SO loUST 83 it IS in force all steps necessary to the proper administration of that income tax law should be taken, even though .lust trusting as I ao: IV- ml.' 1 know. I know Death' but life that- holds some glad new faith lor me. Klla Wheeler Wilcox. .. . . Sioux Falls, t. fept. z.i. Public schools today used large newspaper advertisements to in duce children to attend school. Try the Journal Classified Ads. -. ...... -v.is'yr.ri i i it nri it j I 'V "T Tf I U HI i fi7 .1 J I rl I 1 ! 3 1 I Ml 3 'tfliC '1 v Y : a' A BUFFALO INSTITUTION Known AU Over the United States. MM Dr. Richard C- Cabot, who is head of the Massachusetts General Hospi tal, has been writing for the American Magazine. April and May, on the sub ject of ''Better Doctoring for Less Money. He savs that "A new era has come in the practice of medicine, but most people do not know it yet. We have begun to emerge from that stage of medical work in which the doctor was a peddler selling goods from house to house, into the more advanced and sensible era in -which the doctor stays at his place of business, like anyone else who has goods to sell, and the people who want these goods come to him. The shop where he has his goods to sell is generally; called a hospital and he has associated with him there a body of men and women similar to work people, foremen and managers of any industrial plant or dry goods store. He has there some beginnings of a satisfactory division of labor and specialization of function. Therefore, he can give the public -a much better article for less money. "The 'article' I refer to is sound medical advice and treatment." This is just what Dr. Pierce has been doing at the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo, New York. Dr. V. M. Pierce has asso ciated with him Dr. Lee H. Smith, who is vice president and head surgical director and operator, and there are a dozen other physicians and special ists, as well as four chemists, and the poor and the very rich get the best medical attention. As Dr. Cabot has properly said, "When you go to a doctor s oltice you may complain ot nothing more abstruse than a head ache or a stomache-ache, yet for the solution ot the problem represented by vnnr snfferinff tbere mav Ks needed an X-ray examination, chemical tests such as very few experts are capable of mak ing, tne consultation ot experts in diseases of the eye, the ear and the threat, and the study of the improve ment or aggravation of symptoms at different times of day and under dif ferent diets and temperatures. This study demands the conditions found in just such a hospital, and nowhere else to be had without great expenses." It is also true that the "family doctor doea the best that he knows how, and con sidering the difficulties under which he works, makes a wonderfully good esti mate of the nature of the patient's dis ease and the treatment to be administered." "But as an accurate diagnosis slmnlir cannot be made in a considerable num ber of cases without the co-operation of a number of men, each expert in his own field, what we ask the fsmilv doctor to be is an 'all-around' specialist. i ins ne attempts, but one cannot truth- tuny say that he succeeds, for the at tempt is obviously an impossible one. Aieaicme is today lar too large and complicated a field for any one man, no matter how wise and experienced. to cover. We have not the spare to speak in dividually of the professional men com posing the faculty of this old, world famed . institution, but will say that among them are many whose long con nection with the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute has rendered them experts in their several specialties. Advantages of Specialties. By thorough organization and sub dividing the practice of medicine and surgery in this institution, every in valid is treated by a specialist one who devotes his undivided attention tr the particular class of diseases to which the case belongs. The advantage of this arrangement is obvious. Medical science covers a field so vast that no physician can, within the limits of a lifetime, achieve the highest degree o success in the treatment of every malady incidental to humanitv. m Canital Journal Want Ads Fill Get Yon What Yon Want