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j j; t ! 3 THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY. OCT. 14, 1916. "Eels, yes. Eels" nnd and such Anythin' marine, you understand. Cer tainly. Marine food, that's it, such, as grows natural on them tber- coasts d of Van : . ; . . i ? ! i: I- i !l ill S s i : . I i By George Allan England H t'llUY! here! Tluriy! Hurry! She Here! Have you seen her. ladies? Gentleinane? Tli' mer-mald. Only n nickel lialf a dime. An' captured alive in th' China Sea by Colonel Webb. That's right, Jack, give her plenty o' fresh, pure water. Th' mer-mald! Th" mer-mnld! Kivo cents admit to everything. Ker-ak-ak-ak-Vk-k-k-k-kak!" "All th' paper talkln' about her! Everybody sees her! And only halt a dime to all! Just a leetle mors water, Jack, fer th' China Sea gasteropodin out) phernomena!" Oil to one aide, on a kind of scaffold, stands Jack. -.. He's red-wattled and -will kick the beam at two hundred and fifty; and lie purapln' water In a trough. It sloshes down through a hole in 111' painted tent. "Gee!'! says I. Then I doea a wriggle through tho bunch of open-faced Jaspers. "Ma far her!" says 1, plunkin' down. w nickel I had, at that: but 1 couldn't miss a Chinee mermaid, nlry! "Me for th' mermaid!" "Past right on the In-alde," barki the proprietor, harvestln' my coin. I "On the ln-ilde, the lu-side! She'i here, here, here!" U I passes on the Inside. It'a hotter .than the Hinges, in there under can .ras. Two or three rubber-plants la Jilossomln' over a red cloth screen, pbservin' a Fake an' the big F goes, oo ' Five foot long she Is, that mer inald, rcposln' on a pedestal; she has jsqulzzled lamps, fish-teeth glued In, coconniit-fibsr hair, an' a brown hide Cracked In places so the hay allows. J shoots one look into bar, an' does a ' aulck reverse. l "Cm, I" I nxrtafara ft III, him toutslilp, "I ants that nickel back, an' wants It sudden, see?" H He nev r eveq flashes his Incandes cent On ie, but hangs to that wicked rplel of liiri "She's here, here, here!" ' ''She uiu't!" I protests, raring on my bind b'?;u. "No, nor never was! Your mermaid ain't, at pome anywheres out aids a hVyloCt. And what's mora, she wouldn't I .at two minutes It a trotter got It hr with the IrorUsI pis gorse. or I hollerP u "On your way!" he growls at me. "Th' conifers for you!" About that time, Jack has quit his fresh - pure water stunt and is closing in on me. There's a mix, and Jack an' me finds our selves tangUd on the ground. I breaks away, sits up an' looks at him. Ho ditto at me. Th' big. round mob ditto at both of us. Then, sud denly, I falls to who be reely Is. "Why. Beef Westerhood!" says I. rubbin' my shoulder where the ground flopped up an' pasted it. "Why Beefl That you? Where's th" whiskers you used to float? An' why this unfamiliar corporosity? Is it you, or who is it? Ha scans me faithful a minute, herdln' together his memories; then his face folds Into a grin, and out comes th' joyous palm at me. "Sim!" "Beef!" Twelve years that we ain't so much as batted an eye on each other is bridged In a wink, while IV crowd stretches red, cordy necks. ,- "I'm sure astounded," I murmurs to him, duatln' off my raiments, "to find you engaged in a flaked-breakfast-foo'd brace game. You, you of all honest fakirs, perpetratln' a mermaid!" "Ferglt It!" he whispers, wlth drawln' ma Inside the tent, away from that over-lnqulsltive bunch of horny banders. "Ferglt it! Times has un derwent painful changes since you an' me paraded up Popularity Avnoo to the rattle of a pi! I In a walnut-shell. It's a case with me of gaff what's offered, now, an' no comer barred. But," he adds wistful, "can you Im prove this here lay? You always was snappy with th' thinks. Can you dope ginger into our modest attempt to put th' Jack under thl rural currency?" "Can I? Well, some!" . "I'lne an' dandy! Percolate round to-night aft-r th' Pike closes. I'll knock you town to th' boss, an' we'll I rag chow. Just nrw ' B.efv id tt' 0' pump. But to-night you'll fall round?" "I guess yes." Then we clinches again, an separates. That's how I gets the Job, see? the job as mermaid. - It was simply a scream; twenty-five per, an' no toil to dally with uothla' to do but float or raddle or snooze in a tin tank of v-tt'r, now bonny flddy supplied by Beet an' his pump. Get wet? Wet nothln'! I had a padded rubber suit, green, with bunches of sea weed all over it. By keepin' ray back to the cotne-ona, an' loafln' round mostly under water, all but my head, th' game we played sent all the rest o' the Pikers skurrylu' for the high wood. Crowds? Never did pipe such crowds. Looked like th' boss would make a million. He doubled Beef's pay th' second v.cek, and come up to thirty-live on mine. It's a good Job, In apite i.! evcry thln', even lucluUin' old b.-'es with sharp aiibrelltts, an' kids with pea nuts what 1 have to snap at. A good Job, an' good business. A mob, most all the time so much of a mob that th' prof, hires another outside man an' tends exclusively to his new lecture on deep sea marvels. It's two hours on, an' halt an hour's rest, thirty-live per, an' all expenses. "If it lasts," thinks I, "It's me to the nker class In the directory, that's lira. I'll get tl.' coupon-cutting habit," says I, "if nothln' sap la my bearings! Oh, Joy!" Then I flips my tail, turns my quid, and muzslrj jalnat th' professor's long po'' ier. . ' Kind!.- na:s ?rltters they bo, Uiese here ) line mermaid marvels of th' Chlua Sea, known to sclece as the - 'Subaguaticus Humanlformus,'" says he, reachin' over and . strokin' my. snout.' "Highly intelligent, too. Go- fetch, Lucy!" An' ..he heaves a piece o' wood for me to retrieve. "Most unfortunate, they - require--a dim light, like In th' caves an' fast nesses ot their native abodes among th' coral reers," says he, "or you could mark an' behold the Irldiscent colors an' beautiful contoors of this extry ordlnary large specimen, captured alive after a desprit struggle by Colo nel Lysander -Webb, K.C.B., on the 27th of last March, off th' coast of Van Diemen's Land, in th' China Sea and now exhibited at tremenjou ex penseonly one over In captivity! They don't survive long in fresh water," says be, polntln' at the spout where Beet Westerhood is putttn' In his best licks, "and direct daylight is fatal to 'em immejlt. We will now pass out, ladies an' gents, to permit another audience in to witness this. the greatest marvel ot all the ages. Kindly pass on the outside, ladies! Gentlemane! - On the out-side! The out-side!" It used to be. "Pass on the In side!" but now It's tough work to keep th' mob ahiftin' at all. Fact is, we're the broad-gage dream-pill pushers ot the Pike Inside of a week, the only orig inal, charter-members ot the Get There Club. All the others has to take our dust; Shamdow the Chain- breaker, Mme. Claire the Medium, Moscow tba Snake Aig, an' all 'spe cially Moscow. ' I wm to know Mos cow, y'underStand, when bis name was MacShane, an' you could pat all the love lost between us In your eye with out seeln' none the worse; so it didn't worry me - much about kis business goln' to the blinks. Ob, I tell you, the mermaid bunch was just swamped in a tidal-wave of rejoleia'. We sure was goin' so-.ne! But It's- Ji'.ct this very pace of ours that cut the final crimp in our gears as you'll see ell In Its good an' proper time. Don't rush the hearse. For,-one day along the beginr.ln' of our third week since the boss grew a spike-tail coat an' the title ot pro fessor, . I notices this same -Moscow MacShane in among tbe bunch of IS. Z. Marx.. There's a difference be tween them an' him, though, and it don't lo-jk extra salubrious, neitber. They're all standin' with open traps, gorgln' tbe prof.'s science, while he's lurkln' by the far end of the tank, deat to the spiel, but all there with tbe optics. And as he pipes me be smiles contented, in a way that gives me a sudden attack of blighted pros pecks. That smile makes me feel like bein' dropped from th top story In one o' them sudden elevators; I grows that dopey the prof, bus to jab me with his pointer j make me paddle an' retrieve. And all th' time I'm perforunn', Moscow l-i glvln' me sensa tions like when you eprlnkle sugar on oysters. My. .blood's runnia' cold .Mii to irceze th' tank. Well, we does our little bit,- th' prof, and me, and then It "comes time f clear the tent.. "On the out-side! The out-side! " orates tbe prof., berdln' out the cattle. They all Jostles out all but Moscow. He crouches down around the far corner ot the tank an' stays. When the tent, is full of emptiness, up be bobs, leans over the edge ot th' tank, and "Sim," says be, "Sim, It's a real huge IT, this mimical con! ot yours, marked up as the greatest ever, and calculated to pull down more coin than anybody can have an' be decent. Bt!" (he waggles bis bead at me) "But now let me tell you honest, It ain't quite artistic enough, an' that's the livin'. For example " "Gwan!" I growls at him. "Clear out! No man what handles fangless reptyles has any call" . "Dear me, such langwldge!" he pro tests, mild as rabbit's milk. "I'm dls- combobulated, honest I am, to hear such from a lady mermaid! An', moreover, just think how Imprudent it would be of you to holler now wouldn't it? Sort of shake public confidence, an' all that, eh? Down Lucy, down, there's a good, nice lady mermaid!" He reaches but an' bits me a crack over the sea-weed on my brow with bis long cane. "Down, Lucy, down!" he repeats; and bis tone for pure A-One Insulting ness was th' top-nitcher ot all time. "I aln t through with you yet," says he. resumin' his mild manners. . "Com pose yourself; there's another bunch of B. Z.'s due in three minutes. See you to-morrow," says he, "and we will resume the spcrt. Mermaid hunting nothin' like It; greatest ever!" Must ha' changed his mind about waitin' till to-morrow maybe thought I'd put th' prof, wise, an' have him excluded, which I sure would have done for,- anyhow, back he comes in side ot an hour, an' with him a couple of huskies with such low brows that their hair tangles their eyelashes. The three of 'em fronts up to our tank, along of a blK an' spellbound crowd; an' none ' tie audience seems more plumb int'rested than them three. Moscow's sleeve looks bulgy. The prof, ho seenis uneasy and on his guard. I notices the stream of water ain't comin' In, and judges Beef is bein' held as a reserve for lmmejit action Jn case o' need. My nerves is all to the dippy, so I can't hardly do my stunts at all, and the prof, has to more than prod. Every time I flips or dives, "Gee!" thinks I, "this here is Just prolonglu' the agony. I'm sure workin' a shell-game on my self," thinks I, an' the sweat begins to ooze. An' every time I comes up, therd still stands Moscow MacShane and his L. Il.'s juet smilin' smilln'. That bulgy sleeve feezes me. , "Make b? dive again, profe-' ar!" i.prka up one of the V O'n, Inr. J. "it like, tssin' per ty it? ' e 't ao cau find it ' u th' l-ottom. rihe cm see best In a dim Ji.cyt, can't she?" "Iridescent colors an' ' beautiful contoors of this extryordinary large specimen," hastens the prof., tryin' to bring his lecture to a speedy finish. 'An' - caDtured alive after a desprit struggle by Colonel Lysander Webb, K.C.B, on the 27th pt last- Say. nrof.." butts in the otner u. a., "how long can she stay down?" - 'She requires a dim light, like alt the 'specie," forges the prof., neck an' neck .with that ominous curiosity oi th' ; Moscow gang. VLives in dark ocean, caves an' fastnesses, which is their native abode among th' coral reefs! And now we will paBS " "Under water they live?" inquires the first L.; B. again. "In caves, you say? Far down among them beautiful coral reefs?"' . . . , "Why er yes." answers th' prof., his voice almost breakin' with sup pressed torture. Th crowd begins to shove . an' whisper. "But you you understand, it s salt water-of course It Is, out there on th' coasts ot Van Diemen's Land in th' China bea. Everybody knows that. Salt water an' that makes a difference '- - - - - No such thing!" retorts the L. B., Dullln' out a book from his pocket. "I got a volyume here, wrote by Colonel Webb himself, where he says lemme find th' place, page 159 he says "Never you mind what Colonel Webb says!", flares out the prof. "Ain't I been bandlln' mermaids dally an' hourly fer the past eleven years? Don't I know their habits? We will now -pass on the out-side. The out side " "Hold on!. Hold on!" says tho L. B., polite an' easy.' Not a soul starts for the outside. Contrary wise," they crowds. up closer than ever, till it's a regulation .sardine-pack. Some laughs, an' I hears confused scraps ot talk. "If this here Mermaid Lucy's caught alive after a desprit struggle, last 27th o' March, first an' only one in captivity, how comes it that" Bon t pester him! speaks up Mos cow, aoolhln'-like, - "That's a matter ot mere detail. What interests this here intelligent audience now is just this how long can a genooine. mer maid stay under water? Now prof., it's up to you!" . "That's right right!" I hears th' crowd repeat. . How long? Make her try it. Money's worth! Hold 'er under " Say, am I swealin' blood, or ain't I? "Wo will bow pass begins the prof, again, all ot a tremble an' rub- bin' his chin with a shaky hand; but Moscow interrupts once more: "We don't press the point. It's Immaterial cn' besides, , Lucy . ain't well to-day. She's allin' I know It by her looks allin' and nervous. Bu somethin we oult) like to know is what she feeds ip? inere, professor, her diet: what is it?" "Ki.il?" answers the prof., h' spirits riJn' like an oil-gusher. "D ? ''!.,- mostly flsb. and and " ieis?" volunteers iilcjr , "11 so, iavA -r." - I hav "Hang th' diet!" speaks up L. B. Number 1. "I wants to seo her etny under water!" f "Same here! An' here!" persists the' crowd, which now is gottin' un ruly an' . hilarious. . ; All this time, . y'understand, I'm In a despair so black It makes soot snow-wbite oy com parison. "Make .'er stay down! Down!" shouts some in tnat jostim'. pushin' mob. "Feed 'er!" vociferates , others. . The poor old prof. say, I had t . pity him, spite o' my own bloody sweat. He grips his resolution, leana over an' pats me lovln' on the nozzle. . "Dive. Lucyi ' ne commanus in a tremblln' voice. "Dive, an' stay down a spell." "Here s my speedy end, thinks l. ' but I'll croak gume. An' Lord help th' fish they flings to me!" I cnashes my teeth preparatory (to doin' murder vicariously on' Moscow, .MacShane in the person ot said fish. ; It's all darit an' slippery down there on th bottom; can't more than see a glimmer, l' ion above 1 hear a rumble o' voices. Then all ot a sudden I sees some thin' swimmin' round kind ot a fish thing, big an' brown. My lunga feel like they was just plumb goin' ! bust every second, but I makes a Eras' at the fish-thing, misses, makes an other, lands on it with my left, grap- pies with my right, closes in and grips till my knuckles crack. I feels the fish-critter give; there's a sudden lash an' tangle the water bolls. And then then Gee Whillikens! Ow! Oo! Oooooo! Somethin' ex plodes. Somethin' hits me. What is it? Where am I? Sparks an", fire envelope me! Can't let go an' I'm all tied up in bow-knots myself. Jump in' jewsharps! 'Bout a million volts of red-hot current racks my frame. Whoof! Up I surges, blind, deaf. chokin'.' Plumb In the eye MacShano lands me one. Down I goes backward splash! head over tail, down 1 souses under water again, gulps a gallon aa' comes up just explodin' with a whoof! whoof! that blows th' drink clean over that hilarious mob of cutthroats. But this time the prof, has unHmbered. Beef comes a shovin' and tho cutside man, too there's reinforcements. .- I makes my get-out o' the diabollsa. tank that time falls on my mup, out side, and lays sprauglin', all tied m in my tall 'mongst the feet of tMu . stampedin', fightin', roarin' multitude. Mac, he drives a kick at me just aa Beet hands him a right hook on the ear. He drops.' I'm top of him In a wink, i and the L. B.'s, the prof., the outside-man an' Beet is top of us both. An' after that It's Just pure canuibal Ism, with th' mob weepin' Itself sick fer joy, an' screechin' "Perlicet" Perlice? Sure they come after a while. But there's no tent left, nothin' but ribbons. Fact is, all th' good them perllca done was shoot that there mermaid food o' mine that eel that theti million volt electric eel. . Say, you tumble? .(.Copyright, Thl Frank A. Munuy Cu.)' Son of a Civil War Veteran Telle Why He Is for Wilson A Wisconsin innn, noil of a Civil war vuti'niii, makes ouu of tho strongest a ju'dls for votes for Wilson for president ver nincle tor a candidate for office anywhere. Here it is: i I AM AN AilrJUU'AN. I linte war nuil I love pence. My father fouht in Ilie Civil war for the cause ho thought wax riylit. He died on the field at Getysburg. Ho left a widow unci five smnll child ren. As a vli i Id at my mother's knee, I have heard her, as the tours stolo down her cheeks, describo tho horrors and the iuixerios of the days of '1)1. 1 linvp reud tho words of Sherman who nuld "War Is Ucll." I try to picture the sorrow and woe of Hume stirring times and I see do ntrautioii aud dcuth in every city anil state. I hear the shrieks of mothers, the wails of sorrowing wives, whom ro Joiitless Death made widows; tbe cries tht children awaiting in vain tho return of '. Daddy." I boo a laud onco rich In grain be 1 mine more devastated than if it were visited by the seven plagues of Kgypt; a land once peaceful and prosperous, the most miserable country that the sun -ver shone upon. X HAVE EVKKY KKASON TO HATE WAR. My mind'e eye sees ttie terrific utriiu gle now being waged in Europe For whatf who can answer! I tremble like all truo Americans t the thought of our land being en gulfed in this mnilileuiug sea of slaugh ter. I I know our president has kcut lis nut this awful war and I lift my voice! 1-otU day and night In grateful accents t'i lien ven for having raised up at this' critical period Woodrow Wilson, who,' like Washington and Lincoln, has beeu the savior of America. I Know that Wilson has preserved unsullied the glory of Columbia that he has inniiitnined pence without sacri ficing honor. No stain orshnmo has ever yet be smirched tho pnges of our history, nor hits our flna ever trnilmt Imliin.l , un. cliuriot of kiiiR or emperor; and I know mm. wimo vt uson rules the country, this boast will proudly riug o'er hill and vnlo with no fear of a discordant echo. I know that Wilson has endeavored in every honorable way to preserve neutrality with foreign' powers, and tliut his policies and net ions have been criticised by men who, like Caesar, wiiuiu sacruice country for ambition. I know men. 1 know flint Christ himself was crucified by hit own chosen people bcenuse he tried to save tbem. I know tliut Wilson is sorely pressed and in this hour of dire need asks true Amcricaus to help him fiKht the moral Initios of America. AND THIS I H1IAJ.1. DO. My couutry's flag waves from no lordly cnstle but flings its folds to the r.ree.o of freedom the proud emblem of tho grcntest nntiou the world las ever known. Therefore, I want no change of ad ministration nt this hour of terrible uncertainty. .1 euro not w hether Wilson is a democrat or or a republican leader He llflM lOIIA tlirminh ll,A ..... 11.1.. f criticism and alnnder ami has come forth minimi lino a mass of molten gold. I kuow that on his shoulders rests governnieut dearer to him thnu life its elf. I know that at its Integrity thous ands of people nt homo aro striking, ivhilo at its foreign eyes arc glaring. All Women Need a corrective, occasionally-, to right a disordered stomach, which is the cause of so much sick headache, nervous ness and sleepless nights. Ouick relief from stomach iiuuuies is assured oy promptly taking a dose or two of Z C rS O rfTSi HI .N IVM. r Ull,.nZA-U 114 Ml H II v Plllo Th f,m.,7in. . " ? , , . '"" " rwanny condition. 1 hesa famous pills are vegetable In compotitlon-therefore. harmless, leave no disagreeable after-etlecta and aranot habit-iwnlng. For Better Health and I know that Wilson has never ful tered. This ordeal with its attending Borrow and sadness occasioned by the iagrati t de of aoaie may be have aged him, out it has added beauty and sublimity to kis character and has not only hu manized every instinct but has expand ed and elevntod him to the - heights where the vonomed dnrts of slander can not wound him. I boliero in tho words of tho poet: "Urent men grow greater by the lapse oi time; we know those least whom we have seen tho latest; and they 'mongst those who have grown aubiime who fought for Human Liberty aro fircnt cst." The man who has stood at tho holm of state and has piloted us through the channel of danger out Into tno calm waters of pence, contentment am oros- perity THAT MAN I KHALI. KTAND BY. That man is WOODROW WILSON. I shall vote for him because I AM AN AMERICAN. A Discussion of Mr. Roosevelt's Part . the Campaign in By George O. Hill. Written for the Democratic National Committee. The chief issues of the democratic party are the fallacious contentious tlmt "President Wilson has kept us out of war," and that tho prosperity which tho nation now enjoys makes a change of administration unnecessary and uii- n urn. That the first contention is pure ful lucy hus been nbumlnntly demoustrnted by ex-l'resiileut Roosevelt. No intelli gent mun can read Colonel Roosevelt's i.en'iston and Hattlo Creek aneeches and conlinuo to believe that Mr. Wilson "has kept us out of war." No think ing voter can read tho Colonel's Bnttle Creek speech without coming to a re alization .that the Wilson administra tion has not alone been a discredit to the country, but that its eoutiuuance would prove a menace to the vn- i,., and sinew of Americanism. ' t olonel Roosevelt enior an nnnnrtun. ity which is denied to Governor Hugh es. The former is Complete master of his own time. - Accordingly ho has re fused to go about the country making numerous speeches. Instead, he has adopted the policy of preparing a com paratively few thought out, logically reasoned speeches, in each of which lie submits the evidence on whieh he I Bscs his conclusion so that his hearers and his readers may rensou out tho fact for themselves. Mr, Roosevelt knows from long ex perience that, much as his admirers mm- enjoy hearing hiin not they nlouo but us opponents as well will read everv word that he utters iu a presidentiu'l campaign. Ilia admirers may. believe wtiat he says simply because he' says it, but for the benefit of those who might be disposed to question his uusunnorted statements, he uives the reasons fur tho I iaith that is in him. " I la the near future tha CI.hiaI ..ill demolish the fallacy that the present war prosperity is -permanent, or that it can be depended upon to endure lifter the war as effectively as ho has al ready destroyed the fiction that "he has kept us out of war,". 8o valuable a contribution to the campaign does Uovernor Hughes regard Mr. Roosevelt's speeches that he has bad each of them caretully printed in good type and they are being sent free to nil who apply for them to the Republican National com mittee, New York City. By George Creel. Written for tho Democratic National Committee. , -. As never before, tho United States is prosperous. It is "loaded dice" business that Woodrow Wilson has hurt, not leaiti- mate business. In view of FACTS, the cry that "business men me against Wilson' is tantamount to an accusation that tho business men of tho I'nitcd Stntes aro a pock of fools. Wo weathered the crash of tho Euro- j pean war without a panic such as cursed the country in 1HU3 and IW7. Iu the lust three years, manufactured products have increased by $tt,4u0,000 uuO, and less than- one per cent ot this vast total is furnished by munition ex ports. ... There aro no more bread linos;, there is no unemployment, agriculture has been given new life and industry is driv ing forward with a new and tremend ous euergy. Tho wealth of the nntiou has increased 4 1,000,000,000 under Woodrow Wilsou. The answer is not to be found save in the financial, economic and industri al reform' of fected by the "Man iu the White House. He drove through the Federal Reserve bill that ended the sel fish rule of Wall street, and that in the face of republican prophecies of "ruin and disaster." This law has lifted tho fear of pan ics; it has ended usury; it has per mitted government funds foi the move ment of crops; it has made credii ac cessible to legitimate enterprise. . The Rural Credits' Law is the Magus Cliarta for the farmer; .the Clayton. law took much of the hate but of industry; the Seamen's law has put American sailors back on the high seas; the Fed eral Trades commission is wagiug a winning fight agaiust extortion . a ml monopoly; the tariff commission has taken a question of vital importance out of politics, and the child labor law. the eight hour day ami the Workmen 's Comjirusntioii has energized iudustry as well as hunmuir.ed it. And Mr. Hughes asks that these con ditions be deserted in favor of a return to panics, unemployment, breadlines, aud government by greed. PROMPT ACTION SAVES . FROSTED SILO CORN "Thousands of: acres of W'Namotte Valley corn, even; though it lias been frosted can bo safety and economically put into the silo if harvested and stored promptly," says B. Hyslop, head of the crops department of the Agricultur al college. , , "Unusually earlv frosts .this year caught a great deal of rorn intended tor the silo etage. the frost when it was iu'the milk and soft dough stage. This corn can be safely put into the silo and will make good silage well worth having and us ing even though its quality is not equal to that of corn that had reached the ad vanced hard dough stage. The impor tant thing is to get the frosted corn in order to avoid souring, should a period ot hot weather follow the freeze. We must also avoid, as far aa possible, the whipping off of the dry leaves with a resulting loss of nutritive value. "Where there are prospects of get ting an ensilage cutter within a verv short time tho frozen corn should be cut and laid down in bundles at once. li there is danger of a prolonged wet spell, tho corn should be stood un in shocks nntil the butter is available." Laually if immature corn is put in to the silo within a short time after the frost it will contain sufficient mois ture to keep it nrooerlv. If conaiilernh- le time elapses, a week or ten days of drying after a hard killing frost, it is then usually necessnrv to aoulv suffi cient water to bring it up to the proper moisture content tor sare Keeping." j PROPOSALS FOR WOOD ' j FOR STATE INSTITUTIONS r - On the 241 h day of October, 1916, at 2:00 o'clock p. m., the Oregon State Board of Control will receive sealed bids for furnishing wood for the vari ous state institutions, as follows: Oregon State Hospital, main build SAVING. SEED CORN FROM THE FROSTED FIELDS. In order to secure corn, much of which has undoubtedly been very seriously damaged by the early frost; suitable for seed for next season's crop, fanners should go through their fields before cutting the corn for suage ami snnp orr all ot the more mature ears which show reasonably icr. - - good denting. "The early frost has caught a good deal of the early seed corn in the milk and much ot it will be unfit for seed purposes," says G. R. Hyslop, specialist in field crops at the Oregon Agricultural college. "Seed corn will undoubtedly be a very scarce article next spring. "By going through the field and snapping off the more mature ears, farmers will frequently be able to se lect satisfactory seed. These ears should be husked out within a few- days and stored ou the di vine rack re- commended by the college, in some place tnat is warm with a current of 1 air. Most of the immature corn may be dried in sufficiently good condition. to germinate and produce good corn next year. '.,'". "This season has been late as to growing and early as to frost; It very forcibly demonstrates, the necessity "for an early to a. medium maturing variety of silage corn, both from the standpoint oness Vaughan. Dr. Rice is a Harvard graduate. Mrs. Rice -is the daughter of the late Win. L. Elkins of I'eunsylvania. BINDING 75,000 LICENSES Hunting, angling and tho combina tion hunter's and angler's licenses aro now being boud at the Kodgers I'apeAv . eompay's plant on Ferry street. ( ivi War veterans receive a special license. whieh is-given to them free of charge. About 2500 of these special licenses in to be distributed. Fil'tcen thousand of the combinaton hunter's and angler's licenses are printed and being heond. The angler's license is on white cant board, the resident hunter's on blue cloth and In number 80,000. The num ber of angler's licenses is 73,000. Theso -licenses, when tiound, will bo returned to tho stnto house -and it i probably they will then be sent to the fish and game commission office in Portland for dstrbutiou. PRAISES WILSON'S STAND IN BEHALF OF SUFFRAGE. ing. g50 eord. first growth fir; Cottage u t." T IT. " Z crop. Farm, 1,200 cords second growth fir. i. .. i . . ,AA , 'Sl.r:'V'?- "u8 " l:dcr no condition try to store the ttr: n.:.'.:"rl ' ? 1U or on shelves or '" in sacks. If you do, it will certainly u-.uiciri. ... lt , . . - State Institution for Fcobfc Minded,!;". V .i.m ? i -X . 1.000 cords second .rrowth fir. Son r-nr.U! W,r'8'.0r 8U01 ld b tietl UP W1,h 8"n rounu man, so that no tw.fi ears touch and so the air j 1 1 . nm,., v q... rAn'" iu earn ear.. v..wu . , It 1 11 1 II V uuvi, lira Put the corn The action of the National Woman Suffrage association at Atlantic City, N, J. iu rejecting by an overwhelming voto the proposal to make the suffrage movement a partisan annex of tho republican campaign was further emphasized by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, "the sage of snf- .Tit ' . In An I .. t . : I. -'-d", " " ' iiiiciiiun puu- lished in the Philadelphia Press, a staunch republican organ. "The president in his speech to the convention promised all he could carry out," said Dr. Shavr. "If he had promised s "Prink to me only with thine eves' quoted the romantic maiden. "All Much of the corn, right. Here's looking nt you." replied even the early varieties, was hit by the practical young man- rth , l giot TZ V i in !liu'c ' warm 8nd 'eht ruhe el.li.? Hinf.'!"1"1 U wiU dr-V 0Ut a,lick'y "d Without Growth rf H08pUal'i P-ting. If put into a place that is r.u , m" ,' i I warm without ventilation the immature beTcV Vo m' knotT'8 f ! !JZL ft ...17 ii-ikittiii j in ,,,r n to 1I1UMI Hllll SOlir. Coin will successfully stand 130 degrees, "Every farmer should save enough of his best mature seed and dry it in order to be certain of a seed stock for next year." ' - - - Philadelphia Society Woman to Explore the Amazon New-port, F. I., Oct. 14. Unexpected jungles enmeshing the Amazon river no terrors for Mrs. A. Hamilton Rice, who is expected to sail from here today with her husband, Dr. A ". Hamiltoa Rice, the South American explorer, for a voyage into the unknown upper reaches of the greatest river in the world. Mrs. Rice, formerly Mrs- George D. Wideuer, a Philadelphia society leader was saved when her husband went down with the Titanic. Dr. and Mrs. Rice, with three mem bers of th London Geographical society which is financing the expedition, em bark on the steam yacht Alberta, once owned by King Leopold II. of Belgium aud presentacd to Dr. Rice by the Bar- cords second grow Oregon State Tubei 1 00 cords second Oregon State School for the Blind, 200 cords first whieh should Oregon State School for the Deaf, .10 cords first growth fir, 25 cords round slab. . - Oregon State Industrial School for Girls, l."0 cords second growth fir. Hiiecifieations will lie furnished up on application to the secretary. All bids to be accompanied by certi fied check in tho rum of 10 per cent of the whole amount of hid, payable to the Oregon State Board of Control, which sum so deiiosited bv the the suc cessful bidder shnll b held by tho board as a guarantee that the bidder will enter into a contract to furnish the amount awarded. All hids are to be en closed in a sealed envelope and marked "Uuis for Wood, ' and to bo addressed to the undersigned. The board reserves the right to re ject any or all bids or to accept any part of a Did. - I!. B. OOODIX. - Secretary, Oregon State Board of Control. Oct. 10-H-17-21 more we would have known that he could not carry it out. Not the republicans alone, nor the democrats alone, cau bring ' suffrage- If it could he done that way I would favor it. But it can't. We -must get enough democrats and republicans toge ther to do it." ' - ' I: - Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cored by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure catarrhal deafness, and that is by a constitutional remedy. Catarrhal Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachina Tube. Whea this tube is inflamed you have a ram bling sound or Imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness ia the result. Unless the inflammation can be reduced and this tube restored lo its normal condition, hearing will bl destroyed forever. Manv cases of deaf ness are eaused by catarrh, which is aa inflamed condition of the mucous sur faces. Hall's Catarrh Cure acts thru the blood on the mucous surfaces of tha system. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot be tured by Hall's Catan-b. Cure. Circulara free. All Druggists, 75c. . . . P. J. CBTEXEY ft CO., Toledo, a