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BEALS.
BELLS have mingled with our lives
since human lives began.
Hear the bells that bellow in the
weary ears of man.
The ancients rang the tocsin bell
in sounding war's alarms.
To call the townsman from his trade, the
peasants from the farms,
The steeples for a thousand years have
rung with all their might—
Wedding bells and funerai bells and ves
per bells at night.
The school bell In the morning calls the
scholars all too soon.
The hungry farmer listens for the dinner
bell at noon.
Cow bells and sheep bells disturb his
dreams at night.
And slelghbells go tinkling when the win
ter snows are white.
Everything on legs or wheels must have
Its bell, you know.
The mice once tried to bell the cat, the
fable tells us so.
The guards must ring the bell before the
train can move along.
The street car mustn't bump a man un
less It tings the gong.
The droll conductor takes your coin and
then rings up the fare.
Typewriters ring a warning bell; you
break your sentence there.
The bells upon cash registers ring out the
cost of grub.
The telephone rings out a call from Mr.
Henry Dubb.
And when the bells have wrecked hit
nerves and man in ruin lies
The doctor sends him to the gym for
dumbbell exercise.
—C. L. Edson.
RECOGNIZE ADVANTAGES
Prof. W. A. Linklater head of the
Western Washington Experiment
station at Puyallup in The Tacoma
Dally News Monday attributed the
success of the formers’ visiting week
at the station to the activity of the
county agricultural agents.
Not so many years ago a farmer
would shy at the sight of a farm ex
pert worse than would his driving
horse on passing one of the one-lung
ed automobiles of the early days.
Farmers formerly believed in scien
tific education for everyone but farm
ers. They thought it was proper for a
boy to go to school to learn to be
come a doctor, a lawyer or an engi
neer, but a farmer needed no tom-fool
education. No siree!
But time moves on, and the farm
ers move with it. Nowadays the farm
ers send their sons to the agricultur
al college, they even go to school
themselves, they study and profit by
the bulletins written by the once des
pised experts, and they fraternize
with their county agents.
Many of the old type farmers would
not allow an expert on their place.
They would have kept an “agricul
turist” off their broad acres even tho
forced to take the old muzzle-loader
down from behind the kitchin stove
to do it. Now these same tillers of
the soil jump into their automobiles
and drive ten miles to the county
seat t<Cconfer with their agent whon
they help to pay and whom the;
would not be without concernini
some of the intricate farming prob
lems that they meet from week ti
week.
“STAKE” THE POLITICIAN
Men in Canada who have been 01
the job going on four years now ii
the war come out openly and frankly
admitting that Canada as well as En
gland made many costly and glarinj
mistakes In the early part of the war
But once seen, the error has beei
corrected and the same mistake ha
not been made the second time. Thesi
Canadians tell the United States o
their experience and plead that thi
same mistake be not made here. Th<
experience is worth profiting by an<
not the least of the mistakes Canadi
made was giving power to little poll
4icians for awhile. The United Statei
is warned against this one mistak<
and the warning should be enough
But will it? One cheap, piddling poll
tician can do more harm in a montl
than a half dozen wise heads can un
do in months. Off with his head be
fore he gets in his work. Goodnesi
knows there is evidence of his ac
tivity and surely it is not necessarj
to go through the experience wher
our neighbor shows us how to avoic
it.
BRITISH COLUMBIA “DRY”
The British Columbia legislature
sets the pace in lawmaking by pass
ing the provincial prohibition act in
a day. As one news writer tells it,
“the arguments and voting will be
over in time to permit the members
to enjoy their afternoon tea.” At that
the regular afternoon siesta was nol
the inducement. The British Colum
bia legislators met for business and
transacted it without useless delay.
Incidentally the law becomes effect
ive October 1 after which the north
ern oasis ceases to exist. Much of the
haste and determination in passing
the law was based on the irregular
ity of the overseas vote on the recent
referendum prohibition action. The
law as enacted gives liquor dealers a
bare month and a half to dispose of
their stocks. With the enactment of
the measure, the Pacific Coast now
is “dry” from the arctic circle to the
equator save California. With the
Reed amendment operative, nothing
is left for the thirsty ones but to go
thirsty, or travel southward across
two states. Even then they must re
turn with the thirst, since it is il
legal to carry liquor home. British
Columbia has forged the last link
that makes the northwest as effectual
ly dry almost as would national pro
hibition.
WHAT have you canned?
THE country has lost a striking
figure in national affairs in the death
of former United States Senator John
W. Kearn of Indiana.
THE Crown Prince in command of
western armies for his father, the
kaiser, is putting up a desperate
fight, not only to save his face, but
his name. The “crown” part of his
title will not be worth even a scrap
of paper if complete defeat comes to
Germany.
IP THE report that Dr. Parker has
discovered big deposits of platinum
in Alaska hold out, this wonderful
country, already of untold commerc
ial wealth, is to become one of the
saving factors in the world war as
this precious metal is needed to com
plete the airplane fleet soon to be
contributed by the United States.
NOTICE OF MEETING
RED CROSS BOARD
The Red Cross Board of Directors
will hold a meeting tomorrow night
at 7:30 in the office of Commissioner
Love. All persons interested are urg
ed to be present, as officers are to be
elected. k7
Marshal Routs Bank Robbers
WHITE SALMON, Wash., Sept. 5.
—An attempt to loot the safe of the
Columbia State bank of this place
early today was frustrated by the city
marshal, who fired three Bhots at the
burglars and drove them out of town.
They had drilled through the door tof
the safe and forced the lock, but the
noise attracted attention, frightening
the men away. As the marshal hasten
ed to the back door of the bank he
saw his quarry leaving through a
window and fired three times but
missed. The men ran to the Columbia
river, where they entered a boat and
escaped. No clue as to their identity
was found.
STEAM HEAT NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
MRS. E. MILL, Propr.
VALDEZ ALASKA
r ~ PAYING the doctor.
r _ .
1 Should It Bo For Curing You or For
Keeping You Wellf
> We haven't yet learned to take ad
vantage of the resources of clvlllaaflpp
to anything like the- extent we might.
For Instance, we wait until we get
sick, and then we pay the doctor to
help us get well. It would be mocb
1 more sensible to pay blm to help ua
1 keep from getting sick.
• Fantastic Idea, you say. Not at all.
- It already is working in a large num
; ber of college communities, right here
hi the state universities of Missouri
and Kansas, for instance. In both In
stitutions the pupil is charged a fee
which Is applied to safeguarding his
health. In the University of Missouri
the plan is still further developed so
that the fee covers medical and sur
gical attendance. The health work In
both schools Is so interesting, not only
for what it Is doing for the pupils, but
for the example It is setting other com
munities, that it is only right and
proper to call attention to It.
The Important point Is that these uni
versities and other schools are proving
that health can be made much more of
a community mutter than bad been
supposed and that the wise thing to do
Is for groups to pay medical men to
keep them well.—Kansas City Star.
A WATER SOAKED TOWN.
Wh«r» Nearly a Foot of Rain Falla
Every Weak in the Year.
"It 1b a remarkable fact that In In
dia, one of the most arid countries In
the world, there Is one spot that has
the record rainfall of the whole earth,”
said I)r. William Roberts, British agri
cultural expert In India, to a corre
spondent of the Washington Post.
“This place la Cberapunjl, In Assam.
It la In the path of the monsoon and
In a valley, and there Is almoet con
stant rainfall.
"The average rainfall Is 900 Inches a
year, or fifty feet, which la nearly a
foot a week. Thla seems almost be
yond comprehension when It Is consid
ered that the rainfall of the United
States, for Instance, ranges from six
teen to thirty live Inches. In some
places there have been as high as six
ty-five Inches of water In a year, but
this Is the exception.
"During the rainy season In Chera
punjl the waterfall Is heaviest, but
there la rain throughout the year. Not
withstanding this terrific moisture, the
Inhabitants of the district raise vege
tables and grain. They do this by
building terraces which carry the wa
ter off.”
Jam 8tartsd as Medicine.
Jam In Its early days seems to have
been regarded as possessing medicinal
properties. Halt in “Annals of the
Parish" notes "a new luxury that got
in among the commonalty about 1700.
By our young men that were sailors
going to Jamaica and the West Indies
heaps of sugar and coffee beans were
brought home, while many, among the
cabbages in their yards, had planted
berry bushes, which two things hap
pening together the fashions of mak
ing Jam and jelly came to be lntroduc
ed^nto the village. It was found that
jelly was an excellent medicine for a
sore throat and Jam a remedy as good
as Ijondon candy far a cough or a cold
or a shortness of breath." Did It ever
occur to you that “Jam" was abbre
viated from Jamaica?— London Spec
tator.
Whan Hubby Fooled Her.
Mrs. Scatterbrain was constantly be
moaning her lot. Her husband, who
"was entitled to place half the letters of
the alphabet after his name, had the
moat treacherous memory In the world.
He could remember nothing his wife
told him. In spite of bits of string
around his finger and knota in hla hand
kerchief. Only once did Mr. Scatter
brain remember to do bis wife’s bid
ding.
Bald a friend to Mrs. Scatterbrain:
"1 think you are getting as bad as
your bubby. 1 got a note from you yes
terday dated a whole week ahead.”
"Heavens!" gasped Mrs. Scatter
brain, trembling with tbs shock. "My
husband must have posted It the very
day 1 gave It to him!’’—Pittsburgh
Chronicle-Telegraph.
Cold Rios.
Cold rice should never be thrown
away—even the smallest quantity can
be used. It can be added to any soup.
▲ good omelet can be made from a
mixture of minced meat and rice added
to the eggs. It can be used in a dessert
In the form of a plain rice pudding or
a rice custard. Left over meat ean lie
chopped and mixed with cold rice, then
moistened with gravy and pot in a
baking dish. CoTer with breadcrumbs
and bake.,
Ceyond Repair.
"What luppened to you down the
road?”
"I ruined a tire on a nonreflllable
bottle."
"One of those bottles with a patent
atopper?”
"Mo; just the ordinary kind, broken
Into about fifty pieces.”—Birmingham
Age-Herald.
A Long Reach.
"I thought 1 put that vaae out of
baby’s reach.’*
"Well, he yelled for it,” explained
dad. “What his arms won't reach his
lungs will.”—Louisville Courier-Journal
A Tims Killer.
"I’ve got an hour or two to kill. 1
wish I knew what to do.”
“Jut go over and ask Brown how
the new baby Is getting along.”
Hurt not others with that which
pains yonrself.
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either for large or small game. Guns, ammu
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HUNTING COATS; extra well .
made of waterproof khaki; large
game pockets. Trousers to match.
SPORTING BOOTS; light
weight designed for duck hunt
ing. Heavier boots of best makes,
Hipress and U. S.—try our wool
socks in these boots.
SWEATER COATS; nothing
like a warm woolen sweater when
shooting on a raw chilly day.
Many styles, weights and colors.
AMMUNITION; All kinds and
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Soak ’em, they are waterproof.
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KILLED UNDER
GASOLINE CAR
FAIRBANKS:—John Rolla, a sec
tion foreman of the Tanana Valley
railroad, was so badly injured Sat
urday evening, August 11th, by the
turning over of a gasoline car on
which he was riding that he died
about 6 o’clock Sunday morning. He
was coming up from Chena on the lit
tle car, which ran into an open
switch at the junction turning the car
over on him. It was thought at first
that he was merely stunned, but an
examination made after he was taker,
to the hospital revealed the fact that
his neck had been broken and that a
rib had pierced one of his lungs.
The accident was first discovered
by J. W. Neal, superintendent of the
government farm, and Andrew Zing,
who is working there. Mr. Neal tele
phoned word of the occurrence to
town and Wade H. Joslin, general
manager of the road, accompanied by
William Christiansen, went out and
brought the unfortunate man to the
hospital.
Rolla was a professional railway
workman and had been in the employ
of the Tanana Valley railroad for a
number of years. He had also work
ed on the White Pass & Yukon route.
Practically all of the time he was
working for the T. V. R. R. he held
down a foreman’s position. On the
Outside he had worked on the Great
Northern and other roads.—Gateway.
Coal Shortage Blamed
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—A shortage
of coal was given to the police as the
reason for the complete tie-up this
afternoon of the subway system of
Manhattan. Railroads, it was said,
failed to deliver coal at the power
house because of congestion of their
lines by troops and government war
eitnnlioc
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Lead 8 l-2c a pound.
Rags 82.75 a hundred.
Cast Iron 833 a ton.
Rope 5c a pound.
Brass 18c a pound.
Copper 27 l-3c a pound.
Rubber 7 l-2c a pound.
Beer bottles 27c a dozen.
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Kllamar, Landlock, Fldalgo sad
way porta. Passengers landed
at all points.
Carrying freight and passen
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For rates apply on board.
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Tillikum Club.
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