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Eye Specialists
Here
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At the Overland Hotel
Dr. H. A. Fach and Dr. W. J. Fredericksen,
eye specialists of Seattle, will examine eyes
and fit glasses here this week. Local pat
rons may be assured of the same service
available at the Seattle Office.
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Riding Horses of Today
Excel Breed of Past
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 12.—
(£>)—While the number of riding
horses bred in recent years has de
creased enormously, army officers
say the kind and type of this day is
far superior in quality and breeding
than in the past.
Not only is there a demand in the
army for good riding horses, say of
ficers of the Quartermaster corps ,but
horseback riding, polo and hunting
are greatly on the increase thruout
the country, and a good, •well-bred
riding horse is bringing a better
price than at any time in the history
of the United States.
Declaring that breeders appreciate
this, the oficers point to the numer
ous applications being made to the
quartermaster general’s office for
remount sires, more than 1,500 being
received. To encourage the breeding
of light horses, the quartermaster
corps is distributing stallions of thor
bred Arab and Morgan breeds. The
thoroughbred, or running ' horse, the
officers say, is by far the most pop
ular sire for the production of rid
ing horses.
In the army's quest for appropri
ate horses the entire country has
been covered by army purchasing
board, and while the purchasing pro
gram is now up to schedule, Major
C. L. Scott of the remount, said that
‘the fact that horses of proper typa
were so hard to locate shows the
neglect of breeding in the past and
the scarcity of good sires of riding
type at the present.”
During the World War, and for a
dozen years previous, breeding of
light horses, particularly riding
horses, decreased greatly, in many
states the drop being from 75 to 90
per cent. The breeder has now dis
covered that it only pays to raise
a high-class, well bred colt and that
“scrubs and mongrels are of no use
and have no saleable value.
Houses of Steel and Cork
An Experiment in England
DEAL, Eng., May 12— (JP)—Not far
from the famous Deal Castle, built
by Henry VIII, several workmen’s
houses of cork with steel framework,
are being built as an experiment de
signed to assist in relieving the hous
ing shortage in England.
The entire skeleton of the newly
conceived houses is of steel and the
insulation core of the walls is form
ed of slabs of compressed cork. On
the exterior the cork is enclosed in
solid concrete to the depth of an
inch and a half by a “cement gun.”
This applies the concrete under a
pressure. The cork itself, having
been pressed into a mould, will not
swell and burns very slowly. Calcu
lations of the builders show that its
insulation value saved 25 per cent in
heating costs.
Another advantage for the cork
house claimed by the inventors is
that it is hound-proof in comparison
with the ordinary structure of brick,
atone or timber. Owing to the fact
that it may be built by unskilled la
bor under direction of experienced
hands the cost is low and the auth
orities hope buildings of this kind
may prove popular among the coal
miners and other workmen in the
industrial districts.
Parker’s Duofold Fountain Pens, at
the Alaska Shop. tf
Worry Insurance One of Greatest
Benefactions of Modern Business
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Sting Taken Out of Rain,
Bunions, Burglary and
Forgery.
S the lodge going to have
a benefit ball game? Afraid
It will rain, maybe? Vi
sions of refunds to pur
chasers of tickets? Ad
vance advertising all gone blooey?
Unload your troubles on the insur
ance company!
That's what a noted French
dancer did when she began worry
ing about possible injury to her
Justly famed and exceedingly agile
limbs. She bought a $100,000
policy and quit worrying about
housemaid’s knee, fallen arches and
the other ills to which the nether
extremities of humans are heir.
Celebrated violinists and pianists
have insured their fingers, hands
and arms for large
amounts, and the
insurance compa
nies have taken
over their worries
—for a considera
tion.
Sometimes an
Insurance company
may appear to take
both ends of a bet.
A man in Arizona
may want rain. Instead of lying
awake at night, wondering when
the dry spell will break, he buys an
insurance policy. At the same mo
ment one of his fellows in Florida
may be buying a policy to protect
him against the possibility of too
much rain.
Mathematical Proposition
There is nothing haphazard about
it, this business of worry insur
ance. From the company’s point
of view, it is all figured out with
mathematical exactness. If you
doubt it, set out to buy a burglary
insurance policy. The agent will
ask you a lot of questions about
burglar alarms, window protection,
special watchmen, and then—
“Got a
Suppose you want to Insure your
bank account. Most people write
checks nowadays. In fact, six bil
lion of them were written last year
In the United States. Out of this
vast volume, a sufficient number
were forged or altered to add $100,
000,000 to the year’s crime toll.
This is another
of your worries
that the insur
ance companies
assume—for a
cons ideration.
Until recently,
forgery and
check alteration
rates were not
distinguished for
flexibility. The
latest plan pro
vides for a
graduated scale of premium dis
counts, however. If you take the
precautions calculated to make
forgery difficult, your rate de
creases proportionately.
Civilizing Influence
If you have any doubt about the
poodle. But he is
a dog, and as such
entitles you to the
discounts men
tioned in a specif
ic page and col
umn of the rate
book.
That’s the way
insurance works,
all the way down
the line. Every
possible contingency is carefully
weighed and rated. If your ware
house has a sprinkler system, your
insurance rate drops way
down. If your freight steamship
comes within a certain preferred
class, you enjoy the lowest marine
rates. You can pass your worries
on to the underwriters, but if at
the same time you take steps to
cut down the risks involved, you
pay just that much less for your
worry insurance.
value of having somebody to pass
your worries on to, ask the encyclo
paedia, under the heading, “Insur
ance.” We are told that “It has
done more than all gifts of impul
sive charity to foster a sense of
human brotherhood and of common
interests. It has done more than
all repressive legislation to destroy
the gambling spirit. * It is impos
sible to conceive of our civilization
in its full vigor and progressive
power without this principle which
unites the fundamental law of prac
tical economy, that he best serves
humanity who best serves himself,
with the golden rule of religion,
‘Bear ye one another’s burdens.’ ”
So, says the insurance man, it
isn’t so much a question of passing
your worries on to somebody else
as it is a system of breaking them
up into little bits and distributing
them around among a lot of people
who are in turn passing little bits
of their worries on to you. *
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