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About Portland new age. (Portland, Or.) 1905-1907 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1906)
' ' 1 ' f HMHPBHHBMI 'IpaipRtfB1(FI rrr'-njjrTOvr-iv-r"', - ijw-jrT. TnE NEW AGE, PORTLAND, OREGON PnrtlanJt 53m Arj? A. D. ORIPPIN. Manniar "Oldoat Dank in tho Stste of Washington." DEXTER, HORTON & CO. CniltaH200,ooo p A TXJlrC7Da Surplus nnd undivided Deposits 17,5.10,000 Dl(t.DKO proMs, $t25,MX Account of Northwest Tactile Hunks solicited upon terms which will srnnt to thorn the most liberal accommodations consistent with tholr balances nml responsibilities. Wm. SI. Ladtl, I'rcsldont; N. II. I.atltnor, Manager; M. W. l'elcrson, Cashier. Seattle, Washington. THE PIRST NATIONAL, BANK OP PORT TOWNSEND Established 1882. Collections promptly made and remitted, 'Office 43 Second St., cor. Aih, Room I and f Portland, Oregon. Entered atth.pontofflc.at Portland, OraftM, econd'CJMi tnatter. SUBSCRIPTION. -Oae Year, payabla In advanc 9 2.00 f - - i - aYvBBaaBSaa mrm aaV Mm SSa.. a .J riSt . Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. if i i I EDITORIAL I f awn-fan ihmm Z THE BACK-YAUD PROBLEM. Ono tmunlly thlnlto of clothOB posts fiH necessary evils mul accepts their iiKllncBfl as unredeemable. It wilt surprise- many to learn that thoy may 10 mailo licntitlful and retain their TiKOfnlncBR. I liavo ween a Bet of clothes posts In u back yard entirely covered with IlvltiB green a luxurl nut Krowth of Virginia creeper.. On the sldo of each ono was n Btnplo se curely anchored In tho post and a largo ring lnins from tho Htaplc. Through tho ring tho lino wns passed on washday. Tho rest of tho week tho posts wero Btrlctly ornnmontal. 'Tht best permanent screen for un sightly objects Is a group of ever greens. A clump of lilacs coBts Icbb nml begins to bo effective pooner. Hide tlic gnrhago can In n mass of shrubbery. Homo bark ynrds nra too small for outbuildings of any kind. In larger fines somo Hort of nrbor call It a iieruoln If you like Is delightful. It makes a dry placo for children to play when tho grnss Is dewy. It Is Jimt tho thing for afternoon tea or Hewing and Is less public than tho front porch and for moro comfortnblo than tho hot kitchen when shelling peas or stemming strawberries. An nrbor covered with vines at tho kitch en door will bo greatly appreciated by tho "help," especially on summer evenings. ' Now for tho garden proper. In most rases I should plant nil around tho border and have tho center In grass. In a yard only 2fi by CO a flow fir border threo or four feot wldo Is probably best. In a larger yard a borderwlth gracefully undulating front ntitlluu will ho suitable and moro plenslng. Groups of shrubs may bo plared In or near tho corners to break tho monotony of tho straight line Wllholm Miller. T BWi Newspapers are printing tho cus tomary summer stories of crowds of visitors from this country Hocking to Kuropo and overrunning the hotels mid public places. Tho treasury sta tistics show that about 150,000 Ameri cans go to Europe every yenr and tho estimated expenditure of this army of visitors Is $1,000, so that European hotel owners, storekeepers, transpor tation companies and other purveyors to sightseers receive about $150,000, OOO annually from tho overflowing American pockctbook. WHO IS THE HAPPY MANP HIS Independent farmer, who lives with Na ture, tills tho soil, cure fur his cattle, mid has what mouoy ho can make, can have no Idea of the difference between bis own life and the llfo of every mnu who lives In tho city and helps to carry on the world's Indus trios. He does not rcnllzo that there nrc very few men of all tho millions In tho cities who follow their own will. When ho understands that ho will under stand better bow tho dslre for Independence Is ono of tho factors that draws men Hack to tho country. Inde pendence Is ono of tho dreams of tho city man. Hut It Is a dream with most men that never comes true. The con ditions of llfo nro such that the dcmlrn to rest mul breatbo closo to the fields and woods cannot bo realized. Tho rich man Is often so enamored of bis money mid tho prospect for more that ho waits Just a llttlo longer, until death overtakes him still In pursuit of tho dollnr; the poor mau cannot rIvo up bis work for a day, or If he Is In slightly better circumstances he wants to be Just a little mora sure ho Is making no mistake In giving up tho days of being bossed for the era of doing as ho liken. Happy tho man who can always live n Ufa of Independence, but happy also tho man who while serving others can llvo In Independence of mind and spirit and lead a slmplo and useful life. That does not depend upon environment, and It contemplates no control of others or by others. It Is the domain Into which others cannot enter, and It Is ab solute In Its possibilities for happiness wbatovcr the stress of life whero business holds swuy. Most workers must tako their happiness as they go along, without ox pediitlon of yours of lelsuro or absoluto Independence. It If their good fortuuo If they can iniiko It u happiness which all tho world's a-sceklng. IwolI, Mass., Courier-Citizen. with a rcnl message can say enough In ftO minutes to keep his audience thinking for a whole week. The day of the ponderous polished essay In the pulpit Is over. It has gono with tho prosy, paddod, long-winded editorial. This Is the day for the say-when sermons. Dcs Moines News. s w THE BAY-WHEN SERMON. Ili:Ni:Vi:u you think 1 have preaclicd long enough I want any of you to say so and I wilt Immedlutuly iiuuounco tho last hymn. It Is not ulways possible for a preacher to tell Just when bo should saw off, and I for one would bo grateful for suggestions. You will not offend mo by calling time. Say when and Ko said tho Itev. Charles Clarkson of Dotrolt I'll stop." to his congregation. Ho Is u wlso parson who knows w.en to milt. This preacher evidently wants to pnuich the gospel so that It will stick In his pcoplo's minds. He can't do much to tired minds. Therefore bo must gauge his sermons to suit. Tho tendency of all public peech Is toward condensa tion. Tho IMwnrd Everett style of oration belongs to tho stago coach era. This Is an electric ngo demanding electric speech. Hrevlty Is tho soul of eloquence nowa days. Tho direct, nervous utterance Is the speech of the busy day. And Ilobcrt 11. Ingersoll, If ho may be men tioned In this connection, did as much as any public speaker to fix tho condensed style, the short, simple words of modern oratory. The same tendency Is seen In the Inter newspaper edi torials. It was a great shock to the literary folk when Arthur Ilrlsbnnu began to write editorials on common every day things and cut but all tho long words. Hut that stole of editorials bus won out. If the pulpit Is to keep In touch with the times It must adapt Itself. The modern nudlenco Is quick to catch on. Tho preacher need' not spend iiiimvpsinry words to tell the old story of lovo and sacrluYe. And only tho spenker of unusual charm Is able to bold an audleuco longer than 8fi or 40 minutes. Hefore nil else the future mau of the pulpit must stay by tho gospel themesthe themes that touch men's hearts and hopes. He must hnvo something vital to say. And bo must say It without unnecessary rhetoric. Thn mau MOST MABP.IAGES AP.E HAPPY. WIFT'8 saying that the rcuson why so few murrlugcs are happy Is tliut "young ladles spojul their time In making nets, not in mak ing cages," Is doubly outrageous. In tho first placo It Is an outrageous begging of tho ques tion. The testimony of less cynical observers lu our day and country Is that most marriages tiro entitled to bo called happy. In tho second placo It outrageously puts the whole blnino for unhappy mar riages on tho female partner, contrary alike to probability and to fact Hut at rcast as many of tho marrlagos are failures In which men "chooso" their wives, or think they do, as In cases lu which men becomo the prey of their own Imaginations. And there Is this to be said from the point of vlow of reasons In favor of murrlugcs with which reason has nothing to do. In tho first months of married llfo tlicro aro necessarily very many differences to bo adjusted nnd small Incompatibilities of ways of thinking and feeling to bo reconciled. That, as nil experienced spouses know, Is tho trying period. Mnrrlngo Is like life In thut It Is a school wherein who so does not learn must suffer. Now, to diminish tho friction of this trying time no better lubricant could Misslbly bo provided than tho ro mantic love, which cannot be expected to last forever, but which may very probably outlast this greatest necessity for It of tho early connubial period. When the glamour of tho romanco "fades Into tho light of common day," and a real mau and a real womnn takes the place of tho creatures of each other's fancy, and passion cools Into at best tho teuderest of friendships, both parties are better off, nnd will acknowledge themselves to be better off because tho romance has been. "In erring reason's splto" till man kind will continue to love a lover, and Justly fco. New York Times. PERILS LURK IN THE OLOTnES BRUSH. IIK brushing of dusty clothes In the living rooms of the household Is opimsed to cleanly sentiment, apart altogether from tho evil to health which, as the bacteriology of dust dis tinctly Indicates, might oaslly bo cuused by tho proccHS. The Imagination does not re quire to ho stretched very far to rcnllzo thnt the clothes brush might be easily responsible for tho dis semination of dlsenite. Dust Is rarely, If ever, free from micro-organisms and among them pnthngenlo entitles have been recognized. Hunt Is, In fact, un enemy of tho hu man rnce, n vehicle of dlsense, nnd should everywhere ami on every occasion, however trifling, bo prevented ns far ns menus ran U employed to thnt end. Tho clothes brush Is a vigorous dust producing agent, nnd slnco Its uppllcntlon Is Indlspensnbln It should bo used In n mnuner ns fnr ns itosslhlo consistent with hy gienic requirements. Clothes, of course, must be brush ed, Just ns enrpcts must bo bentenbut both processes ere ato a nuisance which Is different not lu kind, but only in degree. JuM, therefore, ns there nre grounds reserved for tho bentlng of carpets remote, ns they siould be, from human habitation, so nlso ought there to bo In n house hold conducted on hygienic lines a special room relegated to tho brushing of clothes. The bnmhlng of clothes Is, In fact, a clumsy nnd an unsanitary procedure, which might with ndvnntnge be superseded by some more effectunl awl less offensive method. The uso of some kind of vacuum brush for the purpose would, sanitarily speaking, Ik Ideal. Iindon Lnncet. Geranium, at ono time tho most blood-thirsty among Apacho Indians, tho other day preached a short scr- man to about a hundred members of ,r,l,w' n,ul ,,w mmtt ,r,,lw- I KINO FREDERIK AT HOME. J ""tt-tH" The new King of Denmurk, Prcderlk VIII., begins his reign rich lu the love mul respect of his people Ho Is us democratic a sovereign us even Don marl: could desire, and Is possessed of thnt Inst llelng of public men u wonderful memory for faces. When Jacob lills wns In Denmark In 1U04, says a writer In tho Outlook, he was Invited with his wtfo to dine nt Char lotteulund with Frcdcrlk, then crown hla trlbo nt tho Fort Sill military res orvntlou lu Oklahoma. Tho old chief eeemed much affected while speaking. Ho stood on a treo stump amid a clus ter of olina on tho Mediclno river. At tho closo of tho services ho offered a prayer for President Roosevelt, A prophet who predicted tho Mount Pelco disaster, tho eruption of Vcbu yIub and tho Sun Francisco earth quake says Now York will bo de ployed within two years. This Isn't likely, however, to worry Wall street half as much us tho scarcity of lambs, which, according to recent reports, Is becoming moro evident day by day. A Michigan court has decided that wives aro entitled to only one-half of their husband's Income. This will brighten mere man up n bit. It bents getting only street car faro. Tho mayor of Hnyontie, N. J., has received a petition to establish n squad of uniformed women police Oh, Juno! your helmet Is on crooked. A Now Haven school has as n nrnd unto this year a Negro woman 73 I Just borrowed n top hat It was tl reo sites too small, and I wus glad to carry It in my hand In tho preseiice of royalty says Mr. Itlls, and the rest wns easy. Wo ilroto out with the American minister and his wife, who were also Invited. Charlotteuluud lies In tho forest Just outside Coieuhageu, on the beautiful shore rend. We hardly know we were half-way there when wo wheeled Into the palace grounds, and the door of tho carriage was yanked open by lack eys who swarmed to help the Indies, lu wo went, nnd almost before we could draw breath a door was thrown open, our names wero announced, and the crown princes came forward with outstretched hand. "It was very good of you to come out to us," she said. Our entrance had been so sudden, due to tho hustle to make way for the princes following closo uikiii us, and lu thought and speech we had boon m jf.tr uwoy during tho ride, that the unman greeting icrt me ror tue moment dumb, groping my way four thousand mlled ncross tho sea. Slowly and la boriously, as It seemed to me, I found the tongue of my childhood again, but wkward beyond belief. This Is what It said; "How very respectable of you to nsk us J" Tho crown princess looked at mo a moment, uncertain what to think, then caught tho expression on my wife's face, and laughed outright. At that tho .! aa rftft.ft. lilt .. li..i ak1 Alt. .wi .... years old, who Is Just receiving her - " hu.ghTtotuX'S diploma. ,uext moment tho room was tilled with their children, and wo wore Introduced aM round. It was all quite as neigh borly and Informal ns If It had been at home. My wife wns taken In to dinner by a prince, a sliy, boyish young fellow, whose great ambition, ho contldcd to her, was to llvo lu n New York sky cr.ipor, and shoot up and don u In the elovator. They say that Frederlk never forgets anything. I had proof of this when we next met, lu Itlbe, my old town on the North Sea, where ho had come with tho royal household to open the Doniklrke, rt stored after tho wear and decay of nine centuries. I was coming out of our hotel nt 7 lu tho morning, and In the square ran plumb Into n gentleman lu a military cloak, who had a young man for company, and a girl of 15 or 1(1. "flood morning, Mr. Itlls!" said he, 'I !ii1ki you are well, and your wife. slnco Inst wo met." It surely must bo thnt I nm getting eld nnd foolish. Tho voire 1 knew; there are few as pleasing. Hut tho man I stood and looked at him. A Mnllr crept over his features nnd broad oned theie. All at once I knew him. "Hut, good gracious, your royal high ncss." I said, "who would expect to liid you hero before any one Is up and stirring? You are really yourself to nluiiie." He laughed. "Wo are early risers, i-iy children and I," he said. "We havo In vn out since (1 o'clock." WHO HAS THE MOST FUN? A lluitrh of llrltfht One thttt Ought In Kujuy Life If Auyouc Uui-i, Who among us has the most fuu nowadays? Ono can only gueos, but guessing on such u question U some fun In Itself. We gueM Uncle Mark Twain has a fair amount of dally sport Ho Is a very kind mau, mul HikU many opittrtunltles nowadays to do public serviced of u benevolent sort to great advantage. Tho patters, ns wo write, say ho Is going to preside nt a meeting for tho benetlt of the blind. Ho doea such things often, and make very good speeches on such occasions nnd ou nil occasions when ho speaks at all. To exerclso tho gift of discourse to edification Is a high pleasure. Hark does It vocally und by word of pen. Ills command of good, nnd also of bad, language Is tluent, comprehensive and exact. Ho practices an art of which he Is a master, and he Indulges the Im pulses of n lenovolent spirit. Of course he has a good time. And, of course, President Itoosovelt has a lot of fuu. Action nnd reaction Is the rule of phy sios, but it Is not the rule of him. He has tho exhilaration of perpetual ac tion without any considerable reactions that anyone ever hoars of. Thomas Edition must havo fun, too. The processes of Inventive thought must be exceedingly Interesting, especially when they pan out as well ns Mr. Edi son's processes do. Ho hns the pleas ure of the Imagination added to the Joys that come from searching after truth and getting clumps ou It. He mnke-s money, too. but that to him Is nn Incident nnd a troublesome but uec ertsary digression from tho pursuit of happiness. Luther Hurlmnk, the plant wlznrd, must havo n vast deal of fuu of n sort not unlike Edison's. Hurbnnk began work In a plow factory, nnd kept his wonderful mind on the Improvement of machinery Jut long enough to make somo money with which to undertake tho remodeling of tho vegetable world. Then he Invented a new potato, and made a little more money nnd moved to California, where he opened a plant fac tory. Anyone who does not know of tho marvels he has done slmuld read up alMiut him. There U Joy, of course, In creation, else things wouldn't have been created. Hurbnnk nnut havo tast ed that Joy l abundant measure. Hand's Weekly. Holler Mit Into Couurr Colua. While taking Btock of tho old ma chinery nt the Culcutta mint the engl neera found that a boiler, which must hnvo been put down In the first half of the nineteenth century, was of the purest copper. Its value wus enormous ly greater than when It was manufac tured, because the great consumption of copper In electrical uuuhluea has raised the price of the metal. The boiler was melted down and converted Into copper coins. Every bald man would bo w'lllng to wear a wig If be thought ho could do U without detection. THOMAS WITHYCOMBE Real Estate and Fire Insurance Choice Farm Lands, Stock Ranches, Small Tracts and City Property for Sale; Also Breeder of Registered A. J. C. C. Jersey Cattle and Regis tered Poland China Hogt. Phone Main 2275 Room 8, Hamilton Block PORTLAND, OREGON SWIFT 5c COMPANY So. Omaha, Nebraska PREMIUM HAMS, BACON And All Fresh Cuts for Hotels MAIL ORDERS PROMPT ATTENTION THE BITULITMIC PAVEMENT BEST BY EVERY TEST For Streets. Driveways and Crosswalks. WARREN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 716 Oregonian Building, Portland, Oregon O. C. IICINTZ, Mnnoscr. Phone Cost 57 PACIEIC IRON WORKS. STRUCTURAL, STEEL, A1ND IROIV Steel Bridges, Upset Rods and Bolts,? Cast lron Colums and all Architectural Iron. Sidewalk Doors and Lights. All Kinds of Castings. 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