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About Portland new age. (Portland, Or.) 1905-1907 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1906)
TIIE 203W AGE, PORTIiAND, OREGON i Jb&tiU&t&titt&i&ti!! itSiAAAAAAl TOPICS OF 3 THE TIMES It doesn't tnko tho nver.ise man long to get short. Don't expect n Foft answer when you call a man hard name. Isn't It gutting to lm n good whllo between dounias In ItusBla? Will tho ambitious moth.-rs of Amer ica parado Count Ilonl as a "liorrlblo t'xumplo?" A man Is very apt to lind himself In other people.'s way when he Insists upon having his own. Japan Is conquering Manchuria com mercially, which Is a moro substantial mid laHtlng wny than shooting bole through It When Opportunltl knocks at your door and doesn't roeelvc any answer nhu doesn't often Icavo n card with her uddress on It Count Ilonl do Castellano may now lw listed w'lth thoso people who have come to the conclusion that It Is fool ish to keep letters. After this tho American girl who marries n title must understand right lit tho start that It will bo uselcas for her to expect any sympathy. Kvery tlmo a man and a woman en gago In an argument tho man gets a chance to say unprintable things and the woman to turn on the briny How. William Allen White, who originated tho question, "What's the matter with Kansas?" has taken In mom territory. llu now asks "Wlmt'it tho matter with tho United mate " It costs Consuelo Vanderbllt $100,000 n year to get rid of her ducal husband. Homo women would have dickered him down to ?IW,!)S, and bought thread with tho difference. The husband who refuses to carry the hahy, cut kindling or build tires Is no longer entitled to his wife. This Is now a court decision, it may bo In serted In tho next now dlvorcu law. Tho editor of IIarKr'M Weekly says the American girl between the ages of 18 and 25 U a bore. Hut ho hns prob nhly been unfortunate In associating with one who was wearing her II rat viigageuieut ring. i It cost J. l'leriMint Morgan $10,000 duty to bring tint manuscripts of two poems by "Hobble" Hums to this coun try. Mow "Hobblo" would hnvo been tickled If nnylwdy had over seen lit to prove to lilin that thero was as much M 10,0)0 In tho world. Oft the banks of Nova Scotia they have for some time tccu catching tlsh ordinarily to Ihj found only In tropical Maters, and this strengthens tho sup position that thu gulf Mrcnin may bo chauglug Its course somewhat. The Canadian Fish Commissioner, Prof. Prlmy, reports meeting with several vnrletlex of ilsh lately which aro utriiugo to that latitude. Itecently at HroeUlon, Mass., a 0-ycar-old child blew a man's head otT with h shotgun; at Haugor, Me., a small boy killed his Infant sister .with n Uad of shot, and similar occurrences hnvo been reiwrted from other places. Nine-ty-nluo per cent of gun accidents might have been avoided by tho oxerclso of a small symptom of common sense. Tho children referred to In tho dis patches found the guns In their homo ami tho guns were loaded. To keep n loaded gun In tho house Is next to criminal carelessness. To keep a loaded gun In the house where there are chil dren ts Idiotic. High fluauce Is not without Its hu morous phases and one of them Is pre sented In the virtuously ropreheuslve attitude of tho New York Kxohango magnates toward gambling In mining nmi other "curb" securities. Such gam bling Is highly sinful, they say, be cause "the money thus employed comes almost entirely from a das of icoplo who would otherwise Iki likely to use It In listed stocks 1" "Don't blow your money against the crap game In tho alley," shout tho stock exchange mag nates; "come mid buck our highly re spectable fun i bank." Is thero no sense of tho ludicrous on the stock ex change? The business of Tho Uaguo confer ence Is at once complicated and pro moted by the number of questions which other conferences and conven tions aro submitting to It. At the re cent conference In Herlln of the Inter national Law Association, tho proceed ings of which will bo submitted to The Hague, It was urged that flouting and automatic mines bo forbidden except In the waters of belligerents. They would not be allowed In passages like the Hrltlsh channel, which must bo used as a thoroughfare by nil nations. It was also the sciih of the confer ence that letters conveyed by regular null I steamships should be free from molestation, that ships commissioned for warlike purioscs should nut bo al lowed to hoUt a mercantile tlag or change their 'character at sea, and that vessels captured while carrying contra band of war should bo conveyed to port for legal Investigation. Shortly before this tho Fifteenth Universal Peace Congress, nt Milan, passed n res olution that ocean trade routes should bo neutral. This resolution embodied a Htlll earlier one adopted by the Lake Mohonk Confercmco of International Arbitration In June. The picture iwst card has proved to be not only n Joy to the millions, but an Important source of profit to thu 1'ost Olllce Department Thoso cardi are easy to handle and do not Increase the expenses of post olllco administra tion In proportion to the revenue they bring In. llccuuso of their financial value, which has seemed worth stimu lating, the post cards have succeeded In securing a bit of favoritism from tho government which no other mall mat ter has obtained. Itcfore long It will bo permissible to write messages on tho address side of the cards as well as on tho picture side. Probably hundreds of thousands of persons In America atone, nnd certainly millions If all the world ' Is Included, aro picture post card col lectors. A post card without a mes sage from the sender Is but half of a pleasure, but n message across tho pic ture, or even beneath It, or nt one side, Is regarded by tho collector as the right thing In tho wrong place. When tho new arrangement takes effect the send er may use tho left half of tho front of tho enrd for bis written message, and all of the blessings will be neatly delivered to the receiver without any of the evils. Tho United States Is not the country that makes tho Innovation. Most of the Kuropcau countries have nlready tried It, unil even have prl vato arrangements for tho transmis sion of such cards across national boundary lines. Ily the last universal postal congress It was agreed that lift er Oct. 1, 1007, such cards should past freely between nil nations which are parties to tho convention. Postmaster General Cortclyou has now Issued an order providing for this, and nlso pro riding that after March 1 next such cards shall bo admitted to tho domestic malls. This Is good news for the col lectors, and presumably experience has sulllclently demonstrated that messages confined to one-half of the card will still leave free space enough on the other half to enable tho mall men to make out tho nddresses without uuduo confusion. WORK AMONQ MOSLEMS. ((uratluu IllacnmitMl nt nit Amerlonn llouril Slci-lliiir. Following eloHoly upon tho accept ance of Mr. Lellunan iih ninlmH.Madur ut CoiiHtantlnopIo coiiich the announce ment of the new attitude of tho Amer ican hoard toward iuIhhIoii work anions tho MohIciiih In Turkey, Hiiya tho New York Trlhuue. Hitherto It him been feared that Mottlcin fnuntlclxui inlKht rcnult In vio lence iignlnut the inlHHloiiarlcH nt tho front If It were plainly Httited that thin hoard In endonvorlug through Itx mix HlonarleH to uiiiko Jchiih ChrUt known to tho followcm of Mohammed. For nearly four ncoro and ten years tho hoard Iiiih maintained a silence that haH been inlHlutcrprctcd both In tho ciiHt ami In tho went. Widely has the uncontradicted but erroncouH state ment been circulated that "mission hoardH aro not working for tho Christ Ionization of MohIciiih," and that "no MohIciiih become Christian." There Is even a wldo (MTcieuco of opinion niuoiig the missionaries and tho friends of the board as to tho wis dom of dlscusMliiK this question here. Homo fear It may result In open fanati cal violence ngatiiHt missionaries In Turkey nnd elsewhere, whllo others bo llovo that tho time has come when tho board should K?ak boldly and frankly. I.aRt April witnessed n Ions step In advance In the conference In Cairo, Kftypt. whero some seventy delegates assembled from all orcr tho world to discuss this question. Sluco tho con ference was In a Moslem country, se crecy was inalntnlned nt that time to prevent tho breaking up of tho gather ing. Two volumes aro soon to be Is sued, giving to tho world n full report of proceedings of tho first world con ference of Christians upon the subject of Mohammedanism and Its relation to Christianity. rrlullutr I'rcaa In Tltiat. When approaching Tibet from ho valley on thu west a correspondent paid a visit to a monastery, thero far famed for Its printing press, says the Times (if India. In winter tho press tocn no work, probably becniwo tho Ink cannot he kept from freezing, and we are dlsa pointed In our hopes of witnessing tho manner In which sacred literature Is manufactured In Tibet. All around a nig hall are arranged In shelves the printing blocks, which nre simply rectangular pieces of void up on which a whole pago of lettering has been carved. When In action n block Is held In a vise and then leverea by hand Hn the paper, whero It leaves a facsimile of the carving on Its face. The process U simple and expedi tious, and several fat volumes cau la printed In a day, Hut the blocks, at which there are very innqy thousands, represent long nnd patient labor, their workmanship and finish being very tine. Of the usual adjuncts or a print ing press there are none at Nartank monastery except that unwashed con dltlon of souio of the monks and ull (if the attendants entitles them to rank with printers' devils. It ts bad enough for a popular man tn nttcmnt to get votes but It Is the ! limit wheu nu unpopular man tries to. Our Idea of the right kind of n let ter Is one lit which thero Is uothliuj to aiuwer. ; JMV1EST0WN, N. D, : :: The Seller Co. OSCAR J. SEILER. Attorney-at-Uw President Paid Up Capital and Surplus $35,000 Collections Investments Real Estate Jamestown, North Dakota KING & GILMORE Tclcjiliono UNION 40G8 Real Estate Dealers Everything in the Best Properties' Jersey Street ST. JOHNS, OREGON THE BITULITHIC PAVEMENT BEST BY EVERY TEST For Streets, Driveways and Crosswalks. WARREN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 716 Orcgonian Building, Portland, Oregon O. C. HEINTZ, Manager. PACIFIC IRON WORKS. STRUCTURAL STEEL, AIND IROIN Steel Bridges, Upset Rods and Bolts, Cast Iron Colums and all Architectural Iron. Sidewalk Doors and Lights. All Kinds of Castings. EAST END BURNSIDE STREET BRIDGE, PORTLAND, OR 1 V SPOKANE 4 First National Bank of Rook Springs HOCK Bl'HINOS, WYOMINO CAPITAL md SURPLUS, 5100,000 BVCKY ATTENTION QIVEN TO BUSINESS ENTRUSTED TO US ns ITErOEg OlESCHN smssSL? nr "w The Model Dry Goods Store of the Model Western City ' VISIT SPOKANE. When you do, vi.it THE CRESCENT, it model store, and one of the most interesting show places in what Elbert Hubbard has called the model city of America. Visitors will find here a Bureau of Information where reliable information of all kinds regarding the city may be obtained. Alio free Parcel Check Rooms, Public Telephones and comfortable waiting rooms with lava, tories for women. Spokane Agents for North Star Blankets, the kind used on all Pullman coaches. CHICAGO rvl THE EAST When purchasing ticket to Chicago and the East, see that it reads via the Chicago & North-Western Railway. Choice of routes via Omaha Minneapolis. It is the route of The Overland Limited and the direct line to Chicago fast daily Uncago trains make connection witu an transcontinental irains at ot. ram and Minneapolis. The 'Best of All agents For further luformatlon apply to . V, HCIOSH, Cmi'I O. "' ISSTklr4SI., roaiUND, . NWSM H. HENDERSON Real Estate (08M Jersey Street, ST. JOHNS, OREGON I hnvo choice lluslness and Itcsidcnco Tracts in all parts of tho city. Corr spondenco solicited from non resident owners of property or thoso hcoking investments here. ABBETT All Kinds of Galvanized Iron and Tin Work a Specialty ALL WORK GUARANTEED NOT TO LEAK Agent for Quaker Mfg. Co.'s Steel Furnaces 449 Union Ave. North Shop Phono Kast 0177 Rosldenco Phono Kast 1803 Phone Cast 57 Watson Drug Co. Wholesale and Retail The most complete stock of Drues and Patent Medicines to te.found in the Inland Empire. Prices' guaranteed as low as the lowest. Our Prescription Department meriii your confidence. 421 Riverside Ave. Marlto Block SPflKANft J II Greatest jivrL or via St. Paul and from the Coast. Four , Everything. sell tickets via this line. tlT KAIL AMIWAtSB. SEE Nature's Wondrous Handiwork m Utitll. "TO" tfx&ty THROUGH UTAH AND COLORADO Celtic Gctc, Canon of the Grand Black Canon, Marshall and Ten nessee Passes, and the World Fantous ROYAL GORGE. For illustrntcl and descriptive paraph lets wiitu to W. C. McBRlDE, General Agent 134 Third Btroot PORTLAND, ORHOON Columbia River Scenery REGULATOR LINE Tho excursion steamer "BAILEY GATZKR I " makes round trlpH to CAS CADE LOCKS every Suniiuy, leaving PORTLAND at 0 n. m., returning ar rives 0 p. tn. Dally sorvico botween Portland nnd Tha Dalle, except Sunday, leaving roriiium niy n. in., arriving about o m , carrying Irclglit and passengers. Snli'iid d accommodations lor outfits and livestock. Dock foot of Alder street Portland : toot ot Court t-treiit, Tho Dalles. Tolo phono .Main Ull. l'ortluud. A1 J! I THROUGH PARLOR CARS IIKTWKKN Portland, Astoria Seaside Ltftvci union dki-ot Arrives. Inr Fiij-KBr. ICnlti Icr, CI nt kiwi to Vrtnrt, CIKlnn, AHorln, Wnrrun. tun, Kluvel, (li'r. Imrt l'urkuiid&vs Ude. riir 8;Wa,in. Piktly. 11:10 . m. Atlorln A Pesntiorxl uprMi Kiliy. 7:00 p. in. A'lorl Kxprcu 9:10 p.m. lnu. C.A.HTKWAUT, J. C. MAYO, Comm'lAgt..:'IS Aldorm (I. K, d: 1'. A. Teluplioiu Muln W0. HF trtSohufcr On Your Trip TRY O5) NORTH COAST LIMITED PULLMAN .STANDARD SLEEPING CARS (KUtCTKIU LIOIHH) PULLMAN TOURIST SLEEPING CARS (KI.KUTK1U Ll(nii) , . DINING CAR-DAY AND. NIGHT i OBSERVATION CAR (KLKCT1UU LlUllTe) ELECTRIC FANS BARBER SHOP BATH LIBRARY , NUMEROUS OTHER COMFORTS THREE Daily Transcontinental Trains TO THE EAST The Ticket Office at Portland U at 255 Morrison St, . Corner Third A. D. CHARLTON Auittant General Pasienger Agent PORTLAND, OREGON 3i V ItAIF. AND WATER Ask the Agent for T I G K B T S VIA THE COMrORTABLC WAY To Spokane, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Dululh, Chicago, St. Louis and All Points Cast and South. TWO OVERLAND TRAINS DAILY Tlx ORIENTAL LIMITED Tie FAST HAIL VU SutJt or SpoliM Splendid Scrvicb TTp-to-dnto Equipment- CoiirtooUH Employes Daylight trip across tho Cnacado and Rocky Mountains. For TlckctB. ratcn. folders and full infor mation call on or address H. DICKSON, C. F. & T. A.. 122 Third Street, PORTLAND S. a. YKRKES, A. d. P. A. SEATILU. WASH. A Pleasant Way to Travel Tho nbove Is tho usual verdict of tho traveler using tho Missouri Pacflo Rail way between tho Pacific Coast and tho Eust, and wo liollovo that tho servlco and uccominodatlons given merit this statement, from Denvor, Colorado Springs nnd Pueblo thero aro two through trains dally to Kansas City nnd St. Louis, carrying Pullman's lat est standard electric lighted sleeping curs, chnlr cars and up-to-date dining: cars. The saino excollcnt sorvico is operated from Kansas City and St. J-ouis to Memphis, Little Rock and Hot Springs. If you aro going East or South write for rates mid full Informa tion. W. O. McBRIDE, Gen. Agt., 124 Third St., Portland, Or. SI to the East THE t.t.t.u;uiu uuiiTb). itmfjU itB f i A