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members of the commission themselves to no a little investigating.
They would then find that there is much less wrongdoing in Portland
than they suppose, ami tiiat the wrong that; is done is accomplished
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Argument is now being heard between a minister and some corn-
or a
Saturday, September 7, 1912
mon people as to what stopped the rain last week. The minister
RTTN
ON
THE
S ANDY SHORE %
says he prayed for the rain to stop, and points to the fact that the
THE VICE COMMISSION.
at
g
sun shone the next day. The common people say unpleasant things,
Trouble iii assorted varieties seems to have come to the Vie« ami while admitting that the sun «lid shine, also call attention to the
Commission following its report of Portland’s sinfulness. A real tact that it rained tin- next night and all the next day. And this
estate firm is seeking for some method id' suing the eonunmission for in P ortland, in the year of enlightenment 11112.
criminal libel, and the Council and (irainl jury is trying to make th
WASHINGTON
Daniel Kellaher, he who runs a grocery store on the East Siile, •I
worthy gentlemen and ladies on its staff tell what they think they
know. And the Vice Commission, meanwhile, is sitting tight an« is a busy man these days. Aside from being high private in the rear 8 Did you know you could reach this delightful care-slaying^
rank of the Bull Moosers, he is engage«! in building railroads in the £
keeping mum—all except Dr. Talbot.
health-giving, fun-making
“Willamette valley, and in generally lookinir after the interests of
Dr. Talbot, who was at one time rector of an East Side parish. the
East Side. There is a proverb somewhere that says it is better to
breaks the silent:«- by saying that th« • Vice Commission was formed do one
merely to gather information and to inak«- reports. He points out ner. thing well than to do a number of things in a mediocre man
that the information is gathered under pledge of confidence and that
by taking the
Councilman Clyde is in temporarry retirement, his favorite organ
it would be a personal breach of etiquette to make public this same
information. Only glittering generalities are to he given to tin- public of utterance being at present taken up with the efforts of other
eouneilmen to swat the system in the neck. It must be hard for
the doctor tells us, and then he relapses into dignified quietude.
Maybe the doctor is right. Maybe a vice commission that emits Clyde to he out of the limelight, especially when he thought he had
Then down the
reports every now and then is th«- right kind of a eommsission. Hut things cinched for his own process of boss rule through the medium
it would seem that if the vice commission really believed the mass of of the press.
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junk handed put in their last outburst, that they could feel like tak
“ T. J. POTTER,” “ HASSALO” and “ HARVEST QUEEN”
It
must
have
pained
the
good
Mr.
Coffey
when
his
fellow
police
ing some steps towards remedying conditions. No sober and decent
minded man or woman could believe the things that the Vice Com commissioner. Mr. Seton, defended a saloomnan in court the other
TO MEGLER.
mission reported and then he content to sit back and lament. Any day But, as usual. Mr. Coffey, suffered in silence. Mr. Coffey is the
Wher trains connect with boats for North Beach Points.
person with a desire to better the city would fed morally bound to quietest member of the present administration.
act on the information—always hearing in mind that they were con
YOU CAN
YOU SHOULD
••A br exclaimed the king. “1 w as al
vinced that the report was true.
ways
fond
or
scenery,
and
here
Is
a
Phone
Ash-street
Dock
or
City
Tiekt
Office,
Third and
A
MAGIC
MIRROR.
The present profound silence from flu- Vice Commission, how
lovely piece of landscape spread out
Washington
streets,
for
reservation
and
take
a
ever. is probably due to the fact that its members realize that they Experim ents W ith the Moon and S tars before me."
The
valet
smiled
feebly,
but
politely
and
a
Hand
Glass.
have been buncoed by some of the investigators. They have probably
REST BY THE SEA.
A pretty experim ent can be made intim ated th at he did not understand
learned by this time, for instance, that the group of eighteen apart w ith
the
king’s
allusion
to
landscape
and
m irror any night when
ment houses which they listed as being mostly impure were,, ami are, there a Is hand
a full moon. Elold the m irror scenery.
"W hy," replied the first gentlem an of
perfectly respectable. They have probably also discovered that the so th at the moon’s Image will be seen Europe,
see before me a sm il
In
it
and
you
will
be
surprised
to
see
fancy of Paddy Maher was stretched in quite a number of places, four moons instead of one. One moon ing valet “do w ith I not a magnificent
gorge?"
and that the late county detective told them about a great number will be very bright, but the other three The valet thereupon rose and retired,
excusing him self to the king on the
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of dives that no longer existed. Realizing this, they are probably will he in a straight line and quite dull, ground
th at he bad turned suddenly
one
dull
im
age
on
the
side
of
the
bright
keeping quiet to prevent further cniharassnient.
moon and the other tw o on the other “hill/*—London Tit-Bits.
The Vice Commission could he very useful to this community. side.
Turn the mirror round slowly,
It should be useful. But as it manages its affairs at present there still holding Its face to the moon, and
His Eloquence.
reflections will seem to revolve The enrate of a country parish lately
is grave doubt us to its value. It would he an excellent thing if the the
o common center.
preached a charity serm on, and the
Vice Commission would cease relying upon the “ information” given round
You can m ake the sam e experim ent collection which followed am ounted to
it by self-serving investigators. It would l><- quite proper for the w ith one of the very bright stars, such £20 7s. 4Ud.* In the vestry after the
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Have You Ever:;
NORTH BEACH !
SUMMER RESORT
O .-W . R. & N .
THE
W elcom in g A m erican V ictors
H om e From O lym p ic Games
as Sirius, Venus or Jupiter, but w ith service the churchw ardens counted it
these there will be three im ages In out and m entioned the result. “W ell/’
stead of four, as the num ber seen de Raid the reverend preacher. “1 m ust
pends on the breadth of the object | have preached pretty well to get all
The explanation Is quite simple. There ! th at.“ “No doubt you did. sir,** re
are tw o surfaces In the m irror, one in I plied one of the churchw ardens who
front and the other w here the quick had been collecting, “but the squire
silver Is. The brightest reflection put in a £20 note, and he’s deaf.”—
comes from the objeetdtself. the others London Mall.
are w hat are known as secondary im 1
ages reflected from the front to the |
back of the m irror and thence to the .
eye The magic m irror never fails to |
excite a good deal of wonder, and is an
interesting experim ent as well.—Lon
don Chronicle.
(Continued from Page 1.)
North
Yakima t-ven, have found
Lovely Landscape.
George IV on one occasion casually of all these examples, and hun
entered a private apartm ent at Wind dreds of others that might be
sor castle and encountered, som ew hat listed, iloes Portland want to re
to his surprise, his valet, who was trograde and go back to the old
seated at n table loaded with viands days of spoils and political plun
and eating with great avidity.
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