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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1910)
MUMWMMMMWMWMiM TOPICS Of THE TIMES 8BTTIH0 UCH III OXXOfcal wma.vlll, T.E., Mad r as Slroe. IttMMi It ku been nvtrtl yn sine Any girl with pretty dimple know hen to smile. Th mosquito lay forty eggs a day. It la Mid. But It nrer cackle. way. uita tne writer, In effect, go oo with wanla and aldermen T Why mi ploy party ballots, with party em blems? Why call "democratic" . . m a h. 1... I. W.i ft representntlve-and representative (n Brownsvtl e. Tex., tiecame tamoua J b the narrowest and most uiisntlractory - -"" " . . . .eeo.,! nf ahutittn' un the town, Dtu f" r. 5 . "it "... "... .1...". & a Morton, who help, to supply chips wmcn sre uuing winum mve - i.i-- familiar devices, and doing better. TM ' th. stock and f1" Galveston Idea has spread as far as ; i . " down t.i..K. t..hi.., say that the place has settled down but Its moat algnnl successes have ' rk nd. tlC' "i'iL'V.'! K., i. i. rv,lr U.nl.l. anil He snipping canoaus 01 - . I..'....- . .w. . I.... York every day. i ner is a striae in me learner iraue. i ouuues rw w u i-n.-i mouiihhhi , - - , , .... . rku i th. Lit. ri.lm. that It I 'the irrigais aown m our " uv I - - . It.... i- . jir. from what Price, nomlcslly and most honestly .r""""! ,., " M.,r, ... 1 i managed ciiy oi us sue in me w , - - - . ". .. u 0. v. ,. t.n ih.ii n the ji- ,..... . -i- ton, according to the New York Hun ee vmvifl BHe va wpt Ju roe g lev Will 111 lesctsvtai aeiwa.a. "e ee i . M,n.... ..,.. wh.i . int or u. .. ....ii.! . .r.iM I "We pump the water out of the river. ,.. I iou-e vmtyj vi ,.r. " " , i.,. h creta he will have to keep. I aloug with boss snd machine. It views . '""" UT . . " and manaxes the municipality ss s u""1". Pl u ""'" "I will not r.wln under tin." It I ....i.... ,,i .n,i iv. H. ist. nve years, ana we are iiuu ci any a man's excuse for holding on ministration that ts prompt, efficient. rd' ,0 P"1 J" big enterprise thst to an office he doesn't want to give up. iy8tematlc and economical. By means """""u '"4U " . of the referendum. Initiative and w' . ,JL.a Mrrlj.r I. nmhlem to some Deo- n it ,.nn.i.illt H.. Un I ..lv '.""." present sooui pie. Others live to celebrate their upon the people. And It appears to be er ' rrlgatlon. The pres- working a change of attitude toward v""v "... .v the community life by fostering "1 f " . hi.i..P H.,r. nf P.,mm..n.i ro im, 't ows Into canals, some of them a ness. The lows towns are pointedly ,0" ewnteen or twenty nines. i ..,,. .k. ,w,i. The country about Drownsvtlle in- iw,ii., wi.hi- .n.i i i.,kin ti. w absolutely depopulated until ter without. Mr. Russell, in the mo- -"" w' . B"" w" mentum of his enthusiasm, calls for 160 "" railroad. They are the extension of commission govern now building a combination railroad ment from small cities to large ones. '" acroee ne n.e They. too. he contends, should be free " p. ana . to engage expert talent on the sole ' u frt4 tjiat through trains will grounds of ntness. should understand r,u through from Nsw Orleans to lust what their oflclals are doing and Cttjr. Brownsville ten jresrs how rinlnr It. nrt .hn.iM he ahl. to h"a Population of SbOUt 1.000. ril.mlu thm ir i.n.t..t Tmiihi. of wnon or tS per cent were Met less, as he feels, the problems of Chi- th Population Is about cago and New York are too Intricate 1-W- wlu fourth of them and diffcult for the grade of ability Arcn- The Mexicans furnish . ITZa'friatWO sixtieth anniversary of wedded happi ness. A man has been arrested for steal ing two slices of bacon. He will, of course, he tried under a charge of grand larceny. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt says wom an has just as good judtrment as man. Does anybody want to argue the case with Mrs. Catt? Professor Perclval Lowell describes the comet's tall as "the airiest ap proach to nothing set In the midst of naught" Now who's afraid of thi comet's tall? Mr. Morgan has purchased the world's most famous collection of watches. He has already secured the watches of many Of the gentlemen who work In Wall street that r .,! nrwlm-t nnlltlr. n.it. In """r ai 00 cenu B Oay. In offlm On thn nthi.r hunit the rl In . to of the problem Is an integral part of 15,000 horns seekers come Into Texas, The Duchess de Talleyrand, former ly Anna Gould, Is forced to pay her former husband's parents 15,600 a year. Anna seems to hsve made the mistake of marrying the whole family. It. and the drawbacks thst probably l"'n aTn" 01 cnMD Inhere In the eeeutlnn nf the nln nn Offered, and we are getting good even a small scale should be given 8 " e country arouna little more time to develop. The University of Chicago now claims the credit from Cornell of making hens lay ready-dyed eggi Surely, the collegiate triumphs of the century are very uplifting to the race. A little girl sat at an old square piano. Her mother moved about In the next room, preparing supper. Near Brownsville. They ptsnt sugar cane snd alfalfa and all the truck crops. One specialty they have gone In for Is green onions, which net them from 1400 to 1600 an acre. Last year about 3.000 carloads were rstsed. Not one onion was shipped from that country five years ago, and to-day the Ber muda onion is being driven out of the market Bermuda does not ship here 25 per cent of what It did when Texas A Mississippi Ice driver found a wal let containing J 2.000, hunted up the owner, was docked for the lost time and got a reward of a live-cent cigar for the restoration of the money. He now cynically believes It pays to be honest i"an ,.SaMh", fa.r: c"ref"l,jr started In the onion buslne Th,y York now." Mr. Morton did net bring a sample with him Every now and then the news of the day contains the account of some per son being burned to death while smok ing In bed. The moral of such "acci dents" and all like them in that disas ter is generally one of the promptest things In the world to come to one when deliberately Invited. shop. "AH the wsy home," the man said to his little daughter. "I was trying to whistle that new piece of yours, Mollle, but I forgot some parts, and you muat help me. So play it through. please. Mollle begao, pleasure and lmpor- FAKMJNQ IS SITE CITT LOUTS. Tlajr Holm la !Kw York Are Neat Ovt tm Trok Sarar.eew. To say that farming within the tance In her face. At the second page boundaries of the city of New York It she stumbled and dropped from the a profitable occupation and that It It tempo, but hurried on. I carried on professionally with a largi "That was the place I forgot," In- degree of success might seem to smie tempted her father. "Please play it an extrsvagunt assertion. Yet John R. over. Just the air." Bowie of the soli division of the fd Over and over she was lnduced to era! department of agriculture, a New play It, first with one hand, then with York letter to the Christian 8clcu. the other, until the passage had be- Monitor says, has just Issued a r:ort come familiar, and her little fingers on the farming possibilities of this had fairly mastered the difficulty. city, showing comprehensively thai "Do you know," she said, a few the beat sgrlculture In the country la days later, as she played the simple not only possible here, but carried oo melody to her teacher, "my father I to a remarkable degree. thinks this part ts so pretty the pret- Within the city boundaries onoccu Meet part in the whole piece. He likes pled lots and unsubdivlded tracts are to hear it over and over." rented out in small plots for market Oh," thought the teacher, "with gardening and trucking purposes. Ths such parents what musicians I could majority of the farms are of miniature make of even everyday material!" else, some one-half or onequarter oi To-day this girl Is studying In New sn acre or even only the size of a city York under distinguished teachers, lot. Under such cramped conditions playing accompaniments for a well- It Is necessary to do some crop mov- known singer, Invited to dellKtrtful ing and marketing during every month bouses as an honored guest, and lead- of the year. Even the midwinter see ing a very Interesting if an arduous son the farmer uses to market bis life. root crops which hsve been stored Her teacher Insists that she was not waiting higher prices and the fruit exceptionally gifted; that the secret picked during the autumn. With the of her success lay very largely In the dawn of spring the spinach snd rhu- When a fashionable weddlnr or patient. Intelligent oversight of her "aro start the crop and having been sensational trial draws a multitude of I Prents, and their tact In getting her disposed of at the city market other A grim argument In favor of letting well enough alone Is found In a recent New York ease. Not content with verdict of murder in the second de gree, the lawyer for the convicted man secured a new trial, at which the pris oner was found guilty In the first de gree and sentenced to death. Farming Is getting to be not purely an occupation, but a profession. An American from the South, recommend ed by the Department of Agriculture, has gone to Slam as agricultural ad viser to the King, and other Ameri cans are filling similar positions in Baroda, one of the most prosperous na tive States of India. The King of Slam will pay bis adviser six thousand dol lars a year, which Is more than the av erage hired man earns. eurlous people In a great city, there is no little comment on the bad map ers and depraved tastes of Americani. It Is worth noting as showing a more attractive side of the picture that the police reserves bad to be called out In to master the difficult parts of each crops follow In a steady stream. lesson, and so the successive steps of The chief point In this Intensive technique. farming Is to utilize every foot of ground to Its best advantage. The What He Laeke4. onion and radish are rood ezamnlM A Cleveland lawyer whose Interests of how this Is accomplished. As soon New York City the other day to handle tTeaeatly take him to a certain town as the onion develops the slightest sus a crowd of four thousand people who were trying to get Into a hall built for two thousand people. In order to hear concert. It was a fine concert, and the fact that It was free only empha sizes the general desire to enjoy an en tertainment which is uplifting and In spiring. mi Lv..-.. nf Gnat Paper on Important auo.cr im DI9C0UEA0IK0 TO divokci. ...iLfi nwa ruiiim thst a man uinis, . .iiiwi - ... has a right to .P-nd bis oen m""'. " thst alimony should not lie large .imply Nh-.usm the man wo pays - r. income. 1. dWlwtU .11.. ' divorce. AI.0 It .. " ,,,,J . n,,.n and his wile h -' niuu viisw. s. - - ( beer, living at th. of IH.ooo ' 1 d ii. fnllow lh.it .he mul "msm '11 sWe to maintain the ssme style after dlvorr. A single womsn. whether .he b wald. . ' U vorcee. has no fixed standard to live up ' . purely for buslne rwiaon.. u.u.t be msliitalned In that Social seal, appropriate lo her husband for man's buslnea. reputstlon la wr, le.goly by the style In which h. lives, hi. wife rluthing. Jowslry. Mt.rulnm.ata snd frl-nde. The ..tig . an Is not forcsd to maintain the .laml.rd of living a husband Is forced to maintain for his wife If judge Chetlaln'a pr-Htd.nl I. tullowed. the pro fssslona! sllmony bunt.r will "od th. same unprofitable, and a great many ront.mpl.t.d divorce .! UI ' be brought. Hlg sllmony snd p.r...n.l ltirtjr ar. mighty attrsctlv. to a good many eim-n, who. If t-r knew that divorce would only then s compa.s tlv.ly small monthly allowance, would sil.-h Ilk. srlm death to ths meanest man on earth, provided he nwn.nl bank roil and would .spend It f..r th.lr gratlfl. atlun Chicago Journal. THI HOPELESS OPLtlBLB. E HAVK an abiding ciop uf ui.n and wm en of little) wit who run aflt-r ry bar uui.tarum of a prxchor with n-wir Imparted muie about tl. unkoowaiil. byood Home of the awlndl.r drn.and money and plenty of It frum lb. duix.1. others are .aliened with a fair (bare of the property of the dclv.d; and some sr. w m.S that th.y turn In thrlr property with lb. dlu.lcd aud rlly bell.v the turning of tb rlh upu lie ail I. about to res, and then comes lb. finl.b. t'.ually the preachers fit a day for the event to hapya snJ. aa a precautionary measure, to prolong .Helena as. end an eminence to await the submersing snd to b the la.t In the battle with angry waler; and then whrn th Itwi are covered with the a.jueoue fluid Ibay eict to have angels sppr and carry them Into I'aradlan. Not long ago the endof lhe world believer. g(tirrd In suuth.oaturo New York on a fork an I awaited the extinction of the planet. They were told If thvr ou pled a pinnacle Uod would com snd take lh.ru Into heaven and then Satan, with fire snd .word, would put to death all living things. Hut th. ir-.lllng a-ulm u! hades n.v.r showed up with brlmeion and Imit.ir and the world k.pt revolving at l.Ooo mil.i aa hour After awhile the dupe raild th. sorry tUtire tkrr cut when the day set for the upturning- of the unlvr came and want the same as other day and that tli.jr were the laughing stork of sane people. One would think thst more than sK month would w pax More another fool would show up and Indulge in a like prophecy ami win a following. Another group of iillilils has been g'iii" together at kWuth Norwalk, t'onu, aud Is piiieiilng the usual coura. of giving away pr.nwriy snd Imploflng the Creatoi lo spare Ib.iti from lb. fate of thw In the hollows who are blindly court Ing th. lr doom Ths moving ressng fur this mundane flitUh I a meteor dropped In the ouUklrt of the HP Use lu a trm k garden, burning a hole many feet deep through the ground and rewilvlug Itaelf finally Imo dot The hall Inked look this to be a alga of heavenly .It.i.waure. a Hi It lb end of the world and ap.nl miMt of their time praying Thu. It aee every now and then that people aupptaMd to hsv will, memory and understanding act as if ibey wei bora without th attribute I'tlta Qlub. THI CKNSUS riOURKA. N " the lolttl populalioo of the failed KtatM w.e a.vJ'J.r t. in HfiM It was l.ju.ii. in ll It was 7.:i9.i; In nil It was M.IMi la I mil it was U.s4.ti:o; la 11(0 II waa t.oV 4E.J, In I Hi" 11 was Il.ttl.Hld. In Iho II wa n.4j:ii in u;o it wa j.i.'.v:;i; In lio It wa. iu.lli.7l; In lW It waa l.32.:'.0; m 1'.m) ii a tS.3J.lf. The ren.u. ( IVOu larludn) Alaska and Hawaii, but not tb I'hlllpplbw and Porta lil.o t'.lns l't tot of lO'leaae and other kaoea data a a t.a.i. eg(.rl eallniau the total ppulalea at the rotulng ren.u at tO.OOO.Ouw, mot or b i may fall a low a 19,'oo.oov or reach UW,W, bl thie would net be a large vertajton ffnm th. Milual. Tbi. however, include only th continental pop ulation, and will b ron.i.Wrahty lucrnaaml by tbaj of our Uiand puaeraalooa l l0l the Philippine bad Tj:..i: and t'urio Hi. o Sl.itl This Would nuke a fair e.tiotat of the total population, eoatlaental and Ineular. at tb coining tnu about blBlye evil. ll - luJIanapull Sew A MS In Indiana, tells of a quaint character plclon of a bulb It Is pulled and bunch there known to the townspeople as ed and those next It In site are given Necessity" Nelson. Nelson gets on a better opportunity for growth and pretty well despite the fact that be Is development In this wsy not a single a jack of all trades "and master of crop, but a continuous supply of none. He pose mainly as an attor- onions and radlahea Is produced. ney. When the Cleveland man first went staawbaii aa OraaSxa. to the Indiana town he was naturally 1 remember being on a Chicago It haa been generally acoepted by I enough very curious as to the odd street car, says Ellis Parker Butler, nickname given Nelson. "Why do you " DUtt" ", t"""! oeaiue a men of science that the last dinosaur trod the earth a great many centuries ago. In fact, something like four hun dred thousand years ago. From thj fossilised remains a good knowledge has been obtained of the gigantic pro portions and terrifying appearance of the creature, and all have agreed In a preference to stndy the bones, rather than a living specimen at large. From South Africa there now comes the re markable story that there 1 a living call blm 'Necessity? be asked. "Because he knows no law," the answer. Chicago Tribune. nice old lady In mourning, a year or so ago. She was nervous and kept glancing at me, and then glancing away again. It made me uncomfort How AiKt.t Hlm.t.rf aWe. r thought she took me for s one day an oia war veteran limpca pickpocket or some other bad man Finally she could contain herself no Into a shop and said to the druggist I want some meaicine, some sort longer. She leaned over. "Excuse of vermifuge, I suppose." me." she said, "but have you heard -wen. coionei, wneres tne trouwer yet how the Cubs' game came outr asked tne cierg. sympathetically, i hadn't, and her face fell, but In s dinoaaur somewhere , the nortbe tt ' rar d'fflCUUy mwnent he ""lb" "PPortunlty pt of Rhode.... Native, h.v, recent, I .TlJL, conolB': .n, -'B- - i can you ten me woo iney are pui- tin an worm eaien. uaaies Mome ting In th box to-dayT" How wis ly told of a mighty reptile In a lake ear the river Lunga, and have Iden tified drawtnga of the dinosaur as re sembling tola creature. Thus far th proof Is hardly convincing, but the Story arouses a certain Interest Un fortunately, the Roosevelt expedition did not penetrate that part of the Af Journal. Owe VIeaa af Jr. Johnny bad two presents at the same time one a diary, which be kept very carefully, and the other a pea- shooting popgun, which he fired in- rlcan wilderness, but perhaps here Is I discriminate on all occasions. the oppprtunlty for soma hunter or I One day bis mother found the fol- naturalist to win Immortal fame. that for a gray-haired grandma? In Chicago tbey all talk baseball, from the cradle to the grave. Up to three o'clock In the afternoon no one talk about anything but the game of the day before. From three o'clock on the only subject Is th game that la be ing played. Th school child who can not add two apples plus tbrae apples lnartnr terse record In hla dlarv; -Mnnrlv rnM and elnnnv TntAv nA ' " apple With any Cer alnnnr. Wenadv cold and alnnnv t1"1' eorrectneas Can figure OUl shot Granma." lhe ,tandln of the Chicago nines with I one nana ana a pencil mat win mass A man Is rich In power It h Is abl a mark only when It Is held straight to do without tb thing wealth will up and down htlW . I ! - ' I . 1 LI. , . I TT UCU m uu.ll uruioiiiui UM utuia Th past Is referred to as being .hakes with a modest airl It U aut to population or more tnsn ifiWJOW. I oea; out n w lerriuiy aiiva. tnak ber bluab Tb results of tb first ten year of government by commission In Ameri can cities ar summarised In Every body's Magazine by Charles E. Russell. The plan devised at Galveston In 1900 to meet a special emergency has now apread to Include sixty cities with a England's high road cot I4.0O0 a Utile to construct. People, a a rule, hear belter with the right than with left ear. New.paper advertliement made their earliest appearance In WA Fifty seven utwnarrled people commit lulclde to only forty three married There sre wurkltit(m'-n with famlUe In Germany who, with an In.-ome of a Week, are able lo buy an otca lonnl book. There are a number of Interegtliig gpecl.-e of palms In Liberia, but lhe more important are the fan palm, th-t raphla or bamboo palm, the cocoauut palm and the oil palm. Recent experiments have proved con clusively that coal duat which has been gruund to a atute so fine that It will paxa a 200 mesh slow will ev.plo.1 from contact with either a naked flame or with the arc of an electric current. In the city of Canton, China, are such pleaannt sounding itr.-et a llenuvolencn, peace, Ilrlght Cloud. Longevity, Karly lieatowed HleHlnga, Everlaatlng Uve, One Hundred Grand sons, Refreshing llreuze. Ninefold IlrlKhtnea. and so on. In his notice of Viola Allen's luteal Play, the satirical dramatic critic of ths Louisville Courier-Journal hn tlili to say of Louisville playgoer: "Cries of 'speech' cume Imllly from thst por tion of the audience, which always de sires a nine intimate conversation with a star, and would lie glad to hear a white-robed nun recite 'Casey m tli.i Bat.' " Many schools In Germany and Swlt serland offer courses of Instruction In the art of waiting at table. The Lauaanne high school goe .tm fur, ther In this direction, snd undertakes to teach the complete science of hotel keeping. This Include thorough pro ficiency in four languagea, book keep Ing, geography, training In deportment the study of byglune and knowledge of gymnastics, calisthenics and danc ing. In England a centus Is taken everv even years, In the United States the wont costs some 15,000,000; In Eng land, with a population of 42.000 mm the work Is done by ths regulur nubile officials, without extra cost. There ths csnsus Is taken on a certain day at a certain hour, usually Saturday at 11 p. m., because moat people are then at horn. Printed circulars have been ent by th nolle to vrr family aui ALARMS ABOUT JAFAS. I.IIUH I.II the apparwfttly roarvrted effart to tie up la ti.i eouniry alarm, ainat Jln hav M lhu far cioil.uoly iili.rj. .eeetul. lb rooaldtlt repwtlllua uf JHe prediction of sanguinary coeflirt In lhe future tuy the NiJwWry of tt 1" . itic at. bound lo hm nithtevou la Ibnr ruit lhe eeiluiahl genlleutra aha S t tn wt acllv Is preaching this goepel of dlrat 4 war doiibii.wt betteve all they say, TVv may hae Infoftiistloa on which thry Nam their rov l-.o of lutix-ndlbg trouble bea lh I'nllrd States and J;u. but whatever that InfurUMtlna ttuir be lhy have not given It to lhe public. And the public I bit to ...nttir. lo the of a rampwtaa I hat a) Uckias in a .ule'aniial ba.l In U and which u rwtly ruodadletory ef lhe saaursai-c of all th Ulns tn.-n wha know or ar tuppuewl lo know the truth. 'hliad-lphi l.lr COIFFURES OF THE FAST AND WHAT WE MAT EXPECT JfEIt wttijti or it-. torvi Jr?TsaV reair j -WHswav .aWSBV VJ',l "fJ 'BOO yyy ' n"-' yfK-tAw, iu, isoy 1908 'ZjL' m.ki n..,o.reei .MO. MAtClkVMVt.CAJi to the owner nf i.ll i.li,.. ...i .,. . , ,r. Hill. ..If u s rbese circulars c.ntain blnuk. whlih riniHt l fllltil. Andres lllppel, II,,, retlrl trstlve tiiannK.-r of the Mir.,,-,in.. er ho,,,,,, ha. at, appar.Hua lu hi '"' which (.ring the tm f ,(,-. 'pera to hi,,, ,, 'lk. In a corner of the room up near the celling I horn tike the tran.mltter of a talking machine. If Mr. I)lp,. Wftn t(J k((W h(iw Uf n opera Img proceeded he gov, to the wall, throws on switch a ihough "e w.-r.. liKi.tiK nn i,.t.,rie nv and t of the horn comes the mule of he o,.ra. At the e, nf R(:t ,)P w rla cotn.-s lhe sound of lhe luindclap. Ping -New York Hun, Peer aeg Ike ;me. Tbsy w.ro walr-hlng a comet In I "pays .lay, though ilalley at ths time wa but eight y.,,,1, r,, ..My , . Habdwlcl, this day," M, th dUr4l 1 II. MC4. ''wrl.e. Word th hs huth eeen t I'ot latnoutli th cornel n;l ay. It I th most e.ttnordlnary tb. Hiivlng lt up , , H , past 2 oHneg tM, nirlllniCi (lr balag auuolutsd eoniwi aud tell i . . ml that ths bellman tell him au"l mil- 1 1 star is seen upon lower .1 that had been all J j order of my old i;'r I" Dl' "Twl did now Ira v. off all snl tnt "'J i,. ii. r kill II being S uf .... iv . - tgiij fine, bright. mooliib n'i " . great frost, but no roiwl toUZL Uter lb sum day. ho""'' .... l.l.h nu. ertw to. ctm.t, " " " - b9V worn away or no, I kim t.,.i . hut only I' i and duller than any other IttelrueiTowe la w""r'h,. "So I have gut to meet X , partment store, have 1?" j "Ye, hubby." mBJ In that ca woiiM lii Ing your bt tl"l VLu means of ldentinctln".". Courier-Journal. Ti.Vi"eVp"-rH'Y"ra "Why aro f "'"a. Za magn.tsT Ho h things." "I wa on of Jhem.v This X'fr spw. A Nw " i iv. decided that "Uanin ord Then what i