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i lopics or the Times Tho high cost of living scorns to i getting used to It. Tho most popular book In tho homo of tho worklngman la, his bank book. ,Docs housekeeping como under tho head of arts and crafts, or la It Just work? , Tho auto Is said to promoto appen dicitis, but this will not deter those who can scrape up tho price. A Uoston doctor gives It as his optn fon that women can nover beconio real ly artistic. Anothor troubio hunter. Don't condemn John D. until you have heard what his plan for abolish ing poverty Is. It worked In his own caao. Voung Mr. Knox Is quoted as say ing: "I ahall go to work, If necessary, to support my wlfo." Isn't ho a noblo young hero? A mnn In Detroit gave tho census taker his occupation as "tho wood bus iness." Ho provides family trees for newly-rich automobllo manufacturers. Queon Wllhclmlno, It Is said, bor rows spoons and napkins from tho( neighbors. Naturally alio la regarded by hor pcoplo as a wonderful wom an. An Ohio woman doclarca that piano playing makea the hena lay. Dut oven tho piano 1ms Its limitations In tho poultry yard. It cannot bo used as an Incubator. It la said tho avorago man cata 1,000 pounds of food n yoar. Nobody has figured what tho avorago boy cats, but It must bo considerably moro than 1,000 pounds. "Now thoy propone to hatch chickens by electricity." Wo aro slowly ap proaching the tlmo when man will havo nothing to do but touch a button hero and tlicro. Down In Connecticut recently a woman died becauso n fortuno hail been loft to her. Pcoplo who nro wait ing for rich uncles to pass away will agree that hor action was wholly un justifiable There la In Kansas City a man who wants 120,000 damagea becauso tho Kosalp of his neighbors caused hli wlfo to leave him. Homo of tho neighbors complain that there aro mon who are totally devoid of appreciation. Tho noiton Olobe has found that a 15-cent plate of beans contains as much nutritive valuo as $1,87 M worth of por torhouto steak. Wo earnestly hope tho report la an unbiased ono. It It catno from any other placo than Boston wo hould not doubt. A dispatch from Now Orleans aaya the demand for babloa In that city la much greater than tho supply. Ono carload of Infants recently arrived from Now York, but tho babloa woro ndoptcd so quickly and thero wero so many cnlla for moro that anothor car load will bo forwarded. Snvo your babies. Now Orleans may want thorn. Korea la making aomo progress In civilization. Twenty-five years ago It lind no trade with tho United Stntea. Tho secretary of the Prcabytorlan Hoard of Foreign Missions recently traveled In that country In n railroad car mnilo In Delaware, drawn by a locomotive tnado In Philadelphia, over rails mndo In Pittsburg, fastonctl to itlen mado of Oregon lumber, with isplkcs forged In Now York. After Ills Journoy ho had for Mi dinner Chicago beef, Pittsburg pickles and Minnesota 4our. Along with many othor discoveries of greater or less Importance, aclcntltlc men havo proved tho law that tho rap idity of tho heart boat Is In invorao ratio to an anlmnl'a alzo. Thus In man It la about seventy-two to tho minute, whoreaa In tho olcplmnt It la only thirty, ami In the horao forty. The dog'a pulso, pn tho other hand, counts about ninety beats to tho min ute, nnd tho rabbit's over one hundred nnd fifty, Mott remnrkablo of nil, tho heart pulsatlona of a llttlu mouso havo recently been counted and recorded by nn Insrnlous machine, nnd found to num sr nearly aoven hundred overy minute. In his annual report tho Adjutnnt General of tho Army bewatla deser tions ns tho greatest peril to tho army. Nearly C.000 American soldlora desert ed last year. In Kuropo desertions aro rare. Ho attributes tho wholesale do Bortlons to a defect of publlq opinion, which practically .consents to them and affects to boo nothing moro In them than tho breach of a civil con tract for service. Cltlzona look upon tho dcoorter with complacency nnd manage to aid him to escapo punish ment "In the comparatively rare event of his falling Into tho hands of the military authorities," The quotation probably comes nearor giving tho key to tho situation than do tho complaint against the public. Desertions will multiply In proportion to the Im munity obtainable through the failure of tho military authorities to exert themselves, nurglary would flourish also If tho citizenry did not tax Itself roundly for tho machinery to make burglary a hazardous business. When the military authorities realize that they havo aomothlng to do In tho mat ter and do it, they will have leu to complain of regarding the public, Accomplished cooks, men who know that they practlco not the least of the arts, have long been accustomed to name their most savory Inventions for eminent persona In othor walks of lite. They mean to pay a delicate compli ment, to offer a generous tribute from genius to genius. Dut such compli ments are not always welcome, A yeans opera singer, who la to muck aasalred la Boston that 'the hotel chefs fcave befun to name their sous aid aaskaW I bar beaer. ttlqka t. m naa conautted lawyers, applied tor as Injunction, and had hersolf effaced from tho bills of faro. Tho prococdlng has enlivened tho courts and animated tho news columns of tho dally papers becauso of Its novelty. Famous per sons, when they havo not beon flat tcrod by such attentions, have usually suffered them stoically. In some cases, too, the cook has actually given tho colcbrlty a wider Immortality than ho could havo won by himself. Many a man has ordored a filet Chateau brlnnd who novor heard of "Atnla or "Tho Genius of Christianity." Long and distinguished as was Count Ncs selrodo's career, his pudding Is known Whcro his diplomacy Is forgotten Tho Fathor of his Country himself has to stand sponsor for a plo by no means worthy of hla solid and sub stantial virtues. And a prima donna nloro famous than tho Uoston slngor lends tho honey of her namo to tho delicious "nccho Mclba." and la not ashamed of It. Men havo even per mlttcd clgara to bo named for them without Inquiring too closely Into their quality. Mr. Illalne, nlthough ho nover used tobacco, did not talk of Injunctions when such an honor wns thrust upon him, howovcr little ho may havo liked It. Tho plcturo of tho poet Uryant waa long familiar on tho lids of certain flat boxes of red cedar, but ho was dead when the honor wns thrust upon him, and could not pro- tost. A public career haa Its penalties aa well as Its prlzea. FREAK LEGISLATORS ACTTO.. Price of Xeceultlea Kara No Kf fact on I.niTiimUlnir Plants. Tho soaring coat of tho nccosaltlca of Ilfu haa had no effect, thua far, In limiting tho output of our lawmaking plants, Colllor's remarks. They aro grinding out now rules and limita tions, clover or atupld, predatory or comic, to tho full capacity of tho mills. Tho production of statutory Jokea has been oven Inrgor than usual this sea son. A dolcgnto to tho Maryland tag Islaturo from Frost burg (auggcativo namol ) has Introduced a bill to mako It unlawful for a womnn to wear a hat more than ten Inches In dlnmctcr "on tho streets or In other public places," or In "any theater or concert hall In tho atato when a performance la In progress." Tho penalty for violation of tho rulo la to bo threo months' Im prisonment of a flno of 100. Ho got what ho deserved when n lady Journal ist, working for ono ovcnlng chronicle of crime, replied by Interviewing hor self on what Is likely to hnppon when women legislators nro In ofneo a few years from now nnd can "coma back.' The authority quotes horself aa aaying that thoy will prohibit any man under 60 from wearing a frock coat, nnd ar rest and try for fotony any mnlo who appears on tho streots In a allk hat. Tho wearing of a "green kolloy,' 'or of a "moss-colored plush head "cover ing," will bo deemed a capital offense, and "the wearing of red by blondo mon with ashen complexions be forbidden by atatute." Kvcn boforo this robuko had been aproad another lawmnkor war mailing Into print with n law to limit tho length or hatpins. Dr. Felix Adler has been contending that law yers have far too largo n representa tion In our ayatem of government as compared with that given to men of other trades and profeailona. Anothor class that has too much representation la the aelf ndvortlaera. With a work ing knowledge of what constitutes a are making comic statutes aa fast as allowed by tho speed limit for dicta tion to a stenographer. TOO DELIQIITFUL PARIS. On af Pritntnr Chniincer DrieiT' Af Irr-IHnnrr Ntitrlri. Sonntor Dopow, lamenting nt a din ner In Washington tho recent Paris flood, said, according to tho Louis vlllo Times: "How delightful Paris lal Almost too delightful for atudy. "A friend of mine aent hla son to Paris to atudy architecture at the Kcolo lies Ileaiix Arts, Then, tho fol lowing JunoIn tlma for tho Orand Prix, you know my friend went over to Paris to aee how his boy was get ting on. "Tho boy said ho waa getting on fa- niously. Father nnd son, after a do- llgutful luncheon under n tree at Ar- mcnonvllle, went sightseeing. They crossed tho Seine, looked at the Whis tler and tho Mao Monnles at the Lux embourg, then turned rlverward again to see a little of tho Louvre. "As thoy drovo In their taxcab down a quiet, out rasmoneu street near me Seine, tho father's Interost was excited by a flue, Imposing building, with a spacious courtyard full of fragmenta of atntuary, flno old bits of stone carving, casts and ao on. "'What place la that, my boyr ho Inquired. "Really, father, I can't tell you,' Raid tho young man, 'I'm so busy at the Ileaux Arts, you know, I got very little tlmo for sightseeing.' "So tho father leaned forward and touched the ehauffeur'a arm, '"What place la that, my manT' he asked. '"Tho Ecole des lleaux Arta, mon aleurl was the reply," j Wit of the Youngsters j$ Teacher Tommy, what doe8 the lot ter "A" aland for? Tommy Apple, for ono thing. Teacher That's right. Now, Johnny, what docs "U" stand fort Johnny linked apple, "What state do wo llvo In?" asked tho teacher of the primary geography class. And Uttlo Elmer, thinking of his Sunday school catechism, prompt ly replied: "In n state of sin and mis ery." The mothor had Ircquontly told her children that It waa wrong to waste scraps of food. One evening she said: "Ralph, my son, what good deed have you done to-day!" "I ato that piece of pie left from dinner, so, It wouldn't be wasted," anawered Ralph. When pcoplo Invite you to see them, and aay they will have a Dutch lunch, u means you are tsi to eapeei Don't joke, with a waa who to r Opinion of PROFIT AND LOSS. YOUNG man of wealth married a chorua I A I girl In New York a fow yeara ago. Short I aU I ly afterward ho enlisted In the navy. I "b J From a callow youth with llttlo common aonae and Itaa knowledgo of llfo ho has roturnod muacled, manly, cheerful control of himself and tho spirit of temptation. He haa ceased, howovor, to bo fond of hla wife. She la now engaged In suing his parents for a halt million doltara, charging them with weaning away hor huaband's affec tions. Wero tho lady In tho case demanding damngoa for tho loss of the creature she know aa husband the suit wvro rldlculoua. He may have been worth many tlmea a half million dollars In property, but worth not five cents In poraon. The man la a dlfforont fellow alto other now, In the state of his heart as woll as his mind. In shoer point of poaalblllttca of value to hlmoolf and to the world ho la not to be weighed against aordld old. Unhappily, however, tho courts havo no othor standard by which to measure the price of affectlona and tho object of affection except money. The chorus girl wlfo muat acok such balm as Is available. If It js true that tho young man Is all they say he Is, radiant of health, sober, proud of his sorvlco and eager to as sume a pormanont placo as a worker, who can blamo tho wlfo for lamenting hor loss? It tho courts can't do mora thoy might glvo the plaintiff sole possession to tho memory of tho youth to whom aho was married. Tho parents would surrondor that with enthusiasm. Toledo Dlttdo. IS WOMAN "ECONOMICALLY WORTHLESS f' UOFKSSOIl Patton of tho University or 1 Ponnaylvantn, an original and progressive mw I thinker, declares that ono of the four ma- mm I tnr mtii nf Dm tnrritfiait,! mut nt llvlnir nTCTIf? Is tho "now status of women." Clvlllza BiHMlJ llon nnJ incnanlCAl prog rout, ho aaya, lUieaVVU dnnrlvod womon of tholr fornior ahure In bread winning, and thoy aro "left with tholr handa Idlo." "IM women take up their ahnre of tho work, and tho prassuro on tho resources of tho family will bo equalized," concludes Professor Patton. Lot us boo. Tho next consus will probably ahow that about 7,000,000 women are engnged In gainful occupa tions, In aplto of our "civilisation." It will not show how many millions work longer hours than any factory or office omploye, In kltchons, nursorloa, tono menta, (lata, farmhouses, without getting any "wagos" at all, but we know that the wlfo of the laborer, the machanlo, the clerk, tho amnll ahopkoopor, tho strug gling farmor, tho young profeselonal man, does not sit with her hands Idle. Is not the woman who cooks and washes, cleans, sews, brings up children, doing her hare of the work of the family! Is aho economically worthless! The number of Idlo women Is vory small In this coun try, and of this number the majority devote thomselves Diamonds are almost perfectly transparent to X-raya. A Violet Croaa League has been formed In Paris with the object of suppressing swearing. Tho great North Sea flitting ground known as tho Dogger Dank, Is esti mated to yield an annual Incomo ot 3,000 a square mile. Thoro la nn Inmnto In tho Colchester workhouse, England, who Is 90 years of ago, ono who la 02, twenty-ono be tween 80 nnd 00 and flfty-throo bo tween 70 and SO. A lock of Napoleon's hair, cut by hla servant on May 31, 1811, at the Hotel do Lors, llrussels, was sold re cently for 11 at Slovens' auction rooms, Covcnt Garden, London. The average speed ot a homing pigeon In calm weather la 1,210 yarda a minute. With a atrong wind In tho direction ot flight, some plgeona have made 1,980 yarda, or moro than a mllo a mlnuto. The University ot Cincinnati, through Dean Herman Schneider, haa originated a plan of co-operative In dustrial educatton, whereby a student studies one week In the university and then works one week In shop or fac tory. Tho Rev, T, O. Wyatt, vicar of Hay. wards Heath, England, has promised to present halt a sovereign, the prlco of a pair of boots, to every member ot the local company ot the Church Lmls' Hrlgado who Joins tho terri torials, The Association of Collegiate Alum tite, composed ot more than ftva thou sand members In various cities, la about to teat the law ot heredity by an Investigation or Its own member hip and antecedents for three genera tions or more, 'Certalu negro characters are of a highly ovolved type," said Professor Arthur Keith in a Hunterlan lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons la London, "and I have a suspicion that soma ot the negroes or tho Congo Free State had an old civilization which flourished when Drltons were In a primitive state." RICH WOMAN DIE3 LIKE PAUPER VlliHheth linn' Heath nn New Jer vy I'urm Itevt'uU J 00,000. Professing abject poverty before the world and living less expensively than her poorest neighbors. Miss Elizabeth Hays, aged S6, dted suddenly last night In tho midst of n fortuuo in gold and :mrcncy, estimated at more than 100, 000, which for fifty years she had been secreting about hor old farmhouse. Miss Hays' financial status was dis covered to-day when tho heirs nnd her executor, Counsellor Hegtnald Uranch, made a brief search ot the house prior to a complete examination promised to-morrow morning, says a Burlington (N. J.) correspondent ot tho Now York World. Red and table linen yielded $10 and $20 bank notea by the scores; Bed springs, old coffee pot, several old iwrsea and other reeeptaolea war feud te oMtatn hundreds ot Mitn. Great Papers on Important of tho hard facts homo, strongly and In porfect uBsEsU NO FUNERAL DISPLAY. MBa FFETE oastorn cities that sneer at the tan I TT 1 booted, slouch-hatted westornor art being I I committed by tholr undertakers to now I mW oxtravogancos which, to the humble eye An old family Dlble waa almoat com pletely leaved with $20 gold notes, aomo of thorn boarlng datea ot laaue ahortly after the civil war. Tho book atood on a parlor tablo. In a cup board among ods and enda of overy description waa a little pasteboard box. The Investigators woro about to tcai It asldo, when a Jingle of coin drew their attontlon and thoy raised tho lid to dtacovor the box filled with gold coins, mostly eagloa nnd doublo onglea, amounting to nearly $800. Old salt bags nnd leather wnllcta filled with gold wore picked up from an odd as sortment ot traah. In dlfforont receptacles nearly a thousand old coins of copper, nlckol, sllVor, gold and alloys, and minted In a dozen dlfforont countries In tho last two centuries, woro discovered. Thoy were In no order and were mixed In with tho modern money ot all denom inations. Rolls of bank notes, all ot big denom ination, wore stuffed between the mat tresses and mixed In with them woro quantities ot civil war "shluplasters." It Is said the searchers could not pick up a book without finding money between the loaves. Linen dropped to the floor, disclosing $10 notes between the folds. Many ot the old bank notes bearing early dates were almost crumpled to dust whon found and It will take an expert to decipher their value. To-night tho late homo ot Miss Hays, a fifteen-room farm house, In a aad condition for lack of repairs, is watch ed by armed guarda to prevent any at tempt to aeek the hidden wealth It still contains. RATS CAUSE TWO PANICS. l'atcrtua Woatna Who Owned Tbeui ! Clriftl With Aault, Too, In her efforts to prove to Edward Mills, a hardware dealer, that a rat trap ho had sold to hor was useless, Mrs. Lucy Thompson of Hazel stret caused two panics, ono on a trolley car and tho other in the shopping dis trict, and will have to answer a charge ot assault and battery, The rats In Mrs, Tomklns' home had made a trap a picnic ground for sev eral days, growing fat on the cheese In It without injury to themselves, a Paterson (N. J.) correspondent of the New York Tribune says. From a hiding place In the corner ot the room she watched three well-fed rats hop Into the trap. The rats were having their customary feast when Mrs. Tom klns placed a bag over the trap and kept the rats prisoners, when she start ed with her captives on a Main street car for the shopping district to Inter view the hardware man. The car had gone but a short dis tance when a dozen women screamed and Jumped almost simultaneously on the seats ot the car, whllo others rushed for the door. One ot the rats had escaped from the bag-coyered trap. Tbo motorman, with the assistance ot a switch bar, drove tho rat to the street and the car resumed lta Jour noy, , When Mrs. Tomklns ultimately reached the shopping district the Jost ling crowd caused her to loosen her hold on the bag and the remaining rate escaped to the sidewalk. For a tev minutes there waa pandemonium among the woman shoppers, hut a traf fte. oMcer (ucceeded attar aocaa 4M uHjr la raatorlac order. MWt PvmJkIab ItMaVftaayftstt Aft 8 Subjects. to charitable and reform work, to the cultivation of lottors and art, to tho propaganda of political and moral causes. Sending them Into ofnees and factories would scarcoly benefit true civilization. Man does not live by bread alone, and havo not foreign observers extolled American womon for thrlr successful pursuit of cul ture and Idealism! Even from an economic point ot view, tho women who do not toll are not worthless. Morals nnd aesthetics and culture have their economic value to socioty. Chicago Record-Herald. SICKNESS AND EATINO. OU are actually committing a crime against Yl your atoroach when you eat while suffer I lng from acute disease. I defy any stu I .lonf nr Mnntiit tn titinrov this state ment. Whon you suffor from acuta dlscaae, pneumonia, fevora, etc., the prin cipal object of which Is simply the cleans ing of tho blood, overy particle of food you take Into your atomach rotarda recovery. Aa a reault' of caroful oxporlmentatlon hyglenlsta And that a typhoid fever patient will lose weight and strength faator when being fed than when no food la given. In other worda, ha will loso lesa atrcngth and recovor far moro quickly When no food la glvon. When the digostlve organs do not roqulro food and you persist In putting food Into the stomach you nro poisoning yourself and adding to the disease. If those statements do not Impress you as being reliable, a llttlo oxporlmentlng on your own ac count will soon prove their truth. What Is needed In dtscaso Is to glvo the human body, that marveloua mys tory that each and ovory ono ot ub poasessea, a chance tq cloanao Itaolf; a chanco to eliminate the polsona that aro clogging functional activity. Thero la no need ot fear, no need of anyono dying of an acuto ailment un lesa vitality has bobn very greatly rotardod through dissipation, through prolonged uso ot alcohol or some other similar cause. Physical Culture. ot tho plainsman, aro not exactly in good taste. Dluo, pink and lavonder coffins are tho very latest In art funorals. The trail ing arbutus or winding creoper may bedeck the pall. Artist and upholaterer outrival each the other with gliding and gauds to adorn tho narrow houao ot hu manity's cast-off clay. Tho march to tho tomb borrowa trappings from the circus, and tho pompous ceremonies with which our dead are to bo recommitted to earth's ombrace seora to mock the qulot of God's acre. Thla ahould not be. The door of tho tomb la no place for display. Tho dignity ot death forbids It. Every Unor Instinct protests at exploitation of grief. It Is to be hoped that this latest attempt to restore extravagance In funerals will not succeed. Chicago Journal. the loaa of the rats, but still deter mined. Going Into the hardware store she hunted up tho proprietor and hurled the rat trap at his head. As a recult of this laat maneuver Conatable I.cc from Juattce Ilotbyl'a court aerved a warrant on her, charging assault and battery. OETTINQ RID 07 UNCLE DUD. Il Waa .Nar iUo Limit aa mi Ki. mania ot Wurtlilvaa Kin, You may not bellovo It, but It la poisibio to get rid ot worthleaa kin An Atchlaon man did It. Ho had an Uncle .Dud, who was worthless through and through. Doforo the Atchlaon man was born Undo Dud began being worthless. He went to church n great deal, and at church becamo Infatuated with a young girl. One of the first kin stories the Atchlaon man heard waa bow hla father bad given Uncle Dud money to loavo the country to es cape from marrying the girl. When the Atchlaon man was a boy Uncle Dud lived on a routed farm near by, and the Atchison man recalls that every ytar Uncle Dud's wife would appear at hla father's home, and whllo there a baby would be added to tho family of Uucle Dud. It thero was a cyclone uncie Dud was In It. and relatives bad to keep him, If there was a big tiro Uncle Dud was always one ot the suf ferers. If a flood swept through a cer tain district Uncle Dud was drowned out, If there was an earthquake Uncle Dud was wrecked. It bis crops were not ruined by drought they failed be cause of too much rain, If there was distemper among horses, black leg among cattle, or cholera among bogs, Undo Dud always lost his. His wife was sickly, and his children were al ways down with some contagious dls- easo. Undo Dud was great at saying through all theae troublea: 'The Lord's will be dope," but the Atchison man recalls that it was always tho kin who had to pay for the "Lord's will," It never Inconvenienced Uncle Dud. As the Atchison man grew up he had one ambition In life, to give Uncle Dud both barrels. A few years ago the Atchison man recolved a letter from Uncle Dud. There had been a horrible disaster where Uncle Dud lived, and he had written to say he had lost all. His health was wrecked by tho horror ot what he had been through, and he was coming to his rel atives with some ot his grandchildren, until ho recovered his strength. "I have a great story to tell you," he wiote. "This disaster Is something which shows the might of the Lord's fury, and now that It Is all over, I feel that I want to tell you the majes ty of seeing with the human eye tho awful anger of the Lord." The Atchison man knew his tlmo had come. No one knows what he wrote Uncle Dud, but ho did what the Lord's anger tailed to do: He shot Uncle Dud to pieces. He gave him both barrels, and the contents e a pump gun. He cannonaded Uncle Dud) From that day to this none ot the.kla have ever heard one word from the most worthless man the world baa ever known. Atchison Globe. In this unjust. werM. a larM nart ot the prowls t a' tew a tardea are made by the hardware stacaa. Leak aa tha teiaht aM: WHk whan K ta, Hmn laat ajolac la h ar left r far haa - " , ' 7 .FASHION HINTS ThU outing suit of rote colored linen has imill tucks pannelcd in the tides of the blouis and skirt. Dlack llntn It uid for the belt, collar and deep cuffi. A jaunty tie it drawn through the itath in the bloutt front, giving Just the required dath to tha whola J uuna A lax. TnBtmrr ta Utm OU Vatm fight for title to 4,400 acres of Fer ry Lake la Oaddo parish, aoutawts Louisiana, and said to be an oil laid valued at approximately $5,000,000, has beea begun before Ooratnlsaloaer Den nett et tha general land oOk. Tha claimant Is John D.King of JTexarkana, Texas, who made entry over ont year ago under the placer alalnsr act Ha claims that the area of tha lake was never turned ovor by tha government to the State ot Loulalana, and as the attorney general of that State did not put In an appearance yesterday It Is believed that the Stale Is content to let tha genaral government deal with tha proposition before It In any manner It may deem advisable. Former Representative John J. Lenta ot Columbus, Ohio; J. A. Telller ot Little Rock, Ark., and J. D. Korner, also of the capital ot Ohio, mado up the legal array which presented Mr. King's side of the case. At tha close ot the argument Commissioner Den nett took, the matter under advisement He did not announce when a decision will be rendered In the matter. For several months past It has been believed that the Stato officials of Lou isiana were going to put up a vigorous fight for the lake, which also has a considerable area la tha State of Tex as. Several yean ago, while prospect ing over tha general oil field la tha section where tha lake Is located, Mr. King discovered that while tha Stand ard Oil Company had located lta walls on all sides of tha property, no attempt had been made to locate on the lake, t Ha then went to work, and made a close examination of tha records bear ing on the question of title to tha land on which tho laka lies. Thla waa for merly government land before the back water from tho Red River overflowed the section and left the lake. He ascer tained, ao It waa pointed out In the ar gument of the attorneys before Com missioner Dennett yesterday that the lake waa never turned over by the general government to tho State of Loulalana, and ho loat no tlmo In mak ing nn entry on the 4,400 ncrea In ques tion, which la bolleved to be the rich eat In the aoctlon In point ot possible oil fields. With hla entry he thou made his plans to bring the matter to the atten tion ot the commissioner ot the gen eral land office, so as to perfect the ti tle before he begins operations for lo cating oil wells. He talked at length yesterday ot the queatlon and pointed out that as the lake Is only about two or three feet deep It will be a compara tively easy matter to locate oil wella la all parts of tbt area covered by the 4,400 acres In queatlon. Mr, King Is positive from the Investigation he has made that the area Is ot Immense value and hopes as soon aa ha gets title to begin operations. The section In which the laka Is lo cated In both Texas and Louisiana Is looked upon by oil experts everywhere as a particularly rich oil country, and this fact has been singularly brought out, It Is declared, by reason ot the fact that the Standard Oil Company has come Into the section and bought up all the land bordering on the lake. Washington Star. A aalnc Marahaat. The Jeweler had left his new boy la charge ot the store while he went home to his dinner, but not until he cautioned the youth that all the goods war marked and that ha muat not let anyone take goods with him unless they wera paid for. "Well, Sam," he asked upon his re turn, "did you have any customers!" "You bett" said Sam, gleefully, "And I got his money, toot I aold one man all thoae braaa rings you bad that were marked 18a tn the Inside, and bera'a tha money a stellar and ninety eight easts PWadge. RaaTtaaT Iaaaiiarramew There haa baaa during the yasA year an Increase ot (00,000 la tha lsaaalgraat population ot the United aHatas. la the meantime about M0,9O4J laual graata returned heme, Iaveatlgatlea ahowa that ot thoaa who return te taalr European hoaaea tha vast aiaJerUy are unskilled laborers wheaa stay hare haa beea comparatively brtet. Tha -' chanlea aad artisans stay la their aew homes. ' Tha Aa4wa iwiataaa. "Tha stage detaatlva muat be deaMy clever." 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