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Fortune Telling Doe not tike into eoniideration the an' hppinct womenly neaun. The womn who neglect her heslth nc1eetin the very foundation of ell d fortune. For without health love loses it lustre end Hold is but dross. V. msnly health when lot or impaired may Jenenllr be regained hy the ue ol Ur. Pierce' Favorite rreicnptiou. Ti Prescription has, tor orer 0 yean, been carlni delicate, weak, pain-wracked women, by th hundred ot thoutanda mnd f Aa too In the privacy of their bomea without their harlnt to aobmlt to Indeli cate questioning and attentively repui nant examinations. K!-lt wnmtn are invitrd to consult Dr. Pierce by letter frtt. All correspondence held as aacredly confidential. Address World's Dispensary Medical Association, R. V. Pierce, M. U., President, Buffalo, N. Y. D. PiescVj. Cukat Family Docros. Boot, The People'i Common Seme Medical Adviser, newly revised up-to-date edition ltXH) pairs, answer i Flam hnfliih hosts of delicate questions which every woman, tingle or married, oufht to know about. Sent frrt, in plain wrapper to anv address on receipt ol 21 one-cent tarn pi to cover mailing only, or in cloth hmdinit for 31 sumps. Oregon City Enterprise Published Every Friday . E. BRODIE, Editor and PubHaher. Entered at Oregon City. Or., Post office as second-class matter. Subscription Rates: One Year ..$1.50 Six Months 75 Trial Subscription, Two Months .25 Subscribers will find the date of ex piration stamped on their papers fol lowing their name. If last payment Is not credited, kindly notify us, and the matter will receive our attention. Advertising Kates on application. EVEN SCHOOL MATTERS CHANGE. No one. can take up a modern j school reader such as are used In ' the public school nowadays, without regretting the absence of some mas - ter-pleces in prose and poetry that ie laminar io scnooi cnuuren ot fifty or sixty years ago. It is doubtful If the authors of school readers were as well read as were our fathers. It was common fifty or sixty years ago for school boys and girls to memorize passages from Shakespeare, like the speeches of Brutus and Anthony over the dead body of Caesar, Othello's defense. Miss Mitford's 'Rienzi." Byr on's "Waterloo," or his address to the ocean, beginning, "Roll on, thou dark and deep blue ocean, roll," Gray's Elegy. Hood's "Bridge of Sighs," Ma- cauley's "Horatius at the Bridge." These superb rhetorical models ap pear to have given way in the school readers of today to apparently ephem ral productions of latter-day poets. It is extremely doubtful If in any respect the school teacher of today is in any way superior to his anti type of the early nineteenth century..' In almost everything the world has made progress, but unfortunately, very little here and In some respects It is to be feared there Is actual retro gression. There is scarcely a town, however small, or a city but has its unsightly places which by the outlay of a little time, taste and money, might ha easily transformed into beamy spots adding to the attractiveness of the town and Increasing the pride and Interest which everyone should take ln the place la which his life Is spent Too frequently the thought of making such Improvements is delayed until the busy season, and when other things demand our attention. The best thing is to make all plans now and then the execution of them In the growing season Is an easy mat ter. The planting of a shrub or tree, the filling in of a little hollow, the making of a flower bed, keeping the grass mown any one or all of these things often work such wonders that we are surprised the Improvements were not made long before. Washington's birthday was cele brated in Portland by the planting of rose bushes in the parks and pub lic squares of the city with appro priate exercises. Thousands of bushes were set out throughout the city and the new plants will be blooming In time for the annual Rose Festival In June. City and state officials, together teen of whom come from the Molalla with representatives of foreign na-'road. If these were cut off, we would ., ... . ., . . ., . . , . still have over fifty, which is alto Hons that contributed the.r native hPr too m;inv for a one.rom roses for the affair, participated in the rose planting exercises. This has become an annual event in Portland and the custom is growing in favor each year. The planting of roses at a time when many other sections of the country are still wrapped in snow and Ice is also a splendid advertise ment of Oregon's climate. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., 6at tight at home when he was not going court ing and let his brother Kermit operate the gun and camera In Africa. Theo- A SHORT EXPLANATION OF THECHECK ACCOUNT You deposit whatever money you wish in the bank, and a specimen of your signature is taken and filed. The bank will furnish you with a Pass Book in which the amount of your deposit will be entered, you will also be furnished with a book of blank checks, no charge being made for these books. You are now prepared to issue a check at any time, or place, for the amount you wishto payHav ing the money in bank, and the signature to the check corresponding with that on file, the amount wMI bepaid to the person named therein, upon his signing his name on the back of the check. The amount of the check is then charged to your account, and the check is canceled and filed away to be returned to you when your Pass Book is written up. In this manner you have a complete record of the transaction and a receipt for the money paid. You will find tne Check Account simpleconvenient and a safe gTiarorforryour'payment8. TRY IT AND BE CONVINCED. THE BANK OF OREGON CITY ona essential to wom doro, Jr., was out for a different kind of game than giraffes and hippopota mi. What's a hippopotamus as com pared, with an American girl? The latter Is much the more duugvrou of the two animals, but paradoxical as It may seem, a much more deslr- I able possession. BILL SIMPLY NO GOOD. (Portland Labor Press.! All over the State of Oregon the press Is publishing the proposed bill of Senator Bourne regulating home steading of government lands, and providing that residence shall not be necessary to acquire title. AH that Is required Is cultivation and during the five years that crops to the value of $1300 have been produced. The j bill is simply no good. It will never be enacted while Bourne is senator. but If It was enacted It would simply T , ,he talorf t0 pbble up I wma,M ot tm pubc ,iiniU by dummy entrymen, the same as the timber lands have been sequestered by speculators. The sagebrush plains of Eastern Oregon have been over looked by the speculators, and new railroads Indicate that these lands will be valuable. There could easily be found thousands of men to file on homesteads they did not have to re side upon. They would sell their claims as they did their timber claims. It is a bill that is unworthy of the man who introduced it, and has no redeeming feature in it. I ..J. -H I Advertisements are being placed by the Portland Commercial Club in the leading Swedish and Norwegian-Danish papers of the country, calling at tention to opportunities here for in dustrious people who seek homes in the country districts. A large inquiry is comln? to the Portland office from Scandinavians all over the country and letters are answered by a special correspondent who understands the language. This is but one phase of the Commercial Club's work but It is bringing inquiries. The people are thrifty and industrious and settlers of this kind will help develop the vacant lands of the state. The President struck a stiff and sledge-hammer blow at the Wall Street gamblers last week, when he told them, "If the enforcement of the law is not consistent with the present methods of carrying on business, then it does not speak well for the present methods of conducting business." There are thousands and thousands of people in the United States who do not believe that any legitimate business Is conducted in Wall Street. More Pointers in Regard to District 27. Seeing an article In last week's paper which is misleading, as well as other stories which have been Inten tionally circulated alnt the District of late. I wish to give a few pointers. District 27 has one of the prettiest natural school sites in the county, and as near the center, with reference to the roads of the District, as It Is possilde to place it. It would hardly seem just, even If the Boundary' Board would allow it, to cut off those which are within less than a mile and on a good road of the present school house, especially if said ones did not desire it. At present there are over ixty-five pupils enrolled, less than tit- school, to get best results. It surelv does not seem fair that a few property holders on the Molalla road should try to prevent the district from obtaining a two-room, graded sc),ool which it Is so much in need of right now. At our last meeting, about forty legal voters, having children, or own ing property in the district, were only partially represented, but cast a vote of twenty-eight In favor of a new schoolhouse. I think there Is no one In the dis trict who wishes to build or hold a high school just at present. C. W. SWALLOW. nza Milwaukee ANNEXATION IS OPPOSED. Grange Members Believe In Staying With County Out of Debt, Mllwaukle Grange, Patrons of llu--h-indrv, Saturday discussed mnea- tion to Multnomah County during tho lecturer's hour. In charge of W. K. Thresher, lecturer. Due of the speakers declared that he could see nothing but advantage to the district north of Clackamas in annexation to Multnomah County. .,n, her friends lure were pleased, to T. It. A. Sellwood. a plomvr resident, - hear Ihelr children wore rapidly re made an extended talk lualnst an- j covering from theli recent Illness, nexatloti. and among other things he Mr. and Mrs Westerllelil are n said that annexation would cost the joying a visit from the hitter's pa.vnts people north of the Clackamas Kiver , ,uu Mrs. Hammond, of Taeoma, to transfer that district to Multnomah , Wash. Coenty not less than $'.'00,000. The Misses Mildred and Kl'.en Hart ; "Now, If we could take that n-j were Oregon City visitors doting the . mount of money," he said, "and nse,vk. ' It in Improving the iads In the nor-j Lloyd and l.mgdon Spooner. of ; thorn part of the county It would be , irtlaiid, spent Sunday at the home much better than anneaxtion to Mult-i0f im.r parents at this place. nouiah County. If we should go Into) r nn, Mrs. W.irdnor and babies, Multnomah County what assurance (lf ,irtlnml. sped Sunday nt their; have we that we would get any more ,,.,,. ,K0 t this place. j or better roads than we now have?j r. h o. Palnton purchased a span j Clackamas County Is now making a ( 0f ponies during the week and on practice of turning back into the road Saturday, ilcconiiiulod by Mrs. Pain- districts the money collected, to be ; , nndllttle ilnuuhters, drove to Ore- used in the localities in which the ; K,m ,-pjy mnl visited nt the home of, money was collected. Now. we arojyrnmj Mrs. Scilp'nre on 11th nud told that Clackamas County Is out of ho.a,ison street. debt and that we can now go forward In road construction. We have an able County Judge. I am satisfied with his administration I was sat- Isfled w ith the former judge If we are annexed to Multnomah County we must build our own roads anyway. Owing to the Importance of the sub-1 ject the lecturer announced that the i subject would be discussed at the , next meeting and aslgned parts of the ; question to different members. Mrs. I Mary S. Howard, state secretary, was present and spoke on the coming ses- sion of the State d range at Oregon i City and the progress the order Is making throughout the state, she urged that as Clackamas County will entertain the State Cirange In May every effort should be put forth to see that the entertainment Is credit able to the county. The debate held last Friday In the High School, was on the question: "Resolved, That Lincoln was a greater mnn fh;in lporire Washington " lies- !. tl.Ot iio l.,n,tar n lh. nfWrmnflve I on. I Vuno Al;l..n f h I, 1 1 v., sl,l, I .Mrs. tuicK s room, uu- risinu ki.ho-.' .i. . w. i.. was invited and Elsie Mclntyre. Al- ' " '". " ' " , " mn - ' J- fred Gettman and Harnett Howard of ! Bn City on Tuesda s en ng of l.t , r Urother fro,,, aueouver. Wash., that grade, acted a, judges. Rachel I w-ek and reports an oxi optionally vls her last week. Bergemeir acted as chairman. The j splendid programme. I w .,w have a few goo.1 sidewalks debate ended in a decision In favor J. 8- ' ' "" P-r.-" '' ''r of the affirmative side. I out from Portland d . I the k h,n , have them a 1 over our It le After the debate a spelling match and are now nice r located In their C y The school sidewalk Is nil (In was hem. Corwin Harvey, "spelled 1 Utile lU ' ,,., ' ret i-omfort to the ,wn- nit the nimlls ln ihe room. i Mr. and Mrs. Emmons will give up pup,.. The subject for debate next Friday, between the pupils of the eighth grade j and the high school. "Resolved. That Education is of More Benefit to the , Individual Than Money." Ml?s Ada I-akln was a visitor In Mrs. Shaw's room Friday Emma Harper of Miss Hatz's room has returned to school after a long illness. The sixth grade is quite Interested at present In a prose composition on Young Tuesday was a legal holiday and a number of pupils as well as teachers attended exercises and entertainments in Portland In commemoration of George Washington's birthday. j .xuss Moimie, surprise last Saturday jvenlng by calling upon her and bringing ; with them a delicious lunch A pleasant eV?-.d"a "rLrr I IV ' rtnTed to ' ada ""Stow nas r. turned io school after having been absent for , one weeg. ; nn We.lnes.lnv state Flank Exam- . . '. -j . n. iner. jameg sioi uuu ly surprised Cashier Bolstad and ex- amlned the bank. hen the examtna- tion was completed they rotigratula- ted the cashier for the completeness both as to accounts and minutes, also for the growth of the business. The bank Is a credit to Mllwaukle as well as to business, building ami equip, ment. It Is entitled to the support of everybody in the community. It is open 'from 9 to ?, and on Siturdavs - ... - T, ,f .,. !.,t II... irom it iu - ' '' " parties who have their luisine-s ln Portland who work there. i The suit of Miss Vonnle v. Str.-lh versus Philip Streih resulted in a ver- dirt of $uo0 for the plaintiff to the great surprise of the people of Mil- wankle. 11. F. Loe'Mng has been elected sec- rotary and treasurer of the Farmer's Mutual Fire Relief Association, of Portland. The erm.litlon of the weather tire- vented many of the people of Milwau- kie from attending the rose planting in Tort land on Tuesuay. , C. T. Panwal anil W. .1. Cayle were In Milwaukie In the interest of th'-; New West Magazine last Tuesday. They secured some subscriptions and finally turned the field over to K. M. : Kelloirg. Philip Streih went, to Portland on , business Wednesday. j The Oregon weather is certainly1 going to be something fierce at the1 rate It Is going now. I Let Dowilng sell your property. JENNINGS LODGE. Will S. Millar, who formerly clerked In the H. .1. Price store at j the Lodge was married on February 8 to Miss Ethel Densdale. of Los Angeles, California. At present Mr. Millar and bride are In Ior Ancles but contemplating residing In Van couver, Wash. Mr. Deverelle, of Portland, bur a former resident of Elk City, Id-iho. ; vi-nn a dinner unest at the home of I Mr. and Mrs. Walter Reckner on Sun-1 day. I slons of the year was new' nr. tnei Grace Chapel on Sunday, February 20th, under the direction of A F Rus- sell. The school Is Increasing in at-1 tendance and a number of Hiig'j.'Stlons for further increasing the attendance were given. Through the kindness of a lady wJio has recently come in our midst, a beautiful card will be given to all who are present every Sunday. THE JOHNSON REALTY CO. City Lots, Acreage and Farms a Specialty. P. 0. Box 213 Milwaukee, Ore. W. E. THRESHER LAWYER niLWAUKIE, OREGON ' and Northwestern Clackamas It was voted to have n bliilulav box l be money to be used for the good of the chapel. The choir responded wllh some choice selections. The church service on next Sunday will bo sup plied as Uev. shupp of Mllwaukle la to assist with Hie dedicatory sorvle s ; in INirtlatid. The Sunday school v. Ill ! ho held Immediately following, to which all are Invlloil lo these ser - i vices. Mrs. Prank Iran, of Own City. nil.s B caller at the Ira Hart home, I xirs. Koss and Miss Agnes, of an-, . lHmvir, Wash., made a business trip , ,0 ,m, lnlge and spent several days ul their cottage hero. I Mr ii,HMi nf (Gladstone, w as a bnsl-, WM vStor at this place on Saturday. Jom mtckbee has accepted a post- tion in ft mill near St. Johns. hllo t ,b(. Uulgo he made many friends wm,se best wishes go with him to his niv home. ' tillhort Smith, of Canby. deliverer Sl,mt, ,.,.,r posts to Mr. Palnton dur- ,, w(.tk and reports the roads ln Very bad condition. A number 0f heavy loads of lumber were ilellv- . , tt,8 .place during the week, : which did not Improve the roads at the IjOdge. Clyde Newell scent the weeK emi with his brother lo Portland. Mr. CaliMWb, of tli" Portland Seed Company and Ht'le daughter wer Sunday callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. (leorge Morse. Messrs Kell.tr an.' ' .ocke. of Lents, were lathing In tMs vicinity dio'lng tile week. , the MiSS MatllO Morse attended ' .. . .... i. ii... x a eiuine cim-nanmo-i" "j . i (1rl- their apartments V or .i d .1 ur g this week and M r- t, h.l pretty home m the Willamette at the Lodge .xir. ano .xirs. i",'i'n -- - two acres on the east side of the car track to Mr and Mrs. Umbert. of Portland Mr. Roetho Is doing the excavating for Mr. Hart's new home on the conn- tv road. David Clark win assm .xir. Hart with the carpenter work. Among the familiar faces we no- lod on our VVV": x,7 n,',i Mr. ami .xirs. jura. " '"" ' ' Mr. MeC lure and mother C P. M se A. P. Ml er A I Uarke ij I or ." "-. " m Omm -M,8S Annk, Rmw..u 1 unable to at- $:, of the church d.d.t and Is raising .,s,SrlA,, ,,rlllK wlth nn attack money to pay it Iff The Ladle, will t. n 1 sc h 1. g J of lo ' t Salllrl,,y wl.h'..nabl rates. Call on Mrs i. II Mc Otfs Scr,,!t,,re It, drogon Cv . Arthur, pres, ,. or Miss ,ls Ken cun(;lv ivbruary 20th. w.n sev-, ,.dv. secretary. Any one interested On SunU. IJ f Mr , m nr) (nvli,(, ( l(, ,,. , , i,,,,,.,- ,,f fhn i.,,. ana .Mrs. ii.-ines -- occasion Uiev entertnlti'.il , , " . ..ii, ,li,,..r nt their ft en-U, clck dUm a th. Ir .... h.,r nfo.r which a pre ., " ; " ... wpr soii.u uno . , laid for nv e nrronlI)an(., his l'"''1 ' .V,. " , ,,' ,.. Vl on father. H. C To .Inr. t J .n Mi n u n it g' . S- ndar school. ' Mr and Mm J II Kvans will re- , t. n,w:mvi.,liir. lng the week and Mrs. T. C. Hire 'M take possession of the Douse nwrni. ,' , ....... ... .i xtr. L-vnns. purcnaseo 1 .u.. On Monday evening tbo home of Mr. and Mrs John Jennings was the Br,.n(. f a pn"'y gathering when they entertained In honor of Mr. and Mrs. joe Evans, pr.-vlous to their depar- tare from this place, to taking up their new residence at. Oak Grove, Miss Wester), !,! furnished n number of piano solos and a social time fol- lowed and d duty refreshments were a,.rveil The cnests departed wls.ilng that success and the best of wishes niay go with Mr. and Mrs r.v.ins in their new home. .. t...,. ... .urA.a r f'lneUamns on Mondav, ,.d took contracts 'o Irtll a number o wells In that viCn- trill a rmiin, r oi . ,, ,Ir n,,,i,Alnia Lewis, Mary Stein, Ka! Stein, lovely new home of Mr. a Spldell. Ella lllgham. Florence r. B. Se. ey has been Co nplete.l MpM Jn I(it.fl.r. he family Is nicely settled. , (jUjvp Ks(,y Sail(i, f .,, ,,,,,,, Th Mrs. .1 aim in i.uii.,) j i u Miss Inez ('ravatto and ner brother i Wnrthlnglon. Ruth Worthlngt'oi J.-n-have taken up rooms In Portland , n(, j(1I(.Hi .;i skelly, Isnbel McAr where Mr. Cravatte has accepted a thiir. llulda Hboiner, l.lxle Graham, position as a marine on'slt.-er and )r(),hy Hansen, Iielbert Miller, Role later in the ason win remove io their ranch a' Orchards, Wash. H. C To!t was a Portland and Woodstock caller on Tuesday. A number of our people went up to the Baptist church on Monday even- anl, t,,,,,.,,,,,,. enjoyed the talk ion "Kisses in 'he Dark.and tne sing i Ing of Prof. Stout. Jennings Iilge was well represen- led at the Colonial banrpiel at tneyllf) Organizer of the Royal Neigh Christian church on the evening of j M)rH lmi, a f,.w remarks on tho February 'i . The tiiansione peopm ai ays , ..D . -h ; K'sid talent; the programme was wi.ll i . r in ur.siit n riff u rn renuereu turn was 03WEGO. The Ladies Aid of the M. R- church met at. Mrs. II nlnger's last Friday, Key. ,J. . Exon preached both morning and evening last bunuay. There were t'-n persons united with the church. Mr. II. A. F.spy and daughter, from North IP-iich. also Mr. C. J- Kspy. from Kugene were visiting relatives here last, week. The H. P. Is building new waiting stations at different points between Oswego and Portland. The frosty weather Is Impeding the progress of tie: work on the electric plant. The livery stable has closed, and Mr. Stafford sold all the horses. The 8. P- camp of surveyors and engineers who have been here over a year left., some going to The Dalles and the others to Mllwaukle. O. W. Prosser, the postmaster, has been sick for the past two weeks. OAK GROVE. Mr. nntl Mis, Kvans of .IoiiiiIiikh bulge have purchased the lllackohy property and will uiako tlieir home ! In Onk Grove. The M. W. A. will give an miniver- ' sary latJI on March Mil In Green's j hull. Kveryono Invlled. Good music 1 and a tine I lino expected. I Wo regret to lose our neighbor, I Hugh Cameron, nntl family.' They : leave today for Vancouver Wash., where Mr. Cameron expects to work for tieo. sheik In his lumber mill. Mrs. Oscar Skiing has returned Ipuno from the hospital much Im proved In health. Mrs. I mlerale Is Improving slowly. Several of our good people have had lagrlppe lately but are nil on the run, to recovery now. 10. C. Warren has been sick with a lienvy cold for two weeks. Jack neer gives up. 1 lo Is always ready to listen to a goo, story or toll one m the boys. Mrs, Ada Cosgrlff has accepted a position as clerk with lirahutii Son. Win. Halt has a line Hue of new candles, like blui a call mid make your wives and sweethearts happy, Mrs. I K. Armstrong was a city visitor this week, Mrs. U K. Dent ly Is Improving slow, ly. Hi-. McArthur's father Is hero vis Plug from Canada. Frank Vanorilstrand Is suffering with lagrlppe. urn iileased lo have Prof. Hint ,.r with ns again after an absence of two months on account of sickness The school children all welcomed him. e h a givat favorlto with his pupils Miss lirltn. who tilled Prof. Iliitller's position during his absi'tu-e has re- turned to her Iioiiih In Portland. xtr Mouigoinery has moved his fain lly to Albany, Oregon, where he Is employe,! mid where they will make their home, , family soclul will be given bv Miss Hose Pflnlger's Sunday school 'class of boys In the basement of the u,.w ,-hurch. Tuesday evening, March 1, nt si. '. M. Kveryono cordially Invited. The Uvdles' Aid meets nt Mrs. Win. Millers. Thursday of this week. Kv- iryoiie Interested In this work Is In- vlteil to attend, Mrs, Spauldlng's sister and husband Mr. and Mrs. tiauss are visiting here i,.l tivn.-t.i to locate 111 Diiic llrtlvi. .Mrs. J. S Smith, who has been III , . , , , , , ... Born. Horn. February 1.1th. to the lle of tlwo. lllgham, a daughter. M .tlier an, I child are doing well. Services at Church. Services will lie held In the church next Sunday morning, James T M(M)rii lmU)r Sunday school at 10 n e;. ck. All are coruiany invueu io the meetings. Ladies' Aid Meets. The Ijolles' Aid met at the homo of Mrs. Geo. Slu-rk's last Thursday. There were eighteen member and visitors present. A comfort was tied, lefreshtnents served, and $5 added to Ihe treasury. The society assumed ........ valentine rany. The girls of the Oak Grove and cn,.,,rd schools, assisted by Mrs II ui Vhi1,k KilV(1 (l Vaentli arty at the hitter's home February llth. to raise money for the cliureh Musi,-, , ,,,.,, w,.r , f"r.' "f -"' 'V"lnK. Thj. nn nt r-alled was over $i;.. The young girls furnlslie,! the basement of the -iur-l.. and much credit Is due then, for this work. Thieves Steal Clothes From Line. Some low, sneak thief Is working In i ur community again, stealing wood, mnl clothing off of clothes lines Last Tuesday evening Minn-hie stole the clothes off the Hue at Win. Farley's residence at line Station. No' long ago two chairs were taken from the waiting room at Oak Grove. This may be the work of mlschevlona Isiys hut we think not. Whoever It Is will get caught sooner or later, hi look ()U( Girls Contribute Toward Good C.iuie. The following girls earned one did- lr apiece and contributed It to the luud for the basement of ..- chnrdi: Florence llently, Hester Aniis.rong, ..I Ivo II s ev ert I--e Wetzler. Woodmen Give Entertainment. The Modern Woodmen gave an en tertainment and social dance to the members anil friends Tuesday, 15th IiihI. Tho Oregon Fir Camp of Port land was preHont. Two of tho mem bers gave a silent drill. Remarks on the order were niude by Counsel Fos ter, Mr. McOrath and Mrs. McOralh, ()r,,.r Musical selections were giv en by Mrs. Margaret Worthlngion, fnee Warren) and a recital Ion by Hester Armstrong. After the pro gramme refreshments were served, and dancing Indulged In till a hour. late For OIICIIAHD SPHAY see Oregon City Commission Company. RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS WANTED The Government Pays Railway Mall Clerks $800 to $1,200, and Other Employe! up to $2,500 Annually. Uncle Sam will hold spring' examin ations throughout the country for Hallway Mall Clerks, Custom House Clerks, Stenographers, Hook-keepers, Departmental Clerks and other Gov ernment positions. Thousands of ap pointments will bo made. Any man or woman over 18, In City or Country can get Instruction and free Informa tion by writing at once to the Bu reau of Instruction, 1508, Hamlin Building, PvOcheHter, N. Y. fir 14 making line, rich, or plain loot! f fccqually valuable m -. and saving Indispensable For Home Baiting MRS. STREIB GETS 4,0001; (Continued from page I) j " basis for reipientiiig n new trial, as j follows: " Insitlllcleney of the evidence to Jus- tlfv the verdict and that It Is against ,llt, jlw , , new nil in law win oe mini" j rn'i- Krrots of law occiirrhig nt the trial mid excepted to hy the defendants at; Whether lh Hawaiian Inland shall the time. j be "dry'' will ! left to Mm Hawaiian Newly ilixoovercd evidence material ' peopln tbeiiiBi'lveii and will not be dit to the defendants, which they could , terinliied by Congrens. Hot with reasonable diligence have' The case of the late Lleiiletiiint discovered and produced nt the tiinl. ' ,u. H Huttoti, of Ihe Marine Corp, which evidence it ltd the materiality of ihe Portland boy who met denth nt It will be made n part of the motion. (he Naval Academy In I'.niT, will not Irregularity and errors of the court . he reopened In overruling defendants motion for a linn suit mnl for failure to direct n verdict for the defendants which said rulings were duly excepted to nt the time. . . Fxresslve damage, anivenrliig to have hen given under the lixjlueiu-e of passion mid prejudice THE MAN WHO WINS. I lly Kmory J. Ilayn.-n ) t t , f . . .t'. i -e . 4 . . t (Copyright IIIHI. Press PubllMhlng Co ) Keep your temper It Is about I ho most ruinous tiling a young mnn can do tn gel mad. If yoil feel like writ ing a very angry letter, why do so and lay II Hi.t till the next day for your own gratification In rending It over Then keep It the next day nfler, keep It ns long as you please mnl gel nil the KalUfaclton out of It that you can Ii will rapidly grow- stale, uven to your own laole. mi anything you plciiso willi a getting mud letter ex cept to mull it. io talk savagely never pays If a milnirdlnate nc- l-oHted he date not answer, and there- fine II Is a cowards asnaiill. If nil .UU a I I 'he object be gives you what you send, and action and reaction are pial mid In opposite directions, and no progress Is made. If you Indulge yourself with your superior you get n moment of untls- tai-Uon. and pay for It with weeks of regret wlllle looking fur another Job. There are so few places w here get ting mad Is of any service III civil life thai I ho wonder Is why Ihe pow er Is left In ua by nature, iiiu bent soldiers. In fact, light us they would s.'ll goods, cool, collected, calculating and ttiey are without iiiallcu toward the wounded. Therefore, war Is nol murder be tween rlvlll.ed peoples. title will have to think a long while to ! 1 nil cir cumstances wh.-re It really belp u man to give way to excessive auger, I lo ie are no many obstacles III life ut bent that artificial barriers III tint nhape of feudx ure so very foolish that wise in. ii never erect them. When temper rules logic skips out of Uiu window. There never was a until whoso Judg ment worked belter when he was mad i here are mi lucts I hut anger taken in, lice of, but rather the caricatures of facts Facts are of small account , to fools and Insane people, I The angry man Is part fool and 1 pari Insane for the tlmo being. One has only lo notice with what dinicillty be afterward tries to remember ac curately what loo place during his lit of uiilrolled anger tn confess the Iruth of the above statement. There Is M.ich a rapid fall In other I men's estlniailou, especially disinter ested spectators, that no man who de sires success will risk mailing a scene of anger. It will hurt lilm as much as It would lo be seen drunk In business hours. Very few hard lighters nowadays ever lose self control. An unscrupulous hard lighter probably often tries lo provoke his competitor to anger for Ihe uiuUCHtloiicd advantage that en sues. Ileyoml dlHpule an outbreak of had temper Is iingeiillemnnly In the ex treme and drives down one's personal standing among gentlemen alarming ly. What distress It must Inlllct with in a home circle only they who suffer It know. It Is Iho tragedy of private life. It Is the riirso of all nurses and the black soil from whence about, all other domoHlIn miseries grow. To muster one's temper Is, perhaps, thn earliest, Iho chief lesson to bo taught a child. D. C. LATOURKTTB President, THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK of OREGON CITY , OREGON CAPITAL, $50,000.00. Transacts 0nral Banking Business. Office Both Phones 22 Residence Phono Main 2C24 Pioneer Transfer Co. Established 1805 Sucesaor to C. N. Oreonman FURNITURE, SAFES AND PIANOS MOVED BY EXPERIENCED HELP. PROMPT AND RELIABLE SERVICE. SAND, GRAVEL AND BRICK Rates Reasonable, Baggage Storod 3 Day Free of Chars Agency for the celebrated MT. HOOD BEER 11M y i t ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR DUSY nEAOERS. f r 4- t. ! p .In pa II bn A reeolliaieudlll Ion that tnli""''"" rate under tli" Partial nrraligetueiils have been made by Senator llourne to hnvn n geologlil from the geological survey exmulue the oil deposits of Oregon next year W. J llrvnii has come out flal foote.l lor county option, nnd diiiaron lie. mocrncy must divorce llnelf from the Ibiuor Interentn, ln'caime nu alliance with the saloon can generally be re garded as nu allium e Willi vice. The Pacific Navigation Company's sleiuiier Ulna la ashore on one of the Inlands In the lliimiibllll pnssngn, of ihe mralt of Magellan, nnd prole ably will he n total Ions The chief pilot and 6ii passenger were drown, ed. Impairment nf the cftliienoy of the org. inn. , I inlllt In by the use of nr. moi lea In certain mutes for no mil Italy purpimea la charged In ndvlcea on Ihe subject received iy th War Ih'pnrtuifiil. The Vreiich Antarctic expedition under lr Jean M Charcot, tins reach. e. latitude 70 degreca aoillh, lohgl Itldo lJii degrees weal nud discovered l.'D miles of new land to the wm and south of Alexander Island. (iliirgen that certain of Ihe "lixild. era'' III the Well Fargo Kxpreaa Company, knowing In advance (hat the .'Mo per rent "melon" would be cut. bad tricked stockholder out of their holding, will be laid before the Interstate Commerce commission The director of the Pullman Com pany derided nl n apeelnl meeting to give the tiM-kho.ler n stock divi dend of 20 per rem on thn roiora- tion lioii.iiiio, Dim of cnpltnl. Thl will call for Ihe lavinnre of $:'n.il,U).. (ion of new rupllal. worth nenrly $PI. ooo, iiuO u thn open market. II. II. -Mug I lint certain ray of the X ray machine may cure leprosy, Dr George . stover, n Itoiiver physician bus Ntarled for Hawaii with the In tention of making experiment nl tli" leper colony nl Mnloknl. The Joint plan formulate, by S retard- llalllnger nud Wilson ntul now approved by the president, will restore I. oini. inn acre, now In re serves, lo public entry, nnd will elim inate from Ihe reserve 470.0110 acre In Idaho mid about aim.nni) a.-r.-M In ( Iregoll Driven from her course the French Trans llaiillc Steamship Company' steamer General Chanry crashed at full pee,, tu (he ,,-a dof night, on Ihe treacherous reef near Ihe Islmnl of Minorca, In Ihe Mediterranean Hen, , nil. I nit etl-etif line (if fho 1..? .tertfoKu )nr,, .,rMhl,,, Cotillilently ii.'iMortltig thai, after 1.1 years' experiment Ing, he baa discov ered a process whereby black roses may be grow n, I lentil Tapley. a home, less cripple from Savannah, Ga , Is III Washington lo obtain. If ooHilhle ji pntnt iihii hi discovery. I 'pou n charge of having used an explosive with Intent to do Injury to a human being, Dr. Wlllard P. Ilurke, owner of Ilurke Sanitarium, one of the lurgcHt health Institutions In Call, fornla, was arrested nt Santa Itosa, Sunday. Genuine lire opals similar to those of Mexico have been discovered III the bed and hunk of Deilinan's Creek, within a few miles of the City of Kamloops, It. ('., ami a company will bo formed lo mine and market ihls new ami unlooked-for wealth promis ing resource. The discoverers of thn acml-prccloiiH slopes sent many sam ple in the Department of Mines at Ottawa, which rlassllled the opal an thoralltatlvely. Judging from Ihe reports that come the past few months, has been III ev from all quarters Dr. Cook, during ery part of Iho globe but the north pole. T. J. MEYEIt, Cashier Open from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M