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About The new age. (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1901)
THE NEW AGE, PORTLAND, OREGON. TOPICS OF THE TIMES. Everything comes to tlio man who wnlta, cspcclnlly rust nntl cobwebs. Tho wonmii wIioho husband claims to be henpecked Is generally deserving of pity. Turkey wnnts to borrow money, but Uncle Hutu prolmbly knows of n certain party that needn't be applied to. Hcggars are taxed In China, There, evidently, the tlnanelul possibilities of the profession arc frankly recognized. Nearly all nvallable Government land has been homesteaded and even the Hiipply of Indian brides with homestead attachments Is running short. That man who fancied taking Ills, wife's hat would keep her at homo must have failed to notice what little use a hat really Is to a womnu. Nobody knows who killed Cock Itoblu or who struck Hilly I'atteison, but Ken ntor Cnrter killed the river and harbor bill. He did It with his little tongue. Mrs. Nntlon's paper, the Smasher's Mall, hns been Issued at Topeka. It Is said that a great many railroad bag' gagemen have subscribed for It simply on Impulse. The girl who leaped for tho brldlo of a runaway horse and stopped him, when a lot of men were thinking only of wiving their own lives, deserves to get a gold medal from some society In addition to having her picture printed In the pnpers. In tho woods In the Pennsylvania mountains a bear tackled Jacob Until diiuv and would li'avo broken him In two had not Jacob expectorated about a gill of tobacco Julco Into bruin's eye. This attracted the bear's attention and Jacob got away. Moral In the electric enrs and railway wait-lug-rooms of many cities, thu boards of health have posted notices, forbid ding, under heavy penalties, tho un wholesome and iiatiNeotiH practice of t-pltting on the floors. Hut have tho authorities ever looked Into u smoking car? , Tho honor of being made an Karl cost Lord Iloberls, ns It costs every new-made peer of high degree, thou sands of dollars In fees. Nevertheless, hosts of KiiKllsIiinen, nnd probably not a few plain American citizens who es teem themselves while not under iciuptntlon-gowl Itepulillcaus, would gladly pay the price. "The Wild and Woolly West" can nf ford to smite at the phrase. In Califor nia there Is one college student for ev ery four hundred Inhabitants, a larger proportion than In any other State of tho Union. President Wheeler, of the Slnte University, attributes this to the fact that "no class lu California con eclously accepts the doom of medioc rity." In advertising a piece of land for sale, ThemlstocleH noted that "It lay by a good neighbor." California, In bidding for Immigration, gives scholas tic proof that her people are already good neighbors, Some of the most remai kabje or re cent helentltlc discoveries are the K-rays, tho discovery of the microbe of distemper in dogs, and tho discovery or krypton and xenon, rare gases of the atmosphere. The S-rays are so called from Professor Sagimc, of Paris, who lu experimenting with the X-rays found certain groups of rays of a total ly different series and with different manifestations, while to Professor Copclaud belongs (lie credit for the dis covery of tho microbe of distemper In dogs and to Professors Itamsay and Trsvors the discovery of krypton and xenon. Tint latter have now been care fully studied by their discoverers and assigned their proper place In tho table of the periodic law, i lu nil tho present agitation about pure food. It Is a comfort to the coffee drinker to be told that hu is getting a very hatlsfuctmy article. At tho De partment of Agriculture some thorough tests lime been recently made to deter mine the extent and nature of coffee adulterations. The results nro entirely reassuring to coffee-lovers. The expert llnds that while very little pure Juvii or Merlin berries tlnd their way Into tho American market, almost If not quite as good flavored beans are had from other tropical places, Porto Hleo and Hawaii being mentioned as furnishing good coffee. Tho adulterants, when used, nro for the most part harmless. The chemist who has been looking Into tho coffee question, Professor Wlle,i, gives some advice as to the use of this beverage. He says that tho lue of cor fro lu moderation should not do nuy injury to adults, ami then he mentions In detail what moderation means. This Is n cupful-only hnlf or It coffee, the rest hot milk nt breakfast, none at noon, and small cup of black coffee after dinner. On some systems, un doubtedly, coffee may act as n poison, nnd such porous, of coure, should not drink It. The nverago grown person lu normal health may use It moderately without harm. SomclKHly has been gathering college statistics, and It Is found that there i re In this couutry forty-four uulvrr titles or colleges which contain more than 1,000 students each. Fourteen of these Institutions have more thim 2,000 students each, and lu each of J six leading universities there are more than 3,000 students. These six arc: Harvard, 4,1288; University of Michi gan, .1,700; Minnesota, 11,410; Georgia, 8,lMri; Chicago, 3,183, and California, 3,025. Northwestern University has 2,071 students this year; Cornell, 2,770; rennsylvanla, 2,007; Yale, 2,512; Co lumbia, 2,521, and Princeton, 1,302. There probably nro over 100,000 stu dents in the various universities and colleges of America at present, and the whole number of persons who are be ing educated In tho schools nnd col leges combined is given ns 10,738303. Aside from all other considerations this general tendency toward education means one thing labor In this country must be dignified socially. It is going to be Impossible for all the boys and young men who are now in the schools and colleges to go Into professions. Many of them will have to work with their hands. Manual labor will still have to be done even after cvcrylody Is educated. Perhaps tho condition forecast by Hello my when those who work ns laborers shall receive Just as much consideration as men who get into the professions and shall be com pensated for the sacrifices they make In taking what we now consider Infe rior places In society Is not so far away. That landlordism and tenant farming are Increasing with surprising rapidity In tho United Stntes Is one of the most Important facts developed out of the census reiKirts Issuing from Washing ton. According to n statement of L. (J. Powers, chief statistician of tho agri cultural division of the census, it ap pears that for ut least twenty years tho percentage of farms op erated by tenants lias Increased heav ily lu all parts of the United States except the extreme West. For the whole couutry this percentage has in creased in tho last ten years nearly twice ns fast as the per edit of popu Ititlou of tho nation, four times that or tho purely agricultural population and twice that or the farms operated by their ownerM. .Mr. Powers sug gests that this unprecedented Increase does not show n degradation of the rural population, but mi uplifting, from the fact Unit It must be largely com posed of negroes lu tho Southern Slates ami of farm hands or farmers' sons who have become tenant fanners. It Is declared, however, by many who are watching tho tendency, that large numbers of those who have Indeed ris en out or these ranks to become tenants would have become rami ownurs In stead under other conditions, ns did the young men or a generation ago. To whatever extent this army or tenant runners hns been recruited from the ranks of those who hud been but wage earners, It Is n imtUer for satisfaction. To the extent that It Includes those who have slink from ownership or might have become owners It Is not good. It Is Impossible to r-cpnratc these classes until the full reports or the census are Issued. Out or the well known conditions In the middle 'West, however, with these preliminary tig nil's at hand, It is possible to discover some Interesting material for specula tion. Many fanners are moving Into the towns, selling their farms outright or renting to tenants. In the hitter In stances each farm Is forced to become the support of two families, which Is apt to prove n heavy burden on any property calculated for one family. Capitalists recognize that farms pur chased and rented to tenants are among the best Investments, principal and Income being peculiarly safe. Oth er capitalists who wish to Invest in farm loans are tludiug, In many lu stances, that their money Is a drug on the market, The farmers who own laud tire so prosperous that they do not need loans; those who are tenants have no security upon which to borrow. Mer chants In the smaller towns are now comphiltilug that their trade Is suffer ing by the Increase of tenant farmers. The latter are not as prompt In paying bills, they cannot afford to buy as- much, and they do not Improve their places with the same energy and mod ern agricultural methods and maehlii ery as do the ones who own their fiirius. Tenant farmers have not the Interest lu preserving the farm piop- erty that the owner has when he Is the resident. Nor, Indeed, Is the tenant so Interested to protect the- permanent fertility of tho froll by the most care ful farming methods. It Is recognized that either In city or country the best performance of tho duties of citizen ship comes from those who own their homes. With that fact lu inliul, no one can fall to regret the Immense growth of tenant farming Indicated by tho census. Foreign News. C5 "Hy crackey; another rich American lady was presented nt court over In I.uuuon. 1 wonder what she has done? Shopllftln', 1 guess." Willing to IMeitHO. Suitor Sir, 1 have conio to ask your daughter lu marriage. Father (renrrully) Would you tako my only child away from me? Suitor Oh, not nt all, not nt all, my dear sir. 1 can move right in. Detroit Free Press. A scientist has discovered that house clcaulng U caused by a microbe. Sif LEADING BUSINESS FIRMS OP EASTERN OREGON. R ALSTON & CO. Dealcu In Furniture, Carrels, Walt 1'oper and Bhadci. Uiideitaklng Uoods. LA OltANDE, OH. J. W. WISDOM & CU. Druggists and Apothecaries. Prescription! carefully compounded. Toilet Articles. Main Street, lUKKIt CITY, On. m C. TAYLOU THE ''HARDWAIIE MAN." Hardware. Stoves, Tin and Coppemare, Lime, Planter, Cement, Coal, Iron aud Mcel aud Hydraulic 1'lpe. '21 Main Street. PENDLETON, OH. s iTAK llltKWEHY CO.' llrcwcrs and Holders of tlio Famous HOI' COM) iir.Ell VAVCOUVEIt, WA8H. Ar H.1IOWMAN I'HOTOOUAI'HIC AND LANDSCAPE AHTIST Views of All Description Specialty, Kodak Developing and Finishing Main St., Near Bridge, PENDI.KTON, OIlKdON. KOEPPEN'S PHARMACY... Everything that Is kept in a modem and up-to-date drug store. Prescriptions and Family Recipes put up by competent men, from pure drucs.M. A, C, KOEPPEN & BR0 Manufacturing Chomists, 1 15 Court Street., Pendleton, Oregon. THE MINT SALOON O. L. MELLQUIST, Prop. REST I1RAVDS OF WISES AND 1.K1UORS IMI'ORTF.D AND DOMKXI'IO CIUARU...M Corner Dorol Blrcet and Jefferson Avenue, LA 0JMMOF, OR. The Leading: FURNITURE DEALER AND is OF EASTERN OREOON IS ..M. A. RADER.. Funeral Director and Euihalmcr Lady AtuhliUlt. 1'KMH.KTON OltKUON BAKER CITY .IRON WORKS. HIGGINS & HARDENBROOK, Props. Iron Founders and Machinists General Repair Work Our Specialty. Architectural Iron Work ...and Bridge Gistlogs WHITK fOII KSTIMATKS. Hotel Pendleton.. ENDLETON OR. HENRY RUST Pacific Brewery BAKER CITY, ORGEON. A. NEUBERGER DEALER IH Fine Whiskies and Cigars Headquarters for Mining and Commercial Men. BAKER CITY - OREGON II flHE CKLEI1KATED COLUMMA J1KEWERY AUGUST BUCHIiER, Prop. This well-known brewery Is now turning out (lie lieat llecr nnd Porter mm of tlio Cascades. The latest iinpllancca for tho manufacture nf good healthful Ilecr have breu,ltitriduccl, and only the flrst-clnss article will be placed on the market. East Second Street THE DALLEOR. MAYS & CROWE Wholesale A Retail Dealers In HARDWARE, STOYES AND TINWARE Farm Machinery, Implements, Wagons and Can lne.es. Iron, Steel, Coal and Blacksmiths' Supplies. Hardwood and Wagon Makers' Materials, Bicycles, Guns, Ammunition, and Sporting Goods, Etc, Z. F. MOODY THE DALLES, OR. General Forwarding AND Commission Merchant. Ofllres and Warehouses at RAILROAD AND STEAMER DEPOTS Wool hauillliiff our specialty, drain bou(ht and told. When in The Dalles CALL AT. the BANK CAFL Next Door to tho First National Hank, Tho Only Flrst-Clais I'laco In tho City. Choice Liquors, Wines and Cigars O. J. STUBUNO, Prop. The Regulator Line The Dalles, Portland S Astoria ... NAVIGATION COMPANY ... Through Freight mnti Passangor Ltna, Dally Line of SteAmtrs Between Portland, Vancouver, Cascade Locks, Hood River and All Points on the Washington Side. Tho fitrmncrs Dalles City and Itegiilntor leave Portland eery morning (except HiunUj) at 7 and 'I ho Dalles at H A. M.. arriving at destina tion lu ample time for outgoing trains, frmlBftt Rmtmm Greatly Rmducmd. W. C. AI.I.AWAY, Oen. Agent, Foot of Court Street, The Dalles, Or. Walla Walla, Wash., Advertising. McBride Bros. LIVERY STABLE. Rubber Tired Hacks a Specialty, Baggage Wagons, WALLA WALLA, WASH. Telephone 06. 124 E. Main Str HOTEL DACRES S. SIMON, Proprietor. Formerly SilllOn HoUSC Rateu $2.50 to $3.00. WALLA WALLA, WASH. GILBERT HUNT GO. Machine Shop and Foundry Willi Walla, WishiietM. Manufacturers of PRIDE OF WASHING TON Threshers, Self Feeders, Drap ers and Machine Extircs of Every Description. REPAIR WORK A SPECIALTY. Otalofu Frtt. nr 11 A II. AVIl WATER. OREGON Shot LINE and union Pacific DErAKT TIME SCHEDULES Portland. Or. Armtvit Chicago Portland Special Oiuon. m. via limit 1 1. K ton. Salt Lake, Denver, Ft. Wortn.Omalm, Kansas City, Ht. Lonls.Chlcagoniid East. -i:30 p. m. Atlantic Express 9 Oil p. rn. vln Hunt ington Halt Lake. Denver, Ft. Wortli.Onialm, Kaiuai City, fit. I.oul,Ciilcat;oaud East. 8:40n.tn. Pt. I'i.ul ran Mall C:uu ii. m. v'a Bpnkano II alia Walla lwls ton, Spokane, Mln licapolls.St. Paul, Dulutli, Mllwau kce,Chlcago.lKast 7.00 n. m. OCEAN AND RIVER SCHEDULE 1'ltOJI rOKTI.AND. Srjo p.m. All sailing dates Mibjccl to change Fur fan Francisco tall ci cry 6 days. 4:00 t. m. Dully Ex.Huinlay Mtm ii. in. taturday 1U:0U p. Ill, Columbia Rltsr ttaamtrs. 'lo Astoria nnd Way Landings. 4.00 p. in. Ex. Sunday CiOua.m hx.hutulay VYIIIimttt Itlttr. Orccoii City, Now uerir. Hiilcni, Inde pendence ,Vi Way I anilines. 4:30 p.m. Kx. Sunday 7:(0a.iii. 1ms., 'Ihur and Hat. AIIImHe and Yam hill hltirt. Oregon City, Day. lon,.ti May l.iiud lugs. 31.T0 p. in. Moil., licit. and Frl. 6:00 a. in. lues., Tliur and gat. Wlllamtlt River. 'orllaud lo Corral, lis ti May I.miil. Ings. 4:80 p.m. Mon., Wed. and Frl. I.r. Rlparta 8:.rn.m. Dally Snikt fllitr. l.v.I.mvliton Dally 0 a. in. Klparla to I-owlstnn A. L. CRAIG, General 1'assengcr Agent, l'ortlaud, Or. V. A. SCII1I.MNH. City Ticket Agent. :i-l Washington Street. ..T1IK... Pioneer Dining-Car Line ...tiik... Yellowstone National Park Route;' TI.MK Otl(l)-l'nitTT.ANI). Kor Taeoina, f-'eattle. OImpla,(!ra's lliulior aud i-i uth llciul polnis pokan, l.evls ihi.Moii. cow, l'nllnian, Orange villi', Mia oulu, lleieua, llutte, bt. Paul, Mliiiif. aKilli, Chieapn, Wash ington D. !., Philadel. pnla, New York, Hostnn and all points east and southeast. No. 12 Leaves lUJI'.M. No. 11 Arrhei 7:00 A. M. Vnr TftpnmM. PfAttle. No. 4 SiokA!ie. Untie, Ana- No. 3 11:30 P.M. L'.nta. fill Ot litlti t.tn II f (Denver aud all points south and southeast. Through service. Dining cars. Pullman flnt-rl iiks aud upholstered Tourist Sleepers. Unexcel ed accommodations, llagsage checked to destination of tickets. For full Information, tickets, maps ot routes and other Information, call on or write A. D. CHARLTON, Assistant General Passenger agent. iii MorrUou St., cor. Third. Portland, Or. PORTLAND RAILWAY CO, Car. leave Portland. Corner First and Wash, tugton streets, for Vancouver at follows: Vwncouver 40 Minutes, A. M.-6:18, T.oa, TAi.K-.xi, :i8, 10:03, io:, 11.41 ' P. M.-l-.'ilS. 1:03. IMS. 2:33,8:18. 4:03. Ma,S-33, 6:18, 110:43, il:-A (Iuve First nd Jjl fersou (tree'.s, 4 minutes earlUr.) Ferry leatea Ycncouier to couneit with fan as follows: i A.U,-.6:45, Vl, i:l :00, 9:43, 10'33, tlilS 12:00 M. I P. M.-is:45. 1 :ao, 2:15, 3:00, 3:45, -1:30, 4:55, 'j.oo, '6;4J, llltio. Cars leae corner First and Washington streets for Woodlann as follows: A.M. .:, :33.u: w.7 .-03,7:18. 7:33.7:43.8:ftl, fctlN 8:33, 8 MS. 9:03. 9:18. 9:33, ; 10;03 I u:i8, iu:xi. io: w. ii:oj. u:)8. 11:33, nns. I P. M.-V-'HU. li:18. li:33. 12 M8, 1:03, 1118,1:33.1 ii9,.;uj, ;io, i;.-M, ji.a, a.uu, a;is. a:xi. 3MS, 4:at, 4:18.4M3, 4M8.5:03, &:18,&;33. 5.48. 6:03. 6:18. :33, 6:48,7:03, 7:18, 7:sS 7:48,8:03.8:18,8:3:1.8:48, 9: 3. 9:23, 9:43. 10:03. 10:23. 10:13, 11:03, U:23$U:i3. AVaodlwwii SO Minutes. cars leave nccuawn tor nrst ana washing-' ton streets at follows: 1 A M-'5:45,'6:0), '6:15, 6:30. 6:45.7:00.7:15,7:45, ! 8:00, 8:15,8:50, :i 9:00, 9:15.9:30, 9MV ' 10:00, 10:15. ios, io:45, 11:00, 11:15, ii:ai i P.M.-ii:l.i;:3O.ii:4M:0O.l:l5,l:3ii:45,2:O3. 2:15, i:So,2:4 3:oo. 3:15, Simlsmx. 4:oo, 4M5, 4:30, 4 M 5:00, 5:15.530, amv' 6:! 6:15,6:30, 6:45, 7.SV, 7:15. 7.30. 7M5, 8:i! 815. a:30. 8:50. 9:10, 9:30, 9.50, 10:10. 10.30. 10.50, lll:lO, 11:30. Dally, except Rundavt. fDatly.exrept WfnctJartand Paturdsja. IMedursdays and Saturdays ouly. HY ItAII. AND WATEIt. A ww Two ill Passenger Ins Dolly WITH THROUGH PARLOR CARS Br.TWLEM Portland, Astoria Seaside Leaves 'For Maygcrs. Rain- Union Depot Iir .'i".M.ir. ....i..- Icr, OUts Wan le Westport, Clifton, Arrives Union Depot l'ortlaud roruanu Astoria, narrcn lon, 1'laTcl, Clear hart l'nrk and ben side. Astoria A Seashore Express Dully. Astoria ExproM Dally. 8:00 a.m. 7:00 p. m. 11:15 a. rn. 9:40 p. in. Ticket ofllce, 255 Morrison street, and Union depot, l'ortlaud, 1 J. C. MAYO, Gen. Tass. Agent, Astoria, Or. SHAVER TRANSPORTATION GO. STEAMER GEO. W. SHAVER, Will leave Portland, font ot Washington fit., Riiiulay, Tuesday and Ihursday evenlne nt A o'clock, lor i-auvlc Island, fit. Helens, Onplis, Deer Island, Martins, Kalama, Neer City, Itanlcr, Mt. Collin, Mayucr. Stella, Oak Point, Frecmaiis, Mauiaulllo,Clatskanie and nil way landing. . THE NORTHWESTERN LI lllght Trains Dailr between fit. Paul and Chlcapo, comprising Tim T.ntrat I'litlinnii Hlenpora, I'frrlrn IIIiiIiik Cnra, Idbrury nnd Obiervotlon Cars, Kreo Ititcllnlng Chulr Cars. THE TWKSTIETH CKN'TUKY TUAIN" "THE NORTHWESTERN LIMITED I Huns Kvoty Day ot tho Year. The Finest Train In the World Electric Lighted Steam Heated TO CHICAGO MY DAYLIGHT. Iho Jlailwr State Kxprcss, the finest Day Train ItuiinliiR Iletwecn St Paul and Clileino vln the Short l.lno. C'oinuciloiis fiom tho West mado v.'a. The Northern Pacific, Great Northern and Canadian Pacific Railways This Is alio tl e bct lino between Omaha, St Paul and Minneapolis. All Agents sell Tickets via "Tho Northwest ern Line." W. tl. MEAD, Oeneral Agent. A. L. SISLGR, T. A. 14H Aldnr Stniot, I'ortlimil, Or. ' BEST LrllNE TO Paul, Minneapolis, Dnlnth, Chicago, St. AND ALL POINTS EAST. . Through Palace and Tourist Pleepera, Dining Cars (meals a la carte), Huffet, Smoking, Library For tickets and full Information regarding; Eastern trip, call at city ticket office, las Third street. A. 11. (!. DKNNIsTON, City Pass, aud 'lickat Agent. WHITE COLLAR LINE COLUMBIA UIVEIl & PUQET SOUND NAVI GATION CO. rOHTLAND AND ASTORIA. t Steamer Hercules takes thn place of IUlley Gatxert. Leaves every morning Initio week at 7 o'clock, except Bunday, Iteturnlng, leaves Astoria every night In the week at 7 o'clock, except Sunday, Oftice, Alder street dock. Telephone Main 851. Columbia 'phone 331. K. W. CUICIITON. Agent. BARR HOTEL European and American Plan. Furnished in First-Class Style. , Nw house, nawly furnished, two blocks from Union depot .All th modern Improvements, nrr-proof, hot and cold vatr, centrally lo cated. ' Rates, $1 and $1.25 a Day. MMl4j6e, Baths 36. Cor. Sixth and Gllsan, Portlasd. STORM &C0LUI ij 1 1 iiiii fi xi . i .f'vy. amkwkmAwAmAwAlAwAAmAAwATA' r I ! i