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About The new age. (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1901)
', THE NEW AGE. PORTLAND. OREGON. M V The New Age A. D. GRIFFIN, Manager. OKKIOK 204 MOUItlHON HTltKKT. Oregon Tleplioua Norlli 1.170. Entered nt tlio pnstolllco At Portland, Oregon, aa iccotid elms mAttcr. RWHSCItll'TION. Onn Yclir, I'nyitbltt In Ailvimco 92.00 Eitsblltlicd 189S. Pntllhel nt 2lf,Ji Stark Bt. Tlilrd Floor. NEC! KOKS IX HUS1XK3S. That tho Negro Ih a biicccs In busi ness Is a fact that needed no particu lar demonstration nt tho hands of tho National Negro UubIiicbb Lcnguo, hut tho ImproBslvo exhibit made at tho recent convention of that notable body served to emphasize' that fact. EvIi deuces of his success In Industrial and commercial fields nro visible on every hand, In tho North as well as In the South. In tho North, where tho mcasuro of opportunity has been lnrgor and where tho "raco problom" docs not Invite popular solicitude or controver sy, the Negro has successfully Invaded ultnost every department of business endeavor. Every community has Its shnro of prosperous, intelligent and thrifty Negro business men. In ngrl ctilturo ho has achlovcd notable suc cess. In somo of the farming districts of tho North It Is not uncommon to sco him driving tho finest teams and oqulppagCB to tho nearby towns and where his Individual holdings amount la many Instances to sovcrnl hundred acres of rich farm lands. Whllo tho ability of tho Negro to conduct successfully a business enter prise of nny character has boon de monstrated In numberless Instances since tho days of slavery there Is real need of such an organization as tho National Negro HubIiichs League, to In spire men of our raco with courago nud ambition and to disBcmlnntc widely "tho gospol of usefulness." This Ib tho gospol that Booker T. Washington has been preaching for yonrs, and which he has practically exemplified In tho founding of tho Tuskogco Institute In Alabama, a most romnrlmblo monu ment to tho genius, pluck and admin istrative ability of a progrosslvo mem ber of tho Negro raco. This doctrlno of usefulness was tho koynoto utter ance of his address in opening the second annual convention of the Leaguo in Chicago recently. IIo said: The object lesson of one honest Negro Bitcccodlng magnificently In each community In soma business or Industry Is worth n hundred abstract speeches In securing opportunities for tho raco. All tho flapdoodle of tho politicians and tho studied homlletlcs of tho scholars and sociologists will not pro Bent so good a solution of tho "raco problem" ns this. Americans with horses and mules to , At least $50,000 aro thus earned by sell have done a profitable business families of Portland each year. Out during tho year, and tho government of that amount many school children has not Interfered; neither is It likely 'are outfitted for their winters' tuition, to be called upon at a later date to , many a larder is replenished' and settle; but it is a question of rather mora than academic Importance as to what would happen if tho same sort of traffic should bo attempted when Orcat Britain is nt war with such a nation as Germany, forexamplo. Selling for use agalnBt tho Boers Is fIalnly different. That is, there Is a great difference In tho llkllhood of tho United StntcB being brought up'wlth n round turn. And yet It Is hard to soo how It Is exactly right. Perhaps tho doubt accounts for tho wlde-spreao interest In tho five million dollar mulo Item In tho Secretary of tho Treas ury's report. many a household receives substanco of added comfort. Hop-picking season Is Indeed a source of much economy nnd recrea tion, much pleasure and much profit. LONDON'S ROMAN BATH. CONSUMERS PAY THE TAX. DOUnTFUL XEUTRAUTV. Ouo Item in tho recently published statistics of tho commorco of tho year, ns compiled by tho Treasury Popart ment.has boon deemed of such Interest that It has boon reponted again and ngaln by tho press, tho country ovor. Tilts item shows that Amorlcau citi zens have sold to Groat Britain over $5,000,000 worth of horses and mules for Its uso In "pacifying" and "civiliz ing" and "Chrlstalntzlug" tho South African Republics, Of course this Is n republic Itself and Its people quite culturally ayinpatlzo with tho Boers; but British gnvurnmout Is nblo to pay handsomely for tho horses and mules and buslnoBS Is business. Moreover, tho animals would hnvo boon bought somewhere else If not In Ainorlcn. But thu Incldont suggosts sovora things besides tho profossod sympathy of Anterlcnns and tho profit on their mules. It's romarknble with whnt unconcern an argument, forced to sustain certain conditions, can bo abandoned and the truth bo admitted when thero Is simp ly a change In tho location of condi tions. It Is not very long ago when tho political campnlgnB were fought in this country with tho tariff as the prin cipal Issue. Tho advocates of tho high 'jrotectlvo policy, exemplified In thi McKlnlcy bill and tho still moro ox tremo Dlngloy bill insisted that "tho forolgnor pays tho tax." Although fact and logic Bhowed It to bo other wise, they Ignored both nnd continued to Bhout that bold assertion moro boldly than ovor. Sinco those daya a monetary ques tion lias commanded tho attention of tho nubile ns a chlof political Issuo during tho heat of campaigns, and un usual Industrial conditions hnvo given tho tariff problom a rcsplto from agita tion, although tho customs duties have boon ns Indofenslblo ns ovor. No agoncy was moro prominent In tho re pented declaration thnt "tho forolgnor pays tlio tax,, during tho dnys of tar iff agitation titan tho Boston Journal. But now that Gormnny 1b reported nB seriously considering tlio adoption of n protcctlvo tariff that contemplates a prohibition of certain American ex ports, tlio Journal argues thus Incon sistently: " As wo romnrked tho other day, tho proposed now aorman tnrlff will hurt Gormnny moro than It will hurt us. The things on which tho German gov ernment proposes to put high duties nro things which' tho Gorman pottla- tlon lias got to have and cannot pro duce for Itself. It follows that, while agricultural Imports from tho United States may suffer somo shrinkage bo cntiso of tho incronsed rates, tho worst loss will fall upon tho Gorman people, who will havo to pny hlghor prices for food." Of courso, this Is in nccordanco with fact, nnd It Is no less n fact that tho Amorlcau consumers nro paying a hlghor prlco for tariff-protected pro ducts becauso of tho Dlngloy law. If these products are such as aro not pro duced here, but nevertheless benr n custom's duty, tho consumer pays a higher prlco than ho othorwlso witold, simply because that tax Is Imposed. If Germany wishes to place such an imposition upon her people, it can bo learned from tho cxporlonco had hero that high tariff will do It. MONEY IN ALFALFA OR OPS. Nrlirnnkn Farmer GroirlriK It with Biiccckh nn I.iikIh Once Abandoned. Nebraska Ih likely to be known licto ufter ns the laud of alfalfa. It has only been within the lust half-dozen yours that the farmers of tho West have fotui 1 out whnt a gold initio al falfa Ik. Thu Eastern farmer has not iniido this discovery yet. Eight or ten years ago tho Idea be came deep-rooted that every part of Nebraska was capable of being redeem ed from Hie range and made to blos som with thu seductiveness of the rose. Two years of drought changed this no tion nud drove thousands Eastward again. Part of the thousands of acres of laud thus abandoned to the gopher and the coyote was Immediately fenced In by tho ranchers and the cattlemen, but the men who hung on and tlio men who put their trust In cattle soon found that wheru corn would not grow thero was the laud best stilted to the cultivation of a forage plant once de spised. This was alfalfa. Year after year since then has found hundreds of addi tional acres planted to this forage, un til there aro now In the valleys of the Platte an I thu Republican and cvrn here and there In thu sandhills great farms of it quarter and a half sootlou upon which no other chop than this is raised. With alfalfa as a starter and corn as u finisher the best method of fattening cattle for market has been found by the stockman. Three crops a year, sometimes four, aro raised. The average yield Is from two to two and a half tons to thu acre at each cutting, and sometimes goes as high as six, whllo It commands a prlco ranging from $1 to $11 a ton. Besides this It can bo raised encli year with cerlalnty for an Indelliiltu term of years. It does not exhaust the soil, beenusu It contains a very small pro portion of phosphates; In fact, experi ments have shown It to bo an excellent thing for tho ground. It derives n great deal of Its moisture from tho atmos phere, and In somo way exerts n dis integrating effect ipon tho alkalis of thu soil thu very qualities that make the corn yield scanty. It grows donso nnd scarcely nbovo two feet In height. Pod green or cured to stock It Is wonderfully nutritious. It is cut when coming Into bloom, whllo It Is succulent, nud before the Btems become weedy. Two Thousand Years Old and Has Been in Constant Use. London, England, has a remnrknble cold wnter plunge bath which is a re minder of nticlent times, when tho Ro wans held sway. It Is to-day just what It was iJ.OOO years ago when Loudon was but a name. Sltuntcd in a narrow court known as Strand-lune, opposite the church of St. Mary-Ic-Strand, It Is naturally a great object of Interest to the traveler. Thu remarkable thing about It Is that it has been In constant usu from tho time of the Romnns down to to-day An amnzliig fact Is that so LEADING BUSINESS FIRMS OF EASTERN OREGON. w. B. BOWMAN photographic and landscape artist Vlewa ol All Description Specialty, Kodak Developing and Finishing Main St., Near Bridge, PENDLETON, OKEOON. 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 A, C, KOEPPEN & BR0 Manufacturing Chemists. 1 15 Court Street., Pendleton, Oregon. C. A. STOKES LIQUOR CO. WHOLK8ALE DEALERS. PABST MILWAUKEE BEER Bottled by Patut Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wis. 1130 Pacific Avenue TACOMA - WASH. THE MINT SALOON LONDON'S ROMAN UATII. far back as any records can be found the supply of water has never censed. Thu only change noticed In recent times occurred somo time ago, when extensive building operations were go ing on In tho neighborhood, and for a time tho water came through a dark color. This lasted for somo three months and then tho How became clear again. The water conies In through the old Itoinnu brickwork In several places, particularly under thu stone steps lending down Into the bath, and it Is curious that although tho supply varies from time to time, It Is usually greater In dry weather than In wet. Tin How of water has never been traced to Its source, but some have de clared that the spring rises In Ilnmp stead and reaches thu bath by a sub terranean stream. Of this, howuver, there seems no evidence. O. L. MELLOUIST, Prop, .IF.BT BRANDS OF WINES UNI) LUIUOKS IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC CIO A US..... Corner Depot Street and Jcffcraon Avenue, fl w UP YOU Know the News ? Tea tan kava It til tor LA ORARDE, OR. Z The Leading FURNITURE DEALER AND JrCr. ... C II st "! Month 50c Month In Tht KranlBi Telerram. of Portland. Or ton. It la tht lara eat et enlng navra- paper publtinad in Of agon It coataloi ail in ntwa 01 ibv biv buu ui iu na tion. Try II (or a month. A auapie oopjr Willi mailed to ro Ira. Ad- dtM OF EASTERN OREdON IS ..M. A. RADER.. Kuncrnl Director nnd Kmbnlmer Lnity Aiulttunt. I I THE TELEGRAM, Portland, Oregon. X .t TRY HAZELWOOD FOR SOMETHING GOOD I'KNiu.irro.v OltKtJO.V INDUSTRIAL KCOXOMY. A glad poriod of each year In Oro gon comes with tho hop-plcklug sea son, It Is the "poor family's time," in moro ways than one. It is n period In which tho person pinched a little by poverty mny combine plonsuro with profitable employment. It Is tho tlnio when tho overtaxed mother may go In to tho vlnoyard with his bllthsomo brood nnd enjoy hor annual outing, during tho pleasure of which shu finds pro tit In enjoyable labor. It is tho po riod of tho year to which she looks forward as tho season In which she" For ono nation, whim nt war . 'y onrn means with which to buy with another, to buy of tho citizens ot , "' oxt Kown for horself nnd autumn u neutral nation horses and mules toggory for hor children. School with which to haul cannon Is not so books, too, aro a necessity and thus very different from buying ships in nmny of them nro obtained without up which to carry them. Oroat Ilrltaln l10ul either to private or public charity, permitted somo of hor enterprising' Thousands of people go to tho hop hhlpbulldlng cltUons to soil tho Ala- nH'8 fro"1 Portland" every year. Tho bama to tho Confederacy, and Groat oppoitunlty represents much to thorn. Ilrltaln paid a big money pounlty for Qlte generally thoy aro pe,oplo who doing so, after the civil war was ovor. ' Ctt"0t afford to loso tlmo In plonsuro It Is something now In International '" wI-'l there is no protlt. Thoy lnw that a neutral government may '"Mo It, therefore, n season of recren permit Its subjects to soil contrabands t,on ,t8 enjoyment being Incrensod by of war, so long as those subjects take tll K"m thoy make llnnncinlly. tho risk that tho contraband articles Thero Is hygienic vlrttio In the work may bo captured. Tho Alabama was of "Ming hops. Tho atmosphere of captured, or, rather, destroyed, but tno "op-Mold Is surcharged with tho Oroat Ilrltaln payod tho Geneva nwa.nl olul""ts of hoalth-glvlng odor. Tho flotwlthstnndliig: and In tho present c,lluBe from tho routlno of housework aso the claim becomes ridiculous, ,a respite from tho tedoutn of dally ovon If It wero good law, becauso the " ll ,s work u"d play ut tho snmo Jioera have no navy whatever, i 'mtf' THE LAZIEST CREATURES. Indolent Aquatic l'wl Are Found on Hhore of, Hentcrri La ken. "During the recent trip through tho lower western section of the country," said n young man who had recently re turned to New Orleans, "I believe I dis covered thu laziest nud most stupid form of life to bo found anywhere on tlio globe. It was an aquatic fowl, with a big, clumsy-looking beak, In form something like the dodo, now ex tinct. I have spent some time In watching this fowl, which Is found In some of thu shallow lakes, and tlio chief point of Interest to mo was tho btnrtllng stupidity displayed. They call them shags, 1 believe, out west. They generally squat on stumps or logs In tho lako and watch for the smaller llsh that play around thu surface of tho water. They are fairly clever In catch lug what they want, and they throw out their bills with considerable preel slon when they dig for game, and they never get to eat what they catch until they have fed at least ono and maybo more than one member of another kind of wnter fowl. Whenever a shag be gins to catch tlsli a long-legged water hen will take a place Immediately bo hind him. When tho shag lauds tho llsh the wnter hen simply reaches over and gets It. Without any show of re sentment and without turning around the shag will continue Its watch for UhIi and tills Is kept up until the water hen has lltilshcd Its meal, and then, If no other enterprising member of tho same tribe conies along, the sling Is per mitted to enjoy the product of Its own sleepy efforts. I hnvo, on one occa sion, seen one shag feed as many ns three water liens before eating a slnglo llsh. It Is certainly a singular display of stupidity, and after having watched tho performance a number of times I am convinced that the shag Is actually too dull to even know that the water ben stands behind him to steal the tlsli out of his mouth." New Orleans Tltnes-Uemoerat. 0olof v ,n 'umi vra ft .1 " "M " Wool from Limestone. "An Indian chemist," says the Phar maceutical Km, "has applied for pat ents mi a process of making wool from limestone. After some sort of chemi cal treatment the rock Is subjected to n drnwlng-out process, by which, It Is hiild, It Is converted Into the tlnest ami most pliable wool, of beautiful whllo color, soft as down ami both water and tire proof." Insurance and Hair Dye. Hair dye Is considered so detrimental to long life that a continental assurance rompany refuses to Insure the Uvea of persons using It, A new nnd Illustrated edition of "A Short History of the ICugllsh People," by John ltichard Green, edited by Mrs. J. It. Green nud Miss Kate Norgate, has been published. An important work on Ilnlzac Is soon to bo Issued In Kraucc. It will give tlio history of llalzac's youth, from 1S'25 to 1R2S, when tire great author carried on business jib a printer ami type-founder. An Important work on Spain, "Tlio Spanish People," Is Just Issued ns the ilrst volume of n "Great Peoples" series. It Is tlio work of Dr. Martin A. S. Hume, who relates tho story of tho revolution of the Spanish people from n new point of view. The Norwegian poet, BJornstJerno HJoriison, has Just finished n new drama, "I.aboreinus," on which ho has been at work for several yenrs. It will be published by the Danish II rm which prints the works of Ibsen, I.le, Strlnd berg, Drachmnu nnd Georg Ilrandes. Douglas Station's new novel, "My Son Hit-hard; or, Tho Great Compnny," will give nu Intimate sketch of Thames summer life, nud deals with the sub ject which Is uppermost In nearly every Englishman's mind tho changes In homo life made by the rush of young men Into tho army, A woman who has made a study of tho subject, tluds that the lllblo retains Its ancient place of honor In old-fash-ioueil households, and that a gorgeous cook book, equal to a volume of tho encyclopedia In slzo, queens It In world ly houses. Sometimes, In addition to the thin little magazines of the early seventies, there Is other paper covered literature. This Is generally on tho lower shelf of tho table. Hattered cop ies of "The Woman In White," "Tho Duchess" and tho llko are seen on the guest room table all of theso were seen In houses where the library showed uo lighter modern literature than Mrs. Humphry Word. BAKER CITY IRON WORKS. HIGGINS & HARDENBROOK, Props. On IIKKAKKA8T. your hot cakva uto Hazchvood Butter. I.tJNOH. On your fitrnwbcrrlen mt llnzulwood Cream. DINNKlt. 1'or the fluent ilcllracy in I'ortlnml try a brick ot llniclwooil leu Cream. HAZELWOOD CREAAl CO. Both l'honei 154. 382 Waildnngto St. Iron Founders and Machinists General Repair Work Our Specialty. Architectural Iron Work ...and Bridge CistlDgs WHITK 1'Olt KSTISIATKS. Old Kentucky Club Whiskey Home ,.AND.. , Shaw's Pure Malt Blumauer Sc Hoch Wholesale Liquor A Clear Dealer SOLE AGENTS. J JO Fourth Strut Any Hlio Any Quantity Any StyU MACKINTOSHES, RUBBER AND OIL CLOTHING Ilutiber lloota and Hliona, netting, Packing ami Iloaa. Lartent and Mou Complete. Aiiortment ot all Klndi ot Ilubber Oooda. GOODYEAR RUBBER COMPANY ft. U. PKA8E, l'reildcnt. T. M. BUKPAKD, Jit.. Treaiurer J. A. 8K1'ARD, Secretary 73-75 FIRST STREET, PORTLAND, OREGON. ' lM'allalaa.JillBllll RUSSELL & COMPANY BUII.DKIIS OF Englnom, Bollore, Saw MM; Thrcuhmrm. If you sontemplate buying machinery, write ui for catalogue and prices. RUSSELL & CO. H. AVERILL. Manager. PORTLAND. OREGON. CViiih iintl NlukoU In lioiunml. AminiliiK to UulttHl States Treasurer Huberts, ceuts and nlekels are now be- Itij used to a imieu greater extent than SollitlK Hot Moato. One aspect of the food problem lias assuredly been solved by a company In New Haven, Conn., which undertakes to serve hot meals to all and sundry within a radius of seventy miles from Its headquarters, and that from 25 per cent to HO per cent cheaper than they can be obtained elsewhere. These meals are sent out In wagons with com partments for each article. Tho meals nro placed In tho different compart ments smoking hot, and are kept nt a high temperature until placed on the purchaser's table. Tom u Fragment. There was once a lad turned Tom, Who bought him a dynamite bomb. "J list listen, you boys, And hear thU for a noise " And now they're collecting young Tom. Boston Journal. A good many womeu wear hlgh hecled shoes who do uot have a hlgk- THE H. C. ALBEE COMPANY .... DEALERS IN.... Second Hand Machinery 260 Estmt Water Street. PORTLAND, OREGON. ESTABLISHED 1BS1. INCORPORATED 1987. ALLEN & LEWIS Shipping: & Commission Merchants ...WHOLESALE GROCERS... TO SAVE TIME ADDKES3 ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE COMPANY. PORTLAND, OREBOM. tf. 4a to B4 Ermn Strt, North. DRIINK THE FAMOUS 7 For Sale at All the Principal Saloons try nd Oftfcm Tho7.mz&ira?' UTcr ueiorc l Heeled appearance. gMgyarnali .""WBJfcite.