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About The new age. (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1904)
ass: &pjfcr '"C A. ' "t THB 1T1JW AttE, JfOBTLAlO), OREGON. li: m I .i "'' Mil f ) If If' fi- i , i ( TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER- ESTING ITEMS. Comment and Criticisms Ilaaed Upon ths Happenings) ol the Day HU torlcal and New Notes. Correct opinions cannot straighten crooked prncUce. A surgical operation has made a bad boy good, arid the operation didn't kill felm, either. A St Louis newspaper reporter left an estate of 170,044, but then ho was newsboy for somo years before he became a reporter. Physicians Insist that copper Is a germ destroyer, although Tom Lawson declares that the speculative germ fat tens on a copper diet Anybody can Judgo how much better It Is for his health to be out In the free air at tho races than to be shut up In a stuffy church. Editor Stead Is praising the czar as one of tho great men of tho world. If he Isn't careful ho will loso the kaiser from his subscription list. Manchuria has raised largo crops this year, but had a great deal of troublo In harvesting them, owing to circumstances over which It had no control. Tho completed returns show that only nlncty-ono deaths were caused by fourth of July lockjaw this year, gainst 408 last year. Let tho cru ado bo kept up. Tuere Is abundant encouragement. A doctor In the coal mining districts f Upper Silesia thinks he ha dis covered In coal dust a cure fjr con sumption, owing to It drying and dis infecting effect on the lung tuber cles, lie was led to Investigation by tho fact that consumptive persons com ing from other regions to tho neighbor hood of mines recover their health. Corruption In government, especially municipal maladministration, Is due not eo much to the pernicious activity ef the professional pollticluns who make their living by "graft," as to the selfish Indifference of the groat body of the people, who, except un der extraordinary stimulus, prefer to submit to robbery nd Imposition rather than exert themselves to over turn existing conditions, evil though they know them to be. It will be an evil day for all the land-grabbing nations, but mora es pecially for the llrltish, when "Asia for the Asiatics" bocomee the watch word of the race of the great conti nent who are aa sands upon tho sea shore. Something of tho sort Is be' ginning to dawn upon tho llrltish mind, aud In consequence there Is leas of rejoicing over tho progress of Jap anese arms In King Edward's realm than there was at tho outbreak of tho war. . A study of tho histories of thn two contending nations in the oriental war proves that tho greutuess of a na tion depends even inoro upon tho vir tues of Its people than upon the re sources of the country. There Is no doubt that If Japan had had her Mat of government at St. Petersburg or Moscow she would have taken a bet tar advantage of this situation thin has Uuslu, while If Ilusnln had been confined to a few Islands Isolated from all contact with more civilised races she would never have risen from bar barism. Outer was lately brought In a sdmplo aud novel way to a patient long 1)1. A rearrangement of the furniture, a change of the pictures and other or nament, had done much to make lee dreary the wearing days and wake ful nights. At last the patient saldt "Get me an American flag." The flag displayed on the wall refreshed the tired eyes, which rested with Interest on what waa both a decsratlon and a dlrsrter of the thoughts into new channels, Persous who have seen the Stars and Stripes In a strange land will understand the feelings of the sick man. It Is dangeroas for ths household to accept as matter of coarse ths rs luctancs of ths children to return to school aftsr a holiday. Shakespeare spsaks of ths schoolboy "creeping liks snail unwillingly to school " but he puts ths words Into the mouth of a professed cynic and scoffer, When ths house, the school, the holiday, the task are of the best sort, the one ought to be as welcome as the other to the healthy child. If tho school room has no attractions for him, it Is fair to suspect either that tho teacher Is not the right woman for luvr sacred place, or that the mother makes of the home a mere Inn for the dissipation of the child's powers, not a fountain at which he may continually refresh them. Happy the mother whoso flock of boys and girls look forward to the Urst day of school with Joy, while they look back upon a vacation full of healthful pleasure and recreation frvo from the blight of solllahiiess or of Idleness, The principle of mutual helpfulness runs through all society. It is essen tial and basic. Mau cannot live for himself alone nor be Indifferent to the others about him. In ths business world this mutuality of Interest Is seen on every hand. The grocer and the shoe dealer and the dealer In doth nd In furniture, all havs Interests which may be helped If each one doss bis share without striving to undo tho other. There Is ths prlds in nation which Isads tho patriot to prefer the things of his own country to thoss ef other lends; there It the very sen aabls sentiment that one should help bis own Stats or his own city where be an by giving trade and custom to those who are uear by. Ths spirit ef Jeatasar which would move the con UBSsr to boycott his neighbor bs saiss, forsooth, that neighbor is pros perlag amok, Is destructive of society. ate, also, la latustrlal Ufa, there must be Mutual helpfulness la all things. Ts ssaftoysr sad (lis employs soast mrk ttget-w swraeajr r taut enn be no advancement for cltlier. Thnt which Injures one Injures both. Kvery step In advance which mnkes for better Roods or cheaper produc tion or removes some of the artificial harriers to trndo and the exchange of labor through commodities, Is for the good of all Industrial life. There are many people who thought lessly leavo loaded firearms about where there are children who know lit tle about their use. Hoys are notori ously curious, and anything In the shapo of a gun or a pistol has an Ir reslstlblo attraction for them. They cannot resist the desire to handle d?ad ly weapons, and when they fall into their hands through the carelessness of their elders, a tragedy not seldom re sults, and parents luivo often to mourn the deaths of tho little ones they love on account of accidents that might have been prevented by a (ItUe precau tion. The leaving of a charged rile behind the door or a revolver in an open bureau drawer is Inexcusable, and has led up to more than on death, not only among tho youthful, but even among adults, as tho records of cas ualties In the dally press abundantly prove. Wo sometimes doubt tho effi ciency of having a loaded weapon In Uio house, even for protection from burglars, and we have noticed but few captures of house-breakers at the point of a pistol. In this ago of telephones, one can easily summon asslstnnco without a resort to tho revolver, which so few know how to employ intelli gently. Hut If ono Is deemed neces sary, It should bo placed beyond tho reach of Inquisitive and venturesome boys, who may slay a comrade through their Ignorance. "I didn't mean to," Is not a soothing balm to ono who has lost an 'offspring through the lark of foresight of men of mature years who havs not removed temptation from the pathway of the young and In experienced. Tho medical ezamlnor for the New York board .of education testified re cently that sevon per cent of the young women In tho training schools for teachers been mo Incurably diseased from overwork. At eighteen these girls wcro sitting up with their studies till 12 o'clock at night, were undergo ing a strain as sovere aa comes upon tho business man at forty. The super intendent had no doubt that it was Just this school work that broke them down, or that It explained the preva lence of Drlght's disease, heart dis ease and spinal curvsturs among them. Her statements of fact will be accept ed without the altghteat hesitation, and no one, we imagine, would wholly re ject her theory concerning the cause of so much sickness among ths stu dents. Hut at the sams tlms a ques tion may be raised whether, generally speaking, too much application to hooka ts required of ths rising genera tion. Certainly the caution against crowding la heard on every hand, and tliore are related questions to bo con sldcred because they have a very Im portant bearing on the subject as a wholo. Wero the girls who broke down In good health when thoy be. KM n 7 Wero, they oqual to tho average In brightness or woro they trying to make up by their wills for what they lacked In Intellectual gifts? If they had sparo time, did they utilise It properly In exerclso and outdoor diver sions, or did they remain In the close atmosphere of their rooms? Did tlioy use to excoss such stimulants as tea uud coffe? Was their food Insufficient, or was It perhaps rich and unwhole some? Did they havo cause for wor ries and nervous excitement that waa not connected with tnolr atudtes7 Ws do not ask these questions to suggest a defense for mental cramming, but simply to Indicate how large the sub ject is. Possibly many young people are credited with overwork when the amount of work that they actually do would not trouble thorn if their Uvea were differently ordered, for the com mon saying that work never hurt any body applies to sll kinds of work, and Is certainly true within the limits com monly applied. slut, of course, sitting up till 12 o'clock at night Is not good, nor ars long hours which keep ons fagged. .There should be rest and re creation with complete and invigorat ing changs. But these will leave time for much hard work that may be pur sued without Injury, and, aftsr sll, ths problem Is ultimately an Individual ons, which Is solved by reiersncs to ths native endowment of strength and Intellectual ability. Sack-Oloth HHII Worst. Do you walk about In sackcloth and ashes? Ths question Is absurd, Is It not? You fondly Imagine that ths days when men did such thlugs are past In many parts of Chicago ons can get "Irish frieze" overcoats for $8. Now, this Is how the "frlezo" cloth lu this Instance, at all events Is made. Odd pieces of gray, brown, and blue cloth are collected from tailors' shops. These are kept In distinct groups, as far as the colors are concerned, aud are chopped by machinery Into the tiniest pieces. Ordinary common sacking ts next obtained aud given a coating of thin glue on one sldo only. Next tills sur face ts covered with a layer of the chopped cloth, and, after a powder of tho desired color has been plentifully sprinkled over It, the whole Is passed between steam-heated rollers. When dry, a good thick "cloth" is ready for conversion into cheap over coats. It will stand fairly rough wear, Is warm, and can scarcely bs distin guished from the genuine article. But It Is disastrous to stsnd too near a big fire while wearing one. It will be seen front this explana tion that It Is posstbls to actually walk about in aackcloth and ashes In 1004. Ftmud What Its Waa ted. "It Crabbe ever comos around your place borrowing anything," said Sub bubs, "don't let him have it" "You've spoken too late," replied Newcointr; "be was around this morn ing." "You're easy, What was he bor rowing?" "Trouble. lie's in ths hospital now." Philadelphia Ledger. When a womau travels, she doesn't get much enjoyment out of It, through watching her things, to see that m J t SPOKANE I t . D. BUCHANAN Funeral Furnishings Embalming and sMpptaz a specialty mo ltlverilde Ave. lei. Main C8t BI'OKANK .WASH D VFIIENBK BUFFET 318 Howard 8treet 1'houe Mln 69. HPOKANE, WABHINOTON Cascade Steam Laundry Goods Galled for and Deliv ered to Any Part of the City Phone Main 286. 911 Bridge Ave. SPOKANE WASHINGTON SPOKANE DRUG CO. Wholesale Drugs The On! Exclusive Wholesale Drug: House In the State. SPOKANE, WASH. Diamond Ice and Fuel Co. ICE, WOOD AND COAL. 120 Madison Street. SPOKANE, WASH. 'A.'VtWBW Wholesale snd Retail BREAD, ICE CREAM, PASTRY SENOFELDER'S Salesroom and Office S. 1 1 Howard Street Factory S. 207 to 213 Washington Street Phone Main 306 We ship everywhere and anywhere Spokane Bakory Oom B. L. GORDON & COMPANY WHOLESALE QROCERS SPOKANE, - - WASH. COKNUK MILL AND R. K. For Flue, Up to Date Men's Fur nishings, go to Youle Bros. MEN'S FURNISHERS Telephone Main 1800 508 Riverside Avo. Spokane, Wash, ! IDAHO ADVERTISING ! Peasley Transfer Co. Freight, Baggage, Furniture Moving, Storage Phones 7J 905 Main St. BOlSIt, IDAHO Lewiston Furniture and Undertaking Co. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Lace Curtains, Portiers, Window Shades Linoleums, Couches, Iron Beds, Undertaking. Telephone 821. L O. O. F. Building-, E. Main St.' LEWISTON, IDAHO The Raymond Lewiston, Idaho Is being: improved in every way pouible. The leading- hotel in the city. Commercial trade our spe cialty. acaDioc iRoa. rrt rtsstM I IDAHO ADVERTISING f ? BANKOFNAMPA,Ltd. CAPITAL STOCK $50,000.00 Established ltW. Pency raises Hotel IUd'g. rnr.n a. mock, President F. J. CONUOY, Vice-President C. K. 1I1CKKY, (.'Miller FItANK JENKIN80N, Ass't Cashier NAMPA, IDAHO Boise Transfer & Storage Co. R. M. Hell Phono A.10 Ind. Phono 10 Light and heavy hauling. Con signments of freight left in our charge will receive prctnpt atten tion. Storage at reasonable raits. See Hut you give your baggage to Boise Transfer & Storage Go. South Tenth Street, J. nosKSiii'ito Aittmuu a. coiin Pocatello Mercantile Company WHOLESALE Wine, Liquor AND Cigar Merchants.. Pocatello, Idaho Drink Old Fort Halt Whlsltey BinoWe He tutor Shoup Cliars J. A. Murray, I'rnlJcnt. D. W. StenJrod, Vice President Wm. A. Anthei, ..... Ca'hler I.N. Anthei, Asst. Cashier THB FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Poaiitwllo, Idnliu. POCATELLO, - IDAHO U. D. HARRISON THE JEWELER Watches, nininoniN. Sllvorwnra nml Novelties. Wutclumikur iinil Jeweler. Wntch Inspector O. S. L. It. H. Pocn tullo, Idaho. Pino Watch Hepiilriiig it Specialty. Kycs Tested i'reu. POCATHLLO, IDAHO Mallory & Lydon Livery, Feed and Sale Stable C and Fourth Sis, Lewiston, Idaho Calls Answered Iisy or Night rlione 371 White Front Livery AND CAH STAM.KS Blnnsrd, Fountain & Randall, 1'ropts. UtWISTON, IDAHO Lewiston Steam Laundry 94 Third St. Telephone 2041 C. H. Schroeder, Manager Satisfaction Guaranteed. Work returned same day when ordered. I SALT LAKE CITY : $ USE Salt Air Extract.s, Baking Powder, Spices and Coffees ARE THE BEST OR MONEY BACK Salt Laka Cot (mo A Sftloe Milla MALT LAKE, UTAH LEAVER DRUG CO. Prescription Druggists Cor. Third 'West and South Temple. Tole phona ibVi. Salt Lake City, Utah. 1 OGDEN UTAH TROY LAUNDRY C. W. CUKTIS, Prop. Work Turned Out on Short Order Vhone 107 137 23th et. OflDGN UTAH ALLEN TRANSFER CO. Cabs, Bus, Drays, Unggago Wagons. We move safes, pianos, organs, olllco 1 rniture, etc. General transfer busi ness aud i ui nlture vans. , HACKS MEET ALL TRAINS Telephone No. ty-FUth Street. Office, 412 Twea- 0CKN. UTAH. BY BAH. AND WATKBj THE SIGN $m OF THE ScTO BEST 3 OVERLAND TRAINS DAILY 3 The North Coast Limited ELECTRIC LIGHTS, ELECTRIC FANS, STEAM HEATED, SOLID VESTIBULED In fact an up-to-date train, and tho beauty of it all is the fact that It docs not cost you any moro to travel on this train than it docs on any other. Try it and your verdict will be, it Is tho Crack Train of Them All A. D. CHARLTON, Assistant Oenersl Passenger Agsnt, 3SS Morrison St., cor. Third, Portland, Oregon. OREGON Shqt Line and union Pacific Through I'ullinan atamtartl and tourist U'oi'lUK card dally to Omaha, Clilingo, Hikj. kniie; tourist slciipliitr cars dally to Kansas City; through I'uIIiiihii tourist sleopliiK cars (arsonally conducted) weekly to Chicago. Ktim cliy: reclining chair tan (seats tree) to tho Kast dally. 70 HOURS PORTLAND TO CHICAGO No Change of Cars. Dxrisr TIME SCHEDULE Portland. Or. Aaaivs Chicago I'orllaud Bpclal litis, m. via Huntington, Fait Lake. Iwnver, Kl. W ortli, Omaha. Kansas City, tit. I-ouls.Chlcagoaud Last. tr.'Sp.m. At'antto Eiprru S;1J p.m. via Huntington. Rait iJike. Denver, 9.-O0a.a. ri.ttorin.umana, Kansas City, Ht. I-oul,t:blcagoand Kast. Walls Walls, Lewis- Et. Paul asi Mall (ilfip, m. rla poktn ton,poane,ai. tare, i'ullinan, Minneapolis, Ht. 1'aul, Duluth, Mil wsukee, Chicago snd Kast. 7:13 a. 1 Ocean and River Schedule. For San Francisco Every Ave days st S p. m. For Astoria, way points and North lleach Dally (except Hunday) at 8 o. u.; Saturday at lu p. m. Dally servtoe (water permitting) on Willamette and Yamhill Itlvers. For fuller Information ask or write your nearest ticket agent, or A. L. CRAIO, General l'auenger Agent The Oregon Hall road & Navigation Co, Tort sud, Oregon. 4l LOW EXCURSION RATES EAST The Northern Pacific Railway Company will continue to sell very low excursion tickets to the East and to the World's Fair at St. Louis in June to October inclusive, and all tickets will be good on the "NORTH COAST LIMITED" train as well as on their other two daily trains. If you are planning a trip East this year or to the Fair, full information can be had as to dates of sale, rates, routes, etc., by calling on or addressing A, P. CHARLTON, Assistant General Passenger Agent 255 Morrison Street, corner Third, PORTLAND, OREGON BT RAlIi AlSDTVATKll. a "As the Crow Flies" Tho shortest lino between Min neapolis, St. Paul and Chicago Is riSMJj.'.g.TtllH tho route of the fatuous North western Limited The Train for Comfort" Kvery night in tho year Hcforc mnrtliiRoti a trip no matter where urito for Internum: Informa tion about comfortable traveling. H. I..BI8LKH. Ocn'l Agent, 182 1 bird Htrect, i'ortlanil, Oregon. T. W. TEASDAI.K, Ocncral I'aMciiKer Audit, at. 1'u1,.MIihi, D ELIGHTFUL ROUTE AYLWIIT RIDE IZZY CRAGS EEP CANONS A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY Geo Nature, In nil her glorious beauty, and then the nemo of man's handiwork. The first Is found alonti tho lino of tho Denver &. Rio Grande Railroad, the latter at tho St. Louis World's Fair. Your trip will bs one of pleasure make the most of it. For information and Illustrated literaturo writs W. C. McBRIDE, Ocncral Agent PORTLAND, OREdON SHAVER TRANSPORTATION GO. STEAAIER GEO. W. SHAVER, Will lcatc Portland, font ol Washington Ht., Sunday, 'luctday and 'lliurtday evening at 5 o'clock, (or l-nuvlea Inland, ht. Ilelvus, Capk-s, Dior Island, Marlins, Kalama, Nrrr City, Hauler, Jit. Coitm, .Mayirer. Htella, Oak I'olnt, Freeinaus, Maiijunlllo.CUtikaiilu aud all way landing. SHORTEST QUICKEST QjB Tho shortest lino ia not always the quickest nor is tho quickest lino nhvuj'8 tho shortest. Tho Burlington Route to tho Southeast-is both. It is shorter AND quicker than any other line from tho Northwest to Omaha, Kan sas City, 8t. Louis, and EVERYWHERE boyond. Another good thing about it is this: You don't chango-cars. Tho St. Louis Special runs through to Kansas City without change Only ono change to Omaha, Denver snd St. Louis. Tickets, berths, and Information, at offices of connect ing lines, or (rotn R. lOOTHIrtl nr itAir. and water A STORII&COH. WITH THROUGH PARLOR CARS IIKTffSBN Portland, Astoria s Seaside Leaves cnio.s nsroT Arrive. For Margers, Haiti. icr.Clatikanle ttcitport, Clifton, Anorla, Warren, ton, Plsvel, tlear. liart l'arkamls-ev ilde. AMorla A Peahore Express lMlljr. AMorla Express VMj. Pally 1:00 a.m. Dally, Mill) a. n 7:00 p. ra. 9 M0 p. m. C.A.BTKWAKT, ... . J,,9'iJ,AA! Comm'l Agt., 'iw Aider fit O. K. A V. A. Telephone Main W0. Ask the Agent for I O K B T VIA To Spokano, Psu , Minneapolis, Duluth, St. Ch cago, St. Louis nd All Points East and South. 2 OVERLAND TRANS DAILY Tiie Flyer and the Fast Mail J Splendid Service Up-to-tlato Equipment Con r too u Employes Daylight trip across tho Cascado and Rocky Mountains. For Tickots. rates, folders and full Infor mation call on or address M. DICKSON. C. T. A. 122 Third Street, PORTLAND s. a. yerkes, a. W. P. A 612 First Aveniu. SUATTLB. WASH. REGULATOR LINE rOXTUUTO AUD THE DALLEi ROUTE All Wir Uallais. STDAMUHS "BA1I.KY OATZKUT" "DAl.T.KH CITY" HKUUI.ATOK" "MKT1.AKO" Connecting at I.yle. Wash., with Columbia River & Northern Railway Co. rou Wahklacus. Daly, Centervlllr, Doldondale aud all Klickitat Valley points. Btramcr leaves 1'urtland dully (except Pun day) 7 a. m., connecting with C. It, .V N. trains atl.)lA:!.l p. in, (or tloldendale. Train ar rives Oeldendale, 7:U p. in. Htoamor arrlvoe Tho Dalles U::u p. in. Htcamer leaves The Dalits dally (except 8un day) 7:00 a.m. 0. It. A N. trains leaving Ooldondnle A:li a. m. connects with this steamer (or t'ortland, ar riving I'ortlanil fi p. in. Excellent meals sorted on all steamers. Fin accommodations (or teams and wagons. For detailed Information ol mtea, berth res ervations, connections, etc.. write or call on. nearest agent. 11, b. caranDeii, Gen. oillce, I'ortland, Or. Manager. AND W. FOSTER; TICKET AQGNT. Street, PORTLAND R VER RAILROAD CO BBBLJsBBBaflrVR1f W Basal v