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H. O. BOWERS, Mmnmfr.
Ammrloan Plmn, $3 Par Day
and Upward.
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OOMMEROIAL TRAVELERS.
Portland, Oregon
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The Grand Pacific Hotel
C1IA8. A. BUIIKAOK, I'roprUlor.
Handsomely Appointed and First
Class In Every Particular.
Corner Railroad St. nnd rllgzlns Ave.
MISSOULA, MONT.
The Grandon
The only First-Class
American Plan Ho
tel in Helena.
Rates from $3 to $5
BOLLINGER
HOTEL
European Plan
Lewiston Idaho
Best Hotel in
Northern Idaho
The Victoria Hotel
SPOKANE, WASH.
First-Class in All Its Depart
ments. Headquarters for
Tourists and Commercial
Travelers
When in Spokane Don't Fail
to Stop at the Victoria
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licet furnished house in Southern Oregon
New Depot Hotel
A. II. I'KACIIT, Proprietor.
All Trains stop 30 Minutes
For Meals.
ASHLAND, OREGON
The New Bannock Hotel
KOKMA'N & AHMSTIIONU, I'ropa.
Headquarters For Commercial Men
American Plan. Rooms with Bath,
Hot and Cold Running Water and
Telephone in Each Room.
RATES $2.00 to $100 PER DAY
Poceitello
Iduho
The Spalding
Leading Hotel of the
LAKE SUPERIOR REGION
Enlarged and Improved
American Plan, $2.50 nnd Up
Kuropeun Phut $1.00 and Up
Finest Cafe in Northwest
DULUTH, MINN
HOTEL WHITMAN
UNDKK NKW MANAl.KMK.ST
A Home for the Traveling Men
Strictly first Class.
American Plan
ElectriC'lighted. fitcanvhentcd. Good
Sample Rooms in Connection.
J. C. BROWN, Manager.
COirAX. WASHINGTON
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Professor Krnst llneckel's Important
work, "The Riddle of the 1'nlverse."
lias recently been translated Into .Tap
nntxc, Chinese ami Hebrew. At differ
ent times the volume has appeared In
twelve oilier hiiiKinijc, while more
than U(Ml,(i()() eoples of the German
original have been sold.
Uev. .lohn brands l.ee, pastor of the
Metropolitan African Methodist Kpls
eopal .Ion (.'hureh, of Norfolk, Vn Is
MttrnctliiK much attcntlini In the South
as a poet, many believing that he Is the
coming negro paet of Anierlea, taking
up the minstrel harp dropped by the
late Paul Laurence Dunbar.
The Itu-wluii military eomiiiiiuder,
(Sen. Kurnpatkln, has llnlsbed his his
torical work In relation to the eauses
of the Russian defeat In the far east
and the Kngllsh trauslattou will doubt
les soon be gut under way. (Jen. Ku
ropatklu undertakes to prove that his
plans were repeatedly upset by orders
from St. Petersburg.
The astonishing fact has Just come
to light that Professor Hlehard Gar-ii'-tt,
librarian of the Ilrltlsh Museum,
who died recently, for years had de
voted much time to the "black art" of
astrology. liven more extraordinary. Is
the circumstance that the business men
of New York and other cities regular
ly consulted him regarding contempla
ted ventures.
The novel-render who fondly believes
that lilt favorite "refreshers" iiru of
Imagination all compact Is much de
ceived. The novelist of genius Is even
more given to the taking of mites than
Is the lesser writer who turns off sto
rles "In the way of trade." Ilulzae, his
sister has told us, wherever he went
studied what he saw, setting down
everything which revealed a character
or painted u situation. Ills "meat
cafe" was the odd mime he gave to
the hook which held these notes. Dick
ens recorded diligently his observations
of peculiarity In person as well as
strange Incidents, suggestive names,
available scenery and the like. Kvcn
one so little given to "realism" In the
modem sense as Hawthorne had an
ample store of useful notes. Wllkle
Collins Is quoted by an old nupuilnt
mice, In Chambers' Journal, as declar
ing that he founded nearly all his
plots on facts, on Incidents he had
heard of or read, or on a desire to ex
pose or correct some abuse of his time.
Great was his wrath when he was lic
ensed of Introducing sensational and
Improbable episodes In his book, "The
Woman In White," lie knew, he said,
of very few Instances In which llctlon
exceeded the probability of reality; and
then he revealed the source of many
of hfs plots In the h1iuk of a dilapi
dated collection of records of French
crime picked up on an old bookstall In
Paris. "Here Is a prize!" he exclaim
ed, ami so It turned out to be. "Ttie
Woman In White" was derived from
those mouldering records. "The plot
of that," said Collins, "has been called
outrageous; the substitution and burial
of the mad girl for Lady (Jlyde, and
the Incarceration of Lady Olydo as the
mad girl. It was true, and It was
from the trial of the villain of the plot
Count l'ohco of the novel I got my
story."
8EARCH GLOBE FOR RUBBER.
Mnny 1't-rila Are Kiirnunlt-rril In
(Jnfhrrlnur til (lum.
From Southern Mexico In the north
to Northern Paraguay In the south;
from the Atlantic on the east, right
through the devious wandering of the
many branches and tributaries of the
mighty Amazon and right on, out to the
Pacific, on the west ; through the mys
terious, trackless and utterly unknown
solitudes of the Paraguayan nnd lto
llvlau Choeos out Into Peru, the rub
ber hunters are at work on the plants
and trees put ready to their use by the
bounteous hand of nature. Where they
go on their Journeys or precisely what
they do, no white map knows to this
day, or Is ever likely to know, says the
Philadelphia Ledger.
Less than a year ago I met with and
spoke In Fugllsh to an Italian mer
chant In the wilds of Matto (J rosso, the
northwestern province of Brazil, whose
capital city Is five weeks' Journey from
the scat of government at Hlo de Jane
iro. For twenty years' he hud not heard
the sound of Kngllsh voice and during
nil those years rubber has been flow
lug through his hands, down the giant
Itlver Paraguay, on IU way to the mar
kets of the world, via Iluenos Ay res or
Montevideo. Vet of Us actual produc
tion he knows little.
To skip, In spirit, from tho north
east coast of South America across the
south Atlantic to tropical Africa, tho
Congo, the Oold Coast, the Zambesi,
Uganda and other parts, Is not a dif
ficult undertaking. Hut here all Is
changed, and, Instead of having noble
forest trees at his disposal, the rub
bcrhunter finds himself dependent on
snaky, climbing, twisting vines for his
rubber supplies, vines which usurp ev
ery Inch of territory they can Invade,
and render n passage through the for
ests n mutter of great dliilculty und
some danger.
These vines, known ns "landolphlns,"
of which there nro soveral species, are
members of tho natural order apocy-
nnceie nuu nro common to tho whole
or tropical Africa. They differ from
the American trees, in that they pro
duce rubber In the center of the Mem,
ns well as from tne cells underlying
the Inner comblum, but what quautlty
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each plant will produce there are nr
data to base an estimate upon.
Although the landolphlns form the
main source of the African rubber sup
ply, yet there Is at least one family of
trees which yields a supplementary
contribution to the sum total. The
funtumla or klcksla, of which there are
two species, elastlca and Afrlcanla,
was worked to a considerable extent
a ijunrter of n century ago, but It does
not now seem to be a fashionable plant
to cultivate a close nssoclatlonshlp
with. It resembles the hevea to some
degree, but Is smaller, of softer growth,
and requires a little less rainfall to
luxuriate.
Turning to India, und to Asia gener
ally, It will not be found that the con
tinent Is rich In Indigenous rubber
hearing plants. The Ileus elastlca, the
Indian rubber plant of the window
gardener, Is found In Assam und Hur
ma an, I the federated Malay states, but
Its produce Is of very Inferior quality.
Certain limbers also yield rubber, tho
three chief ones being the ureeola,
ehouemeipha, and the Wllloughbla.
The fad that Para and other rubbers
are being cultivated In India, etc., Is
sulllcleiit proof of the poorness of the
continent of Asia In Indigenous rubber
hearing plants.
Ceara rubber Is collected by stabbing
the tree In a number of places close
together, and as the Juice exudes It
coagulates In the air, and Is rolled up
Into balls by the collectors. It Is
usually In a dirty state then It comes
to the market.
The product of the Ileus elastlca nnd
the other Asiatic plants Is usually sim
ply sun-dried; the rubber from tho
former can be Idea tilled at a glance by
Its peculiar red color.
MINE FOUND BY A BADQER.
I'rimiMM-lurs IIIkkImw Hint Out III
CIHITCll II ltl-li Clllllll,
X. II. (ieorge, Santa Fe yurdnmster,
has taken a layoff of three weeks and
gone to Nevada to develop a gold min
ing claim which he has there. There
Is quite a story hack of his going.
Mr. (Ieorge grubstaked an old miner
who had struck a streak of had luck.
This miner Dually found some excel
lent surface Indications In the Nevada
mountains and staked his claim. The
prospects were so good that .Mr. George,
his brother und his hrother-lu-law took
-three adjoining claims. The old griz
zled miner worked away all winter on
the funds supplied him by Mr. George.
Ills developments were encouraging,
hut did not pan out large quantities of
the yellow metal.
A short time since another old miner
In hard luck came past the llrst miner's
claim carrying his kit of tools with
him. Mr. George's friend was natural
ly lonesome and Invited the stranger
to take a claim. After looking over
the .situation this stranger decided to
do so. An evening or two later the
two miners sat on a ledge of rock talk
ing when a badger came into sight.
The miners gave chase and the badger
ran Into a hole on the stranger's claim.
They went to work with their picks
and soon dug the badger out, and In so
doing they made a remarkable discov
ery. Ills bed In the bottom of the hole
was made on a big chunk of the very
richest of gold ore. The gold In the
stone on which he lay was worth ?!(,
(KK). In this way they discovered a
rich vein of gold bearing quart, which
runs through both their mines as well
as those belonging to Mr. George, his
brother and the hruthcr-lii-hiw. Mr.
George's trip to Nevada Is for the pur
pose of fully Investigating his new gold
mine. Wellington Mall.
"Tin- Amt-rli'iiii I. ml)'."
The home life of a typical Anicii?an
lady Is the slncerest Index of her ego.
In It she Indelibly expirees herself,
Here it is that she exercises to the
maximum her potentiality and that her
personality scores. Presumably she h
ii wife nnd mother. Her ago' Poufi
A lady of cleverness nonpluses Time.
Sho Is her son's best girl, her daugh
ter's chum, a hostess sans reproche.
She .rules her home with thrift and
skill. Her husband safely triMs In her,
ami her prlco Is above her blrthstone.
Her house Is beautiful. Its atmos
phere Hue ami clear. She Is never too
busy to listen to her "boy" or advise
her "girl" or read to their father.
Young people en iuase delight In her.
She Is their Ideal mother and friend.
Laughter Is never hindicd In her home.
Music Is welcomed und budding merit
of whatever sort llmls In her an ear
nest nnd sympathetic cur. Thomas An
trim, lu I.lpplncott's,
Aula Are Touifh Out-a.
nta are really very long lived, con
sidering their minuteness. Janet had
two queens under observation for ten
years, and ono of Sir John Lubbock's
ant pets lived Into her fifteenth year.
Ants are very tenacious of life after
severe Injury. Following loss of the
entire abdomen they sometimes live
two weeks, nnd In one ease a head
less nut, carefully decapitated by an
tiseptic surgery, lived for forty-one
days. A carpenter ant after being sub
merged eight days lu distilled water
came to life upon being dried, so that
they ii ro practically proof against
drowning.
They can live for long periods with
out food; In one case the fast lasted
nearly nlno months before the nnt
starved to death. Scientific American.
MylT' .ii l.iiiiKt-r,
"I Fee Prof. I told says the earth hns
a big hole In Its center."
"Ah, ierhnp8 that explains why tho
world is such a hollow mockery." I
It U very hard for n man to pay n '
doctor hill after ho once nets the scrm
Into his mind that he would hue got-1
ten well anyway '
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Modern Up-to-Dato Fashionable
Clothing at Populur Prices.
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Store for Men and Women.
Great Falls,
Montnnn.
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Hrewcrp nnd liottlers of extra
quality lager beer. "American
family" bottled beer a specialty.
Office: 10!) Central Avenue.
1'. O. llox 8(J.
Qrcat Falls,
Montana.
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PORTLAND, ORE.
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(MCA II A.N'DKIISON Manager
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Steam Heat in Every Room
Private and Public Baths
Electric Light
RATES $2 PER DAY AND UP
Bismarck, N. D.
RIVERSIDE HOTEL
K1L1URY Ii KILBURY. PiopiUU.l
EUROPEAN PLAN
New. House, 100 Rooms. Klegantly
furnished. First-Class in all appoint
ments. Hot and told wator In all
rooms. Meiim Heat. Krco Paths.
Klectric Light. Rates 50c to V per
day. Cafe meals "ou. A la carte. 1'iee
bus.
212-220 Riverside Avenue
SPOKANE, WASH.
The Kenyon
Don Porter
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W. II. HLACKWKLL, Prop.
One of the but hotels
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American Plan $3.00
per Day and Upwards
TACOMA,
WASH.
HOTEL
PEDICORD
T. J. I'KIUCOIlt),
f'rorletor
Rales 50c, 75c, $1, $1.50
Room wllh Private Hathi
Both American and furopean
Private Telephone In Rooms
First-Class Grill
in Connection
209.210 Riverside Ave,
SPOKANE, WASH.
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r. W. McltRAN, Sole Holder and Proprietor
Cure Dyapepila, Stomach, Liver, Kidney
and Bladder trouble; alto Jaundice,
Gravel, Rheumatism, Nervouincn and
Stricture. Wilhoit Mineral Water Salts
U the water In condented form for trav
elert' ute. Water bottled at the springs
with its own gat; no recharging.
Office and laboratory!
Wilhoit, Clackamas Co., Oregon
JAMESTOWN, N. D. :
The Seller Co.
OSCAR J.SEILER.Attorney-at-Law
Prciident
Paid Up Capital and Surplus $35,000
Collections
Investments
Real Estate
Jamestown, North Dakota
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HENRY FOLZ
Leading grocery nnd mar
ket. Wo serve tho travelling
public at leasonahle prices.
Ill ami lift West Superior
street.
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