Portland new age. (Portland, Or.) 1905-1907, September 22, 1906, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTIIE NEW AGE, POHTLAND, OREGON I Topics of I .4 i-rit If the limes Hot the O.ar never knew before tlint there were so ninny kind of trouble. Times never become loo prosperous Tor (llflioncHt lunik oIIIcIiiIh to Hlonl anil run away. An Hasten! Ice company Ih reported to have fulled. It must hnvu u (IIh lioncHt bookkeeper. The nito of u woman at .'It" N repre sented liy any combination of figures that np)uarH pluutdhlo. tern of what Is admirable to counter balance It A New York Ice ninn has pine Into liiinkruptcy. The only possible explana tion Ih that he refused to Join the trust. A woman author Iiuh sued Secretary Ioub for ?."0,000 for causing her nrrest. There are many way of advertising u Look. A Western preueher conferees thnt Ills best sermons are prepared while he tins n good cigar In Ida mouth. Holy smoke I A ninn who climbed Mont ninnc ways It kuvo him "rheuinatlmn In the head." Ho seems to have found plenty of rheum at the top. Henntor Tillman Rays ho In almost convinced that women know more than men do about voting. Isn't he getting to he the Indies' man, though? A Tennessee mnu wants Congress to jwiss n law against puok-n-boo waists. Ho must MjssenH mi unholy desire to Ket Congress to hunt for trouble. Large new coal Holds have been found In Pennsylvania, but the consumer may us well be notlllcd at once that the coal trust Is going to control them. Amateur photograhcrs have been pen. terlug Harry Lehr again. Harry Ih wholly Justified In Indignantly asking why the amateur photographers don't try to think of something new. A returned army olllcer says It will take a hundred year to subdue thu re bellion Filipino. This encourngiM thu hope thnt the Phlllpptuo war and thu Panama canal will be Mulshed about thu same time. The DuclicriM of Hoxlnirghe, who was formerly May (Joelet of Now York, K'avo thu Queen of Spain a gold cigar ette case as a wedding present. If thu duke was equally thoughtful ho probn bly gave King Alfonso u Jeweled garter buckle. A Kansas lady Insists thnt woman ciiii never hope to bo man's equal until she Ih able to open h telegram us calmly ns (die Is able to open u can of com. Why not give her u chance? Let her have equality as noon an she Is ublu to open a telegram tin calmly as u man opens u can of com. That opportunities for poor but ener getic young men are still to be found In this country Is manifest In thu cl renin Mniicn that kucIi u young mini, with no other capital than u -'cent Htiiinp, cleaned up u matter of f.'.'.IMHt by bid ding for thu Panama canal bonds, if thnt youth does not develop Into a Na poleon of lluaiice thu ludlcutloiis are at fault. Manuel Oarcln, who died recently nt thu age of 101 years, was famous not only as a teacher of singing, hut us an accidental contributor to the profes sion of medicine. In order to study the vocal cords as thu Instrument upon which he taught his pupils to piny, ho Invented the laryngoscope. This Instru ment In Improved form Is In the hands of every throat specialist. When Gar cln'H friends celebrated his hundredth anniversary, art, music and medicine united to honor him. The Orst experiment with rurnl free delivery wus umdo In 18!)7. In 18US the expenditure on the service was only ..JO.000, In 1D05 the expenditure hnd rlflen to nearly $21,000,(X)0. The appro priation for tho current llscnl year Is $i8,.'JoO,000, the routes number 35,874, thu curriers- .'15,708. There Is dully ser vice on nil the routes except ..53, and on these there Is service every other day. Tho benellU of the service ex tend to H.iaS.OOO families, or 13,0(17,001 persona. This brief story of nn nmnzlng growth U made up from an nrtlclo by Postmaster General Cortelyou In Tho Independent. Hut the article was not written prlmnrlly for the purpose of showing how grent and how rnpld the development hnd been. The writer be- gliw by siiylng: "Prom time to time publications appear assorting that ever since the rural free delivery was Inau gurated certain named States have been discriminated against, and thnt It 1.4 now proposed to carry this discrimina tion further by discontinuing routes or changing tho service from dully to tri weekly, tm tho result of Home new jkiI Icy adopted by the I'ostotllco Depart ment." Here Is a charge that Is met with nn emphatic denial and with an exposition of some of tho dllllcultles tho department has to contend with thnt Is curiously Interesting. It In an old say ing that there arc tricks In all trades, and from this showing It appears that tricky schemes for getting rurnl deliv ery arc by no means uflknown. In most cases thu trickster Is thu man who Is after the jiosltlon of cnrrler. He circu late tho petition for tho establishment of the route. Tho petitioners may hu Indifferent and may nut know what thu icqulsltu conditions for the service are. Home of them will sign a petition and then sign a remonstrance shortly after ward. As a description of conditions that tiro found uhii Inspection by rural agunts we hnvo the following: "Tho inajorlty of thu families to whom this route would extend nru of the poor ten ant class. It Is a conservative estimate to say that not more than 15 per cent nru hind owners. Onc-hnlf the houses counted during the drive over the terri tory have but one room. Home of tho houses did not even hnve a window. Most of thu country Is boggy and swampy; only a small tract hero nud there Is dry enough for cultivation, Sev- enty-llvc per cent of these ix-ople hnvo not thu money with which to purchaso tho noccssltlc of life, let alone money for Improved mall srvlco, subscriptions for newspapers nnd iostugo stumps." Manifestly to withhold the service from long stretches of wilderness Is not a political discrimination or thu denial of n right to any pnrt of tho country. Nor, In view of tho figure thnt wo hnvo presented, Is tin ro any ground for n ooin-vlulnt thnt thu government Is nig gardly. On thu contrary, It Is plain that It Is very generous, nnd though thu service Increases tho revenues both di rectly nnd Indirectly, tho actual revenue on mull mutter dispatched by lis pat rons Is only IH icr cent of the cost. Un der thu circumstances the exerclso of sonio business sense Is required nnd tho demands of every man who want to be a carrier cannot bo grunted. At the s.uno time tho Immense vnluo of thu system to the country Is clearly recog nized, nnd It Is certain to expand In rc.spon.so to tho needs of tho people. YEOBrN BROS- SAVIINOfi BANK BILL.INOS. MONTANA Branch Banks txt Butto, Anaconda and Oardlner TriiMi-nct (i CJiMiurftl Utinklnit Busttieftct Pay interest on Savings Accounts and Time Cortlllcutes of Deposit. Wo stnrt Savings Accounts with n deposit of ono dollar or more. O. E. HEINTZ, Manager. Phone East 57 PACIFIC IRON WORKS. STRUCTURAL, STEEL AIND IROIN Steel Bridges, Upset Rods and Bolts," Cast ,'lron Colums and all Architectural Iron. Sidewalk Doors and Lights. All Kinds of Castings. EAST END BURNSIDE STREET BRIDGE, PORTLAND, OR THOMAS WITHYCOMBE Real Estate and Fire Insurance Choice Farm Landi, Stock Ranches, Small Tracts and City Property for Sale; Alto Breeder of Registered A. J. C. C. Jersey Cattle and Regis tered Poland China Hogs. Phone Main 2273- Room 8, Hamilton Block PORTLAND, OREGON 444)4) ! SPOKANE Watson Drug Co. Wholesale and Retail The most complete stock of Drupi and Patent Mtdiclntt to be found in the InUnd Empire. Price guaranteed as low as the lowest. Our Prescription Department merits your confidence 421 Riverside Ave. Marion Block First National Bank of Rook Springs HOOK Hl'IUNUS, WYOMING CAPITAL and SURPLUS, $100,000 liVBKY ATTENTION OIVDN TO DUSINBSS BNTKUSTBU TO 1)3 SWIFT & COMPANY So. Omaha, Nebraska PREMIUM HAMS, BACON And All Fresh Cuts for Hotels MAIL ORDERS PROMPT ATTENTION THE STAR P. H. KRAMDR Proprietor Wines, Liquors and Cigars KRAMER'S MOUSE Plrst-Clus Furnished Hooms from 12.60 to IS.IM per week S. W. Cor. Fifth tad Borulfc 5U. PORTLAND, OR THE BITULITHIC PAVEMENT BEST BY EVERY TEST For Streets, Driveways and Crosswalks. WARREN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 716 Oregonian Building, Portland, Oregon CHICAGO The Model Dry Goods Store of the Model Western City VISIT SPOKANE. When you do, visit THE CRESCENT, its model store, and one of the most interesting show places in what Elbert Hubbard has called the model city of America. Visltora will Hnd here a Bureau of Information where reliable information of all kinds regarding the city may be obtained. Also free Parcel Check Rooms, Publie Telephones and comfortable waiting rooms with lava tories for women. Spokane Agents for North Star Blankets, the kind used on all Pullman coaches. Isl THE EAST When purchasing ticket to Chicago and the East, see that it reads via the Chicago & North-Western Railway. Choice of routes via Omaha or via St. Paul and Minneapolis. It is the route of The Overland Limited and the direct line to Chicago from the Coast. Four fast daily Chicago trains make connection with all transcontinental trains at fct. Jf aul and Minneapolis. The 'Best of Everything. All agents sell tickets via this line. For further Information apply to R. V. HOLDKM, O.K'1 sl O. RVW I ISSTklrSSI., PORTLAND, OSS. NWU4 kittle keon in patriotism aai... ... ... eis. .. f Summer Outings I Jl IN Jm ' Hce-Ntlug Is said to lio good for rheu matism, but tlmt In not thu Iico'h In tention In administering It, The bee has other problems tliiiu thoso connect ed with tho curative rt. Ulx Inten tion U to lift ills mini out of His. tlon, nuil lie does It unlets the latter Is intoxicated. If tlio mnu 1ms rheuum tlsiu, no matter. Tho bee moves him ut once by eliminating aclil from the blood and arousing tho gamiest leu from tho lethargy of ages. It Is well before an noying the bee to get your rheumatism established, because one bce-stlug will lap over a good deal of rheumatism, and If you have an lusufllclent supply of the latter to neutralise It tho bee In his earnestness Is prone to overdo his lnrt. Kvery country fixes upon some cr Ih1 of 1U past history which It delights to call Its "Golden Age," but It Is al ways Mine time so remote that nothing Is known of It with certainty and around It myths and legends luvutnu lato until all Its events are seen through the glorifying mists of iwctry and romance, No one has ever the cournKo to say "wo are now living In the tlolden Ago of this country," how ever much ho may reallio the fact that It U far better thau any period which has gono before It. With the good ho eea Intermingled so much evil, which he fancies to be Incompatible with the highest prosperity, tlmt he hcMtntca to speuk of It with much enthusiasm. Did he but know It, In that Oohleu Ago so much lauded by the poet and ro luaucer, evil was far more rampant ttuut It Is U-day and thx was far mm It was at tho battlo of Hhlloli tlmt tho conspicuous bravery of TIioiuhr Kllby Bmlth won tho prnlno of Cien. Sherman. In tho of flclal re(ort of that oftlcer ho gives more than a Itttlo pralso to tho gallant sol dier, and so great was the Impression that it made uihmi his memory that years afterward, lit speaking before the Ohio Society of New York, ho mentioned tuouab k. surra the brlgado tlmt Smith had led. 'They camo back to me under a heavy tire. As Gen. Smith rodo at Mie head of his men I thought that I had never seen such handsome conduct under Are." This same regiment was the advance guard In the occupatlou of Oorlnth; Bmlth commanded 'the brigade at the battle of Chickasaw Itluffa; he led It again at Arkansas Post, and In tbe ts rlous battles and operations prepara tory to the siege of Vlcksburg. He took pnrt In the Red Itlver expedition, where he protected tho fleets of Ad miral I'orter In a daring and arduous series of tights during the retreat to Alexandria, a retreat made necessary by tho disaster to Hanks' army ut Sa bine Crossroads. Probably few otllcers In the service won such approbation from their su periors as did (Jen. Smith. Grant and Sherman were enthusiastic concerning his bravery and capabilities and ear nestly sought promotion for him. Ills war record Is Indeed n most enviable ono of trust faithfully kept and duties well performed. Yellowstone Park The Finest Place in America for a vacation of a week, a month or the season. Special Excursion Rates East in August and September during Park season. Tickets will permit of Stopovers, affording an opportunity to visit the Park at a slight addi tional expense. THE REGULAR ROUTE iS VIA A Sir t'ok. Nell When I met May today I had my new gown on. Of course, I expect ed her to say something about It, but she pretended not to see It. Hello Yes, she's an awfully consid erate and tender-hearted girl. Phila delphia Ld) TWO TRAINS DAILY TWO St. Paul. Duluth, Minneapolis and the East. K3& 3ci?S TWO TRAINS DAILY TWO Omaha, Kansas City, St Louisy St Joseph and the East Sr Livingston and Onrdnor Gateway Is tho Government Official Entrance Send Six Cents for Wonderland, 1906. Full Particulars on application at TICKET OFFICE, 253 MORRISON ST., COR. THIRD Or by Letter to A. Dm CHARLTON, Ammt. QenL Pmmmenger Agtm PORTLAND, OREGON sm A V !