TIIE 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.
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' 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.
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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
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