,,y f-m ,itrii' VPfc THE NEW AGE, PORTLAND, OREGON I 5 L iAAAAAAAA AritaftMtfcil&rfMli TOPICS OF THE TIMES lW'!Sllttll!Si"&,l&ll,l&,l&1 4H"Si"!i"fc"!a,,!ft,,!& Jnpnn Is bent on having "a real aavy." ItUHslu thought It hail one. I grade ores that nro now being profit- 1 J ably worked were regarded as worth less; others took Into consideration fac- lAMl- S OWN N I ! tors of fuel and transportation which t JrtlV,CO ' UVV M M' Ut J The Seller Co. Blnco being endorriod by Mark Twain spelling reform will look funnier thnu ever. Spain Is raving largo minis of money every day by not having Cuba on Its liiiiuls now. In splto of the bountiful crops throughout tho country, whisker nro coining In atylo again. Bishop Uerry says tho church boss must go.' Oh, but this Is going to bo a cold winter for bosses I no longer apply, and none of tboni at tempted an accurate view of tho possi ble sources of supply In tho uudevel oiied countries of the earth. There nro also Involved In the vital question of the futuro supply fundamental differ ences among tho geologists and cosmol- oglsts themselves. One school holds to . the theory of Sir Kobert Dull that tho metal camo originally from outside tho ' globo and that wo can hopo to Hud little more on Its surface. Another takes tho more optimistic view that the dense center of tho earth Is largely Iron. If the hitter bo tho case then tho problem of our utilizing It resolves lUelf Into tho Improvement of mining methods nud tho development of tho bcIcuco and practlco of metallurgy, Chancellor Day says tho man who mokes Is a fool. Most men will recall that they felt worso than that nfter their first smoko. OSCAR J. SEILER, Attorney-at-Law President Paid Up Capital and Surplus $35,000 Collections Investments Real Estate Jamestown, North Dakota H. HENDERSON Real Estate 108 Jersey Street, ST. JOHNS, OREGON I have choice Business and llesldonco Tracts in all parts of tho city. Corr spondenco solicited from non resident owners of property or those coking investments hero. BY IIAII, ANDJTATKB. SEE Nature's Wondrous Handiwork HT ItAir, AND WATEB Hanker Hteuslnnd Is said to havo four trunks of clothes. All the same, tho titnto of Illinois will Insist upon giving blui one more suit. Since one Russian general tins been cured to death, wo can better under stand why tho terrorists wear mich frightful looking whiskers. It appears to bo n rulo of action for tho ltiisslaii soldier that If ho cannot find and punish the guilty pwrson, threo Innocent persons will do as well. A Philadelphia child has been chris tened Mozart llecthovcn Liszt Mendels sohn Luck, and It will bo Just his fa ther's luck to discover that thero Is music In tho heir. Physicians say tho Sultan of Turkey can't possibly live more than u year. A year Isn't long, but nn nverngo Sul tan can receive a good many ultima tums lu that time. Tho souvenir postcard crazo Is n great nuisance, of course, and causes much extra work for postmasters nud letter carriers, but It adds materially to tho sale of stamps. Tho latest discovery mado by tho doc tors Is that angel cake Is full of mi crobes, but as tho chief function of mi crobes Is to make angola, tho cako ap Xoars to bo properly named. A Cleveland health officer at last lias brought relief to a suffering world by announcing that after nil tbero Is no danger In kissing. Mora of our cltloi should appoint bright people as heads of their health departments. It appears that tho Standard Oil profits In Missouri amounted to only 000 per cent. How many peoplo would bo content with only 000 per cunt when they had the power to take 1000 per cent? Let us ndmlru tho moderation of tho trust. When tho German Kmporor appoint ed a Jewish banker ns director of tho colonial olllce tho other day, much sur jirlrio was expressed In lierllu that a business man and u Jew had Iwen call ed to so high nn olllce. Kucli an ap pointment would hnvo caused surprise neither In tho United Htates nor In Kuglaud. Komo day thero may bo a United States of Central America. A party lias lately been organized In Sal Sal vador, tho leader of which liopa to tiring about a federation of tho Centrnl American republics. Tho experiment of federation Iihs been tried onco or twice; but tho people nro better quali fied for It now thnu they used to be. In these days, when families nro mov ing from oiio place to another In the liopo of bettering themselves, It Is Inter esting to road of nil aged woman who died In a New England town In tho 81110 hoiuo and In tho samo room lit which she was bom. For tho better part of a century she had been active In tho kindly Christian work of tho vil lage, and had come to ho looked upon ah one of lu Institutions. Families which havo nn old homestead that has Ikvii lu the family for generation nftor generation havo n possession worth more thnu dollars and cents, ns every member of an Itinerant family with out such a homestead will testify, In official language thero aro postal cards and post cards. Tho former Is tho penny card issued by tho govern ment with tho stamp printed upon It, while tho post enrd, usually pictorial, can bo produced by anybody, subject to restrictions In slzo and weight, and must havo n stamp afllxed. Lately tho souvenir post card has become n sort of avnlancho lu America as well as Kurope, and forms a serious problem lu tho working arrangements of post ofllces. Tho post card Is one of tho things that were never definitely born, but Just grow. I'lctorlnlly, It first camo Into notice in Germany, ten years ago, and that country, with Franco and England, still lead In Its use, mailing last year 1,200,000,000, valued at 22, 000,000, and calling on tidrty different occupations In their manufacture. Their popularity In tho United States dates from 1002 and tins kept growing until they hnvo almost overwhelmed some of tho imstofllccs, especially In tho vaca tion season. At Coney Island, with Its Labor Day outing, ,175,000 souvenir cards wero sent In tho outgoing mall, and a week lator at tho name resort a baby show resulted lu the mailing of 200,000 souvenir cards lu n slnglo day. An unexpected addition like this to postal labors Is n serious question to those who must deal with It practically, but It Is evidently an Innovation that has coino to stay. A certain degree of epistolary gullo Is found In tho sou venir (Hist card. Thero Is scant room for writing and tho communication must necessarily bo short. If trio pic ture Is striking, beautiful, nnd has nn associated interest lu tlmo nnd place, the excuse Is gracefully put, nnd tho answer can bo lu kind. Tho pictures pre served In order form nn album of trav el nud hnvo In that respect n lasting Interest. Hut how letter writing hoi fallen from Its former high cstnto when It wns n branch of literature I Now a! pleasant scrawl under an Alp, n water fall, nn architectural view or n mar ket scene, nuswors tho pnrposo, nnd thero aro few persons who would not rather send thirty souvenir cards on thirty consecutive days than to write ono letter a week. Travelers nro sup posed to hnvo unbounded lelsuro nud flow of spirits, nnd expected to glvo n lengthy nnd graphic account of their experiences. IJuylng a plctorlnl gem Instead nnd writing, "Just n lino while waiting nt tho station," may bo mora ncceptablo than receiving n many-paged letter that calls for n considerate re sjKinso In which brevity Is out of tho question. It Is nil age of concentration and dispatch. Moments are precious. Tho merely perfunctory Induces a tired feeling. Tho souvenir card has n charm even though spiced with subterfuge. Kvll natures Musi ujhii tho post card to turn It Into comic valentines or some thing still more objectionable, but tsjstal authorities effectually stop that toudcucy by throwing inversions Into tho dead letter waste basket. Its range of legitimate uses Is largo, nud they will contlnuo to unfold. KING & GILMORE Tclophono UNION 40C3 Real Estate Dealers Everything in the Best Properties Jersey Street ST. JOHNS, OREGON ABBETT All Kinds of Galvanized Iron and Tin Work a Specialty ALL WORK GUARANTEED NOT TO LEAK Agent for Quaker Mfg. Co.'s Steel Furnaces 440 Union Avo. Nortli Shop Phono East 6177 ltosidence Phono East 1808 THE BITULITHIC PAVEMENT BEST BY EVERY TEST For Streets, Driveways and Crosswalks. 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Splendid accommodations for outflta and livestock. Dock foot of Alder street Portland; foot of Court tront, Tlio Dalles. Tolo phono Main 014. Portland. THE COMFORTABLE WAY To Spokane, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, Chicago, St. Louis and All Points East and South TWO OVERLAND TRAINS DAILY Tt ORIENTAL LIMITED Tfc FAST HAIL VU Sutllt m SpoliM Splendid Service Up-to-data Equipment Courteous Employes Daylight trip across tho Cnscado and Rocky Mountains. For Tickets, rates, folders nnd full infor mation call on or address H. DICKSON, C. F. T. A. 122 Third Street, POKTUAND S. a. YERKES, A. a. P. A. SBATTLU, WASH. ! SMUKANt i $ First Nitioml Buk if Rook Springs HOOK Bl'KINOB, WYOMINO CAPITAL Md SURPLUS, $100,000 QVGKY ATTENTION OIVEN TO HUSINBSS ENTRUSTED TO US Watson Drug Co. Wholesale and Ratal! A; I Willi 111 THROUGH PARLOR CARS BKTWMN Portland. Astoria Seaside The most complete dock of Drue and Patent Medicines to be found in the Inlind Empire. Prices guaranteed as low as the lowest. 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The doctor declared that uobody with any toudency to headacho should wear tilgh collars. n i saaaari'iV vvraaw JfaaWw V iv 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. Visiters will And here a Bureau of Information where reliable information of all kinds regarding the city may be obtained. Alio free Parcel Check Rooms, Public Telephones and comfortable waiting rooms with lava tories for women. Spokane Agents for North Star Blankets, the kind used on Pullman coaches. Leave i Dally lite a. m. 7:00 p. m. union csroT for MuTneo, Main. ler.Clatikan Is WrMport, Clifton, Aainrla, Warren, ton, KUtcI, (ionr. hurt Turk ami Be a. tide. Aitorla A Bihor hxreii Dalljr. AMorla Kxpreis Wally. Arrives. Dallr. 11:10 a, ra. 9:40 p. C.A.8TRWART. J. O. MAYO, Co'iom'i Ast, iw Aider fit 'o.'v. A l.A. Telephone Main KM. HisEiiiiifTi''' 'T' rl It A Pleasant Way to Travel Tho nbovo is tho. usual verdict of tho traveler using the Missouri Pacflc Hall way botweon tho Paclflo Coast and tho East, and wo believe that the servlco and accommodations given merit this statement. From I)cnvor, Colorado Springs and Pueblo thore are two through trains daily to Kansas City and tit. Louis, carrying Pullman's lat est standard electric lighted sleeping cars, chair cars and up-to-date dining cars. The samo oxcollont servlco la oporatcd from Kansas City and St. Louis to Memphis, Llttlo'Roclc and Hot Springs. If you aro going East or South writo for ratos and full informa tion. W. O. McURIDE, Oen. Agt., 124 Third St., Portland, Or. BF On Your Trip to the East S TRY THE Estimates of the uiimtucd supplies of Irou ore was extremely uncertain and sutrustworthy. Som of them aro based u surveys made ut a period wbeo low- Towers of Russian swords and rifle In the grounds of tho Kudan shrine, Toklo, put up In honor of the Shokon cho celebrations for the spirits of the Japanese soldiers fallon In the war. ai of Brain Bsnnnatlon. A doctor says that when a person begins to have doubts about the spell ing of common words, to write an un naturally Buiall hand that shows a tendency to waver above and below a straight line and to grasp the pea with unueceesary force, especially at tho end of a long word, then that person la suffering from brain exhaustion and ought either to tako a complete rest or else to find work of an altogether new and different kind. CHICAGO Tho trouble Is when thero are plenty of seats for all, tho bawl coucert is poor. lsl 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 last daily Chicago trains make connection with all transcontinental trains at bt. raul and Minneapolis. Tf)9 'Best of Everything. All agents sell tickets via this line. For further tafennatlon apply to R. V. HCLDtn, '! aat O. Sk-W li iSSTMrSSl.. poaTkANe, eat. NW$M NORTH COAST LIMITED TaflsrSlAsSi PULLMAN STANDARD SLEEPING CARS PULLMAN TOURIST SLEEPING CARS DINING CAR-DAY AND NIGHT (KLKCTKIO I4QUTB) OBSERVATION CAR (KU5CTUJU UQUTa) ELECTRIC FANS BARBER SHOP BATH LIBRARY NUMEROUS OTHER COMFORTS THREE Daily Transcontinental Trains TO THE EAST The Ticket Offk. .t Porthmd at 255 Morrisoa St. lornr Third A. D. CHARLTON Auistant General Passenger Af ent PORTLAND, OREGON ' J