THE NEW" AGE, PORTLAITO, OREGON
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The Ilusslnn Rovcrnment Ih willing to
let tho tropic linvo elections, providing
they vote for tlio government.
Tlio price of gnHollnu tins go no up
again, and owners are almost beginning
to wish that their automobiles ato liny.
A famous physician Is experimenting
with the effects of music on cats. Pay
ing them back In their own coin, so to
IHMlk.
Tho man who Is paying 20 cents n
gallon for gasollno Isn't ablo to figure
out wherein JlO-ccnt denatured alcohol
HI help much.
Tho Oovornor of Cuba will rccclvo n
alary of $25,000 a year. It should bo
remembered, however, that he will havo
to live In Cuba.
Tho man who seeks divorce becnu'o
his wlfo doesn't talk enough will bo
oomldercd a fit subject for an Inqulr
ado do lunatlco.
A man always' finds It hard to con
ceal his satisfaction when ho picks up
another man's hat and finds that It Is
too small for lilin.
It In mirprlslng to read that n now
revolt Is threatened In Uussln. Many
liad supposed that a continuous revolt
was good enough for the Itusslans.
In reniiHylvanlu. there Is a man who
declares that IiIh wlfo hasn't spoken to
him for seven years. Homo ieoplo will
be uuahlo to understand why ho Is mak
ing a fuss about It.
teacher of her childhood, whose theory
of llfo was reduced to a simple princi
ple: "Learn to read well, young la
dles to onuuclato distinctly, to modu
lato tho voice pleasingly, to Interpret
the words of tho author with sympa
thy and understanding; learn to read
well, and alL other virtues will follow."
It Is possible that the acquirement of
all tho virtues seems a slightly tuoro
complicated matter than It did to tho
old gcntleuinn of seventy years ago.
Nevertheless, the advice Is not to bo
laughed uway, If only becauso It recalls
tho days when reading aloud was count
ed one of tho moat deslrublo of the fluo
arts of life. This Is no rellectlon upon
tho art of reading ns taught In these
latter days; tho question Is not of tho
actual process, but of tho placo that
reading aloud used to hold In family
life. Many a gray-haired man or wom
an who novcr heard of "round tables,"
and never discovered that authors had
early or lato styles, yet knows his Scott
or Thackeray or Hhakespearo as few
young people of to-day ever know them.
In part, this Is duo to the fact that the
field of reading now covered by young
people la much larger than It was half
a century ago. A deeper causo lies In
the decline of tho habit of reading
aloud. Wo 'havo no tlmo now to read
aloud, we say. Perhaps not; yet be
fore wo decide, might It not be well to
consider whether any other recreation
offors more permanent pleasure or
greater enrichment to tho life, nooks
read aloud winter evenings about tho
fire, with tho wholo family sharing tho
Interest nnd tho discussion, will hold
a warmth of color which tlmo will not
dim. Uetween their pages will Ho
countless happy memories a trensuro
whoso valuo will decpon through all the
years to como.
JAMESTOWN,-N. D.
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If James J, Hill wero younger ho
might havo Iidjh) of some day being In
n position to buy tho earth and sell It
again at a profit of -10 or 00 per cent
when tho population doubles.
Sir Oliver Lodge tells us that tho
nun will bo cold In 20,000,000 years,
uml what Is turning our hair gray
with worry Is tho fact that tho coal
supply will last only half that time.
Honor U being paid to tho memory
of Madoc, tho Welsh prince, who Is
aid to have discovered America In
1270. Christopher Columbus, however,
does not recall hearing anything about
It at tho time.
Bmokeni who havo been fearing that
the disturbance In Cuba might cur
tail tho output of genuine Havana, cl
ears will bo lutoroHtcd to hear that tho
Connecticut tobacco crop Is unusually
large.
Italians havo erected In Now York
City a monument to Verdi, tho grand
old man of Italian uiuhIc. This Is tho
third memorial which tho Italians have
presented to New York. Tho others
lire the monuments to Columbus nnd
Garibaldi.
A hoodlum Is a boy whoso mother
nnd father "havo no tlmo to fuss"
about him. They "guess ho Is big
enough ami smart enough to tnko care
of hluitelf." If a neighbor complains
of his mean acts the parents think that
neighbor too low down to live, Tho
hoodlum begins his course by ruunliifr
wild In the street; ho ends It on the
gallows. Hut, as a general thing, his
parents deserve hanging hotter than ho
does.
Marquis I to nnd Field Marshals
Yniutigutii and Oyanm havo beeu cro
ated princes by the Japanese Emperor
In recognition of their services In tho
war with Russia, nnd Vlco Admiral
Togo has been made n marquis for tho
nine reason. All that we can do In
America to reward our military heroes
Is to advance them In rank, nnd even
then tho promotion of successful offi
cers over the heads of men who havo
teen longer In tho service U fiercely
criticised.
In recent years, as nil readers of the
papers know, It has becomo too com
mon among a certain class of people
to have the marriage ceremony per
formed undor strange nnd unusual con
ditions, ns on platforms at county
fairs, on tho top of n smokestack, etc.
The cheap notoriety that attaches to
this sort of mnrrlage destroys the sanc
tity that should pertain to tho cere
mony and gives tho unthinking occa
sion to regard It ns n joko rather than
a serious transaction. There Is alto
gether too much trilling with the mar
riage tie already without turning tho
ceremony Into a monkey show.
There Isn't much question that most
of us would get along better If a little
more attention were given to mAstlca
tlon, If wo ato less meat Indeed, less
of everything; but there are so many
other 'offenses against good pliyslology
more serious In their results and al
moat equally prevalent that the layman
4iiay be excused for skepticism as to
the necessity for political economists
deserting their own field to push the
cause of tho chewera, A man who con
sistently chews each mouthful of cus
tard forty-seven times through life may
bnve a chance of living to be a 100 a
(ruction of a point better than tho man
who bolts batter cakes whole, but toe
latter during his shorter earthly so
journ, having his attention less closely
fixed on his stomach, may actually do
more good In the world than the hu
man hashing machine.
Among tho cherished memories of a
sertalu chanulug old lady Is that of a
Whllo certain elderly gentlemen of
athlotlc proclivities wero disporting n
tho links of a New York golf club In
competitive endeavor to reduco records,
n Chicago doctor of theology was In
veighing vigorously ngalnst tho humor
ous Dr. Osier, whoso merry Jest nt tho
exiHMiso of 00 bobs up occasionally to
plague tho supersensitive. Tho theolo
gian pointed out that Moses did not be
gin to preach until ho was 60 years u
ago, and from this undisputed assertion
ho drow tho conclusion that there Is no
ago limit until a man's vigor has gone.
If any argument wero permissible It
might bo contended that much of tho
great work of Moses was performed
whllo ho wns yet young young not
merely from tho ancient but the pres
ent wny of looking at years. Hut no
lody now takes seriously tho limita
tions prescribed by Dr. Osier except
possibly n few over-wrought gentlemen
who nro, unhappily, dovold qf tho sav
ing grace of humor. To calm the foci
lugs of theko sensitive few wo may
speak not only of tho preaching Moses
hut of tho elderly golfers who went
forth to battle amid "wintry blasts and
tlurrlos of snow." It Is recorded that
of this goodly array of competitive an
cients and honornbles not cuio was un
der &0, while most of them had pnssod
tho Osier ago of usefulness, and several
of them wero over 80. A merry young
fellow of 78 carried off ono of the
prises, and a stripling of, two and sev
enty figured proudly In tho running.
And In order to accomplish the task
presented It wns required of theso hus
ky athlotCH to cover ground to tho ex
tent of seven miles, n mere bit of at
tendant exercise which they consldor.xl
hardly worth mentioning. In all likeli
hood Moses thought nothing of walk
ing seven miles a day, oven after ho be
gan preaching, for ho was a pedestrian
of large experience and was In excel
lent training. Hut tho conjunction' of
tho patriarch and tho conteinporn-y
golfers, for Illustrative purposes, Is fe
licitous chlelly ns showing that In all
ages of the world's history decrepitude,
physical and mental, Is usually not so
much a matter of years as of tempera
inont and modo of llfo. Tho octogenar
ian on tho golf links and In the pulpit
Is constantly with us to remind us .f
tho humor of Dr. Oslor'a quips aud fan
cies. Daanaud (or Mor Pars,
Samuel Leon, who represents largo
fur Interests and has charge of sup
plying tho trade, reports greatest de
mand for fur In tho history of tho
country,
"In the last three years tho demand
for fur In the United States has In
creased more than 200 per cent The
demand Is bo largo that It cannot bo
mot at all, aud tlte result has been
to Increase enormously tho price of
skins.
"A large amount of tho furs of tho
United States are being imported from
Russia, which shows a great change,
as formerly we relied In this country
to a great degree on tho furs of our
own continent. The seals havo been
slaughtered In recent years In largo
numbers, and although thero seems to
Imi no sign of nn early extinction of the
animals, tho skins are not bo common
as formerly. More and more tho trudo
Is looking to the countries of northern
Europe for their fluo skins. Sau Fran
cisco Chronicle.
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The other evening they wero on the
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what la tho matter with the graasT"
Inquired tho sdrprlacd host "Too
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