THE UTEW AGE, POHTIAND, OREGON
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No, gentle render, the present Duko
of Marlborough Ih not the original
lllonliolin puii.
ory agreeing with good nenm, find tfad
lest 01 koi'u ueusu is iu ngrcenium wuu niipnTniiH ft. I r
the fixed nnd unlvoriml laws of lAMrSlOWN'' IN U
mother iinture. The Idea that the
woman school teacher Is an emo
tionless ppvclr-s of humanity Is Just
about as Houseless ns It Is ungallant.
The Seiler Co.
The men who have organized a rhi
noceros triiHt will at least never bo ac
cused of being till n-Hk 1 titled.
"Arc there men ns brave to-day aB
wore the Spartans'" asks an csaylst.
Certainly; there are hnwilmll umpires.
When a married man lias occasion to
talk In his sleep he always says things
that his wife Is unable to understand.
Thomas W. Lawsoti Is going to wrlto
n novel. It Ih the only way In which
lie can bring about the adequate pun
ishment of the villain.
The men who claim to bo nblo to
fly when they want to should not over
look a solution of the problem of how
to light when they want to.
There are many Indications thnt Ukj
common notion of the farmer must bo
entirely abandoned. The long wills
kered Individual who says "by heck,"
has hayseed In his hair, Is Interested In I
gold hrlckM, and Is ready to, consider , Collections
OSCAR J. SEILER, Attorney-at-Law
President
Paid Up Capital and Surplus $35,000
The English lauguago has endured
for a good many years, and, despite
the efforts of reformers, may bo ex
pected to be good for a spell longer.
No doubt, when he has tlmo to think
of It, President Itoosevelt will order
the names, of the naval vessels, navy
yards ami forts to be slmplllledly
(polled.
A Wlllti'Rbarre (I'a.) cat that died
the other dnv had a nilf Interest In a
fortune of if 10,000. The heirs will have
to wall, however, until it dies eight
times more.
An autlipiary has Just discovered
that Wlllliini Cullcu llryaut once wrotu
a poem extolling the mosquito as "that
fair Insect." Evidently, Wlllliun never
Wore peekalsio vests.
Mr. Rockefeller has been assured by
n theosophlst that ho will wear a
crown. Hut Mr. Rockefeller Is 'not
credulous enough to stand before a
mirror trying to Imagine how hu would
look In n crown.
When n man goes to the peniten
tiary to serve out an "Indeterminate"
pciitcnco on sixteen charges of bur
It'lary and Is released at the end of a
year, Is It any wonder ho resumes the
practice of his profession?
Two divers descended to n depth it
two hundred and ten feet In a Sertoli
Inko the other day. This Is said to bo
the greatest depth to which divers over
descended In the Ilrltlsh Isles. It U
farther than most penplo would caro to
go beneath the surface of the water.
It Is Spanish gossip that when Prin
cess, afterward (jtieen, Victoria com
plained to her uncle, King Kdward,
that nunc ladles of the court In Madrid
objected hccnuno she prnKscd to enter
tain English friends who were not if
the royal family, her undo advised her
t "be a seuslblo girl," and said, "Do
not mako enemies. Rcxpcct people's
stupidities when necessary. In time,
If you aro wise, you will have every
thing your own way." Whether tho
King ever said this or not, It Is pretty
good advlco for every one.
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The man with ihe figures tells xis
that In fifty years this country will
Jinvo 00,000,000 population, and ho
wants to kunw what will hnpKu, As
wo will not bo hero wo aro determined
not to worry alxnil It. Our ancestors
Hot only killed but ate each other, Pos
sibly In tho remote future tho old cut
torn will become fashionable. Wo ro
call that In early life wo met up with
one or two people wo thought plenty
tweet enough to eat. The fact that thM
hereditary apiwtlto now Ilea dormant
Is no sign that It will nt break out
ngnln at vomo futuro tlmo and become
Quito popular.
favorahlo propositions for the transfer
of title In tho Masonic Temple In Chi
cago, Is a passing type. The last few
years havo revolutionized llfo on tin
farm. No one can estimate hcw much
has been accomplished by tho rural froo
delivery system In chnnglng the situa
tion, but It Is tho common thing now
for the farmer to receive IiIb dally pii
per and to spend the evening looking
over tho iiowh as brought to, him by
the metroiwlltan sheet from tho city
perhaps half n thousand miles nway.
The almanac which onco hung In tho
kitchen, supplementing tho Hlhle and
completing tho home library, now has
to share with tho standard magazines,
the dally nnd weekly papers, and th?
books received from the traveling II-
brarlwj sent cuit In several States. The
better Information mnkes the farmer
less a stranger to the activities of the
day. Tho trolley car possibly pass?s
close by his lionce. The telephone con
nects him with his neighbor and with
the stores of tho village to which he
used to, resort for newa and for sup
plies. The Improved 111110111:100' has
steadily reduced tho tollsomenesn of his
task. All these forces combined havo
worked toward his transformation. Tho
farmer of yesterday Is not tho farmer
v to-day. There haH always been rec
ognition of tho Importance of tho farm
lug class In tho prosperity of the coun
try. The abundant crops and content
ment of the rural class havo been asso
ciated with tho health and ImpplnoM
of tho nation. Ilut there has always
Im'oii, to), a tendency to depreciate the
farmer as an Individual, and to make
him tho butt of ridicule. This condi
tion has greatly changed because of tho
reasoiw already Indicated. When fann
ers meet In national congress and dis
cuss such live questions as thoso of
isistal savings banks, the election of
p(V)tmasters, tho adoption of the par
cels post system, tho relief of farm la
bor scarcity by Immigration, centrali
zation of schools, centralization of
farms, business methods In farming, It
Is evident that they aro alert. Their
minds havo been prepared for such dis
cussions by wide reading and Intelli
gent thought, and they aro ready t
roach conclusions of value. Tho city
man reads his dally paper hastily. Ho
learns to form Judgments quickly. IIu
trains himself to reach decisions sonn
times without that careful reading and
thoughtful study which the man of lei
sure gives to it subject. It Is by no
ineuiw certain, however, that his Judj
inents and decisions necessarily are bet
ter than those of the farmer, who reads
with more deliberation and thinks more
slowly Ikjciiuho his llfo Ih less affect
ed by the noise and rush. Tho modern
farmer Is worth appreciation. Ho Is
anything but tho being of caricature.
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PORTLAND, OREdON
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If nny man wlslies to linmortallio
himself let him Invent sojno way to
punish wife desertion. This crime has
Increased In CIiIciiko 100 per cent tu
three years and Cook Comity, UllnoM,
Is now npiHKtliit: 1,000 deserted fami
lies. To bring tho faithless husband
hack, prosecute and punish them would
rest Just as much as It does to suppot
their families, and It Is Impossible to
prove desertion after they aro brought
back. They all pretend to havo gone
off to got employment nnd to havo been
unfortunate, and to rebut their stories
would cost another pile of money. What
Is needed Is some genius who will In
vent Mime cheap way to punish cheap
husbands.
lu reply to the oft-repeated assertion
that no girl should leglii teaching un
less she Is to make It a lifelong pro
fession it Is sullK'lent to say that no
ruling woman, however fancy free she
may be, U able to say with certainty
that she will contlnuo so. However
treat may be her devotion to the gen
eral cause of learning at a given time,
More tho moon wnxtvi again that
broad affection may bo particularized
ind focused upon one weak and mi
ivortliy member of, tho human tribe, and
this Is a phenomenon against which
no human iHiwcr has yet teen found
to avail. Tho best wtiool teacher Is
the girl who has most of tho domestic
Instinct and Is most likely to leave tho
pedagogic calling and tlud her natural
iml procr place as the arbiter of tier
wu homo. It Is pleasant to llnd the- to move.
CONSUMPTION OF LIQUOR.
Nurwuy In Ilia I. runt Iiilempcriito of
All lliu Million.
Americans aro only moderate drink
oru compared with those of other coun
tries. Tho average citizen of the Unit
ed States, counting In tho women and
children (which Is not fair, but serves
for tlk moment as 11 basis to figure
upon), consumes In tho course of a year
lltjuors which contain 0110 and a third
gallons of pure alcohol. Ilut tho French
man, who, though formerly 0110 of the
BOberont, lias becomo the worst drunk
ard lu tho world, absorbs annually
three and n half gallons of alcohol.
Tho Ilelglan and the Hwlss come next,
with 11 consumption of two and four
fifths gallons. Then follow tho Spun
lard with two and 11 third gallons, tlio
Italian with Just a trifle less, tho Eng
lishman and German with two nnd a
tenth, and tho Austro-IIungarlan wltli
about one nnd three-quarters gallons.
On the other hand, the Ainorlcau cltl
ecu by no means stands at tlio top of
tho list In respect to sobriety, Tho
Swede drinks only one and a sixth gal
lons of pure alcohol In a year; tho Hol
lander drops considerably below him,
with ono gallon even; tho relatively
virtuous Russian, notwithstanding his
much advertised addiction to vodka,
absorbs only a trifle more than b!x
tenths of a gallon, and, finally, tlio
Norwegian, who occupies n proud end
nonce as the most abstemious man In
tho world, barely exceeds n modest half
gallon of tho stuff In n twelvemonth's
potations. It might be added for tho
nuke of detliilteuess that tho average
person lu the United States annually
drinks 0110 and a third gallons of proof
spirits (which are W) per cent alcohol),
one-third of a gallon of wine and six
teen and a quarter gallons of malt liq
uors, chiefly beer, Pearson's Muga
tlno. Juat Too Lovely,
Kidder Tlio best Illustrated paper
I've seen In 11 long while was handed
mo to-day.
Jenks What was It 7
Kidder A 50 note. Philadelphia
Ledger.
When ft girl l called to tho telo
rthono sho answers as If expecting an
Invitation, but when tho mother Is
culled she wonders lu taking down tho
receiver what company la couilug now.
When n man lias the hot foot It la
mighty easy for him to tlud an excuse
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