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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OKEGONIAX, WEDNESDAY, !rAKCII 8, 1911. PERFIDY CHARGED if BILLS' DEFEAT J. H. Albert Says Governor Was Deceived in Vetoes of Road -Measures. HUGE "MUD TAX" IS LEFT Derlaralinn I Made That "Malcon tent Appointed Committee to . Prepare Adverse Opinion. Pragma Is Delayed. CHARGES MADE BY J- H. A13EKT. THe fact that Orrgon bs no good roads fond and o authority to ap propriate any or to .r convicts on .;tTn of roada. Is due to treach ery ea the part of tbo Or. too Good Road Aasoelatioa or persons ni rnlly representing themselves as bar ing authority from that body. Aft.r rcmprfltnlf! were tnado be t.Mii good roadi advocates at the LcUlatar. and th. amendments srere ptm4 aa aareed spon. a few snalroatenta sscursd appointment ot a com mi IT re to render aa adverse opinion and Governor IVcs was arged to rata tbo bllla. A telasrara. alcned br Andrew C. Smith, ptwl dont of tbo Oood Roada AasociaUoa. was tba final point a poo wMra tha CoTtmor derided to a--, aa It rec ommended tbo veto. Cnaerln aror tbo tact that Orrf -a Good Road Aaaoctatloa Bllla w.ra amn1rd ranaad members to art for dfat of tba whole Bumbar of bills from selfish motlvea. Oa tha averasa haul of lo miles, Orecoa'a "mad tax" oa tbo l.OOi. on tons of produce marketed laat ear u Portland would amount to SI. 000.000. la other words, and.r our present road ratera wi aro paying mora mod tag thaa road tax. Governor Vol mad. a grave mle taka la vetoing tbo bllla. even titeesh ba apparently did ao at tbo request of tboao who vara recog nised aa good roada advocate. That Corernor West made a grave mistake when he vetoed tha good .roads bill as amended by the Legislature, and that treachery fur selfish motives by persons connected with the Oregon Good Roads Association brought It about, are dectaratlona made by J. H. Albert, of Salem. In a statement Issued yesterday. Mr. Albert Is prominently Mortified with tha good roads move ment, lie excoriates those who. he de clares, for spiteful reasons brousrht about or helped to bring about defeat of the bllla through tha medium of the veto. In his statement. Mr. Albert says that a committee waa named to report on the bills and that this committee, consisting ot .V. C Bristol. James Cole and C. T. frail, gava an opinion ad verse to the bills: and that the Oregon Good Koads Association, by Dr. An drew C Smith. Its president, urged the Governor by telegraph to veto the measures, lie goes Into the details of the bills and shows how bad a blow has been struck at tha good roads movement In the state and the tre mendous financial loss that Is to re sult. Fermanenc System Xon-Ealetent. Mr. Albert's statement In full Is as follows: "The fact that Oregon today has no system for the building of permanent roads, no authority tor the appropria tion of one dollar toward the building of such roads, no power to create an Indebtedness for the building of thren. under the provision ot the recent amendment of section 10. article 11. of the constitution, and no power to use convict labor, either state or county, en such roads. Is due to treachery on the part of the so-called Oregon Good Koads Association, or of certain parties wrongfully claiming the right to repre sent that body. "This association did good prelimin ary work In the preparation of the five good roads Mil which were presented to the Legislature. After having first prepared tha bills. It called a conven tion of representatives from all the counties In the state. In which the bills were carefully considered and amended to meet the views of the convention. T'.tese bills, during the entire session of the Legislature, were In ctiarge and tinder the watchful care ot Its accred ited agent. They met the fate of all Mils of a general character In belnsr opposed by a few. and finally amended In both branches of the Legislature as the result of compromises between those who differed as to their scope and methods of reaching the same goal, via. the building of permanent roads. Webster Agrees to Amendments. "Judge Webster, who had full au thority to represent the association In the Legislature, acquiesced In tha re sult, and personally requested the Gov ernor to approve the bllla. At the ad journment of the Legislature the Gov ernor bad In his hands about ISO bills which he must examine and act upon within five days, the last day for such action beinai February I4. February SI a few malcontents, repudiating the ac tion of Judge1 Webster, seemed to have arrived at th determination to defeat all the bills. To attain that end It appears ttey appointed a committer, consisting of W. C. Bristol. James Cole and C. T. Prall. to give an adverse opin ion on the bills, and of course, they got what they asked for. Acting upon this fake - opinion, the Governor was asked to veto all the road bills. With no time to give them the consideration they deserved, the Governor, knowing that this good roads convention orig inated th bills and 'had urged their pessage after having agreed to the bills as amended, was astounded at the receipt of a telegram of which th following is a copy: Portland. Or Feb. !1 0.rnor O. West. aera. Or. At a m-rtir of tha Ore Sa Oood Koads Ax:laU.n h id thla aftr noa I waa lntm-i-.t 10 respectfully rreom m.n.1 that tha laronsrooua road bllla ba t.tord. JLNDREW c SMI-jTH. r-resld.nt. "Thereupon the Governor vetoed th bills a grave mistake, of Incalculable Injury to th cause of good roads, but effected by means calculated to de er I th very elect. "Quoting from this opinion: Th.re aro certain legal questions which yonr rnmmlftee points oat. as follows: -7. That tha so-called "stats aid bill la not a valid rnMtmrnt because -Id It folia to designate tba method of pavm.at of money. b Tba certainty of tbo acceptance of the earn. -c Tha disposition of tbo remaining por tloa of th. faaia. If any. rf -id) It Mr. Mariner Is eortn. lea.ee as. lion 17 of the bonding set to b rad to-r-t h-r with tha state aid Mil. and thla is not constitutional legislation. Provision for Aid Definite. "Now th original state-aid bill pro vided that the work be done under the supervision and control of the Mate Highway Commission, and the county receive the money only upon th cer tificate of th Highway Commissioner that the road had been completed, but the act as paaeed by the Legislature made no reference to a Highway Com missioner, but provided for the payment of the money to the county n'nver" accepted the provision by providing the hiii. amount for the building of a per manent road as that appropriated by the state. I quote: "Section 1. Thora la hereby appropriated th. .urn of $3to."0 to be used a, provided la thla art. one-half of which shall be avail able Is th. year 1B11. and tba remainder la th. year -Section 2. Kara county, as now organ lied In thla state, shall ba entitled to re crl. S.VMO of tha money appropriated by sretlon on. ll of thla art for tha year 1011. and .v0 for tit. year lol. to ba used In lb construction of permanent roada la that county aa provld-d In thla act. Section . Whenever any county shall desire to accept the money aa mentioned In aeetlon two s of thla act. It ehall provlda and make available aa needed .a fund or Siuoo to o used with tha $V"O0 mentioned la section two i2 for th. construction of a permanent road or roads: provided, how ever, that no county shall bo required to levy a greater tax than one and one-Bait 1, mills In order to secure the stste aid contemplated IB this act. "Now clearly when any county had complied with the provisions of section X. and certified that fact to the Secretary ot Suit, that county would hav been entitled. Immediately on application, to a warrant upon the Stat Treasury for In favor of that county. The re maining sections of th bill provide th manner In which the money ahU be ex pended by the county. For Instance sec lion a provides: "Section S. All roads constructed ond.r the provisions of this set shall ba con atructrd on durable and permanent line, and aa greater grade than 5 per cent aball be nsed escept by speeial permission of the State Engineer. "Th Stat Engineer la an officer elected by the people; bene this bill, living no reference to any other of th good road biHs. would have stood alone. Th objections that there would be '(b) no certainty ot the acceptance of the same: (c) the disposition of the re maining portion of th funds If any. ar frivolous, and ar not required to b provided for In any appropriation. As to the objection "(d) If Mr. Mariner Is cor rect, leavea section 17 of the bonding act to b read together with th state aid bill, and this Is not conKltutional legisla tion.' Now section 17 simply provides: "Section 17. In case that any county which votea to Issue bonds or county ware bouse warranta shall accept any state aid for building permanent roads granted by any taw that may hraft.r bo enacted, tba amount ot such bonds or warranta ahall bo plard to tha credit of tha sum of money required to ba raised by such county to se cure such state aid. "Sow this does not leave thla section to be read together with th state aid bill'; neither can this provision possibly affect the Stat aid bllL The operation of the bonding saw Is not affected, nor does It depend at all upon th provisions of thla section, which simply provldea that In tee event of the passage of a state aid law. 'hereafter th proceeds of any bonds Issued under the provisions of thla act should be In cluded In the sum which the county might, be required to rals In order t avail themselves of th benefit of sjuch act. Indeed, the .amendments msd to this bonding law hav eliminated th possibility of constitutional objections to the origlnsl law aa Introduced by th Oregon Good Roada Association, This statement will apply aa well to th State Highway Commission bill objec tions which ar frivolous, but might have possibly been urged with som force against the original bill aa Intro duced by tbe association. VneonAtltatlonallty "Last Resort." "The argument to support the question of th unconstitutionality ot this bill Is an Illustration of th us of such argu ment as a last reemrt by an attorney who Is giving an opinion by requear, to be exhibited to the other side of the case. vlx.. to knit his brows, look wiee through his goggles, and pronounce It unconstitutional. The objection to the city and county labor bill that th legal question arises whether city prisoners can be so worked within th present condition ot th ordl tiance of th City of Portland." etc.. etc.. suggests that In that event, the City of Portland mlKht amend Its ordinance to conform with the state law. and not re quire th mountain to mov to Moham med. "In trying to account for tli chang of heart of the Oregon Good Roads As sociation, or any respectable number of Its members. I sm forced to the con clusion that, being chagrined at not being able to hav their bills go through with out any amendment. It concluded to de feat them from selftah motives. Port land Kine ao unfortunate aa to nossess X per cent of the taxable property In tne staxe must Decrni7 . . v portion of the state tax; bene of the XMO.OuO appropriated under the atate aid law she would be required to pay 1122.-i-bv defeating that bill she could re coup herself for th $80(4 spent In the good roada campaign, and hav still gilt, 40 to the good a very sordid view. But why kill the highway bill, which carried an appropriation of only JliOJO. or the county convict bill carrying no appropria tion, or the county bonding bill, which carried no appropriation, but . simply providing for th Issusnc ot bonds by the counties when authorised by a ma jority vote aa provided by section 10, article 11. of tha constitution as recently amended by the people. State Aid Valuable, Alone. "Under th state aid law. there would have been expended by every county In the state at least Slu.009 In Ml. and IUXOXI in 1912. In the construction of per manent highways, and this whether any other good roadfl bills had passed or not. "Cnder the state highway bill, every county In th state could hav consulted th Board at Its monthly meetings, could hav had th advice and assistance ot the scientific road builder In the person of the Highway Commissioner appointed by and hoMljfcj his position at th pleasure of the Board. "Under the county bonding act. tha counties couhi have raised auty additional amount they might doem expedient to ure; in budding permanent roads In ad dition to those receiving state aid. "Under the county convict law. all per sona serving senteuces In all city, town or county Jails in thla state could hav been worked upon tbe public roadsv or in preparing material therefor. "livery one of these four bills passed by the Legislature could have stood alone. arM did not depend upon the pro v4ona of any other bill; they were all 'slain In the bouse of their friends.' Their blood la upon the hands ot the Oregon State Good Roads Association; you cannot wash out the stain. All the perfumes of Amby cannot sweeten them. "Judge Ronsld In Ms good road talk at the Commercial Club Friday night last, said: T.It. mo the money th. farmers loae In a year ea muddy roads and 1 will build National highways to connect all tha great cities of both coasta and I will build a fleet of battleships, aa formidable aa tha Atlantic fleet that went around tha Horn In addition. Ijrl ma hava tha money loos of flv. years and I will pay tha National debt and In aix year. I will do all I propose and pay tor tha Panama Caaal besides. "In Oregon It costs the farmer over 30 cents per ton per mil to haul hi pro duce to th mllroad or river. Over good roads It would cost him less than half that amount, that Is. 10 cents per ton per mile. On the average haul of ten miles. Oregon's mud tsx on the l.On&Ow tons of produce msrketcd Isst year In Portland would amount to 11.(00. OttX In other words, under our preewnt road system we ar paying more mud tax tiiaa road tax.' TOBIN IS RECEIVER i Justice of Peace in Charge of Bank at Lents. DEPOSITORS OFFER NAME Officer of Institution Accused of Accepting; PcpoMt or $400 Aflcr It Is Insolvent Prosecu tion May Follow. E. P. Tobln. a Justice of the. Peac at Lents, was appointed receiver of the Mount Scott Bank at Lents by Pre siding Judge Gantenbeln in the Circuit Court yesterday afternoon. The ap pointment was In harmony with the request of a majority of the depositors, and contrary to th request of State Bank Examiner Wright, who asked that his assistant. Will H. Bennett, be ap pointed to the place temporarily until a man experienced In banking could ba found to till the place. Th majority of the depositors were represented In court by ex-Judge Cle land. who presented a petition from them asking for Mr. Tobln's appoint ment. It waa explained in this petition that the depositors wanted a man for tha position who knew tnetra and who was familiar with local conditions. Mr. Wright asked that an experienced man be placed In the bank as receiver. He said that prosecutions might result, and that if an Inexperienced man should take the placs It might be necessary to employ an expert to go over the books, while an experienced receiver could do the work himself. Ireposltors' Wishes Granted. In deciding. Judge Gantenbeln said that he was of the opinion that a re ceiver was necessary. He said that as It was a small bank be did not think that an expert banker was needed, snd as the depositors had asked for Mr. Tobln's appointment, he waa inclined to accede to their desires. "I want th depositors to understand that I shall be ready and willing to hear from them at any time If matters do not go right." said tha Judge. lie inti mated that he would make a change In the receivership at any time that It might seem necessary. Mr. Wright told the court that al though the shortsge In the bank was only XK). and that the assets were in excess of the liabilities, he believed that a receiver waa necessary, as the people of Lents had no faith In the bank and he believed that it would be Impossible to 'rehabilitate It- He believed, he said, that If a good man wer appointed re ceiver the depositors would receive a substantial part of their dues In about SO days. The assets of the bank are t3S.W and the liabilities are IM.OOO. How much of the assets can be collected Is a matter of some doubt, but It seems that the loss to depositors will not be much. There are I0U depositors, many of them having only small amounts In the bank. Portland Cliecka Xot Met. At th close of business Friday night, when th bank examiner took charge ot the bank. It was found that there was lacking 3S0 of being enough money on hand to satisfy checks from Portland banks. These checks had been laid aside In an envelope, and Mr. Wright said yes terday that It was with the evident pur pose of keeping them from his sight whil h was going through the accounts. In addition to th shortage In the amount necessary to satisfy th checks. It was found that the bank did not have on band the full reserve required by law. the deficiency In this regard being Mr. Cleland. in presenting the case of the depositors, said that criminal prose cution probably would follow an inves tigation Into the affairs of tbe bank, ss th bank had accepted a deposit of euO after It had become Insolvent, Mr. Tobln will qualify as receiver this rooming and take possession ot the bank Immediately, when It will pass entirely out of the hands of the state bank ex aminer. PURE ilTfOBE TOPIC "DOLLAR DAI R T DIXXER" TO BE REPRESENTATIVE. Revival of anUustry In Oregon Tlironifh rnlted Action Purpose of Conference. With J. W". Bailey, State Dairy and Food Commissioner; Dr. Calvin S. White and Dr. Andrew C. Smith, of the State Board of Health; C. H. Weaver, of th. City Board of Health: Dr. E. N. Hutchison, of the United States Bu reau of Animal Industry, and Mrs. Lora C. Little, of the Little Health Club, occupying seats at th same banquet table to discuss pure milk. It Is be lieved that the "Dollar Dairy Ban quet" will not only bo entertaining but will furnish amusement and In struction to the larg number present. Dairymen, farmers, consumers and but termakers will all be present, accord ing to present arrangements. It Is expected that after all have expressed their views a committee will point out a method for securing- unity of action and the elimination of public agita tion against milk sold and thus bring about a revival of th dairy Industry In Oregon. -The banquet Is to be held on Friday night In the banquet hall of the com mercial Club. The Consumers' League yesterday notified the Commercial Club that W. W. Cotton. H. R, Talbott and J- H. Forbis had been appointed to represent the society at the banquet. Dr. K. A. Pierce, of the State Board of Health, has also signified his Inten tion of being present. In addition there will be representa tives of the Oregon Agricultural Col lege and Experiment Station, the Grange and the State Dairy Associa tion. FARMER GOES FAR ASTRAY Man Found Cnder Portland Dock? Had Started for Orecon City. Setting out from his farm In Clack amas to go to Oregon City and pay his taxes, Sylvester B. Kent, 73 years old, landed under a dock at Front and Jef ferson streets yesterday morning, with a badly strained leg. minus all his money.' and ignorant ot how ha cam to be there. Kent was found by Patrolman Carr, lying under the dock and apparently suffering great pain. No on saw Kent at the time of his accident, nor could he tell how It happened. He said that he had set out that morning for tha county seat, but Instead, In some mys terious way that he could not explain. yiad com to Portland Instead. : . , I PLAGUE'S SPREAD TOLO t WRITER FROM PEKIV TRACES M.VXY CASES TO 1XX. Dr. J. E. Hall Receives Letter From Son Pneumonic Type Virulent. Medical Corps Vaccinated. A letter Just . received by Dr. J. E. Hall of this city, from his son Dr. Fran cis J. Hall, who for the last four years has been In medical mission work In Pekln, China, gives Interesting infor mation concerning the vague Mtua tlon In that country. The letter. In part, is: When I wrote the tlrst part of this letter. January 15, I referred to the plague In Harbin. It has since spread to Mukdan and to numerous villages in Manchuria, so that hundreds have died of It in that prov ince. It has reached Tientsin, where there hava been a few deaths, all traceable to on original case I understand. It has not spread beyond control In Tientsin, though I haven't heard lately the exact number of cases. The foreigners In Pekln became pretty much wrought up. and held a lot of meetings the medical men, I mean, and also the foreign ofne. "Wai Wo Bu" through Alfred Sie, on of tha secretaries, and a Cornell graduate, held soma meetings at the Medical School talking over measures of prevention. As a result of conferences hero the government instituted a quarantine at Shanhaikwan. where It placed some foreign doctors In charge. They discontinued all second and third-class passengers on the railroad from Mukden into China, and required all flrst clasa passengers to be quarantined Ave days at Shanhaikwan. These regulations are in force now. but tliey were started too late, for the man who brought the disease to Tientsin came from the north before the regulations were In force, and also a man has brought the disease to a village south of Paotlngfu, where there have been over 30 deaths as a result. On the night of Jan uary 19 a case came Into the London Mis sion Hospital at the medical school and died the same night, and bacteriological tests showed beyond doubt that It waa plague. A. a result of Inveatigation of this case s history. It waa found that ho cams from an inn in the Chinese city. About ten days before a man had come from Manchuria snd stayed at the Inn and died there. I don't know what became of bis body. It was probably burled by tha authorities. Soon another man at that Inn died and his relatives took his body off somewhere Into the city to bury In the process of time. A third man took alck at the same Inn and went off somowher on the railroad, nobody knows where, but he probably scattered th disease to his home. The fourth man to alrken at the same Inn went to the Medical School Hospital, and hla waa tha first case which was recognised as plague, because It waa the nrst that came under the notice or a foreigner. His typo of disease was the septicaemia type. Ha died tbe same night he was admitted, and the bacteria were demonstrated in bis blood, t saw them my self. Fo the tlrst known case la Pekln was on January 20. Tha peculiar thing about this epidemic, and a feature that makes it different from any I hava beard of at any time, la that th cases are nearly all of the pneumonic type. Ordinarily only about 3 per cent In an epi demic aro of this type, and about two-thirds are ot the bubonic type, associated with swelling of the lymph glands. The ord -nary death rate of the bubonic variety Is about TO per cent, bad enough, but the pneu monic Is 'very much more dangerous, bo cause very much more contagious, and th death rate la much higher. Osier puts It at about 7 per cent, but others say It Is doubt ful if a pneumonic case aver recovers. Thus far there has not been a alnglo recovery, 1 understand. . To date, February 7. It Is said on good authority that of the 14.000 Chinese popu lation of Harbin 5009 have died, and tha death rate In all Manchuria is 500 a day The Tuesday after the first case waa reported In Pekln there was a regular stam pede of foreigners out of the city by the through train to Hankow. Miss Ward among them. She decided the Tuesday before that It was time to depart and accomplished the remarkable feat of getting her things dis posed of and her trunks packed and getting off for homo In one week. So we are Just delighted at this aspect of affairs, though not very pleased with th prospect in other lanes. I can say this much br way of re The T. B, POTTER REALTY COM PANY requires the services of an experienced man to take full charge of all the Concessions for the 1911 season at - BAYQCEAN Business ability of unusual character, sterling integrity and wide experience in securing and installing novel attrac tions are absolutely necessary. ; Applications should be made at once in writing, stating fully the nature of previous employment in this line of work. A splendid opportunity is offered , T. B. POTTER REALTY COMPANY 720 Corbett Building, Portland , , . - assurance, that foreigners, who live hygien lcally and don't come Into contact with vases, very rarely contract the disease. All the doctors of our station, "little brother" Included, have been Inoculated with the Haffklno protective vaccine, which is said to reduce by four-fifths the chance of in fection, and to Increase two and one-half times the chances of recovery in case of in fection. Unfortunately these figures are for the ordinary type of plague, and I under stand that the two foreign doctors who have died in Manchuria were both inoculated, and took proper precautions. There is a terrible rush for Haffklno serum. It being secured In Pekln through the Medical School from Shanghai. You have to take your turn as it comes, but they have made an exception In favor of doctors and nurses, and will inoculate them first, no matter who Is on the waiting list. Unfortunately I have been unable to secure the serum for the non-medical mem ber of our station, but I have my name down and have hopes; anyway the women and children are In very little danger. The disease has made its appearance In consid erable numbers in a village near Paotlngfu, and Dr. Lewis Is fighting hard to wake up the Chinese authorities to use force to pre vent Its getting Into the city. Ho was worked terribly hard with holding preven tion meetings with the Chinese authorities. Inspecting passengers on all trains, etc, and sent an urgent appeal backed up by Pao tlngfu Station action asking for aid from Pekln. Tbe station met and decided Dr. Dilley should go, as I have my treasurer's work to carry on and they thought I was in need of a vacation more than he. He has been gone about five days; his reports thus far are encouraging. There does not seem to have been a case thus far In Paotlngfu, and the military au thorities. Chinese, are taking up the pre ventive measures pretty vigorously. Condi tions In Pekln are not bad as yet. but there are cases cropping up every few days. Our medical students, those Just graduated and the fourth rear clns as well, ore being used tion of some of its sweetness. Much of this can be avoided by the use of Mother's Friend. This great remedy prepares the expectant mother's system for the coming event, and its use makes her com fortable during all the term. Mother's Friend assists nature in grad ually expanding all tissues, muscles and tendons, it strengthens the ligaments,' and keeps the breasts in good condition. The use of Mother's Friend lessens the pain when baby comes, and assures a quick and natural recovery xor the mother. For sale at drug stores. Write for free book for expectant mothers. THE BRADFIELD CO., Atlanta, Ga. BREAKS THE 1ST STUBBORN COLO AND ENDS GRIPPE IN A . FEW HOURS Says It Is Useless to Take Qui nine for a Bad Cold or to , Eelieve Grippe Misery. Tba moat severe cold will be broken, and all grippe misery ended after tak ing a dose of Pape's Cold Compound every two hours until three consecu tive doses are taken. Tou will distinctly feel all the dis agreeable symptoms leaving after the very first dose. The most miserable neuralgia pains, headache, dullness, head and nose stuffed up. feverishness. sneezing, run nine; of the nose, sore throat, mucous extensively by the government In fighting the plague here and In Tientsin, and are giving a gOOa account Ol inrmawc a . sorry to say that one of the fourth-year men contracted the disease In Tientsin and died last Saturday. I shall Issue other bul letins later. I trust. ( CIGAR THEFTS EXTENSIVE l Xegro Porter, Sent to Rockpile, Caught With Stolen Goods. For stealing cigars from Sig SIchel, Howard Sproull, negro porter, was sen tenced to a year at the rock pile, in Municipal Court yesterday. He was caught by Detectives Tichenor and Howell with 100 fine cigars in his pos session. The officers allege that Sproull had carried on a regular trade with cer tain negro resorts and that the thefts, running back many months, mount Into hundreds of dollars. The detectives be came aware of the thefts before Mr. SIchel did, and carr'ed the first Intima tion to him. Sproull was at one time editor of a periodical devoted to negro Interests, and it is alleged that he had some connec tion, not of a criminal nature, with the McKlnley-Puter gang of land-grabbers. Henry Georse, Jr., to Lecture. Henry George, Jr.. will arrive n Portland March 18 from Washington, D. C, to deliver an address at the Y. M. C. A. March 19. He first Intended to spend a week in Oregon delivering . -dresses at various points, but owing Every woman's heart thrills at the cooing and prattling of a baby, and motherhood is her highest and purest joy. Yet the suffering incident to this great consummation of her life's desire, robs the anticioa- M1 catarrhal discharges, soreness, stiff ness, rheumatism pains and other dla trees vanishes. Pape's Cold Compound Is tbe result ot three years' research at a cost of more than fifty thousand dollars, and contains no quinine, which we have conclusively demonstrated la not ef fective in the treatment of colds or grippe. Take this harmless Compound as directed, with the knowledge that there is no other medicine made anywhere else In the world, which will cure your cold or end Grippe misery as promptly and without any other assistance or bad after effects as a 25-cent package of Pape's Cold Compound, which any druggist In tha world can supply. r . lk AnU nf PraaiilAnt Tnft fOT fin lu kilo ... va. - . -. v extra session he will return immediate ly after delivering his address in Portland. Arrangements are being perfected by the Henry George Club to entertain Mr. George while in tlie city. It is said that his public address will be along the lines followed by his father in writing the book, "Progress and Poverty." Mendota Coal Just the right sized coal to burn in the kitchen stove. 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