SUNDAY, AUGUST 2
OCEAN RATES GO UP
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Atlantic Steamship Lines An
nounce Advance on Grain
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BIG DEMAND FOR CEREALS
Rise in Ocean Rates on Grain Went
Into Effect Few Days Ago and
is Likely to Hold Until Shipments
From New York Fall Off.
THECWEATHER
Oregon and Washington Fair and
warmer interior of the west portion.
Idaho Fair.
OREGON'S "34TH."
The new Hood River county which
has just been created by virtue of
the untiring efforts of the people of
Hood river, although the smallest
county in the state, is one of the
wealthiest Its assessed valuation for
the year 1907 was $2,762,259, although
its total area is but 500 square
miles. Wasco county from which
county the new county has been cut,
contains three times the territory and
less than half the assessed valuation
of property. The population of the
new county is 7500, 'while that of
Wasco county will be nearer 12,000.
The largest town in the new county
is, of course, Hood River. Cascade
Locks ranks second, Mount Hood,
Dee, Upper Hood river valley, Wyeth
and Viento. on the O. R. & N. are
smaller towns. In Hood river valley
it is estimtaed that there are still 40,
000 acres of fruit land uncultivated
and enough standing timber to supply
the big mill now in operation for 20
years. Moro Observer.
friendly to labor.
Mr. Taft is the friend of the labor
er, a practical friend, and that is the
only kind of friendship that counts in
the final analysis. Ex.
. NOTABLE WOMANHOOD.
Among monumenti to woman in
the country of their greatest intellec
tual progress, that dedicated to Maria
Mitchell of Nantucket, on the 15th, a
combined astronomical observatory
and library building, must ever pos
sess a unique interest. It is a me
morial to one who at a time when
woman's cause was only in its cradle,
had made het sex respected in every
European university town, and in
popular esteem for her brilliant at
tainments, as an astronomer. It is
now 60 years since the King of Den
mar conferred a gold medal on
Miss Mitchell for her discoveries of
comets and a full half century since
her tour of foreign observatories gave
Europe a new conception of women's
capacity in science. As professor of
astronomy at Vassar she gave that
colleage a wide distinction. She
blazed the way for a new profession
for women, one which they have fol
lowed with aptitude, and in which
they have shown an acknowledged
proficiency. Ex.
JIM HAM'S HIT.
In point of humor, the hit of the
convention speech making last Wed
nesday was apparently made by the
pink-whiskered Demosthenes of Chi
cago, Col. J. Hamilton Lewis. What
Bathhouse John is to the Cook
county spouters facile princeps.
Peals of laughter greeted such button-bursting
scintillations of humor
and jewels of epithet as "piebald man
ikins" (the Chicago convention);
the trust-teasing terror" (T. R.);
the "delicate piccolo of Indiana
(Beveridge), and so on.
But a decent respect for humanity
compels the assumption that the fol
lowing hit at the Republican candi
date for president fell comparatively
flat:
"The secretary of war was sudden
ly called to the Islands. He went
"despite the feeble begging of an aged
mother, who lay on her bed gasping
her life away."
There was no need for Col. Lewis
to season his buffoonery with that
piece of arrant and indecent black
guardism.. It might do for Cook
county. It was too rancid for Wis
consinMilwaukee Sentinel .
f. LABOR'S TRIBUTE.
The statement made by T. J. Do
lan, president of the International
Brotherhood of Steam Shovelers and
Dredgemen, in formally presenting
Mr. Taft with an honorary member
ship in the organization of which he
is the official head, affords a fair indi
cation of the esteem in which Mr.
Taft is held by laboring men who
have served under him and with him.
It was, in a way, the statement of
a fellow worker, the statement of a
man who had seen Mr. Taft's senti
ments and sympathies put to a prac
tical test, and that ought to count for
a great deal more than theoretical
professions.
Speaking to Mr. Taft, Mr. Dolan
said "we have always been treated by
you in an eminently fair and just
manner," and he added that "you
have always shown your appreciation
of our efforts in securing volunteers
from, our organizations from all parts
of the country, it being necessary to
ask for volunteers because of the cli-
matic conditions that exist on the
isthmus."
If Mr. Taft has treated the men m
Panama in "an eminently fair and
just manners," and these men think
enough of him to make him an hon
orary member of their organization
as an evidence of their appreciation
of the man and his efforts in their
behalf, surely there is no reason why
,, laWincr man in this country,
should be deluded into the belief that
Mr. Taft harbors sentiments un-
FOR THE CHILDREN.
Apropos of Astoria's effort to fbund
a park and playground for its young
sters, the following, from the Seattle
P. I., is of interest:
"The formal opening of the city
play-ground for children on Fif
teenth avenue, between Yesler way
and Jackson street, was an event of
unusual interest to children in that
section of the city, and at the same
time afforded keen satisfaction to of
ficials and citizens who are watching
progress of this kind with keen and
affectionate concern.
"Playgrounds mean much in the
modern city. They will mean a great
deal more, and will become very
much more necessary, in Seattle as
the city grows.
"Steady increase in population, and
the erection of buildings in spaces
now open, will in a few years produce
a congested condition which will de
mand the presence of such places as
the Hill Tract municipal playground
on Fifteenth avenue, and the officials
are planning wisely when they pro
vide these places aforetime.
"Seattle should be amply provided
with parks and playgrounds before
the city enters upon a period of con
gestion. For the child there is both
pleasure and profit in these open
spaces, for they make it possible for
the child to escape confinement which
is often too close to be good for the
child's well-being, mentally, physical
ly or morally. The city cannot have
too many playgrounds."
NEW YORK. July Aug. 1. The
ocean freight rates from New York
to the ports of continental Europe
have been advanced by the steamship
lines. To Antwerp the rate has been
doubled and to a number of other
ports it has been nearly doubled.
This advance, coming at a tune
when the steamship lines are protest
ing to the railroads against what they
term a discriminating freight rate that
has diverted grain shipments front the
northwest from New York to Mon
treal, has caused comment among
railroad men. The steamship men
say. however, that the increase has
nothing to do with the railroad ques
tion and that the reason the cost of
transporting corn, wheat and other
cereals from New York to continen
tal ports has been put up because
large orders for grain have been plac
ed recently in New York by Europe
an agents, and that this has caused a
shortage of freight space in the holds
of grain carrying ocean steamships.
The rise in ocean rates on grain
went into effect a few days ago and
is likely to hold until shipments from
this port fall off. The lines on which
the new and higher rate now prevails
are the Hamburg-American running
to Hamburg, the Red Star and Phoe
nix lines, running between New York
and Antwerp, the Holland-American
line, running to Rotterdam and the
Fabre line running to the Mediter
ranean ports. The rate to Antwerp
which prevailed until the recent ad
vance, was 1 l-4d per bushel (sixty
pounds) of grain. The new rate is
2 l-2d per bushel. The old rate on
grain from this port to Rotterdam
was 2 1-2 cents 'per bushel. The; new
rate is 4 1- 2cents. To Hamburg, the
old rate was 25 pfennigs per 100
pounds. The new rate is 35 pfennigs
The old rate on grain to Mediterra
nean ports was Is 9d per quarter (40
pounds). The new rate is 2s, 7d.
TO CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY
The shah of Persia has decided to
remodal his parliament upon the Rus
sian plan. It must be flattering to
the czar's realm to know that at least
once it has been imitated.
Manaeers of amusement resorts
would have given a fortune to have
secured the loan, for a little while, of
that alligator fight which took place
at the Bronx Zoo the other day.
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100th Anniversary of Lincoln's Birth-
day to Be Elaborately Observed
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug. l.-Pre-
parations are being made for the cele
bration on an elaborate scale of the
100th anniversary of the birth of Ab
raham Lincoln, on Feb., 12, 1909. The
exercises will be held in this city.
The entire proceedings will be un
der the general direction of the Lin
coln Centennial Association, of which
the following are the charter mem
bers; Melville W. Fuller, Chief Jus
tice of the United States; Senators
Cullom and Hopkins of Illinois; Spea
ker Joseph G. Cannon, Adlai F,. Ste
venson, Gov, Deneefl, James A. Rose,
Secretary of the State of Illinois; Mel
ville E. Stone, New York; John W.
Bunn, of Springfield; Horace White,
New York; William Jayne, of Spring
field. Invitations have been issued to the
president, the members of his cabi
net, and to the ambassadors, mini
sters, and consuls of the foreign gov
ernments.
Among those who have been alrea
dy agreed to be present if pos
sible are Ambassadors Brycc and Jes
surand William J. Bryan and William
H. Taft.
The program in Springfield will
consist of formal ceremonies at the
grave during the morning, a public
meeting in the afternoon and a ban
quet at night. Two features of the
celebration have been practically
agreed upon and the educational au
thorities of each state will be asked
to carry them into effect. These are
that the same program which will be
carried out in Illinois be also obser
ved in every school house in the
country, and that at a certain, hour of
the day every school child in the land
shall stand, and while facing in the di
rection of Sprinfield repeat the brief
speech that Lincoln uttered as he bade
farewell to his friends and neighbors
in Springfield the day he . left for
Washington in 1861.
Go where you will throughout the United States and
you will find more people wearing Sclz shoes than any
other make of shoes.
There are two reasons for this:
Selz shoes are made over copies of real feet. It isn't
necessary to "break them in"--thcy feel eaty and com
fortable the first time you wear them.
Selz shoes are guaranteed to wear satisfactorily. You
see Selz shoes contain no cheapening frauds. They are all
leather. Often you think you are buying genuine, all.
leather shoes when you are not. Shoes are cheapened in
so many waas which can't be seen when a shoe is new.
Selz shoes could not be guaranteed if they contained
frauds like pasted inner soles instead of solid leather;
cheap fibre or moulded leather counters instead of on
piece sole leather; 'pancake'' heels made of scraps of lea
ther pressed together instead of genuine leather heels. 1
The mark Sclz on the sole says plainly and positively
to you: If this shoe fails to give you satisfaction: we will
make them right.
You will be surprised to" find Selz shoes cost no more
than other shoes which bear no guarantee and where you
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Come
Luukinen & Harrison
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Corner Ninth and Commercial Street
yesterday to hold the meeting for the
notification of E. W. Chafin, prohibi
tion candidate for president on Tucs
dav. Aucust 18. in Music Hall, tine
arts building, Chicago. The not idea
tion address will be delivered by Prof,
C. Scanlon who is permanent chair
man of the national prohibition co in
vention. There may also be adddrcs
ses by the members of the potilica
tion committee.
A public reception for the candidate
will be held the same day in the par-
Ors of the Auditorium hotel, The na
tional prohibition executive commit
tee will meet at the same place to
consider plans for the campaign.
"WETS" GETTING ACTIVE.
CHICAGO, Aug. 1. It was decided
SUNDAY AT THE CHURCHES
. Norwegian-Danish M. E.
Morning worship, 11 a, m, and 8
m.: Sunday school, 10 a. m. The
choir will sing at. the evening service
Scandinavians are cordially invited,.
O. T. Field, pastor. '
First Lutheran.
Sunday school, 9:30 a. m., Miss Es
ther Larson, superintendent; morning
service, 10:45; evening service, 8 p.
m. Gustaf E. Rydquist, pastor. Rev.
P. J. Cornell will preach in Swedish,
both morning and evening.
Memorial Lutheran (American)
Sunday school, 10 a. m., Miss
Alema Nyland, superintendent. Morn
ing service, 10 a. m., theme for ser
mon, "Brighter Scenes." All are cor
dially invited. Rev. Rydquist will
preach at Skamokawa Sunday even
ing.
Presbyterian.
Morning worship, 11 a.
Universal Awakening":
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C. F. WISE. Prop.
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school, 12:15; Y. P. S. C. 1?., 7:00; sermon, 8:00, theme, "The Message of
evening worsnip, p. in., I lie
Guide" All are invited. Wm. S. Gil
bert, pastor.
Holy Innocents Chapel.
Seventh Sunday after Trinity. Morn
ing service, 10 a. m.; no evening
service.
Christian Science.
Services in I. O. O. F. building,
corner Tenth and Commercial streets,
rooms 5 and 6 at 10 a, m. Subject of
the lesson sermon, "Love." All arc
invited. Sunday school at 11 o'clock,
Wednesday evening meeting 8 o'clock.
Reading room same address, hours 2
to 5 o'clock daily, except Sunday.
Amos." Everybody invited.
L. Owen, pastor.
Conrad
Grace.
Seventh Sunday after trinity. Morn
ing service at 11 a. m., and evening at
4:00 p. m.
M. E. At Hammond.
Rev. William Snape, formerly of
Cathlamet, will hold services in the
M. E. Church at Hammond Sunday!
at 3 0 clock. In the evening at 8
o'clock lie will hold services at War-
reiiton. The Warrenton Christian E11-1
dcavor will meet at 7 p. m. .
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