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THE MORNING AdTOlUAK. AS i Dili A, OUtfGON. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1909. .. 'CHOICE l)--3&.v, i . :r El IiLEENO ..Washing Powder, Is the latest end very best washing compound ever offered to the consum er. Try a package and see if it is not all that we represent it to be. 1-Tb Package 10c. A. V. ALLEN Sole Agent A1EIES MX III WORLD RECORDS Patrick Mcdonald in ham. her put and collins in the four-mile run. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. New York, Feb. 6- Two new world's records were established to night in the annual indoor games of the Irish-American" Athletic Club at Madison Square Garden. In the con test for throwing the 56-pottnd weight Patrick McDonald sent the missile 31 feet eight and five-eighths inches, the best previous record being 31 inches, In the four-mile run Thomas J. Col Ins won from Fred Bellars by 30 yards. Both beat the old mark 20 minutes elevent and one-fifth seconds. Collins time was 19 minutes 56 sec onds. CONDITIONS BETTER. ; SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6-The sanitary conditions of San Francisco is so much improved that the staff ef physicians engaged for the last 18 months superintending the cleaning p following the discovery of the plague will be greatly reduced by Surgeon-General Wyman. CALIFORNIA WILL CELEBRATE SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.-May- r Taylor's proclamation setting aside five days, October 19 to 23, for cele brating the discovery of San Fran eisco Bay by Gasper De Poreola, the first governor California. iora MOUNTAK During Change of Life, says Mrs. Chas. Barclay Graniteville, Vt. "I was passing throinrii tliedhaneeof Lifeandsufferea from nervousness andother annoying symptoms, and I can truly say that LydiaE.rinkhanV Vegetable Com pound has proved worth mounti'ns of gold to me, as it restored my health and strength. I never forget to tell my friends what LvdiaE.Pinkham'a egeiauie compound has done for me during thi trying period. 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Ford, in I was summond from my home early on morning in October by the editor of this magazine, who said: "I have an important piece of work that can be done only by a brave man one who is not afraid to pursue his investigations, no matter where they may lead him. If you will undertake this commission you may name your own price." 'I will gladly name my own price if you will promise not to name yours immediately afterwards," I replied, eagerly. "But what manner of work is it? "Muck-raking in its most dreaded form." replied the editor. "In fact, it is the muck-raking trust itself that I wish to investigate! Bright and early the next morning I called upon the editor of one of the chief muck-raking periodicals in the country. His solid gold automobile stood before his office door and I noticed as I was admitted to his pres ence that his overcoat was lined with costly sable, trimmed with ermine and ornamented with great buttons of solid silver. Even the most casual observer of political cartoons would have recognized him at once as a trust magnate. I "The muck-raking trust!" he ex-j claimed when I made known the ob- ject of my visit, "why I never heard of such a thing. Muck-raking is a business like any other and conduct- j ed on business principles. Yes, it is quite true that some of the lighter work of muck-raking is performed by women and children, but always at their homes; and so far, I have never heard any complaints. It is perfectly healthy work and the money earned by the little ones contributes material ly to the comfort of many a poor lit erary family." Seeing that he could view the mat ter only from the capitalistic stand point, I took my leave, but just as I had gained the elevator a young man, who had followed me, bare-headed, from the outer editorial rooms, touch ed me on the shoulder, saying: "Ex cuse me, sir, but I happened to over hear your conversation with the boss and I knew that you would gain no information from him. But let me tell you that this concern has been patronizing literary sweatshops for the past two years. In fact, it was in this office that the Muck-rakers' Trust was formed a grinding mono poly that now has complete control of the business. Go to the unfortunate workman whose name I have writ ten on this card and he will tell you the story of what he himself has suf fered through this iniquitous combina tion of magazine barons." At the address given on the card I found the neatly furnished, inexpens ive flat in which dwelt the Fairview family, who have followed the liter ary trade for two or three generations and during the past decade have iden tified themselves with the most ad vanced form of muck-raking. Tome into the kitchen," said John Fairview when he had carefully scan ned my credential. "Here we can talk without fear of interruption," he added as he closed the door and mo tioned me to a comfortable seat near the gas range. Then, while a look of mingled pain, sadness and anxiety came into his face, he began his sim ple tale of misfortune: "Twelve years ago I was as com fortably situated as any man in the trade of letters could hope to be. 1 had a nice house in New Jersey built on the almost-paid-for plan, and was making good wages at humorous prose and verse and short stories, besides special articles for newspa per syndicates and Sunday supple ments. Every Friday it was my cus tom to come to New York with my basket piled high with fresh literary wares, and, having delivered these and obtained orders for my next weed's work, I would generally buy some trifles to take home to the wife and little ones who were always eag erly awaiting my return. Ah, sir, when I think of the little home nearly paid for, our children growing up about us and the market for cherrful optimistic prose and verse strong and active well, when I compared those simple happy days with the present bitter ones I feel as though I should go mad." . The unfortunate workman paused for a moment, overcome by painful memories, and then continued: "Some times when work had been unusually good we would make for ourselves a little treat on those Friday evenings. My wife would join me in New York and we would go to some Bohemian table d'hote and done for sixty cents, Applcton's Magazine. with wine, while the good-hearted, care-free Bohemians threw confetti at us and danced, with soiled table cloths girded about their loins, the, gay skirt dances of their native laud We still have a score of gilded chianti bottles that we have kept as souvenirs of those golden bacchanalian nights. But alas, we can no longer afford even those simple pleasures! ''One morning, about a doen year ago, while I was sitting in my shop whistling cheerfully as I fashioned a 'Christmas in Many Lands' story for McClure's syndicate, I was supprised by a visit from a magazine editor who has often favored me with or ders for my best brands of humorous work. Supposing quite naturally that he had come to place with me a hur ried job for a Christmas poem or a few dozen of the New Year's and holiday comicali ties which are a specialty of our trade at that time of the year, 1 put aside my pen and bade him welcome, at the same time telling my wife to set before him a plate of doughnuts and some of the excellent sherry wine which it was our custom to make ev evy autumn from our own currants after the holiday goods had been fin ished and delivered. And it was while sitting at my humble board and sip ping my wine that his editor the very man who to day rides in a gold automobile and wears silver buttons on his fur-lined overcoat unfolded the scheme which eventually proved my undoing. I recognized in this description my friend Mr. Oysterhooks, on whom I W,ad called but a scant hour before, j " 'We have decided to write up me old bones- and junk business.' said this editor as he munched a dough nut and sipped some of our homemade sherry. 'Will you da it for us?" Certainly', I made answer, 'and it is a very good subject, too, as it allows for the introduction of such well- known humorous characters as the mother-in-law, the goat, and the sum mer girl. It would be funny to have the junk dealer put up the stovepipe and slip on a banana peel' " But at this moment he interrupted me: " This is a serious job, not a comic one,' he said. "'Good heavens!' I cried. 'You surely don't expect me to write ser iously about old bones and bottles and junk?' I certainly do, he replied. 'We've decided to replace our humorous de partment with a muck-raking series that will run throughout the year, and I want you to do up the old bone- and-bottle trade in twelve artivles. "Would you believe it, sir, at that time I'd never even heard of muck raking! I did not like the idea at first, but how could I offend an old customer? In the end I accepted the commission and 'Where the Microbes Lurk' proved so successful that I was able to contract immediately for 'Bone Boiling a Merciless Monopoly' which, as you doubtless remember, raised a terrible stench; and 'The Tra gedy of Pig-sticking' in which I prov ed that scarcely a day passes in the On and Off Chat About Fat The society reporter picked up the following gem at Madam Brewster's not 24 hours ago. One of her million aire customers struggling into a new gown asked the famous customer how she kept her figure in such superb shape. "You habitually eat and drink heartily and eventt thoughtlessly, not to say riotously at times," she com plained, "'whereas I live like a her mit. Yet I can't keep slim and, ap parently, you can't get fat." "Guilty," replied the fashion czarina. 'I ad mit I don't fatten up nor do I thin down, but it is because I have the power, my dear Mrs. (the name almost slipped out), to say to my fat Thus far and no farther.' I don't ex exercise' not diet nor run any dan ger of wrinkles or stomach trouble either. Here is the secret." She wrote a few words on a slip of paper and handed it to her questioner. "Get that, filled at the druggist's," she con cluded, "take a teaspoonful after meals and at bedtime and you will never get any fatter than you want to be. You can take off a pound a day with this receipt, if you want to." Being fat herself and fully alive to the tremendous value of these state ments to fat folks everywhere, the society reporter committed an unpar donable social sin she peeper over the lady's shoulder and this is what she saw: For Excess Fat, simplest, safest, cheapest, most helpful receipt of any: One-half ounce Marmola, 1-2 ounce Fluid Extract Cascara Aroma tic, 31 ounces Peppermint Water. i Chicago shamble that is not marked by the shedding of innocent blood. I "For a time nil went well with me; ithen a number- of scab workmen, at- traded by greatly exaggerated talcs ;of money making, esjayed this pceu ! liar line of work, '! brought prices idown to a point so low that I turned once more to my old line of good. To my horror, I found that 1 hud completely lost my light and humor ous touch, and that funny ideas of the sort that once literally bubled over in my brain had completely de serted it. In vain I tried to think of some cheery and merry form of dis aster of the kind precipitated by in ebriety or the unexpected onslaught of the goat. The habit of taking a ! gloomy view of ever) thing and of see ing nothing Hut filth and misery in stead of merriment and good cheer had taken a firm hold upon my mind. I would begin a poem or funny story in my old blithe way only to end it in a wail of grief over the misdeeds of corporate wealth. "Again and again my humorous goods were returned to me from cus tomers who had once regarded my signature a, positive guarantee of literary excellence, and at last I was forced to seek new muck-raking em ployment at the hands of the same editor who had first tempted me from my legitimate path. But oh I what a change had taken place since I last did business with him! He listened with polite attention to my propoal, but when I offered to work .for the same price that he had formerly paid me. he shook his head decisively and said: 'Is it possible that you have not heard of the awful drop in the prices of muck-raking? A few year ago we were obliged to pay very large wages, but that was when it was regarded as difficult art or profession; now it js mttty a craft that ranks with has ket weaving and can be followed at home by the women and children of the family. Besides,' he atd, 'every tftxng nM been investigated to the last point of endurance, and now that the bill to kill pigs by chloroform has been vetoed, and it is impossible to obtain a hearing for any enactment designed to- prevent horned cattle from dying by anything short of nervous pros tration, even the long uffering Amer ican public has reached the limit of its hysteria and credulity. Besides, our reader have found out that from time immemorial millionaire have worn fur-lined overcoats and et their money in circulation thru uch med iums as the race track, the stock mar ket, and the comic-opera star. You can no longer awaken a tidal wave of indignation by proving that in New port each wine is served in a differ ent glass. However, as you have al ways shown yourself an excellent workman, I am willing to make as lib eral an offer to you as lies within my power.' " "And did you take the work at his terms?" I inquired. "Yes," he said sadly. "There was no other course open to me. I am now a muck-raker for life and I do not mind saying that this line of work has brought more sorrow into our trade than anything that could have happened to it not excepting even a return to the old time custom of pay ing only on publication and not al ways then. Come with me and I will show you what muck-raking has done for the unfortunate Fairview family" He led the way into a room origin ally intended for a parlor, but now fitted up with work benches and stools Here I was presented to Mrs. Fair view and her eldest daughter who were putting the finishing touches to "Craft in the Toothpick Trust," and were so busy that they scarcely paus ed in their work when we entered.. In the dining room the younger children were filling a "Fearless Expose of Society" with Undeniable Facts, and on a table in the best bedroom stood the work on which John Fairview himself had been engaged at the mo ment of my arrival. He pointed to the manuscript with a thin, toil-stained finger and said: "That is one of the finest pieces of muck-raking ever turned out in this household. It is a fearless exposure of what goes on in the sewers and yet I have hard work to dispose of it. I would not have sold it at all, perhaps, if it had not beyj for my very apt and attractive title." "And what was that?" I asked. Rats!" was his mournful answer. BACHELOR WON IT. CHICAGO, Feb. 6. The awarding of the $100 prize for the best suff ragist "War song" to Louis J. Block a bachelor, is said to be-part of a general plan for making the woman suffragists to "interest the 'men.'" Some time ago Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCuIIoch advised the wom an to wear their best dresses and "Never make a disturbance but just smile and smile." I ' r- a , ill i II um in, ' iit :i r..,i r-'o 1 11 I i " " jj l , ' J. .mc(.mvkiinfiffiim -n i1, ' m.L 'n'-. 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Eliot, president of Har vard University, will start tomorrow for an extensive trip through the Southwest and south, visiting the various Harvard clubs and attending reunions of Harvard men. As Dr, Eliot will retire from the presidency of Harvard next May, the trip will probably be the last one he will make while he occupies that office. Dr- Eliot will visit Buffalo, Minne apolis and St. Paul before leaving Chicago for the South. His subse quent itinerary calls for visits to Van derbilt University, Memphis, Dallas, the University of Texas, San Antonio, Galveston New Orleans, Baton Rouge Montgomery, Birmingham, Tusca loosa, Atlanta. Athens, Charleston, Columbia, Spartanburg, Asheville, Greensboro, Durham, Washington and Baltimore. ' CHICAGO AUTOMOBILE SHOW. CHICAGO, Feb. 6--The "honk, honk" of a myriad of automobiles, including all kinds and sizes and num bers, echoed through the Coliseum and the near-by First Regiment ar mory today on the occassion of the opening of the annual Chicago' auto mobile show. The show is the most extensive of its kind'ever given in the West. There are 250 exhibitors, and every bit of space in the two build ings is covered by the exhibits of au tomobile firms or by the stock of sup ply houses. The decorative features are the most expensive and elaborate ever seen here. The show will con tinue through the whole of next week. ROOT-FOGLER WIN. KANSAS CITYTFeb. 6--The six- day, eight hours" a day, bicycle race, was won tonight by Root and Fog ler, who rode 1113 mile and seven laps. KKramer and Moran second, Mitten and Bardgett third. For Your Live tock j) . . our stock of fences. a carload shipment and can save Jokm Fe-s, Prt. F. L, Bishop, See. 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