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I J Menage all your actions
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I 8TANDPATTERS AND ; REVIS.
....-''''VMONISTS..
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HE NEXT national Republican
convention will be a very In
teresting affair It ' will be
more so than the next ' Democratic
rational convention, for two reason:
1 First; , we all know-about what the
i Democratic contention will declare.
and we are pretty sure as to whom
j the Democratic candidate for prerd
". idtJnt will be unless something' unex
pected happens daring the next two
years.
But IhaHepubfican party is trou-
i tied; it is seething in its internal or
gansV Lodge. Cannon, Dalsell, Piatt,
; Foraker, Payne, Burrows et aL omne
genus, following the. great deceased
f leader, Mark Hanna, propose to stand
. pat, to reform nothing, to "let well
? enough alone." Hasn't the Republic
J can party won? they say. Hasn't it
carried the whole north , and west,
j and Missouri to bootVi And on a
I stand-pat policy? And isn't the coun
j try prosperous, particularly protected
trusts? And are not the people ready
and willing to hurrah for. the Grand
Old Party, and everything It does, or
doesn't? '
But here arise, and upspealc and
outclaira La Follette of Wisconsin,
wummini oi lows ana omen, .inese
men are .disturbers of the Republicsn
peace, surely, yet they mutt be heard.
They are liable to raise a ructidn in
the next Republican national conven
tion. : t-,.J. ' ......'., ,v .',,'
( The whole Republican press of the
; great city of Chicago, , with one ex-
ception, is, for tariff reform. , So are
the leading Republican newspapers of
umana, iJenyer, Kansas City, Boston
i and New York, , This means some-
j thing..-, ' r.-l? M " -' r
. ,' How do. our , Oregon .statesmen
stand? They are elected now, and
, ought to speak out Are they stand
I patters for the most monstrous sys
; tern of jobbery and robbery erer de
j vised by scheming rascals? Or. do
- they really desire to give the people
j a "square deal"? Are they to line up
1 with Aldrich or La Follette?
CIVIC IMPROVEMENT.
'HE ''"CIVIC" problem.'
'Mr. J. Horace McFarland,
president of the American
, Civic Improvement - association, "is
peculiarly a matter of improvement,
, and therefore the improvement point
of view would seem to cover all the
... problems. v. .
, ,"11 seems to me that the problem
is largely one of demand snd desire
; on the part of those who would glad-
ly da the civic duty presented to them
; if they could be' advised of its needs
and its extent ..,
v "t There, is 'no doubt that a great
t arousing could be made where there
I h as yet no feeling for civic improve
- 2 ment if the agencies most of ns know
of could be efficiently used, but speak-
ng from the' experience alluded to I
-; am strongly convinced that all present
, '. resources and activities need to be
directed primarily to the co-ordination
J and Me of the .obviously strong de-
lire to do right in. a civic way being
f expressed by many communities." '
T i . .M
, , vjtic improvement - mesne per
' sonal improvement, more cleanliness,
better health, - a., greater degree of
y true happiness. :v The , good citizen
stands and works for civic improve
- ment, along every reasonable line. It
pays, in many ways, in every wsy.
THE COMINO STATE PAIR.
THE STATE TAI R, held annu
ally at Salem' fof many years,
. under the auspices of the Ore-
-j goB-Agrictiltural-aocietyis -very
. worthy institution, and deserving of
- liberal Support Less than two months
will elapse until this interesting event
occurs, and Multnomah county and
1 Portland should be better represent
. d, if rxiible,jhinlverTrind weare
'.sure thst thisJs possible.: ;;
' , The indications are thst more coun
ties will be well -represented there
; than ever before, Tht' eihibiU .ifillj.ruaryi 1903,", says our motninfcjeon-
be better than ever, probably, and
this is saying a good deaL Polk has
carried 'off the palm on several occa
sions, but Linn, Douglas, Coos, Uroa
tilla, Marion,' Clackamas and other
counties ' will compete strongly .for
the best exhibits of 'grains,, grasses,
livestock, fruit," vegetables . and . all
kinds . of the prolific , products of
Oregon.',.'. - , ' -
vOf course there will be races, and
when they are run on the . square,
as they will be, no doubt, on this oc
casion, . they are a worthy means of
amusement.
The - annual ' Oregon state fair is
something well worthy of liberal sup
port, and Portland, should make" a
good showing there better than ever
before
THE JOWA CONTEST.
T'
OMORROW the Iowa. Repub
lican convention, will be held,
and it will be one of the most
interesting political events that have
occurred for many years. Governor
Cummins is a candidate for election
the third time, which is hself some
thing new there; no'man having hith
erto been elected governor, or even
sought, that office, the third time in
Iowa. ,'; ..v.; v-iv-. " ;
But ' more significant than this is
the governor's attlfudej ' He stands
for tariff revision, railroad regulation
and other reforms, and boldly says
so, He is said to have supported
Bryan and "free 'silver in 1896, for
which horible . heresy the ; Allison-!
Dolliver regular, standpat Republicans
caa never TforgivehimrLVet-h-J ,
likely to do in Iowa what La. Fol
lette did in Wisconsin. Cummins will
almost surely be renominated for gov-'
ernor, and very likely there will be
a split of the party' and E bolt; yet
he will probably be elected, and he
may soon displace Allison or Dolliver
in the senate. This . Is undoubtedly
his aim, and he seems not disposed
to wait for the old "egg walker,", who
is 77K to die he may live to be 100.
At any rate, Cummins and his cam-'
paign and his ambition are consider
ably interesting. ; . '
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DESTROY THE WEEDS.
U suMtt rtUtXK it may
seem a small matter whether
.. .the big -burdocks, thistles and
other weeds and noxiousjr6wths are
destroyed or not; it may seem . that
other ,' th ings-jpolitics,eligion1j)hU-osophy,
. art, science, . finance are
more important to talk about; but we
think that : ,V :'.";''., .'
The man who doesn' cut the bur
docks growing on his ground along
the street is nut really a gwd citizen,
whether his name be "Noakes, Stokes,
Styles, Brown or Thompson." .
He "is not fit to live in a beautiful
city like Portland. ' He ought to be
banished to" some desert, -where he
would have to live on cacti. -
Cut down the weeds,7 dig them tip,
burn them, carefully. They are vile,
ugly - things. - Your neighbor who
raises roses and pansies and sweet
pess should not be affronted and in
jured , by your burdock and thistle
crop.' Besides, it is unlawful to let
these things go to seed. ' Enforce the
law! '- ' ' '" ' y
The Pan-American congress', or
conference, held last week in Rio de
Janeiro, is the third one that has been
held one in Wsshington and one in
the City of Mexico, neither of which
bore much appreciable result, nor is
it likely this one will Conferences
and congresses sre well enough, but
ss long ss the United States persists
in keeping up a high tariff wall the
South American republics, when they
have money to spend, will spend it
for the most part in Europe, where
they can sell their surplus products
in a free msrket ' . -
The financiers of the country
should not permit the fact to worry
them that Mr. Harriman has bor
rowed $10,000,000. Many good and
sufficient reasons can be given for
the little transaction, and the one
thst at once suggests itself is that
the wizard, who owns one of the
many originals of the Venus de Milo,
intends buying arms for her.
- With our bank clearings of week
before last over 30 per cent greater
than for the corresponding week in
190S and our baseball team, at the
top of the ladder Portland is able
to demsnd rights from the transpor
tation xompanies that they are in no
position to refuse.Llj. :LJr
The arest of a private soldier in the
RufslaiTrrhy- wastfie cause of a
mutiny t yesterday, and the world is
holding its breath with terror, of what
will follow the shooting of General
Stoessel.'. '; '.y . .- ;. 3 : ,t :'
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Th Ore gonisrr Tloenn't know- and
doesn't care v. hat was said in its col
umns about the franchises and the
chsrter from September, 1902, to Feb-
rWkat t PortlandV-Gi-catcst Need?
MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE BOARD TELL JOURNAL READ.
,;' - ERS WHAT WOULD IMPROVE ROSE CITY.
Improved 'Parks:' D. A. Pattullo.
"What Portland nda moat - said XX.
A. Pattullo. Iq reply to the quoatlon as
to Portland's moat Important neade. "Is
an Sraprovad park system.- I want to
mpbaali rlfht bar that I think the
moat important part of It appliaa to aa
tabllahlna playarounds for the ohlldran.
Every achoolhouaa should have plot
whora the. children can have out-door
axsrclae every day. 1
"I r this la the moat" Important
question eonrroatlns Portland, boeauae I
conalder the prcant time the, proper,
and. In fact, the only time .to recUfy the
conditions. . .
New York's reateat nroblem. laLMone.
Ins parka' In the olty for the benefit of
the people. ' .' The eltr roverntnent -la
parlna millions of dollars for property
that could have been bouaht earlier In
the hlatory of the olty for almost noth
ing. I have faith In Portland, and be
lieve that It la deetlned to.be treat
olty, and that U why I would like to see
the offldala evolve a scheme -for the
future park system of Portland rleht
now. Every day that the jnovement la
put off means that the plan will be
more expenalva to set In operation. '
Xand can be bought today at a price
that will aeem rldlouloasly low In 1
years, and, liks the real- estate dealer
aelllna property; I believe that the right
time to buy la the present.
.."We should, nave small parks scat
tered throughout the city breathing"
spots, If nothing elaa. - They would af
ford cltlsens a plaoe to spend a . few
hours In the open air every evening, and 1
temporary, with braten bravado. It
is an amazing confession, but doubt
less a truthful one. The whole story
of the Oregonian's stesdy decline in
public confidence and esteem is told
in these significant words it "doesn't
cars" what it publishes. V .
Just . as soon as Mr. Rockefeller
has the cost of his European : trip
figured up a rise in the price of oil
will be announced. ' '
Every time the Russians hold a
mass meeting to force on the czar
their demand for more privileges they
kill a lot of Inoffensive Jews, -''Z
Surgery a Thousand
Years Ago
: Surgical operatlona were performed In
America, hundreds of years before Col
umbus discovered the new world. Skulls
of prehlatorlo Inca men of Peru and
their shstly perforations show that the
ancient surgeons ' knew r many things
about the sclanoe of trephining that we
of the twentieth century are Just learn
ln,And yetEclentistsJ say It la .not
improbable that theae delicate and dan
gerous operations ware successfully per
formed on South American . soil thou
sands of years before Christ; says the
New Tork' World.
Certainly a highly advanced and civ
illsed people lived amid the stern and
lofty mountain bail lei a Of Peru befuie
we of middle and northern Burose had
divested ouraeWea of our swaddling
clothes -et barbarism, , . . - , .
. Crreedy Spanlah vampiree gloating for
gold, behind Invincible iron breastplates
and with the slgn of the cross, de
stroyed this peaceful people and wiped
then! from the face or the earth some
404 year ago. . :..'
, The painstaking modern investigator
has rebuilt ,bit by bit a replica of this
peat civilisation from the. various finds
and art remains of the great burial
places.
He knows today that they possessed
an advanced medical, knowledge and
made use, to these ends of a magnificent
flora which la full of secrets to us.
Their most striking skill la surgery Is
evidenced to us in their knowledge and
rrnn (ff trfpfiiniwgiir the rem oval
of portlone of the skull to relieve pfeai
ure on the brain. '..
D, Manuel Antonio Munis, a noted ar
chaeologist of Peru, and one-time sur
geon-general of the army, in els' wide
travels through the anelent land of 'the
Inoae has collected over 1,00 Inca
skulls.
Ninpteen of these had been trephined.
Several show two operations, and one
skull has had three large buttons of
bone lifted from the cranium at differ
ent times.
Of the 14 prehlatorlo trephining ope
rations which Dr. Munis haa examined it
is known that IS patients lived, or over
19 per cent The mortality of trephined
eases today Is considerably over SO per
cent i . - v.
la other words, aa ancient American
race which depended from necesalty
upon stone knives to saw holes through
the hard bones of the skull and used a
gold or silver or -eopper-ihlael with
which to pry out the osaeous button loat
less life in this delicate operation than
do our beat surgeons today. .
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t Champion In Danger. .
The champion. tlwlas serpent-killer, M.
Hussy, of Geneva, nearly lost his life
while he was pursuing nis -traae- on
the banks of the rlvsr Rhone.. He wae
bitten In the arm by a venomous snake,
but promptly bit out the part and hur
ried to the hospital, where he ltad the
wound dressed: He is now ont of dan
ger, - .. '
Hussy makes three shillings a day by
killing anakea, which are paid for at the
rate of twopence a head by the Cantonal
government
The threatened atrlks et Oenevese
serpent-klllera, who have formed a
trade union, will not take place, aa fne
authorities have decided not to reduce
the grant for eaoh snake. ; .,
r-t Giant Dolphin's Fight V
The largest dolphin ever seen has been
caught off the coast of Algiers. It la
IT feet long. 11 feet In circumference
and weighs feur-tone. It was shot from
the shore after It had eapalsed a boat
Some Arabs were-flanlng with lines
when the monster swallowed one of the
baited hooks and dashed off at tremen
dous speed. The fishermen paid out as
much line as possible, end then made
It faat
This brought the dolphin up sharply,
but-the strain-snapped the- llna The
monster than attacked the boat and eap
alsed it flinging the fishermen Into the
water. It waa within gonahot of the
sands, and some Arabs ashore wilted
till the dolphin was clear of the man
and then despatched U with rifles, r
D. A. Pattullo.
prove a popular and well-attended place
of resort
"If we were to buy this property now
and hold It for park purposes until the
city grows and needs publlo grounds, I
believe that it would prove eventually,
to have been the wisaat move that the
present day government, ever made." ,
(jetting ttc Girl
. By Wax Jones. ' ''. '-',.'.-'
It sll began when Smith went west
and left his flat and furniture to Brown.
. Brown moved In with great joy and
for theflrat week waa as pleased as a
flachshuna In a new drain tIp. Then
he began to feel .that the flat waa not
quite eo homelike as it had been when
the Smiths lived In It It waa three
days before it, dawned upon Brown that
the place lacked a woman's ears, to say
nothing of the woman herself. - v
. The flat was furnished In "weathered"
style, which Is to say that everything
In It had weathered, with more or less
Success, a storm of dark green stalntng
dope, and Brown, a stickler for having
things "matched." decided that he must
marry a tall, dark girl at the earliest
possible moment Tall, dark glrla were
fairly plentiful, so Brown was getting
along well with one of them. Edith her
name wasa sort of weathered ' name,
Brown thought with aatlefactlon when
some one euggested to Brown that the
green paper in his dining-room necessi
tated a girl with red bair.
It waa harder to find a tall, auburn
haired girt but Brown did It and he
was on the point of proposing to her,
when one of his friends presented him
with a piano. Ermyntrude ' couldn't
play a lick. It was tough, but Brown
didn't want to have the piano ruat In
silence. Bo' he began to chaae again,
thle time for a tall, auburn-haired Sirl
that' could play the piano. Again
Brown's queat was successful, but be
found that Eltruda - didn't know what
the washboard la the kitchen was for.
So the search began anew.
Brown's friends were quite Interested
by this time and they brought many
girls to compare with the tint of the
walla and to try at tfle piano and wash
board. It was months, however, before
The rleht style of a sir! was fuund toy
Brown's aunt She brought Ethelwyn
in trfumnh to the flat to be met by a
small, fat yellow-hatred girl who Intro
duced herself as Mrs. Brown.
When the aunt recovered from the
shock, she asked Brown In an aside,
How did you get a girl like that so
out of keeping with yonr furniture?"
1 think," replied Brown, meditatively,
"that ehe sot me."
"And the worst of It is," he added,
"that she wouldn't marry me until I
had nromlsed to buy lighter furniture
and move into a new flat."
, The End of th League. '
' Br Wex Jones. K '
The Asphalt league le bustedl disrupted!
ahat tared! smashed!
And the players and the omplree are
iteaten. bruised ,Endgaehcgi
Since the Tops lea and the Terrors tried
to have each other's blood, .. -And
Bed Patsy coppered the Topelee
1 boss and squashed hire ta the mud.
And the game became a riot and sticks
' and stones and bricks ,
And feet and fists and clubs were need
, 4a one mad, whirling mix.
The Terrors were a run behind, . the
' Inning was the last; '
Red Patay smashed a hot one. out and
. made the bases fast - .
First baas he touched tha step outside
the German baker's door
And when he whlssed by second It
looked a pipe to score;
But as he made a'ahoot for third, the
base Jumped on a yard!
And PStay sat down on hie patch, and
est down mignty narm
A waiting waaon was that third It rauat
"e touched. -of couree
And Just as Patsy came In reach a Top-
. ey Jabbed the horeet
The umpire gives the captain eat; p
Terror bleeds his aose;
The teams and all their friends rush in
with yells an kicks and blows!
And When the weary warriors rise bet-'
tared from the dust -They
eut each other off their liets. The
. Asphalt league Is hustl -
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Facta, V., .'.'.
' -' By James J, Montague.
Up beyond the strait of Bering whlsstng
bllssards are careering,
. Peevish polar bears are prancing
through the sifting, shifting snow;
By the f rosea Colvllle river . f rapped
- arctic foxee shiver
And the seals are swarming icebergs
to eecape the Eskimo -'
Which don't make no any cooler, but
we're glad to know It'e so, .
Where the pole looms dark and dreary,
w which the enterprising Peary T
- T early haa discovered nearly biting;
. bitter breesee blow;
The thermometere endeavor, to remain
-affixed forever
i
Immovably and solid, aOiinety-eight
below
' 'Which don't glad our hearts to speak
- . - of, but It's interesting to know.
Up on Greenland's glacial ranges, where
- the weather never changes.
Before you breathe yon have to use
.a stove to melt the air;
There is little peraptratlon up that way,
and heat prostrstloa
Is so attrlkingly Infrequent It's eon-
sldered rather rare ."
. All of which Is very pleasant though,
somehow,, we de not eare,
A Little Nonsense
Good Evidence.
Hilary K. Adair, the Mlaaouri detec
tive,-was in St Loule ferreting out a
crime. A reporter brought to Mr. Adair
a plaoe of evidence, saying at the end
of his story: "That Is pretty conclu
sive. Isn't Itr -
It's excellent" Mr. Adair declared.
"It'e Joaitlve and convincing. It la as Ir
refutable aa the testimony I once hoard
from a Scot who waa a witness In a
drowning case. A man, named Mcin
tosh had been drowned' and the Scot
Claimed that the death was accidental. .
. V "But you were not preaent at the
time.' sold the coroner. . How do you
know, then, that poor Mcintosh, didn't
commit suicide T . v
" "Losh. rer honor.' said the Soot
waana this Saunders Mcintosh a brtther
Scot and dlnna the eorp ha'e a wee
bottle o whiskey n't. wf. ne'er a nip
ta'en ootr - ..v." y
: ' At Cofonel Llnchan's Expense. .
. The lata Colonel John C Clnehan. In
surance eoramlasioner of New Hamp
shire, waa noted for hie ability In tell
ing from what part of the world a per
son came by his name; .
A friend, thinking to have a little fun
with him, said: "Colonel, In Nashua we
have a name which sometlmee troubles
us. It is spelt M-a-c-h-l-n-e-r-y.
"Oh. yea MacHlnery." the colonel re
plied. "They are quite a prominent fam
ily, and come from the northern part or
Ireland.". , ,. ,
Nothing waa said on the eubject for a
few mlnutea, until the gentleman from
Nashua-waa about to leave, when he
aald:. "Colonel, perhaps you pronounce
It MacHlnery, but moat of the people In
Naahua call It machinery.'
-j RceL Business Spirit.
"As a cartner." said Dr. R. A. Torre?
in New Tork. "thle man reminded me of
one of the lady managers at a fashion
able baaaar. He did very well himself,
not quite eo well for the firm.
'He waa a good deal like that lady
manager She., the day before the ba-
-saar opened, ' wae engaged, along with
another woman, in putting the prices on
gooda. .
"In due course the busy pair came to
a superb oriental rug. . ,
"'A Khaaak rug.' aald one lad v. "On
the ticket the coat prioe Is put st 1115.
What shall we mark It to be eold atr
" Olu what a beauty V cried the other.
rve beea wanting one for my library
for the longest time. Just mark It ISO.
and I'll buy It myself.' " :
The Young Doctors. . '
'Ever notice the peculiarities of a cas
ual conversation between two medicine
men whose diplomas are not yet unyel-
lowea ny age. it's about like this:
Ah, doctor, good morning, doctor.-
"Good morning, doctor. How are
you doctorf
"Pretty welt doctor: thank vorf. doc
tor. How are you feeling, doctor!" .
-weii. aoctor. to tell you tha truth.
doctor, : I don't feel, doctor, quite so
well, doctor, as I'd like, doctor." 1
Sorry, doctor. But you'll soon be
all right doctor." .
"Good by, doctor.".
8o lonsi doctor." ' T"
'' ? Regulation Fee. ' i
A ' capiUl story Is being told of a
king's councilor, now much In the pub
llo eye. He once took up a brief for
nothing snd won the case. The grate
ful client however, sent a postal order
for 1R ahlUlnga, which , the K. C ac
cepted, through fear of giving offense
by sending It back. , At the bar nasi
nna nf ths narrlalara Jocularly aeeuaed
him of unprofessional conduct In ac
cepting less than gold. "Excuse me,"
replied the K. C "but I took all the poor
begrar had. I consider that is not un
professional." .'-.
The Up-to-Date Infant .
Speaker Cannon on hie 70th birthday
referred In a Jocular way to the preco
city of the twentieth century child.
"Why, before long," he said, "we shall
beer of the baby that has Just been
weaned turning to Its nurse end saying:
1 have had every reason to be satisfied
with your past services and shall not
fall to recommend you among my ac
quaintances. Pray accept thle dollar
for yourself." v T . . "
The Pantheon.
1 fTrum '.'Chiide Harold."' csntd IV.) "
By Lord Byron.
Simple, erect aevere. austere, sublime,
Sbiine of all saints and temple of all
- gOdS,
Prom Jove to Jesus, spared and blest
' by time;
' looking tranquilly, while falls or noda
, Arch, empire, each thing round thee,
..-and man plods -Hie
wsy through thorns to ashes,
glorious dome! -Shalt
thou not last? Time's scythe
and tyrants' rods
Shiver upon thee, sanctuary ' and
home : .!--.,
Of art and piety, Pantheon! pride
of Romel
Relic of nobler daya and noblest ertst
veepoiied yet. perfeot with thy circle
A holiness appealing to an hearts.
nans moaei; ana to him who treads
Rome ' for the sake of ages, glory
ahada :
Her llrht through thy sole aperture; to
move
Who worship, here are alters for their
beadat .
And they who feel for genius may re-
pose -
Their eyes en honored forma, whose
, pubis arouno mens close.
light on the Cloud. .
' By Mlnot J. Savage. ; ' '
There's never aa alwaya cloudless sky,
There's never a vale eo fair, -But
over It sometimes shadows lis "
la a chill and songleas air.
But never a cloud o'erhung the day, , '
Ana riung its snaoowe down.
But oa Its heaven-elde gleamed some
ray, ... r . ... . .
Forming a sunshine crown.
It Is dsrk en only ths downward side;
.. Though rage the tern peat loud. -And
scatter its terrors far and wlda,
There's llfbt upon the cloud. ,,
And often when It tralleth low,
Shutting the landscape out ' ' "
And only the chilly east winds blew ,
Prom the foggy seas of doubt
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There'll eoms a time, near tha setting
sun, i
When the Joye of life seem few;
A rift will break In the evening dun,
And the golden light stream through.
And
ths soul a glorious brldgs will
make
Out of the golden bars.
And all Ite prlcelese treasures take
JrYhere shlse the eternal stars.
PIRDSEYE VIEWS '
P. cf TIMELY TOPICS
i SHALL CHANOS. v'-'
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Nice moon, notice ., : ' ' ,.
Among (the Wge of barley. : -i . ':'.
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There are many sorts of musio,
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, Do some good; you'll soon be dead.
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It you're sure you're right Stand pat
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After harvest build more good roads.
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By the way, what's become of Wlttet
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Wall, It thundered, if It didn't rain
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Somehow we're halt sorrr for the res
taurant waltreee. ' -v .? -1, ' .", .
There', never, on earth were sweeter
singers than now. - j -:,..
The' wise .and fortunate man haa a
nice, clean garden. v v ,.'
Isn't always the meet Entity people
who are -convloted. - ,
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People'- will take ns government land
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The stand-pattere are bealnnlna to
have a strenuous time. -r -
A lunr mir nut h. rlvht hn l
agrees It settles the business.
Go out to the hsrvsst ' fields
and
watch the other fellows work!. ' ,
One can scarcely pasa along some
sidewalks - for the outspreading bur
docks. .':''; '; ,-,-
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. Th, tlmft'. will -:hMh,hlv n . w. mama
when everybody will spend Sunday the
same way.-. , . . ,. .
Glrla, It la said- are working In the
harvest fields they'll make good wives
and mothers.,. .. -. .,
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Every summer Sunday has Its tale of
accident dlaaster, crime and woe, aa
well aa of beauty, Joy and blessing. , .
' Well; didn't we tell you hops were go
ing upT But of course If we hsd been
mistaken we wouldn't have eald a word
about It '; ',
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A Little Out
, THINGS PRINTED TO READ WHILE YOU WAIT.
Excuse a Tear I ' ..'
From the Pittsburg Dispatoh.
I loved a dark-hatred girl laat year,
I felt ahe was my fata '
I held that brunette very dear '
(Blondes I abominate).
But when I heard of her this year,
I really could have cried: -' ,,
Excuse a (paradox and) tear! - ' . i
The girl I lived had dyedl ?
' . Notes of Interest. , ''t;, (
Alexander ' del Spina made his ; first
pair of spectacles in 1JS5.. .
Th. Sm anal in Rnaland waa made
when Henry I Joined the Trent to the
witham. in IUI
Profeasor Rlnaldo Lotbrop Perkins, one
of the most scholarly men of Boston, at
the age of SO, lives a slmpls life In a
small attlo room, surrounded by . bis
books;
Swltserland will probably soon enact a
law In accordance with which exhorting
to crime or glorifying It will be a prison
offense. It Is aimed chiefly at anarchists.
Consul Harris of Chemnlts reports
that tests are being made of nve systems
of .nitration apparatus to purify ths
waste watere of the ISO factories there
and the roost satisfactory one will be
adopted.
A half-Inch coat of salt la being spread
over a westsrn race track. About too
tons of salt will be used, and It Is
thought that with moisture and mingling
of earth the track will ba practically
dustless at the coming races. .,
tw wnman. in HgqtL"gJL F'.0"10 ,nr
on tha alone of Waterman mountain, fei
Bernardino county, California, the other
day, discovered aaphaltum deposited A
rush followed, tO.OOO acres have been
located and an oil boom le In progress.
French on the bills of fare, the London
Ladles' Pictorial says, will always be
preferred by nine out of ten persons, be
cause It Introduces Into the taking of
one'e meals an element of chance and
adventure which le nearly always ap
preciated. . w ..,' ,.'-.',:'
Servants In Germany. -.;
A girl engaged In America Is by no
means a girt secured, as regards either
domestlo service or matrimony. In Ger
many, on the other hand, 1he mistress of
a prospective cook and the fiance of a
prospective bride may feel reaeonably se
cure when once an understanding has
been reached. "Welt. I will engage you,
Hedwlg," aays tha hauaf rau at the close
of the Interview, and ae a pledge of good
faith three mark (71 cents) are given
and received. By acceptance of thta aum
Hedwlg binds herself to appear at the
time and place agreed upon, and if she
; 7' Rabbit Editors, ' :- ,
' prom the Salem Journal -' --
When-the rabbit editor's ears are
pinned back be drope out of slfbt
tnaiiani that doM thlnsa and that
does not have to esk permission to tell
the trutn on special occasions is waa
Is needed. " . -
There are too many rabblte editing
newspapere. - They-lay their ears back
and are afraid to breathe out loud.
They have to get a creamers license
anma nolltlcal boas and havs a
diaper put on, their bib pinned up and
their eare folded beck before they dare
express an opinion.'
Rabbits, rabblte. . raDDiisi uive urn
luii. in a tank at fMlaon. Users In a
red hot cave, anything but the everlast
ing cottontails la the editorial ehalrs of
tbla country.
A girl with a heart that was eompoeed
ef a chunk of loe wrapped In cotton,
with not enough magnetism tn her bosom
to make an Ingersoli dollar watch go
wrong one second In a century. Is a
rnrM-noTtr eomoared to ths rabbit
journalism that flourishes en some of
the uregon aauies.
Want to Die.
"1 want te guillotined.- They- con
demned me to death, and they ehall exe
cute me. Tor ten yeere Parisians have
not seen a public execution. I'm going
to afford thfm the spectacle gratia." .
Jhls harangue was delivered la a
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. OREGON SIDELIGHTS. ' V
- Sawmills were never so busy.
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North' Yamhill may have a water sys
tem. ...... . . ., ,
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Elgin will have a new 106,000-a-day
mill.. - f,.' :-; ,'. .
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: Bis money for hops, sure,' spits of all
the beara. . -1 : . ,f ;
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' Many huatera ' procuring licenaee la .
equthern Qregon. - - : . , . j,', , .
The southern Oregon fruit crop will
be unusually large. y '-?:- j .-,
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Mlat Correepondence of Rainier Reg-'
later: The Nehalem valley is certainly '
prospering, as several new mowing ma
chines, hay -rakea and twine blndere
have been inatalled this summer. -,.-
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'- It ' Is reported, says the Roaeburg
Spokesman, that the great sawmill at .
Empire City, which has a eapaolty of -It
0,000 feet per day, and which haa been
Idle for the pae.t It years, is . soon to
start up. ; ,. . ' ;. ..
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Echo Register: - There Is considerable
talk of putting up cement or aand brick
buildings In town. There Is plenty of
good sand and gravel here. All It seeds
Is a contractor. to set up his mschines
and hustle a lithe, - - - -. .
7. sr.r-zrr.;;r "
While down ' at the Deschutes river,
west of Grass Valley, Mlaa Mary Rues
of Moro was bitten on ' the enkle by
a rattlesnake. She waa brought to this
city and next evening waa able to re
turn to her home In Moro. Kent Re
corder. Evidently Kent isn't entirely
Vdry." -., - v - . ... . ,
i. Rainier Review: ' The hotels and";
lodglng-houaes, not only. In Rainier but
la most towns la Oregon. and Washing
ton, are full to overflowing. This lndl- r
catea that our various industries are
employing a full complement of
and also that. many prospectors are la
the country seeking investments.' ,
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Roaoburg Newe: " These . ere Indeed
strenuous times In the local ' yards.
Every day the amount of business pass
ina through the Roseburg shops snd.
yards is truly remarkable. - Special
trains are coming and going all the
time, 'at all houra of the day and night,
requiring much -time and attention,
while the other work keeps up wonder-
fuller welt . r..
of tlie Common'
falls In- fulfillment of the contract after
allowing St houra to elapse without hav
ing returned the money she renders her-'
self liable to criminal prosecution. Need-,
leaa to say, breach of contract under such
conditions is rare. T.--',- , --v. .
Mustard lor Fresh Wounds. ' V j
A great manj? peeople Insist on sprink
ling mustard on your fresh wounds of
grief or disappointment loss or failure,
by reminding you of them, probing them,
and euggesting remedies, when if they
would only let you alone and Just be
cheerful : and sympathetic ' they, would
give you real help.
The kindest thing we can do for peo- '
pie In great grief la nnt tn refer th Its ,
cause, but try to keep the mind away
from It to cheer them, and, through
kindness and love, call them away from
their sorrow. The great object should
be to replace the shadows of grief with
the bright sunshine of hope. " , , ; .
Flrt From Heaven. ..
On one of his expeditions Into Central
Africa. - Professor Drummond found hlra--self
among cannibals, who east longing;
eyee on his person. It became necesaary
to make an Impression, so Drummond
produced a powerful magnifying glass
and, after an eloquent exordium, caned
down "fire from heaven" by setting light,
to- ecmo long graaa by concentrating the
rays of tha sun through the glase. After
this the natlvea had no appetite for a
white magician, asd Drummond went on
hla way rejoicing, laden with native of-
tffiTfering.
Railway Statistics.
The J30.OOO miles of main track of the
railways of the United Statea represents
property to the extent of 116,000,000,004, or
as much ss the total value, of all the
property In the country in 1860. the year
of Lincoln's election. Their Income of.
over 12, 000,000, 000 a year la very, nearly
four times the annual revenue of 'the
United States government. The number
of men on their rolls Is 1,600,000, an army
aa great aa the combined forces that
Oyama and Llnevltch had In Manchuria
at the time of the peeoe of Portsmouth.
Baby Was an Impostor. '
' A proud young father telegraphed the
news of his nsw responsibility to his
brother in this fashion: "A. handsome .
boy haa come to jny houae and clalme '
to be your nephew. We re doing our
best to give him a proper welcome." The .
brother, however, failed to see the point
and replied: ""I have not got a nephew.'
The young man is an impostor."
Paris gaol by an "apache" named Adam,
sentenced to death recently for murder.
The difficulty is that there le no place
available at present for publlo execu
tions In Paris, and the law allowing
axecutlona in gaols Is not yet passed.
In all probability Adam's sentence will
be commuted.. . -k .
Kindness to Animals.
"Klectrlo fane In stables, horse ehower
baths snd screens to keep out flies snd
mosquitoes sre not uncommon nowsdays '
In rich men's eetebllshmente." eald a
coachman. "The world is Improving
Animals are now treated better than
men used to be.
"Look, at the drinking troughs , for
dogs and oatar Tou find them every-
where In our big cities during the hot ,
season, v And they are continually in
service. ' ' - ' ' '
Look st ths straw bonnete that horses
wear on hot days. Theee bonnetswith
a moist sponge inside of them, are an
Immense protection against the heat
And look at the many costly and ex
cellent kinds of fly nete that are con
tinually being patented. -
Then there are Innumerable boarding
houses In the country for dogs and eats
and . horses, where these anlmale may '
be aent In July and Auguat If the bet"
weather rune them down, v ' .- -. r'
; "Tee, undoubtedly the .world treats
animals nowadaye better than tt treated
men la the past" ' . - '..'
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