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A man who bath na virtue
in himself ever envieth oth
' era; for man's minda will
either feed on their own food
or on another's evil, and who
i.
want.eth the one will prey on
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the other Bacon. -
WILL IT HOVE?
T IS TO be hoped that there is
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basis of truth for the rumor
that the Southern Pacific con
- ; templates removing'. it, track' frofn
j Fourth street and finding a more ac
ceptable if not so direct a route to
the terminal grounds. One reason
for such an intention, if it be enter-
tainedi doubtless jthe heavy, grade
. 'tip Fourth street, entailing constanfr
" iy a heavy expense. ; Another reason
may.be that the officers of the com
!fany .are aware of tbe i great and
growing public sentiment in favor of
1 freeing the street from the tracks
and trains, and a conviction that they.
- will not be able long to resist it
Moreover, It is , reasonably certain
that the courts would not 'sustain the
perpetuity of the , railroad's use .of
the street, under, the changed condi
tions, , for some courts are taking a
more enlarged view of such questions
, and are yielding to public sentiment
and the people's' demands. 7
BuV f .there is" nj truth in the
rumor, then the people, through their
duly, constituted' public officers and
. servants, should act, and - at least
make a" determined effort to ofttain
Justice for the people in this matter.
preferably by getting jd.f tfiejoad.
: or if that cannot be'dohe by imposing
- a- reasonable lax on its use of the
P street. And all this .out. of no malice
or spite toward tne railroad, even
', ' with a business; friendship for' it, but
in justice to themselves. If there be
no, other way for the road to get to
a suitable terminal point, and it must
aUy where: it is, then surely in all
I equity the' city should-be duly re
munerated, for the use of this thor-
oughfare. -, . v '. .. .,
'-.; The councilmen by the way, who
voted;against taking up the Vaughn
ordinance disagree greatly ( as to the
'. reason for their action. 1 One says the
. prdinance would be void and there is
no use in passing it. ' But this conn
' ; cilrriah is not a court, not even a law
yer, Another says he had heard that
(the company , was going to vacate
the street voluntarily. A third had
never heard this rumor, but wanted
more . time to consider the matter.
And so on., But whatever the merit
of the excuses or reasons, they will
not serve always, nor very long with
' the people interested in this question.
If the company will move, well and
good, give" it a reasonable time to do
v ao; if not, the people will elect men
whowill move in their behalf.'
V SENATOR CULLOM WINS.
; CCORDING TO the result of
the primary election held in
Illinois SaturdayShelby M.
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V ; Cullom will probably be returned to
,. the senate for a fourth term. ' He Is
an old man, nearly an octogenarian,
' bt 'Hke several other old senators
,-, seems to have well retained the pos
" aesston of his faculties and to be
capable to perform the rather per
, functary services required of hfm.
' lie long ago became familiar with
and an "adept in the game of politics,
'.-. ao that the playing of it is no great
', tsx on him now. He is a politician
rather than a statesman, a politician
of the machine order, yet not of as
1 offensive, a type ar Piatt or the late
! Senator; Quay. He will never start
a' reform flame, or do anything po
litically -irregular, but he is rather a
decent old man, fora mere politician.
He has never been quite so promi
nent -in committee work or business
legislation as Allison, but is much the
tame sort of man."
'. Yates, his opponent, seem to be a
rather IH-balartced ; man whose one
term as governor brought him no
large " amount "of credit or popular
ciiteem.' As between the two the Re
publican voters, though with a very
light vote, preferred Cullom, and if
there should be Republican legisla
ture he .will,' be' -elected, as he de
servci to b. ll thd ptopt hadn't.
wanted him they could have said so
at the polls. .
In this case, as in others that may
occur, the results obtained may pos-
sibly not , always be the , very best
and most desirable, but for reasons
that we have often stated the pri
mary system is far preferable to the
convention system, Illinois in this
respect has followed the example of
Oregon,-and other states will ere long
doubtless do the same. ", .. .
WHERE THE MONEY GOES.
IT IS ONLY when stockholders
. - in big corporations fall out that
the public is informed a to their
earnings and the disposal, of them.
Only, when Hyde' and Alexander
quarreled was light .shed on the in
surance companies.
According to the pleading in a uit
against the Wells-Fargo , Express
company by dissatisfied stockholders,
that -corporation is - earning 40 - per
cent on its capital, though it is py
ing only 8 per cent dividends. Where
does the other 32 per cent go? ' Ac
cording to these plaintiffs, the enor
mous surplus, said to amount to
$20,000,000 or more, is being used by
Mr. E. H. Harriman, who will prob-
abryTsk these complaining stock
holder what' they are going to do
about it, as he is said to own 55 per
cent of the stock. : v .
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But why should not the people be
asking why a concern doing business
with them should be permitted to
earn 40 per cent dividends? Aifjc
press companies will soon be subject
to the interstate commerce commis
sion, under the new rate regulation
law, may it not be possible for the
rates of this corporation to be cut so
that only 8 per cent, which is a very
good rate of interest, will be earned?
Why should not the patrons of this
semi-public corporation save that -32
per cent, instead of paying it either
to Mr. Harriman or to the rest of. the
Well-Fargo tockholder? . ' . : '
Mr. Harriman is primarily in the
railroad business, the express 'Com
pany being a sort of adjunct of. his
railroad System, and if the interstate
commerce commission ' is going to
regulate rates, on complaints .of
shippers, may it not regulate express
rates, so that patrons of express com
panies will' have to pay only about
60 per cent of the present exorbitant
rates? f Z'-: . t f ',
WOMAN .'NOMINEE.
HE SLATE was broken in the
recent Idaho Republicah state
convention by the nomination
of a woniarf Miss -Belle Chamber
lain, for state superintendent of pub
lic instruction, and, assuming her to
be otherwise capable of filling the
position well, her sex should consti
tute no objection to her nomination
and election. Most of the teacher in
thi country - are women; in' many
cases women are principals of gram
mar school and professor in semi
naries and, colleges; so why. should a
woman not be a state superintendent
of instruction? This' could not be in
this. state, for our courts have held,
in the case ; of , a -woman elected a
county ' school ' superintendent, that
not being a legal voter at all elec
tions, a woman cannot, with a few
minor) exceptions, hold a public of
fice." But "under the equal suffrage
constitution of Idaho a woman as
well man may be elected to any
office, and several Idaho women have
held offices. The Democrats - will
very likely nominate a woman also,
and then let the best woman win.
It was only six degrees warmer in
New York City and Washington, D.
C yesterday than in Portland, and
not so warm as it has been here some
days this summer, yet the suffering
there was intense, and in New York
20 persons died of the humid tor
ridity. Ours is a dryer atmosphere,
and circulates more freely, so that
the heat doesn't hurt. '
Seattle claims 202,000 population
or did last week; it is probably a
good deal more now--and the Ta
coma Ledger ssys that, figuring on
the same basis, Tacoma has 118,556
inhabitants. There is no law against
newspapers amusing themselves -in
tliis way; by similar processes Port
land's population might be figured
out as about 250,000. ' ' -
The statement that Mr. Shaw's
boom for the presidency has blown
itself into half flinders will arouse a
tremendous interest among the great
majority ol the voters, whose atten
tion .is thus drawn to the fact that
the secretary ' had higher political
aspiration than might have ttirred
him to seek to control a "township
convention in Iowa.' ".
Portland is indebted to Astoria for
valuable hint on the best method
of dealing with nuisances. The flour
ishing city near the mouth, of the
Columbia has passed an ordinance
providing that xil tank shall not b
WKat:Is PortlanJV Greatest tied?
MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL TELL JOURNAL READERS
' WHAT WOULD IMPROVE ROSE CITY.
Mora Water: Frank 8. JElennett
rrank 8." Bennett of the lhth ward
reIxea that Portlauid'a needs era many,
including a Urrr flr department.
better polio depurttnent and olty JU
and nior tret lmproremcnta; but. In
his opinion, the Rrcateit need of ail la
amure -Affldent- waUr-ayatara- forth
eaat aide. ;; ... .'';.
"There la a rraat deal of talk about
tha purehaaa of parks for th aaat mli"
aaid Mr. Bennett , "Now, I baliava Haw
thorn park a moat daairabla apof for
a public park, and hop It wUl be ao
qulred by th city for th purpoe eu-
vaiea. ai tn aam Um. whll I am
not tn favor of buying; a trine- of park
altea In every .suburb, I think It would
be advisable for th olty to secure th
top or Mount Tabor aa uatreated, where
a oeautirui -park could be laid out.
"Whll the location la admlrabl for
a park, th faot that It la tha Ideal lo
cation for a larg-e reaervolr should
haaten th purchase of thla property by
to city.
"Th east aid ia bulldlnc ud ao rap
idly that In another year th old reser
voirs on, the slop of Mount Tabor will
be entirely Inadequate and something
will bar to be dona to relieve th situ
ation. - Mow Is th time to purchase th
40 or more acres of around an tha Tan
top o th knoll and commence th con
struction of an Immense reservoir.: If
would be at a much a-reatar elevation
than th old onea and would Insure a
splendid water system , for th entire
Nooks and Corners of History
NATHANIEL
By Rev. Thomaa B. Gregory.
It ia my purpose, in thla short article,
to bring to tha remembrance of the
American people th name of ona of
tha grandest men -that ever lived In our
great country, Nathaniel Macon, born In
Warren county. North Carolina, Decem
ber IT. 1767.
When th Rovelutlonary war negao
young Macon was a, atudant at Prince
ton, but with hla countrymen aturggllng
for liberty ha could take no further
Interest in his studies and, returning
home, he volunteered as a privet sol
dier in a eompany that was being
raised by hla brother.
During the days tnat tnea mens
souls Macon atod at hla post Ilk the
hero that he was, never absent from
roIlcalL always ready, for duty, and
doing that duty Ilk a man.
From 1780 to 17S6 Macon waa a mem
ber of the North Carolina legislature.
and while serving in that capacity he
waa tha unyielding foe of every form of
compromise with tyranny and opprea
slon. Aa a member of th assembly he
fought to the bitter end against th rati
ne t Ion of tha federal constitution. -
Ha did thla. not because ha waa un
patriotic but because ha waa an Intense
lover of liberty, and wag afraid that
the government of the constitution.
would turn out to be th octopus which
ahould strangle liberty and transform
th free commonwealth into so many de
pendents upon th ; central power at
Washington. .
He declared that government, at beat
waa a necessary evil, and that th leas
we had of it tha batter. "Let th people
alone,' ha used to aay, "and they will
pretty nearly alwaya do what la right."
From 171 to ltll Macon was a mem
ber of eongreaa, and from 11 to list
United Statea aenator, when he resigned
hla aeat, having aerved In th national
eongreaa for tha long period of IT years
without a break.
Nathaniel Macon never sought an of-
flee in hla Ufa. Tha office always sought
him. He was a very modeat man. When
plowing In hla flelfl on day ha waa In
formed by his neighbors that h had
erected within th town limits. This
way out of our difficulty apparently
had not suggested itself to the city
fathers. "'
- If enormous crop are due to the
high protective taiff, as the stand
patters inferentially claim, should
they not attribute hot winds, drouth
and floods to the same cause? But
wilhlhemKing Tariff can do no
wrong.
Whatever may be said of the Pil
grim fathers, it doe not seem . that
their iniquities were of such an in
famous character a to merit a rebuke
from ex-Secretary Long or a defense
from John D. Rockefeller. ,''.".
A spiritualist asserts that she has
had a communication from Russell
Sage, who ! emphatic jn.the state
ment that he does not like hi present
quarter. The message sounds au
thentic.' ::- -.' i . '-
Because of the failure of the (work
men to strike, the rebellion in Russia
ha been indefinitely postponed.' A
citizenry, that' will not quit work to
view the birth of liberty is the best
safeguard a despot can- have.-' ' .
, The practice of cabinet officer go
ing out - biennially on campaigning
tour is not one to' be commended.
They are paid servant of the whole
people; not of a'party.
Fairbanks buttons are said to be
numerous in the south already.' But
it will take something more than but
ton to carry any southern ctate for
Fairbanks in 1908.
Cummin beat the Iowa stand
patter for th nomination, but they
got the tariff plank 'of the platform
in a shape much to their liking. Did
Cummins recant again? ' ..
Cleveland is aaid to be -the best
goverried city an'd Tom Johnson the
greatest mayor ia th country. Welli
Frank S. Bennett.
peninsula. Thla I eonalder Portland's
greatest need. '
I eellev th property can o pur
chased directly from th owner at
leg-i timet prlc."
MACON.
Just been elected' a member of th legla
lature, whereupon . he replied:. "You
muat be mistaken. I am sure you have
got m mixed up with aomebody else."
But hla neighbor war right. ' The
people had elected him to tha aaaembly.
and they kept on electing him to tha
legislature,, to eongreaa, to th senate
and to all of tha Important conventions
simply because they believed In him and
wanted him to represent them .. In the
publlo councils.
- Macon waa absolutely Incorruptible
No man's bribe could buy him, no' man's
frown could scare him. To what he
believed to be right he was unfllnch
tngly true, and when he laid down his
commission aa publlo servant It waa
Stainless.
A Democrat he was of tha old school
and In th best and highest aenaa of
tha word. He wore homaapun elothlng
made by th servant at home, ahoes
and hats made oy tnoae aarae aervanta,
and In hla manners ha waa as plain and
simple aa a little child
Afraid of no man, he despised no man.
and was with every on a brother and a
friend. Meeting all men upon tha level
and parting with them upon tha aquare,
ha exemplified tn his every action tha
princlplea of th truest and finest
Americanism.
Macon was the warm personal friend
of Jefferson and Madison, and those
great men trusted him with a confidence
that knew no limit.
Jefferson called him th "Last of th
Romans,' and tha celebrated John Ran
dolph said of him In hla wllU -He la
tha beat, tha purest and wlaest man I
ever knew."
This great and noble American died
on his farm in Warren county, Worth
Carolina, on tha zth day of June, 1817,
In the eightieth year of hie age, and
when It waa whispered abroad . that
Nathaniel Macon waa no more the peo
ple wept Ilka children.
Long before hla death Macon aeleoted
for his place of burial a shady ridge
upon his little farm, and there, in a
cofln mad of plain boards, ha waa laid
away, with nothing to mark his resting
place bnt a pile of loos stones.
then, shouldn't he be mentioned again
some more?
Still there teem no immediate
prospect of the Standard Oil being
sent to jail or made to suffer very
much. " '
Stand pat and pass the hat for a
dollar apjece is to be the slogan, it
appears.
Want No BuddhUta.
The Hawaiian Buddhist society has
run afoul of Governor George R. Carter
and It la understood that tha governor's
American patriotism Is the cause of th
disagreement, . Th Buddhist society
applied some days ago for a charter
under the laws of the territory. The
treasurer, who has charge of such appli
cations, referred tha matter-to the attorney-general
for an opinion, and the
latter referred the matter to the gover
nor. Tha governor declared against the
application. It is understood that the
reason the governor refuaed to give the
society a charter la tha fact that the
organization Is aaid to be In existence
aa much for the Inculcation 6f patriot
ism to Japan as It is to the worship of
Buddha. The governor holds that auch
a society, while having a, perfect right
under the constitution of the United
Statea. to worship as it please, has no
right to an official existence within
American territory for the purpose of
inculcating principles among people liv
ing in America that are opposed to
American principle. Th Japaneae are
talking of Instituting mandamus pro
ceedings against the governor and the
treasurer to compel the issuance of the
charter. ..- (
. Minister' Sons.
From Leslie's Weekly.
Th bishop marked th names of those
whom he deemedJ.'wortbJLof . remain,
brance for some service performed in
religion or politics or literature or sci
enco or art or commerce or philanthropy
or warfare, or soma other aspects of the.
various life of the - nation." Of auch
names he found 1,170 who were the chil
dren of clergymen or ministers, tak
ing no account of those- who were
grandchildren of clergymen or more re
mote descendants. - Of the children of
lawyer there were tie, and of doctors
IB. Th aona of clergymen who became
themselves clergymen were. 160. Ha
further aaserta that "the superiority
which th . clergy- enjoy, tn - re pact to
their children to tha other profeaalone,
lies beyond dispute. Th su
periority has been not of number only,
but of degree. . From clerical homaa
have- sprung more distinguished sons
than from the home ef any aecular pro-
lession. - ,
A Little Nonsense
"' eJBBfSSBaSB
, In Praia of Tramps, ' ''
Jack ' London. ' the ' brilliant novelist,
waa praising the tramp.
"Many a tramp. ha aaid, "Is more
Intelligent and honorable, and has
happier life than the average rich man.
Tramps ar renowned the world over,
too. for their humor, . .
"I once knew a tramp named Boston
Jack. It la aaid that Boston . Jack
knocked on th back door ef a farm
boue on July afternoon and naked for
aaslstanca. ', .
.tThs- farmer wife-alr-aharply- to
him: ... ..--' . .;
"Why don't you go to workT ' Don't
you know that a rolling stone gathers
no rnossT -'.'
" 'Madam,' said Boston Jack, -without
evading your question, mar I ask .of
what practical utility moss would be to
a man In my condition T "
No Clothes Only Fig Leaves.
Oscar Hammerstein, whoa new opera
house In New Tork 1 one of th finest
In th world, said at a dinner, apropos
of a certain Joke: ,
"That Joke 1 far-fetched, very far
fetched indeed. It Is as far-fetched as
the . sign that a,, tailor once put up la
hla boyhood home.
"The tallor'a sign -was an applet aim-
ply an apple. The people were amased
at it. They came in crowds to the
tailor, asking him what on earth the
meaning of the sign waa.--;- ... '-
"Th tailor with a complacent smile
replied-- ... - - .
"If It hadn't bean for the apple.
where would the elothlng business be
todayr- . .
Warning Before Marriage.-.
An old-time English barrister waa
John Williams, a earcastlo wit and
bachelor with an Intanae prejudice
against marriage. Hla clerk on day
aaked him for a holiday to get mar
ried, and aom months afterward, on
entering hie chambers, Williams found
his dead body auepended from th door.
H encased another clerk and aaked
him If he was married. "No," the clerk
replied, but thinking - that Williams
would regard marriage as a guarantee
of ateadlneas, he added, "but 1 am going
to be." "Very well," replied Wllllama:
"but understand thla when you hang
yourself, don t do It here!"..
Wide Circulation.' .
In an addraas recently delivered be
fore the "-Chicago Press club. Opto Read
told the following story:
"When I waa connected with the Ar
kansas Traveler I on day called upon
a large advertiser to aollclt hla patron
age. Naturally th first question he
asked was aa to th circulation of my
paper.' Where doe It goT he queried.
Where doe it got I replied. "Why
it goea north and It goes eouth; It goes
eaat and It goea weat; and would have
gone to hell long ago If It had not been
for m.' " '
..; -.--f? Defiant English. ' : j;
When struggling with a foreign lan
guage ancient or modern, one seldom
stopa to think how ludicrous 'or- en
deavors to- translate th meaning Into
our own tongu would seem to .on
born to apeak that language as hla ow:
to appreciate this, on baa only to
the tables turned when traveling Jn
foreign parts, Underneath the electrlo
light button In th bedroom In a popu
lar hotel tn Th Hague ar theae words:
"The alectrlo light darea not . be
touched.' -, - -
'' , '
. Dream of Wealth.- TT
R. R. Murray In a sketch of H. H.
Rogers, the "brains' of the Standard Oil
octopus, tails this: Roger one walked
Into th hut of Ned Hasklns, who lived
th Ufa of a semi-hermit In a hut eight
reet squar, close to Fort Fhoenlx, In
Falrhaven, Massachusetts, where Mr.
Roger' summer house ' stands now.
"Ned, what would you do If you had
$10,000,000 r asked Rogers, "By jinks,"
said the hermit after long cogitation.
I'd have thla hut built two feet larger."
Up-to-Date Spartan.
"Now, children." said the teacher of
class In Greek history after an earnest
lecture of half an hour, "who can tell
me what w call a person who bears
the greatest suffering without wincing;
ho, even If a wolf were- gnawing at
bis vitals, would make no complaint T
For a moment no response waa made
and then a little girl named Carrie
Brown called out: "I know a Chris
tian Scientist." v
4- .Ths Peg-Top Soldier.
The army uniforms designed by the
English tailor ar to have . peg-top
trousers.
A man today must be fitly clad .
For whatever he tries to do;
The soldier now is all to tha bad
I av an iii-ritting suit or mue. .
He must- look laod-up and stiff and
. . 'smart "
And loae his easy swing.
For the tailor, sweara by hla ahears
ana art
That the uniform's the thing. v
Th farmers who fought at Bunker Hill
Disgraced th army's fame;
They gave tha regular troops their fill
But tneir clothes were a orylog
shame.
And Old Hickory's men, they were all
true diu i ;
And they crumpled th veterans' line.
But the tailor aays they would never do,
For their uniforms lacked design,
Our boys In blue used' to fight like mad.
In their vulgar, winning way,
But now. In his peg-top trouaers clad.
Each aoldler may calmly aay;
"1 11 do all that a well-dressed aoldler
can .-,' ...
Who la eareful what he's about.
But I eannot mix with a bolo man
la an 111-f Ittlng, dingy suit,".
What One 'QuarteT' Would Earn.
From the New Tork Herald.
It'a enough to make a money-lender
turn' ever In hla grave to think how
long that coin just discovered at St
Mark's has been lying Idle.
Supposed t hav fallen from thi
clothing of a workman, tha coin has re
mained Imbedded In ths cement as its
date shows for more than seven cen
turies. ' . - ... - a, .
Th value of 'the eoln is not stated.
but, aaaumlng that It waa equivalent to
a quarter of a dollar, the lose tn interest
upon It amount to quite a tidy sum.
If that workmen had deposited or In
vested the eoln for his descendanis at I
per cent, the Interest being duly com
pounded, that quarter dollar would now
represent nine and a half billions of dol
lar to be divided among them.
- This ia equal to th Combined' for
tunes of It Russell Bases and is more
than three time th amount of all th
gold, silver and paper money and cur
rency in th United States today In ths
treaeury and In the banks and la circu
lation. ...
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SMALL CHANGS.
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Heney- gata 'em, every time, ao far.
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Looks Ilka Hn a... .
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A Cabinet nfnr .Mm. A v. . ...
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limited leave of absence. ... ; .
McNeil's Island i: mm n t.. .
vary, daairabla summer resort ,. V
s ' " ' v.. ,e e ;,. .
. Tha hotter tha lattu t'k.
people want to go to hot springs. , ,
, Th attorney for tha afnu am
tO make llttla Imnraialnnnnl .nn.l n
Colon! Starbottle, - v
v. .v . . .-,t.e....e ,:v- vs. .
Tha circus la not aa siaat an afrall
though much rreater in alsa and acona-
aa It waa SO years ago.
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It is charged that Sarah Bernhardt
never pays bar debts. But eonalder how
llttla money she makes. . . . .
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Th rural' region yelling for work
ers and lota of husky Idle men In the
towns. But K ean't be helped.
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Roosevelt aays . golf la a grand-
mothra'gam. But everybody, doesn't
want to go put and pitch hay. . ; ' , .
Now la also th time when If you
have good -teeth and ar not avers to
hard work , you . can .eat corn oft the
cob. . ; . .. ...
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It t well that all people do not con
sider the same thing baseball, for in
stancethe most Important on . on
earth. . v
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New " the wisdom of Mrs. Saga, as
expreseed in her former talks. Is being
published by th column much padded
and ornamented, probably.
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"Women" suffer much needless mis
ery, says a medicine advertisement
But nobody can Indue woman to dress
differently and ao be comfortable.
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The gaakwar haa gone home after
indulging in some criticisms of. thla
crude and aeml-barbaroua country, and
we ar not stir that be waa not mora
thaa half right, . i .
How doea the Albany Democrat know
so much? ' It says: In order to settle a
question that disturbs some peopl it
may aa well be stated now; Mr. Hearst
will never, be president
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It is said thai General Stoeasel will
not be shot after all. Mayb th csar
only wanted to scar htm ao - that he
would understand how the. csar feels
himself most of th time.
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A Tonkars. New Tork. Judge Is ap-
nlvlns tha lall cur to automoblllsts.
Mtqth- elututruraand ewnerSPWIko'' "Jeop
ardise' people' limbs and rrvea by rac
ing a precedent that other judges
would do well to follow. ' .
A Little Out
THINGS PRINTED TO READ WHILE YOU WAIT.
Much in Little. . .' "
nr.. Im ManHrallar tha ' OnlV
Ull BBIUIIBIMU mm ---- -
national capital that haa no slums at
all. but Berlin rune It cloa tn thla re
spect , . . 1
The hlahest mountain In tn moon is
.1 k. . laaae IK (10 fat In
lUUUHUk J vm - - -' -
height; that Is ,800 feet higher thaa
Mount Everest.
. Mm wtalra m hauia damn: en
th contrary, Ita small root eatract
very particle or moisture inra
brick or stone to which It clings.
. i.hn..h ik. imi of the flrat rop-
maker and that of th land in which he
practloed hla art have do in urn "v
i -. n -.. v.wnH.a umlnturai nrova that
th art waa practiced at least t.000
years Derore tn umw ox !"
Arrangements were made to tak a
sunlight photograph at th bottom of
th shaft of a mine 1.000 feet deep at
Sombre rete. In Mexico, on Jun tl, th
..i. i tha vear when . the aun
shine there. Even then Its rays -touch
th bottom or in mine tor raiy
minutes.
The natives of the Malay peninsula
have In use the smallest current eoln in
th world. It is a eort of wafer, made
4K. MMlnstiia 4il1na nf a traa. ana la
worth about ona twenty thousandth of a
cant The smallest metal coin in circu
lation at the present day la the Porta
aiiaa s.rela niece, worth six one hun
dredths of a cent V
Women Duelists,
nuellnar haa not been confined to men.
The wlf of Gay d Murat waa a noted
woman . duelist She possessed In
domitable courage and in her time killed
several men on th field of honor. She
waa finally slain in an encounter with
three men whom ah attacked for hav
ing Insulted her. .
Madame J-.a ueaupre was anoiner noma
woman duelist, un ana jaay urns
one engaged in an encounter in which
both were severely wounded and which
would probably havr had a fatal termi
nation but for the timely intervention
of some men. '
Madame La Maupin. tne actress, was
fine swordswoman and when a male
fellow performer made slighting re
marks about her character she hold him
up, attired in men's clothea, and be
cause he refused to flaht relieved him
of his watch and snuff box. Some years
later ah attended a ban dressed in male
attire, got Into an altercation with three
men, challenged them and then killed
them all one after th other. ' -
Beware. iheVacatlot-Hatr--
"If your bookkeeper or your cashier,"
i(d Leeoq, th- detective, "cries down
Graceful Parisian Women. ',
From London Tit-Bits.
The graceful figures of Parisian wom
en are said to be due mainly to diet antf
exercise. The French girl - drinks a
great deal of milk until about the age
of 10, after which her repasts are of a
light and non-fattening kind. ' Where
In other countries a woman would take
a heavy meal, the Parlalenne contents
herself with a bowl of soup. Altogether
her outdoor exercise is mainly limited
4o shopping excursions or short strolls
In tha city.- She Is very active about
her household taske, both from motives
of economy and also as a means of keep
ing down superfluous flesh. - .
HI
OREGON SIDELIGHTS.
r Hope are getting to a hope again, -
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Bears - also numerous. In Columbia
eounty. ' ; ' . . -
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Bearaare plentiful ' notJaf Xrosa
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Toledo sawmills !ar busy and have
orders ahead. ; - . -
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Soma second crop ' strawberrtea In.'
Tamhlll county. . . - ." . : .
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Many fat cattle betas marketed la -
and around Sclo. '.
' Over 14,000 feet of lumber is hauled
through Sclo dally. ; . "
Drain has a new .l7-room hotel "and
will soon have a new depot
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fillets crops, nartloularlv eats. ' will '
be much larger than ever before. '
A fisherman on Rogue river landed a
lS-pound steelhead unless he told
fish story. ,, , ... .-v ' .
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Several famillea from North Dakota
and Idaho, after looking the valley over -
pretty thoroughly, bought places near-
Central Point
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Willamlna correspondence of McMlnn- -
vllle News-Reporter: More than- rlxty -
teams passed through town. last . Thurs
day, and not any more than common.
Thar are good peopl left In town,'
although many of our oltlaens ar away
in the pursuit of pleasure and hsppl-
ness, remarka the' McMinnville ' News
Reporter. - -;" '"...'.". -''i' .':.
Sclo 'News: - Our trout Sahara' are ao ;
euccesaf ul that one would ' think th
supply of trout In ' the streams would,
run abort, but auch seems not tha ease.
as every fisherman brings In a full
basket - . - ' - . V '
A beautiful spot across th liver from .
Salem, in Polk county. Just abov th
point opposite th city, I being cleared
of all underbrush and made Inte a real
ly Ideal picnle ground and park by the
Salem Launch club. ' t :
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- A prosperoea and contented commu- ,
nlty is that known aa the Table Rock
neighborhood, lying between the fa
mous landmark of that name and th
Bybee bridge, which spans Rogue Hver .
some si miles east from .Central Point,
aays th Herald.. Farming, fruttgrow-,
Ing and dairying ar alt aueeeaafully
followed and on every hand may be seen
evidences of fertile soil-and progressive, -prosperous
people. , . -t - . .'" T.
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Toledo Reporter: Why pay taaea on
hundred of acres of land and wear
yourself out keeping up line fenceeT A
family near thla city la making -a cosy,
comfortable living on four acres of land.
On thla model . little farm . they raise
fruit, . berries, vegetables and flowers
Theylak more solid comfort in S dsy
than th csar of Russia does In a, year.
Thla Is the ideal v country for, email
farm a and Intensive farming. ' '. . .
of. tte Common
the vacation and refuse to tak en,
overhaul hla accounts at Once, for thla
I th worst sign that yon can find la
an employe trusted with- money; '
"I could point you out a doaen eaaea
of clerks, bookkeepers and cashiers' who
for year refused vacations; and, 1 and
behold, ' when these fellows' - accounts
were looked Into It was found that for
long stretches of time they' had been
tapping the tllL They couldn't take any
vacation, of course, for the reason that
they were afraid their substitutes would
discover their crookedness."
Is This Bliss?
The census of Illiteracy in Europ and
America Is as follows: Roumanla, Rue- '
sla and Servla, (0 par cent of th pops
latlon Is unable to read or' write; Spain
41 Hungary, it; Austria. SO; Ireland.
11; France and Belgium, each IS; Eng
land. 1; Holland. 10: United Statea, ;
Scotland, T; Swttserland. t H ; German"
empire, 1; la Sweden. IJenmark. Bavaria.
Baden and Wurtemburg there 1 not a .
single-person over 10 years ef age u un
able to read and writs. . ( '
' : Apostolic Jewels, . Vl- , ;
- 1 j
Several gem were consecrated to the
apostles. Just when the Hat - was de
finitely fixed ia not known, but it seem
to be Bysantlne In origin. This la the
list: St Peter, Jasper; St Andrew, -sapphire;
St John, emerald; St James,
chalcedony: St Philip, aardonyx; - St
Bartholomew,, carnelian; St Matthias, '
chrysolite; St Thomas, beryl; St. James
the Less, topas; fit-Thaddeua, chryeo-,
praae; St.. Matthew, amethyst; St
Simeon, hyacinth. ; v ' t ,
" Mr. Peck's Epitaph?
Hare lies a Peck, which Some men eay
Was first of all a Peck of clay;
This, wrought with skill divine, while
fresh, .. a , '
Became a eurtoua Pack of flesh. '
Through various forms it maker ran,
Then adding breath, made Peck a man.
Full fifty years Peck felt life's bubbles.
Till death relieved a Peek of trouble;
Then fell poor Peck, aa all things must.
And here llee a Peck of dust , v
Y , Epigrams, ., '
Egotism. Belief that we are necea. -sary
while giving, and, ahall be remem
bered when dead. -
Religion. With some a hope, with
others a belief, and with many a fear -that
the injustices of this life will be
remedied In the next -
Wealth. Tha modern standard -of
succexs. Fool - worship It; ascetics
despise , It; wise men us it J, F.
Flnley. ,
VIEWS
The old maid smiled maliciously,
"Which type Is the more popular, the
blonde or the brunette. Miss Summer
glrlT" she said. -
"I'm sure I don't know," yawned daln- '
ty Birdie SummerglrL . ...
"And yet- you've had experience tn
both role, haven't youT" tittered ths
maav old thing.
That waa a very poor quality of light
ning which waa uncorked out in King's
Valley, Oregon, laat Saturday, says the
Toledo Loader. It managed to wrack a
buggy without Injuring th occupants '
and tor the harness from the horse ' '
jrlthout Injuring the horse, .
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