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otbr than thenelvei to copy ;
TOO MANY SUCH BOYS.
I! wanton murder of a harm-
leu, poorv old man two
mere boya of 16 and IS years
a
; is one of those occasional similar
f aflmMriharuerTnrerage citizen
j to contemplate with horrified amaie-
Imcnt tne possioie aepins pi acpravuj
in some of the youth and children of
today, v ara wera' two boya with
( homes and parents, boys "who were
Capable of working and did work, ap
parently intelligent' and if, not rery
( well iehayed ' ahowing no extreme
j viciousness, committing this atrocious
' murder" in utter wantonness, only a
,'day siter they had absconded from
t their homes, and only to .carry to an
i extreme degree 'their reckless mean
jness. Such an event ia sufficient to
ghre society pause and, cause it, to
j take a new sunrey of itself. v -J
; Yet.' explanations are not difficult
vLack of parental authority and con
' trol, vicious, 1 cheap romances, bad
.. .ihabiU, particularly cig'arette-amoking,
and a disposition and desire to be
"i wild and wicked rather than ateady
and decent As to parental control,
f that may be difficult, for some youth
) are through heredity utterly incor
rigible; and then in these days some
' parents tare not how bad their chil
I dren become though this doe's not
" i seem to he such a case. Give a boy
.. predisposed rltof ' wickedness'; "Nick
7 Carter" 'novelsTTpTenty of ' cigarettes,
companions who delight in obscenity,
; which delights him, and ne'will be-
, .come a criminal of one degree or an
other while very youngT V - ,
f The alarming thought is that these
'boys are no worse than many others
'right in. this city, .who are in nowise
) controlled, who have no regard for
' law or any kind of authority, who are
.happy only when doing some ma
licious mischief and indulging in vice,
who .under the. same circumstances
- ' might have done the same thing.
These . boys had reyolvera, of
course; every vicious kid has to have
a revolver these ; days; and their
probably , intention "was to hold up.
people and rob them, committing
murder, if resisted. No youth, or
. adult either, running about the coun
- v try has any business with a revolver,
v and should be deprived of it in any
town where he shows himself.
,, The results of this sad tragedy may
. be not. altogether eyl, for these boys
might otherwise have committed sev
eral murders and tried to emulate
. , Tracy and Smith, And then possibly
soma other boys of like disposition
" will be deterred from imitating their
'-'example. " ." 'i ' 1,1 '
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THE PILGRIM FATHERS.
IF EX-SECRETARY of the Navy
John D. Long, publicly said
what he has been quoted as say
ing, of the .Pilgrim Fathers that they
Were almost all hypocritical, immoral
a and" corrupt, even to the ministers, he
deserves to.be contradicted . and re
. .'bulced, and that by men whose state
ments are entitled to more respect
than those . of John D. Rockefeller,
Any such statement is a gross mis
representation of the - early settlers
and developers of New Englsnd.', -'
" " : They, had what seems to us in these
, 'tnore , enlightened days grievous
, faus. rThey were as a whole" not a
very 'lovable sort of people.' They
were, superstitious and in matters of
religion intolerant They could only
be happy by making one another mis
eTabIe.'". They v Were creatures ol
heredity, of thei circumstances and
"painful evolution of preceding gen
erations, and of their own cheerless
f m1fOTmenr"TheT"rtoughtirfTgTiP
eous'to hate and sinful to enjoy.', But
they had sturdy virtues, and that they
were generally depraved and hypo
critical cannot be truthfully asserted,
unless everybody but Mr. Long has
misread history. : f ; - -
:On the contrary they were rigidly
and painfully moral and upright in
their walk and xonversation. This
was part of their teligion,' and they
sincerely believed- .iril the old
fashiootd, cold-blue theology. They
were people of a stern faith and rigid
practice.'1 Many of them were cov
enanters and . Cromwellians. They
were of the stuff that made, the roar
tvrs. and also the persecutors. No
one can doubt either the sincerity or
both as to belief and conduct,-but
men as the - Mathers and Jonathan
Edwards, and their" followers."
I Of course, there were' exceptions,
both as to belief1 and conduct,' but
such' was the rule in the earlier days,
after which there was a reaction theo
logically, . and Massachusetts became
largely 'Unitarian or otherwise liberal
religiously: -, .., .. ,;: ,
The Puritans have enough to. an
swer.' for without being charged with
general, moral viciousness and'hypoc-
nay; ana ii is aiiiicuic o dciicvc ini
so able a man as Mr. Long said what
has been attributed to hiro.'.r";'
the ONLY REMEDY. t
SSUMING that he is aura -of
his - facts, Fruit . Inspector
Deich is doing a good work
here in destroying pest infested fruit
sent to this market Jt itr quite time
shippers of fruit should understand
that such , fruit cannot be marketed
here. If they will not raise abund
fruit, let them : aat it ... themselvtt,
worms and alL , Men who would not
rid orchards of pests and who, shipped
here and to, more distant points
wormy fruit, have been a drawback to
the fruit industry of .Oregon for a
quarter, of a century, and the only
way some of them can be taught to
obey the law and to sell decent, clean
fruit is. to destroy their orchards, or
Tailing in that to "destroy their fruit
Men who go to great expense and la-1
bor to rid their orchards of pests and
to produce sound fruit are entitled to
protection, and to the iue reward for
their labor, expenditure and obedience
to the law. Oregon can be made the
greatest fruit state in the union. Men
who have produced spund, excellent,
perfect fruit have given it a repute- j
tion in Chicago, New York, and In
foreign cities. Every clean, honest
orchardist is a benefit to the .state,
which must not allow him to be men
aced and injured by tout fruit and un
scrupulous shippers. ,l 1 .
When everything that he could not
take with him to ar warmer and bitter
land had been counted, the estate of
reputed millionaire ofPhiladelphia
who-had been -in-thegiet-rlchniuick
business, was found to ''consist of
$2,000 and aome office furniture. (Two
reasons are assigned for this remark
able paucity of wealth, either of which
should prove satisfactory to the pub
lic One is that the heirs are try
ing to beat the inheritance tax law,
and the other is that the millionaire
thoughtlessly invested In his own
business. - . ' . '
St. Johns has : demonstrated its
power to resist the blandishments of
corporation managers who want to
own and control for nothing that
part of ' the earth that is within the
corporate limits of the town. The
telephone company has been asked to
pay a monthly rental for the use of
the streets, and St. Johns' council is
determined that until it doe.s the hello
business will fade to a whisper on the
penlnsula." "TT"."7
"You all did see upon the Lupercal
that thrice I offered him the kingly
crown, 'which thrice he did refuse,"
said Marc Antony in his great fun
eral oration. We don't know what
authority Marc ' had to .bestow a
crown, and nobody has offered Roose
velt a third term yet; but he has thrice
refused, yet it will be remembered
that Caesar got the crown, in spite
of his refusals. ' : -' '.
Evidence accumulates that Laura
Biggar is preparing to again tread
the stage' which for so long she ele
vsted and ..adorned. , ;She , has per
mitted herself to be sued for $299,980,
said to be due a doctor for attending
her'husband. II. M. Bennett, for two
years, .The bill was $300,000, but Mr,
Bennett paid $20 of the amount
"William Budge declares -that Sen
ator Dubois is a' rogue; whose only
subject of interest is 'himself and
whose only object of solicitude is his
own political fortune.' As Mr. Budge
is a Latter-Day Saint,, it. is improb
able that he can move Dubois from
his antirMormon course, .'
It is not unlikely, that as soon as
the anti-pass bill goes into effect,
more of our local statesmen will favor
flrt abrogation of thTTjQuthern Pa
cific's franchise on Pour.th street
If the railroad doesn't soon declare
an intention to get off Fourth street,
the council should act , It is no ex
cuse to ssy it can't.
. Everybody wants' the Bull
water, and ought to have it . '
Run
t The boy -of 17 who left home and
hi work Saturday to be a tough
What li Portland's Greatest NccJ? j
; MEMBERS OP CITY, COUNCIL
1 WHAT-WOUIB-IMPKOVE KOSBTCITY
r Mora Parka : O. D. Dunning..
-"Convert Roa island' tnte- a park."
mo O..U. Dunnln.. ... v ,
"What wa naed more than anythtnf
eUe U thorough park ay stem. We
nead parks In all, parts of the city, and
want all orta of parka. . Lara ones
and small one., and the . mere the
better. r k
. .."Durlnx. ttehot weather this sum-
met- North part ras so filled with peo
ple mat no. more eould set In. Hun
drede of people slept out in the opun
at nlfhta and more . rood waa derived
irom uii little park Uiaa people know.
. "I would, like to aee parka distributed
about the city where they are moat
needed. , .Another thine I would - fee ve
la eeoh park would be a reat and toilet
room.' Buch rooma wre'an Imperative
neea in a eitjr and Portland should take
on all theattrlbutee of a eltr.
i-'The tlme.to.buy the land for he
will' never be cheeper. Neither will It
be eo eaally purchased In the future as
It Ji at present Even if we cannot o
eheed with the oonatructlon - of 'the
parks at present we should buy the
land now ao that we will have It when
ever we have funds to lay out the parka.
"Ross Island would . make an ideal
alte and eould be Improved at a : very
small cost A ferry eould be maintained
to transport the people across the river
and with very little money we eould
Nooks and Corners of History
THOMAS
By Rev. Thomaa B. Oratory.
In the whole annals of our country
there are to be found but few i finer
namea than that of Thomaa Donaan.
James Btuart'a governor of the province
W WW IVIA KVUl JVO tO
Comma to the governorship of Amer
ica's greatest province In the prime of
life. Dongan applied ' himself heart.
mind and soul to a conscientious per
formance of the hlfh duties that fell
upon him.;
A atateaman by tnstlnot Dongan eaw
at a glance- the eupreme Importance,
from the political point of view, of the
valley of the Hudson.
If that valley should le dominated by
the French, the wedge would be driven
In between New England and Maryland
and Virginia, and It would be all over
with English rule to Amerioa.
To prevent thla Dongan brought his
diplomacy to bear upon the Iroqoa
Indiana. ' He knew that If he eould
make htmaelf solid with that powerful
tribe he could checkmate the vdealgna
of Louis XIV and preaerve the Integ
rity of tha English possessions. 1
He succeeded, and when . the great
Frontenaa came ' eut to) drive la the
wedge' he found in his path the ter
rible red men. who had been won over
by the tact of Dongan.
No- leas a' man- than John Flake oalla
trampndecameanmlirBerer 5un
day evening, certainly made a swift
record.' .'.''' ' ." ' ''.'
An Echo item saya a farmer and
his three 'sons ', aye harvesting his
1700-scre crop without the aid of out
side help, with a combine. 'Probably
passing hoboes, who wouldn't work if
given a chance at big wages, think he
is a real mean man.
Harry Thaw suffers from intense
hest, says a New , York dispatch.
Well, it isn't amy worse, for him to
suffer from the heat than hundreds of
thousands of better people of that
city. .:t?... ...
One would x suppose from their
fierce 'contentions that the Idaho
Democrats imagine that -they have
some chance to win next fall, but this
is improbable. .
, There is no doubt that Portland
urgently needs r an . ample," well
eqnipped emergency hospital. Cases
demonstrating this occur veryjre
quently. .J v
nit : .' 1 r
,j.ne prune ,, growers oi vrcgon
':li..tj - 4 i" ,1.-- . .1 .
siiuuiu yet lugciucr, 'viiaiiiccuiui
oughly, and then stand pat, ; But we
j .i . -ii i
UUIIl CX(Ctl Will, . ... . r
Some day there will not only be a
good wagon and auto road, -but a
railroad as well, to Mount Hood.
If lie keeps on Harriman will own
nearly as many things of big value as
good old Grandpa Rockefeller, Ji
' Origin of Bourse. r .-a
' .Already in the fourteenth . . century
there waa a building at Antwerp, Bel
gium, eet apart ' for the meeting of
merrhanta and brokers and known aa
tha Bourse. ' Thle word (oilglnatea from
the city of Bruges, which, earlier than
life fourteenth century, waa known aa
the Venice of the North, being' at that
time one of the moat Important com
mercial centera of Europe. In thla
ancient city the merrhanta met In an
open square upon which wee the resi
dence of a family by ; tha name of
Beurse. The aame merchants were In
the habit - of meeting periodically In
other commercial cities, and for con
venience they gave the. name of Beurae
te whichever place waa chosen for their
gatherpaT,blSwaa, finally corrupted
Into Bourse, and the latter word waa
adopted far and wide, even croaalng the
channel to England, where it clung to
the royal aichanga until Queen Elisa
beth was compelled to command that It
be discontinued. Her decree,- however,
waa almoat Impossible to enforce end
Bourse waa uaed for many years after
ward. Silence Not Oolden.
An English court has sentenced a
woman to Imprisonment because aha re
fused to apeak during a trial. The bid
penalty for remaining mute under sim
ilar conditions - waa being pressed to
death. The form of sentence set forth,
"the prisoner shall be laid la some low.
TELL JOURNALJREAPERlJ
1 1
G..D Dunning. .. ':
1 !
"th!
bave one of the ' finest parks In
world., -i' - ji, : - if ,
DONGAN.
the friendship of tha Iroquois with the
English- the "pivotal fact" in American
hlatory, and for . euoh - faof no Small
thanks are due to GovernorDongaji.
. ' Dongan -was -also " the Instrument
through which was effectedl the bring
ing together the. flrat representative as
sembly in the provinoe of New Tort
Thla ever-memorable assembly, con
stating of the governor, the eounaeiiors
and II representatives elected by the
people.- met In the? city of New Tori
on October XT, list.
"" Such waa the practical beginning of
free representative government In the
provinoe, that hlstorlo assembly being
the headwaters of the splendid liberty
that la today enjoyed , by all New
Yorkers.,
In an age of Intense aectarlanlsm and
bitter religious prejudices, Dongan man
aged to keep aa sweet and amiable as
could be, and when he took of f the robe
of office no one could say that the gov
ernor had treated him unkindly or un
fairly on account of a difference of re
ligious opinion. -
It la a. pleasant page of our coun
try'a hiatory that telle of the adminis
tration of Governor Thomaa Dongan, and
with the whole etory of the .man'a life
It would well repay our people to be
come (thoroughly and lovlpgly femlUarv
dark house, where heehal! lie naked on
the earth and 'One arm shall be drawn
to one quarter of the house, with a
cord, and tha other arm to another quar
ter; and In the aame manner let It be
done with hie legs; and let there be laid
upon hia body Iron and stone, aa much
as he can bear or more. There the
man had to lie. On the following day
he got three morsels of bread without
water; on the following, water, but no
bread. And this was his diet until he
died.' -x ' ''
. ' Taffa Plana.', '
i ' From the Waahlngton Post'
Does tha country want William How
ard Taft for prealdentT
If It does It must say so before nest
October or forever hold Its peace, for
In that month he will become an asso
clate Justice of the supreme court
from whloh , cloister ne man haa yet
emerged and aelsed the relgna of mighty
power wielded by the president of the
United Statea. , . . i
Thla much can be aald about Mr.
Taffa future: If he doea. jiot go on
the bench next October, hia declination
of tha associate Justiceship which haa
been offered to him by President
Roosevelt wUl be the signal of bis In
tentlona to try conclualons with all
comers for the Republican prealdentlal
nomination In 101. v
If Mr. Taft Is elected president Theo
dore Roosevelt will enter his cabinet aa
aeeretary of eta te;, the Panama canal,
the Phlllpplnea and all the other Insular
poaaeaalona will be transferred to that
department and Theodore Roosevelt will
take up where "William Howard Taft
left It the great work of digging the
canal, reconstructing and modernising
the Phlllpplnea and Instituting an Amer
ican colonial system.
. ; Taxes on Large Eatates. ,
From the Boston Globe. ?
On the Russell Sage estate, which Is
now eetlmated at $71,000,000, the In
heritance tax will ,111(111,1 a.i. -
little more than $109,000, and thla aura
ine aiaie or ew Tor will reoelve.
The death duty on large estatea in
Enrland secures a tha vnv.mm.., .
very much larger percentage. When
w. ii. omiin, aiatesman ana newsdealer,
died, leaving $60,000,000, his estate had
'pay to the chancellor of the ex
clfequer no less a aum than $4,600,000,
a magnlflrent fortune In Itself.
In EngUind this year there has been
sn unuaual .proportion of estatea which
have paid . very large sums In death
dutlea. Counting In the late Mr. Belt s
estate and Ita contribution with a num
ber of others in the early months of
the financial year, the English govern
ment thua farhaa received about $10
000,000 Irt death dutlea.
;.. c' '' ;1A Long Name.'' '
" From tha Milwaukee Wisconsin. '
' Milwaukee's new directory will have
a record breaker, exceeding loat year's
by several lettera. .
Pappatheodorokoummountourgeotopo-ulos--that's
It the longest name In the
city directory. Pronounce it, If you ran.
JfJQtt -can't-proneunee-Mj -then -whlstls
It You can do It sucoeaafully that way
by making a nolae like a Greek popcorn
wagon on a hot summer's night
The first name of the owner Of the
Impressive multlayllabled title Is Jack
Just plain Jack, nothing more.' Daattny
decided hia laat name, but Ms parents
attached the flrst to him. As parents
usually do, thay labored more wlaaly
than they wotted of.
- Jack Pappatheodorokoiimmountour
geotopoutoa Uvea at 421 Sycamore
atreet. The holder of the record name
laat year waa Pauline Nabuehodouosoro-
wiosowna, 1701 Midland avenue.
Pauline Is a widow. Whether tha late
Nabuohodouosoroerlcaowna succumbed
to the taak of carrying hjs nana about
with him la not recorded.
A Little -Nonsense
- Mark Twain on pablea. -
HarfcTwalnratlnasr; replying te a
toast. to -The ttabiea, aaia:
, "We have not all had the good fortune
to be ladles. Wa .have not all been en-
erala. or poet a. or statesmen I but when
the toaat works' dowa . to The Babies,'
We stand on common around, for we
nave an Been namea. - .
"If you go back 10 or 100 yeara to
your 'early married Ufa' and reeontem-
Plata your flrat baby, you- will reroem-
er tnai ne amounted to a good aeak
and even aomethlna over. He took en
tire . command. . When . he called ' for
soothing-syrup, did you venture to throw
out any aide remarks about certs In serv
ices being unbecoming to an officer and
a gentleman T , No. Yon got up and got
It. When ha ordered hie pap-bottle,1 and
It waa not warm, did you talk' back?
No. Not you. You i went to work and
warmed it " You even descended so far
In your menial off Ice aa to take a, suck
at that warm. Insipid atuff, Juat to aee
if It waa right three parts warm water
to-one of milk, a touch of sugar to mod
ify -the colic, and a 'drop of peppermint
te kill- Chose .immortal hiccoughs. I can
taste that stuff,"
V Tha Dictating Habit. X:.
Booth' Tarktngton-does not dictate his
storlea. He Is a foe to the habit of dic
tation a habit. which, he thinks, tends
to dBtroy tha aubtlee , beautlea of a
prose sty)e. " ..t ..
"Tha dictating habit i a growing
one, he aaid recently. i: "Everybody
nowaday a haa a aeeretary and dictates. "
He smiled. - . . : , s , - " -"When
I waa : In the Indiana legis
lature, -he said.' "an eld colored man
appeared as a wltnesr hefcrra one trf our
committees. ' . f '.'"'"
"What Is your namer t
"Calhoun Clay, sah.. , . .....
" "Can you algn your namef , , .
Bahr ' . . ' : - ' '
" 'I aak If you can write your namef
"'Well, no, aah: Ah it bah writes mah
name. Ah dlotatea It, aah."'
y Noah.' and DanlaL
time known far and wjde as "Sockleaa
Simpson." when he waa a Kansaa Popu
list In eongraaa, waa no acbolar, and he
never pretended to be one. Hence hia
blunders regarding bookish matters were
not especially remarkable. But one an
ecdote told 01 mm la ncn. none tne ieea.
It Is aald that he waa praising Daniel
W.v.t in a mihlln fMhrh. end went
out of hia way to commend hia diction
ary. A friend- pulled Jerrys coat-tan
and Informed him that Noah Waa the
whn maAa tha dictionary. "Trie
deuce you say!" replied Simpson. "Noah
built the era:- ' .
An Original Advertiaement,l.
Charlea Austin Batea, tn an address on
advertising, aald:
"I enea a4w in a western streetcar an
advertisement of striking originality.
Whether thla advertlaement drew much
trade or not I can't tell. At any rate.
It attracted a tremendous lot of atten
tion and laughter. What do you think
of It youraelveat It ran:
"The person sitting under this card
la-one; f-our-cuBtomera; Very cranky
and hard to- please, but did you eve se
a sweller dresserT Try us yourself.
The Oood ; Styles Stores,. $11 Front
street";. .
-V Cause for Suspicion. ,
A plumber waa aent to the bouee of a
wealthy broker to make repairs. He was
taken by the butler Into the pantry, and
was beginning his , work when," tbs
woman of the bouee entered.
James," aha said to the butler, wUh
a aaaploious look at the plumber, "re
move the silver from the sideboard at
once and lock it up." f ;
The plumber turned calmly' to hie as
Blatant and handed him hia valuablee.
."Tom," he Bald ."take my watch and
chain and these few coppera borne to
my wife at once end tell ber to keep
them safe foe me." ' '. ,
Tons of Manna.
Samples of real manna, of which over
$0 tone have Just fallen from the skies
In Turkestan, to the superstitious awe
of the natlvea, have reached the London
Dally Mirror.
A Conatantlnople correspondent ; who
sent a parcel of this remarkable sub
stance to George Roffey at Son, Seeth
ing lane, atatea that the manna fan In
a district almoet bare of trees, and that
It waa eagerly collected by the poverty
strjeken villagers, who ground It Into
flour and made cakes of It.
Ignorant of ita perfectly natural ori
gin, they regarded It aa a gift from
heaven. ......"
As a matter of fact manna Is the re
sult of the burrowing of a certain worm
In trees. It la a regular article of com
merce in the east, the manna aah tree
being cultivated in Sicily.
But the manna that has Juat created
so profound an Impression In Turkestan
la not quite the aame. A high au
thority on biblical natural hlatory in.
formed the Dally Mirror yeeterdayVhat
tha specimens were the work of a worm
that only produces this aubatance under
certain climatic condlttona. which only
obtain about onca In every 1 years
or so. . ..-
These worm-caats. when dry, are very
light and in the present caaa they were
probably caught up by a whirlwind and
carried away to a great distance.
The . falling of a dense , ahowar of
theao edible casta would naturally be
regarded by the, natives aa a wonder.
. The word "manna" means In Hebrew
'1 know not." In Turkeatsn the word
has a similar meaning.
-, In Auatralla manna is obtained from
a eucalyptus In'
"Silver Grays." ' .
"Silver Grays" waa a term applied to
the whigs of New York who supported
the admlnlatratlon of Prealdent Fill
more, and regarded . tha alavery ques
tion aettled by the compromise of 1150.
A convention of the admlnlatratlon waa
held at Syracuse. September $7, I860,
ti aecure a vindication of the presi
dent's policy, etc An emphstlo major
ity of the convention opposed the admin
istration; whereupon the chairman, Mr.
Granger, and several other administra
tion men, left tha convention; aa they
wert elderljfmanvlhey-wUk.. their fol-1
lowing, were immediately auDoea -Buyer
Grsys." :, .
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,. .. . A Question Raiaed. v ; .'. '.
' ; From the Baltimore News.
' The old 'lady, a native of Poland, Who
died In Indiana recently at the age of
11$, was proud of being able to remem
ber that she had aaen the great Napo
leon, having been a girl of 1$ at the
time of hia Invasion of Russia. - But It
almost becomes a question which of the
two waa tha more remarkable the great
conqueror and ruler, or a woman who,
coming te a new world at tha age of II,
marriee a third husband, lives with him
14 years, and aurvles him by twe years;
and all of this on "two meets' of corn
bread and Mask eoffse dally.''
BIRDSEYE VIEWS
cf TIMELY TOPICS
-7 " SMALL CHAWOS. '
All parts of Oregon ara flaa. .
e' e '
'-Tls'enly noble to'be good." V'
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Trouble borrowed assets big Intlresfc
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' Tha Iowa idea, la a good deal Jumbled
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"" Farmers' wars" worse soared than kurt
as usual, . . s v,
'i, . . e e , 'v - y:.:.: .
So Uncle John D, Is no longer an art
ful dodger. .' .
. . - - - e - e , . ,
Nobody haa been drowned In tha Pan
ama canal yet , ' ... .
.But If more than a dollar Is sent It
won't ba sent back,.)'. "
Borne people think polltlca la the only
Important thing on earth. -.
Uncle Joe ta'nnon la TO, but la about
the liveliest one, among them. .
It won't do any good to rati at tha
peekaboo waist and the screen socks.;
'.;..; e e ' . . t ; , . .
There la at ill fear In aome quarters
that Roosevelt will rock the boat yet
What wlU Mra Sage do with It? Is
something many people would Ilka to
know. ": 'y .- . '
Hetty- Green's nosa is out of Joint
Mrs. Saga la now tha country's rlohaat
woman. . :' . ' . , - ,v .
Men who ara able to work and won't
work ahquld not be allowed . to fast
long at. a time,
Of course that ahertff would not ar
rest Grandpa Rockefeller while ha waa
talking to hia Sunday school. .
But we haven't heard of any truat
that waa likely to contribute anything
to a Bryan campaign fund, anyway.
Bee stlnaa ara said to be good for
rbeumatiam. but tha trouble Is that the
beea won't coma around and sting tha
people who need them .. . .
Instead of everything earning to one
who waits, not much of value cornea to
him unleaa he waits In a fashionable
restaurant whara tlpa ara In vogue.
The Ksnaaa wheat ere will ba worth
$60,000,000 and Us corn orop $11,000,000,
which beate Oregon some,' but think of
having to live in the Kanaas climate. -
The Gaekwar of Baroda said before
he Bailed away that Amerloaa women
were not beautiful. He must have
neglected to keep bis eyes open while
la Portland. .
A Chicago unlveralty professor claims
to have discovered that a man can live
without brains. But la there anything
yerr-new ln.thatT nd Jihe brains of
aome of the professors In that .Institu
tion seem badly addled.
A Little Out
THINGS PRINTED TO READ WHILE YOU WAIT. '
. For ' Guest Book. 4,
S. Weir Mitchell In the August Century.
A book af guests! May It include'
The wle the witty, and the ahrewd, .
And auch as own tha double art
That makes them friends of head and
..- heart.
May thoae who stand recorded here .
Grow dearer with each added yeari-.-.
Acqualntanca Into friendship grow, '
And friendship ever brighter glow. ; ,
Old friends are beat we lightly ssy,
But, as they fall upon the way - ,
Keep full the ranks with newer friend
Till time the adjective amende.
And If old friends still seem tha beat '
The adage should ba thus expressed i
Friends are not beat because they're old.
But old, because tha yeara that rolled
The yeara that try and mar and mend
Have proved them woTth the title friend.
; , Meojand Women. .
A portrait of the lata . ex-Speaker
Thomas B. Reed has Just been hung In
the rotunda of the statehouae, Augusta,
Maine.--
Representative Charles Curtis of Kan
sas is the only man In congress whs
has Indian blood In hia vein One of
hia remote ancestors waa a noble red
man. .. .. '
Nathan Hawk, an $l-year-old veteran
of the Mexican war and the man who,
in. 114$, first brought east newa of the
California gold discoveries, Is a hale and
hearty citizen of Folaom, California. -
Philip Henry Wynne, for aeveral
yeara connected with a Boaton firm as
Inventor and dealgnar of electrloal and
other aetentlflo apparatu haa, been ap
pointed' profeaeor of physics at the Uni
versity of Texas. ,n
The-marriage of Montgomery Schuy
ler Jr., secretary of legation and consul
general at Bucharest, to Miss Edttn
Lawyer, daughter of the late Dr. W.
P. Lawyer of Washington; will take
place on September 1. --
In pursuance of Ita policy of marking
tha hlatorie houses of the city the cor
poration of Bath haa placed a memorial
tablet to Henry Fielding and to his Bis
ter Sarah upon the wall of the house
In which they once lived. . .
, ;V pity tha Poof Alligator. ' .
American alllgatorB are likely to go
the way of the American buffalo, and
alligator hidee may became aa 'rare as
eggs of the great auk., according to a
report Juat lasued . by the department
of commerce and labor. The consump
tion of alligator akins ts greater .now
than ever be for approximately 210,00
hides annually. The number of all I ga
lore in Loulalana Is $0, per cent lees
than $0 years ago. and It Is predicted
that in a few years It will be almost
rmpoeeiMe ta ! hldee-at a reaaon-1
hia nrlc '';.'.,- '..
Pert Paragraphs.
From the Erie Dispatch,
It is nothing uncommon for a poet
to be In hard IHiea.
The beat way to get along with diffi
cult people is to get along without
them.
If there Is ho chance for him to ac
cept a situation the average man will
consent to take a Job.
. Whan a man eomes horns at I tn tha
morning silence an the part of his wlfs
la golden with diamond trimming
. The young lady with about a doaen
unmarried .aunts never suffers for the
lsek of advice. ,
If man eannet hare a clear eon-
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OREGON -SIDELIGHTS.
Vlsjtorsto Newport lnereaalpg.'
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, , Nearly time for hit forest tires. v?
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Barns not big enough te bold the hay
crop, - :
' Fine tomstoes already, rlna at-Un
tUla.- - ". " , . -
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Some alfalfa around Sheridan' la Id
feat In length. ., ' .,....:. -
North Powder will arganise a level
opment league, . ,
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ConelderabU leather Is aetsg tnaatH :
faetured la Toledo. " ., . -
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Drain badly needa eleaalnaj bp, aa .
cording to the Nonpareil,
r-r-y" .-. .;.
A los ore field of wheat near Adaase
yielded tl buahela an acre. ..
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One firm expects to handle 1,00$ tons
of prunea at Union and Cove, -
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Men ara'greatsa-gosarpsra than weav
en, la Bstaeads, aaya tha News. .f ..
, . '-" -- h. e e. i , . s t.
A 100-aera field of wheat near Pilot
Rock yielded about 10 buahela an acre.
. . 'V. : :, a a ' " ;"
If properly suit! va ted loaanherrlea A.
re profltahla, ' a Dayton man. fof-ltt
atance, cleared $160 from, a, half acre. . V :
A Mora man took- a carload of It -Clydeadale
and Shire horses to Spokane
lsst week and Bold them readily for
$410 per span. They weighed nearly .
1,100 pounda apleoe. . , ,
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Even tha moaebaeks are waking Up In
this section and are about ready to '
"holler" for old Union. They aee that '
ere-ara- getting-under way, and that
Union la -"goinr some'-onye tha e-"7
publican. ; ;. ., , :. ..... a , . .. . . .. . ', :
a, t-,: vS "
" The hauling of gravel for road-maklna
has com me need. Any amount of tha beat '
of gravel for making road a la but a
ehort haul about two milee from Day
ton, aaya tha Herald. There U na rea . . i
son why there should net be good roads
In tha vicinity af Dayton. ,
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"Doc" Wright, a Molalla man. Is ac
quainted. It Is aaid. with ovary deer
path la the Cascades, .is aa friendly
terms with the Indians on several rea-
ervatlona and speaks sla Indian dialects.
Ha learned ta -apeak- the language af "
the Molalla tribe before Jie eould apeak -English.
Sherman county horeea are rapidly
becoming "famous.', says "aha Wasco
News. In. the neighborhood of tlO.ooa
haa been spent during the- laat few V
yeara la the Importation of the beat
breeders that money eould procure and
the reeult la being felt even at this
early date In the Increased price and
demand for our horse Horeea to the
value of something like $100,000 have'
been aold by Sherman county breeders ,
during tha last two year w , .
of tkc .Common
science the next best thing la to have
a sound dlgeetfon. '
Tha only way to keep a woman from
telling a eeeret Is net to let bar know -anything
about It . - .
v r':;'"A.h 8hort. :.
It takeaVt.000 silk worms to ' spin '
enough silk for ana ladya dree . -
Persona bearing tha aame surname '
are forbidden to marry in Chin
A bath twice dally la aald to da drunk
ards good by lnoraaslng their self-respect
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The largeat topas in the world, now "
tn the Vatican at Ram welgha seven'
pound and haa carvlnga upon It that '
occupied three Neapolitan lapldarlee 41
yaar. - .....
An Australian flower of the Nlbleene
apeciea le often used as blacking, the
Juloe squeesed from four blossoms giv
ing enough liquid to coat a shoe with
a fine lueter. ,- :. ..j ;.'.." '
.T. :. " Large Steel Chimney. '' ; ,'
The steal chimney of largest diameter '
In tha United States Is at tha ameltlng
worka of the Copper Queen Consolidated
Mining company at Dougla Arison
This is tOO feet In height II feet Inter
nal diameter, and 14 feet diameter at
the base. The steel chimney of the
Companla Mlnera Do Pnole at Maplml, .
Mexico, la 100 feet in height 14 feet
Internal diameter and 14 feet in diame
ter at the baae. c ..... . ; -
A Girl Inventor. . . '
'Mil Lulai. a iS-year-old Belgian girl,
hss just patented an Invention which.
It Is claimed. . will revolutionise, many
kinds of traction. . A turnubla fixed to
any vehicle Is the origin of her Ides,
and by means of ber devloe any vehicle
automobll car, cart, etc driven by '
any power eaa at once revere Belglaa
government englneera ara considering
tha young inventor's scheme, with a
view te purchasing, the rights for their
country. . . .,. , .... , .. ,
X Usa for Spoiled Bear, v ;
"There Is no need." said a brewer,
"for us to throw away bear that haa '
turned aour, nor Is thers any peed for
us to. try to doctor It up Wa have a
readf sale for our Spoiled beer among
cement-makera.
"Don't think from this that cement- "
makers havs a morbid taste for sou
beer. Nothing of the kind. ' Thay ura
this bear In making cement for leather
Joint It takes the place of acid, being
cheaper and yet Juat as good.'
' Soma Annexations. '
Hawaii -wee. annexed - to 'ThaTJhTted ,
Statee In llll; Philippine lalanda were
reded by Spain In HIS; Porto Rica
ceded by Spain' In till: Guam ceded by
Spain In till; Samoa laand aequlred
In 100) Wake Island, annexed In llll;
Howland and Baker lslanda, anneted In
HIT; Medway. or Brooks Island, an
nsxed In HIT.
' ' Dogs School Children.
School oensus takers In Cincinnati
padded the lists af children in tha
fourth ward with the nmea of $00 dogs,
daelares united Ststes Marsha Fagln.
"They received one cent for each name,"
aald Fagln. "and each name means
more money for Boas George B. Cox te .
spend as ha sees fit Every Janitor and
every teacher Is a .politician." , .
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