The Oregon daily journal., July 19, 1908, Page 22, Image 22

' THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, , SUNDAY ' MORNING, JULY. .10, '1908.
Mr Jm How.
' John 6harp Williams, United States
.. tutor-elect from Mississippi, who was
" "In Portland recently, hns ths reputa-
tlon of being a tlroless worker. And
tie Is. Mr. Williams' system of rest Is
by changing from one task to another.
;.., "Reading Is a great rest." Mr. Wll
' Hams said while here, "and when trav
, j ellng. waiting for a train or doing any-
thing rise where J am compelled to sit
tUI, I always have a book of some
kind handy by which I can rest my
mind.
"Hard work never hurt any one.
. However, many persons imagine that i works nights he studies all day
' . . .... I r.n .iav rnl tiA Stlirlies flit lllirtl
. work l killing tl.n. If ttiey wm in
vestigate they will find that It la some
thing else.
"Sitting still' with the hands crossed
j and nothing to occupy the mind Is the
1 hardest work In the world."
' There must be something In Mr. Wll-
Hams' theory he is one of the health-
, ; lest persons in congress.
"No, sir, nothing like that f"r nit
Tou'll have to get rid of your 1.1-cent
. stamps to some one else. I'm unlucky
enough as U Is. And. besides. 1 don't
-rare to send any bad luck to my
friend."
It, was In the postofflce. In front of
: ,the stamp window. A woman was the
kWPj tot
- speaker. She had asked for stamps for
a package which the clerk said would
require 26 cents postage. He handed
her two I3-cent stamps. Then she flew
off the handle.
Deliberately the woman handed the
stamps back to the clerk. "Not for
mine. If you please," she continued.
"give me ones or twos or threes or any
Pld kind, but the thlrteena. There.
that's fine. Thanks. No, oh, no. I'm
. rot superstitious, but I Just thought th
of the ordinary, you know
lS.-cenf stamps might look odd or-, out
men was sent post haste to recover
what tickets were still mixed In among
the other things on the dump.
The men found a few, bul not many.
The boys had cleanod up well. And
some of the youngsters are still riding
on their good luck. The Issue has been
called In.
"Hnv hn ' shunted a clerk In a
Portland hotel the other day. And then:
"Front, front! Ice water. I say." The
Japanese bellhop continued to anoose.
Klnallv the clerk was compelled loyell
out, "banzai," and the almond-eyed boy
aW"That fellow Is one of the smartest
Taps In Portland." nld the clerk, "and
also one of the sleepiest. He's studying
law. He's always sleepy. When he
wnen
on lv dulv he studies all night.
"But he'a not the only studious bell
hop. They all study to some extent
and niiow up for work with their eyes
onlv half open.
"See that little rascal there. The one
nodding Just exactly as a chicken goes
to sleep. He's studying surgery. He's
the biggest rutup In the bunch. That
Is when he Is awake.
"I am working on a new Invention
that will startle the world. It's a great
secret, of .course. But I'll tell you this
much: Jdy plan Is to have something,
I'm not saying what, that will work
automatically and keep bellhops Indus
trious off duty wide awake when they
are on the Job."
Then the clerk began running over
the register, chuckling to himself.
July 10 Is to come and go just like
any other day. Several weeks ago It
was decided unon by the Portland mer
chants as the date for the first real cut
on summer goods. There was a signed
agreement to this effect, It seems.
But some one or two got anxious
July 20 wasn't rolling along fast
enough. So zip. the cut was made.
Then, of course, others had to do their
duty. So summer goods are as cheap
now as thev will ever be this year.
July 20 "was booked to be the big
bargain day of the sason. I'nder the
circumstances It will be Just July 20.
That's ail.
"They say that the sense of smell Is
more sensitive and has more of a ten
dency to recall Incidents In ones life
than either sight or hearing." a man
said yesterday as he stood In the street
eating some common molasses candy,
"and I believe It.
"I was passing a store the other
dnv when I got a whiff of something
sweet that Immediately took me back
to my boyhood. I hadn't had a smell
of that stuff for many years, yet It
recalled the days of my youth In an
Instant.
"And what do you suppose It was?
Just common, old-fashioned sorghum.
Anyone who has ever eaten that good
old thick, sweet, black stuff when ha
was a youngster will never forget It.
Whv, I used to think that sorghum
spread on a piece of bread and butler
was Just about the finest treat In the
world. And I would yet if I could
get It.
"But the sorghum that I used to
get when a boy seems to be a thing of
the pact. You can buy so-called
MOTS!
167 Varieties of Rockers
ROCKERS
16 7! COUNT THEM
How is that for an assortment? We have made a specialty of Rockers. We carry one of the largest lines in the city. We actually counted
167 different patterns on the floor. Golden, weathered, seats wooden, leathered. And, say, do you realize how much room they require?
Well, it's a great deal more than we can spare when our fall goods begin to arrive, and WE'VE SIMPLY GOT TO GET BUSY AND
CLOSE OUT ABOUT 110 PATTERNS 57 varieties will be an "elegant sufficiency'
-we won't have room for more. Therefore
Every Rocker in the House Has Been Reduced From 15 to 25 Per Cent
You know what that means if you have traded with us before. You would pay little attention to a 25 per cent reduction by the Big Price
Boys, because you then would be paying dearly for Rockers, but a TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT SPECIAL CUT FROM "M-A's" VERY
LOW NO-RENT PRICES CUTS ALL PROFIT OUT AND GIVES YOU A GENUINE EXTRA SPECIAL BARGAIN.
The clerk never cracked a smile.
Just went on dealing out the little
stickers as one after another came for
-ones and twos and other denominations.
"Sell many thlrteens?" he was asked
after the woman had gone.
"Well, I should say not," replied th-j
clerk. "Thev are a drug on the mar
ket. I'm afraid to hand them out to
most persons. Whenever I do there is
usually a kick. The last was Just a
ample. Some get so riled up that they
want to . whip me. No, we do not sell
many of the thirteen variety. Don't
see what in the. world Uncle Sam ever
made -them for. To make change. I
' suppose. But if he only knew all the
trouble he has caused."
The 13-ceni stamp is block. All the
others are of varlouR colors.
There are also stamps of denomfna
. tions of 60 cents and tl. The only
woman's picture on a United States
stamp is that of Martha Washington.
It Is on the 8-cent stamp.
The stamps made by Uncle Sam are
In denominations of 1. 2. 3. 4, 5, 6. 8,
10. S, 15, special delivery, 50-cent
and l.
coUEUiot,
Poor old Uncle Sam people are al
- ways taking advantage of him.
Some time ago Uncle Sam nppro
printed 14.80 toward the support of
. each of the five cats at the Portland
postofflce. A check for 124 to assure
another year of duty for the cats was
received oy Postmaster Minto from the
postofflce department officials at Wash
ington just a lew uays ago.
r t
naturally
i
esses
. . .
the cats
night
1 The cats are kept there to protect
the mails from mice and ra's As It
i Was found that thev tired of the rodent
. diet now and then I'nrlc Sam was called
on for a regular allowance, bo that the
" cats could be. provided with meats and
Other delicacies.
Everything went slong lovely for s
time. But now the Portland postofflce
rats have taken advantage of I'ncle
Sam. too. An addition to the postofflce
cat family five brand new kittens ar
rived yesterday. The old ladv cat Is
the proudest thing in Portland. But
poor Vncle Sam is worried
A task like fining the Standard Oil
lis. 000.000 never bothers him a bit.
But when It comes to putting five little
Innocent kittens out of existence, why.
ld Uncle Sam is there with as big a
heart as any one. Just like most In
dividuals, he sort of rhnkr, ur and at
the last moment decides not to do it
Po tbe five little kittens at the post
Office will probably be given away to
some One who will raise them or else
old Uncle Sara will dig down in his
Jesns and fork over another 114 j
Ths city dump has been might v pop-'
wlar tbe laat few days. Ktrt. ft was
" invaded by boys hundred of them.
Then caane a lot of men. scraped srnur.i
awhile and carried all the prize awav
The boys had a regular gold mine for
time and the news had spread over all
. Portland- Boys sre sil'I going to the
sums freea everywhere j
i, bor fouad a streetcar ticket the!
ether 4f- He looked around a hit and
tu 4 outers. The sews was too gond
to sp, A hoy friend wss let In oa
- ti deeX And mn the news spread.
And th tickets wers perfectly good
tt-!a. Tho boys tried tneav The oo
4 rtor took ths w1th kick. It
wss .. s;rtet (ml the rouagsters
ha 4 e, e rn acrooa.
- T iwketa had threw a war hy
a re nter, baring btew sjsabro4 taeor
re '
r-,tn"f T errwetrar company offJ
- fiA M U UtJliLvA UX
sorghum In the market, but it Isn't the
sorghum that I knew 35 years ago.
"It is like a great many other good
things of the olden days. It was too
much trouble grinding the sugar cane
and boiling the Juice, and in the rapid
race to modernize the world the receipt
has apparently been lost. Cases have
been known that where something was
Imitated it was better than the origi
nal. But this Isn't so by a long shot
when it comes to that delicious, home
made sorghum that 1 would, give any
thing in the world for just another
bite on a piece of bread and butter and
be allowed the pleapures of spreading
it over all my face."
It Is the ambition of every bov to be
like his father, as It Is every girl's de
sire that she be as much like her moth
er as possible. When a boy Is young
he imitates his rather and does many
things Just because he has seen his
parent do them. And as he becomes
older, even when he Is an old man, he
often notices little mannerisms in him
self which remind him fondly of his
father. It Is simply heredity.
Mayor Harry Usne and Tom Richard
son were at luncheon the other day I
when Mr. Richardson got to talking j
about some of his habits. J
"I often catch myself doing little ;
things exactly as my father used to i
do," Mr. Richardson said, "and I think !
that 49 men out of every oO do the
same. Hasn't that been your experi
ence. Mayor?"'
"No. Xever. never." replied Pr. I.ane.
"my father was a mighty smart man."
Picnics are not likely to be the suc
cess in years to come that thev have
been In the past the good, old-fanh-loned
deviled ham with the funnv lAht
on the cans has been hard hit by the
ure food laws. In fact, deviled hum
as been put clear out of business as
far as the name Is concerned.
It seems there never was anv ham In
the deviled stuff, anyway. But the hun
gry picnickers never thought of that,
nor would they yet. If Uncle Sam hadn't
taken the question under consideration
for the sake of the human stomach.
But will a picnic ever be Just right
without deviled ham? There Is a cer
tain flavor, a certain richness in the
deviled .meat which ban been on hand
for many, many years at all plrnlrs
that without It plcknickers of todav who
attended outings of old will Imagine
that there Is something lacking to make
the eating event complete. !
Old I'ncle Sam. however, doesn't 5car
about the picnicker's appetite when he
knows the food is not good for him.
so the deviled ham of old has gone to
the Is not on the market any mora
I e5T W!
I W til I
in ,mUfl m
i mm - m
This Rocker $2.45
A specimen bargain. Wevph't mention
its value. We want to see rrow many peo
ple recognize a big bargain.
It is solid oak, wooden seat and rodded. Is an extra strong rocker. The
Big Trice Boys would call it a $6.00 rocker, but it isn't we'll be frank.
We never ask $6.Q0 for it, although others do. However, we will sell only one to each
person, and deliver it at our convenience.
Do You Know Rocker Values? We'll See
BIG MISSION
CKER
This is an elegant Weathered Oak Rocker, up
holstered in genuine brown Spanish leather.
The big price boys would call it a $14 Rocker.
We sell it at $11. This week it will cost you
OffY
REFRIGERATORS CUT
25 PER CENT
Our regular, very low, no-rent price on Refrigerators
is so much under the Big Price Boys that it gives
them cold feet. . But this week you can buy any re
frigerator at three-fourths of our very low regu
lar price. It certainly will give the Big Price Boys
a chill, all right.. You can afford a big, handsome
Refrigerator at these SPECIAL
PRICES
$12 50 Refrigerators, special "j 9.35
$20.00 Refrigerator, special $15. OO
$z.M) Refrigerator, special
special
special
special
special
special
$26.00 Refrigerator,
$30.00 Refrigerator,
$32.00 Refrigerator,
$34.50 Refrigerator,
$48.00 Refrigerator,
17.00
$19. SO
$22.50
$24. OO
$25.90
$36. OO
Others Pay Rent, We Collect Rent on
Half Our Own Building Who Can
Sell the Cheapest?
W. L. MORGAN GEO. T. ATCHLE
S. H. MORGJtX
81-83-35
qRAJMD.Ae,
CORNER
ft it a a a g kk3c .
FPMSIl'lJME'Ss-
BUFFETS AND CHINA
CLOSETS
CUT TWENTY.
FIVE PER CENT
Every weathered oak pattern in- the house it cut
one fourth this week.. An elegant line in the quar
tered oak to select from. Don't miss this oppor
tunity of securing a handsome dining-room piece
at one fourth of our very low no-rent price, which
equals a 50 per cent reduction by the Big Price
Boys.
$35.00 Buffet, special $26.25
$38.00 Buffet, special $28.50
$40.00 Buffet, special $30.00
$42.50 Buffet, special $32. OO
$44.00 Buffet, special $33. OO
$47.50 Buffet, special $35.75
$50.00 Buffet, special $37.50
$63.75 Buffet, special $47.80
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CHICAGO NEWS LETTER
Thliago. July 16 With the Demo
cratic and Republiran conventions now
a part of hlptory an1 Intprest centerr.
on th" Prohibition convention st Colum
bus, the big liquor Interests, whose
headquarter are In this city, are begin
ning to feel In earnest the effects of
the "prohibition which swept the
country ihi tprlng. Following the oon
entlon of the I'nlteH States Brewers'
association In Milwaukee at which It
declared that a rampalrn would be
waged against disreputable saloons,
figure hae been 'Omplled showing th
eitent of the inroarts ma je upon the
Manor traffic. Carla4s of fixtures and
furnishings from saloons In now drv
Sqw for Airship Lams.
From the New York World.
If ths various aero clubs are Success- :
ful oeit year sky sailing will be regu- '
lated by statute. Navigators of balloons
and seroplanes will be forre1 to qualify
In meteorolory. chartmaklnr. sjr eur- i
rents, expansion of gases, the rules of. and the fgjres for hl'-sgo do not fall
the road and cloud dodging Ths n- ; far behind this total The most slgnlfl
dowment of chairs In our leading tint- eant sign, however. Is the Immense fall
rersltles mar soon be confidently ex- Irg off In the epenclture bv breweries
ted and the B. A. degree will stand and distilleries for new buildings, ma
f or prpfU'teocr In aeronautic ss well ss.chlnerv. Improvements and repairs. The
in iw arcs i ne i
declare a perpetus
preparing the fall campaign, which. It Is
preoM ien. will De
tested
more bitterly con-
than sny conflict hitherto.
territory are being rtcelved by concerns i Marls on his vovag on a memorable
In this cltv everv week It Is stated I Friday. August 1. !!. and It as on
that i!aukee breweries ha'-e had to
recall over 200 carloads of such fixtures
The proposed Isw will also
tual rloss season for 11-
toon ahooting. and every ascension ts tn
be recorded so thst relatives snd friends
snay bs aaslstsd la their search for re
mains. .
expenditure In this way last vear was
close to I JO.tiOS.flfta. but Judging from
the first six months ilquor men estimate
day. These games, between brokers of
the ( hlcago board of trade and the Min
neapolis chamber of commerce, will not
only make many poor children happy
but give an opportunity for the baseball
mad rooters of the two exchanges to do
their glad and nolnv stunts to their ut
most snt isf act Ion. Both things are note
worthy: last year I4.2UO was cleared bv
the baseball commlttte and turned over
In the Is charities and enough money
was made besides to build a cottage in
the country for 40 children: also some
new records were made In the baseball
enthusiasm of the moat enthusiastic
fans boasted bv this city, where men.
women and children are Cub and Sox
rooters At every big game the boar-i
of trade contingent In the grandstand
Is conspicuous nf ths Joyful sousds It
makes and the 'Tans'" perched elsewhere
warm to them snd ihen try not to be
outclassed tn haaeball enthusiasm Th..
a Friday. October IS. 1S1 which wss ; board of trade charity games, st whlcti
an is proni sni mere sre no expenses,
hsve become annua! events of t .upo e'
en ce at which ths mayor tosses the first
ball and starts things going with eelat.
On these occasions the business of the
grain pit Is put aside, the problems of
world s demand and supply which fix
prices In the continual warfare of
"bulls" snd 'bears" sre forgotten In the
absorbing pension for the nations) game
of the diamond
Kridav the flav on which Brvan's
nomination was completed bv the Den
ver convention. deaplte the stopped
clock, may be unluikv for thos who
are condemned to hang, but opinion
seems I1 Ided as tn Its being a "hoodoo
day and a sesrch of history reveals
many Fridays as dflys of triumph. The
Pilgrims landed safelr v on Plymouth
rock on Friday December 20. !2l.
which was lucky for their descendants:
the British surrendered st Torktown on
unlucky for the British Columbus set
out in the Pints, the Nina and Santa
Friday also that he got his first
glimpse of land. October 12. 1 42. m
event which was more fortunate for u
than for him. It proved. Columbus also
landed on his second vovsge on a Fri
day. November 12. 141. snd on Friday.
January II. HP4. he discovered the coast
of North America George Wsehtrgexi
wss horn on s Friday, a fact to which
Bryan and Kern, nominated on that day.
will be ablA to '"point with pride." None
felling off of per cent. Many
skilled workmen have been thrown oot
of employment as s result of this re
duction in the bustnesa On the other
hand the economic advantages of ths re-
sfllustmnt ncountedly .compensate for
ei a sort itr stories or African life next Uv the anti-liquor Interests here clalsa
that It will be barely o.oo this year i of them could have helped It -'Friday
Why Go to Africa?
Ftowi the Waterburv (Conn. Republican.
as-ssina are nfrsrlng ths president
Fls-ures hsve Just been compiled
rir ensuing nis eres sn Imag-Mc,g a eroosble Itv cease tn factory
lning roosres Is in session Mt Roose-l wages resulting, .rem prohibition of
ta saaiij ciA ufi iO.0t a Jay. 1 Mti. MsatsLLe boU algae am
v . '
y. ' : ' -. . - v
Is the luckiest day tn the week.- de
elsred an astrolos-ee wrm explained hi
theory by aaylar The luck lest day is
ruled by Venus." Many others. wb
were superstitious, shook their heads.
Baseball for charity, netting the
sencs of dollars es sf.fts tickets were
sold drew an enormous crowd last
Saturday in this -1ty an-t will drew an-
Interestlng figures showing the
enormovs concentration or activity In
b'g cities during the past few decades
or the xopntry s history hsve been rs;h
ered here In the course of an official
Investigation determine the geo-
frraphloel. business and Industrial eeri
er of Chicago. The geographical cen
ter of the city has shifted. It was
found, te a point near the Intersactloe
f Wood and Thirty-fifth streets. The
city a now 21 miles long by IH tnll-ai
wide, and If used for agricultural pur
poses would fnsks exactly 7I farms
aUt-JumA ta MlnruMpotH ezt Jur-J ef it icm sack. A lew taraa an
situated within the city limits but ;hs
bulk of the area Is made to support
a population of over 2.30O.OOO. Ths
problems of transportation. traffic,
lighting and water supply that such
a congestion creates were only touched
on in the report, which was prepareJ
by the city bureau of statistics and
submitted to the mayor. The ceiiler of
Industrial activity wss found at the
Intersection of Van Buren and De,s
plalnes streets. In determining this lo
cation the bureau secured Information
regarding 47.1S6 places employing 44').
01 a persons. The business center of
the city Is claims!) to be at the cor
ner of State and Madison streets, which
liss been declsred by- the board of re
view to be the most valuable piece of
land In Chicago and probably In t'ie
Inlted States west of the Allegheny
mountains There sre no less than
2.200 streets In the city. One-fifth of
the entire population of Chicago la said
to be dependent for its livelihood upon
the stockyards and packing industry-
Ireland s cause, now gaining in Eng
land, win receive a new impulse In
the T'nlted States ss a result of a
meeting held here this week by the
Irish societies, with membership It
every state of the union, to do honor
to the memory of John F. Flnerty. In
his youth tbe late president of the
Inlted Irish leag-ue of America was
driven out of Ireland and hla seal In
the Irish nationalist rause wss unceas
ing through his eventful Ufa. The
Invitation to send representatives to the
memorial meeting- met with a response
from ths Irish Fellowship club, Irish
nationalists. Osellc society. Gael to
league. Ancient - Order of Hibernian a
LAdlee' Auxiliary of ths A. O. IL.
Knights of Equity. Irish Choral so
ciety, Oaelie Athletie association. South
Chicago Irish Hlstorlcsl society Old
Guard of tbe TVnlen Brother ee4 enl
various met of the O. A. R. fen
Cauoaei rtnerty fou(ht weu la the QrUl
war. Ilurlng his lifetime Colonel Fln
erty held more posts of honor In eon-
tne movement for Irln
nectlon . with
1?"?L th ny oilier man In America.
,he Prediction was made that
?r.idom V '?!IIVhe flht for Political
fT. woVld, b nsa nl Ireland
ould be enjoying home rule. In aup
port of this. Mtentlon was called to
KT.1 ".ttemen, hy the Hon. Timothy
Harr ngton member of parllsment from
Iiublln. and others to the effect thjt
Yi? P"r!nl lord llentenant. the Earl ..f
Aberdeen, fsvored- the movement and
'"V c.uwora nimFeir was at heart
a home ruler and would welcome the
change. Jsmes Bryce, now British am
bassador to this country, was outspok
en In his sympathy at- various tlms
during his politics! csreer and It Is
expected that the liberal party, now In
Pfjr'w forced shortly to fui-
!" .JU P'Kes snd give Ireland ths
rights she has demanded for so many
years.
A new show place on Chicago's lk
shore drive, s 1500.000 residence 1
under construction by R. T. Crans Jr
s mansion to rlvsl the Potter Palmer
.r!!!!1! Vd V,,ctor. r Lawsons new
1600.000 "home." Time was h. ih.
visitor, on sight-seeing lent, was taken
about ths city, the water works ana
tower were the showiest things on ths
north side, and the Palmer home, with
bat Uemen ted tower was next Later
the Masonic temple eclipsed ths city
hall and the Art instttute was bulU
on the lake front. Now the strident
voices of gsldes on the "seeing Chicago-
autos break otit often In ariioun.
Ing the asmes of owners of the pre
tentions places on the boulevards
those of John O Fhedd, Mike UcDon
ald, Chauncey Blair. Edeon Keith. P.
P. Armour aod others But the . new
Crane residence la respect to else and
cost will In eotnparlsoa nave snost of
these piacea 4 ear fed ta ls'mtharka,