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TJ(E OREQOM SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST 8. 1909 MEW: BODEc3 and their r 0 tl T"a J-J . - - ' rrTZ TbV. JTH 1 7 . : '.':-;V some Kuod and amusing Illustration. Henry Altemus Cn. Price 11.60. I HE Voice of the City' by O. Henry. This la a group of ?B. most charming and de lightful sketches they might he called short stories, but that would seem rather a commonplace for they are not short stories as wo commonly designate that class of lit erature. To say they were little black and white etchings, with an occasional pastel in words would more properly describe them. Tluty are clear, dainty nd full of llfej not passionate but throbbing with tno great heart of hu manity. The book takes its title from the first story. In this the author seeks to know what the voice of the great city is saying. He says: "The other day 1 became confused. I needed a ray of light. I turned back to the school days for aid. But in all tho nasal harmonies we whined forth from thoBc hard benches I cou'd not reomll one that treated of the voice of agglom erated mankind "In other words, of the composite vocal messaice of massed humanity, in other words, of the Voice of a Big City. "Now the Individual voice is not lack ing We can understand the voice of the po'-t, the ripple of the brook, tho meaning of the man who wants n un til next Monday, the inscription of the tombs of the Pharaohs, the lan guage of the flowers, the 'step lively' of the conductor, tho prelude of the milk cans at 4 a. m. Certain large eared ones even assert that they are wise to the tympanum produced by concussion of the air emanating from Mr. H. James. Hut who can compre hend the meaning of the voice of the city?" Then the author starts out to get an answer to his question. Ho awks first. "Aurella who wore white Swiss and a hat with corn flowers on it and rib bons and ends of things that fluttered here and there." Aurella is Indifferent but when pressed for an answer sends the inquirer away assuring him that "All cities say the same thing. When they pat through saying It there Is an echo from Philadelphia. So, they are unanimous." From one to the other, among many classes of people he goes, receiving tho name indifference, and each one he asks Is more interested in what some one else Is saying or doing than In what the "Voice of the Big City" la saying, till lit length he comes back to Aurella and, at the close of tho day, sitting with her hand clasped In his, she answers his Question without knowing it. This Is ft fair sample of each of the little sketches that follow all deli cate of conception telling a little bit of human life, warmed by a genial sympathy and picked out with pin points of brilliant wit that flash from the most unexpected recesses. Mr. Henry Is among the most clever of our American writers, with a i!t erary style that, while peculiarly his own. is above criticism. He never moral lues and yet he never writes without a purpose, and after reading nny one of the little sketches In this book, which varies n merit only according to the taste of the reader, I ona feela as though he had taken an elixir that was boPi stimulating and wholesome. The McClure company. Price J1.25. "Oet-nioh-Qulck WalllngMford" --- by Georsa Randoluh Chester. "A business buccaneer," some one hag called J. Ku fiis Wallinarsford. while another has said. "He was an exponent, though per haps exaggerated, of the entire Ameri can spirit of commercial gain." A financial hurvanrer he certainly was. but It would be a sad commentary on the American spirit of commercial gain to liken It. as a whole, to Walllngs ford. His type does exist, and has ever since Jacob defrauded Esau out of his blessing and later schemed to make the cattle of I.aban striped or speckled to suit his commercial Inter ests. It Is not therefore any more the American spirit than the oriental spirit; It Is simply the spirit of human na ture to ;et something for nothing. But Wnllingsford's particular type was not of the bargain counter class; ne soared Into realms of high finance and guided his craft with quick wit, resourceful ness and .an unlimited amount of as surance. His first transaction, wtiloh the book relates. Is characteristic of his career. as well as of the other incidents In the story. He goes Into a town with less than $200 In the world; he drives to the best hotel In the best carriage to he had. he takes the best room and or ders a service that would do credit to a millionaire. He meets a cnum wno, In the course of conversation, tells him of a bookkeeper who has saved out of his meager salary $6,000, but who Is too smart to let go of It to a snarper. wai llngsford wants no pther cue, and a rustv little tsck sticking: un In the carpet suggested the plausibility of a company to manufacture covered tacks; tacks to match the carpet. By ripping up a necktie and pasting bits of it onto some tacks he sent his valet out to buy. made a verv presentable bait with which he caught the young bookkeeper and all his confiding friends. In short, in a few months, after living in an elegant home he had bought and fur nished luxiislously. having all sorts of automobiles and every other magnlfl nenrA without ever hflvinfir naid a eood hard dollar for It. he drew out of the be made in rt.is country. . j . .1. l. tnn tnn "Tl,. n-...i." 1 company ineiween iinve wim .-w,ifim.i "The Tnnnr Acadian." hv Charles Q D. Roberta -Even for children who are not old ciioukIi to fully comprehend the beauty and poetry of "Kvangellne' theru Is an attractive air of romance I surrounding tho Acadian peninsula, or what Is now known iim Nova SooUa. In the present story the author ante- antes Lonirsnowi grent poem ty al most a generstlon and in an attractive way gives a hit of Acadian history that would greatly Interest a child of not too tender years. Pierre, oecorheau was the youthful hero of the story, though he had grown to young manhood before It terminated. He Is thoroughly Fi ench at heart and does vnlhiiit servh-c tnr France, though hating the famous Ahhc I,e I.outre. One purpose of the book seems to he to show that this unscrupulous priest hnd much to do with the suffering and expulsion of th.- Acndlans. His constant Inciting of the Alicmac Indians to deeds of cruelty, his despotic; rule of th superstitious hut gentle Acadlans and his corrupt connivance with the gov ernment officials at Quebec undoubted ly provoked tho drastic measure oy England, which exalte the Indignation of every render of "Kvangeline." Mr. Roberts has told his story well and has added n valuable little book to Juvenile literature. It Is full of ex citement with a dash of Indian adven ture, though devoid of any unwhola some or vicious tendency. It Is a storv that would make excellent supplemen tary reading for a school. It Is well bound and good print and specially adapted for this purpose. L. C. Page & Co. Price 60 cents. "The World's Work" On the 4th of Jul- at Hainmondsport. N. Y., (1. H. Curtlss sailed the air for a distance of a mile In his aeroplane, the June Bug. "The World's Work" for August con tains four pictures of the June Bug, showing Mr. Curtlss at the wheel, the machine in actual flight, on the road before the trlnl and during the trial very remarkable pictures. This remark able performance gets an especial In terest from the fact that it was the first public flight In art aeroplane to BINGHAM WARM SPRINGS INOW We-Na-Ha Springs This famous old Blue Mountain Re sort now opens For the Season of 1908. Under the management of J. A. BORIE. the new owner. Roads. bridges. buildings and equipment repaired and renewed. Hotel and dining-room service will be a special feature, being under the care of the best steward and chef obtainable. Rates tS to $18 a week. J2.50 and J3 a day. Camping privil ege J 1.26 a week each. For further particulars, write to J. A. BORIE, Prop. We-Na-Ha Springs Gibbon Postofflc. Umatilla County, Oregon. SEE THE OCEAN H0TO MOORE OPEN AM, THE YEA CLATSOP BEACH SEASIDE, OK. THE CLIFF HOUSE OF OREGON. Directly on the beach, overlooking the ocean. Hot salt baths and surf bathing; recreation pier for fishing; sun parlora; electrlo lights: nreDlace nd rurnace neat. Bea foods a specialty Fin walks and drives. Kates, f 2 50 and s.uu per aay. For particulars apply to ths Danmoore. DAN J. KOOBB, Fro p. WMXI ON YOUR WAY TO THE BEACH ina: to the cood leaving the deluded hook- keener and his friends with nothing but their experience. I.Ike all promoters of this kind he spent lavishly and went from one bunko transaction to another, each growing to greater proportions. He proves himself the most accom plished of all knaves, the rascal that Uvea off of the credulity of the honest and untight, but has the shrewdness to always keep within the pale of the law. Walllngsford Is a character an honest reader must have the utmost contempt for. a,nd yet they must ad mire his brains nnd ability. The book is brilliantly wittv and will rovoke a laugh even when the reader s so Indignant he feels he must get his hands onto the man that is 60 smooth ly fleecing his victims. The Question will present ltseir: is this class of literature good, whole some reading? We cannot think It is. To be sure. It ends with a sort of a moral, but this does not overbalance the pernicious ihflnnce It might exert upon a voung man whose principles are not safely grounded. His schemes are so easy annarently- to carry out: ho gets the best of everything the world has to offer and many a time could have retired a wealthy man. and of course the young man who might attempt to follow his example will In tend to stop just at the proper time who dors not when they begin to be led Into temptation So from the standpoint of entertain ment the book deserves many good things to be said about It. but from the standpolrt of the moralist It is not desirable. The book s well gotten up and has 'The World's Work" also contains two photographs showing Count Zeppelin's dirigible balloon coursing over a lake of the Herman-Swiss frontier. On a trip of 1 2 hours that she made on July 1 this craft carried a crew of a dozen men and as many passengers. This magazine Is paying especial attention to airships and will publish a series of articles on the present burst of suc cess a really new era It Is. COMMERCIAL HOTEL OCCIDENT HOTEL SEASIDE, OREGON UHDEB NEW MANAGEMENT. American and European Plan. Centrally and Conveniently Located. Near Depot. Convenient to Beach. Hot and Cold Water In Rooms. EXCELLENT TABLE. LOW RATES. E. E. WOODWOETH, Proprietor. Astoria, Ore. SAYING A WORD FOR THE VvOMEX. I Til If Hr .g T4S&7tf It- ' fei jli ; . -:vJ If "4. WvrSK &Jil If i -rh?&i& ' 1 1 M ' f ' w - t P ' it ? -vr "'mUll "Home Memories," by EH Barber This Is certainly a book to take one bnck to the simple life, so simple In deed that it Is a question whether It would be wholly desirable to live so near the primitive. It reads like ttie Sunday school book of "ye olden times." It was no doubt a great sat isfaction for the author, who says he wrote the book In "memory's name," to go over the details of what must have been a happy home life, but these mem ories are like the smart sayings of our own children very colorless to other people. There are some Incidents of in terest and a mild romance or two, but hardly enough to lift the hook above the mediocre. The author lays stress on the Bible command "to remember." but we don't believe oven the divine command meant to waste time In re membering things that would be of no value In the progress of the world, and the world has moved so rapidly since Joe. the hero and author of the book was a boy, that to go back to the days of his happy recollection would stop the wheels or progress in many ways. Imagine a fond uncle of today of fering a boy $1,000 If he would walk IS miles to his uncle's home, remain with him and without returning to his fam ily for one year when he knew the bov was devotedly fond of his home, and then walk the IS miles hack again. To-i day that uncle, most likely, would have used the thousand dollars to send the boy away to a good school. Joe shows In many little ways that a broader education would not have been amiss. Here Is in Instance: Joe'a grandparents had 14 children no twins or doubling up. His grandmother was at a quilting one time when measles were prevalent In the neighborhood and each woman was speaking of her ex perience with toe disease, when the grandmother remarked: "Well, all mv children have had them but my five lit tle girls." Referring to this the au thor says: "What a Fpeeeh was that! How many women of American birth can say that today? I venture to as sert that no woman's rights woman past or present ever made such a speech. They haven't the material And yet. It Is Just the kind President Roosevelt likes to hear. We ask. would the In telligent mother flf today he willing to raise a son who would cast such a slur upon the women who made It possible for grandmother's five little girls to enter college and get ;in equlprrtent for lire equal to her ninny nrotners. sup pose that grandmother had been cast upon her own resources, would she have been ahle to support thoe five little girls and give them the higher educa tion, as we know one fumous "woman's r ghts woman" to have done with five sons who are now pillars of society and hold prominent positions In the busi ness and educational world and are to day so devote-' to tint woman's rights mother that they never fall to rals- their voice lr their mother's cause upon every occasion? We hardly think a mother that woucl make so foolish a Colonial Hotel BATES 52 FEB DAT AND UPWARD LINDSLEY & SON, Proprietors New Building New Furniture BIGHT AT THE SOTTNSIVO SEA Electric Light In Every Room Free Bus to and From All Trains Good Fishing, Boating and Bathing SEASIDE, OREGON The Hackney Cottage SEAVIEW, WASHINGTON VOW OPE IT TOB THE BSASOS. Delightfully located on most beauti ful and pleasant spot on tne beach. 9- Gee! TttE Waters Fine, 4 The Shelburne House 8EAVTEW, WASH. Is now open for the Summer. This Is one of the most pleasant places on ine beach, with large, shady yard. THE BEST TABLE SERVICE And pleasant rooms. For rates write to THE SHEIiBUBNE HOUSE, Sea view. Wash. Pacific View Motel NECAITICUM STATION. SEASIDE, OB. Open Winter and Summer. Under New Management Most conveniently located hotel on the beach for surf bathers. Neatly fur nished rooms for light housekeeping. Use of range for cooking utensils free, L. P. HAr.BESOHOU, Flop. Un urpassed surf bathing, home comforts, excellent table board. Accommodations greatly Inoreased. Special rates by the weea ana season. All tlons by mall Potrtotrioe Addzaaa, SEAVTEW. 7 ASH lake your reserva take poTTFR EKoTS. 1HL J A A Ul V SATURDAYS l.X P. M. QRAND TRIP-GLORIOUS TIMB Every convenience provided. Including experienced stewardess to look: after Comfort of lady passengers. Season Tickets Prom Portland 84 Saturday to Konday S3 SEND FOR "OREQON OUTINQS' City Tiokt Office, Tblrd and Washington its. ys North Beach Inn SIIWTON1 STATXOir Facing the Ocean: Fine View Large Sunny Rooms; Oood Table and service. VBS. W. M. DBWDT, Kanagar. Address, Long Beach. Wash,, Bon 86 HOTEL SALT AIR OentervUle Station, Wash. Close to the ocean Rates reasonable. Table unsurpassed. W. E. BfUTCBOirSOlT, Manager, P. O. Address, Beavlew, Wash. THE WHITEHOUSE LOWQ BEACH, WASHINGTON. A favorite hotel with Long Beach vis itors; large, comfortable rooms, over looking the ocean; unsurpassed view. One block south of station. MBS. O. F. WHITEHOUSE. Prop. HARVEST HOME Three Blocks South of Depot LONG BBACa, WASHINGTON. Now Open for the Season. Prices. $1.50 per day, 18.00 per week. Beds. 60 cents. Meals, 86 cents. Chil dren under 10 years, half rates. JOSEPH MoXBAN, Proprietor. THE BR1TT LOITO BEACH, WASHINGTON. BOARD AND ROOMS. The Best Meals on the Beach, as Usual. A. J. Rader's Camping Ground Here you will find good water, sep tic tanks, on grounds. Rood location. foundation and furnished tents to rent at Nye Creek. A, J. BAD SB proprietor, Newport, Oregon. mmmu tw INE WPORT YAQU1NA BAY PRIVATE ROOM and BOARD HOMK COOKINQ. MRS. SARAH CHAMBER LIN LONO BEACH. WASH. mmm NORTONIA HOTEL BBT.Brvs f J A ELEVENTH OPT WASBINOTOIT ST. Portland's Only Roof Garden American Bates to families and European Our Boa Masts All Trains Sample Sottas, with Baths, for TravaUng Man THE CORNELIUS THE BEST IN POBTLAND Carpeted throughout In the best velvet carpets. Every room contains a heavy solid Simmons brass bed, on which speech as Joes uranilinotner would have Is a 40 or ,-o-pouni r.air nianreps i ne rooms are rur boen able single handed to have don , nlshed in solid mahogany. Writing desk In STry room, the work of his l.ero'c- v. .man a rights i Long distance and local telephones in every room. Sixty woman." Aitiln tl.c author evidently rooms with private hath. Situated in the center of shop- rreKi- ping district. One hlock from the streetcars. Aot so ex about : pensive as some o'her hotels. When next tn Portland give doe; dent not kii'Hv nn.le ilia! while the r.is:: remark 'race sr.fcil of women's i us a chance to make you hok pleased rollTlcal riehts hn.s always heen cham lone.i t him. and wnen h was a ver- younif man with l is reputation to make. ainst the lhe or all Ills political viser?. he tntrorii; . d a "w oman's rights" bill Ir.to the legislature of New York. The. author In this Instance cer- nlnlv thade a dlsastro-is mistake whlcli necessarlH weakens his whole story. nicliard O. I'.adR. r To Trice ll.BO. An Important llterarv feature of the midsummer i-.olldav i.uniher of the Cen tury wlil be "A "Jr.'up of Aldrich Let ters." to such !nte-esting personalities s Bavard Tavl.ir. Kiwln Booth, Lowell, "lelds. Stoddard. Hte.lman. Howells. 'lemens anl W.ndhrry with com ment bv Fi-rr.s ijrr-.-nslet it Is with certain surprise. Mr ;reenslet says. that one becomes aar of the wide seg ment of American life that Aldrlch's Ife touched. "And It Is precisely In this that cn rrlme Interest of his let- - "" . " . ... T. ' ta. uiuuHiinpny nriva I rum m miuiu the flo- and o.ot toe literary tldee T crtpt found among Oeneral de Peyster"s Tha furnishings and general appearance of the puMie rooms must be seen to ne appreciated. TJ11-; amhi.n s t ree nui meetsall trains. Dx. O. W. Cornelius, Prop N. X. Clarka, Manager. Oregon's flatchless Beach Resort The Place to Go for Perfect Rest and Every Conceiv able Form of Healthful and Delightful Recreation ITS FACILITIES ARE COMPLETED est of food, and an abundance of it. Fresh water from springs. All modern ne cessities, such as telegraph, telephone, markets freshly pro vided every day. Fuel in abundance. Cottages partly fur nished or unfurnished to be had cheaply. Strict municipal sanitary regulations. Summer Excursion Rates f From All Points In the Northwest NEWPORT is reached by way of the Southern Pacific to t Albany or Corvallis, thence Corvallis & Eastern Railroad. T rr. , -1 1 . 1 , fl .1 1 A. T - l rain service aany, ana tne inp a pleasure inrougnoui. Leare Portland 8:15 a. m., main linej via Albany, or 7 a. m., via west side line. RATES FROM PORTLAND Season tickets, on sale daily $6.00 Saturday-to-Monday tickets $3.00 Call at the City Ticket Office of the Southern Pacific, Third and Washington streets, in Portland, or at any Southern Pa cific agency elsewhere, for complete information. WM. McMURRAY General Passenger Agent, Southern Pacific Co. Oregon Lines, Portland, Oregon. Spilt? .-V 1 i' ' THE HOTEL LENOX Portland's new and most modomlr furnished hotel. Third and Main streets fronting cn the beautiful City Flasa and adjacent to business center. Free 'bus to and from trains l'p-to-date grill. Kxcellent culslna. Telephone tn every room. Private bath a NITBOPBAN nu, 1 to ga.60 Per Day. AiramioAjr pxav, a.so to 4 Par Dy. O. 1-1. SPENCER, iMana.tr of more than hslf a century." papers. His reminiscences go back to early boyhood, and his trenchant pen paints a wonderfully vivid plrture1 of the life In New York of a young rlt9- Llfe of General T PeysW" by Frank Allaben General de Peyster. who died at an adunrcj age In the rrst of SO rears a-o. He la also frank srrinjt of IS":, belonre! to cr.e of the.iv outspoken In his comments upon our punur man. our ranrmi ma ini owl Snan-fcot shnming Mrr HarriPt Stanton Bister, daughter of the late , ElltAbth Cadr Ftantco. arfJrr'iBg a crowd of. Nrw Yorkers en mea l caffrage. meet eminent of the old Knickerbocker famalles He was hrlgadler-s eneral of the New Tork troops, adjutant-general of New York, perred Under Orvernor Wahinton Hunt and Horatio Seymour ii stu'e military" ent in Europe and was trevetted ms.ior-general by a R pe rl 1 act of the New Tork legislature He wee a prntiflc titwtortcsl writer and the moat voluminous military critic In America. The bibliography com piled for his TJfs" contains hundreds of title General de Peyster was a phil anthropist, and gave away during his later year aa eatlmated total of several nlllloa dollars more than half hla f or tuna A coasideralils pceUoa ot him XUal ties of the civil war The work Is in two duodecimo vol umes of about 125 pages each, with If full page illustrations. Ths publishers snnounce that this Is the first cf a series of blogrsphies of distinguished America its "Frank Aiimben Oanealoglcai company. New Tork. Maltese 8opTstlrtona. From th London Standard. . Tbcra are still to b found la Malta a number of aoai.ll stones shaped and eolorwa like the eyas, tangnaa aad etbar parts of asrpenta. . Tb uparsUUoaa sawaf Ua Mtltaaa connact these wltlj tbs tradition that t Psul when ship racked wax cast on their Island and that it wa thpre that wtiUs llffhtlns a bundlo of illiki for a firs a vlpr fastened cn the potles hand. 6t Paal calmly sli.vok th reptile off Into tba flames and no harm fol lowed. Tba natives wear these tnas as tailsrnaoa. la which character ther suppoaa them sarvlraabla in wardlrg on 4angrs from snake bites and prisons They ara found la St. Paul s ca. Im bedded In clay, and are set In nags and bracelets, and whea found to ba In tha shapa of a tociraa or llwr or heart ara hung around tha Back Thay are also takaa Internauy, dissolved tn wina, which mat bod la attaadad ac-ordlag to soma peopla, by mors tmmodlats ra sulta. THE BREAKERS HOTEL ABCE&ICAN PZOJT. 1 k. Jk its- t T. ? - yJim,: K n yam .- ?y. : i a ' m iri uionia itnoas bssobt op tkb paoitio nobthwubt. Electric Light. Steam, Hot snd Cold Salt Water in Every Tub. Buy Tickstg to Breakers. Paciflc County, Wash. Postofflce Address, Breakers, Waah. Zxl l v-' xr"l .. ' -, a i - - i - -, 'j Claremont Tavern A charming ptaoa ts) spand tba evading. AH tha dalloaolaa of tha saaaoa. preparad fcy 4 chef "who ksaws ks." Excallaot ssrvtoa. RaaHtad by a alrtfw rids of aaran nUaa. ar, U yaw rarar. w AstarVa traiaa. In I ad la. waera tk suterlOt ara ararlAS war aa tba plagoa, chlldraa malta hajMlsocaa aanta aatchlag rata wbica spraad. tba pnu, lURBI, OaV Leatad at tba turn of Uta near smU. erd. aaaurraasid svrf bathing, baaa- irul grouada lots of eawars. a moat salrabla placa for fannies and sue. tiful a com pan tad young ladtaa accauaet a. bataa aoaktec Notad f-r its Term a gt Hotel Suncc CWTZBTXULS sTTATtCN OtvS block from aoaaa. f-i J rtasr f- , an rooms, raaart cju'i f r ( - aad basttaaoks. f t ( I ta, tscta if (4 A l iJOiiiw. Lca Bast.., T.
