The Oregon daily journal., August 16, 1908, Page 42, Image 42

THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL". . PORTLAND, SUNDAY MOR1WNG, AUGUST 16, 1008
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B jlm How. nowadays the new boy la sent to bor
t t ,,vi ..f i ,1 ! i.-als-tant to Tii! a new "arm" for one of the typo-
' . ,, , Putiu'wi'li'. who has , hi-ttlng machines. Of couru the boy
Iilll 111 e,llli l hhi"'
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been tirepering tlx'
h. -.-.. ,,r, California mill
tininu Inn, I Kruil! rusr, M
ttr In Washington. 1'
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nni fur from on of tl
the llOl.se
Pill. Vrltl
I In til"
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1.1,1 npart
t.'i an.l was
finest nl r f In
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lisd til
Willie Mr. Townscml
Willnnl. mul It savs 1 11.11
unti HUM miii ni
Hilt Na.loilli otlUT IIHIMM.
particular suite which "wr
aiflvmiiH awnue. t;i'' MH '
ton's monument In the distance.
Tan Klltixllk. Hie violinist.
ulte In iiintl
wai at th
from morning
-.n after dark. there
teajy- -alri-ani of women nil with cl
ren gKini; an' """nuna fr, m ,n" ho
times
dren
3i a
-hll-
tcl.
each of thtn) being a m.-tiier "".
bent on havlna- the gr-at musician hear
her child play.
.Kunelik mlghtv husv man keep-
4 h.. iv of thtse fon.l moth-
era, rucb of whom of the belief
that If he e-er heard her boy or girl
play another muska; prodigy would be
dlscovered.
Klnally th tond mothers became so
numerous that .Mr Knbcllk was com
pelled to change his apartments to an
other part of the nous.
There was a new office hoy at the
Jieadnuaxters of the Portland Railway.
Light at Power company last week The
first momma- he waa on the Job a Jour
nal mn called.
"Is Mr. Josselyn InT' asker the re
porter . . . , ...
"hat apa-tment does he work In
was b w-it the office boy eajne ba.-k.
-Ver-r fta he s in mere. sain ine
teponer. pointing to a door labeled
"priTat."
Ta bml otitd. it can't fce In there,'
mines back without It. He la given
II. e nu m r old laugh. And then he walta
..nil longs until he will be old unci ex
p.-i irnced enough to try the same trick
on M.nne other youth.
A youngster with oyeralls on and not
n.urli laraer than Tom Thumb used to
I..- putf.-d and pushed and had a hard
time generally with a great big hand
4
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yt-i h woRk c
eald the boy. "That's the president's of
fice." So the reporter went away without
Seeing Mr. Josselyn. He didn't have
the nerve to tell the youngster Just
foreaklng in on a new job of his mis
take. But the reporter la still wondering
how the new office boy felt when he
found out which department Mr. Josse
lyn is really employed In.
Poor, little, old. wrinkled up. oplum
Boented Josh Ie-ong Sue, having out
lived all the years of his usefulness,
has gone home, to China, tb die.
But Chinatown does not mourn.
Chinatown, In fact, is just the samoJ
prosaic-iiKe ana tflkes tilings m the
matter of fact way that it usually
does.
Chinatown does not mourn the loss
of one of its old timers because Josh
Lee-ong Sue was a ne'er do well. He
was sort of careless, worked a good
deal, was liked, hit the pipe with the
Others, laughed and was stoical at times
JaBt like other Chinamen, Jttut with all
tnis he didn't get along very well.
Old Josh, that's what they called
him, came to the United States before
the exclusion act went into effect. For
years and years he was a wanderer
and during the time that he traveled
he saw the principal cities of this
country. Eventually Sue settled in
Portland. He didn't have any business
or any money but he washed and did
other odd lobs from time to time. Old
Josh soon became well known in Port
land. But he didn't get along very
well.
Age began to tell on the little dried
tip fellow some years ago. Old Josh,
It seems had hit the pipe too much,
a great deal too much, in his younger
days. Josh's friends figured that if
they could induce him to go to Arixona
or some other country where the at
mosphere was real airy, it would only
be a matter of time until Josh would
drv up altogether and Just blow away.
Josh Lee-ong Sue didn't want to go
to Arizona or any other place In this
country. If he left Portland, he said,
it was his one wish in life that he go
. back home China where he would be
allowed to die in peace. And a China
man's wishes in his old age are al
ways respected by his fellow country
men. Not long ago the money to take old
Josh back to the land of the poppv
was raised in Chinatown. L,ast week
old Josh sailed away. And oh, how :h
f.oor old man haled to leave his frienls
n Portland. And still, how he lnnl
to die in the land of his birth and to J
be buried out on the hills amoig the I
millions of others, I
So old Josh Sue's one wlFh Is to be '
gratified he has gone home, to China, j
to die. And so he Is happy. ' I
Portland is to have a new ladles' '
. u!t store. Drake - Swan are to he
the proprietors. It is understood tint '
they will handle duck suiting as well I
But this won't be the only firm in '
r"ort!ana tne name? or which attract
truck in Washington street one day
hist week. On the truck wa a baby's
bathtub. The boy was a plumbers' ap
prentice. The task or delivering tne
tlnv bathtub to a supposed home on
Portland Heights had been assigned him
by the boss plumber earlier In the day.
It would have been an easy matter
for the boy to have taken a streetcar
with the bathtub on his shoulders. But
the- boss had said to take the tub out
bv means of the hand truck. A boy the
very first day will do anything the
boss tells him to do.
So the boy started. Every half block
he rested. Some one asked him where
he waa going with the load.
"To Portland Heights." he replied.
When the questioner asked him why
he hadn't taken a streetcar.
" Cause the boss said the truck, and
I guess he knows what he wants," an
swered the youngster.
When did you go to work?" asked
the roan further.
"This morning," said the boy.
Then the man went on his way. He
understood. The incident brought hack
fond recollections. But he Is still won
dering If the tub was ever delivered.
And where.
"Here comes a man who wants paper
money he's an easterner," sadi a Port
land hank cashier the other day. The I
man got his check cashed In bills by
request nnd went merrily on his way.
Then the cashier continued.
"I can tell the easterners because they
all wp.nt paper money. It Is a habit
with them. They don t care for gold
or silver. This I attribute to the. fact
that In eastern cities there Is very little
gold or silver in general circulation.
"One-dollar bills are used to a great
extent In the east in the place of sliver
dollars. Our here one sees very few
of them, except in the franks. Men, and
women, too, fet In the habit of carrying
big rolls of bills In the east and It comes
natural with them even when they get
out west where we use gold and silver
almost altogether.
"They do say. though, that It feels
mighty fine to have a nice, fat roll In
one's pocket and not to notice the
weight of it at all. Put the majority
of the easterners soon forget the paper
'"U"D7 iii (fir wniie ana are
carrying around gold and -llveryllke
soon
'Ilka
they nad been accustomed in 11 aLKihol
live.. -TL
"There are some, however, who nu
way. want paper money and will ask for
It every time."
DO savin the Cashier went haelr tn
hi mOtieV COItllllnv anil rf emiraa aa.
uramg mat dignified air which moat
pereon reverence ao profoundly.
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You may watch old Wall street and
your clearing house associations to ise
how business conditions of this country
are changing, but let me tell you that
the real barometer of the financial af
faire of this land may be alied up better
irom oeniua a counter in a pawnshop,
a Portland pawnbroker said the other
day.
L.at fall, even before Wall street in
itiated that there was anything doing
n a financial way. I knew that there
nionde colored oeraone In the
years ago were seen quite often, conse
quently. It seems that the change waa
brought about by a certain acid in the
hair straightening preparation wnicn
had such a great sale rpr a lime.
Hair d reisers for' the white women
are as common as barber shops nearly,
and there the white women gather t
have their hair fixed in any snaps or
to any color that they
y get new nair
nae,
changed
dealre. Or thev ma
they wish. And bea
may
f
now and then
It la aaia
thev have a little B-OBalD.
Hut aomethlna- new for the benefit
of the colored women arrived n Port
land not long ago. Hhe la a nair dresser,
too. But she advertises herself as a
"hair stralghteuer, l already doing n
good business and Is so successful that
she la being talked 'about by all the
colored residents of the city.
Heretofore when the colored women
wanted to straighten out their hair they
were compelled to go through a good
deal of trouble nnd bother. But the
hair atralghtener" will do away with
all this and for a email sum per week
will keep a colored woman a nair as
waa something In the wind. It was all I .i mlrht and aa fluffy aa anything you
uruuKiii aooui Dy m way tne people do- ever saw.
gan coming In with watches and thing
o pawn. They had only been coming
day or two when the news came from
he east and all over the country that
banks were going under.
- rt-opie Kept on coming witn things to
ut up for real cash, and the numbers
ncreased aa the oanlc SDread. Why.
some of the articles of Jewelry that I
took In last fall hadn't been nut of
trunks or other places of concealment
rore in hair a century, or perhaps
longer In some Instances. And during
he scare I must admit that I got hold
some excellent bargains.
"Gradually the people oult coming
Ith their watches and guns and the
Ike. Within a month or two tome of
hem began coming back to redeem
their keepsakes and things. And then
uslness began to pick up. Now It Is
bout normal again. Iast fall nearly
vervone who came In had something
he wanted to bock. Now It is the re-
erse nearly everyone who comes In
ants to buy."
Colored women are Just as anxious to
ave straight hair as the white women
re determined to have curls and fluffs.
nd all that sort of thing. There Is
othlng new about the colored women
avliia- had these desires. They got In
the habit soon after the white women
egan to curl their hair years and
ears ago. It all happened so long ago
hat even the oldest old timers have for
gotten the date. It was old In fact
nen trie now oui timers were young.
Istorv doesn't say much about the
uestlon.
It was a common practice among the
colored women In the south, however.
T m Se.KES DiSl
AM PE P1ACE .
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during slavery, and even long after
ward, to use a certain preparation on
the hair which took out the kinks. But
Incidentally, while taking out tlle kinks
this preparation also raised havoc in
general with the colored person's hair.
It changed it to gray In many instances,
and some of them became blondes.
if (here Is a colored woman In Fort
ini who hasn't been to the "hair
stralghtener" It la because ahe docsn t
know ahe Is here. And most of them
do know luat where the new hair dresser
is located.
There la great rejoicing among; the
Drooerty ownera of Sunnyslde In the
Stratford - Sydney addition Thirty -
fourth, street la being graded absolutely
free of charge.
The street grading Is being done by
a brick plant. The earth la taken to
the plant and converted Into bricks.
Eventually, If all goes well, aome of
this earth will be returned to Thirty
fourth street In the shape of bricks and
a pavement. Incidentally a few brick
sidewalks may be put down.
But the paving, of course, will cost
the property ownera something.
"If you want to have your house look
dliferent from that of your neighbor
and have a finer finish than any of
those around, paint It with buttermilk."
:l.l a Portland real estate dealer yes-
frdv
Then he went on to explain. It seems
that he Is particularly fond of butter
milk as a drink. He didn't say Just
how he made the discovery but here is
the way he tells how to use buttermilk
as a house paint:
"After your house has been com
pleted, that is If It Is a frame dwelling,
you take a big can of buttermilk ordl
r.irllv thick and a paint brush and be
gin the lob Just as if you were using
the regulation oils and coloring," con
tinued the real estate man.
"Go over nil the boards thoroughly.
Allow the first coating to dry. Then
give the house another dose and still
another if you have the buttermilk to
spare. Don t forget to auow eacn coar
to drv thoroughly. Then finish up with
a coat of whitk paint. Your house will
be the glossiest and the nobbiest in the
paint line to be found anywhere. People
will marvel at the finish.
"The butter In the milk. It seems
roaks ir.to the wood and fills up the
cracks. The oil in the butter preserves
the material. That's all I know about
it. I tried It myself and it worked
beautifully."
The why Is the sea so close to the
rhoro? question that Is so old that it is
almost new had them all going a lorn?
the waterfront during the last few days.
Steamer captains left their post of
auty and trld to figure out an appro
priate answer. Mates and engineers
and stewards, too. all Joined In the discussion.
And the Btevedores. They were strong
on the proposition. It was hard to
get stevedores to work during the week
Hlmply Decause tney prererrea to ais
i iism the sea shore Question.
"Why Is the sea so close to the shore?
That s easy, said one sieveaore. us
dimply because the water is ever driven
shoreward, one half the time by a
seething, surging, tumbling aide the
other part of the time by an Irresistible
on-shore wind."
That settled the question so far as
the waterfront was concerned.
CONSULS AND BORES
Vht Some of Our Forriffn ' It? pre
aenUtivea Have to Stand.
"In order to know the grandest
achievement of which bores are capable.
It la necessary to .enter the American
consular service,"
Bo declared a United Statea consul,
who has long been stationed tn one of
the large European cities. In the course
or a recent interview at ine Hotel Im-
.erlal while on his return to his post
rom a visit to his home In this country.
He was speaking at the time of the
I ti
trials and
office of an American consul, especially
in curuim.
At this
tribulations that go with the
season of the vear." he con
tinueci. -wnen American tourists are
spreading themselves mi over Europe,
the bores among the and "there Is a
surprising number of them. I assure
vnil seem tn talra narllenlne AmmYt in
infesting the American consular offices.
"Whenever an American, von know
rises to eminence In his profession he
visits Europe In order to test his now.
ers on the consular representatives of
his country. The consuls of other coun
tries decline to submit to the visit of
bores, because thev know that they
have hot the power to remove him from
office, but tne unfortunate American
consul lives In fear of offending any
fellow countryman, for, dear me. the
man may be a congressman or may be
roasessed of political Influence, and If
h consul neglects to treat him with
the utmost deference, ha may get him
Into trouble or even iroeur the dls
missal of (lie offending officer.
'Turing the nine yeara I have been
In th' united States consular service
I have encountered bores wltnout num
ber many of whom were of enormous
calibre. A single example will, give
you a hint of what an American con
sul suffers from bores. One morning
about 10 o'clock a roan entered my of
fice, and. seating himself beside my
desk, began to prove his claim-to the
championship of boredom. For three
oonsecjtlve hours he talked In a dron
ing vloa. never saying anytnlng that
any human being could have wlsned to
hear, and never showing the slightest
sign f weariness. My clerk came In to
consult ma t.air a dosen times In the
charitable hope that the bore would per
ceive that he waa In the way, but the
well-meant effort was wholly In vain.
s'About 1 o'clock I mustered up cour
age to Inform the bore that my break
fast hour had arrived and that I really
must beg him to excuse me. At the
same time I asked If there waa any
thing I could do for him. He reflected
for a moment and then aald: 'Well. Mr.
Consul, lust at this moment I can't
think of anything that you can do for
me. out i ll ten you what I 11 do. i ll
go home and have a talk with mv wife
and If we can think of anything that
you can do. why I'll e,u around hera
tomorrow and let you know.' Nothing
short of a 41-calibre bullet can make
"J- mpresBlon oll that'type of bora
The American consul stationed In a
JSrt 'A V" "ortl, f" Germany, where
the ip!d Is sever In winter, fold me
that he had gone through on winter
without any fire-In hi." off lei In t J
yaln hope of freeslng visiting bores"
'But h added sadlv. It didn't work
1 ha bores would button thai nw....
and wrap their legs with my new spa"
pers, and then talk for th next two
hours on the superiority of A mar Lean
methods of heating offices.'
"Th 'bora who haunts our inu.
consular offices Is truly th most ma
lignant and persistant of his kind. What
th
money.
ugnani ana persistant of his kind. W
pains me as much as anything la
fact that he has always heapa of mo
to travel around."
A Modern Romance.
.w,rom. th.? Kansas City Journal,
"Whv don t they marry?"
"Family objections."
"A"...lf rtmX mn couldn't overcome
those I ,.
"It a not always so easy. His wlf
won't agree. to a divorce."
Wadding Notes.
The iiride just think of It. dear.
nnv yara from yesterday will be
golden anniversary.
eat, flft
our
NOTICE!
On account of the many orders we are receiving for
stock, our present allotment of stock at ten cents per
share is being rapidly consumed, and reports from our
Superintendent at the mines guarantee a very material
increase in the price of our stock. Therefore, we will
not agree to accept any applications for stock at less
than 25 cents per share, after September 10, 1908.
POTICIE MINING COMPANY
Suite 3, Raleigh Building,
PORTLAND, OR.
amiaiaj.iMmiiif - -'1 " .. ... u, ji - -rainrrrJ-m-.Trrra
Itching, irritable, chaflne,
healed healthy by Satin skin cream
chapped skla
xsc.
Don't Be a Single Day With-
out a Supply of
upy bum
attention on account of their unusual
connection.
Just for instance there Is the firm
of Net-r Farr The.e names are on
all the wiigons of the concern and In
variablv attract the attention of vis
itors. Portiandc-rs have been seeing
the signs on these wagons so lonir.
however, that they seldom notice them
i
any more.
At
another time tVascher nnil Dresser I
were in fiuslness together In Portland I
end got their share of attention for the
time being.
Harry A. Robb of Narnpn, Idaho, well 1
known in Portland. Is a clothing mer- i
chant. When he first went to Nam pa j
five years ago he was about to form
i
a partnership with William J Steele.
Mtmn trom ioa Mr. Steele decided th.it
the firm name of Robb & Steele or
veela tr R0!,b wouldn't look at nil
well In print, s. If backed out. Mr
" lh i .tn; joir.g It alone
In Roi-kford. I.I.. there Is a firm of
bar age et.Loe
Do you remember the time when Ton
"n work as a bov end when on the
very nrst day you were nt on some i
Wild gnna rhlM inrf w W vn...
beck wit hout the gone yon were given
ihe laurti Or did vnu m'.vu
Knmliiatlon which nearly "rry arm-en
ice to every trad exBertenVW Vi
Health comes from .good care of the body, from proper nour
ishment of nerves and muscles.
Pure beer is good nourishment for everybody. Soothes the
jangling nerves, overwrought from excessive heat, work and
worry; renews the power and energy exhausted by a hot, busy day.
Make it a part of your daily menu and drink it for
TheGoodYouGetOutoflt
Look around you and pick out your neighbors who have the
GAMBRINUS wagon stop regiilarlv.
Compare notes with them and 'twill be easy for you to see
why Gambrinus has been "for over thirty-one years the favorite
family beer of Portland."
Then just remember that all it cots is $2.00 for a case Of
two dozen pints, or $1.75 for one dozen quarts.
(We refund 25c the dozen for the pint bottles and 40c per
dozen for the quarts when returned.)
JUST
r have ta work tor
Or
'id n't roa
UMrg?
The meroorr of his first dar s work
le rherubed fey ever man. Ard th.
arprentlc, , I. n,vr forgotten
One of '. old standbr stunt was
t e4 the W e.t to ee.rch f.r a
left-handed mobkef wrenc.. la the
rilntlng business the new ho, waa
'"'"''i' to enme ether prist shoe
f T a tvr-a distributing macs In., trvm
flntirg hM e want to anothe'.
7t : hn aU tye-e was at hmil
ji c I if t-e' srvtMng a boy Wat.
jt te !k!rlot tvpa; .
i. swajr with all tug, gnj
Phone
the
Brewery
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P
CHEAI
Electric
i
.Cight
A recent advertisement as appeared in the Journal and Ore
gonian a few days ago, claiming that the new Tungsten Electric
Incandescent lamp marks a revolution in Electric Lighting and
brings the cost below the cost of gas, is certainly a new and won
derful method, adapted solely for pushing the electric lighting busi
ness, thereby to recover the ground that has been lost from the
competition of the incandescent gts light.
Mendacious statements of this sort, if repeated often enough,
soon come to be accepted by unthinking people as an unquestioned
fact. In order to enlighten the reader permit us to make a plain
statement of the truth, giving the following comparative cost fig
ures beween the two lights in question. Cost figures for the Tung
sen Electric Arc were taken from the advertisement mentioned
above:
Lighting
Hours
3
4
5
6
7
200 C. P. Tung
sten Elec. Arc
Per Month
$2.25
$2.70
$3.29
$3.80
$4.31
Cost Per Day
In Cents
7 l-2c
9c -'lie
12 2-3c
14 l-3c
200 C. P. Gas
tc Per Month
$1.37
$1.82
$2.28
$2.74
$3.19
A v. cost per day 11c
-.. n tv. Saving In t'se
in r;,; ' Gas over Elec-
4 l-2c
6c -7
l-2c
9 l-8c
10 l-2c
7 l-2c
trlclty per Mo.
$0.88
$0.88
$1.01
$1.06
$1.12
A SAVING OF ONE DOLLAR PER MONTH PER LAMP
averaging five lighting hours per day in favor of gas. The re
newal of the Tungsten lamp on account of the blackening of the
bulbs, breaking of the filaments, which are very brittle and are
easily destroyed, either by handling or by the electric company's
variations in voltage, is an additional expense; moreover, the
longer they burn, the lower will be the illuminating power, neces
sitating constant renewals, the bills for which will work out to
more than the account for electric current.
Gas manufactured by the Portland Gas Company is the cheap
est medium to produce light, heat and power, as demonstrated to
thousands of consumers who are users of electricity.
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Portland
Gas
Company
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