The Oregon daily journal., November 11, 1908, Page 7, Image 7

THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11. .1008.
UfiCLE SI'S
F
VERY
ST
A
Series of 1908 Most Artistic
:'in the 61 Years of Stamp
' History Information for
, Collectors ; Also ; for Sav-
ings Depositors. '
yr thinks this order would not have
stood the test or tne courts, but those
whom it hit wert usually too poor to
test It or else preferred to put op the
$10 to getting the - notoriety such a
test would entail. At any rate, the
postofflee department has seen the In
justice of It, and hereafter only the
willful violator will feel the penalty
of the law. ' "
.'-,-, , Uncle gam as a Banker. ;
But In order that Ignorance of postal
be Danisnea, id ae-
regulatlons may
Dortmant has is
in a mftshell all the information the
Issued a booklet riving
average user of the. mail requires. It
is of pocket size and contains 40 pages,
with a copious Index. This booklet is
for gratuitous distribution, and so long
as the appropriation therefor holds out
it may be had from the local postmas
ter or from the department direct. An
interesting feature of this booklet Is
the bid that it makes for -the 'deposit of
savings. It calls attention to, the fact
that one can get money orders for $100
for the small sum of JO cents,' payable
to himself alone, or upon his order.
These orders are good for one year, and
if the Tiolder wants to keep thens longer.
in tne united
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
(Copyright, 1908, by Frederic J. Has kin.)
Washington, Nov. The new "1908
' tries" of postage stamps will be placed
B sale next Monday. Theflrst United
,. Itaes postage stamp issued came out
in 1147, CI years ago. Since then there
have been hundreds of designs, but none
of them has possessed the artistic merit
which is claimed for the hew ones.
It takes over 1,000.000,000 stamps of
one kind and another to iuddIv the de
mands of the American letter writer
and other users of the malls, notwlth
standing the fact that the bulk of the
' mall the second-class matter goes
without stamp. Of the total number
, of stamps 8,000,000,000 are one-centers,
4,850,000,000 are of the two-cent kind,
00,000,000 are postal cards, and 1.600,
000,000 are . stamped envelopes and
wratmera.
The ordinary stamp user has neynr
seen one or tne nve-aouar aina, 7"
11.600 of them wn sold last vear. and
nearly 80,000 of the one-dollar kind
passed through stamp windows. The
sales of stamDB. Including costal cards.
wrappers and stamped envelopes, dur
ing the last fiscal year amounted to
upwards of 1,000 per capita. Ho other
nation on earth can come anywhere
near this record.' - .
StamDs Issued bv the government in
the past have ranged in value from one
cent to one hundred dollars. The lat
ter was a newspaper stamp, and was
nave seen t the nuhlla. It was D laced
on a book in the office of the dls
tiatchlna postmaster, and cancelled. It
was discontinued years ago, along-with
all other newspaper stamps. At pres
ent the highest denomination is use is
the five-dollar staroD. There Is also
twn-dnllar atamn. but after the present
supply is exhausted there will be nono
Higher in value than tne one-aoiiar ae-
nom i nation.
Vp Chance at the Tixst Stamp."
The stamp collectors will have, to
take pot luck in getting the new stamps'.
In days gone by the collector who waa
able to get the first stamp of any series
issued had a treasure. It assumed a
value a thousand times In excess of its
face value. But under the present or
der of things the new stamps win pe
placed on sale simultaneously in an ins
bio- noatoffinea. and If any collector is
able to prove he bought tne iirsi one
mniA ha will t a wonder-worker.
.There will be no specimen stamps is
sued this time. For years and years it
was the custom of the postofflee de
partment, when Issuing a new series, to
have thousands of sets made with the
word "specimen" written . on them.
These were for gratuitous distribution
to those who had a friend of influence
.enough to get a set, or possessed inai
influence themselves. The practice con
tinued to grow until it got to be some
thing of a nuisance. At last the stamps
got such a wide circulation that the
fall Into the hands of those who use
them for postage. Postmasters every
where found them on the mall. An in
vestigation was made, the result of
whlnh was the discontinuance of the
nrartlr of lasulna- the snecimen stamps.
Bo it is an even chance for everybody
n0W' The srfots4 Stamp,
The - postofflee department baa done
msny things for the convenience of big
users of the malls. Big business nouses
have felt the loss from the petty graft
ing of stamps uy office boys and some
a little "higher up." To provide means
of identification so as to protect the
buyers of large quantities. It has been
provided that stamps may be perforated
with numbers or. letters, so long as
these are not over a half-inch square,
do not. hide possible pre-cancellations.
and are not made by the use of ink or
other coloring matter. It is also pro
mts
perforating or tne
tamos shall not be used for advertls-
that
vided
tampi
ing purposes.
Yet so frequently do big
advertisers seek to take advantage of
every possible chance to advertise, that
if takes constant watchfulness to pre
vent the violation of this feature of
the order. Many a firm has found the
innovation a great saver of stamp
mon'' The F re-Can oellad stamp.
Another order which has saved many
of the big postoff ices from often being
swamped is the one providing for the
nre-cancellatlon of stamps. Here Is a
big firm, for instance, that maiii
calendars. Each oi tnese is in
If the firm placed a
that mails 60.000
roll.
stamp on each
one and took it to the postofflee in
the ordinary way that office would be
swamped. co device na upon
found which will act as a cancelling
machine for rolls. So all the postal
clerks can do Is to press into service
the old hand stamp. .
Then comes the assorting into state
groups, a job of no small dimensions.
Under the new order the mailing firm
will be provided with the pre-cancelled
sumps by the postmasters, tinder suit
able restrictions.- These are affixed to
the rolls, which are in turn assorted
for the different states before being
put into the mail. When the postof
tice gets the calendars under-this or
der, all that remains to be done is to
send them to the proper trains. -There
is room for abuse of this privilege, but
the eagle eye of postofflee 'inspectors
la always upon those who use it go
tnat.no trouble has been experienced. .
wmmm "Mail With Wo Stamp at AO. '
Another order that has resulted In
great saving of expense and trouble to
the postofflee - department, and to the
big users of the mail. Is the privilege
extended to them of sending unstamped
matter - through- the mall, provided it
be of the third or fourth class. To a
firm which sends out 1.000,00 circu
lars, the work of stamping them all Is
very tedious and the actual cost of the
trnnni to the rovernment is not small.
So it Is provided that where a business I
use sends out z.ouu or more iaenucai
hla minify la denosited
States treasury, and can be ftotten upon
a warrant at any time wltnin
vri. . .' - f;
With true advertising instinct the
department states that the government
tnus insures itu ior a term or seven
years . for the small sum of 30 cents.
An Investor in postofflee money orders
can put as many hundreds of dollars
Into , this improvised government sav
ings bank as he sees fit. Since the
recent panic manv a poor man Is tak
ing advantage of the provision... He can
put his money away, 15 at a time, or as
much more as he desires, as tne a
nartment takes unnn itself the. respon
sibility of insuring payment to the
rightful owner, so long as he has not
been responsible for the payment to the
wrong party by carelessness, th money
order system is made doubly attractive
to the small depositor. r
runny Old Postage mates.
"'Every day in the year the postofflee
officials receive letters inquiring about
the value of certain stamps from the
collector's standpoint Bo numerous are
these inquiries that the department has
a circular letter which serves to an
swer all. It states that the depart
ment takes no Interest in stamp col
lecting and that It has no means of
knowing the stamp collector's value of
any stamp Issued, This fact is also
set forth in the booklet mentioned above
and also in otnerclrculars of Infor
mation Issued from time to time. Tet
the volume of inquiries shows no dimi
nution. Prior to 1847 the collection of postage
a son or nappy-go-iucay axiair.
Few people prepaid
those days and It was not for a num
their postage In
ber of years" that the government risked
flying Into the face of custom to such
a degree as to make the prepayment of
postage compulsory. In the early days
of the reoubllc the postage rate was
determined on the mileage basis and
upon the number of sheets a letter con
tained. If It consisted of a single sheet
It was carried at half the rate of two
sheets, and so on.' There were no en
velopes In those days, and if there hd
been the writers Would have been com-
Felled to pay one rate for it and another
or the letter.
COOK CRIES FRAUD;
. DEMANDS RECOUNT
- (United rreu Leased Wire.)
San Francisco, Nov. 11. Judge Carroll
Cook, whfr was -defeated for reelection
to the superior bench by a narrow mar
gin. Is taking steps to have a recount
made.' He declares that Information
has come to him that many frauds were
perpetrated on election day and that a
recount will change the result and will
place him on the bench. Should Cook
be cerrect in his claim the recount
would unseat Judge Oeora-e A Sturta-
vant who beat Cook by 2,000 votes.
Judge Dunne, who was primarily op
posed to Cook on the. quettion of graft
and anti-graft stands third In the list
of five judges elected. - Cook declares
no was not prepared to go to the ex
pense or a recount until persuaded to
do so by the campaign committee of the
union labor party.
SEVEN TO LOOK
INTO AT1TI-GRAFT
Mayor Taylor Names Com
mittee to Inspect Work
of Prosecution. V
(United Press teased Wire.)
San Francisco, Cat, Nov. 11. A com
mittee of seven-- citizens appointed by
Mayor. E; Bv Taylor is preparing plans
for a thorough inquiry into the- conduct
of the graft prosecution. - The rumor
that an investigation by a special com
mittee would . be proposed at the next
session of the legislature caused the
Citizens' League of Justice to attempt
to forestall possible interference by re
questing the mayor to name a commit
tee of San Franciscans to undertake the
investigation. - , . ; '
The men appointed by Mayor, Taylor
are: Dr. Henry Gibbons, dean of the
Cooper Medical college; Alexander Gold
stein, raisin grower; Rev. D. D. Crow
ley, head of the Youths' Directory: Rev,
William K. Guthrie, pastor of the First
rresoyterian cnurcn: wmiam j. irrencn.
editor of the Labor Clarion; William
Denman, attorney; William . Kent capitalist-Mayor
.Taylor says so many and
varying statements have been made in
regard - to the graft prosecution that
the investigation of an impartial com
mittee would be of benefit to the com
munity. V
Tha intimation that tbs legislature
planned an investigation Included the
proposition to investigate the conduct
of the police courts. Whether the pro
posal to appoint the legislative investi
gation committee came from the "re
formers" or the "performers" could not
De ascertained.
Assemblyman Nathan Coghlan, chair
man of the San Francisco delegation to
the legislature, declares the proposal for
a legislative investigation was not
broached to him. He believes such an
Investigation would be beneficial to the
city. Regarding the action of the
mayor, Coghlan said it could not pre
vent the appointment . of a legislative
committee, as the committee of Mayor
Taylor was to Investigate only the
graft prosecution; while the legislature
would look into municipal affairs gen
erally. 'The enemies of the graft prosecution
point -out that It has been 768 days
since the prosecution was inaugurated
and that no- so-called grafter is in the
penitentiary yet
ANNUAL CONVENTION
OF A NOTED FRAT
(Special Dispatch to TheJooraaL)
New Haven, Conn., Nov. 11. More
than S00 members of the Delta 'Kappa
Epsilon fraternity, many of whom have
come from distant parts of the Country,
have assembled in New Haven to at
tend what promises 'to be the most
notable convention In the history of that
old and well-known Greek- letter so
ciety. The convention is to be ushered
in this evening with a "smoker" given
under the auspices of the .Yale chapter
of the society,.
Tomorrow morning the delegates will
adjourn to Hartford, where the bul-
ness sessions or the convention win
occupy Thursday and Friday. In New
York Friday night the convention will
come to a close with a brilliant ban
quet at the Waldorf-Astoria. Charles
P. Taft of Cincinnati,- brother of the
president-elect will act as toastmaster
at the banquet Among the noted speak
ers will be Senator Beveridge of Indiana,.
Senator Brandegee of Connecticut Sec
retary of the Navy Me tea If, ex-Gov
ernor Black of New York," Bishop John
son of the Episcopal church, and Chum
Men Yow, the only Chinaman in the
V " . Will J UltMWUMI .11 1111
world entitled to wear the varsity "Y"
or xaie and the onlyChinese mem
ber ol the Delta Kappa Epsilon. '7-
TO COMMEMORATE
HUMPHREY'S CHARGE
" (Special Dispatch to The Journal)
Fredericksburg, Va, Nov. 11. An
Imposing monument erected by the
state of Pennsylvania to commemorate
the charge of General ' Andrew A.
Humphrey's -division of the Fifth army'
corps, in an attempt to capture the Con
federate position on Marye's heights,
December 13. 1862, waa dedicated with
interesting ceremonies in the national
cemetery here today. Several hundred
war veterans from Pennsylvania attend
ed the event 'together with a .distin
guished party of state officials.' George
F. Baer, president of the Pennsylvania
railroad, delivered one of the principal
addresses in. his capacity of president of
the Fredericksburg Battlefield Memorial
commission.
The Pennsylvania monument is a no
table addition to the several handsome
war memorials erected in tne jiauonai
eemeterv. - The monument is of Con
necticut granite and is surmounted by a
standing figure of General Humphrey,
of bronze, heroic size. The general Is
represented looking over the battlefield.
The memorial stands about twenty feet
high. The statue of General Humph
rey Is nine feet in height -
ROOSEVELT VERY
WISE TO MO
Authority on Dark Conti
nent Says T. JL Has Got
It All From Books.
(United Press Leased Wire.)
Philadelphia, Nor. 11. That President
Roosevelt la the best Informed man in
America oil Africa la the statement
made by Harry Johnston, tha famous
scientist explorer and author. He talked
with the president at the White House
several days ago and says he could
tell Roosevelt very little about the
country to which . he is going on his
hunting trio.
Johnston went to the White House
soon after he returned here recently
from a trip to Africa. He had heard
that the president contemplated going
to Africa and wanted to be of any as
sistance that he could, as to the phys
ical characteristics and the "habits of
the natives of Africa. He says
that
dis
covered that the president had read all
when he talked with Roosevelt be dis-
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v Chocolate
FOLLOW THE FLAG
and are entitled to tie distinction of having been- chosen as
THE NATIONAL CANDY
The U. 8. Government haa Waived the question of higher price
and placed quality first in its selection. The great fleet of
battleships in the Pacific has received shipments of many tons
each at Hampton Roads, San Francisco and Manila. Shipments
of "LOWNEY'S" go forward to-the Philippines monthly for the
army. Wholesome as well as Delicious
. THE WALTER M. LOWNEY CO., BOSTON
' .' Makers of Cocoa. Chocolate tuid Bonbons
the authorities on 'Africa and was well
posted as to everything. ,
The only points that t 'could give
the president-any information on were
minor things such . as where to get
horses and provisions and what foods
to prepare Tor the various expeditions,"
said Johnston. "The president knew all
about the country, the natives and the
trails and the varieties of -animals. 1
taught me some things."
Wrestling Thursday
Strangler Bmlth vs. Ed 0'CnntH.
for coast championship, at Merrill s hail.
Seventh and Oak streets. Admission 11.
Ringside seats 11.60.
Thei"Sole of
Honor" in Selz
Royal Blue Shoe
The sole of honor is made
of good,; oak-tanned leather;
there's a tough, durable
quality to oak-bark tannage
that you want in the wear,
that other tannages don't
have.
We recommend Selz Royal Blue Shoes because
it's one of the moderate-priced shoes that's made with
oak soles, and made honestly all through of the. best
materials. Fall styles are here. '
Well fit your feet perfectly with Selz Royal Blue.
$3.50, $4.00, $5.00
Sofa Pillow Pattern Free
On Sunday November 15th The Journal will
present its readers with a beautiful Transfer
Pattern of a Sofa Pillow. Just the thing for
a Christmas present Remember this pattern
is free with The Sunday Journal of Nov. 15th
GREAT
CONS
IGNMENT
Vtnu
nWM of mall. It may be granted the
privilege of printing on the wrappers or
paat
envelopes a legend showing the amount
tajre paai. tne or r ire ai wnicn it
was paid, and tne numner or tne per-
of posit
mlt under which this form of postage-
i ne
navln was substituted for stamps.
order hss been found to bea- great
' saving of labor and expense to large
houses.
Begulatlons Strictly Enforced.
A crusade Is being made by the post
office . department ior the purpose of
wfiia riam1nat inn of rjostal Informs
tlon. During the past two or three years -
it has enforced literally tne provisions
of the' postal laws and regulations and
has taken no plea of Ignorance or lac1
of malicious Intent In extenuation: The
result has been a piling- up of fines ag
gregating nearly $100,000, nine tenths of
which was collected from those who had
no Intention of violating the law, but
d'd -'it entirely through Ignorance. To
illustrate: A whole newspaper Is enti
tled to be sent through the mall at
what is known as the transient second
class rate a cent for four ounces. But
if a man were to mall less than a whole
paper at that rate, or parts of several
Fapers, he would be liable to a fine of
10. Tet how few people know that!
jThouaands of dollars were collected
under the old order on this one ae-fount
-and ether thousands on equally flimsy
accounts. Many a constitutional la w
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AN EVENT NO MAN OF GOOD COMMON SENSE CAN AFFORD TO OVERLOOK
OWoirth of Men's and Youths' Fall and Wktet
Suits and Overcoats
To Be Sacrificed at About V4
of Their ORIGINAlr WORTH
Nothing Reserved --Read - Reason - Reflect - Resolve :
A local prominent clothing concern, having the reputation of catering to the best trade in the city and of . handling the best in)
Men's and Youths' Clothing, finding itself heavily overstocked, has determined to turn the stocks into cash'within the next few
days, regardless of the loss it may thereby sustain. All the High -Grade Hand -Tailored bUilb and
OVERCOATS for men and youths were marked down to figures barely covering the price of the
cloth, entirely ignoring the cost of trimmings and manufacture. Bear in mind that this SACRIFICE
SALE is one of the few? opportunities which so seldom knock at your door. For your own sake, don't
miss it. Do not confound this sale with any money-making scheme. At this sale, in spite of thejrnerci
less slaughter of prices, the garments are strictly high-grade, hand -tailored and absolutely reliable.
SALE BEGINS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, AT 9:00 A. M.
AT 142 FIRST STREET, NEAR ALDER
$5.95
$2.95
$5.95
$8.45
$3.45
Sale price, special 95
Youths' Suit s, of good make, materials and colors, usually sell at eighteen dollars. QF
Sale price . ............ .... . ..................... ..... . . . . . ...il)TrVO
Youtlis' Fine Suits, in the best of materials and colors, made and trimmed to satisfy the . (j C fjC
most particular, usually sell at twenty dollars. Sale price,. . ... . . .... , . . . , ....... ...... pOsD
Open Evenings U A fi 1?ID CHP OTD l?ll?nn near Aider St 7
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Men's High-Grade Overcoats, in fancy mixtures, well tailored and trimmed, full length,
usually sell at eighteen dollars. Sale price
Men's Suits for business wear, strictly all wool, substantially made and trimmed, usually
sell at twelve dollars. Sale price
Men's Better Suits, in Cheviots, Tweeds and Worsteds, hand-finished, absolutely reliable
for wear and colors, usually sell for eighteen dollars. Sale price .
Men's High-Grade Suits, strictly hand-tailored, all wool and of remarkable durability and
shape-retaining qualities, various materials ad colors, usually sell at $25.00. Sale price, . . . ,
Youths' Overcoats, beautiful materials and colors, usually sell at twelve dollars. Sale
price . .
Youths' .Better Overcoats, usually selling at fifteen dollars. Sale price, special
at, each . . . .
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REMEMBER, NOTHING BUT FIRST-CLASS GARMENTS OFFERED AT THIS GREAT SALE
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