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1 THE LA8T STBAW. ByvEBsnra xtsual peocessl "CBUEIi AND UNUSUAL." - THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, . PORTLAND,. THURSDAY . EVENING, JANUARY . 11, 1912.. 1 KB HJ A CENT. ' Am Mlf HUrts 0h. I'm so gld to ses you. I wt ta know what breakfast food 70a Ctve baby. I was Just coming oyer to your home to k you." Mrs. Carter "WhyT Ar tsers ahtldren at your k01J8T" Brt"OS, noi but poor old Nero here ! los ing Ms appetite and I alwaya thought he resembled baby, ao much, yon knoir.' Howall "Here's a (jieer atate of af falra." Powell "I don't know what !t Is. but I can beat It; I heard of a man to-day who mortgaged Ma automobile to buy a house." The Sociologist "Did the fear of further Imprisonment cause you to re- form?" The ex-Yegg "It wasn't so much dat but dey got a lot o' women on de pris on board an' 1 heard dey was goln' U design de prison uniforms." The Traveler "When does the last train leave for PottersfleldT" The Accurate Station Agent "Can't say. We got a fifty year franohlse and expect to keep trains running that long at least." , The Girl "Everybody aald yon apent your last cent for an auto." Percy Ladd "If you'll tell me where I can get an suto for my last cent I'll have you out riding to-morrow." Willie "Papa, Fldo wu Just Ut by a taxi." . . Papa "All right, Willie, telephone for a taxidermist." THE LOST BONE. HOLDUM. SewrB '''m m ' Hampton "X Said 2.9 ft less uspendera." Rhode "A, pal ef suspenders at that prlo is a holdup." News Not Recorded on. Wednesday Brief Paragraphs of World Happenings From 3 o'clock Yesterday Afternoon Until 3 o'clock This Morning. Congressional. In the house Wednesday only routine business was considered. Andrew Car negie testified before the steel Investi gating committee; the ways and means committee listened to testimony on dan gers of manufacture of whJUe phosphor us matches, and beet sugar farmers ap peared before the sugar Investigating committee, denying stories of hardships in beet fields. The senate was not In Ression. Sen ator Lorlmer talked of Illinois politics In Ms defense before the investigating commlttfe, and the foreign relations committee referred the arbitration bill to a sub-committee. Rerpesentattve Berger of Wisconsin introduced a bill to appropriate J 1.000. -000 for the establishment of govern ment owned department stores In Wash ington for the benefit of government clerks. Henatof Chamberlain la preparing and will introduce a bill for the relief of homesteaders, providing that any home steader, after six months' continuous residence on his land, may be entitled to leave of atsence for six months of each year; that Is to say, homesteaders will be required to reside upon their land only half of each year until final proof is made. The Hay bill, providing for reorgan ization ot the army, was attacked in a statement sent to the house by Major General Wood, chief of staff. General Wood declared the measure contained changes that would impair army effi ciency and demoralize the service with out resulting in real economies. Representative Warburton has Intro duced a bill appropriating 120.000 to establish a weather bureau station on Mount Rainier, Wash. twren President Tffft and Colonel Roose velt. Friends of Rooisevelt claim that the colonel will, under no conditions, stand in the way of the president's boom. The statement is brought out by a report that Taft had offered to step out of Roosevelt's way, providing the latter wlsued another term. William J. Bryan is quoted as saying that he has not as yet decided on a candidate, but of all the condldates at present In the field, Woodrow Wilson seems the most progressive. He says he is bpposed to any third party movement. Political. A statement comes from Oyster Bay that a fair and well understood work , ins; . agreement has been arranged be- Where's the Best Place? piano? At Eilers Music Houso. Every make of piano Is rented according to its value. Cheaper grades of used pianos $1.60 to $2.00 and $3.00 monthly, best makes $4.00. $6.00 and $8.00 monthly. No cartage charged where piano Is kept Six months. Cartage one way Is charged where piano Is kept only three months. At Ellers Music House you will invariably find everything exactly as advertised. Alder street, at Seventh. . Eastern, In the Soldiers' home at Leavenworth. Kan., 150 veterans are seriously 111 of ptomaine poisoning-, resulting from eat ing hash served to them at a regular meal. Master plumbers in session at St. Louis resent the reputation given the plumber that he is a "bunko man" and "grafter." They declare a plumber is a gentleman In every sense of the word, with morals and a conscience the same as a preacher. Organized action ty Congregational ministers of Connecticut has been taken agtlnst the marrying of divorced per sons. Mrs. T. L. Oatka, s noted artist of Chicago, fought her way through flames and smoke to an upper story, rescued her Infant daughter, rolled with her down a stairway and crawled out of the door Just as the roof and upper story ur&Bimu 10 Demna ner. A statement cornea from Chicago that iiirouKR. cars rrom Chicago to Los An geles and San Francisco over the Bur ungion, ttoctc island, Denver & Rio uranae, southern Pacific, Western Pa cific and Salt Lake lines will be re sumed by Februaiy. With a slab of bone four Inches lone. an Inch and a half wide and an inch deep taken from his wife's left log and grafted upon his own left leg, Fred Bottonhaff Is recovering at St. Louis irom the ellects of an unusual opera. tion. Water at St, Louis has been declared unfit for use and orders have been issued to shut off all drlnkine foun tains at city schools except for emer. gency use. Warnings have been Issued rrom the health office against the drink lng of water without boiling. Pacific Coast. H. E. Wadsworth will succeed Edwin OUST DREAMS. . 1 I I" 1111 lUNiiijysssMsi I 1 Traf?- DP DD Eddie Office Boy-'Last night X dreamed I owned this place." Joey Office Boy ''Was I still workla' here?" Eddie Office Boy "Naw. The first thing I did was to fire you." "BETTER TOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN THAN CASTOR OIL, - . SALTS, OR PILLS, A3 IT SWEETENS AND CLEANSES THE SYSTEM MORE EFFICIENTLY AND IS FAR MORE PLEASANT TO TAKE. 15 THE IDEAL FAMILY LAXATIVE, AS acTse? IT r.IVFQ RATICjrAPTfnM Tfi Al I IC r-- ae v iisir wm awa a iVi V CaMrfi sUJ ALWAYS BENEFICIAL IN ITS EFFECTS AND PERFECTLY SAFE AT ALL TIMES. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. . in. the Circfe. 011 even Package of tfio Genuine. . ALL RELIABLE DRUGGISTS SELL THE ORIGINAL AND GENUINE WHEN CALLED FOR, ALTHOUGH THEY COULD MAKE A LARGER PROFIT BY SELLING INFERIOR PREPARA TIONS, YET THEY PREFER TO SELL THE GENUINE, BECAUSE rr IS RIGHT TO DO SO AND FOR THE COOD OF THEIR CUSTOMERS. , WHEN IN NEED OF MEDICINES, SUCH DRUGGISTS ARE THE ONES TO DEAL WITH, AS YOUR 1IFE OR HEALTH MAY AT SOME TIME DEPEND UPON .THEIR SKILL AND RELIABILITY , WHEN BUYING il ijjl 'i WbEWNAI I f; SClNT. Of ALCOHOL M t li n m iinwi -1 1 n fn Jfljj Kj S Aoo?j7mt Pimm tM '.)! Ii J H'Wis,?( U !i J ' ? Men! ' e A ifmtlli 1 ' JM!S!;!!FR.C50!f !i l 'W' If (AirfDRSsyRUP( I fjg a piic. to ci Nit M Kli?,'' MINIATURE riCTUKE Of rACKAbS HototfifiFiiifName of tho Gompamv rjiii.iiiuiuui.i .tj.-i i.nn iiiiii.ii.L irnii PRINTED STRAIGHT ACROSS, NEAR THE BOTTOM. AND IN THE -ORCLE.NEAR THE TOP OF EVERY PACKAGE, OP THE GENUINE. ONE SUE ONLY. FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS. REGULAR PRICE SOe PER BOTTLE., SYRUP OP FtCS AND EUXIR OF SENNA IS THE ONLY PERFECT FAMILY LAXATIVE, BECAUSE IT IS THE ONE REMEDY WHICH ACTS IN A NATURAL, STRENGTHENING WAY - AND CLEANSES THE SYSTEM, WITHOUT UNPLEASANT AFTER-EFFECTS AND WITHOUT , IRRITATING, DEBILITATING OR GRIPING, AND THEREFORE; DOES NOT INTERFERE IN ANY WAY WITH BUSINESS OR PLEASURE. IT. IS RECOMMENDED BY MILLIONS OP WELL. , ' INFORMED FAMILIES, WHO KNOW OF ITS VALUE FROM PERSONAL USE. TO GET ITS ' BENEFICIAL EFFECTS ALWAYS BUY THE GENUINE; MANUFACTURED BY THE CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. L. Chal craft as superintendent of the Indian school at Chemawa. Chalcraft will be given a position In the service elsewhere. Wadsworth comes from the Shoshone agency, where he has taught for 10 years. The relief party sent December 80 by the government agent at Telegraph Creek, B. C, to rescue Edward Ehrlich, a 60-year-old Bohemian who had ben reported dying from scurvy In his cabin on Canyon Creek, has returned and re ported finding Ehrlich dead. Final arrangements have been made for the construction of a large flour mill at Springfield, Or., by Frank and D. C. Thomas. Freshman "rushing" and pledging by both sororities end fraternities has been abolished at Washington university by the Btrlngent ni'w examination rules: The Bully Creek irrigation project, comprising about 30,000 acres of fine fruit and alfalfa lands located west and northwest of Vale, Or., has been fi nanced at a cost of SSO0.00O. Effects of the "silver thaw" are now In plain evidence all over the eastern part of Multnomah county. The dam age has been Immense and is as yet unmeasurable. Of 00 miles of tele phone lines radiating from Oresham a faw da,ys ago, not a circuit Is now In use. The dead body of Dr. Edwin W. Ben nett, 65 years old, a prominent Ban Francisco physician, was found In a nlukelodlon by a Janitor. The body was discovered while the police were search ing the city for him. Heart failure Is ascribed as the cause of death. Jack Orvlllo, a miner at Oreano mine In the Burke, Idaho, district, and John Hanson, camp cook, were caught In a bunkhouse which wad carried off its foundation by a snowsllde and buried many feet deep. The cook dug himself out, but Orvllle's body was found with the head crushed. Foreign. Official returns of the census taken In France show that the population now numbers 89,601,609, as compared with 84, 2B2, 245 In 1906. Paris now has 2, 888,110 inhabitants. In the past 40 years the population of France has In creased only 3,600,000. Peace In China may be secured by the abdication of the Manchu dynasty. This move Is said to have been decided upon. Secret negotiations are now on, and republicans agree to meet Yuan Shi Kal half way. Unless the permanent committee of congress acts adversely upon the peti tion of President Madere and his cabi net, Emlltano Zapata, revolutionary leader, and his followers, will be shot after being given a trial on the spot where, they were captured. Miscellaneous. The committee in charge of arrange ments for the Inaugural ceremonies at Santa Fe, New Mexico, announce that no intoxicants will be served at any of the festivities. An avalanche near Java, Montana, carried a rotary snow plow down the mountain 200 feet. Traveling Engineer C. B. Allen and W. F. Brullport, en gineer on the-Ttrtary, were burlcdun der many feet of snow and their bodies are not yet recovered. Charles B. Kountze, former president of the Colorado National bank of Den ver, left no unpaid accounts when he died and no one has any claim against the estate, valued at $12,000,000. Detective V. J. Burns is named as one of the defendants in a suit filed at Sacramento by Ingraham Hughes ask ing $26,000 damages for alleged Im prisonment and defamation of character therefrom. In a fire which destroyed the five story building of the McCarthy Supply company at Reglna, Bask.', entailing a loss of $250,000, a score of women and children were rescued In tholr night clothes by firemen. The secretary of the Interior has no tified Senator Chamberlain that he has rejected the application of the Montana Water Power & Electrto company for a right of way for a reservoir, pipeline and power service on the Fend d Oreille river. 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