7 7 W THE STARRY SKY. WHAT M.Y BE SEEN, THROUGH V -THE YERKES TELESCOPE. Powerful Glasa at the William Bax Ob.er-vatory Brings the Moon With J In Sixtj-fonr Mllea of the fcartb. I Close Study of tho Planets. ' For nearly two years the big eye of the Yerkes telescope In the observatory of tbe University of Chicago, at Will iams Bay, Wis., has been spying out the secrets of the stars. It has looked one-fourth further Into space than any 'Instrument devised before It. Night after night the huge, grim Cyclopean eye swings slowly round in its ponder ous frame, crouched In Its big white dome, and keeps a sleepless watch upon jthe heavens. The great dome Is open to the sky. The ponderous tube swings slowly, imperceptibly, with the turning jof ' the earth from sunset to sunrise again. Shut in the black shaft which 'supports the barrel of tbe refractor is clock, a wonderful piece of mechan llsm, which tells off the motion of the Iglobe on its axis. The telescope shifts, jhair breadth by hair breadth, guided Iby" the clock, and making the. circuit iof the heavens, with tireless eye fixed all night long upon a single star. There ls no escape from the big eye. As the 'earth swings in one direction, the eye IsileJjtly alters its focus, never aweary land never asleep . ; What can the ordinary observer see through the largest and most perfect telescope in the world? What has the big lens so far revealed to the astrono mers who have watched it as an oracle since the first day It peered into space? YERKES What does the finest telescope in the world look like to a man who doesn't know a telescope from a barrel? , A reporter for the Chicago Inter Ocean visited the Yerkes observatory of the University of Chicago at Will iams Bay for the purpose of answering these questions. A big telescope is al most human. It is furnished witn a curious sixth sense, & marvelous sec ond sight. Mysterious, uncanny, huge, It powerfully Impresses one and grows more wonderful on closer acquaintance. The whole observatory Is built about Its monster eye." For the eye alone are the motors, the flying pulleys, the mov able dome, the rising floor, and all the curious instruments varying from the delicately sfcvng spider web of the micrometer to an apparatus 'weighing fifty tons. Without the huge eye every thing would be useless. This eye Is the lens of the refracting telescope In the main tower at the western end of the observatory. It is reached by a flight of marble steps from, the main corridor. Entering the building in the evening, all Is quiet and dimly lighted, the main tower quite dark. About midway of the round dome is the ris ing floor, over which the , telescope swings. It is a triumph of mechanical 'skill, the only satisfactory means de ivlsed for reaching the eye piece of a big telescope as It is, tilted up and down 'or swung around on its axis, t The telescope Itself 1a a big Iron tube sixty-two feet ..long, painted black. In the end Which looks , out through the dome Is the object glass or refracting ieye,: forty inches in diameter, or four Inches wider than the lens of any other telescope of the kind In the world. The Iron tube, with its lenses, finder, eye pieces and other appliances, weighs nearly twenty tons. And yet so nicely Is It balanced that a strong pull with the hand will swing it a foot or more. The huge telescope is moved on its axis by electricity. Describing the apparatus, Dr. Hale jfinally fixed the big eye of the telescope ion the planet Saturn. It was a fine. clear night, with little disturbance in the atmosphere, and Saturn appeared to twinkle about half way between the sky line and the zenith. The eye piece which was put on magnified nearly 500 diameters, one-eighth the highest pow er used. .This is how the planet Saturn looked to the reporter gazirig through itbe biggest telescope In the world: It appeared a yellow, round disk about the size of tbe moon, not flat, but clearly globular. Around it twinkled a purple band a quarter of an Inch wide. Next -to this was a solid ring encircling the planet, of the same bright, yellow color,and quite distinct; next to this was a second narrow violet band, and surrounding that a second broad yel low band, llkei. the first Around the whole. sparkled a brilliant violet circle. Saturn's moons appeared as three tiny 'round yellow marbles grouped to form a pruning hook to the left of the plan et's disk, while a fourth one hung a lit tle lower down to itself on the same side..' No oscillation was apparent. Sat urn's rings and satellites apparently ,were of the same yellow color of the ,planet.. Sometimes these rings can be discerned in their colors and form a brilliant rainbow about the planet. From the outer rim of the planet prop er to the outer edge of the outside ring, the distance, through the telescope, looked to.be about two inches. It Is, In Ifact, t"?,000f miles! Looking through i the huge refractor, the human eye Is 'able to discern a space of 172,000 miles 'as two Inches In the area of the heav ens! To the ordinary observer the shin- ,lng violet rings about the planet form 'a; beautiful feature of the view. These rings, however, are due to - imperfec tions which exist in every telescope, ,and which astronomers would be only t6o glad to dispense with. 1 The telescope was next turned upon Jupiter, the largest planet In the solar system, and as big as all ot the other planets put together. The distance from 'this earth to Jupiter is a trifle of 400, 1000,000 miles, and it takes forty-three Imlnutes for its light to reach the earth. I Jupiter's disk looked about as big as a i large marble, probably two Inches In diameter. At its side. In a nearly r ' : " i ' t v - r straight line to the right, appeared four small marbles. Us satellites. The color of the planet was almost white, a very light yellow. Across the planet appear ed three faint purple streaks, ua the order apparently of the man. In the moon. While at Lick Observatory Pro fessor Barnard discovered the fifth satellite of Jupiter, but was unable to study It to any advantage. The Yerkes telescope brings out this fifth moon very clearly to the eye of the as tronomer, and Prof. Barnard has been able to observe it and measure It with great accuracy. '" Star clusters seen through the Yerkes telescope are wonderfulliy beautiful, a great ball, like a swarm of golden bees. The moon was too full for a good view, and showed merely a pale yellowish surface. About noon Prof. Hale had the tele scope turned on the sun. No sun spots were visible, so the telescope was di rected along the disk of the sun at the flames which burst through Its dense, gaseous cloud wrappings and thrust their tongues far out into space. On a pink background, shading Into dark red, arl fully rounded, one saw a hooked yelipw flame half obscured by what looked like gray vapors. There was an apparent movement, tbe flame darting high, sinking down, or again bending over to lick the round disk of the sun. Curious as It may seem, a glimpse through this powerful glass is more wonderful to the astronomer than to the man who looks millions of miles into space for the firs time. To the astronomer each object Is full of details which escape tbe untrained eye. Every line has e meaning, and in the merest trifles he reads the story of a million years. The history of the Yerkes telescope itself Is the history of the evolution of OBSERVATORY AT WILLIAMS BAY. an eye, of the most wonderful artifi cial seeing apparatus yet devised. This great eye is 200 times as. large as the human eye. That is to say, its diam eter is forty Inches, while the diame ter of the pupil of the human eye is one-fifth inch. It is made of two sep arate lenses, one of crown giass. two and one-half Inches thick at the cen ter, three-fourths of an inch thick at the edge, and weighing 200 pounds;' the other of flint glass, one and one half Inches thick at the center, two inches thick at the edge, and weighing 300 pounds. One of these glasses is convex and the other plano-concave. These two lenses are mounted eight and three-sixteenths Inches 'apart in the end of a big steel tube sixty-two feet long, about, forty-two Inches In diameter, and weighing six tons. No figures, however, can properly express the size, the delicacy, tbe almost hu man 'intelligence of the great machine. The object glass of this telescope is as delicate as a human eye." A super fine silk handkerchief rubbed across its surface would 'destroy It And yet with proper care, It will never wear. The glass for each lens was cast in Paris by the firm of Mantols, celebrat ed for the manufacture of optical glass. . Up to the time of the Lick tele scope they had not been able to cast a solid, perfectly achromatic block of glass more than thirty Inches In diam eter. Then came the American order for. two lenses thirty-six inches in di ameter. The Frenchmen could but try, although they were skeptical as to the outcome. Nineteen times the trial was a failure. For months the mold was allowed to cool impercepti bly each day until all the heat had gone out of it Then came the test Nineteen times the glass contained flaws too great to be remedied minute bubbles, unequal densities, various other defects. The twentieth trial produced a magnificent piece of glass, which finally became the property of the Lick Observatory. Encouraged by this success, the firm of Mantois set about the manufacture of a glass EYEPIECE AND MECHANISM. one-fourth more powerful than the one they had Just made. Again and again they tried, schooled by' the nineteen failures in making the Lick glass.. Each trial required several months. At last the patient French makers were rewarded with two disks forty two Inches In diameter and as nearly colorless and flawless as glass was ever made. These blocks of glass were made into the lenses now In the eye of the Yerkes telescope. The glass was ground and finished by the firm of Alvan Clark & Sons, Cambridge port Mass. Just as Americans have never been able to cast perfect and large disks of optical glass, so the French have not been able to polish the disks per fectly after they are cast For four years Mr. Alvan G. Clark worked at the lenses. It may be that another such perfect glass . will never be made. The secret of the polishing has been handed down for three gen erations in the Clark family. Previous to the work of tbe Clarks a German family the Frauenhofers had pol ished these glasses. For a century after the death of the last Frauenho fer It seemed that tne art of polish ing optical glasses was lost Then Alvan Clark, a portrait painter iu Massachusetts, attracted the attention of English scientists, nJ he und his fami3y far excelled the German art Ists m glass. Air. Alvan G. Clark, the last of his family, attended the dedi cation exercises of the Yerkes glass, returned to his home, and died within a few days. The eye piece of a telescoped through which the observer looks, Is the pari of the Instrument which magnifies the objects seen. The number of diame ters to which aa object can be magni fied to advantage depends largely upon the perfection of the object glass. In the Yerkes telescope a glass which magnifies 3.700 times has been em ployed successfully. Through this the moon would appear as it would to the naked eye at a distance of sixty four miles. The eye piece ordinarily used magnifies 4 GO diameters. It-credible as It seems, the delicate measurements of the movements of the stars are calculated by cobwebs nicely stretched and forming the real measuring apparatus of the microme ter. They last for years 'and are even cleaned of dust with a delicate cam-el's-halr brush. Taking off the glass covering one evening, Prof. Burnhani was examining the webs. He absent mindedly breathed into the aperture, breaking one of the filaments, which it took considerable time to replace. At the Yerkes telescope a device has been perfected for lighting the threads with electricity and making them a faint red color. A white light on them would be so brilliant as to Injure the eye of the observer. la addition to lta micrometer, the big telescope is equipped with all other accessories, such as spectroscopes, spectographs, spectro heliographs, photo heliographs, etc. WIS. While interest centers around ' the main dome and its sleepless eye, the Yerkes Observatory would be a big institution If it had only Its minor glasses to. depend upon. One of these is a twelve-inch refractor mounted in the north dome. A twenty-four inch reflector will shortly" be mounted In tbe south dome. A sixty-Inch reflect ing telescope Is also being built now in tb? instrument shop of the observa tory, and will be mounted in another building at some future time. As it stands equipped the Yerkes Observa tory cost $500,000. It Is the most com plete in the world, with a refracting telescope forty Inches In diameter. Next in order is the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, with Its thirty-six inch refractor, and third In order Is the Imperial Observatory at Pulkowa. Home of tne Telescope. The building is in the form .of a Latin cross, the longer axis of which lies due east and west A great ninety-foot dome completes the western end and twenty-six foot and - thirty foot domes terminate the north find south transepts. The body of the building is divided into laboratories, libraries, offices, computing rooms and photographic dark rooms. Tbe ground floor Is equipped as -an instrument shop, making this the only observa tory in the world which manufactures its apparatus under the direct super vision of those who use them. This gives unexampled facilities for the application of new methods of research,-and already more than a dozen intricate machines have been con structed - and used successfully'.' The. observatory Is built of yellow brick, ornamented with fluted columns carved at the bases with gargoyles and other symbolic devices. The corridors and stairs are finished in white marble delicately veined in green and tho wood Is of massive oak. The observatory has a little life of Its own. , Professors In charge have built their homes along the lake, and a small colony of scientists has gath ered about the big telescope. Dr. Hale, the director, has a beautiful cottage a short distance away. Prof. Barnard, of the observatory staff, and one of the best-known of American astronomers, has built a homelike house of South ern architecture commanding a grand view of the lake. Here he and his charming wife dispense hospitality to many a visitor, and on the front porch the most distinguished astronomers of this country and of Europe have smoked an after-dinner cigar and dis cussed tne puzzle problems of the uni verse. Much of the work at the Yerkes ob servatory during the past eighteen months has been of a kind which could not be accomplished at any other in the world. In all observations which involve- minute measurements of the highest precision the Yerkes telescope is unrivaled. The measure ment of the motions of the stars, which approach or recede from the earth, are of great Importance, as data, gathered from these throw light upon the movements of the entire solar sys tem. To this problem, the greatest In astronomy, Dr. Hale, Prof. Frost and Mr. Ferdinand Ellerman have applied themselves. Tbe sun, with all Its attendant plan ets comprising our solar system, is rushing toward the star Vega, or Al pha, of the Lyre, at the Inconceivable rate of ten miles a second. Vega Is one of the most beautiful stars in the heavens and can be seen now near the zenith on any fair evening. Prob ably since the life of man began, per haps since the universe was born, our solar system has been speeding toward this star. In the life of ja. generation the sun comes hundreds of millions of miles nearer Its destination. But in many generations, to all appearances, this approach would not be percepti ble. The journey, so far as mortals are concerned, must be eternal. When, where and how, if ever, did this journey begin; when, where and how, if ever, will it end? Is th great est of the unsolved problems oi astron omy . V '.':.' , (A STARTLING OBJECT LESSON. Eow a Mexican Alcalds Iearned Some of tne Difficulties of Ballroadinic. The old Southwestern engineer was telling tales of by-gone days down la Mexico and dwelling upon the Mexi can's ignorance of railroading. "Once, near Victoria," said he, "we were loaded heavily with Iron, and we hit the usual drunken Mexican asleep on the track. Them folks used to think a roadbed better'n a wool mattress. It was down grade and around a curve, and we were going at a fair clip, and, though we had air brakes, we couldn't hold up In time. We ground him up, and at Victoria, ten miles further on. we djdr't have any better sense thau to report It Of course, t?u train was side tracked and we were put in jail. Next day we were hauled up before the alcal de. He was a little, dried up man, with mahogany skin and snow-white mus tache. It bristled fiercely, but I noticed that his eye twinkled a good deal and I sorter cottoned to him right away. We told him that we couldn't stop the train in the time allowed us, and it was the truth. He said, through an Inter preter, of course: " 'I've heard all this before. Five of my people have been kUled by trains in six months and I have let the train crews go. They said they couldn't stop. I'm gofng to see about this. Your train is on the sidetrack, coupled and loaded. We'll fire up and go back to the place where you kilted Vicente. We'll run down at the same speed. When you come near to the curve you must try hard to stop. . I will go ixt the cab with you. "Well, we fired up and went back three miles beyond the death spot Then we started forward again. Of course it was not my business to run too slowly. I wanted to show the alcalde that stopping in the space de scribed was an Impossibility. Old 93 was a quick engine, and Inside of two miles, It being a down grade, we were doing a two-minute clip. We struck the curve at forty miles an hour. The alcalde had never in his life been on a tram, and he-was leaning out of the cab window, waving his big straw hat. and shouting 'Viva! Viva! As we sighted the spot where Vicente had been pul verized the airbrakes went on like the clamp of death. I was thrown to the floor of the cab myself. As for the alcalde, he shot through the window like a rocket turned six somersaults and lit on bis back In the. sand thirty feet away. The train ground to a standstill, yards beyond tbe blood stained ties. He came limping up, brushing the sand out of his white hair. I remember that his mustache was all bent down on one side. He looked up at me and said simply, 'Valga me Diosi which Is about equivalent to 'Dern my buttonsr . We went back to town; he discharged us all and invited us to din ner with him. We stayed and pulled out that evening. Everybody ran. pret ty much on his own schedule in them times." KID-GLOVE OR COAL-OIL. Two Bootes ThrouKh LUe Confront the Young Man. ' Frank Thomson; the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who died a few weeks ago, was known as one of the foremost of living railway mana gers. .There was no part of the busi ness with which he was not familiar, from the control of Its great moneyed Interests to the fitting of a screw into an engine. A wealthy man once brought his son to him, saying, "My son has gone through college. Can you make a place for him where he will succeed?" Mr. Thomson was silent for a mo ment, and then said, "That depends on whether he wants to take a kid glove course or a coal-oil course." -. "Wfiat do you mean?" "If he takes a kid-glove course, he goes In as a" clerk 'to perform a certain amount daily of writing, for which he will be paid a salary. , In the other course he goes into' the shops and learns the whole business, from the lowest drudgery up. When he has fin ished he will know hls'trade, a valu able one, but his hands will be stained with coal oil." - Mr. Thomson himself, when a boy, chose the "coal-oil course." He worked four years In the car-shops at Altoona, barely earning his living, but learning the mechanical details of the business. Thomas Scott, the famous railway manager, was a friend of the young man, but gave him no help, leaving him to work his own way. At the end of the four years he sent for him, and gave him a responsible position on the. Pennsylvania Railway. . The civil war brok" out that year. Colonel Scott was appointed assistant Secretary of War, the Government be lieving that his experience In the rail way work would have taught him how, to handle In transportation great bod ies of troops. A problem of peculiar difficulty of this kind arose. "I know of but one man who can manage this business," said Colonel Scott to the Cabinet. "He Is not here." "Send for him then," said Mr. Stan ton. The next evening Frank Thomson, then only 20 years of age, appeared. "Do you mean to tell me," cried Sir. Stanton,' somewhat sneeringly,"that we have waited twenty-four hours for this red-headed stripling?'.' . "He will do the work," replied Scott quietly. And he did it .. Mr. Thomson was probably peculiar ly qualified by nature for his especial business; but there Is a strong preju dice among American boys against work which Involves manual labor, and a preference for clerical duties as being more refined. It Is a fatal mistake. 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For sale by all reliable dsujrists, or sent prepaid by express, plainly wrapped, on receipt of price, by , , PABST CHEMICAL CO., Chicago, Hi. Circular mailed on request MACHINERY, all kinds . .TATUM &. BOWEN... 29.to 3S First Street PORTLAND OR. R lief for Women" 'V , III I'UUII, RHBU OUVt)IVB. TV A W to-daj for this Book, contAlniiicr Particu lar and Testimonials of DR. MaRTkL'S French Female Pills. Praised by thousands of satisfied ladies as Safe, always reliable and without an eaual. ' SoldbyalfdrUKB-isrsin metal box, French nag on top In Blue, White and Red. Take no other. Franca Drug Co., 861 & 883 Pearl St., Hew York City. YOUR NERVES NEED Some kind of upbuilding the hurry and worry of the 20th century life pulls down the health, makes a nerve food necessary. Moore's Revealed Remedy Will trat your nerves In a healthy condition it will Improve your appetite and digestion. 1.M per bottl. at your druggists. - thiT ' ,!an OF FIGS The Cliffdwellers and How to Reach Them. The Denver & Rio Grande railroad has recognized the great interest which has lately been aroused in these won derful inins, and will famish on appli cation to R. C. Nichol, General Agent, 251 Washington street, Portland. Or., a pamphlet describing the ruins, and the best way to reach them. These historical ruins are located on the line of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad. Parties going East should avail them selves of the opportunity of purchasing tickets via this line, the scenio line of the world. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Booth inr Svrnn the hest romdil w t IX, children during the teething period. A I'alace of Salt. Dtah's glittering suit palace, witli its midway plaisance and other attrac tions, opened at Salt Lake City Au gust 31. The Rio Grande Western, the only line running through the Mor mon capital, has arranged to give hold ers of all classes of tickets a clay stop, over at Salt Lake in order that they may have an opportunity of visiting tl is wonderful structure, built of salt crystals taken from the brine of the Great Salt Lake itself. The inauguration of the Rio Grande Western's dining car service, doing away with the necessity of stopping trains at eating stations, leaves noth ing to be desired for an ideal trip across the continent; for the equipment and train service are equal, if not superior, to those of any of the transcontinental lines. Furthermore, no line traverses any section of the American continent where there is so much grandeur of scenery. A daylight ride through the heart of the Rockies leaves nothing to be desired. For information as to rates and for descirptive pamphlets, address J. D. Mansfield. General Agent, 253 Wash ington street. Portland, Or. Hash! Don't You Hear the Baby Cry? The only safe medicine for sour curd colic in nursing babies is Cascarets Candv Cathartic. Make mother's milk mildly purgative. D run gists. 10c, 25c, 50c. Radiation takes place more rapidly from the surface of plants than from the air about them, so that on very still nights the plants are sometimes several degrees colder than the sur rounding air. A family comprising seven persons left Scranton, N. Y., the other dav, the whole patty traveling on one full fare railioad ticket. There were the mother and her three pairs of twins, none of the children being, up to the half-fare age of five years. Dp-to-date suits for divers have tele phone attachment 80 that the sub merged person can converse with his aids at the surface. An uncommon disease caused the death of Mrs. Rose Funk, a resident of Bloomingtori, Ill.i Portions of her flesh had become aa dry and hard as bone. In Rockford, 111., recently, a giiBt of wind blew a baby carriage on to a rail road track in front of a train, and the two children in the carriage were killed. p sit PORTLAND DIRECTORY. Fence and Wire Works. PORTLAND WIRE & IRON WORKS; WIRE and Iron fencing; office railing, etc. 834 Alder. Machinery and Supplies. CAWSTON Sl CO.: ENGINES, BOILERS, MA. chlnery , supplies. 48-50 First St., Portland, Or. JOHN POOLE, Pomxahd, Oregon, can give you tbe best bargains in general machinery, engines, boilers, tanks, pumps, plows, belts and windmills. Tbe new steel l XL windmill, sold by him, is un equalled. ' Wholesale Druggist and Pliotogrraphio Supplies. BLUMAUER-FRANK DRUG CO. 144 AND 146 Fourth Street, Portland, Oregon. Rupture treated scien ti Ileal ly and coniidenti al 1t. Comuonilinci Solicits. C. H. W00DARD & CO.. 108 Second St., Po Hand. 0R.GUf.ITS 'TI vered PILLS ONE FOR A DOSE. Cure Sick Headache and Dyspepsia, Remove Pimples and Puriiy the Blood, Aid DigcstionandPrevent Biliousness. Do not Oripe or Sicken. To convince you, we will mail ample free, or full box for 25c. I)K. KOSANK.lt' CO., Philiula., ?ctuu. Sold by Druggists. American Type Founders BOHH s. r Company . j" it . " 11 ' " ... ' V.' ?lflaaMaSM Sarah E. Bo wen, of Peru, Ind., (aid: For eighteen years I suITered with weakness peculiar to my sex. ' I could neither sleep nor eat well, and was reduced to a mere skeleton. Sly (kin was muddy, ray eyes heavy and 1 was dizzy much of the time. Dec tors prescribed for me without avail; medicine seemed to da me no good. I was at the brink of despair when a friend told mo what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Palo People bad accom plished In a case similar to mine. I bought a box and took them. I bought more and took them nntll I was well and strong. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pule People brought me new life and I recommend them to every suffering woman."-Mw the Republican, Vru, Ind. Plain Talk to Women, a new book, sent sealed on request. 1:7 Br. Williams' Pink Fills for Pale Peopla are never sold by the dozan or hundred, but always in packages. At all druggists, or direct from tho Dr. Williams Medicine Co.. Schenectady, N. Y., 6J cants par box. ri 6 boxes $2.60. Irish railways have been moving to ward consolidation. Twenty-live years ago the Dnited States suppliod 15 per cent of the world's coal consumption; now they supply 80 per cent. - TIia Anna in Pamioiill (innnlr S fT - are returned at a valuation of $12,830, . while the assessed valuation of the en tire property of the county in sheep and goats is $201. A lady at Green Haven, N - Y., se-. cured a separation from her husband on tao ground of extreme "' cruelty. Among other brutal acts he was in the habit of sleeping with a hammer under his pillow, and with this he frequent ly threatened, during the night, to pound her into insensibility. To clean asphalt pavements in Utica last year cost about two cents a running foot. There are 242 German Baptist churches in the United States, with 22,000 merabei8. An immense tarpon was caught by A. O. Mygott, at Boca Grande pass, Florida, and be was trying to haul it into his boat. . In its vigorous efforts to escape it made a high leap, and as it fell into the boat, its tail struck Mr. Mygott, knocking him unconscious for three bonis. . " !0c 25c 50c DRUGGISTS .GO EAST... -VIA- Thremsrh, Palace and Tourist Sleepers liniu and ltuffet Smoking Library Cars. ....FAST TIME.... Service and Bcenery Unequalled. For Tickets and all information apply to your nearest agent, or address A. B. C. DFNNISTON, C. P. and T. A., Portland. R. C. STEVENS, G. W. P. A.. Seattle. CURE YOURSELF? Usfe Biff for ti d natural d.Bchargef, iiiflaninrntiuaa irritatiuiia or ulcerMlinni of uiuouui membrane. IPr-BU eootioD. Pa iu less, and not autriii THeEvANSChEMICHlCo. ent or POttwnout. sold by lraUte, "or tent'tn plain wrapper. vj vAprcgi, prepaid, IOT i.iiu, or d Brunei, Z.70. Circular wni m niiiett N. P. N. U. NO. 35 '09. vv HEN wrltliiRT to advertisers pleas mention inn paper. EVERYTHING FOR TUB PRINTER.... EI XT or a ' I ' If t i fc fl . . m rlnsirmtlrMtil IB S3 m V aot to trie tore Vw4 oincihnui.o .Kril We lead and originate fashions in.... TYPE Cor. Second and Stark Sts. ....PORTLAND, gBO 0$