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GIRL'S SE&RET.
"Aunt C;isie came to visit us and sit
saw i was nervous, had the fidgets all th
tui' ; 'k1 she asked me many questions,
:ru1 f.r.il!." said, ' Why, you dear, syeet girl,
it's ii' t your temper that's had, it's your
constitution that's out of kilter. You sit
rijrut au now and write a letter to Dr.
Pn-ice. ".t HmTalo, X. Y., tell him all your
syn i toi.ss and so I did. It wasn't long
before 1 had a long reply, carefully going
over my case and telling me just what to
do. I d.V.e uiy present happiness and little
Cupid's return to the very day I sat down
to write '.hat letter to Dr. Pierce, for his
advice was so good and his ' Favorite Pre
scription ' worked such a complete change
in me that now my former cheerfulness
,uul r;tiod health not to say anything of
pood looks rue restored to me. I have
jumi'io-r.ed Tom hack to my side and we
are to .e married in June."
Th;: proprietors and makers of Doctor
Pierce's Favorite Prescription now feel
fully warranted in offering to pa v $500 for
any rise t f Leucorrhea, Female Weakness,
Pro!-psiis, or Palling of the Womb, which
they cannot cure. All they ask is a fair
and reasonable trial of their means of cure.
It is natural that a woman who has been
cured of womanly disease by "Favorite
I resrription " should believe that it will
cure others. It is natural too that she
should recommend to other women the
medicine which has cured her. It is
such commendation which has made the
name of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip
tion a household word for the past thirty
ligfit years.
A
if.
Prisoners Sentenced to Solitary Con
finement in Frunce ot Allowed
to Speak, Head or Work.
The Law Times makes the following
comment on the sentences passed on
the Humberts, the notorious French
jnwicdlers: "Some of the comments in
I he press on the sentence passed on
Mme. Humbert and her husband (the
other pair of culprits came off more
2ightly) betray a very imperfect appre
ciation of its nature. Five years' re
elusion, or solitary confinement aa It
is understood in France, is not only a
rigorous but a terrible penalty. Our
own code offers no parallel to it and it
1b probable that a life sentence of penal
servitude in this country would be far
more efiaily endured. The solitude of
the prisoner in reclusion is all but ab
solute. The strictest silence is enforced.
Presumably the consolations of religion
whatever that may amount to in so
dreadful a situation are not entirely
-withheld; otherwise the prisoner is for
Mdden to speak, eyen to his guardian.
Books are denied and (which must be
almost the worst infliction of all) the
nost complete idleness is enforced; no
employment of any description may
mitigate the appalling vacancy of days,
veeks end years. Half an hour's ex
trrue is allowed daily, in a hood which
covers everything except the eyes. This
horrible life In death may end In the
tomb, but it is more likely to end In
the padded cell of the maniac."
Fcter Thnt Seldom Dlra Oat.
Do you know there is such a thing as
"newsp-;p r faver" and that It just
worms and burns its way into a fellow's
pysu-iu .'ind remains there-as long as
life !a.:r-? It is a fact, says the New Or
leans Times-Democrat. Men who work
iroun-i newspaper offices know it to be
true. They know it is true not only to
the men who work in the business, but
many others who never happen to get
into the business at r.U. There is an old
! '-gpnd to the eut-ct that if a man once
take the Mississippi river water he
will krep conijn.iT back to the same old
rivfr. no matter where he rocs. It is the
sari? way in the newspaver business.
Taste it cr.re and you have cot It in your
system for good.
SOME FACTS ABOUT LONDON.
WbUk So to Show That the British
Capital Is a ni C4y B
l, yuad Question
A child is born every three minutes,
nd a death is registered every five
minutes.
"The city contains over 700 railway
station,, nearly SOO mile of railway
line, and 11 railway bridges span the
Thame?. Ifciily l.OOO.OOO persons travel
on the underground railways, and 2,
OOO.OoO in 5.0(H) omnibuses. 7.000 han
ff.iii", 4.XK 1-a.bs and 7.000 tram cars.
The tital population i between
;.ViO.Oftf.i and 7.000.000.
Four thousand postmen deliver 10.
Onn,tj(Vi letters weekly, walking a dis
sance equal to twice the circumference
of the p-lobe. Sixty thousand letters
are writteni a day, consuming 30 gal
lons of ink.
Ten thousand miles of overhead tel
rirrafih wire almost shut out the
j-rri'iVy canopy which spreads above the
l'T.'Vr. streets, and the number of
telewraph mesfaces received in Lon
don last year was over fi.000,000.
Ninety million jrallons of water are
consumed daily. London (orrepond-
tce St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
STE AMEll (J li A YE YARD
New Jersej Town Where Many Old
Eastern Vessels Lie.
Well-Known HIver Craft That Hairs
JJcconie Worn Out Kind a Rest
ing l'ljvoe on ( lie liiiri tan's
Hanks.
It appears to have been left for the
residents of the littJe town of l'ertli
Aiiiboy to prove thnt-the Hindoo belief
in the transmigration of souls is a re
.ilitv, at least, as far as boat are con
cerned, says the St. Lou Republic.
Steam craft which in years gone by
made jreat record- in tbe local water
and later were tirasrged out of the
busy swiii tired of the struggle, are
to-day so inttel) a art of the liaritau
river town that their names are house
hold words there.
The graveyard of old veels has had
a day of resurrection.
The valiant spirit of each has left
cold boiler and paralyzed engine to
take up its abode in dwellings, decora
tions and the hundred mid one tilings
into which its dismembered hut resur
rected body has been transformed.
During the lat tew years: many well
known boats have been brought to
gether on the shelving banks of the
Karitan river, whera the junkman de
cides their destiny.
The giantess of them all is the
famous old Albany boat Drew.
( lose beside her are the tire-ravaged
hulls of the ferryboats Elizabeth and
Plain lie Id.
The worn-out ferryboat Central and
the ill-fated Northtield are rubbing
their noses in a friendly way with the
rise and fall of the tide against the
Drew's port quarter. y
The half-burned Thomas McManus
keeps well under water on the river
side of the. fleet.
The side-wheel steamer Golonia. of
Philadelphia, which was condemned as
unseaworthy after the last internation
al yacht races, and the famous old
ferryboat Chancellor, the only craft to
cross the bay during the blizzard of
IfcS, have botb. settled high up in the
sands.
These bo-abs represent more than
$-1,000,000 in original oost, and are in
all stages of dismantlement.
Probably one of the greatest boons
that ever cam to Perth Amboy vra.a
the steamer Drew.
She was towed to her present berth,
a little more than a year ago.
From the outside she appeared to
Ue a great unwieldy hulk of little
value, but within she has proved to be
a veritable treasure ship.
Houses have, been built from th
well-seasoned planking of her super
structure The panel work and rich carvings of
her 400 and more staterooms have been
used for interior decorations, and the
staterooms thrnselve for store
houses. There is one stateroom which has
been left just where it was when the
old river boat made her last trip.
Money cannot buy it from the junk
man. The pleasant memories of his hon
eymoon still linger with it.
From one end of the craft to the oth
er it is the only spot which will not feel
the sharp edge of the wreckers' tools.
With the exception of that part of
the Drew which has been used 1 the
junkman himself in the construction
of living quarters for his men and a
combination office and storehouse, in
the heart of the town, ail the material
has been sold at a good price.
An elderly widow is the proud owner
of a comfortable home made entirely
from the Drew.
Her dog and chickens are also snugly
housed within a portion of the resur
rected craft.
So extraragant were the builder of
the boat in the selection of materials
used for her construction that carpen
ters and decorators of the town have
purchased almost the entire super
structure, although it is as yet not
more than half dismantled.
In the building trade there is a de
mand for "Drew timber" and among
decorators a call for "Drew trim
mings." The foregoing is the spirit of th
Drew- made manifest in Perth Amboy.
It is not confined there alone, how
ever, for all over the country there is
a demand for some part of her con
struction. The giant part of her engines have
already gone to the steel works of
Pennsylvania and Connecticut to be
fa.hinoed into car wheels, axles and
building material.
NEGRO A SMALL EATER.
Whn Wsll and Hularlr rd the
lllaak Wan Hat Lm Than
th Whit Man.
"There is a very popular, but rery
erroneous belief that the negro is a
heartier eater than the white man,"
said an observant citizen, according
t) the New Orleans Times-Democrat,
"but after some little observation 1
have come to the conclusion that the
negro is really a much smaller eater
than a white man. My atten was
called to the matter some ' -o
St-natr
sissipj)., Hun i.ked me if 1 had no
ticed the fact that negroes, as a rule,
when well fed, and when they could
g.t their meals regularly, ate less
than white 111011. 1 frankly confessed
hat 1 had noticed no such thing, and
.-aid further that I did not believe it
was so. Of course, my conclusion
was merely a hasty generalization,
and was due mainly to the popular
belief. My interest in the matter,
was roused by the rather lirm state
ment made by the, Mississippi states
maw, and so I made a series of ob
servations, the results of which have
been a revelation, for they have up
set the opinions of a lifetime. I am
now in a position to assert that if
the negro id well and regularly fed
he will eat at least a third less than
a white man."
VENTILATION IN THE HAT.
Good for tfhe Hair and Add Not a
Little to the On in fort
of the Heud.
"Some customers have nonsensical
notions about the proper way to venti
iate a hat," said a fashionable hatter,
to a New York Times man. "In fact,
they are so whimsical about it that we
make the hats without a ventilator
and try to suit the wishes of the cus
tomer after he has handed his money
to the salesman. Many customers will
not have a hat ventilated at all. Well,
they miss a great deal of comfort and
take long chances for baldness in old
age. The English style, and the only
one that some buyers will adopt, is a
ring of perforated holes in the crown
of the hat. In my opinion, it is just as
well to have no ventilator at all as to
put it there. The best way is to have
two hole, one on each side of the hat,
just above the band. Then you get
good circulation all the time. There
are ways of punching the holes artis
tically so that, they do not detract from
the appearance of the hat. Put you
would be surprised at the number of
men who will not have them, some be
cause it is not fashionable, and" others
because they think the hat will not
wear so well."
Gnnbnat on tJie Ohio.
Gunboats were common on the Mis
sissippi river forty years ago. In
recent years the river has seldom
floated ships of the navy. Conse
quently, when the monitor Arkansas,
one of the newest ships of its class,
steamed up the river recently on its
way to St. Louis, it attracted much at
tention. It astonished and delighted
the people of Evansville, Ind., by mak
ing an excursion up the Ohio as far as
that city, for not since the civil war
had any ship of the navy touched at
that port. Both the Mississippi and
the Ohio are deep enough to float a
much larger vessel than the Arkansas.
MUSCLES IN TENSION.
Are th Ons That Tlr Soontit Al
though Dolnif Mo Work at
the Tim.
The Rerue Scientiflque has ben ask
ing what muscles tire soonest, with the
conclusion that it is not the musclas
in use, but those under tension, al
though doing no work. The writer
urges us to use the arms and legs less
and the back and neck more, for on
them comes the greatest strain. He has
been asking men of all occupations the
same questions:
When you have worked much where
lo you feel tired?
Before you were trained, did fatigue
show itself in the same regions?
All the answers point to the same
conclusions. The baker who kneads
dough all night complains of fatigue in
his legs.
The blacksmith is tired, not In his
arms and saouldcr3, but In his back
and loins.
The young soldier after a march, is
especially tired in the back of his neck,
cvn if he has carried no knapsack.
The oarsman who is fn perfect train
ing, after prolonged exercise gets tired
in his calves and instepa.
These facts point to the conclusion
that In any continued effort we should
try to alter the habit of contraction.
That is to say, the body, like the mind,
needs change of work.
WHAT OLD AGE IS LIKE.
AVIttr Definition by an Affd Frnh
mnn Respect in Whleh It Most
Differs from Youth.
The noted French advocate, Maltre
Labori. who defended Dreyfus and re
cently the Humberts, Is noted in Paris
more for his polish and neatness of his
speeches than for his eloquence.
An American journalist who heard
Labor! in court one day says the ad
vocate's address was full of grace, wit,
tenderness. He quotes a passage relat
ing to old age, wherein 1' rdl, with a
smile, said:
"Old age we shall none of us quite
understand that until we have attain
ed to it for no one. of us here is old.
But the other day I Tisited my uncle,
a very aged man.
'What is it like, uncle?' I said, 'to
be old?'
"And my uncle answered:
" 'It's like this: When one Is young
one's polite attentions to women are
taken for declarations of love, but when
one is old one's declarations of love are
faVen for rf-'-- -tfPT.
- la -a "w m a
TI10 Kind You Have Always
in uso for over 30 years,
and
-V-2- sonal supervision since its infancy
f'tktCLtM Allnitr iwi mm r lono!vft vnil ill this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good" are hut
Experiments that triilo with and endanger tho health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
7
Bears tbe
The Kind You Have Always Bought
in Use For Over 30 Years.
THC CENTAUR COMPANY, TT MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY.
lt, irY,--
Pirst Rational ank
OF HEPPNER.
O. A. RHEA.
T. A. RHEA.
President
.Vio-Preeident
Transact a General
EXCHANGE ON ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD BOUGHT AND SOLD
'7, f Collections made on all polntson reasonable terma. Surplus and undivided profits J35.000.
Itedured Passenger Kates.
The 0. R. & N. Co. will make the fol
lowing low rates to the following places :
Baptist Young People's Union ot
America, International Convention, De
troit, Mich, July 7-10; Annual Meeting
Graml Lodge Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, Cincinnati, Ohio, July
23-28; Imperial Council Ancient Arabic
Order of Mystic Shrine, Atlantic City,
N. J., July 13-15; National Encamp
ment Grand Army of the Republic,
Boston, Mass., August 15 20; Knights
of Pythias National Encampment, Lou
isville, Ky., August 15, 1904.
The following rates are from Ileppner.
To Detroit, Mich., and return, $73.90;
to Cincinnati, Ohio, and return, $71.65 ;
to Atlantic City. N. J., and return,
885.65; to Boston, Mass., and return,
$86.95; to Louisville, Ky., and return,
$70 65.
For further information as to dates of
sale, stopover privileges, etc, call on or
addresH J. B. Huddelston, Local Agent,
Ileppner, Oregon.
A Business Proposition.
If you are going East, a careful selec
tion of your route is essential to the en
joyment of your trip. If it is a busin
ess trip, time is the main consideration :
if a pleasure trip, scenery and the con
veniences and comforts of a modern
railroad. Why not combine all by us
ing the ILLINOIS CENTRAL, the up-to-date
road, running two Ttraina daily
from St. Paul and Minneapolis, snd
from Omaha to Chicago. Free Reclin
intr chair cars, the famous Buffet Li
brary smoking cars, all trains vestibuled
In short, thoroughly modern through
out. All tickets reading via the Illinois
Central will be honored on these trains
and no extra fare charged.
Our rates are the same as those of in
ferior roads why not net your money's
worth ?
Write for full particulars.
B. TRUMBULL, Commercial Asent,
Portland, Oregon.
J. C. LINDSEY, T. F. & P. A..
Portland, Oregon.
PAUL B. THOMPSON, F. A P. A.,
Seattle, Wash.
"nAi
JU-tnM
Bought, and which has hecn.
has home tho signature of
has been made under his pcr-
Signature of
O. W. CONSER Cashier
E. L. FREELAND. .Assistant Cashier
Bankinq Business.
THE
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ROUTE
Through personally conducted Tourist
sleeping cars between Portland and Chi
cago once a week, and between Ogden
and Chicago three times a week, via tbe
Scenic Line.
Through standard KleepinKcaMdaily between
Opden and Chicago via the Scenic Line.
Through standard sleeping cars daily between
Colorado Springs and St. Louis.
Through standard and tourist sleeping cars
daily between Han Francisco and Chicago via
Los Angeles and El Paso.
Through standard sleeping cars and chair
cars daily between Kt. Paul and Chicago.
Be sure to see that your ticket reads via th
Great Rock Island Route
The bet and most reasonable dining car ser
vice. Middav lunch 50 cents.
For rates, folders and descriptive literature
write to
L. B.GORHAM GEO. W. BAINTER.
GENERAL AGENT. TRAY. PASS. AST.
250 Alder St.Portland, Ore.
IJefore You Order
Tombstones, Marble
or Granite Work
You will do well to see
Monterastelli Brothers
and get prices. Thej Lave
a fine stock on hand.
JIAI STHEKT, HKPPXEK, ORE.
If yoa take tnia paper and The Weekly
Oreg-onlan you won't bave to beg your
news.