THE EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22. HHW
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A N * IN D E P E N D E N T PAPER
CHAULES II. FISHER, Editor anti l*ut>li«h<r
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1908
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GENERAL LUMBER MARKET CONDITIONS
Sounding the local lumbermen on the trade conditions re
veals the fact that business conditions ccutinue to improve,
says the Tacoma West Coast Lumberman. It is obccrva-lo in
the well-sustained building operations, as the people nave xound
they can build at fully fifteen per cent less than a year ago.
Also in the better inquiries from retail yards tributary to the
railroads, while the cargo trade to Australia, South America
and California ports has been a lar^e factor in maintaining busi
ness at a steady price. Some dealers seem to be of the opinion
that business seems to show the same uneasiness common to
all months immediately preceding presidential elections, but
that stocks are generally low and must be replenished after the
election anyway, so there is bound to be more life in the trade
then than now. Mill men say there has been a better inquiry in
the rail trade and a much better movement of lumber in the
past four weeks, though the car shortage is seriously interfering
with deliveries. Along the Northern Pacific the supply of cars
has been light since the crops began to move, and lumbermen re
port they are not able to ship much more than a third of the
quantity desired. Conditions on the Great Northern are not
much better. Under this recurring aggravation, the coming of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul is eagerly looked for, as it
will add greatly to the transportation facilities. Indications are
that it will be in the field for business on the Pacific coast in the
course of six or eight months.
Prices of lumber have shown improvement in response to the
increased buying and the advance in the log market. Most of
the sawmills in Washington are now in operation.
Figures from the yellow pine region, in which reports were re
ceived from 325 mills, show a reduction in the stocks during
the year of about 435,000,000 feet. With the opening of the
fall season trade in yellow pine shared in the general improve
ment, but within the past two weeks the situation was not so-
buoyant, though in the face of badly depleted stocks, with or
ders coming in, the mill men believe the business will be such as
to maintain the better values ruling since affairs began to
take the up grade.
THE BILLBOARD NUISANCE
European cities have rules governing not only the size, but the
style of the advertising signs. They insist that they shall be at
tractive in their neatness if they are to attract any attention at
all.
According to the Chicago Record Herald, by this same token
Europe is more progressive than the United States. The Amer
ican billboard is a monstrosity. It is both too large and too loud.
That if true even if we exclude the indecent posters from the
count. The great glaring signs could hardly be made uglier with
malice aforethought. To suggest art in connection with them
would provoke a smile of derision. They should defeat their own
purpose because they are so crude and rcpellant.
That is the actual condition as we have it. and, of course, it
cannot last. The example of Europe would compel us to insist
on a change for very shame, even if we hud no other motive. But,
aside from that, the condition is resented by thousands of citi
zens who are striving zealously for municipal improvements.
They feel that it is out of keeqing with the objects that they
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have in view. Furthermore, the sense of injury and the desire
for restrictions are steadily increasing. It is a very common thin«?
now to hear indignant protests against the billboards from people
who have no part in organized movements for their suppression
or regulation. The active reformers have the best possible en- [
couragement in an approving public sentiment.
Y. M. C. A. NEEDED IN EUGENE
There is renewed talk of an active Y. M C A organization
in Eugene, with a building suitable for its needs Nothing in
the nature of a public institution could be of greater benefit
to Eugene, when we have so many young men attending the
public schools
It would give them a place for proper asso
ciation. provide amusement and recreation and furnish enter
tainment courses that would be of interest and value to all
classes and at a price within the reach of everybody. The
Y M C A has become so general in its scope, moreover, that its
activities interest nearly all ageB and the business men as well
as the younger element. It is not necessarily a religious institu
tion. but its work all tends to better the morals of its members
and uplift the religious and moral standard of the community.
A Y. M. C. A. organization on a sound financial footing,
Tilly equipped, would be a valuable asset to a growing city like
Eugene, and is one thing that we are greatly in need of.
JUVENILE JUDGE'S IDEA
:ng children and the older they grow the more pronounced these
ideas become. A method laid down and which is successful for
the training of one child may not apply to another. For this 1
reason there can be no set rules for the rearing of children, but
each one must be handled according to the temperament of the
child. Since the commencement of time there have been good
children and bad children, just as there are good men and wo
men and bad men and women, and the same will hold until time
ceases to be. The great sociological question of the present day
is how to make as many good citizens as possible, of course,
but a general reform will never be brought about by such a
law as is advocated by the Washington judge.
Governor Chamberlain is playing the non-partisan game to
the limit in refusing to make speeches fer Bryan, and his action
will disgust the real Democrats more than ever. Everybody
knows he is a Democrat, and even the Republican Statement
No. 1 legislators would respect him more and support him with
better grace if he would take a more manly course. They are
pledged to support him because he received a majority of the
popular vote, not because he is or was a mugwump, and like
everybody else in the state, will realize that he is simply trying
to play them for suckers. Taking his own reasoning for it, if
he is barred from making partisan speeches as governor, he will
bo forced to keep silent on politics during his six years’ term as
senator, having been elected as a non-partisan and being a rep
resentative of all the people. Yet we imagine that a while before
his term expires he will recover enough partisanship to ask the
Democrats to renominate him in the primaries. It's a safe bet
that he will.
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Now they say that President Sam Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, is a tool of the Standard Oil because the
union newspaper which he edits is carrying two advertisements
for the goods of the trust. While no particulars are given in
the press dispatch we presume these advertisements relate to
the oil stoves nd axle grease which the trust manufacture and
sell, and which they advertise in thousands of papers over the ;
country, the business coming from a well-known Philadelphia
agency. The Guard carries these advertisements and we always
supposed that they were put in the paper because the Standard
people, like most big business concerns, believe that the best
way to sell goods is to advertise their merits. That the trust
was trying to subsidize The Guard never occurred to the pub- 1
lishers, and it probably never has to the publishers of the ‘‘Fed-
erationist,” which Mr. Gompers edits for the Federation of La
bor. Such campaign matter as this is as silly as it is far-fetched
and irrelevant. The publisher of The Guard, not having any per
sonal political ambition, is willing to be called a tool of Stand
ard Oil or anything else that it might please his enemies to
brand him, but we must object to any man in public life being
traduced in such a ridiculous manner in ‘ special” dispatches
published in a paper like the Oregonian, which is itself carrying
the same advertisements no doubt that Sam Gompers allows
to appear in the “Federationist,” if indeed he has anything to
say about that department of the publication, which we very
much doubt. Really, the present campaign seems to be about
the silliest in the history of the country, viewed from the unbi
ased non-partisan standpoint.
Today’s Suggestion by Ellen Stan.
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PRETTY
FLARE
KIRTS are of more Intereat at this season of the year than
durlnc the summer months, for it Is during the winter that th '
deman«! for separate skirts to wear with heavy coats of br , «T ta ’
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fur.
The tailored one piece enatnm*
costume will
will H
be
worn early
iu
with furs, bnt later ou the separate cont and skirt will take Its pi?*
iloes not mean that the tailored suit will not be worn, but preference- >• Tin,
—cv 1» Ji>0Wa
tor the separate coat
modela,
with
the
fores
straight
The plain gored
,n‘* “arrow’
th.
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By EDWIN A. NYE.
CcpyrlBht. 1W. by Edwin A. Nr*.
THE DANGEROUS DRUG HAiHT
'boo«h •■«>»
Are we becoming modern lotu» eat
ere?
Literature Is full of refer-tu-e b
th<we fabled beings who lived ou th««
fmlt of the lotus— tboee wbo forge«
cares and tbs lapse sf time and gavi-
tbsmoeivwi to pleaatireH.
They law.-
tbeir counterpart In tbe metlern drut: j
Mitera. Tbe intxiw Sower of <«ir day It
opium and Its predoeM. or eocalne. or
abatnth. or any somber of pr»-pnratlen-
It Is said inietuperance Is tbe great j
eat evil of our day. The drug Us bit 1»
a large part of that rice.
If you will talk with a retail drug
gist who will tell you tbe facts or con
sult the boat medical authorities, you
will be shocked and startled.
One might expect, for Instance, that
large quantities of morphine or cocnlne
would I m * sold in the drug stores of the-
Tenderloin districts.
It Is nlso true
that the pharmacies in the fashionable
districts have a large trade in these
and other drug stuffs. Besides, THE
DRUG HABIT IS PREVALENT AND
GROWING AMONG ALL CLASSES
OF OUR PEOPLE.
The society woman is tempted to the
use of stimulants because dissipation
drains her vitality.
She must keep
the pace and be vivacious. The flesh
U weak: the temptation is great. On
the other hand, the low and the unfor
tunate. Impoverished both In body and
iu mind, take the drug to forget their
misery.
But there are ethers.
Besides the high and the low. the
«miss of the common people are com-
lug to be large drug users.
The temptation Is an Insidious one
Perhaps the stimulant was first pre-
wrilied by a physician.
It sootnes
racked nerves. When the pain comes,
use it. The pain comes often.
Per-
nups one <*annot sleep. There Is the
drug. Perhaps one has a great weak
ness—the drug again.
Anxiety, wor
ry. depression—the drug. And. finally,
almost every phase of the victim’s life
makes a special draft on the danger
ous drug.
And so the modern lotus flower
makes dreadful inroads on our society.
The habit wil! ruin any people,
It
saps vital forces. It ruina generation«
yet to be.
The press and the pulpit must fleht
this growing vice.
Because the evil Is Intrench«*«! In
secretlveness. Unlike drunkenness, it
does not manifest Itself.
It shrinks
from publicity.
It must be dragged
Into the Mmelfght.
Round the alarm!
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PILES;
Eugene will probably have a new postoffice in aue course of
time, and it will fill a long-felt want. Some of the other things
that we ought to have next week are a new city hall, a Y. M.
C A. building and a modern hotel. A proper amount of hustling
will secure all of them.
Level-headed men usually discount accusations against their
opponents and laudation of their friends, thereby striking a safe
working balance, which enables them to make their decision on
principle, not personality.
We notice that the labor vote gives no evidence of sharing the
fears of the political managers about its being misled. As we
know him, the average labor voter is entirely capable of intelli
gently casting his ballot without assistance, and what is more, is
likely to do so.
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th* elrratar e Ole
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‘be bla.
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pfrainkt
«ralZbt pt*„ “
th*
the seing,
sdvag» tatrbeJ
n with the
In the back a aeat
tintah can be rrso
the. placket by cut
ting the Wr,
stitched ia
with the seam wide
enough at the to,,
for a placket fa,.
Ing. This makes a
neater finish than
a separate facing,
as It does ,w,y
with all raw e-dres
and extra bulk.
This skirt lsesp«.
daily good for stout
figures, as the num-
l>er of gores makes
one appear slighter.
A pretty dark blue
broadcloth or acrj*
with a satin waist
»0 match in co,or
will make a very
neat costume for
morning wear dur
ing the coming sea
son. The skirt can
be left perfectly
plain or trimmed
with bias bands of
the satin.
The favored col
orings are smoko
and seal gray, pea-
cock blue, dull
greens and reJs
navy blue ana
black. Novelties
have l>een se«m io
some extent, but
preference basfsen
shown for plain tua
terlala, broadcloth
being the faroml
material, then serge
and cheviot Some
of the new sergw
are in basket weave in quite a number of pretty color combinations.
This skirt Is In round length with under box plait at the back or In habit
style. The pattern Is cut in eight sizes—from 22 to 30 Inches bust meisur»
To copy it for the average person It requires 9 yards of material 3ti ln<4>es
wide or 7Y, yards of material 44 Inches wide.
After all it isn't such an awful good job to kill a man, even if TYPHOON DAMAGt
FOREST FIRES BURNED
one be a millionaire. This fact is being realized more forcibly
WAS VERY SEVERE
than ever by Harry Thaw, who finds himself locked within the
OUT AT ROGERS CITY
portals of an insane asylum for the criminal insane at Mattewan,
Amboy, Oct. 20.—The damage bv
Rogers City. Oct.
19.—After a
New York, with a good chance of remaining there for several Thursday’s typhoon was greater than three «lays' battle with forest fires,
reported.
In Chang
Chow
three this city was yesterday afternoon free
months, and possibly years. After all, there is no particular rea
houses were destroyed and of smoke. No buildings in this place
1100 killed.
In Lamcheng six hun- were destroyed,
it is estimated that
son for the liberation of Thaw. He is a man of no character and dr»d
houses were
destroyed
and the homeless in Presque Isle and Al
so far as anybody has been able to determine has never 1200 killed.
pena counties are at least 400 fami
Five years
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ago
the
Lamcheng
lies, and an average of from four to
accomplished a good deed in his lifetime. Society is better off flooded an«! 3.000
were drowned and six in each family.
with Thaw in the asylum or in prison. Men of his stamp can hundreds killed at other places
Dispatches from Alpena, Mich., in
well be spared from life's activities.
Fruit-growing is already proving a very profitable industry in
Lane county. About Creswell, where there are many good or
chards, prune growers have realized handsome profits, especial
ly Dr. Scarbrough, who is one of the largest prune growers in
the state. The natural result of the profits made by growers has
been a demand for land in that vicinity, one man having refused
$12,000 for sixty acres of fruit land there.
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SKIRT.
Il« an Saturday nlulit night the num
ber
f deaths in the forest fires of
Presque Isle and Alpena counties will
surely exceel 50 an«i may
run
to
wards 100.
In the vicinity of Metz,
B« lton and Pon-a the
fires
have
burned sufficiently to leave several
hundred women and children camp
ing in comparative safety in the open
fields.
William» Indan
Pile Ointment
will cure blind, bleeding and Itching
biles.
It absorbs the tumors, allays
Itching at once, acts as a poultice,
gives instant relief
Williams' In
dian Pile Ointment is prepared for
piles and Itching of the private parts
■lack S utt. who has been engineer
Sold bv I.fnn Drug Co., bv mall 50c
and
$1 0(1.
William»
Mfg
Co., on the Wendling branch from Eugene
to Wendling
for the past
year <>r,
props., Cleveland. O.
more, has been transferred to a run
out of Silverton
on Woodbirrn line I
Thp HUI Crest company nave let ind wil] go down this we'-k to begin
the c'ntract for the grading of Bea his new work. The run here is open
con street through its new addition to bids and a regular man will be as- i
to Eugene, to A. C. Mathews
Th«- signed to it in a few days.
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street is to he graded on a gradual
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curve from Willamette street to Eu
gene avenue, and when finished will
he one of the show streets of the city
The roadway will he thirty-four feet1
wide from curb to curb. Thf« win
be a ffve-f ot side-walk of « ement.
k-.u\.«
,
«> 1
•‘in commerciai
and eight feet of parking.
I.awson
1 ranvhea. Including claaa-
cypress trees, lauruitlnus an«! pam
pas grass will be planted in the park
ing the entire length of the street. I
ALRA'.Y COL^OE/àlBANY: OREGON
and on the Park avenue front of thé
property.
The entrance to Ueccon
street will be marked with statelv
pillars of brick or stone.
It Is the!
intention of the company to make ’
">e great mall
this new addition a credit tp Eugene I
order LIQUOR
HOUSE.
W«
C. Arne!, who was In the city from
-uy the express.
Marcóla today, stated that th.* South
i •Vrite today tor
ern Pacific company had its docks
there pretty well cleared of lumber.
He didn’t think there was much pros
pect of the company resuming oper tos Thb-d Stmil
r
Porf;«.<t
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ations there for some time yet. Mr.
Arnel is still supplying the Eugene
Lumber Co. with sawlogs off of his
timber tract, shipments being made
every day.
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TCHING
D andruff and
FALUNC t MAIR c
are but outward signs of the evil
done in secret by myriads of dan-
Jruff germs sapping the life blood
of the hair. Micro kills the para
site, soothes the itching scalp,
gives lustre to the hair and stops
it falling out. A single appticat»*
gives relief and proves its worts
Save your hair before too late.
Micro prevents baldness. It is *
delightful dressing for the bar.
free from grease and sticky o,ls-
Ask yourdruggi'tfor free booklet
HOYT CHEMICAL CO. I
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■ Price List.
It's all very well to condemn the wife-swapping of savage
peoples, but wherein does it differ from the wife-swapping of
too many of our own people, via the divorce court? Only in a lit
tle red tape and lawyers' fees.
Queer that two men. neither having a bank account or any
reasonable prospect of ever having one, will argue for hours,
and even come to blows occasionally, over the question of guar
anteeing bank deposits.
Well, well; a poor clerk in the Portsmouth (N H ) navy yard
has
been fired for 1 pernicious political activity.” 0. civil ser
A Washington juvenile judge wants prospective brides and
vice
reform, what humbuggery is pulled off in thy name
grooma examined as to their skill in child-raising before mar
riage and would have them pass first grade before issunig the
Hobson seems to have made a most distinguished convert.
marriage license. Which makes us conclude that there would
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ogue Here’s Senator Lodge declaring that Japan would make ins. 't-
All persons over the age of five years have their ideas of train- ing demand? of us, if ovr navy isa t kept stronger than hers.
OREGON !» PÓRTI NG CO.
Quite a number of the members of
several duck clubs sent to the pre
serves in the Long Toni bottom to
day and others will go out tomorrow
There Is plenty of water, but
Ing will probably not be the best
account of the fair weather
V E Edbloom and family arrb
me today from their trip to 1
ye
They had a splendid trip
r they are very glad to get bt
Oregon and Eugene, which lo.
od to them, they dec!
Mrs
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Sold in Eugene Cv
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Tenth and Morrison. Portland, Oregon
A. P. Armstrong. LL-B-« * ■
occupy two floors 65 by loo feet, have a
co
employ a large faculty, give individual instruction, rec- ve o
tor office help than we can meet.
others in quality- of instruction.
Our school adtr.’ttr
It pars to attend such
CSaM a Buataesa M m : •• Keep hammering away ever.a-:
work. It will win out in the end.” Naid an Edatatnr: "T!><
turn given in your school makes it the stan«iard of its k:r
(Lepers all the year. Students admitted at any time-
Roierences;
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