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S K YS C R A PER ’S S ET O F N ER V ES
Business District of New York Uses
Six Feet of Telephone W ire to
London'# One.
KNOW LITTLE CARE
WRIGL
8H A N TY
BOATMEN C E R TA IN LY
LIV
E
A H A PPY LIFE.
The nerves of the skyscraper are the
telephone wires, o f course. And Inas
much ns proKress In evolution Is mens-
ured hy complex nervous development, Will 8ometlmes Work, Though Pleaa
ure Is the Real Buelneee of Exist
It Is natural Hint New York’s down
town, where business, the highest form
ence— Not Bothered About
NEW SCOTT HOTEL
of social biology, has attained Its full
Rent or Taxee.
B r iw la iir A Ankeny Hie .
Portland. Ora.
est development, should bo an enor
Itat™, 75c, $1.00, $1.50,
mous spider’s web of telephone wires.
I f a man were privileged to choose
K«lw. If. (kmity.
On# Minute from Wm»h- The per rnplta consumption of tele
Mimnui'r.
In* ton Hlr##t.
phone wire In New York Is six times his own manner of living, sorting over
as much us In London, Hltneon Htrun- the whole collection of life's various
sky writes In Harper’s. That rep forms of existence, and choosing the
resents
the rclutlve nervous In one he liked best, no matter what any
tensity o f business lu New York and body or everybody said, It I* likely that
Sleth and Everett Ste . I'mtUnd. Ora.
in all that strange collection he could
In London.
Pour lilucka from Union Hopot. T w o lilorka
from N ew I'uanjfflce. Mwlern and Arepruuf.
Home such excess of wiring I *nx find nothing more charming than the
O ver IUU outalila ruoma. K ale* 76c to #.00.
pect In the skyseraiiers o f downtown. life of the shunty boatman, remarks
C IIA H . C . H O P K IN S . Menatfcr.
There are hundreds and thousands of the Indianapolis News. The shanty
rooms, and In every room one or more boatman lives anywhere, according to
He
men with their mouths and ears to his Inclination and the season.
W H E N IN
lives,
anyway,
according
to
his
de
the telephone. It Is all cellular parti
tions and wire ganglions reaching out sires. It sets you dreaming of all the
to t ’hlrago, perhaps, or Han Francisco; farawny placet to think of him. He
wires to the stock exchange around moors his little house on the cool
the corner, wires to the assistant In northern streams In the summer, und
the adjoining room, wires to the heart drifts down the wunn blue southern
He Is not
of the dictaphone Into which business rivers during the winter.
Is being dictated and from which busi averse to u hit of work now and then,
S E A T T L E 'S
LARG EST
HOTEL
ness will trnvel to the ears o f the enough to keep him In coffee and ha-
Only Otren lilorka from Ontxita ami Ducka. Op-
stenographer who will transfer It to eon, hut he can choose his work as he
poailo C ity Hail Park and Court liouaa.
T H E K IN KMT O O I.I.A It KOOM IN A M E R IC A paper.
Our ghostly tourist will con goes, and leave It when he grows tired
W ith doLachad bath. I peraon.
I I 00 | M 0
clude
that
modern business Is a mut of It. Work Is his avocation, and, as
7 poraona. 11.60 17.00
an avocation, work Is not on unpleas
W ith private bath. 1 peraon.
1 7 I Ml 1 7 . 6 0 W.OO ter of conversation.
IBs real business Is liv
7 per norm.
| 3 0 0 $ 3 .6 0 W.OO
Downtown, Inside of Its tens of ant thing.
He
“ W h e n In S « a t t ie T r y th® F r y e ” thousands of skyscraper cells. Is thus ing, smoking, fishing, drifting.
terribly busy—about what? Ho far as pays neither rent nor tuxes. He owns
the eye cun see, about nothing In par only a bit of un old shack, somehow
ticular.
A man with a telephone ut made watertight and balanced so that
Ids elbow, a lint-topped desk with a It will float. It Is even possible, you
must understand, for him to enter Into
metal basket holding a dozen letters,
the life o f city men. entering Into It.
perhaps, a photograph of the man’s
however, with no sense of necessity or
wife In a silver frame at one end of
B U S I N E S S C O L L E G E the desk, and that Is all. Ilut If the restraint
I i n DNBB ii i il Dl NO
A shanty boatman was not so long
cell Is a lurge one, sometimes reaching
T s MTII ANI» W a AMINUTOM, I'liH r U M » , O n ROOM
the dimensions of an entire floor In a ago a resident of this very town. With
WOAPSCO
I o n s II I.oMu
A I* Anm rr»»o*u J a k k C o m m o *
skyscraper block, the desks, tele a proper sense of the fitness of things
A wimm i*itr an«! I )<*(«« ft merit frin ii inaia
phones, metal baskets and phonographs he tied his bon? to a fence, In line
A (funi.t y m )iiM»l. 0|«cn tiny nini evening a litile
The sub- with the houses on the shore and even
>rai
htu«l#nta a<linitt«*«l at any tune.
flunk* are Indefinitely multiplied.
kr«*i>iria tauclit from written work, etnrtlv aa prarv atnntlulltlcs of business are not there pulntcd a number over the front door.
ttruci hi Inunnc'*« Hliortlinml nini typewriting by — the steel, wheat, eottou, bullion, the It was a Jolly looking little home, with
ri|*'rt»
H|M«rial inatrurtmn fur riv il m u vice evarni* beams, casks, boxes and bales which the smoke coming out of the pipe In
lutwiti«
Mfxlrrato tuition, bonk a at amali nuat. you rccull being hauled toward quaint the roof and lamplight shining from
|*«astti<>n an soon an Competent. I fiVtwt lyatf it will
little wharves ou toy trucks driven by the edge of the curtains, and, for all
|»*v
Call, telephone Jiroadway IS21, or writ#.
men In Jumpers und shovel hats In the we know, he mny have a regular Job
pictures In your school geography la and have tuken to city life very eon-
beled commerce. Ily externals there tentcdly for a while. The advantage
Is no way of telling whether the man he had over tin* rest of us, of course,
Koee City Park, Portland. O reeoa.
lit the desk Is engaged In selling stocks wns that to get away to the faraway
Phone Tabor 1081.
and bonds, or woolen remnants, or places, he had only to untie his boat
A SELECT BO A R D IN G A N D
W W IG L E Y * »
D A Y SCHOOL TOR GIRLS
railway accessories or trusts and and drift, accepting now ami then a
(Boys Under 10 Admitted.J
mergers, or theater tickets. There Is bit of u lift from a friendly cruft.
OfT«*m exceptional advantagri». Limited num-
C H E W I V O 6 U M ---------
I w o f pupil#. Individual rare. Thorough mural, lacking the concrete symbolism of the
The thing that ts likely to bother us,
the heavy ledgers, however, In choosing this sort of ex
mental, phyaicai training.
Modern U n gu «*o#. old counting room
Muaic. A rt.
whoa® hulk suggested the raw mate istence, is the question as to wheth
rials of truffle, the clerks on their high er we should really he a shanty boat r——
stools, the hustle o f orders given ami man, or Just pretend to be one. Steven
la n o m o r e n i c M M f y
t h a n S m a l l p o x . A rm y
taken. Ttie heavy ledgers hare been son was a sort of shanty boatman. At
experience ba* demcosuited
Aro marie from your OLD CAR
replaced hy filing cabinets, whose pur least, h»‘ »lid drift about through the
the almact miraculous citi-
PETS. Rag RujfH woven h II sizes.
Cacy. and harm!earnest, of Antityphoid Vaccination.
pose seems us much decorative as use country lu a boat, and lived very con-
Mail orders receive prompt and care
Be vaccinated NOW by your physician, yen and
ful.
Your business office might as tentedly and lazily on the way. But
Jour family. It Is more vital than house Insurance.
ful attention. Send for booklet.
Ask your physician, dru^f tst, or send for "Have
well he the cutaloguc room o f a col Stevenson has written n book about his
jou had Typhoid?" telling of T y p h o i d Vaccine,
C u re d B e fo re Y o u P a y
NORTHWEST RUG CO.
lege library.
results
from us , and danger from Typhoid Carriers.
I will send yoa a l l bottle o f L A N E ’ S Treatm ent on
wamh*rlngs, and he wns not really a
E. Hth and Taylor Sts.
Portland, Or.
F R E E T R I A L . W hen com pletely cured «end me
the
a
m
ra
labocatocy
,
Bctnarv.
cal
|1 00. O therw ise, you r report cancels the ch arge.
shanty boatman nt all. It is Just the
pmoaoaaa v accises a sssuas «atea u. s. eov. ucaaa*
D. J. L A N E . 87^ Lane Bldg . St. Marys. Kans.
<lirr**rence you may say, between art
If Your Skin Itches
and vagrancy. Vagrancy has an Idle
Granulated Eyelids,
W e Pay Ik# Postage.
and art Is u tempting thing.
If in rtiiil o f Pure Drug* and Chemicals, Arch
Just Use Resinol sound,
More Food is Purpose.
5 Sore Eyes, Eyes Inflamed by
Supports, Shoulder Braces. T R U S S E S , Elastic
The very j>olnt In being a shanty boat
l Sun, Dust and W ind quickly
Stockings. Abdom inal Supporters. Suspensory
No remedy can honestly promise to man. however. Is in not having to try
Pullman,
Wash. — President E. O.
relieved by Murine. Try* it in
Bandages fo r Men. and all other Rubber Good#
your Eyes and in Baby’s Eyes.
heal every case of eczema or similar to be anything else, and, perhaps the
o f every description, tend to the
Holland, o f Washington State College,
N o Sm arting, Just Eye C om fort
L A U E D A V IS D R UG CO.
skin aliment, nut Resinol Ointment, best thing about It Is the fuct that
has received a request from Secretary
Truaa Experts
aided by Resinol Soap, gives such It Is so far removed from art as to Murine Eye Remedy
Third and Yamhill. Portland, Or.
E y e S e lv e , in T u b e« 25c. F<*r Hook o f the K y t — F r e e .
Houston, o f the department o f A gricul
instant relief from the Itching and he very n»*nr!y real.
Ask M a r i n e E y e R e m e d y C o .. C h ic a g o j ture,
asking that arrangements be
burning, and so generally succeeds in
made for an interstate conference in
A g a t e C u t t in g
clearing the eruption away for good,
Deep Laid Stratagem.
Spokane August 27 and 28 to discuss
Remarkable Premonition.
that It is the standard skin treatment
ro a i m o w t w t u c u t a n o
‘ ‘ What was the matter with your winter wheat and rye seeding prob
I M O U N T Y O U # A O A t r IN A S O C IO
A striking Instance of premonition brass band?”
of thousands and thousands of physi
.
lems. Seventy-five persons from eight
| O O I O a tN G C M C C U T
M N O U lf
cians. Sold by all druggists.
Is reported from Grlflithstown, Mon
r iM O C n A N O A G A T I
“ W ell,” replied the unskilled leader, states w ill be in attendance.
mouthshire, Great Britain. While a " w e understood that Germans are par
EG - O - LENE The hen I ch e*it; chemtHt'. aub- maternity nurse was walking home, ticularly fond o f music. And i f there
—, ------- Htitute: but iu,le. aatnple hnlf she had n presentiment that her pa
were any Germans listening we wanted
doren, with detail*. 10c. K|fo Co., Somerville. N . J.
tient and the child whom she had Just to make them feel as badly as possi
left were In danger. Hurrying home, ble. ” — Washington Star.
Nothing Omitted.
T R A V E L A N D PROFIT.
she prevailed upon her hushund, a
Yotinir men and women with buoine.* trainiuit
“ I understand you have bought a member of the local fire brigade, to
S H A K E INTO Y O U R SHOES.
find jMHiition* everywhere.
(lo to Northwi-nt**
inrirent lluninen* follette. I1KIIN K K-W A I.K HR, set of Shakespeare's works.”
A lle n ’ s Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder. Makes
go to the post office, where he found
I'ortland. Ore. A ll courue*. ] ’o*ilion* euaranteed.
'’Yes,” replied Mr. Dubwnlte loft the bedroom occupied by the suh-post- tight or new shoes feel easy. Relieves Corns.
W rite for free Hluatrntcd catalog.
Bunions. Hot, Swollen. Tender. Aching1 Feet. Sold
ily. “ A complete set."
mlstress and her baby to be on tire. everywhere. 25c. Don’ t accept any substitute. I
Sample FR E E . Address. Allen S. Olmsted, Le
W hat Came From Reading
“ And a glossary, too, I presume?"
He removed the mother nud child and Roy. N. Y.
“ Oh, yes, yes. In fact, everything extinguished the fire, which had orig
a Pinkham Adver
wrote." — Birmingham inated In a wooden beam near the tire*
‘ ‘ Tommy, I ’ m ashamed o f you! Why
Bought, Sold, R ented and R epaired Shakespeare
W A L K E R E L E C T R IC W O R K S
tisement
Age-Ilernid.
did you bite your little sister?”
place.
Iturnnid«'. cor. 10th.
Portland. Or#.
‘ ‘ Cause you told me I musn’t kick or
Paterson, N. J . — “ I thank you fo r
Where to Keep Sugar.
strike her.” — Boston Transcript.
War's Convictions.
the Lydia E. Pinkham remedies as they
Her Expression.
To keep powdered sugar from hard
have made me well
What has happened Is that out of
Slickton— They tell me your daugh ening get only 25 cents’ worth at a
and healthy. Some
the blackest, most Infemul experience
ter sings with great expression.
time, put in n paraffin-lined oatmeal
time ago I fe lt so
Flickton — Greatest you ever saw ! carton, put two thicknesses of paraffin through which, as fur as we know,
run down, had pains
Why, her own mother can’ t recognize paper on the top, press the lid down the race has ever passed there has
in
my back and side,
seemed
to
come
literally
to
millions
her face when she’ s singing.— Puck.
firmly.
was very irregular,
of men a redeeming conviction, n heal
tired, nervous, had
ing and transfiguring assurance, that
Manager— What's the leading lady
Good Description.
such b a d dreams,
brotherhood Is not a delusion; that life
in such a tantrum about?
Grandmother was teaching Dorothy has n meaning; that resolution and
did not feel like eat
Press A gen t— She only got nine bou
to
rend the alphabet. She got nlong courage and discipline and simple faith
ing and had short
quets over the footlights tonight.
tine until coming to the letter “ Y ” she In fcllowmen and loyalty to ideals are
breath. I read your
You reckless men and women who
"G rea t Scot! Isn’ t that enough?”
said: “ Grandma, what’s the one that now, ns they have always been, with are pestered with corns and who h a v e !
a d v e rtis e m e n t in
‘ ‘ No. She paid for 10.” — Ex,
looks like a little man holding his arms in that meaning; that these tilings are. at least once a week Invited an awful
^
the newspapers and
death from lockjaw or blood poison
up?"
as they will lie forever, within man’s are now told by a Cincinnati authority decided to try a bottle o f Lydia E. Pink-
heritage, to be displayed In war until to use a drug called freezone, which ham’s Vegetable Compound. It worked
Veal, Pork, Beef,
Poultry, Butter, Egge
the better way Is found.— E. T, Devine the moment a few drops are applied from the first bottle, so I took a second
HEAL ITCHING SKINS
and Farm Produca
to any corn or callous the soreness Is and a third, also a bottle o f Lydia E.
to th* Old Reliable E verdine hoinm with a
relieved and soon the entire corn or Pinkham's Blood Purifier, and now I am
With
Cutlcura
Soap
and
Ointment—
record o f 46 yrar* o f Huuarv Ifc-eline*. and
According to Rules of the Sea.
callous, root and all, lifts off with the just as well as any other woman. I ad
They Heal When Others Fall.
be aaaured o f T O P M A R K E T PRJCÉ&
A snllor who had landed after a long fingers.
vise every woman, single or married,
F, M. CRONKHITE
Freezone dries the moment it is ap who is troubled with any o f the afore
Nothing better, quicker, safer, sweet voyage, nud having been pnld off,
4S-47 Front Street
Portland, Oreeoa
er for skin troubles o f young and old called n cab, threw his luggage Inside, plied, and simply shrivels the corn or said ailments, to try your wonderful
that Itch, burn, crust, scale, torture or and Jumped on top himself.
callous without Inflaming or even ir Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier
disfigure. Once used always used be-
"Beg pardon, sir," Bald the aston ritating the surrounding tissue or and I am sure they will help her to get
H ID ES , P E L T S , C ASCARA B AR K, causo these super-creamy emollients ished cnbmnn, "but you should get In skin. A small bottle o f freexone will rid o f her troubles as they did m e ."—
cost very little at any of the drug
tend to prevent little tkln troubles
W O O L AND M O H A IR .
side and put your boxes on top,"
becoming serious. If used dally.
stores, but will positively rid one's Mrs. E lsie J. V a n d e r S a n d e , 36 No.
f i n it ill yw km Writ® fir print M thipping lift
"Steer the craft uhead, sonny. Pas feet of every hard or soft corn or York S t, Paterson, N. J.
Free sample each by mall with
T ni H. F. N orton C o .
on.; smin , w $ Book. Address postcard, Cutlcura, sengers always go on deck and lug hardened callous. I f yoar druggist
W rite the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicin®
D ept L, Boston. Sold everywhere. gage In the hold,” waa the reply from hasn’t any freexone he can get It at Co-, (confidential) Lynn, Mass, i f you
— Adv.
P. H U .
No. 34, 1917
Deed special advice. •
any wholesale drag house for you.
the top.—London Tlt-BIts.
D u rin g
convalescence*
and when appetite lags
N ew Houston Hotel
WRIGLEYS
brings to the h o t. d ry
m outh a freshness and
SEATTLE
a
soothing
balm
that
coaxes back the enthu
siasm
o f health.
Th ousan ds
of
soldiers
in Eu ro p e
have
cause
to thank W rlgley*s
fo r
lt*s tonic e ffe c t.
The Flavor Lasts
ACADEMY OF THE HOLY CHILD
J U IC Y FRUIT
B E A U T IF U L R U G S
D R U G S
B Y
TYPHOID
[ASTHMA]
M A IL
V o tm E ttS
WOMAN NOW IN
PERFECT HEALTH
ELECTRIC MOTORS
Sure! High Heels
Cause Corns But
Who Cares Now
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