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About Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1906)
Topics of the Times Moat men My they Intend to do a lot of things they never intend to do. There Is a great difference between a straight stand up tight and a cow ardly haxlag. The cry of reform is too ofteu drowned by the vociferation of those who want the offices. Marshall Field was not the richest man In the luitea states, lie was merely the heaviest taxpayer. They are bringing out everything they can find against the Cxar. lie la now charged with writing poetry King Leopold Das weaaea a mor ganatic wife. Leopold Isn't nearly as Interesting as Pittsburg upper crust The chorosless opera will doubtless be warmly welcomed by the wive of Plttsburg'a young captains of Indus try. Mr. McOall says he will start anoth er Insurance company. lie has the capital and everything but the policy holder. Insurance experts say Chicago 1 In danger of being burned up again. Per haps they have been noticing some cf the smoky chimneys. "When war conies," says William of Germany, "I will lead the army myself." This look like a back-hand' ed one for Nicholas of Russia. There are people of such sweet dis positions that they can see sermon in stones and good la everything. An Omaha writer rises to defend the Den Davis apple. Dr. Charles Eliot Norton believes useless persons should be put to death. Seems like a severe penalty to pass on men for sitting around whit tling store boxes. With a fine record in both the prize ring and the divorce courts, Mr. Fitz filmmons will feel more confident than ever that be has special gifts for the theatrical profession. Secretary Bonaparte is determined to stop basing at the naval academy. If be succeeds in doing It let us hope that be will generously place his form ula at the disposal of the various col lege presidents. One British Conservative paper lays Balfour's defeat to fear of American cotton manipulators. A certain section of the English press has not yet lost Its habit of saying: "When la doubt blame the Yankees." A New York banker says tlere will be a terrible panic unless we hasten to secure an elastic currency. People who wear their money below the garter will, however, be likely to cling to the opinion that our currency Is elastic enough. If the franking privilege cost the American people $19,000,000 last year It is time something were done to stop the waste. This is a very large sum to pay, most of It to allow Congress men to foist off on the people docu ments that most of them never read. There ought to be fewer documents and the country would profit both from its printing bill and Its postal bill. Almost anything Is likely to happen to us If we just sit around and wait The man who kills himself because be has lost all interest In life should always give himself six months more when he seems to be at the very end of his rope. In those six months it is within the bounds of possibility that bis mine may begin to pay dividends, that he will find a $10 gold piece on the Bldewalk, that somebody will think he Is a pretty good fellow and leave him $10,000 In his will, that he will see a good dog fight or get a chance to beat the coal trust Don't kill yourself. Walt! The need of more men in the army and in the navy Is attracting serious attention. General Mills, the chief of artillery, reports that, although nearly 44,000 officers and men are required to man the coast defenses of the Unit ed States, only a few more than 14, 000, of all ranks, are available. The '. need of more artillerists is especially pressing, for modern guns are compli cated machines, a knowledge of which cannot be mastered in a moment. The same need is felt In the navy. The present complement officers and men included is only about one-half what It should be to man the ships properly In time of war. Seven thousand addi tional enlisted men alone are required. The need in the navy Increases, of I course, wheuever ft now war vessel goes into commlsslou. Hardly any Institution of the nation 1 government is of more Importance or should posses greater intermit than the Census Iturvau. Originally a census was merely a count of the number of people, but gradually the scope of In quiry has been enlarged and extended, until now the bureau undertake luv ttgatlou iuto a great variety of sub jects to obtain the facts which stu dents of economical, Industrial and so cial questions can make available In drawing useful conclusion. One rec ommendation cf the director in his re cent rejort is of special importance, lie pnpo that authority be given to him to collect Judicial statistic. The facts to be ascertained are the number and character of crime and misdemeanor that come to the attention of the courts, and the disposal of the cases. The offense and the offenders would be classified, and thus valuable Informa tion would be obtained which would show the prevalence of crime at certain periods and in certain regloua, and ex hibit the progress of the conununltle toward better observance of the law, and better enforcement of the law. I Hetty Green happy t An eastern paper has devoted a page to a sympo sium of views on this question. Un fortunately, Hetty" own view wa not Included. The consensus of conviction waa that she 1 an unhappy woman be cause she Is so rich ; that she 1 to bo pitied because the live friendless and alone; that she Is mean because she wrangle with the grocer and washes her own clothing, and that she cannot be happy because she walk la "a vain shadow" and disquiets herself, heap up riches and cannot tell who will gather them. The value of this decision depends entirely on the point of view. If a symposium of multi-millionaire should tell us that Hetty Green must be unhappy because she la rich, we should be bound to believe them, for from actual experience they would know whereof they ejeak. But the fact Is that we hear precious few rich people complaining that riches bring unhapplnes. So it is quite safe for us to guess that some people may be happy, though rich. Just as some others may be unhappy, though poor. Is the scientist unhappy because he has made more discoveries than his fellows ? Is the scholar unhappy because he knows more than the average man? Then why must the one who devotes his acumen and zeal to business be unhappy tie- cause they have achieved for him more than is gained by most? The money maker finds his Joy in hi work. Just as any other man does. Simply be cause he has emancipated himself from all reasonable physical want it does not fellow that he has got out of the game all the Joy there la In it for blm. It is unquestionably true that happi ness is not proportionate to riches. It seems to be a law of nature that tbei men most endowed with the instincts through which money la accumulated are deficient in the higher tastes and generous Impulses through which wealth may lie enjoyed. We l(xk at wealth from widely different stand points. The money maker finds his en joyment in the making of It ; the miser finds his in the possession of it; most of us find ours in the spending of it Then who shall say that as the word "happy" goes, the one who has money and does not enjoy spending it is any less nappy than we who enjoy spend ing it but haven't got it? FAMOUS OLD POLISH PALACE. The old palace shown In the picture Is the former residence of the Polish sovereigns at Warsaw. On the bal cony of this historic building the last Polish king stood and saw the Rus sians under Suwarrow massacre 80,000 of his countrymen. During the riots In Warsaw the vicinity of the palace has been the scene of several bloody encounters between the revolutionists and the Russian soldiery and much blood has been shed within the shadow of its ancient walls. Not Complete. "Pshaw !" disgustedly exclaimed young Mrs. Mommer. "This is called an unabridged dictionary, but it cer tainly isn't complete." "What's the matter with it?" de manded her husband, who was dandling the baby. "It doesn't tell me how to write 'oot- sumstootsums.' " Philadelphia Press. When a girl marries a preaches, she makes a match that pleases her mother a great deal better than it pleases hex father. FAMILY FORTUNES OF AMERICA. OtMa H4 Only Tithe of te Wealth ot Sum MIIHmlr. The great fortunes that have sprung up so amaxlugly tu this country during recent decade to-day, lu the opinion of many serious thinkers, constitute a menace to our national well lielng, says Cleveland MoOYtt lu writing of "The Shameful Misuse of Wealth. In "Suc cess Magaaluc," Without these great fortune there would le uo relgtt of luxury lu America, no flaunting of feast and foltloa, no riot of extrava gance; with them we may expect all tue evils that have In previous civilisa tions attended upon enormous riches. And many of these evils, as we have already seen, are actually with us. It Is admitted that we are the rich est people In the world to-day th richest people the world ha ever seen. The Vaunted wealth of Croesus Is esti mated at only eight mtlllou dollars, but there are seventy American estate that average thirty-five million each. A allowing the rapid growth of Indi vidual fortune in this country there I Interest In a list of rich men- printed in ISM, according to which New York City at that time boasted only twenty-eight millionaire. And a pamphlet published some years earlier say that in IMS Philadelphia could show only ten estates valued at a mill ion or more, the richest being that of Stephen Glrard, which reached seven miliums. In contrast to which In 1S112 there were over two hundred million aire In Philadelphia. A to New York City, the number of it millionaires, according to best In formation, Is over two thousand, while the number of millionaire In the Uni ted State Is at least fire thousand or half tlie total number In the world. There la one family alone, at the head of which stand the richest and most powerful man in the world, John IX Rockefeller, and the wealth of this family Is estimated at a thousand mill ion dollars, a sum so huge that the human mind quite falls to grasp It; a sura so huge that If at the birth of Christ Mr. Rockefeller had begun mak ing a dollar a minute and had let all these dollar accumulate day and night for all these centuries, he would not yet la 100ft, have amassed a thousand million dollars. And If Mr. Rockefeller should to-day turn this wealth Into gold coin and take It out of the coun try, say into Canada, he would carry across the border three time as much gold as would then remain in the Uni ted States. Nor would he carry It himself, for the weight of It would be one thousand seven hundred and fifty tons. And If he loaded It on the backs of porters, each man bearing bis own weight la solid gold (say 150 pounds), It would require twenty-three thousand men to move It And If they walked ten feet apart the line of them would reach forty-four mile and would oc cupy fifteen hours In passing a given point None of which takes any ac count of the dally interest on this for tune, which Interest if paid in gold, would require the strength of seven men to carry it for It would weigh a thousand pounds. Such are the riches of a single family I FORMS OF LEAVES, Theory to Explain OatllneCrltlcUed br DottaUI. It wa Inevitable that a theory should be thought out to account for the varied forms and outlines of leaves, says the London Spectator. That which has found favor with many is as follows: The "simple," large, "un cut" forms are said to be those which grow at a height and lie nearest to the sun. The elaborately "cut" leaves and leaflets (such as those of ferns) are de clared to belong In the mala to plants of lower growth, which only enjoy the broken sunlight that struggles through the simpler foliage of the higher plants. This Is ingenious; but It hard ly corresponds with fact the read er may discover by noting the leaves growing in any English thicket Take, for example, the foliage hanging 6ver the thickly overgrown bed of a brook. Above will be the leaves (quite small) of the whitethorn and of the maple, the latter being the larger. Below these very possibly will bo seen grow ing the lurge leaved wild guelder rose, the laurel and the bramble, and below these again the dock leaf, the broad butter burr and the arum. t In English woods and thickets it would be difficult to lay down any rule which would hold good generally for the place occupied by plants with leaves of different sizes. But the the ory mentioned above does fit to some extent the facts in the position of grasses in a hayfield. There tho small er leaved pieces certainly do grow at the bottom, where the tiny meadow vetchlings and hop clovers and ladles' fingers, and other minor and sweet scented plants, of which the best hay is made, hide their minute and finely "cut" leaves among the bases of the taller grasses. A Trifle Mixed. Sister How many times did you dance with Miss Flirt at the ball? Brother Only once, and that one we iat out in the conservatory. Baltimore American. RAN EMPTY TRAIN. Ret ratr front Jersey Cllr Itt IMHbur KitU Trip, It cost the Pennsylvania railroad and the Pullman Palace Car Company $12. on Christinas day to ruu ft train without any passenger from Jeincy City to Pittsburg. The train, the Pennsylvania llydted, one of the fines! on the road, consisted of an engine, baggage car, diner and three coaches when it pulled out of Jersey City at 11:21 a. in. on Monday, and when It reached Pittsburg at Otfft o'clock that night the only passenger It carried were the three change of Pennsylvania crews and the regular Pullman crew, Tho run wa strictly according ta schedule, but not ft ticket wa punched, not ft meal wa served, or ft piece of baggage handled. Nobody worked but the engineer aud firemen. Three cook basted fowl and f rented good things In the culinary line for four waiter to serve, tho passenger who didn't come. A oarlier waited In vain for "Next!" and th Pulman con. duct or had plenty of time to admire his new uniform. All this cost the company, founded by the Iat Georg Pullman, good cash, and, a for the Pennsylvania, why, there were thre conductor who didn't conduct, whll twelve trakeinen aud three bnggnge mastera twirled their thumb Instead of lantern, flag or trunk. A lone sten ographer had time to waste, aud th wear and tear ou the tralu, the equip ment of which represented about fl.V WH kept on with every turn of th Wheels." It la doubtful If a railroad train ever made such a run before. Joseph Brown, the Pennsylvania conductor who had charge of the train from Jersey City to Philadelphia, said that In hi forty- five years a a railroader he never re membered such an ocuerreuce, New York American. Modera AK er4UU. First Actress Have you had your diamonds stolen lately? Second Actress No; I Quit that sev eral year ago. First Actress What' your gam now? Second Actress Banning down prominent citizens In my auto. Hard Reeord to Drat. Friend Io you think that autoov biles will eventually take th place of the railroad? Auto Eutlitislnat (gloomily) I hardly think so. Th rallroa-l killed 13.000 people last year lu this country alone. Scrofula Few ere entirely free from It. It mar develop to slowly m to eaune little If any disturbance during the whole period of childhood. It may then produce dynpepula. catarrh, and marked IrmU-ncy to consumption, before manifesting Itself In much cutaneous erup tion or glandular (welling. It is bent to be sure that you are quite free from It, and you can rely on Hood's Sarsaparilla to rlii yon of it radically and permanently. Accept no subntltuUt, but lnlnt on having Hood's. Liquid or tablets, 100 Doses II. Get What You Ask For! THERE Is ft Reason Why tho Good People of America buy Cascarets as Fast as the Clock Ticks. Every second some one, somewhere, is Buyjng ft little Ten-Cent Box of Ca carets. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 40 times to the Minute. 60 Minutes to the Hour, 3600 Boxes sn Hour, 36.000 Boxes a Dajr of Ten Hours, 1,030,000 Boxes a Montis and then soma. Think of it 220,000 PeopTo take a Cascaret tablet each day. Millions use Cascarets when necessary. Tho Judgment of Millions o( Bright Americans Is 'jl'alUble. They have been Buying and Taking Cascarets at that rate lor over Six years It Is not an Experiment, not an Acol dent or Incident, but a sound, Honest Business, based onTlmc-Trled-and-Tcsted Merit, neVer found wanting. There Is a Reason. Cascarets are the All Disease Germs; implacable foe of tho Incomparable cleanser, purifier and gtrengthener of tho entire Digestive Canal. They Act like Exerclao on tho Bowel Muscles, make them strong and active able to Help Themselves do their work keep themselves clean. Cascarets are the safe-guard of Innocent Childhood against the Dreadful Death dealing bangers that threaten tho Lives of tho Little Ones. They are Purely Vegetable, absolutely Harmless, alway Reliable and Efficient, Is It Your Own Hair? Do you pin your hat to your own hair? Can't do it? Haven't enough hair? It must bo you do not know Ayer's Hair Visor 1 Here's an Intro ductionl May the acquaint ance result In a heavy growth ofrich,thici,clossyhairt And we know you'll never be gray. I think ! AT"1 mir Ylitnr I. th m.41 wniulKtful h,irmiic that tul I hml Nv1 It tat tint I ran truth. fullr that I mm mOlr plM.wl vllh II. I tMrf iiltjr tvin,mrii.l it . .filnnttlil trp4 rttluu.-- ftliMt V. Hunt s, Wl)lud, Mkb, A Ut IrJ.O.I .r . i.u, aim mimwn ( iers rlLli. CltURT KCT08AL later Lilted HIm. "Hare you any reason to believe that your sister like mo, Willie? "Course she doe. Just yesterday I beard her aay, 'Nobody could help Ilk In the dear old easy mark.' "Cleveland Plain Dealer. For forty year FWs Cure for Con sumption lis a cured rottuli and cold. At druggists. Price 23 ooitU. A rarer! Patleat. A woman who throat had troubled her for ft long time, says a writer In the Philadelphia Public letter, grr Impatient at the slow progrcea she wa making, and mad complaint to ner doctor, who said: "Madam, 1 can never cure you of this throat trouble utiles you stop talking, and give your throat ft com plete rest. "Hut doctor," objected hi patient, "I'm very careful what I say. I nor- er use harsh language or anything or that kind." Marrla.e mm laotittatloa. The historical fact concerning uiar rtugeaaan Institution are probably only vaguely known to the majority of peo ple, most of whom would doubtless b surprlsed to lenru that the Institution, as we know It today, 1 less than WW years old. Historic of the marrlage ccrcmony show that It wa not solcin nlxed In church as a religious rite until the time of Pope Innocent lit., A. I. llt)M, and was not considered a sacra ment until 1113. Am lalrleale Problem. Sirs. Kbrown That conductor Insult ed me. Mr. Kbrown How? Mrs. Kbrown Wanted me to pay fare for Tommy. Mr. Kbrown Well. Tommy Is quite chunk of a lad He look Mrs. Kbrown And you. too? Do you mean to insinuate that I look old enough to have a child old enough to pay car fare?-rClevelnnd leader. ft true, faithful, loyal servant of Mankind. Over Five Million of Dollar hav been Spent to make the merits of Cas carets known, and every cent of It would bo lost, did not sound merit claim and hold tho constant, continued friendship. Patronage and Endorsement of well pleased people year alter year. There Is also a Reason Vhy there are Parasites who attach) themselves to the Healthy Body of Cas caret's success Imitators, Counterfeiter, Subslttutors. They are Trade Thieves who would rob Cascarets of the "Good Will" of th people, and sneak unearned profits, earned and paid for by Cascarets. A Dishonest Purpose means ft Dishonest Product and a Disregard of tho "purchas ers' Health or Welfare. Bewaro of tho Slick Salesman and his ancient "Just as Good'' atory that com mon sense refutes. Cascarets are made only by tho Sterling R'Uf d3f Company, and tho famous little Ten Cent "Vest Pocket", box Is here shown. They are never sold In bulk. Every tablet marked "CCC." Bo sure you get tho genuine. nr frch: to our friends! We want to send to our friends a beaotlrul French-detlped. GOLD-PLATED BONBON BOX, hard-enameled ut color. It Is a beauty for the dressing table. Ten cents in stamps is asked as a measure of good faith and to cover cost of Cascarets, With whlcrTtKlsoanity trinket Is loaded. m Ru2-t2Tday wentlonln this paper. Address Sterling Remedy Company, Calcago or New Yotk.
