V The O b s e rv e r TQ POPULATE OREGON. PRESIDENTIAL FORECAST. THE COW’S HOIWC u n d e rs ta n d in g th a t they a re to pay 1254 c e n ts per m o n th for It, u n til such tim e as th e y m a y w U h to ta k e a d v a n ta g e o f the a b o v e lib e ra l discounts. F ro m this date w e a re prepared to dlscoui t rates to a ll le a d in g W e e k lie s and M ag a sln e a published I o the U n ite d States, to any prepaid reader o f T h e O ld R e lia b le O b server. C o m e w ith t h e m o n e y — as th a t la indlspenslble. pended by them. D uring ¿¿innary, February and In the above table “ M r. T a ft’s March, the farm er in the great friends are snreof all that is count­ middle West, from whence come ed, for instauoe: all that is counted our greatest im migration, does his as sare in New England in an even principal reading, and we want to break. Only half the delegates are ba sure that he reads the story of claimed in some of the Southern M r. Bryan says Roosevelt is an Oregon. D uring the past year more state«. I t is possible that 78 from honest man. Now w ill the brethren than 5,000,000 oopies of printed New Y o rk , hod 8 from W est V ir ­ matter about Oregon were circulat­ be good Y ginia may be added to the above ed abroad, and in all of these the tola!. Bostonians are finding fault with special rate was made prominent. I T a ft because most of his words bad I t baa been the constant effort o f | each less than four syllables. But a the Portland Commercial d u b , in “W o t do ye think,” said the sailor re a lly big man doesn’t have to use its correspondence throughout the usin' live babies fo r bait? We big words. state, to impress upon the people of done I t la Ceylon.” Oregon that this low fare applies to "Babies fo r bait? Fishing fo r shark r “No. Crocodile. Baby bait la the T he weak spot in I he currency all pointe, and in all advertising th a t has long existed w ill soon be this fact has been emphasized. Im ­ only thing for crocodile, and every­ body uses I t T a rant a baby down remedied, it is hoped, which w ill mediate organization should at onoe there for h alf a dollar a day. O f be a fine thing for thia, the busiest be oommenced everywhere by com­ course,” the sailor w ant on, “the thing o f all nations. mercial bodies, etc. Oregon needs a in ’t as cruel as It sounds. No barm ever comas to the babies, or else, o’ no otic thing more than that of addi course, th e ir mothers wouldn’t rent The financial situation is clearing tlonal healthy immigration. The 'am. The kid la simply sot on the soft mod bank of a crocodile stream and ’w ith a prospect that money affairs rates, as they w ill go into effect on the hunter leys bid near him, a sure the fiist day of Maroh, w ill be aa in Am erica w ill soon be better than perfection. The crocodile Is laxy. H e beaks In the sun In midstream. Noth­ «ver. I t is hard to keep a good follows: «onntry down. Judge P arker doesn't lik e “ an* tutored idealism” in tbe W h ite Sonse. The people have decided, adso, that they don’ t want Judge LParker there, either. DcaMoloea, I o w a . . . ......................... 834.00 Ht Louis, M o . . . . . . . . . . . . .............. 86 00 O k la h o m a .............................................85 00 Peoria, I l l s ..............................86 00 Chicago .................. - ............................ 28.00 E v a n sv ille , I n d ...................................40.00 In d ia n a p o lis ........ ................................40 85 L o u is v ille .......... .............................. . . . 4 8 00 C in cin n a ti ................. 48 00 M em p h is ......................................’ .42 50 D etroit.;........................................... 44 so C le v e la n d ............................................ 44 75 N ashv i lle , , r. . . . . 4*00 Allianoea of American fortunes Toronto, O ntario . W ashington, D C 'with iinpecanions prinoea, oounla N e w Y o rk c i t y . .. ¿no-accounts and earls, have always proven disastrous. The money Wheu one stops to th in k that tbe anight better be devoted to hospitals paHt year was one of the moat pros - lib ra rie s , and marking (he old Ore perontt In the history of Am erica; tor«. for the Observer are o>ming from a ll pointe of tbe oomparo. ertheless, I f form or ceremony or gen­ eral Interest be considered the crite­ rion, dying la one of the most popular things one can do. Nobody goes to see a man born, but the entire comma- ntty turns out to see him burled. In ­ deed It Is wall known th a t many pee- pis, perhaps a m ajority, derive actual enjoyment from beholding with their own eyes Ilfs flicker out of a parson's body. Tbs almost universal satisfac­ tion found from tim e Immemorial la witnessing a hanging ws osa under­ stand. The event Is more spectacular and leas expensive than a circus, pos­ sesses grisly human Interest to a dis­ tinctive degree, la presumably grim ly Just and. In any case, la unpreveota- ble. I f the hanging la to taka place any way, w hy shouldn’t w e see It f That Is the reasoning, and it seems goad enough If one cares for that variety of sport. — George Harvey in North The W hite Lin«. Th« lata D avid Chrlstte Murray on one occasion told the atory e f th * champion printer's error of his expe­ rience to thia affect: *T wrote at the cloee of the story ef ‘Grace Forbeach*: ‘A re there no trou­ bles now?* the lover asks. 'Not oaa, dear Frank, not one.' And then. In brackets, thus [ ) I set the words in* w ill draw him In to shore where ye [W h ite line]. This was a technical in­ can pot him. But set a little fa t naked struction to the printer and meant that baby on the bank and the crocodile one line of apace should be left clear. soon rouses up. In he comes, a greedy The genius who had tbe copy in hand pnnctaally a t the tim e he- had pre- look In hie doll eyes, and then ye open put the lover's speech In type correctly vlously reckeoed. H e had l e fa r ex­ I have got aa many as four croco­ and then, setting It out aa If It were hausted hla estate that a fte r his debts had been discharged a solitary p air e f diles w ith one baby In a morning’s a Une of verse, he gave ma: flshln*. Some Cingalese women wot " N o t one, dear F ra n k , not ana white slippers represented the satire prop­ erty ba l e f t H la relatives hurled him, Una I” lives near good crocodile streams make " It was a custom in the printing of­ and a reproeentatleo e f the allppers as much aa 82 a week reg'lar out o’ rentin' their babies fo r crocodile b a it" fice to suspend a leather medal by a was carved e a the tomb» Today In a —Cincinnati Enquirer. leather boot lace round the neck of the Churchyard at Amsterdam hla grove man who had achieved the prise bettee easy be eeea. the ealy Inscription ea of the year. I | was somewhere about the steae betag tw o Fleaateh words, " X ff.n N y T f t sl , "Bxaetl7~). ▲ traveler In Siberia tolls us about a midsummer a t this time, b e t . l t was wonderful plant found In the northern Instantly unanimously resolved that part of that country, where tbe ground nothing better than thia would ar la perpetually covered w ith a coating could be done by anybody, a nA tea of frost and snow. I t la called the medal was presented at once."—W est­ snow flower, and the description o f Its minster Gaxetta. birth and Its abort llfq reads Ilka a The Quicker Way. fa iry tale. H e aays It aboota oat of the "There goes a man," observed a froacn soli on the first day of the year and attains a height o f three fe e t On ateamahlp agent aa he directed attea- the third day It blooms, remaining I tlon to a aurly looking Individual wb^ open for only tw enty-four hours. Then had Just engaged passage for Burope, the stem, the leaves and the flower are "whose efforts are devoted to con­ converted into snow—in other words, structing short cute in business meth­ the plant goee back Into Its original el­ ods and In elim inating all tim e coo- ements. The leaves are three In num­ aumlng men and their propositions ber, and tbe flower la star shaped. On from hla busy existence. H a Is a aana the third day. the day tbe bloom ap­ of very few words. Tanpne Tied Talkere. "Some years ago thia gentleman pears. little specks appear on the ex­ H o w many educated people there are tremities of the leaves. They are about crossed the ocean and had a very aa- tbe alxe o f tbe head of a pin and are pleaaant trip. One morning a sympa­ who have ao more than a peasant’s the seeds of tbe flower. I t is aaid that thetic passenger offered him a lemon, vocabulary. They do not use the some of these seeds were gathered expressing a sincere wish that It wooM words th a t a peasant uses, but they do a«« Improvs upon them. T hey still once and taken to 8 t Petersburg, give relief. "The pale traveler seised tbe ‘ m —. flo on saying. "H o w a musing I” "H o w where they were burled In a bed of enow. The flrat of the following year hurled It viciously Into the oqaan and lo v e ly T "H o w n ic e r to the end of tbe chapter. Nobody can be Interacting the plant bnrat forth and bloomed juat growled: aa It doss In Siberia. " "Thia la a quicker way than tbs who la always working a lim ited vo- robniary.—Brttteb W eekly. other.’ " Great American Fortunes T h e rich a re v e r y rich to d a y . A m e r ic a n fortu n es a r c b oth fo r r e an d p ictu resq u e. T h e p ap ers arc filled w ith a llu a io o a to pur m u lti-m illio n a ir e s. H o w did th e y b e c o m e s o f B u rton J. H en d rick , in a se r ie s o f p ap ers u n d er th e r e n e r a i su b ject, “ G reat A m e r ic a n F o r tu n e s an d T h e ir M a k in g /' w ill »«fe» up. gro u p by grou p , rich m en w h o h a v e w o r k e d to g eth e r a n d w h o , by ( p ro m o tin g v a r io u s in d u stries in v a r io u s w a y s , h a v e a m a s s e d im m e n s e fortu n es. T h is s e r ie s is n o t a n exp osé, b u t lik e a ll s u c h a r tic le s o f tim e lin e s s in M cC lu re's, it is tru e an d b aaed u p o n th e u s u a l fa ó ts o f record . It w ill be o n e o f th e p o w erfu l, d o m in a tin g s c r ie s o f p a p ers w h ic h w ill m a k e M cC lu re's u n u su a lly v a lu a b le th e n e x t t w e lv e m o n th s. McClure’s Magazine $1.50 a Year Two Years for $2.00 we think wc are deserving of It,.and Bend in and mail vou a receipt. O ffe r y o u y o u r | c h o ic e f r o m a i h l c a r o f w ro u g h t ir o n b e d s; th e y n o t c a s t ir o n , T h e r e is a b ig d iffe r e n c e b e tw e e n th e tw o . P ric e s g u a ra n te e d re a s o n a b le SOFT t The Observer, Moro, Oregon T h e Observer la U m fthrrfoan oonnty p»p»r yoq want. 9 < Union G at Engine Co. •a-dd fin d St., Portland. Oregoa SOLED jK L a r g e st ane Youths Companion 12 months 1.76 March 1, 1908, and continue until I d a h o . . . . . . . . . ............................... hollow 6] part of the horn la soaked tor Toledo Blade 12 m o n th s .. . . . 1.00 I< » w a ...............................................................go I h a lf an hour or so in boiling water, Thrioe-a-W eek W orld 12 moe. 1.00 A p ril 30th, and it the same energet K a n s a s .......... .................................... » ....2 0 when It becomes soft sod may soaQy . ....................................... 161 be spilt w ith a knife. JN. Y . Tribune Farmer 12 moe. 1.00 ie campaign can be carried on even Keutueky. L o u is ia n a ...................................................18, I t Is then spread out flat sad pot the large influx of new people of Total v a lu e ............... . .......... $7.76 M ichigan , ............................... 28, between Iron plates. „ There was a 22 Bubecriber pays us............... .... 6.00 last year can be increased, and it is M in n e s o ta ....................................... time when these born plates were Mtaslmippl . . . . 20 Colonist M Subscriber saves for himself.$2 76 certainly worth while. made Usnuri 3it | very thin by hard pressure sod rates were the central feature M o n ta n a .......................................................16 used In windows and lanterns as ws t f l T See a d d itio n a l list on 4ih page. around which the 76 bodiesoompos Nebraska .................. .•................................161 now use glass. They m ay ba Blade The Observer has )>een established ing the Oregon Development league N o rth C a r o lin a ........................................ 12 quite translucent N o rth D a k o t a ............................................ 8 I When the born Is heated It m iy hd n e a r ly 21 y ea rs , and It baa som e aubacrl- 46 ken w h o h ave received It r e g u la rly for carried o.i their campaign, but the O h io .......... ...................................... molded Into almost soy desired form. O k la h o m a ........ ........................... .............. 141 s n o re th a n h a lf a sepre o f re a rs . M any chief credit for the redlilt is given O kkoon ......................................................... 8 | T h a t la the way knife handles, but­ • o f these ob ject to h a v in g th e O ld R e lia b le tons and other articles are made.—C h i­ «discontinued a t th e tim e of e s p ira l ion of to the newspapers, to whom it be­ South D a k o t a . . . . , .................................. 8 1 cago News. T en netw ee...................................................12, t h e ir subscriptions, an d for th e ir benefit, gg longs. The direct benefit of the rate Texas . . . . ...................................................86 fo r o th e r reasons, w e d iscon tinu e subscrip­ W a s h in g to n ............................................... l o , tio n s o n ly w h e n no tified io d o so, exc e p t is that it brings people to every Hanging aa a Apart. b y a g re e m e n t m ad e at th e tim e th e ac­ section, and bnilds up the country W s would not deny the gravity of District C o lu m b ia .................................2 death. I t Is a quite serious m atter c o u n t Is opened, w h en It is noted upon around all the towns rather than Alaska. t h e c a le n d a r to be discon tinu ed p re m p lly even to those o f us who, w hile con­ Hawaii a t th e tim e specified. A ll persons pay in g increasing the population of larger scious of, or a t least admitting, ns N e w M exloo. in ad v a cc e a t th e tim e o f subscribing, w ill really sinful performances to the past, I t has Philippines . . . h a v e th e benefit o f th e $ 2 50 rate for tw o cities disproportionately. would nevertheless, i f prase id . eon- y e a rs , or th e $5 00 ra le lor five y ea rs . We been conclusively proven that im ­ Porto R io o ... A rizo n a ............ fees to certain minor lndlacradoua •e n d T h e O b se rv er to any responsible p e r­ migration comes to communities in N e w En glan d son w h o orders It, th o u g h th e y m ay not which we would be only toe w illing to •e n d th e m o n e y w ith th e o rd e r, w ith the direct proportion to the effort ex-1 T o t a l .......... Join w ith the Lord In forgetting. Nev­ can not be figured a« additional fcg expense. It is simply increas­ ing an investment from which you ar to receive good returns- Depot, Foot of Jefferson Street. i roi" »treet depot for P °,n to d*»ly, 4 15 p.m . A m r o Portland, ip .|6 a m . T h e Independence M onm outh Motor Ltoe operate, d aily to M onm outh and A lrlle, oonnectlna w ith s T p . Co*e teal na a t Dallas and I »dependence. Flrat-olaae fore from Portland to and. Fran cl eon, |20: Tickets to Eastern pointe and Europe, also ion Japan, China, Honolulu an