OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERUINTEREST
Events Occurring Throughout
the State During the Past
W e e k .* -
U ’Ren H m New Tax Idea.
-W . 8. U ’Ren, of Oregon
. fity, evidently * Intends to bare eub-
naltted to the people at the next gen
eral election an amendment to the
oonstltutioo providing for the exemp
tion of personal property to the value
Of >1500 from taxation.
•a ile d Secretary of
Mr. U Ren
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the telephone aad ashed him to ap hurt
prove a form of petition which will be
circulated for the initiation of the law
It la planned to make It mandatory
upon the secretary of state to resub
m it the measure to the people for
repeal at the 191$ and 1919 elections.
W h ile the object br ffile plan has not
been revealed. It la believed that it la
intended to win rotes for the amend
m ent
revise school course
County Superintendents Approve and
Urge State Board to Adopt I t
Salem — Freedom in exercising the
election of studies constitutes the
chief feature of the revised high school
course of study Just oom pie ted by r
eommlttee appointed by State Super
intendent of Public Instruction Chur
chill, and which, together with the
recommendation of the committee,
v lll he submitted to the state board
of education at its. next meeting for
adoption. Both the course of study
»nd recommendations were submitted
to the country school superintendents
In session here, and both received
th e ir approval and indorsement
Additional features are that a pupil
may graduate from the high school
without mathematics, the placing of
American history In the third Instead
of the fourth year, and half a year's
oourse in civil government. The con
sent of the principal, however, is nec
essary for the student to do so. Amer
ican history Is made a study of the
third instead of the fourth year. The
revised course o f. study provides for
flvs courses and it la Intended that
aU of them shall he taught only In the
larger high schools. Probably not more
than one of them w ill be taught In
the smaller high schools.
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Cernee Up After
Oregon Compensation Law.
Darfcnesa.
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»olar reglons la a
wrgotten. BJnar
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Senator Simmons Says Tariff
Bill Will Reach President
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Last of August "
n a trance, w ait
iven t o f the life
Washington.— W ith the ta riff bill
the day arrives
r, but we do not completed by the senate caucus, the
itlier Is cloudy, senate leaders feel certain that the
«lot until tbe fol measure w ill be ln the hands of the
io we see its red president by the latter part of August,
stand outside tbe l i v e weeks is the time Befaator 81m
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e end of half an
mons, who w ill have the bill to c h a rg e ,
w impatient. V . ;
believes w ill be needed. Republican
The fle w to the
until It almost senators, however, Insist that it will
aountain tope are take much more time.
Forty-seven
democratic senators
ilowly extending
b ; then suddenly stood up In the party caucus one by
ing out over tbe one and declared their Intention to
mighty shout of veto for the Underwood Simmons ta r
►r the herald of iff revision bill aa finally approved by
it Is to bring us the caucus. Tw o senators, Ransdell
and Thornton, of Louisans, said that
* only beings that
they would not make such promise he
re ns sounds the
even. I t was fly- cause of the proposal to place sugar
seeing the sun it on the free list in 191«. Senators
id steers right for Hitchcock of Nebraska and Culberson
*kes of its groat of Texas were absent, but both are
.lllng, glad as we known to be in favor of the W it Thia
worshiper, as alee gives the democrats 49 votes for the
>e. We follow it Wll or a slender majority of one, with
disappears In the the vote of the vice president to fall
>py reveal I f we
Mtok on in an emergency.
ing
much tiding,
tjboit way
to go UY
primitive
tlou master. S-
Presently
followers s rri
spying a small
platform, made
Resolution Not Binding. "
THE JUDGE
An absolutely binding resolution
was not adopted, the poll by Individu
Ii Throat, but One als being substituted, and that Poll
H.
H is Fancy,
was put only on the ground of person
presiding over a al promise and was not made binding.
W
ourt is conducting
Nei
A resolution was adopted, however,
atorioua murderer
the
declaring the
Underwood-Simmons
re
letters,
postal
be
bill
a
party
measure
and urging Its
id telegrams w rit
can
undivided support without amepdment
hlng
denunciation
ten
and threatening him with death ln unless such should be submitted by
the committee.
some horrible form.
Before final action on the bill the
The late Recorder Frederick Smyth,
presiding over a murder trial, one day caucus gave concessions to tbe sen
beckoned a reporter friend up to tbe ators • from Woolgrowing states by
ben< h and banded him a letter that adopting an amendment making ef
ran like thia:
fective a provision for free raw wool
“ You cruel and bloody minded old to December 1, 19U. and the rates oo
tyrent. you are trying to send thia In
manufacture« of wool January 1, 1914
sent Man to the Chair as you sent
M u lh all’s Story e f Lobbying Told.
— _ _ t bat you w ill never Live to do
It for I wtll lay to w ait for yon and ’ How tbe National Association of
pounch on you and Give you death
Manufacturers, through lta^hlred lob
Penalty a friend of Justice.”
1 - The reporter wanted to publish i t bylsta at Washington, secured leglsla
•Oh. no,” said Recorder Smyth. *1 tlon favorable to Its Interests, obtained
showed It to yon only to call your at the defeat of measures beneficial to
tention to that beautiful new word, the labor interests, how It controlled
•poanch,’ which I suppose means to congressional committees, made and
crouch and to pounce. If yon should unmade senators and representatives,
publish It hundreds of other cranks and how It levied tribute on all manu
would be inspired to write. It'S bnd facturing Interests— great and small—
W atson Starts Crusade.
Salem — lU tp h Watson, corporation enough now," for their letters take op throughout the country, was explained
•o much time ln going through tbe
by the sensational exposure^ of Colon
commissioner, has started a crusade
morning’s mall. The writers are not
against corporations which fall to pay di.iigerous— merely nuisances." - H a r el M. M. Mulhall, for 10 years the lob
b y is t'fie ld worker and strikebreaker
their licenses when due. The law re pvr’a Weekly.
of the organisation, before the senate
quires that all fees are due July 1 and
hila -R ich *” Name.
Investigation committee called Into
after July 15 they become delinquent
From queer names and descriptions existence
by
President
Wilson’s
and If not paid by August 15, the cor
porations may be fined 1100. The of things there follow as a natural charges that an “Insidious lobby” ex
•ommlesloner will request the various sequence queer names and deecrlpttons ists and has existed at the national
of people. Among a number of in
district attorneys to start action, when
capital for many years.
stances is one quoted by Mr. Fox
It la considered necessary, and should Davies, the well known authority on
W itness’ Confession Is Astounding.
they default, he will ask the governor ¡nomenclature, from Blackwood’s Mag
A story of misrepresentation. Imper
•jejnadsojd [wpsds e Tujodde o) mine of April. 1842: “In one of the
Bu< han Ashing vtttages a stranger had sonation of public men and organised
Big Oregon Lum ber M ill to Be Rebuilt •xx-flskin to call on a fisherman of the effort to Influence W all street «non
Hood River.- -The large mill of the name of Alexander White. Meeting a clers probably without parallel ln the
Oregon Lumber company, controlled tlr l, he asked. *Can ye tell me fa’r history of congressional Investigations
• by the Eccles Interests, which recent ftanny Fits livesT ‘Filk 8anny Fitel* was unfolded before the senate lobby
quoth she. 'Muckle Banny FlteT said committee by a prosperous-looking,
ly burned at Hood River, w ill he re
he. ‘Filk muckle Banny F lte T ‘Muckle
built at once at the same location at lang Banny Fite.’ 'F ilk muckle lang self-possessed Individual, calling him
Dee, near the Junction of the east and Banny F lteT ‘Muckle land gieyed self David Lamar, of New York, self
west forks of Hood river. It is plan Bunny Fite!* shouted the exasperated described as an “operator to stocks’
and admittedly the bearer of several
ned to build a m ill of the same capa man.
*Oh. It’s Goup-the-Llft ye’re
city as the one burned, about 150,000 seeking,' answered the girl, tend fat assumed names. W ith entire abandon,
feet per day, and driven by electricity. the de’U for dlnna ye speer for the mon arousing the committee to laughter at
tiraej by his naive admissions, he told
by bla richt name at anceT ”
of hla impersonations, his participa
LODGE TO SCALE
PEAK- •
A W o n d e rfu l M em ory.
tion ln attempts to influence W all
a
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-You boast of your memory, Rivers! street.
He telephoned to financial
Enterprise Knights of Pythias In itia te
I ’ll bet you a cigar you can’t quote, on men and lawyers in the names of
in Clouds.
the spur of the moment a stogie stan- Representative Palmer and Represen
Enterprise.— Knights of Pythias of
sa of any hymn you sang ln Sunday tative Riordan. He assumed the guise
Enterprise are preparing for a novel school when you were a boy.’’
of Chairman McCombs, of the Dem o
mid-summer outing—an Initiation on
“M l take you up on th a t Brooks la
cratic national committee, to telephone
the summit of Eagle Cap, a tall peak fa c t I ’M sing you onej »
to Chairman Hlllea, of the Republican
In the heart of the Wallowa moun
••Jtlnd words never die.
Never die. never die;
national committee.
tains. The plan has been under con
Kind word« can never die.
sideration for more than a month and
No, nev-e-e-e-e-r diet
committees of thh lodge are now work
"You win, -old chap. I didn’t think
ing out the details. Grand lodge offi you could do I t ’’-C hicago Tribune.
cers have given the project their hear
An Art Authority.
ty approvaL .
They were newsboys and had stray
Eagle Cap, 10,000 feet high, Is 96
-m iles south of Enterprise.
The ed into the art mnsenm. A t the mo
ment they were standing before the
Knights plan to go out to the base of
••Winged Victory of Snmothrace.”
the peak the first day, camping there
“Bay. BUI, what’s that?” asked one
for the n ig h t The second day will of them In nn awed whisper.
he passed In preparations for the
"Aw , I dunno.” Replied the other.
“ceremony In the sky." From the “Borne saint wld his block knocked
camping ground to the summit Is a off.”—Argonaut.
long and steep climb, up which must
Like Father.
he taken paraphernalia of all kinds
“1 never saw a boy so much like bis
and part of the camp o u tfit The Ini
tiation w ill take place a t night on the father—yonr husband’s hair and eyes
and even ilia manner o f speech. But
highest point of the peak.
why does he Jump when you speak to
Aa the descent is not sate in the
him?”
darkness, the lodge member? expect
“Because he is so much like his fa
to pass the night on the peak. In the tber.”—Houston Poet.'
morning the party w ill descend to the
Hard W orker.
meadows at the base Of the snowbanks
First Employer—How long ha« Got-
and w ill return to Enterprise after
rox’s boy worked In your office? Bee
another re s t
ond Employer—About half an hour.
{ He has been with us six months now
Custom* Collector Ousted.
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M arshtteM —T . H . Barry has been —Judge
appointed collector of customs at the
port of Umpire, vice Major Tower,
who was discharged because he had
failed to file his resignation. Tower
la a prominent old soldier and there
la much ipdignatlon over hie dismissal.
The office la to.be moved from Empire
to Marshfield.
Proef Positive.
Harold - Ton don’t believe I love
you? Susie—No; yon don’t besve your
chest like the lovers do to the moving
pictures, -fu c k ,
Truth never lost ground by Inquiry,
because »he to most of aU
IS
n em j ui
iy of travelers on
resolved one day
hey arrived at a
t could find no
have evidence that discredits many of
the signatures to the petitions to refer
the workmen’s compensation a c t H a r
vey Beckwith and C. D. Babcock, pros
pective members of tbe workmen’s
compensation commissioners under
tbe law, w ill ask an Investigation by
Pittsburg.— The First-Second. Na
the district attorney of Multnomah
tional Bank of Pittsburg, the First
county.
National Bank of McKeesport, a
A fter several weeks of work, Messrs.
neighboring city; the American W at
Beckwith and Babcock finished m ex
erworks & Guarantee Company and
amination of the petitions and all evi
the banking house of J. S. and W. 8.
dence obtained w ill he turned over to
Kuhn, incorporated, of this elty, were
tbe district attorney.
forced Into the hands of a receiver,
• W hile unwilling for the present to
through the failure of the first-named
give specific instances of Irregularities
Institution to open Its doors Tuesday.
they say they h iv e feund Safncient
The closing of the First-Second Na
duplications of signatures and false
tional Bank was ordered by the Con
addresses to Justify them to asking
troller of the Currency, T . P. Kane,
for an Investigation by the courts.
after every effort had been made to
meet the government requirements as
Indian Landa to Be Sold
to the legal reserve.
Goldendale, Wash.— Five hundred
The Kuhn banking house has ex and twenty acres of land in 80-acre
tensive Interests in Irrigation projects tracts, on the Yakima Indian reserva
Phtsburg First-Second National
Cause of Failure of Other
Institutions.
one of the camp
oked about and,
f’.ng lying on tbe
v itb It along the
line. When a train cam e in the man
waved his Bag. the engine driver pull-
got In
ed up. end
train was puffing
later,
ru cam* along the
on its way
1 the tickets, enre-
footboard
t- names, national
fully noting
tty r e
on they got out
T w o stations
only a station*
and here there was
and the latter
master, but a
day to an or-
stayed with them
ved, meanwhile
chnnl till the camp
py from the
feeding them with
comb.
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Where else, one wonders, could such
a charming railway system be found?
-W id e World Magretoe
throughout the west and mines and tion, will be sold to the highest bidder
street traction systems throughout on July 21 by Don M. Carr, superin
Brief Mews ef the Week
western Pennsylvania, besides being tendent of the Yakima agency at Fort
a dominant factor in the American Slmcoe. The land is the property of
Aoeordlng to flggres given eut at
Waterworks & Guarantee company.
non-competent Indians or those who
Chicago, a total of 8M deaths occurred
W. S. Kuhn was president of the have died and is appraised at $24,000.
from boat prostrations in different
First-Second National Bank, vice
eastern cities during the recent hot
president and director ln the hanking Catholic Federation Opene In Seattle
spell.
house and vice president and director
Seattle.—With Archbishop Christie,
* The New YorV board of health has
of the American Waterworks A Guar of Portland, celebrating a pontifical
adopted 9 resgiu low which practically antee company, besides being l di
high mass, assisted by Bishop O’Reilly,
forbids »he uae of the Friedmann ser
rector of tbe McKeesport bank. J 8. of Baker City, Or.; Bishop Lenihon, of
urn to the trea meat of patients In
Kuhn wan a director of the Flrsf-Sec- Great Falls, Mont,; Bishop Q’Dea, of
that city.
ond bank and president and director Seattle, and nearly a score of priests,
The annual n tlonal reunion of the of the American Waterworks A Guar
the second annual convention of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of antee company, besides being a direc
Catholic Federation of the 8tate oi
Elks assembled Monday at Rochester, tor of the McKeesport bank and chair
Washington opened In 8 t James ca
N. Y., for a seas on of six days.
man of the board of directors >f the thedral 8unday.
Evidences that serious fighting is banking house.
occurring to Macedqpla is found ln
Washington.—Secretary McAdoo in
the arrival of large lum bers of wound
ed and prisoner s at the various Bal a statement declared that the general
kan capitals.
Minnesota will collect approximate
ly 915,000 in eos’a from the Northern
Pacific and Great Northern railways
as the result of he United States su
preme court’* d< cisloa to tbe Minne
sota rate case.
Sixteen dead and 794 injured Is the
total of the 'tea ie Fourth' accidents
oomplled at Chic ig® from reports trora
all over the country. Most of the vic
tims lived ln the smaller cities.
Two electric trains met on a curve
while carrying passengers to and from
an Elks’ Purple da' celebrstlen near
Ogden, Utah, ra a u ltin g In four deaths
and a score of In ju red . One motor-
man disobeyed order», it Is said.
W hile thousand of p ro v in cial so l
diers were paradin
the streets at
Winnipeg, Man., Jul> 4, a young Amer-
f/.an waved the U nited S ta te s flag. , A
mob of civilians tore it from his grasp
and trampled It In the stre e ts .
An injunction w as g ra n te d by C lr
cult Judge OaEoway nt Salem, Ore.,
Oregon
Bank
Robber
Soon
Caught.
Portland.—Following the sensational
holdup of the First State bank of Mil
waukie, Ore.. Saturday afternoon and
a daring effort to make away with his
booty, Virgil Perrine, thé robber, was
captured two hours later within the
limits of the town. He was found im
mersed to his head In the water under
a water works wheel, and dynamite
was used by the potse in effecting his
against Secretary of State Olcott to capture.
restrain the calling of a special elec
tion in November for th e reference of
bills. A demurrer filed by Attorney-
General Crawford, was overruled by
the oourt and notice of appeal was
given.
The case will be argued before
STRIKERS CONTROL
SITUATION IN RAND
the Supreme Court next week.
The notable g a th e rin g s of the week
Include the
««»1 convention of the
National Education asso ciatio n , to Balt
Lake C ity; the N ational Conference
of Charitlee and C orrection, ln Seattle,
«wit the international convention of
Christian Endeavor societies, to Los
Angeles.
W ork Is to commence within 15 days
on the Butfca-Bo se Winnemucca rail
road, according
announcement of
L. O. Leonard, p re sid e n t of the |40,-
000,000 corporation.
He says that
within 10 days contracts w ill be let
for the grading of the first link of the
road east and w est out of Boise. The
Butte-Bolse-Wlnnemucca has a right of
way south and w est out of Boise to
Wtonemaoca, Nev , and north and east
to Butte, M o n t, crossing four divides
to reach the Montana metropolis.
N ational Capitol Brevities
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska
withdrew from the democratic caucus
when his proposed ta riff hill amend
ment for a graduated tax on tobacco
production was defeated. A spirited
scene followed.
Attorney General McReynolds has
dismissed Judge Clayton Herrington
from the department of Justice at San
Francisco. Herrington had criticised
the federal authorities ln connection
with the Dlggs-Camlnettl case.
The Interstate oommerce commis
sion w ill b ars to get along ln Its great
task of making a physical valuation
of railroads without the assistance of
the army engineers unless congress
can be Induced to pass special legis
lation.
Government officials are greatly in
terested to the reported achievement
of Dr. Goldschmidt * German Inventor
«I wireless apparatus, in sending mes
sages between Neustadt, near Han
over, Germany, and Tuckerton, N. J.,
9900 miles.
The American people drank more
whiskey and beer, smoked more cigare
and cigarettes and ohewed more tobao-
oo during the fiscal year 1919 than In
any other yearly period of the nation's
history, according to estimates based
on the record-breaking internal rev
enue receipts of the federal govern-
| ment for the 11 months
banking condition lq Pittsburg, as
well as in the entire country, was
strong and sound and that he expect
ed no further trouble as a result of
the failure of the Pittsburg First-Sec
ond National bank.
"Tbs failure of the Pittsburg bank
is simply a sporadic case of unsound
banking and has no other signifi
cance,“ the secretary said. He added
that the receivership for this Institu
tion removed a long-standlngi “sore
•pot” In the Ptttsburg situation, leav
ing the general condition in that city
sound.
People ta the News
- The U niversltr ot Edinburgh, Scot
land, has conferred the honorary de
gree of doctor of laws upon Jamea
Wilson, former sscretary of agricul
ture of the Uniteti States.
Ellen Terry and her husband, James
Carew, emphatically denied the report
that they had separated.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, with
his two sons, Archie and Quentin, is
to spend two months camping ln the
Grand Canyon e t Arlsona.
An offer of $49.000 for the restora-
tiofit of the Y. M. C. A. buildings at
Dayton, Hamilton and Marietta, Ohio,
has been received from John D. Rocke
feller, Jr. They were badly damaged
by the March flood*
President and Mrs. WUson have an
nounced the engagement of their sec
ond daughter, Jessie Woodrow Wilson,
to Francis Bows* Sayre of Lancaster.
Penn. The wedding w ill take pl%ce at
the white houe< ln December. Mr.
an attorney to the
Sayre Is at p
rney Whitman
office of Di st
of New York.
formerly preeident
B. L. W ine
and San Francisco
of the 8 t Lo
receiver for that
railroad and
appointed director
system, has
of traffic for tike Union Pacific.
Johannesburg.—The settlement of
the strike among the gold miners in
the Rand district, which the govern
ment arranged with a committee of
strikers* Saturday, proved »ineffective.
Tbe mobs reassembled Sunday. All
trains and streetcars suspended ser
vice, the Crews refusing to work.
Except at the time of the Jameson
raid ln 1896 and the outbreak of the
war in 1899 this city has not experi
enced such a day of terrorism as Sat
urday. The mobs in the business sec
tion caused less fear than desperadoes
who were threatening to dynamite the
homes of the wealthy.
The rioting began when strikers
forced their way Into the Rgnd Club,
whose members are mine-owners.
They demolished everything on the
ground floor. Three times dragoons
scattered the mob, but It quickly re
formed. The troops fired a volley
over the heads of the rioters, and then
two volleys directly Into their ranks.
Revised figures show that about 20
perfeons were killed and 150 wounded
on Saturday, and that 100 were killed
or wounded Friday.
CUBAN CHIEF OF POLICE SHOT
Pistol
Fight Outcome of
Gambling Olub.
Raid
on
Havana.—General Amarando Riva,
chief of the national police, was shot
and mortally wounded during a pistol
fight In the most crowded portion of
the Prado.
General Ernest Asbert, governor of
Havana province. Senator Vidal Mo
rales and^ Representative Arias were
Involved to the fighting, which wae
the outcome of a raid made by Genet*
al Riva Saturday night on the Asbert
Club, when a large number of mem
bers were caught gambling.
General Riva, while driving with his
two young sons, stopped his carriage
ln front of the Asbert Club and caused
the arrest of the door-keeper for il
legally carrying a revolver.
Asbert Morales and Arias arrived
to an automobile about the earns time
and a heated dispute arose, and the
»hooting followed.
BALKAN WAR LOSSES
ARE OVER 30,000
London.—After 10 dayB of fighting,
more severe and deadly In character
than anything ln the last Balkan war,
a little light begins to break on the
hitherto obscure operations. The Ser
vians have lost more men than In the
whole previous campaign.
Bulgaria’s strategy appears to be to
h61d the Greeks ln check, probably
with comparatively small forçai, while
she deals with Servis. This assump
tion, If oorrect, would explain the vic
torious advance of tbe Greek army.
Salonlki dispatches continue to re
port Greek Victories. The Greeks are
said to have captured 16 guns at Doir-
an. Evidence of desperate fighting Is
found In the arrival of 8000 wounded
at Salonlki. taxing the town's accom
modations and resources to the uttei*-
most.
A conservative estimate of the killed
and wounded in last week's fighting
fixes the number at from 30,000 to 40,-
000. Thousands of destitute refugees
from the scene of the fighting are com
ing into Salonlki.
The Greeks continue to make whole
sale charges against the Bulgarians of
burning and pillaging all the villages
they abandon and of committing mur
ders, mutilation and other horrors.
THE MARKETS.
Portland.
Wheat—Club, 92c; bluestem, 96c;
red Russian, 90c.
Hay—Timothy, $18; alfalfa, $13.
A ip -k J c — -
July 11, 1913.
Dear Frisaci:
They have hired oe dovn at
tho grocery. Vhat do you think
I do? Everywhere they put ay
p ictu re, a new one each t ia e .
in the paper. My work is to
t e l l everybody where to buy
good groceries I lik e my place
very well because i t I s a good
place whore they treat obo w e ll.
They treat everyone well
where I work, because they -
carry good groceries and s e ll
them at the righ t p rices.
Your friend
JACOB*.
P. S I work at
M E L O Y ’S
BOTTLE BROKERS.
k Curious Branch of tho Flory Vodka
Traffic In Russia.
Since the edict of June C, 1804, the
iroductiou und »ale of vodka, that fiery
lrink In which most Rusaiana delight
lave been controlled by the govern
ment Of the 50,000 places engaged In
;he vodka traffic ln European Russia
more than one-half are conducted by
the state under the direct supervision
jf the ministry of finance.
Moat of the employees ln the govern
ment vodka shops are widows and
orphans of deceased Officials of the
•tute. These shops are conducted ln
an orderly manner, and no drinking Is
permitted on the premises. The fact
that a charge ranging from 1 cent to
0 cents Is made for tbe bottle to which
the vodka Is sold has given rise to a
nt range business.
Bottle brokers, as they are called,
haunt the nelgblwrbood of tbe vodka
»bops, watching for some thirsty per
son who needs the loan of one or two
kopecks (a half a cent or a cent) with
which to make the purchase of a bottle
of the dreired beverage.
Perhaps the buyer has but six ko-
l>ecks and ho requires eight to get a
bottle of vodka. The “broker” lends
him the two kopecks to make np the
desired amount, and, after the recep
tacle has been drained under tbe vigi
lant eye of the broker, tbe bottle Is
turned over to him. He takes it back
to the Rhop and sella it for three ko
peck«*, thus making * profit of one ko-
peck.
In Mosiow and St. Petersburg hun
dred» of men are earning a living at
this strange trade.—Harper’s Weekly.
INVESTING YOUR MONEY.
It Is Not a Wise P I*" to Put All Veur
Eggs In One Basket
Butter— Creamery, 30c.
The late Marshall Field once said
Eggs—Candled, 28c; ranch, 25c.
Wool—Eastern Oregon, 16c; Wil that If be could be right 51 per cent of
the tliue he whs satisfied. He was
lamette valfey, 19c.
talking of investments, and the Field
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estate at the time of hla death totaled
Seattle.
some $43,000,000.
Wheat— Bluestem, 97c; club, 92c:
Shrewd as Russell Sage was, hie ex
red Russian, 90c.
ecutors found many worthless stocks
Eggs— 28c.
in bis vaults, although they found
B utter—Creamery, 31c.
plenty of others that were not worth
Hay—Timothy, $19 per ton; alfalfa, less.
The Sages and the Fields long ago
$13 per ton.
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adopted the plan of the Insurance com
London Children and the Country.
panies and the banks, says Invest
The bishop of Stepney was telling m ent* Tbe one point to it that should
stories recently about the Inability of be dinned into our ears thoroughly to
the London slum child to appreciate that wide distribution Is both wise
the country. “Would you like to live
and necessary.
here always?” ho asked a girl on a
No matter how email the sum, it
school tre a t and sl»e answered, “No;
Rhoald not all be Invested In any one
It would be dull.” He took a party of thing. No single venture of whatever
children for a treat to Hampton court unture efro be relied upon to remain
lost spring. There was blue sky over constant and unchanged.' Securities
heed, with a blase of color In the flower are live things because the enterprise«
borders. He thought the children were
they represent are alive.
enjoying I t but presently one of them
asked, "When are we going to get
•
The First Women Buffregia«.
there?” end Inquiry revealed that her
A modern historian make« the claim
sole Idea of a day In the country was
a place where there would be swings. that Gongru Hrolf, tbe mighty viking,
Another girl was asked whether she who afterward became the first Duke
would like to stop and sleep to the of Normandy and the progenitor of
country. "No,” she replied, “not with William the Conqueror, was the origi
all these rabbits about”- Westminster nal woman suffragist aad that It wan
Gasette. ________
this valiant Norseman who sounded
the first clarion call fur woman's rights
A Gsntle H in t
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Dr. Johnson to the contrary notwith ten centuries «go.
standing, puns ore occasionally excus
able. Tbla one. attributed by the
Brooklyn Times to a boarding house
When you have troabie with yoor stom
keeper of that city. Is good enough to ach or chronic ooosÜpUioa, dea?t imagine
that yonr case b beyond help jaM heesaee
pass muster.
One of the young men who lived In your doctor faib to give yon relief. Mm.
the boarding bouse bad the double 5 . Stengle, Plainfield, N. J., writes, “lfor
fault of slowness ln paying hia bUl and over a month peri I have been troweled with
fussiness about the table service. One
morning he said peevishly to the land bookletscameto me.. After rending a fc .
lady:
"Mrs. Jones, w ill you tell me why
my napkin is so damp?”
try them. I have te h » nesrly threw fourths
“Yes. Mr. Wicks," replied the land
lady promptly. "It’s beeatre there 9»