WEEKLY OREGO?- STATESUAN1. FRIDAY, JUNE 5. 1931 "
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CIRCULATION (SWORN) OVER 40Q0
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE.
Accorlinff to the estimates tof the
Treasury Bureau of Statistics, the an
nual value of the manufactures that
enter Into International trade Is about
i four billions of dollars. - Of that
Amount th United States famishes
: upward of 400,K)0,(00, or about temper
cnt of the whole. The leadership In
th trade is held by Great Britain, her
manufacturer fiavlng" about "23 'per
te:it of toe total. Germany is a close
second with 20 per cent. France comes
third with 12 per cent. '
It Is noted the nations. which are
the iargpfit exforters of manufactures
are also the largest Importers. Thus
Great,Pritain. while exportinar upward
of $l,00,f(0,f)0 of manufactured goods
every .year, imports $750,008,000 a 7?T-
An intersting feature of our export
traibvvns shown by the statistics Is
the revelation that, despite the talk of
tr;ide hostility to th United States on
the part tf ' Itussia, Germany and Aus
tria, nuri trade with -those countries
during the present fiscal year has been
pxcpthinlly good. : This is especially
true' with' respect to TXussia, f?onr-ern-in
tif.1t rale the statistics phowVthat
our exports to IJussbt Tor the nine
t
months rnding with March were larg
t thnn in any corresponding period of
ur commerce with that country, and
double1 those of the same period of
1 8rl. vi)ar commerce with Austria
phowf l.-irger Imports from that coun
try thin, exports to it. It is noted.
ttoweyrr, j th.i t Austrian figrurfa show a
tontrary b.-ilatK'e of trade, from which
it i3 tVj Jcil.3t.0iilt A'rp.lsldprablft
proportion of American goods shipped
to (iitm&ny or ; France, and crcdlttd
li"re as exoorts to those countries.
eventually find their way to Austria
;irul ii e tlien recorded as Imports from
the Untied Stajes. ; -
Of our' trade with Germany th re
port, say: 'The record of the nine
months ending with March shows larg
er Imports and exports thaTT In the
same period of any preceding year. Tile
Imports from Germany for the n!n
months are $91,246,816, ogalnstt.4.808,-1
4t0 in the same period of 1894. Our ex
port to (Germany In the nine months
are $l."8,742.47, and for the twelve
months will exceed the figures of afiy
earlier year in the history of our com
merce with that country."
These ; figures, taken In connection
with the: i contfnucdL ;outcry against
"American Invasion" and the clamor
for a Joint European tariff protection
against American competition, serve to
show that trade Is but little affected
by sentimental consideration's. Our
trade with the three countries that
have been foremost In preaching hos
tility tv ruerlcan goods has been grow
ing steadily? and Is likely to continue
to do so. In't-hort our manufactures
are' now making their way into the
market ' of ' every part of tlve worid.
At the present time we hold but the
fourth rnnk tn thAt field of Internation
al commerce, but the time, is not far
distant when we shall surpass all ' rl
valry. V have every advantage In
such competition and no one can take
those advantages away from "us.
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STATE INDEMNITY LANDS.
. --'"---'aw i in '. T-. ' r -r flj -t
Governor Chamberlain's appointment
of a State Agent to appeal. In the
name of the state of, Oregon, from the
decision of the Commissioner of the
General Land Office in the matter of
the cancellaUon of certain indemnity
selections, to the Secretary of the In
terior, indicates that study of the land
law a has started him In the right di
rection. - i . r N '
In hia letter to the Secretary of Ue
Interior the Governor says he has ap
pointed an agent Tor the -purpose of
sustaining' the selections which . hare
been made and sold by the state." The
Governor is considerable of a lawyer,
and of coursev would not " appoint a
State Agent to "sustain" a proceeding
that had not. a probable Just standing
In law. The Statesman understands
that the State "Land Board has never
sold an acre of 1'eu land the selection
of which had not been approved by
some local United States Land Office.
The Legislature of 183 expressly pro
vided that when a selection was thas
approved, the St Ate Land Board should
sell the same without waiting for the
approval of the Commissioner of the
General" Land Office. This require
ment was never changed until the ses
sion of the last Legislature, It has not
been the special rule of "preceding ad
ministrations," but has been the Uw.
'Thoe who; for political or personal
reasoij. have Industriously spread the
"impression that when a deed by he
state to a parcel of land fails; it is IU
fault of the State Board, should be can
did enough to add. by way of paren
thesis, at least, that the law has al
ways provided for the repayment of
money to an "irmocerit purchaser-
W here a mistake has been made. Tiiai
the state seldom guarantees a title :o
its land is indicated by . the ' fact ' thftl
it has always made provision f otv the
repayment of money to "innocenV pur
chasers." .This is a provision by l!e
Legislature and Is not a rule of the
State Land Board. ; -1 '.
In appealing from the ndye-s-j de
cision of the General Land Office' con
cerninsf lieu land selections on miner.il
base, upon the ground that "preceding
administrations" were right an-I h:it
the selections cn probably be "sas
tftinetl" the Governor Is giving P-vA-t
of increasing ' familiarity with his
duties as State Land Commissioner.
IN A HEAP OF TROUBLE.
After all. the head of the country's
IHWtal service is discovering that it's
more than a shower. Postmaster Gen
eral I'ayne is onfronted with the evi
dences of a state t corruption that ap
pears to be all-embracing. Irregular
ities are breaking out' in one branch ot
another of the postal service all over
the country The evidences of them
are a rising tide f such mass that tlje
Postmaster General, before be knows
it, will be chin deep in difficulties; and
he will le a clever man if he knows
which way to turn in an effort to avoid
utter disaster. ; J ,.' (
The prevailing b'iltef is that In the
uncovering of crookedness not even a
gocd start has yet been made. Gener
al Payne himself moved In a leisure" y
way when the trouble started; be must
have been feigning his apparent indif
ference. Bight from .his own -headquarters
when the rumors of misdeeds
were first Whispered the Word came
that things were not exactly all right;
the indifference of llis behavior, as re
vealed 4 n the Tyner case and in the
Tyner safe incident, was remarkable.
According to the news of recent days
nothing short of a. general upturning
will set things at rights in the Federal
postal service. There appears to have
been a mass of petty peculation and
pilfer. Many of the Eastern newspa
pers are broadly; suggesting that the
conditions call, for more vigorous con
duct than has thus far 'characterized
the- Postmaster General's office' and
that there Is need" of ' some of , the
strenuosity which Is reputed to distin
guish the President's methods in deal
ing with public business.; ' k '
In instances there is newspaper com
ment that President Roosevelt1 ought
to get back home pretty, quick; and be
will "be there on Saturday next- t T
But Mr. Payne himself is a 5 very
good business man. Vigorous and thor
ough, and the prospect , U that . there
will bea complete clean-up that will
do this branch of the service. a vast
amount of good, besides serving as a
warning to other departments. ;
AN INTERESTING EXHIBIT. -
One of the novel things to be seen at
the Louisiana' Purchase Exposition will
jbe the exhibit of theJJnited States Pat
ient Office, It will show models orma
i chine's that have made epochs in the
t i'niiustrial history of the world. It will
'aim to show; the first machine of j its
kind in every line of Invention. It
would be impossible to trace the devel-
opment of the Inventor'n Ue-a. in each
nutt-hiiM' yet a, hlgjily Interesting eon
tra;lan be drawn teweeri the Srst
cm4e frnplemen't and the nearly pe?et
machine of today. As a rule great In
ventions are ilevelopeft In the brains of
many men. The exhibit of the "patent
office will rhow the firct crude efforts j by month, but that of other and small
of genius. ' ' er Oregon i cltles tit J also Increasing:.
Take the sewing machine, which " Is
perhaps thebest known of all thev
epoch-making Implements of Industry.
The; first contrivance was pittented by
F3ias Howe In 1846. Its chief essential
was tbe eye In the point of the needle.
This was. not a new iderj even In the
day of KHas Howe. The eye In the
point of the neelle bad been usd In
France In the making of embroideries
for centuries. Yet the lie we sewing
machine was considered it ; . wonder.
And it was, too. This model is one of
the priceless treasures of ithe patent
office.. v . j ' , .i ':
Fully, as Interesting Is thej first type
writer. Curiously enough, this machine
was thought of about the (time Howe
was studying the problem of sewing
cloth. The first .typewriter was r pat
ented as a "printing machine" by C.
Thurber. It ' was etremely Elaborate,
and Its use was vastly more laborious
than writing by hand. It "look a person
about five minutes to write , a line.
From this Imperfect contrivance jwe
have today a machine that ienabies the
operator to write faster than he most
expert penman.
Included in the exhibit Will be the
first printing press, and a model of an
ancient harvesting machinei 7 This lat
ter Invention Is primitive iin the ex
treme. It consists of a ilight two
wheeled vehicle propelled jby an ox
harneissed between two ; shafts and
walking behind. An arrangement of
long knives clipped oft the heads of
the standing grain before it had been
trampled by the ' ox. Apiong other
things there will be the model of the
first " locomotive ever built, and th-
earliest. steamboat propeller. Perhaps
the -most interest! of the collection
willj be the device of Abraham Lincoln
for' lifting steamboats off shoals when
they run aground. It looked; like a. huge
accordion, and was made of canvas
- i :
and wood. Great bags were placed be
neath the luckless ship,' Which, after
being filled with air, were supposed to
a it
rais the vessel by reason of the added
buoyancy. I I .
A PICTURESQUE CANDIDATE.
AH the forecasts agree jthat there
will be plenty of diversion I in New
York City's next municipa campaign.
William Hj.Ievery will see , to that. It
Is settled'. riow"' "that the unexpected. Is
going' to happen Devery himself wil!
be in thes'aiiijje' , To the r'-ogrin and
the despair of; the poiiticlains. the for
mer and famous chief willj run for the
office of mayor, not as the candidate of
a. regular organization, but as the
leader of the clique of which Devery
Is the chief and for which a certain
amount of west-side strength can al
ways be rallied v i j 1
It Is not suspected that! Devery by
any possibility or any mischance can
win the mayoralty election. ' . He will
simply be, as the outlook now is, ' a
thorn In the flesh of Tammany. -It Is
figured that he can swing; for himself
votes enough to assure the' defeat , of
Tammany, In case, the election : proves
to be a pretty close race.-
There has been question whether
Mayor Low would be In the field ; for
another term- Until -recently the, ore
sumption had been that even if he de
sired to be nominated for a - second
term the chances were not flattering.
However," the latest intimation ' from
Mr. Piatt, speaking for the. Republican
machine, Us that Low can make the run
If he wants to. ' ' V j
Meanwhile, Devery may be. reWd
on to put ginger of a. certain sort into
the campaign ; so ' that the : metropolis
itself will put on exhibltiona political
contest that will have Its - v.ild-and-woolly
features. Devery jpasses for p
joke with the public In politics he I'
a freak; yet Tammany has to take him
seriously. ' - ' . '"-
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OREGON CITIES wROWING.
Judged by any test that may be ap
plied. It may be discovered, and prove 1
that the population and 'j buiness of
Portland is not only, steadily but rap
Idly increaslrig. One sure' proof of this
A TEXAS WOfi DER
L HALL'S GREAT DISCOVERT.
One small boltle of the Texas Won
der, Hall's Great Discovery cores all
kidney and bladder troubles, removes
gravel, "cures diabetes, seminal emis
sions, weak and lame backs rheuma
tism and ail irregularities of , the kid
neys and bladder in both men and wo
men, regulates bladder trouble In chil
dren.""" If not sold by y0ur : druggist,
will be sent by mail on receipt of $L
One small bottle Is two months treat
ment. ' Dr. Ernest W. Hall, sole manu
facturer, P. O. Box 629, St. Louis. Mo.
Send for testimonials, j Sold by; all
druggists and Dr. S. C Stone's " Drug
Stores., ' j-
READ TniS. ' ,
To Whom It IM sy Concern.
This is to certify that I. was down for
nine months with kidpey and bladder
trouble, and tried all known remedies
to no avail until a neighbor induced me
to get a bottle of Texas Wonder, oo
half of which cured me sound - and
well; this I would cheerfully swear toi
and for the benefitvftbose .who arejaf
fiicted and vlshiT?ftiS be permanently
cured, they can oWmfrt.'a -bottle a tr'v
houre, located. pri'Wes't 11th street.
Tours truly. :; T 1, . SEALE,. .
" - ,' - lleirord, Oregon.
Kratlfyfnff fact is .the increase In the
business" of the Portland postofnee, on
account rf which the salary .f the
postmater -will be Increased on July
1st from $2600 to, $376 a. year. Not
only is he business of the . Portland
offlc. trrowInR year by year and month
They, are keeping pace with the met
ropolis, and showln that the5 develop
ment and upbuilding" of Oregon is gen
eral throughout the statel The growth
Is uniform In all sections. The salaries
of the postmasters of Salem. Pendleton,
Eugene, Oregon City. "Ashland, Rose
burg. Grant's Pas. Cnrvallis. McMinn
ville. Medford. Hood River, Marshfield,
Union. Hillsboro, Kewberg;;Tlllamook,
Bums. Independence, Silyerton,' Mil
ton,. Huntington and Wood burn, will all
be, increased $100 a year on . July 1st.
This does not mean that other titles,
like Baker City. La Grande, Astoria
-ind Albany, are not growing, too; only
that their postoffice receipts do not
quite Justify' the Increase" at this time.
But all Oregon towns are growing right
along, and they are doing so because
the country surrounding them is being
developed, because population and pro
ducts are Increasing, because Oregon,
"with her own wings, constantly
rising to a higher and broader flight,
Portland Evening Telegram.
THE EASTErtN FLOODS.
The great loss ot life and property
by floods in the Kaw. Missouri, Wakar
usa. Des ' Moines; ;; Raccoon, Tarkio,
Xlsbnabotna, Iowa and Cedar rivers.
in Missouri, Kansas,'
Nebraska and
Iowa, amounts. 'to one of the
major
calamities of the world. Yet It Is not
exceptional, as far as the flood Is con
cerned, for' In the valleys of the same
streams such overflows have occurred
!efore. '
The last one that equaled this was
probably the flood of 1851, caused bv
the, fall of ten. inches of rain in ;s
nany hours, on the same Watersheds
"Uut then .there were but few towns in
ill the region and the population wjs
small, so the flood passed with but
little damage. But that was two years
more .than a half century ago. Nearly
two gqnerationsJi'ave come upon tie
stage since the waters rose and reced
ed, and men have built towns below
the line 'of that flood, and the river vai
leys have been turned into farms. Men
forget that the watershed draining In
the streams remained the same, and
that, given the same quick rainfall, the
Hood would come once more.'
so m the valley of -the Rnone. re
marks a writer In the San Francisco
Cat, a century passed without tjlood,
anujopulous cities were built to . the
river's edge, and about thirty yeanrs.ago
ill Continental Europe was shocked"by
the1 calamity that followed the coming
of the inevitable flood. What has been
will be again In the valleys of all riv
ers that drain a wide extent of country.
but what wiil man do about it? He
will do Just as he has done. , The
.flooded districts . of' Topeka. Kansas
C'i tr and Des" Moines will be'repeopled
when the waters recede. The flooded
farms will be tilled again and life and
property will thrive In the path of the
inundation. ' y
- It would seem, as far as cities are
concerned, that engineering science can
jy raising levees,- protect them. . Such
work is costly, but it is necessary, if
future calamities are to be averted. The
loss Of life in this last,, ea-ent cotild
haye been largely avoided if the people
had been keenly alive to the danger.
But they were not." The ground where
;heir dwellings stood had been always
high and dry, and when the weather
service talked .of a rise in the water
they were incredulous, and the flood
caught them" In the night and they
perished. Of course there was a lack
of boats.' In such towns there are but
few water craft, and what there, was
was not equal to the task of resisting
swift currents or the carrying of large
loads.' In Topeka half a dozen good
gasoline launches would have rescued
uearly ell whose lives were, lost for
need of them. But the people need not'
be expected to keep such launches in
stock, on the' dry - prairie, for a .half
century, in expectation of a flood.
- One thing, however, can be always
done. Timely flight Is always possible,
ind it is probable that the memory of
this appalling disaster will, so long
continue that the warning of the next
will be heeded in time. ' - .
-THE GIVER AND HIS GIFTS.
Eighty-three million seven' hundred
and eighty thousand five hundred and
wenty-three V dollars that " represents
the sunt total of Mr. Carnegie's public
gifts wjyto'the present time. He Is
still giving and hopes, by keeping in
dustriously at it, to increase the ag
gregate to one hundred millions by
January 1, 1904. Unless his health fails
there Is good reason to believe that be
will succeed.1 Several towns have re
cently rejected Mr. Carnegie's library
offers, being unwilling to accept the us
ual conditions he Imposes In regard to
Lcare and maintenance. But there are
other cities and towns. And there are
other countrieea. Indetd, there are
vast; tracts of the habitable globe that
remain unexploited by Mr. Carnegie's
unprecedented generosity.
;ivery little :f what Mr. Carnegie
gives goes- to charitable' Institutions.
."He has been quoted as saying that he
does "not believe in supporting pau
pers or other depnd?nts. Ills pur-
pope, he says, is to help men and wo
men to be self-sustaining, and so he
aims to give where his money will in
crease and, broaden" education. At the
same time. It Is said, both he snd Mrs.
Carnegie help charities which they find
to be worthy by subscriptions that are
never recorded, Mr. Carnegie being un
willing to proclaim these . donations
from the housetops for the reason that
they apparently would clash with his
avowed scheme of itfvllanthropy.
Tabulating Mr. 'Carnegie's gifts by
countries, the statistics take this form
United States
Scotland.. ...
Holland.,
...$63:292.773
... 17.6S9.250
.. 1.7S0.000
... 134.",00
... 1.106.500
England and Wales.
CT a-
Dominion of Canada......
Ireland;. .. ... .. .. .. ;
Cuba.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .
Six -hundred different
... 3-a.K0O
2T.2.000
committees
have, been the recipients of . Mr. Car
negie's gifts. The smallest sum was
$500, and the largest $10,000,000, which
was given to the Carnegie' Institution
at Washington. In nearly all instances
the gifts have been for libraries, though
a few have gone to hospitals, churches
and schools. Some gifts can Only be
classified under the head of miscellan
eous. Thus to Cornell University he
gave a filtering' plant, and besides that
be wishes to pay the expenses of the
unversity's typhoid fever victims.
Two churches have received organs.
To Pittsburg, Inwhlch city Mr. Carne
gie made the greater share of his for
tune, the sum of $18,804,000 has been
given. .This is more than? he has given
to Scotland, his native land, but It Is
"understood that he still has extensive
designs on that country. Mr. Carnegie
is even yet one of the richest men In
the world; estimated to be worth two
hundred millions. He will have to
work hard to finish up the work he has
undertaken and avoid disgrace for he
Ceclared several years ago-that it Is
a disgrace for a man to die rich.
PERHAPS SHE WILL MARRY.
Swell society In this country's social
centers, In London and In Paris is bury
Just now with the name and the inten
tions of Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago
and of Europe. Mrs. Palmer is living
In Paris now. The death of her hus
band occurred more than a year ago.
In the French capital,, as all the gos
sips agree. Mrs. Palmer "maintains a
magnificent establishment and is a
prominent social factor." Aid gossip
also has it that despite denial by the
widow's friends, continental society be
lieves that she and the Prince of Mon
aco, owner of the notorious gambling
establishment at Monte Carlo, are en
gaged to be married. . - -
It lis a matter of common acknowl
edgment that this Prince ii a rum one
and a bad lot. His' first wife was a
titled English woman. A divorce fol
lowed. His second wife was the daugh
ter of a New Orleans backer. lie di
vorced hr three years ago. He is of
extremely unsavory fame. The society
journeis quote the Prince as saying
that "Mrs. Palmer is the most fascin
ating woman I evrrknew." and a good
deal cf kindred rot Is getting Into type
Mrs. Palmer has several millions. How
wluid it distress the plain, practical.
mcney-making old man from" Chicago
were he to read the -going gossip. - He
was very proud of his wife.
However, the widow ought to know
what she wants to da She Is sixty
years old and worse. Respecting afr
fairs of the heart she ought to have a
mind tof her own. But it will be a
tough alliance if she makes the rumor-
el marriage.
DELIGHTFUL VISITOR.
President Roosevelt having come and
gone, the people of Montana take pleas
ure in extending a cordial welcome tb
another delightful visttor In the shape
of the Hood River strawberry. Ana
conda Standard.
Why not the Willamette valley
strawberry? Under the name of Hood
River it would taste as good to the
peAple of Montana or elsewhere. The
Hood R'ver berry is the best in the
world, however, with this one excep
tion. , .. '
The state of Texas has officially ac
knowledged the end of the Beaumont
oil boom. In the first days of the - oil
discoveries - In Southeastern Texas,
when It looked as though oil was going
to drive coal completely out of . the
field, patriotism and a desire tb develop
end encourage a state Industry brought
about the use of oil for fuel purposes
in all the public Institutions In lieu of
coal. It called for a small original ex
pense In fitting the boilers, furnaces,
etc., so as to adapt them to fuel oil,
but this was soon made good by, the
fact 4 hat the. oil was much cheaper
than coaL half or one-third as cheap,
that H required less labor, to handle
it, arid that it provided a more equable
and better heat. It has been in use
ever since, but now the state supply
agent announces . that he has been
compelled to abandon It. The fuel oil
is very difficult to get, Irr Texas, as in
New Orleans, tbe supply Is not equal to
the demand. Moreover, it has so ad
vanced in price that it ! Is no longer
cheaper than coal, dearer.
. Those good but belated persons who
didjnot get their names onto the roll of lxAa town It all helps to bring bust
honor In making up the debt fund for. nefla Bn1 people here.
W.ilamette University are not too late " '
to getnto the endowment f und, ndfV T CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
that as Important now as the pay
ment oi the debt was, before that fund
warf "ccrcpleted, .f Y: : ; v ; '
. The canton of Freiburg, Switzerland,
requires well-to-do convicts to pay two
francs, a day for Kheir board while In
prison, and furthermore they have to
pay it in advance, for the full term for
which they were sentenced. A rleh
lawyer Was convicted of defrauding his
clients and sentenced for eight years.
He was forced -to pay. up, 5840 francs
for board fpr that term, but after mak
ing the payment he managed to escai-e
and stayed out of the country ten years.
when under the law he was no longer
subject to punishment for his crime.
He then returned to Switzerland, sued
for his money pn the ground that the
prison authorities ? had not provided
him with board, and got a Judgment In
his favor. He is now kicking because
the courts refused, to allow him Inter
est on the amount. All of which shows
that for gall the Swiss are peculiar.
The friends of - Willamette University
have, not ceased making contributions
jsl.mply because the debt has b", n pro
vided for. They-are going right ahead
and making donations and pledges. A
grsat deal of money will b- needed to
put the Institution thoroughly on Us
feet, and every cent will help. Two
things are very important now. They
are a greater endowment fund and a
large sum of money for new building.
An exchange pertinently remarks
that the spectacle of armed troops
guarding a Kentucky grand Jury while
It is investigating a coIdTblooded as
sassination of a prominent citizen of
the. state, is one" of those isolate.! f ic;s
which might give Russian critics, f.r
example, an unequal advantage over us
In any argument we may care to make,
on the comparative merits of American
and Russian civilization.
The "Venezuelan revolutionists wh.y
have been fighting the Government
down there for a year and a half, ir.-y
decided "to ask the United States fo
re'eognition as belligerents.- It wo;i't
go. If-thls thing were started, our Gov
ernment would have to maintain a
kind of weather bureau, for the recog
nition of different ages, degrees a .id
crops f belligerents.
Four hundred - thousand dollars for
new buildings and apfuimtus and' a
million dollars for the endowment ftnid.
These will cover very well the ihmvIs
of ' Willamette .'University. A fVw dol
lars less will do for temiorary pur
poses. But more than that w ill he pii
vided in due course of tlm . The re;id-r
may think this is sanguine. Well, let
him wait and see. . ' ,
, The labor men and the nonconform
ists "have united In making demonstra
tions in London against the Education,
al "Bill, and now the church eople will
be more convinced than ever that elu
Cution Is badly needed and that the bin
ought to go through with a whoop
louder than any the opMsitlon ' can
raise In the most tumultuous mass
meetings.
The effects ff Ihe strike being atxtut
gone, the people of Portland are wor
rying over the proniectlve period of
high water. There being a great dal
of snow in the mountain, it is certain
that the Willamette will be very hih.
on. account, of -The back water of Die,
Columbia, If there Is a con8iJeiai,I(
period of warm weather.
The Smithsonian Institution, on an
appropriation from the Government, I
to erect at St. Louis an aviary 200 feet
long and 100 feet wide, and will, during
the( Exposition, make- an exhibit of
1000 : representative American birds,
thus giving an Illustration that Uncle
Sam has money enough to throw nt the
feathered tribe Just for show purMses.
There Is to be a movement Inaugur
ated to secure a small boat o ply
the Willamette between Salem and n
dtpendence, making regular trips oi
ftecHng with the Independence-Monmouth-Dallas,
motor line. This wo.1.1
surely be a good thing for Salem, an I
also for the Polk county towns.
' Talking about the Pioneer Day sug
gertion, a friend says It would be a
good thing for Oregon to have a Pion
eer Day. If it were not for the danger
that it might start the old timers on
weather reminiscences.
I redominant among the prevailing
sty Us down at Portland this summer
will be high water pants. If the Colum
bia, persists In its disposition to back
up. .''-"'
: The report" that John Wilkes IJooth
lived until "recently, under the name of
David E. George, ' turns out to be a
plain yellow newspaper lie.
Now that Oregon has a Labor Com
missioner, every one is supposed to
work. And there "IS plenty of work for
all to do. . . i
It la a freeze-out game between the
brewers and the hop growers. Our
sympathies are with the hop growers.
The trouble with the Republicans on
Monday, was that they were under the
command of General Apathy.
Fa'm is growing to be a good base-
rake iaxative uromo wuinine -iauici.
All drueeluts refund the money If H
fails to cure. E. ,W. Grove's signature
U on each box. 5c . ' .