The New Age (Portland)

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KALISPELL KALISPELL, MONTANA D. R. PEELER, Pres., F. J. LEBERT, V. Pres., R. E. WEBSTER, Cash., W. D. LAWSON, A. Cash. Transacts a general banking business. Drafts issued, available in all cities of the United States and Europe, Hong Kong and Manila. Collections made on favorable terms. Established in 1859, Transact a General Banking Business. Interest allowed on time deposits. Collections made at all points in the country. Exchange and Telegraphic Transfers sold on New York, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, Omaha, San Francisco and various points in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia. Exchange sold on London, Paris, Berlin. UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK J. C. AINSWORTH, President. W. B. AYER, Vice-President. R. W. SCHMEER, Cashier. A. M. WRIGHT, Assistant Cashier. Transacts a general banking business. Drafts issued, available in all cities of the United States and Europe. Collects and distributes favorable terms. NORTHWEST CORNER THIRD AND OAK STREETS. THE PENINSULA BANK ST. JOHNS, ORE. Capital, fully paid up, $25,000.00. Surplus and undivided profits, $3,000.00. Commenced Business June 5, 1905. OFFICERS: J. W. FORDNEY, President; R. T. PLATT, Vice President; C. A. WOOD, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: J. W. Fordney, R. T. Platt, F. C. Knapp, W. A. Brewer, H. L. Powers Thos. Cochran, M. L. Holbrook, C. A. WOOD. Capital $280,000 Deposits $7,581,000 BANKERS profits $425,000 Accounts of Northwest Pacific Banks solicited upon terms which will grant to them the most liberal accommodations conistent with their salaries and responsibilities. Wm. M. Ladd, President; M. H. Latimer, Manager; M. W. Peerson, Cashier. Seattle, Washington. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PORT TOWNSEND established 1882. Collections promptly made and remitted. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND OREGON Surplus, $1,000,000 Deposits, $13,000,000 W. M. LADD President CHAS. CARPENTER Vice President W. L. STEINWEG, Cashier A. B. CLINE Assistant Cashier THE NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY Capital $200,000 Surplus $200,000 SAVINGS DEPARTMENT OFFICERS—Chester Thorne, President: Arthur Albertson, Vice President and Cashier; Frederick A. Rice, Assistant Cashier; Delbert A. Young, Assistant Cashier. JNO. C. AINSWORTH, Pres. JNO. S. BAKER, Vice Pres. , P. C. KAUFFMAN, 2d Vice Pres. ,A. G. PRICHARD, Cashier. F. P. HASKELL, JR., Assistant Cashier. THE FIDELITY TRUST COMPANY BANK General Banking CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $390,000 Safe Deposit Vaults SAVINGS DEPARTMENT: Interest at the Rate of 3 per cent per Annum, Credited Semi-Annually TACOMA, WASHINGTON ALFRED COOILDGE, Pres. A. F. McCLAINE Vice Pres AARON KUHN, Vice Pres. CHAS. E. SCRIBER, Cashier. D. C. WOODWARD, Asst. Cashier. THE COLFAX NATIONAL BANK of Colfax Wash. Capital. $120,000.00 Transact a general banking business. Special facilities for handling Eastern Washington and Idaho items. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK ESTABLISHED 1881 JOHN LAMB, DAVID ASKEGAARD, LEW A. HUNTOON, ARTHUR H. COSTAIN, President Vice President Cashier Asst. Cashier Interest Paid on Time Deposits FIRST NATIONAL BANK of East Grand Forks, Minn. Farm Loans Negotiated. Fire and Cyclone Insurance Written. Does a General Banking Business. Capital, $50,000 E. ARNESON, Pres. G. R. JACOBI Cashier 4 Per Cent Interest Paid on Time Deposits THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA. U. S. Government Depositary. GEORGE PALMER President F. L. MEYERS Cashier GEO. L. CLEAVER Asst. Cashier W. L. BRENHOLTS Asst. Cashier Capital and Surplus, $120,000 DIRECTORS: J. M. Berry, A. B. Conley, J. H. Holmes, F. L. Bykitt, F. L. Meyers, Geo. L. Churchill The Merchants National Bank Of St. Paul, Minnesota UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY Capital, $1,000,000.00 Surplus, $500,000.00 Transacts a general banking business. Correspondence invited OFFICERS—KENNETH CLARK, President; GEO. H. PRINCE, Vice President; H. W. PARKER, Cashier; H. VAN VLECK, Assistant Cashier. DIRECTORS—Crawford Livingston, Kenneth Clark, J. H. Skinner, Louis W. Hill, Geo. H. Prince, C. H. Bigelow, R.D. Noyes, V. M. Watkins, L. P. Ordway, F. B. Keilogg, E. N. Saunders. Thomas A. Marlow, W. B. Parsons, J. M. Hannaford, Charles P. Noyes. WILLAMETTE IRON & STEEL WORKS FOUNDERS · MACHINISTS · ENGINEERS PORTLAND — OREGON — U.S.A. Our new plant on Front St., between Seventeenth and Nineteenth Sts., is the most modern Engineering Plant on the Pacific Coast. Work placed with us will be executed with efficiency and despatch. VOL. XI. D. R. PEELER, Pres., F. J. LEWIS LADD & TILTON Established in 1859. Posits. Collections made at all States and Europe, Hong Kong. UNITED STATES J. C. AINSWORTH, President, A. W. WASHINGTON, Chicago, St. Louis Washington, Idaho, Montana and Frankfort and Hong Kong. THE PENIN Capital, fully paid up, $200 Con- OFFICERS: J. W. FORDNEY, President, A. W. WASHINGTON, Chicago, St. Louis Thos. Cochran, M. L. Holbairn "Oldest" DEXTE Capital $2000 Deposits $7,500,000 Accounts of Northwest Pre- most liberal accommodations Ladd, President; N. H. Latime THE FIRST NATION Established FIRST NATION Surplus, $1,000,000 FIRST NATION Capital $200 OFFICERS: Frederick A. Rice, Assistant C. JNO. C. AINSWORTH, Pres. A. G. PRICHARD, CA. FIRST NATION Transacts a general bank CA. LEVI ANKENY, President. THE NATION Capital $200 OFFICERS: Frederick A. Rice, Assistant C. JNO. C. AINSWORTH, Pres. A. G. PRICHARD, CA. THE FIDELITY General Banking CA. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT; T. ALFRED COOLIDGE, Pres. CHAS. Scribner THE COLFAXI Transacts a general bank Washington and Idaho office. THE FIRST NATION Mo. JOHN LAMB, DAVID AS- President Interest FIRST NATION Farm Loans Negotiated Capital, $50,000 4 Per Cent THE FIRST OF 1 CAPITAL $500,000 U. S. C. GEORGE PALMER President F. L. La Grande Capital DIRECTORS: J. M. Berry Cleaver, Geo. Palmer. The Merc UNITED Capital, $500,000 100,000 Deposits, NATIONAL BANK of North Yankee Capital and Surplus $130,000 00 UNITED STATES DEPOSITOR S. CARPENTER Vice President W. L. STEINWEG Cashier NATIONAL BANK of Chelsea, Washington. (First National Bank in the States a General Banking B CAPITAL $100,000. SURPLUS $100,000. A. H. REYNOLDS, Vice President. NATIONAL BANK OF CO TACOMA, WASH. UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY $200,000 Surplus $20 SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Thorne, President; Arthur Albertson, Vice and Cashier; Delbert A. Young, Assistant Cashier. Pres. JNO. S. BRAIN, Vice Pres. P. C. KAT D. Cashier. F. P. HASKELL, JR., AN LITY TRUST COMPANY CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $390,000 Interest at the Rate of 8 per cent per Annum. TACOMA, WASHINGTON es. A. F. McCLAINE, Vice Pres. A. CRIBER, Cashier. D. C. WOODWARD, A. NATIONAL BANK of Capital, $120,000.00 banking business. Special facilities no items. ST NATIONAL BANK Moorehead, Minnesota AND ASKEGAARD, LEW A. HUNTOON, AIR ice President Cashier West Paid on Time Dep NATIONAL BANK of East Gr inated. Fire and Cyclone Insurance Another blizzard has swept North Dakota. The Chinese government is arresting many reformers. A slight earthquake shock is reported from Greenville, Ill. The French cabinet is in danger of a split on the church question. Roosevelt says that if the several states will not abolish child labor the nation must Many Chinese are believed to have been smuggled across the Canadian boundary into eastern states. Rinaldo M. Hall, of Portland, was chosen president of the Pacific Coast Admen's league at its Spokane meeting. Policy holders of San Francisco in the Trans-Atlantic Fire Insurance company will get but 25 per cent on settlement. The National Red Cross has sent a total of $25,000 to famine sufferers of China since the call for assistance was issued. The entire San Francisco school board may go to Washington to participate in the conference on the Japanese question. BUSINESS LOCALS Christmas candies to suit the most fastidious.—Geo. Hockenyos. J. Wallgreen, dealer in staple and fancy groceries, 684 Thurman street Telephone Pacific 911. Jost Bros. Saloon, 340 Williams avenue, fine wines, liquors and cigars. Family trade a specialty. A good place to get your soft or stiff hats renovated is 249½ Alder street between Second and Third. M. J. Gill Co., wholesale and retail meat dealers, 512 Mississippi avenue, Portland, Oregon. Phone East 665. Always ask for the famous General Arthur cigar. Esberg-Gunst Cigar Co., general agents, Portland, Or. Albina Club (George Ross), choice wines, liquors and cigars. 134 Russell street, Portland, Ore. Phone East 4386. The Anheuser, Henry M. Williams, proprietor, 234 Morrison street, corner Second, Portland, Ore. Telephone Main 2517. Ryan & John, dealers in choice groceries, meat, fish and poultry, phone Main 522, 61 North Park street, corner Davis. Everett Market, (E. L. Peck, Prop.), Choice Meats and Poultry, 413 Everett Street, corner Tenth, Pogland, Ore. Phone Main 1540. C. Anderson, staple and fancy groceries, Twenty-first and Thurman streets, 'Phone Hood 57. Fresh roasted coffee a specialty. Try the Pacific Laundry Co. for good work and prompt service. Main office First and Arthur streets, Portland, Ore. Telephone 649. John Schaid, dealer in hardware, tinware, sheet iron work, guttering, spouting and roofing. General jobbing a specialty. 149 Russell street. Royal Market, Bair & Werth proprietors, fresh and cured meats, fish, poultry and game. 439 Union avenue north, corner Tillamook. Phone East 167. L. N. Nees, boot and shoemaker. Fine repairing a specialty. Give him a call when you need anything in this line. $322½ Williams av., Portland, Oregon. Martin Marks Coffee Co., 252 Third Street, Telephone Main 1893, Monte Cristo Java and Mocha Coffee always pleases. If you want a good, rich drinking coffee, insist on getting Monte Cristo Java and Mocha. Red Front Shoe Store, J. F. Johnson, Proprietor. Fine dress shoes; workingmen's and loggers' shoes at $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00 per pair. Repairing neatly done. 85 North Sixth street, between Everett and Flanders, next door to the Union House, Portland, Oregon. Phone Main 4062. Vulcan Coal Company, wholesale and retail dealers in house, steam and blacksmith coal. Foundry and smelter coke. Puget Sound steam coal in car lots, $3.50 per ton and up. We handle all the best grades of domestic and foreign house coals. Phone Main 2775. Office 329 Burnside St., Portland, Oregon. THE PIONEER PAINT COMPANY The plo- neer paint establish men of Portland is that of F. E Beach & Company, 125 First St. the oldest and most re- latable house of its kind in TRADE MARK F E & B PORTLAND C O CREEGUH neer paint est establishment of Portland is that of F. E. Beach Company, of 135 First St. the oldest and most re- latable house of its kind in the Northwest. It carries an immense stock of the best things in paints and building materials, together with an annual list of specialties. Those who need anything in these lines can can- nily profit by going to F. E. Beach & Company. Remember the number, 135 First street. New Age ALL MEETINGS STOP CITY'S POWERS ARE OVERTAXED Epidemic Shows Immense Increase Every Family Must Be Snut in Its Own Home. Chicago, Jan. 31.—With a new leap of 800 cases of contagious diseases in the city and a fresh outbreak in the suburbs that brought t e total number of victims over the 15,000 mark, Health Commissioner Charles J. Whalen, under fire in the most serious epidemic of a decade, today issued a public proclamation calling on the people of the city to suspend public and social gatherings and thus aid in checking the pest. Further drastic action may follow, including the closing of all schools of the city, a move which was considered when the epidemic first broke out but was abandoned as unnecessary. If the spirit of the commissioner's appeal is followed generally, Chicago will place an embargo on herself, each family establishing a quarantine, as in a place withering under a plague. Fearing that the epidemic in violent form will spread into the Ghetto and further south into the stock yards district led to the issuance of the public plea for assistance. Scarlet fever broke out in several neighborhoods on the West Side, showing a tendency of the disease to spread from the Northwest side, in the vicinity of Humboldt Park, and from Oak Park and Austin east and north. Dr. Whale, head of the city Health department, did not come to his office early enough to get the first returns. In his absence his assistant, Dr. Herman Spalding, with the perspiration running down his face from overwork and excitement, admitted for the first time that the department was helpless. "It must be admitted now," said Dr. Spalding, "that the epidemic is on the science. I was in town that yesterday's figures simply meant that more reports were coming in. The new record today shows I was mistaken and that the conditions are most serious." Records of the Health department show the present epidemic to be one of the most serious the city has known. Records show the number of cases of scarlet fever in the last four days vastly exceeds the total for the whole month of January in a normal year. HARMONY IN SIGHT. Californians Confident of Solution of Japanese Question. Washington, Jan. 31. — After two hours conference at the White House last night regarding the Japanese question on the Pacific coast, the California delegation in congress authorized the following statement: "The California delegation had a very full and harmonious discussion with the president, the secretary of state and the secretary of the navy on the serious questions relating to the Japanese on the Pacific coast. The character of the discussion leads us to feel confident that a solution will be reached satisfactory to all concerned." The existing treaty between the United States and Japan will expire March 12, this year. President Roosevelt has heretofore assured the members of congress from California that he would endeavor to form a new treaty with the Japanese empire which would meet with their entire approval and at the same time prove satisfactory to the Tokio government. The Californians have in the past insisted on an exclusion act to bar Japanese coolies out of the United States, but it is hinted as a result of the conference that Senator Perkins and Flint and the members of the house of representatives from that state have practically agreed to waive this demand and leave it to the president to negotiate a new convention that will keep the Japanese coolie labor out of this country. *Let Indians Invest Own Funds Washington, Jan. 31. — The Indian appropriation bill was reported to the senate today. It carries $14,509,201, a net increase of $6,306,132 over the bill as passed by the house. The large increases are due to appropriations under which the United States treasurer will pay to a number of Indian tribes the money now held in trust as Indian tribal funds. The senate committee feels that these tribes are competent to manage their own affairs and that the government should cease paying interest on the funds. Will Bny Cattle for Indiars. Washington, Jan. 31.—An expenditure of nearly $1,000,000 for the purchase of cattle to supply the needs of the Indians on reservations in North and South Dakota, Montana and Arizona will be made by the Interior department in a short time. CHECKS INVASION. Commerce Commission Hears Evidence at San Francisco, San Francisco, Jan. 30.—Interstate Commissioner Franklin K. Lane yesterday commenced the investigation in this city of the relations between the Southern Pacific, the Union Pacific and the Santa Fe railroads and the result of these relations, with a view to determining in what particular, if any, these roads have violated the interstate commerce laws. It developed early in the hearing that the Southern and Union Pacific roads, which are now one, and the Santa Fe have entered into an alliance and between them control the rail transportation of the Pacific coast south of Oregon. C. A. Severance, special counsel for the government, conducted the examination of the witnesses, the railroads being represented by Peter F. Dunne and R. S. Lovett, of New York, who were coached at critical moments by J. C. Stubbs, traffic director of the Southern Pacific. A. H. Payson, vice president of the Santa Fe, and John D. Spreckles gave interesting testimony. Mr. Spreckles testified to the purchase by President Harriman for $1,300,000 of the Coos Bay & Coquille Valley Railroad company; the Coos Bay, Roseburg & Eastern Railway & Navigation company; some coal properties and a steamship line. They cost J. D. Spreckles Bros.' company $1,000,000. Under the questioning of Mr. Severance Captain Payson disclosed the methods by which the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific had jointly formed the Northwestern Pacific Railway company, each holding half of the capital stock of $35,000,000. Captain Payson admitted that the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe have joint ownership of the Potterro stockyards; that a Southern Pacific line from Mojave to Needles is leased by the Santa Fe, and that a small road leading out of Bakersfield was built jointly by the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe and is operated alternately by the two roads. DISEASE CAUSES TERROR. Rapid Increase in Cases and Deaths Reported at Chicago Chicago Jan 30 — The epidemic of contagious diseases in Chicago assumed some of the features of a plague today, reports of new cases pouring into the Health department office at the rate of one every three minutes. The Health department corps was hopelessly swamped with the tremendous spurt, 472 new cases being added to the already long list of patients. Chicago's sick from scarlet fever and diphtheria are now said to number over 10,260. Five deaths were reported today, the total number of deaths from all causes for three days to noon being 342, or an average of one death every ten minutes. Last week, which was called the worst of the epidemic by Health Commissioner Whalen, the average of death was one every 13 minutes. The appalling seriousness of the epidemic was mirrored in the confusion and semi-panic which seized the city hall departments, to which the city looks for a check. The Health department was overcrowded with physicians and policemen reporting cases, while the health commissioner was engaged in a three cornered squabble with the police, Building Commissioner Bartzen and members of the city council. Aldermen were besieged by constituents, who demanded that official action be taken toward the appointment of a committee of the best physicians in the city to combat the contagious diseases and help quiet the panicky feeling which developed in all sections. Mayor Dunne thought the appointment of such a committee might be a good thing, but he said it had not been brought to his "official" attention that a serious epidemic exists and that the Health department was unable to cope with it. Locomotive Plant Burns. Philadelphia, Jan. 30. — Fire which started with an explosion in the paint shop destroyed an entire section of the big Baldwin Locomotive works last night, entailing a loss of $1,000,000. The destroyed building was about 175 feet long by 150 feet deep, immediately adjoining the main office at Broad and Spring Garden streets, and the erecting shops, smith shops and foundries. These buildings were threatened, as were other departments along Spring Garden street and on Fifthenth street, but hard work saved them. Black Hundred Terrorizes Tiflis Tiflis, Jan. 30.—This city is being terrorized by members of the Black Hundred, who are levying tribute on all persons of property. Yesterday they abducted the son of a millionaire and are holding the young man for a heavy ransom. They also have murdered a rich merchant for refusing to contribute to their cause. Rhode Island Deadlock Unbroken. Providence, R. I., Jan. 30.—The tenth and eleventh ballots for the election of a United States senator showed no change. Goldard had 40, Colt 38, Wetmore 31, Utter 1. NO. 41. MILLIONS STARVING Conditions In China Beyond All Description. AMERICA ADVISED TO GIVE AID Relief Would Do Much to Remove III Feeling That Prevails—Un- rest Pervades Empire. Washington, Jan. 29.—Mail reports from American Consular officers in China which reached the State Department today regarding the famine and resulting conditions further confirm the stories of suffering and hardship. Consul Haynes at Nanking says that the famine is ten times worse than anything known in that part of the empire for the past 40 years. The Chinese officials, he says upon information given him by the Vieroy, admit their inability to cope with the situation. The government is trying to help the starving people to keep their cattle and to this end is taking their oxen and buffaloes in pawn for two tails each, keeping them thus until next Spring, when it will return them. Mr. Haynes declares that whatever aid may be extended by this Government in the present crisis will certainly do much to dispel the ill-feeling recently aroused by the boycott, the exclusion act, etc. Consul-General Rogers at Shanghai advises the department that the reports as to the conditions appearing in the newspapers, both foreign and Chinese, are for the most part sustained by the investigations made by American naval officers. He says an inquiry which he has made gives the general conclusion that the famine by March 1 will be regarded as severe and perhaps more so than that of 1878, by which it is thought 10,000,000 lives were lost. The report of Mr. Rogers is accompanied by a statement by Dr. Henry M. Woods of the Southern Presbyterian mission at Hwaii Ain Pu, who estimates that 10,000,000 of people are affected by the famine, 4,000,000 of whom are starving. He says there are at present more than 500,000 refugees at Tang Kiu Ping, huddled in mat sheds, and that the pitiful sight is daily witnessed of parents offering their children for sale at from $2 to $4 each. Brigandage and robbery, he adds, are rife. GAS KILLS MINERS. Death List From German Horror May Reach 300. Saarbruecken, Jan. 29.—A fire-damp explosion occurred yesterday morning in the Reden coal mine at St. John-on-Saar, opposite Saarbruecken, and caused the loss of from 150 to 200 lives. The mine is owned by the Prussian government. Up to 6 o'clock last evening 77 bodies had been brought out and 56 corpses were known to be underground. Only 50 live men have been brought out, and of these the doctors say at least 35 will die, as they are frightfully injured through having been hurled against the walls of the galleries by the force of the explosion. An official report given out last night says the number of dead cannot exceed 100. Immediately after the explosion rescue workers were hurried from all the adjacent mines and boldly entered the Reden shaft in great numbers. The work of rescue has been greatly hampered by the poisonous gases resulting from the explosion and from a fierce fire that broke out immediately afterwards. This caused efforts at rescue to be suspended, and the workers had to be ordered out of the mine. After all the rescuers had reached daylight, according to one version, a second terrific detonation was heard underground. But according to another report, many of the rescuers were still below when the second explosion occurred, and it is estimated that the casualty list from the two explosions will reach a total of 300 men. It is regarded as certain that the lowest levels of the mine are completely wrecked, and the inspectors are deliberating upon further measures to get control of the fire. The managers are discussing the advisability of flooding these levels as the only means of extinguishing the flames. It is believed that all the men who were in the lower levels assuredly are dead. It will take a full week to enter and explore the mine. Snow Plow Out. Portland, Jan. 29.—The only railway snow plow in Western Oregon, a rotary, stored at the O. R. & N. shops, at Albina, was ordered out yesterday for the first time in years, and put in commission to buck a huge drift near Multomah Falls, which stalled the west-bound Spokane flyer, due here yesterday morning. The machine seemed to enjoy the unwonted exercise of diving into the drifts, and was soon throwing snow over the smokestack of the locomotive propelling it. This rotary has often seemed useless to railway men, so seldom is it required. Thousands to American. Rome, Jan. 29.—There were 417,593 emigrants from Italy in 1906—287,090 went to the United States, 118,181 to Argentina, and 13,143 to Brazil. TOPICS OF THE TIMES Have you quit trying to keep track of the land frauds? A woman 60 years old is said to be cutting her fourth set of natural teeth. Shouldn't it be unnatural? It is claimed that a bat has lived in a sealed vault for 106 years. It must have been of the brick variety. Mr. Fielding has put lemons on the free list. The trade was suffering, and he came to the rescue—a case of lemon aid. A man has been arrested for trying to throw his mother-in-law into the river. Evidently his idea was to drown his sorrow. Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota thinks we are threatened with national nervous prostration. Pick your sanatorium early. The way to worry a man is to say there is probably no truth in the charges against him and keep right on digging into them. Prof. J. G. Adami's assertion that man is largely composed of pure soap is likely to strengthen the average hobo's aversion to water. Those who believe in Spartan methods of "hardening" children might reflect that there is no hardness like unto that which marks the absence of life. The name of a woman was drawn from the jury wheel in Washington, but she was promptly excused. Besides being of the wrong sex, she was quite intelligent. Owing to the fact that King Leopold has bushy white whiskers it will be hard to ever convince the people of the Congo country that Santa Claus is a good man. The opponents of free congressional seeds are making another strong fight. Can't make them believe that the prosperity of the country is grown from free seeds. Now a Chicago man has offered Count Boni a job as chauffeur at 25,000 francs a year. That ought to suit him down to the ground, since he is used to living a fast life. Explorer Peary attributes his failure to reach the pole to the weather. Just as soon as they have a tropical season up there we look for Peary to put a cabbage leaf in his hat and push forward to victory. To oblige a woman, 2,270 western business men signed a petition without reading it and have made themselves liable for a total sum of $600,000. Cassie Chadwick will find plenty of them left when she gets out of the penitentiary. There are still some persons who are not anxious to have an automobile. Two well-known residents of Madrid started from that city on a journey to Paris last month mounted on asses, in protest against the reckless speed of the automobile-drivers. Each ass was named after a noted auto-maker, and the riders carried banners inscribed, "Donkeys are better than automobiles." There is a good deal of talk at times about British conservatism in business matters, but they are not half as backward in some matters as Americans, who plume themselves on their goaheadliveness. From present appearances the agitation in England over the adoption of the metric system is likely to bear fruit much sooner in that country than in the United States. The old argument about the difficulty of adjusting accepted standards to the metric system is found to be less formidable than represented and many big firms have, as a matter of individual enterprise, prepared tables which will permit the prompt translation into metric terms of their products. A large amount of pioneer work still invites the explorer, for many of the unknown areas have much territorial extent. In the Amazon basin, for example, three of these regions are each much larger than all of our New England States. One unknown area in Northwest Alaska is nearly as large as New England and the Sahara has two areas in black that are each twice as large and another three times as large as New England. Asia still has several of these vast mysterious spaces and the solid chunk of the unknown in New Guinea, the largest island in the world excepting Greenland, would swallow up New England and leave a black border all around it. --- Not every wife can issue a bulletin to the press concerning the state of her husband's health and sign it "house physician and qualified nurse," as the Queen of Roumania has done. King Carol has been ill for a year, and in recent months has been in extreme pain. The queen, in her bulletin, signed "Dr. Carmen Sylva," says, "I jealously insist on sharing no part of his nursing with any one else, and I never had a better patient. It is a pity no one can glance at the peace of this sick-chamber." She has had previous experience as a nurse, for in the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-8 she devoted herself to the care of the wounded soldiers. Al- though ordinary wives do not issue bulletins they do nurse both husbands and children through many illnesses. Gen. Shafter's death has recalled to the public memory little but criticism. The man's real achievements have been all but forgotten in the resentment over what seemed a needless loss of life in the Spanish war. It is true that Shafter exhibited an unfortunate lack of experience and skill in the protective side of warfare; but it may be questioned whether any other American commanding officer of that day would have done better in coping, unprepared, with the real enemies, climate, bad food and fever, says Ridgway's weekly. And, in spite of all, in his surly, tactless, patient fashion he did what he was sent to do in Cuba. This habit of performing the allotted task was the keynote of Shafter's character in his many years of invariably successful and valuable Indian campaigning, during which the public never heard of him. It was his misfortune that his brilliant successes should have been accomplished in the obscure places of the earth; his errors committed in the blaze of the limelight. Whatever the public, flickle and often ungrateful, may think of him, his fellows in the service will remember him with honor as a brave, honest, sincere and generally efficient public servant. The percentage of people in a large city who have any knowledge at first hand of government reports and bulletins is exceedingly small, but the government printing office turns the documents out in great number, and they contain much useful information. When the President spoke in his message of the help the Agricultural Department is to the farmers he might have referred to some of this literature, which covers a great range of subjects. Not only is agriculture proper discussed, but here is "Modern Conveniences for the Farm Home," which is significant both of a paternal interest in the farmer and of the changes for the better that are going on in farm life. First there is a disquisition on the water supply, with many sanitary suggestions, and hints as to mechanical devices for distributing the water through the house. Then there is a discussion of the location of the house and of cellar building, and an elaborate treatise on the question of plumbing, taking in laundry and sink arrangements, heating apparatus and hot water circulation, the bathroom, lavatory and closet, and giving careful instructions for the disposal of sewage. This is followed by directions for the disposal of ashes, garbage and miscellaneous refuse, and by a dissertation on heating systems, after which examples are given of homes where modern conveniences have been installed, and also hints on the possibility of introducing them into houses already built. Such a bulletin must have some influence in spreading the desire for home comforts, and though many farmers may still 'ag behind the installation of the conveniences has really gone on rapidly. There are farm houses, genuine farm houses, built and equipped out of 'farm money, as well supplied with them as the best city residences. They would astonish those who after years of desertion remember only the discomforts of farm life, and what with such improvements and the trolley and the telephone the movement "back to the soil" may gather considerable impetus. Miss Cumnock was a district visitor, who went about her work with the same indiscriminating enthusiasm which carried her through her other social and philanthropic enterprises. She found at the outset one of the keenest old women it had ever been her lot to meet, who unfortunately had never learned to read or write. "I shall go to that poor soul three times a week," she announced to her family, "and I shall read her all the news of the day and some of the best books. She will appreciate everything." At the close of one of Miss Cumnock's long afternoons of reading the minister hapened in to see Mrs. Higgins. "I supose you've been enjoying a delightful hour together," said the minister, and Miss Cumnock, clasping a pile of newspapers and a book with fervor, answered him. "We've had a lovely afternoon!" she said, eagerly. "Lovely! And now you've come to put the finishing touch to it. Good-by, Mrs. Higgins!" "Good-bay!" said the old woman; and then as the door closed she turned her bright eyes to the minister. "Can't ye help a body out of a hole?" she asked him. "Ts every day in the week but Sundays she comes now. She means well, and I'm enduring it as best I can, but while I'm being informed what all the world's doing, and following every movement o' them Rosyfelt children, the McCarthy twins and the rest o' Pearson's Place are getting away from me, an' I never heard o' the Halloran baby's teeth till there was three o' them in his mouth." Anatomical Correctness. Mamma—Why, what's the matter, Willie? Willie—I I r-klecked George, an' he r-klecked me back. George—No, mamma, I didn't klick his back—I kicked his legs.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Girls are fond of attention, married women are fond of contention. THE NEW AGE. PORTLAND. OREGON Fasterized Milk, Cream; Butter, Eggs, Cottage Cheese, Cheese, Butter Milk QUALITY ICE CREAM Milk 4 per cent guaranteed Phone East 5362 800 Russell Street PORTLAND, OREGON Phone Pacific 2369 Work Done On Short Notice The Never Regret Cleaning and Pressing Parlor Cleaning, Pressing, Dyeing and Repairing. Steam and French Dry Cleaning a Specialty. Suits Pressed While You Wait. 132 N. Sixth Street, PORTLAND, OREGON Michigan T Company H. CRAW, Proprietor Phone East 2806 154 Grand Avenue Ericson Undertaking Co. Incorporated Funeral Directors and Embalmers LADY ASSISTANT Phone Main 6133 409-411 Alder Street PORTLAND OREGON THE BUREAU SALOON FRANK HOFFMAN, Proprietor Choiceest Imported and Domestic Wines, Liquors and Cigars Telephone Main 5506 Southeast Corner First and Morrison PORTLAND OREGON A. H. Willett & Co. Wholesale and Retail Special Prices to Restaurants Prompt Delivery Phone East 283 128 Grand Avenue 8. Washington, Prop. L. Wilkinson, Manager The Alpha Fine Wines, Liquors & Cigars NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS Headquarters for Railroad and All Professional People. Phone Pacific 151 101 N. Park St., PORTLAND, OREGON A. H. Griswold Successor to GRISWOLD & PHEGLEY TAILOR No Branch Store 181 Sixth St. PORTLAND, OREGON OUR BRAND Horse Collars Farmers, Teamsters and Horsemen, look to your interest. When in need of Horse Collars, buy the best - the SHARKEY COLLAR It has stood the test of wear and tear and climate for twenty years. Ask your dealer for them and insist on having the "Shar- key. P. SHARKEY & SON Portland, Oregon The Portland Flowering Mills Co. OLYMPIC PATENT FAMILY FLOUR PORTLAND, ORE. W.C. ROON BAD CO. PORTLAND, ORE. OLYMPIC. A Flour Whose Best Endorsement Is the Fact that the Number of People Who Use It Multiplies Every Year 4. Pioneer Soda Works GUNDEL BROS. & CO. Manufacturers of SODA WATER, EXTRACTS, SYRUPS, ETC. Factory, 416 Water Street Telephone, Main 2366 PORTLAND OREGON Crane Bottle Co. Wholesale Dealers in BOTTLES Carry the large st stock of Bottles on the Pacific Coast. Mail Order shipments given prompt attention. Office, 14th and Couch Sts. PORTLAND, OREGON STAR BREWERY NORTHERN BREWERY CO. Brewers and Bottlers of HOP GOLD PORTLAND OFFICE: Corner East Third and Burnside Streets "The Judge Demands the Best" LA TOCO Key West Cigar EL PATERNO Ten-Cent Leader SIGHT DRAFT King of Five-Cent Cigars W. S. Conrad Minneapolis St. Paul Distributor WESTERN BAKING COMPANY PORTLAND, OREGON REGISTERED TRADE MARK. A WESTERN SUNWISE Ask your grocer for them and take no other kind if you want the best. THE TOKE POINT OYSTER CO. Sole Growers of the Celebrated Toke Point Oysters An Eastern Oyster Transplanted and grown on our beds at TOKELAND, WASHINGTON "UNEQUALLED IN FLAVOR AND FRESHNESS" Cannery at South Bend, Wash. Wholesale Dealers In All Varieties of Native Oysters. DEVERS GOLDEN WEST SPICES, COFFEE, TEA, BAKING POWDER, FLAVORING EXTRACTS Absolute Purify, Finest Flavor, Greatest Strength, Reasonable Prices. CLOSSET & DEVERS PORTLAND, OREGON. 24 ann 26 Front Street PORTLAND, OREGON JUCHEMICH & CRAMER, Props. Manufacturers of Carbonated Beverages, Svrups, Extract., Mineral Waters and Champagne Cider. Sole distributors of Sedaville Mineral Water. Phone Pacific 1793. Office and Factory, 204 Mill Street PORTLAND, OREGON Ask for the Celebrated Lewis & Clark Cigar - 12½c Sacajawea - - 10c Phone Pacific 2263 PORTLAND Everything in the Best Properties Jersey Street ST. JOHNS, OREGON H. HENDERSON 108½ Jersey Street, ST. JOHNS, OREGON I have choice Business and Residence- Tracts in all parts of the city. Corr spondence solicited from non- resident owners of property or those seeking investments here. ABBETT All Kinds of Galvanized Iron and Tin Work a Specialty ALL WORK GUARANTEED NOT TO LEAK Quaker Mfg. Co.'s Steel Furnaces 449 Union Ave. North Shop Phone East 6177 Residence Phone East 1868 JAMESTOWN, N. D. The Seiler Co. OSCAR J. SEILER, Attorney-at-Law President Paid Up Capital and Surplus $35,000 Collections Investments Real Estate Jamestown, North Dakota Columbia River Scenery REGULATOR LINE The excursion steamer "BAILEY GATZER!" makes round trips to CASCADE LOCKS every Sunday, leaving PORTLAND at 9 a. m., returning arrives 6 p. m. Daily service between Portland and The Dalles, except Sunday, leaving Portland at 7 a. m., arriving about 5 p. m., carrying freight and passengers. Splendid accommodations for outfits and livestock. Dock foot of Alder street Portland; foot of Court street, The Dalles. Telephone Main 914. Portland. ASTORIA & COLUMBIA RIVER RAILROAD CO. Two Straight Passenger Trains Daily WITH THROUGH PARLOR CARS BETWEEN Portland, Astoria AND Seaside Leaves Daily 8:00 a.m. 7:00 p.m. Union Depot For Maygers, Rainier, Clatskanie Westport, Clifton, Astoria, Warrenton, Plave, Gearhart Park and Seaside. Astoria & Seashore Express Daily. Astoria Express Daily. Arrives Daily 11:10 a.m. 9:40 p.m. C. A. STEWART Comm'l Act, 248 Alder St Telephone Main 906. J. C. MAYO, G. F. & P. A. 240 Washington Street Corner Second PORTLAND OREGON --- WESTERN SODA WORKS START 1907 RIGHT Begin With Electric Light IT IS CHEAPER Make 1907 an ELECTRIC year in your HOUSEHOLD as well as in your Store, and enjoy the conveniences, the labor saving, the healthfulness, the safety, the economy and the prosperity that attends the use of ELECTRICITY. FREE LAMP RENEWALS--The Company will henceforth furnish free of charge, to meter customers, new Edison base lamps of 4 8, 16, 32 and 50 candle power, in exchange for old lamps, heretofore furnished by the Company. Lamp renewals will be made at Nos. 147-49 Seventh St. ONLY. FREE LAMP RENEWALS mean better light, and is EQUAL TO A SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION IN THE COST OF LIGHTING. For information call Main 6688 Portland Railway,Light & Power Company FIRST & ALDER STREETS The SAVINGS BANK of the Title Guarantee & Trust Company PAYS 4 Per Cent Yearly Interest On Savings Accounts Interest Compounded Semi-Annually We Also Pay 4 Per Cent Interest on Certificates of Deposit And_3 Per Cent on Daily Balances of Check Accounts Save a Dollar Today and It Will Work for You Tomorrow A Bank Account is the first step toward happiness, prosperity and comfort Banking Hours, 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.; Saturdays, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m.; Saturday evenings, 5 p. m. to 8 p. m. DIRECTORS — Wm. M. Ladd, J. Thorburn Ross, T. T. Burkhart, Frank M. Warren, George H. Hill. OFFICERS—J. Thorburn Ross, President; George H. Hill, Vice President; T. T. Burkhart, Treasurer; John E. Aitchison, Secretary. PORTLAND COFFEE & SPICE CO. Toa, Coffee, Spices, Extracts and Baking Powder Lewis & Clark Cigar Co. KING & GILMORE Real Estate Dealers Real Estate BY RAIL AND WATER Branch Banks at Butte, Anaconda and Gardiner Transact a General Banking Business Pay interest on Savings Accounts and Time Certificates of Deposit. We start Savings Accounts with a deposit of one dollar or more. PREMIUM HAMS, BACON And All Fresh Cuts for Hotels MAIL ORDERS THIRD AND COLUMBIA 'PHONE Main 13 MAIL ORDERS PROMPT ATTENTION BONNY & WATSON CO (SUCCEEDORS TO) BONNY & STEWART Lady Assistant Always in Attendance. Seattle, Wash. GRAYS HARBOR COMMERCIAL CO. COSMOSOLID WASH FLAT HOOPS - IRON DRAW-LUGS THE SEATTLE T FREIGHT HOUSEHOLD TO AND THE WRIT Seattle LOW FREIGHT RATES ON HOUSEHOLD GOODS TO AND FROM THE EAST WRITE US Seattle, Wash. MISSOULA MONT H. E. CHANEY, Proprietor. A. A. HOWARD, Manager. Florence Steam Laundry THE GOOD ONE Established 1890. Telephone 115 Work Done On Short Notice 112-114 West Front St. MISSOULA, MONTANA THE GRAND PACIFIC SALOON Missoula, Montana. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars Draught Beer, Fine, 5c. Bottled Beer, 25c. a Quart. All trains Stop 15 Minutes. Opp. N. P. Depot. THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES THE MUSEUM OF THE ARTS. MISSOULA MERCANTILE CO. MISSOULA, MONTANA THIS modern establishment with its immense and varied stocks merits the patronage of all. Whether it be something to wear, to eat, to furnish your house, or anything else, you can get it here. We want every reader of The New Age within our territory to join the mighty ranks of pleased and prosperous customers already dealing with us. REMEMBER OUR MOTTO—"We Sell Everything and Everything the Very Best." So. Omaha, Nebraska PROMPT ATTENTION SEATTLE WASH When in Seattle visit HANSON & CO'S Billiard Parlors The Finest in the Northwest 621-23 First Avenue SEATTLE WASHINGTON WATER TANKS Fir Spruce and Cedar Lumber BoxShooks Cedar Shingles Grays Harbor Commercial Co Seattle, Wash. TRANSFER CO. TTLE СОРУНИКА Just a Word About Rolls Little Rolls and big Rolls; plain Rolls and fancy Rolls; Rolls for breakfast; Rolls for lunch; rolls for good food; rolls grow to perfect proportion at the reliable bakery most people in Missoula know about TEVIS & CRAWSHAW GROCERS AND BAKERS Hay, Grain, Flour, Fruits, Vegetables Confectionery, Etc., Etc. 131 Higgins Ave. Missoula, Montana ```markdown ``` THE NEW AGE, PORTLAND, OREGON William Penn's Tea Service. Articles of ordinary use, however small may be their intrinsic value, which have once been the property of men who have been good and great—how rare the conjunction!—are always invested with a peculiar interest. They often afford a clue to the tastes of those who once possessed them. On this account we have pleasure in laying before our readers a representation of the silver tea service which belonged to the celebrated William Penn, the founder and legislator of Pennsylvania, PENN'S SILVER TEA SERVICE. whom Montesquieu denominates the modern Lycurgus. He was the son of Admiral Penn, was born at London in 1644, and was educated at Christchurch, Oxford. At college he imbled the principles of Quakerism, and having endeavored to disseminate them by preaching in public, he was thrice thrown into prison. It was during his first imprisonment that he wrote "No Cross, No Crown." In March, 1680-81, he obtained from Charles II. the grant of that territory which now bears the name of Pennsylvania. In 1682 he embarked for his new colony; and in the following year he founded Philadelphia. He returned to England in 1684, and died in July 1718. He was a philosopher, a legislator, an author, the friend of man, and, above all, a plious Christian. In addition to the reasons above given, the sketch of the tea service is an object of curiosity, as showing the state of silversmith's work in England, at the close of the seventeenth century, for articles of domestic use. PERSIA'S NEW SHAH. He will Carry Out the Political Reforms of His Father. The political reforms recently granted in Persia by Muzaffar-eI-Din, the present Shah, who is now critically slick, will be continued by his son and successor, Mohammed All Mirza, who is acting as regent during the indisposition of his father. This young man is 28 years old and is liberal in his views. His education was received in Prussia, Frenchmen and Englishmen being his tutors. He is liberally inclined and is regarded by those who know him as a young man of great promise. It is difficult to imagine popular suffrage in Persia, which has so long been under autocratic sway. Nevertheless, during the year the Shah issued a decree providing for a Parliament which will frame a constitution for the kingdom and will meet annually hereafter for the purpose of revising old laws and edicts and enacting new ones as they may be required. Under this decree all Persians of the male sex able to read and write, between the ages of 30 and 70, who are not in the service of the State and who have never been convicted of a crime, are entitled to vote for members of the Chamber of Deputies. This new Persian Parliament met in October and the work of draft- MOHAMMED ALI MIRZA. ing a constitution is now under way. Popular sentiment is in favor of a liberal constitution and it may be expected that before long Persla will take her place among the liberally governed countries of the world. The Shah to whom Persla owes this great reform ascended the throne in 1896 and up to the time of granting the right of a new constitution to his people had been a most absolute ruler. He was master of the lives and properties of his people. The entire revenues of the country were at his disposal and his wish was law in even the most distant province. The change to constitutionalism is indeed revolutionary and it is a matter of satisfaction that the reforms projected by the father will, in the event of his death, be continued and confirmed by the son. Elderly people make almost as many breaks as younger people, but excel in their ability to smooth them over. No doctor can cure what ails you if you have a mean disposition. Abandoned by Federal Army, Maryland Preserves It. Ever since it was announced that Fort McHenry, in Chesapeake Bay is to be abandoned by the United States Army much regret has been expressed that a place with which is associated one of the inspiring events of our history and which gave birth to our national anthem should fall into ruin. Happily, such a fate is spared the old Baltimore fort. FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. The National Guard of Maryland will take possession when Uncle Sam's soldiers step out and will use the fort as a drill ground and storehouse. The old guns and relics will remain. The Stars and Stripes will continue to float from the old ramparts as they did on that memorable September morning in 1814 when the rising sun, piercing the smoke of battle during the bombardment of the fort by the British, disclosed them to the delighted view of Key, imprisoned on one of the British warships, and inspired him to write The Star Spangled Banner. The second war of America against the mother country was in progress. An English army had invaded and occupied Washington, and had burned the national capitol. The British were massing their land and sea forces for other conquests, and as the fleet sailed down the Potomac, Dr. William Beanes, a prominent citizen of Maryland, who had been arrested in his home in Upper HISTORIC FORT M'HENBY. Marlboro, charged with some petty offence was carried off a prisoner. It was to secure the liberation of his friend and neighbor that Francis Scott Key obtained leave of the President to go to the British admiral, under a flag of truce. He found the British fleet at the mouth of the Potomac. After considerable parleying, it was finally determined that Dr. Beanes should be released, but as an advance on Baltimore was about to be made, it was required that the Americans should remain under guard on board their own vessel until morning. That night, Sept. 14, 1814, Key witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry. For long hours the cannonading continued. Suddenly it ceased; there was no way for the impatient Americans to tell whether the fort had surrendered or whether the British had found the bombardment in vain. They strained their eyes, waiting for morning to disclose whether or not the star-spangled banner was still floating on the ramparts of Fort McHenry. When the blessed morning light disclosed the flag still erect, Key, in an outburst of enthusiasm, dashed off his poem, writing it on the back of an envelope. THINGS WE GET FROM THE Hog. The hog is a wonderful animal when you come to sum him up and is one of the fixed institutions of this country. Someone once wittily described him as a manufacturer of hams, lard, hair brushes, head cheese, toothbrushes, glue, buttons, fertilizer, fats, bacon, knife handles, whistles, soaps, sauce, sausage and satisfaction. As a condenser, he heats the finest steam machinery. He will put ten bushels of corn into less space than a bushel measure. Corn loaned to a hog is cash at a good investment, safe and at a large interest. He does what the ancient alchemists never succeeded in doing by converting corn into coin, and thus discovers the philosopher's stone. Case of Deceptive Appearances. "Well," said the new reporter at the creditors' meeting, "it's easy enough to pick out the bankrupt." "Think so?" replied the older one. "Yes; see how shabby and careworn he looks." "That's the principal creditor. The bankrupt is that man with the fur overcoat and diamonds."—Philadephla Press. Bim—Great labor agitator, I suppose? Tim—Naw; alarm clock manufacturer.—New York Times. How a Mighty Mind Rests. Let us pour a libation to croquet—a sport of young and old, innocent, simple, accessible like playing with the cat, and, like that exercise, an escape into a world of revelry that is calm.—Collier's Weekly. The average woman can get an awfully big headache in having an awfully little good time. Nothing interests a woman more than a man who refuses to explain things. L. R. MANNING, Pres. A. T. HOSMER, Secy' L. R. MANNING & CO., Inc. Real Estate Loans and Investments. City and Farm Property. Timber and Coal Lands. First-Class Mortgages and Investment Securities. EQUITABLE BUILDING TAC MA, WASH. WHEAT-HEARTS Makes a delightful breakfast dish; with fruit added, a lovely desert rt. Requires little time to cook. A light expense for fuel. Is guaranteed absolutely pure and costs less than any other cereal. Sold by all grocers. Five meals per day. The DIGITC SOUND FLOURISHING HILLS CO. TORONTO WA Berlin Building. 113 South 13th St Telephone, Main 194. The Best is None Too Good for You. Get It at The Trail Saloon & Cafe RUSSELL ORMSBY, Proprietor 113 S. 12th St., Tacoma, Wash. Ivory Wood Fibre Plaster Ivory Cement Plaster 1105 A Street TACOMA, WASHINGTON Menzies & Stevens Latest Styles in HATS, MEN'S FURNISHINGS AND CLOTHING SPECIALTIES 913 Pacific Avenue Provident Bldg. TACOMA, WASH. Puget Sound Electric Railway Interurban Leave Tacoma—6:00, 7:10, 8:10, 9:15 (Ltd., no stops) 10:10, 11:10, 11:40 m, 12:10, 1:10, 2:10, 3:10, 4:15 (Ltd., no stops), 5:10, 6:10, 7:10, 8:10, 9:15 m, 11:15 p m. Leave Seattle—6:30, 8:00, 9:00 (Ltd., no stops), 10:00, 11:00 a m, 12 m, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00 (Ltd., no stops), 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:15 p m. Leave Puyallup—5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00 11:00 a m, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 6:15, 7:15, 8:15, 9:15 p m. Leave 9th and Commerce Sts—5:40, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00 a m, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:15, 7:15, 8:15, 11:15 p m. TREASURE BOX Tacoma Trunk Factory A good Trunk is always a good bargain. You can't judge from mere appearances. We sell Trunks that not only look well but wear well. Suit Cases and Bags of all sizes, styles and prices Repairing done. Phone Red 2772 931 C Street TACOMA, WASH L. R. MANNING, Pres. L. R. MANNIN Real Estate Loans and Investments. Coal Lands. First-Class Mortg EQUITABLE BUILDING THE SCANDINAVIAN Commercial Building TACOMA THE ABBEY F. J. MOONEY. Proprietor Telephone James 2121 Wines, Liquors & Cigars Rooms in Connection TACOMA WASHINGTON THE ANNEX MARTIN ANGEL, Prop. House of Fine Liquors Cor. Eleventh and Pacific Avenue THE McDONALD CIGAR CO. Sells the Highest Grades of ...CIGARS... Manufactured by the best factories of New York and Tampa. Also a complete line of Imported Cigars, Cigarettes and Smokers' Articles Tel. Main 765. 956 Pacific Avenue THE DAMFINO P. T. McGLOIN, Proprietor Telephone Main 164 ESTABLISHED BEFORE THE WAR Imported and Domestic Wines, Liquors and Cigars 1502 Jefferson Avenue, Corner Pacific TACOMA WASHINGTON L. L. ROBERSON. Pres. and Treas. C. H. ROBERSON. Sec'y. EAT T. B. C. BREAD Made by TACOMA BAKING COMPANY Wholesale Manufacturers of Bread, Cakes, Etc. We also make a specialty of GOOD BREAD. Tel. James 261. 943 Tacoma Ave., Tacoma, Wash. Phone Main 748 Paving Plant, 15th and Doe The Barber Asphalt Paving Co. ASPHALT For Roofing, Street Paving and Reservoir Lining CONTRACTORS Street Paving, Driveways, Floors and Sidewalks 203.4.5 Providence Bldg. TACOMA WASH. We make a Specialty of FINE POULTRY Private Car Trade Solicited Commercial Market HARRY HASH, Prop. Retail Dealer in Fresh and Salt Meats 1114 C Street Telephone Main 292 TACOMA J, B. TERNES, Pres. and Mgr. Tel. 43 Tacoma Carriage and Baggage Transfer Company OFFICE 101 TENTH ST. Carriages and Baggage Wagons at All Hours Private Ambulance Perfect in Every Detail FIRST CLASS LIVERY Hand your Checks for Baggage to our Messengers, who will meet you on all incoming traina. A. T. HOSMER, Secy. NG & CO., Inc. City and Farm Property. Timber and ages and Investment Securities. TAC MA, WASH. N AMERICAN BANK Savings Department Total Available Assets $7,500,000 GEO. H. TARBELL, Manager DEN, Cashier St. N. E. Cor. South 11th St. Portland Nem Age AJB ORRIN, dabriciee Wilpinaa canal iing “iutoe sine protons orden Omen —n — pone teen Se ee Our Canaidate for President / JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER Of Ohio | EDITORIAL Seosesseosnser200056 RAILROAD LEGISLATION. control, fixing rates, and so on, ought to be diluted and discounted a good deal by the legislature. Some legisla. tion is demanded and desired, and may be in order, but it ought to be very carefully drawn and well considered, and not enacted out of any spirit of hostility to the railroads, or else it will be bound to do more harm than good, The main cause of Complaint as Mr. Cotton says, has been the lack of cars, and if {t bad not been for this there would have been but little if any agi- tation among the people for railroad regulation. Possibly a new trial de- murrage law might prove a good thing, though it is pointed out that it might greatly restrict shipments out of the state. If a law can be devised that will induce or compel the railroads to furnish more cars and locomotives, sufficient to carry away lumber and other products promptly, without over- balancing evil results, it would be a good thing. But it is pretty certain that after their experience of the past year the railroads scarcely need any law to induce them to do all they can to supply the shortage in cars, for it is certainly to their interest to handle all the traffic possible, and being now fully advised of the situation they can be pretty safely depended upon to re- Heve it as fast and as soon as pos- sible. As to the railroad commission, the fegisiature will do well to consider the question in all its phases and probable consequences before being carried away by popular clamor, which, after all, ig not nearly so loud or general as some newspapers make {t out to be. The history of railroad commissions in this country is not such as to give the legislature a favorable impression of them. In some states, for a little time they have been beneficial, but as a rule they have been worse than worthless as one was in Oregon. They have been @ heavy expenso and bur- den upon the taxpayers, and have ac- complished but little. Commissions in states on both sides of us, in Califor- nia and Washington, aré examples that are warnings to the legislature. In California tre commission is notor- jously a mere pretense, so far as doing anything for the benefit of the people 1s concerned. While in Washington, the governor, under pressure, has had to remove one of the commissioners, and the others are under fire for squandering a great deal of money with but little if any good results to show for it. It is true that the Harriman rail road system has not built extensions and branches and new lines into re- sourceful and undeveloped sections of the state as it was and is desirable that it should, and the people have some just cause of complaint on that score, but will anybody who is clam- oring for a regulative’ commission point out how it could force Mr. Har- riman to build more railroads in Ore- gon unless he chose to do so? Would he not be less inclined to build exten- sions and new roads with a law em- powering a commission to fix rates at its own will and regulate the roads in whatever way it chose than if he were not thus handicapped? Rates have been reduced a good deal within the past few years and doubt less will be reduced more, and ever 3f too high in some instances it 1s fa more important to Oregon to have ‘more railroads and more equipmen for them and for those in existence ‘than to have reduced rates. ‘The lum Dermen and farmers and orchardist: and manufacturers and merchants ar all doing pretty well, or would ibe if they could get cars enangh; they then would be exceedingly prosperous with existing rates; why then antagonize and hostilely hamper the railroads when we need them, and more of them, 80 much? What Oregon wants is development, and this it can have only by a liberal treatment of the railroads, and all pos- ‘sible encouragement for more railroad building. Unless they can manage their lines without too much interfer- ence and so that they can make a fair profit and have some surplus for new roads, the railroad presidents and other capitalists are not likely to in- vest much more in railroads in Ore- gon. Bo it would be very injurious to, the state to have any radical legisla | tion at this time. It wil be better te bear some of the ills we have than to incur worse ills by foolish remedies. | The people will be disappointed if there is no legislation at all on ihe, subject of railroads, and what can in reason and moderation and with as-, surance of success be done to better | conditions should be done, but hasty | and radical measures should be avoid. | ed, and members of the legislature | should be careful not to give too con- | senting an ear to some of the news-| paper representations that are being made. | SALOON REGULATION, | It seems to be quite generally agreed that liquor licenses should be raised to $800, as the council will probably \4o soon, but the measures proposed by the initiative One Hundred to be sub- | mitted to the people at the election | next June, are entirely too radical, and, [should be and probably will be yoted jeomn: The proposed $1,000 license might not be very objectionable, ‘though if the council fixes the license ‘at $800 that will do very well for a Year or two at least;, but some of the other Propositions of the One Hun- dred are not practicable in a town ot Portland's size and position. Tie liquor traffic is gradually being more and more regulated and restrict- fed, and as long as this process is car- ried on gradually and moderately, and within reasonable bounds the people will help it along, but they will not approve of what seems to them un- reasonable measures. Laws concern- ing the liquor traffic as well as others, in order to be enforcible must be sup- ported by public opinfon, and what the One Hundred committee proposes would not be enforced if enacted, be- cause the pople would not elect men who would enforce it. | Some provisions of’the law regulat- ing and restricting liquor selling are now pretty well enforced, and most saloon men comply with them volun- tarily. It is so with reference to the 1o’clock closing ordinance and selling Mquor to minors, and allowing women in galoons and this is a good deal to ‘have accomplished. The Sunday clos- ing law is not enforced against sa- loons because it 1s not sustained by public sentiment, or if it would be the Jaw closing some other places of busi- ‘ness is not; and the saloon men, as they would be entirely justified in do- ing would demand, if their places were closed -on Sunday, that all others should be made to obey the law also. Sunday closing of saloons may come, out the time is not yet ripe for it here, | But other features of the proposed regulative ordinance are more imprac- 'ticable and unreasonable, such as al lowing only one saloon on a block. ‘There is no good reason for any such 'iaw, for it would not decrease drinking appreciably. It would only decrease the revenue from saloons by a large ‘amount and give a few saloon men a ‘chance to make a good deal of money, ant would crowd others out of bust- ‘ness, It would injure owners of build- ings to rent, throw a good many peo- ‘ple out of employment, and benefit no- body. | ‘The trouble with some reformers is that they want to make everybody act just as they, the reformers, want them to act in every respect. Some of these ‘people, if they arise at 5 o'clock every / morning, winter and summer, and re . tire at 9, would like to compel every- , body else to do the same. The world ) isn’t going to be reformed very much . In any one year, or decade, or genera. | tion but only very gradually, little by | little, and the true reformers are those THE NEW AGE, PORTLAND, OREGON a rr who work along possible, practical company is in mo hurry, and it 1 lines, and gain ground inch by inch. jmonopoly. It is rather poor, ai —_—_— making only a few hundred thous SEES WITH CLEAR VISION. {4 year off the people, so can’t a | In his book entitled “ The Fufure jot America,” H. G. Wells, the British author, who made a study of the United States and its institutions last year, has a chapter on the negro ques tion, in which occurs the following striking passage: | “Whatever America has to show In I pousa living today, I doubt if she can show anything finer than the quality of the resolve, the steadfast effort hundreds of black and colored men lare making today to live blamelesaly, ‘honorably and patiently getting for ‘themselves what seraps of refinement, learning and beauty they may, keep- ing their hold on a civilization, they are grudged and denied. They do it not for themselves only, but for all their race. Each educated colored man {fs an ambassador to civilization They know they have a handicap, that they are not exceptionally brilliant nor clever people. Yet every such man stands, one likes to think, aware of his representative and vicarious character, fighting against foul im- aginations, misrepresentations, injus- tice, insult, and the native unspeaka- ble meanness of base antagonists. Every one of them who keeps decent and honorable does a little to beat that opposition down. “But the patience the negro mai He may not even look contempt. He must admit superiority in those whose daily conduct to him is the clearest evidence of moral inferiority. We sympathic whites indeed, may claim honor for him; if he is wise he will be silent under our advocacy. He must go to and fro self-controlled be-| reft of all the qualities that the great | flag of America proclaims—that flag for whose united empire bis people, fought and, giving place and prece- lence to the strangers who pour in to, share its beneficence, strangers ignor-, ant even of his tongue. That he must lo—and wait. The Welsh, the Irish, he Poles, the white South, the inde- fatigable Jews, may cherish’ griev- | nces and rail aloud. He must keep, till. ‘They may be hysterical, re-, yengeful, threatening and perverse; | heir wrongs excuse them. For him | here is no excuse. And of all the ‘aces on earth, which has suffered uch wrongs as this negro blood trat| s still imputed to him as a sin? The eople who disdain him, have no sent | reparation toward him, have sinned | gainst him beyond all measure. I “No, I can’t help idealizing the dark submissive figure of the negro in Sry pectacle of America, He, too, seems ; o me to sit waiting—and waiting with * 1 marvelous and simple-minded pa- ienee—for finer understandings and a jobler time.” i AS WAS EXPECTED. Of course the sleet storm accounted for some of the delays and discomforts suffered by citizens who desired to ride on the street cars early this week, and so are not chargeable to the monopoly that seeks to control all the “juice” in Oregon; but of course also the delays and discomforts Were twice or thrice what they should have been and would have been if the company had been reasonably well prepared for any such emergency. Having only a fraction of the power needed at the best of times and under the most favorable circum- stances, though any quantity of ‘power is to be obtained, it cannot be expected to be prepared to do much In the way of service when a little storm comes along. In an eastern city such an incident would have disarranged traffic for about three hours instead of three days—or maybe three weeks. | Then the Portland monopoly of light ‘and power, not being willing to employ enough men or pay them decent, liv. ing wages, is of course never prepared \to right things up promptly if they go Wrong, or to try to give the people the best service possible in an emer gency. Even after it had announced that certain lines were in operation the same as usual, there were people in many instances who stood on wet corners in the rain along ten-minute or 5-minute lines for 10, 20 or 30 min. utes waiting for cars. - And as for street lights—Oh,, wl get them by next summer at least on moonlight nights. Don’t kick. The company is in no hurry, and it has a monopoly. It is rather poor, and 1s eee only a few hundred thousands a year off the people, so can't afford to hire a great many men or to pay them decent wages. Some day the people will take the property, pay these high and mighty personages what it is really worth, and run the business themselves, rather than be imposed upon in this way. MULKEY FOR BRISTOL, | Senator Mulkey has begun his brie term in the United States senate, an ‘his first official act was to ask tha |the Bristol case be taken up and dis |posea of. | Mr. Muley was asked upon bis ar rival at Washington about his atti tude and probable course in regard to the Bristol case. He said that 3 was a personal friend of Mr. Bristol, an¢ hoped to see him confirmed. But, be fore taking any action, it had been his ‘intention to ask the judiciary commit- tee to show him the records in the case, so that he might know exactly what is held against the district at- torney. From his knowledge of the facts, he was convinced that there was nothing of sufficient importance to prevent confirmation, When told of the compromise that had been arranged between Mr. Ful- ton and the President, Mr. Mulkey sald: “If that compromise is satisfactory to the Presient, I see no objection to it whatever. I should, of course, like to. see Mr. Bristol confirmed, unless there is something against him of which I have no knowledge, but, in view of the facts as I learn them now, I am very much inclined to be lieve that this compromise is the best solution of the matter. I should very much dislike to see Mr. Bristol reject- ed by the Senate, for I think his con- duct does not warrant such harsh ac- ion, and, furthermore, his ejection’ by the Senate would injure his pro-| fessional standing for all future itme. | shall look into the case at the earli- st opportunity and shall consult with Senator Fulton about it. I do not| vant to have friction with Senator Pulton over this or any other matter, | and I believe there will be none. As said before, I believe the compromise s a happy solution of this long-stand- ng controversy.” BROKE UP THE CLUB. | President Roosevelt nearly broke up jie Gridiron Club in Washington, D. C., the other evening, and turned what is always intended by that club to be an evening of merriment and jokes at prominent public men’s expense in- to one of oppressive gloom. Being joked about his imperialistic methods and temperament, instead of respond- ‘ing in harmony with the spirit of the place and occasion, he delivered him- selt of vigorous and ‘serious de- fense of his actions, and an assault on those who had criticised him, which was as much out_of place there as an owl in a cage of moneys or a revivalist at a dance. But since the President took this tone, Senator Foraker, who was present, responded in kind, and gave the president all he wanted in reply to his attitude on the Browns- ville affair. The discussion was en- tirely out of place, and “a bore” to the club, which had no idea that the pres- ident could not take a little pleasantry without raising a tempest and starting a row. But since he had to ring in the Brownsville and California affairs and discuss them in dead earnest and denounce everybody who didn’t agree with him, after his fashion, Senator Foraker could do no less than to de fend his own attitude, and show that he was not cowed by the bullying chiet executive. The affair was of course greatly regretted by the “folly good fellows” who compose the club and their guests. Their fun for the rest of the evening was spoiled, part of the ‘supper went uneaten, and everybody went away feeling sort o’ ashamed of the performance, even if it was the president of the United Stats who was the chief performer. DISTRICT ATTORNEY BRISTOL. ‘The opinion is quite prevalent that Senator Fulton is making a mistake by opposing the confirmation of Mr. W. C, Bristol for Unued States attor- ney for the District of Oregon. The incident that led to a further investiga. tion of Mr. Bristol's record soon after his first appointment was thoroughly inquired into by the president and at- torney general and found to be no good reason for revoking his appoint: ment, which was urged by Mr. F. J. Heney, who knew Mr. Bristol well. Since then he has had a great deal of important business for the government to handle, and no fault has been found with him in any quarter. He is en- tirely satisfactory to the department, to the president, and to the people of Oregon, and there is therefore no good reason why he should not be con- firmed. Senator Fulton has his own reasons, but it seems unlikely that} they-can be such as the people wotld concur in, or as would add to the Sen-| ator's political strength and prestige in Oregon. It is not treatmg Mr. Bris- tol right to hold up his confirmation thus, with a prospect that he may be turned out next winter, for no reason except the Senator's personal and un- explained opposition, Both his high character as a lawyer and his efficient and valuabie services as district at- torney entitle him to confirmation this winter or to specific reasons why | he is not confirmed. | | Senator Bailey's bill prohibiting street railway companies from employ- ing any carmen who haye not had at least 7 days’ practical instruction ought to pass unanimously. If the time were made longer the bill would be better. Surely the governor must admit that the people who used such good dig: criminating judgment as to elect him would not make any serious mistake in electing railroad commissioners. | Multnomah county surely ought to have had a member of the committee on taxation, and the speaker will not be likely to get that position again by Multnomah county votes. / | Should not a certain stoma county senator legislate for the peo- ple rather than for a paving company client? | Before whacking the railroads blind- ly remember that they are the chief developers of Oregon. BUILD GREAT BATTLESHIP. Naval Bill Allows for Second Dread- naught and More Sailors. Washinzton, Jan. 26.—An appropri- ation of about $95,000,000 is provided for in the naval appropriaticn bill agreed upon today by the house com- mittee on naval affairs. ‘The bill -pro- vides for an additional battleship of the type agreed upon in the naval ap propriation bill of last year. It also makes provision for two torpedo boat destroyers and appropriates. $2.000,000 for submarines. This $2,000,000 is ad- ditional to the $1,000,000 for subma- rines provided in the bill of last year, which has not yet been expended. Pro- vision is made for about 3,000 addi- tional eailors and 900 marines. The new battleship provided for in the bill is to be a sister ship of the monster authorized by congress last year, which, the bill required, should be a ‘first-class battleship carrying as heavy armor and as powerful armament as any known vessel of its class, to have the highest practicable speed and greatest practicable radius of action.” Will Make Stevene Chairman. Washington, Jan. 25. — Announce- ment was made today at the War de- partment that the offices of chairman and chief engineer of the Isthmian Canal commission would be combined, and that Mr. Stevens, the chief engi- neer, would be given the appointment, the understanding being that he will maintain a residence upon the isthmus. Secretary Taft today announced his pur. pose of filling the four vacancies exist ing upon the Isthmian Canal commis sion by the appointment of some bu ean chiefs. | Modify School Land Rules. Washington, Jan. 26.—An effort 1 being made by the governor of Idahc to secure the co-operation of Westerr senators and representatives in_having the Interior department modify. the reguiations under which school land is granted public land states. The at- tention of Congressman Jones was called to the matter by Governor Mead and he has taken it up with the. secre tary. Under present regulations, ac. cording to Governor Gooding, it is ex tremely dicfliult to make any selectior that will eet approval. Central Russia 47 Below. _ St. Petersburg, Jan. 25.— Reports of heavy loss of life and great suffering or account of the cold are arriving from Akmolinsk steppes, Central Russia, with which communication was inter. rapted. Daring the recent blizzard the temperatare fell to 47 below zero. Fif teen bodies were recovered in one day in the vicinity of the village of Akomli. Thousands of cattle perished. The winter grain crop is killed in Mid. die Russia, the snowfall being light. SANDSTROM BAKERY No. 776 Williams Avenue | Fresh Bread and Cakes Daily PIES AND CANNED GOODS | TELEPHONE EAST 95 | 1.4. COFER & SONS Grocery & Meat Market 735 Williams Avenue | Phone Woodlawn 149 MILLER, BUCK & CO. GROCERS Phone Woodlawn 406 | Williams Ave. & Fargo 3, Brtner 2 Hoda ERDNER & HOCHULI Chicago Market Bites ie Fons Gat at ima an Eanes pois ae te | D. C. BURNS THE GROCER ‘TELEPHONE 616 (210 Third St., Portland, Oregon. | See eee re P. A. TAYLOR Staple and Fancy Groceries Fralts, Confections, Cigars, Tobaccos and Fan- ey ates, Teas ut Spices at Lower Fries 47 Union Aye, Free Delivery Phone ast 410 AUGUST STORZ Dealer in | se ne Wepctables, Fruits and Dalry Produce | Phone East 508 69 Wittiams Ave. PORTLAND, OREGON. Cc. S. NELSON eater in Staple and Fancy Groceries. and Provisions 154 N. Fourteenth St. Cor. Irving John’s Meat Market 1. D. MERGENS, Prop. Fresh Meats, Beef, Pork, Mutton, Bacom and Hams Corned Beef and Pickled Pork a Specialty Phone Main 1954 js N.Sixth Street PORTLAND, OREGON [The Union Meat Co. ‘All Dining Cars and Firat Class Hotels and: Restaurante buy the UNION MEAT COMPANY'S FRESH AND CURED MEATS ‘The Best in the Market. Patronize Home In- dustry. PORTLAND, OREGON! GEO. HOCKENYOS Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries. | Cigars and Tobaccos, Fruits and Confectionery PROMPT DELIVERY 95 Russell St. Phone East 4899 FINK & LEWIS Dealers in Staple and Fancy Groceries. DRESSED POULTRY, ETC. Phone Fast 582 514 Mississippi Avenue PORTLAND, ORE. | GEO. W. HOCHSTEDLER © Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fruits, Produce CIGARS AND TOBACCO Phone East 374 460-462 E. Burnside St. OLSEN BROTHERS GROCERS Free delivery Phone East 653 417 Union Ave. North Portland, Ore R. C. WALWORTH Staple and Fancy Groceries Phone EAST 3407. 136 Russell St. PORTLAND, OR. JOHN E. MALLEY DEALER IN Staple & Fancy Groceries Teas and Coffees a Specialty 492 Washington, Near (Sth Phone Main 2167 PORTLAND, OREGON RAINIER MARKET ©. BLUM, Proprietor Dealer in Fresh. Cured and Smoked Meats, Hams, Bacon, Lard, Sausages, Ete, ‘Also Fish and Clams, FAMILY TRADE A SPECIALTY Gor. Seventeenth and Savier ts. Phone Main 1632 Portland, Oregon H. R. LYNES Dealer in STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES Notions and Fruit, Free Delivery. | 14 Russell Street Phone East soo PORTLAND, OREGON Established 1896 A. D. Griffin, Manager Office, Room 317, Commonwealth Building To insure publication all local news must reach us not later than Thursday morning of each week. Subscription price, one year, payable in advance, $2.00. Local News on this Page by C. A. RITTER, City Editor PORTLAND LOCALS Mrs. H. Morgan, of 464 Davis street, is on the slick list. Mrs. A. Palmer, of Park and Everett streets, is seriously ill. Arthur Wilson and Samuel Young, of Oakland, spent the week in our city. Mrs. Frazier, of Mill and Eleventh streets, is quite ill with heart troubles. Mrs. L. B. Lejeune, one of our pioneer citizens, is seriously ill at her residence, North Ninth and Glison. Mr. Ed Rutherford on last Tuesday was presented by his wife with a bouncing daughter. Mother and child are doing well. Mr. H. Lawrence, an employee of the Oregon Brass Works, was severely injured by having another employee fall on his back. Mr. J. E. Watson, who was severely injured by falling from a ladder whilst engaged in washing windows, is again able to follow his usual avocation. Mrs. L. C. Flup was the guest of Mrs. D. M. Newman on Tuesday last whilst on her way from Spokane, Wash., to her home in San Diego, Cal. Mr. Elick Waters, late of Red Bluff, Cal., has accepted a position with the Lewis Stenger Barber Supply Co. in their new quarters at Tenth and Morrison streets. The weekly socials held by the ladies of the Mt. Olivet Baptist church, will be held on Wednesday evenings hereafter, instead of Tuesdays, as heretofore. Mr. H. Woods, of Eleventh and Mill streets, was a victim of the thugs that are making a reign of terror in our city, being held up and relieved of $19.75 on last Saturday evening. Mrs. C. O. Coffee received the sad news of the death of her sister in Knoxville, Tenn. She leaves a husband and three children to mourn her loss. Mrs. Coffee has the sympathies of a host of friends in this hour of her bereavement. The young people's meeting held at the Zion A. M. E. church, Thirteenth main streets, under the leadership of Mrs. Lulu Easton, was well attended on last Sunday evening and bids fair to become one of the popular institutions of the city. Their meetings are held each Sunday evening from 7 to 8 P. M. The members of Household of Ruth, No. 844, G. U. O. of O. F., are sparing no pains to make the entertainment to be held at their hall February 12, for the benefit of their regalia fund, a success. The novel part of the program of having each member relate in verse their efforts to make (or get) a dollar promises an abundance of amusement, and may reveal to the audience another Paul Lawrence Dunbar or a Philly Whealy. Remember the date and place, February 12 at Trades Union hall, southeast corner Second and Yamhill streets. The affairs of the Enterprise Investment Co., the only institution of a financial nature that the colored people of this city are connected with that is managed and controlled by themselves, shows a very encouraging state of affairs, the value of their holdings being at the present time $13,500, an increase of $3,000 in less than five years. This success is in large part due to the skillful management and untiring energy of Mr. J. C. Logan, the president of the association, and is another example of what can be done if our people would unite and pool their interests. Mr. Benjamin Pratt, for a number of years an employee of the Hotel Portland, died on last Sunday night, after an illness of four days. Funeral services were held at Holman's undertaking parliors, Tuesday, at 3 P. M. Rev. Geo. E. Jackson, of the A. M. E Zion church, officiating. It was largely attended by his friends and acquaintances. The remains were shipped to his former home in Newburyport, S. C. Mr. Pratt was universally respected and admired by all of his acquaintances. He left an estate valued at $2,000. Mr. Ed Rutherford, who had worked with him for several years was appointed as administrator. Again Oregon is in the lead. The climatic conditions of the past few days have been such as even the "oldest inhabitant" has to admit he has not seen, and few, if any, of those from other parts of the country even claim to have experienced similar conditions. The so-called "silver thaw," which covered trees, telegraph and telephone wires and poles with a glistening coat of ice, whilst at the same time a fine driving rain was falling, had never been experienced. The loss to our telegraph and telephone and electric light and power companies will run far up into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Fortunately it was not accompanied with a loss of life, and all are thankful that normal conditions again prevail. On last Monday night at 11:30 Miss Mamie Lee, one of the waitresses employed at the Vestibule Cafe, 389 Flanders streets, was severely cut across the face several times by some unknown miscreant. She was sum- moned into one of the dining rooms, presumably to take an order, when the occupant of the room closed the door and slashed her three times across the face with a razor. Miss Lee screamed and rushed back to the kitchen, where the proprietor was. At the same time her assailant ran out of the front door. From the nature of the wounds and the description of several who saw the person feeling, it is thought that it was a woman disguised in men's clothing. Acting upon this theory the police have made several arrests of persons whom they thought likely to be influenced by jealousy into committing such a deed, but at the present time they have not a strong case against any of the suspects. Miss Lee was removed to the Good Samaritan hospital, where she is resting easy, with excellent chances of recovery, unless some unforeseen circumstances should arise. It is the earnest hope of the whole community that the guilty party be apprehended and punished. Chicago, Ill., Jan. 14.—Announcements are out that Dr. J. William McDowell, of St. Louis, will engage in the practice of medicine in this city, May 1, 1907. Office announcement will be later. Residence, 351 Calumet avenue, Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Laura Wright, of 4830 Wabash avenue, is confined to her bed, but is improving slowly. The next meeting of the National Defense League of Colored People of the United States has been called to meet at Ann Arbor, Mich., on July 5, 1907. Mr. George W. Gough, 33, a prominent thirty-third degree Mason of Ann Arbor, Mich., has been appointed deputy for the state of Michigan for all the branches and departments of Free-masonry. The next session of the National Federation of Friendly Societies among the colored people in the United States has been called to meet at Buffalo, N. Y., July 8, 1907. Each national organization is entitled to five delegates and each state organization is entitled to three delegates and every local organization is entitled to one delegate. The attention of the public is again called to one Mrs. S. J. Gray and one William Gray, of this city, who are soliciting money, as they claim, for the purpose of building a home at Braidwood, Ill., for aged Baptist ministers. It will be remembered that only a short time ago that both of these individuals had been expelled and put out of several societies for misappropriation of funds. The following resolution was adopted at the Masonic conference that was held in Chicago last week. The resolution was offered by Mr. J. H. Marshall, of Florida, which was unanimously adopted:: "Whereas, it has come to the knowledge of this Masonic conference, composed of delegates from several of the states and territories, now sitting in Chicago, that one John A. Bell, of Grand Rapids, Mich., who some time ago was expelled for unmasonic conduct from every branch and department of the Masonic fraternity, is now traveling over the country pretending to have some authority, which, upon investigation, has been manufactured by himself and is now attempting to set up lodges, and "Whereas, He has associated with him one William Gray, H. W. Knight, of Chicago, Ill., an one Daniel Brown, of Alabama, who have each one of them been regularly and lawfully expelled from the Masonic Fraternity, and these individuals are now attempting to peddle out their bogus and shoddy commodities to the unwary and uninformed people; "Therefore, be it resolved. That we now take the opportunity of calling the attention of not only members of the Masonic Fraternity, but the public, of these Masonic impostors, who have been expelled out of the Masonic Fraternity and have no power or authority whatever to organize any Masonic lodges or branches or departments of Freemasonry in any part of the land, and any and all Masonic work that they attempt to do will never be recognized by any Masonic body in the whole world." North 16th Street Market, A. Wurtenberger, proprietor, choice poultry, fresh and salt meats, phone Main 1355, 230 North Sixteenth street, Portland, Ore. THE NEW AGE, PORTLAND, OREGON VANCOUVER NATIONAL BANK Vancouver, Wash. Leading Financial Institution in Southwestern Washington CAPITAL, $50,000 SURPLUS, $50,000 ASSETS, $1,000,000 LEVI ANKENY President; E. G. CRAWFORD, Vice President; W. P. CONNAWAY, Cashier LEvi Ankeny, Harry Ladd Corbett, W. P. Crawford, E. G. Crawford, W. W. McCredit Our stock is complete. Give us a trial.—GEO. Hockenyos. The Oak Cafe. Choicest line of wines, liquors and cigars. P. W. Pick, proprietor. Oregon Phone Pacific 2118, corner Fourth and Oak streets, Portland, Ore. Dyeing and cleaning of all kinds of ladies' and gents' clothing, crepe shawls, silk, velvet and lace dyed equal to new; lace curtains and bankets cleaned by a new process; mourning garments dyed in 48 hours. All work done at very moderate prices. 104 North Third street. Fresh, Cured and Smoked Meats Sausage and Poultry Tel. Main 818 Cor. 21st and Irving Streets McGUIRE & TAYLOR Staple and Fancy Groceries 35 Grand Avenue Phone East 2629 PORTLAND, OR. We Cater Specially to the Small Buyer UNIVERSAL SUPPLY HOUSE Delicatessen and Groceries Home Cooking a Specialty. Try Our Home Made Pies Phone East 5821 369 E. Burnside St. Near Union Ave. WILLIAMS & SWANK STAPLE & FANCY GROCERIES Fresh Fruit and Vegetables, Teas and Coffees Telephone East 1602 232 Larabee Street PORTLAND, OREGON HALL PHARMACY. CO. Telephone East 873 Union Avenue and Tillamook Street PORTLAND OREGON ROBERT A. PRESTON PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST SCHWIND & BAUER Shoe Repairing Machine and Hand. Only Goodyear Machine in Our City. Shoes made to Order. Shoes Called for and Delivered. Telephone Pacific 2228. 269 Yamhill Street PORTLAND, OREGON Fancy & Staple Groceries Phone East 440 447 Union Avenue, North PORTLAND OREGON C. H. COBB Estimates Given on All Classes of Plumbing and Heating Work Phone East 2327 Residence East 2040 247 Holiday Ave. PORTLAND, ORE AMBLER & WATTERS The Real Estate Brokers Corvallis, Oregon Fine Farms, Stock Ranches and City Property for Sale or Rent Independent Phone 225. Send for List SENN & NITSEHKE PHONE EAST 8073 SCULPTORS AND CARVERS In Marble, Stone, Granite and Wood. Architectural, Plaster and Staff Ornaments. Monuments, Statues, Busts, Tombstones. Postal orders promptly attended to. Sculpture Work a specialty, Office and Studio. Union Ave., cor. Irving. PHONE MAIN 1893 Martin-Marks Coffee Co. HIGH GRADE COFFEES TEAS, ETC. The excellence of Monte Cristo Java and Mocha Coffee stands in high favor. Frederick A. Kribs Correspondence Solicited 328-330 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VANCOUVER NATIONAL Leading Financial Institution in CAPITAL, $50,000 SURPLUS, $50 LEVI ANKENY President; E. G. CRAWFORD, VIC DIRECTOR Levi Ankeny, Harry Ladd Corbett, W. P. Craw The Portland Hat Works Manufacturers of FINE SOFT AND STIFF HATS Hats Dry, Cleaned and Blocked. Our specialty: Panamas Cleaned and Bleached. 24% Alder St. bet. Second and Third. Branch: 422 Washington St. Portland, Or. The Yale Market & Grocery ED. R. STOCKLEN, Proprietor Staple and Fancy Groceries TEAS AND COFFEES A SPECIALTY Phone East 568 295 Grand Ave., South PORTLAND, OREGON ARTHUR LAVY Furnisher and Hatter "HE MAKES SHIRTS" 486 Washington St., Opposite Heilig's Theater PORTLAND, OREGON J. A. EASTES Staple & Fancy Groceries Choice Teas, Coffees & Spices Dry Goods and Notions ALL THE LEADING BRANDS OF FLOUR GOODS DELIVERED PROMPTLY 432, 434, 436, Union Avenue North Corner of Tillamook St. Phone East 660 E. B. COLWELL Wholesale and retail GROCER 281, 283 and 285 Third St. CORNER JEFFERSON PORTLAND, OREGON PICTURES FRAMED PHONE EAST 3549 FURNITURE REPAIRED RES. PHONE EAST 2312 H. C. SCHROEDER The Albina HOUSE FURNISHER HOUSES FURNISHED COMPLETE CASH OR INSTALLMENTS UNDERTAKING AND EMBALMING 244, 246, 248 Russell St., PORTLAND THE AVENUE CLUB AND The Avenue Oyster House P. F. HALL, Prop. Fresh Oysters open daily. Pints, quarts, gall lons. Delivered any place. The Best of Wines, Liquors and Cigars the best of Meats, Fish, Oysters and Game. Open Day and Night 563 Williams Avenue 564 Williams Avenue Phone East 4619 PORTLAND OREGON ESTABLISHED 1885 Multnomah Trunk & Bag COMPANY Manufacturers of SUIT CASES STRAPS TRUNKS TELESCOPES BAGS Mail Orders Promptly Attended To Telephone East 24 121-131 E. Water St. PORTLAND, ORE THE HOUSE THAT GIVES YOU A SQUARE DEAL A. R. ZELLAR N. L. MUELLER Zellar & Mueller FURNITURE A Full Line of Stoves & Ranges SEE US, WE HAVE WHAT YOU WANT Phone East 4457 535 Williams Ave., Portland, Ore Centennial Market & Grocery J. J. BLUM Headquarters for "GOOD THINGS TO EAT" Groceries, Meats, Fish, Poultry ALWAYS THE BEST School Supplies, Shoes, Gloves, Notions Phone Main 2794 522-524 N. Twenty-Fourth Street Dealer in Washington, Idaho & Oregon TIMBER & MINERAL LANDS Portland, Oregon ONAL BANK Vancouver, Wash. on in Southwestern Washington US, $50,000 ASSETS, $1,000,000 ORD, Vice President; W. P. CONNAWAY, Cashier RECTORS P. Crawford, E. G. Crawford, W. W. 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WE MAKE LOANS ON APPROVED SECURITIES Portland Realty and Trust Company 106 Second Street PACIFIC OCEAN LOW SAND SOTT GOO'S BAY BANGOR SCHAEFFER'S ADDITION CENTRAL PLACE 26 WASHFIELD 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 OOS BAY NEXT! STRANGERS! TOURISTS! HOMESEEKERS! Go there, where, when the tide is out, "the table is set," and where the wealth of riches has not yet been touched. OREGON'S COAST CITY Lots in Schaefer's Addition, "CENTRAL," $100 and upwards. GEQ. J. SCHAEFER, Owner and Real Estate Agent 317 Chamber of Commerce PORTLAND, OREGON Portland, Oregon AGE COMPANY. for shipping. Com- mons, Front and Clay. PORTLAND, OREGON ge, or any class me our list. SECURITIES and ny et Oregon THE W. G. M'PHERSON COMPANY Heating, Ventilating and Drying Engineers WARM AIR FURNACES "NOTHING BUT THE BEST" 47 First Street PORTLAND, OREGON DRIFTED SNOW FLOUR "The Purest of Pure Foods" Tacoma Warehouse and Sperry Mills TACOMA, U. S. A. THE BITULITHIC PAVEMENT BEST BY EVERY TEST For Streets, Driveway WARREN CONSTRUCTION 716 Oregonian Build HENRY WEINHAH Manufacturers and Well Known Brands “EXPORT” “KAISER IN KEGS AND Trade and Families Supplied Brewery and Office DAVID H. BEECHER, President. SIDNEY CLARK, Cashier. Kits, Driveways and Cr CONSTRUCTION Oregonian Building, Portland, C WEINHARD'S B manufacturers and Bottlers of own Brands of Lager "KAISERBLUME" "CO N KEGS AND BOTTLE ies Supplied Office BURNSIDE For Streets, Driveways and Crosswalks. WARREN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 716 Oregonian Building, Portland, Oregon Manufacturers and Bottlers of the Well Known Brands of Lager Beer "EXPORT" Union National Bank Incorporated 1890 CAPITAL $100,000 Pays Interest on Time Deposits THE OLD BANK CORNER Grand Forks, NORTH DAKOTA PACIFIC IRON WOOD NATURAL STEEL AIR Bridges, Upset Rods and Bolts, and all Architectural Iron. Sidew ows. All Kinds of Castings. BARNSIDE STREET BRIDGE, PACIFIC IR STRUCTURAL S Steel Bridges, Upset R STRUCTURAL STEEL AND IRON Steel Bridges, Upset Rods and Bolts, Cast Iron Columns and all Architectural Iron. Sidewalk Doors and Lights. All Kinds of Castings. EAST END 'BURNSIDE STREET BRIDGE, PORTLAND, OR THE ESCEN THE CRESCENT SPOKANE'S GREATEST STORE The Model Dry Goods Store of the Model Western City VISIT SPOKANE. When you do, visit THE CRESCENT, its model store, and one of the most interesting show places in what Elbert Hubbard has called the model city of America. Visitors will find here a Bureau of Information where reliable information of all kinds regarding the city may be obtained. Also free Parcel Check Rooms, Public Telephones and comfortable waiting rooms with lavatories for women. Spokane Agents for North Star Blankets, the kind used on all Pullman coaches. O. E. HEINTZ, Manager. ays and Crosswalks. CCTION COMPANY ing, Portland, Oregon BIRD'S BREWERY and Bottlers of the ids of Lager Beer BLUME" "COLUMBIA" D BOTTLES BURNSIDE & 13th STS. THE BANK ON WORKS. STEEL AND IRON Isls and Bolts, Cast Iron Central Iron. Sidewalk Doors of Castings. T BRIDGE, PORTLAND, OR Watson Drug Co. Wholesale and Retail The most complete stock of Drugs and Patent Medicines to be found in the Inland Empire. Prices guaranteed as low as the lowest. Our Prescription Department meris your confidence. 421 Riverside Ave. Mariso Block THE CENT SPOKANE'S GREATEST STORE Phone East 57 THE NEW AGE, PORTLAND, OREGON AGRICULTURAL Annual Losses Due to Insects. If the power of the mosquito had not been proved to us beyond a doubt, we would be inclined to regard the estimate of $700,000,000 annual loss to our farming interests caused by insects, which has been made by the Department of Agriculture as too startling to be true. The following table shows the basis of the calculation: Products. Annual Value. P. C. Amount of Loss. Cereals $2,040,000,000 10 $2040,000,000 Hay 530,000,000 10 53,000,000 Cotton 600,000,000 10 60,000,000 Tobacco 630,000,000 10 5,300,000 Truck crops 265,000,000 20 53,000,000 Sugars 50,000,000 10 5,000,000 Fruit 135,000,000 10 27,000,000 Farm forests 110,000,000 10 11,000,000 Miscellan'us crops 58,000,000 10 5,800,000 Animal products 1,750,000,000 10 175,000,000 Total $5,551,000,000 $595,100,000 Natural forests and forest products 100,000,000 Products in storage 100,000,000 Grand total $795,100,000 Such an immense sum being well worth the saving, the department has in its employ a large staff of men who are studying the life history of the pernicious insects to find out where they are vulnerable. The work has been going on for some years and much progress has already been made. The cotton worm which formerly levied an annual tax of $30,000,000 on the cotton crop, is now controlled by sprays; it has been proven that the ravages of the Russian fly which sometimes have reduced the wheat acreage in Ohio 40 per cent and in Indiana 60 per cent besides greatly impairing the yield of the remaining acreage, can be considerably checked by planting wheat at seasons when the fly is not so rapacious; the coddling moth is controlled by arsenical sprays and $20,000,000 worth of apples saved as a result. The orange and lemon orchards of California have been relieved of the white scale which threatened to destroy them, by the importation from Australia of the ladybird, a natural enemy of the scale. Many other instances could be given of the wisdom of watching the insects. Clder-Making. The Apple Specialist, in answer to an inquiry, gives the following instructions how to make elder and keep it sweet. "In order to make elder the juice must be extracted from the apples. This is done by grinding the apples into a pumice and thus pressing the juice out. The pumice is laid up in hoops and held in place by old sacking made by ripping gummy sacks. It is laid up in cheese form, one above the other, and pressure applied at the top. The elder works out through the sacking and is caught in a tub. Hand elder mills are made that are excellent for the work, and sweet elder may be had at any time. Ther is no way to keep elder sweet without racking it off, drawing it from one barrel to another several times, letting it run through several thicknesses of flannel to take out the sediment. It must be allowed to run very slowly so as to keep all sediment in the bottom of the barrel. When thoroughly purified the barrel must be plugged tight and kept in a cool place. By boiling and skimming the elder it will keep sweet, but has a slight cooked taste. We have made thousands of barrels of elder and have tried all kinds of schemes to keep It sweet and have found nothing equal to racking off. It is a slow process, however, and unless well done will not prove effectual." Four-Row Corn Marker The following suggestion, which seems a good one, comes from a farmer who has built and used one. He says: "This will make four marks at a time on ridges or in furrows. To turn at the FOUR-BOW MARKER. end of rows, pull gang pole out of hole, lay it back, fold up outside runners, and you have just two runners to turn, the same as an ordinary sled. The sketch will clearly show the construction of the marker. On stumpy ground, raise the outside runners as when turning, and go right along. Farm Notes. One-fourth of the dairy cows of the country do not pay for their feed, and more than half of them do not return any profit. In nine months 4,184,181 dozen eggs, valued at $865,437, were exported from the United States, double the number sent out during the same period last year. Alfalfa as a Weed Killer. Probably no other crop, without a single exception, presents so many characteristics of value. As it is studied more and more, and as new experiments are made with it in different capacities, its wonderful capacities become more and more manifest. A very eminent authority has discovered that it is a weed eradicator of unfalling power. This will seem like contradiction to readers who have been cautioned about weeds, and which will prove more destructive to alfalfa than any combatable influence. Nevertheless it is strictly true that the plant is the greatest destroyer of weeds known. This comes not so much from any quality contained in the alfalfa plant, but from the inability of the weeds to endure having their heads cut off so many times in summer close to their feet. The most strenuous weed soon will succumb to this harsh treatment, while the alfalfa plant will thrive all the better the more it is cut. If weeds can be kept back from choking the young alfalfa plants until they, the alfalfa plants, are tall enough to be mowed, the question of weeds in the particular parcel of ground is settled. Therefore, it is wise to select a weed piece of ground for the alfalfa field, but before sowing the seed every precaution should be taken to kill as many weeds as possible. This can best be done by simply following the oft-repeated injunction to thoroughly prepare the seed bed before sowing the seed. If this be done, and the tract harrowed and rolled after plowing at a time when the tiny weeds begin to show green over the field, and again just before time to sow, there will be the cleanest field on the farm before the year is out. There are many weed-infected farms and many farmers who have despaired of ever getting rid of the weeds. Alfalfa suggests the means of riddance.—C. M. Ginther in Agricultural Epitomist. Turkey Which Sold for $175. Here is a fine specimen of a Bronze Tom Turkey, bred in Massachusetts. He is 3 years old, and sold for $175. Dry Earth as a Disinfectant. It is well known that fine, dry dirt is one of the best of absorbents and disinfectants. It is also plentiful, and costs nothing but the labor of handling. It makes excellent bedding, if covered over with a few inches of straw, and it really keeps the cows clean, even when used in the stalls without straw, as it is easily removed from the hair with a brush. A stall bedded with dry earth can be cleaned out in a much shorter time than when the earth is not used, and, as dirt absorbs the liquids and gases, quite a saving is effected in that manner. Its use goes beyond the stall. As the stable should be cleaned daily, quite a large quantity of dry earth will be used in the course of a year, and it will necessarily be added to the heap itself, yet its presence therein will double the value of the manure by preventing loss of fertilizing material. It is a better absorbent than straw or corn stalks, and is easily handled when the manure is hauled to the fields. Testing Individual Cows. Testing Individual Cows. A circular by the Illinois Station emphasizing the importance of studying the production of individual cows contains records for one year of eighteen dairy records in Illinois, including 221 cows. The average production was 5,616.90 pounds of milk and 226.63 pounds of butter fat. The best herd averaged 350.17 pounds of butter fat and the poorest 142.05 pounds. The best ten cows averaged 388.75 pounds of butter fat and the poorest 10,106.42 pounds. It is believed that at least one-third of the cows in the ordinary herds are practically unprofitable. A marked improvement was observed in herds where grading had been practiced. It was found possible to remove five cows from a herd of ten and thereby increase the profit $7.62 per head. Milk Fat. Of 319 samples of whole milk analyzed by a Canadian station, forty-five were pronounced adulterated and eighty-five doubtful. This was more unfavorable than the results obtained in previous years. Twenty-nine samples of cream examined showed percentages of fat ranging from 12.63 to 33.51. The author believes that the following standard should be established in Canada: Whipping cream not less than 25 per cent fat, and table cream not less than 17.5 per cent. DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF BARBERS' FURNITURE AND SUPPLIES FINE CUTLERY RAZOR WORK A SPECIALTY. 142 E. Sixth St., Opp. Ryan Hotel. St. Paul, Minnesota Aguilas and Seal of Minnesota Cigars ARE SOLD ON ALL TRAINS Kubles & Stock Co. MAKERS ST. PAUL - MINNESOTA EL FIRMA and DUKE OF PARMA CIGARS You Will Like Them HART & MURPHY, Makers ST. 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Manufacturers of Blankets, Flannels and Blanketings Minneapolis, Minn. A. Backdahl & Co. DRUGGISTS. Opposite Milwaukee Depot. Prescriptions are fully compounded. 313 Washington avenue South. Minneapolis, Minnesota Wear CYGNUS $3.50 SHOE Minnesota Wholesale Liquor Im Wholesale Liquor De Moore Northwestern Agents Anhing ing Association's Celebrated $2.50 SHOE SKELLY & LITT Dealers in Manufactured by North Star Shoe Co. MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA OMNIBUS MINNEA AND C MINNESOTA Corner Flanders P MINNEAPOLIS US AND CARRIAGE MATTISON & FOYE, Proprietors 237 Hennepin Ave. MINNEAPOLIS, pin Ave. Nicollet H MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA Game and Fish in Season. Livingston. - - - - Montana. F.B.TOLHURST Taxidermist for the Tourist OPPOSITE DEPOT, Livingston, Montana. GEO.W.HUSTED Prescriptions, Drugs, Patent Medicines, Cigars, Toilet Articles, Finest Soda Fountain on the N. P. Railway. OPPOSITE THE DEPOT This card entitles you to a trip through the National Park, providing you patronize "THE SOLO" And can make satisfactory arrangements with the transportation companies. The only first-class place of the kind in Livingston. Bottle Goods a specialty FRANK BLISS, Proprietor 117 W. Park St. LIVINGSTON, Mont. OMAHA NEBRASKA from hotel and Residences in pur- ed States by Transfer Co. So. 14th St. Give your checks to our uniformed receive cheapest and best service COUNCIL BLUFFS S. T. McATEE Fancy Groceries, Bakery Goods and Meats Supplies for Dining and Private Cars Given Special Attention 230-32 Main St. 229-31 Pearl St. Telephone 191 Council Bluffs Iowa For Medicinal Purposes We recommend our Black Buffalo Pure Rye Whiskey Unexcelled in Quality and Excellence The Pederson Mercantile Co. 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RATES $2.00 to $4.00 PER DAY THE HOTEL The Spalding Leading Hotel of the LAKE SUPERIOR REGION Enlarged and Improved American Plan, $2.50 and Up European Plan $1.00 and Up Finest Cafe in Northwest DULUTH, MINN HOTEL WHITE WAY COLTAY WASH A Home for the Traveling Men Strictly First Class. American Plan Electric lighted. Steam heated. Good Sample Rooms in Connection. J. C. BROWN, Manager. COLFAX, WASHINGTON THE NEW AGE, PORTLAND, OREGON ONE MAN'S LUCK. The artisan with the beard frowned as he struck his fifth match on the leg of his overalls. "If I had him around I'd break his neck," he said. "I get mad every time I go by the house." "I don't see how they live, m'self," remarked the lean toiler with the tobacco-stained shirt, elevating his muddy feet to the seat opposite. "They wouldn't live, they'd die or they'd be in the poorhouse if the old woman didn't get out an hustle. She's a worker, all right. Takes washin' in the house an' goes out washin' or scrubbin'. She's on the go the whole time, the old woman is. She'd fire him if she had a lick o' sense." "Not since I've known him. Never done nothin' 's far's I can see except loaf around and smoke his pipe, but the old woman says he uster be a hot worker afore he hurt, his back. His back! I bet you his back's as good as mine is. I've hurt my back afore now, but I think I see my woman hustin' around while I was settin' in a rockin' chair. I'd find myself outside on the back o' my neck, that's where I'd be." "Same here. I couldn't work my woman that way. She wouldn't stand for it. Back or no back, I'd have to get out an' dig." "They ought to tar an' feather him, that's what they ought to do. He is too worthless to live. If somebody'd get out an' make up a party to it, I'd make one of 'em. I'd ride him on a rail until his back got limbered up. Give him a little exercise like that an' I'll bet you wouldn't hear nothin' more about his back." "That's what! Why don't you do it some time? The old woman wouldn't make any holler, would she?" "Would she? Well, I guess!" "She would?" "I'd hate to be the first man to try it if she was anywhere around. She's a pretty husky woman, she is. She needs to be, all right. Say, that feller's got a snap. If I had his job I wouldn't want no better." Seventeen distinct languages, besides English, are spoken in India. It is claimed that 45 per cent of lithographers die of tuberculosis. The potato crop of the United Kingdom is worth annually over $1,000,000,000. Bishop Berry of the Methodist Church has charge of seventeen conferences. A hundred years ago two "enterprising" merchants were ducked once for every missing ounce. A Young Men's Christian Association building costing $500,000 is soon to be erected in Detroit, Mich. Refrigerators are for the first time coming into general use in France. The patterns being sold are of the style used in the United States fifty years ago. The Boston Y. M. C. A. is to give a winter course of talks to shoe workers. The aim is to give the workmen a wider and more thorough knowledge of the industry. A pageant will be held at Romsey, England, on June 18, 19 and 20 next in honor of the one-thousandth anniversary of the founding of Romsey Abbey by King Edward the Elder. The contention that Iowa soil could be made to produce, with good seed and proper cultivation, 100 bushels of corn to the acre is being proved correct at the county farm near Des Moines. The Amalgamated Copper Company alone employs about 10,000 persons at Butte, Mont., in addition to about 1,500 at Great Falls, 2,000 at Anaconda, and 2,000 more at its coal mines and lumber camps. Billard balls, boxes for handkerchiefs, ink wells, combs, etc., are now made from skimmed milk. Milk stone or "galalith," as it is called, is a combination of skimmed milk and formaline, and is made by a simple process. The parson's wife had sent an order for a leg of mutton and received in reply the following note: "Dear Madam—I have not killed myself this week, but can get you a leg off my brother if that will do. Your affectionate butcher, John Smith." Sunny Slope, Cal., enjoys the distinction of being the largest vineyard in the world. It is situated amidst the most beautiful scenery of that favored land, two miles from San Gabriel. Of a total of 1,900 acres, 735 are devoted to grapevines, the remainder being distributed among orange, lemon and olive trees. The biggest high-pressure pump in the world is installed in the Dry Diggings placer fields of southern Oregon, on Rogue River, and is used to operate a battery of hydraulic monitors in the mines. This pump is tested to withstand a maximum pressure of 250 "Didn't he never work?" --- "It certainly is a puddin'." "Puddin's no name for it. Why, just think! Three good, square meals a day, all the terbacker you can smoke an' a rockin' chair out on the porch in summer an' up alongside q' the store in winter an' not a hand's turn o' work to do. Why, if I had that I'd think I was fixed for sure. On'y thing he ever does is to whittle out some trinkets for the kids with his knife. She buys the papers for him, too." "Say, she's all right. If I had that kind of a woman I'd be in luck, eh?" "Well, you ain't." "It makes me mad to see him. I get up an' go to my work an' I see a light in the kitchen an' I know she's up an' got the fire built an' gittin' him his breakfast. I'll bet it's a good one, too. If he don't feel like it he don't git up all mornin' at all. Say, I feel like pickin' up a rock an' soaking it through the bedroom winder. Many's the time I've thought I'd like to give him a little surprise like that. In the summer I'd watch 'em evenin's setting out in front; her knittin' stockin's an' shawls to sell an' him readin' out loud in the paper to her. Or else she'd be at her tub an' him leann' back in his chair smokin' his pipe as happy an' contented as you please, watchin' her. When I see that I want to take hold o' the back rockers o' that chair an' shoot him out down the steps an' tell him to get to work." "Maybe he has got something the matter with him." "Him! If he's he don't look it. He's rollin' hog fat. He don't look no more slick than I do an' I'll bet you he ain't. She told my wife once he was jest about the best man breathin'. Always kind an' cheerful an' never complainin'. Say, I'd like to know what he's got to complain of. She's afraid she won't have him to work for much longer. I'd be scared to death if I was her." "Some men is mighty queer, that's a fact," said the toller with the tobacco-stained shirt.—Chicago Dally News. pounds to the square inch. Its capacity is 13,000,000 gallons a day of twenty-four hours, or 9,000 gallons a minute.—Technical World Magazine for January. There is a "black list" of habitual drunkards in Germany and one Henry Schiverdtferger had the misfortune to be placed on it. He is now off—as the following official notice, issued by the chief constable of Hildesheim, indicates: "Henry Schiverdtferger, master furrier, having died May 22, 1906, the warning against serving him with alcoholic liquors is now superfluous. For the present his name is removed from the black list." The village inn at Addington, England, has been tenanted by the members of one family since the reign of Henry VII. On the death of the mother of the present hostess she left no son, but only three daughters survive her. The three sisters in turn took possession, and the present hostess is the last of them. The Jolly Millers' inn, at Newnham, Cambridgeshire, has been kept by a family of the name of Musk for the last 400 years. It is recorded in Cambridge annals that Queen Elizabeth once stopped here. A land improvement company employed a novel means to reduce the height of a hill near Baltimore recently. The summit of the hill was to be lowered nine feet. The operations covered an area 1,500 feet long and 300 feet wide. From a stream near by water was forced at 80-pound pressure through 8-inch pipes to a 5-inch reducing nozzle, and then against the wall of earth. This fell in cartloids every few minutes, and so thin was it, with the water added, as to be easily conveyed through pipes to an abandoned pond which the company wished to fill as a part of the improvement plans. The old astronomical clock in the first and second quadrangles at Hampton Court palace, London, which has gone continuously for many years without stopping, has suddenly ceased to keep time. It stopped at 10:55 a few weeks ago through the slipping of a pln in the mechanism and is now being thoroughly overhaulled. The circumstance is of interest, as there is a tradition at the palace that the clock had not stopped from any accidental cause for over a century. The present clock is a restoration of the original clock, erected about 1540, when Henry VIII and Queen Catherine Howard lived at Hampton Court. Dozing in Church. "Lots of people," remarked the tiresome talker, "are said to have fallen asleep in the Lord," who merely died and went to the other place. "Yes," said Wiseman, "the nearest they ever got to it was to fall asleep in the house of the Lord." "Philadelphia Press. Nature unadorned is said to be adorned the most, but the bare truth isn't always a thing of beauty. Many a man becomes weary from trying to dodge people who make him tired. THE ESMOND HOTEL OSCAR ANDERSON Manager Rates: European Plan 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 per day Free Bus to and from all Trains Front and Morrison Streets PORTLAND OREGON DULUTH MINN. HENRY FOLZ Leading grocery and market. We serve the traveling public at reasonable prices. 114 and 116 West Superior street. DULUTH, MINN. GREAT FALLS THE HUB Cloths Man, Woman, Boy—in Modern Up-to-Date Fashionable Clothing—at Popular Prices. Visit Often the Popular Priced Store for Men and Women. Great Falls, - - - Montana. E. A. REICHEL, President. W. F. SENGBUSCH, Vice President. H. W. GRUNWALDT, Sec. & Treas THE AMERICAN BREWING & MALTING COMPANY Brewers and Bottlers of extra quality lager beer. "American Family" bottled beer a specialty. Office: 100 Central Avenue. P. O. Box 86. Great Falls, - - - Montana. IDAHO ADVERTISING Thos. Blyth, Pre Lyman Fargo, Vice Pres The Blyth & Fargo Co. Pocatello, Idaho General Merchandise STORES AT Evanston, Wyo. Pocatello, Idaho BANK OF NAMPA, Ltd. CAPITAL STOCK $50,000.00 Established 1899. Dewey Palace Hotel Bld.g. FRED G. MOCK, President F. J. CONROY, Vice-President C. R. HICKEY, Cashier FRANK JENKINSON, Ass't Cashier J. A. Murray, President, Wm. A. Anthes, Cashier D. W. 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We supply the other trade wires a nice, clean aprons. Why buy your aprons and then pay to have them laundered when we will supply them for just what it costs you now to have them launched. Our wagon will call. M. J. Gardner Phone Main 1900 M. Gardner GARDNER BROS. Manufacturers of the Silk Tie Cigars 209% Madison Street PORTLAND, OREGON WEEKS GRANITE CO. For First Class Work and LOWEST PRICES in Portland Cor. Fourth and Columbia Streets One Block South of City Hall IMPORTED & DOMESTIC PERFUMES Prescriptions, Family Recipes. Phone your order's East 5169. W. C. CHURCH, Pharmacist 677 Williams Ave., Cor. Fargo NATIONAL WINE CO. Pure Wine & Liquors WE SELL DIRECT TO THE FAMILIES Fifth and Stark Streets Phone Main 6499 PORTLAND, ORE. Rupert's Pharmacy PHONE MAIN 6421 Everything New, Fresh and Up- To-Date. We select your trade. Purity pre-eminent. Pure Drugs an important matter. Prescriptions precisely prepared. We never sub- stitute. Perfumes of the highest character. 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These humors get into the blood, generally because of an inactive or sluggish condition of the members of the body whose duty it is to collect and carry off the waste and refuse matter of the system. This unhealthy matter is left to sour and ferment and soon the circulation becomes charged with the acid poison. The blood begins to throw off the humors and acids through the pores and glands of the skin, producing Eczema, Acne, Tetter, Psoriasis, Salt Rheum and skin eruptions of various kinds. Eczema appears, usually with a slight redness of the skin followed by pustules from which there flows a sticky fluid that dries and forms a crust, and the itching is intense. It is generally on the back, breast, face, arms and legs, though other parts of the body may be affected. In Tetter the skin dries, cracks and bleeds; the acid in the blood dries up the natural oils of the skin, which are intended to keep it soft and pliant, causing a dry, feverish condition and giving it a hard, leathery appearance. Acne makes its appearance on the face in the because they do not reach the blood, S. S. S. goes down into the circulation and forces out every particle of foreign matter and restores the blood to its normal, pure condition, thereby permanently curing every form of skin affection. Book on Skin Diseases and any medical advice desired sent free to all who write. S. S. S. is for sale at all first class drug stores. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. MAYOR OF SUNBURY icine. Hon. C. C. Brooks, mayor of Sunbury, Ohio, also attorney for Farmers' bank and Sunbury Building and Loan Co., writes: "I have the utmost confidence in the virtue of Peruna. It is a great medicine. I have used it and I have known many of my friends who have obtained beneficial results from its use. I cannot praise Peruna too highly." HON. C. C. BROOKS HON. C. C. BROOKS. There are a host of petty ailments which are the direct result of the weather. This is more true of the excessive heat of summer and the intense cold of winter, but it is partly true of all seasons of the year. Whether it be a cold or a cough, catarrh of the head or bowel complaint, whether the liver be affected or the kidneys, the cause is very liable to be the same. The weather slightly deranges the mucous membranes of the organs and the result is some functional disease. Peruna has become a standby in thousands of homes for minor ailments of this sort. Ask your Druggist for Free Peruna Almanac for 1907. AWFUL ATTACKS OF PAIN. A Most Dreadful Case of KIney Trouble and How It Were Cured. Thomas N. McCullough, 321 South Weber St., Colorado Springs, Colo., says: "For twelve or fifteen years I was suffering frequent attacks of pain in the back and kidneys that lasted for three weeks at a time. I would be unable to turn in bed. The urine was in a terrible condition, at says: "For twelve or fifteen years I was suffering frequent attacks of pain in the back and kidneys that lasted for three weeks at a time. I would be unable to turn in bed. The urine was in a terrible condition, at times a complete stoppage occurring. I began with Doan's Kidney Pills, and soon felt better. Keeping on, I found complete freedom from kidney trouble. The cure has been permanent; I owe my good health to Doan's Kidney Pills." Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. HOWARD E. BURTON. Assayer at 1 Chemist, Leadville, Colorado. Specimen prices: Gold, Silver and Lead, Good, Silver and Zinc Copper, 61. Cyanide tests. Mail envelopes and full price list sent on application. Control and Umphire work solicited. Reference: Cartonate National Bank. PRINTING PLATES AS NEAR PERFECTION AS MODERN FACILITIES CAN PRODUCE HICKS-CHATTEN ENGRAVING CO. SECOND AND MORPHEUS PORTLAND, UNITED SKIN DI HUMORS IN When the blood is pure, fresh and free from blemishes, but when so lation its presence is manifested by humors get into the blood, general condition of the members of the body off the waste and refuse matter of the to sour and ferment and soon the cir poison. The blood begins to throw pores and glands of the skin, produce Salt Rheum and skin eruptions of vein with a slight redness of the skin flows a sticky fluid that dries and for it is generally on the back, breast, fat of the body may be affected. In Tet the acid in the blood dries up the natu to keep it soft and pliant, causing a hard, leathery appearance. Acne m I suffered with Eosmae for forty years and could find nothing to suffer. I suffered intensely with the itching and burning; pustules would sticky fluid; crusts would come on the skin and when scratched on the skin was left as raw as a piece of meat. For many long years I was afflicted, but when I used S. S. S. I found a peanut been any return of the trouble. S.S.S. PURELY VEGETABE because they do not reach the blood, and forces out every particle of foreign normal, pure condition, thereby per- affection. Book on Skin Diseases a to all who write. S. S. S. is for sale THE SWIFT No Chance for Argument. "George," said Mrs. McSquillop to her liege lord, who was toasting his shins before the fire, "I suppose you get the credit for sweeping the snow off our front walk." "I eckon I do, Cynthy," responded Geor. "And you know you don't do a lick of it. You know I do it myself." "You do, Cynthy. There can't be any doubt about that." "Well, what sort of a man do you think you are?" "I'm a blamed small specimen of a man, Cynthia," said George, still serenely toasting his shins. "I have no doubt I am meaner and more contemptible than you think. Lord, love you, Cynthy, you can't get into any argument with me on that proposition. I'm the laziest, good for notnothing onerlest man in the neighborhood. If it wasn't that I've got such a good wife, I'd go and blow my worthless brains out. Supper ready yet, dear!"—Philadelphia Index. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAZO OINTMENT is guarenteed to cure any case of leching, blind, bleeding or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded.50c. Half a Million. "I'm sure I don't know what he saw in her. Her face is decidedly plain." "Yes, but the figure she has makes up for all that." "Figure? She's positively scrawny; she hasn't any figure." "You're wrong there. She has six figures and the first one's a five."—Philadelphia Press. FITS St. Vitus' Dance and all Nervous Diseases permanently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Body Treatment. He has both a treatment, Dr. R. Kline, LLl, Jr. Arch St., Philadelphia. Right. Little Boy—Are not all the words used to be found in the dictionary, papa? "No, my child; new words are coined every day." "And what is the last word, papa?" "I don't know, dear. Ask your mother, she always has the last word." "Translated for Translatic Tales from Le Rire. Mothers will find Mrs. Winstow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period. Sudden Reform. "You usually give your husband a box of cigars for Christmas, don't you?" "Yes. But I'll have to think of something else this year." "How is that?" "Why, I told him I was going to do my Christmas shopping tomorrow and he spoke right up and said he had concluded to give up smoking."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Throughly Reliable. If ever here was a reliable and safe remedy it is that old and famous porous plaster—Allie ck's. It has been in u e for sixty years and is a polished today. We doubt if there is a civilized community on the face of the globe where this wonderful pain reliever can t be found. In the select n of the ingredients nd in their manufacture the greatest are is taken to keep off the skin and the hands of mannequins, exc lence, and so pure and simple are the ingredients that even a child can use them. Allocks are the original and genui e po-ous plasters and are sold by Druggists in every part of the civilized world. Germany has barred out American potatoes and all kinds of American preserved meat. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets Drugsllt refund money if it fails to cure. E. W GROVE's signature is on each box. 25c. Side Lights on History. Capt. Kidd was burying his treasure. “It’s better than putting it in suburban lots,” he chuckled. “The money will always be there.” Fully aware, too, that the authorities couldn't rob him of it by taxes and special assessments, he satisfied himself that no middlesome reporter was nosing around in the neighborhood and betook himself again to the long, low, rakish craft that lay waiting for him two cables' length from shore. ISEASES IN THE BLOOD ish and healthy, the skin will be soft, smooth then some acid humor takes root in the circu- bled by a skin eruption or disease. These generally because of an inactive or sluggish body whose duty it is to collect and carry of the system. This unhealthy matter is left the circulation becomes charged with the acid row off the humors and acids through the Eczema, Acne, Tetter, Psoriasis, of various kinds. Eczema appears, usually in followed by pustules from which there forms a crust, and the itching is intense. st face, arms and legs, though other parts. Tetter the skin dries, cracks and bleeds; natural oils of the skin, which are intended ag a dry, feverish condition and giving it makes its appearance on the face in the form of pimples and black heads, while Psoriasis comes in scaly patches on different parts of the body. One of the worst forms of skin trouble is Salt Rheum; its favorite point of attack is the scalp, sometimes causing baldness. Poison Oak and Ivy are also disagreeable types of skin disease. The humor producing the trouble lies dormant in the blood through the Winter to break out and torment the sufferer with the return of Spring. The best treatment for all skin diseases is S. S. S. It neutralizes the acids and removes the humors so that the skin instead of being irritated and diseased, is nourished by a supply of fresh, healthy blood. External applications of salves, washes, lotions, etc., while they soothe the itching caused by skin affections, can never cure the trouble blood, S.S.S. goes down into the circulation foreign matter and restores the blood to its permanently curing every form of skin leses and any medical advice desired sent free sale at all first class drug stores. HIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. THE NEW AGE, PORTLAND, OREGON RAM'S HORN BLASTS. Warning Notes Calling the Wicked to Repentance. THE best way to pray for the poor and needy is with both feet. Bad Bloo Is the cause of all humors, erup boils, pimples, scrofulous sores, ec or salt rheum, as well as of the C The funeral sermon always comes too late to serve as a pass through the pearly gates. Your purity does not depend on the vigor with which you are willing to scrub your neighbors. The joy of sacrifice is the secret of all joy. Life's prizes come not by lottery but by labor. Harvests wet with tears are gathered in trumph. The hand of a child may be as the fingers of God. This world is not Christianized until commerce is converted. Uniformity may be the greatest of all hindrances to unity. He is master of his spirit who has the spirit of the Master. You cannot give to others the good you do not have yourself. The masters make the roads, but the mobs keep them muddy. You can never make facts until you learn to look beyond mere facts. If your religion does-nothing without prodding, it produces nothing. The man with a chip on his shoulder carries no kindling to the fires of truth. If a man is called to minister to the needs of men he is called to know the natures of men. The only reason some men will not go to God is because they cannot get a round-trip ticket. The only thing that justifies any piece of church-machinery is its effectiveness in fully saving souls. We usually find that the things on which we stub our toes are the troubles we carelessly laid around yesterday. It is easy to plunge the head into the mud of miserable doubt and then complain that God has made life so mysterious. When a man talks of being moved of the Lord he needs to have a care lest he make a false accusation against the Almighty. There's a lot of people who hope to be happy in heaven who know better than to think that religion is robbing children of all joy. If a raw Chinaman came into some of our modern churches he would conclude that we were trying to exorcise demons by the aid of the cholr. Some church folks who would not think of sitting down with thirteen to table are willing to take chances by ignoring God in their daily living. WOMAN LONG A POLICEMAN. Masquerades for Thirty Years Bee fore Her Sex Is Discovered. The woman who had masqueraded for thirty years as a policeman in Seville, and whose sex was only discovered as the result of an accident by which she fractured her leg, was seen by our Seville correspondent. She tells me, our correspondent telegraphs, that she has always gone by the name of Fernado Mackenzie, her father being English and her mother Spanish. She was born in France, came to Spain in 1876 at the age of 35 and contrived to enter the Madrid police force disguised as a man. She married there and pretended that her wife's child was her own son. She removed to Seville, still serving as a policeman, and was engaged there as cook and orderly at the governor's palace at the old convent of San Pablo, which was burned last July. She served seven successive governors and only lost her situation through the fire, the governor removing to a hotel. In consequence of the discovery of her sex she has been discharged from the police without the pension due to her and is now a helpless cripple and in great distress. Our correspondent found her in a miserable room, sitting in a broken chair facing a large image of Christ, the only treasure she has left. She told him that her wife died two years ago and a neighbor stated that "Fernando" spent all she possessed on the woman's funeral. Her alleged son has never been seen since the death of the mother. Mackenzie has a soft voice, a refined face and delicate features and was neatly dressed in male attire. Asked how she escaped detection so long, she replied that she always lived quietly in her own house with her wife and did her duty by her employers so that no one meddled with her. She owes rent and fears eviction, her beloved image being her last resource. She was speechless with gratitude for a small gift of money and then turned in an ecstasy of thanks to the image—London Mall. A Common Error. "Firstnightly thinks he's a great critic." "What's his idea of a critic, anyway?" "Why, a man who condemns everything."—Detroit Free Press. **Foundations of a State.** In a state pecunial gain is not to be considered prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.—Confucius. 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At the crowded downtown corner the frightened pedestrians were scouring out of the way of street cars, automobiles, delivery wagons, and policemen on horseback. "Gosh!" exclaimed the window washer, looking down on them from his perch on the narrow ledge of a fifteenth story window. "I'm glad I ain't in that crowd!"—Chicago Tribune. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one internal condition of the ear. There is an internal remedies. Beafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing. Beafness is caused by the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube re toed to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; beafness is caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollar for any case if beafness is caused by catarrh, which cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by D. F. CHENEY & CO., Hall's Family Prices are the best. Got His Dates Mixed. "What has kept you out so late?" sternly asked Mrs. Gayman. "Been s-sitting up with a dying friend, m' dear," answered her affectionate consort. "That won't do this time," she rejoined. "The old year has been dead several days, to my certain knowledge." RHEUMATISM AND NEURALGIA ST. JACOBS OIL The Proved Remedy For Over 50 Years. Price 25c and 50c ```markdown ``` Blue Blooded Salvationists. The Salvation Army bids fair to become an aristocratic body. Major Mary Murray, who supervises the military and naval league of the Salvationists, is a daughter of the late Sir John Murray, K. C. B., and Lieut. Col. Minnie Reld, who recently married Commissioner Booth-Tucker, is a daughter of a former acting governor of Bombay. The commissioner himself resigned a judgelship in India, with all the wealth and special position attached to it, to devote himself to Salvation Army work. Lady Sarah Sladen is a Salvationist, and the countess dowager of Teafield is a member of the auxiliary of the army. Two daughters of Mr. Onslow, late member of parliament for Guildford, have together steadily risen in the ranks. Intimately connected with the work in Australasia is the Hon. Mrs. Bird, wife of the former prime minister of Tasmania. She is said to be as ardent as any Salvation Army lass in disposing of the "War Cry." The daughter of the late Lady Galt, wife of the lieutenant governor of Ontario, is working in Canada.—Answers. Italy has more extended house industries than any other country. MAKE NO MISTAKE TOWER'S FISH BRAND OILED CLOTHING will give you complete protection and long service You can't afford to buy any other Every garment guaranteed The best dealers sell it A. J. TOWER CO. BOSCOH MAXX, TOWER CANADA CO. 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