The New Age (Portland)

Portland New Age 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. Draits issued, available in all cities of the United States and Europe, Hong Kong and Manila. Collections made on favorable terms. LADD & TILTON, Bankers Portland, Oregon LADD & HYTON, Banking Portland, Oregon Established in 1859. Transact a General Banking Business. Interest allowed on time deposits. Collections made at all points on favorable terms. Letters of Credit issued available in Europe and the Eastern States. Sight Exchange and favorable terms. Souls, Denver, Omaha, San Francisco and various points in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia. Exchange sold on London, Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt and Hong Kong. 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, Hong Kong and Manila. Collections made on favorable terms. 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. Deposits $7,58,000 Accruals Pacific Banks solicited upon terms which will grant them the most liberal accommodations on-interest with their balances and responsibilities. Wm. M. Ladd, President; N. H. Lattimer, Manager; M. W. Peterson, Cashier. Seattle, Washington. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF TOWNSHIP N.Y. Surplus, $1,000,000 Deposits, $13,000,000 FIRST NATIONAL BANK of NorthYakima, Wash. W. M. LADD President CHAS. CARPENTER W. L. STEINWEG, A. B. CLINE Vice President Cashier Assistant Cashier OFFICERS—Chester Thorne, President: Arthur Albertson, Vice President and Cashier Frederick A. Rice, Assistant Cashier; Delbert A. Young, Assistant Cashier. General Banking CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $390,000 Safe Deposit Vaults SAVINGS DEPARTMENT: Interest at the Rate of 8 per cent per Annum, Credited Semi-Annually TACOMA, WASHINGTON ALFRED COOLDGE, Pres. A. F. McCLAINE Vice Pres AARON KUHN, Vice Pres CHAS. E. SCRIBER, Cashier. D. C. WOODWARD, Asst. Cashier. THE COLFAX NATIONAL BANK of Golfax Wash- Capital, $120,000.00 Transect a general banking business. Special facilities for handling Eastern Washington and Idaho items. VANCOUVER NATIONAL BANK Vancouver, Wash. Leading Financial Institution in Southwestern Washington UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY CAPITAL, $50,000 SURPLUS, $50,000 ASSETS, $1,000,000 LEVI ANKENY President: E.G. CRAWFORD, Vice President: W.P. CONNAWAY, Cashier LEG Ankney, Harry Ladd Corbett, W. Crawford, E.G. Crawford, W. W. McCreed JOHN LAMB, DAVID ASKEGAARD, LEW A. HUNTOON, ARTHUR H. COSTAIN, President Vice President Cashier Anst. 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. DIRECTORS: J. M. Berry, A. B. Conley, F. J. Holmes, F. M. Bykit, F. L. Meyers, Geo. L. Cleaver, Geo. Palmer. 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. Kellogg, 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. THE FIRST NATION D. R. PEELER, Pres., F. J. LEED Transacts a general bank in States and Europe, Hong Kong. LADD & TILTOR Established in 1850, Trans- posits. Collections made at all Europe and the Eastern States. Washington, Chicago, A. L. Louis Washington, Idaho, Montana and Frankfort and Hong Kong. UNITED STATES O. J. C. AINSWORTH, President. Transacts a general bank in States and Europe, Hong Kong. NORTHWEST THE PENIN Capital, fully paid up, $1,000. Com. OFFICERS: J. W. FORDNEY, P. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: W. Thos. Cochran, M. L. Holbret Oldest: DEXTER Capital $200,000. Deposits $7,589,000. Accounts of Northwest most liberal accommodations in Ladd, President; N. H. Latimer. THE FIRST NATION Established in 1850. FIRST NATION W. M. LADD President FIRST NATION Walla Walla, V. Transacts a CAS. LEVI ANKENY, President. THE NATION Capital $200. OFFICERS—Chester Thorner, Frederick R. A. Rice, Assistant Co- JNO. C. AINSWORTH, Pres. A. G. PRICHARD, Cas. THE FIDELITY General Banking SAVINGS DEPARTMENT; Inter- T. ALFRED COOLIDGE, Pres. CHAS. E. SCRIBE. THE COLFAX N. Transacts a general bank in Washington and Idaho item. VANCOUVER Leading Financial UNIT CAPITAL, $50,000. LEVI ANKENY President; Levi Ankeny, Harry Ladd C. THE FIRST Mo. JOHN LAMB, DAVID AS President Interest FIRST NATION Farm Loans Negotiated Capital, $30,000. 4 Per Cent THE FIRST OF 1 CAPITAL $500,000 U. S. C. GEORGE PALMER President La Grande Capital DIRECTORS: J. M. Berry Cleaver, Geo. Palmer. The Merc UNITED Capital, $1,000 Capital, $500,000 PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1907. Suit for Kingston Insurance. Kingston, March 20. The first suit against the insurance companies to recover for losses sustained in the earthquake was filed yesterday. The Yorkshire company is the defendant. Other companies will soon be sued. BUSINESS LOCALS J. Wallgreen, dealer in staple and fancy groceries, 634 Thurman street, Telephone Pacific 911. 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. M. A. Gunst & Co., general agents, Portland, Or. 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, Portland, 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, tinker, 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. North 16th Street Market, A. Wurtenberger, proprietor, choice poultry, fresh and salt meats, phone Main 1395, 230 North Sixteenth street, Portland, Ore. 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. 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 dyeed 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. 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 2776. Office 329 Burnside St., Portland, Oregon. Depot Loan Office, Joe Bernhardt, proprietor; fine watch repairing, old gold and silver bought; business strictly confidential; bargains in unredeemed pledges; money to loan on diamonds, watches, jewelry, guns, pistols, bicycles, musical instruments and all articles of value 124 N. Sixth St., Portland, Ore. THE PIONEER PAINT COMPANY. The pioneer paint establishment of Portland is that of E. E. Beach & Company, of 135 First St., the oldest and most reliable house of its kind in TRADE MARK F E & B PORTLAND C0 CLEMSON the Northwest. It carries an immense stock of the best things in paints and building materials, together with an unusual list of specialties. Those who need anything in these lines can certainly profit by going to F. E. Beach & Company. Remember the number, 135 First street. A NEW DEPARTURE. The Cost of Interments Has Been Greatly Reduced by the Holman Undertaking Company. Heretofore it has been the custom of funeral directors to make charges for all incidentals connected with a funeral. The Edward Holman Undertaking Company, the leading funeral directors of Portland, beginning July 2, will depart from this old custom. When the casket is furnished by us, its cost will include all charges, such as conveying the remains to our chapel, outside box, embalming, hearse to cemetery and all services which may be required of us except clothing, cemetery and carriages, thus effecting a saving of $25 of all funeral costs. THE EDWARD HOLMAN UNDER THIRD TAKING COMPANY 224. Third Street, cor Salmon. NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Event of the Past Week. The Transvaal will abolish Chinese labor. Roumanian peasants are renewing the rioting. Seven alienists have declared Thaw permanently insane. S. A. D. Puter is proving a strong witness against Hermann. Nicatragua claims a decisive victory over Honduras and Salvador. American marines and sailors have been landed to guard Honduras ports. There seems to be good prospects for land law reform by the next congress. The San Francisco grand jury is learning more about the bribery by the Pacific States Telephone company. Senator Cullom, of Illinois, says Harriman deserves to go to jail, and Governor Deneen is believed to contemplate prosecution. Under the name of United Churches, the Congregational, United Brethren and Methodist Protestant churches in 14 states will form one large organization. Some of the Southern states have refused to join. Rockefeller says railroads are overcapitalized. Stockmen are to be prosecuted if they trespass on forest reserves. The government continues to pile up evidence against Hermann. A strike of longshoremen at Hamburg, Germany, has tied up all shipping. Roosevelt will propose check on overcapitalization of railroads and will soon declare his policy. Roumanian peasants have begun a crusade against Jews and are driving them into Austria. The Colorado legislature has passed a railway commission law. Reciprocal demurrage is also provided for. Premier Stolypin, of Russia, will propose many concessions of liberty to the douma, including free speech and press, but that body was warned not to go to extremes or it will be dissolved. Trainmen on all roads west of Chicago have voted to strike if not given the increase in wages asked. Most of the roads will, it is believed, refuse to grant the advance and trouble is looked for. Salvador has joined Honduras against Nicaragua. Harriman has bought the Salt Lake railroad from the Clark syndicate. A New Mexico grand jury has indicted six corporation employees for land fraud. President Ripley, of the Santa Fe., says Roosevelt is to blame for the anti-railroad agitation. The fisheries agreement between the United States and Great Britain is being discussed by the house of commons. Germany and Austria are said to have changed front and now favor discussion of disarmament at The Hague peace conference. There are signs that Roosevelt and the railroad presidents will reach an understanding on the new laws, the latter showing a stronger desire to obey. The Nebraska land thieves who have been on trial for some time have been found guilty and sentence to pay a fine of $1,500 each and remain in jail a year. Sylvester R. Rush, of Nebraska, has been appointed a special assistant to the United States attorney general. He has a reputation of being as ruthless a prosecutor as Heney. Thaw is almost certain to go to the asylum whether acquitted or convicted. An Illinois woman will organize an army of drunkards' wives to carry local option. President Roosevelt is said to be back of a move to start a boom for Taft for president. President Roosevelt has appointed a commission on the improvement of waterways. Attorney General Thompson, of Nebraska, says the new 2-cent passenger rate law is constitutional. Germany and Austria have combined to oppose consideration of disarmament at The Hague peace conference. Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, proposes a conference of government and state officials on railroad laws. FARMS UNDER WATER. Sacramento River Never Known to Be So High Before. Sacramento, Cal., March 22.—From all down-river points come alarming news that the Sacramento river is higher than ever known, and that the situation all along the levees is appalling. There is already suffering and every able-bodied man is assisting in the fight against the water that is pouring into the breaches and inundating thousands of acres of the finest farming land in the state. Special dispatches to the Union from Freeport, Courtland, Walnut Grove and Franklin state that the river has reached the highest stage ever recorded, and it is predicted that the terrible scenes witnessed during the tremendous floods of 1904 will be surpassed. Standing on the levee near Courtland one may see for 60 miles to the southeast across an unbroken sea of water which extends clear to Stockton. Thousands of cattle are being sheltered on top of the levees, as there is no other place for them, and if the water does not fall soon an indescribable condition of disaster is considered inevitable. This morning the blockade on the Southern Pacific lines was made complete, when the line to the East was made helpless by a washout of 200 feet of track at Applegate, but during the afternoon the situation changed for the better when, with the report that the Applegate washout had been repaired, came another stating that it was expected the track would soon be open through to Stockton. A trestle was placed in the gap at the Applegate washout this afternoon and more trains were dispatched East. One of these, a Portland train, will be sent to Utah and via the Oregon Short Line. The Placeville line is in full commission again, but no trains are operated on the Marysville branch further than Wheatland. On the Portland line no trains are running beyond Redding, the tracks being out at Keswick, Campbell and Kennett, and it is not expected that travel can be resumed beyond Redding for at least ten days. ADDITIONAL TRAIN SERVICE. Canadian Pacific to Enter Portland on O. R. & N. Tracks Portland, March 22.—Canadian Pacific trains will be running into Portland May 1. Contracts were signed up here yesterday by traffic officials of the Canadian road with R. B. Miller, general freight agent for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation company, allowing the use of the tracks from Spokane to Portland. The Canadian Pacific now reaches Spokane by the Spokane International railway from the C. P. R.'s main line at the Canadian boundary. Freight service from Portland to all points in Canada, as well as to the Atlantic subboard, will be started May 1 by the new traffic arrangement. Passenger trains will be put on at a later date. Through passenger service is promised from Portland to St. Paul. The use of the O. R. & N. tracks by Canadian Pacific equipment was arranged for recently at a conference between President G. M. Bosworth, of the Canadian line and Traffic Director J. C. Stubbs, of the Harriman system. This meeting was held in Chicago a short time ago. Historic Fort Swept Away San Francisco, March 22. It is reported here that all reclamation districts in Sutter county have been flooded. Near Meridian the water is in the second stories of the houses. Many families are said to be in want. Efforts will be made to send them relief. Probably all the stock in these districts has been drowned. The people of Yuba county district, above Marysville, are reported safe. Near Tudor a break has occurred close to an Indian mound which was situated near the old iron fort brought from the East in sections by General John A. Sutter in the days before gold was discovered. The fort is reported to have been swept away. More Steel Men Strike at Hammond more Steel Men strike at Hammond Hammond, Ind., March 22. — The strike situation at East Chicago was intensified today when 3,500 men employed by the Inland Steel company, walked out. The reason for the walkout was the demand of the laborers for an increase of 250 per day. Six hundred men struck yesterday at the Interstate Steel company and 1,200 at the Republic Iron & Steel company, and the walkout today brings the total number of strikers up to more than 5,000 men. Some rioting occurred today and one of the strikers was beaten. Giving Away Sage Money New York, March 22.—Announcement was made today that Mrs. Russell Sage has donated $150,000 to the American Seamen's Friend society, to be used by that body in the erection of a proposed sailors' home and institute. Mrs. Sage has also given $75,000 to the Syrian Protestant college, of Beirut, Syria. NO. 48. SCOPE IS WIDENING Millionaire Wall Street Magnates Implicated With Ruef. INDICTMENTS ISSUE IN SHEAVES Heney and Burns Assert That They Have Only Begun—Ruef Expected to Confess. San Francisco, March 21.—Sixty-five indictments were filed by the grand jury today against Abe Ruef and 10 against T. V. Halsey, of the Pacific States Telephone company. They all charge bribery. Assistant District Attorney Heney and Federal Agent Burns assert that it is only a beginning. The total amount represented in the indictments is $218,500. When to this is added the amount which went to Ruef and Schmitz, the total will reach $1,000,000 in five deals exposed today. There, are more deals of which the public has small conception. They include not only local magnates, but men who have mansions in New York, who have trafficked for special private gains in San Francisco for their corporations. It is understood that a power in Wall street who recently testified before the Interstate Commerce commission will be given an opportunity to defend himself. Tonight Ruef and Schmitz are abject and forlorn. The entire board of supervisors has confessed. Schmitz is ready to do the same. Ruef is awakening rapidly. By the end of next week the indictments which will confront him will be mountain high. By that time it is expected that Ruef will offer to confess. PUTER TELLS STORY. Admits of Deals With Hermann to Steal Land. Washington, March 21.—Oregon convicts occupied the limelight in the trial of Binger Hermann today, while men under indictment played minor roles. S. A. D. Puter, the government's heavyweight witness, was put on the stand this afternoon and began the narration of his relations with Hermann in connection with land operations that have subsequently turned out to be fraudulent. Puter was preceded by Dan W. Tarpley, who told in considerable detail the manner in which he, Horace G. McKinley and F. P. Mays attempted to "get rich quick" through the absorption of land in the Blue mountain forest reserve. The stories told by Puter and Tarpley did not throw any new light on either the Blue mountain or the 11-7 land fraud cases, which were threshed out in Portland. But the stories of both men were retold today to show their relations with Hermann and to aid the government in its efforts to show Hermann's motive for destroying the fateful letterpress copybooks. STREETS ARE FLOODED. All Business in Stockton Suspended by High Water. Stockton, Cal., March 21. — Water is running through the streets of this city like a millrace. In some places it is six feet deep, while in others it varies from one to three feet, the latter being the mean average. All business is suspended, as most of the business houses are flooded and the people in many parts of the city are afraid to leave their homes. No portion of the town escaped. Main, the principal business street of the city, is the high point, and even here the water averages nearly a foot in depth. All the cellars and many of the first floors of the business houses were submerged and the loss in the city alone will run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Roadbed Torn Up by Slide. Ashland, Or., March 21.—The continued rains of the past four days have badly demoralized the main Portland-San Francisco line of the Southern Pacific for a distance of 50 miles through the upper Sacramento canyon region in Northern California. The country most severely affected lies between Sisson on the north and Redding on the south. In this section the Sacramento river has played havoc with the railroad roadbed at various points, while at other places slides of serious proportions have added to the difficulties. State Will Pay Their Fare. Concord, N. H., March 21.—A bill forbidding state officers to use or solicit free passes on the railroads passed both houses of the legislature today under suspension of the rules, following a report from the judiciary committee. By the bill the governor is authorized to contract for railroad transportation for members of the legislature and house cf congress as needed. Topics of the Times If a woman is homely she always knows it; but it's different with a man. Health and goodness are contagious and epidemic, as well as disease and crime. Counterfeit $5 bills in circulation are said to be rather short. The good ones, however, are not long with us. Perhaps, after all, Governor Swettenham merely wanted to advertise the superior quality of Jamaica ginger. That thief who stole $2,000 worth of diamonds from the Queen of Greece must have been a slippery customer. Time was when the anti-pass bill was the best joke of the legislative season. Are the American people losing their sense of humor? Having been greeted by the President as "fellow citizens," the Porto Ricans may now feel at liberty to think of Speaker Cannon as Uncle Joe. Ethical passion is an excellent thing, the Christian Register is willing to admit, but ethical action is a better one, and by the latter the former is tested. It no longer seems to be good form for a prominent business man in any of the States to receive an indictment with less than a hundred counts attached. A man is reported to have discovered $5,000 under an old carpet. But stories like this always get into circulation just before the carpet-beating season opens. If the Swedish investigator has really succeeded in overcoming gravitation, then flying machines should only be a matter of buckling on a pair of 10-cent wings. There is an old song which says a boy's best friend is his mother. "This pretty hard to make the boy whose mother is approaching with a spoonful of medicine believe it. Since it has been asserted that neither Shakspeare nor Bacon wrote the famous plays credited to the former, the man who discovered the fact may as well admit that he wrote them himself. Cesare Lombroso gives it as his opinion that Harry Thaw is a degenerate because his nose is crooked. Cesare neglects to explain whether the degeneracy causes the crookedness or results from it. The man who sought an interview with the mayor of Philadelphia on the subject of building a railroad from that city to heaven was insane, of course. Travel in that direction is not heavy enough to warrant the investment. With three hundred million board feet of merchantable timber waiting the ax on the forest reserves, lumber alarmists are minus a vocation. This reserve timber, now ready to be harvested, alone would supply the lumber needs of America for ten years. Its conservation and foresting means a tremendous wealth for years to come. Every year the statistician of a Chicago newspaper adds up all gifts and bequests to charity in this country for the preceding twelve months. Only sums of a thousand dollars or more are counted, and only those gifts that have been announced in the newspapers. The total for 1906 was a hundred and six million dollars. This is the highest since 1901, when the total was a hundred and twenty-three millions. In these big figures no reckoning is made of the humbler gifts which those who are not rich have been privileged to make. Although he is described as being thoroughly contemptuous of his American father-in-law, the Duke of Marlborough, it seems, has reconciled himself to accept $100,000 per year of that person's vulgar, plebeian money. Evidently his grace has no patience with the theory that money can be "tainted." Like a certain British sovereign who took toll of an unsavory calling, he believes that "there is no smell to a shilling." In this as in other thrifty characteristics the master of Blenheim shows himself to be a true descendant of John Churchill, than whom no thrifter Englishman ever lived. The great heart of the American people throbs with sympathy for the oppressed in Kissla and they have been gladdened by evidences of the coming of a better day for that long-afflicted country. But our people know that the killing of a czar would not kill czarism. Czars have been murdered in the past, but czarism has lived on. Two wrongs, no matter how great they may be, can not be so put together as to make one right. Murder is not and can not be a remedy for governmental sins. If the lower strata of the population in Russia can get on top is there any reason to believe the situation will be improved by the change? Time will bring about a wholesome compromise between the extremes, but assassination will not be promotive of that happy consummation. Thirty-one years ago the country was made almost speechless with horror by a railroad wreck on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad at Ashtabula, Ohio. A train went through a bridge and a large number of fatalities resulted. P. P. Bliss, the noted wangelist, being among the victims. This was about the first experience Americans had with great railroad catastrophes. It happened before the development of the speed manla, and, for that matter, before the development of the railroad business into anything like the important industry it is to day. Naturally, the "Ashtabula disaster" became almost a classic of the news. It was read and talked about for months as one of the most frightful events in the world's history. But how is it now? A few days ago, we read without deep concern of a frightful wreck in the Middle West, followed a day or two afterward by another disaster of equal extent and horror. Outside the immediate vicinity in which these accidents happened, reports of them were read almost with indifference. Twenty-five years ago they would have filled the newspapers for days. It is not that human suffering is more indifferently regarded nowadays, but that through familiarity with frightful railroad accidents we have come to look upon them almost as a matter of course. We are expecting them just about so often. If we ourselves escape, we think we are lucky, and beyond that there is only passing sympathy for the victims unless we are personally connected with them. We were horrified when the San Francisco earthquake occurred, considerably interested when Valparaiso was shaken to the ground, and not particularly concerned, comparatively, over the fate of Kingston. Possibly in this rushing age it will not be long ere we shall look on the downfall of nations and the obliteration of entire peoples with equanimity. The days have passed when every woman had her knitting-work. Our grandmothers picked up the stocking when a neighbor dropped in, when the twilight fell, when the oven needed watching—and there is a New England tradition of one industrious woman who took up her knitting while the people were gathering for a family funeral. The complicated operations of "wildening," "narrowing," "setting the heel" and "toeing off" were so familiar to feminine fingers that they could all be accomplished by firelight. Every family discussion was conducted to the accompaniment of the clicking needles. Mary's course at the academy, John's journey to Boston to find a market for mother's cheeses, the purchase of the wood-lot and the building of the new ell to the house were all worked into the fabric of the gray stockings and the white stockings as they grew under skilful fingers. All the plans were laid with a greater deliberation than to-day, when the woman's part in the conversation is often taken by snatches, as she runs the sewing machine, looks after the separator, or wields the carpet-sweeper. Grandmother thought her way to many a wise conclusion over her knitting. It was a tonic for depression and a sedative for nervous irritability. It was the earliest diversion for the convalescent, and the last work which feeble fingers and falling eyes could do before the final rest. How many a daughter treasures with loving care "the last pair of stockings mother knit!" The pleasant, quieting, housewifely occupation need not go out of fashion because machinery makes stockings more cheaply than hands can make them. There is still call for the product of the needles. For example, the missions for seamen are always in want of warm knitted mufflers and hoods, with which sailors may brave their winter voyages. Hospitals are glad of shoulder shawls for patients, and bed-socks may help many a poor old woman to sleep warm. The knitting which the family can spare may now be turned into the great channels of charity, and so make the knitter the happler, and the world the warmer both in body and in heart. To Harness the Monsoon. This is not the only country which has large water-power engineering plans on hand. There is a project under way in Bombay which literally aims at harnessing the Indian monsoon and utilizing the resultant energy in running the cotton mills of Bombay and other factories in the adjacent districts. The Western Ghauts, or mountains, forty-three miles from Bombay, are among the rainiest districts of the world; even during the famine years 1896-7, when thousands of people were perishing elsewhere because of the lack of rain, the inhabitants of the Ghauts district were nearly ruined by a rainfall of from twenty-two to twenty-six feet for the wet season, June to October. This speedily drains off to the sea. Hence it is proposed to build three great dams, thus utilizing three of the many valleys as reservoirs, an undertaking made all the easier by the stony formation, which does away with the necessity of artificial floors in the proposed reservoirs. How steep the approach is appears from the fact that there will be a descent of 1,734 feet in less than two and one-half miles. At the base of the mountains will be a great power station, from which the electricity generated will be transmitted to Bombay and other points. The largest dam will be ninety-five feet high and 8,000 feet long; the second will have a length of 4,500 feet and the third of 2,640 feet.—New York Evening Post. Expert Opinion. Madge. -She told me all the things asked her about.-Smart Set. PORTLAND NEW AGE Collar Button Among the Articles Found in Ancient Tombs. Every now and then it is discovered that some extremely "modern" invention is in reality exceedingly old. For example, the safety pin, far from being a novelty or even of recent origin, is decidedly andent—a fact made certain by the finding of a great many such plins, fashioned exactly like those of today, in old Roman and Etruscan tombs, dating back to a period a good deal earlier than the birth of Christ. The safety pln in truth was an article of common use in Italy long before the Roman empire attained the height of its glory. Some of them were exactly like those of to-day, utilizing the familiar principle of coiled spring and catch, but the material of which they were made seems always to have been bronze. They took on a development, however, far more remarkable than our modern safety plus, many of them being quite large affairs, ten inches or so in length and hollow, as if designed to be attached to the gown in front and possibly to contain something or other—concevably flowers. Not infrequently they were ornamented with gems. Another ancient invention was the collar stud. It is true that the ancient Romans did not use buttons to fasten their garments, but for this very reason safety pins were more urgently required, and the latter seem to have been supplemented by studs of bronze, which were in shape exactly like those of today. Of course, people in those times wore no collars, but the little contrivance in question was utilized in other ways. Probably—and indeed the assumption is not a rash one—it had in that early epoch the same habit as now of rolling under a piece of furniture on slight provocation for the purpose of eluding observation and pursuit, with the usual perversity of inanimate objects.—Scientific American. In 1883 the Prince of Wales was much interested in the creation and organization of the College of Music in London. He caused it to be intimated to the late Sir Henry Irving that it would show the interest of another and allied branch of art in the undertaking if the dramatic artists wo ld give a benefit for the new college. The prince even suggested that "Robert Macalre" would do excellently for the occasion, with an all-star cast. Of course Irving was delighted to help, and the result was a splendid performance, at which the Prince and Princess of Wales attended, and a sum of more than one thousand pounds was turned over to the college—the entire receipts. Irving himself, says Mr. Bram Stoker in his "Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving" paid all the expenses. In the first year of its working, when the class for dramatic study was organized, Irving was asked by the directorate to examine it, which he did cheerfully, and in due time made his report. Soon afterward he received a letter of thanks for his services. Although quite formal, it was a most genial and kindly letter, and to the signature was appended "chairman." In acknowledging it to Sir George Grove, the director of the college, Irving said what a pleasure it had been to him to be an examiner, and assured Sir George that he would gladly hold his services at the disposal of the college. He added to his letter this postscript: "By the way, who is our genial friend, Mr. Edward, chairman? I do not think I have met him." He got a horrified letter sent by messenger from Sir George, explaining that the signature was that of "Albert Edward"—then Prince of Wales, now his majesty, Edward VII. In the Surface Car. A fat Irishwoman, bearing a number of bundles, entered a crowded street car. The only semblance of a seat she could find was a small space at the right of a smartly dressed youth. Into this space, sufficient only for an individual of ordinary size, the fleshy Irishwoman squeezed herself, much to the annoyance of the youth. After a moment or so the Irishwoman produced a cheese sandwich, which she proceeded to devour with every evidence of relish. At this the youth gave her a look of ineffable disgust and drew the skirts of his frock coat closer to hm. "I suppose, me lad," good-naturedly said the woman, "that ye'd prayfer-r to have a gintleman sittin' nix to ye." "I certainly would," snapped the youngster. "So would I," calmly responded the fat person.—Exchange. "Deprived of His See." As an example of the ability of the juvenile scholar to evolve an unexpected meaning from his text, a correspondent relates that the following question was put to a history class: "What misfortune then happened to Bishop Odo?" The reply came quite readily, "He went blind." An explanation was demanded, and the genius brought up the text book. "There, sir," triumphantly, "the book says so." The sentence indicated by an ink stained digit read, "Odo was deprived of his see."—London Spectator. First Insurance Company, 1699. The Society of Assurance for Windows and Orphans was the first known life insurance company and was established in London in 1699. Education is a great thing, no doubt, but the best housekeepers didn't get their knowledge out of book. HALL PHARMACY CO. Telephone East 873 Union Avenue and Tillamook Street PORTLAND OREGON Nob Hill Pharmacy DR. J. J. FISHER. Prop. Drugs and Toilet Articles. Prescriptions Accurately Compounded 680 Glisan Street Tel. Main 845 ELEGANT FLORAL PIECES and Cut Flowers. Garden Plants and House Plants. Very reasonable. GUSTAVE J. BURKHARDT, Florist 112 Twween-third St. Phone Main 603, Portland, Ore. A. CORRIGAN Barton, Or., Clackamas River Best Fishing and Hunting Grounds in the Northwest LOUIS SCHUMACHER FURRIER Furs Remodeled into Latest Style. Boag, S oles, Ties, for less than at any other place. 185 Madison Street W. R. Williams Al Cleveland FASHION STABLES Hacks, Livery, Boarding Twentieth and Washington Sts. West End Exposition Bldg. 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SCHROEDER The Albina HOUSE FURNISHER HOUSES FURNISHED COMPLETE CASH OR INSTALLMENTS UNDERTAKING AND EMBALMING 244, 246, 248 Russell St., PORTLAND COURTNEY MUSIC CO. Band Instruments Stringed Instruments Phonographs Cheap for Cash or Easy Payments. Latest Popular Songs and Music 25c, Five for $1, postpaid. 88 North Third St., Portland, Or. MALL & VON BORSTEL RESIDENT AGENTS REAL ESTATE and FINANCIAL AGENTS GERMAN ALLiance INSURANCE ASSOCIATION Of New York. Capital $1,900,000 CONFILAGRATION PROOF—All S. F. losses paid in full. Statement after payment of S. F. losses. Book #185,766; Surplus to policy bidders over $7,600,000 AGENTS—Holladay Park Second Addition; Manning's Addition; York Addition; Sullivan's Addition; W. W. McGuire's Addition; Nicholson Addition. 104 Second St., Lumber Exchange Bldg, Phone Main 1436 392 East Burnside St., Phone East 159 THE Continental Casualty Co. of Chicago, Illinois. Pald-up Capital $300,000 Northwestern Department 503-4 Lumber Exchange Bldg., PORTLAND, OREGON The largest company in the world doing a strictly health and accident business. Over $5,000,000 paid on claims to R. R. men alone. Writes all classes of policies on all the different occupations including the popular $1 a month policy. Call at the office or phone us and we will be glad to explain the different plans.- Phone Main 4398. PORTLAND COFFEE & SPICE CO. Importers and Manufacturers Tca, Coffee, Spices, Extracts and Baking Powder 24 ann 26 Front Street PORTLAND, OREGON Lewis & Clark Cigar Co. CIGAR MANUFACTURERS Ask for the Celebrated Lewis & Clark Cigar - 12 1/2 c Sacajawea - 10c UNION MADE Phone Pacific 2263 PORTLAND KING & GILMORE Telephone UNION 4068 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. NORTHERN BREWERY CO. Brewers and Bottlers of HOP GOLD ABBETT All Kinds of Galvanized Iron and Tin Work a Specialty ALL WORK GUARANTEED NOT TO LEAK Agent for Quaker Mfg. Co.'s Steel Furnaces 449 Union Ave. North Shop Phone East 6177 Residence Phone East 1868 JAMESTOWN, N. D. OSCAR J. SEILER, Attorney-at-Law President Paid Up Capital and Surplus $35,000 Collections 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 UNION DEPOs Arrives. Daily For Maygers, Rain- ter, Clatakanie Daily. Tele For Fine Wines and Liquors, call at THE WEST O. BURRIS, Prop. Fine wines, Liquors and Cigars Phone Pacific 1906 235 N. Fourteenth St. PORTLAND, ORE. NEW ALBINA CAFE PATTERSON & MCDOUGALL, Props. Fine Wines & Liquors The Old Corner Cor. Russell Av. & Albina St. Phone East 4386 Portland, Ore. LODELL'S PLACE A. E. LODELL, Proprietor Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars WEINHARD'S BEER Telephone Pacific 1984 414 North Nineteenth St. PORTLAND, OR. 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. 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 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 PORLAND, OREGON REGISTERED TRADE MARK. A WESTERN SUNHOSE Ask your grocer for them and take no other kind if you want the best. THE TOKE POINT OYSTER CO. 29 Second St., Portland, Or. Telephone MAIN 693 Sole Growers of the Celebrated Toke PointOysters An Eastern Oyster Transplanted and grown on our beds at TOKELAND, WASHINGTON "UNEQUALED 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 Purity, Fineest Flavor, Greatest Strength, Reasonable Prices. CLOSSET & DEVERS PORTLAND, OREGON. Real Estate Dealers Real Estate Co. 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MISSOULA MONT H. E. CHANEY, A. A. HOWARD, Proprietor. 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. YEGEN BROS. BILLINGS Branch Banks at Butte Transact a Gener Pay interest on Savings Accounts start Savings Accounts with a deposit o SWIFT & COMPANY BROS. SAVINGS BILLINGS, MONTANA Banks at Butte, Anaconda and Transact a General Banking Business on Savings Accounts and Time Certificates counts with a deposit of one dollar or more. COMPANY So. Omaha 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 AIL ORDERS PROMPT AT MAIL ORDERS PROMPT ATTENTION Office: 109 Central Avenue P. O. Box 86. THE BUREAU SALOON FRANK HOFFMAN, Proprietor Cholest Imported and Domestie Telephone Main 5506 Southeast Corner First and Morrison PORTLAND OREGON SENN & NITSEHKE PHONE EAST 3073 SCULPTORS AND CARVERS In Marble, Stone, Granito and Wood. Architectural, Plaster and Staff Ornaments. Monuments, Statues, Busts, Tourstones. Postal orders promptly attended to. Sculpture Work a specialty, Office and Studio. Union Ave., cor. Irving. NATIONAL WINE CO. Pure Wine & Liquors WE SELL DIRECT TO THE FAMILIES Fifth and Stark Streets 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 CURRIER Just a Word About Rolls Little Rolls and big Rolls; plain Rolls and fancy Rolls; Rolls for breakfast; Rolls for lunch; Rolls for dessert; to perfect proportion at the reliable bakery most people in Missoula know about. Hay, Grain, Flour, Fruits, Vegetables Confectionery, Etc., Etc. 131 Higgins Ave. Missoula, Montana SAVINGS BANK INGS, MONTANA Lette, Anaconda and Gardiner General Banking Business Counts and Time Certificates of Deposit. We sit of one dollar or more. NY So. Omaha, Nebraska RS PROMPT ATTENTION PORTLAND NEW AGE SELLING CHILDREN IN S M. P. DAUGHTER SOLD FOR BREAD. So severe is the pinch of famine in peasants are selling their children in ordeplorable frequency and the starved p than hunger. Some of the scenes at the polignancy, but mothers say they prefer see them starve, as they certainly would tion. Terrible stories of hunger and deple of this district and there are no pres be relieved. Failure of crops has been present situation, and the fact that the in circumstances has left them this year Many parents assert that no matter wheren they will be no worse off than in there are no fires to warm them and n clated bodies. So severe is the pinch of famine in the Volgola district in Russia that peasants are selling their children in order to buy bread. These sales are of deplorable frequency and the starved peasants aver that anything is better than hunger. Some of the scenes at these sales are heartrending in their poignancy, but mothers say they prefer to see their children sold rather than see them starve, as they certainly would were they left in their present condition. Terrible stories of hunger and deprivation are told by some of the people of this district and there are no present indications that the distress is to be relieved. Failure of crops has been one of the contributing causes to the present situation, and the fact that the peasants are usually much reduced in circumstances has left them this year at the mercy of cold and hunger. Many parents assert that no matter what experiences may befall their children they will be no worse off than in the huts they now call home, where there are no fires to warm them and no food to keep life within their emaciated bodies. or early in May. The San Francisco earthquake occurred on April 18th. The question has been discussed by President David Starr Jordan and other whether there was any causal connection between the two phenomena. The weight of opinion appears to be the A new deposit of manganese which promises to be an important source of supply, is being opened up in Mysore State, India. It is situated twenty miles northwest of Shimoga station, on the Southern Mahratta railway, 340 miles from Mormugoa. To detect hidden cracks opening from the surface of metals, the surface is first molested with kerosene, and is then dried off with a cloth. It is then coated with chalk. After a little while the oil works out of the little cracks and stains the chalk. A sort of diagram of the hidden fissures and defects is thus produced. The majority of the highroads in Belgium are now planted with trees along the way, to the great pleasure of travelers and to the advantage of the country. In a total distance of about 4,775 miles there are no less than 800,000 of these roadside trees. Among them are included 300,000 elms, 170,000 oaks, 79,000 evergreens, 76,000 ash-trees and 41,000 maples. A process of plating aluminum with copper by welding methods has been invented in Germany by Herr Watchnitz. This is regarded as important, because one of the obstacles to a wider use of aluminum has been its comparative lack of resistance to the action of many fluids and its failure to hold paint. These objections are removed when it is covered with a thin plating of copper, while its weight is not materially increased. A London syndicate will have 100,000 tons of Egyptian papyrus plant ready to ship to its paper mills within the next six months. This revives an industry which has been extinct for over 1,000 years. A long search finally located a few plants in Palestine which were transplanted into Egypt and cultivated. The twentieth century seems to find frequent occasions to learn from the vast treasure house of knowledge of that remarkable people. Contrary to a widespread belief that hardwoods give more heat in burning than soft varieties, the scientists at Washington are contending that the greatest heating power is possessed by the wood of the linden tree, which is very soft. Fir stands next to linden, and almost equal to it. Then come pine, hardly inferior to fir and linden; while hard oak possesses 8 per cent less heating capacity than linden, and red beech 10 per cent less. About the time of the San Francisco earthquake last April a new island was thrust up from the bottom of the sea nearly forty miles northwest of Una-laska. It rose hot and steaming out of deep water, and attained a height of several hundred feet. In the immediate neighborhood there are two other similar islands, both of which have risen from the sea within historic times, one of them no longer than 1883. The exact date of the first appearance of the new island of last April is not known, but it must have risen some time in the latter part of that month ```markdown ``` STARVING RUSSIA. in the Vologda district in Russia that order to buy bread. These sales are of peasants aver that anything is better these sales are heartrending in their to see their children sold rather than were they left in their present condi-privation are told by some of the peasent indications that the distress is to one of the contributing causes to the peasants are usually much reduced ear at the mercy of cold and hunger that experiences may befall their chil- the huts they now call home, where no food to keep life within their ema- or early in May. The San Francisco earthquake occurred on April 18th. The question has been discussed by President David Starr Jordan and others whether there was any causal connection between the two phenomena. The weight of opinion appears to be that there was not such a connection. Those Roosevelt Names Several months ago the Hon. Thomas Alexander Smith, recently defeated for re-election to Congress in the First District of Maryland by the Hon. W. H. Jackson, was standing in front of the White House talking to secret service men when a boy came dashing out of the executive mansion. "Who's that?" queried the Congressman. "That's Archibald Roosevelt," he was informed. A moment later another youngster appeared through the same door, and Mr. Smith repeated his question. "That's Kermit," said one of the guards. Just then a third boy came swirling along on roller skates. "I guess that's another one of the Roosevelt boys," suggested the Maryland statesman. "Yes," was the answer, "that's Quentin." "By gurn," ruminated Mr. Smith, "they've all got names like sleeping cars. I feel just as if I were standing on the platform at home, watching the limited express shoot by."—New Orleans Picayune. STEAMSHIP PLAYS SEE-SAW. A ship in rough waters. Her bow tilted high in the arr, her stern afloat, the steamship Carrington has been playing see-saw with the rise and fall of the tide—and has escaped injury. She went aground on the treacherous rocks of Ushant, off the coast of Brittany, France, and assumed the position shown above. It was a marvel that the vessel did not break her back. A Juror's View. "The defendant in a murder trial goes through a terrible ordeal, doesn't be?" "I suppose so," said the ex-juror wearly, "but he has one advantage over us. He's presumed to be innocent until proved guilty." — Philadelphia Ledger. It's almost as difficult for a detective to catch a criminal as it is for a prosecuting attorney to hold him. --- 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. THE SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK Commercial Banking Savings Department Capital $5,000,000 Surplus $350,000 Total Available Assets $7,500,000 A. CHILBERG, President GEO. H. TARBELL, Manager A. V. HAYDEN, Cashier Tacoma Office No. 955 Commerce St.. N. E. Cor. South 11th St. WHEAT-HEARTS Makes a delightful breakfast dish: with fruit added, a lovely desert. Requires little time and money, less than any other cereal. Sold by all grocers. Five pound package, 25 cents. THE PUGE SOUND FLOURING MILLS CO., TACOMA, WASH. Berlin Building. 113 South 11th 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 PRICES RIGHT STYLES RIGHT PRICES RIGHT 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 a m, 12:10, 1:10, 2:10, 3:10, 4:15 (Ltd, no stops), 5:10, 6:10, 7:10, 8:10, 9:10, 11:15 p m. Leave Seattle —6:30, 8:00, 9:00 (Ltd, no stops), 10:00, 11:00 a m, 12:00, 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. PUYALLUP DIVISION 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, 8:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:15, 7:15, 8:15, 11:15 p m. ```markdown ``` 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 C Street TACOMA, WASH. L. R. MANNING, Pres. L. R. MANNING Real Estate Loans and Investments. Coal Lands. First-Class Mortg EQUITABLE BUILDING THE SCANDINAVIAN Commercial Banking Capital $5,000,000 Surplus $350,000 A. CHILBERG. President THE ABBEY F. J. MOONEY, Proprietor Telephone James 2121 Wines, Liquors & Cigars Rooms in Connection TACOMA WASHINGTON MARTIN ANGEL, Prop. House of Fine Liquors Phone Main 446. Cor. Eleventh and Pacific Avenue THE McDONALD CIGAR CO. ...CIGARS... Manufactured by the best factories of New York and Tampa. Also a complete line of Imported Cigars, Cigarettes and Smokers' Articles 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 Ireas. C. H. ROBERSON. Sec. V. 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 281. 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 Sollicited 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. 48 Tacoma Carriage and Baggage Transfer Company 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 trains. A. T. HOSMER, Secy. NG & CO., Inc. City and Farm Property. Timber and Mortgages and Investment Securities. TAC MA, WASH. AN AMERICAN BANK Savings Department ,000 Total Available Assets $7,500,000 GEO. H. TARBELL, Manager LYDEN Cashier Entered at the postoffice at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION. One Year, payable in advance.....$ 2.00 Our Candidate for President JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER Of Ohio WINNING COLORED MEN. Prof. Booker T. Washington, in his "Up From Slavery," and in his lectures and frequent addresses and teachings generally, has advocated and emphasized the importance and need of manual and mechanical rather than literary, scientific or professional, training of the colored people, yet would not altogether neglect the latter, as he perceives that the taste and talents of colored people differ the same as of other people. It is quite true that industrial training is more important and industrial knowledge more useful than an academical or college education gained from books, but that a negro may attain great excellence and rise high in purely intellectual or artistic pursuits has been illustrated many times, perhaps scarcely ever more notably than in the case of Mr. W. Burghardt Du Bois, author of "The Soul of Black Folk." This is acknowledged by caucasian critics to be one of the most remarkable books ever written by an American, from a standpoint of pure, meritorious literature. A member of the negro race is acknowledged to be one of the country's and indeed of the world's greatest painters; a negro recently died who attained international fame as a poet; there are many negro educators, preachers and lawyers of undisputed ability of a high order; and now it is a negro who has written a book that is considered one of the masterpieces of American literature. Another instance that is attracting attention is that Alain Le Roy Locker, who last week, among many Caucasian competitors, won the Pennsylvania scholarship under the Cecil Rhodes will, and is therefore entitled to pursue his studies with all expenses paid in one of the leading celebrated English universities. Mr. Locke is the son of a man who was a successful lawyer and a woman who is a successful teacher. He is twenty-one, has already won four important fellowships in his own university, which is Harvard, from which he graduates next June. In the Rhodes will provision was made for two African scholarships which may be competed for by any colored man in the states or territories. It is probable that Mr. Rhodes or his administrators recognized the American antagonism which might be felt in black competing with white on equal grounds; there is no such antagonism in England. But Mr. Locke—a significant name with which to conjure at Oxford is merely the Pennsylvania contestant on an equal footing with any other Pennsylvania student. He carried the honor easily in scholarship. But after that it must be remembered that the applicants must come before a committee where manhood, inherent qualities, are considered in the final award. This is what makes the Locke appointment more significant. Then for three years this Harvard man will be an Oxford man. Of course, it is the very exceptional colored youth who could win such a prize and position, but it is also only the exceptional, white young man who could do the same. This instance, nor a good many like it, do not prove that higher education is best for the mass of colored people, nor is it best either for most white people; but such cases do prove that colored people are capable of high attainments and success along educational and intellectual lines, and exposes the folly and injustice of the assertions of the negrophobists that the black man's race and color render him an altogether and utterly different being from the Caucasian. ANOTHER STRIKE FAILURE. The strike of the lumber mill employees has failed, as it ought to have failed, not because the men do not earn more wages than they receive taking the mill owners' profits into consideration, but because the strike was worked up by a few non-resident busybodies and mischief makers, whose only work is making trouble for other people. That the mill hands were not ready and willing and anxious to strike, and did not consider that they had both cause to strike and a chance to win, is certain, else they would have been threatening a strike, or petitioning for or demanding higher wages before these disturbers came along. But the men had done nothing of this kind, and were led into the strike thoughtlessly and in the case of most of them against their better judgment by the emissaries of chronic discontent and unreason. It might be easy to show that the millowners could afford to pay and ought to pay higher wages. Their net earnings or profits during the past few years and especially the past year or two are said to have been enormous, amounting in the aggregate to millions of dollars, and under such circumstances they ought to pay higher wages or sell their products to local consumers at lower prices; but if they refuse to pay higher wages there is no use or sense in striking unless a strike can be made to win. There was no chance for this strike to win, unless there was a sympathetic strike of mechanics and other unions, and this could not be brought about because all these unions belong to the A. F. of L., while the mill workers were induced to enlist under the banner of the I. W. W., a rival and antagonistic organization. Which is the better makes no difference; one set of workingmen cannot successfully strike against employers with millions of surplus profits unless they can have the united sympathetic support of all other classes of workingmen. We would think is were time, after successive failures and discomfitures, for workingmen to turn the cold shoulder to these traveling burders and mischief makers, who live and grow fat off the contributions of workingmen, and go running about the country trying to set employers and employes by the ears. The next ones that come along should be run out of town with but scant notice that room here is preferable to their company. The only result of their latest visit to Portland has been loss and trouble for everybody, and no benefit to anybody. But the ones most injured by these foreign organizers are the workingmen themselves. They not only lose their wages for a while, and some of them their jobs, but they find it more difficult after every such faux pas as this to gain the higher wages that they ought to have. THE GOVERNOR'S VETOES. By apparently losing his temper during the session of the legislature the governor lost whatever slight chance he might otherwise have had of beating the Republican nominee, whoever he may be, for senator next year. Without saying that the governor does not prefer to do the right and best thing, whenever doing so, will not injure him politically, everybody knows that at least some of his vetoes he was playing politics rather than serving the people. In this, however, he went rather too far, and some of his actions and words, too, will return to plague him if he asks for the people's suffrages again. The governor vetowed a good many bills on the score of economy, among them bills appropriating only a few thousand dollars in the aggregate for several district fairs, but he failed to veto the utterly needless $100,000 appropriation for the Oregon National Guard. The boys of the O. N. G. think the governor is a good fellow, no doubt, and he might win a few votes among them by approving this big appropriation, but he will lose the votes of a good many more taxpayers on that account. They don't believe in being taxed $50,000 a year just to let a lot of young fellows strut around and take a vacation playing soldier. They are mostly nice, pleasant, worthy young men, of course, but the hardhanded and hardheaded taxpayers know that Oregon has no more use for a $50,000 a year National Guard than it has for a warship up on the Long Tom river. very objectionable a good many prom say so if they had a press their real sen deal has been said a leaders, and much o but would not the have done better woe less expense to the been "run" by a bo while attaining his The governor's action on the normal school question will not be approved either. The legislature passed a reasonable bill eliminating two of the schools, which the governor had urged should be done, b because this bill imposed upon him a share of the responsibility for deciding which schools were to be cut out, he vetoed the bill; and later, in vetoting the bill giving Monmouth and Drain appropriations he lost his usually urbane temper entirely, and scolded and fairly raved in a manner not at all comportable with his position. Why should he not take on himself a little of the responsibility for deciding as between the normal schools? Because he is ambitious to go to the senate is he to dodge all responsibility that might lose him a few votes? The governor is very brave when there is no chance of danger to himself, but as soon as duty involves the possible slump of votes he dodges it. But we think he overdid the vote-getting net, and will suffer some accordingly if he should conclude to run for senator next year. The President is admittedly a great all-around man, and has done a good many notably good things, but with all due deference we must say that in some matters he has shown poor judgment and in others has been badly mistaken, and that he has shown personal favors and gratified personal grudges, which detract much from his worth and fame and are not in consonance with the dignity of his great office. The last instance of this kind was the snubbing of Senator Foraker by appointing a federal judge in Ohio without consulting the Ohio senator or his colleague. This undoubtedly was in revenge for Senator Foraker's attitude on the question of the Brownsville affair. The President in his impulsive, headlong way discharged three companies of colored soldiers on expert testimony, without giving them a trial or any chance to defend themselves, because they were accused of "shooting up the town" and the rest of the soldiers would not accuse the few who, if any of them, were guilty. Senator Foraker introduced a resolution for an investigation into all the facts, which is now being had, and took the position that the President exceeded his authority and did the soldiers an injustice. Besides, Senator Foraker chose to vote against the railroad regulation bill, a pet measure of the President's, as he had a perfect right to do, and as it was his duty to do if he believed the bill was a bad one. Whether Senator Foraker was right or wrong on these propositions, in the estimation of the President, is not pertinent, is not to be considered. He has a right to his opinions, and his course of action on public questions is a matter for his own intellect and conscience, not the President's, to determine, and to punish or snub Senator Foraker in this manner is rather a small piece of personal spitework for the President of the United States to engage in. Senator Foraker has been elected governor of Ohio. He has been sent repeatedly to the senate from Ohio. In his youth he was a soldier in the Civil war from Ohio, and rose to a high position in the army. The people of Ohio know, honor and trust him, and when a federal judge was to be appointed for a new district created by a bill which Foraker had passed, it would have been only common, decent official courtesy for the President to have consulted Senator Foraker, according to custom. There are some good things, perhaps, about the primary and direct nomination law, but there are some A SMALL REVENGE. THE PRIMARY SYSTEM. very objectionable features, too, and a good many prominent men would say so if they had the courage to express their real sentiments. A great deal has been said against bosses and leaders, and much of it was deserved, but would not the last legislature have done better work, at a good deal less expense to the people, if it had been "run" by a boss or leader who, while attaining his own ambitious objects to some extent, would have been careful not to get the people down on him, but rather to cause his legislative puppets to do them good service? Where there is no strong leadership there is confusion, chaos, and inevitably bad or at best but doubtful results. Nobody knows what he is going to do, or why, or how, or what he is there for. A bad organization is a bad thing, of course, but if not utterly unconscionable and corrupt it is better than no organization at all. Then as to running for office, an occasion for doing which is now before the people, the best and fittest men for the respective offices, except in rare cases, will not enter the lists, because they do not wish to put themselves in the position of seeking an office, and because, besides, to get a nomination involves a good deal of expense and a great amount of disagreeable labor. It is only occasionally a good man who will run about begging voters to nominate him, and this leaves the field open in many instances to audacious, thick-skinned and perhaps in some cases unscrupulous men who are willing to do this. We have now in mind one man who is making a fight for the Republican nomination for an important office, and being supplied with unlimited "gall" is likely to get a plurality of votes, who isn't fit to be dog catcher in Scappose. The old convention system had its bad features, and it deserved its fate, but if a convention system could be properly carried on, and "slates" prohibited, it would be far preferable to the new system. It is not likely that the people will change back for a while, if ever, but they are learning pretty fast that they are about as deep in the chaotic primary mire as they used to be in the boss manufactured mud. Political Announcements Robert A. Preston Candidate for Republican Nomination for Councilman, First Ward For improvement of the First ward and a square deal for the laborer Primary election May 4, 1907 O. P. Miller Candidate for the REPUBLICAN Nomination for CITY AUDITOR Primary election May 4 Henry A. Belding Candidate for the REPUBLICAN Nomination for J. E. Werlein Candidate for the REPUBLICAN Nomination for CITY TREASURER Primary election May 4, 1907 JACK'S PLACE CHAS. H. JACKSON PLA The Modern Cafe Open Day and Night Private Rooms for Parties Phone Pacific 2832 PORTLAND FUEL COMPANY Successors to PIONEER, C. R. DAVIS and PHOENIX FUEL CO. PHONE EAST 26 287 E. MORRISON ST. COAL—Rock Springs, Diamond, Richmond, Roslyn, New Castle, New Castle Nut, Franklin, Carbon Hill, Coke. WOOD—4-Foot Fir, 4-Foot Oak, 4-Foot Ash, Sawed Oak, Sawed Fir, Sawed Ask, Sawed Knots. U. S. GOVERNMENT INSPECTED MEATS Columbia Brand HAMS BACON LARD Union Meat Company 11 Dining Cars and First Class Hotels and Restaurants use the Union Meat Company's Fresh and Cured Meats. The Best in the Market. Patronize Home Industry. FURNITURE TRANSFER EDUCA TRANSFER SALES, PRICES & FURNITURE MOVED STORED RE BACKED FOR SHIPPING C. O. PICK TRANSFER & STORAGE COMPANY. Safes, Pianos, Furniture moved, stored or packed for shipping. Commodious brick warehouse, with separate iron rooms, Front and Clay. Express and Baggage hauled. Koessel & Frey Dealers in Fresh and Cured Meats, Oysters, Fish and Poultry Phone Main 1979 640 First Street Cor. Sheridan PORTLAND A. H. Willett & Co. GROCERS Special Prices to Restaurants Prompt Delivery Phone East 283 128 Grand Avenue A THOUGHT That the season suggests is a new Spring Suit Is a Good Thing to keep in mind that it pays to dress well FOR ANY MAN Who wants success and get value for his money will go to the CHICAGO CLOTH- ING COMPANY, 69-71 Third Street PACIFIC COOPERAGE FRANK PFLUGER, Prop. Round and Oval Tanks and Casks Beer Kegs, Barrels, Etc. Repairing of All Kinds to order. Twentieth and York Streets PORTLAND, OREGON Frederick A. Kribs Correspondence Solicited 328-330 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PORTLAND FUN Successors to PIONEER, C. R. DA PHONE EAST 26 COAL—Rock Springs, Diamond tle, New Castle Nut, Franklin, Carb WOOD—4-Foot Fir, 4-Foot C PASTEURIZED DAIRY COMPANY, Inc. Pasteurized Milk, Cream; Butter, Eggs, Cottage Cheese, Cheese; Butter Milk. QUALITY ICE CREAM Milk 4 per cent guaranteed Phone East 5302 300 Russell Street PORTLAND, OREGON Michigan T Company H. CRAW, Proprietor Phone East 2806 154 Grand Avenue CENTRAL 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 Martin-Marks Coffee Co. HIGH GRADE COFFEES TEAS, ETC. The excellence of Monte Cristo Java and Mocha Coffee stands in high favor. 252 Third Street 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 Dealer in Washington, Idaho & Oregon TIMBER & MINERAL LANDS Portland, Oregon UEL COMPANY R. DAVIS and PHOENIX FUEL CO. 287 E. MORRISON ST. mond, Richmond, Roslyn, New Cas- Carbon Hill, Coke. Pot Oak, 4-Foot Ash, Sawed Oak, Knots. T INSPECTED MEATS Columbia Brand HAMS BACON LARD at Company us Hotels and Restaurants use the Company's Cured Meats. Market. Patronize Home Industry. PORTLAND, OREGON & STORAGE COMPANY. ed or packed for shipping. Com- rate iron rooms, Front and Clay. PORTLAND, OREGON Portland New Age 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. RITER, City Editor PORTLAND LOCALS Mr. Paul Strain the genial proprietor of the Chicago Clothing Co. in the Ainsworth Building, Third and Oak Streets, is a firm and true friend of our people. Call and get acquainted with him. tf A bottle social for the benefit of Bethel A. M. E. church will be given on Easter Monday evening, April 1st. Admission 10 cents. A special Easter service will be given on Easter Sunday evening by the Sunday school and choir of Bethel A. M. E. church under the directorship of Mr. M. E. McAfee and Dr. Merriman respectively. The Ladies' Aid Society and Sewing Circle of Bethel A. M. E. church will give their first social on Thursday evening, March 28th, 1907 to which a cordial invitation is extended to all. Luncheon will be served free. Admission free. Mr. F. W. Groffort, a very enterprising and progressive citizen, who embarked in the real estate business some months ago with offices at $300 \frac{1}{2}$ Couch street, reports doing a rushing business. Mr. Graffort deserves the success that he seems to be meeting with and shows what is possible in the Northwest for the man with ability and push. Mon. William Ewing, of Fairbanks, Alaska, who is reputed to be the only colored millionaire in the west, is spending a few days in the city. Mr. Ewing has extensive holdings in Alaska both in real and mining property and only recently made an investment at Oakland, Cal., running into thousands of dollars. Mr. Ewing is an unostentious gentleman and what the world terms a self-made man, having risen from the ranks of the masses and his success and prosperity have not changed his manner and mode of living in the slightest degree. The New Age extends congratulations to Mr. Ewing and wishes him continued prosperity and happiness. OUR CHICAGO LETTER The New Age is on sale at Levy's News Stand, 506 Thirty-seventh st., Chicago. March 16th, 1907. Special to The Portland New Age. Mr. J. Max Barber has gone east on a visit. Lawyer James E. White of 59 Dearborn street is indisposed. The Local Negro Business League of Chicago has gone to pieces and is now a thing of the past. A large number of colored people are located here from the south, and many of them are buying homes. Bethesda Baptist church is making great preparations for the Easter services. The programs will be out in a week or ten days. Mr. George Henderson, the great and beautiful tenor singer has been very sick and has been compelled to have his arm amputated. He is at the Post Graduate Hospital, but is now improving. Mrs. Julia Stanley of Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs. Susan Davis of Danville, Ky., Miss Pearl Wilson of New York City, and Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Frederick of Grand Rapids, Mich., are in the city on a visit. The Order of True Reformers in Chicago will soon make arrangements to build them a hall in this city. They are making remarkable progress. Among some of the prominent members in Chicago are Rev. J. F. Thomas, Mr. M. T. Balley, Mr. Walker Bright, Mr. James Bennett, Mrs. M. E. Young and Mrs. Martha Lane. The people are surprised that Bishop Schaffer will permit such outrageous transactions to go on in some of the colored churches in Chicago, and he remaining silent and not having anything to say about it, and the people will probably never know the cause of it, until they hear of it or read of it in the columns of this paper. More will be said about it in the near future. Mr. Wilson Jones, a colored police officer of Chicago who has been on the police force in Chicago for many years, is highly respected by the people of Chicago. He is a very competent, efficient and reliable officer, and has won great praise from the head of the police department as a great thief catcher, and by his energetic efforts he has almost broken up the infamous game of policy and lottery in Chicago. He is ably assisted along those lines by Officer Harden and Officer Fletcher. Mrs. Hattie Jarvis who lives on Greenwood avenue was last week severely rebuked and centured by a prominent lawyer in a court for her action and conduct in a case. It appears that a man and his wife had separated and that the man's wife admitted that she did not want to live with her husband and in the face of those facts, this individual, it is said went around and persuaded the woman to have her husband arrested. Such dledlesome and evil minded people as that aer doing nothing but causing trouble in the community and the sooner they are driven out of the homes and kept out of the homes of all respectable people, the better off the community will be. Mrs. Fannie Barrifer Williams, the Chicago correspondent of the New York Age, makes a great mistake when she states in the columns of the New York Age that Registrar W. F. Vernon made a great speech lately in Chicago, but as a matter of fact, and was admitted by everybody in the church at the time, his speech was entirely unsatisfactory, and almost insignificant. All Mr. Vernon attempted to do was to offer an apology and some excuses for the action of President Roosevelt in the discharge of the three colored companies of the 25th infantry. It must be admitted that everybody in the church was disgruntled and wholly dissatisfied with what Mr. Vernon said. Unfortunately, for the colored people in Chicago, but the same is true, like every other city, there are some colored men who succeed in having and getting their names printed in some of the colored paners and magazines that have no standing whatever among their people, and sometimes they get into office by accident or mistake, and such is the case of Oscar DePriest and John C. Buckner. Oscar DePriest and John C. Buckner are ignorant and are known as weaklings in everything they attempt to say or do. When John C. Buckner was a member of the legislature, he voted and worked for the vicious and notorious Allen bill that brought such great disgrace on the state of Illinois, and now whenever his name is spoken of, it receives nothing but hisses and groans. The colored lawyers that have held the position of assistant county attorney for Cook county for a number of years have made excellent records in that office and one that the people in Cook county feel proud of. The first colored lawyer that was appointed assistant county attorney for Cook county was Lawyer E. H. Morris, who was appointed in the year 1894, and who displayed such legal ability that they called upon him to conduct and look after all the important law suits where the county of Cook was a party. In 1895 he went before the supreme court of the state of Illinois in that famous law suit between the city of Chicago and the county of Cook involving seven million of dollars and won the suit for the county of Cook. The next lawyer to hold the office of assistant county attorney was W. H. Ward now deceased, and the next colored lawyer to hold the position of assistant county attorney was Mr. L. B. Anderson, who is now the present incumbent. At a meeting of the Calumet Club held last Monday, Mr. Jos. F. Bailey in the chair, the business of the club was for the purpose of discussing as to what the prominent colored men of the country had done for the benefit and protection of their race. Lawyer John G. Jones made a bitter sneech, attacking the record of Ex-United States Minister W. F. Powell, of New Jersey, and said that the conduct and the action of W. F. Powell for a minister of Hayti was a burning disgrace to the American government and a serious reflection on the colored people of this country, and that he having charge of the affairs of Santo Domingo and his action there was so unsatisfactory as it has been reported that it lost the colored people of America the opportunity of having another colored man appointed minister there; for the Santo Domingo government requested President Roosevelt to appoint a white man minister to Santo Domingo, and that was done. Mr. A. Wilberforce Williams is now lecturing in the colored A. M. E. churches in this city on every Sunday evening, and advertising and soliciting the congregation to purchase stock in the Black Diamond Development Company, that A. J. Cary, pastor of the Bethel A. M. E. church is connected with. If the people wish to put their money in a sand hole, so they will never see it again, then let them put it into this Black Diamond Development Co. When the colored A. M. E. churches of Chicago are to be used on Sunday for the purpose of selling stock to the congregation as has been done in the past, it is then about time for the honorable, decent, Christian people to stay at home. If things keep on in the future the way they have been conducted in the past, in some of the colored A. M. E. churches in Chicago, we will not be a bit astonished or surprised to hear at any time, pool selling and betting on horse races carried on in some of the colored A. M. E. churches of Chicago. There is a great difference between the republican party and the democratic party in Chicago so far as the treatment and recognition is concerned relative to the colored man. The republican party since the year 1871 and almost each year down to the present time have nominated and elected some colored man on their ticket and in the whole history of the democratic party in Chicago, they have never nominated or elected one colored man to any office of any kind. The first colored man elected a member of the legislature of the state of Illinois was the late Hon. J. W. E. Thomas in 1876. The living colored men who have served various terms as members of the legislature of the state of Illinois are Edward J. Harris, John G. Jones, W. L. Martin, James E. Bish, Edward D. Green, George F. Ecton, Dr. Alexander Lane, John G. Buckner. All of these men who served as members of the legislature, accepted themselves with honor, their constituents and credit to them, and they were men of ability, excepting John C. Buckner. Buckner's record in the legislature of the state of Illinois for voting for vicious legislation, brought upon him the censure and reproach of the people. The city of Chicago has a population now of colored persons of 65,000 and about 10,000 colored voters. Nearly all of the colored men in Chicago as a rule and with very few exceptions vote the republican ticket on election day from top to bottom. Sometimes it happens that when a white man that has been placed on PORTLAND NEW AGE the republican ticket as candidate for office that is not friendly to the colored people, the colored people get together and send the word out on the quiet, and that is to knife him at the polls, and as a rule the objectable candidate is found to be defeated when the ballots are counted. The colored vote in Chicago is mostly located in the first, second, third, thirtieth, thirty-first, sixth and seventh wards of Chicago. The colored men in Chicago that have the most influence in politics and who are consulted relative to everything for the advancement of their race are the Hon. E. H. Morris, Mr. Frank W. Rollins, Hon. John G. Jones, Mr. Walter M. Farmer, Hon. Edward D. Green, Mr. Julius F. Taylor, editor of the Broad Ax, Mr. D. R. Wilkins, editor of the Chicago Conservator, Mr. Edward E. Wilson, Mr. Robert T. Motts, Mr. A. H. Roberts, Hon. Wm. L. Martin, Mr. Thomas Pearson, Mr. James A. Scott, Mr. William H. Clark, Dr. Chas. E. Bently, Mr. S. H. Prather, Rev. J. F. Thomas, Hon. George W. Murray, Mr. B. F. Moseley, Mr. S. A. T. Watkins, Mr. Hale G. Parker, Major B. G. Johnson, Dr. George T. Hall, Rev. Jordan Chavis, Mr. C. J. Waring, Mr. Isaac J. Reed, Rev. Jesse Woods, Rev. H. W. Stewart, Mr. Adam M. Beckley, Mr. S. D. McFarland and Mr. W. W. Johnson. PROMINENT COLORED MEN AND WOMEN OF TODAY. By Eugene Fields, of Chicago. Mrs. H. L. Wright, of Pittsburg, Pa., is one of the brilliant and leading colored ladies of the City of Pittsburg, and is closely identified with a number of enterprises for the progress and advancement of the race. Mrs. Wright is the Most Worthy Grand Matron of the East End Royal Court of Daughters of Sphinx of Pittsburg, Pa., and is a great worker in the order, and under the management of Mrs. Wright the court has prospered and in the condition. She is also the Assistant Supreme Grand Recorder of the Supreme Grand Court of Daughters of Sphinx of North and South America, and is recognized to be one among the coming leading colored women of the United States. Mr. John F. Ransom, of Boston, Mass., was born in Winchester, Va. He was educated in the public schools at Columbus, O., and Oberlin College. He has held many positions of honor and trust, and is an eminent musician, and one of the leading instructors in music. Miss Henrietta D. Marshall, of Wheeling, W. Va., is an educated and prominent lady and is identified with every movement for the advancement of the race. She is a lady of refinement and culture, an active member of Excelsior Court of Daughters of Sphinx and a member of the Board of Directors of the Supreme Court of Daughters of Sphinx of North and South America. Mr. Marshall Walter Taylor, of Worcester, Mass., was born on the 8th of November, 1878, at Indianapolis, Ind., and is now the champion bicycle rider of the world. He commenced to ride a bicycle at the age of 13 years, and has won a large number of the most important bicycle races both in America, France and Germany and other foreign countries. He has a magnificent home and valuable property in Worcester, Mass. Rev. M. W. D. Norman, D. D., of Washington, D. C., is the pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist church in Washington, D. C. His congregation is composed of a large number of cultured and refined colored people of that city. Rev. Norman is a profound scholar, eloquent speaker, successful pastor, and popular with the people. He is a Shriner and a 33d Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Mason. Rev. Dr. W. B. Perry, of Worcester, Mass., is a towering pillar of strength in the educational, religious, Masonic and political world. He is a brilliant and eloquent speaker. A polished scholar, and is pastor of one of the enterprising and prosperous M. E. churches in the city of Worcester, Mass. He is a distinguished 33d Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is recognized to be one of the most influential men there is in the state of Massachusetts. Mr. James H. Guy, of Topeka, Kan., is a successful practicing attorney of that city and is one among the strong and influential colored men of the state of Kansas. During the recent session of the Interstate Literary Association of Kansas City, Mo., he was the presiding officer of that organization and displayed excellent judgment as a parliamentarian. New Cheese & Butter Store Cheese a Specialty Butter, Eggs, Honey, Teas, Coffees, Cured Meats, Etc. The most up-to-date in the city. Swetland Bldg., 126 Fifth Street ( I desire to announce that I have moved my place of business to the second floor of the new Swetland Building at Fifth and Washington streets. ( Assuring you that I have exercised careful and earnest effort to please, in the selection I have made of fabrics for the coming spring. Your patronage is respectfully solicited. The styles prevalent have byen received. A. H. GRISWOLD Successor to Griswold & Phegley UNIVERSAL SUPPLY HOUSE Delicatessen and Groceries Home Cooking a Specialty. Try Our Home Made Pies Phone East 5921 369 E. Burnside St., Near Union Ave. WILLIAMS & SWANK STAPLE & FANCY GROCERIES Fresh Fruit and Vegetables, Teas and Coffees Telephone East 1602 222 Larabee Street PORTLAND, OREGON EUREKA MARKET HENRY FASSBENDER, Prop. Choice Fresh and Cured Meats. Fish and Poultry Phone Main 2624 Co. 14th and Glisan, Portland, Or J. B. SIMMONS Choice Staple and Fancy Groceries CIGARS, TOBACCO AND CONFECTIONERY Delivered to All Parts of the City. 463 Glisan St. Tel. Pacific 199 McGUIRE & TAYLOR Staple and Fancy Groceries 35 Grand Avenue Phone East 2629 PORTLAND, OR. NOB HILL MARKET A. 8CHOLZ, Proprietor. Fresh, Cured and Smoked Meats Sausage and Poultry Tel. Main 818 Cor., 21st and Irving Streets D. BREEDLOVE & SON. GROCERS 361 East SeventhSt., cor. Stephens Phone East 768 PORTLAND, OR. Prices Reasonable Satisfaction Guaranteed A. NICHOLSON Successor to E. WINKLEMAN Ladies' and Gent's Tailoring Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing Phone Pacific 2076 142 Nineteenth Street J. J. MEYERS Fancy Groceries, Bakery Goods, Cigars and Tobacco, Ice Cream and Confectionery Orders Delivered Promptly Phone Woodlawn 399 780 Mississippi Ave. PORTLAND, OREGON DISPENSING CHEMISTS Phone Pacific 2897 13th & Washington Streets PORTLAND, OREGON T. J. Concannon & Sons Lewis & Clark Grocery Phone Pacific 2122 800 Thurman St., cor. 24th PORTLAND, OREGON M. E. PUGH Fancy & Staple Groceries Phone East 440 447 Union Avenue, North PORTLAND OREGON WE ROAST OUR OWN COFFEE SULLIVAN & KRUEGER Phone Main 1898 Dealers in Staple and Fancy GROCERIES Teas, Coffees and Spices Sixteenth and Glisan Sts. Free Delivery PORTLAND, ORE. COOK MOTOR CAR CO. Dealers in High Grade Automobiles Fifteenth and Washington Sts PORTLAND, OREGON HOLBROOK & LEVEEN Tailors for Men 150 Sixth St., cor Morrison PORTLAND OREGON Finest Made Adams Fire Proof Stove Blacking. No odor. More durable. Only blacking made that will remain on Air Tight heaters. FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS SANDSTROM BAKERY No. 776 Williams Avenue Fresh Bread and Cakes Daily PIES AND CANNED GOODS TELEPHONE EAST 95 T. J. COFER & SONS Grocery & Meat Market 735 Williams Avenue Phone Woodlawn 149 MILLER, BUCK & CO. GROCERS Phone Woodlawn 406 Williams Ave. & Fargo G. J. Erdner R. Hochull ERDNER & HOCHULI Chicago Market Dealers in Fresh and Cured Meats. All Kinds of Sausages. 187 Third Street, near Yamhill, Phone Main 413. Portland, Oregon. D. C. BURNS THE GROCER TELEPHONE 616 210 Third St., Portland, Oregon. P. A. TAYLOR Staple and Fancy Groceries Fruits, Confections, Cigars, Tobaccos and Fancy Coffees, Teas and Spices at Lowest Prices 447 Union Ave. Free Delivery Phone East 440 AUGUST STORZ Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries Vegetables, Fruits and Dairy Produce Phone East 508 469 Williams Ave. PORTLAND, OREGON C. S. NELSON Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries and Provisions 154 N. Fourteenth St., Cor. Irving John's Meat Market J. D. MERGENS, Prop. Fresh Meats, Beef, Pork, Mutton, Bacon and Hams Corned Beef and Pickled Pork a Specialty Phone Main 1954 43½ N. Sixth Street PORTLAND, OREGON The Union Meat Co. All Dining Care and First Class Hotels and Restaurants 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 Tobacco, Fruits and Confectionery PROMPT DELIVERY 95 Russell St. Phone East 4899 FINK & LEWIS Dealers in Staple and Fancy Groceries DRESSED POULTRY, ETC. Phone East 582 514 Mississippi Avenue PORTLAND, ORE. GEO. W. HOCHSTEDLER Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fruits, Produce CIGARS AND TOBACCO Phone East 374 460-462 E. Burnside St. OLSEN BROTHERS 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 15th Phone Main 2167 PORTLAND, OREGON RAINIER MARKET C. BLUM, Proprietor Dealer in Fresh, Cured and Smoked Meats, Hams, Bacon, Lard, Sausages, Etc. Also Fish and Clams. FAMILY TRADE A SPECIALTY Cor. Seventeenth and Savier Sts. Phone Main 1632 Portland, Oregon H. R. LYNES Dealer in STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES Notions and Fruit. Free Delivery. 154 Russell Street Phone East 5640 PORTLAND, OREGON 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 E. B. COLWELL Wholesale and retail GROCER PHONE MAIN 403 281, 283 and 285 Third St. CORNER JEFFERSON PORTLAND, OREGON P. A. EDDY North Portland's Leading Grocer Agent for Chase & Sanborn's Teas and Coffees Regular delivery by Three Wagons, 10:30 a. m., 2:30 p. m. Special deliveries, 9 a. m., 4 p. m. Phone Main 1710. 752-754 Savier St., Corner Twenty-third Portland, Oregon The Portland Flowering Mills Co. OLYMPIC PATENT FAMILY FLOUR PORTLAND, ORE. M.C. NOON BARCO, PORTLAND, ORE. OLYMPIC. A Flour Whose Best Endorsement Is the Fact that the Number of People Who Use It Multiplies Every Year THE LIGHT THAT'S BRIGHT Electric light is pre-eminently the light of happy content. It dispells gloom, dinginess and discouragement. Light homes make light hearts. Electric light is practical light—a light that is at once clean, convenient and economical. 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THE BITULITHIC PAVEMENT BEST BY EVERY TEST For Streets, Driveway WARREN CONSTRUCTION 314 Lumber Exchange Built HENRY WEINHART Manufacturers and Well Known Brand "EXPORT" "KAISERE" IN KEGS AND ets, Driveways and C CONSTRUCTION Mer Exchange Building, Portland WEINHARD'S B manufacturers and Bottlers of Down Brands of La ” “KAISERBLUME” “O N KEGS AND BOTTL For Streets, Driveways and Crosswalks. 314 Lumber Exchange Building, Portland, Oregon Manufacturers and Bottlers of the Well Known Brands of Lager Beer "EXPORT" "KAISERBLUME" "COLUMBIA" IN KEGS AND BOTTLES Trade and Families Supplied Brewery and Office DAVID H. BEECHER, SIDNEY CLARK, President. Cashier. Union National Bank Incorporated 1890 CAPITAL $100,000 Pays Interest on Time Deposits THE OLD BANK CORNER Grand Forks, NORTH DAKOTA A. HEINTZ, Manager. PACIFIC IRON WORK TRUCTURAL STEEL A Steel Bridges, Upset Rods and Bolts Columns and all Architectural Iron. Sides and Lights. All Kinds of Castings. 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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. News and Crosswalks. CCTION COMPANY Building, Portland, Oregon BARD'S BREWERY Bottlers of the Is of Lager Beer BLUME" "COLUMBIA" D BOTTLES BURNSIDE & 13th STS. THE BANK ON WORKS. STEEL AND IRON Beds and Bolts, Cast Iron Cural Iron. Sidewalk Doors of Castings. ET 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 merits your confidence. 421 Riverside Ave. Mariso Block THE CENT SPOKANE'S GREATEST STORE Phone East 57 PORTLAND NEW AGE NO FAULT TO END. "That friend of yours, Skillven, is certainly one of the most charitable men I ever met," remarked the passenger with the fur-lined overcoat. "I haven't noticed him giving away anything," said the passenger with the leatherline suitcase, folding his newspaper and pocketing it. "What happened to touch his heart?" ever pared cheese with a razor. Tell me he won't have his shoes ished because the friction might wilt them out and that he's had the bag save the hair he cuts off him for last thirty years to stuff a mattress. "That's nonsense," he says. poor old gentleman has been bald the last thirty years. He's frugal. "I don't mean that exactly," said the passenger in the fur-lined overcoat. "I don't know whether he's easy or tight, but I know he takes charitable views." "That's easy," commented the man with the leatherine suitcase. "His ideas may be liberal, but he isn't—not to speak of. Borrowed his wheelbarrow last spring and I happened to break one of the handles. At least, I didn't break it; it was broken already, or splintered. Well, I offered to pay to have it repaired, of course, and darned if he didn't take me up on it!" "That was pretty large," agreed the man with the fur-lined overcoat. "I don't wonder you're sore on him." "I don't know that I'm sore, particularly. It was only 25 cents, but it didn't seem to me very neighborly. Kind of a cranky disposition, too." "Well, of course, I don't know anything about that, but I was talking with him about old Brackenbury. Talk about a crank, Brackenburk is one for your whiskers. He's got a grouch against humanity. Hanged if I ever knew such a mean old rooster. I was telling this Skilliven about the way he acted up all the time in his office. I guess there isn't one of his clerks who wouldn't poison him if he got a good chance. Skilliven, it seems, knew him. "I believe all that is greatly exaggerated,' he says. 'Of course, he's a little irritable at times, but he's suffered with dyspepsia—a good deal to my certain knowledge. We must make allowances. He's a pretty nice old man, when you know him.' "I know him pretty well by reputation," I said. "He's got the reputation of being the meanest old skinfint that TOPICS OF TIME A process for making rubber from wheat has been invented. There were 1,234,278 Odd Fellows in the United States January 1. The total number of immigrants to the United States, 1906, was 1,100,735. Earl Gray, Governor-General of Canada, receives a salary of $50,000 a year. The lower peninsula of Michigan is said to be entirely underlaid with rock salt. The churches are the Portuguese polling places and votes in Portugal are cast nowhere else. There are 363 stock and 234 mutual fire insurance companies in the United States January 1, 1907. Workmen in one of the streets of Madrid dug up an old walnut-wood chest containing 300 gold doubloons. Medals of honor for distinguished gallantry in war in which the United States was engaged are held by 458 Americans. The result of the first six months' working of the Simplon tunnel have been tabulated, and show that an average of 8,000 passengers were carried a day. If not absolutely the oldest, the Stora Kopperbarger in Sweden is the oldest copper mine of which there are any official figures. It has been worked continuously for nearly 800 years. The dreaded nun butterfly is appearing everywhere in Bohemia, threatening the devastation of the forests. The neighboring woods of Saxony and Silesia are also threatened. The Ministry of Agriculture has named a commission to investigate. Andrew Carnegie's "hero fund" was established in 1904 with $5,000,000 at its disposal. The commission had awarded sixty-three medals up to Jan. 1, 1907, and disbursed about $40,000, aside from about $65,000 given San Francisco and other sufferers from disasters. Perhaps for concentrated inaccuracy of statement nothing can surpass the following sentence, which occurred in an account of a burglary given a short time back in a paper: "After a fruitless search all the money was recovered, except one pair of boots."—Titt Bits. One of the princesses of the Burmese court, a young woman not yet 20, is said to be the possessor of the costliest dress in the world. It is a court costume and worn only on rare occasions. It is studded with jewels reputed to be worth in the aggregate not less than one million four hundred thousand dollars.—Leslie's Weekly. Several New York postmen, according to the World, have made fortunes of more than $200,000. These men, although independently wealthy, through extra effort during leisure hours, still trudge from house to house daily with mailbag and whistle, content to accept a salary of $1,000 a year which ever. pared cheese with a razor. They tell me he won't have his shoes polished because the friction might wear them out and that he's had the barber save the hair he cuts off him for the last thirty years to stuff a mattress.' "That's nonsense,' he says. 'The poor old gentleman has been bald for the last thirty years. He's frugal, I know, but don't consider that a vice.' "Well, then I mentioned the old rat's love of money and he excused that by saying that most old men were more or less avaricious. "Not to the extent of dishonesty,' I says. 'I've heard of things he's done that ought to have landed him in the penitentiary.' "Well, says Skillven, 'we're all human and we've got our little faults. If it isn't one thing it's another, and we don't want to be too hard on people, especially old people. I don't suppose Mr. Brackenbury has a great many more years to live, and I'm sorry for that, because he really is, when you get to know him, a very nice old gentleman. He has some excellent qualities and my family thinks the world of him.' Now, I don't care wh. t you say, when a man can talk that way about a hoary old scoundrel like W. D. Brackenbury, he's mighty charitable." "Huh!" ejaculated the man with the leatherline suitcase contemptuously. "I don't suppose he told you that his wife is Bracken's next of kin and that they expect to come in for the bulk of his money when he dies. Oh, he's a charitable duck, all right, and when it comes to wheelbarrows with broken handles——" "Well, that wasn't the only thing," sald the man with the fur-lined overcoat. "We talked about other people too—you among them—and he spoke pretty well of you." "I don't see any particular reason why he shouldn't," sald the man with the leatherline suitcase. "I never bilked him out of 25 cents."—Chicago Dally News. Uncle Sam provides for his postmen. In every case the fortunes were made through shrewd investments in real estate. London now has six underground electric railways (tubes) in operation, and five more are under construction or projected. The railways of London, underground and surface, carry more than 600,000,000 persons each year, of which underground lines accommodate 258,000,000. There are nearly 600 railway stations in Greater London, and into the trunk line stations alone there pour annually more than 300,000 passengers. A dip into an official return showed that there are 1,204 London cabbies between the ages of 60 and 70, 249 between the ages of 70 and 80, while 7 return their age between 80 and 90. One almost suspects these seven old patriarchs of having carried sedan chairs in the pregrowler days. At all events, they are a living advertisement of London as a health resort, with beefsteak, overcoat and muffler—London Chronicle. The name "Polly," applied to the parrot, is said to have been brought to the North in an early day by fatboatmen, who took grain and provisions down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. Parrots were in cages at the doors of many French shops and the Westerners heard the French say to the bird, "Parlez, parlez," pronounced parley, and meaning "speak! speak!" This word, as they brought it back, came to be polly. DUCKS 1,200 MILES AT SEA. Birds Circle Around Steamship, Taking It for an Island. The Oceanic Steamship Company's liner Mariposa, Captain Lawless, arrived from Tahiti with twenty-three passengers and a cargo of tropical products. Among the passengers was W. F. Doty, former American consul at Papeete and recently promoted to represent Uncle Sam in Persia as United States consul. The interests of America in Persia have been represented hitherto by the secretary of the British legation at Teheran, who acted as United States vice consul whenever necessity arose. This government, however, recently appointed three consuls for Persia, among them Mr. Doty, whose post will be at Fabriz. This is in the same latitude as San Francisco and is one of the most inaccessible consular posts in the world. In journeying to his new station Consul Doty will have to travel camel back for 1,500 miles. On the afternoon of Nov. 9 Captain Lawless was surprised to see twelve black and white ducks flying overhead. They came from the eastward. After circling around the Mariposa a number of times, as if they were wonderl: what kind of an island the liner was, the ducks wheeled into line and resumed their flight, heading due west. The ducks were 1,800 miles from San Francisco and 1,200 miles from Hawaii, the nearest land.—San Francisco Call. Oil Painting of Ancient Days. Oil painting was an art thoroughly understood by the ancients, but was lost sight of and only revived about the end of the thirteenth century. A. D. FURNITURE APPLIES UTLERY SPECIALTY. 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CUTCUT! MORE! CUT! —Chicago Tribune. SAHARA DESERT. A Sun-Baked Region of Desolation and Ever Shifting Sands. In the event that it becomes necessary for France to intervene in the affairs of Morocco, in the interests of international order, the scene of her first operations will be in the desert region where the French colony of Algiers and the country of the Moors join. French troops are now posted in that region and a more dismal setting for military operations it would be difficult to find. Under the name of the Algerian Sahara the great desert of Sahara extends into Algeria, along the southern base of the Atlas mountains and closely approaches the Mediterranean west of the Gulf of Cabes. The immensity of this great barren region can scarcely be realized. The Sahara desert embraces some 3,200,000 square miles and presents an alternation of es 10 z A SAND WAVES OF A DESERT SEA. immense burning wastes of loose and moving sand, with tracts of barren rock, stony plains of gravel and elevated and rocky plateaus rising into mountains, with extensive valleys and expanses of sand between. Some of the valleys are depressed below the level of the ocean. Under the influences of meteorological conditions operating for centuries the particles composing the sandstone and other rocks are disintegrated and these particles carried away by the mighty wind that sweeps the soil, wander afar until they come to a standstill in the hollows. Such is the origin of the extensive sandy tracts of which the accompanying illustration gives a good idea. In these belts or strips the sand halting against the smallest obstacles accumulates around them and generally the downs thus created assume the form of the waves of the sea, their fall and motion being with the direction of the prevailing wind. Rain is utterly unknown except in the oases and on the mountains, where it sometimes falls with such violence as to produce torrents that suddenly A CONTRAST OF TWO CIVILIZA OF TWO CIVILIZATIONS IN THE DES A CONTRAST OF TWO CIVILIZATIONS IN THE DESERT pour down into the valleys and almost as suddenly disappear beneath the sands. These rains fall at long intervals, 9, 12 and even 20 years intervening between them. Notwithstanding the obstacles of the desert, it is constantly crossed on various routes by caravans of traders and many nomadic Arabs make it their home. The camel ```markdown ``` HEARS OF THE "EGG TRUST." CUT OUT! CUT NOT! CUT OUT! CUT OUT! CUT OUT! CUT OUT! PAUL HALLER is the chief beast of burden and were it not for this "ship of the desert" the burning wastes would be impassable for man. Along these caravan routes oases are found in places where underground sources of water exist. Vegetation flourishes in these restricted areas and date palms, affording a grateful shade, thrive. Of late strange sights to the natives have been seen along some of these caravan routes. Modernism has invaded them. Daring tourists have run their automobiles, to the consternation of the Arabs, into the oases which never before witnessed other means of locomotion except that furnished by the camels. A strange contrast indeed it must be to see the motor car of civilization whirling along routes where for centuries the four-legged "ship of the desert" stood without a comper. But so it is. Civilization is forcing its way into every nook of the world. But ... while it may thus lend a picturesque aspect to desert locomotion, it will never change the essentials of the great waste, whose shifting sands are forever in motion like the billows of the troubled sea. Odd Habits of Pheasants There is some curiosity as to how many English pheasants will be raised in Kansas this year. The average number of birds raised by each pair of parent birds is sixty. With 2,000 in the State this would mean about 7,000,000 birds in two years. The woods and fields would be overrun with them at this rate. However, there are many foes of the birds and they are killed every year in great numbers. The sleet storms are particularly hard on them, as the water freezes on their long plumage and they are unable either to fly or run fast. When in this condition they are easy prey to dogs and wolves. One of the queerest habits the birds have is to migrate in the late winter thirty-five miles. It is claimed that the birds always migrate exactly thirty-five miles and always to the south. The ZATIONS IN THE DESERT. young never stay where they were hatched, but make this move as soon as they are large enough. Naturalists have never been able to explain this. The only theory advanced is that the birds know if they stay where they were hatched the country would soon be overstocked with them.—Kansas City Journal. Chote Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Family garden in connection. Transient rooms, Union bar, Wm. Beil, Prop. Phone Main 2298, Cor. 223 and Thurman Sts., Portland, Oregon. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars Cor. Seventeenth and Northrup Sts. Portland, Oregon ELDERBRAU GROTTO ERICKSON & BEKG, Props. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars 54 Sixth Street MAIN 4402 PORTLAND, ORE. Fine Wines & Liquors Cor. 23d and Washington PORTLAND, OR. SERING & HILL Fine Wines & Liquors Family Trade a Specialty 340 Williams Ave. Portland, Ore. 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Aitchison, Secretary. 240 Washington Street Corner Second PORTLAND OREGON --- CONTAGIOUS BLOOD POISON NO LIMIT TO ITS POWERS FOR EVIL Contagious Blood Poison has brought more suffering, misery and humiliation into the world than all other diseases combined; there is hardly any limit to its powers for evil. It is the blackest and vilest of all disorders, wrecking the lives of those unfortunate enough to contract it and often being transmitted to innocent offspring, a blighting legacy of suffering and shame. So highly contagious is the trouble that innocent persons may contract it by using the same table ware, toilet articles or clothing of one in whose blood the treacherous virus has taken root. Not only is it a powerful poison but a very deceptive one. Only those who have learned by bitter experience know by the littl` sore or ulcer, which usually makes its appearance first, of the suffering which is to follow. It comes in the form of ulcerated mouth and throat, unsightly copper colored spots, swollen glands in the groin, falling hair, offensive sores and ulcers on the body, and in severe cases the finger nails drop off, the bones become diseased, the nervous system is shattered and the sufferer becomes an object of pity to his fellow man. Especially is the treacherous nature of Contagious Blood Poison, shown when the infected person endeavors to combat the poison with mercury and potash. These minerals will drive away all outward symptoms of the troubles for a while, and the victim is deceived into the belief that he is cured. When, however, the treatment is left off he finds that the poison has only been driven deeper into the blood and the disease reappears, and usually in worse form because these strong minerals have not only failed to remove the virus from the blood but have weakened the entire system because of their destructive action. S. S. 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He told her to try Peruna. "She gradually commenced improving and getting a little strength. She now weighs 106 pounds. She is gaining every day, and does her own housework and cooking." Dubious. Stippler—Did Miss Kutts admire your paintings? Dobber — I don't know. Stippler—What did she say about them? Dobber—That she could feel that I put a great deal of myself into my work. Stippler — Well, that's praise. Dobber—Is it? The picture I showed her was "Calves in a Meadow." FADED TO A SHADOW. Worn Down by Five Years of Suffering from Kidney Complaint. Mrs. Remethe Myers, of 180 South Tenth St., Ironton, O., says: "I have worked hard in my time and have been exposed again and again to changes of weather. It is no wonder my kidneys gave out and I went all to pieces at last. For five years I was fading worked hard in my time and have been exposed again and again to changes of weather. It is no wonder my kidneys gave out and I went all to pieces at last. 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PURELY VEGETABLE Write for our special book on Compains the different stages of the treatment for all sufferers of this trouble, if you wish special medical advice of physicians will be glad to furnish THE SWIN The Hub-code Here are the teachers the Huguenots by Chicago public school pupils: "The Hugenots are people in France that are followers of, Victor Hugo. Their leader is a man named Jean Valjean that was a thief, but got converted and turned out well. The Hugenots are very good people. A lady named Evangeline wrote a long poem about them, but it don't rhyme." "The Hugenots is the name of a big thing like a steam roller that the mogul used in India to run over people. It squashed them to death and was very terrible. It had eyes painted on it like a dragon and snorted steam when it was running. They are no hugenots enny more." Finexse. "Senator, everybody is commending that speech you made the other day on the subject of the trusts." "I think myself it was a pretty fair effort." "Unfortunately, I didn't hear it. What position did you take?" "Bless you, I didn't take any. I managed, however, to assure each party to the controversy that its position was the only correct and logical one." Time to Run. Gunner—There was a bad, bold burglar up in the girls' college the other day. Guyer—You don't say. And did the girls yell? Gunner—I should say so. They gave the college yell and the burglar hasn't stopped running yet. But the Other Side Objected. Attorney (for the defense)—Do you know anything about the merits of this case? Venireman—I should say not. It hasn't any merits. Attorney—We'll take this man, your honor. No Diagram with This. "Smythe, you called on that Boston girl, did you? Was she at home?" "Yes, she was at home, but you see—" "Yes?" "She was at home, but you see——" "Well?" "She was at home, but you see——" "Go on." "As I said, she was at home, but you see——" "Yes, yes; she was at home, but I see——" "Well, that's the answer." EITS St. Vitus' Dance and all Nervous Diseases permanently cured by the Great Great Disease. See the FUNE $23 trial battle and treaties, Dr. R. H. Killen, LL, 891 Arch St., Phila, Pa. Same Old Feeling. Gladys—I feel sure he has never loved before. Pencelo—Oh, I felt the same way, dear, when he used to make love to me!—New York Press. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many cars doctor pronounced that catarrh was the most serious, and by eventually failing to care with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proved catarrh to be a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheeney & Co., is available on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucus surfaces of the system, offering one offer for curatives for the system it takes. Send for curatives and testimonials. Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O Sold by Drugues, 70c Ancient Instance. Moses was numbering the children of Israel. "What are you doing that for?" somebody asked him. "They wouldn't stand for a-referendum," explained Moses, "and I had to turn it into a census." Not even his worst enemies, however, accused Moses of doing it for political purposes. Cynical. "Permit me to ask you, madam," said the lawyer, who was a friend of the family, "your real reason for wanting a divorce from your husband." "He isn't the man I thought I was marrying," explained the fair caller. "My dear madam," rejoined the lawyer, "the application of that principle would break up every home in the country." S BLOOD POISON S POWERS FOR EVIL brought more suffering, misery and humila- ter diseases combined; there is hardly any is the blackest and vilest of all disorders, tunate enough to contract it and often be- tained to a blighting legacy of suffering and shame. able that innocent persons may contract it toilet articles or clothing of one in whose kaken root. Not only is it a powerful poison those who have learned by bitter experience which usually makes its appearance first, of It comes in the form of ulcerated mouth blored spots, swollen glands in the groin, ulcers on the body, and in severe cases the come diseased, the nervous system is shat- object of pity to his fellow man. Especi- Contagious Blood Poison, shown when the bat the poison with mercury and potash. all outward symptoms of the troubles for dried up the belief that he is cured. When, the finds that the poison has only been driven sease reappears, and usually in worse form not only failed to remove the virus from the entire system because of their destructive and certain cure for Contagious Blood Poison of healing blood-purifying roots, herbs is great laboratory of forest and field. We that S. S. contains a particle of mineral in any form. S. S. S. goes down to the very bottom of the trouble and by cleansing the blood of every particle of the virus and adding rich, healthful qualities to this vital fluid, forever cures this powerful disorder. So thoroughly does S. S. S. cleanse the circulation that no signs of the disease are ever seen again, and offspring is protected. Contagious Blood Poison, which fully extrouble, and outlines a complete home treatable. No charge is made for this book, and vice about case or any of its symptoms, our nish that, too, without harge. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. PORTLAND NEW AGE A CUP OF TEA. Hospitality So Long Practiced Had Become a Habit. "It isn't what one does with, it's the spirit in which one does," Miss Thirza Tackley was wont to say as she presided over her squatty silver teapot in the old Tackley homestead, "That, at least, is what I have been taught, and as long as my friends feel the same, I have no regrets. There is little left of the family fortune, but only I am left of the family." There was, indeed, so little left that Miss Thirza's economies were of the closest and her hospitality limited to her teapot. Yet even before the day of the gale people felt that she maintained worthily the traditions of the hospitable Tackleys. A mighty elm blew down that day, and in its fall wrecked the Tackley homestead, and left only the kitchen ell unharmed. As the news spread, the townfolk flocked to the scene to view the disaster and console with Miss Thirza, whom they expected to find overwhelmed with grief. She was not. They found her in in the kitchen, the door set invitingly wide open, her best tea-service displayed, and the kettle singing cheerily on the fire. Every visitor was received and thanked for his sympathy, directed how best to see the ruins, told the story of the downfall, and refreshed before departing with a cup of perfect tea. Nor did Miss Thirza forget who took cream and who lemon, or how many lumps of sugar went to whose cup. She succeeded in transforming the occasion of her own irreparable misfortune into a friendly tea-party for all the neighbors. A few silly young people found it funny; but the first whisper of ridicule was sternly suppressed. "Funny! It's fine!" declared old Judge Creaton. "Miss Thirza is the best, as she is the last, of all the Tackleys. She'll find herself the heroine of the town to-morrow, you'll see." He was right; but Miss Thirza never understood. "It was quite natural," she protested, in gentle bewilderment. "I only gave my friends a cup of tea." That was all. But there are some women so deeply hospitable that they have, as Sydney Smith expressed it, a teapot in their soul.—Youth's Companion. MEMORIES OF THE FARM. T. M. BROWN There is another farm job that is shown in the picture, and that has sent a few millions of boys from the farms to overcrowd the cities and work in stores at $10 per. If I was going to make the bad place worse, I'd put all the slinners up against a wood pile, and let them chop dry beech, elm and chestnut chunks in stovewood. Knots! Why the cussedness of all creation is bound up in the material that is set before some of these farm lads. Words fail me as the memories of those unhappy days come to the surface.—Bushnell, in Cinchnati Post. Stage Readiness. The London Echo gives the following anecdote from a foreign contemporary: Gobert, the French actor, whose specialty was the impersonation of Napoleon I., was troubled with an infirmity of memory, in consequence of which all letters handed to him to be read on the stage had really to contain the words he was to deliver. In some military piece or other the Emperor had to receive a letter from his adjutant and read it aloud to his assembled officers. A certain Gautier, the wag of the theater, acted the adjutant, and one evening, instead of giving Gobert the written letter, he handed him a blank sheet of paper. The actor took it, and, perceiving the trick that had been played him, returned the missive to Gautier, saying with perfect gravity: "Read it yourself, General." Gautier, who did not know a word of the part and was too much taken aback to extemporize, could not extricate himself from the position before the audience had discovered his discomfiture. Gobert's readiness was, indeed, almost as remarkable as that of a less celebrated actor, whose forte was the part of Richard III. At the approach of one of his best points, a hostile clique induced the supers to accost the tragédian with: "My lord, we've taken Buckingham and cut his head off." "Tis well," replied he; "had it not been so, I should have said 'Off with his head; so much for Buckingham.'" thus getting in his great effect after all. Didn't Favor the Cut. "You can get shaved at the Eclipse tonsorial parlor to-day for 10 cents." "I'd be afraid to accept the barber's cut rates."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Many a woman marries without improving her condition; but every woman who marries, thinks she is doing better than she has been doing at home. How He Knew. A witness was being examined as to the sanity of one of the inmates of the asylum. "You hold that this inmate is insane, do you?" a lawyer asked. "I do," was the firm response. "Why are you so sure?" "The man," the witness said, "goes about asserting that he is Santa Claus." "And," said the lawyer, "you hold, do you, that when a man goes about asserting that he is Santa Claus it's a clear proof of his insanity?" "I do," "Why?" "Because," said the witness, in a loud, indignant voice, "I happen to be Santa Claus myself." Limits. The train was called the limited, but what was limited about it? It ran at an unlimited speed, the inclivity of the conductor and the brakemen was unlimited, as was the rapacity of the porter. "It's a mystery!" exclaimed the little party of foreigners. But in a moment they entered the drawing room car and their wonder vanished. "Of course, it's the good taste of the decorations!" they whispered, and, remembering their manners, pretended not to notice.—Puck. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of iching, bleeding or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50u. 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