Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-03-27
PROM PozTLAND

49, w.
said 10 ny hearing that al the Dusi
ness part q the city would not Day ia
Tsnfs, taxes and interest
At Portland I got IN q tight place
frs Thing. I happened - SO Judge
- from oar county % the other
side q Washington street. He al
ways has such ing yarns - spin, !
pretended ! didnt 80 bin aOd sbDt
down the street. Bat a. BID lUck
would hare u q freight train bali q
mile long pulled cat ahead and cut q
ny escape. The judge bore dONn 90
me NaTing bis umbrella. What a
pickle. a hynz strsz u empty cars
before me and = long string = stale
stories tehin6 me ! dOdged dDNn
into CbinatOEn and left by,h Judge
and freight train standing there.
Just then ! ran against RigdOH. the
Salem eDbaimer and undertaken. He
was going - fast he nearly knocked
the wind O8t u me. He seemed 70
b. walking % the air aud never no
ticed me a. he went By. sas b. the
paper next day be had been eiscte1
Most Noble Left High Inside Guard
% the Oregon Maccabees % BUmble
Bee, o. don't remember which.
A friend took me % into the Ore
eJuias tOEsr NIs1e CJL P4zue .
ducts the Oregon weather service.
Mr.. Pague has since many year
lived about % feet IN the air, and
that daY u bad bowed fifty miles an
hour. This kind n life is what gives
him such a Pneumatic appearance.
and gives his statements a velocity
that no ordinary person can keep pace
with, unless they first 90 10 a bicycle
shop where they have an air pump
worked by steam. I have for years
received Pagne's crop bulletiOns and
he is,a man I'd rathercarry on a con
yersatlOn with by postal card at a
nifty mile range. I'D stand 4 chance
then " get 10 a word edgewise, per-
haps. It's a wonder he don't blow
that tower away, and when they get
alrships invented they'd better stear
clear Of Pague or he'll talk them out
Of existence. We alike Payne up In
the country. He mas eight clerks 10
help him make weather . suit all
parts " the northwest, operates
twenty scientific instruments, sends
out 1000 pieces Of mail a day and has
a STRENGTHENING automatic language
blow o. 1900 words a minute.
One Of my main reasons OF going TO
Portland was 70 invest Ia a suit Of
clothes, and 1 dropped into the big
store used 20 be run by Meyer s. Co.
They are right up 10 the style In every
respect. even 10 selling out 10 ninety
days and that too with a state senator
for receigef-Ben Selling. a cloth
ing store In our town has been closing
out ever since the nan came there.
The nearest he got closed out was
when a box Of secondhand clothes was
shipped in from New York City. IL
\ ,ems these hard times there's sharp
fellows go around and buy the out-of-
style suits OF the upper ten" and
then brush them up and wash of the
DelmOnico champagne stains and sell
them In the country for what they'll
bring. The gralnbuyer la Our town
got a full broadcloth suit for $500.
IL must have cost s75 new. The min
lister bought an oyercOat for ZOO. IL
was a square-cut bOx-cOat OF the bow
cry pattern but as he never was on the
bowery he considers II all right. The
livery stable man has a regular Wall
street bankers suit. The ease Of
clothing had Il hundred suits
AID sold for 800 above the
freight Our neighbor he got a
wedding suit In the lot aud when
70 ne one criticised his getting mar
Tled in "A suit sOmeother man had
worn, said he thought a secondhand
suit a good enough 10 get married
"A second time, aud that a. "A widow.
IL isn't every day you a buy a suit
Of a senator OF the last Oregon leglsla.
ture aud found Mr, Selling a keen
business man. He is oneof the kind
81 men who believe In living while
they live. Two years ago he took his
wife aud children % Europe, Asia and
lie took the children while
they were still young and O when
there Il a war IN Greece or a maSsa
Ia Armenia, the young Settings
know where To look for II on the map.
10 seems a pity 20 sell out a $4,000
stosk OF clothing for anything IL will
bring, 0ut suppose IL will have 10
go. "by order OF DC court"
/ spent a halliday al Vancouver
blrracks where there are stationed
800 infantry, go cavalry aad 40 omcers
OF the regular army, under Col. Thos
NJ. Anderson as c%ommandant. I saw
sYerything from the stables TO the
Dlg guns quarters the butcher, the
laker, the candleStick maker, even 20