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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1904-05-20

SThere are thousands of sick women draggisS
out a weary, miserable existence, who would be
well and happy did they but have my expert
ence with Or, Pierce's Favorite Prescription,
writes Mrs Annie Leuman, of Io6 Jackson st
Atlanta, Ga. oFour years ago l was nearly
dead with Inflammation and liberation. I en-
dured daily untold agony, and life was burden
to me had used medicines internally and
externally until had made up my mind lliat
there was nc relief in sight for me. A friend OF
mine endorsed your Favorite Prescription and
| determined then to give it trial II tooL
patience and perseverance for was iu bad con
dillon, and had to use your medicine for nearly
four months before ! was cured, but What .
change it brought; from despair to happiness
from miseryto the delightful, exhiarating feel.
ing that only health brings. would not change
back for thousand dollars Your Prcscrip
ton is a grand medicine. 1 wish eyer sic
woman would only try it and be convinced"
Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medics
Adviser, in paper covers, is sent -ftes on
receipt of al one,cent stamps. AddrG5s
DR.. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo NY.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1904-05-20
For Sale.

Breeding herd, (all ages, of pure
bred Shorthorns, with registered 8
year-old bull, for sale--ahout 25 head.
FRANK BUTLER, (near Falls City, Polk
county, railway point) Postal ad-
dress, Dallas, r, r. D, No, 2, Polk
county, Oregon.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1904-05-20

DeWitts sasoI s$lssf SaIV0
For Piles, Burns, Sores.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1904-05-20
Peculiar
To Itself

In what it is and what it does-con-
tanning the best blood-purifying,
Alternative and tonic substances and
e1fecting the most radical and per-
manent cures of all humors and all
eruptions, relieving weak, tired,
languid feelings, and building up
the whole SYSTEMS true only of
Hoods CGrSdpdriHd
No other medicine acts like it ;
no other medicine has done so
much real, substantial good, no
other medicine has restored health
and strength at so little cost.
IL was troubled with scrofula and came
near losing my egesight. For four months
could not see 20 do anything. After taking
two bottles Of Hoods Sarsaparilla could see
TO walk. and whon had taken eight bottles
could see as well as ever" SUSIE A. HAIRS.
TON. Withers, n. G.
Hoods Sarsaparlila promises 20
cure and keeps the PROMISE
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1904-05-20

This sale made by the Defender Mfg Co,
Of New York City, is an event Of more than or
dinary Importance to the ladies of this community
Our customers who have worn this brand Of goods
are we'll acquainted with its merits Those who
have never used them will find that for perfection
of finish, ineness Of quality and attractiveness of
design, they are unsurpassed if not unequaled.
After careful and discriminating search we have
decided that these goods better adapted to the
needs Of our patrons than any others we could
secure. We offer no ten cent goods, our ex-
perience is that no garment can be made to sell
at this price which is really fit for customers
to wear. We cordially invite you to attend this
sale and assure you of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-04-05

to support Judge Parker, but scarcely
another state in the Heralds Parker
list will send instructed delegates.
Thus far there are no indications that
another state win send instructed dele
gates Neither the congressional clique
nor the New York Herald is therefore
justified in claiming SAT Parker dele
gates. Judge Parker may be nomi-
mated, but so may half dozen other
conservative democrats, and all in all
it is best to await until July before ven
turing upon prophecies. The race is
open to all, and Judge Parker is by no
means the only aspirant who COM
mands a following of true and tried
and tried democratic voters.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-04-05
Prouress of the Canal,

1t was the suit of Napoleon Bona
parte Wyse that was dismissed in the
French courts. He claimed that the
assent of every holder of the com
panys stocks or bonds must be OBJ
tanned before the title of the present
French canal company could be trans
ferred to the United States This con
tention has been set aside, as we'll as
the suit of Colombia to prevent the
transfer All knew that Colombia s
rights had been destroyed by politi-
cal movement, but all did not feel Sc
cure over the Wyse contention.
The decision leaves but little to do
except to call meeting of stockhold-
ers to confirm the sale TO the United
States, and when this is done the long
delayed business will be consummated.
There is no reason to anticipate much
more delay on account of the French
title.
Congress will this week begin the
consideration of bill for the govern
ment and control of the canal zone. A
bill is before the senate, coming from
the committee on inter-oceanic canals,
and it will doubtless be the basis of the
bill that will be passed. All power
under this bill would be vested in the
canal commission, which would be
given authority to raise and appropri-
ate revenues. Inc taxes and customs
collected would be spent In the gov
eminent and sanitation of the zone. All
goods coming from there which were
not the product of the zone will be
dutiable in the United States All laws
enacted by the commission are to be
reported to congress, and all franchises
granted by that body are to be reported
to the President. The President may
suspend any law that he considers un-
wise.
The pending bill may be modified,
for 1t will be carefully considered ir
the senate at least, and discussion may
lead to change of some of it's terms,
but all seem to favor a control of the
zone by the canal commission until the
canal is completed.
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Cincinnati Elks.

II attended the installation of officers
of the lodge of Elks In Cincinnati last
week" said Alderman John w. ONeill,
land was greatly impressed with the err
thusiasm of the members of the order
over the session of the grand lodge of the
United States in the Queen City next
July.
THE Elks of Cincinnati have raised $780,
600 for entertainment purposes and there
is every promise that the occasion viii
be the most notable in the history OF
Elkdom The session will last only two
days but the visitors are to remain ard
be entertained for one week.
Cincinnati is most hospitable city
and her citizens do everything in the way
of entertaining in a lavish style. The
Birmingham lodge will be we'll represent
ed In Cincinnati. We will have special
train on which all the Eks of Alabama
will travel.p
Mr.. O'Neill is president of the Cincin-
natl club of the Birmingham lodge While
in the Queen City he engaged hotel quar-
tiers for the club.
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SOME DISADVANTAGES
OF Debating LETTERS

and completely in the spoken utterance5,
he lays himself open to censure for not
knowing his business. AS one of our cor
respondents has remarked, sometimes
even public speakers of oratorical dis
tinction are saved from the loss or seriot/
impairment of their regulations for foren-
sic and platform eloquence by the correc-
ton of their faulty speech by some mod
est stenographer.
AS consequence of the new and great
demand for stenographers the profession
is now taken up by many who are unable
to perform that service. They have not
the intellectual acuteness which enables
them to untwist snarled sentences dictat-
ed to them and to extract clearness from
darkness and confusion. Even for the
cleverest and best educated of stenogra-
pliers that task is ticklish, for he may be
accused of impertinence or may misinter-
pref the i'll arranged thought in the mind
of his principal and the mass of stenog-
raphers, of course. are unable to make
the necessary amendments. That is not
a serious accusation against the profess
sion. for. as we said, the natural percep-
ton and the education needed for the
satisfactory discharge of so delicate
duty are rare.
Generally, debating employers have
reason to find fault with themselves rather
than with those VINO write from their
dictation. If they expect to get stenogra-
pher secretaries capable Of correcting
their faults of utterance they must pay
good wages for men so rarely encount-
cred.
other unfortunate consequences have
come from the present prevalence of the
methodof dictation. Few people think
and talk with precision and in logical or
der, even of the men whose trained incl
lectual ability is made manifest in their
deliberate writing In dictated judicial
opinions and legal documents there now
often appear redundancy. comp!exity of
thought and careessness OF expression.
of which the burden of interpret alton Is
great; and sometimes the separ ition of
the wheat from the chaff is next to i'm
possible. Moreover, we discover in many
contemporary literary productions. books
and what not. like evidences that they
were dictated by men who had not mas
tered the art. The difference between
written and dictated work is made APP
parent in the absence of anything like
individuality of literary style and in a
machine-like uniformity in which there Is
no more literary style than In an ordinary
commercial letter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-04-05
THE PAST.

BY VIII d. Muse.
l sit alone upon the moss-w walled fort,
And watch the shadows as they come
and 60
The sunset skies are tinged with purple
light
ehecting on the tail, gray steepies far
below.
The summer winds bear back the city's
rear.
AS the broad coast casts back the track
less sea,
While as I gaze out Ger it's thronged
highways
The once dead past seems coming back
to me.
The days of youth, the days when life
was young
Untouched by sin. untausht by city's
The days when the battle hymns were left
unsung.
And love, pure love. made eager pulses
start
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ment. However the Buddhists hold the
balance of power and it is from their
ranks that the principal officers are
drawn.
The political divisions of Thibet are in
teresting. The country is divided into
four great provinces, called Kan, U,
Tsang and Ari. U and Tsang. or Utsang.
constitute what is known as Central or
Great Thibet. Here Is to be found the
capital city of L'Hassa, toward which the
British troops are now marching. The
country is politically subject to China,
but is so far removed from the emperor's
palace and Is so hard of access that the
sway of the Chinese potentate is felt but
little in these distant provinces. The
only visible signs of Chinese domination
at the capital are two Chinese ambans, or
residents, who are permitted military
guards. The highest appointments are
made by the Chinese emperor and impor-
tant matters of state are referred to him
at Picking but the actual direction Of af-
fairs is placed in the hands of a native
regent and four ministers. called kahlons
These appoint the governors of forts and
provinces, while the revenue Is collected
annually by officers sent out from l. Hasa
By the way, this towns name Is vari-
ously spelled. We see it in the papers
as HASA, Lhassa, Lhasa and various
other ways. There is "a difference of
opinion but it must be remembered that
a great deal of the information we have
about Thibet is largely hearsay The
Dalai Lama has been in times past in
vested with supreme authority by the
emperor of China and that is the mys-
terious person known as the Grand Lama,
about whom we read so much.
Monks Are Powerful.
Much influence is also vested in the Ca
puchin monks who have invaded the
country. Their huge monasteres, inhab-
tied by monks and nuns and presided over
by abbots, are scattered all over the land.
These religious houses play an important
part in the life of the people, although
the actual executive authority is vested
in district officers, called jongpons who
are under the supervision of the district
governors.
L'Hassa, the capital is a town that is
practically unknown to the rest of the
world, Just what kind of city L'Iiassa is
whether it is beautiful to look upon or
extremely ugly, whether 1t is a pleasant
place for residence or just the opposite
Is somewhat doubtful. In fact nothing is
definitely known about HASA except
that it Is the great commercial center, to
which traders come from China with
silks, carpets and hardware; from Mongo-
liza with leather saddlery. sheep and
horses; from Kan with perfumes; from
Szechuen with tea; from Tawang. Bhutan
and Sikkim with rice and tobacco; from
Nepal with broadcloth, silk indigo, coral
pearls, sugar. spices and Indian manu-
features. The merchants come to HAS
sa in December and depart in March be-
fore the rivers become flooded. They car
ry away with them silver and gold, salt,
wool, wooden manufactures, furs, drugs
and musk. The great and inexhaustible
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-04-05
THIEVES GET FIREARMS.
Considerable Building is In Progress
In Albertville.

Albertville, April Especial -Thieves
broke into the house of j. A. Moultree
near here one night last week, and stole
two guns, some clothes and numerous 9TH
er valuables. There is no clue to the
guilty party.
DR.. N A Elrod is having handsome
new brick store built on Main street,
which when completed will be occupied
by the Elrod Drug company.
Riggs Brothers are having a large brick
store built on the east side of Main
street which will be occupied by them
as a grocery store.
A. L. Waddell. one of the oldest and
most highly esteemed citizens of this
place, is seriously Ill at his home and his
recovery is anxiously awaited by a large
circle of relatives and friends
Mrs. Retta Campbell died Saturday
morning at the residence of her sister,
Mrs. T. ]. Saddler near here. She was a
most estimabe Christian lady and will
be sadly missed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-04-05
Thibet The Prize of Asia.

The efforts of the Government of In
dia to secure some influence over the
Grand Lama who sits in L'Hassa, and
who is the central power of the Bud
dhists numbering many millions in In
dia, is keenly watched in all parts Of
the world. China, Russia and India all
touch Thibet, and China has claimed
to be suzerain. Russia had secured,
however paramount influence and a
secret treaty, and England had nego-
tiated the treaty of 1890 providing for
steps in the direction of commercial
intercourse. The Grand Lama ignored
the treaty of 1890, and the yiceroy de-
cided to send an expedition to the capi-
tai of Thibet.
The Himalayas divide India from
Thibet, and a railroad line has been
pushed in India 10 the foothills of the
giant range of mountains The expedi-
ton dispatched by Lord Curzon started
last fall from the end of the railroad
line and went into camp on the borders
of Tibet AT this camp negotiations
were attempted, but nothing was ac-
complished, and at length the Thibetan
camp was surrounded, and in the at
tempt to disarm the Thibetans many
of the latter were killed.
Colonel Younghusband, at the head
of about 1000 men, was directed to
push into Thibet, and he had gone
about seventy-five miles when he met
the Tibetans at Garu, and a battle oc-
Cured He has still fully 200 miles Of
bleak territory to traverse before he
reaches L'Hassa.
1t is very plain that England does
not intend to permit Thibet to ignore
the treaty of 1890, nor to permit Rus
STA to dominate the other side of the
Himalayas The movement is one that
pertains to the uefense and security
of India, and Colonel Younghusband's
force. armed with modern rifles and
field guns, will no doubt push on until
the Grand Lama and his advisers are
ready to respect the treaty of 1890, ami
to establish "amicable relations" with
the government OF India.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-04-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Cotton Planting.

All the old plum orchards and black
berry patches along the line of the Cen
trail of Georgia have been plowed up and
planted in cotton" said w. G. Lawrence
one of the Oldest engineers on the Cen
trail Il have never known anything like
the cotton acreage In my section of the
country. The farmers are well ahead
with their seeding I am told that years
ago Georgia cotton was all planted by the
10th OF April, but in recent times 1t has
been late in May before the crop was all
in the ground. It is said that better re-
suits were obtained from the early plant
ed. 1t gave the top crop time to make
before frost. The return to the old way
may mean much to the farmers
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-04-05

fCiii thc w" VI n Aouli-
THE discussion among our CORE
(0 spondents concerning dictation to
stenographers by men of business
and professional men is interesting Such
dictation, as everybody knows, has be-
come usual at this time. In all consider
able business establishments and law
yers offices a stenographer to take down
from dictation letters, briefs, legal papers
and arguments is now an invariabe and
indispensable fixture. Thus is created a
new employment. in which are engaged
thousands of men and women of expert
training and special ability.
BY this new method banker or a mer-
chant is able to dispose rapidly and east
ly of mass of correspondence which
formerly imposed on him a long and bur-
densome task. BY 1t the professional man
saves himself from the irksome mechan-
ical labor of writing with his own hand
the documents he must prepare, and can
get through with much more work in a
day.
According to our correspondents, and
very naturally, the result of the dictation
is likely to be unsatisfactory because of
deficiencies on the one side or the other.
or on both. Facility in clear and intelli-
gible dictation is possessed in high de-
gree by few men, however well educated
otherwise They are apt to be diffuse,
to wander from their point and to fall
into a confused literary construction.
from which the mere mechanical obsta-
cles of writing with their own hands
would have saved them by giving them
time to arrange their thoughts.
The complaint is made by stenographers
that much of the dictation by business
men is so loose and redundant. so def
cient in precision and so faulty in its
grammatical form that unless uperior in
telligence and better literary education
in the stenographers shall correct 1t the
outcome Is an unfortunate exhibition for
the debating employer. Undoubtedly
this happens so often that 1t is not fair
to charge to the stenographer the con-
fusion of thought and errors of expression
discoverable in the draft submitted. In
many cases the stenographer is obliged to
interpret the meaning and intention in the
dictation instead of giving the exact Ian
guage. and that kind of ability is not free
qiient in stenographers or anybody else.
When the clear and precise thinking nee
essary to clear and precise dictation is
absent it is not reasonable to hold a stem
ographer responsible for the deficiency
Yet If he does not understand what his
employer is driving at. so as to be able
to straighten out the confusion. obscurity
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-04-05
The cNlY pAly NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Wholesale Robbery.

The beauties of trust or high finance
of the modern sort are well illustrated
in the Amalgamated company Thomas
w. Lawson testifies that he himself
and H. H. Rogers of the Standard Oil
company, bought shares of various cop
per companies, and then formed the
trust known in Wall street as THE
Amalgamated." The trust shares COM
ing to the Lawson-Rogers crowd were
marketed during the boom, at a profit
of SAG 600 900, as Mr.. Lawson swore in
a Boston court last week Mr.. Lawson
has since stated that the profits of the
deal were nearer $66,000,000. Wall
street thus ,apulates the profits of that
Leautiful trust deal:
Profit at $50 share on 100000
shares of Anaconda ............ $24, O00,0J)
Profit st SIS a share On 10000
shares of Parrot ................. 2,o00, 900
Profit at $50 a share on 10000
shares of Butte and Boston,. 100000
Profit on exchange of Boston and
Montana shares to for Anal
g1mated OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. lo,uoO,uVV
Total promotion profits ........ .$45 500 90
Much comment" adds Mr.. Lawson,
has been made at the tremendousness
of the amount. will say if | had put
it at $4,000 900 | would have been well
inside the truth and the public should
keep in mind that all the statements |
made on the witness stand were made
under oath in the supreme court of
Massachusetts. The thousands of hold
to look to me for advice and protection
may rest assured that nothing can pos
sibly grow out of this affair which will
damage their holdings or hurt any good
coppers."
The Amalgamated company was
really blind fool but by parading the
names of several Standard Oil mag
mates as its directors and sponsors the
shares of the trust were eagerly taken
at almost 1870. They have since fallen
below 40, but the Lawson-Rogers ring
long ago parted with their shares. They
were behind the scenes, and the public
was out in the pit witnessing the farce
show. "How is 1t possible" asks the
Springfield Republican, ''for two men,
or half dozen men, to pocket so many
millions in so brief time without com
hitting wholesale robbery of the peo-
pie in every moral sense of the word?"
And 1t expresses the belief that such
wrongs are at the bottom of the Hearst
movement, and popular discomfort The
industrial and stock-jobbing systems
need amendment.