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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-10-13

Tropical fruits bananas, Sc pei
pound pineapples, $3.Oo@45o per doz,
enj lemons, fancy, so00@7o0, choice
s47s@6j grape fruit, s4.5O@6Oo crate;
lines, 7cc@sl.25 per 100, pineapples, %
@b per dozen.
Domestic fruit--AppIes. common, 40
@7CcJ fancy, $i0o@l.25 box, crapap-
pies, si@i25 crate; ngs, $50 crate;
grapes cc@sl5o crate; peaches, scc@
81, plums, 4o@5Oc box; prunes, 4o@5Oc
boxj Bartlett pears, sl@l25 box;
quince7s, 7Sc@sl box; huckleberries, 10
Gle pound; cranberrics, % barrel.
Candled peeis- citron. lO-lb boxes, Csc
Ib; BIB boxes. 25c, lemon peel. lob
boxes, l5c lb; 5-lb boxes, l5icj orange
peel. lo-lb boxes. l5c lb; 5-lb boxes,
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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-10-13
DRTLAND MARKETS
lest Quotations In The Portland
Markets

plsis Market Reports Corrected Eaea
Ry Giving the Wholesale Prices VI
mmoditiss. Farm Produce and vsss.
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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-10-13

CONNECTIONSAt Portland with all transcontnta Gob
with Northern Pacific Railway At
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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-10-13

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to 20 per cent Jess; horss hides, salted,
sl,so@25o, according TO size; dry. nc.
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eacEj Angora, wooled. sOcibi.5o; goat,
ommon,s l50a2Oc each.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
BY FREDERICK RICHARDSON
Copyright. BY Joseph .. Bovlss.)
Composition and in Charge OF illustration Classes AT
~ Institute. Chica9o) ...\

All teachers of drawing have the
problem of keeping the ambition of
the pupil refined in to the drudging
pace OF his technical advancement The
degree of facility in drawing Is always
far behind a power adequate to at
tempt the pretentious subjects to
which he aspires. No matter how
far technical difficulties may be OBJ
Waited or avoided, the pupil is impa-
tient for achievements beyond the
progressive step that leads to their
production.
While the present system has the
one object of subjecting teacher and
pupil to as little OF the drudgery of the
drawing school as possible, it has not
the fatuous hope that some of the
reasonably slower steps in advance
ment will not prove unreasonably irk-
some to some children.
Stories to Interest Children.
The teacher has been through the
mill, and knows how slow it is to grind
fine or even to grind at all, and it
is not for him that this consideration
is given, but for the child. There is
a period after the novelty of the in
PRODUCTION of new element has worn
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
Pa Jumped Like q Box Car.

lions of Osier willow cuttings, and put
in the whole winter. In the spring,
when it was time to deliver the goods,
they went into the river bottoms and
cut a whole lot of pussy willow
cuttings, delivered them to the farm
ers, and got their money, and went
away. When the pussy willow CUT
tings died in their tracks, or grew up
just plain pussy willows that never got
high enough to hide jack rabbit, the
farmers of Kansas 'caded their guns
and waited for pa and the brakeman
to come back to Kansas, but they
never went back.
The brakeman became president of
great railroad. but when he has to
go across the continent in his special
car, he lodges Kansas, and goes across
By the northern or southern route.
Pa has so far lodged the farmers, but
money wouldn't have hired him to
stay with the circus and meet those
farmers that they sold the willow gold
bricks to- And yet, when bunco
anybody around the snow; pa takes
me one side and tells me that hon
esty is the best policy, and to never
lie, cause my character as man
will depend on the start I make as
boy. He don't want me to so
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

they sentenced me to go along with
pa, so l could be handy to hold his
hands when the doctors are pulling
cactus needles out Of his hide.
guess pa was willing enough to jump
Kansas in the night from what he
told US once.
He said when he was a young man
he and railroad brakeman got bust
ed at Topeka, and they had an order
book printed, and went all over Kan
sas taking orders for Osier willows,
which they warranted to grow so high
in two years they would make fences
for the farms that no animals or
billiards. could get over or through,
and make shade for the houses and
the whole farm. It was the year
when the Osier willow craze was on.
and every farmer on the plains wanted
to transform his prairie into a forest
Pa says the farmers fought with each
other to sign orders, and some paid in
advance, SO as to get the willow cut
tinss in a hurry. Well, pa and the
railroad man canvassed Kansas, and
sold more than forty thousand mil
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

watering the camels, and after thew
had carried water from daylight till
dark, and had seen it disappear down
a camel and the camels grumbline
because they didn't bring water fast
fer, the boys would ask me how long
1t took to fill up a camel, anyway. !
would tell them that if they kept right
at work, the camels ought to be filled
Up full along in the fall. The bows
would reluctantly resign. Our. <camels
have been the making Of hundreds OF
boys by their tank-like capacity Z to
hold water. One hoy at Richmond,
Va. got it on me by getting section
of fire hose and hitching it to a hy-
drant, and letting the water run into
q trough at the camel stand In the
menagerie, and before knew 1t the
@camals had filled up until they were
swelled four times as big as. they
ought to be. Then they laid down
and couldn't march in the ! grand
entre1, and pa sent for a plumber, ia
have the camels fixed with faucets,
That boy was q genius, and we kent
him and put him into the lemonade
privilege. You can all camel with q
hydrant all right, but If you bring the
water in pals he will beat the game.
I remember one boy at Wilmington,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

the trapeze performers. ate onions
three times day, said: May, nay,
Hennery will camp with the animals,
whose smell is natural, and not &C
Quired.''
- Say, do you know have saved hun
dreds of boys this summer from ruin,
cause in every town there are lots of
boys who want to run away from
home and go off with circus, and
cause l belonged to the show they all
came to me, and pa appointed me to
discourage the boys, and drive them
away from the show. know in Vir-
GINA all the boys wanted to run away,
and but for me the state wouldn' t
have boys enough to grow up and shoot
the negroes. But when found boys
who wanted to skip away from home,
would give them a job, and they
would have slept in the straw
with the horses, and eaten at the Sec
ond table after the negroes had been
fed, if they could only shake their
comfortable homes and loving friends,
and join a travelling circus.
Well, always gave such boys job
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
~
THE BIG TURTLE"

THE BIG TURTLE"
the intention OF telling the story plain
~, if not with. the grace shown in some
of the other pictures. Here the teach
er might be able to take the material
matter and show the child how il
couldobe arranged to better effect while
losing none of its force or point 1t
is good idea, but not in the best ex-
preston.
'The Seesaw' is direct if some-
what obvious arrangement. The child
could not be expected to foreshorten
the seesaw so as to give better lines OF
composition. The teacher must not
make an unjust or unreasonable criti-
cism. The background is interesting
and we'll used.
Praise the Good Work.
The four pictures in the group ara
to be praised for their general excel
lence. Without pointing out tha3
they are admirable in composition,
| which would mean consideration for
all such qualities as proportion, place
ment and intent of picture purpose,
they may be praised as satisfactory evil
dence that these pupils have compre-
hended the foregoing instruction.
Praise of particular excellence means
| more than just tribute to the pupils;
| achievement; it means the setting up
| for the other pupils of standard for
emulation. They have not the hope
| of approaching the teachers excellence,
! but what another pupil can do seems
more within their possibilities. The
! ''Visit of Aunt Mary was an ambi-
tious effort that fully taxed the re-
sources of the child to express it's idea
to the difficulties the subject involved
than to the child's lack of ability to
master them. Courage is laudable If
accompanied by any idea of the for
midable- character of the obstacles to
be overcome.
! example of the child's sense of humor.
Like the Hornets Nest" the express
sion is direct, and there has been ND
thought given to clothing the idea in
any beauty of line or form. Humor
under such subtle treatment could not
be expected Din young humorist.
The teacher can find other subjects
that will equally interest and call upon
the memory, imagination and obserya-
ton of the child. AS they show how
much the child is able to put it's story
telling powers into actual use they are
the best form of an examination.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
Appropriate Time.

:, The chaplain of a British warship
was giving magic lantern lecture.
the. subject of which was Scenes
From the Bible" He arranged with
a sailor who possessed gramophone
to discourse appropriate music be-
tween the slides. The first picture
shown was Adam and Eve n the gar.
den Of Eden: The sailor cudgeled his
brain, but could think 8. nothing
suitable. Play up" whispered the
chaplain. Suddenly q large idea
struck the Jolly tar and, to the great
CONSERVATION Of the chaplain and the
delight Of the audience, the gramo.
phone burst forth with the strains Of
There's Only One Girl in the World
for 80 Nc. 4" OF course, he might have
played "Wearin' Of the Greer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

through life regretting the past. and
being afraid of the cars for fear some
act Of my Younger days will become
known, and queer. mes I guess ma
knows how it is hisself. > \.
Well, if there is one thing I. am
proud Of, it. is that l have always
been good. When I grow up to be. a
man, prosperous in business, and be-
longing to a church, and married, and
have children growing up around me:
I can put on an innocent face and a
bold front. and point to my past with
pride, if l should go to live among
strangers, where nobody took the pa
pers, and the people were not on to me.
Pa says as long as your conscience
is clear, and your pores, open, life is
one glad, sweet song. Well, l don't
know, but if pas conscience is clear,
he must have strained it the way they
do rain water, to get the wigglers out,
or else he has used an egg to settle
his conscience. the way they settle
coffee. If his pores are open, he has
opened them in the old way, with a
corkscrew But, with all have had
to contend with in the way of a fright
full example from pc, am not SO
worse.
How many boys of my age, do you
suppose, could put in a season with a
circus, and have all the facilities
have had to go wrong, and come out
as we'll as have? The way the freaks
just dotted on. me would have turned
the heads of most hoys, but when
found out that all of them, from the
fat woman and the bearded woman, tC
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

will let each child tell it's story in its
own way. One school class was given
vacation Time" as a subject, with
liberty to select incident, invent the
symbols and treat it after it's own man.
ner, but told to employ as much as pos
sible the knowledge given by previous
class work concerning good proper
tions, good placement, and, above all,
keeping the picture purpose in mind:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
LEAGUE OF GOLDEN PEN,
Band of Writers Who Garry Cheer
and Comfort to Many Bur-
dened Souls

Not long ago certain minister, i'm
pressed by experiences in his own
work, particularly by the great results
that often followed from single les-
ter, suggested the forming of
league for writing letters There were
to be no officers, no dues, no bylaws
Anyone could become a member who
would promise to write single let
ter month to one who was sick or
lonely or in trouble; and the namo
of the band was to be the League OF
the Golden Pen.
= The idea took at once, says Youths
Companion. In a few months there
were hundreds of names enrolled i'll
the League of the Golden Pen, and
the number is steadily increasing. The
simple suggestion of the name has
been the means of carrying cheer and
comfort to hundreds of burdened souls
Now and then, among the laments
for the old days and ways-which
doubtless began with Adams grand
children-we hear regrets for the van
ished art of letter-wrlting. If by le-
tiers are meant the vOluminOus per-
petraticns OF century or more ago,
filled with disQuisitions upon philos-
ophy and long rhapsodies upon Iowa
and friendship, it is true that their
age has passed.
But the real letter., whether it con-
tains chatty pages full of homely
everyday scenes and events or mere
ly a few lines of love and encourage
ment, will never pass so long as hui
man hearts endure; and never were Sd
many such letters written as to-day.
Christmas letter missions, prison let
ter missions, bands and societies for
sending letters to inyalids and hos
pttal patients, Iand lonely men AMI
women in far-away places, are con-
stantly increasing. s=5
''She learned a little about books a
wealthy woman said of lonely little
school-teacher whom she had discoy-
cred and helped from her own splen-
did resources, .:but learned a great
deal about very lovely SOUL It is
an exchange that is becoming mora
and more common; for to-day, as
never before In all the centuries, the
whole world, rich and poor, sorrowfu.
and rejoicing, is being bound together
BY the League OF the Golden Pen.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

This is the first time since we start
ed ont with the circus in the spring
'Joinnies on the spot" ready for any
thing that the managers told us to
do. Oklahoma, though, and the In
dian territory, have been too much
for pa, and they sent him on to Kan
sas City to recuperate in a hospital
for week, while tho show does Kan
sas to finish, and makes triumph
al entry into Missouri.
wonder how the show will get
alon: without us for a week. cause
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
THE SEE-SAW."

while other qualities such as humor.
character, and even caricature-if obey
ing that requirement-were permitted
A number of the pictures brought iii
are reproduced as showing the range OF
subjects attempted and the effect Of the
previous training upon the expression
Some of the more grossly humorous
ones have not been represented, be-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

off when fictitious interest must be
called to aid. That the human figure
was received with interest does not
insure that interest to last through
the repetition of similar themes neces-
sary to prepare the way for more ad-
vanced subjects. 1t is here that the
parent or teacher must add the allure
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

unchildlike and precocious. The chilli
learns by accommodating parts and not
by attempting the whole. 1t has moi
the grasp to keep the whole IN propc,
relation, some of the parts appealing to
it more forcibly and occupying: it's at
tention to the exclusion of others.
Where character ceases and caricatu1e
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

is going, whence she came, why she
is going, and what happened, and she
is no longer a lay figure, but a sen
tient being. %Impersonahty is the
highest. appreciation of art; the child
is intensely personal. This will be ap-
parent when the least latitude is given
IN the NATURALIZATION of the figure.
Whiskers, a long nose or other char
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
rs .-..'E
PECK'S BAD |
BOY w | TIL /
THE CT CIRCUS B
By HON. GEORGE W. PECK
Author Of "Peek's Bad Boy Abroad" Etc.
- G.
By HON. GEORGE W. PECK
uthor OF Peck's Bad Boy Abroad. Et
Copyright by ]. B. Bowles.l

Pa Is Sent to Hospital to Recuperate
The Bad Boy Discourages Other
Boys from Running Away with the
eamels, Curry the Hyenas and Put
Insect Powder on the Buffaloes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

Going Fishing" has not freedom Of ex-
preston, but it has good proportion.
and its attempt to give character and
costume has been successful, Tor
the picture purpose is not lost sight
of in giving these accessories 1t shows
that the pupil understood the purpose
of his training. 5.--
= The episode of the hornets nest is
along conventional lines, and shows
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
THE PICNIC

ment of story and related incident AMI
give the dummy block figures a per-
sonal interest. The milkmaid coming
through the orchard given last week
might appeal to the aesthetic taste for
artistic reasons of form, line or color,
but the child would not see it that
way. Call her Polly, tell where she
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-08
HONEY MELODY EAGER.

While Joe Cans is chasing the light weights for a match in vain. Honey Melody of Boston is hot on his trail for, a fight for the welterwclght cham, pionship. Melody not only says that he is the real welterweight champion hut is willing to post S1.0J0 Co bind q match with Cans under the terms which governed the latter's contest with Twin Sullivan. 142 pounds at :: o'clock. But as Cans wants 10 fight somebody at l33 pounds, 6 o'clock. nc matter who it may he. Melody will probably take Sullivan on for mill in March at one of the Frisco clubs. If he wins Cans says he will agree to fight him, but not otherwise. Cans. by the way, does not care so much for the weltcrweight title as for the light. weight championship. and for that req son Melody has laid claim to the for. mer honors for himself.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-08
BARNES AND ACTON.

Springfield, Feb S.--Chances for a wrestling match in Springfield next week. which will narrow down the teid of claimants 10 the honor of being worlds middleweigbt champion. arc excellent. Yesterday Jim Barnes made arrangements to cover any amount which Joe Acton, middlewcigbt cham. pion of England. is willing to post.
 According to the challenge which Acton sent to the winner Of the Barnes-Crosby match. he Is anxious io have a meeting at once. Barnes never expects to he any better prepared for a hard match than at present. Wcslnes- da, night has been named as the time for the meeting. Acton wanted to have the contest decided in Hamilton, Ont. where he has been in traininc. or in Buffalo. but Barncs cannot get away from tho city at prescott becauSe of affairs connected with bis WoTihington street school. In his telegram Of ac- cepiancc Barnes mentioned sIOo as the side bet. hut Acton replied to tho cffect that the match would have to he for S.o 2 side 1T decided in Springfield. Barnes sent a telegram last night ae- cepting tho proposition and it is be- Iieved that the match will bc cliuche,I to-day.
 Acton is q wonderful wrestler and is said to be so far ahead of the middle weights or England and the European continent that be was forrc,l to Amer iea for worthy opponents. In the hot. bc,l of wrestling cracks near Buffalo and in the provinces Acton has I,crH very SuoceSsfuL
 The skill Of Acton led Buffalo ex- perts to bring stout a mcctiuz ts- tueen him and Frank tsotctl. ihc bez- vyueighf champion of AmeFisa- Ai- though sufWeighe,f y nearly fifty pounds. Aeton kpIst the champion busy for tWenty-ive minutes hefsr,r q fall cs,uh I.c gained. Tkr bout waS uss a Puflr matrh. hut was arranged uifh thss klea ef swing just how rnssa Arfor vas. HeavyNeizhts ubs s7n stag df- teem minutes with tseich arr teFy srzrre
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-08
THE PUGlLISTS
CORBETT DOUBLE
Jim and His Lawyer Had a Falling Out But Soon Made Up
 Shoots From Ringside.

Speaking of Peter Jackson brings to mind story that Hugo Toland, who is supporting William Faversham il The Squaw Man." told in Browne's the other night.
 One of Jim Corbett's greatest friends said Mr Poland was Porter .Ashe, the district attorney of San Fran cisco, and after Jim beat Sullivan and was travelling over the country ill q private car Ashe went with him. Now, the likeness between Jim and Ashe was remarkable, so when the people called for Corbett to make Il speech OH the car platform the lawyer would go out, and as he was q great orator, would make flowcry talk and leave the crowds thinking that the new champion was q Demosthenes.
 Well. Corbett and Ashe one day had a quarrel about some trifling thing and stopped speaking. When the train reached the next station and the peo- pie hollered for Jim, Bill Brady said: Go on. Potter, and give 'em q talk. But Porter refused to budge, until finally an idea seemed to strike him, and out he went onto the platform.
 "'Ladies and gentlemen he said. this is q great honor you are showing me, an honor I don't deserve and so on, making the regular speech, the crowd cheering like mad every few minutes.
 "T will defend the championship have won,' cried Porter. I will battle for it with my life, and I will fight any man on earth. I repeat and here the crowd fairly went mad with ap- plause.
 "'I will fight any man. continued Porter. except that nigger Peter Jack son. That coon can trim me forty ways, from the deuce-he'd fairly kill me if I went into the ring with him, and I know it and will never fight him. Good morning.
 Jim and Porter made mp before the next station was reached
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-08
POLO NOTES.

Gus Maynard, wbo is thinking of getting back into the game this spring and Louis Jason, another poloist, were in Brockton for brief time last even. ing to see how matters looked. Jasou rather inclined to the belief that Chcl- seas rink could be used and he had serious thoughts of mixing into the game there. The matter, may be look cd up today. The fact that there was an empty rink at Lynn which the baseball interests there formerly used was talked of, and the chances are that to-day some move may be made looking to arousing interest in the sport there. .s,...s-
 Joe Fox has written to President Fitzgerald of the New England league. Joe has scheme on for summer polo. He had it once before some time ago but it never materialized. Such sea- shore towns as Salem. Lynn and Gloucester are what he hopes to inter- est. Also. he talks of playing in some of the parks if there are any places in which to play.
 Pete Woods. who formerly played in New England and who is now in Michigan, slghs to get east again. He has sent to his wife to know about tbe New England league, as the Mich igan is not So strong as it once was and he fears something may drop.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-08
RYAN POSTS FORFEIT.

Word comes from Chicago that Tom my Ryan has posted a forfeit of S2,5U0 with the Pacific A. C. of Los Angeles to bind a match with Jack 0'Brien for the middIeweigbt championship at lbs pounds rlngsidc. As O'Brien announced recently that he would fight the first man who posted forfeit. it is general ly believed that he will have 10 accept Ryan's challenge or crawl. But before he closes with Ryan he will probably hold out for 15S pounds at 3 o'clock instead of ringside. The Los Angeles club has booked the mill for May s and will hang up guaranteed purse of S1o.OOO. or even more. for the strug- gle. Ryan must be extraordinarily confident of beating O'brlen at the weight named by him, for be would not have put up his money if he thought that he was taking a chance.