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Evening journal., 1907-11-22
rhn perfnnt 90.

Why osculation has received so lit
tie attention from wise men we cannot
tell. 1t may be that thinking and kiss
ing go not we'll together. If so, few
Of us would require long time to choose
between them, or possibly the subject
has seemed to require too delioGte
handling. or 1t may have seemed rri-
ding. We neither know nor care. The
most valuable practical lesson to be de-
rived from experience and now set
down is that closing Of the eyes is es-
sential to perfection in kissing. Aside
from this hint to those of congenial
spirit we would merely direct the at
tention Of those who may decry the
importance Of the topic to the infu-
ence Of the charm in retaining hold
upon one worth keeping and rendering
less frequent and hazardous those alb
sences which are only too likely to
make the heart grow fonder-of some
one else. - George Harvey in North
American Review.
Evening journal., 1907-11-22
Wore Out Tho Snow.

Ny old friend Crabtree. OF the real
early Oklahoma days, tells. this tale
about an early day snowstorm: zone
day, after many days of dry weather,
a big snow came and visited our
drought stricken land. The faces OF
the farmers were all smiles, because 1t
meant a wheat crop. But alasl An
old time wind came up from the south
that blew about forty miles an hour
and drifted the snow northward for
a day. Then came an eighty mile an
hour wind from the north that drifted
1t back south again. This condition Of
wind continued daily until the snow
storm was blown and worn out and
not a snowflake could be. found any
where in the county."-WatOugh (Okla)
Herald.
Evening journal., 1907-11-22
THE WATERMELON.
Not What II Used to Be, at Least In
the Eating Thereof.

the Eating Thereof.
In the old days, when the world was
much better than it is now, there we're
good watermelons.
AS we remember them, the water
melons Of twenty-five or thirty or thir-
ty-five years ago were huge affairs.
They were none of your overgrown
cucumber effects Of today, but were
great big round fellows. and the out
side was a dark green. 1t was the
same shade of green as the reflection
Of the trees in a swimming hole.
And when you sunk the knife into it
the rind ripped and cracked for two
inches ahead Of the blade. and the
melon just laughed itself open.
Hold on You didn't use a knife.
You lifted the melon above your head
and dropped it TO the ground. and 1t
burst open, as red as a rose and a
hundred times as sweet. And you ate
nothing but the heart-just the chunky
red heart.
Nowadays the marketman shows you
an oblong affair done in pale green
and greenery-yallery stripes, with a
white blotch on the underside. that he
calls a watermelon. And you cut it
into slices like bologna sausage and
eat it with a fork, like pie.
And you have forgotten whether a
watermelon goes plink-plink or PUNK
plunk when it is ripe. becau.c 1t
doesn't make any difference Nv
Wilbur D. Nesbit in Chicago Post.
Evening journal., 1907-11-22

"Oh, yesw laughing immoderately as
the recollection Of 1t struck him.
"Why, you see, Brown and l were
walking down the street together, and
he slipped on a banana peeling and
fell down. and when l asked him how
It happened he said, Nevertheless
And he was sore at her all evening
and declared she had no sense Of hui
NOR because she said she didn't see
anything funny to that-Judge's Ii
brary.
Evening journal., 1907-11-22
Cedar shavinus For pon..

If your dogs are troubled with feas
a very simple way to get rid Of the
pest is to provide beds Of fresh cedar
shavings or. better. cedar excelsior in
the kennels or wherever the dogs sleep.
The scent is not at all unpleasant to
the dogs, but is abhorrent to the fieas
When a dogs coat gets thoroughly
scented not only do the fieas leave him
while asleep. but they will not jump
upon him when be is out in the sand
during the day. = Country Life In
America
Evening journal., 1907-11-22
A Causa- Eor ThanKa-
l,--[-ll-----l--o-.---

In the audience at lecture on China
there was a very pious old lady whs
was slightly deaf She thought the
lecturer was preaching, and every timS
he came to a period she would sag
"Amenw or some other pious exclama
ton. The people in the audience
which was composed mostly OF the
village church members, knew she was
being reverent and did not even smile
when she exclaimed until finally the
lecturer mentioned some faron city in
China, saying, II live there" At this
point clearly and distinctly could be
heard the old Lady saying. 'srhank God
for that"
Evening journal., 1907-11-22
An unuauaI ra.k.

'HeIlo. Jack. old boy. writing home
for money!
''No."
'What are you taking so much trou-
Bile over. then? You've been fussing
and fuming over it for the last two
hours"
I'm trying to write home without
asking for money"
Evening journal., 1907-11-22

Addresses Of fifteen minutes viii be
made by the Rev. C. A. Hll. the Rev
George +. Mason and Presiding Elder A.
S. Mowbray They VIII speak on EN-
Signs Of the Times In Religious,
Social and Literary Worlds" The Central
Church choir will sing.
Evening journal., 1907-11-22
CHURCHES TO HAVE UNION
THANKSGIVING SERVICE

union Thanksgiving service has been
arranged by the down-town churches TO
be held In the Central Presbyterian
Church Thanksgiving morning at 10 5
o'clock The Rev r. T. Jackson, Of Ham
over Presbyterian Church. will preach.
Evening journal., 1907-11-22
rh.n q. Wa. Ma.

'Twhy don't you give the devil his
dueY' he snapped.
Il can't DEAR" replied his wife.
you're in such fine health now he
may have to wait awhile."-Atlanta
Constitution.
Evening journal., 1907-11-22
A Sale of New Waists

Tomorrow Saturday. will place sale number OF extra
ordinary Womens Fall Waists We mention but
few of them
Women's fine Madras and White Lawn, also White Linen
Waists in several up-todae models all handsomely OOo
tailored and trimmed values $I.5o and $L75 at. QOG
Women's fine Mohat Nuns Yelling, Silk Popin and Pure
Linen Waists entirely collection in styles Some plain
tailor-made tucks others again entire front EN- 90
Women's Waists, in white net eaooratey trimmed
cuny sleeves and back trimmed button back 0Q
and silk lined truly exceptional offering at... EGOO
Evening journal., 1907-11-22
Remarkable.

"she's the most remarkable elderly
woman I ever saw"
Doesn't show her ageT
''Not that. Doesn't seem to regret
it."-Louisvllle Courier-Journal.
Evening journal., 1907-11-22
Ladies' Ready-to-Wear
Hats, SI.08 and S2.08

Have you seen those very sty-
lish trimmed hats of ours with
large velvet or silk puffs, or large
silk bows with the large Mother
Goose shape, trimmed in all col
ors, with two large hat pins in
same?
Regular value Of these Hats is 1898.
King or Market St. Entrance.
Evening journal., 1907-11-22

TOLEDO. NOV 22.-With elastic
stoD e.sgrolls uiat hls nal, Yesterday
vas occasloned by collapse Weston
completed the last p Of his last 2.lO7
stretch between Portland, Me- aud
Evening journal., 1907-11-22

rTho Cora r. Seberry Y" will give
a measuring party tomorrow evening
at the home OF Miss Barnhnl, 1929 Tat.
nall street.
Evening journal., 1907-11-22

One wise counsel is better than the
strength Of many.-Euripldea.
Evening journal., 1907-11-22
Ladies' Cloth JuIiets. 5Oc

Fur trimmed Ladies' Cloth Ju-
lets, in all sizes, with high or low
heels and turn soles; regular val
ues, 75c and oSc.
King St. Entrance.
Evening journal., 1907-11-22
S4.OO Bio Girls Long Coats

Girls Coats length made of all wool plaids doutlebreast
talor-made with uck; others again entire front en- 90
Special bHQV
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-02

wastes of the interior The success of agriculture in Idaho is dependent all most entirely upon irrigation, and, ex- cept in those places where the flood plains of the small streams have been cultivated, there is little or no farming. The soil, which is of volcanic alluvial formation, is fertile. It is safe to as- sert that larger portion of south cen- tral Idaho will some day be one of the most productive districts in America At a point six miles from Minidoka, the United States government has built dam across the Snake, thus raising the river to height of 50 feet. A large part of the flow is thus divert ed into channels, from which, by grav- ity alone, 1t is distributed over some 65,O00 acres of formerly arid land, transforming 1t into fretile fields and orchards.
 At Miner, 2S miles above Twin Falls, the largest dam in America and the third largest in the world has been built by private enterprise. From it run two great canals one of them to the southwest, 69 miles long, 80 feet wide at the bottom and 12O feet wide at the top. Two hundred and seventy thous- and acres of land have already been made available for cultivation and sev- eral other tracts are soon to be open ed. Aside from the value of the wa ter for irrigation purposes the power from the many cataracts will some day be utilized. The three great falls af- ford, at a moderate expense, more than 1000 horsepower, 10000 horsepower of which has already been developed by the Shoshine Falls power company at Shoshone Falls.
 Beyond the falls the river is again united in a deep and narrow gorge. Mile after mile the scenery grows wild CT, until the spell of the desert, and even the beauty of the falls Is forgot ten in the awful grandeur of the , canyons. Between the Payette and the Powder rivers the Snake flows through one of the most marvellous canyons in the world, The vertical walls of black basalt rise 5000 feet and the canyon Is so narrow that from the bottom the sky appears as a slender thread of blue. Millions of rocks of every conceivable size and shape, all curiously worn by time and weather, and twisted and gnarled by heat into l weird and fantastic forms, hang over
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-02
THE SMILE 0 FTHE sPHINx.

This, after all, is the beauty of life, that its meanings lie deep-deep. We may be obvious platitudinarians, but life does not unclose her secrets to a fiippant gazer If we believe in an- others virtues it is not because he can utter eloquent sentences in the lines of his body, in his choice of words, or the cunning with which he shapes a sentence; it is the look in his eyes, the corners of his lips when he smiles, or the confidence he withholds which in- spires our faith. A man may smile and smile and be a villain-meet 1t Is we set it down: he may talk and write about vitue till he is exhausted; he may spend his days extolling disinter- ested. goodness, and yet what he is will somehow peep over his shoulder, or turk hidden in his words, and contra dict him so loudly we can hardly hear his voice. Words will not deceive the close observer of life. A tiny girl of seven, of introspective habit and keen munitions, who herself had some diff culty in practicing geniality, heard a petted prima donna much praised be- cause she was not only great in her chosen art, but was also so gracious and so good, and commented, Tt isn't that she's so good; it is just that she smiles and pats people. l guess she was taught to keep smiling and pat ting while she was young
 One may have an excellent intellect ual conception of what virtue is and not be virtuous; one may even be emo- tionally obsessed by the idea of right
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-02

lean falls, farther down the river, are even more imposing, for the volume of water Is much greater. The Snake broadens before reaching the falls, and then takes a mighty plunge of more than 50 feet At Salmon falls, near the mouth of the Big Wood river the stream dashes in one cascade over a declivity 30 feet high. There are many other beautiful falls, all of which would be more or less famous were they not overshadowed by the gran deur of the three cataracts in tha south-central part of the State, name ly, Shoshone, Auger and Twin falls, all within short distance of each ether.
 Just before reaching Twin falls the river is separated by rugged wall of rock into two turbulent streams of great velocity, which, in the fall of 1S7 feet, tumble, roaring into an en- erald lake beneath, The waters then rush into another canyon, the walls of which are more than 800 feet high and din and uproar give place to death- like stiffness. Before one has had time to grow accustomed 10 the silence, there comes, up the river, untitled roar, like approaching thunder. It is the distant booming of Shoshone falls. Deeper and deeper grows the canyon. until 1t Is a thousand feet deep; wider and wider grows the river until it is a thousand feet wide; louder and loud CT grows the booming until 1t deafens with it's loudness. A bend in the river land there are the falls.
 The river rushes down first with a fall of 30 feet, through rocky channels; and then assuming the form of a Moorish arch, 400 yards in width, it takes a precipitous plunge of 19O feet into a smoking abyss below. With a crash and roar that can be heard for miles, the sheet of water hurls itself upon the rocks beneath. Some of it is i whipped into threads by the wind and falls in a never-en ending stream of rain- i drops. It can readily be seen, from the number of falls, that the amount of water power available for irrigation
 and other purposes is practically un- 1 limited, and yet, owing to the isolated
 section through which the river passes its paters have scarcely been utilized Recently several extensive irrigation
 systems, involving much capital, hay,
 been established to reclaim the deser
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-02

the river. Their mushroom shapes are now repulsive, now noble, as they as- sune the appearance of prison walls or of cathedral towers.
 Beyond the Grand Ronde river the canyon walls grow less and less abrupt, and the river, losing much of its feroc- ity, glides away from its hiding place, and winds in graceful turnings through broad expanse of prairie, and high plateau. The rolling sagebrush plain, though still barren of ttees, is no longer dull. Here and there are splashes of color and the delicate greens of vegetation. Over all rests the desert haze, lending an exquisite softness and gentleness to the scene. To the north and to the south, the view Is bounded by an unbroken chain of snow capped peaks and crags, which seem to fade into clouds as they join the hor- zon. Above them all, their snow-bur- dened summits glistening in the sun light, loom the spirelike forms of the Seven Devils, abrupt and precipitous. Bold, severe and forbidding, they tow 6T III lAelI lllllil6HoAtJs uNdl llliS tl1Cl1 sister peaks, and making the mild un- dulations of the desert hills insignifi- cant by comparison.
 On enaring the Washington boundary the scenery loses much of it's wildness the narrow canyon walls give way to broad and fertile valleys, the deeply eroded plateaus melt into gently roll ing foothills, interrupted here and there with belts of waving grain. When the soil has been made productive by the presence of rivers and streams, thriv- ing villages appear, amid fields of | green, pleasing to the eye amid the monotonous gray of the lava beds.
 Just above the boundary at the juno
 tion of the Snake and Clearwater riv- 1 CTS, there lies a broad and fetrile val | ley, several thousand acres in extent, surrounded by immense foothills. Be-
 meath them nestle the twin cities of Lewiston Charleston, a prosperous and
 thriving community. But one watches
 with deeper interest the wonderful hills
 that tower 2,S00 feet above the river
 some sharp and jagged. all denuded by
 erosion and thrown together in extra
 ordinary irregularity. At its junction
 with the Clearwater. the Snake turns
 sharply westward. The hills again as- sume the form of rugged perpendicu-
 lar walls, the river narrows into tur-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-02
TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
Marked by Excellent Playing in Which
 Arthur Swceter Stars,

Newcastle, N. H., Aug. 1.-The third day of the tennis tournament at the Hotel Wentworth was marked by Nex- cellent playing until heavy rain stop ped the game altogether in the late af- ternoon. The feature of to-day's play was the victory of Arthur Sweetser, the interscholastic champion, and D. c. Niles over Irving Wright and C.. c. Cresson, the southern champion, 4-6; S-6, 7-5, in the first round of the doubles. The summary:
 Third round, singles Campbell de- feated M. A. Chase, 5--7, 6-2.
 C. c. Cresson defeated E. B. Hilliard, 6-1, 6-S.
 semi-flnal round-Arthur sweester, defeated c. C. Plimpton, 6--4, 7-5.
 Doubles, first round-Beals and Hawes defeated Bradford and Chase, S7, 6-2.
 sweetser and Niles defeated Wright and Cresson, 4-6, 8-6, 7-5.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-02

bulent and broken sea-green stream. Nowhere in the Snake river canyon is there a better example of the columnar basalt formation than here. In many instances the lava, on cooling, has re- tained a pedpendicular position in the form of columns and pillars, sometimes huge and massive, like the ruins of a Roman temple but more often in grace ful, symmetrical sheets, even and de- licately wrought. For another hun dred miles the Snake flows westward through its canyon. until, 20 miles be- low it's Oregon boundary, after lonely course of 1,O5O miles, it pours into the mighty Columbia.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-02
eousness, but to such it is only pr ised that they shall be filled;

eousness, but to such it is. only pro ised that they shall be filled; a strange contradiction, one may be b brave. honest, faithful, tolerant long-suffering, and yet be unable to ter syllable in honor of the virtueI
 It is a great story, this story of and full of hard and deep meanii and never dull so long as we keepI our Questionings. For the answers l life are full of contradictions, and pain is often joy, and it's curses bli ing, and its blackest night the sun, | its greatest event the stiffness ] each man to live must be his own sl CT. Life neve shows us any trite
 tale we can read straight off forget; a tale with a nice, obvious q clusion, with the good folk all dres in white and listening to wedding |
 and the bad folk all ugly and dark
 sent off into corners for weeping
 gnashing of teeth. That is the ] ifction we tell each other because
 as high as our intelligence has ell ed, to like to label things and pref we know something conclusive.
 the purpose of life is evidently not amuse or divert us; it is not easy,
 obvious, not even pleasant in the1 dinary acceptation of the term.
 would seem to have in hand the Ii 1 inc of us into something utterly dik ent from what we now are; 1t wi
 seem to be teaching us that all tfE are enchained and intertwined ana lsolubly bound together, and with smile of the Sphinx life looks a
 and dazzles us, and with the claHs hte Sphinx she grips into us and w
 us against any faeile answer to riddles.-Harper's Weekly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-02
HEARERS OF STATE SECRETS.
In England the Official Messengers D
 Not Have Happy Lot.

In England the OInclh MessenSeES DV Not Have Il Happy Lot.
 1 In some shape or form there have al- ways been state messengers, whose mission it was to carry treaties and documents of importance to foreign courts. As rule, however, they were merely persons of trust, friends of high officials, who wished to visit Europe under the most favorable conditions. As time went on, however, and com munication between the governments of Europe became more important, a regular corps of messengers was inau- gurated, which has existed to this day though with tendency to elimination. A few years ago the kings messengers were 12 in all; to-day eight is the num- Der employed by the foreign office.
 At first sight their profession sounds a. delightful one. People imagine as IOuida did, that they travel all over the world in special trains and ships, sur rounded by every luxury. AS a matter Eof fact, they do nothing of the sort Tn the first place, the kings messengers never leave Europe at all, and what is more, their journeys are confined to two routes, the one to St. Petersburg and the other to Constantinople. It Is on very rare occasions that they ever leave these two lines of railway. When they do it is to follow the king or some cabinet minister to the Mediter- ranean or a German watering place, 1 Thus their official existence is strictly limited, and before they have been six
 months in the service they are well ac-
 quainted with the two lines upon
 which they travel
 Laden with his bags he starts off
 et us say, for Turkey Should the
 train be full he is allowed to take an
 extra place for that part of his lug
 gage which contains the dispatches foi
 the different embassies en route. Thus
 when he arrives, for instance al
 Munich. the train is met by a British
 official to whom the hands over tht lbags for the legation. The same thing takes place at Vienna and Budapest
 or, in fact, any other town along tht
 line where there is a British represent
 ative to be communicated with.
 After four days and nights in th'
 train, during which time his piece Q
 mind and also his sleep have beer e continually interrupted by the hand j. ing over of dispatches to sundry off T cials, he eventually arrives at Con
 stantinople Here he remains for e limited number of days, when he agail l. retraces his steps to London by tn : same route, picking up dispatch bag g, at the various towns through which h 's passes. But when all is said and don d the messengers life presents few at h fractions, if any, to-day. Certainl is as regards pay there are no attrac e tions at all, for the salary is mer e piHance. In truth, were it not for tn 8 fact that they receive an extra poun @ day when on duty, it is very un o likely that men could be found (know Is ing the conditions of service) ready { " take such appointments-London Glob
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-02
TOMMY coRcoaAN HERE.
Looking for Players for UnionviIIc
 Penn, Tcam,

Tommy Corcoran, the brother of Phil Corcoran. the New Haven State league twirler, attended the Bridge port-New Haven game at the Rock yesterday afternoon, Tommy was re- leased by the New York Nationals last week. After yesterdays game he stat ed that he was here with Leonard, the assistant manager of the Unionville team of the Pennsylvania league, to get few good players for the Union.- vile team.
 Tommy, who will join the Unionville team, will remain in this city over to- morrow, in order to witness the Rock ville-Tigers contest at the Rock. He will watch some of the players, and probably take couple down to Penn sylvania with him.
 The Unionville team stands near the top in the Pennsylvania league, and Manager Leonard wishes to get some new players to keep his team at the top and to win the pennant. The team is supported by some very rich back CTS
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-02
HOWE & srETsoN vs. VALLEYS.
Second Game cl Series to Be Played
 This Afternoon.

The Howe & stetson baseball team will play the Malleys this afternoon in the lot behind Weibers brewery. A good game is expected The Malleys defeated the Howe and Stetson team in the first game of the series, but the Howe & Stetson nine expect to retaili- ate with a win to-day. The lineup follows:
 Howe & stetson-Mowry, D.; Lynch, c. f.; Finn, lf.; Hayes, ss.; Phefer, C.; Comiskey, Sb.; Rinehart, 1b. Griffin, 2b.; Brennan. If.
 Malleys-Loeb, 2b. Mixter. Sb.; sel- sey, lf.; Lane, If; Brown, of; Simmons, 1b; Etlinger, D.; Horton, C.; Mathews, ss