The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-04-04
BY The WAY.

The dem ocratic senators are said to
be considering the advisability Of try
ing to get along without a leader in
the senate. 1t would seem as If they
might, the party not having played
anything more than trailer there for a
good many years.
Germany, it is announced, is unwil-
ling to ,di icuss disarmament mt the
Hague conference. And Germany's q
"no" will Offset all the other nation g
talk.
A Milwaukee contemporary says "a
steamer ought to be able to get out CT
the way quicker than schooner. "
Nothing in this world can get out of
the way quicker than schonner-in
Milwaukee.
The king of Italy is great coin
collector, but unless he has a few
trusts and life insurance companies,
on the side, he can never become a
real captain of industry.
An Indiana man threw handful of
giant powder into the stove 'to clean
out the pipe, so we are informed.
1t did--also the chimney and the roof
of the house.
Ii is said that Andrew Carnegie Is
about to make gift that will cause
Mr.. Rockefeller's S32, 900, 600 to look
like thirty cents. By the time this
cruel warfare is over, we fear the
price of oil will be about Sl.9S a gal
Ion.
A Chinaman came very near bein 8
lynched in Wyoming, because his
laundry interfered with the widows
washing union. The race problem,
the lynching problem aad the color
line play no particular sections.
DR.. Wiley says man should eat one
per cent of his weight every day. But
how can Secretary Taft afford that at
his present salary?
A Chicago office boy looking for a
job was asked whether he used pro-
fame language. He replied, 81 kin, IL
necessary. He got the place.
A Minnesota woman shot five times
at a burglar and hit her plate glass
mirror every time. OF course, she
had to look into the mirror to see If
her pistol was held straight.
"Millions for education" ssays
Rockefeller, "not one cent for the
small competitor.
The Houston Post calls the case
against Bsiley an epidemio of rumor-
tism." 1t is also the infammatory
kind.
The examination OF those negro
rioters will help the northern peop g
to understand the difficulty Southern
courts have in getting at the truth.
The decision of he New York su
preme court that street Car transfer
must be issued on transfer, will en-
able a man to hold onto a strap all
day for nickel.
OF course it was Pittsburg man
who discovered sunspot llS, ,OOC
miles long, so you must make allow.
anoe for his glasses.
Since the congressman raised their
own salaries, you can't convince them
that the tountry isn't getting along
all right.
The oftener Mr.. Jerome loses bis
temper, the more certain be is to lose
the case.
A MI. Gong has just married In
Kansas. Ii is understood that he was
much struck with his wife's beauty.
aThaw's lawyers insist that he II
conducting his own defense, probably
on the theory that man who is hii
own lawyer has an insane man for his
client.
Two more women have appeared up
on the scene claiming the remains oi
Steel, the Philadelphia bomb-thrower
As that gentleman was reduced to ex
actly 345 distinct and separate scraps
there does look as though there ought
to be remnants enough to go round.
That scientist may be right abou,