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tated a larger sales stan and c. r. Redden. who
has an extensive acquaintance amone tho trade.
has been % ned msn.Ser OF sse SnS1 DE-
baker car. which won second honors In the recent
Morris pa TX twenty four :, hour .s, race. has greatly
With Michclin tires now manufactured In this
country American contestants In Intern auonal
events can no longer attribute the Victories Of the
French and Italians to the superior tires they use.
No revolutionary changes Of any kind have
been adopted In the iv0s Pope Hartford, the slight
%od,n nS sssn merely !, 'S &c tending din to refine rs the vb lssI
base has been increased 70 is inches. agains! zoe
, ,nnui yssr; ,n The body S,S, is z ss lsn Iss Long,. and I%cS The
deeper. The wheels are s.SS mont and s.Ii
rear; .gsins. ::.' front ana roar thl: year The
all semi elliptic. The frame is OF srmored ash,
with heavy carbon steel recnforcements. while
hot rivetsd' The body Is Of snsirriy. new desisn'
with roomy Individual front seats and oatra large
The n. G. Howell Company Of New York has
Detroit. Mich. Tho principal car for 1897 with he
the silent Northern. equipped with a q horse
si.S0. The csr has a ioe inch wheel base, shaft
Inc n body ana in lamp Equipment. The cylinders
are 5l inch bore by so inch stroke. with both
dble position under the hood.
Is a new ignition .ys:sia. The. 4. Eiioii R.aasy
company. metropolitan agents for this well known
; s%ss,i ass'' rs sssi :': even VI! Win t poor n ss,,: :s:ss'" ''S''
,s sye.s~ :. oG %.,: IS:soo d I.yS S,s. I: ) s1ssr, - e;
Z, well known 90 the hest Stretches q z. Lcns
way and Insists that. the man at the wheel Ia.
ne r.: . ssnsIp nm ;eG g, , o. sc ". ne svf SSsI 1 sn s sses sss
who'd no conScssed that his oidsmobiis has power
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RARE opportunity 10 obtain q perfectly new
10 ~ RenauIt Landaulet. This car Is guaranteed
10 be In FIRST class condition In every rsspect. and Is
an IDEAL car for shopping or opera. Address FRANK
n. BOWEN i7,S Broadway, or phone 1857 COlum
bus.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-04-26
DON'T PUT OFF

for tomorrow what YOU can dc
today. II you put off buying a
bottle of Ballard's Snow Liniment,
when that pain comes you won
have any, buy bottle today. A
positive cure tor Rheumatism,
Burns, Cuts, Sprains, Contracted
Muscles, etc. Il. S. Graham,
Prairie Grove, Ark, writes: 81
wish to thank you for the good
results / received from Snow Lini-
ment. 1t positively cured me of
Rheumatism after others had failed.
Sold by St. Johns Drug Store.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-04-26
WHY

have torpid liver when EIerbine
the only liver regulator will helE
ycu' There is no reason why you
should suffer from Dyspepsia, Con
stipation, Chills and Fever OF any
liver complaints, when Herbine
will cure you. +. {. Waite, West
vile Fla, wriees; II was sick
for a month with chills and fever,
and after taking two bottles OF
Herbine am well and healthy"
Sold by St. Johns Drug Store.
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Note the Saturday special adver.
tised in Calef Bros. new ad.
" WIS. Clark, St. Johns Art Co.,
pictures and frames to order; Art
goods of all kinds. 2os N. Jersey
street, St. Johns, Ore. Some good
bargains in real estate.
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-7-3-' s-.s.r = = =
Local News.

Now Is the time to do that spring
painting.
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SOME z hooks.
Charles A. iInna.

II Is many a year since the biography Of
an American citizen has been awaited with
more interest than The Life Of Charles A.
Dana Harpers). which was known to be in
course Of preparation Ivy Major-0en. JAMES
II. WILSON. No better qualified b%iographer
could have been found. for Gen. Wilson
first met Charles, A. Dana In the spring OF
1858. during the operations before Vioks-
burg. ano thereafter served Will MIN In the
fold during three Of the most mcmSntous
campaigns Of the civil war. He wns also
for q short period a bureau officer OF the
War Department whom Mr.. Dana was
Assistant Secretary. The oompanionShip
begot q reciprocal confidence and an init
macy that lasted to the end OF Mr.. Dana's
career.
Cen Wilson does but state an indis-
putable truth when no says that as a jour
nalist and us Assistant Secretary OF War
Mr.. Dana was n Of the most powerful
men OF his time. the TACT is recalled that
in the great era OF the civil war his energies
were so called upon and his services were
90 important that he mist be classed among
the real heroes OF that memorable conflict.
The bioErapher points ont that by his pen
no less than by his official action he exerted
q tremendous influence on the men and
measures ofhts day. As Geld correspondent
and office assistant 10 Secretary Stanton he
was uaquestionabiy potent in deciding the
fate OF leading Generals. as well as in shap-
ing the military policies Of the Lincoln Adj
ministratlon. Gen. Wilson does not over
state the truth when he AYERS that with the
possible exception of John A. Rawlins,
l..t,N..N lllN.at CAnArnl aaA Hhtaf 90
STAT TO Gen. Grant. Mr.. Dana eIerted q
Srsater. influence owe Grants military
career than any other man.
ITO q survey Of the first fifty years Of Mr..
Danas life preceding his acquisition Of
The NEW YORK Sun, we shall, for obvious
reasons, confine our remarks.
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10.

Foreseeing that the complete restoration
OF his eyesight would require more time
than was at first supposed and that mean
while he would be straitened for money,
Dana In July, 1891, addressed a letter Of
inquiry TO DR.. Ripley as 10 the terms under
~hinh he might be permitted 70 Join the
Brook Farm Association. 1t IL evident from
the responsive letter reproduced in the
book before US that Ripley regarded him
% a highly desirable acquisition. In q
letter 10 his sister. dated Brook Farm. West
Roxbury. December IL, lsii. Dana writes:
i en- living with sorne friends who have
associated themselves together for the
purpoSe Of living purely and justly. and Of
acting from higher principles than the
world recognizes. / study but little-only
% much as my eyes will permit. ! pay for
r1uy board by labor upon the farm and by
giving instruction In whatever lies within
my capacity Az the biographer recalls.
the Brook Farm Association was no char
table or philAnthropio Utopia. but q con
scIentious effort to combine cooperative
labor with democratic living and intellectual
improvements. There we're 10 be no dronea
and no privileged members. Everybody
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Feata With Q Lash.
From The London DGi!y Nc:

TFuW Wt LUHUUH DN'T ~''
Fred Lindsay OF Melbourne. who served
through the recent Boer war With the First
Victorian Bushmen, was trained on cattle
stations In New South Wales and Queens.
land, and IN the search for some means Of
amusement In the loneliness. Of camp life
out there he turned to the 10 inch whip with
Q ~ foot lash, used In controlling the more
or leas wild cattle. Among the feats he per.
forms are the exttnG gushing Of q lighted
candle by. q hiok OF the whip; the use OF tbs
lab az . lasso In order 70 Trip up map; ths
and the quitting 10 half Of a cigarette While
actually being smoked,
In each case the trick IL performed from
q Distance OF twenty-five feet. and the lash
Of the whip used IL made from sixteen strands
Of tanned kangaroo hide.
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formation 'as would enable Mr.. Lincolh
and himself to make up their minds aS 10
Grant, about whom there we're many doubts
and against whom there wal some COM
plaint.' How the real purpose Of Dsna'a
mission reached the army before he did
the blographer is unable to say, but he
testihes that no sooner was the mission
announced than IL became known that
Dana's reports might affect Grant and his
army most seriously. Gen. Wilson, who
Joined Grants staff in October, 1852, Rndfrom
whom no secrets were withheld. tells US
tN1t rnony believed that wen II Dana had
not been invested with plenary authority
TO disgrace Grant, the fate OF thai General
would practically depend upon the view
which the special commissions should take
OF Grants abilities and conduct Gen.
Wilson bears witness that from the first
to the last day Of Dana's connection with
the Vioksburg campaign he showed himself
In every way worthy of the respect and
confidence OF Gran and his staff. His posi-
ton, OF course, was a difficult one, but he
filed IL with tact, ability and patriotism
to the end.
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nent and reneWs itself forever. Ths
carnage Of the battlefield disappears, but
the liberty thereby achieved remains for
the latest generation. The impulse given
70 the heart and mind OF ChristendOm 10y
the year ists will wake after its ruins are
rebuilt. This impulse is everywhere, In
new and more vigorous life In all countries
OF Europe-even in England" Thus con-
cludes q series OF letters which the 'biog-
rapher Is warranted in terming the most
interesting that Dana ever penned, with the
exception Of those ooveribE the civil war
In America.
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revolutions. supported myself, there and
my family here In New York, and came
home only tes out for the whole trip The
LISTERS written by Dana to the Eve news-
papers named. though not absolutely
identical. seem TO rave constituted THE
fret s~yndicated correspondence ever con-
tracted for by any one, either In Europe
or America. Gen. Wilson suggests that
perhaps nothing In Dana's career ever
allowed more clearly his practical sense
or bore stronger evidence as 70 his natural
genius for Journalism. which. eSoept during
the war between the States, was TO be his
occupation TO the end Of his life.
II 10 interesting to learn from the biog-
rapher something about Dana's European
correspondence. In view OF Greeley's mis-
taken assertion that his assistant knew,
nothing about European affairs and would
have everything TO learn. As a matter Of
fact, 1t 10 doubtful whether American news
papers have ever sent abroad so thoroughly
qualified a correspondent. His very first
letter from Paris, dated June 20, 1s4s, after
giving q graphic description Of the contest
which had been raging In the streets be-
tween the provisional government and the
proletarlat. proceeds to discuss the course
adopted by Gen. Cavaignac. M. Theirs.
NJ. Carnot. NJ. Walewski and many others.
He also depicts with lucidity and vigor
the parts played by the working classes
and the conservatives, the stagnation Of
trade and manufactures, the violence Of
class hatred, the intense activity Of the
leading journals, and the reestablishment
Of social order on a progressive and perma-
nent basis. Dana showed himself full Of
sympathy for the French people, and deeply
interested not only in the actual state Of
Affairs, but In the provisions Of the new Con-
stitution, which were then under discussion.
His analysis Of the questions under debate
was most searching.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-21
4 CALAMITY ExrRAoRpINA RY.


Virginia, that state from which no
news but bad news comes, has fur
nished a vindication for the pessimists
who have been insisting for months
that our national prosperity was too
good to last. Norfolk, the center of the
great American peanut industry, makes
the lamentable announcement of a
marked shortage in the crop of these
indispensable esculents. Partial details
convey the alarming intelligence that
there will not be enough peanuts to go
around, even If the size of the package
is reduced and the price raised. Shorn
of all the verbal qualifications, designed
to soften the blow of sorrow contained
in the message, the cold fact is that
the country is menaced with a peanut
famine.
The most regrettable feature of the
situation is that the sad news should
have so long been withheld. If the
nation had received a hint last fall, or
even in midwinter, that the goober
vines were barren, the people might
have used the intervening time to
master their grief and get into second
mourning along about Caster, but
1t is now too late to do anything to re-
lieve the gloom of the coming spring
and summer months. The people who
take their pleasures seriously can i'll
AFFORD TO be deprived of one of the
elemental constituents of enjoyment at
the circus, the summer resort, the
boating excursion, the picnic, the Toll
on the park benches, the stroll through
the woods and the annual picnics and
excursions of the different trades and
secret society organizations.
Americans might get along without
peace conferences, international trade
conventions, railway rate legislation,
tax reform, pure food laws and many
OF the things offered to them as bene-
fcial measures designed to make life
more worth the living, but they are
certain to be profoundly unhappy II
compelled to endure a peanutless sum-
mer
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-21

UNIVERSITY STUDENT STA TISTICS.
The statistical table showing enroll
ment of students at the leading Amer
lean universities, printed on another
page, will afford suggestive material
for people interested in higher educa-
ton to ponder over. While the fig
ures by no means indicate uniform at
tendance growth, and the exceptions
are hardly to be explained without
more intimate details. the general i'm
preston derived from them must be
that the big universities have about
emerged from the boom period and are
settling down to more steady condi-
lions.
Spanning the five-year period, which
this table covers, Harvard university.
which still ranks first in numbers. is
700 below its maximum attendance
scored in 1908, and the same is true
in smaller degree of a number of other
educational leaders. Even those that
show continued increases In enroll
ment are for the most part making
but small gains, and without the sum
mer school attachment, which is the
creation Of recent years, their gains
also would disappear by comparison.
These statistics seem to emphasize
what The Bee not long ago said in an
other connection, that the true policy
for our universities to pursue is to lay
stress henceforth upon thoroughness
rather than upon mere bigness. The
competitive quest for students and
their acquisition by all sorts of special
inducements IS coming to be regarded
more and more as "unprofessionaI,"
according to educational standards.
The big universities have their advan-
tages, but many of them are offset by
the peculiar benefits afforded by the
smaller colleges. The number of
young men and women seeking univer-
sity education throughout the country
is suffering no setback, except as an
artificial stimulus previously applied
is being withdrawn. Taking II alto
gether, the change cannot fail to make
for more healthful educational condi-
tons and for sounder Institutional
training.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-21
Disc AsE AND DIRTr STREETS.

Discomfort is the basis of the bulk
Of the complaints against dirty
streets, but, according to the opinion
of eminent physicians who have made
special study of the subject, that is a
minor matter compared with the dis
eases originating in the foul condition
of crowded city thoroughfares. The
New York Academy OF Medicine has
been giving special attention to rela-
ton of dirty streets to disease and
the result of its inquiries is alarming
in the sources of danger to general
health found in improperly cleaned
streets.
The physicians making the special
investigations have reported that tu-
berculosis, pneumonia. bronchitis, ton
silitis, quinsy, nasal catarrh and dis
eases of the middle ear, nearly all
have their origin or owe their spread
to the accumulated dirt allowed to dry
on the pavements and then be whirled
by the winds into the nostrils, throats
and lungs OF the people. The report
asserts that the annual epidemic of So
called grip" that crippies working
forces in Offices and factories, is a pen
atty every city pays for failure to keep
its streets cleaned.
The New York physicians make a
striking contrast by showing what has
been done by the federal government
at Panama and at Havana, compared
with the lack of systematic street
cleaning work in New York and other
typical American cities. Yellow fever,
which formerly claimed victims by the
thousands annually in Cuba and in
Panama, has been entirely stamped
out by sanitation and street cleaning.
So complete has been this work that a
case OF yellow fever at either of the
places named is a rare occurrence,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-21
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

BY a great effort the peace conference
managed to keep the peace to the end
Three Irishmen and Turk together APP
piled for naturalization in New York
City court and presented an aggregate of
twenty-five feet in stature.
Cleveland's official chemist insists that
beer dealers overload their schooners with
froth He neglected to add that foam does
not impede navigation.
The discovery OF Antonio Whatawad in
Philadelphia lightens the local gloom occa-
stoned by legal restrictions on campaign
contributions. Antonio has only to name
the office he wants.
Former Governor Chamberlain Of South
Carolina, a relict of carpetbag days. who
died a few days ago, is said to have been
the governor who made the historic re-
mark to ths thirsty governor of North
Carolina.
Philadelphia points the finger of amaze
ment at native who has been married
fifty times and has an assortment of eigh-
teen wives alive and kicking in the Quaker
city. The common charge that Phila-
delphians are slow needs immediate revi-
sion.
When real Indian goes against the
ways of the white man trouble butts in.
Utawaun, a former chief, wandered of
the reservation and into New Jersey, fell
down the stairs of a Salvation Army build
ing, and his spirit fled to the happy hunt
ing grounds.
Edward L. Preetorius and John Schroers.
who have been publishers Of the Westliche
Post for many years, have launched the
st. Louis Times, a morning English daily.
The initial number OF the Times is clean
cut, conservative newspaper, free from
illustrations or any OF the sensational fea-
lures that are characteristic of the most
OF the other st. Louis dailies. The pub
fishers promise that the paper will be in
dependent in politics, and II the promise Is
kept the Times will be a novel departure
from st. Louis newspaper methods.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-21

the company wants to reduce its divi-
dend rate from about 40 per cent to
about s per cent, because Of the public
hostility provoked over such great re-
turns to the stockholders in the oil
monopoly.
The proposed recapitalization Of the
Standard OIL company furnishes the
best illustration yet afforded of the
operation of stock-watering pure and
simple. IL is admitted that not a dol
lar of additional capital will be paid
into the company, the net income of
the stakeholder will not be changed in
any particular and the dividend charge
upon the company will not be in
praisal by the owners of the stock,
which is alleged to have increased in
value, without any new outlay on their
part. The 100000, 900 increase will
represent new evidence of value equal
to such supposed unearned increment.
Standard Oil magnates must be
banking on the fact that the public
memory is short-lived. They expect
the stock-watering episode, while it
may create temporary adverse COM
ment, to be soon forgotten, so that in
future years the oil trust may an
nounce its per cent dividends, show
ing on the face of the returns that its
earnings are not exorbitant, thus allay-
ing the public hostility now manifest
against 40 per cent dividends. OF
course, the holders of the stock will
get their 40 per cent just the same,
but the books will stand inspection
better. The oil magnates evidently
believe, with the late Phineas T. Bar
mum, that the American people love
to be humbugged.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-21


Triumph is a matter Of simply trying
again.
The heights never are scaled by the top
lofty
The overtime sermon makes the slothful
saint.
You lose sense as soon as you ignore all
sentiment
Polishing the head alone often paralyzes
the heart
You cannot Ere the hearts Of men by
frozen sermons.
The church that lifts the fallen never
need fear failure.
The ear ready for Islander makes the
lips ready to STAY.
The greatest shame Of all is to feel none
at things unworthy.
The pulpit often mistakes the thunder
for the shower Of blessing.
man is not sound in life because he
has much sound on his lips
You may climb FOOLS hill in an auto but
you will not reach the top any earlier.
The church will not make a new world
until 1t is willing to mix with the old one.
The greater the self-consciousness of the
fool the less his consciousness Of his true
self.
There is little danger in the discomfort
with condition that is equaled by discon-
tent with character.
The creed that bases righteousness on
legal fiction will produce only fictitious
righteousness.-Chicag Tribune.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-21

4 DRAWBACK OF EXCESSIVE WEALTH
The chief incentive to the accumula-
ton of large fortunes has often been
found to be the desire to provide com
fort and luxury for children and make
sure that no want of theirs need go
unsatisfied That this very advantage
of over-abundant wealth may in itself
be a drawback and handicap is sell
dom suggested. At a recent dinner in
which personal "reminiscences were in
dulged, Andrew Carnegie, the great
ironmaster, declared:
was born in poverty and l would not
exchange places with the richest million
aires son that ever breathed the breath Of
life. What does he know about father or
mother? They are merely names. But
my mother was nurse, seamstress, cook,
washer teacher, angel, saint and no SER
wants between. Men say that poverty is
a dreadful life and other men say that
riches corrupt a mans life. But they have
a one-sided view, most Of them. Now, l
have lived both sides and l know that
there is little in wealth that add to
happiness. 1 think that wealth decreases
rather than increases hdppiness-at least,
wealth beyond a moderate competence.
This is doubtless the experience and
feeling of nearly every man who has
risen from poverty to affluence. 1t is
doubtful if one of them would ex-
change his childhood days with their
healthy family life in the modest home
for the gorgeous surroundings and
retinue of personal attendants which
his wealth has provided for his own
children. This thought should afford
some consolation to the vast majority
of men and women who must continue
to live within the limits of a moderate
competence, but who have the rare
privilege of intimate association with
their own children.