The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-01-31

where labor is so earnestly sought. I
It's an open secret now that Peary
named his Arctic ship Roosevelt be.
cause 1t was designed to cut ice.
Secretary Boneparte wants to re-
duce the number of rich men In the
country, but he can get more, votes on
a proposition to reduce the number OF
poor men.
The great railroad magnate says
that we have enough railroads. OF
course Hartman understands that the
more railroads the country builds,
the longer it will take him to acquire
them all
The more the negroes In the north
talk, the sooner the noItheIners will
begin TO sympathze with the south
about the negro problem.
1t will be observed chat DIR. Osler's
remark to the effect that all the to-
baeco in the world should be thrown
into the sea, came few days after
Christmas. He evidently got the usual
quality of Xmas cigars.
Two widows have appeared and
fled claims to the scraps OF the
man who blew himself and the cashier
of a Philadelphia bank to pieces. This
is slight jar to those who have
claimed Insanity for the gentleman.
A st. Louis man has invented
chicken choking device. Col. Rastus
Washington Napoleon Jones wants
nothing better than his forefinger and
thumb, however.
The champion lady whist player of
the world says il is a Gin to play.
Probably she couldn't help thinking
1t sin the way most women play.
The Gar of Russia spends much of
his time in his library, so the earle
says; we think we should prefer the
cyclone cellar.
The peach crop fails several times
every spring, and yet strange to say,
the sweet summer girl crop is never
failure.
Hetty Green, "the richest woman
in the void" recently gave dinner
to party of FIVE friends at New
] f0rk hotel. The hostess did the OF
derlng and the check for the elbow
out" amounted to ST. Surely this
latest example of the reckless extrava.
gance of our over rich Is ample cause
for alarm.
Parents should teach their chill.
dren to love sugar." says an eminent
English physician. Teach themY
What kind of children do they rear
in EnglandY
Diamonds have advanced ten per
cent, The Jagerfontein bund of ban
dts Is evidently going to get all 1t
can before the panic of '0S, when Mr..
Rockefeller predicts, men will offer
two kart t for one-eighth karat pota.
TO
Count Witte is explaining to the
Russian populaoe that he did not &C.
oumulate great wealth in the govern
nent service, The suspicion of graft
Is everywhere.
Washington is demanding rs cent
gas. Her citizens, it would seem,
ought to be satisfied with the brand
hat they get absolutely free of
,harge.
Even the heroine who, by waving
ler req pettlooat, saved the fast ex-
press from destruction, has had to
give up her pass. Thus do the sins
If the unjust tall upon the just.
The United States is rich enough to
'ay fair salaries to its leading public
eryants Failure to do this is dis
A Massachusetts man dropped dead
ust as he started to read an original
'oem to some friends. Editors might
ry the experiment Of letting poets
cad their stuff to them.
The opening attendance of the Ten
lessee legislature is reported to have
Ieen the smallest in the history of
he state. But that may be due to
he fact that passes are abolished
nd walking is bad.
Nevertheless that New York man I
mo was arrested for sending a lemon |
his wife by mail, probably realizes |
hat he got off easier than he would
he had handed it to her In person. {