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The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-07-24

II you do your Christmas
shopping now you will avoid
"the rush" later on.
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A thorough lobby investiga-
ton may turn once staid con-
gressional Record into one OF
most gossipy little publications
in circulation.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-07-24

Beholding those Balkan blouses
one gets a new idea of Balkan
atrocities.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-07-24

For SALE Cheap, a hous,
and two lots in west Ontario,
best residence section OF city
See Claud Bingham, Ontario.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-07-24

Ginseng and Gold Seal raising
surest way to make Big Money
on Little Capital. One acre OF
Ginseng yields about 5000
pounds, Sells at SO a pound.
We buy all you raise. Write
today for free booklet. Leo
Richter, Auburn, Wash.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-07-24

Entered in the postofiice at Ontario
Oregon, for transmission through the
mails as second-class matter.
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FOR sALE;- Team of. large
young mares, wagon and har.
ness, $500. Also single driver,
harness and light wagon, 800
Laundry.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-07-24

For SALE-O. X. restaurant,
anyone wishing to purchase
call and see the same.
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For SALE CHEAP A small
house near the schoolhouss,
desirable for a family wishing
to attend school. NJ. +. Gan
non.
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WANTED BALED HAY-Call
at the Ontario Commission Co.
for particulars.
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
Paid Advertisements

Drayage orders taken at Moore
Hotel John Lsndingham, residence
phone AGA
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-07-24

Three lots for sale 2 blocks west
of postoffice at a bargain. Inquire at
Argus office.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-07-24

The ice cream served at the Onta-
rio Bakery is always just right.
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIEON GLOBE.

BE sure to come and see us,'' usually
doesn't mean it.
A referee isn't really needed to tell a
man when he is whipped.
On the quiet, many women appreciate
the other kind of jokes.
One side of the debate is pretty apt to
think the judges are prejudiced
1t is hard to convince man toiling at a
desk on nice day that this is free
country.
Still. you might not guess that some
people were in mourning If they d1dn [
dress that way.
When her guests declare they had a
merry time, a hostess knows her party
was a failure.
Credulity may be our middle name. but
no dentist can convince US that he doesn't
hurt anyone.
Regardless of the worry of wives, COM
paratively few men are holly pursued by
chorus girls.
In the family where the children's
names sound like sleeping cars, Mother
supplies the monfckerS-
AS a rule, a good cook is good guess
err; kitchen measurements are vague and
unstandardized-
1t is all right to assert your independ-
ence, but it shouldn't be allowed TO throw
you out of job.
Applause has also been known to af-
ford relief where the surroundings made
profanity impracticable.
Then there is the kind of man who is
generally generous with the Gang, and
tightwad with his family
Life insurance is a valuable institution,
as it usually is worth more to the family
than the husband was.
People care so much for appearances
that the front yard will always look
little better than the back yard.
Alb Adkins says his wife's kin helped
make him INDUSTRIOUS; so many of them
hung around that he had to work hard
to feed them.
When a young girl picks on trained
nursing as a career she sees no duties
ahead of her outside of reading novels to
a millionaire's convalescing son.
Alb. Adkins moves an amendment; he
says the truth won't hurt anyone if you
keep it quiet. Let the sob squad sing
that soulful sonnet What You Don't
Know Won't Hurt YOU
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08
WHERE WILL 1T END?

The railway trainmen are demand
ing an increase of wages and appar-
emily are as much entitled to it as
were the firemen. If the demand be
submitted to arbitration it is probable
that their demand will be granted re-
gardless of the fact that the railroads
say they cannot afford to make the
advance. The high cost of living is
given as one of the reasons justifying
the demands of the railway employees.
To meet the increased expenses re-
sulting from the awards of the arbi-
traitors the railroads will ask the inter
state commerce commission for per-
mission to advance their rates. A raise
in transportation charges will further
enhance the cost of necessaries and in
time call for another raise in wages
and so on to none can tell where.
The situation is a reminder of the
old story about the man who bought
more land to raise more corn to fat
ten more hogs to buy more land.
But for all these advances in wages
and rates. the general public pays
without getting anything in return.
True. it has the power of control but
it does not exercise it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08
A CITY THAT MAKES MONEY.

A consular report from Manchester,
England, says: The Municipal street
railways have allotted Sass, $50 from the
yearly profits for the relief of city
taxes. This contribution is practically
5 per cent on the capital outlay of the
undertaking. The total estimated ex-
penditure on the revenue account for
the ensuing financial year 1884 is $4.-
397, 1862, including $145.995 for buildings,
permanent way, and new lines, $121. 662
as contributions to street improve
ments, and s145, 1895 for street cars and
equipments.
The gas department has allotted $243,-
325 to the relief of the city taxes and
next year proposes to pay $253,53O-
equal to 19s per cent of the capital ex-
penditure employed. Gas is sold to
the consumer at SO cents.
When this country has a congested
population like that of England, with
the consequent reduction of wages and
increased cost of necessaries of life,
the people will demand and obtain
cheaper public service than they now
have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Keep busy and you will have less time
for worry.
A yelled insult is more annoying than a
barefaced lie.
Woman's intuition is a pleasanter term
than feminine suspicion
If you would be popular you must pay
the price and then some
People have more aches and pains in
their imaginations than elsewhere.
The man lacks enterprise who stands
around waiting to be driven to drink.
Before a wise young man attempts to
paddle his own canoe he learns to swim.
Isn't it surprising how many of your
friends are broke when you want to make
a touch
If YOU would measure a man by his own
standard, listen to what he has to say
about his neighbors.
Yet the man who goes through life
kicking like mule may not be worth $3.50
on the Missouri market.
A soft answer may turn away wrath,
but the soft drink habit does not make
for the popularity of Peoria.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08

of the transaction, or out of the privi-
lege accorded them Banks make an
average of per cent on short-term
loans, SO that by paying the per
cent they still will make a margin
of profit on the governments money,
which they are allowed to handle.
1t is improbable that they will make
any serious objection to the new or
der. Here in the west they pay three
per cent to the citizen and make a
profit. If when President Cleveland
inaugurated the system of depositing
the surplus with the banks, he had
also included the McAdoo plan, Uncle
Sam could have many a dollar that
he has not got.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08
.AYHAWKER JOTS

farm of $50 acres near Oswego
was sold recently for $14, 1000.
The Peru Derrick has changed
hands. The new proprietor is j. A.
Shocks.
The Coffeyville Journal has located
a brand of whisky that will float on
top of water.
They are calling him Senator In
gals over at Atchison now. Force of
habit perhaps.
Winfield lays claim to a carnivorous
horse-chickens and cats are his ia
vorite articles of diet.
Think of a town of 700 inhabitants
putting in an electric light plant! But
that is what Kensington is planning
to do.
Leavenworth's dream of a mineral
well was shattered when it was found
that the peculiar taste of the water
was due to the presence of a dead
dog.
The lola Register refers to Pres
Mr.. Scott inform an interested public
whether or not a Presbyterian chick
en- is superior to a Methodist chicken?
Verd Napier serves the following
notice on his friends: 81 want no full
some eulogy when death claims me. I
will not care for wTeathS of flowers
and will not catch their fragrance. L
want no fancied virtues exalted in
commentator. I want said over my
remains whatever will do most good
to those who hear it. 1 do not care
where my last resting place may be.
When am dead bury me and have
any good of me then, say it now in
St0ad.f
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08
THE DRUG EVIL.

While the people have been busy
fighting the traffic in liquor, another
| evil of similar character, but infinitely
| worse has grown to enormous proper
lions. This is the drug habit; the con-
sumption of morphin and cocain.
Since 1860, when the various forms
of opium were separately enumerated
in the tariff schedule, there has been
an increase of 351 per cent in the i'm
| portation and consumption of all forms
of opium, as against an increase OF
1873 per cent in the population. In the
United States during the last ten years
there has been an annual importation
and consumption of opium of over AGO.
900 pounds. Austria Hungary, with a
population of a little less than half
that of ours, consumes annually less
than one-hundredth this amount of
opium. Germany with so million in
habitants consumes only about 1900
pounds annually, while in Italy with 80
millions there is an annual consump-
ton of only about 5000 pounds.
The appalling discrepancy consists in
the fact that the most reliable authori-
ties are agreed that one-eighth the
amount of opium imported into the
United States would amply suffice for
the legitimate medical needs of our
people. This country manufactures
into morphine, fully 1000 pounds of
the annual Importation, and it is esti-
mated that so per cent of the morphin
thus made is used by victims of the
habit.
When we consider cocain, the situa-
ton is no less alarming. Roller first
introduced this drug to the medical
profession in 1854. Thirteen years later
was enacted the first legislation in the
United States which strove to prevent
the indiscriminate sale of the drug. In
1897 Illinois passed a law which made
it unlawful to give or sell any cocain
or preparation containing cocain in any
form, except on prescription of a physi-
clan or dentist.
The impractical ility of all the legis-
lation since that time is evidenced by
the fact that although cocain is a drug
which is utterly useless except in the
hands of the physician or dentist, and
should never be prescribed for continu-
GUS use under any circumstances even
by them, there has nevertheless been
such a steady increase in its use that it
is now reliably estimated that it's illegi-
innate use alone exceeds 10000 ounces
every year.
A consideration of the evils attend
ant on the use of morphin and cocain
alone, says The Journal of the Ameri-
can Medical Association, should tend to
convince the most ardent advocate of
states rights that legislation regulat-
ing the sale of all dangerous habit
forming narcotics should be national
in scope and absolutely uniform
throughout the country In matters
which affect the health of the nation
at large the laws should be made by
congress, and their execution should be
in the hands of federal rather than
state authorities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08
EVENING CHAT
Running Past Danger Signals.
sT RUTA CAMERON

Running Past Danger Signals.
! There are some misfortunes that
| come into our lives utterly without
warning. We are given no opportunity
| to prepare for them or avert them and
cannot be blamed for not doing so.
| But there are a great many other
misfortunes, little and big, that
only come to us after repeated
warnings. If we would heed these
warnings We might escape the mis-
fortunes. And for not doing so we
certainly are culpable.
A friend of mine dropped her eye
glasses the other evening. There" she
said, as she stopped to recover them,
that's the fourth time I've dropped
| those today. 1 hope they aren't broken.
! / ought to tighten that screw. I'll do
it this minute
But this minute was too late. AS
she spoke the words, she picked up
the glasses and found both lenses
badly cracked. According to her own
admission, she had had three warnings
and needed none of them
Another friend has just lost a hand
some seal ring. 1t was. very loose and
again and again it slipped off while
she was about her homework. Once
it was missing for several days and
when it finally turned up, she said
II must have that ring made smaller
This time she has lost it in the street
and probably will never recover it. She
is much grieved over the mishap and
calls it her bad luck. Those who know
the circumstances call it something
else.
Just yesterday I caught myself com
hitting this ridiculous folly. Three
times during the forenoon I caught my
foot in my skirt braid. Each time I
thought, I'm going to take this dress
off in a little while. I'll fix it then"
The second time I almost fell against
the kitchen stove, and the third time
falling the length of flight of stairs.
If 1 had fallen I certainly would have
had only myself to blame.
Serious illness seldom comes without
ample warning. Probably four ILL
nesses out of five could be avoided If
We would heed the body's danger sig
nails.
Perhaps you think all this is very
trite and obvious, and yet, my friend,
L wouldn't be at all surprised If in
some way or other you, too were run
ming past some danger signal.
Your Indifference is doubtless in
some matter quite different from any
of the instances have mentioned, and
that is why you do not at once recog-
nize yourself in my mirror. But think
Are there no danger signals of any
kind which you are running past at
top speed?
Optimism of the right kind and degree
is a beautiful quality But an over
grown optimism which takes all kinds
of foolish risks and refuses to heed any
kind of danger signals, is as unhealthy
and unsightly as any abnormal
growth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08
SEPARATION.

She 1oosed her clasp of my trembling
hand
And glided swiftly to the Unknown Land
That land unseen is a garden fair,
And, by and by, L shall meet here there
Shall 1 call her back where the winds
blow chill,
She, who may gather its sweets at will?
Nay-I will wait for the whisper low,
And when she beckons mel will CO.
She loosed her clasp on my trembling
hand
The better my love to understand;
NO mysteries dwell in that far-oH sphere
Where light celestial is ever clear.
From that land unseen by the crystal sea,
There earthward floats sweet melody
She tastes the joys that 1 long to know
And-when she beckons mel will go.
She loosed her clasp of the trembling
hand
That may know her touch in Promised
Land;
The Father who -chastens hears my
prayer
He has us both in His tender care
He gives me faith for vision clear
glimpse of His heaven even here.
I'll work and wait till He whispers low
Whenever He calls me I will go.
Helen Elizabeth Coolidge, in Christian
Intelligencer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.l

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Don't imagine the world is all wrong
just because your liver is.
Life is just one merry-go-round of an
ticipations and regrets.
You will find mighty few men turning
over a new leaf until the old one is full
The man who profits by his mistakes is
tempted to keep on making more.
All the world may love a lover, except
the one particular object of his affection.
Nothing makes the rest of us So tired as
the fellow who puts up bluff at hust-
ling.
Nell-'I like a fellow with some go. to
him don't you?'' Believes, if he takes
me along"
Life is full of contradictions says the
Cynical Bachelor, but We never realize
it till we get married.
IT is almost as hard for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle as for fat
cop to squeeze through a side door.
Subbubs-'I believe the only solution to
the servant girl question is to engage men
of all WORK" Henpekke-"I guess that s
right. Men are used to being bossed."
In charity, the giver leans
To secrecy, or else to keenness.
One gives according to his means,
And one according to his meanness-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08
INTEREST ON FEDERAL DEPOSIT

The announcement that hereafter
the national banks shall pay interest
on deposits of government money
must make the heart of the old time
Populist rejoice.
The national banks were the sub
ject of the most bitter invective on
the part of the reformers in the early
nineties. They were held up as gIar-
ing examples of special privilege and
robbers of the people Secretary Nc
Adoo apparently thinks there was
ground for complaint. He has ruled
that they shall pay two per cent for
the use of the government funds.
From the day of the foundation of
the national banks they have had the
free use of these funds and have, as
a result, profited many millions out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08
FROM OTHER PENS
A HARM..lJL MEAsuRE.

The so-called full crew bill, requiring
a certain number of men on every
freight train, is an example of how not
to regulate the public service corpora
TONS
1t is also an example of how not to
legislate in the eventual interest of
labor.
That public service corporations
| should be regulated in the interest of
the public welfare and for its p-otec-
| ton, including the interest and pro-
lection of their employees, is now es-
tablished. Regulation is accepted as
a principle.
But if this principle IS not to be
discredited it must be applied with JUS
tice and good sense.
1t is not so applying it to fix by
statute details of administration
which should be fixed by an admins
trative official or body. To say that
eI cry train shall have a certain crew
is to fossilize in the statute a rule
which before legislation could be had
or insufficient, unnecessarily burden
some, or inadequate. The difficulty of
getting laws amended or repealed
needs no discussion, and in a case
like this if : reduction were advis-
able probably organized labor would
obstruct action, and If an increase were
required the railroads would obstruct.
Meanwhile the rigid regulation would
remain imbedded in the law.
If regulation is to be really efficient
it must be left to administration Off
Gals, who can be held to account but
who also can become expert through
the study of actual conditions and
can develop a system of regulations
elastic to meet changes of conditions.
On the face of it the full crew bill
seems merely a measure to protect the
public and the trainmen. This protec-
ton should b. and would be given adj
Enthusiastically, not legisIa lively. 1t is
striking at the efficiency of regula-
ton, and therefore at it's existence, to
ignore this distinction. No bank, no
factory, no store, no farm could be
run by fixed statutory regulations, and
neither can a railroad.
This is not an objection based on
consideration of the self-defense of
railroads and those who have invested
in them, although that interest de-
serves consideration as much as the
interest of the railroad employee, the
railroad patron, or the public. 1t is
based on the considerable of efficient
regulation, for if we cannot make reg
ulation efficient We will have to give
it UP for something else.
In this efficiency organized labor is
directly interested 1t may seem de-
sirable to secure more employment for
the time being. But if this should be
accomplished without reference to the
needs of the service, With the results
of unnecessary charges upon that SER
vice, it is against the interest not only
of the railroad shareholder but of the
shipper who pays the freight and of
the public, including the laboring man,
to whom the shipper passes on the
charge.
Organized labor cannot afford to
place itself in the light of favoring O
rigid and Ineffective system of regula-
ton. or, on the other hand. of ask
ing that the public pay for work which
is not economically required. 1t should
place itself firmly on the side of eff
cient regulation in the public interest.
Chicago Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08
by TEE WY
BIZ HARVEY PARSONS.

Some boob auto around this town
makes a noise like a calf. Someday,
Wnen We, peaceful citizen of Topeka,
carries home a new clothesline, said
oooo auto will be roped and snubbed
to a water plug
One may observe that the dandelion
crop on the state house pasture has
! oeen harvested and re-seeded. The
\ chlII1ng fear of the state house seems
TO be that the dandelion crop will die
out.
Bank Commissioner Sawyer favors
the IDEA of turning county poor farms
INTO state experimental stations. The
trouble is that there is an insufficient
NUMBER OF paupers to do the expert
mentlng, and the state is too blamed
| poor to hire help.
Because, it is the state that has been
pauperlzed by former administrations
not the citizens thereof
The fire from police revolvers was
ineffective, but the water from a hose
stopped strike riot in Syracuse, N.
\. The strikers, although foreign-born,
could not withstand the power of some
Foreign Element
Professor Harve Worrall hopes that
the paper will be as nearly correct as
tne new clock. Professor Harve should
! pear in mind that a reporter is not con-
nected with batteries and other auto
matte devices. A reporter may have
an open, illuminated face, but he is
llapIe to get ahead of the schedule. He
mas been known to print a court de-
c1slon two hours before the decision
| was handed down.
Our principal objection to the con-
| n 10 nix &c.
that one has to repeat a majority of
the alphabet as well as plenty of
numerals, when calling a suburban
subscriber.
City commission should carefully
consider this: tin-can cleanup results
under present ruling-in total loss;
cans are dumped in Shunganunga or
other classic streams. Why not string
them on behind the town knockers?
AS Bryan left California. he said st
think but no reporter pursued him
on a chartered switch engine to get
the rest of the sentence. 1t appears
that they don't care what he thinks in
California.
Add Bryan: Why should California
view with alarm the grape juiceful adj
m1nistration of this new secretary of
state? California raises grapes, to be
sure, but if the 'silver-tongued one can
start grapejuice fad. would it not
be good thing for the grape industry +?
AS we have been led to believe, grape
juice is the first stage of the wine that
Mr.. Bryan does not serve at his diplo-
matte table. If grape juice becomes
popular it will save the trouble and ex-
pense of fermentation.
There isn't much use in being decent
nowadays. unless you have a competent
press agent.
But if you have competent press
agent, there is little advantage in being
decent-so there YOU are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08

The Republicans in Michigan appear
to be getting together without any
harmony meetings. Last November the
Bull Moose party gathered for its pres
idential candidate in that state 214,-
900 votes. Even for it's congressman
at large it polled 174,451 votes.
Roosevelt actually carried the state.
Yet so far has the new party lost it's
appeal to the people that five months
later, with all the prestige of the
autumn's success, it could show no bet
ter than $4,000 votes for any candi-
date in Michigan, while one at least of
its nominees actually fell below the
10000 mark. From Roosevelt's 214,-
600 to Gray's $4,000 was a long drop.