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OKKOON CITY ENTRitTHISK. KK'IDAY. DKCKMUKK 'J7, t!M2. rj ' ranged In paragraph. It contains UrtC'On LltVlintCrpnSC.iirlBllonH fmra both th Authorised Publlthid Evtry r"rldy him oiiKbt to do liilllnlli'ly bettor. Harvey Hockwlth, general agent of and revised version, which the trail-th Well Fargo F.vpros ( otiipmiy. kL.. in linhnir nf creator ! w lid him an Intimate knowledge of E. E. BHODIE. Ei'tor sd Publisher. B., ,,... Nevertheless, Ihi'iv urv ( Oregon and It posslhlltlU nn.l noed.i. 'u.Hny grey headed nun nud women , clnlmi that poultry keeping I not Kn ,i hi Oieem. Cliy. Oi". i who will find It difficult to mnke noli j only Oregon greatest need, hut one off! i conil-eia-s .natter. change a for example the one In nf ll a biggest moneymaker. Accord- - - - I the I erd'a Prayer: "IVllver u from . in to government statistics, the rail Subscription Rts: One Vear Il i' tt'.l Monthi Trt'il Suosei iptlon. Two .MniitM Ajvertislns; Kates on aili'litlon the matter will receive uur attention iMhscilheri will Mini the dale of ex pirMton stamped ou their nape, tol in int their name. If l.t payment li not credited, kindly notify u. and the matter will receive our attention tile evil one;r Instead of the old tun j Industry of the I'ulted Stale hint "IVllver ua from evil.'- Of course ,.ir amounted to over f "OO.OOO.OOO. ) sn of then change have long been j money paid for ecus nud poultry known to atudenta of the bible, and in ono year a two mid a half tlmea for the moHt lart can be found lu the J greater than the entile gold output marginal reading of one veralon or j of tho l ulled State. Canada and Mcx the other; nevertheless. It l H to , (,.0i t ,.x,-,.,.dod the wheat harvest (ho greater glory of God. by one hundred million dollars. Advertising Rates on application. The oiher bible Is from the press j on Up of this comes the supreme of 0. Wilderman Company, and bears if.u t that nowhere else In the country the Imprimatur of Cardinal Farley, i (H, found the same favorable o-1 and Archbishop Prendorgast. It I poilunlttoa as In Oregon, and spec -. - n attractively bound, beautlfullv u,y ti,0 wniauietto. I'mpijua and Development of printed edition of the scholarly lvnay Kogv.e River valleys. I STUDENT DEVELOPING water power, the j version or tne itonmu nmm..iin nfn,ni ('hutch. It will come omewnai a. a ufacluring. and many form, of light ! surprise to people who have all their EXTRAVAGANCE i ra nr- j-mi n iou iiniuv, to ovum it , to which the people of Arkansas, In ! common w ith those of most other ' wirrp pnwco ine country ai largo seems to be .waking up to the the Roman Church discouraged the growing extravagance of students lu reading of the bible, to read the quo . our schools and colleges. In the tation w hich prefaces the New Testa-; hlh school especially la this tendon ment:. "An Indulgence of 30 days 1 Cy growing: so much so In fact, that granted to all the Faithful who read j uiauy i,oyi gr( 0( i,uity are the Holy Ciopel at least a Quarter . detiarred from entering, for fear they , . . . . .,.,. 'of an hour. A Plenary indulgence ctt1IU,t koep up with the others In Missoun ana Arsansaa. uw nunr- , , i i ... , , .,, .... under the usulil condition is granted , thousand and ou unnecessary cx- River offers many special advantages ,1IU" 1 " . , , . ,, . once a month for the dally reading, pensea that go with a high school ed and opportunities for profitable enter- ,ro'e " the'....., i , ........ 2lirt Ij, Hie iiiuiv ruv"i. j uia.iuu iu wwo, mi(.v vi.ivv. , v nu various Christian churches have of be grateful that the fever has not as the bible, the broader w ill be their jet struck the Oregou City High tolerance, and the greater unity w ill ! School, but that It la probably duo to chamcteriie their labors In the build-, the excellent management, llreek, ins up of the Kingdom. letter societies with their ridiculous I mummery, aud snobbish class dlslinc- Southern States, are turning their at tention The building of hydro-electric plants along the White River In not boundeJ by the state line between prise of this kind. The stream having been declared navigable as far up Its course as Forsythe, Mo., an act of Congress signed by the president, is necessary to damming It for water power sites anywhere between For F.vthe and where it tails Into the Ar kansas Mow Memphis. And such de- RISE OF CO- velopnieut work. It would appear, has j OPERATION The constant growth , tiom, belong only to our higher seats of co-operation ef j of learning, so far as Oregou Is con fort la reflected In cerned, but iu other states they have . . . , ,K,:many way, but In none more strictW I completely dejnoralied the secondary muirrs iu ouiuvicuiij nuuaiu mc public ir.tereSL and the right of the than ln ction U,"y ,ak"n b' Kn8s . i- - i a farmers during the session of the a , i. ' K.. , anr, State Agricultural and Industrial Con- universities are superior to the huro Apparently there has been an eSort L . .... .,,, ,.nwhi: .,v gress ai ttuicuinsou. i ue uirruug ; in w" j v . ... rf i apiears to have brought together, at i an dKngland they manage to acquire schools. No-one thus far has argued that our e.l the birth of the new year. Just why otherwise decent people should think II no wrong to beliav like the lowest o( the low, .lining the closing hours of the old year, aud I ho begin ning of the new, Is probably one of th biggest psychyloclcal mysteries of th.i Ouv. so far as regards social man ifestation. If one had not seen It for hlmseir, a many of us have, It would be Impossible lo conceive of a decent v oinaii, tinder the Inlluciice of cham pagne acting like the typical coquette, and otherwise disgracing herself and her family. Hut with many poopl.i the occasion excuses the deed. Hut does It, We think not. From the lobster palaces of New York, to the Poodle I'og of San Fran cisco, people of ell minds are pre empting tables so that they might the better gorge their llliliy eyes with tho saturnalia they confidently expert. Time Indeed for a change. How much better the sweet strains of Adeste Fldeles. Ilellego Nacht. Hark the Herald Angels, or some oth er of the tlmo honored hymns of our forbear. And how much better for the children.-the keenest and most intelligent of all our critics. railing aslepp at their tanks, some of Ihetii crying out through fatigue, pain and hunger, only lo be thrashed by their parent nud compelled to remain nl work. The mciii lint nt of Now Yoik Is In dlguaiil and aroused, nud It Is well thai It is, for II Is only Ihrough the light con luiHcmitloii of the elector ate that many of our representatives can sen the horror nud criminality of renditions such as these. The can neries of New York state certainly uei d calling lo account. TRADE WITH SOUTH AMERICA With an opti mism that Is far from being whol ly justlired, the muutry nt large Is conlldeutly expecting a tre mendous development of our trade with the uirlous South American countries uiu the opening of the Panama Cntnl. Hut most of us don't real lie that I'ucle Sam is way behind the other commercial na tions In the light for South American markets, liven the taM pile of money we have spent on the canal, does not begin to compare with that spent by Kuglaiid. (lerniuny. France and Hol land on railroads and harbors through out Argentine, l'ragu.i. Uraill. Chill. Peru and other countries. The Argentine Is practically Hrltlsh. as Hr.ull Is ueruiatt. ItulccU one hears more lieraiau than Portugese : ,-l 1 o ...... a .Una WMto River, and the defeaTof these efforts ' " volnt. a number of representatives ! a "u . .v. . j.,,.. .v. of lines of effort which are sometimes of the llub-dub secret society non- una. iur lue iiuic. urirutcu luti ucicr , . . i lopment of the sites. . thought to be antagonistic, but which. , onse tnat prevails mis siue oi uie , sl,ok,,n ,ho ,-,.,.,., U,j hotels oi Whtl Arkma. h mor mileaite ' il s founJ on n ""eiinM of Atlantic. Indeed effete Europe Is so I 1!r,u:,uu cnl,Ua. fhllo. Peru and In water officially declared to be nav views, should really be cooperative far behind the times i that co lege ye ... Tne lartuers meeimg wuicu pronioieu ; u.v " . - the first step toward their union was ' that la dependent on a college yell not a part of the proceedings of thJ ; leader U not eveu understood. Our State Agricultural and Industrial Con-' si-hools iu the grammar and secondary gres. Hut delegates to that congress ' divisions are undoubtedly superior M rnmnri..v( h nwtln.!. and It Includ- the Herman. French or English EFMCICNCY Our of our modern ENGINEERING business devrop incuts, goes by the name of "Klllcleiiey Engineering." For example It you are a boss painter, and waul to imike more money out of your contracts, you send one for one of these elllcieiicy folk, who straight way examine your buuliuus, and ding noses the trouble, lie bus been known lo find that workmen were loo tall for the Job they held, lu that there was waste of money lu tho time It look him to bend his length to pick up a tool. A shorter tu a n would not have so lar to bend with a consequent sav ing of time. The boss painter would probably be told that Ins men were wasting time by unnecessary motion with the brush. There la a substrat um of real worth to tho Idea, but It Is nothing more than the application of common sense, which In more old fashioned day was well expressed by such proverbs as "Let your head save your h'els." It would almost seem a If the limit of absurdity had been reached by one cmcicncy organisation, which I earn lug undying fame for Itself by advo cating the abolishment of the phrases I of "Hear Sir,' and "Yours Truly" In business coresHindeuce. They claim that one business house they know would save t000.i0 In typewriter wages, ribbons, time. etc. One of the most serious mngailnos published I lollows the Idea to It logically foolish ! conclusion: igable than any other state, this dis tinction has made it more difficult for her to develop hydro-electric plants as rapidly as other states in the south, and will, or at least should, until the charters her promoters ask from Con gress Include the necessary guarantee for public safety. Other states, with ed nrar-tirallv all of the farmer there. , schools of the same grade. It Is de cidedly our duty to see that the de moralizing snobbery of the average They adopted resolutions of course. ... n.nnine irenm and tonoe-1 The Kansas habit of adopting resoiu- rarhle to make damming easy, have Hons as the beginning of everything ; university Is not copied by our high been less restricted, for the reason is one which is never likely to be over-, schools. that many of their best water-power come. And among all the resolutions i " streams are unnavigable. And wide adopted In Kansas which have worked . FARMERS' SOCIETY The organlza advantage has been iaken of this fact. ; to good ends, probably none better OF EQUITY tiou last Sat in the Carolinas 130 cotton mill are ; have ever been adopted than these, j urd:.y ol a local now being driven by electric power They set out that, even among thejof the national organization knowu as generated by water power, thirty ' farmer of Kansas themselves, there '. The Fanners' Society of Equity, marks towns nd cities are lighted and hun- has not been that unity of thought j a forward step in the direction of co--dreds of cotton gins, oil mills and 'snd purpose which should exist, for operation, which If it Is honestly car other n ufacturlng establishments tne reason that, withont It, energies; carried out will be to the mutual Umo are driven by the same energy. rare divided between half a dozen dlf-j fit of both couaumv and producer. In pursuing a wise and necessary ferent bidies an' central-state The consumer however w ill be scep- policy of conservation of our natural ; body lo serve as a clearing house of ' cal until the society proves by its resources, the government at W6' ' works or ideas. It was resolved to j works that it Is playing fair with him. ington will be expected to 'See that ! organize a state control agricultural ; The past is loaded with tas.s where public rights and interests are not sur-1 body comprising all local bodies. Fol the consumer ha merely charged rendered in the development of this lowing this was a resolution declaring tribute collectors, without any advan new source of wealth and comfort, it the purpose of Kansas farmers to tage in the way of lower prices. President Taft has been much con co-operate with the great transporta One of the things the society should demned In Arkansas for his vetoes of tion interests and all of the other agitate is the issuance of marketing bills granting water-power rights business and professinoal Interest of j reports, and the organization of a bur along White River because the public the state. 1 au similar to the one in Canada, interest was not sufficiently safeguard Vast distances have, in a large known as the "Extension of Markets" ed. These measures may be reintro- measure, compelled Isolation or Division. Its work includ' s the lu duced after he is out of office, passed classes in this country, and, to that and signed. Hut why should a devel-1 extent, forced divergencenes of inter- opnient so vital to the prosperity of ests. With distance being vanquished ( that Bort. It also includes, the state be delayed in order to give as it is with communication quick an 1 : however, a system of compiling re a monopoly to a few men when ben- cheap, nd better facilities ln every , cords of whoksale prices in all -uiar-efus to all could be assured by a wise way for coming and keeping In closer ; f.tg 0f Canada. Europe and the Cnlt and liberal policy? ! touch with one another, it will be j e(j states, day by day. It furnishes m m m ! found, ln the course of time, that the , t),e Canadian farni'T full Information SOME NEW Soioman must have solution of some problem now feared Kith reK;lr.j to outside markets, and OLD BIBLES had the Bible In mind to be insoluble is In the one word; Co-! and a full recor(i v ,ri,:,.g n thoBe Of course men would save tlmo also by leaving off necktie and buttons i raguav go to England for their ships, i " " v or ,,,,,,r ,"u,", railroad supplies, and capital, with the j """T conventional things. Figure tip lite mcKiie mil mere are b.xjui fifty million male In the I'ulted Stales alone. U-t us assume thn' Inevitable result that John Hull con i trols their Important trade. I It Is not enouuh that we have built i the canal, we must al.o build up a I half of them wear necktie at least I sometimes. If every ono oi tnese j twenty live millions have only one tircktle a year und tout cost only '!' ' cents - there's a waste of six and n trade with our Uitin .American cous ins, and develop a merchant marine to handle It. One of the rarest sights i.t, rh., i, ni hlt'huiiis 1m lit Set, ml . . . ... ! quarter ml lion dollars a year. Waste? American merchantman. Hying the , 1 (If course It wnste. For a necktie stars and stripe. does not keep a man wunu. i Follow the mailer further. U-t us MORGAN'S Th? testimony of Mr. j (lmt ey(,ry om, o( Ut.. TESTIMONY Morgan before the (). Uo uil1Um W(lu(.(ri( of n,ick,l(l, Senate Investigating l.olllill;ll,.h , minute a duy tying his Committee, following so closely outh.'jli(, )(JU ,luv0 3,;i mi,,,,,, a yi.ttr, or heel of the Stock Exchange dlsolo- 8Ll Wy J Roy Ming iJ Grape MmielyPnre No Alum No Umo Phosphates scale, In most cases water I struck at ulcus depth. If thn Texas water tradition had not died long ago, such developments III the Pan Handle would kill It. For th el'an Handle and the South Plain adjoining It have been the only part of Texas which might make the sojourner sus pect It to be true. I ures for no other word describes the lack of even ordinary morality, I will kIvo amuiunPton ni.loro to tho more thau six hours. Twenty-five million times six hour make the ap pulling total of l&o million hour a year waited tying ties. You may llg I people who talk faster than they ,. , f r yourself bow many life think. Yet Mr. Morgau was only par lm(,s nrt. ,,, c()ni)lllmj. tially right when he asserted the lm-J N()r d()),. f(, Ilin(t,.r ,.j u,.r,.. Con- possibility of cornering Ihe money j Mvf h(, nunl.r f persons who are market. The money in Itseir is world- , (,,u , luakt,,K B, m lhg o less. As such it cannot be used for i I.1.ktu.1 lr .y wr all .vutmi COLONEL It 1 not likely that there COETHALS over was an npimlnt tnenl which gave such iiulverwil satlsf act lou as that contain ed lu Mr, Taft' presidential message in which he recommends that Colonel lloethals bo promoted as a reward for hi seniles in connection with Puna uiu. For Illicitly, ublllty, and execu live wisdom. Colonel (iocthal has been will described as the foremost American of his duy. Hut Is It not curious that the mom rut some real work demand a real man we are all ready to put aside our taunted democratic Ideal? Or iliimril... the clamor of the demagogue Is never reproved, or opposed. -and it Is the rankest triason to suggest that any man Is too Ignorant, too si.ly, or too degenerate to pnrllclpnl.1 In the f'.ovcrumcnl of (he country. Illirutloii will be wasted. If wo can gel In on the Clear Lake proposition we will have our water qileallou set tled for all time to come. I am not aware of the expense Involved, hence do not know whether It would ha fousnhlo. lu any event we must get our water supply from some uncoil laminated source, and this would he worth looking Into. W. T. MII.I.IKKN. ADVERTISING TALKS NO. 7. (My Ralph Kayo) How's Ill'SINESH? "For Ihe last two month business ha been dull.,' said a Portluml bus lues man recently. "I have born here for twelve year ami have never had a worse season or known business being a dull In all those Iwelvo years." "Whif the reason? Are the crop short?'' "No. this year will sen a Mumper Crop." "I-i it politics?" "No. I don't thiuli so. It's a cinch will bo elect ed. ' ' How s Muslness?" was asked a bus lues man who advertises. "Iluslness it Hood." he said - "I have liourd It Is dull In other lines, but personally my sales for July und August of this year lire ahead of last yeur, same time and that Is nil I rare." He Advertised. He Identified hi goods-gate them name a personality of their own and lo decide on the legal capacity so iur u pumic . .. n, Tnn, ' lie llltuin KOtitl o HI" IIU i men I proiiilse --hit delivered the rood" backed up his statements. Tho pnh ' lie found (his out and trust him. se tion of cargoes and supervision of refrigeration and n.a:.y other de : from this useless labor and were put ; - well, let uy to growing Hta ; toes follow your not kilo c alculation to the bluer end aud you'll presently ; s e your way -h ar to pay tho national i dent. whtti he uttered hi t operation, famous complaint that of the making ' of books there was no end. Notwith- CHICKENS standing the millions of new book 1 AND EGGS annually published throughout the Very shortly we are to ' have another poultry I fchow- in Oregon City, j word, the bible still leads them all. anu" a" sins Pint t0 118 being 0D 8 I Many haters of holy writ from Vol- far bigger scale even than tbe one last i taire down have confidently predict-' -v,iar- u 18 r"ally remarkable that J ed a decreasing interest in the sacred more farmers do not take up this most scriptures, and a consequent dimin- i profitable industry than do, for the ution of the printed output, but time hardest part of the work comes at a gives them the laugh. Today there season of the year when the farmer are more biUe readers than ever be- bas raost tirne on his hands. Poultry fore, and each year sees an lncreas- j experts tell us that with good founda Ing number printed. ! tion stock, the prolits are big and Two blbieg are Just now fresh from certain to the man who ha land on the presses. The one issued under which he can raise his own feed, the atupiccs of the Americn Baptist : Certain it is that if the city man Publication Society is one of these, utilizing the back end of a town lot It is delightfully readable, admirably ' can make money out of It, buying printed In open type, has a sensible . every Item of feed, the farmer with margin, and is most conveniently ar- all the resource of his land back of articles. A bureau of this sort at Washington could he made the nucleus of a system whereby a very large part of the leak age between the farmer and the con sumer cculd be eliminated. food, shelter, or raiment; but as a medium of exchange It finds expres sion In almost every waut of glciety. Mr. Morgan says no man can corner the money market, but that the Indus trie may be monopolized. !lut' If a man, or group of men. control the Industries of the ouutry. the effect Is the same an if they controlled the (i END Of A LIBEL Once when It i, u .,,,1. mntml that ON TEXAS wn said, or wa I ill 111 - it. in j'li-i sw Mr. Morgan Biid hi associates have 1 "nU hav, secured, and which I now under In- i n said, that "All Texn needs Is .....i,.ti., ii.ni i,, either with our society and water," the ready answer wretched llmklng and Currency sys- " -That Is all they need In tern are to blame for our periodic hell.' This bon gon mot traveled the stringencies and panic. far ,h" ,ra'tlon Hut are these men as much to blame I grew to thn point of attributing tho for taking advantage of conditions, asjnnswer to Oen. Phil Sheridan. The .i. iu : noiiit is Immaterial now. for the ex I we are tor pormimng uioso , i tei iMir reason mat uoin unu bociuij ions? I ... j , , and water are to bo found in every part of Texas. This could not have been said a lute as half a dozen year ago. Not until alter the sale of roads ! B ,,art of tllB '",,'at ",,Hte ot Texas Start The New Year By Opening A Bank Account The best financial Lacking is your own account) book. There is nothing that counts so much in life. Without money you are nobody. With money everybody imile$ on you. It is only by saving that you have a reserve. Bank your money now that you may have it to spend in your old age when you need it most. Make up your mind to start an account now. The Bank of Oregon City THE OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY OUR ROTTEN President Taft's BANKING LAW secretary of the Treasury, Franklyn MacVeagh, freely warns Congress In his annual report that the federal gov ernment, a long as the present scheme exists, will be exclusively re sponsible for the commercial. Indus trial, and social, disasters which flow from panics and attack, directly or indirectly, every home In the nation. Scarcely a platform of any political party these years back that has not contained a plank to the effect that our banking and currency system j needed overhauling, but as yet no po i litical party has bad the courage to ; try to put the plank Into effect. To ; quote Secretary MacVeagh: "The y- tern under which we are living not i only will not prevent a panic, but af ; tt-r a Certain point In the generation 1 of panic conditions I reached, will make it Inevitable. Sa that, a long as the financial system created by our! federal laws remain unchanged and ; unreformed, the government will be ; exclusively responsible for the com . merclal, industrial, and social disas ! ter which flow from panics." The system wa never right even In the ! beginning, but the civil war with it trying experience, fastened it on u : until only a surgical operation now can help u.. It 1 Just such condl 1 tions, combined with a national care i lessness which are responsible for the Rockefellers, Ilarrimans, Morgan, Sage and others of that Ilk. NEW YEARS It Is an encouraging I EVE sign of the time when citizens get together to i do away with the carnival of licentious 1 vulgarity that of late years has mark- THE GOOD ROADS QUESTION have to meet, that Of all the prob lems that our i c o m m un Itles of the and highways! . probably the most j school lands had sent agriculturist. important from the viewpoint of the farmer. The Clackamas County dele gation to the Ktate legislature will have the ereat advantage of being prepared with a program that Is not only original, but thoroughly work able. The three measures determin ed upon by the committee which mot at Senator Dlrnlck' residence the oth er night ought to receive the heart iest endorsement of every man hav ing the Interest of the County at heart. Hut It Is Representative GUI' Clev erly thought out plan that will appeal to many. He would provide for road construction In about the same man ner that school districts are admin istered, making each district sort of municipality, with power to Issue bonds, the districts to be governed by the taxpayer themselves, the Hoard selecting a treasurer and road foreman. In effect this Is a harking back to the old lashloned New England town meeting Idea, but what matter, If It is better than our present methods! CKfJLD Some year ago the coun LABOR try wa shocked with the revelation of child labor In the mountain region of the south, but there has nothing developed so utterly shameful and sordid a is brought to light In the recent report of Miss Mary Kllzabeth Chamberlain, a Vassar graduate, regarding the can neries of New York state. Little mlUs of children, prematurely turned Into "Human machines" as one Indignant newspaper puts It, snipping bean, or busking corn all day long, with their little fingers wrapped In bandages. and horticulturists In to tho Fan Hun die country, once sacred to cattle raising, could the wayfaring man ln that land though not a fool, have been convinced that there wn unfailing water there. It wa known how the cattlemen watered their herds. The cowboy knew their I'an Handle, and Its con formation, and that the small lakes forming In the depression could be depended upon a a source of watei supply for a good part of the yar. For the rest, they knew the trails to the headwater of the Red, Canadian and Ilrazo river, and there wore al vivi the breaks and draws to fall back upon. They made shift to w ter their stock, hut In dry season they made many long, hard drives to do It. Out of the necessities of the cattlemen was born the discovery ihiit there wa unfailing . water at varying depths beneath the surface of the I'a Handle land, and the sinking or well and the building of windmills solved the cattleman's problem. When the homesteader came, they soon found that the cattlemen had been digging too deep In many cases. Digging all over the Pan Handle has shown that In many places water can be struck at depths varying from i to 60 feet, while some of the stock wells had been run down as far as 250 feet. The bet use the homesteaders are -making of their discovery of wa ter near the surface I In the forma tion of Irrigation districts served from wells not more than 800 feet In depth This Is considered the maximum depth at which water can be lifted of a Jii.lre. or on (be merits of eiior iiioii piotilcm. I Hit when as we have said, the ocean lou demands a mall, competition is none too keeuc. There I mighty little tlcinocrac, ,it l'aiuinia. The government I Col onel (ioethals who Is a weel presi dent, congress and Judiciary. There Is no appcul from bis decision. Ap paieiitly the American at I'annmj don't realle they are living under nil absolute monarchy, and If they hao any yearning for politics, or the franchise, they ure wonderfully se cntive nboiit it. Yet there are no complaints, no iiarr'ls, no parties. Iiemociacy as un cxmulivu Instru ment for the doing of I'aiiama cn mils, doesn't work as smoothly As does an absolute monarchy. Colonel (loethal bill proved himself a good IVar. A WOMAN Kansas Is Do longer MAYOR tho only state In tho union boasting a woman mayor. Warreutou, an Incor IKiiated town of our own statu has seen to It that Oregon will not per mlt Kansas to have any Ihe best of us in tho way of political Innovations, hence the victory of Miss Clara C. Muiison. However, the Knterprle het.rtlly congratulates the lady on her victory. There Is nothing of the modesty of the violet about the mod em political aspirations. The average man will usually make good as council man, or In some less coiisplclou po Mlt lou even, before lifting his eye to the more exalted olllce of mayor, but not so with hi political sister. Hh want the best or nothing, and she seems to be gutting It. How' your business? I H I July mid August of 1912 beat the same mouths of I'JllT Nt)? Then what t the matter? Is It crop or politics? here must he some cause. I lid you advertise? I Mil you tell tho people of your goods their value- their use fullnei why they should buy lli-iii an.) keep ou buying? In other words, have you given your goods a personality of their own do people ahk for them by imuin and In sist on getting WHAT THKY ASK FOR? Men, lt' not a ipiestloii of "How's your bufiiiesk? ' Hut "What's your buslne:.s?" That rouceril the public, Mind readlnc. yoii know, Is still In lis Infancy. Heart to Heart Talks. by EDWIN A. NYE ANGLO-AMERICAN PEACE CELEBRATION At the meet ing of the A m e rlcan committee In charge of the arrange ments for the celebration In 1914-15 of the one hundredth anniversary of peace among Kngllsh speaking pcdpln, Senator Root's proposal that on Feb ruary 17, 1915, five minutes shall bo designated by the Parliament of Ureal Ilrllaln, and the Congress of the Unit ed States as a period during which all activities of the English speaking world shall come to a full stop, and that "for five minutes the Kngllsh speaking world shall review the one hundred years of pence and II at tendant blessings with prayer and contemplation", was most enthusias tically adopted. FORUM OF THE PEOPLE NEW WATER 8UPPLY URGED. O'JKGON CITY, Or., Dec. 23. .Kdl lor of the Enterprise.) With climate that is unexcelled, with soil that pro duce almost everything grown in the temperate zone, with scenery that is unequalled, with water power that has meant great things and will mean still greater things, and with an Intel llgent and progreslve population, Ore gon City cannot afford to have Its fu ture haunted by the spectre of po slide typhoid epidemic. No filter will serve the purpose. Iluffalo, N. Y.. and Cleveland, O., have proven thl heyonr' s doubt. Every dollar spent economlfcally for Irrigation on a large Is Improving our present system of -THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER." For iniiiii year comic nieru bus had It merry Jet at Ihe expense of Hi nun k hero, w ho curried i Ii.h olnlen lu lead of bullets In his cartridge belt. Ha, (in. lis: To the runtime of muHil comedy the ieople have laughed nt the carl tnliireil soldiers of the llalkniia-the soldier of Hiilpirlu and Kervla and Molileiii-gro mid (ireeee And now? These i liocnlntc soldiers hnve nie the Invincible Turk, and the rrlnimm chapter has been one of the reddest In Hie annuls of warfare The laugh m out of the other corner of Ihe mouth These chocolate soldiers have chased the retreating flag of the Ottoman em pire across ihe plains of Thrace Hint where kiosk mid minaret have flutititeik In delliiuce bare lifted Ihe era" tu th place of the crescent. The Oorillnii knot which the diplo matic palaver of "the Miwer" rmild not mule bus Imcii cut by the aword of the chocolate soldier fo you remember "Mm. Chrysan themum'" He fore the lltisso-Jnpiinese war that opera wa much exploited, and thou sands laughed nt Ihe droll nonsense The Japanese soldier whs featured the toy soldier. Ills diminutive was exnggernled and hi lllllputlan swiiKgcr uuule grotesque llut- Th toy soldier noon put Ihst otiera, out nf business when he begun to fight the bear who walks like a num." There wn nothing to laugh at when the toy soldier went up 203 Meter hill Into Ihe Jaws of death. Into th mouth of hell. It wn not a comic spectacle when he gnve hlbndy for a bridge. over the ditches at Port Arthur, and the world did not smile when hi small self belied lo make tb windrows of the dead at Mukden. Longfellow say: "War la a terrible trade, but In tbs cause that Is just, sweet Is th smell of powder." You cannot tell what Is ln mall man nntll he I tested. And Ood I not always on th aid of the heaviest battalion. lie ware of the rbocolaU soldier with righteous cause!