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IMtMlO.N ( 111 I'.AIMll'HIM,, IMlll'U, I'I'.I r,tll'.U III, i:i.. OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE I. E. BROOIC. lilf s rwblittr. l(tr4 at Orwgut; Cur. Ursjgo. I'ustoffUw as e:os4lM Shame. vfca.rtill) Rates: 1 U Ii a ( year flu Mnnihe MnlrttitliiH Til lffielha . Hubrrl!eri alii nns Ik data of aipnaUm iUM oa ir t-Pr fot lea log their aaiM. If last par neat U BiH ereJllt. kiadiy SoUfy "a. aa4 the miner HI rte our atteauoa. F Aoertlaing Rates oa atlllreliua- OR CONSOLATION IN TIIK HOCKS OKOI.OOM (..!!..H.n.. rtrvlMKi Jj the Democratic lea.leti ft Washi'iitm weir qtej i turning la WiLm m a prcjrttinej canJitlate fr CI6 J wet 11 that he it ttriMiger than hit patty. Dul it hr ? IV icrtiort hat often bn miJr. Some Rrpullaan, rvcn, ".J tn helievf it. Yet. at a matter ol fast, tlx Jlanti"n cannot x JrtrndVJ n ijii- or in tltc liyht of any rrvorJcd fmliiual rsetit. Mr. WiUm came intu pulitikY in ')0, when he let an unttjMe imki at PriiKYtiai tn run for the governorship of New Jersey, lie jI!c-l 2M,f82 voir, at compared" with cast for Mr. lo" tu veirt More. 'a Mr. Wilusn then urnn-rr than hit party? Or at Jinan wrArr than hit part) ? The question i open ti Joubt. Thi much, however, it certain in 1910 Mr. Wilson was unknown n politic anJ hi luppnrt in that rar Jouitles contained' nuny who weir . nun to him h) ihr mith which Colonel (Jmr Harvey haJ to wJuloiuK tnltiatrj. In 1912 Mr. WiUsn ran for prrsi.lont. lie va then wcll-lnown---. New- Jersey at any rate anJ hi vote JioppeJ to I7S.2S') a lne of fVlM rrmn the imprrttive figure of two yean earlier; anJ muller by " than i.it which Bryan haJ rectiveJ in 1908. Wat Wilton then monger than liis part) ? i Throughout the country, WiUm tecrivej 6,293,019 vote in I'M J whereas in I "US. Hran haJ pollfl 6.40M04. In IS). ilrntr tlie .!e tectum of the oM Dnivtat Hnan revriej 0,502,92 J vote, which reatlv 3iKI,(HH iihuc than WiImmi got in I'M 2. when the population haJ in treated hy million anJ when Wilmn haJ two JUtinct benrlioal conilitionv First, the JUruption of the Rrpuhlkan; ami, vchiI, the voting of nuny Re publican direct for Wilson tor a rravin which wa well un.ler.toou at thetiin', In l300, too, Mr. Boan ihowej himlf a better vote-getter than WiUm ;nr he then receiveJ 6.358,133 rote or 65.WO nvire than Wilvm ctu!J tet twele ear late from a much increaeJ electorate. Wliat bxi i Mere, then for claming that Wilson i uroner than hi party This year's election certainly afford no ba-i for uch a claim. In Mary land, in 1912. WiUwi, running for president, secured 112.674 vote; wherea Harrington, thi year' candidate for governor got 117,534. Mac.xhusett, three year ago, gave Vilon for president 173,408 vote; thi year it gave Walsh for governor 229.312. In Kentucky, Wiln received 219,584 vute whereas thi year, when he did hi level bet for Stanley, the Democratic candidate for governor, only 215.000 voter responded to the hurry-up tall from the White Hoik. No combination of figure in any election where Wilson ha been a candidate or an iMie bear out thi claim that he i stronger than hi party, Tlte belief that hi so is merely a delusion that optimitic Democrat hug to their bosom in order to prevent their throw ing up their hand now. o 1 LBERT BEDE say editorially in the Cottage Grove Sentinel: T "Brother Flagg of the Warrenton New talk of 'the howl' be ing set up by the state press for a 'square deal' for capital in Oregon. Brother Flagg gives credit to Governor Withycombe for originating the idea if showing disappreval of Oregon's manner of discouraging capital from investing in Oregon. "Before Mr. Withycombe was governor of Oregon the editor of The Sentinel delivered an address beiore the Oregon State Press associ.itiun, in which the following language was used: " 'Capital is afraid to come to a state that is advertised as the hotbed where experimental legislation is propagated and tried out; capital is afraid of a state that is every other year giving many thousands of votes to experimental lax laws; capital can secure better protection and safer investment elsewhere; cur experiments with this, that and the other thing and our efforts to attain an ideal that will never be known in this world are making taxes so high that people accustomed to a much lower tax elsewhere are afraid of us; with com missions to regulate everything from hiaphonous gowns to translucent religion, we arenaking it too hard to do business; we are hedging industry about with experimental laws that make the danger and expense of operating so great that our own indutries cannot compete in our own state with outside indus tries; after we have made the cost of production higher in Oregon, after we have made the condition of labor theoretically ideal, we take employment away from that labor by buying from those outsiders who, because they pro duce under conditions theoretically less ideal and certainly less expensive J .!intjbr In itmtr, n. I Mr twrd not Wwiv about (lie Hill.nr ol our iilj yii(iNiw!lh, ll.e (jirjlrsl lUtuul trv.,iiir in )ir mn,,ii, , o . , T Urt and a!l the lime for a iuir dral (or tapiial metrd i Oregon, with J anitlw. They trad evtemively and think mtrlully. Thi i wu lliey ate engaged in a purttiit that hting them do to nature, keep ihrii iiiind fire fiuiii ptrjuditv and give them uhundant tipxitlunily In think lor thriiiM-lve. They know that mhiii after the kuinning of ihe ruropr.nl war thrtr wat an rnoimoiit imiraw iu the 1,-iii.in.l lur all Liiiil, ol l'I.iIii. lattle, and other ptoviiom, a well at for hoisei. They know thai ll I'rmand tent ptice toaring. At a letult ol lliit iiuirased drniand they we Muted of a larger nuikrt in 9S and they put in larger aieat ol tn Staiittitt gatheted by the department nf agiicultuie thow thai lhi incieat- of aiieage wat ulmut 7 er cent. The fiitt yrai of the war lettilird in an im lease n) 32 per tent in the value of faun pinducu. Tint hat bioii pro'lrriiy in the American faimrr. lie know the f.utt uiul ihr muse Ihe rllottt of the Democratic piet to create ihe impression ili.il ihi agiicultut.il prosperity it a noiinal condition might deceive tome ropc but it wont mislead the man who follow the plow. That mill doe hit ow thinking. lit! rKOlDNAL Hut lie cooou toutt tr aside two nulls ol Hie l.ad levy lot priiiuarnt wmk it l) 1 1 r mie u llir nxt hii'inr- l.kr inrilwl tu gise the count) a lriirr tytiein l hihwait that has trn ads ails rd. Two nulls would raise fiil,(Nl, .r enough, lte I a. Ins of tlie plan rsl.iiiale, to re.lies with haid tnlr Inr unlet u iiu.adam. ll (hit pii'h'iiil wat lollowrd for the oevt ten )eai, the county would luse a stslrui of 50 niilrv ol the lrt grade of nsadi, paid for and in daU piaitual u". With 0 tiulr of rtniaitent toadt, every part of the counti-Tstua.la, Oiegon Cii, M.ilalla. Wiltonsille, Mdwaokie, Aurora -would le linked t.'i,Tihrr. The brivrlit of riiiuiient tisadt, sikIi at ate now being built in Mult i.i null and Ja.kton uiunlic, aie uimesevuiy to drvnlv. Al-', tlie drplor able ttHi.liti.Mi o( Clatkamat pmnty'a iimdt in any trasun of the year it wel know to the drttiment ol the count). The iMily ijuestion it how to tecuie better tiuds. There aie those who maintain despite ihe tad rjetirne of the last 20 yean and the admission ol the county court that in the nuta.lani and gtasrl toads be the vilutMin il the ptohlem. Many advance tmh arguments hesaue the iiKistiiHti.nl by nesrsnity a perpetual pi mess givr tlni a iielual job. A vote of ths unswayed by prejuditt would show that in Clatkamas louiity a majority of propetty owner deiie a change from nuiadam con struction on trunk highway Sixty thousand dollar in one -fourth of the money i.iied (hi year wuh an eight mill levy or one filth ol total amount pent on toads and btidget thi year. It it true that the subtraction of u),(HK) from the grnetal oxintv road fond and the placing of it in a sevial nii.ineiit ma tun.l would lewn the anmunt spent bv the avctage tiiivivisor, but would not mean that the county would be forced to do assay with tl present sv stent in the tmallest degree. Sivtv thousand dollar for srrmaneui roa.lt would mean that the coun ty would tpend fi0,(t lev lor repair work. Tlie advocate ol this plan do not adi that the counts take a tadna ttep, that the county divonr all the metlusd and ytem whish have been carefully winked out during the last half century. All that they seek i a fair test of permanent road construction in Clackamas county under a piogram which they have advocated for year. Those who have seen that macadam or gravel on a trunk highway is largely a waste of money and desire something better a hundred cent in road for a dollar spent should turn out to the taxpayer' meeting l)ecemher 14 when the matter will be decided. T B ABU MO TI LAL GHOSH, of the Calcutta Amriia Buar I'atrika. it an editor who speak right out in meeting and tas what he think. Beide voicing the oriental view of a question which is at prrx-nt brothering the American and European mind, he cast tome new thought on the quetion: ' Necessity know no law. The biblical injunction it that no man should marry more than one wife. The Koran is more reasonable in thi respect; it allow four legitimate wive to a man. But for thi provision in the Koran the Mussulman would not have multiplied so fast. In order to recoup the lost manhood of Europe the people of that continent have thus no option but to reirt to one of these course cither to accept the Koranic doctrine or to legalize illegitimacy. And i polygamy really such a horrid thing as it is rep. resented to be ? "Both the man and the woman derive certain advantages from it. It is advantages4)u to the man, a he receives the combined care of several, instead of one, devoted woman. The polygamist, unlike the nmnogamist, has ilo, for obvious reasons, very little chance of being hen pecked, or standing trembling before an irate wife. Indeed, being the master of several, he can keep them all under his thumb and extort due obeisance from each by fol- owing the policy of divide and rule. "Polygamy will also prove beneficial to woman, as the trials and diffi culties w ill not be confined to one, but w ill be shared by several. A monoga mist may with impunity tyrannize over his helpless wife; hut with the -olvgamist it is rather a risky business, tor tnree ot tour women ne owns may combine and revolt and apply the broomstick to his back, each in her urn, and bring him to his senses in no time. 'Besides, when their lord dies, they, sympathizing with each other's i i i i t -i i i sorrow, may not teel tne poigancy or ms loss a Keemy as rney wouiu ir every one of them had a separate partner." o HE Old) RHYME HAS IT that "When a man inatrie hit irouhl begin," but in the case of those in high estate the I rouble term I begin beforehand. Such, at least, it the rxprtirme of the II Woshlrow Wilton. The effort of hit fiancee, Mr. (Jail, to procure her wedding troutseau in Pari have actually led lo diplomatic complications. Ilie French government ha asked the French embassy here to invest gate the report of Charles) Kurrman that the tyndicate of Pan' diesstn.ikei and modittt ha telusfd to fill hi ordeu for gown for Mr. Gait because he t a German. The Aiiurican representative insist that it wat not betausr stirrnun wat a German that the syndicate refused to till the order, but or other reasont, and he ha written Mr. Gait ollerjng to furnish hi- gown without cost. Hardly levs indignant than the yndicaie of Frenchmen over what it claim i Kurrman 'i misrepresentations jre the United State dressmaker who resent the implication that they could not have furnished finery o sulhcicnt magnilicance and beauty for the president' bride and that the was, therefore, compelled to send to Frame for it, even in war time. T HE ENIERPRISE congratulate both the iseoi.le of Oregon Citi and E. L. Hackrr,t; the former on their selection Monday to the olhce of mayor and the latter on hi nicer. The new mm or through hi long experience in the council and hi interest in the ufi.iiis o the municipality generally, hit shown that he will make a good executive. man such a he it needed in Oregon City to carry out the program of rconomy o evsential lo the financial talvation of the town. ft.- . - mu . -ii l . . .s i or year riu win oc a year ot economy in Uregon Uty a lar a mum cipal finance are concerned. The city now must live within it budget in order to preserve what ii left of the town'i credit. A the head of an admi stratum that must conduct a ptogram of strictest economy, the Enterprise feel that Mr. E. C. Hackrtt u just the man for the place. May every taxpayer in Oregon City make it point to offer hi indi vidual support to the new mayor and then after the first of the year actually give that tupport to htm. Tlie administration next year will need such as sistance. In 1911 the Republican majority in congress gave away to the Demo crats. The last Republican congress made total appropriation of $2,054.- (HH). The Democrat with a Republican senate to hold them down proceeded to appropriate $2,1 18,000 ,(KH). In the following congress, the senate being also Democratic and with a Democrat in the While House, the appropriation rose to $2,23 1 ,000,000 When some Democrat begins o talk about "Republican extravagance," this figure will mine in handy. ORUM OF THE PEOPLE O are able to undersell our own industries in our own state; we appear to hav only started upon our career of experimental legislation and capital does not care to invest where there is no way of anticipating what future conditions it may have to meet. " ' There is no need of my explaining to the country editors of Oregon that where capital does not come laborers do not come, that where industric: are out of business laborers are out of a job, that homeseekers do not come to a state to be taxed to death, that farmers do not come to a state where no one else will, and that newspapers can not thrive in a state where industry is not permitted to prosper." ' So Mr. Withycombe was not the originator of the idea. Neither was the editor of The Sentinel the originator. In the election that followed the month after that meeting of the asso ciation all freak laws were overwhelmingly defeated, thanks to the efforts of the state press. The action of the Oregon State Editorial association in adopt ing the resolution which it did adopt, with only Brother Flagg dissenting shows that it is determined to make Oregon a safe place for capital to invest, Let the good news go out that the editors of Oregon are fighting first fa STOP AND REFLECT The yearly unnecessary expenditures of the average person would make an excellent savings account. Think what it would amount to in a few years if deposited in this bank at compound interest. A little self denial NOW and you make the start. Accounts may be opened for one dollar or more. WE PAY FOUR PER CENT INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS. The Bank of Oregon City THE OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY NE THING IS CERTAIN. There are about 30.000 out of the 37,000 persons in Clackamas county who know just how to get the greatest returns out of the annual $300,000 road fund. Ever rocer's .clerk, bootblack, farmhand and mill worker has a fine method ,'orked out to the smallest detail and is ready to expound his system to build new roads at the lowest cost at a moment's notice. Some of these wiseones are qualified to discuss the subject because they have driven a horse and know just the kind of road on which a horse can travel best; others have lived in the country and seen men at work on the roads; a few have worked on the roads themselves and some, without even this weighty experience, rely entirely on imagination. Another thing is certain. Clackamas county could turn out the hirwst collection of road experts of any county in the state that is if talk could byild roads. It is a good thing for Clackamas county and for those unfortunate persons who must drive over Clackamas county roads in such times of the year as this that there are a few who do not claim to be all knowing in road and highway matters. The roads in general are bad, even if the county has had the benefit of the work of a few road builders. When this county realizes that real road building is as difficult its building a skyscraper, or performing a serious operation or building a rail road, then this county will be entering the era of good roads. When the county court, at the demand of the taxpayer, uses the same business judgment in spending the $300,000 road fund, which would build several skyscrapers, that is used in building one skyscraper, then there will be a change from the txtensive and sticky mudholes that adorn our public roads. o John Stark Rtollea. MAt'I.K LANK. Or.. Dw. 7 (Killlor of Tbe Knlerprliie.l While I rr-allttf that a pomoiutl illm UHnlun In the public pri'na la prulltleaa In a ct'iierul way, Mrs. Ken ticiii Iiuk fulltn Into a Krievl- otis error I luoiilu like to correct. Util ity "You admit Joining It (the Grange) and yet my you never read the 'Declaration of Purpose.' " Tbla 'place me In a fulHO IlKht. aa I never laid I Joined. Neither did I ever try to do no. From what I ran And out from Hiiino ftrunKura that "purpoaca" la for the "Icadera" to become road over Keen or Miflnt on the Jury. "Did It ever occur to you that there on are other onlera of hlKhcr repute wiioae aro about tho name the main roada alone would be one hundred yeara from now If every dollar waa taken for that ur nine and not a cent npent on the other roada of the county. To llluatrate: My dlmrlct. No. 19, with about II in I leu ot maliCrotiil. ha a valtiutlon of $116,000. If every dollar ot the 7 mill levy In the budKet waa returned to the dlMrlct and all pent on the main roada. It would tuke one hundred and twenty yeura to hard aurfaoe tho muln roada. Now thla flKurlnx on a banli of the moat money thut we could pomilbly have if every rent wui turned over to the dlatrict and tnkliiK Mr. Yeon aa authority ua to rout of hard nurture roada. lie auya $25,000 la not an exceitatve coat for hard dirraro and that tho Columbia hlithway cont $10,000 per mllo. I have tlKiired few other dlntricta and tho results and ripeclitly asi If the work la let ly i niilim I aii'l iiuialilers i nine In and ir ry nfT (be iiiiuiry. tin my lili user Ihe (VlmnhU high, way I paid muiio allviillmi to ho Ihe men ss hi kid alnna Hie road anil I tan truthfully stale the la'lesl man In Uiy dlxlrl) I ssoiked heller than what alolia lb" rd Ho we Hiusl admit that under Hie supervisor sjslmu Ilie men at least rnrn their llinlivy aa Well i under Mr. Yesih'a iiiaiiaanmrnt. I base trasi'led aa iiiuili or more III ii n I tin average luait and the fai'ts are Claikaiiiua county roada riiinpate very well Willi oilier territory of Ilk i hararler and rnndllliiiis. II HCIIOJIKI. WHEN WOODROW WILSON WAS A CANDIDATE for the nomination for the presidency his publicity bureau sent out an nrftrlp It-hlVh kpfr'in "Dn. r( tli m I.T..I adlnM fr.rtll m. '"-h"" s.ii. ms. nan wiiis.il aiiim.j ivilii most conspicuously in the make up of Woodrow Wilson is his marvelous felicity in phrasing." And his record in the White House has demonstrated the truth of the declaration. He finds it just as easy to form phrases on one side of a question as on the other. He can phrase for free tolls or against them. He has as great fccility in constructing phrases for preparedness as ngainst it. He phrased the sugar tariff out of existence and will doubtless phrase it in again. His phrasing in support of extravagant appropriations wgs as "felicitous" as his phrasing for economy. His phrasing in aid of the spoils system is perhaps a little more effective than his phrasing for civil service reform but the difference is due entirely to the official power his words carry now as compared with the days when he posed as a friend of the merit system. When American business men complained of the dull times that came with the Underwood tariff, the president merely coined a few phrases a process as easy as making fiat money. He refused to voice phrases for the G. A. R. at the Arlington memorial exercises but uttered them with great felicity when Champ Clark accepted the invitation. The murder of American citizens on the high seas and in Mexico was an occasion for phrasing at the White House nothing more. The "dopester" of the Wilson campaign was certainly right "marvelous felicity of. phras ing" is one of his most conspicuous traits. In fact, it puts all other traits into almost total eclipse. o head officials or mastor of ceremony are called 'inaater?' Why select the Orange aa a target for your splenetic, outbreaks?" You ask. The first ques tion la remarkable. If I were a mem ber I should resent the Imputation that any "higher order" existed thun a "un ion" of the tillers ot the soil; they are the most useful members ot society. The second question I dealt with In my artir.lo bo it is uselesa to repeat. Also my objection to the title "master" can be read in Multhow 23:10-12 hotter than this obscure scribe could tell you. You aHk why I do not dish up my wonderful "farm credit" romody. That was given quite fully In my contribu tions. I, however, realize that busy people who form the habit of morely headline reading can easily overlook subject matter. Tho same la true of persons who read with a mind pre occupied with other matters, especially when the writer la one of "God's miser able poor" and sharing the same fate as the majority of grangers who have no hltfh titles. For your benefit and such others similarly Bltuatcd I will state It briefly. The federal govern ment should furnish credit (money) at cost of administration, the cohI need not it senilis to me, to he above one- half of one per cent. To be repaid at the convenience of the borrower. In order to accomplish this the farmers must go and control the national con ventions and not vote any ticket they do not control. They must go to con gress themselves with their hobnailed boots and take it. You take credit to the Grange for 'parcel post. Some people blame the catalogue houses for that. The savings banks are sometimes credited to the regular banks of deposit In order to coax out the money hid In stockings. Some people think they kick up a lot of dust what It is only a pusslng wind raising It. On the whole yon nave advanced much since your former contribution, as then you berated me for suggesting the farmer should have beautiful sur roundings. Now you endorse the Idea. Even the meek and lowly who dwell in obscurity In a "111 ole lean to" can help to push the chariot of the exalted onward. JOHN F. STARK. Hard 8urfaca In 100 Yeara. ELDORADO, Ore., Dec. 6. (Editor of The Enterprise.) Having read The Enterprise editorials and listened to Mr. Yeon and others on the question of hard surface roads, I have been figuring on the problem of how to get the results wished for. After figuring on the chances of obtaining bard sur- lf wo go back about 10 yeara and tako tho avoruKO amount of money spent per mile euch year In Cluckamas county It will show ubout $50 per mile of road. I think I am above rather than below figures. I wonder ho much better results Mr. Yeon would get with $r0 per mllo thun tho average roud supervisor. It Is a question in my mind If tho results would be aa good as tho average supervisor, for a man of Yeon's type la In tho habit of having all the money he needs to work to ad vantago with, io would bo at a loss what to do with so little money. Another thing to conalder la the oft en ropeated editorials that the county should commeiico building a mile or two euch your of hard surfuce roads Now I wish to point out whero we are llablo to do a great Injustice unions we find soino other way of raising the money thun we now have. To llln trute: Heaver Crook and Cams road districts have been getting a groat deal of money above whut waa colloctcd In that territory for years, besides poopl went out of their own districts, six miles away from home and donated work In thoso districts. They now have considcrublo very fulr rock road and will not even levy a special tax to keep them up, but continue to cull for county help. As those districts are near Ore gon City they would naturally get the first hard surface or at least among the first. Again, tho first seven miles In the Heaver Creek district would eat up all the money for one hundred and eight years, figuring on the basis of tho money they had this year and ev ery dollur spent on tho main road, Surely It U out of the question to ask the people back and on the sido roads to pay the tax they are paying, donate enough to keep the sld roads in travel Ing condition, do this for 108 years and still smile. Hurdly! Hut let us see If there Is not some sensible way of getting results. Let us advocate and keep at It till we succeed that the national government take this means of putting Its money In circula tion by hiring men on the wagon roads or by giving tbe state or county the same privilege the bankers have to obtain government money on their bonds at 2 per cent or something simi lar and we may wind up and find our selves having hard surface roads with out being hopelessly In debt. Until we find some remedy like this or similar, It la out of tbe question and the only kind of roads the fanners can afford ia the kind they can do the work and build themselves. Tbe farm ers' Income on the average small farm Is so little cash that It Is simply out of There isn't a more level-headed, conservative or intelligent class of people than the American farmers. They don't stampede. They are not expect to have hard surface roada on enough to build the high priced roada face roads with the present supply of money, I find the earliest date we could' the question to burden him with taxes John lurk Wrltta Again. MAI'I.K LANK. Orf. !. 4.- I Edi tor of The Kuteiprlte l-Ui death of an III formed Infant lu Chl aso rwnl ly haa tilveu III M-rlriuilal reformer a new opportunity to main a ihpUu Thean persona who piopoaa In ttuM'iia thla old wuilil lif wuiie legerdemain of law are great on small rhaux. I lie an i pled way of this world runs about lk this: The Iw.t phalrlly mruies' and liralthleM of turn ar grouped sliiiiit hy a lot nf political teruien called aoseriiiiieuta and at onler lu slaughter theiuaeltoa. The leva physically (11. Ih politicians. cleray and mentally feebln arts left l-ss. hind lo propaiuto the m lea Hy this proceas I lie human raca heroines de liTctl.ito.l. u tt sra told. Now routes jour "reformer." This lnufteiall mil.usni' never protested aialimt the M'lllig of (bu aoundeat lin n III untold liuniliera No, that la all "for our coun try Ith Ita glorious liiatlullona and lha grand old flag, patriotism, etc." Hut when duplets baba Is permitted to die this particular one, a great liulaa a made. The reformer divldea himself on thla oecaaliin, una part cries 'bar lurlun. tniinlerf r." while the other finds a solution fur all lha bodily linperfec- Ions lu mull, Thla last part mils Itwlf "riigniilat," a word tub ulated to maka ua country mbea gam with open mouth wonder. le has a remedy which In unarlentlflc language worka out about Ilka this. Jones goce In a rollega where he learna tho fundamental of penny ante; Ineidently learna little shout anato my and blolory and catalogue of lames of the prevailing dotxt. These name quite appropriately aro written In a dead language. The public, lack ing the sen ms nf humor falls to grasp Ihe true significance. At the end of thla tprm the "student" la lireaenled with a neatly engraved aerap of paper which he encloses In highly var- lahed fence and hangs In his "office." bla gives him Ilia right to "practice" on such unfortunates persona who stray Into this den. They see thla scrap of paer with a tot of mla apetled worda and roiuludn he has had his 'mind finished" at aome temple of Delphi. Knter now the reformer. In thla raae e calls himself an eugenlst. Ileraiian e mbea In the country run not find In the list nf public doeumenta on agronomy wo naturally auppoaa he iiowb It all. Thla public nuisance will emand legislation that tho poker grad uate may decide w ho aiming ua may lie permitted to become parents for a fee of courts'. The auggestlon that this philoprogenitive expert could hy ny stretch of Imagination be accused of having an "Itching iialin." IVrlxh the thought. Aside of thla It gives the professional politicians some excuse aa a hangeron to the public pap. Instead of doing something useful. We had aamplo of that bunch of bums Inflicting legislation a few yeara ago. The per sonal reformer ran t-ually swallow the camel hump and all when the flower of manhood la shot to death In order to further trado, hut when some misfor tune tho truo cause la not yet estab lished, produces an III formod babe, see hlru strain at that gnat. During the Thanksgiving period the Portland paper boasted of peace, plen ty and prosperity, yet the same Issues carried stories of want as appalling as can be found any where on eorth. Sev eral Instances of new nrlvals or pros pective arrivals on this planet, the purcntB "living" T) In llrcless rooms without even the commonest food or clothing, even tho water was shut oft In this donated land of freedom. Hut your roformer don't "blbble." It's tho babies' own fault, they might huvo se lected well-todo parents, or at leiiBt porenta who huvo cloaranco papers from some "pill roller." Urd whnt fools thoso mortals bo." JOHN F. 8TARK. Why LetaTerrible Cough Hang On and Wear You Out? Loosen IU Crip who that Wonderful Throat and Lang Medicine, Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. Condi that "bans on" mnatlv anOU iSa Inngi, and tlxr fairlr aat tlia Ufa mil if ..n Tho? um up jrnur atretuitli, lower your vital Itjr, and pas tlia way tvt serious lung and bruncUlai dlaoajioa. Pm.ar'a ITnmn ism Tab rrniMmm i . h-mllii hohlnd II at It glido down jour throat. It coTora raw, Inllnir 1, Irrlutol tur- taona with anoLhlmrhfiallniinnnlln. i.-. . the racking, toarlug cough, sod twin sluuV whcieiy brinthliig, WILL J. HtCItMOND. fiiwlowood, Cat., sayit "Kolbi a Uokm AaiiTAgwuwoll Id harmony with c tiara, it la mora Ilka a food than a milirln." K J. HAIKJKNT, ll.lla., TV,., writ,. "I had a tumble conga which word, will not j 1 D,nrh n"m"' and trld aanr kinds of troatmout, but found nothing which would enrn mo. At lut I trM Koi.sv s Hosier in . Ta. and II cmotm.!, ,lwa bmoI all bud armctomaanilin. M,k.i,. dlnippaared." tot all eotwhs, oold., eronp, bronchial af faction., la grippe cough., throat and luua trouble, jon will Bud it a ,ii..i. 1"! ' Si !. '"I"'-.?''" aood drnggi,t 1. gUd to sail It, for II gltes .tlfMtion to kla en win Oft Ce,HB,SU0ei w bvbnv uaui ia r mi,,,,. Jonas Drug Co.