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Editorial Page of Hie Journal 1 13 PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY. DECEMBER tS, 1804. THE OREGON. DAILY JOURNAL AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER r " - z 1 1 c n. jackson PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. p. CMtoa Published every evening ( except Sunday ) and every Sunday morning at The Journal Building, Fifth and Yamhill etreeta, Portland, Oregon. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND THE RICH AND THE POOR. WE SHALL NOT have socialism in this country for a long time yet, if ever. Meanwhile, es pecially at this time of year, as the Christ iDw holiday is at hand, the rich are under moral obliga tion to help the poor, to divide with them a little, to no tice and aid the unfortunate, the distressed and the helpless.- This ought to be done both as a duty and as a pleasure, not grudgingly, nor pharisaically, expecting that such bestowments will count to the givers for any large measure of righteousness. There are not very many poor and helpless people in Portland, but there are some little children, older children, wan and woeful women, even moneyless and discouraged men. Nor ought their past to be looked into too closely at such a time. j However a rich man has gained or secured his wealth, he is or should be and should regard himself as to some extent a steward of it. It is his but for a brief time. He brought nothing into the"-w'orld, neither can he tafcwj anything out of it. If he hoards hundreds ot thousands or millions, while neighboring fellowmen are suffering for the necessaries of life, discouraged, despondent, despairing, and whom what he would not miss would cheer, help and encourage, then he is no Christian, what ever qhurch he may belong to or however .liberally he may support it. 7 i New York is a city of many multimillionaires, and tens t tkiiinili nf mi.ii inH immrn who out here would . . W I. -. V. - - be called rich, and yet it is said that 50,000 children of that city go to school every morning breakfast less, ami o many more who are equally hungry do not go to school. Within ten minutes one may pass from the brownstone mansions of the rich on Fifth avenue into an east side district where thousands of families are shivering with cold and becoming attenuated with starva tion. Within three minutes from the great, brilliant Stores ot Broadway, he may reach tenements where are hundreds of despairing and not vicious parents who know l.ot where or how to procure the next pailfull of coal or loaf of bread for themselves or their hollow-eyed chil dren. What a mockery Christmas is to those helpless, suffer ing poor! What a mockery In the face oj high heaven must be its lavish observance by those rich neighbors who spend tens of thousands for gifts to be made to rich fi tends and for one another's entertainment, while they spend not a dime for an effort to relieve the misery around them. What is true of New York Is true in a less degree of every other large American city. There is probably as little extreme poverty and suffering for lack of the necesaries of life in Portland as in any city of its size in the country; but in every, ward, perhaps in every pre cinct, there are some who if not in the most abject pov erty, need and deserve help and Christmas cheer. This ft the duty and should be the privelege of the rich, but it generally devolves mostly on those next above the most poverty-stricken in point of means. A PINE CHRISTMAS EDITION. percentage of the pupils who will use it. Therefore the need being evident and urgent the section of the city in which the school should be built settles itself equitably. There is some little opposition among those who oppose all high schools. But it should count for little for the reason that so long as we maintain a state university we must fill the gap between it and the grammar schools and that can best be done through the high school. The Journal has warmly urged the building of such a school on the east side and none will be more rejoiced to see such action taken. At the same time it wishes once again to urge the lessons of the present year. The moment it is determined to build such a school prepara tion should at once be made for the work. It should be ready for occupancy at the beginning of the school year and no excuses for farlure should either be offered or ac cepted. In this same connection we wish to call the attention ot the taxpayers to the matter of the teachers' salaries. So far they have not received the attention which they deserve: At the coming meeting provision should be made for an increase of the salaries and it should be done on a reasonably generous scale. There have been heavy reductions in salaries without corresponding raises. In the meantime the cost of living has increased so that the lot of the teacher has been made doubly hard. All of this is simply a matter of bare justice and it should be allowed without further discussion. Small Ckange Tomorrow is the last day to buy Happy adults who can apara the price. Happy children, who don't have to pa. Spread Oregon weather reports in the east. It may be a marry Christmas ft not white one. Oartaral Nogi appears to bo taking a holiday rest. English '"Corrupt Practices Act" The Chinaman are still asking: wans mails r- It won't 'do any harm to awaar oft a little in advance. The fair year will not bo a arrafters' and gamblers' year. - THE CHRISTMAS EDITION of The Journal will be the biggest and one of the best ever issued from, Portland. It will contain a mass of infor mation such as inquirers seek. There never was a more propitious tine in which to advertise Oregon, never a time when advertising will count for more. It is a gen erally accepted fact that immigration tendency is now in the direction of the Pacific northwest, that indeed the tendency has been in this direction for the past two years, bat each year with greater emphasis. It is just beginning to dawn upon homeseekers and investors that while they have been attracted to other and less hospitable regions out of which they have wrung a hard living they have entirely overlooked the most promising of all regions that now offer them an opportunity. There is a very general awakening to this fact, evi denced by the number of inquiries which are coming in and the heavy travel which marks the seasons when the low railroad rates prevail. In addition to all other attractions Oregon has to offer the coming year the Lewis and Clark exposition which will open in Portland next June. Everybody is agreed that the combination will bring here thousands of people. In the meantime all of them are eagerly searching for information about the state and region. The Journal has endeavored to meet the demand and its Christmas edition, issued next Sunday and sold at the usual price of the Sunday Journal, that is 5 cents per copy, will be strictly up to date. Nothing better can be had to send east to those who are inclined to come this way or who are seeking a new home in the northwest. VARIOUS SCHOOL MATTERS. TriE BUILDING of an east side high school will be one of the inevitable results of the taxpayers' meeting. That decision will be the logical out come of existing needs. Portland has not only grown up to but far beyond the capacity of a single high school to accommodate the pupils who apply for admission. Besides there has been an enormous growth across the river and if another high school is to be built it should be built in a section which will accommodate the greatest GERMAN AND BRITISH NAVIES. EMPEROR WILLIAM has been increasingly ac tive lately in building up his navy, having thirty odd warships of all kinds now in construction or contracted for, and demanding of his reischtag appro priations to build niurc, evidently aiming to run a navy building race with the United States in the effort to have the second greatest navy in the world, and one that would give pause even to England in case of threatened conflict. Observing this strenuosity in navy building on the German efnpirror's part the British Army and Navy Gazette has published a series of articles calculated to arouse the mettle and hostility of Great Britain, to in cite that government 16 even greater efforts irl navy building, and to infuse into the somewhat phlegmatic British mind the idea that the German navy was becom ing a serious menace to Great Britain. Other British publications have taken the same tone, and German pe riodicals have retorted in no very courteous terms, and the feeling between the two great nations has become so strained that, it is reported, some saucy if not threaten ing or belligerent correspondence has passed between the two governments. If navy building thus leads to jealousy and threats bordering on belligerency, what becomes of the fine theory that great navies are assurances and even guar antees of peace? When a nation gets a tremendously big navy will it not desire to fight it Give s boy a new gun and he wants to shoot. The death of Prof. Horace S. Lyman, while yet in the ripe prime of life, removes one of Oregon's most useful citizens and teachers, and is a loss to theiwhole state, in which he was so absorbingly interested. He was a na tive of this state, and made it t constant study from his boyhood, resulting in the most extensive "History of Oregon" that has so far been published. Professor Ly man wts for some years a preacher, but left that calling (or h nmre rnnpenKil if morf laborious work of teach ing, in which profession he was prominent, successful and honored. Though not pnysicany strong, ne ac complished a great deal of good work in and for his state, and will be missed and mourned by a great number of its citizens. " A WORTHY INSTITUTION. THE OPEN Air Sanatorium for Consumptives will be ready for occupancy about the first of the year. It consists of 'ta acres of land on a bluff overlooking the river just above Milwaukie. There will be immediate accommodations for 15 patients and it is expected to increase the capacity to abrujt 30. There is immediate need of furniture, particularly single and three quarter beds, lounging chairs, bedding, wraps, heavy overcoats. Anything in good condition will do. A postal card or telephone message to Dr. Woods Hutch inson or any member of the committee will receive at tention or the goods may be sent to the freight house of the Oregon Water Power company at the foot of the Madison street bridge. -There is now a maintenance fund of between $oo and $000, but about $1,560 a year will be required as it is ex pected to charge a very low rate to the patients who take advantage of the institution. This is a practical enter prise that should strongly appeal to the good will of the public There is none quite so unfortunate as those without friends who are suffering from consumption. Their plight appeals to the public and upon that public rests a certain obligation. The purpose of the sanatorium it to meet it m the most practical way and to provide such means as will not only ameliorate suffering but if possible bring about a cure. Such an enterprise is worthy of every encouragement and it will not seek in vain in Portlatrd for the aid which it requires. Professor Simon N. Patten In the Inde pendent. The low paid employe today can suc ceed as well alone as with a wife, which his ancestors oould not do. At the same time his selfish enjoyments are greater without her. for ho may live Irresponsibly, without a motive to save, and with all his surplus available for wayside pleasures or an anti-social sort. The dis Integrating forces of a great crty upon homeless youth are too ob vious to need emphasis The wags earn ing girl, on her part, la likely to ac quire the taste of fragmentary, point less and unproductive spending. Both form habits harmful to the altruistic motives of group-living -of the home Idea. A man who goes from the saloon, street corner or cheap pleasure olub; a girl who leaves the dance hall and pave ment glitter to make a home for him. the bare necessities of which are hardly mot by his wages, are not qualified by tbelr experiences to bring to a euc ' essful issue the supreme test of char acter that makes stable a high standard. Sir Henry Hawkins, a brilliant advo cate and sew of smgland's greatest criminal Judges, expresses the following opinion In his recently publlahed "Rem iniscences." "last me say a ward about circum stantial evidence Home writers have spoken of it as a kind of 'dangerous Innovation' In our criminal procedure It Is almost the only vldene that is obtainable In all groat erlmes snd It is the beet and most reliable. T have witnessed many groat trials for awarder, but do not remember one where there was an eye-witness to the deed. How Is It possible, then, to bring home the charge to the culprit unless you rely on circumstantial evidence? "Circumstantial evidence Is ths evi dence of c I rc urn stances facts that speak for themselves and that cannot be contradicted. Circumstances have no motive to deceive, while human testi mony is too often the product of every kind of motive." Way Prom the Denver Republican. A traveling man who drove across the country to a little town In western Kan sas the other day met a farmer hauling a wagon load of water. "Whore do you get waterT" ho asked "Up the road about seven miles," ths farmer replied. "And vou haul water seven miles for your fnmlly and stock?" "Yep" "Why In the name of sense don't you dig a sell" asked ths traveler. "BeeS use It Is just as far one way as the other, strsngar." 'S "tory Of I From ths Boston Herald. Senator Pattus of Alabama was writ Ing with a noisy, spluttering pen. Lay lag the pen down, he smiled and sstd: "Ones I was spending the evening with a friend of mine In gelms. We sat In ths dining-room, and from the kitchen came s dreadful scratch lng sound " 'Mirths,' said my friend to the maid, 'what la that scratching In ths kltchsnT It most bo ths dog trying to got In.' Huh!' sold Martha, dst'e no dawg eeratchhY do do'. . Det'a do cook a writtn' a love letter to hsr honeysuckle."' ABTZOa TO iXOPTIXS From the Baltimore American. Don't go shopping yet awhile, Walt a bit. Tims ain't hers yet, by a mile; Walt a bit. Walt and go another day; Christmas Is two weeks away Walt, and Join the frenslod fray; Walt a bit. Watt till all the stores are Jammed Walt a bit. Walt till aisles are packed and rammed Walt a bit. Walt till salesmen are half dead, Tired of limb snd daft of head. Till the shopping time is sped Walt a bit Don't employ a bH of ssnss Walt a bit. Walt tin every one's Intense Walt a bit. Walt tilt you can never gst What you want and have to fret 1 .ik.- a hen with feathers wet Walt, a bit. Whatever the case. It is no pusslo to find a woman In it. Bo far congress has Ignored that growing treasury deficit There must always ho soms who can not have a marry Christmas. Ths presumption of Innocence until guilt is proven still obtains. If Tom I-awson goes broke, Every body's can afford to stake him. Coming on Sunday, It osght to be an extraordinarily good Christmas. Senator Kuykendall may discover that he has talked too much In the past Life Is worth living yet to old peo ple who enjoy seeing children happy. "Peace on Earth" will not appeal to the Russians, the Japs or Tom Lawson. Santa Claus has not yet been sub poenaed So appear before any grand Jury. Unless you are a very close observer you have not yet noticed the lengthen ing of the day a. No telling what Caaale may have con cealed la those -missing aachela. Mors securities, perhaps. Mrs. Chadwlck's Christmas dinner will not be as elaborate and expensive ss some she has had. H. H. Rogers would' like nothing so well for a Christmas present ss ths scalp of Tom Lawson. It seems there was a falling out among the land thieves which gavs Detective Greene his opportunity. Ws may expect the cold to begin to strengthen almost any time now, but not enough in Oregon to knock us out. Ths number of hobos In ths country aeems to bo rapidly Increasing again. For what reasons, amidst alleged pros perity? The Salem Statesman ssys Captain Ormsby is ths victim of rascals whom he trusted. But the government must have men whom it can trust not to trust rascals. It seems to be generally agreed that the city engineer's office must be divorced from politics. This needs to be remembered next Spring.. It would be well for the elty and county If the offices of assessor, auditor, commis sioners, snd perhaps others, were also to be considered as purely business posi tions, and filled by men under no obli gations to any party machine whatever. j Oregon Si Jeliglitg j The North Bend dally Post has fallen down. A Sherman county woman has sold ovsr ISO worth of chickens this fall. Turkey raising for the Ban Francisco market is proving profitable in Coos county. One day last week aeven schooners were ready to loava Coos bay for San Francisco. "Hurrah for our girls!" shouts the Albany Herald. But It is said ths ed itor's kids are all beys. At recent city elections 17 votes wero eeet In North Bend and 103 In Marsh -field, many not voting. A Coos bay mule named Maud Is try ing to live up to ths reputation of the Maud of the comic pictures. The Moro Observer claims that apples fully equal to those of Hood River are raised on Sherman county uplands. There Is much leas snow than usual at this time of year In the Blue moun tains. About sero weather at Kernels. An Albany young woman fainted Just after attsndlng a Jefejl and Hyds play. Could It have been worse than usual? The Lakevlew Herald predicts a wed ding there "In a few weeks." Weddings must be few and far between up there. Hurrsh for Linn county; It has col lected taxes In full from a New York man who owns 110. 000 acres of land In thst county. With a singing school, s literary so clsty, preaching and Sunday school on Sunday and a dance every two weeks, Msplston denies being dead. Please do not cell us to the phone and requeat us to Inform so-and-so that they are wanted St Our phone unless It he strictly a matter of business ws have no time to chase around after local sosstpers North Bend Cltlssn. Why, you might gst Items that way. Sat Billboards. Prom Newapaperdom. Ths daughter of a minister at Newark, N. J., has been made insane by a show bill. Ths report Is that "the girl labors under the delusion that aha can aend wireless telegraph messages to Marconi, and that she is an actress in a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde company. Her In sanity first showed itself after she sew a theatrical poster on a city billboard." The delusion that she can send wireless massages Is very rare, but ths delusion that she la an acWees Is an hallucination with which many ladles on both aides lot ths footlights sre afflicted, In Lincoln county Judge Hamilton convened circuit court Monday morning. tried two Jury oases that day. disposed of the whole docket and adjourned court for the term that evening. Ne wonder 1 Judge who does business like this was re-elected, even If he Is a Democrat The lawyers down there must understand that, he will not stand any delay non Lake County Examiner: Lake county can take care of at least 26,000 people. We have the land for homes, the water to make them productive, the climate to make their orcupsnts happy, and with a little energy exeat ed to secure tillers of our rich soil snd the assistance of the government's fat pockstbook to wet ths soli, we can. In a vary few years, be the rlcheet sericulture! county in ths state. From the New York World. When Richard Brinaley Sheridan, au thor of 'The School for Scandal," w elected member of parliament US years ago' from the borough of Stafford, he made an Itemised bill of his expenses. Ths 141 burgesses who voted for him received five guineas (111) apleos tor their vote. During the six years of his term he supplied ths voters annually with 1100 worth of ale. besides paying the rent of poor voters, msktng his elec tion coat him 110.825. King George III gave an Increased valuation to a ssat In parliament by his habit of buying all the legislation hs desired. He paid 1111,000 to paes ons bill, and he would allow ths members to sell offices -when hs was short of cash to bribe them. This procsdurs made a seat In parliament a dividend-paying la vestment, and Increasing sums were paid In bribes until at ths Yorkshire election In I SOT there was paid out to bribe the voters 11,090,000. The right to vote tor a member of parliament thus became a piece of val uable property, and the owners of votes only a fsw thousand In all Oreat Brit ain resented attempts' to pass either reapportionment or enfranchisement bills. Pitt, id 1 782. recognising this property right, advocated the payment of 15.000. 000 to the voters In St boroughs to com pensate them for the consolidation of tbelr boroughs. There was no noted bribery until ISIS, when Sir Manasseh Lopes was fined $60,000 end Imprisoned for two years for flagrant bribery in Grempound. During the next IS years parliament passed frequent seta against bribery, but the remedy then seems to have been more to punish the borough whose voters allowed themselves to be bribed than to punish ths man who did ths bribing. Oram pound was thus disfranchised in 1830. Retford In III. Penrhyn in 1828. Liverpool In 1114, Carrlckfergus In 1838. Stafford In 1836 and Sudbury In 1 84 2. This penalty of disfranchising ths bor ough was enforced sax lata as 1ST0 against Beverly, Brtdgwatsr, SUgo and Cashell. Maaeures on these lines were Ineffect ive, and in 11(4 parliament passed ths corrupt practices set, ths full tltls of which Is "A bill to consolidate and amend the laws relating to bribery, cor rupt treating and Intimidation at elec tions." That this first corrupt practices prevention act was defective Is shown by the feet thst It was amended In 1 856 59. in 1861-62-63-64-67, snd frequently sines, until In 1883 the original act and all the amendments were consolidated Into the present corrupt practices law. Ths corrupt practices act consists of T sections, besides a set of schedules which the candidates snd their agents must fill out snd swear to. Any com plaint for violation is heard by a special elections court. ' . The corrupt practices act strictly de fines whst the candidates snd their agents may and may not do. Ths pro hibitions sre, first, corrupt practices; second. Illegal practices; third, Illegal payments, and fourth, failure to observe the forms of the law regarding scheu- ules. reports and conduct. Corrupt practices are defined es treat ing of any kind, bribery, undue Influence and personation. Personation, which seems to correspond to repeating or ille gal voting la the United States. Is a felony punishable In England as in ths United Ststes by ths criminal courts. For any other corrupt practice the pen alty le not mere than one year Impris onment, 11.000 fins and disfranchise ment for not exceeding 10 years. The provisions agalnat treating are strict. They define treating as the giv ing of anything whatsoever meat drink entertainment, lodging or shelter. If the candidate or hie suthorlsed agent treats anybody to anything tt makee the election of the candidate void, besides subjecting the guilty one to the other penalty for the act. If a saloonkeeper. Innkeeper or hotelkeeper knowingly per mits any bribery or treating on hie premises hs forfeits his license snd ths property on which the offenae took place cannot be relicensed for three years. Illegal practices are such things ss providing convsyances to bring electors to the polls, snd such other indirect methods of Influencing tbelr votes as hiring billboards from an elector, or buying s flagpole, or doing other busts nesa with an elector by which he pror lts. It Is not forbidden to use bill boards or to employ electors to paste bills or do other work of that nature, but every elector so employed loses his vote. and if he. does vots both he and the man who employed him Is guilty under the illegal practices section, the penalty for which is a fins of not over 3800 and five years' disfranchisement. Illegal payments are denned aa the payment of money for bands, torches, ribbons and like devices to Influence an election. Payments to saloonkeepers snd Innkeepers to use their Influence are forbidden. Saloons may not be used as political committee rooms. For illegal payments the penalty le a fine of 3600. For a candidate or his agent to violate the corrupt practices act voids his elec tion. Every candidate Is allowed by law to have one bead election agent one sub-eleotion exgent In every election dis trict one sub-agsnt or watcher at the polls and one clerk and one messenger at every polling place. None of these men may vote for him. The candidate and his hsad agent must both make sworn statements giving ths names of all his employee and the amounts paid them, and these statements must be filed for public Inspection and adver tised. This provision stops ths hiring of watchers to loaf around ths polls snd do nothing sxcept vote. As sweeping as ths prohibition of treating are the requirements In regard to election expenses. These expenses are limited In amount and fixed by law. Outside of the returning officers' charges, which are legal fees, aad the personal expenses of ths candidate, which must not exceed 8360, ths othsr expenses are limited In a borough of less than 3,000 voters to 31.760 and 8160 additional for each additional 1,000 votera, in the country districts the limit le 33,600 for s constituency of lees thsn 8.000 snd 3300 additional for each ad ditional 1,000 voters This money may be spent only for printing, advertising, stationery, mes sages, postage, telegrams, public meet ings and Incidentals Ths total for in cidentals must not exceed 3600, no mat ter how large the constituency, and in a conatltuency of lese than 10,000 voters ths allowance for Incidentals Is 310 for every 1.000 voters. For every expenditure of 86 or over the candidate or his hsad sgent must have) a receipt, which, with full par ticulars of the expenditure snd an item lsed account, must be died within 40 days after the election and publlahed In two local papers. The statement must else contain a lull Hat of all sums con tributed or expended In the campaign by any party whatsoever and ths name of the contributor. Failure to Ale these returns as re quired by the corrupt practices act. un less aatlsfaetorlly excused to the court by death, sickness, fire or like unavold able casualty, means that the candl date's election Is void. After the statemente are filed. In ease any one desires to attask their oorreot ness or legality, that proceeding can be brought In the eleotkms eourt. and If the eourt nods that the statements are not true and legal, that finding in effect vacates the candidate's election. The usual remedies for perjury, false election returns and ths ordinary elec tion offenass which sre found In the New York penal code appear also In ths English criminal law. It la not these admittedly criminal offenses which ths elections eourt was constituted to page) upon, and which the oorrupt practloSa act has been perfected to meet Their object is to reach the indirect sad In sidious bribery and oorrupt Ion, to pre vent undue Influence, to eliminate large campaign funds and to prevent any other argument from Influencing the enter except those appeale. whether to his pstrlotlsm or his prejudice, of which the whole public may take cognisance. Tke Market Banket Tke Play If the beauties of "The Princess Chle" are as well maintained in the future as they are In this season s production there Is no apparent reason why the hessatlful opera should not live as long aa "Robin Hood." It was gratifying. In the first place, to break away from a season which has been devoted largely to silvery musical comedy and get one, tests of real, ro mantic opera. A gpod many people per haps stayed sway from ths Marquam last night under the impression that ths golden age of "Chic" had passed thmt it wee llkelv to be In a decadent condition after Ave or ate seasons on the road. But on ths contrary, aa us beautiful lyrlcsr subtle comedy and .MnHns .numhiM cam ha ck sre were forced to the conclusion that It Is the beat sll 'rouna singing company pnn cipala end chorus ever furnished In the nrv nA mn Sep ennerlor. aa a alnsrinx organisation and a beauty show, to any attraction seen here this season, that It la almost sacrilege to mention outers in ih. rT.j, nansrssh. I have wit nessed each season's production of this opera, and have never heard It better sung, not even by a greater numoer 01 people. The title role Is entrusted to Sophie u,.nt ,,f whom little wax heard before. She le without question the moot vi vacious actress who has appeared In the part since Msrguerlta Sylva. and ths only other "Chic" voice thst could be compered with hers was that of Maud Lillian Berrl. Her soprano Is powerful, yet eweet and that of a finished srtlst She contracted the habit of distinguish ing horself each time she appeared. I was sorry to observe that Miss Brandt cut out ths dainty "wooa nympn ana RJver God." and at ths ssms tlms glad h. intrnn1t1 "Come Rove. Oo Love," a pretty waits song from one of the popular operas or a raw seasons ago. George W. Callahan la the Brevet, a ...i. I Mr Mint, Jam Mtrrin once starred Mr. Callahan Is original In his stage business and never "slops over," if you will excuse the expression, in presenting ik. miiuiI nf the soldier of fortune. His fine basso voice rang out wall In the big solo, "War Is a Bounurui Jaae. The Duke Of Burgundy is sxceuenuy rnAmrA K Cilia V S 1 1 h ft H SJld It WHS not a bad Idea to build up the part by giving htm a solo. "When I'm Away from You. Dear." The old Chamberlain, by Jack Henderson, was an unctuous piece of comedy. He has dons well to copy Tom Leery' a methods, the original, and he ueee new hits gators. For example:- . . Did you vote tne uemocranc nun i "No. I did not" "Well, somebody did!" Am Lorraine the nase. Miss Jane Ten der Zee was a picture, but that was less thsn half of her. Here Is a young woman with the quality of contralto from which Bchumsnn-Helncks are de veloped. She waa nervous last night, her performance being the first aha has .1, .n aftmr veral weeks In a hospital. but saints of old I how she did sing "Lovellght In Tour Eyes." asiss vanoer Zee's lower register is nothing short of rinpinui end I dare sav her upper tones sre no iees beautiful when ehe le her self. More will be heard or nor. Caroline Lum is ths souorette ana t ,.mn WKI whose fsoe is familiar. alnga ths tenor. Thsy are both satis factory, and mans an sxceueni impres sion In ths pretty story book duet The .ii... nrv,.d narta were well done by George A. Thomas snd Tom Smith Mar- i special word Is deeerved by the .,.-. hich was so beautifully dressed, so shapely snd handaome In appearance and eo conscientious In Its rendition of the ensembles that the open ing words of this notice could not be left unsaid. "The Prtnoess Chle" will he repested tonight snd tomorrow man nee snd night. No one who lovsa music and legitimate entertainment should overlook It RACE WHITNET. srjUfATOm R01BJ3rRdWs From ths Independence West Side), o , . ... irviianiill Is a sentleman of attainments, but he has not proven a success as a legislator. aumsm lo quacity was his undoing aa a senator. During two sssslons thsre was scarcely a matter cams up. howsvsr trivial and however remots of lntsrest to him or his county, that he was not on his feet to have a say. Senator Kuykendall per hapa killed more time and sttered more words on ths floor of the senate during the past two sessions that half of that entire body. He talksd himself out of favor with his fellow senators. The bin which became the present educational law, be got referred to a committee aad tried to have it or a substitute tntro- - - - 1 ki. nam PrtlltlcslW Hen. (mi ni in mm ...... .iii j ator Kuykendall le allied with Senator Booth, Who in receni years nas asquuw Immense tracts of government timber lend. A number of bills, having In vtew the Interests of big timber corporations. particularly inxarwaws " Kelly company, wsrs Introduced two and us hiit felled to nasi. Dr. Kuykendall Is also said to hare farther political aspirations. What they are has not been voucnsaieo 10 una . um. ii . k. t down far a certainty that if elected to the presidency of the sen ate, ne wouia enaeavwr iw ue un posi tion ee a stepping atone to further pre ferment The doctor's political nature. like his hair, ta kinky. From the Pendleton East Oregon lan The Spokane branch line from Pendle ton to Spokane Is said by all railroad man to be the busiest piece of road In the wast, for ths conductor. While the train en thle branch is composed of but five oars. Including ths mall and bag gage, yet. owing to the many etatlons snd the frequent stops, the number of passengers handled In a day is very great. It ss said that the dally number of passengers handled by conductors on the Spokane run averages 800. When the number handled by main line runs amounts to but 360, ordinarily, ths ex cessive business of ths branch may be Imagined. , Roeeburg business men ere subscrib ing liberally to the fund for ths hospital to be built there. Tomorrow will be the day for pur chasing' turkeys. It is the dsy before Christmas, aad It Is also ths day when the price will not he so firm. It Is not likely that there wlU be much change in ins retail price on turkeys, because at the high figures ths market men are forced to buy, they cannot well afford to eel! a good dressed bird under 35 cents) a pound. Some of them have paid as high ss 33 cento a pound for tur keys at wholesale. Never before In this city have turkeys come in as fast as they did during the past few daya Tons upon tons of tur keys were brought In by the various express companies and the delivery wagons have been engaged until late In the night in delivering them. The turkeys that arrived the pest week were of finer quality than those wbloh came at Thanksgiving, although the birds that wsrs sold then were better than those of previous seasons. Portland people would have, bought cheap turkeya this week had It not been for one thing. The receipts were very large In fact they were too large for the neede of the city but the heavy pur chasing by Pugst sound cities. Tsooma. Seattle and Vancouver, B. C, took about all ths surplus up to yesterday after noon. In the sound country but few turkeys are raised, and that territory le foroed to look to Oregon for its sup piles. California Is In ths same posi tion. It Is not an uncommon thing to sss several ears of eastern cold-storage turkeys arrive la that city from the east for the holiday trade. Chickens were In larger supply this week, and prices suffered to some ex tent. The main feature ot the situation, howsvsr, is that a person can now se cure a much better choice for the money than formerly. Tame geese and ducks were in quite liberal supply during the latter part of the week, but prices wsrs high. Wild ducks ars becoming scarce and prices are gradually climbing higher. Ths season for Columbia river smelt Is now In full swing, and prices during the week ebowed a sharp decline on ac count of the much heavier receipts. If the present movement keeps up smelt will be cheap enough to use es a fer tiliser In the garden during the next week or so. Columbia river salmon Is now very scarce, most of the trade In ths fresh fish being supplied from the sound. Oysters are now in their prime. The demand Is very great but ths markets ars very welt supplied, and nil of the different grades can easily be secured at the usual price. Oranges are cheaper, soms very nice steaks being on sale In the market a around 30 cents a dosen. Good spplea may be had at almost any price. O rapes, though, are becoming scarce. In the- vegetable line there le every thing In the market now that there la In ths summer time. Prices, too. are right. If people would only Investigate. Ore gon has better cabbage than can be found anywhere else on the Pacific coast There are green beans of all kinds from California, and artichokes from the earns state. Lettuce Is very aheap on account of the heavier aup piles. New California potatoes are mora plentiful and are selling around six pounds for 36 cents. Tomatoes ars higher. The prices on vsrtous products at re tail are: Chickens. 10C30e; turkeys. 20026c; tame ducka. 31 each; tame geeae. 100 30c pound; mallards. 86c Oil pair; teal. 41 tf 60c pair; widgeon. 80c pair. Oranges. 30 0 30c dosen: tangerines, lie; bananas, 26 30c dosen. Grapes Tokays, Verdela. Cornlehone, 40r'0c per five-pound basket. Apples Fancy Spitsenbergs. i .60 01-76 per box: Bald wins, 31 50; Rhode Island Oreenlngs. 31 60. Pears Winter Nellie. 81.60 per box. Grape fruit, three for 38c; Jersey cranberries, lie quart; strawberries, 16 0 36o pound. Steaks, 80 lo pound; mutton chops. 801&C pound; veal outlets, 1012V pound; pork chops, 1012V' pound: roasting beet 10, IttsOlBc pound: boil ing meats, tOto pound; pot roast 80 10c pound; corn beef, 8010c pound; ham. 15c pound; boiled ham. 80c pound; spare ribs, 8l0c pound; pork tender loin, 30c pound. Crabs, two for 26c; lobsters, tec pound; eastern frog legs. 60c dosen: shrimps. 20c pound: eastern prawns. 30c pint, salmon, two pounds 36c; flounders. 10c pound; rock cod, 12 He pound: Cali fornia soles, lie pound; perch, 10c pound: California striped baas, lie pound; Sacramento shad, two for Sic; smslt Columbia river. lOo pound; Puget sound. 10c pound; catfish, 10c pound. black cod. two pounds 36c; halibut two pounds 26c; sturgeon. 13 He pound. New potatoes. Six pounds ror zee; rao Ishea. turnips and green onions, two bunches ic; water cress, 6c bunch; let race, fancy hsads, three for 10c; egg plant lie pound; mushrooms, 25035 pound; tomatoes, 30c pound; huckleber rise. 10c pound; rhubarb, four pounds tie; sweet potatoes. 13 pounds 3io; wsl nuts, two pounds tic: others. 20c pound: beans, string, two pounds 36c; Ilmas. green, two pounds 25c: artichokes small, three for 31c; large, two for 86o: celery, 6010c head; peppers. 12Vc pound; cabbage, 1015c head: cauli flower. 10016c head; Oregon garden peaa. three pounds for 36c: cucumbers, 20c each. r Le wis an J Clark In winter Quarters In what Is now North Dakota. December 38 The weather wss fine snd warm like that of yeeterday: we were again vieuea Dy uie crowns m m dlane of all descriptions, who cams either to trade or from mars curiosity. Among ths rest Kogahaml. ths Little Raven. brought his wire ana son loeaea wim corn, and shs then entertained us with a favorite Mandan dish, a mixture of ...nifin, Iimm Mm and cokecherrles with ths atonea. sU belled together In a tattle, and forming a composition by n teens unpalatable. From Physical Culture. Hsng these words on your bedpost or tack them Into your brain I am going to become en optimist. From now on I am going to ehsnge my entire life and my entire style of thinking. I will endeavor hereafter to he gen erous In my view towsrd others, broad minded, large-spirited and kind, think - i .ll n av.rvtwvt v mean of nohndv and overlooking ths little fsults. bOUev- Ing that there are outer qualities m ths man that overwhelm the deficiency There le so much bad In ths beat of ua and so much good In the worst of ua that It behooves each one of us to be chsritshie to the rest of us, I shall see the bright aide hf every thing. I ehalt talk like sn optimist. Isugh like an optimist and move sbout like sn mrttmtat oseasclous of the fact that I shall radiate sunshine and make every one around me happier.