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Editorial Page of The" Journal THE JOURNAL AN INDEPENDENT HtWPPlB . fsMUseS awry errata fee sas mc; Smear amtM. it The Journal Boll in, nrtk ao4 YanDlH atf-eeta. wium. t, Cntarr4 t tlM porto'Soe It Partus. Or. Suiter. - . TKLiPHom main ma. . AH eeparteieata reached hf this aember. Teu tlx operator tae Separtatast yoa want. KOBKIQH ADVKRT1B1NO RKPRKSKNT ATI V Vrl.ndlleiij.iala Bpeelal Advarttalna A ir-oer. , 1M r.im.m atreet. Mew Xerkt Trtsuee Ball , aubacrtpfloa TWaM bf nll In eav aStras ua lauea states, canasa siesieas f i . DAILT , - On r".-,.. 00 on neath ( JO ... .A .... St-MBAX . Ob (Hr l 1.0 Ona nMath.. ,J DAILY AND SUNDAY Ore year, .... .47.60 On swath. .1 .W Troubles spring from idle ' ness ' and . grievous wrongs ' from needless ease. Frank lin, ' v;" ,: ''.'',1 '.l "TREAT THEM ALL ALIKE. . HE REVOCATION of perpet 1, ual franchises to public-service corporations inconsiderate- :. ly granted "by legislatures many ygsn-agg-rs-TinetMffgTln"e revocation of a franchise to one par ticular corporation, to gratify a ma licious grudge of a newspaper, is an other thing. These old and assumed- y perpetual franchises should all be revoked, - that of the use; of Fourth street for railroad purposes among them; and new franchises to public service corporations should be grant ed only for definite periods and on . terms, fair and ,-just to the 'public. But this is not what the Oregontan is contending for; it has a particular private, malignant spite against the : tportland Gas company, and members of that corporation, and for that rea , son and not In" the least intheTpublic interest urges the revocation of its franchise. IThe.JournaliiuisU-tJiatill should be treated alike as to the revocation of such franchises and as to. their taxation, and that neither "the 1egis laturenor the - Multnomah county delegation should be used" as an in strument to carry out the selfish and malicious schemes of the Oregonian, as was done eomeyears ago when it succeeded in defeating a measure re garding the publication of delinquent taxes, and so fleecedthjtaxpayers "o'lit'of some $50,000. - Now the Ore gonian representatives at , Salem are urging the Multnomah members to wreak , its private vengeance on the gas company, which it is no part of a legislator's business to do. If these franchises are to be revoked, let it be done on the broad ground of pub lic policy and the people's good, and ; not a single corporation singled out merely to satisfy a newspaper grudge. THE ONLY SAFE WAY. ' H E locomotive engineer sits with his hand on the throttle and, by his preparedness for action, avoids many an accident ; and save many a life. With his hand oa the thruttle of state, Governor Meade of Washington was, by his preparedness for action through the power of removal, quickly and ef fectively able ' o prune his railroad commission. Thef act that one" of these . commissioners neglected his duty and became a source of .com plaint, it' being used, in some quar ters, as an argument against an ap pointive commission.' Instead of be ing an' argument against, it is an un answerable argument for an appoint ive commission, removable by the . governor, ' .... -The fact that a man selected with 'discriminating care proved delin .. fluent, shows - beyond - per adventure that errors may occur even when the election are made with the utmost care and discrimination. It is vivid illustration of what everybody al 1 ready- knows, rthatnheTnost- tenons ' problem in launching a railroad coro 7 ml s tio n,Tsl n "t "que s tio n of selec t ion . It is here that grave error is liable to creep in and at once destroy the usefulness of the body. Without pro vision beforehand for the purity and efficiency of . its personnel it were better to have no commission. All the laws that can be put on the books will be furfle and impotent if the member ' of the " commission . be faulty. The force with which the commission will ; be confronted are the most ponderous in the state. It is a place where iron nerve, per fect . integrity and great ability are vitally essentia!.- ..It it a place where elf-seeking politicians, chasing office for which they re little fitted and less desh-ed, hare tio businestThe really suitable men are of a character little given to the way' of 'politics, snd out pf tune with political con tests. They should be men of big rcss and breadth whom the office should seek rherhn they should trek the office, ' In Washington it. has been found tli at even with the extrtnest safe ur3$, error in tclcctioa.it nut. only. possible, but frequent. r It meant,", if it means anything, that first of all as a measure of safety there must be power of instant removal by a re sponsible executive to there may be tafe atid speedy correction of error, and that in the procedure for-telec tion the utmost care is imperative It It a matter to-consequential that it is sacrilege-for a question of party politics to be even thought of in connection with it.,' It it unthinkable that in a matter to grave the legisla ture will listen for a tingle moment to those little creatures who would put politics above the weal of the state, aud -above- the welfare and hopes of suffering Oregon shipper! Confronted as they are with a prob lem of teh ' portent," and ttandiffg ah they are on the verge of uncer tainty, it would seem to be a moment when legislators have reason to feel that in the bill. prepared by the non partisan chamber of commerce, they have a plan they can .follow with reasonable assurance ot - safety. It by widest experience and is probably the best that human ingenuity can devise. : .- "Tr" ' . -NEEDED -CHANGE. - T HE LAW ought to be changed in this state and in others, so as to "allow the rest of a jury, if one member dies or becomes incapacitated during a trial, to bring in a verdict . .The "Thompson case in Tacoma lasted eight weeks, yet if one of the jurors had died during the last week, or. the last day of the trial, it would have been necessary, unless the attorneys on both sides agreed otherwise, to try the case over again. And this would Happen in any " trial, . of ' whatever duration, in this state. There is no good reason for taking this chance of a repetition of a long trial, or a portion- thereof, on account of the demise or inability of a single juror, or of two or three. t ought to be provided that in such a case eleven, -ten, or even nine jurors should constitute a full jury, and thef trial should go ahead, regardless of the objection of attorneys, either side. Heaping up expense on liti gants and the people for retrials in such cases . is - wholly needless, and without any reasonable excuse. OMNIBUS APPROPRIATION BILLS. L EST we misjudge affairs at Sa lem let- us believe , that the in definite postponement by the . house of the resolution instruc ting the ways and means committee to provide for but .two normals, was not the result of a combination of the higher educational forces. Represen tative Eaton, speaking for the state university, tayt it wat not. Mr. Carter,-who represents-tbe county in which the state agricultural college is located, , says it wat not,- The declaration of both it that appropria tions for education as well as; for other purposes should stand each on its own merits. . . . Survival by merit is the true test, and if an appropriation cannot pass on that basis, it ought to fail. Bad faith with the people, with, the execu tive and with the legislature itself, is suggested the moment an institution enters into a combination in order to enforce its demands. . The fact that a combination is made it prima facie evidence that there are factora in the combine whose demands dare not be trusted to stand on their own merits The moment promiscuous appropria tions enter either house joined to gether, it notice, pure and simple, that there are in the bill items that dare not undertake to stand alone, Let us hope that no such tactics wIHTeempIoyedrSalem;r IfTwm be bad for the institutions and bad for the legislature. The legislature owes it to itself not to perpetuate the follies' of past sessions. Before t stands the massed citizenship in UsvereigutyefexeMnmJr To invoke the referendum means twq years of delay, if not actual death lt a measure. If by barter and combin ation appropriations are indiscrimin ately joined together, it will be temp tation to the electorate to strike. The handwriting is on the wall and inter preted it means "death to legislative logrolling and- omnibus- appropria tions." Beware. - i A LEGISLATIVE DUTY. 1 mmmmtm mmm r F THE representative from the normal school, counties persist in combining, it looks as if it would be quite justifiable, in the people's interests, for representatives from other counties to do a little" combine ing on the normal school subject. The people generally are not particular at to where the western Oregon normal school shall be located, but they do and if necefsary will later in an unmis takable way demand that two of them be eliminated.. There are higher ed ucation institutions at Forest Grove, Salem, McMinnville, .Corvallis, Al bany and . Eugene beside ..high schools in all other-towns, and one normal school in addition to these jjs enough for western Oregon. It will be, disagreeable to cut two of them off, and regrettably damaging in rather small degree to the towns where they are located, bur the peo pie of the state as a whole will not stand for the biennially increasing appropriations for all these schools. It is the legislature's duty to relieve the people of taking this matter up, at a great deal of trouble and expense and settling it at the polls,. But there won't be any "combine" at the polls. RIVERS AND HARBORS.- S EVERAL representatives in con gress,' among -them -Burton chairman of the rivers and har bors committee, and Ransdell, a member of the committee, have "put in some good, licks" for larger river and harbor' appropriations, and there fore, incidentally, : for . Oregon Whether tlje comparisons made be tween the expenditures on tha-navy and those on the country't rivert and harbors had any effect on the house or not, they " Were well entitled to thoughtful consideration. Even the jnostjrdeiit.jidvocaiesLA-bigJCayy ought, to concede that Burton only stated the 'truth when he said that the policy of the government in the past has been niggardly and parsi monious in the extreme." Chairman Burton, whose views by the way, have broadened and become far more liberal since, as chairman of the committee, he has industrious ly and conscientiously studied this subject,, stated that during the 'past five years the navy had cost about $500,000,000, or $100,000,000 a year, which is nearly as much as had been expended on the country's rivers and harbors ' since the - establishment of the government; and he said further that upon meritoriout' projects for improving waterways a billion dollars couldbe..well expended1whereat only half billion had been thus expended during our whole history. Mr. Ransdell said the country's commerce was not being given a square deal when only three per cent of the national expenditures goes to the improvement of rivers and har bors, while 40 per cent goes to sup port the army and navy. That such a comparison can be made is in fact a' national shame and disgrace, which we believe congress will not much longer tolerate. IF it be considered necessary or patriotic to make these grea.t expenditures on the army and navy, that should not be done at the expense of the country't waterwayt. If the country, at peace with the world, - can afford, to tpend , tome $200,000,000 a year on the army and navy, it can afford to tpend at least $50,000,000 a ytar on its rivers and harbors. ;. . ' Apparently the national legislature is becoming impressed with the jus tice of the claims of river and harbor projects, and. the prospect is for more liberal appropriations in future, but it won't do for the people to relax their efforts. : They must keep peti tioning and urging and demanding and "showing" until it becomes the settled policy of congress to treat the country't rivert and harbors as liber ally as . they . do its navy. ; Oregon alone could afford to build a first class battleship if, it could get its rivers- and - harbort-sufficiently- im proved. RAILROAD CAPITALIZATION. T HE TOTAL ; capitalization, in ttocks and bonds, of railroads in the United Statet in 1880 wat $5,229,000,000. In 1890 it was $10,675,000,000, or more than double the amount 10 years before.- In 1895 the total capitalization was $10,830, 000,000, not much more than in 1890, hard timet having come upon the country. In ' 1900 the amount had growrii Trtlle7-up--tr $11,562,000,000, 000,000 for the decade. In 1905 the sum had grown to $14,167,000,000, an increase in five years of $2,500,000, 000, or three and half times as much as the increase for the preceding five years. It is estimated that the in creased capitalization during 1906 was not less than $1,550,000,000, mak ing the aggregate now $15700,000,- ooo. . ! . - - Such ums are not easily compre hensible in figures, but the compre hension may be aided a little by com parisons. The total national debt at the close of the war was less than one-fifth of this sum representing the capitalization, of railroads, jand the present national debt is only about one-sixteenth of itTThe total valua tion of all the property in Oregon is only, about one one-hundredth, part of the total amount of railroad stocks and bonds, . - This vast aggregation of capital, actual and fictitious, is in the hand) of a few men, perhaps not more than half a dozen. Can any one im agine" the power of these men?,. Is it any wonder vthat people tay that "the railroads ' own the government?" Surely the importance of this power being used for the benefit and not for the oppression of the people cannot be. overestimated. . " - ; A Famous Love 1 Tragedy ;; . ;. ,-.. . - By Beatrice Fairfax. - Of all the famous lova toriaa of his tory, parhapa the moat trasio and haart braaklnc la that ot Abelard and He-loiaa,- 1 Seven hundred years have paaatd since the convent and monastery doors irparatad the man and woman who- aao rifieod ovorythlnf fop-th aako. love, Seven hundred" yeara, and in that lima millions of lova atorlea hava sunt their Kind aonv and faded Into oblivion But etui that treat , atory or lova and lonslna and wrona wlnWMtr1' Mdleaa night tnrouch time. Poor, liaplcaia " Helolea and Abelard Would it ba any comfort to them, I wonder, to know that thousands of aweethearta have wept and aympathlsed With their pathetic love atoryT - Even the humbleat of lova atorlea la lntereetlnc, but when It cornea to great love story exquisitely told by a treat jottCBi. the Internet begomee In- tenae. ... . In tha February number of tho Cos mopolitan Ella Wheeler Wilcox fives the lova lettera of Abelard and Heloise. She haa not In the alla-titest decree changed the aplrlt of tha lettera; ahe haa merely embodied them In tha ten- aerestr," mor beautiful "of otrjrr The deathleea lova and Uonglne- and rebellion aarainat fata penned by He- lolae cannot but find a sympathetic echo In the" heart of evtry woman who reads her lettera. , Tho profound longing and contrition expreaaed by Abelard In bla anawera ara at once a. benediction and yet an excuae for her to keep oa loving him. Surely, if over man and woman paid the penalty for misplaced Jove, thla Ill fated couple drained their eup of bit- temeii to the drega. Their lettera (there are five of them) are the moat wonderful lova letters ever written. y Deathleaa lov and despair ara ex preaaed In them aide by aids with mem ories of exquisite happiness. They reach love a aupremeat heights, they aound ita darkest deptha. No ona can read unmoved thoae pleading, heartbroken appeal a of Helo Ise. She would ba reconciled to fata If she i could; bu how can ahe ba resigned when lova alnga his endleaa paean at the door of hejf heart- Poor, lovely Heloise) ReadheineC- tera and see If your heart does not ache for- her.-. If yoa-love, -or lf-you- ever have loved, you cannot but pity her and Borrow for her, even though aeven hundred yeara have paaaed since her re bellious heart found reat and peace. Tkc Play 'Susan In' Search of a Husband" la about tha prettiest and most delightful bit of comedy that naa journeyed mis T iai emmantjnl est 4ris TTplH TSJTWyi A SI ' wwejetfaj r ssiaei' -'i' SSV last nlaht by-Isabel .Irving and seven other high-class artlata In a way that charmed ona of tho largest audiences ot tha season. - In the hands Of a leas capable com, pany Susan might search Indefinitely without arousing an excessive amount of public Interest, But as It was seen laat night tha search waa an Immensely pleasing series of amusing complica tions. Tha play was written by Jerome K. Jerome, and as presented by Miss Irving la about aa delicious a piece of comedy aa one could wish to see. There could have been no mora ex pressive token, of Portland's apprecia tion of Miss Irving than tha complete satisfaction of the Immense audience. It was tha largest of tha season, per haps, with the possible exception of the one that witnessed the first perform ance of the great Nethersole. - i Certainly tha most pronounced " and one of the moat satisfactory traits of Mlsa Irvlng'a acting la her remarkably clear and distinct enunciation. It Is likely that not ona of her lines waa loat Tgaayrart of thahon. Pagaa have been written about her charms, and not a few devoted exclusively to attempted descriptlona of her wonderful eyes. It Is seldom that star recelvea such excellent support. With Mlsa Irving are seven high-class actors, some of whom have been successful stars themselves. Conspicuously pleasing even In such high- class company la Mlsa Jessie isett, wno comes vary close to sharing honora with tha star. Miss Ixett la intrusted wnn ona of the most important parte of.Jhe piece and quickly shows her ability to handle It. Tha audience was also quick to ahow Ita appreciation. Maria Walnwrlght ahared liberally In tha honors as Elizabeth Raffleton, a spinster part which she artistically por trayed. Haasard Short la a pleasing and finished actor and glvaa eminent satisfaction as Lord- Rath bone, tha hus band about tha search for whom the atory was written. . - - x -.iilrnaat-Main waring la amusing at all times as tho solicitor,' and Herbert Standing glvea an excellent portrayal of the keeper of tha Inn, where tha vartoua complications occur. A. (3. Andrews Is a satisfactory conatable. The play la not ona that requires stage effects.. or display of any. kind. It la purely a piece of comedy acting charming enough to please every Indi vidual in a great audience. "Susan in Search of a Husband" wlH be preaented tonight and tomorrow night.- . To Whom I tb. Credit Due? From tha Pendleton Eaat Oregnnlan. In an editorial ridiculing William X Bryan and hla reform measures, T. T. Geer, editor of the Pendleton Tribune, takes all tha credit to hla own party for tba reforms in popular legislation which have coma to Oregon In tha past few years. Tha facta ara that every one of these reforms was bitterly fought and ridi culed by the leaders of Mr. Oeer's party In Oregon, including himself, when they were suggested by tha populists. Now that the people have adopted them. Mr. Qeer claims them a triumphs of hla party, and ridicules Mr.- Brye.it who haa always stood for theaa prln ctplea. , - Tha East Oregontan remembers when Mr. Gear referred to "the. referendum. now In fores In this state, aa the 'Yeferen-dum-dum,'' and ridiculed the Idea of such a measure aver being adopted by the people of Oregon. Mr. Bryan has alwaya stood for popu lar government and hta prtnclplea are being appropriated annually by tha Re publicans' who see In them a remedy for tha evils of Republican policies of tha past. Mr. Roosevelt, an excellent man, has been opposed by a powerful element In his own party In enforcing Mr. Bryan'a principles In hi administration. t us give Bryan credit for what I due hint, at least,- - Letters From the People Free Text-Book Commission. Portland. Feb. 8. To tha Editor of Tha Journal A few weeks ago there ap peared In Tha Journal a letter from the Albany Herald reaardlnsr tha kind of man who ahould eerve'on the tree text book commission. After trying to read something between the Unas of aaid ar ticle, I Confess It aeems to ma tha writer la laboring under ona of two troubles: Either ha "Just trowed up" or else he haa forgotten tho vain but untiring ef forts of tha devoted teachers of . his youth to teach him-logical thinking, Ha refutes hla own argument for plac ing business men Instead of educators on the commission. He aaya, speaking ot the old": ayatenr- -whencounty tupertm tendenta selected the textbooks: "As a result tha American Book company handled -. tha -..country auperlntendents against all comers. ' Again. "The aama company, with tha high prices tt was re- celvlng for Ita bouaa, mantmilated--leiirt-t latora and meddled In politics." "fc.au- catora could not cope with tha American Book company. - They were handled with out knowing It." ' What doea ha meanT Were the super intendents or tha legislators handled, or both? Our past history of political corruption . doaa not . guarantee that ttnmra thrown In either direction will not break many glass houses. The fact of the matter la. the fault haa net been with the educators or business men, but with tha lax methods used for accomplishing a worthy ob ject, Tba public aeems to think that all ws jiava.to do isto pass some sort of taw to prohibit any particular evu, which enda tha trouble ever after so far aa they are concerned. In reality thla la a small part of any movement for clvlo Justice. Any law to ba whole somely operative muat ba honestly en forced and by auch men aa have the welfare of their constituents at heart and who are bound by -well-defined limita tions and checks to give an exact ac counting to thoaa from whom they ttf celve their commission. -- But with- tha free textbook commission It means more than this. The commls afou's duties ' ara largely legislative, hence tha members should couple with honest Intentions expert knowledge of what Is needed. From tha atandpolnt of who Is most competent to carry out tha purpoaea of tha commission, tha solution is not so muddled aa the writer tries to have us believe. Ma points to the present mem bers of tha commission ' aa the result of good judgment shown by the ap pointive power In selecting educated business men who ara "unapproachable by wily agents - of book publishing XJxmajQuit likely Jhla la true ao far as U goes, but the vital 'question" Is, are these men in any. way. by previous training --and-- experience, - thoroughly equipped to choose tha textbooks best adapted for our particular needs T To say that they ara because they are - business men la aa- reasonable as to say that a teacher would make a success in promoting a large buslneas venture. As well assume that a com mission ot tailors ought to examine ap plicants for the barbers trade; or that the stockholders of a railroad ahould se lect their president . from among the novel wrltora of America.- Unless aome ojfLhep resent members of tha commis sion havahadctuareipeHence In the schoolroom as teachers tbelr judgment Is no better than would he that ot I committee of blacksmiths. And, grant ing that they have had schoolroom prac tice, they are still Incompetent to pasa judgment on which is the best book for any particular Una of work. Only tha man or woman who la in the harness, working' with the constantly growing science of - pedagogy, who knows its problems, and who. is conversant with tbelr needs, can bring tha proper expert knowledge to bear in choosing tha proper books. . , -It la unfair, unpardonable, to 'say. school men ara mora easy to "work' than tha trained business man. The his tory of state and national legislation makes us smile at such class accusation. No, let the commission be made up of active educators, men and women, each an authoritative expert and prac tical example in hla or her field of work. hold them directly responsible to tha appointive power and we shall be tak ing a long step toward furnishing our teachers with sensible material to work with. Tha proteat of tha Portland school principals was not strong enough. They should make it ao strong that they who are to use the tools of Instruction may have a voice In their selection, instead of leaving the matter -to those who talk and write of things they know noth ing about. J. R. FORDEN. Immortality and Humanity. " Salem, Or., Feb. 4 To tha Editor pf Tne journal wuaent a". essay on "lm, mortality ana Humanity la In many points a most admirable paper. Hla first proposition: "Let us live as best we can today and trust tomorrow for all the good tt can bring; perhaps it would be just as well to let it go at that and let our mind rest in peace," requires only tha observance and prac tice of that fundamental principle, "Do to others as you would have others do to you," to make it an Infallible rule of action. W ara not doing tha best we can if In practice wa Ignore tha binding force of that unleglslated act. . Again, "Student" aaya: "Man passes Into a eonsclous Immortal state at death Is true or is not true. Who know V If tha testimony of a cloud of-witnesaea. both mortal and immortal Immortal in tne anna or, having passed through the incident in Ufa called death for It Is but an Incident has no force or weight witn "student," then tha case, ao far as he is concerned. Is closed, and ha and hla elaaa will, at great coat. Imbibe wisdom after mortal death that could have been easily garnered on tha mortal Plana. J. R. . Kissing at a Fine Art. -Portland, Feb. . To tha Editor of TM Journal I beg to register a most vigorous kick against tha article In Tha Sunday . Journal entitled, "What Is a Kissr The learned professor's views would not ba accepted in this ag of enlight enment. - I am sura I voice 'the views of many women when I say the mus tache is not a desirable addition to the blissful meeting of- enraptured lips. The sweet, sanitary, smooth-shaven mouth la far and away tha mouth par excellence and like unto tba mouth of tender childhood. No juicy tobacco llpa for me! - Tha very thought Is abbdrrent and would frees She raw- on any -well-regulated woman'a mouth. Much may be said agatnat tha prickly mustache, your mind is drawn from tha object of your affection by those stubby wisps that rind their way agalnat your sensi tive lace, sa that your pleasure Is short lived and leaves no pleasant femehi- brances to cherish. Tha smooth-shaven face has another advantage that Is not lost sight of by the observant woman of today. It re veals In a largo measure the true na ture of tha individual and 1 indisput able evidence of the taste and habits of its possessor. Note tha coarse, heavy, or drooping lower lips, also the crest-ant shape, and tha tightly com pressed, parsimonious l!ps,nd ona will' make few mistakes In placing tha char acteristics of their owners. I do not believe In men kissing each other, or for women to kiss each other. If one feela a desire to ahow affection toward one'a own aex, I think a warm embrace, with the cheeks' gentle press ure, is far mora desirable than tha c caslonal peck at the lips which one often wttneesea and which brings on an uncontrollable, desire to surreptitiously wipe tha mouth at tha first opportu nity. Women aa a whole believe in kissing. But to be moat desirable, it should be Impressed with neatness, delicacy and firmness. lOLA BLAINE, " ' Where is the Cain? i i JPottiand,-Te, Tothe Edltor-of Tha Journal torn time ago you pub lished an article relating to the Im provement of a street running from Front and Madison streeta to tha ap proach ot the Madison street bridge. This street, according tn your article is bounded on both aidea by property belonging to II. W. Scott, editor of the Oregoniant and othera, who compoae a company that owns much property In thla vicinity According -to law . this company must keep tha atreet In re pair that adjoins their property. These public-spirited" cltliens nave - aoiayea the Improvement by laws and other E TO th noiIcebrTir W. Scoir and others haa been brought the neces sity for repairing this atreet. because teams continually get stuck in the mud. delay street car traffto and block the street for hours at a timet but to no avail. I present the following tacts: L'HarveyJVVhUefleXd. gcott-f !dth- the devil and then tho devil piirsuctn him." - By thla I mean that because Harvey Whitefleld Scott and "others" believe that , they really save money by not Improving the street In ques tion, they are really loaers themselves to aome extent by their action.- At 10 o'clock this morning, a targe .double- teamed ' truck ladon with paper from Harvey Bcott'a paper mill atiLa Camas or Oregon City, aa tha case may be, got stuck in a large hole on the street in question, blockading atreet car and team trafflo for one-half hour's time. Now. the fact that trafflo was delayed is not one-half as Important aa tha fact that the poor horaea ara made to Buffer terribly In their effort to pull Harvey Whitefleld"" Soott's paper over hla own unimproved land. This after noon about S o'clock another -blockade took plat-e and the causa onca again was Scott's rolla of paper." Thla time IS ..-W. P. cars were -tied up for awhile, aa tha rolla of paper, becom ing impatient at tha rough treatment accorded them by their owner (Harvey Whitefleld Scott) took leave of their traveling vehicle and landed In the cen ter of the street After much pulling, laboring f men - and - belaboring of beasts, traffic waa ones mora resumed. A buslnesa man, owner of three large hotels of the city in the near vicinity, surveyed tha work of the horaea while traveling over thla street, and remarked to ma that the attention of the Hu man aoclety should be called to It, and the parties who ara responsible for it and the cruelty to tha animals that haul thereon ahould be punished. I ean honestly say that out of every 1 teama coming from over the bridge at least three get stuck in the large hoiesinih!a Hreft-Now. Harvey Whitefleld Scott and "othera." sitting in all your affluence and wealth, doe It pay? What la tha mere pittance that it would coat to repair tha street com pared with tha Buffering of beasts. laboring of men and blocking of traf flc? - Therefore, would you not benefit youraelf by repairing this street? I am sura tha good opinion of the masses and tha alleviation of tho aufferlnga of beasts ara worth mora than- the aum required to repair the atreet. Chang the aaeda and sow otherwise. , ---- Mail Route of Klamatli . Klamath Falls. Or., Feb. (.To the Editor of The Journal: Sine the mall route' contracta from this city to Fort Klamath and Merrill and Tula lake are to be re-let, the department holding that tha present contractor is not com plying with the rules with reference to residence and perronal attention to transportation of malls, a change In tha rout to Merrill merits attention. I The jreent route goes about six miles out of tha way to reach White Lake City. About 159 acres were plotted and about 8,000 iota were sold." There is on fair buslnesa building, where buslnesa was started with a great blare of trumpets but was soon discontinued, snd there are about a doien shack there now. A few persons maintain a legal residence there, and a' school Is maintained - with some pupils most of the time; the teacher, who draws tto a month, also acts as postmistress. The stage man distribute and collect mall along tha -route and the "day I made th trip recently between Klamath Fall and Whit Lake City, 14 letter were collected, the last being' about five mllea out. When I arrived at Mer rill, by keeping 'my eyea and ears open I learned that tha aack from White Lake City contained but three letter. which. I presume, were mailed there: ao tha 14 collected from th rancher along the main road, to where th dl version Is . mad . to accom modal-- tha White Lake city office, must have laid over there till tha next day and would he three days In reaching th railroad. Were the rout changed So as to cut out Whit Lake City six miles of th worst road would be avoided, the man of these ranchers would reach 1U des tination a day earlier, and passenger wouJd .nofr be inconvenienced byth exeedlWtlc traveled. , - ' W. O. SMITH. When Father Ha the Grip.,: From tha Detroit Fro Press. Poor mother weara a worried look," And sister weara a frown; - ' . And If I venture up the stairs They aend me straightway down. I'm going to the drug store now Upon a -hurried trip. To get soma other kind nl dope. For father ha the grip. I heard him groaning in th night Ha said hi head would split; ' And then ha thought his back would break - tn jut a little bit; Ha told u that hla leg were lore, 'Ana soon it was nis hip; , It aeems tnat everything Js aick . 1. When father haa the grip. The doctor eame today and left Some capsules, and he said To take on each three hours until Tha pain had really fled. , ' Bays pa, "Ihat means twelve hours be fore ('-. t give thla pain tha slip; IH bet he'd find a faster dope If he had got the grip." , And, then he told ma that he thought ' That ha was going to die; An' ma saya no, that Isn't ao, ' An' gave the reason why. Then pa got mad and told her that , H didn't want her lip; Oh. there' no, eo'mfort In our flat - When father has th grlpl , ; T' Small Ck ange ,The water code seems logged. " . - - . ' - r water- - There Is too much of both unwritten and written law. . .- - ' . . ' v ' ' - The Sabbath waa made for man, not man. for. the Sabbath. - - - .v ,"-'- ' Truth Is atranger than "a He, but la not ao nimble-footed. - , ' .. Not quite all road yat lea toar rlman, - Soma lead to llllL ... . .."... ... .. . a .. . -. , Two questions no legislature 'ean agree on, whisky and water,. ..v - . . . - Now the New Jerseysenator can re- "tire intohis-PrSh-ntiaJ' dry --den.--w - tfrst it was I subsidy,' next "subven tion,'' but the right ham is "stealing. ' ... -. :, Alongwlta real call to a man t preach goes one to people Jto "go and . hear him. " -,.-.. . '.- .-f 'Shouldn't there be a law retiring j senatora after they get to be (0 or 9 "s years old T. ----.-., . ..-..;, ,.' .... ., The peanut crop fell off 4T par cant , ' laat year.- Peanut politics also suf re red a decline. 1 If Oklahoma wants to get into the Union, let it send to the Whit House for Its constitution. :- -, ''.. It a - .'!' : . It la useless for readers to hope that newspaper wltt ceise printing pictures' or Thaw and Evelyn. . , , There is no fear that tha high Wil lamette will sweep away, tha legisla ture and bring it down to Portland. ' It is feared that the lid on aome of the dry towns along the Willam ette will rise up and float away thla week. - - . .." -- . " The railroads are having a lot of expensive trouble on account of storms, but the people will finally pay the bill. .- ' - r -, .- p Bolng asked how many seasons thera were a, normal school pupil - replied: ' "Four; baseball, football, basketball and vacation."' - ::.v..,. , People have begun to think that in spit of hla Harrlman Income Council- -man Shepherd muat think ha needs that S2S per month. ;- ',; .''. ' ' ' ' An Ohio man was sentenced to th penl tentlary . f or--Ufa -for stealln g a eldo of bacon, and now ha la sorry he didn't take th whole hog. . , 1 a a ' . '- - . . - ' -.' '.'',. ' A Missouri legislator has Introduced a bill limiting a woman's hats- to two a year, and th price of theaa Prob ably hi wtfa hasn't bad more than on 99-cent hat In three yeara. a - - Governor Hughea announced that i new state prison must be built imme diately, and a lot of Republican poli ticians immediately began ma kin preparatlona for a European trip. ' -:- .'. Can" thl legtilatur do s nothing ' te provide more hens and compel them to lay more eggar 'Should a bounty ba offered, and an ample appropriation made? Don't th honorable gentlemen Ilk egg for breakfast T Ann are they all. ao .'rich tha t they can afford to ear 15-cents-a-doien eggs, and mayb eold store re eggs at that T Gentleman, the egg question Is on that touchea atomaohs and pocketbooks. - Tha people demand relief. Oregon SideligKta Medford may have an aleofaol plant. - Mining prospects are good In outhrflSav I Ore son. " ' J ,'.'-'' - A development club will be organised in Dayton. , ' , '. V " '- -,. Wood burn may hare a 20,00t cold storage plant ;. ,. - - ., . Several Oregon cities are "going to pave" but when? -.. a " , The Medford Iron works is to m Im proved and enlarged. ' -. ' '.. . '. ' - '- h Douglas " eounty fruit inspector '." la doing good work. "'.'" ' .''-.' V,: -A good quality of tobacco was grown-; last year near Jacksonville. A man killed two coona In an appl tree onea night near-Monmouth. e is A Springfield man was fined for keep ing hla cigar store open after midnight. '''.. . "' ',' A Creawell man sold flSO worth of - butter fat from 14' cows In December. ''-' . ' People ot the , Coqullle valley expect this tn be the most prosperous year in its history.'' .-'.'" e Sawmills will b greatly crippled by ' th advanced freight rat on (umber to bay points In California to tS per iOM feet, says the Roseburg News. . .. . e a .. A HaslDellWoman ha a fins healthy orange tree which Is fullof blossoms, buds and little green oranges. She I remarkably successful with her orange trees. Last year aha had an other tree which bore and ripened Its fruit. .--. '. '.' " .. - ' . During -the past week tha chorus of ' froga In the marshes near Myrtle Point have been tuning up their voice on a grand scale, say the Enterprise, Their activity In thla direction has prompted the boy to get busy and ,frog legs I a dainty served on several tables a a ' consequent' ... ." ' i' ' The day will come when trains fronv , San Francisco to Portland will be mak ing time on thla road, say tha Wood- burn Independent. Then 'Salem and At- . bany will ba on a. branch Una and Leb- anon will ba seriously thinking of be coming th county seat of Linn. The Coqullle valley with ita limitless resources lacks but two essentials of making It av-lln of Industry from on end to the other, and those are trans portation facilities and cheap power, ay the Sentinel. Both are In sight, and the prospects are that they will be w developed In tha very near future. Big Sticky correspondence of Roseburg -New: It will only be a short time untlt our entire valley will be on great orchard. It-having been successfully proven that we have the best orchard ,' land In th world. Our rich, black land Is peculiarly adapted to fruttrslslng and ' more especially to apples and psara . . ' " -- v A ' . ' 4 .."' V 4 I J-1'"' "" 1 'T m- r"- firm sr n ,, " ' '