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1 THE MOEHIHG OEEGONIAH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1902. r Entered t the Postofllce e.1 Paftlatld,. Otcon, as socpnd-class matter. .REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By SIall (postage prepaid In advance) Dally, with Sunday, per month Dally. Sunday excepted, per year... Daily, with Sunday, per year OU Sunday, per year 7 22 The Weekly, per year ' 1 55J The Weeky. 3 months 80 To City Subscribers M ., Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday excepted.jac jjauy. per week, delivered. Sunday iciuae-.--PQSTAOE RATES. United States. Canada and. Mexico: 10 to 14-page paper J 14 to 28-page pancr..,-:.- Zc Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonian should bo addressed invaria bly ''Editor The Oregcnlan.'' not to the nam of any Individual. Letters relating' to adver tising, subscriptions or to any business jnatter should be addressed simply "The'Oregonlan." Eastern Business Office. 43, 44. 45. 47. 48. 49 Tribune building; New Tork City: C10-11-12 Tilbune building. Chicago the S. C. Beckwlth Special Agency. Eastern representative. For sale In San Franclf- L. E. Lee. Pal ice Hotel news ,6tand: Goldsmith Bros., 230 Sutter street: F. TV. Pitts, 1008 Market street: J. K. Cooper Co.. 746 Market street, near the Palace (lotel; Foster & Orear, Ferry news ctarid: Frank Scoti. 80 Ellis street, 'and N. Wheatley. 813 Mission street For sale, In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner. 259 outh Spring street, and Oliver & Haines, 203 South Spring street - " For sale in Kansas City. Mo., by T.!:secker Cigar Co.. Ninth and Walnut streets. For sale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co.. 217 Dearborn street and Charles MacDonald. C3 Washington street For sale in Omaha by Earkafow Bros., 1G12 Farnam street; Mcgeath Stationery Co.. 1303 Famam street For sale la Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co., 77 West Second South street For sole in Ilnneapolls by R: G. Hearscy & Co.. 24 Third street South. For sale in Washington. D. C, by the Ebbett House news stand. For sale in Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck. OOG-912 Seventeenth street; Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. Fifteenth and Lawrence street: A. Series. Sixteenth and Curtis streets. mated the superfluoueness of a 25 per cent ad valorem protective tariff main tained on Implements to this day. The collapse of another bridge over a deep gulch in the southern part of the city emphasizes In a striking and ijug gestlve manner a condition of neglect, i mismanagement or oversight on' the part of those who have supervision of our thoroughfares that is, to say the leastf, discreditable. We are told from time to time that there ie no money available for the purpose ol keeping these gulch bridges in repair. Yet we know that -the. tax levy has been made year after year to include the necessary expenditures of the city .and that the neither Mr.1 Deying nor any other im-'J ment. Typhoid is classed as a filth plement man we ever heardoi has mtl- disease, Dut this is oniy true hi mc sense mat nun rurnisnes a lavoruuie soil for Its development. The mo4 san itary homes sometimes are invaded by it. and the most cleanly ancV well-ordered persons are not infrequently its victims. It may either be water-borne into 'the system or introduced through the eating of uncooked vegetables, as4- celery, lettuce and cabbage, which were grown upon ground near trenches that carried polluted water, the common house fly being the carrier in the latter case; or It may find in milk from an unclean dairy a ready means of transit. In Massachusetts the death rate from typhoid is lesa than one-fourth of what it was thirty years ago, a result due largely to the extension of public water better prices for the rav material. It will be several years before the milling demand will take up all of the wheat grown in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, .but the experience of sthe pres ent season proves conclusively that when it can all be disposed of in thi3 way the producers wlllbe distinct gain-eis. amount assessed has been paid. Has supplies which has put old wells out of TODAY'S WEATHER Partly cloudy, with possibly an occasional light shower; westerly winds, shifting to northeasterly. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 52; minimum temperature, 40; -precipitation, jO.01 inch. , . this money been squandered, or, to put it more mildly, used for nonessentials, In disregard of more urgent needs? The frugal, economical dlsbuvser of public as well as of household funds sees to it that the pressing needs of the mu nicipality and the family are first sup plied. Some things we must have; some things we should like to have. The first of these should be first sup plied, and if the money allotted does not hold out the others, or some of them, we can do without and still be safe and comfortable. Certainly the dis bursement of the city's funds upon this basis during the past few years would commission. Of course, the discovery Of the microbe and the intelligence used in the care of patients are also factors In this gratifying result. The persistence of the typhoid germ and the subtle way in which it effects entrance into the system make it a dif ficult enemy to keep at bay. Remedial measures consist chiefly In good nurs ing, vigilance in the matter of giving nourishment, especially during the period of convalescence, and unwearied patience on the p3rt of all concerned the enemy being as slow in retreat as in advance. Eternal vigilance on the part of the health authorities Is necessary not have allowed all of its gulch bridges to secure immunity from this disease, to have fallen into decay and become unsafe for travel at one and the ame time. There is not the slightest concep tion of true economy in the state of af fairs disclosed by bridges lying at the bottom of gulches or closed' travel In various sections -of the city. On the con trary. It shows lack of judgment, mis management of the public funds, or criminal neglect on the part of offi cials well paid to look after the city's thoroughfares and keep them In safe condition for use. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, NOV. G. To his other achievements! Theodore "Roosevelt now adds that of pulling his part out of a very deep and uncom fortable excavation. The Republican victory in New Tork and in the doubt ful Congressional districts of the North Is his doing. Three thoughts are in the public' mind tariff , trusts and the coal strike and on every one of the three, except for the President, sentiment has been forming against his party. The dominant forces in the Republican party have been too closely, allied with the great protected trusts, and knowledge of this is too deeply rooted with the people to be dissipated by anything Mr. Hanna and his school could say. But for the President's firm stand for the people and against trust and tariff abuses, the Fifty-eighth Congress would have been Democratic by thirty to fifty majority. The proceedings against the "Northern Securities merger, in the face of threats by Morgan and Hill, and the favorable mention of tariff reform as a principle, and of revision .as a practical policy, have stayed the rising tide of discontent with Republican subservi ence to trusts. The anthracite strike has proceeded very largely along these tame lines; for the great interests that showed arrogance and restiveness under the President's actions are much the same as-those that have .organized and supported the -railroad and industrial trusts. He would be a- man of nerve who should offer to defeat the President for renomination after yesterday's snatching of victory from the jaws of defeat. even in a city like our own, where the water supply Is pure and abundant. Though nothing like a typhoid epidemic has ever occurred in Portland, and there is practically no danger of one, this disease is always with us, with now and then a fatal' result. Forgotten cess pools, Impure milk, carelessness in the disposal 'of the fecal matter from typhoid patients, are sources of Infec tion that exist everywhere. While they exist, medical and sanitary science will labor in vain to stamp out typhoid fever. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the elections as a whole is discovered in the heavy vote wnere "apathy" has been complained of; and in the proved incapacity of aspiring statesmen to lead their reputed followers whither they will. The vote on the. whole is not notably large, but the etory of unex pectedly ,heavy polling ls a-common one in the morning's dispatches. This means, of course, that voters do not expressv their concern" In elections as once they did. Absorption in profitable business accounts for some of this, de cline In torchlight parades and street corner agitation, but we' may fairly con clude also that the race is becoming somewhat farther removed from the babarlc age of noise and flaring colors. That more thought andless foolishness Characterize our ipolitics may also be inferred from several noteworthy fail ures of vengeful politicians to compass the defeat of regular and deserving party nominees. The Republican does not belong to Quay In Pennsylvania, to either La Follette or Spooner in Wis consin, or to any oneiof three or four redoubtable chieftains in Washington. It makes for public morality when the party rises superior to 'the machina tions of marplots, and it is quite as im portant to keep bosses from beating good nominees as It is to prevent them fronvelectlng bad ones. It IsTilgh time that in Oregon as elsewhere the Repub lican party as a whole should realize Its superiority over Its various warring factions; t 3IR. HERMANN'S SUGGESTIONS. Land Commissioner Hermann does well to suggest the withdrawal from sile under the general land laws of "those public lands which are more val uable for forest purposes than for other purposes." And he advances an unan swerable argument in support of this suggestion In the statement that the existing law governing the sale of tlm bered lands was enacted thirty years ago and under conditions radically dif ferent from those which now obtain His estimate of a direct loss to the Government of nearly $120,000,000 in the sales of timbered lands during the past thirty years is none too high; and there is small comfort In the -reflection that the greater part of this vast sum has gone toward the enrichment of specu lators and exploiters who have contrib uted little or nothing to the permanent interests of the country. ,This suggestion is untimely, but only in the sense that it ought to have come twenty years-ago, In advance of the movements which have "made private property and .subjected to Individual ra pacity or carelessness a resource which ought never in its exploitation to have gotten beyond Government regulation and control. From the start the policy of the Government in relation to tim bered lands has been on a wrong basis, It would have been vastly better if the Government In selling the limber had reserved title to the lands and so had retained such authority as would have enabled It to dictate the conditions un der which timbering operations may be carried cn, at the same time gaining for its own treasury the great sums which have been engrossed by timber speculators. But the .opportunity to en- aci uus policy mis not wnouy Deen lost. In spite of' losses under ill-considered and obsolete lnw there still remains a great area of timbered public lands;. and if they shall now be withdrawn under Mr. 'Hermann's suggestion there will be opportunity to consider the ques tion of their disposal In all Its relations and to establish a system under which public as well as private interests may be guarded and conserved Much of the nominal If not the real- objection to recent forest reserve pro posals rests upon the claim that they stand as a bar to the legitimate opera tions of settlers and miners by prevent ing them from obtaining such supplies of timber as their necessities and the general Interest of the -country call for. Mr. Hermann's recommendation that reasonable quantities of timber be permitted to be taken in such cases will, The Interior Department has, it is said, after patient wrestling, decided a "knotty" problem. "As the story Is told, a Spanish War veteran appealed to the Secretary of the Interior against an ad verse ruling of the Pension Bureau on his claim for a pension, which was based upon the painful fact that he had contracted corns In the service through wearing Army shoes. After careful con sideration the department sustained the poet Pension Commissioner in his rejec tion of the claim, saying: "Corns are inconvenient, but seldom incapacitating, and when they are the remedy is simple and within the reach of any one. The soldier's patriotism ought not to termi nate with his military ssrvlce. It should prompt him In this case to go to a chiropodist rather than to the Pen sion Bureau for relief." Perhaps the boasted political powers and mighty in fluences that gleat over the removal of Commissioner Evans will take umbrage at this rating of corns and patriotism and construe the allusion to the chiropo dist in this sacred connection as a deliberate- and gratuitous Insult to old sol diers. Let Commissioner Ware beware. SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS The ConnscI of Experience. Adams Advance. A Portland preacher, has left his pulpit to take a job on a motor car. The ob ject Is to study human nature. A better plan would he to have found employment as a faro-dealer. Triumph of Whitman Stsitesmannhip. Colfax Gazette. Eepator Turner Is ci'pecrallyinierested in the election of Barney Jacofcs, of Union town, as representative in the seventh rflsJrlft. Ir. Jacobs was formerly a bar tender in a "Cnfontown saloon, and. U elected, would be . a valuable addition to Turner's "headquarters" at Olympla. Need, of Post Cliccli Currency. Tacoma News. The plan of the post check currency bill is to make money of small deomlna t!or.t. payable to order at any postofflce. Ali classes of people sending money by mail arc interested In It. It save3 times, is convenient,, lessens the expense and guarantees an absolutely safe way for the transmission of small i-.ums by mall. The plan Is practicable and has been In dorsed by many of the best, newspaper men. It Is applicable to the farmer on the rural mail route, tho merchant In the country and city, the publisher, and manu facturer in all sections. Tho Idea Is simply an evidence of the Bpirit of evo lution characteristic of the American peo ple. It should became a law and bo made a part of our perfect commercial system. VIEWS OF THE WORLD'S FAIR. Wai Pilled With "Hot Air." Union Republican. The special session bubble has bursted. It was filied with "hot air." Just as Well nt Regular Session. Union Republican. The people of Oregon do want the big Fair to come off at Portland and they will give the proper assistance. But that can be attended to at the Legislative session this Winter. The Sooner Rid of, the Better. Mora Observer. The "will not be an extra session" peo ple are afraid lest a Senator may be chosen thereat. Very good; the sooner the thing. is done with the better. Again, the Lewis and Clark Exposition requires at tention and half a million of money, and If this should be neglected Oregon as a commonwealth may do well to pull down the blind and retire to a state conserva tive mosstacklsm. NOTE AND COMMENT. Yellow boys Oulnamen., -Many happy returns, Mr. Candidate. The rubbish box is tho proper nest for a cuckoo clock. The City Physician's accounts might be classed as dead reckoning. The miners demand payment by the ion. This is not so unreasonable as it sounds. San Francisco papers still advertise an epidemic of suicide. Do they refer to tho inrush of tourists? The Canadian government promises to attend to the Doukhbons just as soon as an authorized spelling is agreed upon. Surgeons have extracted a kr.iff frf m a man's head in Chicago. It got in 12 scr.rs ago as a pocket knife. It is now a ical case knife. Fertile brain. "Billy" Saunders is a natural-born wit. says tho New York Tribune. He is in! his SOth year, living, and Is still working! at his trade, painting. On a recent occa-j sion "Billy" and one or two of his mates were beautifying a lawyer's office. The i Mr. James Deerlng, of Chicago, is a man of blameless character and large philanthropies. But in one of his public capacitlesMr. Deering has need to recall the old maxim that to be just should precede being generous. We refer to his presidency of the National Reci procity League. Mr. Deering holds that certain American tariffs should be re duced In order that American manu facturers may thereby be secured Yead ier access to foreign markets. Now, the beneficiaries of these proposed reciprocal arrangements are largely the manufac turers of agricultural Implements, of whom Mr. Deering is an eminent rep resentative. The census shows that of these we are already exporting as follows; TE3IPERANCE AND TRUTH. President Eliot, of Harvard Univer sity, In a recent address, said that "the attempt to teach total abstinence in the public schools has been an injury -to the teachings of science, inasmuch as ideas concerning the effect of alcohol were taught which could, not be proved." The Woman's Christian Tem perance Union, at its recent meeting at Portland, Me., flatly contradicts Presi dent Eliot, saying that "the teaching on this subject in ' the public schools has the approval of men of acknowl edged eminence in science, and has never been proved false." American Medicine, on the other hand, strongly supports President Eliot, and describes the fanatical ignorance of the text books and methods of the W. C. T. U. as disgusting. A committee appointed by the teachers and principals of New York City earnestly recommends that "the teachers' associations and school authorities of the city initiate some movement looking toward a more ra tional use of the time that is now de voted to so-called 'temperance physi ology.' This teaching is Intended to give children an abhorrence of alcoholic drinks, but By the unpedagogic meth ods It employs it succeeds only In cul tivating in children an abhorrence of the beautiful and useful science of physiology." The New York State Teachers' As- sociatl&n takes the same view of the Ignorant description of the physiolog ical effects and scientific uses of alco hol as given In the physiology, with charts of hob-nailed livers and pictures of delirium tremens. Professor W. C. Atwater, of Wesleyan University, for holding that alcohol In a limited sense has a food value, was recently de nounced at a Methodist preachers' meet ing in New York City. He is the son of a Methodist clergyman and lifelong temperance evangelist. He distinctly disapproves of the use of alcohol as a beverage, but stands by the statement that In a scientific sense alcohol In limited quantities has a food value. It Is a mere question of scientific fact, and upon this subject the Methodist clergymen without knowledge have no more business ignorantly to denounce Professor Atwater than the pope had for imprisoning Galileo for holding that the earth moves. The cause of temper ance can easily endure the truth. The unexaggerated conclusion of science re garding the use of alcohol Is fatal to any defense of its excessive consump tion. Science tells us that In excess Measles, though a simple disease among civilized peoples, becomes a pes tilence among savages. Tradition has it that the Multnomah Indians, number ing many hurfdred braves, were prac tically exterminated by this disease, or rather by their treatment of it, in the early days of the Hudson's Bay Com pany, and Dr. Whitman's troubles with the Nez Perces, resulting in the bar baroug massacre of more than fifty yeer3 ago, were aggrevated by the prevalence of this disease among the Indians and his inabiltiy' to check its ravages under savage conditions. Late advices from the North state that fully one-fourth of- the natives along the Arctic Coast have died the present year from this disease, while for several years past pneumonia, rheumatism and other mal adies of the white man have been busy decimating their ranks. Humanity shudders at the suffering of these creatures, but recognizes the hand of Nature working out her decree of the survival of the fittesf in their talcing off. Itoadmnkins Need Uniformity. Albany Herald. The visit of Commissioner Abbott to the Coast, while It may be late is very timely. This state Is certainly in need of good roads and this visit of Mr. 'Abbott and his talk3 with business men and county offi cials will result in good roads interest and the betterment of our highways. One of the principal wants of our road wcrk ystem in lack of uniformity of methods of work. Mr. Abbott is eminently correct when he iays, "the underlying principles of working good roads are indeed few." And the first of these Is to construct the road In uch a manner aa to keep the wa ter from standing cn the rond. He Is also orrectwhen he says that fairly good roacYj can be made from common soil If so made that the water will run off the road when It falls, and with ditches to carry it. away irom the sides of the roaa Some misunderstanding has arisen over the heading to a Washington spe cial printed In The Oregonian a few days ago: It stated that the Govern ment would have "ho new dredge. "v Ad was explained in the text of the arti cle, this referred only to the river dredge, and in no way related to the dredge for the mouth of the river. The mammoth dredge just completed by the Port of Portland for use on the river, when supplemented by the Government dredge now in us, will keep the river channel in excellent - shape until the channel over the bar is put in a corre spondingly good condition. Meanwhile the Government is actively at work on the preliminaries for fitting out a tem porary dredge for the mouth of the river, and in due season Portland will be as well equipped for the ocean com merce of the Pacific as any port on the Coast. The "Oscar Wilde scandal that dis graced England and shocked, the civil ized world a few years ago has been continued with new names in the title role. A well-known society man and the son of a clergyman of the estab Hshed church will, as the result of re cent legal investigation, for depraving the youth of the realm, spend the next ten years in prison. Fortunately, the details of this scandal have not been given to the public. It is well to know however, that penalty has overtaken these monsters, of immorality, who have made it their business to poison the social stream at Its very fountalnhead by debauching the youth of the nation It is gratifying to hear from the Game Warden that the beaver colony dlscov ered recently near the headwaters of he Deschutes River, in Southeastern Oregon, will be protected from trappers. However, as the trappers are already at work on the colony, the approprla tion i3 nearly gone and the Warden's deputy may not be able to get there this If adopted, knock the props from" under alcohol impairs certain cerebral func- j beavers have not a very good prospect many protests among others from that tlons5 cthat ln heh and under ordl- o getting through the Winter In a Franco Germany United Kingdom Other Europe ... Argentina .. $2,101,607 .. 1.8CS.C72 .. 1,187.049 .. 3,950.832 .. 1.9S0.S22 It to a stupendous Industry. Of the total capital, $157,707,951. the amounts In the cities having the largest interests in this business were as follows: Chicago. HI .....$30,025,335 Springfield. O. S 194.543 Racine, Wis C.013,534 Auburn. N. Y 6,OS4,041 Pi-oria, 111 3.311.512 Canton. 0 2.473.SG3 Dayton, 0 2,064,423 The Industry -is further- noteworthy for its conformation to tfie general trust tendency toward consolidation. Every census since 1860 has shown a reduction in the number of factories, while there has been a rapid growth of capital. In I860-there were 2116 establishments with an average capitalization of $6553; in moO'there were 715, with an average cap ital of $220,571. This is the enfeebled in fant Industry that must be helped on its feet by taking away protection from bides, wool, fruit, wines and suear.t Yet which, comes from Grant County to the projected Blue Mountain reservation, Tne recommendation is essentially a wise one, intrinsically just and right, and calculated to promote the forest reserve policy by leaving no legitimate objection to it. But when It comes to practical operations under this conces sion it will be necessary to make the regulations very definite and the in spectlon very close, since, if. left to their own purposes, the "necessities" of timber-takers are likely to expand surpris ingly Mr. Hermann observes accurately that the system under which flocks of sheep have been permitted to range in the forest reserves has not worked well in practice. It was a mistake to permit an unofficial authority like the Wool growers Association to have the right of apportionment, and a further mistake was made under pressure of the great demand for range privileges to permit the entry of flocks In large numbers.' Such change should be made In the rules as will retain the duty of appor tionment ln oillclal hands and will limit the numbers of fiocts to the capacity of the range, without Jnjury to it Such a change will, in thelong run, be more satisfactory to flock-owners than the presant rule, and it will go much further toward preserving the range value of the reserved areas. A SUBTLE ENEMY. , Typhoid fever reaches the epidemic stage In one or more cities of the At lantic States almost every year. Pitts burg Is one of the greatest sufferer?, while the health boards of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Brooklyn fight the dis ease periodically, beginning usually In September, after the Summer resort visitors nave returned to their homes. The time of its appearance and the fail ure of health officers in many cases to trace the disease to a local source give rise to the belief that the Impure water supply of many Summer resorts Is re sponsible for the outbreak. Medical science having discovered the microbe that, finding lodgment in- tho alimentary canal, sets up the condition known as typhoid fever. Is positive in the assertion that the disease can 'only result from the Introduction intcj the system through food or drink In which thla Dernlclous germ has found lodg- nary circumstances aiconoi is not an economic food. The fact that athletes In course of training are required to abstain proves the power of alcohol to relax the nerves and reduce muscular endurance. Experience teaches that a moderate use of alcohol very commonly leads to excess, and science teaches us that an immoderate use of liquor weak ens the tissues so that they are more susceptible to disease. Why hot. tell the- plain, cold truth In. the text-books, instead of exciting the contempt of the children by lurid pic tures or charts of diseased livers and descriptions of delirium tremens? To say dogmatically that "alcohol Is not a food, that It Is a poison, always harm ful," is not a full, fair statement, for many most valuable medicines are surely poisons. Heat, light and elec tricity, under certain conditions and forms of application, would be destruc tive to life, and in that sense pblsons. Let us either keep this patent N temper ance physiology out of the text-books or else tell the children the plain, full, pimple truth about the physiological ef fect of alcohol and Its scientific uses. Ultimately the child finds out that he has been imposed upon, and he jumps naturally to the conclusion that the whole thing is a pious fraud. Wheat is selling in the Portland mar ket at -the highest price paid since the Leiter boom, four years ago, and' about 15 cents per bushel over the price paid a year ago. This pleasing condition of affairs exists in spite of the fact that the European cargo .market shows little or no improvement over the prices of a year ago. A portion of this heavy .gain in prices to the producers is due to a world-wide weakness In freights', but local conditions have also contributed seveial cents to the value of wheat As stated ln yesterday's pews columns. there Is an enormous demand for flour for shipment to the Orient and South Africa. Millers are enaDJed to pay a premium over export values for wheajb for milling purposes, and every cargo of wheat that Is diverted to this compara tively new field lessens the demand and weakens the market for tonnage, thus aiding ln better prices for that portion of the crop that must still be exported as wheat. The increase in the dairying industry 'has enlarged the market for mill feed and assisted in bringing about flourishing condition. The two sides ln the contention which the Coal Commission is patiently in vestlgating both make a strong show ing. A more difficult and thankless task than that to which the Presiden set these men can hardly be imagined To suppose that their findings will be acceptable, in the sense that they will satisfy both parties, is Uo expect the impossible. Men blinded by self-interest will not and in the very nature things cannot see through the eyes of those disinterested. rileoi Tilings That Are Ignored. Salem Journal. While the opposition to a special session have exhausted thenti-elvts to" show con stitutional difficulties in the way of a special session they have not fhown why J UiU salaries ana direct iHgisiauon snuuri not be put into Immediate effect. They nave auxnuicu inai uiuae urt; buu I . ,.,,., i. ..rI..t things, and should be put In force at the younger partner, thinking to take a rise r cof?sicn or i our vcars iiciicv. xj"- i - " i.i ve never given a good,' valid rea- "I say, 'Billy,' did you ever know of a painter going to heaven?" "Yes." renlicd "Billy." "I knew of one once." But do you think he stayed there?" j Well, I did hear that they tried to put ; him out." "And did they not succeed?" "No. According to last accounts, they had not succeeded." "Well, how was that?" "Well, sonny, it was this way: They couldn't find a lawyer in the place to draw up the papers!" regular cession, or four years hence. But they have never given a good, valid rea son why the people should wait two or four vears. They cannot give one. Investigation Will Do No Knrm. Eugene Register. The announcement that timber land en tries ln the Roseburg, Lakevlew and The Dalles land districts are to be investi gated hos created quite a furore over the state. Feople piling Into the state oy tne carload for the sole- purpose of gobbling up timber for speculative purposes has, no doubt, opsr.ed the eyes ot the general land office, and while a number or legal entries will no doubt be held up. pending an investigation, the check to fraudulent entries willbe ol benefit to the state. While we believe no blame can attach. directly to the land office attaches m either of the districts named, no harm will A young woman ln one of the candy stores In this city had a sweet quarter of an hour all bv herself the other day. In ter. ilorc Thurston Achilles. Adams Advance. Governor Geer shows resentment at hav ing been turned down by the party man agers for renomination, which he claims .vas done In spite of -his "earnest en treaties." In all probability he should have been renominated. He is a' big man; has made a good Governor; Is a good cam paigner, and all that, but If Mr. Geer does not know why he was turned down by the party managers, he docs not know as much about some things as the ordinary Eastern Oregon voter. . . . But It Is lost time threshing over old straw. The fact still remains that Mr. Geer sulked In his tent. It is also, a fact that he formed nn alliance with Simon. This may have bpen compulsory, but nevertheless such actions and such associations are apt to reaulro much- waste of time and paper In explaining away. Governor ueer, ana many of his friends regret it, is politically speaking a dead cock ln the pit. Fell- Valuations Better. Orerron City Enterprise. Anart from the effect of the policy of full valuation on the ability of the city or county or district to increase its debt, n nnlfnrm rate of valuation Is desirable. Under the present system the assessed value of property In a city gives no oasis upon which to estimate tno reianve wealth of cities. There Is some force ln the arguments of the opponents of full valuation that larger revenues will lead to lareer exoendltures. But If Increasea expenditures are nccefeary to provide for uniform benefits from taxation they must be incurred. From some sources now comes tne announcement mai aevmn hundred children of school age are denied accommodation in the public schools for lack of money to build schoolhouses. A city or district Is under a moral and legal obligation to provide school accommoda tion for all children of school age who ap ply for-lt, and the obligation must.be dirt- charged, no matter what tne result is m the way of Increased taxes. A Grent Dairy Country. St. Helens Mist. Much is being said ln the dally papers and ln the railroad pamphlets about the fitness of Oregon climate and 30II for the dairying Industry. Columbia County having within its borders the greatest dairying section of Oregon, scarcely re ceives any mention at all. Columbia County has the advantage over many other sections in the matter of the pe culiar adaptation of the soil for the growth of grasses for feed and pasturage. Food grasses grow rank, even on the mountains of high altitudes. A pre-eminent advantage that Columbia County has over many other sections of the state is tho fact of the convenience of both rail and water transportation, and the nearness to the Portland market. Short hauls and low freight rates are mighty factora ln her favor, as a dairy section. The Nehalem Valley noted for Us wonderful wealth of fine timber, also will become a great dairying section. It Is only a question of time when the val ley will be connected with the outer world by rail and Nehalem butter and cheese will become noted products. Not n Very Checrtnl View. The Dalles Tlmcs-Mountalneer. Hon. II. W. Corbett,-president of the Lewis and Clark Exposition Board of Di rectors, is credited with having said, "un lefi3 the state appropriates 5E00.CC0 the Fair cannot be held." Well, this about settles It. The people of Oregon will never con sent to spending half a million dollars un less Portland will guarantee a million, and an that event It Is doubtful If so high shelf, she stepped upon the top of a cask of molasses. The top caved In and she sank to her waist In the delectable stuff. Her- screams brought the propri etor, and she was gingerly extricated aM taken into the candy kitchen to fix up The hard-hearted man forgot the loss ofl his molasses in various unappreciated I trials at wit. Finally the poor girl's teara ; softened his bosom, and he said: "Cheer up, and I'll go out and get you some shoes and stockings, so you can go home." large an appropriation wouiu oe &ui.- A j fc f rencwed anguish convulsed the .-ii,..ki n vr ,in not maiden's features, and tnero was an in i (M.tir. hn.Q!n: mo stnnt's silence. Then her sobs broke than a dollar apiece to secure it, so It Mr. Corbett'f? statement Is authentic, Portlanders who are booming the Fair had as well throw up their hands ano quit. forth afresh as she stammered: "You'll have to get me mere than shoes and stockings." She came Into the room where he sat alone, with a glittering knire in her clenched hand, which she held hidden amid the folds of her dress. Her face was white and drawn, and her eyes were wild Cnmpalgn of Edncation First. Eugene Register. The Taxpayers League and the fair di rectors throw the Lewis and Clark Fair appropriation into the broach when they an(j haggard-looking. stand ror a special fiession. j.ne wwesi Her husband sat by the fire, deep ir over the state in favor of a liberal ap- footfalls of the beautiful woman. v,lia proprlatlon for the fair and put the pub- now stood behind his chair with a strange, lie pulse In harmony and touch witn tne Cold smile upon her lips. scope of the undertaking before any tated sum Is asked by way of an appro priation. That can be done between now and the meeting of the Legislature In reg ular session. Mne-tenthB of the legisla tors and all of the people are opposed to a special session and neither the law makers nor the people will be made jumplng-jacks with fair appropriation at tachment. We are of the opinion that tne position taken by the fair directors In favor of a special session Is detrimental to the chances for such an appropriation as they will expect from the state. The latest returns show that there are in this country 47S3 postoffices, calling for $S,377,300 for the salaries of Post masters, and doing an annual busines; of $58,283,701. A Nation's progress ln in telligence, Industry and wealth is illus trated by these -.figures. In close touch with, the people, and coming yet closer year by year, the postal service is at once an index and a forerununer of a Nation's growth. Minnesota's Republican Congressmen seem to be re-elected, and their victory may be largely ascribed to their es pousal of tariff reform and recantation of "insurgent" principles. The desire to discipline President Roosevelt will not be as eager at Washington this Winter as it was last. And now England Is expected to give the American hop market another boost. Hops and bufter are stretching prodig iously for the top of the ladder, with nobody -to complain save those who have to buy. - Editor Hitchcock, of the Omahax Wbrld-Herald, has at last succeeded ln breaking Into Congress. In about six weeks he will feel like advertising in his paper for some one to take the job off his hands. The Board .of Education Is holding "star chamber sessions." Taxpayers are sorry (or glad) that the work of the board does not ln any way concern the public. . Rochester's complete vote, announced soon after , the polls' close, i9 a good "ad." for voting machines and also for the city's enterprise. Good Roads Pny. Baker Citj' Democrat. Not only do good, permanent highways save the farmer, miner and producers .from nature expense In transportation, but trood roads make permanent markets and keep "prices even the year round, sav lncr the "farmer from the clutches of the storage warehouseman who Is on the rail road track or at the boat-landing and to whom the farmer or producer must de liver when tho roadrt arc passable, borrow a little money, pay high storage charges and finally, perhaps," sell at a loss at the will of his creditor, with good roaas. the farmer can store his crops in his own barns and haul to the railroad station whenever ho chooses to sell, taking ad vantage of market prices, which under such conditions are always better, save Interest and storase and come out at the end of the year with a profit that wih more than nay his share of the cost of permanent roadbulldlng Instead of charg ing nip losses on his ledger. Oregon farm ers are learning the lesson ana .Bauer will lead ln the good roads movement in Eastern Oregon. It Is simple when you know how and work on right lines. Mlstrnsts Something Behind It. Albany Democrat. It has been suggested that it looks very much as if there was something up the sleeve, a nigger In the chicken roost. In connection with the present agitation and Investigation of timber land entries While It is possible that there have been a tew herd of people sent. In from the East by the syndicates,, it Is a 'fact that, most of the claims have. Been niea oy uregomans who certainly are entitled to a preference ln the matter. The idea Is advanced that if these claims can be vacated the rail roads can Jump in with their scrip and file on even' piece taken from the pre3 ent claimants. In view of tho fact that the Government only recently permitted a big railroad to gobble up some of the finest timber belts in the state in lieu of some worthless land up on Mount Rainier it Is not unreasonable to think that the business ia a trick in the interest of the same railroad, and It Is believed -that the scrip will be U3ed In many cases in antic ipatlon of the vacation, so that It will bo Impossible for any one else to get ln ahead' of It. At least this is a view that i3 being promulgated on the streetn among those who have claims. Certainly the Govern ment will not dare treat Oregon claimants with less favor than the Northern Pacific, Suddenly, with a. gasp, she cast tha knife from her toward 'the glowing coal?, but it sank silently into a sofa at the other end of the room. "I cannot!" she moaned, wearily; "1 cannot!" And she fell Into a white heap upon t.je ' floor at his feet. A pitying, tender expression broke across the granite of his cheek, and he mur mured In deep, tender, heavy-dragoon tones: "What is it, darling?" But she spoke not a word she onlj raised one white hand toward him. ln which she clasped a lead pencil. She had been trying to sharpen it, pocr girl! One of the churches here has adopt d the Individual communion cup system, and, as a consequence, one family Is thinking of going elsewhere. Last Sun day father and mother and small son were ln their accustomed pew. The serv ice progressed as usual till the new feat ure In the proceedings attracted the at- tntion of the lad, aged 6. His eyes bulged out when he saw the tray, and a look ol reminiscent comprehension lighted up hla face. When the time came for his mother to lift out the- cup, his small but" pene trating voice pierced the atmosphere with: "Say. mamma, is that beer?" Then, be fore his father could suppress him, he continued: 'iDoes It taste the same aa beer? Papa wants some; don't you, papa?" His mother put the cup back, and the infant swiftly possessed hlmsell of It and emptied the liquid. "Ma-a-a-h, but that's better than beer. Ain't tin any more? Then he caught sight o&'tHi bread and screamed In delight: "Oh! there's the sandwiches. Here, waiter!" And he was led away, weeping. "Outrnjreous," Says nn Objector. Medford Enquirer. The Enaulrer never has opposed a fair. reasonable and just appropriation for the Lewis and Clark Exposition, but It does consider the Portland demand of S3C0.00O as absolutely unfair and unjust to the people outside of Portland. There Is no right or justice in the demand that the people who live outside of Portland and Multnomah County should be taxed an amount that Will exceed $4 per capita for every man, woman and child in Port land, for a private management; and woe unto, the Legislator who votes to tax tne people In any sum so outrageous aa this Portland demand. No doubt the Tele gram and Oregonian think all who op pose are spiteful malcontents: In their little marble hearts there is not a senti ment of generosity for any one or any thing which opposes their wishes or de mands. "But there are others," and be fore they get through with their demand for a $500,000 graft, they will find they cannot muzzle those who fight for tho rights of the people against this out rageous demand. Where to Hold the Next Centennial. Adams Advance. No censure can be attached to the Port land press for advocating an appropria tion of S5C0.C00 by the State of Oregon. We should probably do the same thing in case the money was to be spent In Adam.. Here, however, we would not be compelled to chop down trees or dynamite stumps in order to make room for the buildings. We could not show our yons Mount PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHEItS. Hood or duck ponas, out we couia enow them the western slope of the Elue Mountain range, the more elevated por tions of which are heavily clothed with fine foreots and out of whose side ex quisitely crystalline waters burst at sev eral points, and lazily wend their way through great areas of the most highly fertile wheat landfl to be found in the world.. Nor would It be necessary for our visitors to dress In the garb of a diver ln the pearl fishery, as perpetual rain is not a penalty necessarily endured by tho producer of cereals In Eistern Oregon; with sufficient moisture to Insure good crops, the weather for the most part in calculated to Inspire sweetest songs of meadow larks and orioles. Popnlr.r Sons of the Day. Baltimore American. (This beautiful ballad from thepen of Mr. Dashfc Moft Is entitled "Do Not Take the Door knob From the Door," and Is sun? with great success by Henry Irving, Robert Downing., Eleanor Duae and other comedlar.P. Protoss- Elonal copies on application. Pirates beware. Lew Dockstader please write. Regards to tho Brutal Brothers.) A ypungr man stood before his home, He came to say good-bye; He pressed hl3 hand against 'fils brow And slowly wiped his eye. Hl3 trunk was packed and he must leave For a city far away. He raised his hat and called fawwell. And then to his, old mother he did say: CHORUS. Do not take the doorknob from the door I Leave it there to greet me as of yore. Often ln the snow and aleet Of my old home I will weep! Do not take the doorknob from the door. His mother stood before the house And .saw his footsteps go. She sobbed alor.e ln her sad grief That mothers only know. And through eternity she -heard Her son so blithe aifd gay Call as he did on that dread morn When unto his old mother he did say: CHORUS. , fWlth Much reeling and Expression.) Do not take the doorknob from the door! Leave It there to greet me as of yore. In the Summer's heat and rain It may be that I will came If you do not tafco the doorknob from the door. COAL JOKE 370.247 SERIES VW. The crowded car came to a stop The conductor turned and said, "Will come one kindly start a hymn? They're unloading ccal ahead!" Baltimore News. Lady (engaging a maid) Was your last mis tress satisfied with you? Maid Well. mum. she said she was very pleased when I left! Punch. Mrs. Crlmsonbeak I see by this paper. John, that coal has been discovered p Sullivan Coun ty. Mr. Crimsonbcak In whose cellar? York ers Statesman. It happened at the golf links. "Where's Brown?" "He's taking a hazRrd." "What 1a you mean?" "He's making the round of the links with Miss Fiirte." Chicago Past. "They've found n. candidate for Congress down ln Tennessee who is acruwl of selling moonshine whisky." "His campaign must bo a sort of still hunt." Cleveland Plain Dealer. She He's very much in Iova with his v.ife. He says If sho should die h lo"T.'t kr.-jw what he'd do. He What's the matter? Hasn't he got money enough to bury n-r? Philadel phia Frcss. A youngster was fooling around th tall eid of a doj the other day. "Look out" said a can-ful aunt, "he'll bite. "No. no. auntie!" said the baby. "I'sa no' at- the bitin ni." Glasgow Evening Times. Dick I fav. Hany, can you charge a $5 till for me? Harry I guess ro pr-jcing tha r.otcs); yes. here you are. Dick-Thirls. o!S chappie; when I get a $5 bill I will anJ It to you. So long. Boston Trans-rri;t Mr. Borrowall (of Lonelyvllle) But. surely, you don't expect four tons of coal To 1-sst joo all Winter! Mr. Isolate (of Dwlndl'hurot h, yes! The hired man who runs my furnacfl used to be Janitor of a Karl-sm flat. Puck. Fortune Teller During the next year you will be run over by an automobile, severely clubbed by a policeman, and thrown eft an electric car. not to mention oth"r hil-broith escapes. Customer How In the world did ;au know I live in New York? Life. "What on earth are you doing In 're. T m my?" asked his mother, peering Into the oark nc3s of the henhouse, whence had keen omi-.g for five minutes or more a series f CV.r.-.il squawklngs, accompanied by a l-tul fin -lng of wings. "I am trying." said Ti m-nj who seemed to be doing something with a k-'ted rope, "to fix this rooster so his alarrr vr i go oil before 7 o'clock tomorrow momiz." -Chl-cajo Tribune.