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Many of our people are troubled about the change that has taken place during the last decade In the character and quality of our immigration from Europe- They seem to think that we are now getting an "undesirable popu lation." because it differs In racial and national characteristics from the bulk of the Immigration that formerly poured Into the United States. Now if history proves anything It proves that human progress depends chiefly on the contact and competition of race with race. Italy and Hungary and Bohemia and Poland can contribute much to the energy of the United States. Those countries are supplying, as we believe, elements necessary to the differentia tion of life and mind among us. The Oregonlan Is not appalled, therefore, when it js shown that there Is decrease of movement to the United States from countries from which we formerly re ceived the bulk of Immigration, and Increase from others from which we formerly received little. A few days ago in X(0s Angeles Mr. J. J. Byrne de livered a lecture before a local club on the changes that are taking place In the movement from other countries to the United States showing how the sources of Immigration have changed of late. Prom the report of his lecture in the local press, showing contributions from various countries to the stream of migration to the United States, we take this table: 1821 to 1002. 1003. Per Cent. Per Cent. United Kingdom ,. 34 7 Germany 25 4H Norway and Sweden... 6!i S' Italy 6 27 Austria 6 24 Russia .' 16 France , - 2 Switzerland 1 11 The striking figures in this table are those which show the Increase of Immi gration Into the United States from Italy, Austria, Russia and Switzerland, and decrease from the United Kingdom and Germany. Some increase also is noted from Norway and Sweden. Now, In fact, the stock of Northern Europe Is our own stock, but It has been po.urlng in during a long period, and we need the other stock. The changes this country needs can be ef fected only through diversity of race. This country needs infiltration of new ideas and of new forces, which It can get only from people who have "the other pojnt of view." "We shall get these results through the change going on in the character of the Immigration. We shall make progress only through variation of Ideas and activities, from a fixed or common type. There Is room here, then, for these new people: there Is need of them. They will help us; we shall help them. On both sides we shall supply new forces to each other. The assimilation will make new conditions and beneficent results. A wider hu manity will be the consequence. Not long .ago a member of the Con gress of the United States expressed alarm about the' Increasing influx of Italians into the United States. Italy, he said, furnished us -a low order of people, who would subvert our civiliza tion; and he had never seen or heard of an Italian who was fit for American citizenship. A fellow-member rose and asked him if he had ever heard of Co lumbus, Galileo, Savonarola, Dante, .Raphael, Michael Angelo, Cavour, Gari baldi, Mazzlnl, Massena, Napoleon Bonaparte. The debate ended there. NORMAL SCHOOLS AGAIN. Representative Mears has proposed that there shall be an. inquisition into the methods and efficiency of all educa tional institutions receiving state aid. It is aimed at the abnormal 'normal schools of Oregon. It may be well for the "Legislature to determine officially what every observant person knows actually, and that Is that at least three of the four Oregon schools are In the strictest sense local Institutions, serv ing as high schools in their respective communities: and the state foots the bills. It Is undoubtedly a fact also that the creation of these three normal I .schools has greatly limited the useful ness and prevented the development of the fourth and original institution. It lis singular that the delegation from Polk County, for example, permits it self to be roped into a combination by which funds that, might, at least In part, have been bestowed on Monmouth are diverted to Drain, Ashland and "Weston, -and opportunity to build up at Monmouth a great normal school for the entire state Is thus thrown away. So It Is surprising, too, that the Lane County delegation, with its State Uni versity to look out for. Joins the blen- nlal logrolling scheme, and so does LBenton County, where the State Agri cultural College is located. The State of Oregon is sparsely populated, and its people are far from rich: but they might b content to support a State Liniverslty. an Agricultural College (with Government aid) and one normal school; -but they should not be called upon to do more. The reason is not entirely financial. The more schools we havebeyond the three distinctive in sututions the worse for all for the schools, their respective faculties and their pupils. The brakes must be applied some day. They should be applied now. STOCK AT THE '5 FAIR. All think, of course, that Oregon can and will outshine her neighbors In her fruit exhibit at the '03 Fair; but It will have to be fought hard for. As to the stock exhibit, the state has the prestige of the honors carried off at St. Louis In both dairy and stock cattle, and in sneep. It will not do to rest on our laurels and take the premier place for granted, and we feel sure that plans have been laid .long since by our well known breeders and raisers, and are now being pressed day by day, to outdo at the Lewis and Clark what was shown at St. Louis. The managers of the Fair have disclosed their purpose by setting aside as large a sum as $10,- 009 for premiums, and by placing the Immediate care for the stock exhibit in hands as interested and as competent as those of M. Ladd and Richard Scott. Of course, these exhibits will have a double purpose. First, the animals bred and reared in Oregon are to show to the wide world as well as to our own people that we have the men, Investing Immense sums In acquiring the very best aplmals and devoting all kinds of effort to bringing them to the nearest possible approach to perfection; and we are to demonstrate the truth of our repeated claims that In climate, soil and vegetable products Oregon stands sec ond to no other corner of the world for the raising of the very best stock in all their classes. Then, in attracting the finest exam ples as well from our' neighboring states as from far greater distances, our visitors, as well as the Oregonlans, are to have the chance to admire, com pare and In many instances purchase after the Fair is over. There Is .no department of the Fair which will, do more to develop the In terests and add to the wealth of Ore gon. BearMn mind the conditions un der which the Oregonlan and the new comer live on the partly opened and cleared farms which form by far the greater proportion of our agricultural lands,, both ranches, farms and ranges. It has been recently stated, and has passed without challenge, that just about one-half of the lands included within the line's of farms even In the Willamette Valley are yet uncleared In a strict sense. That Is, that pending the clearing for the plow of those mil lions of acres the keeping and feeding thereon of stock-'of all kinds is the one way of profitable use of thai Immense area. Every owner and purchaser of these farms and ranches is being urged to Increase the stock he shall feed. It Is pointed out to him In the first place that stock in Oregon, cattle, sheep and goats, can. pass possibly more weeks more continuous in growth than in any other part of the world. Next he Is told that the forage plants of Oregon, grass, clover, alfalfa, vetch and rape, are more certain In yield, more profitable in the constituents of animal food, and more continuous In growth, than in any other region of anything like the same area. Again, he is told that, far differ ent from other districts, where one variety of stock prospers and others fall short, In Oregon the dairy cow is in perfection, the stock cattle are sec ond to none, the sheep attain early growth, superior wool and greater fecundity than elsewhere, while the Angora goat has found its perfectly adapted home. These things being so, is It not obvious that to be content with Inferior breeds, poor specimens, neglected herds and flocks, is to forfeit the profit that our Oregon lands should bring, and to have to submit to the very low opinion of our farming visit ors, and thereby to depreciate the value of our farms and ranches? Let us, then. In every way hold up the hands of the representative men who have the details of this vastly Im portant matter In hand. Let it go forth far. and wide that the stock show at the Lewis and Clark Exposition is to be as wide In Its scope as any that have gone before, and, If possible, better In its individual examples. Those who are fortunate enough to have worthy ani mals to show must not be discouraged In advance by the high repute of the exhibitors they will meet. Let them re member (hat the great majority of purchases will not be of the extravagantly-priced prizewinners, but from the ranks of the animals good enough to show, thorough-bred, not prizewin ners, but excellent in quality enough to add many per cents to the value of the herds and flocks of Oregon. WASHINGTON'S RAILROAD COMMISSION HILL. It will undoubtedly be keenly disap pointing to each of a number of the statesmen now assembled at Oljmpla to learn that his fame will not be em balmed In the political history of the state as author of the railroad com mission bill. This fruitful source of trouble, which is now in a fair way to get on the statute-boolcs. will not be known as the Tolman bill, the Preston bill or the Jones, Smith or Brown bill. Instead the railroad committees of the two houses will frame up a bill embra cing all of the best features of the nu merous measures which have been in troduced by ambitious members of both the House and the Senate. In this way the ghost will be laid without any par ticular Individual or faction of the Re publican party of the state receiving undue prominence, or censure, as the case may be. The policy of the railroads toward the commission bill seems, to "have changed within the past two years, and they are apparently accepting the inevitable with as good grace as possible. From an economical standpoint It seems strange that they should have made the stubborn resistance they have shown In the past. The experience of every state that has tried the railroad-commission plan for remedying transportation evils has demonstrated that corporations get along quite peacefully with a commis sion, and there is no reason for assum ing that there will be anything differ ent in Washington. In the past the railroads have been obliged to fight an entire Legislature In order to prevent what they claimed to be an abridge ment of their rights and privileges, while with a commission the differences would be settled with a small board of commissioners. The passage of this railroad commis sion bill will remove from state politics an Issue which has caused more trou ble than any other foolish legislation ever attempted in the state. The orig inal demand, as In most legislation of this kind, came from a small .band of patriots for whom the prospect of a fat salary and increased political power were more alluring than the opportu nity to render a service to the state. The commission idea In Its present elaborated and developed state has es caped from the clutches of its original promoters, and the salary and attend ant emoluments will not be enjoyed by the political conjurers who first called the disturbing spirit into existence. The transportation problem is one that has never yet been settled to the satis faction of all parties concerned, and, contrary to general belief, there is never unanimity in the fights made by the shippers against the railroads. Antagonism to the Washington rail road commission bill is general In most localities west of the Cascade Moun tains, not he cause the people who do not believe in it are what the political highbinders term "railroad hirelings," but because they are firm In the belief that it cannot aid them in any way. The farmers west of the mountains havea cheap haul to market and are satisfied with the treatment they re ceive from the railroads. East of the mountains the' farmers have been led to believe that a railroad commission will reduce freight rates and grant other concessions which they do not now en joy. This will enable them to land their products at tidewater markets at a lower rate proportionately than is now enjoyed by the man whose advan tage of location Increases his profits. The west-side man Is satisfied with present conditions, and can get along with the railroads. The east-side man wants a change. The railroad commission is thus placed in the same position as the traffic managers of the big railway, sys tems who become prematurely oid in their efforts to do what Is fair by one community or district without Incur ring the enmity of another. Washing ton's railroad commission may simplify matters for the railroads, but it is not at all clear that It will be of any use In settling the never-ending differences which arise between the shippers in different parts of the states and the railroads serving them. "predatory; families." It seems from Information Industri ously circulated about the Statehouse at Salem that we are no longer with out titled families in Oregon families who live in luxury through having ab sorbed for private use a fund created for the improvement In practical ways of a great state institution. At least this Is the legitimate conclusion to be drawn from charges made with great fidelity to detail by L. H. McMahon, an attorney of Salem, in regard to the way in which the "betterment fund" pro vided by the Legislature at Its last ses sion has been disbursed by Superin tendent James and Warden Curtlss. "Predatory families" is a title be stowed upon the families of these offi cials, who, according to the showing produced by Attorney McMahon from the state's great ledgers, live in luxury, entertain their friends in style and sta ble racehorses and drive about in fine equipages at the expense of the taxpay ers. It Is charged further that some thing like $2000 of the Penitentiary bet terment fund, provided as before stated, has been used to furnish the houses of these titled families in a style comport ing with their luxurious manner of liv ing and the royal way In which they entertain their friends. Among the ar ticles of furniture enumerated as hav ing been purchased from the fund specified are: Velvet caroets. $40 Dav enports, $18 rocking i chairs, $48 china closets, $12 pillows, after-dinner coffee sets, etc., etc. Among the table lux uries spread for the delectation of the predatory families and their guests are fowls, eggs, butter and cream Droducprf at state expense, while "skim milk" Is the portion allotted to the guards, the inrerior omcers and patients in the prison hospitals. The best cuts from state beeves, together with all of the luxuries of the market, it is further said, find their way to the tables of the titled few, while the state's servants the convicts are made servants of the "predatory families" without an ac counting to the state. All of this and much more la set forth In detail calcu lated to arouse the honest indignation of taxpayers, and the records at the Statehouse are cited In proof of the al legations. These statements are either true or false. They are susceptible to ready proof or disproof. If true, they are a grave abuse of official place and au thority: If not true, those chanred with what can scarcely be less than malfea sance In office should be set right before the people. The Legislature will nn. doubtedly investigate the charges. At torney McMahon contends (having looked into the matter cdrefully) that there Is nothing In our laws, or ganic or legislative, that contemplates the maintenance of nublic officer h- yond the amount of the salaries they receive. The salary of the Superin tendent of the Penitentiary Is $1500 a year; that of the Warden $1200, each of these amounts to be paid quarterly. Not munificent sums, it is true, nor sums that will support a luxurious style of living, with fast horses, ser vants and other accessories of wealth. But sums for which men have always been found who were willing and even anxious to undertake the duties pre scribed; and. it may be added, sums largely in excess of those upon which the vast bulk of taxpayers of the state numerically speaking maintain their families in comfort. This, however, is not to the nolnt. The question is. Have these officers of the state's prison used public money over and beyond the salaries to which they are entitled for the benefit of themselves and families? Have they been playing: the generous host at the expense of the state? Has a son of the superintendent kept fast. horses upon state forage, in a state stable, and had them groomed at the state's expense? Docs a daughter of the same official hold a sinecure position as" matron of the prison, drawing pay for duties that she does not perform? These are straight and simple questions, and, since they have been asked, they should be answered truthfully and fully in Jus tice alike to the state, the Governor (who is responsible for his armolnteesl and the officials against whom the charges are made. If Superintendent James is Innocent, he will be the first to demand an investigation that will clear not only his official acts but his private character from serious asper sions and remove his family and that of his chief warden from the "preda tory" list, unon which they have been placed by these charges. Truly the State Penitentiary is the last institu tion which an fcon-or&feVe aan would care to see "maintained for the benefit of his family." The "flat salaries" of the constitution are $1500 a year for the Governor, $1500 for the Secretary of State, and $800 for the State Treasurer. And the constitu tion declares that they are to receive no fees or perquisites. Hence it Is that men not willing to serve the state for these salaries should not seek nor hold the offices. The constitution, moreover, refers to these salaries as "fixed," and there is no warrant for Increasing them. The one way out of this situa tion is a constitutional convention, which, it would seem, for many rea sons, has at last become desirable. It was gross violation of the constitution to provide fees and perquisites; and ,it will be as gross violation of the consti tution to make direct increase of the salaries. Let us adhere, in some form or decency at least, to the constitution as it is, till we can change it. In an other way the constitution is contin ually violated, namely. In the provision that requires all public Institutions to be located at the seat of government. Thus everything is scattered, every thing is expensive. Herein Is another argument for a constitutional conven tion; and there are many more. The bill providing for the erecting of cottages on the grounds of the Soldiers' Home at Roseburg for the occupancy of veterans and their wives Is worthy of consideration. If the wives of old soldiers are also old, they are as much entitled to a home at the public expense as are their aged husbands. If, how ever, they are what may be called "pension wives." 1. e., wives who have married decrepit soldiers with an eye to the pensions which they expect to re ceive a little later on, it will be well enough to let them rustle for a living until vthe "good time coming comes." The bill, however. Is based, not on the possible needs and lonely existence of the aged wives of veterans, but needed solace of the veterans themselves; hence It Is not likely that an amend ment fixing an age limit In the case of the wives whom It Is proposed to pro vide for by the cottage system at the Soldiers' Home would be entertained. The Maritime AIds are to be nene trated by a railway from Nice, France, to Cuneo, Italy, In the upper valley of the River Po. The distance Is about 160 miles, and the railroad, for more than one-half the way, will run through tun nels. The American Consul at Nice writes: "The first section of the line (Nice to Luceran, twenty-three miles, single track) Is estimated to cost $3,850,000. The second section, single track also (Luceran to the frontier), passing under Mount Frazian, is esti mated to cost $8,332,000. These first steps toward the preparatory proceed ings for the actual building of the rail way, therefore, entail an estimated ex penditure of $12,252,000." It will afford a new, easy, short and quick route from the French Riviera into the great valley of Italy. Dependence for its sup port will be tourist travel, largely. Judge McBride Is right. A man who unblushingly proclaims It his business or pastime to shadow individuals In their walks about the suburbs, armed with a kodak, for the purpose of taking "snap shots" at them in compromising or otherwise embarrassing positions is a "moral pervert" whose testimony should noi be allowed to add weight to any case before a court. In the opin ion expressed by Judge McBride, the statement of such a man under oath is not worthy of belief, and with this view and the further Intimation that a coat of tar and feathers or a horsewhip welf j laid on would be beneficial treatment for any man who engages In such busi ness, decent people generally will agree. A New Tork Central train, struggling against the elements, succumbed In yesterday's storm, and was lost to the train dispatchers for several hours. "But," say the dispatches, "the passen gers of the Limited will fare much bet ter than those on some other snow bound trains. They have plenty of light and heat, and there is a well stocked dining-car attached." By dint of great ingenuity and large outlay of money they often succeed In making travel In the East almost as attractive and comfortable as on the Pacific Coast "As women we admire the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and we think they are doing a wonderful work In the country at large, but we believe they do no't understand conditions in the Army, and are, therefore, not as capable of advising in this matter as they might be'ln others." This is the position which the Women's Army and Navy League assumes relative to the canteen. The difference of opinion be tween these two associations is the dif ference between actual knowledge and theoretical notion. Traffic paralyzed on all Important railroads, street-cars runninc occasion ally, river and sound steamers tied up, coal famine threatened, milk famine a reality, funerals suspended entirely, many deaths from the extreme cold these are a few of the incidents of the great storm In New York. The ther mometer has been from 12 to 18 desrrees below zero in Middle New York. Here in Oregon but what's the use? Judge Tayler, counsel for the protest ants in the Smoot case, has "not a word to say against the character of Senator Smoot." Then what Is Smoot on trial for? Of course he Is not on trial. It is the Mormon Church. But the Mormon Church was not elected to the United States Senate. The St. PeteVsburg newspapers that suspended publication during one of the most exciting and newsy periods in "Russian history f robably follow The journalistic principle In vogue among a few American newspapers, viz: What's the use printing what every body knows? , The political conference between Mr. Bryan and Judge Parker must have been a highly interesting and Instruct ive affair. There is reason to believe that Judge-Parker Is now In a" mood to listen to Mr. Bryan. Charles Lockhart, a director of the Standard Oil Company, and of whom most people never heard, is dead, leav ing from $75,000,000 to $100,000,000. Where did he get it? Grand Opera In Georgia. Augusta Herald. Last Tuesday night the grand opera people left an order for 20 bottles of beer, six one-half pints jad two pints of whisky. ."" NdtB AND COMMlfc "The militia or Colorado Is not very large bet it Is very active." says Senator Patterson. The Senate is evidently not composed entirely of. unobservant citi zens. America feels very much depressed this morning. Yesterday's bad news was enough to make any nation turn blue. Prince Henry, known to fame as the hus band of Holland's young Queen, fell while skating and bumped his head on the Ice. As If this, were not enough trouble, we learn that Consuelo. Duchess of Manches ter, has "contracted a chill In her left ear." The great heart of America throbs In sympathy with the Prince's sore head and the Duchess earache. S. B. Roath Is a Chicago millionaire. Also he Is a man of sense. He Is distrib uting among his relatives a million dol lars at a time, so that there will be no litigation after his death. Besides keen ing money out of lawers' pockets, this plan must afford lively satifaction to the lucky ones under the plum tree. In the list of strange names Flora-Whiskers takes a high place. Flora was re cently fined In a Hull court for beating a gasmeter, which sounds like Mrs. Hath away's local exploit, but isn't aulte tha same. . . The new director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Is Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, formerly of South Kensington. Probably he will drop the "Sir" in the hurry of New York life. Dress patterns are being given away by the New York Sun. The Sun was always a newspaper pattern-. British coal will all be mined in 450 years, but the Britishers needn't worry. By that time the sea will have worn away the island and coal will not be needed. New York's police department is being "torn up." So's San Francisco's. East and West one people. Every member of the paragraphera' union will give Ysaye two syllables and no more. Hundreds of cyclopedias in the broad land are becoming dog's-eared and thumb marked where the article on "Russia" be gins. The New Orleans Times-Democrat says that no brave American will strike a woman. He will pawn his watch first. Waffles, the Cracked Amateur. Nit by E. W. Scorning. Disguising himself as an anarchist to avoid interference by Scotland Yard. Waffles left for New York, "to be on the safe side," as he remarked, with a flash of his old-time wit. I was thrown into a state of nervous collapse by his departure, and. with out the influenco of his magnetic voice I half resolved to abandon this life of uncertainty, flee to Angelina, touch her father, and live In happy security. Just then I heard some person fumbling at the door. I hastily hid myself in the piano. ' In a moment the door opened noise lessly, and two men entered the room. "This is an exceedingly interesting case. Watson," said the taller man. whom I instantly recognized as Sher lock Holmes. "We have tracked the elephant to this room. Now to find it," "Bu surely. Holmes." said the other man. "an elephant must be easily found, especially in apartments so con fined as these. "My dear Watson." answered the great detective, "how often have I told you that these outre cases are the most difficult. Here is no common place robbery with an obvious motlvo." I felt pleased to hear that fool Wat son thus rebuked. He knows nothing of the requirements of a detective story. Through a crack in the piano-case I saw Holmes examining the window with a magnifying glass. "The elephant couldn't get through the window said Watson. 'Tush, tush, doctor. I am aware of that, but we must avoid the obvious," replied Holmes. "I learn from my In spection that this glass was put in 10 years ago by a glazier, who used putty and a knife. The bearing of this dis covery upon the case must be clear even to you." It was evident that Holmes was close upon the discovery. How was I to dis tract his attention. Suddenly I remem bered that he was absurdly sensitive to music. Jangling the wires of the piano into a semblance of "Bcdella" which had Just reached London I waited. It was enough. Fingers In ears. Holmes fled from the room. Seizing the wretched- elephant by the tall, I flung it far out of toe window. A jury at Mitchell has found the de fendant in a civil suit for damages "$12.50 guilty." A good, practical form of verdict. Disraeli was revising tlie manuscript of his dollar-a-word novel. "'Batalllon' doesn't look right," he remarked. Consulting- the dictionary, he avoided another Dizzy spell. If the pheasant only knew it. they're getting more attention than a first baby. Tne highwayboy business is being overdone In Oregon. Wlfcbeaters might be turned over to Mrn. Hathaway. WEX. J. PRESIDENT IS BUSY. Social Functions, Work and Exercise Intermingled. Washington Special. President Roosevelt Is living at a rate of energy these days that Is keeping the White House attaches busy. Five nights of last week the social de mands on the President, in the way of receptions, dinners and theaters, kept him out late every night. This week the trial has been almost as severe. Yet the President has disposed of great quantities of work, and exercised even more than usual. Walking, riding and boxing have been his diversions. The Secret Service men have been worn out keeping up the pace, but the President has not semed to mind it, and never was In finer health. He finds the gloves extremely diverting, and the other day had several warm bouts with his instructor. But We Didn't Enjoy It. New York Tribune. Oregon, like California, is a land where snow Is seen but rarely felt, and It-is now enjoying its first fall of snow for two years. It will not linger long, however. A3 a snow remover the Japan current make? even .Commissioner Woodbury seem slow. CARRIED BY DECEPTION. It Is said the following petition is being circulated tkroBghottt the state: To ta HeaoraMe Llstitiirt of tn Stats ot Oree: Wsereaa. The present local-option liquor law ot tbe State cC Ore ran was enacttd by the people after aa tatelUgent and thorough can vaa of Ue us; uti, TOtereaa, It la oalr Just that tnla law, as esaeted by the people, shall be siren a fair (rial In order to test Its efficiency; and. "Whereas. No possible harm can result from suca trial; therefore. Apart from aay consideration of the Question aa to whether the Leglslarera haa tho authcr itr to repeal or ames a law enacted br the people, we, the ua4erlsne4 electors of the State of Oregon, hereby respectfully but emphatically prottat aralaat the Oregon Legislature of 1003 repeallag. awendlar or In any manner recdlfy la" the extatlng local-option llauer law. The following comment Is from the Daily Astorian: The voters of Oregon only aak for the priv ilege of deciding whether they want local-option In the various precinct. They desire to pro hibit the existence of saloons in the residence ponloBs of the dry and towns. The Astorian is the only paper publUhed In Clatsop County that has faro red reform measures, and the adoption of a local-option law, but it la op posed to and will continue, to oppose any measure that Is backed up by deception and espoused by a class of people who do not con tribute one cent toward the support of the city or county government, but who are simply barnacles on the body polltle. supported b contributions and outside grafts Incident to a non-produclnr element. They aspire to take away the revenues of a city, but contribute nothisr toward' making up the G Scltacr. Thla la the class of people that Is la Salem today working against tbe Just and equitable amendments to the local-option law and which If adopted will receive the support of two-thirds of the people ot the State of Oregon. As It Is now the local-option law Is a pro hlbltory measure, and were It not for the fact that the bill was misrepresented to the voter of the State of Oregon by the prohibition freaks who traveled up and down the state, deluding the people with wilful misrepresenta tion of facta; that the law was adopted in the state by a majority approximating 3000 In six months after the measure was thor oughly explained to the voters, and they were convinced that Instead of voting for a local option measure they were voting for absolute prohibition, the state gave a majority of 1S.00O against the measure. If the same law were to be submitted to the people of the state today It would, he defeated by over SO. 000. The Aatorlan Is In favor of a Iocal-optloa law. pure and simple. It Is In favor of the amendments proposed In the Legislature for the reason that they are what the people want and what they voted for. It U Impossible for the advocates of prohibition to be fair. Ther only expect to win, the same as they ?Iq la June, by deception and fraud, and as leng as they curry on their war alonr these Hnet, Just fo long will tbey antagonise a large majority of the people ot Oregon. ODD BITS OF NORTHWEST LIFE. Glad Hand for Otte Mark. Peavine Corn McMlnnville News Re porter. The smiling face of Otto Mark is seen In our midst again. Welcome back. Otto. - Mr. Hadaway's Winning Ways, Dayton Corr. McMlnnville Telephone Register. Ed Hadaway went to Salem on Mon day to put the new charter through tha Legislature and we all know that with his unlimited influence the measure is sure to go. Monkeying With Government Malls. Miami Corr. Tillamook Herald. Ernest Worthington, our mallcarrier. Is laid up with a lame leg, the horse having fallen down on it. The cause being the playing of the school children, who were snowballing him and. the horse shyed and fell down. Time and Sickness Work Wonders. Castle Rock. Leader. Louis Schleicher got up Baturday for a little while, though still very weak. He was astonished to find that he had fallen off so much that be could stand bolt up Tight, and by simply looking down, see his own feet, a feat he has been unable to accomplish in years. Where No Chicken is Safe. Skamokawa Eagle. Levi Vinson has Just completed a new henhouse and park. It is located back of his dwelling, and for the benefit of chicken-lifters he will have a Gatlln'g gun pointed out of the back kitchen window and trained on all points of the park at once. He has appointed himself a recep tion committee of one to attend the gun. Aeal Piety In Tillamook. Oretown Corr. Tillamook Herald. Last Sunday Mrs. BIsconer, ot Dolph, favored the Sunday school with a well delivered sermon. It was a lovely day and the attendance was extra good. Since Rev. J. Welch left us. Mrs. BIsconer is our only preacher, and we feel grateful she has not deserted us coming, as she does, once a month a lon distance over muddy roads generally in the rain, shows a determination which might well be cop ied from by ministers of the sterner sex. He Was Merely Taking Hi Time, lone Proclalmer. Ed Keller went down the road Wednesday on a hunting trip, intend ing to return the same day. He did not get back however, and his family and friends were greatly worried over his absence. Ed Brlstow and Paul Bal slger started out yesterday to hunt him up. and returned with him on the evening train, safe and sound. Mr. Keller says people are expecting too much of him when thoy think he should get one rabbit in less than two days. When Irvjng Played Nerval. London Chronicle. Sir Henry Irving told an amusing story recently la his speech at the Brasenose Club In Manchester. When he was a young actor and a member of the stock company in that city, a playgoer accosted him one night with this question: "You played Young Norval this evening, didn't you?" "Yes." was the reply. "Well, I've got a boy 10 years old at home," said the playgoer, "and I'd give him a licking If he couldn't spout 'My name ts Norval' better than you did!" Sir Henry added that, he was quit sure the boy never de served that licking. Taie of a Plum Tree. Chicago News. A large knd Juicy plum hung high - Upon a plum tree bough: To gather It I long did sigh. But did not quite know how. The onljrway that I could see To get It was to climb the tree. Ton know what plum trees axe to climb How very UH they grow?V3 I had tbe dickens of a time Ascending this, I know. I barked my shins with bark. I tore My clothes and acracthed myself full sore. I persevered and reached tbe top. And almost touched that plum, When Just my Iuck-lt bad to drop. That's what It did. by gum: My efforts shook It from the twig . And gave It to a prowling pig. A pig too lazy, fat and big Himself to eUrab a tree An unappredatlve pig Had got tbe best of met A surfeited infernal a wine Had got the plum I marked for mine! I slowly, sadly clambered down. T cadly shook my "bead. And with a contemplative frown, " 'Twa ever thus." t said. Aad each is )tfel It oaly shows -It's Just the way It always- goes'" r . GRTJWTHTOF CBUKdHtsT Net Gain ef 582,S7S Communicants In 1904. Por a "number, of years Dr. H. K. Car roll, now one of the secretaries of the Methodist Missionary Society, but who wa3 in charge of the Government census of churches in 1S90. has annually compiled the statistics .of the religious bodies in thU country, and his conclusions for this year have Just been made public Dr. Carroll admits that in some cases It has been Im possible to secure recent figures and that he has had to use, sometimes, the figures reported so long ago as 1SS0. In other cases returns for the past irear are not ready and figures quoted by him are esti mates based upon past growth. It can nevertheless be assumed that his figures of present membership and growth in the past year are substantially correct. Dr. Carroll finds the net gain of all religious bodies in this country during 1904 aggre gates 5S2.S7S communicants. 2310 churches and 1674 ministers In the matter of com municants this gain is 1CO.00O more than Dr. Carroll reported for the previous year, but tbe gain in churches, is a little more than 200 less than for 1303, while the gain in ministers has fallen off by nearly TOO. Dr. Carroll, la compiling his figures, has deducted from the totals of all bodies the members held by them in foreign mission lands, so that his figures are for members in the United States only. The grsmd total of communicants of all churches at the close of 190t was 30,313,311. In all bodies there were 137,318 churches and 143,433 ministers. Arranged in order of number of com municants, according to Dr. Carroll's figures, the leading religious bodies of the country today stand as follows: Roman Catholic. 10,104,213 members; Methodist Episcopal. 2,517,332 members; regular Bap tist (colored). 1,323,139 members: regular Baptist (South), 150,SS3 members; Metho dist Episcopal (South), 1,5S6,T2S members: Disciples of Christ, 1.233.S66 members; reg ular Baptist (North), 1.070,276 members; Presbyterian (North). 1.069,170 members; Protestant Episcopal, 798.642 members; Af rican Methodist Episcopal, 786,125 mem bers; Congrcgatlonalists, 667,931 members; Lutheran Synodlca! Conference, 574,010 members: African Methodist Episcopal ZIon, 560.790 members; Lutheran General Council. 370,668 members; Latter-Day Saints. 300,000 members; Reformed Ger man. 2S3.&4 members: United Brethren. 231.312 members; Presybterlan (Southern), 233.9S& members; Lutheran General Synod, 223,473 members: German Evangelical Synod,- 209.731 members. In denominational families, Catholics (eight bodies) rank first with 10,223,824 communicants; Methodists 07 bodies) next with 6.56.75?: Baptists (13 bodies) next with .5.150,815; Lutherans (22 bodies) next with 1.783,766; Presbyterian (12 bodies) have 1,637,637, and Disciples of Curlst, 1.233.S66. All other families rank below 1.000,000 in membership. The relig ious bodies showing large gains in the year Just past are Roman Catholics. 241,935; Baptists, all bodies. 53,040; Disciples of Christ, 26.4S3; Lutherans, all bodies. 73. 856; Methodists, all bodies. 63.244; Presby terians, all bodies. 36,173; Episcopal, 25,381; and Reformed, all bodies, 10,433. Good Word for a Legislature. , Loa Angeles Times. It is not often (with regret and humilia tion be it said) that we are permitted to point with honest pride in the direction of Sacramento while the Legislature is In session. But sometimes this privilege is vouchsafed us. and far bo It from the Times to withhold praise where praise is clearly due. Therefore, we accord freely to the sitting Legislature such raced of praise as to surely due by reason jof it? refusal to have aught to do with, those freakish and so far as tried, Imprac ticable efforts at legislation, knoipi as "the Initiative, the referendum, tte re call and tbe Imperative mandate." 1 The Prisoner's Advantage Green Bag. I The man up ior larceny had adiitted his guilt when apprehended, but . tha trlai hts youthful counsel defender him with great ob&tinacy and unneccjsary brilllancy. i "Gentlemen," said the Judge, rearJ Insr the Jury with a benevolent pile, "the prisoner says he is guilty! His counsel says be is not. You mus de cide between them." ! Then, after an effective pause! the Judge added: 'There Is one thlir to remember, gentlemen. The prlpnec was there and his counsel wasn't' Would Have Less Vehemence' Boston Transcript. .... Without In any way nss- lng Judgment uponthe charges asr; anst him, let us submit that Senator M ch- ell protests to vehemently and adverb ially. "The allegations are absoluply. unqualifiedly and atrociously falsa, knd I here and now indignantly and dental ly denounce their authors and eachlnd every one of them and brand tern publicly as malicious and atroclus liars." Banking Operations. ' New York Sunday Telegraph. Recently Frankle arrived at the ily board with a very commercial of directness. Ir He had with him his savings bik which he rattled to make sure of contents, a single coin, one penny. He proceeded to Issue a statemenoof his resources.. "I guess I will count my money.' He solemnly produced the penny.! -"One!" Parkman's Sense of Justice. St. Nicholas. , A friend met Francis Parkman walkDg along the street holding two street bds by their coat collars. In reply to friend's request for an explanation. Pan- man said: "I found this boy had eatti an- apple without dividing with his lite brother. Now. I'm going to buy one ft the little boy and make the big one loc on while he eats It." OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. "Miss Ulga. Millions is a good catch if yo are looking for a wife." "I'm poor, thank you but not desperate- Houston Poet. Him Ter. he's an artist, a musician and roet. He Poor fellow. I had no Idea povert: had such a bold on him. Chicago Dally JJewe. Dealer "Well, sir. did that turkey do for ai; your family? Customer Very nearly; the doc tor says he'll have to come for1 a week yet.' Town and Country. ! Little Elmer Papa, what ts a hypochon- . drlac?" Prof. Broadhead A hypochondriac. 1 my son. Is a person who has no disease, but many complaints. Puck. "It looks as If the people were getting on to us at last." said the crooked politician. "What will we dor "Time. I'm afraid." replied the other, despondently. Philadelphia Ledger. "I hear you went out for a little spin In your automobile yesterday," said Jen kins. "I went out for several," replied B. Glnner. "but fortunately they didn't hurt isp much." Philadelphia Ledger. "War," said the delegate to the peace con ference. "Is the moot destructive thing on earth." "Did you ever see. a racing automo bile with a drunken chauffeur?" asked the man who had become artful by dodging. Cin cinnati Commercial-Tribune. "Who Is that man walking up and down the corridor, with frowning brqw and should ers weighted with" the heavy burden of legis lation? Some distinguished statesman, no doubt? "That, my dear sir. Is the assistant secretary and stenographic clerk of tbe new Congressman from Oahkosh." Cincinnati CommercUl-Trlbua e. "Tea." raid the tall tramp, "I told dat lady in de wayside cottage dat I was once a Stri cter. She actually believed it-" "Great ho bosi" exclaimed bis chum of the ties, "in what way do; you resemble a Senator?" "Oh, I told her two or three after-dinner stories. Dey were so state she -said I .must be a Sen ator.' Chicago Dally News.