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DAIRYING IN OREGON.
By frequent repetition and persistent
agitation the advantages of dairying as
an industry will be impressed upon the
people of Oregon until this state will
supply its due proportion of the dairy
products of the country. Many persons
doubtless think that enough has been
said upon the subject to convince all
reading people that Oregon is the best
-place in the United States In which to
conduct dairying, and that the preser
vation of the fertility of the soil of Ore
gon farms requires the extension of
animal husbandry. But not all those
who read give more than a passing
thought to the subject, and many who
do think and arrive at correct conclu
sions are slow to act.
Nearly seven years ago the subject of
dairying became prominent In agricul
tural, meetings, and since that time it
has been discussed at every gathering
of farmers in this state. The subject
is not yet exhausted, nor will it be so
long as Oregon imports a pound of
butter or has a market waiting for that
which It may produce.
The arguments in favor of dairying
are so plain that they may be easily
understood. From a commercial stand
point the state as a whole is Interested
because this is an industry which prom
ises to become a leader as a producer
of wealth. Every farmer should be in
terested because, as a general rule,
dairying holds out the only practical
solution of the problem of preserving
soil fertility at the same time that it
affords the owner of the land an in
come. As has been many times shown,
and as every farmer knows by experi
ence, constant cropping and shipping
away of all the crop rapidly depletes
the soil. Harvesting a crop of grain or
hay from' a field, year after year, and
returning nothing to the soil show their
effect in a few years in email yields
and consequently unprofitable farming.
The dairyman who feeds his crops to
cows on the farm and then feeds his
ekim milk to hogs has raised his prod
uct to as high a valuo, as practicable
and has made the best use of waste
materials. The farmer who sells hay
realizes only the profit from that arti
cle, while the purchaser who feeds It to
a cow gats the profit from the tranBfor
mation of the feed into milk. The
farmer who Taises tho hay and feeds it
also gets the double profit.
Whether dairying is In fact profitable
admits of no dispute, for any traveler
will observe thrift In every community
In which dairying is the leading Indus
try. That there are men who have
made a failure of dairying, and others
who will make failures in the future. Is
beyond question, for there is no enter
prise in which all men will succeed,
There are men who cannot, or do not,
make their cows pay for their feed.
There are cows so poorly adapted to
dairying that they cannot be made to
' pay for their feed. But as a general
rule the dairy farmer and the dairy
community are more prosperous year
after year than those engaged In other
agricultural pursuits.
That dairying has not been more gen
eral In Oregon Is due to many causes,
chief among which is that keeeplng
cows has been, with most farmers, a
aide issue to -which the last and lea9t
attention was paid. Cows that would
give little milk under favorable condi
tions have been turned upon such pas.
tures as the waste portions of the
farms afford, and when the results
made a poor showing the conclusion
was reached that "dairying does not
pay." And that kind of dairying never
will pay. But there are many farmers
who have abandoned that method and
have made dairying a business a
study. They select their cows accord
lng to their producing power as shown
by exact tests. Instead of depending
upon pastures that dry up In Summer,
they have green feeds to keep up the
flow of milk when pasturage fails. The
cows get-a plentiful supply of food in a
well-balanced ration and at regular
times. They are sheltered from sun
and storm, kindly treated, regularly
milked, and the milk properly handled,
That kind of dairying will always pay.
Dairying has also been conducted nn
der difficulties In Oregon because of the
trouble in securing satisfactory help on
a dairy farm. Men do not like to milk
cows, and will work in lumber camps,
In mills, at other farm work, in prefer
ence. This unwillingness of men to
take employment that Includes the
milking of cows is due in part to the
early and late hours most dairymen
work and to the unpleasant character
of the employment. As the dairy In
dustry develops and work on a dairy
farm becomes more general the milking
of cows will be looked upon with less
disfavor and dairymen will find It
easier to get help.
Again, dairying has been avoided by
many farmers because it is more exact
lng upon the farmer's time than other
branches of. agriculture. It is a com.
mon remark that the dairyman must be
at homo regularly twice every, dfey, and
can never get away for a day. It is
probably true that dairying restricts a
farmer's liberty more than grainraislng
or hopgrowing, or fruitgrowing, but it
may be laid down as a. general rule that
the man who makes a success of any
enterprise will find himself tied pretty
close to the treadmill. The man who
can and -does leave his work when he
feels like It will, sooner or later, leave
It for all time. When labor conditions
have eo changed that reliable men can
be hired to milk cows, the work of a
dairyman will be little more confining
than other pursuits.
Because of the interest Oregon has In
this Industry as a means of renewing
the youth of old and worn-out farms,
it Is gratifying to have a man come
here from Iowa, the leading butter-producing
state in the Union, and tell us,
as Professor McKay did at Salem last
Saturday, that butter can be produced
here cheaper than In his own state, and
that this Is an ideal dairying country.
We have thought iso ourselves for
years. We have been told so by visit
ors who have come here before. But
we like to know that our advantages
are understood and appreciated abroad
and we like the encouragement that as
surance from strangers gives us.
LAST OF THE BOSSES.
Senator Piatt, of New York, cele
brated two weeks since his 73d birth
day, and a coterie of his oid-time polit
ical and personal friends came and
dined with him and made the occasion
happy and memorable one. They
filled up the failing and decrepit old
man with the notion that he was in
the heydey of his power, and he there
upon announced his purpose to reorgan
ize the battered Republican New York
machine on the basis of "harmony."
ex-Governor Odell, who hepled to wrest
the scepter from Piatt, only to lose it
himself, emerged from the Hlggins
eclipse long enough to announce his
complete agreement with Piatt's great
purpose; and a few others of the old
guard tried and true memners of the
gang who had lost all their influence
and had no hope otherwise of getting it
back lined up with Senator Piatt's
Falstaffian army. But that was all. A
week later -the Senator waited again
for his friends to come, but they came
not "I chewed the bitter cud of re
flection, and I chewed it alone," he
said afterwards. And he chewed it too
late.
Piatt is a broken and discredited
boas, and he doesn't know it. His sun
has set, as It has on every other polit
ical boss in the United States. Odell,
Durham, Cox and Penrose have suf
fered from the revolt of the people
against their corrupt and intolerable
rule, and Murphy, who still heads Tam
many, and Ruef, who is or was the real
voice in the San Frejncisco municipal
administration, hold themselves in
place with difficulty. In Oregon iwe
have no longer a boss none who dares
show his head, confess his plane, or
openly attempt to direct his lieutenants.
Shall we have one again? Perhaps.
But he will have to know more and
prey less than some of his predecessors.
and ha will have to have the confidence
of his party as a whole, and represent
no faction In it. He must be the ideal
boss. Is there such a being?
THE GRAND THINK PACIFIC.
The Canadian government has under
consideration one of the most Btupen
dous railway enterprises ever projected
under the British flag. It involves the
construction of a new transcontinental
railroad across Canada with no less
than twenty-three branch lines pene
trating every locality in Northern Can
ada where there is a possibility of de
veloping traffic. The new line, as pro
jected Is to cross Western Canada far
to the north of either the Canadian Pa
cific or the Grand Trunk Pacific, which
is now under actual construction. To
aid in carrying out the big enterprise
the government is expected to grant s
bonus of $150,000,000. This liberal sub
sidy is necessary not alone on account
of the immensity of the undertaking,
but for the reason that it will be many
years after the road is built before it
will be on a paying basis. The remark
able success of the Canadian Pacific in
settling up the great plains of Western
Canada with an energetic, progressive
people, such as have been swarming
Into Alberta and other provinces, mak
ing them in prospect the chief wheat
granary of the -world, has undoubt
edly been one of the principal fac
tors in bringing Into existence the
proposed elaborate plan of the Grand
Trunk.
We are prone to regard the British
and Oaandlans as somewhat slow In
their industrial movements, but Great
Britain's policy in Canada from the
days of the trapper and fur trader has
certainly been one of progression.
When the Hudson's Bay Company in
vaded that virgin field, more than i
century ago, establishing an occasional
oasis of seml-clvilization, the "factors'
immediately began widening the field
of operations. Long before the Indian
and the buffalo had vanished from the
American plains these enterprising fur
dealers had established camps and
trading stations almost as far north as
the Arctio Circle. Neither the timber,
the agricultural possibilities, or even
the minerals of the country, attracted
much attention from these pioneers.
but in the pursuit of fur-bearing ani
mals they operated in practically every
part of that vast empire.
Their work was thorough and the
civilizers who are now following their
century-old trails are in a measure re
taining their system of development.
The fur trader sought to open up all
regions in the country for the business
of bartering for furs. The railroad
men seek to open up all parts of the
great region for the more thorough ex
ploitation and development of the
farmer, tlmberman, stockman and
miner, and there are wonderful possi
bilities for development on all of these
lines. There is some opposition In Can
ada to the granting of such a huge sub
sidy, as it is quite apparent that it may
be a number of years after construction
before the entire mileage projected can
be placed on a paying basis. It is in
the confidence shown by the people fa
vorable to the project that a spirit of
progress is exhibited which is lacking
on this side of the Canadian line. The
projected lines will all prove dividend
payers wherrthey have been completed
for a sufficient length of time to admit
of the set-tiers along their respective
routes becoming traffic-producers.
There are numerous neglected regions
in the Pacific Northwest where a fine
traffic will spring into existence as soon
as railroad facilities are provided,
Similar conditions exist all through
Canada, and the enterprising Grand
Trunk Pacific, -with the aid of the gov
ernment, seems willing to anticipate
the future by providing means for has
tenlng the development. As soon as
the Pacific terminus of the road is defi
nitely settled on, there will spring into
existence another big seaport, for At is
not alone the proposed development of
the internal resources of Canada that
Is Inducing the government to favor
such a big transportation project.
There is the additional advantage to
Great Britain of having more than one
short route to the Far East. The
Grand Trunk Pacific, with its branch to
Hudson's Bay and a seaport at Prance
Rupert, can, for a portion of the yea
at least, land troops from England in
Japan or China days ahead of any other
route now in existence. For a coun-
try with a territorial thirst ouch as has
always affected Great Britain, this
alone Is an advantage which will be
worth the amount of the subsidy. '
SPELLING BARBARISMS.
There are many things the matter
with the English language, and any
sane plan of improvement ought to be,
and will be, acceptable to critics, schol
ars, students and the laity. But the
spelling reformers will have to go at it
gently if they are not to bury them
selves under the accumulated mass of
renovated monstrosities which they are
trying to persuade the world ought to
take the place of the good old-fashioned
words our fathers used to spell, when
they spelled them correctly. Look at
the word "thoroughly." It has been
altered at one fell stroke Into "thor
oly." According to all .phonetic rules.
should no doubt be "thoroly,"
for thoroly undoubtedly spells thor
oughly. But eo does unek spell
unique, fateg fatigue, tesis phthisis,
and fyzek physique. There is no sound
reason why the advanced spellers
ehouM not attack the whole lexicon of
familiar and Inoffensive freaks in Eng
lish orthography, if violence is thus to
be done to a wholesome and good-looking
word like thoroughly. There IB
nothing to be said against thoroly ex
cept that it looks wrong, all wrong. It
is impossible to get by it without stop
ping to wonder what it is, what is
means, why it was done, and what
penalty may e inflicted on the vandals
who did it. . They have done the came
lawless thing with the word "through
out, which has become "thruout."
When one encouniers a barbarism like
that, he marvels at the patience of
Providence; or he would marvel at it if
he did not know that language is, after
all, a mere imperfect human institu
tion, and Providence cares nothing
about it. -Which is unfortunate.
Spelling . reform . may be accom
plished by gradual processes and not
by the arbitrary dictum of a coterie of
orthographic mechanics who have
neither literary feeling, taste nor sense.
The way to change the language Is to
do it without letting anybody know it
MR. WITTE AND THE DOTJMA.
Mr. Witte, Russia's star performer.
does not appear ever to have had much
faith in the National Douma. In fact,
if we are to credit a press dispatch
from Aix-les-Bains, he declined to be
lieve that any foreign politicians and
statesmen entertain opinions on the
subject different from his own Infallible
views. Of course his language was
more diplomatic, but nevertheless that
i just wnai -ne meant ,w convey,
though he , admitted some "very, few
regrettable exceptions. Incidentally,
the "hero of Portsmouth" declared that
'there was no nation, however liberal
its administrative system, whose chief
and government would have endured
the attitude of the Parliament. The
government was compelled to choose
between revolution organized under
cover of legality and dissolution of the
house."
It is, however, high time for Mr.
Witte, the celebrated financier and
statesman of the "liberal" wing of the
Russian bureaucracy, to understand
that the world will no longer be de
ceived by any of the diplomatic sub
terfuges he or any of his compatriots
may have to offer in justification of
their high-handed acts against the out
raged people of the Russian Empire.
Nay, not even the Te Deimu celebrated
by -the ecclesiastical combine, in obedi
ence to the encyclical of the Most Holy
Synod, over the dissolution of the first
Russian Parliament, will in any way
deceive the world as to the actual state
of things In Holy Russia.
One thing, therefore, is quite certain
Russia's first Parliament made it suffi
ciently clear that the people of that
land were united in their demand for
(1) Justice to political prisoners; (2) abo
lition of mock trials and executions of
political offenders; (3) reorganization of
every department of the government,
including tne famine relief -bureau, on
basis of honesty and decency; (4) im
mediate relief from the bureaucratic
schemes of encouraging and instigating
atrocities and massacres on religious
lines, as well as against the intellect
uals; and (5) legislative reforms which
would enable the tillers of the soil to
acquire a reasonable number of acres
of the vast public domain. These were
practically the items for which the
people of Russia through their repre
sentatives in Parliament contended
and there was scarcely a speech made
in that body but was directly or indi
rectly in support of these first princi
ples of human freedom. These items
are as reasonable to the whole civilized
world as they are intelligible to the
people of Russia, who are doubtless
ready to die in the struggle to obtain
them. Hence neither Mr. Witte, whose
health so strangely breaks down when.
ever the Russian finances give out, nor
the pious thieves constituting Russia's
ecclesiastical machine, are cunning
enough to deceive the world any longer.
On the contrary, the sympathy of the
whole civilized world is most sincerely
with the struggling people of Russia,
and if, in the eyes of the hierarchy and
monarchy, the aims of those -brave men
and women are revolutionary "under
cover of legality," so much the worse
for them. Indeed, all indications point
to the fact that there will be no step
backward on the part of the outraged
and downtrodden in the empire of the
Czar, and not even that most august
arbiter of the destinies' of nations, the
Emperor of Germany, can save the day
for the cabal of civil, military and ec
clesiastical despots who have been de
vouring the multitude and mortgaging
their resources for many generations
to come.
In another column The Oregon ian
presents its annual statistics showing
the amount and distribution of the 1905
wheat crop of the Pacific Northwest.
The crop, as shown by these figures,
broke all records by more than 5.000.000
bushels, and for the first time exceeded
50,000,000 bushels. The figures, unex
plained, wouid indicate that Portland
had failed to secure her proper quota of
this increase, but, as predicted In The
Oregonian's estimate last Fall, the -big
crops of the season were in Northern
Pacific and Great North srn territory,
while in O. R. & N. territory light yields
were much in evidence, especially
the river counties. This city made
healthy gain in the Oriental flour trade,
and also shipped over 5,000,000 bushels
of wheat to California. The showing,
on the whole, is a most satisfactory
one. So long as this city can ship 15,,
000,000 bushels of wheat as an incidental
to the greatest lumber exporting busi
ness conducted anywhere on earth.
there is no cause! for complaint. This
year the Puget Sound territory may. ex
perience a short crop, which would
again place the northern ports at the
foot of the column.
Some great man up in Idaho a Judge
argues that it is unconstitutional for
the Republican State Convention to
nominate a candidate for United
States Senator, because "the Senator
must be elected by the Legislature."
What is the difference between nam
ing a candidate for whom a party
through its representatives shall vote
in the Legislature, and naming a can
didate for Governor and other state
offices for whom the party shall vote
at the polls? Of course the Senator
must be elected by the Legislature. So
must a President of the United States
be elected by the electoral college; yet
no one has ever seriously suggested
that a national convention was not en
tirely within Its constitutional rights
when it named the party candidate.
The State Legislature is under no obli
gation to elect the candidate of any
convent Ign, nor Is the electoral college;
yet the college has always done so, af
ter the issue was fairly submitted to
and determined by the people at the
polls. So it is likely to be in Idaho
with the Senator. If the question is
not fairly determined -by the people,
the Legislature can still take the re
sponsibility of electing whomsoever it
will. It can do so, in any event. And
pfpbaby it will.
The Iowa idea appears to be in for
stormy week. The stand-patters
threaten to holt if the revisionists win,
and the revisionists will bolt if the
stand-patters win. Where is Father
Allison, the great peacemaker and oil-
pourer, that the waters of Iowa should
forever be troubled by a little thing
like the tariff? There is always safety
in following a conservative and diplo
matic statesman like Allison. "I ob
serve that those animals have Just
been sheared," said a friend to Senator
Allison, as a band of sheep was being
driven by. . "Well, they certainly have
been sheared on one side," said the
prudent Senator. Allison is the man for
this emergency. The Republicans who
like their tariff sheep sheared can have
them sheared; and those who want to
stand pat and let them, alone should be
permitted to have them all wool and a
yard wide. .
In the campaign against superfluous
red tape in the departments at Wash
ington they are going to get rid of a
lot of old models which the Patent Of
fice has kept on cold storage at an ex
pense of $20,000 for rent. These models
will be gone over,and those that have
historical value will be placed in the
Smithsonian Institution, while the re
mainder will be variously -disposed of.
Now is the time to lay In a full stock
of perpetual motion machines.
One yellow Journal in this state an
nounced that in the fire at the State
Insane Asylum the lives of 1420 patients
were barely saved by the heroic efforts
of the firemen. The facts are that not
one life was In danger and that most
of the patients were not in the building
at the time the fire broke out. But sen
sational journalism must have scope
for its antics, even at the expense of
the anxious relatives of the 1420 pa
tients confined at the asylum.
Senator Sutherland, of Utah has re
tired from his law firm because it has
taken cases against the Government,
and he "cannot with propriety repre
sent a litigant whose interests are ad
verse to those of the Government.
Nor with safety, in view of the statute
and tho recent effective method of en
forcing It. The Senate is learning.
Dr. Day thinks he sees a 'brilliant
future opening up for Portland as the
Pittsburg of the Pacific. But the doc.
tor forgets that it takes something
more than black sand and great steel
works to make a Pittsfourg. Give us
time. It may develop that we have the
raw material already for a Thaw, and
a Hartje. and a Corey.
The State of Oregon carries Its own
insurance, proceeding upon the theory
that the state can afford to carry it as
cheaply as an insurance company can.
Experience has shown that the San
Francisco property-owners carried their
own insurance but dug up for the in.
surance companies also.
A penitent bad-bill swindler comes
forward with the confession that It was
he, and not the man detained In Jail,
who made twenty dollars out of one.
He cleared only nineteen dollars out of
the transaction, yet he is seized with
remorse, perhaps because it wasn't
4,000,000.
According to news dispatches regard
ing the fire at the State Insane Asy.
lum, there Is little danger of a destruc
tion of the entire asylum building un
less the water supply should be cut off.
It will ba well, then, to see that the
water supply cannot be interfered with
by a Are.
The Douma may take a little com
fort dn the reflection that it is not the
first martyr to the great cause of .en
lightenment and civilization that had
not wherewith to lay its head. Yet
possibly it Is lucky to have a head.
Joaquin Miller comes back to Oregon
and publicly recites his first poem.
Oregon is where Mr. Miller got his
start. If his other poems had been like
his first, Oregon may well have been
glad of it glad that he started.
Salem, is trying to establish a recre
ation park on the banks of the Willam
ette near that city. Get one of your
ministers to visit it and preach a ser
mon condemning it, and success will
be yours.
The reports all agree that Mr. Rocke
feller stood smilingly and quietly, hat
in hand, while an enterprising reporter
took his photograph. Mr. Rockefeller
made sure that that was all he took.
According to a directory census, Ta-
coma has a population of 84,910. .Who
ever knew a directory census' to be die-
appointing? The directory people al
ways know their business.
If we are any Judge of political con
ditions in Iowa, we may weU regard it
as fortunate that Iowa's sole use for
eggs is to export them.
Well, Mr. Russian peasant, why don't
you revolute and have it done with?
The suspense is worse than waiting for
a tooth to be pulled.
It is now up to Mrs. Sage to show
that all the charity, kindness and be
nevolence of the late. Russell Sage were
in his wife' name.
THE NATION'S HOTJSECLKANIXG.
What Most Be Dome) to Get and De
serve the World's Esteem.
From Justice Brewer's address at Mil
waukee, July IS.
There has been a good deal of dis
turbance in the body politlo for the
last year, and this condition is likely
to continue. The Nation is in the busi
ness of cleaning house. I have beaten
many a carpet and I was always as
tonished that as long as I beat some
dust would come out. This houseclean
ing of Uncle Sam's is disturbing a
good many. We have devoted our
selves to beautiful front yards and
have neglected the back yards. ' Jusc
at this time we are going into them
with the purpose of making them as
presentable as the front - yards. We
are trying to lift slum life to a better
and happier condition. We are going
to places usually unseen by the gen
eral public -and saying that we want
them as clean as the public places.
We do not mean to, have 30 to 40 per
cent poor alcohol in our patent medi
cines ana we do not mean to buy
opium in our soothing syrup if we
know it, nor poor whisky if we can
detect the cheat, we. want honesty
and truth in the conduct and output
of every factory and grocery.
A great many men will be unjustly
condemned. It becomes every intelli
gent man not to accept a charge of
crime as proof of guilt. Let every
person have every constitutional and legal
protection, and when he has been
found guilty, God pity him, let him
take the punishment.
A multitude of loud-mouthed dema
gogues will attempt to ride into power
on popular sentiment. When you find
demagogue, do not answer him; pass
him by.
An objection that Is made to . our
housecleaning is that it interferes with
prosperity and hurts business. It may
cause a temporary embarrasment of
prosperity, and some people may be
disturbed; but nothing will ever build
this country up like the assurance
that whatever the foreigner wishes to
buy or whatever bears the American
stamp is just what It purports to be,
The men who now complain would
profit by the fullest Investigation.
Troubled conditions have led many
to say that we shall never more have
peace here, and that . the country is
thoroughly rotten! At every exposure
they say, "Oh, dear. Oh, dear; what a
country." They believe chat all honest
men are gone and that the country
has gone to what Dickens called the
"demnition bowwows."
The great American people Is not
unsound. Before the war the South
said that the North was composed of
selfish shopkeepers and unpacrlotio
farmers who, would never go to war,
but when the ' grand old liberator
heard the guns of Sumter and called
for volunteers, you remember how the
shops and farms resounded with "We
are coming. Father Abraham." Noth
lng could stay that wave. There may
be those today who are looking at
the golden calf and who respecc the
dollar more than the man, but among
the plain people of the shops and
farms a consecration to duty exists
now and then. There are sculptors
who are chiselling the commands
"Thou Shalt not steal" and "Thou Shalt
not bear false witness." When the
time calls, again the people will rise
and renew their allegiance to the great
Jehavah. You can never make me be
lieve that the heart of the American
people is unsound. Today I appeal to
you as men and women of this great
republic, who are part of the republic
do not you repudiate impurity and
corruption?
I want every individual man to feel
that the future of the republic, for
glory or for shame, for weal or woe,
depends on him alone; to say in imita
tion of the French King, "The reppo-
lie I am the republic." Then will
peace, Justice and righteousness pre
vail In every part of this land.
As I grow old, more profound become)
my convictions regarding the future
of the republic. While I am not blind
to Its wickedness and Its fallings,
believe that the Almighty has gathered
between these two oceans 80,000,000 of
Deoda on whom rests a duty, the su
creme obligation of the future, and
that those people will be loyal to it
and will continue to strive until Old
Glory reflectsi as a banner of the stars,
and tolling humanity the world over
looks on with thankfulness and grati
tude. Franchise Control, Csess Se-rvteex.
Baltimore News.
Influenced bv the agitation In favor of a
$-cent carfare promoted by Mayor Tom L.
Johnson, the Cleveland street railway
companies are now offering to sell tick
ets at the rate of seven for 25 cents and
to give universal transfers. The Toronto
Street Railway Company has long done
this, and made large payments to the
city In addition for the privilege. The
company is able to do this because It has
no franchise to be capitalized, and its in-
vestment covers only cost of plant and
equipment. The key to cheap street ran
way service evidently lies In franchise
control. The Cleveland offer is proof of
this, as It is made to secure a renewal ot
franchises now expiring.
The Fence-Rail Core. '
Newberg Graphic
It would be interesting to see a fence
rail dropped in front of the automo
biles that have been passing through
town lately, in order to ascertain the
speed of the chug-chug wagons. As
rule the high-headed fellows who ride
In them have little regard for the rights
of others, and apparently care little about
the number of serious accidents the;
may precipitate by rushing suddenly ont,
skittish horses.
Nattosuil Deportment store,
Mltrne. Irrlag In Leslie's Weekly.
The National department store
Extends from sea to sea (
Of everything- to eat and wear
It'a full as It can be.
A list or all tl has In stock
-Would reach from Portlano, Maine,
To Tampa, Fkniom, and back
To Portland oace again.
' There's cotton from the Southern states.
And watermelons fine.
And luscious peaches, velvet plr.k.
And yellow Georgia pine.
New Jersey Bilk, and Texas beef.
And Minnesota Sour,
And older from Vermont to drink.
With apples sweet and sour.
There's California apricots.
The best you ever ate.
And craaberries from old Cape Cod,
Like rubles In a crate.
And Louisiana sugar cane, .
And salmon from the lakes.
And buckwheat from ten thousand fields
To furnish, us with cakes.
There'a silver, gold and copper ore,
- The treasure of the soil.
And sapphires from Montane, rocks
And Peaneyivaai oil.
Preshwater pearl of nieter at
To deoorate a queen.
And from Alaska sealskin runt
Of rich and glossy sheen.
yVom every land across the deep
In crowds- they come to buy.
For with the goods of Uncle Sam
No other shop can vie.
Beneath the same old starry aticra
Our patriot fathers bore
- The Nation carries on today
A big department atore.
ALLISON THE GREAT PEACEMAKER
Be Max Ilrlaai Harntony Between
Standpatters sad Revisionists.
Washington D. C.) Post
Much depends upon the state of Will
iam B. Allison's health. Never was he
so necessary to his party in his state
as in this good year of 1006. He is the
great pacificator. As much of a partisan
as Joseph G. Cannon or Joseph B. Fora-
ker. Mr. Allison is always and every
where a conservative. His voice Is ever
for harmony. That is what has kept him
in the National councils since 1S63, with
hiatus of two years. That Is what
gave him a life lease on his seat in the
Senate, of which body he has been a
member longer than any other man or
our history.
John J. Installs and William a. Aiuson
became Senators on the same day. In
tra Uh served 18 years: Allison has served
S3. Ingalls was a brilliant man; Allison
k plain man. Ingalls ciasxieo,; aiiisob
planned. Ingalls was admired; Allison
was trusted. Ingalls was grand on dress
parade; Allison was excellent for hard
service. Had Ingalls hailed from Iowa,
it is quite likely that his service in the
Senate would not have been extended
bevond 18 years: had Allison been from
Kansas, it is altogether proDaDie mat
Kansas, too, would have rewarded nim
with a sixth term.
Just now standpatters and revisionists
are. flying at one another's throats out
In Iowa. Gold Democrats and silver
Democrats, to all appearances, were not
farther apart in 1S96 than Perkinsttes
and Cumminsttes are In 1906. There is
but one man who can compose the diffi
culty, and ha is tho Senator who fetched
Dolliver and Aldrich, Clapp and Knox to
gether on the rate bill last Spring. He
rendered the Republican party and the
Republican President a great service on
that occasion, and If he shall have the
health and strength he will be found in
the convention of August 1, when and
where he will compose things. If it be
possible.
What William B. Allison cannot har
monize, however, is an irrepressible con
flict and an implacable quarrel.
Has it coma to that this tariff mess-
out in Iowa?
Strange Definitions by Chicago Cops.
Chicago Dispatch.
Seven hundred and ninety examination
papers of would-be policemen are in the
hands of the Merit Board. Here are
some definitions:
Homicide "Leaving a wife or children
under 16 without a home"; also "to ruin
a person's face"; also "a person commit
ting himself."
Perjury "Unjustly defaming tne cnar-
acter of another"; also "trying to beat
the state law."
Alibi "An additional name to a per
son"; also "false oath.
Gaming "Killing game without a li
cense"; also "making fun of people.
Felony "A case in which a person may
try to get what is unlawfully due to him.
such as money."
Oner writer was slightly hazy as to
the -duty ot a policeman In caring for an
injured man. When asked to "state the
duty of an officer when he finds a per
son seriously injured as the result of an
accident," he added tersely "arrest that
person."
"Carrying concealed weapons is a com-
up, wrote another.
Drank; Ilonpehead of Grape Wise,
Blackwood's Magazine. A
Of the great scholar and writer, George
Buchanan, the four hundredth anniver
sary of whose birth was recently cel
ebrated. It is related that he was told by
his doctors that If he abstained from
wine he might live five or six years, and
that if he continued to drink he could
bold out three weeks at longest.
"Get you gone." he exclaimed, "with
your prescriptions and your course of
diet, and know that I would rather live
three weeks and be drunk every day
than six years without drinking wine."
He was as good as his word. "Having
discharged his physician, like a desper
ate man, he ordered a hogshead or grape
wine to be set at his bed's head, re
solved to see the bottom of It before
he died, and he carried himself so vali
antly that he emptied it to the lees."
Free Haircuts for Boys and Glrla.
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
M. Nosskoff, a South Side barber, will
open bin second annual free hair-cutting
period Monday morning, and all boys and
girls under 16 years need not want for
a haircut. Nosskoff and his assistants
cut the hair of 2000 children last year.
It Is expected that the rush will be even
greater this year. The first .day last
year It was necessary to provide police
protection In order to keep the. prospec
tive customers in line for their turn, and
in order that no one be kept waiting
long four new barbers have been added
to the staff.
The Pettua Rales for Long Life,
Exchange.
Senator Pettus. of Alabama, who re
cently passed his 85th birthday, is re
ported to have offered this explanation
of his vitality: "I never chew less than
half a pound of tobacco per day. I swear
only when it. is absolutely necessary:
drink nothing stronger than whisky, and
for years have made it a practice to go
to bed only when I blank pleased."
Reverie In Bucolia Ball Yard.
Edwin L. Barker in NaahviUe American.
The last cheer tolls the knelt of final play;
The wild-eyed fans wind slowly o'er the
lea;
The pitcher homeward plods his weary way.
And leaves the field to darkness and to
me.
2?ow fades the evening landscape on the
slKht,
And all the air Is full of solemn rest.
And as some - beetle wheels his droning
flight,
I wipe the peanut busks from off my vest.
Beneath those
rug-red elms that maple's
shade.
. The grassy diamond
far
Here many a brilliant
played.
stretches outward
game has been
Here has cavorted many a barefoot star.
For them there Is no major league renown
No fancy salaries e'er befell their lot;
They played but for the glory of their
town .
Cigars and lodging was the most they got.
No rank ambitions mocked their cornfield
play;
They knew not of Bill Smith's deep-laid
intrigue;
No "squeeze play" theirs they lugged along,
each
In their same rural and bucolic way.
Nor you, ye proud from Piedmont to New
Tork,
Can Josh at them and call them country
"mokes."
For plateward dally you nave seen those
walk.
Whose work at bat and field- proclaimed
4 them Jokes.
Perhaps this neglected spot once played
A Christy Mathewson or a Herman Long:
A "whip" that big league hitters might
have swayed.
Or stirred to ecstasy a mighty throng.
Full many a star of purest ray serene.
The unknown, unsung Bush leagues bear;
Full many a crack Is born to pitch unseen.
And waste his benders on the country air.
Some mighty Wagner who with oakea bat
Drove all his rivals to the distant woods
Some Donlln or some Lajoie, for that.
May here have Shown that he bad big
league goods.
Their batting eyes are trained by guiding
plows;
Their salary whips toughened by the fes
tive hoei
They know not the league'ers midnight
"inuifl" ;
They nave jao coin on "bubbling" suds to
blow
Into major league's Ignoble strife
Their bare feet never yearned to walk or
stray;
Along the cornfield boundaries of life
They keep the even tenor of then- way.
IN THE OREGON COUNTRY,
It Was Not Baking; Day.
Freewatcr Times.
Last Saturday 363 loaves of bread were
sold at Andy Johnson's Cash Grocery,
the largest sale for one day since he has
been in business-
Pie Probabilities.
Athena Press.
Squaws-are beginning to make regular
trips to town with huckleberries, which
they offer for sale at exorbitant prices.
This is the' forerunner of harvesting a
big berry crop on the mountain slopes.
With Father Jasnea Attending.
Woodburn Independent.
Born To Nellie, the little wife of
James, Mr. Riddle's smart dog. on July
21, 11 children, five sons anrt six daugh
ters. Mother and six babies are doing
well.
Classifying; the Scrubs.
Gold Beach Globe.
If you want to know, so that you can
make no mistake if a man is a scrub or
not, just watch his language. If he is a
low cur, he will show it by using names
for other people, such as "hayseed," etc.
Read This if you Want to Get Dlxsy.
Albany Democrat.
There was a great wedding in which
three persons under indictment for land
frauds took place up in Washington, and
of course it had to be illegal, the parties
being first cousins, and according to the
laws of Washington cannot marry.
The Moro Movement.
Observer.
A young lady of Moro has been toM
that she possesses a willowy figure, and
she often assumes poses that will -lis-,
play it to the best advantage. Yestrr-'
day she was startled by the following
question from a younger brother: "Sis,
why do you make so many gestures with
your hips?"
New Malheur nan.
Vale Oriano.
. The Oriano in going to change its pol
icy. Those who do not advertise in it
or in the Gazette are not going to get
social notices, business notices, or any
mention in the paper, unless they pay
for it. They are dead men, and we are
going to help bury them ami see if we
can't get other men here in their places.
Clackamas Celebrity.
f Salem Journal.
Dee Wright, of Molalla, Clackamas
County, is in the city, looking after sheep
for the Portland market. Mr. Wright,
besides being a prominent stockman. Is
the most renowned woodsman in the
state. He is acquainted with every deer
path in the Cascades, is on friendly terms
with the Indians on several reservations
and speaks six Indian dialects. He
learned to speak the language of the Mo
lalla tribe before he could speak English.
Prehistoric Tooth.
Klamath Falls Express.
Clay Raturfe, of Spring Lake, came
into this office Monday and showed us a
huge tooth of some prehistoric monster
which he found recently- on his ranch.
The tooth weighed 'iVi pounds and was 7
inches across. Ratllffe sent part of the
bones of what is supposed to be the same
animal the tooth came from to the
8mlthsonlan Institute at Washington sev
eral years ago, and they said the bones
were a part of the remains of a Colum
bian elephant.
Cleaning lTp Newberg.
Graphic.
A committee of ladies, made up from
the members of the different churches in
town, is placing in business houses and
other conspicuous places about town
large cards on which are printed the words
Please don't swear." The step is well
taken, for the use of profanity is on the
increase in Newberg and if anything
can be done to check It no time ahould
be lost. All admit that no gentleman
will swear in the presence) of ladies. Bet
ter make a clean sweep of it and resolve
to "swear not at all."
SquHrinR- Iflmself.
Pine Creek Miner.
Last week an old "cracked" knife and
scissor agent, commonly known as "scis
sors," blew into this office on press day,
while the force was very busy. The
agent was not asked to show his sam
ples, but privileged himself by scatter
ing them over the paper on the feeding
table, and' when he became convinced
that his efforts were In vain, began gath
ering up his pins, knives, scissors, etc.,
and to his terrible dismay found a little
old pewter watch charm with a photo
on it. to be missing. Consequently we
were compelled to accept the slandering
Insult of theft. The contempt offered by
these common old drills should be less
tolerated and their approach avoided.
Reviewing Old Times.
Dallas Observer.
Isaac Mossman, a veteran of the Ya
kima Indian war. Is visiting his old com
rades in Dallas. His home has been in
the Santa Clara Valley, in California, for
the last 15 years, but since the earth
quake he has been staying with relatives
in Portland. Mr. Mossman is one of
Oregon's early pioneers, and for many
years before the advent of the railroad
was mailcarrler between La Fayette and
Corvallis. He was also a partner with
Joaquin Miller in an express route to the
Oro Fino mines. Mr. Mossman enlisted
in the Polk County company when the
Yakima Indian war broke out, and served
through the campaign. He Is greatly en
Joying his visit with his old comrades
and acquaintances in Dallas.
Eastern Oregon's Wheat King.
Union Republican.
The assessment rolls show that A. B.
Conley is easily the largest Individual
owner of farming land in Union County,
says the La Grande Chronicle. He is
assessed on 10,118 acres, and practically
every foot of it is first-class, tillable
land. On straight market value, Mr.
ronIeys land is worth more than tBO per
acre be would probably not accept that
price, with additional pay for improve
ments. The land is all title clear, and,
with his other possessions Mr. Conley
is a millionaire. A little over a quarter
of a century ago his principal stock in
trade was a freighting outfit, about as
poorly equipped as any on the road. Mr.
Conley's rise is due primarily to wheat
raising, but the advancing value of farm
ing land in the past few years has had
a good deal to do with it. He Is known
as "Eastern Oregon's wheat king."
Te Republicans.
To the Editor: We are anxious to have
every Republican in close touch and
working harmony with the Republican
National Congressional Committee in fa
vor of the election of a Republican Con
gress. The Congressional campaign must be
based on the administrative and legisla
tive record of the party, and. that being
so, Theodore Roosevelt's personality must
be a central figure and his achievements
a central thought In the campaign.
We desire to maintain the work of this
campaign with popular subscriptions of
one dollar each from Republicans. To
each subscriber we will send the Repub
lican National Campaign Text Book and
all documents issued by the committee.
Help us achieve a great victory.
JAMES e. SHERMAN, chairman,
P. O. Box 2063, New York.
One Grateful Newspaper Reader.
London Dally News.
A legacy which Is probably unique was
left recently by an Italian woman. She
bequeathed 600 to a newspaper "in ,
recognition of my gratitude for having
been so often entertained by it" Very
few compliments reach most editors
from their multitude of readers legacies
never.