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PORTLAND. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10.
TIIE LABOR FOR TIIE CANAL.
It Is well to note the high Chinese
authority for the statement that It Is
not going to be easy, and perhaps will
be Impossible, to obtain laborers from
China for the Panama canal. The
statement goes that the Chinese are
not anxious to engage for a work so
difficult, laborious and dangerous, and
moreover, will be advised by their In
fluential countrymen not to do It. Fur
ther, that China has no anxiety to wit
ness the construction of the canal, still
less to assist it, since the commercial
results will aggrandize the United
States and other Nations without being
beneficial to China, and that the refusal
to permit Chinese to enter the United
States will be used as an argument to
deter them from encountering the cli
matic perils of the American isthmus
for enhancement of the prosperity and
prestige of the great Nation of
America.
Should these considerations prove de
terrent and they may the .protest of
Our working (people will be found, to
have been premature and unnecessary
They will raise a test, too, as to how
much human nature there is in the
Chinese, whom we treat with indignity
In general, but now wish to fall back
on as part of the mere machinery of
a great and necessary work In a ell-
mate too deadly for our own people.
For we cannot suppose that any con
siderable number of our own working
people even of those who have .pro
tested so loudly against employment of
Chinese for work on the canal could
be induced to go to the isthmus for
any wage. They are right, too; not In
their protest against employing Chinese
on the work, but in their disinclina
tion to go themselves.
. Where the labor Is to come from Is
the problem of the canal. The work is
likely to be delayed beyond all calcu
lation. Noting how difficult it is to
get men for railroad work and similar
undertakings, in our own country,
where the conditions of living are
healthful and attractive, it may be
judged what the chance will be of get
ting men to go to Panama. We take
It to be Impossible. Men for clerical
work and superintendence can be had,
but not for the heavy manual labor, in
such a climate. The main resource
must be those accustomed to the
tropics, or to coolie conditions'. Ques
tion is whether even such labor can
be had, in sufficient force to push the
work along.
CONSEQUENCES.
President McKinley was an honest
man, of exceeding good nature, and
fond of peace. He was gracious and
accommodating, especially to his polit
ical friends. By nature he was slow
to believe anything against them. To
Senator Mitchell and Binger Hermann
he was especially friendly. He and his
friend Hanna .promised Mitchell control
of the offices and patronage of the
Government In Oregon, if Mitchell would
come home and support McKinley for
the Presidency. They kept their word;
and though Mitchell would not deolare
for the gold standard and continued to
. Juggle with silver, to the great embar
rassment of the sound money cause,
McKinley allowed him full sway in
Oregon affairs. McKinley, Indeed, was
scarcely a gold standard man himself,
till half way through his first term.
He liked Hermann and made him Com
missioner of the General Land Office.
But when Mitchell and Hermann lost
their powerful supporter the decline of
their fortunes soon began. Had Mc
Kinley lived It would have been very
different. No one competent to Judge
can doubt that he would have stood
by them.
This is not to say that McKinley
would have winked at or knowingly
permitted any misconduct in office.
But appeals to him at the beginning,
before the cases ibecame flagrant,
would certainly have stopped annoying
Investigations. He would have be
lieved In Mitchell and in Hermann; he
did belleve In them; and of course a
word from the President at the right
time, and addressed to the right places.
would have made and kept everything
smooth. Troublesome inquiries would
have been put to sleep. Probably Sec
retary Hitchcock would not have re
mained at the head of the Department
of the Interior.
But President Roosevelt had had no
relations with the men of Oregon who
had ibeen so near to McKinley. Be
' 6ides, he is a man of no easy disposi
tion, putting peace and accommodation
of troubles above all things else. The
departments had struck a trail smell
ing loudly of corruption, and he not
only allowed them to pursue It, but
insisted on their doing so. What has
followed all know; and more is to
come. Tet McKinley was an honest
man, hating corruption and malversa
tion in office. He could be too easily
persuaded not to toelieve it. against
those to whom his confidence had- been
given. To his death, unquestionably,
is due the undoing of this combination
of politicians and land-thleve In Ore
gon. By 1905 all their main schemes
would have been safely consummated
and investigation precluded.
THE HUMBLE DRUIH.E ON TOP.
Young men who plodded along, year
after year, earning scarcely more than
a living, may have envied Mays and
Jones, McKinley, Tarple.y and Puter,
who were getting rich notoriously fast;
but none envies them now.
The land grabbers had their round of
pleasure; now they endure a season of
pain. Plodders will get What enjoy
ment they can out Of life and be more
content with honest toll. And more
young irien, who aspire to gilded
places, will be content to plod.
- Many youths who have been fighting
the wolves with a petty pay pittance,
yet who have been better endowed
with brains and industry than the land
grab gentry, wondered how it was the
gentry found life so smooth and sleek.
While the drones had elegant offices,
fine homes, best-tailored clothes, styl
ish wives and children and abundant
leisure, the drudges toad the opposite.
But nobody wonders now; nor envies
either.
- It Is found far better to slumber as
an honest drudge on a restful pillow
in a humble hut, than to toss and
pace the night as a dishonest drone,
in remorseful agony in a gilded man
sion, with views of disgraced wife and
children etereopttconed on a sleepless
brain.
It Is far better to !wear shabby
clothes, draw meager pay, practice
humble savings, and live a well-ordered
life, than to luxuriate in rich
raiment and automobiles and have all
one wants and be a thief.
The poor plodder is a highly-valued
unit in the social body, and the dis
honest drone cannot long be exalted
over him as a person keener-witted,
more intelligent, or of a higher order
of being; the fact Is the reverse and
the drone at last comes to his Just
level and sinks into the bottomless
pit.
Not three years ago a high office In
Portland's city government was offered
to one of the men now in the land
fraud net. The office has a salary of
$200 a month. The man was a mem
ber of the political machine which
could have elected him. But he could
not accept; he was busy in other pur
suits, though scarcely anybody knew
what those pursuits were. Now every
body knows they were those of land
stealing.
.Any qualified young man would have
been glad to .take the $200-a-monlh
position if he had not been making
more money in other business. Those
who make more than that in legiti
mate occupation are very few. But it
is easy to see why this man spurned
an honorable place; he was making
more in a dishonorable one.
"The triumphing of the 'wicked is
short and the Joy of the hypocrite but
for a moment."
"The memory of the Just is blessed
but the name of the wicked shall rot."
"HOBSOJTS CHOICE." '
It Is worth while, perhaps, to answer
an Inquiry as to the origin of the
phrase, "Hobson's choice." It is not
used commonly, with strict correct
ness though one of the most prevalent
of our sayings or proverbs. It means
strictly, "Take this or nothing" not
merely that there is only one left. The
Spectator, No. 609, gives the origin of
the proverb.. Here Is the passage:
Mr. Tobias Hobson was a very honorable
man. for I shall ever call the man so -who
gets an eatate honestly. Ha was a carrier, and
being a man ot great abilities and invention.
and one who saw where there might good
profit arise, though duller men had overlooked
It, this Ingenious man was the first In Eng
land who let out hackney horses. He lived
In Cambridge, and, observing that the scholars
rid hard, his manner waa to keep a large
stable of homes, with boots, bridles and
whips, to furnish the gentlemen at once, with
out going from college to borrow, aa they
have done stnoe the death of this worthy. man. -I
say Mr. Hobson kept a stable of forty good
cattle, always ready and fit .for traveling;
but when a man came for a horse he waa
led into the stable, where there was great
choice; but he obliged him to take tha horse
that stood next the stable door, so that every
customer waa alike well served, according, to
his chance, and every horse ridden with the
same Justice, .from whence it became a prov
erb, when what ought to be your choice was
forced upon you, to say "Hobson's choice."
The number containing this story is
one of the Addison papers in the Spec
tator, written In 1712. But the story
was old when Addison gave this ac
count of Hobson. Milton was a stu
dent of Cambridge, in Hobson's time,
and one of his early poems was a
doggerel, almost unworthy the fame of
Milton, but pardonable to his youth,
"On the University Carrier who sick
ened and died in the time of his va
cancy, being forhld to go to London
by reason of the plague." We quote a
few of the verses:
Here lies old Hobson; death hath broka his
girt.
And here, alas! hath laid him In the dirt;
Or elae, the waya being foul, twenty to one
He's here stuck in a slough and overthrown.
'Twas such a shifter that If truth wera
known.
Death was half glad when be had got him
down;
For he had any time this ten years full
Dodged with him betwixt Cambridge and Tha
Bull.
Hobson's inn at London was The
Bull, in Blshopsgate. Warton's notes
on Milton say that Hobson died Jan
uary 1, 1630, and that his figure in
fresco remained at The Bull a long
time after his death. Also that,
"among transcripts of poetry made. by
Archbishop Sancroft at Cambridge,
now in the Bodleian library, ' is an
anonymous poem on the death of Hob
son. It was perhaps a common subject
for the wits of Cambridge."
THE STATE FAIR.
The dry season in Oregon has nearly
run its course, and prediction as to .the
weather therefore is hazardous, yet
there is prospect of an ideal Septem
ber month, usual in our state and the
Pacific Northwest, with showers, per
haps, but no downpour. The little rain
that has fallen is Just enough to beat
the dust out of the air, but hardly to
lay it In the roads. We do hot expect
hot days.
With growth of all industries among
us, rapidly increasing population, good
markets for the great body of our
products, livestock and lumber Inter
ests on the high road of prosperity and
encouragement all around us, our state
fair is taking on larger Bcope and more
representative character. This year
undoubtedly it will surpass all former
efforts. There will be no danger that
this old institution will ever again be
permitted to fall to a low estate, or
be a humdrum affair. So much that Is
new, interesting and valuable, is now
to be offered, so greatly extended and
enlarged over all former years is the
range and scope of the exhibition that
the visitor will find surprise and pleas
ure at every step.
The opportunity of the people to meet
together is perhaps the greatest of the
pleasures of these occasions. It will
be a, great "meet" tola year. The at
tractions are sufficient to draw the
crowds and the general prosperity puts
the people in a oheerful and sociable
mood. Thousands ought to go from
Portland evincing alike their interest
and good will towards all the rest of
the etate. Besides, it will be a kindly
return for the gracious disposition
shown by the people of the state at
large towards the Lewis and Clark
Exposition last year.
All Oregon should greet all Oregon
at the state fair this. week. Among
the active forces of the new era that
has begun in Oregon the state fair
henceforth must hold a representative
place. More and more, with the devel
opment, it will become important, for
it Will reflect the progress of the etate
and bring the people together, and
contribute toward harmonious action
among them. The great drawback has
been the isolation of our communities
from each other. As a means of pro
moting Intercourse the state fair should
not be neglected.
IX PLAIN TERMS.
The Salem Statesman the other day
printed the following. The Oregonlan
now gives it circulation:
The Oregonlan destroys a great deal of the
force ot Its recognized editorial ability by the
heartless bitterness with which it pursues
those ,who have offended it politically. .No
body can criticise Its condemnation of wrong
doing, but the personal animosity which, ap
pears between the lines gives rise to the sus
picion which is voiced by the editor's enemies,
that hla disappointed ambition has a strong
influence in dictating his grave-digging.
The editor of The Oregonlan has no
disappointed ambition, no personal an
imosities; and If he has "enemies who
voice suspicion" against him, to them
he is indifferent. He is digging no
graves, but notes that a great number
of persons have dug their own. Such
ambition as he has is not "disap
pointed"; for it has been centered
upon the production of this newspa
per during many years, and there are
those who think he has reason to be
satisfied with the success of the effort.
He thinks so, too. Ho does not think
that denunciation of corruptionists and
public thieves is proof of "heartless
bitterness," hut if their apologists
think so he cares not This paper
minces no words on any Important
suhject, never has; and its term for a
spado will still be a spade.
UNCOMMON VICTIMS OF INDUSTRY
Two deaths recorded In this state
last week were particularly sad be
cause they marked the end of lives
that promised much of useful en
deavor. One was the death of a boy
in Eastern Oregon who was so eager
to do the work of a man that he over
taxed his strength the first day of his
employment and died during the night.
The other was that of a young man,
superintendent of a large fruit farm.
who was so conscientious In his work
that he worried over small misfortunes
In the management of the 'business of
his employers and, as a consequence
of the worry, lost hi mental balance
and committed suicide.
In each instance the death was due
to an earnest desire to render the full
est measure of service to the employer
a spirit more often remarked because
of its absence. It Is not the rule these
days for boys to- hurt themselves
working. They may be seriously in
jured in football or baseball games.
but the record of deaths from over
work is short among the rising genera
tion. Nor is It common for young men
to become so thoroughly Interested In
the success of their - employers that
they will worry about circum
stances and conditions over which they
have no control. Boys generally pre
fer to spend the Summer vacation in
idleness and men who work for wages
are pretty certain to leave all the
worrying to the employer.
Here were two exceptional cases so
rare as to be worthy of more than a-
hasty thought and a passing word.
Here were a boy and a man, who
erred in Judgment as to the extent
of service required of them, but
who tried to Tender too much rather
than too little. Theirs was work that
required no watching to. insure abso
lute honesty and fidelity, for their loy
alty to their employers was as great
as any man's loyalty to his 'country,
when enlisted in her service. Relatives
and friends may well feel proud of
careers unfortunately short but rich in
the lessons they teach.
A TOBACCO EXPOSITION.
An unique display of the exposition
spirit, which In recent years has domi
nated business and combined it with
pleasure, Is now in progress at Madison-Square
Garden. A great tobacco
exposition opened there on September 3
and will continue until September 15..
The magnitude of the tobacco trade
and the great Industrial and financial
interests that it' represents are shown
toy this fair to be stupendous.
This trade, according to bulletins
that have been issued, is not dominated
toy consolidated capital, but is carried
on to a great extent toy small. Inde
pendent concerns. Of these, there are
in the United States over 25,000, having
no affiliation with each other. These
factories produced in aggregate last
year between 7,000,000 and 8,000,000
cigars, all of which were consumed by
the public, or, more strictly speaking,
toy the men of the United States, at a
cost of $100,000,000. This enormous out
put Is In addition to that of cigarettes
Turkish, American and Egyptian
pip and chewing tobacco and snuff.
In Federal revenue this industry is
second only to that of the wine and
liquor trade. It is larger by far than
the combined revenue derived by the
Government from a dozen of the Na
tional necessities.. The number of peo
ple dependent for a livelihood upon the
tobacco industry, from field to finished
product, is very great so great indeed,
that its sudden elimination would be
a disaster second in magnitude only
to .the elimination of the wheat or corn
crop. It Is this tremendous Industry,
through all the stages of its develop
ment, that the exposition in Madison
Square Garden presents to an aston
ished public. It is a mighty represen
tation of the tobacco Interests of the
country aggregating billions of dollars
of invested capital. Every branch and
detail of this business Is presented.
Among these Is a tobacco plantation
in miniature, a complete cigar factory,
a cigarette factory turning out dally
thousands of the little "coffin nails" of
which the reformer is wont to tell the
schoolboys; a clay pipe factory turning
out its product with almost incredible
rwltness; its rival, the corncob pipe
factory, which will put out 3000 pipes
daily during each of the twelve days
of the exposition. Brier-wood pipes
present another feature of the tobacco
trade, while the most valuable pipe in
the world, constructed of a solid piece
of meerschaum, representing the land
ing of Columbus in one of the most re
markable pieces of carving in the
world, attracts the attention of the
curious and the admiration of worship
ers at the shrine of the Princess Nico
tine. The magnitude of the tobacco inter
ests from plantation to factory and
thence until the product Is dispelled in
smoke Is made manifest by this exposi
tion. It may furnish the reformer a
text upon which to discourse upon the
evils that follow the use of tobacco,
tout it also shows to the practical man
of business the futility of the attempt
to legislate the tobacco habit out of
existence, even if from an Industrial
and flnanical standpoint that result
would toe desirable. v
The San Francisco Chronicle, oppos
ing Bryan's railroad Ideas, says his
notion that the trunk lines should be
owned by the general Government and
local lines of the states Is impractica
ble, for these reasons, among others:
The success of the great trunk lines has been
due to the cars with which they have
nourished and created feeders when neces
sary. It waa found in practice that the
working of a great number of systems mili
tated against efficiency, and tha aim of far
sighted managers has always been to make
the Toads which they control Independent of
the vagaries of others. But now comes Bryan
with a plan which, if it were workable,
would Inevitably result In the disintegration
of systems. Nothing in the past htstory of
state legislation encourages the .belief that the
requisite harmony of action could be obtained
to make the etate lines, which would be feed
ers to the trunk lines, co-operate with the
latter in order to promote business.
If the plan should take the local
feeders away from the control of the
main lines and this would seem to be
the consequence it would toe a serious
matter not only for the roads, but for
the people-.'
It had occurred to almost every one,
and very often, before James J. Hill
said it, that agriculture must be the
final resource of the people, since at
the rate at which we are exhausting
our coal, oil, ores and timber these
resources, within a century, will toe
scarce and multitudes must go back
to the soil. But the soil of some of
our states, as Pennsylvania, never wlli
support the multitudes whom the in
dustries, based on coal and ores, have
called into being. Nor can any great
city exist without coal or oil. The
skyscraper would toe useless. People
couldn't get to the top of It; and rapid
transit would be impossfble. And cer
tainly the coal and oil supplies will
not last forever, nor very long.
' A strange sect of fanatics on religion
is that known as the Doukhubors.
These people have gained a foothold in
Manitoba, and in their occasional pil
grimages in the nude have shocked the
sensibilities of decent people and fallen
under the ban of the law. Some of the
leaders in a late pilgrimage have been
placed in prison in Winnipeg, where,
refusing to eat, they are being fed for
cibly by the police. The strange part
of this story is that tie local govern
ment thinks it worth while to keep
these people alive.
Cotton mills in our Southern States
now consume nearly as many bales of
cotton as those of our Northern States.
And the Increase in the South is still
rapid. Immense growth of manufac
turing industry in the South furnishes
the reason why Democratic members
of Congress from that section are be
coming protectionists. There were those
long ago who foretold that North and
South would, some time, change posi
tions on this question. In New Eng
land there are strong signs of it.
Computations made by statisticians
of its health department figure out a
population of 12,000,000 for New York
City by the year 1940. The growth of
London, Paris and Berlin for the last
twenty years shows nearly as great a
proportion as America's chief city. To
get closer home, Portland's proportion
ate growth is greater than either of
the cities mentioned.
The Republican party, we are told,
"deserves no credit for increase In, the
production of gold, to which the "good
times' are largely due." Certainly not.
What It deserves credit for to main
tenance of the gold standard, which is
the basis of the confidence that has
established the prosperity of the coun
try. The man who gets drunk in the
North End and falls prey to its in
mates should have the sense to keep
his loss to himself. The North End
exists for the purpose of robbery and
he who places himself at the mercy
of denizens of that part of tha city
should know what to expect.
Congressman Williamson has filed an
appeal in the United States Supreme
Court in the case in which he was con
victed. He will have business at
Washington long after his term shall
have expired.
Despite prophecies of dreadful and
direful things to happen to this coun
try in ten years, it is just as well to
continue to eat three meals a day,
when they can be had.
The Treasury Department complains
of a scarcity of dollar bills all over
the country, yet in Portland "Dollar
Bill" gets quite numerous below the
boundary occasionally.
"It," says the Chicago Tribune, "if
Stensland has only $12,000, and If the
12,000 is tied up, it ought not to take
long to put his case through the
courts."
The -Southern Pacific would better
electrify its Fourth-street line, since
a double-header and pusher were
needed for seven cars of Saturday's
train.
Still; there are two or three mem
bers of the political machine who have
not been dragged Into the land-fraud
drag-net. Were they too smart?
One thing certain: The folders Is
sued by our Oregon railroads are all
truthful. For exaggeration on their
theme is impossible.
Mr. A. B. Hammond is In Portland
again. As a man bringing new rail
roads with him, he is a very welcome
visitor.
When a man is a creditor, a trustee
and an administrator, all at once. It
is easy to see why the heirs get noth
ing. The rain came sooner than predicted
and evidently there will toe fair weath
er for the state -fair and hop-picking.
It is easy to talk about the "honesty"
of a creditor-truetee-admlnistrator, but
the lamb is inside the wolf.
BRYAW FORGIVES "ABROAD."
Ho Found Out There la Something In
Other Countries.
New York Evening Mail.
The Bryan of 1896 not only breathed
threatenings and slaughter against
"abroad," but found an "enemy's coun
try" within the Republic. The Bryan of
1906 has traveled some distance from the
Platte. In his Garden speech he retracts
what he said about New York being the
enemy's country, and. instead of taking
the ground that we should be "agin"
everything they do In Europe, he actually
urges the practice of Europe as a reason
why Americans should accept his doc
trines. In 1S96 his" platform declared that "gold
monometallism is a British policy, and its
adoption has brought other nations Into
financial servitude to London." It could
be fastened on this country only "by the
stifling of that indomitable spirit and love
of liberty which proclaimed our political
Independence in 1776." Mr. Bryan was for
16 to 1, "without waiting for the aid or
consent of any other nation." What now?
"My first message from the Old World,"
says Mr. Bryan, "Is a message of peace."
Instead of talking about a "British pol
icy" and appealing to "1776." Mr. Bryan
finds that gold monometallism" is really
the policy of providence, and now wants a
treaty of arbitration "between the two
great English-speaking nations of the
world." We can actually learn from
abroad, and Indeed "ought to remain in
the attitude ot a pupil." He has found
that "some of the nations of Europe are
able to secure a more ready response than
we do to an expression of the will of the
people." He has seen the movement to
ward democracy "In every country of the
world." and wants us to fall In line by
electing Senators by popular vote. He
finds that "the most conservative coun
tries of Europe have an income tax," and
urges that as an added reason why we
should have one. He closes his peroration
by quoting from a Scotch bard.
Mr. Bryan has grown in some respects
and we rejoice In it, merely remarking
that the phenomenon Is an argument In
favor of foreign travel, not of any Bryan
candidacy.
OPINIONS IN OREGON COUNTRY.
Tax-Dodging-- In Grant County.
Canyon City Eagle.
From the manner in which a rich man's
wealth melts away upon the approach of
the Assessor, It stands to reason that if
he should call twice in one year there
wouldn't be a rich man left In the coun
try. Aak Mr. Bailer, '
Salem Statesman.
A white man dropped dead In Portland
yesterday after drinking a quantity of
Chinese gin, and this is given as a reason
why the sale of' that article should be
entirely prohibited. Don't know about
that. When a white man gets down to
consuming Chinese gin there Is not much
reason for prolonging his earthly exist
ence. Speaking From Experience.
Chinook, Wash., Observer.
Miss Josie Hale Bush, County School
Superintendent, In a published letter de
clines a renominatlon. Miss Bush will
never understand the art of practical
politics. The first touch of it has set
her temper on edge. She Is a wise wo
man to quit early. Politics la no Iream.
Those elevated to office soon realize that
fact.
"Small Farmer" Better Than "Big One
Baker City Democrat.
The "small" farmer will do more In
proportion for the development of a coun
try than he that numbers his acres by
the thousands. Any section that Is di
vided into small tracts for fruit growing,
poultry raising ana the like always gives
evidence of prosperity and there you will
find the labor question Is not very great
ly discussed.
Courage in Dairying.
Rosoburg Spokesman.
It requires considerable courage to lay
out the necessary money to build a thor
ough up-to-date dairy stable, with ex
pensive cement floor, improved stalls and
an up-to-date dairy house In connection.
But the men who do so are the men who
get more milk from their cows and a
better price for their milk than farmers
who are content to work along with the
old wooden stables.
Brbrlnc's Tuberculosis Check.
New York Post.
Professor von Behrlng, whose tubercu
losis Investigations are more than ever
interesting the scientific world, recently
made to a party of French Scientists a
more detailed statement of his achieve
ments than has hitherto appeared. In
this he affirmed that he had been abla
to prepare a fluid named "tulose. " differ
ing radically from Dr. Koch's tuberculin,
by using which he had been able to check
the infection of animals by malignant
tuberculosis bacilli. He frankly admitted,
however, that he had not yet succeeded
in developing a serum similar to the
dlDtheritic antitoxin, and that he con
sidered the future discovery of such a
serum "extremely doubtful." Yet it was
not impossible that by further experi
ment the tulose could he made to de
velop curative properties. Meanwhile
clinical- experiments have shown that in
jections of this new fluid are of value
in the treatment of children suffering
from either tuberculosis of scrofulous
troubles. Finally, Professor von Behrlng
announced that,' until further expert
ments have shown for Just what uses
"tulose" is best adapted. It will be dis
pensed only to a few select hospitals and
clinics, which will pledge themselves to
use it only in accordance with certain
conditions prescribed by him. If this
calm statement disappoints those who
have already seen the white scourge dis
appearing before Dr. von Behrlng's
magic, it Is yet proor that a great scien
tific advance has really taken place.
An Intermediate View.
Kansas City Star.'
No surprise will be caused by the dis
covery that the late Banker Hippie, of
Philadelphia, was a cousin of the late
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon.
The Classics Improved. .
By Brandr Mathuz.
(The published list of 800 syncopated
words for every-day small talk is. you recall,
only the entering wedge. Real business will
commence when we have gotten thoroughly
accustomed to having the wedge in our
midst. Meantime, get ahead of the Blmply
Bored chaps by teaching your children a
lew gems from the Branderized classical
Trz. Idl trs, I no not wut tha mene,
Trx from the depth v sum dlvin despar
Rix in tha hart and gather to the l's,
In luklng- on the hapl ortm feelds
And thinking uv th ax that r no mor.
Tu b or not tu b; that la the kwestynn:
Wnethr tlz noblr in the mind to sufr
The slings and aroz of outrajua forchun.
Or to take rmx agenst a o uv trublx.
And bi oposng nd thm.
Bum vllage Hamdn. that with dorntles brest
The tltl tirant uv his feeldz wlthstud. .
Bum mut. inglorlus Mlltn beer ma rest.
Sum Cromwl glltles uv his countrl'a blud.
Tl rn not in mornfl numbn,
"Life lz but n mtl dremet"
For the sole lz ded that slumbrz.
And things b not wut tha seme.
TJ hav the PI lie dano as yet.
Whara is tha Pule falanks gon?
Uv tu such leans wl frget
The noblr and the manlyer wunT
U got the letrs Brandr rote?
Wei. slmpllfl az pr hlz note.
We have dun with Hop and Honr, we'r lost
to I-uv and Truth,
"We'r dropng flown the ladr rung bi rung.
And the mezur uv our tormnt tz the mezur
uv our uth
God holp ns, for we spelt Ilk this tu rung.
H. S. H. in ths Richmond Tlmes-Dlspatch.
"HAT CHECK" RILE ON TRAINS
Psmsger In Washington Realata and
Tests It la Court.
Spokane Spokesman-Review.
Many persons, who, when traveling,
have had annoying experiences with the
"hat check,"- will watch with Interest
for the outcome of the suit to be insti
tuted by James Wilcher against the
Great Northern Railway Company. Mr.
Wilcher was ejected from a train near
Marcus, Wash., because he could not
produce a hat check showing that ha had
given to the conductor a ticket entitling
him to rids to his destination. He alleges
that the conductor took up his ticket and
did not give him any check in exchange.
From the allegations as to facts It is
possible that the point of most interest
will come up In the present case. This
is the right of a conductor to claim the
production of a hat check when one has
admittedly been given. A passenger buys
and pays for a ticket entitling him to
ride to s. certain station. When that tick
et is presented to the conductor the pas
senger's part of the contract. It Is claimed
by many. Is completed. He has assumed
no obligation to assist tha conductor in
remembering how far he is to ride. The
hat check is nothing more than a re
minder or evidence for the guidance of
the conductor. In many cases it is not
even handed to the passenger, but is
placed in a clip on the side of the car,
or in the slats of the window shade.
If handed to the passenger with an ad
monition that It was an exchange ticket
which he would be required to show as
evidence of his original contract he would
probably put it In his pocket for safe
keeping, but so far as the conductor's
convenience Is concerned, he might as
well retain his ticket. The hat check Is
not an assurance to the passenger that
he may ride to his destination. The con
ductor puts a number on It, but no sta
tion lame, and the passenger does not
know that the number is correct for his
station. Conductors, of course, are not
supposed to make mistakes, but they are
human. .
Many ways will suggest themselves to
travelers In which a hat check may be
lost or overlooked. If not securely held
In the hat band, and many have had em
barrassing Interviews with the conductor.
They claim that It Is not right to hold
them responsible under an arbitrary rule
established by the railway company for
the convenience of the conductor. A de
cision on this point would be of general
Interest.
MATRIMONY PROSPECTIVE.
Lacks Characteristics of Namesake,
Independence Enterprise.
Brlgham Young came down from his
foothill ranch Wednesday. Notwithstand
ing trouble he has had with renters, he is
not enthusiastic over marrying and build
ing up a home of his own. Brlgham Is
dead set against re-opening negotiations
with the girl who threw him down be
cause of the story that he ate dog meat.
The lady. It Is said, has learned that there
was no truth in the story and Is willing
to renew acquaintance with her friend of
former days, but Brlgham shows little
disposition toward reconciliation.
T. Hobson Brents.
Star of Starbuck.
According to reports and the papers.
Judge Thomas H. Brents, of Walla Wal
la, is destined to become a Lieutenant
Hobson or a kissing bug or something
else probably all three. When a man of
the Judge's age gets to be so popular that
he Is allowed first kiss he Is far enough
advanced to attract some sort of atten
tion. Let's run him for Governor. Kiss
ing preiV" girls Isn't a bad occupation,
but we can't say that we envy Mr. Brents
his privilege. So long as the bride Is
pretty or sweet, O. K., but a Judge should
be impartial, and Just think of some of
the articles that poor Thomas might ha
obliged to caress and with bis eyes open,
too. Gee whiz!
On Their War.
Harper's Weekly.
During a newspaper men's convention
a number of Journalists were one af
ternoon talking of the tricks of "the
faithless types," when "Marse" Henry
Watterson said:
"While I've heard of a great many
funny typographical breaks In my
time, about the oddest and most humor
bus transposition of the types that ever
came within my observation was that
in a New York paper some years ago.
That sheet used to "print Its shipping
news on the same page with the obit
uaries. Imagine the glee with which fts
readers found the captions exchanged
one morning, whereby a long list of
respectable names were set forth under
the marine head, "Passed Through Hell
Gate Yesterday.' "
QTIPS AND CRANKS.
Rlgglns Old dotrox Is a distant relative
of yours, ten t he? Wiggins Yes; and the
richer he becomes, the mora distant ha is.
Chicago Daily Newa
"You say It was not an interesting ora
tion " "Not very Interesting. The cr.-wj
was so orderly and did so little cheering
that you could hear every word of the
speech." Washington Star.
"Laxely told me he was ryolng out every
day this week," said Goodley. "to see If
he couldn't And work." "Yes," replied
Jvewitt, "and he was successful." "Really?"
"Yes: ho couldn't find it." Philadelphia
Press.
"Papa, what is a 'gentleman of tha old
school'?" "One, my son. who insists on
having Brlght's disease when he can abun
dantly afford appendicitis." Puck.
Tommy I wish our school waa a Govern
ment office In Washington. Mamma What
on earth do you wish that for, Tommy?
Tommy Because then us fellers could spell
any old way. Baltimore American.
"Will you marry me?" he asked, bluntly.
"No," replied the Boston maiden: "but,"
she added coyly, "I am not endowed with
sacerdotal power. But your question prop
erly. Ask me If I will become your wife."
Philadelphia Press.
Caller Miss MUUcent plays wonderfully
on the piano. Grandfather Greevlua Yes;
it sort o' runs In the fam'ly. By Jucks,
you'd ort to "ave heerd me play "Ole Dan
Tucker' an" "Ole Bob Ridley" on a jews
harp when I was a boy! Chicago Tribune.
"Will you wait here for the answer?"
asked the telegraph operator In the hotel
lobby, "or shall I send It up to your room?"
"Oh." replied the woman, who had tele
graphed to her husband. "1 guess you'd
better send It to my room. It will take
some time to get a reply from John; he
stutters so." Philadelphia Public Ledger.
"Don't you want to borrow my lawn
mower?" aeked Mr. Goodman, addressing
the man that had Just moved into the
bouse next door. "Why. yes, thank you,"
answered the new neighbor, with alacrity.
"Well, you're an Improvement on the man
who lived there before you, anyhow," said
Mr. Goodman, lifting the machine over
the back yard fence, "I always had to
mow nlB lawn myself." Chicago Tribune.
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ARE SALEM PRAYERS WORTH 151
Reform Preacher's Fe at Legislative
Sesslona la Called For.
Moro Observer.
One thing we expect the coming leg
islative assembly to do will be to cut out
the daily opening with prayers at $2.5)
per. These time-sanctioned customs
usually last about two minutes and cost
taxpayers of the state 5, or t2.;0 per
minute. Durinjf a recent session the
Salem preachers were so very anxious
for the two-minute Jobs that they
formed a ring to protect a few in the
exclusive enjoyment of them. This
caused a row among the clergy Which
put the ring out of business. The Sen
ate, in order to show that It intended
to give all the preachers a square deal,
Invited a coon to offer prayer. He was
a fine, large, fat and shiny gentleman
of ebony hue, and after prayer thought
It was necessary for him to remain sit
ting alongside the President an hour or
two in order to earn his i, which was
$2 more than a Senator received for a
whole day's work. As business besran
to warm up the preacher was found to
be In the way, and every member of the
Senate saw that the President was up
against the real thing; an honest man
determined to earn his salary. The
Sergeant-at-Arms soon discovered thu
dilemma the President was in, and sent
a p:ign to the colored brother who toll
him that a friend of his in the lobby
was anxious to see him, at once. Sn.;
tors 3tniled as the preacher bowed
pleasantly and passed out.
"MEANEST MEN ON EARTH."
Past the Limit.
Corvallis Gazette.
The meanest man on earth Is decl-ued
to be a resident of Corvallis. If there ti
anyone meaner in the deepest and broad
est sense of the word. It Is up to him to
step forward and claim the distinction.
This man is the owner of a team, and
with this team he practically makes his
living. The animals are so lean and lnnk
that they resemble walking corncribs, so
plainly can their ribs be seen through the
hide, which ia about all that Is left of the
poor beasts. And In spite of the value of
the service rendered by these dumb, help
less creatures, the dirty, despicable puppy
of an owner Is accused of putting rocks
in the stalls of the horses at night to
prevent them from lying down! This Is
done to save the work of currying and tho
expense of straw for bedding.
Taught Him n Lesson.
Hover Sunshine.
A cruel Dago employed on the railroad
construction works at Wren & Gree
nough's camp 7 struck the pet otter with
a shovel, severely injuring the animal s
back and rendering it practically helpless.
A foreman of the crew wore out a pair
of hobnail boots in kicking the Dago
along the scenic shore of the picturesque
Columbia. There should have been more
footwear worn out at that camp. The
otter was picked up in the river, where
It was found swimming aimlessly about
In a big eddy, when It was so young that
its eyes had not yot opened to the world.
It was nourished with a nursing bottle
and was cared for and petted and tamed
by the camp crew until it became as do
mesticated as a house cat. In the even
ing it would pass among the men, waiting
for each to pet it. It never bit anyone
and never molested anyone. It is believed
the heartless Dago waa envious of the
otter's degree of intelligence. Camp 7
men think their pet will recover from its
injury.
WONDERS 1ST OREGON FRUIT.
J. B. Knowles brought in this week
some samples of apples grown on his
place. One Gravensteln, 12 inches In cir
cumference and weighing one pound,
showed a perfect color and sound to the
core. Independence Enterprise.
Lately the challenge was Issued by Mr.
Murton to the one who could beat him
on Gravensteln apples. Mrs. Mary Daniel,
of Bellevue, has him beaten to a finish.
An apple from her orchard which was
handed tor this office by Mr. Yocom, the
mall contractor, measured UV, Inches In
circumference and weighed 21 ounces.
The orchard was pruned heavily last
Spring. McMlnnvllle News Reporter.
The writer acknowledges receipt of a
box of ripe strawberries, the gift of Mrs.
J. E. Ostrander. of this city, who has
given her strawberry patch close atten
tion this season. They are beauties,
fresh and crisp, reminding one of the
early crop. Mrs. ,Ostrander has demon
strated beyond a doubt that a second
crop can be raised In this section of
Oregon with a very little cultivation and
plenty of irrigation. Oottaga Grove
Western Oregon.
The productiveness of the hill and
mountain land of Western Polk County,
under careful and Intelligent cultivation,
is nowhere more apparent than In the
garden of Thomas Hollowell, at Falls
City, where strawberries of the second
crop are being picked and marketed every
day. These berries are unlike the aver
age second-crop growth In that they are
perfeotly developed and of delicious
flavor. Two varieties, the Magoon and
the Australian, are now yielding the sec
ond crop of the season Dallas Observer.
A peach that Is a "peach" was brought
Into the Chronicle office this morning by
John Thomsen, who has a fine orchard
within the city limits. The peach Is of
the late Crawford variety and Is 12 Inches
in circumference. It Is a beauty In ap
pearance and off a 8-year-old tree.
Dalles Chronicle.
A spray of ripe strawberries and on It
many big ripe berries as well as green
ones in all stages of maturity was re
ceived at the Times office yesterdtiy by
mall, that came from J. A. Wood at
Blodgett and was much admired by all
who say it. Corvallis Times.
Probable Exhaustion of Streams.
Eugene Register.
Irrigation in Oregon, by private en
terprise and on an extensive scale Is a
certainty of the future. In fact, here in
Willamette Valley, filings for this pur
pose are of frequent occurrence, and if
all the ditches are built that are now
under contemplation the valley streams
will about run dry In the Bummer sea
son. It would seem that there Is now need
for some legislation in this matter as
a means of regulating the matter of ap
propriating water for irrigation as a
protection to riparian rights ana to
prevent litigation that must follow
sooner or later if the law does not step
In as a mediator.
Tnis question can certainly be looked
Into with advantage to the state at
the next Legislature session.
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