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; wonder still leas cavil at the fact
that In the constantly widening realm
of human discovery known as medical
science, supply rises to meet demand?
The doctors are with us because,
speaking; In a general sense, we want
them. We want them because. In
times of stress, wo need them or.
wnat amounts to the same thing-, be
cause we think we need them. The
supply seems to be ample In this com
munity. Indeed, there seems to be
no dearth of doctors anywhere. Tet
there are hundreds, perhaps thou
sands, now in the making;, and
before our own State Medical
Board there are now fifty-seven
applicants for license to practice. In
witness that this Is simply supply
coming; forward to meet demand.
these additions to the ranks of the
medical profession in this state and
elsewhere will. If found worthy by the
powers that be, slip each Into his or
her niche and find therein work to do.
Let not the croaker croak, therefore,
because of the multiplicity of doctors.
ainoe this multiplicity Is In direct re
sponse to the law of supply and de
maul.
monarch. His subjects are a re
markable body of recluses, comprising;
some 600.000 monks who dwell in
3000 or more monasteries. Through
these the Lama has been able to pre
sent an almost insurmountable bar
rier to the Invasion of the tourist, or
the researches of the explorer. His
humiliation means little to the world
except as it Indicates the hand of a
powerful ruler upon the helm of state;
but to the millions of Buddhists In
China It will suggest possibilities of
change unheard of In their philoso
pby.
FORTlAM. SODAf, JAXfART 17. 199.
OKLAHOMA AXD OREGON.
In Oklahoma there is a primary law
similar to that of Oregon, but lacking
Statement One. It Is declared by the
law of Oklahoma that all parties shall
nominate all candidates on a certain
day In August, preceding the general
election in November; and the law
specifically Includes "United States
Senators." The same statute requires
that after the primary and the can
vass of the vote, the election commis
sion shall deliver to those who receive
the majority or plurality vote of their
party for the various offices, certlfi'
rates which shall entitle them to have
their names printed on the ballots to
be used In the ensuing general election.
The election commission of the state
consists of two Democrats and one
Republican. In 'direct violation and
defiance of law the Democratic ma
jority of the commission refused the
application of the Republican candi
date for the Senate for entry of his
name upon the ballot. D. T. Flynn,
who had been Delegate In Congress
from the Territory of Oklahoma for
eight years, was well known, there
fore, was able and very popular, had
received the unanimous Republican
vote in the primary. But the opposi
tion managers were resolved that his
name should not go on the ballot.
They feared and believed he would
carry a majority of the popular vote;
and, though they expected the Legis
lature to be Democratic, they didn't
Intend that It should be "put up" to
the Legislature, since it would em
barrass them to turn him down.
Hence they refused to let the people
have a direct vote . on Senator
though the law compelling the nomi
nation of Senator was of their own
making, and stands today on the statute-book
of the state.
True, It doesn't contain anything
that corresponds to Oregon's State
ment One; but the managers didn't
want and wouldn't have a vote on
Senator; so they repudiated their prl
mary law, refused to enter Flynn'g
name on the ballot, and kept the elec
tion of Senator entirely In their own
hands. Following is from a state
ment recently made by Mr. Flynn
During the campaign I atarted a cry that
they were dishonest In their platform, and
repudiated their primary law by declln
ins; to put my name on the ballot to be
voted for In November. I asserted that they
desired the Republicans of Oregon I don't
know what majority the party has on Joint
ballot In that state, but I aald that they
espeoted the Republicans to elect Cham
Denaln to the Senate. I waa laughed at
all orer the country and tt was said that
I was merely trying to play politics. Now
why should a Republican. If he Is trying to
play politics, elect a Democrat to the United
Ftatea Senate from one state, when th
democratic party, which is in full con
trol In another state, absolutely refuses.
notwithstanding the law. to permit tha
name of a Republican candidate, duly nom
inated by popular vote, to be even printed
on the ballot In olectT I believe In fair
play, but I think as far aa the good of tha
country le concerned, that there should be
no more ralr play at the expense of tha Re
publicans In Oregon than there was at tha
expense of the Democrats In Oklahoma.
Doesn't It make a lot of difference
whose ox Is gored? But where will
you find such political stupidity as
among the Republicans of Oregon, or
a class of them?
SIX MONTHS SCHOOL THE MINIMUM
A bill Is to be Introduced at this ses
slon of the Legislature requiring that
each school district shall maintain a
public school for at least six months
In each year. This Is a reasonable re
quirement and should be established
by law. Most of the districts already
maintain school for more than six
months, without any legal require
raent to do so, but there are some that
do not.
Six months schooling In a year is
little enough for any child. Of
course, to Increase the length of the
school year will necessitate an In
crease in the amount of school funds;
but, since there are relatively few dis
tricts that will be affected by the re
quirement, this increase will not be
great, Kvery district!, which does not
receive enough money from the county
school funds to maintain Its school
should levy a special school tax. Just
as Portland and all the other large
school districts do. Quite likely there
are a very few districts which would
not have funds enough for a six
months' school even with the county
school apportionment and a reason
able special tax. If there should be
any such. It would be no more than
right that the county In general should
give these few sufficient aid to ena
ble them to maintain school for six
months.
A MVLTlPIJtlTY OF DOCTORS.
The once-familiar spectacle of the
doctor perhaps grown old In the
service of suffering humanity going
his rounds on horsoback, his saddle
bags behind him, or Jogging along
over country roads In his gig, with his
medicine chest at his feet well stocked
with pills and powders. Is no longer
seen In our civilization. Having lived
his long. busy, useful and sympathetic
day, he has passed on. With him It
has sometimes been supposed, has
passed the dependence upon medicine
as a cure for mortal ills that was
characteristic of an earlier and sim
pier civilization. That this is a mis
taken Idea, however. Is shown by the
large graduating classes that yearly
receive diplomas from the medical
colleges of the country, and by the
large number of young doctors who
apply, at stated Intervals, to duly con
stituted medical boards for license to
practice medicine.
The truth Is that It Is only when In
health that the average Individual
feels entirely Independent of the. doc
tor. It Is noticeable that Christian
Scientists, who find Mrs. Eddy's book
an mat xney neeu in tne way of a
tonic when In health are usually
prompt to summon a doctor when
pain, performing the part of a senti
nel at the gateway of life, announces
the presence of disease and danger.
rne same Is practically true of all
healers of whatever name. Depend
ence upon medicine to cure disease
may not be as universal as tt was in
the days when "the wise old doctor
went his rounds," but. Judged by the
law of demand and supply, there does
not seem, to be much difference be
tween the cry of the sick and suffer
ing of the present and the past. The
physically afflicted clamored wistfully
for relief then; they clamor for It
now. They looked to the doctor for
help then, they look to the same
source now, possibly with not as
much confidence In bis ability to save
WILLIAM LEE FARE.
A news dispatch yesterday told that
General Superintendent Park, of the
Union Pacific Railway, had been ad
vanced to the head of the operative
department of all the Harriman lines
west of Omaha.
It has taken William Lee Park
thirty years to reach the top of the
ladder years of hard and steady
work, during which the pay was good.
of course, as railroading goes; yet
pay was not the incentive in his case.
Railroading of the best kind was his
ambition, and always to do more than
the contract called for was his motto.
He began that way as a boy, and has
never forgotten how.
Mr. Park Is about BO years old"? He
is the son of Colonel J. B. Park, who
commanded a New Tork regiment In
the Civil War, and after a few years
in Michigan moved to North Platte,
In Western Nebraska, where youn
Park grew to manhood. Colonel Park
died In the middle '70s, and the boy
became the head of the family
mother and sister. Upon quitting
school he sought the only opening for
work in a division town of the plain
In those days and became brakeman
on the forward end of a freight train
Before he was 21 he was a freight
conductor, and when expansion struck
that region ho was given a passenger
run on the cut-off to Denver. Not
many years later there was a vacant
division supenntendency, and young
Park got it. The years ran on, and
one day the news went forth that W,
L. Park was called to Omaha to be
general superintendent of the Union
Pacific. People who knew him were
not surprised, and now evince np won
der at tne latest news of his progress
AH boys cannot become head brake-
men of a freight and In thirty years
reach a general managership of a sys
tem of thousands of miles, for all boys
are not built alike, and there are not
enough of the systems to go around
If they were. Tet all boys can study
the story of the upward career of Mr."
Park and profit by It. Attention to
business, whether It be sweeping out
and making fires In a little store or
shop or helping the fireman load coal
on a freight engine, will land one at the
top; but the three simple words at
the beginning of the sentence cover
a multitude of things that the average
boy slight as not worth bothering
himself with. -
CHINA AND FAR-OFF TIBET.
The activities of the Prince Regent
of China In those days command the
attention of the world. Such atten
tion as has hitherto been drawn to
that singularly dead, but at times
viciously alive, realm has been largely
made up of curiosity and contempt.
These elements have lately been sup
planted by Intelligent Inquiry and
some expectation, looking to the pos
slble expansion of policy In that
long-stagnant nation. Spasms denot
ing the awakening of China have been
of a commercial, rather than ethical
significance; but since the Prince
Regent has succeeded to the ancient
throne, which Tsi An was so slow to
vacate and which her dead-alive
puppet so long occupied in name.
some things have occurred which are
entirely out of the long order of
Chinese policy.
J? or example, the head of the
church and state In Tibet, recognized
In this dual capacity for hundreds of
years by the Chinese government, was
packed off to his Tibetan temple with
scant ceremony after the death of the
Dowager Empress and the Emperor.
He had arrived In Pekin with all the
arrogance and pomp of mystical and
haughty power, was received with lit
tie show of reverence, and was soon
escorted to the frontier of his little,
barren province by order of the
Prince Regent. Practically shorn of
his temporal power, the great Dalai
life now as then, but with a certainty" Lanxa 'was fflven to understand that
that he can, at least, by administering -tioeian Business oi state win here-
OUR REAL LEISURE: CLASS.
It Is a catchy but somewhat over
worked phrase of -the Socialist that
Informs us on every pretext that "the
rich are growing richer and the poor
are growing poorer." This Informa
tion is usually vouchsafed for the pur
pose of fostering discontent and to
strengthen an argument that there
should be no difference whatever In
the financial rating of people who are
now rich and people who are poor. The
true socialistic theory is that we
should take away from the rich the
money which they have accumulated
by hard work, thrift and good man
agement, and divide It with the im
provident, lazy and profligate, as well
as the Industrious but unfortunate
poor. One hears less of this division
of property in the country than in the
city. The farms of the United States
turned off $8,000,000,000 worth of
products last year, and the men who
got the money worked hard for It and
at times were unable, even with the
lure of high wages, to attract the at
tention of some of the "poor who are
growing poorer," but who will not
work in the country. .
There are more rich people In the
world today than ever, and there are
also more poor people than ever, but
the same relative proportion of the
haves" and the "have nots" has not
changed much since Don Quixote was
charging the windmills. Fortunately
for civilization and society, an
socialistic scheme for division
wealth has never struck a popular
chord in this country. There are
several million energetic rustlers wh
have nothing today, but who expect
to have something a few years hence.
They are willing to work, and, after
reaping the benefits of their labor and
thrift, do not care to be placed in a
position where they must divide with
the idle Jawsmiths whose sole occu
pation is berating our economic sys
tem and endeavoring to stir up class
hatred
With this class of workers we are
quite familiar, for they are sufficiently
numerous in every community and
every locality in the United States to
offset the pernicious teachings of the
socialistic idlers who seek to despoil
them of the fruits of their Industry
There is another class, seldom men
tloned, however, that is an even more
potent factor In holding In check the
policies advocated by the idlers
These people are termed by a writer
In the Saturday Evening Post "The
Real Leisure Class." The writer found
20.000 of them sojourning at a Florida
Winter resort. This class, says the
writer, "Is essentially and peculiarly
a product of our native conditions. It
is composed of quiet people, who
have made enough to live on in their
small Northern towns and in the in
numerable Southern corners, where
the sun lies warm in January." They
are not people who figure in the so
clety columns of the newspapers, and
some of them actually get along with
out servants. The Post writer dis
cusses these people at only one of
hundreds of Southern resorts, extend
ing from California to Florida, and
even including Cuba, Hawaii and the
West Indies, and exclainis
Twenty thousand leisurely people living
on their Incomes. Think of what hot In
vectlve might be directed against them If
they were all muItl-mllllonalres and lived
Jew Tork. Think how ralnbow-hued
would be spilled on tha pages of the
aged to get off without much delay.
She placed herself In a large butter
bowl which they had Just bought,
hitched her stalwart husband to it
with come green ribbon she had pro
cured to trim her hat with, and when
she had touched him up a little with
a rope end he cantered down the
street at a merry pace and they were
soon out of the city. The spectacle this
loving couple made as they progressed
toward the suburbs was much enjoyed
by our blase citizens. It will proba
bly be many years before Oregonlans
are blessed with another season ' of
real sleighing and typical little inci
dents like the above which will em-,
balm the character of the past week
or two for the perusal and Informa
tion of posterity ought to be carefully
noted down by those who saw them
and transmitted to the Historical So
ciety for safekeeping. Future gener
ations will value them.
lng public generally good reason for
rejoicing at difficulties and discom
forts overcome.
in
Ink
yellow journals In an efTort to picture their
fantastic pleasures. Think how Socialists
might attack them for living upon the
unjust Interest of their capital. But here
by the blue waters they live unnoticed.
They are, In a singularly characteristic
American way. a sollder and pleaaanter
proof of the real prosperity of the country
than all the millionaires of Pittsburg and
New York combined.
With this "Real Leisure Class" lies
the great bulk of the wealth of the
country, and rare indeed are the cases
In which their wealth was secured by
questionable methods. Their success,
well earned by labor and thrift. Is a
constant example for the tollers who
do not believe In the equality of man,
but who are confident that they like
wise can, after a few years of toll,
spend their declining years in leisure.
"Back In the North," continues the
Post writer, "they fade to less promi
nence In the general picture of com
mercial activity, and the fact that one
must go to the lands where Winter Is
Summer really to see them Is perhaps
significant of the class' own half
unconsclous recognition of the fact
that no part of their duty is to pro
test against labor, vaunt their own
superiority, or even by the contrast
of their presence, to make any worker
discontented with his lot. They are
themselves pre-eminently of the class
who believe America's role in the
world has been, and still Is, to perfect
Industrialism.
So long as the United States Is
peopled by such large numbers of
this "Real Leisure' Class" and the In
dustrious workers who keep their
ranks well filled, socialism will never
make much headway in this country.
COCK-A DOODLE-DO !
The poultry show lately In progress
In this city was the greatest ever. We
say this advisedly upon the assurance
of experts In poultry culture who may
be presumed to know what they are
talking about. "Classiness" was the
chief feature, of this show, and It ex
tended to pens, coops, pairs and indi
vidual specimens high-steppers one
and all with glossy, well-preened
plumage and distinct markings and
"points" that appeal to the admiration
of all beholders. Fine, plump birds
were these, each well worthy of a
premium. If Judged by" outward ap
pearances, the only standard of Judg
ment set up for a chicken show.
In a dairy stock show it is different.
The Jersey or Holstem or Alderney
cow that takes the highest premium
is the one that makes the finest show
ing In gallons of milk and pounds of
hotter produced In a day or week
"Daisy" may not have as sleek a coat
as "Clover"; her horns may not be
adjusted at so graceful an angle and
her color may not be as rer-tful to
the eye; but if she gives the milk -of
standard richness and produces the
butter, why then "Daisy" Is the cow
who bears away the blue ribbon.
But such tests of usefulness are not
required of stately Mrs. Wyandotte,
snowy Madame Leghorn-or beautiful
Mrs. Plymouth Rock. Notwithstand
ing the old proverb, "Fine feathers
make fine birds," and premiums are
awarded accordingly.
But where are the hens, modest,
singing, cackling hens, that are recog
nized as egg-producers, and awarded
premiums for industry in this henly
vocation? Let us have the record of
some of these as layer's, that we may
know what feathered dames we may
turn to for relief when eggs are 60
cents a dozen and scarce at that.
Shall we turn In this emergency to the
lowly sisters of the barred Plymouth
Rock dames of poultrydom? Of the
Rhode Island Reds and White Leg
horns and snowy Wyandottes that
were thought not fit to appear In fowl
aristocracy? And, turning to any one
of these, or all of them, shall we find
them so well fed and housed and
cared for that they can and do pro
duce eggs? A little light on this sub
ject Is needed by a multitude of anx
ious housewives who In the old-fashioned
way associate hens with eggs
and would fain hear of hens, if there
be any, that are not too highly bred
to be egg producers, and the patient,
industrious mothers of chicks, hatch
ing them, brooding them, scratching
for them and bringing them up to
the grand estate of egg producers in
their turn.
When you want to kill a man, the
State of New Tork is probably the
best place In which to do it, if you
care to escape the law that Is, such
law as goes by the name in these emo
tional days; Private vengeance, erst
while the sacred right of the Mafia
and the redskin, no longer has a dis
tinction of color. A Jury spent tweh-ty-two
hours In determining that
Thornton Halhs was not guilty of the
murder of Annis. His brother, of
course, was the actual "killer." As
he will, no doubt, be acquitted, too,
on the ground of insanity, it would be
unwise to call him a murderer; yet
most people in the West, where kill
ing Is common, but where the killers
occasionally pay a penalty, saw from
the evidence that Thornton Hains was
accessory to the death of Annls and
are surprised at the verdict. "Private
vengeance" can be construed as help
ing to put out of the way any usurper
infringing on your right to break the
commandment which bglns: "Thou
shalt not covet." That seems to be
the only grievance an accessory to
murder in the great State of New
York need have in these clays of" trir
angular adultery in the higher walks
of life. v
CLEOPATRA AXD HORACE.
The Masks Stripped Prom Historical
Fares of Two Pretenders.
Kansas City Journal.
A course of lectures on ancient history
is not usually a particularly -Inspiring
feature of university life. But Professor
Ferrero, the distinguished Italian. historian
who Is edifying the students of Columbia
University and some others not matricu
lated Is at least making work for the
scullery maids, or whatever other attaches
pick up the fragments and remove the
debris when a bull runs amuck in the
historical china closet
SILHOUETTES
BI ARTHUR A. GREENE.
Now that the pay-as-you-enter
streetcar has demonstrated Its feasi
bility, I expect to hear some of our
most respectable citizens advocating a
pay-as-you-enter heaven.
The death of Miss Helen L. Spalding
at her home in this city on January
14 closed a life of more than common
sweetness, dignity and usefulness.
Miss Spalding was for many years
teacher of English literature In the
Portland High School, and In this
capacity she came in close and sym
pathetic touch with the educational
life of that time and in her work was
honored and beloved. On account of
falling health she was compelled to
relinquish this work some years ago.
Her strength returning after a period
of rest, she becamo active In philan
thropic and church work. The de
mands upon her In these lines were
heavy and the duties incident thereto
were met in an intelligent, sympa
thetic, conscientious spirit. She will
In these spheres of action be greatly
missed, while In the closer relations
and friendships of life her loss will
be deeply felt.
As an agency for the dissemination
of knowledge among tho people of
rural districts, the Grange is a very
valuable and influential Institution.
Its members are, with very few ex
ceptions, earnest, thoughtful and con
scientious men and women. The
opinions and desires of tho organiza
tion carry great weight with legisla
tors, and for that reason It i3 impor
tant that, before taking action upon
any public question, careful and
thorough consideration ' of every
phase of the matter should be had.
Faddists and designing persons are
always anxious to have their schemes
Indorsed by Influential organizations,
and unless care be taken projects of
doubtful merit will sometimes bo ap
proved because they appear to have
merit.
Admitting that consistency Is a
Jewel, the fact remains that few of us
Tvr- - .i.. . - I "" lu juuuiBo our isst, Ior
. J.-CWCIV ia ucuverms " jewelry
course of the most strenuous lectures on e e e
ancient history that ever scandalized .
"Uncle Jlmmie" Canflelds well ordered I Tno man wh0 loafs on the street
and decorous tomes. Already Cleopatra ; corner for the chariot of Opportunity
is torn froin tho pages of romance and I to come along and pick him up usually
inserted In the renl esfnfA ctinn. An- '
tony, the Imperial lover who. history says,
threw away a kingdom for a kiss, stands
or lies, unmasked as a mere adventurer
of the most mercenary type. a.craftv Cor-
tez clawing for the gold that lay buried in
the fructifying mud of tho Nile. No mora
may we with any faith in our fancv nio-
ture "royal Egypt" draining a priceless j stage.
in a. tup ti.i u pieuge or ner love ana
no more may we plausibly paint Antony
dissolving the pearl of Roman honor In
the chalice of her lips. This Is the lan
guage of poetic history, and Professor
Ferrero declares that Cleopatra was not
the resistless siren who was sent to
Caesar In a bale of silk, to capture the
heart of one who could not withstand tha
beauty of the high gods stamped on mor
tal face. The professor declares that Cle
opatra was hook-nosed and had the face
of one of Hoyt's caricatures of a suf
fragette in "A Contented Woman." The
professor does not quote the late delight
ful farceur, but ho means the same thing
and he declares that Antony and Cleopat
ra made a prosy and mercenary alliance
of expediency.
Eur we might spare Antony and Cleo
patra If only Ferrero had not laid Impious
and iconoclastic hands on Horace our
rubicund, rotund and jocund Quintus Flac
cus, who deserves a better fate than this
ruiniessiy nippant exhumation at the
hands of a renegade historical Zueblin. If
any spark of patriotism flickered fitfullv
in the bosom of Ferrero he would have
spared his countryman. Yet to him Hor
ace Is only a "wine agent with a gift for
verse." A "gift for verse!" our Quintus!
We can't believe even the fifth that Fer
rero says of him. Perpol! What is the
world coming to when even Horace can't
rest secure after these 2000 years, but
must be tossed with a callous Jibe upon a
pile of dirt by this "first grave digger."
Let us play the kindly role of Hamlet and
eay of this Roman Yorlck:
"Alas, poor Horace! We. knew him, Fer
rero: a fellow of infinite jest and most
excellent fancy. He hath borne us on his
fancy's bark a thousand times. We have
metaphorically embraced him we know
not how oft. When; be your gibes now,
your gambols, your songs, your flashes nf
merriment, that were wont to set the
classes at least in a titter? Ferrero says
you were only a 'wine at'ent with a gift
iur verse.
As good Americans we must stand up
for Horace, for it was he. if memory does
not trick, that wrote a recipe for a salad
or something of the sort and gave us our
-,Liion:ii motto, "E plunbus unum." Fer
rero is only one of many yellow people In
uia'i siuces.
an anesthetic, give relief from pain.
But for this demand of Buffering hu
manity the supply of doctors would
diminish, whereas It seems to Increase
Instead.
And who Is there among us, having
experienced the alleviation of Intense
pain, or having witnessed the serene
passing In death of what, if the suffer
ing of a racked body had not been re
lieved by medical science, would have"
been a struggle of mortal agony, r "
after be conducted by an agent of the
Chinese government, and "only through
this accredited envoy will any com
munication be received by the Prince
Regent. The logical inference from
this Incident Is that the present ruler
of China Is something of a philoso
pher, certainly more a Confucian 1st
than a Buddhist. From time imme
morial the person of the Dalai Lama
has been held sacred. He has been
the most exclusive and mysterious of
A CONTRIBUTION TO HISTORY.
Partial Nature, who does so much
for her beloved Oregonlans, has sur
prised them this Winter with almost
two weeks of sleighing. The blessing
was so unexpected, indeed, that not
everybody was properly equipped to
njoy it. Eager as all were to go
sleighridlng, not everybody had a
sleigh. Few tried the expedient which
the native of Northern Michigan
said would do as well, that is, to sit
in a cold hall with no clothes on and
soak the feet in a tub of Ice water.
What we desired was the real thing,
and most 'Oregonlans would be satis
fled with nothing else. The Inventions
which they made to gratify their pas
sion for sleighing were sometimes
curious. One dear old grandmother,
noted far and wide among the neigh
bors for her charities, hired six little
boys from the slums to draw her up
and down the street In an old-fash
ioned rocking-chair. With her knit
ting work In her diligent hands and
her kindly eyes beaming behind their
frosty spectacles, she presented a spec
tacle of mellow enjoyment which
those whb saw it will not soon forget.
A farmer and his wife who were
caught In' town by the tie-up of the
river steamers thought at first that
they must stay at an expensive hotel
for several days, but through the in
genuity of the good woman they man-
DEATH TENALTY IX FRANCE.
The guillotine which has lain idle
France for several years has been
restored. A dispatch from Paris an
nounces that It will be used this
month on twenty-two convicted mur
derers now under death sentence.
There has been a revulsion of senti
ment throughout the French republic
on the question of capital punishment.
France's experiment with the( virtual
abandonment of capital punishment Is
worth careful attention by sentiment
alists In our own land who demand
abolition of the death penalty. While
capital punishment was not abolished
in France by law, it fell Into disuse
through the importunities of tender
hearted persons who Influenced the
President Into commuting death sen
tences. During that period experts in
criminology urged reintroduction of
the guillotine. Violent crimes In
creased. Paris was roused to remon
strance. Reaction in favor of the
death penalty was rapid. Parliament
adopted a resolution favoring its re
tention; the cabinet decided to adhere
to It.
While most of the states of the
Union retain the death penalty, they
are reluctant to enforce it. The same
sentiment that prompted citizens to
Influence the President of France ac-.
tually Influences Jurors in this coun
try. They shrink from their duty;
mercy overturns justice. No observ
ant man will deny that murders In
crease wherever the death penalty is
seldom enforced for murder In the
first degree. We have the statutes
and the Individual Instinct of self
preservation, but society as a mass
leans too hard toward the criminal.
This snow storm in Portland has
revealed an evil and nuisance that
ought not to be permitted again. It
is the evil and nuisance of throwing
snow from the roofs of buildings into
the street. Buildings should be so
constructed as to take care of all the
snow that falls on them; or, if it must
be removed, it should not be thrown
into tho street. Most of the heavy
piles of snow in the streets come from
this source. And to see people forced
to run, in order to escape the snow
thrown from roofs, Is not an amuse
ment suited to a city.
La Follette's Weekly has appeared.
It will not save the Wisconsin Senator.
His finish is In sigUt. There's many
a freak, and each and every freak
has its day. Wisconsin tires of La
Follette. Really great men never are
"played out." Little men, essaying
great things. Invariably are, soon or
late; in most cases soon.
Of course there is a crying need for
Senator Kellaher's nine-foot sheet
law, and that able-bodied statesman
ought to be supported in his great
reform. Only the five-inch politicians
who could sleep under a postage
stamp will discourag-e him.
They who feel an Interest In the
Emmanuel Movement will find it
worth while to read an article by Rev.
William G. Eliot. Jr.. published in the
magazine section of this issue. He.
discusses very ably Its limitations,
perils and positive values.
The South Is being made perfectly
happy because President-elect Tuft
proposes to treat the Southern States
"not aa aliens but as members of the
American Union." Perhaps, then, the
South will some day quit voting us
aliens, t
Based on an epitome of reports of
disaster to the Chinese pheasant In
the storm of the past week, the sug
gestion is made that it might be well
to establish a closed season for a year
or two, to give the survivors a chance.
ONE MUD ROAD SCrPLANTED.
The January bulletin of Pacific Uni
versity Is at hand, brimming with
good will and appreciation of the ef
forts of its friends in Its behalf,' and
full of promise for extension of the
old and honored institution that it
represents. The establishment of
quick transit and frequent service be
tween the college town and this city
Is noted as marking an important
epoch in the history of the univer
sity. Those who covered this dis
tance in the olden time, when the
mail coach was the only means of
public transit, can bring to the "rapid
transit and frequent service" Just In
augurated on this line a fervor of ap
preciation that those who enjoy the
present means of travel wot not of.
The road between Portland and
Hillsboro In the old days would have
been Impassable for three months in
the year, except for the sturdy deter
mination In those days that was set
against all obstacles in the way of do
ing what was necessary to be done.
The roads over which the mail coach
lurched and thumped, at times half
burled In the mud, with Its passen
gers bracing themselves as well as
they could against the sides of the ve
hicle, and in stress holding on to each
other in common discomfort, are but
little better than they were In the old
days; the gospel of "good roads" has
not yet been applied to them, but the
completion of the electric railway has
deprived the mudholes and stretches
of corduroy of the old road of their
terror for the traveler and given not
only Paclflo University but the travel-
Telegrams from Washington say
that "McIIarg doesn't represent the
Administration, nor Taft nor Roose
velt." Has he ever made claim that
he did? The Oregonian thinks Mr.
McIIarg a very harmless person.
Down at Rainier they think the new
train service on the Ocean Spray line
is making the town a suburb of Port
land. So it Is, to some extent, yet
Rainier will always have an individ
uality of its own.
rOI.ITIC.4L REMARKS.
Polk County Observer.
In the beginning of his message to the
legislature Governor Chamberlain savs:
"The provisions of the direct primary
nominating i.'i'.v, with respect to the elec
u-m or a United States Senator, should be
carrl.-d out in letter and in spirit," and
expands upon that statement through sev-
erai paragraphs. Why rub it in so hard,
George?
Ix-'banon Criterion.
The Republicans who favored Statement
Xo. 1 and those who have pledged them
selves to its support did so ns a rule in
gond faith, and were committed to It
with a purpose of correcting what they
h. lieved to he political evils and to reform
political abuso in this state. The demo
cratic leaders did not undertake it for
any such purpose, but, on the other hand,
they attempted and did usa it -to further
political ends and corruption, and by the
ubuso of primary election suffrage to de
feat and pervert the objects of the law
and secure for themselves political of
fice. With these facta before us, it is no
wond.-r many honest people have parted
company with Statement Xo. 1. and that
kind of corruption and the evils 'it
le.ads to.
Hugcne Journal.
Ai a taxpayer, we earnestly protest
against the expense of setting up a new
s-t of county officers and erecting a new
set of county buildings. We object to
having land owned by many people. In
cluding tile editor of this paper, only live
miles south of Kugene, Included in a new
county, the north line of which Is pro
posed to run east and west north of
Creswell. This would make Lane County
a iittlo narrow strip, only a few miles
wirl", with Rugeno about eight miles from
the north lino at C'oburg, and about five
miles from the south lino a little south of
Spencer Butte There is no necessity for
any such county division at this time.
About 45 years ago. during tho excitement
caus-d by the Civil War and hostility to
General Joseph Lane, for whom this
county was named and who sympathized
with the s-outh, there was a great clamor
raised to change the name of this county
Irum Lane to Union. We. opposed the
scheme earnestly then on the ground that
the, name had become well known
tlnoughout tho state and abroad, was in
honor of a pioneer, and should not be
changed for personal reasons to satisfy
prejudice or local excitement, which
would make uncertain all names, for If
one could be changed for such reasons all
could. The name was not' changed, al
though it was considered In the Legislature.
enila tila vIoH! n.lti. n 1 . - . i
..0.. .iu ,iuo in iiia FKllVl
wagon.
Now Thornton Halns Is going to
write a novel. This opens up another
field of endeavor for our acquitted
murderers, besides the elevation of the
Now we are threatened with another
visitation of Francis J. Heney and De
tective Burns, who are said to be after
those unspeakable monsters, John B.
Coffey and S. C Beach. Truly, "whom
the Lord loveth he chasteneth."
"Beat It, Beautiful !"
O you snow, you beautiful snowl
Be on your way; take your clothes and
go.
You're In the right church, but the
wrong pew,
You're no friend of ours and it seams
that you
Should know you're de trop, you beau
tiful snow.
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People who don't know right from
wrong never make the mistake of go
ing right.
see
We are all Argonauts searching for
the Eldorado of Happiness. It Is the
common lot of treasure-seekers to fail
and of the infinite many who set out
upon the quest only the ten thousandth
finds where the mother lode lies. The
long, serried ranks of tha Failed, strug
gling, staggering, panting along ths
way as the heart panteth after tha
water-brooks, follow the heart's yearn
ing through heavy aeons only to find
at the ultimate last a mirage.
Sly one objection to the commemora
tion of the centenary of Edgar Allen
Poe is that amateur elocutionists will
take It as an encouragement to recite
"Tha Raven."
Ex-Senator "Billy" Mason has broken
his cerements and risen, from his po
litical grave long enough to receive a
complimentary vote for United States
Senator from Illinois. Shades of "Bill"
Chandler and J. K. Burton please take
notice.
If you will observe the ushers at ths
theater you will observe that frequent
ly a round of applause isn't on the
square.
Woman Hypochondriac Do you know
that I'm dying by slow degrees?
Mr. Kidder I fear you are right,
I've noticed the change In your hair.
There Is always room at the bottom.
The life of an ambitions man is a
comic opera without a plot.
Between the ever-present possibility
of a divorce case and her husband's
funeral many a married woman Is kept
In continual statu of exquisite antici
pation. see
If we were able to make a little
money go as far as wo do a little truth,
everybody would be prosperous.
It seems to me that those who play
bridge should Insist on occasionally
opening a draw.
Nine-tenths of the men who get Into
trouble may charge It to women. All
women who get Into trouble may
charge it to men.
On the day Roosevelt becomes ex-
President, Unelo Sam will probably say
to the Goddess of Liberty, "After that
fitful fever maybe we can get a little
rest."
Still another objection may be raised
against human beings: Too many of
them think the comic supplements are
funny.
One of the chief delights of getting
Into society Is the pleasure derived
from keeping other people out.
Undoubtedly Mr. Thornton Hains.
unhung murderer, will have a lot of
Interesting things to say in his great
work: "Unwritten Law." A better
topic would be "Violated and Non
enforced Law."
What's the use of anybody worry
ing about what Is to happen at Salem
Tuesday? Was not Chamberlain
"elected" last June?
Ninety thousand people were killed
by the earthquake In Messina alone.
The San Francisco earthquake was a
small affair. .
The Dalles Optimist.
It would be useless to give a resume of
the facts leading up to the present po
litical conditions of our state, and futile
for us to say that the history of the
country does not present a parallel case.
a case where there ever was the slightest
chance of a party with a majority of five
sixths electing a man from the minority.
. . In speaking a few days since to
one of the men who was coerced Into
voting for Bourne -two years ago, this
man (a member of the upper house) said
to us: "If I had that vote to cast over
again, I would see Jonathan Bourne in
hell before I would vote for him." Every
Republican who votes for Chamberlain
will rue it all the days of his life; and
his constituents will see that he never
holds another elective office. Let every
Republican member of the Legislature
ponder on that remark, and ponder hard.
The wages of trombone
should bo on a sliding scale.
players
Hot mince pio Is
sausage is raging.
a mocker and pork
The eyes are the windows
aoul; particularly glass eyes.
of tho
The new Mayor of Freewater, Or.,
wants an artesian well put down at
once. A town of that name should
have it.
Let no one think this state Is un
grateful for return of Winter weather
that made Oregon famous.
Has anybody hinted that Jupiter
Pluvius' water pipes have thawed and
are leaking?
Jopaneae Taxes.
Chicago Journal,
ft Is held by the Toyo Kelza, a Toklo
newspaper, that the Japanese are today
the most heavily taxed people In the
world. The estimated expenditure for the
current year Is J30S.000.000, which meais an
average annual burden on the head of
every family amounting to one-fifth of
his income. A comparison of 20 per cent
In Japan Is made with England, 8.9:
France, 12.2; Germany, 7.9; America, 3.2;
and in these other countries it- Is shown
that the earning capacity of each family
head is from three to five times greater.
Paucity of Vocabulary.
Boston Herald.
Life offers handsome prizes for the
best answers to the question, "What
Is the Worst Novel of the Year, and
Why?" But why allow the answers
to contain as many as C00 words?
There aren't that number of swear
words In the vocabulary.
"renroaesy Ivan lu.'"
Hartford Couiant.
It was named Pennsylvania In hon
est Friend William's day. and his
statue still looks down from tho hugost
monument of graft In tho state's chief
city the "corrupt and contented" city.
Penrosesylvania seems to bo the de
scriptive and appropriate name now,
as Quaysylvanla was a few years ago
In the timo of Holes Penrose's po
litical creator and tutor. The now Gen
eral Assembly at Harrisburg is doing
the United States the Ill-service of re
olcctiiT Mr. Penrose to tho Senate.
Tie's a Harvard man, clever, convivial,
qual to the making of a bright speech
on occasion; in his political methods
and morals he's a diligent understudy
of the master (now dead) who trained
him. and who on his good side was
much the more likeable, as he was
much the more able, man of tho two.
Hie ninek Sheep.
Chicago Tribune.
"What," asked the man who had re
turned to his native town after an ab
sence of many years, "became of Ed Fer
guson ?"
"Ed? Oh, he's doin' fine. Got the beet
livery stable anywheres around here and
runs tho depot hack."
"Let's see, he had a younger brother,
hadn't he?"
"Yes; Lem. He never amounted to
much. Wrote poetry and painted pictures.
I guess the family kind of disowned him.
At least, he went away several years ago,
and I dunno whatever became of him."
Where Credit la Due.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Few women give their husbands credit
for their willingness to be henpecked.
Oh!
The Stupid Cingre.
l'hilmlell.hti lt.-uord.
the yeaia we waate aiul the traia we
And the work of our heal and hand
Belons; to the Congress that did not know
(And sow we know that It never could know)
Axil did not understand