THE ' OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND.' ?1TODAY EVENING,' JtlNE 12, 1903. EDITORoML COcTVIcENT c4ND TIpTVlELY TOPICS M THE ORjEGON A DAILY JOURNAL ? P- C S. JACKSON y journal HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS HOOQ RIVER j By James Shaw. WOULD APPLY TO PORTLAND JOURNAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. ArfdrtM: THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, Fifth and Yamhill St,.. Portland, Or. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. Entered ot the l'ostofflep of Portland, Oregon, for transmission through the malls aa seconrl-clars mntter. Postage for single copies-Tor an 8. 10, or 12-page ppper, 1 cent; 16 to 23 page, 2 celt, over 2S pages, 3 cents. . v , I liLLiPMO.'NlZST Business Office- Oi on. Main ,r00; (Columbia, 70i. Editorial Rooms Oregon Main 2."0. SUHSCRIPTION RATIiSj Termt by Carrier. Term, by Mail. The Pally Journal, on- year -.4 $5.03 ; The Dally Journul, by mall, one year. .14. CO The Daily Journal, nix months 2. CO The Dully Journal, by mall, six months. 2.25 The Dally Journal, three months 1. SO : The Dally Journal, by mall, three months 1.25 The Dally Journal, by the week 10 1 The Daily Journal, by mall, one month. .60 The Semi-Weekly Journal. I The Vtckly Journal. The Semi-Weekly Journal, eight to twelve t The Weekly Journal. 100 columns of read pares each Issue, all the news and full Ins each Issue, Illustrated, full market re market reports, one year $1.60. ( ports, pne year. $1 .00. Remittances should be made by drafts, postal notes, express orders and small mounts are acceptable In one and two-cent postage stamps. THE JOURNAL, P. O. Pox 121, Portland, Oregon. Flame of the spirit and dust of theearth This Is the making; of man; This Is his problem of birth Born to all holiness, born to all crime. Heir of both worlds, on the" long slops of Time, Climbing the path of Ood's plan; Dust of the earth In his error and fear, Weakness and malice and luet. Yet quivering up from the dust. Flame of the spirit. unleaplng and clear. Teaming to God since from God Is its birth This Is man's portion to shape as he can; Flame of the spirit and dust of the earth This is the making of man. Piiscllla Leonard in Outlook. THE MENACE OF mm G RATION. . ,...Qjie of th coutvtfijt'- great. ,netl- is the enactment of legislation placing some check upon immigration. Of late years a decided change has taken place In the character of the arrivals upon our shores and the change is very much for the worse. The United States is becoming the dumping ground of . the nations, and the dregs of Europe are be ing emptied upon us. Ninety per cent of th immigrants now arriving are utterly un desirable. They are Ignorant, degraded and wretchedly poor. From their ranks the paupers and crlmlnaJsfVtoo fill our asylums, Jails and prisons are largely recruited They do not understand American ways and 1 tcy. car? n?thlnJL ??r. A.!?'r!PsJ?.w:.'.. Tn?y are constantly cheapening American labor and to them many of our industrial troubles re directly traceable. In ever-increasing size this flood of unwelcome arrivals is . .pouring in upon us. The reports of the Immigration Bureau tell an Impressive story of the deterioration of the character of the vast horde which annually arrives from Europe. Twenty years ago Germans, Irish, English, Swedes, Norwegians and Danes were coming over in great numbers and as a rule they were very desirable additions to our population. They readily adapted themselves to our laws and institutions, and became, for the most part, hard-working and respectable citizens. But these nationalities are 110 longer in the as cendant numerically in the huge army of Immigrants. In 1882 250,630 Germans came to settle in the United States. Last year there were but 28,304. During the same period the Irish immigration dropped from 172.419 to 46,036. Meantime the undesirable nationalities have been pouring In, in ever-increasing .ratio. Russians, Hungarians, Italians, Mag yars, Poles and Lithuanians are coming in numbers that have excited serious uneas iness among the immigration authorities. The vast majority of them are the veritable off -scouring of the old world. They are worse than the Chinese and an even graver menace to American labor. It is high time that Congress should take some action to protect the country from these unbidden and unwelcome hordes. Vast .as is the territory within our borders that is yet ito be developed, there Is no room for the riff-raff and the criminals of Europe. Against them the doors should be closed. the road would be sufficient unto Itself, as sured of steady and Increasing traffic at remunerative rates, and undisturbed by fears of rail way wrt or ruinoon -competition. The people of Oregon should not wait supinely for Harrlman. Hill or some other railroad king to grasp this golden oppor tunity. Home capital should build the road and It should be essentially a home enter prise. To wait Is to Invite the invasion of the field by some one of the great railway systems and the consequent diversion of the traffic of Central Oregen either to the Sound or to San Francisco. It Is 'gratifying to note that the views which The Journal has repeatedly expressed upon this subject are now being echoed by its contemporaries, and it Is to be hoped that the agitation may opti bear substari-. tial fruit. HOOD RIVKR, Or., June 5, 1908. There Is something doing In Hood River, as is in evidence on the streets, at the railroad station and at the boat landings. Every train coming Into the city brings people for Hood River, and the river boata land hun dreds every day. Besides all these, many more come In wagons and on horseback: White men with their "families; the Indian with his squaw and papoose, followed by the ever-present -ur; the" sturdy Jap. and the ebony-colored man, the two latter with out families. The streets are thronged; sidewalks conjested. All kinds and condi tions of people are to be seen wending their way to the strawberry fields on the" plateau iibove the city. ' The strawberry season Is on, and In Its helghth. Fields of this iuclous berry of which God might have made a better, but didn't are dotted with pickers, singing their merry songs as they fill the trays with big, ripe berries, the like of which is not seen anywhere else In the country. ". It Is a sight worth traveling far, to see 3,000 plckera dotting the berry patches for miles, their picturesque camps and groups of happy children, the wigwams of the In dians, and the Indian children playing about the tents; the cayuse pulling on his tlthcr nearby, with the afore-mentloned dog lazily sleeping away the hours in some cool, shady nook. Thousands of pickers are seen carrying berries to the packing house where they deposit them and receive a check covering the number of pounds picked, and quickly return to the patch and resume their labor. The packers quickly grade and All each hallack, and crate the berries. It is but s. moment until the crate Is covered and ready to be hauled to the railroad station for shipment. A crate contains 24 hallacks, I. e., 24 pounds. The shipper loads 600 of these crates into n refrigerating car, and starts them on their journey into Washington, Idaho, Montana. Into the Dukotas. Into Colorado and on Into the cities of the Far East. This Is kept up for at least six weeks, or until every crown has been stripped of Its last berry. The crop started at 26.00 per crate, f. o. b., Hood River, and as the ripening of the berry advanced, the price gradually dropped to 23.00 per crate where it now remains. The price rarely goes below $2.00. The first shipment was made on the 14th of May, by the Fruit Growers Union, followed closely by the Davidson Fruit Company with other shipments. The average number of crates grown to the acre' Is 125, and the cost to the grower does not exceed 250 per acre. It will be seen that there is profit In growing strawberries in Hood River Valley. While the average Is 125 crates to the acre, there are plenty of fields that will turn off 15J to 175 crates per acre. This will be the banner year for the berry grower. Aside from an Increase of acreage over last year, the cool weather has kept the berry from ripening; they have had nothing else to do for the past two weeks but to lay still fend grow until the hot sun should come out and ripen them. The result of this Is that the berry Is very large and of nn excellent flavor. The estimate for this season's crop Is 125 cars, as against 90 cars last year dne hun dred and twenty-five cars and 600 crates to the car, means 75,000 crates that will be shipped out of Hood River this season. At an average of 31.25 per crate, this equals, in round numbers, about 3170,000, which will come Into the valley to be distributed among the berty growers. An editorial in the Chicago Journal of re cent date, says:, ' "The reign of the "hello girl' appears to be drawing toward its close. If the automatic device now . being Installed by the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph Company proves to be a success, It can be a matter of a very short time before the girl operators must go. "With all due respect for femininity, tele phone users will breathe a deep sigh of re lief. The mysteries and annoyances of the present system are provocative of a vast amount of nerve-waste and the loss of a a great deal of time. Whether the fault Is that of the system, the telephone company or the girls, nobody ever has been able to find out. The man who is abruptly cut off In the midst of an Important conversation, and per haps has a train to catch In 10 minutes, is never able to get any explanation. The op erator solemnly and Innocently denies .all knowledge of the incident, and the manager, If appealed to, is equally dense. "Why It should be necessary to repeat ft de sired, number 10 or II times to the suave girl-operator, and to have hef naively Inquire after the fifteenth time, 'What number den. you wantf la a pussle nobody jtver solved or doubtless ever will solve as long as the last sweet-voiced operator survives. And nobody Is likely to .find out the reason for the long and deep silence that prevails so often when a hurried patron tries to 'raise - central.' "These are mysteries that are kept invlo- late at the telephone company's sanctum.v and no appeal to the management ever hrtjf f been productive of the slightest satisfaction. or nu proaucea any cnange in me service. "Of course we should be sorry to see so many presumably charming young women out of a job, but the march of progress Is re morseless and Inevitable, .and If the auto matic telephone operator fills the bill It will also fill a long-felt want." The Colombian Congress Is to meet on the 20th Inst., and early action is expected upon the treaty with this country relative to the Panama canal. Strong opposition to the treaty has developed and recent advices in dicate that it will not be ratified unless large sums of money pre distributed among the legislators. Unless the stockholders in the French Panamft Canal Company give up to these .hungry patriots, there will be no buy ing of votes and the treaty will probably be rejected. In that event It will be the duty of ' President Roosevelt to Immediately take steps with a view to constructing an isth mian canal over the Nicaraguan route. If the Panama project falls through, it may be attributed primarily to the conscienceless rapacity of the Colombian legislators. OPEN UP CENTRAL ORE GON, The importance of establishing transpor tation 'facilities' for The 'great Inland Empire of Central Oregon has frequently been im pressed upon the public through' the columns of The Journal. The people of Portland should be profoundly interested in the de velopment of the resoun e of that portion of the state, for the result.mt benefits to this city can scarcely be exaggerated. Fo years the people of Cent 1 . 1 Oregon have been pa tiently waiting for a railroad to be con structed which should give them suitable communication with the outside world, but beyond vague promises they have had noth ing upon which to build their hopes. An amusing incident of the cooks' and waiters' strike In Chicago was the manner in wthich the members of the striking union employed by the Athletic Club were called out. The strike emissaries were refused ad mission to the club building, but one of them finally climbed the fire-escape to the ninth floor, where he succeeded in getting through a window. He made his way to the dining room where a hundred clubmen were seated at the tables eating their luncheon. The venturesome emissary shouted that the strike was on and Instantly every cook and waiter In. the place stopped work, and left the building. The clubmen were furious, but helpless, and those who had not finished their repast were forced to go hungry. Hotels do not spring up in a night like mushrooms. People who fancy that Port land's accommodations for visitors will be mysteriously Increased before the Lewis and Clark Fair begins, without any special effort or Xnreth?ught, JW.ed. to., gel .their, eyes opn. Xo one who observes the constantly over crowded condition of our hotels even with the present merely normal number of vis itors, can fall to be Impressed with the fact that existing accommodations must be ma terially increasea neiore iti&. it win be a disgrace to the city If the strangers who come to attend the Fair are not comfortably housed during their stay. No better invest ment could be found in Portland than a modern, well-equipped hotel. Portland gets few Hood River strawberries. It Is true that Hood River berries are offered for sale In the city, but they are berries grown for the most part at Mt. Tabor and Willamette Valley points. While these berries are of fine quality, it is conceded that they do bot compare with the berry grown here, and will not stand -shipment to distant-points.,.. . Hood River Valley Is a gem, environed on the south by Mt. Hood, by the lordly Columbia River on the north, and hemmed in on the east and west by a chain of rocky barriers with projecting butts to stand as sentinels, to guard the approaches to this favored spot. The valley is approximately 8 miles wide and 20 miles long, containing 50,000 acres of tillable land, with but one fourth in cultivation, mostly devoted to the culture of apples and strawberries. The soil is of volcanic origin, and Is strongly Impregnated with silica, oxides, phosphates and nitrate, elements so necessary to the growth of fruits nd berries. , While the berries require Irrigation, apples do not need this artificial stimulant. Apples and cherries are successfully grown on the hillsides, getting moisture from the hills in the form of sub-irrigation, the hills being filled with water. Berries grown in the upper valley are two weeks later than those raised on the plateau lower down, and are fjTrmer,Jri,.quallty.. have a deeper qolai; .and. wUL..st8d. jghispU . better tnan their neighbors further down. Another thing these berries come Into market after all the other berries are out of the market and once more command high prices. It will be asked what these lands are worth, or, rather, what is asked for them. The answer la, they are worth $1,000 per acre. Land devoted to strawberry culture pays 10 per cent on this valuation. Apple land does still better. The selling price Is from $20 for unimproved tracts, to $300 per acre for well-cultivated and Improved places. In some Instances, $400 Is recleved for small tracts near the city. Irrigation ditches thread the valley, supplying water. The growers flume from the main ditches to their berry patches. It takes five Inches of water to the acre, and this costs $5,00 for each season, or, to put it differently, the water costs the grower $1.00 an inch for each season's run. The system of Irrigation has not been as thorough in the past as Is desired, but from present Indications this will be bettered by another season. There has recently -com into the valley some gentlemen -from Idaho, men Who,' 1t"W "claimed, have practical knowledge of irrigation. These parties propose, and I am advised that 'work has already been begun, to bring Into the valley 15,000 inches of water, cover ing both sides of the valley, that Is, the east and west sides of Hood River. When this Is done the water problem will be solved for at least some years to come. The future of Hood River Valley is so bright that one hesitates to prediet Just what it will be, even In five or ten years. Were this valley a part of California, the land would bring $1,000 per acre and no questions asked. .' While the strawberry crop is profitable beyond the calculation of the general farmer, who judges land by the amount of grain he can raise from it, the future of the valley will be in its apples. Apples, of course, are grown almost everywhere, but no place like In Hood River Valley. This is the home of the yellow Newtown: here is where it attains its marvelous growth, size and color. This Is brought about by the elements In the solL In no other section does the apple possess such firmness .and shipping qualities as here. These qualities give to the grower a world-wide market. Hood River apples not only go to -all parts of the East, but Invade the continent of Europe, having reached the cities of Germany, as well as those of England and France. One prominent grower living on the east side, sold yellow Newtowns of last year's crop, In car lots, in the open market of Liverpool, at $3.28 per box, 72 apples to the box. This gentlemen had 7,000 boxes of apples, grown on 18 acres of trees from six to nine years old not yet in full bearing. from the foregoing figures It Is not difficult to see how one can better his con dition, not only in a financial sense, but In matters of health and satisfaction, to say nothing of the pleasure. For It is a pleasure to see things grow about you. The trend of current thought among the people these days Is how to get back to the country. This is as it should be. The country is the place to live. Here health and wealth awaits him who goes to the country with the determination to make it his home, and will employ intelligent methods in the cultivation of the soil. Ue muslr bear in mind that the days of slovenly agriculture is a thing of the past, and he who follows it will be left behind. Ten acres devoted to the growing of strawberries or the raising of apples will bring to the grower a greater amount of profit than can be derived from a quarter section of land upon which general farming is carried on, and with less labor. WHEN OTHER LURES FAIL. There come days in languorous June when neither bass nor pickerel nor pike will bite at any of the accepted lures and the angler la forced to use his ingenuity or go to camp Ashless. It Is too early in the year for that standard resource, the grasshopper; it is out of season for frogs or crawfish. Perhaps a helgramlte or two may be found by overturning rocks on the edge of the water and they may tempt a strike," bill the chances are against them. Naked spoon and strips of pork will alike fall of their object. It Is on such days that the exeprlence of the angler of years comes into service. He known that there are two or three times In a season when fish will not bite at anything at all, but his life has taught him that fish ing must not be given up In disgust until everything has been tried, and It sometimes happens that a lure will prove successful for no other reason than that It Is novel. Of this class is the. simple strip of red flannel dragged along the top of the water, or the white rag with a piece of red tall sewed to It, and this device has been known to take half a dozen fish when they would not look at the most tempting natural and artificial baits- wf tn rown-ii ram In most of the northern lakes swims a fish called a perch, thought It Is not really a perch, but a swimmer, halfway between the perch and the bass In shape and character. This perch has a round body and a mouth much like the mouth of the bass and its ven tral fins are of a beautiful scarlet. The skin before and behind these fins Is of snowy whiteness. Now, these perch will bite at any time and all of the time If they are awake. The man who has exhausted the resources of his tackle box cannot do better than dig into a rottenlog- wttto- hhr krrlfe and get out "arfat grub or two. With these he will be able to take three or four of the scarlet-finned perch. First killing them by sticking fhe knife Into their backs Just where the head Joins the body, he will cut off the fins, leaving attached to each fin a strip of white skin two Inches long and half an Inch wide. Taking the spoon from his line,, and sub stitutlng a plain hook therefor, with a small sinker three inches Above it, he will place one of the fins on the hook, sinking the barb in at the Juncture of fin and skin, leaving the skin to float outward like a snowy tall A LITTLE TABA8CO SAUCE. v ., The meanest man on earth la the one who will leave a cheap umbrella around to" be stolen by his friend. Wanted In Portland, a number of cots to accommodate those who may attend the 1905 Fair. Hotels would be better, but no one seems willing to be led to the sacrifice. ' Everybody is "anxious to' read the' news . about the other fellow in the paper, but they do not care to have the other fellow read any news about them. TesldefS r above Casting with this and reeling In slowly, the bait traveling at a depth of two feet, he will find that the odds are that some scorn ful pirate hteh has J disdained all of Its other temptations will go for the fins as if there were nothing else to eat In the world. It is not known whether the fins act as an excitant because of their color or because of the strip of white skin behind them, or because the fish know that they are parts of a perch which they could not catc.h if it were alive. At any rate, It is a lure which is always a good one, and will sometimes prove effective when all else has failed. Bass, pickerel and pike will take it with equal avidity according to the manner In which it is handled. For pickerel, which are close to bank early in the spring, it must be skittered lightly along the surface, as If It were living and skipping from wavelet to wavelet. For pike it. must be sunk deeply and reeled in slowly; the pike Is a loggy fish and does not much care whether its food Is alive or dead. This is a bait to be resorted to early in the year, when frogs, grasshoppers, butterflies, moths and other insects are not to be had easily, and knowledge' of Its efficiency has saved more iha.11 -one deserving angler from being whitewashed. Matt Quay Is for Roosevelt for Preside again. Roosevelt is not altogethe suspicion after this. Fairbanks boom for President in Indiana did not go up very high before the gas escaped from it. A Chicago banker declares that "riches do not bring happiness." Well, riches may not do this, but if they stand In the way of happiness, ways and means can readily be found to rid one's self of them. I suppose, colonel," remarked a citizen W ttle-Dfesiaertr'aftHe 'tee Company, "one" cold morning In winter, "that you won't charge us as much for our Ice this summer as you did last. You're getting a tremen dous crop." "We may have to charge more," stiffly replied the president. "Think of the trouble and expense involved In cutting Ice three feet thick!" Christian Register. The summer season demonstrates the truth of one axlum, that "all men are liars." Just one hot day will bring forth declant tlona from every one: "This is the hottest weather I ever saw." It would seem as if speech "was made "fo oTi'scure the" truth". While It is a truth that fewer men march In the Decoration Pay parades, the Civil War pension lists grow bigger with each passing year. GOOD WORD FOR MOODY. The Dalles Times-Mountaineer, though a Democratic paper, has the following to say of Malctifrh Moody, late Republican Con gressman from the second district: "The fact that Hon. M. A. Moody's salary as Congressman "-ceased "'infee" mSntha " ago" seems to have no more effect upon the in terest he manifests in the Welfare of the material interests of the state and efforts that he puts forth, than did the Republican district convention's refusal to renominate him after two terms of faithful and effectual service. "Two months ago though only an ex- member he alone was sufficiently interested In river improvements between The Dalles and Celllo to give any attention or assistance C to the board of government engineers whenih they visited the obstructions prior to makir 1 Ing their final report, although the entlr I Oregon congressional delegation was in the state at the time. 'Now he appears to be protecting the rights of the Indian War Veterans, who, by department red tape, are about to be de prived of the benefits of the Indian War Veteran Act of the Fifty-sixth Congress passd through the efforts of Mr. Moody and his colleague, the late Mr. Tongue." jacK Aiatmews appears to have slipped a cog in his effort to get control of the Port As The Journal has repeatedly pointed out, of Portland Commission. The deadlock may no Deuer opportunity for investment exists i last indefinitely. Meantime the new mem- in trie Northwest today than would be found ' bers of the board are being slowly educated in me construction of a railroad which in their duties. It may occur to the ordinary snouiu provide tne means ot transporting the j clUsten that much unnecessary trouble might products or 1 entral Oregon to the Columbia have been saved if the old board had been Ktver and thereby enabling them to reach left In office, this city and the coast. If is essentially an! . opportunity for home capital. Such a road wouia oe independent ot all other lines It I BAUM AND THE FRANK CHILD. 1 L. Frank Baum, the author of fairy taletf; tells a good story at his own expense. While at a Southern winter resort recently a lady who has a penchant for meeting all sorts of celebrities secured an Introduction to Mr. Baum and asked permission to present her little daughter, a miss of seven, "who knows everyone of your books by heart." The young lady, lank-haired and round-eyed, extended her hand in a mechanical fashion, and, .staring straight into the author's face, she remarked: "Mr. Baum, I think you're a very, wonderful man." Somewhat embarrassed by this direct praise, the children's author patted her head and asked: . . "Why do you say that, my dear?" - "Because mamma told me to," answered the child complacently, and in the roar of laughter that followed the stricken mother made good her escape. "BY JOVE, I'M OFF." An Australian correspondent sends us a good story of the cyclone that struck Tonwsville, Queensland. , The roof of the local hospital was carried away and the wall of one ward blown down, overhelmlng the patients below in the debris. Seven were killed outright and the others were more or less injured. Sheets of roof Iron were blown about the town like pieces of paper. One telegraph operator stucjrjto his post to the last moment. His final message was to Rockhampton, the metropolis of Central Queensland, and Jt concluded prematurely with this interpolated exclamation, "By, Jove, the office is going. I'm off!" RINEHART FAMILY. m, rer. ine eunlon ot 1 changh H. Rine e, Union need have no connection with arty of the transcontinental systems, for It w-ould need no alliances of that kind. Having one terminus in the heart of the rich and fertile Interior of the state and the other upon the hank of Oregon's great natural waterway. The cause of the floods has been dis covered. The dispatches state that "all New England Is praying for rain." St, Louis peo ple would like to have New England let up. We are finding out things right along; and one of the things we have recently discovered, or re-discovered. Is that getting old Is simply a bad habit. A man who thinks he is old, is old,, and a man who retires from business will shortly be retired by death. Nature has no use for the person who quits, so she just takes his word for It and lets him quit. Elbert Hubbard In the Philistine. When President Roosevelt told Mark Hanna to lie down and roll over, he had to speak only once. - The lafe Congressman Abner Tylr. of Chicago, was one of the syndicate which received 3,000,000 acres of" Texas land 1$. times the area of Greater New'Tork for building the state capital. - CONVINCING. Prospective Bettor Is . he a good "mud horse 7" Jockey Is b? Why, sayi If that , horse was human he'd play golf in March. Puck. WHY SO NAMED. Wantanno Why do you call that boy . of yours Flannel? r Dusno Because he Jusf naturally shrinks from washing. Baltimore American. A Reunion to Be Participated in by 100 Persons or. More. A big reunion of the descendants ofthe late LkujIs arid .EliZ8,j5ejj4-Rlnehart 4s -being arranged for and will take place July 15, says the La Grande Observer. The jlrst intention was to hold the reunion Meacham, but the plans have been and the meeting will be in the J. hart homestead at Summerville. County. Louis and Elizabeth Rinehart had thirteen children, all of whom reached ad vanced age, and they all had families after the Roosevelt Ideal, consequently there are not a few of them. There Is. said to be be tween fifty and seventy-five members of the family in Union and Wallowa Counties. The Willamette Valley furnishes a big quota and still another buncfT inhabits the interior of the state in Wasco and Antelope coun ties. Souvenir invitations containing the portraits of Louis and Elizabeth are being prepared. In addition to the members of the family in the Northwest, two or three families in Iowa have announced their In tention of being present. The reunion will last about a .week. fclAN, WOULD "BE LEFT. "After all," he conceded, "what 'would we do without womenr "Well"' she replied, 'Tor one thing,, you would have a hard time finding subjects for your Jokes." Chicago Evening; Post J v. . . 6