editorial rano-oi l:o journal
PORTLAND OREGON.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3.
i TH Etf O RE GO N? D A I XT
pubis my
PUBUC SCHOOLS MOT
HH SECOND WEEK of the
: -opened with 70 pupil tltt
xoodationa. It m premised
' " all the schools wilt be reedy tor occupancy end thai they
: wlU then be able to take cere not only ef teat year's pupils
. but ef alt ef this yWi secessions. The school therefore,
opened unable to aocoirunodate marly l,tco pupils and
with CM aitandtn half dor's eessionB. , It roraltod In
much confusion, much low of time,
ajul mada rnoro difficult (tnan ordinarily tho work of tho
teachers in getting tholr schools organised and proporty
; tartod for tho Boston. , '.
. Tho Journal has entered vigorous protsat against such
conditions and that protest has found It leeounding scho
from tho potato whoso chUdrott are
. from many whose ehlldrsn wars not
. that all tho schools should have bos
the momont tho session opened. It Is true that the con
tract assumed to build new schools and to repair and en
large old ones was a lg one but tho
and there were no labor strikes to Interfere with the pro
gram aa laid down. It is not alone
, not ready at opening of this session,
rarely If over roady at tho beginning
Losses of this sort have boon experienced year after year
until they had begun to be accepted as a matter of course.
There was no one to protest and If protest wars mads no
attention was said to tt. Hence there had grown vp a
, condition of irresponsibility, unrealised perhaps, but .one
which hi its application to public business was la ths
highest dsgrss denwrsiistnnv It Is well to bars these
matters brought to publlo attention; tt Is well, too for
puMto officials to tost the responsibility which rests upon
them and to fully appreciate tho absolute necessity of
- meeting these reeponsibutties promptly on time. - ,
;. In certain ways there hag boon entirely too little public
.attention paid to the schools. They, are after all, the
very backbone of eU our institutions. From them emerge
, the masses of our children. They should represent every
thing for which American education stands. It should bo
of the highest and most modern type, the teachers should
he well enough paid so that they may not alone support
" themselves m decency, but be able to lay aside a little for
7 tho inevitable "rainy day." Notwithstanding many ex
j oellent features ,the pnbllo schools of Portland do not so
entirety fill the bill aa they, do la most other American
' communities. They cannot do an until they stand for all
deism of tho community as the unchallenged educational
fountain head that leads to the colleges and, unlversitlea
Much of this has been due to a lack of public Interest in
tho schools themselves. This has arisen from a cembtna-
. ;v tion of circumstances which) every observer understands.
But wo are ail getting the public school system hi a now
. point of view, ; Wo are getting more ' interested and
; prooder of It as we mors fully realise Its overshadowing
Importance in our governmental plen as well as la ths
scheme of our civilisation. Wo are Beginning to more
clearly understand than aver before that money well spent
'-' for the schools ts better spent than In any other direction
'.. v because la the c hoots, 4a conjunction with home training,
la laid the foundation for our future cltlsenahlp sad as It
'grades high qr low that oitlscnshlp must, necessarily
grade in the iuture. : - j- y V ;
very cltisen should cheerfully do his part In aiding
f ': the public school system. Ho should be willing to pay the
' price and ho should be willing to give ft his full moral
i , support. He should he willing that the teachers be de
cently paid and ho should then demand of -them ths hlgh
. , est and best service m return. Above all things he should
1 guard thorn with Jealous pride and never rest content
- untU la every direction and tn every respect they are
aaodels of their kind.
FARMERS ON A
TRAVELINO toward St Lous), and bound for 4 visit
; to the fair and other eastern cities and localities,
where some of them were born and raised, are a
. number of Whitman county fanners,' wheat raisers. Un-
like most of tho farmers that we used to know about, and
' probably most of them yet in eastern, states, they did not
have to scrimp and save for two or three years to make
; this trip. They did not have to carefully figure out the
. cost, and consider anxiously whether they could afford to
rMe in a Pullman car and eat three square meals a day or
- not." They did sot take Into account next year's Interest
on any aMitgagn, nor calculate whether they would be
hure after the trip to have money enough left to pay their
taxes. They did not have to warn their families tt ln-
deed the families did not all so along to bo careful and
savins, and to buy nothing but what Was absolutely neces-
J gary-- s,-J, -. ; (.!" -"v - ;'.'.
. ', No. The company Is known as the Whitman county
, wheat kings. They have broad farms that produce every
: year without fall from to Be bushels of wheat an acre.
They can raise It on their large farms of from lot or MO
. to 1,80s or MOO acres, for 11 or M cents a bushel, and can
sell It now. for from ? to TS cents. They not only have
I. these great, Hon farms, and huge, fine houses, well fur
' nsrasdl and big. costly barns, and plenty of ftrst-olass
stook, and everything needful, but good-slsed bank ao
;. counts too all the way from $5,000 to IM.OOO each. -
i These men are types of many, though they may be
among the largest wheat farmers and money makers of
-'tbe Inland empire. But there are some thousands of them
up there who have thttr farms and other property paid for,
and money ahead, and who could afford te take suck a
m
Prom the Sherman County Observer.
There are feer thlnes that the Intend
B Sire needs very much: 1 The stats
portaae railway; (J) the sensral Intro
doeuea of Irrlsatlon; ft help, oo-opera-tioe
sne friendly feeling ef Che peepls
of Portland, the Willamette valley and
southern Oresont (4) study ef the map
by bsstnese men end commercial sodt-s.
. who as a elaes ea.no ot teil yoe Whether
Shennan county Is east or west of the
Blue mountains, and Imagine, perhaps,
' that we reach the webfoot metropolis
, els Runtinsrteit, Baker City er Pendle
ten. The same ts tree wits nearly every
section of this state. Peopls Hving out
side of Portland sre far better Informed
with respect te the georraphy of Ore
: goe than these Irvine In Portland. Ths
latest O R. A W. map ef this great
wheat belt la a libel on Sherman. Oil
' Item, Morrow and Uojatm counttea.
lu physical features rssembts Pike's
Peak far mere than It dees a country
from which the company sxpeets to
haul O.fCO.eiW bushels of wheat this
' fait Is stupidity like this eacusabiet
It seemi to be a fact that a ranee of
mountains "divide a people." It has
been so In the pent. The west does not
' appreciate what the east has In store for
It and stands, aloof Is spite ef the
kindly emcee of The Observer and aim
liar Island Journals, whosg editors wish
-'- 'X man mbtxajta.
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
BvBiav morning .a.
arorusna,
Oragea,
t OFFICIAL PAPIR OP TH1 CITY . OF PORTLAND
YET READY.
while school torn
waiting for acoom-
that ln another week
Louis and toured
dence btaMned
much taoonvenienoe
rTIhfB- was
A pathy .with
' as pat as
Vr--- ; iv
robs the many for
for the' people at
easy to suppose
Involved as wall as
shut out. It Is felt
tariff .protected
road? for occupancy
board had tho money
that tho schools were
but that they are
products abroad,
of ths school term.
per cent cheaper
useful machines, a
people, are sold to
foreign countries,
ing to many millions annually. , , v ,
This Is not an
The politicians
WILL
massacre which,
.sudden, violent and
sure, would still
TRIP.
f r
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that Portlanders might take an Interest
and cultivate friendlier feelings between
the two eectiona
' mwmmmm oaaaov pmtrr. ' '
: I. W. MlteheU tn Medfcrd MaU. :
When t was sown ta c&e Willamette
valley, a few Weeks ago, I was sur
prised at not finding smrs and better
fruit While travel Ins on the. trains I
heard several eastern people make In
quiries for tb-. -wonderful" fruit
orchards of Oison. This wss tn the
Willamette valley. I told them If they
would travel throw sh Roams river valley
la the day time they would see orchards
that would make hot rocks ef their eyea
I notloe In Portland that a certain
grade of fruit was selling st almost
your ewS price--while superior fruit
from the Roeue river and Hood river
valleys brovsht a fancy price and was
In great demand. The fruit farmers of
the Willamette valley do not seem te
give their trees any attention whatever
as to cultivation and spraying. I know
their orchards would be greatly lav
proved It they would do thla I have
discovered that horticulture ts a pretty
deep and very scientific study-Hind have
discovered also, that the hortlcuUuriau
of the Rogus river valley have a pecul
iar and profitable twist to this science
whlrh has not been oangat cote by
growers la other localities. , . ,
JO U R N AX
JWO. P. CABftOU.
TM Journal mama rmm .ana saMu-
trip If they chose. ' There ars a good many of them in
Umatilla, Union, Morrow, Gilliam, Sherman and Wasco
counties. It would have been a fine advertisement for
that region If a big train-load, or two or throe ram
loads, of them could have gotten together and gone to St.
thv oast, with their occupation and resi
forth all along thetr route.
when Theodore Roosevelt was la
sym-
tariff reform. But lately be stands
tho firmest stand-patter of them alt
Why this sudden changeT It Is difficult to believe that
President Roosevelt reaHy believes that a system that
tho benefit of the few 4s, a good thing
Urge. And it la not sveeablo nor oven
that he has surrendered abjectly to the
trusts. But what other, sxcept one of)
these two views can be taken? v
What are we to think of a professedly courageous presi
dent, and one who assumes an attitude of readiness to tilt
agamet ell great wrongs m oui national life, who Is
dumbly acquieeoent la the manifest Injustice and political
Inequality of highly protected manufacturers selling thetr
after paying ths freight, from M to 40
than they do to American consumers r
The Dlngley tariff enables them to rob the American con
sumers to this extent, and they do It, The ease of type
writers wsa mentioned m the dispatches Saturday. Of
course' the manufacture Of typewriters Is controlled by a
trust, -like most other thins. Ths better makes of these
necessity how to millions -of American
them at I left each. They are sold In
at a .profit, too, for IM. The trust
plunders the Amerlcaa people of H a machine, amount
Isolated case; on the contrary tt la typ
ical. It la the- same way with sewing machines, agri
cultural implements, and many other things,
and office-holders may think It policy to
stand pat, for reasons that are pecullarry obvious during
campaigns, but why to the name.ot common sense should
the plundered people stand pat? - '
STAY AT THEIR POSTS.
A DISPATCH states that In view of the exceedingly
' bitter hostility between the forces assailing and
' those defending Port Arthu, and the disposition
on both sides to show no quarter, and of the probability
that tt the Jape capture-the city there would be a general
however, we do not believe 100 women
nurses hi that tMleseruered city were hdvlsed to leave it
and seek a place of safety. vi;, . .-v. ,
If the statement .be true, the officer who gave the ad
vice did not know much about women. . It Is unlikely that
they stood muck In fear of being massacred, for nurses
are necessarily Intelligent .women, and they could rea
sonably count on the Improbability of that fate. Tot if
they had believed that they were tn danger of such a
cruel death, most of them, we may he
have remained at their posts, binding up
wounds sdmintstertnr '.to the sick, comforting the af
flicted, acting out their, divine natures as angels of mercy.
- Zh an Emergency, la time of etrssa and difficulty and
dancer, of. woe and wretchedness, of terror and horror,
the average woman, who would under ordinary circum
stances scream at sight of a mouse, hsa a cooler head and
steadier nerves, and withal a keener sense, unconsciously
feH, of duty, and a purer aptrtt of self sacrifice, than the
average man. - ' . '.". , .
The man, knows little of woman who hsa not studied
her under extremely frying circumstances. Then she Is
a very different creature from the woman he ordinarily
meets, and whose delusive surface only he sees, under
ordinary clreumstencee, Scott understood this when be
wrote the familiar lines;. , .yl ... ;i
. v O woman, in thy hours of ease j r'-f
'Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, f'- 'ti,.
:r -And variable as ths shads ,''--
1 1 1 . By the tight qulrsrlng aspen made : .-''' ,
-:. When pain and anguish wring the brow,
''. A minlstsrlng angel thou. - -J ' " f,
' ' CANAL AND PORTAGE ROAD.
IOHT BREAKS en the Celllo canal right -of-way.
Tne cans between the state and the O. R. A N.
company has been sensibly compromised, on terms
satisfactory to both. For a fair consideration, agreed te
be paid, the company will not oppose the canal, only one
other private owner besides t H. Taffe Is to be settled
with, and tt Is hoped terms can be made with him.. The
Tarfe case will soon be ready to go to the supreme court
which ft may be expected will not delay very long m ren
dering a decision. f it should affirm the circuit court
and Mr. Seufert can in the meantime be dealt with, the
way will be clear; the state will have presented the gov
ernment the right-of-way; and It can go ahead with the
work on the canaL ' ' ' '
All this Is well, yet this fair prospect does hot obviate
ths necessity of building the portage road. Judging by
past performances It will take eight or. ten years, at least
to dig the canal and build ths locknf but If It only takes
five or six years, the people of the Inland empire cannot
afford to wait even that long for relief.
Q the right-of-way for the canal as quickly as pos
sible, but also ; y . v . '' . -
Bufld the portage road as soon aa possible. , ' , ;
Sjfl BBS aHWWOXfir.
FronV ths Mew York World, i
If Mv. Roosevelt were not mussled for
ths remainder of . ths campaign, ws
should ssk him te explain and defend
these three Items of the bud set for the
year sndlag June to, ltet, es compared
with the same Itemi for lllt-97. the
year before the Speotsh war: , '
Hieenditiiie for - lSOT. leoi.
CMl and awcellaamisi . go.ioii. one siss.nno.mn
Wat dpartniM)t : .i0.000 1HV.000.OUO
Mary eapvtMOt St, ooo,000 . ios.ooo.oou
Here la aa Increase of tllT.OooSO In
three Items alone in seven yesra leav
Inr out pensions, Panama end all extra
ordinary espenees. Does this sustain
Mr. Roosevelt's sstonlshlng claim that
"the exnendlturee ef the nation have
been manased tn a spirit ef economy?"
Do these dsures not rather tend te ex
plain how end why ft is thst the total
appropriations for the Roosevelt md
mlnlstratlon are more than two and one
half tlmeeT the total appropriations' for
ths first Cleveland sdmlnlstratlont
at inrss,
Prom the Chicago Kswa
nWnekjneetlng you," he said, '1- am
sorry that I have a wife."
, "So am I," rejoined ths beautiful girt.
-Are you, reaiiyr' he ssked eagerly.
"Tea. she enswered, "I am really
ana truly sorry for your wile.
Small Change
DcubtfuW-Mew Tern.
UHi
Oood time now te work making good
Down Is chief aposUe, also ths Other
Maybe ratrbanka wUl bring rala-rr
a frost , , v ...... . - j v $ 1
St. Louui is pulling up fast now. Oood
ibt aer, -4. '.'-; v :
The esmpalgn Ue doesn't thrivs Ss
fornwrty. - - . j ., .
Kow let Salem keep reasonably quiet
until the legislature meets. .
' If Tarsal can carry Indiana, ha can
hold his job for next time. .... -,
So far the tariff law has kept the
frost off the middle west oora belt. -The
Jsps will never st the Lena new.
And Lena will nevermore trouble the
Japs. . j. , ., . .-.v -
If yes have taken the wise precaution
te lay in a etock of May wheat you are
all right , ,; x ;, -
The Japanese ars no reformers; they
sre tryins te make Fort Arthur a wide
Portland should be stronfiy repre-
sented at that irrigation sonvention at
Ontario this week.
Oregon' not. being secustonied to such
a. lone period without rain took to the
bad practice, of smoking.
Perhsps ft will be a eonsoistloa to
think that there will not be so much
Umber and wood to burn next year.,
At hurt the Democrats In Kw York
appear to be fairly harmonious, but
Tommy Watson will st some votes
there. ; , t . ,. ,
In southern California the mercury
hss been up to lit decrees la the shade
lately, and the people longed for Fair
banks. .- .. .v ,
PCrtunataly there were so war corre
spondents at San BTsnetsco, and so news
of the Lena incident was promptly ob
tained.
If there Is any western Oregon town
that hasn't -yet spoken up Tor tne pro
posed new army poet tt should do so
at once. -
Some lme el native parsgmpher hss
discovered that the Prohibition ticket
Swallow and CarroU, Is suggestive Of
wine and song. . i
An exohanse sunsets that Root's con
vention speech and Roosevelt's letter of
acceptance should be reed together.
Surely set the same day.-; ; - r- - -
What floe bouquets the trait ergsn
does toss to Chairmen Baker every little
while. Quite a oampalsn fund
must
have come to Oregon, after alt .
An Illinois airt who Is studying music
has set an example worthy of imitation
by thousands) she has taken her piano
out late the woods to practice. '
-la ths press reports of Unels Jos
Cannon's open Ins speech. It Is -Bald
that he "epoke of the tariff also." But
whsUM said about the abominable thing
Is not stated.,''' - .-.,. - , ,;.
A New York sllesed expert Mrs It
costs only fit a year for a woman te
dress properly. Like most experts hs
evidently speaks without any personal
experience .la paying women's dressing
bUto, : . ' : wr.. .
' P. Augustus Helnse win be the next
senator from Montana, At least -It Is
reported that hs has said that hs will
spend a million dollars to he sleeted, and
that will buy the seat nleea Clark
spends more to keep him cut ,
.VASTS BTOBV'SSm
Of Beatk
vpsa fmdge
Bsopus Corrsspondenee New York Sun.
Along the paths of Roeemount ths
hydrangeas greet heads are drooplnr.
The crimson salveaa burn to death with
grief. The heart of the big beech Is
cracking. - Down la the creek bottom the
wesptns; willows .work overtime. Squir
rels Chat have quarreled all summer ars
silent Ths woodpecker has gone late
his hole end mured the door. Tawny
chipmunks mourn to the erevleee of the
stone fences. Only ths most dismal of
crickets and ths saddest of catbirds dare
to make a noise. Ths blackbird is en
vied his plumage. Sver there comes a
whisper, chiu ss If wafted by ths wings
of Asreal: - 5-
"Mery Jans must ale.
Folk speak of her with bushed voices.
She does not know of her doom. Why
should shet Has She not served faith
fully. If not wellt All the glad sum
mer she has been the life of Roeemount
ths bells of the lawn, ths cheerful servi
tor of the great The statesmsa have
oome to safe questions and, seeing her,
forgot thetr mission. Cold facttonlsts
have grown soft of heart at the sight of
her ways and grscea To wavering mug
wumps she has shown the way to the
shrine of Democracy. So long so shs
and ths constitution laated con vena
tion with the candidate could not lag.
Now ths constitution must take up the
task alone and a tagger along bearing Be
burden unaided.
Do not say of her, when whs Is gone,
that she fell victim to the Ingratitude of
a heartless master. She would not have
tt thus. Let her be remembered, rather,
as one who gave up her Identity as a
lamb for the sake of a national cam
paign, became an outcast from ths fold
and for thla perished.
When the flrat frost comes to gild the
Judge's pumpkins and flavor ths lais
grapes, to the shambles with Mary Jane.
The rest of the ahsep will net have her
around them tn their house and shs can
not live In ths orchard all winter. Hence
the sentence of death. Judge Parker
Imposed It with deep regret after a Jury
of farmhands had found Mary Jane
guilty of being In the wsy. .
There may be an appeal in ths form
of a auggestlon that shs be sold Into
slsvery, but that might not lneare a
comfortable future for her, and the grief
of parting would be almost as great as
the sorrow of her death.
If, la ths end, the butcher does not out
Mary Jane down, a question will artes
vrhlch should cause a flurry at the Hoff
man Keuae. Considsrlnr all the elrcura
atances, ought Judgo Parker to oat Mary
JansT ' . " -
' like a YeeAsvtus.
Prom the Philadelphia Ledger.
The army ssaneuvsra en the Bull Run
battle-ground are useful, no doubt; but
when ws read that the doctors snd
nurses treat imaginary wounds ws are
bound te think of a vaudeville,-entertainment
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THINGS OF INT1E9T TO WOMEN 1
to Be So m
' (By Henri Pane Da Bote.)
' & B. Marriott-Watson knows ths
American woman ef London's faahlco
abie society," the max of wealth and
letters said, "She doss not bother with
love. He knows this and cries out It's
bis trade as aa Bngtisu novelist''
"She is lucky not to bother with love,"
I replied..
No. for she gives ths Mas of love."
hs said. "This Is ths effect of her ex
terior form, of her grace and amiability.
They suggest 'to a simple-minded nun
a disastrous sssoclatton of ldese. He
thinks that she la sentimental and te
lost1 " . ; ; -.
"And she career I oeked.
"Oh, he assumes tragic alrsr he re
plied. "He takes to' drink or trade, to
philosophy or adventure. It gets Into
the pa pare Thess things are annoy
ing." - -V
"Shs is a charming and vain monster,
do you think r X asked.
''She is what ths progress of man
ners makes of her," he replied. "Noth
ing subsists ef the old humanity, you
know. The primitive virtues are dead.
the ancient morality hss vanished. She
disdains love aa a superannuated grace,
not complicated, extremely simple."
But nature I began.
"Exacts love. no continued. Tea,
nature seenfs to have no ether object
than to throw beings into one soother's
arms. But the American woman that
Marriott-Watson knows Isn't In nature.
It Is true that she Is not la nature.
Te be la nature she would have te stay.
as her ancestors stayed. In ths land
where she was born, to be effected by
the things around her and the ambient
sir. She goes abroad and aa American
may no longer describe her. She dis
concerts htm. She Is disconcerting Wil
liam Deaa. HcweUa In London fright
fully. If x were a musician 1 might write
a tone poem tn clesr notes to larltate
her pretty babble," he said to a frtend.
'But te describe, to explain with words.
with the ordinary terms of league
the . capricious, brilliant American
woman that Ixmdon knows, what means
have L I pray yeuT
Woman's charming frivolity was al
ways a great subject of terror to philos
ophers. Ths American woman in Lon
don ta very ecmpllostsd. But Mr. Mar
riott-Wataon a manner of writing about
her ts not good. He Is not Indulgent
and mocking, be la not exquisite with
out snobbery. He writes much better
about other things which are not as
worthy of bis attention as that . He
Is a moralist too grave.
His worst error is to try to be a
spiritual guide te ths American woman
that London knows," the man of wealth
and letters ssld. "Shs detests guides.
They spoil Itsly for her.. They spoil
for her even the subterranean church ot
Assist and the tomb of Qalla Plaeldte
at Revenos, places where a saintly and
delightful horror reigns. .
"Now she uses strstegem against
them. When, tn front of the dome of
one of the adorable cities of Tuscany
or of Umbrla. an Italian la rags oomee
to her, terrible la nls softness, and says
to her with an inspired end percussive
voice. "8 Ignore. X am a guide,' she re
plies. So am I.' Ulysses, la his travels,
never imagined artifice se ingenious.
The Italian nees la her a rival and goes
away with a look of despair. "
"The conceit of Mr. Marriott-Watson
to be a a pi ritual guide to her Is much
worse.- How can he turn around
baskets of prchldsT .He does not know,
he cannot know the fashionable woman
that an American has the faculty to be
come. His fellow-countrymen -" who
were sages In ths seventeenth century
feared the court - The Amerlcaa woman
makas In Burope a. court more amas
ing then -all - those which were ever
known," .. -
I do not think good, I shall not speak
lll ot it I do net think that it la
By Rev. Thomas B. Orsgory.) v
Tape! papa! papa!" It rant; out clear
as a bell a little silver bell, made to be
sweet rather than powerful ta Its tone.
Papa! papal papal" and ths little
allver bell of a voice made the music
that for the moment caused every one
in ths great newspapsr office to forget
all about his work.
Ths slecttio fans were humming, the
type-writing machines were clicking
sway like mad, ths erics of "Boy,"
Copy, were ma hies the piece a verl-
tebip pandemonlsmi but through ft sll
there floated ths mualo, ths peace, the
Joy of that little one's voice.
Her "papa" worked la the ornre. one
had come to pay him a short visit and
midst ths confusion and din of the place
ahe was oalllag for him "Papa! Papal
Papa!
Ths men In the office were busy with
larger and Important matters. A great
war was on In the far seat and thsy
were eettlna ths news on thst A great
preeidentlal canvass was close st band.
and they wars Interested in that Baf
strikes and railroad strikes, --big fires
and monstrous murders, the markets IB
(By Ambrose Blergc ? -
MORGANATIC, sd). Pertaining to a
kind of marriage between a maa of
exalted rank and a woman ef low de
gree by which the wife gets nothing
but a htfsbsnd, snd not much of a
husband. Prom Morgan J. P, a king
of finance,- by a transection with'
whom nobody gets snythtng st all
MORMON, n. A follower of Joseph
gmlthr who received from an angel a
revelation Inscribed ca brass plates
snd afterward revised end enlarged
by his successor in ths prophethood.
Whtls still en tneffenilve people the
Mormons were bitterly persecuted,
their prophet - assassinated, thetr
homes burned and themselves driven
Into ths desert where they prospered,
practiced polygamy snd themselves
took a hand la the gams of persecu
tion. "They say the Mormons sre Hsra
They say that Joseph Smith did not
' receive from the hands of sn angel ths
written revelation that we obey. Let
them prove . It!" Brlgham Young,
Prophet and Logician. ' ;
MORN I NO. n. . Ths snd ef night end
dawn of dejection. The morning wag
discovered by a Chaldean astronomer,
' who, finding his observation of the
a tars unaccountably Interrupted, dtli-
- gently sought the cause snd found It
After several centuries Of disputation,
morning was generally accepted by
the scientific ss a ressonable cense of
v Vet Mat Pault, ''
- From tho Chicago Trlhuna -Colonel
Watterson regretfully notes
aa "unusual lack of activity" In political
matters this year. It lan't the colonel's
fault. He has dons his best to rouse
this stupid old country to a realising
eensc of the perils that confront it. be
gad!
;A LITTLE CHILD'S VOICE "g'
THE CYNIC'S DICTIONARY
1
T
evervthliuK. but 1 shall not my thst tt
is nothing. It Is ths silvery fosm o
the orsst of ths human ocean, it is
brilliant end Mailt. - I am sure that Mr,
Uarrlott-WatBon's nredlctlons of evil
about t are false because It la Amor-
Bo , Daw numu ) OfMOrf. '
; Ur H.nr Srmlan Marriott-WatSCB.
referred te In corns of the publlo prints
aa "ths distinguished Bngllsh novelist
and essayist" has been making some
fresh distinction for himself lately by
pitching lato our American women, '
In ths current number of the well
.known Bngllsh magasine. The Nine
teenth Century, Mr. Marriott-Watson
delivers himself of the following doleful
pron unclamento : , '
The American women bas aimed the
first great blow at tne reum oi ww.
So far as ths eye of man can carry now
American civilisation; by the overthrow
Af Inn tuI It nittanrV. will hAVO inau
gurated S new era, fraught with por-
tantloue issues. - ws ars, wouiu mp-
tiur it, lha ttiMlhliM Af B. HOW STS.
tn which love ts to be abolished, or
rather ta be faded Into a sentiment so
thin ss to be hardly recognisable"
All of which, It may be said en the
start Is purs nonsense - '
If Mr. Marriott-Watson permits hlm-
l m K the author af sannV more
such pronouncemsnts as the aaevs hs
WUI nave peoome oisiinguianea mi wni?
mm. a nwllat end aaaavlat. but as the
world's champion "funny man. .
The American woman: wna niw
has ths gentleman te contract the wo
manhood of a continent Into that nar
row term and then' brand It aa a love
less, cynical thing?
th a marl nan woman! There I
anma ffftaan or elvtaen mlHlOnO Of hST,
Mr. Marrlett-Watson, ana you can i ois-
a ma pmeiwloua e. nroooaltlOB In
the easy, nippaac way you prvpo.
txm an wnmM in ABWioa jwi
i.a ia KnaiaiwL rraAA. Germanr
aui mm nth AfHintrv who ere fitly
described la Mr. atarriOK-waisoe s onue-
i umii hut fa n ranx ana xu
ha woman af thla country thOSS WOTdS
have no application whatever.
Of enures, a man or nniw-aon
a man Vfr Harriott-Watson IS BSN H
becan go to work and imagine "any
old thing," but the rancy aroma, no
se confounded with the reality.
The reality te simply this: The rank
and file of cur American wives, mothers
and daughters arc thoroughly womanly.
Intelligsst it Is trus, end wlds awake
to all that- Is going ca in ths world
around them, and yet beautifully olive to
the sentiments and emotions of the
Mn.ii, Me earth " are there finer.
truer bomee. or more of them, than m
ths United States or America. v -NOwhere
ere -there nobler or more
devoted wives and sweethearts, purer,
stsadler womaaly affectione. more ten
da na at the name time enduring,
anMaatbi raUtlAnahlna. than BrS tC bC
found In the goodly land over which
la Amerloa, It. Is too trus; ws have
here and there, ta what Is called 'society;-'
little bunohee Of women who ap
parently amount to very little, Without
brains and without charactsr. mors hu
man butterfllea they sre fit for aothtng
but to officiate at pink teas ana men
hl 4IIHUML
But who tiag ths right to take one
af thaea atMv. slmnertng. . brainless.
heertteas creatures and call her "The
AHavtflaH VUnmnmnV
It were a monstrous Uhet -on' oat
American weniaalMoa a wcwmnnoou
that Is as fair and as tender ss sny
.. ha aim ahlnM an In Ita SOUSSS
a womnnhoed that Is both Intelligent and
arreoiionate, coat aaa pom ;
that thlnka mnA MlA heart that lOVCS. '
Mr. Henry Brereton Marrlott-Wateoh
should get soquaintsa whs our Ameri
can women before he writes another ar
ticle tor Ths Nineteenth Century,
Wan street and the revolutlonlete in
South America, an had to be looked Into
and reported te a waiting publlo. - - 1
It was a busy, bustling, a wild, mad.
furious place -that greet newspaper of
noe; but In a flash that little silvery
voice hsd captured every one's atten
tion. .
Nothing else was worth thinking of -wars
and rumors of ware, the prospects
of preeidentlal candidates, the rise or
fall of prices la Wall street or ef gov
ernments m South America - - were
trivial matters compared with ths etaaple
goodness and unspotted Joy that rang
out In that little one's voice. .
It was ths best "story" of the day. and
If It could be printed as It was felt all
ths world would be better for It
"Thank God." said every ens in ths of
fice, "thank Ocd for ths lltUs childrcnd"
And, welb too, was that sense of
gratitude;- for what would this old
world be. with Its wars sad rivalries,
with Ha labors snd worries. If It were
not for the eternal good cheer that
comes te us from the little enc whom
God has dee reed shall " eJwaya with
usT
the Interruption end a eonstantly re
current natural phenomenon
MORROW, a The day ef good deeds
and a reformed Ufa The beginning
of happiness. (See tomorrow when
you get to it.)
MORTALITY, B. The part of Immor
tality that ws know shout '
MOSAIC, n. A hind of inlaid work.
From Moses, who When little wss In
laid in a basket among ths bulrushea.
MOSQUITO, a. The spore of tnsomnta,
as dlatlngutshed from cOAsclenos, ths
. bacillus of- ths same disease. In
digenous to New Jersey, Where the
marshes In which they multiply sre
known se meadows and ths mosquitoes
thermal vee are affirmed by ths natives
to be larks. . '
"I am ths me star of all things r
-V . ' . Man cried.
,"Then, pray, what am IT the Moo-
' - ' quite replied, , . .
MOTION, a. A property, condition or
state of matter. The existence sad
possibility of motion Is denied by
- many philosophers, who point out thet
.a thlna, cannot move where It Is snd
cannot move where It Is not Othsrs,
- with Oaineo, ear: "And yet It
moves." It is not the province of the
lexicographer to decide. ,
; "How charming Is divine Phllosophyr
Milton. '
MOTIVB, n. A mental wolf ta moral
wooL.
A Baeky CJhtla. - ,r
' Prom the Ch lease Reeord-Herald. ' 1
"''You don't seem . to be much dis
couraged, Mr. Binks, because It Is a
girl." . ,
"N. Tm mighty gfsd of tt My wife
had bsrmlnd In case It- wss a boy tb
call htm Kenneth Clarence Bar! do
lAoey." . s :-
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' The A wart ass wcassny
1 1 Qrr -pn Sid Hi -hta
Now prunes. . ' .' i"
Fruit grows well la Sherman county.
A Dallas man has shipped 14 csxloads
out i win peon, j, i a' -. ,
Aa Umpqua man has It tons of prunes
that armde IS ta th tvtund. - . A
jinanioox county must ounq s new
oourthouse; the question ts, what kind
of one! , ;( j t
' As a deairabie location for an army
post esch of 40 towns, all the vdy from.
Oreeon C"' to Ashland, head the lift,
A Grass Valley man has lest two
tnreehlng machines this sesson, the last
Sna helnar rfaatmvaa' K "annHtanaiuia
eombuation." within a week aftsr hs t
bought It ' ' - J
It ts reported that a " great deal of
illegal shooting ef Chinese pheasants la
going on around Forest Grove. The
birds ars aults tame, end fall a
prey te unprincipled buntera J
u foiwi urun iiiaia,' narrating
the burning; of a barn belonging to C
N, Johnson, says it "either started from
a - match united 1b some wav. or from
reome other causa. No doubt . , r
- More Observer: "Some beef cattle of
launieo wa am oiooa or creea coca
and other good msn murdered and many
hundreds ef innocent sheep maliciously
aiauantereo. - M ... . .A-
A Rook Creek, Oil) lam county man
picked two buahele and a peck of toft
shelled almonds from a four-year-old
tree grown in his orchard, and says he
win iwt, iuw inrw w iivai i narlTl .
huahala ml hta aaaa. '
Sprlngwater news la Oregon city "X
courier; HueUeberrtss plentiful la the
AMtMUl Mm V a aH .V.
tongue by a bee, causing pain and bv
eonvenlenca. t Moral: Keep your tongue
in the proper place), A oooa devoured
Ruby Newbury's guinea hen. " Nswt
Criteaer U building a potato cellar.
The editor ef the Fossil journal had
ma mi ui paajonee una ween, nm. ne 3
says, Kemp Berry brought te a box of 1
line big Juicy fellows of his own raising.
then Frank Knox brought a box of
bigger ones from his orchard, and then
Mrs. B. A. Otaiam beat them both with
two mammoth peaches raised on the
rilllla rm nlaaa frit m maarh -
Preimratuus are belnsr made to ban-1
dls several million eggs at the hatchery l
on South Coos river this sesson. There
Is an unusually large number ef chl "
aooks oa the South fork- at present"
mors In fact than havs been seen there
for years and they are expected te
move up to the rBoha-jea the first v
rams appear. .. , . ..r, ?. ; ,
Trying to save the expense' of nr
couple of hop pipes, resulted la the loss
of a how drier and ebout IS.eoo worth
of hops at Whttsson early Saturday t
morning. Ths bouse was furnished with 1
nw pipe aui pus aro ramn, ana ua ,t
etryev men thought thsy r should bo re
placed, but the owner said . they ,wera
aw vncugu. . . . -
Never .before. In the .history of stU
verton nas tners been such maaifesta-
tlona of nrosperity In ths way of build
ing and. Improving homes end- business
houses as has been experienced during
tne past year. Over U new buildings
have been erected, and as many mors
havs been painted or othervrtssee 1.
paired. - . . . . v
A new styis of arrow notnt has been
dug cut of aa old Indian gravs up In
Umatilla county, it is said to be the
only ens of its kind known to collectors
in the northwest snd Is unieue and i
beautiful. It consists of - two arrow :
points m ens, a sharp point having been
rormeo en both ends of a piece of Jet
black flint about three Inches lone sad
an inch wide. Two pel re of barbs sre
made on each side In the middle of the
double point and It la perfect and sym
metrical. :i- .: . . V .
'V.J.
A KgjrrOB'B TXBW,
Reading. Pa. Dl -patch In New York
World.
Rev. George W. Brown back, neater of
the Pilgrim Congregations church, who
advertised for a wife, received I.eoe ap
plicant for bis hand, and then married
an attractive Peterson, N. J., girl, re
ferred ta his Sunday sermon to the
large number of divorces granted in this
country snd then spoke on 'The Model
Husband." His text wsa Colosstans Hi.,
IS, "Husbands, love your wives and be
not bitter against them." Us said, tn
pert: -
"The model husband la one who
thjnks mors of his wtfs than hs dose af
himself or sny one tn the world.
"The suocsssful business maa keens
close watch on contracts to see that
they are fulfilled. Husbands, how long
is It Since you have looked at your
marriage contract? . ,
Many a man, without appreciation ef :
the beautiful flower he has taken uate
himself, becomes careless and negligent :
A model husband 1s a man of good mem
ory. . . He remembers the Introduction
that set his .heart flutterlns. -Ha re.
memosrs mi waie-a togwiner oerore mar- f
. . . . . ..
nsge. Therefore, ne does not get half
a square ahead and, then bawl out: Su- $
sen Jane, for heaven's sake, why don't'
you hurry up? ' t -
"My model husband doeent watt until
his wlfs dies to give flowers, a single.
rose, perfumed with love in life, is
worth more than a do sen wreaths en the
casket lid.- - -v y -
When yob go home put your arms
around your wife and tell her hew sweet
snd beautiful shs la It may be at retch
Ing the truth, but Ood will torsive sou
and your wife will be happy. , X
"Remember how blind you were to her''
faults before marriage, IT yon have
discovered them slnoe, keep your eyes'
tightly closes. t ' s
"A model hu abend always remsmbera
he is ths husband of one wife. When
you think lees of your wife and mors,
of another ths breakers ef hell ark be
fore you.' .- 4 . .j
- a- - .. . '
BR-.-- ,:0
- From the Tillamook Headltgh. 5
The editor en gelag to his sanctum
on Monday found several beer bottles
on the sidewalk euteids ths Headlight
ofAee, evidently placed there by a "soak"
and a poor mental end physics! vie tim
of wis saloons, for the bottles were
empty end the editor couldn't get a
morning wet out of them, evidently
the local option measure Is not appre
ciated by the poor specimens of human
ity who Imbibe from morning until
night and eventually become drunken
seta making their homes ta ths saloons
Instead of with their parents, wives or
fnmlllea Such must be the objects of
pity who have strewn cards sad beer
bottles outside the Headlight onVw of
late, while In a fit of delirium tremens.',
Poor fellows, for they are ebjeota of
pity. , j,. ,, , , , . f. . i
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