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plana for supplying present iued and
y tnMia or um future mvi dns wrm. mi
J forest ar rnenaved. that th next
Country war Iy to import wooaen mawnui avn7-
Pew Mtm to reach any comiuaion aa to how ta.tr enjoy
4 &ieiH of Unbar raioufces may be assured th prtaent
r without ancroacbins upon tha totmdlat future. , ,
'j -Government reserves art th meet
yat attempt yt ara vsry veu In detail erf utilisation
v and co rree nondlngly oppressive in thetr affaot upon tha
V present. Tha interior department haa not put to' fore
? satisfactory rale granting uaa of timber on reserves, and
i has really opened them to lumber operation a only whara
- tract hav been cut off from tha reserve and thrown apon
" the market, to ba gobbled up before Ink on tha order la dry
' tav the hMvr lumber companies. Such
are of a mora Talua to tha futura than other denuded
' forest land. ' In tha policy of permitting mature tree to
be rut, under direction f a supervisor, rulea and regul-
tier are not an a commercial bait, a auch ousting do
' not take place except In lilted quantity where a hus
s bendman or adjacent reeldent naeda tha Umber. , . ? -
A California, operator baa put In force reoantly a sys
n tens on hta private around that Mem to have creator
anerlt than any work be) dene by the government.
. eatlraate that fifty yeare are required for timber to ma
"f ture. Hie tracts are divided Into fifty aonee or sections.
Ait desirable timber en the flrat will be cut one' year, and
.the year folio win: the adjacent aectlon will ba treated In
;( like manner. : By the tlrae that he baa made one cutting
over the tract hi this manner ba believe the flrat aeetton
wm tie ready for' a second crop, and thua ha will be able
V to rut In perpetuity Thia lumber man haa gauged hie
! operation an a very almple calculation, of tree life and
growth, which appeaie to thoughtful men aa reaaonable.
The California operator haa a more meritortoua ayatem
than any rule yet apptad by the Interior department..
Aa forest reserve are now handled the coot of aaeurma;
: the deaired trees end rettlna; them off the land make the
t work practtoaljy prohibitive to cnoat neotlona. - Aa the
California- man plane, to work, me economy of cuttlnf and
handitnt t a, approved aa tha present method of lumber
' opera tore where they have n regard for the future of the
PORTLAND AND ALASKA
HB WHOLB8ALB MEN of
and anxious to do builnesa Id Alaska. They have
no doubt that they can do a. large, profitable and
growing business there. If they were provided with a
' ateamshlp Una, - Thia they cannot or do not, desire to pro
vide for themselves. They naturally look to the' O. ZL A
N. company to do this. r ' 1. i ' .'
The O. R, A N. company haa done a great deal to serve
," the commerce of Porjland, though of eodrae at 'the seme
: v time looking ou( for It own tntereata.
- of the steamship Una betweea Portland and oriental porta
hi the moat conspicuous example of thia encouraging fact.
Thia enterprise waa long delayed, aa It seemeA but waa
' at last undertaken, and ha been very advantageous to
Portland, and will be more so. i f j '
Let us hope that this wlH be a precedent to be followed
' whh regard to the 'ports oC Alaska. Without probing Into
the arrarsrementa between thia railroad and thoee running1
to Puget Bound porta, It may reasonably be- hoped and ex
1 pected that Portland will not very Ion; remain without
' thia very Important and neoeaaary moan of xtendtnglts
i; trade., , . . ' ' ,",,.- " '
In seme particulars Seattle will remain on vantage
- ground, yet on the whole; the 'difference in that (city
favor, if any, la alight. Portland should have bad direct
. steamship connection with Alaska for tha peat six years,
, , ' at least, but bee n use it haa not la no reason why vigorous
and peraiatent efforts should not ba made to establish such
't oennectlon.
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visiting the walla WALLA FAIR.
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A1XA WALLA la tha next
tted, the particular attraction or occasion be-
; Ing a fair there by a
Portland business men. They do wisely to go, and all
s PorUand dtlten should appreciate the public spirit shown
" by those who make the trip, for these visits of prominent
' business men ta point where fair are held Salem, Eu
' s gen. Rose burg. Takima. Tha Dalle, Walla Walla, or any
'. points In territory tributary to Portland ar of advan
v tag not to themselves alone, but to all of us, to tha city
, ', as a whole.'. , . -. "' k " j . -1 . .
) r Paget sound lmalneea man have' been making- laudable
1 and admirable efforts for many months past to divert the
j JLnrde of the region around tha so at he astern Washington
i inetropolU from Portland to Seattle and Tacoma, probably
not without some measure of success, although Walla
Walla Is distinctly and unquestionably within Portland
Instead of Seattle or Tacoma territory It la not only far
' nearer to thia city, bat the advantage of railroad grade
la greatly' In Portltnd'a favor. So It la not probable,
though Walla Walla and other towns northeast, of that
city along th Hue of the O. R..A N. are In the state of
W'ashlDgton, and have a state pride that counts for some
thing; that much of their trade will be permanently won
by the rustling business men of the Sound cities; yet It la
well for our leading business men to keep tn close and
ttax or ma mar so, laraayiaw.
r Ho Wing 1 the fun text of Owp
Meredith's intervi with tho Dsily
Mell on limited marriage:
It is Impossible to writ fullr fend
completely on the subject. Everything
Which ought to be said has to be out In
' half. As a rvsuli, I mrelf am posl-
lively aoowtlmes accused og being ob
scure. , v
"Marriage if so dlftlonK, Its modern
oondltlow are so dffAcrtt. that when
you dnd two tewated people ready and
: willing for It nothing should be put In
their wan The fault at the hot to at of
ftner bueiitses is that most womeo are no
uneducated, m uarendy, Mn too often
want a slave, and oftea think that they
have got one, -net bersus the woman
ha not often got more sense than her
; huHband, but bereuea she t inarticu
ltv sot ortaratiMl eaossh to glvt ex
preeln to her retil Ideas end feeling.
"I maniher a man who asked a girl
ta aurry him. The girl, who ltkd hint
1A a Way, but dial Iked certain portions
of his .hrr1er. aald No ' He ssked
again and again, and she said 'No,'
but ri'ulit airs ao reason and express
nft tt her reel feeltnw. - Therefore,
wmh she said Ne' a certain number of
t)ms. aind rould think of nothing new
l say, she seairied hi ML Fear of UM
O N D A I LY
INDIMNDINT XBWIPAPIR
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING,. CtX
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OFF1CJAL PAPtH OP THI CITY OF PORTLAND .
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friendly touch with
ple, who are very
devoted t future
trip, aaid fretn
MDOOlallY ta ABW
m mnn Intelltswnt
conserving th lo-
Wail, and scared
generation ot this
the past few years
rational general work
meet the producers.
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land thrown open J
" nomination
of the Deniooratio
era, 1 not altogether
Tat it remains true
Republican partya
party moat be held
the leadership of
admlnwt rations,
combinations and
pletely and firmly
Republican nertr'a
pletely as over.
Th only hop
however vulnerable
cism of some of Its
qnly how, but la all
at least, either the
nartv will be In
la not the slightest
list- party success.
the conditions or
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true. - r .
TRADE.
party to win. belle
Portland are willing
will render It so
vary radical change;
and wholly la tavor
fessedly opposed,
rect lone that might
party. v .-. y
Tha oatabllahmoat
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business
Chicago,
place to ba via-
large company, of
ambition of professional politicians.
in recounting doubtful' state and th elements of cer
tainty upon which the two presidential candidate may
depend, Republican paper find that Roosevelt has to
capture but 1 vote to effect til election, while Par
ker has oa hla "doubt ruT Hit M electoral votes, This
egotistic estimate of Republicans would indicate that
there I a "aolld North embracing about mora votes
than are east by th "solid South." Yet column of spec
are wasted each campaign- on th - mental density, of a
southern community that will permit itself to ba ranked
among th permanent supporters of Democracy. -
world kept them together afterward, but
If you oould look into the heart of a
girl Ilk that later! -If you could lift
ths veil from a thousand such house
holds end see Into th earts of the
women there!
"It ie a queetlofl to my mIM whether
a young girl married, eay. at II, utterly
ignorant of life, knowing little, as auch
a girl would, of the man she 1s marry
ing, or of any other man, or of the world
st all. should be condemned to live with
him for ths rest of her life. She falls
out of sympathy with him, ssy, has no
common teats with him, nothing teshars
with him, no rest communication with
htm except a physical one. The lift Is
nearly Intolerable. Yet many married
women jro oa with It from habit or b
esuee tha world terrorises them
"Certainly, however, one day these
present conditions of ma rr la Re will be
changed. Marriage Will be sllowed for
a eertata period, say 1 years. Or well.
I do tiot want to specify any particular
time. The otste will see that sufficient
money Is put by during that time to pro-'
vide for and educate children, psrhsps
fhs stat win tax charge of this fund.
- 'There will he a devil of an Uproar
before auch a chansw can be mtde. It
will be a great shock, but look back and
see what shocks there have been, and
what changes have aevertheleea takes
JOU RN'AL
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Th Journal Btiildtegj, Fin ami YmU
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thoee - southeastern Waabinaton peo
numerous and xeeedlnsry prosperous.
Not that the visitor will not be well repaid for their
any business advantage to be gained.
Walla Walla to a very interest rng etty and the fair held
there thia week arm no doubt be oae of great excellence.
There are few more beautifully situated cities than Walla
r an realOa mora productive and
pleasant than that around It.. Though a comparatively
eld elty, and fot some year at a atand-atllt H haa within
made a new start, and haa grown rap
idly and health Ur. It la a rloh city, and la encircled by
a country Inhabited by well-to-do people. Their products
are enormous fn quantity and rloh la auality, and it will
be a pleasure not devoid of Instructive features for the
business men of Portland to view those products and
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Candidate watson s position.
THERB 18 a good deal of truth.lh Candidate Thomas
A Watson's letter of acceptance, of he Poultat
for president. H la ae-vera arraignment
party and qf certain Democratic lead-
without axeuse or even Justlfloation.
that the evils of which he complains.
tha political and eeonomte vice with which ho aeea the
country Is afflicted, are almost wholly the result of the
legislation and administration. That
chiefly rf not solely responsible or the
conditions he oomplalna of. It ie manifest that now. under
Roosevelt as .wait aa under preceding
what Is known aa the trusts, and the
forces Implied In that term, ar com
In the saddle, and will dominate the
nollcle and performance as com
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of -relief lie In tha Democratic party,
It may1 be., and however much criti
leader may bo deserved, because not
probability for a generation to coma.
Republican party or the Democratic
the ascendency la thia country. There
prospect, no possibility, of the Popu
The most It can do la somewhat to
weaken the Demooratla party, which Is tha only .possible
or available Instrument at the people' hand to better
wnicn Mr. watson complains, n win
have the Whole loaf or nothing; but there are oases when
the adan that "half a loaf la better than no bread Is
Possibly Mr. . Watson desires to help tha Republican
vtna that four years more of Its rule
obnoxious that tha people will demand a
perhaps hta objeqt is to give the
Republican party four years more langtn ox rope so tnat
It will surely bans: Itself; but ho must know that what
little effect his party will have thl- year will bo dearly
of Just the things to which It la pro
and against any partial reforms or cor
ba hoped for from the pemoeratlo
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independent men needed.
TRICK occasionally resorted to by politician who
la to work the public 1 being played In
particularly In respect of candidate for
th legislature. It 1 In legislatures that grafter and
grabber need pliant too la Aa It make no difference
what the political complexion, In a number of th legis
lative district of that city on of the principal political
parties has nominated no candidate. The Republican and
Democrat lo booiea conferred together, and agreed to nom
inate Republican In some district and Democrat In
other, thua seeking to insure the election, of men who
would bo subservient to them, and facile la carrying- out
their schemes. But In some instances ft fa doubtful If
th plan will work successfully, because of th nomination
by disgusted people of Independent and aa nearly -a pos
sible non-partisan candidates. One such candidate, who
It I believed will be -elected over the Republican -Democratic
candidate, haa announced the following platform:
- , 1 believe 1 ' :?.' -'. t ::. t .... -,
. . In eitlsenshlp and not partisanship.-
- "J, That the use of public office for prlvste galaT
' 1 treason. 1 '. '
"t. That a fro atata ls entitled to th unselfish
t fidelity of very free man and that the war for elvlq
honesty demands the enlistment of all patriots.'
If h means this, and can be depended oa to carry out
those principles, he ought to be elected. Every state seeds
such men ta its legislature, every city need them In Its
council. 1 '. ; :-e '
- There has benand la entirely too much partisan for the
public health. Party worship 1 a political dhtease. What
th people need 1 mea In public life who will do the peo
ple' necessary business capably promptly and -with 1n-v
flexible honesty, regardless of party pressure or the selfish
plac ta this marriage bust&ssa la th
MV ' ' - .
"The difficulty ts t make TSngtlsh peo
ple, face such a problem. They went to
live under discipline more than any na
tion la the worlA They won't look
ahead especially the governing peoeplc.
And you must have philosophy-though
It to more than you en hope to get
Bnglish people to admit the bare name at
philosophy into their discussion of such
s question. Again and ass In. notably in
their criticism of America, you see how
the Knyllah people will persist In regard
ing any new trait as a slga of disease.
Yet It Is sign of health. ...
"A correspondenoe about marriage,
like the present one, does nothing but
good. The subject is kept in too munh
darkness. Air ltl Air HI, Nothing can
do, more good than that, and I am very
glad if any words of mme oan help."
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"-""-Xhf Bunt artai tp, V
, , Prom the Philadelphia Press.
"I tell you," sold, th vleMor, "this
fair Is an education. There are lots of
thins to bo learned through It."- "
"Yes, said ths at Louis man. "for In
stance, nearly every housekeeper In thifl
town has learned that bo has lots of
long lost relatives whom he hasn't heard
front for years."
Small Change
HeUer Alaska.
Cattle down, beat up; hurrah for the
beef trust. .
' aV far aa reported,
claimed Ohio yet- -
Taggart hasn't
Perhaps th whirlwind esmpalgai wOl
be postponed for four years.
The principal oandidates are silent.
remembering that money talks.
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Possibly if w could gat Candidate
Swallow out here It would rata. .
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The trusts are M control again and
are to have everything their owa way.
But dont Imagine that your umbrella.
so long Idle, 1 useless piece of turpi
tare. . . - , ...
'Are you doing what you ean to make
Portland a better looking, and a better,
city neat yeerr ,
Not nly a battleship, wut the big
waters of Puget sound, ware a Strang
sight to Nebraskan. -
The. nail trust will sell nana at aar
ln price for use m nailing eaauoaian
ue 4out Teddy or Corteiyou, ,
Some legislation is needed next win
ter, yet tha approach of a legislative
aassloa la always to be dreaded.,, ;
Being a little short at the time. Sea
ator CUrk contributed only I o 0,000 la-
stead of the fi.eoo.0ov expected. .
Oeneral Stoessel may be reflecting
that If he gets out aiitve be will be en
titled to a slice of that Carnegia hero
fund. , . - tf.
Judging- from the large number of
marriages reported In Orejon exchanges
lately, the alrls must have remembered
that It la leap year. .... y -
Ts It right to work for nonert 1 a
question gebated by th Universal Truth
society.- Wby eomplloate the question f
Strike. out, the last two. words. .
If Taggart has sal air that he la re
ported to have said about Democratic
prospects In various ststee, his hat must
have Buffered a good dee of wear and
tear. . - t , ,-
' How would It do. to close thai tn fa
mous Paris house, upstairs and down,
root, and branch? It should be dona
That establishment would disgrace
WhitechapeL - . ,v
Wss It Judge Parker that attempted
to scuttle, the battleship Connectleutf
He ha been In New York lately and
slight nave slipped over to the Brooklyn
navy yard some night and done It. The
New York Tribune should look Into
tMs. J
Since U 1 acknowledged br RDb-
Hcan organ that all the trusts are for
Roosevelt, Isn't tt rather rubbing It in
to pretend to lntelllent voters - that
Roosevelt will do anything to restrict
the rapacity of the trust 7 Do these or
gans really expect people to suppose that
the trusts are so silly as to buy a pig
ta a poker .
. Pennsylvania strr who discovered
that her intended waa about to flunk at
the last hour, eauxht and tied him hand
and foot, and carried him to "the altar."
and only unbound htm after the matri
monial noose was duly fixed about his
neck. There will not be sny room for
doubt as to which one of that ooupl la
going W Do ocas.
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After narrating Inatanees showing tha
great prosperity of eastern Washington
farmers, tha - Tacoma Ledger asks:
"Where did they get this waalthr and
answers: "From the sou." -This Is a
strange lapse or mistake, which the Se
attle Post-Intelligencer, the Balem
Statesman and other good Republican
papers should hasten to oorrect. O, no;
those farmers got their wealth throuah
the Dlngiey tariff law. t
AST OOTOIU XDTS
James Barton Adam In Denver Poet.
The base hangs soft oa th distant hills.
Ths fields try the new burnt onion
, -color. v
la the meadow the tireless brow aat
mi t
With gravel the tracks -of tha-late
Maude Muller. - -
The meadowlark alts oa the fanes and
Pipes
Regretful note as the dull -mist
( thickens - .
Th black crow, drop from ft slight
and swipe
The corn that tha , farm wife threw
her chickens.
And sad am th secrets th gossiping
breese '
Is whispering low t th llstsnlog trees.
The mountains are donning their wigs
of snow, v .
As white sa tha ayes f a ghoat
1 scared nigger,
Aad Phyllis ta shrouded from head to
toe J . -
la a eloak that conceals her hsnd
. made figure. ; . ,
The atraw hat lies on th garbage beep
Its faithful service quits forgotten.
The campaign speaker, of lung; power
Advances views ha ' are simply
ru 1 ion, 1 .,
And Fred and Kate on tha sofa alt
And cuddle close as their clothes per-
The tree ungratefully shake the. leave
t That clung to them, through, th beat
' of summer, 1 -Tha
sparrow peeps from' the', cottage
eaves ' , - ,
-; And pipe adieu to th southbound
- ' bummer, 1 '
Oa the breast of the pumpkin gleams
the frost ' -Placed
there by It mens. . James
WhlteosnH RUey.
And tbe overcosjtles ones count ths cost
Of seeing their ' uncles, shrewd and
- wily,
And the tireless poets work overtime
Constructing thl manner of. Aempbool
rhyme, - ' ,i i
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IOTB 9BAB) Apm A
From th Phllsdelphhv Record. " .
Over 100.000 honey bees were killed
during the fire at theKureka paper milts
here the other day. Aa soon as the
sraok had rolled away and tbe charred
remnants-of their homes had cooled the
little Insects, human like, act to work
cleaning up. - - , i .
Apparently, aa ambulance corps wss
formed, numbering several- hundred bees.
These beaan getting oat of the way Uietr
dead comrades, many of them killed by
stung dremen, aad the way they worked
sue irested( the work that must be going
on dally on the Rueso-Jep hottlenelda
Bach beo tackled a dead ess and strug
gled away with It, and ss the Aeld was
strewn with thousands they have been
employed the past few day. - 1 , f
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REMINISCZriCrS OF HEAUII
(By Henri Poo du Boia)
New Orleans wsa beautiful when Laf
cadio liearn was there. Small, ill
shaped, badty dressed, with a suffering
faos and -a pip similar to a blaok flower
In Moom at1 his mouth, ho walked
through th streets gaslng at tblnga To
see them ho had only one eye, the other
was blinded bv an accident. But his
observation waa acuta hi appreciation
of th exotic and the rare waa sincere.
There was the Intesest of bis style. It
evoked a New Orleans of JEgypt in th
time of th Greeks,
I liked In his style, then, th words
that suddenly veiled themselves and th
ends of phrases that went Into mist.
It was pne of 'hi great mysterious
charms, that lack of ending of certain
phrases which seemed to go out of ths
text snd continue In ths white of the
margins of the page. I said so to him
on day. We ware walking up ths lad
der to th bells of the cathedral behind
the bollrlnger. a mulatto boy, a hunch
back .resembling ths Quasimodo of Hu
go's "Notre Dame," ,Heern smiled, and
said: ' ,- -
. "I dont like my etyls. It la too truth
ful; It haa too many real aspect I like
Oautter and Lot! too much, I want to
transpose- things fn artto mafc them
deviate In dreams and fantasy."
"You do that. I said; tin your land
scape painted lanterns nave air of
stars In f lowed -SturMed gowns."
Wo talked of Japan while the Quasi-
medo'rang the cathedral'a dally tribute
to Its founder. Don Pedro Almonaater.
Hearn repeated to m things that he had
read of Japan tn books . of purty and
Concourt -Hearn aaU: -
"Japan's artists in not romantic;
They superimpose dreame upon truths.
chimerical ideas upon life. Thus they
prolong- life don't you see? They know
also that nothing Is valuable without
beauty of form. What Is the uss of
writing, if it be not to give beautiful
forms to phrases? Everything has been
said. There la nothing ta do but to put
phrases like cameos.?
He had no thought then that he waa
to so t Japan ever. . I was In Paris
while he was gaining fame beyond New
Orleana with bis translations of Gau-
tier, Loti, hla tale of "Chita.' and a
queer compilation of oriental etorlea
When I returned ta America he waa in
New York, Which be did not like. He
lived here in a boarding-house snd was
writing for the ma amines. They did
not appreciate him. Henry R Jtrehbtel,
the music critic, exerted his haftituai
generoalty In Heam's favor and obtained
for him aa order from Harper s to go to
ths West Indie and write about -them.
But why had Hearn left New Orleans? -
It needed Hearn atllk Cable waa
there, hut Cable was simply perpetuat
ing the tautology of life in notion that
Balsao invented, and hs wss a moralist
rather than a man of letters. The
young men of New Orleana were tired of
tha moralists. They uaa come to ins
old city after the war which had broken
FREE BREAKFASTS 'FOR CHILDREN
(By RV; Thomas 8- Gregory .)
The Woman' School alliance of Mil
waukee has raised a fund for the pur
pose . of furnishing free breakfasts to
poor children at toe public schools of
that city -
AH honor to the Woman's Ben 001 m-
llanoel It Is doing a beautiful, thing,
and w all say. "God bless ths kind souls
who are thua thoughtful -of the hungry
little folks of the western towal"
But. unfortunately, there la another
side to the picture, and underneath th
satisfaction of feeling that th children
are to be fed 1 th deep shame of the
fact that thoee children are hungry.
In this, the fairest land of the earth.
there should be no auch condition, as
those existing in Milwaukee.
The action of the Woman School al-
llanc is, I repeat, beautiful; but that
there should be th necessity for auch
sction is. an everlasting disgrace to the
flag that floats over us, and to the peo
ple to whom that flag belongs.
Under "old glory" the necessity of
return funds to furnish breakfasts tor
poor children should not exist.
Under "old glary" there should be ho
poor children, nor would there be If the
"opportunity" for which America Is sup
posed to stand war other than a pretty
myth. . -
1 received a very touening tetter wie
ether day from a poor woman in Dela
ware that summed up tha whol thing.
aa It were, ta a nutshell.
She told me that her husband, a sober,
hard-working man. received $20 a month
THE CYNIC'S
"i "By rAmbroa Blefc. .
' f toopyrlgfet, U04 by ay. a. Hearst.)
NOSB. n. Tha extreme outpost of th
faoa. From ho circumstance that great
conquerors have great noses, ueiius,
whoa writing antsoai th ag of hu
mor, calls th nose th or gas of guell.
It haa been observed that enCe no 1
never happy aa when thrust tat tbe
affair of another, from which some
physiologists have drawn tbe inference
that the aose la aevoiq x to sens ox
smell. -,'.-
Tier' a man with a no,
And whrever ho aoe
The people run from him and about:
"No cotton have we j
Vor -our ears If s b ?
He blow that jnegaphonous snout!" 3
So the lawyer applied V-
Poa injunction. Denied
Bald the judgs: "The defendant pro-
Axion. 1 - ;(
Whale er it portend, .
AAonear to transcend' ."
The bounds of thi court' Jurisdiction."
NOTORIETY.n. The fern of a compet
itor of one's self for public honors. The
kind of renown most accessible and ac
ceotable to mediocrity. A Jacob' s-lsd-
der loading lo the vaudeville stasja, With
angels ascending and descending.
NOUUKNON, n. That wmca exists, as
distinguished from that- which merely
neems to exist, the latter being a .phe
nomenon. Tbe noumenon Is a bit dim-
PAXSTB STSW POTATO.
From ih Chloauo Chronicle, '
The wooden nutmeg of Connecticut
was the nret imitation xooo, saia a
grocer, "and then cam the mean Bo-
tonlan who dried snow and oid it for
salt. This year wb have aa Imitation
new potato. s
'A westerner- put the Imitation new
potato on th market, snd they aay h
haa made about I per cent pront out or
It. I am apeaklng seriously now, mind.
Of enure. H wss In a Joking way that
I alluded to the nutmeg snd th salt.
"The westerner, to accomplish hla de
ception, plants, en toward Die snd of the
summer, a crop of late potatoes Of a
kind that keep well. These ripen and
era dug up lust before the first frost.
Thsy ar sorted and all tbe bad ones are
thrown out, Thea the rest art burled ta
ns Id.
"The erop lies burlseV preserved from
It courage and put into Its minds Ideas
of emulating the militant, sauotlty or
New Cnaland, Only Hearn knew ho
to tell tbe city that it whs beautiful and
that Its individuality was captivating.
A capitalist of th north, whom New
Orleans imagined It needed, said tat he
dM not Understand Hearn'a works. That
capitalist was vain ui his lack of lntot-
llxenoo and of the verbal rags with
which he clothed his spiritual nudity.
Ha said, "I do not understand what
Hearn writes," snd all thoss who, not
having understood what Hearn wrote,
had been ashamed of themselves, gained
courage and clamored, ''we do not ua
derstanA" Hearn said to m with. ex
cusable bitterness; . '
The man who does not understand IB
practical. Gifted with the virtue of no(
understanding, h exploits It and makes
of U a fortune. He becomes a monopo
list. I ilk faint. He Incites me to re
turn to my real vocation, which Is si
lence. I shall play ths violin for spi
ders la so attic do you know that It is
true that spider like mueloT and since
E bay to live, write nothing beautiful.
write only facta" .. -
He could not do aa he aaid. - He went
to the Weat Indies and wrote th only
book about them that one may owe to
road. It i Intensely beautiful. But
Hearn lost by It hl publisher and went
to, Japan for another. He struggled
uaa Inst oovertv cruelly hero be had
washed dishes for his food In a Clnaln
natl atlng-house and he felt fhat be
could fight against U again In Japan If
It were necessary. But be was ao-
claimed la Japan. Us became teacher
of Knailsb of it university. I asked
Marquis Ito, whoa h. was hare, if he
knew Hearn,
"Vorr welLw the marquis replied. "I
attended tbe banquet that the university
gave to him when he was naturalised a
Japanese. Ths president of the uni
versity made a beautiful speech. , He
said that Hear bad been treated until
then as a foreigner with the deference
that civility to foreigners exacts, .but
that he wss to be treated now aa one of
the university, with ths love and the fa
miliarity of the Japanese among;, them'
1 nac was ssiwbhj wnpunniw a
aald.
"It wm shore deltost and moo pro
found than you think." replied Marquis
Ito Bravely,. "It entailed Hearn'a obll
atlon to receive a a Japanese a Japan
ese salary, which Is about half of the
American saisry inat naa oesfi para w
mm as a xoreignsr.
Hearn had no reason to be displeased.
since hi books en Japan have been sold
enousTh to mafc him wealthy. An edH
'lion of bis collected works Is doubtless
ba published. I have an Imago of
them fa my -mind. They are a vessel
with tattooed prow. Carrying Jewels, 00
ooanuta duaty Idols, strong perfumes.
flowers, women dressed ta stuffs as
beautiful as eloude In the sun. But thai
ocean, incessant 1 7 plaintive, lotto ta the
whit of the
for bis labor, oil which sura the family
bad to .pay it house rent and II v.
Incidentally, -and without th Mast
spirit of envy or 111-wlll. th woman had
inclosed, along with her letter to me, a
newspaper clipping, entitled "Little King
As tor Is Thriving la Toyland." about
which she simply remarked; "This lit
tle boy" William Vlneent As tor, the
richest boy In America "Is afflloted In
tbe same way that my little boy is."
. "Hero," X aald tq myself, after wiping
aWay the moleture that bad; gathered
about my eye, w hare th Sum and
nubstanco pf tbe whtile matter. Here is
one little child dying; from innutrition,
wasting away from the lack of that
which this other ehlld has In. double, tre
ble measure has In suck abundance that
he cannot make use of th tea-thousandth
part of it."
One of these little boy repreeenU th
many, th other th few the many who
labor and get nothing for it, and th few
who "toll not. neither do they spin. " and
who yet roll In wealth and affluenoa
Hone the disgraceful necessity of
raising funds for furnishing breakfasts
for poor children. (''
Hence the necessity ef"eharTty balls'
and "benefits for th poor and needy."
And hence, also, th deep ignominy and
shame that every deoeht American feels
as often as ho think of thoee thins as
existing ta this highly favored land be
tween the asaa. ,
Such r soma f the thoughts that
logically comer to as in connection with
th news Item about the Woman's School
alliance and th free breakfast for poor
children, - . - v .
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DICTIONARY
cult to locate; It can be apprehended
only by a process of reesnnlns which
Is a phenomenon. Nevertheless, the dis
covery and exposition of noumsna offer
a rich Seld for what Lewes calls "the
endless variety and excltemnt of philo
sophic thought'' Hurrah ( there f pre)
for tbe noumenon!
NOVEL, o. , A short story padded. A
specie of composition bearing the some
relation to literature that the panorama
bear to art. Aa It 1 too long to be
read at a sitting th Impressions made
by Its suocsaslv parts are successively
effaced, as In the panorama. XJblty, to
tality of effect, la Impossible; for be
sides the few page last read all that Is
carried In mind 1 th mere plot of what
ha gone before. To 'the romance the
novel la what photography Is to paint
ing. Its distinguishing principle, proba
bility, corresponds to th literal actu
ality of th photograph and puta It dis
tinctly into ths category of reporting;
whereas the free wing of the romancer
enables him to mount to suck altitudes
of Imagination as he may be fitted to
attain; and the first three essentials of
the literary art are Imagination. Imagi
nation and Imagination. Th art of
writing novels, suoh as ft was, 1 long
deed everywhere except In Russia,
whet It I new. Psac t its ashes
some of which have a large sal
NOVBJMBER, a. The eleventh twelfth
of a nuisance. v "
NUDITY, a That quality in art which
la most painful to ths prurient. . .
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all harm under the soil till early spring.
About two months before th flrat gen
uine potatoes have appeared It I dug
up."'
"Afreet bath of a sohitloa of lye Is
prepared; and la thia bath the potatoes
ar qjpped. When they famsrge from
their plunge their shine ar pink and
curly and their, Seen is hard and Arm.
In a word, tbey are to all appearances
new potatoes and tbey would, deceive
anyone. 1 , ' ' ' '
"There are many imitation foods,' the
groosT'Snded. "We have Imitation but
ter, imitation syrup. Imitation Jellies
and Jama, Imitation coffee, imitation
honey and Imitation maple sugar. Not
ono of these frauds, though, is aa hard
to detect as th Imitation new potato."
Thy Arc
- fFellx fA Pryme, tn Success)
Platitudes are the paste dta snoods of
wladom.
1
C.-r-ca Sidelights
r -I 1 1 - ....
Farmers ong much seeding- but want
rain. ,..
Hops at f cent can lift aaany a
mortgage. . 1
Ashland IS
of herself..
going to tag a oeasua
a lot machines are out of busiaes In
Shafma county. v ...
"Th bank of Heppner I ttV' l
branch at Lexiafctoo. . , , " -.
Fifty new piece of new sidewalk sr
to be buut In Daiiaa. , t
Thene's less then half a crop of prune
ta Polk oounty ;-quallty good. . .TTT.
. iritA inniA um vt. ...
Threshing tn " portion of Morrow
oounty will not be over for a week. .
' 'or a. road from Bprfngwater to Data v
v.w mmtm BUUWJnuaa SIUH. ;,
Indications ana that rw!nh.t v '
Juasxas .a marrying month ta Oreaoav t
"Four Hunters yot flva large ' beard
near-Lavs. Crook count v. . aiwt
helped. " - , ,. . " -
Saddle horses ta Morrow county ar '
brlnalns old-tlma nrleewui au mm
high lilt or 17. .,; r ,
H. Ntfthnlaa hai nftmrmA '-
a block of ground in St. Helens for i','
new court house. - :
A house horned ta Lane county this -Week
that wsa built ta lie, and waa
th first house built la that oounty. Th '
old pioneers put in timbers to last.
No one. says th Salem Journal can ,
buy a lot in Aurora for love or money,
the descendants of the orlclnal colo
nists holding all the towuelte. Tat tha
town grows. , ,..c
A Hood River valley man saw a coy
ote chasing a ehlcken, and he can and
got Vs gun and fired st the pursuing "
quadruped, but killed tha festhrsd bl-
ped. However, hs and not tb coyote ,
had a hickn dinner. ...... m .. .. -l
'A Llrm oounty horse J thief has --;
capod from the sheriff twice, and from
Jail ta another county once, and is now.
at large. Perhaps if the sheriff nabs
him again ths officer will keep him at
tached to aa Oregon boot '
The Deschutes. Irrigation company haa "
bought 70 head of picked, unbroken
rhorses at 140 a- head, which, when
broken, will b put to work on the
ditch. - The company baa TS teams at
Work, aad needs many mora, - , .
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A fine crop of sugar beets baa been
raised near Burn The yield was 41,-,.
pounds aa acre, which, if a surar -
factory were asac would be worth 184 ,
per acre. The asms man raised 34
pounds of cabbages a square rod, at th
rate of SMQ pound so acre. s
Long Creek Ranger: Miss- Emma
Wllmoth of Rlttar cam to town Friday V
to appear at her contest ease and look '
after other mutters, Saturday morn in V-
she gave birth to a lusty baby boy, th
father of whore, she says. Is Joseph W.
Hardlsty of this place, who, up to last '
re ports, had not done the only thing
which no ean and should d to pro act
nor and tbe, child. . j
Myrtle Point Knlerprise: Dad" West
took an extra hitch In hi trousers this ,
week and reported an ft story that '
heavily discount his previous achieve- f
mant in that line. Tuesday he gathered
in from his hennery an egg measuring
7 Inches In length and IH inches In 11
shortest circumference, and th shell ,
oonialued thro full yolk. ,- .
1 ,
Cfarvsrfs Star! Soma Portland hnntara '
shot 'at a bird recently and the shot
struck th Dubois family sitting oa a
nearby porch. Tbe shot' Waa so far
th it tint etnink an It enuM h,va ' i 1
dona much damage. It Is not pleasant
to have shpt rattling about one's body. .
even if It doee no damacej Hunters .
are allowed too mueff license and farm-
or should be more strict and promptly 1
order, away all trespassers. V,
POSTXhsjensms i.o; UTMUgxASsL
''T From the Wasod New.
There ar eome property owners In j
Portland, who, It seems to us, ar not
quit as enthusiastic over th Lewis and
Clark fair as on would think property 4
holders of that city should be. For In
stance, last week while ta Portland we
happened to overbear a conversation bo
tween a strsrurer and a Portlandsr who:
boasted of being a' 'property homer,'
which ran Ilk this:
Stranger -What . Ie that ' large ' sign 1
"11 06" for? PorUander Oh. they're
going to try to have a fair her aext
year. Stranger Ar they doing any.
work oa it yet? Port lander Yea, I ,
think tbey ar doing Something out
there, but I haven't bee out to see It,
and don't know whether It, will be a
success, or not. A-..
Now, If such 0 ltl sens a thl on were t
not eld "moss hack" there would be ,
more enthusiasm, snd consequently it
would be easier for -the promoter of"
th fair to make It a howling success. .
The mere lack of enthusiasm ln this '
Portlanders answer la enough to die
courage any atraoger from oaring to
visit the great Lewla and Clark lair
next year. About all one can find out
ta regard to the exposttloa In Portland
1 from th newspapers. . Even the -lit- ,
tie town ef Hsod River can glv Port
land a few points on enterprise and ,r
enthuaiaem whea it oqmea to local pub
licity. - 1 , .
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. " XATgew Oaeh ta tb World.
A cask recently consfruoted for a ;l
California firm has put ths famous tun
of Heldelburg completely In the back- '
round. It Is mad, of California red
wood throughout, and the selection of
the llmbe snd making required two
years. Kieven out of every it tree
selected were rejected ' ss unsuitable. -
Two entire trains of wagons were
needed to convey th seteeted timber loa
the vineyard. The hoops of the cask,
which are of th finest steel, weigh II '
tons, while the completed cask i II '
set high and II feet In' atrcumferenoe,
MIM targe " m m irmn-Piuiy
house, where 100 people could dine in ,
comfort. . - ,
. -. Psewon's lek.
From th Chicago Newa "
A well known Chtcago clergyman Who
I a widower and the father of two -charming
arrow e daughters Is also some
thing of a waff. During his vacation,
this summer he sent the following Isle
gram t his daughters: .1 -
"Have JuMt married Widow wtth-slg
children. Will be home tomorrow."'
The next day be arrived alone god
found his daughters In tears..
"W-whsre is the w-wldOwr they,
sobbed In unison.
"Oh," he replied. merry twinkl In
bl eye, "I married her to another man."
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