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3 USUAL the Oregonian seeks
it A" j teron the upper mef steamboat project. When
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fortune were made in that traffic,
ferent .now when freight ratet are
aides there arc no boata on the tipper river now and it
. -woald be a very difficult job to build them at moat of
: the material would have to be hauled by rail to upper
river point! where no conveniences for ahipbuildma' exist
This is preciaely the talk that has: taken the nerve
iand heart out of every public movement in Oregon for
the past generation. Few great projects are of easy
accomplishment; if they were jthey would not be great
. , niS'Wat reaixeo ycarago juncn un mic uum iu
a at Oregon City and achieved such-momentous results.
; ' When a railroad just half a 'mile intlcngth was built
. around the Cascades there' was very much of the same
'''sort of talk that weaow hear among he reactionaries
;'i)f Portland and Oregon. -, Everybody -whp had given the
i'matUer a moment's 'study-realixed 'the' neid of the locks
at the Cascades. In the course of time the government
tmdertook the. task. The work ;dragged woefully for a
' .score of years 'and it looked as though it would never
be ready for business. Then the
way was built around the locks. One
. followed ; freight rates .were instantly, reducedjone half.
As another result, somewhat more mysterious, work on
the locks began to be prosecuted
jvigor, and its. feasibility as well as its need, became
"self-evident in some important quarters which thereto
fore could hot'be brought to believe that it was anything
but a hair-brained project '
, ! But when that great work was done we rested on our
. fears, although there was much more work ahead. .The
project at Celilo was a greater enterprise, to be sure,
but it waa calculated to bring about correspondingly
great results. Years were wasted in mere talk; many
of those who should have been heartily in favor of the
project threw cold water upon it
.. then and. now. (There were reports
officially anq it looked as though the way was clear, af
ter the last engineers' reports, to get the enterprise in mo
tion. ; But it appear we had not even then fully learned
'the great lesson that God helps those who help themselves.-
One day we' woke to a realization of it Then
an appropriation .waa made by the state legislator to
build a portage railroad about tha falls. .There were
' pome who believed, and many others who, if they did
j not believe, freely said that it was a foolish enterprise.
For a time, for tie cause or another, and there were
scores of difficulties in the way, it looked as though
the enterprise might lapse. Then at "a special session
pt the legislature-held last year $100,000 waa voted to
' ""buy and present to the federal government a right of way
'. .free of cost for the, canal, which had already received
.the indorsement of the, government engineers. V In eer
. tafn ways this eosnpjlcated the matter so far as it related
d the porta;, enterprise, for it made it necessary, to
r secure 'not jbew.b&t. two rights of way' Yet difficulties in
, this case erJy stjwilated greater efforts and from (his
flowed' at? feast two ery important results. The first
Sf these is-the building of the portage road which, will
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PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS.
fTHE SENTIMENT In favor of public ownership
I VW ra'ilroads is undoubtedly increasing, and prin
v f . ; , cipally, because' of the policy being pursued, In
.various parts of the country and, in different ways, by
the railroads themselves. ; ' ;
.la the first, place, the people are justly auspicious of
' these- great combinations, consolidations and . mergers,
. resulting in the practical ownership and management .of
all. the 'principal railroads of the country' by a small
group of New York multi-millionaires. These men are
likely to abuse their power; indeed, they have abused
and-are-abusing their power in various ways.' They
have become too audacious and insolent and too neg
: lectfuX-oi- the interests of the people, whose servants
, rather; than; whose, masters they should be.
l.In .Wisconsin, for instance, the
senator. La Toilette, has been striving and fighting for
years to compel the-railroads to pay a fair and just
V . r . . 1 . t 1 1 .
r proportion i taxes, ana w oceanic oidctwik racniuic
. to the laws, and when ,inally La. Follettc and the people
v 5 triumphed and got a legislature that
rirtt rnnlmL ihev announced that in
do no more railroad building in that state, nor, they
"meant if they did not say, permit any to be done. Now
Wisconsin-is not a verAold state and its resources are
" ,JV?t yet fully developed? It needs more railroads, and
. rmist have them -And when the railroad magnates, who
hold" themselves above the law, begin to live up to the
-dog-in-the-manger policy and say that they will neither
build necessary roada or extensions of roads, nor per-
, tnit them to- be built, it is entirely
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ourselves. We certainly have aome
, ' : tiuea to consiaeration. wno are uese aozen muiii-mu-:
, lionaires of New York, who under a New Jersey law
A. '.' can do or not do whatever they please
of Wisconsin; can refuse to pay taxes, can make what-
"ever :nucs mcy 7iatsc, n uhiiu up
' 'another at will who, in brief, assume
' of a, million people? Why should we
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o a v m va v nut av w w ki va wuvasw
and have them operated under the people s authority and
' in. thei.r interest Instead of by snd for this little clique
. of New: York multi-millionaires?" (1
' " -i" This the thnutrht that tlx rail
manasrers themselves have bred and
overbearing acts, in the minds of millions of people. Pub-
Vr riiiiutt i ll u a Bin orooosition. it
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, taken thoughtlessly or rashly or without urgent rea-
sons." But just so surefy as the railroad men persist in
imposing upon and defying the will of the people Snd
' i in being unreasonable with regard to rates, taxes and
; needed extensions and development, just so surely will
4 this publie ownership aentiment grow, and swell, and
become irresistible. . And let not the Rockefellers and
' Harriman and Hills andXoulds imagine that the people
V cannot take the 'roads. The people can do whatever
: they want to dp. ' And if courts stand in their way they
will put new men on the benches, that will do their will
- We of the far west realize the great benefit the rail
; r toads have been to this part ol the country. We know'
. that the. Pacific northwest could not have been developed
at all, or but very slightly, without them. We appre-
: crate the fact also that they are at present doing much
toiaduee immigration and to develop the resources and
. increase the wealth of this state and region. Yet they
: have fallen and are still falling far short of doing what
. they should have done and should do. Year after year
-.' , passes without roads being built to Tillamook, to Coos
- Pay, through central Oregon, up the Clearwater valley.
- The railroad system of which the Columbia and Willam
ette valleys are the western arteries and Portland the
tenaicua aecma disposed, aot only, sot to make these
independbn t newspaper ; ' v :;.
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBUSHINQ CO,
v .': sweets, Portland, Oregon. ,,;.
OFFICIAL' PAPEH OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND
to throw cold wa
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but thinn are dif
put. the canal.
to much lower. Be-
which insures a
it is completed.
fact it is much
portage road and
railway and canal.
little naif mile of rail
result immediately
with a good 4al of
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not let it slip.
what confronta
like the oregonian
and reports made
and in conjunction
tions .the problem
to do for them
tbenf .and that f 01
positron to reap
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thought,
late governor, now
the railroads could
revenre thev would
natural for the people
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fights that are en-
in the great state
uac kiij nuu rum
to be the masters
allow this? Why
Miiiittva vuswsvw
ma if mairnalra anH
nourished, bv their
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GREAT. SUCCESS,
be ready for business in the course of a couple of months
the second important result is that the government, rec
ognizing what the people have done for themselves, has
projection a continuing contract basts,
vigorous prosecution of the work unti
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. Now we face the new problem. It is that of upriver
boat transportation. According to. the Oregonjan this
is almost impossible of achievement As a matter of
less difficult than was the building of the
securing the double .right of way for
There are upriver boats already in
commission and if the rates-sre lower., than they used
to be the amount of traffic at their disposal is infinitely
great,- In all that has been said there haa been no
reference to the' trafficon the north side of the river.
It'now.costs 75 cents a ton to transfer from one side to
the oth., River freight , will 'by no means be limited to
the lower "side of the river and will be quite as ready
for, shipment .from; the other side when the outlet is
secured.-: It is with this as it is with all other problems.
It is something which the people-.themselves must face.
They have 'now' had' enough experience to know what
they can do when they get seriously to work. - The two
successful undertakings of the projects at Celilo give
ample proof of what they can do in the face of difficulties.
The difficulties' thst confront us in solving the steam
boat problem above Celilo will simply stimulate them to
greater effort tor that is the new pregon way of doing
things. The steamboat men themselves will see the great
chance ahead of them for profitable business and they will
The portage road will do what it was
intended, to do and the upriver men will do their share.
.Meantime all the public bodies of Portland now know
them. They should get to work. The
chamber of commerce did-great work on the portage
problem; it should not weary in well doing, but should
take hearty bold of the new problem now before the
people of the state and not rest satisfied until every
thing, possible haa been don to make of the enterprise
ar a whole an unqualified success. This is a matter
which should appeal to that body with peculiar ; force
with other interested people and sec
will soon be solved. Many people
fail to realize that Oregon baa entered upon a new era.
It has long tried the plan of waiting upon other people
those things which were necessary for
the-development of the state s resources; the plan did
not work very well aa is evidenced by the backward
condition in which things are found in many directions.
The new plan is to do many of these things for ourselves
and in so doing force others to do their duty. . The, plan
is an infinitely better one-and' already Oregon begins
to feel its rejuvenating influence. Of all publie enter
prises ever undertaken this with Celilo as a base is the
most important not only in its immediate enect but in
ita remote consequences. . Its consummation means that
the state will no .longer be at the mercy of any privately
owned transportation agency or group or combination of
the first time the state will be in a
me advantages Qt a natural water haul
and the ratea which should go with iC-i: n
necessary extensions, but absolutely to encourage rival
roads and rival termini. And local -people cannot build
their roads because, for one thing, they have not enough
capital at command, and also because such roads so
built would be at the mercy of the big ones, that could
embarrass, cripple and rain them. And the longer ;this
policy is persisted in the more .naturally, and readily and
strongly do the people's thoughts turn to publie owner
ship as the only means of relief.
AFTER THE WAR, WHAT?
POWERS," that sweeping term supposed
embrace a consensus of international
are not ready for the new situa
tion Jspan forces' upon them.- By right of arms Jspan
is already master of the orient . Russia has ceased to
be any greater factor than sistet nations will whCTT the
final adjustment comes. Manchuria is a Japanese con
quest with an excessive drenching of the blood that torins
territory. Harbin is helpless, while Vladivostok is mere
ly an arithmetical proposition. Unless "The Powers"
set quickly; bringing" Russia to. the peace trough for a
deep draught of humiliation, final negotiations will find
the bear far from the Pacific..; Then, suppose Japan as
serted a common prerogative of victory and held -conquered
Russian territory, surrendering Manchuria, to
China as pledged, with Fort Arthur retained as a sen
tinel against encroachment, what would "The Powers"
do? .. . '. '; j. - v ' '
r- In the crisis forced by financiers the past week there
seems to be evidence of more than a usurer's bargain
with Russia. Europe is faintly suspected of hastening
peace to forestall the deep tangle that might result
later, for it is clear that the world is not prepared for
the issue of Japanese mastery of Asia's entire north
Pacific ' coast That would ", be an - earthquake in' the
oriental situation. Caucasian solicitude there has been
over equable division of spheres of influence among
white nations. Tresties and commercial projects have
assumed inertia beyond any possible stage. of considera
tion throughout the orient These ' dreams of . unop
posed conquest have been rudely disturbed by the Jap
anese Bozarius. Profound considerations of the past for
proper balancing of German, English, French and Rus
sian concessions must suddenly take the form of ques
tions whether a new power is to have the foothold that
indicates absolute mastery. : . : r . s-,
Diplomacy, if dealing,- with the new. problems, is
secretive yet, and gives to the public no intimation of
the future alignment England is Japan's dose ally, and
it would be constrained to witness the new oriental power
reaping a copious harvest from its struggle before in
tervening. France is near Russia,' which means that her
Course will be with a strong bias for whatever will com
fort the wounded bear, rather than repression of Japan's
new-born strength.' Germany coquettes with the field,
but has an ardent oriental policy that would compel grave
consideration of Japan. America is more happily sit
uated and would doubtless grasp a Japanese hand Sn
eastern Siberian development as quickly as the bear's
paw. " . . ' ;. ' ; "
. The situation is yet beclouded and forecasts are pre
mature unless the seer, indulging the-same has an inti
mate knowledge of what . Japan, wants. Japan has de
monstrated marvelous strength and might hare the cards
to defeat a larger contestant than has just played to
lose. . Another consideration is Her progressiveness.
The Occident wants free commerce in the orient and this
Jspsn has beeif foremost in encoursging. - Under her
regime" development of eastern Siberia would be at a
swifter pace' and on more intelligent lines than with
the Slav.:": t': ; v' " , v
; All this the world has to ponder over, if the war goes
on a few more weeks, when new 'conditions and plans
will have to recognized and sew readjustments perhaps
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Small Change j
' O. ria, no doubt Portland needs It
On day, pac probable; .next day, no
peace. 1 ax your choice, . v .
The eaar and hla extensive realm are
woeruny out of proportion. ' ;
Tha ravena counted oa to feed Elijah
towt appear to have gone oa'a strike
The eaer, it Is reportad, will have so
paaoa until ha can get on top of Japan.
aaora 1001 ne czar. ,
Peary has launched hi new ahlp at
laat. but iv la not likely to be sunk by
Duitug into tue north pole. .
Only one aenator from' Delaware for
two yeara mora On la tnouah for
teta of Delaware's slse and political
A Slrvertoit cow died from eating
dynamite Bbe waa aa bla fool as taa
mea who try to. thaw dynamite on a
The military and BOlloa era still ahoot
Iny down lnoffenalva peaaanta In Poland,
makfnff tha csar's aovernnient odious
mrournout tne eivuisee world. 4
' Booker Washington has been at the
Whits Houae In conference with tha
president again, but as they did not eat
together, ao far as known, the south
may not roar very loudly. ,,, .
Buffalo' Bill is regarded by the Judge
who tried bla divorce case as e "bed
actor," toward hta wife whom tha Judge
tntnka la a good, much-abused woman.
Tha woniaa usually has the best of it
in court. .. ... . , .. 1...
" One street masher got what waa prop
erly coming to him Thursday, when
man knocked him down and gave him
a good mauling; There are others wbe
should be served the same way.
- BtUt there are women who like to be
"mashed. . . , .. , .
' Mrs. Chad wick, according to her ate--'.
paid or agreed to pay such commissions
for loans aa would break a millionaire
la no greet length of time ' la one ease
she reoelred S7S.000 oa tha strength
of an obligation for tltO.SOe, and la
another she got ttS.SOO and. paid $1S..
000 within a few day. She la deserving
of no great amount of eympatby, but
neither are tha bankers and brokers who
skinned bar, or tried to do so. Between
the two tha publio will be Inclined to
lean to tha aide of the woman, thoneh
without railing in love with her.
I aaaMMjfc ,
William Weightmaa. who when lie
died a few months aco waa one of the
richest mea if not tha richest man ia
Philadelphia, left the whole of Ms vast
fortune to his only daughter, Mrs. Wal
ker, to the exclusion of the widow and
children of his deceased son, aad now
they are trying te - get -a share of the
Weightmaa millions, claiming that the
dead capital 1st made ar ' Intended to
make e codicil to this effect which Mrs.
Walker denies, and says the slater-la-law
and nephews and nleoee shall have
nothing. Without knowing mora than
these facta. It is natural and proper
for disinterested people te hope that tha
courts will find a way to make this
avaricious - women - divide. ' Her rela
tives must be vary unworthy folk In
deed If they- were er are deserving of
suoh treatment. Her action la tha mat
ter ' Is In marked and unfavorable con
trast te that of the hairs of a Pittsburg
multi-millionaire wno died last year.
disinheriting e daughter who bad mar
ried agalnat bis wishes. They divided
with her nevertheless, giving her $30.-
000,000. ; . ,
Oregon Sidelights
Fourth ef July talk already.
; tt
Good crop prospects everywhere.
Me more rein-prayers for awhile-,
' Peadleioa creamery win open April L.
New
snow la the mountains looks
good.
Loggers getting active aad sawmills
starting up. '
Albany Is the hub
of the valley,
alleges the Democrat
Estaeada expects several bla new In
dustrial enterprises in the near future.
Ton ran't make a Polk ' county man
believe that Polk Is aot the best county
la the state. .
iesa stock lias ' probably been . lost
during the past year than la any year
line stock raising became aa important
Industry of the county, says the East
Oregoalaa,
Mountain View Correspondence Of
Oregon City Courier: Grandma rrost
had part of her house painted laat week.
, i Elmer Dixon gave hia fenca a
new coat of paint quite recently. ,
McHInnvtlle . News-Reporter: Every
nook and corner on most of tha farms Is
being cultivated tbla year. Farmers are
clearing up tha waste places and build
ing straight wire fences Instead of tha
crooked rail fences of pioneer days. .
A giant fir near Kelleher towers con
siderably over 100 feet in the air, Is
over 14 feet la diameter at the butt log,
and sound as e nut This monarch of
the forest will probably- not soon be
felled, for the reason that logs from It
could aot be converted Into lumber
without the logs from It were blasted
open. , ..- ,
Macksburg Correspondence of Ore son
City Courier: A friend- of ours claims
that oa the north banka of Cow creek.
near Russia, be has located the missing
link between man and monkey. Ha be
came so frightened that since then when
ha passes that spot after dark he al
ways tmta out his lantern. . .
Henry Hereon, says he ia going back to
Kurope next eummer to get a frau. i ,
nam Oglasby seys that after the Japan
Russian war la over hs will eendr for a
Japanese widow. We'll go cahoots with
you, Bam. -
Waaco News: W fal that en apol
ogy Is due one of our old subscribers and
prominent mea toa account of the over
sight of an event which to him and his
Is of- considerable Importance We
filled to announce tha birth of a bounc
ing boy to the wife of Mr. Smith last
Friday week. We ware sura this item
waa In at tha issue succeeding the event
but find that wo were wrong, , And,
while tha new Is rather old at this time
grandpa seems so hilarious 1 over the
streak of good luck wa cannot resist tak
ing a part In hia hilarity. In fact we
feel that he Is entitled to considerable
credit as he tells us that he has beta
-araiung te ear xor just uus event-
The Stenographer
; on Divorce ' : ;
; (By Belle Bltta.)
"Have you been reading the report of
the Buffalo Bill divorce easel" Inquired
the Bookkeeper. .. . '.",-' ' I
"Tea." responded tha Stenographer
"It's like having a pass Into the Wild
West bow.. x-r-y -
"The B. Bills seem to have been one
couple that knew how to Infuse ginger
Into . matrimony," , pursued the Book
keeper. "There was no married life dull
in thaira." - - : -: .-a -
"I should say not" replied the Bten
ogrepher. - "Married life was a regular
Fourth ef July ptcnlq for them, with
anworu ana ooose
"AcooraiDg to the" testimony. con
tinued the Bookkeeper, "Jealousy drove
the lady to drink, and the lady's facility
with her tongue caused tha Intrepid In
dlaa lighter to All himself full of red
eye ao that he couldn't hear her re
marka." ; .
"They never scrimp thing la the
west even . the evidence in a divorce
ease," observed the Stenographer.
"Well, remarked the Bookkeeper,
"there -is a moral for all of us to be
drawn from this simple story of the
family life of the great scout and his
bride". . . - , , - . -
"A whole bunch of "em. 7 I should
say!" exclaimed the Stenographer. '
"The particular chunk of wisdom to
which I refer," said the Bookkeeper, Is
the folly of bragging te your wife"
"It's sUly and la bad taste to boast
to anybody," retorted the Stenographer.
' "True" assented the Bookkeeper, "nut
If simply premeditated ulaldeto brag
te your wife" ...... .
- "It wouldn't do a man much good If
he did," Interpolated the Stenographer.
"Moat ef the wives . I know have got
their husbands sized up to the last balr
oa their heads. -That's the reason the
majority of husbands sing so small
around home Teu eaa't toot off your
bora to en eudieaoe that Is due to hand
you the merry ha-ha as soon as you get
through your performance.
"You're a she Solomon, all right,' all
light." assented the Bookkeeper; "but
where a man butts into real trouble le
where his wife believes his swell heed
story, aad that's where Mr. B..BU1 lost
out. . ' ' '
"It seems that Buffalo Bui suffered
from the hallucination that he was as
handy at smashing women's hearts as
he ia at breaking glass bails. Aooord
Ing to the way ha framed it up be was
e Ions-haired Romeo that nothing In
pettiooata could resist. . He Just had all
the calico nypnouseo, -"This
was a happy little pipe dream
that wooldn't have done any harm If
ha had only kent his visions to himself.
But he couldn't He couldn't resist
bragging to his wife about how all the
women, from -queen viotoria up ana
down, were hot-footing It after hUa
from Crlnole Creek. Wyow to Constant!
nople, and Mrs. Buffalo Bill stood for
the fairy tale, and it got her golag with
Jealousy. And that's whero"tbe shindy
be sen." .
- "And that's 'no Joke" cried the Sten
ographer, "and Buffalo Bill laat the
only man Who la chump enough to brag
te his wire aeoni -woa a sunns ne
makes with the ladles, and who has to
par for his bet-air talk. - .- .
1 Know meaty 01 ' wmnoni - nw
runty, ordinary looking men wno seep
their wives' green-eye ty -relating at
home how a peach looked at them across
the ear, -or a regular lalapalooaa couldn't
eat her dinner at a restaurant for gas-
lag at them."- - '
"You'd think a wife would take one
look et her husband ana know setter,
nhsmred the Bookkeeper.
' "A man eaa always make his , wife
Jealous' replied the Stenographer, "be
cause she always thinks that other wo
men have no better taste tnan ana - nas
herselt" . " ' . . ' -
"All of which brings me. dock 10 my
text Insisted the uooaaeeper. -uai 11 s
wise fur wbe never brags to hia
wife.. Most women would never be
teaions If their husbands didn't put
them next by boasting of their ' con
nnait-rta" - - V.'
"Probably nis who is in"
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vlduai wno ditp in, " ...--.,
aid the Stenographer, eymceiiy. .
-mxo BOonmT,
Vrtirn-tha NeWTork World.
Whether he is foregatnenng wun nis
fellow Irishmen or hia fellow Oermena
or his fellow Hungarians or his fellow
Frenchmen or hia fellow liajiana or nis
t,un-m Hnllandere Mr. Roosevelt la
equally felicitous. ., 'w
What could have been, happier than
the little speech he made to the Friendly
Bona of St. Patrick last night with, ita
tribute to the work of the Irish In build
ing up the republic and Its adroit refer-
once to the beauties 01 uaeiiw
tureT
t sure a captious critic might
sneer that the president's ' speech . was
only a paraphrase of his German speech
at the unveiling Ol tna siame ui no
erlck the Great For Muhlenberg and
Steuben and Herkimer he substituted
Rarrr. Montsomerv and BuUlvan. The
Irish pioneers were there In plaoe of
the Germaa pioneers, in an or
substituted for German valor, and Irish
Influence for German Influence ,
But what of thatT 'It was a good
sTveech. with plenty of red blood In It
and plenty of appeal to American patri
otism, along with the familiar exhorta
tion that "the beat American la the
man who haa In him the , Amencaa
spirit the American aout"
No matter what nationality Mr. Roose
velt ia speaking to he manages to ahow
himself in sympathy with Its language,
Its . literature. Its traditions, 1U cus
toms and its spirit . fiotbing numan is
foreign to him, aiM yet stupid people
are to be rouna wno cannot unnorinu
why he la the moot successful politi
cian of his day.,; ...'' ' . .
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SQVABS SBAXi XBT omitlOI.
From the Baker City Democrat.
Colonel Butcher, who returned yester
day from a two months' trip to Wash
ington and New York on business but
for tha special purpose of securing the
return to tha naval academy of hia atep-1
son W. O. Cos. who had been dismissed
by the department with two others on
account of alleged defective teeth, the
other two having been reinstated lent
fall, haa a meat Interesting account of
hia visit to tell and of the euccesarui
termination of hia errand with the de
partment of the navy. .
. "While I am a Democrat and to
that extent must differ with the present
administration, I want to say right here
and now that If anybody wants a square
deal and haa a Juat eauae he can gat
it from -President Roosevelt and the
department at Washington. I am only
a common man, aad a Democrat - aa I
aay, but I soon cot Justice when the
merits ' et my case were ' explained.
Roosevelt Is a man of the people and
for tha people and tha members of his
cabinet were selected for their fitness
for the positions which they hold. There
may be aome underlings. In the different
departments who are 'not Juat what they
AAheold be at ail times aad pa ail nues-
tlona, but It your ease la right and you
reach tha head it will be takan cere or,
and In moat Instance If you can make
the subordinate officers understand you
it will be taken cars of without bother
ing the heads of departments. ,
"As te general business,' you eaa aay
that stocks ia ail lines are eoomina.
monev la aaay. there are no eomplalnta
and there la plenty of money for : In
vestment la the weat especially la mines
but the people of money arc more from
Missouri you have to show them. In
other words, . pro positions must - have
merit end wlldoatting : must cease.
whether It la mines or ether Invest
menta. ..';. -. v ..
"I saw many people who knew of
Baker City and our mining prospects and
who considered we . had many good
things out here" , -; ; , .
, From the' Edinburgh Scotsman. ' '
' AY the present time the finest apples
from any eutaide source came from
Oregon. Borne of the bast ere put up In
bushel boxes, containing ISO fruits each.
They have sold at various, prices, de
pending upon the quality of . the sam
ples. These range from 11s to IBs Sot
fine specimens.' But ' the largest , ana
finest have realised from lis te 10s.
sovereign a bus net for foreign apples la
February Is remarkable to .say . the
least They are Newtowos. Immense la
slse, clear-skinned, of high flavor, ana,
above alL well graded end attractively
pecked. Kaatern states Newtowa Pip
nina. nacked In barrels, the best that
oould be seat from these centers, have
aold for as much as 41a a barrel- the
highest price secured . this season, tor
Newtowas la barrels, nut wnai is uu
sum to SOs e bushel, equal to SOs a
barrel T This wonderful difference Is
not altogether - duo to ' variations la
quality. . Tha small clean. bushel-Dox
package plays aa Important part la re
enact to erice. - - When .we first ' advo
cated tha use of the non-changeable
bushel-box by home apple packers, tha
question et cost was at once raised as
aa objection against its use But that
Is of no account when the extra prices
Beau red bv Its -use end the decreased
cost of transit ere considered. The for
elan growers now send us ever 1,000.000
bushel boxes of apples each year. Their
see Is found remunerative by them.
The prices that have been made for
apples already this years are wiinoui
naraUel In the trade But yet us
foreign fruit-grower does not dominate
the altuatloa la this respect exclusively.
British apples heve also been aold this
year at 10a a half, equal to SOs a bushel,
and If tha fruit had been collected end
especially graded and packed like the
Oregon fruit It would have made higher
ericca still. Months ago we gave first
and exclusive newe of the actual collec
tion and purchase of , these Oregon
fruits In the Scotsman. We said that
they bad been bought at 10s a bushel la
the orensraa or Oregon, yv ens, as iv.vvv
bushels were secured. It Is clear there
were b'g profits on the deal. At the time
wa announced the - purchase tons of
home-grown apples were a drug at Is Sd
aad la a bushel. These, facts prove
the demand -for beet apples la tae
British. markets m practically Insatiable
at hisn values, even la seasons pf abua-
daaoe ' With ao much land -available In
the four kingdoms. It la. A. PUy. .that
apple planters are pot more busy. As
the result, of these high prices great
Impetus, will be given to borne produce
Industries. The rrult-growing move
ment has done much good te country
cultivators, and the prospects for ex
tended production are certainly oetter
than ever. Cold storage . for home
grown apples will prove ef undoubted
value to all oonnectae wa we easiness.
:;V''l''" tUOX MMTU
. ' FtOm Pearson'a Weekly.
A ceaUemaaly looking man, with the
merest suspicion of a Yankee accent has
recently been srolng the rounds or tae
west end (London) bars end billiard
rooms, winning all aorta of queer bets
from people who fondly imagine they
"knew a thing or two. -
One that hardly ever failed , to net
him a few shillings er sovereigns, ss the
ease might be, he called his "fly wager."
He would of rep to bet thai ne oouia
make a fly take all the matches out of
aa -ordinary stone match stand, suoh ss
is generally te be found on the counters
of most saloon bars.- As soon aa the
money was staked be weuia eetca a xiy
from the wall, take It by the two wings
and keep putting it en the matches one
by one, tha Insect meanwhile picking
them up with its legs Instinctively and
with almost monotonous regularity.
The ehabby genteel man. with the Iron
Jaws and the gaunt cheeks, who used to
haunt the Fleet street bars and bet un
wary wights that he would swallow a
beer glass there and then, has lately
Joined the greet majority. He died
from an overdose of ground glass.' for,
of course, he took good ears to pound
the tumbler to dust berore attempting
to fulfill the terms of hia wagvr the
which, by the way, hs Invariably won.
A variation of this trick bet however,
seema to be riffe In Paris, where a cer
tain M. Alexandre offered the other day
tn waa-er S.000 francs tf 100) that he
would swallow a yard of galvanised Iron
atove piping, i Hia .challenge waa
promptly accepted by a curious and
guileless 'American. Whereupon the
Intrepid Alexandre repaired to a white
smith, armed with tha piping, which
was one-sixteenth of aa Inch la thick
ness and five Inches In diameter, with
the request that he would reduce It to
powder. The request wss promptly
carried out .Then, In the presence of
the other party to the bet and a couple
of wltneeoes, the layer of the wager
divided the filings -into five portlona.
mixed them Into five "aocas- or larger
beer end tossed them off at intervals
of 10 minutea. - !
A well-known bookie" recently lost
100 to a comparative Stranger, ' who
offered to bet him that he could produce
three horses which could go SO miles In
three hours. The layer of the wager
easily accomplished the feet by alerting
all. three horses at once, by which
artifice SO miles only wss the distance
they bad te traverse In the time speci
fied. . -'' :. .-'" ' !
Roger Crab wagered 1 1.000 that he
would live for a year oa three shillings
and slxnence. and won his bet Indeed,
he more than won It for at the end.ef
the 11 months he had managed to save
threepence out of his "housekeeping
money." , his expenditures for food,
therefore, averaging Just ever' three
farthings a week... For this sum even
the cheapest . of ordinary vegetarian
diet such aa lentils, for Instance was
quit out of tha question, and he had to
content himself, with nettle soup thick
ened with corn flour, pudding made of
bran and - turnip leaves chopped to
gether, aad so forth. Tet oa this diet
Crab not only survived, but ' actually
gained some Tew pounds In weight
while as for his general health, he de
clared that he bed never felt belter than,
he did at tha termination ef his self-
imposed ordeal.
Oregon Appl es in 5
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Bet Translations
of Classics ;
By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory.
Dear Sir: WU1 you kindly alve a list
of the best English translations per
taining to ancient Oreece and Kome for
a young man of limited opportunities
for atudyT ., ; ,
Please name tha translations la the'
orger of their Importance Yours truly,
W. W. WOODWARD.
Opinions differ es te what are .the
best English translations of the classics.
In the present eeae I can only offer the
Hat which seems to ma to be the eloeest
to the originals, end, therefore, the
heat . i. . . :'-. ..,, .
Mr. - Woodward asks me to give the
tranalations In the order of their 1m-
portance, and I would therefore begin
With Plato, as I consider him tha most
valuable thinker of ancient Greece,, or.
or mat matter, of all history.
The best translation of v Plate's
Dialogues la that of Jowett '
I may also- aay that tha beat trans
lation of ArtlstoUe's PollUcs" is by
Jowett. The "Ethics" can be , found" in
the Bohtt library. ' .' ' . f
The prose translation of , the niad"
by Lang, Leaf and Myers, and ef the
"Odyssey by Butcher, and Lang are,
I think, as good as can ie found. ' ' '
'Of Herodotus Canon Rawllnson' has
given, perhaps,, the finest translation.
Of the Greek poets I., would es
pecially mention: Sophocles, ' Aeschylus.
Euripides and Aristophanes one may
find fairly faithful translations In. the
Bonn library scries. .- ,'r.
Thucydides' Brest ' history alsdone
Into English" most . fairly - by Smith,
though Jowett'a translation la by some
eonaidared the better. r'ZTZ r
Of Xenephou's - "Anabasis".' and
"Memorabilia at Socrates," 1, know of
no translations save those la the . Bohn
library, r may say that gr A. Grant's
lime oook on.Jisnopnon is run of inter,
est and Is, la. many respects, better than
any mere translation could possibly be
Demosthenes greatest speeches, those
against Philip, aad those "On the
Crown." may be found, excellently trans-
letea, in the Bohn library. Ia the same
series Horace and Ovid, may also be
found rendered into fairly Intelligible
English; end la the Bohn library may be
found translatlona of Tacitus, a writer
that one cannot afford to overlook.
I must not forget the greet end good
Marcus Aurellus aad hia Immortal
TMedlta tlona," translated by Long. .
I would aa to Mr. Woodward that
tha brigh(young man who wishes to be
come acquainted with the thought aad
life ef the remarkable peoples bf whom
we -are speaking would ao wall to buy.
aad read the following works: , ... -
V Toe Ancient City." by Coulangee
a ; Mi, ar. iwrwn,
Q reeks," by Blumner. a', . ,
"The Manual of Greek and Roman
Antiquities.' by Bojeaea: aa old work.
but very valuable in its inform all on '
seller's . "Stoles, - Epicureans and
Eceptlce" ' .. .v.. j ,v
Farrier's "Lectures - on - Greek Phil
osophy." - , -. ' .-
I mar add that Tor the money that the
average young. man spends every two
or three months ror cigarettes and beer.
one might put upon the shelves ef his
library the great Histories of Mommaen
and wotet' which would tell Aim practi
cally all that la known of tha two mas-
ttu peoples of -the eldea time n-Hi
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March 17 The wind la till htsH
rrom toe n. w tae ice,, which is occa
sionally stopped for a few hours. Is
then thrown over, shallow sandbars when
the river runs. We had all our canoes
brought down, aad ware obliged to caulk
and pitch very attentively the cracks so
common in cpttonwood.
QtrUTXOsT.
From the Pendleton East Oresenlan.
True to Its coarse Instincts, the Ore-
goniaa takes every opportunity to throw
a slur upon the work of the churches.
and Instead, ef welcoming the army of
evangelists to Portland tn aa intelligent
and friendly spirit it gives Ita -usual
snarl. In which la secreted an insult te
tha ability and Intelligence OX the peak-
ore ,
" 'Revivalists' are now to shake the
whole population of Portland over the
perilous edge of hell for some weeks.
Soma people will keep their senses. Some
win not." - -
This Is the welcome ef the Oregonlsn
to SO leading pulpit orators end evangel.
lata who have aroused tha thinking peo
ple ef Denver, Los Angeles, Pittsburg
and ether leading cities within the past
year. .-. , .-3.
, The Oregonlan puts word "revivalists'
In quotations, ss If It were a term of re
proach. It says most people will . keep
their senses, as If It were a dishonor for
cltlaens to listen to -the discourses of
educated end Intelligent speakers on this
one greet' question before the civilised
world es If It were -dlsgracefur to be
come converted and lead e nobler-life
than that found In tha gutter. .
Last year the Oregonlan took a stand
with the whisky Interests, and it has al
ways been Identified with political- cor
ruption 1st,, so Ita moral sense Is blunt
ed and little more could be expected from
It In en editorial way. . . - - - '
Shutting its eyee to the splendid ac
complishments of "revivalists" and
blinded by egotism to the good that
comes through organised effort to uplift
humanity, the Oregonlan. wraps Itself up
la a sort of skeptical arrogance which
recognises nothing good except In Its
owa distorted moral code
It assumes an lntelilxence and (wisdom
apart from the 'gift of God In furnishing
tha tnirutine mind ana tne puising neart.
If people apeak of sacred things, they
will not '"keep their senses, in the es
timation of the Oregonlan. If they scoff
they will be elevated to a high Intellect.
ual plane. Compere the wont' or the
Oregonlan to that of tha least of the
"revivalists" now In Portland. That Is
one way to estimate Its Intellectual slse
, ;Y ''"v' .-' On Sfaay Osmaks, ' V;'
-' From Madame -
Once the motorist haa begun to talk.
one must be content to listen and admire
It Is impossible to get in a word edge
wise.-- fret ths motor-manlso ja a much
nicer person than the ordinary crank.
He -tares one far teea than tha Invufiml,
bridge-player, tha good shot ths skillful
fisherman, the theatrical expert or the
old furniture collector.
Wet Veeghty, Merely VaaeUlaa. .
From Harper's Bascar. '
. Mother Ethel, you naughty, 'child,
what have you been, doing to .'make
Charley ery. eot ,
Ethel I've only -been sharing .my
eodllver oil with him. deer mamma.
Yea. Said It was se alee.'- - -
Agates the stales.
" From the Washington Post 1
Bryan Indorses Le Follette, end Cleve
land says Cortelyeu Is "all right" Stand
back, gentlemen. Visitors are not par
te feed peaattU te the elephant.