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THE OREGON DAILY
STRANGEST CASS EVER
A CURIOUS CASE hat been recently reported from
Linn county, across the river from Corvallia,
. ' . I . I ' . .
lOrl My, grter . looxing into incir
. like it was ever known and recorded
I ' A boy about 12 year old, of normal aire," appearance
jand habits, suddenly began abnormally to grow. In six
months he grew, to an ordinary man's stature and
weight, and is still growing. In a. f ew- month, instead
;f a common boy, he has become a
',Tbmg neither boy nor . man., He is
the ordinary man, yet only half the
hreloped 'manhood. V Nobody knows what to make of it
!No medicine availa to check hi gi'owthT It is a new,
itrMfrnlr iitMu. the like of which
medical annals.
I With this terrible growth tliat somehow reminds tone
of Hugo's Gymplaine came, necessarily, phyiical weak
.nets. The young, undeveloped frame
'the -.mountain of flesh that was put
jgrew weak upon his legs; then when ha tried to walk
. tottered .-and , staggered; . and finally became ' unable to
; 'walk at all; and o lies, a monstrous terrible deformity, a
iluaui naturae that the world wonders at and" that is
necessarily a great grief to the poor
; But let us, while pitying them and him, see if we may
'.not learn some lesson from this astonishing, unprece
dented freak, and make some practical application of it
" From a saddened view of .this strange abnormality, turn
tto" Opper'scartoonsand smile," and IhinkT, Whaihas
- happened to Jth is boyjas beendonft JnLthia-Country to
'the trusts not in six- months but in 40 yearswhich in
tne niepi a nation is as six montasin tne me ot a per
;sor.V.' The disease is much the sajne, though the process
fis different. The poor boy is the victim of a mysterious
'disease; the trusts are overfed and oyerfattened by law.
?Opper represents them truly, albeit, as befits . cartoons,
exaggeratedly' They are now in the
gering'stage of their existence. ' After a few years they
,'wiU be unable to walk; then, later, to. move; after awhile
(to breathe. They are fed by the Republican party fetich,
. Protection. They are diseased." "Protection," as advo
cated by the standpat element of the Republican party,
.is a disease. It win not kill die country; the country is
nil right and will be; but it will kill the Republican party
-fw-ithin 10 years, unless the improbable thing of real
t,ariff reform, "by its friends" happens. . .
- f THE WONDERFUL WEST,
T
i HE WEST is being recognized and appreciated
-as never before, and .the-Lewis and Clark' ex-
- ' ffwii tinn i li1ntnr rv mitrh
nition and appreciation. By the "west" we' mean the
jcountry west of the Missouri river not the old "west"
of,;the Atlantic-states, nor merely the Pacific coast States,
.but the west that' Lewis, and Clark and Sacajawea toil
somely threaded,, forth and back, and that Fremont, that
. Itinseledadrenturen found paths in. .-Ju; -,v ;. . " k
t IV Here in Portland,, almost on the verge of the eon-
J . a 4 . - a. a. .L
.nncni, n congrcg.ico iois umpierv"ia
Mi$somi ft ieTtrnd Coloradcv and.
fornia and Utah IdanQ,;MooUnavVVyqoVPar and Ner
braaka. They have been our guests; nay they are our
, hosts too; it is their show alm'osf as much1as ours. 'The
western man is always at home anywhere in the West.
- New-York is here, too, and Massachusetts and Ohio,
and they are equally welcome. , They have learned some
thing this summer. The man from Boston has learned
that there was something m the far west besides Indians
and sagebrush, the man from Cot ham has learned that
the'iw doel not Jrise and set In Wall street, the man
from Virginia has learned that there are as fair shores
. and streams here as those Mary 'Johnstone described ; in
T bfiefi the'east lrlbecoming" aequalntedwUh the west,
and wonders at.it, and is interested in it -
f Api will wonder more.Scarcely two generations Vill
pass till the 'Pacific coast will be almost as densely
ptupkd as the ATlfBHe-ePllt., ,Wny floT? SewafaT
off-quojedpfoohw
uim7. ui wuiBKrec lain ine viianiic, n al
ready beginning to be fulfilled. Across the ocean from
us are approximately 700,000,000 people, men and women
and children, who must be clothed and fed with whom,,
i spite' of temporary boycotts and foolish Dingley laws,
J we will do business. v We may not have a New York
City, quite, in this 1 far west; but there, will be large
,i cities on this ' coast, comsjaring ' somewhat to New
; .York; Boston and Baltimore. Portland -will be one of
2 ,tfce,n.f Seattle and Tacoma will be others. San-fran?
, isconow4if the lead, may keep it though it would not
- be strange if within half a century Portland and Seattle
, were both larger cities than-San Francisco, r ,
Come west-young man if you Jiave money; or if you
; have what is better, health, strength, ambition, courage,
morality, determination, - There is no place like it on
.MORE ROADS HEADED FOR
'HILE THE COMING of the
T a7
vv
and Grear Northern to "Portland is now an
. assured fact and the actual work is already in
? progreas all eyes are beginning to turn to the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St Paul which is inevitably headed in this
direction. InheEailroadjardi-at JEvartSr-South- Da
kota, a little town on the Missouri river which marks the
present terminus of the St Paul road, there is said to be
gathered "a perfect mountain jot new steel. A thousand
. new freight cars and many new locomotives are in pro
cess of construction in the shops of the system. It is al-
p The Fall Literary Styles.
- , ' I- , By Mile. Doughnutte.
. : . Just now the advertlaementa ef fall
. atylea appear aa thick as halra In a
mattreaa.,, Readers have-probably se
1 acted by this time their fall frocks or
- eulta. bat may have delayed the paf.O "e""D"
h.aa fit thalr fan Action until thai" SWOrd
styles have been deBnltely aetUed. For
' the benefit of those who hava yet to lay
'In a supply we have Interviewed the
snodlate of a leading pUbUahlng houea.
There will be little change In liter.
err faahlona thla year aba aayaU WhlU
t, vellum will be en regie for Chrlatmaa
; and birthday booka TlcUod generally
will be bound la . lighter colore thla
weeon anfl colored UlustraUona hava
beeeene aunoet a fad. Covers may. be
' had In any style, and some unlouevef-
. fecta la Japaneee bindings are a oirect
" reanilt of the neare treaty.
A lovely pale yellow volume contains
the' storv of ."The Indtgeatton of the
luchaaa, and may be had for eenta.
It la luat the thlna- for a boudoir. "
Hound ia mi etioe leatnr ia ma
Cobhier of Copleatone; or. The Cure of
toula." ' a unloue ornament for- a
bachelor' den. . ..- '
' If you have a. Japaneee room m your
foue 41 ran tnreeted in "ABaiea s
l.eartarhe' (arentad with cherry bios-
a - will add the oriental effect.
. "Mtml .da Parle"- la bound la ora
leaves )uat it, . nu w tamale,
L; lotie readers will not overtook
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PUBLISHED' DY JOURNAL PUBLISHING (XX
Svadaj) and every
unday
at Tl
Portkaad, Orsa-oa.
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KNOWN."
readv determined
J still leave it "nowhereUust . theElkhoro branch of the
Northern Wvominsr.
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There will still
oooh, mat nuiuiug
before.
gigantic, horrible
now larger than
thorized three years
age of fully de-
is unrecorded irv
out of which a
ocean commerce
could not sustain
in all Portland seems td be just coming into Its own. ,
upon it. The boy
creature s parents.
a decrease of population since 1900, as then indicated
by the federal census. The assessor of Lake county finds
therein only Z.107
ors in 1900 found
tleraia savs tnai
festly-fncompletei'a-lew hundred-sheepherders - and
vaqueros laving'
nonulation of the
that "it is a fact that must be admitted, the population
of Lake county has been on the decrease for 10 years or
more. It ia difficult
habitants-of this county as . they are scattered over
5,000,000 acres of ground, and stuck away in the corners
where it is almost impossible for the census enumerator
to find them." ;-.. -.-;.'., :'- - ' , -
tottering and stag'
The Klamath
therein, which is 134 less than the federal enumerators
found in 1900. -There are 'about 1,200 Indians, less than
a dozen of whom,
lican, have been enumerated. . The Republican does not
say directly whether the returns are approximately cor-
lrecjLojrtu
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alnC WVUIU yykJ .wuii.iv ivnv " u
casual glance over the cenaus returns as on file will show
a jumbled up collection Vof names, without system, ar
rangement or classification.. It is simply a -record of a
farce perpetrated.
ti ir. tVit. r.nif.
It is proDaoiy true mac tne population oi ine vast out
solated region comprised in Lake and Klamath counties
has not largely increased during the past five years, for
patent reasons. " The stockmen occupy 'itj4- farmers aire
not wanted by the .stockmen; and H farming is engaged
in there. is no means of transportation of surplus pro-
ducts.-
But a great change
I m t a
immense weaLioon, and indeed
Washington, Cali
fattorS" toTeff ect this
verft oi .railroads iTbesewul bring thousands Jot new
people to. those counties, .who.: wjll stick and prosper
there, as. farmers and other Industrial developers, though
stock raising, will continue to be the leading industry.
In Umatilla Baker, Grant, Harney and 'other counties,
men are making a success of dryland farming-praising
alfalfa, vetch' and grain without irrigation on land al
ways supposed to ba worthless for that purpose; and we
imagine the same thing could be done on the elevated
plateaux of Lake and Klamath counties. At any rate,
we are confident that the census of 1910 will show a large
increase of population of thoae counties. 1
SEE THE LIVESTOCK SHOW.
YOU DON'T,
should take half a
whole exhibit It is finely arranged for the satisfaction
of visitors, and yon can feel almost t much at home
there as if you had a big ranch and were among your
own kine. But no millionaire ever had nor perhaps could
collect for himself such, an exhibit as this. . ' .
If horses ara your favorite animal, there they are, the
very best of theNand. If jtattle, gaze on those monstrous
bulls, those high-bred, pure-blooded cows; if hogs, of
sheep, or goats, there you can see the perfection of breed
ing and feeding. -. , .;'...'. ,
It is no wonder that the livestock show has drawn va
great number of people; if its merits and beauties were
fully known it would draw many more; nobody could
keep away from if 2". I' ."!' .
There are only three days more of this splendid, ex
hibit of. our friends the "lower animals"--when we ob
serve the Intelligence, as well as the strength, symmetry
and beauty of them we almost doubt whether they ahould
be called ''lower" and in these three days everybody who
has not seen them should do so, and those who have
should go and see them again. . . , '. , .
The exposition has many worthy and notable ex
hibits in the art gallery,' in the agricultural building, in
the manufacturers' building, in the forestry building, in
the-Washington and OtifornifandTotlief state buildings,
but for many people at least- there is nothing to equal
the livestock exhibit, for these things are alive and they
thrill and throb .with lifel
Go and see this line exhibit or go again. It will do
you good. ' '; " ' '--'.. ' '
PORTLAND.
Northern Pacific
The State of Malner." tastefully
bound tn the exaot eemblance. of a
pumpkin pie. Thla Idyl of plain Amer
icana should not be letc where chil
dren might . see It ea the cover, de
apite Its reallato appearance, la almost
aa Indigestible aa tbe story.
la given away ' with
every . copy, of Jotfndsi or Finked
Again.' ,-:;: ''
Books advertlaed aa "the great Ameri
can novel"' may be had in a variety of
bindings. ' v " .
In Imported books thara Je a wide,
choice. Prices range about the same
as for the domeatlo good a
"Note Anv person dealrou of avoid
ing articles mentioned la thla column
may obtain the nam of the ator
where- they -are sold by sending Sn In
quiry (and $100) td "Seen la the Shops."
; '. Wlnnlnf Em AB... ., ",'
Trom tbe St Louis Olobe-Democrat
Oovemor Folk's-, laudation of Preal
Ont RooevetTlsvii more fulsome
than that of Colonel Bryan. ' The presi
dent la winning U of the DemooraUo
Sir Hubertov ' yj "
. ;" Has tha Experience. .
- - From the Chicago Joumat . - ; 1.
-iTMMajor Tea-fart loeee out In tha
array be ought to ba able to t a first
claas Job as barunder. .
JOURNAL
no. .
Journal Building, fifth
. .
Wjbuild 75" milesof the road which will
Chicago 4 Northwestern will be, left "nowhere" .when
it has been extended to the Shoshone reservation in
' x:
be as much rieed as ever of an outlet
for-the St Paul and wjth the rapidly changing con
ditions in the Orient few great systems will be satisfied
with anything less than Pacific coast terminals of their
own. Indeed the'romor has gained persistent circula
tion that the St Paul has already determined upon an ex
tension, the issuance of stock to pay fox which was au
ago. In the event of the extension.
which never seemed so likely as it does today, the Pacific
coast terminal of. the road, will necessarily be Portland.
Indeed one can already begin to see a foreshadowing of
what, must soon inevitably be the fact that Portland will
become the grear railroad terminal of the Pacifireoast
corresponding growth ot. its foreign
may be expected,: Indeed taking it all
LAKE AND KLAMATH COUNTIES. v
CURIOUS THING about the late state or county
census, beside the showing made for Portland,
is that both Lake and Klamath counties show
people "whereas the jederai enumerai'
a little oyer 2,500. -, The Lakeview
uc enumeration ni year n rowr
been missed, but concedes that the
county is only about 2,400, and says
to get an exact count ot the in
county assessor finds 3,836 people
according to the Klamath Falls Repub
....ln.iinlM a. fstllMu. 'A
upon the people of the county." i '
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ia going to take place in that region
a a a Mi - . .
naa already oegun ine two great
change are irrigation arid the, ad-
aee, those animals' vnu will ' miss
one of the good, pleasant, interesting, instructive
ska it worth-li'ing."T'YouTanimaiev"ahd ,'ean'tar-'Tiandie6rwitB
day for it .and go alowly through the
How He Saved a Little Oin. -
.2' From the Minneapolis Tribune.
"Jim was a good negro." aaya Repre
sentative Moon of Tennessee, - "but ha
loved gin better than he did his Maker,
and ha would not pay a debt If there
was any earthly Way to get .out of It
One day Jim went to the store, armed
with a gallon Jug, and asked for a quart
of gin, telling the merchant that he waa
prepared to settle. The fluid waa put
In, and then it waa discovered that Jim
had no money. Forthwith the merchant
poured the quart back In .the measure,
while Jim picked up his Jag and wslked
out smiling.
"He bad put in about a quart of water,
and. of course, he had Juat about that
much gin and water la tbe jug. - The
grocers fla is his barrel was a little
weaker, bat - Jlm'e quart Waa atrong
enough to bridge over on." ;
Definition and Example.
From the Kansas Cltr Journal.
. In tha nut .edition ot the lexicon-ot
diplomacy the term "Irreducible mini
mum" will be defined aa a minimum that
drops par eent la seven days.
-1' . A Ouesa,:
- . From the Kanaas City Star.
1 Perhapa tha beef trust la availing it.
self of numerous delay because It doea
net-want the country to raaJlae new ta
aeeent it ia.'. ,,'
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SMALL CI1ANG3
An armed force, la gome to Invade tha
deaert of Sahara. By th war,-what
Sahara, naads la not arms, but Irriga
tion. A , . ...;
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Tha Salem BUtcamaa aara that thara
ahould ba and will ba no change ot tho
tartrt, and t it profaaaea te-bo a sup
porter ot to Rapahlloaa- party. v
Kockofallar la a man of peaea, but h
could not waap over the rlotona and da
atructlva dlaturbartcea ' In the Caucaaua,
which glva him almost absolute con
trol of the world' a markets and have
already enabled him to advance the
prico of petroleum. . It's a strante wind
that doean't blow ., gold Rockaf eller'a
way. - i
Tluvlua had the drop on ua yaaterday.
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.Hang, on to your umbrella.',. ' '. c
The moat orderly and. well behaved
expoaiuon aver neia. -
Somebody aska what has become of
Mary-McLane. What In the world can,
be want to know iott .. . .; .. j.
Tacoma deierVea.to grow. ,
mw . . . a,w ... ,w. .... r.--. t-
lot A ail atr ia ail nini, ion.
Mot the men won't wear eoraeta. Man,
wa said; Pudea may. - ; ,.
Chicago Tribune: Finally,, brethren.
you have been paying too much for
your Ufa Inauranoe. - ,
Party fealty may be a good thing; but
fealty to the people la better, .
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Next Saturday ahould be tha biggest
day Portland aver saw.
Tillamook will ge$ a ranrflad. aure
soma day and no -very dlataat day.
either. ' .-...
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Still no federal judge, - ,. , ;
, - -. e e , ' --o 'S-
It will be 1SOO.00O at least
2- . 'A--''' L;
The " bleaaed ralna do an tmraena
amount of good. Don t mind getting
wet a Uttla. v ; i.
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CorvalUs owea it to itaelf and to- the
state to enforce prohibition there.
It vnu rtrn'tanJjBaUI ..aejt ntlf i
long aa you live. .-. . --. . .
A new candidate for governor -or rep-
reeentatlre nearly every day, and tha
election over eight montha oft yet.
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It e euppoeed that-Mr. Baker will te
provided with plenty of OIL. '
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Don't forget good roads. .
North . Bend Cltlsen: '' Blnaer H"er-
mann I tn the field looking after a re
nomlnation for the office, and he and
hla friends are of the opinion that he
will, be an easy winner In the conven
tion and at tha polls in November. .Hla
siansnra are) carta ia vital, ui peopiw
will vindicate him wheat the time corneal
to elect hla successor. 'I , .v "
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Get ready for next Saturday, ; , v
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' Only three days to see the greatest
stock show on earth,-
OREGON SIDEUGHhrS
A Douglas county goatrsiser, who has
been' much troubled by varmints, says:
"Finally I succeeded in preparing a
poison-which work o effectively that
I tell my nelghbora I can kill off tha
eoyotea onH0 acres in one njglitTh4s
poieoa ia equally tiiKuva in Killing
wolves, wlldcata. doga and other wild
tety." But Instead of telling what It
la. ba la going to have It "patented."
V ; ' e . j ' i
Som Forest Grove wag painted a big
sign. "Look Out for th Cera," and put
it up at th Tillamook railway croealng.
Baaellne, the other night la turn, some
Hlllaborite. smarting under th taunt
carried it to th Orov and placed it
where the electric line entered town,
that lln alao being In statu quo. - . .
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Oam being killed out ef aeaaon In
Polk county; whereabouts ef deputy
gam Warden not known. .
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Sidewalk being put down In Estacada.
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' A Solo man raised 40 bushel of
onion on 40S feet of ground, moat of
them vary large onea
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Th way to make Heppner bigger and
better, aay tha Timea. la to all pull to
gether and get an open channel for Wil
low creek;. channel that will aaeure
tha eafetv ef the town agalnat high
watera. It can be don and not at aa
enormoua coat ', ' . .
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Houses being painted injroultonJl
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Map faker bothering Heppner people, 'i
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Bandoa improving considerably. '
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Soma Baadon people are still quarreling
about a Fourth of July purse.
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Beggars, ara working up-valley small
town. .,
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Pouto-dlrging progreaatag la prosper
ous Wallowa. . -.; .
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- The- Joseph Herald thinks that town
ought to hava a band. .
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An unuaual number of Medford young
people are, getting married.
;
Klamath Falls now ' haa a fully
equipped, well regulated dairy, equal t
any In th atate. k .
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A man living near Corvallla haa a la
acre hop yard, teat year he sold for X
eenta, - instead of . holding for a higher
price, because he waa anxioua to pay
off a ttaOO mortgage, which ha did.' Thla
year ha haa 18,000 pounds of hop, and
aa tha mortgage haa been lifted," will
hold them for JO cents. , i
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Independence Enterprlae;.llTwehon.
pickers, a Mr. Slack and a Mia Burbank,
left th Rider yard Wedneeday,. want to
Dallas and ware married, and returned
to picking la th afternoon. . ,
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Much Illegal shooting In Tsmhlll eouaty
and othara. . i
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A Happy RMg (Tamhlll countyLJnaS
bought a 1509 horse the other day, and
is i nappy ea ua ridg. : ..
THE
. Free Soaool Seekev':;
Portland, Sept 13. Tq the Editor of
The. Journal Having recently removed
with my vfainlly from Nebraska to Ore
gon, I waa aatonlahed to find, that with
all tbe advantages and" advancement "Of
thla dellghtfxd . state, no free school
book law had yet been enacted, and bar
lng come from a etate where mi free
text book law haa been in' suoceaaful
operation for many years, I cannot re
list tha temptation to speak or Its
advantage' and economy, nor do I un
derstand why some atateaman or leglala-
tor baa not made himself famous by
ha vlna enacted auch legislation, aa
free text book law haa only to be seen
. k.- a . -3 .
pppraviaieo. - . , . ...
First let tne ear that it coats leaa
to buy books and auppllea for the entire
school in quantities than: for the Indi
vldual to bur them. . V i..
' Beeond. by the adoption of a uniform
aerVes of book there Is never, any Jan.
gle over the kind of booka uaed and
there ia always a aupply of the kind and
quantity ot booka to . enable both
teacher and pupil to do tne beat, work
poaalbl and the Child of poor parents
haa aa many booka and aa good onea
aa the child ot the rich, and no child' ia
Induced to . play truant tor want . of
proper oooaa.t ... .
Third, the system of free text books
or books bought-by U)e school districts
are pate ror by the rich aa wan aa by
tha poor.', while under the present sys
tem, the wealthy land owner, often a
childleas nonresident, doea not contrib
ute-to the aohool book- fund, while the
pataoia oflarge famtllea. often of the
poorer. daseea. are prevented from glv
lng their children, a needed education
because of a. lack. ot. fund with which
to puy oooaa. Than, too, a compulsory
school law or attendance law can eaally
be enloreod and It ahould. be where
booka and .auppllea are .furnished. . that
cannot now be don on account. ef th
plausible excuse, ."No books.' -
This system doe not,' increase the
expense but really decreases it . and at
the aame . time compels th. wealthy,
the ehlidleae, tha bachelor, and the non-
Lyeaident property, owner to. pay his
share or the expenaa by equitable taxa
tion, and Ugbtena the' burden of -the
poor who are usually the parenta of the
larger families, and ' It - also tends to
help -to educate that portion of the ris
ing generation that need it roost, th
children of th noorer elaaaa. ' ,
ThlulAW. ikuyMyrwu
not oniy in rueoraaKa, out in every state
where It ha been adopted, that it aeema
to - me that th matter need only . be
brought to th attention of th voter
and th' leglalatora to have enacted, at
th next seeslou ot the Oregon legiala
ture. a free text book law and If th
preef nd the pflblio will Uk the mat
ter up, much, needed and beneficial leg
islation will certainly follow.
It there la any good reason why thla
law should not go into effect !nl this
atate, I would Ilk to see the reason
discussed) - through th columnar -of thla
paper. : . - - . . . - - : ... .
Having been connected with a board
of, education in Nebraska and having
resigned such position to take. up. my
reaidenoe in your state, will ba pleaaed
t give any rurther Information en the-
aubjeet poaalbl. I am your for free
text booka. -' - W. & RAKER, . . ,
It Concord Building.
-Mom About
Lents. Or Sept. It. To the Editor
Of Th Journal As ha been suted by
your valued paper, an effort, haa- been
made and yet is being furthered to
change the name of thla locality, hereto
fore known ee, Lenta, to Mount Scott
A few remarks appear Juat now perti
nent aa to why auch change ahould not
be made. . - :'.
In th first place thla neck of th old
woods , waa aettled by O. p. Lent and
others., It waa known from that day to
thi as - the Lents settlement- Subse
quently other people settled here and
r"w ,w Bf i' i "mm-iir if sirsral
hundred people and naturally when -we
obtained our first poet of flee it waa
named"TirTlon6TorTlnrorlhyandrnow
deceased friend Lent Now, . after 30
years bo me . new - arrival wla . to
casMig th nam of our poatofflce and
vtuu to Mount Bcott . This purpoae
can never obtain at the poatofflce de
partment It th true fact ia th case
are presented, and . I understand they
win he... .j-...,.,..,
whr ahould wa Ignore the old and
honored . ploneersjfortlamerewhIm
QI some factional village Intermeddlers
or modern linguists?- rrr
Th old settlers her are up In arms
against changing th name of Lenta
poetofflce to Mount Scott It is slmost
unnecessary to aay that th name -of
Mount Scott wa obtained from ,the
fact that H. W. Scott editor of the
Oregonisn, purchased a large amount ot
acreage on tha mountain adjacent here
about the time a big hu and cry wa
raised in Portland about having more
public parka. It being at that time urged
as necessary for th city to buy a chain
of -parka In and around Portland, as
several real estate speculators of those
daya will probably now well recollect
From this fact th mountain thence
forward seemed, by common consent to
be known aa Mount Scott '. As -a mat
ter of fact' it ahould then or how be
known a Mount Peardorffor Mount
Johnson, efter either one or the other
of these two old honored and deceased
pioneers. :'
Still the village grown up her, a
mil away from th mountain, waa
named la th beginning Lenta, and wa
aak Tha Journal to help ua reach the
department at Waahtngtoa to protest
agalnat any change of name In out
poatofflce . PIONEER CITIZEN.
- ataaaaate
' ' Ooawajr CneJsas atia. ;
Tremont, Or- Sept 17. Editor of Tha'
Journal Sir: In Sunday Journal th
statement 1 made that Mr. Le M.
Clark, whoa, child ' waa awarded the
Feldenhelmer cup. Is the only llvlngide-
scendsnt of Captain .William Clark, the
great explorer, In memory of whom the
Lewi and Clark centennial and Ameri
can Paclf to expoeltlon la now behr held.
To the word "only" in th above
statement I deelre to take exceptions,
and as a matter of fact to state that
aa auch thlnga go. the undersigned can
claim descent from the fsmotia Captain
Clark.' .:, ... ...
My grandmother on my mother's aide.
Mrs. B. T. Wilson of Liberty, Missouri,
now living at th rip old eg of 14,
who maiden name waa Clark, ia a neat
blood relation of Captain William Clark,
ao It will be seen that there ara atlll
living several deacendanta of the great
explorer Of a century ago. I
... Terrer Oajeete, '
Portland. Sept. 19. To th Editor of
Th Journal Today' Journal contain
ing th account of th celebration of
Italian day at tha Lewla and Clark ex
position gives my name aa -one of the
speakers.7 ----- -- -
As only, a fw days asotha paper
ware full of letters and Interviews from
those who managed thla celebration,
LETTERS FROM
iU' rPEOPtE :
making charge! Of a erlous' character,
on against tha other and from which
It appeared that the Italiana of the otty
were divided. It Mould appear that
may have beeq involved la their quar
reler "i ,
Without In apy way commenting upon
the aquandering of money on pomp and
display while many of their countrymen
ara In great distress, J do object to the
use or my name as a epeaaer at mis
celebration. for the reason that I waa
busily engaged in the trial of a case at
th- tlnsof the- ceremonies at th fair
grounds. . -
To ma th celebration of September 0
haa no special significance aa I was bora
unver .QS Btara ana airipaa. -
,. - ALBERT B..FERREBA.
W de well to caU May Irwin "Jolly.1
The word waa never mora fittingly ap
plied. -She talked herself Into hilarious
favor last evening at 'the. Marquam
Grand. "Talked" I uaed advisedly
Some yeara ago "sang snd talked" would
have been the word, i
- "Mrs. Black la Back" Is a eomloal
contribution from George .V. Hobart.
It waa originally done at the Bijou thea
tre in New York and met with success
It Is brisk, yet ' clean unleas you ' call
a wife's deliberate 11 unclean and full
of remarkably funny eltuatlona. Mrs
Black., before her second marriage, has
I old her bridegroom that aha ia seven
years younger then the family ' Bible
Indicates. Th unexpected appearance
of her soa by th former marriage.
"Little Johnny," who I IT and ahould
be 10, laada to numaroua complications
of more than ordinary Interest , Much
of th success of" comedy lies In antlct
nation. The .author knew thla when ha
brought on large bundle of toys for
"Little Johnny" st the time , of his
retura.7 with .Johnny showing up, ac
companied by an. Irish valet and six or
seven suit. case. A : more laughable
situation could hardly be contrived a
day when the playamltha have strained
every effort and axhauated almost every
field whlcu promieea originality. Event
ually Mrs. Black's new husband learna
ot th deception, but in a. very pretty
finish paaaea it up aa though Johnny
war 'only what' ha waa made - out to
be. It 1 a clever idea, and ahould 'live
long and proaoer." ' i -
May Irwin la th William Collier ef
comedienne Her method are uaually
of the same quiet, unhyetericar order.
Her laugh la sunshine. She la th Law
Dockatader of female monologlsm, ah
tell a simpl story with ao such uno-
io-nrryeuraY
copy or it. . .. i i ''
And Irwin used to be th Bert Wil
liam of petticoat coon-ahoutlng. I can
imagine that ah waa greet -in days
gon by In th days when "I'm Looking
for That Bully" waa a rag. 'But last
night-ahe-dld not have one ftrat-class
aong hit not one. Mlaa Irwin will -be
a first-rat comedienne always, but time
tells on the vole.
On the supporting .company a good
deal, of prala can be honestly, bestowed.
Jan Burby as th sister, Emily, Indi
cated by her work . capabllltlea far
above the realm ef comedy. Sh makea
a regal appearance, her -rolce la - muai
cal. her. manner fascinating and alto
gether ebe fill the auditor with a de-
alre . t -see her 4a omblng .aerloua
Ixmis Foir-ea Larky, ta phyta4-ul-
turlat was n. Immediate -hit In a ."fat
part: Victor Caaroore made a good thing
of th foreign gambler, - Roland Carter
waa quit at horn aa-the huaband and
Johnston Burr throw away no oppor
tunlty aa the boy around whom tha play
revolves. Then the valet must not be
overlooked.
Th action of th play covere only
tha tint of Ita performance and calls
for only one aettlng. but thla la mag.
nlflcent Th -ngngennt-te forrfour
night that la. three night mora and a
matinee Thursday,
- - "On the Quiet."
"Mr dear Hyde, whenever a hand
heavy with th dull insistence of hoard-
edgpldjreacbsa from Ih grave and lay
Ita paralysing weigni apon a irean
young heart I aay to hell with It1
ude-idryr-Ow
Quiet" an Auguatu Thomas comedy
now on at the Belaeco. The lines are
delivered much aa a 11-Inch gun would
eject a projectile, and. coming between
exceedingly funny aituation and fol
lowing other llnea that "are to laugh,"
the psychological requirements are sup
plied and the. effect la marked. . '
But Robert Hiogwsy, in -judges son.
sneaks-bo many brilliant thlngsTthst
the harum-scarum young . fellow soon
make th audience forget the thunder
bolt of denunciation with . which tho
Judge declared his disapproval of mar
riage arranged by anyone otner tnan
tbe pair themselves.
- Tonight the - Belaeco r company will
produce the play more smoothly than
last nleht lt'a no wonder ther war
a few hitches laat evening, for Admiral
Dewey himself would be required to tax
hla executive ability to command tha
rapid fire of Irony, aarcaam and wit
that la- called for in "On th Quiet."
Willi Collier - has played It,' and it
helped him to part ef hia present repu
tation. .. -i . - .
If a piece that gives -sll th chsnces
for distinction - to the men. Ther I
only one really good opportunity for
on of th women to- "win a hand" of
applause for aomethlng fright and that
i-whn Phoebo Rldgway,- ntece of ths
Judge, tells tha Judge and someone else
of th dullnea ef comprehension of ths
English Duk ef Carbondala, who,' ac
cording to the witching Virginia Btia
aae aa Phoebe, had Juat prevloualy re
marked at tha dinner table that Ameri
can ara a humorous lot because they
call them little-neck clam when they
haven't any necks at all. - .'-- .
Little-neck clams!" - exclaima tha
Judge. "Did h eat themr
Why. certainly," anawara Phoebe, in
an' Inquiring manner.
"Th cannibal," la the-Judge's savage
reply, and yet that audience consumed
nearly 40 second In digesting th Jok
and producing a laugh.
Few comedies hava been written Into
which are crowded so many bright lines
as there are In thla "On tha Quiet" The
story is merely an opportunity for these
bright sayings, snd . Is a tale ot love
between the rather- wild son of Judge
Rldgway and the daughter of a de
ceased millionaire, who haa devised his,
property ao as to give hla eon virtually
disposition of tha hands of hla two
daughtere In marriage. '
"It s only a paltry 114,000.004 that'a
at stake." aaya "Bob.t when the couple
ara face to fae with the first reality
of Ufa, "and I don't care a rap for It;
I only, want you,-Agues, and If. I can
get you thsy may taks tha money and
give it away.
-But you Know l gtth .four .miUJ
Hona, T anyway," aaya tha girl, comfort
Ingly, and "Bob" dlaeovara that rather
than barter, hla . Independence he "will
try to struggle along on that measly
little four millions." - -
Horse Colt the brother In charge of
th million (Karl -Williams). Impoeee
th condition finally that Robert, shall
go to Tale agsin and prove himself a
man- He . eonaeata. first marrying A t
pea "on the quiet." simply aa a guaran
tee of good faith on the part of both
j 1: 1 ..2 ;THE PLAV , . J
Most e::clu:iv2city
IN AMERICA 1
Anna Rlttenhouae In Alnalee'a for Sep
tember, - Charleston Is without doubt the most
exclusive city In America. It glvea
nothing out to the stranger beyond it
physical beauty and tempered climate.
One keen observer aaldiof It: "It haa
only on equal a German principality,
where almost every one la noble and
all Intermarried. Other places and so
cial code Sxlat ' of course New York.
Chicago, Denver but net . for Charles
ton.".. (
i A small child Of that city waa naked
wher Charleston waa .placed. Proudly
she said r "It Is between the Cooper
and th .Ashley rivers, which Jota and
form th ocean." . C . ' . '
When tha. Boatonian iiwaki aranrflv
a-Mayflower, the Huguenot ef
Charleston smile. He 1 remembering
that Jean Rlbaut landed, a Huguenot
emigration In Port Royal 41 year be-
ror the ruritana landed In Maaaachu-
setts bay. ---.. -r
Charlestbn waa aettled by artatocrate
from. Franca, and later from England
men who j came from the court aud
wore. the. garmente and apok tha lan
guage of th world's highest .circle.
Like New Orlesna, It sprang Into life
aa a eulturad community.- , - - .
When th PhlladelDhlan ' sneaks se
renely ef the liberty bell, the Charlea
tonlaa smiles and remembers that In
lis South Carolina took the first steu
for a Continental Union, and that to
Charleaton waa formulated the first In
dependent - constitution In any- of th
oolonle; alao that ah furnlahed three
signer f the - Declaration . of Ind-
penaence Arthur Middle ton, Thomas
Bayward and Thome Lyneh. Jr.
- Th Charleston near who belong le
the-quaiity shares and achoaa hla ana a.
ter's pride of blhh and aocial tradi
tion. A certain northern woman who
wa kindly received in Charleston' gave
a Urge ball. She aaked thla colored
man to carry the Invitations for her
In looking over tha Hat he made aav.
eral auggestlons concerning peopl whf
ahould -be croaaed out and tboae'who
epouia do put on. . : . .
Th northern woman asked if he wti
quite aura h knew wher all thee pea,
pie lived. His answer waa delightful. '
"Madam." he said. "If there la any
peraon In Charleston whs Urea where
I don't know, that peraoa shouldn't be
Invited to your ball." . '
Th first evidence of aocial aualntneas
In the town la the wav tha flra fam
Tiiaa"lTvarTlera comes ths strata of
Frenob blood. - The venerable - houses
are .placed among dense , foliage, the
aide, never th front -of th house, fac
ing ;th street la this aids 'are th
parlor and - upper bedroom window,
which ar - never open to th pubil
Btreeta, but covered with, wooden ahut
ter.. 'j..,. ' " ... .-.-
Inatead of, a front doorbell to .
there ia a amall sat with a belt .Thla
you tinkle, and a servant lets you In.
Ther la a long pleas running th full
aid length of th house, which la often
used -aa a alt ting-room. The plaasa I
usually protected by Jalousie bHada. If
the formal caller finds-it deeerted he
Is. shown Into the reception-room, with
closed shutters, but in the warm days
all Informal entertaining la dene en th
Pia
ChtrlHtftn'l 'min'niri aVulaw '.a'a ftta. '
havlor jn drawing-room, ballroom ,aad
street ara t nose or an olOrx An& nlere
elegant world. Why ahould ah change t
Tha girl tn all other part of tha aouth
may go unchaperoned to balls, but she
does - not ellow her..' girl ' to do' It
Neither doee the exclusive Phlladelphlan
or the Knickerbocker of; New Tork. ,
Other clubs use their windows aa
lounglng-places for the curious, wher
ldl men aoay alt and atare t the pa
rade of womea who paaa on the atreet
Charleston' considers this vulgar.""
promoter can Ulk all they wish, but
charm they never ao wlpely they can't
persuade the Chairleatonlan to welcome
with delight a horde of Unidentified
tourtat. Cottage are rented here and
UerXor-wrltaa and' artists and quiet
people, but Charleaton shakes her head
when approached on ' the' subject ot
e-ssv a i as sa witu griiaasuiias- aa UISI uw WWrnTm,9
in centers of Amtncu ..
LEWIS AND CLARK..
NasrzthszColumhlarriver. --
. Sept 24. Having resolved td an down
to soma spot calculated for building
eanoea. wa act out early thla morning
and proceeded fire mllea and encamped
on low ground 'on tha south, dppoalt
tn roraa - or tn liver. But so weak
were the men that several were lakes
alck In coming down, the weather being
oppressively hot Two ehlefa and their
famlllee followed ua and encamped with
a great number of horaea near uai and
soon after our arrival two Indiana Joined
ua, who came down th north fork on
a faft Wa purchased soms fresh sal
mon and distributed axes. . ' ' . ' ,. ..
Encounter With a Whale. V t-
From -She Port Or ford. Tribune. .
While ' dragging " the bay last ' week
for a lost anchor, 0org Forty and his
son Robert had a remarkable advantur
wninwhei which "writ ep4n-mutn J
charge into a school of fish got the tin i
a bit the whale got frightened Bnd""v
on of Its wild rushes cam near -t
...... .w. Lm. .n.A,M thrtw KJL irtAi'
.......a in. m w ., ww, aw .
foot Una overboard. In a hurryand rrf
to hold oa to the end. but let go quickly
when th strain came. The frightened
whale ruaned aeawara. ana aa it iookj
aom time for so much lln to add
through Ita mouth. Ita fright Increased
to auch an extent that It leaped Into th
air, awam half out of tha water, and no
doubt ia going yet at top epeed, . ,. '
. - Heavy but Harmleaa, . - ,:-
7- From the Waaton Leader.
A Uttla harmleaa pleaaantry indulged
In by tha Oreaonian concerning country
edltora haa been taken amiss, and tha
Leader's exchangee ar fun or redtrot
rejoinder. One of them; the Polk County
itemiaar. sends the Leader a marked
eopy containing two columns of rage.
The boya anouid seep mir "nine b.
The Oreeonlan almply wanted to hi-
dulg In airy peralflage at thlr dx-,
pans, but doeen Know now, us persi
flage I about as airy aa a sandbag, i
of them, and In concealing thla secret
there are complications piled - on eoto
Dllcatlons and many very funny things
ara don anaaia. .. ,
Tha third act show the cabin and
deck of a Bailing yacht and while be
calmed off the New England coast the
Irat brother everhaula them In a tug
and everything wind up by announce
ment of their prevloue marriage, and,
the trouble ending, it I to be assumed
that they lived happily aver afterward.
There was a pleased xpraton on
the-f ae of --tha- manager-leet- ntgtrt
when tha treasurer showed him the
stetsment ef receipts at tha boxoffica,
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