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rOSTXAlID. " OREGON.
T HE O R EG
AN
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mUUMi ewery (amp Saadar) nd " every Sunday soxmlng at
SUNDAY CLOSING IN MISSOURI CITIES.
TN COMPLIANCE with Governor Folk's orders,
I -"" the saloons of the three principal cities of Missouri,
St Louis, Kansas City and Sf Joseph, have been
closed from midnight Saturday to .midnight, Sunday for
about six months. Comparison of this period with a
like period in preceding years shows some gratifying
' results. While nothing accurate can be stated as to tne
'comparative amount of liquors consumed, it is known
that it is less than in former years, and the beer inspector
estimates that about 150,000 fewer barrels of Deer wm
be consumed in Missouri this year than last, though tak
ing last year s Louisiana Purchase Exposition into ae
. count this mar not be verv significant '
The record of Sunday arrests, however, is one eloquent
in support of the enforcement of the
' --tor everybody acknowledges that
arrests are due to inebriety. In t Louis tne average
, number of arrests for drunkenness for 15 Sundays from
the middle ofApril to the end of July in 1903 and 1904
' was about IS;.' this year, tor tliesame penoa, it was nine
!vr-a decrease of more than 40 per cent. The average
number of arrests for disturbing the peace for the same
15 Sundays for 1902; 1903, and 1904 was 34; this year it
was 29 a decrease 6M4 per cent In Kansas, City the
percentage of decrease in Sunday arrests was 18, not'
'. withstanding many intoxicated men are thrown out at
midnight to be picked, up Sunday. Moreover, the num
ber of saloons has decreased during the six months about
six per cent The beneficial effects of Sunday closing
are so apparent in Kansas City that public sentiment has
come to be overwhelmingly in favor of it, while in St
Louis, in spite of the large, German element which re
sents the interference withT its customs, and in the face
of the strong, influence of the powerful brewers, the
sentiment is becoming much less antagonistic than it was
; when the order went into effect. ,.:. .
Closing of saloons in these-cities on Sunday was not
the result of any ''moral wave," or "'crusade," but simply
of Governor Folk s determination to enforce laws al
ready on the statute books. If the people don't want sa
loons closed on Sundays they can elect men to the l"'f J
faritrs- hn will reneal the law. Kfit whit , aa tV. I.rt
lie intends to enforce it V ' .
" 'Old Governor Pennypacker is a supporter of the Phila
. 'delphia machine gang, which ought to aid materially to
Uefcat it 1
: THE P. N. ft T. RAILROAD PROJECT
THE Portland-Nehalem-Tillamook railroad project
.has apparently, advanced to the litigous stage.
After years of inactivity the London capitalists
who are under contract to- raise the money on bonds to
.build the road have, weakened and say they wilt, insist on
the contract being carried out What the courts will say
about this, after years of waiting, and after one con
tractor has failed at the very outset, we do not know. .
Meanwhile Mr. Lytic steps in and propose to do
something.. He is. said by the Londoners to be an in
strument in the bands of Harriman, who is always ready
to move when he perceives that some one else is moving,
but this Mr. Lytic denies. He admits that he hasn't the
money to build the i oad yet, but confidently1 asserts that
be can get-it -: .;'-' i
This is the situationvat present, the prospect heiner
tnat tnafproject-wiii be tied up for awhile in the courts,
though this may be avoided. . Even if it is, no one need
doubt that in the not distant future a road will be built
through the Nehalem region and to Tillamook. And
there will probably be two outlets eastward for that
country, one connecting with the Southern Pacific and
one with the'Northern Pacific. This is the outcome to
be desired. '
The steel trust is to advance the price of steel rails
that is, in this country, where the precious Dingley tariff
enables it to do soThe price abroad will not be raised.
THREE-CORNERED FIGHT IN NEW YORK."
HE NEWVoRK CITY campaign is becoming
interesting in two quarters.
posed it had a walkover and
of Ivins and Hearst would be only byplays,' at which
Tammany could sit back and smile complacently. ' But
Tammany has awakened to the .fact that something is
Jdoing m both the opposition camps. l. Ivins has sur
' prised everybody, even his intimate friends, by the vigor,
sa!iencyand audacity of his campaign. He intimated
tiis independence at the outset by advising the Repub
lican convention to nominate Jerome for district at
torney. Next, as soon as Ivins had accepted the nomina
tion, he publicly, renounced Odell and plainly declared
that if elected he would not wear the ex-governor's nor
' any one else's collar, and that the city administration
. would be conducted on a non-partisan basis. Thus he
may have alienated some machine Republican votes,
though most such votes would have gone to McClellan
anyway, for there is a close affinity between the Repub
lican machine and Tammany.; They are brother thieves.
But Ivins is gaining many Republican and conservative,
independent votes among the rank and . file, and his
? : John A. McCall'a Joke-Book.
"Mark Third," a valued reader, sends
the World John A. McCall's Joke-book,
, Issued "to policy-holders of the New
fork Life Insuranee company and Tthe
insuring public" and giving "facts con
cerning ths New Tork Life." The Jokea
follow: ' .v- ' j
. "The New Tork Life does not loan
upon nor Invest in stocks of any kind."
, "There Are six standing committees,
approved by ths trustees, which esrry
a the business of the -company." - '
"The company's money is never need,
directly or Indirectly, in any transec
tion for the benefit of any individual."
"No officer of the company can
' in any way use the company's funds
for bis own benefit."
"The New Tork Life has for year
' believed lnrand advocated publicity."...
, "The management of the New Tork
. Life Is proed of the company's stand
ing." -v- ...... .
- .. -without for an Instant parting eom
" jSany with the severest rules of manage
snent and investment, it has," eta. , ..
?,". .Restitution First
- i-rrom the Omaha News.
.- It la expected that President Roose
velt la his inaugural meassge will lay
before congress the disgraceful facts
eisrlosee) regarding the enormous nse of
.money In national campaigns and ask
lor preventive legislation. , '
This Is the veryjeast he can de.
There is much more he might aa.
lie can compel his campaign managers
f r-.tore the money stolen from lnsur
i nollcy-holdra. ' -
A J he can kick out of his cabinet
r t man in tt to whom are . tied
j r- s ronnkng frn Wall street. ,
i it IMt n.Msag favoring
t ...re Ugu. 'J:a would ring true.
ON 'DAILY
INDIPKNDBNT NBWBPAPBK ' "T
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLI3HINO Oa
growing strength,
made along lines
worry the Tiuer
.Tammany would
he were -all, but
aiso gaining votes
a large proportion
the tool of the
ipal ownership to
him as a rebuke to
So it is
Sunday closing law
a large majority of
limited financial
knows well how
take many of them.
The Sultan of
whether ot not he
js paid $80,000 a
relatives or other
year $147,687; his
All this is an old
tioned put it in an
McCurdy drawing
departments of the
in case any officer
estea personally as
holder in any firm
lease by-the city,
Tammany sun
that the camoaien
and proceedings
and done xn behalf
way for , Portland.
ing none.
The beef packers
proposition. ..
A" Violinist's Old Age.
From the London Globe.
Men still middle-aged eaa remember
the fame as -a violinist of Segismond
BlcardVthe youthful prodigy encouraged
by Wagner and Gounod, and patronised
by nearly every crowned head of Europe.
In July, 1171, Slcard. whose adult pow
ers have confirmed the promise' of his
boyhood, was staying in Brussels after
a successful tour in America, and during
a walk with his friend, Wlenlawskt, was
struck by lightning while sheltering
under a tree against a thunderstorm.
Wlenlawskt sustained a shock, from
which be died In the following year, and
Slcard, paralysed in his left side, only
recovered after It years, to fail Inte
hopeless relapse under the shock of his
daughter's death In lit. Beggared, for
gotten, and reduced to mental medioc
rity, though able to walk, poor Slcard
is today eking out. the last dregs of a
miserable, existence aa a atreet hawker
tn Liege. ....
1 Fairnesa.
From the Albany Dally Herald.--The
attacks of the Ortgonlan upon
W, M. Ladd' and other Portland busi
ness men of high standing and estab
lished reputation are dictated evidently
by motives of spite and of selfishness,
and should, therefore, fall pf their pur
poses, Ths persons attacked are probably
strong enough to win out and hold their
places in publle esteem.
Mr. Ladd, In particular, Is known as
an upright and liberal man, able In
finance, a pillar of eomraeroe In Fort'
land snd In Oregon.
It would be exceedingly fortunate for
this state If more of the Inheritor aad
the developer ot wealth were of this
type. .
JO U R N A L
nro. v. oaxmu
Tit Journal Buttling, Fifth and Yamhfll
due entirely to his Individual efforts,
of his own ahoosing, is beginning to
a little. - , i '
not worry about Ivins, however, if
there is Hearst, & Democrat, who js
Dytne wnoiesaic uay ancr aay, ana
of them Democratic votes, those of
men who have learned how Mayor McClellan is merely
Tammany boss, and how as such he has
served the: corporations that are plundering the people
instead of serving the people. While municipal owner
ship, standing by itself, could -'not win now In New
York, a great many voters who do not believe in munic
the extent Hearst does will vote for
Boss Murphy and his tool McClellan.
atihree-cornered fight, with several chances to
one yet that McClellan will win, for Tammany has un
resources, coming from the people, and
to .use them effectively; but in the 12
days to elapse before the election the anti-Tammany tide
may possibly rise to the whelming point. ; As it is, 411
that will save McClellan is Republican votes, and it will
. : ; -.:. '..
Jolo beat the governmentTout of duties
on his personal imports by threatening to go naked if he
had to pay. But what and why did the government care
went naked?
SPEAKING OP FAT JOBS.
C OLLIER'S WEEKLY presents a illustrated com
' parisos of salaries pf the big insurance com
- panics' presidents and of high government of-
ficia!sTthat is more impressive than the mere figures.
While the salary of a cabinet officer is represented by a
block about as thick as the end of baby's finger, the
salary of R A. McCurdy is represented by a Jine of such
blocks as long as a man's finger. The insurance man's
salary is eighteen and three fourths times that of a cab
inet officer or vice-president of the United States, and
three times that of President Roosevelt. . Paul Morton
year; Richard. H. McCurdy picked up
over ?U1,UUU last year, while the head of the McCurdy
clan was paid $150,000, besides pickings. j.
The two McCurdys, not noticing now any of their
pets who have been loaded on the
policy-holders, were paid last year $271,766, which is
$36,866 more than is paid to all the governors of all the
states and territories combined. Richard McCurdy alone
receives $7,000 a year more than the combined salaries
of the president of the .United States, all the members
of his cabinet, and the chief justice of the United States.
Besides these enormous salaries paid for doing prac
tically nothing at least nothing beneficial to the owners
of the money senior . Mc Curdy 's son-in-law ot last
brother-in-law received a very large
sum; vice-president Orannis was paid $50,000 a year
and he too hfii'a lot of relatives on the payroll. And
thus the enormous waste, nay, theft, shows up in all
these great concerns. ' - ,
story n6w, but the comparisons men
impressive light Think of old man
down three times the salary of Theo
dore Koosevelt and ol the clan McCurdy getting more
than is paid to all the heads of the executive and judicial
government!
It is rather strange that in all this commotion over the
waterpipe letting contract and the many able opinions
expressed in relation to it, that it should have occurred
to no one to carefully read the provision of the charter
itself and see precisely what that would disclose even to
the lay mind of a casual reader. Here it is: And
or employe ofthe city shall be inter-
a promoter or stockholder orshare
or corporation in any grant tor privi
lege or franchise sought, by himself or his associates or
such firm or corporation from the city of Portland, or
any public utility which is sought to be acquired or
duplicated by the city or which is offered for sale or
such officer or employe shall be in
capacitated to take any part in the negotiations or pro
ceedings connected with the giving or granting of such
grant privilege or franchise, but all such negotiations
and acts as would otherwise be con
ducted by such officer and employe shall be conducted
of the city of Portland by such of
ficer and employe as would have been done and con
ducted the same in the absence of such interested of
ficer and employe." Nothing makes the situation more
clear than the charter itself and that surely points the
The Oregonian quotes from The Journal that "it is
courting trouble in no direction," and adds that this is
very fine. It might have gone further and still quoted
from The Journal Something else also very fine, to the
effect that while it was seeking no quarrels it was avoid
tell Uncle Sam that he has no power
to do anything to them even jf they did violate the law.
There is no telling what, this court will think of this
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Greatest Dam on Earth.
From the Technical World Magaslne.
Fifteen years ago the highest dun In
existence wss the Furens dam (in
Fraooe), the total height of which was
I7 reet. since then three very much
larger asms have been built In the
united states. These are the Croton
dam In New Tork. the Clinton, water
works dam at Boston and ths wster
works dam at Denver, on the south fork
of the South Platte river. Esch of these
at present holds the record In on re
spect or another; tlft Denver dsm Is the
highest in the world; the Clinton im
pounds the largest amount of water,
and the Croton dam contains ths largest
mass of masonry. But the Salt river
dam, when finished, will exceed each of
tneee in its own specialty; it will bv
higher than Denver, will exceed the
Croton dam In masonry, and will -Impound
twice as much water ell thi-
dams put together. Tt will be 27 feet
nign xrom foundation to parapet., will
contain 300.000 cublo yards of masonry,
and will 'Impound more than 1,000,000
acre-feet of water; that Is, more than
enough to' cover a million seres (l.tOO
square mues) to a depth of one foot
It will form a lake tS miles long and
one to two miles wide, eoverlng an area
of 14.000 acres. Its eost with mainte
nance for 10 years, will be 11,000,000 or
;A Hint From Salem. .
From the Salens Statesman. ' ,
Portland business men have irohe to
eastern Oregon and eastern Washington
a r hand-shaking expedition. Thev
might form a few new Ideas If on their
return they were to take a run up the
Willamette 'valley. -They feel that the
valley Is their prey, however, and depend
on Its gong to Portland Whether or no.
set "w nas feius." .
SMALL CHANGE ;
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The Impression that ; Oregon's entire
delegation in congress has been held for
complicity In land frauds is Incorrect,
and does the state great injustice. There
is one congressman still al large. Chi
cago Tribune. Three "at large," rather,
.".': e i
If McCurdy s sultry had boon 1150.00
a year he wouldn't have known there
was such a company. .
The Oregonian squeallngly holds out
the Idea that it is or should be a great
crime for any cltlsen of Portland to own
stock in an opposition dally newspaper.
If the Oregonian had the power, it would
no doubt make this a capital offense.
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Shall Niagara be dammed?" asks an
exchange. We have no occasion to feel
that way about it..
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A great erlals la passed for the Re
publican party in Oregon. Klamath
Falls Republican. Glad to bear it. Now
Chairmaa Baker eaa take a little needed
K cr-v-- .. -i-
Our ancient Mend Vested Rights will
be a prominent figure In the discussion
In congress on the railway regulation
question. .
The city superintendent of Schools. Is
chiefly meritorious.
A southern Oregon deputy - fish
warden, while 09 a trip to capture
Illegal fish traps and their owners, un
lawfully killed a deer and was htmself
fined III. Now he understands that
the law does not make fish of on of
fender and flesh of another. .
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The bar pilots should tie a rock to
the end of a string and measure again.
Andrew Carnegie assert that women's
heads of long hair are microbe nests,
snd he wants them to go short-orepped.
They will probably teU him that he
could talk with a better fee If he would
use a rasor.
Some of them will be built, too.
A Kansas man sava he has noticed
I, that when a married woman qulta her
Job down town the neighbors all gather
on the front porch to watch for the
stork. ' 1. - v ,.- r. ... , 1
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Mr. Harriman will refer' to a man of
Oregon quite often hereafter. .
A United States treasury official in
Illinois has smashed a large lot of valu
able imported crockery because the pl
turea on it were not to his taste. Per
haps the government should hire An-1
thonr Comstock to Inspect the crockery
tf the country and authorise him to
smash all that doe not suit him. .
'A youth named Booser is under ar
rest for being Intoxicated, and he will
not be allowed to plead hi name as an
exouse. ' . , ... , -
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The rank and file of school teacher
are now discovering who are the bene
ficiaries of the "merit system." But
they should remember that "them that
has, gets." : - , .
More- car, more car, more ear!
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' 80 It seems Miss Roosevelt' present
are only a lot or cheap trumpery, arter
all. But they may become more valu
able after the custom house Is passed.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Corvallls business house cloned dur
ing a football game. Football fever
must be hot up there,
In Harney eounty laat week C. A.
Sweek recovered $1,100 damagea from C
F. McKlnney.on account of the latter
spitting tn Sweek a face some year ago.
On a former, trial the Jury disagreed.
Sweek welgha tli pounds, bu is peace
ably inclined, and MoKlnney welgha 210
pounds. A physical battle might have
been intereatlng, but Sweek preferred
cmsn. v , t . r. ., - . .
. At Carlton a white' man Shot the
top of a Jap' hat off. and thought he
bad done something smart.
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Two Tamhlll county calves, six 'and
five month old, weighed when dressed
71 pounds.
Within 10 months II dwellings hare
been built or are in eoure of eon
structlon in Medford.
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' Drain Nonpareil: The rroat made a
fellow wonder what In thunder he was
doing all summer that he didn't get in
nis winters wood.
e .
A Freewater woman sold 11,500 worth
of Wlnesap apples off four acres, and
raised many hundreds of dollars' worth
of other fruits on a small tract - of
ground. - ..'
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Some time ago the Myrtle Creek hotel
was burned and a woman lost her life
tn the fire. A Jury has rendered a ver
dict against an Insurance company for
16,000 in favor of the hotel owner, which
the Myrtle Creek Mall says was "an un
just verdict, aa th fire was of Incen
diary origin, and that somewhere ' the
unhung murderer walk the face of the
earth, while her brood cries out In vale
for vengeance."
Th Springfield New saye a heavy
whit frost "made-one think of the
money they had spent foolishly of late."
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Indians without licenses supply Lake-
view with venison. .
A Freewater man who sprayed eight
times ha fin sound apples.
Th third porcupine, killed on Myrtle
creek, a large one, met death there last
week, after a dog had become very
sorry he tackled him. . .
A Union eounty ateer, sight month
old. that weighed 1,100 pounda, dropped
dead la a pasture.
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A Brownsville man raised a vegetable
that weighs It pounds, amd expert au
thorities dlffsr aa to what It I. Some
ay It' a pumpkin, ' others a squash,
and still others say It' a cross between
the two. . . :.' r r
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A Boise City man ha taken an option
on 10 acre of waterfront Coo bay land
at 11.000 an acre, that a few year ago
wss sold for 110 aa acre., .
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A new mill in th Big Butte' region
In Jackson county baa control of 4,000.
000,000 feet of standing timber and will
have a capacity of 110,000 feet a day.
JOURNEY OF LEWIS
AND CLARK
' Descending the dalles of to Colum
bia. ...... -, ; ' -5 ' .1
October tl We walked down with
several of the Indiana to view the part
or me narrow wmcn they represented
as most dangerous. We found It very
difficult, but, as with eur large canoe
the portage was impracticable, we de
cided on .'carrying our most valuable
artlclea by land and haaardlng the pas
sage, we tnereror returned to the vil
lag, and after sending some of the
party . to make a portage and . fixed
others on ths rock to assist with ropes
the canoes which might meet with any
difficulty, w began the descent in the)
presence of great -numbers of Indians
who had collected to witness, this ex
plolt. Th channel for three miles Is
worn through a hard, rough black rock
from 10 to 100 yards wide, in which
the water swells, and bolls in a tre
mendous manner. The three first ca
noe escaped very well; the fourth,
however, had nearly, filled with water;
the fifth passed through with only . a
small quantity of water over her. At
half a mile we had got through ' th
worst part, rand having reloaded . our
canoes went on very well for two and a
half miles, except that on of. the boat
was nearly lost by running against a
rock. At th end of this channel of, three
mile, in which the Indiana Inform u
they catch aa many salmon as they
wish.' we reached a deep basin or bend
of th river toward th right, near the
entrance of which are two rock. W
crossed th basin, which ha a quiet
and gentle current, and at the entrance
of a mile from -Its commencement and
a little below where the river resumes
it channel reached a rock which divide
It - At this- place we met our old chiefs.
who, when we began th .portage, had
walked down to a village below t to
smoke a pipe. ej. friendship on the re
newal of peee. just after our meeting
we saw a tef of th - village above
with a part rho had been out hunting
and were 4htA .crossing th river with
the ' horses on their - way. home..1 We
landed to' smoke with thl ehlef, whom
we found a bold-looking man of pleas
ing appearance, about 10 year of age,
dressed In a war Jacket, a cap, legging
and moccasins. W presented htm
with a needle and other small article
and he gave ua some meat, of which w
had been able to procure but little; for
on hi route he bad met with a war
party of Indian from th Towahna
h looks., between whonfther was a! battle.
We here smoked a parting pip with our
two faithful friend, the chiefs, who had
accompanied ua from the head of the
rtver and who now had each bought a
horse. Intending to go home by land.
On leaving this rock the . rtver 1
gentle, but strewed with a great num
ber of rocks for a few miles, when It
become a beautiful . still stream about
halt a mile wide. At five miles from
the large bend , we came to the mouth1
of a creek to yard wide, heading in
the range of mountains which runs south
southwest and southwest for a long dis
tance, and .discharging a considerable
quantity of water; It I called by the
Indian Quenett. We halted below It
under a high point of rocks on th left,
and aa It was necessary to make, some
celestial observations, we' formed a
camp on the top of the rock Fort
Rock). This situation Is perfectly well
caloulated for defense in case the In
dlans should Incline to attack us, for
the rock form a aort of natural fortl
flcatlon, with the aid of the river and
creek; It is also convenient to hunt
along the foot of the mountain to th
west and southwest, where there are
several species of timber which- form
fine coverts for game. From this rock
th pinnacle of th round mountain
covered with snow, which We had seen
a short distance below th fork of th
Columbia, and which w had called the
IFaJls or Tlmm mountain, 1 south 41
of th country on both side . of th
river, abov and below -the falls, I
teep, rugged and rocky, with a ,very
amall proportion of herbage, and no
timber except a few bushes; th hill to
the west, however, have some scattered
pine, white oak and other klnda of trees.
AU th timber used .by th people at
th upper fall I rafted down . the
Towahnahiook by those who live at
the head of the (Long) narrows, from
which It la carried three miles by . land
to their habitations. Both above and
below, aa well aa In the narrows, we
saw a great number of sea-otters,- or
seals. , This evening one deer was killed
and great signs or that animal were
seen near the camp. In the ereek "we
shot a goose and saw much appearance
of beaver. One of the party also saw
a fish, which he took to be a drum-fish.
Among the willows we found several
snarea aet by the natives for the pur
pose of -catching wolves.
This Seems Reasonable.
' Letter fn Seattle Times. "
A navy sailor who lives at a distance
from th sea will hav to sava a whole
year out of his scanty wage to be able
to go home at least once a year. Now,
there ought to be om remedy for such
a thing. If the government were to
end the same bluejacket to his place,
the government would use It transpor
tation rate, which la lea than half fare.
There 1. nothing to prevent a bluejacket
front purchasing his transportation
from the government, the same as he
doe ' hi clothes -amd everything else.
When' an officer travel he get half
fare, while the poor enlisted man ha to
pay full rate. The United States I the
only country that doe not allow It
soldier and sailors rates in traveling.
and; I do not see why there should be
any aiscriminauon snown neiween a
better paid officer and an enlisted man.
That la, , when both are visiting their
homes. . . " 1
To moderate the thing, at least, a
bluejacket ought to be allowed govern
ment ratea once a year, to visit hi
home and hi family. Many men get
estranged from home because they are
forced to atay away the whole four
yeara of their enlistment, on account of
lack of funds. . , .
Growth of the "Yell."
4
From the New Tork Bun.
"With the exception of Whitman and
Pee one might say with the exception
of Whitman the American poets are es
sentially minor, reflective, secondary.
repeating th European background and
a derived culture. The one genuine,
original native American poet product,
for Indian and African folk song be
longs not .to the modern American civ
ilisation. Is the Students' InterJectlonaJ-
exclamatlon - song or cry, th "yell.
Strident, sharp, savage, eocentrie. fan
tastic, -it ha a wild rhythm and power
which nobody who has once heard will
ever forget" .
So wrote Professor Armlniu Hoch
Heuler in hi "Literature In the United
States' (Lelpslg. 104). 1 .
The "yell ' which the Professor ad
mires so much 1 no longer peculiar te
students, nor waa it so when he wrote.
It I a vocal expression of oonsoclated
feeling lung and esprit de corps. It
I such an important part of education
that the teachere have adopted It, These
specimen, used laat summer by a party
of Cleveland "teachers and educator"
who Invaded the farther wet, are re
spectfully submitted to professor Hoon-
Heuler: ..
-I yell. I yell, I yell .
Yellowstone. 4 -J r. , '
' Who yell? W jell, we yell ,
Tellowatone. ' "
' Slip alam baso, '
. Llcfcety laekety lo,. .
' Canyon. Canyon ' , ' "
! Colored O. . . - , -. , '"'
- Slip slam baso.
Llckety laekety lo,
Cleveland. Cleveland, Oh Id.
7.- ? f Teh, To. Te,...
,' :, j i Yah, To, Te
I yell. I yell"
. - Tosemlte." "?
Tills last "yell"' ia te be given three
times. . ... . '
All school have their "yells." All
teachers muat hav them, too. Th pro
fessor will pour" forth according Joy
ful noise. Meeting of educational
ociatlon will begin and end with these
strange- chants or choruses, Lr. naioi.
Dr. Hadley. Dr. Butler, Dr. Wilson and
all the other high Illustrious don will
hav to lead and "line our" tne weixtn-
wrecklng hymn. With due modesty we
suggest as a "presidential" formula:
Cough up! Loown upi .
Bis dat, qui clto dat, '.
Try the rati
There ain't no taint - e
- If you eough up. loosen upl ' -Thl
1 rude but characteristic.
' 'By Beatrice Fairfax, y J
The playtime of the year I ever.
girls, and now eome th time for doing
good work; and showing what yon art
mads tor. T
Mak up your mind that during th
coming winter you will do something
to Improve yourselves,, mentally, phys
ically, or both. ' . fx
It Is easier - tw work In - the cool
weather, and one 1 (eels like- achieving
"- . .
Brains and muscles are eager lor
exercise. ,'. f ' s ''
Be if you Can't find something In
which to . Interest yourself during tne
winter, so that by spring you will be
conscious that yew hav decidedly
grown" In some direction or other. -If
you suffer the drawback of a 11m
lted education, pick out om line of
tudy and work at It with all your heart
and nrgy.
If rou can afford it. Join some social
or athletic club and reap the benefits
of mingling with your fellow being
or develoDlna- yourself Bhyslcally. .
Or get together a rew or you ano
form cluba of your own.
A walking club of young' men and
women, to meet once a week, will afford
1U members a great deal or pleasure.
Or. you hlght start a reading club aad
take turns reading aloud one or -two
evenings eaeh 'week. Spend one half the
evening reading some good history and
th other half over an intereatlng novel.
Then you could have oorree ana cane.
Tou could take turn meeting at each
other's homea ( 1 . i .
Maker up your' mind to auoceed In
your work as you never hav oerore.
Put your very beet err oris into it
Bar to yourself. "I am going to im
prove myself thl winter, and at th end
of it I Intend to be more of a woman
than I ever have been before." f. "
Don't waste a" minute. Time 1 more
orecloua than diamond and rubles.
All your endeavor won't bring back
one. lost moment; never forget than
I would advise every girl to try and
do a little bit of good reading during the
long winter eventnge. .rf"'r "
The ' publle llbrarie are open to 'all,
and intereatlng book fan be picked up
at the second-hand book shop for al
most nothing. " . . ;
If you do not care for reading, find
some other diversion that will keep your
mind and Interest stimulated. -
Get a hobby of some kind. There is
nothing like t hobby to keep one Inter
ested. ' - - - f :
Don't let the winter pass without get
Hn AAtnA mnfbA Ait Af It. . .1
Take f'8elf Improvement" for 1 your
motto, and keep the words bright and
shining before you all winter.
In the spring you will be a happy girl
if you feel you have lived up to your
motto, t . , . . -
Our Country Cousins.
Various Items of
Aurora Borealla:. .t
correspondence
In
3. S. Jesse Is busy making wood at
present.
Oglesby Bros, are busy making wood
at present.
W. Leach U working for Jack Kerr
at present. "
Making wood I th main work on this
pralrl at present. ' - v - -
Miss Flora -Spagle I .working for. C.
C. Mblson at preeent. .
H. A. Wolfer I busy digging potatoes
for BetV-Welfer-at present., .. s
Otto Knorr called on Smldt's laat Fri
day evening. ..
Leo Keil we seen going home with a
cat In a. sack last Wednesday.-
C, G. Hoffmann ia making preparations
for building a wagon-ehed. v .
Nowaday Bd doesn t hav to go
to Needy toeee a ohoolma'ara. There
I one closer. , -
' Mr. and Mrs. E. Hoffmann and Mr. E.
Thlel are digging potatoee for Lewis
Spagle. -" . - .
John Goets and family are busy dig
ging potatoes these days. That's right,
John, make the young folks work.
Samuel Miller la making preparations
for painting his residence In .the near
future. Make her shine, Sam.
vnaries ugieiDy is uiinsmg.or msa-
Ing a mash In the vicinity ef Elliott
Prairie in the near future. ; '
. Freight Rates' Too High
From ' the Toledo Reporter. ' '
Our fruitgrowers are facing the same
Condition thl year that they faced last
year and the year before and so on back
to the time whenvwe had rekular ocean
steamer service t San Francisco and
other markets. We have an abundance
of apples, aa fine as can be grown any
where in the world, and yet only the
very choicest, that command an extra
price, can be sold at a figure that will
pay for their-picking and boxing. It
would appear to the ordinary .finite
mortal that " the . transportation' com
panies would mak more- money by
lowering their rate so that It would
pay th produoer to ship his product ,
tnnn or keeping up a rate that I pro
hibitive. Every year for the past eight
year thousand ot bushels have rotted
in thle eounty because It did not pay. to
ship th, - tfhe potato industry, which
assumed large proportions when we hid
etesmer service. Is' practically blotted
out We can raise the best. In t large
quantities; there are those who need our
products. Say, please hurry up that
railroad from Salem. i v .
A Shorter Cut to It. f
' From the Montreal Star.
"Few negmea carry life insurance,
say a statistician. 1 They may figure It
Is ehaapar and quit ad I effective , to
carry raaors. - d
I g'r''"'r''''''' '
DONT WASTE YOUR
TIME :
TIIE DEVOTED LOVE OF
A MOTHER
By Rv, T. B. Gregory." - .. '
I am in jail and starving. Jame.
That waa all? , ' . ,
From the 'City of the Angel," away
out on the coast .of gold, the message
wai flashed on to - the great moke
covered metropolis of the middle west "
.There It waa put into the hands of
the, mother fee whpnj it waa Intended,
and the mother-heart ached for thi "ioa
who waa availing upon her in hi trouble.
But It 1 a long way from Chicago te 1
Lo Angel- the two plaeee-being
separated by more than 1000 miles.
And the mother waa poor, Bhe had -no
bank account, no stock, o bond, or '
mortgsge. her sole earthly belonging
consisting of a. humble little home and
It modest furnishing.
But her boy was in trouble, the mes-
ssg told her, and that waa enough. No '
matter about th distance. - no matter
about the little property she had ehe
would aell that, property, even though
it be at a big aacrlf ice, and start for her
sorrowing aent . r ..,..,,.. v, -
i Oh, th depth of a mother1 lovf In
all the world there's nothing like It!
It will go through fir and water, . tt
will brav the lion In his den. It will :
make any: sacrlftoe, endure any priva
tion to reach and save it object
The little home, with all that it con
tained, was speedily put into cash, and
the mother began her long Journey
across the continent The ' train went
like lightning and yet to that anxious
mother It seemed to creep, so deslrlou -was
she of reaching her boyl -
None but- the mother -who may
happen to read this story will be able
to know how ah felt what mingled
Joy and sorrow, hop and fear. satls
faction and a ham alternately possessed
her soul as the iron horse waa bearing '
her along toward the eunny land where
her son lay behind th prison bars I
A mother's love la one thing, the ma
chinery of the law la another, and be
for th mother reached the City of the
Angela the law had tried and sentenced .
her boy. -
But there Isn't law enough la all th
universe to 'put a damper on mother
lov,eC.It keep right on loving, law;
or 'no law, aenteno or no entnce, and
will never take "No" for aa ana war I
So, when . this mother got to her
Journey's nd and learned what ' had
happened aha did not give up In despair,
but went straightway so th Judg .
with. -her mother's plea, plea that waa i
as gentle a a lullaby and yet a strong J
aa, th force .of the storm and th 1
Judg' eyes filled with tears, a h re
membered his . own mother and th
mighty lov wherewith she loved him I
Taking hold of th woman' hand the
Judge looked through misty eyes into
her sorrowful face and assured her that
he would do all that ha could tor her
and' for her boy.
It doth not yet appear what the result
will be. but of one thing we may be sure.
that mother lov I not going to grow "
sold and die. ' In the City of th Angels,
homeless, friendless, a strangar.. In a
Strang land, that mother will stand by
her boy to th and!
Throughout th lonely day, and th
still lonelier vigils of th night, she
wul - hum ever to , herself ' th iitti
lumber songs she used to sing when
her boy was a' baby in her arm. . Th
vision of th baby fee and baby prank ,
will com to her over and over again.
and 'for the culprit "beyond the bar he .
will feel all ef the old-time arrection:
Ah, yea, -th depth' of a mother' love!
There's a moral to our story, which
moral may be . put in th shape of a
question:
"Bovs! Can you afford to despise a
lov Ilk this? In a word, an you afford,
under any olrcumstancee, , to go back
on mother"
; - A Dotty Dialogue. t , ,
' '.' By Wex Jonea. - :" -: ':"
ThrA'a a ehafft named ftalas drlvtns Si '
ear in the Vanderbllt eup race," re
marked the Loafer, "and I've counted
ES3 papers that have said he sounds Ilk
a siphon." . -'
"And doesn't fie?" asked the Bank
Clerk. "He ought to sslssl horn In
front"
"Hla name Is nronounced 'Cease.' ac
cording . to , the wise guy." said the
Loafer. "Which ha Inspired me," and '
he placed a manuscript In th hand of
th Bank .Clark, who read:
There" was a French driver named Salsa, -Who
was pinched for disturbing the "
psiss.
Said th witness in court.
-.."I'm a iovr s pon. .
But, lord! h ran over my nias.
tma vau writ that whan vou had a
cold In the headT" asked the Bank Clerk.
"Commissioner McAdoo say that '
Shakespeare, couldn't, have written
BhekesDeera If he had suffered from a
cold In th head."
He might have turned tne jod over 10
Bacon." said the Loafer. "But don't be
L. u.iiiu Ha aava ha's like
the Coney Island man who sticks his
head, through a canva ana gives JE
who hits htnf. TOU
don't get any cigar for hitting th Com
missioner. Tour only rewaru is n u..
sickening thud." '
"I don't want to hit him." reaponded
.v. Ti.-h ri.-v - "T fully seres with J
'what he eald about Bernard Bhaw and
the marriage relationship. .-
"A you haven't read Shkw and have
never been married, you are fully qua - ;
fled to Judge," retorted the Lewter, ; I
en.- a. MM.nA l'tu never ''
mm, oiiaw i ,, -
red anything h wrote. HJ b00" ef,m
mighty clever you aan .
-Who lnaa read Bhaw'S books, then! v
asked the Bank Clerk. . .
"Only the people wno are given ;"
by their frleod and ar afraid tney u ne
j . nut a fle for Shaw."
...eu iiiuu. "w - ' ,
continued the Loafer, "when the bologna
maker ar triking. -'rkninana
seem a mighty fin food
rfnn'i aat It" said the Bank
Clerk, jnlmlcklng th tumttr.
"Now, then," "-. ,. "
little more'respectful or I'll call yoy
Raffle and hav th eops after you.
"Go ahead." eald the Bank Clerk; "
need a little quiet" , ,
Poking Fun at Portland.
From the Albany Herald. ,
Portland must be proud of the Mult
nomah . county court which thriftily
ells it birthright ror a apooniui or
mush and takea th ret out In dvr-
tlslng. Th great wet is burned ana
scarred and blistered with hideous eigne ,
and placard. Now the strange person
In authority at -oriiana. ior innini
um. enter Into agreement with advert!- ,
ing agencies to defll th brldgee which
span the Willamette. Thus l th
metropolis led astray.
; ; '. A Young Bachelor. ; ;
E. lb Wals, 1000 Greenwich Street, Saa
Francisco.
In a small Massachusetts village ceme
tery mat be sern th following epitaph!
. . Hr dcaTfh Body , i.. .
- - L .SL . . , A- ' "
jonnnie Howies, , , '
f Aged J.Teer. 4 Months. A
' v ... Male.-' . .. v
, ' Unmarried.
.V:-Y,' ;'... --r' ,
1
Condon growing at a rapid rate. . . ,
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