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PROOFS
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' HEJJ the . poor little ore
wobbled into the local - newspaper field,
- rather more than three year ago, and made
it modest initial bow, there were few o poor aa to do
it reverenei. : It was regarded : as . another candidate
which soon would be added to the long list of accum
ulated failures in the competitive field. The contempt of
the. Oregonian for the newcomer wa beyond expression.
In the Tall Tower its coming was greeted, with merry
laughter. Secure, intrenched and impregnable in its
own estimation, it has snsnasd its fingers at the world
:the question. .Where: did he. get itr. which Wuliam
Tracers Jerome recently made famous, in. his campaign
'against Tammany . 1 :'"'-' ' V "V ' ' "'
But while there was little or no iaith, in the mind
of the public, in the permanency of the enterprise, there
was a tremendous amount of latent good wilL . There
was none in the community so shortsighted that he failed
. to perceive the deadliest incubus that, rested. upon.Ore-f-on
was the lack of newspaper competition in. Portland.
Where .there was but . one. way of reaching .the public,
where there was no opportunity for genuine discussion
&f questions that, vitally affected the public well-being
or freshening the pool of thought by'givlng all sides
. V chance to be heard,' stagnation, intellectual, political,
tusiness and moral, must necwary foUow.",. Tn w
Utterly true of Portland and of Oregotu Every citiaen
.recognized and .deplored it. As time wentlthe "good
will for the new enterprise became potential, tut it is In
the newspaper .business-precisely like any other,, mere
-'" sentiment, however active, will not carry ft far and un-
, jess It is able to prove its intrinsic worth-it will not
make a deep impression or last long. This !was true of
The Journal It had to fight its way inch by inch. It
sought no political .provender to keep it alive and from
the first it ignored methods f-raising. revenue which
long Vstablished local custom had sanctioned and which
was more than obviously thrust upon it, 'T ' '
, The first real manifestation that the paper was be
coming a factor came to It from the country .district.
.. The methods and policies of the paper suited the sub
tlantial classes to be found there. ' They approvedof its
tone and spirit and immediately began to show their con
fidence by their subscriptions. In the city itself the fight
was more prolonged. From Portland necessarily musf
' proceed the bulk of the revenue to sustain it This was
' true of advertising as well as subscriptions. . v. ,
; Into the political campaigns which arose The Journal
threw itself with enthusiasm. It took "the moral" side
of public questions which hitherto had been regarded
- with great contempt In association with the people it
won some notable, victories. Each of these added some
what' to its strength, and prestige and, giving, indica
tions of its vitality, helped to make dear that .it : wa
I ere to stay which was the most difficult of all lessons to
jnrress upon the public mind. In lets than two years
fie evening edition of the paper was on a paying basis
, pid. in.less than a year later, the Sunday, edition with its
vast added expense scored the same success. Steadily
and surely it has won its way until now. it has become a
factor to be reckoned with, an exponent of the thoughts,
A pANIEL COME TO JUDGJfSNT. v..
QUR XJAY YOUNG FRIEND Daniel Malarkey,
HFinding the house of cards which he-and -the
; gangster associated with him had so laboriously
built up in order to reestablish the sway of peanut poli
tics at the city hall, now endeavor to cover the con
. fusion and; humiliation of hi retreat byjepming forward
' 'with the suggestion that enough has been "developed"
Xin the investigation .to.warrautJinpeachroent proceed-'
' ings against the mayor.' . 1 it ;...' v.'V-
Malarkey is successfully accomplishing two things he
" is adding to the gsyety of nations and making plain that
-.- for-the-Ty which-comes tOxflto frOTnthegamblers he
' is willing to go all the dirty lengths to earn it There
are many people who have thought better of Malarkey
than this. They believed that while keen as the next
professional man to earn a dollar he would have too
. much self-respect to go chasing it. through the miry alleys
H leading to the poolrooms and too much shrewdness to
endanger his own future chances of preferment by doing
, Bis level best and still for pay to aid the reactionaries
' in their desperate effort once again to make of.Port
'; :'. land an "open town." '' v;",,. ' ;? - '
The public is fully aware that in the estimation of
this cabal the chief crime against Mayor Lane -and his
'administration is that they are set hard as flint against
. grafting and the rehabilitation of publicjeamblingin.this.
town."They Jcnow they cannot be swerved Jroin this
, : course. :- Hence the "miserable 'tittle r Job, in ' which the
,,"Red picket"' council took a kindergarten psrt, to throw
discredit upon the appointment of a police captain. But
the moment 'it was discovered that a majority of the
civil service commission were holdover Republicans from
the last administration and that the Qualifications of all
the applicant were passed upon by an .independent
board composed of two such competent men as Post
master Minto and Captain Nevins, superintendent of
the Pmkerton agency, the whole conspiracy was scat
tered like chaff to the four wind of heaven. : ; . :
- But it is now realized that there was something deeper
in the conspiracy than appeared on the surface and that
with Dan Malarkey at the forefront the open town peo-r
pie furnishing the sinews of war and the Oregonian dis
" torting the evidence, it was hoped to bring Portland
back to the good old condition when the machine ruled
land the people were helpless against its will. , The affair,
. - however, ha degenerated into opera bouffe and its chief
actors have become a laughing stock in the community.
" Malarkey might be, not in better paid business, per-
... haps, but in much decenter and more self, respecting em
ployment If, however, he likes this sort of thing it is
all right for him to keep it up for he himself i now the
aly ne-he-ean-hurt-and he n domBrthar-fainefloufrfi
to aatufy the most exacting.
WOUEN HEADS OF
I.
AW TEXTBOOKS on the marriage relation must
be nuite different from what they were a gen-
. eration ago, or even less, and must need ad
'' drnda or revision frequently in ordef to et forth Ju
!'c 1 2cision that until recently had no place in them.
Net very long ago it was decided in Iowa, we be
lievethat a married woman who in reality managed the
bur : i cf the family partnership, buying and selling
and 1 - -'.J? I out for things generally, and through whose
' l-r ' I thrift th family was chiefly maintained, was
ii well as in fact the "head of the family" to all
I for all purposes of the law processes. A
judje took another tack in a decision ren-
week in which he ordered a married woman.
. :sd of the family," to pay her husband three
-'-i tur'ti lit and their children' luppprC
Oregon. daily
AN j INDEPENDENT. NEWSPAPER
PUSLISIISD BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
CwUr) and iwr Sunday mocntot. at
. . hBl atreets, Portland, Oregon.
FROM AN UNEXPECTED
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beginning He sit-uf
peered shorn of
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aspirations and convictions of the largest clientele of
people that any newspaper in Oregon may boast s, -vFrom
the '. beginning The Journal introduced innova
tions. ' One of the most manifest to the eye wa coldred
supplements. . Because of this it was ranked among the
"yellow" press. ' The " Oregonian loudly proclaimed,
never,' no never, ' would it descend td'such low levels.
For ;50 years it had "marked time' and it proposed to
continue to do so for another half century. Yet the dis
criminating publie became aware that th old girl waa
sH iV' tlMt f ri l'1
f nf ration ty
them. Its reports of public proceedings
became fairer,, though, there is stilt much to be wished in
this respect It blossomed out into, bigger headlines, it
began in itsjieavy way to "eature" ita big news, thus
by indirection paying The Journal methods the greatest
compliment they could receive.: , ; - -i I , . ;
In the course of time it gave forth the news that it
was' going to" get another press, as big at a barn. , It did
not then announce that it was going to get a color at
tachment to it But it did. Its evening appendix sud
denly blossomed, out in all the colors of the rainbow,
with an apology that they didn't like to do it but there
was such a public demand they could no longer resist it
And now the dear old Oregonian itself, in its New Year's
edition, which is about the worst ever, has broken down
the bars. It prints two pages in blue. Just think of it,
the indurated, hidebound did Oregonian that never knew
what enterpris was,:comijig out in aTJlue dress l .J7V'?,
: But that is not all .orthe most of it i It is doing' eo
much business that it wants to share its prosperity with
its readers. IT HAS REDUCED f ITS SUBSCRIP
TION PRICEl " Actually it lias put the knife into" the
subscription $pt of its paper, Just to be a go6d fellow
and not because Journal competition ;-1as become so
strong it could 5no longer withstand it It is to laughl
- And so it will readily be believed that The Journal is
feeling' tolerably gocat on this delightfully spring-like
New Year's day. ItTcnew and the public knew it was
getting along very well, thankyou7That It had the largest
circulation In Portland and in : Oregon, - that it has
greater, variety of advertisers than any other newspaper
in the city, that every advertiser who now keeps out of
the paper is doing his business a rank injustice, but it
remained for, the Oregonian to give a demonstration of
its great growth and the effectiveness of its competition
when it came forth this morning arrayed in color, and
proclaimed a reduction in the price of it subscription.
The jnd girl, as usual,, is a little too late in noting the
signs of the times. The Journal is already intrenched in
a field the Oregonian might have occupied, but never
deigned to do so. , One year from Yjow, at its present
rate of progress, what is now patent to the wise ones
will be apparent to. all people,; that the Oregonian is
second' in the newspaper race in Oregon and that while
The Journal may congratulate itself upon 'taking ad
vantage of it opportunities its heartfelt thanks are most
largely due to, its bitterest enemy, the Oregonian, whose
extraordinary newspaper methods have paved the way
for-The Journal to score th triumphant success which
it now enjoys by common "consent and with the hearty
good Will of a great majority of the people of Portland,
Oregon country. , " .V-;
He was an incapable sort of fellow, and she deserted him
and the children,' and was making good, wages, having
more than her needs required, so she was ordered to
help hetiuiband out. to the extent of this small stipend.
A Kansas judge went even farther, though in a dif
ferent direction, in , judicially maintaining woman's
rights, holding that 'where- - it , was necessary for a
woman who, was the head of the family to maintain dis
cipline by" the corporal chastisement of an unruly hus
band, she was within her right in doing so, and the act
was in accord with public policy andJended toward the
eventual order and peace of the family. Under. this de
cision, and .weioJiot . question ita wisdom,' it fs- the
husband, not the wife, who is bound to obey, if she
should become de facto and so legally the head of the
family. If he doesn't obey orders sb can thrash him,
and, the courts will say she does well,, whereas, if be
threshes her for disobedience he goes in Oregon to
the whipping post ' But there is not much danger that
in any given case a judge will not take the whole situa
tion and all the circumstance into consideration, i
The Kansas case shows that a woman head of a fam
ily has great privileges but- the Michigan case show
that she also .ha responsibilities and limitation. . She
may whip her husband if he does not behave, but if she
deserts him and tbeir children she must help support
them. . : f i .- . ..,. . ;. v
"THfi PEOPLE'S OPPORTUNITY.
OLITICIANS have latelyfound that it is a dan
' erous thins to fool with the people. A few year
did nothing else. ' Except on the rarest
occasions they did nothing .Dut.mak the pretense of
complying with the popular. wish".. Indeed the public
was considered for exploitation purposes and nothing
more.'.' v ' . " '"'' 1 ' , ' ' ''" :'
' But a change has come over the spirit of their dreams,
due very largely to new laws which bring back to the
people powers of which they had most unwisely divested
themselves. " t Office-holder being ; now directly re
sponsible to the people and easily reached for punish
ment or : reward, look-to the voter for , appreciation
rather than to the bosses Those of them Vho are of
the right stamp have been emancipated. They know if
thev render honest and loyal publie service they will not
but-receive the-reward of reelection which
should go with iU Hence it is tnat eo many on ice
holders are striving to faithfully and intelligently serve
the public- interests while those who are simply playing
politics are treated with such contemptuous Indifference.
On the other hand the publie has learned that with
the reins of power directly in its own hand it ha the
most efficient xf mea n 4a insure good, clean-and honest
administrations. Seeing that this is well in so far as
it has been tried! the voter-. determined to push the
advantage which the direct primary law now give them.
Most of them know that they have it now in their power
for the first time to elect United States senators. ; They
know, too,-that it was onty by a most diverting fiction
that they ever exercised it through - th legislature.
They got nearly always, not the man who would hye
won before the people, but the one the bosses electeCAo
give them, r Hereafter all of this will bs changed if the
voters-onmistakably assert themselves. "They, and not
the bosses or legislature, will designate the man and to
them he will be directly responsible,' If will be to them
also, he wiH look either for reward or punishment as
he feels he deserves it With such a condition appre
ciated by the people, is it likely they will let go of any
of their newly bought privilege or, on the other hand,
their determination once known, ssyiset of politicians
will have the hardihood to attempt to deny them their
HlAIX CIANG3
the mrtua UUn Uthat Cnel Ru
U had nuoh OMh not ajreadr Atw
The well who seora doctors and
proaeher goflerally ehan a tkeiv tune
whan they become UL . i, , . '
' Old 101 gave ua a good bath at the
- It U betur to make jm od reaolu
tlon and atlok to it than to make many
and. break tnam. ., - , .
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Nick ba on roat advantage of moat
young anon to start in with; aeoordlng
to hi picture be J almost a bald
boadod aa a billiard balL -. - .
,m ',y.jy
Don't forget that It a "t." ; :
s. . '-,
-r-flie bigg-tat year re aa begwr. f
-r If young ttM ...thhJM ijh' U te
bava a ipt or time to ioaz in uu oovn
trr. he ta baalr aletakra. But be
deem't' leok a it he va liu mrt. .
TtMr win be plMty mere eggs ta
tbla yeaf neetsk
Now the poUtlelaaa will gvt bnatec,
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OdaU'e tnltlale might new Wtand for
Bounosd Boesv .... ' ' .'. a"."
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The poor school teaeher and ebll-
drea bavo a Jong spU of work abaatl of
thorn now; Shouldn't thoy have two
w-Mko vacation agate la February or
Marebf . v
w Tear. . ' ; , ;
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What did roa bav to aaewer te
Father Tun when bo eane around to
day and asked about all ' those good
resolutions you mad a year ago, and
tb money yon were going to aave dur
ing 1M : . :
'Probably n voar from now th Ore
gonian may rlaetaUy admit that Port
land's population t. about llf.eea.
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Then there are a good many mea
who oouldn't borrow any money at
1,000 per eent - - '. . ' ' .".-r
Varv-tMMToloBt old entlemea the,
no doubt Uncle Russell and J.
PUrpoet Morgan
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Xx-Bom Odell threaten te give away
Depew, Black and the rest ox we Re
publican leader In H Tors uooo;
U all of them tell all they know about
one another the people will sum th
iswli evt.'Vi., . ""' ;
Bop ywr aU happy. :v '
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The mayor ha th (to me) eurtone
fixed opinion that a policeman snow
have brain aa well .as brawn. - , ; .
'.'.. ., "... , .'. y e e , . . -Tomorrow
begin the'blg. ; Booming
business of 10. i - . v , i
There I a good deal In getting atarted
right - . ;
t Tm'evorth ' aald what ke waa re
ported ae saying , about the le-eent
dowry foollshnise that - he - waa de
Ughted with the Idea H woul aervo
him about ngns s
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OREGON SIDELIGIfrS
n-..' its sos and II0.00 m eaah
v m mt dnrfaur th past 11
months by the CorvallU creamery f
buttor fat.;-.".. ' S
ehkk la about te elose baa
been marked by phteomenal growth and
progress In Condon, ay am w
r' V.. doubled In population
and In dollars' worth of buildings and
other valuable Improvements it baa, per
haps, almost treoiea. iranni w
mar . JUian . 3 outii t
erected, oountrag only reeldenoesj and
buslneM buiidiof. -2tT''.T
Ex-Oovernor Oeer, the Varahfleld .Ben
says, "will probably get left on the
nomination, but If he should mooeed In
capturing It, fee will undoubtedly get left
at the polls. The tall sycamore 1 not
geered up for as wlft a race a tb
approaching contest promises to be." But
there IS a guoerneioruu
at Marshfield which may possibly ao-
ooant for th sum opinion. ,
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Wen vine -ta a aUUment by a defend
ant's attorney that Benton county waa
afflloted with cranks. District Attorney
Brown said that tio eoumy i v.iu,
In proportion, to 1U population has so
'.rimiui jtraeeoutlnna: no county has
so few persona brought to the bar of
ruattas; no eounty la tb second judicial
district is at so little expense in the
oo'nduot of IU court a to
no eounty anywhere to better fitted by
the charaeter ox no pwpi
home of great oauoauonai uwwuuun.
. t . , e e ,
a i nhermaa oountr farm eold last
' week for 41,0, v " , "-':v-
W C Minor of Morrow eounty baa
added tl fine Shorthorn cattle to his
already noted here. ' t ,-..''.-,.' ;
' Oakland ha a Wolf club of t mem
Kr. Thev should be careful not to
kill on another. -V . .. .'-..';;'
Toledo leader: The fruitgrower of
Polk eounty are getting together for
the purpose of waging war on orchard
peota. Bvery fruitgrowing county In
the state ehould follow th lead of P-
llfio and progreewiv a-oia. '-.;:
Many gee and duck being killed tn
th vtclnlty of Coburg.' : . ,. ',..
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Coqulim valley la on of th rlohsst
natural dairy region In. the world.
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An" Alaska man nought team ay
down in Coos county, shipping It via
Beatu. -v-v::' V
Only three, ticket were sold for a
how billed to appear In New berg Sat
urday night , . . , 4 '',,!
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Kewberg handle factory making up-to-date
improvement. - . - t ,
V.e' . . , ;; :.
rrlved In BUrerton
the ether day, the first seen there for
months. " -. ; r-
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Dallas Itemlser: . J. TK Smith qulf
th use Of tobaooo because ethers said
he bad not the nerve to do. It Many
others may say they would like to ejult
It, but haven't the moral oourag to
d so. ,'A vll chunk of tobacco la mas
ter of 'many a. man who. claim to be
free.
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An Oak Orove dramatlo society nlayd
'ThJ'Iisfr4".iDJk4nf ill. il. v
ADVAirr
James I Cowlea, Ceoretary of the Foetal
. Progress gu, ta th New York
World. ' r ...... t '; -
Over ttOOO postmen with their horse
and wagon are now at work picking up,
of their dally vlaita toMhe US famUIsa
oa theaverag 2S-mU ruray route, about
two pound of mall matter per wagon,
and bringing in to the government from
this service, about M cents a day. Their
total loads, mall collected and delivered,
average hardly SO pounds. Costing about
U a day, the net loss from the bualn
is about 11. SO per day per wagon-r
SM.eOO a day over tlt.00,000 a year on
the entire rural outfit a result entirely
due, believe, to the restriction of the
rural post-wagon to - city foot-trafflo.
th handling of letters, newspapers, mag
amines, and four-pound, parcel ' of m-
nhsndlaei pestsger-isseaeed esresls. IS
cents; sealed, l.i. .
In the oldea time,
were thehr own postmen, their- wagoaa-l
oarriea persona, produce, mercnandlae,
as well a letters. newsDaoers and maaa.
sines te and from the- poetoffioe, their
usual Dusinea center, it was reason
able to expect that when' the free rural
mall aervloe wa established the publlo
poat-wagon would assume Jul this work,
and would thus save the rural publlo
th time and aspens Involved In hitch.
Ing up their teams whenever they had
occasion t go to sod from the railroad
station or on a visit to a neighbor, or to
end oft their butter, ens, potatoes and
other produce, or to send for , their 1 su
gar, tea, oof fee and ether supplies, .'
Many , of th early carriers, therefore.
began atv once the regular' trafflo of
the old' poet-coach, adding- to their mall
service the transport of passengers, bag
gage, merchandise, produce, anything
Vhat was offered up to the oapaclty of
their vehicle.. 'The business grew rapid
ly and with profit to the public, the post
office and to th carriers. Their Income
from th malls enabled the carrier to
do the general transport business on
their route much- cheaper than It could
be done by private team and their re
ceipts from their outside business made
it possible for them to carry tne mau at
low cost to tb government
On February U, 1901, Mr. Henry Rob
luon, postmaster " of - Conoord, N. H.,
wrote roe aa follows:. 'They, th. rural
postmen, - are common carriers, . publlo
servants. Impartial officers of the gov
ernment, and beside handling th jneil
many of them provide Inestimable con
venience and accommodation to the
people of ' th rural districts. . ! have
known them to transport barrel of flour,
bag of Brain and other things a heavy.
and many of them do numerous mlscel-
mneoua errands and missions. - , ,
The rural carriers from this of fie are.
handling. 1,600,000 pleoea of mall annual
ly, la this connection. If you will carry
in mind th number of errands, missions,
pieces of freight express and other pack
ages, merchandise . In general,, trans
ported In and out between city and coun
try, you will have an Impressive ple
ture of the wonderful advantages, from
ah educational,' commercial and other
point of view of this Important feature
of postal progress." . .; .--
. The service, however, hsd Ita evils. Th
publlo were subjsot to all sorts of dis
criminations at th hand of th earriera.
The rate charged were higher than the
cost of the ervtoe rendered or the car
riers would hardly have undertaken the
business. The service on one route might
be cheap-and efficient; oa another, cost
ly and Inefficient. There waa also -the
temptation to the carrier to neglect his
duty aa a postman for his profit aa an
expressman. . ...-, -.. , i...
The evident remedy fbr these evils
was a freight and passenger post cover
ing the entire business, A bouse to
house - post- limited - to the - different
rout and. to th capacity t the post
wagon, carrying parcels sealed or un
sealed, written or unwritten, up to 10J
pound or to the dimension of a bar
rel, at rate, ay:
Parcel up to oa.' ....... ....... lo
Over ( osa. to 1 lb. ...... ... 4 So
Over 1 lb. to 11 lbs...;.......... c
Over 11 lbs. to 10 lbs.',, ,,.10o
Over SO lba tot lb.......M..lSe
Over SO lbs. to 100 lbe ..too
Over 10 Iba to too lbs....... ZSo
Passengers) at 10-cent fare per trip,
would, I believe, have at once placed
the free rural service on a paying basis,
have eliminated the poetal deficiency
and added fully 1100,000,000 a year to
the commonwealth. Twenty-five dollars
a family would sure!? be a. low estimate
of the yearly value of such a service to
the 4,000,000 families on our rural
routes. An average post-wagdii load
of perhaps (00 pounds, made up of (0
t-oent parcels less than four parcels per
week per family would have Insured to
th vrage post-wagon aa Income of 14
per day against a present Incoms of
about cents. '"..? , -
' But Instead of bringing th - whole
business of the carriers under the post
office, the house postal " committee of
1900 cut down the growing poet-ooaoh
business to city foot poet traffic, 10
poUpd loada of letters, ' newspaper,
magaslnes and five-ounce paroela of
merchandise, and to 'compensate the
earriera for th lose of thslr outside
income raised. .. their salaries and at
the same time largely increased the
number ; of th carriers. , Last winter
th number of the oarrtera was again
largely Increased, but still with no pro.
vision for an Increased - use of. their
vehicles, although the postmaster-general
acknowledged that a rural parcels
post waa a publlo necessity and. WouM
be a profit to the postofflce. . - ,'. .
The chairman of the house . postal
OonTmltte of th fifty-eighth congress
anl hi associates are responsible for
the poetal deficiency vt today. ' - They
are also responsible 'to the rural publlo
for damage of fully 1 100.090.000 for
forcing them "during th year past to do
at a great expense with their individual
teams work which might have been done
by th rural carrier . at very . little
coot te th postofflce.- .
- Th solution of our railway problem
lis in th establishment of a general
freight and parcel post making tb
very lowest local rate on less than car
load traffic, the uniform standard ret
for all railway traffic between any two
stations within th United States rall-v
way system. . It will be found that
this lowest local rat Is higher than
th long distance carload rata , ,,
The modern United State postofflce
was th creation of. th congress of
HIS, th first United States congress
representing a free people, eince-llll
very cltlaen of th republlo has had
th guarantee tof th national govern
ment that up to the extent of th transport-,
business of -th postofflce) -and -up
to th limit of the. gevsrumsnt's postal
route, he should enjoy the same trans
port rate as any other eltlsen. regard
less at once of distaace, of the volume
of his business and of th character
pf hi produce; this; too, both aa to
Stat and Interstate' commerce. It Is
to be further noted that the free eons-res
of lilt Inaugurated the handling
of merchandise las part of tb busi
ness of tf postofflce. .
asrU might and passenger post
U1 I ! - " at t r
general publlo, to tae holers of rail
way seourlt -0 ant to railw-y emr!fflrA
. Like maiiy another trot -tin, ar r-
anUg .most ;iax. f. ra'lnay -
lem admits of a But impe solution.
It 'is clearly Indicated In the. growth
and development of th postofflce nine
Ills..". The poetoffioe I th citadel of
American liberty. - In its- extension and
continued development, lie th bop of
American Industry,
It to a comedy worth seeing. It was
written by Charles " Fawcetv ' In earlier
day It was called by .the title of
'Tragedy.- Now it to known The
tat Mr. Tompkins." Th Belaaoo stock
company produced It yesterday and as
the final offering of that excellent or
ganisation th stage director could hard
ly have selected a better bllt For it
It Is .all smiles and satisfaction, with
just a tone or regret that tne house is
about-td closer It cauies even morfT
laughter among the members of the cast
than among the people who pay because
it mostly concern theatrical lire, and
they the. players are ' th boy and
girls, who really appreciate the situa
tion which arise, to such aa extent in
fact that several of them laughed their
first night through th piece, where the
author bad Intended them to be more
eriou. - ....,'.'. v"
A young lawyer ba written a drama.
A young wit wants to play In It. Ha
describes it. - Several parties, including
a mother-in-law, a detective and the
author's clerk, overhear the description
of th plot and immediately conclude
that a conspiracy-els on foot to kill a
few of them. While they are working
on th case the play to produced. ' The
actors are driven from the stage by an
irate audience. . .It to a disastrous first
nlghl In all respects and tt takes con
siderable trine to .unravel th amusing
complications which arise,, . -
Being ene of the oUMlme farce, and
having lived, it naturally follow that
the piece 1 cleverly written and well
constructed. . It Is admirably, presented
by the Belaaoo folks and, it I hoped.
will drawmany dollar Into the house
this week. -.-. . .-,
Mr, Walling Is seen a a heavy trage
dian, John Philip Mao ready Bourbege,
who to also a photographlo artist It
Isn't the kind of part to Which band
soma young leading men are accus
tomed, but Mr. Walling get away with
It by virtue of hi natural Instinct for
comedy, llaht or heavy, and a certais
vigor which be throw Into everything
he attempts. His makeup make him so
closely resemble Walter Belaaoo. - a
brother of Fred., that he may be fired
by the management about Wednesday
but we are still hopeful, along with ue
rest of th family. '
To all other members of tt east much
credit to due.. Fred Sumner ha not
played to better advantage than aa th
young .barrister. Keginaia atason maaes
a good thing of Mumford. the husband
of the young woman with btotrtonie
ambition. Salnpolta provide one of hi
very 'best character Impersonation;
William Harris aa th detective and
Charles Buggies aa the office boy are
likewise well placed, and to th woman-
Miss Lawrence, Mis Adams ana miss
Bond there fall some of those faree
oomedy part which only women of gen
uine talent can handle property 1 and
they do. -. j. . ,
;iArA"yigBt for UMooMr
" They iave at last dranihttosa 'wire
less telegraphy. Aye, Wireless phonog
raphy. In th current bill at the Em
pire, "A Fight for Minions.", the", ac
cused hero, Tom Manly, stands on a
pier and establishes hla Innocence by
conversing with the captain of a vessel
which Is 1,000 miles out at sea. . -
It to a thrilling eoene. Tom haa been
charged, with stealing a bundle of dia
monds. The detectives have him and he
is foredoomed - to th penitentiary;- to
fact, ha-to going to death because of a
certain murder. At the last moment
Tom leerna that th real criminal I
aboard th Oceanic. Be at-once estab
lishes communication with th steamer.
He talks with the oapta&rby mean of
a wireless phonograph, which produces
the conversation for the benefit of the
audience, and while the talk ta going on
th man be want shoots himself. : The
vessel 1 only 1.000 miles out so th
aadience hear th shot thanks to the
machine. ' ' ' .
For th moment there to despair and
oonsternation. Tom's last-hope of escap
ing th tolls of circumstantial evidence
has been eclipsed. But auddenly there
comes the word: "Moses baa Just ehot
himself, but would apeak te you before
he dies." This la supplemented by the
following: "Tom Manly to Innocent"
And as the hero rushes tato th arm
Of the heroin there to great rejoicing
and th curtain descend. -rJ
A a sensational melodrama, ta ngnt
for Millions" haa some of th seme class
beaten about the length of the ' heme
stretch. ' It delighted patrons - of th
Kmnlra Vesterday and to entitled to
liberal patronage by th clientele. There
are no hum 1n the eompanyyaa a eea
sonabl erltlolsm would 'be that th
principal show a alight indication to
drag their lines, sometimes their scenes.
More ginger would substantially further
the purpoe of th author. The attrac
tion remain for one week, " - '
"V-rThs" Burlesojie. ',;
Th Dreamland Burlequr" Intro
duced a lot of hilarity at the Baker
veeterdav that set two large audiences
to toughlag as soon th curtain went
up and kept them at it till the end of
the performances, .... ..- r t
. "At the Circus" to the opening sketch.
It la a burlesque on circus life and In
troduces numerous familiar characters,
such aa the sheriff, animal trainer, the
terrible Turk, clown and other ring fol
lowers. Jolly Eeb represented th rural
herlff In an excellent manner.
There was a list or speoiaiue ana
vaudeville turn that I rarely equaled
In Portland. Instead of being bored, as
it expected to be, by th bicycle riding
of . Palfrey - and Barton, the audleno
found the turn on of th funniest The
safe-cracking Job In which the hriff
participated to not at all bad. . .. s
inrougn tns viouas- is a Dunssqus
comedy-on Hf e an airship that con
cludes the performance. A young heiress
ta touring the world in two hours to
win a wager from her father. : The ves
sel Ughta at- Ireland and Scotland, where
the chorus in national costumes oome
board. The bill ' will oontlnu at th
Baker during the week. Even though
you care for nothing else, you should see
th remarkable bicycle act. ,
, . . i. i i m 1 I i ii 1 -
:'.;. 'Confeion ol Ouit. .
' ' ' From th Kansas City Star.
In making-publlo the anaouaeement
that after a conference they will here
after obey the Elklps law, th western
railroad Imply that they hav not been
obeying' th Elkln law.- ."
Ma,, Mai sjsbssbbbi ssj bjsjsb)
Off ha Fr Ltofc
. From th Chios go Record-Herald. ;
- It I perhaps safe to assum that
Thomas P. Rysn will not be accommo
dated with annual passe over any of
Ur. IuTtsan'a reZrotOj alter IMa, .
Lirnxii3 rr.dM; tiis
-rzcrw-e-fr
" ' ' Tha Vobaoo Agmta. :--
Portland. Dee: - lO.-JTo, th Editor
The ' Journal I ehould like to tnauire I
as to the rights th tobaooo user la
nUUed to. If thsrs la any iaw framed
by Ood or man that give a man or ',
woman the Hgh to polsoa on halt of ?
th traveling publlo in brder that the ,
other half may puff and smoke, chew f
and ' spit and ' befoul th atmosphere ' '.;
until women and babies gasp for breath. . j
and leave the streetears sick enough to :
die because, forsooth, a lot of men con-.
elder it thslr Ood-gtvsa prerogative to
make Ood's pur air their own In which 7
to worship their god. Tobacco, and fore , ,
very on els te fall down and wotehip j
also X hav nsver beard of It We pay c
our fare to these sam oompanls and
era entitled tn decent uaagel ' IQ W..1
get lit . Not at alt ' Man amok in the
rmmr the MM iM Vrnilt. and
th whole car to blu -with-' th eon
deaaed eussedneus of old pipes, cheap,
Unking - cigars, and vinalnoua - olgar- .
ttoa . Th conductor nine time out ,
of tea .will refuse to close the rr' -V
doors,' and there you are, gasping for r
breath and fresh air, every square inch -
of which to thick with tobaooo smoke, ju
untll we. Ilk th mariner who wanted V
water In mld-ooean, ' and who cried, V
"Water,, water - everywhere-and not- a r-
drop to drlhk." you cry, "Air, air. vry-i
where and not a breath to breathe." ;:
" Wot long ago 1 wse on a Streetcar ' (
that had five or eU men on th rear ,
pUtform. all smoking, atandlng ao that -,
they could see all that went on Inside
th ear: and to eay th air was suffo
cating Is putting It mild. I stood -It
a long as I could, and as I waa sitting '
in th corner by the f rent door, I 1;
Slipped It Juat lltU th -door; I
nteanH just enougn xo give mm m vnmnw,
kget a clear breath. I had Just begun
to fill my lung with fresh air when
th motormaa reached back-end banged
th door shut Three time I tried it
with the learns result then gave up In
Aeanair. mlv honlnc i that - motorman
might aometlm feel m badly aa JL did, ,1.
because of hi obstinacy. - , j
Than, again, men oome Into the ear,
take their cigars out of their mouth 7
and Sit down with the nasty thing lnv
their hand, smoking and fuming, until
to the person unused to tt th stsnch
beoorae tanbearabla Old pipe with the
nicotine of ages flssllng in their depths . .
sjra merely pulleq our at insir nwnsrs
month whUs they walk th length of .:
the cars- to turn on th rear piauorm
and drlv TA through th open door ..
tench enough to put an, army of pole- . ,,,
cat to shama All these tobacco-user
unfortunately cannot smell themselves, -therefor
they lt In, all eoneplcuou
places. Tak a parson unused to the
habit and it to about all they can do -.
to elt beside ene of them, and should ' 1
they get on the windward side Oh I .
"My oul for moment "of Urn, ehP I
ndth breath of Ood's clean air. ... ;
Last Sabbath, going over to church, , ,
I became quite IU from hi baling tobaooo
In the eara The conductor came along ',
and noticing my evident distress,, he
aid:; "What to the mattorr? .1 told
him. He then threw open the deor and .,;
said, "Oe out In th vestibule and get
th air, there Jn no one smoking out y
ther now.".-; ': , -i-.-.. ' ;
' Very gratefully I accepted his advlc
and staggered forth. . X bad. Just begun
to feel a thoush 1 mirht live, wlia. - 7
big burly Xrotchraan. wtth,..vDlalnxu
cigar in hi mouth sprang aboard and
blew a tull mouthful of amok squarely
in my fan. I ataggsred to my Xeet and .
tried, but la-' vain, to dodge th econd
tuff; then, almost blind from vertigo,
grasped the bar , by the stepe and . '
swung out a far aa I dared for breath,
only breath, while Mr. ,, Dutchman
dronned erracaf ullr into the neat h had .
Uoreed me to vacate and why nott Th -Hsstlbule
to which I had fled for relief
rrom th car waa ngnuuuy nis m wmca .
to puff and spit to his heart's, content. ' ,
Juat think of a person to Whom the" V
fume of tobaooo If breathed mean a.,
slcknes that prostrate body and oul ;
all who have- been tobaeoo-alck will bear '
me out in this assertion having to run
the gauntlet of a dosen 'old pipe and
atlnklng clears la order to get into av;
car, and then pay the fare asked for '.
the privilege of being smoked out into '
th vestibule, and then to the steps In
order to live, I that not an outrage t
, Th plutocrats of th streetcar sys
tern ere making money enough oft th
traveling publlo to furnish smoking-cars
en all the lines, ao If "Ephrlam to given .jf
over to hi Idols," and hla Idol to o
baooo, he may have a place In which to '
shut the door and sit down and smoke -himself
to death If he ae desires, and :
that Is what the companies should be ,
forced to do so, or lose all patronaga -
. 1 will say right her it J not tb "
men who labor with the' hoe, spade and , ;
the plan who maks themselves publlo '
nuisance. "Markham" notwithstanding; .
it la those whoee dress and hand show r
.1 . - MK .-Trttl ma n.Uha, V
do they spin," who make themselves
moat obnoxloua." It .would seem to the
average mind-that-men-mliihs -ride -a
mile or two without stnoklag. - Paul
says, "If meat cause my "brother to .
offend,.! will eat no more meat while
th world' tandeth." I would rather
be dead than be the slave of ao degrsd- .
Ing a habit that robs men of all per-
eeptlon of Others' rights and flU them
with such a selfish, arrogant knowledge
of their own. Solsntlsts say that to- '.
bacco and rum. stunt and dull all 'the ,A
aneltttaa Ood-aivan - ta man that
makes him gentle, helpful, chivalrous,!. '
-strong and manly, and X believe it , 4 .
And now, Mr. Editor, you. have given .
th worklngman a . chance to air - his - ,
Ignorance about women In your column, . .
as also Mr. Crelghton Ood bless him
a chance to answer, which he baa done : '
In a straight-forward, manly manner,
which X, as a women and taxpayer, ap-
freclate, and will say right her that
hop he will advertise hi business .
locality tn Tb Journal so that when
ws want our houses papered and painted
we may be able to give him th work. .
Also th great Malarkey haa . bad .
oolumn or two wherein to prove him-
seir --w niter tnan. now. - . .
Ws hop you will treat th women ..
with as much courtesy and give es
room wherein -to present our side of the ",
question in the paper we all tak and
pay-xornamry Th journsi.
v -tt - "trr. - A . WOMAN..""
The Past
By o. M. T.
How few are left of thoee we knew.
When life was In Ita bloom; . '' -Then
flower wore their brightest hue. , v
- And shed thslr beat perfumef ..
Then women seemed to be more true.,.; '
vVheji Uf was in it bloom. '
To alt there come a blttor day,
- When memory spreads bee wing -- t .
And take our thought to scene W
gay. t iii. -i-.t'-:-
When llf was in It Spring; '-
jui niu sang a rounaeiay
Whsn Uf waa In It Sprlng;7 ,
Th lip ws klss'd ar wtthrd now,'
And closed th loving eye;'
No more on winsome cheek end brow
The look of glad surprise.
We know, but cannot answer bow,
yhex ! la ITAttj, . -
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