The Oregon daily journal., February 19, 1906, Image 4

IE
f
TH E ORE
ft A tAono
Published every twalnf (except
. ..
THS PEOPLE GETTINQ IN
vv. vcv-.-f. .. ? . , . .-
q MAN who feels that he la
t ruent need to to tbe legislature. 1 1 ne con
. . , .
- sideri mat ne ta namnerca
' . . - . . . pi
nis election implies mat ne is wnwiuiun ......
: rnere- representative, that the federal constitution im-
pose upon Jhim the exclusive duty of electing a United
State senator without the Intervention of the people,
I that a senator so elected representative or trie mem
. i fx-r of the legislature who .elected him and not of the
people who elected the member of the legislature, none
a uch, we ' aay, need demean, themaelvea' bjr making tbe
C' There J good ground in Oregonaa.in,otheraUtea,
T ' .L 1..11 a tL.t a Uilai(ia tm a ti state-trtf trig fjrt ril J
r-They-vT uniedio-to be tflgyear
after year they' have been showing a disregard, not to
... a ttia MuKli wilt Ttirv hav 1ne-rr11ed
, J VUHlVMIl, V. . .. V Jv.w..v . -
, bills through that were known to be
interests of the state; they have; passed corporations'
laws in absolute. defiance of the popular will. Hereto
iifore the method. 6f relief hae been
. It waa to elect a new legislature
, noxious la we and pass better ones,
r But in Oregon we now have a cjiiicker and aurer
; method 1" the initiative and "referendum. Through it
the people may initiate a law thattbey require or they
- j may interpose a jveto upon a w-.paed by the legisla
, ; ture which they do not approve. We have gone even
t further in returning to the people the powers which they
bad delegated to their public servants. We have passed
a. direct prjmary law- under which the bosses and' ma--chines
have been dealt another Crushing blow. Under
that law the people themselves under their party names
. may nominate the men they want for office and thy may
: exact from jthem In advance pledges-to show precisely
. hbwTOeyt-etandon public questions. It goes1 even far
.. ther for it places within their reack the of fice of United
. States senator which heretofore baa been regarded as an
, exclusive perquisite of the legislatures. The legfsla-
ture must still elect but the people have taken into their
own hands the power ta designate whom they want for
' this exalted office. They do this by means of pledge
which they exact from all candidates for the legislature.
. Under pledge No. X the candidate for the legialature
---: binds himself in the event of hia election to abide by the
popular choke for United States senator,' leaving him
-Tf&imhtTpttirfhTiVbiTiIi in the purely ToraalTcler
", ical work of proclaiming whom the voters have selected
' for state officea, ; '..-'... x-L-rr
A sudden fear, voiced appropriately enough ,by the
Oregonian, has gained expression, that the air la full of
portents over this dreadful step. It is always the case
. when tli? people either take back some of the powers
, ' which they had delegated or seek to exercise some of
their rights which had lain dormant This is always the
.cry 6l special privilege but it makes little impression
tupon the people who cannot realise why an exercise of
power from the aource of all power, which is the people,
should be' attended by more calamities than have at-
' tended fta exercise by the public servatmwh.a. hyJOr
.- ---i-i-iri- .-i Tl ; -f 7l!': I" - ' . . .1,
., ouen, proiiuuiea ii. uencc in inis case,, as . in many
, others, the people will go serenely in, not only making
demands fliat the legislature elect aa United States sen
." ator the man they have selected ,hut rigidjy, enforcing
"that pledge in a way that the man or party who aeeka
to evade it will have a contract (on its hands such as
it has never before faced. , .. ' '
, : v ' ' .-"!'. ' i i i1 ,ii ii M if i r;'' -''';'
1 EVIDENCES AND INSTRUMENTS OP DEVEI
OP1IENT.
R1
EFERRINO to trie prospective
-v line through the Willamette
Statesman notice, as The
' significance and importance of this form of development,
saying that though it ia quiet, it is of the most far-reach-f
ing nature in development of anything ever known in
, this or any other country. ! -' f y
-There ia a movement in all fertile and well-settled
"regions for the. extension and conjunction of trolley lines,
and in many parts of the country they are being united
into great systems. This is noticeable in the Atlantic
atatea and all through the middle -west A continuous
trolley journey can now be made from Philadelphia to
, Boston. A trolley line, from Chicago to St, Louis, -in ad
dition to various steam railroads, will soon be in opera
tion.. In Ohio 80 interurban roads have an aggregate
- - mileage of over 4,000 miles, and in the near future most
- - of them will be consolidated' into a great system, ex
V,v tending from Cleveland and Toledo, to Cincinnati, and
' ; " running through hundreds of smaller towns. The gross
; earnings of these railroads last year were $24,000,000
'- and on some of them the earnings ran up to $67,000 per
: j, mile, more than their capitalization. ;", '. '
A .recent issue of the Iron Trade predict that "the
' ; bulk' of the steam roada of trie United States are to be
eleetrified't:-nd-that' duiiug the ntxt quarter of a cen-
tury an immense amount of money will thus be spent
'..' We, haven't yet the population out here to support
v ' great interior systems of trolley line, "but they are com
' ing, even herein the Willamette valley,, in the great
M ; "inland empire" wheat belt and in southern Oregon.
L , : They, more than any other one agency, will induce
"population, that in turn will support these railroads. In
' the next 2S yeara we shall see a very great development
i 3 jOf this kind in Oregon. ;.;. v;-., , v,.,. .
: P'OLAND'S GREAT NEW BATTLESHIP, 7:
.. NGLAND has recently launched the greatest bat-
tleship, - as to sise and armament, in the world,
..tl. A At. . ' T A . t . v. .'
, , , uucv iui urcaunausnL. , ii
; fof,,J8,500 tons, and its cost was approximately $700,-
-i 000. The armor and equipment will be in proportion
jjjto its huge siie, and it jspredicted-that-4hfr experiment
., of building this 'leviathan -for it ia an experiment will
.mean a radical change in the naval Construction of all
' the big nationa. Of course-the United States, as now
. J administered, cannot allow England to have a bigger
- j warship than we hav, nor can Germany. y ..'; 1
;i In a current description of 'this vessel it is said:
" In the past British vessels have carried four 12-inch
, gnns throwing 850-pound shells; the .Dreadnaught will
' have 10 of these weapons of a new type with a muzzle
! energy of 4968, as compared with , the 33,622 of the
- guns carried in as recent battleships as the Maicstie
t dass, an increase in power of 50 per cent In a great
sea fight , the Dreadnaught will be able to discharge
t every minute JO projectiles weighing 8,500 pounds with
. sufficient velocity-to send them 25
aooui.io inencs 01 ue narusi
. . . t t .i .
The Old Valley Waking Up. 7
' from - McMfnnvUle TaleplMM-tts1atr.
' Boli and climate, uiMxcelled on the
' ' tmeo ct the earth, U Wlllamett valUr
has' always had. Bnerfy. poh. ambl
. tiT. ta inhabitanta have not always
, OlaplayxL, But th time of awakening
' JbM cotne. . , -". . - j ... -
Kvar bfor has thre bn aurh a
, cleaning up ot old orchard a. o tnrl
' ns or ina prmy pump ana am prun-
l.l Uaars. Xaver fcora kaa mvea
G O N D A I L Y
AN
INDPENDN--NWSrAFBn : , . -.- . . .
PUBLISHED r; BY OUKNAL PUBLISHINQ CO.
T"
Sunday) and every Sunday morning, at
WU treett, Portland, Oregon.
THE SADDLE.
about two miles...
ships built in the
fleet will carry no
piece except 18 3 -
by torpedo craft.
-v. .y. nv. - -.
auperior to hia con
a . . ' 1.
07 inui,m.
A!-- than a
known that" they
Does this mean
the - world - en - the -
ships is a waste
rw th United
ARE THE
.
inimical to the .best
remote and uncertain;
that might repeal ob-
nathoi. Personally
him he achieved
ning of his career
have died at a ripe
of these great
and the grave will
unhappiest men
go to their last
building of trolley
valley, the Salem
Journal has done, the
old sink into mild
ing the McCalls
escape? ' , ,'
have been many
warmest one in
and February has
The prospects
now 1 good for
A remarkable
both the middle
Whether the
na a aisoiacement
miles or to Penetrate
world is growing
armor ac a range of
A .
norm west. : : ,
tnterest been manifeated In the build-!
Ing" if goedi roads. Never before has
high-bred livestock attraeUd So much
attention. Mover . before have ur .towns
and vlllagea built o subetantlally or so
artistleally. . Never before have mat
ters of public romwrn, such aa the con
struction and extension of city water
systems and Debt plants, been so earn,
eetly pushed-forward. Never before
have our tanners Shown such a willing-
.J O URN .1 L
wo. , emou
Tb Journal Building; FJSJi goi Tn.
; , .-v) ''.. i -
Unlike all British and foreign battle
last 30 yeara, the new addition 'to the
weapon smaller tharkthe great 12-inah
inch quick firers for repelling attack
She will mount neither. 9.2-inch,
7.5-inch nor 6-inch gun. The secret which will be In
corporated in the huge hull aatlirTydden, but it 1
tend to economies well as efficiency.
tbe reorganization ot tne navies of
larger !ine-of the Dreadnaught? Or
will not tbe peoples of the world, before this is done, con
clude that the building of great navies of such monster
of money and ought to be unnecessary f
State reallv need a Brest navv o!
Dreadnaught., enough to outcl..11 itMT
eept Englan4ajidoaabfy-TtTBureiy it is a aeDataDiei
BIO CRIMINALS TO ESCAPE.
HE DEATH of John A. McCall, former president
of the New 'York Life InsuraneAompany at
th early see of 57,1tas in it many elements of
McCall was a loveable man, a man
of generous impulses, freehanded with his money and
charitable to a degree. BOtn jn nts success ana in .ni
tragic failure McCall was a creature of circumstances.
Starting in life without any powerful influences back of
one of the most conspicuous position
that the whole country afforded. From the very begin
hwa surrounded by and part of the
political influences of his state. A man of winning per
sonalitv- who speedily acquired the superficial graces,
. . r . . ' . a 4 . a L .
witn positive talent along tne line wnicn ne wa pent on
following. Crover Cleveland made no more popular or
capable appointment during hia term of office, as gover
nor of New York, thanJohn A. McCall aa head of the
insurance department According to his lights he made
good -in that office and achieved a reputation as a con
spicuously able man.1 Thence he went to New York as
the actuary of the Equitable and it was a matter of no
surprise. when the New York Life, needing. a president,
tendered the position to McCall. , ;
For years McCall waa proudly pointed to as an ex-1
ample of what a young man of brain, born poor, could
achieve in this favored country of ours. Ii everything
had been as it seemed, if McCall had been left to follow
hia naturalinatinctsr there I little doubt that he would
old age full of honors and meriting
the profound respect of his fellow countrymen. But for
years there had been growing up insiduously in the great
insurance companies a system, first publicly glimpsed in
the retirement of W. H.-Beers, which soon outgrew the
ability of one man to master. It is less than two years
since the general public first suspected that the wealth
insurance -companies was being manip
ulated to suit the purposes -of the kings -of frenzied
finance, that it, was being juggled through trust com
panies, that even aome of the directors knew, little of
what was going on, that there were aecret alush funds
nominally used for protecting ' insurance interests but
which actually ppened.jdethejlcj!prJrQriuj)tion;!
that through the misuse of these funds stocks were
manipulated to make fortunes for the conspirators which
were literally, sandbagged from smaller investors. '. :
.McCall undoubtedly sinned but grievously has he paid
For it. ' He haa-made restitution for money advanced to
Hamilton for which hia moral responsibility waa not a
whit greater than that of those who,, stood with him.
His great reputation fell about him like a house of cards
soon cover the remains of one of the
of all the unhappy thousands who will
resting place on the Same day. ' All in
all, McCall'a punishment has been commensurate to Kls
sins; but what of th greater sinner, th smug scound
rels who stood back of him, who profited by thousands
where he profited, if at all, by dollars, those ravening
wolves of finance who in business life .have made record
for brutality and heedlessness before which the bloody
depredationa of the redhanded btfecaneers and pirates of
innocuousness? What of them f Is
there to be no punishment, no restitution, no suffering,
no degradation for these arch conspirators who . for
years have strewn our highways ahd byways with, wreck
and ruin? Is public vengeance to be satiated by bring
to disgrace while toe great criminals
:. j .. .;. :. ,
We hope not, but we fear so.
. -,'. -ii' ia ' ;;''7-l.A---.--; .
APPARENTLY A PROLIFIC YEAR. ': r
Ti HEWINTER now drawing to a close so far
v, as the calendar is concerned has been, on th
. whole, the mildest one in 30 years, though there
nearly aa mild. r January, 1906, waa th
this region for a quarter of, a century,
brought no severe weather.
throughout iciue-riorthwest are
thfgreatcat crops ever produced -ot
grain, hay, vegetables and fruit Ther may be aome
untoward spells in localities, of course, but that the ag
gregate surplus will be larger than ever seems fairly
assured. ' ' ,.l.;J' '.'.(..'.'.'.'
thing about this winter, looking east
ward, is its exceeding if not unprecedented mildness in
west and the Atlantic region The Chi
cago and New York paper called it a "midwinter aum
mer:" there were weeka of balmy air and aunahine, such
ss scarcely the boldest inhabitant" could 'remember of
having experienced before. - - -'r.l, Ar-
cold snap of week before last has in
jured the fall wheat crop is' not yet determined, but
probably not greatly, because it had a fin start and was
thickly and heavily stooled. , " V
In the Pacific northwest region, where most of th
wheat is produced, the season, though unusually mild all
along the coast, has in the 'tipper. country brought .great
blanketi'f anow-gobd not only for wheat raisera but
for stockmen and , miners and the spring seeding 'will
be far heavier all through that region, and also in west
ern Oregon, than, ever before.
These conditions wiirput the wheat bulls on'their
mettle in the pits, but it never happens that there is a
good or 4 bad wheat crop throughout the , world. It
looks now like a bumper crop in the United Statesnot
only of wheat but of almost all other crops; but aome
other countriea are sure to be short, before what we
produce thia year is consumed. .
At any rate, the United States is the great granary of
the world, and will probably prove itself so this year aa
never before. . ;- . .
No inconsiderable fraction of the stuff that feeda the
or will shortly grow in the Pacific"
' '.v .:. .-
na to "get oat of the rat" -and exper
iment along new lines. .
L.leatoek asaociatlona, horticultural
soeietiea, development leaguo. are., at
tended aa never before. Hot only are
avanoea metnoda discussed la theory
but theee method are put Into practise.
"Knockera- atlll exist, but their knock
ing la drowned In tbe busstng of the
wheels of progreee. - - v
Vnit tr are budding la ou-ia
county .s J . ,
SMALL-CHANGS
-
Kx-aovernor Oeer . makes a good
imcii. out eaa ne get tee voteei
Get pure water, if you haven't ,t
Oregon might do worse than ta keep
Clean up .the orchards, y firs If
accessary, .. . ; . .
-if. ' a..,,-.
Please' give Alice rest',''; ?-.".,)
"We do not have to remove the uni
of Hon. B. I Smith from our list of
gubernatorial candidates By hia own
personal consent It remains, and leads
them all." remarks Brother D..C. Ire
land, editor of the Bbernian Counts
uoeerver.
KnfV"
. .. .... , .
jooaa jiaa eanaior. ruitoa win nana
tna aaxt rceerai proseeutlnsr . attorney,
arter ail, remarks tna Oakland Owl.
Vang Ufa and a ton famll-r to tha
unvorua . , ...
TheWtnamatta valley la 'waklnc id.
ia man tune. - ,
Tb people niay yef have to abolUh
tne Ammo House or lords. ,
Tom Watson ta' welcome t vote all
of oure. .r-... . i '
. . ' .. e .'; ' 1
Great rerlon this Paelfle northwest:
even Taeoma la srowlnc .
, . .. e e . ; .
Political weather forecast! Rial n a tem
perature and blah winds. ,
. ' . e e . . . . '
Hkvina Alice off his hand, tha Dreai-
dent can devote more attention -to eon
areas. . '. ;. v: .
. - i . K .-. A j','.,. e e. '
Canby Tribune: ' Are the people "of
Oregon worklnx up to eapacltyf . In
other words, are they getting all they
should out of their enagnlfloent oppor
tunities T The Tribune aaya no. Grand
opportunities are going to. wast every
day right under our noeee and the out
side world doesn't know it.
The It. Johns Beview says Its oounell
la "now; harmonious." This ts good news J
Waahlng-ton's birthday next ' '
, t . . . ..',?-'; 1 a '
We Would enjoy A duel between Count
Boni and Brother-in-Law Otorre real
duel, not a French, one. , ' . - ;. . L
.. - ' .: -' e a.- 1 t r
People not very young will tree to see
a ooaat railroad all right ' ;
Pur milk seems about aa ecaree' aa
pure polltlca.. But we've got., to have
both.
lOcrobe are partly Imaginary.
r ' e . e.. j ' t
Why don't they 1 offer a reward for
Uncle-John P.tv
Alice certainly couldn't take alt those
presents along nor can't enjoy them all
very wll when aha returns.
The happy ptopl are thee wh hav
enough aot too much and are there
with content. .,-,....
Kvldently a lot ot people are not going
to register for th primaries unleee they
take a second thought about It and
consider - it a duty that they ought to
perform a It la. ... T- - .-,
Bagoed to the, tr-dnr homeeeekera,
- .. ; x- '
Might a wall call it spring and let
It go., .. -V. .-v. ....... v.,;( -
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Falls City planing mill now running
with full force of hands. ..
The editor of the Toledo Kenorter
says ha would rather b an editor, and
wita tna ecuors stand, than to hold
th hlgheet office la all thia glorious
land. . j. . -- ,
Lota of people looking after Douglas
county land. , "i
Oakland Owl: ' - Wa ' are pleased to
note the widespread Interest which is
being taken throughout Doagla county
In poultry-raising. It Is one of th
most encouraging signs of th times,
for-when this industry la -wall de
veloped It will become one of th draw
ing cards cards for thia great country.
There ahould by all means bo a poultry
show next season, and It 1 almost a
foregone conclusion that ther will be
Just suoh an exhibition, for tha chioken
fanciers all aver the country arc al
ready beginning to talk about such aa
undertaking. - ; . . ',
, .e . . , r. ,-.
Sheepbuyers actlv In Heppner. - ,
, ,, .. e e - - i. ,' " f . :
gpray Courier: Th proposed 'tele
phone line from Bpray to -tha Juno
tion, and thenoe to Monument and Day
villa ha been Indorsed by nearly all
th parties concerned and It 1 almost
ecftain that It will b built :
Eugene will soon ' hav a big ' new
woolen mill plant - " ,!..;
... e '
Canyon City Eagle: "3. XX Coj
;omb and
nr Port-
'.' H. ff ioer will leave aoen
land with It span of fine horeea "which
they will eell at that place. They have
refused 1400 each for several span, and
since horses aeem to be la great de
mand, 'they expect to realise quit aa
advanea over that figure on tha Port
land market
Th Corvallls Oasett urges th build
ing Of th long-proposed railroad be
tween that town and Junction City. It
says such, a railroad . would pass
through "tha garden spot or tb valley."
Canby la going to hav a commer
cial club and Development league. .
' . :"' a e ,
Oreen apples are quoted .la th Port
land market from 7 cents to 12.1s.
Worms evidently make a difference.
Albany- Democrat t v
. m - 9 ........
Tou can't bay a box of apple fit t
eat here for leaa than t!7. And yet
there are tens or thousand or acres
of good apple-orchard land untitled la
Oregon. ,-
' W w
Hot In big "demand and price high
In Athena. . . ,:
-. . . e . e : .. ..;. , ..
Since Oregon applea retail In th east
at 1 Cent each, the Roeeburg Review
make the sensible suggestion that Ore
gon people should take leaa Interest In
the primaries and mora In spraying
their orchard, Couldn't both be doner
: THINKER
' Rv Rev. Thomas B. Gregory.
'A Mr. Earnest of Chloago writes to
ask the following somewhat Interesting
questions "
"Does th raoa owe mora to Individual
ism than t collectivism, to mutation
than to cooperation; to great men tha
to social movements?" .
If Mr. Earneet ha read history with
half the attention that every One should
ha ought to Je- abundantly able to an
swer his own question. ,
He ought to be able to know that the
raoa ows very much mora to Individ,
uallara than to collectivism, very much
mora to great men thaa to social move
ments, : . -. . .
It will, of coarse, be clearly under-.
toouthit we are fsHrrna now of "the
past that 1 to say, ot the almost Ins.
measurable stretch of time from tha be
ginning of history- proper down, say. to
th rrench revolution, i '
Matte re have - changed considerably
sine tbe advent of tbe nineteenth cen
tury, and for 10 years, or more, thanks
to tha public school system and the
multiplicity and ebeapneea of hooka, the
People the collective Mind and Will-
have been looming up aa they, never did
before. . . .
Until comparatively recent times ther
was no such thing as the collective
mind. The thinking waa all dona by a
few Isolated Individ uala, who oftentimes
were practically unknown to th maaeea
In tbe midst of whom they lived and
thought .
Take almost any people 'you like-
even the ancient Greek and you will
ftod that the glory af Its history cen
ters about tha few who thought while
th masses, si umbered, and acted while
th maaaea were stupidly Indifferent -
Tne great movements which bare re
sulted In th uplift of humanity have
nearly all had their origin In the Indi
vidual mind., or in . th minds of ths
little band of thinkers, who, la sllenc
and sorrow, worked out th Idea which
were afterward ; made flesh In - Institu
tions. . , , . . .. r -:--
Tb glory of Grace Waa reatlr the
glory of a score or ao of man who lived
In little Athens and thought while the
general body of tha Greeks were busy
with life's 'commonplace affaire.
Ths -Revival of Learning," which
wept away tha darkness of ths middle
ages and ushered In the 4tme of light
and liberty, waa tha work of the few
solitary Individuals, who. . rediscovering
the little group of Oreek . thinkers,
herald their thought to th Ignorant
millions around about them.
It waa not tha people, butTsom dosen
or ao baron that -wrenched Magna
Charta from King John, and thus laid
the foundation of British liberty. - ;
it waa Rousseau, mainly, who vsm at
ths bottom of tha . French i revolution.
and the consequent political awakening
oi au juurope. , ...
It was a little company of American
patriots Bam Adams. Patrick Henry
and a few others who prepared the
colonial "farmers'' for firing tha ahots
that were to ha "heard round tha world."
But for tha initiation of that little
company tha revolution might have had
IL wan .roi. generations. , . , . . t
Aa has already been intimated.; there
I . today less room . for Individual
achievement . Owing to th almost per.
feet means of transporting man and
Ideas that charaotarlsea our' age, each
person thinks and feela as It were with
the mind and heart of the universal
humanity. . Tha private thought of to
day la tomorrow the thought of man
kind, and. Inatead of operating n lao
lated groups, men are coming mora and
mops toward toe, .condition of ooopera
tlon. . Tha individual la steadily being swal
lowed up In the mass, and the time la
inevitably approaching when tha public
mind ahall be as enlightened as. In other
days, ths rare few were. -
. But thl fact need not blind us to th
other aide that o far. It Is mainly to
tha Individual thinker that wa owe our
progress toward a rational civilisation.
Automobile Hurts Rail Receipts. :
From tha New Tort World, i
The flrst-elaas long-distance passenger
Is slowly but surely disappearing from
British railways, greatly In consequence
of tha Increased popularity af tha auto
mobile. Practically every company with
a terminus la London la , at present
faced with this problem. -' .
In tha last half year th Great Eastern
railway carried I7.13e lees nrst-elaaa pas
sengers than in tha previous correspond
ing period. Thia . reduced train was
most marked in relation to Newmarket
and other sporting centers, th conclusion
being that many persons, who would
otherwise have traveled to those places
with first -class tickets, mads tha journey
by automobile. . - - . .
"Automobile competition, t am afraid,
la likely tn future to assume very serious
proportions, aald Lord Claude Hamilton
at tha half-yearly meeting of th Great
Eastern company. ",.-'.
One disagreeable feature Is that these
people would undoubtedly have traveled
first class, ao that tbe company lost ths
moat remunerative portion of Its pas
senger receipts. ' - . '
With the exception of the London A
Northwestern and the Great Central all
trunk-line railways running Into London
have lately experienced j Considerable
falling -off -far-receipts from first-class
passengers, the Great Northern anT
Great Western In particular safferlng
from loss of first-class passengers, who
prefer to use their own automobUes.
Officials of the latter company point out
that on th last regatta day at Henley
co fewer - than 000 . automobile ; were
oounted. 'v.-.- ' i - "'r
When th court I In realdenc at -Windsor
eastl th receipts on the Great West
ern railway from saloon and flrst-cjrfss
passenger, who era visiting th king and
queen, show a diminution. - f . . ,
'' Two lfilea Minuta.
' , '. ; . ; - ..... V'1 ' . jf
- By Wx Jones. ; '. '
Ever since th globe waa set spinning
through spec men have been crasy over
peed. . Tbe man of tha early days who
could run .fastest was hailed a a sort
ot demigod, and. unless things were dif
ferent then, could make a comfortable
living aa an amateur athlete. Then the
man who rode th faatest horse became
th speed king, and by carefully watch
ing his chances was in a position to win
all his friends' ceve-keeplng money. ,
And so tha world whwled along un
til man, getting Into mora and mora of
a hurry, made hltneelf a locomotive
-engine, which took him along faster than
ha had ever gone before. Without rail
roads wher would our boasted olylllsa-
Mon be? . A man wouldn't have to go to
Pittsburg or aome other place he didn't
want to goto, if there were no rail
road a Without ' railroads we would
have no Pullman porters, no rata regu
lation bills, no passes for legislators, ne
engineers for tb canal, ne commuters;'
we would hav a contemptibly small
death rata, a deeplcably small legisla
tive lobby, a Lilliputian Standard Oil
company. Railroads gave epeed a boost
and speed is tha cry of the world. -
Of course, there have been antldneea
to speedv Things have not moved with
out Interruption toward 'th glorious
day when men will be able to be In two
plaeee and back again at tha same tins.
There are Broadway ears. Bronx subway
locals "and" the bou them "Pacific. Tet
with all these obstacles ; ma a has
persevered In his effort to attain tha
hlgheet epeed In everything, and now he
has made a motor-car which -does two
miles a minute. . , '
Tb "back-blown hair" af flying speed
is about to be grabbed by man and them
He w(ll be abla to be la New York
and San Francisco In tha earn-minuta,
and wonder whlob of them he ia "at."
.- He will be able to eat aome- food and
a piece of pie without losing mora than
a second at noon. - .-. -
Ho will get sermons that last' sec
ond, and escape spending an hour every
Sunday In ayniaining to the Lord that
be takes notolng but honeat graft.
He will be able to get a tabloid educa
tion In a week and forget It tn an hour.
He will be abla to spend St per cent
Of hia life In chasing dollars.
He wlU be able to live at a two-mlla-a-mlnut
clip but-wtiv-ba deaatUst a3
long's the cave-dwellere. - .
t apaedl How many landscapes are un
seen on your account? Especially la. the
subway. , ' .
Speed I How1 many feeble and fallen
ekies do we whls by on your account?
Especially If the bicycle cop Is after us,
Tet speed I tha chlefest of our gods,
and we all kowtow before her winged
feet ,'... , ; , ,
theVlay'
A good-looking woman, wearing boot,
attired la female mountaineer garb and
carrying on or two revolvers Just aa
tha occasion demand -which aha usee
with good effect at eeveral climaxes,
thereby preventing tha wholesale spill
ing of blood at other hands, la th cen
tral figure In The Moonshiner's Daughf
tor," a melodrama, which opened yes
terday at tha ' Empire theatre and
played to crowded houses both after
noon and evening. - The piece will hold
th board th remainder of tha week.
The play I well staged. It Is to
tb liking ot the patrons of .that Play
house. Tha villain is hissed and the
heroine cheered t th rafters. - Tha
other members of the cast receive due
recognition for their clever work. - Tha
sombernesa of ths play Is broken sev
eral times with clever specialties In
troduced by Nellie V. Small, a nsgrees.
who weighs more than I0S pounds;
Charlea T. Small, who well takes the
part of an aged negro; Bartley Rloe and
Gertrud DoddVv-.
Th nlot hinges on th attempt of
Bud Henry to gain th heart, and hand
of Captain Martin Preston' daughter.
Miss Madge Preston Miss Mary Carew
by turning over to the feveuu offlon
tha old man' atlll and killing him and
Zeh Taylor, so that he ean gala pos
session of tha gold mino found on ths
property. But th plot I foiled, largely
by ' tha revolver work of the- heroine,
and shs and Zeb finally marry and Bud
geta hia Jut drta. . . ,;
Good Burieeque at Baker.
An eeereaatlon touring th country
under tb nam of th Baltimore Beau
ties presented at th Baker theatre yes
terday a burlsaque ahow far ahead of
any that has coma recently to tha Ba'
ker. one first-class In almost every re
spect . Tha show pleased two capacity
audiences yesterday, and will be tha
attraction for tb rest of th week, with
the exception of Saturday night .
. Whtle a number ox gooa tnings maoe
for the succees of the sntartainment
tha work of three young women waa
responsible mainly for tha hit tha skew
made. In past burleaqu successes th
comedian hav been responsible. Tha
young women .arc Miss Edna Daren-
port, featured a tha star, wh win by
a nleasant smlls and an lnfeotlons
"Come on, boys," air: MlSs Bertha'
Bert rand, who ta coy and goon to look
aoon. thoush sometimes rather . noisy
when she sings, and MIsa Merger st Bax
ter,1 large and Jovial, with an unusually
sweet voice. v
The chorus preeenta. a number of
fresh, pretty facee, - and sings lustily.
Tha eoatuma changes are numeroua and
effective, tha beat work of the aggrega
tion ahowlng when they appeared - In
Scotch clothea. and sang a medley of
Scotch aire, to th accompaniment of
Intricate maneuvers about tha stage- '
Tha oil has several featuree superior
to these ordinarily preeented. Edna
Davenport do som clever steps, and
sings pretty well, though her voice la
not strong. ' Martini and Maximllliaa
created much . merriment by axpaslng
familiar trick of magic Olenroy and
Hugh, while . tiresome moat of the
time, - did some rather elever boxing.
Eddie Armstrong sang first-rate paro
dies, and brought a yell from tha gal
lery when ha announced aa the title
of one of them. "They Are Moving Papa'a
Grave to Make" Room for tha Sower."
Th Zarrow trio, b icy cl lata, war In eome
way even -better than the blcyouats
here last week, wh mad a big bit I
Building at Butt Fall. ', i
From the Medford Mall. .
H. Harris of tha Butte Falls Mill
ing company will leave for th north
In a few day ta tha Interest of bis
company and tb futur sxtenslon of
Medford crater Lake railroad.
"Fourteen deeds, to .town lots In
Butt Fall ware mad out today."
said Mr. Harris, "and buildings will
go on every one of them, at once. . Wa
have ahlagle and planing mill . com
ing In at once, and our sawmill can
supply lumber, for building. All the
material necessary can be made right
on th ground, except nalla, and build
ing 1 going on ao faat that It le diffi
cult to keep up tha nail supply. ' Sev
eral business buildings, including store,
poatpfflce have it ready when we
get the oioce, which won't, be long
meat market eta.. There era also sev
eral dwelling being constructed. Ws
don't - expect to rival'' Medford -for
awhile, but we are going to have a
town at Butte Fall before you know
It I am going north now to endeavor
to . settle th matter of th extension
of the M. C. L. railroad from Eagle
Point to tha timber. Tha Butte Falls
company 1 Interested Irs seeing It built
The building of this road la vital to our
Interests. The company will take hold
of It itself If nobody else wllL .. We
have been handicapped some in the
past but mattere are la such shape now
that I thing I am aaia in saying tnai
within tha next few months Medford
people nan get on the care here Satur
day afternoon or Sunday morning.
spend 'the day in the pore air or ine
mountains and be back at their desks
snd counter Monday morning. " Front
Butta Falls to Prospect the engineering
difficulties to be overcome arc not
great and all the way tb rente-leads
through one of tha most heavily : tim
bered sections . In Southern Oregon.
Of course, , this latter extension Is a
matter for : future consideration, but
ones ths road reaches Butte Falls tbs
demand for It will com. . The exten
sion from Eagle Point to Butte Fall
will be mad thia year, however.. and
yew can go out and, bat on that" .
. One of the city father of Pilot Rock
robbed a drunken man out of ! tn a
poker game, la tha comer aaloon early
In th week, says th Record.- - It wes
rather a bungling lob, but-tha caoBCy
changed hand Just the sen, -
AllTICA IN CIUNA
' From the Washington Star.' ' . .,
In a pre dispatch sent out . front
thl town last night appear th fol
lowing: . i .'. .-: i -y..;, , '
"For six months the f situation la
China ha been tha subject of, genuine
concern to th department and Mr.
Rockhlll," tha American minister at 1
Peking,' Is under Instructions to keep
Washington thoroughly In touch with
th situation. H Is also exerting him-',
elf at. the Chinees capital In an effort
to check or "allay the antl-American
feeling that appears to be grewtng.
While It I not admitted that th situs
tion ts oaa af Immediate anger. ihc
officials her will not bo surprised at
any developments a month may bring
forth. v . ,
"Although at th ' eutaet demanding
only a return to the provlalona .of the
Original sxclusloa treaty of 1180, which
shut from this country Chinese labor
era without specifying th classes of
Chinamen which should be admitted. -manifesto
have been Issued In soma
provisoes saying that-if th boycott
la rigidly en forced America will b
driven to forego any exclusion at all.
Mr. Rockhlll has pointed out tha falsity
w euoa view. - r-,rr-r-
This bear out tbs statement repeat
edly mad by tha Star chat the real .
object of all thia hullabaloo la the free ''.
admission of coolies Into the United
States. Her are whole provinces In
China where tha boycotter are ad- ;
lured to keep up their "knocking," and
assured that If they do tha exclusion '
bars la America will eome down. , With .r
tha eooliea trumpeting In China, and
th American Aalatio association blow- -Ing
Its horn over here, can the wells,
of . Jericho much ' longer stand V Wa X
shall see. If they fall, tlte new miracle
will be quit aa startling aa waa th -old.
.... '. - , -
- Th most remarkable feature of all ,
thia business lath fact that th coolies
are not 'th - only Chinaman . misled
about sentiment and conditions In ths '
United States respecting tbq Chinese. "7
Tha special embaasy now touring thia '
country, and beaded by two of th most
diatlngutshed offlolala la China, landed '
In a etate of trepidation, and requested . .
of the Chinese consul at gaa Frenolaea
police protection for themselves and -party.
---Evidently they feared some-
what for their live. - Thy wr "
promptly assured that no danger ex-
lated. and .hav since been SO hospitably . -received
everywhere that they must
smlls at their own expense when they ' ;
recall their earlier feelings. Inatead of ,
a hostile people, they find a people very
friendly toward them and- their pur
poses, and desirous of assisting them "1,
in. their quest ror inrormation aooui
modernising their home . government
Their reports horn on thl subject will.
we may be cure, open in eyes ot au
who may r4 tbm. - r - . ';.
' It would be a great mistake for con-
grass to tinker la any way with th ex
elusion law. All that. Is necessary Is to
execute th law In tit spirit and with ,
perfect fairness -toward all classes.
Shut n man out wn 1 entitled t y
com in, and b very particular to let
ha sun tn, who- should stay our. .
thousand coolie have probably sneaked
in wher on merchant or student ha
bees for a .moment embarraaaad by a -
rigid acrutlny t hi papera. , . ",:
LEWIS AND CLARK
r At - Fort Clatsop. ..,-r-'--..-Vi-""'. s,
! February . lf Sergeant Ordway set
cut thle morning with a party to pro-,
oaed to the salt works by land. In the
evening Sergeant Gaa returned with
th nesh of lght elk and eeven- of their
skins, having ,left on kln with Shan
non and Lablche. who remained to con
tinue th chase over th Netut We di
vided tbe lde among tha '. several
messes, In order that they might Vb
dreeeed for covering enr baggage when
we set out In th spring. Our nick men
appear to be improving, though they
gain strength but rtowly.- :,;."''
What Is Your Name,?
1 . From th Independent .
Have you over thought of the mean-.
ing of your name? Do you know Ita
origin Celtic Teutonic, Latin T
Som names speak for themeelvee ss
to origin and meaning, some are merely
non-euggeetlve, while other are wboUy
misleading. A cursory glance at any
Hat of English surnames ia sufficient
proof of thia Considering tha surpris
ing changes that many namaa hav un
dergone, th almost universal lack of
knowledge concerning their origin ia not -to
be. wondered at "What la ther In
"Peter Snooks" to suggest to tha un
initiated that originally It was "Pbter '
at tha Sevan Oaks"? Though "Thomas
Whltonora' suggests tha American In- ,
dlaa custom In names, originally It was
"Thomas at th Whit - Horse." or
-Thomas at tha - sign - of tha v White
Horse" (a tavern). This , was th aource
of many of the "animal"' surnames. In -mediaeval
times our genial Bill Nye
would have been "Bill atten eye" 1. .. :
-at the Island." Nile. Nash and Noakes .
had similar origin. ' How ean ' Suck
smith, Shuxsmith and Slxsmlth be ex
pected to know that a remote ancestor
of theirs mad' sickles, hence waa called
Skelysmltht Sidney. Is a corruption of
St Denys, Sinclair of St Clair, Sey
mour of St Maur. Janeway of .Genoa, .
Curtis of "courteous," Armltage ef "her-
mltage;" Spark of Sparrowhawk, Turkle
of Thorskettlo (th sacrificial kettle of
tha god also gave rise to th nam Cat
tle) and Bunyan : ef Bonjohn John
Bunyaa meaning "John Good John." .
Emerson and America had th . aame
origin Al merle, an old Norman name,
Amerigo being the Italianised form.,
A Laclrjr Drain Man. ;Z
'": ' From th Drain Nonpareil. ' ;
'! Frank Kent waa born tn th lucky
sign of tb moon." One night thl week
ha was la Chad bourne's - confectionery
store' and an envelope containing lilt "d
In . currency -acciaentaiiy aroppea irorn .
hi lnalde coat pocket to the floor.' He
did not mis it until the next morning '
and had na idea where he lost It Ia '
the meantime Mr. Chid bourne had swept
out his place, and burned th rubbish, i
envelope escaped th flames.- When Mr. S
Kent found It In tha street next day he . -f
was so plaasad that got right up ;
Into th air and danced a jig. -
aBamsa-aaBtsB-aaws-aswtwaaBBaaTs
C' Price of Wad Aiiirnala. . y .
' From tha Technical World. . 'Vy .
A good Nubian Hon Is worth H OW; a .
Senegal specimen little more than half
this sum.' 'A fine tiger Is also worth'
about 11.00. In Bengal, where the most
beautiful and largest tigers are trapped,
there la a government bounty paid on
earn, for the annual mortality in India
through tlgera and snakes chiefly
cobras Is- something eppelllng. The'
long-haired Chinee and Siberian tigers '
bring aa much aa 11.10. and other rery 1
valuable varietlee com from Persia and
Kusslaa Turkeatar- . i
...... -
V