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PORTLAND, OREGON. SATURDAY. LIALCII 17, 1ZZ3. ' 1 ' .. .. . J 1 . v . 1 ' THE O R E G -frgbHthcd every evontof(saMepe' HOUiED-OUTOF HOUSED, choused out "only way to express it. "The -the Turkish word Vhtush, a prefer,- oJfjwhoBi, according to Webster, attached to the Turkish embassy In 1609 cheated the Turkish mer chants resident in-England out of ia those days. SoT great was the the Impression It made thatthe wordVwtth a varied pell- wig! waa"adoptcd Into the English- language as illummat - 'vety expressive nf to fheetrcrtnek. Hence its application by The Journal to the conned in the Front street franchise matter in Portland haa been choused out of $440,000.. If the'coun- acicd honestly and with good Mentions,, then in. self protection th city should appoint a - its memberarfortbey ire-too green tOjIJejLlSL v cut unattended "after darlc'Tlf on the other , hand they "are simply thrifty, that ia ujte another matter," which is receiving very serious consideration at the hands of the public ? 0 ' ' -- If Portland is ever . lo. realize from chise rights surely now is the time to begin. vAVhen the . two competing companita were most strenuously bid ,- Hing for the bargain, -when- they-reach'ed the climax of their enthusiasm, that was the time at their word and clinched-tho bargain. But the mo- mmf W&cnnteJ thef the council wsa determined to accept the less valuable of the two offers and it was -realised that tt waa a wast of good corporation money L1tp pflsr it fgf .toiaiyg.l0;. r,48gflKyhCigj not accept it and who, upon the advice of our queer city attorney;o1glftantlirTepTtaiatd-nuTrTght gift TOHCh ' the council promptly undertakes to at some time In the future, what was .-eitabUiT)BteoinerThe two . corporations, tjje enthus- - laam'of which only rery rarely gets get together, of course "What is the use of fighting each other and spending-oar good money?" says one to the other. ; "This ia all a false-ilarnvThese fellows prate about getting some percentage of the money value out of theje franchises but they don"rwant anything for the'dty, Vnd'cah't bemadVto accept it So ktnsget the sucker public between us "In "the usual way and roil &m';l?2';'f- -f " i :r. ' ? ' ; j ; And this ia precisely what was done. ..The bitter rivals are now bedfellows; they have nothing to aak of the ' -city. ' They simply come to terms between themselves, - like men of shrewd common sense and financial acumen, -Cthey get together, arfanga for-a-dtviaion of the spoils, and ", thf finftr tH rity with iti guardians tm t t;r 'posts, ia like the man fn the game left looking foolish J t" ana! helplessly holding the empty sack," There ia much - prating about Jranchisea. ai4 what they ought to bring. But many of. these were granted years ago. before the public woke up -to an appreciation . of : their value and those who gave them were little to be blamed. But here ia a casewherehe. people have learned to value ; .franchises, where they fully 'realixed that Front street waa by far the most valuable asset in the city's poues ion, an4yet "thereare7papera published In Portland which profess the profoundest content .that the. city should accept some hundreds of thousands dollarV less ' than were but a few days ago freely offered for precisely the same concession. -UThe city fa $440.000 poorer by the '.the public appreciation of it growa crease and those who fondly belieyed that the end had come when the council had taken ita last stand will have occasion Ltoait jxf ; ndtake notice before many "days have elapsed. ,.. ;..; , , . ASLEEP AT HIS POST. "S OMEBODY -BLUNDERED." sleep at hia post Or misread ordera.. And the consequence is perhaps 30 dead-people ind twice as many Injured, some of "lif- nd some of those wh" prihed inar. lingering agony. freezing and ' 'Any railroad accident involving the loss ing to contemplate, but this one on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad yesterday between 2 and 3 o'clock in the ' morning almost if not quite capa the climax for horror. Think of the time, the dead of night most of the pas- sengars asleep, their lives necessarily confided to the men having charge of the rushing trains. No thought of . ' danger, no fear of death. Yet danger was imminent: Ideath in awful form was near, drew nearef at the rate of a mile a minute. Passengers were dreamingperhaps, ' of home scenes, or those awaiting them at their destina tion. But not only they, but a man who held their lives in his hands, whose duty it was to be awake, whose wakefulness would have carried them through safely, thia ' man was asleep! O, it would seem when one reads of Jl such a horror as if the .very chills would, have ahouted to , -, - I ' t ' The Hermit Ciar. Trom the 1mdon MaiL '. - - An tnteraettna; 4la;M 4 thow-e-the - eaar'a Ufa at hia palace of Taarakoe Balo i-'i?Ttn a prtvBte letter from an officer et the Imperial bodyguard, who has been at . taohed to the eaar'a entourage for tha past two yeara. TCvar alnoe "Red Sunday,' " ha wrlUa, the eaar'a exlatenea baa been one un ' ending aerlea of anxlettaa, which have . told very heavily upon him. Only among ' - hia family doea ba apparently forget tha . menace of the rerolutlon, threatening - ajewa of which reacbea him with the 9nrceaa-ragulrlty.of-.lha ticking of . . a clock. Theaa ere. Indeed, hia only " - momenta' of happlneee and, relaxation - from tha worrleo and earea of atata, . with perhapa the rare exception of a walk or a ride In the park, which, bow rer, haa become a very rare Occurrence f later- "Hia majeety Invariably - apenda al- snoat the entire day aad. night la hia aiivata cabinet either In consultation ' with hia councillors, - whom be often ' - tnmmim te hli preaenco at any hour f tha night In order to aek thai advice. ' tr In work upon projected measures of - reform. He writes often for boura at a atretoh. , . "At other times tha aentriea plaoad at hia door bear Tilm pacing reatlasaly vp Sad down tha room till the early houro ef the morning, waiting anxloualy .. tor reporta from hi repreaentatirea in the pfovlnrea. At Intervals he- will . dlepateb a maaaae, and then suddenly - throwing epea the wladew - gaae out poa the aulauaas at tba sight through O N D AIL Y 1H 1NDI1 PUBusHKn BYjoygNAXu-jiLbusHiNO co. wiiaday) m wry.8iji rit Jiaistreeta, Portland, Osteon; $4j0,00d, fW.DOOTThir irTh word comes from messenger or Inter1 two trains Vere track. Thmlrof Kdegrees coldel, . - $20,000, a huge aum scandal and so deep in Portland. Snow hand. A Wild, circumstancet th ror and horror almost naked out to defraud. thankful,, for others which the public of pnyaical agorty Slept, or.tecsuse set of guardians for LOSS its valuable fran the total amount the fruit growers than guess in such the truth. to hare taken them Last year 75 per was destroyed by oihetJrulta aj'a-suileringilrchar large percentage jjf rwrmlio. and nth? Mr. Powell in a pay good money for the natural, the in- away-with theraJ ject "They, are these pests to rob if 4hey don't their baa cither a moral H I time if there were no haf been so long; peare said; Trie that "an evil tree the ains of the Saint Patrick was upon the world. matter; that he lived and what he did as a great teacher and leader of his people are the important things. Mil transaction and as lion s ofImhmendisperse the indignation in celebrate the supposed anniversary of Saint Patrick a birth, and in the broader spirit and thought of that cele bration many-millions of others are in full accord and ympVhy. v TWO Or went to women and children,;were caught, in the crater of an ex tinct volcano and hoisted up to the them crippled for Hying iamrurntzi r.enrraX Wood explains that they all wanted to die, and burning at once. like the gallant soldier and gentlemanjieivhe-secommo of lives is shock dated them. We J these 600, including "ladrones." thieves, But the other .000.000 or more ove the Americana. which hia millions of subjects slumber while their unfortunate ruler Is still at work. - r "Hie -majesty,"-the lettea -eontlnnea, waa never a lover of eociai xuncuona. but now he appears to abhor- eoelety more than, ever. f' "The csar hlmaelf aeems to be the only person at court who aotually real ises the dangera or tno present auuay tlon, and It la to this fact that the mla anderetandlngs between hia majesty and tha grand dukea owe their eauee. The eaar alone recognisea that a genuine revolution Is agitating Ruaala, and tha mora eloaely be notea the symptoms and compare them with thoae of tha French revolution, tha more hia anxiety appears to .Increase,-' and the more often are his noble eyes dimmed with the mlats of sorrow." - - San Francisco's BubsUntial Progreas. . rrom the fcunaet Magaslna. s The real aatata aalea of San Franclaoo property In 1S0S were mora than $71, 000.008. Tha number and amount of trans actions far surpassed tha record of any other year la the history of Ban Fran clco. There -vaa o single transaction of the amount ef a million or even three quarters . of a million dollars, yat the purchaaea numbered I, COS. a feature of tha year waa the number of purchaaera of Market atreet property. There was over a doxea Urge tranaactlene begin ning with the sale of. trie lot on the south aide ef Market atreet. west o(. Hixtn.' at tna rata of HO.oro g rront root, tha highest figure yet reached In . tha San Francisco real aatata iarkat - . T O U R N A L TW Jsejal BaUdiag, Fifth and Ysm him, awave-i -r As if the Very snow wotild haye- formed an avalanche to come-down near by. and rpa'r to him, awaKeTAaiflheTushTng winds wild h a v e nowTediB hia dull eats the warning, awake! But he slept onwhile rushing toward each other on the same (Bie-itraosphfeferswajrbelow terofSO or 40 han it.has beenjny mormng this .week . - - . . deep. Steep, rocky ridges on cither itterly cold winter night ; Under such crash and.lhe awakening.and the ter came. -The oassensera who were hurled into that anow and biting air may be vep pinned down in the wreckage and were r'Hy rrtwttfrrg' to death, for the oil tanks had exptode"dwanf7et fire to the wrecked cars. Dead, dying, crippled, freezing) burning; in terror and in mental if not hundreds of people because this man somebody blundertd. .", '. ,, " : ', . CAUSED BY FRUIT PESTS. , VERYBODYV KNOWS that -. insects are re sponsible for great loss of fruit, in all parts of . the country, but few people would have guessed to bevwhat George T. Powell president of the Agricultural Experts association, puts it $700 000,000 a year. This is the sum that be says pests cost a year, and while he can do no more a case, he may be aomewhere near cent of the apple crop of New York the codling moth. Other states and crops that clean orchards would pro duce, by the ravages of this insect, the -gypsy and brown moths, the San Jose" scale, the tent caterpillar, the plum ftts. L- ; recent lecture told bow theae pests could be dcstroyedAbut we will not summer tac 'what he said because all our brchardists know how, have received full instructions, frori the agricultural jcgjlegr-'ruhr1n-spectors, and in newspapers and - periodicals. Fruit growers can kill these pests, "and have abnrtdant crops of fine, aound fruit but" the iob must be done everv year: the -warfare is perpetual;but look how it pays. 'r How much haa Oregoa lost through these peats in the last. 50 years? In 20? In 10? - Even in five? In the longer period many millions.' ."VTT.'.."-,. 7:--""-.'-"!.,'"-T ' ' But Oregon orchardtats are waking up on this sub getting to work and refusing to allow them any longer. They've got to, for orchards must be destroyed.-- No man or a legal right to have a foul orchard. IRELAND'S PATRON SAINTY ISTORICALLY Saint Patrick. doea not stand-out . in a -clear light , But not only of hia existence, but the nature of his work there is no longer ispute or cTouht Thar he did-a-wonderfullyTrood great woik we may be assured, merely, other evidence, from the fact that he remembered and - revered. -Shakes evu that men do lives after them; the good oft is interred with their tones." r or once at least Shakespeare was wrong; or" only half right It ia true bringeth forth evil fruit, and that fathers are visited upon the children;". but far more enduring, even eternal, is the good that men do. ' We do not believe it ia ever or can be "interred with their bones." - '- -ii..j4, one who did a miraculous amount of good, of such kind and in such way that it left its im press upon the people of whom he was the spiritual and mental leader,' and through them and their descendants Where he waa born or when does not ' ' .-. ... v .;- , GREAT VICTORIES. WO VICTORIES have recently beed won by the United States over the Filipinoe. General Wood gained one of them. 'Some 600 Moros, partly . there . surrounded. Artillery was rim, and no prisoners were taken. re not criticising this here. It is said the grand-mothers and babies, were troublesome creatures, and could be made good or benevolently assimilated only in this way. Very well; it was quite a victory. victory waa even greater ana was won without bloodshed by our valiant and noble United Statea aenate. While General Wood benevolently assim ilated 600 Filipinos, the senate rounded up the whole Filipino people, and with a well-devised attack on their industries and sources of income, robbed them for the benefit of the American sugar and tobacco trusts. Ah I there was' a 'victory for you, gentlemen. What Wood doesn't kill- the senate plunders aad thus re making friends of the Filipinos. No wonder they ' .' - . " English Potatoes In America, r Ftom- Xh VmRy Consular Reporta r Conaul Hamm of Hull aende a table giving the aaantftles of potatoes shipped at that port from November llr ISSSr-te January Is, 1108. The total number of buahele waa ISs.OOO. worth l4.00, or about 41 eanta a buahat. They earns from Torkahlre and- Linootnahlre. where the lend la brought to the hlgheet state of Cultivation and drainage and the beat of fertilisers are used. -Tha consul adda that It-aeeme atrange that . England, with Ita crowded population, can export thouaanda or buahele or potatoea to a country Ilka tha United Statea. with an abundance of cheap arable land. The American - duty, too, la IS cente . per bushet .. . , - ... ' ""' German Officers In Japan. " From tha London Malt It Is announced that In the course of tha neat II monthe several German officers will be sent to Japan to atudy tha special featuraaaf themtlTlary aerv Ice In that country. , Five officers from the general staff have already been ordered to commence the atudy of XM Japanese language at tha Berlin Oriental aemlnary, and three offloera from tha war academy have alao received Inatruo tlona to the earns effect, In contrast however, to the objecta for , which the Engllah and German officers are being sent, it Is announced that tha chief aim which the-government has In view la to have a ataff of officers who will be sblV to study tha original reporta vn tha recent war la tha Japanese tongue, - SMALL. CHANGE I --aJrs-.yo.uwearlng of th greent .AcoordinBa ta imennti Bt Patrick waa a gentleman and a scholar. , '. -a e ' A "he looki doWTT on 4ha little earth fit. Patrick may. well feel, a pardonable pride -if there .Is any.sucJiteejijBgUB there at the people'a remembrance of him. Tla the glorious Seventeenth of Ire land. e e , Lost, strayed ratolanJpha V. Rockefeller, President- Castro, Mr. and Mr a. Wilson 'tMlaner, Mr. and Mr a. Nicholas Longworth, Pat Crowe' and Frank C. Baker. .w : -r- ... . ... ... ..: It la said that Insanity la also cauaed bra microbe." r. Of courae.. what elaef And ao Inaane people are properly aent to tha bughouse, " - CaarJa . Rock couldn't stand against commercialism, -j-zzrizo, .... , ... r. a a ,. , Brarybody la aq Irishman today. The glass trust has ralsad the prlca of clasa aaaln. - But that gives nobody Juds Andy Hamilton la pretty dos gonad mad, and It aaeas from hi story that ha baa a rlht to be. ; Woraa win tar back aaat anyway. Wanted Camant maker who can make 100.009 barrala ' by Monday; moat ba first elaaa. Apply to 'moat anybody; . -. ' s i.s - Foraoaat for the lattar part of March (unofficial)-Tain.-" ' ; 1T;7";;'" . Tha polttlclana ara an In favor of goods roads and tow- taxaa. Tha Catholic Bantinal iaauad a dmi an especially Infraadng -number, baa- tlfunjf-ertntel of that excellent Cath olic paper. "'T' v rrz m a,. , . Water, Ore and firewater are the la- sues In St Johns.- . . . , A " 1 - An assassin la always a" coward. " ;j e e A Chicago man of over 10 who had a wife of 11 who fallen love with hia son. and tha son with har. applied for a di vorce, not angrily or vengefuUyT but ao that the young people could have tbelr way. Ha waa sensible. Under such cir cumstances all three were mfeerable. With" ' the- change tnAe two- wlO-be bappy, perhaps, and tha "old maii,M not very old. can easily find another wife. Chicago forever! . ,. - ..,-.,' ..... Colonel Hofer pleaaantly remarks that It la about time tha Forest Grove Ttmea. was smelling of Walter Tooae'e breath again. . . ,-. , . "Tiarmer Seer does- not Intend that Farmea Wtthjreombe ahall fnonopollse the farmers' attention. - e e In aplte of present frost tha baseball and bock beer season will eoon, be hare. Some candidates who go on the stump may find themselves up It. 7-' : ," ," a e .,'.'': ; - Some eouples that get a divorce, mak ing both parties happy, should really be sentenced to live together and made to do : , - : ' ' - ' ' e If rod ara chilly you might And some comfort la worrying about how hot It will be after awhile. , So far aa can be discovered, no trust has been smashed yat ' - , : e - a .- An Englishman named Sir Xmtle A!- eemon Arthur Keppei coweu uiepney u irouun in because he claimed to be an American cltlsen. Ha had no "papere," but claimed to own 10,000 acree of land la thla coun try. . But the real trouble may have been that he had not paid, excess bag-gaga on hia name. OREGON SIDELIGHTS s) Land that was worth but t par acrs aaven years ago ia now aelllng In Wal lowa valley at ISO to $40 per acre on the promise' of the extension Of the Elgin branch of the O, R. a N, into the valley. ' a e . -Excellent stone quarries In the hills west ef Jacksonville. - - Medford will aoon have a dally paper.' Many-apple orchards being set out around Central Point. , : - : ... , ;.'...-.',,. Medford Southern -Oregonlan:-- tok at our orchards; aee what a compulsory law will do. Never, waa thrift more manifest.'-'-Old orchards are being sprayed, pruned and whitewashed. New and ihrlfty orchards are being carefully looked arter. ; - - . - a a . . -. A large flouring mill may be built at Aatorta. e a , ' ' ; Woodburn Independent! Woodburn's uty ia to help build a macadam road ten miles In 'length out Into Elliott Prairie. Such a highway would cost 11,100 a mIle.Ths county court offers to aselst-to the extent of t SO a mile. In thla Issue Hon. J. H. Settlemler, wth hia usual liberality and home petrlotlo spirit, promises to pay 1 100 for every mile construoted. A-few men are digging up hop vines to plant alfalfa,;-. : No mors "Doings In Rabbi trilla," as Bennett, tha Irrigator man, has sold out and la going ewey. Sorry. e a ii.,. Tillamook Herald: . Farms in . this aounty ara developing Into a higher stage of cultivation. Tha young farm- era have certainly Improved upon tha old fogy method of their fathers, and the more modern wayi ef farming Is causing Mother Earth to produce more and mora Several hundred acrea are being cleared at present with the ad vent of tha donkey engine. E. L. Smith,' candidate for United Statea senator, haa been a resident of Hood River for 10 yeara : ' ' Water Drug. ' From the London Chronicle. Is distilled water a drug-T Mr. Plow den has decided that It Is within tha meaning of the act which makee It an offense to sell drugs In an Impure con dition to the prejudice of tha purchaser. THE iswede'a Dafeaee. PoHl-uid.-Warch - !. To the Bdltea Of Tha Journal Tha reason I am per suadett to write thasa llnea la because I have seen how the Scandinavian-peo pie are dontroddan"a-J-wleat burns white- In mer la any . Parana Juatlfled ia talking eboot poor seaman ahlp that don't know a -Sailing veeael from a rewhoatt Have not the Nor wegian people shown' themaelvee to be the beat aaUnra Pf the wonar - we aro back aavoral hundred years te the Umej whtntha Koraemen oiacoveiea America in boato that nine writers wouldn't go on tha Willamette with. Some people any that Columbus discov ered America, but every peraert that Btudlea history With" an-anprejudloed mind wilt agree with ma when I say tharthe -Woraemen did. because they were natural and "able seaman, making their living fishing, aa they do today. ' They 'were continually Bailing to Greenland and Iceland and golpg that far. ia it not reasonable to suppose they-would coma -to - America - They wrote-aaga a or aonga 1n "Whlch- they gave descriptions of pieces . tney haa been." Among : these - there has been found some describing parts of Maine and New Foundland. ' There are many proof a of this, but there ta not room an article of thla kind to go Into detalle. If ws read the history of the Scandi navian country we cannot but feel en thused by . Ita. many heroes and their deeds. Show me a country that haa produced a- violinist aa Ola Bull. Not any man living pr dead has produced sucn music rrom a lew sirmae aa inai man did. - Have two greater amgara than Christina Nelson and Jenny. lAua aver lived T Til venture that Jenny . Lind has song Inspiration into more hearts than any- peraonUvlng. x Let roe relate-a tittle incident -ha happened- - ut New York harbor. Jenny Und was Inspect ing an American battleship and tha Of ficer ehowed her every aourtesy aad while (be waa walking around ahe eaote flag In her hand and folded tt, then aha I started w sing, rxns Btar BpaniUd wan ner." Bhe aang it aa It -never haa been sung or rvr . will be rung, and when she waa through thousanda of people on the docks cheered, . boat Whistles blew and bells rang. Probably 10, SOS people wars under her voice that never to ta forgotten time, and this was what some upstarts In Portland call "a de testable Swede." - Bnt not only In music do tha Scandi navians excel, but In . lnventione, re- aearoh and literature, .If some of you people oan read, open . your United Statea history end read who Invented and built the monitor of civil war fame. Another -"Swede." yon say. Who did all the researching In Thibet T- Bran Hetlln. another Scandinavian. - In literature we have BJomaterna Bpornaen and H. Ib sen of International fame - There are several others, but I want to aa? a word about tha Swedish language. It is beautiful and expressive, simple and poetical. - An educated Englishman In California aald It la worth while to learn the Swedlah language In-order to read JTr1th!fe Baaa," a - beau tIAil hat thla will rid some people's minds ef prejudice against "the uobleat people on earth. - - J TAVU ROOD. : SngrasTloas fey Saloon Begalattoak, Portland, March It. Ta the Editor of Tha Journal I read with pleasure, aa hops many others do, your edltorlala on tha saloon .question, and I am glad to commend your stand upon It. A par tial remedy for the saloon evil occurs to ma which-1 hand you for dissemina tion. If thought desirable"' I do not know that It has been tried, but I have no aonbt of Its efficacy. . Briefly, It la publicity. . . 1 "; -- Unquestionably the saloon is the greatest demoralising factor of modern civilization. It cannot be abolished. Therefore,- for the present. It must be regulated education may eliminate It In the future. -, v Regulation by publicity la to require i ,., - . i - .. t .... I , " . . " I 'TZ.LZIZ I full glass fronts without curtain, screen or other obstruction to tha view. Do away with the back door or private en trance feature. Do not allow saloons In aha Interior of sny building, whether hotel, "offlcs vrtither kind, or in any place where a full, free and unobotruct ad view cannot be had of tha whole saloon from tha publto street . By this means would not the number of their patrons bs reduced It is bare ly possible. - At preaent thara Is la Portland -(I blush to say It) tne saloon for about every 110 men of legal aire. . Many of tha 110 do not patronise saloons at all and aome very little Think of what It means te - tha families of tha onsa who do support the saloon. Soma one autfera Who la UT The eternal and only answer la tha wives and children of the drunkard. The purpoaaa of law. ara to protect the weak and to do the greatest good te tha greatest number. ' Do wa do Itt Hardly. - A man's family has the -first claim on hia wages or earnings. ' Law recognisea thla by exempting hia pay for a atlpulatad period or amount from legal prooeaa. . But If tha so-ealled man has become auch a brute aa to neglect supplying his family with necessities (to say nothing of comforts of Ufa) before squandering hia wagea for liquor, la It not time for the good of humanity In general, of hia family In particular and tha aupport of our tradition that law la deelgned to protect the weak and do tha greatest good to the greatest number, that some adequate Sep bo taken to coerce him at least to tha extent that he will provide for thoae dependent upon hlra before abandoning himself to debanoheryt -There ara many, employers who re quire,-if-nettotai.abatlnencaCat least great tampe ranee, In their . employaa Why There ara many Inataneea where peraons feeling secure from publlo view do that which they would not do openly. Thla breeds deceit and deceit breads d la honesty and dishonesty leads to ruin. - Would not these things, and others, be prevented, many Buffering famlllee, tha public, especially the young, and tha patron of the saloon aa well be protected If thla Idea of an open-to-view Idea ware adopted? r " - ' Add high license and a strict enforce ment of the law and much evil will die appear. , , K. C. EA8THAM. A Haa Call fo Bal aUghtav Albany, . Or., March 11. To tha Editor of The Journal Be oalm. tem perate, wa will: for tha generous favor reverent: though axlatlng slavery should Inflame one's aenl with passion, prlek each conscience with remorse and s rouse Impetuous dealrs to ersse the shame. Tba crimes Involved in denial of equal liberty wars tba-'aama ware aeg not known." - - , . Man In woman'a place would feet tha crime. Taxation without representation la serfdom, highway robbery. To con trol regardless of the wish of the con trolled Is tha unworthy example of the tyrant slavery. The negro votea Proper. How far below the negro's ara tha wit, the reason and tha worth of wives aad daughters t LETTERS PROM I PEOPLE How many Intellectual waakllnge now cast their voteaT Why grant tha Inferior and deny tha an parlor? Ha who danlea a liberty ia another must prove hia right te It ea some around not equally applicable to the deprived. ,'An attempt wilt lead to but one eonetmie forcau-Tbiala tha PWe jiieraenHi anan aweat oomfortar. 1 -AeUltr la a fajUcioua. term l we can ba determined eauaL and' inralllbii It ta tha aausastlng virtue of vain - Tvranny doea not help Oregon, L.in STty will. J " LOUIS BQWXRMAK - A Chard From aCr. Jehjuoa. v Briggson. Or.. March t4. Tetha Edl tor of Tha Journal In The Journal un o'er date of March I notice tha follow Jng.artlele concerning -myaelf. aad aa that article places me in a raise ngnt before thf public I therefore beg leave to reply .to same in derenae or my honor '. and reputation. The artiole to which I object reads as follows: . "In. the . cae; of R, F. Johnson, who resides near- Waston,. and who charged with wife-beating, the eaae was dlamlaaed owing to the failure of the wtra and daughter to appear and testify against tha defendant Now, Mr, Editor, tha above article la misleading and" reflect a an Vluetlce upon myaelf, as ita wording Inspires tha tnougnt m - tha- mma or the. readers that I was guilty of tha crime' charged, but that through tha mercy of my wife and daughter by rafualng to appear and teatify against ma I thua escaped tha penalty of the law. Now the true facta In, tha case are quite the reverse, as was stated by tha Waaton Leader after tha eaae was dismissed by the district attorney. - Both my wife, my is-ytar- old daughter and my two eons, 10 and 11 years, respectively, ware aH of them there at the elroue, aad what ia more ta tha point they one and all .appeared there for the ex Drees nurnoae of teetU lying upon their oath that the charge of wire-heating, eta, waa a malicious slander and .without a single word of truth in any part ef It while that ma- lioious t-raak J.-H. Logan, the private proaecutor, did not and could not. fur nish the atete with a single witaee nee could he hlmaelf be a wltneas to hia foul eharge. Now I have lived hers at this place for nearly If yeara and I proa41r-loajtUIeinrstM ajT grwd and law-abiding a cttlaen as any other man. In Umatilla county.. . I Jigve Jisver been arrested before: In my life, nor have I ever violated the laws of the stats of Oregon. And now hare la say challenge in black and white unto any para on. white or black, short or tall, young or Id, whosoever says that beat, struck or assaulted my wire, the aame is an atrocious and malicious liar- Perhapa ou will consider that I am using strong inguage but In this eaae I mean every word ef It Tours In the defense at Justice, honor, truth and noma eaj) wm w mtAa - L - -- v m af UXXTI S9 Vila - LEWIS-AND CLARIS At Fort Cletaop.- March 17 Catal and hia family left us this morning. Old Delaehelwllt aad his woman remain.' They have camped close to tha fort We have prepared the canoea for eur departure, and ahall aet out upon our ' voyage ag soon as tha weather will permit The weather la so prafrloa that we ff . should we Walt till April, we might thea beretaJneart several days laager before Wa could tret aa far aa the Cathlamah village. We aaimot double Point William anjeeav the weather la settled, fair and calm. Draw yer returned late this evening with our canoe the ana which Sergeant PrySr left soms days ago with the Cathlamaha and also brought another, which ha had purchased rrom thoae people For thla ene he had gtvea Captain Lewis' laced uniform coat and- nearly half a carrot of tobacco. Nothing short of thla coat would have Indueed them to part with the canoe. In their scale of barter a canoe la tha artiole of tha great- aa vaiue. exeept a wire, wrtb whom it la at par. being generally given ta a father in exchange for his daughter. Captain Lewis came ta the conclusion that the United States owed him a coat. on the strength of Drewyefe trade. Wa atlll need one more canoe, and aa the CTatsotls wii terms, we Intend to "borrow" one from them by way et reprisal for the six elk they stole from us last winter. Hot Water Supplants Hens. Canon City Correspondence Denver He- - publloaa. A novel experiment Is being made by Dr. Pitt A. Wade, who last summer pur. ehaeed - the-Atlas -artealaa wall about two miles east of thla city.. He la util ising the warm water ef thla well, which haa a temperature of 100 degrees, for hatching and brooding chickens on a large scsJe. .: : . About three Weeks ago, aa an experi ment, be placed nine agga ia a water tight wooden box and placed It In the flume that conveya the water from the well to a nearby ditch, In due time ba removed the bos; end found a live oblcken in each egg. . , ' He at once began planning for the eatabllahmant of a hatchery and chick en ranch on an axtanalve scale. Incu bators specially conatrueted are being made and will be plaeed ao as to be In continual contact with the running water, which furnishes an Ideal incuba tion, supplying ths necessary moisture which the ordinary patant Incubator Jalla to do. , '. '.. J A Pertinent Crttlcism, From the Baker City Herald.' The East Oregonlan published In Pen dleton, bemoans the fact that several eastern Oregon papers are aupportlng H. M. Cake of Portland for United Statea senator In preference to Judge Lowell of Pendleton. The East - Oregonlan claims to be for eastern Oregoa candi dates first and last end for that reaaon believes - that. Judge Lowell should be supported unanimously. While this la a very worthy sentiment, yat it does not carry weignt wttn it ror several rea sons. : One reason 1b that tha East Ore gonlan does not support all eastern Ore gon candidates impartially. But tt is, perhapa fair , to tha East Oregonlan to aav that it cornea nearer aupportlng aaatarn Oregon candldatea aa a whole than any other paper. ' Anyway, If that paper la oonalatant tt cannot well ad vocate a congressman and aenator from Pendleton and a governor rrom tha val lev and oonoae John L Rand of Baker City and C A, Johna of.Bsker City. The French Foreign Legion. - Paris Latter to London Telegraph. -Oreat honor has been done to that unique corps tha Foreign Legion, tha like of whloh ex lata In no other army than tha French. One of the last de crees signed by M. Lou bet has been that conferring the Cross of the Legion of Honor uoon the regiment wnicn win now display the order on Ita colore. The Foreign Legion eonsiats soieiy ex foreigners, chiefly Alaatlans, Oermans, Italians and flpanjarde. All. of course, are volunteera, and many ara deserters from their own country. Tot these men have time after tlma atood by thai dontad flae to the laat gaap. and no French regiment has a higher record for Sheas gallantry tha J&e Foralga Legion, , THE PATHFINPERjS OF : , : HISTORY', . "By ytevi Thorn aa --B.--Orejory. Y Wien l-WftCft"cM10na Am9fp.tm irvm Being an oia -man they uaed to , tell me In the Sunday-school that the " T earth-waa-eJy about S.000 yeara aid. t - v -1 aid aet know, aad probably my Bun."-" ' oay sohool teacher dld not ktiowrthat a great Scotclimlm bad already 'published" a book which waa destined to com pletely revolutionise tha world's thought about the earth and man and their re apsctlra agaa. ; . r " . f- ' There ware, of course, geehoglata be fore Cbarlea' LysltTrwam.17aL.4iad 4" but Lyail waa the Brat geologlat te gat down to the real truth In that great and thoroughly Intaraatlng department ef eoieatlno research. , .. , " Tha full title of Lyell's great book publlehed la llls-11 "The Principles of " Oeology; an Attempt to Explain,- the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface ' by References to Csuses Now in Opera tion." will ef itself afford as a., very clean - Insight1 mtvtha..,aii'aotar and purpose or ijyeu s auora la ths "PrtnclDlea of Geology." Lvall showed' that the geologic past ends Its explanation in tba present state and Undency of things In what wa aee ma. , Ing on around u a we may behold that whloh brought the earth' ta Ita preaent condition, ;,, . .v , la tlfe Words el TA Cnnta. thara waa a time not many decades ago whan ill thlnga, the origin ef which transcends our ordinary experience, were supposed.! to have originated suddenly and with out natural process to have been made at onoe, out of hand. There waa a Urns when, for example, mountains were enp- ' posed to have been made at onoe, with -all their diversified forma of beetling cliff a, and thundering . waterfalla, er gentle slopes and smiling vallsys. lust e-wa now . - .Such was the ao-ceiled "Cataclyemlo""-' tneory. according ta which, the mala ageflclea In geelogio changes were earth-' guakes, volcanoea, auddan aubsldancea. From Lyell the eataelysmle Idea re- ciplea ef Geology-it waa proved that the great geological changes have been produoed slowly by gradual processes ef subsidence and elevation, by rivers, tor rents, springe, surrents and tldea, enV net, save to a limited extant by eata elysmle agencies. '' Lyell showed that tha age of the earth waa to be reckoned, not In thou eanda, but in hundreda ef thouaanda and ' mllllona at years, alnoe practically in . eoacalvable perloda of duration ' were required for the production of the ob served faota.'- . Such phenomena aa tha Niagara falls and gorge, the grand canyon of the Col- 1 onmdo, and other eeually imposing earth : features make It axoeedlngly improb able that the earthr waa created rBL-CL. 4 04, October- la,-aar tha uvarwlietmlngr- raajorlty af people f Lyell'a tlma firm ly believed. - . , : Lyon at the same tlma puanea sack to an almoat immeasurable date the advent . ... of man on the earth. He ahowed that the "ands" In eavea and river drifts, la reck strata and al- . luvium obliged the prsdlotioa of aa age ' for man of many hundreda or thon aands of yeara. , - Not the leaaf of the wo of ths publication of the "Principles of -Geology" waa the refutation af the old belief een earning death. ... '.J When Charles iyeii waa corn prao- tteally everybody believed that death appeared la the universe on account of "Adam's" transgression In the "Garden - cf Eden" aome (,000 yeara ago. Ia ' . other words, that "every pang that con vulses the frame of every created be-'. Ing, every passion or Instinct or neoea- . alty that contributes to tha Ihfltotion of .' suffering, is but tha fruit of tha -disc- bedlence In paradiae." But Lyell lad the way or at least. led to the way of proving decisively and beyond al possibility of question that countless agea before -man trod the earth death raged and reveled among Ita occupants; that It bo entered into the. original constitution of things that tha agony and Innrmtty It Implies were ' known, aa at preefcitt, when the maato- don and dinotherlum were tna ruiera tha world. Six Chapters of Stor. By Jamas J. MonUgue. Is ,. . ... Dear People! I am going to swat ma iusis an awful belt - rm going to put that rats bill through! ZOar znena. T. ROOSEVELT. -IL --- ;. Dear People: " . For your many woes oeep gner i long have felt I mean ta put that rata bill through. , Tour friend, '. , : . f T, R008BTELT. ' ' f IIL .... ....... : Dear People: ' All thla railroad gran nas causea my heart to melt . J hope to put that rsta bill through. Tour friend. : f T. ROOSEVELT. v '. IV. ... .-. - .. 'v-: Dear People! . . . ' One great purpose has for long wrinin ma dwelt: X want to put that rata bill through. -j . Tour trtend, . T. ROOSEVELT. . ...... V. Dear People: -. ' "' All the railroads know i want to gei thalr nalt ' f d Ilka to get that rata bill through, ' . , , Tour friend. --- 7 .'v- T. ROOSEVELT. .:r'-" VL Dear People: - J-V-7 X don't Ilka tna way tna caraa are stacked and dealt . -. . - ---..Af Forget that, rata bill for a while. ... Tour friend.- - i "7'..s' ' - T. ROOSEVELT. ' , ' Americana Everywhere. ; 7,:; Front -the-Dally Conaular Reports. Consul McNatly of Liege gives sn- othen Illustration that Americana ra abroad In the world by citing the fact that the recent census of the white pop ulation In tha Congo Free atata anows is of our eeonla there. - Of ether nation alities there are 41 Oermans, lit Eng llah, 1.400 Belgians (many being gov ernment officials), II Danes, 4S French, Austrlana, 4 Spaniards, 1 u re it a, 10 Dutch, til Itallane, 11 Luxemburgers, 14 Norwegians! 110 Portuguese, It Rue elans, 111 Swedes snd 01 Swiss, making a total of 1,400, . - T" Obllviscence. r '.'.-From New Tork Life. Juat oace. after ha had been on the stand continually for many houra, tha great financier lost hia temper and re torted with an angry answer.. . "I'm afraid you forget that you are g gentleman,", observed counsel. ' The rebuke atruck home : The wit- ; nesa winced visibly. But ha was not unwining to Justify himself. "Where one Is called on, to forget so many things all af once, one becomes contused 7,011 know," he stammered, 'i v 1, 1