The Oregon daily journal., July 14, 1906, Image 6

THE JOURNAL
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INADEQUATE CAR SERVICE.
rHE Mount Scott News makes
; long ' and loud "'complaint
''about the inadequacy of car
service daring certain bouts, pertlcu
- larly In the evening wheirpepl r
returning from work, between the
central portion of the city and the
' settlements around Mount Scott .The
' strictures seem to be" well, founded
' and the demand for more cars-when
' working people need them to be rea-
. sonable. Most of the people in
' Vicinity of , Mount ' Scott," embracing
JArlcU and contiguous suburbs, have
: Idafly employment fa the. city. They
are generally ? people of moderate
'means, who went out there and
' bought cheap lots and built little
' 11 vi-t.
'nooses in oroer tu arum pax1"
. -rents and to get a home of their own.
'Most of them hare to work hard
J during the day, and then hate" a ride
of four or fire or six miles to get
ihomel They are tired," and are" en-
UitledHo a seat, or at least a' better
I chance tot one than It appears they
Igenerally get hThey pay. their fares,
. six or seven days in the week, both
ways, the year through," and yet a
large" proportion of them not only
' j have to stand, up - and hang . onto
( straps, but even have to almost fight
- 'for standing-room; and many of them
are women indtrgirls," tired with a
jlongJay'CjjVinthej
; can people ,ndy thefrj supper and
;brief evening's rest after such an ex
perience as that? : And is it strange
Ithat they think they are not getting
their . money's worth, even if they
Tare carried four or five" miles?
In a rapidly growing and spreading
'.. city like Portland ' a street railway
company cannot always keep up witaenTomjnjofitggiig
the demand for service, i cannot in
crease Its equipment fast-enough to
- ; meet the demands of all suburbs, nor
" is it expected that every " passenger
should always find a seat at the hour
when, thousands arc , going home at
. once; yet the demand for more cars
stems to be in this case reasonable,
and oae . that the company, ought to
heed.;' It is making and will make a
. great-deal of moneir out, of hs busi
ness, and it ought tq put on cars
enough at certain hours to accommo
date the people better, even if a por
' tion of the cars had to remain com
paratively idle the rest of the day. -
james j.:hill.
PORTLAND riS always pleased
to welcome James J. HilL The
; freedom of the chy is always
his. Portland is selfish in this,, part
ly, for Mr. Hill is doing much to
' ' benefit Portland not that this is his
-.primary object; it Is only incidental
to his own large plans and purposes
yet it so happens that Mr. Hill's
, . end Portland's large and ultimate in
terests concur.
" Mr. Hill is a remarkable man in
Txaanywayi. He iisoeven"inper
" sonal appearance." One would take
him rather for a great college presi
dent, a counterpart of the late John
, Ftske, rather than a purely business
' man who holds his own in Wall street
and in ; the financial ganglions of
European capitals.
; . Mr. , Hill is peculiar, for a great
railroad man, because he is a talker,
He makes frequent speeches. He
.1 falks to, farmers and commercial
bodiranTl.Iways convlhcingly; He
Is nine tenths an orator, because he
always has something interesting and
. ; important to say; he is completely
: and cuily master of his subject; he
1 Ulks for a purpose, and quits when
' he is through. -" ; J -
Mr. Hill is a unique man among
- great railroad ' builders in that , he
- sever .asked for land grants -or sub
sidies. Other men' have worked up
from small and humble beginnings,
as he did, to the top place, but none
so fadependentlyj' so- completely "on
his own merits and those of the busi
enterprise fnwhleh hi engaged.
Mr. Hill Is America's greatest de
veloper. He has done more then all
etherrsflroad magnates combined to
develop the great northwestern, re
gion from the great lakes to Puget
sound and now - he is to Invade
Oregon.! ' -.f: Clrlki
What Mr; Hill does he does ,Wit
When he built the Great Northern,
with no land grant or subsidies, Jt
was physically the best long railroad
ever built in this country.- So the
north bank road, he says, will be the
best one in the United States, though
the cost is ''fearful" And though de
layed by'rival and dogrin-the-manger
opposition; he will build it" He has
entire" confidence that he 'cannot' be
prevented from completing the Port
land & Seattle railroad by a corpora
tion, that for 20 years has held some
sort of legal right of way and "yet
has done nothing and showed no
signs of doing anything. '-. "V
L Mr. : Hill has pessimistic .streaks.
which make him all the more inter
esting. He thinks the trade between
Pacific coast ports and, the 'orient
will not' grow as has been hoped and
predicted. He says that the tariff
law and the interstate commerce law
will militate severely against the de
velopment of this trade.' He is prob
ably partly right; he ought to know
whereof he speaks; yet we think that
the progress and, development of the
Pacific ' northwest cannot be greatly
retarded even by unwise legislation.
For a man nearly three score and
ten years, old, as vigorous and active
mentally and physically as he was 30
years ago, whom heat and cold, travel
and toil, do not appreciably affect
.THE FRUGAL FRENCHMEN.
I JT-WAS RECENTLY stated that
the Pennsylvania railroad had
borrowed $50,000,000 in 'France.
And this in addition to about $1,000,-
000,000 loaned by Frenchmen to Rus
sia and hundreds of millions loaned
elsewhere In Europe, ; .-.',
France has nominally the greatest
national debt of any nation, yet these
enormous loans show that this v debt
could be speedily paid off if it were
thought desirable to do so. It is
principally owed to . French people,
who regard it 'as a good investment
and do not want their money back.
When at - the , .conclusion of -the
Franco-Prussian war France was re
quired, to pay $1,100,000,000 indem
nity, " It was 'predicted that so great
a debt would- cripple the country for
enationsbutwa-f
one generation, ana the frenen peo
ple .' have gone on , accumulating
money, franc by franc, 'sou by sou,
ever since. :. '". , ' '. s".; J." .
, The reatfm why the French people
have in the aggregate so much money
is that they save it They are indus
trious,, thrifty, economical v They
thing for religion, but something goes
Into thetocking, and as soon as the
accumulation is sufficient it is invest
ed. In government, securities or de
posited in the bank to draw interest,
and t&ese savings aggregate much
more than a billion dollars. V
The common - people of y France
waste nothing, -r-but little. Rural
people need but little land on which
jto live. Forty acres is a large farm;
on five acres a family supports itself
and saves moneir. .
A great ' many American people
could learn a lesson from the Frnrh
in tnruuness. . Americans are at
present - generally prosperous, and
they have opportunities afforded In
no other country, but as a rule they
are wasteful and improvident and the
time may come when they will need
to imitate the French in frugality.
Gertrude Atherton, than' whom no
woman in America has done more for
letters, is In Portland, and is pleased
to echo the kindly things that her
fellow Californians have said of the
Rose City. Since Bret Harte, no one
has painted. more faithfully or. with
greater grace the men and women of
dldand "new California, and" when
wandering farther afield for her sub
jects no American , has received
warmer jpfaise for character drawing
or literary ability. Great Britain con
siders Mrs. -Atherton one of "Ameri
ca's leading writers. ' "
And while the people are trying to
induce the street railway company to
give them owl cars it should not be
forgotten that a vast improvement
could "be "madein the day service.
Only millionaires can afford to stand
on the corner 10 minufes for a car,
and the millionaires refuse to spend
their time in that prodigal manner,
The statement in a Cincinnati paper
to. the effect .that Mr. Bryan Is no
longer young comes at the very mo
ment when some people are wonder
gin " why he " has "abandoned ' one or
two of the , planks in the ' Chicago
platform. . ; ' ' ,
. After learning that a French of-
fjciar,whha
ponent by the throat and' had shaken
the buttons, from his. clothes in an
attempt to convince him of the utter
A Little Out
THINOS PRINTED Td READ WHILE YOU WAIT.
-Th Golden Teeth of Sheep.
Borne tfm mgo mild Mnaatton was
eauaed by newspaper paragraphs ata,t-
ln that aheep with cold-coataa taetn
had Men found in Australia, tm mys
tery haan solvtd by Proreasor
LlTcrsldf. to whom the lower half of
a sheep Jawbone from Dubbo la New
South Wale was submitted ftr exam
ination. Th . teeth were more or less
tnorusted With a yellow metalllo sub
stance-more like brass,, however, than
rold, about .1-11 of an' Inch. In, thick-
nes. . Under . the . mieroaeope It was
seen ' te consist of . thin - transluoent
layers, the metalllo luster betns; due to
the mode In which llfht wu reflected
frem their s surface. - Blsrher hopes
were epeedily dashrd whan It was fur
ther ascertained that the incrustation
was only a tartar-like deposit chiefly
made up calcium phosphate and or
ganic matter, v-: '.'' ,. - j !
- The Wiah.- ' ;
Well, then! I 'now dt plainly eee,
This busle -world and J shall ne'e a free;
The very honey of all-earthly Joy
Does of all meats the aoonest cloy.
And they, methlnka, deserve my pity.
Who , for It can endure the a Una.
The croud, and bus, and murmnrlnga -
Of thla great hive, the city. . v .
AnTyet ere I descend to th a-rare.
May X a small house and large garden
-. have I -
And a few friends and many books;
both true, - .-- ...
Both wise, and both, delightful, tool -
.' And since Xove ne'er will from me
rlee. . ,
A. mistress moderately fair,'
As good as guardian angels are. " "
Only beloved, and loving me, ' ,
. ; , -" ' j - Cowley.
The peenh was originally a poisoned
almond. Its fleshy parte were used to
poison arrows, and ' the fruit was ' for
thla purpose Introduced Into Persia.
The - transplantation and - cultivation,
however, not only removed Its poison
ous qualities, but produced the delicious
fruit we now enjoy.
Mrs. Mary Holloway wrote to Queen
Alexandra that she had lived TO years in
the same house and had been ev widow
40 years. - Incidentally she - mentioned
that she had heard there were .400 clocks
In Windsor Castle. In reply, she re
ceived from the queen a finely mounted
brass travellnr .clock in a leather case
and sua Inscription.
The earliest election of which the
numbers polled have been preserved la
that at Lincoln, England, in 1147. At
thla 14 "voices" were cast
Experiments are being made at Mon-
treux, France, with . a new electrle
searchlight - of 10,000,000 candle-power
that will project rays to miles. . j
The municipality of Nice haa trained
dogs to draw a oord, with a brush fixed
to the end of it, through the small sew
ers of the ol ty, and so clean them.
Ceylon is a promising field for the
cultivation of rubber. During 1105, 4b
000 more acres were planted with rub
ber and 15,000 acres more will be so
news
was thought to be of eufllctent interest
to automoblllats to appear in automo
bile, notes of the Xxmdoa Times. ,
fallacy of some opinions, la suffering
greatly from the efforts of his antag
onist to discover , by means of a
sword if the obstreperous one hsd a
heart, the enemies of the duello will
probably abate their opposition to the
code.
, If ; nobody were ' careless ''' there
would be no forest fires, however
long' it may remain dry. But some
people will be careless, and here and
there . one perhsps criminally mis
chlevous. " " '. ..; : -, "
In our congress the members con
tent themselves with calling one an
other liars t and muckrakers; in the
French assembly they punch noses
and fight real duels. ' '
t L
When the fist fight occurred in the
French assembly it is reported that
"the sitting was suspended," ' No
wonder;' the members had to stand
up in order to get at one anotfier.
Don't let another summer come
without having a lot of drinking foun
tains and ' troughs provided. They
won't cost much and will do a great
deal of good.
Another millionaire, J. G.,-Phelps
Stokes, has become a socialist, which
is. sufficiently pleasant to encourage
the hope that some dayn socialist
may become a millionaire. ....
The commercial door of Manchuria
is open just far enough to permit the
thin, cheap goods of Japan to get
through without paying duty. ;
Mr. Roosevelt continues to give
evidence that he would rather be an
untrammeled president than a captive
lion at the chariot wheel of W. J.
Bryan. ' '. .'
' Perry . Mitchell says that Esther
may share the fate that so suddenly
and bloodily- overtook George. ; Let
brotherly love continue. ,",
Tfie demand Toir later 'carsls well
nigh universal, and ought to be heed
ed by the railroad company, as we be
lieve it will bei--- --
At last, long1 after he is dead, as is
generally the case, Zola gets his de
serts at the hands of his countrymen.
Ifiemilfiereft war onbetween
Salvador and Guatemala, with more
than 30 men on a side in arms. A
general and ex-president hat been
of tke Common
1 Probably one of the longest.. I
known was granted for a small pleoe
or meadow-land, some If aires in ex
tent, in Surrey. It is for the term ef
S.S00 years and was granted oa St
Michael's day. In 1C61, a the singular
rental of a red rose when demanded.
It is not stipulated that the rose shall
be the produot of this land, which is
fortunate, for no such rose grows any
where on the ( aorea. .. v."
Jiptnes Lacquer.
- Japanese ' laoauer is e ' very ' curious
substance.' A- simple, tree sap, like
maple say, it la, yet when applied to
wood or metal, quite Indestructible. A
coat of lacquer la proof against alcohol,
against boiling . water, ' agaihat almost
all agents.- . . ' "
The lacquer tree of Japan is very
large, It la always out down at the
age of 40 years, as thereafter it begins
to dry up. Each tree yields on Its
demolition about six barrels of lacquer"
sap. ' 1 y . '
.The Japanese are very careful not to
let foreigners 1 into the : secrets of
lacquering. . , ; '
- Hired Bridesmaids. ""
A woman la Paris haa established an
agency- - for supplying bridesmaids to
young women who need such attendants
and who have no friends. Each - girl
reoelvee tS for each time she acta as
bridesmaid. ' If the bride wlehea. her
maids to appear in new clothes she nag
to buy the apparel herself.
A.-Very.' Cheering.
A new explanation for baldness has
been - given by lAiolen Jaoquet. who
concludes that the trouble haa, in moat
easea at least, a nervous origin.
He cans attention to the fact that
the condition is more eommonjunong
Intellectual persona than among oth
ers. He la convinced that baldness is
of 4 . frequent occurrence, not only
among those who are intellectual,, but
also among those who are subjected to
Intense mental strain. . and under such
circumstances - it may occur compara
tively early. Baldness Increases with
civilisation, and Brocq haa noticed the
curious fact that sines women have
devoted themselves to intellectual pur
suits and hare grown accustomed to
employ their-- cerebral centers In a
more intense manner, baldness, which
formerly waa - rare among' them, has
progressively become more frequent.
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. A Bachelor's Reflections. '
! . From the New Tork Press. ;
An unpleasantness in your own
family la a scandal in anybody else a ' -.
If s very unlucky to propose te a girl
unless you want her to accept you...
If you buy a house the taxes go upi
If yon sell it there is a real estate
boom right after you do It
This Is such a nice-world that when
you get well acquainted with It you
stop worrying about the next.
Aftera girl hasbroken her heart
five or six "times, over s man her
parents won't let her marry, they don't
worry so much about whether eba will
die from It New Tork Press. .
killed and possibly one or two others.
Whichever, country licks, both will
shortly celebrate with revolutions.
Car service must keep up with the
city's growth, or somewhere nearly
so. It appears not. to be doing so.
' Is the summer to pass withoufja
start being made on the constrvtion
of jmy of those electric railroad f -
It yon can't keep cobl,keep as cool
as you can and dont make other
people hotter.
: , If Jack Matthews is out of politics,
he can't make everybody believe it
What crimes are perpetrated In the
name uficligluul . , . '
; Notes From. San Francisco, s. :-
One thousand men' are at work en a
building . on Van Ness arenas which
covers a lot 17 feet long by ISO feet
deep. - It will contain 800 offices and
tl stores. The foundations are of con
crete. The building has four floors and
tsst elevators and wUl be ready . for
occupancy on August 1.
Tile -new Masonlo building will eost
$48,000. will have ao com modat Ions for
1( lodges and will have the largest
lodge-room in the United States.
The French-American bank building
is to be nine stories la hsight and cost
110.000.
When the roll Is called at the be
ginning of next terra, on July 11, chil
dren - will respond in tl . new school
houses which ere now in course of con
struction.
The University of California hss Just
had between ioo,ooo ana oo.ooo
poured into its endowment fund, from
the estate of M. Tbeo, Kearney, late of
Fresno. The ' estate consists of
MOO acres,. moat of which la under a
high . state of cultivation.
If the people of other states esn help
It, the children of Ban Francisco will
not' suffer for educational faculties.
Already the children of Missouri are
getting together a fund of 10-cent pieces
to build a tine new schoolhouse in San
Francisco. The state of Washington
has fixed upon November IS Thanks
giving day as Ban Francisco day, when
the children may contribute a thank
offering to help Ban " Francisco.- The
state or. Illinois nae taxen tne same step.
Indiana expects to have an Indiana
school building In ' Saa Francisco and
many other states are planning to set
aside a special day probably Thanks
giving to aid In the work of recon
struction.
An Uncanny Plant.
On the shores of lake Nicaragua Is
te be found an uncanny product of the
vegetable kingdom known among the
natlrea by the expressive name of "the
devil's noose." Dunstan, the naturalist
discovered it not long ago while wander
ing on the shores of the lake. At
tracted by orlea.of pain and terror from
Ms dog, hs found the animal held by
blank, sticky bands, which had chafed
the skin to the bleeding point These
bands Were branoBes of a newtv-dio
covered carnivorous plant. 'which has
beea 'aptly named the 'landoctopus."
The branches are flexible, " black,
polished, without leaves and secrete
a viscid fluid,-
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A Little Nonsense
T""A Littie"I)omestlc Strategy. tj
The younger man had been complain
ing that -he oould pot get . his wife to
mend bis clothes. ,
"I asked her to sew a button on this
vest last night and she hasn't touched
It" be said. At this the older man as
sumed the air of a patriarch.
"Never ask a woman to mend any
thing," hs said. "You haven't been mar
ried very long, and I think I oaa give
you some serviceable suggestions. When
I want a shirt mended I take it te my
wife, flourish It around a little and say,
Where a that ragbag r .
What do yon want of the ragbagf
asks my wife. Her auapiclona are roused
at ones.- .... ,
- " 'I want to throw this shirt ewajr; it's
worn out,' I say, with . a few more
nourishes.
" 'Let me see that shirt. my wife says
then. - 'Now, John, hand It to me at
once.' .i -
"Of course i pass It over and she ex
amines It ' 'Why,, John Taylor,' she is
euro to say,' 'I never knew such ex
travagance I ' This is a perfectly good
shirt- All it nssde Is ' And then she
mends It" .. - ;- ; ;.
.' ; , : Forgot the Word.; X;'''
By George W. Wannemacher, Portland.
He waa -a Fsenoh-Canadlan - from
Quebec, huaky. hard as nails, but ut
terly lacking initiative and determina
tion and Incurably lasy.- Hla massive
body-exuded strength, but not a parti
cle of energy. ' He - had drifted aoutb
ana was picking up a living atong ins
wharves. There he got into a flght
with a water-front tough, and in spits
of his strength, waa quickly laid on his
back, and got a asvere trouncing. At
each blow the Canadian 'yelled "Hur
rah'" "Hurrah I" But the blowe con
tinued . thick anoT fast Finding that
hurrahing did not help him the French
man discovered the necessity of exert
ing his Immense strength and soon had
positions reversed and commenced to
batter the face ortbe tough. Finally
a that ha waa beaten;
sullenly ' grunted v out . "Enough!"
TEnougnrv .'" ' ' '' ;
jBy . gar," said the Canadian, as hs
sluggishly rose to hla feet, "by gar,
sat yaa se vorfl I vent to say ven I
ery- hurrah.11 , ' r
Tune That Cheer.' ; '' :;.;'
. From the Montreal. Bier. '
I want to hear the old songs, ' ' "
I nevef hear them now
The tunes that cheer the tired heart '
And smooth ths care-worn brow.
Heard In the twilight's dreamy hour.
Beat suited to their flight .
Each cadence like a blessing falls
Ah, sing me one tonight - ; -
.' " The Retort Courteous! v
A merry party being gathered in a
city flat made auch-a racket that the oc
cupant of a neighboring apartment sent
his servant down with a pouts messags
asking if it would be possible for the
party to make less noise, since, ae the
servant announced, "Mr. Smith says that
hs cannot read."
1 am very sorry for Kr. Smith.'' re
plied ' the hoet "Please present my
compliments to your master, say that I
am sorry hs cannot read, and tell'hlm I
oould when I waa four years oldr. .
; - .. .Rabbit as. Regiment Peti : 7
From the Iondon Evening Standard.
" Regiments have adopted strange pets
from time to time, but the strangest
probably is that of the Montgomeryshire
yeomanry, now in camp la Garth, Bre
conehlre. It is a rabbit found recently
by ths regimental postman In -a letter
box he was clearing. . . .
Attached to Its neck was a label, on
which were a halfpenny stamp and the
ladfesf of A-gnnemi4 In WrsxnamT
Denblgahlre. The rabbit la being made
much of by the regiment v
Duty;
' By Lendon Carter.
' (Oopyrlcbt' ieoe, bl W. a, Hearst)
to tmn own sen ce irue.
And it must follow ae the night the
-.. day. - -
Thou -canst- not - then "be false to " an y
-- man."
Thie is perhaps man's first duty and
best preparation for life, but of almost
equal Importance is to learn to love all
kinds of nobleness, for such knowledge
gives a general appreciation ofthe true
value and meaning of things, teaching
the proper standard by which to decide
and Judge-their lelatlfo value. A-ireen-appreelatlen
of one's daily responsibili
ties is most necessary in the pursuance
of every phase of life, for what duty
la -made upon a. single difficult deter
mination T . The difficulty exists In the
general and consistent support of conse
quences that threaten future pleasures,
with possible discomforts to be with
stood, and perhaps even chances to be
endured. ...,..
In being true to one's self comprise!
so much that It is almost impossible
to ascribe any universal law, for in all
conditions of Ufe the ultimate standard
for a man la hla own oonsolsnee, and
no possible pleasure of Influence, au
thority or even love can atone for false
ness there,
"I would not love thee half so well
loved I not honor more." - -
jQeneral rules for humanity are usu
ally misleading, for Individuals differ
so . materially that . each . one's - duties
and Influences are almost "things
apart," although, broadly speaking, no
individual influence is without its pos
sible effect upon the world in general,
whloh fact but embraces the responsi
bilities of precept and . example and
which forma of duty are common to all,
for .there are .none too insignificant to
possess them it may be that one can
influence a few, another exert power
over (0, a third over a community
one may do It by personal magnetism,
another by sincerity, a third by higher
education, a fourth,' perhaps, by dis
honesty, but each and all have some
quality, whether good or bad, that dom
lnatss the -Weaker, and if viewed from
the proper standpoint one may become
educated by both his own and others'
associates, for just as we poesaes the
power of influence over others so aleo
in turn do our characters In aome way
respond to every life which touchee
ours. Every relationship necessarily
entails risk, and the only real safeguard
Is the- oultl vatlea ttt proper - moral
standards mistakes are a part of the
discipline of life, but if we desire a
full life we roust accept and battle
with risks, for otherwise one may be
come too exclusive through being over
cautious and timid, and few o on se
quence are sadder or more dangerous
than an Isolated life, which generally
results in selfishness and ' from ths
root of selfishness there cannot ' pos
sibly blossom love. Sympathy or any of
life's sweetest flowers. There Is also
riOsTsatrr-desxhWoir-than-sslflshneBS,
to the oomraon duty ef fellow men to
ward each other, and In the failure of
thia pertlculsr duty one ignores the
highest teachings ef - ths Almighty.
, "Lt us bind love with 4uty4 for dutj
BIRDSEYE VIEWS .
cf TIMELY TOPICS
1 ' . SMALL CHANGS. '(
-; Now Is the very midsummer. V
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Get some good out ef Sunday. '
Cref field sowed seed on fertile aoll,
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Reports of foreet fires pearly due.
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"Live and learn." But do you learn?
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. Don't catch more than the law allowe.
A year ago we were an going to the
Mr' .- '';...'; '. -
"life is hard; we can't go te pianios
every day. ' ... . . . .
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Teddy seems actually to be taking a
eomparatlve .rest ' t, :.' ;
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' Some - United States senatore are
elected by unpopular votes.
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The lawyers will take eare of Harry
Thaw's income for a- while, .
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Ton may never 'see another glorious
summer. Make the meet of thla.
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Portland is too big a town for every
body to be- at home and In bed at II
O'ClOCk. . -''-- ' ,.. ,
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Haa Mr. Bryan . disproved - the' old
adage that a rolling stone gathers no
mossT ' j -'.--.- .... j
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; The' Chautauqua, assembly is a good
place at which to spend a few hours or
even daya... -i
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Higher prioes for hope are predicted
by a bull. A bear will soon predict
A Cleveland man named Tysoskelwics
had it changed to TWd. - He U a right
sensible fsllow. , 1 'f
We'll have to aeknowledge te eastern
people that it gets a little warm 'out
here occasionally.
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If Rockefeller should ever .be con
victed he need not fear being sentenced
to immersion In boiling olL
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Ths pension budget is only increasing
slightly now. - In 100 years, if thsre
are no more ware. It may begin to de
crease a little. , .'.''..
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Over and over and over agafn, "
Over and over forevert
Anew every morning cackles the hen,
Anew every mqrn flows the river. 1 .
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Whatever ahs may think of herself
the world can regard only with horror
a young woman who. in cold blood killed
her. brother. ... "-' ;
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Senator 1 Follette ef Wisconsin said
the other day:. "There is good fighting
ahead the next 10 years for a man In
public life." What a lot of fun that
man-must expect to have.- - "r-..---
'rVnitlier a Humanity Trenclingf?
BY MAURICE MAETERLINCK.
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The anxiety of man to know the aim
and the- endvof hla existence is essen
tially human; it la a kind of Infirmity
or provincialism of the mind and has
nothing
In common wlibT universal real-
ity.
Have thlnge an aim? Why should they
have, and what aim or end oaa there be
in an Infinite organism T i v
But even though our mission be only
to till for an Instant a diminutive space
that could ae well be filled by the violet
or grasshopper, without lose te the uni
verse of economy or grandeur, without
the destinies of tale world being short
ened or lengthened by one bourt even
though! this march of ours count for
nothing, though we move for the asks
of motion, tending nowhithsr. this futile
pro are ee of ours may, nevertheless, still
claim to absorb all our attention and in
terest and this M entirely reasonable; It
Is the loftiest course we can pursue, t. .
If it lay in ths power of an ant to
study the laws of the stars, and if. in
tent on this study, though fully aware
Thanh eee Tawf sreTfnmUUOnChiver to
be modified, it declined to oonoern Itself
further with the affairs or the future of
the ant hill should ws, who stand to
the insect as the great gods are sup
posed to stand to ourselves, who Judge
it and dominate it ae we believe our
selves . to be dominated and Judged
should we approve thle ant or,, for all
its universality, regard It as either good
or moral T . ' -,-,..
Reason, at Its apogee, becomes stern.
and inertia would be Its eole teaching did
It not after recognising the pettiness,
the nothingness of our passions- and
hopes, of our being and, lastly, of lea
son itself, retracs Its footsteps back to
the point whence it shall be able onoe
more to take eager interest in all these
poor trlvaltiee, in thla aame nothingness,
Is the love ef law end Jaw the nature
of ths sternal r
Ths reward of one defy' Is the' power
to fulfill another so said Bsa A sal. .
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Did Chinese Discover the Compass?
' From Harper's Magaslne.
Some Aslsn people, perhaps the Chi
nese, dlsoovsred, many centuries ago,
that a kind of iron ore possessed a
vary peculiar quality. . It was found
that If a' bit. of lodestone were placed
in water upon a piece of eork or etraw
braid it would turn till the axis of the
etone aaaumed a north and south posi
tion. ..
It is an open question whether the
Chlnass utilised the directive power of
the lodestone but It Is certain that the
first rude compass waa not used on
European vessels before the twelfth
century of our era.' By that .time the
true - magnetic . compass had been
evolved through the discovery that if
an iron or steel needle were stroked
on a lodestone It would receive the at
tractive and directive power of thle
His Slgyurture..
. From Seattle Poet-Intelligencer.
. "What la the delay T asked a -report s
who was waiting in "the anteroom of
Independence hall while the deolaratlon
of independence waa being signed.
"I understood -that the doeument
would be filed and ready to be handjd
to' the press long before thla" i
' "They haven't all written their names
te It rev"- explained the patriot -who
had eome out te get some fresh air. -
"Losing neertr -
"No. Had te send for more ink. oh a
Hancock used up the last half of the
bottle for hie signature." ,
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' OREGON SIDELIGHTS, f
Pick out your hopfleld earty.. ' ;."'.
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Dallas needs a steam laundry. - '-k -e
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Alfalfa's the thing all up-ooantry V'
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Fine time to harvest weeds also.
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Pack your fruit rtgb if you woulaj
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Wild blackberriee scarce In the mount .
Ulna. .,';.:...'.: .. -,.' ' . -.r v.,.; 1 '"
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Woodburn thinks It needs an operei '
house,. - ; .. -v.
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' Many "campers over on Ceoe ' pay; ,
streams. :.Sl..
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Another ' ' 10,000-a-day x&Ql neal ",
Aalnlsr. - ' . - ... r -. -
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Work progressing on Canton's ,.neea " ;
big sawmill. r :;-,.jt. ' ., j-;. -'U
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--Fishing good 'at Belknap bridge "." la., ,
Lane oounty. r- ' ,
v., . , e ;' ev -''".
' Artesian water will do wonders la '
southern; Oregon. ,.:- i..v .sf;-.r
'Canada thistles ' becoming - too prevev '
lent in Clackamas county.
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Ths East Oregonlan advocates a peri -
manent pavilion for Pendleton.' .'-. .. :
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Bums will be a railroad town "within!
two years, says the Times-Herald.;.-.
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Ontario will soon have ' waterworks
and than must have a fire department
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The Eugene GuardEaa evlargaMW
press and that paper -will continue ta
improve.,;,- -. . - .
fr: ' '.'V-e- '.e -' r i. '.;.
When a pickpocket or burglar. robe
policeman be exhibits a lack of profes
sional courtesy and wM 'get the limit"
There is said td' be nothing, slower em
earth than the eurrent of the Long Tom
river in summer. Needa an appropria
tion, perhape. - , ' " '"
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Hot winds knocked Umatilla county
out ef a million or so bushels of.
wheat but It will have nearly as much
as ever, after all. -
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'"The Sunday closing habit is growtng
and will strike The Dalles one of these
fine days, and closing at 11 p. m. also,
says the Chronicle. . . )
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Eugene Register i ' Prospects of a'
train holdup ' In -Eugene one of these
hot days when a car of Albany bees'
goes through to southern points. . : y -"'it
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Estaoada News: Wild . blackberries
and black raspberries are very plentiful
this year, and nearly- every family will
have a big eupply of jam for the - win-
ae holding them the only things In the
world for which ite aaalatanoe haa value.
Ws know not whither we go, but may
Still relOlca l the Imiwiw mil thle will
become the lighter, the happier for our
endeavor to picture to ourselves the next
place of halt
Where will this be The mountain -
pass lies ahead and threatens, but the
roads already are widening and becom
ing less rugged,, the trees -spread their
branches, crowned with fresh blossom,
silent waters are flowing before us, re
poseful and peaoefuL , .
Tokens, all these It may be of our near-r
ing the vastest valley mankind yet .has
eeen from the . height of the tortuous .
paths it has ever been climbing. Shall
we call It the "First Valley of Leisure T"
Distrust, ae we may, the surprises
that the future may have in store, be the
troubles and cares that await us never
so burdensome, there still eeeme eome
ground ror believing that the - bulk or
mankind will know daya .when, thanks)
it may be to machinery. asTrtonlturat
cnedirfyrmedTcine perhaps, orTanow
not what dawning science, labor will be
come less Incessant, exhausting leea ms
terlal, tyrannical, pitiless. .. - .
What use will humanity make of thle
leisure? . On Its employment may be said
to depend ths whole destiny of man.
Were it not well that hla counsellors
now should begin to teach him to use
such leisure as he haa in a nobler and
worthier faahlont
' It le the way in which hours of free
dom are spent that determines as muoh
as war or as labor the moral Worth of
a nation. It raises or lowers. It replen
ishes or exhausts. At present we find
In theee great cities of ours that three
daya idleneae will fill the hospitals
with victims whom weeks or months Of
toil had left unsoatched.; - ',
Letters
.From - tn
People J .v:
sregeme Ooewirflmeu Wanes Fair Play,
Eugene, Or., July 11 To the Editor
of The Journal In your issue of the
11th Inst your paper has something to
say about the common council of the
elty of Eugene granting a street rail
road franchise. In this article le in
jected a etatement which I .consider la
unfair to the members of the counolL
It le not a faot that 'the eounoll wae
forced into line by any commercial club
or body, but that the council did refuse
to grant a franchise wlth-lhe provisions
asked by the Willamette Valley com
pany when they mads their first appli
cation and also former applications. It
la aleo a further faot that some local
talent hae been very active in belittling
the council in this mattsr, claiming that
the oounoll was frittering away valuable
time in the matter. - , "
The faot are' that he eounelt voted
to grant a franchise at the very earliest
momsnt at which a franchise was asked
for which they considered a fair deal to
ths town. There are objectionable fea
tures in this ea granted, and it hae been
intimated that the Willamette Valley
company will reject -this because of a
alight alteration, but I think it ia fair
to say that the members mt the common
council of this city have acted as in
telligent buslnsss men and that they are
really the council. That the persons
who spread newe to the contrary and
Impose on The Journal and its readers
might better be employed st other voca
tion i', , .
. I am, air, yours for fair play and due
eredlv where U belongs, - aV P. NESS.
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