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teacher; adversity Is a great
' ' er. Possession pampers the
I tnind; privation trains ! and ,
' . strengthens it Haxlltt ' :. ; .
-THE FACTS; ONLY THE
FACTS.".
SO MUCH that. Is false,' so much
cunning distortion of the facts
has been published by the Ore
, ' gonian in its pretended history of the
tnsking of the city charter and the
granting of street railway franchises
that it seems necessary to set before
the public the" true -story-of these
. events. Elsewhere in this issue read
ers will find a plain unvarnished
' cital of the facts. They establish be
yond peradrenture V dispute the ut
ter falsity of the Oregonian's asser
tion! and the hypocrisy of its pre
, tenses. At the time when the street
railway franchises were under consid-
cration'by the "city council in the fall
of 1902, ; The . Journal entered re
peated and emphatic protest against
granting them, pointing out again' and
again that, the compensation -offered
the city was inadequate and . urging
that .action should be deferred until
. after he legislature had ratified the
t new'charter. Of the three daily pa
per published in Portland.Tho Jour
nal alone protested against these f ran
ch isesjdpmtedutthgravi pbr
ejections to granting them, .The Ore
gonian was arrayed on the side of the
street railway corporations and when
the ; blanket franchise , was finally
'. granted the Oregonian came out in an
' editorial commendation 'of ' the ' city
council, declaring that the franchise
would be "looked - back 'upon with
prided in future yeara 4y- everyjjar
ticipant in its framing."-," !.
. From the lipa of the Oregonian it-
aelf -cpmes-th erindisputiblepfobrof
its falsity, of its hypocrisy and of its
treachery to the interests of the peo
- pie. Of the names Inscribed on the
pillar of opprobrium" the Oregonian's
leads all the' rest V .". V" .. -
DONT HURRY.
hurry too much.. You will
see them tunning "like mad"
to catch a car, as if it were matter
of life and dcstti, when probably-it
makes no difference wnetner tney ride
in that car or the next one, and when
' perhaps they could have walked home
or wherever they were going with
less exertion and loss of vitality and
danger of sudden collapse from heart
. failure than they sustained in rushing
to "catch a car." ,
. This is only one of many species
" of exhausting hurrying that Amer
" leans indulge in, especially in the
, large cities. We don't see so much
a of it in Portland as in larger cities;
. indeed,, we see people here lounging
and loafing along and getting in busy
people's way; as if they were to live a
thousand years yet the tendency of
; v the average urban resident is to wear
v himself out too much by hurrying and
' rushing when he could accomplish
, the same results and live longer and
'- more comfortably if he went about
his affairs more coolly and slowly, '
r Most men must be busy, and must
do business on time, yet there is sel
dom if ever need of this feverish
haste and rush. It weakens a man's
: ' vital organs and renders him less
" capable 6f "doing 'effectively , what "Tie
seeks ' to ' accomplish. . There are
' enough lary people no doubt, but
- some people would do well to culti
vate leisure if not laziness, and the
art of doing things on time and yet
; not running and" rushing"to do therii.
- f EMPLOYERS LIABILITY IN T
: 'S i . : FRANCE.
FRANCE is a progressive and en
. lightened country in many
1 wave. As i an instance, the
. French parliament passed last April
en employers' liability act applying
to all. sorts of work, and. based as
nearly at possible on the theory that
the pecuniary consequences of an ac
cident should be divided equally,, as
nearly as possible, between employer
and employe. ' This ' lew of limited
gompensation applies to all t eases of
ftcddent, whether due. to negligence
or mere chance.' The annuity to the
widow or widower, are payable dur
ing life and to correspond to 20 per
Cent of the annual wages of the de
ceased.' and annuities to the children
vary between 13 'and 40 per cent of
the annual wages, according to the
number of children, payable up to the
age of 16) the annuities to he child
ren reach even 60 per cent incjthe
event of their ' being left orphans.
Should a widow or ; a widower re
marry the annuity granted ceases' after
payment of a lump sum representing
three years' annuity; but the child
ren's annuities continue to be paid.
In the event of the deceased-leaving
no widow, widower, or children, an
annuity Of 10 to 30 per cent s al
lowed to other relatives. In case of
total disability, the victim receives 66
per cent of his former wages, and par
tial disabilities ofvdifferent kinds are
paid for according to specific pro
visions. '.'.'"'. ,'''.'. ,";..r' -' ,(
This may not seem quite jnst in the
case of an faifury or fatality incurred
through the employer's " f suit and
without contributory negligence on
the part of the employe but it Is a
large step forward, for heretofore it
was almost impossible for an injured
workman, or the family of one killed,
to get any pecuniary redress in
France. ,,, '
. THE WHISKEY DRINKER.
BET US say what good word we
ean -for that -; much criticised
J,t manj the whiskey drinker. , He
harms himself, and his family, and a
few other people, perhaps, and keeps
up. a business that to say the least is
not the most admirable one in the
land; but he helps pay the non-drinkers'
taxes, helps them to bear their
burdens, " Did you ever think of the
wnisaey annacr in inn iignw i
everybody stopped drinking whiskey
tomorrow and drank no more, the
government would soon have to hus
tle around for. some other means of
raising- revenue -. .
' Last year the government collected
$64872 r,000 in taxes, and of this the
whiskey drinkers paid $186,319,000.
The people who drank liquor, ' beer
and wine paid nearly 30 cents of every
dollahe-sernraenr"cuecled.'rr
they should all at once quit and stay
quit there .would be consternation in
the-treasury department, and Secre
tary Shaw would be "up against it"
The liquor tax is the only one that
is paid cheerfunyf""' The" consumer
finally pays it all, of course, and he
never thinks of the taxes he is pay
ing for the total abstainers when he
takes his drink. Every- time a man
takes a drink he Is helping those who
don't drink and lightening their tax
burden. ... We all advise him to quit
drinking and not thus squander his
money, and yet he is helping us all
out . ., :'
This is not an argument in favor
of drinking; it rather might be con
sidered as a temperance lecture; but
when scolding or despising the drink
ing 'man, . rememoer. mat ne pays
nearly - 30 per cent.of .our taxes, and
never kicks at. doing so.'-.;
-THE STEEL SWINDLE.
NDER the pressure of com
' petition, the steel trust has
reduced the price of steel
armor plate about $200 per ton below
the price it charged the government
when it had a monopoly of the busi
ness, and even at .this reduced price
of about $370 per ton it no doubt
makes an enormous profit Notwith
standing its . bid was considerably
above that of its competitor, the sec
retary of the navy gave the trust half
or more of the job, thus officially en
abling the trust to plunder the people
of a good many thousand dollars.
But this is only a bagatelle compared
whh the millions of which the govern
ment hss been ' willingly robbed in
years past. It' can easily be. under
stood "where the canny philanthropist
Mr. Carnegie, made his many mil
lions. In this matter of steel armor
plate, and other steel manufactures,
is seen the besuty of the protective
tariff. But it is to be remembered
that the trust has undoubtedly been
liberal In the matter of campaign con?
tHbufirins. Uncle Sam is a poor.
helpless old. cripple or else he hss
more kind regard for the trusts than
Uor 80,000,000 of common people.
The crar, distressed and annoyed
by theacTiohs of some of hii"subjects,
calls their attention to the soft and
gentle hand lhar baa guided there to
the quiet places of national enjoy
ment, and says if they do not cease
their' bomb throwing and pistoling
that he' will 'declare a dictatorship
The ctar must consider affairs very
serious.' ' ' ;
" Fifty years of continuous teaching,
in many and varied educational in
stitutions, is the record of President
T. M. Catch, who tfter this year will
retire from the presidency ot tne sg
ricultural college at Corvallis. The
amount of good that he has done in
this half a century 'oUabor is beyond
u
A Little Out
THINGS PRINTED TO READ WHILE YOU WAIT,
- -,. - Assertion. V ,;, -' ;-;f
T , By Klla Whaatar WUeox. : .. v
I am aaranlty. Thouah paasiona bast '
. Llka mlahty bUlowa on my helplata
haart. . : I.
I know bayon4 tham Ilea the parfaet
;- sweat .. . . -
Serenity which patlenea can Impart
And whan wU4 tempaata In mr bosom
" ras, . --.-',
Teaaa. peace X cry, It la my hr
.. Itaa'" .Lj " ' .-"
l am toed heaithThoush. fevers iaca
r r.- my brain - k'. ' .
And ruda dlaerdars- mutilate . my
strensth, .
A perfect raatoratlea after pain -
. I knew a hall be my reeompanae. at
length. ' . y
And ao. through arteveua day and sleep
less nlsht, -"Health,
he&lthr I cry; It Is my own
by riant." ;
I- am aucoeaa. ' Thonah hunary, cold,
111-elad, - - '
I wander for a while, I Amlla end aayt
7t la but for a time 1 ahail be alad
Tomorrow, for rood fortune cornea my
way. ' ' y-"
Oed Is my fathers He has wealth. untold.
His wealth la mine health, happlnees
. and gold." . : . :. i
Bidding to i Welah Wedding. ..
- in wrltlna of Welah aeenery and eua
totna. Edward Thomas find occasion
to notice many eharactarlatlca of social
life that are as strong-ly marked as are
the features of the landscape. Nona of
the curious a eases la more characteris
tic of primitive Wales than la the one
mentioned In this paraarapht
J pasaed. through a village In which
I found that the old-faahloned bidding
marriage was not dead. For a printed
sheet with this announcement In Welah
fell Into- my hands:
A Bidding to a Marriage. ' -Inasmuch
as we Intend entering the
state of wedlock on , we Invite wed
ding gifts, which will be repaid with
thanks on a like occasion. -
T. Williams, -
.,''."('.. ' V'J" : Elisabeth Jonas.
It Is expected that gifts due to them
and to their parents and' brothers will
be paid on the wedding day.
; There are many Amerloana who- know
by experience that - practice - In this
country Often differs from the custom
In Wales only In ths greater frankness
with which the Welsh state the case. .
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' , Dangers in Trade. I'
Blacksmiths are liable to . paralysis
of the-right side,, due to the shock of
hammering with the sledge, and they
are also .liable to weak eyes, due to the
glare of the forge.
.Carpentera are liable to varicose veins
because Miey stand so mucrandeon--tlnuous
sawing tends to Injur the ar
tery that carries the blood from the
heart to the carpenter's right arm. -
Bakers and miners, ths one through
the-w Kite dust, of flour and the other
through the black dust of eoal, get weak
W; Impromptu Farewell Poem
BY CAPTAIN JACK CRAWFORD, t
The 'foOowfng little poem was hur
riedly written and rwaerea oy -tm
Poet Scout" at the last of a scries of
socials held In Bt AndreWe church tent
at Lake Bennett, on th evening of May
tl, ISIS. - Th author's sense of Its
Isck of finish was sxprsssed tn his
eharaotarlatlo manner when he Intro
duced It to hi audience as a "a little
piece of Impromptu-ldoggerel'-and he
only consented to Its publication beeauae
of the Importunity of bis many friends
who wanted coplea:
O comrades, friends, and woman fair, 1
O gtrls and boys, without a ears; 'v
O age and youth, with hearts aglqjr,
While hope s bright star Is shining so
Beyond the lakes, where w are toia
Is found the bright eeductlT gold-
dod knowa I hop with, you and pray .
That fickle fortune will not play
Tou faiaa. good friends, and that before
Old ninety-eight Is known no more
Tour hopes may all b realised
A ad not a boat or acow capslsed.- -
But sailing smoothly down ths lake :
Behind th treacherous little eakes ' '
Of once strong, glistening, glorious Ice,
Whereon rou hay "mushed" along so
nlc '
With dogs, and sail and loaded sleds.
Whereon you've spresd your featherbeds
Of soft and soothing hemlock boughs, ; -Now
chsnged to holds of rustle scows.
And while you smoothly gllde along . -Let
voices ring In merry song. -
computation or estimation; His
works when years hence, we hope
he passes away, will live after him."
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Many people of the United Ststes
will mourn the desth of Lady Curzon,
not because she was a multimillion
aire's daughter, who married a noted
Englishman, but because she was in
alt respects a true, earnest woman,
who helped somewhat in her high po
sition to make the world better; and
because, too, for some two years past
she hss been a great sufferer. Now,
in her prime, she is at peace, jl
.Is it possible that Professor Zueblln
is taking the public, into his con
fidence on a private matter, and that
he is anxious to learn from the ex
perience of others if art over-indulg-
e?l?li!L.I,LJrol?t,0flry -marriage
habit is .quite sepsrable from a charge
of bigamy? . ' , - : ' . ;
.The steel .trust, petted and pam
pered offspring of the government
has been caught stealing millions of
dollars from the national purse, snd
offers ss a valid defense that It is
no crime to rob the family. .'
- It looks very much ss if Mr. Hartje
had put up a very mean and repre
hensible job on his wife, though very
likely she isn't a saint .7 - .
. .w.i - l' ' "
If there has been, any graft in the
matter of franchises, , as the Ore
gonian alleges, and at The Journal al
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of tlie Common
lungs. .Miners get weak eyea, toe, from
working alwaye In the dark.
Coopers get swollen knees from press
ing, them against barrels. This, too.
Is nothing like so bad a swelling as
housemaids develop from tho kneeling
that scrubbing entails.
India rubber workers are to be pitied,
for they Suffer from headaches and
mental depression. . due . to the rubber
futnea. '
, Painters get lead poisoning. ' ;
7 Health, . in' Hot Weather. ' - '
Not tnuoh meat should be eaten In
hot weather leaa food of any sort la
needed than In winter. Food has tw
functions, as fuel to -sustain heat as
energy to move ths musoies. Ths on
need la almost wholly and th other
largely ' suspended In July. Alooholie
drinks are doubly . dangerous tn hot
weather. Iced' weak tea Is an zelleat
drink If one dips out th tea and throws
it away; allowing th liquid to lose its
chill. . Iced water In families should
be prepared by Betting- sealed jar of
water In th refrigerator at a distance
from the ice, never by putting cracked
Ice in the goblet. A temperatur ot
at degrees Is low enough for drinking
water. Xxtrem .fatigue should be
avoided, -1 ' '-'' ' -:
A Bit oj Allegory.- "
r ' ..."From Punch. ' ; 4' '
- Bhe earn toward me rather dubiously,
as though not sura of her reception.
"Who are youT' f aaked. "
"Truth." oh said. ,
I apologised for not having realised It
"Never mind." ah said, wearily,
"hardly any one knows me. . Tm always
having to explain who I am. and lota of
people don't understand then." '
A little later I met her, as X thought
again. ;- --
"Well, I shan't make any mistake this
time." I said. "How are you. Mies
Truthr . '
"Tou are mlalnformad." ah replied,
coldly: "my name 1 Libel."
- ."But you are exactly like Truth," I
exclaimed "exactly I" ; - r..
"Hushl" ah said.
Bends Pennies.
- Auguatn de Aeutls, a molder. ST years
bid. was arrested in Philadelphia on a
ball forfeiture warrant 1
On locked up, Aeutls gmv the door
man at headquarters a chano to ae
how strong he la.
"I could have got away from the da
tectlv easily," said th prisoner. - "fie
here" and he took two cents, on be
tween the thumb and forefinger of each
hand, and bent them double. D Aoutla
has a forearm almost IS Inches around.
He la tall and well proportioned..
What the Sun 8ald.
' From' th Atlairba-OOMtttut
The big sun said: ,
I'd shin today- '' -'
- Sr burn dat wicked wort' away j
But de angels high .
21 In de big blue sky,';
Don't Ilk to hear dam alnners fry. -
Let faith in Him who over all
Doth even not the sparrow' fall --.
Olve heart and strength, and .bring good
; ' cheer, .. .
And make us glad that w are her.
Bo men and boys and you, dear girls
Bwaetneaa refined, yon precious pearls.
Who graced our camps, laughed at the
.- -' gale.
And sprinkled sttBshlnn the trail I .
And you It was who started these .
"Mental Improvers." If yon pteasel
Theae meetings where, as brothers, w
Can meet and "mush" and "how' and
"ge;" .. . -i. ; -,..
Enjoy as good a social feaat
Aa that dlahed up .in south or ast
And aa for eatables, we far
Except that we are short on green a.
But Boaton cannot beat our beans.
And toothsome pork, and solid cake.
Ijtnd doughnuts only men can bake.
And then the rirm, th rubber pi
We'll us for ballast by and by.
But joking all aside, good friends.
Success or failure all depends
On you.. Each on muat do his part
Muat work with hands and brain and
-heart 1 - " 4 '' -- - ,
For there Is ne such word ss fall,
Except to those who will not sail - .
Whan wlnda are fair. 80 come what will.
Despite in running stream or Mil,
Press on snd climb. Ssy never die,"
And you will get there by and by.
leged' and showed up months ago, at
the proper time, the howling on the
Oregonian's part is solely because it
wasn't in It- It has always. been in
all grafts heretofore for 50 years. -
That Chicago man named Oourdain
is msking strenuous and frantic ef
forts to get into ' the penitentiary,
having been sentenced thereto for
four and a half years. He certainly
should be accommodated. If a man
has to serve a term in jail, it isn't fair
to keep him out of it
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An article reprinted today from the
Salem . Statesman quite correctly an
alyzes snd explains the Oregonian's
recent "roaring." It is kicking sim
ply and solely because of The Jour
nal's existence, and because it is not
able xo graft as. much as formerly..
. The Iswyers have changed their
minds again,- and Harry- Thaw ap
pears today as a drooling idiot .un
sble to remain in one place without
being locked up, and incapable of ly
ing on the ground without holding on.
. Now Texas and adjacent states snd
territories are being shaken up with
earthquakes. , Come - up to Oregon
and be safe end comfortable.
- Baker City Democrat: As fine fields
of barley as ever grown In any country
can be seen between WIngvtll and
Haine and en land, too, that never had
baea touched by th plow until about
tour yeara ago. The yield par acre will
a something enormous)
lonscnsc
IIIX JUltUb A1
'. Spiritual Need. , ,
' ' From Harper's Weekly.
Oeorg O'Donnell, th actor, tails th
following, story of' hla 4-year-old niece,
whose mother Is th wife of a clergy
man: ' '. '
On night'Edith wasn't feeling vary
wall and so ' Was put to bed rather
early. As her mother was about to
leave her. she called her back.
"Mamma, I want o see papa." ' -
No, dear," her mother replied our
father is busy and must not b dis
turbed.". . - ' -'
"But mamma.1' th child persist el, 1
want to see him." ..-'
As before, th mother replied: "No;
your father must not be disturbed."
"Mamma,' declared her daughter, sol
emnly, "I am a sick woman, and I want
to s my minister."
Brevetted for Bravery. .
Everybody ealls Alfred J. Stof r, a
well known Washington character,
"Major" Stof r.
"Where did you get your 'title,. Sto
frr Representative Llttlefleid, of
Main, onoe aaked him.
"Earned tt euh." Stofwr replied, "klll
ln Yankee In th war." .
"But Stofer. you war not old enough
to be a soldier." ....... t : .-
"Who said I was a Soldier, sUh; who
said I was a soldlsrf I was llvin.ln
my native vlllag of Culpa per, Virginia,
sua. in thoa tryln tlmea. and it was
tbare I won glory tor the sainted Con
federate caus and myself . by klllln'
Tankees." . . .
"But how did yon kill thmr
"Killed them by Indigestion, auh. by
indigestion. - I sold 'em appl plea and
killed 'em by soor. .,v, '
' One, Two and Three Make Sin.
A student lust returned from th uni
versity sat down to supper , with his
father and mother. Three eggs were
served up. ' '" ' 1
"Why," said the husband to his wife,
"your suppsr 1s - scanty- - Tou should
treat your eon more liberally.
"Let u be eontent" observed th son,
"since there are six gg on th table."
"How," aaked hla father, "do you
prov thetT"
"Easily snough," h answered. "Do
not one. two and three make stxr'
,1 will then." rejoined the father,
"give .one egg- to- your mother, ' take
two for myself, and you, my boy, may
help yourself to th raC" .. .
f Slightly Mixed 'V :
By Henry Swaf ford, Pendleton.
An exchange tells a new sad story
of a western editor who mourns th
loss of two cash subscribers. On
wanted to know how to rear his twins
safely, th other wanted to know how
to rid his orchard of grasshoppers. ' The
editor sent th answers by malt but
an aeoldent transposed th envelop, so
that ths man with .twins received this
answer: "Cover them over with straw
and set fir to them, and th little pests
after jumping around In th flames a
IIHl-whtl wtlr tin-kly eettW Th
man plagued with the grasshopper was
told to "glv them eastor oil and rub
their gums. with a boBa" t-
. ' A Difficult Poaltton. '
, By W. Kendrlck. Portland.
Two Irishmsn were crossing a bog,
when on of them tell Into a mud hole.
His companion, running to a nearby
farmhoue. aaked th loan of a spade.
"What do you want It fori" asked th
farmer. . ;
"Bur. Mlk is stuck l,n th bog. and
X want to dig him out7 was th answer.
'How.farJnJa h supkr questioned
the farmer. . y , :
"TJp to hla anklss." - - - " - -
"Begorra, then h can easy walk oat."
"Begorra, h can't." exolaimed Fat
"h'e In wrong nd up." . -
Pinching the Wrong Knaa. .
' .By Virginia Lh Oty.
- The Archblihop ot O waa , tpr
many year fearful of a stroks of
paralysis. .
Seated at th right of Countess T
at a brilliant banquet h atartled th
guests by arising and remarking:
"Breatbren, It has com at last that
which I have feared for .40 years, a
stroke of paralysis. I have been pinch
ing my knee - for th l lastl0 min
utes and oanT Tlhd ths leaat sensa
there." .
"Pardon me," said th oountesa, "but
It waa my knee that you were pinch
ing." . The Humphrey Soother.
' From th Nw Tork World.
It has bean reasonably hot, even for
Washington, sine last Thursday. That
1. to say, ths thermometer on th street
hss been ranging along between 96 and
108, and one or twice haa hopped above
the 100 mark for a short time.
The town haa laughed the heat to
scorn, however, and all through the In
ventive genius of Quartermastsr-Oen-aral
Humphrey tf the army. Th quartermaster-general
does not Ilk to se
people suffer. He Is a specialist tn ths
amelioration of woes and troubles, and
he considers thirst on of th greatest
curses known to man unless It can be
assuaged. -He has perfected an amel
iorator which 1 known as th "Hum
phrey Soother."
This is how: Take a Song glass and
squeeze a Whole Urn Into It Put In a
chunk of lea, pour In a hooker of rum
Santa Crus or Jamaica, as you prefer.
Then fill th glass with th best ginger
ale obtainable, and after it Is mlxsd,and
cold, drink and b soothed.
Decadence of American Shipping.
Consul Murphy of, Bordeaux says that
only two American Teasels have entered
the harbor at that plae in 10 year,
which sought refuge during ths Spanish-American
war. Thr consul further
says that.h had searched th records
of th consulate, which is -the oldest
In-continuous existence, dating back to
170, and found that in th first six
month of 1S0I no less than 111 vessels
owned by Americans and - flying th
American flag had entered and cleared
at th port.. The veseels averaged from
171 to 100 tons, and brought to Bord
eaux eotton, sugar, tobacco, atave
whale oil and logwood, and carried back
to the United State cargoes of wine,
brandy, - dry- goods.- wheat- f rultand
hardware.
An Uncanny Plant
' On the chorea of Lake Nicaragua Is
to be found an. uncanny product of
the vegetabl ' kingdom known among
th native by th expressive name of
"th devil's noose." Dunstan, th natu
ralist, discovered It not long ago whli
wandering on th shores of ths lake.
Attracted by eiiea of pain and terror
from his dog. he found the animal
held by black, atlcky bands, which hsd
chafed the skin to th bleeding point.
Thee band, war branches of a newly
discovered carnivorous plant which hss
been aptly named th "land oetopue."
Th branches r flexible, black, pol
ished, without leaves, and secret a
A viscid fluid. - -.
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cf TIMELY TOPICS
: SMALL CHANGS. ;
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, Don't start a forst Are. , .
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1 There ought to be no strlkaa, ' ', "
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Olorton harvest weather, eht '
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' The farmers would Ilk t "make a
draft : , . . -,. , v-
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Don't let the weeds go to ed any
mora. ,t; v'i---:-'
-Tie now , the vary thick ef ' the
harvest ,
Ws'r not s bH sorry for the cooked
bop Ilea. . : ; v . -. .
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She leather costs lssa than four ear
far a day. ; -. -...
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Good wagon- roada are as Important
as lctrie roada,
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Portland must haver more water; tap
Bull Bun eome mora, .
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The more strlkaa, th more pnbUo
owMrahlp sentiment Increases., . .
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Bryan las' tllk a man who' can't get
more olothe if hta'B are stolen. .
Mary MoLan haa published another
book put not many people will read It
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The chanoe are that streetoannan
are aomawhat overworked and under-
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Not a word for aevoral bourn from
either Bryan or Rockefeller. The sus
pense Is terrible. -; j .
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HID talka to SaatUa straight from
th shoulder; th "Queen City" muat
att un and listen. - -,.-';T-!
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' A- Boaton paper runs a eolumn headed
"A Few Cold Facta About Boston." Th
word "cold" e ma superfluous, v
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Keeping th grass out-and th aur
face aprlnkled la eonsidarabl of a
atreet Improvement, say a th Baleen
l0;'--
Take a rest when you have "that
tired feeling." Independent Enter
prise. Then some people would rest all
th' tuna ..... ,
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Th day Is full of ohaaglnjr story, and
the night
la cool and restful, and baling with
delight . . - '
Eugene Guard: Th Salem Journal
propounds th momantou question,
"What shall b don with T. T. OeerT
Might establish a tt Infirmary for In
ourable cases of llnr onr ths lunrs,1n
ducd by exoeealve chawing of th rag,
and make Oeer the first permanent in
mat. .. .,.'-
Keepmg Capital
SOME PLAIN TRUTHS
From th Salem Statesman. L :
Oreaon wants capital ' and wants
It'
badly. It wants outside capital, capital
that will enter freely Into th scheme
of development which this state de
mands today. Every town and every
city In the state Is asking capitalists
from ell over the United Btateo to eome
and help In the work of development
It offere them opportunities for Invest
ment In street railway lines, la electrlo
plants of all character. In water service
plants.' The state begs capital to eome
and open up its mine, to build lnter
urban railway: In fact, to help, to de
velop the latent resource of the state.
In view of this, therefore, th editorial
la yeaterday'a Oregonian is not only
untimely, but It la unfair to the wholo
state of Oregon.
The - Oreronlan ha finally tumbled
class of socialists. It now wants the
olty of Portland to eondsmn the privi
leges which have become valuable
through advent of capital into that city
and take them away from their owner
simply because through the efforts of
their owners . these franchlasa hare
taken on valus. - " ' !'
The olty of Portland haa lost noth
ing through the manipulation of greedy
sharpers, as th Oregonian says. , Thar
never was a time when the people of
Portland were not begging some capi
talist to Inveet money in street railways
and other, improvements which were
necessary to make Portland a city.
Thee Investments were made' when the
franchisee and the privileges had little
value. In fact they were largely mad
at a time whan Portland's prospect
seemed anything but brilliant a com
pared to those of cities on th sound
and. etLother ,deep se Jiarbors of th
ooaat. Th extension of th street
'. Strange Work for Women. ,'.;
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
"Girls are displacing men in walks of
life undreamed of only a decade ago,"
said August H.Cam, deputy state fac
tory inspector of Sheboygan. "Up In
my own olty girts hav been working In
th varnish rooms of th chair factories
for almost M yeara, and within th last
10 years many hate found employment
In one of th foundries anarasllng kitch
en utensil. Barring th Intense heat In.
th rooms, th work I comparatively
easy, .though . It doeS seem, stranga. to
find women In foundries. ,
"The bottling departments of ' , the
breweries also employ girls In prefer
ence to boys, and the work being almost
entirely automatic, where other condl
tiona are wholesome, little criticism can
be made. ,
"It was not until I entered upon my
present duties that I learned that girls
ar also being employed in tannaries. I
am a tannsr by trade, so that It was
quite a surprlse.,to me when I saw frail
woman perform work which, fen to
sturdy men - In - former- yeara. Thaee
gtrls are principally employed Id th
chrome department. In northern Wis
consin aom of our Inspectors hav
found women employed In th sawmill a."
Ths How and Why of the 8oft Crab.
Th supply of soft orabe for market
I obtained by oatehlng hard crabs and
keeping them - until they- shed - their
shells. For this purpos larg rectan
gular floats, made of lath and plank
ing, ar employed, and three or four
times every day the stock on hand Is
careully Inspected, all the enft crsbs
being picked out and packed 'without
delay. They ar put Into shallow boxes
of moist aawed. from 10 to IB dosen
la a box, according te the also of the
crab. Whan th packing Is deaa
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OREOON SIDSLIQHTS.
Few things better te eat than Oregon
prune. ...
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Many windmills being erected' along -Myrtl
oreek, . , . . . - .
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Bora ahortag of some erope, yet a
big yield In ths aggregate, after all. -
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Independence Enterprise: If any of.
the children are- missing, look In th
Wlllamett river. . i Sunday-, in
Independene 1a pretty much the same
as in most ; of th towns In "dry"
oountlsa. ... - - - ...JK . '
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Never before was an entlr weak, from
Monday morning till the next Sunday
morning, mor pleasantly apent by a
crowd in Lake view than waa last week,
and never before waa a week mor eom- '
pletely filled with amuaementa. Every
visitor waa as wall repaid for coming to
Lakeview as pleasure eould repay en
for tlm and money lost tn Its search,
aaye the Klamath Fella Examiner.
Alba correspondence of. East Oregon,
tan: On hundred millions of timber In
on body for sal here, all growing on
deeded land, natural mlllalta, th coun
try 1 easy to log and very little under
brukh, with th ' railroad oomlng. the
right kind of a man haa here the chance
of hla life, aa there la no end to the tim
ber tributary to thla tract. - Situated 10
miles from Pendleton, In the Blue moun
tains The Umber consists of yellow .
pin, red fir and tamarack. , .
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Albany Herald: Marion paper boaat
of the good reads under way tn that
oounty. Thar is a foundation of fact
for pride in that connection. Judge
Boott haa been on of the moat faithful
of good roads advocates and haa accom
plished much-, for--the cause. Rock
o rushers - are constantly employed In
preparation of road material and the
work aa now laid out la toward perma
nency. ".' "' . ' '
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'A friend of Th Journal says: "I
must say that th two columns in Th
Journal under th head of "Blrdseye
View of Timely Topics" ars unique and
greatly appreciated by. m. Th "Ore
gon Bldallghta," eapeclally, I wouldn't
mind seeing enlarged." Of eourae tney
mirht be enlaxced Indefinitely, but that
would crowd out better things. A new-
paper must be eoemopoiitan.. , - .
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Rv; L JX Brown's daughter Evelina.
aged II yeara. caught a badger by th
back of th naek In a ditch la Fossil
Sunday morning and bald th varmint
prisoner until others came to her with
a rope, which waa tied around th bad
ger' nck. after which he wae'dragged
to the Brown residence and lmprlsonsd
in a box. where he mad hie home until
h. anaoed-FoSsll Journal. Good .for
nrind wmrt He--ha as much right. tQ
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
as Rev. Brown's'daughtsr, er anybody
elae. .. " : -' '
Out of: the State
ABOUT THE OREOONIAN.
railways of Portland baa had more, per
haps, to 'do with the growth of that
oftv than anything elae, not even ex
cepting the Oregonian. Street-railway
lines have been constructed Into dle
trict in Portland which were eparsely
settled and where this construction car
ried with It a very larg element of
apparent risk te th Investors. If th
capitalisation and actual, valu of thee
franchlaee hav Increased during th re
cent years it 1 beeauae th men who
held thee franchises worked that they
might be valuable. Simply becaua
they wr taken by their present owners
when nobody wanted them, and have
been brought to a state of prosperity
which gves them a value making every
body want them, yet seems no reason
for th demand that their present own
era ahall be deprived ot the fruit of
heir In veetment.
it -is just euon twaaaie ae ini inai
la keeping capital from coming to Ore
gon. It Is such unwl editor! ale aa
that in yeterdaya Oregonian which
has led to th adoption of legislation
which will hav for Its effect th mak
ing mor difficult th task of securing
capital for the development of our
mines, of our railway line, as well a
th development of th urban and lnter
urban route tn ootinecting , our cltle
sad towns. -
Th Oregonian Is "best dtlsen" mad.
Th Oregonian holds considerable of a
franchise Itself and a monopoly which
I absolutely unbreakable in lta Associ
ated Press report for that olty. It le
hardly becoming, therefor, In th Ore
gonian to demand that all other fran
chises and monopolies b eat down upon
or destroyed. It sounds too much like
the remark of the politician who said he
was opposed, to all monopolies la whloh
he was not a participant
carefully the occupants may b kept
alive from- 00 to 70 hours after leaving
the water. i.
Crab hav been shipped all th way
from th Cheaapeake to Canada, arriv
ing at their destination in good condi
tion. In summer, or courss, lo l usea.
But, wher aoft crabe are concerned.
It Is necessary that they shall reach
th market quickly, beeauae their new
sheUs harden with great rapidity. At
the end of II hour th shells ar ilk
parchment and In three of four day
th crab Is ae hard as ever henoe un
fit for use In th form moat highly apr
proved by pleur. : - - -
; Tickets Quickly Printed. ,v
If a machine Invented by an Italian
named Roberto Flectoelll of Florence
worke as euccessfully aa the Inventor
claims. It will bring about a grat
chang In railroad ticket offlee. "At
preaent thousands of different .ticket
for all station and all olaaaae have to
be printed In advanc to be kept on
hand, and great care Is required to keep
them In order. ' . .
. Th new machine Is Intended to print
with little labor, on very heavy card
board, all ticket whenever wanted. Th
tickets thus printed contain the namei
of the station of departure and destine
Una, date of1 Iseue, number of the regis
ter,. class to be used, difference for sin
gl and -round -trips -and - th exac
amount of far. ' On a eeeond etrln o
cardboard In th inner parts of th ma
chin an axact duplicate of th tick
1 produced, tnu furnishing eomplst
reglstrstlon of every ticket sold. Sev
erst of ths machines are-now beln
tried by the Italian government - Th
oapaetty of the apparatus Is sstonishi
Ing. since it can print and register 0-
auxereat boos i uoaeta, .
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