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E CANNOT or rather do not choose to resist the impulse to harp some Jjggre!LilLjnd hnmrly hut really ... important subject, Portland's Yast wealth (?) of ugliness and nox- ' , iousness in the form of weeds, prin- cipally burdocas and thistles, and refuse, litter, on otherwise vacant or .'unused grounds, ";, V Cm- . 1 These weeds are now full grown and in bloom, and will soon cast their myriads, of seeds for future crops. If cut .down to the ground now, during the dry and hot weather the roots would send up but comptr tively slight and feeble growths sgain this season. The law requires them; to be cut down, and some ef fort has been made 'in a few, individ- . al instances to enforce the law; a few people have been fined, but there is no appreciable diminution or abate ment of this form of nuisance. . There are literally hundreds ' of acres, and square miles, in the aggregate, of these vegetable pesta In many cases they overgrow sidewalks, so that they have J largely : usurped pedestrians' lawful right of, way.. They" are" ugly, injuriousoffensive and what is more, nlawful.-There ought to be a cru sade against them, and against prop erty owners who make no effort year after year to get rid xf them. f rlWerealizeJJhatwhere so many people do nothing in this direction such property owners as might feel inclined to do so feel that they. ought not to be required to do what so . many others fail to do; buf this is not f proper way to look at the mat ter. . Because 20 men refuse or neg lect to, do their duty is not really a good reason for the twenty-first man refusing or neglecting to do his. ' ..'.I And thewpnderis that many more people do not cheerfully and volun tarily perform this duty. One would think that the majority of lot owners would of their own volition, and from, in a sense, selfish motives, get rid of these weeds and rubbish. It cer tainly would enhance the value of the ground. ' '. Wa talk mueh-about making rort land a city beautiful, but this . can never be done "I until the vacant grounds, or. those occupied only by old shacks, rubbish of all sorts, weeds and brjers, are cleaned up and given a tidy appearance. There are many- neat, well-kept grounds, around residences, made so at much expense and with great care; and owners of nearby premises have neither a legal nor a moral right to leave them in this offensive condition, an eyesore to all beholders. . ' ! The crusade for cleaned-up grounds ought to be vigorously carried on, and now - This is the time of year to dig up the weeds and burn up the rubbish. ." . ELUSIVE JUSTICE. XACT JUSTICE is perhaps sel dom done in judicial proceed- ins, ' an1 anta11w in mm. - criminal cases, the decision of which is left to juries, and particularly - where the evidepce is wholly circum- alantial, it is difficult to ascertain what justice isrnd td'administer'it ; The case of A. J. Hembree tried ; last week in Tillamook county, is a case in point. It is stated that per . haps 9S per cent of the people over ' there believed him guilty of the .-doutla morder with-whTch he wis charged, and of a prior atrocious ' crime that prompted the murder, and to these people the verdict of man ; slaughter teems a travesty of justice. Elyeven of the jurors believed him guilty, though a portion favored con viction of murder in the second de gree, showing that there wss in their ; minds.- some -ehadow-'of ""reasonable doubt." One juror, . not being con vinced of the prisoner's guilt, wss for ' acquittal, snd under these circum stances a compromise vedict pf man ' slaughter was agreed on, .'.-v J -L Ot coursa this jru not g just ytt diet' '' If the man is guilty, he de served hanging as much as any mur derer ever did;' if he is not guilty it is an injustice to confine him in the pen itentiary' for a . term of years-U-Yet such' a verdict is excusable, for it saves a very expensive new trial, with the probability that no better result would be obtained. The verdict in the McDaniel case here a few years ago was similarly arrived at, though the chances seemed to the average cTfiien aboliFIOO tp 1 that he' com mitted a most 'abominable murder.. Such, results, however, are not to be avoided, nor exact justice in many cases meted out. 'A compromise ver dict is seldom a strictly just verdict, but it may be an excusable one. .' SHOULD LEARN A LESSON. THE SHORTAGE in the wheat - - crop of eastern Oregon on . v account of the hot winds will not be as great as was repbrted last month which is usually the case when crop failures arc anticipated in Oregon. Yet a good many farmers on- the lighter soils willbave light crops, Ind will suffer not only from this cause but because they "put all their eggs in one basket," and raise nothing but whest. -fost f the land throughout .Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Morrow and-Umatilla counties, as the Dalles Optimist remarks, "will raise other crops besides wheat; and the sooner our wheat raisers take to di versified farming the better it will be for them and the, community. And even on the farms where hay, alfalfa, vegetables, etc., cannot be raised, a small: bunch-! sheep- orcattle-or hogs can be kept . And a few brood mares, giving a lot of colts for sale each year, is a good investment . We are told that many of our farmers this year will save their faces by cutting their wheat as hay and selling it to the sheep men at about $3 a ton, and at that price the demand exceeds the supply." A ' bumper crop of wheat that brings a high price may not be the best thing for farmers in portions of the upper country, for it encourages heavy expenditure and neglect of diversified farming.. So a short crop some years should not be an unmixed yU-YeaJLwlat-is ihejnain crop, other products should, be raised. V Every summer , several , children's legs are cut off by mowing machines while out playing or hiding in the meadows or- gramfields, accidents which' it would "seem ought with a reasonable degree of care, to be avoided. It is curious that a child old enough to be in such a place would get ,right-before-thft-skkle,;or that being there his father would not see him. " "' ' f. ; '., ' The Illinois primary law does not, do away with conventions, if the peo ple choose 1 to elect -delegates-to - a convention, in which respect it is not as much of a reform measure as the Oregon law. The convention, com posed of delegates beholden to the bosses, is the main thing to get rid of. The railroads are doing a good ser- vice not only fur themselves but for Oregon in' the printing and distribu tion of a great amount of very fine and attractive literature about the Pa cific northwest This is a work that will count for "much ' in the future, ihi shouldbe appreciated. John D, - Rockefeller takes the world into his confidence long enough to whisper in its capacious ear that he still has the liveliest regard and love for America. This is interesting, as it disproves the . old assertion that only the unattainable stirs our in terest; Mr. Rockefeller has owned America long enough to be tired of it. Open rivers and improved harbors, good roads, irrigation, patronizing of home industry more transportation facilities, and more care in the marketing 'of crops, are "Oregon's principal needs. According to the veracious corre spondent, only the unimaginable and indescrible horrors of the Russian sit uation are worth more than a column Ift'the1 Americah"pepers7" The statement that Russell Sage's miljions 'would be devoted to charity has caused some of the great lawyers of Gotham to incorporate as an elee- nrosyniry-tntrttu-llOflf. Usually a rich man's estste pans out a good deal less than ha was pop. ularly credited with possessing, but Mr.. Gage's pile seems to be an ex ception to this rule. ' A'gain there is a prospect that the work-on theUntted -Railways will begin before long. Let us continue to hope so. , Harvaat hand are net te be had; the farmers have to help one another and will go from place te place with the threshers, aari a. country eorrespenaeat J th Otwnsi Cat Ceariesi, - - Wkat Is Portlands Greatest Need? MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL TELL JOURNAL HEADERS WHAT WOULD IMPROVE ROSE CITY. '... Garbage Department: John Annand. "We na4 a naw carbaca cramatory and a department for the collection of rarbaga by the city." aaya Councilman John Annand. Th present crematory ie entirely too email. Its .capacity la about ..J . tona e very-44 hour ana about IS ton of Barbate are collected every day. ' This lfiavaa an accumulation of 10 tone of rarbMe dally. . . . "An. effort is made te sort the stuff and place only the dry- earbaa-e on the dump, but It ! Impossible to keep all the perishable refuse off the dump, and the consequence la a rapidly Increasing heap that reeks with foul odors. . ' "A new steel crematory ..of about TO tons dally capacity ought to be In stalled. - It would coat about 130.000. With the crematory we now have, when ever the retorts burn out It Is necessary that they be entirely rebuilt ' -We should also have about- It steel garbage wagons, whlcn-wlth the horses should be a owned by the city. The wagons and horses would cost about Slf.ogo. This department should, be maintained by general . taxation and would copt only a fraction of a cent per taxpayer. "Then garbage would be collected free all over the city. The poor man who cannot afford to pay the TS eents a month charged by private Individuals who owns garbage wagons, and tries to bury his garbage in his back yard or burn It In his kitchen stove, would have sfi Vtr4tr 0 1 til PR VsT tea" 4hS- city. This system has proved an un qualified success In many large cities. "At the crematory there is not a drop of hot . water to . wash the garbage wagons with. They are flooded with cold water, but this does not cleanse them, and they go away dirty and foul Modern Kniglits of tke Grip BY JOHN ANDERSON JAYNE. Nothing so illustrates the change In business methods during the past JO years as the aspect and attitude of those genial-hearted fellows out on the road, known as the Knights of the Grip. Old men who traveled then .will tell you that In those days It was the ex ception to And a whole-souled, sober. In dustrious man plying his trade between city and city and town and town. .Then the arrival of the evening train that brought . the ''drummer" Into town brought a lot of convivial, whiskey drinking, storytelling men together, and special arrangements were made In the hotel barrooms to accommodate the host of men who had the Arm's money to spend and but little In the way of real work to do. Then.-the flret ehareeterietto ot -the commercial man was spottiness. He must be strictly "Ujr te" dale with the last story, the finest assortment ot slang, all of which he used as preliminary to the selling of goods. Indeed, one would think that story-ewapplng and treating were the principal things for which a man traveled, while the getting ot orders was a secondary consideration. But-aU. that-laehanged.The old-time drummer has gone his way, together with. the plug-hatted minstrel, the steamDoat gambler and the loud-mouthed railroad conductor. Today a man on the road Is compelled to be a past master In the art of courtesy, a seventh-degree member of the Order of Genial Hearts, and a thlrty-seoond-de- gree hustler of royal ability and splendid personality. Coupled with a native and cultivated ability te sell goods, there must be the manner and dress or.e gentleman and an honest heart that will not listen to suggestions of graft from the purchasing agent of the corporation to whom he wishes to sell goods. Time was when along with every line of samplss went a couple of bottles of Old Tom and a hundred or so of finest perfectos, and a deck of well-thumbed playing-cards. , . Now If you have opportunity to look Into the grip of one of these modern, ujh to-date Knights of the Grip you will find. In addition to a well-kept and fine line of samples, some magaslns of hie trade. ; A Poet's Color Blindness. '' From the Youth's Companion. "It Is well known that the poet Whit tle r was color blind, and unable to dis tinguish red from green. He once bought "himself a necktie which he gup posed to be of a modest and suitable olive tint, and wore It once. He never wore It again, for hie friends soon made him aware that It offended against the traditional quietness of . costume en joined alike by the habits ef the Friends and by his own taste. The tie was ef flaming scarlet ' On another occasion, when he found a little girl In distress on account of a new gown, made over from her elder slater's, which was not becoming to her coloring and complexion, be tried to console her. -"I-wouldn't mind what a rude hoy says about it Mary," he said, kindly. "The looks -very wsll Indeed In It like an oread, Mary, dressed an In green."- 1 .... Unfortunately, Mary waa not dressed In green. ' She was red haired, and her dress wsa red; that was the trouble. Once, on a day la mid-March, when out walking with a friend, and deeply engaged in conversation. Mr. Whlttler spproechtd toe near for safety to a place where blasting was going en. The danger signal was shown, but neither noticed It until a workman, vio lently waving his arms and shouting, leaped before, them and warned them pack.. . i- 7't- t - "I didn't eee the flag at all, said Mr. Whlttlere compenlon. ' v- "I saw It," rejoined the poet, with a twinkle In his eye. ''but I thought It wss In honor of St Patrick thee knows my defect I ean't tell Erin from explo sions, except by the harp!" On thr Blacklist.- From the New Tork Sun. Among ths representatives on ths blacklist of the Federation of Labor and doomed to defeat by that organisation are Speaker Cannon and John Dalsell of Pennsylvania. At the last election Mr. Cannon had a plurality ef 11,781 and Mr. Dalsell received 17,12a votes to 1,100 for his Democratic opponent It hae been solemnly proposed that If ths Democrat nominated In Mr. Dalsell's district Is not satisfactory to .the Federation. a genu lnf jfbor ,man will be put up That Is the practice of the Prohibition and the Socialist parties, which never fear te stand up and be counted; and If the Fed eration of Labor mesne business In Its new departure, why not follow their example? John Annand. emelltng. Jn a steel crematory the fire box would have to be surrounded with a water jacket 'and there would be plenty of hot water to clean the steel wagon boxes. "In t aa me horse power in steam would be generated by a steel crematory without any additional cost, the garbage being used as fuel. This the city would have for any use It might be put to, or If the city does not need any such power, It coOld be sold with a good profit" . the latest book on the art of his craft and some handbook of German or Spanish, with which he Is keeping his mind bright and preparing himself for the advancement that will mean so much to Nellie and the babies away back In the old home In Pittsburg. The modern Knight of the Grip Is as great an Improvement on the old as electricity is over candle light. He Is courteous, refined, gentlemanly and, above all, knows that orders are the mainspring of business, and those orders he wUl have If fair dealing and square ness will land them. If you happen to be In a betel when he Is there you will find htm and his fellow knights quietly smoking,, never boosing, telling good clean stories that might be told In a bride's boudoir, or repeated to I his mother or sister. Ton-will find hlmt writing letters, using the fountain pen that Nellie, hie wife, gave him last Christmas. , Ton will find him writing to his firm, telling of exact conditions without circumlocutions In language, and sending bis orders with such, degree-of exactness that when he comae home the shipping clerk has a good word for htm and all hands are glad to see him coma In. . t , ; .t , Occasionally you And the old-time "drummer" with elothee so loud that you stop your ears when you hear him com ing. But you know that hs la a type of a species that has forever gone, never to return to our shoresand. seoa he will fold his tent ilka the Arab and silently steal away. , Then here's a hand to the royal ' fra ternity of the Knights of the Grip, the beat-natured, the truest-hearted and the most welcome men In America. They radiate eunshlne, sweeten life and make glad the hearts of men. Never a day Is so dreary that their smile cannot chase the clouds away, never a business so poor that they cannot find some crumbs of comfort, never a heart so discouraged that they cannot help relieve and uplift It and make It sweeter and better. Three cheers, and thrice three cheers, for ths clean, euooessful, modern and genial hearted Knights of the Grip. May they live long and get stacks of orders, . Ominous Signs in Armenia. - Armenia's fateful season Is draw ing near. The Turkish farmers of that province will soon know what kind of a harvest they have te expect, whether they will be able to repay the money loaned them by the frugal Armenians, or whether. In case ef a bad harvest, they will, as usual, call in the Kurds te wipe out their creditors. Advices from the Levant foretell a bad harvest In Asiatic Turksy. ' la the meantime Mgr. Ormanlan. the Armenian patriarch In Constantinople, has naked the sultan to relieve him of his office. His complaint Is that he gate n6 justice from the Turkish courts for the communicants of ths Armenian church always a-sure sign that a massacre Is In preparation.' Moreover, permission has been: refused the patri arch to appoint bishops In those vilayets to which ths Armenians have Aed from the attacks ef ' the Kurds. Promises have been continually made, but ae often broken, and now the patriarch sees nothing for It but the resignation of his office. The porta has requested him to reconsider his decision, promis ing that everything shall be settled in a short time. The patriarch hae refused to do so, ae he haa- lost all authority ever his people, owing to his Inability to obtain even bare Justice from the porta, . a' : ,v Married by Proxy. ' "Charles Sondsrmeyer, foreman ef the barber ehop In the Metropolitan Life Insurance building, New Tork, and his bride, Theresa de Groote, Just from Rot terdam, Holland, are spending their honeymoon at Flshklll Landing. There Is a romance In connection with their marriage which Sondermeyar nsver told aia aoeualntanoee: Little more than three years ago he left Theresa de Groote In Holland and came te thle country te make hie fortune. On July It he sent his brother-in-law, - WV- M. van - Setten, to Rotter dam. Holland, te merry his fiancee by proxy. To enable Van Settee to do this Sondarmeyer had to obtain from ths Dutch eonsul In New Tork a paper pe titioning Queen Wllhelmlna's consent to the marriage end another authorising the brother-in-law to represent him at the -ceremony. . Sondermeyer met his bride at ths lsndlng whsa the stsamshlp Potsdam of the Holland-American line reached port Monday. Hs had his relatives en hand to give her a royal greeting. Then he took her to the home of his sister, Mrs. John A. Huybels, In 'Hoboken, where a wedding feast was hsld. They went to Flshklll Landing te spend their honey- A Little Nonsense -Thought His Tim Had .Come. It Is one ef ths amiable traditions of the senata of the United States that no new senator shall make a set speech till he has served a year or longer. Old senators are very Impatient of the as sumption ot importance ny newcomer. The late George E. Edmunds of Ver mont once allowed It to be understood that he would soon, retire from publle life. Idaho had lust been admitted as a state, with the privilege of electing senators, the one' for a long tterm snd ths other for a short term. Mr. Me- Connell drew the short term, and, hav ing hut two months to serve. , proceeded to make the best of It. The . day after he had been sworn In he took up a postyou are In luok. tlon in the middle aula and in a rognora voice made hia speech. wnne ne was noiaing tne ion ir. Edmunds entered, the chamber. He stopped short and gased at the speaker with ths utmost astonishment. Then hs made his way to his seat and. leaning over to the senator next te him, asked: wne is tnat person r ..-..,( "A senator rom Idaho." "Tou don't say so! When did hs comet' "He was sworn In yesterday." "Sworn In yesterday, and making a speech today," mused Edmunds. "Well, well. If that doesn't beat alll It looks like It's Urns for me to quit" And In a few dsys he resigned. Got the Right Ones. ; ; , ( ' There Is a shrewd old fellow In Con necticut, the proprietor of a summer boarding bouse, who. never gets tne worst of It. One morning he took a new servant Uh him to Greenwich to teach the servitor the tricks of judicious buying. The question of chickens arose. Bald ths old chap: "How many have you this morning?" -- "About a dossn," replied the store keeper. .---."- - "Well." said the proprietor of the summer boarding house. - "My - boarders is the biggest eaters yon ever seen. Pick out nine of the toughest you'vs got." The storekeeper eomplleot laying aside the three tender fowl. Whereupon the old chap gathered 1hem. into hia baaket observing: "Guess I'D take , these three." . ' A Wise Old Man. , , Senator Beverldge now and then tells a good story, and this one Is repeated by the Chicago Inter Ocean as Illustrating the ways of a plausible corrupt capital ist who promised much and performed little. An old German father had nearly lost his daughter by' drowning, but ths girl was saved by a noble youth, who was asked by ths grateful fatherewheth er his reward should be 100,000 marks or the daughter's hand. With shrewd fore sight that both girl and money would eventually eome to him, the youth, with apparent scorn of wealth, replied: I choose your daughter.'' A wise choice," said the old. father. "I could not have glan you the loo.ooo marks, for I am only a poor cobbler; but'you shall have ths girl, and that gladly. Join hands, dear children, and receive' my blessing." "7 i , Very Tactful ; , A - man called on a Brooklyn girl " the other evening, and, after giving evidence of enjoying her company and conversa tion, suddenly said, apropos of nothing: 'Oh, Miss B. you have no Idea what a lovely girl Is visiting my mother now so entertaining and accomplished, alt together charming in every way. 1 tell yeu,' she Is just all right" The fair Brooklynite, who had been doing . her utmost to make , herself pleasant was naturally slightly an noyed, but answered quietly: ' "Z era sorry to have kept, you away from your guest this evening. Under the etrcumstanoes, It must, have bean hard for yeu to tear yourself away from her." "Not at all" said . ths . thoughtless youth. "Tou see, another fellow took rtter out tonight" The Difference. ' One day a colleague asked uncle Joe Cannon what In hie opinion was ths main difference between the days of his youth and the present time. "Well," answered Uncle Joe reflee- ttYr'r, "whan T waa a iimaal ynllWi man was satisfied to paddle bis own canoe, hut nowadays every one . thinks he has a call to stser the ehlp of state." Forgot His .Errand. The champion absent-minded man of Bedford, Massachusetts, on one occasion called upon his old friend and family physician. After a chat of a couple of hours the doctor saw him to ths door and bads htm good night, saying: "Come again. Family all well, I suppose?" "My heavens I" exclaimed Mr. C arrow, "that reminds ma of my errand; my wife is In a tit!" . A Horsethief. . The following, from Hamilton, On tario, la said to be gospel truth: Three fellows were walking down Jackson street' when a horse, which wss stand ing at the . sidewalk, did a meet curi ous thing. ,. . When the three were opposite, the beast leaned ever and snatched a watch chain out ef the near man's pocket and apparently ate It , They made a spring for the horse's bit and managed after a etruggle to re gain the treasure. The chain waa In thrse lengths, but the brute was soon mads to give these up. It waa then discovered that a medal, which had been attached to the chain, was missing. After a little more resistance thsy succeeded In extracting , the battered medal. . The horae was - genuinely" a mused, or seemed to be, throughout the extra ordinary game. The watch waa quite useless end the young men fear the animal must be aa "old hand." . - French Sunday. From-ths- Mall OaU. It Is really remarkable to And the French chamber adopting an obligatory Sunday rest for the working classes by a majority of ITS to 1. . Probably ths one considered that this' salutary pro. posal waa a truckling to religion, which, of course. Is not to be contemplated for a moment: and It Is rather astonishing that not more than one deputy did so. Ths demsnd for one day's rest In seven, In France ss In England, comes really quite ss much from those who have ne wish that any of the leisure so gained shall be spent In ohurohysa from ths religious; and,' with ths provision of shifts for the special eaaee ef restsu. rants, museums, bakeries, and the like, Sundsy Is obviously the most conven ient holiday for the community In gen eral. While, ths British Sunday la be soming muchr lose British than It wss, It Is very noticeable that the continental Sunday la gradually dlscontUientaliatng m TJ IRDSEYE LfJ YJL9 ,cf TIMELY TOPICS SMALL. CHANGE, , ... i . . . ... : ; ( Nice mornlnge te eleep. ., ', e e . ,-V,. -No dull time of year In Portland. ' ' ' '" '. ''"'. a a . , . " itn month the hopsT and lota of 'em. . a. a . ;. . , It U easier to . .h.- vice. ,. . T ':...!:...... :.: ,,-'.... Vj'... .JL,. ..... If you are not a lead fraud defendant Hope are becoming commercially quite respectable again. . . - ... .. . e -e ; ' . , "' . ; And still most of those weeda ' are alive and thrifty. , . ... ., ' Great weather for harvestine- hima and summer glrle. . , ., a e . . . .... Not' all' the Republicans have toaaed up that dollar yet e , a ., Now, have we got to aet an atlaa and hunt out Pulajanes? , , . . . e - e . r It Is fortunate that everybody can't afford an automobile. ..!.- e a .- . , The Dayton Herald nredlets that Bryan will be president e e " . . And still the dally dose of Thaws. Would they would frocss. ' : , Well, when arrested. Rockefeller is able te hire a ftrat-claea lawyer. . .. e a . . ... " A ' men who never takes a vacation seems to know ths moat ebout It. . -e e ; ' It la about time for the green aenle and the small boy to have a tussle. - . . . a e .-... .. , In IS daya you can shoot buck deer, be fore eunup or after sundown if you can get at them. v i a a i , . , There te occasionally an automoblllst whom we would like to eee eompulsorlty riding a mule. , . a . a ... ...... We "refuse to lie awake nlghte study ing what we would do with the Sage money If we had It ., a e Crops, bears, fish, surf, mountains. plains, forests Oregon has everything one ought to want ' A Michigan man left If wills', and ths lawyers are thinking of erecting a monument to his memory. ' . e e Wo firmly believe babies are already bora who will see a railroad to Coos Bay, but they may have to live to be pretty old. ' , . .','.;;."., .. j . 'Mayor Dunne of Chicago says that any man who hea served one . term as mayor of that city is entitled to im mortal felicity. But doean't It depend on what kind of a mayor he was? We are not going to make any kick about' picnics, camp-meetings or base ball games aad golf, but we ean't help thinking that some tellowe would be doing more good In a harvest field. A Little Out -THINGS PRINTED TO RE . ' A Patented Plant -One plant at least has been patent ed." eald an Inventor. "It is ths abrus prsoatorius, alias Paternoster pea, alias weather plant jonn Nowaca tooa out ths patent'' - "The weather plant is sun Deuevea by many persons to foretell the weather John Nowack wae cure it did so, and hs put it on ths market, along with an In dicating apparatus, guaranteeing It to foretell for 48 hours In advance and ror 60 miles around, fog, rain, snow, hail, earthquake and depressions likely to loelens er tire eamp. Alas for poor Nowack! The experts of the bureau of agriculture took up hie patented plant They proved that the movements of the leaves, te the right foretelling rain, to ths left foretelling drought were not caused by the weath er, but by the light And they proved that the plant's faesous downward move ment, which waa supposed to foretell earthquake, was caused by an Insect that punctured the stem, causing the Isaf, naturally, to droop. "That la ths only patented plant I know of, and Nowack lost money on It. "But hew would yeu Hks to have en exclusive patent on the eoffee tree or the tea plant?" t Puncturing a Fallacy. ' V The barber 'applied the rich brown dye with a fine-tooth comb, combing It evenly Into the grlssled locks of ths old man. : " ' Hair dye, elr." he said; "plain, un varnished hair dye, la the base of that absurd fallacy about people turning gray In a single night. . "If you investigate thoss yarns yen find that Invariably they concern per sons In prison. . Orslnl, pining In jell, had his hair go hack on him. Marie Antoinette, languishing in a cell, found ths deep hue of her hair changing to an ugly gray. Raleigh. Imprisoned In ths tower, developed grayish streaks with Incredible speed. "The: secret of all that, my dear sir, la this: Thsse prisoners. In order to conceal their gray hair," dyed It, ' using' a poet sort of dye. one of those sorts that bavs to be applied every day er two. lit prison, naturally, they could not get hold ot thle dye, and hence their locks whitened at a miraculous rate. When people said of them, pityingly, that their terror er sorrow had turned their hair gray in a single night, they acquiesced themselves In the deception, for le It not embarrassing I leave it to you, Sir Is It not embarrassing to sxptaln to the world at large that one uses hair dyen.-..J.v : ' . Sunflower Philosophy. From the Atchison Globe. There are a half dosen hells, at least .You nevsr know when a woman will begin crying or aa automobile stop run ning. , After a woman passes 10 she seems to think that any dreas Is good enough for any occasion, providing It is black, Isn't It a fact that the moat euocesa ful men you know are polite men? Then doesn't ft follow that If yeu hops to succeed you must be poll tat So far aa .ws can see,, the only, advan tage a men has 'over a woman Is that he cen turn the key on his work at O'clock.. . " f Pont worry if you are not good look HI - OREGON SIDELIGHTS. , Three busy sawmills' at Zlon, in Lane ounty- v-.-'"..''. ''''". '.''"', v A great lose he of the harvest cook ' lng .wagon....... . . . . .. e a - . .' Fruit land In Hood River , valley' In Increasing ds. .snd. , ' -.. "- '"' t. ' - A Roseburg man. claims to have land on wblch he can raise 700 bushels of. potatoes per acre . j ... r- ... x e e . : .. , Odell correspondence of Hood ' River . Olacter: Mra. Roawell Shelley had her house papered one day last week. O. 8. ' Olsen did the work. . a a ' . ' The big Roseburg fruit packing house has already 'contracted for ever Avs and a half million pounds of prunes. The , crop n southern 'Oregon will be Im mense and the price fair. ', ; ' . ' . The law requiring cattle te be kept up la going to work a hardship upon many families who hare been depending upon one or two cowe te provide the greater part of ths, living, saye the Harrlsburg Bulletin. - e ; ; :;, , Sclo, says the News, would be a first , clsss location for a milk condensing plant The dairy Industry is growing among our farmere. Dally there are several thousand pounds of Cream shipped to the various creameries. - : , ... e e i North Yamhill Record : No, there Is no better dairying country on earth than the Willamette valley, and Is there sny better part of the Willamette valley than old Yamhill T Journal. No, and there le no better place In Yamhill coun ty than around North Yamhill. Go over the country and see our clover fields rank with aftermath just waiting to be turned Into butter and cheese and vou will agree with both Journal aad Record. "Hood-River Glacier: Negotiations were closed between a large eastern commission firm and the Hood River Apple Growers' union for a Urge ship ment of early fall applss which will be sent to England. This shipment will consist , of eight care of apples and marke a new era in the history of apple shipments from the far west ss here tofore the market for early spplee has been supplied from the eastern states, The fruit will be ahlpped some time be tween the last ef August and September 10 and will be rushed through by extra fsst. service. ' :. - - e ' e . ., Jsmes Splcer, who lives en Agency Plains In Crook county, du ; a well down SO feet with pick and shovel and from that depth waa sinking It with a hsnd drill when at a depth of tl feet the drill -brokerthrough Into what le ap--parently a 'subterranean Jke,erbody , of water, says the Madras Pioneer. The hole Is only five Inches In diameter, and since striking the body of water they have been drawing up water for all ranch and household purposes In one of the long, narrow buckets with bottom valve. The water la cool snd clear, and the supply appears Inexhaustible, al though the body of water or subter ranean lake Is less than two feet deep. of tke Common AD WHILE YO V" WAIT. lng. You look all right to your friends: ths best looks on earth could not make you look good to your enemies, and thoss who are not Interested In you don't know how you look. r- In the story books a brother throws his arms around his sister snd kisses her. In real life he never kisses her except when she goes away on a long journey, and then it Is only a. frost covered peck. . - Monument to a Pig. "Did yeu ever see a monument to a "''No.""1 "u f","nj' ''Wsll, there is euch a monument In existence. The town of Luneburg. In Hanover, owns it It stands in ths town hall a glass ease containing an em balmsd ham from the pig. together with a great slab ef black marble engraved with letters of gold. - "Luneburg is a town rich and famous through Its sslt springs. A pig discov. -ered thess springs. To this pig the monument waa put up. The golden in scription says In Latin:. " "Stranger, contemplate here the mor tal remains of the pig which acquired for itsslf Imperlshsbls glory by the dis covery of the salt springs of Lune burg.' ".j'... , V . Extract of Fact. Habitual criminals never blush. Unvaocinatsq persons cannot vote. In . Norway. " ; '' A pair of ehoee can be made by ma chinery in it minutes. - - The Calcutta police ere required to eatoh sharks' in . the Hoogly in their epare time, . ' The egg-eating championship belongs In Ohio. The champion, a Daytonlan, ate 11 eggs in nine minutes. Life Insurance was Invented by. Pas cal, whose "theory of probabilities" and "law of averages still govsm the busi ness. The highest recorded temperature, one of 0,000 degrees. Is obtained electrically. This heat is required te melt oxide of uranium. - ' Might Try It ; : .. A beekeeper ef New Hampshire wee showing a city man his apiary. The hlvea were ranged In line en. the side et a mountain, and the air wae sweet with the emell ef clover, pine trees, carna tlona A bee tttTm the keeper's hana-anfrnf, and the man held hie breath. - "Bees ean't etlng you If you hold your breath." he said, afterwards. "To hold the breath cloeee the pores ef ths skin, er something Ilka that At any rate, if a bee goes for you hold your breath end 111 guarantee you won't Ye etung, though the bee jab Ite sting at you till the thing breaks." The Commandment -Hs Knew. ' - The rich hostess, en the lawn ef her beautiful farm, wae catechising the lib tie country weekers from the slums. - "And now," she said, "who knows the shortest commandment?" "I do," piped a isd In wooden-soled shoes. "Repast It, then, please ' J , """"Keep off the grass," shouted the utv chin, confidently, . . . . Peyton may hare a young men's elubi VIEWS Kent Is rejoicing In a drilled well gieldlng supply. e wetee, , ; "' -'-r"" ' v ':