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'p -r ;-:-.EDIT01iVAL;piLGE ; OF . iHiS; JOURNAL All ' THE JOURNAL AM IinBPBKlKAT , C A. JACgSOM. ever e.4i.wsl". M "Sil: leg, run m imMmj- --j et Ore. (ea, (or trai yB4ttarlI P BarieMe 01 : .. f to... am Iftt etrfet, T"ese : tag, Cbtaage. . i - . B) CSS IVIW Siawa. va r- M Wf..m...H W Oae ...... Om yesr.?......-tS.9 I 0m ansfa.. .. 'Oh y .......... T.0 I Qse s ....... Pm proof against that word ; failure. IVt aeon benlnd it.' ? ' Tbt only failure, a man ought .. to fear la cleaving to the pur-- poae rhe aeea to U beet t George Eliot. . ' ' . ':. Q; '.: OWL CARS, ';.;'; mWO WEEKS AGO The Jour- V.;." I ' nil transmitted to the Port- land Railway, Light & Power company the ',' petitions for an all night ar service.. Beyond the verbal statement by Vice-President Fuller that th matter' would be taken under consideration, the company has made no resoonse. '' -.. ?; '- ' 1 : . - I is indisoutable that the people of Portland are practically unanimous in the desire for "owl cars." in Seat tle the cars run until 2 d'clock in the morning and at 4 o'clock ears leave the center of the city on all the prin cipal .lines, the full service being re sumed an hour or 'ao later.' In San Francisco, up to the time of the earth quake, n.nll-night service was main tained, the cars running at intervals of 40 minutes after 1 o'clock. Port- . land people are making no unreason able demand when they insist that they shall have at least as good ser vice as is enjoyed by other cities on ' the Pacific coast ' The local street ; railway officials aeem disposed to treat the demand : tor a late service with but scant con ' Sideration. 'Yet the public ia not in the attitude of a suppliant -in this matter':-Over and above the valuable rights conferred upon the street rail way company by its franchises, it en joys privileges which are mere ease ments, terminable at the will of the people," or indeed at the instance of any individual citizen. Under these circumstances it does not become . the company to assume an attitude of in difference nor to disregard the wishes of the public ..The relation between the company and its patrons should be marked at all times by the spirit of ' mutual concession and accommodation.-- - Vj The Journal has advocated the in stallation of a late ear service be cause convinced that the convenience1 of the public demande it. The ex "pressidn of the people wish is not a : matter to be ignored fcy the street railway company. v -;; ViA-SEA RESTORED. ;: :; '-'i EOPLE ' who 'remember - their "; geography r- or-, are familiar i K- with the topographical 1 fea tures ; of southern . California will ' readily ; recall the region rariously 'known as the Salton Sinlci the Saltoo -, V Basin, or the Salton Sea. To call it ' a "sea" has alwaya been and still will Vbe technically incorrect; for though filled again with water it is only a , v I great inland lake. For , time out of mindit has been a desert of stunted 'Sagebrush, cacti, and alkali, thickly i , 'I overcrusted with sea salt; hence its Dime; and salt works were estab '. liihed by an oasis in that "death's : tl valley ' I ' ' The- formation of this depressed, , . barren and baked piece of ground has ' ' , alwty been of interest to geologists, . -1 for it lies in its lower levels 263 feet below the level of the Pacific ocean. ' ' To' the southward flows the great ; , Colorado fiver, emptying its luke warm and alkali-impregnated waters into the Gulf of California. f Within a few years enterprising ' men have sought to irrigate a large adjacent area by bringing water from this river across the intervening low f sand ridges upon an extensive plain adjacent to this sink, and would have done so successfully except for the antic of that whimsy stream, which they could not control. Five years ago they cut a canal through the sandhills, in a roundabout way, partly through. Mexican territory, from the Colorado river to thl "imperial val ley," and two year ago dug another canal. - - There wa a great area of desert; there wa a great Volume- of ' water; it wa an irrigation . propo sition; but the river wa false to them, or not sufficiently understood, aad apparently all their work will be for naught, for the present at least ; The Colorado river ha at ordinary time strong current and ft great volume of water,; and when flood come, as they do occasionally, it it. a tremendous, terrible stream. In 1503 it formed a. new channel, and these irrigating; . canals it msde use of to flow through into Sslton Sink, .into which the greater part of its water are now flowing, and they cannot he restrained or turned back. They have, already covered an area of or 400 square miles, and are rising at the rate of six inches a week. - The present prospect is therefore that perhaps for ages to come there will be a inland sea or great lake in southern. California, where for ages past have been alkali dust, scorpions and thorned cacti. Possibly the In genuity and money of man. may turn this water out some time,' but this seem impossible, for a great part of it is' absolutely below sea level " This was one Irrigation'scheme that didn't "pan out." -v " ' .: A , . tf l.. .,,ii,. '.fc. .' mm., If j f V : SAMUEL GOMPERS' VIEWS. MANYti even among working ' men, will ; not sympathise 'very heartily with Mr. Sam uel Gompers in his opposition to the employment of. Chinese on the Pan ama canal.' If there were not abund ance of other work for all American laborers; if the work could be done by American labor; if the wages were Sufficient tdtempt and hold American labor-to do that big job in that nasty climate, 'then the, sentiment against the employment of Chinese there would be much stronger; but under the circumstances the course of the' government in - employing Chinese will find many defenders, ' 1 Turning to another : subject, ari Mr. . Gompers' views thereon, every intelligent honest citizen should be in entire accord with him. In view of the contest now in progress between oriental labor and the leaders of the Republican party, it is interesting to know what Mr. Gompers thinks of the v standpat slogan. . Speaking be fore a committee "of '.. congress last March Mr. Compere said; ' ' . 4 ; : V ' . mm .m - i ininx mat an through history you can find that 'same appeal and plea made by everyone, who profited by the unjust conditions which ob tained at that time. Those ; who profit by injustice, those who profit by mal-administrat!on, those who profit by . unjust laws, r those who profited by human . alavery . in all cases -and in all - agee hare urgred those In whose power it was to make a change, to " 'maintain Jthe existing conditions." It has been the repudia tion of such claims that has made for the progress of the world, and that ha established een the republic of our country. ; ; Every corrupt poli tician, : every .overwhelming-; boss, every greedy corporation, every dis criminating . railroad, every trust, every man who profits from a wrong ful condition of affairs will urge the advantage of maintaining existing conditions." . : , , In this ' utterance Mr. 'Gompers struck the nail on the head. SAN FRANCISCO'S FRIENDS. AMONG Jhe sweet uses. of ad versity i the discovery! to miviiu vi uicir iincere friends. The terrible distress of San Francisco has revealed to her aome- thing that she did not know that she stood among the first in the national love, and that the national heart bled in the knowledge of her misery, y -That there ' has been some hvnoe rlsy in the revealed sorrow and that many of the tears shed over San Francisco's ashes have been of the crocodile .sort, there is no doubt . but the people of the stricken city have been able to tell the true from the Pecksniffian regrets." It wa charged that some of the cities of the north coast-Hind, the towns named ' were Portland, Tacoma and Seattle were not so sorry as they- professed to be st San - Francisco's plight, in which they were represented to see an op portunity to build themselves uo en her lost business. : The Journal some days sgo - denied : the,; aspersion on Portland' sincerity, and denounced the writer of the calumnies as a false friend to San Francisco and. a libel lous enemy of this city., and our re- marxs nave appealed to the fairness . ' a a . . . of the San Francisco Chronicle, which says: . '. . "The Oregon Daily Journal assures us that the people of the city in which it is published have the kindliest feel ings for San Francisco, and that we make a mistake in supposing that any sinister meaning can be attached to the misrepresentations of the con ditions existing: here. The Chronicli has no reason whatever to doubt the assertion of The Journal On the contrary, it firmly believes that the people of Portland have' too' much acumen to take any stock in state ments which the records and other facts amply prove art untrue." i v Henry Westerman, an incorrigible adulterator of'mjlk, has been over taken by the misfortune pf another What Ia Portland's Greatest Need? MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL TELL JOURNAL WHAT WOULD IMPROVE ROSE CITY. Hard Pavements: R, A. Preston; R. Preaton of tha Mrat ward ba. Viaraa In hard pavamaata. In order to pay tna. paver hm would bond the prop erty fronting on the a tract and allow the owner to square the coeta on the Installment plan. ' J. ."Ona idea, I have alwaya had abent mo aireat queatlon la that we should have a hard aurfaca pavament throuah- out." said Mr. Preston, "I know of no areattr need of tha city than this. I believe ths property owners should be compelled to put down some sort sf a hard surface pavement soma fcavsment designated hy the city. In Beams they nave line streets because the owners are compelled to surface them properly. - "By hard surface pavement I mean bituminous paramenia. The city should aro ahead with tha work and five the property owners a - ehane t pay by bonding; their property, so that they will nofbe compelled to pay tn a lump sum. I. would pare the whole city, In that way. We have a few blocks nrouerly paved, but by the present method It Is very slow work. - The only way it an bs dons Hunt is to -provide for ths bondlnar i of ths , property.' X always hoped that some .'plan looking toward this and would be brought up. I have talked it over with other members of the counoil and I am convinced ithat How Wc Get Some BY J. B.: HORNER. The ' cosmopolitan : theory" of. the brotherhood, pf map prevails In Europe. Upon this -theory men are correct In the belief that they have the right to live where they eal) accomplish the most for themaelvea "and . those dependent on them. Accordingly vast numbers de siring to improve their condition, seek some Mecca, and,when they : consider all the Inducements offered abroad and listen to the- atory A of the Puritans, the Huguenots and those who followed them. tbey. Infer that America tn his tory a well as tn name sounds much like Mecca, and they naturally turn their faces aoroaa 4he -Atlantic-Theso people, therefore; like those who ' pre ceded them, have rights" which temper ate notions . must- accord to them, -So whlla It Is possible to discuss but one part of Europe 'in- a brief article, let that part be a synecdoche the . part for all to' Illustrate tha situation, y ' One hundred Immigrant chips run be tween Italy and America. These ves sels, therefore, form the great. Italian bridge to osr country. ,W say Ital lan'brtdge advisedly, because the bridge Is principally owned and .operated by the Italians.- Since there ere so many Interests in common the Atlantic bridge between ths two. nations should-be the Italian-American bridge, meaning that ! me naijnns si me two enas- ox ens bridge should possess and szerclse ths right to ' determine wh shall cross Over.'; .' t, S i. . ''..;; . . -t'. . Statistics -show, that 115.900 Julians oame . to .America last year.' Figures also show that of the 70,000 conscripts called, IrrtS Italian service during the same 'time; ( per cent are - Illiterate, which is to say that they can neither read nor write. In some localities the Illiterates reach. 70 per cent. Nor do the . people themselves see the reason why men who dig require an education, since they are merely subjects la a land where tha government idee the think ing for them. It Is fair to Infer, there fore, that half of the Italians who corns to - America ' are Illiterate, hence re quire much careful training to develop them Into a people whoss vsry homes are little . republics, so that erstwhile subjects of a kingdom may naturally and easily grow into intelligent,. -eelr governing cltlxens of a great Ce public It Is reasonable to say, therefore that only the -better classes are dealrabie Im migrantspeople who will, be self-sup arrest So often has this pervert been cnargea wun anuiing mi mux mit grave suspicion attaches to retailers who buy from him. On his next con viction he should be sentenced to I diet of his own concoction and un doubtedly would be, if it were not for the milk-and-watery constitutional in hibition against cruet and unusual punishment.' v - r , : '"' r '1 . , , , ' " Sullivan somehow , that name seems familiar may be able to rent all the hotels in Peoria but ;wbat does ' Peoria amount to, : anyway ? There are bigger towns, and bigger halls and Bryan has a world-wide tongue. '? , . j,'.' And while the Portland Railway Light 8c Power company is putting its wires underground, interference with similar action on the part of the tele phone r and telegraph corporations would be regarded as an impertinence. The Giant of J;he Coast league4are home again with ..the' percentage of winning games in their favor, and we do not crowd hyperbole'when .we say that Portland expects every man. on the team to make a home run today. ' .,'.- : .'. . J '." y.. The best political joke of the day has its delicious humor In the serious statement that the MTeas He pub-. Iicans.have had a split." Over wlist? The right to be worke.dV5- 'fv - - . , Mr. Kipling's latest - poem, is a study in geography dashed with a flavor of the stockyards.y That's right; put the wires under groundas fast as possible. It must be lone. '!-: -: ' ' 'v, .- - Some Statistics. If all. the money saved annually by the women of ths United States at ths one-day bargain sales wars to be di vided eniong ths J7.7I7 turpentine farm ers and laborers in 'the united States eaeb would receive Jlil.ll, or 41 mere READERS 1 1 . 1 . '. 'V R. A. Preston. something will bs dona. . I will see my self that ths matter - will be brought UO." . r. . of tlie Immigrants porting, -peepls who-eaa read and will read and think for themselves, and study our system so that they may be valuable;-law-abiding cltlxans. From afar off, one might suppose that this stream of Immigration Is carefully strained In the presence of the buyer as well as the seller. . But tt would Je,dlffIoult -.indeed to strain tha Columbia: and evidence of the buyer's presence at the Italian and of the bridge .Is wanting.' But it. Is said the officers of the ehlp look to this. It ts an open Question whether- the , Italian captain is longer really master of hie ship.. ' It la" true that fee eigne ' papers - and - re ceives - his commission, but that com mission Is from a government that seeks1 to rid itself of certain criminal and Indigent classes. Also ths govern ment appears to be close 'to the trans portation companies that have, so It Is said about 1.000 - agent - throughout Italy receiving a bonus of II a head on esch person thsy decoy out of the country Furthermore aa an additional Induoemer.t SO per cent discount, -and even more at times, Is allowed by trans portation lines to the nearest .seaport. All this Is transacted In. the name of J Business; nut wnere mere is any re striction whateysr one on the ground Is unable to observe. ..v;-4 - ., " Whan we consider how long -It re quires to make a Yankee of the Ameri can, one la led to inquire, how long will it . require to, make , Xsnkeee of thess - untutored classes? . Hence -the urgent necessity for care. . -,! -f . James . A. Garfield understood the situation fairly well, and Introduced a bill In the house of representatives calculated to correct soma undesirable conditions of, immigration to America. The salient points of the bill were these? - . - 'iJ'',"i: V l.t Health -on board oif ships. . v' " t. - Prohibition of the transportation pf criminals and paupers. y I. Appointment of International -sf-flelsls at the chief sesports. .' - -i 4. Good treatment of Immigrants. ' I. National . reoord . annually . pub lished of every declaration and final naturalisation., , - '..; Although the bill tailed to become a law, times are ripening for an asser tion en the. part Of Americans' as to what phass 1 of heredity will , be per mitted to cross ths bridge for assimila tion with the genius that emanated from the Pilgrim and the Huguenot. than ths value of the vote of Vermont at $10 a vote, and there would be a balance of. $71.11. .'which would be enough to buy 'each of the tB$ camels In'Western Australia a nose ring worth I .cents. . v 'i'' ' 4f all the stogl made. in Wheeling, West - Virginia, Irt -April and May, ISO, were rolled Into one stogie, it would be 17.141.10- ihchis'.i long, '. (.144 . inches thick and' would- weigh 111,17 ounces, troy weight?' A- man would have to have a Jaw TSf feet from ear to ear. meas ured through his mouth, to get It be tween his teeth, and If he smoked it up be would be so sick that It would re quire the services of ' 121 physicians, 1,700 nurses and 141 attendants II years 11 months . 11 days. It minutes snd II seconds to get his stomach In order again.' Ths araoke from ths stogie Would form a cloud ItlK miles long by 4T 1-1 wide, obscuring the sun from Msysvtlle to Monessen, Pennsylvania, If ths cold feet of- the men ahead of the game in all of the poker seances In Chicago on an average night were to be collected. It would glvs a frigidity equal to that of ll.T15.400 pounds of artificial Ice manufactured annually in flt,- Louis, and If a percentage of thle Ice equal to the duty on candles Into that part of ths Oold coast of Africa west of ths river Vol ta were to be; used in high balls, It would cool I4.6H.140 of these drinks,-which would furnish 10 such drinks dally for - one year to each of the 11,471 stovs, furnace ' and grate makers In ths United States, leaving I, 161.710 drinks to. spare, which would, if sold at two for a quarter, provide a sum sufficient to buy three pairs f sock worth $1 a dosen" for each of the II, 182 missionaries in the world. , , .: 1 1 ! ; Circulation Reversed. ' ' , f It Is claimed at the university of Chicago that Professor - Guthrie and Cavlel, after a long aeries of experi ments with a dog, have succeeded tn reversing ths circulation of tha blood byvarious msthods and form of trans posing the vein and arteries. - It Is declared that the transplanting of vslne upon arteries has produced, from a functional point of view, ths transformation of those veine into ar teries, which at once adapt themselves tosrterlal function and transmit the blood Indefinitely. -. ' ,' 'v C ' ' gome medical men believe that In the future this system of reversal will be come so well perfected and-understood that various diseases may be cured by its means as, for example, in cases of sof tsnlng ef ths brain, red blood - may be sent surging through that organ, re vivifying ths brain cells and restoring the patient to a normal condition. , It Is else hoped that reversal of the sjrc il lation In a vnan may ba found to ours gangrene, which ha been a serious ob stacle U the healing of internal wounds. A Little 'Nonsense -'v. . The Peril of Speed. ' - . - aayor MeClellan of New Tork. who so narrowly ascaoed taking toe flym path-London train that waa wrecked last manth, waa dining In London at the Carlton...:-..' . . A mi re bar ef Arasrloan were In the f tenable restaurant, and thsy all took ooffee together in the foyer after dlntas. seated at UtUe table on the low white V balcony, near the orchestra, which- affords so fins a visw of restaur- taurant aad fovor both. Ths talk turned to- high speed aad its perils the perilous high speed of motor cars., eapmss trains and the tiae. Mayor MeClellan smiled and said! ' ' "There Is, undoubtedly, always some thing dangerous about - speed. When J was a etedsnt at Princeton, there was a - middle-aged oook, simple-minded woman with a rood deal- of money saved, whe suddenly got herself sngaged to a horse jookey. -i'. ' T saw the cook standing looking out ef her kit oh en window with a' dased expression one morning, and I 'said to her: . j. : - . " 'What ts the matter. Hannah T " " " "Why, sir,' aha said, "with my hus band that Is to be. everything goes with sucn lignum speed that It's eonrusin'. Day before yesterday we got acquainted, yesterday we was - engaged, and today I find that he already owes me $11." '- - So JVould We AE, - - Connls Mack, ths noted baseball man, waa talking isr"?hHdelphla about the Importance of silence. . ' 1 ' . "No ball pUyer," he said to the group of, young men-around hlaa, e eompllshoa . anything by being noisy. If a decision goes against a player. If the umptrs is unfair; let him keep quiet. Let him refrain ' from oaths, -shouts, accusations. Noise, in the midst of a game, only damage the Ill-treated play er's ease. . . , -.. "To tmpress on my men this doctrine of silence. I orten tell . them about marriMl -(-Annie - --. v rthe wife in the middle of the night was awakened by the loud snoring , of her husband. , She endured the 'horrible racket as long as she could. Then pinching the man sharply, she said! ."Herbert, you'd make less noise if you kept your mouth shut.' "Herbert, sleepy and surly, muttered: .- " "Bo would ; you. , ; .- . ; ;-;j''y CM Pride Indeed. r dvis pride," said Lincoln Staff ens,' the reform writer, "Is all vary well la its way.-.- Humility; though, and dis content usually . lead to better . thing than pride and complacency, and when ever I - hear any man boasting over much - about his city's excel lenoe . X think of the civic pride of an old resi dent ef Peebles, v . "To this old mai, who regarded Pee bles as A finer town than Paris, a oopy of Shakespeare's works waa onoe loaned. The old man iread ' the- Immortal plays for the first time. Hs enjoyed them mightily aad. on being asked what he thought of them, he, slapped his knee and saw In a loud, enthnslastlo voice: "They're finely They're glorious. They, far surpass alj jny expectations. Why, sir. '.there' aro - not 20 .men In Peebles who could written .those plays!'.?- - ;- - . ..C'wtiov Sim Bra'all. ' the evangelist.' whom Xr. Tonrey reoonverted, . was talking in .At lanta ebon human 'nature. v "Ifumart nature," ho .said, "ha a lot of cussednsss In It. .' Men like to do bad thing rather- than good' things. . They even, take a-pride in being bad. "They boast .'about t,he!r Wickedness. They eem to be born that' way. !'T once saw a handsome, bright little chap of l of e sitting under an apple tree reading a book. . " There- a ' fine llttie - feHowM thought, a clean-minded, manly little chap. I'll see -what his ambition, la.' "And X aproached the boy, ' patted him on the head; and said; ' - !WslI.r njr t young . friead.: what - Is your ambition T ' - ' .?. , , -Td llke,'.'aaid e- bOy: to have people tremble like aspen leave at the mere mention of my name.'" ...-.'.'v i'-:-. . :'l Poet-fo'r VttH Eaters. J '.: ; James B. Reynolds, famous in the packing-house exposures, said tf vege tariantem in Washington t "VegeUrlanlam ' is . ths more logical as well as ths most comely and humane dietary. Isn't It .v ':.,.-', -"Vegetarianism -f- uperiority"- fom the humane 'and the logical point of view was once Indicated to me by a child In Jew Tork. - , . "While I was engaged In settlement work In New Tork a little child In one of the classes asked: '. - - Why do we kill llona,.and, tigers f Oh,' said X. that is because ths bad lion and -tigers kill the ear HtUs sheep '"0 1. . -.jcV,-; . ..... , " 'Why, then.' said ths - little ehlld. don't w kill the butchers r ' v Judged; by His Otnbfwf': j ,': From, the New TorkfliA'- '-s " certain New Tork man whose bank account Is so fat that it fakes sift fig ures to messure It used to go around looking reprehenslvely shabby. . One nay hs went into J.'Pierpont Morgan's of fice and asked to see Mr. Xing, who' looks after some of the. oharity affairs jn which Mr, Morgan is interested. "Mr. King Js no in now," said one of the clerks. "If you will coma in this time , tomorrow you may be able 'to eatoh him and possibly be will help you a little." . - 4 . The habby-!ooktng man thought that closing eentsnce sounded rather queer. ' "Thank you." he said,, "you are very kind," :-' -' ";- -.-.,.. . - ' - . ,- - .' "Oh, thara all right," replied the olerk, compassionately? Tr been broke my self and know, how tt goes.? .', . The a)habby-Iooklng maa saw - light then tn earnest. ' "Oh," he said, with a dubious downward, glance, at' his own clothes. Since then the 'shabby-looking man has eessed to be Habby. 'if 9 ' 1 1 ' ' '', The Ohost of Memory.' , :t;- ..aoftnet' -''.,.' X know not, what tt wa, a look, a'word, . -Ths way you movsd your cool, allur ' ting hand-, . 'V ' ' Roused ' In me memories" of deserted . lands .. - And day forgotten, t wonder, had you heard ,. , - Anything of me, .that ; my heart waa y , - 'Stirred So strangely f - There lie one whe un- pars tend - -.- t ' ..'. - I , And used o lovn: him the dreary . eand (' ' - - - . Of Styx and Lethe claim. ' ' Perhaps 'a - bird '- . . ant from Persephone' throne ha eom to you . , And toucht you with the magle of Its wings - - '' That thus you waks In me Imaginings Of days when 1 was valiant and true And had not left the company of kings, I X who am Slavs .to penitence and rue, BIRDSEYE VIEWS . cf TIMELY TOPICS -: SMALL CIIANQ3. ..-.:. . -.- . .. , . . ; Qoln' to the clreusT . . ..: - , s . .; .:.-,-.:, " Bast climate on earth In Oregon. . . v " -j e : ' '. Welt Teddy, really, are you a stand patter?. .- - . The . Portland oarsmen' made a big record, anyway.' . . .. ,t , . -' Hermann's trial may or may not od our before he dlee of old age, , '.''',':'-.' '-, . e--.. '':..'' -i' How would it- do for five . or ten to olub togethsrand aead In a dollar t . ''-' ,': , : e .- . -',' - ; ' Woader how Russell Sage and Jay Gould are getting along together now. .. '.''-. A e . , - .. . ' What fun for the Democrats It would be, to he. sure If .Uncle, Joe could be beaten., c '.'.-.'.; - ' v..''-, S'- e- - - '-': - If he had td do It 1o4 $1.10 a' day the President would not like pitching hay SO well. ,i, .. . : ,) S S - -rf . Looks like Teddy : will . have to run again. It la nearly time for him to re fuse again. . . . ...''.. We hope, and doubt not, that our dear Ringer Hermann la greatly enjoying his European trip.-,, i --,- . - Those Russian strikes seem te be a good deal like a lot of Oregon railroads, mostly on papsr, - 7 - ... ; i. ; Bryan made a mistake by paying ao muoh attention. to that fallow Sullivan of Illinois, anyway, .y , , , , '. . ' -.-,. ; ,- .' j' The Dingier tariff may bring hop up to a profltabl - figure. Last .- year ft sulked the darling tariff. v -It 1 sometimes dlffloult to teU whether the fellow whe lags along or the on who butts In will best succeed. You've certainly got a dollar; don't buy grub with It: send It Immediately to Sherman) he seeds It - He wants' to ge on a vaoatiou. It la suggested .that the torture "of the warm plaos eonaists largely In ths repetition of the question, "Is It hot enough for youf ;-. --r - , , r- . mm.: t .. ... . t . A' fellow named Mlddlesky says he wanta to fight JUn Jeffries. Probably wants to be knocked Into the mlddlesky ef next weeksky. ... . .-, ,,. . Now If you see a buck' dser In your back yard before sunrise, yeu can law fully kiu him. Get up early, .and be sure your . gun 1 loaaeo. -1- - The - northwest is ' erring for-' men' who will work. St. Paul News. ' No, ths northwest is' too 'big to cry. The women will save the orotis. .- Shigene Guards? Tne Salem "journal intimates that H., W.. Boott and T. B. Wlloox may '. become candidates for United State senator before the next legislature, and no one would be sur prised If this prediction 1 verified," A Little Out THINGS PRINTED TO Mt :. Pointed Paragraph, p.? A kiss in time Is fine. '"5 ' True friend seldom eom In bunches, luif-made men don't alwaya make themselves agreeable. . r. . , ... , Thera la no task too nam ror a lasy msn not to attempt, . ' ' . Tmm Aionao. there are soms fair slng- ere who are not blondea,' . fluceess la often a hundred-to-one shot that the talent overlooks. . . A man nsvsr realties the goodnes of his neighbors until he is sick. , Don't expect to tower above your neighbors by standing on your dignity. About the only way rou can erouae a mean man's conscience Is te eatoh him at It V ..' - ; A. rule that refuses to work at all of ton gets ths best of one that works both wsys.- ... ',' ,' ' ' Some airls who think thsy can sing ought to - patronise '- a - correspondence school of thought. . ' :i . , t ., , ; Inventioti for Horse. : ' ' . A poor man went about In Nebraska looking for work. ' He obtained a lob tn a villa gs sawing wood. Ths sawysr in terested hla employer, ana rmally con fessed the reason of his ;povertj. He was an inventor and had spent hi sub stance -on a device te keep horse off barbed wire fenoes. The idea seemed promising to the Nebraskan, and hs fin ally palad $1,000 for the right to sell the devloe in hie state . Tha sample wa cent later. . It waa a signboard to be hung on ths fenoe, and read aa follows: J V''"NOTicB TO HORSES.'" I f 1 .-...' Dengarous Keep Away.''V" : ' With the signboard came a pair of spectacle , for the use of near-sighted horses! -. . . ' - .' , -. ' Bridge In Indla.':'.;vl Ths Indus In India Is orosssd in seme of Its remote reaches by rope brldgea The Ingenuity of the natives In making these bridges ' with no material - but twisted twigs, yst strong enough to hold the weight or any number of- coolies With their loads, and long enough to be swung from ollff to .cliff scrose the great river, 1 a source of wonder. Such bridges s re composed of three strands of twigs, ons for each, hand to grasp, on to guide the fset They sag gracefully from the tops of ths mighty ollffs that flank ths rlvsr, occasionally swaying slightly In ths wind, but are ss firm and safe a a bridge of Iron or atone. I? , Making' VIrtue.Ridlculoua. ; Anthony Comstock- has dons good work In keeping down ' real offenses against decency, but he Is constantly bringing his society Into disrepute by such absurdities a the senselss raid on the Art Students' leagus of Nsw Tork. A logical extension of this sort Of busi ness would be the raiding of hospital and medical school and the seisure of work on physiology and anatomy, whoss Illustration are Just a propsrty "obscene" end "lewd" as are those of the league's catalogue. The old lsdy In the familiar story objected to the dress. ne-room ef ths ban grounds being lo cated directly beneath her window, be cause she coujd sea the player robing and disrobing. When ths dressing-room was 1 removed te , the far and,' of the - .. , nn oreoon siDzucirra.' v v. ' , -. - " 111 ' -- - ' ' St, Helena may save a furniture factory. h- ,,. .' ,-'- V . -., ( - . ., O.' . .. " e ,, . , . " Kent Is no longer water dry; has' a 100-foot WSll., , t J : ' White eedar brings tl per thousand -' la Myrtle Point. .... " - v : A , - r ' :.e.- ..-V "t. '4- ,. :t Heppner Is grouchy; too many baohe- '"' torsr -says ' the Gaaette.. . i.- .. . ... ' . . . e --1''. -Wheat running from 46 to 61 bushel ' an aore around Adam. ; , ; ' ".i..'. .V'';'-'.--'.- -: e- .,' '.-.' : , A Jordanman had l.EOO bushels grain than "he expected. - : v . e ev . ,'," ; ' Jackson eounty I getting - many stretches of good rwads. -. . -' .s e .'-.s-: Many strangers In Rainier, moat , of thera looking for locations. v -- -. -; ,'...' . ": S . s On aooourit of two new rallroaSs out of Ontario, (that town a booming. . -; it''-' : ..' e - e .- ' ... . m wi.; ' Several farm near Athena average 6) bushels of wheat ah aore, one (5. - ' ''-;?--''.'""' e e .. - A : Dry as Newberg is some men. there j get "under, the Influence "occasionally. . ' ': " '' - - '"' -:. ', " Dayton bualnese men are not la the.' least discouraged by the -recent fire there.' ' -.; -y-l . .-.,- . - ;e,;e .',"-,..-.- .-5 "; A North Powder woman aged 60 years -gave birth to her thirteenth child last 1 ufeek. r- -v"'- " - , V..'j ... .;' ' .... - -,,- .. 1 Miiflh nmmr Wat4 IS Wm' IAA acres-ef apple orchard.' The owner will gst rich, of oourse. - - ' . '; :' - - .v.' -;,-s . e V '-''-." J ' The Independence Enterprise tells bf -: Isdies In the harvest fields around there. They are else women, -of eourse." .-- ;,r t, :.. . . . e ..- s ''.'--" , The liextngton Wheatfleld offers , a . year's subscription to the bne bringing In tha largest sack of potatoes. That . editor won't etarve. , .. j , .- . A ' Pendleton man whu had spent at night la Jail went around with the mar shal next day to all the saloon aad '. had himself blacklisted. : ' -,. Gold Beach Globe: If you wast to ees good looking - and assart - school teacher eom to town,' but don't be watching the men all the time. ':'. -e - e .-. , ' ': '. A Benton eounty woman returned" . from Independence dead drunk. . Xnde-io pen dance ought to be proud of that kind,, - of prosperity, aaya the Albany Demo' erat. . ,. -.. ,; - . .y, '..?" Wearing hie ordinary reading glasses and using an ordinary steel pan, Fsther . Hoberg of McMlnnvtlle,- nearly 10 years " . old, has written 1.101 words on' a card the alas jnf a. postal card. -.The card eon tains . ths Lord prayer, tha apostle's creed, ten commandments and various psalms and passages .of Sortptur ar ranged in circle tha slse pf a dollar ' down v to -the - smallest . ooln- andtn the , squares and angles between. ,..;. ;":;'' ' ) T of , tte. Common: AD WHILE YOU milV ' When Many 'Marrltd., ' Ton can always tell whether a man 1 married or single whe you see him go through a screen door, say the Wel lington (Kan.) .News. If he ie married he approaches the . door . cautiously, glance nervously around, then takes erf his hat and swipes It up aad down the door two or three times. Hs then quiet ly open ths - door about two Inches, squeeaes himself through and elosee It with a quick snap. The length ef time he haa been married may be determined by the degree of fear and nervousness indicated In hla countenance. , .y . .rj Real SoliUry' Confinement V-v; ' ' There was a little touoh worthy et Victor- Hugo la the bald . story of hi captivity told In London the other day by a Russian - -"political,' Nlkallaff Pe trovlch Stersdvosky, who was rsleased lately at 49 after II years' In SS. Peter and Paul and the Bchlueeselberg.-. The endlsnee got Its fullest sense ef what solitary confinement meant' when he told of watching tha keeper carefully craping out ' the - marks of hi shoes when ha had taken hla dally exerolse. Not so much a a footprint la the sand should 'ba left, to give comfort to the next dead out".,':' '; $'-. ' j ; 'f . A Bit of Fiction. If all the villains killed by all tha In diana novelists In 106 had been killed In reality, the death rajs of Indiana would have been Inoreased 1.14 a thousand of population, and tha cemetery association at Lafayetts-would be forced 'either to erect a crematory at a eost of $2,944.11. , or purchase two acree and three square -rods additional. . . i . : ': . .. " 1 ;; '' Highly Disgraceful, :V '' Says the London Times' of Mart llOlt "A decently dressed women was last night brought out Into SmlthfJeld for sals, but the brutal conduct of the bid ders Indueed the man who was,, or pre-1 tended to be, her husband, to- refuse t? . sell her; en which a sosns or riot and confusion highly disgraceful -to our po lloe took, place."'-. -., , .'. i,;,-. Sleep. "God bless ths man who first Invented - sleep!" . . .. ' ;'(-. - . ; . So Sancho Psnso said, and so eay 'I!'; And bless him, also, that he didn't keep - His great discovery to himself, nor try To make it as the luckjr fellow might A closs monopoly by pltent right. , ' ; '; - '.. -. ' ' -"-J.-'G. Ssxe,".. ground she wrote Vh managers; thank. . Ing them for their1 effort 4o .' remedy. -matter, but saying that ltwa quite ' useless, a aha could still see the play- ' ere with tier 'Opera glasses. Anthony Comstock j will not gain any sympathy either for hie ..cause or hlffiself by placing himself In the old-woman etas. t . , 11 1 . , :. A Rich Negro. , , Philip A,' Peyton Jr a ftew Tork ne gro, who msde $1,000,000 In Harlem real estate, ha started the Negro Fifth ave nue, neer One Hundred and Thirtieth street. He hss . organised the Afro- ' ' Amerlcen Realty company, which now '" owns SO apartment house. The whites are movlna- out ranMlv mii ih. section win soon be Decupled by wsll-te- St -v (J -: - '4' . ' .-.''':vr'..'..:i.' i V