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EDiTORiAii Page of The J ourna-l THE JOURNAL 1 AM WDMnVm HWIfirn. C- SACKSOW... i' Mil irnlM. at Te ' Mv ruu u4 xkui w-usaa. Oc (-- t a of-e at rU, ore- m tea tareasa - caaS alaaa atattar. . ,.v f gLSrHOVBS. ' . ' rtr1al KnKae.. ........ ...! J Banlaaaa Oface OBIIGM aDvgBTUUNII BEPBWSNTATITI vrerMBe-wajaaua bvot TViii. 1041 Haawa street. XerS;, XrlOM Belle ' to- Caicae. '.' ' S-bacrl-ttoa T-lTes r ts say, eedre-s a the Called IUW. Caaaae a ItaxWei j v .. BAILX. ,' ' - , ; i ' Oaa rear.. . Oaa SMota.. ..- .SS . : "V1,-; " , SUHDAT.,,- ' Oaa yaar. ...... . .S0S Oaa ateata.. .. . DAILX A0 BUHnST. , , tea "fear. .BT-O I O" swath - There an , two science ; which every , man ought to learn first, the science of . . speech; and second, the more difficult , one of silence '., Socrates. --; ;"; : -. ' ' ; FOURTH STREET FRANCHISE. IF THE SOUTHERN? PACIFIC is to continue '. to use Fourth streetfft should pay for the priv ilege,: just as any" other corporation pays for s similar user. The propo sition doe hot admit of discussion or (dispute. The pretense that the com pany holds a perpetual and indefeas ible right to the occupancy of the street is unreasonable, untenable and contrary to the spirit and the letter of our laws. As a preliminary to ex acting compensation for the franchise the first necessary step is to set aside the grant made 37' years ago, and this was the purpose of the ordinsnce in troduced and championed, by Council man Vaughn. ,That ordinance should have been passed. - t 1 '; ' V In the summary and arrogant ac .... tion of the. majority . of. the councilmen at yesterday's meeting there is plain evidence of their utter subservience to the railroad's control and of their indifference to the rights and wishes . of the people. , Yet-the last word has not been spoken. ' The people of Portland will doubtless take the mat ter into their own hands, since the majority of the councilmen prove rec reant to their trust ; ' NEED OF JUST JUDGES.; WHEN the people are mani f estly -and ; outrageously j betrayed by judges they bsve elected, . especially . those ."of higher courts, it is time for them to think seriously of something more "important and necessary than party 'success or general campaign issues. Fortunately, and gratify inglyi cases of rank judicial treason to the people, ' 'and trampling upon right and justice, are rare. The American people have boasted, not without reason, that how ever much crookedness and corrup tion might be found in congress, leg islatures, councils, and executive de . partments of national state and mu nicipal governments, the courts, how ever mistaken at times, were honest, incorruptible "and , beyond , suspicion. There has been an occasional excep tion, but as a rule the people have had implicit confidence' in the recti tude of their judges. They," at least, were incapable of .venal baseness, were free from the stains of covetous ; corruption. Judges have on numer- "ous occasions rendered manifestly in ..." equitable decisions, have frequently V. put law as they construed it above . justice, have been inclined to consider corporate "vested rights" as some ' thing especially sacred,' have seemed , to exalt combined capital and to es teem too lightly the rights and im r . portance of labor; but they have nev- artheless been credited with honesty and have not been suspected of being abject, venal tools of the people's ' enemies and plunderers. ' i But in the case of the Colorado su preme court, and especially that of - Cbef Justice Gabbert, now a Re pub lican candidate for reelection, there - ' seems no escape from -the reluctant , conclusion that here is a glaring and ' shameful exception to the rule stated. The evidence is sufficient to induce : conviction that the court has gone ac : lively and most offensively into poli tics, has used its high office to pro :- tect and aid men and combinations guilty of notorious and audacious ballot-box frauds, and has bound and gagged justice in its rightful home, , where ft should be held most sacred, at the behest and in the interest of law-defying and . people-oppressing torporationt."And -foremostr lnthis career of alleged judicial malfeasance this rape of Justice in her own citadel, " is Chief Justice Gabbert, the Repub lican nominee for reelection. , The paramount question then In Colorado ' is not the success of this or thjt ' party, or any matter of policy, or any ' grneral political or other proposition but is this: ; Shall the suprem? court be purged , of this man ' and. his works? ; The first and most import ant thing for Colorado, to do. is to make its supreme court an incorrupt ible arencr of Justice and place it above not only reproach but . sua p ici'on. ' ' ' ': . The Republican candidate for gov ernor, Stewart, though a corporation man and nominated by the corpora tion machine that controls that party in Colorado, as like machines do in most states, is yet a man of respect ability and some pride of character, and haa declined to run on the aame ticket with : Judge Gabbert, which places the looting and ballot-box rap ing bosses in a quandary., . .The yneed a tool as governor, as well as tools on the bench. And withthe election machinery in their bands and a tor ernor : and . supreme . court , at ' their back, ij makes,' noi difference how much they may be , beaten at the polls. AH they have 'to, do is to count their men in, trusting to the court "of last resort to; sustain their criminal action. . It i no wonder, underuch circumstances, that there have been riots and violence at the polls in Colorado. ' If the people' can not depend on their highest court, if rather they know that this court is a servile tool of corrupt and lawless miiim. what resort' but violent oro test have they? If the people cannot nave clean, honest, just courts, they are in a terrible plight indeed.- . ' THE SLABWOOD QUESTION. HE MAYOR'S suggestion that the city should . prohibit ' the dumping of slabwood in can yons and on low ground is a good one, irrespective of any effect it may have' on the alabwood monopoly. Ordinarily, and within certain limita tions, a man or company may do what he"' pleases with 'hi own. property, but there are many exceptions to this rule. In the first place, the slabwood is not a proper substance with which to fill depressed grounds, for obvious reasons ; and in the next place it is against public policy to allow ' fuel thus to be wasted in order to dimin ish the supply so that the price of the rest shallbe enhanced. ' Fuel has steadily-increased in price for years, as is natural it should with the clear ing up of adjacent 'forests, but the slabwood from, the mills has served to keep the price' down to ' reasonable figures, as it makes .when dry fairly good fuel, and can be sold cheaply and yet at a reasonable profit. . ,ati poorer people o tne; city, in particular are entitled to have' this wood at, a fair price, 'and in order that this price may not be unreason able to have the wanton waste of it prohibited. It may be impossible to compel the f irnv Jia ving-ai-inonepoly of the alabwood business to sell it at any fixed price,, but the practice of dumping it 'in low places to rot and become a nuisance can and should be prohibited, and all t legitimate and practicable means should be employed to give the people the benefif f this sort of what should be comparatively cheap wood. .. j.1: ' Some of Portland s merchants use queer arguments to - prove their as sertions. They say that have as rtuch right to use the sidewalks as storage ptaces for - their goods as a railroad has to use a public street on which to run its. trains. The council, which is not always adamant, refuses to be convinced, and the business man is fined for bis contumacious ' persist ency. ', . .' '... -.' ' y With, Murphy and McClellan and Hearst and Jerome and Tim Sullivan and" Pat McCarren all scrapping' and trying to do one another up, there is some-little hope that the New York Democracy may become somewhat more decent at some time in tKe future. " : r ' .. '-: It is unfortunate that Roger Sul livan broke himself of his "talking back" habit just when Mr. Nelson filed that libel suit against him. We feel confident that Roger could let slip some epithetically adorned facts that would make Cicero die again of envy. . . ' - . Secretary Shaw ia 'way off In Mis souri spellbinding, but he will never get so far away that at any signal of distress he cannot "relieve"? the New York pet banks whenever they get in a pinclu. '",:": i- . President Palma Says if worst comes to worst, he will resign. In the bright lexicon of the Cubans "worst" means ".inability to hold ths job." - ..-;; .' ' How will the un-atate Hearst re formers like it if Hearst Is nominated by Tammany? - Can the tiger and the sheep make a harmonious team? '.'.. It is to be hoped that the officers of the robbed bank of Rainier will not do anything that, smacks ; of com pounding a felony. '. - .-' . . The state fair managers rrtad one bad mistake; this was ths week for it A Little Out 'THINGS' PRINTED TO RE i. , ' The Famished. Mine was a natur that nadal tun ' . As tha flowara naed it, I Could have wrouebt good thinfS haJ .. .thara bn but on :'.. To emit and to bid ma try. But they kept their worda tbey were busy, alt. -. With their affaire until Mr blocxi aaemed touched with a tint ;- Of sail r ' . : , .ad my heart with aa ley chllL . I died ena nlsht, and they came, .next oajr -. The na who had seemed se old. '.. And wept as they wreathed my lifeleaa clay . :- And my many ways extolled,' And I tboufbt, aa I lay on my silent bier, . . They are fools te waste en me The -words that a dead man can not -. hear- " - .- And the wreaths be can not sear - ;: t - ; ' . Nixon Waterman. ; v"' Never Saw Cw.v-ii'..'--i". She was an agent for one' of thoee admirable societies - that viva, - each summer, slum children a week or two In the eountry. ...... (, - 1 . ..-. -- "Before societies such aa ours sprunv up in the bl cities," she said, "slum children were pathetically ignorant of country Ufa , . . o - -. "It is a fact, proved by an actual census, that TO per cent of S-year-olda had never seen a robin;. II per cent had never seen a oow; TI per cent had never seen srowlna corn, blackberries or po tatoes; ? per cent did not knoW how strawberries or beans (raw.? v Foreign Brevitiea. , , ; gwltserland has already 19 stations for obtaining eleetrlo power from falls and streame. . An Bnelleh syndicate. Is to erect .a modern five-story earthquake-proof ho tel in Manila, to coat 1500.000. A single bank In Naples receives 1500,- 000 a year sent out of the United Btatea by temporary Italian residents. Railroad Policy in :; Oregon : v FROM THE PENDLETON EAST OREGONIAN. The Journal of , September reviews In thrilling and unsparing manner tha policy of Harriman and his railroads In Oregon. The history ' of the O. K. N. Is reviewed from the beginning and the failure of the road to build branches and extensions Into new districts which need roads Is bitterly condemned. " This may lead the publlo to believe that the local officials of the. road In Oregon are responsible for the policy, of Such is not tha esse. ' The local of- would gladly respond, to. ths demand of the state .for new and better .facili ties, but. these, officials, do not make the policy of the Harriman system. , In the New York orfloea from where the flnancea of tha Harriman system are ' directed is where the Injustice to Oregon haa been hatched and propa gated. ' v.- ' ' 1 - Had - the officials of tha system In Oregon-hrtn empowered to dft sathey would have built branches and extensions-of the system long ago, for they have been ever tha ground and knew tha resources of ' tha country and the need of better facilities. But Oregon teV Harriman. Is one little room In the vast playhouse of his ac tivities. 1 His attention Is riveted upon larger The Play "'" By Johnston McCulley. . Last night at the Helltg, when the Stewart opera 1 company - presented "Dorothy," a gentleman named Bowman Ralston stepped before tha footlights and Informed the audience that ha had a wonderful voice. ' Ralston didn't have much of a show to make good In "The Two Roses," but hs made good Isst night and tha crowd In the theatre gave htm . repeated encores. His "Content ment I Give You" revealed his rich, deep basso. ,. i ..-.. 'Dorothy" Is almoat aa good as "The Two Roses." but not quite. However, It gives Bessie Palrburn a chance to bring down tha house by her droll mimicry and hsr solo, "Hunter's Song." - And It brlnga out Miss Hattye Fox, a chorus girl, and gives her a role In which she gives prom lee of -one day becoming Justly popular. Mlas Fox has a good appearance and can act, but needs more confidence In herself. . . .- ,- Carl Haydn proved popular again and woa applauaa by hla solo, "Lovs Me and the World Is Mine." Other musical numbers which seemed to take with the audience were; - "Queen of JTy Heart," by William O. Stewart; Tla a Beauti ful Hunting Day," by. Miss Day and chorua. and ."The Time Has Come," by Miss Fox and chorus. -The chorus did excellent work last night and again proved Itself worthy of tha statement of the advance man, who declared it 'to be a "singing ' chorus." The opera itself Is a story of peaeant glrla and magnificent ladles, tha proof of true love, with the regulation bumps of hard luck on the aide. The story is consistent and the muate satisfying. There Is one rgret that the Plot docs not give George Leslie, ths comedian, a chance to make the most of himself. However, he does exceedingly well con sidering the almost thankless role he plays. Costumes and scenery are bright and new and good to ' sea. "Dorothy; will be repeated tonight, ' Beginning tomorrow- night i. and placing . Saturday night and matinee "Babetta" will be the attraction. i. He That Ia Without Sin." . ' From the Eugene Register. - In that day, when the book Of judg ment la made up and the case of each Oregonlan paeees before the Great Arbiter, tha deeds of Oregon politicians wilt- be weighed and taken Into account without consideration of - the losaer judgments 'passed upon them by the Oregonlan. Likewise, shall Editor Scott face destiny end also be held to sccount and In that day he will- have called te mind a few of ths acrlpfural quotations he learned and reverenced ln youth, but cast sslde In . later - years te be sup. planted by spits, venom, ' Spleen and rancor. ' Those appearing ' most vivid to hla recollection will be "Judge not that ye be not Judged" 1 and "ha that la without sin Ut him cast the first stone," .1 '.'. .:. -m The Vsls Orlano has bought the Nyssa News plant and will make the Vale paper a snl-weeuy. of the Common AD WHILE YO If WAIT." When a fine ruby la found la Burmah B procession of elephants, crandees and soldiers escort It to the Kinrs paiace. A Parisian woman haa established an asrency for the supply of bridesmaids to prospective brldee whe are In need of uon aiiiiuui ... , . - . 'Recent orders of the German govern ment require the officials and employes of the railroads to learn aod speak the Knsllah lanruase. Probably the owner -or tha larrest number of doge la the world Is a Bus stan cattle king, who has IS. 000 shep herd doge- to look after 1,800.900 sheep. ' ;, : ' The 'Auto in the ' Bible. 7" Some one has found a hint,' ae some one always doee when there la a new invention - or discovery, of ; tha , auto mobile In the Bible. It U is the vision of Nahum. concerning Nineveh. In the account given by this eeer ef the mili tary muster and array of tha Medea and Babylonians against Nineveh. Is this remarkable verse: - "The onarlota shall rage la the streets,, they shall Jostle against one another In the broad ways, they shall seem like torches, they shall run : like the lightnings." ; Perfectly Easy. V , " "What la the peek-a-boo waist, any how r sake the editor of the. Ports mouth. Ohio, star. , ' The peek-a-boo, yon angelle Innocent, Is a garment a 'considerable portion Of Which Isn't San Antonio Express. - . That's easy enough to see through. Milwaukee SentlneL ' . j. - It la something that the women wear in the daytime to accustom themselves to full undress in, the evening. i -:V ;i ':. Xa a Word. - ' ', - . . , ", ' The world uses a million metohes a minute. ' ' - v ' Postal, cards were first nsed In Aus tria la 18. '',.:' Earth creatures have not half . the strength of fish. - - - ' - '; George R. Blms. the London journal ist, makes $100,000 .a year." He Is a medloore writer. '.. '. ;. ., y interests ' than , those" of ' ' Insignificant branch Unas for tha O. R. A N. Trans continental lines are driving him to tha limit In momentous questions of trafflo and' he must care for those first. . Tbsn If the pin pricks from Oregon happen to attract his attention the - magnate may turn his attention to the toy Unas de manded In the Inland empire. -' 1 -' Let us place the blame where It ba tons a - One .stroke .of a pencil In Har riman' a New. York office . makes tha railroad policy of Oregon. The - local officials must obey the master et tha system or step down and out. j - The East Oregonlan, whlcH ' la se rarely wrong that an editorial misprint attracta general attention, haa misread our strictures on railroad policy- in Oregon If it thinks we charged ths of ficials here with responsibility for re tarding tha growth of tha statia The Journal haa aaeerted, and reiterates the assertion, that Mr. Harrlman's failure to build extensions and branches haa Hurt Oregon and tha northweat, and that on him alone tha blame should fall; first, for his Fabian policy) and secondly, for his efforts to prevent others , from building roads here and developing to tha fullest extent a rich territory that he has come to regard as a plantation in which he has sola ownership. Ed. Journal. , . i - - - . Letters " On the Steel Bridge, ' St, Johns. Sept. Is. To the Editor of Tha Journal I want to say Just a word about tha steel bridge question. It seems so serious a matter that some thing should be done at once to protect the publlo fronr danger from those ter rible Iron beams. Wo who. ride on ths St Jobna cars all the -time know tha danger and era therefore eafe,- but stran gers who do not know often lesn from the windows to gat a better view of the ships as the cars pass ever the bridge. Especially la- this true of chil dren. Twice Inside of two months ! have witnessed a child pulled back from the window by soma passsngsr when the child's parents thought him ssf a The child . In both eaaea wae leaning far enough out to have struck tha posts. The matter Is discussed freely In the csra While soma seem to think It Is tha duty of the railway company to better protect their passengers. It seems to me to be unfair to lay all the re spaVislbUlty on the corporation. ' It cer tainly would be out of tha question to cross the bridge with both car doors closed, and thus In - case of accident leave the pasaengers like rats In a trap. It seems ta ma ta he tha rintv nf hnm who took after. tha bridges of ths city to devise soma way or protection. Every one win agree tnat uie - bridge Is too narrow for its dally trafflo. Some one has suggested that a wire net stretched across tha bridge on a level with the wlndowa, and of tha same width, while it would not occupy any space-would ?rotect the ear windows. Even ordinary enca wire would answer tha purposa With some simple aevice of this sort the great danger from those upright Iron beams would be greatly lessened. If not entirely eliminated. ' - - . A SUBURBANITE. -. . aa-aa---aaaBBejB-eaawaa-s-aSJss-sa-s , .' V Unsuccessful Success. ' A Kansas woman; Mrs. A. J. Stanley. of Lincoln, haa been awarded a prlsa of :&o or a Boston nra ror the best an swer to the question, ''What constltutee success '. She wrotel .-. 'Tie has schleved success' who has lived well, laughed often and . loved much; who haa gained tha respect of In telligent men and ths love of little chil dren; who haa filled his. niche and ac complished his task; who has left the world better than he found It, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect .poem or a rescued soul; who has nsvsr lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express It; who has always looked for the best In others and given tha beat he had; whose life wss an Inspiration; whose memory a benediction." - Early Preparations;. ,' ' From the Detroit Free Press. "I'm awfully buey getting ready te go awav." declared Oraoe, over the phone. . "What are you doing this morning" aaked her chom. -: ... v"0, I'm adrdeealng eouvenlr post cards.? she said, "so they'll be sll ready to mall at the different cities I'm going M VtSit.'' - ,--; A Little Nonsense Hard on the Faculty. From tha London Trlbuna - In-the rural dletrtota la Ireland tha people plaqa Implicit faith la a doctor's prescription. In a village In County Limerick a sorrowful young msn went along to tha local undertaker's te order a oof fin for hla father. "Dear me," said tha undertaker, "I didn't know poor old Pat waa dead." "No; he'a not dead yet,t replied tha mourning relative, "but. he'll die to night, for the, doctor says he .can't live until morning, and hs knows what he gave him." : A somewhat atmtlar story la told of the actual death of a parent. A peaeant lad, aaked by a gentleman how his father was, replied: "Ah, my poor father died last Wednesday, your honor." - Tn very sorry to hear It," said the gentleman. "It must have been very sudden. What doctor attended hlmr . Ah. 'Sir" said the boy. "my father wouldn't have a doctor; he always used to say he'd like to die a natural death." ;'..S'sZ '"V 'Improbable. V)';: Parisians are telling a somewhat im probable story of i John D. Rockefeller. The tale seems to here originated by someone who ta . not entirely familiar with, the oil king's characteristics. It is related that while in Paris he called at a leading Jewelry establishment and aaked for some pearla 1 The jeweler, wno reo omlsed him. brought out the best Dearls ha nossessed and Mr. Rockefeller, after looking at them pearl by pearl. In quired tha price, i With some hesitation the Jeweler asked ; 110,000, remarking that they were exceptionally fine pearla I know." said the millionaire, "give ma four yards of them." : .' f ' .T The' Real- Cauaa. An enternrialng reporter sends partic ulars of a matrimonial dispute between King Alfonso and hla brlda It appears that their malestlee were on xneir wsy to . Drummond castle- when an awful sound amote the alr -v.- i - X "It's a walUnsr banshee r enea King Alfonso. . - '" ' -" " "No. .mv dear." contradicted queen Victoria, "It Is the sound of the railway wagons shunting." It appears that both er tneir majesties ware wrong. ? xc was tne sun ox we bagpipes.-, .-:" .. No Complimentary. l iC is. 'r .ir Ml hn-ln horaea In Col orado, had been directed to the ranch of Old Bill Sand a wishing te learn some thing of Old Bill's business methods, be titM -nurina into jiaaotlatfons. ha mads some Inquiries at a nearby ranch. - - - "What sort r a pusiness him am Bandar he asked. - V "tx7. it atvanmr." reriUad tha rancher. "I don't think Old Bill would go plumb to bell for a nicaei; nui ma ep iwn lng around the edges lor it until be fell In."' : -; "' ' i - ' : r ". i' 1 ;- . V,;' Up to Date. . ; ;. 0. - n-i ' mlln-na ejritad TJncla Joa Cannon what. In his, opinion, was the main difference between tha days of his youth and the present time. - "Well, answered unci i tlvaly, "when I '. was a , youngster, a ...... ... utleflel to saddle his . nrrmmAav averV . OnS thinks he has a caU to steer.the ship, of state"-, v..,, Mayor Who Doea Thlnge. V From the' Loe Angeles' Reoord.' rr Harrv Lane la a physician. .- He la aiso-mayor-ef-PortlandV-Oragonr-but finds time to take care of his practice in medicine and at the aame time con duct tha affairs of the city vigorously and conscientiously. since comma into office Dr. Lane naa made hla presence In politics felt in more ways than one. Ha accepted ths position at the hands of the people on the theory that no waa expected 10 con duct the af falsa of the elty te the beat of bis ability 'and In such a manner as -seemed to Aim conducive to tne greatest good for the greateet number. Tha professional politicians did not en tirely agree with him In this. But the people did. ": ' .: So Dr. Lane proceeded te have a little house-cleaning. He discharged practi cally all of the detective force, because he found they were making use of their authority to till their own- pocketsIIa did away with the nuisance of the oil tanks, which belonged to tne greatest American trust,' and marred tha city. He cloaed tha gambling dens and shut the doors of ths questionable concert halla , And he did no atop there his latsst flat demands that these employed - by the elty shall at least go tnougn tne motions of -earning . tneir pay. . ine 'moocher must go. v Portland, like too many American cities, waa afflicted with a large class of those hangegs-on . who grew, fat in tha shadow of soma officeholder. From small beginnings tha practice of "mooching"" haa grown to alarming nroDortlona A species or grart wnicn would never be tolerated in the eass of a Drtvata fund haa come to be looked upon with complacency In the ease of tbs publlo moneys. ' Presently ths publlo nas grown so used to being robbed that it considers Drotest futile At any rate In most cities It seems to have lapsed Into a state of paaslve disapprovals Mayor Lane s eisapprevai is not pas. slva . . . , -, Parasltss on the publlo funds are to have no plaee In Portland. Ths old sys tem of employing deputies ana ' sun. deputies for Imaginary work with lmag lnary duties, but very real prerogatives, Is abolished. The "little frlenda of the successful" Must get out 'and paddle their own canoes.' Portland doesn't pro pose to -tension a man or personal ac quaintance among orncenoiaers. t Bully for Dr. Lansi It will be a great day whan Los An geles haa a mayor Ilka hira.- - . - '' ; " 'i m,;-1' Miss Ethel a Collector. - Miss Ethel Roossvslt hah finished her sixteenth book of post cards and she Is about to begin on a collection which has some from her big sister,- Mrs. Nlcholss Longworth, who sent souvenirs almost dally while she was on the other sioe. Tha president's second daughter Is quite a collector of odd trifles, but her love for tha illustrated card from - foreign lands amounts to enthusiasm. Hundreds and hundreds corns to Mra - Roosevelt from friends abroad and even from the consuls and diplomatic offlcars. These treasures are divided between Miss Ethel and the two younger boys, .who are collecting csrds also. - But Miss TIthel has beaten her brothers In the race and she haa one ef tha beat set ( books to be found outside of public libraries. She bee several sets of war pictures from China . and Jspstt which will be very yalusbla in time to oome. Then she hss flews of ths lotus lsnd from every conceivable point, and a hundred er more cards en ''the pesasnt typee In the orient snd ths American South Perlfla archipelago. Five books are given to cradle Isnds of tha race and each contains eearl 109 oarda. .. BIRDSEYE VIEWS cf TIMELY TOPICS SMALL CHANGE. f ' Even the Cubans yield deference to a big man. . j The peekaboo, season Is eh its last lags or arms. V '".' - ' Lota of second-crop strawberries now. No place like Oregon. - - , '.''' '. e . e ' ' 'v ' - v .- Tou can help develop Oregon by buy ing only Oregon-made goods. - .-. ,, . , . .. . - How would Heney -do for attorney general of the United States t . . r -; ".,1 e . e ,. -"He-haw, aaya tha Albany Democrat But the editor's name lan't Maud. . :,'.-."; .Whatever else may be lacking, there are plenty of "peaches" at all fairs. - This Is the kind of weather that quenches any longing to go to heaven. :.v, : ' For a Salem paper to blame Astoria for the St. Paul tragedy la rather "far fetched. v v.- ..... (. ' V 'f 'If Harry-Thaw knew how ths report ers were Ignoring him, he might be real angry, doncher know.- .1 ,. - e . er "y ., . Again the 8. P. attorney' "hopes" that at soma time the railroad will move Its trafflo off Fourth street. : v'.-'j , , e e ; - .'.., -'J. 'After a few days' more there will be no reasonable . excuse . whatever for growling If It dose rain a lot '. ..';'.'...', ;e e- :-,, :. The able-bodied holdvsp artist deserves the law's limit theaa days, whan any body can get work at good wagea , It you don't patronise home Industry your professions of seal for development are as sounding bras and tinkling cym bal, t -O v I".;'; , : '. Soma man ean talk more abbut some thing that they know nothing about than others can about something that' they know a good deal about. ' i: : ' "' : 1 e:- e u. j,, As soon as the average depoaltor In a bank who la eraay to get . his money finds that he ean get it and can see a big pile et gold Inside, he doesn't want hla money. 1 , ,, A dry town le a poor-place for a man who won't do any work but clean saloon ouspldors. as one such who struck Al bany the , other day thought- Nobody seemed even te aympathlse with him. , No wonder that newly-married north and woman was ' disgusted when she found her husband's hair waa a wig. There is small 'satisfaction tn pulling a wig off. What a woman like hsr wants la real, rooted hair to pull, ,; , '.'' ' - .' ' ' a e . . . ; An enterprising company has secured a monopoly of the waters of tha river Jordan for expert, and will doubtless make a fortune out ef American folly. But the stuff Is possibly harmleaa, which la mere than ean be said of moat drinkables Bold on ths representation that they possess curative propertlea Keep Your Eyea to the Front BY JOHN ANDERSON. JAYNE. , Have you ever, watched a squad of soldiers engaged In play while off dutyt Having lots of fun, aren't they? En joying themselves and finding rest from their work In recreation! . Looks fine, doesn't It? ".. "' ' :'" - ' . But now comes the command, "Com pany, attention! Fall In 1" :. Then everybody Jumps to his place. Presently the line Is formed; then the command, "Eyes to the front!" . . And "eyee te the front" it Is ror every one In the Una . t - , - No looking this way, that way or the other way to see if hia comrade le in line. Every man has his eye on. the drill officer, watching him, waiting his command, forgetful of .what he has been doing, giving strict heed to the work in hand. Ready for any command, that's what makea a good soldier. Think about that command, "Eyes ts the front' a little while. ; You've been drilling In the army of Ufa for 19. 10, 40, 10, SO, yea perhaps 10 yeara" You've had your hard battles to fls-ht. Msny a time you've gone down In dsfeat Many a time you've lost hope and courage, and everything had a dark blue look, and trial and disappointment have been your portion. -. Especially hard , waa that . last battle. And you went down and out. ' " What are you going to do about UT - Brood. . brood, brood. Think, think, thlnkl Remember, remember, remember! Dear boy. If you contlnuallytbrood, think and remember concerning your failure, you never will retrieve your shattered fortune. - ' - ' - Forget your failures. . A new com mand is coming. Though your eyes may be full of tears and your 1 heart full : of' regrets, when the command comes,."Fall In!", then "fall In." Hear the : next ordSr: . "Eyes to the front!" and keep your eyes to tha front.:.' .Tears are useless now, regrets , are worthless now. Screw up your courage to the -sticking point and "keep syes te the front" . ' ;" ' v-' v- ., v - Nothing Is gained through backward V v Oaka of Many ConturieaV - : From tha Independent. " . .- V Many of the. most Interesting British relics of ancient days ars the osks, ths annals Of which take, u back to Saxon tlmea Some that are still living were centuries old In the days of Harold and bis Norman conqueror, . and may 4iave been growing snd gased upon by Rdcnan Caesar. -HemeSs oak, which the writer saw In Windsor park before Its fall In list; tha Newlacd oak, mentioned .in Domesday Bonk, end the Still mors gl gsntto oak at Lewthorpe. with a clr- oumferenoe of St feet, Then there In the Major oak. tn Sherwood forest "said to be 1.100 years old, under whose broad branches . Robin Hood and his merry band held their re vela, and the Win far thing and Bentley oak a, believed to' be squally ancient. There was a celebrated tree by Kent ish Town, known as ths Gospel oak, snd another at Addleatona beneath which Wycllffe preached and Queen Elisabeth dined. The Cowthorpa oak, near W'th erby, It la claimed is mors thsn 1.S00 yeers old, snd ths lsrgest In England measuring 71 feat In circumference. But this wss exceeded In sge by Dnmsrsy'S osk. In .Devonshire, destroysd by a se vere storm In 1701. which, enjoyed the distinction cf. having lived through to centuries, 1 .'-.-, n. m OREGON SIDELIGHTS. , Stenographers are needed In Klamath ' Falls. - e e .'- Bricklayers - are paid IT ' a day at " KUmath Falls. -v. . . i ' : - -; The Klamath Republican Is now print- ad sU at home eight pagea ....'..,'. (e, e,:. ...... . A number of people . have bought tracts of land near Moaler recently. - j - -e .- e -"''. ' ' ' Tha demand for residence buildings In . Heppner greatly., exceeds tha supply. -., - ' 1 '''' '. .-.'''j Boms tomatoes raiaed near Hood River 1 weighed 1H pounds and measured IS inchea around. . ,. ' ' . , ...... .... ' x-. 1 . ; " - ' . The Heppner postoffiee business for August was about SO par eent more ' than In August, l0t. . .. . e .e , v' - ' Red Hill correspondence of ' Oakland Owl: The wedding bells are still ring ing and tbs sons-in-law are coming In thick and fast. ' , . . , e . e ,', ' - t ' It has been only about six months . Since ths first launch was placed, li) Nestucca bay, and now elaht different ' parties have launchea, - I , ,-....-. ,.e a.vV .-,. ;' Tillamook Headlight: Railroad proj ects Into Tillamook are getting so nu merous that they will be. aa thick ae ' the bristles en a nog's back presently.- , 'V ...'',.. e a . ;, The sound of the hammer and N the ' rasp of the saw sound good to the peo- -pie of Vala There ia more building . this fall than there has bean tor many yeara. ., - ,:'.v :;.,;.,-', -.. v. . ; - i. - . The sagebrush and oactt are doomed to give way to the hay and grain, says the Vale Orlano. A f sw years more and ' we will not sea large fields of sagebrush on valuable land, , -; ., ", , . : ' ,Two Indian "bopplokers at a Polk county hcipysrd claim ta be ever 100 , years of age one 10C and the other lit. , But an Indian generally doean't know his age, and wouldn't tell the truth about It If he did. ' ' - ; . , ... e. . a . ,' l There is a big crop of cranberries this : year, double that of tha last crop, says tha Tillamook Headlight, but It Is re- ' ?orted that pickers are scarce, who pre- . er going to the hopflelda, where they earn much less-money picking hops than " picking cranberries st home. . ' ;.; ;,: e, e,:. '. ; S'.- " Grants' Pass . Courier: : Every Uttle J while we hear . strong young men re mark Shat the show for young men Is -very poor. Never was there a batter, show for young men than at the pres ent time In thla vicinity. Here is good. . cheap land that can be converted Into, good homes, that will raise anything. ; -.W. V.' a -a;-..r;-- - . , ; A' Helix threshing crew was out II days -and- during that time cut and threshed 1,00 acres of grain, which yielded 18,- -000 aacka Thia makes an average yield ' of about t bushels to the acre, taking the f lelda ever, giving tha - Separator 1 nearly 1.S00 bushels for threshing, and the headers better than 5S aorea to the machine par day for cutting. , , : look. Having learned ' the lesson-' of . your failure, forget the bitter expert- , enoe, while enshrining the lesson in your ' heart and then 'Vyes to ths front" for the new experience, the new work and better thinga ' .... 1 -. ' You're going to have the heartache many a time. . You are going to suffer ? the sneers of friends of other daya . Alone In the drill halls of . your own heart, you are going to suffer more than the world will ever dream It possible ' for you te suffer. There ere going to' come times when you must take orders , from those who once were your Infe- -rlors. Yea, you are going " to- suffer,' -' But you must not think of these things. The -'new order hse come, "Fall In!":. "Eyes to the front!"- And the new order means another opportunity. ' ,... y Instead of brooding over" the ' past, ' thank God that you hava the new oppor tunity. . Rejoice In the fact that oppor- ' tunlty has not yet singled out and said ' of you,- "Never again." 'i ' It's the men who keep "eyes te the; front" who win. ' It's the msn who go down In defeat who ofttlmes win In the after days a splendid victory. - Victory does not perch on every banner In every -battle. ."Eyea to- the- front" has plucked , victory from - defeat many a time. '-- - ' -,-:.' ': r - 'y Often during the civil 'war Abraham Lincoln was urged by his friends te : close the. war. but the Indomitable spirit of the msn enabled him to "keep hla . ease to ths front" through ths long snd trying years of . lltl and - list, and ' "eyes to the front" won In the finality. You've been beaten, bruised and buf feted In your battles, but now a new call ." is coming: " "Attention, company! Fall ; in!" Will you heed the cry t Will you ' obey the eallT There la the natural mo ment of hesitancy. Thsn you spring to your Place. Now "Eyes to the front!" .' Then "Forward, march!" God grant It ". may be to victory. - 1 i :. :...'. . .:, ... "Eyea to the front", today means vie- ' tory tomorrow. - ' And now, wlthj'ejres to the front", and swinging step, go forward. - Letter, Delivered In Theatre. ''"'rZh Frits 1 Scheff telle In the Sunday mag- ' asms of a very peculiar thing that hap pened at tha . Knickerbocker . , theatre, New York,, when a messenger walked down the aisle and delivered a special delivery letter to a man occupying one, of the chaira The man, as much sur prised as ths audience, signed the re, celpt and settlsd back to reed his com munication; watched by tha sntlrs lower floor of .the auditorium, which. In Its aroused ourlositn had no ayes for the stage. U. '.'... ....:'w - The poVf man had a hard time convtnc- '; lng ths theatre attaches that he was en titled to enter without paying hla pries of sdmlsaton; but his threate to call an , officer to hla aid proved the open-sesame. V The recipient of the letter had the week before received two aeats by malt ' .for this performance, from his New York friend, who did not now of his whereabouts, exespt by tha number of - tha ticket. , . , After reading the note In the the. atre tha man wss heard to remark, "Well that's ons New York has on Al bany." 1 ', ' " Ths pnetonVe officials aay that this Is the first Instsncs where a spealal dellv ery letter has been addressed to ens o aa aadisnoe of a play f r