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Editorial Page of The Journal . I ' ' ' ' " n ii ' 1 , , , , - , ,, , THE JOURNAL AN INDEPENDENT NEWSrAl-EB. t B. JAOE3QN rMw rvsuaaa wrmn Ttas isseeat tn iy) Senear swralsg. at The JosrseJHrtk nttk asa Yamhill attest. Partland. Oragao. IWH it Um peetofriee at Poctlaad. ft tor traseailaelaa toruafk Ua Billi u aecoad U matter.- TELEPHONES. Mill IH Booroe Mala HQ jaalaaes OWei ...Man MO roBEIQN ADVERTISING EE PRESENT ATT VB. Vnwtand Beajswts Special AdT.rtUlB Ima. WO Naaaan Uml, N.w York; Tribes TlrtM tat, OKaga. Babecrlptfoa Trm. by Bill to ear adUraea a tae Ualtad Eutaa. Canada at Mextao. DAJLT. Ooe rear ft, oo Oaa taaath I Ooa roar 43.00 Om month. I DAILY AND SUNDAY. Oaa raar f,.oo Oma moat. I r r One gift well given is as good as b thousand; a thou sand gifts ill given are hardly better than none. Dean Stanley. a mass, -a-aa aaatlwaWawwwiw.. PEN ITE NTI A RY JUTE MILL. A STRONG and Tery likely a sucessful effort will be made next winter in the legislature to pass a law for establishing a jute mill in the state penitentiary. The stockmen, at least the sheepmen, have declared in favor of it; the farmers, especially the wheat growers, demand it;, worfcingmen will probably approve of it, because a jute mill would pro vide convicts with non-competitive labor; and people generally, aside from the increased burden of taxation, regard it aa a good proposition All people agree that the convicts must be employed somehow, and most people agree that their labor ahould compete with fref labor as lit tle as possible. How they shall be employed is always a problem. The penitentiary foundry was never an en- tirely satisfactory solution of it. A jute mill may be more so. This is for the members of the legislature to de termine, and whether its large cost would surely be a good investment. It is estimated that a jute plant would cost (350,000, would employ 300 prisoners the year round, and could manufacture grain baga at a cost of 5 or 6 cents, and other articles of which jute is the principal substance in like proportion of present cost. If this estimate be correct the jute plant would certainly be a great benefit to farmers, and it could be made a bene fit to all other taxpayers also by fix ing the price of its products some what above cost, so that through it the penitentiary could be made self sustaining. Care would hare to be exercised in providing how the products should be handled for distribution, so that speculative middlemen would not reap the principal part of the benefits. The experience of the jute mill in the Washington state penitentiary at Walla Walla, and others, should be studied, so that their mistakes could be avoided. Not many more important measures will be up for consideration by the legislature next winter than this jute mill proposition, and it is to be hoped that the members wifl have informed themselves and considered the matter thoroughly beforehand. A PROSPERITY PLEA. MR. VIRGIL KLINE, attorney for the Standard Oil com pany, like the spokesmen of flie party with which Standard Oil and other trusts are allied, holds up a picture of prosperity, and asks, in substance: "What more do you want?" The country, Mr. Kline says, has never been so prosperous as dur ing the existence of the Standard Oil trust. He does not go to the extent of saying that Standard Oil has really caused prosperity, as the Republican spokesmen say that protection caused it, but he argues, at least inferentially, that since the country is prosperous it has no right or reason to complain of Standard Oil, however much that corporation may have violated laws and robbed the public. His theory is that if the public is'pretty well off it should not interest itself to interfere with corporations and combines that even if they amass astonishing amounts of plunder unlawfully yet leave the people enough with comfortably. to get along However strongly this argument may appeal to a judge, the general public will not be inclined to regard it with favor. If there is so much pros perity, it will be answered, it ought to be distributed more evenly. At lesst very rich trust should not be per mitted wantonly and persistently to violate the laws in order that its pros perity may increase far out of pro portion to the increase of prosperity among the common people. Furthermore, there are many who have some doubt as to the genuine ness of this boasted prosperity, or at least Its alleged volume and value. It it true that all wage earners can now obtain steady employment at what teems food wages, and that is a goodleal, but on the other hand it is observed that while wages have in creased somewhat the coat of living has increased more, so that a dollari will now buy lest of the necessaries of life than it would during the "hard times." The working man who had a steady, sure job then wat better off than he ia now. So that this wonder ful, tremendous prosperity has not been properly distributed all around. Somehow the "square deal" hat no application to it. The Standard Oil is very prosperous, no doubt; it is pocketing some hundreds of millions of dollars a year profits, while the great army of common toilers are ac tually worse off than those were who had steady jobs during that awful Grover Cleveland time. This teems to be not exactly a general but very much of a one-sided prosperity. Of course this question of prosper ity hat nothing to do with the fact as to whether the Standard Oil violated the law or not, but since Mr. Kline pleads prosperity in his argument we suppose he must do so as a defense, and if it is"to be considered a defense it becomes pertinent' to look into the prosperity question. "CLASSES" OF VOTERS. A' liUCAL contemporary says: "Of course the business and property clastet of New York are not with Heartt But theae are not a majority of votere, and it re mains to be teen whether they can pertuade a majority to turn Heartt down." If it be of any interest to nnderttand thit ttatement, a definition or deacription of "business and prop erty classes" it necettary. We al ways supposed that "the business and property classes" were in the ma jority in New York, and in the other states. If they only include people classed as capitalists, owners of large propertiea, employers of great num bers of laborers, members of corpora tion!, etc., then the ttatement ia doubtlett correct; tuch voters are in a minority. But among these "classes" we would indude .the farmers, the workingmen with hornet of their own, mechanics. . email -tradesmen- and householders generally; and these would surely make up a large ma jority. It is intimated in one breath that only the rabble, the tcum, the densely ignorant and the especially depraved will vote for Heartt, and in the next that he may be elected. But this can not be so. Either he will be defeated by an unparalleled majority or a great many voters of some property, doing some business, and of average intel ligence will vote for him. It may readily be imagined that a good many voters on reading the de nunciations of Hearst will reflect on what the Republican party of New York has done and failed to do, on the disgrace to which the ttate it sub jected in consequence of itt United States senators, and on the truths that Hearat, whatever hit pertonal char acter, tells, and will be inclined to give him a trial rather than trust any longer to the absolute domination of the iniquitout "interests." This Hesrttward tendency ' wat checked, and the tide of popular re volt in tome rheasure turned back, by the nomination of Hughea, who bobbed up into prominence oppor tunely. His conduct of the insurance investigation will gain him a great number of votet that with some other Republican candidate would have gone to Hearat. It it no new thing for the Republican party to be thua apparently the beneficiary of provi dential interposition. If 1,400,000 votes should be catt in New York, and all the votet of "the butinett and property clattes" should be catt for Hughes, he would certain ly have more than 1,000,000 of them and would beat Heartt by at least 600,000. But we have not read of any forecast as one-tided at thit yet 1 Red ink will be an awful dote for the Oregonian to take, but it will have to come -to it It had better not put off taking it, for it needt the tonic; needs itt invigorating effect upon itt circulation; needs to further imitate The Journal in method and feature, which it the tincerest form of flattery. The Journal will continue to set-the pace. That Ohio jury, in finding Standard Oil guilty of crimes against trade, taid thingt about John D. Rockefeller that Lno gentleman can stand. Mr. Rocke feller, we confidently expect, will give expression to a very natural resent ment by taking an early ship for Europe. The bank clearings in Portland for the past week were over 42 per cent greater than for the corresponding week in 1905. It takes real prosperity to make a record tuch at that while a most disastrous strike threatent to paralyse our shipping bttsinett. Governor Vardeman of Mississippi wants the fifteenth amendment to the constitution repealed, and the negroes A Little Out THINGS PRINTED TO Some Great Canals. The Brie canal is the longest canal In tha United States, having a length of 3S7 miles. 'It waa completed tn IMS. and cost IB2.640.t0t. The Ohio canal la .m mtlea long, and coat I4.6W.I04 The. longest foreign ship canal la the Rues, between the Mediterranean and Red seas, which la 90 miles In length and cost 1100.000.000. ' First Prayer in Congreas. The first prayer In congress was made In 1777 by the Rev. Jacob Duche, rector of Christ church and a. man of consid erable learning. He afterward turned traitor to the cause of Independence. The Slave. By Mrs. Hale. Ye may plant the living flowers Where the living fountains glide; And beneath the rosy bowers Let the selfish man abide; And the birds upon the wing. And the barks upon the wave. Shall no sense of freedom bring All Is slavery to the slave; Mammon's close-linked' bonds have bound him. Self-imposed and seldom burst; Though heaven's waters gushed around him. Be would pine with earth's, poor thirst.. Daniel E. Sickles Birthday. .General Daniel B. Sickles, one of the most picturesque and brilliant civilian officers of the civil war, waa born in New York. October 10, 1826. He gredu - ated at New York university, became a printer, studying law meanwhile, and began to practice In 1644. In 1647 he was in the legislature and In nil was corporation counsel of New York. He was secretary of the legation in London, the same year, when James Buchanan. afterward president, was minister. Mr. Sickles waa subsequently In the legisla ture again, the state senate, .congress. and was a strong power In Tammany Hall at the outbreak of the war, when, at hla personal expense, he raised five regi ments, called the excelsior brigade, and kept them In camp over two months while the government was hesitating whether to send them to the front General bicklea was conspicuous at Chancellors vllle and 'one of the heroes of Gettysburg, where he lost a leg. He went on a diplomatic mission to South America and later he served several years as minister to Spain. Sayings of Sidney Smith. On examining some new flowers In the garden, a beautiful girl who was of the party exclaimed: "Oh, Mr. Sidney! this pea will never come o perfection." Permit me. then," said he, gently tak ing her hand and walking toward the plant "to lead perfection to the pea." A party having been made to go ana see the boa constrictor soon after fta m. r deprived of equal rights ao that the southern .whites . can treat them as "chattels," the same as mules. The governor thinks that if he can get into the senate he can induce tht country to make this change, but he ia much mistaken. The country would pay no more heed to Senator Varde man than it does to Governor Varde man. The amendment may have been a mistake, but it will stand. With slavery abolished, the negroes, legally considered aa chattels, would be worse off than they were aa slaves, for then they were provided for and to tome extent protected by their masters. The rsce problem will have to be solved in some other way. Those Hood River applet that have been on exhibition for tome dayt really look 'good enough to eat Snake the Friend of Man. Many stories are told of black snakes that have attacked human beings, and a full-grown specimen might conceiv ably Injure a weak, email child. Even at Its greatest development this snake Is Incapable of doing more than cause an unpleasant constriction of the mus cles of a grown parson, and tba tales of Its attacks on men and woman ending In serious consequences to anything ex cept Itself may be put down - aa Imag inary. The copperhead la venomous It be longs to the rattlesnake family, ia slug gish In its movements, principally noc turnal In lta habits, seeking by day to avoid notice. It will not bits unless greatly alarmed or provoked and the popular theory that It Has In watt to strike human beings from behind la en tirely without foundation. Recently a Now Jersey man boastfully attempted to "charm" a copperhead and waa stung by It. Usually its victims are those who unintentionally disturb It while they are handling brush jar stones In the woods or while clearing awamp land. Each of these snakes perform a valuable eervice to man In destroying small pests, such as molea and mice. The black snake eats tha garter snake and the copperhead and rattlesnake, fol lowing their trails by scent avoiding their poison fangs and crushing them to death. It la also a famous tree climb er and a notorious ruber of birds' nests. The black snake may be tamed. Tha copperhead also eats the garter anake, whlob la tba prey Of many birds and mammals. The garter snake Is among the most courageous of aerpenta. Notwithstand ing Its diminutive alas, it shows small fear of man. though lncapab of" injur ing htm, and lta strength and agility make it a frequently victorious opponent of many animals greatly exceeding it In bulk. It la moat prolific, a single female producing from 26 to 76 young at a time. Criticism of Dr. Jackson. From the Toronto Globe. A cass In point In American circles raised the question of tha power for evil which In a democratic country may be exercised by the press. It la the case of a venarable missionary to the Eskimo. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, who bad responsi bilities In Alaska under the department of education at Washington. A few weeks sgo there was published the re port of a special Indian Inspector ap pointed to Investigate the edueatlonal situation and the reindeer Industry In Alaska with which Dr. Jaekaon had to do. The observations of the inspector 'Wars In soma respects critical In their nature, and on certain mattera of opin ion he and Dr. Jackson did not agree. This report when It was published lsst of tkc Common MAD WHILE TOU WAIT. first arrival at the aoologlcal garden, Sidney Smith, who was to have been there, failed to come; and. questioned at dinner why he had not done ao, aald: "Beeauee I waa detained by the bore contradictor Hall am." I remember, at a large party, a young woman insisting that it was always high tide at London bridge at IS o'clock. She referred to me: "Now, Mr Smith, la It net so?" I answered: "It used not to be so. formerly; but per haps the lord mayor and sldermen hsve altered It lately." Sidney Smith was at a party one even ing, when, seeing Mrs. Grots, wife of the historian, enter, wearing a rose colored turban, he auddenly exclaimed "I now know the meaning of the word grotesque!" He professed his cordial liking for both her and her husband saying: "I like them. I like him, he Is ao ladylike; and I like her, she's such a perfect gentleman. ' October 20 in History. 1726 City of Copenhagen, Denmark, nearly destroyed by fire. 1616 I aland of Jamaica devastated by a hurricane. 1841 Grace Darling died. 1661 Departments of the Cumberland and Mississippi consolidated and placed under command of General Grant. 164 James Anthony Froude, histor ian, died. Born April XI, 1616. lttt Boers defeated by the British at battle of Dundee Hill. 1(01 Bicentennial of Tele university celebrated. 1901 Alaskan boundary fixed. 1904 President Roosevelt Invited the i - powers to second peace conference at The Hague. Much in Little. It Is predicted that American hard wood foreata will lsst only 16 years Since the Sues canal waa opened lta annual revenue has Increased from $1,100,000 to $10,000,000. v Dr. Francis P. Kinnicut of New Tork haa been elected president of the Asso ciation of American Physicians A homing pigeon which waa aent to the Isle of Man two years and four months ago returned to lta home cote In Blackburn, England, recently while Siegfried was polishing hla sword at Convent Garden theatre, Lon don, the other night, to cut the anvil In half, the anvil slowly split of its own accord. A number of the local dramatic critics, to gain practical experience, are occupying the stage at the principal theatre of Tokio. Large audiences watch their histrionic efforts. A prise of 620.000 Is offered by the beet-sugar manufacturers of France to any one who shall first discover and apply in France a new method of util izing sugar In tha arts. It Is required that the method shall Increase the con sumption of French sugar 106,000 pounds per annum. month, waa seised upon by newspapers or tne irresponsible ana sensational sort and lta m mauls of criticism were mag nified Into raountainllke charges. A scandal" waa announced In black-face scareheads, and for several days the changes were rung on "graft" and "pad Airtr" and tha Ilka. Whan the matt.. was sifted it was found that all talk of scandal and of "charges" waa wild and baseless, and even the criticism of ad ministrative Judgment mads by the in spector waa refuted and disproved at every point by Dr. W. T. Harris, ex commissioner of education at Washing ton, who, ss Dr. Jackson's superior offi cer, had adequate knowledge' of all the facta. This la only one instance of what hap pens far too often, and Is a source of damage to the character of the press and of Injustice to personal and to pub lic life.- In certain newspaper circles In the United States this tendency to exaggeration and irresponsibility haa be come a disease, sad the insane desire for a "sensation" la at once the folly and the ours of American journalism. There are notable exceptions, a goodly number In the eaat and a aavlng rem nant In the weat The Progreee of Mr. Hearat From the London Newe. Tha nomination of W. R. Hearat by the Democratic convention of Naw Tork as tha party's candidate for the gov ernorship of the state is an event of the greatest political moment for Ameri cana, and of decided personal Interest for ourselves. British observers have felt the presence of this x remarkable arriviste In American affaire for s long time paat The facts about him are In teresting enough: his ownership and personal control of a network of power ful "yellow" newspapers touching all the ganglia of American Mfe; his burn ing, undlssembled ambition- the strength, and Indeed tha violence, of hie radicalism as a politician. Scarcely less interesting are the thinge that are eald about him, as distinct from what Is to be seen on the surface. Hla upward course la politics haa been opposed with ferocity of personal denunciation to which our peculiar libel laws makes us In England strangers. Hla political methods, his private morale, have bean described in terms that Cicero would have hesitated to use toward the foul sat target of hla rhetoric. In the presence of the conflict of evi dence outsiders can only listen and observe; aU they can know le that Mr. Hearst Is a great fores and a personality of Intensely American quality. Some day, no doubt, tha truth of hie enigma will be laid bare. At present It 1a tn Englishmen an open question whether The page of American history that Mr. nearai means to inscribe with his name will be one of the brightest or the very blackest William Shakespeare. By Swinburne. Not If men's tongues and angels' all in one pake, might the word be eald that might speak Thee. Streams, winds, woods, flowers, fields. mountains, yea. the aea. What power is in them all to praise the sun? Hla praise Is this he oaa be praised of none. Man, woman, child, praise God for him: but he Exults not to be worshiped, but to be He la: and, being, beholds hie work weli done. AU Joy. ell glory, ell sorrow, all strength, all mirth. Are his; without him. day wars night oa earth. Time, knows not hie from tlme'a own period. All lutes, all harps, all viols, ail flutes all lyres, Fall dumb, before him era one. string ' suspires All stars srs angels, but the San Is God. Four - Footed Bird Edward Morris Brlgham of Battle Creek, Michigan, the well-known South American traveler, has the only apec! mens In this country of a rare bird that haa attracted much attention among scientific toon because it haa four feet. Ita scientific name la Oplsthocoma crlstat, and la known to the natives aa the cigana (gypsy). It is so contrary to the accepted order of things that a bird ahould have four feet that tha discovery of this quadruped bird waa a fcurprlse to the scientific man. Mr. Brighams specimens sre prsssrved In alcohol. Mr. Brlgham found these birds In 1861-61 while making embryologltal atudlee in the Interior of the great 1st and of Marajo. at the mouth of the Amazon river. The bird confirms the evolutionary theory that blrda de scended from reptilian ancestors. Many fossil birds show that marked reptilian characteristic, hsving teenth, etc The whole evolutionary process Is shown In me naicmng or the egg or tne cigana. The bird, progreaalng In Its embryo logical course, paaaea into lta reptilian ancestral type and before Its evolution haa carried It beyond the reptilian phase it emerges from the egg aa a quadruped animal hatched from an egg laid by a two-footed, two-winged bird. There are well-developed toes, each terminated by large, well-developed claws For many days after hatching and before It is able to fly the young Uee these four claw to climb about the bushaa and trees. But "fore" feet sre purposeless for an ordinary bird. Then the modification begins and the fore limbs are developed Into wings the final postnatal result. The adult speci men In else ancUseneral appearance re sembles a pheasant but of course, is no relation, ss ths cigana la the sole survivor of lta genua, ita family, ita order, of which geologists have found numeroua representatives In a fossil state. Ita geological range la quite limited. being found only among the margins of tha A mason and the Orinoco. The bird lives and perches upon the leaves of ths anlnga. a large water plant with heart-shaped leavee and calla-llke flower, varying In height to 20 feet The plant grows in masses on low muddy margins of water courses. The orles uttered by the adult clganaa are unlike those of any other birds and are ao doleful and demoniacal that It sounds as If they were mourning for al tbalr extinct relations. . m . , , i nese Dirnsr are usually the most demonstrative In the night. T Tkc Play By Johnston McCulley. "Hope, faith and love thea three and .Mat .greatest of these te love." "Parsifal, sot rv. A great story simply and powerfully told, a great lesson taught through earnestness, a atate of peaoe and hap piness reached through a maie of twisted i heart atringe and storms of penitent tears such la "Parsifal." as produced at the HelM. Shakespearian Interpretations have come and gone and "Every Mail" had Its little hour, but "Parsifal" Is greater than them all In this that what Shakespeare loaee In arrogant abund- anoe of character Parsifal" gains In the simple application of a single Idee mjestlcally worked oat There la no by-play In "Parsifal." Ths Idea is one that may be caught by the uninitiated tn tba first scene and retained through aucceedlng scenes without a thing to detract and lure away. The Idea te developed simply along usual linos, but with a grace ana power eeldom seen. Music, art literature and. above all, life these abound In "Parsifal." Of course what we aaw was but the dramatic version. There has been lost much Of the beauty In translation. there haa been loat a little of the mysticism by modernisation, bat there haa been added, on the other hand, modern etage Ingenuity to such a de gree that an average merit ie retained. 'Parsifal" la a production the play- r will not forget In an hour. Ita story Is ths battle of a soul for Its own preservation, the uplifting of a fallen one through the strength of another through hope, faith and love, but great eat of all through love. In the present production there are two members of the cast far above the others. One Is John Connors, in the role of Parsifal, the other Is Miss Keat ing. In the role of Kundry. On the other hand la Mr. Dvorak, In the role of Kllnschor. the black knight whoaa do main la supposed to be In rankest Pagan land and whose acting without a doubt ia tn rankest ranting land. Dvorak cornea within an ace of driv ing from the minds of the audience the beauty, the poetry end the art of the production. He overdose hie role to the limit It le granted that his role Is by tar tha most difficult In the en tire production, one that lende Itself easily to gallery play and- ranting. Tet It seams some art might enter Into It were It In the hands of a capable actor. Dvorak did well In spots, but thsre were not enough spots. The work of Mr. Connors Is above reproach. Ia the first place he as sumes and carries to the end a look of supreme Innocence, an expression of purity In his eyes, an air of patient con descension in his manner. Hit facial work la excellent. Hla voice rings true snd pure snd he carrlee out In every detail the principles of ths role he plsys. Mlas Keating, aa Kundry, fairest of all fair women, playa close to Con nors In merit. Mies Keating looks the part In the first place. She Is In a rolo where sn ordinary actress would POoOUis exceedingly and disgustingly ef fected and unreal. Tet Miss Keating la not ths ordinary actress and there le nr. affectation in her manner. In the clutohea of Kllngachor aha laughs like a being without a soul. In her at tempt to defile Paralfal ehe doee as clever work as was ever seen In Port lend. "She approaches the limit of die gust In her love-making, as the text calls for, but never overetepe It and remains on the ether aide of the line just far enough to give the correct expression. One eeee In her manner thst ehe acta under reluctance that pure love for Parsifal is struggling with ths demon of passion she Is forced for her soul's good to aaaume. In tht laet ect Mlee Keatlng'a work reaches a suitable climax. The audience can fe the change working In her heart, mind and soul It Is her face, bar voice and manner that tell a story ordinary acting could never tell The others of the company are mediocre, with the poaelble exception of Mr. McKee In the role of Anfortaa. The scenic effects Are excellent. The destruction of the garden of narcotic bloom la aa great a piece of stage In genuity es was ever seen In Portland. "Paralfal," the triumph of the gulls leaa fool, la a production that every fT -DIRDSEYE VIEWS m 111 -D TIMELY TOPICS ID SMALL CHANGE. But oaa a can label He? e e Now, Cuba, smoke and sweeten up, a Mr. Bryan Is trying to show ths Mla- sourlans. a a Moat of our good climate ia also made In Oregon. Weather football. forecast : Favorable for "No region can pair Southern Oregon ror pears. a a The Cubans like Taft, but dislike Funston. A man's stss outs a figure with them. a e Now let the peek-a-boo waist rest till next summer. e e - Of course, Harry Thaw's insanity was only temporary. Trim up the shade trees. Else many of them are a nuisance. What's tha matter with October In Oregon 7 Bbe'a all right. a a a fine climate la not all-sufficient. out it is a targe industrial asset. e a Now General Bell can rlnc without asking permission from Funston or any- ooy. e A bishop wanta the Americans tn at. tack Turkey. Ws will, the laat Thurs day tn November. e a New Yorkers experienced a cold a nan the other day but, fortunatelv. It waa In the midat of a hot campaign. a Mr. Farewell of Eastern Washington 'ares well at fairs that are run well, taking drat premluma on fruit. The government might inflict due pen alty upon the drug trust by" forcing It to swallow Its own medicine. e e rjt Lt ' - - - ... v mmfm um mviiiM 1 acumen i-uinui Th.. ,,,in- w. - . ... . V'lHUII & '0 I, It,, II more out of repair than when he mer ged, last Every time anybody sends anything by tha United States Express company he helps pay Senator Platt'a salary of $20,000 a year. A typewriter girl haa offered to sen twWjwf wta htnffiovt tHIddr, snt) t em m to think ahe has proposed something original and strange. -a .a If the' coming Wise ie as wise as the departing Wlae. the people will be wtae enough to appreciate htm, and ha cannot do otherwise than succeed. a Tha Eugene Guard says rath le a for substitute for irrigation. But we reckon that If It quit raining entirely there wouldn't be much Irrigation, a e Tha man with money le tn a quandary: If he leaves It at home a burglar may get ft and If he takea It he may en counter a holdup man. Better give it to the T. M. C. A. e a , Grover Cleveland waa away on hla vacation during tha New Tork conven tion. Vacation from what? It can't be very bard work to draw that eat ery from the Insurance companies. Short Essays BY WILLIAM MUSIC. mualc la sweet Bounds msds by peo ple with there lunga aV on Insterments. It Is of many kinds, like piano music, church songs, theater songa, whistling, base drum etc. t like all the dlffernt klnda prltty good except piano mualc ft that la pfltty good except 6-flnger exer cises tn the next flat church songs la vary nlae mualc, me A Ma goea to church every. Sunday A Ma sings What Tho the Sploy Breeaea Bio Soft Oar Cey lona Iele A ahe knoe aU the words by hart, so she doesnt have to look at the song book but een look at Missus Browna new hat theeter songs Is good, sum of them. I like the ones best where a coon cuma out A dances whlls he sings A the next best is whs re the songs have plctsrs that goes on a big sheet ao you can understand what the aong la all about . music is good te heer bekaua It malks peepls forglt there t rubbles, but Pa says It doeent maik people do anything of the kind, beekaua the other nlta a hardy Gerdy was ploying In front of the house A the only muelc if meld waa "Ime jest Barely Living, That'a AH," "O Father Deer Father Cam Home" end "All thle Wurld le Sad A Loanly." music wss tha first thing on .earth after Adam A Eve. when thay was put in the Garden of Eden Adam stayed out late talking to a Serpent or I, A Bve waa aU alone In the flat ell evening A 1 r " one In Portland should see. It may b truly aald that It Is worth ths price of ad ml sat on. There will be perform ances tonight and tomorrow night Pleasant Wedding Notice. From the Cooleemee (N. C.) Banner. Mlaa Jennie Jones and Bob Henry were married et the Jones mansion last night. The bride la the daughter of our constable. Jones, who mads a good of ficer, end wlU undoubtedly be re-eleeted next spring. He offers a fins horse for sale In another column. The groom rune a grocery etore on Main striet and la a awxl patron of our advertising col umns, and has a good line of oergaln this week. All the summer he petd 1 cents more for butter than any other etore In tewo. The happy couple left on the 10 o'clock train tor Milwaukee to visit ths bride's uncle, who Is teported to have lets of money and Brtght's disease. Bob certainly has an eye for business. . Dewey Prises at Bargain Sale. There was an auction In Manila re cently, ths thinge eold being three of the warahlps captured by uewey in tne battle of Manila. The veaaels were the sruiiboata A lbs v. Minds.no and Mlnlleno. and when the auction- closed sat ths auctioneer figured up how much Money had bees- rsSXIied Tot the government OREGON 8IDELIOHT&. This year will break the building a a Southern Oregon's fruit crop la the blggeat and beat aver raised. Tha Med ford Commercial club le plaining of high freight ratee. From 4H acres near Mndford a man will have 2,(60 boxes of apples, worth 66,700. a a A squash raised near Med ford weighed Ha pounds and measured fast 4H Inches around. e a A Coee county girl barely weighed at' birth IS pounds, and It'e daddy did not conalder it an unlucky number. e e The Benton "County Republican, Cor va Ills' third paper, haa made a good start, judging from appearances. Considerable vetch eeed le being ehlpped from Benton county. Vetoh le proving a profitable crop for many farm era. a e p Though Myrtle Point la legally a pro- niDiiuon town, oeer ana wnisKey TIOW freely there, particularly on Sunday, says the Enterprise. e On 40 acres of ground In Jackson county, M.i.. Pellett raised peers (off 10 acres) that brought 67.600. and hla apples will bring from 611,000 to $16,- uuu more aoout 6600 an acre. e a Farmers ssy that ths hunters are something fierce this season that they just overrun their premises, and their promiscuous shooting le getting dan- eays tne Aurora Borealte. Four potatoes grown on one vlns weighing eight pounds and all about the same size, and one that meaaured 10 Inehsa In length end It Inches In cir cumference, are the product of a Klam ath Falla garden. a e After roasting the meat market men of Astoria to a crisp the Herald, tn which they do not advertise, aays: We pay II cents s pound for a ateak, and It coata tt cents to aend It to the nuln mill, so it can be eaten, and In nlns times out of ten it has to be run through a clothes wrlngar snd a sau sage machine and then the editor uses It to hatf sols his shoes. s a Monument Enterprise: Clouds after clouds of dust hsve been chasing each other over the road leading down from tne mountaina in the forest reserve. and underneath the duet clouds tha merry bleating of the homeward bound woolly summer tourists Is heard. Many thousand sheep have trailed past this town alnce the first of this month. a a The neyr editor of the Gold Beach Globe announces Circumstances hav ing forced me to except the position aa foreman and Editor of the Globe until auch a time aa will enable the stock holders to secure an efficient Editor. I will aak of tha readers of the Globe not to expect much, and you will certainly not be dlssa pointed. However. the Globe will endaaver to give all the local happenings of the county, togather with the transfers and legal happen ings. Not only would we give space but earnestly ask that the reader of tha Globe discuss any and all questions thst is of intoreet te the public ger erally. by Bobbie F. KIRK. when Adam cum hoam thare was music In the air. a a a . AUTUMN. autumn Is the time of yeer after Spring A Summer haa went thare way. In the Autumn peeple move Into other flats St the sound of leaves la herdTa they fall gently to Mother Erth. there was a grate poet I forgot his naim who sed Autumn la tha asddest tlms of sll ths yeer' the poet Is rite beekaua thst Is when skool commences A 1 hsvs to write eaaays a keep my face cleen. In the eutumn all the little blrda start for the South A the little squirts A other lnsecka go away Into thare holes. It la vary loanly when thay ere gone, yes terday I aaw a poor llttel worm In the garden aV he waa all aloan and ha looked vary loansom, so 1 cut him In parts with a table nlfe ao he wudent be so much by hlsaelf. In the Autumn ell the people hsve to . change thare close ao thay will be alas A warm, tha wlmmen git new close A thare husbands A fathers talk thare old eloae out of the closet A press them over like new. My Ma calm hoam last week with a new hat ft a- new dress A sum new gloves A lota of other thinge, A Pa eed whea hs paid the bill How time files. It seems Ilka only yester day, my Luv, when T bought yon til doners Worth of Autumn close A heer we have another Autumn. thare la lots mosr about Autumn but Ita Politicks A Divoarces A thlags like that so I guess i wilt close. he found that he had on hand. Including hla own commission, Just 1 132 06. Ths three gunboats wars the first to go ashore In tha battle of May 1, lilt, and although the government long ago decided not to repair them It waa never thought that the vessels would bring lees than 61,600 each when put up at auction. Hence the Surprise of the navy department whea word was received that the vessels had brought a fraction over 144 each at the sale. Reverted by Hk Wife. From tha Dundee Advertiser Sir William Wlghtman held office tn the old court of Queen's bench far be yond the prescribed time, and st lsst on ths eve of the "long vacation," he took a sort of farewell of his brother judges. However, when "the morrow of All Souls" came around he turned up smiling at Westminster hall. "Why, brother Wlghtman," aald Sir Alexander Cockbum, "you told ua that you Intended to aend la your reelgnation te the lord ehanceUor before the end of August." "So I did." eald air William, "but when I went home and told my wife the said: 'Why. William, what oa earth do you think that we can do with you Basing about the house all dagf So you see, I waa obliged to come down to court again."