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herself not to "ait down by
the aide of tad thoughts" and
.. dwell voluntarily on what is
sorrowful and painful Car-,
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THANKSGIVING.
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TT IS A UAX ot plenty tnrougn
ont this great land, and in no
: part of It more tnan in tne i t
.V cific northwest, in Oregon. Plenty
; of necessaries and comforts. Plenty
. - of work to do. Plenty of - resources
- to be developed. . Plenty of oppor-
jtunity for all or as nearly all as is
the case anywhere. ' . : .'
; V It is a favored land, region,' Mate,
; "city. This ought to be appreciated,
i lit well to feel esoecially and even
f formally "thankful ; once ina -while,
and who should be thankful if not
'; we? ' :" ; ;.' '.
; I ; There are more things to be thank
: : ful for than are dreamed of in the
philosophy of most of us. A good
L dinner, warm clothes, a soft bed,,are
something. ' Health is more. So are
, ?true friends and loving kin. ( So is
. the very spirit of true thankfulness.
? 'So is the ability to enjoy .good things
innocently. ,'. . - v i-, '
Eat, drink and be merry today but
not overmuch. ' Remember, ' toa
'. ' Shall we not try to better deserve, an
, other . Thanksgiving, the thousand
- things for which we should be thank-
ful? ; -:. " "' '
2 ...Every Ji olidayjoff ersjns two little
1 steps one upward, the other oown-
ward. He will be best thankful to
2 day who tomorrow can say: "That
was truly' tne Dest l nanRsgivtng . i
ever experienced.? J '
RESERVOIR VS. RAILROAD.
fllERE is a conflict of interests
government reclamation ser-
'vice and the projectors of a railroad
-designedjte penetrate thatjCOunty,
Along the high lands bordering the
Deschutes river private enterprise has
established under the Carey act a
great irrigation system, some 200,000
acres being already under water, with
: much more to ; be thus reclaimed.
'Into this region many settlers have
. gone and established their homes, and
begun to raise grain, bay, livestock
and other products.' But they are a
- long distance from the nearest rail
road point," Shaniko, ' and urgently
need A railroad, without which their
1 surplus products are of not enough
value to ' make farming ' profitable.
There is said to be -but one prac
ticable foute for a railroad, and along
this route. On the margin ' of the
Deschutes river, reclamation engineers-
have established, a reserva
tion, for the purpose of building a
reservoir and taking water from the
Deschutes to be used on distant land,
. and. therefore the projected railroad,
unless the government changes hi
reclamation plans, must be . aban
doned,' and all those people, whose
number, if a railroad , were built
through that region, would soon be
multiplied, must remain "bottled up,"
and unable t.o ship out thejrjMdjirtk
Without going over the ground and
Owbg!1 the circumstances it is
- not easy for a disinterested party to
( decide between these conflicting in
' , terests. . That irrigation , is exceed
V ingly important we all know, and it
jis to be presumed that the govern
.ment is sure that it can use advantage
.eously the water h intends to take,
. and for which purpose it claims it
must build a dam where the railroad
seeks to run; but on the othitr'nand
. the "urgent necessity of a railroad
" from the Columbia river into that re
t gion can easily be seen and must be
' acknowledged.
Teople up there who are properly
. 'clamorous for the railroad insist that
, the proposed ' reclamation ham and
' the consequent barring'of the project
ed railroad are only piece $1 ob-
; st ruction on the part of the Harriman
system, for the purpose of keeping
any other railroad out of that region,
and that the government is being
med as Mr. Harriman's tool. W are
tr,i at present inclined to accept this
theory, although in view of recent
disclosures in- Wyoming 'and else
where it ould not be 'strange Of sik
. arising if it wcre-Uitt. At a'ny,aU
the government should not stand in
tbe-wayixif .thcjrailroad .unlcst Jt is
verwtemin that its reclamation res
eiWir at this particular spot T would
be far more, beneficial than the build
ing .of the railroad, which to say the
leasU.se.ep-., improbable.
CORVALLIS LEADS THE WAY.
rT7HE ACTION of. the commer
1 ial -orgaiuiation at 'Corvallis
, in moving for an open Willam
ette river is to be applauded. Every
refoi-nv must' have it agitator, and
every progressive movement,; its
leader. Corvallis Is well eligible to
leadership in this movement, for the
heavy hand of the tribute-taker hat
been laid on its traffic for 30 years or
more. Once 'that .town, 'a's did all the
Willamette region, thought it had
permanent relief from the Oregon
City barrier in a rail and ocean route
via Yaquina to " San Francisco. In
fact, the Yaouiha scheme was little
else than a gigantic protest against
the untoward traffic conditions that
the - Corvallis people have so bravely
set out to remove. It is likely that
every " commercial organisation and
every grange- and other- farmers' or
ganization in the Willamette region
will, as they ought to do, join the
Corvallis citiaens' league in the move
ment, to rescue the Willamette from
the exactions that hava so long pre
vailed. '-',
The rivers arc nature's true arteries
of commerce. They are everybody's.
They are a means of transportation
open to all, because anybody with
small Outlay can use them. They af
ford the cheapest of all transportation.
They cannot , be monopolized, nor
controlled, nor cornered Jas the rail
roads have been, and are. .They are
the people's bulwark against railroad
oppression, io free every navigable
river of toll exactions, and to deepen
the channels and tear away obstruc
tionsv ought to be the watchword of
the private citizen, the slogan of the
commercial bodies, and an inviolable
ruje with congress. ..; " ' 7
The more one reads of the gigantic
land frauds perpetrated under Binger
Hermann's administration of the gen
eral land office, the greater appears
the crime against the people of his
support by papers and people who
weltkrtew his Character and 1iad evi
dence of his crookedness, when he
had the audacity to rup for congress
again in Oregon.' K How'can a news
paper that knew all about or enough
about Hermann and yet advocated hit
election pretend to preach decency
and honesty in public life now? '
t is safe to pi edict -n-rise in-thefwhole thing is dnr tn a newspaper.
price of sugar in the near future if
these fines of the sugar trust have to
be paid. The .sugaOaJ8LmayjBtJe J
able. to beat the. cases in the courts,
but it knows how to make the people
pay; the score.
If the president would advocate im
mediate and radical tariff revision Mr.
Bryan might wonder if Roosevelt
waa not trying to make away with hit
political winter overcoat alto. But
the president won't. - f
' That will be a strong delegation
from Oregon to the National Rivers
and Harbora Congress at. Washing
ton next week, and that is what is
needed there. May they have lots of
power. ' . - "
In the matter of scandals" Pitts
burg seems determined to hold the
first and worst place. She has cer
tainly made a swift race for it during
the past year or two..- . ... ;
The Republican party is afraid to
reform the tariff lest it lose the sup
port of the trusts, and is standing pat
uneasily because of the people's in
creasing displeasure.
Now some other states will get
into the land fraud limelight, and at-
tention will he..diyertcd irom Oregon
in this respect, to which this state will
file no objection. ' V' '
On the question .of the innocence
of the land sharks of Wyoming opin
ion jsery unevenly divided. Every
body but the land sharks lay they
are guilty. . i .
Maybe if you know you have been
the cause of thankfulness in others,
your reasons for thanksgiving will be
all the greater and better tonight -
Still the indicted trust magnates
may be thankful; they can tee no jtil
doors opening for-them yet.. v -
After Thanksgiving is over, it is not
too late ( to make poor ojr otherwise
unfortunate people thankfuK .
V
'The express companies are thank
ful, but few people are thankful to
them, - . ' i .
"Mayor Schmitz, charged with loot
ing San Francisco, and indicted' for
extorting ' money. Lota unfortunate
; A Little. Out
THINGS PRINTED TO RKAD WHILE YOU WAIT.
Love Potions. - - r
- Leva potions, a usd by thm peaa
anta of lower Austria and Syria, are
'generally taken . by tha peraon who
wlahsa to ba lovad. The common habll
la- to consume mlouta portion of whit
arsenic, which will. In a few weks.
develop a thin. ple girl Into a plump.
roay-4-neeked peauty. areat ear nas
to be exercised In taking- the araenle
or death results, and when the habit
Is once formed It usually lasta for life.
Some of the eastern nation use love
potlona differently, ; If a Ctrl lovea
man and he seems cold, she contrives
to alv him a drink of haahlah, ob
tained from Indian hemp. The man's
brain becomes fogged, and ha Is ready
to believe anything; that a suggested
to him. The girl suggesta to him that
aha la beautiful, and thua compels blm
to regard her unlovely features aa she
oesirea.
, ----- Opposition to Women. -Feminine
teachers In the schools of
Germany Is an Innovation. To a great
many, the . femlnlilng of the teachers'
corps la a menace of no mean propor
tions, endangering alike the safety of
the home and the Independence of the
educational system. The subject was
given a thorough airing recently at a
meeting of the German Teachers' asso
ciation, at the conclusion of which. re so
lutions were adopted Indorsing the wom
an teacher only as a supplement to the
man In this respect, and saying she
should by no means ba allowed to hava
any controlling Influence In the man
agement of the schools. , i
George H. Putnam'e Birthday.
George Haven Putnam, head of the
publishing house, was bom In London,
of American parents, November - tt.
ltH. His youth waa spent In America
and his education waa received at Co
lumbia college, the Unlveralty of Parle
and the - University of Oottlngen. Me
enlisted as a private In the .One Hun
dred and Seventy-Sixth regiment pf
New York' .volunteers, and served
through the civil war. rising to the
rank of major.. He became a partner
In the publishing firm of O. P. Putnam
A Bon. and In 187Z became the head of
the firm. - Mr. Putnam Is the author
of several works and was an active
worker- In the. movement to secure an
International copyright.
', '.. Life. :-
Richard Coe.
An Infant on Its mother's breast
, A bouncing boy at play
A youth by maiden fair caress'd
-An old man aMver gray-
la all of life we know: .
i ,' ' A Joy a fear -. '
A-amile a tear ------
. And all la o'er below!
Here's Chance.
Consul Hunt, at Tamatlve, reports
tha -faa- ha been Informed by the new
governor-general of Madagascar that
under the lawa now la force no dentists.
whatever ba .theii nationality, will be
permitted to practice their profession
in that colony who do not have a diplo
ma front a French dental school. This
ruling by the present governor-general
Is In i direct opposition to a ruling by
hi predecessor, who, in a note dated
denizens of the underworld, tayt the
fight. It seems that every time the
doors of a . penitentiary ' yawn now-
adays, the shrinking criminal yells
"newspaper fight." .
Modesty, thy name is Pittock.
Signa of a Hard Winter.
From th MorO Observer.
In Yamhill county corn husks are re
ported IS Inches thick, and th stalks
all lean to. th west. .
Th frog around Alblna tiav begun
searching the bottom of mill pond and
mud holes to find out th deepest place.
' Th geese, duck and chicken In Blge-
low are growing a ooat of fur under
their feathers an ar-Tubbtngtrajrron
their feet to harden them up. -
All th one-eyed owl In and around
Bend are leaving the country a month
earlier than usual, and the bobtalled
squirrel are laying In sweet potatoes,
a well a nut, for winter provisions.
A Prtnevllle farmer who ha taken
the trouble to investigate ha found
that all the toadstools on the old fallen
timber In Crook county have wrinkles In
them. The last time this happened It
la remembered that the weather that
winter frose the handles-off -tho nlows.
' Rabbit are sitting around Lone Hook
with a humped-up look to them, and
field mice have wrinkles In their tall a
If this means anything It mean :o de
gree below sero from November to May.
Town cow are hunting arouna ror
piece ot flannel to wrap up their talis,
and hog are rooting their way Into the
middle of th straw stack in L'matnia
county, which la a never falling sign
that the highways will be blocked witn
snow for weeks at a time.
Oregon Leads the World.
Pi:rlost4
The atata of Oregon has become the
leading social experiment station of the
world, for It Is th only place In the
world wher the free spirit of a new
country, untrammeled by monarchlal
and other fixed Idea and special privi
lege custom. Is operating through a
system of government In which the peo
ple have become the ruling "power. In
other worda, Oregon furnishes the first
example of the real world under mod
ern industrial conditions. ' The people
of New Zealand, although so far ad
vanced that poverty Is unknown, have
not yet secured tbe initiative and refer
endum, and the Swiss civilisation Is
hampered by old-country customs and
traditions. Naturally all student of
social evolution are scsnnlng the re
sults in Oregon. - , , t
That Moving Mountain.'
From th Hood River News-Letter. '
Th moving mountain along th line
of th O. R. N. I getting tn It work
again during thl rainy apell. It la re
ported that this moving mountain ts
built upon solid - lea and that It la
gravitating toward th Columbia, . and
that th O. R. N. Co. at on time tried
to tunnel through it -in order to avoid
th many slides at ihla place, but that
after running th tunnel In a abort dis
tance solid. Ice waa struck- and -the
project Jiad to be abandoned.
During tha- rainy apell hist closed
th mountain seems to bate awakened
and ts preparing to make It annual
move, which is usually accompanied by
Landslide of snore or ,lea magnitttdg.
of ttc Common
April li. lsoz, stated that the require
ment would De waived In favor of a
well qualified American dentist who
might wish ts establish - himself . In
Madagascar. '
- What It Socialism? W;
'A debating society in Manaytink of
fered last week a prise of IS for. the
best definition of socialism.
Among the definition submitted were
the following: -
--socialism means- that no man has a
right to starve to death where millions
are suffering from Indigestion."
"Socialism Is other people's 'money.
"Socialism Is the selfishness under
neath trying to annihilate the aelflsb-
neas on top.". , . .
"Socialism la the revolution' of the
Stomach. ,-"
. -"Socialism Is envy Jegltlmlsed."
The following definition is the one
that gained the tt prise: -. x
"Socialism Is a combination of efforts
and theories tending to establish legally
among all mankind the greatest possi
ble equality of wealth or misery." I .
November 29 in Hiatory.
HJ8 Mexico declared war . against
Franca
- 1855 Great meeting n London In aid
of Florence Nightingale hospital fund.
188 Confederates - made herolo at
tempt to carry Knoxville by storm.
1870 First London school board es
tablished. 181 Lunatld attempted to asaassl
nate Rev. Ir. John Hall In New Tork.
1888 Steamer . Portland, from Boston
to Portland. Maine, foundered In a gale
off Cape Cod, -with a loss of lit Uvea
l03-r-Unlted States supreme court
denied a petition for an Injunction
against the state board of ' canvaaaers
of Virginia on behalf of negroes dis
franchised by the new state constitu
tion.,. -
: The Name of Tea. .
We talk glibly about Pekoe, Bohea.
etc., but few people have any idea of
what these names algnify.
"Pekoe" In the dialect of ' Canton,
means "white hair," for the-, tea which
bears this name Is made from the
youngest of leaves, so young, that the
white down is still on them.
"Soochonc." In the same dialect, la
a fnirtetmrtoetU; name. It mere!:
fles "small hlnd.-
"Flourishlng Spring" Is the meaning
of "Hyson."
"Congo" - signifies "labor": much
trouble and toil are expended in-its
preparation at Amoy, and these are
commemorated in It name.
"Bohea" 1 called after a rang of
hills, ..'. - . .... ;
Cupid In High Altitudes.
Henry Carver of Manchester is very
proud thathe won his wife at a greater
altitude than probably any other man
in the United Kingdom. He proposed
to her last summer on the summit of
Ben Nevis, and he says: "A this moun
tain Is 4.40S feet high, and I stand t'4
feet, I can claim to have offered my
hand and heart at a height of 4,413
feet." Certainly this Is a record of
exalted proposal which will take a good
deal or beating; in fact. It la a case of
sttlta or a balloon for any ambitious
.lover who seek to displace, it.
Jute Mill-Without
From the Seattle Post-Intelllgencer. ,
A' curiously confounding report come
from Walla Walla, in effect that th
)ute mill haa only enough material to
run one day In the week; that the prod
uct for the next year will ba trifling in
conaequonce, and that the board of con
trol did not purchase Jut last spring
when It should have done so, because at
the time there waa no money in the
revolving fund. The latter statement ia
quoted as having bfen made by Mr., Kin
cald. former chairman of the board of
control and nofr warden of the peniten
tiary. - .
. On the score of toa. revolving fund.
Mr. Klncald. should, be given an opportu
nity to correct this aaaertlon, unless he
desire to- be regarded as an official who
is not familiar with the condition of the
state funds. Th first of January of
the present year ther lay dormant- In
th banks under the penitentiary revolv
ing fund account the sum of 11 64, 967.01;
on April 1. 1 100.411. 44. and July 1, tt.
47J.J1. Sine the spring months, when
It is customary to purchaa the Jute
supply for the year, the price ha gone
up from tit to 118.10 a bale. .
If the Walla Walla report ia correct,
the board of control will have to answer
the charge of delinquency. .
From the revolving fund, which wa
created for tha purchase of Jut and th
material for manufacture in which con
victs are employed, 1(8,483.70 ha been
paid out during the month between De
cember 31 and July 1. -
If not for Jute, it will be-interesting
to know for what thl large expedlture
waa .made. ' , .
If, a asserted by th Post-Intelligence
r's correspondent, the Jut mill ha
been making from $500,000 to 1700,000
profit annually for th eaatern Waah
ington farmers.- snd mora particularly
for the Walla Walla county wheatgrow-
- fEsiJt!"ahoutMtme
lit ' time the real of the
atate agreed that aome part
of "Thl 1
gift-enterprise profit should be contrib
uted toward the maintenance and sup
port of the oonvlct labor for whoae keep
all the taxpayer are paying their cash.
Greatest Good to Greatest Number.
From' th Pendleton East Oregonlan.
The purchaae of the locka at Oregon
City by the United States government
for uae of the people of Willamette
valley should be bitterly opposed by the
politicians of the Willamette valley, If
those gentlemen are willing to take
their own medicine In legislative mat
ter. How many of the people of the
United State will patronise the Oregon
City locks t How many people wltl b
benefited by this purchaae T Why spend
the people' money for a merely local
Improvement when It cannot possibly
benefit th entire nation at oncef
Thin I fair argument, according to
th Willamette valley politicians' stsnd
on the Jute plant for the Oregon peni
tentiary. They oppose the plant be
cause It cannot be enjoyed by every
cltlsen of -Oregon, at once. They aay
It should not be established with state
fund beeaua only comparatively few
people will receive any benefit.
How about th Oregon City locks?
How many people-will enjoy th free
navigation of the Willamette river?
lan't this In tin with th antti-Jut plant
argument? ...
Snow I two feet deep fa Bear valley,
Grant eauntx, - -
NotEing . New Un-
der the bun
According- "to an examiner In the pat
ent office at Washington, discovery, like
history, repeat Itself, and this official
is disposed to believe that we are not
so much ahead of the ancient a tt
pleaae ua to think. Many of our dis
coveries, continue the examiner, are
but -rediscoveries lmirved udob, no
doubt, but not alterarf In nadir -
vot Instance, the . ancients know of
nahtning-oonductor. ' or. at all events,
the method of attracting the .lightning.
Celtic soldier In a atorm used to lie 'on
tne ground, first lighting a torch and
planting taeir laked- aworda in the
ground by their aide, with the point
upward. The lightning often atruck the
point of the sword and passed away
without Injury to the warrior, says the
Chicago Chronicle.
The Romans, too.'aeam to have known
the lightning-rod. On the top of the
highest tower of the castle of Dunlo,
-pnthe' Adclntlc, there was set from
lime tmmemvrlal a long rod of Iron. In
the 'stormy weather of summer it
served -to. predict th approach of a
tempest. A soldier wa always sta
tioned by If when '- the 4 sea showed
threatening sign of storm. From
time to time he put th point of his
long Javelin close to the point of the
rod. Whenever a spark passed between
the two pieces of Iron he rang a bell
to warn the fishermen. ' Gerbert, In th
tenth century. Invented a plan for di
verting the lightning from, fields by
planting In them long stick with" very
harp lance-head. , ; . .
In 1461 Franc wa already lu posses
sion of omnibuses. The Romans sank
artesian , wells even In the Sahara. In
ISSS Papin published an account of an
experiment made by one of his friends.
who caused flower to grow Instantane
ously. The secret, which was not re
vealed, lay In-th preparation of th
grounl .
Maasage la an ancient practice and
waa known to the Romana. Paracelsus
speak of homoeopathy, saying that like
I cured by like, and not contrary by
contrary. The speculum, the probe, the
forceps, were known In the year &00;
Indeed, specimen of thera have been
found in the ruin of Pompeii. Aris
totle noticed that sea water could be
made drinkable by boiling It and col
lecting the steam.
Tbe Greek bad wooden or linen
cutraaa so closely Interwoven as to be
Impenetrable by th sharpest darts, wa
modems have not found out the .secret
ot it. The P.omnns had better mills
than ours for pounding ollvea The Chi
1 ZOO. Glass house were found among
the Plots In Scotland and th Celt in
Gaul, and many centuries earlier in
Slam. Grass cloth was used many hun
dreds of year ago by th Chine.
Letters rrom the
People -v
Bond Bonding- fee tha ratur.
McCoy, Or., Nov. 14. To the Editor
of Th Journal W occupy, the ex
treme end of both land and water
transportation; therefore U the farmer
may -sell must be low and all he may
buy high in price, owing to those
natural cpndltions, which are very much
aggravated by our national law,' com
merolal enterprise and railway exac
tion, leaving the farmer little ability
to make necessary and much needed
Improvement.
All our varied Industries are closely
related Interdependent and carried on
far pnnple who heat know their ran In
ment and are - bst able to speak for
themselves. When we come to consider
our roads, surely , the ' farmer must
know a great deal about them. What
th roads are today Is what we make
them, and what they will be In the fu
ture will entirely depend on what we
make them. ' 5
In this valley right well' we know th
foundation of good -road work Is thor
ough drainage. - We have no elevations
and few low stretches of road where the
necessity of drainage I ' not self-evident,
and scarcely a culvert but should
be built with tiles Instead of the costly
planks which need continual attention.
Ability I the abaolut requisite to ac
complish any undertaking, and If we get
th support of all our Improvement and
development leagues It will be easjr. to
establish tile factories and work them
with our state prisoners for . the sole
benefit f our roada. If tile were dis
tributed In the various road districts
easily accessible to the small farmer
he would use there greedily and be glad
to pay well for them, especially If he
could pay in road work. And be sure
hi work 1 the best obtainable and re
quires no gun guard.
Drainage to the wet land Is
necessary a Irrigation Is to the dry
lands. Properly tile drained land re
ceives a great and mating benefit,
reaching away into the coming cen
turies, and you should know that the
power to til thl valley would be th
greatest .blessing that man can confer
on It.
Commerce, transportation and all our
Industrie receive benefit from such
Improvement and will be sure, to glv It
their hearty assistance. And remember,
if w do anything in this line, we can
never take It back. Nobody can steal It
and tt will be all that many, very, very
many, of u will leave behind for th
coming generation.
H. ALEXANDER.
Immortality and Xnntanlty.
ancWi-NoW 19. TO tB: EdHorof
The Journal "Student" hope that "In
vestigator" Is not In error when ha say
In substance, "Th soul and Its ability
to exist In a conscious condition after
the death of th body can be sbsolutnly
demonstrated." - That subject t alto
gether too sacred to admit of levity;
th statement wa made after due de
liberation .and forethought Proof ara
ample, clear and conclusive. The prom
lee of th name on the scroll of fam la
not very alluring; th .supplanting of
doubta and fear- with eertalntiea car
ries It own reward.
"titudenf and others are welcome to
the fact and proof, but the subject I
really too large for "The Letter From
the People."
Thl I no monkey business, no deslr
for (heap notoriety, no hope so, or be
lieve so; It's know o, and the f sets to
bck it, - j : . INVE8TIOATOR.
' Ought to Protest i
From th Corvnlll Time,
"Our farmer ought to get -together
and protest against th further payment
of (0 cent a ton extra freight because
of th canal and lock at Oregon City,'
waa th remark of a farmer on th
atreete yesterday. And so they ought.
They ought to protest and they ought
to petition. The grange ought to Join
In th agitation. Now I the time and
thl th con g res to open th Willam
ette and free lu trafflo from paying to
cents a ton locks g fee, it cost tha
farmer of th Wlllamett valley many
Uwusaa4 dollars svarjr year, - -i
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BIRDSEYE VIEWS
cf TIMELY TOPICS
SMALL CHANOE. li:
Still the land la 'not gobble4ea. '
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Lawyer- don't right duel th days,
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Dr. Crapsey wlH have a larger hearing.
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Thing never taste so good th day
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It won't be lohg til th next on
Christmas. , v ' : -
It is doubtful If no-Count Boni was
very thankful. ' -
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Peary - ship Roosevelt was mis
named; it didn't get ther. .
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Why- wasn't Knocko, 'the monk, sub
poenaed at the Caruso trial?
Portland la looking up more and more
all th tint at th new building. .
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Some people are dubloualy thankful
that they are alive after eating so muon.
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Th pumpkin Is tasteless thing, but
some pumpkin pies really tast good,
gome. . ; .,. .
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Th person who live In Oregon and
Isn't thankful therefor dotan't deserve
a very nappy- Thanksgiving. .
Some people who think they know all
about running - a newspaper . haven't
learned yet to writ on only on aid of
th copy paper.
A doaen year ago th young woman
of Kenosha. Wisconsin, formed an anti-
matrimony club and it waa a great suc
cess. They sr all married.
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"Give th hen a rest." aay th Pendle
ton Tribune.- Judging by the price of
eggs the " blamed laay thing ha been
resting moat of th time, lately. I
A Cleveland defendant plead the In-!
creased cost of living a a baal for aak-
Ing a reduction in alimony. But doesn't
It coat more-for grasa widows to live
also? f
Another big Job for next week read-
lalrtnnt'a message. But fort u-I
nately no big stick will make us doTt
unleaa we choose. Ther la a little liberty
lert in tnis country yet..
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District Attorney Jerome, It Is reported.
ha discovered something about gambling
In .New York. - This ia wonderfully
strange and ahows what a phenomenally
smart man Jerome must be.
T
Englisli Papers
Mr.' Hearst's SouL
' From th London Chronicle.
W, T. Stead claim to have been -Mr.
Hearst's journalistic stepfather, al
though he admit, that hi offspring
ha developed tn an unexpected direc
tion, of which he doe not approve.
- "It wa In 187," ld Mr. Stead,
"that I first met Mr. Hearet, lust a
short time after h had got hold of the
New Tork Journal. I found him In hi
hlrt leves, writing. '
t- watched yewr career, said
Mr. stead to mm. ana i want to snow
whether you ere th man I have been
looking for. 1 am convinced that man
will arlae In America who will carry
out my Ideal of government by news
paper for tha purification of publlo life
and moral righteousnea. Ar you that
man? You hav wealth, you have abil
ity, energy, enterprise, but have you a
souf? Your newspaper up to now I
like a magnificently-equipped, vessel In
mld-Atlsntic, without chart or wheel,
drifting about aimlessly. What I want
to know Is. hava you a aoul?"
Mr. Hearst ws not prepared to an
swer right off whether h possessed
such an artlcl in th Journalistic or
any othr na , ' ' ,
"Hav you ever read Ruaaell tawalfa
introduction to hi 'Plou - Editor'
Creed' T" asked Mr. Stead. Mr. Hearst
had not. ("1 fear.' aald Mr. Stead, ne
had not read much.") "Wall, promise
to read it before you go tp bed tonight;
study It, and take It to heart. Ther
ar only about a hundred, certainly not
more than a thouaand. men tn America
who count. They ar th brainy men,
who Influence and formulate publlo
opinion. Oct them all into your paper,
and expose wrong-doing and abuse
fearlessly. Get yourself Into prison for
some eaus for- th sak of th people,
and you will b th strongest and big
gest man In America; but you mut
hv a oul." ,
Mr. Sted did not see Mr. Heswt
again for some year, but th yellow
Journalist afterwsrd admitted that Mr.
Stesd hsd mad th biggest dent In hi
mind of any on whom he had met. Six
month after Mr, Stead's visit. Mr.
Hearst mad msny new move, and very
frequently cabled to Mr. Stead aaklng
hi view befor launching hi cbeme.
Mr. Hearet. however, haa disappoint
ed Mr. 8tad in two way. H ha
gon litfo public llf Instead of making
it hi buina to control publlo men,
and h hssvhas yet been in prleon, al
though, according o hi numerou n
mle, thre are many Taon why h
ahould hav achlvd thl distinction.
: . Hd Strong Oauae. - ,
From th London Expr. .
' Th blacker Mr. Hearet, th man, la
painted, the etronger mull hav been
hi cause. Dr. 'Heber Newton, a min
ister of standing and Int.uene. put th
point very well 1n a letter- In n of th
New Tork paper. H did 'not pretend
0 whitewash Mr. Hrst personally.
H gred that the man deserved much
of , what wa sld agalnat him. But,
continued Dr, Nwton. "It i an In
sult to th American people to suppose
them capable of being led by euch a
demagogue; had he don nothing for
them, did h repreaent only Imaginary
grievances, ranting- merely in 1oo
talk about soelal wrong' tea Mr.
Hughe aald of him). .
Th fact, la. w tak It. that Mr.
Hearst haa both a solid rcord, snd a
strong eaus behind him. Whatever
may hav been hi motiv and hi
method, ha ha -uoeded in doing
much, and In doing what greatly needed
to be done. At hi last meeting befor
th election, Mr. Hearst boasted, among
othr thing, that h bd fought and
killed th fuel ga trust snd th lc
trust; that h had fought th bef trust,
and. given th government Information
which Induced It to take action agalnat
the railroads for encouraging that truat;
that h had brought th coal trust into
court, and oompellod ' th t trust to
reduce it prloee. Mr. Hearst Jour
naUam may be "eUew," but U la a
IS
ORgQQN SIDELIGHTS.
Two new sawmill are under eongtruo
tlon near Crawfordavlll.
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Aa fin prune aa any' In th world
packed at Albany, clalma th Democrat. . -:
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commercial elub ha bean organlasd
in Brownsville and advancement along
all line I expected. .
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.Moy wildcat are being killed la Til
lamook county. They are not enl
harmful when alive, but their akin are "
valuable. .
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The Woman' elub of Aatoria ia n
deavorlng to hav all the hlatorlca!
points tn Clatsop county marked and
preserved. - . , , ,
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A drunken aheeplierder cost hi sm
ployer tl.SOO last week by letting a
flock of mutton sheep get Into a field
of standing wheat near Walla Walla re"
ultlng In loss of iu head.
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tt takes three ' day for Portland '
paper to get to Coo Ray town, and -then
they are frequently soaking wet.
which cause what seems to be a Juatt
riabl kick at th North Bend harbor, .,
.' Junction City Times: This week the.,
editor edited, threw In th type, rustled
copy, set the type, kicked the Job press;
changed th ads, read and corrected
proofs, yanked th . bandpress. mad .
fire, swept th office and attended to ,
our own business besldea
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A; full-grown deer walked In among
th cow on a farm eight mile from
Albany, the first on een that far down
In th pralri country for 20 year. Th
cow did not receive It ' very hospit
ably, being afraid, and it soon sktdooed,
for th mountain. . , '
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A Benton county man started 11 years,
ago with on lit cow; and now hit a
herd of II choice Jersey bringing in
for cream alone Over t00 year. In
addition he ba mad considerable from
his pig fed largely on the sklmmllk.
and alao from the sale of calve and
cowa, a ha improved hi herd. , - '
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Aurora fiorellat
Thankaalvlnu I
.,, .m we must h... slur.
kav for dinner" thatayielse"blr
chicken or a goose, but we prefer tur
key-- good big fat fellow. Now, th
man who present ua with a turk w
will glv half a column wrlteup tell
all about him and what a good fellow
he la. The one who brings In a big
chicken or a goose gets-a quarter of a'
column wrlteup along th same llnea.
on Mr. Hearst
Journalism which haa mad Itself felt,
and got things done.'. And they ar '
things. In th second piece, which tho
people eagerly and rightly desired. Tli
peoplo of New Tork state hav by- a .
majority Indorsed president Roosevelt'
Judgment that Mr. Hearst wa "wholly
unfit" for the governorship; but the
large polL which he secured show that '
th eaus behind th man appeal to - -th
eommon people. It ahould be. noteil
that both in New York and other states
ther ara considerable Democratic gains.
and that labor has obtained aome direct
representation In coagreaa. ' If th
Democrat could throw up a leader with ,
Mr. - Hearst'a energy and- - without hla
personal falllnga, if they could find a
Hearst "with a aoul" or a Bryan with
out fads, they might overwhelm their
opponents on a wave of popular feel-
Ing agalnat the menace of privilege and
th Iniquities of trust. - j
Dealing With Aggressive Monopoly.
From the Pall Mall Oaaett. '
If the election has settled anything,
it I th urgency of dealing' with th
methods of aggresslv monopoly to
which th picturesque - title of th
"Plunderbund" wa applied from Mr.
Haa rat a. platform. - If America cannot
control her truat, then th trust will
control America to her social, moral,
and perhaps material undoing. ' Th Re
publican party haa beaten Mr. Hearet ,
by assenting to hi alma, and It Is now
committed to proving that they can be
achieved by mean more consonant with
th ideal of a civilised and responsible
community. To attack th truat with
dynamlt. as Mr. Hearst proposed, would
be to threaten with chaos, K not with
Irreparable ruin, the whole fabric of
American commerce and Industry. Thee '
great and Sinister combination ar not
Isolated, but Intertwined with every
proreaa of flnanca, production and em
ployment; their Influence pervade the
stock exchange, th bank, and the In
surance com pan lea. their "paper" fill
the money market of th world, and
mill ion a of people would be affected a
aervanta, eustomer and creditor by
any violent Interference with their ro
chlnery. Th practical American 'mind
I allv to the fact, and know that,
however much the pig may be In need
of roasting. It I only a last and des
perate expedient to burn . the houa
down. .' ' . .
None th lea th hour haa arrived
when milder meaaurea must have their
efficacy put to the test. The New Tork
press recognises thl election as "a final
warning," and a a crowning appeal for
-reform to ataye off revolution. - -
A -people -smarting under shameless
and systematic robbery la clamorous
for redress, and If respectable states
manship cannot rl to th occasion,
Mr. Hearst and his mor drastic pro
gram ar still waiting. Mr. Roosevelt
ha for many month been holding up
befor hj party th policy of "square
deal" in commercial legislation, and It
ts tlir to aee whether republicanism
can bring It t bear upon th strong- '
hold of corruption, with elncerlty and
aucces. ,'
' Portland Heart the Protest
Albany Herald.
Portland ha heard th protect of th
Willamette , Valley agalnat paying W
cents a ton loekag to carry our trad
to that city, Tb metrbpoll begin to
how. sign of awaking to tb fact that
t her-back door lie on of th richest
vslleys of tha coast; that the time I
nigh at hand whn people ot thl valley
ar going to refuse to pay W centa a ton
to do business through any port. Port
land la awakening t a realisation of
th fact that peopl of th Wlllamett
valley are seeking outlet elaewher.
Wlllamett valley people ar taking- a
very lively Interest in Coo Bay and
Yaquina. An outlet to the .ocean high
way Without toll I very earnestly de
ll red .by Wlllamett valley commerce.
Last night' Journal had a very sens
bl editorial ea th subject, 1
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