Editorial Page of ournal The I: i V i . I lis h t i . f "X THE JOURNAL .iH INDKPKNDBNT WWSPAPKB. c a. JACK SO.... ...IMUe slDabt every ermine- l"""1 . . in., rutk wl XuUai) m fortUB inc. rut sad ICwdUII Orefioo. . htm it the pctofHc t PortUad. 0J. lb trtamUlA elue Butter. tbrouaa im - tKLXPBONCS . IitltorUl Boons... InUM OtSeei. Vrtea4 Benjamin Berfal awjirtas las, Cbtolf, - - - " - - BslMcrtptWw TwTrt br tl i on united autM, t'o(i ta ear lt Mellee. . ....- MILT. . One rear ..,..sa oo om beeta f" SUNDeT. - e Am ii..,..v t'M I " nota..; , DAILt AND aVNOAX. ' n.. ' S7.00 I OM Boats;... .'... ' Habits are eoon assumed; but when we strive to atrip them off, 'tie being flayed alive Cowpet. .... THE MESSAGE. - 'HILE, the president flaya the "muckrakera" and "apostles of discontent," be inferentially admits that there is much to be discontented with, and ; warns, the "ultra-conservatives" that . they are the cause of the. growth of socialism in fbe land. He commends congress" for its good work, but de clares that the government must be given greater control of the railroads i ' and interstate ' corporations. He hsin't a word to say against Chair man and Secretary Cortclyou, of V course, but' he is opposed to cam paign contributions by the trusts. He .shouts prosperity at the outset, but insists that railroad employes and all ' government etnpjayerahould hiveari , eight-hour day. He doesn't say that all the coal should and does belong to the people, but he has withdrawn from entry, and wishes congress to legislate accordingly, sash cbal lands . aa have not )ret been fraudulently or Otherwise obtained by private persons . or corporations.'- He has nothing to say about how the multimillionaires ,' obtained their vast wealth, but kug-gMttlbatJhepubliLlaiejLJiule-toll - form it when they die Not only-Abe ' railroad rate law, but the meat inspec tion law, should be amended. He "chants the praises of peace, but holds that an occasional war is the usual an4 ordinarily ., the only means by wnicn a .nation can nccomc grciij therefore we should have a great navy and a fine army. . He quotes from !TaJigcsSejcetark.Taft and Root, but doesn't mention Shaw. He urges -the desirability of a greater American merchant marine, but does not say whether the ship subsidy bill is good .or bad. - He eulogizes agriculture, but utters no protest against the 'tariff ... Jaw that extorts involuntary contribu tions from the many for the benefit of . the few. On the whole, we guess it is a pretty good message, though it might have been a good deal stronger and better in spots. EUGENE'S OPPORTUNITY. fTTHERE is merit in the conten I tion of the Eugene Guard in an article reprinted in another column. An ultimate aim with refer ence to the Willamette ought to be to render that stream navigable to Eu gene. " The possible in the line of making rivers navigable is unmeas tired.' What the. hand of man has done in this respect is observable in the growth of the Great Lakes' com merce irom tne . little schooner pi a few hundred tons to the 15,000-ton steamer. Artificial aid to the Thamea has made London accessible to huge ocean-going steamers and lifted Manchester commerce from nothing to hundreds of millions an Dually. ; In the case of Eugene, not a. lack of waterflow, but rather snag, shoals "removal at little comparative cost, re the barriers to steamboat naviga tion. .When the Oregon City locks are made free, it will be of vital im- , portance that the navigability of the river shall extend to Eugene so that important city may share in the ben efits of the removal of the 50 cents ' per ton differential which the lockage fee gives the railroads. If plans for " audi an improvement are not at hand, - provision should be made at once by ' congressional appropriation for an immediate survey. The Eugene peo- pie should be leaders in the enter prise, and, in speeding it they ought to be clamorous advocates of an open . Willamette aa a first step toward an ' improvement which, as the Guard .well says, means so much to the fu- ture Eugene. ' j ' ' The imminency of a terrible and bung-starting conflict between this country and Japan becomes more ap parent the more the correspondents write about it. That we had a, cap itt chance of pulling the tail feathers it the oriental game cock was freely predicted some time ago, but the uutt uiitful predictions kit Indulged ' ' i in by the correspondents tince they discovered that in fight with Amer ica the mikado would have the active aid of the Gtiroshur of Man. LET'S HEAR FROM ORANGES. I T WOULti be particularly per tinent and in order Jor the v grange., of Qreionto express themselves not only on the subject of the improvement and opening of waterway in generat, but just at this time in favor of free locks at Oregon City, and of such steps by the govern ment or the state or both as the farm ers think best to be taken. The farmers have a peculiar right to be heard on. this spbject, and they can speak effectively through the granges, as they have on other questions. A strong,- earnest;-well-expresseirTflea on the part of the granges should have wejght in congTess and in the Oregon . legislature. All legislators are friends of the farmers, or say they are; so tell the lawmakers whatyou want with reference to this matter. The granges all over the country are among the strong and reliant forcea that are pulling for greater ap propriations for rivers and harbors, and the Oregon granges' can make a special pull. Jor an. appropriation for relieving the Willamette river of the freight toll at Oregon City, And if the granges think the state should, act in the matter 'let them say so, and say h'dw. If the state did no more at present, it might at least cause a aurvey of the cast side site to be made, with a view to making locks there, if purchase of the existing locks could not be made at a' reasonable price. Perhaps the state should do a good deal more than this, especially as such action might influence con gress- to act-in con j im ctidrr-wit hth e state. What do the granges think? Lawmakers in Washington and Salem should hear from them.' , THE PATRICK CASE. G OVERNOR HIGGINS 'has announced that he will com mute Albert T. Patrick's death sentence to ' imprisonment ' for life." This will give Patrick'iattor neys .and . friends - prolonged oppor tunity ip convince the authorities that tie was convicted on insutticiept it not perjured testimony. Patrick's alleged victim, a rich, decrepit old man, Wil liam Marsh Rice, has been dead over Six years snd two months, and Patrick was arrested ' within a month after Rice's death, v AH thia time he has been in jail, '-and has several times been apparently almost "up against" the electric chairbut he will yet-die-4 a natural death. ;' While in jail he married his former landlady, and her persistent efforts in his behalf have riot , been in vain. Among his at- toneys have been ex-Governors Hill and Black, ex-Senator Lindsay,, ex Judge Olcott 1 and others; and men prominent in public and private life, among them ex-President Cleveland, have urged the probable injustice of the sentence. Many physicians have united in an appeal for reversal or clemency on the gronnd that the evi dence was not proof of his guilt The principal witness against him, Rice's valet Jones, has been proven a man unworthy of belief. It is one, of those cases where the probabilities of guilt are strong against ie, ac cused, yet admit of, a "reasonable doubt" though the courts have uni formly sustained the verdict against Patrick. If Patrick is guilty, he will have been severely punished; if inno cent, no reparation for his long and perhaps life . imprisonment can be made. Such cases are not infrequent and men are hanged or acquitted and the world never finds out the (ruth aa to their guilt or innocence.. People who . credit the president with great moral courage and candor will wonder why he did not come out the ship-subsidy bill in his message. Friends of that measure will interpret his non-committal language at an in dorsement .of it, yet he leaves its op ponents free to say that he doesnot commend it, - ' 1 There is no evidence that- the peo ple would gain anything by beating Senator Drydeh and electing Gover nor Stokes in his stead in New Jer sey, yet to beat old Prudential with anybody would be some satisfaction. A state bank examiner will be a good thing,' providing he is a thor oughly competent man, and really ex amines. Frequently, as it has turned out, the bank examining business has been but a sinecure and a farce. And in all (he message not a word about the tariff 1 Does the president really suppose the subject can thus be suppressed and put out of the peo ple's minds. . ' , ' ' The president's views on injunc tions are very reasonable; if not very specific. He thinks injunctions have been far too often sought and grant- THINGS PRINTED TO READ WHILE - VOU WAIT. Beginning of Steam : Navigation. D. Warren d Rouy, Bhawmut, Pnn. ylvania The value of atcam In naviga tion was demonstrated bjr Penye Fapln In mxlt iteamboat on ta JTulda, near Causal, In' 1707. Tbla waa aoon destroyed by a mob of boatmen.. Jonathan Hull of London. Eniland, aet forth the Idea in a patent obtained In 173. Bernonelll perlroentad wltb a steamboat uln art I flcial flna, and Oenevola with one uln the duck's foot propeller tn 1757. In 1712 li. Perler navlaated the 8ln with a mall ateamboat, -and 4ln 178) Claude, Comte de Jouffroy, comtructd an en- fine which propelled a boat en the Stone. In America James Kumeey ot nnep- pardatown, Virginia, Invented a eteam boat DroDelled -by a steam engine ex- pnlllna; water through a horlsontar trunk epenlna la U stern In lTO. John Fitch of fhlladeipma launcnea steamboat worked . by vertical, paddlea, six on each side, on the Delaware river In 178$. . ' -- The first sractlcal steamboat, the tug Charlotte Dundas. was buHt by William Symington, and tried on the Forth and Clyde canal, Scotland, In March, 1S01 Robert -Fulton, In connection wun Chancellor Livingston. United States am bassador In Paris, built a steam paddle boat 0 feet long, which was tried oa the Seine August . lKO. John 8tevens of Hoboken, New Jereey, built a steamboat with twin-screw pro pellers and an engine supplied by a flue boiler In 1801 Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, leo tons, ran from New Tork to Albany In hours In 'August, 1807. , . , Shakespeare and the Lemon. . From the New Tork Times. Those who regard up-to-data Ameri can slang as being the very quintessence of modern wit will be pained to learn that one of their raost cherished and overworked expressions, the reference to the "lemon," Is at least 300 years oio. being found In tbe works of no less a writer than the Immortal 8hakespeare himself. In act V, scene II, of "Love'e Labor's Lost," wHera the pageant of the Nine Worthies la' being played before Blron and his merry companions, who i'Josb."-the actora to thelr heart'ejcon tent, the following colloquy occurs: Armando (Impersonating Hector in tne pageant) Tbe armipotent aiara, oi lanona u Almighty, gave Hector a glf t Dumaln (Interrupting) JL gin nutmeg. Blron (ditto) A lemon. LongavUle Stuck with clovea. T' Dumaln Not cloven. . It seems to me that the authors of eur slang expressions might at least give oredlt where. tbey received their Inspir ation. .. , - Ceaare Lombroao's Birthday. TCesarelXbmbroso,- prubaMy-the most famous alienist tn-tne wona, was ooiu la yeroaia. D ember 4. 183. waa edu cated at the University ot Turin, where he has been professor of psychiatry xor e'd, and that they should be limited ta extreme and manifestly necessary cases, but that this remedy should not be abolished,' and people gen erally will coincide with this opinion. It is still intimated that Secretary Shaventertainrrtlesigns-on-the-Re-4 publican nomination for president. What a tremendous bump of egotism that man must .have. After the colored people have read the-president's "roast" of lynchera they may be. almost willing to forgive him for firing the colored battalion of soldiers. . The Salm . Journal wants a new name for the proposed Willamette valley "electric railway lines. Why not call them the twenty-first xentury lines? ' ,, ' , ' If "it were certain that the Japa would take the Philippines, it might be well to go to wsr with them to that extent , . - .','' It is announced that John Alex ander Elijah Dowie ia insane, but there certainly js nothing new in that ... -". ; S. Senator1 Foraker "continues to be lieve that thia county will not b happy until it gets him for president '- ' T - -' Oregon's delegation in the lower house of congress is inconspicuous by its presence. JixedJationfc In a certain western town there lives a couple, both of whom, before their marriage, had been widowed. She had been left with four children to face the battle of life, while . he had three to take care of. Today they have 10 children running around the house, and the mother has a hard time to keep pace In the family. Usually the trouble ta between the chil dren of the former marriages, but the other day things were somewhat differ ent, and the woman knew not what to do in the ease, so she rushed out of the house and shouted to her husband: "Oh, John, come In quick; your chil dren and my children are whipping our children." Strange Cargo. From the Kansas City Journal. One of the strangest cargoes ever carried consisted of several tons of dried files, which arrived tn London the other day from Brasll. They are mixed with meal and maks fine food , for chickens. ' They bring If oenta a pound, and there are about IS pounds to the bushel. The importers used to get only 10 cente a pound, but' the demand has Increased greatly.. , . . Well' Insured?, .. From the Philadelphia Publle Ledger. A Trenton man avers that there Is posted oa - the walls of a building In that city the following notice: i 'Tenants should be cartul not to throw lighted cigars or cigarettes' or matches about Otherwise they may set fire ta the building, and oblige Je aepa Robinson, proprietor," t; t many years. Hla fame reata chiefly upon his investigations regarding- criminals and their mental qualities, peculiarities and defects, on this Lombroso Is un doubtedly the greatest living authority. The celebrated alienist has been honored. by medical and other sciooUflo societies of Europe and America, and hla writ ings have been translated Into many Ian guagea. - :, , ; w .T..r..-1.;..r..lw:; December 4 in History. .. IMS Cardinal KieheMeu died. . 1783 Washington bade farewell to hla officers. . ... 1796 Thomas Carlyle born.' ' .,- isa-wri or UverpooL British pre mier during the wark of 18U, died. Born June T, 1770. r ' liW John C. . Breckenrldxe ' expelled rrom the united States senate. 1890 King Kalakaua of Hawaii landed at San Francisco. 1891 Norcroas attempted to assaaslnata Russell Sag by exploding a bomb. isss irofessor John TrndalL famous Bngllah scientist, died.' Bora August XL 1820. v 1900 Oeneral Merctor. la the senate of France, projected the Invasion of Eng land by arms. The Oyater'a Foe. ' ' Starfish, like men. love oysters, and It Is probable that the aea'a starfish, eat more oysters than the world's men. These little creatures, lighting on an oyster bed. each choose a fat bivalve. and alt down on him, wrapping about him tneir nvo nexlbls arms, waiting for the moment when he will open hla shell to feed. When, finally, the oyster does open his shell, the starfish squirts tn upon him a' certain poisonous fluid that kills him in stantly. Dead, hla ahell opena wide and the starfish begins a delicious meal. There la many an oyster bed that yields far mora of Its product to starfish than to man. t . The Abiding Need. Charlotte Wilson In Metropolitan. - The woman-need la gone that made thy aisa My manna, and a heaven of thine . ayes.-.. , - The patience-preaching . years have made me wise, - Till, In the woods and fields, tne aturdy bliss ' , Ot fellowship and work. I cease to miss xne tnrobDing ache of those old ecsta sies. . Save to remember with a wan auiDrlse. Bometlmes, how long .the road that led to thia. ; V " ' : r T But to be sure that somewhere, strong ana wnoie. Thou llveet. striving, noble though be- Master again of the essential soul I doubted when my crul wounda were . - WBfr .... This, long" my. deepest, direst need of thee, O. once beloved 1 It Is granted me. Letters Frorri .tlie People - Kumaalty and Immortality. i Portland. Dee. 1 To the Editor enf ine j ou mar. A STuaeTTt BjrKs Tor demonstration of the existence of con adouanesa , after - it leaves the body, Well. It can't very well be demon strated, but It can be proved.' Con sciousness consists of, the five' senses, which are the constitution of the soul; the soul la the connecting rod between the human and- the supreme being. Consciousness is the production of the friction between the heart and the brain. As the governor on an engine controls the power of the steam, aa well aa the power of the engine, so with the brain; without a governor It would run away with the heart and ruin the body. The brain la tbe foundation of a human being, and the heart la the constitu tion of a human being. The constitu tion of the soul leavea the body and goea from whence it came, working oa the same principle as a water chan nel, and the body goes likewise from whenoa It came. THINKER. ' tt Xa Chaeaotarlatle. Portland, Dec 1. To the Editor of The Journal The statement that the southern negrophoblsts are almost will ing to forgive tbe president for Inviting Booker Washington to luncheon, does the southern people injustice. Southern people are no more negrophoblsts than are northern people. Every southern man worthy of tbe name la perfeotty willing that the president shall Invite Booker Washington to luncheon, and Other negroes, too, as oftan as he de aires, for It ta the president's own affair aa to whom he ahall eat with. However, the president is. only now becoming cog-nlsant of a fact that la known to all who are familiar with the characteristics of the negro and other Inferior races, and that is, that aa soon as he of the Inferior race la admitted to equality with the superior race he immediately assumes superiority him self. Thousands and thousands of northern people have learned thia lev son to their sorrow very soon after sat. iuB-an-a soutnernhomewand aJmoet iiiyji.uijt mey Become ia short order the most- stringent sticklers for white supremacy. .It is strange that It ean never' be learned that two races aa radically variant as are the Caucasian and the Ethiopian pan never be made to live together on terma of equality. Human lawa to enforce such equality go for naught History la full of the proof of thia proposition. It is a matter of auperlor white or superior black. Which shall It be in this country! To ask the question is to answer It The prealdent did right la discharging the negro troops, for how else was he to get at the culprits who disgraced the uniform they wore as well as the aoce sorles after the fact A aoldler la sup posed to obey his superior. These negro troops defied the commander-in-chief of the army in refusing to testify aa t who waa guilty of a dastardly act of which they had knowledge. Now they threaten to go .to the polls in doubtful states and annihilate the - president's party., It la characteristic OEOROE L BROOKS. JTeachlnf la Portland. .. . Portland, Dee. I. To the Editor of The Journal As a comparative stran ger in Portland, bat one who has aat under the greatest preachers of our time, I may be pardoned for expressing publicly, through our columns, my con viction that' you have In Portland' a preacher who takea rank with thoss whose pulpit fsme haa given their names a foremost place In. the evan gelical pulpit of the last eentury. Last evening I attended, the Flret .Congrega tional churcn, where the greatest ser mon I have heard la seara waa given by He Ended the War With Spain :; Opinions differ respecting the mili tary genlua Of the lata William R. Shaftar, but even those who deny him the possession of great ,klll cannot deny that' he took Santiago de Cuba and ended the war with Spain. In war as in peace It la results and not theo ries that count aaya the Chicago Chron icle. . General Shatter .was not a diplomat nor aa army politician. .Up to the be ginning or the Spanish war he waa un known beyond the limits of the regular army. He had nov "pull" and he was neuher aggressive enough nor adapt able enough to further" hla fortunea at the war department. When he waa placed tn -command of the Cuban ex pedition It waa not hla prominence but hla lack of it that won him the. assign ment ; He waa regarded aa a man whs would go .ahead and do what he waa ordered to . do without cherishing any bopea or . expctattonaef political re. warn.---".'.- -.-.. -- - The event Justified the Judgment ot those who selected him.- Rhaftar em barked upon what 'waa truly a most perilous adventure Jwlthout interposing any difficulties or offering any suggen- tions. He was told to-go ahead and take Santiago and. he went ahead and took It without any speotacubr acres- series or appeals to the gallery. The war ended and the power of Spain for ever banished ' from this hemisphere, 8haftar dropped back into the routlno of army life, performing hla duties exactly as before, and when the age of retirement waa reached be went Into private life without any publlo demon stration whatever. His disappearance from the publlo eye excited no com ment. It ia probably, the first time In the history of the English-speaking na tions that a commander who conducted a great ' and successful . campaign against a foreign power haa been al lowed to drop out of Sight, (o all In tents and purposes, aa aeon aa the cam paign ended. - In that respect Shatter U unique. , . - - The Mexican war, which waa no greater shakes than the war with Spain,, made numerous congressmen, senators and governors. It raised UP two presi dential candidates one of them suc cessful, The war with Spain aided no body In particular least of all the man who brought it to a victorioua termi nation; Dewey-received -a- prent-of a house and lot which tha donors soon afterward . begrudged . htm. Sampson and 8chley won -nothing- save heartburn ing and controversy. Nobody aave the lieutenant-colonel of the First Vnlted States Tolunteer cavalry waa evon seemingly advanced by It-and to him It brought the vice presidency, which he did not want- L.-.. Shatter, however, got absolutely nothing.- Tet he won the struggle. Tbe case Is unprecedented. " mt - V illamcttc River Locks 7r t " ' From the- Eugene Guard. If la almost unbelievable by strangere visiting Oregon that tbe people of the Willamette valley .have, submitted for yeara to having been taxed 50 cente per ton, or any other aum, for their produce and auppllee paeelirg through the locks at Oregon Ctty. The habit of bearing Ills uncom plainingly ia aa true to our nature aa That privileged, paras! tee always find resdy sympathy with the masses when ever a newspaper triee to create intel ligent dissatisfaction at any prevailing wrong. It Is the unthinking who hold ell progress In check. The Intelligent reading publlo know that the one and only Important condition favorable to the people which ' the railroads have been unable to overcome la "the water ways. They see, too, an example of what a free canal across the . state has done for New Tork City and the etate. Until the Erie canal waa built Boston and Philadelphia were ' close competitors ef New Tork City, The opening of the Erie canal made New Tork for all time the Empire State of the union and. la helping the city tn Its race for commercial and financial supremacy over all other cities of the two hemispheres. ' It le-not enough that the state of Oregon should make the locks on the Willamette free from toll: It ahould build a eanal from the head of naviga tion to Eugene of a sufficient depth to eccoramodate river ateamers. Such a eanal would endure for all time aneVj Insure water freight rates to farmers and manufacturers; would treble the population 'of the Willamette valley, quadra-pie the value of taxable prop erty and make of Eugene a manufactur ing metropolis unsurpassed by any thing on the Pactflo eoast If there be any who doubt the reasonableneaa of thia statement let them consider that there la tributary to Eugene the most extensive and valuable tract of timber tn the United Statea, - and that thia city haa within utilising distance on the McKensie rtver and other atreama the basis of electrie power eurpassed only by that claimed for the world-famed Niagara falla. ' . Autumn Leavea. ' From the PatI Mall Oaaette. Home have they carried, with song, leav ... lngyha broad flelda bare. Under the round"'Tedmoo!l,-"thJ-Tait rich golden sheavee; And I hear. In the woodlands dim, sad Autumn's funeral hymn -. The dirge of the falling leavee. Alaat ao brief the morn atnee Summer with (aughter played Where the sea-seeking stream her music-mystery weaves. Now ahe lies still as the dead, deep In . her forest bed. Shrouded In shuddering leavea. . But the old quiet nurse to whom all .sad things softly creep. Winter, the wan one, folds her close to her breast, and giievesr Till the promise that doea not die, with a new llfe'e Joy and cry, - ; Stir In the quivering leaves. Dark la my own heart here,' as I list to the winds that weep; . But hope "of days to be my lingering soul receives. - For I know Love's eyee will wake, and Love'e eweet dawn ahall break Out of lift's fallen, leaves. Dr. House. I feel sure that If all Port land eould have, heard that sermon It would have given auch an Inspiration for ohurch attendance that for one whole year there would not be a vacant aeat In that church. ' I I do not belong to that denomination, so I speak Impartially when I say that thia elty doea not know, aa It ahould know, what a privilege .. would ba to attend thia church and hear a living gospel preached with auch power. I am sura rr. House's sermons have no su perior, if Indeed an equal, in the great elUes of the eeatv- J. a UAQl'K. - - - ----- -'- . . .'. . ' . ... BIRDSEYE VIEWS cf TIMELY TOPICS ; SMALL CHANGE. : But there ean be no trial babiea. . ! e,'e -V. " Trial divorcee are already quite fre quent. . ,--..''''"..".- 1 e e ; Well, there'a nothing the matter with good turkey hash. - r - i , A perceptible decline In paper rail road building ia noticeable. . It certainly la time for Harry Thaw to get another additional lawyer. ' -. ' '.- ' e e . But Caruso would have been all right at one of those "400" monkey dinners. ' ' e . e ' . If vou put it off three weeke don't blume- this puragr&pber ir you get crushed' half to death while buying 'em. ' e e ' The hen fa the proper thing nowa daye, aaya the Tygh Bee. How le that, with eggs 40 oenta a dosenT Drat the hen. .. : . ' Between : vacations,.' holldaya and teachers' Institutes, perhapa . children will "get shed" of going to. school at all after awhile. .-.. e .' ' Up In Idaho aome people are trying to ouat a Judge named Budge. But the Judge aaya he will not budge, though he be Judge Budge. ' . ;.Ta5i.ii,.. .-.',. ..-.- . .'" ' Poet Laureate Austin', latest poem la really nearly aa original and (Other wise gqod aa one that the average aweet girl graduate could write. -,: - . t :.. e '. e Ida Tarbell la writing a history of the tarlft ; Think of the eelf -sacrifice of an authoress working for msnv weary months on something that nobody will read. - ' A Minnesota man returned an over coat that he had atolen It yeara before. Hie conscience would not permit him .to wear It any longer, especially as It waa about worn out. - - - The Canby Tribune aavfprealdents of the United Slates are put In that- of fice by the'Hand of destiny. Possibly, but a good many aenatora get Into of fice by the sleek handa of Standard Oil. e e ' ' The Dallea Chroniole, tn narrating the suicide of a young man. aaya ie "had domestic trouble tn which a young woman figured." But did anybody ever hear of domestic trouble without a woman tn It? ' 7 'z'r:-lr. 1 ;'- . e e A Pennsylvania man fattened a pig to send to Governor Penny packer on Thanksgiving, but a bulldog ate up the pig, and the farmer Is In doubt whether to follow the advice of some to send the governor the dog. " . . - . " - The banishment of Mark Twain's Eve's Diary" from New EnglandJ public liDrsry and tha widely circulated report of thia action will cahae tha vet eran huntorlst-phlloeopher to smile Joy ously; everybody who reads the report will want .to see the etchings pt Eve la the garden. . "heGhnstmaspmt Peter Flnley Dunne In the Christmas , . American Magaiine. Ye can't lnjye Cbrla'maa onless ye've got th". Chrts'maa feelln". I. can't Just tell ye what It . Is. but It's aa rale as annythlng that we talk an' fight about th' rest ! th' year. It's as- rale aa th' rate bill, th' tariff or th' Ph'lipeens. I nlver eeen anny tv thlm things, though I' ye taken me life tn me hands imanny a time fr an' again thira. It'a a good deal more rale to me, f r I caa feel it I can hear it an' I can see It. Aa me mind runs on Chrls'roas dsy. I'll vote fr no man f r prlsldlnt who stands on anny other platform but to uphold thlm principles fr which mannjT thousand lv American cltlsens shave almost been cremated thryln' to play Banty Claua. - Chrts'maa brings good cheer, eaya ye, an' ye' re right. Lastewaya ye're part right. Th' thruth la ye can't lnjye It onless ye have th' Chrls'mss spirit, an' ye can't have th' Chrla'maa spirit on Chrls'maa onlesa ye've had It th rest lv th' year. ' T must have it but ye mustn't shew It I'd advlae ye not to. If people knew ye had th' Chrla'maa aplrit at other times they'd take away lvry.tAlng else ye had. They'd aay to thlrosilves: "This fellow looks sthrong, but he ain't He haa a fatal defect He's afflicted with th' Chrla'maa aplrit which unfits htm fr th' erool ethruggle lv existence. Let'a take hla watch." 'Tla betther to give thin to raycelve, saya th' good book. Mind ye, It aaya betther, ' not more naehraL It ain't nachral to do. ayether. It'a alsler to keep thin to give, an' more spoortln' to take away thtn to raycelve. That'a hu man nature, me boy. ' On th' . night lv Declmber twlnty fourth th' man who hasn't th' Chrls'maa spirit standa at lb' head lv his class. He's ehampeen lv th' wurruld. All th' puraea an' atakea an' ehampeenahlp belli heTongB to-hIriKH1a hla pitch ers In th' pa-apers, an' aa he goea by with hie watch chain elankln' on th' dlmon buttona lv bta vest th' neighbors point him out with cries lv rage. On th' mornln' lv Chrte'mas day 'he's up arly an' out In th' sunshine. There'a naw thln' fo'r him to .do, because th' banks ar-re all eloaed. No wan gtvea him th' attention he likes. Nobody looks at hlra respectfully as It " they'd like te . . Steeplechase Fish. ; From the Touth'e Companion. Among the curiosities of nature In the Asiatic world are the little Jumping Ash, belonging to the speclee Ooblua, which may be seen at many plaeea on .the coast of India, and particularly near Bombay. - They pass the larger part of the time on the ahore, preferring muddy placea, where tbey pursue their preyi consisting of files and small erabs and other crustaceans, by leapa performed with the aid of their fins and tails. They are extremely ahy. and their Singularly prominent eyee afford them a good look around aa they lie quietly on the chore In the Intervals between their ehasee after prey. Moving quickly with little Jumps, they are not themselves easily captured. They are sometimes used by fishermen for living bait and are also sold In the marketa. - .'. ; Single Tax In Practice. From the World Today. The dream of Henry Oeorge, aa est forth In "Progress and Poverty," haa become a reality. - There la actually a alngle-tax eolony, the only one in the world thai la rapidly .becoming a thrlT- 13 ' OREGON SIDELIGHTS. eje-BaBjasBBaaBBB Jefferson to have a nsb market , ;' , -' i. - e e . . . -: ' . Spraying apple trees ta now in ordar, There are all kinds of ducks on Skoo- ; kum lake. . :-.' ' -V .'-' . S ; ' Chicken and turkey ateallna- freouen at Hubbard. . . . . e . - '-: Prunes hrtng a or I cents a nound aa Buena Vista- . . There Is a lost bed of pearl mussels near puena vista. . A number of new houses have been butlt lately In Falla City. . . '"-.."... - e .:,;..; 4-, . The" Blualaw flahln 'uaia" iu.r closed was. the besrtn 24 years. If not' ever. , ., .- .. -, .... . e e A large quantity of. a drug plant called datura stramonium Is raised In and near Buena Vlata. -,1 : . Seven sons and one daughter of Mrs. Q. H. Quertn ot Myrtle Point nun a call on her one evening last week. . - , . ... e e - '; ' : A Madras man found a 110 bill and took It to the Pioneer office where tbe owner received It leaving $1 for tha honest, finder. . . .....'.' e - ' The editor of the Toledo Reporter claims that the state la not out of debt because he haa a warrant for money due from, the state. . , , "' . ... t e e . . ' ' " "Me no w an tee selle.- aald a Marsh field Chinaman when offered ttl.OOO for a pleoq of property that he paid 11,000 for four yeara ago. . , e A caravan of six covered wagona and oca buggy, with 10 head of horses and 10 people, passed through Sherman county from Southern Oregon. , -.. ' ' : e . e '. : , . . c An Implement firm at Madras has or dered six sub-surface packers, which' la ample evldenoe tbat tha farmers In that . region Intend to give the Campbell sya teroatrlalnext season. , ' : ...... e -,-. ., 7r 7 ,'The outlook Is promising for black aand mining te become an Important in- . duatry of the lower Coqullle, eays the Sentinel. ' Considerable aand haa lately been ahlpped to Portland tor reduction. ..j i -,. . . a .--': v Depending upon the railroad there are perhapa not more than half a dosen families In Sherman county with a fuel ' supply sufficient to last over February. Thia. is a aerloua matter, says the ' Moro Observer. . " . " ' - - District Attorney Brown of the third district my: 'Tha people of Benton county ought to be proud of their cltl aenshlp. They have but little uae for courte and district attorneys. When . I come to Corvallla to attend eourt, t get lonely sitting In . the grand Jury room waiting for complaints to, come. Trivial rotnplalnta belonging In a 'Jus-, tlce rather than a circuit court are about all that come before me." ' kill him7burdohfdaret7TvTybody Is thryln' to seem happy. Th' pollaman on th' beat feela that this la wan day whin he tan be polite without endan ger! hla -life, - an'- Is ehatt In' merrily with his old tnlmy, th' lootlnant lv thruck nine. Th' saloonkeepers who have holly an' mistletoe hang It out an' those that haven't hang -out a Tom an' Jerry sign. Th' grocceryman haa pret tily dhraped th' box to -dhrted" apples with macarony an' put a Jar lv pre serves on top lv th' mountain lv canned corn In th window. He le supposed to be a stingy man. an' la -moat lv th' . year, but now he'e givrn away th' bad oranges hs waa thryln' to. aaw off on hta cuetemere -ylsterdah. A. good mann people who nlver smiled befure ar-re grlnntn' Evenr th' -motor man looka less like a mlllyonalre automobtllat and more like a. human beln' that'a paid to commit murdher. ' Thin Pluckem, th' man who haan't th. Chrla'maa spirit meets Father Kelly an' wanta to get In on the ground flure. "Th' whole Issue waa oversubscribed ' long ago, an'rth' ray au Its." aaya Father Kelly, "have been eo satlsfacthry that no wan will let go hta holdln'a," he saya. "Wall, "tla strange," aaya Pluck, em, 'but thle le th' first hit lv undhaV wrttln' I've missed In a long time," he aaya. "How did it happen r' he eaya. "Te weren't leit out" says Father Kelly. "I offered ye a chanat to subscribe th' day I paased th' hat re Casey, th' cob bler, whin he lost his leg. Te didn't think It looked like a good thing." ho aaya. "Who got moat lv It?" aaya Pluckem. ' "I don't knew," aaya Father Kelly. "I got some fr meeelf'an' me good f rinds put me In rr aome more. Hlnntssy got a large block an' I guess he's got It yet fr he hasn't used much lv it Dooley waa a large subscriber, but th' reckless fellow prob'bly has used uo most lv hla I think th-'-largeat owner t -easey-himsUf he says; ..I'He got an.'- up ateadlly Ivry day, while ha pegs . away at th' half aolee, an' I guess he'e th' richest man ta Ar-rchey road today, an' the poorest to-marrah," saya Father. Kelly. "I suppose. I'm th' poorest to day," aaya Pluckem. ' "Can't I get even a little? Cuddent ye apare me about two bits' worth to get a night's lodg- tn'r aaya be , tng and Important eommuntty. ' hundred acres ef land were secured soma . time ago by ardent alngle-tax advoeatea In Baldwin county, Alabama, and there, on a" beautiful bluff overlooking Mobile -bay, the pretty -village of Falrhope waa founded. .It has developed Into one at the most prosperous settlements of the atate. . The population of Falrhope ta now ' between S00 and 70S. There are more than 100 dwellings, three general stores, . a dry goods and millinery store, a fine hotel, two drug stores, meat market -bakery, several mills, livery stable, . printing offioe, several shops, occupied by varloua tradea,a neat church build tng, fine publlo aohool building, town hall and lodgee for benevolent er fra ternal organisations. ; No, Thank Heaven, We Don't. rrom the New Tork Mall, , Beaton atatlatlclane calculate that It " oosts one third aa much to live In Boa- ' ton as It does to live In New Turk. '. It la always painful to detec inexact ness In Boston's uae ef lans-usge. in , ' Boston you buy fond and clothing and . pay rent la Mew York you live.