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industry Peri ander.
, PUNISHMENT DIFFICULT.
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. rT-tllE ineffectiveness or unsttis
1 factory results . of imposing
fines on railroad officials for
violations of the federal laws has
been illustrated by the discovery of
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
- Lane that the fines of the' first viee
' president and foreign traffic agent of
the' Burlington', road, imposed she
months ago, were paid out of its.
freight account Bach of these of
ficials was fined $10,000, bnt the rail
road paid the fines, along with its
own fine .of $40,000, and the stock
"holders, Iwbo were perfectly innocent,
bad to stand the loss. But perhaps
not, either, for if the usual amount of
dividerids were declared, the amount
of the fines must eventually come out
of the shippers, who are among the
'people prosecuting the railroad and
its officials. . That is, the very per-
onsjjrrongedustelpay the fines
of the people . who . have wronged
them. k ' , . . .
Of course the government makes a
showing of having secured, convic
tions,; and gets the fines for the treas
ury, yet since payments can be made
in this way such, punishment seems
somehow ; not only ineffectual, .but
rather farcical. ..'
. . If, on, the other hand, the govern
ment would send a few of the' offend
"terms, the people would be sure lhat
some measure of real punjsbment had
been meted -out, an such offenses In
railroad 'circles would become unpop
ular. '; : '; ... :
Another way of punishfng the eor-
'potation afca been suggested the im
pounding of its assets, the appoint
ment of a receiver for say 30 days
be a paying method. It is apparent,
however, that even if convictions are
easy, punishments that really punish
the right parties are difficult. .
PEOPLE MUST HAVE COAL.
.EOPLE in North Dakotawhere
there has been a blizzard, are
reported to be freezing to
death for lack of fuel, coal. This
story is likely to be repeated in other
states before the winter is over.
Even where wood is available if pro
cured in time, people were too busy
"or too improvident to provide -wood
lor the coming winter, and as coal
cannot be obtained as usual they face
eeriotse discomfort if not death by
freezing. -;
Qregon is not so badly off as many
states, because its climate is not so
severe and the demand not so great,
yet there is a prospect of consider
able discomfort if not distress even in
this state, with all its .wooded wealth,
because of the lack of fuel We can
get along on wood; we . largely do;
yet coal is a necessity in many cases,
and most.. OregQn ; towns, . including
Portland, are entirely or nearly out
'of coal. And the same is true all
through the Pacific northwest.
Why can no coal be obtained? The
'demand for it has been insistent and
Jncressing all the fall, and yet prac
tically no coal has been received any-
where in Oregon only an occasional
, car or two here and -there. The car
shortage is said by the railroads not
to account for it, but they say the
mines will n'ot supply them with coal.
The mine operators on the other hand
are reported as saying that the rail
roads don't send cars after coal. All
of which is curious, if not incredible,
.especially as in most eases the rail-
rods own or control the operation of
, the mines. . Are the mine -t being
operated? Or haven't the railroads
any cars for carrying coal? Or, is
there a wide-spread conspiracy to
keep coal. from, the people this
winter.?'
, Whatever the reasons .for the un
plcajsant an in some places alarming
. situation, it is inevitable that it should
' rress forward upon people! attention
the- rnai-tnitie ownership' question.
People who will silently pay a high
price for cual and regard public own
ership or control of coal mines as ah
ri!yent 4remi.lLjjppnJbfflpia
think thatBOrnVtbing ought to be and
can be done when the cannot get
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coar-at-awy- prire, aryrl yyitAJn exhaust
ible quantities of it lying in readiness
or miriejs' pk'lt and shovels owly-a.
few hundred miles away.
Coal is one of the great, universal,
prime necessities; good mother earth
has plenty of it stored away in con
venient places for the ; children of
men; it belongs to earth; and to men
tc,w,,Tr,!Li i orjihouldj
and yet " chimneys of . factories are
smokeless- fires in furnaces have died
out, and men, women and children
are even freezing, because they can't
get coal. This condition of affairs
will not be stood long. We shall
have coal-mine laws too,' ere long.
The coal question will confrontj the
lawmaker and the judge, as it now
confronts the millions "of "private
people.
CHAIRMAN-SECRETARY
TELYOU.
COR-
,HE New York World called on
the president last week to
withdraw the name of Mr.
George B. Cortelyou to be secretary
of the treasury,- but of course the
president did not do so, and Mr. Cor
telyou' will in Mue time assume the
duties of that office. "Even though
Mr, Cortelyou had the genius of an
other Alexander Hamilton!" the ap
pointment would be indefensible,"
ay the World. "No chairman of a
national political - committee should
ever be secretary of the treasury. No
man . who has collected a campaign
fund from banks and great financial
Interests should be charged with the
duty of controlling and regulating the
subscribers to that fund." Chairman
Cortelyou at the head of the postof
fice department is bad enough, 4he
World thinks, but his appointment to
the other position it considers "a most
unfortunate blunder, which must in
evitably embarrass the administra
tion. 7 .. , , .
.The Impropriety of making the
chairman of the committee and cam
paign fund collector secretary of the
treasury has occurred to many, but
the president doesn't see it lie hss
kaken a strong fancy to vlhe former
private secretary, and the curious ap
pointment will stand. . The president
if a law unto himself, and if he took, a
notion to appoint Mr. Virgil P. Kline,
Mr Rocfcc feller's attorney, as a spe-
cial prosecutor of the trusts, he would
do so.' ' " '" ' ' :
, THE REED INSTITUTE. '
-TfHOUGH theirs will -be. a labor
I of love, of doing good with
" 6uFspecificTirtdivjdua!rna-
terial rejvard, 'the work devolving
upon the trustees, present and future,
of the bequest fqr the iittd Institute,
and of the institute itself, will be no
light task. To carry out Mr. and
Mrs. Reed's design in the best way
and to the fullest extent will require
aTvasr amourjt of -work, and thought,
and the .consideration of many plans
snd-projects.
The terras of the bequest are very
broad. Under them the trustees have
wide 'discretion. The institute is to
be a place of learning, such as shall
be of greatest advantage -to the peo
ple of Portland- It is to be a place
of instruction" 1npractlcar and tech
nical knowledge, and In science and
art; a place for imparting a knowl
edge of and demonstrating the beau'
tiful as well as -the useful; where old
as well as young, poor and rich, may
learn sjijfthlng 'that will do them
good ione way or another,'
It was a grand concept of a noble
couple and the bequest will be suf
ficient to accomplish much, and in the
future other bequests will very likely
add to the' endowment fund or be
made for special purposes. Results,
looking far into the future, are what
are to be kept in mind, and the trus
tees will no doubt realize as well as
possible the testators' design. .
. "Mr. Ilesrst stands ready at all
times to respond -to the call of his
party," says Chairman "Fingy" Con
nor, ."and It Is his party, too; fur he
bought it and paid for it with his own
money," says the Eugene Register.
For the i Eugene paper's benefit it
might be added, that therein is the
difference between Mr. Hearst and
Messrs. Cortelyou, and Bliss. Mr
Ifearst used his "own money"; Bliss
arid Cortelyou did their buying with
the money of the policy holders of
the frenzied insurance companies,
about $148,720, according to the tes
timony at the insurance investigation
The fact that a million bushels of
wheat are rotting on the station plat
forms of central Washington because
the railroads, will not furnish the cars
to haul the product away is calculated
to tyrn the minds of fhe farmers to
the study of the bankruptcy laws and
literature' on government ownership.
Members of
congress
are in a
rather hard row of stumps; -eif. they
don't raise their salaries on their own
jfliIaliY'SjulbrywQn
and if they do raise them they think
they will be accused of salary grab-
AnCittle Out
THINGS PRINTED TO READ WHILE YOU WAIT.
Napoleon's Life the Stake. .
' Purine 'the greater part of his life
time Napoleon was tc subject of Interest,
a ww. or terror to the most of Europe.
It, wault.. kaxdly-liava ..been(atterlB
to his aeir-eateem, however, had lie
known that ht ti Also the occasion
of the folio win eurlnua wager.
At a dinner party in ltondon In 109,
after the champagne had circulated
freoljr. Sir Mark Sykea offered to pay
a guinea a day as long' as Napoleon
lived to anyone whe would give him
100 guineas down. 'A mlnlater of gam
ing rroclivltlee, the Rev. B. Gilbert,, who
was present, accepted the offer, and for
three years received a steady tneome
ot JBfc g-ulneae a year.
At the end of this time Sykea discon
tinued payment. Gilbert brought action
to recover, but lost his suit
December 18 in History.
1746 Prince Charlea Edward, aon of
rarrf III, of England, won battle at
'nrlth.
1807 Napoleon published Milan de
cree.
1854 Steimer Westmoreland Bunk In
Lake Michigan; 17 lout.
1861 Ptone fleet sunk In Charleston
harbor.
1115 Thomas Corwtn, Ohio states
man, died. Horn July It, 174.
' 171 Fourth National bank of Phila
delphia failed.
1872 Second trial begun of Edward
8, Bloke for murder of James- Fiak Jr.
1891 The. Gulon steamship Abyssinia
burned at sea. ,
18(4 First Pariah oounolls elected In
London.
The ManifcJd Virtues of Salt
Common, ordinary table salt (sodium
chloride) haa many vtrtuea. It la one
of the best cleansers for the teeth and
gums. It Is good for dyspepsia. It Is
excellent for the. skin, and disinfects
wounds ajid sores. It rellevea pain
caused by bee stings and spider bites.
Land Is greatly enriched and grass la
made to grow by sprinkling salt on the
ground. Bait used when sweeping ear
pets freshens them and keepa out
moths. It will put out a fire In the
chimney as -well as revive a coai fire.
Bait In the oven under baking tins pre
vents scorching on the bottom. Salt
put on Ink spots freshly made will re
move. IheuW-jBalt In water will refreshen
cut flowers, and as a head wash Will
prevent the hair from falling.
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Treasures. .
Coleridge.
Ooodness and greatness are not means,
but ends. i
Hath he not always treasure, always
friends
The great good manT Three treasures,
love and light
And calm thought, regular as Infants'
breath. , .
pmn Financiers'.
4 Ttia wealtk of nanv of the .ancient
Romans wasreckoned far Into the mil
lions. Mark Antony during -bis some
what checkered career squandered no
less than 1716.000,000, and Tiberius left
at bis death over 118,000,000, which Cali
gula spent In less than a year. Records
bing.- They-areoo-much-afrald of
the people, whp, don't object to a rea
sonable raise, and think more of a
no -flare r tnr it opemynan
of one who denounces it while hoping
there will be enough others to pass
the bill.
Senator-JosephV!Biley jx-j
presses himself as confidentoT re
election by a good many more than
the neceasary number of votes, but it
may be that some members on whom
relies are reserving a surprise for
him. ; . '
The ' Bandit Raisuli continues to
breathe out threatenlngs and slaugh
ter. What would serve him about
right ts the grip around the neck of a
lariat in the hands of a Moroccan
cowboy.
Dr. Dav of Syracuse haa no dif
ficulty whatever In proving himself
the national Dogberry. every time
ie succeeds in finding a pen he writes
limself down a whole desert of wild
sses.
V.vm if vou can't ride on a streetcar
tr.Aiv vmi tnx'v nut in vour BDolica-
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tion to 'the Don't Worry Club, and
can-begin qualifying for membership
at Once. -. - -
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Talking about the streetcar strike
will remind many people of the fact
that doctors say. walking is the very
bent S"i t of erris :
Cheap Hindu Labor.
"Why not dig the Panama canal with
Hindu labor?"' an expert upon labor In
various lands recently asked. "A num
ber of Punjab Mohammedans, big.
sturdy-looking men, have recently ar
rived in Brltlnh Columbia In the, search
for work at wages which to them are
vey high, but which as we regnrd them
here, are very em's 11. They are not
wanted by the Canadians, however.
"The Hindu laborer Is, ss a rule, In
telligent and rapnble, and would te well
adapted to the. climate or Manama.
Thnra Is a great dal of discontent In
India at the present time owing to the
small wages paid to laborers, and they
would welcome any opportunity . for
foreign employment. The average wage
there Is 83 to 14 per month. In the tea
gardens of Assam they can earn but
81.66. to 81.88 per month, the Isst figures
being the amount paid after four years'
service.
"It Is not surprising, therefore, that
large numbers of coolies should leavs the
country. Indeed, they are leaving. In
such numbers that the matter la receiv
ing the serious consideration of ths In
dian government. Many have gone to
Natal, where they earn from 8-T0 to 135
per month. Prow all accounts they are
most sstlfartry workmen. And an
other point in their favor Is that no
where, 'It' seims, does' (he"same preju
dice against tbera exist as against Chi
nese aoollea.' " ,
of the Common
show that this spendrlft paid 8150,000
lor one supper.
Horace tells us that Pegellus, a sing
er. could In five day spend 140,000, and
Clodlus on a smsll wager swallowed a
part worth aearly- $4O,a00. Tha estate
or Crassua was valued at. 18,400,000.
LucuHus dined at the rate of 18,000
meal Xor several weeks. Lentulus was
worth not less than 81i.000.0rt0. and
Apicus squandered nearly 16,000,000 In B
lew weeks.
"This Is My 71st Birthday."
- Dr. Lyman Abbott eler'gyman and
author, was born In Roxbury, Massa
chusetts, December 18. 1816. - He grad
uated from the College of the City of
iew xork in list, and shortly after
entered on the practice of law In Bos
ton. But the pulpit- possessed greater
attraction for. him, for la a few years
he entered the ministry. In 1880 he
was ordained a Congregational minister.
His first charge was i at Terra Haute,
mqiana, where he remained five years.
leaving tns'injiafia
tor of the New England church in Mew
York city, la I860 he resigned his pas
torate to devote himself to literature.
For some years he was one of the edi
tors of Harper's Magailne and was also
editor of the- Christian Union with
Henry Ward Beecher, whom be suc
ceeded as pastor of Plymouth church,
Brooklyn; , In 1888. During the past six
years Dr. Abbott has ds voted himself
almost entirely to. literary wora.
. A Woman Bet Her Tresses. '
Bryan's defeat for the presidency in
1898 was a sore- disappointment to the
great army of his supporters and in the
aggregate It probably cost them mora
money In wagers than has been lost on
any presidential campaign. In -the na
tions history. Tet money was not the
only thing lost i
Miss Margaret Rogers, a young wom
an of Salem, Massachusetts, was so
enthusiastic In her adherence to the
free silver cause, and so certain of
Bryan's ultimate triumph, that she made
her dark brown locks the stakes on the
election. After the returns-came In she
submitted manfully to the hairdresser's
,. A Phenomenal Increase. " .
There has been a general Increase In
the value .of farm lands, equipment and
buildings of ever 21 -pet csnt during the
last five .years. The highest Increase
haa been ' In the south and west and
the cotton lands show the greatest
changa. ' This is all the more remark
able In view O.C the fact that In some
of the eastern farming, sections, where
the soil has been robbed and where the
"country estate" owner has not invaded,
there has been a material dec re ass in
values. -
The Only English Pope,
The world haa had only ons English
pope. . That was Pope Adrian IV. who
.waaa.iiatlveby blrth of Langley near
Saint AlbaniTTnHerffordfititrc Hfrlrvsr
name was Nloholas Breakspear. and he
left his native country as a beggar and
became a servant ls a- monastery In
France. He was a devout man. and tils
rise from, this time ,waa -steady until
he became pope.
A Useful Guide to
Giveri
By Wex Ponea
Tns Christmas Spirit the woods and
the papers are full of It Just now. Ths
Christmas Spirit gives the humorist and
the pathoslst that should- be as good a
word as the ether unlimited opportu
nity. ........ c
TbeCrirtsttnaav Splrlt la really the
Spirit of Perplexity. It'a nothing xe
laugh at and nothing to cry over. To
help out thoee assailed by tbe C. S.
should be one's only object. Henoe
General Gifts: ,
An Inexpensive way of giving any one
tl hours of pleasure on Christmas dsy
Is to hand them a check for 86.000. Pay
ment Is stopped, of course, the following
morning.
A deed to a house and lot la almost as
fi-AOJf Vt4V'-fTAi"?nl tn nljtlr nut m. nnn.
existent place for description.
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a set or uicaens, Dougni on me in
stalment plan. Is a pleasing gift and
tbe first payment la merely nominal. '
If you expect to dine frequently at
your friend's home, a case of good
champagne Is a well-advised present.
Books are always welcome girts, and
during the holiday season may be had
In almost all sixes.
For a Woman:
Most women appreciate a nice dinner
set Olve your friend a couple of plates
and she can work her husband to coro-
fplete the service. 1
An ' ugly Chinese vase which won't
hold anything is aure to be prised by a
woman.
A pianola or a sewing tnachlnola is
berter than tbe old-fashioned piano or
sewing machine; A gas-stovola, for
whlchsoores of records can be had, is a
useful gift A mopola, which will wash
any floor for which a disc Is provided
a washboardola a carpet aweeperola
any of these- are up-to-date presents.
For a Man:
If he smokes tobacco. '
If he doesn't smoke no tobacco. 1
A comfortable couch for his den. He
works better snooslng (says so, doesn't
eTJ ;
A bone collar button.
A French racing oar. , , '
A pair of shoe lscea.
P. B Do not give your husband a
safety razor; you can't use It for sharp
enlng pencils. -
For a Child: ,
Anything it likes.
For Another Child.
The some.
. Home-made Presents:
Presents made jbr the giver are more
appreciated than one coldly bought In a
store. fc
To make a piano Buy wire, wood and
so on In the necessary quantities, and
put together as shown In the cut which
Isn't printed herewith.
To make a nice Christmas plum pud
ding Buy a pudding and some pluma
Put the plums In the pudding.
To make a watch Buy some works
and put them In a case. Wind, and see
If It s a go.
Great Work at Small Pay -
The world's greatest authority oa
fishes works for the national govern
ment. ' at Washington.' His name is
Theodore- GIMv-the-multiplicity pf his
titles snd degrees being omitted and
he occupies a room In the north tower
of the Smithsonian) Institution. And a
benevolent and paternal government
r
ajrs Vf. Ol'l for Ms labors the. sum of
1 s'month. He has a personsl fortune
of 8260.000 and I he is s favorite dinner
guest la Washington society1 . ... '
ABUp at tKe Life of
-Gol Jen Bji Jejfonefl.
A new little book written by Ernest
Crosby Is about "O olden Rule" Jones,, the
studious remembraaos of whose unique
life Is particularly appropriate at the
Christmas season. Jones in bis later
career as an extensive business man,
manufacturer and employer of labor, and
as mayor of . Toledo. Ohio, and occas
tonally ea-offlclo police magistrate, was
peculiar In that. Insofar as our social
and Industrial system would permit he
actually put the Golden Rule Into prao
tloe, both In private and publlo life. He
was a man who loved bis fellow men,
not en principle, but instinctively, and In
all -things sought to treat others just as
"Golden Rule" Jones, Who Loved Hit
Fellow Man. . i
he would be treated If their places were
exchanged. When he opened bis first
manufactory he posted up. Instead of
the usual list of rules, simply the Golden
Rule, which he boiled down in speech to
Do unto others as If you were the oth
ers."
Jones was the son of a Welsh laborer,
who came from northern New York,
where the boy had 80 months' oountry
schooling. : At 10 be went to work on
a 'farm, at 14 In a sawmill and oefora
bis majority in The Pennsylvania oil
fields In running an engine. Losing a
young wife and child he went to Chlo,
where he prospered, being an Inventor
of pll well appliances, whlob he manu
factured. He paid his men with no ref
erence to tbe wage scales of other man
ufacturers, but according to what he
could afford, which was more than oth
ers paid, and established voluntarily an
eight-hour day, and later worked for
an- eight-hour- law.'
He gave all his employee a week s va
cation on salary, and a flve-per-cent
Christmas present He wrote weekly
letters to his men. delivered along with
isonnmUi Biinlrrtn.
trying tr teach them- 4he-wrcna ofthe
wage-system and that labor was entitled
to all th profits It produced. He sought
to make bis workmen , feel that they
were as good as harof anybody was, and
he invited them and their families to
his fine home, snd afnoon took bis meal
with them.
He was elected mayor -of Toledo In
1897, and reelected for several years,
thereafter, though opposed by both po
litical organisations and all the' news-paperi-OrlgtnaHy-a-
Republican he oe-
eame a ai-p.rty man, flncmrinp mat
parties were an evil. He though
great need of municipalities was the for
mation of Ideals, that "tt Is the artls
Uo Idea of life that helps us to sea the
possibility of a social order In which
every life, all life, may be made beau
tiful. .
As a magistrate be always managed to
turn the drunkards, bad women, and
other unfortunates loose. He did not be
lieve In jails for them. He put canes
Instead of clubs In the hands ot police
men. He said he would Impose a fine
on no poor person.
There are two methods,- he sal "Of
dealing with people whose liberty makes
then a menace to society on the one
hanl prisons, penalties, punisnment.
hatred and hopeless despair; on tbe other
aaylumsr sympathy Jove, help and hope."
,
Jones was an advocate of publlo own
ership of alK publlo utilities, and accom
plished considerable along this line in
Toledo. He was an Idealist, and wrote
rhymes and songs for his workmen. He
wrote a book or two and several pam
phlets, and many "Letters of Love and
Labor." Hie said the wage system was
tyranny, was damaging alike to ruler
snd ruled. He believed In equality and
arraigned as false the doctrine that a
man's superior ability entitled him to
live at ease off the profits earned by
others. He Believed that good was the
thing with whlcb to overcome evil. When
he died he was preparing to-get out of
ownership, and to make his business a
cooperative affair;
"I don't want to own it," be said, "but
I want to get It ready so as to minister
most largnjy to the common life."
Jones believed in 'the people all of
them. He worked on the thought that
the nation should bs a great family. He
would employ the principle of brother
hood. He was In theory partly anarch
istic, partly socialistic. Hs was a misfit
under present conditions, yet he suc
ceeded In carrying out' his Ideas to a
s-reat extent In his own affairs, and
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"W
W
inuugn n was owosao , m iomirsprihjar)J then x am against nn nuniia,
Dotn sides ne .was universally iovea Dy
all who knew him.
1
He wss called Insincere, dishonest, a
lunatic, an anarchist etc., but, however
impracticable, he was the soul of sin-'
cerlty. He sought to substitute the
Golden Rule for the Rule of Gold. In
one of his Christmas letters to his men
he said:
Equal and exact Justice can only eome
through perfect love. This Is the . force
that Is yet to rule the world."
Crosby says: "I look on him as a sort
of visitor from some other planet, where
brotherhood and harmony bave been real
ised In common life, dropped down heru
In a semi-barbarous world and calmly
taking bis place In the midst of its
crude and cruel Institutions." '
Bequests for Animals.
BV the wily of Benjamin D. Weeden,
one of the wealthiest property owners
of Providence, R. I., bequests ars made
for support of a favorite mare, twd dogs
and a parrot Mr. Weeden was a lover
of animals. He thought a great deal of
his horse, snd was greatly attached to
bis dog.. In the will, which he executed
on May 18,. 18(8, he provided thai a spe
cial trust ,fund of 110,000 be 'set apart
from the Income of which payments
'should be made annually as follows:
For the support of his favorite mare,
Kitty, ItSOr hts 8og, Ldrtla, ei..Ms
parrot, Captain Corcoran,, f 1 0; bis wlf e s
pug dog. Puck. 1100, . . - r.: - i
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IRDSBYE
. '. - SMALL' CHANGE,
Shaw predicts dire disaster after ha
retires from the treaauryshlp.
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r "Come home early. - please, .- dear,
Tou bet; think I want to- walk f .
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A big snow over Christmas would be
a notable event for western Oregon.
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'last Sunday was "Peace Sunday,"
but It didn't look very much like tt In
Portland. , - - -' ,
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There ia no ground for hope that
Christmas will be any saner ar . safer
than usual.
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It's getting to be more abd more of
a world In whloh hardly anybody can
do much as ha pleasee.
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If lumber keeps going up a good
many people will have to take to living
out tf doors for their health.
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.The I aspirants for olerkshtps in the
legislature are busy, and the ' .usual
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clerkship graft may be expected.
In a strike, both sides always have
the battle entirely won, from the be
ginning, according to the leaders.
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When one. man addressee another as
my dear man," -4t means that the
speaker has a poor opinion of the other.
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Six more messages this week, it Is re
ported. What does that great ganglion
of nervous energy at the White House
expect of ordinary congressmen?
There seems to be a sort a con
sensus of opinion that it s going to
snow some time this winter, but nobody
has any sure advance tip on the fact
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An Ohio jury has awarded 825,000
damages to a young woman who bad
both -legs cut off by a train, and it
doesp't appear that she was a chorus
girl either.
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Puget sound people are laughing at
Portland's occasional weak attempts to
tabllsh a Portland-Alaska Una They
have np fear .. that Portland will aver
really do anything and maybe they are
right -
A Wlllametfa valley mayor proposes
to send a lot of Oregon girls through
tho east to sing and perform In adver
tising Oregon. Good saneme; with a
choloe bunch of Oregon girls selected,
about 10.000 eastern young men would
follow them home to make love to
them. ' But what Is still more dealrable
Is eastern young men who are already
married. .
Letters From tte
riGrUrrntInteret-
Ballreeds end Charge..
- Waldo, Or., Deo. 14. To the Editor
of The Journal "It is often Important
to a city or a county whether we do
certain things, whether we develop a
territory or leave tt dormant"
So said K. H. Harriman at the recent
Trans-Mlssisslppl congress at Kansas
City. Twenty-five years ago and up tp
within two or three years the steamer
nclSCO
and Crescent City carried frelghta at
the rate of 82.50 a ton measurement, the
wharfage and lighterage at Crescent
City bringing It up to about 15 a tone.
These steamers . were, then and are. yet
very largely carriers of redwood lumber
to the Bun Francisco markst and were
only too glad to get as much back
freight as possible in the place of bal
last at 88.60 a ton. At this rate In
terior merchants 'could save something
on slow freights over the railroad
charges, and at the same time give bis
customers a little teaming to do deliv
ering freights to and from his store.
This feature was favoYable to the busi
ness Interests on old lines, but It evi
dently was not the kind of development
Mr. Harriman bad An mind when he
uttered his speech af Kansas City. i
Common rumor has it that some two
or three years ago the Hobbs-Wall com
pany, owners of the steamers, sold
them to the Harriman system of "devel
opment" entering into a written con
tract with the purchasers that they
were to csrry all freights-for Hobbs,
Wall Co. at ths old rate of 82.60 a
toft, but all other freights to Crescent
City, for Del Norte County, California,
and southern Oregon Have been raised
by Mr. Harriman to $8.60 a ton. Add
to this the. wharfage and lighterage,
and also team freights to southern Ore
gon, and the sum total Is handgun's. .
Now, if the people would heartily co
operate with Mr. Harrlman's plans for
developing a country; if they would only
remain doolie and let the Harrlmans
and Rockefellers pluck from their skins
the feathers that were put there by
nature to keep warmth In the body, what
a happy elate of affairs It . would be.
I am lit tavor of railroads legitimately
built owned and operated, but when a
railroad la Illegally and unjustly against
me and my business ana against my
neighbor and his business until neither
of us can prosper (and ndbody can pros-
n hut tha watered railroad atoca gam-
wittfevHry opportunity tu no yt
leht thing by the people, tbe pow
tha
right thing by the people, the power
being all In their hands, and prosper ac
cordingly, if the railroads by their per
sistent greed will not be fair, then the
people should, and they will, rise In
their might and with the "greatest
Christian politeness" eompel them to
follow the laws as to profits on aotual
capital Invested as readily as they call
for legal protection of their property
Investments from which the profits
C0Judge Jerre Black of New Tork City
once rendered a lengthy opinion defin
ing tbe people's right to govern rall
roada He said that unquestionably
they have that rlght snd that If ths
railroads' were exorbitant 'In their
charges the people could take posses
sion of ths roads and operate them, al
lowing the builders a "reasonable com
pensation on actual Investment" Hs
said tha ' railroads occupied , the ssme
relation to tha people as do the wagon
roads. . " '
Can Messra Harriman- and Rockefeller
ftftd other arlstocratlo pirates afford to
measure their profits by their ability
to override the law? Can they ssk tbe
enforcement of ths laws tO.Jrotect their
Immense property holdings against such
things as happened a few days ago in
Kentucky, when the people, exasperated
by the eonduot of two tobaooo trusts,
b timed... ana eut and dynamited the
other? Csa they get behind tha lw-!n
such Instaneee and ask the people te
VIEWS
I
TIMELY TOPICS
OREGON SIDELIGHTS.
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A Newberg man baa 10,000 gallons ot
cider,. whJoa la being converted Into,
vinegar. ;
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. A Sllverton man marketed a .sow II
years old, from which he had raised
too pigs. - .-.....
A 88,860 Percheron : stallion ' lately "
bought by farmers near Uugene died
last week. -
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Newberg a population haa been- asoer
talned by the Graphto to be 1,814, a gala '
of lit Jail mosaha . ..
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A " Newberg man : is going into the
homer pigeon business extenslvsly, hav-
tag recently purchased 100 birds. -
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A turnip 41 U Inches' around and
weighing II pounds and a squash .
weighing TS pounds, are on exhibition -In
Corvallla t -r--
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'What haa become ef the old-fashioned
farmer who used to bring In a bssket
of sparerlbs and backbones to the edi
tor? asks the Eugene Register.
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For nine years a farmen living nine .
miles east of Corvallla haa raised an
average of SO bushels of corn to the
acre and this year he had f 0 bushels
per aore. , . - ' , , .
Balleton correspondence of Independ
ence Enterprise; Car shortage is all
the cry. We need them for wood, hay.
potatoes, hope and wheat, and they are
needed badly. , .
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There is a strong demand for dairy
cows, sheep and good horses In the
Willamette valley. Hardly a day passes
but what there are buyers seeking eltbee
one or the other. : . . .
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It Is now a certainty that the sea.
tlon of Washington county around Car
vallis Is most favorably adapted for wal
nut growing. There Is no more profit
able crop, and a good nexny trees bare
been set out
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' Central Point Herald: While the Hood
river valley and the Willamette valley
are sorapplng about the excellence of
their apples, the epicures of ths world .
are busily munching ths Rogue river
valley product "Never tasted anything - -so
good in my life."
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A Washington county man arrested
for beatlag his wife admitted that he
struck ' her with a pitchfork handle,
struck her In the face with his fist
pounded her in the ribs and fired roots
at her "hundreds of times," but swore
that they wore all aocidenta '
People on Topics
snforce them for their protection . and
at the same time set these same laws
aside at will and rob the masses who
constitute the very basis of tbe value
of property and upon whose 'good be
havlor every dollar Invested in this
country ' depends? -
.. . W. J. WIMER.
Hamanlty and Immortality. .
Portland. Deo. 1?. To the Editor of I
Tt)l Journal fin hlB n""St1"t
not expect to be heard the second time
In your paper. Now those who seek for
light on the subject elsewhere than In
the Blb1 will not find it It Is not in
the realm of. the sciences to give light-
on this question. We -have no author-lty-ty"Which
we can -call ourselves men,
or say that we have souls, or are souls,
or that we have what we call a spirit,
exoept on the statement found originally
In the Bible.
Wben a man believes the Bible, he
can understand why It was absolutely
necessary for the Son of God to M
clothed In humanity, to do that waa to
be born of a woman. He then being
God end man. dfmld save man. Maa be
ing mortal, hju no Immortal life in
himself, and he was therefore lost But
Jesus Christ being the author and giver
of life offered & return nun his loet
life again on conditions: the remission
of his sins, and that required ally and .
Innocent blood to, pay the price of eter- ,
nal life, which is Immortality, i
Now, when there was no eye to pity,
snd no arm to save, and man was with
out hope of ever living again, God gave -his
only son to die, to be- burled, to
rise from the grave, and te live again
forever. So thst mortal man because
of his faith and obedience In Jesus
Christ will be resurrected from the
grave and given life again, life" that
will never end; then he will be Im
mortal, and not until then: this Is'ssl
vatlon pure and simple, as tsught In
the Bible. i
Now, to correct a common error: that
ts, that the - soul or spirit of man is
immortal if the soul or spirit Is Im
mortal, invisible. Intangible, flesh and
blood would not have served to pay the 4
debt If men is a spirit or an Iramor- '
tal soul, snd in a lost condition and
must be saved. It was useless for Christ
to be born of flesh and blood he be
ing a spirit from the beginning was fn
the right form te save a spirit but be
did not eome to save spirits, but came
clothed In humanity to save man, and
place him on this earth again te live
foreVei, then lie will be Immortal. ' "
J. Rlgdon of Salem saye the so-called
dead, are alive. The reason that he be-
lleves that la because those wicked -angels
that wsre cast out ef heaven
upon the earth, are eonstsntly manifest
ing themselves to us In numerous ways
to .continue the deception that wae be
gun In the garden of Eden, vis.t Thou '
shalt not surely die." . Somehow Mr.
Rlgdon seems to think that the 'devil .
told .our mother the truth, notwith
standing - all her children die. Thoee
evil spirits s re yet trylnerto prove to
us that we do not die, and the strong-
est deception offered today to prove to
ne that we do not die, but transcend,
or evolve, or pass out to a spirit life
is to appear to us In some- mysterious
way,, shape, sound, or person of some
of the human race thst bss died. Satan
could not appesr to our mother Eve In
the person of some man or woman that
once lived, because no one had died
at that time, so he appeared as a ser
pent Any maa who believes that he
has a message or a presentment from
the dead Is Imposed upon by some
evil angel. For the living know that
they shall die, but the' dead know not
anything, neither have they any more
a reward, Jor .the memory.of tham-4e
forgotten. Ecc, t and t. Also their
love, and their hatred, and their snvy,
ie now perished; neither have they any.
more a portion forever "In any'
thing that Is done under - the - sun.
sixth verse, ' ' '
J. O. raOKBSTEU .,
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