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v How aoen the xnlQenlura
would " com ' If the food
1 : things people Intend to do to
morrow were only don to
daysRobert Louis Stoven
on. THEE" WATER DELUSIVE.
, l-pHS PROPOSITION to "idfi
I . away whfc. water rates en-
: tirely, and ' to ; auppprt the
water system wholly by a tax on
, property, la fundamentally unjust and
' wrong. There la no mora Inherent
', Justice in .providing free water for
' people whf pay no tax in a city than
In providing them wfth free transpor
4 tatlon on street care, free gas and
i electricity, and free bread. To do so
ia to. require aome people to pay for
lone of the neceaeariea of life used by
3 other people and very often a poorer
j man would be paying for the water of
I one financially better off ' but who
j gvadee taxation. '.
f The Journal would rearrange the
water ayatem ao aa to give the poorer
classes of - consumers -7 cheap-water,
would supply them at half or less the
'present cost, and ; would put the
' heavier part of the burden where it
f properly belongs; but it would not es
V tablish here a system of giving some
I people a commodity free and making
. others pay for it. This is not Demo
critic nor in the line of a square deal.
We believe most people who use
water are willing to pay a reasonable,
.1 mn11 nrf trr if c n 4 ninti! A mrl f 1
j. that they were doing their, duty as
' citizens in using water paid for by
r theirneighbors, , ;They do not
1 be treated s paupers, donot want
j something for .nothing, but they do
j want the water system so remodeled
I as to distribute the burden equitably.
J If water were "free" there would
be no end to' its wanton waste, and
there is entirely bo much of this now
I on the part of many who are not re
quired to pay in proportion to what
ithey use. "Free water", has a cap
I tivating sound tp some, but it will not
f stand the test of even a cursory. -ex -
i aminatien. m ,:
The aim should be to make watet
i for poor householders as cheap as
1 possible and maintain the aystem on
t an equitable basis, but there is no
I more - real justice in absolutely . free
' water than in free fruit or vegetables.
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I THE NEWS FROM LINN. 't
laMUVDtf 1. : At., j-
! I ; patch . giving assurance that
I ' '-.Linn county fruit growers are
t organised, and that they want "In
spector Roberts to enforce the fruit
laws to the letter." There are sim
' tlar organizations in Marion, 1. Polk,
, Yamhill and Washington counties,
, but it has not been reported that all
these societies want the "fruit laws
enforced to the letter." ' , '
' . Probably they do. An enforcement
of the fruit la'wa means that farmers
, and orchardists who do not spray
their trees and control .diseases and
pests, must expect to have their trees
'-cut down and their orchards de
stroy ea. ii nas Deen found tnat iruit
- districts cannot thrive with one half
cared for and the other half neglected,
and the law demands that all trees
i shall be cared for or .the orchards
shall be annihilated. A courfae
cision in Clackamas county has up-
' TlVM tV, miA ( V. '.A
- aim 1 . uuw 111c &l,uia ur
ganiiations follow the exam'ole of
lheXinncountyspcietxani secure
enforcement of the fruit laws to the
Mette," a long Mep will have been
..taken for producing as good apples
ia Willamette a&'in Hood River.
But there is another good 'sign in
the Linn county organization. It is
the fact of organ itatkn-r-the discus
sion, the" agitation, the systetnatiza
tion, the Interchange of ideas. ;That
Is what has done so much in the evo
' lution of Hood River. Education has
been going on there for years. Meetr
ings of growers have been held, meth
ods have been studied and ideas have
been mlrrchanged,-. The latest in
scKnceJiasbee applied in the or
chards. , Methods anddevTcei""tliaT
smacked of the .flail, the gra cradle
and the ox yoEd were tossed into the
icrari heap. People of the region
rubbfed the moss from their backs and
n dutt I mm their v. ' The flu tie
aside Uadttioni'and delved into acien-
They turned their
faces toward . the " future
and away
from the past. Figuratively speak
ing, the tallow candles were blown
out and electricity was turned on
with a full-orbed glare.
The orchard was made an .orchard
not a deserted and forsaken, neglect
ed, pest-ridden and disease-bitten
group of dead and dying fruit trees.
The vigor and youth of brains was
applied to the soil, tp thertrees,and
to the -fruit -in the growing and n' the
marketing. The Hood Rivtrite never
missed a horticultural meeting. . II
was, and is, always there. It is no
torious that on several occasions the
orchardists of .Hood River have been
in the majority at state gatherings of
fruit growers. " In short, they studied,
they learned and they applied.
And, they get $3.00 a box for ap'
esf -':-'-'v '-.''"
TTJTTT ATTOTJ r,V P A TT ftT)
STocjcs. '
f f I HE attorney-general of Mln-
I nesota, in bringing a suit re-
cently to enjoin the issuance
of $60,000,000 more Great Northern
stock, pointed out that the capitalize
tion of that road is already $425,000,
000, or over $70,000 per mile, and de
clared that dividends on the already
excessive capitalization "are an un
warranted tax on the patrons of the
road." He proceeds to say: -i
Railroad regulation and rate rc dila
tion would be but a farce If our law
should be eo construed ae to permit a
domeatlo railway company to Increase
Its capital stock at will to an unlimited
amount, -especially as In this eaae, for
the alleged purpose of buying stock of
other subsidiary companies, composed
of the same stockholders, where the
stock to be purchased was issued under
other jurisdictions and sold at arbitrary
prices to be fixed by the buyer, who is
also the aeiier.
This is ' Mr. Harriraan's favorite
trick of raising money to secure con
trol of some road he wanta. All that
ia necessary is to issue and put on the
market enough stock of some . road
which he already controls,, and when
the new road is acquired the -same
trick can be played with that, and so
on ad infinitum. All that is neces
sary-to buy up railroads is ta' issue
enough new railroad stock. One lot
of stock is secured by another, divi
dends are. promised on all, and the
patrons of the road are held up to
par the bills. ' ;,-; 4u
The warfare between Harriman and
Hill is carried on chiefly In this way,
by issuances, of hundreds of millions
of dollars tl stock to be used bow-,
ever the giant combatants desire, and
to be madenfood," if at"all,! by over
charging the . people for carrying
freight .. It would seem that it is
high time the government put a stop
to these performances as to roads do
ing an interstate commerce business,
and that Other states followed Minne
sota's example in restraining roads
having headquarters ' therein from
thus imposing burdensome obliga
tions upon the public merely to carry
on a stock gambling warfare.
CITIZENSHIP OF
RICANS. '
PORTO
AT LAST, if the president's
urgent recommendatlqn is
followed, the constitution
will follow the flag down to Porto
Rico, whose people, he insists, should
be given citizenship. But instead of
a law conferring citizenship, it should
be one publicly declaring a state of
citizenship held in abeyance for years
without any constitutional warrant.
When the government made Porto
Rico United States territory citizen
ship should have followed as a mat
ter of course. Porto Rico has been
for eight years a territory of the
United States, the same as Arizona,
and as such Its people were all along
entitled to pmzenship, for all pur
poses except voting at presidential
elections, If .congress can confer
citizenship congress can take it away.
What sort of a conglomerate theory
is it by which we have citizens In Ari
zona, semi-citizens In Porto Rico and
vassals in the Philippines? The con
stitution follows the flag or partly
follows, "or moves not at all, at the
caprice of -congress. If the consti
tution has no swsy In Porto Rico for
the benefit of its people, then the flag
and the guns Jiaveno'righ there.
Whether citizenship of the Porto
Ricans is desirable or not,' the presi
dent is logically right.
The Pendleton East Oregonian, al
ways enterprising ana progressive,
published a fine special edition last
Saturday, printed on book paper and
profusely illustrated, thoroughly re
viewing and summarizing the history,
resources and prospects of Umatilla
county and its' growing county seat
and other towns. " The publication is
exceptionally neat, instructive and
valuable. ; '
Tr!srepofTe"alnat TT-go many
ignorant and "unco guid" Scotch peo
ple believe that thej old neighbor
Andy Carnegie could only have be
come so rich by selling himself to
the de'il, evidence of which Is' se,en
in his providing. all the churches of
tlfle Investigation
A Little Out
TH7WQS PRINTED TO RB
- Locating Sunken Veasela. "
'A Dawson, Yukon, inventor has r
cenuy aevi-ico an apparatus ior inaicoi
ing the location of a sunken vessel by
means of a buoy which le released by
the sinking of the ship. ...When this oc
curs the buoy floats to the surface.
where It remains, attached, to thl ves
sel Dy mpans or a ion rope.
The apparatus Is not only used for
marking- sunken vessels, but also for
enabling the Immediate recovery of the
principal valuables - of the ship,' by
I means of a second rope attached to the
safe or box. '
In order, that the buoy may be more
readily discovered a large bell, placed
above the air chamber, is sounded con
tinuously by. the Impact of an iron ball
which tolls from one side to the other
by the motion of the waves. The ball
la so arranged that it Is confined to
one place until the buoy floats in the
water, thus obviating the annoyance
that would be oooanloned. by allowing
lt-to operate at all times. "
Mugwump. ; v
"Mugwump" was an old Algonquin
word for a chief, which was used in
a . seventeenth century Indian bible to
translate "centurion," "captain" or
"duke" in the English version. It -was
borrowed by the New Englanders as a
nickname for most -- superior persons.
very Ilk English "great panjandrum,
and first applied in its .special political
sense to Republicans who deeerted their
party on grounds' of prlnolple at the
presidential election or. 1 8.
Corinthian.
The ancient city of Corinth in Greece
being especially noted for the luxurious
eaae and aa the seat of a fast, or sport-
nm S n.,a rnrlnltil.n
Nte applied to young swells or men of
fashion, and finally to amateur sporting
clubs and to gentlemen sportsmen who
ride or drive their own horses or who
sail their own water craft.
Sir Samuel Montagu'a Birthday.
Sir Samuel.- Montagu, financier and
philanthropist, was born in Liverpool,
December 11. 1SS1. His parents were
Hebrews. Ills family name was Samuel,
wnicn ne nad changed to Montagu ny
royal llqenee. After completing his ed
ucation at the Liverpool Institute he
became a banker and broker, and in 1151
founded the firm of Samuel Montagu-A
Co. of London. .For 18 years ha was a
member of parliament, and for many
years he served, on the gold and sliver
commission. On finance, decimal cur
rency, weights and measures and kin
dred subjects be has written a number
of books and ' pamphlets. Ha If 1 pat
ron of the fine arts, and owns a collec
tion of rare paintings and sculpture. ,
A Large Room. -The
lmambra connected with the Mo
hammedan mosque at Lucknow, India,
that region with musical Instruments.
The Idea of these simple people,
though crude. Is not totally wrong
Canny Andy was a beneficiary of the
high protective., tariff ; system over
here a good many yearsr -- .; '
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The prosecution of the Sell wood
election frauds has proved a fiasco.
Only one of the thirteen persons In
dicted has been convicted and his at
torneys are quoted as predicting with
absolute confidence that the convic
tion will be reversed on appeal The
charge against this one defendant was
that he had been colonizing voters.
The chsrge against the other 12 was'
perjury and the district attorney ap
pears to have been aware from the
start that he could not expect convic
tions on this ground. The frauds
were glaring, notorious and in utter
contempt of the law. Those im
plicated evidently had perfect con
fidence that they had little, to fear
from the district attorney of Mult
nomah county, and their-confidence
was not misplaced.",
California has started an Ananias
and Sapphire club of its own, and has
unanimously elected President Roose
velt and Secretary Metcalf and Mrs.
Flora Harris charter members. Only
those who have extreme views on the
Japanese question- and . who reside
outside the state are eligible to elec
tion.' It is a day that opened as this one
did in a blaze of red-skied glory and
continued soft and gentle as an In
dian summer noon that makes one
wonder If an umbrella Is really the
best Christmas present after all.
Apropos of the discussion, pro and
con, as to whether or not there shall
be Republican legislative caucuses at
Salem, will the lone Democrat in the
house stand Tfbr caucus, or will he
head rbolf? '
Why not . try now some of those
resolutions you are making for the
new yearf II they prove unsuitable
to your style of mind they can be
changed for something more appro
priate. ! r
They must be a sadder and wiser
- ' . . . ..
ot of l-rencli creditors, who,, a
JVench . court decides, cannot collect
Boni CgKtellanc's debts from his late
wife's money. .1 ',
It may he" possible, as is claimed,
that other sections of Oregon do pro-
doer aptf sis-the--llood:
' . ( ,, , B. TgcTnTnaniUoptttloTrTtht-Port-las
River product.
But Hood River gets
the price. '
,Thaw,is dictating his defense again,
tut, theres no need of his being in a
hurry about it, .' V ' '1 ' ' 0
of tlie Common"
AO ' WHILE YOU WAIT.
contains the largest room In the world
without columns, belns 161 feet long, S4
leri wi
hullt d
to sup;
f t Is a
fcrt wide and 61 feet blgh. It was
during th great famine In 1784
upply-work for a starving people.
solid mans et concrete 01 siropte
form and still simpler construction. - In
It a erection a mold of framework of tim
ber -and brick- several feet-In thickness
was first made, which was then filled
with concrete. The concrete was al
lowed about a year to set and dry, when
the mold was removed. Although the
building has-been standing 121 years, it
Is said to show no signs of decay or de
terioration. .. y
A Bunco Oame. . ;
it is easy to write po'try when you've
- nauaht to fret about. .
From the jug you yank the stopper and
lust let it gurgle ouu -
And the poet, as it gurgles, take his
baccy f om the shelf, -
And sits down to smoke in comfort aa
it fairly writes itself. ;
Blub blub gurgle! Blub blub gur
gle! Hear It gaily bubbling foath,
Whilst the poet sits and figures that
he's done two dollars' worth.,
Blub blub gurgle! , Blub blub gur
gle! Out upon such ill-got pelf!
It's a shame to take the money, for it
almost writes Itself. . v .,
, December 21 in History. '"-U-
' 1T1S First issue of Boston Guette.
ISSl Sir 8amuel Montague, phll
anthroplst, born.
-1864 General Sherman entered City
of Savannah. . .
1871 President ant Issued procla
mation abolishing discriminating duties
on Bnanish imports.
1900 Roger Waleott.- governor of
Massachusetts, died. Born July It, 1S4T.
1101 Wireless message sent across
the Atlantic
190S Great strike in St Petersburg.
Machinery Doea the Rest.
Automatic bars have become so suc
cessful in Switzerland that a company
has been formed to supply the Swiss
and their visitor ' with electriOA auto
matic restaurants, where, as if by
maglo, meals will be served by eleotrio
ity to all comers. The only thing nec
essary is te take your seat,- glance over
the bill of fare, place your money in
the rlptht slot and the machinery does
the reet, ' ; " . .
About Btrthatonea.
The following .are' the blrthetones:
January, garnet, constancy; February,
amethyst, sincerity: March, bloodstone,
true and firm; April, diamond, inno
cence; May, emerald, happiness; June,
pearl,' health; July, ruby, love; August,
sardonyx, felicity; September, sapphire,
wisdom; October, opal, hope; November,
topas, ' fidelity; December, turquoise,
SUCCeSS. - - -..,-.-. .V . r:r . : .
I Gn-LlCl, 4- .
6 , DlghriirthC
- - bvening bky . rf
.. ' By Garrett P. Berviss, '
A very wonderful phenomenon is now
going unnoticed by the vast majority of
manxina, aitnougn within plain sight
of everybody. It is the star "Mire,"
visible In the southern part of the sky,
and upon the meridian between 8 and
I o'clock at night At about that hour
draw an imaginary line from the north
pole star through the aenith and drop
It about half way down the southern
lope of the sky, and you will see this
marvel, a bright aeoond-magnltude
star, of an unusual oolor, shining in the
midst of a rather barren region of the
heavens, which is known to astrono
mers ss the constellation Cetus. Pro
feesor Pickering of the Harvard observ
atory has Juat sent out the information
for everybody Interested and every in
telligent person ought te be interested,
that Mlra has reached a very excep
tional maximum of brilliancy. It is
brighter than It has been for many
years past, and it therefor offers a
rare opportunity for the study of those
strange objects-rthe variable stars. For
the greater part of the time Mlra, which
has been known to astronomers for 100
years. Is altogether unnotlceable, and
lndee'd Invisible, except with telescopes.
It once disappeared entirely for a period
of fotr years, but afterward ' attained
extraordinary splendor, only- to fade
again to invUtblllty. It la a sun of
great size, brighter than our sun when
it shines as it le now doing; but some
trouble, some solar disease, appears to
be sapping Its vitality, and it reaembles
a patient almost at the last gasp. Once
In about 881 days but the period is ir
regular It has a sudden accession of
energy, and flares up for a little while,
with several hundred-fold brilliancy,
only to sink back into a dull red point
that nearly escapes the ken of the tele
stoops. One Interesting explanation that
has been suggested Is that the surface
of Mlra periodically bursts into a vast
flame of burning hydrogen, so great
and powerful that it is visible across
millions of millions-of miles .of -space.
It is a star for the Imagination of a
Dante,- and it is worth anybody's while
to take a look at it now when it Is in
an agony of burning because there is
reason to believe that the time is com
ing when every star in the sky, not
exoeptlrfg the sun, will have to confront
a similar struggle for existence, just aa
every mortal being must - aome time
see death.
, . Our Population. . ;
From the jthamber of Commerce Bui-
'" latin. s "" "
- -:.- p.c
1806.
Portland ..1 95.191
Seattle ...176,640
Toooma ,i 84,910
Spokane ..S4.660
1905. Ino.
161.101 tl.99fr
160,000 16.640
74,870 10.040
71.600 9,060
Ino.
11.1
11,7
11.8
10.8
No one Is obliged to accept the sta
tistic of the directory people as gos
pel unless hs desires to, but they em
ploy the snme method In reaching re
sults in all cities, and, accord! fig to
their comparative statements, whether
their figures are exoeaelve or not,
Portland's lead over Seattle cannot be
disputed, for the baals is identical.
Should the number of names in Seat-
'tle's or Portland's directories be ex
cessive, they would give excessive, fig
ures for the actual population of 'both
these cities, not excessive In one city
and too low In another. - .1
So It Is found by these estimates
(multiplying the number of names In
the directory by two and -one half to
land has outstripped during the past
year almost two to one its nearest rival
on the eoast, the same ratio holding
with reference to Spokane and Taeoma,
the next cities in size In the northwest.
Since the turtle
maybe It la a bug.
la not' aa animal,
'Letters From tlie
PeopL
Pay of roll oe men.
Portland." Dec7 ICf-To the Editor -of
The Journal I would like to ask the
elty council If It is not about lme w
evolved from a provincial town and by
raising the salary of the police If nec
essary go, a police force adequate
number to. the size of the city? .Here
we are with a mem handful of patrol
men," trying ta cope with a strike sltua
tlon which requires every officer to
leave his post and serve on' strike duty,
thus leaving the whole city without po
lice protection. In every buslnoss
plaoe in the clty and particularly in
the outlying districts, we are taking the
chanoes . of successful robberies and
holdups,
. As the police salaries stand today,
men who can earn the same salaries in
other avenues of trade tor business will
not imperil their lives for the same
pay. We need more police and we
cannot get them at the niggardly Ml
Brles paid that was demonstrated by
the last civil service examination when
out of 41 applicants not more than one
(If I remember right) was eligible. Tho
Torce ' w WKFS-M" - ICIehdia" oneV'Bur
It is too small for so large a elty, and
the Inducement of better pay must be
reld out to make it possible to get more
good -men to serve. - Every other city
of this slxe In the west pays its men
1100 a month. Why should we pay less?
: .) o . . . CITIZEN.
'y,-': Old Things JNs
Lautourell Falls, Or- Deo. ' II. Te
the Editor of The Journal Two or
three years ago the most oommon head
ing of the editorials in our newspapers
was "The Division of China", and "The
Open Door." Why is it I do not , see
any more learned dissertation on these
subjects T )
I also notice that you Jake a sarcastic
fling at the closing of the Populist
party. Can you tell me any use of
Populist organisation when the two
great parties are trying to outdo each
other in advocating Populism T
Note Roosevelt's graduated inherit
ance and Income tax and the, position
of all parties on trust and transporta
tion 'questions: Rankest kind of Popu
Hem. The advocacy of these Popullstlo
doctrines is all that gives any vitality
to either of the two great parties.
as soon aa tneee parties prove raise
to the doctrines they are advocating
the third party will aome into exist
ence again. I am a Populist that does
not believe in mob rule. S. B, E.
PnbUo on strike. Toe,
Portland. Deo. II. To the Editor of
The Journal Aa one of the members
of the crowd of last Saturday- night.
designated as a howling mob of hood
lums, I wish to say that a big majority
of us were , patrons of the streetcar
lines who were on strike on our own
acoount . against the rotten service
which has been handed out to us in
the past. And it- seems, according to
Superintendent Fuller's statement, that
our strike was complete suceees.
In Monday's Journal he aaya that if
venpxoL
give the publto "oomplete and perfect
service." on behalf of the publlo
wish to remind him that It has been
anything but perfect heretofore, unless
his notion of perfeot .service consists in
having cars which are not quite big
enough to bold all of the people who
can be packed into them.
JIM HILL.
Essays by Boblne j
By
William F.'
BttrkT
NOAH,
- Noah was a nlse old man wloh lived
many yeers ago A was the oaptln of
the first big ship, if it hadent been for
Noah we wudent be here now, also if
it hadent been for Adam, Adam salved
our lives the first time Noah the Snd
time, ao they are both grata herotv
the way Noah salved our lives was
like this, the people hsd been good for
a long time hut thay got rich at went
to see horee shows A krate opry singers
A kept glttlng lower di lower until thay
got Into politicks, then the Lord sed
thay drink too much wln.e so he sent
the Grate Flood, wlch lasted 40 days dt
nltes, but Noah was a good man sd the
Lord told hint to build a ship & talk
his wife A sons A 1 (two) animals of
every kind suqh as snalks, elefants.
tigers A all other animals, a gent A
lady or eech kind. 80 Noah started a
trust built a grate ship A toald aU
the anlmula to come, a gent A lady oil
eech kind, A thay got on the ship A it
dldent cost them .vary much beekaus
Noah chased away all the ticket speku-
latere, thay all went into the ship
marching 1 by 1 except the two fleas,
thay Jumped onto the dogs back A have
been there ever since.
After -thay had been going a long
time on the water wagon thay got tired
A Noah sent out a plgen to fly around
A look for land A at first the plgen
calm back A sed thare Is nothing doing
but at last he calm back aggen A sed
thare Is lend ded ahead, It looks like a
mountain, then the good ship landed on
the mountain. A the water went down A
here we arei
Bluebeard was a vary bad men . wloh
lived in the good old days when men
killed thare wires, only Bluebeard killed
so many wlfes that his nabors got tired
of going to- thare funerals, so thay
killed him A dldent go to his funeral,
he was buried by the county,
sum ways he was vary funny, 'he
used to tell the .narner wicn has shav
ing orr his blue beard Well, 1 had a
nlse time last nits, me A my wife went
to dinner down town A then we went
to see a show A then we went hoam A
my wife was taken off sudden like, my
eyes ere burning with unshed teers, give
me a hot towel. " v"-'" .
one wife Mister Bluebeard had wus a
milliner, he killed her with a hatpin.
another was a actress, she got a divorce
before he could kill her. another was
a lady reporter, he killed her with an
axe when she was reeding her story In
the morning paper. One other- wife
wlch he killed was a society lady, he
made her stay dressed for 14 hours A
she died with her corset on.
this wicked man kept on doing evil.
every time he bet on the wrong horse
he killed a wife A In this way thars
were many deths In his house, so at
last he was killed hlsself, wlch is the
end of all bad peepul. -
The Single Tax.
From the Echo Register.
Recently The Journal declared itself
to be In favor of the Henry George
system of taxation.. Some steps In this
direction must xome in a few years if
if all
were rat-on- land-oaluesi excluding
from assessment personal property and
Improvements, as. George proposed, it
would not pay to hold land idle. Any
definite steps in this direction will be
bitterly fought by the holders of va
cant lands,' especially in the .cities,
where the vast majority of land val
ues lie. ''.,"''.
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QIRDSEYEVIEW!
J- .TIMELY. TOPICS
, SMALL' CHANQgT
The Christmas bride ia now en her
last lap.- .4, .. y V .",:t,
Everybody's glad., of Christmas but
father1 who pays the bills. , ,
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- After a man is married he sees how
easy it would be to become engaged to
most any girl.
Some women can shop quite awhile
and go home without much money be
aldea carfare missing. -
Not all will agree that walking la
healthy. But' many people don't know
what la good for them.
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Whichever one may be ahead one day,
nobody knows whether Hill or Harriman
will be 00 top the next.-
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Mrs. Bradley has discovered . that
shooting a man fatally is a poor way
tc etuiiperhim tg marry lier.' ;
Some people wouldn't grieve if Christ
mas came only quadrennially, like leap
yeara and presidential elections. ; -
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Some people seem to Imagine that the
presidency of the Oregon senate is the
most Important thing that ever was.
The Btorere claim to have given Pres
ident Roosevelt his presidential start,
but he i, gave them their . diplomat to
finish. '- , .
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With regard to ship aubsidles, aome
congressmen , are trying to plead, like
the unmarried mother in "Midshipman
Easy,"- that "It ia auoh a little one."
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There ia going to be an international
exposition next year at Dublin also, and
many an Irish-American will improve
the opportunity to revisit the owld sog.
, e e
Tucson. Arlsona. claims ta be the old
est town in thA United States II yearei
older than St. JTugustlne, Florida, and so
la perhaps properly pronounced Too
soon. , . .''..' - , . ..,-
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loxolophodon has been discovered in
Wyoming. It waa invented te use as
many o'a in one word as possible, and
has no responsibility for the coal land
frauds. .
A Nebraska woman la aulng her hue-
band for her third divorce from him,
having tried marriage unsatisfactorily
three times. They should not be hu
mored any more.
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At last " the hatpin haa done some
thing to atone for ita crimes; with one
a young woman stood off a gang of burg
lars armed with revolvers. An aroused,
muscular woman armed with a good
long hatpin Is not easily subdued. .
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Bellalre, Ohio, church committee
lllJeanoelej Senator Tlllman'a angayoment
to lecture there because be would not
promise to "abataln from vulgar or pro
fane Jaaguagev , Perhaps , the eommlt
tee did not consider what a big adver
tisement the refusal would have been
if the pitchfork statesman had been al
lowed to go ahead. .
He Says Nearly All Men Are Liars
" From "the New York World. .
Bellamy Btorer. '. . : '
Judge Alton B. Parker. '
Bx-Benator William E. Chandler. -Henry
M. Whitney.
Herbert W. Bowen.
O. O. Shields.
John F. Wallace. . . - .
In President Roosevelt' a reply to Bel
lamy Btorer he . usee the following
phrases; . , ) . "' ' ,"" K
"The assertion that In any private
conversation I took "an opposite posi
tion from, that which I was thua re
peatedly expressing In writing is net
only an untruth, but an absolute un
truth. . . Mr. Storer'e memory
becomes marvelously treacherous. . . .
With peculiar perfidy, Mr. Btorer now
seeks to turn this act of cordial, and I
think X may add, generous friendship
en my, part, into an attack upon ma" -
Here are aome other notable examples
of Mr. - Roosevelt's giving the lie in
various degree: - .
In the presidential campaign of 1104,
Judge Alton B. Parker - oharged that
corporations were induced to contribute
to the Republican campaign fund
through fear of National Chairman
George B. Cortelyou's official know!
edge, and hope of official ravora rrom
htm when he should become postmas
ter-general. - President Roosevelt, al
most on the eve of election, November
4. 1904. issued a statement from the
White House, in which he said: ,.
"Certain slanderous accusations aa to
Mr. Cortelyou and myself , have been
repeated time and again by Judge- Par
ker, the candidate of his party for the
office of president . .- . The asser
tion that Mr. Cortelyou had any knowl
edge, gained while in any official posi
tion, , whereby he wae ' enabled to se
cure and did secure any contributions
from any corporation la a falsehood.
I "cannot understand now any
honorable man, a eandldate for the high
est office in the gift of the people, eaa
take re fu gemot -merely la personalities,
but in such base and unworthy person
alities. . . '
"The etatements made by Mr. Parker
are unqualifiedly and atrociously false."
In the debate ever me- raiiroaa .. rate
bill in the senate last May 1 Senator
Tillman had charged that, through ex
Senator William B. Chandler ef New
Hampshire, the president had opened
negotiations for the support of Till?
man and other- Democratic senators, for
the bill, .and that Chandler, quoting the
president to Tlllmsn, had referred to
Senators Knox, Bpooner and -Foraker
S trying to defeat the bill. To thla
president Roosevelt, through Senator
Lodge, who epoke from a statement
dictated to him by Mr. Roosevelt hlret
elfr- and ... acting . as . the president's
mouthpiece said:
'The president said in reply tnat tne
statement which I had read to him
attributed to him by Mr. Chandler
was ' a deliberate and an .unqualified
falsehood." '
Henry M. Whitney of Boston,' Demo
era t to .candidate . .for lieutenant - gov
ernor of Mas-achuaetts, in 190S, quoted
what purported to be the substance of
a con v eraat 1 or - he bad - had -w 1 1 h t he
president on the subject of reciprocity.
Mr. Roosevelt in a speech toa Massa
chusetts delegation headed by Governor
Douglas, said of Mr. Whitney:
He pretended to quote what I bad
said a yeas' ' before, no notes of the
conversation
having been te ken at the!
Una
Not only did he misquote the'
I
rrORBOON SIDBH0HT3. ' 1
Holiday trade very lively ' i Rose
burg. , .- , , . .
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v North Bend will have . new furniture
faetasy.. - ";' y .
Douglas county'a fruit .lnspeotor .la
A f wi a a-naJ ssa1 - r 1
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Buildings going up ta all ' dlreotlons
around Hermlstoo. . : .rr '
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Twe Eugene hunter bagged II anal
lard ducks Sunday.
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A big lumber mill may be built on Ta '
qulna bay.- ....'.....,
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Ollliam county is ant ef debt and has
nearly 17,009 in the treasury..
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At a basket aoolal lh the Klngaley,
Wasco county, neighborhood, ITS waa
realised. -
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A Jackson 'county man haa built a
house on wheels in whloh he and his
wire can live where they please, intend
ing to travel to Los Angelea In, the
aprlng. " . .- , 5 . .
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While In New Tork Colonel Hofer
waa in the ofloe of B. H. Harriman and
sat on a mahogany sofa. That's going
some for even aa Oregon colonel, aaya
the Albany Demoorat
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- Eugene against all comers for en.
terprlse, says the Register.- The citi
zens are wide awake on all publto ques- '
tlona which concern the state and are
ever alert in matters of local import
ance.. ' 1 - 1 V
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Gardiner Gazettei ' Through' some
mistake- we have the timber notices
reading from right to left in thla week's
issue, but the beat "newspaper people .
are liable to make mlatakes, to say
nothing of one who is not used to tha'.
work. , - ' - , , " ..
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Laurel Grove eorrespondenoe of
Grants Pass Courier: . Some ot our bora
were going to hava a party last Sat
urday night, but being faint hearted
and not taking their girls there wasn't
any party, there being five boya pres
ent and no girls at alL Try and do
better next time, boya. , , ;
- A man near Med ford supplies not
only the local market, but other parts
of .the- state with pop corn,, and the
Mall eaya that the day la not far distant
when the pop corn Industry in this sec-.
tlon - will flourish- to a much greater
degree, and no doubt this valley will
become aa famous for aplendid pop eorn
aa many of .the middle western states
now are. ' ,-. . .- ... ''- .
. The Lane county fruit inspector-Is .
holding meetings throughout the county
at which growers Join him in. dlscus-
I sing, heat . methods- for, fighting scale
and securing mor profitable fruit yield.
aaya the Eugene Register. :Th Willam
ette vallsy fruit growers .are becoming
thoroughly awakened and the result of
their renewed activity Will show in the
increased yield of an kinds of first
class fruit. '.' '. . f
words I used, but by suppressing al
most all that I had said, and by giv
ing what he purported to give entirely
apart from ite context, he absolutely,
and, I am constrained te believe, de
liberatelymisrepresented what had oc
curred." .' , . ,.. . ."
To Mr, Whitney himself the presi
dent wrote three daya later; - -
"It matters little whether this (the
alleged misrepresentation) waa due to
a deliberate purpose of deception or to ;
a lack in both 'your companlone and
yourself of a nice sense ot propriety,"
In removing Herbert W. Bowen" aa
minister to Venezuela, President Roose
velt wrote to Secretary of State Taft on
June 16, 1905, reviewing the contro
versy between Bowen and "Loom is. Act
ing," . in which he . used, among ethers,
these phrases:
"It is disingenuous for Mr. Bowen re
peatedly to use such language. . . .
His (Bowen's) own -statement bears -within
itself its own refutation on this -point.
. '. -. - Mr. Bowen'a statement la
showa to be absolutely untrue." - A -
O. O. Shields, president of the League
of American Sportsmen, favored a bill
to prohibit the use of automatic shot- :
guns In the territories, and aald presi
dent Roosevelt favored the measure. To
this ths president replied on February
1, 1906: V .
"When you attempt to give my ex
act worde you not only do what I ex
plicitly told you you ahould not do, but
you used language which I explicitly
told you waa in no aense accurate. Not
one single sentence you quote as I said
it : Some of the sentences are sheer In
ventions; others are Inventions in part. ,
It la unnecessary to characterise such
eondifct on your part." ...
Referring to. the resignation ef Chief
Engineer John F. Wallace of the Pan
ama canal, Secretary Taft, speaking by
authority of tha president, said ef eome -of
Mr. Wallace's reasons, for quitting!
"These statements are entirely ua-
true." . ; .. . ' ' '1 ' '.
Queer Things Mad From .MUk. ;
Ton oould build a house of milk , If
you liked., and.lt would, be . as strong,
and lasting as though made of Aber
deen granite, aaya M. Glen Fling in the
Technical World magazine. Moreover,
all the fitting e oould be made of- the
came aubstanoe, and they would out
live the-finest ordinary material that
waa ever constructed. .
Billiard balls, combs, fancy boxes,-and
many other things are. made from the
new Substance, galallth,, which la made
from milk. - : .
There la really no limit to the arti
cles which can be made from galallth.
It takes dyes readily and Inferior grades
are colored. The best remain . white, .
however, for white galallth brings the
highest prioe because of Its similarity
to Ivory. The first grade of white gala
llth Is made up into knife handles, and
it brings almost as nign a figure aa
would so much Ivory. ' ' '
Galallth -Is the best substitute for
ivory ever discovered, for it Is smooth
to the touch, retains Its soft.' creamy
tinting for years, is not marred by soap
and water, and, -unlike celluloid, Is proof
against nre. It does not chip er crack
like bone, and Ban be cut Into the moat '
delicate shapes, being ; tough "and not
easily broken. , '
In Austria. Something like - lOfl.rtnfi
quarta of slummed milk are need dally
for the purpose ot making galallth. and
the Industry U largely the tnereaae.
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