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and he. that is unrighteous in
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- muchi The Testament.
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M HIGHER LICENSE AGAIN.
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IF THE COUNCIL cannot find
, t: any place where it can cut down
flic committee's .' estimates and
so cannot see its way clear to keep
the tax levy down to last year's rate,
yuof -tean'the other side of the
proposition and see if the revenues
cannot be increased without raising
the rate? ',...:'',' i
That this can be done The Journal
hss shown, and will mention again
the matter of raising liquor licenses.
. , The council . has rejected the ordi
nance raising the licenses from $500
Id $800 a year, but in this (emergency,
And on reflection, it may deem it wise
to reverse that action and pass such
.'"a ordinance. '' ' ! :
. If the number, of the saloons is not
: 'decreased by such a raise, the in
crease of revenue would be over
$120,000 next year, and more there
after. The. number of licenses might
be less for a. short, time under an $800
Ordinance, but th$ experience, of Chi
cago and other cities has shown that
the decrease of licenses under such a
raise is small arid .that the revenues
- from saloons are increased about 90
per cent. -We might therefore safely
count on an increase of $100,000 next
year if licenses were raised as pro
posed This would more than offset
the proposed increase of five-tenths
;.f a milt in the rate. '
" The council eyen it friendly io the
saloon men, can the more readily do
this because many of them do not ob
ject to the increase of license, but on
the contrary rather, favor it; and be
cause, at these saloon men perceive,
an $800 license would probably stand
f of-4ong-4imr-whf easMhe' f airur
of, the council to raise the license will
almost certainly result, in rajsing it to
a higher figure through the initiative.
Considering the subject therefore,
from either .side, from. any. point of
view, the speedy passage of an ordi
nance similar to ihe one recently'de
feated would be wise and timely. - It
would save raising the tax rate. It
would yield the added revenue tlraffe
needed.-' And it would be best even
. for the liquor dealers. i
AN ERA OF LAND GRABBING.
MOST, if . not all, public -men
must have ' Known - for the
past 20 years1 that the land
laws were loose, if not "rotten," and
that under them the public domain
was being, looted of hundreds of
,- millions of acres, particularly during
:, t recent years, of timber lands. How
much of the negligence or indispo
sition to correct the laws was due to
, sympathy through self-interest with
the land grabbersand bow much. to
incapacity to devise a re'medy and in
ability to agree on means of relief
'' and reform, cannot be decided. Some
; members of congress were doubtless
" influenced by base motives;' more,
probably, did. not knowwhat to do
and . feared to make a , bad, matter
worse. .And the interior department,
Until lately, has seemed to be the ac
tive partner or the stupid victim f
the land grabbers. . ' " , .'
' The forest reserve policy was
. Adopted just in time to help out the
big land grant railroads and the
colossi timber Jand thieves im
mensely. In thTTorcst reserve
- scheme,., a good one in itself they
found the meant to1 gobble up" hun-
: - dreds of millions of dollars' worth ot
the finest timber land left in the
world, at almost nominal prices. The
- creation of the great forest reserves
was not intended for this purpose.
but u. it had been it tould not have
been better designed for authorizing
or permitting this wholcsale'-acquire
. merit of timber lands by syndicates,
whjch always secured firUrand "in
side" information, and which, how
ever, dt not scruple to vioUte laws
whenever necessary' to accomplish
their purpose. . ' 5 ' . ' 1 "
, The acquisition of large contiguous
tracts of timber lands by individuals
or syndicates is perhaps not to'be
" greasy deplored, fpr adherence to the
strict letter and apirit of the law in
tenra- to these unastnat tney
should only be taken "and owned by
iudifiduals in " 160-a ere tracts is im
practicable. A poor man with a
quarter, section of timber land could
do nothing with it except sell it to
somebody who owned or could buy a
large number of adjoining jtracts.', It,
is necessary that large tracts ol such
lands be combined under a single
ownership, or the timber conld never
be manufactured., and the lands
cleared. But the government ; either
corruptly or bliiyliy allowed jtsetf to
be swindled out of an immensA aggre
gate sum in the aale of these lands',
and the Weyerhaeuser JU& other
companies .and individuals and A the
railroads, profited by the govern
ment's generosity . to the extent of
hundreds of millions, of - dollars, a
small fraction of which was picked up
by individual original claimants. The
present agitation of the matter is of
no great . consequence because nearly
all the lands have already passed out
Of the government's hands and into
those of the Weyerhaeusers and other.
millionaire land gobblers. ' Nothing
can and will be done about It, though
perhaps as to the comparatively email
fractions of the public : domain" left
that are valuable the government may
be better able to protect its and ihe
people's interests.
Ten years ago this month President
Cleveland called attention to the ne
cessity of a better-protection of the
public domain, saying that' the land
laws,-"through viciusadmmistrative
methods, have been so evaded and
violated that their beneficent purpose
is threatened .with defeat." Yet at
that time Mr. Cleveland had been
president nearly 'eight yeara from
1883 to. 1889 and again from March
4, 1893, and it seems he did 'nothing
to reform' the "administrative meth
ods." f Now President Roosevelt is
"gravely concerned at the extremely
unsatisfactory condition of the public
land laws, and at the prevalence of
fraud under their provisions." He
does not confess to bad "administrative-methods,"
but one of his pet
policies, not being sufficiently guard
ed, gave : the t fand grabbers their
greatest" opportunity. The people
have "had the worst of it all around
and all stlong for many years. ,
.LChristmas morning the San Fran
cisco Chronicle said; . "Never in- its
history has Sarr Francisco had a mer
rier, jollier Christmas than that which
it will enjoy today.. Neverwere the
oeoole' more good-natured. Never
were. they more contented and con
fident. . Never were the crowds
greater wherever there was anything
art-active to JoaghU Never . was
money TTiore abundant to pay for
whatever was desired. . Never was
the trade so hopelessly unable to sup
ply the demand for the more costly
gifts." And this only a little more
than seven months after that city was
apparently almost wiped -out of Exist
ence by earthquake and fire. Amer
icans ate-a- marvellously recuperative
people. r'
Society is trying to protect itself m
Spokane by having the young mur
derer, Sidney Sloane, incarcerated for
life, but will probably fail. The jury
having found him "not guilty," it Js
not likely he can be imprisoned very
long. Of course plenty of expert
alienists can be found who in a few
months wilf declare him sane. , Per
haps after he has been liberated and
kills his mother or some one else, a
jury may conclude he is guilty of
murder.
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A boy about a dot en years old shot
and killed another of about the same
age in Baker "county, -this week.
Across the Columbia a, boy of, 10 or
got shot and killed a little girtof 4.
Almost every week one or more sim
ilar items are published. The num
ber of parent 'who allow young
children' to play with guns seems
never to decrease, howevermariy
such tragedies occur.
If the Pendleton Tribune isn't care
ful it will find itself classed as po
litically heretical and a party goat, for
it says that "the United States sen
ator who is a supporter bi-La Fol-
tette's general policy . will cqme
nearer being reelected than those who
line themselves up on the other side."
If the strike
streetcar company might establish a
time schedule "that f ould insure cars
passing a given point at least three
times an hour. Une car every su
minutes is really not , enough wheij
the company has all the help it needs,
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Secretary Shaw, it was reported
yesterday, had marbleized his official
heart and; refused t relieve the
money stringency in Wall street But
he will soon relent, of course.' 'He
must What's he in office for else?
Tfce Philadelphia Press takes half
a column to shdw that "whenever
there is a food of the yellow metal
everything else, ie. carried up and
when the stream of gold runs low
A Little Out'
'.THINGS PRINTED, TOHRE
. Oddities of Genius.
Erer-ntrlrlty ama a,lway attendant
upon renlua. Raclna, thai French writer.
compoa-,4 Ms work; while walklna rap
Idly aJrtmti ahoutln out th linea in a
loud vote. Ona 1a whll he wna thus
eompoaln "part of his paly of "MUhrl-d-4n"-tn
-tria Tullertea fardena In Paris,
ho was surrounded -by m (roup of work
men, who took him to b a maniac. On
hla return homa from theae walks 1)0
would writ down-acone after aoena Tn
pro and when they were flnlahed he
weuldaxctalm. "My traaody la done!"
considering- . the trannpoaltlon of the
Unas Into verae only a trivial thine.
Masilabecht, on the contrary, rarely
left his room. He lived amid an army
of books, and wrote his works at a table
upon which were littered great pilea trf
papers and long-f oraotten . volumes,
which hs took a special prlds In collect
Inc.. - Luther ' would take his seat at his
desk and write for days without lea vine
hla chair. On . these -occasions he had
hla fpod brought to him, but often for
aot -o eat It. When his brain became
fatlfued he would take up his tuttar,
and the soft chords of the mueio acted
as a never-falling refreshment. He was
passionately fond of mualo, aad did not
hesitate . to say that', after theology
music was the beat of arts.
Unlucky Friday-. ,
The superstition whlah regards Fri
day as unlucky originally cams from
an ancient custom. Many years ago It
was usual to observe Friday as a fes
tival day In . honor of the Goddess
Freya. Those who - did not give up
this day to honoring the goddess and
who pursued their own Inclinations
were supposed to Incur the wrath of
Freya and to'be doomed to 111 Juck.
Tbe superstition remained after the1 ex
planation bad been forgotten. -.
In Spain and Mexico Tu'esdayits con
sidered the unlucky day, and In Scan
dinavia It Is Thursday.
In France the tradition that Friday
Is an unlucky day Is strong. Seamen
will not sail on this day, and there are
few marriages.
A strange contrast, prevails tn Soot
land, where marriages on Friday sxceea
thoee of any other day by 11 per cent.
, . When the Title Originated.
The title of "cordon bleu" for a wom
an cook dates back, acocrdlng to this
authority, to the tlms of Louis XV and
Madanrs thi Qarry. and the origin of
ths title came about In this ,wa.y: The
two, oonversingLjaav dsy about cooking.
King Louis contended that only a man
could cook perfectly.
Woodrow Wilson's Birthday.1,;
' Wood row Wilaon, prealdent of Prince
ton university, mentioned as a possible
presidential nomlnea-on the Democratic
ticket, was born at Staunton, Virginia.
December CS, 1861, and began his acad
emic studies 'at Davidson college. . In
1175 ha went to Princeton - and ' was
graduated, jwlth - high honors. In' ths
University of Virginia he studied law
for several year and theit he "practiced
law la Atlanta, Georgia; thenca he went
to Johns Hopkins university to devote
his whole time to his chosen- studies
n 1181 he received his Ph. D. from
Johns Hopkins and ths. naxt three years
prices of other things fall.". But a
few years ago the Press was one of a
large number of newspapers that
could not sufficiently ridicule or con
demn Mr. Bryan and others who
based arguments on the same fact. ' .
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Whatever else of a calamitous or
deplorable nature is happening . in
Oregon, we haven-'t heard of any
body freezing to death around here,
as some have back east' .'";"
The machinery of '.paturCf and its
tireless . watchrold Father Time,
never takes a holiday and recognizes
no calendar dates. -.,
" Justice to Mr. Teal
From ths Salem Journal.
In the Oregonlan's Washington cor
respondence, giving an account of what
took place befors ths rivers and harbors
committee of congress, when ths delega
tion of Oregon business men appeared
in behalf of appropriations for this
state, there Is great Injustice dons to
Joseph N. Teal of Portland. j
Hs Is represented as having not been
there at all, or having taken sny part
In the' proceedings, which Is a misrepre
sentation of the fact, as be was spokes
man of the. delegation, and made ths
fullest and most complete statement of
the needs of the upper and lower Co
lumbia river and Its mouth. He, an
swered all of Chairman Burton's In
quiries' Intelligently and with .great
ability. .
The same account telegraphed the In
formation that Mr. B. Hofer, ths editor
of this paper, killed ths bill to have the
government purchase the locks and
canal at Oregon City. As the Ors
gonlnn Is very slow to glvs any man
credit with such tremendous power as
killing a bill of that much merit and
magnitude, the readers must draw their
own conclusions. k:rn
Ths editor of thtsparer will not de
fend himself In print Vgntnet anything
the Oregonlan may say about him, but
will stste ths faots to the- people on
soms publlo occasion where there. will
be opportunity to fairly answer charges
without foundation.
Mr. Teal pursues ths wise policy of
never answering misrepresentations
through the Oregonlan. He feels, no
doubt, that it would be hopeless to ex
pect fair treatment, and useless to
carry on unprofitable, newspaper contro
versy. If his example were followed by
the public generally the effect would
be heneflclal to Oregon. - ,
Justice to Mr. Teal requires1 It be
stated that he was not' only the organ
iser of the movement to send a large
delegation, to ths National Rivera and
'Harbors congress. But he was ths most
prominent private cltlsen st that great
convention, serving as chairman of the
committee on rescflutlons with great
ability..
It has been the cuntom altogether too
mucti to belittle and misrepresent, our
publlo men and public-spirited private
cltisena In Oregon. To Ignore the work
of a man like Joseph Teal In connec
tion with ' the - development of our
waterways Is a species of folly and
smallness thst Is unworthy of any
school of reputable journalism.
. Mr. 'Teal and his associates In the
great work they haVe undertaken are
very much" appreciated In Oregon, and
they do not depend upon . newspnper
boosting to have the merits of their
labors understood. . , .
of the C
ommon
AD WHILE YOU WAIT.'
he spent as professor at' Bryn Mawr.
In 1S8T Wake Forest college mads htm
an LU P.. and In 1181 he was. elected
to the chair of history and political
economy at Wealeyan university. - In
.1810 he 'was made processor of juris
prudence ' and political economy at
Princeton and tn 1S0I he became presi
dent or the university. President" W1I
son has been conspicuous as a lecturer
and publlo speaker and has written a
dumber of notable works on political
economy..- . . - .;.'.---.
The Wonderful Something.
There's a Something that maketh a pal-
... ace ,
. Out of four little walls and a prayer;
A Something that seeth a garden
In one little flower that Is fair;' '
That tuneth two hearts to ens' purpose
And 'maketh one heart of two;
That smiles when ths sky Is a gray one
Ana smiles whetf rha sky Is blue.
Without It no garden has Trargranos, -Tho'
It holdeth the wide world's
blooms; ' '
Without It a palace a prison
With oeHa- for banquetlng-rooms; '
This Something that halloweth sorrow
' And stealeth the sting from care;
This Something that maketh a nalaea
Out of four little walls and a prayer.l
Maurice. Smiley. " ,
' December 28 in History.
1112 John C. Calhoun resigned vtce
presldency of the United States. ...
Ills Dade's maaeacre by the Se'ml
noles. 1851 Parry Belmont, New Tork fin
ancier, born.
1861 Second attack on Vlcksburg.
188 Charles I proclaimed king of
Portugal.
1890 Captain Wallace and several
soldiers killed by Sioux Indiana In South
Dakota.. "
1896 Mrs. Stirling, famous actress
(Lary Gregory), died. Born 1117.
The Queen as Collector.
Queen Alexandra posaesses one of ths
largest colelctlons of charms In Europe.
It consists mainly of tiny elephants In
malachite, jade, porphyry,- sapphire and
turquoise, and humming birds, swallows,
bees and beetles, which are Vorks of
art, composed as far ar possible ot un
out gems and enamel.
) Bulletin Bubbles. - -'
From the ' Philadelphia Bulletin.
Man of the hour Father Time.
, Rival dentists do not pull together.
Far and. jiear a distant relative who
Is Tctase." i, .
It's perfectly plain that no woman
ever thinks shs Is. "
It doesn't augur wsll for any person
to bo a bora.
A blind actor ought to ba- abls to act
feelingly. .
Many people never sing a dust with
the voles of conscience.
A corner In ths market Is not always
a square one.
A round of drinks Isn't always a treat
when It's on you. . ,
Many a man has a hair's breadth es
cape from complete baldness. -
A doss of Iron may not bs ths best
tning. to improve a slnrer's rana-a.
The honest booking agent Isn't afraid
to swear by ths book. , f
Tlie Play,
Should all the people who see Rose
Melville as "Sis Hopkins" go upon ths
presumption expressed by her When.she
tells Addison Vlbert that "It ain't any
use to do anything for anybody who
ain't never dons anything for you," It
would be a aafs wager that the actress
would never lsck for friends and kindly
regara. ens is as-good a prescription far
th4 blues as Dr. Merriment aver wrole.
It Is not necessary, and would be of
no benent to any one, to say that "81s
Hopkins" pleased ths audience at' th
Helllg last night. Every one who knows
much of anything knows that tho play
wouia do appreciated with Miss Melville
as. Sis. She has Impressed that belief
as an axiom on ths memories of Ameri
can theatre-goers.
For eight years or so, fMIss Melville
has chaperoned "Sis Hopkins" In her
travels ovsr the country and has .made
of her a favorite wherever her awk
ward, yet winning personality has been
aeen. About all that Is necessary to
say about the, producelon Is that "81s
Hopkins" Is "Sis Hopkins" still.
. saiss ueiviue nas mucn ths same
company to assist her In making her
audlenos laugh and cry with her this
yesr as last J. T. Ray as Obadlah, ths
undertaker's agent. Is hers again, as a
urs.-cioas iun proaucerrioreneav Weft.
ter. as "Ma" Hopkins, Is real old
fashioned Indiana housewife and makes
the farm look real. Frank Hartweil -Is
;Pa" Hopkins still. The remainder of
ths company, soms nsw, some veterans,
under Miss Melville's standard, are abls
soldiers of their able lesder.
"81s Hopkins" will be at the Helllg
tonight, tomorow matinee and tomorrow
night. Those who can find ths time
to attend wll not loss It If thsy see and
near miss Melville. . i
Alone in Switzerland.
From Judge.
An Iowa schoolma'am who has Aeen
traveling in Europe writes for ths Ma.
son City GlobSrOasette an Interesting
account of her trip. Ws havs pleasure
in extracting these paragraphs from
her article:
Ths scenery In ths foothills going
through the vineyards and small farms
wajJ refreshing. - We reached Geneva. In
the early evening-. As ws were getting
off I heard an officer speak In Gsrmsn.
It was a relief after hearing French for
several days. French as one hear It In
France seems such .a chatter. - ,
The party became rather spread out
at times, and ones I was out of sight of
sny other person. The Idea of being
alone in ths mountain rorest waa In
spiring. But another mule cams In
sight just then, so I did not writs a
poem on that Inspiration.
Uncovering Buried City.
Among mining enterprises nons. com
pares in Interest with ths excavating
of Herculaneum, an undertaking about
to bs started by ths Italian government
This' ancient city was buried . under St
feet of volcanic mud, which Is now rock.
Under this vast blanket He buried the
treasures of Oreek art and literature of
nearly 1.040 years ago. Ths neighboring
town of Pompeii was only a conimerclal
town and a cheap place of amusement;
It was to Herculaneum as Long Branch
Is to Newport
.Pompeii wasreatly damaged by earth
quake long before Its burial and It had
been fllmslly rebuilt, while Herculaneum
when It was sealed to silence was a real
center of Greek civilisation. Alrssdy
ona villa that has been unearthed has
yielded ft whole Jlbrarx of papyri
- Letters From the
; y: People
Tie School Tax.
, Croy, Or., Deo, 16. To the Editor of
The Journal I notice In your paper
thatf'tt Is proposed to' have the legisla
ture pass a law miking It obligatory to
havs a levy . sufficiently 4arge to make
IS to eacU child of school age la ins
county; 'also to make It obligatory that
Lmvil UI.UIVl W 1 . ..VI
achool. ' " " ' '
r It aeems to ms if Is about time to
glvs some thought or ths ability of the
taxpayer to meet all these obligations
that the solons propose for us to pay.
I shall confine this letter exclusively
to ths school levy.
There are a number of schools In ths
stats, that have only from 10 to II
pupils In the district. Counting; what
they would draw from the general fund,
net, over 1100 In theae districts, would
glvs two months' school 1160.. This
must be raised to pay - teachers, and
Incidental expenses will make 110 more,
a total of 1100 to be raised by special
levy? This would mean a 10-mlll levy
on 110,000, and In soms districts there
is not that much taxable property.' Our
school Isw doer not limit ths amount of
levy, nor Is there any limit for any
levy. .......
With this Idee, of progressing faster
than our ability to pay that la so preva
lent Just now, IS It not time for the
people to think about having a limit to
ths amount that can' be levied 'In the
aggregate In any on yearf My opinion
is that no state can long remain pros
perous where the annual levy exceeds
St mills for all purposes (state, county
snd school levy). Ws havs school dis
tricts that have already voted a 10
mlll tax.- The . county fixes a 10-mlll
tax. the state. e.'-mfU Lax; toUUi
mills. This ' will soon make practical
Socialism, for ths state, county and
school districts would soon own all th
property. '
My Idea Is that ws should have a
constitutional amendment fixing a maxi
mum limit to all levies for stats.
county, .municipal and school taxea, and
that so low that It would be Impossible
for taxes to exceed what property
would bring In rents. . -
Wejl do I remember how earnestly
soma of Portland s business men In
1198 urged ms to use my vote ss a
member "of ths legislature to reduce
taxes. Probably soms of them still re
member how. hard it waa to pay taxea
at 'that time. Our motto -at all times
should ' be economy In publlo expendi
tures, i -'3. E. DAVID. .
' Bad Streetcar Ssrvtoe. i '
Portland.. Dec. 17. To the Editor of
Ths Journal Cars on the Union avenue
branch of the Portland Railway, Light
sV Powsr company between 1 and-S
o'clock Iq ths morning are about- as
scares ss automobiles in Siberia. - For
the past three days csrs havs been run
at Intervals of. fom 10 to 19 mlnutea,
and this during ths Busiest hour of .ths
morning. Today there waa not a car
from 7:10 until 7:11 o'clock. A Wood
lawn car crossed Albert street at ths
time last mentioned, and stopped to
pick iup passengers who were standing .
In croups qf. from Ave to ten at every
corner, : '
When Fremont street wss reached th
conductor signaled the motorman -to
go ahead and stop for no one." There
was a crowd waiting for ths car on
ths corner, but there was no uss of
stopping, for there was not room fpr a
single additional pssssnger on board
Men and women were picked Ilk sar
dines, snd - when anyone wanted to
alight It was necessary for him to work
his way through ths crowd by ths uss
of foot, knes and elbow. This process
proved- rather -uncomfortable to those
who were hanging from the straps the
toes of some short people barely touched
the flooxt-but .the relief afforded by
th vacation 'of space was ao welcome
that.no on complained of an -unnecessary
poke In ths ribs or of a heavy foot
landing upon a pet corn. At East Burn
side street many left ths csr, but mors
got on. so ths crowd Was almost
thick at Fifth and Washington streets
as it waa when the, "ho stopU" order
was given si r remont .street, v .
Must we always put up with this sort
Ot servicer AN EA8T SIDER.
Essays ty BoLLi
le
By William F. Kirk.
Painters.
Painters is men wlch talks different
colors aV puts them on paper. Canvass,
Darns, rences. etc
th men wlch puts ths colore on fences
A barns doant git so much munny as
ths men wlch puts th paint on paper
or canvass, when a man puts colors on
a barn the owner aays That la a good
job, A handg him 4 1, whan a man puta
paint on a canvas sum -rich old man
from Chicago hands him 10.0001 A sava
That Is jest what I want It la also
jest whst the painter wants, so every
body Is satisfied. u. -
I saw sum fins paintings ones when
I was In a Art gallery with Ma, they
was all very costly, one-'of them waa
called Nit on the Lake, It was a plcter
or sura water' at an th rest wss dark.
I went horn, A took my paints A
painted a better lake. It looked more like
water than ths other plcter beekaus
my paints was water colors, but .when
i tried to sell It all 1 got was 19 cents,
my Pa paid m that much for It, but
he owed me 10 cents for sawing aum
wood anyway.
I guess t will be a poet Instead of a
painter, beekaua Ink Is easier to git off
of yurs hands than paint after th job
la done. I will cloas with a llttel poem
I wrote today; ., -
Bs kind to yurs father, no- many may
know
How much yurs deer father luvs you.
H may not be with us for many more
yeers . i
A Xmas U neerly hear, too, .
, Some Speakers.
. From the New Tork 8un,
Mr." Burleson (Dem.. Texas) Will
the gentlemen stats ths salary of the
speaker nf the house of commons T
Mr. Llttauer He Is paid 125.000 a
yssr, besides which a magnificent goth-
10 mansion is provided ror him. - At
ths snd of his service h Is made a peer
and receives a pension -sufficient to
maintain his rank. So Is ths ntisaker
of the French chamber of deputies. He
hss 115,000 a year and a regiment of
soldiers for sn escort; and th band
plays svsry Um he takes his seat
From the debats in the house on th
increase or saisry om. ' t
We cannot Imaeine T'ncle Joe envlnna
when he looks 'upon this gorgeous picH
ture. Whether his house In Vermont
avenue ,1s gothlo, w don't know; but
he can sit In It. neglige and amok his
llavs n a. Money la no object . to him,
and 14,000 mor a year won't make him
proud. He Is. of course, th peer of
any mart In or out of congress, snd if
he csh't hsv a regiment of soldiers to
conduct him to ths canltol he has troops
of friends, H wsnts no pension, for
hs hss resolved to die In hsrness. As
for .mtmlcv "Horn. Sweet Home", or
Th Wearing of ' the Green" hw ran
hear n a band organ any day la Wash
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TDIRDSEYE VIEWS
4r V TIMELY TOPICS
SMALL CHAttGE. -
- Th- tag problem
Ing. , . "v x
is always perplex.
: Ths wster wagon -will start out well
loaded, as usual. -. , , . .
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Christmas Is also a great doy , for
crimes and calamities,.
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How much did Rockefeller put Jn
Chancellor Pay's stocking?
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' In- making the city tax ' levy therl
seems to bs uss for a brake. -
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Teddy Is alwaya In Juck; now It 1
Foraker who la attacking htm. ,
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Of course It will b a happy New
Tear isn't there a footbat game?
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Much can sometimes be accomplished
In three days all that it left of 1101. .
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Norcroas seems to havs got down 'to
rather thin, light stuff In his muckrak
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TTnele Sam woufri. not treat tta Mnatal
employes amiss If h gave, them all a
Christmas present r
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It will be a eold time down at Pine
Knot If the president can't think up
anotner message or two to send In.
Dont wait till a man ts desd before
saying something good of him, if hs de
serves tt and an opportunity occurs.
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If Miner Hicks yields to th tempta
tion to go erf th vaudeville stags. It's
a good many chanoes to ons that he's a
gonsr. t..
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People who didn't get any Christmas
presents If there ar any each think
New Tears Is a more suitable day for
gift-giving.'
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Halll Ermine Rive consented to be
tied for life or least to a Post, but
as his other nam Is Whseler she may
expect to travel aoroev-,
Those crasy "tongues-of-flre" people
up .at Salem ar now preparing to raise
soms dead people. vThey might experi
ment on a few mossbacka first.
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The shah of Persia promised his doci
tors death If they did not agree on a
favorable report end this Is on case
where the doctors did not disagree. .
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Strange. We haven't heard of any
wealthy people sending . their poorer
neighbors eras for. Christmas nresenta
But even th rich 'must, draw the line
somewhere. ; - ..: I
A Portland meat market man- is ac
cused of selling a turkey with a torpid
liver. Ws don't doubt thst a good many
consumers of turkey and other Christ
mas stuff havs torpid livers.
A San Francisco -grand juryman actu
ally admitted that before he was drawn
he read th newspapers. .With . such
men getting on grand juries ths liberties
of ths country are as good aa gons al
ready, - t .
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I'he Latest NeVi
REPORTED fiX A. BENNETT,
Well, aomo of us leedlng sltlxens ha
been over Into, the backsklrts of ths
new county which the Hood Rlvver folks
wants to call Cascade county, and we
have picked out a dandy, place for a
county sect and we expect to raopvs
roabbltvllle over In a few, days or so.
Ws will be almost In the very senter of
th new county, snd ws think sure ws
can get ths county seat and all ths of
fices. It will bs a big joak on Hood
River you bet, and w got to keep It
kwtet, for It wont do for th candidate
down ther to catch onto our skeem. W
know th cost of this new county will
be big, and th taxes way up, but we
wont have nothing to tax. ao We dont
cars about that All ws wsnt Is the
offices and a chance to spend, ths money,
and If.ws do get ths county Into debt,
why that dont cut no Ice with-ua. We
sr not going to talk court house until
the new county ts maid, but we' will
blld a court house lite away, and bond
th county for mebbe a hundred thousand
I I to pay for tt. Of course as th om
cers of the county ws akit going to steel
nothing, but there will b a little rake
off annyhow.- enuff to keep us In' per-
scrlntlona. ' Ws want to hold out snuff
at ones to start a newspaer, ao w wont
havs to havs no printing done In Hood
River. But that Is another thing to keep
mltey kwtet. But It alnt long now ontll
ths thing will corns up at Sallem, and
ws will get there then with both reel.
Do not forget tbe watch meeting at
ths dominies on' ths last nltcof the
year. . Come early and watch the new
year out and the old year in. Bring your
lunch with you. Also each seat la .re-
kwested to bring, a deck of cards or
soms poker chips, as we -wU . have a
game of progressive poker, five cent
aunty, and one cent fom evvery pot to
the kitty, for the benefit of the dominie.
It la-lipped the rake-off will bs enuff
to bye1 ths domlnis a pair of boots,
wlch he needs them bad. P. 8. Also
bring a botle of perscrlptlons. . .
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Ws have In our midst a new sitlsen
sv the nalm of Goodnow. which. nalm Is
very sppropoe.' for ho Is good no. When
he arrived into our midst last Sattsrday
hw had a wad ot don as big ss a beer
keg. So much mimney was nswer be
fore sen In our midst. There wss over
s hundred I out of It, snd all good munnay
two. So wa got him down to the city
drug stors snd thro wed a few Pslousers
Into him and then sot- him Into a little
galm. When It cams Heel I glv him
four Kings and I gave mm uipp lour
aces, and then ths fun begun. Ws got
together all the munney In th town and
glveitt to Sim and W got the hull wad
on that one deel. After the feller waa
broke we divided the munney smongst us
leedlng sltlsens. My sheer was most six
dollars. Ths nerscrlptlnn blslness hs
been mltey good sense then, but. ws all
expect to sober up by new years.
. A feller from over Wapanltla way was
In our midst Sunday and hs took dinner at
ths Bunco bouse. . He found a cockroach
In his soop and .maid a fuss about It
and Bunco hit him, and ths fits begum
Ths stranger wood havs whipped Bunco,
but us leading sltlsens fll lent a hsnd,
and w' used ths feller up shameful,
some of the boys walking on his counte
nance and blteln of Mm up horrlbler
than I ewer seen a feller chewed up be
fore. After th fuss we arrested the
feller and the squire flnded him. twenty
S dollars and 10 cents, but the,, f slier
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:) OREGON SIDELIGHTS.
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A Stay Ion man. baa 14,000 worth of
plies on hand. i. . - . '
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Lebanon has sf sewing society. Oos- 1
sipping not prohibited. .'
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Deer are plentiful on the desert In
southern Crook county. t .
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Increasing demand ' for -good ' dairy
eowa in Yamhill county.
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A Yamhill county" representative will
Introduce a wide-tlr bill. ;, -..j
' Springfield Is steadily growing and.
many new bouses will 4 built next
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Fine weather yet ttn In Crook count.
In spits of all ths signs and predictions
of a hard winter. ' :
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' A few cars having put In an appear "
ance, the Crawfordsvlll woolen mill
ha started up again. .
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. ' Glendal Is rejoicing over the nros-
pectlvs removal of the Southern Pa
cific roundhouse from Grants Pass to
that town.
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Gooss hunting has been "quit th go",
around lone lately, but 'most of the
geess a yet alive and regard the hunt-
era aa the real "geese." ' . . . -
' Th remains of a man. supposed to '
be Arthur Crawford, a sheepherder, who
waa lost In a storm last winter, have
been found In Klamath county, A.
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Content Valley correspondence 'of
GJendale News: Spare-ribs and ' back
bones ar becoming as common aa ths
strawberry blossoms yet seen on the
hillsides. '. v ''
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Bom hunters south of Prlnevllle earns -across
a cougar feeding on a eow'a car- '
cass, with aix coyotea ranged around and
howling for a division, which the big
cat would not allow. Th cougar and .
two coyotea war killed,
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Table Rock correspondence of Med ford
Mall: Between 1.000 and 10.000 trees
will be set In this small neck-of-the-woods
this winter. One. men Is seriously
eonsiderlng the advisability of putting
out 200 acres tn one body.
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Thr.t ths farmers of Linn county sr .
awakening to th advantages of - ths
proper knowledge In fruit culture. And
desire to discover all they can which .
will benefit them In placing their fruit
on th competitive market, was shown
by the large attendance at, and great
Interest In the recent meeting df the
Linn County Horticultural society. ' .
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Ths turkey shipments from Yoncalla
.this yesr will divide among tho people
thousands of dollars ana. unlike otner
shipments, ths money I evenly els- .
trlhuted. says the Courier, the result
being that aven the homesteader with but
a few years residence mskes as mucn,
oftentimes more, than thoaeon the com
fortably arranged farm, for he has mors .
range, and that Is necessary, for turkeys '
In this country. '. -.
From Rattityille
OF THE DALLES OPTIMIST.
only had li forty S. But ths squire waa -good
to the feller and trusted blm for .
th rest, t's leedlng folks extend a
hsrty Invlt to jents from Ovsr Wspln
Itla way to come ovef into our midat oc
casionally and enjoy thelrselves.
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Now, Mr. Optimise man. Mister Ben
nett I will havs a fsw words to say to
you. . My feelings toward you Mr. Ben
net t are not fit to print la any paper or -any
langwldge, and the things I cood .
say agin you ar not found In Mr- Dan- '
lei Webster's Dictionary. You ough .
ms almost six ft or to bs exact you ough
me for seven oollums of letters at 10
cents per collum and you are getting
deeper and deeper Into ray det evvery
blessed weak. Yon keep promising! O
yes you are a dandy at promising. You .
ara what they mite call a man of grata
promise, hut It all ends tnere. YOU
DON'T PAYI Do you think thy servant In i
a DOGT Do youhlnk words from ths '
jawbone of a aas will buy perscrlptlons
and clgarootsT Do you think you can .
DO me aa you DO others? - Do you I
think I forget what Is DOO met ,jQr do '
you for a moment think that I am glv--4
vlng you my valuable cervices for a
mess of potash T And not getting that
neither. Now lett mo put you Next to a
skeem us leedlng sltlsons has hatched ,
up In our midst. It Is this, I B ws
have deslded that If you dont pay me
by the. first day of January, proxtmus. '
that about a dosen of us will go over
to the Dalle and jest naturly war
you out.! We will IKk you aa bad that
you will look mor like a Sid of meat
than a human, and then w will bring
your remnants over Into our midst and
fetch you before the squire aad find
you for contemt of the court and take
away evvery cent w find on you. And
to thla end and by .nese presents I
hearby and hearln and eearoit sub
scribe to the best of my nolledge and
beleef, amen,
' Realistic Military Training.
Great Britain has reserved a tract of
land several hundred square , miles In -extent
on which her soldiers play at
war. ' according , to the Technical World
Magailne. The Russian-Japanese war
served to emphasise the radical revolu
tion which has taken place In warfar '
due to th remarkable improvements
which have, been wrought In the devls-.
Ing of long-range and quick-firing weap
ons, combined with Improvements ' in
explosives. ' i
Ths result of this revolution in- war
fare Is that a battls front may rang
over as much Is to or 70 mile.' Conse
quently a grave difficulty presents It
self in the training of an army, to eonv ,
ply with and to understand these new
conditions, sines It ts essential that an
army In peace ahould be brought to" a .
high standard of efficiency which will
enable It to cops wlh any peculiar dif
ficulty that mayDtesent Itself In actual
combat But to train an army upon this ,
basts necessitates a vast tract of land V
having a conformation of ths most dif
ficult nature, and far removed from th
influences of human habitations, to en
able tho men to have the fullest scop '
In which to practlcs the new conditions
Of their science. '
la practicing on Salisbury field, as th
British rail their large mock battl
ground, ths attacking party uses bullets
and live shells, while the defenders use ,
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