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, senrL Matthew Henry.'. ;
THE QUESTION OF WATER.
are a number of sincere
' I ; and honest folk who are in
."V favor of "free water," distrib
uted by the city, the expense thereof
to be met by a general tax on prop
erty. The question of so operating
the water system of the city is before
the people, and must be settled by
them. Whatever the people's will is
in the matter The Journal is free to
say should prevail. However, the
people the voters are open to con
viction, believe in a "fair deal," and
will exert their influence in the light
of the facts before' them. This is as
it should be.
f. If there comes "free water," to be
paid for with revenues provided by
a general tax on all property, the
consumption of water per capita will
largely increase, until the supply will
not be equal to the demand, and the
individual consumers, at least the
greater proportion of them, will
waste far more water ' than they
would nnder an equitable "p.ay-for-what-you-get"
system.
Suppose the postoffice service was
"free," . stamps being no longer re
quired, the revenues being provided
entirely by a tax on property, direct or
"indirect. Does any one for a minute
think that the system would stand the
Jkurden that would be' laid upon it?
The mails would be so increased with
"waste . matter" that transportation
and distribution could not be ..prcv
vided, and the fa that would'fall
upon property in consequence would
very nearly1' reach ' the' confiscating
point, and what then? .
. There is but one equitable solution
of the problem the service ren
dered tne individual should be paid
for cost at least by" the individual
served. Service rendered the public
should be paid for cost at least by
the. public, through taxation. But we
should never attempt the impossible
---to try to give everybody "some
thing for nothing," .through a de
lusive, reductive appeal to - short
sightedness and selfishness; to make
believe that the individual can avoid
a burden that should justly rest upon
his back, by placing it upon property,
or the back of the public, with the
pleasing admonition to the individual
that the only thing he has to do is to
"pull hard and long on his own bootstraps.".?'-,.
" '';
Yet, it is self-evident that the pres
ent water system is not what it
should be that the distribution of its
burdens is not equitable and the re
suits flowing from its operation are
not falling upon the "just and unjust"
alike or even nearly so. That better
conditions can and should prevail
goes without saying, and the best
plan proposed is to meter .every
service pipe, make a minimum charge
of 50 cents a month to every house
holder using water from the pipe and
a meter rate of say 10 cents (the rate
to be determined by the requirements
of revenue) per. 1,000 gallons, as"
shown by the meter measurements.
The average family would not use
to exceed 5,000 gallons a month, un
less there was unnecessary waste, for
household purposes. Under this plan
the larger consumer would have to
pathT?"sarne rate per, 1,000 gallons
as the smarter one., just as they have
to pay 2 cents l&f farrying every let
ter through the. mails, no matter
whether they send one or ten million
during the year.
For extensions of mains into and
through new territory there should be
a direct tax on property particularly
rr land value in the district served,
to meet the cost of the extensions
and maintenance until the revenues
through the meter measurements
were ample to meet the maintenance
cost. , And in the same connection
the-city, the public, should pay out
of its general revenues, raised by tax
ation on property, a sum. monthly for
water placed at its disposal for fire
protection, sprinkling streets and
other public uses. ,
Under such, a plan there would be
the greatest equity and the fairest
distribution of both the burden and
the results, 'without' in. any wsy de-
partingfrom or violating the princi
ples of "equal rights to , all-spe'cial
privileges to none." . J
A" ROOSEVELT LEAGUE. "
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THE "ROOSEVELT , , Third
. Term National." League has
been organized ' in Chicago,
and 'has - sent out a "platform,"
in. which it is stated that to
allow, Roosevelt to retire' at the
end of his term would be to "in
vite national disorder"; that he is
"the 'only logical president for the
people," and that "he has become to
them a public necessity." As a
foundation for . these declarations,
some indisputable statements are
made regarding the president's char
acter and services, and it is urged that
another term would not be a third
term. Coi.cerning; his declaration
that "under no circumstances would
he be a candidate for or accept an
other nomination," this circular says:
Wi challenge, however, hla right to
refuse to accept the presidency of the
United States for a third term. In the
face of the people's demand. especially
at a tjme when so many undertakings of
the highest Importance .. have been
brought about and aet tn motion by him,
and so subject them to the danger of an
untried, and unproved successor, to whom
public confidence would be reluctantly
extended. If at alL Manifestly, the
selection of Its president rests with the
people. The public, alone, la judge. No
man may say he will not accept, it is
not the province, of Theodore Roosevelt
to say he wilt or will not be the presi
dent. He, who acts aa president, acts
solely as a servant -of the people, and
when called by them, must come. ,
It does not appear that the people
putting out this manifesto are of
especial prominence or weight; yet,
many who are so will be in sympa
thy with their movement. But for
Our part we feel constrained to pre
sume that the president meant just
what he said, and will stick to it, and
if so that settles . the matter. ' No
body ever did decline a nomination
for president, but it does not follow
that . nobody ever will, or cant
Moreover, -most of the leaders of
thev Republican party are not for
Roosevelt in 1908, though if he would
say the word they would be over
borne by the Republican masses.
But that Roosevelt is an absolute
necessity to the nation's salvation or
Safety; that without him as president
the country would fall into . wreck
and ruin; that in all this great land
of some 85,000,000 people there ', is
one only man" fit for president, we
dd not believe. If this were so, the
nation would be in a sorry plight, in
a "parlous state," indeed. " When'the
country gets to the pass that only
one man In it will, do for president,
it is in too perilous a condition as a
republic to hope for escape from
speedy and terrible calamity.
But we don't believe any such stuff.
The good work that Roosevelt has
begun will go on. In some' respects
the people will tolerate no backward
step. And if the Republicans can
not find aman acceptable to the peo
ple, perhaps the Democrats can sup
ply such a man. The man is a good
deal more than the party these days.
PROLONGED TRIALS.
TT TOOK some six weeks to try
young Sloane at Spokane, and
the prospect is that over two
months will be required to finish the
caser of young Thompson at Tacoma.
In each case two weeks or more
were consumed in securing a jury.
The expense of such protracted trials
is great, and the effect on the public
is bad. The longer the trial lasts
beyond what is necessary to ascer
tain the pertinent facts and the farth
er remote and irrelevant matters are
inquired into, the more farcical does
the proceeding appear, and the less
respect the average layman has for
the operations of judicial machinery
in criminal cases. --
It is manifest, and admitted, that
such a case must be tried carefully
and deliberately, but few people out
side the legal profession can be in
duced to believe that there is any
necessity for the consumption of so
much time and she incurring of so
much expense in the trial of such
cases. ' "
It is a growing belief that entirely
too much latitude is allowed to at
torneys, especially, those for. the de
fendant, in criminal trials where in
sanity is the defense, and that among
the many efforts for reform being
put forth some ' should be expended
to correct this evit. , ' "
The positive assertion of a distin
guished scientist that Eve tempted
Adam with a lemon instead of an ap
ple will add much interest to the dis
cussion of ihe happenings In the gar
den of Eden, especially since an
other distinguished scientist, lias pos
itively stated that there wereno lerrr
on in Eden's firchard, and a third
has asserted that there was no Gar
den of Eden.
In an editorial yesterday the er
roneous statement appeared that un
der ,the higher license '"revenues
from saloons are increased about 90
per tent." What it was intended to
A Little Out
THINGS PRINTED'TO READ, WHILE YOU 'WAIT.'.
What Queens-Can Do. -
Art exhibition has been opened at
Brussels consisting entirely of the han
diwork of queens. There are several
landscapes painted by Queen Amelia of
Portugal- -
The queen of . Roumanla, "Carman
Bylva," exhibits a great number of mln
lature statuettes carved in ivory. There
re . busts of Bourget, Loti, Ibsen. Mae
terlinck and various ether celebrities.
The queen of Holland Is represented
by a aeries of cartoons illustrating the
stories tn the "Arabian Nights," in ttra
designing of which she has whlled away
her leisure. - The young queen of Spain
has a number of bird and flower plo
tures In water color. The queen of
Italy, who has a passion for the sea,
sends several Mediterranean scenes
which are remarkable for their brilliant
coloring. '-...
Costliest of All Fish. ,
The fish was no bigger than a stiver
dollar. Its color was bright gold and it
had a beautiful bushy golden tall.
That." aald the pet stock dealer. "Is
the finest aquarium fish in the world,
a Chinese brush-tailed goldfish. It Is
handsome, healthy and long-lived, and if
you were a trust msgnata I'd advls you
to give one to your little girt for a
Christmas present.
"A good brush-tailed - goldfish," he
concluded, "costs ItSO or $200, and some
fine specimens have been aold for as
much as 1700 apiece." . ,
The Last Leaf.
Never on any tree It grew;
A grayish white was all Its hue;
Of fellows It had not a few,
And yet this leaf felt sad. .
'Twaa fastened in a book, you see;
The book waa dull as dull could be;
Ita readers drowsed. The laat leaf, ha
A reader never had. :
Ad win West-
Friday, the Unlucky Day.
In America and England Friday Is
considered the unlucky day. Marriages
seldom take place in America on this
day, and in England leas than two per
cent of all the marriages occur on Fri
day. It is on this day that the spirit
of misfortune is supposed to run riot
over the country.
All will remember the story of the
brig whose keel was laid on Friday,
and which her builder, in aplte of all
the ominous warnings of hla friends,
named Friday: and then, not satisfied
with defying ill luck, he challenged It
to deadly combat by putting hla veasnl
In charge of a skipper named Friday,
and setting sail for distant port on the
day 'beating that name. The fact that
the brig foundered on this very voyage
only lends reason to the belief that
Friday la an unlucky day.
Simon Guggenheim's Birthday.
Simon Guggenheim, who Is elated for
the United States senate from Colorado
to succeed Thomaa M. Patterson, waa
born tn Philadelphia Deoember 29, 1SS7.
He la one of aeven brothers known aa
say was that the number of saloons
under . the much higher license' is
about 90 per cent of that nnder the
lower license.. Hence, with an in
crease in the license of 60 per cent,
as proposed, the revenue would be
much larger. . - .
-Secretary Root says the states
won't do what they ought to; hence,
the federal government should have
more power. But this is just the
point; the states may not always
wish to do just what the federal gov
ernment, if it had the power, would
require. . - '
The consequences of a raise in the
city tax rate would be injurious if not
disastrous. One of them might be a
one-third assessment again next year,
and a total tax of 40 mills or more,
and Kow would we look, then in the
eyes of inquiring strangers?
Competition will reduce rates quick
er than laws will do it, and opening
the Willamette river to free trans
portation would free the valley from
the domination of a road that seems
to be run in the interest of its man
agers, only. ' . ''
That a higher liquor license would
increase the city's revenue there is no
doubt.. If it also decreased the num
ber -of the baser class of saloons,
that would be an additional benefit
Fuel is a little high with us in Ore
gon, but think of our mild climate,
and be thankful that you don't live
inNorth Dakota.
.etfers From
.People
th.
Some Water and Ban Bate.
Salem, Or.. Deo. 87. To the Editor
ef The Journal It would mean much to
the people of the Willamette valley to
have the general government acquire
and operate the locks at Oregon City,
abolishing the present toll of SO eints a
ton for freight carried through the
same. Th freight of th trailer curried
a distance of th avurugn haul rxttwcO'i
Portland and the hea- of navlttatlon of
the Willamette rlvr at the average
rate exacted by all the railroale of the
United States for all clasaes tf goods
transported alt distances, which 'is loas
than seven elghtha of 1 cent per ton
per mile, would not execel 80 rent per
ton. It la fair to presume that this
average rata Is not leu than the actual
cost of transportation, so that th rail
roads could reduce their rate to less
than the lockage charge a.lilid to the
cost of river transportation, anil still
make money. . Th railroad, there
fore, have It In their power to compel
th river to follow their rates, however
high they may be.
Th present rate tn a Harrlman road
en grain in carload lot between Salem
and Portland. 68 miles, I 110 a ton,
or 8.4 cent j ton mile. 8lnr th
completion of tne Cascade lo-k th rat
exacted another Harrlmaa road be-
of tte Common
M. Guggenheim's aons. . They dominate
the smelting business of "America and
practically control Its silver output and
a considerable portion of the copper pro
duction. They own the Guggenheim
Exploration company., which has devel
oped immense mining properties In
Mexico and the far west and which haa
a vast enterprise under way for making
tne mineral wealth of Alaska accessible.
Simon Guggenheim has been the west
ern representative of the family for
nearly a dbsen years, he was educated
In the -publto schools of Philadelphia
and was sent abroad to pick up a knowl
edge of foreign languages and the busi
ness methods of different European
countries. He la regarded aa one of the
ablest mining experts In the country.
December 29 in History.
177S Savannah taken by the British.
1I0S (ndrew Johnson, seventeenth
president of the United States, born.
Pled July SI, 1S7S.
ISO William B. Gladstone. English
statesman born. Died May IS, 189S.
Ill J Commodore Bainbrldge, cony
mandlng. the frigate Constitution, cap
tured Briuah Frigate Java, off San Sal
vador. .
1141 Carmen Sylvia, Queen ef Rou
manla, born.
1846 Texas admitted to the union.
1144 General Taylor -took possession
of Victoria, .capital of Tamaullpas.
1860 John li. Flood of Virginia re
signed aa secretary of war.
Kit The confederates attacked Gen
eral Sherman and drove him back to the
first line of defenses before Vlcksburg.
3S68 Mosby Clark, a revolutionary
soldier, died at Richmond, , Virginia,
aged 111 years. .
1876 Train wreck at Ashtabula, Ohio,
10 klllod and 10 Injured.
18(4 Forty persona perished by fire
at a Christmas festival at Silver Lake,
Oregon.
.
Franklin on Marriage.
He that haa not got a wife la not yet
a complete man. ''
One good huabahd Is worth two good
wivea; for the scarcer things are, the
more they are valued.
Marry above thy rank and thou wilt
get a master.
If you want a heat wife, choose her on
a Saturday. , -
Why doea thefbllnd man's wife paint
herself?
Marry your aoa when you will, .but
your daughter when you canr
I know not which live mora unnatural
Uvea. -.a
Obeying husbands, or commanding
wives. , .
A good wife' lost is God's gift lost
Where there Is marriage without love,
there will be love without marriage.
A house without woman and firelight
Is like a body without soul or spirit
Never take a wife till you have a
house to put her In. ...
The good or 111 hap of a good or 111 life
la the good or 111 choice of a good or ill
wife. . .... .
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I tween The Dalles and Portland,-a dis
tance of 17 miles, la 11.50 ir ton. or
l.S cents a ton mile. Ton can draw
your own conclusions. i 1 '
HENRI H. THIELSEN,
President Salem Commercial Club.
Open the Willamette. ' .
Corvallls, Or., ' Dec 28. To the
Editor of The Journal I wish to
commend the good work ot The Jour
nal In arousing the people of western
Oregon to the great Importance of open
ing up the Willamette river to free nav
igation. For many years the writer
haa wondered bow much longer the peo
ple of thta great valley would submit
apparently without a murmur to the
toll or tax of 80 cents a ton lockage on
practically all producta of this valley,
and a tax of 10 cents a ton on every
pound of merchandise shipped In and
consumed by the people of this valley.
Aa The journal has very Clearly
atated, thla Is what the lockage means,
and I am glad to note that the people
of western Oregon are becoming thor
oughly aroused and now fully realise
the importance of a free and open river,
and hope this agitation will continue
and that your efforts In this line will
be rewarded with a free and navigable
river from Portland to Eugene at no
distant day. P. AVERT. .
What Oaa the root Kan Dot
Portland, Dec 88. To the Editor of
The Journal What Is a poor, over
worked, under-paid policeman In this
town to doT If he makes an arrest and
the prisoner refuses to go to the station
peaceably and the officer won't stand
to be thumped around like old shoea and
uses his fist or club, then the knockers
run to the papers sod to th chief say
ing th officer was brutal. . Then, on
the other hand. If the officer gets the
worst of the deal and hla man geta
away, the' knockers say th policeman
la vno good." Now, In th nam of all
that la reasonable, what la he to dot
i . Those capes -hamper a man ao he
can not always get at hi club, then
haa to come the flat which Is all he can
user or take th worst of It This thing
of every two or. three month having
a man "on th carpet, as they say, is
not very nice, and is Just to please Some
of those old knockers, who think a po
liceman 1 aome kind of a machine, and
not a man at all. ' WelL he I Juat th
same aa other men, If he doe wear a
uniform,' h usually has to pay for his
uniform. - , . .
A CONSTANT READER.
"Thad' Stevens Anecdote.
From Hamper's Weekly.
Ope winter, when Thsddeua Stevens
had com back to hla Vermont home,
he wi. the victim of a sever cold, and
could not leave ' th house for many
weeks. One of his callers was the late
Lewis Clark, a man of abort stature,
and who In the earlier days had been a
playmate of the "Old Commoner," and
wa a near neighbor of the Stevens
family In their Peaoham horn. Ver-
monter had Just begun to wear buffalo
coats, and Mr. Clark . arrived i at th
Stevens horn almost . loat . In a coat
which reached to th ground. Hla up
turned collar completely covered hla
eara and fac. while a fur cap com
pleted the disguise.
rim that you, iawiar asked Mr. Ste
vens, In an Incredulous ton.
"Tea, Thad, he replied.
"Well, akin yourself-and alt down,'
exclaimed th other. ,
During the Interesting conversation
which followed, Mr. Clark asked Ste
vens If he wouldn't com back to bis
Vermont home and live. . .
"No," replied Stevens. Tou hav but
two season here winter and late In
th falL"
Conditions In and around Athena,
wher dlpththerla and scarlet fever hav
been prevalent, hav improved.
aMi
ions an
lsery
" - By Mrs. John A. Logan,
The maxim' that th lov of money 1
the root of all vll seams to hav been
emphasised, recently by th glaring avlla
perpetrated by mn who have acquired
large fortunes. ,.
The court proceedings In th divorce
caaea of men with mora than on mil
lion glvea evidence that these men were
devoted husbands and fathers prior to
the accumulation of th great fortune
. The women whom they had married
In their youth and who were loyal la
every sens, devoting their best efforts
in aiding their husbands la their am
bition to acquire wealth, apparently
hav kept abreaat with them In eth ad-
vanwrawi wmcn mey nav maae, giv
ing the men no excuse for their dis
loyalty to their families or for th
live of debauchery which they hav
been leading. -
Forgetting their duty to wives and
children thesa men hav mad all I
anoea and formed associations which
hav completely demoralised them. They
hav Insulted and outraged th sacred-
ness or their domestlo relation until
forbearance ceased to' be a virtue, leav
ing no alternative for their worthy
wivea but to demand a severanc of
their marriage tie.
- e
In every case Immediately after thl
announcement of th decree of divorce
these profligate men hav proceeded to
mam ' wnmn Af 0Htlnn.ht. Mniitk
tion, giving them their names and much
of their fortunes, not Infrequently add
ing insult to injury by conferring upon
their newly-madi wivea th lion's share
of thalr wealth.
No reaaon lean-be aaaigned but th
demoralising Influence of money, aa in
every Instance the deserted wivea and
children have proven their uprightneaa
and . faithfulness and maintenance of
their good names. Th pathetlo stories
of their experiences and th loyalty of
these forsaken wives tn sharing thn
drudgery and pittance which the hus
bands were able to provide before tha
accumulation of wealth are aad beyond
description. ,
The testimony, reluctantly given re
cently by a millionaire' wife In the
supreme court at Cleveland. Ohio, In
Is on o. 'th saddest atotpee - evcrj
printed. ene toia now ne oaa ab
sented herself from hts home and" his
family -for alx long years without any
provocation whatever or ' accusation
against her, and then' crowned hla In
famy by insisting that ah should sue
him for a divorce on the ground of his
desertion,
- e e
While telling this pitiful story and
professing her -love for her profligate
husband the teara were rolling down
her cheeks. She said that ah would be
obliged to leav Cleveland, wher ah
had lived all her life, wher ah waa
married and where her children were
born and reared,, because th associa
tions would be too painful- for her to
endure them If ah attempted to remain
In th old horn.
Th man who had perpetrated thla
heinous crime was at ene tlm a mem
ber of congress, and had raoelved many
honora at th hands of hi people, all
of which e haa thrown to th winds,
doubtless feeling that with th millions
he could continue to occupy a place of
respectability among man.- " -
, -In-86 hours after th decision was
rendered he proposed to marry the per
son who was probably responsible for
his rapid descent in the seal of re
spectability, and It l to be hoped that
all good people will mark him for their
contempt . s ' , '.
- Society should close Ita doors agalnat
him and th woman whom he haa mar
ried. - Until eome such cours Is taken
by the higher class of eoclety there will
be no auch thing aa stopping proceed
ing of this character. Every city
could , at any ' Mm furnish cases of
moral depravity on th acquisition' of
milllona. , w -, .
On may well say,: "Blessed be noth
ing!' if fortune are to destroy all do
mestlo happiness and break up Ameri
can home. , , - ., , ... .
-The Dictionary of Misinformation,
" . Wex Jrine; Lexicographer.
AOOO. Tb state of being a-gog-gle;
toggling.
New York la all agog today over the
opening of the new rooms of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty, to
Him bands. Daily paper. y,
Th city is all agog over tne Invita
tions to th handkerchief and ioa. cream
social of th Young Mutt Institute.
Squaahvllle Banner. ; . ., -
AUTHOR Th guV who supplies th
stuff to go around th illustrations.
''How s our next season's best seller
coming along?"
"Fine. I'v got th title and th art
ist All I need now I th author."
Th 'Publisher at Horn. t
CRIMINAL, n. A ; low person who
breaka the laws, f Should be distin
guished from philanthropist (frequent
ly), a rich person who breaks th lavs.
HORSB-A nobl animal
HORSE, RACE A lulu. A mutt
"Com on, you Blssler. Stsaler cops
ain't he the lulu."
"Loo at that Leadfoott call that
mutt a horse T"Frensld Outcries.
TIMETABLE, RAILROAD A sched
ule showing ih tlm tralna do not leave
or arrive at atatlons on th Una.
"What tlm does th 8:80 leav tr-
nlghtT" ,.'..
"I dunno, me ans, except that It not
at 1:80." Depot Dialogue. ' - "
VILLON Th old repnobat who un
leashed upon the suffering publlo the
"Where V ballade.
Wher now la Carrie, that great queen
Who amote th gin-men hip and thlahT
And Cassl Chadwlck, on what scene
does ah bewlnk her dexter eyT
Wher now Is Bonl, la da dlt " .
And wher are all the othera wentT
Where now la Dingbat? Ah! we' sigh.
And mop our face tear-bespent.
Uone might seem more natural
than "went,' but a little twist doea the
style good. Further, "went" Is a little
better rhym for "bepnt".
4. ' Willing to Pay. : '.
From the Richmond Time Dispatch.'
In a ault recently tried tn a Virginia
town a young lawyer of limited experi
ence waa addressing a jury, on a point
of law when, good-naturedly, he .turned
to opposing counsel, a man of much
more experience than himself, and
miked: "That's right I believe, Coldfiel
Hopklnsf . ..
Whereupon Hopkins, with a smile of
conscious . superiority, replied: "Sir, I
hav an. office In Richmond wherein I
ahall be delighted to enlighten yon on
any point of law for a consideration."
Tha youthful attorney, not In th
least fchaahed, took front his pocket a
half dollar plec, which ha offered
Colonel Hopkins with this remark: "No
time Ilk the present. Take this, sir,
tell us what you know, and give me the
coang.- - . ,
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BIRDSEYE VIEWS ?
of TIMELYfTOPICS
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. Ther must b no lack ef. school-
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If It were any excuse. Captain Perill
ing could plead that ther were othera
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There is ne danger of congress going
on a strike for a raise of salary.
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' Ther will not b ao many calla on
New Tear's as soon after by collector.
Berlin now licenses cat. Th official
oat catcher can't hav a very easy job,
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An Oregon man In congress is nearly
always heard of throughout th nation
somehow.
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Som women prefer their husbands to
b honest if thereby they can make as
much raonay.
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A 'Philadelphia; preacher aays Adam
waa a negro. , And Satan, w suppose,
waa a Caucaalan. - .-.'
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No foreign nation would dara tackle
th United Statea if they knew how
many colonela w hav.
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y Th shorter dome thing are In weight
the better it I for the consumers' stom
acha, If not for their pocket. ;
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Th Standard Oil never was a trust.
Besides, th trust haa been, dissolved.
Furthermore, it la a good trust
Puter testifies to Weyerhaeuser being
a good fellow, and It la not believed that
Puter worked the ahrewd old Oerrn,
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Football is -a gentlemen's sport saya
a college professor. Maybe, if th gen
tlemen nav-a i tough bones, muscles and
hides.
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President Roosevelt will address the
National Editorial association next sum
mer. After that J. newspapermen-, will
know Juat what tq. do. -
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Sine th city hall employes can af
ford to take a weekly half holiday, per
hapa th services of a -few . of them
might be dispensed with. - ,
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No wonder Lady Townley doesn't Ilk
th president Sh saya that at Whit
House recaption he talked so steadily
that ah couldn't gat la a word edge
wise. .. ,
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Th president's Panama "canal 'mes
sage waa illustrated with photographs,
but It should , hav been embellished
with a cartoon representing Paul Blge
low being swatted by th Big Stick.
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Deepen tne' VJllamette,j tne .Cry
A ; of tne Valley V'''
, From th Eugene Register.
In an early day, before the advent
of the railroad to Eugene, tb steam
boat whlstl waa an occasion of Inter
est to the then little burg. It an
nounced arrival of freight from Port
land and furnished egress for th prod
ucts of tb upper valley.
Frequently alnca those pioneer day
th steamboat haa com to Eugene on
It mission of equalising freight ratea
between here and Portland, and. while
It operated, th railroad ratea on goods
In and out of Eugen war equitable.
However, for lack of river Improve
ment regular river boats hav proven
impractical and local effort to main
tain such, service has been a losing
game.
It la believed, and with enow or rea
aon, that the Willamette cnannel from
Harrlsburg to Eugen can be deepened
and. narrowed until, a boating service
can be maintained a greater portion of
the year, or long enough during each
seaaon to make profitable business for
water transportation and. at th aama
tlm relieve congestion of trafflo
through competition.
Th Willamette valley la a great em
pire within Itself, yet with a magnifi
cent river aa aa outlet to the sea, where
all of ita export producta can be car
ried In boats to the docka for reloading
and abtpplng to tb marketa ; of the
world, the general government haa long
neglected this section through failure
to deepen th river or remove lockage
chargea at Oregon City, and haa allowed
ua to pay exorbitant tribute to a line
of railroad which monopolise tha val
ley business, sxaotlng trains cnargea
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Trivial clroumatance have often gov
erned great events. When Mohammed
waa a fugitive from hi enemies, ha took
refuge tn a cave, which hla pursuers
would hare entered had they not seen a
cobweb spanning th entrance, h Not
knowing that th wb waa woven after
Mohammed had ntred the cave, they
oaased on. and thua a spider's web
changed th history of th world.
The shaving of a beard one cost, in
French nation - 8,000,000 - soldiers - and
started a series of - wars that . lasted
for nearly three centuries. ' When Louis
VII was ordered to" crop nis ncara oy
hla bishops hs did so, and In consequence
Queen Eleanor, hla wife, found hlra un
attractive, -and. obtaining a divorce,
married th Count ot Anjou, afterward
Henry II of England. Sh bad lor ner
dnwer th nrovlnce of Gulenn and
Poltou, th strife for which laid so heavy
a toll on France.
Th treaty of Utrecht waa occasioned
by a quarrel between Queen Ann end
the Duchess ef Marlborough about a
nalr ef sieves: and th coquetry ef the
daughter Of Count Julian Introduced th
Saracens 'into Spain. i i
Wealth of New York 8tate.
Tn nn n, merhana.ls ' the normou
wealth of th tate ot Nw Tork mor
forcibly Illustrated ttisn by ths faet
that tha tntal amount of real estate
which Is exempt from tasatlon exceed
th total assessed wealth of IS ef the re
maining atatea In th Union. Th fol
lowing figure wr lvn rcntly by
th New Tora Bun:
m Tork tiu it 800.000.000 of real
estate exempted from taxation. It haa
8185,000.000 represented In churches
and church buildings.. It haa 81S0.000,-
000 In hor-ltalB and rhantaoi ina-uu-ha.,
ii Si aa Aon. Soft In school.
exclusive of 8S0.00O.O0O In relleg, unl-
versltlee, and ether nuiiainge wnvuy
Important Little . Tilings 'X '.'
OREfiON SIDELIGHTS. :
Wild geese are putting la an appar
anc around Stayton.
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Condon Glob: Tom Magor subscribed '
tor th Glob this week.- ; -. :,
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Some Lane county men ar digging "
up their prone orchards. .
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Illinois valley, in Joaephlne county, la
developing into a fin fruit region.
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An Ella man aold 1.000 lamb at 8129 ','
and 1,000 wethers at 18.60, and, has 6,006
aheep left , , -
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Over 200 men ar working In and
around th Blu Ledge mine in Jack
eon county, --. - v '
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Ther will also be more good roads .
built la- Oregon In 1807 than In any
prevloua year.
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Salem boasts ef being a city of aa
unusual number of nlo homes tn pro- A
portion to population. l.,, ' '
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' 8aJem, remark th Capital Journal,
haa everything but streets. . Street bot- '
toms, perhapa it meana. '
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The O. R. A N. expects to have thi
railroad from Pendleton to Pilot Rock
completed by July 4 next f
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Th Lakeview Herald publishes facta ,
constituting Inducements to horeeaeek
era to settle In Lake county,, , , , . ' '
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By thi first ef the year a plant for
manufacturing a spray solution, so a
to save freight from Portland, will be In
operation at Grant's Pas. ,
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Tha Minneapolis capitalist who wilt '
build a large sa writ 111 at Marahfleld
hav bought timber land containing over
8,600.000.000 feet of lumber.
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A Grant county man caught a dag6n '
a trap set for varmints, and when h
tried to liberate him the dog was ugly,
so waa tied with a rope, then th man
climbed a tree and drew th dog up part
way and out th rope, waiting till th
angry brut had vanished, - . "
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Seventy thousand dollars Is th
amount namd in a check received by
Alex Martin Jr. from th government
as part payment for the Adams dlton
near Merrill. Mr. Martin la aecretarjr
of th Little Klamath Lake WateiS A
Ditch company, and it waa that corpora
tion's property, which la included in tha .
great reclamation project now belhg
constructed by . th government - for
which, payment la now being mad.
Thirty thousand dollars' are -yet to be
paid.
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that conaum an unreasonable 'portion'
of the proflta of production '
Nothing would tend to so rapidly de
velop th valley and to vend th thrill
of new enesry vibrating through our In
dustrial activity aa a Juat recognition
of our needs by th general govern
ment - -
This I a matter that should vltalty
Interest Portland and enllat thejcltr
strongest support Th upper vafley'le
aeeklng relief front . transportation
thralldotn, and through united effort
that relief la bound to come. - Several
towna below have already begun acttvi
tlea along thla line, and before the thing
is through with every valley town be
tween Cottage Grove and Portland will
b united In a long puU and a strong
pull and a pull all together movement
to exact from - congreaa sufficient ap
propriation to make th Willamette
river a great highway of commerce ef
thla great valley.
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With a narrowed channel and a writ
ten, signed and sealed pledges from
business men In all tha valley towna
that they will bind themselves to glv
their business to river boat for sup
piles shipped In and producta ahlpped
out, th government will find Itself
Justified In spending th required
amount to make the Willamette river
from Eugene to Portland an artery of
commerce upon which ahall float tha
ever-widening prosperity of th richest
section of Oregon.
Th upper WlHamett valley la get-,
ting ready to issue a transportation
mancipation proclamation, aad con
gress will be naked to Join u la the
good work, f ,
- Luther might hav been a lawyer, had
hie friend and companion eeeapej the
tfiunder storm, and If In 1764 Greenville
bad not succeeded In carrying hla resolu
tion on the advisability, of . charging
certain atamp duties en the American
plantations, th western world might
atlll be bowing to th British scepter. '
Th Duchess of Marlborough spilled a
basin of water en tha gown of Mrs.
Mlaaham, In Queen Anne's reign, brought
In th Tory minster and gave a new
turn to" the affair of Europe. ' .
. .An vn more trivial Incident waa th
cause of the Interruption , of . the' pro
ceedings dissolving .Henry VIII-s mar
riage, which, by the way, breught oa
the reformation. At an Interview with
th pop th earl of WllUhlre'a dog bit
th foot ot hi holiness aa It waa being
extended for th ambaaaador to Ms, and
the confusion Interrupted the negotia
tions. -
Giotto, one ef the early ' Florentine
painters, might have continued a shep
herd boy, had not a picture of a sheep
which he drew on a roughton attracted
tb notice of Clmabua. , , .
devoted to the purposes of. Instruction.
The eltr of New Tor? InoluaeiTof .
course, by far the largest -proportion ef
these holdings, though In the matter ef
church property the land and buildings
outside ef the city of New Tork repre
sent a total value Of 876.000,000.
"The federal government haa IS0.0O0,-.
600 worth of land and buildings in th
stat of New Tork,' of which 860.000,080
worth I In New Tork city and 86.600,-
000 worth In Buffalo. The stat itself
haa 886,000.000 worth of property, land
and bulldlnga throughout the state.
There Is 860.000.00fl of property with
in the state of New York tn cemeteries
ard' 840,000,000 worth of property in ,
1 Urarles and sclentltl and patriot!
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