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Editorial Page of The Journal M'l t7v5 ,4. : ;-t, THE JOURNAL AN rNDEPKNDBHT KKW8PAFCB T f e JACKSON Peeilske mtj eveelug (exeapt Bandar) an ereey Saaaar Barnlns. e The Jearaal Bulla- tat, rlflh ant xaabUletreaa, rortiua, ur. ' Cntere a t(M peatnfflea at parties. Or. niM-wim inroeae tae anus a rxLXPHONsa. . Editorial a ..Mala ..Mala 600 fORKitiN AOTRBTIRIKO RKPRERENT AT1TB .VrMlaoS-Benjamla Si-eclal Adartltiu Aency, 1M Maaaaa atreat, Maw Terkl Tribune Baila ble, Ohlcag. sbecrlptlea Terms Ball to an addreee '-'.- BAIL! ,.' ..as.00 I Ooe Boatb....,,..! ,,., aONDAI . ,--'. v Oaa year Oaa year..,.-.. .42.00 t One taontli. ...... .f .38 DAILY AKD BDNDAX Oee year.... ST.00 I Oaa asonlh........ .SB To the year that ia going, -hail! and farewell I , To the year which shall come, happy . greeting! David Swing. &A .GREAT YEAR ENDING. a--fIHS is the . last ' day of the ,1 greatest pf years in produc- "tibn, industry.coramerce, en- terprise, expenditure and " develop - ment, in thi-L country. As a rule, ' some increase; is expected each year, ' 1 but when the records are all made up . it will, probably appear that the in' ; ' 1 crease this year has been phenom ' enl,especially as last year was a big one also. In fact, people have pro - - ; dnced to much; have demanded" lach , "at transportation ' facilities; have ' , planned and attempted to carry on ao many and such great enterprises, that means that have hithertor been approximately sufficients hav, this .year proveff entirely irtade'diilfftw, The very greatness of the' country s busi- J ress has proved a source of worry, disappointment and toss; it has piled ' tip on itself and caused confusion and friction, " creating a practically new and great problem to 1 be solved, ' .With more money in circulation than ever before there is complaint of -r scarcity of money, not because it is . : hoarded, as was the case a' dozen ' ; years ago, but because it is so closely C invested in every imaginable enter prise, both solid and speculative. ' , V V Whether it haa been a record- breaking year in real prosperity is not easily judged. Prices of products have generally been good, ,but retail ' prices to consumers . have risen be-1 yond all precedent in tima of peace, JWiat the school men have is the re "wbUe" Tncomes.of thV masses, though sp0nsfftydjionori3fjrgcjjf Juur- .. larger than "heretofore,' have not ling in their keeping the weal or woe risen In proportion. The country islof, the coming generation. " Their , moving at ao tremendous a pace that men not exceedingly timid see causes 'for apprehension if not alarm;' yet in Such a . country as this few if any . . realize the almost illimitable extent of : Its productive and accomplishing pos- sibilities. We are prone to aay that , the men of 100 yeara ago foresaw but - little of what has happened; but do : we realize any mora, clearly what will happen in the next 100 years? Who, even with all that has gone before as ' a basis, has had the vision of "all the wonders that shall be"? , , v At any rate 1906, whose calendar pan according to Father Time's un- '. changable edict, ends tonight, goes v out with a record unequaled in this 'yt or any other land, by any of his pre- decessors, yet he in turn may be ex-1 ceeded by 'he year that succeeds " when the.; clocks strike , 12 tonight There is as ,IClJ!!2.iKn of pause or . aiacKening, oi nesiiaiion or relapse, I and a year from today we may point ;.to mightier achievementiCyet. KEEP DOWN THE RATE.' F THE COUNCIL today heeds the general wish of the people, and their interests, it will cut ddwn the tax rate to 5 mills, and! either jural? down some of the "es-1 . timated expenditures, - or provide more revenue by, raising liquBr -fi"1 fenses, or both. The expenditures ;.oLthe city ought not to be allowed to increase beyoniTTrs increase in con-1 hwuuii, . nmui iuu resources, wneniso it is growing at so rapid a pace as it I ia mw, auia a raise in uie rax-ratc win. oisappoint taxpayers generally, win fliseourage investment snd enter- e I pnse, and may result in a retroactive policy on the part of the assessor, ine. peopie. are Willing to pay lib- erauy tor sustaining the various de- partments of the city government, but some of .the estimates can be acaled down, and some of the pro- poeed improvementa can wait, till an- "other yea'r.Wben, ff present progress ' be not checkede 5-roilI tax will raise xood deal more. x s . ' ( A large portion . of ' the amount given up by cutting off the seven tenths, or at least five tenths, of a mill, could be raised by an increase of the liquor licenses,.' If it-be con sidered unfair to raise .them now, to take effect "immediately, the ordi nanca could go into effect at the end ' of the first quarter, thus increasing the revenue by probably $75,000. With thia done, and a little 'pruning of estimates, the rate can be kept down to S mills, which will certainly L' ' . V, , ' :..;. be acting in accordance with the peo ple's will in the matter. :,:The city cannot afford to go on increasing its expenditure even out of proportion to Us growth. to ; . TEXT BOOK SELECTIONS. I UKKt.-NT . agitation f or , ao changing' its personnel ' that only school men ( shall serve on the text book commission, ought not to bear fruit " Once that method was in vogue,' and during the period the school system of . Oregon was owned body and soul by the Amer ican Book company." It is period to which Oregoniana look back with I melanr hrI v recnllerrSnna j . - , The book concern was largely duMf the mine - ) tator and high priest ot -the entire school system of the state. ' By the subtleties that keen and sagacious agents invoked, the monopoly reg ulated the prices of books and con trolled the source of supply. -1 It largely fixed the courses- of study, and naturally- guided them in such direction as to best benefit its own coffers. Without their knowledge, it I controlled many county snperintend- 1 ents, nd many school boards. .It actually and often dictated elections of teachers. It was a' factor in state and county clectiona and knew and employed the meant .and methods of success therein. Shrewdness and cajolery were the agencies , when jeasiest, domineering and dictation f when- necessary, and use or these al I ternatives gave it a strangle-hold on Oregon that threw the atate to its I knees and held it there for years, ' There is no desire in Oregon to re 1 ptat the experiment. The text book flaw, fought through . the legislature by Surveyor General Daly, then Sen I ator Daly, provides a commission of educated business and professional men, beyond the reach of cunning book , agents, and ' it has passed the experimental stage. It has lib- erated the atate from the domineering control of the book concern. It has given us an American citizen's priv- ilege of buying books where and of whom we please a privilege we did not have before. It there have been errors in selections since, they are infinitesimal compared ' to the spec- tacle of the people of the common wealth in the attitude of bondsmen to non-resident book monopoly. What we have, we had better keep calling is one of the noblest in the land. They hold in their hands the welfare of coming millions, and the future of the nation. It is 'honor enough and ; the school men and women ought to be, as they doubtless are, glad to ba well rid of the labor- ious and onerous task of school book selections The new state treasurer -will hot have much if any atate funda to loan out on his own account for some months to come; nevertheless, it' is the plain duty of the legislature to supplement the flat salary law with another prohibiting that official from receiving any emoluments whatever from this or any other source beyond the specified salary of $4,500 year. This is enough, and if the state at any time has any funds which will bring in a revenue, this should go mc ircaiury wncre u oeiongs Make the flaf salary Iawstrictly ef- fective, all around. Whatever the amount appropriated by any legislature for the mainten lance of the state printer's, office, however much it may have cost dtir ling any biennial period, there ijral- ways a deficiency to meet wab-an added appropriation.. If the legisla- mire were to dump a 'million dollars into that voracious hopper,, a ' de ficiency would bob up . crying for more when the next legislature met. At least t has always been so and is now, qui mere is reason io nope that it will not be so in the future The government is in a aineularlv niatressinir nosition. It savs that " l.h.n r'a ahrill alarma frighten th (nation the neero soldier eoes auietlv and eagerly about his killing busi ess. but hss to admit that in the piping times of peace, he is reckless to the point of diaorderliness. It is iat oossible. if we are' to have ntaroes in the army, that ' we will have to declare war, on some country in order to-preserve the" peace'6f our own, The water system must be greatly enlarged. The rates must come down. The authorities might' as well accept these two propositions as fixed facts. The next thing is to figure out the distribution of the necesssry taxes. Great. j) timbers of people art starv ing or severely suffering in a portion of China from famine, and the presi dent's appeal for aid in their behalf will not be unheeded. From India, . - - : 1 , - A, Little :Out Things printed to read while you-wait. . Value of Diamonds. The value of em diamonds cannot be drtarmlnad , . by aJbaoJu4a. atanaaraa. Weight, cut, brtlUancy, color and Per fection or tha atonea ara factors that must ba consldared In stlmatine tha value, which Is, moraovar, subject to. fluctuations. Colorless atones brine higher prlcas than off-coiorad stones, but ir aeciaea tint of red blue or sraen are present they mar increase the value abnormally. Tha value ordinarily Increase in a ra tio Increaatna; with tha weitiav',bt thle nil does not hold ood for the. Jret atonea. the Dricea of which cannot be fixed. Diamonds In the rough generally . . - The , Reannt of Pitt dlamoiialJt h louvre in Faria,-welghe lis karats, ana la valued at tl.100.000. It la, perhaps, iha finest of large brilliants, . , ' . j Lynching. "The percentaara of lrnehlnae In the United atetes Is gradually decreasing. In 1SS1 there were 111 cases, while rn 104 there were only IS, Mississippi. Arkansas and Georgia lead In the number of lynohings In 1104, In Aliaeleelppt there ware 11, in Georgia IT. and the same number in Arkansas, From 1114 to II0S there ware 1,411 Jynchinga. Of these 1,080 were In -the southern state and 41 m the north. and of these I.47& were negroes and lot were whites. Of the til lynch Ings mentioned, 1,444 were men arid 61 women. ' ,. . . December 31 in Hiatory. .. 1 775 Montgomery killed at the battl . . , ..awn, 1100 Samuel. Dexter of -Masaachu' setts became aeoretajry of the treasury, - - ... . - . - . . itroiie uououi, ex-preaiaeni dm 1151-vAustrien emperor revoked con stitution of March 4, 1S4S. 1842 Battle ' of Murfreesboro. o Stone River. ' 1141 General Sheridan captured the Indian chiefs, Santante end Lone Wolf. 1881 l.eon Oembettav ax-dlctator of France, died. Born 1811. ' ' Emile Loubet't Birthday, , Em lie LoDbet, ex-psesldent of the French Republic, was born December 11, IISI. the eon of a peasant proprietor. and studied law. Ue was elected to tha chamber of deputies tn 117 and to tha senate ill 1885, and was prima minister, minister of the Interior and minister of public works. In llll'he was elected prealdent of tha senate, which poalUon he continued to fill until chosen to the prealdeney of the republle. U. Loubet is regarded as one of the ablest and most aaocessful politicians of France. Whils ha made no greet record for statesman ship, be showed himself great tn the small details of government. No ecen dais ever attached to his admlnlatration of any office. i Russia, Japan and' China have come these, appeals . to the United Statea on .frequent occasiona and they should always meet with a prompt and liberal response. We are the most favored people on earth, with respect to resources and riches, and therefore much is required of us.' The statement that there is a vast deal too much prosperity ; in this country will go a long,, way toward satisfying the wants of' many who thought they were suffering, from the pang of hunger. ' . ir The Play Florence Roberts Is back tn Portland again bringing with her .added laurels and added polish even, until last night at the Helllg the largest and most ap preclatlve audience of the season grew demonstrative as It sought vainly to draw the star before the curtain. The time has passed when Florenoe Roberto a western actress, one naa paasea the mountains to the esstward until this whole country of ours . welcomes her ae a star whenever shs appears or wherever she goes. "The Strensth of the Weak" is the vehicle which Is bearing Miss Roberts along, her road of conquest and aha brought It before the people or roruana at the Helllg last night. It is a prob lem play, that part of real lire depiction which haa made Miss Roberts so wen known. It Is the kind of a play cried down by the blue stocking and - the prude and shunned by those whose memories are troublesome with dark shadows of past hsppenlngs. It Is ths world-old story or the sad lesson which the world has learned in ancient times but which tt Will not heed. It Is the mirror of the living life held up to show that for ths pleasure of ths strong ths weak have suffered- since time began and will.' It seems, until time bas ended. ' . There are those who do not like the problem play. They would shun ' the doors of the Helllg tonight when Miss Roberts so realistically Uvea the life of Pauline, wronged by her guardian who should have protected her, and des tined by fste to fell In love wliu ths man s son. These people would not sur fer with her as she suffered. , laugh when the sun ' of hspplness broks through ths clouds for a moment; they would not grieve when tha pistol ended her suffering. But there sre others who think that such a play brings home to the heart a great cardinal truth; thnt It points out a stupendous wrong which has been piling up since Adam began to toll for bread. It may be that there were moss In ths sudtence lasr vta-ht who learned a lesaon by What aTtaVVHoberts painted, and if that be so thTrt sll her work and effort has not been in vain. "The Strength of the Weak" la dif ficult In Its handling. Miss Roberts did the taak uncommon well and by that token she is In the front rank of her profession. - Sh - la surrounded by s good company each playing his part well end mora than that. The whole of (hem present something to Portland the atre-goers whleh has not. been seen here for many days. , ,1 Miss Roberts, of counts, comae first. She lives her part on the stage which the farthest thine thst can be said. Shs makes her suffering nil so real that tha. audience forget the stage end wenp with her.- But there are others. ..Kitty Dare, played . by Adelslde stanola. Is a very wlnaome lady Indeed and furnishes the sunshine to offaet ths teara Ruth Allan, the boyish college girl Is like a freah breess from the campus. Thur low Beraeo, the guardian el the yU of tke Common The Number of Our Hairs.' v,; - . Accrodlng to a well-known medical authority fair-baired people possess commonly between 140.000 and 1&0.000 hairs on the acelp, the number being about the same for man snd woman. park-hatred people have, on an average, about 106.000, while red-haired people are said to nave only so.ooo. But the last apparently possess one great ad ventage In the fact; that they -retain their hair better, aeldom becoming bald, Their belr la much coarser than that of dark . or . fair-haired ...pereona. , y V ; ChurclrWitb.ai History ' ' A small watering place in Austria, named Klchwald, can, boost ofrosass In . remarkable -eh urch. fCi a Cr at milt by an Italian architect at Venice v& ruuvi vwrj., Alirrltigen, who la a greaekdmlreoof Italian arcniteciure. when it was ilrr- 'Ished the church was taken to pieces snd packed in thousands of numbered cases for transportation to Klchwald. At that place It was eventually rebuilt and then made over to its Inhabitants asja glftSTom the princey-- ' Adulterated Food Exhibit The secretary of the Kansas... atate board of hea)th Is gathering samples of adulterated food stuffs sold In Kan Baa for an adulterated food exhibition In the state house during the session of the legislature. The exhibition will include samples of every kind of Impure food sold In the state. Each sample will be labeled, showing What It la sold for, how .much It cost a, and tha In gredients and the proportion of each. This exhibition la to be arranged to show the members of the boue.and senate how neceeaary It Is to have pars food legislation at once. . ? ' Old Trade Secrets. . The two oldest secret trade processes uow In existence are said to be the manufacture of Chinese red. or Vermil lion, and the method of Inlaying the hardest steel with ' gold and silver, which seems to have been practiced at Damascus ags ago, and is known only to the Syrian smiths and their pupils svsn to .his day. ' , ( t. Bulletin Bubble. ; From tha Philadelphia Bulletin. Some people's present difficulties are never absent. ' -"'.- i .-...-' . It is not sxaotly a sign efv horse sense to have a bobby. ' It aeems like casting reflectiona to hold the mirror up to nature. ' If the centipede wore stockings. It would-have a cinch at Christmas time With people . who borrow ; trouble there is alwaye eomethlnr to pay. The man who makes his mark Isn't necessarily a marked man. , in the clock store does Satan rind work for idle bands to doT Common sense is with some people entirely too uncommon. lain as Mr. Adams,' causes people to wonder why' e fairly good old world would permit such' a being, te'eal .Richard.. Adamaythe .son. cauaes the seme people to grieve that all 'men should not be as worthy as he - v Mies Roberta .will be at ths Helllg with ."Ths Strength of ths Weak" to night and In matinee) tomorrow. To morrow eight aha will present ths Span, Ish drama "Maria Rosa," and again on Wsdnesday night. . Satire at the Baker. "A Milk Whits Flag" waved ever the Baker theatre yesterday and will eon tlnue to wave ell during the . present week. It wss dsslgned some years ago by Charles Hoyt as a fun producer and as a vehicle for satire to be thrown at the "tin soldier" of the national guard. It ia bright and sparkling and full of entertainment, as its - long life and great success makes plain. The Baker stock company, which has now taken the favorite up for the plei ure of ths Portland people, mads a suc cess of It last night as was testified by the enthusiastic plaudits given by the large audience. . it la a hard task to pick up such a plan aa "A Milk White Flag" In one week of rehearsal but the Baker company haa dona so and has succeeded well. . The costumes, the scenery and ths acting, last but not least, were all op to the standard fixed by the Baker stock compsny aa belonging to It and responsible for its succeea The story wss told to the satisfaction of ths audi ence, - They went away well pleaaed. Miss Marlbells ' Seymour furnished much of the.fun for the occasion. John Salnpolls 'changed from Shylock and his whimperings Into a deepotie colonel almost overnight and made as good .a warrior as usurer. Miss Lawrence aa ths , widow, William Dills as ths 'corpse,' William Harris as the gen eral. Arthur Mackley, James Oleason, Howard Russell. W. L. Oleason. Don aid Bowles, all gave good accounts" of theraselvss In their respective - rolea The play will continue at the Baker gunni mv vimrw wrefc. ..... , - "The: Old Clothe Man." . ' James Kyle MacCurdy at tha Emplrs yesterday brought before the Portland public a most realistic delineation of the Jew of the New Tork Ghetto, when be took the part of the Old Clothes Msn in tbs piny of thst name. The Empire, as usual, had a full house to see the open ing bill of the week and those who went were not disappointed at what they saw. "The Old Clothe Msn" has drama and heart Interest and comedy alt Inter woven. ' It appeals to sll classes who may go there to seek entertainment. ' - The nucleus of the production 1 Solo mon Levy, ths old Hebrew, who sells second-hand clothes upon the Bowery of New Torx. This is a character hard to represent, but Mr. MacCurdy has dons It and In his work has brought a force ful character Into ths plsy. . ... There Is heart Interest In ths produc tion also, snd In ths boxing match put on during the action of the piece soms very realistic work Is produced. " Alto gether "The Old Clothes Man" is a play which Is well worth the time end at ten- -tion of him who Is seeking entertain-' ment. It will be at ths Empire all dur ing the week. . , Including th White. From tha Baltimore News. m "Of course," said Colonel J. W. Zsvefy. of Muskogee, Indian Territory, 'mors depends on ths viewpoint thsn we admit Now. there was Colonel Bsrnsdals tt Pittsburg who wss walking around our city. of Muskogee and looking It iver.- He met an old negro woman, stopned her and eald: 'Auntie, how many ocople ais there In Muskogee T - , - " "Well, boes.' sha replied. 1 reckon they's about 25,000, Including th whites.' " Al i iHeatKcn : Speak , -His MiriJ " Br Carolyn Preacbtt . A Uttleiiade god in the attitude o prayer1 wa reposing In the bottom of a rusty washboiier In close proximity to a wrought-lron candlestick, on- which a stork stood upon one fool Neither of them belonged there The god lived In a Loula XIV cabinet In the drawing- room, and the candlestick wss part of ths furnishing 'of the master's "den But here-the, were, both packed-in the bottom of the washboiier. . '1 never-was In such an awful, undlr nlfied poaltion In my whole life." com plained the Jade god. "What has hap pened? Is It an earthquake, or Is the world coming to an snd 7"' . And the stork, having been through thia experience many times before. Bar. ing survived because -he was Iron, en. UKUtened ths god. - v , ,VV' -are here because this Is "moving day.' -Tha family to wheih we belong Is having its semi-annual - upheaval. Some families only move once e year. but wo move svery six months- Tou e only bought last June. so, of course, you don't know enythJng about tt yst.- . . .. ( 4 . . - . S' e: e - . .'.i "Explain to me, honorable stork," re plied tha god. "the meaning of tht semi-annual fitting, and what it signi fies to uk I knew It not In my country, There we lived in ths home of our an cestors until ws were called to join our fathers.:- Families never more In our country. ' Tell me. what means this festival of morlne day.r" i o us It oftentimes means death, destruction : and even annihilation; to mortals a domestic celebration, with cold meals and no light and no fire. principally observed by women, When nature is In lta flrat blush-of youth there reigns In-' the American houseeolfl veriod of mia-ratlon. Evervthine Is pulled up or taken down, regardleas' of rank,- value or kind, and la subjected to violence and deerradatlon. .We and oth srs of our kind, who are entitled ' to dwell tn tha parlor, den or library, are jumbled. tOKetbac Into -a .heterogeneous mase wrnrkitchen ntonaiis. hepkamag- sslnes, pots and kettles, ane sometimes even clothespins. This extraordinary state exists for days, until soma one comes along and unpacks us. Then w find ourselves In View swoundlngs, and are compelled to beglftlfe anew, to make new acquaintances, and beooms used to new surroundings It also hap pens in th rail to seme Taremaa."- "To me this is at ran r a. tndead.". said the Jade god. "There is Hit store for me,-1 fear, e period of great discomfit ure. Surely I ehaU not become person ally acquainted with these peculiar rites of this domestic .festival r , "Indeed you win. There ta no India, nlty that you- wilt not beforced ip dure. : Perhaps even death Itself. ' 'MoS Ing day Is attended with great daogefr to air oi your aina. x ne rarer me oo Ject th mors likely It Is to meet with an untimely and. I have sesn my friends depart., one by one; until I am ths only on left. Ths last to go wss a Dresden china shepherdess, upon whom I lav ished my love Her final resting place la upon the ash heap of No. Ill, ths house- ws lived-In . the last moving be fore this." ' , . '.. . .-. e e e . .t 1 "But why must we be moved T Tell me this, oh, gentle stork," exclaimed the "It in because or the curse that, has been put upon women by their friends," exclaimed - the' stork.' They ere ham' pered. ground down beneath the weight or Things that people give them, or worse still, useless things they buy tnemseives because they are cheap. Thess things they accumulate and are afraid to dispose ot. It is ths penance they, pay for being women. People give tnera these things, brlo-a-brao, books; pictures, tidies, pincushions, and they are afraid to give them beck or to re fuse to take them, snd so they live on and on, always chained to the gifts of their unthinking friends, wasting hours and hours of precious time In dusting and cleaning and caring for them, pack ing ana unpacking . them, moving them from place to place, hiring extra rooms te store them In, but lacking the oour- sge to throw off ths shackles that bind thsm to these useless things." "What a funny country this Is," ex claimed the jade. god. "In India the women burn themselves for a sacrifice, but elways for their husbands or their gods. Never before for Inanimate things. out mis is a strange country. "Tea," answered th stork, "but ths women prefer to bo alavea of thia un meaning junk, and. nothing will reform tnem." - .-"And yet they, call us heathen," said ins jsas goo. "Shades of Confucius!" ' The Record of 1906.' By Mrs. John'-A. Logan. '" in looking over tbs record of ths year now rapidly dra wine to a close so stsrtllng are some of Its tragedies and ao appaT.lng have been aom of the venta that one la Inclined to think they could not havo happened but for the memory of the Borrow and anguish wnicn rouowed in their wake Earthkuakes of alarm I na- extant, eon. flagrattons of unspeakable horror, floods that bav Inundated towns and vlllaa-es ana toreetenea the destruction or cities. nave .swept over vest . areas of the countries of th globs. I oimaaiiiii ana rauraaa aisaaiars have cansed the sacrifice of human life and the loas of millions of dollars. Death hss been busy with an unusual harvest of young and old victims. , Self-government bas proven a farce In Cuba. . Revolution . was . only ore- vented by ths prompt intervention of tha government of the United Statea notwithstanding the traces of ths occu pancy of th Island by ths United States in her beneficent efforts to make the Cubans e free people were scarcely ob- iiieratea. , . And yet 1101 Is pronounced by states men, scientists the clergy and the press ss a "year of widespread well belna." end that the "United States hss been blest wl,th a wonderful period of good tlmee" we ar reminded that croos have been enormous; Investments un precedentedly profitable. Members of the professions, mer chants, .manufacturers,; farmers- snd promoters of enterprises claim that phe nomenal success nas crowned their ef forts during the past yesr; sll of which is sn anomaly thst Is inexplicable ex cept ws recognise that-an inscrutable Providence "moves In mysterious wsys his wonders to perform" and thst w era dependent ereaturea upon Ms lovs and bounty, . - . wa bid farewell to 104 with mors of pleasure than of regret because, opttmlstta ss we ar to the futiN-e, we have been .deeply Impressed, by" the calamities Of th psst year, and If wa ar to pass Into a more fortnnats cycle, ss estrolorer express It, ws shall hall with, dell ah t the dawning of ths new year of HOT. t. . ' Tn a Umatilla ronnty water case, 100 Individuals, five corporations, the incor porated town .of Milton with 1.600 In habltsnts. fniL.ths stats of Oregon ars defendants, for whom evsr If attorpsys PP-. , ;,v. , .,.. ;.V.,- . BIRDSEYE VIEWS . . of TIMELY TOPICS - SMALL CHANGE. No more' deadhead ticket perhaps. But if Rockefeller los $140,000,000, Will gVI .15, " - ..y . , Old General Prosperity Is sntltled to a celebration. '. - Th bill, will show that everybody worked, father. ( e- -... '. - - The year 1IT ought to b a big one for. Oregon. : . " e e No, a bad beginning doesn't usually make a good ending. v- . In msny eases, if you are In a hurry you had better walk. , , 1 , v Hot air Isn't satisfactory as. a sub stitute for wood or coal. , . ' . . . Janaruy-may have little of that hard winter up hi sleeve ' Old '01- made some bad breaka, but averaged up pretty - well. . ... - -. ,". e e - Larger atocklnga won't be fashion able again, for nearly a year. ' f v. '' -s ''. ' It win be rather a dull season for th saloonkeepers for a few days, I.ls supposed that Foraker still has hli - ----- - - e 'tre eiarm . la working order ca. -t$&t--'-- .-.- rj. - Be happy, on New. Tears; the bills won't enow, up till next day, or later. . .-,75 .. e e. Bad as Horn other kind of . meat arae certain kind of sausage I wurst. Happy New Tear to everybody ex cept people who -are - phenomenally mean. .. - -, . V - . ' ' ; Keep 'looking ahead, and don't think overmuch ' of th inevitable - grays at th and. - , ; Will th Japs please keep off till wet .through . with those, trouble- sosae-ubansT . .! ?:,', '' .."..:'0';V;... If Mr. Bryce can show that he sgrees p all ubJects with President Roose velt, h cm ..come ovsr. ' ', , There's -always -room f or one more en,lh"- water, wa'een ', And room will .......;ri,r:.. . ........ . Now "if you. Jiave. been' able to learn anything by experlfnc,' begin saving for HOT Christmas present. . f- e ....'.'. "7, ' -Since Joseph Chamberlain . has", lost his memory. . be might make a ' fin prealdent of some , American . trust - ' -y .,, '. v . i ' ' - r . Jf a town, makes en application for i Carnegie library, cere . ahould - be taken ' to use the Carnegie speHlag. . Th man who shot a policeman- so that Be could have company In heaven was about as eraxy eat a man could be Letters From tte People ( on Topics : of Current' Interest - V.:.-:-', . . Save the Feople Mo mightet . Portland, Dec !. To the Editor of The Journal Having been tn Portland off and on these 10 years I claim' te be a part of th blood vessel which helped to bring om life to the body, though often leeches were put to ft to reduce the flowing. v -:. ' - ; -.1 .-: After en. absence of three yeara I re turned Ho thle fair elty. to find It grown wonderfully in all respects, but, I atri aorry te say, also In respect to a disregard of privets property. Twenty years ago my wife, now. dead, bought a email tract of land la southern Port- ImnA HaA It 11 H A h a Ka-hail wire fence and took pride In the growing of trees within the enclosure We cher ished them on eur own and her account. We paid aewer. All and bridge assess- msnte, though far away from th property directly benefited. Tet behold! found that vandals wtna snaps oi surveyor! had cut three Intermittent swath 20 feet wide through the' tract. tearing down part of the fence, using ths boards for markers and cutting down the trees which were in their war. . These surveyors made 30 real of a clearing In order to get th "sights" ot 400 fet . ' - Inquiring into th matter I waa told that th United Railway company was responsible. Qolng there I found they had four office rooms, but wse Informed that rarely anyone entered them. I went to the Willamette Traction com pany; they said that they had nothing to do with It. I went to ths Concord building with th same result. . From there my meandering was to the Wil lamette Construction 1 company, which sent m to th elty surveyor ueless); went to different real estate firms; ne one seems to know. Ths only sure an swer I received to - my question wss: Oo te a lawyer," but what haa law yer to do with it? IS tnera no protection ror anyone ex cept "go to lw"T. Has any surveying party, sent Out by Dick. Tom and ertycut down trees end do as If they I ..... . j , . , . b... - . - - - - r r , were to .sr. or sll the Kussiansr Will any of ths your- readers, for justice sake, kindly Inform me why the owner of land, which la fenced In, taken car of. all taxes and assessments -paid ss they become due, should not heve the same right agwlnst surveyors, sent out by an unknown eorporatlon. as a housS' holder bas against burglarar We send a. poor fellow to Salem for year because he steals a few dollars' worth of "grub," but It seeme there Is no punishment for surveyors, backed by somebody," . who break fences and cut down trees on private property. - Does snyon know who employed therat -., : HENR T SCHOLLHORN. . -S'..' ' -.The gtyestea aHrlke. ' - .' - Portland, I Jg. To .the Editor Of Th Journal While I am not a carman, yet t know when th car are running and when they ar not. Mr. Fuller well knows that he ba not men enough te operate his ears.' If he hss, why don't he gut them on aw-g1v ths people ths proper service Th truth of the mat ter I, e ha not got men enough, and what extra men he ha got ar unskilled nd are not responsible..' Look at the msny arrldenta that havs occurred dur ing the past fewdaye. - ' -Is the publlo going to stand, for this kind of buslnsasT I think not! If tha atrlk I vr give ua th proper 1 I OREgON 8iDEuc:ita.- i Names for ruiel Thoeoaa are eomtng flsAs, eegtie " ' Carlton people era. discussing a new schoolhouse. ' . :y : ; . 'Hood River expect that next Meal will be e'en better. . : . e e . ; , - t- , John R Klrkland died a Sfllteai est his eeventy-elghth, birthday. : . . t '., .-ip '-.e;- - Th town of Mlnam,. In Union county, la nothing mors or less than a mixture of saloons, gallon-boussa end ' dtvss, which are, to be suppressed, aaya a Baker City pepsr. - v., ,-. ... . . . , -:. Pendleton Is reoelving more advert ka. Ing through her street paving . than through any publlo movement ever started In thle elty, says ths East Ore-gonlan.- Paving pay. - , 1 .j ' v , e e "',.".'."','.' , : : A Forest Orovs msn who ha returned from Alberta says that the people ep there are living off of the provisions taken from here. It 1 I below .sere and wsges for farm hand only !! par month. - ! . ' . . ; . . -v -v . , -v 1 Monument Enterprise i Th Enterprise erred when stating In Its last Issue that a boy. had arrived at W. W.. Austin's horns In Hamilton; It is a girl, and we hop theeoitnfjr. lady' will .accept our apoloiy."; We don t blame a young lady ivr imwi umumi irai vauea m iwr I - . , e , Consld'erable real estats ta being-sold around Eagl Point, and a correspondent for-xeellng insulted jrhea called a boy. of ths Med ford Mail aaya that In a few years the Butte oreek eotuiu-y will be one of -the leading fruit producing ao tlona In th state Strangers) ar coming almoat every day Inquiring about possi bilities In the line of frulu of all kinds. .. ,' -t , ; e e - ' .. ; feoseburg Review: It Is litis use for a local 'editor to wests his ' lunars and sprain his spins In trying to boom a town when the cittsen sll stand around with thstr bands In thslr pockets and Indiffer ently wait for something to turn up. If the capitalists or businsss men do not put their shoulders to the wheel and do a little boosting tt is useless for the editor to try and boom things. , . H 11 labor Independent; Local ah lepers report that since ths ear shortage meet ing, held tn Eugena early in December. twice a many ear have been furnished as in any like period of time for months peat. ,. Evan with thia Increase the prod ucts -cannot ' be hauled away, , neither would th mllla ba able to Increase thstr output If assured that tha asm number of care could be regularly furclehed for monthe to come' , A : ' Thar haa been more lnqufrr for As toria real estats during the past 1 days or two weeks than for several weeks. and a number of large deals are eawi to be pending, aay th Budget. - Re cently a number of strangers, , among them being several l-os Angeies capital ists,, have visited Astoria and have se- curad-jDptlone on , bustneas property. while on Baturaey an option was given on a tract -or -land -adjoining auupaaon lough at 1160 per acre. . ervice; if not over, admit tt and do something to get th matteoeettled. If th dermoids of th strikers are Just, and I betev that they hav4 aom griev ance, way not give them a chance to present their case before an arbitra tion board T Th company, by refusing to do this, simply admit It guilt. If Mr. Fuller think that hs can deceive th people and "buffalo" His men and whip them la submission at th expenee of th publlo, ha Is greatly deceived. X am not a union man, but I believe that the boy that ar out deaerv flu consideration from not only th com pany and th public, but from th city official a well. , Don't bunko . th publlo." Mr. Fuller, but admit your defeat or give us better service -. ., ; - ; ; .-;; . ... CITIZEN. - ' .''..' ':. Bfeds la Oeegoxw '-:' : Portland. Dec. SI. To the Editor of Th Journal Jf It la a fact that th Portland Railway company . haa placed with an eastern firm the order, to build 100 cars, then ths company is doing a great Injustlcs to Portland and ita In terests, it would be Interesting to khow something of ths company' pecu liar turn of mind. With all th modern appliance In onr local shops It cer tainly cannot be said that Portland can not compete with eastern firms. .If the company asserts that local shops can not hit ths order In a spsolfisd time, then It can only be said that th fault lies with th company, as .orders are placed In local shops when employee srs laid off, end la consequence great hardship ar worked on th foreman and th few men left in th shopa I think that if ths contract to bultd ths cars was given to th local shop th company would find th work eould be don cheapes-than It given to eastern firm a . - ,. ' , - If ths company would pise th order for. 100 ear in local shops then tht fore- nan could keep his men In training end st ths same tlm 1160,000, which the csrs would cost, would bs distributed t among working men Indirectly through 1 the channels or trade, part of that sum cornea back to the company, but It seem that the Corporation cannot ses thst far otherwise, horn Industries would be patronised. M. BEFFORT. Dlnkelspielers, V '- By George V. ftobart. . , fCepyrlsSt. 10. by W. B. Hearst.) ' To dera dot hand lemon shall lenhon be glfen. " . . -it 1 hard vork-for a stutterinff man to make bluff.kj yj. s-, ,,y ' Succeea nfer shakw hsad mlt a'masj dot has a lasy arm. . ,- ; Bo sura you vas right,' den g ahead und ask your yit ahould It. " . r ; ... . ,. '. r f . ; - If you' doan'd took, any cqaiioa! you doan'g got many advances.'.' -4;' Soma people start ould W de right. out Fat hand dem a transfer. , Books vas a great helpfulness t mil agspeclally a bank book. -., i - " '- i - ' Vun half der vorld Is sfralrfllt Vill nefer get der chance to do de eddar half, j D. IINKEL8PItU , ;',(', .J aef,org V, Uabart. ;. V .. I- A . -
