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Editorial Page of 1 he Journal a THE JOURNAL AH IHDKPENDBNT NgWSPAPS" C S. JACKSON. hbWM mi; (TMliif wt Body) ry paMar Bornls. at I'D jni as, tfrtk a4 TaaUlll r f. Portiaa. Or. . umn v ww pwwc , - , trDiDMta Urou U malls Mon4-clua rajepnoMEa. . Ritltorlal wd.,..h .-......Maia crao. ..7. ..Maia , riitu rwuja rum Breiai V . IN Kc aciMt, Iki Tribaa Balid- ttnbarrlpttoB Taran or nail t anj eddi la la UaitaA AUtas. caaaaa r mmk. , DAILY Com yar. ...... ,.$S.O0 Od snatb. 44 , - IUNDAX On Tu. ....... .11.00 Od swetk., t .23 DAILY AND SUNDAY . . ... Oe year 7.00 1 On swat .98 Whoever takes it for his law to do as he likes will not : for lon( like -what he does, , Maclaren. .'..'.' BLOW THE OREGON HORN. .' f-rVURING this year 1907, just be II gun, the people of Oregon, and particularly- of Portland, -its. chief city, ought to realize as never before the advantages here afforded, '"ithe opportunities here offered. The fact is that few of us appreciate our home state and city as we' should. We are not sufficiently apprehensive of the benefits and blessings of living here rather than tn many another place where but for the accident of birth or a migratory 'impulse our lot might have been cast The greatest Christmas gift, the most substantial basis for New Year's happiness for the people of Oregon, is Oregon her self. - - Think her over, not once a year, but daily and rejoice. . And don't keep your ; satisfaction-and appreciation hid. Don't merely smile- your appro . bation behind other people's backs, as if it were something that might be stolen from you. ; Blazon your ap preciation and. pleasure abroad. . The more you do this the more you will . .'.feel 'that mny. ' T-yTpy"" Talk Oregon. Write Oregon. Smile Oregon. Laugh Oregon out loud. Praise Oregon; you cant well overdo it Be enthusiastic about Ore gon; it ought to be easy for you if this best of states is really appreci ated. Defend Oregon, if she is ever slandered or attacked. Fight for Oregon, if an -enemy of hers' ever "appears. Work for Oregon, and,, get your friends and neighbors to work, - too: She will pay you well. - '- - v . Think, and talk, of the climate the . crops, the soil, the" scenery, Ihe re , sources, the opportunities, the'profits oi energy and thrift, the mighty de velopment that is-just fairly begin ning. " " ; . . Everybody, in, Oregoi! aught-to! ( understand her, to appreciate her, to get in harmony with her, to love her,! ! to be aA factor in her mounting course as "she flies with her own. wings." ; ' .: , I And in all this, if you are a resident of an Oregon city, add its name Portland, Salem, Eugene, Ashland, . Baker -Cityr-Astoria,-The-Dalles," AT-" bany, Pendleton, Grants Pass, Ore gon City, La Grande, Corvallis, Kla math Falls, Roseburg, or any one of the rest' Stand up for "ft Help it "" Praise it Rejoice in it Even boom it ' Let there be more blowing of Ore gon's horn this year and of its cities' horns than ever before. Toot up, loud and lively. ' We live in the very best state in the union. Believe this, and insist on it Feel it Be ready to prove it And feel and talk tht same way about your home town, county or neighborhood; not in derogation f any other.'- ' .,' . ' ..., . During 1907 let's hurrah for Ore gon, morning, noon and night, and , for our home cities or localities. Be gin now, and keep it up. "';'" MAINTAIN THE PORTAGE . . ROAD. i THE SUCCESS of the portage railroad from near The Dalles to Celilo is not measured by the volume of traffic which it has ar ried, nor is there cause for discour r. agement jh the fact that its receipts have fallen short of expectation. .The benefit that it has been to pro .' , ducers and shippers does not appear "1 1 tintil the failroad rates between cer tain interior points and Portland are considered. Then it is aeen that a Saving amounting to a great aggre gate sum has been effected by the 'road, . even though . the shipments ever it were small,, - ,. ' ;.':.' ; A has been shown by figures pub lished in The Journal, the O. R.'& N. rates from various, , up-river points have been reduced very greatly, so much in . fact tbar shippers have in many if not most cases patronized the ' O. R. & N. rather than the boats of the Open River association and the portage railroad, thus securing the in tended benefit witftout - giving the date or the association ,an oppor tunity to show on 'the surface the c -od that bad been accomplished. ' l'rrm Cden ihe ratei 1iave been seduced from 1 to $3 per ton, from Wasco from 40 centsVto $2.20 per ton, from Arlington a rate as' low as 40 cents a ton has been made, and similar' reduction has been made at Irrigon, Umatilla, Wallula and other river points, just as rates , at. river points between the Cascades and The Dalles were reduced after the com pletion of the Cascade rocks. t v It is true that this benefit has not been as widely .distributed within the state as could be wished, and that Idaho' and Washington people come in for a share of it; but this should not deter the state from going for ward with the good, work.' In the future the number of people benefited will greatly increase, and there- con sequent .greater prosperity will add tcT that of the whole state and region. Just now, the people of all the state must contribute a trifle to suppdrt this road, which is a freight regulator of great importance; but the people of the Willamette valley may soon be asking those of eastern and south ern Oregon to aid in the movement that should be made to open the Willamette river, to free transporta tion." y:'iyy;J,;:s'i.:l2z.:zt:. The Open River association, espe cially, considering that it had hard luck at the start, has done a good work and is deserving of cordial ap proval and support Shippers owe it to the state and to this association, that has helped Jhem-so-materially, to give. -tba . association boats and the portage road their patronage, at least whenever they can. do .sowith little or no sacrifice on their part. '-" The object of building the portage road . was not that it should make money 'for the state-though it was hoped that it would be self-sustaining, and no doubt it will be hereafter but to reduce freight rates, and this object it has accomplished, and will accum- plish in s greater ' degree in future. So it should be maintained, and all possible encouragement' and support Ought" to be given to the Open River association and the boats that it has provided for the purpose of reducing the rates... The people up the country should stand by those : who , have helped them- -- : 1 - " ' .. ' ... ' OPEN THE' WILLAMETTE. ONE after another the granges are coming out with ringing resolutions for an open Wit lamette, and abolition of the toll-taking at Oregon City. Estacada grange is the latest to join in the slogan that seems likely to be echoed from every grange hall in the Willamette region, and many outside it Were the ques tion, left to a vote of the farmers, it would be settled without a dissenting voice.' Indeed) it is doubtful if there is a person in Oregon outside of the railroads but would sign a petition for. the government tn build new f ree locks or buy and make the old ones free. ;With the merits of the case so emphatic the wonder is that .the condition of injustice to the Willam ette 1 people -has been allowed to go unchecked and .unchallenged for 30 long years. -"- Not long-ago a teacher back east was discharged because she was too pretty and winsome; later s Wash ington, D. C, cleric lo$t her position for the same reason, and now s San Francisco court stenographer has had to give up her job for like cause. There's-some advantage in a girl be ing plain, after all, it seems. Men can't stand toomuch beauty at close range. 1 : -- Senator Foraker says he hopes his political sun will not set until he has obtained justice for the discharged negro ' soldiers," which proves' that what was merely an ordinary race J question in the south has become a presidential race question in the sen ate. . , -' .; - The mayor is unquestionably right in his attitude on giving away streets to whatever person or concern asks for them, and the people would, sus tain him, about 10 to 1, if they had a chance.' ;! - .. : ... .':-. , " The portage .road and the Open River association's line of steamers have been of great benefit already to people living, adjacent to the upper Columbia, and the . good work thus begun must be kept up and enlarged. - Whichever contestant for the sen ate wins in Rhode Island he will be a millionaire representative of "the trusts and s me-too to 'Senator Aid rich, so the common people are not interested in the outcome.. ; - In his first appearance on the stage Miner Hicks was a total and pitiable failure, which is rather to his credit, and probably to his advantage. Mr" Rockefeller dislikes very much to see 'American money go abroad. Once out of the country he is liable tojniss getting it "-w" Rcmembrance of tht consequences A Little Out THINGS PRINTED TO. READ" WHILE YOU WAIT. ..v 'Flood Guards Bankv ' ' ' , , The precautions taken to guard tra-ure-houaee are not usually a plctur eaque, la modern tlroea. aa were media va.1 metbod. yet the manner In which the Bank of France protects It vast accumulation of wetflth savors a little of the elaborate oar of the Middle Ages. It is said to. rtiard Its treasure even more Jealousy than the Bank of En land. Every everrlne the door of the strong-room is walled up by masoni with hydruullo mortar. Water Is then turned onttntll tne vaults are flooded. and the only way to get at the treasures would be In a diving suit and with a large supply of dynamite, ' " January 2 In Hiatory. " " 174 Edmund Randolph. of Virginia became secretary or state. : j gi Frederick William IV of Prus sia died. Born October 15. 175. il Oovernor Flanders of Louisiana reelgned and Joshua t Baker appointed bis suooesaor. - ' 187S Berrtoval of Temple Bar. one of the four elty gates or London, begun. 1I7 General Torn Thumb, famous dwarf, died. . ..' - - 1SSI Wagner'a opera. "Die Melster singer," aun for flret time la America at-Metropolitan ocera-house. . 4 1SS1 Fifth Avenue theatre, new York, burned. ' ' ' 181 Women admitted to diplomas at the British Royal College of Burgeons. 1 ' 1814 Massacre of Catholics by cos- sack eoldiers at KroSche. Russia. It 00 Secretary Hay announced sua- cesa of "open door" policy In China. . 1101 Lord Roberta made-Knight or the Garter . by QueenVictoria. . , e birioti Why la a certain cut of beef always spoken of as the -airloInT" Because the term la a corruption of "sirloin," from the French word "surlonge," meaning over or upper portion of the loin. Also because King James I. when dining at Houghton Hall. In Lancashire, In one of his fits of humor said to an attendant: "Bring hither that surloln, sirrah, for 'tis worthy or a more nonoraoie post, being, as I may say. not surloln, but Sir Loin, the noblest Joint of all." . Like Shootui In the South seas and In various groups of Islands in the Indian ocean the aborigines shoot fish' with the bow and arrow. The art Is extremely diffi cult, aa In taking aim at an object under water the archer has to allow for re fraction. If be were -to aim directly at the fish aa he seea It he would.' of course miss. Long practice has. how ever, made the natives expertIn this sport. M. Carey Thomas's Birthday, v M. Carey Thomas, probably tba most famous educator among the women of America, was born at Baltimore, Janu ary I, 1S57. After receiving her early training In the pubiio schools ana rrom private tutors,' Miss Thomas attended Cornell college end graduated with hon ors when but SO years of age. , The next year she spent at, Johna Hopkins unt- of allowing the. "holy rollers" to con tinue their 'insane orgies should prompt the ' suppression-' of ; the tongues of fire lunatics. They are full to overflowing of the devil, not religion.! : ' Now that Harriman is going to btiild-TO-GrayjUarbdf, why ' should not Portland get a share of the . big business over there, instead of allow ing it all to go to Tacoma and Seat tle?. '. There are some strong indications that the people ' and interests and newspapers that trjed to break np Mr. Loss and block the United rail ways project will not succeed. ,:. ' It was undoubtedly a previous dis engagement that prevented Mr. and Mrs. Maria StoreV from attending the president's New gear's reception. This U the day when a desperate fight takes place between Resolution and Habit to determine which is stronger. ;. -' .,.' ' Portland's ' prosperity wears smile that won't come off. the The Play In "Maria" Rosa" Florence Roberta has found a' play that permits her to reveal the wonderful Intensity of her dramatic powers. It affords a magnificent oppor tunity for emotional acting, and conse quently la an admirable vehicle for her ablUties. . . . But It Is doubtful if the audience was satisfied or if the great endearment In which Miss Roberts is held was vastly Increased. At least that aeemed to be the way the audience felt about It; that is, the big part of the audience. Of course, there may have .pren a select few-who were able more' thoroughly to appreciate the artlstia finesse, but it la not the few who. bestow popularity. r'Maria Rosa'' Is a three-act tragedy translated from the Spanish. If depicts the unromantlc life of the Jowly, leav Ing out altogether any suggestion of the grandees of Granada or the chevaliers of Castile. ; It is a story of a group of Spanish rallroad-grsders, telling of their love, which ts primal, and their poverty, which is real.- It Is no problem play, nor does it . contain auggeetlon. Lmr Ing the three arts Miss Roberts' work undoubtedly placed her on a higher pin nacle as aa actress, bat. failed to draw the audience cloeer. - - Her support was perfect- Aa Ramon, Thurlow Bergen did a splendid piece of acting, and Lucius Henderson, as Halve don. was ideal. Other members of the company shared the honors, and ft la unlikely If an actor ever received more perfect support than does Miss Roberts In "Maria Hols." - "Maria Rosa" was produced for the first time In America at 'Ufa (tie last week, and Is therefore In what might be called its probationary stage. It will be properly mounted before .the plajf Jg presented In the east. - . ' With this evening's performance of "Marls, Rosa"-, Miss Roberts will close Bar angagemetiX la this city, . - of tlie Vjommon verslty, and then came, four years at tha- moat noted schools of Europe, Re turning to the United Ktatea in 1884. she aceepted a position as professor of Englleh at Bryn Mawr college, and alnce 1194 she' has been presldont of that college. Miss Thomas la the author ot several works dealing with the subject or the higher education of women. ' .-Rise and fail of Mercury, Mercury rises and falls In a barome ter because dry air la heavy, moist air la light and the column of mercury Is affected by atmoapherlo pressure. The tube of a barometer being open at the Bum end, the air, when moist, cannot support the weight of the mercury; when the air Is dry the mercury cannot resist Its weight; hence the rise an J fall In dry and wet weather. - Wed in Platoons. ' Christmas day Is one of the most popular days for marriages among the London poor, apparently owing to the temporary comparative wealth , drawn from benefit clubs and Christmas. boxes. The couples were in such numbers last week In some churches that they had to be married in platoons to avoid inter ferlng with the regular aervtces. , Thick and Thin Glass.'. Thick glassea crack more readily than thin ones when hot water la poured Into them because glass Is a slow conductor of heat, and when hot liquid, is poured into a glass vessel, the Interior expand before the . heat reaches the exterior, consequently there is a struggle between the two forces and tha glass files to pieces, . ; . ' ; , "y Only Widow" of Revolution. . One Of the most remarkable 'women In Vermont la Mrs. Esther 8. Damon of Plymouth, who Is now J yeara old. 8he la said to be tha only widow of a rvo lutlonary soldier. , She waa bom almost a generation after tha close of tba rev olutionary war, but at the, age of 11 she married Noah Damon,-' 76-year-old veteran of that war. ; .- Swiss Women Students. In six Swisscoljegfa nn leas than ITtSI women are atudylng. - Tha major ity of the enrolled female students are Russians. Tha women are most largely represented at Bern, where 488 are en rolled, almost all in tha medical course. Lausanne his. Its, Geneva 141, Zurich 17 and Baele 14.. . ; , Long Service, To encourage servants to keep their places tha Tiverton, England, branch of tha Toung Women s Christian Associa tion has given prises to two women who have been in one service for 18 and 1,1 yeara respectively.., -.':-. ' '';.A Cat Leaves Wealth. - A rat named Pinkeye has died at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania leaving an estate of 12,000 to a sister eat Each of the cats inherited 8 2,000 last year from B. F. Dilley, an eccentric millionaire. CLakity-ForAU " Mankind ; By Professor Otto Welnlnger. 8t Augustine - must certainly have been aware, when he advocated chaattty for all mankind, that the objection raised to it would be that In auch a case tha whole human race would quick ly disappear from tba face of tha earth. Thla extraordinary apprehension, the worst part- of which appears to be the thought that tha race would bo exter minated, shows not only tha greatest unbelief In Individual Immortality and eternal Ufa for moral well-doers; It la not only the most Irreligious, but It proves at tha aame time tha cowardice of man and hia incapacity to live aa In dividual life. " To any one who thlnka thus, tha earth can only mean the turmoil and preas of those on it death must seem 'less terrible to such a man than Isolation. If the Immortal moral part of hia per sonality were really vigorous, ha would have courage to look this result In the face, he would not fear the death of the body, nor attempt to substitute the miserable certainty of tha continuation of the race for hia lack of faith in the eternal life of the aouL ' -. ' The rejection of sexuality I merely the death of tha physical life, to put In its place the full development of the epirltual life. . -4 Hence, It follows that It cannot be a moral duty to provide- for tha continu ance of tha race. Thla common argu ment appeara to me to ba ao extraor dinarily falsa that I am almost ashamed to meet It Tat at the risk of making myself appear ridiculous, I must sak If sny one ever became the father of children solely to avoid the greet dan ger of letting tha human race die out if ha did not do his duty? And would ft not follow that any man Who prefers chastity would be open to the charge of Immoral conduct? Bvery form 'of fecundity Is loathsome, and no one who la honest with himself feels bound to provide for the continuity of the human race. - And what we do not realize to ba a duty Is not a duty. ' On - tha contrary. It Is Immoral to procreate a human being for any sec ondary reason, to bring a being Into the limitations of humanity, tha conditions made for htm by his parentage; the fundamental reason why the possible freedom end spontaneity of a human being is that he. was begotten in such and Immoral fashion. .. : .. . That tha human race should continue to exist ia of no interest whatever to reason; he who would perpetuate the problem would perpetuate the problem and the guilt, the only problem and the only guilt. - ' The only true goal Is divinity and the union of . humanity with the-Godhead, that ia the real choice between good and evil, between existence and negation. Tha moral sanction that has been In vented for the marital relational In sup posing that there is sn Ideal attitude in the act in which only the propagation of the race ia thought Of, la no sufficient defense. . There 4s no auch Imperative In the mind of a man. it ts merely sn In- generous defense ot a desire, and there Is the' fundamental Immorality In It that the being to be created has no power ot choice with regard to his parents. Vies With the Peon. ; - ' ' Something like 1.000 Jspanese labor ers have already been brought Into Mex ico, and some 1,000 mere will shortly be introduced. The latter will be required f hlcfly for railway work- Their wages are at the rata or si. so Mexican a day. Walnuts raised near New Era netted tba owner, tl par tree. Most People Hate ' Novelty , - " 1 ' B Irene Gardner, ' If the majority of people had their way there would never , be anything new undor ihe sun- They, oppose every Innovation, crying aloud that the world will be ruined -if tl Is introduced, and thla whether it be a -change In atyla or in SDulllns. ' v - ." ' The pieeent hullabaloo calls. to mind whst happened when the Bilk hat was first introduced. It waa on January 15. 177. that a London hatter. John lletharlngton by name, appeared on the atreet of that city with a sort or nesa gear that had never before been seen. It was shirty, eight inches high., with a rim about .seven-eighths cf an Inch wide. Ha had not gone but a short distance when he waa followed by a crowd of boys and losfers. Boon tbey were re inforced by. the curious from all walks of life, and ere long a howling mob waa Jeering at him. Then some one threw a stone at the hat and that precipitated a riot. Women fainted, children were trampled and--the aon of a nobleman was seriously injured. John Hothrlngton waa greatly alarmed. He bad expected to arouse curloslty-ln fact, desired to, for ha waa a hatter but. ho had not anticipated any suen demonstration: The public seemed to take the Innovation aa an Insult to-Its Intelligence, for no one had ever worn auch a hat before, consequently to In troduce suchia style was nothing ahort of criminal. - Had not a detachment of soldiers hur ried to the scene the venturesome hotter would surely have been killed. Aa It was, he was arrested and ormpIled to give bond to tha extent of 4500. When brought to trial the evtdenoe atated that he hadr cauaed a riot by making his ap pearance on the publlo highway wear ing what he called a silk hat tall structure,-shlny in appearance and cal culated to frighten timid people. . In defense tba batter assarted that he had committed no crime, but had simply -exercised his rights aa a cltlaen to In troduce a style which no ona need fol low unless he wished to do so. The following morning tha London .Times had a long editorial on the .aubject In which this paragraph appeared: , "In these days of enlightenment-- must ba considered an advance In dress reform, and ona which Is bound sooner or later to stamp Its character on tba entire community. The new hat is des tined to work a revolution In headgear, and wa think tha officera of the crown erred, in placing tha defendant under arreat." . ,. Today all thla aeema very -absurd. Wa laugh at the silly objections brought out by those who were opposed ts such a radical change of atyle and wa think ourselves far broader in ouevviewa, less Inclined to lose , our heads when any thing to which wa have not been ac customed la brought befqre. ua for' bur adoption. ' li But ara wa broader? ' Succeeding gen erations will probably aay wa were not aad will laugh at aoraa of our fanatic antics In opposition to now conditions. Of course, wa will never mob a man wlioappeare on our streets with a silk hat on hia head, but we ara doing things Just aa alUy. For instance, raising a row over simplified spelling. . Letters. From the . People" : . Does Not Like Barber's Law. Jewberg. Or.. Deo. ' SI. To tha Edi tor of The Journal I wish to say to all barbers tired of tha work', of .the so called barbers' board of examiners that now la the time to have tha body abol ished, as tha state legislature will aoon be In session, and when tha. pay atopa we won't be bothered with the exam iners. The commission la not Instruct ive to the barbers, nor doea tha law protect them; It only robe them and worka hardahlpa on tha boys who want to learn tha barber trade. - Now la the barbers' time to knock thla law out and be free from auch a graft Thla law would have been out of ex istence before, but I couldn't gat thia board of examiners to proceed against me. They, came to visit ma last fall, but tha board and Ita lawyer left town aa they came. ' If all barbs re were like ma, tha examiners would bare to ahave for tha money they use. Ilka tha rest of ua. I have been told by three of tha beat lawyers in tha atate that thla. law la a graft ...-. J .-, .. I suppose tha most of the barbers will read thla notice, as I aea Tha Jour nal In every barber ahop I have aver been In In tha atate. " ' ' , .. i , ROSS HATTERMAN. Do They Encourage Crime? -Portland, Deo. 11. To tha Editor of Tha Journal Having In mind tba re cent murders and double murdera com mitted in thla and neighboring cities. I should like to ask If It la not time for tha good people of Portland, who have tha welfare of tha community at heart to protest against auch things as mov ing pictures setting forth crime In all Its details? In- aome auch pictures ex hibited nightly; no less than five mur- dora ara committed In aa many minutes. all deftly, executed through disembowel ing with a butcher-knife. That tha ex hibition of auch picturea ahould act aa a stimulant to crime aeema to th writer not only probable, but almost a certainty. ' JOHN BULOW. When Kings Relent, V;; '..A touching atory concerning tha aged Emperor Francis Joseph waa recently cabled from Vienna. He waa singing a death aentence. and waa so affected thereby that two big tears rolled down bla cheeks and blottst out part of what he had written. , ,: His majesty thereupon turned to bla aecretary and aald: "Teara remove every fault.-- I -cannot' sign. Be for yourself. My signature ts blotted out I give the man his life." A very similar occurrence marked the commencement of ' Queen Victoria's reign. . The Duke of Wellington brought to her a court-mnrtlal death sentence for a la-nature. After considerable de mur ah signed It. Then, acting on a audden Impulse and bursting Into tears, aha took, up her pen again and wrote across the face of the document th sin gle word "pardoned." Thla spontaneous act of royal clem ency-held good, too, and th condemned man went free. But a ahort act waa passed directly afterwant relieving the young- sovereign from tha distressing task of having to sign any more of these gruesome documents. Similar anecdote ara told of many other Muropean potentates, and of still more Oriental ones. Even tha usually austere kaiser wants to pardon, the cob bler "Captain, of Kopenlck" and It la pretty rertsln that such a atep would meet with general approval. The late Tsar --Alexander-Ill. toor Instated upon aparing tha life of Jessie Heljmenn, one of tha assaaslnstors of his father, ss soon aa he heard that ah waa likely to become a mother. . . rxi ii BIRDSEYE VIEWS cf TIMELY TOPICS SMALL CHANGE.. All in holiday presents. ' ' Young 1807 got a good lend-off ia this country. A It will soon be time .for th fruit to b killed. , ... Bom people are keeping their good resolutions jrt . . t .;-.' r . ""Portland will be well over 100,000 be fore thla year ends. , f Tha new rata law has no application to a trip on tha water wagon.. "': V -r e ; ;;; ' ; " ' The ' holiday billa come but once a year. Settle up and look pleaaaat . e e ..',;.-,. i -' It looks like Haines and Davey,' unless soma member change their minds. , - ' ' 'A' ' Under no elrcumstanoea ahould a boy b allowed to use or handle a gun. " '''':".' .'" -. ' j V"k ., ' .' Mr. Harriman controls so many rail roads that ha has traveled too fast '. " v '.-,-.' e . " ' Portland, will not have prohibition. yet w win need a great , deal , more water, i ' ' - .' s - ' . ' " - a e , ' ., - " . ;- Don't expect th lengthening of the days to make th gaa bills , muck smaller.'' ,..,.-:,. : .- , ; -' "" a a . .'! ,j ,';-.. .;'...' - -A - Massachusetts boy ' I . yeara old emokes a pipe. But he, might do wors amoks cigarettes. u: -- r-- If everybody does Just a little bet ter than laat year, the world will be come a, great, deal better. . i ... - : ; The rallroada anay carry mora paaaen gers, thia year than last but not so many of them will be deadheada. It beats all how ona can buy things any time of year for a good deal less than cost If everybody tella the truth. Senator Smoot ha onty-e llttte -evr tro yeara to serve, and the senate can't get around to vote on hia caaa in that time. . - . - , - vi - ; ' The people of Texas seem inclined to aay to Senator Bailey:. "We'll stay with you thla time, but. don't let It happen again." .-' " .... Prohibition la In fores In IT countiea In - Missouri. Few old Mlssourlans dreamed that Missouri would aver come to this. ; .. , . ... ':' ' .,'; e ' - 'i . '', Tacoma la growing jUcely. but If aha wants to watch a town really grow, she should quit watching herself and ob serve Portland. - - -t-' J -..' , " e . e f . .' .,' , Tha war department has barred whit horses from the .army. Tat some of ficera may ba found in th vicinity of re4-headed cirla. - . .... -v. It Snowed 1 la Portland early New Tear's morning, but it waa a tiny little baby anowatorm, scarcely noticeable. But it may be a bint of bigger one to fellow. . ,. - . Wkat Pullicity of tte Water Ques- tioivHas AccompliaheJ - : Portland. Deo. 1 1 T th Editor of Th Journal Tour artl-les on th water question show a grssp of tba funda mental equltlea above the ordinary metropolitan paper, aa Indeed do many of your editorials on different topics. Tha agitation for free -water may, wot result In that goat being readied, but it your Idea of water, at actual cost to tha consumer is reached tha good work of Tha Journal will have obtained for tba people of Portland some of tha un earned Increment heretofore gained by th land speculators ontlrely at the consumer'a expense. It appeara that an expenditure of 180,000 recently for the extenelon or the mama enricned th land ownera ' affected mostly '-speculators to tha extent of over 13,000.000. Had tha cost of extension teea laid at f the doors of tha land ownera th re mainder would have been ample to have compensated them for having held On to tha land and prevented Ita oelng used or developed since Oregon .waa admitted aa a territory, it appears that the spectra of free water hae frightened th water board Into promising great reductlona and raforma. Tha actual coat of distributing water through a gravity aystem for a iarge city la very low probablr 10,000 a year It is estimated for Portland, or about It a year per houae on tha aver age. Tha manner of collecting thla sum la a mere Incidental and not a. principal queatlon. . w w '- -' tt us not foraet that no advance r.r Improvement of anyr kind can be made that will not be reflected In the aelling price of land. If tha prir of water per household Is cut from Th present ex tortionate rata of 11 JO to 11 or 10 cents, or 10 cents, or nothing, wa insy be sure tha land apeculstor will absorb the difference In tiro,, and the time win not he ao verv long either. Water at coat will mean that ownera of vacrnt lota will ask mora to get ant or. me w r nr ranltal and labor aecklng op portunities to Invest and Improve. Let us have water distribute! at coat and let the' property Inrreaaeil In value by the laying of extension and mains bear the expense, tha Interest and sicking fund being laid on tha general property tax. and wa would hav a much nearer approach to equttsbl adjustment than at preaent With an Improvement In the tax lawa and an awakening of pub llo sentiment to the folly, of collecting v urn whatever on imorovements or personsl property, further steps wilt be taken to lay more of tho public nurdene on th broad back heretofore eecapng with a feather a weight while Induetry and honest thrift hsv been punished end 'penalised with the load. That broad back la tne land owner's. - He ab sorbs all; let him pay all. , , ,. t-. ., .- .... , Permit m. however, while admiring the great work Tha Journal baa accom plished In bringing the water board to a realising - aense of Ita unjuat course In the-4sst to point out what appears to be a fault In tho loglo of your com parison of free water to free postage. For a atated sum a month tba ordinary houaeholder nqw . obtalna a certain service from tha water ' board repre aentlng the elty. Wlthtn wide latitude he may use nwe or little water, but If he uses any Ihareunf Is exacted. " T6 decrease that sum tt per cent or mor would .t necessarily Increaaa the amount consumed,-and the elty would be protected then as pow by tha Instal "OREGON SIDELIGHTS. Tone of onion seta are being shipped ( from, Hubbard. . ' - , e . a - A Tygh valley man baa invented a new style of automobile. ' Over 100 men are at work rn tha Uma tilla Irrigation ditch. '" Publlo ownership of light and water Is the Issue in Eugene. " " . The '- Port Orford school teacher Is teaching hia 100th term. ... . : '.'" "' ' 7" A Granite man killed a cougar that measured It feet 7 inches. - . . . ; ;' ' .j. ' Salem may follow Portland's example and organise a song bird club. - - ;i- '.',- 1 A subscription paper for a hospital Is being circulated In Tillamook, 'V , - . . . - . e . . - a - Several brick and wooden building wilt soon be constructed at Hermlston. ....... - e - ... - Work oii the well for oil being bored near Langlola la being steadily prose cuted.. .r .!--,'.- '..:'-'' '-'.'. -.' . f ",. Tha : Irrigator editor received for Christmas preaenta a pig and a dosen peach treea. ' Lostlno baa a champion coon hunter, getting from one to three every tlm ha goea hunting. - i - e ; e .'.'--,.-i .'-.'- v . - ' Windy hollow. In tha Coyote hills. Is expected to develop into the Tonopah and Ooldfield of - Oregon, ? - ! -.- , .. , . V . .'v.' For the first time Enterprise 'and Joseph have levied a city tax to obtain revenue formerly got from saloons. , , - :"- - ... : I . ... ; . A 4-year-old steer killed at Independ ence weighed, when' dreseed, tUO pounds. One pound more would save made him No. 1 all through. - . ' V ------ "- ,-;- - . .x..,J. A young man Irqm Coo bay, where It rains 100 inches Some years, baa bought a tract of land at Irrtgon, wher it raise little or none moat years. - : e 'e. ' :.-.'., , " The Oregon Stat Journal, published at Eugene, has entered on tha 44th year. Mr. R. H. Klncald having been editor and proprietor from tha begin- nlng. , . , . t, . '. .'',;- " ' ' ..: Canby merchants, says the Tribune, have been very prosperous, and before the holidays ..were : over . they all. raa out of thlnga to eat there .were . so . many hungry Pottlandera In town. . , - I .'-'' . '-'' '..' '::. ' v j"" . There la every indication that tha J I year will mark the-beginning- of a new it era In tba development of - TlllaiuooU rrom a bottled up, monopoly conaittorA In a great" many things to th-it of ln-1 dustrlal enterprise and expansion. . Tha realdenta of Agency Pialna are determined to solve th water problem, which is tha most difficult one which confronts them, and with thla object in view ba ve decided to combine 1 forces and drill community wells at different pulnta on tha pialna.' lation of metera where wanton waste waa indulged In.- In Cleveland. Ohio, where the water ratee .were materially reduced no difficulty arose from the in creased consumption -on- that account Still further reductions of rates ara contemplated In the near future, but no Increase in tha amount of water per household la expected..-Now If tha na tional government charged the man who mai.ed ona letter a month tho aame aa tha man' who mailed (0, and' had a gliding ecale for those who ex ceeded 10, then the analogy between poatage and water ratee would be cloaer. If It la found that It costs tb olty and tha Individual cltlaen less to collect 875,000 a year by a direct tax than to hire clerk to collect It a few centa at a time each month that would not make water free, but would simply be a simpler way of paying for It. Should tha people ba wise enough to permit tha laying of all tha expenses of distributing and extending the water upon lsnd values exclusively (and tha referndim and- Initiative enable thera to do ao whenever they pleaae) then there would ba no objection from Tha Journal to free water, if that term waa proposed and preferred as a way Of ex pressing a almplar form of paying for it Tba publicity given tha water ques tion by Tha Journal hae already pro duced good fruit, and brought some haughty alnnera '.to repentance. Water at coat la bound to result and whether It ba called free and collected for ones a year, or furnished for a monthly sum paid at a different atall In the - city hall la not worth pulling apart about The houaeholder la willing to take the relief offered after all theaa yeara of extortion, and As will vote that relief la one form or another, -unless tha water board gate busy and follows np Ita tardv repentance with work allow ing faith and sincerity. . Thanks are due Tha Journal for Its open avowal of common aense In mat ters of taxation, for Ita freedom- front fear of offending a powerful few In ad vocatlng the interests of tha many, and for Ita beneficent publicity on th water question,, showing tha benefactors of the old SysUtn are pa sain g away. FRED C DENTON. What British Hall-Marks Sifnify. ; By glancing at tha "hall mark" w gold or allver article one tnay learn where they- have been manufactured or assayed if they ara of British, origin. These mraka ara fixed by law, and therefore-cannot vary. Tbey ara not' to be confounded with tho , mark "atarllng." which means much or little, according to the liberality of tha manu facturer who happen to be using It Tha 'mark for London la a leopard'e head; a castle and Hon for Edinburgh a tree and aalmon, with a belt for: Glasgow: an ancher for Birmingham; three castles for Newcastle; a dagger. ar thre wheat aheavea for Cheater; a castle with two wings for Exeter; a crown for Sheffield; five lions and a cross for York; and tha figure of HI bernla for Dublin. Tha 'Standard mark" for gold la: For all England,' a Hon passant; for. Edinburgh, a thistle; for Glasgow, a rampant Hon.andfor.aH-Ir-siand,a' crowned harp. . The "standard mark" for allver articles Is-the same throughout tha United Kingdom namely, the figure at Britannia. - -.-. 1 "S
