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Some people spend so much
time wishing for success that
they have no time to work
"for It Anon.'.
THE PEOPLE -HAVE -A-FIGHT
: 0N HAND.; lI;T
fHERE ARE evidences that the
railroads in Oregon, partierx
-larTy thTTfarriman lines, have
1 thoroughly and systematically organ'
J ijred their forces to fit feat or ernas-
culate the bill prepared by the trans
portation committee of the chamber
-of commerce; providing' for a rail-
, road commission, demurrage, etcor
: any similar legislation, and will spare
no effort or means of- influence to
i prevent legislation" which is demanded
by the people of the state, but which
, the' railroads disapprove. J .- .;
; This was to be expected and the
people .should- be awake to .the sit
uation, and watchful and active in
their Own Interests. ' Members of the
legislature, know what the people
want, and what their own duty is, in
this . matter, but it is to be remem-
bered that iht railroads . cari bring
'very strong and subtle influence to
t bear upon the legislators, and long
J experience has taught that a propor
tion of members are. easily influenced
" by means which agents and lobbyists
. of powerf ul corporations are adepts
j in employing. ' Hence it is important
for the people throughout the state,
in such manner and to such extent
j as -they can, to instruct their repre
f'.sentatives..upon this question, and
Impress - jJasaUVnvA' importance of
'the legislation demanded. .. . "j.
It would be well for the press
of the state to impress this jnatter
Hipon, the legislature demanding a
-the people V name and .behalf the
passage of such law or laws as will
relieve them- from a continuation of
- railroad neglect on the one hand and
' railroad tyranny on the ' other. The
people almost vunanimotntyderHafid
;relief, protection and justice, and they
should now impress that demand in
the : plainest and most forcible way
possible upon their law-making serv
. ants. ,; .::.: 7? -, :-
Active and influential friends of the
'people in the legislature will have to
be very careful about "jokers" in any
proposed law.. The - railroad lobby
ists may not. openly, oppose a law of
some kin.d, but they will want to fix
iit, and will aim to render it as weak
-and nugatory as possible by deftly
'contrived provisions that seem fair on
... their face-All sorts of arguments
'andTridu'cemenfs"wTir"bemad.e""?d
pass a ' very mild and practically use
less law, or one that will contain con
cealed tricks, and legislators hav
ing this matter in charge will need
to. be very alert and scrutinizing in
- their 'work.- - . - -'r "' ' -, -,
But besides 'that, every member
should hear plainly from his constitu
ents in mass meetings, through res
olutions of commercial bodies, by pe
' titions and letters, and in every way
in which the people can give voce
to therr wilL To get what they want
they must fight for it, and there is
rib time to be lost in beginning the
fight, .for the victory will not be won
; easily, if at-all, as some people
...imagine. : r . .. .
LULL IN RAILROAD WAR.
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F, AS REPORTED, the" Harriman
force have given up the fight
against the building of the Hill
north bank railroad, and . will make
jno further attempts to hinder or har-
- ass the Hill enterprise, the ' people
f this city and vicinity will regard
and appreciate that fact as a ; great
piece of good news. Not that there
was ever any great danger of the
; north bank road being stopped and
- abandoned, and not that too close a
business friendship between Harriman
and. Hill might notv'be, worse than
! their enmity; but these wars, like all
wars,- are destructive, and the people
of this-region miift ultimately, pay
the cost. What we. Heed is. competi
tion, rivalry; up to or within reason
able limits, but peace,' progress, de
velopment, and attention to and re
irurd for our products and our busi
ness on the part ef the railroads. .
The sympathies of . the people in
this fight were naturally with the Hill
forces, because he is coming to our
: 1 1 . ...
relief, as it seems or as we hope; he
has" broken some of the Harriman fet
ters in this region,' he is necessarily
to be ' a great factor in our future
development, and ' he . is. welcomed
much as a cojony of serfs toiling for a
tyrant would welcome a strong-armed
deliverer.; ;' rf l ..t.-"
We know that Mr. Hill and his as
sociates are not coming here from
any philanthropic motives, or with
the primary j object of relieving us
from ' our bondage;' they are not
spending these many millions of
money without expecting due and full
return and reward; they are consid
ering their own interests rather than
ours; yet this road can, scarcely fail
to be of immense benefit to us and
it is a fact that Mr. Hill has shown a
far greater disposition to develop a
regtonhe passea through- and -open
up new localities to the benefits of
transportation facilities than Mr. Har
riman ever did. The excess of Wash
ington oyer Oregon's growthJsdue
in part to the difference between the
Hill and the Harriman policy. "
, Nobody outside the offices of the
high officials ; or attojeojjhese
roads, and perhaps -none there, can
tell . to"what7extent the warfareis
ended, or if in. a measure ended just
what the results will be, or whether
a combination that might be worse
for us than war will be effected; but
a cessation -of hostilities such as have
been carried cm for the past year or
two will be welcomed, and we are
pleased that the - Hill road - can " be
pushed as'rapidly as possible to com
pletion. ,' V r, '':. '';
As to the possession of the north
bank of .the Columbia for.; railroad
building purposes, it would seem to
have needed but very little time for
any court to decide which of these
contending giants had equity on his
side. Harriman never used the route,
and held or pretended to hold it or
portions of it only to keep it from
being nsed by somebody else. ' He
showed no disposition' to build until
Hill concluded to build himself and
so : invade. Harriman - territory J
then ' Harriman gdt . busy along, the"
route and in the courts, but in the
latter field of conflict he learns that
being a' non-user he has no right to
prevent the route's use by another, a
judgment so clearly just nd reason
able that it is received with universal
satisfaction throughout this region.
SIGNS HUNO OUT.
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HILE PHRENOLOGY is
not regarded as an exact
science, and while it has
been made use "df by a great many
fakers who had but a slight gmattef-fng-of-phrenologrcaf
loret6-1inTnbTig
people," yet there is : "something in
it," and much of the true natural tem
perament, disposition, bent and even
character of a person can be ascer
tained by an examination and under
standing of his "bumps.", V;
On every one's head nature, has
hung out phrenological signs, indica
tive of the real man within, of his
moral and mental nature, v In an
adult these signs may in many , cases
be to' some extent deceptive, for the
bringing-up, the training, various in
fluences, and perhaps a will power
more potent , than is outwardly in
dicated may -have repressed and ren
dered comparatively Inactive the nat
ural impulses and desires for good or
evil of which the cranial protuber
ances and depressions, and character
of eyes, ears and other features, plajoj
ly and truthfully- tell. Or a person
may have some bad "bumps" that are
in part or wholly neutralized by good
ones, and it may not always be easy,
or even possible, for an expert phre
nologist to strike an approximate bal
ance, especially, as has been sug
gested, ss the course of one's life may
hsve modified or rendered of small
value the significance of these physi
cal signs. Yet nsture did not hang
them out' for nothing. They should
be understood, in a general way at
least, by every parent, to whom they
may serve as either encouragement or
warning. '
It is said that some of these warn
ing signs, to any one even juper
fictally acquainted with the relation
between them and conduct and char
acter, appear in an extreme degree
in the features and on the cranium of
the boy murderer, Albert Oleman.
Probably the good, elderly couple
who adopted him did not notice them,
or thought them of no significance.
With many people a boy is. a boy,
and one is about like all the rest, and
what treatment is good for one is
good for all; but this is a great mis
take. One boy needs yrery different
treatment from another, and to know
how to treat one these signs hung out
should be carefully examined, and
the nature that accompanied him into
the world ascertained; and then the
training, thtutreatment of him, should
be according to a plan formed .with
this knowledge as a bssis.i Even with
this knowledge
a parent, or one
stand
know
ing inloco parentis may not
at times what to do, and ef-
I A Little Out
THINGS PRINTED TO READ WHILE YOU WAIT.
Festival of the Dolls.
A curious custom of the Japanese la
that of tb observance of a certain day
in April of urb year, called Oolla' day.
or the Festival of the Uolls.
On this day all the girls and women
'array themselves in sandy attire, and
the mother of each household adorns
the family room In cay colors. Then
the little girls drees all their dolls, old
and new. In their best Sunday tlothe
and prop thsm up ubout.tbe walls. In
the arternoon a great roust is preparea.
ostensibly for the benefit of the dulls.
though the repast la actually consumed
by the grown folks la the evening.
Japan Is the only country that baa such
s, xesuviiy. y
' January 7 In Itlstory.
1 1B5S English lost , Calais ' to the
French. - . -
tTSS Blanehard and "Jeffrteg crossed
Ehigllsh ehannel la a balloon.
1800 Millard Fillmore thirteenth
president . of the United States, bora.
1821 Greeks proclaimed , their Inde-J
pendenee.
1S30 Sir Thomas La wren oe, f am one
English artist, died.
. 18(4 Herbert Gladstone bora. 1
.' ISO British naval and French mtU
tary expedition reached Mexloo. '
1 4M Bsimaceda. assumed dictator
ship In Chile. .
im Khedive or Egypt died. Born
November IS, 1 SSI.. -
1S01 Municipal ownership of gas ob
tained In' Toronto. .
1902 Emperor and empress dowager
of China reentered Fekln. . ,.- . ,
James B. Angell's Birthday. .
Dr. James B. AngelL an educator and
diplomat, was born la Scituate, Rhode
Island, January T, H29. He entered
Brown university In 1845. graduated in
184S. and but for- throat trouble he
would have studied for the ministry. lie
spent several years la the . south and
in Europe, and on his return became a
professor of modern languages at his
alma mater, where he taught for seven
years, and then became editor of the
Providence Journal, which work he fol
lowed for six years. He became presi
dent of the University of Vermont In
1868, ana In 1S71 moved to Ann Arbor
to become president of the University
of Michigan, In the early eighties he
served as United States minister to
China, and acted as 'commissioner In
negotiating several Important treaties.
He became a member of several Im
portant International commissions and
also served for a year as United States
minister to Turkey. . But when the Im
portant work of diplomacy waa con
cluded Dr. Angell has always been glad
to return to his duties at the University
of Michigan,, at whose head he has been
for St years, and if to this is added his
Ave years' service aa president of the
University of Vermont, It makes him
the senior president of a great university
in America. In point of continuous
service his record is eclipsed only by
that of President Eliot of Harvard.
' Museum Devoted to Music
. Vienna wilt shortly possess a museum
exclusively a devoted to music In the
modern world, at least, noorty could
be more appropriately chosen for Its
musical associations. Instruments,
MS3.. portraits, sculptures, and. In fact,
everything associated with great musi
cians will be represented. The col
lection will be especially rich In its
forts to guide the boy aright may
fail, hiit m i ruin it will help .
Who smned, this boy or. some. of
his progenitors? He did . not give
himself those1 eyes and ears, and
cranial formation. What caused them
to be thus it I might be impossible to
discover, and of no very great prac
tical value if discovered; but there
are the signs, showing that from
earliest infancy' he required careful
and particular treatment Not that
his foster parents are" to blame;
most people would have been as ob
livious to the signs as they, or ob
serving them as uncertain what to do;
but this case," and many .others, that
appear in the criminal courts, show
that a better general knowledge , of
"the signs we hang out" is desirable.
J GOVERNOR HUGHES, ;
FEW MEN will be watched more
closely during the next year' or
two than the new governor of
New Yoik, Charles E. Hughes. A
year and a half from now he may
be nominated for president
Ohio is divided between Taft and
Foraker. The senator Is almost un
thinkable,', but be may render ' the
secretary '., impossible. Root lacks
availability. Fairbanks is. not pleas
ing to the increasing number of "rad
icals" in the Republican party. ' His
Indiana colleague, Beverid&e, also
has the presidential bee. Hence
watch Hughes. ; If Roosevelt , should
decide to make Hughes, his successor;
the New York governor would forge
into first place as a candidate. '' .
But much depends i on what kind
of a governor Hughes makes, and
on which element of ? the Republi
can party shall control the next na
tional iconvention." Jf Hughes proves
to be a "radical" and a reformer, and
men in sympathy with such a man
control the , convention, he . will be
very likely to receive the nomination.
New , York is the ' greatest state
in the union, and contains the great
est city; there ' the'worst of alleged
evils flourish most gorgeously and
impudently. By a decided "radical"
administration, either way, Hughes
can make himself the second most
prominent figure in the country, but
he can't "afford to be a trimmer- do
nothing much tolerably well. - . ';,
r Whether Hughes is to be this big
figure dependji on liii .opportunities!
snd how he uses them. Meanwhile
the country will watch Hughes
closely;, , ; ' V
of tic C
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oraraon
historical side. It will include original
snores by Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn,
fipohr, Weber, Moart, Beethoven and
Brahms. , There will also be a complete
collection oc pianos Illustrating the de
velopment, of the Instrument from Us
earliest beginning.
. ' Onward. A
By Florence Earl Coatee,
Thank God a man can grow) ,
. He ta not bound
With earthward gase to creep along
the ground
Though his beginnings be but poor and
low.
Thank God s man' oan gvowl 1
The flra. upon his altars may burn
dim. . ' -The
torch ha lighted may ta darkness
. ; fall. .
And nothing to rekindle It avails .
-But high beyond his dull horton's rim;
Axoturus and the Pleiads beckon him I
Figures,' ':,,'.,'
r A ton of old rags Is worth-180. "
There are always 4.000.00S people at
sea. . 2 1
There are mountain ' In ' the moon
18.00 feet high. v .
The world has 1.014 languages and
1,007 religions.
Over 27.000.000 bottles ef champagne
ara. drunk annually.
From ooal tar 2,000 distinct shades of
aniline -dyes are made, ' t.
Shirter Hours in Germany.1 -: '
'Whereas, In the seventies of last cen
tury, the lt-hour day was the rule in
the building trade-in Germany, there were
In 1898 already 488 towns with a 10-hour
day, 108 with 10 hours. 811 with 11
hours, and 88 with more than 11 -hour.
In 1908 there were 147 towna with a
nine-hour day. 198 with S H hours, T.848
with 10 hours. 1.46$ with 10 Vk hours,
8,824 with It hours, and only 147 with
over -11 bonrs.' ,-..-.
People Read Papers.
A recent bulletin"- published ' by the
census bureau at Washington states that
there are 19,824.767 copies of daily
newspapers, or one for every four per
sons, turned 'out each week-day In this
country. On Sundays the number print
ed Is 11.629.821. The total amount
charged for advertising la 1908 waa
I146.62L811. The capital Invested In
printing and publishing Is 9884,021489.;
" Language of ther Feet - - -
Quick steps are Indicative .ef energy
and agitation. . : '
Tiptoe walking symbolises surprise,
curiosity, discretion, or mystery.
Turned-ln toes are often found wttB
preoccupied, absent-minded persons. '
The miser's - walk- Is represented, as
stooping, noiseless, with short, nervous,
anxious steps. - 11
Slow steps, whether long or Short
suggest a gentle or reflective state of ,
mind, as the case may be.
Where a revengeful purpose Is hidden
under a feigned smile .the step vtll be
slinking and noiseless. -
Wavering and changeable steps be
tray uncertainty, hesitation,, and Inde
cision. : - ,
Obstinate, people, who in an argu
ment rely more .on muscularity than on
Intellectual power, rest the feet flatly
and (Irmly on the ground, walk heavily
and slowly,, snd stand with the legs
flrmly plsnted and far apart -
. The proud step Is slow and measured;
the toes are conspicuously turned out;
tne legs straigmenea. ,
The supreme court of the state
of -Washington holds that Judge Pra
ter, who ordered an insanity commis
sion in the case of Mrs. Creffield and
Esther Mitchell,, bad a right to do so,
though the court was divided on this
point; but all the judges agreed that
the judge of the trial court had no
authority to order the deportation of
the women to Oregon. - The wonder
is that a judge should have made such
an order, or proposition, under, the
circumstances. One of the women
has deported herself to the unknown
country, and the other one the Wash
ington authorities -will have to deal
with as best they csnr w . .
' Mr. Sirnjon Guggenheim, senator-to-be
from Colorado,, who cheerfully
admits that he will be elected be
cause of the money he has spent in
politics during several years past,
says that the smelter trust, which is
principally a Guggenheim family af
fair, is one , of the good trusts, and
therefore should be immune from at
tacks of criticism. We have Mr.
Guggenheim's word for it, which is
as good as Rockefeller's '. that the
Standard Oil is a saintly concern, and
User's that the coal trust grew up
and prospered in consequence of di
vine command and favor. . '
Shipwreck is s. terrible form of
death, though fortunately usually the
suffering is but brieY, and causes a
sympathetic shudder even when the
victims are strangers, but when they
are acquaintances, friends, neighbors,
not to say relatives, , theTfeeling of
affliction and horror is much strong
er; hence it is with relief and rejoic
ing on The part of thousands of peo
ple in Portland that news is received
that the steamer City of Panama has
safety arrived in port, and that the
Portland passengers on her are yet
alive and unharmed. --'.
Portland, with the death rate based
upon an, estimated population of 175,-
000, is the healthiest city of its size
or more in' the country, and more
than twice as healthy as some of
them. The city health officer finds
that on a basis of 175,000 population
the death rate for 1906 was but 8.49;
and-his estimate of Portland's popula
tion is conservative notwithstanding
the morning paper's recent malicious
representations that it was 40,000 of
50,000 less than this. The city is
growing fast, in everything but the
Letters From tlie
People
' Asks About Streetcars. '
Portland, Jan. 4. To the Editor of
The -Journal. Please allow me
space to say a few things In regard
to the street car strike: The railway
people say they are running about as
many ears ss they did before the strike.
I would like to ask Vhere are all the
the cars that could be seen at Third
and Gllsan streets every morning be
tween 7 and o'clock before the strike
came on. Before this strike it was
nothing unusual to see eight to 10 cars
nnea up waiting for a chance to move on.
Looks very much like "nothing doing."
don't ItT Now If you should happen to
stand on the same corner at about
Che same time and look In any direc
tion you would aee about two or three.
Where are the rest of themT .
The St Johns line la about the limit
for rotten . servloe, and alwaya . . has
been. Notice the nlo cattle car : they
kindly donated to the people on that
Una, with Its red side curtains that
flutter In the wind as w come down
Williams avenue at about 81 miles
an hour. Iooka very , much like Mr.
Fuller's private, ear;, when .they, run
Into something they were . Just going
anout six miles an hour, of course.
Some of our oouncllmen ought to
taae a trip down to 8t Johns on
rainy day andhavea couple cfcara
passtheraby when they try to get
back. There seems to be no manage
ment at the Piedmont barn, or the men
that operate the cars would not be
allowed to stop and let two carload
of people wait until tbey get ready
to start, it is Just one of two things,
the company can't get men to , run
their cars, or they are trying to make
aa much money as they did before by
running naif ' as many cars. - What
we need la another car line; but what
la the use 7 The council wouldn't give
It a franchise anyhow. Hoping that
tne people win soon get wise, yours,
A COMMON WOKKINO MAN.
"" Immortality and Humanity.
" Portland. Jan. I. To the Editor of
The Journal. Introducing a few let
ters I wish to write concerning Im.
mortality and Humanity, to those who
only can understand, L those who
believe In Jesus, I present the follow
ing proposition: 1 First that the book
known as the Bible Is the only written
statement of God a will - concerning
man to which we have access. ..
Second, that the men who wrote the
Bible, or Scriptures, spake and wrote
as they were moved by the Holy Ghost
and may, or may not nave under
stood their utterances. '
Third, that If the Bible does not
mean what It says, or to be more ex.
pllctt if. provided we are' able to cor
rectly divide the literal from the sym
bolic.!, we may not except as its true
meaning that which Is obvious and
cannot be escaped except Jy unbelief,
then we do not know what the scrip
tures mean. . ...
Fourth, that God has told us a the
written, record, that la the scriptures
are things hard to understand, but that
the wise shall Instruct maixv.
Fifth, that a vast minority of be
llevers are grossly Ignorant of what
the scriptures say, let alone what they
mean.
Sixth, that Ood la true, though every
man be a- liar. ; . .
V . NIGHTWATCH,
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V--: ;, 'On Marriage.' '. " ':"'
' Portland, Jan. 4. To the Editor of
The Journal. Marriage, . like - the
church. Is an Institution, for the maln
tenanee and -furtherance of lhsglory
or uoa, ana is not ror man or woman
to tamper with lor their selfish de
sires.' Although much can be done to
Improve It we must let time do It
The natural instinct that , every hu
man being Is the possessor of. with
out himself -knowing It will If left
alone, right all wrongs, for marriage
is tne most natural and the most heav
enly institution or tne numan race.
. .., ,' ' THINKER. ...
" New Year Dinkelsplelers. - "
By George V. Hobart
1 Svear oft but doan'd svear.ven yoa
fall off. v s. . . .. .
Vet your finger ven jrou turn ofer a
new leaf, but doan'd vat your viasle.
Most peoples make a' root start on
New Tear's, but der finish Is chenerally
a nrwer. 7
Der man dot rides on der vater aron
nnd keeps Ms eye on der beer vagon
vlll soon be asking for a transfer.'
. Der horn dot la blowed on der faJrst
of der year makes a goot funnel later
on. .
To some of us all dera "Happy New
Tears 1" ve got last year look Ilka a
bunch- of foolish chokes dls year.
Vot ve vlsh for nnd vot ve get for
vlehlng vas two horses of annuder ool
oratlon. " 1 - .
If yon" use a saloon to ring olud der
olt nnd ring In der new vot a lot of
ringers vlll ring in.
If ve could svear off paying bins on
der falrst of der year der vay re svear
off mlt boozerlne ach, Htmmel! how
ve vould keep dot,jletch.
ir you visn to una ouioi vni der year
1907 be lucky you should multiply your
hame py 7, add 19 under der answer Is,
It's Up to you. D. DINKEI.8P1EU
per George V. Hobart
' A Grant County Mystery. '
.-''' From the Long Creek Ranger. .k
" For several years there have been ru
mors afloat of strange sounds whose
meaning has never been - interpreted or
whose origin has ever been found out
People who live In the neighborhood of
Ritter and occasionally people who live
as far north as Long Creek tell of a dis
tant report like a clap of thunder which
is heard every winter. It is heard at
Irregular Intervals through the day and
night and not more frequent than once
In 20 minutes. - It sounds to the people
of Long Creek precinct as , though It
came from the neighborhood of the
Junction, of Long oreek and Middle Fork
and from tae neighborhood of the Mid
dle Fork it sounds as though it came
from Three Mile, and from Three Mile
1e sounds as though It came from Hepp
ner. There Is no. explanation offered
for this mystery.' - '
percentage of deaths; this remains at
the minimum. 1 . -
r.-' .-.
There v. some prospect that' a
falling-out among the advocates of
the ship subsidy graft may defeat
many measures of that nature again
this winter, and so the propose'd raid
on the treasury will be prevented.
Thus occasionally does a disagree
able and misbegotten fly. buzzingly
fall into the ointment of our pro
tected interests' prosperity.
BIRDSEYE VIEWS
cf TIMELY TOPICS
1
SMALL CHANGE.
Now Is the winter of theirailro"ada'
discontent.
e e .. , '
The first Installment of the hard win
ter was soft , v ...;.
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week gone, ' and some resolutions
are being kept . -.
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But legislators can't blame the rail
road for lack of passes. -'
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Only a week till Oregon , will have
the legislature on Its hands. .
There's' another consoling thought; no
state census will be taken this year.
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It was IS years ago that Mr. Bourne
was a ; member of the Oregon legisla
ture,. , ,
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A new author of Shakespeare's plays
hasn't been, mentioned for a week or
two now. - v - ,.-:v'i !
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"Tlcketa, plfcase."- will hare a differ
ent sound from ever before to the Jolly
lawmakers. ' - . :,''.
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' Still prosperity hasn't got around suf
ficiently W anaBla most "people to have
aa automobile, .,',".,',
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' Mr. Bryan Is keeping still : a long
time, for him. Perhaps ha la saving It
to- tell la Oregon.
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President' Roosevelt expects to make
a few more number footprints on the
sands of Urn In 1907. . 1 .
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This ta also tha ' year when further
testimony will be taken aa to whether
Schmits .and. . Ruef can ever " be tried
or - not !t ' : -i 1- -r
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Statistics show that women are longer
lived than. men. Why shouldn't they
be T They almost Invariably go home
oetore nunuiiH.
-e-e-r
Pennsylvania astrologer predicts
the end of tha world In two years. But
a great deal oan be dons tn that time.
The Chester Thompson trial may be
ended. ..-,.--' T '
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Kala
amasoo woman sued for a di
vorce because her husband would not
let her talk. But whoever heard before
of a woman asking or waiting for her
husband's permission to talk?
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It la said that Mr. Bryan It already
engaged jtOkdeHver his new leoture next
season to 88 Chautauqua assemblies at
8500 a Chautaukv This amounts to nearly
as much as a year's salary aa president
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By studying tight- hard the council
can doubtless , think up something else
to do that the people don't want done,
and without any effort whatever It can
refuse to do anything tha people do
want done."' -;-:.. .-.
It Is reported that Mrs. Jeffries won't
allow Jim to fight any more, and that
he won't do, anything she disapproves
of. This read . nicely, but that $60,000
will be a convincing argument with
Mrs. -Jim. Think of the bargains that
WOUld buy ,- . .V;; ,
Just . the" Ordinary Woman"
I wish that I had the distributing of
soma of. Andrew Carnegie's medals for
heroes. I would give one to lust the
Ordinary Woman. It Is true that she
never manned a lifeboat In a stormy
sea, or plunged Into a river to save a
drowning person. It la true that she
never stopped a runaway horse, or
dashed into a burning building, or gave
any other spectacular exhibition of oour.
age, says Elisabeth Meriwether Gilmer
In the Cosmopolitan Magaslne.
She has only stood at her post 80, or
40. or BO years, fighting sickness and
poverty and loneliness and disappoint
ment so quietly,' with such a Spartan
fortitude, that the world has never even
noticed her achievements; and yet In the
presence of th Ordinary Woman,, the
battle-scarred veteran, with his breast
covered with medals signifying valor,
may well stand uncovered, for one brav
er than he is passing by. ' :
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There Is nothing high andherolo tn
her appearance. She la Just a common
place woman, plainly dressed, with a
tired race and -work-worn hands the
kind of woman that you meet a hundred
tlmea a day upon the street without
ever giving her a second glance, still
less- saluting her as a heroine. Never
theless., aa mnch as the bravest soldier.
she Is entitled to the cross of the Legion
of Honor for distinguished gallantry on
the Dattieneia or lire.
Tears and years ago, when 'she was
fresh and ' young and gay and light-
hearted, she was married. ' Her head,
aa le the case with most girls, was full
of dreams. Her husband was to be a
prince Charming, always tender and oon-
slderate and loving, shielding her from
every care and worry. . Life Itself was
to be a fairy tale. -.
One by one the dreams fell away. The
husband was a good man, but ha grew
Indifferent to her before long. He ceased
to notice when she put on a fresh rib
bon. He never paid her the little com
pliments for which a romin'l soul hun
gers, na never gave ner a kiss or a
caress, and their married life sank. Into
a deadly monotony that had no romance
to brighten It no joy or love to light
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Day after day she sewed and cooked
and cleaned and mended to make a com
fortable home for a man who did not
give her the poor nay of a few word
of appreciation. At his worst he was
cross and querulous. At his best he was
silent end would gobble his food like
hungry animal and subside into his
pa ner, leaving her to spend a dull and
monotonous evening after a dull and
monotonous day.
The husband wss not one of the fortu
nate few who have the gift of making
money. He worked hard, but oppor
tunity does not smile on every man, and
the wolf wss never very far away from
their door. 1
Women know tha worst of poverty.
It Is the wife, who has the spending of
the insufficient family ' income, who
learns all the bitter ways fif scrimping
and paring and saving. - The husband
must present a decent appearance, for
policy's sake, when he goes tn business;
certain thins ere necessities for the
children: and so the heaviest of all tho
deprivations fall upon-the woman who
stays at home and strives to. make 1
do the work or is.
This Is the way of the Orjlnafy Worn
an; and what sacrifices she makes, what
tastes she crucifies, what longings for
pretty things ' and dainty things she
smothers, not even her own family
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OREGON SIDELIGHTS.
Vale wtn soon have a water and llgh
system In operation,
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Plowing was done all through Decem
ber la Barney county. -:
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Washington county farmers will
plant English walnut trees. -.
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- Sllverton business men- are trying la
organise a Cqmmerclal club, -, ' . -.
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It Is predicted that gralnbaga will
be even higher yet this year.
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; Tamhll county farmers Interested In
walnut culture have effected an organic
satlon. .
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The fruit tnspeotors of
em Oregon counties evidently ' mean
business. - . - .
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Hermlston was named after tha nam
In one of Stevenson's stories, ."Weir of
Hermlston. r 7
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' Free water and Milton are both to
dyke and bring nndor control tha Walla
Walla river. ;
Over la Tillamook couples have -the
advantage of the opportunity to be mar
ried by Jnatloe Good speed. . - . ,
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- The dropping of a lamp started -1 -fire
in tha crowded Presbyterian church
at Burns, but Jay Gould put It out
-- Fifty dollar has been oollected to
ward a belfry and vestibule to the Ho
ller church. The bell Is now rung. on.
tha front porch.
Two men have located l.IM acres. .off .
borax-be ring land - In - Harney-county-
and a town to be called Swan City Is
expected to spring up, v.. " -." -: - -
- Some of thawest side engines ara
nearly as old as soma of the west side '
eonduotors, and they are - subject te
heart failure, - says . tha McMlnnvlll 1
NewsrReglster. ; , - , ; - .
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A number of heavy taxpayers tn tha t
oounty are In favor of starting Into the .
rockroad system, says the Hillsboro Ar
gus. They argue that 100 miles of good
road, that would endure for time, could
be built by bonding, and that It oonld be
paid for In 26 years.
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On the margin of a sheet of new bank
bills received by the McMlnnvllle Na
tional the other day was this .notation
In a neat lady's hand: "Do you want a
good clerk? If so, write to n" The
one lone bachelor of the Institution will
not 'say whether or not he has written
to tha romantic damsel. 0
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Tillamook Herald: The publication of
the delinquent tax list this year
amounts to 788 lines, at 1 oent per line;
mis servloe costs tne dear taxpayer
lust 87.88, a decrease of several hun
dred dollars from previous years, v Tha
Herald gets all of this money la -one .
lump and It Is so much we don't know
what we will do with It . -
guess. , They think It Is an eooentriolty
that makes her choose the neck of tha
chicken and the hard end of the loaf and
to stay at fcoaie from any little outing.
Ah, If they only knewl '
Oethsemane of woman, only to go
through that . slavery of J motherhood J
which the woman endures who la too
poor to hire competent nurses. - For
years and years aha never knew what
it was to have a single night'a unbroken '
aleep. The small hours of tha morning
found her walking the oollo, or nursing
the croup, or covering restless little
sleepers, or putting water to thirsty,
little Hps. .,.
There was no rest for her, day oa
night There was always a child In her
arms or clinging to her skirts. Oftenef
than, not she was sick and nerve-worn ,
and weary almost to death, but she
never failed to rally to tha -call' ot
"Mother!" as a good soldier alwaya ral
lies to his battle-cry. - . ..,'
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Nobody called her brave, and yet,
when one of tha children came down
with malignant diphtheria, she braved
death a hundred times, in bending ever
the' little aufferer, without one thought -of
danger. And when the little one was r
laid away under the sod shs who had
loved most was tha first to gather her- .
self together and take up the burden
of life for the others. . ..
Tha supreme moment ,of tha Ordinary .
Woman'a life, however, came when aba
educated her children above herself and
lifted them out of her sphere. She did
this with deliberation. Shs knew thai
In sending her bright boy and talented
girl off to college she was opening up
to them patha in which she could not
follow; she knew that tha time would
come when they would look upon her
with pitying tolerance or contempt or -perhaps
Gold help her be ashamed ol
her.
But aha did not falter In her awlf
sacrifice. She worked a little harder.
she denied herself a little more, to give I
them the advantages that she never had. r.
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in mm wilt, wbp winy line millions OS
other Ordinary Women who are tolling
over cooking-stoves; slaving at sewing
Ing machines, pinching and economising
to educate and cultivate their children
digging with their own hands the chasm
that will separata them almost as much
aa death. 4.
Wherefore I say the Ordinary Woman! .
la tha real heroine of ltfe.
' ' Perlreo, V
"By Ella' Whealerwtlcex ' " '
Long ago lived Perkeo, ' ' .
In the Tyrolene. .
' Form and face -devoid of grace, )
Foor his lot I ween. , v ' .' '
Tet, despite his low estate,
Perkeo was great '
His tha thought that humor wrought
1 Merriment his art . , t .
vAnd he knew where laughter grew
In the human heart.
Klnir who found their glory sad, '
Perkeo made' glad. ......
Just to wile grave eyes to smile.
And turn care to- sport,
Pqrkee was bid to go. , ' (.
Like a lord to court -Kvermore
an honored guest '
Knight of quip and lest, '. , '
Pend to fame is many a name
Great In days agona; - : "
Lost to sight are prince and knight
Perkeo lives on . ;
Still' he seems to smile and o.uafft
Ah. It pays to laughl .. . .
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