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, THK RAILROAD COMMISSION.
THE MEN selected for, railroad
, commissioners, ; o far a tan
' be judged from their past rec
' ords, will be satisfactory to the
people, '. and good work and results
- may reasonably he expected of them,
Mr. West hat been an exceedingly
valuable servant of the state for four
years past at land agent, in which
capacity he has displayed much abil
ity and complete faithfulness to public
interests. . Mr. Aitchison was secre
tary of the late tax commission, for
whose excellent work he is largely to
be credited, and fie was recommended
by influential commercial interests.
Mr Campbell was the choice of many
lumbermen and shippers' of the Upper
Willamette valley and southern Ore
( gon, nd is especially interested in
the lumber industry, , Eastern Ore
: gon, looking at the matter geograph
ically, was fairly entitled to a com
missioner, but so long as especially
' fit men are selected it makes no great
difference where they hail from. The
; work , of these men will be arduous
and important, and their responsibil
; tty grea t They will start out with
the support of the public, and may
; be fairly expected to earn its confi
dence, and it may be hoped that t if
: they do ; well they will ' be elected
next year, regardless of their politics.
DISINGENUOUS PLEASE
TROM RAILROAD circles come
' W arguments, pleas, and prognos
A ' ticitions of dire disaster, on ac-
' . count of so-called anti-railroad
legislation that has been enacted or
is pending in various states. A sam
ple circular of many being sent out
nowadays to newspapers, and which
tis entitled. "Is It Not Time to Let Up
on the Railroads?"' says that "efforts
are being made throughout the coun
try to impose upon the companies ex-
actions which will cripple tbeir ef
ficiency and . very greatly decrease
their, revenues. If the railroads are
to continue to perform the service in
the upbuilding of the country which
.they have been performing for the
' last SO years, a reversal of the public
attitude of hostility toward then is
.absolutely essential." This, appeal
quotes from Mr. J. J. Hill's1 organ,
.,jlaerStaPuliPwneerrejhkh
ays that "the condition of things
emphasizes . the serious, need of de
aisting from groundless attacks. and
from making the tailroads the target
' ' for every crank and demagogue.". It
is pleaded that while rates have gone
down,' expenses have t greatly in
creased, owing to the far greater cost
of labor and materials; and an article
-the- Manufacturers1-? Record ie
quoted which predicts dire and whole
alt disaster unless "press and peo
ple now stand by the railroads and
encourage them in every way possi
ble to find the money needed." Other
editorial expressions along the same
line are reprinted, with a view of ha v.
ing their views indorsed by the press
generally. The press dispatches al
most daily .contain dispatches to the
- same effect emanating from railroad
or sympathetic sources that it is.irn
possible to double-track ' existing
. roads or build new ones because the
money for this purpose is not to be
obtained; that capitalists will not in
' vest in railroads while ; the people
manifest hostility toward them or
. seek to regulate' and control them.
A good deal of all this talk and of
these 'representations is : based on
false assumptions as to the people's
attitude on one hand, and on the
other hand completely, ignores the
railroads' delinquencies,, disregard of
public interests, and, criminal viola
tions of law. ' It is said there was
never such a prosperous time as dur
ing the past 10 years, and the rail
roads have shared their full portion of
' that prosperity. They have been de
claring, great' dividends, and flying
high in etork wars, and it sesms
strange that Just now they should
f nd themetvet unable to find money
f-r urgently-needed railrosd expan
sion. They say they cannot get
money because of the people' hos
tility, but the people art not hostile
to them. The statement is made to
frighten the people into an attitude
of acquiescence in whatever the rail
roads may ehoose to do, or not to do.
They Jay the blame upon the people,
and wrongfully accuse them of being
led away by crailks and demagogues,
and of unreasonable hostility, when
the fact is that the people only de
mand fair, decent treatment, and a
reasonable regard for their rights and
interests. The railroads' demand "a
reversal of the public attitude," that
is, that the people shall entirely let
them alone, and enact no laws con
cerning them, but what do the rail
roads promise oh their part? Noth
ing. Absolutely nothing except In
ferentially, to go on as they, have
been doing for the past 50 years. But
this, even if there was anything bind
ing in any promise they might make,
is not enough, will not do at alU The
people want and icquiie an advauCTd
and entirely different conception, on
the railroads' part of their moral and
legal obligations to the public The
people demand that territory shall not
be partitioned among railroad nabobs
and great regions of resourceful coun
try left for years and decades in isola
tion thatbuilding.and- equipment
keep " pace ' with the country's
growth; that dividends be not paid
nor interest' charges laid, on a large
percentage of "water" iri'stocks; that
railroads stay Out of politics, and as
far as possible out of Wall street;
that rebates, discriminations and all
unlawful conspiracies eease; and,
finally, that rates-be adopted which
will give the owners a fair, liberal in
come on the actual capital invested,
and not on fictitious capital. -This is
not hostility to railroads; it is only
hostility to unlawful or reprehensi
ble and intolerable practices. "The
people want railroads, of course, and
more of them. They want the rail
roads to prosper, so that they will be
encouraged and enabled to serve the
people well and keep step in progress
with the country's growth. They are
not such demagogues or such fools as
to desire to cripple the railroads, but,
on the contrary, want them to be
strong and successful; but the abuses
of their privileges and powers by the
railroads have become simply intoler
able, and the people are not going to
be turned aside from their purpose
to correct, regulate and control rail
roads, by these lugubrious representa
tions and veiled threats. ;
The railroads in sending oat these
circulars and concocting these dis
patches assume that they are being
persecuted, and they affect to cry for
mercy, but they are not being per
secuted at all; only being made to un
derstand that they are public institu
tions and must be conducted with re
gard to public interests. This has
come to be necessary because of the
railroads' persistent disregard of pub
lic interests and contempt for the peo
ple's reasonable demands.. If nobody
will invest in railroads when the peo
ple have and exercise the right of con
trol, so be it; then the people will
have to go into the railroad business
themselves, to avoid doing which they
would be willing to be very liberal
with present or other owners. But
they; have learned by dear and pro
tracted experience that public control
is an absolute Tiecesiity.They can
not make Mr, Harriman build more
railroads in Oregon, but they can reg
ulate the roads he has.
We must be allowed to doubt the
stories being sent out as the Unwill
ingness of anybody to invest in rail
roads under - regulative federal and
state laws. Money may be withheld
for a little while for the purpose of
intimidation and coercion and er,tain
great financial interests may threaten
a . panic, but the country cannot be
scared again as it was in 1896, when
it .was ' already lean and troubled.
There is paying work already for 75,
000 -miles-more railroad, 'according" to
Hr. Hill, and the country will need
10,000 miles a year more besides this,
and from some source the money to
build these railroads and equip them
sufficiently will be forthcoming, even
if the people nationally or by states
or both, have .to go into the railroad
business. The sooner the railroad
magnates drop this pretense of being
persecuted and so rendered unable to
do anything, and go to work to show
the people that the railroads mean to
do the right and necessary thing, the
sooner will public criticism and meas
ures of control of the railroads relax
THE WILLAMETTE LOCKS.
T
HE SALEM STATESMAN and
the Eugene Register have
either willfully misrepresented
: r. titteriv" mtsisicen ne
Journal's' '"attitude on the "pro
posed and expected efforts of Rep
resentative Hawley to secure an
sppropriation - for the Willamette
locks. The Journal has repestedly
stated Jhat-iMesired ucb ppropria
tiiiend -believed that congress
should make it, but expressed a doubt
ss to whether, congress would depart
from its usual practice to do so, and
in view of that doubt we have urged
that the state take hold of the job
and so make sure of its being done.
Anythiqg The Journal cad say or
do to aid Representative Hawley in
his efforts to secure the desired ap
propriation . will be said and done.
And since the legislature, if it acts on
the matter at all, will doubtless do so
along the line of the amended Jones
bill, providing for a. conditional ap
propriation, to be used conjointly
with one to be made by congress if
that can be secured, this paper is in
favor of that measure rather .than of
none. . , ,
The ' Journal is pulling -for open
rivers and improved harbors, ' the
Willamette river among them.' If
the federal government will take hold
of the Willamette locks matt&t agd
free the river,. we shall be satisfied
and very glad; if the government will
join with the state and btur ln'f
expense, we shall be contented ana
. . .
happy; but if the government will do
nothing we do not believe in sitting
down and doing nothing ourselves.
Pass the amended Jones bill and let
Mr. Hawley do his best. Senators
Fulton and Bourne helping him, and
provide means for accomplishing the
desired purpose.-; Then if it be defi
nitely ascertained that; the govern
ment will do nothing, let another leg
islature appropriate enough more to
do the Work', meanwhile making all
necessary., preliminary . preparations
and movements. " ; ;
DONT KILL THE BIRDS.
HE PROTEST of the friends of
songbirds against Jhe Jackson
biltrallowing'Iruit growers to
kill certain species of them,
ought to be given respectful consider
ation. People who have carefully and
persistently studied the food habits of
these birds say that they live chiefly
on worms and insects that are fruit
pests,' and therefdre do.the fruit rais
ers a great deal more good than
harm, and o far as we know this
statement has not been disproved or
even contradicted by any one well
informed on the' subject Because a
bird eats or injures a few cherries,
berries or other specie of fruit, he
is regarded as a destructive nuisance
by many who have never considered
the amount of good he does in de
stroying orchard and garden pests.
It. is probably true that if all birds
could be banished from Rogue River
valley the, fruit growers, there, in
stead of, being benefited, would be
very greatly damaged, and in two or
three years would be willing to pay
a good deal to get the birds back.
They aee the comparatively little
harm the birds do, but are not ob
servant of the. great amount of good
they do. Such, at least, is the confi
dent opinion and assertion of those
who have studied the habits of birds
and- we have' no reason to believe
that they are in error. . '
A NEEDED AMENDMENT.
I
T HAS been reported that Presi
dent Roosevelt now approves and
will lend his support to Senator
La Follette's amendment to the
railway rate regulation law authoriz
ing the commission to ascertain the
present vaiue-of railroadsTIt"wilI be
remembered that when La Follette
presented this amendment during" the
last session he was the only Repub
lican who voted for it, all the Dem
ocrats voting with him. If tht report
that' the president now favors this
amendment be true, the vote may be
different the next time it comes up,
though there is no hope of its passage
ar this lesslonv
The necessity of such- a provision
if rates are to be properly regulated
is obvious. As Bryan' Commoner
says: "It is not enough to stop re
bates; while this puts all shippers on
an- equal-foot ing -4teal!y-h;etpi-the
railroads more than it does the gen
eral public from extortionate rates,
and this problem cannot be under
taken" until we know how much of the
present capitalization is real value
and -how much is water. .The-first
thing to be done is to separate the
real from the fictitious.
Senator Fulton distinctly and with'
out equivocation asserted that Chief
Forester Pinchot, from , the stand
points of ornament of use, wss abso
lutely without value to the govern
ment, immediately after .which the
senate increased ' Pinchot's salary
$1,500 a year. A word of praise
might have cost the chief forester his
office. . ' -' '
Only two senators remain to be
elected to make the next senate cm
plte, One, Bacon of Georgia, cannot
be elected till June, unless a special
session of the legislature is called be
fore, and the other case .is little
Rhody, where a fight is still on be
tween seversl trut millionaires.
One would suppose from the As
torian's prolonged roaring over the
Port of Columbia bill that it was
something greatly detrimental to As-
toria, whereaa its passage would ben
efit that city as well as Portland and
the Columbia river region generally,
Astoria is becoming too big and im
portant a place to tie' down its inter
ests to those of a little coterie of
pilots whose record is open at times
to severe criticism, to say the least ,'
Mr. Bryan's Commoner is mistaken
in classing Oregon ;-with the states
whose senators are nominated . by
conventions before being chosen by
the people. Oregon has eliminated
convention nominations. - The Com
moner is also mistaken in saying that
Washington submits senatorial can
didates to a- vote of the people,
though it may do so hereafter. ' ,
' Perhaps the governor thinks that
if he isn't good enough to appoint a
railroad commission he won't do to
help select the normal schools that
are to go.
Two-cent fare laws are being passed
by many states. We dbn't ask for
that in Oregon, but come' freight
schedules need fixing. . -
: Congress will not do its plain duty
by the Philippines as long as , the
sugar and tobacco trusts object
The oeoole asked for and tried to
get an anti-pass law, cot a compul
sory pass law. --. -v;'.'
Letters .From the
People
The Japanese Question. -Portland.
Or., Feb. IT. Te the Editor
the Journal: The people or the United
States ar getting a fine return ton the
sympathy end eld they extended the
Japanese in their war with the Bus-
lana. The lenaoa for Ainerloens is, al
way stand for the supremacy of the
whit rao. Never again should we
take the side of a colored race eiralnat
a whit people, ' The present attitude
of tha Japanese on the California school
question le help in millions of Ameri
cans te rearh this conclusion, and to
learn once for all that for the white
man to descend to- equality with any
of the colored races Is to fix in the
mind of the colored man his superiority
to the whits man. It never falls. It
is en Inevitable consequence of differ
ence of race. . -
In any country where twe or more cf
the five races are living together, on
of the races will be the roaster, th
other the servants. The law is abso
lute, and all tb doctrinaire in the
world cannot change It.
In the Cnlted States the whit man
is the master. If he do not choose
to let Japanese children go to school
with' his own, they cannot do- so. For
the Japanese to assert the right to en
ter schools where w do not want them.
and to refuse to attend the schools we
have prepared for them and pay for
out of our own pockets, is the height
of impudence. If we are cowardly
enough to Ubmlt te such Insolence un
der a threat of war, the American peo
ple ar not what they once were.
A a matter or wisdom, every siaie
In this Pinion should hare law provid
ing separate schools for th white and
the colored races. Oregon should have
such laws. We are different from the
colored rare; they can't help it; neither
can we. - Each race should be proud of
itself and wllllag to remain distinct
There will be crotests from those who
trad with. Japan, but th dollar is not
everything with all our people. Had
those in authority stood firm at the
beginning of this tempest In a teapot
the Incident would already be r or got ten,
but they saw fit to side with th Japa
nese against their own countryman, and
tried to coerce and bulldos eltlsens
Into admitting th overgrown Japanese
Into thslr primary schools, it is a
black page In our diplomatic history.
It la admitted that the people of
California ar within their legal rights,
and they have the backbone to stand to
th last extreme for such right. Th
blar of war will not scare them. Mil
lions of good Americans are behind
them. . They will fearlessly guard th
right te control their -local affairs.
- it. a Jiai
" ' Public Need Sympathy.
; Oregon Mining Journal.
The old Southern Paclflo surely has a
hard row of stumps with wrecks, floods,
landslide and "Other; jneidehU T of" "th
kind occurring weekly, put iner is no
call for the public to express Its sym
pathy. In fact this same publio needs
all ths sympathy that's lying areund
loos, -for It has got to pay the bill
for all of these losses.
- During th past week th local freight
rates have been advanced from 25 to SO
oents- a hundred, without giving any no
tice to th retailers. Bom or o.ur lo
cal merchants were caught with large
consignments ef freight en rout rrom
northern points, having ordered them
with the old tariff rat In view. "When
th goods arrived they found that tb
additional freight charge would eat up
th profit on th goods, unless they
entild Indue th consumers to pay th
extra charge.'
This sort -of thing le enough te make
a man stop sawing wood and reflect
that after all this glorious land of lib-'
erty is several laps , behind the. old
country in th matter of railrosd reg
ulation, for In Fatherland, for instance,
tbs omnipresent government not only
huts out discrimination, but specifies
th extent to which tbey may bleed th
publio. . . , . .
A Piano in Hie Lunge.
Of all th musical curiosities that na
ture has produced lately on of th odd
est Is a man with a piano in his lunge
A man named Pearson, residing in
Washington, can, without sny undue
effort send forth remarkable melodies
which sound Ilk th muslo of a piano
with a melodeon accompaniment
Thi lung piano, as It has been termed
by th owner. Is partly a girt or nature,
but Pearson has cultlvsted th us of
th extraordinary Instrument very care-t
fully and thoroughly, until h Is sil to
play several familiar tunes with won
derful expression and technique. . Friends
of Pearson say his services ar Invalu
able when church fair, basaar and
Country entertainment are hand. He
makes en excellent barker, and his
tuneful vole penetrates th furthermost
corner of a meeting-house or tent.. He
says that other people could perfect
themselves la tbs same accomplishment
If they tried H and praotloed it regu
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Great Red Men of
' History
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' By Rev. Thomas B, Gregory. '
' OSCEOUa; THH SEMINOLB.
Osceola, th celebrated Bamlnol chief,
waa born on th Chattahoochee river,
Ckorgla, in th year ISM. When 4 Vra
old hi mother took . bln to Florida,
where be vu destined to spend th rest
of his short but stormy existence.
When Osceola grew up to manhood b
was th picture of physical perfeotlon.
and his mind was as bright as his body
waa strong and active.
Than Osceola no more influential hlf
ver lived. Among th Seminole his
word was law, hla slightest wish being
heeded with a devotion that bordered
close onto veneration. '
Curing Osceola's short life h waa re
sponsible for the, death of many a whit
man. but there la nothing to show het
he at first haled th paleface. It is
true that from th beginning he .stood
up manfully for tb Indians' rights and
bitterly opposed all , attempts on. the
t.art of the whites to cheat or oppress
1Uin?opi. but h seemed disposed to I
live In peace with them, ana aouoness
would have continued ln th same tram
of mind but for a great personal wrong
that was don him. - 4
In USS he paid a visit to Fort King,
taking along with him hla wife, a fugi
tive slave. Wbll at the fort hi wife
was stolen from him and report had It
that she was to be returned to slavery.
The indignant chief called upon th
United States agent at th fort, Osneral
Thompson, and In demanding his wife
addressed th agent In term that were
not as amiable as they might have been.
Naturally, under the circumstances, be
waa In anything but an agreeable mood.
Th agent got mad at th chief "in
solencs" and ordered him. put In irons
and thrown into prison. . it
When Osoeola got out ef his irons he
waa a full-fledged demon, thirsting for
the white man's Blood. Ia a -little wbll
he killed General Thompson and several
other whit men outside tb fort, and
so brought on ths second Bemlnol war.
At th head of his Indians Oacaola
tor more than two years contended with
marvelous skill and energy against
overwhelming odds, but f lnallyT on tbs
twelfth of October, 1837. while holding a
conference under a flag of truce with
General Jesup, near St. Augustine, be
waa seised and confined at Fort Moul
trie, -South Carolina, where he died at
th early age of St
Of Osceola It le said that he waa aa
brave as a lion, always a fair fighter,
and Invariably the protector of women
and children.
A Financial Ballad.
. V By William T. Kirk, -
Twaa payday at the office, and John
waa coming home,
His loving wife wee waiting for him
:-' .. thr; ; "
The gaa man stood without and th
butcher, short and stout
1. Armed with a meat hook, a were te
have hie hare; -The
milkman with hla bell, and tb
laundryman ae well,
Haunted the ball upon that fateful
-: .- day, i ' "
Before the break ef dawn John' n
velope was gon,- . ,
' And unto him hi Angelln did sayi
CHORUS: '
"I'm yearning for my girlhood back rn
"' sunny New Rochelle, -:
Before them tales of wedded bllae you
came around te tell,
X never hav a set ef furs, nor a ne
matlniy
Tou'aln't no EL H. Harriman that ell
Pv got to eayf - ;
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The poor young husband shuddered and
mournfully h sigoea,
. Wbll many a salty tear hla eye did
blur: i - -
But,' trying to be brave, after be bad
bad hi have,
"Thoy at their bumble sorappl. him
and her. '
AlasI At break of dawn hie Angelina
was gone
Gone Uke his salary the preceding
dav: . ' '-
Pinned on hie only coat he saw this
tiny not.
Which onto him these tidings did
. . convey;
CHORUS:
Tra yearning for my girlhood." te.
Adeline Patti'g Birthday. Li
Adeline Petti was born in Madrid,
February IS, 1S41, of Italian parent
After a professional training under her
brother-in-law, Maurice Strakosoh. h
mad her debut In New York, November
14. lSfit. Her first London appearance
waa on May 14, 1841, and so favorabl
was the Impression created that sne
became at once th leading favorlt of
th day. An idea or ner enormous earn
ings may be had from the statement
that she received nesrly 1400.000 for 14
concerts In th Argentln Republlo In
1888. Raron KOir i;eaereTroTii, w wnmji
Mmi'Pattr was married" In 189 J. is hr
third husband. In 1818 she waa mar
ried to th Marqols d Caux, . from
whom sha wss divorced. Her seflond
husband was Slgnor Ernest Nloollnl,
who died in 1898.
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
"How' do you keep your Illusions T"
writes a friend who l In trouble, v I,
too, have had my Illusions about -Hfw,
but they hav flown before the hard.
facts of reality."
Just what people mean by thla) much-
used word "illusions" I do not know.
Each one sem to give it an inaiviauai
significance. ' ; -
Hone, courage.' happiness, love, friend
ship, success, pleasure,' health, beauty,
. . . . it
usefulness, ram nave nnru m,m
celled Illusions, separately and, collect-
,VMy friend ha known much of th Joy
f life. . . - - .
Sh ha alway possessed eomfoftahl
mean, and for the greater part of her
life has enjoyed wealth. She baa loved
and been loved; Sh has talents which
sh uses for her own pleasurs, and sh
has traveled widely and known Interest
ing people. Sh has helped rslaUv and
friends. But now, that sickness and
trouble have com to her door,. h
thinks life ha lost He "Illusion."
We may as well eay that th earth haa
lost Its light because ws are passing
through a tunnel on a train, ..
- Th Illusion of the average mind. It
seems to me. Is the Idea that nothing
. . 1 . a m hum An ft fa VAfth
dui gaiwiy m .......
while. That only when w laugh doe.
... V
Dut 1 ther not a deeper experience
gained through tear thaw through etsr
nal smllesf . - . '
, Do w not ofttlme leara more of real
value te our after live in a week ef
sorrow than In a yeer of happiness T
It ia an "illusion" to Imagine we are
put en earth te do nothing but emus
iOUrslves.r v ,,,.,.,;.,,.;
- : 7 The Rell aii the. Unreal in Life ' : :
Small Charigfe
Vetoes ar
strenuous.
making legislative. Uf
Butt girls won a strike
No doubt
they ere beauts. .
e e -,
Delma might find it easier te prov
Thaw a victim of clgarettlty.
.
A Philadelphia man waa fined as for
snoring and disturbing th town.
e -
Roosevelt's support of th subsidy
bill does not make it a bit better. 7
. '
Senator Bailey ha discovered almost
as many liar as President .Roosevelt
has.
-
When w get pur foods and full
weights, what will be th us of sky
pUotsT ' , ,
Whther he could de the trick again
la th question that may be bothering
the mayor. - . ' - ' " -
San Franoisce -is fighting flea and
Naw'TJrWang mosqu:
ha Its counoll.
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Now that Bohmlts has been pacified,
th only on determined upon war Is
Captain Hobson,
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Th baseball season wiU be with ua
again, and then all our national, state
and city troublee will be forgotten.
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It "is good for th farmers when th
wheat I snowed under, also when th
same thing happens to aome politician.
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Peopl are disagreed as to whether
Rockefeller" latest big gift was due to
remorse or waa intended as a round
about bribe. ... . . "', ''T."
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A Kansas editor has substituted for
the usual' railway time table th an
nouncement: "Trains are du when you
see tbe smoke" -
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Women who persist in girding their
bodies nearly in two at tb demand of
fashion should . not complain if ma
won't let them vote
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"I waa a boy one,"' - said Senator
Bevwrldg in advocating the child labor
law. Some eenatora regard blm as only
a troublesome kid yet-
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Why not en antl-lbby bill! It needs
oracklng in tbe head. Albany Democrat.
Why do yon want te create orathlng
te crack it in tb head? .
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' Delmaa thinks h ean prove that
Thaw waa Insane for awhile and became
san later, by the lawyers he hired at
varioue times. . Hiring) Delmaa waa a
proof of returned sanity.
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A Republican paper elalm te hav ae
unpublished poem of W. J. Bryan's,
which it threaten to publish if he runs
for president again. But maybe be
wrote It when he waa very young. '
Essays py Bod Die
Br William F. Kirk. ,
V . . FURSti--.
Furs le nice warm coverings for ant
muls swell ladles, thay ar en the
anlmuls first than en' th swell la
dles. Th anlmuls doant pay nothing
for them, neither do th ladles i th anl
muls ar born with th fur on them. A
th ' ladle git them from thar bus
band ta
Among th anlmula which baa ale
fur le th Silver Fox, th Sabot tb
Otter wlch has a fur nice for Otter
mobeel coats, th Pershun Lamb, eta.
Once there was a -Silver Fox up North
this Fox wanted to go te New Tork
4k see Fifth (Sth) Avenue, so It called
a good Fairy aV the. Fairy eed Vary welt
I wUl do what I ean for you, so in about
a year the Silver Fox wee ded but It
nice Fur was in New Tork 4k a Fairy
was wearing it f
There ere cum cheep Furs toe, suoh
aa Coon Skin 4k Dog Skin, these Furs
malk nice overcoats for-the Farmers
who have te cum to town with a load
of wood. But ' the Doge alnt vary
eshalmed of thare Fur, beekaue it I
better to be a Dog with hair on than a
Silver Fox with hair oft. - -
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V TEETH.' '
teeth is little sharp things wloh w
us when we eat our dinner except for
Soup, Tbey ere ef twe (?) kinds, upper
teeth 4t lower teeth. Th upper teeth
I th ones nearest to your hair 4k th
lower teeth 1 th ones nearest tor ths
ground except if you should stand on
yur hed. ' . ' .
Sum anlmuls havent got teeth, such
as Hens, sum 'kind of Fish, Clams,
Oysters. Angle Worms, eta . W ar
sorry for such anlmuls, beekaus thay
cant eat Candy. I will close with a
pome about teeth, wlch I wrote myself
TEETH- '
Tnverymouth thar shud b teeth
Sum above 4k sum beneetb.
Th sharpen t one is found In squlrls
Or else In Uttei boy & guns. ,
I wish U peepul had- a few - '
4k sumthlng for sed teeth te chew.
Earth Is not a -vaudeville, nor ar ws
ngaged by th Great Manager to do a
continuous ong and dance
- Earth Is a great school, and we are
pupils, learning th lessons which will
be of value throughout all eternity In
successions of life to come.
The lessons ' ere interspersed with
musement. We hav our "rcse" end
noon hours, our vacations, our play
hours, our sports, games end dances. But
always th Great Master remembers th
higher purpose of our lives, end th bell
is sounded for our return to th class.
Th wis pupil goe gravely and know
th lesson ar Important. That is why
h la hi school to learn, to acquire
knowledge te grow. Howevet, hard ths
tasks, he must accept thsm and profit
by them. .. t
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The weak pupil ia the bn who weep
and rebels agalnat hla cruel fat In hav
Ing to return to hi leesons. '
He haa dwelt In the Illusion, that
vacation and Ita amusements were ths
purpose of life.
The hard reality ef study Is painful.
No one, no other pupil, he l sure, ever
faced such difficult problems.
80 he goes complslnlns? and Unhappy
through' th school eaaon, nd knows
no more at the end of th term than
at Its beginning. H ! "disillusioned."
Th wla scholar meantime keep hla
Illusion, because his Illusion is ths real
ity: th sever study of school Is
pleasure:' failgu bring lt own Trward,
and In th anticipation of Increased pow.
ere ther Is atlsfaction In th struggle
With difficult lessons.
. Never yet was a sorrow sent to a morJ
tal oul tnat was not meant as a w
son. th learning of which would lead
to higher possibilities ef happlnesa here
Oregon Sidelights
An Eola man sold two brood sows for
1 10 each. '
Arteslaa wells will be sunk in Har
ney valley. ......
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Th Oakland brick and til plant will
be enlarged.
Roaeburg merchants- report business
at high tid.
Squawbarry bushes ar leafing out
around Eugene
Farmers are plowing in Una and
Benton counties.
i
Th Burns Push club" will circulate
a lot ef pamphlets. . . '
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Albany I fortunately so situated ae
to always hav plenty of wood.
Astoria business men'eaem to have
waked up in good earnest at last .
'Many SUverton dogs have been pols-"
id. soms VSluaoTe:rms-rha
had refused sioo for. . .
. Grant county has not many "Chinook" ''
atockmsn. says th John Day Newa,
hence loss of stock waa light .?
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A Loran man killed a cougar with
rocks, snd a Maroola man did the same
trick with a base! stick and a dog.
I www.,. -m wa WM.
wnere iney nave m niacasmitn a nop ana
a grange, says th Albany Journal.
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Sllverton bide fair b 1 experience th -most
prosperous parted in It history
during th summer. All buildings ar
occupied, and evera new ones ar te
b built . - : i,-
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- Twe town offloere of Tbe Dalles eol
lected I14S in a short time to help a "
man who ia in poor health and whose ;
wife had died, leaving six children, the
oldest 14..
.
English vlolets ere blooming, the -daffodil
plants ' have else- put forth
flowers end from thla time forward th .
peopl of Coo county will have flow
er in profusion,- says the Myrtle Point
Entarprie. . .......
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A Lebanon man sold 1.00 bushels of
potatoes for 81 a busheL He raised
l.toe bushel on 18 acres, and a neigh- '
bor raised 1.800 bushels on eight aorea."
but most of- thsm were sold for I
csnts a busheL . . .
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Of an Echo man who had been en a
trip th Register says: "In Walla
Walla h lost bis overcoat la North
Taklma he loat hla religion. In Seattle
he loat hla oravenette, and. finally...
landed hom with a bat - -
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Without a blow being atnick. or aa
V .Q v - v. . - J
being used by at least two ef th r""
ttclpants, three Myrtle Point men wefe I
taken up on th charge of disturbing
the, peace and fined 810 each. ,
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Juat before being married a Milton
young man want to a Judge end eaked
for time In which te pay the wedding .
fee. a he did not hav th wsual prfce,
and the accommodating efflolal granted
his request endmade him happy.
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North Tamhtll Record t Thla beauti
ful weather 1 stimulating the farmer
Into making heroic efferte to nails
vary moment end in taking observa
tions over th valley on may see
teams end men at work in evary dlrec- -tion.
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. Hubbard eorrespondane ef Woodbury ,
Independent: . It costs about five cents
per hundred more now te and ealoa
eta- to Portland than it -did three
month ago, and goodness knows it
cost enough then. Last year a man
sent some potatoes to a small town tAtaa
th west side, the rate being II cent a
Thla last week th earn shipment took
the small sum of 18 cant per hundred.
Th rat on salt from San Francisco
took a (0 par ton raise the first ef
February. , ' , ,-'
February 19 In HUtory.,
1888 Miles Coverdale, first transla
tor of th Bible, burled at St Bartholo
mew's. '
" i88f-i-Sfr ""Henry- Savfl,"" mtnent-
mathematician, died.
1788 British flag hoisted for first
time . on island of Corsica.
1804 French army concentrated at .
Bordeaux for Invasion of England.' '
1880 Bread riou in Liverpool. "
1888 French spoliation bill vetoed
by President Pierce.
1884 Hous ef Common voted te .
uphold Gladstone' Egyptian policy.
.1891 Egyptian defeated Osman Dig- -na
at Tokar.
1891 Episcopal Jubilee ef Pope Lee
XIII celebrated. --T--- ,
189S Dynamite explosion ' In Jo-,
hannasburg killed and injured 800 per
sons. .. k .
1908- President Roosevelt refused te .
reopen th Sampson-Schley controversy. '.
or elsewhere Any other view ef sorrow
and trouble la an "Illusion," . ..1;. , . -..rn
I mean th Inevitable sorrows taf ',
troubles which ar not of our own max-
Ing. And surely those which are of our
crestlon carry with them, Uke biasing
headlines, their awn meaning.
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The man who celebrates an event with 7
an- orgle wakes with a headache
II ha lost tb "Ulualon" of th pre
vious night, that ther waa Joy In being
Intoxicated. But he Is Just so muck
wiser for th future If he chooses te
commit the lesson to heart.1
Ths man who risks hie fortune on the
gambling table and loses bids adieu te
another Illusion. In th stubborn fact
of labor he may find th real meaning
of life and Its best happiness If he
Will. . , .' . . ..
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J'TheM ia a pall over everything,",
write my friend. "No outside pleasure '
seem possible again. I feel life I near
Ing It end. tar happiness Is eon- '
earned." . 1 -
Sh falls to understand that 'when w
are shut In by a pall of sorrow It Is
meant that we should look within eur
own souls and find light. . 1 -
And when v we see this light thea .
will life glow with an "illusion" nv'
before seen, or Imagined. ,V
And after tb pall of sorrow Is lifted
rue It almost Invariably is. In this ever,
changing existence) that new "llluilon"
wilh-lend He rdlaio-te every simple
event, Snd enable the human hesrt te
find unexpected Joy n a thousand ways,. ..
down ths sloping path ef ths western
bill te the sunset horlson. And beyond
lie th great fact, where w shall look
back and say, "It was all llluaiea Tme
I the realltjrl" .- , , .. ,-r
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