The Oregon daily journal., February 20, 1907, Image 8

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BIQ WATER TRAFFIC.
WHAT WATER' transportation
facilities will do and how a
waterway traffic will increase
is shown by some figures fur
nished by the bureau of statistics with
regarei to the traffic of the great
lakes and through the Sault Ste Marie
and Ontario canals. The traffic on
the great lakes for December,. 1906,
exclusive of exports to Canada, ex
reeded that for December, 1905, by
450,000 tons, and for the same month
of 1904 by nearly a million tons. For
the year shipments aggregated 75,-
61Q.69Q tons, .as against JMfi20 ia
1905, and 51,370,855 in 1904. The
heaviest shipments - were ores and
minerals, next grain and flaxseed"snd
next logs and lumber. --The number
of vessels clearing during the year
was 81,271, with 94,893,961 tons. The
total movement of domestic freight
through the Detroit river for 1906
amounted to 60,578,155. tons, carried
in 24,062 vessels. j
. During : December freight ' move-i
ments through the Sault Ste Marie
and Ontario canals were 1,558,245
tons, nearly 300,000 tons more than
in 1905 and 600,000 tons more than in
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- . For the entire, season like move'
ments aggregated 51751,080 tons, an
increase of approximately 7.500.000
.- tons over the preceding season, and
of nearly 20,000,000 over that of 1904.
The United States canal cared for
45,180,292 tons, and' the canal in Ca
nadian territory for. 6.5707S8, while
of the entire movement 41,584,905
tons moved in an easterly and 10,166,-'
' 175 in a westerly direction. . The prin
. cipaf freight was grain, with ore seC'
, ond. J' ;
Not only is the freight on this im
mense tonnage but a fraction of what
it would be on railroads for the same
' distance, but the railroads could not
have carried the product at any price,
did not have the facilities to do so.
The value, of these waterways, in
cluding these canals, to millions "of
people around the great lakes, and
, even at a distance, particularly pro
ducers of Michigan, Wisconsin, Min
nesota and the Dakotas, is simply in-
'calculable-' .
In some parts of the country there
are no great lakes, but there are some
great, rivers not yet rendered navi
gable," and smaller ones that if im-
proved might be' utilised, and the
' work of making them serve the pur-
poses of domestic and foreign com
merce should fee prosecuted with all
possible vigor.-.Nothiog that the gov
ernment could do would be as profit
able to the people, j ' ;.
Opening up the rivers will not in
jure the railroads, for production is
growing so fast that if all, the rivers
were improved in the greatest possi
ble degree the railroads, even if there
were 100,000 more . miles of track,
would have all they could do. .
Open up the rivers. Dig canals.
Improve harbors. This should be the
loudest "slogan" of the American
people for years to -rome, ' t '
THE MAIL CARRYING CRAFT.
TT TO WHERE is graft more brazen
J jy practiced than in the carry.
X 1 ing of the' United States mails.
It Exhibits at once an alarming
degree of ownership of the govern
ment by the-railroads, and the gov
ernment's moral turpitude in author
izing this enormous graft There
would be a postal surplus instead of a
postal deficit except for the unholy
alliance between the government and
the railroads. Professor Parsons
furnishes some interesting data on
this big graft. For hauling mails the
railroads get from two to four times
as much as they do for equal service
for the express companies,' two to
five times their charges for first-class
freight, 12 times what they receive
far dairjr freight, and' 16 timeswhat
they get for common freight fro
frsaor rf rsons cites tables compiled
ty Professor Adams of Michigan uni
versity, the statistician of the inter
state commerce commission, - from
. which he finds that "the raiJ way re
ceipts from ths express between New
York and Boston would average 50
cents pet hundred, and 38 cents for
first-clans freight, against 89 cents for
the mails; New York to Chicago, 75
cents freight, $1.25 express snd $3.56
mail; New ork to . Atlanta, $1.26
freight, $2 express, and $3.50 tnail;
Chicago' to Milwaukee,,. 25 cents
freightr 30 cents express, 34 -cents
mails per hundred (this seems fairly
reasonable); New York to San Fran
cisco,- $3 freight, $675 express, .and
$13.28 mail (this seems very" unrea
sonable); Atlanta to Savannah, 61
cents freight, 87 cents express, and
$3.17 mail (more unreasonable still)."
To look at the matter in another
way, and taking a specific sample
case, he finds that the railway earn
tngseT3raf for 125 TOM of malt
carried-jlaily.b)!the-New York-Central
railroad are $1,44740 while the
earnings for the same amount of ex
press carried daily over: the same
route are $436,250. '..: ,
After presenting many tables and
illustrations,' Professor Parsons gives
the following as approximate earn
ings on 100,000,000 ton-miles of mail.
At express rates it would cost $5,000,-
000; at excess baggage rates, $6,000,
000; at average freight rates,. $800,
000; at average freight rates making
correction for difference of dead load,
$8,000,000; at average passenger rates
making correction for difference of
dead load, $3,000,000; at actual mail
ites, $34754,000. ,
In addition to the regular, mail
fatertnegoy eminent pays for-postai
cars$4250 pet yeat-perr though
ears cost "but -from- $2,500. AO. $5,000
each; and for a 60-foot car, with an
average-load of -two , tons o. mail.
heated and lighted like the compart
ments, and with the same fixtures,
plus a water tank, the roads receive
$6,250 a year special car rent in ad
it ion to the full rates for the weight
of mail carried. This means $5,368,-
000 a year for the rental of cars worth
bout $4,000,000. ' -'
The railroads receive, when all j
gured up and they are allowed a
very liberal , rate for carrying the
mails, not less than $25,000,000 a year
more than they should be paid. -This
pproximates the ! amount . of their
graft, and yet there are congressmen
who are greatly worried . about a
$10,000,000 deficit, to supply which
they want to check the now of. in
formation and intelligence contained
in newspapers.- They are very virtu
out about "expanded fiction". in Sun
day newspapers', but are oblivious to
the expanded railroad graft.' !
IN THAWS FAVOR.
I'
T SHOULD and probably will ac
count for much in favor of Harry
Thaw that before he killed Stan
ford White he went or wrote to
various prominent, people District
Attorney Jerome, Anthony Conistock,
and several eminent preachers and
urged them to take some action that
would ' exterminate' the gilded den
kept by White, and that White be
prosecuted . and punished. Perhaps
not. so much because they did not
care as because they were doubtful
of their ability , to accomplish any
thing, and possibly because, also,
Thaw's personality in the role of a
reformer did not. appeal to them,
nothing was done, and so he deter
mined, either gradually, -or suddenly,
when his wife handed him the "B"
note, to put an end to White's career
hirrrsejf. .. ''...,'....
"Whatever tnaj be said and much
may be said against Thaw's char
acter and general "conduct," for
which he was not altogether to
blame, it is greatly to his credit.
even if he waa prompted by a per
sonal motive, that he sought ' in va
rious ways to put an end to White's
practices and bring about his punish
ments If White had been exposed,
his den closed, and he had suffered
punishment, if only the public dis
grace which he so well deserved,
Thaw-might and probably would have
withheld his homicidal hand. , But
since nobody else would act, he de
cided that he must. ,
This species of. evidence may not
be Viewed as of much importance by
the eye of the law, but it can scarcely
fail to make a favorable impression
on the jury and to aid the appeal to
"the higher law which, rather than
temporary insanity, is the real de
fense. And even if Thaw's moving
motive was revenge, his action ia this
respect raises him somewhat in the
estimation of the general public.
LIVESTOCK PRICES.
L
IVESTOCK is higher now in
the Portland market th&n ever
before. Taking cattle, hogs
and sheep all into considera
tion, jprices jieyer reached present fisjf
ures, so that meat consumers have
no good reason to complain of re
tailers about prices. The raisers of
livestock are the ones that are mak
ing the money , now, or should be.
It ia ; remarkablt not only ' that
prices of livestock art so high, but
that the price of each kind should
be equally high at once. The man
with either fat cattle, hogs or sheep
is in luck these days.
Consumers are ' increasing rapidly
in this region, while ranges are de
creasing, which may account in part
for high prices, but these prices will
tempt morefarmert to raise livestock
on a small " scale for the market, as
not enough of them are doing yet, so
that prices may fall, but it is likely
that -the day of cheap livestock is
over in this region. ' With present
quotations in sight, it will be strange
if a great many people do not raise
more stock for, the butcher, but ex
cept in the .case of hogs, it will take
a great' deal of increase in production
TOl7uirnIwrrid
The Oregonian. . complains about
the representation given Multnomah
county in the . pending reapportion
ment bill, and intimates that this
county is entitled to several more
members, but perhaps members of
the present legislature excused them
selves by relying on the Oregonian 's
statements a few- months ago, when
it represented the population of this
city to be about 40,000 less than it
was, declared the assessor's figures
of 1905 to be correct, and, that growth
since had been slow.. If we are stand
ing . nearly stilt, as the Oregonian
would have people believe, we cannot
expect more representation.
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We have ha'd -men;-says the-New
York-Evening Pott who. fought iheir
way into the presidency, strayed into
it by accident, climbed to it hand Over
baad.a.nd jumped into it with tremendous-effort,
but Fairbanks, unlike
any of these, "will be lifted like a
canal boat in a lock, sustained by an
element which, however placid and
inert, is resistless in its rise." Per
haps so, but possibly the water to lift
the canal boat will be diverted, or the
lock may burst. And it may not be a
very good year in 1908 for a canal
boat candidate. , "". ' ; .
One Marion county farmer paid
tolls to the General Electric company
last year as follows: 167 tons wheat,
$83.50; 100 tons , barley,. $50; 30 tons
fruit, $15; total, $148.50. In the last
20 years, he estimates he has paid
tolls" at"Ofego"Cityamouriting',td
between $3,000 and $4,000, and says
the lockage costs the average Wil
lamette valley, farmer more than his
taxes or his threshing bills. The mem
ber of the legislature who does not
vote to give these farmers relief, does
not properly represent them.
Mr. Roosevelt's highly, cultivated
artistic sense is deeply shocked at the
coarse and brutal designs on the gold
coins, and he purposes changing them
for emblems of more decorative and
representative character. The Jour
nal's art editor suggests that a slouch
hat, pair of eye glasses, and a mouth
ful of teeth in bas relief would be suf
ficiently chaste and emblematic to
suit-all tastes.
A Tacoma man who hat been up in
Wheeler county building a bridge,
reports 'n that city that 50 per cent
of the stock of Wheeler and Gilliam
counties perished from cold and lack
of food this winter, which is either
a willful or n. ignorant '"gross mis
representation., of the fact- -While
the loss was considerable, the per
centage was small. 'i
The proposition to put the work
of building the Panama canal in the
hands of one man it finding favor in
Washington. This is the only way
to avoid jealousy and quarrels be
tween bosses.
Jerome might as well let Delmas
put in all the evidence . wants to
and make an end of it . The more
Jerome objects the more the jury
will be inclined to favor the defense.
Congress has passed the Japanese
exclusion bill, and only two parties to
the'agreement remain to be heard
from Japan and California.
Now Patrolman Isaacs remembers
of reading of the heathen Chinee's
ways that are darkanJ tricks that
are vain. . .
The Chapin bill went into effect
a little too previous to suit tome of
the legislators arid their clerks. ' -
. The People's Demand.
From the Aatorrfc Budget
The people of Oregoo have been patient
and long-suffering regarding their treat
ment by the big tranaportation lines,
but the time ha com when patience ha
ceased to be a virtue and tbey are now
demanding that the legislature pea taw
providing for the creation of railroad
comrnlaalon to be appointed by the gov
ernor and providing a reciprocal demur
raglsww of tht kind ar bartty neerl.
ed In order to prevent the Induatrle of
the U(e being throttled, but he law
when paaaed should be fair both to ta
railroad and to the ahlpr-er. The measure
known, th Chapin bill appears to b
Just and equitable) In It provision and
th rglalatur can make a mistake by
enacting lb . . . ' ,.
Letters From the
People
r The Sunday Laws.
Bt Johna, Fab. It. to the Editor of
Tba journal In vlaw of: the efforts to
bave Sunday laws nactad, tt la well
to have claar ldaaa of toe relations
which' such, laws auat&lD to the prlno
plaa upon which our- tivammant was
foundad. - The principles of liberty and
equal lishta have Imbued the Ufa of
tba nation. In poetry, eon and apeaoh.
Ia hla comment on the eonatltutlon In
lh Virginia, convention, Mr. Henry
Said:- ". . . Liberty, the greateat. of
all earthly blasalnca slva ua that pre
cious Jewel and you may take every
thing elae. . . . The treat and dl-
reot end of rVe?Bment la liberty. Se
cure our liberty and privileges and tb
end of government la answered. If this
la not effectually done government la
an evU,"
Liberty does not inolude the rfghtrd
Infringe upon the right -of annthffr, but
doe Include a recognition of that other
foundation principle, equal rights. W
have a th great foundation principle
on which our government was built.
First, liberty, which la the Individual
right to freedom of action, and which
Include a recognition of the equal
right of other, as also the individual'
right of private Judgment In all mat
ter that pertain to hi own good. 6eo-
ond, equal lights, which protect th mi
nority, or the Individual, from the tyr
anny of th majority, and provide that
law aha 11 be equal . In their applica
tion to alL
To compel an Individual te rest on
Sunday "for hla own stood" 1 to take
away hi right of private Judgment In
matter that pertain wbouy to hi
own good, which right He at th vary
bail of liberty. Ordinary labor and
harmless amusements are not criminal
In themselves Therefore, every eltlaen,
according to th basic principle of this
nation, ha th' right to engage la them
whenever, they may. In hi Judgment
contribute -most tor his happlBsv
The burden of th argument of Sun
day law advocate Is that "the day Is
sacred, and therefor ought not . to be
desecrated"; and the enforced cessation
of labor and amusement on that day
la Instated upon, not because such labor
and amusements-are Injurious ..tO the,
one who might engsge in them, but be
cause they are not In harmony with th
manner In which tb Sunday law advo
cate think a day they believe to be
acred ought , to be kept , The simple
fact 1 " Sunday law are- nothing more
nor less than th result of intolerance.
The question a to th sacred charac
ter of Sunday, whether It 1 th Sab
bath or Lord's day, I certainly a con
troverted One, with the entire weight of
all Scripture statements upon tb ques
tion against It
Who cannot see that the am power
which can aelect a day of worship can
a easily choose a religion and establish
the modes; of worship? If the state can
point out on religious act It can. with
equal propriety, deflne every portion of
God's word, select th particular church
to attend, th form of baptism and. In
fact, every act of faith and practice. ;
Religious legislation Invariably Jeads
to religious persecution; It deprives the
Individual of the right to choose or
change his religion. - It 1 a backward
tep toward, th Intolerance of th dajk
age. ' ; : , ADUL.LAM.
. Convicts on the Road. '"',
McCoy. Or., Feb. IA To th Editor of
Th Jcurnal If our legislature wlli eon
alder certain condition which exist In
thl valley and really wishes to- work for
th best Interests of th state they will
enact a law which will allow us to em
ploy some of our convict labor on our
road.
Much of th work to be don on th
roads for many year must . be . til
draining, as water ha proved more de
structive than any and all other' cause
combined; and all such work must be
don by th resident farmer and at this
time of th year when th ground Is
quite wet Most of th tiles mad here
melt or seal away, and , when I get a
card offering three-Inch tile at tt a
thousand and order a carload I get
reply stating that tiles have gone up
and will coat tit a thousand. '
W have had free use of all rock and
gravel wherever we could drive a team
and w have don lota of extra time on
our road and they are In much better
condition and ' a - hundred time .safer
than any of th railroads. We know
Just where w want our roads, how to
grade them and how much labor w can
expend cn them, and w deserv th
support of all our commercial, manufac
turing and banking organisation In our
effort to have th prison authorities
establish rock-crublng and tile manu
facturing stockades. - Even th railway
companies should support our effort, a
they must know that If w bad a fair
drainage system their road would b
much safer and that such accidents as
th capalstng of th passenger train at
McCoy could never ocour.
Rlgbt well the farmer knows that the
road across th field 1 the bread-winner;
where 11 big feet travel forth and
back I of first Importance. W would
Ilk to hear from th general of our
many development leagues and from our
oolonel of the Innumerable good road
league, but they may have to put In
all their tlm on our bad vary bad rail
road.
A atatesman will understand th value
of mutual action among tb various
branches of Industry, guard against any
aggresstv or predatory measures on ths
part of on or mors branches against
th others and .will be ready and active
to strengthen and support any branch
which may show llgn of wsaknsss or
decay. Now I th opportunity. Our
august legislative fioay is in session.
Empower th governor to aoqulr th
land, erect stockades, fit up th nec
essary, machinery, crush the . sock an1
make th tile thl is the right way to
work convict on th road.
Tb prison authorities must ever guard
and control th convict. Not any coun
ty judg or county commissioner will
ever writ any requisition for, and much
less will . they furnish gusrds and as
sume control and responsibility for, any
detail of convicts; but when It eome to
taking tile and erushsd rock by th
carload they ' will be surs to tax., th
ability of anything th penitentiary may
furnish for many years. -
Now Is th time, th only and last
chance for most of you legislator to
do something good that will last long
and b of benefit to us all.
II. ALEXANDER.
New Literary Teat. '
From the Cspe Girardeau Democrat
The other dsy In a public library sn
attendant noticed a young glrj smiling,
suftplclpusty at th book. .
---When - h - asked the- reason rrf -hr
strange conduct she told him frankly,
"I sniff at a book," Bh said, "to sae If
It smells of tobacco. If It does then 1
know It's a book a man ha been read
ing, and that It's a good one."
Klamath Falls If to have e, large,
new woodenwar manufactory. , . ,
Latest News From
Rattitville
(Reported by . Bennett In The Dailies
Optimist.) ' -Well
I po you have seen that the
Hood River oounty died ' a-bomlnT It
la as ded a a mackrel what 1 so ded
that It smells bad, mebbe more so. meb
b not quit ao much a a. Anyhow Kab
bltvlll will have to furglt th county
!seet question and turn her attention to
other matter of more Import For In
stance w be thinking of aumthlng now
to bring RabbltvUle to th front a no
town-wss ewer brung before. Some
thing .Big,. Something - Stupendlous!
Nothing less' nor putting up a pre
serving plan to preserve rsbblts! It Is
a wonder w newer a much a thought
of thl before, but our Idear mostly ran
to canning of em, and w no how Wil
li cam out up to Ekko with hi canned
rabbttl If Willi oood have got atrong
r cans he cood have maid a fortune
selling his product to the arms, to use
a bum shells,'-' fortf ' a enemy wood
throw, a few hundred. of them eans into
the ranks of th other enemy and have
era explode a they lit, and scatter deth
and destruction and a bad srael that
wood kill a tnuel two hundred and IS
yard by th dock Jf WlUls cood of
don that he wood now b richer nor
John polish Rockyfeiler. --
m a. e
But Willi cood not get strong enuff
can, and they went off before Willi
wa reddy, In the preolncks of Ekko,
and the smell .was something no pen
may describe nor tung tell, nor speech'
of man ennummeralt But In Ekko in
that town to this day whenever a big
blast roe off over on th Columbia and
hlvvers em up a little they say an-
nothe pot of rabbit bas busted, and
then they rub some astoflddltay on their
nose and upper lip to give em a
west small. Nona of that for us. W
be going to preaerv ourn and send It
to Jappan and th Phllll Penos, - and
mebbe to Chlny. W gea mebbe w
can sell all we can git, and we can sur
git all we can sell, for at th last Sen-
sue there was ovver seventeen billions
of -ana- in Morrer oounty alone, and If
necessary we can moove back to our old
sight- But "we wont depend on wild
ones. W will start a breedery and
raise m ourselfs. It 1 aald that four
hundred and SO old one kept In a
closure will produce and grow to a herd
of about a billion In a year, about th
nm Orp, but mors cartala" Ba we
hav sent Sim Dlpp ouf to Skirmish, for
order for th finished product, and
Sim will likely go to Jappan and Chlny
at wonst to book order.
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T hav had another hot tlm down at
Sallam with the boy, and I gea I will
hav to make annother trip or two be
fore th feller adjurn sign! dye, for I
be a-dolng lot of good down therewith
my peracrlptlons. Moar nor one mem
ber ha tolded me that If he cood get
such perscrlptlon at hom at hi drug
tor he wood vote hi county dry at
the next election, and or of th lobby
feller from a dry county, we wont
mention no nalin. but he halls from
Newburgh. he say to me, say he. If
our druggists cood sell stuff like that
I cood keep our precinck dry perpetual,
for It is vlttlea and drink and verry
fair lodging. Then he took about 4
fingers more and he stepped so .high
and looked so Graphic with a smile
that was a smile, the first reel Smile
that he has wored for year and year,
that I give him a bottle to talk down
to Newburgh to see If his drug store
cood ekwal It If they can, th Nw
burgh drug stors may do a big blsl
ness, and malk th Newburgh peeple
happy evvermoar.
i . a e , e .
--W hav had a pretty hard tlm of
It In RabbltvUle during the cold apel
We run out of cole and wood and had
to keep warm on peracrlptlons. which
w can tote In on our backs and ask no
odds of enny of th rallrddes. Harry-
man nor Hill nor none of em. Let em
keep their wood., RabbltvUle 1 past
the wood stalks, past the col stalga,
and depend on something more stable,
mora permanent, more perpetual and
more satisfying; but more costive. Per
scrlptlon! . Perscrlptlon for fuel In
th winter, and perscrlptlon for lc In
the summer. Heat and cold, meat and
drink, for old and young, to promote
longjewlty or to remove motheralnlawa,
at all times and under all circumstances
w use era, and Will continnue so to do
amen. .
e . e e
Ther I to arriv soras fin ladys
corsets at th cltty drug store soon,
mbbe- rlt away. They are very han
soms, and not of th Peekaboo 'brand.
There will be aome for sail, Lisa hav
ing ordered one for her ownself. Tb
enterprising drug ator got I moar for
sail. Call early and get your pick. . .
Blacksmiths Want More Pay. "
Th master blacksmith In Denver
have been notified that th seal will be
Increased on May 1, so that th mini
mum wag will be 4.S(J a day, instead
of 13. 60 as at present. Only th men
In the so-cMled commercial shop ar
Included In th agreement ' which does
not Includ th blacksmiths in th rail
road shops. .
; Does Radium Come From tke Sun?; i y ? ;
By Oarrt P. ServUs.
The mystery of the origin of radium
ha Just received a new explanation. It
comes from Professor J. Joly of Trinity
college, Dublin. '. Ia his opinion, that
wonderful substance is not one of .the
original constituents of the earth. It
has come to us, and 1 still coming to
us, from beyond th limit of our planet
It most probable source la the sun.
'""Professor Joly show In the, first
place, that It radium wer, as has gen
erally been assumed, a rsgular con
stituent of th earth'. crust, appearing
In th rock In the form of It mother
element, uranium, then th water of
th ocean would necessarily contain a
far greater quantity of radium than 1
actuallg found In them. Next he shows
that , the radium found generally -distributed
all over "the earth cannot hav
com from volcanoes, -because th latter
ar local phenomena, and radium - la
everywhere.- Finally, by th process of
exclusion, he arrive at th conclusion
that th only probable sou res of th
radium found on th earth must b th
sun.
, s
Recent discoveries show that th sun
continually expel quantities of animate
particle from It surface, and among
these radium may well bs numbered.
Streaming out from the sun. It encoun
ters ths earth, enters the atmosphere
and, gradually settling down, is at last
brought to th surface of th earth by
the action of rain and air current.
- Professor-Joly goe on to -show -that
radium would thus find It way to a
certain moderate depth In th earth and
become mingled with It minerals. Im
pregnating the waters of hoi springs
snd gradually diffusing through th sea
water. This theory accounts for the fact
that radium la absent from such Imper
vious minerals aa ouerta,
Small CKangc '
Iowa ha passed a I -cent far law.
e
11 quiet at Panama oothln' doln'.
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CoqulUe's -progressive club ta 'pro
gressing.
e e
The power Interest era t be power
ful at Salem.
Th Illinois legislature 1 considering
a demurrage bill,
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For A 40-day senator Mr. Mulkey ha
at leaat Dean well advertlaed.
e ,
Th authorities do more digging at
on another than at th canaL
e e . .
--Well. It 1 th natural thins for a lot
or slush to aoooropany a Thaw.
It Is easv for k millionaire to talk
about th advantages of poverty.
a ' "
Th legislature can't afford toTiak a
Holiday on Washington a birthday,
It I Improbable that the captain, of
in Larobmont . expects a Carnegie
meaai. -
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Jama Bull and Annie Lamb are a re
cently married couple. t h may be
we ooss.
. '
Chancellor Day Bays "millions and
brains will rule.". Of oours "million'
com first ""' '-':.',
.,.) :. ' - ;'' v
The governor succeeded in putting the
legislature up against the normal school
problem again.
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Between studying on possible vetoes
ana rererendume th legislature has
troublous time. - - --r
Th only way Rockefeller ean displace
th Thaw In newspsper pictures Is to
get a nw style or wig.
'.
Pedple who ar accustomed to chew
the rag should ram am ber that A rag is
liKSJy to nave micro bea
If thos London woman suffragists
need a leader this country would be glad
to loan in em varn Nation.
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John D. Rockefeller Jr. wonders why
I J"17 PJ" oon x go to cnurcn, may
be on of many Ilk reasona
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Th people of Oregon are politely sug
gesting to Mr. Hsrrlraan that they ar
over-supplied with hie brand of lemons.
'"' . '. S . ; '
Uncle Jo Cannon and Grandna Shelbv
Cullom both resemble Lincoln in ap
pearance, but Lord, what moral differ.
encl . .-
If th railroad srs 'iH broke ana
without credit, as they clatm. they cer
tainly at tne sam tlm admit mighty
bad management.. '
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Now 'don't smll too loudly at this
advloa- coming -- from Colonel Hofer'a
paper! "Be kind. - B gsntls. B pa
tient. B charitable.": -
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Th Encyclopedia Brlttsnlca will have
to get out a revised edition, or at lesst
oha revised article) Roosevelt says the
Japan ar not Mongolians. -
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. Mr. Bryan's paper In intending to
max a complimentary remark about
Tacoma uaed the nam "Yakima." No
hop of his getting any vote in Tacoma
now; . .
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Some people asked te eontrtbut seem
to think T. M. C A. mean for them to
say, "Yen Must Call Again." Not so,
brother, but "Ton Must Contribute Ade
quately." February 20 fn History. ,
ITtT Bonaparte and the' Pop" eon
eluded treaty of Tolentlno. .
180J Egypt evacuated by th British.
' 1839 Thousands of live lost by
earthqukk in Chill.
1R6S Martial law declared In Ten
nessee. . 18M Remain f th victim of th
Jeannett Arctic expedition reached New
York. - - . ,
ltt John T. McKan sent to Sing
Sing for election frauds at Oraveaend,
Long Island. .'
lts Russia curtailed . Finland's
rights in self-government.
1901 First territorial legislature of
Hawaii convened.
A Mighty Steamboat .
- The trains of the Trans-Siberian rail
way ar fsrrled aoroas Lake Baikal on
a steamboat which, it I said, possesses
th most powerful engines employed In
any vessel afloat. . They ar of 45,000
horsepower, and large share of their
immense energy Is required to break
a way for th boat through the thick
lc which covers th lake In winter. .
The engine of th great German
boat Kaiser Wllhelm der Gross ar of
only 11,000 horsepower. .'
Ths Influx of radium from th sun.
Professor Joly suggests, may offer an
explanation of the connection between
sunspots and th weather, i
A th "life- of radium is several
thousands of years, it may remain float
ing In the atmosphere for a long period
without losing its radio-active proper
ties. ,-..
' This "theory of Professor Joly may
lead to many interesting speculation
soms of them possessing the highest In.
terest as affecting the life and comfort
of the earth's Inhabitants. Just what
part radium plays', if any. In the Ufa
phenomena of our globe we do not know,
but if It la Important to us -from that
point of view then the question of Its
origin and of th continuance and regu
larity of the supply I of prim Interest.
- According to Professor Joly'i supposi
tion, th sun dart forth particles of
radium In all directions with sufficient
velocity to enable them to reach th
earth In about four daya That would
mean a veloolty of about 1.000,000 Wles
an hour.
Since th radium la sent forth con
tinually, the space throush which th
earth move In Its regular. Journey
around the sun must be mor or less
charged on all side with particles of
that substance, so that our glob travels
through an Invisible cloud of radio
active atoms, which shoot out from the
sun snd pass through space like tho
ray of "light but with much smaller
vekSclty. ' - - ..
.; ir this Mi so, andTf the velocity ef
th flying radium Is that assumed by.
Professor Jo'y, th motion -of th earth
In It orbit may play soms part In the
resulting terrestrial phenomena. The
earth travels nearly It mile per second
In Its orbit or, say, '70,000 mile per
hour.' This Is about one fourteenth of
ths assumed velocity of the sun-born,
Oregon Sidelights -
Ifa spring for the farmers, alright.
Nine drummer
en day.
wer in Fall city
Falls City phones hav Increased from
to to to. .
a a .
Big demand for .wood outter around
Newberg.
e e , " ; -Btayton
expect soon to hav a vs..
terwork system. .
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Springfield may hav a sash and door
factory this spring. T
Now Is th time to aet early eabbage
plants, says Solera expert.
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Brlokyard hav demand for mere
brick than they ean supply.
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Mor splltlog drag ar needed oa
th Willameft valley roads. ,
.. Two important manufacturing lndu-,
are scneauieu jot JMliaal.
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A carload of tt immigrants la .
pec ted to arrive In Forest Grovs from
th aat next month.
Large numbers of stock wr drownes
or perished from exposure during the . '
now in jroia souniy.
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Many, acres around Woodburn 'win-'.
be set out to Loganberries, one. man
having cleared tl.OOO off 10 acres last
year.'. - ..., ' -)..-..,
A Moaler man reports th arrouas
suffering for food. They ar becoming
so weak It is asy to pick them up in ; ;
one nana. - .- . .....
A big hungry eouarar followed a man '
in weatern Washington eountv for
over a mile, but desisted when he sav
tne homo had discovered him.
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- Irrigation around Echo and. H
ton Is going to make that region popu-
luuo nu r. jinmuguTi ino. jurugaisa -
iana win rise rapidly In valu.,- -
The eunshtne 'in Baker ia becoming
proverbial, says th r Democrat Blue ' r
Italian akle and bafmr weather even
in th winter makecross people a, ' ; , '
'er-r
Whn a Grant Pas man drink too
much and too oftea th council paaaea
an ordlnanc declaring him a drunkard,
and thereafter nobody is allowed, to sail
him liquor. .... ' , . .
Forest Grove ' Time; X . Monro
man owns S hens and thsy laid ever
TOO egg In on month recently. A
Forest Grove man owns tl hen and a
rooster. and h hasn't found. A darned
egg for over six weeks.
Nancyt Wsstfall, wife of Jim West-
fall, long a well known Chinaman of
Albany, wants to return to this rmin , i al
try where ehe wa born. Th eoupnr I
went to China last year expecting to '
remain., .v
Monument Enterprise: - Master Cldrlo
Scharfl presented ua with a hen egg
for our breakfast Tuesday morning. It
la. Inches in circumference one
way and t i th other. - Tb editor's
whole family partook In th feast.. .
Eugene Register; " Farmer ar vary
busy plowing and putting in - spring
grain and they hav had opportunity
for doing much good work. There wilt
be much more grain sowed than usual
and getting It In this early ought to
Insure a splendid crop.
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Powder river valley offer rare op
portunlty to the farmer and orchsrdlst.
ays th Baker City Democrat Tract
of land from 8 to 80 aor, covered by
a reservoir system, can ba obtained and .
the land IB as productive as any
earth.... - .,... . . ,
Sir Robert Hart's -Birthday.
Sir Robert Hart director-general of
Chines imperial customs, whom the
cable dispatches state is likely soon te
relinquish hi post, was born in Ire
land, February 10, lltt. He becam di
rector-general of Chines customs In
land a wall as maritime in 1001. as a
reward Tor services rendered to th Chi
nese government In connection with th
International settlement of the situation
following ' th Boxer trouble - He
created th euatom service and gave
China her present tariff. He ba been
behind every commercial treaty that
China ha mada ' Sir Robert also estab
ltahed the light servlos on the dangeroue
Chine coast and th postal service,
which Is being extended to all part of
China. He ha received th greatest
honors In th gift of Ui Chinese gov
ernment In 1I8S - he was appointed
minister of Queen Victoria at the eourt
of Pekln, but In a' short time resigned
to resume his former place a a Chines
official at th head of th eustoms de
partment radium. ' Ther should, therefore, be a
measurable Increase in th quantity of
radium entering th atmosphere on the
nn.la. .M. r. U .
wu.ia.av B.uw v. ... - mm compmrea -
with th sunset Bide, for, as ths oeonun
panylng diagram will show. It Is tmt I
siae or tne earth where the sun is rising
that always goes ahead like the prow
of a ship, and ther th quantity of
radium encountered in a given tlm '
must be larger than on ths rear aid. - ,
f e . . .-. . , . ; vy
- If the entrance of the radium Into the
atmosphere, were an observable phe
nomenon that Is to say, if we had any
means of detecting Its immediate- ef
fects It 1 possible that th difference
In th supply abov referred to could
be measured. ' If, for th mere sake of
illustration, it wer to be assumsd ths . j
fresh radium entering the atmosphere
affects Its lectrln conditions, then tha
sunrise side of th earth the prow of
th terrestrial ehip mlsht be expected
to exhibit somewhat different atmos
pherlo phenomena from thos expert-. '
enced on the ether aide.
The rotation of the earth on Its axis
would also "have a similar effect If It
were performed at a greater velocity, .
but. since th velocity la at about 1,000
mile an hour, St th equator. It appears
too slight to play any perceptible part.
Suppose the qusntlty of radium emit- ,
led from the sun should suddenly be
greatly Increased, or, on the other hsnd,
suppose that th Supply should sudden
ly fall what would be th consequence"
Perhaps It would be serious and perhaps
not W cannot, tell, because, as al
ready - remarked, th part played by
radium In th economy of th earth as
a habitable planet Is not yet under,
stood. - But Professor Joly's theory
lends additional Interest to the sun ss
the sourcs of hitherto unrecognised af
fects upon ths earth. .
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