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T Trust him JJttl who pralaea
II; him 1cm who cennires all;
and him least who i indifferent,
to alL Lavater, :
GOOD WORK 07 LOCAL RAIL
'; ROAD MEN. ,
WHILE THE people of Ore
gon have-1 been criticising
and complaining about Mr.
Harriman's railroad ' policy
m Oregon, they may welL afford an
appreciative compliment to hit local
officers. In charge of the Oregon
lines, especially the 0. R. & Ni, on
account of their promptitude, energy
and hard and diligent work during
the past few weeks. While complaints
of slow and irregular trains may
often be in order, few people realise
the great dificulties that .have had to
be overcome and the immense
amount of work at high pressure
that had and still has to be done n
account of storms, slides and .floods.
At the head of this army of work
ers for the speedy rehabilitation of
the roads is General Manager J. P.
O'Brien. He- does not sit in his of
fice in Portland and give orders, but
in case of a bad blockade goes to the
front himself and personally takes,
charge of the work. Having filled
subordinate positions, he knows every
foot of the track, and when a block
ade comes knows just what has hap
pened and what to do to clear -the
track and repair the damage as speed
ily at-possible. His chief lieutenant
"andThe active general in the field 4s
General -Superintendent . M. . J, Buekv
ley, who, In sttch an emergency, has
no superior in the country. Ha not
only gets all the work possible done
in the smallest possible-time,-but he
wbrka harder than anybody under
him, and is as fearless at he Is tire
less -for In the early stages of the
blockade both these men were, hot
only the thick of the fight, but
literally risked their live! in the per
formance of their duty. With them
and as strenuously active to open up
the road again were Assistant Super
intendent D. W. Campbell and Di
vision Superintendent William Bal
lons, sparing no possible efforts to
bring order out of chaos,
To the first blockades of the win
ter along the Columbia, due to drifts
and slides, which were cleared more
quickly than could have been ex
pected, when otr "eiies them up,"
have succeeded washonts by floods In
many placet'in eastern Oregon and
Washington, and it will take a con
siderable time yet to reconstruct the
road over thes places; but with
these men in charge the public may
be sura that the work wilt be prose
cuted as diligent! and finished as
quickly as it can be done.'-
So, while voicing our Just griev
ances against tms Harriman regime of
the past, let us do justice to his local
officers, who in such a time of stress
do their utmost to serve not only him
but the people. ; -
PAY OF POSTAL EMPLOYES.
r" THE national house of repre-
Isentatives had not reversed its ac
tion and had refused to increase
tha pay of postal clerks and rnral
mail carriers, it would have done an
act of injustice to a large number of
faithful public employes, and the In
justice of the act would have been
accentuated by the raise in salaries
which members of congress recently
voted themselves.'. No class of public
servants is so poorly paid as many
of these men who handle and carry
the mails, and fc have deprived them
of the propdsed increase of pay by a
point' of order or otherwise would
have aroused a vigorous protest on
the part of a great many people be
sides those directly interested There
is probably not one taxpayer out of
teh who would not vote to give these
very valuable employes larger pay,
and this is more than can ba said of
the proposition to raise the salaries
of members of congress. Many gov
ernment clerks in Washington who
wnrk a little only si hours a day
draw salaries of from $1,200 to $2,400
a year who do not really earn half as
much as many of the-e postoffiee em
ploye who receive from $r00 to
$1,000 a ye, and in the case of rural
carriers have ia keep A koxn be
sides. Since it is a salary raising per
iod, these men should be about the
first to be considered.
CHARACTERISTIC CROOKED-
- "-".-' NESS.' ;; ;. -
THE OREGONIAN now pre
tend! that it has all along fa-
JL vored . the temporary appoint
. ' . ment of the railroad commis
sioners by the governor, and not by
the state board. It was only after
tha bill became a law that tha Ore-
gonian ever made a word of objection
to appointment by such a board, or
by the legislature, and it inferen
tial, if not directly, advocated such
appointment, because Jt aided with
those who were against appointment
by tha governor, on the ground that
he was a Democrat and would use the
power thus given him to build up a
Chamberlain machine. ; On January
15 tha Oregonian said:
"We now. hear a -vociferous de
mand, mostly from -- Democratic
sources, that a Democratic governor
appoint he commission." Then after
alluding to - tha arguments of The
Journal in favor of appointment by
the governor the Oregonian goes on
to say, disingenuously, that these
reasons "are that the legislature is
urifit.or incompetent; or that a state
board, which often names commis
sions, will betray the people, or that
the people are not to ba trusted f
Let us have the real reason for de
manding that . the governor shall
name this commission, which is that
he may build up and perpetuate a
great Democratic machine and eventually-
make his way clear to the
United States senate." ,
This was the tone and attitude of
the Oregonian-throughout that the
governor should not be allowed to
appoint tha commission because of
his politics and his ambition. So far
as we know, the proposition of ap
pointment by the legislature was
never , considered; neither Speaker
Davey nor any other opponent of ap
pointment ' by the governor ever
advocated this. Aa the Oregonian
says, such a board aa tha state board
often names commissions"; hence,
everybody supposed and had a right
to suppose that the Oregonian fa
vored appointment in this way. No
otherJni erence. was possible. And
yet, when It was all over, that journal
istic contortionist, never having ut
tered a word against. this method of
appointment, says it waa "the worst
that could have been devised.
This is not merely contradictions U
is crawfishing under the assumption
that its "tortuous deviousnesi is not
observed.' . ; !
FOREST RESERVES.
WE MUST indorse a good deal
of what Senator Fulton said
f in his speech in the senate
in criticism of tha forest re
serve policy. That it is, in tha main,
a good and necessary policy,, most
people are now agreed, but that it
has been verdone-and made to serve
the interests f tha railroads and land
grabbing syndicates, in many cases, ia
a too well established fact to ba dls
puted , i.
There has been some modification
and moderation of (ha enthusiast
Pinchot'a program during the past
year or two, and some large areas
that had been temporarily withdrawn
have been restored to the publie do
main; and greater eara has been ex
ercised lately in fixing fo'rest reserve
boundaries; but it ia pot unlikely thst
further checks need to be placed on
the activity of tha forest reserve en
thusiasts. .;".' '. ..'. ', '
Nobody supposes that the adminis
tration, entered upon this policy or
pursued It to tha extent it did with
any intent of giving tha land-grant
railroads and other land grabbera the
opportunity of their lives, but so In
some ases it turned out, and it seems,
after the event, as if this might and
should have been foreseen. The mis
chief that has been dona In thia way
cannot now be undone, but tha ad
ministration is in no position jto re
sent an appeal that it should be re
quired to go slower and more care
fully hereafter. ' '.
, Mr. Pinchot ia a 1 good and useful
man, if duly restrained, but he is a
man with a bobby, and as a pet of the
president has been allowed to' ride
his hobby too far. .
INDIGNANT B ABE" BAILEY.
INDIGNANT, explosions f Senator
Bailey at .the investigation .that
has been carried on regarding
some of his transactions are not
justified and ddnnt arouse much pub;
lie sympathy. Senator Bailey has
long been the victim of an aggravated
form of the disease colloquially,
known as "big head." He haa long
poed ii i personage of tremendous
importance, raised far above, if not
out of sight, of rdinsry mortals, and
with choleric disdain has assumed to.
be beyond criticism. Ha used to be
kaowa aa "aba" Bailey, and .was tol-
crated as a sort of bls spoiled baby,
and there is something savoring of
the "baby act in his treatment Of
tha charsre tnida arainit him with
reference to his ; connection with
Standard Oil - . -7T
It seems to have been shown that
Bailev has at least been auiltv of the
fault of Old Dog Tray. He waa In
very bad company, for a United
Statea senator, when he waa riding
around with and borrowing money
from II. Clay Pierce, of tha Watere
Pieree Oil company, a Standard Oil
concern, at tha very time when it
waa, trying to regain its foothold in
Texal. Perhaps he did only borrow
the money,' and paid it back, but
even if so. his conduct ia open to ln
quiry, and it is not properly otue
nroeram for - him to roar . with aa
affectation f righteous and virtuous
indignation when a full explanation
ia demanded. .
Senator Bailey should try to under
stand that he ia on trial before tha
bar of oublic opinion, and that blus
tering denials arjd choleric denuncia
tions of tha investigators will not ac
ault him. nor work in hia favor in
thia great tribunal Senator Bailey
ia a senator, a Democrat, a leader of
hia nartv. with all hia swelling: man
nerisms a min of much ability; and
the people hava a right to know all
about his business with Standard OiL
But ha seems not to understand thia.
I'..' . T" .
IMMIGRANTS FOR THE
; COUNTRY.
V ' .ii
WE THINK that Reverend Dr.
HilUs ia right when he, say i
- that the Pacific coast needs
a laree number of foreign im
migrants of tha right kind, indus
trious, thrlftv eeoole. who would be
willing to liva in tha country and
make productive farma out f wild
land, and men who. not owning or
being able to improve land them
selves, would be willing to work for
moderate wages for neisrhbors who
needed help in clearing and cultivat
ing their landa and harvesting their
crops. It would ba of immense bene
fit if thousands of auch homeseekera
and laborers would come into this
region from Russia, Austria-Hungary,
Italy, Sweden. Norway, Denmark and
other European countries.
The United Statea received last
vear, a round million of immigrants
at New York, but the majority of
them atav in tha cities. Soma, raised
in tha country in their fatherlands,
came west aa far aa Illinois, Missouri,
Wisconsin, Minnesota and other mid
dle west states, and went into the
rural districts, but few of them
crossed tha Rotky mountains to aeek
homes in this great northwest region.
It would be well if more of thia kind
of immigration could . be .. attracted
hither. Not only would auch immi
srranta heln to swell productive popu
latlon and put a large aggregate area
of land in cultivation themselves, but
they would b a boon to farmers who
vrv vear are confronted wltn tax
problem f help to harvest their
crops. , ' i
While most of thrte foreigners
make good citiiena, whether living in
towns or in the country, the towns
do not need them so much; enough of
them will find towns where there ia
profitable employment for them; but
the country needs auch laborers, ia
calling loudly for them, and greater
and mora systematic efforts should
h mirfe to Invite them to coma. Ore-
eon. Washington and Idaho could
make room for and welcome 100,000
industrious, adult homeseekera from
foreign lands within a year if they
could be induced to come.
CANAL AND FREIGHT TRAINS,
WHEN THE atate of New York
decided to spend a hundred
million dollars in modernix
' ing tha Erie canal, so that it
would form a 12-foot channel between
the great lakea and tha Hudson river,
there was a chorus of derision from
the railroads in that region. It was
said that canals were obsolete, and
that' canal traffic waa too alow , for
modern conditions. : But the ex per
ienec f last fall, when freight trains
all Ver the country moved acareely
as fast as the prairie schooners of
the pioneers or the -freight wagons
of pre-railroad days in eastern Ore
gon, haa brought about a change of
opinion ead silenced the railroad
critics. Bargea of 1.000-tons' capae
Ity, each equalling tha capacity of 50
cars, wilt ba able to move , with a
celerity . far . exceeding .' the . speed of
the modern freight train, unless the
latter geta a much swifter and stead
ier move on than it has been doing
lately. New York did a good piece
of business for. itself and for a large
region of country west of that atate
by appropriating this $100,000,000, and
other atates with interior waterways,
or with places where they are needed
aod ran ba easily constructed, will do
well to imitate the Empire state's ex
ample... ., ' - 1
After aoine boura f desperate
fighting, which waa marked by the
bloodiest attack and resistance ever
seen in Central America, Nicaragua
gained a decisive victory over Hon
duras on Thursday. , It is thought
the, wounded soldier will recover, .
The attacks that have been made
on John D. Rockefeller, following bis
gift f $32,000,000 to education have
been so virulent that they are likely
to deter tha rest of us from making
donationa of a aimilar size to any
causa whatever.
Mr. Hughes, the "animated feather
duster" of the ' last gubernatorial
campaign in New York ia brushing
some of the cobwebs out of the Em
Piygtata "capital. '
As an. echo of the patriotic
speeches that rang through thia coun
try on Washington's birthday, the
prices f Japanese stocks and Jbonds
took a audderi drop. ' ' 1
Can't aomebneprescribeure
fof J. J. Hill's dyspepsia, which, is
showing unmistakable symptoms , of
becoming chronic f
Great Red Men oi
History f
.RED JACKET. ,
By Rev. Thomas B. Qregory, 7,
Bd Jacket, tha "Ut of thtLBonacaa."
waa bom tn the yar 1TIS, near Gene
va, N. T- and dld at Beneo Vlllace.
N. Y In Oetobar, 1SI0.
Tne real name or this notM ehler wa
Bagoyewatha, meaning. In tha Indian
tongua. "HS that keeps awake." Hia
nam at Red Jacket earn to htm from
the faet that on day such -a garment
waa presented to him by a British offi
cer, In admiration jt him remarkable
wlftne-a of foot
Red Jacket was In many ways one of
tha most attractive . Indiana of whom
hfatory treata,- Joeech Brant exoepteL
ha waa clearly tha greateat-man that
waa to be found In all the alx nations.
Aa an orator Red Jacket waa bead
and shoulders above not only the rent
of th red men. but of most of the
whites as wall. Hie speech made dur
ing tha council -held In 1714 at Fort
Stanwlx would have reflected the high
est credit upon any ona of the renowned
orators of England or America. It la
aid that waahlngton waa greatly lm-
?raaaad by Red Jacket'a eloquence. In
TSt, at the eonelualon of peace between
tha United States and the sis natlona,
Waahlngton presented the old ohlef
with a solid silver medal, whiah ne
wore with prlda to the day of his death.
But notwithstanding tha appreciation
that Red Jacket felt for auch courtesies
and honors as were shewn htm by the
whites, at heart he ever remained a
stalwart Indian proud, dignified, ex
clusive, entertaining for tha palefaoea.
a contempt that bordered cloaa upon
bate. - '- . ' -
Rod Jacket waa more of a diplomat
and statesman than he waa a soldier,
although he figured prominently In two
ware tha war of tha revolution and
that of till. In tha first conflict Red
Jacket fought with the Brttlah; In the
aeeond with tba Americans. It Is on
record that hia heart waa with tha pat
riots In the struggle against King
Oeorge, but Ms nation aeciaea ror ina
king, and he "went with hia state."
For a long time Red Jackefa grave
at Beneoa VHge wae practically un
marked, but In Hit tha old ehlef a dust
waa removed to Forest Grove cemetery,
near Buffalo, where it waa reburled
with high honora.
" ' " ' " "If."
By Ella Wheeler Wlloox.
tCopyrlght, 10T, by American-Journal
Examiner.)
Twist what thou are and what than
wauldst ba let -
No If arlae on which te lay tha
blame.
Man makes nountaJn of that puny
. word,
But Ilka a blade of grass before the
scythe ,
It falle and wither when a human will.
Stirred by creative force, awaapa
toward its aim.
Then wilt be what thou wouldst fee.
Circumetanca
la but tba toy of ge-iiaa. When a aoul
Burns with a Ood-Iike purpose - to
, achieve
ATI obeUeles between It and tta goal'
Must vanish like the daw before the sun.
"If la tha motto of the dilettante
And idle dreamer; 'tis the poor excuse
Of mediocrity. Tha truly great -
Know not tha word or know tt but ta
.. acorn,
Elae had Joan of Are a peasant died. -
Uncrowned by Glory and by men un
sung, i
John H. Vincenfa Birthday.
Blahop John Heyl Vincent of tha
Methodist Episcopal church waa born
In Tuscaloosa, Alabama, February it,
18t): wag educated In Pennsylvania
academlea, and completed his - training
for tba ministry at wesleyan Institute,
Newark, New Jersey. He waa ordained
deacon in 185S and elder In 18S7, when
he waa tran-ferred to the Rock River
conference, serving aa pastor In Gelsn
Chicago and elsewhere till 1J65. He
waa appointed general agent of, tie
Methodist Episcopal Bunday School un
Ion, and In ltst was elected correspond
ing eecretary or the union and the trace
aoclety. In which poata ba waa eontln.
ued until 1S84. At tha general confer
enca of 1H ha was elected . a bishop.
His boat knows work haa been In con
nection with tha Chautauqua literary
and aclentlflo circle. Thia movement
wee-prelected by Dr. Vincent In 17I in
cooperation with Lewis Miller of Akron,
Ohio. - -
February 23 In History, j-
jljfl Cato atreet conaplratora, who
planned assassination of British cabin
ministers, arrested. Five executed on
May 1.
1 J J Authorship 0f the Waveriey
novela acknowledged by Blr Walter
Scott , .
llll Order of the Star of India in
stituted. i
llll Captains Bpeke and (Trent an
nounced diecoverr et the Nile in Lake
Nyanaa. . . v
lilt Ex-quean of Hawaii sentenced
te lmp-lsonment for conspiring against
tha repunlte,
. The powera ordered' Greece to
withdraw from Crate.
lioa Mlsa Ellen M. Btone released by
the Macedonian brigands.
1104 United States senate ratified
Caeam canal treat x, . .
Letters From the
People
Immortality and Humanity.
Portland. Feb. XLTo the Editor of
The Journal I am not talking on tha
question of Immortality lightly or In
differently, but aoiely for tha purpoae
of trying te elicit tba truth respecting
It, and to ahow wherein the-past 'haa
been defeetlva In reasoning ' about It
Tour Balem correspondent, ''J. 1 "
thinks tha question ought to be eettled
by The testimony of a cloud of witnes
ses." . And be. thinks I hava not proper
ly considered tha weight and foroe of
tha evidence offered by "clouds of wit
neesess, both mortal and Immortal,"
I think I have patiently heard, and
carefully examined, all the main points
that have been presented, beta in tne
oaat and In tha creeent But I learned.
at an early etage of my investigations,
that in order to arrive at tha truth of
any event or proposition; yuu mul
Judge of tha credibility and sources of
knowledge of tha witnesses who testify.
Witnesses are often honestly mistaken,
and it Is no discredit to their integrity
if you see that they are mistaken, and
cannot believe their testimony. The
world la full of liiustratlona or thia im
portant fact. .
Regarding tha witneasea referred tp
bv "J. R." I hava nut the "mortala"
on the aland and .they feave eatabllahed
notning Deyona peiier, nope.
theory, surmise. There la no positive
knowledge among them. That dis
poses of tha major part or tne -cioua.-Tha
other part of the "cloud" la tha
'Immortals." But where and how aball
wa find them, that they may tell ua all
about itt Aa the lady said. In teaching
others how to cook a hare; "First, eaten
your hare!" We must first "know"
that tha Immortals "are," before we
can take their testimony. And after
we knew of their existence wa would
not need their testimony, for the ques
tion' would ba already solved.
Taka a ease In Dolnt: About two years
ago a very prominent man of thia city
died. Hearty everybody knew him by
sight on the atreet, and he waa connect
ed, more or less, with nearly every pub-
Ho enterprise. But one oay aeatn came
and took him away. Who baa positively
and certainly heard from him alnca that
solemn event T Who knowa what has
happened to him In the meantime, or
where he la, or how ha occupies his
time, or what' hia state of being la like,
or whether he aver knew that the Lewie
and Clark Fair waa a great auocess, or
that Portland ia growing by leapa and
bounds Are not these legitimate ques
tions to ask. and do they not call for
clear and . poeltlve answers T And tf
wltnessea are all about ua. In clouds,
ought wa not to ba able ta And some of
them Burely "J. R." ean tell ua where
wa ean And three or four of hia "cloud"
who are flitting back and forth between
the two statea of exlatence, like the
weaver's shuttle, from aide to side, ir
there are so many of them they must
ba easv to- find, and-1 put no hardship
on your correspondent, when I ask him
to introduce ma to tnom. m- uid
I will treat them with tha utmost res
pect and consideration.
-V . ' ,...-.UAU.,.. .
The Shooting of Dick Nlquett.
La: Canter, Wash..1 Fab.l. Teethe
Editor of The Journal. A very grave
injustice- waa certainly dona tha agent
In the accidental shooting that resulted
In tha death of Richard Nlquette, a II'
year-old boy, near thia plaoe -recently.
Clyde Wendel, aged 14,' tt waa alleged
in a special dispatch from Vancouver,
Washington, baaed admittedly on mora
. v.,, Muathl, Vuan vll lit,. ft
carelessness. If not worse. In permitting
nm aiBcnara - wwsvw mv mm
cause Nlquette's death.
Tl.. . V. ilMilAMht. mttmlm V..V.
resulted from only purest accident Is
positively Known oy an w no anow nyav
Wendel or knew Richard Nlquette. The
boya were uncommonly cloaa f rlanda,
and so far from being a consequence of
carelessness, the deplorable accident
happened while they were taking tha
unusual precaution of unloading their
guna. They bad been taught to re
move the shells from their pieces when
not actually In pursuit of game, and
Clyde waa engaged In "breaking" his
gun for this purpose. Tha flrlna pin
protruded so far as to Interfere, and In
drawing back tba hammer It alipped.
juet as Richard, apparently In a dealre
to aaslst or la mere youthful curiosity
to ' see what tha difficulty waa, moved
into tha Una of danger. At all avante.
tha gun waa discharged and tha ahot
entered Nlquette's shoulder, severing a
large artery. From tha hemorrhage he
died In an hour.
Before he died ho made a statement,
completely exonerating young Wendel.
whose grief waa so great that- for a
time It waa feared ha would lose hia
season. -
The boys had been more than ordinar
ily attached. Richard had been aban
doned by bia parents, and wss Buffering
for tha very neoessariea of Ufa. It waa
Clyde Wendel who took pity on him and
Induced hie parenta to taka tha friend
less one Into their own home and treat
htm a their own ehtld. For thia Rlch
ard'a appreciation waa unbounded, and
his gratitude to hie young patron waa
profound. They were always the best
of riende.------i'-- - ----
Tha negro boy mentioned In the Van
couver dispatch was not prssant at the
- -u . BhAAtin mnA nv NlAuatte
for oniy-a. tew momenta, just before ha
aieej.
. -v.. nnlv a. few minutes
before the fatal accident . At that time
they were In high spirits and tha best
of humor, playing and on the point of
starting tor notne. v nn .
they a.n.d the beat of
. Taxing Bachelore.
Corvallla. Or., Feb. a. To the Editor
of The Journal Having read your edi
torial on a "Bachelor Tas Law." I here
give ny views of the matter: First
No enlightened government under the
sun eatj compel a man or woman to
marry. Second Tha bachelore have
their property taxed for tha schooling
of other people s children ana you can
not enforce a us on a part of the tax
payers and not on all. Thtd When
ladles learn to ba less extravagant in
dress and around home, then young
men may have more desire to taka life
partnere. Fourth Look at the divorcee
that are granted because or tne extrava
rant wav of living; young men cannot
make enough money to keep it up the
result ia a separation. Fifth Ladies
are . occupying almost every position a
young man can and ara aeir-supporting;
they do not care to be burdened with
domeetlo resuonslbllltlea and are rast
drifting Into bachelordom: they have the
right if they want to do so. -Again, wnen
soldiers are la demand tha single man
la wanted. Btxth Taxation Is a burden
aow because of the extravagant handling
of tha money by those in power.
It taxes are wanted, let the lawmakers
tas the trusts and corporations to the
extent they should be. Let there be
an Income tax tha falreat tas that la.
Than let there be Irsa extravagance In
tha legislature and teas "school graft
ing." and you will find that there will
always ba a surplus in tha treasury.
AiB5y a. IA.TE8,
The Ideal American
w
oman"
By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory.
'Not long ago .a Union Theological
seminary professor mada moat strange
talk before a New York woman's club.
The speaker's name, I believe, waa Fag
nan!, a name that sounds but little Ilka
America, and. certainly, If ha waa cor
rectly reported, the professor's teach
ings ara diametrically opposed to every
thing that America, la auppoaed to stand
for. '."'.
Tha gentleman from Union Theologi
cal seminary la reported aa having ad
dressed himself to the club aa follows:
"I know that you ara all devoted to your
waahtuba and your children, but the
question la whether these should be
allowed to absorb your vitality." ,
Certainly not! No woman should de
vote her entire life to the bearing of
Woman Is, by the sternal laws of na
ture, a child-bearer, but aha ta more
than that She la a moral, intellectual,
spiritual being, with capacities for
thought, high ethical endeavor and fine
spiritual vision, and her nature ia not,
fully rounded out unless theselatter
thinga ara realised In her life.
But etill, tha fact remains that pri
marily and fundamentally woman la a
mother. Bbe should be a thinker and
a moralist and a aaer, a dreamer of
glorious dreams and a participant In alt
tha great, thrilling game of life; but all
that aba la or doea should be subordi
nate to her womanhood to her mother.
hood...""
Evidently Professor FagnanI doea not
believe thia, hence hie amasing bit of
advice to the women of America, which, ,
It la devoutly . hoped, ' the women of
America will treat with all beoomlng
acorn. . . -.-7- - - t
Baya the professor: "Surely ne wom
an should be satisfied to ba merely: the
mother of a family."
But doea not the gentleman with the
un-American name know that to ba the
mother of a family. In ' the full, true
sense of that word, la to be tha nobleat
thing that any woman can possibly be
in thia worldt . . .. ' , -.
, To ba the mother of a family to bear
children, to love and educate those chil
dren, to bring them up In the way of
the domastlo pieties and tha dvlo vir
tues, so that they shall become an honor
to their city, atate and nation, forces
for good aoldlere In the cause of human
progreas, great beacon Ughta upon tho
nllla of life up to which othera ahall
look and ba cheered and encouraged la
tha battle against Injustice and Wrong
to be auch a raotaer Is to ba something
that not avea a Union Theological semi
nary profeasor ean with- Impunity scoff
at and ridicule. .
Tha professor calls tha old-faahionsd
home woman a "parasite," and declares
himself In favor of the woman who, de
spising "parasitism," learns a "trade"
and goea out Into the world to be Inde
pendent. -. - ----- -- -r -r -
And. I may add, to carry about with
her a poodle dog upon whloh aha ahall
lavish her affection In lieu of bestowing
that affection upoar her child I
"Mad world!" aa tha great Shakes
peare would eay.
But there ta consolation In tha thought
that tha overwhelming majority of
women the wort! aver are true to their
womanhood, and hava swsm Hannibal's
oath against the erasy Isma whlob .would
unses and uncrown them,
"The Straphangers
Dialogue Overheard by Weg JoneeV
"It looka pretty favorable for the
prisoner now. . I don't believe"
"Weil. I do. By tbe law of en-
denoe"
-What ta tha law of evidence they're
all talking about, anyway."
"Well, ire tha law the law." yeu
knew, that evidence must bewell. It
must ba evidence." -
. "Oh. that'a It? I never oould under
stand It before."
"I etudled law One. It waa when the
landlord told me ha wanted tha flat
for some on else. I found be couldn't
put me oat. aoeordlng to law. bat be
evaded It somehow. It coat me tl to
learn that ba couldn't do what ha did
do." -' -
That's the way with it- A boy broke
my glasaea with a anowbal last winter,
and a lawyer told me I could aua tba
city for the price, aa the elty was re
sponsible for leaving tha anow there.
The new glasses only eoat ma til, and 1
had to give 120 for the advice,, :
"And did you auer " -'
"Nope. . Another man told me the
first was a chump.' and that under the
old common law tha anow being In the
atreet waa an act of Providence. Ha
took tti, although you'd (nink the com
mon law would be cheaper."
. .-;''... - e ."' a ' '
' "Ain't the anow awful, thought And
tha way they pile It up- In hills at
tha crossings! Our nelghbora lost tbelr
little boy four dsya ago, and tha po
lice all over tha city were on the look
out. Ona of tho detectives said ha had
a clue that It waa tba work of tha
black hand, and tha family waa nearly
era xy with fright. "And what do you
think Sunday, whsn It thawed a little,
tha boy was able to crawl out of tha
snowplls a atreet eleaner had happened
to dump on him In front of the boy's
own home!" ,
. ....- e- -. -
"Ife fierce, I tell you, thia elty. I see
In tha papera tha Japa want to fight
U." ' V - . -v.'-'i. - .-.
"Pooh, they can't fight ua. A man
that eats a handful of rice for a meal
can't compete with tha man that haa
three good square feeds of steak a day."
"That'a right too. Just what I said
to a fellow in tha quick lunch, this noon
when I waa having my piece of lempn
pie." v
"Mark -my worde, thia' Jap affair
won't amount to anything. Z know the
administration's views I heard Rooso-velt'-mak
a speech once when ha waa
governor."
"That aof What sort of a man doea
he look, to be, anyway T""
"Oh er Just a man, you know. I
didn't get a very cloaa look at him,
there waa auch Jam in tha two blocks
between tha platform and tha atreet
car I waa passing In."
"Ife the American spirit, T tell you,
that'll cow the Asiatics. !The Ameri
can doesn't know how to quail before
man, woman or devil." - ' .--- .--
"That'a right. Bay, hare'a Where I
get out will you run over to tbe houaa
thia evening? Just a little gam you
know IB-rent limit"
"Gee! I'd like to, oM msn, but, you
know, Mra. Bottleeork"
"Too bad. V Well, goodby." i
i'Tloodby." - r r
Billions of Cigarettes.
From tha U- 8. Tobacco Journal.
The cigarette output of 4.IS8.7IS.015
In the calendar year of 1604 must here
come aa a surprise to the bulk of the
trsde, hut more stunning yet Its in
crease In one year of 142.340.465. an In
crease by nearly 100,000,000 larger than
tha Increase nf our cigar Industry dur
tha aame i-ar.
: SmallChane' , jJ
Don't only talk cleaning up. Do I.
e e . , ,
Tale, the legislature. It might hava
been worse.
e
-Now -b as happy aa you ean for an
other two yeare. . .
a .
Evidently Evelyn didn't tell tha whole
truth, nor won't. . -
. There haa been a fine killing the paat
few daya at Balem of bllla.
.-.
Thia la tha time of year tha tramg '
wants a Job In a harvest field.
- If you took under almost any little
woman's thumb you will find a man.
, e e . - ' .
Poor 'Washington and Idaho; their
legislatures will last tar weeks yet
r ... f- ' ".
. Toung Mrs Thaw's mother doea.welL
to keep out of algbt as much aa pos-
. e- a'.-;..- .. -
It aeems that no pat ef the Ore-,
gonian was, appointed railroad commie
siouer, -. . , ,
... .i j .,. .... . . w - '
It must be admitted that tha O. R. ,
A N. haa had a pretty hard time thia
winter. - . ,
"' '!.-.
I$ndelht""(jlgrsph:" Keep your -ey
on La, FoIIeTte of Wisconsin. He la
a eomer. .
; e e ' v ', , . '
- The Thaw Jury will hava to decide;
neither the lawyera, doetore nor news- 1 ,
papermen can agree.
.
Wouldn't it be well for Dr. Wiley,
the insanity expert, to -examine Dr.
Wiley, the food expert? ' -
" " ' ;. ' . . e ' r .-----i--. ;,-
An old bachelor aaya a woman says
what aha doesn't think about a man,
and a man thinks what he doesn't say
about a woman. -
' .;.- .', -J-" '..-.
A Connecticut ' ' man waa ' ' assessed
IT9.S0 by a jury- for trying to kiss a
woman. Considering that he didn't gt
it una ia pretty nigh.
e
.A West Virginia legislated wanta ta
tax all Jackasses, and a kloker aaya
auch a tax would fall heaviest on the
members of tha legislature.
.. . -, e e ,
Mra. Evelyn Thaw la much like a
railroad president or great financier aa
a wltneaa; aha doesn't know and can
not remain bar a good many things.
. a .. . . ,-.'.
It la reported that a Parle doctor haa
Invented a serum that prevents gam
bling. Oet It for the fan tan ohlnka;
of 'oourae ne white people In Portland
need It. ' -:
President Roosevelt haa requested the
mothers' congress to give soma thought
to "tho father In the home,." O. they
don't overlook him when there' a hard
job to be done or bllla to pay.
Thomaa A. Edison haa tha front gala
to hia residence eo bung that every on
who eomee through' pumpa two buckets
at water Into a tank on the roof. If
he lived In Milwaukee wa suppose It
would ba bear. -. ."-
Oregon Sidelights,:;
A 1.10ft pound A1mv (BeV 9o4 for
$ ....,
. Many Oregon towns ara now talking
of cleaning' up. But It takes work, .
,. ..v.,..; .
John Day valley can boaa-t t th
finest climate In Oregon, olalma the
Eagle.
Condon Tlmrr No traJna, n mall,r '
no stage, no storms, no news, ua aothln.
Later Th belated train la In. , . . .
e . . '
...w ,.wmw...wu. ii. ivinM lull,
blue birds are here, the man of tha house
la Mlrfn hi 1 a . n U.Hn 1.1. if.
do it. and there ara various other algna
of aprtng. . t
.'-
Th Prairie City Miner considers that
It haa Just aa muoh right to build rail
roads aa any ether newspaper In Ameri
ca, and therefore predicts that a rail
road la coming to Prairie.
e e -
The Milton eannery. aya the Eagle,
la a go and In' a abort tlm w will ba
able to aay to tha prospective locator
that wa eat all tha fruit wa can and
sell what wa ean and what we ean't can.
Every cross roada settlement la the
vicinity of Klamath Fells la eager te
Incorporate, aaya an exchange. Ken,
a little "seven up" hamlet of a doaen
houses Is en of , the applicants for a
elty charter. . i
' - '. . ' ' '.
- Milton Eagle: The Congregational
church of Free water la progressiva A a
alarm clock la kept on tha pulpit, which
aervea the double purpose of warning .
tha paator when It's time to etop and
wakea up the congregation In time for
dinner. "-..
, a - e
" Barlow correspondence: of Aurora
Borealls: All thinga are calm and pas
siveearth looka aa If lulled upon an
angel's lap. e e a The . Around th
ntove-club, ha had nothing , to dlaturb
It for aoma time. . Its members are wait
ing for some great national Question VYr
aria. 1 , A r -
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The' Milton telephone system won't" ,
work, which causes the Eagle to remark '
that a telephone . that won't talk beat,
seven devils on tha back of your nerk
when It comaa to tempting a man to '
cell, down maledictions. Imprecations,
denunclatlona, execrations and Hslen
damnations on th misprised and vili
pending things. - .
e e
- W. E. Patten of Condon haa received
a pewter pitcher mad In 1717 and a -hammer
made In 117, and added them -to
hia fine collection ef relics, coins
and curloe which he ha In hi shoe .
shop. He haa a rare collection of ebexit
1,000 rellca and different specimens and
a collection of. about - 2,000 foreign
etampa. . . ..- - '
Wild gees, or Canadian brant, aa tha
fowls are better known, are coming '
south from their Columbia river haunts .;
In search of feed In the reservation wheat
fields, says tha Athena Press.- Their
tifual feeding grounds In the ' 11 "rue
Hsaren country and in Ihe Com Bprlnea
district sre unrior snow, thus driving
the honkera to aeek pew feeding grounflaJ
A Dalles msn who has long lived la .
the Jack-rabbit region says: "I h-re "
never considered a rabbit Tit meat to '
eat; they ara mora full of disease than
any other animal. ' If one stops to ex
amine them they will rind thst many
of them hsva large lumps oa their h4y
which In some Instance ara an heavy
they causa them to 'Jump . crooite -When
these sr eut into they are fauad
to contain a JeUjr-Jlke 'aubstanoe.
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