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member, but that of hripr-tretrt
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saveRuskln. ' '' - ' ' V
THE GOVERNOR'S VETOES.
Tff jrOSTFT-4hagovemoi:4veJ
mioci win oe curaiany . ap
proved by the people. The
' legislature left' its work in
rather a bad mess, and some of the
vetoes were only of duplicate bills.
or such as were already on the stat
ute books. The veto of the. Johnson
road improvement bill will be the one
most ' generally t regretted, ' for it
opened up a prospect of getting good
roads such "ss the state never had
before! But the probable cost, $200,
000, the governor thotfght too much
frt addition to -the-other-beavy-appro-4
priitions, . end be. found some other
objectionable features in the bill. As
to. whether he did wisely or no in
' this instance there will be a wide dif
ference of honest opinion.' ,;
thtii, thit tn tht, average
layman eeems reasonable, but -that
he vetoed, was that of placing public
, employes in the same position as pri
vate, citizens in the matter of gar
nishment of their wagea for debt. It
may well be argued that there is no
good, aound reason why this should
not b the law, but the supreme court
took a contrary view of the matter,!
and declared a similar bill of the pre-
vious legislature unconstitutional, and
unless this bill was such as toncon
folrm to the court's opinion it waa a
waste of time and effort to pass it
The oil! was of minor importance, and
of none to most people,
I The bill appropriating money for
the support of . the Monmouth and
DraiQ Normal schools, after it had
"been practically agreed on all handa
- to drop two schools, was one that
deserved the governor's excoriation,
, especially . in consideration of the
manner in which the Drain amend
ment was declared passed in the
house! when as a matter of fact, it
waa not legally passed. The law
could not have been . sustained if it
. had been taken into the courts, and
doubtless the secretary of state and
state treasurer would have refused to
issue, or pay warrants for those
schools if the governor had signed
it. So the best thing to do with the
.abortive thing was to kill it with a
veto and put it out of its misery.
v" The strictures ' of ' the governor
with .,: regard to the . flat salary
bill for the state printer, beginning
in 1911, were also fully merited. The
people have demanded a flat salary
for that official for many years, and
- there was no excuse for postponing
the granting of that demand for four
years. ', Another legislature will meet
in the meantime, in 1909; and as the
governor says it wilt be its province
T, to ct-V It could repeal this law if- t
choose, and enact" another, and as
, this, bill is. not operative for four
years it has no jlac among the
statutes. It was only passed as a
thin, sham pretense to carry out the
people's demand, while not doing so,
" The governor Tgives " su f ficient rea
sons for vetoing the other bills Jhat
be killed, and altogether he hat-done
a -very good job with his little Veto
ax. If anybody is "in : a hole" . it
seems to be the legislature, and a
good many members will find them'
selves unable to get out xf the hole
next year if they should try fof re
election. . '.
. WISE LEGISLATION."
AN ENACTMENT at the late
session for which there is full
Justification, is the 'measure
"?if creating twi' (Commissioners 6f
the. supreme court s It is a provision
that will give speedier adjudication
f causes to litigants, and redeem jthe
court from tha - overworked condi
tions that have long surrounded it.
Oregon, hes passed from that por
tion where three justices are longer
able in dispose of the causes that
rraih the court of last resort. Ad-
ance in wealth and multiplication of
etcrprisfs hav for; consjvence
cars cf larger importance and more
varied character: wider ra,nge of
eutl"ritirs must - ba -explored and
t!.e'Iir' of time hs greatly ..in-
cirtied t!t list" of decisions that
must be examined ia arriving at a de
termination of the- equities. Indeed,
Oregon long since ceased t be
three-judge state and has expanded
into the broader scope of a fivej-Judge
state as is evidenced by ttie fact that
the court has pending before it at
this time a sufficient number of cases
to occupy three justices every work
ing day for a full year to come. It is a
condition that called for a remedy, for
the state owes it to the citizen to af
ford him speedy adjudication of cases
at bar, to the end that worldly affairs
may move on with cvlerity and pre
cision incident to highly civilized life.
The two commissioners-, added to
the ' working, force will ..enable the
court to dispose of a much greater
volume of business, and that will be
complete compensation for the com'
paratively trivial sum the commission
f Will "COST,.1"' The new provision -is
further commended by the personnel
of the men whom the governor has
called to administer if'., '
OUR - NORTHERN NEIGHBOR.
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NKRECENT sperchrSir-Viifred
Laurier, the premier of Canada,
declared: "The nineteenth cen
tury belonged to the United
States; the twentieth century belongs
to Canada.1
This is hyperbole, but it. is true
that Canada is a country with a
great future," and the policy of the
United States has resulted in advanc
ing Canada's interesta and prospects
at the expense of our own. ' The High
tariff wall which we have stubbornly
and iatuously maintained ,b?ween
this country and our northern neigh
hot has been injurious to a certain
extent to both countries, but Canada
ie getting into a position where it
can more nearly taka care of herself.
and cares less about reciprocity. Our
high tarnt pSTrcy.tJH sent hundred
of thousands of our people and hun
dreds of millions of our capital across
the border, to our loss and Canada's
gain, and the movement has but fair
ly begun. . 1 " , ' ' - ;
Canada is potentially a very re
sourceful and Jfich country, and is
just awakening to ah active realiza
tion of that fact. Discovery of gold
in the Yukon country" waa one eye-
opener. More recent discoveries of
inexhaustible coal beds' were far more
important atill. But even richer in
potential wealth than Canada's min
erals are her great expanses of fer
tile agricultural lands. . . ..
. Of the 171,000,000 acrea of prairie
land in the western - provinces only
5,000,000 are now under cultivation.
Only one-fifth of Manitoba, and one-
tenth of Alberta and British 'Colum
bia, are occupied.' Manitoba ia the
smallest of the wheat ' producing
provinces, and yet if all its land were
onder cultivation it is estimated that
it would 'produce half as much wheat
as the whole United States.' ' '
Canada's mineral wealth has scarce
ly been touched yet. It consists jiot
only of gold, but of copper, nickel
and cobalt-silver, while the coal beds,
both west . and . east of the. Rocky
mountains, are the greatest in the
world, as far as known. It is esti
mated that a coal field just cast of
the mountains, only 40 miles from
the national boundary, and 500 miles
wide, will yield 10,000,000 tons of coal
a year for 7,000 years. .
Considering her minerals, her for
ests, her wheat lands, why should not
Canada' believe that this is her cen
tury to grow? To be, sure, she will
remain the "Sister of" the Snows";
the climate,' except along the Pacific
coast, ia" severe; but thi will not de
ter multitudes of hardy" people from
wresting wealth from her soil, for
ests and mineral fields.
Canada already haS . three trans
continental railroads and another' is
in course of construction!" Our pessi
mistic lecturer, Mr. J. J. Hill, did not
overlook -that field. When a- direct
rail and water route is established via
Hudson's bay to Europe, it will be
1.50Q miles shorter (hair, via New
York. . ;
- The present parliament has passed
an intermediate tariff law. It ia in
tended to' be retaliatory if desired,
or will allow of reciprocity. It can
be put into effect by an order in
council. TThere is therefore still a
chance for our government to estab
lish greatly beneficial reciprocity in
trade with Ca'nada, but under the
present standpat policy there is no
hope of this being done,- ,
Time was, and that recently, when
Canada desired reciprocity, freer
trade, very much, but our govern
ment was then, as now, too much
under the influence of political dema
gogues and grafters, and run in the
interest of American trusts, and tio
reciprocity that the trusts objected to
would be entertained; but now Can
ada doesn't care much for the help
which reciprocity would have' given
her. Canada has discovered thst she
is a young giant, and. can stand and
walk alone, with such help as 'our
fool laws drjve to her aid. -
Canada an never even approxi-
J mate the United States in population.
wealth and greatness, because of Its
situation ao far north, but it yctan
become a, - great country, and its
growth during the next half century
will be a large factor in tha current
history of the world's development
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PEOPLE HELPED BUILD THE
- RAILROADS.
T MIGHT be well for railroad
1 presidents and for the people as
well to remember that it was the
people's land and money that
helped very largely to build the rail
roads a free gift, in return for which
they only ask fair treatment on the
part of the ostensible owners of the
railroads.
It is apparently assumed that the
railroads .were all builf fly certain
great captains of industry or Ho-
leonsoMinaneZfJvho
try owes a great debt , of gratitude,
besidea much . of a more substantial
nature; that the country owes its de
velopment to the railroads created
fey Gould, Stanford, Huntington, Van-
derbilt, Cassatt, Villard, Hill, Harri
man-and-othra. Bui-BKKf-4h
men made great fortunes out of rail
roads, which in fact tha people large
ly paid for, either in gifts of land,
bonuses, o small stock subscriptions.
The fact is that tha earlier rail
roads of the country were not built
by a few rich men, but by a multi
tude of .poor men, an army of sub
scribers to the stock, when there was
a risk in such investments. Besides,
vast areas of land were giyen by the
people, and for more than a 1 gen
eration they paid taxes to, help build
those roads. The builder and sup
posed financiers were merely pro
moters who turned themselves later
into officers and magnates, handling
the people's lands and money at enor
mous percentages-of profit Mr. Hill
was ta a great f itrnf in rtrrptinn
A writer in the Boston Transcript
saya that between $700,000,000 and
$800,000,000 has been contributed to
railroad building by federal, state and
municipal governments, most of it
prior to 1870, and this does not take
into account the vast land grants
now , worth billions ; of dollars. He
estimates thar half the cost of the
47,252 miles of railroad constructed
prior to 1870 was contributed by the
people, most of whom got in return
only what advantages' the railroads
gave. And most of the other half
waa subscribed, by - comparatively
poor people. ; - , ".
.The people are not regretting that
these gifts and investments were
made, -and would have no cause to
revert to thero . if those who " came
into possession of the railroads had
kept faith with the people in the
matter of rates, extensions, taxes,
snd sale of the lands to settlers. The
people helped' buTld the earlier rail
roads so as to develop the country,
and they and', subsequent railroads
did undoubtedly help greatly, to do
thisg but the interests of. the people
have been too much subordinated to
those of railroad officers, stock man
ipulators, magnates and would-be
monopolists. Hence the people every
where are assuming control or the
power to regulate the railroads, and
they will see to it that these great
business arteries are run hereafter
more in their interest and with ' a
greater recognition of their rights.
The bill creating a new land dis
trict in Alaska, with headquarters at
Nome, has passed both houses, and
T. Cader Powell, a Portland embez
zler and political corruptionist, who,
if he had been given . his deserts,
would have served a term in prison
instead of in a federal office-will be
the receiver of the new district for
which he will receive a salary of
$1,500 jn addition to his salary as
marshaitThe president knows Pow
ell's record and seems to approve of
it by increasing., his.- emoluments,
which fact 'must be an excuse for
some people's doubts of the presi
dent's sincerity in Insisting on put
ting only honest men in office.
Mae Wood, whose alias old Senator
Piatt thinks is Nemesis, is going to
show him up if she can as not only
her husband "by ,rights," but as a
tinner of "the deepest dye." Doubt
less, the aged reprobate could show
that Mrs. Mae never sprouted any
angel' wings, but that woutd be im
material, incompetent, -impertinent
and irrelevant - ' ' '
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Mr. Harriman continue to be gar
rulous on matters that the public
knows 'all about; on the points that
might be of interest to the interstate
commerce commission, Mr. ; Hsrri
man is the great national clam.
The Russian generals are proving
conclusively - that, the only officer
who did not run away from. the Jap
anese battlefields are there yet
Now Chief Engineer Stevenr fol
lows Shonts, aa Shonts Sid Wallace,
into retirement, perhaps also having
been offered a larger salary, and
-: : :)-' .) ::.
Major Gothalls, or Coetala, or Goit-
ell or Gotitall, or some such name,
has been appointed. He is an army
man, aiTa while he- may be competent
would consider it unprofessional to
do anything fn a hurry. But if Jie
doesn't last longer than the others,
he won't have time to make a tart
The Benevolent and Social Order
of", Poxy Engineers Who; Have
Sloughed the Panama Canal Job ia
the latest of the secret societies. A
man must have, held the position at
least IS days before he is eligible to
membership. .,, , , ... ..
r ' j.-mi...,. . T.i
ao anno m air ouiicuiues. a mn-
land tnan is to pay hia wife 90 -pefjlheatre. not on the street or at home.
cent of ms earnings, and she is to
uppon lao lamny, inciuaing mm
self. But whst can be want with that
ltt-petvientl
It probably will be the opinion of
the courts, as well as of the gover
nor, that the speaker of the house
cannot pass a bill by declaring that
30 ia a majority of 60.
The most careful scrutiny of the
list of leaders in the Roosevelt Third
Term league, faila to discover the
name of Vice-President Fairbanks.
The late Senator Piatt- voted to
permit Mr Smoot, to retain his seat
in congress. , ; y ''
Its the Fault
.fth
' People
From tha New York World, t-.;
At last an explanation haa been found
for tha difficulties under which tha
railroads have been laboring. Mr. K. K.
Harri man, who aata up to be. something
of a railroad man. aaya: .
"It la tha fault of the people who u
tha rallroada. Tha factlitlea of the rati-
raada hays Ineraaaad In
In tha laat alx years than haa tha vol
ume of buslnesa. .Tha percentage of tn-
oraa In eara and power haa ' been
greater than the .Increase of buslneaa.
Tha bualness publlo has not kept pace
with tha railroads. Inatead of Increas
ing the facilities ' whereby they could
handle their buslneaa batter they have
fallen back on tha railroads as conven
ient plaoes wherela to store their goods
and materials. "
It la tha people a fault They ahlp
their freight according to the needa of
trade Instead of according to tha con
venience .of ' tha railroads. Why, tha
farmers out west have waited until af
ter it waa harvested to ahlp their grain.
Instead of rushing It to the markat be
fore It waa planted. Shippera have ac
tually tied up trafflo all over tha coun
try by atorlnr eonalgnmenta af good a
In tha railroads' superfluous cars. In
stead Of hauling them thouaanda of
,mils in their own 'delivery wagon.
Of com the people are to blame. If
only paasengera had -tha foresight,
where thera la going to be a collision,
io select eom other train, they would
help keep down the railroads' casualties
and damage aulte and Incidentally aav
their own live and Umba. Th passen
ger. Ilk th ahlppeV. ar groaaly In
efficient In their management of th
great railroad ayatam.
In Justice to himself and other rail
road authorities, Mr. Harrlman ahould
lnalst upon an Immediate investigation
by th Interstate commerce commission
of th people 'who us th rallroada.
When t out of t engineers on th
La it Rhor on an official teat run past
th uanger algnals it must b apparent
to everybody that th publlo doea not
max regular Inspections and enfore
th rulea. Whan tha people pll up
freight faster than th rallroada move
it it must b plain to th dullest mind
that th bualness publlo haa fallen be
hind th railroad In Increasing Ita fa
cilities. It la Jilgh time for th rall
roada to Start - a political agitation
against an Incompetent people. ,
Letters Froih the
Peop
- Immortality and Humanity, v
Salem, Feb. fl.To th Editor of Th
Journal "Student" in your issu of
February 1 says: ..""Tour Salem corre
spondent. J. R., .thinks th question
ought to be Battled by a cloud of wit
nesses." How doe "Student" know
that "J. B." think aa h "Student")
asserts T . I merely intended to sug
gest that a great company of unlm
peachable wltneaae ought to hava aome
weight wltb aa Intelligent and honest
Investigator Into th truth or falsity of
the proposition that death does not and
alt and that th so-called dead can and
do communlcat intelligently with th
ao-called living. .
I am Impressed that "Broaenv not-
only toylnar- with thla momentoua que
tlon. HI flippant - almost eneerlng
fe ranee to hypothetical crowds of Im
mortals "flitting baeit ana rortn Be
tween th two states bf existence ilk a
weaver's shuttle from side to Bid," In
dicate tha ttifler rather than th seri
ous inquirer in real search for a vast
and vital truth.
No witness nor cloud of witnesses.
however veracious, can settle one for
alt tor othera, thla question of th
sges, "If a man die ahall ha liv agalnT"
But any man and all man of ordinary
sense and earnest purpoa ran prove the
problem and aettle the matter for him
self or themselv beyond a doubt and
for all time, if "Studnt" Is, on of th
class just named, and wlll Send m hi
address, 1 can and will suggest to him
a lln of thought and procedure that
will furnish to him all th proof h pro
fesses to crav. If this entirely un
selfish proposition meat with bis dis
pleasure then I'v nothing mora to say
to him. : . . J. R.
Tha Helpful Side.
.' Newberg, Or.. Fb. J. To th Editor
of Th Journal I wish to tell you how
much I enjoy reading "On th Trail of
th Airierlean Mlaalonary." Will you al
low rrfe to auggeat that you have many
reader who Ilk to read of aomeon
helping Someone 1. quit aa well a
they . Ilk to look on th other side of
th plotur. so strongly In evidence In
th average paper t So many of the
headline and front pages ar all
Shadows, showing ua men anil woman
with depraved,. abnormal appetites, ally
you b helped to rontlnu to glv us
something mora Uplifting.
i A J1KAUXH, ,
wlth7tanding hi. denial of th. aame.-lBfn -1VBh .RlmB ,ra-
Should the StaBc
Realistic? '
Bf CoQUalln Alna. - '
, Tha queatloa whathor raaJlam belongs
en tha ataaa has oftan bean diacusaeO.
To ma thera la nothing (rand or beau
tiful which doea not bear tha stamp of
natura, but actlnar is an art. and tha
Idea of art la to reproduce natura tn a
noblar and mora beautiful form.
If natura la repreaented on tha stage
In Ita raw and original form tha affect
will nearly aJwaya be poor, a fact which
la eaally explained' and understood. - .
One max do everything- poaalble ta
produce scenery Which la atriklngly
eloaa to nature, spend fortunes on cur
rent properties and eoautnraa, ana on
will after all only have a stage on
iwnicn a aot -
-r Tb. t. .i.. ,h. t. In
If on ahould produce on th stag
thing aa they happen on th street
or in on' home without th slightest
change, th result would b th same
a If you took a llfe-slse flgur and
placed It on thefop oiTS hliS column
th impression of life sis would P
gone. . . ,.
Th stag la even a stage, and on
must remejnber this fact.- . ..
Lot aa taka on Inatanc th vole.
Were I to us my vole on th stag
Just as I do In my room I would neither
be heard nor understood. 1 -
It 1 one.tblng-taxonvra-4avv-room
only a few feet long and wide and quit
another to do th aam thing In an lm
raena thee tre where thouaanda of peo
ple ar listening to you. every-one of
whom haa tha right to demand that you
speak loug enough for him to hear.
To produce th aam effect with nSy
vote aa I do Inside th four walls of
my room I must us much - more
strength and pronoune th worda much
more distinctly. If I want to b under
stood I must us Intonation that ar
not neceasary at home, but which ar
absolutely necessary la order that th
audience may understand. - .
On this point there moat b an under
standing or agreement between audleno
and actor.
When th millu th stage a small
world In ltsalf la set and Illuminated;
when th great apparatus of wings,
scenery and actor Is ready, th world
which appeara to the audience must be
wrapped In th veil of Illusion,
I ahall not take up th detail of thla
understanding between audleno and
stage, because thla a a technical que-
tlon which aeinanasT5t , specially
studied. .
I shall only touch on point Aa- th
theatre, muat do Its part to produc th
necessary- Illusion on th audience It
must also taka Into consideration tha
eharacfts; and natur of thla audlenc.
Th dejhande of a Paris audlenc and an
audlenc of aavagea, of course, differ
widely.. An audlenc of children is eas
ily satisfied, aa wer also th audiences
at the time of Shakespeare.
Today everything la very much dif
ferent.. It la a rul which art Itself
lays ' down that th character on th
stag must be painted, o to apeak, with
stronger, more contraaty color than In
real life, but th demands aa to how to
produc th natural effect change with
th tint. . f f
Our ancestors, who war mora nrlml
tlv. demanded that their actor roll
their eye 'and atraln their voloes, whll
wev mora refined and exacting,-consider
these means coarae and trot of place. W
hat exaggeration and hollow tirades.
- - e e
Tht aetor muat produc an Illusion by
being true to nature, at th aam time
keeping In mind that th whole 1 only
an illusion: he must keep within certain
boundaries, - must ' possess great taste
and delicacy of feeling. -- --
"Buf my atern critics will Bay, la
It then, after alt th purpose and ob
ject of the stag to amuse th audlenceT
If ao, w might aa well ataga what In
America Is known aa a leg show." " -
To thla I object - Not that I object to
beautiful worn eh on th stag, when
thy further th objects of art and not
rmerely produce) sensuous and - voluptu-
ous effect. On th other side, I do
not forget tha good old rule. "Castlgat
rldendo mores," which I will defend at
all times and places. '
For thla la really so. Th stag chae
Uaea and flogs th evils of Its times,
but under a smiling maak. If wa leave
out of th above quotation th word
"rldendo" th stag become a penance,
a punishment A box In a theatre la not
a judicial bench!.
Stars moralists say that men. and
women, too, for that matter, often look
at tha church aa a theatre, where they
go to be entertained, but I have nvr
heard anybody say that people go to tha
theatre for religious edification. -
My readera will understand that I us
th word "rldendo" In Ita broadest form,
not merely th pleasure of tha-aenaea,
laughing or amlltng, but th general
feeling of enjoyment, and well being,
produoed by a mixture of Illusion and
reality. This mixture continually
changes, according to th character of
tb play, and tha enjoyment of which
I speak 1 th peculiar enjoyment which
only real art can produce. ... '
Most eountrl which nava'dled have'
plr -perished Ilk that And by the
Irony of. fata tha power of th Caesars
cam to an and far away from Rom.
After it had 'existed for' centurlea the
Roman empire became so vast and un
wieldy that It bad to b divided Into
two th Empire of th West and tha
Empire of th East' Th capital of the
former . waa Roma, aaya Pearson'a
Weekly, ' ' ' , '
Tha, Em plr of th West became ao
weak at last that It could make no
tand against Ita enemies. Roma wsa
acked by th barbarians, and event
ually became, not th capital of a vast
empire, but th city of th Popes, over
which th pontiff reigned a king.
Th temporal "power of tha popes lasted
till 1170, whll the capital of Italy waa
first Turin and then Milan. Finally,
tha city wa tsken without a real fight
by th soldiers of tha King of Italy.
Tha Empire of the Eaat had Its capi
tal at Constantinople. For centurlea It
waeMhe greatest power In th world.
But It became honeycombed with vie
and enervated with pride and luxury.
Also it grew old, and weak. Than, In
142Z. th Turk mad a tigerish spring
on Constantinople, and took it by storm.
Tha last of th Greek emperor died
word In hand, and hia descendants sra
living In England .today, in -very hum
ble altuatlona. ',
Egypt, once ao powerful and famous
under tha Pharaohs, waa conquered by
Rom, and waa afterwards awamped by
th Moslems. Th rrescent wa 'su
preme In th land of th Nil, and thS
aforetime haughty Egyptians were
Slavea for a thousand years.
' Th Great Moghul used to relga Jn
India. Ia, the daya of Qua Elisabeth
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. Small Change
Fin weather Uwwura up th trash.
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And th troubl la, aome of 'em hold
Wi" v.,
Th houa of lords la also standing
Pat yt -
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Th legislature la still being dls)
cusd. , .,. -.
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- If that Thaw jury should not S rea
ch, horrors!
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More mi for Ireland; It ta to have
a legiaiatur. . . , ... . .
I Th weather seems to hint that tha
baseball aeaaoa la behind time.
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Probably on troubl ' war1 that tha
fool mother was jaaloua of Evaryn.
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- No really good cltisen Wtll fall to
clean up hi own premises at least, ;
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' Of course. Shaw gravitated to New
Tor BaJhaJigBajBa-avlruat company. ,
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Th ' Texaa - legislature exonerated
Bailey, but didn't extinguish th smell
of petroleum.
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If hogs realised how valuable they
are, they could be excused for trying to
put on Styl.
- It look Ilka aome towns will never
be wld open again unless they hav a
big earthquake,.
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' A reporter say Evelyn haa a mobile
face. So w see from th 471 pictur
lately published.
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Hermann la a back number, sure
nough; few ear anything about hia
trial la Washington.
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It la rumored In atmospheric elrclea
that th bird ar contemplating aeon
oarj for th governor. ;
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It ia reported that Abe Ruef may
actually be brought to trial next month,
butthg report lg. not cradtted.
If a man read tha Bible, it la not a
aura sign that h la religious; ha may
b hunting quotations for a speech..
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A woman, being asked if aha knew
much about husbandry, said aha ought
to; aha had been married flv time.
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- A sUnd-pat paper aaya thr are few
men who would give t3t.S0S.000 to t
cause of education. Wall, now, that's so.
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A good many Chicago people think Its
present mayor' aervloea. notwithstand
ing hia renomlnatlon, ar nearly Dunn.
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Aft anV rata ttanHmaa la ..t 1. A
anything ha haa done only a little
regretful that lie eaat do more of the
am sort of business.
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If a elvll engineer wants to get an
Immena salary, all ha haa ta do Is to
get an appointment first aa chief en
gineer of th Panama can I.
e .
Now th Smoot eaa Is aver, wasn't
tt really rldlculoua to try to ouat him
from tha nat and not make a mo
tion to get rid of Piatt and DepewT :
Mrs. La aaya man haa been of
very llttl aooount- sine -th-tlm- of
Adam. She thinks h hasn't-amounted
ta Adam. But what good was he be
fore? ..'..... .
' Some Qneer People. .
If a peraon , wer confined 'to on
text book, th beat on to ho
would be a dictionary, sine It give an
Inkling of every art aclenc or profes
sion known to mankind. A atudy of
tha dictionary la alwaya interesting and
Instructive, and a almpi turning of
ita pages Will acquaint ua with many
thlnga of which wa hava never previous
ly heard. Notlo what fund of in
formation la contained In th following
definition: - . .
Amphlaclan ar th poopl who In
habit th tropica, who sbadowa tn an
part of the year ar cast t th north
and. In tha other ta tha aouth, accord
ing aa th bub- ia north or aouth of
their senlth.
The Antlsciane are the lnhabltante of
tha earth living on different sldea of
th equator, whoa ahadowa at noon
are eaat In contrary directions. Thoa
living north of th equator are an
tlsclana to thoa living aouth of that
line, and vie versa. Th shadows on
on aid ar eaat toward tha north and
upon th other toward tha aouth. - -.
Tha Aaclana ar tha people who live
In a land where, at a certain time of
each year, they hav no ahadowa at
noon. . AU th lnhabltante of tha tor
rid sons at Aaclana. thay ; having a
vertical sua- twice a year. ''
Tb Perleclana ar th Inhabitants of
tha polar circle, whose shadows, during
som portion of th summer, muat In
th course of th day move ' entirely
around and fall toward,,. every point of
tha compaea.
th Moghul or emperor of Dalht as ha
waa aoraetlmea called was e power
ful that ha thought It a Vast conde
scension on his part to recelv an em
bassy from the maiden queen. ' But aa
time went on the great rsjaha, or trib
utary kings, rebelled against tha Mog
huls. . India was rent asunder by th
wara between rival rajaha. This gave
th European a chance. . ,
, Franc at first held th upper hand,
and nearly conquered the land. But
then England drova Fraqce back, and
seised the Empire -of th Great Mog
hul for herself. Tha heir of tb Mog
hul. by th way, still -enjoys a pen
sion given by th British government
as a compensation for tha throne lost
by his ancestors. .-
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Poland used to "occupy a big plac on
tha map of Europe. At en time it
waa much " larger and stronger than
Russia. The tsar -of iRnewia and tha
emperor of Austria Were onjy tooglat
m oe on gooa term wirn tn King or
Poland, and , thr wa no king of
Prussia In thos day. .
robl adventurers from all parts of
th world flocked to th Polish capital
at Warsaw, esger to serve in tha Pol
ish armies." Th Duke of Monmouth,
son of our King Cileries II, thought of
doing this. y. , ...
But Poland perished through her own
faulta and follies." Tha mas of th
common peopla war slaves In all but
nam. Ther wer not allowed to move
from one part of the country to an
other without leave;' they could not
own a foot of land, and they could
never be sure that they might not b
sold by th great noble tnay served to
a new master., Hence the nobles and
tba people never stood together In
times of danger or disaster. , , ' j
Oregon Sidelights '
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The Echo band will purchase. taflt
worth of Instrument, ; - ' - i'
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Som work horse are selling for ttOI
In Linn and Marlon counties. ' (
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"Th Orana Valley Journal haa com
lout aa a dally, xt Inches in alia.
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Th Kastf ra Oregon Poultry Assoc!-,
tlon baa been organlifiPln Bakar coua-
Xr: I . .f
Myrtl ' Point aoolallsU will enter
tain tha . publlowith song at their
meeting. . ' .;
Thi Albinjr Btrald know a good
thing; tt eoplea th "Slddjlghtr dally,
without credit -. " '
- Th new tlt.600 fruit cannery at Fire
water will glv employment during tu 1
aeaaon to 171 people. '. .
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People on Coo Bay are planning ta
buy ardredger and run It independently
of the governmentrmachliie.
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A tne eounty man aay and haa -
proved it' by hia own experience that
there la money in raising Royal Anna
cherrlea thar. - ".
Whan th Toncalla Courier suspended
it had only nine subscribers, yet had ,
beea publishing land - notice ... aa a "' - ,
"newnpapar of general circulation."
A poor dear that eame'down from tha '
hill tn aearch of food last weak waa J .
killed by a man on Mill creek near Th .'
Da Ilea, and ha was fined tf Served ..
him. right. ; , . - . j. v
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Mra. Martin tUler of Daytoa la th J
only actively engaged woman hop grow
er in Oregon. Mr. Miliar and bar hus-
band each have a hop yard, but ah doea . ,
her own work... ., ;
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A miner in th Quartsburg district -aaya
ha make $7 or IS a day by just .
kicking hia fact around over th hill -and.
cleaning up his boots when be
C9.iii home at nl ghfc , Z
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Th Irrtgon Irrigator aaya that dl- , v '
tors who rail at Portland ahould turn'."
shoemakers; they could gat their brla- ; .
tie by simply reaching around t th '
back of their ack. . --7-rrrr--
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' Th .stork haa been hovering ovr
Kent aud tMully all wlntar, y-th-
Recorder. W hav ben awakened from'
our slumber at all hour by our phone
ringing for th doctor. . ' A . sure sign
of a prosperous year. ' , ',
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Referring to th deep Snd excellent
harbor at the mouth of tha ITmpqua
river, th Coos Bay News aaya: Thla in
Itself will lnsur th Vmpqua th ter
minus of a transcontinental lln, and a .
big city will b baUt at Wlncheater
bay. . i- . : v. v -' :
'.Activity 1 to be seen 'on vry 'aid ,
In Huntington. Surveyors are at work
everywhere and preparations ar being
made for the laying of alx mora mllea
of track la tha Huntington yard a - No
vacant honaes ar to be found In th
whole town and from IS to 14 families
ar residing in ears. ,
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A Springfield man has sued; anither
to recover a dog. or ISO, Ita alleged
value, and 125 .damage, claiming, to
hav bought th beast In California, but
tha defendant baa served notice to take
th deposition of II or IT wltneaae In
Michigan and other at Medford and
Roseburg, so that It will b a costly If
not a valuable dog. . . t -
;' Pebruary 28 ia History.
1144 Abel P. Upanur. secretary of ,' ,
state, and other prominent publlo men,
killed by th bunting of a gun on th '
ateamar Princeton.
msr-Emigraat ship Flortdlan wrecked Xa.
aff English coast: 100 Uvea lost.
1854 Bourke - Cochran, orator and i
atatesman, born.
11(1 Territorial government.' estab- .
lished In Colorado. ,.
188S Alphons d tjimbartln, French '
poet and statesman, died. Born 17.
1171 Bland silver bIQ passed over
vet of President Hay. " T"
100 Relief of LAdysmlth. 1 '
1108 Beginning of tha battle of Muk
den, Manchuria. . ' '
No Pangs in Starving.
Novelist writs a let of nonaena
about tha panga of hunger and tb ax-
tram Buffering that accompanies starv
ation. , It la all poppycock. Any healthy .
person, with a normal appatlt. af tar
missing two or thra meal, la aa- nun- "
gry a ti ever get, aaya tha Outing
Magailna. After awhile ther Is a
aene of weakness that grows on one,
and thla Inoreaaea with tha daya. Then
oomea a. deslra for a great deal of sleepr
a sort of laaaltud that 1a not unpleas
ant, and thla dealr become mar pro
nounced aa th weakness grow. The.
nd ia alwaya ta sleep.- There la no
keeping awake until th hour of death.
Poland waa a big country but It
waa divided against Itself! ana Ruaaln'
Pruasia, and Austria combined were
mare powerful. Thy all thre loin-
hands, and each took a large ahara o'
Poland In 1771. . That waa tha "First
Partition of Poland." Tha Poles sun-
mttted tamely," for they wrs still di
vided. . :'.;i . . '...
In 17t th trio 'of-robbers made a!
aecond awoop. ' Onl--th ghost of Po
land waa left .Another rear h tha '
nd of the-, tragedy... Th last rent-,
nanta of Poland wer awal lowed up by 1
Russia,. Prussia and Austria.
Th fat of th repubHo of Venice la
on of th most dramatic In all history. -For
hundred of years the City of th
Lagoons waa on of th most power I
statea In th world. - Ita dngea ranked
aa the eqnalS of th proudest kings.
It alliance waaf coveted by the great
est, powers. Its 'government was one
of . sheer terrorism, . Th - dog waa .
hardly mor than a, splendid 'figure
head. ..All real power rested 1 tn th
hAnds'of th dreaded Council of Tea
and th Secret Thre. Th latter war ,
a trio of living mysteries, and - war
known by nam to practically no one
in- Venice. - .
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Sometimes a man was ens of the .
Secret Three, snd hi own wlf and
children never dreamad It Their
most dreaded servants wer masked
mute If a Venetian, n matter haw
high hi rank, was denounced by th
Council of Ten or th Secret Thre he
knew h ws pB better than a dead man. ;
Ho the government Qf Venice was a ter
ror to its awn people-end 4(e outside
world. Then Napoleon earn upon th ','
aoen, aad "th Uos of St. AUrk licked ,
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