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. AS TO COUNTY DIVISIONS,
IN .THE fesr tht . the Jegisjature
would dismember tbem, several
Oregon' counties have ' recently
been the scenes of unusual 'agi
tation and , excitement Arguments
in county papers; for and" against
. county division, community , gather
ings at which .indignant speeches
were made, and a general alignment
- into hostile camps, - baa "been" inci
dental to the pendency of numerous
bills in , the , legislature, ' proposing
creation of new counties out, of por-
tions of old 'ones. ''''; '-' '. V"'
Biennially ; such word ' battles are
on, and they are of more or less
detriment ' to the regions in , which
they occur.- The strife and 1 passion
stirred up in a large degree disturbs
the confidence and' concord that
ought to prevail in county communi
- ties. It is more ,. frequent of occur
rence than it would be, were -it not
for the out-worn and antiquated
method in vogue in Oregon by which
division of counties is accomplished.
As it is now, any coterie of politicians
in a county can carry a bill into the
legislature, and that body has the
power r to -split- the. county -asunder.
-.It is not' infrequently done,' some
times when a vast body of the citizen
Ship of the interested county is p
, posed.- The knowledge that it - can
be done is itself a temptation for
it to be undertaken, and tins 'con
sequence is - thatk every legislative
session has a multiplication of county
, division bills bills that are often a
means of defeat of good legislatidribr
of promoting bad measures. ,
It is all error, fdr the legislature
is not the place where the equities
. of county division can be or ought to
bes settled. ;. A straight ,vote; of the
people of the interested counties with
e majority to determine, with submis
; sion to ' be .provided at Jong in
( tervals, is) the only way j division
should be made.: Such a plan would
secure peace-where ; there Ms -often
- war, and. relieve the legislature of a
; function that ; ought not to belong
'-' to it . -'--.. ''" ''.:..- ('
: . HUMPHREY'S SPEECH.
REPRESENTATIVE HUMPH
REY of Seattle, Washington,
distinguished himself, after a
.A'..:--;, fashion, last Wednesday by an
'" ardent, intemperate, strained " and
'"silly" plet1d dvdcacyof theshFp
- subsidy grab. Humphrey 3s one of
- the lightweights of the house,' and
. what he says is not of much conse
quence but in this instance it might
be assumed by some that he repre-
sented in some- measure the- eenti
V ments of the people ot the Pacific
, , northwest or at least ' of the state
of Washington; but he doesn't He
scarcely represents the sentiments "or
interests of the town of Seattle,
whose' people have long wondered,
-whenever' they had occasion' to think
of Humphrey at all, how it was that
they permitted him to break 1 into
congress., - V .''; t' ..,
Humphrey's speech 'consists mostly
la unsupported - and incorrect asser
, tions; there is not much in it worthy
the name of arguiaent but cK at
tempts as be doesjmake at argu
ment prove entirefyT too much, and
turn. out on even a casual analysis
to be arguments against rather than
" in support of a ship subsidy. , ; He
dilated upon the fact i that foreign
ships could carry our produce much
more - cheaply than American ships,
manned by American crews, and ap
parently he is .too dense to' see that
if so it i an advantage to the Atneri
" can producer, to have their 'surplus
. products s6 carried. But he would
- tax them to subsidize American ships,
under the pretense that this is to
benefit American seamen. 1 But how
many Americans want to become sea
men, even if the wages were raised?
And how many millions A : year
would it take to subsidize ships to
crry onr commerce, and pay Ameri
cans trior w ?rs . than they could
t'l M lar l'
.V 'r rsndidty arknowledpres ;
. . 1.1 u t ut Ute tLin edge ell
the wedge, the nose of the elephant,
a, mere , beginning of what is to fol
low. He would like to see the en
actinent of a very liberal subsidy
bill, he said; he would expend many
millions annually in subsidies to
American steamship lines,' and would
give not only postal subventions,"
but cargo subsidies, too, paying there
for tens of millions a year, i all of
which" would come out of the pockets
of the. producers, anaj be of no benefit
to anybody but a few ship owners,
who with ' such ' Subsidies would at
once form a tmt,-H'f ;'';-
Humphrey declared that the for
eign trade of the United States in
1906 approximated $3,000,000,000,-the
largest ever done by any nation in
the history of the world. The bal
ance' was in our favor by $500,000,000,
It would seem. then that we are do
ing pretty well. Americans have all
they can do for their ships in the coast
wise trade, and if the producers and
shippers can get ;foreignera to do
their ocean carrying for less than we
can afford to do it, that is so much
clear " gain. But . foreign labor is
Humphrey's bete noire. He would
not tolerate it at any price, even on
the high seas. According to his logic
we should subsidise the sugar trust
so that : it '. could employ American
labor in thelsugar plantations of the
Indies, , because - we . consume the
sugar. ". :
Humphrey must have ' been .' the
object of some criticisms that even
his inferior intelligence could partly
comprehend, for he went on to say;
'But the greatest aubaldy paid In this
country, greater than all the reat put
together, la the subsidy that la paid
to the newspapers, the magasinea. the
eond-clase poatai matter. Sixty mil
lion dollars a year la the eubsldy paid
to these publications. Of all the news
paper that so viciously oppose this bill.
not one tiaa denounced hla own steal;
not one has refused to take his part of
the plunder. These eelf-rlghteoue pub
Ucatlana .Augbt.-at-least -not to object
to the starving shipping Interests get
ting a few crumbs that fall from their
overloaded tables. I want every per
son to know that, when he reads a de
nunciation of thla bill, he reads It tn a
subsidised paper. I want every person
to know that. If thla bill la a graft the
newspapers and magasinea are - the
greatest grafters this world ever saw.";
Really, Jthis would be. quite import-ant--newsr
if it were-truefbut of
course there is not a particle of truth
in it nor an atom of truth" that could
serve as a foundation for such an ab
surd statement V Apparently Humph
rey, has no idea of what he means
himself, ' for he gives no particulars
and enters into no expTanleniC"It
is a pity, from one point of view, that
there are not more members of con-gress-as
illogical, untruthful,' intem
perate and silly as . Humphrey ' to
make speeches in behalf of this ne
farious bill; they might beat it '
CONSERVATIVE WARNINGS.
FEW day ago three prominent
and conservative Americans,
addressing audiences in "widely
.;'. separated parte-of the country,
publicly uttered practically the same
sentiments regarding the dangerous
power of a comparatively few men.
One, Grover Cleveland, an ultra-con
servative and ponderous in expres
sion, is -a patriot according to his
lights; the second, Governor Hughes,
has beena'corporation attorney and
is the embodied -antithesis of sensa
tionalisra; the third,- Hannis Taylor,
has been a noted diplomat and law
exponent, from temperament and
h'abit reserved and cautious in ex
pression; and yet these three excep
tionally sober men all see a red light
on the horizon, and raise i temper
ately modulated warning-voice. ;
What they see and remark upon
is the power of a few men, by means
of enormous' concentrated wealth, to
work a destruction in this country
many times more dreadful and de
plorable tharj "all the combined terror
ists of the world could accomplish.
By merely asserting and maintaining
the inherent -right of any man to do
as he chooses with what is legally
his own, a dozen American capital
ista could destroy, thr'prosperity and
to a greatextent the worthy achieve
ment of millions- of their , country
men. "t And the alarming feature of
the situation ts that whenerer an at
tempt ia made to restrict or control
their operations-' they threaten, , in
effect, to do this; they predict loss of
credit lck of confidence, cessation
of prosperity, hard times, and panic
V Centuries ago the revolt against
political ; absolutism began, ' and has
been carried on not without a large
measure of success, but if the present
generation passively submits - to an
absolitisni of ; concentrated capital,
much that has been gained through
centuries of toil and sacrifice and
bloodshed will be lost vThe process
of recovery will be sure, bat it will
be, to speak mildly, unpleasant." 'And
this is the vision of luridness that
even. such phlegmatic temperaments
ss' are . possessed by Cleveland,
Hughes and Taylor behold. ?.
The seriousness of the situation is
increased by the growing' number of
impractical, demagogic or rash peo
ple wh would rush to reformatory
extremes, urging measures that could,
not be permanently sustained and that
would defer reasonable reform and
weaken its agencies. But someh6w
the power of a few men in therftnan
cial, industrial, commercial and po
litical world must be restrained and
restricted. They have done great
things but therefrom arises a danger
glow. , ... . . . . ..--i-.' V-.' . ; ' -.''
THE CUBAN SITUATION.
f
S THE United States in Cuba, too,
to atayf; If the Cubans , won't
agree on a peaceable, permanent
government among themselves,
notwithstanding Secretary Taft's and
Governor Magoon'a good .offices and
advice, what are . going to do
about it? Every week's additional
developments seem to point toward
the necessity of a long, if not a per
manent, control of the island by . our
government, which, .however, has
most ..emphatically disclaimed any
purpose of annexation. - , t
The liberal or recent antl-Palma
party in Cuba is divided into factions
ready, to tear one another to pieces,
and with one or morex)f the jmore
violent of these factions a portion" of
the conservatives. have united to the
extent of expressing virulent hostil
ity against the Magoon government.
and demanding its withdrawal,, and
such ' withdrawal , would be imme
diately' followed by civil war; to pre
vent or atop which our government
Interfered. v So - it ; seems as if not
much had been accomplished. -' The
war was stopped, but to prevent its
breaking out again we will have to J
stay there indefinitely, and then
either annex the island or let the
Cubans fight their- squabbles put to
a finish after all; so, perhaps, the best
thing would have, been to keep but
and let them do it this last year, '.
There is nor probability that-"with
an nnconstrained "election," the" Cubans
would or . coulcfestablish stable,
permanent, republican, form of gov
ernment The outs would in any
case immediately raise a revolution.
And unless the intervention ,is to be
carried, on permanently, which is im
practicable,, there are only two
couraeeutb. purancxleaxjc3nth:ely
and let the Cubans kill one another
off and ."gang their ain gait or else
annex the island, make a territory of
it, and require the people to behave
themselves and keep the peace. -
.The Wisconsin legislature having
under consideration a bill, to reduce
railroad fares from three to two cents,
tne state railroad .commission, atter
thorough investigation, itself re
duced the rates to two and a half
cents, and to $20 for a thousand-mile
ticket Th e commission said three
cents was too. high, but two cents
was too low, and both legislature and
railroads : accepted ' the commission's
decision, and that settled the matter,
which" is one illustration showing
that under a sufficient law a railroad
commission can do something. ; '
Mr. Hermann did not desire,,' or
did not think it best to become , a
candidate openly for senator, unless
he could discover that there was a
positive and active public sentiment
in his favor, which waa, indeed, quite
a creditable and sensible position for
him to take. That he should have
expected such a sentiment to mani
fest itself,- even --with- his - friend
Brownell giving it a sort of absent
treatment, is curious, in the light of
subsequent, events, only to those who
are not acquainted with the ex -commissioner.
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Our great if not very good friend
Raisuli has sent word to the Sultan
of Morocco that he, Raisuli, was go
ing to rebuild his destroyed house
with the bones of the sultan and his
friends. ,The sultan la inclined to
think ifiat the. bellicose: bandit is mis
taken, . and might advise him that
before building a mansion with any
specified materials they must first, be
obtained, and .that bones, after all,
are not , very good building material.
There's many-aroan - serving-! his
state in a humble capacity and a re
tired nook against whom, the charge
of obtaining money by false pre
tenses was not proved as clearly as
it seems to be in the case of a certain
gentleman who is trying not to give
testimony before the interstate com
merce commission. ' ' V
Mayor tDunne was elected two
years ago on an "immediate owner
ship" .of .street 'railroads' , platform,
and ' has been renominated though
ownership, does pot .appear 'Vs .im
mediate as it did then. There has
been a council which he can blame,
but the ownership sentiment seems
to have 'cooled considerably.
py ( close vote some two-score
Republicans voting with the Demo
crats against it the houseyesterdsy
passed the ship subsidy 6ilK with
amendments cutting our the subsidy
to Pacific coast lines to the Orient
Even after this severe slap in the
face, he Pacific coast members
were whipped mto. line ancf voted for
the grab. The bill will go back to
the senate for concurrence, and the
Pacific coast provision may be. re
stored, but if so it will be of no ben
efit to anybody in this part of the
country. .There was a big revolt of
Republican members from the mid
dle west against the audacious grab
in behalf of a few multimillionaire
ship-owners, and if thia odious bill
should go through, as now seems
probable-it would - render, half ;i
dozen hitherto overwhelmingly Re
publican states doubtful next year. '
, From" the testimony in a disagree
able case on trial in " New .York ' it
would seem that we must revise our
definition of "expert"; An expert "Is
one who explains without elucidating,
and declaims without saying any
thing. One difference between-1 this
sort of evidence and any other is the
amount of money it costs. ;- ' A
A Chicago" woman who went to her
former lover's office and killed him,
immediately' became violently, ; in
sane.; "She bad been reading the evi
dence in the. Thlw case, and was de
termined to make it easy for he
alienists in her own case.
The state of Washington has gone
even farther than Oregon, it is re
ported,- in giving. the railroad com
mission ample powera.' It It well for
the two states to have like laws, and
for their commissions to cooperate
as far as possible. ';".; ':.':".., :-' AV;
On some points Mr. Harriman, like
all our." great men, is troubled, or
rather accommodated, y a, loss, of
memory. . But he has a far , better
memory- than -aome -of them; and
seemii toTbe tfyrnaTTonmate nearly
as good a witness as Mr. HilL ! '
Questions that he does not desire
to 'answer r Mr: j. Harriman "promptly
decliries to answer, and apparently in
a tone that means, "and what in Jim
hill are you going to do' about it?", '
The Panama canaT3obimayIaat
long enough to give all the civil en
gineers in the country a chance to
be the chief engineer of it for a few
I weeks. - ,t.-.'T " .J ''.'.-'
After listening toTT speech,' by Dr.
Brougher last evening, a large audi
ence declared that - men talk- more
than women. ., : "
American Railroad
Manipulator r
From the. New York- World.. ... ....
Sometimes It la rear-end collision.
Sometlmee It la an open switch. Some
times It le a misread order. . Sometimes
It Is a careless train despatcher. Some
times It Is a broken rail or a broken
axle, or a broken flange; "Sometimes It
la a reckless engineer. : But It la always
something. Nothing Interferes with the
American railroad's beneficent work vf
reducing Its patrons to pulp. - . -
The wreck of the New York Central
suburban express at Bronx Park bridge.
In which It persons were killed and 160
Injured, Is the aama old story of Incom
petent railroading. ' Its only new fea
ture waa the element of the third rait
which added to the terror of the injured
and hampered the work ot the rescuers.
'. "' "' ...v ' .
-Whether the disaster was due to the
spreadlng of -the-ralls or an excessive
rate of speed, the Indictment against the
management la the same. There le no
excuse for spreading rails. There la no
excuse for excessive speed. ' There Is no
excuse for flimsy coaches that cannot
bold te the track. It is time' that the
responsibility for railroad wrecks waa
placed where It belongs and that le at
Jteadquarters, -" - - " '
in tne matter ox ngging am noca
market the American railroad manager
has no superior. In the matter of pro
viding safe and expeditious facilities for
transportation he has ne Inferior In any
nation of the first rank. He can manip
ulate political conventions. He can de
bauch legislatures. .He can send hla
paid attorneys to eongreea and some
times put them on, the bencb, , .
, ... . i t, ; . , e e e , , ,. ;;. y
In these mattere he Is a master, Just
aa he le a master In the art of issuing
and Juggling securities. It la only In
the operation of railroads that he la
deficient. The mere detail of transport
ing lives and property aafely and satis
factorily he seems to regard . as . un
worthy of hla genius. His equipment
is -usually inadequate. His roadbed is
generally second class or worse. His
employee are undisciplined and his ays
tern ia archaic. , . ;
Whatever the eauaee may be, the faet
remains that Judged by the results uf
operation, the American railroad man
ager la Incompetent and the records of
death and disaster prove It ;
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Mimic Maxima.". V:.',
'. '- :"' From the Bohemian. , ",.
' Rust kills reef
Persistency is a Jewel. '
A difficulty is a friend.
. Sharp men seldom cut ice long. . ,
A-tingy man giveth himself away,
A long courtship makes a short suitor.
A wayward boy Is father to the way
side man. '- - -
He is se motorist wno wears gooa
walking shoes. - -
- Blow freights should not attempt ex
press schedules. - " 1 ... ,. ,
Poverty ot thought la worse than
poverty of pocket, .-" : ( '
:', Where Indians Rule.
From the -Washington Times, r ,
. The great republlo of Mexico le not a
Spanish but an Indian country. The
best blood and brains and civilisation
the government, the wealth, the Intelli
gence ere chiefly Indian, not Spanish.
The proportion of Ppanlsh Mood In the
whole country la almost Insignificant,
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SUp Lively and D
V. Not Whine
j'..'.- By Beatrice ' Fairfax.
Girls, do you realUa how the days
are slipping behind you, each day with
Its precious possibilities that can never
come over asralnT " ! . '
What are you doing with these daysT
Are vou maklnc the most of themt
It seems te me that ne day Is half
long enough to crowd all that one would
Uke te do Into It
- Don't put off your pportunftlea with
the idee, that they wUl'eome again, for
they never do come Quite In the same
way. Belse every ehanoe for . better
ment that comas your way.
day that you do not learn some
thing la a day wasted. ' - .
Mow, while you are young, is tne
time to pack your mind full of Infor
mation that will last all your daya.
The beat ot Ufa does not lie In par
ties, places- of amusement. They are
very good thlnae In their way. for al
version Is good for everybody. But
don't flU your minds with things of
that kind te the exolusioa ot everything
else.. -..; i -.. ' -'. .
Unless you keen your minds alert the
days pass In a sort of dream, and. sua
denly you will arouse to the faot- that
time la flying and you have nothing to
ahow for . . " ; - .
Keep your eyea open. Things of ln
tereat are" going on all about you.
Tou may feel that your Ufa la thrown
away on an uncongenial ' eocupation.
that you were made for better things.
But to reach ' those better things you
must climb, and the way to begin la by
doiag your duty and putting your beat
efforte into the work at band.
If you are a typewriter or stenog
rapher, try to be the beat una or
typewriter and atenographar possible.
. If von are a saleswoman, try to fill
the position io the best of your ability
oy quicaneee ana courtesy. , '
If you ere In domestic service, make
yourself indispensable te the mistress
of the house.
Blurring email opportunities will
never help you to big ones. Every
smallest opportunity la sv step toward
success. - i -...
Don't whine and bemoan your lot In
life,.... "Step lively,' as the eonduotors
say, and make something of yourself.
And above all, be cheerful. Nobody
la keen to help along the doleful per
son, but every one lovee te glee a hand
to the cheerful, smiling one. . Keep a
brave heart," ne'veroing a kind-
nesa wherever you can and get all you
oan out ox lire. ..
Sometimes what seems at first to be
disaster turns out to be a blessing.
Look out for the blessings, reach out
and upward,- and do" your share toward
bettering and beautifying life for your
seir ana every one else. -,
W igwam rV isfjoxn
'; By- Charles Stowe.
The beat that one drunkard oan
do
for another ,1s. to . help him fall down
and stay there. ''. :-
If la a Very email brave that eaa't
boast, of, aa many- soalpe- as ylrtoea.
. Is,: .1 V. .'. ; SJ.j..e. . ,::.'. 11 . f , ;
. By ' carefully - comparing yourself
with others you may nnd that, you are
not near so tall aa yon think.
Fooling with a eub may lead you into
Much-Trouble a trail, ;
How fortunate it would be if man
could hang to a good resolution as
long as an opossum can by Its tail
'
The more you feed -a bad habit the
sooner it -will eat ?ou.
' eTe , e'
Toe are entitled to think pretty well
of yourself If you half deserve It- -
,'' '' ''"'" 'If' -i'.'O ' .C" V.V- S.
Age that does not bring wisdom Is
DUE biiwi vi waaiOTi win. .
Much enduring strength Is gained by
carrying the burdens of the weak. ..
.:"' .,'-v-e .-.,e ' e. . -i. -..'.,.".'. l
Ton can't make lesa than two per
sona happy at the earns time, and you
are bound to be one of them
y.-Ti'r --.-'
If you givSj. more than you can af.
ford to you are guilty of a double in
justice. - ' ' . ..i-',- J-
. . . - j - - ' e; e- e: .- s, ;.-v-.
We 'forget the terrore of -death In
the beauty of hla coining;' as painted
by the frost of his breath on the leaves
of the forest- -' - , -v.
It te often safer te take a man Into
your wigwam for m moon than Into your
confidence for a sua. : v
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, Secrets are as abort lived as an early
frost..,;. - j--' TT trT '
i yotf wait for a second introduc
tion to opportunity you will find your
self utterly forgotten. .
'".: :' .-:J.'jL.'-.i,fiL
Toe etrsight a trail may be too easy
to follow. The one the . bee makes
shows the thief the way to Its wig
wam., ' ..''I -' "' '' v ,'',-,'. '':..'
see
The smallest atolsn " thing . may be
found toe beavy te carry. . -
Small Mind has the fewest troubles.
' , The U. i. N. " ."
- By Wex ' Jones.
The first vessel to sail for Kingston
was the United States torpedo boat de
stroyer Whipple. Oble Dispatch. ,
When a thrashing liner cracks her shaft
Or loses her bladed screw, - .
And the folk ashore scan the chipping
'. hews,-' " - ' -
Till she's posted "overdue," . ; i
Why. a ship of the V. S. N. slips out
And tows her back to you. . ',
,t- - -- . '
When the Jagged, Swashing derelict V .
Sneaks into the danger sonee
And riee In wait for the precious freight
Of lives that the steamship owns.
Why, a ahlp of the IT, 8. N. slips out
And blows her te Pavy Jones.
When the , rebels grab a sweltering pert
And get on a trople toot,' .
And the consul wires his wild desires .
To keen 'em from Tankee loot. "
A rut boat' 11 bob right up on the Job,
- And the rebels Jiist see 'em scootl
When a town turns dust as the solid
earth ;
' Shakes castles to the ground, . ,
And the tidal wave makea a gulfing
grave ; , .;-
The plummet may never sound.
In a flash the men Of the U. S. N. , '
With help to the port are bound. '
After being turned out a Linn county
horse began cavorting and plunging in
such a manner ee te buret the walla ef
the abdomen and became disemboweled.
r Small Change
Of course, H isn't Improper to think
ox an tester hat in Lent.
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The only eafe time te guah ever an
eeriy spring le the next summer,
-'-- e
- Mrs. Hetty Oreea le etHl eane and
safe, and hasn't given away a penny.
The man. who boast e that he le boss
at home le probably either a brute or a
liar.. , .
; e e
- Will the next eonareaa do IS per cent
better work beoause of that Inorease of
salary T
e
The man who In Ms work thinks most
of his pay check le he who gets the
smallest one. - . . v
N.j- , ; e - v . . - .
If there le to be a whirlwind, the rail
road magnates and managere have eowa
moat of the seed.
' Jerome's examination of the defend
ant's ailenlet witnesses. seems "cross
la a double sense. -. "
-, . . s ....e "e - .
: Speaking of exaggerated ego. thare'a
i. n,m umwim, ana ne was -mm w
aidered exactly Insane.
t . j'-i - ' . a
The Increased eoet of living doesift
seem to prevent the mating of birds.
aa usual, at. this season.
Of eourse, the women and preachers
whO debate male va. female gossiping
do not speak from experience.
A Florida paper wants protection for
the poor, down-trodden alllgatore. Next
we will hear of an alligator trust
la the a-overnor atlll of the opinion
that a Republican legislature and
Democ ratio governor .work well . to-
gethert - ,, , ..-i,
r : . s ,e. ; -r , ... " ,
In spite of all that ean be said to
the contrary, we are still of the opinion
that the legislature might have done
worse. 7 -,,.. f
It. baa been made unlawful to drink
wnisxey out PX a bottle m Texas, and
there la. In consequence, a sudden de
mand for email Jugs. . . -. ' '-,
Mr. Cleveland ' having - solved .-the
problem of, what to de with our ex-
presidents, it la time to consider what
wjL-ta!.u-!r,,c
Having made only 10 per cent a year
for a long time, J. J. Hill te overflowing
with lugubrious) forebodings: be fears
being cut down to 4S per cent. ; '
Speaker Davey seems Imbued ' with
the Idee, that partisan politics la ' the
mam thing in legislative,, duties,, but
thla nation la going out. ,. . ...
Of course aa expert that has to swear
that a person recovered bis sanity after
a murderous spell of Insanity la entitled
to mucu higher pay than one who mere.
ly testinee as to insanity at a given
lime. . . .... - '
-Confrninrr Canala.-
By Jamea J. Montague. ' ' '
did - not live In Venice when they
eeooped the aoueous trails
Where, eath the arched cerulean, the
sum gondola sails: . . ..
don't .know where- the contracts
went; or whether graft waa big.
Because I sojourned elsewhere . when
the Doge was on the dig: -
But when we proud Americana ley out
a job like that . -
We do not loiter lastly, ..but get right
on tne mat. ;v . ... , .
We bastes forth emr . president and
have him photographed;. -
We ' hear - remarks from - Root - -' and
Shonta and more remarks from
Taft: ''' - :i. : . . ..
We talk and talk and talk and write
and write and write,
We get contractors on the Job, and
then wa viUil them tlrht:
And If this way we de not.. build lour
blooming old canal. . ,
It doesn't matter, anyway perhaps
some day we anally. ..-'.v
I do not know Just ow they dug these
great oanale on Mara, - .-
I have not traveled widely yet among
, Xhe aeignDormg stars.
I Haven't any Inkling what the Martian
President '
Requested for their digging, er the sum
hie conrresa spent:
But I suppose that JOb up there. like
- this one hare below. ' -
Was done, aa eora wilt maybe, 'In a
minion .yeara er so. . -
By wrangling and disputing ' and ; by
passing on the blame. ' .
By ' calling people liars and by belsg
cauiea tne seme,
By . strict Investigations which' do not
inveetlgate, . - -.-
The , while the Martian populace aat
tight and paid the freight
We know they have, canals on Mars
our t is scopes can spot 'em -
And from our own experience we know
. Just -how they got 'em. .. -'
. . John W. Foster's Birthday.
'. John Watson Foster was born In Pike
county. Indiana, March t, 1811. . He te
graduate of Indiana state university
and of the Harvard law school. He wes
admitted to the bar in 1M7, and en
July, lilt he enlisted In the army and
served until the close of the war when
he took ud newspaper work In Evans-
vllle. In 1ST! President Grant appointed
him' minister to Mextoo; In 1(80 Presi
dent Haye sent him to Russia tn the
same capacity, and in ISM he wae eent
te Madrid by President Arthur. He has
served the United Statee - on several
peaceful missions abroad. In lll Pres
ident Harrison selected him to negotiate
threatlea In reciprocity with Spain, Ger
many end other countries. He succeeded
Jamee O. Blaine as secretary of state
In the Harrison cabinet In list. Gen
eral Foster Is a great favorite with the
Chinese government end his services ae
a diplomatist In one Instance were re
warded by a fee of 1100.000 from China.
He le the author of a number of author.
Itatlve works on international law.
; Good Jobs in the Navy.'- .
The big vessels, being added to the
United StatesTiavy must be manned and
their crews must be trained. While It
le generally known that the -navy of
fers exoellent opportunities for good life
places, it Is not so generally understood
that It Is not sbsolutsly necessary to be
eppolnted to the Naval academy in or
der to reach commissioned rank, say
the New Tork World.
The present training service Is a con
solidation ef the old landsman and ap
prentice training cysteine, and bns been
la force since last fall, with exoellent
Vesults. Now all men without previous
sea) service or without any"speclal trade
or calling, are enlisted ss spprentlre
eeamen, at tit a, month, as compared
with the old rate of It at entrance, '
Orecfon Sidelights
The Dalles never bed en epidemic. : "7 "
' - . ' ". ,',-'
Crop pr'ospeote In Morrow county ere .
fOOd, '.-.'..
' e e... ... : . -. . i
Many horse deals ere being made ia '
Benton county.
.-; i- - .. e a- vs. .. . ,
Newport will be well prepared for vle
Itors next summer. :. ..,..-.',( ... ; s , "-. -
-'-. -''.' r ';v;i.
A, large colony of Dunkards will lo
cate near Central Point ' - l, i'
- - , ' , .. O--'
A 10,000-feet-a-day mUl will be built ; '
at Auetlq, In Orant county. - f ; -t
J.1' ' '''.' ' '.- '' ' .' ?."',. '
"""Sevan new buildings-are going Up In
Blngen, In Hood liver valley.
':?' e e ..." .. .. '
Jackson eounty fruit growers are do
ing . thorough work In . spraying.
: "- . '. - - --e . . .. i r . -
Prospects are good for a fruit and -vegetable
cannery In Grants Pass.
' 1 ''-' '.. ' '' .''''''. ?r
- A San Tanotsco man offered EugeneVaW
$1,000 for u lire team, that cost I&00.
v "' J . ' -. e . e . .' :. i. . ' :
Albany la the horse eenter ef 'the
Willamette valley, claims the Herald.
. e
The Condon Times agreee to pay It
eenU per equare kilometer for aprlng
poems. ,
s
'".a':J'.' i :-' e1: e'-t ' ' Y'' 'Vc'''4
Union will probably have one of the.
largeet sawmills In eastern Oregon be
fore long..:'. . v,
i The Bsndon Recorder reports the
projected $260,00 paper plant there 'V
eurer thing." ,. ,-,.,...,.--.
- ,H
Llna eounty, aeya the Albany. Herald,
has a town of woman haters, but It
names no names. . ,. , -.
Whatever the climate elsewhere. It
le almost Invariably agreeable ta the
Rogue river, valley. - -!
i '., v c.'.v', vr .:'':
A deer swimming the Columbia, below
Hood River wae laasoed and eantured
by a steamboat captalm - -. t -
' .'.''.-'. e,. e . ..'- '. ":.,,:"!".
The Toncalla Courier has been re
vived by C. J. Howard,' who aeya he
"edits It the best he ean." .
;. ; ''".ri-' a e i-:,t.r::v;v;-':
The Lexington Wheatfleld alludes th
B. F. Swaaawrt Iff nne mule and Tiorse 1,1 -- I
sang ot atorrow county." . . ..
Petltlona against the reserve . I
northern Grant eounty are being signed
bjrjearjy eyerybodyup therei
No prettier country on God'e earth ;
than that adjacent to Toncalla. Do you
mind that nowT aaya the Courier. ,- ;
The lose ef stock wfll be lighter thla
winter tban at any time In the history .
ot the country," sajm ths Ontario Demo..-.
erat ' .
e e - " ? -
A Josephine - county bey eaueht a'
baby bear In a trap set for foxes, and 1 i
nis sister, i years old. earned It home
In- her surma.- - -
A stylish Jap has been In Oold HUl". -
making. eketchea, but whether with
view to war or a summer home for th - '
ttlkado la not known. - .
A MsJord man borrowed a stepladder
and later loaned It and when the owner
came after It he could not remember
w . . .. ..
a. Smyths Son of Arlina-ton have
rented ever (0 sections of land, or aaV
000 acres, In Gilliam eounty, for a term
of yeara, from the Northern Paclflo.,
" When "The Ghost Sings,
When you hear the name of this area'ri.l 1
diva er that famoua comlo sonorously
ejected from the trumpet-mouth of your -gramophone,
you naturally conclude that
you are listening to their actual voice.
Sometimes you are. But then, again,'
frequently you are not
The reason for this Is not that the.
makers ot the machines, any more than
the producers of tae records, wish to
defraud the public. It la owing eolely
to the faet that certain artistes' voices.. .
although excellent In themselves, de .
not lend themselves- readily to pbone-
graphlo reproduction. .. .. ..
In auch cases the services of a sub-
statute, known technically aa a "ghost
have to be requisitioned. , There are.
certain, men And. women whose vooal ewT
gane are capable of a wide range of ex
preeslon, combined with powers of mim
icry of a high order.: ,
These qualities , are cultivated until -
they are brought to a perfectly mar
velous pitch of perfeetloa, aad at the
same time the p recti dog "ghost" strive
assiduously to attune hla or her voice
to the particular timbre which expert .
ence haa proved makee the best records, '.
Once this feet le accomplished, a ateady
tnoome.la assured, for new records are
constantly required, and the people who
can make them to order are few and far
between.'-. T ''1" '; ..'-.'..;. . ,
Needleee to say, the greatest palna
are taken to mimic faithfully, not only
the exaot notee ef the artistes, but else
all their little mannerisms, trtcke of In.
fleotlon and pronunciation, and eo forth:
end eo perfectly la this accomplished '
that In many Inatancee even the artlstee
themselves are unable to tell, when lis
tening to the reproduction of the fin
tsbed record, that It ta another v.
than their own which ie Issuing from
the mouth pi eoe ot the Instrument. -
L
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March 2 in History.-
17t Gibraltar and Minorca ceded to
the "English. ' .. , ,
1707 Horace walpote. the "beet let
ter writer in : the English lsngusge,"
died. . .; :-:. .
1105 The first Trappist monks ar
rived in Lexington, Kentucky.
mi Missouri admitted te the Union
aa the twenty-fourth state. '- .
1 Its Death ef Francis I of Austria '
and secession ef Ferdinand.
1140 W. H. M. Olbera, discoverer of
Pallaa and Vesta, died at Bremen. -
1IS1 Revenue cutter Dodge surren
dered to the confederates at Galveston.
1S84 v. B. Grant mads lieutenant.
generate. :. ,
18S Articles f impeachment of
President Johnson adopted by the" house
of representatives.
1191 Rebellion broke out In Vehesu.
ela. ... ,. r -t , , ,
The Detroit Free Press is ,'abls tei
sxoefriDer wno nas xepi an
according to Its own assertion read
the paper uninterruptedly since 1141, ey ' f
for 2 whole years. The faithful one . ;
la Peter White, one ef the big men ef
the upper peninsula ef Mlchlsan, end a ,
regent of . the state university, - The -r
Free Press .expresses, without undue
display of conorlt. the opinion tlist ad
other paper in the country can beat this
record. It remains now tn he seen ''
whether some other paper will trot out '
a subscriber of atlll longer standing, , '
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