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THAW DID NOT DESERVE AC
; . QUITTAL.
W HIL " PUBLIC:." ientiment
Af quite generally; aympathized
Yf '' with Thaw and 'desired hi
; fcquittal. we cannot 'agree
that this would hare been a proper
outcome of the trial just ended with-
ntit ru1r. Thaw Lillrrt man not
in self-defense, not in anywise Justi-
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naoiy or excusaoty unaer ue law.
Even the "unwritten; law" wa$ far:
fetched in his case, for he ' arenged
acts done years before to ohOneh
a stranger to him, and which he had
himself to some extent imitated.
jeromes saurizauon or mm in inc
role of Sir Galahad ' was deserved.
Thaw had been -a tnan of full age
for IS years, and had never done any
thing to recommend himself. He was
one of the idle, dissolute rich, and,
while his marriage may have been
J.LI. 1. 1 - t. .
cgmmcniuiHC, u cui vj no iuuuih1
ical devices of rhetoric be made to
look the chivilrous knight ' - ;
Under the law he was guilty of a
firhmirirl. nA r1arvt tnma ntintcrii
stances, and giving him the benefit
of the doubt as to whether he had
not become a little cracked by thrak
ing about White, a verdict of murder
in the first degree could scarcely have
been expected, ' and justice would
have been measurably satisfied with
a comparatively 7 light punishment
The jury had ; no , fight, under the
court's , instructions, to consider
White' character or conduct, though
doubtless some ; ;urymen could not
help doing .so; and-the young wife's
conduct was', to1- be' considered in
weighing the9credibility of her testi
mony. , Under tiich instructions, and
in view of the fact that the killing was
apparently deliberate and to avenge
an old offense, which at the time was
not an offense against Thaw, it is
, not easy xo see nowTi consciennous
' jury could acquit' : ' .
.It would be an injury to the pub
lie if Thaw should eventually go scot
free, or if any man in . his position
should. There can .be no doubt that
under" the law he deserves punish
it is regrettable that the jury could
not agree on mis veraici,- leaving it
.. tA f fia llliW ! vrf!c hia ttar.tinn
be having the wide latitude of from
An;4A tar.nlw iHinrliAMMMt
-f With such a verdict Thaw; if reason
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law were strictly carried out he woul'
have suffered a severer punishment.
' But With that the ntlhlir that fiaa an
interest in seeing the law UDheld
' would have been measurably satisfied,
1 . To acquit Thaw would be' notice to
: other dissolute young men that on
almost any provocation or excus
thav rn'liM aafrlv laiVa Vi 1a :n
y J ' 'mTW ,11
own handTiild'. wreak private revenge-by
deliberate murder with im
punity. And, furthermore,' it would
tend to increase the growing belief
that money would clear anybody, that
there was one law for the rich and
another for the poor,' and that mur
drr was ait allowable amusement tA
a millionaire. ; .' "'- . " . ..
Therefore a mistrial is a better out
come than a verdict of acquittal and
the discharge of Thaw in triumph.
w!.r would then have been a living
travesty of justice. He may. be ac
,, - tied yet; but for-4he preseht'the
: , thoush not vindicated and tri
umphant, haa not 1een thrown down
and trampled upon; it la baffled, but
not beaten. . . - , -
We are sorry for the girl-wife, erring
little sister though she was; we are
sorry for the, old mother, foolish
mother though she wasr but,' remem
bering the importance of punishing
murderers, we are glad that Thaw is
not yet free. . '. . ,' ,
' A GOOD RESULT.
TT IS often remarked by politicians
not .always, however," openly
i aad for publication that the pn
mary nomination law, such as has
been adopted ' in, Oregon, not only
tends to- disrupt and extinguish polit
ical parties, but - that it has this ef
fect chiefly on the dominant or ma
jority party. This is no doubt true;
but, if so, it must be true because the
people as a mass are dissatisfied with
parriesaBdpeciaHy-with-the-party
in power, whose bosses are more act
ive and potent than those of the
other parties. ; ' ? . C - '
This new law gives the individual
average voter a greater sense and idea
both of hjs own importance and his
power:' as such. Hf now feels that
be has a .voice, a say in the selec
tion of the public , servants, as he
never had before, or not for many
years. ,. The men elected, tooti feel 'a
direct ; responsibility to1 the i people
rather than to bosses, slate-makers,
fund-contributors or i' machine;
hence they hold their- party obliga
tions more lightly, knowing that the
people care less about 'party than
about good ' service, u f ; j
If a majority party will be careful
to please and serve the people, in
stead of only promising to do so be
fore election, and neglecting to do so
afterward, there, is no good reason
why. it should not remain in powei
under the new " system, .for at the
outset a majority of tbe people, ap
prove of this party rather than of any
other.' But the people are becoming
less easily fooled and- more independ
ent of party ties, and so a party that
being in power, does not "make good"
stands. to loseV while necessarily. the
party or parties oat of 'power must
gain. - :? -T 't.
i This is a good process, nd is one
oi-heveryi)est result of- the new
VJVVKto A Ul M OllU V1C4 1UIU , 9 IUC
law of progress. . No party has ever
been good enough to be trusted very
long in power at stretch. - If any
party becomes so" it Will be because
this reformed method has greatly im
proved it..- ,x: ', ..'' :
OUR WONDERFUL PRESV
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OUR STRENUOUS president is
ad exceedingly' entertaining
performer.'. He keeps the coun-
try in a constant state of agi
tation about something. If he adds
to their cares be also adds to the
gaiety ,of .many. He. is the most cur
ious presidential , figure in our his
tory, and will be' a puzzle to the fu
ture hittorical analysts. .He keeps on
the Jump, and, keeps a wholrrlot of
other people on ., tbe i jump-l-about
this, that or the other thing, big or
little, important c trivial." He thun
ders one day against a gigantic trust;
next day one would think he was go
ing to order the army and navy out
to" iuppresirjohfiSmithTTof "Oregon
for cutting a switch illegally; tbe third
he is promulgating in terrible tones
one of the ten" commandments, as if
it had not been heard of before for
a thousand years. !; ; . i ,
Now there is .an' immense amount
ofalkjbouteRooseveltJp
S.mmered down, the supposed Roose
velt policies seem to be to punish law
breakers,' to follow up here and there
little miscreants' mercilessly until they
tell what they know, and also to pitch
into a biff lawbreaker , occasionally
and dramatically awing the big Stick
over him. V; ;',! Z .' T. ''''
But why stvould such a tremendous
fuss and furore be made about an ex
ecutive doing his duty, at if it were
something . unexpected, wonderful,
heroic, unprecedented?.' We don't re
member that Andrew Jackson rushed
to the photographer every other day
and had his private secretary dictat
ing to reporters when he fought the
national bank, and crushed secession.
and did a few other things. '
A few days .ago, with a great fan
faronade of, administration . bugles' it
was declaimed as it were from the
White House roof that a great con
spiracy had ben formed by Hard
man, Rockefeller, Hearst and others
to defeat the Ropsevelt "policies" by
nominating next -year some man not
his choice for president So far as can
be gathered from the report this
gigantic conspiracy rests on' an al
leged remark of Senator Penrose,
when he was in a condition of post-1
prandial mellowness, and which he
denies making. And what is there so
wonderful, and terrible and alarming
if Harriman ' and '. Rockefeller nd
some others should choose to support
for' president . tome i man ' not the
Choice of, Roosevelt ? That ia their
privilege. Tbe president himself has
r '!-..' ..- V -r
been associated politically with the
same men, except Hearst We do not
like their political activity, and . the
people ought to render it nugatory,
but they are under no obligation to
support Roosevelt's'policies" unless
they choose. They have been put
ting up large amounts of campaign
funds for the president's party for
many years, and with a few'excep-
tkons, in the last campaign, these con
tributions , were thankfully received
and "put where they would do the
most good," and we never heard any
outcry,, from -the beneficiaries of a
great conspiracy to wreck the count
try; but now if they are going to try
to elect a president who would suit
them better, than Roosevelt Vcholce,
their action assumes, in the eyes of
the. president, the aspect of a mon
strous conspiracy, Vand - they are
doubly dyed and. deeply damned
traitors. ' - i":-.
Suppose the president should con
clude, as we believe he know he
ought to do, to denounce the high
protective tariff, the mother of. trusts
and the tap-root of the national upas
tree, and demand its revision and the
enactment of a , tariff for . revenue
onlyv Immediately there would be
a "conspiracy against him and ms
"policies" and his candidate, of all
the protected interests, of the coun
try; but would not that be a natural,
expected, inevitable thing, and noth
ing to make such an excited outcry
about, as if it were something unex
pected and unprecedented? If. the
president really wants to engage in a
battle royal for the right and for
the people's interests, here is his, op
portunity. . v ,. i. ' '
'We are not decrying the president's
good intentions or acts. He has ren
dered the country some tremendous
ly valuable services. He has "stirred
up the animals." - He has prodded
here and there a trust and big rascal,
and immensely "stimulated the peo
ple's interest in looking after' their
affairs. ' If he would run again he
would probably carry the country in
spite of all opposition. But some of
his spectacularities are calculated to
make timid patriots tremble . with
alarm, and careless ones to laugh with
veritable amusement He is . two,
three or half a dozen Roosevelts, no
irwooTwhom are in harmony. ;HeIs
a big diamond with flawsthat you
can stick your boot in. But whatever
he is, he keeps the country awake.
Today it is a gigantic conspiracy.
Tomorrow the nation may be startled
by the presidential announcement that
it is wicked to steal, and the next day
that Mrs. Jones ianot fit to hold up her
head because she has had only two
babies. . . '
THE HOMESTEAD LAW.
SINCE THE recent death of the
late ex-Congressman' Galusha
A. Grow, who came within one
vote of being nominated for
vice-president in 1864, be has been
quite generally . credited with being
chiefly instrumental in securing th:
passage of the homestead , law in
1862, when Crow was speaker of the
house ;but while he aided the passage
of that beneficent measure, others led
the fight for it for 10 years. Several
men have claimed the principal honor,
or it has been-claimed for them, but
thi!jhuld probably Jbeaccorded-lo
George W,. Julian more than any
other one member of congress.
The first official political demand
for.A law of this kind it believed to
have emanated from the "Free-Soil
Democrats" in their platform adopted
at Buffalo in 1843. Jn 1850 a bill giv
ing each-head .of-a family46Q acre of
land was reported favorably by An
drew Johnson of Tennessee, who aft
erward beat Grow for the nomination
for vice-president by one vote and be
came president on the assassination
of Lincoln. On January 28, 1851,
Juliana member from Indiana, moved
to reconsider the vote by which- the
bill had been referred to the commit
tee of the whole, and the next day
made a speech in favor of it This
was nearly a year before Grow first
entered congress. ' In 1852 the Free-
Soil party declared for a homestead
law, and Julian was its candidate for
vice-president. On the organization
of the Republican party in 1856 this
became one of its declared policies.
tnd the bill was finally passed just
at the outbreak of .the war.
But because the law gave too great
a chance to speculators and land
grabbers, Julian, in , 1868, as chair
man of the committee on public lands,
repotted an amended law giving land
by homestead and preemption to act
ual settlers only, and his policy was
adopted. There were many promi
nent workers for the law, but Julian
was probably the most influential fig.
ore in it enactment -
Crow was an able man in his prime,
buf not broad-minded enough for a
great statesman, and his election in
his old age, tfter years of retirement,
only served to accentuate the fact that
he had not kept pace with the spirit
of the times and was out of place. .
. The interesting if not edifying con
fessions of the Horv Binger Hermann
furnish an illuminating commentary
on at least one phase of local politics.
For Binger, too, believes in orgamza
tion and reward 11 the faithful; when
read in the light of 'his remarkable
efficiency in securing fat jobs for his
relatives, even to the third genera
tion. Brother . Thoma', golden rule
evidently ia to be expounded a mean
ing to the hungry brethren about
this: "I want office. . Get it for me
a M a A m. f a. A
ana i n ao unto you A'n rc&pcci;
even as I would be done by.
One Colorado man has a herd of
500 buffaloes, said to be about one
half the total number in the United
States, and he is negotiating to sell
them to the Canadian government at
$300 a head, or a total sum of $150,-
000. If they are worth that much to
Canada, why are they not worth as
much or more to Uncle .Sam? Or
hasnt-heJairjr-place-for- them- any
more?. ' ' " ' ' ' ;- V
- .While we would not go so far as
to say that a' fishermen's strike
throughout the reason would be a
good thing, it would have a heavily
compensating feature in the greatly
increased number offish that would
get up to the spawning grounds, and
in their progeny which would come
back to be caught in due time.- '
Sunshine will kill the meningitis
microbes, says the ; health . officer.
Yes, and it will kill lots of other bad
microbes, too, and we will havf lots
of it before long. . Get out in the sun
shine and shed your microbes. -
As Otters View
v- Mayor Lane :'.
Mayor Lane'a Defiance. t.
; From the East Oragonian. ;"
Mayor Harry Lane of Portland do-
flea the Democratic machine orfajiiaa.
tion of Multnomah county and will not
submit to the rarulatlon halter which
the machine hopad to put about hia naek
whan he promised to be a candidate for
reelection.
There la but one war In which Lane
will stand for reelection and that la
upon - th undarstandlna that he enjoy
absolute freaxiom In his administration.
There ar to b no pinioned anna, no
mussiea moutn. no (hackled feetbut
abaotuta froedorcr -on part of tho mayor
to airect ni administration for th bast
Interest of th people.
tixry Lavn ba bean a mayor with
out a master and Portland ha benefited
by tha Lane administration. - If he can
continue hi f re and untrammeled policy
ha will aerre aa-aln. If not h will not
b a candidate. '
It Is really refreahlna- to sea and
hear men of hi typo openly defying th
machine, both Deraooratlo and Repub-
'"'".
- Making Show of Themselves.
' From th ISuren Onard (Dem.l
' Th people of Oregon will watch th
mayoralty camDala-n In Portland with
considerable Interest. , Dr. Harry Lane
I on of th beat known men In th
stat and universally popular, not alon
hecauee of - his unquestioned honesty.
but on account of ' hia fitness. Port
land never before having a mayor who
could do th Donors on all public occa
sion so happily a th genial doctor,
who abort addresaea , never fall to
captivate hi euidltors. As far aa th
old guard" - of Democrat ar eon.
earned, they ar simply making a holy
how of themselves by trying to ham
per and bind with party pledgea a maa
of . Harry Lane's disposition. Squar
and honest rilmself, he purpose te
s"lv Portland an administration that
comas up to th Baratch In every par
ticular, rerardles of th clamor of
th spoilsman, realising as he does that
honesty and efficiency ar th best
qualification for publlo official, and
th man or set pf men rrayd-tn-p
position to such a policy ar not likely
to eut much of a flgur In? direct pri
maries or popular elections., . -
.!.'... Foraker va. Taft . .. X . l
. from the Outlook.
Senator Foraker - and Secretary Taft
ar a dissimilar a two great publlo
men ean be. . Mr. Foraxeq I an orator;
Mr. Taft Is not. .Mr, Foraker ha been
associated always with great "oorporat
Interest; Mr. Taft ha ben rather th
representative . f th people In leiral
eorrtrovarsle. Mr. Foraker la rich Mr.
Taft Is poor. Mr. Foraker I a poll-
rtlclan and haa been playing th gam
practically all hi lira; Mr. Taft l a
strala-htforward as a child In politics.
Senator Foraker I a veteran of th
civil war and can appeal to tha old sol
dier vote; Secretary Taft was too young
to enter th army of th great rebellion.
Mr. Taft I Inclined to act, and doe act
without reference to hi political fu
ture: Senator Foraker rarely loses a
point In this connection. - Both ar men
of courage. Senator Foraker consist
ently opposed th railway rat legisla
tion bill and voted atatnat It thouah he
knew It to be an Immensely popular
raeaiure. Secretary Taft' decision a
a circuit Judge rendered government by
Injunction possible, and thus aroused
th hostility of labor. ; Mr. Taft' speech
In Ohio In HOP prevented th election of
a Republican governor of that state and
brought blm th open enmity of th Re
publican machine and senator' ijick,
Foraker colleague. Thus th two sen
ators and th Republican machine of
Ohio ar united In their determination
to prevent Taft' Indorsement. that
stats' presidential candidate.
Today In Hiatory.'
1670 -States Island bought for h
Duka of York.
175f Oeorg Frederick Hand!, Ger
man composer, died. Born February It,
168S. ;
- 1711 Jam Buchanan, fifteenth
president of , th United States, born.
Died June 1. list. - ..
HIS Raleigh, North Carolina, sur
rendered to the federal army. '
11(1 Magdala stormed by th Brit
ish under Sir Robert Napier.
1171 Samuel Bern ford, English rad
ical leader, died.
1110 Ex-Speaker Samuel J. Randall
died. Born October 10, 1121.
1893 American protectorate In Ha
waii ended. - .
ll7 Oreater New ' Tork charter
paased by New Tork state aenat.
194 Russian battleship - Petropav
lovsk sunk by mine near Port Arthur,'
Activity of tke Y.
M.CeA.
Ther . ar now' 7.SJ1 Young Men's
Christian associations throughout th
world with 7I1.0B members, according
to th report recently Issued by tha
world's committee, JjDf this l.SSS ar
in th United Bute and Canada, and
have 0S.7t mem bare. Germany ha
1.S8I associations with 114.167 members;
Great Britain and Ireland l.0 aaso
clatlone with 1IS.I74 tnembera; India
ha 110 aaaoclatlona,- Japan 6 and
China 60. Of th 140.000,000 worth of
property held by th associations, th
United SUtea and Canada ewn mor
than three fourth and employ mor
than five sixths of th MOO general
secretaries. ., .
Th British Soldiers" Christian asso
ciation, which Is auxiliary . to th Y.
M. C. A., now baa 400 branches with
1.000 memtxre, extending throughout
th rank of th British army In all
it dependencies. -
Th governor of Madagascar has for
bidden any. kind of Y. M. C A. to be
formed among th MalagaaL H 1 th
onIjruler who hM taken uch action.
In Switserland, where every young
man U expected to enter th army, th(
aaaoclatlon ha formed preparatory mil
itary service courses. ,
Th Chicago Young Men's Christian
association expanded 1405.000 last year
In all Ita nterprtses, a gain of iso.ooo
over th previous year. It haa under
taken to raise ieoo.OOO for an endow
ment to safeguard Us present work.
provide for extension Into quarter of
th city which could not b aelf-aup-
porting, and to extend it Influences
Into more factories and shops.
Young Men' . Christian associations
ar being rapidly extended throughout
Walsa. Bishop' and pastor of -In
churches greatly favor them as factor
In conserving th result of the lata
rellglou revival. - J' - -
To be told that t7i-1ckt fend Chris
tianity never go together" nearly dr
eouraged John Tunnlollff. th great
cricketer of .England, when h a a boy
had commenced to show proficiency In
th gam. Now Tunnlcllff divide hi
Mm between cricket and preaching as
a layman. H declared, when speaking
recently at th anniversary of tbe Soar-
borough, T. M. C A. in England, that
the moral Influence of player ' who
triad to llv Christian live had raised
th . standard of cricket and sport in
general. . . ,-..
A. H. Whitford. secretary T. M. C
A., has set th church peopl -of Buf
falo th)nklng by th facta about th
membership and attendance of man at
th churches. He found that out . of
tOO.OQO nominal Protestant In that elty
only S0.000 attended church. . Out of
75,000 young men. 48,000 profess' alle
giance to th Protestant faith. S8.000
ar Catholic and 1.000 Hebrews. But
lees than 10 par cent of th Protestants
attended thalr It churches, while 5
per cent of th Catholic wer at mass.
Out of 86.000 .houses visited. Use thaa
80 professed .Infidelity. Out of t.510
male member of Protestant churches
only 5 per cent ar engaged In Chrla
tlan rv1cj With these fact In hand.
Mr. Whitford was In a position to show
that th American elty I under a great
strain, in Milwaukee, Wlaconaln, It 1
found that condition, even wora pre
vail. Only 15,000 man out of 80,000
attend th ISO churches. . - .
"When three of th Boston T. MV C.
A.' beat athlete war "approached"
and offered "Inducements' to represent
athletic clubs they indignantly refused.
They bald at heart th ethic 'of clean
port .;. r
An Anecdote of Mr. Cleveland.
,''.'' From tha Baltimore News. .
Ther ar many stories told In con
nection with Mr. Cleveland hunting
trips. On of th best relate to an ex
perience he. had while bunting with a
party of friend In Maryland. It oo
eurred during bla last term In office.
He, togther with th Key. Dr. Henrr
Van Dyke and Erneat Olttlnga of this
place wr spending a few day with
-Old Man Blm," a Maryland friend, who
owned a 40-acr forest which waa aim-
ply overrun with squirrels. .
In a log cabin on the "border of th
squirrel wood lived an old nearo cele
brated for hi aptness at "nigger wit."
-rimse- jonnson. th old - maa was
called, and h waa such v stauneb Re
publican that he had no us whatever
for a Democrat even though that Dem
ocrat happened to be th president of
tbe United State. . , , .
Shortly after Mr. Cleveland' arrival
all the negroes for mil around turned
out to embrace th ' unheard-of oppor
tunityof seelnr a -president at close
range. --Hlns." however,- remained
sturdily Indifferent -
"I ddn't want to e 1m," b aatd.
But cie day he did see th president
quite unexpectedly. Mr. Cleveland waa
driving back to town when ha . earn
upon a white-haired negro boating hi
mule and yelling; ) . . -
"Oe' up here. Orover Cleveland! Oo
en, you lasy old Democrat!" -:
Mr-.-Clereland etopped much -amaed.
and after watching th negro for awhile
aid: , :
"My man, why do you call your mule
Orover Cleveland r' : , , .,,
"Oh I 'cause be' o stubborn, an' he
ain't no good no how, was th answer.
Th president wa convulsed, and
threw "Hln" a dollar. Thla unex
pected generosity so surprised th negro
that ha carefully bit th dollar to If
It wer counterfelt-befor he pulled off
hi battered hat and wald "Thank." r ,
. Game and Disease. , , ; 'h
r- - From the London Kiwi. .
W remember th aaylng attributed to
Huxley that th alngle ladle of old Eng
land ar to be thanked for th superiority
of our beef,, because they keep cat to
destroy th mioe tret would otherwise
xUrmlnat th humble-bees that fertil
ise) th red clover on which our cattl
feed. Now someone I ' writing to th
Spectator to propose th ' slaughtering
of gam In th Zambesi rslley In order
to prevent th spread of sleeping sick
ness. . Th proposal binge on what w
consldef , to b th mistaken statement
by Mr. Austen, ef th British Museum,
that th tsetse - fly . cannot exist Jong
without mammalian blood. Th other
tep In th argument 1 no more sure
namely, that th tsetse fly I Indispen
sable to the spread Of sleeping sickness.
Ths evidence is not sufficient to con
demn tha gam of even a portion of th
Zambesi valley. Th animal that de
mand mammalian blood I. we fancy,
far greater than th tsets fly, and th
fact that unlike th dean he 1 capable
of writing to tha papar moat not be
allowed to prevail. , ' "
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Pat Praying For. . '
' A prominent politician while visiting
In Washington recently took hi little
eon with him to the aenat gallery. Th
boy aoeried especially Interested in Dr.
Edward Everett 'Hale, and hi father
explained to him that Dr. Hal wa th
Chaplain of the senate.
'Oh I he pray for th senate, doesn't
he 7" asked tha lad. ' -
"No," said th polltlolan, "he get up
and take a look at th senate, and then
h pray for th country,' .. . . - . J
Turning Down a
Fine Job
. - By Rev. Thoma B. Oreg-ory. .
If the newspaper are to be believed.
ther I on Benjamin Hunter ef Brook
lyn who la aadly deficient In th power
of appreciating a good tblnav
Hunter's wlf I on of a thousand.
especially when It comes to th matter
of naweet reaaonablaness" ana magnan
imity, and yet th stupid husband doe
not know It
Mrs. Hunter, wearied with her hus
band' lack of enterprise, graciously
made to him th proposition that b
would cheerfully provide for the cur
rent aXDense of ttre household - If be
would stay home and. mind th baby.
. Surely, a mor generous proposition
was never mad by wlf to nusDana.
It we Indeed a fine Job, that of mind'
In baby and whan Hunter ran away
after soma days, leaving the note whloh
read, "I have gone; tired or tending to
th baby," ha admitted that wa
radically lacking in th true vision and
wa lneapa.bl of aialng up llf'a finer
value. , .i -
In all the round ef creation there 1
nothing mor intensely interesting, mor
preroundly- ettraetlvai-than-a- eaoy-.
Thar I a' llttl baby that I fell In
lov with when It wa about three week
old; It la now nearly 81 month on
earth, and I have bean with It nearly
very day. -..
Th Job haa been purely voluntary oa
my part and J am suV-I hav never
regretted my s air-assumed task.
. During th somewhat mor than 80
monthe that my little friend and my
self have been together I have learned
mor (from the llttl friend) of Ood
and man, of good and vll, of th pathos
and th Joy of human, exlateno. than I
have previously learned from all th
libraries and lecturer and preachers
and moralists put together. -
Daybreak- the first gantl hint or th
morning; sunrise th flash of gold
upon all th hills and field and woods;
th oomlng of. the pring th dormant
earth waklng up again after It long
sleep, and voieing it new life in' bud
and eong and sunshine these thing. In
teresting aa they are, and full aa thay
are ox charms, are tame In comparison
with tha prospect of th unfolding of
th human . rosebud. - th errowth of a
baby's aouL . .'... '
Fortunate are thoee who hav th op
portunity te closely watch this unfold'
lng. and to study It In the llcht of re
ligion and philosophy, psychology, and
ethics and, I may add, politic and
diplomacy. . -- u.,
It la all there In the baby's soul all
that has- been written during all th
age, au that ha been naetd throuerh
eut th long generations, all hiatory,
theology- morality, politics. -v
Watch tha baby carefully and loving
ly ana, I must not forget to add. rever-
lenUy throughout Ms first two years.
and you have the sum and substance of
tn content of humanity.. J- .-
All that Euclid and Newton hava aalt
about mathematics. Kant of space and
time. L.ettulta of optimism, and Rrhon.
enhauer of pessimism; all that th poet
hav sung and th artist have nalnterf
npany. aauy set rortn before you In
the Bweet llttl living plctur th baby.
Hunter, you don't know what a fin
Job you turned downl You left 1 th
moat thrlllingly Interesting show that
"var put on in board s-r-tha growth
Ml at DaDf s SUUi. - n .... i i .-
j.. "' " a i i , i , ,
, f ; ,; The Kidnaper. .;
KaU went out shopping to th eaady
- stor. . , . - ..- ; .
Set her prettiest doljy down Just outside
tna uoor.
With a bag of lemon drops eut again
ah aklp. . ,
What a' look of wild despair frees en
hr Upat -Dolly's
gonel There's hot a traca: vao
v lshd Utterly. -Katie
slU bay down aad weeps, a baby
Jtaue - mother bears the news, folds
ner gin up ttsbt'
Father says, "That doll was old, a new
wlU set thing right" - .
Not look has Kaue for th queen-doll
Father buys.
"I want my owny-owny-own." th little
i mnuier cnea. , ,
The houa was sad and sobby that
' much-afflicted day.
And ven Father felt It with doUy-girl
away. .
Whan, Just Ilk In a story, a kid earn
io ioo aoor, :
A Uttered kid. with dbllv aha't m.
r naoed at tha atora ....
Bald Pop, "Awakened oonsclenoa.' gald
Kate, "My owny-own!"t
Sa'd Mother, '-Poor we g-irll, to hay
1 taaiaT-ani m. . - . " i-
Bald . Pop, "There's that nw dolly.
' . . Said Mother. "Oh. thafo ri.ht
And that quean became th daughter of
wis aaaaiea utu mlt. .
Mr. Harriman in Politics. . 1
From f th Birmingham . Age-HersJd
(jjem.).
If there ale a man in tha lamt .h
minxs me Kepubiican ylctorlesin. 1804
wer not directly du to th use of
siusn runa coniriDutea by Wall street
eorporationa, that man should read and
reread -the Harrlman-Roosevelt corre
spondence from nd to and. - It reek
with slush. It sprang from, is baaed
on and relate to slush. .
' It explalna why th Renubllcana
ins iiiy-nintn eongrca refused to pas
a publicity bill that I to aay, a bill
compelling the publication of aver
name and evr amount Contributed to
reaerai campaign runds. They refused
to pas It not because of 1004.' but bo.
cause of 1101. when they expect to raise
rrorn magnates ana corporations an
othar fund to be applied as that of
Ifue was. ' , ,
That tha money- In Question was
raised ie beyond doubt; that It wa ap
plied In New York aa Mr. Harriman
tat la also beyond reasonable doubt;
that a similar slush fund will be gotten
together next year ts also beyond rea
sonable doubt Whet 'Is 'the country
going to do about Itf What ar th
Republican In ths Sixtieth con areas
going to do about It? Ther ar no
wing on Thodor Roosevelt now. 11
1 but a man, wholly human. He Is a
maa familiar with slush fund. "Th
money," aay Alton B. Parker, "raird
by Mr. Harriman and contributed by the
life insurance companies, aggregating
SStO.OOO, was but a drop In th bucket
as compared with the total contribu
tion of railroad and other great cor
porations." , y
. I tht method of carrying elections
to go on? If so, th republlo 1 vir
tually abollahed, election ar a fare,
and a plutocracy I In oontrol, and Har
riman wa It Whit Houae mouthpiece
until a etenographer took pff the lid.
" v Poor Fldo. - '
The honeymoon wa over, and th
husband, returning from business, was
grieved to find his .llttl wif crying
bitterly.
"Oh, Oeorg, ah 1 sobbed, "such v a
dieadful thing has happened. I had
mads a beautiful pi all myself, and
Fldo went end at It!"
- "Well, never mind, any dear,' he sat a,
cheerfully. w ean easily buy another
dog."
; Small Change
. -
Last day to register up till o'clock.
. e i .
Both Jerome and Delmaa won a ylo.
tory. .:,
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Taft ean beat Foraker la Cuba, any
way. '. - .-i - , :
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The fans want no' mollyooddl urn- .
p,r .- v . :
' Wilt 4 m kaW
T. ',4 IWWBO .UUtlU MI.IU1U.I VI kTOVBw
aboot . ' : -. . -
. o a
Is everybody running for office Id
Portland Irlahf
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'.' It will be "don unto" O. H. T all
right ao doubt. . , i , '
Isn't iff unny to think of Bhaw listen '
lng for that "oall"t
. . . e y.r:.-
What a pity the Judge can't be the :
Jury, too, sometimes. . "..
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, Taft will aot be eeally frightened at
a Foraker fir alarm. .; .
7 ' ,' '.. .!'. v.-'-;
It ought to be easy for Ioeland te
freeaa onto Indansndsnoa. ,
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This le the year when Walt Wall man '
really flies north maybe. , ,
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- Mr. 'Falrbanlis regard . th Foraker '
Taft melee with complacency.
xne cst or living is Decoming ter
rific; a man paid 11,000 for a dog.-
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Peaches ar rip In Louisiana. And
th crop .had never been killed, either.
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Miss Spring manl testa an Increasing
inollnatlon to prod eld wlnUr off her
. ,t .' .. ,
It Is doubtfuTr If Senator Bourne will
ever get Into the Chautauqua leoturlng
llat., U. . '. i ;
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Th opinion 1 quit prevalent that'
Mr. Wagaon's free water would be toe
costly, - ... . .. v
Hn Mr, and MraHajryJ!haitWlU. J"
start on that foreign tour as soon ai
they expected..
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' Th woman that haa the most beau
tiful or largest hat may, not be th most
beautiful woman. . ' '.
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- Texa is trying to' sxUrmlnat th
green bug not th greenback bug or
th gretn woods bug.... . u .. ... .. ...-...
. . , f. '. o ;;"" . '
Prhps th president will learn after
awhile that it doeen't pay to answer
everybody who crltlcls him.
, , . ' a a , '- v; "
Th Thaw Jury wanted to hear those
hypothetical questlona read again. Ther
are candidate for Carnegi medals.
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' A Philadelphia woman wa recently
fitted with a new Jaw bone. . One guar
anteed, It Is supposed, not to wear out
Senator Foraker : likens Jtooarvelt to
Andrew Jackson, which a good many
people wilt think 1 a recommendation.
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;Orgo;on Sidelights f:
North Bend has 14 real aatat firms.
. " . . a ( ,v -Albany
Elk new number nearly 400,
'..:...' a e : ;-' - '. "'
Newberg may have a cannery and Jelly
factory, ..'
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Th Arlington Record Is pulling for a
flour mill thr. ' . - ,
Torth Bend It's payroll talks." la
that town's "slogan." . - - . , ,
v - ; e e 7;' " ;r
Cultivate. ' eultlvata. Cultlvata." ad
vises the Irrigoa Irrigator. , ;
A Christian church with 84 member
has been organised at Newberg.
r s ', ' -' : ,e : e w-. ; '. '..?
A Newberg man aay that 84 rears
ago It rained vry day in April.'. .
Gold H1H expects to have a large
ah and door factory aad planing mill.
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Deleratlon from nalabbArinap towns'
will attend th opening- of th Corvallls
skating rink. , .,
Tn outlook no tb valley la for a rec
ord-breaking prun crop, and big crops
of other fruits. , i -
Three freahets In on season "Is about
th limit" thinks th Eugen Guard.
But maybe not , '
Th Toledo Leader publishes IS land
notice, and mor coming. - It agree
that times ar prosperous. . ' ' '
last week by th arrival - of VnJa1
homesaekara anit four babies.
Th number of ooybte captured tn on
cav near Hermleton was IS, all young
one but three. . A few wer saved for
"pt.", . '.- . ., . ..vvf ..-
Mr. Ruby. Who haa for aeverat year
been selling. fin imported stallions at
Pendleton, having aold 114 In alL-baa
left for Europe, where h will purchase
about 100 mor.- - .
. ... 1 ...
After years of expectation with the
hope that some on would put in a can
nery her, th cltlsen of Oranta Pa
have decided, say th Courier, to wait
no longer, and to ' build th cannery
themselves with th cooperation of tbe
farmers f Josephin county. -
Pralri City: Mlncrt Thar I prob
ably not another town on th map whr
ther exist auoh a charitable, brotherly,
neighborly feeling among tb entlr pop
ulation a in our ewn town. to see oit-
lsens lov on another and everyboflw "J
boosting ereryoooy is certainly , just,
lovely. ..... . . ! i
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Development and Improvement opera
tion ar rapidly progressing at th Es-,
tacada brick and tile plant .New ma
chinery wilt eoon arrive, Th full ca
pacity will b 80.000 plastic brick a dsy.
Th clay in th bluff adjoining th fao- I
tory Is an excellent material for mek- I
lng these brick, nd ther I almost an '
unlimited supply of It .. r.
. . i ;.-.,.','
Last month th business In local tick- 1
sts at Nwberg, say ' th Oraphlo, i
mounted to 3498.10 mor than In th I
corresponding month of last year and ,
the Tnreign ticket sale was greater by
S417.4S. Thar waa a greater amount
of local freight received by lt(,(S0
pounds, making an Increas of business
of 8487.88. Th amount of freight
hipped was greater by 1.(18,730 pound.
In other word th freight business wks
greater; last March than in th same
month of th preceding year by 4g-
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