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JSfe THE JOURNAL AW INDEPENDENT HWSP1PEE. C . Jactsoa. ...... Publisher Pobflinad rry evening ' (exrept Sndar) aft a . Trr finaaar Borotn, at The Journal Build. In. Fifth and Tauklll afreets. Portland, Or. Intend at tha MhMt . iwti4 Or tranamlaaloa through tha malla as aaeood-claaa ' ' TELEPHONB MAIN TITS. ATI Separtineata raaebad tr tola somber. Tall vruum u oapartment 70 wni. ' t OBElQN ADVERTISING BEPRESENTATITH Vrmland-Bcnjamta Special- Atfrtliinf AgwcT. granawtr BolMlo. 228 Fifth annua, Haw iork lYibaoa Bulldln. Cblcaco. BahacHptJoa Tarma by aaall to addraa ir I ta toe United States. Canada or Maifco. ' '' DAILY. - , . Ona year... 15 00 On month w SUNDAY. . Ona year..,. .....12.60 I Ona month 1 DAI LI AND SUWDAI. Ona raar.....,,.T.60 Ona month Roosevelt's successor will practically! Grove, and Albany or Corvallls, and cease hostilities? , I Med ford, and that the development The federated trades are prepar-l they would bring about, In inch nat lng to invoke the initiative for an jural ly resourceful regions would anti-combine law In Oregon, and, If I make them profitable there Is no Wisely framed, It will doubtless be doubt. ' , adopted by .the people. ; There seems The Willamette valley and south to be a need of such, a law, or will em Oregon are not one fourth- be if combinations Vin restraint of might we say not one tenth? settled trade and to exact unreasonable up yet. Such roads will make towns prices and profits for the necessaries and country boom, of life continue to be formed. If 65 competition is to be almost entirely suppressed," how are consumers to live? PORTLAND'S COMMANDING POSITION. A QUICK TRIP. P TJGET SOUND lumbermen de mand a joint through rate via the Columbia river route, but it would seem a manifest In- Letters From' tte People How to Force the Railroad's Hand. Portland, July 1 To tha Editor of Tha Journel-A great deal ef effort Is being devoted to trying to force the Southern Pacific comcajir to- sell Its vaat and untaxed holdings of land In Oregon. It would seem that the pub- llo forgets that this corporation is not organised as a charity concern. It la her for business and dividends, and o far aa net Inconsistent with divi dends the celebrated maxim of "Vender- but, "The public be damned," is Its rule of procedure. By reason ef the labor and enter prise of the people of Oregon applied throughout the state the three million acres of land hold out of use by this corporation has Increased In a genera tion from a nominal value of $1.25 an MARRY A NURSEHORSORS ! Small CK "Respectable" English Aristocracy Have Swafiowea Worse Hint's ' Nofo In all the superior people I have met I notice direct nesstruth spoke more truly, as if everything of obstruc tion, of malformation, had been trained away. Emerson. sum. Recent, cruising of timber lands ANT peoDle still alive thou arht Jules Verne's "Around the Justice to Portland lumber manufac- V"! T 7 . . nu World in Eighty Days" fie- turers to be denied or have to wait tion Impossible of realization for transportation facilities while the it was first Dublished. but 6. R. Sc. N. and later the north bank - of Its timber holdings are now worth from f 10 to SSO.OOOan acre. Annthtr rn. ration of homebuilders and developers -WASTE OF SLABWOOD. E DO not know that there is any help for the slabwood situation In this city; we do not see that any existing Jaw can change It; yet It needs no , argument to prove that It Is a bad ; situation,' which somehow ought to be changed. ' When people were few and timber all too plentiful In and right around -Portland It was all right. It was nec essary, to destroy great quantities ; of timber suitable for fuel, but con - dltions have so' changed that to do . so now is morally criminal wasteful ness. Fuel Is scarce and high, and la constantly becoming scarcer and higher. ,-; Population is rapidly in- , creasing, and the supply of wood fuel decreasing. For poor people the an nual fuel bul ls constantly becoming M when George Francis Train, Nelly Bly and I road were carrying lumber from I of the natural opportunities of Oregon others long ago beat that record, and Puget sound past the Portland mills' now an English officer. Colonel doors. Nor does an exactly equal Burnley Campbell, has completed a rate from Portland and from points tour of the globe in 40 days and a200 miles or so farther from des- i few hours, just half the time it took "nation seem quite fair.. Portland the redoubtable Phlneas Fogg, ac- should have tfie advantage, as Puget cording to Verne's narration. By 'Arthur Brisbane. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannermaa' is the head of the Liberal party In England. And Sir Henry breathe it gentlr and mournfully is going to marry a trained nurse. j Nothing to get exolted about, you Bay? But you don't know sensitive England especially , the sensitive little middle-class Englishman. This coming marriage of the head ef the Liberal' party to a trained nurse threatens, according , to newspaper" re ports, to disrupt the v entire Liberal party. The king on his throne and the Jlttle cheesemonger behind his counter are shuddering together. The lion and indicate that hundreds of squar miles I the unicorn feel disgraced, and tha whole will greatly enhance the Dresent val ues. one of the chief advantages of noiaina: inea ianaa mtat th. un der the terms of the grant and the In terpretations placed on its clauses by a complacent Judiciary It cannot be " ."i" me corporation requests of Uncle Bam a title to a particular! unuea estates lana ana cannot oe taxed for local . Dumoaaa. or England asks. "A trained nurse what's coming next?" This fuss over the weddin nffTS: spectable. well-meanlnar. uaefat-Li mm ana a reapectaoie and admirable woman uiustratea the peculiar ideas of rlght. and wrong that arrow un in falaaiv 1 1 ganisea society. "When you hear about the noise that mis proposed wedding cauaea you ought to remember the wedding of the young man who Is now Prince of Wales and ana wno will be the king of England. Colonel Campbell left Liverpool on May S at 7:20 p. m. by a Canadian Pacific steamer, arrived at Quebec May 10 at t. p. m., left two hours later over the Canadian Pacific and reached Vancouver May 19 at 5 a. purcnaae unaer the taws, it is a case ana now you don't. It is government its location. Papers over there have done a great deal of sneering for many years at Portland's position, but now they are complaining be cause Portland has an advantage of position. They are doing this not . United St2i knrt i1?' .cal1 lt- H hd mrried a young 2 oImSt mI aee It frl ln tne m"ttM fashion. whicS X0tItn?.Wgyovemen n.? SjJ?""! .t?.?Jl2? to, the local assessor and railroad uuiu iiom out use to tne settler. m., leaving at 12:30 on a mall I only with respect to eastbound lum- steamer which arrived at Yokohama ber, but with respect to westbound May 26 at 5 a. m., and left on May wheat. The Tacoma Ledger says: 27 at 7 D. m. He staved nearly six 11 ' noteworthy that Portland, which hfinra narr A .t T..rn., PPolns the petition before the in- ..VJ ' teretate commeroe commission. Is also ,,u.,DWa u aiueno opposed to the Joint wheat rate desired steamer May 30, leaving the same by millers and wheat growers of Wash day on a trans-Siberian train. He lnton- Portland figures that the longer no cwi oomo ui up in tne northwest If any one thlnka that with so vur,1 experience stored up ln Its life It will maintain Its special privileges against lhu kL,rl was happy, and children had the small timber speculator or bona been.ltwrn. Then it was decided that royal family when they marry outside ui royai circles. The airl whom he married waa tha daughter of an admiral in the British navy. The morganatic marriage with reached Irkutsk June 10, Warsaw Jane 11, Berlin June 12 and Ostend and Dover the same day. He suc ceeded ln making close connections, corner of the United States the better she is off. If Portland had her way aDout it aha woUId prevent the construc tion of a Harrlman line north to Pugat sound. At the same time ahe instate i iiuo aeiuer mat person has another thinks yet to be evolved. With its knowledge of the weak points ln Judges, aenators. cCngreasmen and president It will prevent any success ful mm on us landed privileges for an other generation at least, unless it Is upon ua weakest side by a united and fearless people such as Ore Sn la likely to contain. The domain " munon acres is more valua- Sitfnan.f" ir reat BrlUIn was tol nuiiui me uonqueror at the time of iim oaiue or Hastlna-a. this younr nrince he will be tha klna- of England mutt marry somebody else, somebody that be could marry really and not morganatlcally. In order to keep the estimable "Ouelph" strain going, Re was taken away from the young girl who had. given ber life to him, and was, married to a princess of "royal wood.-' ; Since theu the cast-off, morganatic wife has died, and It doesn't take much imagination to realise the effect that tha prince'g second wedding must have had upon a sensitive young woman. But England stood that marriage ad ralrably. There was a little Ulk about It, some said that even a prince if he jt-- v., . Try not to get run ever. : i nappensa only is I years ago. i ioung America must be recognised. Amonar Amarixan Aa ' tiui i- It.', - . ""T?,' Wasn't it a nitllM ttirmr hi Oyster Bay? " ' ': ' '.,".. ' - r:.v-',i:-;-r- i-Bjr,lliw'r' .anl ehange, what is a Republican? , ....... e e ,r ' .-.' . The i and well-meaning L surgeons are expecting busy I, " Jrs tomorrow and rlsxt day.; , ' The Hague conference makes nearly as much noise as a squad of moles. married a youna tlrt ' moraanaUcaUy :.f,?DJ7..en,l9' Tillman will es- UU(II tV as WAV aa w Muse aieaja t nutit i he became king, fight to make her his legitimate wife. But he didn't do that. The poor girl whom he married was thrown aside and he married a second llm. Than waa not a word Bald DUb- Hcly about the matter when; the , first wrce aiea. And now. when an estimable old gen tTeman who has mads himself useful ln politics lets lit be known that ha pur poses to marry a trained nurse. In spite of the fact that he Is at the head of tho nation's real 'government, all England shudders withXhorror. There are aavyige countries wnere a young woman pats a large, rouna piece of wood in her lower Hp to stretch it sne is marriea, mo Oklahoma will un mi.. mh t the senate. A dumb one might be bet- It is possible that the President isn't even going to , make a Fourth of July speech? .-i . a . . ,. That nrlaa ta hnva hn mi wnnmt nnl.a . . t i M "'y- uuim huuiu uouar ue lext o naraartai -, a e The blind senator may be safe enough he can keep his hand on his pocketboolc s . e a If everybody were safe and sane the newspapers would not.be so interesting Ant Tjifr whe: hinnt hrldarrootn knocks out all of her I to many people. lower front teeth as a sign of pro- prletorshln He thinks, and others But how can Governor Vardaman get think, that the lower Up pulled out very religion and want to go to the senate far ami all tha lower front teeth at the same time? t. .nn.tl4iit Km it t v A Viriiln I e 1th her lower teetn not anocaea cut t u non ana jopnsons wouu 1 A taOTafri .. i thaa aavaarea really' more foollah or queer in their taste and reasoning than tne ungusn peopie wnom wa mm dlscusstngT TLe Source of Injustice Reconizecl Ly a,Son By Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Coprrlgbt, 1907, by AmerlcaD-Jonraal-Kiiminer) Before you blame anybody for any injustice, look Into the cause of things. (By Charles F. Peters in the July Bo hemian. A ahnrt time aro there was a te&ler ' in an Italian restaurant of the Bdfce- ""u'u l"" moer, ngni. vote for John Johnson for president, he couldn't be beaten. a a Tou are likely to be waking early to morrow morning, all right, unless you are a very sound sleeper. ax a In Paris Kick Carter is one of the "our beat sellers." His books go well with cigarettes and absinthe. -a a We wouldn't care much about tha peanut trust raising the price If It It 1 m trAa r I r . . . t . . Mian .n.t ln W, Vnflr lianffaAmal . . . z o ' j i i i MjYYinH, pv.rv r" 1 1 1 1 ri i r iiiwii iinHiia 11 1 i iuimi mi . awt a w. w ti r v. l. worm more actually and nrAanAtlvalv I I . .. . .. I Tiruoii mini (un up iiuur i than all the thirteen rwllmg colonic are blaming the shopkeepers. Neapolitan, whose poetically Sad face immediately: when wheat goes of King George III. Its vaat area is the gVocers and meat sellers for exorbl- often excited comments from the feml- flour isn't in such a hurry to fo; uicU ana iia values are constantly goes up flour follows down follow. a icreaslna- with th iiu.r..in. i tive power, the industry and frugality tant prices demanded. nine visitors. They all wondered what l - . . . . . . u. I L - - 1 . 1 1M .1 Again, rents cause ciuiena in luparninia Drougai aucn mu uomwtnuj womr' 1 within 70.000,000 miles of the earth. But but lost a few hours by mlsslnr a Tl. o "m of tm people. Allowed to continue an- of the United States to cry out against look to the brown eyes. One night .1 J?. -.!: " W . r' "?.H,rrln,n 1M 1MJI '"o Ijmta and no feudal lo?dof the landlord s sreed. larse. rather cosrsa-lookin. man c. train In Berlin. So, If one likes to larger and more of sv' burden. Tt "Pend a nation in travel, he can thousands nnon thousands of cords! w,th od luck encircle the earth in- or loads of fuel ln the shape of slab- B,de of ,,x week" thouh we cannot " I AS A I & t a. .a ' - wood Is thrown away where It Is in-j accessible or Is burnt as waste. - Why should the principal mills of the city agree to sell only to one or two : dealers, thus giving them a monopoly and enabling them to put np the price to whatever figure they please? Why should the mills haul slabwood off and dump lt by thou sands of loads in sloughs when peo ple need lt for fuel and are willing say that lt would be a particularly profitable trip. one of the eastern Washington wheat belts must keep on shipping wheat to Portland out of this state exclusively. In the case of wheat, Portland desires shipments from this state and feara the England or France ever had u nvar m mom oiu-Tiaiaina' nrinnlnalltv It would seem as If the flrt a plant your turnips that day Just the large, rather coarse-looking man came I same. In return the shopkeepers, the market in with a beautifully dressed companion. Man n, v.. , . . . a 1 . - I , . . I M gy.wayw a v icm I S ha... i nfuiniafi inn ins unni ornsi rnmniai n or oka w at a r-w aa aviAerAiia ivaaiiean tvnA tsttt i tn At iaaiai t.. 11... M..ia - -V la . 11IOI, 1UUVC I r-"i I wuw " w ea gjiVMWUS eMN(U jywv Vtaa.1 VJ SJ) I caver J u I, U1BI TTUUIU UU lH? with tha V;?mc0.mSLihe,e,orporatl?n unPald bUI" Rna "how b00k" wtth lon she looked like an orchid that bad been a. either; they wouldn't have the wun tne warm and peaceful name tol . j - .w I ... . a-raas. zqtf$Sl d-ltt un'ett,e1- a difficult thing for Judge or states-1 'T nJ dlssatlsfl RAILROAD PROJECT AT EUGENE. - And o tne aggres- cruelly treated. There were dark clr MmrMtltiitn a lAi.t . , , . j" j " y"so or atatea- ""-' CJeg unaer ner eyea, ana wnere ine competition a joint wheat rate Would man to dodge a nonular Hmnii kIiii , .1. 1 ... . "h "P- fh! wM..?e 2 .9 rporatlon Meantime few so back to the real .... -vi. ov.. A uuii, t- a ubu Wil.ll OOnQI KUAX I I r UV wiitta sue vovuieu jyeivt. ej?u . .",It. oy Sn? seneral government and cause, ine monopolies ana trusts. and rMl-ned. but oh. so tlredl They E' give. In the case of lumber poses shipments from this state because they would pass through without paying sold its stock to its individual mem ion ana raigni mienere with the facill ties enjoyed by the Oregon lumbermen Most of which la . vVUUCv..wU -nuu, Portland "Insists" on eastern Wash- abiding "railroad its own ajaceni country, appears to meton and north lAhn be In a position tb push itself comlng t0 Portland becauM nature deed iuhrSra.n' iwwaru rapiaiy ana MO inslsUL' It Is the natnii ttxei J. . . . . . 1 .v , .I-MU..W us population, ousmess hm route. Having arrived grass. sj SJ Secretary Tsft paid $2.6 for a rail road station breakfast, and told the waiter to keep the 35 cents change. It is a wonder the big man isn't broke. ine man wno aeua grocerjaa ana mo uahered to a. table and bee-an their ta meata are not gnnuing 1 man who acts as landlord Diamine whv It K4 . . l . .v ti... i . - 1. 1 ihe long-suffer n-r vir;... ff "7"". ":7 ""T " love melody, and he sang lt with a far bers and divided its contracts nmnno- . were u ite stockholdera. A nnlltl.l W.-Z " " uul Sruii.B m t in Oregon would have a hard time ex- ,h poor; the man wn0 ct" M ,ndlord next song. It who live in tenements is 1 . . came time for the tenor's waa a little Neapolitan No aten wniiM h juiia -...--the may devour. this coy and bashful corporation a Back of all these middlemen, who done me'land cSuld'be and would "be aM mere,r trylnff t0 m "Vln lVu not a devil going about To seek whom laway look, 'as he lightly touched his guitar. "Light of my soul, be true, And wait a little longer ' be true, i If the Toeonla flnaliv . ... 1 . I " r . . iwiuvu t m n m m . . sioau mi ilb population, DUSineas hill route Hirlnt . inietugence or their, brothers in pie need lt for fuel and are willing vv fha te' HaT,n8 arrived here. New Zealand and South Australia an and anxious to pay a reasonable by the expenditure of there Is no reason on earth why it . - . VJ. .reaBOMB a sum of money easily within the .hM k J.""b J?".0?.!??. n each ooun- price for it a price that would bring the mlllmen more than the trust pays them and yet afford a IS tho hnlMlntf n a 11 A . n . . w -.m-.m.mq, va m i &AJi wau L 1 UUI ;T , pro -to that clty wegtward tato the coa8t money easily within the ,h0uld be hauled Joo miiea r..J t aKSiSii?S X. iuu oi . peopie to supply, me 0B when lt can be put abQard Bh,ps project by which this may be done here , ln a fresh water h.rbop It is easy to understand that Ban- range, where an Immense amount of as fine timber as exists can be pene- Neither Mr. Harrlman nor Mr. Hill Is going to haul wheat 200 miles beyond one por to another, at the BauiB laie, uui are snippers going CO - .v itKj ui vuarga tuunopoi 1 1...., . - . . . - ""'I'l'"1 a prices If that Arm controls the sup- " "L?0?' pe5h4p8' Hw for this needles, hauling ni win .11 n,. "uolcr wa oiusiaw pay. reopie . . l Jf el " . VUO VA OtllW Vf Ala bear; as Mr. Banfield says, almost anybody would do that; but how can - this firm control the market unless with the concurrence of the mill "ownerB, and why do they wish this firm, -or any firm or 'combination of firms, to have a monopoly T Why should the mlllmen wish consumers topay SO or 100 per cent more for Slabwood than It ought to be worth of Eugene and vicinity are consider ing this enterprise, which meets with much favor, and will Quite likely be undertaken. There is plenty of money ln that, city and that part of It is rather funny to hear the Puget sound papers complaining about being "bottled up" by poor old, decrepit, moribund Portland- as they have been wont to represent sonal property and Improvements in the same proportion until practically all r.i.H .'f Purposes would be raised from land values alone. The v.,,,.,,,;, , inose communities which hSi?--?1!1.' J" that U coi"Pls tne hl?.lr.of.-Wle..tract"-' la"d to either At nrst tne least val uable portions are sold and the most k ect,on d. but iS elthSr ployed. The breaking ??i i j" accompnsnea by try ing t n .Amiu v. . u . ( r ri ru"i".ern "cmp. to "- " cruiaers at JZ.50 per acre lands worth nn. ':" 25LthU"and tlme that much, but If Cleocin, system or tax; II iT pp" tne counties unlesshey get a division of lbhe a tpnili thlnK for that e,t? nd -wvj "h'ciiicu, nuu uiiKiib very likely make the University town unless others Imitated lt the sec- profits? And If exorbitant profits . are thus made and divided, Isn't thl "piling it on" to consumers pretty - heavily, considering the prices of , lumber and other building materials? No, we suppose that, this being a ' local business, not subject to the federal law, there Is no help for it , and that the poor people thus held lip can do nothing. But at least an effort should be made to stop thjNf waste by, . dumping slabwood in gulches within the city limits. With , fuel becoming scarce and high, that seems like "adding insult to injury. A STATE ANTI-TRUST LAW. T' IBS FEDERAL anti-trust law will evidently have to be copied in substance and put Into opera tion in the states also. At least . efforts will be made to do so, and Wfl nellAVA thov nrfll ii.i. T seems a pity that human nature la - po craftily and even cruelly greedy that such laws are necessary, but that they are has been pretty well demonstrated. ' . It is and will be for a long time, : If not perpetually, a tremendous task for the law to keep business men , from' combining for the purpose of charging , consumers exorbitant and Unconscionable prices, and to what ; extent such laws can be enforced and withVwbati success cannot be pre dicted. The federal government has . been "going after" various combines and trusts, : with as yet a rather doubtful measure of success. It is attempting what seems to be the Im possible, -but by . perseverance and severe punishments may ' really ac complied a good deal tor the benefit of the people. But tha war has been but Just begun;vonly the first Bklr mlsh battles have been fought With a Roosevelt perpetually In the presi dent's pffic"moctrwid1btii; be accomplished, but who kpows, buti reason to doubt that its expenditure in this way would eventually be a good Investment a tion nt "ru5?In? Popr roade and insuf- her. They are beginning now to Iff "teHE1 bAIf ".W- . I thA nrMla...' ...1 . - . n on tne lands seiuera would A VI. i." v B'snB ana curses of the homesee.. :rs competed to pans w.ii 11 ?fuacre" wntlnp hands real i ?. that theM J mnifons of hands . infill jj. UENTON. Lane county to insure the building reaiize as never before that, though li "V,1,"' vlue- P'aced on of this road, and there seems no Ley are bunt upon the shbre. of S-SUf' SSSSA WrS n"Sw' an immense "inland sea," Portland is built upon the right spot to catch ond city ln the state. We are not advised as to the own ership of these timber lands, nor whether. If owned in part by the rail road corporation, this would handl cap the enterprise, but there seems little doubt of the complete success of such a road when once ln opera tion. It certainly would the products moved by trains and ships, because lt is a seaport lying at the terminus of the only natural, easy route through the Cascade mountains. . , Died Editor Oeer is living up among or on one edge of the big wheat fields that are apparently going to turn This Date ln History. 1423 Louis XL of France born. August 80, 1481 1737 John Singleton Copley. Ameri 18 16 palnter' born- 1 Dled September , 177S General Washington assumed Cambria e. Continental army at 1814 British surrendnrtul fnrt vi Off from 25 to 60 bushels an acre L If?,2 United States conaress passed . . bill to recharter the national hnv must do more of this sort of helping themselves.' They need not wait for eastern people to come out and build ,(,tii- ...j I - VS,V-"J l5r . ? national Dank. m-uu " vitoi., uu ov wo mjiwi imi urana junction railway from him to write a few editorials soon infZhntlXA' opened at Ixlngton. Masi. " "","c o.i2-.14?1"! assassination of named Beaa ' lRMM yUth hJ?iilTBo?.ton nd Buffalo connected 1 8 5 fl TiOH M tt rainvAeiMeai!.... i. - M for the admlBsion of Kansas with a free ssvii vuiib wiii won. stlL64?hriiniin troP occupied Ken- ww niuuii vm ij, on the benefits to the wheat farmers of the srlorlous and aAcred nrntartfvt Towns like Eugene and Salem tariff all the rest of the working world), lies I came the words, but In his liquid Italian ji wuaufu louca uencr. ai ma urat note the woman started and looked to- ! ward the slngsr. the system. A grocer's wife, with tears in her SeTr cuStom.r.1 over" the "Tneased be flower- still bloom, the sky Isblue, prices, for which the arocers were not My loe grows ever stronger. responsible, and of her own dlssatlsfac- "What's the matter with you?" asked tion at the Inability of many of their the man. But the woman only grasped customers to pay. An hour later a the table tighter, with a light In her little booklet, written by a woman, eyes such as he had never seen there came to my nana. d before. ginla M. Woodward, and is called "Pa-1 The storms of earth may break o'er us. . ... ... l.rf tptf An. n..rt. n ....1.. ' rental ttignts ana economic wrongs. " z, "The sreat vlllalnlee of life are not went on the tenor. The woman stood individual crimes, but the results of up. corrupt systems. The Individual crime "I'll wrap you In my faith and trust uiuv aiiecia individuals. its xpnero Ann nnua-ht nur Mllaa pan ahattar " vi operatmn ana tne icrra in iia results are limited, while the effects of the villainous system are constant, reaching every individual, and generat ing a nost or supplementary evils, it la Impossible that a system founded on Injustice can work luatlce. even tiar- tlally or temporarily. It can confer benefits only by favoring some at the expense or otners, ana in proportion aa She staggered toward him with streaming eyes. "Lulgt!" she Cried. "Lulsi!". The voice of the Slhser ended ana nia guitar aroppea to tne ground. "Olanetta he said; ''Qlnaetta, carissima mia!" I don t know what became of the man wno naa Drought her there, but Luigl ... i. . .i . j l won I th5 favored ire feW and greatly favored, 0 '"ln. following Saturday took shin '"If1 ,heM day'' e.ltlier "Lor Poland the victims will be msny Snd greaUy ,0, Naooll the Kanol of theS ehiiX ZT Hrne3r county. A few homeseekers defrauded. . IJaa1 ' apon 01 weir child- have stopped off here, but find that "Everything man eats, wears or uses nooa- lfirJ hei hlh a ln "cttons sup- Oregon SideligLts Secretary Garfield will visit Klamath county about the middle of this month, a a A Philomath cat that died had been a member of one family for 24 years, a Jos Stayhlgh, once chief of the Klick itat, has been bos of Hood river strawberry pickers this summer. a a For Us population. Pendleton has tha largest amount of bank deposits at this time oX, aay city ln Oree -e. the en tire northwest for that matter, says the Tribune. a a There ha now been ample rain ln Sherman county and the Wasco News says that grain samples are coming into town from every direction which prove tne assurance or an immense orop. a Prophecies are many and roseate of Enterprise's future, says the ' News Record, based upon Its exceptional sit uation, or, upon having the greatest area of "back country" tributary to It, or, upon the exceptional quality of the oil, or upon the public spirit and com mercial coheaiveness of Its cltlsens, or, upon all of these points together, a a John Day News: All stages are in any way can be directly traced back to tne natural reaources or tne eartn. Man can no more live without land than he can live without air. He mav live ln the fifteenth story of a city akyscraner ana no ignorant or tne difference d tween sand and soil, but his existence depends as absolutely upon land as does The Lucky Horseshoe An Equine Meditation. From the Rider and Driver. When rung In an attic. or ooudoir dramatic. the building in which he lives. His Wltn ribbons bedecked, and with flowers food, his clothing, his furniture, his tools everythlna whatsoever that he uses or possesses comes from the soil entwined. Mid scents aromatic. And worship ecstatia. "Cotton must grow and sheep must I My shoes are as emblems of fortune en Chairman New says the Republi can candidate for nrnnMAnr mnat Ha local roads. They have money right w ht uv an,,. among themselves to make such a .., iiJi1l2.!t,enl,r,on" killed by col . . ... , opinion, though from New, -Is not ,B" train at Ravenna, Ohio. Blurt on ruaus as wouia araw ine , ..,. . . I mo npanian fleet destroyed uvtt , u n uj id a Li v. u a lit n.11 1 1 1 1 1 i iunt o.a - "" how are the Deoole to know It is needed capital. off the state we have to depend on Mr. Harrlman or some other eastern magnate, but local capital can build or Insure the building of local roads that would rapidly and Immensely develop the regions they traversed and the terminal cities. Eugene ought to be a local rail road center, and Salem another, and so if they are told that the nominee Is such a man? If Mr. J. J. Hill is really out of money, he can borrow a few millions next fall of the wheatralsers up be tween the mountains. They are not so pessimistic as he Is, and beneve The Saint of Elba. From the London Telearranh. On the Island of Elba there lately died a man named Melanl, who, al though a millionaire, had. lived for many years a a guest ln a peasant's family. He had. It seems, completely mat nis memory, and had certainly for- p-otien mat ne was so rich. He alwaya liTw?. a pooI man- Posing hi time la meditation and prayer, ao that the fish ers of the island regarded him as a oi..i. m. iHBiani oequeatned everything he had to his kind-hearted hosts, who. 1 j . ' uo unaeratooa, were sur- .Secretary Cortelyou made a speech at Jamestown yesterday, but he didn't say a word about those cam paign contributions. Kept closed since 1866, On opening the V"""" "i uie owner aeatn It was found tfiat all the furniture and artistic objects had disappeared, nobody knows how or when. he can afford to double-track hla no sooner ao tney Decome so man whole svstem the surrounding country will Increase . greatly In population and nrqduction. It barely po88lblo that 80me. frPia Jlf'i: JAl th,n ma bappen' before winter to fttS . . --- 1 ourst up tne siaDwood trust, yet it a-utance or aeveiopment; d may we woald pr0Dabiy be policy to lay in not commend the same criticism to , ,linni. amma, v. UB wnsiaerauon or local capitalists present exorbitant prices, iu natural centers use saiem and Eugene, if they do not Invest la such enterprises as these? Some day Mr. Harrlman will prob ably go ahead with the Drain-Coos bay road, but there ought o be 'a road also from Roseburg to Coos bay or Coqutlle. Salem and Portland will soon be connected with an elec tric line; but there should be other lines from the capital city to Dallas and Silverton. . There are room and opportunity for roads extending out through ths" country fxdttForeit Separated From Bis Mind. . Ffom House Beautiful. . Bufus Choata one tried to get a Bo, ton witness to give ' his idea of absent mindedness. "Well," said the witness, who'!was a typical New England Tan- kee.'T should say that a man who thought he'd left hi watch to hum, and took it Ou ten his Docket to if hM time to- go bum aod get at wee a leetle 'aUlsWlBBl absent' any San The Sane View. From the New York Glob. If Japan wants reparation of kind for what has been done in Francisco, and reparation is. at all due and can be given, there is not the shadow of a doubt that It will be given. Not particularly because it is the Japanese who are concerned, , but be cause It has been the policy of the na. iiuiw aurarnmenfio ao an mat COId be don in such case. This Ambas sador Aokl understands, this the Japanese government understands, and this, we believe, the solid and sane among the Japanese understand. And we also believe they are able to dis criminate between the outbursts of a few . street ruffian or ftMniiirl imti ordinance and that friendliness toward graze, and the leather that he uses de pends upon the cattle ranges. Wood comes from the forest that no man planted, and coal from the mines that were atorea dv nature, stone ana one. Iron and lead, silver and gold all come from the storehouse that no man filled. but from which all men must live. Take away this natural wealth from man and what remains? A naked, toolless, weaponless savage. Take away abso lutely from anv mart the oroduct of land .and nothing remains, not even his body, for his body is dependent, upon 100a ana water, air ana sunsnine, snei ter and clothing. "All the natural wealth that should future generations ha been surrendered Into the hands of men who have be come billionaires thereby." Here is the cause of all the troubles of which the middle class people of America complain. Not one grocer, shoDkeeoer or tradesman In ona hun dred looks back to the beginning of the present conditions; oil acHnowieage those conditions to be unfortunate and vain idea of bettering them by electing a new mayor or tax assessor or gov ernor are Indulged in. But while no- lltioal ruler change, the system does not alter. The book says of the part Played by the government: The government that urges fathers and mothers to produce children regard less of conditions, at their own expense and for tha Benefit or others, win not restore natures riches, nor establish an eoultable system of taxation which will produce the revenue of the country from its natural community wealth. It will not take the children out of the cotton mills of the south or the break er of the north by making the wages shrined. Tet they are not aesthetic, While peripatetic. But utilitarian, nowise symbolio; Aitnougn tney support me, They never have brought me A surfeit of oats, or exemption collo. , And I've many relation. In cow camps and station, from pnea wun transportation. Of course thev do not buv under aunh AnnAlflnna. ana move on in sea re n or natter Dsr gains. The curse of "overgrown farms" seems to be pretty well upon us. a Canby needs some sort of provision to keep the steek off the streets, says the Tribune. We left the office door open Wednesday morning and went to the postoffloe after the mall and when we returned a healthy looking heifer waa ln the office looking over the ex changes. Two deer frirhtenad from tha Krih ran parallel with a train for fully a mile in Baker county. The animal were not more than 100 yard from the track. ; a . Albany and Linn County are the healthiest spots ln the world according 10 iiHuiva 1 unuinva oy local unaer- takers, say the Herald. In tb laat Who alwaya go barefoot, yet, I've not six month there have' been neara teii, From Maine to Kentucky Of . a horseshoe that's unlucky Through not being shod;, they're aouna a ooii. tb last V in but 2 1 thangjRr opulanon, This paradox greatly Perplexes me, lately It ha brought on blind staggers to ar gue tnis out, Why by one shoe suspended A man is befriended While four on a horse won't nut his cares to rout N. Newnham-Davis. deaths ln Albany which Is less natr or 1 par cent of the podu insuring mat mi city lias 5,000 popu lation. Estimates also show that in xjinn county in tne caat aix mnntha there have been not more than 110 deaths from all causes. of the father adequate, to the need of il. clothing and shelter 101 the family. It will accept no responsl HUuaa wbioh pervades the batten blllty for tha family of the Individual except the responsibility of the alms house snd the jalL" Just so long as the people are indif ferent to the causs of these conditions, lust so Ions an they fretfully comolaln 01 one anotner ana ignore tne cause, that cause will continue to make bad rrow worse. One the people are -awakened and Snlted in a determined effort to change llnra the chano-a will' come. The Manhattan Single Tax elub, New xorx city, will rurnisn anyone wno care to know mors about the subjeot witn racta ana ngurea. Later in this; column will be Jflven ome fact concerning what the Single Tax people of the United States are auing in pracuca4 way iu iobbvu ma power ef the monopolies. - - For they are doing things. And vast changes are Imminent It Is lust a well to read un a little and be prepared for them. Meantime stop nnamg fault with your neighbors. All are in the crasD or the same octonua and should symoathlie one with another and Join hands in an effort to tear away tne tentacle or the monsterv I. hnlmi llliKAM. . . i Aa mtiva mv frVTTV . .. The Niggard's 4ay. A Phlladelphlan said of Miss Anna T. Jeanes, who has given $1,000,000 for ncttro caucauon in tne sou in: "Miss Jeanes is a splendid philan thropist. To a good cause she Is gener- vmiy iiisu, uivmi -promptly ana tree ly, she has no sympathy with nfavard I once heard her tell a story about a niggardly rich msn of her childhood.- inis man visitea a scnool and made an address. At the end hs called a little boy up toTiim and aald: "My lad, have you a purser "No, sir , " T. 0Trr,' said the rich man. It you had had a purse I should have given yoir a dime to put in if . "Thl man waa aeheduled ta enaak again at the school the next month and Jrnen h oame the boys were prepared or him. An empty purse lay hid ln every little pair of trousers. "And sure enough, at the end of his speech, the man called another bov ni said: Have you a purse, sonf "Tes. sir.' waa the eaa-er ana.i. ' t BIN -l.ll W 4 mIM U . ..1 I. Sou naoii i 1 nouia nave given you a im to buy ona with.' . An Enemy's Advice. From the New York Sun. If there 1 a Deraocratlo oartr. Mat apposition to the Republican party, and not its parallel and double: if thar 1. . Democratic party alive to the danger and the duty of this time and faithful to the one stead Demooratlc prlnclDle. the ulatform of that nartv la mil. i-i jhort . 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