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THE JOTJENAL A . 'V' - 5 f a!' f i I 4 f THE JOURNAL AN IKDBPBlf DKNT NKWSPAFKft. C. I. Jaeiaoa.. ...... Pnbllahar PablUbftl tary aranlng rpt Sunday) and rarr Sucdar mornlnr. it Tha Journal Build lag. Wtlh and lamhill atraats. Portland. Or, Entered at tti poatofflca at Portland, Or., for tranamlaaloa tbroofB u maua aa aarono-cian matter. TELETHON 1C MAIN TITS. AU dtpartnwntf rrtfbra by this ntunbar, 5V1I tha ovarator tba daoartmant yon want. POREIGN ADVERTISING BEPRKSKIfTATl VK VroolaiuJ Benjamin Spcrll AdTrtl1n Afnrf Branawlt-k Bnlldlna t2 llftb aTanos, York: Trlbuna HalMlng. Chlraro. nbarrlptloa Tarms br mall to any address In tb Cnltad Stain. Canada or Mailoo. DAILY. On yaar $ti .00 1 One month f .80 RI'NDA Y. Oh rrar I.!K I Our month f ,3S DAILY AND Ht'NPAV. On yar T IW ; One mootb I .68 11: It Education Is a life-work and not a matter to be crowd ed Into a few early yean. Tonrgoe. WHICH IS BETTER OFF? 1 !5' ' ?! 'H T ) HE DALLES hat 29 saloon. while Salem has only about half at many, obnerves the States man. Besides, Salem has some where about twice the population of The Dalles, making the number of sa loons per capita something like four times In one town what it Is In the other. Which Is the better off? Or Is there no appreciable difference on this account? The Dalles gets more revenue; hat Salem less crime and expense, or anything else to show to offset the lack of revenue? It would teem that people In and around 8a- lem must spend less money for wet goods than those In and around The Dallet, but perhaps the latter have more money to spend, and so, as a whole, don't miss what Is squan dered. Then there Is Albany with about as many people as The Dalles, and a far greater population In the sur rounding country, that for a year has had no saloon at all. The revenue formerly derived from saloons has to be raised In other ways. Yet Albany does not appear to be suf fering from poverty or business paralysis. It appears, on the con . trary, to be waking up to greater activity and enterprise than ever be fore. We mention these three towns as typical; others could as well be se- i lected. The Interesting question Is Which town la better off, the one with many saloons, the one with I few, or the one with none? So far for all, would be a safe and aane meant for tariff adjustment, and one that would bring to the American people a fruitage of blessings beyond belief. If the Democratic party seeks an issue, here is one on which to go Into next year's battle, thrice armed because armed with Justice, wisdom and sanity. THEY WANT PROTECTION. A' as an answer from experience is con cerned, more time is required. But it may at least be said that those who predicted that prohibition would kill a town were mistaken. Corval lis, as well as Albany, is proof of that. A GENUINE AND VITAL ISSUE W HY, ON most subjects, a great people will be ex tremely discriminating, but on a certain other subject be oonsplcnously gullible, is difficult to understand. Here are the American people, sound and sane to the core on everything else, but duped and wlndJed relentlessly by the tariff. For years they have submitted un oomplainingly to a condition that is their undoing. The tariff as in vogue In this country Is the most uncon scionable graft known to any age. It Is not protective, but graft, pursued and practiced as a fine art. It has built up a great. Irresistible machine for plucking the public on manifold pretenses a machine by which predatory wealth is amassed by the few and the masses kept compara tively poor. It is a most extraordinary spectacle for the people to vote over and over again for the plutocrats, and not for themselves, the more so because in doing it they contribute to the impoverishment not only of themselves, but of their children. The reflection makes interesting a dispatch from New York, hinting that the next congress will be asked to create a commission with powers and character like the interstate commerce commission whose purpose 6hall be to adjust the tariff, Just as the Interstate commission adjusts the railroads. The plan is perhaps too meritorious for its consummation to be early expected. The battering rams and other destructive enginery : of billions of aggregated wealth will be hurled against it. Every diaboli--. cal implement available to predatory , plutocrats wHl be loosed for Its do ; mo!ishment, and Its enactment by ; congress can hardly be hoped for. " ' Yet it is a plan of notable excel lence. Politicians, men actively In ' politics, should not revise the tariff. 4 Tbey wonl4 cevise- not for the public weal, .bat foi the effect on their po - - litical fortunes, and, as It has always ..been, it would be a revision that ; would ttoC; Revise.;, ( Nor should re- vision be entrusted to the foes, nor . to ths friends of the trusts. A great, 4lgnlf!ed,S'rthoritatfT. wise and non-partisan tribunal, bating special " jprlrjlege, -ad eekjng equal. Justice GANG of well known horse thieves In Clackatilla. Crooker, Bakiam, Lanerow'and other counties are going to appeal to the several sheriffs, county and cir cuit Judges, legislators and the gov ernor to protect them against threat ened or rumored assaults upon their nclent and dishonorable preroga- ves and business. They have very arge and important Interests at stake. They steal not only horses, but sometimes cattle, and Incident-1 lly they might occasionally shoot, nee they cannot well steal, lead, carry and drive them away, a lot f sheep. They have been In this business a long time. They employ quite a large number of men to whom, being duly sensible of the dignity of American industry, they desire to pay good wages. They ex pect the authorities will consider all this and see to it that the oppressive and vicious laws are not enforced against them, and it is expected that all the sheriffs, Judges, legislators and the governor will listen defer-) entlally to their plea and withhold any adverse action. Or, which amounts to muci the same thing: The officers and leading spirits of the American Protective Tariff league, fearing that some little half way reciprocity arrangement may be made with Germany, and that some where, somehow, a stone might be knocked off the protective tariff wall, are preparing to' make appeals to the president, cabinet officers and leading members of congress, pro testing against any such action. These men and those for whom they speak and act have been robbing the American people so long, in clear violation of the foundation principle of the republic, "Equal rights to all and special privileges to none," that they have the assurance to appeal to the authorities to protect them henceforth as heretofore in these robberies. ter accommodated, and Ufa mora safe. Influences are afoot for more terminal facilities of multiplied capacity and convenience, whereby a chief factor in the car shortage will be eliminated. Greater, perhaps, than all, however, the railroads have already made appropriations for longer and more numerous sidings, to the end that overtaxed tracks and overcongested traffic may have room for overflow, and long trains facili ties for passing. Quietly, and without the clash of cymbals or blare of trumpets, the commission is accomplishing these and other reforms. The progress is slow, which means that it is not rash but wise. The policy of the commis sion Is not that of a bull in a china shop, but of careful, conservative consideration of all the interests in volved. For years Oregon has been help less In the hands of apostles of high finance who managed the railroad concerns from the standpoint of Wall street. This helplessness was so complete that there was no legal arm to be raised In defense of the public, no means of redress from wrong or relief from oppression. The railroad owners were great kings, ruling their kingdom of Oregon. The public took what it could get, and had to lick the hand that cuffed it. But it is otherwise now, and it Is progress. T -a.. 12 ' ' 11 n i svciicrs i rom tnc Jreoplc A CONTEMPTIBLE EFFORT. W E ARE not informed as to all the facts in the case in which Commissioner of Pensions Warner has brought out the alleged circumstance that his step mother has a small fraction, perhaps one sixteenth, of negro blood in her veins; but if, as seems to be the case, he pushed forward this fact to create prejudice against her, intending to deprive her of property or rights which she would otherwise have, he Is about the smallest and most con temptible specimen of humanity, so far as has been discovered, who ever gained a prominent and Important office. Warner, apparently to de prive the woman of her proper share of her husband's. Warner's father's, estate, proposes to prove that her father had a strain of negro blood and curly black hair, and that some generations back one of his ances tors was a negro. This case comes up in Illinois, and however It may be in the southern states, we do not believe any northern state has a law disinheriting a wife or other natural heir on account of being a mixed blood, at least not down to the third or fourth generation. But even If such be the law, It does not relieve this fellow Warner from the obloquy that attaches to an act of despicable meanness. He admits that he Is an enemy of his stepmother and never spoke to her, but he offers no proof that she is a bad woman in any way, only that her father was known as "Curly Robinson," because his great grandmother had been a negro or a mulatto. We think that DeoDle of all colors would Join in approving the president if be would kick this fellow out of office. A woman who married an Ala bama man named Birdsong, being disappointed in him because his con versation did not correspond with his name, but on the contrary was as she alleged Insulting to her, she up and killed him. A Jury convicted her of murdor in the seconddegree, and a court sentenced her to life or long imprisonment, but the chiv alrous Governor Vardeman immedi ately pardoned her. Let Mississippi husbands take warning; if they don't speak pleasantly to their wives, the offended dames may kill them, and shall go free, while Vardeman Is gov ernor, by gad, sah. Two paragraphs in Ex-Governor Geer's Pendleton Tribune read as follows: "Of course the Fulton Cake program (which one of the Cakes had not been arranged, but It will be one of them) Includes a dele gation from Oregon for Fairbanks." "As arranged, either Harry or Billy Cake is to be either gov ernor or congressman. The details are not quite complete, Ellis not hav ing yet been satisfactorily located." From which it may be gathered that the ex-governor is really sincere as yet in his support, except in one lm portant particular, of the primary nomination law. How to Check Plumbers' Trait. Portland. July zf To the Editor of The Journal Knowing your paper to b dvotd to th upbuilding of Portland, I take oocaalon to call ht attention of your numerous uci. it, tn pi um Dins monoD- oply now exlatlng In thla olty. The rea son of !t existence Is through 'the ap pointment of a plumbing Inspector, and the laaulng of llcenaes to all plumbers. All nnwcomers to thla city, who dealre to tngage In the plumbing bualneaa, have flrat to be examined by the plumb- inn lnapector, and It la optional with that official whether they paaa or not. Thla power ahould be removed from theao autocrata. and their bualneaa Hhould be only to aee that all plumbing waa done according to aanltary lawa, The Inspector ahould not have the right to aay who ahould do the work, ao long aa the work la done according to law, Doing awjty with the ulumhlnc llcenaa and making Portland an open town would bo the moan of breaking p the monopoly mat now exiata ana whlcn compHa people to pay 40 per cent. higher for their plumbing that they ahould The licensing of olumbera crraiee ono or tne worat Klnda or mo- noplli-ii. The large buildings on the principle street have their work done. perhaps aa cheaply ns It could be done any place elwe In tha northwest, aa the comDlne Knows that 'ahould they ask an undue amount for this work It would tie taken out of their hands and given to eastern competitors. Therefore, they let tneae people orr reasonably eaay, and get In their graft on the small houae holders, who In turn protect themselves by not having as many conveniences aa thev would were plumbing done here at reHHnnaDle prices. At tho wholesale houses In Chicago, one can have put In hie home a porce lain bnth tub. lavatory, closet and ac cesaorlea finished tn nickel nlate and with all piping complete, for $60 and mushed in such a manner that any or dinary workman can out It together. Thla material If bought In thla city and handled by the monopoly would cost from $200 to $300 and would be no bet ter material than that furnished by the micago house. WOMAN MANTS EQUAL" SAYS JUDGE Ha Means Equal at a Baatt of Burden to Bt Exploited The duty of a plumbing Inspector Is to see that the health of the city Is protected from diseases which arise from defective plumbing. Such being the case It Is his duty to see that all catch basins on the corners of streets were properly trapped, but I doubt If there ia a trap on a single one of them and the odor which arises from them In warm weather la almost Intolerable. Un less traps are put over these basins, then the sanitary law now existing In this city Is a mere farce, used simply for the purpose of creating and main taining a monopoly and not aa a protec tion for the publlo against contagious diseases. This shows gross negligence on the part of the plumbing Inspector and the health officer and proves con clusively that these positions are a mere sinecure and of no muterlal bene fit for the public. Were It not for the remarkable purity of the air In this city, the majority of the people would be sickening with typhoid fever. as there Is no sanitary protection for them whatever. THOMAS Qt'INEAN. By Arthur Brisbane. . The state of New Tork passed a law protecting women from night work. The object of the law waa to prevent work ing women all night long In factorlea. Those lntereated took the caae up to tha court of appeals on the usual grounda of unconstitutionality. Tha court of appeala now declares that the law la unconstitutional.' What a very sensitive thing a atata vi naviiunai cunamuiion isi v Tou can work women all night, ana' all day. You con work children of any age, that doesn't hurt the feelings of the constitution. You can underpay men, you can run aweatahops, polaon the food of all the fteople, you can cheat them In all of Ife a necessities, that doesn't offend the constitution. Uas companies can awlndla the peo ple, overcharge, kill some and poison others with bad gas that doesn't of fend the constitution. But let the legislature try to limit the work of children, or protect women from rapacity, or regulate the extor tions of the a as trust, and the consti tution roara and howls with grief most pitifully. This court of appeala decision, writ ten by Judge Uray. Is a fine dhlplav of the constitution's tender nervous sys tem. speaking on behalf of the highly cher ished constitution of the state of New York, la ahocked that women ahould be protected from night work In fac torlea. He says about woman In hla learned opinion: "Considerations of her physical dif ferences are sentimental and find no proper place In the discussion of the constitutionality of the act." 1 hat opinion haa the constitution ns nterureted by the court of appeals back of It. We wonder what this learned Judge would say If he saw one of his daugh- ers working In a factory at 2 o clock n the morning, pernapa a few weeks before or a few weeks after the birth of a child! How would he have liked to aee hla mother, with gray hair, going to her work at night and staring there long after oaybreakT Would he have called any objection to that "sentimental, with no proper place In the discussion T lr It would not be 'sentimental to bject to the mother or the daughter f Judge Gray working In a factory all Would Judge Gray refuse to sanction a taw rorbidding women to act aa oar keepera? Doea not the law forbid that nowT Why doea the law prevent ltT Ia It not because It la thoroughly under- Horn man reat a mkiii, k.i are tired. , M1 V"Sd How mueti will tfc.t i n hav. coat th. Uxpa'yeV. o hatTP0, Oyster Bay reporter have apparently been silenced hv .s..i. U?" wei Big It la rnnrA tfc.t w - .l . atood that men mav Drooerlv do thlna-s at th. k-.J7 t Dlra aown that women oughtlnot to do? Would time. ' QUU ,WU publlo opinion or law approve women . acting aa policemen and fighting with The average voter cannot h. ... burglara In the dead of night? ested by a pfea for reifrv?nV hafB-f' Would even Judge Gray or the state etltutloh preserving tha eon- oonatltutlon Insist that women should work In tha atoka hole with men? a aelentlat thinks hnmm ai. w. . Judge Gray aaya again i hla tender- souls. But he waa nSt aSSfkiJi- hearted dealre to protect woman in her seat hoge speaking of end- "rlghta": ' , . "Woman haa come to Desaess all the n,,ttr t... . t .w. reaponslbllltiea of the man, and ah. Is l midsummer, where will buttffbi entitled to be placed on an equality of next wlnterT uer be a ntiu isiu iiaaaai. 1 aj s la It not a little etrange that the law I Tt tv.. .ki.. . .1 . and the judgee that talk about woraan a atoriea toward railroad buildla f5 "equality of right with man" will for- every m le of road in Orn tor bid her to vote to protect herself, and ' . " ur"on- ' h? "a.m Ume. th" the. '!-- "I-.m hnw t .k h lure anaii not vote 10 protect nerr j.7 1 r. 1 w U.1....11.. u. . 1 j I dent to a lot of school chlldran "TVi..' Judge. Buch aa Mr. Gray of the court a aeaI Dettr learn how to raise spuds. of appeala la far beyond the conception ... of the ordinary cltlaen who pays Judgo A blonde female la causing trouble dray's salary. But perhapa the Judge. ,n th Seattle courta. There la nothing secure aa he is on the bench, might like strange about thla except that ahe la to know what the unlearned, ordinary ow. people think and what they would like , to have their conatltutlon and their Would-be United Statea. senators ara judges permit. paying so much attention to .aposel- The people believe that it la an out- bla members of the legislature atShey rageoua thing for any employer, except ued to. ei In case of absolute public necessity, to put a woman to work In a factory ill A Seattle woman waa divorced from i through the long dark houra of the lwJ "usDanas at once, while another night. mle creature waa waiting to saortflc The poonle believe that woman, upon hlmaeir, whom rests the burden, the exhausting t demands of motherhood, should be pro- The Invention of the typewriter haa tecleH frnm th. harbor mnr. imhulth. given employment tO 1.01)0 000 woman ful kinds of labor. ?ot,to "nt'on the Jobs it haa given The people believe that a man who "" lawyers. does not realize the rights of woman, Portland la nicely altuated for beach visitors; they can run up here easily and quickly, and rest up and take a little recreation frequently. Preparations are already well un der way for the annual state fair, which It Is intended to make superior to- any preceding event of the same kind. The state fair should be an nually more and more what Its name shows that it is Intended to be, and should receive the cordial coop- Again the Suffrage Issue. Baker City, Or.. July 2 To the Ed itor of The Journal Hear ye; hear ye! The woman suffragist haa sat at home In sack cloth and ashes long enough at last she la going to don war paint and feathers, get up on her hind legs as It were, and fight to a finish. She Is Just going to walk right straight up to the bold bad man on the "antl" side and shake her little pink fist under his nose and simply demand the ballot and as his hald rises on end, tie will tremble In his boots and say. tbkc it; it is yours. un, it is going to be easy taking canay rrom an inrant will be nothing comparea to it. At least that Is what Ida Harper says. Oh, Ida, Ida. what a dear little anar cnlst you are, to be sure. lght in case poverty made her helpless. why is It sentimental In the case of any woman whose father or son helps to pay Judge Grays salary? Judge uray says further In hla ad mirable and learned effort to protect the constitution: It Is certainly discriminating agatnat female cltlxens In denying to them equal rights with men In the same pur- ults. " Is It Indeed? What a very tender- earted attempt thla Is to protect wom en In their "rights." Since when has It been settled that the law cannot legislate as regards the pursuits of women or the houra In which they work? her moral right to physical protection. Is a pretty poor example of a humun being. The people know that In England and elsewhere the working of women at night, working them In he mines, and compelling their children to work too young, has resulted In absolute deteri oration of the Hrltlsh race. The people know, If Judge Gray In his wisdom does not, that the woman who gives her vitality to some factory machine In the night houra cannot give that vitality to a child, and the people know that to deprive a child of its chance In life tn order to enrich an employer is a disgrace. The people believe also that the con stitution of the state ought to repre sent them; that It ought to be possible for the judges to represent them, and Railroad Item, July 14, 111$: It ! rumored around Sheepskin settlement that Harrlman la going to build a rail road through central Oregon. Mr. Rockefeller la disappointed with the product of Chicago university, but If It Is any consolation he can reflect that Its freak professors have added, considerably to the gaiety of the coun try. a A Seattle poetesa alludes to Mount Rainier aa a "beauteous maiden," and calls on her to "wake. Well. Rainier that it nuirht tn h. tmnnaaihi tn ti. a may be like a Boston .maiden for chllll- iioob, uui ix ajiv auuuiu wane ina nugnc be too hot. woman to a factory at midnight In the name of the law or the constitution. The men that want to rob the people through the gas trust, that want to work women all night long, that want to exploit the young lives of children, ought to be deeply grateful to the con stitution of the state and to some of our judges. They ought to get on their knees every night and pray for both. Some of tholr fattest profits would bo gone were It not for that convenient constitution and those learned Judges. In whose eyes the spectacle of a tired, wornout woman, slaving at midnight, is eminently edifying and constitutional. Selfishness By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. (Cnpjrlfbt, 11)07, by American Journal Eiamtner) Here Is a delightful little allegory from the old. old literature of far-off India I found It In a little compilation made by Paul Carus, called "Karma." There wm a terrible robber and ma- TriLute to Captain Doran Oregojj. Sidelignta Carpenters and lumber haulers are) very busy In Lakevlew. a A Mill Creek man brought to Tha Dalles a S4-pound pumpkin. Thieves atole 88 bottlea of beer and whlakey from Monument saloons, a a Gold Hill la to have' a park and will I be otherwise Improved and beautified. a Four crops of alfalfa will be cut from some fields around Echo and Hermla-ton. The following commentary upon the character of Captain Doran and hla he- rnln flejith l.a contributed hv nna whn . ... . patch near Milton 100 mat trip rrom tnia port to oan rraji claco. "God bless von " the last words of southern Oregon will be light. rauder, who died and went Into torment the brave Captain Doran of the lost pnces oul or " . After suffering there for what seemed steamship Columbia an Interminable time, he began to pray Aa a passenger having had the pleas ure of several little talks with Captain Doran on the last trip of the Columbia down to San Francisco, such words and manner of farewell do not come as a surprise to me. In one of these con versations the talk naturally drifted to the perils of the sea and the experiences ter them. The captain to Buddha to have mercy upon him Now, It Is the law of Karma that evil H usted deeds lead to destruction, but good deeds lead to eternal life. The least act of goodness bears fruit containing But tell me, why does anv woman new seeds of goodness, and they grow want to meaaie with pontics.' Why does t.ntu h .mil r.h it. final narfec soonsib t i.".r rSS: -h. 7 ,a"a .rhe; tlon. When the Lord heard the cry of of tho.e who m would 1a hannler nn .lortlon rim, If ah. tha rnhher he aald. "Kandata. did you I made aeveral From only a part of a blackberry cratea were The peach crop In Lane county and and A Malheur county couple, on asper ating, divided their six girl children equally, each taking three. a e The Grande Ronde valley cherry crop will be good and prlcea high, caus ing more orchards to be planted. orntlnn nf nonnle frnm nil nnrta nf of "cufl" words i r-n, nuc iiiiaKuirs nne wuuta ua nap- premonitory remarks could come home tired and cross, her ever perform one kind act? If ao, it which In the light of following eventa smngs. Tr 'l.theinSal:klrtn?a,rTtlnS "111 "T, "ur" J L.U , I'Vi .h" W" n0t f .h' T company at the belt line, her face red , s""1-. . D,ul "u "- .i , . "". I "'"' "ui uis muciuiuav tunvKuun, i and swollen with anger at being pushed it88 tnlB 'nlenBe f"1"""" na"L ulBpTi. though to hear him utter them you j i .i . . . 1 Itn. onni-ol ( if in r annmi ann niirtrl .n I . . . . . . . ' . T. .. I Knew mat you were lace to race wun a your auui irum iui., evy tiuu winy. i brave and true man. and Jostled around in a crowd of men tobacco spit and smoke, and all kinds the state. This will be a very pros perous year in Oregon, and The Jour nal hopes to see the state fair next fall a record-breaking success. Not out of any individual self- conceit, but in zealous interest for the development of the state, The Journal is pleased to see so manyNjf the state papers copying its articles on small farms and other topics re latlng to agricultural development, and to read articles of their own along the same line. If the press of Oregon will "keep everlastingly at" this subject, in all its phases, good results cannot fall to materialize. py then but she wouldn't. Why, she would be lots happier at home, rocking a nine curiy-neaaed baby to sleep, while she listens attentively tn Mrs. Jones tell how Jimmy cut his first front THE RAILROAD COMMISSION r HERE IS accumulating evidence that a railroad commission for Oregon is wise. Multiplying incidents contribute to this be lief. The sanitation at railroad sta tions, which was wretched, is better and being constantly bettered. More locomotives are coming into the state in response to the commission's de mand for more trains and better time. A new train has been put on in western Oregon to aid passenger R"hodiiles and the commission's cam paign in this direction is only begun. More and better passenger equip ment Is supplied, and by that token coaches are less crowded and trav eling more comfortable. .Better equipped and more convenient pas senger stations are being ordered to the end that th public may be bat- It is reported that Mr. Harrlman will make a tour of the Pacific coast in the near future. Portland people will be glad to see and talk to him, even if nothing la gained thereby. He may have some more promises to make. Wasn't it about four years ago that he made some, never yet fulfilled? Kanaata . remained anent ror a time Among many of the thlnga he aald trying to think pf one good deed In his thttt on hls trlps he nev),r 8le t very selfish, wicked life. Finally he more tnan two hours In the night and OvlU. WUUC UUIiil t 1 1 1113 X saw O. UlUCl I f Has ha1 Oh oiIHant s Inof crawling on the ground, and I etepped a 8nlp lt wouii nt be from carelessness as de so not to crush its life. on hJg part DUt tTOm ,ome unreckoned very wen, lepuea mo wru, ""'" force. As different sea disasters were auiuar wn . mentioned he calmly and emphatically take hold or declared that any captain was a coward ! web Was SO ,,,. nnlt Lot-, hi. .hln until .u.rv strong that the poor sinner was enabled hsoul waa off It waa hla duty to go lo CI nil u uui jl wiu uanici, niftiiei auu dOWn at hlB nOSt. higher. But suddenly he looked below When ajsked if he ever thought, aa all him and saw a vast throng Of hla fel- ., whn anil nnnn the sen that hla low sufferers also hanging to the end would come by drowning, he hesl thread. "How can this thread hold the I. atari thn anmnrtl that h. rilri n.t weight Of SO many? he thought, ana I Itnnv haH nn ellnu within hima.lf she haH reached the age when she has straigniway criea out, L,ei go ina wen; given up all hopes of matrimony and in " mJn t At, "ct J.he eb.,f)r0, ana n leu oat k iiiiu iieu. uia uiuaioii tooth, and how poor John Henry had to straightway sent down a spl, walk the floor all night with him and cobweb and bade Kandata taki how poor John Hen was so tired, for he lne web and climb up. The we had worked bo hard all dav electioneer ing for a friend who didn't get elected. i nose are tne happy days for a woman, but unfortunately she dooBn't know lt. A woman does not be come a disturbing element until her children are grown, or, If single, until The emperor of Korea, in trying to tell how it happened, wept, which a hard-hearted and unsympathizing world 'will say Is proof that it was hlRh time Japan kicked him down and out. a fiplrlt of revenge takes up "woman suitruge. The married woman doea not take any interest in pontics until she haa passed the age of cards, dancing and such pleasures cnurcn work la too alow and the W. C. T. U. Is too tame, so she rushes madly around and finds several women, dissatisfied like herself, and tries to get Into politics and she talks of voting and making laws and "govern ing nerseir. Why. I would not be afraid to warar that aha does not govern her own children I will wager that when she tells Tommy to carrv In an armful of wood, that lommy winks the other eve and goes out and climbs over the back fence and after waltlner half an hour ne sneaKs out and gets the wood her- seir, wnne sne is thinking she Is a poor, aown-iroaaen creature what can't vote nor have no rights nor nothln'. I saw seven little boya on the street tne otner aay, not one waa over ten years old, all were smoking cigarettes except two and one of these was pour- in of Self was still upon Kandata. He did not know the miraculous power of an unselfish desire to rise upward. 'It Is thin like a cobweb, and yet lt will carry millions of people. The more who climb the easier win De tne errorts of all. But as soon as In a heart the thought arises. "This is mine: let no one else partake of lt," the thread breaks, and he falls back Into the old selfhood, and selfhood Is hell. Hell la only selfishness and egotism. Every time you allow an envious or selfish thought to dominate you, every time vou begrudge another the chance to rise, you are endangering your own happiness and lessening your own se curity. We are all hanging upon the spider's thread. Dook up and climb, and sav. "God. strengthen those below." x. . - ... .. . . There is room ior an to enmo to heaven. concerning lt. but this he did know. however his end befell, hla final grave would be the ocean. This Date In History. 1214 French defeated the Germans tobacco out of a little Back Into the t Bouvlnea. Fairbanks was near by when a waitress was pulled out of a pond; Bryan helped a damsel out of a wrecked automobile; It's up to Taft and the rest to do a chivalrous stunt. fir outstretched hand of the other one. 1 648 Cromwell vlctorloua at Oalns T wnnriAPAfl what kind .nf mnth,a tha I bOrOU tth. had. 167S Turenne killed at Sassbach. T intinm, thnnirh th. .f I 1889 Battle of Kllllecrankle. itlffrfltr. maatlnr talLrlntr till tn... 1694 Rank of England chartered. black in the face about "the wrongs. 1794 Fall of Robespierre and end of lnsulta and humiliation that has been the reign of terror. thrust upon them, because thev want a 1799 Ferdinand IV of Naples re volt in their nwn Bnvprnmenl ' Tho I stored. I ifioa Rflttl nf Ta.la.vera. Wtlv thPTA WPIA fvn II t Mo. hatvci 1830 Parla declared In a state of were well-dressed. Those boys will be 18S6 Atlantic telegrapn cable com- The presidential booms seem to have all gone off on a summer vaca tion. The Only Cure. From the Indianapolis News. President Woodrow Wilson Is right One trust-maker or stock-waterer In the penitentiary would accomplish more to break up trust rascality and stock Job bery than a thousand fines. Condemning a system whili! nv all of the acta of so cial life and public expression, vou commend those that profit by the sys tem In the exploitation of their fellow ottUens will never accomplish, much. men some day and thev will vote and help, make laws and possibly some of them will be bad enough to be members of congress. Whose fault will It be If they make dishonest and corrupt men? Let the women put the "ginger" Ida Husted Harper talks about, into the government of her own home and twenty-five years from now we will have better men. In governing the bova of tnrfsv. woman Is governing the men of tha future. "ROBAY." No Admission Charge. Portland, July 25. To the Editor of The Journal A local paper of recent date published an editorial stating that letters had been received' complaining of an admission fee being charged to enter Council Crest. Thla Is denied by the management of the Council Crist Amusement company, which has author ised me to make known to the public that Council Creat is free dally until 7:80 p. m., after, which a charge of 10 cents will be made at the entrance gate for an open-air exhibition of moving pictures and Illustrated aongs. . Jl. DUCHAMP. tiletetl 1888 Princess Louise of Wales mar ried to the Duke of Fife. 1S94 War declared between japan and China. 1901 New battleship Maine launched at Philadelphia. Tell the Awful Truth, William. Nearly Saved by Mr. Fairbanks. (A New and Popular Topical Song, New Knjoying immense vogue in Wash ington and Indianapolis ) I'm the girl waa nearly saved by Mr. f airoanKS When I fell Into the lake at Yellowstone. When I gurgjed In the water In a way I naan t ougnt to And I screamed out In a loud and olerclng totie. Mr. Fairbanks, he waa aittlng on the piazza, Reading articles on "How to Grow the HaTr." I waa saved from being eaved by Mr. f BUDanKB By the fact that Mr. Fairbanks wasn't there. I'm the girl waa nearly saved by Mr. n airoanxs From the waters of the lev Inland sea. 'Twaa a cruel trick of fate he waa half an nour sate. But Mr. Fairbanks nearly rescued me. Whan you read the advertlaements in the papers. Please remember I'm the only one there Is Who oan furnish up the pageant for an i up-to-date press agent. Provided that he understands hla Mx- Though It's true that all the wet on Mr. Fairbanks Was the perspiration runnlna- down his face. He's not less a hero, la he. If he hap pens to d Dusy Saving all the nation at some other place i I'm the girl was nearly saved by Mr. fairDanka, Had it only happened he waa there to see, Sufficient stock, over $88,000, haa been subscribed to Insure the construc tion of a condensed milk factory at Albany. It Is a lucky thing for the side streets of Burns that a few Piute In dians get hold of a little fire water now and then, aaya the News. To repair hla broken wagon a Linn county man cut and used a long piece of telephone wire along the highway, saying afterward that he did not know! lt waa wrong. a The Wedderbum Radium (monthly) for July says: "Sheep shearing begins on the 16th at the Hume ranch. Four clipping machines have been Installed and will be driven by a gasoline en gine." a A man near Echo haa threahed a field of barley of 160 acrea from which he will receive from 60 to 70 buahela to the acre. Wheat la rnnnlnv frnm 25 to 40 bUShela to th. irra ar,7l ,nma Is making more. a m Condon Times: The strav cow la respector of persons. One of these in fernal nuisances ate un th. nditm-'a garden on Monday night. The labor at mourns rone into a wnrthi... k.... in nn uuur. iei us nope tne stuff dls agrceu wnn nor. 9 m i nere are men todav In th. rtnit) ui r-uoi kock, worm rrom 150,000 to $100,000 worklnar in the h.v flM h.. cause they cannot find help, aays tha Record, while able-bodied men walk the streets pf every town in the country that could not aret trnat.ri at nn. a h. stores for $5 worth of merchandise. TTVnm th. rhlrartl Trlhnn. It Is William Allen White, author of ui tne thing tnat was the worst waa "An Eaat Side Bank for East Side People." "What'a the Matter with Kansas." who broadly insinuates that he has heard President Roosevelt use stronger lan guage than "By George!" IT the presl dent, under great provocation, some times exclaims 'Dog-on lt!" Mr. White ought to come squarely out and say ao. Crossing the Herring Pond. The liner wag rolling frightfully. "Jack," moaned the pale green bwt stilt lovely girl, "promise me that you will send my remains to the old home for burial." He promised, and the motion grew gradually worse. "Jack, ' she moaned again. '.'Well, dear?" "Tou needn't bother about mr -ra- malna. There won't be any." J that others saw me first So he only almost nearly rescued me, Stuart Mac Lean. Some little while ago a popular writer visited a jail In order to take notes for a magazine article on prison life. On returning home he described the hor rors he had aeen, and hla description made a deep impression on the mind of hia little daughter Mary, The writer and his offspring, a week later, were In a train together, which stopped at a station near a' gloomy building. A man asked: "What place la that?" "The county Jail," another answered, prompt ly. Whereupon Mary embarrassml her father, and aroused the suspicion of the other occupants of the carriage, by ask ing n isuo, aanii voice: ie tnat tne jau you were in. father?" BANKING DAY Every person who earns money should have a regular banking day. On thla day they should not fail to deposit a certain proportion of their earnings. In our savings department hundreds of people carry ac counts and deposit their sav ings regularly. We Invite accounts of $1.00 and up, on which we pay 4 par cent interest Wouldn't you like to establish a banking day? , Call and see us. r.T,7 THE COMMERCIAL C a tflllo nimM jAVmlij HA Nit aCVOTT-JUrO WXXJUASU atYB. George W. Bates. President J. S. Birrel..... .Cashier '.,.,ks"fc h!" -".-"V;'..-'i ',-' v-Vv '' ' ' . Vrv.7 '- ,'