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scures soma truth we should
have known. Ruskin.
A VERY POOR EXCUSE.
"fiHAT ENOUGH evidence to con
I vlct the proprietors of the Mil
X rankle clnb could have been
secured anr day for many
montha past nobody doubts. The
officials of Clackamas county would
make a good deal better showing
by simply saying that they do not
Intend, for reasons of their own, to
enforce the law, than to make this
"can't" plea. "Can't" was never
Very good excuse, and Is a much
poorer one now than it was a few
years ago. Nearly everybody said
"can't" to Heney, but he insisted
that he could, and did. And this
Job is a trifling one beside the one
Heney undertook here.
v. The supreme court has decided
that poolselllng on horse races is
against public policyand unlawful.
It was iuppressed in Multnomah
county, and can be suppressed much
- more easily in this case, because the
horse-race gamblers will not fight
the law now. They know what th9
. supreme court has said. And there
are other forms of unlawful gamb
ling at the Milwaukle club. In fact,
as everybody knows, Its whole dubI
sess is unlawful. Its proprietors
probably would make no pretense
that it is lawful. Why do these off!
, clals, specifically sworn to enforce
the laws, allow this notoriously un
lawful business to run? Do they
know what many people would nat
urally assign as the reason? What
kind of a reputation are they build
' lng up for themselves in Clackamas
county, and the state? Can they
afford it?
Nor will it do to say It is nobody's
business but that of "the good people
of Milwaukle." It Is the business
of all the people of Clackamas coun
ty, and even of Portland and Mult
nomah county. The Journal speaks
for the people of Clackamas as well
as of Multnomah county, because a
larg -number of them read this
paper, in addition to their county
papers. And we have no'doubt what
ever that if an expression of the
people of Clackamas county could be
had, nine tenths of them would de-
mand that these officers do their
duty and eradicate this unlawful and
mischievous business. Nor will even
one out of ten believe there is a
particle of sincerity in the excuse
that no evidence can be obtained and
that It "can't" be done.
pathetic declines along with Union
Pacific, but this was the bete noire
of the bunch why? In a word
Harriman. This man's methods, and
especially ths disclosures regarding
t he Alton deal, taavs put him and his
parent road into bad odor through
nut the financial world. He even
Bhocked Wall street, which expresses
the superlative of business crooked
ness, so perhaps the grass In Wall
street rises between the flagstones as
a protest against Harriman, rather
than against Roosevelt.
With the Harriman blight In Wall
street we have little concern. He
is not appreciably worse than the
rest of the Wall street gang of high
financiers, only abler. But with the
Harriman blight in Oregon we should
have and may have much to do. We
think that ere very long the people
of this state will find a way, and
find that they have the power, to
end this long period of blight. If
they can get railroads in no other
way, the state will eventually build
them, or enough to break the bonds
of this blighting tyranny.
any county In the state. Of couree
Portland could chip In and make a
great showing of manufactures, but
leaving Portland aside entirely the
people of Multnomah county can got
up a good fair.
Eastern Multnomah county,
though In the same county as
Portland, Is scarcely ono tenth
settled up yet. Things look different
from what they did when the Powells
and other pioneers went out there
Into the tall, thick timber half a
century ago, but there is still room
for several families where there 1b
one now out there. The soil is for
the most part rlcb, and excellently
adapted to fruits, vegetables, hops,
alfalfa and other grasses, dairying
and general farming. Oresham is a
thriving and growing town, that has
grown up during the past 20 years,
and is an ideal place for a county
fair. The Multnomah county grang
ers will see to it that It Is a success.
FORAKER WAS RIGHT.
T
state and courts should not be fini
cal about non-essential informalities.
A reexamination of the law of
1907 taking' the place of the law of
1903, providing for the manner of
petitioning for the referendum on a
law passed by the legislature, leads
HE REPUBLICAN state central "8 to conclude that our recent critl
committee of Ohio, consisting cm of the legislature on that score
of 21 members, one from each was PGrhaP8 not "titled. It still
enneresstonal district, has in- seems that the petitioning process
a a o rr,t rt,An I rnleht be simplified. Yet it must
by a vote of 15 to 6. Senator Fora- be admitted that care must be taken
ker onnosed this action, or the In- that only genuine, legal names are
m . v j u ivi. amended to the petition. This Is
UUlDCUitlUl ui bu;uuu;, UJ II11B mm- --,
mlttee. but urged that the matter the whole object of all the rormaii
of indorsement be left to the forth- ties prescribed, and if there Is no
doubt about this the secretary of
be composed of 800 or 900 members.
Whatever one may think of Senator
Foraker's motives, or his opinions on
other matters, he was unquestionably
right on this proposition. Nearly a The Southern Pacific has just de
thousand Republicans fresh from the clared a six per cent dividend instead
people, elected as delegates to a con- of five, as has been paid heretofore,
ventlon partly for that purpose, Indicating that the S. P. is not so
should be far better able to repre- very hard up as one might have sup
sent the RdDnbllcans of Ohio in the nosed. PerhaDS. however, it was
choice of a presidential candidate able to raise the dividend on ac
than a small committee. It is prob- count of the money saved in refusing
ably true that such a convention to advertise its time cards. If so
would indorse Taft in about the same the stockholders ought to feel
proportion as the committee did, rather friendly to The Journal
that the vote of the committee was which prints the time cards for the
really representative of Ohio Repub- people's benefit gratis. It always
lican sentiment; but the point is that feels like being charitable to the
such a cpmmittee Is liable not to be poor.
thus representative, as a large con
vention would more likely De. ora- Now we are told that trains are
ker is so almost Invariably wrong aimost invariably late because of the
that it is a pleasure to agree with great am0unt of express matter be-
him for once. ini shlrmed. The Droner remedy
then is more frequent trains, more
adequate service. A little later the
cry will come thousand-tongued for
more freight cars to move the crops,
though fortunately shall we say?
the crops except in the Pacific north
west are light. The remedy is more
engines and freight cars and train
hands. A railroad's business is to
supply the transportation needs of
the country it traverses.
Letters From the People
The Oregon i an Neither Fair Nor
Truthful.
Portland, July 31. To the Editor of
The Journal Now that the Haywood
trial Is over and he la declared lnno
coat by a Jury that waa Impaneled In a
manner unfair to the accused man, and
that contained not a man whose situa
tion in life tended to make htm favor
able to the man or trial, but on the
contrary naturally hostile, the con
temptlblllty of the Oregoalan U more
apparent, than ever before, and Ita hoe-
tuny to organized labor crops out. in
stoad of recognizing- the terrible preju
dice and official pressure that was
brought agalnBt this man, and his mag
nanimity In refusing to criticise any
one connected with the prosecution, it
seeks to discount the acquittal by argu
lng that the verdict doe not prove any
thing. Itn report that the Jury stood 11 to
1 for conviction all night, was only an
Indication of Its sentiment ana desire.
asxprensed by the most unfair epecia
correspondent that ever sent reports
Its efforts to Impress the public with
the lla that Orchard had accomplices
In all the crimes he either committed r
Mays he did. Is simply the same at
temnt to keen ud prejudice against the
federation of miners, and all kinds of
labor unions. Its expanded reports of
everything foolish or dangerous said
or done by Indiscreet friends of Hay
wood, socialistic or anarchistic, is the
same thins-. It can neither be relied on
for news nor fair dealing In Its ell
torlals. whenever labor and capital dls
agree and It deserves at all times the
censure and condemnation of oil good
cltlaens. FAIR FLAY.
MORE "TAINTED NEWS.'
A'
GRASS IN WALL STREET;
BLIGHT IN OREGON.
MEW YORK high financiers have
conclusive evidence of the
blight upon the financial in
terests of the country, as un
derstood by Wall street. Right in
that famous monetary thoroughfare,
in the Bpaces between the flagstones
in front of the sub-treasury Itself,
grass has sprouted, actual, dull-green
grass, causing every beholding high
financier to turn pale and tremble
for his country. If Roosevelt's mad
career against the high financiers
is not checked by this ominous ac
tuality, Cortelyou at least should
hold the federal treasury ready for
relief on demand.
Business is really comparatively
dull In Wall street, since the alleged
shrinkage of stocks within less than
a year to the extent of $2,000,000,
000, the Harriman and Hill roads
'losing 1400,000,000. Yet the hard
hearted country seems to be doing
qtiite well, except in the matter of
transportation service. Hens cackle,
cows give down thoir milk, harvests
ripen, farmers and business men are
prosperous, and laboring men,
though their wages have not ad-
vanced in proportion to the advance
In the cost of living, can all get a
'. Job. ' So far, at least, the blight has
' fallen only or chiefly-dn Wall street.
' .Tile New York Journal of Com
, merce noted recently that Union Pa
clfic that sold a year ago, when the
dividend rate, was "6 per cent at
114 1-4, fiOld last week at the same
figure, tha dividend rat being 10
yier cent, while Unloa Pacific 4 per
cent bonds that then ' sold at M6
jaow briny but SO. . There were Sym-
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SAMPLE of "tainted news
comes from an alleged "Civic
Improvement society" at Chi
cago, purporting to summarize
the report of the Municipal Owner
ship Investigating committee of the
National Civic Federation on mu
niclpal ownership abroad and in this
country. Many papers unsuBpect
Ingly publish this and similar lltera
ture being sent out to all newspa
pers. without realizing that it Is
manufactured in the Interest of pri
vate ownership of public utilities.
This particular summary of the re
port which it purports to handle is
biased, unfair, one-sided, and as a
Ex-Senator Mulkey, who is a can
didate for the Republican nomina
tion for United States senator next
spring, has declared himself in
favor of statement No. 1 for
members of the legislature, and that
members of the legislature should
Amlnidab Dance.
Bv James J. Montague.
Amlnldad Dance was a king of finance
Who a wava was keenly on guard
Lest the legion of clerks in his stock
jobbing works
Should suffer by working too hard.
He would never allow the gruff words
Do It now !
To placard his place. If he knew it.
And was wrathful indeed if he happened
to read
In his office the legend "Oot to It
When a crusty cashier who wss dourly
severe
Once posted the notice "Qet busy I"
He was given the bounce with a Jolt
and a Jounce
That made him amazingly dlszy.
"Sly motto," cried Dance, "Is to give
'em a chance
To soldier whene're they require It;
They can loll at their ease Just as
much as they please.
As a matter of fact, I desire It"
To protect employes from that mental
disease
Whose commonplace title Is worry,
He billed the whole shop with big signs
reading Stop!
Take It easy! ' and "What Is the
hurry?"
"Let it go for today!" and "Please ask
fnr mnt-A nn v ' "
Were the words on the desk of each
clerk.
And above every stool was the strict
office rule.
In great characters, "Don't overwork."
In the small counter tills were large
bundles of bills.
So big it would break you to break
one.
And before the clerks' eyes, In red type
of great size
Was the brief exhortation: "Do take
one!"
In the vaults there were stored stocks
and bonds and a hoard
Of gold and promiscuous pelf,
There was never a lock the bold burglar
to D10CK.
But instead a gold sign: "HELP
HOW THE RICH LIVE
Wtat It Cot to Dris. a Smart W
oman
By Cleveland Moffett.
My estimate of sums spent on dress
by New York women has called forth
query and protest by various ladles
who evidently cannot quite believe these
things. No woman spends $80.00 a
year on dress, declares one. And an
other asks If I am quite sure that New
York has a thousand women who spend
$15,000,000 a year on dress that is,
$16,000,000 between them.
As this Is a matter of some moment
(It Is a sign of the times), I have
ought such further enlightenment as
a man can get and I And:
In the first place I must admit a mis
take about sable coats, I said that New
York women spend as much as six
thousand dollars for one of these beau
tiful garments, and In my fear of ex
aggregating I let it be understood that
$8,000 la a high price to pay. Now I
nnd that $6,000 for a sable coat is only
a fair price; In fact, it is a very, low
price for a coat of fine sable. As wit
ness this talk that I had the other day
with New York's leading furrier:
"Can you show me a good aable
coat?" I Inquired.
"Russian sable?" he asked.
"Yes." said I, "something especially
fine say about six thousand dollars."
He smiled. "We haven't anything
made up that I would call especially
fine. We have a rather short coat Of
rather light skins, moderate quality,
that will cost $10,000."
"Ten thousand dollars!" I exclaimed.
"Then what would a good coat cost?"
He continued to smile and produced a
number of fine skins the real imperial
sahle, very dark, with silver lights play-
nx through tho soft fur. And he showed
me the price marks, $550 a skin, about
$10 a Hijuure Inch.
This is the best Siberian sable," he
went on. "A coat of moderate length.
say 30 inc-hen, requires 60 skins, and"
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murmured.
"Thirty-three thousand dollars, which
Includes the cost of making."
"And a longer coat?" I gasped.
"One reaching to a lady's ankles
would require, say 80 skins, that Is
$44,000," he replied, rather matter of
fact.
'And you sell coats at such Drlces?"
I continued In amazement.
'We sell this kind of sable as fast aa
we ran get it. The best skins are very
scarce."
"And a muff?" I asked meekly, "Just
muff?"
"Five skins," said he. "$$.750. There's
one in me snow case.
"And a boa? A little boar
"Kour skins at least, that is $2,200."
Here then, evidently, I erred, not on
he side of exaggeration, but of under
statement; I put down $30,000 as the
maximum yearly sum that a few New
VnrU Wnm.n inanrl lr Aram tnnlnJIn.
everything, whereas nearly $50,000 may
be spent simply for a fur coat with boa
and muff.
I hava heard that American women
spend . leas on dress than their rich
Russian sisters, but ths following sum
marv of Items mad after careful In
vestlgatlon and declared accurate by
several New York dressmakers and mil
liners, ahowa that thev are doing fair
ly well, tor th daughters of a young
republic I may add that the dress
makers and mHllners In question were
me most prominent ana responsiDie in
tne city, au on Kirtn avenue, ana witn
out exception they Insisted that this
summary la considerably too low. In
deed, one of the leading dressmakers
declared that $60,000 would not be too
uiKii a IUUL1.
Estimates of the amount spent on
dress per year by many rich American
women: ,
Fur and fur accessories (5,000
Dinner gowns 6,000
Ball and opera gowns 8,000
Opera cloaks, evening ana car
rlage wraps 2,500
Afternoon, visiting ana lunch
eon toilettes $,000
Morning gowns snirtwaisis ana
Informal frocks 3,000
Automobile furs and costumes..
Negligees
Lingerie . . ,
Hats and veils
Riding habits, boots, gloves, etc.
Shoes and slippers. $800: hosiery.
$500 1,800
Fans, laces, small jewels, etc...
Gloves. $460: cleaners' bills. $1.-
000; handkerchiefs, $00 ,060
2.000
800
1.600
1.300
760
Annual total $88,600
I can imagine a man looking over
this list and objecting to various items
He might say, for Instance, that no
woman would spend $800 a year on
shoes and stockings. Yet I can assure
him that a pair of stockings alone, say
silk with Inserts of real lace (not to
mention the hand-painted ones, might
easily cost $500. Aud If he thinks $600
a year a preposterous allowance for
handkerchiefs, I will refer him to a
linen shop on the Boulevard Haussman,
In i'arls. largely patronliea by Amen
cans, where handkerchiefs at $100 each
or more are displayed and sold. In
deed It Is only a few months since a
New York girl of no very conspicuous
family carried at her weaaing a nana
kerchief of rare old lace valued at
$1,000. And It Is well known that the
lace collection of Mrs. A. T. Stewart
contained handkerchiefs of Venetian
point, Florentine point, Devonshire
point and other fine real laces valued
at two or three tnousana aouars eacn
And some time ago a lace shawl was
on sale at Arnold's marked down to the
bargain price of $10,000.
On the whole, then, I see no reason
to modify my estimate that 8,000 New
York women spend over forty million
dollars a year on dress. And that leaves
Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and the
rest of the country out of considera
tion. There are certainly 10,000 rtch
women in America who could save for
the poor at least thirty million dollars
a year by simply reducing their annual
dress allowance to $3,000. And after
all a woman could manage to dress on
$3,000 a year.
YOURSELF!'
I it ' J . . L A V.
whole false, as is all the "tainted ODey U1 copies nmuuaw -"
literature" being spread broadcast Keneral ectlon. whichever candidate
over the country by railroad and they choose- This is the right posi
tion, and to tnat extent at least
Mr. Mulkey has already made the
right kind of a start.
public utility corporations
Alluding to a glaring Instance of
lying by means of this "tainted liter
ature," the Commoner says: An
Immense literary bureau has been The Astorlan takes it for granted
organized for the purpose of beating that Mr. Hill", as soon as the North
down the rapidly growing sentiment Bank railroad is completed, will
In favor of municipal ownership of carry all his freight for foreign shlp-
publio utilities, and it is plain that ment to that port, right past Port
this literary bureau does not hesitate land. If the Astorian could get a
to misrepresent." Some months ago statement from Mr. Hill to that ef
a New York periodical showed up feet it would be a great scoop.
'tainted literature"
A Hearst correspondent who at
tended the Haywood trial summar
lzed it about right when he said:
should be on their guard against the "The trial was a hodge-podge from
Btart to finish. Neither side had a
case and the Jury would have re
turned an acquittal had the defense
offered no testimony. The lawyers
O A movement is on foot to hold nn both sides were at outs and
a Multnomah county fair at changed their theories as often as a
Gresham. This ia a good idea, chameleon changes color
Several Oregon counties, per
haps a majority of them, are prepar- Harold Thomas, the rich dentist
ing to have a county fair this fall, stockman who flippantly and boast-
and why not Multnomah? Because fully admits that he helped ruin the
a large proportion of the people of girl who killed herself near Colorado
Multnomah county live in Portland, Springs, thereby proves himself to
the rest of the county is little heard be about as contemptible a creature
of and scarcely exists in the minds in the shape of a man as" has ever
of outsiders, but aside from this city come to the surface
there is territory and people and
products enough for a very respect- A nephew of the deposed emperor
able county. Perhaps a new county I of Korea, who has arrived in New'
this bureau of
fully, and The Journal summarized
the case editorially at that time.
Newspaper publishers and editors
sneaklngly false stuff.
A MULTNOMAH COUNTY FAIR.
S
The Difference.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
It Is the season now to go
About the country high and low.
Among the lilacs hand In hand;
And two by two in fairy land.
The brooding bov, the sighing maid.
Wholly fain and half afraid.
Now meet along the hazel'd brook
To pass and linger, pause and look.
A year ago, and blithely paired,
Their rough-and-tumble play they
snared :
They klased and quarreled, laughed and
criea, 9
A year ago at Eastertide.
With bursting heart, with fiery face,
She strove against him In the race;
He, unabashed, her garter saw.
That now would touch her skirts with
awe.
Now by the stile ablaze she stops.
And his demurer eyes he drops;
Now they exchange averted slhs.
Or stand and marry silent eyes.
And he to her a hero is.
And sweeter she than primroses;
Their common silence dearer far
Than nightingale .and mavis are.
Now then they sever wedded hands,
Joy trembles In their bosom-strands,
And lovely laughter leaps and falls
Upon their lips in madrigals.
How Laickiamute Was Named.
D. C. Ireland In Moro Observer.
Forty-eight years ago a deaf and
flumb man. celebrated for his piscatorial
exploits, kept the settlements supplied
wun iresn trout, ana tne unvarvinor re
ply as to whore they come from? was
that tne lucky mute brought. This unl
versal answer finally evolved the name
Luckymute. for the mountain river, aft
erward corrupted by Craig in the Argus
office at Oregon City. Asahel Bush
had extolled Luckymute in an editorial
but the copy was so much more than
usually blindly written that week, that
the typo couldn't make it out and Craig
gusseu 11 011 an iucxiamute wnlCh or
thography "stuck" and the correct spell
ing has since stood that way. During
tho Will-Wal controversy over Walla
met, which waxed hot and voluminously
between sides lined un by Jiiriire Dnndv
ana uovernor ADernetny, nuing the ds
pors and scrapbooks of that day, Judge
Chenoweth and W. B. Carter tried to
llank the movement and have Luckia
mute corrected, but impossible. The
war was taken up by the legislative
assembly, xuckymute was side-tracked,
and the blundering compound "Wll la
met ta," was handed out for posterity
as the legal name for our grand Wal
lamet river.
WKo Made Sckmitz a
Criminal ?
may be formed some day, Portland
to comprise a county as well as a
city, as New York city and San Fran
cisco do, and Multnomah county to
include the rest of the present coun
ty, with Gresham, Troutdale or Fair
view as the county seat. However
that may be, Multnomah county can
have a line fair. Its products of
vegetables, fruits, hay, dairy cows
and products, and other useful
things, can scarcely ba excelled by
York, says he is not only going to
be killed, but "is as good as dead
now." He is certainly mistaken in
the last Btatetuent, so maybe in the
other.
Is Portland growing? Well, we
can point at anything, in any direc
tion, for answer; for instance, there
This Date in History.
1265 Simon de Montfort killed at the
battel of Evesham.
1564 Florentines defeated the French
at Marclano. .
1757 French and Indians bisleged
Fort William Henry. In New York.
1 "SO Major General Benedict Arnold
assumed command at West Point.
1792 Sir Richard Arkwrlght, cele
brated for his inventions in cotton spin
ning, died.
1 S04 American naval force bom
barded Tripoli.
184 7 Telegraphic service established
between Toronto, Buffalo and Montreal.
1 848 Woman's rights convention at
Rochester put forward a claim for suf
frage. I
185 1 Eugene Sue. author of the
"Wandering Jew," died in exile at
Annecy. ,
1858 The Victoria Nyanza discovered
by Captain Speke.
By Arthur Brisbane.
Schmiti, mayor of 8an Francisco, Is
in Jail.
Others that associated with him will
soon be in Jail.
Not only in San Francisco, but In
nearly every city in this country there
are office holders, "representatives" of
the people, that ought to be put In Jail,
and kept there.
Whose fault is this? The fault of hu
man nature, of natural human dishon
esty, do you say? Not at all.
The bribe taker Is the creation of the
bribe giver. Everybody knows that
human nature is weak, that there are
in the world only too many men that
would become dishonest in the face of
temptation.
The laws are made to make tempta
tlon less attractive. Many men would
steal; the threatening Jail keeps them
from it. Many, perhaps, would commit
murder, but the noose, the electric chair
or lire imprisonment frightens them.
But our laws and our way of enforc
ing laws do not frighten our most dan
gerous criminal, the rich giver of bribes
Schmltz might have been an honest
man all his life If the big men that
make a business of bribing officials had
any reason to fear Jail as a result of
meir Drme giving.
In our country we occasionally nu
In Jail the small man who takes a bribe.
If we catch him, and if public opinion
is sufficiently aroused.
But we too rarely practically never
convict ana iock up tne more dan
gerous scoundrel that gives the bribe.
The law should be arranged and en
forced so that the man who elves 1
bribe would put himself at the mercy
of the bribe taker.
Any man taking a bribe, confessing
and proving It, shoud be able to put
the bribe giver in Jail and to go free as
a rewara ior niB conression.
This would do one of two things. It
would out the rich bribe givers in
prison, or it would frighten them out of
tneir lucrative naoit or bribery. To give
a bribe would put the bribe giver at
the mercy of the bribe taker, ft would
expose the bribe giver to blackmail for
ever, and to prison If he refused the
blackmail.
If the people of the country really
want to stop the giving of bribes by
the rich men, they must make it pos
sible to put the bribe giver in Jail. This
can De aone, sna it ought to be done.
The lesson that Schmitz teaches Is
tnat until we snail have developed a
very much better race of men than we
nave toaay we shall have such scandals
and such shameful dlshonestv in of.
fice as long as we permit the rich to
bribe the public officials In order to
make themselves richer.
In Coils of a Python.
From the East London Dispatch.
Mr.. Cocklin, walking in thick grass
near the Marico river, Bechuanaland.
was thrown to the ground by a fourteen
foot python, which coiled round his
legs and then tried to drag him to a
tree-near by, so that, by coiling its tail
round the trunk, it might proceed to
crush him to death.
When within two yards of the tree
Mr. Cocklin got a hand free and shot
the snake, which was so heavy that it
flooded tliree men to lift It.
At The Hague.
By James J. Montague.
Away with horrid, hateful war! Let
wrath ana rancor cease!
Three cheers for love and brotherhood!
Hip! Hip: Hurrav for neace!
The Hague is full of delegates who've
come to seal tne doom
Of rifle's crack and shrapneUa shriek
nnl V. .
n 1 1 1.1 1 1 1 1 1 1 m Ulnnii Bllll yuuill.
And If some rude belligerent the peace
program would ran
The other nations will rise up and wipe
11 orr tne map.
Already has the conference got con
cord on the way.
By limiting war's slaughter to ten thou
sand men a day,
Already battle's terrors have been made
as mild as June,
By making casual children on the field
of strife immune.
And nearer their exalted goal the dele
gates will draw
By counting piracy a breach of Interna
tional law!
Disarmament! Well, scarcely that!
Would weaklings ask outright
That sovereign nations actually give up
meir rigni 10 ngnir
Stop plundering? Why, not at all!
wnai tneonst gaioot
Would dare deprive a nation of Its priv
ilege to loot?
BUt butchering of prisoners must speed
ily decrease,
And thus the world will be secured a
great and glorious peace!
Who waa that Spaniard that arose and
said a merchant fleet
Should not be sunk In time of war?
, Herel Heave him In the street!
What Swiss Is this who dares suggest
that armies be required
To burn no cities on the march? Bay,
let the dog be fired!
What s that? B1ff ! Bang! Take that!
and that! Keep still! If any more
Fool molly coddle talk goes on, how can
we wipe out war? v- .
Hot VcatLcr Fiction
She lay back lazily in the hammock.
"Why doesn't Ferdinand come?" she
murmured languidly.
Then her head fell back and she
snored, oh, so gently.
Down In the city Ferdinand muttered
to felmself: "Gee, but It's hot In here!"
Slowly turning toward a oo-worker,
he held up one finger. The other nodded
and both went out together.
Two hours later Ferdinand ex
claimed: "By Jingo! I was to meet Ara
bella at 4 o clock, but It's too hot. Give
us two more gin rtekeys."
Arabella is sorry now she shook
Ferdinand- Her husband doesn t be
lieve in men spending anything, much
less women.
Small CLanpX
How about your back yardt
1
Don't let those weeds go to seed
There Is never a scarcity of argusrs.
e
Mr. Mulkey gets stoond start. Who's
third?
The small farm idea is growing; push
It along. m
The steel trust regards protection as
a sacred principle.
Some people can't be good without
making others miserable.
A man who won't work in the summer
should not expect sympathy if he Is
hungry next winter, f
Any state that will keep a little Dick
In the senate should go back and sit
down and keep quiet.
And still no whale, wreck or sea ser
pent at any of the beaches. And appar
ently the eamo girls.
"Harriman men busy," says the Mad
ras 1'loneer. Yes, trying to keep cen
tral Oregon bottled up.
"Some tteonle are outing mad." says
the Buffalo Times. This is better than
to be stay-at-home mad.
Still a few lemons aa a gift araavt to
be sneesed at If a chunk ot 1c
xurnisn water.
Oregon Sidelights
Jefferson Is to have waterworks.
Large crowds go over to Newport
Albany has it passenger trains dally.
The hop prospect la poor around Day
ton.
Considerable building la going on at
North Powder.
Many people In towns up the valley
sleep In tents.
Harney valley has its first sclentlflo
well-boring machine.
The Blue mountain huckleberry crop
will also be a "bumper."
A new "Radical'' W. B. church has
been dedicated at Philomath.
Th. nrnnnect Is rood for a blc cran
berry crop around Landlake.
A 4S0-acre wheat field near Weston
will go 60 bushels an acre, and there
are others.
A lot of Los Anceles Deoole am
camped near Glendale up after some of
Oregon's climate.
Journeying In
alleged
Amanda screamed as the wave rolled
her over.
Then she smoothed out the folds of
her bathing dress that she might at
least not drown untidily.
Just as she was about to-be splashed
for the third time a strong arm caught
ner ana puitea ner out upon the sand.
"My deliverers" shrieked Amanda.
"No, only the life guard," said the
man.
"Your arms are tanned, but there
are no freckles on your heart," said
Amanda. I will marry you.
Besides, she added, "you are prob
ably some millionaire's son and are do
lng this on a bet
Its
Proudly the white yacht made
way through the water.
I d like to be an albatross,' sud
denly said Betty de Vere, as she sat on
deck watching the majestic flight of
seven or eight mud turtles.
"What a funny wish!" exclaimed
Percy von Piffle. ."An - albatross a
bird? Oh, say, here's a ripping one,
xuurv a oira now aye seer
"To fold my wings and fly away
"But I say," Interruped Percv,
with Its wings folded. Pretty ripping.
en 1
"T warble beautiful songs at sun
set "
"But I aay. old rlrl. vou don't want
to be an albatross; If you want to
warble you'd have to be a bally canary.'
Just then the yacht struck & float
ing anchor that had slipped over the
side of some earless steamship. There
was a crash and then silence.
"Dash it, don t vou know." said Pnrcw
as the yacht began to sink. "I rather
wish i was lolly well a blooming alba
tross myseir. 1
Forget What the Other Man Hath
Edmund Vance Cooke in Metropolitan
magazine.
What do I care for your four-track
line?
I have a countrv nath:
And this is the message I've taken for
mine
Forget what the other man hath.
What do I care for your giant trees?
I'd rather Whittle a lath.
And my motto helps me to take my
Forget what the other man hath.
What do I care for your Newport beach?
A tub's as good for a bath;
And I keep my solace In constant reach
forget what the other man hath.
What do I care for your automobile?
I'm saving repairs and wrath.
My proverb goes well with an old-style
wneei
Forget what the other man hath.
What do I care If your scorn my rime?
For this Is Its aftermath.
It sounds so well I shall try (some time)
10 lorgevwpat, me ouier man natn.
L 1
Wild Geese Late in Northern Flight?
From the Lewiston Journal.
Skowhegan reports tftat at 8:30 a. m.
Saturday a flock of wild geese, esti
mated at 4,000 or more, flew over the
city, bouna nortn.
While they were passing over the
town the air was so full of them that
It seemed like the approach of s storm
cloud. The first gentleman to witness
this remarkable sight was Sumner C,
Ward, who is an early riser. The flap
ping of their wings awakened him from
a sound sleep and his first impression
waa, until he went out on the lawn, and
saw what it really waa, that It was
thunder.
The remarkable part of it is that the
geese were goirg north so late in the
season. It Is past their breeding time,
but as everything has been mo back
ward this spring It ia presumed the
birds waited for warmer weather before
leaving the Southland.
"
W. R. Journey Is
southeastern Oregon, making
preliminary railroad surveys.
Mr. and Mrs. "Doc" Humphreys of the
Waldoillls. celebrated the 55th anniver
sary of their wedding Sunday.
Eugene bakeries have advanced the
price of bread to 4 cents a loaf whole
sale and 6 cents retail. Down here In
ortland 6 cents has been the price for
years.
Manv hundreds of acres around Red
mond are rich In sralns. grasses and
garden truck, and all In the pink of con
dition. Potatoes especially are showing
p well.
Rev. J. R. N. Bell of Corvallls says
There are 800 acres of beets growing
tributary to Nyssa. 864 around Arcadia
nd 1,400 acres under the owynee canai
which covers the lower bench from
above Nyssa to Ontario.
The dsy Is not far hence when south
ern Oregon granite will take the place
of the eastern product altogether on
this coast, not only in the building
trades alone, but in monumental work,
declares the Medford Trieune.
There Is a field adjoining the town
of Weston which has been In grain
every year since 1876. having but three
summer fallows In the meantime, and
It will this year yield another 40-bushel
crop.
Huntington Herald: One of the great
est mining booms that ever struck Ore
gon will be In full swing in this section
before the summer is over. With the
discovery of coal, asbestos, cobalt, gold,
silver and copper In paying quantities
the boom la sure to follow.
A Moro preacher was In a blacksmith
shop, having some repairs made to his
buggy, and was helping the workman
to cut a bar of Iron when a chep flew
Into his face, splitting tho right lend
of his glasses square across. The extra
heavy glass Is all that prevented total
loss of the eye.
Orants Pass Courier: The fine fruit
lands of Josephine county, of which
there Is as large an acreage as has Jack
son county and four times the area of
Hood River valley, Is Boon to be made
productive and this section of Rogue
River valley will be shipping apples,
(rears, peaches, cherries, berries and
melons by the hundreds of carloads.
Times shows the danger of listening
an editor: "While attempting iapmm a
piece of meat for the editor lastMon
da" the local butcher came very near
sawing his finger off. We were en-
f raged In conversation, and Mr. Fisher
ndustriously sawed away for some
time, thinking he was sawing steak.
but afterward discovered that it waa
his finger."
Dairy and Food Commissioner Bailey
told the Klamath Falls Herald that
Klamath county would In the near fu
ture be devoted largely to the dairying
Industry, as It Is not only more profit
able than most any other line of farm
work, but the conditions there are Ideal.
The climate Is perfect, while forage.
and in fact everything that In any way
aids in. the production of milk, is found
there in abundance of the very finest
quality.
"An East Side Bank for East
Side People."
THE initial dollar In a savings
bank account Is often the
CORNERSTONE of a large
fortune.
A SAVINGS BANK ACCOUNT
is the CORNERSTONE of habits
of, thrift and economy.
TOO MAT Ova AH ACCOUNT
WITH 91.00.
Interest will be paid at 4 per
cent, compounded semi-annually.
The
Commercial Savings
Bank NJ
v-smm 111 nifiw vw I -i
George W. Bates President
J. S. Birrel. ........... Cashier
is that increase of 22 per cent in
the postofflce receipts over July,
1905 (
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