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Tennyson.
FINIS FOR THE MILWAUKIE
CLUB.
E
VERY rltfht-rmlnded citizen must
agrep that tho closing of the
notorious gambling place.
known as the Mllwaukie club
is an excellent thing. The manner
of its closing was somewhat farcical,
for Sheriff Beatle seems to hare
taken every possible precaution to
avoid the necessity of making any
, arrests or confiscating any gambling
implements. Ample notice of the
so-called "raid" had been given be
fore hand and when the sheriff at
last arrived on the appointed hour
the place was as decorous as a Sun
day school, and the gamblers, touts
markers, dealers and operators sat
about twiddling their thumbs and
wearing the best imitation of injured
Innocence that tbey could muster,
i But it matters little how the place
was closed, provided it is kept
closed in the future. To accomplish
this, The Journal will do all in its
power. Whether with or without
the assistance of the Clackamas
. county officials, thin paper will
. pledge its active aid to enforce the
law. In this campaign against the
Mllwaukie club, The Journal Has
t ; been working shoulder to shoulder
wlth the best elements of Clackamas
county and of Mllwaukie. For that
there is a large and respectable ele
ment in Mllwaukie which has been
atrongly opposed to the continued
existence of the club cannot be truth
fully denied. An effort is being
made to make it appear that the club
was an unmixed blessing to the town
of Mllwaukie and that its suppres
eion has worked great hardship. As
was to be expected, the Oregonlan
1b made the medium for this plea
and several columns or its space
were devoted this morning to a de
fense of the gamblers. It is not sur
prising, for the law-breaker who has
.money can always find an advocate
The pretense that the suppression
of the Mllwaukie club is a blow to
the prosperity of the town is trans
parentjy false. No community is
really benefited by the money drawn
; from a compromise with crime.
'Portland's progress since the sup
ipression of gambling .three years ago
has been infinitely greater than be-
ifore, and Milwaukie's experience will
be the same. No town, no city can
suffer from the enforcement of
righteous law.
powers In the forest reserves, recent
ly granted to a powerful corporation
with eastern stockholders, a splendid
water fall within two miles of the
source of the McKenzie river, within
a few miles of the very summit of the
Cascade mountains. Is mighty sug
gestive. Why at this time acquire
water power so far from civilization?
How many others are going the same
way?
A'
DISAPPEARING WATER
POWERS.
ARE OREGON water powers to
become the prey of corpora-
X tions? As costlier fuel and
Improvements in electrical
transmission increase the demand
for these water powers, will Oregon
people awaken to find them all mo
nopolized and in the hands of small
groups of capitalists who will exact
their own prices and control the in
dustrial situation? Through list
lessness and Inattention, are Oregon
people" permitting the foundations to
be laid by which a few men will con
trol the electric lighting, control the
electric power, control the electric
roads, control every industry to
which transmitted water power Is in
cidental or essential?
These water powers are an im
mense asset for future Oregon. De
veloped, they will create a revenue
of millions of dollnrs annually. As
science advances and fuel grows
scarce and costlier, they will become
a necessity. Conserved and kept
within the rea;h of all comers and
all industries, they would be a
mighty factor in state building.
! Monopolized, aa is threatened, they
will be operated for the selfish inter
ests of a few individuals, who will
retard state progress. Their im
, portance is such, and their conserva-
' : tlon of such general benefit, that it
' Ja possible the state ought to have
possession of them and so dispose of
end control them that their usufruct
, ..might be saved, not for a tew, but
. for all the people.
a The fact tnat the forest service,
hicb, it present, control! the water
JUDGE PRITCHARD.
S A GENERATOR of live po
litical issues, Judge Prltchard
of North Carolina is a mar
vel. If he Is not soon
squelched, all the wanderings of big
Mr. Taft, all the longings of Uncle
Joe Cannon, all the Journeylngs of
the Icy Mr. Fairbanks, and all the
deep-laid plans of the man In the
White House, will be as mists In the
morning. They cannot survive many
Judicial ebullitions by the efferves
cent Mr. Prltchard. " The country
has seen no court pyrotechnics so
overwhelmingly pyrotechnic and so
remarkably unjudicial as those of
the North Carolina Jurist.
When by injunction Judge Prltch
ard annulled a state law without a
hearing, he was not only on ques
tionable ground, but was actually
tyrannous, and even laymen know
It. When he invoked the habeas
corpus to further his purpose, he
was so lawless as practlcaHy to be
a Judicial bull in a china shop. To
go to such lengths to serve a rail
road company at this particular time,
when the country is out of patience
with railroads was unfortunate. It
lends strong color to the charge so
frequently made that federal courts
are subservient to the corporations.
Judge Prltchard was formerly at
torney for the railroad that he has
gone so far to serve, and his sub
serviency to it as a Judge of a fed
eral court, only adds to the agita
tion. It happens that Judge Prltchard
is an appointee of Mr. Roosevelt. It
is also history that Mr. Roosevelt In
public addresses and otherwise has
advocated a more centralized gov
ernment with abridgment of the
powers of the states. It is also of
record that Mr. Roosevelt's secretary
of state, Mr. Root, seml-offlc lally de
clared in a public address that cen
tralization of the federal power could
be accomplished, and should be ac
complished by federal court decis
ions. Was Judge .Prltchard acting
on these hints, and did he In so act
ing, overstep the bounds of decency
and a proper respect for the rights
of the states?
Decisions by federal Judges are
sometimes as dynamite. It was the
folly and freak decisions of federal
Judges that became a powerful influ
ence in the hands of Jefferson in or
ganizing the Democratic party. It
was the Dred Scott decision by fed
eral Judges, more than anything else,
that made the public sentiment out
of which the Republican party was
born.
roads shall not acquire parallel and
competing' lines. With road after
road, the plan of 'water, borrow and
buy was applied, until today all
transportation lines between New
York and China are at one man's
mercy.
"Draw a parallelogram with Chi
cago, Portland, New Orleans and
Los Angeles as Its corners, and with
in that territory Harrlman is abso
lute master." And his control ex
tends to the ocean lines. "All the
work of Hal- and Taft and Root for
toe Asiatic Jopen door terminates in
the control of Harrlman. All trade
with Hawaii and the Philippines pays
him what tribute he chooses to com
mand. He has closed his grip on
the strongest route of commerce be
tween the great lakes and the gulf.
Ills fbrmula works with ever-Increas
ing effectiveness." Out of Alton
water he cleared 162,000,000, with
which to buy more material to i
water. The law will henceforth
have much to say to Edward Har
rlman. Such men and methods will
no longer be permitted to go un
checked and unpunished by the
American people."
Harrlman's answer to the report
is that "it Is a political document."
The North American defines "poli
tics," and says: "The voice of the
whole country proclaims it good
politics to attack the methods of
Harrlman."
KICKING AGAINST THE
PRICKS.
S
TRIPPED of all disguises, the
opposition of the Oregonlan to
Statement No. 1 of the direct
primary law means simply
that the people shall not be allowed
to name the United States senator.
In a word, the Oregonlan is opposed
to allowing the choice of senator to
be determined by the vote of the
people. No amount of shallow eoph
lstrles, of pettifogging argument,
can make this position seem logical
or reasonable.
If the people can be trusted to
elect congressmen, governors, legis
lators, why Ehall they not elect the
United States senators? And why,
If the will of tho people is to rule In
the choice of governor, shall It not
also rule In the choice of senator?
By what right does this presump
tuous dictator assume to curtail the
people's powers, to fix a line beyond
and no individual ! 'guilty will not
avail. y
It will be said Indeed hat been
said by some that Judge Landls In
his rulings in this cane, in the im
position of the extreme penalty, and
in the remarks alluded to, ia "play
ing to the galleries," is seeking no
toriety, Is catering to popular but
unreasoning prejudice. Nobody has
a right to assume this. The great
injustice and damage to large num
bers of people, to the people aa a
whole, by these practices, have often
been shown up, by nobody better.
perhaps, than by Judge Gaynor of
New York, and the punishment for
this sort of lawlessness, affecting in-
urlously as it does, millions of peo
ple, directly or indirectly, should be
severe, especially as these violations
of the law have been notoriously and
impudently carried on for 20 years.
It was quite time some Judge arose
who would regard this persistent and
heinous crime as no light offense.
nor be ready to listen to any sort of
excuse for it, but who, on the con
trary, would let not only these habit
ual lawbreakers but the general
public know that only severe punish
ment fitted the case.
Justice, not persecution, must be
the end kept In view, and the pre
sumption is that the Judge has not
allowed any prejudice or bias to ob
scure the ultimate ends of Justice.
As one of the chief of lawbreakers,
defiant and insolent, Standard Oil
needed a severe Jolt. And the coun
try is to be congratulated that it has
at least one federal Judge who com
prehends the enormity of this cor
poration's offenses, and makes the
penalty, as nearly as the law will al
low, correspond.
Government Ownership Not an Iasflc I
By W. J. Bryan in The Commoner
THE BACK YARD.
A'
which they must not go?
ine direct primary law, including
t
HARRIMAN.
W
E DISLIKE to talk Harrlman
so much, but It seems nec
essary. Some think it bad
policy, lest he do worse
things to us. He cant; were sure
of that. Besides, shall tnree-quar-
ters of a million people in a state
that would have had twice as many
if he had treated it right, be dumb,
supine, servile, in fear or wnai mis
man may do or not do? No, we
shall talk Harrlman until he gets
busy in Oregon in the right way and
until more roads take the place of
rumors, reported projects, feints at
surveys and half-way promises. But
for variety of style and utterance
let us quote a few remarks anout
Mr. Harrlman made by the Phila
delphia North American, called out
by the recent report and recommen
dation of the interstate commerce
commission.
One man has undermined a fixed
ational policy of this government.
He shall not be permitted to destroy
The transcontinental railroads
were created by no capitalist or set
of capitalists. The lands of the na
tion were given and the faith of the
nation was pledged. Purpose and
consideration were clearly stated in
every law providing for a trans-Mls-sissippi
trunk line. Great values
were given to secure the development
of new territory. The policy of the
nation is expressly approved in the
constitutions of nearly 40 --states. In
seven years it has been nullified by
one man's discovery that the endless
chain can be applied to the vocation
of the gambler.
" 'Water, borrow and buy,' has
been the unvarying Harrlman form
ula. A convertible bond issue of
$100,000,000 by the Union Pacific
in 1901 was his bank roll. It .was
neither used nor intended for main
tenance, trackage, terminals, exten
sion Wterments, nor any other le
gitimate purpose. It was meant and
used to annul the principle, essential
to progress and prosperity, that rail-,
the provisions relating to Statemen
No. 1, was adopted by vote of the
people of the state, and they ratified
it by an overwhelming majority. In
so doing they declared that hence
forth in Oregon the people shall rule
not a boss, nor a machine nor even
a party, if the party seeks to rule In
opposition to the will of the whole
people. Any Individual, any news
paper, therefore, that seeks to
thwart the great purpose of the law
is false to the people and a traitor
to their cause.
The Oregonlan advances the extra
ordinary argument that the people
do not mean what, they say by their
ballots, when they vote for United
States senator. Read this drivel,
which appeared In the course of an
editorial published this morning:
"If the Republican party In Oregon
do not. under present conditions, throw
to the candidate for Senator a majority
vote In a general election, It will not be
because the voters of the party do not
want a Republican Senator, or do want
a Democratic one, but because they
don't want that particular man for
Senator, and expect the legislature to
elect Home other Republican."
Of all the varied contributions to
this discussion there has been noth
Ing more inane, more childish, more
silly, more untrue. As well say
that when George Chamberlain was
relected governor the majority of the
voters did not. want him to serve an
other term, and merely voted for
him as a joke. The argument is too
absurd to deserve serious considera
tion. Sooner or later our venerable
contemporary will come out or its
trance and will awaken to the fact
that the will of the people must be
obeyed.
HOUSEHOLDER'S civic char
acter can be determined to
some extent by the condition
of his back yard. We do not
mean the wealthy man who has a
retinue of servants whose duties In
clude the dally care of all the home
premises, but the average citizen of
limited means who has to look after
his lot or two with but little and oc
casional assistance. The front yard
of some such citizens kept clean,
neat and attractive, may be decep
tive; to ascertain whether one is liv
ing up to a proper civic ideal and
doing his duty as an urban citizen,
look into and over his back yard.
The condition of the back yard
helps to make a man's reputation,
and is Indicative of his character.
Because It is hid from the view of
passers-by on the street, he need not
taink its condition is unknown. The
groceryman, the milkman, the veg
etable man, the laundryman, and the
near neighbor, see and at least men
tally comment on it. It isn't a mat
ter of enough interest to gossip
about much, yet somehow the con
dition of a man's back yard becomes
generally known throughout the
neighborhood, and he Is judged ac
cordingly. If it be slovenly and
dirty, while the front yard Is clean
and neat, the estimate of the owner
is that he Is insincere, puts on ap
pearances to deceive observers as to
his true character.
Every citizen owes it to himself
and his family, aside from what the
neighbors may think of him, to keep
his back yard clean and tasteful
This makes the premises more
healthful, and the family more con
tented and cheerful. Every one of
the family can take more pride in
the home; it is a pleasanter place
for all of them. So to a little extent
life is rendered happier; and we all
learned when small that little
things, aye, little things, make up
the sum of life." Take care of the
back yard.
As the campaign approaches It be
comes more; and more evident that of
the eoonomlo questions, three the
trust question, the tariff queatlon and
the railroad question will ahnre public
attention and theal three really present
the same laaue Aetween me general
public and the privileged claaaea. Shall
the government be administered In the
Interest of a rewi mis is me iu
presented by the trust question, tne
tariff question and the railroad ques
tion.
flnvernment nwneralilD la not an
Immediate Issue. A large majority of
the people still hope for effective reg
ulation, and while they so hope, they
will not consider ownership. While
many Democrats believe and Mr. Bryan
Is one of the number that public owner
ship offers the ultimate solution of the
iroblem. till, those who believe that
he nubile will finally In self defense
be driven to ownership, recognize that
regulation muet be tried under the most
favorable circumstances b fore the
masses will be ready to try a more
radical remedy.
Regulation cannot be sufficiently
rled within the next year, and there
la no desire anywhere to make govern
ment ownership an Issue In 1 808. Mr.
Bryan fully agrees with thoae who
believe that it would be unwise to turn
attention from regulation, on which the
people are ready to act, to government
ownership upon which the people are
not ready to act To Inject the
government ownership question Into the
next campaign would simply give rep
resentatives of the railroads a chance
to dodge the Issue of regulation and
deceive the public.
Bo far, the railroads have been unsuc
cessful In preventing effective federal
regulation, and atate regulation has,
as a rule, been restrained by the United
States courts. Jt la about twenty years
since the Interstate commerce commis
sion was created. It required about ten
years for the courts to find out that the
fowera conferred were Insufficient, and
hen It took about ten years to secure
their support. Even that amendment
secured after tremendous effort, falls
short or what it should be. it alms to
stop rebates and passes and the rail
roads profit pecuniarily by both the
stoppage of rebates and the prohibition
of passes but extortionate ratea still
Nearly everybody who goes over te
Taqulna seems to have a? kick afavirT
transportation facilities. .T
Tho person who stole soft chickens
oxiat. and state legislation for ths from a Pendleton preacher Is about tho
reduction of rates has resulted in an meanest tales n record,
agitation on the part of tho railroads e
for legislation which will deprive the A young bald headed eaglo or mam-.
Ona day thla week aome Italian ac
tion hands working near Tana-ant
terminate the trusts and to reform Pou.h,t.'ol'-e,""n Jnn"r owloro for send-,
e tariff. I ln 760 of good American money back
state of authority and centralise all moth bussard tried to carry off a young
regulation In congress. The Democratic I child near Corvallla. but was canto raj
party muat meet the lasue presented;! . . , ,
It must resist tne encroaenmenia upon i jaekaon countv will Via v. . ..
the authority of the states. It muat breaking fruU cro W On2 trAtPJ?;
tnalat upon the exerclee of . federal rlrS.nL.ta1:?..0' !5
power for the regulation or interstate vim 01
commerce, and It muat insist upon the W,e nd Pr-. .
. J . m ...(kA.lau I aa
rieruisn ui it its siuiiiuriiT tur lubj i - - - . a .
the exercise of all of the power vested .."".""J ,l.,"a 2.?-!'r Euo-one
In the atate. This question has grown i oi.n .iv,m?-V!!.t .pav,m8nt
It, importance during tho pa.t year and f' S,'" !!52",L" V&Zr
us orommenoe win oe increased ir anvi ..w.., uuara.
ity. Tne republican nartv is as imDot
ent to regulate the railroads ss It Is to
ex
The Democrat lo nartv hmm tn 10 Italy.
natlnnil Mmnalma H a . n m A A tl.. I S
rail rniid regulation hiu k rn.,v.i i I The knlttlnar machines for the witnlaa
can national platform have been silent I mills have arrived and are set up, aa
upon tne subject. The president has BOOn tne aina or yarn neeaea zor the
partiauy aaopiea tne uemooratlo view I "nuiaciure or women nose can do pre-
in una auDjeci, uui ao rar me Kepubll- a"f wie worg win oegia
can leadera have reaolutalv nnnnuj it I
The prealdent la helping to educate I Dairy Commissioner Bailey says tho
tne
reau
ent leaderahlD. Is
plleh thla or any other Important reform. I the top price In any market in ; the
If the Democratic party will clearly and world.
Many hundreds of acres of Inarared.nf f
nieni. I lands naar iatnrla wnt-th ni,M I
u. nuuciiun oi i u utawiisa wnn orcnaras or uatt",", i
ratea to a Dolnt where thav will i.M I frulfa whien h in i T?V I
onlv a ruinnahl. ..V ah.'in .t"". "'.V 1"" I " 7IV- !
value of the roado If tho party will Budget.
"u ii win mimmraa liseit not only I
to democrats but to those Republicans JT. W. Copplnger. near Echo, la har-
wno nave Deen led to study the rail- vetting 500 sacks a day. He expects
road nneafinn Th i 1 A ,.. I ... v. . . . . V
people up to the need of railroad I Bonansa rreamery la the roost complete,
jjatlon but hla party, under Jts pres- nicest and cleanest little creamery in
powerless to accom-l'ne state, and its product would bring
i me uamncriuo party wju clearly and
unequivocally demand first, the ascer
taining of the value of all the railroads;
second, the preventing of over-capital-
rK- vlt!,.15"'fS- ,'n(1 lh" la"ue He d0" not hl' "n to assist him.
,.,l."?i."Ute1. vpyone can doing all the work himself, with the
understand the party's position. While help of his four aona.
Democrats may differ as to the relative . .
Importance of the trust queatlon. the T r, t ,. w
tariff queatlon, and the railroad quee- ,J c? ,f PoIk county has a grape
tlon. all must agree that the Sarty v,n ,,hai ,"t yar, yielded over 600
muat take the aide of the common po,ni" of "Pf"-. and t '""J? llk,e thr
people on all three questions wl" be Dlor" th, yar- He also has
Let the lino be drawn between those a cherry tree that measures eight and
who want to make this a government on na" ,eet ,n circumference,
of the people, by the people and for
the people and those who want It to Vast tracts of land all sround Echo
be a government of the cornoratlnna are annn to arlva tin ua-ahruah to maUa
Free Love Story
Bv Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Copyright, 1907, American-Journal-Ex
aminer.
A reformer with an idea that the
regeneration of the world lies through
coionlxing men ana women ana man
aging sex relations without the present
rlage laws has written me a letter.
Referring to some mention In this col
umn that that great soul Luther Bur-
bank and his scientific theories of edu
cation for children, my correspondent
says: Rurbank et al.. Including yourself,
are all right In the contention on this
fundamental question, but you all have
too much at stake personally to dare
auund the advance note as to the start
ing point. But the note Is sounded here,
and It will continue to ring out that It
has encircled the world. A bunch or
us have dedicated our lives to this lib
erty of woman, for you know when one
becomes free then and only then will
Love children be born and grow Into
instruments through which Love ((Jod)
may operate its unselnsh way.
The letter ends "daring" me to visit
the colony and study Us "nature meth
ods."
But I have no least Interest In visit
ing the colony. Personally I have noth
lng at stake, which prevents me from
saying what I believe on this or any
other suDject.
Nor could all the powers and prlncl
palltles of earth force or hire me to
say one word I did not believe to be for
the best Interests of the race. I do
not believe humanity's best Interests He
In the abolishing of marriage laws, lm
perfect as they are. and basely and rl
dlculously as they are mtHtised and vio
lated today.
by the corporations and for the corpo-lway for homes, says the Register. Th
rations. I Furnish canal alone would make a larg
Dinlcelapiel on Hunting
By George V. Hobart.
Copyright, HOT, by American-Journal-.
Examiner.
Meln I.leber Looev Va haf ra.ir
Not long ago Florence Huntley,
lor of "Harmonics of Evolution,
JUDGE LANDIS' DECISION.
r
l 'DOE LANDIS not only fined the
Standard Oil corporation the
limit of the law, amounting to
$29,240,000, but he directed
the summoning of a grand jury to
consider the cases against tho rebat
ing railroads, particularly the Chi
cago & Alton, which must have been
equally guilty with Standard Oil in
violating the law. More than this,
T.. J t.-JI. J . . . . I
juuee naiiuis expressea tne opinion .-Xch. look oudt. Macbeth, look oudt
that the fines Imposed were not a! two dimes and look oudt some more
"Ach, Look Oudt, Macbeth."
Marlon Hills tells a good story of the
stage In the American Magazine. The
chief character Is a dull girl whom a
persistent manager endeavors to drill as
W lie 11 111 i.ittuwcn.
"I.Ike this." he hissed to the stolid
Venus, trying to magnetize her with his
magnificent eyes. juacDein, Deware,
beware! beware!"
"All right." whispered Brenda. stoic
ally. The performance was under way.
and thev dared not be too vocal. She
arlancei! out to the stage in order to
fix locations. "I say "be where?' and
where ?a It you will be, Mr. Studhelm?"
"Right In front of you. (You cold
felorage swab) And It's beware. It
means look out, look out, look out (and
God help us all If we don't!)"
"Oh, I dank you, Mr. Studhelm, for
your explaining kindness," murmured
Brenda.
He shot her an alert look, to detect
possible sarcasm, but, of course, saw
none. With a tragic supplication to the
helpful powers above, Morris went to
hh? doom.
For the wabbly passage up the trap,
the glare of fire, the bloodshot agony In
the eyes of the tortured Thane all
proved unsettling to the "second appari
tion, wno gunurauy wnnea.
au
thor of "Harmonics of Evolution, said
to me in a private letter, "I do not ap
prove of this glorification or the sex
impulse or of those periodicals and
people who devote themselves to that
subject. It Is a purely personal mat
ter between a man and a woman; and
when we develop the best men and
women the subject of sex will take
care of itself."
Mrs. Huntley expresses my views per
fectly
With the proper training for the first
If years of lire, beginning at the cradio,
any child not born an idiot can be de
veloped In normal, healthful Ideas on
the creat underlying principles of life
Given the right industrial conditions
and proper occupations and ambitions
after that age, tne sex question win re
sult In the way nature Intended, and
for the best interests of society. In
stead of thought, time and money wast
ed on attempts to start new "Love Or
ganizations, and to "free" women from
old ideas of marriage. It would help the
progress of the world more effectually
to concentrate on freeing the world
f-om monopolies of God's gifts to men
earth, sun and air and in organizing
an educational Institution on the lines
laid out by Luther Burbank in his
"Child Life and Plant Lte." It would
do more for the nation if President
Roosevelt would appropriate money to
present a copy of that book to every
mother In America than all his whole
sale advice to Increase the population.
sufficient penaltbut that the guilty
persons should be imprisoned,
though this is not provided for under
the Elklns law. But under the new
rate, law imprisonment as well as
fines may be imposed, and judging
from Judge Landis' remarks he will
not hesitate to Impose botH penalties
if it can be legally done. And there
is little doubt that the judge will be
able to find the right parties, or that
ma Use for a Fork.
From the Denver Post.
A Denver man had a friend from a
Kansas ranch in the city Saturday on a
business deal and at noon they went to
a downtown restaurant and had lunch
together. The Kansas ranchman ate
his entire meal with his knife. When
he was nearlng the end he discovered
something. Ho discovered that he had
no fork.
"Say." he said to the Denver man,
"that waiter didn't give me a fork."
"Well, you don't need one," replied
tne i Denver man seriously
"The deuce I don't" came from the
the plea that only the corporation S"lwit2rhat am 1 ln t0 Btlr ray
All cooperative societies succeed fi
nancially when they last long enough to
make a fair trial of their efforts.
But no society or organization which
meddles with the sex relations ever
makes a continued success of its exper
iment. The moment that idea becomes the
dominating one It breeds trouble with
an individual or a community.
It becomes a fungus growth, instead
of a natural plant.
Upon whatever theme we concentrate
the mind, we develop the brain ceils
exercised by those thoughts.
Certain organs on the head of a new
born Infant indicato whether he Is nat
urally endowed with musical abilities.
If he is not. ana his parents begin early
and work persistently to cultivate his
musical taste, by having him hear and
study good music, the musical cells will
aevelop on his cranium.
It is so with every other talent, pro
pensity or inclination. Since the foun
dation of the universe rests on the sex
impulse, all human beings are born
v.th tendencies of that nature.
To start a colony which has this Idea
as Its central one Is certain to Increase
the wo: d's sex cranks and monoman
iacs. There are two qualities in human na
ture that need to be cultivated, and
then all the industrial and domestic
conditions will right themselves. These
qualities are unselfishness and self
control. This is an old, old statement.
So ia the dawn an old fact, yet every
day must begin with it. Unselfishness
would end all monopoly, self-control
would enable every Individual to direct
his mental and physical energies toward
the best uses of life for himself and
humanity.
Men have never been taught self-
control.
Since they descended from the tree
they have supposed that self-indulgence
was their privilege and that woman's
duty was to keep silent, patient and
long-suffering.
Physicians, bein men, have helped
them along In this faea, and taught them
that self-indulgence was their neces
sity. But now that woman has entered tho
arena of medicine and has learned all
that men know by study, and much that
men can never know by her psychic and
perceptive qualities, a new science Is
taking the place of the old.
Metaphysics, the new revamp of the
oiaest religion in tne woria, nas come
e
larK
town or E;cno wnen settled up. and It is
only one of many Irrigated tracts close
to tnia town.
While walking on the beach near Ta
qulna bay. Colonel F. J. Parker lost hla
purse containing 170 In greenbacks.
While hunting for It he found another
... t . I UI0 Willi f 1H HI RU111 1U ' " , - "I Uifl-
; " "' ' lAinaconinf, mo., una mond rings, ana he soon met the owner,
J a -5, t,npr It dot you find It I a woman, who had in the meantime
i ,,L. Jl . V "ar? J" a!r v,la unl Pic- found his purse.
tureskew coal reglofla of vestern Mary-1
'ana. I Trlo.nn T.. ..In,' Tllrn4 Cnmmla.
I notice It In der letter vara, vi, vAalalnnM l lttI.AM will ,Lr ,ifA ir
ia I Wirchlnia, und vent ia a close student, a deep thinker and
oma nuntlng mid olt trapper Ban Rob- a hard worker, and If any man can get
ertshauser. t the bottom of this railway muddle
o.o.. nunc ii in your letter. Looey, he can. And If his word "goes' both
J'0'' Say abOUt dlscnfarlnar inmi aMai will n Tncflw what la mminif
..v . -i.a.nr Rinu oi a animal vile to them, ana no more ana no less.
uiu un ooi nunting trip, but before
heuXd KavW indneVmVoV.eunrdPg,ot At,ftn',c Cab,e BeKUn 00 Year" A
himself undiscovered. This is a most memorable date In
upfln derAd "r of telegraphic communlca-
fall, und he also rilacnfWoH manv tlon between America and Europe. It
dlscofered animals. I wan luat so vears aero today, on August
thorge la Infested mlt der sama rn w I r mart . v. . . i . v. . (..' i
er of d scoferv vnt vnn h. t lKO' l,,ul l"c '. " w
Chorge wrote a ladU hrvnir hn..i. hi. lantlo cable commenced at Valentla, Ire-
atventures vich mebbe you would like land. The project was conceived In
r.i.?..J or- "10 " trapper m3. when the magnetic telegraph had
It:
to show
Ban Robertshauser, ao here Ii
CHAPTER VUN.
In der Adlrondacks, how luffly yet!
au arount us vas trees, voods und
forest, mlt here und dare' an occasional
iiiiis iu oursi aer monotony.
Vlll I efer forget dot morning!
o clear and cloudless, mlt a
been In operation 10 years, but It wan
not until four years later that the work
was begun. The original projectors,
were Americans, Including Professor 8.
F. B. Morse, Peter cooper, cyrua w.
Field, Moses Taylor ana otners.
The vessels employed to lav the cs-
ble were the Niagara and Susnueharina
slight rain falling through dor mist of tlie united State navy ami me jur't-
Suttenly der guide sat up und pointed lah vessels Leopard and Agamepnon.
nerfously at der annthmai After sailing a few miles the cable
"Dare It is!" he set. mlt twltrhlna- ... snapped. This was soon repaired, but
cents. on August 11. after 800 miles of wire
vot is it?" v aaket .... i hArl been nalri out. it snapped again.
volvers retty In case of trouble " and the vessels returned to Plymouth
"Der Oazazus! der fiery Gaaabua! See In June of the following year a eecond
uer noise ne maKea mm h. - ntremnr ranen inrouarn h. viuibiii nwrm,
Vard!" The third voyage was successful,
Ve looked eagerly but saw nodding Junction of the continents was cim-
"Yonder he comes!" screamed Pete' pleted by 2.050 miles of wire from Ire -
der guide, "snorting und kicking holes' land to Newfoundland, August 6, 1K6S.
through der prairie!" The first two messages ware from
"Description him!" ve eggsclama- Queen Victoria to iretident Buchanan
uoneu eageriy, vile ve got our camera and his repiy.
retty to took der description. 1
ler Gazazus! der flarv riin,M,i a., i nrv.i . 1 o.a. urnf
haa feet! four of d'm vaiti ci ' ... I irrnm tha Madras Pioneer.
yes, aigs feet! Vun on each corner und Mr. Cotton might be reminded that
two to carry! His complexion is a pale the presa of central Oregon Is quick
pink changing to blue, und his teeth to resent flings at thla territory, and
look like a bunch of apartment houses'" that If they are "touchy" on the sub
Pete, der arulde. vn inmhiin. iir. . lact tha failure of the Harrlman ln-
leaf In der dining room table. I tereats whom he represents, to. give
Ve search der horizon, but der Gaza- this territory the railroad facilities it
sua vas not wlslble to der ni.i . la entitled to. Is In a large measure
!" veiled Pete dor sih. iJ reannnalhla for that attitude.. Central
. " ' 0 ' I . ' . - ,, . , ,A k.tl. ....
"Look!
sitting down now. Der Gazazus Is cal
Img tO his mate. No! an nrmv E.
doozlums Is rushing across der prairie'
"PndoOKltima Inn.il.. . ,
riums vicn run like a antelope, talk
iinn a coyote una mean nn harm 1IL-. .
veiaii rauun:
Here vas aomedlnsr new
Ve made our camera rettv tn tnnv
uencripuon or aer .faaoozlums, und Pete
uer guiue, vem on eggcitingly,
"Der Gazazus is now talklna- eamoaf
ly mit der Padoozlums. Vun feniila Pa.
doozlum, vlch seems to be der leader
nas nis paw up Denina ills ear aa if 11.
tentng!" .
Again ve search der horizon, hut iro
van nuuuina; noing.
"Kelp!" screamed Pete: "der meeting
has atchurned und der whole bunch Is
ramelng dls vav heln! See' dor ihu
Padoozlums vas laughing und rubbing
wr-i uuiumuD i-uicr ui. uer appetites
help! help!
Pete, der guide, fell ofer in a fain
yust as der doctor arrived.
"No vundnr!" eggsclalmed der doctor a
nan nour later; "no vunder Pete dis
corered der Gazazus und der Padoo
zlums. Any man dot vul a pint
of cooking brandy und use furniture
ponsn xor a cnaser snouid see vorse
aen aem :
Ve looked surprisaled.
"Vas der Gazazus und der Padoozlums
yust creatures of der Imagination?" ve
asKea.
Der doctor laughed briefly.
"Yes, ne responsed, "und ven vild
beasts like dem get in a man's mind
Is der hardest ding in der vorld to set a
VIC. . U . U V 111.
a a a
1 nope vou vui - see der moral tr.
Chorge Yateshaben's story, Looey, und
der next time dot yotr und trapper Ban
go ould hunting drink nodding but
plain vater und you von't make so many
u Btumicu uiBuuieriBB.
Dot Vest Wirchlnia moonshine und
udder stimulus vlll make a man see
more undlscofered animals in 15 min
utes den you can find In der Zoo In a
year.
Eggspeclally near Elklns, und you ask
Trapper Ban If dot aln'd so, yet.
Ve vas all veil at home mlt der egg
ceptlon dot I vas still vorklng In der
garten.
Und ven I aln'd vorklng In It you
can find all der neighbors' hena und
chickens on der chob.
Between der whole lot of us It la a
busy garten. Yours mlt luff,
D. DINKEL8PIEL,
. per George V. Hobart.
supply of physical energy Into higher
brain power, and how to make the mind
master of the man.
Slowly but surely the race Is develop
ing a "New Man." V
When the new man becomes fully
fixed In our social order, the old mar
riage will prove si right.
"Sex colonies," "free love," or "thor
ough breeding" experiments, with the
romance of life eliminated, will not has
ten the result.
The bettering of Industrial r-nndiinn.
and the scientific education of children
win IIC1J1 11. ,j
Oregon wants a railroad, and It believes
with some show of Justice that not only
the Harrlman Interests failed to supply
the much needed ran transportation,
but that they have kept other railroads
out of thla territory. The atatement
credited to Mr. Cotton was only criti
cised as reflecting the attitude of the
Harrlman interests towards central
Oregon.
Thla Day in History.
1644Conde victor at Frledburg.
1772 First partition of Poland.
1805 Francis I of Austria declared
war against France.
1816 First state ejection held
diana. . .. .
nci Tjottl nf Mobile bay...
1897 Tital wave caused gfeat de
struction of lives and property In Japan.
Forty-Acre Farms.
iTrm hn Prairie Cltv Miner.
Forty acres of the exceedingly fer
tile lands In this valley. If farmed ac
cording to advanced methods, will re
turn a better profit to the stockman
and farmer than a whole section does
now as it Is nanaiea. ir iney wuum
cut up their large ranches ana iarms
Into 4U-acr 101s ana bbii mem. m
people of this section would become
the habitation would ln-
nren'ne hundredfold, as well as the tax
able property, decreasing taxation. It
will come to mat some aay.
And those two thlrtara ara In thai .1.
"An East Side Bank for East
Side People"
Tha
OPTIMIST
Has a Much Better Life Than the
PESSIMIST
But
It is hard to be optimistic when
one is continually struggling to
MAKE BOTH ENDS
MEET
Ohviate thla necessity bv put
ting away regularly a part of
your Income.
THE
Commercial Savings Bank
XJTOTT Ajn WILUiHI A
Pars 4 pes seat Interest
annually, on all aooonnta of f 1 np
samSJ
'TO
George W. Batea.,
J. 8. Blrrol
.President,
. . .Cashier'
also to teach men how to guide the over and yon the way.
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