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It Is easy finding reason
why other folks should be
patient. George Eliot
OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY.
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8 THE JOURNAL has suggest-
It will do only barm, not
an good, to indulge In frantic
or feverish verbal or printed
attacks upon tbe officers and direc
tors of the suspended bank. What
lias been don cannot now be un
done, and "there is no nse in crying
' orer spilled milk." Besides, the In
dications are that the failure will
not torn out to be a disastrous one,
' and there 1 ground for hope that
alt depositor will be paid in full.
But there Is nothing that they can
do to benefit themselves except to
. . wait with what patience they can
for the outcome.
' Yet a word as to methods of bank-
- tng Is timely. Every such failure
" . ought to be a loud, clear warning to
all bankers to conduct a surely safe
and conservative business, and never
to forget to realize that they are
custodians and trustees of other
people's money. Thousands of peo-
- pi implicitly trust the officers and
directors of a bank, especially a sav
' Ings bank like this, and many of
' these are poor people, the loss of
whose savings falls upon them as a
terrible calamity, a dire tragedy,
causing great and prolonged suffer
ing and injury, and in some cases
1 rain and even suicide. For this
reason, the trust accepted by bank
3 ers Is an onerous and most sacred
' one, and they have no right to take
any risks whatever with other peo-
; pie's, especially poor people's, money.
- ;AJ1 this, at greater length and
more forcibly, has been said many
' times, but its repetition after such
an incident as the failure of this
bank onght not to be entirely In
vain. In making their Investments
though intending no wrong, these
Officers were not careful enough, not
considerate enough of the thousands
of poor people who must suffer if
the bank's plans failed, as they did
The first principle of sound banking
J Is to take no risk with others' money
E
arity.
from Portland to Eugene, Water' la
th tru means of transportation,
because by far to, cheapest, always
and everywhere.. To ship a ton of
galvanised iron from England to
Natal, 7,000 miles, cost by water,
$4.07. and from Natal to Johannes
berg, 43 mile by rail. V $t.7T.
Prom and to th tarn places, a bar
rel of cement costs IS cents and
1 4. 78. respectively.
If Willamette valley people want
an lneihaustlM and' an oamonopo-
llzabl transportation, as well as
the cheapest of all transportation
they can get It. bat they will have
to knock, and knock hard at the
door of congress. Forty year of
waiting- must have shown us that It
wont come otherwise.
PARTY AND THE PRIMARY
LAW.
FOR OPEN RIVER.
I
T IS of consequence that the pro
Ject for an open Willamette river
be not forgotten. Many a noble
enterprise has failed through
neglect at the moment when success
seemed achieved. It Is not enough
' that the legislature of Oregon has
made $300,000 available as half the
um requisite for ridding the river
y of the toll-taking at Oregon City
The congress of the United States
. has yet to be dealt with, and some
times congress mores in a myst
. rlous way, its wonders to perform
It might take vast effort to Induce
that body to aid the Willamette
project, and even vast effort might
fail.
Tncre win be reasons wny con
gress might hesitate. An open river
will mean an Instant reduction of 50
', cents per ton, not only by river but
by rail, on freight In and out of the
region, and that Is a loss the rail
roads will seek to prevent. An open
and Improved river to Corvallls and
Eugene will mean a revival of
steamboatlng, a better river service,
and a far greater loss than the 50
cents a ton to railroads. For;these
very important reasons, the railroads
will be mortal foes of the Willam
ette project, and they have always
' been powerful In Influencing con
gress. They have assassinated many
f a noble measure by a blow In the
dark or a stab in the back. It may
take every bit of power the state
can muster to counteract the influ
ences these foes of open rivers will
,v; Invoke.
: The Importance of the project is
.enormous. Oregon is almost bound
hand and foot by the Inadequacy of
her railroad facilities. She is at the
. foot of the list In railroad mileage,
i In that; respect, only three states in
the nation are so pauperized. It is
holding-her back enormously In de
velopment and population. Nor la
there apparent bop for the future.
A quick : and ure remedy for the
.'. Willamette reglen Is the splendid
rivef. It should be studded . with
targes and steamboat a.11 the way
A-SFEAilKH DAVET makes a
plea in his paper, the Harney
County News, for prty or
ganization, for party solld
and for a Republican conven
tion that shall be a means of bring
lng about such a reap It. He pro
fesses not 'to be antagonistic to the
primary law, but intimates that it
that law is responsible for the defeat
of Republican nominee in any case,
then it Is a bad law and must be an
nulled. The tone of his plea shows
that he considers party success the
main thing, the most Important
thing. Whether the people are well
served, or worse served because of
party solidarity, seems to be with
him a matter not worth discussing.
He wants means taken which will re
sult In "a re-cementing of scattered
forces, and a gathering back of men
who have been led astray," so that
there will be an entire "disappear
ance of Democratic hopes," for he
says that the anxiety of Democrats
for the puBllc welfare rests solely on
their "greed for office."
As to this last proposition. If It be
true of Democrats, why may it not
be assured that It Is also true of Re
publicans? On the whole, are they
not very much alike? Mr. Davey as
sumes in this remark, It It means
anything, that Democrats are goats
while Republicans are sheep; that
Republicans are of entirely different
clay and caliber from Democrats,
that the motives and purposes of
these are altogether selfish while
hose of the others are wholly pa
triotic. It is this narrow-vlsloned
and pharlsalcal partisan spirit which
Mr. Davey invokes and would rein
carnate. But It is too late. The
old fetters can never be re-formed
and re-fastened.
But what right has he to assume
that the voters who have chosen to
vote for a Democrat as against a Re
publican occasionally "have been led
astray"? Who constituted him or
any one else their political mentor
aad critic? They don't admit that
they were "led astray," or "led" at
all. They did what seemed, and still
seems to them, right and best, and
they see no damage that It has done,
except to the schemes of some self
seeking machine politicians. Mr.
Davey wants a "re-gatherlng" an(t a
"re-cementlng of scattered forces"
that Is, a great majority of voters
blindly and supinely following the
dictation of a few leaders and
bosses, who will parcel out the of
fices and emoluments, reorganize the
forces of graft, and grow fat on pick
ings and plunder at the expense of
the people who are foolish enough to
surrender all political Independence
and "fall In line" and "stand
shoulder to shoulder," for whatever
the bosses decide on and decree.
This Is the program and the pur
pose, and If the primary law inter
feres, It Is a "bad thing" that must
he gotten rid of.
The argument for government by
party, a single party, Is being sub
jected to scrutiny and criticism
which it does npt stand well. Mr.
Henry Watterson recently declared
that we are not living under a gov
ernment by publio opinion, as was
Imagined, but under a government
by party organization. This has been
partly changed by Roosevelt, but he
Is an exceptional party leader. Com
menting on Mr. Watterson's remark,
the Minneapolis Journal, an inde
pendent Republican paper, says
If Mr. Wattersom intended to become
a voles crying In the wilderness he is
belated. The wilderness has long- been
vibrant with voices of those protesting
against party corruption and behind ev
ery tree trunk lurks a potential Moses
ready to lead the people into the prom
ised land of political, freedom and hon
esty. If there is any one tendency in Amer
ican political life today that is strongly
marked it is the tendency away from
blind partisan action. Never was tbe
power of public opinion over party ac
tion stronger than at this moment.
Never was the American people less
ready to follow a leader or adopt a
course of . action simply because man
or movement bore the party label. The
independent voter Is abroad In the land.
Time was when, we were cursed with
party government deaf to the voice Of
public opinion. There are vestiges of
mai insensate system ot parts in tAie
union still. But laey are rare indeed.
We are not herein combating the
make that th Republican party
nearer right on national Issues than
the Democratic party. Even If this
be true. It has nothing jto do with
state politics. To coalesce national
tat, county and city politics and
put them all In the hands if one
party and one organized set of lead
era or bosses all along the line
would be manifestly dangerous; the
people will not Indorse such a pro
gram. Mr. Davey would not have a
single Democrat elected In the state
of Oregon not a single member of
the legislature, state officer, county
officer, or city officer, down to dog'
catcher; every officer should be a
servant and beneficiary not of the
neon la at large, who are lost
sight of, but of a party, an or
ganlzatlon, a machine, that has al
ways Its own selfish and sinister pur
poses. The people won i agree wun
htm.
TRAGEDY BEHIND STRIKE.
S THERE a tragedy behind the
curtain in the telegraph strike?
What Is the standard of living
of the operators? That Is the
test of whether they are adequately
or underpaid. Have they home com
forts and wholesome social sur
roundings? Do their salaries af
ford a balance for self-Improvement,
for educational privileges and
for a cheery view of their own world
and lot? Are its environments such
that they have a pride In their call
ing and cherish a hope In Its future,
such as men ought to, and must, In
order for society and the world to
be what It ought to be? Do salaries
of say $60. $70 or $80 per month
that we hear of, provide these things
In Portland? If not, are the opera
tors automatons, parts In a huge
telegraph machine, working as cat
tle, devoid of man-making and man
elevating aspirations, moved here
and there at the will of the tele
graph overlords?
It Is now, It always has been, and
It always will be, human nature for
the strong to oppress the weak. In
animal creation, the stronger brutes
eat the weaker ones. In human life,
It Is habit for might to take every
penny It can wring from the puny.
Life Is a contest for survival and It
Is Inevitable that If men have the
power they will use It. The tele
graph Is a monopoly, powerful and
unopposed. Only the unsophisti
cated suspect that It does not take
every cent It can from the opera
tors. We are told that after prom
lsing Increase of wages. It used the
sliding scale to beat wages down
Of course It did. The operators
were powerless to prevent it, be
cause not a sufficiently disciplined
mass, and the monopoly took from
them as It fancied.
It took, and will continue to take
until the operators become powerful
enough to resist force with force,
fire with fire. It is the misfortune
of the operators. It is tragedy be
hind the curtain In the telegraph
strike.
Letters from tlic People
Home Phone Securities, 0
Editor Journal One thing which has
become definitely, known, through the
failure of the Oregon Trust company to
that the Home Telephone company does
not receive more than 15" for each
ai.uuu or securities nut out. how mint
commissions are back tf this 5o price
fur bonds we do not know, but In all
prnoaoiuiy tne company does not re
ceive I960 for 12.000 of securities.
iNevertneiess tney wilt expect the pub
lio to. pay rates which will yield revenue
on iz.ouo.
W hy is municipal ownershln such a
crime wiai me cny snouia not own tnu
telephone system? If they did they
could give a better service for less
money and If they put in a "glrly"
phbne could pay the girls a good living
wage, too,
Are we to learn nothing when we are
put wtae, or shall we drift and continue
to curse the corporations?
is there not in this a good text Tor
you to preach upon till you obtain te-
sults? Yours truly.
E. T. JOHNSON.
The Diwty Kitten Againat the. Milk Can
Small . Change
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A Pitiful, Hopeless FirfureTher Ar Human Being's Lit It s
Over at Vancouver two boys, aged
12 and 10, ran away from home
"to make their fortune," but were
soon caught. They were armed
with two rifles, which along with a
lot of ammunition, a dealer had sold
to the elder boy, he having some
money of his own. We do not know
whether such a business transaction
Is legal or not In Vancouver, but
even If bo, there Is a big moral
transgression Involved in It. How,
often must It be said that boys of
that age have no business with a
gun of any kind?
4 New View of Taft.
Editor Journal The papers are full
of William II. Taft as a possible candi
date for president. He Is shown up as
wonderful man, just, generous, pro
gressive, able; nothing unjust or dis
honest can prevail In his department.
The truth is that "Bill" Taft la fat.
ovlal, easy-going politician, bent on nis
iwn personal piuaaures ana too iaiy 10
merest himself In anything Jn par-
Icular. The writer worked for two
ears right across the hall from secre
tary Taffa offices and worked quite a
while In Taft's department and had an
xeellent chance to Know wnat nyinner
f man he Is. He would never investi
gate anything In his department. l-
ays refer the matter back to tne ou-
reau from whence it came ror aeitie-
ment. He was seldom on duty, usually
off on some trip at government expense,
but the department was Detter oir wnen
he was away or Just as well off, for
e was and is nothing but a rigureneaa.
He has no more interest In the weal
or woe of a common man or a subaltern
mploye of his department than you
ave, Mr. Kdltor, In the signs of a Chl
ese restaurant He of all other men
that I ever met during the many years
that I lived In Washington, is least de
serving of the high office of president.
He may be nominated and elected but he
would not be if ha was understood. It
Is safe to say that he would not get a
half doaen votes out of the 1,(00 men
working In the war. state and navy
buildings. W. N. RUQQLES.
The Closed Bank.
Portland, Or. To the Editor of The
Journal The failure of the Oregon
Trust A Savings bank will be more
detrimental and far reaching In its ef
fects than la made to aDDear.
A 10-year-old boy who had saved J 5 5
which he had earned by carrying rapers
and deposited In the savings aepart
ment of the "closed bank" said: "Why
Bhould a fellow work and save If them
fellows can steal your money Ilka
that?"
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A voung man who sat opposite me at iu i nmiutiu win ut- un M-
hotel at supper last evening said: hlbltlon. and that is enough. It is a
, By Arthur Brisbane.
Copyright, 107, by American-Journal
examiner.;
Tou are standing In a narrow and
dirty city street. One of the poorest
streets, one of the narrowest and dirti
est It Is noon, and ths very hot sun
shines cruelly on the dusty pavement
and sidewalks.
In the doorway of a cheap restaurant
there stands a big metal can holding
many gallons of milk.
And against this can. wistful, deject
ed, dusty, forlorn, leans a poor little
black cat.
It Is sitting down behind, and stand
ing up in front, as kittens do, with Its
thin tall curled around the outside of
us hind legs.
One dusty ear Is turned forward, hop
ing that good news may develop In that
quarter. The other Is turned backward,
fearful of harm.
The worried little eves onen and shut
rapidly. Its stomach is tucked In tlrht
nothing in there. There isn't very
mum nie or vitality left in that poor
nine innaoitam or a great City.
The crowd rushes bv unheedlns the
little black lump of mlserv. Men hurrv
into tne restaurant wltn acuta hunger.
They hurry out again with acute Indi
gestion, and the little animal at their
eet cages away rrom them, respect
fully, as they pass.
.
If you choose, you can see in that
kitten of the city a picture of humanity
as a whole, and of every unfortunate as
an Individual. In the milk cart beside
this kitten there is the wealth, the
comfort, the beautiful white milk that
would realise all of the kitten's dreams,
giving It health, strength and life. But
the kitten doesn't know that it Is there,
or if it does, the knowledge does no
good. For the can Is high and the top
Is on tight.
Is it any different with humanity?
This earth Is our milk ran. Its wealth
Is unlimited. Its possibilities are unlim
ited; humanity nlnetynine one-hun-dredtbs
of human beings, suffering, poor
and worried about the future lean
against this great round earth, this
wealth unlimited. They don t know It
Is there, or if they do. It does them no
. . . i - . ... . v. .vmi. viuf r
v,u mwi ( grease T
' ; i e e
' But whv ihouM
cause a panioT
( i e e
law.
caa
ataadard Oil has been fined, but who
a find John V.'m father! .
v e e
It usually doesn't pay to appear to b
good; for they' don't know how t t
it out . r
i at.... MMirii for all la there. '
There ts enough W that tan for a hun-
ArA lilDait, I
Ther is enough wealth in the earth In a hurry, evea If one really Is.
for a thousand times the number or I . . e
men that cling to It In poverty, with I Most people of both the nrlneinai
to get It out.
Portland so seldom has a business
we mow mat i r.ii.,ra n.i.,.n- h. 7"
isn't Its fault We know It would not nueh anii.n..ni
The kitten Is dusty.
ha.va It an. if it could helD It
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Kverv amen inn irj- w wiuioai T, .t. - , . .
t? devot. time nd energy to keeping th
61 When yo see a dusty cat 'or Stitten. ",u . .
It is usually dead in the street, all Us .... . . . , '.
troubles over and Its problems solved. "S'd winter Is again being predict.
i . It.. if n cat Hnatv Home BftODle have a mania ror In.
you can tell that death la not very far ln to wake others miserable.
away from it. Its vitality must be low,
and the world must have been hard to Anybody that has a good cow snd th
compel It to get dirty. means of keeping her has the founda-
Tha kitten bv the milk can wore an tlon of a Rockefellerlan fortune.
apologetic look on Its dusty little face.
Its head held low, slowly moving, and But Is the next congress going to re-
so anxious, seemed to say, pitifully, verse the Urlff and keep Btandpat Caa-
"Qlve me a little milk, and Til wash non as speaker of the house, too?
myself clean." . . e
No man Dealing and seeing the plight n. ,u a , .... .
...... k... Ihmi,1il nf I V. " l "If
ki . v aieion irmune. if he does, hssvlways
But Ww is it with human beings? "l "
f-i n w nn wsj iDUK uuun essauii uvuvi i a . . ... ..
How often does spick and span Good . nxr wr n
Luck say to dusty Bad Luck Pl- Zfi n w 'hi0,. T Z. .t
lousiy. "Tou might at least keep your- 00'' W D0W have the guns am
rVssssVv.
and,
d w " ltocJri He savs he Is work-
mother. "She might at least keep her- ther Is no eh.nc. Vr htm "tn1':
self clean."
How often does the Ignorant prosper
ous woman say of the slatternly worried
money.
Poor old Rocky I
self and her children uay. a strike
To be clean coats money, to De ciean I
costs vitality. To be clean costs ume, Whtt w,y Jfairba,,..,, Cannon. Hu
rMrVt DOWer. lO Vs uiaail i ouuues I yt nni fan I .as ar a 1 1 am t a A. t. w ik.i.
pride, and poverty kills pride, although votes? Suppose they should combine
iuii aiuroaiii, nu iuu i-"u'. 1 against jail.
know that. I
The poor, dusty, unnappy men anai gome neoole who made fun of n...
women of poverty would like to be I taway Davis three years aso on aa.
clean. Mothers with untidy children, count of his age are dead, while he la
dirt on their faces and hands, and dirt as alive yet aa ever,
caked in their hair, would like to have
them clean. it Is said that 4.090 actors ar
They are the unhappy. If we could ,tranded In Chicago. But they would
read their faces aa sympathetically as bd bad actors on farms that are
we read the face of some wretched, calling for hands.
dusty animal we would know that they
too are aaylng In their hearts. "Give me
only a chance and 1 11 be ciean.
story, of a man who was a millionaire.
who tipped the bellboy and nearly every
one else with nothing leas than a "V.
When he went broke he maintained his
Jollity, though he lost his wife, his for
tune and his home. Through it all he
was a man or joy and not or sorrow,
whose path was parked among people
ul
others, at least
who were unconsciously Joyfu
to
It Is Impossible to describe what you
will see If you go and spend your money
for a seat at the Helllg tonight, to
morrow night or for the matinee Satur
day afternoon. All that can be prom-
"I worked hard to save $76. After this
I'll blow it In myself Instead of lottlns
devils of bankers squander It ror me.
A man who la running a working
man's rooming-house who lost i 4 00
rieured out that he would have to rent
a 25-cent room and do the work of
cleaning up (which Is nearly always
agreeable and healthy work?) at least
3.1!00 times before he could hope to have
his $400 laid by, provided another bank
n d not crash before that time.
An old lady 72 years of age who came
from the east to spend her declining
vears in a milder climate placed 11,060
nearly all she had, on deposit and Is
nearly distracted
These are a tew instances tnat tne
play of fun, or, in Mr. Kendall's words.
n license to laugh, lr mere was not a
license to laugh there would have been
much Impertinence at the Helllg last
night, for every one there did laugh and
In no subdued murmur, but long and
loud.
Fatal End of a Foolish;
Quarrel, and Its Lesson
The other day a young couple of
Camden New Jersey, quarreled. The
result was that the husband shot and
killed his wife and then turned the re
volver on himself. Inflicting a mortal
wound.
The cause of the quarrel was the
twitting of each other about compan
ions that they had known 'long before
their marriage.
On the same day an Indiana woman's
husband vas burled she promised to
marry the officiating undertaker she
was so grateful to him.
a a
A country editor suggests that Ore
gon newspaper men go on strike for
eight hours' work, eight hours' sleep,
eight hours recreation and eight dollars
a day.
Hofer of Salem spends most of his
time hunting up some - far-fetched ex
cuses for knocking Portland, but except
for our mentioning it nobody here would
know It
Oregon Sidelights
rill be built
The Battlefield.
A mother's heart la a battlefield.
A mother's heart Is a nest
Where love leans down with snowy
shield
And Hps that sing to rest.
A mother's heart is the plain where
meet
Throueh all her days of life
writer knows of.' How many others are The legions of the childhood feet,
there?
Here is a work, a duty, for such
newsDSDers. officials and legislators,
clergymen and Influential citizens who
have Interests in tne great state or Ore
gon and who wish beautiful Portland
well, to make determined efforts to
have 100 cents on the dollar paid to de
positors and that such failures do not
occur so frequently as they did in years
gone by. Portland in a way still feels
the effects. Here is a cnance ror Mr.
Devlin such as any cltlsen of Portland
ever had. Not only can he acquire the
lasting gratitude of the depositors but
of every well wisner or fontanel ana
Oregon. U. Al. HlKStH.
The people of First street are to
be congratulated on their movement
for paving that thoroughfare. Not
withstanding the westward growth
of the city, First street continues to
grow In importance, and occupies an
impregnable position as a business
thoroughfare. The paving of First
street will be a paying investment.
The Journal cordially Indorses the
views of that excellent weekly, the
Spectator, on the needlessness and
worse of the fire alarm bell and its
frequent clanging. Every time it
rings It announces that Portland is
not a large modern city, but a vil
lage yet.
Senator Foraker boasts ot having
helped frame and pass the Elkins
law. But Imperfect as that law Is,
it is suspected that its makers
builded somewhat better than they
knew.
Saving Portland's Reputation.
Portland, Or., Aug. 23. To the Editor
of The Journal The editorial In your
valuable paper of Thursday under tho
heading "Lend a Helping Hand." is a
splendid suggestion and a practical one.
There should be a thousand people in
this splendid city, who would have the
Interest and welfare of this community
so much at heart that they would be
;lad to subscribe to sucn a guarantee
und '."
No one but an outsider can feel the
amount of damage to the reputation and
business Interest of a community tnat
such a calamity causes. It echoes and
reechoes In wider and wider circles, off
setting the good work done In advertis
ing this splendid city and state. I am
not personally Interested, but will gladly
subscribe to such a runa.
I have been here but six short weeks
Investigating local conditions for some
60 or more eastern (Kansas) investors
and settlers, aggregating a capital of
over 300,ooo. l nave manea uregon
literature to all of them, during these
six weeks, as well as The Journal and
other city papers, almost dally, besides
hundreds of personal letters, etc. But
In the face of what happened here when
one of your trusted institutions closed
Its doors and 16,000 people were made
to suffer. 1 feel my labors have been
In vain, for no one knows better than I
the effect It will have back east on my
people, as well as everywhere else.
It's a shame, if this splendid city,
that I have learned to love so well dur
ing my short stay, cannot come to the
rescue and "lend a helping hand" in
saving its own reputation and that of
the state, rooming mat nas ever nun
erto been done, could so effectively ad
The glittering ghosts of strife.
A mother's heart is a field of war
Where none may know, may see
The wounds that bleed, the guns that
roar,
The anguished hours that be.
A mother's heart is battles home,
But oh. so few have knelt
With her where shadows fill the gloam,
Have felt what she nas relt!
A mother's heart Is warfare s realm,
In it. unseen of time.
Rage the grim wars that overwhelm
nut ror ner raun suDiime.
A mother's heart Is where she hides
Bo much she never tells.
So much that in her soul abides
And conquering lovehood quells.
A mother's heart oh, sacred place,
Oh. templed rane. now rair
To kneel beside Its shrine of grace
To kneel and worship there!
A mother's heart is calm retreat
Is rest and love and song.
And round It, oh. how tender-sweet
The shades or memory throng!
A mother's heart has seen so much,
Has felt and borne and known
The rugged blow, the tender touch,
within its wandering zone:
Has borne so much for those that lean
Upon Its help and trust.
Has done so much to keep them clean,
to nn tnem rrom tne oust;
Tmrrt 1a.rare warehouses
For that foolish cause two precious I n Haines.
human lives were sacrificed. I .... . . .
Th... tarn ,, -, rirMHmihlv I MUCB QOTOIOpmeni IS
, I giiverton.
married because tney lovea each otner,
and yet their love was not strong
enough to stand the test of "looking
backward."
The moral of this is that it is wisest
not to look back beyond the time when
they first met and their love began.
than what It ha. hun
Everv e-irl who waits until she is A pair of Benton county mares
20 before roarrylnar has been interested weighing 1,400 pounds sold for 1700.
in at least one or two men before shs
met the right man. Several new houses have been built In
And every man has been Interested in Joseph, but there is a demand for more,
at least 10 girls before he met the right a a
lr : . . . The hoDS In most localities are all
The sensible thing todo is not fool- Ha-hf- it's the prospective price that la
noticeable la
Four dwelling houses are in course ot
construction In Mosler.
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Good coal prospects near Gold Hill
are being Investigated.
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Gold Hill is going to boom Itself for
ishly to worry over these girls and
men of the past, but to take mighty
good care there shall be no girls or
men In the future.
When two people brought ud In wide
ly differing environments come to
gether, there Is bound to be a certain
amount of friction until they settle Into
each other's ways.
Little annoylnr habits that have not
been visible during courtship are sure
worrying.
Rainier reasonably expects to In
crease in importance as a manufactur
ing city.
A rich vein of cinnabar is said to have
been discovered near Drew, Douglas
county.
nalrer rntin'tv Is faat develrmlna intA
I to become apparent after marriage, and one of the richest agricultural sections
pit takes Infinite love and patience to 0f the state
prevent them from developing Into seri-
bus menaces to happiness. The butter made at the Bonanra,
With these every-day problems to be Klamath county, creamery Is said to be
racea ana conquered, wnai on twrin is I eaual to tne best.
uiv avuBo in iiarniiia. iwuk iu u;g
About 10.000 head of beef catte will
be driven out of Klamath county be
tween now and spring.
People over In Klamath valley are
having as many rows over water aa
though it were whisky.
UI eqs eieii 'oivo UI etnoti pooqpiraa
A Mortn lamniu man is nxea to dry
S00 bushels of prunes a day.
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Children and s-randchlldren of Samuel
Markee of Forest Grove celebrated with
A mother's heart is a battlefield
Where sacred strife has been.
Where spear on spear and shield on
shield
Hath raged the battle's dlnl
O holy shrine, inviolate spot.
Where love and memory come
When all the rest of life's forgot.
When all the rest Is dumb!
Baltimore Sun.
An Appeal to Wall Street.
From the Commoner.
The Wall Street Journal tells the
magnates of that thoroughfare that
"Wall street must make up Its mind
that it can not for some time to come
control the president of the ' TJnlted
States."
"The most," says the Journal, "that
possible. Let yesterday and tomorrow
take care or tnemseive.
It Is Harrlman's Way.
From the Wall Street Journal.
During the "past year B. H. Harriman
it i-nroii ..... n hnna fnr and this K , . . , , m " much other business. He was born in
ft (Wall street) can hope for, and inie nas displayed a laudable desire to Wayne county. Ohio, and did some work
would do. sincerely believes, yours
truly, ARTHUR f. BURNS,
Tne Play
vertlse your Rose city beautiful, as this at least It ought to secure, is that the abandon his former policy of Isolation I n the first railroad built in that state
while Independent of Wall street will a"1 J DP( , W'th P?" t0 Kan,,8 to Missouri in '55.
be fair toward Wall street." "o opinion. But Mr. Harriman, while to Oregon In 'B8. and has continuously
Then the Journal appeals to tne men i an expert In all flnanolal and railroad r'ded in uregon since tnat time.
2.1 w" tr?"J2.D.Stii. Taftlf u not n Drt Publicity.
La ir, .n arrmii measure continue the and therefore when he talks he falls to
Roosevelt policy, yet no wouiq .rry n me nuwseye. jror instance, in his
2Sreinth." mWeS ofal? r5t Th2t in" frank and Interesting talk In Ne
the office of president Mr. Taft would vada. Mr. Harriman says a good many
display "the same juaiciai tja "'v"- mings wnicn are quite true in them
By R. A. W.
All of the aches In the world are not
made by pain and sorrow. Some are the
result of laughter, and last night at the
Helllg Esra Kendall was the source of matlo policies that have distinguished J selves, but which are liable to public
much pain to a theatre packed with his public life heretofore ' j misconstruction. When asked what his
lhr.,r.Plrrl men and women, who ova iu Ii-, "T. v'"",'"". . nrment
, ln tna year "'r . i? L rauiruuus, sar. narriman replied: "It
had foregathered at the long-darkened wni bo satisfied with.a Wall street to pay dividends."
playhouse to see the fun show of "Swell candidate, even though .he is . P1?"1 t0 .Now. that Is strictly true. It Is un-
carry " maV(n . . V "'""". i" duty, as
"An East Side Bank for East Side
People."
Elegant Jones.'
There was no play at the Helllg.- It Mr. Taft satisfactory to
The man fit to he a banker will
always have the most scrupulous re
membrance of the fact that he has
charge of other people's money.
There should be no respect of per
sons owning ground with big thistles
and weed on. Enforce the law.
Make the. excellent, healthful, su
perior, delightful quality of our city
PfPwW.fUit Mr barey might IwaUKknoira to everybody.
was all Ezra Kendall. To be sure,
there were various other men and wom
en who took parts, all of them interest
ing, amusing and well played, but there
was no "show." What the people saw
was an alderly gentleman with rebel
lious gray locks, who said and did things
In such an irresistibly funny and droll
way that even nis assistants on tne
stage had to Join in the hilarity of the
occasion.
Ezra Kendall long ago took upon him
self the burden of 11 commandments
the 10 which all good people are sup
posed to obey, with one added, the pur
port of which Is "Make? the world
merry." On all occasions Mr. Kendall
makes conscientious efforts to obey at
least the last of these, and If, during
yesterday, he followed the first 10 as
well as he observed , the eleventh dur
ing the evening Saint Peter could have
booked Mm for a seat In the dress cir
cle without any inward qualms.
"Swell Elegant Jones'r Is only a ve
hicle, not a piay. Neither Mr. Kendall
nor his management make any such
elaims. But it carries a load of mirth.
It is a atom to so ar a there la a
If the Journal succeed nIl5 1 president of th Union Pacific, to make
h.v.M.hT; " a dividend. Moreover in mak-
IWir. A fJLX L Blllsivw. j - - . a . .
apeculatorg he wm noi pe vw m.u" " inr it earn a dividend, Mr.
qan peopl.e
the preferred candidate of the Amerl- make, tbe Un,on paolfle aU the more a
This Date In History.
VUllers. Duke of Buck
ingham, assassinated by John Felton.
1793 Pondlcherry taken by the Eng-
beneflt to the publio. There is nothing
iimuiAui w uiv vuumry tnan an
unprofitable railroad. Unprofitable rail
roads, like unprofitable factories and
unprofitable . newspapers, are a drag
I elites in1 n atrv
I But to aa.v hiMlv. vlihAnt .i..ta.
t sTLantur of Santa Fe by Amerl- nenas, is to open turn to attack. For a
ceil in gSMStf- New Mexico by ..ta
W-We'nder of Fort Morgan. Ala- Vo
1866 Treaty of peace between Aus- Private corporations, and the railroad
tri and Prussia signed at Prague. president must conduct his railroad not
iiosSSt RaJ Hamilton drowned merely for the profit of his stockhoM.
in a river In Yellowstone park. . rs, but for the benefit of the public
"?ni Vii..t.r MaaaanhuaaHa r.Ta-I NOW. this Is a distinction mhCnV, I. .
bra ted the 59th' anniversary of its important one, and It has been too often
sextinmeni. . ; ' lfw. r .mvi uien. ins
tut n..tr. nf TMtnhurrh ucceadad I line between the Private and tha nnkiin
to the Duchy of Sage-Coburg and Goth a. Interest In railroads has not been fully
1887 President Faure of France determined a yet but there is a line
visited the ciar at St. Petersburg. there, and the great railroad men of the
1898 The United States and Canadian future will know how. to define it. and
Joint High "commission met at Quebec how to live-up. to It. c -J.
Your Banking
Business
Will receive prompt and careful
attention, if entrusted
TO "
The Commercial
Savings, Bank
Which offers you absolute safety
and "courteous treatment in the
handling of your account.
Interest la paid on SAVItffi'
ACCOUNTS at the rate of 4 per
cent, compounded semi-annually.
XJTOTT AWO wniuiil ATI.
'.George' Wr Bates.' J, ,...Presdnt
J. a Blrrel . . , . .Cashier
before husband and wife met and grew
to love each otnerT
Don't be foolish, little bride. Of
oourse your husband knew and liked
other nice girls before he met you, but
you were the one he chose, the one he
admired the best of all. Don't be Jeal
ous over those other shadow loves;
thev are past and gone with "yester
day's seven thousand yeard."
And why should you. Mr. Tounar Hus
band, be jealous of the men who knew
Nenough to appreciate your wife's charm
ln her girlhood days? The very fact
that rkthar man Mlrerl ner mnlran It all
the more complimentary that she should hJra his eighty-ninth birthday,
nave cnosen you rrom among an ner
swains. ' I The Klamath Falls mayor and a ma-
Guard and keep her from the atten- loritv of the council are at outs over
tions of men now: that's the principal the personnel of cit" employes, the
thing for you to do. council refusing to confirm the mayor's
Ann hntn or vmi rrv in avAin niini. i annninrmenta.
rels. Life is all too short to ouarrel fi
with those we love. It is so easv to A Baker City man named Wisdom W8Jsr I
qusrrel and so hard to make up again, denied a divorce because bis maniaJte I
Never let a quarrel simmer over in 1906 was not legal, on accountofT the I
night, and never let a loved one a-o woman having been divorcedTf rom a I
off ln the morning without a kiss of former husband only a few days, all of
reconciliation. which shows that Wisdom in name does
Devote all your energies to maklns- not necessarily Involve wisdom in ac-
the present as happy and cheerful as tlon.
Arlington Record: This 9th day of
August the editor of the Record is
celebrating his seventy-third birthday,
hale and hearty and actively engaged.
not only editing and managing the busi
ness of the Record, but attending to
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