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mmmmmm ai i i i i i 11 ii . BVGE OP TOE JOUENAb mm THE JOURNAL A INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPEE. P. S. leeaana... PabllahaT Fahllalird a? try aranlnc (tapent Bandar and - every ftaicUr nornlnc. t Tba Journal Bulld- ing, riTU end VauMU itrMU. rorltaod. Or. Enter at tb poatofflo at Portland, Or., for traoiBlaaloa tbrooik tba (nail aa accond-claaa attr. TELEPHONE MAIN TITS. All partsnt reached by tbla nambar. ' fall tb operator tba dauartmant too waat. rOKIIflN DTKRT18INQ KEPHEOEN'TATI VK IWUsd-BcnJamln Special AdTprtlatng Afrnrr. ' Braoawlrk Building, 228 Kiftb aranna. New lfarfct Trlbuna Building, Cblrafo. Sobacrlptloa Tarsi by mall to an addraaa l law UoJtad Statu, Canada or Mexico. . ' PAILV. Op year ,S.ou una nnotb -M 81'NDAY. D par 12.60 I One month I .SB i DAILY AND SUNDAY. tM rar a.T.60 I Ot month I SB THE ISSUE OF THE HOUR. E progressive and reactionary, for first place on the Republican national ticket of 1908, and be Is the first choice of everybody for second place." Taft will undoubtedly re ceive far more rotes on the first ballot than any other one candl date. He may receive enough on an early ballot to nominate him Then the same pressure may be brought to bear on Hughes that was brought to bear on Roosevelt In 1900. Dut If Taft should fall to get a majority, cither the radical or the reactionary element might go to Hughes the Silent. Everything In connection with the nomination beyond Taft's Initial lead is as yet speculative, but Hughes looms large already. And that he does shows that the Repub lican party has been In a measure broken up and revolutionized, If not VERT BREEZE that blows car- ' Ties a message to the people Of the northwest. The news vet surely reformed. of the hour is pregnant with n Import never known before. One WHEREIN PORTLAND IS SLOW headline In a dally paper runs thus: "Franklin K. Lane, interstate com mere commissioner, says the car situation In the northwest is very serious. The facilities of the Ore gon Railroad ft Navigation company are.' wholly Inadequate. It cannot more than keep within seeing dis tance of the traffic it is called upon to candle." A line in another paper says: "Fight for life with rail rJi--WttIaMrette Valley nrfHav . ready engaged In a death" struggle with the car shortage, will be com plotely abut out from California and ' eastern markets under new tariff.' . And so runs the record of trans portation In this northwest region. Products simply cannot be moved to market Granaries are bulging and sidings piled mountain high With, unmoved freight. Trains are staggering and main lines congested under their burden. There is a tlght on industry, and restrictions on growth. Full development of the region Is Impossible because the blighting hand of an Inadequate transportation makes it impossible. "What an overpowering object lesson appealing for the rivers to bevopened, and for the transfer to them and to the sea of unmoved products, free ing the overloaded cars and congest ed tracks for handling products that must go east. If winds ever carried a message, If events ever bad a mean ing, their import now is to resort to the rivers as a means of relief from a situation Commissioner Lane char acterizes as "very serious." The issue of the hour, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Fulton and Mr Bourne, is a continuing contract for Celilo and an open Willamette. P NOT ENOUGH SCHOOL ROOM. ORTLAND IS moving better than ever before, yet it is fre quently seen to be aggravatlng- ly slow in some matters. They seem to be small matters, perhaps, but are not so; but even If they are, why be so slow in doing little but necessary things? This slow ness or inertia works harm to many individuals in the course of a year and gives Portland a bad name abroad and to visitor. A story told in The Journal fes terday illustrates what we mean. A man seriously injured on the head by being thrown from a wagon lay for about an hour and a half on a bench at the police station before he could be removed anywhere for tieatment, and then was carried home in the patrol wagon. Cases similar to this, some of them worse, are of frequent occurrence. For years everybody has seen and( ac knowledged the need of an emer gency hospital and ambulance. Of course as the city grows the "need becomes more urgent. Why, then, keep putting off providing these necessary things? It is simply shameful that Portland hasn't them. There ought to be no need of more arguing and urging; they ought to be provided as soon as possible as a matter of course. Water towers and life nets for the fire department are another thing that has been talked about for years as something necessary. Every few months a fire demonstrates this. Just at that time there is talk of providing the needed apparatus, but next day It is forgotten, apparently, until the need Is again demon strated. This is not an up to date way of conducting city affairs. What to deny to Oklahoma, with a million and a half of people, the right to form and carry on their own state government? TARIFF REVISION "FRIENDS." BY 1' R. DALZELL, for many years a representative In congress of the protected Interests and trusts In general and of the steel trust in particular, is reported as saying that probably the Repub lican party would next year declare for tariff revision revision by Its friends, of course, prominent among whom Is Mr. Dalzoll. In all his long congressional career Mr. Dalzell has represented the steel trust In par tlcular and other trusts in goneral, trusts and monopolies fostered and maintained largely. In many cases, by the high protective tariff; the rest of the people he has never rep resented at all. He has been their enemy; his chief business in con gross has been to maintain laws by which his employers, the trusts, could rob them. Mr. Payne, floor leader of the house, thinks there will be, and should be, no declaration for tariff revision; he believes in standing pat, and that the Republican party U strong enough to win without making any promise or pretense of tariff reform. SpeakTer " TJannon, with great power over legislation In virtue of his office, has Intimated that a dec laration In favor of tariff revision The Moors and Arabs were posses sors of the greater share of the world's civilization. Now some European nations are jealous of one another on account of the master ship of the Moors, who, with the Arabs, are .now considered seml- barbarlans, while civilization Is In the grasp of the Europeans. Thus runs the whirligig of time and fate An exchange says a fortune awaits the Inventor of a new automobile tire attachment. Also the man who will Invent something that will kill the reckless chauffeur and hurt no body else. Addlcks favors the nomination of Cortelyou for president. Being broke, Addlcks may think he might thus get next to a campaign fund. Wall street is really very much discouraged. It fears that It can not ever pull off any more panics What Wellman needs Is a wind controller in the Arctic regions; then he could control his airship awhile. The Play Away back In the early ages man did not look In the dictionary for a polite synonym before he called his companion a liar. lie spoke first, and then. If he were able, looked In the book afterward t.rinSpjneJ&!j)fstlU more direct in Its application. Of late years, since the whitewash brush of civilisation has put several coats of veneer politeness over us all. mankind has been taught to be stoical mleht ha nnllttn. thnneh aa atatv. I iuuniim inanit ami nrrAt in hM- hndv Vnnwa h Is nnnf.s1 tr it H "X """ - --- unaer 101B unnatural mairamina; uiuon, has thrived excellently under exist- however, the elemental spirit of man chafes at the strands that bind It, and Ing conditions, and prefers to let once In a time escaping shocks the com munity witn some explosion 01 prenis torlc spleen. do it is, mererore, wnen some genius is Indisputably necessary should be HE NECESSARY school build- provided without delav. Ilngs, or rooms, to accommodate the children who want to at- . tend school are not ready as usual. Twas ever thus and so. we suppose, It ever will be. It would seem that after a good many years experience, always of the same kind, varying only in degree, a year might possibly come when there OKLAHOMA. B Y AN OVERWHELMING ma jority the people of Oklahoma have approved and adopted the constitution framed by the convention called for that purpose, They have also elected state officers would be enough school room for and members of congress, electing all the children on the opening day three Democrata anl w Republi- ot school, and thereafter. But tf cans 10 me nouse. me constitution that limit enmo. if . 1 eoes to the president for his hence, we fear. We may congratu- apprva1, w,thout wh,ch u cannot late the school authorities, however Decome operative cn the fact that conditions this f.ii From various rumors it is expect- are not quite as bad as they have ed that the Presldent wl reject the been aome years and that most other constltution. though there may be Cities are in the same "fix " It no reai unaauon ror tnese rumors, seems Imrjoaslble for th .vm..J 0ne indication that the president board of school directors anywhere would take th,s course i3 Secretary ever to get caught up with the chil dren, although they can estimate very closely how many children them alone. .,..w,v,.UCmi,uU- ptur! tQ the pregent tne half-naked lican nouse leaders, perhaps are tne animal or tne past, witn aai us inien- I ullv et natural Inv, mnn hatA nnn, inn three most Influential members of fear, sorrow and Joy, that tne' oerfumed tho honan nnA there, nr mnnv loaner PePl now clap their rosy palms and me nouse ana mere are many lesser j ,Mnl for a nonskin coat and a knotted lights, men who somehow are doing ciud or wr 1 l illO living v.'vaviv aai. hib" a . .jo Jessie izett ana her very wen selected company pictured to Portland theatre goers for the first time the vivid drama tization of Bret Harte's "Salomy Jane," and by the token of some eight curtaln rnJls and other outcropping; applause proved to herself ana her company that me people or mis western ciiy siui nave some of their ancestors' blood In them and warm to a story of elementary Ufa. "Salomy Jane" Is a story of the wonrlR ftf thA nlf.nn dava when the Are the Republicans who thread that held man to this life was I -1 1 - 1, a I T . I luttuy ubbiib seuuiuo mini levimuii framed In the aold-fever times, and it In y, COMMENTS OF THE PRESS ON THE JOURNAL'S ANNIVERSARY EDITION A Mammoth Edition. From the Lincoln County Leader The Oregon Dally Journal last Sun day Issued a mammoth edition to oora- ava anil Imnrnva rhaf mlniL wera 6X pi 0 red, exploited and treated M has rarely been , attempted tn this or any otner country, to aigest ana ao iuij justice to the oontents of this superb number would require months of close memorate the fifth anniversary of 1U application and painstaking study. It existence. .11 . contained 12 sections and ' T sufficient to y that tn this ln 160 pages. It Is a great story of the etanca The Journal has exceeded all auauoniiii 01 ine wnoie uregon coun- expectations and set a marK or nign It Wll D na.ru try, profusely illustrated with half tones. One entire page la devoted to scenes In Lincoln county. class Journalism that to surpass. Bound to Bring Residents From the Btayton MalL The fifth anniversary number of tha Best to Date. From the Tillamook Headlight. Tha fifth annlversay edition of the 0ra,0 journ.i wouid be a credit to uregon journal is ins Desi uiusiraieu DUbHoation and la a magnificent edition Of Oregon published up to date, advertisement for Oregon and an honor and the publishers are deserving of to the enterprise and up-to-dateness of great praise, lor it certainly is a beau- The journal. puDiisnera. ire uiusira. tlful edition, rotten nn with fine r- tlona In the mairaalne section are SU- tlatle taste. It arlvaa hundreds of aDlen. Darb. ' The list of subjects Illustrated did pictures of most everything of ln- oontain everything of Interest to the terost in uregon, as well as a wen seeKer arier anowieage 01 uur "' written article on the state and Its and this Issue of The Journal la bound varied Industries It la mlrl for tl a. to brlns many new residents to uregon. copy and la worth that amount, being The Journal Is to be congratulated on another valuable edition to help boom "S gooa wors. lorioi sim. uregon. Was a Credit, From the Bandoh Record. Tba last Sunday' laaue of the Fort- land Journal waa their anniversary number, and waa certainly a credit to that hustling sheet It contained 1(0 pages and had descriptive articles from an over the state. An edition on enam eled paper waa also run out that will sell at all newa stands for $1. People wishing to tell of the wonderful re sources or this country can ao no better than send a copy of that edition to them. It Was Superb. From the Echo Register. The Oregon Journal has Issued the most superb special edition ever printed in the state. Many ef the illustrations are worth framing. A Monster Edition. Prom the 4rlnevllle Review. The fifth anniversary edition of Tba Portland Journal is a monster edition, the biggest ever Issued in the state. weighing IM pounds, and the whole sold a day off some time this week anu see If any part or industry of Uregon has been overlooked In the big wrlteup. The supplement Is also a big tning in every possible way. We can say no more Reading for a Week. From the Vale Orlano. The Portland Journal came to our esotwm - table UUaweak with a special 1 Without becoming fulsome. vuuiuu Va iwv iej. aa c. At, ass vuvuaii 1 . - - . jrfJ paper to keep a man In reading fori Of IncaJcuable Value week. For aome cause it does not speak much of the fastest growing town in Malheur county. But vale does not need advertising to boost It up. It speaks for Itself. Small tikax) Is a Humdinger. From the Jacksonville Post. If you have not yet secured a copy I obligations to The Journal for this mag of the Portland Journal's mammoth From the Jefferson Review, The fifth anniversary number of The Oregon Journal is the finest edition ever Issued on the Paclflo coast. It rlvaa a. comnleta Illustrated description of all nortlona of the state, including the principal buildings 01 tne varum cities. Every cltlsen of Oregon Is under niflcent issue, for it will be of lncalcu labia value to the entire state. very well in congress, who agree with them. These, we suppose, are the "friends of the tariff" that are to revise it, If It is to be revised by the Republican party at all. We can Imagine about how they would revise It. ..i ,.., ii slender, easily and often sever sire genuine tariff revision tTStrnPA th oifi-revr time. v o nonnio'a Intooat on tkn nhuwA old Colonel St.i rbo 1 1 1 9 of Ken t,.OD uu tueky. the upholder of "the code"; it are very numerous willing to trust the Job to such "friends of the tariff"? The young burghXr captured yes terday morning Is evidently a hard case for the reform school. He Is not in the least remorseful over his misdeeds, and excuses them on the grounds that he needed money with which to play pool and drink, and that he had "lost the only girl he ever loved." Being 17 years old, and a regular burglar, it is strange indeed that he has only really, truly and madly loved one girl; and that he has lost her is surely a terrible affair. The wonder is that in such a desperate case he didn't kill some body with "his two guns. there will be and how much room will be needed. Considerable addi tional room has been provided, but Taft's recent visit to Oklahoma, for the purpose of making a speech against the adoption of the consti tution. "But the people of Oklahoma knew what they wanted and rejected Mr. Taft's advice. They have to there Is not enough in all quarters, llv6 under the con8tltut,n; he does , tl lo.V nrtll 1, J. -.1 "Ol , oftuu vuw iavA mil uc 1 :ttUT wnen the school tide is at its flood. We don't scold; only suggest again, as we do yearly, that greater foresight ought to be taken. Next year the number of school children will be much larger than It is now. GOVERNOR HUGHES. the Washington Post, and iir It figures it out that Hughes - can scarcely avoid being nominated for second place, if he is 'not nominated for president, which is 'Very' probable. And if elected vice-president, it would be with a distinct feeling on the part of the Voters that he was not a mere make up, but presidential timber, and llke Jy to be promoted to the first place in four or eight years as Roose velt probably would have been if McKInley had lived. Four New York vice-presidents Van Buren, Fillmore. Arthur and .Roosevelt -lUSCeeded to the presidency, though three of them did so through the , president's death. Cut Hughes , stands a chance of "being "the nominee for president. The Post says,-though not quite ao , eurately, ; perhaps,? that Hughes , 'ls econ4v holc cf ' w&yboriy,j Great partisan pressure will be brought to bear upon the president to disapprove of the constitution, because Oklahoma might next year elect seven Democratic presidential electors. This plea should have no influence on the president. It will have none, if he is really a great man. Because a majority of the people of Oklahoma are Democrats rather than Republicans is no good reason for denying statehood to that great territory. Nobody sincerely pretends that it is not fit for state hood. It is far more fit than some New England states today. Some honest and legitimate ob jections can be made to the consti tution. But the objections that will be publicly made are trivial. The real objection is that the people of Oklahoma have put needed reforms! into their constitution, and with held from any future legislature the power to sell them out to corpora tions. It has put grafters and ma chine politicians out . of . busluess. Hence there -are powerful "Interests" that are opposed to the constitution. We shall see whether they are powerful enough to defeat It. The question up before the pres ident therefore Is: Shall corrupting and plundering "iateresU" be able, The negro residents of any north ern city have a right to protest, in any lawful way they can, against a local Chautauqua assembly or any other organization employing Till man to deliver one of his negropro bist tirades. The negroes of the north are as a rule, tolerably be haved people, considering the chances their race has had for sev eral hundred years back, and no northern city ought to invite this negro hater to deliver an address! in It. He does nobody any good and only makes mischief. Stripped of all technicalities and mystifications, what the telephone corporation wants the courts to de clare is that the people have no right and shall not have the power to govern themselves, especially in the matter of requiring public util ity corporations, possessors of ex tremely valuable franchises, to pay reasonable taxes. This Is really all there is of the case, but it is a good deal. D( wn in parched Los Angeles the Times publishes a long, doleful poem on Autumn urougni. uome up to Portland, rhymestress, get cheered up, and change your tune. If you can write a printable poem on "Drought," perhaps you could gain fame and fortune singing about the delights and benefactions of our autumn showers and evergreen earth. paints Lsrrabee and Madison Clay, southern foudlsts from the Blue Ridge rKlon; It depicts Yuba Hill, Jack Mar hury find other of the characters which mntlo the west the land of romance in the days of '49. It is useless to try to describe the story, for the charm lies in the show Ina:, not the telling. It is necessary to say, however, that the predictions made concerning Miss Izett about a year ago, when she was here with Isabelle Irvlnif. have been more than verified. It was said then that within two years at the latest she would be at the head of a company, and she Is. Last night she was a girl from the Blue Ridfto, true In voice. In spirit and in heart to those women who pass their primitive lives far from the sounds of civilization. That Is all It Is necessary to state to prove her success, for she who would be true to such a character must needs range the scale of every numan emotion. Coming; close behind Miss Izett and crowding her hard for honors In her own company are three very tiny stars vioia savoy, uueenie Fnllllps and Douglas Joss who play the narts of Anna May and Mary Ann Heath and Willie Smith. Their romps and child ish games among the stately California forest trees are all so natural and so charming ss to make very strongly for the success of the production. The company In general follows the standard set by Miss Izett. Stokes Sul livan as "The Man" makes a good char acter; Snottlswoode Altken as the up holder of "the code" is a natural come dian; Daniel Gllfether plays a good Yuba Bill; A. 8. Llpman portrays Jack Marbury. the frontier gambler with the white heart, in a very pleasing manner: Burr Caruth ns Madison Clay, the father of Salomy Jane, upholds the character of the mountaineer true to life, and Florence Gerald as Llze Heath, the wife of the outlawed Red Pete, does some convincing work In the presentation of ner part. in scenery, costumes and presentation "Salomy Jane" Is one of the most nleas- Ing efforts put before the Portland peo ple for some time. It will be seen at the Helllg the remainder of the week, with a.matlne on Saturday. In the Day's News. Is a Big B Beauty. From the Myrtle Point Enterprise. The anniversary edition of The Ore special edition, by all means go get one and do it now. isven lr you re reading this article in bed, get up, go down into your pocket and order one of the magazines before you forget It rkiirlno- th. wrltAr'i mmtnr1rt j.n reer ha has seen various industrial son Journal is a beauty, with a very and special issues of newspapers from large B, ana it win taite rana wun me Humbug creek to Hawaii, but as wo best edition ever puDiisnea in m en go to press none have yet appeared tire country. Finely and profusely 11 that can hold a candle to the Journal's lustrated, with a great many pages of laaaa- m9n T 1 aa r-anlata itk nhA inierMlinR UlAtlCr. 11 Will tCl 11111 tographs and wrlteups of all the good a great factor In presenting the merits thlngi that Oregon is heir to and they ff the Oregon country to the people of . ,t.,i rs.; the world. Coos county, the Coqullle and is Just naturally a humdinger. Oet , "V. .,.7-1 one. You can t get a nanasomer sou- vemr. - . j. nr jt meatiest Aver lurucu wuw From the Burns Times-Herald, The Oregon Dally Journal Issued a Finest Ever Published. From the Lebanon Express-Advance. The Portland Journal celebrated Its special anniversary edition Sunday, Sep- ii i . v. ., . iBmwr n. wuiuii in uin iiclvi. cm. Jllin lllllri.i, J " . nrlnl .hmi nn th. Pnlf coaat. A nortlon of the mam mot n ear tlon Is bound In magazine form printed in colors and on line Daoer. ine jour nal Is five years old, .and such an tajue shows it to have one of tne best newspaper plants in ue es. The Oregon country is prise or in. journal, u rei"'"B crTOIi being the particular feature. finely illustrated souvenir edition of 180 pages, rna resources ana aavan tages of different sections of the state are set forth m weii-wntten articles, accompanied by beautirul illustrations. , . j , . W. . I. I . -.1.1 of a newspaper ever published on the i?n,,5 coast, and speaks much for the enter- verv wall w state in which it is printed. Best Ever Attempted. From the Brownsville Times. The fifth anniversary number of the Fortland Journal was Issued last Sun day. It Is the finest thing of the kind ever attempted on the coast, and re flects great credit upon the publishers. The magazine edition is a delight to the eve. showing the wonderful com mercial strides of Portland and Oregon. It Is profusely illustrated with Oregon scenes. , Was. a Surprise. From the Klamath Falls Herald. The fifth anniversary edition of the Portland Journal was very much of a surprise, both in the way of Its con tents and mechanical excellence. It Is replete with information concern ing all parts of Oregon, none of which are overlooked, while It is devoid of long rambling statistics that are so tiresome. It Is without doubt- the best special edition of any paper ever Issued in the west. A myk congress is being held at Brussels, That is a long way off, but as it is attended by able dele gates from all parts of the world, it ought to have good results in all countries. Pure,.tean milk Is ona of the world's large needs. '; : :. Many hundreds of years ago the Moors and Arabs fell out on the question as to which should have the principal power over the Chris tian nations of southern Europe. By Wex Jones. Vancouver, B. C. Rioters here have discovered that there are sermons in stones; also arguments In brickbats. Oshbash, Ind. Hiram Judklns, prosperous farmer of this district, told one of his neighbors that he felt sure he had discovered a twin soul In the pretty school teacher. The neighbor told Mrs. Judklns, who wns ready when Hiram rnme nome. "What s this about an af flnlty?" she asked. "My twin soul.' said Hiram. "You will accept the situa tion gracefully, I hope, and go home to your motner s wnne t get a divorce on tne crouna or des-ertlon. Hiram has decided the school teache.r wasn't a twin soul or a soul mate of any Kinii, anj Mrs. iiiram is in town today buying a rolling pin to replace the old one. Casahlanca The Moors have resorted to unfair tactics. They wounded a irrenenman today. Loridon Life has become complicated for the well dressed man since colors came Into vosrue. Should he be seen wearing a pink suit when he is feel 1 no- blue his social position would be en dangered. Paris. Two duellists fired 41 shots at each other today, but honor was not satisfied until the forty-second. Honor is a great help to the lead Industry. Washington. Secretary Toot, fresh from Bulldoon's. arrived at the caoltal today and proceeded direct to the white house, where a cabinet meeting was In progress. The entire cabinet came around to Secretary Toot's views after live fast bouts in which his superior speed and hitting power were oonclu- slvelv shown. Spanish Ontoo, Okla. The 250th 'opera house in the American chain has been completed here. It Is close by the Car negie library, the Rockefeller university and the Frick Institute. When operas are not being opped the opera house will De useo as a snooting gallery. Eelo-Oilo. When the American fleet arrives here work will be begun upon a nocK to accommodate the ships, it will be ready for them in four years, when most of them will be obsolete and it won't matter anyhow. ' .' A Great Number. From the Medford Mall. Tho anniversary number of The Port land .Tmirnfl I Is one of the biggest and best publications of the class ever pub lished on the coast. It contains a vast quantity of Information concerning the products and capabilities of Oregon and Is a valuable addition to the advertis ing literature of the state. Was a Revelation. From the Milton Eagle. The fifth anniversary edition of the Portland Journal last Sunday was a revelation of what can be accomplished iri the "art preservative of all arts" by the use of modern appliances and a corps of wideawake newspaper men and artists. Every field of public interest every avenue of general concern and every tdpic calculated to delight the Best We Ever Saw. From the Seaside Signal. The Journal has done itself proud. Its last Sunday Usue Is head and should ers above everything in the way of a special number ever attempted on the Paclflo coast. It Is the best we ever saw from -anywhere. Every Oregonlan Is and ought to be proud of it. All the Signal could say of it would give but a faint Idea of the editor's appreciation of it, and If the reader of this item has been so unrortunate as not to nave pro cured a copy be has missed a wonderful treat. anga That Luey Tanla saams to be rather a fast girl. The peekaboo may have a hrtsf if turn season yet. If Brother Tufts reforms California he can go up had; Those fin cattle at Salem are alone worth going to see. a Mr. Taft see ma to believe that the O. O. P. la his affinity. It seems curious that scarcely any body aver marries an affinity. a The higher the prices of things the more a person thinks ha needs. In many cases It Is better to have loved and lost than to have loved and won. a a Shakespeare's description of the schoolboy age wouldn't fit very well now. a Intimacy with a big dark female Pep per is enough to drive any old man craty. WW The Chicago Trlbuna is now Inaulrlna for the prettiest foot In that olty. What nexir i a Memphis, says the Commercial-Appeal. has the best weather in the world. The write never lived, la Portland, at course. e Lillian Russell says roiling on the' floor will reduoe fat folks' flesh. But she doesn't advise them to Join the Holy Rollers. a As Standard OH has been maklnar about 180.OUO.000 a year for a long time. It Is no wonder that money Is rather tight with the rest of the people. Governor Hughes should reflect that no man was ever elected president who parted his whiskers In the middle. But there is a first time for everything. iuvvDUBv.ai t as u as w w s w w Doay wnom tne nre ben annoys to move out of Ita hearing. As It annoys nearly everybody, wouldn't It be cheaper for It and those who love it to move out into the country? a a Roosevelt's work is far from finished and no "third term" fetish should de lude him Into being a quitter. St Paul Dispatch. But can he afford to make himself a violator of his own voluntary, positive word? a We positively know how a man can make lots of money right at home, with little hard work; It la a thousand times surer than any of the get-rlch-qulck schenies advertised. Oet a pieoe or the right kind of land and raise fruit that will bring in 11,000 an acre or more. Oregon Sidelights A Silver Lake radish measures 17 Inches around. Tlelds of grain In Wallowa county are the heaviest ever known. A machine threshed 8.90 bushels of grain In one day near Haines. A stock of alfalfa out un damn near Prineville burned spontaneously. A man lost bis purse containing S17S at the Roseburg fair, and the person who found it refuses to give it up. So the owner may have to sue for It. Last year there were SM0O pieces of mall handled In the Tillamook city nost- offlce during the month, and since then t has increased to 74, ISO pieces of mall month. Finds It Fine. From the Dufur Dispatch. This paper has received a copy of the special anniversary edition of the Ore gon journal, published last Sunday, an finds it a very fine specimen of the ad vertlsment of the Oregon country. Thi views published are very fine and well distributed through the state. Fine Anniversary Edition. From the San Francisco Chronicle. The Oregon Journal of Portland cele brated Its fifth anniversary last Sunday with the issue of a special edition con taining 160 pages of valuable and inter esting data and illustrations or Oregon and its principal cities. The Journal appropriately sums up the contents of the edition in the following terms at the Dottom or tne title page: "A sym posium of facts, illustrative and re pre sentative of the agricultural, horticul tural. Irrigation, lumbering, manufactur ing, wholesaling, financial, educational real estate, mining and other vast inter ests of the Oregon country. Including .Portland, its metropolis, transporta tion facilities, phenomenal growth, fu ture development and possibilities of a greater Oregon." The upper portion or tne page is given to an allegorical design of the coming of the white man and nan tones picturing an uregon in dlan camp and a business street In Portland. Not All Fools. From the Denver News. A bachelor girl was overheard to re mark to a companion: "No, I'm not mar ried and I never will be. Men are all fools." "Oh, I guess they're not auch fools," murmured the other. "As ' you JMU-'ta not marrlrt.y Is Ellen Terry a "Snper-Woman From Current Literature. Bernard Shaw has at least one 11 luslon. There is no doubt about it Ann thin illusion takes the form of Ellen Terry. One may search In vain throughout his two volumes of dramatic opinions for a single unastlgmatio criticism of her acting. Moreover, this youthful enthusiaam of "O. B. S." em braces not only Miss Terry, but all her relations Kate. Marion. Mabel. At last we have found one weak spot In the Shavian armor and it la not In his heel. There are really few things so de lightfully sentimental ana romantic in the present-day drama as this Idealiza tion of the only "Ellen" by the only flhaw. To him aha seems the very In carnation of the "new woman" of his clear imagination, whereas to tethers her chief chafm lies in the fact that aha ia so very old. For Is she not the living descendant of that Nance Old field whom ahe plays with all the charming abandon of perfect familiar ity and understanding? "Nance Old- field as Miss Terry," as Shaw puts It; Or Miss Terry as Nance Oldfleld. It matters not which. But can we say the same of Lady Cicely Waynfleet? That extremely up-to-oate and adven turous bachelor maia (Btiaw's very definite creation) Ellen Terry? Or Ellen Terry as the confirmed Old bache lor maid? i Mr. Shaw Is human and has his il lusions like the rest of us and ho thinks he wrote Lady Cicely for Mlsi Terry; he thinks he has given her ex actly the km 'o t part she should: have been playing all those years at the Ly ceum, Instead of old-fashioned Olivias and Margarets. He thinks she thinks so, too! But Ellen Terry Is on record as saying. "I consider myself verv Jiappy and fortunate in having nearly always oeen cauea upon to act very noble, clear characters, since I prefer that kind of part, and love Portia and Beatrice better than Hedda, Nora, or any oi mose suit jaoiea sonally is a kind of "superwoman" i creature all cool Intelligence and curios lty, of the requisite hardness, yet not unsympatnetic, strong, nrm, etc. we are all familiar now with that very Inter esting possibility. But Is it so? Charles Reade, who certainly knew a thing or two about ' women and Ellen Terry well once said of her, In a burst of enthusiastic affection: "She Is Im pulsive. Intelligent weak, hysterical In short, all that is abominable and cnarming in woman. Ellen Terry Is a very charming actress. I see through ana mrougn ner. ret sne pleases me ail me same. Liittie uucit: ' This Date in History. 1358 English defeated the French at the battle of Poitiers. 1551- Henry III of France horn at Fontainbleu. 1653 New England colonists declared war against the Niantlck Indiana. 1665 The sreat nlaarue of London reached its height. 1777 British victorious at battle nf Saratoga, 1868 Henry Norman, lournallat anA member of parliament, born. 1863 First day of the battle of Chickamauga. 1864 General Sheridan victorious at battle of Winchester. 1870 The Germans invested Paris. 1871 Lincoln's body removed to its 1 nnai reeling piace at epringneio, Illinois. 1891 The St Clair tunnel under the Detroit river opened to traffic. iu6 congressman Robert H. Hitt of Illinois died. Born, January 18, 1834. - Automobile- Flirtation - F'rom the Louisville Courier-Journal. Skidding on one wheel I am crazy. Full spee4 ahead I'm after you. ' Seventeen short honks I love. you. Seventeen long honks I am a nui sance. - , --4 Smashing Into, coal cart My father naa money. N , Smashing in elderly gentleman I am a wag, . , Brought to a suddea .halt--I am Fort Klamath correspondence of Klamath Falls Express: Two more ar tesian wells struck last week, making seven in the valley up to date. I think there will be at least 10 more bored here this fall. Recently some men at Klnrs Valley. Benton county, burned some slashing. t spread and burned eight or 10 miles f fence, three cows, five or six sheep nd 11.000 worth of sawloes. altoerether about $2,600 worth of property. The coroner has erected a monument over the grave of Joe Champion, the first white settler in Tillamook county. In the Oddfellow's cemetery. A pub lic subscription was taken up for the monument, which Is In white metal. Smelt, more than you could shake a stick at, have been coming ashore on the rocks near the Seaside house, and whales, sea lions and seals In herds, droves, or schools, whichever suits you best have taken possession of the covo north of Tillamook Head, says the Sea side Signal. a According to the Albany Herald a dog that stood In front of a grocery waa observed to catch wasps which were hovering about the fruit In front Of the store. One person watched the dog catch 20 wasps In less- than five minutes. The dog seemed to experi ence no 111 effect from the wasps, whose tings evidently railed to hurt him. A Huntington man who predicted a hard winter last fall says that this winter will be a "peeler. He bases his prediction on the actions of the bears which he says are more numer ous than last year and that they have come lower into the valleys than for years, foraging to the very doorvards of outlying farms to fatten up for a powerrui speu or Killing weather." He says last winter won't be a "marker" to this. Salem Journal: The big influences are against progress In the capital city. Men who have made big fortunes out of the public are singularly devoid of enterprise, and there is not mucti use in celebrating their demise, as others seem to take their places with retrogressive policies. Nothing but a cataclysm-like removal of the atate capital will ever awaken them. and it Is doubtful If that would convert life-long streams of legarthy into the live currents of progress. B rough pinched. "An East Side Bank for East Side People." The Commercial Savings Bank Possesses ample resources and thorough equipment for modern and progressive banking. Checking Accounts v Solicited ALSO SAVINGS ACCOUNTS -Onwhlch interest at 4 per cent Js paid, compounded seml-annu- In selecting a bank the first con-' slderatlon : is - one whose officers -and directors are known for Jl integrity?- ,V George W. 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