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Newspaper Page TextEDITOETAti AW . r; THE JOURNAL AX ' 1RDBPKNDXNT ' KCWSrAPER. C S. JACKtOH. ..FobUahar rub)lmk4 ar awilng (air-pt Sandayl r Noada' kanrnlnf. at TIm Jnurnal Bnllil- llia. rith and Yainulll atraa-ta. Kortiaea, w, Kataraa at the Doatufflce at Purtlaud, Of., f tranuutiwlaa tliroufb Ua Bull avcod-cUM TELEPH0NX3 MAIN TITS. DOMK. .-., AO SatMi-tmaata rurbrd hr tbtM number. sen is aparatnr to dvpariniaai w' MP, parti Saat Bid ottkM, B-S444; Bast pa wsbC rOKEION ADTKBT1SINQ BEPRUENTATI VI Vrlaas-Baaa.lB BpacUl adwUalng Afnf7. . Draaawtrk BulJriloa. tut rifIB atasaa. 1S Yort; Trlbo Bnllitlny. Chimp. Sabaerlptloa Taraa by mall to anr addrcaa la, the t si ltd StatM. Canada or alaileo. UAH.. . On raar ..fj.on I on month f -SO SUNDAY. . 1 One. year...' 12. So I On awnlb t J5 DAILY AND MONDAY. Oat yar 17.60 On mootb ,.9 country of large natural resource and it if now . carrying . about as heavy a burden aa it ean well atand. Besides, without boastfulness, the United States, while , It . might be damaged a good deal " for a little while, ia not a . country to be whipped, nor ultimately worsted. Dut more than all this, the enlight ened, progressive thought of the age is tending toward peace, not war; toward the settlement of Interna- tlonal disputes by arbitration where diplomacy falls. SHORTSIGHTED FORAKER. Letters From ttc People People Demand Statement No. 1, In the case of an 18-year-old boy I proved during the past few months, snatching a woman's purse on the land that, prospects are good.'; This street? Why his threadbare coat, I is valuable testimony, for if the eJgsr I dib lanerea trousers ana worn nm i u iuuacw iraao aeepa up win n i Portland, Or., Feb. I. To the Editor shoes? Is there a mother, is there lis pretty 'certain that other lines of h Journal. Thia is a overnment a sister, and how fares It with them? j business are not falling off any. llel0f the people. Xor the people, and by the j revived. ;, , . r. . '! mey say mat some win tnnve ana i says mat newspaper advertising fur- people. jtnas always neen so. ' . Lit the people make sure of alaoting some win not, ana pernaps it is true, i msnes a gooa oarometer tor toe state i were mru Lmn lapses in ins past mat i senators tnemaeivea. Dnl An all lli. nlflfnl lniliniM nf I ft traa ind luiiiitlHmi nf Knalnaaa I Mfmd tO detract from - thlfl VlW. , it I ' waa iBDara nr ina natnia. in vnnina i unj miiiarr im n ...uu -rl Small Cijang t mm All efforts to sidetrack Bryaa die a- .. ,. ... - ' a e ' v.- Oeer vs. Ellis; the old factional fight ; Ue REALM I rTFEfll!NlNE tr , ; The measure of charity thou dealest shall be poured Into thine own bosom. Topper. .. -E5 TUB RAILROADS AKD THE PEO-PLE. F human life come from mere thrift- and that In -his business there has lessness? ' Ibeen no curtailment of advertising. The third of these pathetic stories I With the lapse of winter it looks as related bow the net earnings of the I if the "stringency," except as the steel trust for the past year were I presidential campaign ' may affect $160,000,000 with a surplus of I business a little, would disappear. tl 18.000.000 of undivided nrofltfl on hand. It is a tale of tears and I Since last spring there has been I force from William Jennings Bryan as I but It la doubtful about Cuba. of the aovernment . atlll lived. lt on 01 mon' 1"' awaited tna call of .the. people to, bring I g..io flunalj The Journal la tha II InlA . Hnn That nail . mm Mm, lu. wanat. In Via t t ' . mm " . w(.vw. mmmm mmMm 4 ml mj vw.l.W I k m , M . ncaln. and It mihiu from tha nonnla nnt I . . a a from party. The cUrion note of reform I ! T T"L,n ffP'?P to. have is in the .1, and tha peopla hear it VUM w Wp " H' It appenla to the' people with aa much Give the Child m Chance. '. 7 NE of the foremost of tha many eocleties for aiding the. poor n New' York has taken In hand an' important piatter for the school children and has opened study foojjyi In the different centers where they may prepare theft leeaone. The workers among the tenement families 0 ORAKER'S is a notable case of tragedy. Selling steel rails to Amer-n unusual similarity of seasons bd- Krom Theodore nooaereit. f rom Francla -pik RESIDENT ELLIOTT of the " la Northern Pacific railroad has JT k been, talking at Lewlston, Idaho, complaining about and condemning the . people's efforts to exert tome little measure of control over the railroads, and trying to frighten them into supino acquies cence in whatever the Harrimans, Hills, Qoulds, Rockefellers and other railroad magnates may do to them. The little power, given to commis sions, Mr. Elliott says, has retarded the west by 16 years. This, inter preted, Is a threat that the people of this country must let the railroads ' absolutely alone, to do whatever they please and bow they please. . President Roosevelt. Mr. Elliott says, , has ' "wrought havoc," and threatens to do worse. Havoc! What weoe Northern Pacific divi dends last year? How many, mil lions has Harrlman milked Oregon , of? And how many tens of millions wrung from the people, by -equity their money, has be taken out of the " west for his Wall street speculations and to use in forming a gigantic mo . nopoly, so that he would have mil lions of people absolutely at his " mercy? It Is the people that have a right to cry "Havoc!" Mr. Elliott wants a "halt called on thia ' vicious legislation." He wants, as we said, no control, regu lation, supervision or Interference of or with the railroads on the part of t he people. He will be disappointed. The people will never go back to that position, even If the railroad I Bryan, party would be almost officers refuse to build another mile I nored, and the people's man would of track or make a dollar's worth of j "sweep the country improvement The people are not! It has become a people's move- going to be scared by the threatened ment, and cannot be stopped. And Injury to- be ?"inflicted ' by these I the men who are trying to stop It ' tyrants, t : f f r ?tfi 1 . I are, consciously- or unconsciously - Rather than submit longer and I enemies of the republic, of the peo perpetualiy to absolute and unre- pie. These things Foraker, who long strained' railroad domination, the ago forgot the people, cannot see people will move forward, under the blindness. He rails at the president for trying to check and constrain corporate dls honesty and "malefactors of great wealth," and longs for the return of the good old Republican times when the party leaders, with the president at their head, not only did nothing to offend or interfere with these classes of criminals or undesirable cltlxens, but became their partners, allies and agents. This, Foraker thinks, was the golden age of American politics, and no doubt it was, for such men aa he, Foraker was always on the side of the Interests, the trusts, the rail roads, the combinations of capital, and none the less so if they were dishonest, oppressive and'eontemptu ous of the laws. It was just such mon and 'combines that Foraker served, for this he went into and was kept in public life. He scarcely denies or disguises It. Foraker Is blind because he thinks Roosevelt is an anomaly, a tempor ary, disturbing Incident, a mere visionary mischief maker, and that everything will fall back into the old well-greased grooves as soon as Roosevelt retires. It Is true that Roosevelt is an anomaly in that high place, but what Foraker can't see is the awakening throughout the whole country, in consequence of the opportunity Roosevelt gave, to the necessity of a far higher standard of official ethics, and of the curb ing and control of the predatory and plundering interests, combines and corporations. -Roosevelt, by virtue of his posi tion, gave a start to this move ment, made it possible on alarge, countrywide scale, and now there Is no stopping It. A president such as Foraker would like, himself, for Instance, could of course do much to stop or check it, but could do so but temporarily; besides, unless the people are greatly deceived in the man, there will bo no more such presidents. If, for example, Fora ker were running pext fall against lg leans at 28 per ton, selllpg them in iween mis region ana tne d&?.k ii. it i, reform the people want, it woman la not happier than ahet Egypt, freight prepaid, for 123. east country, dow tne summer - .j. pj. -a ana n.y euiiiii & uu into uai its auivi ite.ua i vat . The Philippine are probably for Taft, found that owe reason that the children dftl not get on more eaelly at school was t net they bad no quiet place in which to prepare their Unions for the next day.' . i ' . ' ' ; ' i ";, Still In our common schools the chtl- Poor Queen Amelia; what peasant reaentatlve In congreaa from thia die- I dren do a good part of their atudying In trlct. , - I the school building and we do not aa yt : -"." ,:. v . .w I "d to make the preparing of leaaona J. Heney aa from George E. Chamber lain. It. la reform the DODle want, it In both the summer M reform the people wlU get and they i-ih.".'.- n. .V.';r. "Va.inf.H HI Oregon la entitled to the rep. at $28 per ton, selling them to for- the winter up till a few days ago ' L'Jl ' the Jy.fc - - A l - 1 T c A ... I. w. ..l I mIM In tha oaatorn and mlririla I JT ?i "" t" v r. " " i buvu io mo v.oti - " i riiwin, mm people are not ant to ro- I D . m hittar n lk , xTI. . .. , ' trust. It has strangled home com- western states there was practically peat the 'k. the promlalng their I of a, duty which the famlfy owee to" tha petition, and a tariff keeps out the no winter until neany tne ena otjto the siren call of sentiment, to thel0"'"- . . i vua mat is too ozten overlooked. foreigner. It is a deadly arrange- January, na came at u. mmmm - . Ona senatorial vote la fprRooaeyelt, I - How often do we aee a child who has ment, enabling the trust to snatch lime as tne recent coia speu aiaitlMn to the emus and well-fed and!1? r9oa minaa ue anowa wnoaeiiouna a epmparatively quiet place in it.. nnM. M.n.nn,,. in ih-1 hra But thara la a biar difference, well-paid aeoloa-lats of the "interesta" I . wat ia. . ... I , ' atuoying ariven from v"" " - l -.- . I kr.k l A ,irk. m w. I V "MU tVTT 1 UTJ VWimm W - I .... I nr h h Inil Inw Aamrr-m iTh.y will rim country. It is pathetic because it is however, botn in summer ana win-1 crcfii, ana eatremeiy- careful, to elect a tragedy, It helps million street, it is one ot tne crimes oi tne i " iwuuwuuu wciuc. -mo Drtv nd who win nimtn conhirT hApanaA newahnva and nth-1 ing Conditions in the Pacific north-1 to work for the DeODlesr Interesta in ers by the million" must suffer In west and east of the Rocky moun-romXyDhy V"PrhSiefrtyho? want or steal on tne street to make tains. k I corporation in tne industrial or com- - s bhakIaI a i . tii a JI-IJ.-J- iLI- -,- ..J If.1 1 gii ii i jaaaaaaii m ay I HioiUHJ VTUI JU, inQ UUl Ulin WnU WlU kind it by tha lntrnalnn nf tha nlhu nmhin T.t ..... -ilk v..l Iv- " ., V, . . miuutj uwuu w" - 1 w ui, lomiij. i-ernaps ne aeeaa an- 1 An . ..n,tn, anil rm vara nna rnn minik-i nrna, an anmi . M ...11 j a . . . It. is a tragedy because ter, n tne extremes mere ana nr riytotMvnitmm zrthktlr . ' - ' itnTiu'l to make old men by the These similarities are probably only Tjoiity of Yl! tfcpi; wSrfs ' , ,, V' Py tbe piano, and the youngster, with that f.U exhausted on the coincidental, a. ordinarily there is kbr US "Vw tnemaeivea I nrva to teu mem o. , "'1 J:"P s to pcnooi tne next morn- WArW frtf mrMlr t a 1 in....,. aaalnal iuo iiuoBiiuu vuujoo up uift i igm oomraon intereeta or tne people. But the trust will not be punished, now. before the primaries: Do you tj ywui not wait for a con.tltu- The newsboy will. voters want to elect your unitea I conatitution to exercise the right to States senator? The party question " peopi cnoice to tne miuw T - I Hlatna itnil. tnr tha fernA anil anffl. TRV THE COUNTRY. h nothing to do with It until June; I Cent reaaon that they have already then decide between the party can-1 waited, too long and they know full T WILL soon be spring in Oregon, dIdates; but In the April primaries EJP K tfT ion? fie g auu tuere win do b great aeai oi j nominate, on either ticket, oniyiP' win Btana ror it. xne peopM tnem- work to do in the country. Farm' ers, dairymen and ffultgrowers Mature. have been short of help for some years. Most of them are "fore- When Mr. Heney talks of politics againet it, aa the I Ct.a V 1 . Ka la,rla- "uurt" "l ' P"WOr uiuiiuou, 'v -o'" i ii ioiiowb tnat (Statement iso. 1 is the aource of all power because It tomes from the neonle. anil for that ranaon tha 'Intoreata'' are againet It, and wlU fight interesta nave al- handed," have not suffered appre- and business, people are Inclined to Tn'Jn VClS? VV6 c?mo2JZll clably from the stringency. Wei take him seriously, for he undoubt- "Vox popuii tox Del." henceforth win' donht not that thtr will unnn ha 41t toll, a vnnn manv thlne-a that I P lon.er be a mere sentiment. It will "V- " " .:, - rr-."-? i. ?sfth. torcefui nty dlcouj un awaiuug bctoibi iuuu- are import&nify true, uu. wuva ia in ine noay pontic. sand men on the farms of Oregon, the same connection he says he Is a m'i ?f ;Mnet Jn,te?2!3r "'J?'?: ....... . . . ... , , , I ment ins. i ia tnat the corporate work that the farmers need done and Republican they suspect him of be-1 interests and their political hirelings are against ii. wnat Detter proor can one ask than this. The virtue of State ment No. I lies In the fact that It represents the beat wishes and as pirations of the plain people, and the proor or tnis is tnat tne plutocrats and their mlniona are atralnat It that la agalnat the people. When were they otherwise? The hope of the people of m a I ina Without havtnv Ann hla hnma anrlr Jack London 1s entitled to credit for Li?. n,1d hlrker by the "teacher or. not repeating that old remark tluit-il IPwnea witn uia loss of "marka" porta be hla death bad bean exagger- lhy,', fyiM. Ln trad don ated. I f. J.not aiwaya eaay for a child to as , fiawia aown to stuay in the evening, John L, Sullivan struck a blow fori that time la held by all the rest tPTn- the other day-knocked a S "-"HL" members of the family to "Just one game" of checkers or backa-a.mm.nn re quires some strength of purpose to re fuse. We should not make It harder for him. The child's own bedroom la too nfton tireless cot that that matters so far aa ita use for sleeping la concerned but it doea matter when It cornea to altting there for atudy. The family alt- ting-room is bright and warm, but It la the rallying place of the whole family and the scans of good natured banter or mild hilarity. What can the youngster doT threatened pressure, to the last re sorts for relief government own' ership, or the building of rival strategic lines. This will surely happen, if the railroads long main tain their present attitude of reprisal and revenge upon the people because they dare to enact a few mild, rea sonable and necessary laws. Mr. Elliott Is looking into the wrong end of the telescope, JAPAN AND WAR, "a LETTER of General Kuropat V kin to a Berlin professor has been published, In which the ,, , Russian general seeks to show that Japan intends and is steadily preparing to go to war with the , United States. Admitting at - least for argument's sake, the du ,pllcity of the Japanese character, we cannot admit the general's further premise that the United States ., Btands now substantially in the same relation to Japan that Russia did Just prior to the recent war. In . fact, there are but few and these only minor points of similarity. The wide variance between this country and Russia five or six years ago, with respect to their relation and at titude toward Japan, need not be i pointed out to an American - With Kuropatkin, a Russian, the - wiBtt may De fatner to the thought. War between the United States and Japan would be Russia's opportun . ity, and; if "may be doubted, by" the : way, if Russia's code of diplomatic or international morals is greatly su perlor to that of Japan. A war with the United States would so weaken Japan that Russia, meanwhile mak ing preparations on a large scale, would in a few years be able to wrest from Japan what Russia has - so long desired. Years hence, when China-has a great rarmy of several prllllon men, It , Japan can control . and use China for Its purposes, the brown and yellow . men might " " " ""Msm. woria xo new EXIT THAW. IS IMPATIENCE for liberty ought not to cause young Mr Thaw to become spectacular . He has been a spectacle for 18 months. He is not In position to oomplaln at the courts. They have dealt kindly with him. Fate and fortune have smiled on him. He took a human life, and our code is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. True, it was a putrid life It was a life that the world is better off to be rid of. It was a life at war with purity, beauty, goodness and morSls. Its breath was nauseous and its touch polluting. But young Mr. Thaw was not called of the Al mighty to remove that life. That is the business of the court. That is what the law Is for, and no man should usurp the functions of the law. ' This law called for young Mr Thaw's sacrifice. It beckoned him to the electric chair. The bridge of sighs pointed him there. Protec tion of society called him to go there. But a kindly human sym pathy hung over the Jury box. It considered the little figure in blue. It heeded her courage and her sac rifice. It remembered that the world lost nothing when White went. The warm thought waves of human sym pathy were active. The human heart Is deeper and broader and warmer than the world allows It Is. It re sponds with kindness whenever there Is a shred of excuse for such action, and that is one of the well springs of hope in the world. It was the instrumentality that saved Thaw, and the rest of his life he Should look upon courts, juries and -human so ciety with nothing but respect and thankfulness. THREE TRAGEDIES. HE SUNDAY JOURNAL told ' three pathetic stories. It told how a penniless old man of Pni.flan1 trnmnfid thn ntrAAfa vondert. and write some, large pages I with an advertising banner till he r of history; but for a good while yet Japan . must work ; and wait, if it would fight the United States and at the same time and "afterward de fend itself against Russia, possibly Billed with Germany and Austria, . But, granting, again all this Is said about Japanese, insincerity, we think her statesmen are and for a long time will be too wise to go to war with the' United States. . One B'jflclert reason is. that v Japan has not and cannot- get the" necessary --, Jc;vu is cot within itself ill be glad to pay for, and that a lng a joker. portion of the unemployed now thronging this city can do. Here, Let the people rulei as much as then, if our judgment be correct. Is I possible. ' We boast that we are a chance for a good many of these people fit for self-government; let's men. try it more ana more, ana prove it. If they will accept nothing else Leave less to bosses and machines;. Oregon c"4red in statement No. l. but an easy, soldiering job, short take more power and responsibility hnnra an1 lartro no v rf rt a a f horn I fn n tnnf wn flatfiflfl VA 'VrtlTimnn i, nn ... in th,ir rnin, into th J nnnl Baker City's Controversy, country. A farmer doesn't want any man down who asked nun. to take 'a drink. a a Now that oniona are higher than ever before, many people win crare tnem who would not touch one if they were cheap. a a Mark Twain aays It costs mora to keep a bank recetrer than a harem. Not that ha has personal experience of the latter. "The people do not vote like a band of sheep." Pendleton Tribune. No, that ia what la the matter with "the party." a a Some years ago Brother Oeer aald he waa not "a miscellaneous candidate." But to aome people It looks aa If he bad become so. -'a a Every candidate ao far aays. "I will, during my term of office," etc. The phrane "during my term of office" Is surplusage. - j And little Me-Too Dick will have to go, too, aa eoon aa' hla term la out It waa a disgrace to Ohio ever to send him to tam aenate. a a The president la said to be "fighting mad." If thia la so now, won't he be killing maa by next summer, u things don't go nis way: 8-hour or even any 10-hour man. The work of the farm, unless on a big ranch where many men are em ployed, is necessarily prolonged; it I cannot be restricted to exact hours. Baker City. Or, Jan. 31. To the Edl- tor of The Journal We, the members A New York preacher declares that It is airricuit ror mm to taut tnroucn lot of feminine hata. But we would have thought it easy for aome preach ers. a Mora than 100,000 girls are being in Lxmoon acnooia. including waahlng the It aeema to be a question that de serves as much consideration aa tha one ao often Insisted upon at present. mat tne nouaenaaia or tne cook -shall have a Pleasant, cheerr alttlna-ronm for evening use, to provide a place where the child who ia expected to da reference work at home shall be able to do it - If with a clean, brlaht. warm, cheerr place In which to work, the child goes to acpooi unprepared, it is nia own fault, but when the blg people monopolise- every-place In the house and talk or alng and the child Is obliged to go unprepared to school he shouldera a blame which belongs to other people,, and that la not right A little thought on thia matter will usually open tha way for the child or the children to have comfort and quiet for ait hour or ao la the evening. If this is found Im practicable the mother may find It well to rather the children In fo? an hour before dinner and Insist upon the school work being done then. It scarcely meets the question to aay that the children should do their study ing at achocl. for their time Is usually carefully planned and provided for. Mornovor, there la a decided 'value In Will the Republican national plat- "1 -'T.:-7". form makers ignore the panic, or union of Baker City. Oregon, deslrea to will they charge Roosevelt with It I thank you for the stand you have taken Surely they will scarcely have the n Portland in the past on the aide of taught housewifery "nerve" to lay it upon the Demo- law - and morality and. moreover, we the inatructlon lno t . . i , . i . ,. . .-,i n..v I T. m " ,7 " "' Dtoy. says me LAinuun cxpreaa, -quoting kiviiik ine nuaeni an opportunity ror But there is a variety about it, and cratic party. said of our own little city. which, the-fioaton Olobo remark; "Poo" Individual work. -It la oY much more baby." , lvalue to him to learn to follow ur a . . ... a . . . tiiiwr ui iiinii v ui uur ii 1 1 rn f H. w. nn I ' . ,AniA . h .iai. .. .. .1.1 . n.- course of a month. He will not get! " . ?u hw!th the little pink dodger that Rn0de Inland elected to the senate clomped ia. and ' other reference boiJs blu'wages. but with moderate pay he ,n oul a JJemocraiic candidate tor V. .u. , 1 v. .w . the other day a resident of New York, than to have the mere matter presented ,, v ,,ki .j j nroKlrfAnt anybody but Brvan. The I .r i iLc and a thorough trust man. wetmore. i to mm witnout nia own errort win nam a miuiui wuio ucu auu u r ' z """ u "ui in I I. nnA annnirh tnr rntt.n llttla Oregon SiJcliglitJ abundance of good food. He Is re- World got It. choice in 1904; that 7.u o I the fl'ctlon' w the real tviavoH tr-nm tamntgtlnn o ni noolBIlUUlU BUIUCV 1 UI HWUiltS. I nrraa nn dAnanM P-hrla AiA nn n. I w vv- ' A4 4 vy U IIV1U IVIUVlflllVU UUU I anonrl tiotia nf his pnrnlnirB Tn th - i n i.. j . v u- mn-a I ItOOSeVeil Bet!IIlB IU DC 1U IttVUf UUI UV V. Urn J -V. UV V. " i. UWIV J VJ . . If h has an ambition to aaw than OI reaerai, mat is, executive, con- he can by depending on intermittent tro1 ot Presidential nominations, work on railroad and other con- . . . ., . tractors'. jobs. In JLiphtcr Vein a . i ii I AinuDg iucbo wuraingmea are a considerable proportion of young Men's Maids. men, and some of them are Amerl- "Men's maids yes," said an employ- cans though not many. Such, at ment agent, "there are more of them least, would do well to strike out than men'u n,en or va,ets- isu tne lasnionaoie noteia oi utii- occaslon demanded. Christ did not use soft words when he scourged the thieves ana gamoiera in tne temple. we heartily indorse all that has been I said in thia dodger by the ministerial that thev are dolni W. knw thit I. Tillamook la to hava a new ateam 1' : 1525 ww l'r5i J!Z ZH?? h.8" "hip line to San Francisco none to and the ballota of our huabajda and Por14" rnends we will gain a victory that will into the country and go to work on a farm. Take very small wages at first, and prove yourselves. Learn the work and do it well. Soon such a young man can have a comfortable home the year round, and a nice lit tie sack ot savings at the year s end. Then, if honest and moral, other opportunities begin to open up to him. If he cannot buy land, he can In two or three years rent a piece, can marry some industrious working girl, and in a few years more he can have a farm of his own Thousands of young men have done this. Isn't it better than always de pending on a "job," and going hungry when one cannot be had? LEGAL NONSENSE. fell exhausted from cold and ex posure. It was an episode brim ming with pathos. Another was the long chase of an iS-year-old'.news-toy .who had snatched a young woman's purse on the street. There Is pathos In any tale wherein a boy of ,18, whether from necessity or choice. Is a thief. - What was the story that brought the old man at three score to want? In how many homes in Portland is there a ; similar tragedy ; of life? What la the background of poverty, HAT A LOT of nonsensical legal red tape has to be un wound in criminal proced ure, performances with no more sense or reason In them than It would be for a man while putting on his clothes to turn around 39 times every time he put a button in place or passed a shoelace over a button. The speaker of the Massa chusetts legislature has been In dicted on 162 counts in consequence of having had something to do with an excursion of that many school children. It Is supposed that he somehow violated a state law In getting reduced rates, or in some other way. If legal procedure were not in some particulars an absurd, nonsensical thing, entirely un adapted to common sense business methods, one count, specifying the number of people involved in the transaction and the offense, in a few simple, plain words, would be quite sufficient; but the law being what it is, "and legal custom what it is, far cical, ridiculous and nonsensical, the prosecuting officer had to write out a long Btringof useless and fool-; lsh verbiage 162 times. This Is only one instance of hundreds that prove the opening statement of this article. We wonder If the time will ever come when the legal profession, In the matter of criminal and even civil pleading, will consent to get into communication with common sense. - -Z , fornia, Florida, the Riviera, Egypt, and, as you pass open bedroom doors of a morning or an afternoon, what do you see? You see maids changing the atuda In evening shirts; you see them press ing trousers with patent alcohol irona; you aee them brushing coats; you see them putting- fresh laces in No. 10 brogans. 'The average well-to-do couple the couple that can afford the best winter and summer resorts travel with a maid, but not with a maid and a. valet. For. after all. a valet is very expensive. and his dutlea occupy only a few hours open the eyea of the law breakers and we will snow them tnat we have influ ence if we have not a vote. ALMIRA 8TATKS PALMER. President HOLLIE C. KINO, Secretary. Many Are Worthy and Want Work. Woodstock, Feb. I. To tha Editor of the Journal. I have been Interested in your efforts to find employment for the unemployed by free advertising, but I am inclined to think that all are not worthy.' I waa very much needing a woman to work by the days or hour. get ild- a a Drain exoecta to wake up and lively In the spring, when railroad but lng begins again. "We are golna to campaign religious ly for the Port of Astoria," says an Astoria paper. But wouldn't an lrre llgioua. campaign succeed bitter down there 7 V Aa proof that confidence In tha Bank or Drain is Deing gradually reatored, mora money Is being deposited right aionr tnan y arawn out, says tne Non pareil. a a "Thia ia probably the laat taate of winter we win get tin next winter.' says tha Salem Statesman. "Probably" The problem of belna an up-to-date and still an old-fashioned mother It becoming every day more difficult She aare not let go oi any or tne time-nai-lowed traditions which are the world's common basis for child-rearing, yet the complicated life of today demanda many otner tnings. So. cheerfully, thia rurtner duty la laid upon the hearts of the mothers who want their children to have a fondness for books and to get all the good poasl- bte out of their education. See that tha child has a quiet, comfortable place In which to study and ihat lie la not obliged, on account of the selfish thoughtlessness of the older members of the family, to go to school unprepared. g s : How and When to Tip. T takes more tins to travel abroad comfortably than In thia country but smaller ones may suffice. You will find,' for Instance, the "hold-up methods, irrltatlngly prevalent hare. non-extatent abroad ' almply because I ao l answered an ao, and received a promise from a woman to come and work ror me at zs cents per hour from I and perhapa: but don't be too doggoned I .v... ..' a , 1 till 6 p m. I am Inclined to be hu- sure of It UU8oneu I there they cannot conceive of a trav- iimne, auu us x iihji u imaii wasning I v 1 V1. reaay 81 i"e PPOinted .tme, 1 s. U Kline of Corvallle. a delegate waited 24 hours, and ended by doing it to the laat ''national Republican conven- niysew, inuuB.i 11111 a. serni-invaiia. tion, thinKs .Fairbanks will be noml Now I would like to ask: "Do people nated for president, according to tha at..-. 1 . 1 ... - a day, and a maid can get through all of advertise ror worn because they really I Republican. an not. ' I wani 11. ur is 11 uecause iney reel tnat I them Just aa well "80 the average ludv's maid la a man's maid as well maid to the wife, valet to the husband. She likes her latter duties. They are, you see, simple and easy, and they draw forth the. moat generous tips. Monarch' Privileges. tney are getting something ror no thing?- A IN ANXIUUS INQUIRER. George Brandes' Birthday. George Brandes, Denmark's leading man 01 leneru, was porn in copennagen, February 4, 1842, of Jewish parentage. The editor of The Dalles Chronicle haa been to church, and it was such a strange experience and nearly all the others there being women, tnat tie writes a long editorial about It a a A. Tanke of Freewater sold fruit last eler not tipping. On the steamship, aays one who knows. In tha February Delineator, you will have to tip a waiter, a bed room steward, a deca steward and pos sibly a boy who has attended to sear ting up games. On the boats of a me dium class about $5 Is all you will b expected to distribute among them. It Is quite customary to ask the stateroom steward for a cup of tea before rising, 111 case you are feeling a little shaky. and this Is a good plan. But when once you get up, oresB as quicaiy aa posaioie 14 n ulnar nn talont tny Yt ...lvp.nr from his ranch of leas than veii I ' 1 - . r - .1. Scarlet liveries in England are the ehcea. and finding literary advancement acres to the amount of $8.400. , If he Is 5",. Thi. wi 1 ottU t i X Irl..'. l .... I j . . j 1 n.in o v... i . I o Rtarri nA nrnhfihlv romnrlrAil A 1 ... - may In Abyssinia royalties alone wear an earring in the left ear. In Persia none but the shah is privi leged to drive white horses with scar let-dyed tail tips. 1 Only the German emperor Is .per. mltted to smoke a certain very fine Havana cigar with a green and gold band. In Russia no one but the ccar may drive at full gallop on the public roads. 1 ne King 01 mam chooses, once a year, the best stones taken from the splendid Siamese sapphire mines. For these he pays nothing. In Madagascar, where kite-flying ia a national sport. It is unlawful for far away, young urandes chose to studv I a Bweae ne prooaoiy remaraea: ...aiipirnarii jbw, oui Miinougn ne completed tnei-1""'"' " t""-f au I After the boat, on the continent's co ir-e, ne never practiced. Me studied , '......, .J.good . rule .tn . tipping ia to givn what belles letters nfcllo-phy and esthetics,! Harbor correspondence of Port Or- J amounts to one tenth of your bill and unwi comyeueu o enrn ome money, rord Trmune: rxewa is not ao pientl-1 you can add a little to this ir you feel when he became a school teacher for a ful. In this section as rain owing to 1 you have been well served.., If,,a good time. One of the most important events the continuous wind that has predoSal-i girl takes out vour- dusty dress and In hla life waa a visit to Paris and nated for the past two months. It haa elves it a brushina-. and cleans and I blown the most of the news ao far I blacks your muddy shoes, you would not nortn mat it wiu never return. begrudge ,j cents, 1 am aura. or a week' stay, paying f 1.60 a day, you C. H. Crew of Port Orford lately killed might give your table waiter (0 cents, a fine and valuable sea otter off Cape He will not expect more. Give a little Winn no the sain measurina over six " iuo rouw, o i-wnin iu un London at the age -of 22 years. He en tered upon his literary career in earnest in 1866. His first work was "Dualism of the Philosophy of the Present Time.'. it was an examination into the rain. tlona of aclence and faith, and he was any one to fly a kite aa high aa those I lated Into many European tongues, and oi wiu royat Tamny ascena. roundly attained by the orthodox party S 'jt was shot during one of the man for a course, 5 cents to the porter fin VhirMiSi J,h severe " sthwesters at? a nge of who handles your baggage. But b In the years which followed until 1S83 over 300 yards, and three out of four sure to keep on hand always a supply of wr.(1., knn,.,i7r.,l7 . . shots found their marie inside of as C"?P" " email com. w book aer book covering a wide variety manv Bec0nds. out a quarter where you only Intended mo wriiinga were trans of subjects. The best China tea la arowfl on tne I haa covered the entire rans-n fmm Seven Tea Mountains,, a plantation on I poetry and the essay and novel to his- tne Aunt,uiii uuiuers. - uiiuvr otiibut i inrj ana PflllUBUDny of death no Chinaman save one of royal oirin may urinK this tea. nrLn. . Dl...lJi,n M.M : . i him f.m. 'til. '-,. - " . ? IBHUIIB , .1.; " n 1 ' rruiv 1 down an old notei crwmney ne discov ered the brick were dated "1868" and were branded "W. D." This would in dicate that the building, was erected to give 6 or 10 cents, for this would soon amount u? to a sum. This Date In History. 1665 First number of London Ga zette appeared. 1, ' 1693 Nearly 2,000 persons killed by tt, at , Hints From an Old Cook Book.1 about that time, but who was the maker Always havo lobster sauce with salmon. Butterfly Fakers. The butterfly waa a beautiful deep blue, as lustrous aa satin; but looking I earthouake in Sicily. at it cioseiy, tne collector shoos nis head. "Another fake," he said. - "See here." And with his flnaer he brushed off the glistening blue dust from the In sect's wings, and lo. it waa but a com. mon brown field butterfly after all. . "Aa the collecting of butterflies arrows more popular " he explained," more and of the brick the oldest Inhabitants do not know, says the sun. a a Wasco News: jne of Sherman coun ty's citizens. C. H. Tom, Is spending 1762 Martinique taken by the Eng- the winter with relatives in the east lish 1776 Americans took possession of mew rum vaiy. 178S Final cessation of hostilities between the United States and Great Britain. 1794 Boston's first theatre onened. 1796 American ahip' Sedgley rescued 1 169 men from the sinking shin Aurora. men, with varloua aniline dye powders, 1831--Baron Aylmer entered upon his color up a 10 cent insect into a good ! term of .office as governor of Canada. -resemblance to a $10, one. Their work! 1869 John Mitchell, late president of la hard. to detect for the reason- that, lne united Minewomers, born at Braid- Mr. Tom unloaded, about eight thou sand sacks, of wheat at 80 cents per busnel. . -i ne crop cobi mm, proDapiy. 12,000, and returned him 112,000 or more. Nowhere can a crop be raised cheaper than 'in Sherman county and nowhere can money be made easier. Harney Valley News; One of our new comera says he Was in Burns last fall, A nri nnt mint fiiiA vmir lamb on. veal cutlets dip in egg ana prena crumo, Frv till vnu a brownish red come. Grate Oruyere cheese on macaroni; - juaite tne top crisp, dui noi 100 ouny. - in venrson gravy, ourrani jeny . Mix with old port aee FrancatellL . In" dresclng salad, wifnd this law,- v With two hard yolks use one that's raw. Tioast veal witnricn sioc. gravy 1 - serve, - " t And pickled mushrooms, too. obserr. Roast pork,, some apple sauce, past I dOUbt - ' :r ":; .-;, ,j Ts -"HamiBt" with the prince left out Your mutton cnopa wiin paper cover. And make them amDer-Drown.airover JThe president of the United Cigar Stores company says, as reported by the Editor 'and Publisher, that busi ness condiuons cars greau-UB. when the dye ruba off and discolors your fingers, you suspect .nothing, since the genuine dust belonging to every butterfly's wings would do tha same thlnff " - v . . '7 . Pardonable. "Talk about nerve!" ahouted the great financier. "The fellow actually had the nerve to call me a bare-fared robber." "Oh, well," . wa gently interposed, "In hla chagrin over hla loss it was no more than natural that he should fail to no- tlco your mustache." ,. " A JKnock. , "Did you ever have a bad accident?" The. lady chauffeur bit her lip. "I met, my. .husband by accident," she wood. Illinois 1876 Manitoba abolished the legis lative council. 1899 Insurrection against the United States government In the Philippine islands began: To Think of Itl ' And now they've even brought. "The Last Rose of Summer" Into Itl Just listen: . f 7 -- ' "The last JugT of Bourbon 7, ; : Left standing alone; V AU tha colonels that tapped it Are faded and gone No ghost of a cocktail, - No old friend's in view ; To reflect back, 'Drink hearty? ' , . 'Here's looklrt at you.' " . , Atlanta Constitution, put ut at a hotel which charged him I And make them amber-brown.airov ? ...( nr. mius hr.. -.. 1 Rrnii . lia-h ti v vour beefsteak to fry coffee. ( iASt week he wag in town, Argues contempt of Christian diet. fc 7 l7m ' -. mx. - u ... .i ,i..2l TTin.... . flavor vain stopped at tne same hotel and they charged him is cents ror oread, meat coffee and mush. The only difference he says there is between a 25 and 81 cent meal in Burns is you get the mush .; juyrtie . -oint enterprise: A uoqunie peace officer held a man to ball In the sum of tSOO for stealing four combs and two lead tencils. In another case he held a man to ball in ium of $1,000 for burning a barn, ten head of cows, a number of hogs and some hay, besides threatening the Uvea of several persona.- If the latter was twice the of fense of tha former in1 ball considera tion, how much should be required from a fellow who slew his mother-in-law and all bis other relatives? - TTMnnva n finer flavor gain 'By atewlng them in good chamjJagae. T3iw aa11-fa.1 , Til ffAOIllL .-When VA11Vit I - " j ' . . . -. . ' got -them, - . . 4. Tha tn mnlc them is to not them. Wood groune are dry when cooks have I marred -m --v t:.---i.-. I J Before you roast 'em, always lard "em. Tn rnnat- anrlng chickens la to SDOll 'em. Just split 'em down the back and broil I 4 It gives true 'epicures tne vapors u To see boiled mutton -minus capers. 7 ' ' . ... Religions NoterT -7 From tha Chicago News. It takes a "lot of Christianity to en I able a man to feel -glad whan he Is I called on for 110 to nelp repair thel caurcn. - "