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' ... r 1 l. EDITORIAL TAGE OP TUB (JOTJKNMj THE JOURNAL In independent newspaper. O. .. JACK HON Publlaiiar futllahd evary aTanhif (axeept Sunday) and awry nuuaay morning at Th journal nuiia In, rltlb and Yamhill street. Portland. Or. Bntarad at th pnatofflc at Portland, Or., for -Cranaiulaaloa Uirougn U malla aa aacond-cluaa matrer. TRMCPTtONER MAIN 7178. HOME. A-nfll. All d?artment reached hr thru niimlara. Tell- tha operator th department you waut. Kaat 8 Ida office, R-S-tt; East 839. ( yORKIGM APVERTISINO KEPHKSKNTATIVK Vreeland-Renjnniln flpadnl Advertlalus Agency. Pruuawlik HnUtllng, 22.1 Klfth an-niic. New York; J0O7-OH Boyca ntilMtiiK. rhleago. uhorrtptlon Term by mall or to any artdrrae . la Ilia United Ktatea. Canada or Urilro: DAILY. Ob year J5.00 0n montb f .00 BtlNDAT. On yaar. $2.60 I On month $ .2B DAILY AND SUNDAY. On year fT.RO I One month I .A3 Tho Emperor Augustus, ; when seated at table between Virgil, who was asthmetlc, and Horace, who wag blear-eyed, said, - laughing:, "I am be tween slghe and tears." Alas! who la 1 not seated between these two table companions at the banquet of life Fr Jo seph Roux. BRYAN AND RAILROADS. M R. BRYAN was most vigor ously assailed for his alleged advocacy of government own ership of railroads in his " Madison Square speech on his fe turn from Europe, and not the same papers that misrepresented . hlB speech on that occasion and put their own hostile construction on It are censuring him for advocating not government ownership but gov- ." ernment control ; and they say that lie has changed his attitude to get Totes. These critics of Bryan are-diffi cult to please. Assuming that be was for government ownership, they denounced him as Impracticably and dangerously radical, and now they are down on him because on their own theory and representations he , has modified his views and become u more "eano and ,aaf a." May not a man do that honestly and sincerely? ; McKlnley, for Instance, was an ar ,' dent champion jf "free silver" up ,'to about the time that be became a candidate for president. But as a matter of fact Mr. Bry an never advocated government own ership of railroads, except In the -contingency that government control should prove a failure. True, he expressed the opinion that attempts at control would fail, would not accomplish the desired object, and "nearly everything that has occurred since has tended to prove that he ,was right. Attempted control' of railroads most assuredly will be a a failure and a farce as long as the t (people elect congresses like the last pne, for the railroads will control ifchese congresses. s'. But Mr. Bryan is in favor of con i tinued efforts at regulation and con jjtrol; like most reasonable men he would not undertake government 'ownership except as a last resort; i he is willing to keep trying, along jfjthe line of regulation, ajid fully testing this plan. So as to give It a fair chance he has quit eaying that ie believes it will ultimately fail. Possibly he has hope that it may : succeed. At least he will follow this 'policy if elected during his term, and will not seek to bring about : government ownership. And no 'doubt he will do this honestly and ' sincerely, even though he may in 4 his own unexpressed mind believe that it will have to come to govern ment ownership at last. And if he thinks so, he only thinks as millions pf other thoughtful Americans do. 5 There is not much difference be tween Bryan and Taft, between the .Republican and Democratic plat s' forms, on this subject; but there is this to be considered: The Repub lican leaders who, rather than Taft, will control affairs, will be con trolled by the railroads and will not n the people's interest control the Railroads. Sufficient warrant for say ing this lies in the recent record of these leaders. enough to arouse the revengeful passions of tho disappointed mem bers of tho frustrated mob; tlmy re assembled, and took four of (lie loading members of the lodge out and hanged them. If tho account of the murder of the white man be correct, his slayer deserved death, under the law, nud the law In duo time would have taken his life,. A negro inuideror certainly could not escape this pen alty down there, nud It really would have been a much greater punish ment than to bo killed at once. Even from a purely revengeful point of view, the mob was Illogical and fool ibh. Hut wo get, probably, only the white men's side of the etory; pos sibly the homicide wnis excusable, or there mav have been circumstances in mitgation of the crime. - But oven if not so, the fact that the mob sought the murderer's life shows that a mob will lynch for the mur der of a white man just as quickly and surely as for an assault on a white woman. But more and worso than this, the mob, composed of moat of the "best citizens," lynched not one man for a murder, as they started out to do, but four men for merely passing In a secret meeting a resolution ap proving ,the murder. Observe how far the lynching spirit has carried these men from the pretended bounds of lynching cases. Very likely these negroes passed no such resolution. An Inflamed mob never needs proof; a mere rumor will do. Certainly if the resolution wns passed it was a very foolish thing to do, but it would not have made the men legally as cessories to the murder, and could not justify lynching in tho minds of any good citizen. If men are to be justified for. lynching negroes for this, then there is no limit to the offenses for which negroes may be lynched; pilfering a watermelon or hurrahing for Foraker might serve. The" basis of these actions lies In the fact that a large proportion of the southern people do not regard the negro as a human being, or at least not one entitled to anything like the same rights, privileges and consideration as themselves. They are at constant mental war with the laws that have attempted to make the negroes their legal equals, and at slight provocation their, wrath masters them and they thus manifest their hatred of the law, and of the legal privileges accorded the negro race, rather than of the race itself. The leaders of the mob who mur dered these four negroes ought to be severely punished. Even a south ern state or community that approves and Justifies lynching for assaults on women ought to draw the line some where, and let the world know that It will not tolerate wholesale lynch ing of negroes because they may have passed a foolish resolution. only a year and a half; let ua not condemn him at this early period of his term. Ha has four and a half years yet to serve and who can ay that ho will not "make good" as far as Oregon's interests are concerned, In that time? No now senator ac complishes anything during the first two years of his term. The Journal, instead of saying harsh things about Senator Bourne, believes In giving him encouragement and aid. True, ho has not been back to Oregon, but perhaps he could serve Oregon's In terests better at" Washington, where ho has been almost continuously. The Journal agrees with Senator Bourne's crltlca that he pressed his second elective term propaganda en tirely too far. As a realous cham pion of Roosevelt, he ought to have seen that the president could not In honor become the nominee. But that mistake should not be suffi cient to condemn Senator Bourne and make him the object of unspar ing abuse during the rest of his term. There Is one thing about him; the people know Just where he stands whea he takes a position, like the one he has maintained on the ques tion of electing senators by the peo ple, and that Is worth something. More than this, he appears to be inclined to take what may be called the people's side of current issues generally. Perhaps this is the prin cipal reason why he is so hated In certain quarters. Small Change Ovardolng reforms retards It. a a Harrlman haan't sot Hill's acalf jet. a Olve the Olympic winners a great re caption. a - Now comes August, ripe matron of uis year. Why not let the members of the lug mature alone 7 Portland can afford to have a big north bank blowout. Immigration la increasing; sure algn or returning prosperity. a There la one court in particular that Mr. Kockefelior has profound reapec ror. a a Lot the party wrecking go merrily or, In Oregon; It won't l.urt tho uoople a any. To construct an anti-people Taft ma chine would be a curious way to work lor Tart, Since both part Ire are determined to save the country, what's the difference wnicn one wins; a Taft Is better than his party or Its platform ana perhaps better than nis letter or acceptance a Jim Schoolcraft Sherman won't know officially about hla being a candidate for over two weeks yet. a There are more Irishmen In the United States than In Ireland. But this Is the bigger country. MR. TAFT OX COURTS. P THE LYNCHING HABIT. T HE southern press and portions of the southern people are wont to justify the frequent lynch ing of negroes on the ground EOPLE generally will cordially agree with Mr. Taft In his strictures upon the American judicial system, especially its delays, and its cost to poor people, who on this account are frequently prevented from maintaining a just cause, and who therefore are prac tically denied Justice. If Mr. Bryan had thus criticised the courts the whole trust and corporation press would have charged him with mak ing an anarchistic attack on the courts, but since Mr. Taft said It, the utterance was wise and patrlolic. Mr. Taft is quoted as saying: "I believe the greatest question before the American people today Is the mprovement of the administration of justice, civil and criminal, both in the matter of its prompt dispatch and in the cheapening of its use.' An even worse feature he did not mention, and that is the weight giv en in too many cases to technicalities and even sophistries brought forward to obscure plain facts and distort simple truths. Altogether, this is Indeed an important matter and not only Mr. Taft but the whole coun try, since he is In so prominent a position. Is to be congratulated upon his declaration concerning it. Yet we cannot agree that this Is "the greatest question" for voters to consider just now. It is one that they can do little to solve by their votes next fall. The reform spoken of by Mr. Taft must come gradually, and mainly through the courts them selves, though congress and state legislatures may help. While what Mr. Taft mentions is important, and The verdict of acquittal in the government's prosecution of R. A. Booth and his fellow defendants dis poses finally of an indictment which never should have been returned. In this, as in numerons other instances. men who had been guilty of no crime were subjected to tho humiliation and disgrace of criminal prosecution and their cases were then allowed to drag along for two and three years without being brought to trial. Is It strange that the methods pursued by the prosecution In the land fraud ca3es have given rise to intense dis satisfaction and severe criticism? If It he true, as asserted, that the gov ernment prosecutors we're satisfied, before this last case went to the Jury, that R. A. Booth at least was inno cent, that fact should have been stated in open court with the re quest that the jury be Instructed to bring in a verdict of acquittal. Senator Fulton Intimates that he may be a candidate for senator be fore the legislature next winter, or p.t least he does not say that he will not be, not withstand Ins his declar ation at Corvallis last summer. If he Is to be a candidate, why not Mr. Cake also, as several Oregon Repub lican papers are suggesting? The Republican voters of the state chose Cake over Fulton for the Republi can nominee, and surely If Fulton has any claims on Republican mem bers of the legislature Cake has su perior claims, so far as the vote sihows. But the candidacy of neither should be regarded seriously, be cause a clear majority of both houses of the legislature is pos itively pledged to vote tor another man, one who suits the people of Oregon better than either. Senator Piatt eays he enjoyed read iris "Three Weeka." But not as much as If It had been still nastier. a a It wouldn't be fair to make a target of aa big a man as Taft. even If it were allowable to shoot at candidates, a a It was Just 25 yrars ago that a big relebratlon waa held In Portland over the completion of the Northern Pacific to a Portland connection. y a a Finally, and aa an all-aufflrlent rea son. Standard Oil didn't know It was wrong for It to violate the law. It supposed the law was made for others, a All that Taft says and thinks anil does is very wise; everything that Bryan thinks and says and advocates Is only "hot air." -So says the Salem States man. Isn't this an intelligent appeal to voters? a a A good many babies are now being named Hfter William Howard Taft, so that years hence there will lie a 1 t of V. 11. T. Smiths, Jones and Browns. It might be well to cut off the Bill; there's always a superfluity of Bills. a a An appeal of which the following is a part. Sent by the late Bishop Potter to .Mayor Van Wyck of New York, Is said to have been effective to bring about much better conditions: "In the name of these little ones, these weak n i)l defenseless ones. Christian and lie brew alike, of many races and tongues,' but of homes In which God Is feared and ids law reverenced and virtue and decency honored and exemplified. I call upon you. Kir. to save mcse people, no are in a vrv real way committed to your charge, from a living hell. defiling. deadly, damning. In which the criminal suplneness of the constituted authorities set for the defense of decency and good order threatens to doom them." THE MAIN OBSTACLE TO REPUB LICAN HARMONY From the Salem. Journal (Rep.). The disposition of R. E. Wllliama of Dallas, national committeeman for Ore gon, to work In harmony witb State Committeeman Cake waa an encourag ing algn for Republican success In Ore gon. It waa good pblltlcal aagaolty, com mon horae aenae and the decent Ameri can way of doing thlnga. But the Oregonian will not permit it It renews the fight to force Cake to resign. It demands what It calls exclusive ramnaign control for What It calls the pulton-Tart Republican. Why not have the national and state chairmen conduct the state campaign? wny not unite trie party lines and carry Oregon for Taftf That would gratify all the Repub licans of Oregon, but the party would be bigger than the Oregonian. That would never do to have the party or the state bigger than the Oregonian. The harmony or tn Republican party and the development of the atate nit as mere flyspeeks, compared to the Ore gonlan's graft. It cannot exist without a political and Journalistic monopoly, strife and discord. a 9 m For two tears the Oregonian sicked Ileney onto Fulton. The Oreironlan editors were in Heney's closest councils In all the time of the Mitchell trial and for a year afterward. Then when Fulton a standing- with the neonlo has been undermined, and the mines laid for his defeat at the pri maries the alllo-ator tears are sited over his remains, he kisses the hand that smote him and he is restored to the good graces of tho tall tower. Kiss the feet of na Ereat creator, pre server and destroyer of the Republican party of Oregon if you would live! Oreat Is discord and Its Journalistic king demands new victims. No man is a Republican by its con sent. There Is no Republican party out the Oregonian. what lr Its enitors no advocate ires rade, prohibition and the bloody shirt: It is the harmony and the upbulld- ng or the Itepumican pniiy iney nit afR.rE. Williams made a fatal mistake when he offered to work In harmony with the legally eleoted Republican state chairman. That would have been accounted good Republicanism in lowa, Washington Ohio anywhere but in Oregon. , a ' ' ' Now why this effort to drive State Chairman Cake and his friends and tha supporters of direct eleotion of senators out or me Jtvepuoiican party; To Insure a monopoly of federal pat ronaare to tha Scott faction. That means a monopoly for a boss machine newsDaDer. Those were the tactics employed when Scott had Furnish nominated for gov ernor and Scott waa to be made sena tor. Furnish put up the money to Inaure him the nomination on a deal by whlcn Jack Matthews was to deliver Scott tho senatorshlD. Again this year, instead of allowing tne national and state committeemen to conduct the campaign for Taft along lines or narmony tne uregonian nas un dertaken to club Cake out of the party. All In the Interests of nartv discord and Republican demoralisation. Well may the guardian angels of the O. O. P. ween tears like walnuta. Cake la called a traitor to the party because his brother secured the nomina tion for senator by the direct primary, He is denounced as a political crim inal because he appealed to the people and comolled with the law. Tha ftrea-nnlan tearnes tnai It is a crime to take Instructions from the people and unconstitutional to execute the win or tne majority. a a a If the Oregonian really loved Repub llrnn iirlm-lnlxn and Republican suc cess what harm would have resulted from allowing these two state chairmen to tret together and pull for a harmoni ous victorvr . None whatever. Only good could have resulted. What good can come to the Repub lican party from a prolonged one-man dictatorship in Oregon? None whatever. Only harm. The one-man dictatorship does not want harmony, 1 It prefers strife, discord, demoralisa tion. It seeks to place the party In an at titude of hostility to the peoplo and carry Oregon for Taft and the dis credited machine and thus on the popu larity of Taft discredit the people and overthrow popular reforms. The New York Republican bosses all hate Governor Hughes, and would give a good deal to beat him, but the demand for his renomina- tion and reelection among the poo rle is too strong. Boss Barnes says Hughes is not a Republican and has disrupted the Republican party. This Is just the reason why the rank and file of Republicans want him in office. He is a non-partisan states man and high-minded public ser vant, not a politician. The people are learning. that only such punishment fits the j jie takes the rlRht view of it, the 'crime for which, it is assume d, j grfater Question of a government of. lynching Is inflicted, that is. assaults j hv an(j for the people, or of. by and -on white women, and that white m n fGr the trusts and corporations, are Justifiable and even to be ap- n,,, ,P )ept to the front. plaudfd for taking Immediate and - All Willamette valley towns are growing healthily, and the country is developing as never before. Never was there so much enterprise dis played in this region. Newcomers are a leaven, and even old settlers are waking up. Electric railroads, irrigation and small farming will work wonders within a few years, Up to this writing, Chairman Cake has maintained an eloquent silence in regard to that scheme of having him appoint a committee of Fulton guardians. Mr. Cake, to use a well known slang phrase, is not exactly a spring chicken. Violent though unlawful means to put the assaulters out of existence. Putting asid - the merit.; of this plea, it is to be oberved that once the hahit of l.-nrhirg negroes for this crime has lio n formed it over- SKNATOU BOIRNK. T HE JOURNAL perceives no proper reason for the constant outpouring of vials of vitrulic wrath upon the head of Senator rides thi-?o bounds and becomes a 1 Jonathan Bourne. Thp same news l.abit of lynching vprvs for ser j paper that Is doing most of this, said Snd In some rat-es tor aimot any ion Senator Bourne's election by the Now it is reported that Mr. Har rlman has gained control of the Gould roads. There are a few lines that Harrlman has not gobbled up yet, among them those controlled by .1. J. Hill. But these may go the Fame wav vet. , Governor Johnson will be at lib erty to campaign for Bryan after September 1. A great many people of Oregon, Republicans as well as Democrats, would like to hear Gov ernor Johnson.. Oregon Sidelights Six dwelling houses are being built at Buxton. a Gervals people are well pleased with their oiled streets. a Ajrain the forest fires, but they won't be so big as formerly. a The game law has rfone so,ne good. Deer arc more numerous than for some years past. Bay City is up and movhig. says a coi i fsponilen.t, and ail the people are pulling together. On a hunting trip an Albany young man killed three buck deer and each of his brothers one. a a A Washington county woman ran a pitchfork into her foot. Woman should stick to her sphere. a a A cement block factory is to be amoni! Ralnler's industries. A building is being erected on the water front tor that pur pose. a a The tir of a wagon rubbed against an iron pole so that the wagon and two tons of hay were burned. In Washington county. a a Times in Forest Grove are growing more promising and more new busi nesses are being started every day. says the News. a a Hubbard has . a 30year-old cherry tree that measures 8 feet 2 Inches in circumference two feet from the ground. It is loaded annually with cherries. a m We need, and will have, reservoirs of water all over Umatilla county like thul at tlermiston. savs the Pendleton i rib tine. And they're coming. We've got the water and the sites sights of them a a Kvcrvbodv will admit that the less ened number of boozy and wobbly-legged men to be seen on Main street gives Pendleton an Improved appearance noticeable to everybody and has not hurt business in the least, says the Tribune. - a a Weston correspondence of the East Oregonian: The bailey crop this sea son is proving far better than the wheat, most of it having fully ripened before the hot winds set In. Price Hrothers report 75 bushels to the acre and other ranchmen are doing equally as well. a a The Dallas road will do very well, running to West Salem, says the States man. Rut the time will come when there will be a railroad bridge across the Willamette at or near Salem, and a road east to Join with the Woodburn- Sprlngheld branch. Letters From the People Brjon and Prosperity. Tortland, Or.. July SI. To the Editor f The Journal Never in the history of his country has the nomination of a presidential candidate brought about uch extraordinary prosperity In so short time as the nomination of W. J. Bryan, is now nearly a year since the fln- 111131 crisis began which played such havoc with the banks of the country. As a result of this "flurry" mills and factories closed down, gold began to lde. railroads to discharge their, em- nlnvm w.ihcs fell, mechanics could rind no work and the depression everywhere prevailed. Our banking system was denounced ns rotten. When congress should meet all this would be rectified. Postal savings banks would be estab lished, a currency bill would be given the country which would net everything spinning again. All this happened un der a Republican administration. Congress met. No savings banks were established. Senator Aldrlch Intro duced a currency bill which met the he.irtv approval of Mr. Roosevelt. But It was a flat failure. The Oregonian denounced it as worse than useless. Mr. Reynolds one of the highest author ities on banking and currency desig nated as as "and emergency currency bill, an unscientiflo makeshift discred iting the ability of our law-makers and the banking fraternity, a patch noon the coat of Joseph, a legislative bastard, born between senatorial courtesy and po litical necessity." The monetary con ditions grew worse and worse. Labor ing men begged for work at reduced wages but they begged In vain. A uni versal' stagnation In business prevailed in the country. A few davs after the nomination of Mr Taft and his banker colleague, tho conditions became so bad that the rail road managers declared that they were tn ent th wacres of their em ployes and discharge many of their hands or go out of business. The out look was dark and dismal. A few weeks Rates to the Beaches From the Astoria Leader. Considerable complaint Is made by the railroads and the keepers of summer re sorts upon the western coast that the travel this season nas been very iignt, and the receipts correspondingly small, and many are the vague theories sug gested for this unpleasant ensmallment The fact is that a large proportion of peoplo realize that the "rates are too liign: mere it is in lour snort wurug; That's the reason. If a railway can carry a passenger 100. miles to shore and bring the same man back over the same 100 miles for $1.G0 (provided It all happens the sam tlay) why should it charge him J2.6 each way provided he cares to remain at the shorepoint a week or so? Does It cost more to carry a passenger on Wednesday than It does, on Monday Doom he occunv more seat room or cans a greater consumption of steam on Frl day than he does on Sunday? TIik mllionds of Oteauu Seem to ooll spire against the success of The ocean snore resort. They are anxious to se cure "one-day passengers" and limit the stay by the salt water to four hours. Consequently they make a fair rate for the trip. But if the people of that spot have so expended money as to make the place attractive and the visitor ae sires to extend the stay tne roaas say "Nay! If you remain longer It will cos vou much more to return to your home True, we sold you a round-trip ticket, but don t you see that if we should al low you to remain till tomorrow our ex penses would be much more, and If you should stay another week It would cost us 200 per cent more to carry you back.' This is one of the reasons why the travel has been less this season than It has heretofore; because people who have money along with other responsibilities are looking at useless expenditures twice where they used to look but once. The man who has but a couple of dol lars spends it Just as thoughtlessly tow as ne ever am. possioiy it is tor mm the railways run these one-day trips. But It la not for him that the summer resort hostelrles are conducted. The shore resorts should endeavor to lKeREALM - 1' The Girl Who Works. F you are going to work for a man, In heaven's nam work for him," la one of the sententious things that Elbert Hubbard says In his talks to people who work for a living. And among tha many things that are not worth aaylng, this one utterance may be mads Into a fa miliar motto and have' a place on the . tablets of memory. If' you are going to work for a man, then, means not merely arriving at the office five minutes late and mechanic ally doing what lias to be done without putting tha leaat bit of enthusiasm Into your work. It means working with a will, with vim, witb energy. It mqans getting to the office on time, and not being In too great a hurry to leave. In this same town, and not a thousand miles from Washington street, there was a girl in an office whose quickness at stenography and whose manipulation of the twpewrlter were remarkably good to look upon. Her fingers flew over the keys while her eyes followed the notes. No prettier demonstration of mechanical ability could have been made. But you would not want to look at her face, for It was heavy always with gloom. vYou had no Joy In seeing her come into the office, for her Btep was heavy and slow and she had no more vivacity than a log of wood. She moped, probably because she' disliked naving to work ror a llvlna- and fait herself the put-upon. She did her work and departed, but she made herself into a machine. Work could not have done that for her if she had not been will ing. inter the Democratic convention met Htnave tne ran,-oads give them a fair deal. Offenses. The s;irlt of violent law lessness grows by what it foods on. and once people hare experienced the "delight of lynching a negro for en asaault on a woman, they toon 'gain a Irresistible appetite for .lynching negroes on almost any provocation. A cave occurred recently in Ken tucky. A negro murdered a white man, and a mob sought him to kill feira. bat strange to relate, the of ficers had removed him to a place tf safety. A little later it was re ported ttat some kind of a lodge of ties roes had r resolution Jas f.litzg ti murder. TfcU . was Mr. Harrlman Is so busy acquiring control of more big. railroads that be has no time or money to spend people two vests ago that he was a in building any roads in Oregon. rood man for senator, a man wbojBut gnnH, Duut before very did things, and that it was satisfied I ione nevertheless th the choloe. And the next Jan uary it felicitated the people of Ore gon on the manner of his and Mr. Mulkey's election. What has come over the spirit of it dr-sma that It now tores so bitterly a?a!nt Mr. Bourne. It may be said that Senator Boa roe has 'not done much for Ore gon, has not conspicuously "made gSKxl but he may have done, or have pared the way for doing, a good deal more than he has been credited vilh. He has teen ia the senate Does anybody suppose" that Mr. Taft would spprove of membrs'of the legislature violating a clear, spe cific, positive pledge made to their constituents? Mr. Taft advocates a ship subsidy, bat does not hint at American regis try for foreign built ships. - ! It seems to be generally agreed that Mr. Taft la both for and against the Roosevelt policies. Drain Nonpareil: Not withstanding the dirty work of the. army of miserable knockers in this vicinity, several real estate deals have actually been made here recently. The town cannot hope to grow much, however, until the knockers are knocked in the head with a tele phone pole or something equally as ef fective. a a An Albany man. says the Democrat, received by exparss from his cousin In Bouth Dakota a cooplo of wild Canadian geese, which hare been usd several years aa decoys in hunting wild geese. Ther are male and female, and last year he got sevet) from them. The Albany man proposes to raise some young ones and have them for decoys. a a Three men were discussing today the scarcity of light housekeeping rooms In Eugene, savs the Register. One party turr.ed away sven peoeple this week looking for the aforesaid apartments. Another stated that he had turned away five and could rent Z& suites If he had them. Here is food for thought for torn man or woman of means. a ' Th announcement that the Clatsop Chautauqua association has purchased a large tract of land on Clatsop beach and arlil erect a main moth hotel, auditorium and several ether ana buildings there Is enoooraglng. aa It lli bo tne means of aiding graially la the development of the rfh and It will result In tho dietrlbn tloa of a largo sum of money locally for labor aad supplies, aay the Budget. Denver and W. J. Bryan was nominated for president. A change immediately took tilace. The Oresronlan announced the glad tidings that the railroads were not going out or business mat me ois-elmre-erl emnloves were beine reinstated waees were advancing the hanks were bursting with money seeking in vestment the factories were starting np that business wns rapidly Improv Ine and that a wave of prosperity was rolllnit over the land. Of course this must all he true for the Oregonian and other "Independent" papers have and are still proclaiming the news. Weil now, if this be true, what has hrouuht all this about In so short a time? Times became hard and banks betran to break under the "Roosevelt policies." Therefore thp change for the better cannot be attributed to the pol lutes which produced the hard times. Teft pledged himself to continue the same policies and still the times con tinued bad. What then gave the condi tions an uoward tendency.' only one answer can be given the nomination of W. J. Bryan and his "policies." via.: a sounder and safer currency, a remod eling of the tariff having In view a freer trade and a reduction of taxation, greater economy at Washinston, the de struction of trusts and the unlawful combination of capital, and a more vig orous prosecution of timber thieves and boodlers. if the nomination of Mr. Brvan has produced such slenal and manifold blessings in so snort a Time what will his election mean for the whole country? Laboring men Judtre for yourselves. The "Roosevelt policies' produced hard times, the remedy pro vided to better these conditions have only asrftravnted them: the promise Is to continue thcue "policies," and the times grow harder. ' Bryan Is nominated and with n bright prospect ef his election a elorious prosperity has set In. Oet away from the conclusion if vou can. ROLLS. This Date In History. 151B-Argentlna discovered hv the Spaniards, and settled bv them In 1 563. 1797 Sir Jeffrey Amherst, the Brit ish ireneral to whom Montreal surren dered, died. Born January ?9. 1717. 182S Thomas F. Meagher, who com manded the Irish brigade in the Ameri can civil war. horn In Waterford. Ire land. Died near Fort Benton, Mont., July 1. 17. President Polk vetoed the river and harbor Mil on the ground that It was unconstitutional. 1R1 Steamer Pampero left New Or leans carrying a filibustering expedition agalnat Cuba. 1 M2 - nenrl Halleck ordered flen eral McClellan to evacuate the peninsula U 1M Pennsylvania adopted a consti tutional amendment allowing sojaiersto vote. 1S7J King Haakon VII of Norway born. 107 Aurustus Saint Gaudens, sculp tor, died. Born January S. 1SS4. A Modern Want. Tou sre a young man?" "I am. "Then wbst yro want Is a thrifty. eeonflcal wife." "Not at all. Whit I wont Is a rich, liberal wlfet" If this could be secured the rates could be decreased to a fair figure because the patronage would be correspondingly larger and the profits remain equally as pleasing. The ordinary purse is sadly depleted by a week s stay at tne snore, but the hotel men excuse the extortion by saying that the high transportation rates keep down the number of visitors, while the expense of ri"" t!&a few Is as. great as ir a large numoer were entertained. It is ud to the keepers of the sum mer resorts to swell the number of their visitors by securing a decent rate of transportation. When the auto road from Portland to Seaside shall be in good shape a line of auto buses which will carry passengers ana mane tne trip in from four and one-half to five hours can do a magnificent business at a fair charge; till then some other method should be adopted. King Haakon's Birthday. Haakon VII, king of Norway, was born August 3. 1872. at Charlottenlund castle, in Denmark. Prior to his elec tion tn the ihrnna hv the Norwegian peo ple In 1S05 he was Prince Charles of Denmark, the second son of the present ruler of Denmark. He was educated for the navy and was known as one of the most nonular and . democratic members of the royal families of Europe. In 1896 ne was marriea to i-rincess msuu, third daughter of King Edward VII of Great Britain. There was considerable opposition to the marriage, as Maud was the daughter of the future king of Eng land and Charles was only a Danish prince. At that time no one dreamed of the brilliant future in store for Prince Charles. After the marriage Prince Charles was well received in England. His father-in-law became proud of him and often employed him In delicate and important missions. When Norway severed her connection with Rweden Hnd decided to have a king 1 oTTierown the namS of Prince "Charles was the only one seriously consiuerea In connection with the throne. In 10 Prince Charles and Princess Maud were crowned at Trondhjem under the titles of King Haakon VI i and Queen Maud. The royal couple have one child, little Prince Olaf, now In his sixth year. Bat Brother Geer Makes No Promise- From the Pendleton Tribune. In declining to accept the position of chairman of the Democratic national committee. ex-Governor w. U Douglas says ho "Is out of politics forever." This Is about the most sensible remark Mr. Douglas ever made, though he Is a verv practical and level-headed man. Th Jolts, misrepresentations, accusa tions and general punching the average public man la subjected to, wlthoutaref erence to his honest purposes and tha clean record he makes, is sufficient to cause every thoughtful man to pause before entering th political maelstrom. Strife, competition, ambition and down right malignity combine to displace on man In the Interest of another, aad th game is not worth the candle aa long ss such mau.ods prevail, which the probablv will wbll TTiaa are human and tb earth revolves. Precaatioo. Eat. drink and be merry today, Tha fa sag Sirica. For tomorrow fov1tffs may Advance la prW Pittsburg Post. It does not follow that a eirl must be smirking andisraillng and fussinc in an office to avoid being a machine. It is merely necessary that she consider that most of the people in the world have to work. In one way or another; that this Is her work, and that she has it to do to the best of her ability. If she dislikes office work- she would un doubtedly ' dislike washing dishes and sweeping floors and tending babies. She would probably also hate sewing and patching and darning. For It Is not the particular tasks of setting down notes and translating them that makes a girl carry so heavy a look and so weary a frame. It Is because she thinks heiBelf abused. You will say that perhaps the girl had a most unhappy homo life; that her business expression was the reflex of some burden that she bore In her leis ure hours. But It Is hard to see why in such a case the business hours, which must be the pleasantest of the day. woild not bring relief from care and sorrow. To throw one's whole heart into the thing to be done, while one were out of the reach of the uncongenial tasks or influences of the home, would be the most natural thing indeed, the only way in which one could keep normal and get half way content out of life until fortune changes. One would suppose that If a girl's home life were unhappy she would con centrate her attention upon her busi ness, force herself.to put out. of sight the things that troubled her and make herself so Indispensable to her employer that her fortunes would be assured, that better positions would be given her. that she might rise in tho biiBlncpa world and so be able to make her home life what she wished It to be. By Way of Variety. "Whv must th mlddl class ever be alighted?" "What do vra n-er V Inquired th edltr f th N York paper. Whr t ccsslonallv tier p a dl verre fetwaa parti ucpruminal so cially r There are but two logical ways of looking at such a problem. Either make up your mind to do the very best work that is In you, and to keep It up, and SO force success, or give up the thing you are doing that Is distasteful and find an occupation that suits you bet ter. Be in earnest Work with enthu siasm, and make the uncongenial task help you to the thing you want to do, or else get out of It. Go Into the coun try and raise bees and sweet peas, if that is what you want to do; get a place In a home where you can work and save your money until you can put it Into the thing that you really love. Have a purpose and work toward it But work, don t loaf, ana don t merely make time. Sure as you do the other person will march ahead of you. l Packing tho Trunk. AI,L, gowns, nats and waists whlcn are carefully packed and folded at the end as well as at the com mencement of each visit will enable one to appear well dressed at all times, no matter how limited the outfit, whereas If the clothes are thrown carelessly into their trays their pristine freshness will vanish, not to be restored by any amount of ironing. In packing hats, and especially the large-shaped bia ui couay, wltn their unusual amount of delicate and perish able flower and ribbon trimming, It will be found an excellent plan to fasten the hat securely in the tray by means of tape or ribbon Instead of simply stuff ing the empty corners with tissue paper to prevent tne straw irom becoming bent or broken In slipping about. A piece of ribbon or tape is tacked, pinned or if possible sewed into the four sides of the tray and pinned nicely to the edges of the hat and the four ends tied together In the center. In this- way It is impossible for the hat to budge from Its position no matter how roughly the trunk may be handled. If tho lingerie is kept In one position, a case the length, width and dept of that division will keep all the underwear neatly to gether, and when the trunk ia to be un packed the cwie can be simply taken out and the gaprients laid away intact in me Qrwejw wunoui ueing eeparaieo. " H n st Sherbet and Mousse. RUIT 81 IKE BETS are easy to prepare and very refreshing; heat and crush the fruit till you have a pint or juice; strain this, add tho Juic of a lemon to bring out th flavor, sweeten with boiled sugar and water, mix with the unbeaten whites of two or more eggs and freeze. Any fruit will do for a sherbet, or a mixture of fruits. The simplest sort of ice cream Is especially nice served with an Ic or sherbet ' Ths cfeani may be a mousse, so that It ned not fi Into the f reeaer at all, leaving that for the ice. Boil a cup of augar with a cup of water till It threads; pcur very slowly over the stiff whites of thre eggs; beat It till cold, fold In a half pint of whipped cream, flavor and nut In a small covered pall; set this in a larger on with Ice ar.d salt between, or oury it in a aeep ran of the Ice and salt. It must stand at leaat four hours before it ia opened. Meanwhile the sherbet may be made and frosen. and at luncheon the two may be laid side by side on plate In rounded noonfuls; vanilla mousse witn rasp berry sherbet or orange Ir I very nice; or pineapple sherbet and the mouaa. or a sherbet made of mixed fruits. St The Daily Mmu. PREAKFA8T. Cantaloupea. Scrambled Brains Hot Buttered Toast. Coffea. LITNCHBON. Jellied Chicken. Cream Che- Sandwiches. Currant Loaf. Stewed Loganba-rrie. Icd Tea. DINNER. Cracked Crab, Mavtnnal Cold Baked Heans. Cold Fliced Ton go a Esc and Lettuce PalsA. pl Mouvoe. White Caaa, Black Core. Plneappli ' As-other lastattce. ""WunstI got a dollar a word." "Fact 7 taiklac back te a Jniga,"
