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When you meet a man the
first thing you should con
sider Is, whether he has a
greater inclination to hear
you, or that you should hear
1 him. Steele.
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LOWELL'S WAT
THE 69,000 men in Oregon who
.voted in June . for the compul
sory statement will applaud
Judge Stephen A. Lowell. .... A
. Portland . paper, mentioned Judge
Lowell as a senatorial possibility at
the coming legislative session. He
promptly wrote the paper, saying,
I do not know that the matter re
quires any attention, but I desire to go
- on record While the flgat Is young and
to say that while it U the ambition
of my life to represent Oregon in the
federal senate, I do not c'are to reach
that i high station over a pathway of
" broken pledgee or disregarded laws and
I want neither silence nor word nor act
of mine to influence any member of the
legislative assembly to violate his con
science or hie word.
, . This is the character of man who
will be at the front In Oregon when
those . who! for , themselves or their
friends, seek senatorships . ofver ' a
pathway of broken pledges aud dis
graced homes, will "be in political
oblivion J The Oregon electorate has
been for cleanliness and conscience
in its public men and , public con
cerns, and as emphatically .; against
any, and all "forms of irregularity.
Every act of the electorate since it
got the Initiative has been , a pro
test against crookedness in all of-
fairs political. Every vote recorded
In the period has been an overwhelm
ing majority in favor of the exercise
of, . conscience in politics. Just as
conscience is. exercised in business,
in education, and in the home. Every
expression at the ballot box has, been
a ringing protest against the men
that used to abort legislative ses-
slons'at Salem, against political jug
gling, and an emphatic demand for
exactly the kind of public men pre
sented in Judge Lowell..
, What a striking difference be
tween the man "who refuses to seek
g senatorshlp at the' price ot broken
pledges and the men who are trying
to break honest pledges made by
honest men and accepted in good
faith by honest voters! .
HILL ON OUR CANADUN TARIFF
MR. JAMES J. HILL expressed
some plain truth Saturday
evening at Vancouver, B.- C,
about the foolish high tariff
wall maintained between this coun
try, and Cauada, and what he said
was no less true because he said it
. In a Canadian town, and has large
transportation interests in that
country as well as this. It is prob
ably true that the production of
wheat In the United States will In
. crease but little, while population
and consumption will Increase rap
Idly, and that therefore, In a few
years, we, will have no wheat to ex
port, but must begin to import,
wnlle " the production of wheat in
Canada will go on increasing for
many years to come, and that coun
try will have a large surplus for
export. ' This Is only one reason
. why this tariff wall should be torn
; down. .
"I would like to wipe ont those
custom bouses all along the line,"
said Mr. Hill; 'there is no more rea
son or, justification for those trade
barriers between Canada . and the
United States than there would be
for tariff walls between the various
states of the Union or between the
provinces of the. Dominion." He is
right Free trade between Canada
and the " United States would ' be
beneficial to both 'countries. We
will need thawheat and lumber of
that vast country, and it will need
our manufactures, fruit and dairy
products. - The only precaution nec
essary would be to prevent foreign
imports Into Canada from being
thipped across the border. There is
net one-tenth as much'to fear from
formica Imports to this country, any-w.-ivyss
a lot of politicians pretend",
( it thre is nothing to fear from
u .i,.Ir.ftrtiirift ori lumber be,
Insisted pn, it should be . only on
sawed lumber, and a ' small; duty
would equalize any difference In
wages. ? ;
Mr. Hill looks out for his own
business, of course, but he la severs
broad-minded man. He 1b one of
the few big railroad men to approve
the improvement of rivers and the
opening up or Inland waterways. He
sees that this will not hurt the rail
roads, will rather help them. Atd
eo he takes a broad, sensible, states
manlike as well as a business view
of this tariff question. As he says,
there is really no more good reason
for a tariff wall between the United
States and Canada than between
Washington and Oregon.
GOLDEN DATS OF THE STAGE
T
rHE GOLDEN days of the Amer
ican stage are' brought into
retrospect by a coming theatri
cal benefit announced for the
near future in Portland. It may
seem unbelievable, but It is never
theless tin that onoe art was para
mount and commercialism secondary
in matters bJstrtonlo, - Stage - men
and women were then sought for
their ability to act rather than for
the color of ;their nairor "the con
sonance ot their beauty type with
the stage settings. .The Booths; the
Barretts, the McCulloughs and the
Jeff ergons, rather than a few New
York managers, were barons of the
business. Genius rather than the
accident ot a lucky role was capital,
and it was the capital the public
sought and paid for. It was not the
eastern manager and his long list of
trust theatres, but the actor's own
brains that made for success. It
was a golden day on the stage, and
all but a few of the lucky. men and
women look back to it, or read of it
with an infinite yearning.
A queen on the stage of that day
was a brilliant woman, now a resi
dent of Portland. Genius and the
physical adornments' were hers in an
abounding profusion, and she em
ployed them to their fullness. None
more than she of all her sex enjoyed
the confidence and indulgence of an
admiring public and an applauding
press. From the ranks of live she
arose to an acquaintanceship with
the best known men and women of
the nation, passing even Into fa
voritism with London notables, the
Prince of Wales among them. Bril
liant' in repartee and with a mind
stored with the best in literature and
art, no queen was ever more grace
ful in a social Bet. But the golden
stage passed on, and so did time
"that scars us, malms us and mars
us." The years have removed Rose
Eytinge from the activities ot the
footlights and in Portland this for
mer stage favorite Is a dweller. In
the freemasonry of the profession,
In which there is generosity from
which the rest of the critical world
could learn valuable lessons In hu
man kindness, a benefit iseventuat
lpg. The occasion and the enter
prise will doubtless receive a hearty
indorsement at the bands of the
Portland public. ,
CAN THET?
I
S IT NOT trnpossible for Congress
man Hawley and Congressman
Ellis to support Cannon for
speaker? He has declared
against liberal expenditures of
money for completion of the Panama
canal. No national expenditure is
of greater consequence to Oregon.
No national expenditure is of greater
consequence to Oregon agriculture.
Completed, the canal will bring Ore
gon wheat fields and Oregon live
stock farms almost to the door of
European markets. By avoiding the
long and perilous trip around Cape
Horn the same ship will make two
trips In the time now required for
ona. Not only will distance be
shortened, but the transportation
cost should be greatly cheapened.
The benefit will accrue to Oregon
producers, and the producers of all
the coast states.
Yet here is Mr.1 Cannon before a
bankers' club at Chicago Saturday
night declaring that great sums of
money should not be appropriated
for hastening the completion of the
canal. The utterance is exactly In
line with his known hostility at all
times to adequate appropriations for
rivers and harbors. It is of char
acter with his known opposition to
the pure food law. It is In line witbi
bis confessed service of "the inter
ests" rather than the multitude. It
is in line with his open opposition
to reforestation. It is in line with
his known spirit of non-progression,
manifested onJmany occasions and
without variation. If the two Ore
gon congressmen support Cannon
for speaker, will they not betray
Oregon ?
COST OF RAISING WHEAT
M
R. W. P. TEMPLfe, a big
farmer of Umatilla county,
undertook to show last we(?k
that It cost 65 cents a bushel
to produce wheat in that county.
He should be an expert in this busi
ness, but there must be sonrething
wrong with his figures. Not very
many years ago Mr. Temple, with
practically no funds, rented or
bought on credit a piece of land and
planted it to -wheat., Now he owns
soma . 4,000 (teres of. wheat land,
which" he rents, he receiving one
third "of the . cropJ ' This ; land is
worth perhaps $120,000,' and he
lives in town and probably has other
property. His land is not in the
most productive belt, out be figures
hia average crop at 25 bushels an
sxfei v Kow wheat has commanded fti
pretty good prloe for several years.
but if it cost Mr. Temple' 66 cents
a bushel an acre -to raise it be could
not have bought and paid for 4,000
acres of land worth even $30 an acre,
to say nothing of property in town,
probably an automobile, and doubt-
less a comfortable bank account. On
the contrary, he "would have been
scarcely more than even, if not flat
broke.-
ine cost, or raising a Dusnei or
-axeevv .aiien Breau, wcumuig iu
conauions. . ir a man has, say(. 1,200
acres that produces an average crop
Of 40 bushels an acre, the cost i Is
low, , perhaps not much more than
one-third what Mr. Temple claims,
Under other , circumstances the cost
may run up to 40 . or 60 cents s
. . , , ,
bushel or even more but since
thousands of wheat-raisers in the
inland empire have got rich in the
last 15 or "2 0 years raising wheat
which they sold at from 60 to 70
cents a bushel. It cannot be credited
that , the average cost of raising a
bushel is
near, it
65 cents, or anywhere
MR, TAFT
I
T HAS BEEN said that Mr. Taft
is exceptionally well qualified
for the presidency by his long
and varied public experience,
though he was never a member of
congress and has never held an elec-
tive office. Undoubtedly. In some
anAt. , , . ... , ., VT
respects at least, th s is true. No
man in pubUo life is as well pre-
pared to handle the Philippine ques-
tion in particular, as he, and the
same might perhaps be srfld of our
interests in Cuba, Porto Rico and
Hawaii. Mr. Taft was for several
years governor-general of the Phil
ippines, was practically a dictator
there, and while minor complaints
have been made, and doubtless mis
takes occurred, he seems to have
performed his arduous duties there
well, and to have brought about as
good results as could have been ex
pected. Mr. Taft is undoubtedly an
able administrator, and what is
more, there has never been any sus
picion of crookedness or graft In
connection with his administration,
at least so rar as ne was personally
rouourBBtt, vvuue Borne may not
agree entirely with his policy in
dealing with the Filipinos though
we think the country generally is in
accord wfth him on this subieet
f if .v( v.
acted from the best ot motives, with j
a high sense of duty, and with ex
ceptional administrative ability.
JVir. lait 18 a man of equipoise,
he is well-balanced, he is more-over
of genial disposition, and gains the
KOOd Will Of an inferior nennlA HV
Z. .7 ,,' T "... , . ywt"
BCUCIm"' 'B DAI llKejy tO make
a great
presiuent. along great,
epochal lines, but for sot only ordi
nary but even large and rather ex
ceptional purposes, will be "sane and
safe."
Thornton Jenkins Halns has been
tAlllnr n rannrfor thl V, f.
nf f . . ,
guilty at all. Neither he nor his
brother went to the scene of the
Buuunug 10 Kin ineir victim; tney
did not know he was coming there,
and so on; and then he has a good
deal to 'say about the woman in the
case. Nobody who read the account
of the murder will believe anv of
.ftt. r. ,.. " ., I
incident Showed that the tTO
brothers went to the spot for the ex-1
nfAaa ln.A v 1. M 1 1 & i j
v"' vja vi m.uuug Auuu, ana I
that one of them shot him down
without warning, and the other was
an active accomplice. What the
woman had done cuts no nroner
figure in the case, nor if all the alle
gations against the victim be true
do they furnish any good ground for
defense. The Halns brothers appear
to nave oeen a pretty tougti brace
of customers themselves, and what I
they dld on this occasion was a I
cold-blooded, cowardly murder for
whlch they ought
to have been
hanged before this.
The election being over. Speaker
cannon expresses nis opinion about
eeveral things quite plainly. In
tact, to give the old man due credit.
he never made much of a pretense
of favoring any policies savoring of
progress, development, or enlight
enment. Socially, economically, and
pouueany, no is a standpatter, a
bourbon, a fossil, a consistent oppo
cent of any kind of reform or bet
terment of conditions. He is against
the Panama canal, against the canal
from the lakes to the gulf, against
forest preservation or reforestation.
against conservation or resources.
against the government doing any
thing to improve the condition of
the people. It follows naturally
that he is against tariff reform, or
a higher standard of political morale,
or restriction of monopoly. But
why criticise or complain; the peo
ple of the country have Just indorsod
him, and he has a right to, assume
that they agree 7with him in ell
these things.
In Vl plain and timely letter Judge
Lowell has declared that he would
not accept the senatorship, though
it is the frankly admitted ambition
of his life, at the hands of men 'who
are positively and solemnly bound
to elect another man, and who
would have to perform an act of
"perfidy and dishonor" to elect anx.
other than this man. - Can any hon
orable man deny that' Judge Lowell's
position is right? v - '
There-fa talk that Representative
J. Warren Keif tr may, be sent to
the. Benate from Ohio. Tljis is pos
sible; Ohio bas suffereddisgrace he-
1 fore, and not infrequently, in fti
senators. " There is Little Dick in
the senate from that state even now
Keif er is an old man, who has al
ways been a most ardent opponent
of almost everything good, and
supporter of nearly everything . bad
inour national life. S-Itv is to be
hoped that Ohio Republicans will
I choose a different type of man.
p,... Vanishing Population.
From the Philadelphia Ledger,
The decline of the birth rate in
France la a phenomenon which baa for
several years past worried sociologists
in that country, who,. In the face of the
marvelous fecundity, of . their German
neignDora, see u m.u own comuB
T7, , . . W (T,h , h.
While, the fact Is as stated, the deaths
ncV having last yea, tuaily
overUkeri the number of births, that
country la not the only one which is
I facing a like problem, and the case Is
lone which can be viewed from different
I sides with different results. On the one
hand, U can plausibly be argued tnat
the declining births mean weakness, so
many fewer men . capable of bearing
anna - Oa the other, It la reasonable to
regard with soma measure of approval
a thrift that prefers two well nourished
and oared for children to four, for
whom the food Is insufficient and the
I provision for after life Inadequate,
In th current issue of the North
I American Review, Mr. Frederic Court-
d Penfleld contributes a discussion
of tha subject, without arriving at any
very definite conclusions. He gives it
as the decided impression of a traveler
that th6 aapopuUlUon of rrano ,J
nrorrM,lnir n a f.at that a.mMr
not only tn the vital statistics, but In
the fact of the lnfrequency with which
children are seen on the roads and in
front of the habitations. As Mr. Pen
field himself mentions the clrcum
stance that he Journeyed by automobile,
tha thought will oeour to the reader,
that motoring habits may have some
thing to do with this "visible" decline.
but that would be a mere quibble. Mr,
Penfleld does not regard the predictions
of the alarmists too seriously, nor doc
he believe that the Germans will "de
vour" the country quite sp soon aa some
people appear to fear. He regards the
tact of fewer births as primarily " the
result ot the French law of Inheritance,
which requires the division of property
equally among all the children, and
permits no preferences for elder sons
or for invalids.
l tm dowry system Is another ro
I roundly potent incentive for French
thrift, and this thrift, while It has made
tne Tnon " bankers of Europe and
rnaoieQ inom ay ,n I,w
war indemnity tnat was intended to
crush them, has been pushed to the ex
treme or race suicide, How far this in
grained and Instinctive national habit
Would be affected by a. modification o
I .the law of inheritance and by a check
I ln ot 016 process of division and sub
dlvlHl0I thllt u lnB B eternally with
lu "" 01 rencn prop
this law and the custom referred to are
th nndarlvino- rnP. r,f , nw.m..
non. It is reasonable to suddoso that
judicious changes In one would have an
effect on the other. . At all events.
France is alarmed over the situation,
and may be expected to do something
to get at the root of the evil and to ex
tirpate It.
Everybody Works for Arch bold,
b. Jam- j.
Behold the busy senator who makes the
, funnt laws
That work so cleverly for Mr. Arch
hold's cause.
An3 tne panting, sealous judge, who
spends long nights of toil
Interpreting aforesaid laws to pleaae
the Standard OIL
Brsrybody wot, for Arcnbola;
Th. T!r..rnt..ti.
.. . . ...
Bays -jers not Dust tne poor old trus
For Archbold's got to live.
Joe Sibley sees the statemen.
Like Honest Senator B.
Every body works for Archbold
But old John D.
Gaze on the dbllege president, like little
Doctor Day,
who HAS to work to say kind things
of 2 Broadway,
And "watch the eager editor, who pens
both Jab and jibe
At U f standard's enemies, so Arch-
bold will subscribe.
Everybody works for- Archbold;
The writers sling their ink
At fifteen thousand bones a slina
To tell us what to think.
The crook are getting crookeder
The reason's plain to see
"When everybody works for Archbold
But old John D.
Observe- the public lecturer, who says
that men today - -
Need men like Archbold and John t.
to take their coin away;
Observe the lawyers, public men, and
thieves. npt yet In Jail
Who look for little Standard gifts
In
every morning mail.
Everyboay works for ArchDo1
He sits around all day.
Writing "Please find bribe Inclosed,
From 26 Broadway." ,
All the grafting brotherhood '
Are busy as a bee;
For everybody works for Archbold
But old John D.
Tills Date in History. ,
1777 General Howe's army went into
winter quarters In Philadelphia.
1813 British repulsed an attack on
Ogdensburg, N. T.
1819 Bfmon Snyder, governor of
Pennsylvania from 1808, to 1817, died.
Born in Lancaster. November 6, 1759,
1829 President Jackson proposed to
reduce the number of navyyards In the
Vnlted States to four Norfolk, Narra
gansett, Washington and Charleston.
1841 King Edward VII of Great
Britain v born in Buckingham, palace,
London. .
864-rWldow Of Alexander Hamilton
died In Washington. D. C, aged 93.
1865 General Frederics: Funston, TJ.
S. A, born In Ohio.
J872 Fire1 broke out . in Boston" and
in two days burned over an area of
(S acres and caused a loss of $80,000,-
000.
HOi A second son porn to the crown
prince of Germany.
BRIEF COMMENT AND NEWS
SMALL CHANGE
No need for any more shouting.
The North Bank Is completed; now
for the next.
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Everybody
Thanksgiving.
get ready for a real
Portland hopes Mr. Hill will live to
return many times.
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Now which of the spellbinders will
get the fat offices 7
Tom Watson will rjrobably run some
more, but Hlsgen hardly.
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It didn't take long to count Hlsgen's
vote in tnis part ot tne country,
AeA all tm a talk
aoout Desiaes pontics ana scanaai.
At last tha Ruef jury has been se
cured, after several months', effort.
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Probably Senator Bourne will not
beat Mr. taft at golf all the time, even
if he can.
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BtilL a lot of thin an said bv the
Democrats during the ceunpalga are
true, all light
X Tear and a half vet. for ths rail
road to move off Fourth atreatl Well
that la better than SO years.
Everybody get In now and 'grab some
prosperity, wnatever properly belongs
o you; some wm get more.
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The Pendleton Tribune rejoices, es
ecially in the election of Uncle Jte.
rbis was quite) to be expected.
Mr f!hafln aavs the Democratic
party la now dead. Of course the Prohl-
tmiuu pariy im very nmuu .Mivv.
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Aldrlch and Dunont and Elklns and
Cannon and Payne and Dalaell and a lot
more like tnem wnt au De mere yet.
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If everybody will buy only Oregon
products, as far as possible, Oregon
will rapidly develop as never before. ,
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Election news having become stale,
let us hope that we shall hear, at least
twice a day, how that Abruzsl-Elklns
affair is coming on.
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Detroit News: Queer that one day
defeat looks black and utterly hope
less, and that -the -next day Jt becomes
a source of rather comfortable phil
osophy. Chicago Record-Herald: The Dow
ager Queen Margherita will give a piece
of lace and an old veil to Miss Elkins
for wdding presents. People who
feared the dowager's present might be a
lemon are, therefore, resting easy again.
Ed;
a Clean
Man
Great
lson
From the American Magazine.
And It Is clean greatness Edison's.
He wears by rights the look of a con
tented man. He has robbed no widows,
crushed no competitions, stolen no
franchises, taken no rebates. He Is
rich ot because he gambled in the
stock market; nor employed children
and women at starvation wages; nor
awaited, doing . nothing himself, for
the rise in the price of . land or corn
or cotton. He is famous not because he
manipulated an election, or bribed a
legislature. There Is nowhere in his
career any record of success which
came of devious or deceitful ways., 1 His
la indeed a clean greatness. He has
worked for what he won, and everything
that he has done has been In the direc
tion of making this a better world for
mankind to dwell In.
' Men who toll all their ljves for
themselves alone grow tired; they want
to stop and "get something out of life."
Of course, they do; but they are tired,
not of work, but of their - own inade
quate and selfish lives. But a man Ilka
Edison does not get tired; you see that
in the youthful look in his eyes, Money
doesn't pay him. His enthusiasms are
far otherwise, and external to himself.
He haa lived with the abstemiousness
of a monk, having few personal wants,
and the wants he had were gratified
with the simplest things. He has never
stopped to enjoy lengthy honors,
though honors have been showered upon
him from every part of the world, be
cause he has been so busy all the time
with new concerns. There is nothing,
Indeed, in this world which keeps a
man young. Joyous, simple, like the un
selfish pursuit of truth.
Surely there is no better or more
hopeful model for struggling, limited
youth than this man Edison. Not that
he has risen from a poor boyhood to
be a rich and famous inventor, but be
cause by steady work through many
years he bas become a fine, simple
hearted, generous, useful old man.
Outlook for the Cement Industry.
In commenting upon the conditions
prevailing In $he cement Industry, an
editorial writer In Cement Age, New
York, says that the situation is not as
gratifying; as manufacturers would like
to have It, but It is only natural that
the recent unprecedented demand for ce
ment, resulting in the establishment of
many new plants, should have glverr to
its manufacture an impetus certain to
carry It beyond reasonable bounds. More- J
over, this having occurred at tlge mo
ment financial depression became gen
eral, there were two pronounced fac
tors operating to the disadvantage Of
the cement Industry, namely, an output
fully up to the normal requirements sud
denly met by a decline in demand
through postponement of structural en
terprises, although nobody believes that
the many Important Improvements con
templated bv corporations and. munici
palities will be abandoned. Not only
will these projects be developed In due
time, but countless lesser undertakings
will continue. " As a matter of fact th9
present year has beep termed "a good
building year" by many,' owing to the
low price of materials and labpr. In all
these small operations cement has been
used in increasing quantities. While
they have not been sufficient in number
to restore prices to normal, they will
undoubtedly have a marked influence
upon future conditions. Every concrete
structure erected this year will encour
age a mor 'extended use of cement in
future. . "V '
Remarkably Successful.
Minerva had , Just- sprung .from .the
brow of Jove,
"I'm not the first, tnan wjio haa
tried to. get a woman out of his head,"
he remarked. . -. '. . , , ,
Herewith the. others, envied. lra his
success. Brooklyn Life. .v
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Oregon farm erg. are plowing for pros
perlty. ... . .. . -
Klamath
bank..
Falls Is to have another
m ne etayton Man r is to nave a new
unotype roacmna.
- a a
Though legally dry, Bend Is troubled
wun numerous drunks.
'' a a
The Astoria Budget sticks to the re
formed spelling, in a few words where
ever It saves work. ,
a a
Specimens of fine building stone are
brought from a quarry near Butte
f ans, Jackson county.
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Farmers around Mitchell sent out a
man last week to see if he could get
a machine to come in and thresh their
grain.
e
In Albany it Is proposed to erect
tents for tne temporary use of lmml
grants, as there are no dwelling houses
io rent.
e
Bend women are to organise a shvs
leal culture club. And all that wlda
prairie and lots of unbroken oayusee
arouna werei
l a e
Owinr to the larara amount nf man
nanruea in moaier a new nutiuing naa
been erected aa postofflcs and tele
phone central office. " ' (
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The business of the Pendleton post
office for the month of October was
over 60 per cent erreater than for- the
same month last year.
Isn't the high school busfwess being
overdone? The Q&nyonvllle Echo says:
The attendance In the high school Is
small. There are two students In the
first rear class, two in tha second vear.
one in the third year and three in th
iourin year.
a a
Without any flourish of trumpets.
or requests for a subsidy from the cit-
lsena, .Harry Kowson has quietly es
tablished In Seaside an industry that
will doubtless prove of considerable Im
portance at no. distant day, says the
Signal. The industry Is the manufac
ture of artificial stone bricks and
blocks, the use of which for building
material In the larger cities In tho
east and west has rrown enormously
during the last few years. .
a- a. -. --
Corvallis Times: An effort to a-or a
crowd of 2,006' for' the- specbir train 1 to
Portland November 21 is now beina
made. It is expected that 700 uniformed
cadets will make the trip, and as each
one has a sweetheart who will want to
see him "swelling" around on Portland
streets, that means a total of 1,400. The
faculty, and townspeople to the number
of 600 will certainly go. so th crowd
of 2,000 Is already obtained on paper.
Steel Trust Profits and
rVages
From the Detroit News. '
to trie Editor Very recently I no
ticed- a statement In your editorial col
nmns to the effect that the profits of
the steel trust equaled in amount the
wages paid its laborers. Where could I
find this statement in an official form?
Detroit, Oct 24, 108. L. S. T.
If "L. S. T." will send to vPlttsburg
for the last annual statement of the
business of the steel trust, the officials
of that corporation will doubtless for
ward him the official figures. Thev
are not secret, having been published
many times in many newspapers. This
report shows, among many other Inter
esting fp,cts aa bearing on the necessity
of a high tariff on steel to protect the
American rate of wages, the following
Amount of sales f 757.014,767.60
Net profits 177,801,661.65
Salaries and wages 160,825,822.00
As will be seen, these figures are
less favorable to the wage workers In
the employ of the steel . trust than the
statemont made by the r News. The
amount paid Includes both salaries and
wages the salaries of a $100,000 presi
dent as well as the wages of 1600
laborers. So the profits were much
more than the wages paid, which -is
pretty good proof, if any proof were
needed, that in this particular Indus
try, for this, particular corporation, any
advantage given by a high tariff goes
Into the coffers of stockholders and
not into the pockets of protected work
men. Profits and wages, combined,
J338.027.S83. 65. And this is divided Into
profits, 62 H per cent; salaries and
wages, 474 per cent. Whom does the
tariff on Iron and. steel protect?
If one had the time or patience, other
equally glaring Inconsistencies, not to
say positively harmful restrictions on
trade and commerce, can be dug up
from the tariff schedules now In force
in the United States. .
Hope On.
Searcher for Light, when selfish world
Would blind your eyes with flags un
furled Of greed, and hate, of war, and sin.
Stand firm and true, you yet will win.
Hope on.
Seeker' for Truth, on problems grave
Take Reason's limp, be strong and
brave.
Peoeft may now its lustre dim;
Stand firm and true, you yet will wlrf.
Hope on.
Lover of Peace, do not despair,
Though war make world a tiger's lair.
List for the voice from out the din.
Stand firm and true, you yet will win.
Hope n.
Lover of Right, when thou dosfhenr '
l ne outer speecn, or careless sneer,
From drowning men In waves of sin,
Stand firm and true, you yet will win.
Hope on.
Lover of Man, should'st meet with loss,
Like man divine, you gain" the cross;
Then others will their work begin.
Stand firm and true, you yet will win.
Hope cn.
Lovers of Light, Peace, Truth flnd Right,
Justice will stop greed's awful blight.
Will show how man can conquer sin;
Stand firm and true, you yet will win.
Hope on. .
Oliver McKnlght in the Public.
Charles F. Thwlng's Birthday.
Dr. Charles F. Thwlng, president of
Western Reserve university and Adel
beort college, was born in New Sharon,
Me., November 9, 1853. He received
his preparatory schooling at. Phillips
academy and In 1876 he graduated from
Harvard university. The next three
years were spent at the Andover Theo
logical seminary. After he entered the
miniptry he was for wme years pastor
of a church in Cambridge, Mass. . In
1880 he accepted a till from Plymouth
church In Minneapolis and -he remained
thera until 1890. In that year he ac
cepted ths presidency of Western Re
serve university at Cleveland. QhlO; Dr.
Thwlng haa beetT anextemslve traveler
and has written and lectured a great
deal, partlcVla'rty on religious and edu
cational toplca - -: ;- . ' - ,
Tie REALM
FEMININE;
For the Too-Fat.'
I
.T IS a long time since we have had
so sensible a fashion In fixure
woman s figure, aa. that demanded
by the empire and dlrectolre own.
For, -rightly considered, it Is not a
compressed figure in any way. . Those
I who are buying "smaller corsets than ever
before , and trying to compress tho.
waist abnormally or to force thu diges
tive apparatus to "move on." have' en
tirely the wrong Idea of what the pres
ent style demands. . Stendemesa Is de
sired; to be-sure, but not wasp waist
effects and not that stiff, unyielding,
bony look that recalls the days when
women were, cheerfully squeezed Into
hinged 'and padlocked affairs designed
by the head makers of Inquisitional In
struments. . - v
No such steel-ribbed, chain armored
affair la needed at present. The mode
merely demands that the waist shall
be of a natural slae and that the lines
of waist and hips shall move naturally
without the apparent break that the
dressing of a few years ago emphasised.
We are to get rid of hips, but not by
compression. Merely by coming back
to nature's own way of building tha
human figure.
If any woman is in doubt as to what
the gowns of the first empire looked
like, which ths modern style la repro
ducing, -let, her go to the library and
look over ths old prints, or the books
of historical costume. She will see
that the Empress Josephine and her
court dressed to allow the figure full
play waist muscles, back, hip musclea
and all. If there was more of a fash
ionable negligence than Is "now desira
ble, we must remember that our mod
ern Ideas are much more severe than
their as to what constitutes modesty.
But to acoulra a strong, supple fig
ure it not difficult, and It Is the first
necessity for wearing the new style
gowns with dignity and ease. And there
Is no necessity for being too fat. Any
woman who wants to and who has th
time to practice certain physical exer
cises with persistency may lose her sur
plus flesh and gain the suppleness and
vlsrot that sue wisnes. A gymnasium
costume or some equally simple attire,
loose and light, should be worn while
exercising.
To loosen the fat proceed In the fol
lowing; manner. Stand faelna the back
of a moderately high chair, grip the '
top. firmly. Wjth. both nanda and leave
root or more of snace between tne
chair and the toes. Tilt the body for
ward on the toes, then vibrate the flesh
and muscles on the hips until the mo
tion la felt 'trongly. Tou will soon get
control of the fat In this way. Start
by doing the exercise 20 times and
gradually increase ta 200. The fat i
practically shaken loose.
The next exercise begins tne reduc
tion and should follow Immediate! -after
the fat-loosening one. Place tfto
chairs back to back, with space enough
between to stand In; then grip the tops
of the chair, one In either hand, poise
the body on one toe. which is olscei
back of the center, and swing the other
leg as far forward as possible; repeat
the exeretse' by swinging the other leg
forward and standing on the toe of the
flrpt one. Keep alternating this- move
ment .as rnpidiy as possible, always
landing on the toe of one foot and
bringing up the other foot instantly.
The chairs should hi.' heavy enough to
hold tlje.weight of the body.
.This exercise stretches the muscles,
gives them free play and starts the cir
culation and is said to burn off the fat
overlying the hip joint. Begin by I do
ing the exercise five times with each
foot and increase to 25, gradually work
ing up to 2T0. Many women will con
sider this too great a demand on their
time and interest, but there is no way
of reducing by healthful exercise with
out working fairly hard.
The stationary run is an excellent re
ducer and one that starts a glow and
Increases the circulation. Stand with
the feet about 20 Inches apart, one in
front of the- other, and the body bent
forward and poised on the toes of the,
left foot. Raise the left hand upward
and forward aa high as it will reach,
keeping It rigid until the shoulders are
stretched upward. Then. start the skip,
jumping or skipping from one foot to
the other and raising the hands alter
nately. Do this exercise 100 times, be
ginning with 25 and Increasing the
number of skips gradually. Each time
tne nanns come down tney must strike
the thUh and they must be kept with
the palms backward so that the whole
diaphragm is stretched.
If the exercises are begun rather v a-
orously and one Is not used to the
movements tha muscles will be nr
and stiff after a little practice. To get
rid of this stiffness and soreness take
a hot bath In which has been poured a
pini oi ordinary ciaer vinegar.
It W
Ways With Oysters.
BROILED OYSTERS -To Broil oys
ters moat dellclously they should
bo first stewed In their own juice
until plump. Now Wrap around each
oyster a slice of fat bacon and run It
through with a short skewer. Sprinkle
with aoft bread crumbs, dust lightly
with- pepper and place on a broiler.
Broil three minutes, turning once or
iwn.-o, ami aerve wun ine rouowlne;
sauce:
Place In a double boiler one tahle-
spoonful of buUter and one of flour.
Mix together and add half a nlnt of
water. When thickened, add half a
teaspoonful of salt, a dash of nenner. a
salt spoonful of white pepper and a
teaspoonful of kitchen bouquet. If de
slreu. add two tablesnoonfuls of sherrv.
Oyster Pie Oyster pie stands fore
most in the estimation of many and
truly when properly prepared It is a
tempting dish. Here is the wav to
make it: Pare and cut into dice oni
quart of potatoes. Boil until tender,
but not mushy. In boiling; exited wati
Put P layer of thf in the bottom of a
porcelain dish, then a lever of nvntern
a sprinkling of salt and pepper and hilf
a tanirspooniui or hutter cut Into bWa.
Continue these layers until the dish It
filled, having: the potatoes laat. dottel
with bits use butter. Pour over thlV
half a cup of milk and oyster Juice.
Cover with lle;ht puff paste and hnk
In a quick oven for about 20 minutes.
Serve in the dish in which It is cookM.
? s
Tho paily Menu.
BREAKFAST.
Bananas. ' Brolld mackerel.
Baking powder biscuits. Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Clam bouillon. Baked ham. Escallopel
potatoes.
Baked applea. Junket. Sponge Cookies.
-- ' Tea.
DINNER.
Rice tomato soup. Roiled mutton with
, caper sauce.
Baked squnsh Stewed celery root.
Lettuce. French dressing.
Pumpkin pie. , Cheese.
Coffee.
Ham Old English Style. Spread
j eight or ten slices of cold boiled
uam wun mustard anq ana a flash or
cayenne pepper to each slice. In the
baking dish put one f ablespoonful of .
butter and ahlrd of a glassful of cur
rant jelly; melt together, then put In
enough slices of the ham to fill the
dish; let it brown' and serve immedi
ately., -
, v A Modern Macduff.
' From the1 Atchison Globe.
A little Swede boy presented himself
before the school ma'am, who asked his
name: "Yonny Olsen," he replied,-"How
oldreyouf-asked -the teacher. "Ay
not known how old ay bane." "Well,
when were , you bornf continued - the
teacher, who nearly fainted - at the
reply. Av not bora at all; ay got
tomutter." v ( ', . ' '
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