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DAILY AND SUNDAY. fine 'year.. . tT.50 1 Ona month I .SB 4r Circulation Guarantee TAa Cert6e that tbe eirevUtion of (is OREOOW jcTTRWAJi (era rf?wtf er gtutoteidbtiF' ' Adrertitet'a CertiM CimUtha Bhtt Book Tan Paper ha prored bj mre-5lrt-oir tAa lie circvlttioa record. ar ep em c aurf te ctrralMtioa' tttted wttb imh atnncr that mdrtrtitert mmy rely on any ' .. . i i . i j i i azslrrvenlw ot nor maoc or cor puomncrw ander the oyrocnhip iM management n control September 8. 1908. -a The first Ingredient In con versation should be truth, the next good sense, the third good humor; and the fourth wit. Sir William Temple. AS TO MATTERS COXSTTTU- ":T iHE CONSTITUTION of the . JJnlted tates requires sen ators to be elected by the legislature," exclaims one of those who would have statement leg islators break their pledges. Ex actly" so". Nor does anybody propose to overthrow or supersede ihe con stitution. Nobody ' proposes '.in the . slightest to infringe upon" the re quirements of the constitution. It is proposed that the legislature of Oregon shall elect the isehator and do it in -an orderly- instead of .in a disorderly manner. Nobody ,. has taken or sought to take from the legislature one single iota ot Its priv ilege in being the final authority Jn electing a senator. All that has been done is, that shamed 'by. bitter. . ex periences, the people of Oregon gave to members of the legislature the rlghrto pledge themselves to sup port the senator indorsed by the whole electorate. These legislative tandldates were not compelled by law as in Dakota to take this pledge Some of them -took no pledge. - What has happened is that a ma jority of - the members elected are men who took- this pledge. This majority is bound by a pledge vol untarily taken each "to the people of the state and to the people of my legislative district' to vote in the leg islature for the Indorsed candidate. It is a covenant that each legislative candidate had" full constitutional right to enter into. It is a compact that no constitution nor no decision prohibits directly or impliedly. It is a contract that has been entered into by legislative candidates in every election that ever took place in Oregon, only that hitherto the agreement.to vote for a certain sena tor 'was always given to a eounty boss or, a state boss rather than to . the people. - Nowhere in the constitution of the United States nor in" any constitution anywhere ls there a provision declar ing that a legislative candidate may pledge himself , to a political, boss, but must ,not pledge himself to the people. It is a fantastic claim that a pledge to a boss would be constltu x tional but that a pledge to the elec- torate and to the voters "of my leg islative i, district" , would be uncon stitutionaU That, however, Is the logic ot. the hour, and a wonderful logic It,ia.- , ( , .?. ' This Whole matter is summed up by; the Dakota decision, which de ' clares that the constitutional quali fications ot members are determined by tbe United States senate itself. In' the case of Bourne and in the case of Mulkey, the senate has de cided. It seated Mulkey, who'was elected byra "pledged" legislature, and. he served out his term. Bourne was .elected by a "pledged" legisla ture, the. senate seated him, and he is now serving out his term. This is the beginning, the end, and all there la of the constitutionality issue. The "pledged' system . has been tested, has proven extraordinarily effective, and the senate of the United States has, by Its own '.acts, confessed its constitutionality. WILL TIIKV SACRIFICE OREGON? OW CAN Mr. Hawley and Mr. J u Ellis support Mr. Cannon for J I I speaker er?" Mr. Cannon is on j record as opposed to the Pan ama canaL He is on record as op posed to liberal appropriations for rivers and harbors. He is on rec ord as opposed to the pure food law. lUfore a bankers club at Chicago Saturday eight he went on -record as jit'daml In a' speech that It would kb hotter to leave the matter of v f4Vraj a for a future generation l $rvitor t xperlenco than to make j '.',.i; ' The declaration was r bo ; brutal In conception and so blighting to great American projects that the members of the Peep Water ways association, .whose purpose is a deep waterway from the lakes to the gulf, are indignantly organizing fir the defeat of Cannon for speaker. Can Mr, Hawley and Mr. Ellis af ford to indorse a man opposed to the Panama canal r Can they con sistently, commit their constituents in Oregon to a policy ot opposition to the Panama canal? Can they af ford, to commit their constituents in Oregon'to a policy of . opposition to inland waterways? v- . It is notorious that Mr. Cannon has always been a barrier to liberal appropriations for . the. Columbia river. It is notorious that great sums of money have been wasted in that project because appropriations were not sufficient to keep the work continuous. ; It is notorious that Mr. Cannon stood in the way when the Oregon delegation and a committee of Oregon citizens .knocked at the door of congress in behalf of an open Willamette. V It is notorious that this man has blustered and bullied Oregon out of needed ap propriations for the upper Columbia, so notorious that it became common knowledge long before last Saturday night when before a bankers' club he declared that deepened waterways should be left to a future generation. If Mr. Hawley and Mr. Ellis support this non-progressive and arbitrary person for speaker will it not be to the eerious sacrifice of Oregon in terests? THE XEW STAFF WRITER A' FTER A. CAREER as serene and peaceful as a valley river in the summer time, the Out look Magazine Is apparently destined to enter volcanic period. An official announcement from the publisher received at The Journal office relates that on March 5, 1909, Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States, will become a member of the editorial staff of the Outlook, which will thereafter be the "exclusive channel for his writings on political, social and Industrial topics." . . Calm dignity and classical finish have been distinguishing features of the Outlook, and whether these will chemically mix in a satisfactory manner with the eruptlvity of the new staff writer is one of those doubtful propositions that .can only be guessed at. It is almost Impos sible to conceive of the gentle Dr Abbott yoked up with a succession of vocal skyrockets, bombshells, ex ploding artillery and the ocaslonal blowing up of a powder magazine. Not being a man of "my type," will not Dr. Abbott be occasionally jarred at Bight of his dignified magazine in war whoops and biting blasts, pouring a deadly gunfire on long rows of promiscuous Ananlases, stood up and marked for slaughter by the new staff writer? The '.nature fakirs, race suicide fakirs, malefactory and molly cod dies will breathe more freely be cause rembved from danger of being suppressed 6y the army and navy under command of the commander in-chief, but will at once be brought to realize by the new staff writer that they are up against It from a new and unexpected quarter. The securing of our red-blooded Mr. Roosevelt is a fine Btroke of business genius, but it carries with it the deadly corallary that some body has got to hold tight to the lid of the publication. PLAIN TALK TO FARMERS W HEN A MAN like Professor Lewis of the Oregon Agrl cultural college lectures the farmers of the Willam ette valley on their shortcomings and neglect of opportunities, they owe it to themselves far more than to him to hearken and heed. That what he says can be done and ought to be done has not been done, ex cept in a small degree, Is not alto gether the fault of the old residents of the valley, for they were until recently too few to carry out this process of development very exten sively, and lived in comparative ease without doing bo. But the tide of immigration is rising, and will con tinue to rise from year to year, and many of the newcomers will heed the advice and profit by the prodding of Professor Lewis and others, even if the old-timers do not. In many cases a very essential thing Is to get large tracts of land put on to the market Id small tracts at reasonable prices, but a good deal of this is being done, and we may be reasonably sure that this move ment will increase. "People of Oregon are asleep," declared Professor Lewis to an audi ence of farmers Saturday. Grain growing on large farms does not pay, he told them, or at least the land could be made many times more profitable, and would support sev eral times as many people, if small farms and fruit growing were the rule. ' The Willamette valley," Pm feasor Lewis declared, "will beat thei world for apples, prunes, cherries and walnuts." And In many locali ties fine crops of peaches can be raised every year. "The people do not seem to know what they can do with tbe soul," said Professor Lewis. "The economic loss is enormous. We would fill the valley with lOand 20-acre farms, and dairies." ' Then he touched on a phase of this subject that has. been tod little considered.; "Every f rnlt farm means an intellectual man at its head,' he said. "The horticul- turalist must study, must Investigate. A valley full of fruit farms means a valley population of educated, pro greoslve inhabitants." It might be said in this connection that any successful farmer these days must be an Intelligent student, must con stantly use hli brains as well ,as his muscles, but it Is probably true thaC successful horticulture requires and gets the most intelligent and cul tured men among agricultural work ers. Then, as the teacher pointed out small, highly cultivated farms will mean good roads, electric roads, bet ter homes, better schools, a higher and pleasanter grada of home life Then, indeed, life in the country will be divested of most of its former terrdrs for young people, and they will not rush so numerously to the cities, where so many of them meet with -disillusionment, disappoint ment, failure and wreckage. Yes,, wake up," you farmers; sell off most of the old, unprofitable places in small tracts, and thus make what is left as valuable as tbe whole was before; make dairying and fruit- raising the two principal occupa tions, and in a few years the Wil lamette Valley will begin to become what nature fitted it for. THE JACK O' LANTERN MENACE I T WAS mostly from California that recent howls went up of perils to be feared from an in vasion by the Japanese. It is the irony of fate that resolutions should be adopted by California business men now in Tokio declaring the unalterable friendship of the Japanese for the United States and asking for an enlarged commerce and perpetual amity between the two nations. There, was all the abounding sin cerity before that there is now In the friendship of Japan, for us. There was ho more of the loudly- heraided " preparation by Japan for war against us before than there is now. There was no more peril be fore than there Is now" of an In vasion of, this country by Japan. An attempt by Japan of an invasion would be national hari-kari for the Nippon and Japan knows lb, and we know it. Unfortunately there were jingoes In Japan just as there are in the United States, and out of the folly of these pests the popular mind was sometimes beclouded. But Jingoes and jingoism have been punctured and all who were de ceived know now not to take them seriously. The Japanese recognize that Perry's visit in 1852 with its open ing of Japanese ports was the begin ning of Japanese greatness. This was the acknowledgment of the' Jap anese consul In a banquet to Port land business men recently, where the sincerity of the protestations of friendship were as convincing as they were enthusiastic. The Japan ese nation recognizes that It is to Americanism and Americans that she owes a lasting debt of gratitude for that greatness. She acknowl edged to the fullness that debt In the spontaneous and unparalleled recep tion given to the United States bat tleship fleet. The spectacle of Jap anese admirals lifting Ambassador O'Brien to their shoulders and car rying him in triumph about the decks of a war vessel is without parallel as ah outburst of national friendship. The same ceremony with United States admirals borne about on the shoulders of Japanese naval officers is a final climax in ex posing this Japanese bugaboo that ought now to be buried beyond res urrection. It has ceased to be an available argument for four Dread noughts a year, and it is well. NEXT YEAR'S ROSE FESTIVAL FT OW IS the time to insure be yond any doubt or future anxiety the entire Buccess of the Rose Festival next June. Last year was exceptional in that the roBes were not developed at the time set, yet a fair degree of success was attained. The date of the festival has been put a little later next year, so that there will be no doubt of a great abundance of the finest roses in the country. The Seattle exposition will be on then, too, and thousands of eastern visitors who come primarily o visit that will come over to Portland to take in our Rose Festival. Besides, the population of the adjacent re gion is increasing quite rapidly, and ic is important for Portland to give them, especially newcomers, an ex cellent entertainment and a good impression. All such things count in favor of a constantly increasing immigration, which is our main need. So much liberality should be dis played in the matter ot subscriptions for this annual affair. It has paid already, and will pay much better next year. Give or assure the man agers plenty of money this fall, so that they can go ahead with all nec essary nreriaraifons. and make this occasion onjenoted throughout' the United SJtates. The money will be well invested." Among other things that Portland should not fall to do is to give ample and liberal support to the spring Rose Fiesta and fall livestock show. - . . . . - . - The 'California primary! law, sim ilar to that of Oregpn, wais adopted by an overwhelming majority. In San Francisco the? vote was about 9 to 1 in favor ot it, fa hot Angeles IVt to 1, in Oakland T to 1, In San Joes 4 to 1, and so generally throughout the state. This may be the proper beginning of a success ful movement to rid that state of the absolute rule of the S. P. and Herrln King Edward Is 67 years old. He has improved with age, and is one of the enlightened and ' sane and safe" rulers of the world, accord Ing to commonly accepted ideas of government and society. He stands for progress and peace, and is an in fluence in these directions. Letters From tlie People Imttrm tn The Journal ahoald be written OB one aide of tbe paper only, and anoald be ee tompauied bj the name and addraa o( tM writer. rna nam WU1 not ne nea n u wrll.r aaka that It ha withheld. The JoOmaJ la ma a. K. HnMfawJ mm fiufnrtp.a the TleWa or statements of correspondents. Letter anonld be made as brier as possible. Tnose wne ww their letters returned " when pot used should la- clow poetafe. firraanmiiiira aM nnMflaA that letters SS mmmAinm MhI wnrria n l.n.th mar. at the dis cretion of tba editor, be cut down uii ". Smoking on Streetcars. Portland, Or, Nov. To the Editor of The Journal Mr. Bryan's slogan. Shall the people rulsT' will never be forgotten. Nor can I help recalling- it In connection with the subject In my mind. 1. e., the new rule of the streetcar company 'prohibiting smoking on the cars. Of course the P. K. com pany owns the cars and perchance our streets and If the powers that be con clude to make "new rules" twice aa often as they have of late, the dear publlo must abide by them, albeit they are packed like sardines at times, ,more often mangled or crippled and often decimated without recourse. Teddy Roosevelt has wisely and fearlessly In stituted a little control of the railroads, but there Is only one Teddy B. and he s not in Portland, Or. Shall we look to the city council for relief? As well expect his Satanic Ma jesty to serve Ice cream In the tropical zone over which he presides. How could theje. when they are so overworked In their sealous devotion to the "moral wave elements, find time to consider such trivial things as the regulation of the streetcar service? Nor would ourj councllmen think It profitable to show anything like a master hand towards the ! K. company, for do they not ride free at will and at all times? Very few, Indeed, are the favored ones who yet receive parses on the railroads, but any successful candidate for the city council la eligible for the free list of the Portland Railway company. Evidently we are as yet a few rods from the millennium and unless some good spirit will move the ruling pow ers we will have to throw our cigars away yet awhile or walk, In Portlanc- JULIUS ADLEK. No Revolution in Peru. Portland, Not. 9. To the Editor of The Journal The story transmitted by telegraph from San Francisco of a revo lution In Peru, and seizure of the presi dency by Legula. with the driving of "Perdeu," the late president, rrom Lima, as told by "a passenger from Peru, who was in the republic during the troublous times." Is a huge fake. There has been no disorder of any kind, but an orderly election of the new president-. In place of Dr. Pardo, whose term had expired. The inauguration has Just oc curred, followed by a banquet in which appeared both Dr. Legula and his friend the ex-president. Dr. Pardo. During the electioneering campaign. Dr. Durand, a politician of the mountain district, attempted to raige a force on the line of the Central railroad, down which he marched with less than 800 men, when he was met by the Lima regiment, and wlthouj. a flffht, the entire force of "revolutionists" ran away, and Durand later showed himself at the city of Tac na, Chilean town captured from Peru during the war of 1880, and peopled by Peruvians, who gave him the cold shoulder, refusing him even social rec ognition. Some of Durand's followers were cap tured, but released and allowed to go to their homes, with the exception of two or three leaders, who were confined in the Lima Jail, subject to executive . or? der. Nobody has been executed or is likely to be. The Journal at the time Durand fled published accounts of the meetings of Peruvians congratulating Xfh Pardo on his maintenance of order and protesting against any attempt to. disturb the or der of the republic. May I explain that the term "doctor" does not necessarily mean a medico, be ing applied to , lawyers who have re celved the degree of doctor or laws, a very different affair from our LL. D., but which is given to men graduating from a law school. . ALFRED F. SEARS, C.i E. A Socialist's Inquiry. Portland, Nov. . To the Editor of The Journal Please allow this In quiry concerning the event of the fox hunt ride of Miss Ethel Roosevelt and the timely succor made by the colored attendant. We all appreciate the timely aid given by the negro and the escape of the young lady from injury. But what bothers us is how she happened to be riding after foxes on the club grounds of the New Tork wealthy, instead of some working factory girl; and why her name should be heralded abroad more than some department store girl whose life might be endangered by her fol lowing some useful occupation. Now If she has done any useful thing for. Society, and has thereby merited a recreation, we would not wish to deny her the harmless choice of pleasures best suited to her nature, though It lead along the line of our rudimentary survivals to kill and maim, by our su perior skill and power. But on the contrary, if we find that' she has performed noseful service for society, how came she to be riding 'at the expense Of the social -. effort" that has given to society the , club grounds T And why does not th useful laboring girl have the' same privileges T I may be wearing some useful' and needful garment that some one of these laboring girl may have given a part of her life to produce and who never knows the Joy of .a Vacation and a rest from . struggle and : toil; , and to whom I owe at least - some debt of gratitude Let some one tell ju why the things are so.v , , SOCIALIST. BRIEF COMMENT AND NEWS SMALL CHANGE Let us have peace and prosperity. Let's all pitch in for honest pros perity. Rains all the time In . Oregon, does it? Great weather for farming or road building. Probably Hearst will not finance any more new parties. Tom Johnson always has paramount issue right at home. e e Helo now to make the next Rose Fes tival a grand success. e e Bryan mar entitle his next book or lecture "Three Times and Out" e e Fortunately, the vlce-Dresident is not clothed with much actual power. e e If you heln Oresron manufacturers and producers, they will help you. a a O. no, Aldrich did not say he would retire. Or if he did he did not mean It But tf Dr. Abbott blue cenctla anv of Roosevelt's artloles, won't there be a roar? - a Mr. Archbold will erobablv keen e-oed care of his letters to congressmen after this. a a Now that we are to have blr cross and prices for four years let everybody be happy. , v m Let us be thankful: hear anma- thing about Abruxzi and the Elkinses every day. v e We still believe that the rood of tha people is more important than the suc cess of a party. New T-ork could scarce v find man for senator who would not be an Im provement on Piatt New Tork World: "Mr bov. navar trv to be president," said Lincoln. "If you do you never will be." as A DOlHlOn Of tha Rrvnn famlW la bound to be in the popular swim, any way going to be divorced. a A New Tork butcher left an of nearly $10,000,000. He must have had rebates from the beef trust .a a President Dias Is soon to run for th seventh time or so for the nreaMnnrv and all the straw votes are In his favor. a a Cuba will soon hold another eleetlnn. and try self-government again, but President Taft will-keep an eye on her. a a If Rooselt' article for th "). look are to be anything like his annual messages, that magazine will have to be greatly euiargect A year and a half vet for those tralna to run on Fourth street That is a good while, but since the people have nothing to say in the matter, they will have to put up with It. a a Pendleton East Oregonian: Judge Lowell says he Is opposed to going to the senate over a pathway of broken pledges and disregarded laws. So are bv, auu uid i ucu WWK ou are er men who place honor above partl ehlp. otne: sans FAMOUS GEMS OF PROSE 'Atfa'inst War With AmericaTBy Lord Brougna Part ofvone of 160 speeches which I Lord Brougham delivered in the famous I Liverpool parliamentary election Of Oc tober, 1812, in the space of eight days and "nights. The "Pitt and morality" ad dress, which is quoted, was delivered October 8. Gentlemen, when I told you a little while ago that there were new and powerful reasons today for ardently de siring that our cause might succeed, I did not sport with yon; yourselves shall now Judge of them. I ask you Is the trade with America of any importance to this great and thickly peopled town? Is a continuance of the rupture with America . likely to destroy that trade? Is there any man who would deeply feel it, if he heard that the rupture was at length converted into open War? Is there a man present who would not be somewhat alarmed if he supposed that we should have another year without the American trade? Is there any one of nerves so hardy as calmly to hear that our government has given up all negotiation, abandoned all hopes of speedy peace with America? Then I tell that man to brace up his nerves; I bid you all be prepared to hear what touches you all equally. We are by this day's Intelligence at war with America In good earnest; our government ha at length Issued letters of marque and re prisal against the United States. (Cries of God help us, God help us!") Aye, God help us! God In ' his infinite compas sion take pity on us! God help and protect this poor town and this whole trading country! Now I ask you whether you will be represented in parliament- by the men who have brought this grievous calamity on your heads, or by those who have constantly opposed the mad career Which was plunging us Into it? Wheth er you will trust the revival of your trade the restoration of your liveli hood to them who have destroyed It, or to me, whose counsels. If followed In time, would have averted this unnat ural war, and left Liverpool flourishing In opulence and peace? Make your choice, for it lie with yourselves which of us shall be commissioned to bring back commerce and plenty they whose Stubborn infatuation has chased these blessings away, or we, who are only known to you as the strenuous enemies Vanderbilt at 70 Makes Fortune. By Burton J. Hendrick In McClure's Magazine for November. The Vanderbilt 'fortune, ones the greatest " financial power In the United State, probably amounts, at the present moment, to not far from 1200,000.000. Of this, William Klssam. Vanderbilt who controls . the majority of the family properties, holds In. the neighborhood of 1100.004,000, while 11 or 18 descendant; of the commodore share among them selves the remaining $200,000,000. Perhaps the moat remarkable fact In the whole remarkable career of Com modore Cornelius Vanderbilt . I that be did hi really ; Important work and heaped up his enormous fortune after he was 70 year old. He was, born In 1794 and almost all his energies, until the outbreak of the civil War, had been absorbed in the management of hi nu-H tnerous steamboat and steamship lines, Cornellu Vanderbilt, jwhen Running OREGON SIDELIGHTS. Thanksgiving and then another elec tion for Sheridan, says the Bun. This will only make eight elections for this advancing city for ISO. If It advances much more the voters might stand an even dozen. Hurrah for Sheridan i . as ' Albany Democrat: Colonel Hofer, ot the Balem Journal, is said to be an active candidate for governor two years hence, and, according to the report, is now puletly engaged Ui the primary framework necessary under the direct primary law. Please do not tell anyone who told you. . a a v F. L. Tou Velle, who has accumulated the snug fortune of 140,000 in buying, planting and selling orchards around Medford, has Just closed a deal or the purchase of the Wiseman place In the same locality, two miles north of Central Point paying $22,000 for 142 acres, 13 la orchard, e a . Times are good in Pendleton and the fact cannot be truthfully denied, says tha TCaat Oreironian. Business is good and the oopulatlon Is Increasing. Though no recent census has been taken this fact Is proven by the SO per cent in crease In the school attendance, and by the increased vote that has just .eeen cast. :- ' . - - w Never has Hood River experienced such a building boom as this summer, everywhere new residences have sprung up and more - are being planned for building before January, 1509. Up to date, from reliable information there has been expended 1127,000 on residence property alone, says the News-Letter. ' a a . Medford Tribune: Hunt Lewis, who recentlv sold his famous Bear Creek orchard for $160,000, hast purchased the Beall orchard, near Central Point, pay ing $20,000 for 40 acres.- $600 an acre. The orchard consists of JO acres of five and six-year-old pear and apple trees, the balance. 10 acres, being in alfalfa. a a. Burns Times-Herald: With apples selling at from 4 cents per pound up, potatoes 2H and S cents, cabbage, onions, grain and other farm products in proportion It looks like someone would get busy and ge to raising more of such commodities. That's Pretty good money for the producer and next year the Harney county farmer will have more of such to sell. a a A Klngslev man, relates The Dalles Chronicle, told of a cow belonging to a neighbor of his" that would not pro uuce the usual amount of milk until after election. The moment the cow heard that Taft was elected her mas ter, went out to milk and she produeej an unusual flow. He also said that the hens all over the country have been of unsettled state of mind for several months and now that Taft is elected, have decided to produce larger eggs and more of them than they have for m year, e e Albany Heraldr- With hundreds Ht new enterprises of a commercial and in dustrial nature in progress or pending in Linn county the recent election will be soon rorgotten. anousands or acres of land will be developed In this sec tion for fruit raising purposes within the next few months; the mines are being -worked and .timber deals -are go lnr throusrli every dav. Every line of industry is advancing on a wv1rf prosperity mat promises to grow ratner than decrease.. Homeaeexers are com ing In ov the hundreds and finding con ditions as desired. All in all the signs of the times are for an era of unprece dented prosperity.. of their miserable po'ley, the fast friends of your best Interests. Gentiemen, I stand up In this contest against the friends and follower of Mr. Pitt, or, as they partially designate him, the immortal statesman, ripw no more. Immortal in the miseries of hi devoted country! Immortal In the wounds of her bleeding liberties! Immortal In the cruel wars which sprang from his cold, miscalculating ambition! Immortal In the Intolerable taxes, the countless loads of debt which these, wars have flung upon us which the youngest man among us will not live to see the end of! Im mortal In the triumph of our) enemies and the ruin of our allies, the costly purchase of so much blood and treas ure! Immortal in the affliction of Eng land, and the humiliation of her friend, though the whole result of hi twenty years' reign, from th first ray of fa vor with which a delighted court gilded hi early apostasy, to the deadly glare which Is at this Instant cast upon his name by the burning metropolis of our last ally. But may no such Immortality ever fall to my lot; let me rather live Innocent and Inglorious; and when at last I cease to serve you and- to feel for your wrongs, may I have an humble monument In some namSTess stone, , to tell that beneath It there rests from his Uvbors In jour service "an enemy of the Immortal statesman a friend pf peace and of the people. Friends, you must now Judge for your selves, and act accordingly. Against us and against you stand those who call themselves the successors of that man. They are the heir of hi policy; and If not of his Immortality, too, it Is only because their talents for the work of destruction are less transcend ent than his. They are his surviving colleagues. His fury survives In them. If not his fire; and they partake of his Infatuated principles, If they . have lost the genius that first made those prin ciples triumphant If you choose them for your delegates you know to what policy you lend your sanction what men you exalt to power. Should you prefer me, -your choice falls upon one who. If obscure and unambitious, will at least give his own age no reason to fear him or posterity to curse him one whose proudest ambition It is to be deemed the friend of liberty and of peace. - his steamboat up and down the Hud son river, had felt keenly the competi tion of the railroad along Its eastern snore. Later developments led him clearly to perceive, what most of . hi contemporaries saw only faintly, that transportation In this country , would follow the line, not of tha canal and fiver: but of the steal rail. As soon as he had caught this glimpse of the fu ture, Vanderbilt characteristically acted upon It. Fifty years before, foreseeing the possibilities of steam travel by wa ter, he had sold his" whole sailing fleet and purchased steamboats; acting Just as promptly now, he sold all hi water craft and began purchasing railroads. Citizens of Medford on Thursday Py a vote of $36 ;to $5 or by a plurality of 600 decided in favor of Water from Llttl Butte,, according to the proposi tion submitted by I. U Hamilton, and h will -get to work on th project a soon as possible. - , . v Thi RXALM FEJVLTNINE. What Is a Home? ; v, ( , IF you ' of a lean: a rei F you were asked to give a definition model home for average Amer people, how would you frame reply? It, is worth' considering, for each housekeeper and home keeper sets an Ideal, orat least an Il lustration before her family, which will be one to which their thought will turn in after years."' It is so strong a habit in our floating, changing popula tion, to refer to the way in which things were, done "back home" that it creeps Into our . speech even when our sons and daughters are growing up In the new home that we have made for them. One man thinks of a new England home and of the old fashioned Thanks giving feasts; another recalls sunny days of childhood down south, and the memory of it -remains with him all his days. Another pictures the broad prairies of the middle west, and the word borne bring up quite other pic tures to him. . - And mingled with all these associa tions and pictures of tiome life of child hood and youth is the reminiscence of certain kinds of.fopd. They may not have been the best things for growing boys and girls to eat. but they seem so when viewed by the distance from man hood to boyhood, whether -it be the sour dough biscuits of soma northern local ity, or the dry corn pone of a home in tbe cane brakes. This remains with our children a they f row up and go out to meet the world hemselves. The things they are learn ing now, and the association they are' forming, are the things whloh will cling to them. This is the homemakers great privilege, that h la building up a -train of formative influences that can never be quite thrown off. And It seem thaa. mothers might look with less of apprehension - upon the time when the children must leave their sheltering care, knowing that it Is so difficult to shake off the old Influence and the home training. So one great function of the model home i that it shall build up happy iuvuiui ica ilia - i,a --.- be said without danger of contradic tion that a home which has not done that has not been a success, even though it may have been in a marble front having all the outward appear ance of taste and ease. It 1 only a part of the same thought to say that the father's influence In the home must strengthen and support the mother's. . . ' .. We have passed that stage in family life in which the husband and father was the dictator and the rest tremb lingly obeyed hi mandates. There is no doubt that the more human com prehension between parents and chil dren makes for a better because a more understanding government But we ar so largely In danger in the American home of making the father a nonentity In the family government that It really becomes a matter worth considering. The father who says to his children: You mind vour motner, or i u uno i you," and who thereby performs his whole duty to his offspring other than feeding; and clothing them is not yet obsolete. So far as trust and compre hension go. he might as well be tlio father of the family around the corner. As to consulting him about tht book they read and the friend they are making, .the children would as soon go to the family minister or doctor. It is his duty to provide, thi hurried, busy American father, and. to do him Justice, he generally provides well. But It is a danger to the family and a danger to society that, he does so little else. , And it Is not a model American home unless It is administered wisely, and with the economy necessary to the sta tion which the family occupies. Ex travagant housekeeping Is bad house keeping, but the same Ideas of econ omy do not hold In all families, for the reason that what Is competence in one Is wealth in another; what would be privation In one is only reasonable economy in another. And yet extrava gant use of food supplies, deliberate waste. Is always wrong and leaves a train of evils In its wake. And then, to speak In the plainest of terms, it can not be a model home un less It be a clean, hygienlo home. The darkey's cabin where the ploantnnlen roll on the floor with flea-Infested dogs may be the home of contentment, but it can scarcely be called a model home. To keep the home sanitary and live able and to have the necessary work done without too great expenditure of nervous force, done so that it seems to move with regularity and without fric tion, Is not always an easy thing to ac complish, -yet it can be done and done moreover without a retinue of servants by the woman who will really put her heart Into the problem of making a happy home. But in order to do this the woman In the ordinary home who must do nearly everything herself must be content to live more simply than the woman who has more money to spend for hire. And this Is what good conscientious house mothers all over the land are not will ing to do. To have less heavy hang ings, stuffed cushions, fewer ornaments, more bare floors, almnler meala. less J pretentious clothing and consequently ess work to do In the home In taking care oi ner Deiongings, rarely appeals to the ordinary woman. She is tod am bitions to have her parlor outshine that of her neighbor, hea children wear more expensive clothing to school than the neighbor' children, her meals mora elaborate, that she cheerfully sacrifices her health and strength In trying to keep up with her Imaginary critic. And all of this striving 1 mere fool ishness and defeats the end for which she strives. It is not so that the model home Is made. For its essence is cin cerelty. its motto is truth. Not to endeavor to outstrip some one else, but to live truthfully and mod estly within one's income: to- live wholesomely and with respect to all the law of science, both In dress and In food, and to preserve within the home a sweet helpfulness and mutual trust and love, is to -come very near to making a. model home. Children reared within such a home can not but go out with pure ideals and sound health, to take a worthy place In the world, arid to recall with tenderest sentiment the all hallowed spot that was their child hood's home. f. St at Two Time Savers." TO SAVE trips up and down stairs, ' have a small table at the head and foot of the steps. All things be longing on either floor can be placed on their respective tables and carried up or down as members of the family hap pen to be going. It saves mother's strength and steps. And the things will be In their proper place when needed.' Round cookies are the liana nt tha covk. '. They take so much time. Try making square cookies. Roll the dough thin And cut It Into squares of sny sise denlted with a thin knife. It saves rolling the douxh over and over intn and has the advantage of requiring less st St K The Daily Menu. breakfast'. Cereal with cream A.ipperd hetrtn - Potatd cakes Graham gems LUNCHEON. Clsm fritter - Egg and lettuce salal - Cranberry sauce Walnuts Doughnuts. Cocoa. a DINNER, Mock turtle soup ' o "Vif4 beefsteak with mushrooms Spaghetti with tomato , , -. SrussHS sprouts " . - Apple and cress salad Date pudding, vanilla sauce - "i ' Date dessert Beat the olkV'f fou eggs, add eight tablespoonfuls of pow dered sugar, stew yone half pound ol dates until tender, add a little lemon A extract and add this to the first mix ture. Cut and fold In the white of four eggs well beaten with a sprinkling of orange peels, bake in a slow oven and", erve with vanilla sauce. . . ,'