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September 8. 1908.
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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
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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. - .
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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.
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Helo now to make the next Rose Fes
tival a grand success.
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Bryan mar entitle his next book or
lecture "Three Times and Out"
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Fortunately, the vlce-Dresident is not
clothed with much actual power.
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If you heln Oresron manufacturers
and producers, they will help you.
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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?
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Mr. Archbold will erobablv keen e-oed
care of his letters to congressmen after
this.
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Now that we are to have blr cross
and prices for four years let everybody
be happy. ,
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Let us be thankful: hear anma-
thing about Abruxzi and the Elkinses
every day.
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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."
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A DOlHlOn Of tha Rrvnn famlW la
bound to be in the popular swim, any
way going to be divorced.
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A New Tork butcher left an
of nearly $10,000,000. He must have
had rebates from the beef trust
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President Dias Is soon to run for th
seventh time or so for the nreaMnnrv
and all the straw votes are In his favor.
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Cuba will soon hold another eleetlnn.
and try self-government again, but
President Taft will-keep an eye on her.
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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.
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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 .
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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. .
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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,
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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. :- ' . - -
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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. '
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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. . . ,'