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pauy of sensible men we
' ought to be doubly cautious
of talking too much, lest we
lose two good things, their
good opinion and our own
Improvement; for what we
have to say; we know, but!
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THE" OREGON SEN'ATORSHIP
T
HB PEOPLE of Oregon declared
themselves en-November IT fn
-legal, formal, orderly election,
In favor of Mr. Taft instead of
;.. 'Mr, Bryan, or any of the other can
v didate's, for president.' : They In-
'tors who were " successful , to ast
gt their votes ' for Mr." Taft,, for preal-
dent, which will be done, and Ore
" gon's four electorakotearepreBent
' lng the will of the peopls of this
state, will be added to the (riumph
f ant Taft Column. AH xt which is ali
" right. , , , .
t Only fiye months . go Ihe people
: "otj Oregon, In a Hkei legal,, formal
p orderly and , ln;; ali i respects proper
'election, declared themselves la fa
j vor of George B. Chamberlain in-
f stead of Henry -M. Cake, these be
l Ing the regular nominees of the two
.principal parties, for United States
Asenator xo succeed senator ruiton
-Not only so,- but at the same time.
by, a vote of 69,668 to 21,162, a tna
' jorlty of 48,506, the people In-
strncted, commanded, the members
of the legislature to carry out their
will In this respect, and to elect that
man for senator who should receive
the highest popular vote.
' Moreover, a majority of the can
didates for the legislature who were
elected voluntarily and most posi
i.tively pledged themselves so to vote.
Tney did this knowing that Governor
Chamberlain was likely to be the
f J f Sat LI a V-jOOW
people's choice. He was a candidate;
. rhe bad twice been elected governor;
, ii was not at all improbable that he
would win in a popular election; and
. kntowlng all this, being in no point
'i i. j j
Vthese men, 61 in number, posltlve
ZUr. and solemnly agreed with the peo-
; pie to make the people's choice. their
'-choice, and to elect the man pre
ferred by the people. . .
. "Now, and for months past, cer
tain politicians and organs are and
have- been sophlstically arguing that
this pledge Is and should be held
void "and of no effect. Hair-splitting
"political lawyers Bay it is contrary
;to the federal constitution which is
,a mere Juggle," and tbe all-suf
ficient answer to which, in a word,
Is that these men voluntarily and by
.solemn pledge made the people'i
choice their choice. They can have
no other , choice without becoming
basely false to their own solemnly
plighted word and to the people who
elected them, for in many instances
they cotnd not have been elected ex
cept for having made that pledge
" But it is urged that because Taft
carried the ?state they are relieved
of this obligation. Not in the least.
V The same voters who chose Cham-
""berlaia chose Hawley and Ellis by a
.combined plurality of 38,000, some
; ' IS, 000 more than Taft's. The same
people that wanted Hawley and
Ellis Instead of their Democratic op
ponents wanted Chamberlain instead
of his Republican opponent, or any
? , Republican, , for reason's sufficient
to the voters. And the same voters
that-chose Cbarabeflaln have now
chosen Taft. They have a perfect
right thus to discriminate, to choose
one or twenty Republicans and one
Democrat to represent and serve ,
them.. This Is 'true representative
government.
; Senator Fulton, rejected at the
primaries, wants to be elected sena
tor In spite of the people's will.
" Others Would , like the place. Eut
.the people last June selected the
a man and enough members of the leg
.Islature tJ carry out thetr will are
positively pledged to do bo. -i The
duty of these men Is absolutely
plain and clear. Ko partsaji or cor
poration sophistry can change it. or
furnish any ground for electing any
other man senator. It may be
Added that Insofar as Mr. Taft shall
carry oat, or attempt to carry out,
the, Roosevelt policies, Mr, Chamber
lain 1b pledged, to support Aim. He
will do this just as cheerfully, sin
cerely and ably aa any . Republican
could do it. When Mr, Taft Is for
the people, Chamberlain will he with
him, not otherwise.
NOT DITCHED YET
D'
OOM IS here for the Democratic
party according to Mr. Chapln,
late Prohibition candidate for
the presidency. He says that
party will never figure in another
presidential battle.
Mr. Chapln is an accomplished cit
izen", but la not his foresight faulty?
Where are the forces for a new
party, and what the idea about
which they are to cohere! Is the
idea to be socialism and are approxi
mately half the electors ready to ac
cept that faith T The late election
returns scarcely lend encouragement
In that direction. Is Hearstism to be
the doctrine and Hearst the Moses
around whom seven or eight million
American citizens are ready to
gather? Five Hundred votes in
Oregon and equally trivial numbers
in other states are mighty few seeds
from which all these millions are to
fructify.
Is prohibition to be the rallying
point around which a new and mili
tant party Jean be mustered Into
massed service? History scarcely
suggests such an unparalleled de
nouement. The knell of doom for the party
of Mr. Jefferson has not sounded.
Even the Republican party does not
want It sounded. The country does
not want it sounded. A party pur
suing a great middle course be
tween Republicanism and Socialism
is a saving grace, for Republicanism
and for the country. The vast in
fluence exerted by Mr. Bryan and
his party upon - the Roosevelt ad
ministration is history. The poten-
t tial force that it wields in holding
attbe Republican party from extremes
in government Is of Incomparable
value to the country. It is of equal
potentiality In preventing millions
from being driven to tbe other ex
treme of Socialism. It is not lm
possible that the Democratic party
out of power Is of as great service
to (he country as any party could be
In power. The displayed trappings
of power and the robes and emolu
ments of office are not always the
surest signs of efficiency of party
service to the country. There is too
great a work for it to do and l(s
capacity. for that work too marked
for the Democratic party to walk out
of the late matchless campaign. Into
a grave. Its ranks are too much
massed, Its purposes too much, uni
fied for It to buy a headstone and
watf f of the crack of doom. ,
THE CRIME OP GREAT
HOLDINGS
LAND
T
HERE IS Justice in the criticism
that large holdings of Idle land
are unfair to the citizen body
There Is exemplification of It
in Lincoln county, where the asses
sor has just added $3,000,000 to the
valuation of taxable property by as
Besslng timber holdings hitherto un
taxed.
It is stated that five sixths of the
timber lands of the county are' held
oy tnree corporations. Tne aggre
gate is placed at 13,1)00,000,000 feet
of the finest of commercial timber
Though almost the best portion of
the county resources, these valuable
areas have gone untaxed. County
government had to be maintained,'
but the timber kings bore no just
share. Roads had to be built and
bridges maintained. The Improve
ments meant increased values for the
untaxed timber. The capital in
vested in the forests grew, but not
from any achievement of Its own.
The labor of hands and the toil of
men contributed to its increment. It
literally stole for its owners a part
of that which others created. Those
others protected it by their laws,
their officers and their money, but
it gave nothing hack. The county
and its people struggled in the. bear
ing of heavy burdens, but the tim
ber capital grew without other than
their effort.
And it Is exactly so wherever there
are large holdings of idle land, Not
all of them escape taxation as did
the Lincoln county lands. All of
them do escape their just share of
taxation, for in their idleness they
feed on the creations of others who
toll, populate and construct com
munities and states.
There is a public equity with ref
erence to unearned increments that
has not been worked out, and to the
solving of which wise men should
address themselves.
A TALE OF THREE PIGS.
HE BEND BULLETIN tells a
little story that, while not
dramatically startling of ab
sorbing interest in society
circles, should furnish a useful hint
to many Oregon farmers.
A stock raiser of that vicinity, liv
ing along a creek bordered by wil
low and balm thickets and patches
of bottom land, sold a horse to a
man who could, only pay for it with
three sow pigs, which ,' the stock
raiser took home and turned loose
In the brush. They had' access part
of tbe time to an alfalfa field, do
ing It no -barm,' but for the most
part lived' In the brush. ' Awhile ago
be sold one of ; the . sows . with her
litter of pigs for $25, but learned
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afterward that he should have got
35 or 40. Another he killed and
its meat was worth $21. The third
has nine' husky shoats that . will
bring In two or three more $20
pieces, and altogether he figures
that he will get over $100 for his
horse, for the hogs have cost him
practically nothing. If he had raised
grain and fed them some, it would
have paid him over $1 a bushel in
fat pork. So he says he has learned
something, and is going into the hog
raising business.
This story might be duplicated,
with variations, many times. Every
body, it appears, who raises hogs
makes good money by doing so. The
demand for hog meat is practically
unlimited. Great quantities of it
are shipped into this state annually
and sold at high prices. Why don't
Oregon farmers raise more hogs?. .
EASTERN OREGON WOOLEN
MILLS
T
HE WOOLEN mill at Union, like
that at Pendleton, has been idle
a long time, but, as in the other
case, an effort is being made to
start it up again. The union Scout
is informed that three business men
of La Grande are ready to purchase
tbe mill for $20,000. the $25,000
necessary to put It Into operation, to
be furnished by Union citizens, and
that "the plan of tbe promoters is to
have a chain of mills, putting in op
eration the Pendleton and- Union
mills, and in the near future to erect
one at La Grande."
Some efforts have been made, ac
cording to report; by the promoters
of the Gordonalls project to take
over the Pendleton mill, chiefly, it
is presumed, on account of the fine
reputation its Indian robes and some
of its other products gained, but it
is to be hoped that without injuring
the Gordon Falls project the Pen
dleton mill can be retained in that
city, and that the Union mill wrtl be
reopened. Those cities need the in
dustry and Oregon people need the
products they can turn out.
Just why these mills did Hot suc
ceed we do not know, but it seems
certain that they ought to succeed,
especially if there is ample water
power. Eastern Oregon produces an
enormous surplus of wool and im
ports an enormous amount of woolen
goods; why not put in operation "a
chain of mills," and'save the freight
both ways across the continent, be
sides one middleman's profit, . and
employ a large number of people in
this industry? The Journal has
never doubted that woolen mills
could be made to pay In Oregon, and
it is stronger In that opinion than
ever.
Mr. Chafln and his prohibition fol
lowers say that the Democratic party
is now completely and utterly dead,
and that the next fight will be be
tween the Republicans and the Pro
hibltionists. A Socialist writes to
The Journal (and other Socialists
Bay the same) that the Democratic
party is now absolutely and hope
lessly dead, and that the battle in
1912 will be between the Repub
licans and the Socialists. We have
been hearing these assertions and
predictions quadrennially Tor some
20 or 80 years, and yet it always
turns out that the Democratic party
casts a good many times as many
votes as the Socialists and Prohibi
tionists combined, and we see no
reason to suppose the case will be
different in the future. With local
option lawB In force there ia no rea
son for the existence of a Prohibition
party, and socialism is as much an
impossibility as a railroad to Mars.
"Nothing was more pleasing and
satisfactory In the campaign ad
dresses of Judge Taft than his di
rect and positive assurances as to
tariff revision," says - the Chicago
Record-Herald. Either this must
be a thrust of irony or else the Chi
cago paper meant pleaaing and sat
isfactory to the protected interests.
Mr. Taft committed himself to noth
ing in particular, and will violate no
recent promise If he should make no
effort to revise the tariff to amount
to anything.
Illinois has voted in favor of a
state appropriation of $20,000,000
for a Lakes-to-Gulf waterway, and
expects that the federal government
and other states will do the rest, as
they should. Oregon has also ap
propriated $300,000 In aid of a free
river at Oregon City, and the fed
eral government ought not to re
fuse or delay to supply the rest of
the money needed. Open up the
waterways'.
In Vermont a hunter who care
lessly shoots anyone and shooting
should be prima facie evidence of
carelessness is liable to a fine of
$1,000 or two years' imprisonment.
This ought to be the law, oi some-'
thing like it, in Oregon and in other
states. - Such a law rigidly enforced
would soon check the killing of peo
ple who are mistaken for animals.
By next spring Chairman Payne,
Speaker Cannon and Senator Aldrlch
will .have their scheme of tariff re
vision pretty well matured. There
are four months In which to hear
from the trusts. ..
For the president to invite a num
ber of labor leaders to a confer
ence and a dinner, and. to omit tbe
most prominent and distinguished
leader of them all, presumably be
cause the supported. Bryan' and not
Taft for president, is an action
scarcely in . keeping with the dignity
and breadth or view that should be
associated with the presidential of
fice. A' president of the ? United
States ought not to exhibit petty
spitefulness toward - a political op
ponent , . "
In June the people of Oregon de
cided for , a man of one party for
senator, and in November for a
man of another party for president
j ust as - they i have several ' times
elected a Democratic governor and
Kepubllcans to other state offices.
They bad a right to do this, and
there is nothing, very strange about
it.
i aBMaaaaHMBaHMaia
t '
oenawr oione s majorities over
Governor Folk were all obtained In
the cities and by the support of the
worst elements of their population.
Of the better classes of voters Folk
had a majority, but a bad man's
vote counts for as much as a good
man's,, and so "Gumshoe Bill" will
probably go to the senate for an
other term.
Probably there were a few Re
publican voters so green as actually
to expect that their leaders would
revise the. tariff downward and in
the interest of the people.
Letters From trie People
Letters to The Journal ahoald be written
one side f the paper only, and eboold be e-
tnnipeiuea Dr toe name ana aaareaa 01 in
writer. The name will not he need It the
writer aake-tbat It be withheld. Tbe Journal
Is not to be ooderatood as. Indorsing the views
or statements of correspondent. Letters should
ce made aa oriel as possmi. xooee woo wise
their tetters rsturosd when pot used should ta
clone ,potU(e.
Corresnondents are notified that letters es-
eeedint: 800 words In length mar. at the dfavi
creuon of urn editor, be eut down to mat uom.
Assails Registration Law.
Beaverton, Or., Nov. 10. To the Edi
tor of The Journal The election la over.
It is true. I was with the minority.
but that Is not what I am kicking- about.
Tou see, It Is like this: The Journal all
along" urged all voters to register. It
was so persistent that finally along
about the middle of October I started
out to register myself. As I was al
ready registered Jrt another county, In
my case It seemed to- be, a case of being-
transferred.
A two mile car ride and a two mile
walk brought me to the place of regis
tration. The duly appointed represen
tative of the county clerk not being at
home, the Justice of the peace, the vll
lagre blacksmith,' was called, t He leanejf
against the counter of the grocery and
beamed upon me with pale blue eyes.
while I related all the facts and cir
cumstances of my cltlaenship, such as
born In Illinois, registered in Clackamas
county. Republican, moved last, June
and wanted to vote In November.
Tlie J ust lea seemed In doubt. Grath
erlng up a bunch of legal blanks ha
thumbed them over and oven-ln his big,
horny hands. At last he announced that
the problem was one for the-county,
clerk.
Then on another day I started out to
register. This time I Walked six miles
tnrough the mu'd and rain, rode 80
miles on the train and presented my
self at the county clerk's office. A two-
minutes' talk with that sharp eyed In
dividual convinced me that I was up
against It there, too. Being- a total
stranger there wer no freeholders or
anybody else to swear for me. I .swore
a little myself and caught the first
train home. I now determined to start
out to register In earnest. This time
called upon my neighbor. Tog-ether we
went back to the- grocery. The tall
representative of the county' clerk was
present Unlike the blacksmith. He had
no trouble In selecting the right blank.
In two minutes I was registered at
last .
This was all till election day. Being
a stranger and having read the Huntly
law, I stepped - up to the Judges and
asked to vote. Two clerks read over
the ' names once, then asked my name
again. Again they scanned the pages,
Then they asked me to find my name.
I Couldn't They suggested that an
other name might be mine. I wouldn't
have It that way, so they told me it
would be necessary to get six freehold
era to "swear me in.
After looking about I saw one man
who knew me. Men in the country are
good natured and like to see a square
deal. So when my plight was explained
six men held up thetr right hmds gnd
said what I said and they ald was
true, I voted.
It Is well to urge voters to .register,
It would be well to urge the officers to
see that they are registered really 'reg
istered on election day. In this voting
precinct I was not the only one who
took" the pains to register only to find
on election day that he was -not No
doubt the registration law could be lm
proved; so could the officials.
FRANK CRONE R.
Obligation of Presidential Electors.
Portland, Nov. ,10. To the Editor of
The Journal Of course the legislature
of the state of Oregon Is not under le
gal obligation to elect Mr. Chamberlain
to the United States senate. Neither
are the presidential -electors under the
xllg-htest legal obligation to elect Mr.
Taft. The constitution of the United
States' makes no provision, for the peo
rle to elect a president or even to
choose electors. Up to the year 1828
most of the electors were chosen by
the state legislatures and the electors
of South Carolina were -so chosen until
the state was reconstructed by. the car-r
petbaggers In 1868. The American sup
plement to the Enclypedla Brltannlca
says: "JuBt before the election of 1800
the electors became fixed In the nullity
which has since been characteristic of
them; it became a point of honor that
each elector should vote for the two
candidates of his own party." That Is,
It became a point of honor that the
presidential elector should annihilate
himself, refuse to perform the function
of an- elector at all; should "go back onv
the constitution and become the mere
dummy of a political caucus. There was
a tacit understanding among the graft
era and politicians that the nominal
electors would be mere tools of the Il
legal party - convention; but- If they
should take a notion to reinstate them
selves,' and become what the framers
of the constitution Intended them to be,
there Is no reason why the man who
was nominated by Mr. Roosevelt s of
ficeholders and was legally voted for
by no one, should be elected president
unless a majority of the electors pre
ferred him to some other 'man. The
essential difference between - the two
cases would seem to be that Mr. Cham
berlain, has been legally voted for by a
majority of the people of Oregon, while,
as yet,' Mr. Taft has been legally voted
for by nobody. X. PRIESTLEY.
' ' i 1 ii i ii in Hum'ii ii -
The Dallas Steam laundry has a con
tinual, monthly payroll of $400, 'every
Saturday night $100 in cash being dis
tributed among its S' to 10 employes.
each of whom at once comes up' tows
and before long sets ft. Kolnjr In other
channels. - , . .
: COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHANGE
Victims of automobile accidents will
DuaDer inouaanas annually.
' It seems to be slmmerlnr down pretty
nearly to the Dee Moines plan, After ail.
Thin axceadlnrlw fine November-
weather Is of course due to Taft's elscji
Morse oonvlcted already rand In Jail
ana Dan reiusea: wnai wiu , nappen
The Interests will attend to tariff 're
vision; the masses will have nothing
to say. I
After the rst r thmnoh r.mt
him Kaiser William may bav a few
worda to say himself. i
That's rather hard lunWnr tha rternn.
prats in Nebraska? they have to legis
lature), and no senator to elect, "
The Old town Of Alhan lav weVln. it
MMlyA.HVlH i 1
ucu m jroruasa visitors Tuesaay. ..
e -j . ; ,- t
One of the aarlV fnnthall roani&ltlita la
a broken spine, which Is worse than m
broken leg, or even a broken head. .
.
Nobodv expected Remresentatlva Wills
to oppose Speaker Cannon, even If Can
non ODDOkaa evarvthlna- mini for th
people. J . , Kv
But If Cannon1 should fes 1entd
speaker he cannot atop nor greatly
check the march of progress -though
be will try. -v
Thin
irs have come to a 'pretty pass In
-chlcal circles If aa emperor can't
monarc
talk without being censured for It by
So far. TTlsaren hasn't r1Msrr1 that
the Democratic party and all the other
parties but the Republican party and
Hearst's were dead., t
Kaiser William talks tvalv nknnt
international politics to a newspaper
man, but so far he has not developed
the political letter-wrltlnsr habit
Rnosevnlt la tn Via naM tK AAA
for his work on the Outlook; His rep
utation makes him worth that; what he
writes may be a minor consideration.
, e
Mr. Roosevelt will lUannvan or wna'f
hT that his opinions as a magazine
writer do not cut more than about a
millionth part of the flgura.that they
did when he was president
Mr. Gomners eonlfl nnt heat Presi
dent Roosevelt's candidate tnr nrl-
dent but neither, apparently, can Roose
veU beat Oompers for president of the
American federation of Labor.
-
It took 70 dava to secura a 1nrv aVn
the Ruef case, after weeks of leirXl
sparring before that, and It will prob
ably take. 17, or, more likely, 70 years,
to punish him even If he should be con
victed. e.
Now it is urs-ed that the anlnrlo. n
circuit judges should be raised to $10,
000 a year. They feel entitled to some
of that great promised prosperity. As
to4thSi taxpayers, they're not worth con.
slderlng.
m m
The Indianapolis Star says that Ore-
con ' Is from Sfi.OOO to in fiftfl Roimhli.
can, and has been for 40 years." Forty
ear ago uregon went lor Seymour,
)emocrat, and though It has usually
one Republican since, the majority has
never oeen Dy v,uuo, nor zs.ooo, except
In 1904.
FAMOUS GEMS OF PROSE
"Charles Sumner
From a. eulogy before the Boston city
government and guests. In Music Hall,
Boston, April 29, 1874.
Honor to the people of Massachusetts,
who for 21 years kept In the senate,
and would have kept him there ever so
long had he lived, a man who never, even
to them, conceded a single lota of his
convictions in order to remain there! And
what a life was his! a life so wholly
devoted to what was good and pure.
There he stood In the midst of the
grasping . materialism of our times,
around him the eager chase for the al
mighty dollar, no thought of opportunity
ever entering the smallest corner of his
mind, and disturbing his high endeav
ors; with a virtue which the possession
of power could not even tempt, much
less debauch; from whose presence the
very thought of corruption instinctively
shrunk back; a life so spotless, an integ
rity so intact, a character so high, that
the most daring eagerness of calumny,
the most wanton audacity of insinua
tion, standing on tip-toe, could not touch
the soles of his shoes.
vThey say that he Indulged in over
weening self-appreciation. Ay, he did
have a magnificent pride, a lofty self
esteem. Why .should he not? Let
wretches despise - themselves, for they
have good reason to 'do so; not he. But
In his self-esteem there was nothing
small and mean; no man lived to whose
every nature and petty jealousy were
mora foreign. .Conscious of his own
merit, be never depreciated the merits
ofpthers; nay, he- not only recognised
It, but he expressed that recognition
with that cordial spontanlety which can
only flow from a sincere and generous
heart. His pride or self was like his
pride of .country. He was the proudest
American; he was the proudest New
Englander; and yet be ' was the most
cosmopolitan American I have ever seen.
There was In him, not the faintest shad
ow of that narrow prejudice which looks
askance at what has grown in foreign
lands. His geneseus heart and his en
lightened mind were too generous and
too enlightened not to give the fullest
measure, of appreciation to all that was
good and worthy.' from whatever quarter
of the globe it came.
And now his home. There are those
around me who have breathed the air of
his house in Washington, that atmo
sphere of refinement, taste, scholarship,
art, friendship and warm-hearted hos
pitality; who have seen those rooms
covered and filled with his pictures,
his engTavlners, his statues, his bronies,
his books and rare manuscripts the
collections of a lifetime, the image of
tne richness of his mind, the comfort
and consolation of his solitude. They
have beheld his childlike smile of satis
faction when he unlocked the most pre
cious of bis treasures and told their
stories. a .- --
They .remember his conversations at
his hospitable board, genially inspired
and directed by - him, on art and books
and Inventions and great times and
great men, when suddenly sometimes.
by accident, a new mine of curious
knowledge disclosed Itself In htm', Which
his friends had never known he pos
sessed; or when a sunburst of the af
fectionate gentleness of his soul warmed
all hearts around him. They remem
bered his cravings for-friendship, as it
spoke through tne rar outscretcneja panu
when you arrived, and the glad axclama
tlons, "I am so happy you came"! and
the beseeching, almost despondent, tone
when you departed, "Do not leave me
yet; do stay a while longer, I want so
much to speak with you"! It is ail gone
new, - He could not stay himself; and
he has left his- rriends behind, feeling
more deeply than ever that no man could
know him well but to love him. ',, i
-'--a-.. - sV---1-" ::::' f. --"'
OREGON SIDELIGHTS.
Three electrio lights have appeared
in xmiey.. . .. v , ;
Klamath county's assessment amounts
10 J,tB,4U3. "a ' a " ""'-' '
v Silver Lake merchants will close on
Sundays hereafter.- .
cJYlo Improvement club. -
i uftunovilTlu, nuiuvu " m
A fine stone church for the Christian
denomination will be built in vaie.
, a a .
At Cental Point 848 Votes were cast
November 9, against sis last jun
e
Tha : Mrrlll ronnpll has passed a
drastlo ordinance against blind pigs.
s e V -
Because a horse refused to be led a
Celiio Indian shot it and Jen u w o
A Jackson county man rode SO miles
t6 Butte Falls to serve of- Judge of
election. -
e
The Klamath Falls council ha; fired
the whole police force for not enforcing
tne taws.
The Times is informed that at least
100 new dwellinsr houses will be erected
in fotest urova wunia tne ni
a
Three families - from. Nebraska left
The Dalles because they couldfflnd no
houses to rent while they jooKea arounu.
s . a
Tria irnnt flariarman and duck hunters)
have been having the time of their lives
for the past two weeks, says ao ow
side j31gnaL
A badger visited a Lakevlew. mans
chicken roost one night recently, ana
out of 87 fowls that went to roost in
the -venlng, only 41 survived the next
morning.
Rtrlnartnwn correspondence of Medford
u.n. t,n nawr-nmara ui Here every
day trying to rent land or houses. TheH
place to winter in.
ra7 it is almost lmDOBBlUlO IU
-PanAlatnn Tribunal Ee-srs Were 80
cents a dosen In Pendleton yesterday
another Instance or tne mariujia
snondlnar to Taft's election. -The hens
are evidently taking a lay-off.
a a ,
A.rnrta Rnrls-et: Duck hunters have
itatln b wltVi tiniiaual s-ood BUC-
mm durlnar the oast two weeks and
mnn hiria fcava, v,aen killed on the pre
serves in this county this season than
during any former season in mri
year. - . -, - - -
a jutmnanv nwnlnar land near Gold
Hill Is planning to plant many thou
sands or xruit ireea obi mis
ada of fruit trees out this Ian ana
a primary order they have ordered
00 gpitzenberg trees, 2.500 N-ftW-rna.
1,000 BartlSltsi. 384 Cornice, M84
as
3,600
d'Anjous" and 84 Howell trees, in!!
s.ooo apples ana z.uuu pew a.
A Lane county farmer tells the Regis
ter that he has an .old goose that kept
saying during the contest, "vote for
Bryan, vote for Bryan." He also has
a young rooster that crowed for the
first time on November . and its first
utterance was "Taft elected, Taft
elected,"
It is a fact, that Washington county
is supplying 16 per, cent less milk for
ale than last year, and this fact Is due
to scarcity of dairy cows together with
an Increased demand for milk, says the
Arus. Something must be done to in
crease the number of dairy cows In this
county or we will fall behind seriously
in this production.
By Carl Sckurs
Now we have laid him into his grave
in the motherly soil .of Massachusetts,
which was so dear to him. He is at
rest now he stalwart, brave old cham
pion, whose face and bearing were so
austere, and whose heart was so full
of tenderness; who began his career
with a pathetlo plea for universal peace
and charity, and whose whole life was
an arduous, Incessant, never-resting
struggle, whlehj left ilm all covered
with scars. And we can do nothing for
him but commemorate his lofty Ideals
of liberty, and equality, and justice, and
reconciliation, and purity; and the earn
estness and courage, and touching fidel
ity, with which he fought for them, so
genuine Iji his sincerity, so single-minded
In his seal, so heroic in his devotion!
People of Massachusetts, he was the
son of your soil, in which he now sleeps;
but he is not all your own. He belongs
to all of us in the north and In the
south to the blacks he helped to make
free, and to the whites he strove to
make brothers again. On the grave of
him who so many thought to be their
enemy, and found to be their friend, let
the hands be clasped which so bitterly
warred against each other. Upon that
grave let the youth of America be taught
by the story of his life that not only
genius, power, and success, but, more
than these, patriotic devotion and virtue,
make the greatness ' of the citizen.' If
this lesson be understood and followed,
more than Charles Sumner's living word
could have done for the glory of Amer
ica will then be done by the inspiration
of his great example. And it will truly
be said that, although his body lies
molderlng in the earth, yet in the a
sured rights oj( all, in the brotherhood
of a reunited people, and in a purified
republic, ha still lives, and will live for
ever. Preston Lea's Birthday.
Preston Lea, governor of the state of
Delaware, was born in Wilmington, Del..
November 12, 1841,' After completing
his education at the Lawrenceville
school in New Jersey, ha became con
nected with bis father'" extorsive mill
ing business, of which, he Iatertjecame
the head.- Though more or less active
as a Republican' leader In Delaware for
many years past, it is as a business man
and capitalist that Governor Lea is beat
known. He is the president of several
banks and trust companies and a direct
or in numerous railways, insurance com
panies and large industrial corporations.
In 1904 he was elected governor of Dela
ware on the Republican, ticket His
term of office will expire next January,
when he will be succeeded by Simeon 8.
Pennewtll, . the successful Republican
candidate in the recent election. -
This Date In History.
1M Richard Baxter, who created
popular . religious literature, born near
Shrewsbury, England. Died In London,
December 8, 1691. . . .
1774 Louis XVI v seestablished the
French parliament i "
1775 Montreal surrendered to' the
Americana V .'..' i'-' i '
1780 Americans under General Sumo-
ter defeated tha British in battle of
Broad river. . .-! ! ,;
1829 Troops at Monterey revolted
against the governor Of .California. . V
, i&a Maria urooxs, American poec-
ess. died, - - - ...- --.r
1884 Charles Kemble. noted English
actor, died. Bora November 27, 1775. -
1864 Sheridan sent' a . raiding army
through Front Royal In the Shenandoah
valley.- ' .:. -
1898 Earl Mlnto sworn in as gover
nor-general of Canada. - -
19vS-Martial law deolared throughout
Poland. . . 1 ,
Tic REALM
FLMININL
And Now for Apples.
0
REGON la itving up to Its reputa.'
uon a an apple state this year,
' and it will not do for houaekeepK
era to be Indifferent to the not-.
.- .Slbllltles , efffir . -i Th.
- - - - pi u rr v. ,
nave had. a good apple year, and sound
fruit ,at reasonable prices may ba had
now. This gives j0y to the heart of th
housekeeper, and mother who bnnwi tha
dietetic value of apples and the innu-
S5?biSi.fmpt"8r ays.. In' which this
.d,,2,ou rult my be served.
. u w? com to their attrac
tions at the tahla lot . 1F . ,v,..v.
iSJ!il Plbiy ties which houee
ln. - -T8, th6 mwner of market
All Of the aeenplAa In t .t.. vui.
niSl5 .IV.10 th grower are allied
iSJSTi-01 h' Interests in the matter of
f.row'"". "ound fruit - The enemies to
i,.10 n?urchard . ars known and cata
logued The authorities at the agri
cultural college stations are busy writ.
H5.,ni?Hlnilng and distributing bulle
tins Which tell tha rrrni, .K.., th.
orchard pests and how to combat them;
Inspectors are paid to travel over the
state and examine orchards and to tska
vigorous means of exterminating dis
eased trees, and sometimes whole or
chards, . , , , ,
Naturally this arouses the tre of the -ignorant,
do-nothing sort of farmer who
contends against all Innovations and
who would rather raise apples infested
with scale and coddling moth, and be
wail his "hard luck" than to spray his
trees or cut them down and plant srnod
ones, everything that ia worth rioln
is some trouble, and there are always
to be found lazy individuals whA WAllM
rather suffer affliction - than mi
a hand to prevent Then beside tha or-
o h n .,1 InannM.AHH . l . . . . T .
- ,unnn.ujt we xia va grmi in
spectors in our markets who may eon-'
demn Infected fruit and destroy it
ii ;
Ana vet it not inrreansinti kinnna
that a box of diseased fruit which haa
escaped all of this machinery of the
state finds its way to the market, and
If placed before a housekeeper who looks
more closely to the saving of a penny
than to the principle which Is at ataka.
4s snapped . up . by her and boua-ht for
her family to eat
Now it is true that tha seal a which
causes a part of the blight on apples lies
upon the skin, and that a portion of the
fruit may be used for food. Thara
arises the question, however, aa to
what in such cases is dona by the oook
with the parings. Are they thrown put
upon the arrass near other troaat A
bulletin on "Orchard Enemies by C. V.
x-iper nays uiai m some cases this run
gus lives over the winter and is ready
to propagate again in the spring. If
you do not ear about tnnr nn tma
you know, it is - possible that vour
neighbor does about his,
In the case of the brown rot on
prunes, cherries and peaches, the mum
mified or. dried up fruits will preserve
tha fungus all winter, and if suoh fruit
is left about on the ground or hang
ing on the trees the pest Is preserved
for the next year.
And so it comes about that every
woman who buys fruit -in the markets
has a certain responsibility toward the
raat fruit Industry of the state. She
W have thought little about It. but
when the grocer knows that she is
willing to buy diseased fruit If It Is
offered, a little cheaper than good, she
Is apt to be given the ohaiice. The
only right thing is to refuse It Get
gooa rrutt or none at all. And if a be
guiling farmer comes to vour house
with apples to sell which he dare not
offer in the open markets for fear of
having them confiscated, refuse them
again. -And
when the arocer calls for an ex
pression of your sympathies when he
has had- a box of Infected fruit fcero
sened. don't tell bim that it is a shame
to treat him so, but express yourself
kindly but firmly as In favor of a rlsld
examination of fruit and a building up
of one of the great industries of the Pa
cific northwest
It matters not that you are a new
comer, and that your affections are but
transiently engaged with us here. When
you come to make your home In a new
country you should be prepared to work
steadily and In all the small ways that
offer, for-Its upbuilding. The great ef
fort that the various associations are
making to build up the fruit Industry
In this part of the country deserves at
the very least that you should not work
against them by accepting dlseasod
fruit at any price.
Apples that are drawn up on one aide
and blotched with grayish scale are dis
eased. Apples that havs unnaturally
red spots upon a green or yellow akin
are diseased. Apples that are punc
tured with holes in the side leadino- di
rectly to the core are diseased.
But there are boxes of splendid erolden
apples, deep red apples, green apples,
and striped apples, sound and firm and
fresh, a Joy to look upon, a dainty to
give seat to the healthy appetite or to
tempt the flagging one, full of rich
Juices which contain soma of the best
of medicine and worthy of gracing tbe
tables of the potentates of the world.
All to be had for voung and old, for
rich and poor, for oldtimer and for new
oomsn, in themselves one of the best ad
vertisements ( that the state can have,
and worthy to bear her name abroad.
Give loyalty, then, to the apple state,
and make up your mind to do your part
in preserving her name unsullied. Eat
apples, buy apples and talk apples. We
shall have some apple shows pretty
soon, and If you cannot tell one apple
from another, go and look and learn.
And, meantime, refuse to buy diseased
fruit and don't be afraid to say why.
H K
Sweet Potato Croquettes.
TO two oups of hot rlcexl sweet pota
toes add three tablespoons but
ter, one half teaspoon salt few
fr rains pepper and one beaten egg. 8hape
n croquettes, dip in crumbs, egg and
crumbs again, fry In deep fat and drain.
It UK
Salad Dressing.
TWO teaspoons .'mustard, two tea
rpoons salt," three tablespoons
sugar, less than one quarter tea
spoon cayenne pepper. Mix all together
thoroughly. Beat into this two eggs.
and then beat 'into it one cup thick
cream. Heat one half cup vinegar, and .
when hot add tha above mixture and .
cook until thick and smooth in a double
boiler. Strain and cool. Keeps a long
time In jar covered) in ice chest
- t . It
Tbe Dally Menu.
BREAKFAST. ,
Baked apples. Cereal and cream .
Codfish balls with poached eggs.
Parker House rolls. Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Home - mad Uvefc sauiage with green
-peppers.
Saratoga chips.
French pancakes with maple syrup.
. , uocoa, i . -DINNER.
Scotch broth.'. Vealpotpla with dump-
Sweet potatoes. Buttered parsnips:
- Cabbage, and celery salad. . .
Apple dumplings with ft-ut sauce,
Cheese. Cof f .
Liver Sausage Boll together for an
hour and a half equal .quantities of
fresh liver and pork with as little water
as will keep front burning. .- Flavor -wits,
salt pepper, thyme and saga, Then
put the meat through the food chop
per and mash well with -potato masher
Until the meat is as fine as it can.be
made. - Add enough ef the latock to
make - smooth and - compact and pack
Into wide mouthed jar.. Four clariflel
butter or lard over the top of the meat
when wanted for a lunche.cn dlnh slice
cold in smooth slices and rarniah with
parsley or cross. ; . - . .
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