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Sr Cnxulatton Guarantee f J4i Certilin that tie circulation of tba OXSaOH JOTTBHA TlilRrt-n audited and H guaranteed by the Advertiser' Certified Circulation Blue Book Cftrfchr AffM This Paper baa proved by mrestifatioa that the circalatioa record art- kept with eait and tee tkenlaxioa ataud with auch awaracy that admtSaera may rely on aay tatXmeOta O w mmuK r yuwiMocrm under the ownership and Management in control September t. 1908-J . The secret of tiring is to say everything that , can be said on the subject Vol taire. - FOB THE JUDICIARY'S SAKE THERE is a tragedy in the resig nation of Justice Root. of the Washington supreme court. It is the result of scandal. Let ters that are said to compromise the jurist are in existence. The rumors respecting them set up a doubt as , Justice Root's Innocence. These doubts, so far as the public knows, may be unfounded, yet they are doubts, and as such, are a melan choly milestone in a judicfal career. In the public mind, the Judiciary is, or ought to be, the anchorage of civic righteousness. Not ' a taint should stain its escutcheon. No spot should blemish the coloring of its good repute. No rumor 6hould mar the symmetry of its virtue. It is the' fountain from which, in theory, righteous judgment should issue. It ' is the tribunal to preserve the in tegrity Of justice, and to determine the equities between man and man. It is the authority to which human rights are anchored, and upon which society must depend for safety. Members of the court are, or -.' ought to be, typical in their bearing and their repute of the sanctity and purity of which justice is he incar nation, -v - When poisonous rumor points an accusing finger at one of these jur ists the climax of the regrettable is reached. ' The situation . becom more aggravated, when emphasized .by a resignation, as in the case of Justice Boot. It is an all urgent occa sion for investigation, an investiga tion that it is hoped, for the sake of the judiciary, may show the robes of justice still spotless and Justice Root Innocent. ROCKEFELLER'S EVIDENCE M' fR. ROCKEFELLER in his testimony, though assuming that all that be and his as sociates did was quite legal, Innocent, and even praiseworthy, confessed or acknowledged enough to show that such a monster "octo pus" as that of which he has long been the head is an undemocratic undesirable and dangerous thing. It is so even if no law had been vio lated, but both state and federal . laws have been constantly and audaciously violated by these men for many years, yet Mr. Rockefeller considers himself and his associates men of the highest moral and Chris- . tlan character, which shows how the greed of great wea.th will blunt a man's moral nature and blind hi9 moral vision. The object of these men was monopoly, and they succeeded, by the usual trust process. They They would tolerate no rival, any where la the country. The first move, was In the nature of a tempta tion, and it usually succeeded. They offered the rival more than his property was worth, and pajd in Standard Oil stock or cash. If he -would not sell, -they undersold him 1n "his own territory and so ruined him. - So one by one they gathered them all in, and having a practical ; monopoly could- recoup their over payments, and losses, from 8glej at too ow prices, by raising fhe price to any figure they chose. Mr. Rockefeller claims that this . monopolization f the business made oil cheaper to the people. It did, of course, effect a great saving . in the cost of production and dls ' trlbHtlqh, but that Standard Oil. did not reduce the . price to what it ' might and? should , have done, the hondreds of millions' of profits be yond what would have been fair and, reasonable, even In V great an in dustry, are eloquent testimony. And Mr. Rockefeller takes no account of prop!!? ruined, of settlements depop ulated, of homes'lnvaded by rrJ(olf )f poverty, of disappointed hcT and t't rented ambitions, of the wreckage .: r? a plor-g his all-conquering f It wou!d bo of no use tosug-j -WHO WOULD w HY ATTEMPT the impossi ble? Only disaster results from that sort of effort. Every departure from the regular and orderly in life brings its reckoning. When we vio late health rules we sicken and die. We sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind. These ; inevitable reck onings to follow causes are a natural order, and unchangeable. They cannot lie averted. Even if the necessary pledged membera could be perjured to set aside the popular choice as to. senator, there would be the "in evitable reckoning in the legislature. What kind of a sequel would it be? What have legislative elections of senator been In other days but dis aster? What but disaster was the assaslnation of Dolph? It was a session that went down into the political history of Oregon reeking with extravagant legislation. It was a session with men's hands lifted against each other. It was a ses sion of factionalism, bitterness and betrayal. It was a session of con flict, strife and scandal.' It was a session of ruined reputations and overburdened taxpayers. It was 4 0 days of tumult and split the Repub lican party wide open and embit tered one faction against the other. It destroyed -one of the best sena tors Oregon ever had, and gave the state Mr. McBrlde. Was there ever a more lurid example of political disaster? What but disaster was the at tempt in 1897 to. elect Mitchell for senator? Mitchell had enough pledged votes fdr his purpose, but to circumvent his election the poli ticians prevented the house from or ganizing. As the Vesult of it, 90 members spent 40 days, at what? Daily, the senate went through the grotesque spectacle of reading bills, while at the other end of the cap itol the impotent, unorganized house refused to meet. It was a proceed ing as complete In the debauchment of public affairs as maddened men could make it. It was a travesty on public order that citizens remem ber only with humiliation. There was a rump house, and members were hired by one faction to go into It, and hired by the other faction to stay out of It. Members elected to perform the high function of choos ing a United States senator spent their time trying to prevent a sena tor from being elected, and sue-. gest to Mr. Rockefeller, for he would not understand the sayings, to read the "second great command ment," like unto the first, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;" or this: "Woe, unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye devour widows' houses." Yet the evil of such enormous fortunes lies not so, much in the way they are obtained as in the way a portion of them are used to pass or defeat laws, to control legis latures and congress, to influence courts to corrupt the whole public service and run the government In the Interest of these multimillion aires and against the Interest of the masses of people. The recently ex posed Archbold letters are frag mentary evidence that this has been done. POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS P OSTMASTER General Meyer ex plains' In the Independent the benefit to the people of postal savings banks. There are now 1,543 savings banks in the United States, with deposits aggregating 3,660,5o3,945, of which 98 per cent Is in the banks of 14 states, leaving only 2 per cent in all the rest of the states and territories. Mr. Meyer argues from this that in the greater part of the country there are no adequate facilities for saving money by the people, and that If the 61,000 po8toffices of the country were made savings dfpositories hundreds of millions of dollars now hidden away In secret places would be brought out and put into circulation. Be sides this, Mr. Meyer might have argued, a great aggregate sum is -annually squandered, or spent for unnecessary things, that would be saved by people of small means if they had a savings bank at every postoffice. Nobody would doubt the absolute soundness of the government postal savings banks, whereaB a large pro portion of people are suspicious of private savings banks though in most cases there Is no occasion for them to be so. Yet occasionally such an institution fails and poor people lose their hoardings, go many of them are afraid to place their sur plus earnings In such banks. Dur ing the" last fiscal year money or ders to the amount of $8,104,447 were purchased and made payable to the purchasers savings of people who thus deposited their money where it drew no interest and at con siderable cost, because it wa6 sure ly safe. Besides this, over $100,- 000,000 were sent abroad in money orders during the year, a large por tion of which would no doubt have remained in this-country If there were postal savings banks. There If now before a senate com mittee a bill establishing postal sav ings banks. The Republican party platform promised 'them. ; President Roosevelt urged Ithenu President elect Ta ft favor them. - So that, al though powerful firfancial Interests PAY THE PIPER? ceeded." No less an authority than Senator- Fulton himself says mem bers were hired not to take the oath of office and that others were hired to take the oath of office. Elected by the people and trusted by , the people to enact legislation and elect a senator, the senatorial issue led decent men into the astounding atti tude of refusing to do either, and the session did the extraordinary act of expiring without having organ ized. It was 40 days of the worst factionalism ever witnessed in any state. It sowed deep the seeds of disorder from which the Republican party .still suffers. Constructive legislation was needed for the up building of Oregon, but this need was but a breath In the whirlwind of senatorial fury. The interests of Oregon and the interests of taxpay ers were sacrificed in the conten tions and passions of the senatorial iEsue. What the state witnessed and what the country witnessed was not an orderly legislative session, but 40 days of anarchy with the state house In the hands of an infuriated mob, with respectable citizens of the state as its leaders. It was a political mess without a parallel. Without taking Into account Its terrible record of corrupted men what waB it but dis aster? These are two instances of legisla tive election of senator. They are typical of 30 years of it In Oregon. They are typical of what certain politicians plan as the program for Oregon's future. They are a reck oning that must be expected if enough pledged legislators can be perjured to set aside the pbpular choice for senator. Conditions are ripe to make this reckoning more disastrous than ever before. The complications are the worst in the state's history. They are sufficient to make confusion worse confound ed, and yet they are but'a single one of the disasters that would be brought on by overthrow of the peo ple's cholceand substitution of a persona! program. Who would pay the penalty, and what would be the price? Who would square things with the disappointed and insulted people? Who would appease, and how would It be done, the 69,668 citizens Who Voted against legisla tive selection of senator? Are the politicians not playing with fire that is certain, if they have their way, to light an awful conflagration? Once lighted, when, where and how will it end, and whomwlll it seize? are opposing them, congress may possibly pass this bill. We shall see. MR. BONAPARTE ON THE LAW'S DELAYS. I N A recent address before the Na tional Municipal leagueJAttorney General Bonaparte argued vig orously that the criminal law, or rather criminal practice, should be thoroughly and rationally recast and reformed, in order to serve its de signed and ostensible purpose of punishing guilty and protecting in nocent people. One is sometimes tempted to believe that the criminal law, as carried out In practice in our courts, justifies the saying of Jeremy Bentham long ago that, "If evil men knew how much pains the law had taken for their benefit, there would be nothing that honest men could call their own." But he prob ably did not witness as much con fusion, unreason and what he called "Incognosclbllity" in criminal trials as is prevalent now, and It is prob able that we carry to still more ab surd lengths than did the judges whom 'he denounced the legal de vices and technicalities in criminals' behalf. The Ruef trial In San Fran cisco is a conspicuous case in point. Many people -besides Mr. Bona parte are restive over what he calls a "foretaste of eternity" between ar rest and Indictment, between Indict ment and trial and between convic tion and punishment. We need look no farther than the Ross case for an Instance of the latter. Mr. Bonaparte ascribes this evil partly to "interminable and iniqui tous delays," partly to the tendency of bench and bar to tolerate all kinds ot "dilatory, frivolous and often ridiculous' proceedings," and partly to legislators who give convicted persons almost limitless facilities for appeal, even though there is not a shadow of doubt as to their guilt. The Journal has quite frequently commented on this great evil In this country, and it is pleased to be able thus to cite in Its support the high est law officer of the country, as it was to quote recently President-elect Taft's more guarded language ex pressing the same idea. Judges and leading lawyers of the country ought to take this matter up and lead in working out a practical reform. When Shakespeare wrote that much quoted sentence,, "To thine own self be true, and It must fol low, as the night the day, thou cans't not then be false to any man," he made a great mistake, according to certain- Oregon politicians and party organs, In not writing the word "party" instead of Vself.!' ' - "i Thousands voted for Chamberlain who did not want him elected for Benator by the legislature,, and who had no idea that he would be elected, says the Oregonian. There la no evidence of the truth of this state ment, and to "oppose" It is the fact that. Chamberlain ad "carried the Btate three, times before, ; once for attorney general and twice for gov ernor. Did not the people want him for these offices?; And If they did. why should .they JiQt.want..bim. after his very acceptable aervlcea and In creased popularity.-for senator? But even if the assertion were true. It furnishes no excuse ' for Statement No. 1 members of the legislature to violate their pledge.- 'Mr. Rockefeller testified that the oil business was very "hazardous, yet admitted that in eight years past the profits amounted to $570,000, 000. So the "hazard" did not worry him much. Letters From' tke People r.t,. tr. thm Journal ahould It written OB aoa aids ot th paper only, and ahoold o KDpantcd br the namo and addra of th writer. The nam wilt not wo i. i, h wtrhhM- Tha Journal la not to b nnderatood aa Jndoralnq r tha or atateuwnta of corraapoodonta tttr ahouio B made at brief aa poa.lbl. Thoaa who wlh their letter returned wo not need boold la- ''cOTriapoSentn ara not! fled that reading 800 word In length mar. t th cratloa ot th editor, b cut down ta that limit. Fallacy of Judge George'a Argument. Portland, Nov. Z5. To tne iwmor ui The Journal I have read in tne ure gonian with considerable sadness the able attempts of Judge M. C. George to assist In pulling Senator FultonH chestnuta out of the fire, his burnt lin gers apparently being willingly endured In the faint hope that the nut might acctdently. fall to his lot. In the Ore gonian of TUesday he does not uae quite aa much space as usual, and out of the maze of his "contemporaneous and unanimous practical construction," universal acquiescent wnsuu, metamorDhosia of the original consti tutional electoral system," and other large and , reverberating attempts at rhetoric he 'really makes quite a strong argument for the keeping of the pledges made by Statement No. l pieagea mem bers of the legislature, albeit that Is not what he tries to do. But toward the end of his dissertation on legisla tive duty, he asks the question. "Will some Statement NO.. 1 pamsan iru where a legislator Kets authority to pledge or sign away to any votefwthe legislator's own final sworn duty to elect a senator?" And ,to thlB question, which seems so hard to a hidebound partisan like the Judge. I beg space to give a little attention. Is Judge Oeorge ao unsopmeucaieu. so simple minded, that he does not know that every year, in every state where senatorial elections are held, leg islative candidates go before the people and ask for nomination on their pledge to vote for a certain candidate, for the senate? It Is true that members orten go unpledged, and that such members are often not long' unbought. But In all Judge George'a articles he seems never to have had a troubled thought about the buying of unpledged mem bers. At least, not In this or In any other article that I call to mind does he even hint that Jt might be uncon stitutional for a senator to go to Wash ington by purchase of 'members' votes, as has been done In more than one Instance. It is not the Republican party in which I waa born (during the throes of a civil war) that has usually been not ed for a strict construction of tha con stitution, but Mr. George's construction Is so strict that he claims an Oregon member can only follow its provisions by violating his pledge to the people, breaking his solemn word to hla con stituents and utterly ignoring and go ing contrary to the wishes of those he denominates "intermeddling voters." In fact, the only right he seems to leave to a voter 'at all Is to vote for the candidate the machine may put up. To demand la advance that something shall be promised s to the course a legis lator shalt pursue, regarding the peo ple's wishes, especially as to the elec tion of senator,- Is a ' Hold up by said voters." Well, no member elected was re- quired to be "held up." There has been 'hold up" legislature in Oregon re cent enough to be -vlthln the memory of Judge George. But these pledges were taken In the tlpen and no mem ber had . to take them. If a member felt he waa being held up he could re fuse to' take the pledge and thereby refuse to divest nimseir, as tne su preme court of. Dakota said, of hfs of ficial duty." But any such attempt at election time would have resulted In the defeat of these members the good judge Is now trymg to persuade to go back on their pledged word. And no amount of sophistry by Judge George, any more than the rot dally dished up In Oregon Ian editorials will change the fact that a legislator does his full constitutional duty, when he carries out the pledged will of the people and that a failure to do so stamps him as a common liar an A M n a n varr 1 i-1 ti hAnkr .In ttlVl om VIA QI1U mail v Itiiuii ,jmiiivi naaviia v dependence can be placed. II. A. James H. Cummiskey's Birthday. .Tames ' H. Cummlrkey. commissioner of public works of Prince Edward Isl and and one of , the prominent men in the pubic life of that province, was born November 27, 1849, in Fort Au gustus. P. E. I. lie was "educated in the public schools and In . Prince of Wales college. He taught school for several years and In 1872 entered com mercial life. In-1891 he was elected a mrmtyrr of the legislature. His election, nretf with the return of another Liberal rnember, gave the Liberals a majority and overthrew the Conserva tive government which had been in power since 1878. In 1897 Mr. Cummis key was elected speaker of. the legisla te BssemDiy, a: position no neia lur seven years. He 'Was returned at tner general elections of 1897 and 1900. In the latter year he waa appointed com missioner of -public works, in recent years Mr. Cummiskey has been acting premier of..-Prince Edward island on several occasions. This Date fit History.. 175 Henry ' Wheaton. a noted . au thority on International Jaw, born in Providence,- .R. -I. IMed In Dorchester, Mass., March 11. 1848. 1S09 Fanny Kemble, famous) actress, born in London. Died there January 15, 1893. , . . ' 1850 Hardin Blgelow, mayor of 6ae ramento'.'Cal.; died of' cholera. 1861 General .McClellah ordered the observance of the- Sabbath In all - the camps -of the United 'States army. -: 1R68 Sir John Young appointed gov ernor general of Canada. . - 1874 Proposal made for an exclusive mall train to run between New Tork and Chicago. .,-;; . - 1896 Alexandre . Dumas,- flla, died in Paris. Born July 88, 1821. ., - 1905 Edward VII . gave New Tork Yacht club cup to be raced for by American yacht, t - ' - 1906 Fine .'of', 118.000 imposed ' on American Sugar. Refining -company "for accepting rebates from the New York Central railway.. . ',-. , A' South Fork eorrespwndent of the Milton Eagle mv the rads there are the best in 100.000 yearn. COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Apparently the trusts will still rule. Leap year is drawing toward a close. It la easy to a-et converts in "a. hunt ness revival. . - It cannot be ehara-ed that tho mimr in ireuu ui vetoing ordinances. -.."( That's right chief: arrAst evrvhn1v wiiu i-ai i itw a gun. ana coniiscate ii. Of course the tariff will he revfxenV soya uncio due. xes, dj its rrienas. - Official returns show that Maryland.' after all, was the only doubtful state, f In one sense there can he no rinnht that Mr. Tart will be a big president Nobody seems to have consulted 'Sen ator Plaft as to whether he wants to be reelected. , Some neonl seem 'to lmaalTi h m receipt for Dew rent la a throus-h ticket to heaven. With only 83S.0OO a. vhi in hiM Mrs, Howard Gould can't believe In prosperity. Regent Chun laaues an awl In inn minutes, and there is no relschatag to . ton mitt in iu. .' ' A lot of those neanut atari whtatloa are still annoying many people and con stituting a nuisance. The arrumenta nf thnu ! election of senators by the 'people have been reduced to a "fraxxle." Uncle John D. la rathr fnrlfn1 but remembers a good deal better than he did two or three years ago. Really, a treat artist lib Mr Tnnir. feller cannot remember all th.A mn and concerns he haa done in oil. The mayor of Indlananolla hmn some scheme tor helping the unem ployed. Has prosperity missed India napolis? a s Tennessee is nrovinsr that the unnrt. sltlon that it was a civilised state la a mistake. Some "heathen" missionaries are, needed there. Mr. Kellogg may do very well for cross examiner of the fitanrlarH nil officials but we would like to see Ida laroeu given a c nance. - A New York woman uvi the "i best sellers' of novels are vicious and dangerous. She 'probably wrote one that wouldn't sell at all. a 'TT!n1iallAi4 rv a1 In.l. ... V n v, i ... j . v. . una iici ufiio a nice Bmooth synonym for "Inrrtiu" as to tariff rates, freight rates, telo- piiunu rates, avaier rates, etc. A burlesdue being . presented In X. York is entitled. KT he Merrv Widow ana tne uevw wnicn is considered an appropriate and harmonious 'conjunc tion. a Before long people will probably be crossing cantlnents and oceans. In bal loons, but these airships are hot likely to Interfere much with railroads and steamships. , . A .Nebraska bishop has nrdered all the women members of his church to wear hats during services and at church functions, but It Isn't suspected that he Is In collusion lth the milliners. The Seattle Times says that city will have 750,000 inhabitants "almost before you can say Jack Robinson." But we suppose it does not mean to be taken literally; perhaps means by Christmas or New Year's. RAILROADS DODGING ORDERS OF THE COMMISSION -From the American Lumberman. The railroads ask for fair play and for the manifestation of a spirit Of friendliness on the part of the public toward these great instrumentalities of commerce afed civilization. They say that the railroads . and the shippers should be friends. - To this the ship pers and the people generally agree. They are not unmindful of the benefit that the railroads have been to the country. . nor of the Indispensable part they play In modern, commerce, but friendship must be based upon respect Relations between friends must be open and fair. There must not be attempts at sharp practice. . Business is business, but attempts to secure business advan tage should be legitimate and reason able. Aa some railroad men have well said, what there Is of public Hostility to them is largely, if not entirely, their own fault, due to their assumption of a superior . position and their resistance to even reasonable control. An In stance la seen in the' way in which car riers have dodged the orders of the Interstate commerce commission regard ing lumber rates from the Pacific coast. After the commission had rendered Its decision and the rallroags had an nounced they would comply with it re serving, of, course, their right to try out legal Issues in the courts, the ship pers in the, west were disposed to be friendly. They had fought an open and fair, even If a hard and somewhat bit ter fight; had won and the railroads had accepted the results of the ship pers' victory. The lumbermen were in a mood to say "let bygones be bygones, and let us. do business," but then, sud denly, much to their chagrin, they found that the railroads were not play ing fair in their acceptance of the de cision, and so by their own acts the roads have blown Into life again the dying embers of hostility. They did It In this way, among oth ers: The commission allowed the rail roads to advance their rates 5 cents east of the Pemblna-Port Arthur i line. Xo Debt and Money in Treasury. From the Lewlston Tribune. Oregon has no state debt, bonded, or otherwise. This . is one . of the . first facts stated In the biennial report of State Treasurer Steel. There is' in the treasury a cash balance cf 1658,330.16, of which S214.897.98 Is in the general fund an amount sufficient to pay state expenses until next March, when taxes for 1909 will be paid. It is both a pleasure and a duty to record facts "like the. foregoing. It Is U the 'mor significant and notable aa coming at a time when other states. big and little, rich and poor, are up to their ears in . debt and would be over their ears except for constitutional limitations that would make additional debt unmarketat'e if issued. The fact of having a governor to administer the state economically and honorably is only partly i responsible for Oregon's clean record, since -it has been free or practically free of bonded debt for spme yeara. But, without Governor Chamberlain It "is quite prohable there would, have again been plenty of debt, since-he has exercised thp veto pow'er against the legislature unsparingly and the knowledge that he would use It has no doubt kept other extravagant appro priation bins out that would otherwise have been --logrolled - through, together NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGIVrS. . Albany will soon need a second high school building. Another new town In Klamath county Woraen, on tne lower tajte. -t ,-. a .... ?.-.,, . ; The Prlnevllle flour mill ils running right and day toflu orders. Astoria' Is to have a training school for nurses, after about January .!. Jonenh claims to have the handsom est bank building in Oregon outside of rortiana. A Myrtle Creek hotel keeper is doing sucri a good Dustness mat no win en large hla hotel. . "... Prospects are bright for the ultimate completion of the 140,000 capital for tne mux conaenser in Atosny. Mass meetings are the order of the day In Wallow county mostly, just now, about raising sugar peets. A neighborhood In Marion-county la named Pumpkin center. That ought to be a food dace to go to set pumpkin pies.. Business men and property owners of Tne I'aues are entnusiastio over tne proposition relative to the proposed bonding of the city to pave the down town district. , The manager of the Gilliam County Milling company at Condon reports that the mill had shipped 100,000 bushels of wheat to Venesuela during the last month and: a half. Antelope, whloh went dry by three votes, haa allowed Its saloons to run openly ever since July l the same as II noining nad nappenea, ana no com plaints are ever heard over these vloi la t ions. - A barred Plymouth Rock hen. owned by A. S. Hart of Albany has laid 256 eggs In the past year and haa thus es- taDiisr.ed a new worm s recora ror tne most egga ever laid In a year by one nen. saya tne Herald. Tne rormer rec ord, as compiled by poultry Journals, was 201. a How can a sheriff sen boose In a dry county, when It ia his duty to arrest anyone else who does the same thing? That la what Is worrying the nentr or ltook county, wno naa oeen oraerea oy a court to sen a lot or con flscated boose, while the law forbldi anybody to sell It La Grande Observer: Water, water everywnere, and not a arop ror irrlga tion. While that Is a tact It will ot always bo thus. No doubt If It waa a more difficult undertaking we would have had water out In the valley years ago, not aa it runs on past and through the valley so abundantly it is slmoly a matter of building a reservlor and a tew lateral aitcnes. " Cecil .correspondence of lone Pro- ciaimer: Iast Sunday being the third Sunday and coming early In- the month was evidently forgotten as .regular service day. Rev. Atkinson oame, but owing to tne small congregation did not hold services. We regret this x ceeaingiy. Brotner Atkinson, and will try ana not let it nappen again. a , Drilling was continued after water was round in a well near Madras, with the result that the drill penetrated the stratum or rock wnich held the water, and the entire supply has been lost, though It waa plentiful at 100 ftet, and disappeared entirely when the drill had gone down a few feet lower. The wen u n w down over .150 feet and there Is still no water, but drilling wM be continued until it is found. A sim ilar Incident occurred In Madras some years ago, and many wells In the vicin ity went dry, and the water in others was lowered, In consequence. but said that this advance of 6 cents must be graded up between that line and the Doluth, St Paul and the Mis sissippi . river line, reaching the max imum of 6 cents at the latter line of terminals. Instead of grading up that advance between the two lines In a fair and reasonable way one which would seem very easy to accomplish they put the full advance Into effect In most cases within from 10 to 60 or 100 miles of the Pemblna-Port Arthur line Instead of the Duluth, 8t. Paul and Mississippi river line. Thus they both Ignored their promise to shippers and Insulted the commission for a petty ad vantage worthy only of tetty men. Further, the applications they made of the ruling were not uniform by all the different roads similarly situated in respect to length of haul, etc Such a policy Is a contemntlhU one and It is difficult to believe that the big and broad men who are at the head of the railroad systems could have been responsible for sweh action. Such a misapplication of the rates must have been the work of subordinates who Im agined that they were doing a service to their employers by thus filching a little advantage. Subordinates who would be guilty of such work should be "fired." They should no'longer have the opportunity to endanger the reestab lishment of friendly relations between the railroads and the shippers which In itself Is an advantage that far out weighs any such pettifogging advan tage as the railroads have sought to secure In this kind of rate making. It is, of course, Impossible for the responsible officers of a railroad them selves to figure out and apply each rate. They must trust this work te subordinates, and we still believe that when the men really in authority on the transcontinental lines and their connections know and appreciate what their subordinates have done the mis takes the latter have made will be remedied as quickly as possible and a proper rebuke will be given subordin ates who were so careless of their em ployers' Interests. with alt- the other trades and Jobs there by made possible. Methods That Should lie Exposed. From the Salem Journal (Rep.). The old Portland machine Is seeking to destroy the direct -primary law and defeat election of senators bv the direct vote of the people. To do this It must I nave tne organisation of the legisla ture. t . i , To secure the organisation of the legis lature it Is asking that all members elect ed as Republicans go Into a secret caucus and thus give a chance for corrupt in fluences to prevail In the organisation of both houses of the legislature. Everybody should know that the old corrupt Portland political machine wants power solely for plunder, wants the legislature organised ' for purposes of graft and to defeat reforms and undo alP that has been . accomplished for purer. poi Itlcs In Oregon, The-antl-machlne elements in Oregon have s majority In both houses of the legislature and - should- not betray rthe people by handing over the organisation to the, machine. r- v Yet the agents of the machine have time and money to travel all over the state and solicit member of the legis lature to carry out the machine pro 'FEMININE; A Vocation Bureau, i c T HOSE of you : who heard Miss ' Emily GDbert'a address at tho annual meetiag of the Consum ers' League will remember that . i , .she dealt in part with the work of the college settlement In New York, " in 'Investigating the occupations of the girls who finish the grade school o.- . as-far as they haver time to go ana who are then obliged to find some kind of occupation whereby they may earn a living. As their parents are poor.it la not possible for them to obtain a better education and, so be fitted to undertake more 'remunerative, work; they must lust drift from one Job to another without continuity or plan. - You will remember that she empha sised, particularly the entire absence tit ' any sort of connection between their various employments and also the lack of education .or training In industrial pursuits. She spoke of the girl who had successively held positions ( if mem ory serves) as cash girl In a store, aa paster of labels on bottles, and then at sewing buckles on belts. No progres sion,' you see, and nothing learned which would be or hem in any otner : em ployment. A thoughtful Investigation, such mm r the college settlement la making, la nec- eaanriir tne rirsi tiling; iiiwi-inaie win be evolved some plan by which these) flrls can find an occupation for which, hey are fitted and which they can do with real liking. And that is the essential beginning of any creditable or valuable work in the world. . In a number of the Outlook some two months ago there was an Interesting ar ticle along tnese tinea, a aescripuon or a novel movement in Boston which, crystallised into a vocation bureau. Its purpose is to aid young men and young women, auch as these. In choosing a vocation and In nrenarlnr for It. The bureau renders Its service free of charge and Its list of trustees Includes the namea of many of the men and wome.n who are best known in the various char itable and philanthropic enterprises of that city. mat seemingly enaiess ana least ap preciated of pursuits, the gathering of statistics, has been one of the chief businesses of this vocation bureau, for of course it is necessary in order to lve advice as to an occupation, to ave at hand the most complete knowl edge as to the growth or decline of that business, us reason lox oeing. ana tne causes, industrial or .commercial, or f eographlc, or political, which may ar ect the business In any particular field. But the gathering or data, important aa Jt is, is not the only feature which commends the vocation bureau. More human and vital la its effort to give personal advice to every Individual man. woman; boy or girl, who is in need of help in tho matter of selecting a voca tion or learning how to fill it. The story is told or a Doy wno was bootblack but who had talent for drawing. The councellor of the voca tion bureau advised him to bring In some or nis SKeicnes, ana rauno tnem good. He was advised to study lettering and tnen to try to get a piace in a eign shop. This he did In a 'few weeks, anil Instead of blacking boots found himself on the wav to do the thine he liked to do and in which he could give satisfac tion, in wnicn, moreover, im wuuiu bq vftnee steadily to good wages and wider education. These things are distinctly worth while. It ia the greatest of pities, with all the work that there Is to do In the world, that so many people are heart sick, or at least ill at ease, In the line of work Into which they have drifted. Only In a most highly organlxea ;8tate of, society, of course, would it be pos- slbleno establish an agency, ror giving people .advice as to what kind of work they are fitted for and how to sjet that work. Yet that society at large would be the better for such an adjusting, is all too evident. Have many of us round tne aeauy right work for us? Have we attained to that happy state of society of which William Morris and his coterie dreamed, .when each man's heart should be In the work that he was doing, and In which he felt himself to be especially neeoea, tne rignt man in tne right place? Not many. How manv a man Is spending his la bors over the routine of office business whose heart Is sore with longing ftf woman teaches scnooi wnen sne wants to .sing, or washes clothes when fhe Is fitted, to do careful clerical work, be cause the way did not open for her to get Into the kind of work that she wanted to do? We da a lot of adjusting, or course. Fortunately that trait Is Inherent in the human, since from the earliest history of functioning life, the law has been adjustment or death. But if instead or adjusting we coum i the thing w want to do -what a load lifted, what a coming out Into the sunshine, what a wiping of weary fur rows from 1 heavy brows. Just to be ble to do the thing we want to ao. wnild be enough of happiness, wouldn't it? t et . A Thanksgiving Game. 8 A QUIET little game after the A hearty dinner give this spelling test to the young people. It sounds easy, but It Is also easy to make mistakes. Let someone read and the rest write: Antlntous, a disappointed, deelccated physicist, was peeling potatoes in an -embarrassing and harassing way. Hla idiosyncrasy and privilege was to eat mavonnalse and mussels while rtBV Ing at fhe Pleiades and seizing people s tricycles and velocipedes. He was an erring teetotaler, and had been on a picayune Jamboree. He rode a palfrey stallion and carried, a salable papier-' mache bouquet of aaer. phlox, mullein, chrysanthemums, rhododendrons, fuch sias and nasturtiums. He wore a Bthyl's resplendent tur quoise paraphernalia, an ormulu yash mak and astrakhan chaparejos. He drank crystalltsable and disagreeable curacao Juleps, through a sieve. He stole some moneys and hid them under a peddler's mahogany bedstead and mat tress. Like a fiend in an ecstasy of gaiety. I rushed after him into the nmelstrom, or melee, and held him as In a vise. I could not fees him. however, and he addressed me, with autocracy. In the following Imbecile words hlch sounded like a soliloquy or a superseding paean on an oboe: "You are ratable luna-moth; a " salaaming ylsler; an equinoctial cory phee and . an isosceles daguerreotype." From the October Bookman. ft. ' M R Simple Plum J'udding. ' 0 NE cup grated carrot, one cup grated potato, one Cup seeded raisins, one cup sugar, one cup flour, one half cup of - chopped suet, - one teaspoonful cinnamon, one half teaspoonful , cloves, one half grated nutmeg, one foiirth tea spoon .salt, one half teaspoon? bicarbo nate of soda. Steam three hours in cups, and serve with hard ainuc. ft 'ft, R Inexpensive Pound Cake. . A" DD one cup of butter to one and one half cups of flour, one and. one half cups of sugar and one half teaspoonful of baking powder. Beat butter and flour to a cream. Beat four : ggs and sugar light'; mix all together and add the baking powder. Bake In a tube pan in a moderate oven 45 minutes. : ft ft r The Daily Menn, ;:i .i. : - "BREAKFAST. Cracked Wheat with Cream. ; . . - , Bnked Apples. Soft Boiled Egs. Coffee. - - LUNCHEON. -Kippered Herring. . Waldorf Salad, Graham Oemi, Cranberry Sauce. Cocoev ' -. DINNER. - y - Clnm Broth.- Escallop of Turkey ' Glaxed Sweet potatoes. Cauliflower.! - .Celery Salad. ' " J ; -.Pumpkin Tie. Cheese. Black Coffe r
