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CHAMBERIjAIN
GOVERNOR CHAMBERLAIN left
this morning for Washington.
He is to attend the Rivers and
Harbors conventlen, and the
convention for the; conservation . of
our national ; resources... The honor
has fallen to him to speak for the
governors at the latter convention.
His addresh will be delivered from
the same platform with that of
President-elect '.Taft and President
Roosevelt," The' Invitation Is a rec
ognition at Oregon and Oregon peo
ple through their governor, and is
both a distinction and a compliment
for them It is at the same tlme a
distinct recognition of Governor
Chamberlain himself as one of the
national figures of the country.
. The whole incident Is one that the
people of Oregon will applaud. It
puts their state and puts .them on
the map of the United ' States, It
delicately acknowledges Oregon, one
of the outposts of the republic and
one that has been seldom recognized.
as a factor In national councils.. It
acknowledges' her and her people as
a star on the flag. .It is largely due
to the personal favor in which Ore
gon's widely known and widely, pop
, ular - governor is held among na
lional figures " at Washington. It
foreshadows the Influence he" will
command and. the usefulness he -will
display as a member of the Oregon
delegation? at Washington. , . His
.matchless record as governor and
the splendid appreciation with which
the people have attested. If, together
with his own personal qualities have
: borne valuable fruitage, happy alike
for Oregon- and for the people of
Oregon., To no man In state annals
has it been given to place Oregon ao
much In the public eye.
THE ONE IMPORTANT ISSUE
t T IS Intimated or insinuated that
iall Republican ' members of the
legislature should go into caucus
and act together as such, ignor
ing Statement No. l as something
not worth noticing, and that unless
this Is done the principle Involved in
t hat Statement will disrupt the party
and supersede Its '.'principles," what
' ever they may be.' "Fidelity to "the
Holy Statement is viewed with con
tempt and scorn, as something of in
finitesimal Importance beside fidel
ity to party that is, to a few party
leaders, would-be bosses,, self-seeking
politicians and rejected office
seekers." -
But fidelity to the people , who
elected a majority of Statement No.
1 members, and elected - them be
cause they were Statement No. 1
candidates, is the first considera
tion,: the first duty, ..for this was the
maln, indeed the sole issue, in the
ca mpalgn, and is . the only , political
Issue before the v legislature. All
other business is wholly non-politi
cal. But In this matter the people
of Oregon have very distinctly, em
phatically and unmistakably de
clared that" senators must be In ef
fect elected by'the people, and a ma
jority of the legislature have agreed
to that proposition. - Since there Is
opposition to this it is the duty of
the members so pledged to see to it
that the people's will be done, nd
if necessary to organize for that pur
pose, vs netner aomg so win , dis
rupt the party or not Is not a mat
ter to be considered by absolutely
pledged men, but, as a matter of al
. most certain' factr failure to bey
the people in this matter would dis
rupt the party more surely and wide
ly than obedience to them would.
Oregon is getting to be a ; state
where the people rather than a few
1 ollticians rule. , . . : ?r
This bring the oply political Is-
sue it will be proper and may be
t;- rpft.ary for the Statement No. 1
1 1 v? -ivi,
fr "' fix '"cteSa"9
members -to organize and for the
purpose In hand control both houses.
as they can. If they : are to keep
their pledge, and i are sincere and
firm In that purpose, they cannot
well pursue any other course, since
the opponents of election of sena
tors by the people are making every
possible effort to organize the legis
lature. ; A great, vital principle la
Involved, of Incomparably . greater
Importance than the election of any
particular man or ; the success of
either party and It: is the ' high
duty of ( every .member, pledged ' to
that principle to, do- everything In
his power to uphold, establish and
maintain It, ', 'i C;..,--'
CRIMIXALITIT r AMONG JEWS
Trt Itwi wortn American neyj.ew
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sioner Bingham of New York city
published an article in which he
asserted, : though " incidentally, '; that
there was. more criminality among
the Jews of that city than among
otherpeople.' '.This aroused the In
dignation of Jewish organizations.
and they Investigated the matter and
produced facts which caused Bing
ham to publish -a full retraction of
his former statement, . He, explains
that his purpose was not to inquire
Into . the race or religion of people
charged with criminality, but only
to make a plea for a secret service
fund. He wished , to Impress the
fact that the authorities bad to deal
with a great number of foreigners,
and that a knowledge of racial cus
toms and manners is essential. It
seems the figures he used were mis
leading, because referring to the pro
portion of Jewish boys In the House
of Refuge only, where nearly all the
youthful Jewish misdemeanants are
sent, and these are mostly the chil
dren of the poorer and more ignorant
Jewish immigrants, whereas the
comparison should have included the
occupants of all ; such institutions.
Hence Mr. Bingham says: "I with
draw the statements challenged,
frankly Mind ; without reserve."
Mr. ; Bingham's statement In the
North American" .Review attracted
wide and curious attention, and was
not credited by many, because it is
a matter of common knowledge that
there are no more law abiding' and
well behaved, people In the country
than Jews. ? The adults among them.
If we except V portion bt the pawn
brokersaeldom Jvlolate any of the
laws, and their children are usually
well governed. In a great city and
immigration port like New York,
where there are a million Jews, and
a large fraction of them uneducated
immigrants, there must of course be
considerable delinquency among
them, but even the "children of the
Ghetto" will compare favorably with
children and youth of other people
In similar circumstances.
A COLOSSAL FOLLY
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T IS 4he , announced purpose o:
Governor Chamberlain to recom-
5 mend to the legislature the en
actment of a stringent law with
respect to concealed weapons. The
murder of Ralph Fisher is an elo
quent appeal for such a law; The
reports of murderous pistols around
us almost every day In the week
herald the need of such a law. The
multiplying V victims, the grief
stricken families and bereaved jchil-
dren are living testimonials of the
Importance of such a law. In the
midst of the carnage and mourning it
is the business of the state to know
what men walk about armed nd
why they are armed. It is the busi
ness of the state to know whether
the newly purchased revolver Is to
be used for the murder of some use
ful citizen. If society Is to be an
armed camp with every man a walk
ing arsenal, the state should make
the fact public so all may be warned.
We , pass laws to keep, the peace,
but put a loaded revolver into the
hand of every lawbreaker sp he will
be nerved to pillage and rob, We
boast of our protection to society
and make mockery of it by arming
the vicious for our own destruction.
We preach Christ crucified to the
orderly and load up the malevolent
with cartridges : and the latest au
tomatics. We legislate against the
tobacco habit, the liquor habit and
the gambling habit, but lend every
encouragement to the gun habit.
In civilized life the revolver has
seldom saved a threatened life, but
has slain thousands. It" has rarely
delivered a life from danger, but
has surrounded It with a million
perils in gaping pistol muzzles. The
whole business : Is a monumental
folly and there : Is crying needl for
the legislature, for the officers and
for public sentiment to deal most
vigorously with it. If in doubt
about it let the doubter go to the
bier of Ralph Fisher and - contem
plate. THE MYSTERY OF A MURDER
O THE normal man the man
with a "heart,'" a conscience,
some sympathy in his nature
: such a creature as James A.
Finch, one who could commit such
a murder on such an excuse, is an
inexplicable curiosity. For is it pos
sible that any one could thus delib
erately prepare to murder a clean,
upright ; young "man ' like Ralph
Usher without thinking of bis in
tended, victim's young wife and
baby? And it must be the hand of
horribly, mysteriously depraved
md desperate soul that would not
be stayed at that thought. Fisher
himself had really done Finch no
wrong; only Finch v had wronged
Finch; but even if he thought Fisher
deserved death at bis , hand, how
could he, how could any man, any
rational being but a moral monster,
so wound and wrong and afflict and
torture and make desolate that inno
cent young woman; how could he
orphan , that - cooing child? The
normal : man in this age , cannot
fathom the mystery of such demon
iacal cruelty. - r .
" If Finch had rendered himself
temporarily an unreasoning wild
beast of - slaughter, forgetful of
everything bat revenge for fancied
wrong, and has since emerged from
that frenzy, has become; a ..normal
man? or anywhere nearly bo, what
tortures he must suffer as he thinks
of his deed and its consequences, noi
only of the life snuffed out, that can
not be - restored, but pf , the sorrow
and .pain, beyond any description
beyond the imagination of any who
have not had a-like experience, of
that young widowed mother. , "How
could any man do It?" she walled.
Indeed,"how could any man do It?
It is one of, those tragedies that may
well cause' men to .tremble at the
criminal' capabilities of. human- na
ture, of this, that or the other per
son whom we may know without
ever suspecting what , unaroused
demon is sleeping and somehow be
ing nourished in his soul.
Let no ( remark herein be con
strued as intimating that this mur
derer was irresponsibly insane or as
crediting for a moment his conceit
of forgetf ulness. It was a deliber
ate, willful, malicious, Inexcusable
murder, and as such ought to be
punished, and that promptly.
PROGRESS OF RECLAMATION
rHB : CHIEF, commissary office
for the various government ir-
fixation projects is located in
Chicago and it is said that the
supplies purchased In that city for
shipment to the - scenes of these
projects average $2,000 a day the
year through. This is of itself a
striking piece of evidence of the
magnitude of the work being car
rled on. '
The present reclamation law was
passed June 17, 1902, and as It took
several years to carry on Investiga
tions in the field and acquire a fund,
It appears that pretty satisfactory
progress has been made. Work is
now being carried on in 29 different
places, byjvhicb it is estimated that
more than 2,000,000 acres will be
reclaimed, at an estimated cost of
$46,000,000, or about f 23 an acre
on an average. , As the land was in
most cases practically a desert, or at
best was but slightly valuable , as
stock range, while under irrigation
it will become worth from $100 to
$1,000 an acre, it is clear that this
was one of the best laws ever passed.
The government will eventually get
all Its money back and thousands of
new homes will have been created.
As the average reclaimed farm is 40
acres, the 2,0000 acres already
under process or reclamation will
provide . homes for 60,000 families,
or, allowing five persons to a fam
fly, 250,000 people. It has been es
tlmated that there are 100,000,000
acres susceptible of reclamation, and
u so tnis, wnen tne work years
hence is fully accomplished, will af
ford homes for 12,500,000 people.
The possibilities of irrigation, both
government and private, are beyond
computation or estimation. Not only
will the government continue this
work for years to come, but thou
sands and tens of thousands of pri
yate land owners are realizing as
never nefore the benefits of irrlga
tion. Right here In the Willamette
valley, a reputedly rainy region, we
shall , see Irrigation spreading year
by year,, and in southern and east
ern Oregon it will give thousands
new homes and vastly increase the
total products of the state.
On farms where Irrigation Vs pos
sible and is resorted to understand
ing, crops never fail, are never even
short. And crops that are always
in demand at good prices can be
raised. There was an old song about
"The Independent Farmer," but the
farmer on irrigated land is the most
independent of his tribe. He smiles
at drouth; it only raises the prices
of his products.
When the long history of Theo
dore Roosevelt's -administration and
public services shall be written,
probably the thing for which he will
be given most credit will be his ele
vation of the standard of civic right
eousness, but next to that and the
most beneficent, and useful to this
and future generations of any Bingle
act or policy, will be, we think, his
persistent and zealous advocacy of
this reclamation law. Many others
are Indeed entitled to much credit
for their advocacy and support of It,
but It needed Roosevelt's help, and
this was one good law that, owing,
perhaps, to his stand In its favor,
Cannon and his coterie could not de
teat. The few pol it leans or near-politicians
who started out to secure mon
ster petitions of Republicans asking
Statement No. 1 members of the leg
islature to violate their pledge re
garding the senatorshlp seem to have
undertaken a very difficult and even
an impossible job. Comparatively
few Republicans will sign any such
disgraceful and insulting petition.
! Governor 'Chamberlain will be a
notable figure In the senate because
he was elected or "hosen" by a
legislature five sixths of which are
Republicans while he is not, and it
will be an entirely honorable distinc
tion for him.' He will "be a living,
active proof that "the people - do
rule", in Oregon. s But if the legis
lature should "chooser any one else.
he would alBo'be a notable figure,
but for a very different reason and
in a different sense, and he would be
viewed in a far less favorable light,
k Japanese statesmen are reputed to
be very ''foxy," but we can never
theless trust any; treaty making with
them to our; secretary of state, , If
they get the best of him they win
have done some diplomacy worth
crowing over. ; . , : ,
' It is in order to suggest to Sena
tor Fulton that he recall to memory
that familiar couplet of Burns:
"O wad some power the glftle gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us."
Letters From the People
rfrra to Tha Journal fboDld ba wrlttaa of
u alda of tba papac ouiy, ana aooma do w
tompaalcd by tba aame and addrooa of tb
wrltar. Tba nam will sot ho aad tf tba
writer ka tiiat It bo witbbeld. Tba JournaJ
w iut . h. nnitmtMil . . ludoralna tha fiawa
or atatemanta of eorraapondenta. Lattera aboold
ba mad aa brlaf a poaalbia. Mnoaa w iu
their lattara rcturaed when uot Bm4 ahomld In
ekiaa rxxtao. " " -
. CorraaDOGdoBts ara sottflfrA that lettara a
eaullot Doo worda In length may. at tha aia
cretliw of tbo editor, ba cut down to that limit.
Says Teachers Are Not Overpaid.
Portland, Nov. ?. To th Editor of
Tho Journal In reoly to a commun-J
Icatlon of . November 22, entitled "Why
Better Pay tor Teacher?" may I
please speak from a teachers point
of view?
First Ona and all ara not equally
entitled to a flat raise, any more than
is every union man entitled to the
same raise or wages; but how are you
amine- to decide? Teachera at least are
all required to pass a satisfactory1 ex
amination, and r their , aDiiuy in mo
tphonlroom la too often Judged by .pre
judiced reports brought home by the
children, for the most popular teacner
is the ona who amuses, not the one
who instructs the child. Better that
one should receive a dollar ahe did not
earn than that one should bo under
paid for akilled T and expensive 1 labor.
Second-rA raise will most assuroaiy
be the means of a propofjtional advance
In the efficiency of the teacners. or
of all classes, teachers rank high in
appreciation - and conscientiousness.
As a rule teachers do not nve as
easily through the summer aa the un
professional may suppose. ?;Durlng last
July and AuguBt, teacners couia navo
been found working , In department
stores, waiting- tables In hotels and res
taurants, doing clerical work for busi
ness houses, giving private instruction
for a few dollars, " attending summer
school or college, or staying at home
and . doing the housework In order to
give the mother & needed rest.
The .. teacher wno was rortunate
enough -to -travel was viewed with 'awe
and envy' by the rest. -. Tha average
wages afoonslr1arahly-belo'ir i.tbe.. re
ported amount and only a part Is raised
by taxation. . . ' '
The six hours a day story snows tne
distant view of a layman in regard to
the houra spent by a real live teacher
In the discharge of her duties. There
are -stack of written -work and exam
ination papers to correct, reports to oe
carefully made out,' meetings to Be at
tended, individual, help to be given to
alow pupils, - previous preparation to
be made for presentation-of work and
all this attended to outside of the
loudly vaunted six hour schedule.
By way of explanation, allow me,
please, to cast aside the veil of one
Portland teacher's life and glva you a
fleettng glimpse of her "good tlnie."
This ,1s her tenth year in the profes
sion. .She is engaged In active serv
ice from S:30 a. m. until 4 p. m. in
structing 60 pupils In reading, writing.
arithmetic, grammar, geography, his
tory, physiology, spelling, drawing,
music, painting, sewing, , calisthenics
and. composition. She keeps attend
ance, deportment and scholarship re
ports, attends grade meetings, teach
ers' meetings and summer . school
classes. t
She keeps house for thres persons.
and attends night school In order to
better qualify herself for her' position.
She' is supporting herself and sending
& younger sister to business college.
All this on ITS a month for 10
months in a year. All ner extra money
she Is using to pay olTf an old debt.
Of all my extensive acquaintance with,
teachers, there are. ortly a very few
who have only' themselves to care for.
Several times - lately I have been
overcharged In one way Or another and
assured,- "Oh, you can pay more, you
are getting good wages," or "Teachers
get their money easily." IJttle do they
think what a teacher's education means,
tha money for books and tuition, the
long days and nights of - ceaseless
study, tha slowly acquiring mental
power and ability of controlling our
selves and others The most difficult
pupils 'w' have to instruct and control
are those coming from homes in which
a teachers work Is lightly considered
love my chosen profession - and am
trying to. do my duty. A TEACHER.
Jefferson de Angells' Birthday,'
Jefferson De Angelis, the well known
comedian, was born In San Francisco
November SO, 1859. of Jewish parent
age. Both his father ana motner were
players. Ha received a common school
education and -made his first stage ap
pearance when but a child. In 1871 he
and his sister' Saran began s tour on
their own account In two or three lit
tle sketches, worklno- their way east
ward from San Vranclsco, ; Next they
went to Australia, where they failed to
reap the harvest of dollars they had
expected. - Mors successful financially
was their tour that followed in India
and. South Africa, . The comedian fi
nally returned, to San Francisco, but
it was a long time before he won his
way to fame. With the McCaull Opera
company he played for , thres years.
principally In the Gilbert and Sullivan
operas, then at tha height of their pop
ularity. In 1890 he became principal
comedian at the New Tork Casino,
where he remained three years, partici
pating in all the auccessfspf that play
house. In more recentyears he has
headed his own company and has ap
peared successfully in numerous comic
operas.'. ; ..,-. ";;...
This Date In History. Z
1819 Cyrus W. Field, projector of
the ocean telegraph, born in Stock-
bridge, Mass. Died at Ardsley. N. T,
July 12. 1892.
1852 Funeral celebration in Boston
for Daniel Webster. '
1861 Jefferson Davis elected presi
dent of - ths . Confederats t States of
America. .- '- ' '
1864 Confederate troops victorious
at the batle of Honey Hill, 8. C.
. 1878 George Henry Lewes, husband
of George Eliot, died. Born April 18,
1817. : - . . ;'.
1900 ftoyal "'Canadian troops" re
viewed at Windsor by Queen Victoria.
" 1903 Academy of Music in Brooklyn
destroyed by fire. ,
1906 Celebration in - New Tork of
the two hundred and fiftieth ' 'annlver
sary of tha landing
bress in America.
of; the first , He-
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
December; . congress;' Christmas.
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Andrew Carnegie is 71. and not poor
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Thin is a fine time to buy Christmas
presents, . -
Don't forget now; ask for Oregon
made, goods.
That's right Judge; fine the gun car
riers the limit.
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The tariff has plenty of friends, the
consumers few.
s. o ., a t .,
In S week' that rniintrv will tm.
congress on Its hands.
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About 600 turkevs were conmimari In
Salem Thanksgiving day.
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Seven Ions months vat hefnra - Pnrl.
land can get a new council.
a a . - ,
Everv town that hum trleif It Viaa
found out that good paving pays.
The president's laat messasre ex
pected to be a terror, la point of length.
The best time to bur a ThanknsHvlnv
or Christmas turkey is the day after.
Helr on euttlnar tin the hl farm
into small ones. Thus cornea develnn-
ment.
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Burton Is the fitter man fnr aenntnr
from Ohio, but Brother, Charles has
mors money.
Eugene is causlns other towns tri alt
up una take notice; and mora, to be
stir themselves. ,.
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It is very ImDrobahle. if nosslhle. that
Senators Piatt. Foraker. Ankeny . and
r uiiou wm oe reelected. . . .
Between baseball., f ootbalL ' vacations
and holidays, young men at college
can find but little time to study.
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Various reports Indicate that there is
a good deal of underground and dam
trouble In digging the Panama canal.
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The camnalarn was arnnrl to Kern: who
wouldn't rather- be a senator . "for six
iears , than v vies president for four?
The latest list of reformed words has
debt and doubt spelled det and dout.
This is well: make such words aa ahort
as possible. '
The American Tobacco comtmnv hav
ing rwn found guilty, should It not be
compelled to smoke some of the worst
of its cigars?
. A Texas woman has named her rs,
cently arrived triplets Wlljiam Jennings
and Bryan. v Thsy can vote for Bryan
when he runs In 1932.
A
5 A New Tork woman who smoked SI
pipe for 78 years is dead at the age of
103. She can scarcely be pointed to
as a warning to srriokers,
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.The Outlook: announces that Mr,
Roosevelt's contributions will be neces
sarily restricted in length and fre
quency." Dr. Abbott would better not
make too positive promises about that.
1 PAMQUS GEMS QF PROSE
"Ulysses S. GrsntBy Ttiomas Ventworth Hjg$mon
(From an oration at the city's off!
clal commemorative exercises in Union
halT. Cambridge. August 8. 3 885.)
He was great, in the first place,
through the mere scale of his work.
His number of troops, the vast area of
his operations, surpassed what the
world had before seen. When he took
16,000 prisoners at Fort Donelson, the
capture was three times as large as
when Burgoyne surrendered, - in the
only American battle thought Important
enough to be mentioned by Sir Edward
Creasy in his "Fifteen Decisive Bat
tles of the WorTd." When, on July 4.
1863, he took Vicksburg, he received
what was then claimed to be the greet
est capture of men and armament since
the invention of gunpowder, and par
haps since the beginning of recorded
history. He captured IS generals, 81,600
soldiers and 172 cannon. For vic
tories, lens than this Julius Caesar was
made.: dictator for 10 years, and his
status- was carried in processions with
those of the immortal prods. Caesar at
Pharsalla took but 24,000 prisoners; Na
poleon at Ulm 23,000: Hannibal at Can
nae, but 20,000. Tet these In Grant's
case were but special victories. How
great, then,, his power when st the head
of the armies of the United States!
Neither of these three great command
ers ever directed the movements of
1,000.000 men.
But mere numbers are a subordinate
matter. He surpassed his predecessors
also in the dignity of the object for
which he fought. The three great gen
erals of the world are usually enumer
atedfollowing Macaulay as being
Caesar, Cromwell and Napoleon, Two of
these fought in wars of mere conquest,
and the contests of the third were
marred ' by a gloomy fanaticism, ' by
eruelty and by . selfishness. General
Grant fought to restore a nation, that
nation being ths hops of the world. And
he restored It His work was as com
plete as It was Important. Caesar died
by violence; Napoleon died defeated:
Cromwell's work crumbled to pieces
when his hand - was cold. Grant's ca
reer : triumphed . in its ending; it is at
its height today. r . ; ! r
When ws come . to- the mere- execu
tive qualities involved In fighting we
find that Grant habitually combined In
action two things.. rarely brought to
getherquickness - and perseverance.
That could be said of him which Mal
colm McLeod said of Charles Edward,
ths Pretender:, "He is the bravest man,
not to be rash, and the moat cautious
man, not to be a coward, that I ever
saw. He did not have the visible and
conspicuous dash of Sherman or Sheri
dan; he was rathe.' the kind , of man
whom they needed to have behind them.
But in quickness of apprehension and
action, where this quality was needed,
he was not their inferior, if they were
even his equals. He owed to it his
first conspicuous victory at Fort Don
elson.' Looking at ths knapsacks of the
slain enemy he discovered that they held
three days' rations, and knew, therefore.
What a Railroad Is Doing.
Figures compiled by the forestry de
partment of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company show that 826,000 trees were
planted upon the corporation's lands
during the current year. ' This number
makes a total of 2,425,000 trees planted
by the company since it undertook tree
planting upon sn, extensive and syste
matic, acale. " - i.,
- With the Pennsylvania Railroad com
pany tree planting is sn economic prob
lem. Wooden crosstles for railroad
building are becoming exceedingly ex
pensive by reason of the rapidly dimin
ishing supply, and, in anticipation of
the demand for wooden- erossttes, 3S -or
40 years hence. If no ' substitute shall
bs found, the corporation will have its
own timber lands. ; . . .
Owing , to the advancement of Euro
pean forestry methods, the young trees
NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGOX SIDELIGHTS.
A man near Bandon
acres to cranberries.
-. a
rill plant IS
A- young married people's club has
Deen organized at i no iJtuies.
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The Bandon harbor is getting bettjr
all the time, says tne Kecoraer.
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The ' Lakevlew Examiner urges the
election of . ex-Judge H. I lienaon to
the senate. - ' t ; t
All the apples raised by the Lane
countr iruiigrowers nave neen sota
and they have many orders for more,
An Arlington blacksmith ' wilt visit
his old home In Norway and then will
go on around the world, being gone six
montiis. . :, .
a a
' ; There are indications, says ths Bend
Bulletin, that the nattonal reclamation
service Is contemplating a Dig irriga
tion project in Crook county,
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During the storm of last week s tree
blew down and fell on a house on the
south fork of Coos river, crushing It
and killing, two men nnstanuy.
Mora Observer: The Portland Journal
has a column editorial about A Tale
of Three Pigs. Think of It; whoever
before heard of Three figs witn nnt
One Tail 7 .; a-:- . v- .
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A man near Moro has sold 1400 worth
of hogs off his farm this season, al
most net profit from 15 acres of hog
pasture, sown as such, and the waste of
ma - run oi tne iarm.
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A Brooks' man has bought a willow
center table that is leafless at present,
but may not be so long.- - Although the
table was painted four or five little
sprigs are growing from the wood.
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Frank Davey's Harney County, News:
Able to .go to the polls and vote. The
election of Judge Taft as president.
His own election as grandpa.: Three
events in one week calling for personal
rejoicing on the part of the editor.
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A man near Central Point shipped 23
fine turkeys last week. The grasshop
pers, which have amounted to pest in
that-sectlon for several years, are ideal
turkey food and the popular holiday
birds waxed big. and fat out there the
past season.
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Many of the Indians of the Silets,
who have received their allotments of
land on the reservation, are disposing
of the same at reasonable prices. The
land is extremely fertile, and within a
short time the Indians will have no
land. Many white farmers are already
residents of the Rlleti. living on land
bought from the Indians.
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' Four brothers and their one sister,
the averase age being 78 years, met
Wednesday In Pendleton, being together
for the first time in 87 years. They
were members of the Bentley family,
among the pioneers of Umatilla county.
It Includes J. D. Bentley, aged 83, of
Modesto. Cat; G. W. Bentley of Adams,
aged 74; R- H. -Bentley of Pendletorv
aged 76: Mrs. Mary McCOrmmach. Pen
dleton, aged 73, and the baby. Colonel.
John M. Bentley of Pendleton, who Is
7.
that they were trying to get away. Un
der thin stimulus lafTenewed the at
tack and ths day was wpn. ; . .
Moreover, it is to be flotlced that he
was. in all his action as arcommartder,
essentially original a man - of initia
tive," not of routine. He was singularly
free from ths habit of. depending on
others,
And to crown all these qualities was
added one more, that of personal mod
esty. When, at Hamburg, Germany, he
was toasted as "Tho man who had
saved the nation," he replied, "What
saved the union was ths coming for
ward of ths young men of the coun
try," He put down the pride of the
German officers, the most self-sufficient
military aristocracy of ths world,
by quietly disclaiming ths assumption
of. being a soldier at all. He said to
Bismarck: "I am more a farmer than a
soldier. I take little or no interest in
military affairs, and, though I entered
the army 36 years sgo, and have been
in two wars the Mexican as s young
nontenant and later (mark tho ex
quisite moderation of that "and later.')
I never went into the army without
regret, and never retired without pleasure."-.:
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He told Bismarck, as ws have seen,
that he never entered on a war without
regret or retired from it without pleas
ure, . But he was destined to enter on
Just one -mrye campaign against pain
and disease combined with sudden pov
erty, It was a formidable coalition. It
Is sometimes said that it is easier to
die well than to live well; but it is
harder than either to grow old. know
ing that one's great period of action
Is past, and weighed down with the
double weight of hopeless financial
failure and irremediable bodily pain.
Either bankrutpcy or physical torture
has by itself crushed many a man mor
ally and mentaHy: but Grant's greatest
campaign was when he resisted them
both. Upon such a campaign as this he
might well, as he said, shrink from
entering: but having been obliged to
enter upon It, he was still Grant.:
It has been already said that ths su
preme generals of the world were Cae
sar. Cromwell and Napoleon. Grant was
behind all three." of these In variety of
cultivation and in many of the qualities
that mass a man s . biography pictur
esque and fascinating. He may be said
to havs seemed s little prosaio, com
pared with any one of these. But in
moral qualities he was above them all;
more truthful, mors simple, more hu
mans. He fell short of Washington In
this, that he was not equally great In
war and statesmanship; hut his quali
ties were within reach ,of all; his very
defects were within reach of all; and
he will loner bo with Washington and
Lincoln : ths typical American ; in the
public eyes It is this , typical quality
after all ; thst is most valuable. - His
fame rests upon ths broadest and sur
est of all pedestals, as broad as com
mon humanity. He seems greatest be
cause hs was no detached or ideal hero,
but simply ths -representative of us all.
could be purchased abroad more cheap
ly than in America,- and' the corporation
Imported 209,000 seedlings. In addition,
26 bushels ot acorns and nuts. 860 bush
els of seeds of hardwood trees snd 76
pounds of seeds of coniferous trees were
planted. - V ;..!:; W f u
'Trees not adaptable to timber produc
tion are- being grown for the improve
ment of the landscape, as it is pro
posed by ths officers of the corporation
to ornament all, station grounds and un
occupied lands.' , v f . ;'-v,--; I'
ll is believed that ths -conservative
and scientific tree planting and forestry
of the corporation, as conducted upon
lots and farmlands not- required for
other purposes, will be a valuable ob
ject lesson for farmers and lumbermen
and provide a practical Incentive to in
telligent : tree growing and forest de
velopment. - 1 .
The REALM
FEMININE;
Early Shopping.
O DO one's Christmas ; shopping
early, ' bo that one , may enjoy a
clear conscience when the holiday
week comes around, to spend no
money in ostentation, but to re. .
member with little kindnesses those to
whom the heart really turns at the
Christmas time; to make some one other
person who would not otherwise be
happy,, glad because of your kindness,
and to attune one's own heart to the "V
Joy of the season these are JJi firsjT
rules for making a merry Christmas. i
And it may be that the last of these
should be placed first, for if one's own'
heart is right, generally other things
will .work out , in acoordance.
; It is a distinguishing mark of our
modern Christmas observance, that we
are beginning to havs a conscience, not
only toward the few people who are
near to lis by ties of kinship or friend
ship, but toward other people whose
names we do-not knnw k
actions lnfluenos. it this alone were
. ,e the- contribution of the
twentieth century to civilisation, it
would not bs an uninteresting fact.
There has been ,.i,.ni..
on the part of the public in regard to
ones duty toward ones neighbors. We
have quite passed that stage for in- '
stance, where a man might with lm-
mli n?d ahU." amlly comfortably.
That state of mind which called a man
i,f?od? Mel because he did not trans
1. f.l.K8 code, ot ocial morality, no
matter how little his public acts might
bear investigation. Is no longer culti
vated. ..." - .
And equally la tha Ha v Mt -art,. .
T
woman could be called thoroughly a
li .yiL.wnlL' "h WM ,weet nd affable
to those whom she considered her equals
In the social scale, and visited with
snubs and conscious patronage those
J ..fortune . had favored , less than ' ,
hAJlMth'" m"r f making Christmas
bearable or unbearable to the armv of
shop girls, cash girls, , delivery and
vnTntrr; oys, lsone which goes be-
yond that Of OH' nmr
convenience: ; It becomes a
??' I ''V .- recognise.
-ifiL,aJ?i'Br du.ty neighborflne.s
thought moT sdvanced
.Just v a lady '.cannot be a lady if
she Is an insufferable snob, so she
cannot be a lady If she . Imposes on-
Kw...7r. 'i " uPpn ln woraers in
. ""V ivun hom she comes
In contact And fuat .
cannot be quite so unless he Is not
only kindly in his treatment of his
ib.ut. a,f thoughtful of those
ways his -needs in material
So, looking- at tr fmm i..
S I? .onlB"trned conscience,, we can
not but perceive that it is more than
a courtesy to do one s Christmas shop
ping early-.it is a matter of morals.
hnnrfrfa.", unbearable thought that
sell goods behind the counters should -
KLSL" thm h'1PP,n',8 and Joy It
lUZZl JVFISW'? bBck and - weary
limbs and throbbing heads. a great
pity if because many purehaaers would
ini2,J2 hlr- 'Hands they should
iVJ f,nnfCea,"lry tr",n and dlscom
rort upon other women whose hours of
work are already sufficiently long and
whose pay is not too large.
It reoulreaj oniv fc.ir- ... a.
celve that unless one goes early In the
iw- . .. ,'"v in ine -say; to
the retail shops In this city, ths buy
ing of Christmas gifts Is going to oe
s hardship instead of a pleasure. Al-i
readv there arat Indlratinn. k. u. -w.v.: (W
Ing wlir be heavy, the crowds unavoid- '?
able, and the wafting for change long
and tedious. All those who are not v
moved by reason of the duty they owe
the girl behind the counter, to do their
buying early, should consider that as
a. -matter of personal convenience it Is
ths only way to do , ' .
And then would It be amis to sug
gest to the heads of these same de
partment stores who employ the busv
women and girl clerks, that If tha
Christmas goods were to be had as
TV1 on ,Ih" ,a,,t f,w y be
fore Christmas, it would greatly facili
tate matters? So many shoppers ut
?df thlr buying because ther know
Ik e..mo"t, 8irable novelties and
uaniuni nine rememoranres will
not be shown -nntU ths crowds begin
to gather. v- '
Would it bs impertinent to suggest
that if the merchants would show ths
prfttt Christmassy things earlier it
would help the shoppers?
Pumpkin Tie.
H
ERE Is another Infallible reclps for
the pumpkin pie of tender mem
ories.
Choose a pumpkin which has a glossy
exterior and a meaty interior. : The
mall ones which are flat at the end.
are often the sweetest.
Do not peel It, tut cut into pieces.
Throw away the seeds and t the inner.
fihe.d Fa1 tnto a, large porcelain ket
tle and add s cupful of boiling water
F.hlB lM ST? " irom tlckinlOpiac,
ilow"y , back ot th tov to cook
th-'u PV1' or more are required
2 .inf U ,nt; proper condition. It
should be sweet, tender snd nearly dry.
Fu",of,Jthe ? akin snd rub through
s colander. If it seems watery, let U
drain over night. When it. Is ready to
bake Into pies measure the pulp, and to -
f,lfIl?c.,,i'0 U a,Iow teaspoon"
fill of salt, half a grated nutmeg, a ta
blespoon of mace, two teaspoons of vln- '
egar and a large cup at sugar. ;
Beat four egge and stir them into tha
pu i p. together with four cups of sweet
milk.. If you wish, add a hair a cup of
cream. Beat well and taste to see if
sweet enough. .
Turn into deep pie plates lined with
good pastry and bake three-quarters of
B.nKbourv Is done it win be a
rich golden brown and quite firm in th
center. j
Chicken .and Ham ' Tlmbales. '
MELT two tablespoons of butter..?
-blend in one tablespoon of flour; J
add one half cup of chicken stoofn
stir until thick and; smooth, add K
thirds of a cup of finely chopped cVL QO
.m mwA am. , I. . .... . . . - J
... vn. miiu m a cup ot Tini .
chopped ham, stir until bolllna. rem1 a
from the fire and ccol. When cold aStl
on,i-ha,t CUP of cream, fold , In ttit
stiffly beaten whites of two egga, tujn X
ntu uu.iereu vimoate moias, stand them
In 'a pan of hot water; cover with but
tered paper and bake 16 minutes in a
hot oven. Turn out and serve at once
with white sauce. -.. - '
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The Daily Meno. "
BREAKFAST
. Hominy with Cream.
Home Made Sausage. Graham Toast
- ' - Coffee. . ..
'XUNCHEON.
.Ragout of Mutton. . .
Scalloped Tomatoes. : . Prune Sauce. .
. . Ginger Cookies. Tea,
DINNER. '
uyster soup.
Broiled Mutton Chops.
H
aked Potatoes. "
Macaroni with Cheese,
Celeriac Salad
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Cranberry DumpUnga,
Foamy Sauc
Cheese, i Black Coffee,
Cranberry Dnmollngs-Make a surf''
biscuit dough, roll about half an Incli
thick, cut in squares, fill with raw cran.
berries, sweeten well, press the edges of
the .dough together. Bake, steam or
boll. - i. . ... i
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