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EDITOEMj EiQE OF WE JODENMj i i i ' .. ft - i i - THE JOURNAL ' AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPArKK. C. . IACKBON. .PoMiaBer ,nn Anadir mornlm t Tbe J "ST ; B(. flfte and TemhUf etreeta, rwuaiw. Bn tared t the fx-toffce "t Jor''"i,i'Ti, relaioa throuk U eUe ,e0,r, . mutter. .. All aenartaweta rearara b tbf aaaibera. leli the eperator the department T was. EtW Bid efflee. B-a44i Kt S3. rCBRIGN AOVKHTIS1NO BBPBE3ENTATIVB VrHrt.nd.rV.oJi.m1ii Spectl ArtTjrtUin Bronlc BnUdlu. 825 Fifth "". v Vork: 10O7-G8 Eorce BolIiUn. cnicesn. Snheerlnrfoa Terme by mn or t oy sddreef ni lb linltcd SUtea. Cintd or Mexico! .. . DAILY. On una I One mwntk. M SUNDAY. One nr..,,.....IS.60 On awnta.......! .25 DAILY AND SUNDAY. reer. IT AO I One Booth.. .....I .88 ff Circulation uanrntct TA Cr( tfcef Ate eircnlatna of tit. .. f vfeM 5er a txadktiaaim tmtnattii by tUT 1 Aditrthtr'i CtrtiStJ Circulation- Blue Book . . Outage Tint Paper bat prored by imreittqatioa that tbe ctrcultthm ncordt mm kept with cm mo? the circulation ttated with aoch mecaracy that adrtrtoert may rely on any (Utrnwotj of tame made.bj the publahert J sfl under the owaersltrp ana management 3 it control September t, 1908. V- A guilty conscience Is like j a whirlpool, drawing' In all J to Itself which would other wise pass It by. Fuller. THE REAL ISSUE T HE REAL issue in the senatorial controversy m not wno is 10 be the man that is to be sena tor. It Is - not a question 'of what is his name. It is not a ques tion of 'what is his party. The real issue Is' bigger than the man. It 7 .i 'k is bigger than any party. It Is a :? principle. . Men die and parties de- cay, but; a principle ls eternal. It f never changes. It Is the same yes . ter.day and tomorrow. A principle J . of this character is at stake in Ore J v-- gon. ' It Is one that has been contro- " verted and warred over since the i v beginning. It is one over .which !" rivers of blood have been shed and multitudes of men slain. It is the S time worn question of whether the " . many shall rule themselves, or whether they shall be ruled by , a j "Z few. It is' the question of whether the many- shall be masters, or i whether they shall be servants. J' As pteaented In Oregon, it is In '''a changed form, but is still the same old controversy .issue." In Oregon it ' takes . the form of whether the .choice of a senator, shall be dictated s-by mscrupal6us bosses, or . whether he shall be named by all the people, The bosses assert that-it should be j done by the few; the people insist that it should be made-by the many. This is the issue,. and it is all there lo of the issue. It is squarely pre- J ,l nented,. and the question is whether !' the bosses are to have their way, or whether the people are to have their way. .There is no otner interpreta tion that can be placed upon the present' discussion. Side issues may be raised, but they are not germane. Those who favor- popular selection of senators are on one side, and those who favor selection by bosses are on the other. There is absolute ly no chance of a misunderstanding. "The or knowethi his owner, and the ass his master's crib." ALAS, FOR PUBLIC ORDER 1 T HE MOB' spirit has been given encouragement in : Illinois. A jury has failed to convict one of the leaders of the Sprlng- m. field mob. The failure is disap t - pointing in that it was believed that ; here was a case with sufficient evl Jv dence and enough public sentiment back of it to raise a check against mob violence. The effect cannot be V:l otherwise than demoralizing. It is fjt practical demonstration to those who : V lead mobs that there is small retrl butive peril in their acts. It opens H the way for them to lead in another l sqene of -disorder, arson and murder whenever occasion again suggests a foray. It is the more lamentable in that this miscarriage of the law is In the conservative. state of, Illinois. It is a state in which the race problem is not nearly so aggravated as in the south. . The denouement is one to have been expected in Mississippi, because of the pent up racial feeling prevalent' there, but hardly to have ' been looked for in Illinois. - It means that the violent enter t1 prises that have been prevalent for i some years have left , their mark. f$ The Illinois citizenship has become affected and the refusal of ; the V't SpriDjrfield Jury to ; convict is the sequel. It is a blow at public or V der and Its fruitage will be disorder. It Is in a sense . alarming, because development of the mob spirit, in-, - creasing as It can through & long r process of years, could bring about conditions greatly to be feared. If mobs here and mobs there take the j into their own hands apd resort . to violence, arson and murder, if " ther be no restraining punishment ,' and the spirit more - and more ., spreads, and if with multiplying pop ulation, crowded cities and crowded lands the process of violence goea on developing, what will the ulti ma to be but eorae time an occasion wtrn'the whole country wlll'be in ' vy'vd in a.ruwlcss urri-tlng 6f whfth AN ANTI - i T IS acknowledged that some dif ficulties stand In the war of a repression of the gun habit, But that is no reason for inaction. If there were no obstacles to over come there would be no great car reers. It is often the . difficulties that must be conquered that make the ultimate worth while. A first step in dealing with the folly would seen! to btf a strict regu lation of the sale of firearms. Make the buyer. present a permit and re quire the dealer to report the sale to police authorities. The record might, sometimes be a means of ex plaining a murder. The requirement-might some time be a means Of preventing a murder. If so, it would be worth the trouble. The permit or license should be surrounded with rigid restrictions and its issuance be In the hands of responsible . authorities. Circuit judges,' who have constantly before them . examples of the folly of the gun habit, have been suggested as proper. , authority to pass upon whether or. not applicants should be permitted, to carry concealed weap ons. Perhaps it would be still bet ter to vest this authority in a single individual, as is done in Los Angeles and other cities, where the mayor is the only official who can give such a permit. v the late Springfield horror was the embryo? It is time for men to stay their hands. It is time for mobs to check their spirit of abandon. The exam ple is Intensely evil in its tendency. It is a menace already, overlarge. FIXCH AND INSANITY G AN ANY member of the Port land bar afford to enter a plea ' of Insanity in behalf of As sassin Finch? It is conceded that the murderer should hare a fair and impartial trial. That much the law contemplates and justice de mands. No more is required. No more should be attempted in the prosecution. No more should be essayed in the defense. Most pleas of insanity are bogus. In most the courts, the Jury and the community know them to be bogus. They are the favorite and the final resort of guilt. They are encour agement to murder, because they offer avenue for escape. . It is to that avenue that assassins often look before they buy a revolver and turn it on the victim. Fisher was murdered because he sought to purity the legal practice. Finch shot him in the back because Mr. ' Fisher In that laudable effort brought about the disbarment of Finch , . for unprofesslonalism, a charge to which Finch pleaded guilty. Finch sought revenge. He took revenge with a revolver and in a cowardly way. That was not a sign of insanity. It was evidence of very great passion, ungoverned tem per and a premeditated purpose Would It not be travesty on court practice to bring in a plea of in sanity, when motive, purpose and plan are so manifest? Since attempt to eliminate shyster practice from the profession was the pretext for Finch's act, ought not the trial, in order to vindicate the martyr to a splendid cause, be noth Ing.more nor nothing less than mere lv fair and Impartial? Is not as much as that due the profession and due society? Does not the time and occasion call for such a trial as Jus tice contemplates? Why introduce bogus issues In a case In which everything is perfectly plain? Is assassination a crime? A JOLLY1 YOUNG OLD MAN H' ERE'S TO Uncle Billy Brown. of Dallas. Not that he Is literally an uncle of ours, or even an acquaintance we wish he was but he is "ancle" to a multitude of people who admire him. Uncle Billy has just celebrated his eighty-Tourth birthday, and as hla guests at a bountiful dinner he had 78 widows and widowers of Dallas and vicinity. Last year he similarly entertained widows only, but whether because he thought this too dangerous, or in order to pro mote matrimony among the relicts, he this year extended his iifvitation to widowers also. And a Jolly time they had, with Uncle Billy setting the pace. For years Uncle Billy Brown. has been gaining a reputa tion as a gay old boy, and he evi dently doesn't mean to sleep on his laurels until he becomes really old. Some years, when he gets, a good price for his hops, he scatters a bushel, more or less, of small coins on the town common for children to rustle' for, and In other ways he annually or oftener lets his neigh bors know that he Is very much alive, and still able to look on the bright side of life. He refuses to become silent and morose and crabbed because he is old in years, but makes people know that he is yet young and Jolly; notwithstand ing bis fourscore and more years. Fortunate is the person with this happjy. temperament, that has wuu in himself the means involuntarily to carry youth and joy and good fellowship and happ comradeship along the current of years into old age, who can be sociable and inno cently -merry all along the path that descends sharply to the shore line of earthly existence. I Not all, nor many, can be an Uncle Billy; Brown, yet many can learn of himi GUN LAW Thus far the restrictions would be easy. Their practicability is patent, The enforcement would present more difficult problems. Ia this public sentiment can do nearly everything, Public sentiment can , enforce any law. , Jt can compel officers to be vigilant. It ' can compel ( courts to mete out ample penalties. It can re quire officers to search any and all suspects. ' It can be the strongest of all influences in eliminating this concealed , weapon folly. , It, can. when murderous acts are committed. be a factor in seeing that there is retribution and thereby discourage pistol practice on human beings. No life is safe when a community is an armed camp. Possession of a weapon is temptation to use it' It makes men more violent when in dispute. It makes men more halr bralned when they believe them selves wronged. It was not Insanity; it was his ready revolver that nerved Finch's hand. The manner in which he did the deed shows that without the gun he 'would never have been bold -enough for an attack. ,A con cealed weapon is a coward's flrBt re sort and a brave man's Nemesis. It is a bane of the social life and if to legislate against it presented a hun dredfold more difficulties that would be no reason for rational people to shrink-before the task. a lesson, and Imitate In some ;ttle degree his example of a cheery, sociable, bright old age. So here's to Uncle Billy; may he live to be 100, still scattering seeds of kindness and emitting rays of sunshine along the way. BURTON AND C. P. TAFT 1 R. CHARLES P. TAFT, ac cording to the report of Treasurer Sheldon, con tributed $110,000 to the Re publican campaign fund, and it is knbwn that he spent a large amount of money In his brother's behalf be fore the nomination, so that his total outlay in this regard probably amounts to- $200,000, or perhaps $250,000. Now he wants to be re warded with a seat in the senate. Representative Theodore E. Bur ton, long chairman of the committee on rivers and harbors, is a candidate for the senate, and deserves above any other man of the Buckeye state to be elected to "succeed Foraker. He Is a man of long experience in congress, of much ability, and whose record Is straight and clean. Charles P. Taft may be a very good sort of man, but he has never done anything entitling him to this honor, unless It be his expenditure of this money. He is a very rich man. else nobody would think of him in this connec tion. It was a brotherly thing for Mr, Charles P. Taft to spend his .money freely to nominate and elect his brother president, but he ought not to expect Ohio and the country to pay the debt by electing him over Burton to the senate. It is quite natural that the president-elect should wish to see his brother's am bition gratified, yet he will weaken himself at the outset of his admin iteration If he lends his Influence to this project. No newspaper in the country is more intensely Bourbon than the New York Sun. It is reactionary to the last limits of reaction. It is bitterly opposed to primary" laws and Is fighting hard Governor Hughes plan for such a law in New York slate. But even the Sun insists that the Oregon legislature must elect Chamberlain. After analyzing the Taft vote and the so-calledsjeWlstra-tlon of Democrats as Republicans, the Sun says: "Obviously the ar gument should not in morals or rea son effect the validity of Governor Chamberlain's status before the leg islature aa a candidate, which it must elect to the senate." No news paper of standing takes any other view. The fact was brought out at the tariff hearings the other day that the American starch trust is selling Its product in England for 40 cents a hundred pounds less than to Am erican consumers, yet it wants the present high duty retained or in creased. And this is only one of many instances of the same kind What an immense bunco game, of which the American people are- the victims, protection 1b. And still another terribly fatal mine explosion, this one in a new mine said to have been 'one in which every possible means of prevention of such a calamity had been em ployed. But this is to be doubted. Such catastrophes seldom occur in other countries, and most of those in this country were preventable. There are some indications, or at least rumors, that Mr. Taft will greatly disappoint the standpatters and predatory interests, and will carry on a fight against them in the peopled interest aa vigorously, and probably ;, much more effectively, than Roosevelt did. He has a great opportunity to be a great president. Now shall we aee "the law's "de lays" begin to operate, as usual, in the Finch case? s Or it not, will it be because he has little or no money? Captain1 Peter Cooper Halns also says now that he has no recollection of killing Annls, that his1 mind- at that time was . a totaUilank. . Any required number of experts, if paid enough, will confirm this statement,' But judge and Jury should give It np credence. . , , ; Mr. Taft says that. Tim Woodruff by withdrawing from the senatorial contest, "has established his claim to the gratitude of the1 Republicans of New York." This , Is not very complimentary to Tim, but If tnere was any danger of his election is quite true. -.."., The trusts are showing signs of disgust with Mr. Taft, on hearing that he is really, in favor of genuine tariff reform, especially when iie did not commit, himself during the cam paign. Has the man no gratitude on account of the solid trust vote? Letters From tkc Pepple Ltttera to Ttio Journal ahoold ba wrlttaa om nt alda of Ua paper only, and obonld b fompanlad by tba Bam and addraaa of tha writer. Tba name wUl not ba nmd if tba writer aaka that It ba withheld. Tba Journal la not to ba nnderatood aa tndorflng tba rlawa or itttrmesta of eorraapondanta. Letter should ba made aa brief aa poaalbla. Tboae woo wltb their letter returned wbaa ,aot maad aheald la. eloea roataaa. Correepondeots are notified that letter .1 bm j- , .k. A (a- nation of tba editor, be eat down b that Unit, Why Increase a Necessity? " Portland. Or. Dec 1.-To the Editor of The Journal As a resident of Port land and a friend of teachers, permit us to ay a few words- tn their behalf, called forth by that little effusion In Wednesday's Journal signed "Taxpayer." He said that be would not sign his name to his article and we do not blame him. Who would. If he were the author of such an uncalled for and unreasonable. attack upon the raising of the wages and the standard of the teachers Of Portland? For Just as sure as you low-f er the wages of the teachers of our etfhobjs you lessen the chances of hiring nigh-grade teachers for these schools. The best teachers know their worth and will naturally drift to where they pay higher wages than they do in Portland. Scores of good teachers have left Port land for Seattle, Los Angeles and other cities where the remuneration is greater than here. . Mr. Taxpayer says that he will glad ly take the matter up -with any one Who may wish to reply. We are not speak ing for the sake of argument, but we are speaking for the great army of noble men and women who are sacrificing tbelr health and some of them their lives, that the youth of this land may be trained and educated for the different fields of usefulness required by this great nation in the years that are to come. Any man who tries to keep down the wages and the standard of tile teachers of Oregon Is Working against the best Interest of this state. The average wages of the teachers of Oregon are a great deal lower than the average wages of woodsmen, carpenters, plumbers, bricklayers, hodcarrters and a score of other trades. We know of a man in California, who pays $200 per month to the man who trained his colts and S60 per month to the woman who trained his children. Are a man's colts of more value than hla children? "Te are of more value than many sparrows.' Mr. Taxpayer says teachers work about six hours per day. while every teacher in Portland knows they work at least ten hours per day and some times a great many more. We have known them many times to work until 12 o'clock at night grading; papers, marking report cards, drilling for en tertainments, etc. The work of a suc cessful teacher is not confined to the schoolroom Mr. Taxpaver asks if a woman teacher can not live comfortably on $80 or $90 per month and the male principal on $150 or $200 per month. The truth is, many women are teaching for from $S0 to $75 per month and the principals from $85 to $125 per month. The aver age wages, of female teachers of this state is about $50. Mr. Taxpayer thinks the teachers travel throbgh Europe solely to have a good time, and he begrudges the money they spend in so doing. He doesn't soem to realize that a teacher gravels abroad to gain more knowledge of the world and its ways and to better fit himself to impart that knowledge to others. We can yet learn a few things from the "Fatherland." Very few of them are fortunate enough to make these trips, however. Mr. Taxpayer asks if all the teach ers are entitled to this advance In sal ary. No one claims this, but' that is no reason why the good ones should not be paid the full value of their services and the poor ones let go as soon as possible, Mr. Taxpayer again asks in just what way does a teacher work so much hard er or have a task so much more irksome than anybody else. Surely he has never done much teaching or he would never have asked such a question. My dear sir. there is no profession known that Is more trying to the nerves and general health than teaching. We refer you. Mr. Taxpayer, to the old professor with wrinkled brow and Jiair grown gray in the service for others. We also refer you to the woman who has given 20 years of the best of her life to the cause of education and now, with health ruined and nerves shattered she Is pushed aside to give place to younger and stronger -teachers. And again we can refer you to the grassy mound on the hillside where lies a body of one of whom the world was not worthy and who gave up her life because she couldn't manage 40 unruly boys and. girls, and no wonder, for their parents couldn't manage one. ' If the school board raises the wages of the teachers of Portland they will do it with a firm belief in their action and with the best interests of their children and their neighbor's children at heart, who will some day rise up and call them blessed. . . . O. H. RIPENBURG, Manager Flsk Teachers' Agency. Why Not Make Test? Portland, Noy. 2. To the Editor Of The Journal Having seen In your pa per from time to time how the no doubt worthy city officials seem to- await an actual test of the East Twenty-eighth street concrete bridge newly finished. Thereby wish, to ask why this hiding behind specifications and yardlong pub licly expressed opinions? Some bridges are supposed to have been designed to carry two lines of trolley cars, the entire span and a fixed load per square foot of the remaining part of it, and now whx in Cam Hill is not this load applied, thus establishing the stability of the structure? It would be an actual test and the only kind of test to count -on. DESIGNER CONSTRUCTION WORK. . He Had Performed. , "Uncle Mose." said the drummer, ad dressing an aged colored man .who was holding down a drygoods box in front of the village store, "they tell me that you remember seeing General Washing ton. is it' truer'' v : ,i . "No; sah." replied the old man, VAh uster-'membah seein' him, but Ah don't no moh since Ah dona J'in'di church, sah.- . - - - COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Make the last month of tha year the Deal. , r This ia the best week of the three to buy :'em. There la yet plenty 'of time' In which to predict a hard winter. - V' -a ."'-'. . To the extent of her abllltr to hate. how that terribly bereaved young widow must hate whiskey and a revolver. Like all multimillionaire maamatea. Mr. Rockefeller has a wonderful mem ory; It can either remember or forget. Just as be deBlres. v - , . Now Indianaoolis is workinar tin a world's fair. Among: other things it can display ia a great number and variety ox literary ieuers. ; The Forest Grove News advises all married couples who visit Portland to taae tneir marriage ceruncaies along. Tea, we are very moral here. ; lv - " ' '';.' What a' rovernment: with one hand it is trying; to preserve the forests and with the other it offers a big premium to the lumbermen to destroy them. President Eliot wisely resinned and so Is able to read a great many com plimentary articles about himself, that otherwise would not have been published till he was dead. , , ; The resident says tie has little re gard for .Hobson and his opinions. When it comes to the matters of an. im mense navy and a orobable war with Japan, most level headed people will agree With Roosevelt. i' A Chicago rabbi says that in valu ing; a woman 75 per cent should be al lowed for cooking . ability, 20 per cent for physical beauty and 6 per cent for dress. It Is easily perceived that he greatly enjoys a good meal. a a two umauua county roea nave re- UOllUJf tllfQU 1UI " lilt ll,n vii V 1 17 ground that they had been physically beaten by their wives. But a good many wives will have to lick their husbands before the score is evened up. e The Commoner remarks that if Sen ator Elklns Is weary of all this fusa about tho duke and the daughter he can er.d it with a Jar by merely show ing that he has lost all his money or that he Isn't going to let go of any of It. ' e Detroit News: God's tariff walls are the boundaries of climates, the differ ences in soil, the variety of deposits. God's free trade is the human desire to share and exchange the sun's wheat of the north for the sun's fruits of the south, and so on through the list, e e An ungallant Wisconsin man named Bcgga say a that a woman knewJitst as well as man the right way to get off a street car, but out of her natural contrariness she will steo off back ward Instead of forward. She Just do not want to do it in the proper manner. This Is probably a prejudiced opinion, yet It opens up a deep question. How would It do for street railroad mana gers to run their cars backward, and on the left hand track? j PRESS OPINIONS ON THE SENATO RIAL SITUATION Tho June Vote Ignored. From the Monmouth Herald. Taft carried Oregon by 26,000 and for that reason the Oregonlan advocates the Statement No. 1 legislators should vio late their pledge to the people. How ever, it makes no mention of the fact that the bill providing that members of the legislature shall vote for the -person receiving the highest number of votes In the June election, received majority of 48,506, or nearly double the majority of Taft. People Will Must Be Done. From tha Mount Scott Tribune. The Tribune does not believe that the people voted Chamberlain for sen ator because he happens to train with the Democratic party, but because they believed he was the best man for the place. Nor do we believe the vote wjtrald be ulfferent now, since Taft was elected. The vote for senator and the ote for president was two different matters, and the One had no bearing to the other. The people's will must be respected. Had the people declared for Cake it would have been Just the same. But since they gave their verdict to the governor, then Chamberlain must be senator. Politics as such Is not the question, the people have rendered their verdict and It .must stand. The Question at Issue. From the Central Point Herald. The question of whether or not th people are right does not enter into the matter at alL If thia Is a gov ernment "of the people, by the people and for the people." as we have all been taught, then the people of Ore gon have the right'to say who shall b their senator, even though they shatter partisan precedent to smithereens when they say so; if it is not that kind of a government, then let us say so and let the old political bosses resurrect themselves, abolish the constitution and allow the boss Of them all to appoint himself dictator and run the' whole show in the Interests of the dear peo ple who have not sense enough to run it for themselves. Would Invite the Recall. From the St Johns Review. It goea without saying that the State. jnent No. 1 man who does not support cnamoeriain ror me senate, thus adver tising himself as a liar, dishonest, cor- This Date in History. 1 1793 Commune of Paris ordered all churches closed. ' 1804 British ports in the West In dies closed to American commerce. 1818 Commodore Joshua Barney, dis tinguished American nava officer, died. Born July (.1759. 1844 Queen Alexandra of England born. "r .. '.;. .iA '.r. ' . 1884 Treason trials of members of the Knights of the Golden Circle begun In Indianapolis. 1866 Habeas corpus act restored In the northern states. 1884 Science ball of the University of Wisconsin, at Madison, destroyed by rire. - 1904 Close Of the' Louisiana Tiir. chase Exposition at StLouls. 1805 Benor Pal ma elected president of Cuba. . . William M. Fontaine's Birthday. William Morris - Fontaine, for many years professor of geology and natural history In the University of Virginia, was born in Louisa county, Virginia, December 1, 1835. He was prepared by a - private tutor and at the Hanover academy until 1855, when he entered th University of Virginia, from which In stitution he graduated with high hon ors four years later. - From 1861 to 1865 he served as a lieutenant of -artillery' In th army of the Confederate states. After the close ot the civil war he went abroad and spent two years in peclal NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS. A man below The Dalle raised of good peanuts this year. a a , Jot About 46 carloads of winter apples will be snipped irom xne cove. .'. a a A Newport man and his wife caught Zl line large salmon in one day e . - The demand for new homes 1s con' atantly on the Increase in Lakevlew. ...... e . .'. . , .. The Burns Times-Herald Is II years old and has been owned by the Byrda ror l years. : A Mosier man has let" the contract for clearing 320 acres of land to Hindus ana now over 25 of them are at work. Drilling at the oil well on the Dufur place and also at the Bevls-May oil wrell in Wasco county, is progressing nicely, About 10,000 pounds of turkeys for Thanksgiving were shipped from Al bany, although the Bupply was smaller man usuau .- ,. V'.-' ' . " !. During October a Marshfleld mill shipped to San Francisco and Ban Pedro (.853,000 feet of lumber and 497.000 laths, besides selling a large quantity in the local market, v. In 1868 the assessment of Eugene's orooerty interests. Dotn real ana uer sonaL was $1,429,240. Last year. 1907. the assessment was $3,513,487, and this year It will probably exceed $4,000,000. a . a. In a week Eugene raised $51,089 for a Y. M. C. A. building, of which effort the Register says: "It means a virtual subscription of $5 per capita for every human being in Eugene and some - to spare. If Chicago. Portland or Seattle would do as much they would surprised me wona. u me emsiier vines oi ins state of Oregon are going to get into the race, they must learn 'The Eugene Way.' No advertisement that was eyer written will speak so loudly ror bring lng good people to Eugene or bringing boys and gins to our eoucationai insti tutions than a bare statement of tha work of the last eleht days and its re suits. So let all the people devoutly rive thanks that they live in sucn community and among a people who will take such prldetn fostering and prop erly training the coming manhood of America. ' a e "Within a few years there will be all kinds of fruit shipped out or Jjurur. one fruitgrower was heard to say to another on the streets of Dufur. "One does not realize -the magnitude of what is being done in the way or setting out new orchards along Fifteen Mile creek and the slones on either side until you get to figuring on it. The farms are so blc and the dwellings so widely scat tered that It Is not like some fruit dis tricts where each man has his 10 or 20 acres and devotes it all to rruit culture. Our arowers are nearly all large hold ers who are going into ine Ducin-ss in the same larare way tnev raisea wneat. Tracts varying from 10 to 60 acres are being prepared at a single .stroke, and the country near Dufur is rapidly be ing converted from one of -the " best wheat sections of the whole state into a fruit nroducing region and we can rails as good rruu as anyooay. rupt an- not fit to represent the in telllgent voters who elected him, should be given the benefit of the recall. In any event such an action on his part means political suicide and he will be come a marked man, In whom no onn will have confidence. There Is no-dearth of good men in the Republican party, we could name a number that we would rather see In the senate than Mr. Chamberlain; but the people of the state have declared him - their choice and their representatives have been elected on the special pledge that they would carry out this expressed wish and to not do so would forfeit the integrity of the Republican party in the eyes of honest men. A Principle at Stake. From the Woodburn Independent (Rep.). Few newspapers even Indirectly ask Statement No. 1 members of the legis lature to violate their pledge; none has the courage to directly ask them to do so, yet they might as well do so, for the manner In which they tender the advice Is even worse in the eyes of honorable men than their significant suDierruges. Not only because the peo pie have expressed such a choice, but ior me nonor ana welfare of the Re pu oilcan party Chamberlain should be elected senator. It would go out to the east that the Republican party selected a Democrat to represent the state in the l.'nlted tSates senate because it was the will of the majority of tha people. Are thoae who are fighting B..raiiriii ii u. i airaia mat Chamber lain would not prove an able representa tive? They know that he would. No it Is simply the wail of the rtvlna- r.i,im. that has been cast aside by the people using mo mreci primary ana statement iiiciogainCT, mis is life or death for the would-be bosses; it Is jiio or oeath ror the power of the people. We are fighting for a princi ple. Down that and the people In their wrath are liable to elect a Democratic majority in the legislature next time It Is to be regretted that some of the anti-Statement leaders cannot look far into the future: that thew ra lifii the welfare of the Republican party of m.a buiis iini gave rait Z3.000 plural ity; that with them It Is wreck or ruin to gain their ends. It is sad to think that with some this is their last chance hence the program mapped out of which they cannot secure either Taft or Roose velt's indorsement studies at German universities. Upon his return to America tn 1871 he became professor of chemistry and geology at the University of West Virginia, where he remained until he joined the faculty of the University of Virginia at Charlottes ville. Dr. Fontaine has written numer ous books and papers on geology and mineralogy and is regarded as a high authority on those branches of science. A Wise Appeal. From the Boston Traveler. An imperial rescript Just issued in Japan enjoins on all classes tn the community the need of economy and simplicity, the emperor saying that for the purpose of keeping pace with the constant progress of the world and par ticipating in the blessings of Its civi lization, the development of national re sources Is essential. He oalls on all classes to act In unison, to be faithful to their callings, frugal In their domes tic management, submissive to the dic tates of conscience and the call of dutv. f rank. and slnrere ln 'thelr manners and. inured to arduous trial, eschewing all indulgences. Nothing finer in the way of an appeal to a people has ever been issued by a ruler, i- ... v u:. .-'' 1 ' " ' - Among the applicants at Carrick-on-Shannon (English) postoffloe for an old age pension form was a man named Pat Reynolds of the Cootehall district, who has attained the patriarchial age of 109,, He ia hale and hearty and in full posses sion of all his facu'ties. . ' 2X REALM FEMININE. k" Judge Not. D AVID J. BREWER, of tha Unit States supreme court,' after 43 years of Judicial experience, has declared that perfect justice is . not possible. - It ,1s a human im possibility, he says, accurately to weigh .,Lth,.act9.rs ot -heredity and influ ence which should be taken into account lnT?erd.ln,the guilt of any prisoner. .C ?ie J " " ticaa re w e r. after all his Kf,TL9rJ"iudy ana oeeP thought, finds humans judgment fallible, what a lei "2nf th088 ' whohn a moment of petty anger or i!appointment give w'e. t .V thlng denunciation. What a thought to take to heart In our 7iPj mHl attitude toward ' our neighbor. ' . What a rebuke to the fll-advlsed, half thought out opinion to which we give hasty utterance, and the next day would give all we own to recall. Ihe hlg hest thought of th life of the JudgVr said Judge Brewer in an ad dress before the students of the Unl yeTlJX Pennsylvania, "is justice, the establishment of a perfect balance be tween the actor and his every act. Science is the mihmtir. mtA. Law .is the mathematics of the spirit the student of matter mav hona tn m -does succeed. The Judge wilj almost always fail. The mighty and enduring laws of nature are ascertainable nnA ,r halm. constantly discovered by students of na ture. When we enter the moral law we are confronted by the fact that no hu- mu uems can ever see an or the atoms that go to make the whole, and that to the end Of time no deflnlt henria win ever hold Jhe even balance. , "There is the man who owns prop erty which gains value through no ef fort of his own, but through that of men about him. The law gives him that value and we call that justice. There Is the criminal who before a cold and hard hearted judge would get the limit of the sentence Imposed by law., before a gentle and kindly judge would get the minimum. "Back of tha actual dlapamlhU rfe there is a domain of heredity and en vironment which must be talcon lnt -- count In determining absolute justice, but which the judge must constantly ignore and administer the penalty ac cording to the concrete facts presented. "What then? Can, It be that the Infinite one accurately regulates tho ma terial wona, Dut leaves the moral world in chaos? For 43 years I have searched for the answer to this question and . through the light of my glass I have seen this beautiful vision of immor tality. Through an of the turmoil of the courtroom, in the faces of countless criminals on trial before me, the vision has been revealed to me that, in some other place, the errors of Justice wW be rectified and that all of the innumerable and Invisible and baffling forces that go to make moral guilt will be accu rately measured and ascertained, "And so. In the cross I have learned to see the visible symbol of Infinite Jus- s tlce, and In the resurrection the message of a great hope." t n g a Life on the Farm. By Mrs. M. T. ORTLAND, OR., Nov. 80. To the Editor of The Journal For the best article written I see you offer . prise which I know the ladies that are better quali fied than I am with a limited edu cation, will get. although I will do what : I can and If not acceDtable there Is no harm done. Now I have been a farmer's wife over SO years and I find, the bal ance wheel to make things agreeable and run smoothly is a mother. Chil dren s sympathies are reached by mother When nearly everything else will fail. Teach them the first commandment given by promise was to Uiem, which reads: "Children, obey your parents that your days may be long upon earth," and reverse the commandment and they can aee -at once now true the BtDie is. Every paper, almost telle of some youth com In to some utlmelv death. Tell them there are only three steps to the scaffold; first Is. disobey parents: second, their teachers In school; tnird, the laws or the jand. and II the penalty is death they must pay the cost. Too many mothers screen their boys and N. glrla to keep their wrongdoings from v the public, ana such favoring is the ruin of many children. Now thin is tho first lesson a woman should learn; he second one is. always take an In terest In your husband's, work as well as your own and if he does anything, ask- ng your opinion about It, always have compliment of encouragement. How many homes I have seen unhappy In thia respect. Soma women would not be able to identify their own stock if left widows, i saw a lady a few years ago that did not know her own cows and she never set a hen or gathered the ?ga, out she Kent posted on all the vies and looked after the wardrobe very well. I tell you their home was not happy. The estate his father left him was mortgaged and was soon to go. A woman must use economy on a farm and look after her poultry and garden and above all, get the meals ready at the orooer hour, so her tired husband knows his meals are waiting when he comes from the field. Never call on him to stop the team out of the crop to take you to town. see that your wants are supplied before he gets busy. Take an Interest in getting the crops out in due season and if a farmer has such a wife tha children will be more apt to take Interest Keep things tidy around the yard: have the children help you; it will teach them and maxe the none attractive and pleasant. . It K R Contributed Recipes. I)y R M. INGKR BREAD One and one-half . cups of brown sugar (or one cup molasses and one-half cup brown sugar), one cup butter, one teaspoonfu! of soda dissolved in one cup of sour milk, two teaspoons each of cinnamon, ginger and cloves; two cups flour, two well beaten eggs, beaten whites and yolks separate last thing before baking, makes a nice raisin cake if one cup of seeded raisins rolled in flour Is added- Just before putting into pan. A nice rown cane to frost. Cookies Without. Eggs One cud lard. one cup sugar, creamed together; one cup sweet milk, little salt one-half Ounce of baking ammonia, one teaspoon of favorite extract, flour to make stiff nough to roll. Bake in hot oven. A Good Cold Cure for Little Folks One pint of strong senna tea. two large onlona peeled, sliced thin in the tea; one- half teaspoon of ginger, one and one- nan cups or brown sugar; return to stove and boil till onions are cooked; " take irom fire, strain and add one table spoon of vinegar (or one-half teaspoon or peppermint essence). ' Give In doses one tablespoonful to three in quantities necessary to move the bowels; and as often as needed. This is perfectly harm less. We use It In our family with perfect satisfaction, as the children take It for onion syrup. For a grease to fry that will pro duce fine brown, take two pounds of lard, two of rendered ' suet and one of butter; melt together. Save for that purpose only. (In the reclpo for cookies without eggs should there not be an acid used . with- tr-e alkaline ammontaf This la an unusual article 4n the-comrnan" kitchen, although it is said to be used In bakeries. tAa Its action is similar to that of baking soda, it would seem to require either cream, of tartar or sour milk. Is your recipe correct? Ed.) , The planing1 mill at Imbler has re sumed work and the first car of dressed lumber since the recent fire was loaded out from that point this week. Just a month 4 go the " planing mill was de stroyed and the interval of idleness was very short ; considering the circum stances, i
