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L'
IGHT HAS broken through the
clouds that overhang San Fran-.
clseo. . There Is a rift In the
somber pall that 'has darkened
the Bay City and a ray of sunshine Is
shining through. After a trial that
lasted 106 dayB, that cost an. enor
mous sum of money and that had for
an Incident the shooting of the chief
prosecutor, Boss Ruef, the premier
criminal of the age,' Is a convicted
felon. The machinery of Justice in
that city which has been Impotent
and Immovable for more than two
yeara and from which there has
seeined at times no hope of efficacy,
has larred loose its obstructions and
given California, civilization and the
law vindication. ,. Condemnation by
a Jury, a possible J 4 years of penal
servitude and a hearty "amen" from
good people everywhere are the great
grafter's portion, and it Is well. The
Jury that vouchsafed this outcome
and the work It has done are a leaven
for a redeemed city. The 12 men
who constituted It are entitled to the
applause of California and Christendom.-.
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The incident puts dfi'tflal the
higher courts of California. It has
been claimed that tfiey are owned.
One of them, after Schmlts" convic
tion, freed that paramount criminal
on the ground that taking bribes
from restaurant keepers did not vio
late the laws of California. Whether
similar Judicial contravention for the
rescue of Ruef is to come remains to
be seen. In the Ruef Instance, how
ever", all the potentiality of inex
haustible legal resource has been
overcome, all the power of a limit
less supply of money has been thrust
aside, all the power of an adverse
factional publie sentiment and all
other obstacles have been sur
mounted In the lower court, and a
triumphant vindication of the law,
the courts and social order has been
attained. It is scarcely possible
that results of smaller magnitude
will be reached in the courts above.
San Francisco and California, seem
near a deliverance, ana tne wnoie
country is rejoiced.
JOB
CHASIXG VS.
SHIP.
STATES MAN-
0REGONT IS again in the spot
light; at Washington. The del
egation is quarreling over who
shall hold a federal Job in
Portland. It is the same old story
that gave the delegation and: gave
Oregon undesirable notoriety at the
last session.. ' It is not an issue of
statesmanship. It is not a problem
of conserving national resources. It
is not an investigation oi wnat is too
best means for .opening and "utilizing
the country' and Oregon's water
ways. :,It.ia.,not discussion of what
is the best plan and what the op
portnnitlea,for,JiplIft of .the coun
try home; . , Jt, Is not a broad inquiry
Into the buniing question of what
are to be the plans and what the
forces, to.be assembled for building
Oregon; intor'' greater Oregon and
wheeling'hef into the van In the on
ward march; of tthe-ccmmonwealths,
Jt,iS'.feot tJiese,. nor one of these.
11 is, oa -the contrary, tie edifying
spectacle of a petty scramble for
pelf. , It Is the very -small question
of what effect the, presence of one
roan la the postmastership of Port
land will have on the political for
tunes of some other man er men.
H is not even a question of whether
the office will be effectively or bad
ly administered It v is: altogether
too small a business to be engaged
in fcy mm who are. holding positions
that are big, . .
It lifts been an open' secret for
ars (bat In transport favors, bat
tiffcirt svor, array supply favors,'
f: n;r;i?Si.Ti favors, Willamoile
! in r-Mny clhcr)
state. After 60 years of statehood
here within a few miles of the spot
where a historic band saved the state
to the union, a toll taker "Is stand
lng in the people's highway and col
lecting for a private corporation a
fee that adds 50 cents a ton to every
pound of freight shipped. In or out
of a great valley. -'Within a few
miles of Portland there Is a barrier
in a mighty river that with this bar
rier removed would be a transporta
tion artery for an imperial basin of
245,000 square miles of rich terri
tory. It is a barrier that in any
other state's water course would
have been removed 25 years ago, but
being In Oregon it is still unre
moved and still a barrier. The city
of Portland, for her own defense, has
spent more than $2,000,000 in
deepening the channel of its great
river, a work that in other states, in
a waterway of such character, would
have been the work of the federal
government. 4:.
The logic of these things is ap
parent. ; The. energies .of the dele
gation should be more in the line of
statesmanship and leBs devoted to
scrambles over, petty offices. They
should be more idevoted to Oregon
and less to the .airing of the dele
gation's dirty- linen. -The petty of
fices are a minor consideration, and
selections should , be made with a
view to - efficient service and with
out ..regard. tQ rhat man's political'
ascendency may be promoted there
by. 'Oregon's needs should be prop
erly presented at Washington and
to that end the delegation should
speedily reach a profitable peace and
devote themselves to that for which
they were sent to the national cap
ital.
SEEING A NEW LIGHT
T
HE SLOGAN of improved "water
ways Is reverberating In Wash
ington. The Conservation Com
mission has. raised It. The
Rivers and Harbors convention is
ringing U. A thunderous demand
from all along the line is battering
at the doors of congress. The tide
of sentiment is so strong that con
gressmen and senators are protest
ing that congress is not and never
has been opposed to river and har
bor Improvements. To say that con
gress is so opposed. Champ Clark
declared, would be to hold that the
body "Is composed of a Job lot of
political Idiots." Eminent men Jrom
every quarter of the country have
on their Hps protestations of the im
minent necessity for the expenditure
of large sums fir systematic Im
provement of harbors and water
courses. President Roosevelt and
President-elect Taft have both
avowed persona confidence in a plan
for the Issuance of bonds for the
purpose.
A maximum bond issue of $500,
000,000 to be expended at the rate
of $50,000,000 a year through a
period of ten years is widely popular
among the 3500 delegates from 44
states as the method that should be
adopted. The situation seems, at
this distance, to be immensely fa
vorable for a departure from the old
conditions, of neglected waterways.
It seems to be extremely favorable
for a deliverance from the era of
railroad madness in which congress
and yie country has been possessed
by a phobia in which railroad trans
portation and railroad domination
were believed to be the first, the
last and all in the transportation life
of the republic. If such a point has
been reached we are entering upon a
new epoch in transportation eco
nomics. There are three factors in trans
portation, and each has its distinct
ive place. They are the wagon way,
the railroad way and the waterway.
Each has its coordinate place. Each
has Its factorship and each should
have its equal development. In the
past arrangement the wagon way and
the waterway have been unpardon
ably neglected. The mania of a rail
road age has been for abandonment
of all else and a transcendent devo
tion to rallroadism. It la seen in the
profligate bestowal of land, grants.
It Is seen in the manifold favors from
a servile congress. It is seen in
the extravagant sums paid by gov
ernment for carrying the mails. It
is seen in the faltering hesitation
with which states have approached
the task of restricting railroad op
pression. It Is seen In the Alton
deal and kindred criminal manipula
tions by railroad wreckers that, have
gone unwhlpped of Justice. It is
seen in the present status of the
Oregon & California land grant. It
is seen in the writing, by a railroad
attorney, of an opinion that was
actually handed down as its own by
the supreme court of Washington.'
II Is seen in a thousand distinct and
familiar forms that attest the mad
ness that has been ours In our uh
understandable devotion to rallroad
ism. Events at Washington seem to
signal the breaking in upon us of a
new light. It Is well. We shall
now have time and purpose for de
veloping our wagon ways and water
ways. THE TIDES TURX
A'
CURIOUS phase 14 presented in
the reversal of the usual ?on-
ditlons, with respect to foreign
immigration. More . . steerage
passengers are crossing the Atlantic
eastward than are coming Westward.
During the past month the arrivals
were S469 and the departures 10,
468.. The arrivals' since the first of
January were 36S.-C92 and the de-
partu.rcJ 61$,6o7. The drift Is a
tic movement. Dissatisfaction with
American laboring conditions Is the
probable explanation. -.- For a' cen
tury our country with its wide re
pute as the land of the free and the
home of the brave has been the
dream of the European lower classes
The women tolling in the fields and
garnering the crops under thesu
pervision of an occasional man have
dreamed of it. The Irish peasant,
Irrevocably bound by a petty wage
to the spot of his birth, has looked
across the Atlantic and longed for
It. In every clime and under every
sun the democratie sovereignty and
the bountiful wage for . the toiler
with hands have been a magnet that
tugged at the desires of the lowly
multitude. To the tune of a mil
lion a year and more they have
swarmed to our shores. Has our
cost of living become so high and
the wages of toll so inadequate that
the tide of humanity that has rolled
westward since the dawn of civiliza
tion has turned at last and the ebb
set InT Probably not. The pres
ent movement is doubtless the after
math of last year's bank panic with
Its season of suspended Industry,
THE VOICE OF THE GRAXGE
IT IS only natural that the granges
should defend the Initiative and
referendum, the primary law and
me ngm oi tne people tnrougn
Statement No. 1 to choose the sen
ator. These are original reforms in .
the advocacy of which the granges
were-the pioneers. They helped to
make the sentiment that made the
passage of these laws possible. The
discussion and study of social and
economic questions is one of the
purposes for wftich the grange was
organized. In these discussions the
members -become widely Informed
and thoroughly schooled In the Is
sues of tha day. Their viewpoint
is- that very important one of how
country life and state life Is af
fected by policies at issue. Their
conclusions are safe conclusions be
cause the inspiration for them is
from the soil and from nature. They
are conclusions ttnwarped by the play
of politics or motives of pelf. They
have nothing to gain, but "all to lope
by a political system that politicians
prize. The ordinary politician is in
politics not for the good of the state,
but for his own profit. He lives by
it and one of the means of profit to
him is to be able to use the vote
and Influence of the farmer. It he
can use them for a system of legis
lative holdups, senatorial deadlocks,
convention frame-ups and legislation
only by a legislature, he can secure
for himself soft Jobs, public snaps
and a good income with little work.
This is the incentive behind the pres
ent effort to destroy in Oregon the
initiative and referendum, the pri
mary law and the popular choice of
senator. In resisting the attempt
the farmer, the business man and
all .others are simply protecting
themselves. Extravagant legislation
incident, to senatorial" deadlocks, the
taxpayer has to pay for. The Jobs
and snaps out of which the politi
cians profit, he has to pay for. They
all go to increase his burden of
taxes, already far more burdensome
than they ought to be. The Mc
Mlnnvllle grange understands this
and that is why It resists. That is
why its members protest and why
other granges have protested. It is
a fight in defense of the home
against assaults made on it in the ef
fort to restore a wicked and dis
carded system of government. There
is not a man in Oregon, not even
among the politicians themselves,
but knows the granges are right in
their protests and deadly, in the ac
curacy of their conclusions.
HIGH TIME TO ACT
IF THE conclusion in one of Its
reports Is accurate, it was . high
time for the National Conserva
tion commission to assemble.
Senator Flint of California predicted
"that the supply of high grade iron
ores will be exhausted by the mid
dle of the present century; that
high grade available coal would dis
appear by the middle of the present
century; that copper, lead, zinc and
precious metals would be. exhausted
by the end of the present century,
and phosphate rock, so essential In
soil fertility, within 25. years at the
present rate of use and waste." Hap
pily there Is hope that vast un
touched fields of these minerals will
yet be uncovered, and in districts
where now their presence is unsus
pected. The Cascades In Oregon
should some time give up a mighty
wealth of coal, Iron and other' min
erals, and there are those who be
lieve that beneath the outlines of
these magnificent mountains a price
less heritage of burled treasure is
stored.
Twice the Ruef Jury came back
Into court for new instructions, or
for a repetition of those already
given, and one Juror tried Vaguely
to tell what they were muddled
about, finally remarking: "It is a
matter of law or something; we do
not know about it." The poor man
was apparently Bincere, even if not
very complimentary to the court and
the lawyers. No wonder that a Juror
feels this way, and doesn't know
where he Is at,, aftef being confined
on a Jury for weeks, and having to
listen to , interminable contentions
over halr-spUttltfg points of law and
all sorts -of : conflicting testimony.
The f onder Is rather that the aver
age Juryman in such a 'case doesn't
ro crazy In tnnny caps no f(hilt
pressed: "It -Is a matter of law or
something; we do not know about
it." V "-':" '- irv-y
Speaker Cannon frankly acknowl
edges that he is opposed to the plan
of the Rivers, and Harbors congress
td issue bonds for the extensive and
systematic Improvement ot the
country's rivers and harbors. He
says it is Impractical. But why any
more so than bonds for the Panama
canal, or $150,000,OOG or so a year
for pensions? Mr. Cannon Is noted'
ly opposed to progress, but It Is
doubtful if be and his sort of public
men can much longer' delay this
movement. If well managed, the
people can spend money , in no bet
ter way. They are realizing this,
and ere long will get what they
want, in spite of the obstructionists.
Notwithstanding, the Astorlan's
urgent and persistent appeal for the
election of a straight Republican
ticket, on party grounds, in Astorja.
a Democrat, Mr. A. M. Smith, was
elected mayor, and voters paid little
regard to party lines in their vot
ing. The time is pretty well over,
In Oregon at least, when pariylsm
can be relied on to carry a local
election. This was also shown In
several other city elections this
week. The more people disregard
party 1n municipal elections the bet
ter service they will get, as a rule.
Some people are frequently worry
ing about what to do with our ex-
presidents, but- isn't it the .defeated
candidates who are more entitled to
consideration and rellefT Both,
however,' seem to be able to take
care of themselves very well, and not
to be proper objects ot so much wor
rlment. Letters From tlie People
I.rttr to Tha Journal RBonld be Written on
ona aide of the paper only, and houM be ac
companies ay tne name ana aaarm oi me
writer. The name will not be used If th
writer aaka that It be withheld. The Journal
la not to be understood as lndorslnc the Tlews
or atatementa of eorreapondenta. I-ettera ahould
be triad? a brief aa poMlble. Those who wish
tbelr lettera returnea wnen noi usea anouia id
Correspondents are notified that letters ex
ceeding 300 words In length may. st the dis
cretion ct the editor, be cut down to that limit.
Vox Populi.
Oregon City, Or., Dec. 4. To the Edi
tor or The Journal There Is no reason
for the people of Oregon to work them
selves up Into a frenzy over the elec
tion of a United States senator. Now,
while we feel like the fellow who played
the shell game at the circus or Uncle
Hiram, who bought the gold brick, let
us keep It to ourselves. By sending
Chamberlain to the senate we will keep
It fresh In our memory and help our
selves to remember the lesson that we
have learned, and we will maintain the
honor of the people of Oregon ajtd show
the people of the country that we will
not repudiate our word after having
given It In good faith under any clr
eumstances. The voice of the people, be
they Democrats, Republicans or other
wise. Is the voice of God and should' be
held as such, and I would not like to
see the good people of Oregon refuse to
do their plain duty In this matter.
Let the Republican party refuse in the
future to follow the voice of the false
prophets and tricksters that have bur
dened us for the last 12 years. Tours
for the honor and glory of the G. O. P.
REPUBLICAN SINCE '4.
Let the People Rule.
Elmlra, Or., Dec. 6. To the Editor
of The Journal It Is common to see
groups oi men standing around on the
corners and generally their conversation
Is concerning the attempt of some of
the political bosses of the state to set
aside the will of the majority of the
people of Oregon and establish tholr own
will. When the people elected George
Chamberlain as governor nobody had the
audacity to mention that he should not
be allowed to take the oath and serve
as governor; but when he was elected
as United States senator, a howl wentij
up from Senator Fulton and his hench
men that is disgusting to every lover
of good government. If the people had
wanted Fulton they certainly would
have said so; but the way he has acted.
they should not want him for anything
any more.
Those men pledged themselves to
Statement 1 without any compulsion
from any one, and it Is a common ex
pression among all parties up here, that
when they violate their promise, they
hould have a rope around their necks.
Any man that tries to overrule the
will of the majority Is an anarchist.
I could not see why the country was
not Just as safe when Senator Gearln
had the office as It was before or after.
So it's not the politics that make the
good senator, but the good man. 3o
we will carefully watch the Statement
No. 1 men. Of course, those who did not
pledge themselves, may vote for Fulton
or any other man, but If the others vote
for any man but Chamberlain, there will
be trouble in Oregon. Those who read
this may think I am a Democrat, but I
am not. I am a- Socialist, and pne of
the principles of the Socialists is, "Let
a majority rule every time."
W. B. SMITH.
Dr. Robert. Koch's . Birthday
Dr. Robert Koch, the world renowned
discoverer of the bacillus of tubercu
losis, was born In Klausthal, Hanover,
December 41, 1843, and was educated at
the celebrated university at Gottingen.
Almost as soon as he had received his
degree of M. D. he began the study
of germs,, and about 1880 he succeeded
In Identifying the germ of cattle dis
eases and of consumption. His remark
able, discoveries led to his being placed
at the head of the German cholera com
mission, which visited Egypt and India,
and while on this Investigation he dis
covered the coma bacillus of cholera,
recevlng a reward Of 1.00,000 marks from
the government Further researches "in
bacteriology established his 'reputation,
as the" leader In-thls branch of medi
cine, and led to his appointment as pro
fessor of hygiene at the University of
Berlin. In 1891 he was honored with- the
appointment of honorary pi o feasor and
director, of. ths New- Institute for .Infec
tious Diseases. During the past sum
mer. Dr. Koch visited America and wai
ona of the foremost participants in the
international congress on tuberculosis
held In Washington. . . i ; ..V
JLargest Income at the. English Bar.
' v. r- From Tit-Blta, , rr -.
Balfour ; Browne, K. CL, the Union
ist candidate for East Bradford, has
during the last .fifteen or twenty years
made the jnost . consistently good in
come of any man. at the bar. More or
less accurate estimates have been made,!
and It is said t hat 50.000 rather than
t20 0nft hnn,' heV-n bin nvorsae Jjncoirie
- COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF '
SMALL CHANGE
Well, how do you like 'em the p.y-as-you-enter
cars?
Is it to be a genuine or a bogus re
vision or in tarirr i
Christmas la pretty closa at hand
now and lots of people remember it.
Though in big New fork. Rabbi Wise
aoes noi iorget uregon una rortiana.
But of course you should have got
your vnrisima spenamg money early,
But how' did the mayor of Atlanta
get arunk so or ten in a, dry town and
state? . . ' 4
;.
John W. Gates is to have a 12.0nn.0fl0
circus He will bet anybody a million
that it succeeds.
An exchange says the dlrectolre gown
is not always good form. But that Isn't
the gown's fault.
Whether Castro is sick enoueh to be
permitted to land may depend on how
mucn money ne naa to mow in.
Roosevelt's attitude on woman suf
frage Is well calculated to displease both
sides. How that man does love a row.
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Most Deonle. without further wnrrv.
will solve Mr. Bryan's "mystery" In the
old way; he didn't get votes enough.
Lean rear is drawinff to a close. Some
bashful single men might appreciate a
matrimonial proposal for a Christmas
present.
A Massachusetts woman Ha hun
smoking for 97 years, yet this Is no
positive proof that smoking la healthv
Or wise.
"The Deonle are nartnera In nil e-reat
fortunes." says Mr. Carnearie. Verv
silent partners, aorjarentlv. and devoid
of dividends.
If Haiti keeps on having several revo
lutions a year, somebody may get killed
down there yet. besides those that are
executed by a dictator.
"A word in season, how sood It Is."
says the Brooklyn Eagle, referring to
Rabbi Wise's recent criticism of Judges
for attending a Croker banquet.
A Texas paper says: "There is ooetrv
in good roads." Very likely, sometimes;
but there Is something more practically
valuable than poetry in them.
It Is said that "President Castro nf
Venezuela has saved 160.000.000 In four
fears out of a salsrry of $2500. Then
aris will see that France lets him land,
all right.
The American people live too fast,
says Mr. Rockefeller. Well it keeps
them hustling to pay ths prices charged
by the trusts, and to make a few men
billionaires.
"A Pennsylvania court has held' that
when a married woman beats a man,
even with an ax, in the presence of her
husband, she can not be held legally re
sponsible, for the act must be presumed
to have been committed by the hus
band's direction and under coercion from
him. And yet some women claim that
they haven't their "rights."
A lawyer in the Gould divorce case
proposed that Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Gould be locked in a room, with him
and the opposing lawyer, continuing the
conference until agreement was reached
out of court. The country would be
greatly pleased and benefited if this
could be done in all such cases, and
some others.
For condemning a strip of roadway In
the Bronx which the city already owned,
and making an award of $7 damages
for easements, condemnation proceed
ings cost 14655 and lasted four years.
In one proceeding on Staten Island it
cost $6000 to award $600 damages, says
the New York World. This Is a sample
of government by a political machine
that selects Judges as well as other of
ficers. . i
LINCOLN CENTENNIAL FUND
Writing of the Lincoln memorial uni
versity, which the Lincoln centennial
endowment fund committee proposes to
establish as a living memorial to Abra
ham Lincoln in celebration of the one
hundredth anniversary of his birthday,
Representative W. P. Brownlow of Ten
nessee, says:
"Not in the congressional district
which' I have the honor to represent
than the Lincoln Memorial university,
IS there a more promising institution
near the historic Cumberland gap, In
Claiborne county, Tennessee. It is not
only promising in fact, but the very
foundation and purpose of the institu
tion appeal strongly to the human side
of our nature and commend themselves
to the student of our times as well as
the philanthropist. ,
"Largely under the lead of that grand
and gallant old man. General O. O.
Howard, Lincoln Memorial university
was founded. He received the inspira
tion frojn the lamented and martyred
president himself, who upon different
occasions referred to ths people of east
Tennessee as my people,' and com
mended them for their loyalty, devotion
and courage, during the nation's tra
vail. Their steadfastness and their sac
rifices appealed to him in a peculiar
way, and "because of these feelings,
which President Lincoln freely ex
pressed. General Howard has labored to
build up an Imperishable memorial In
the very heart of the mountains of
Tennessee, the borderland of Kentucky
and Virginia. But Lincoln Memorial is
in no sense a sectional or partisan insti
tution. Ita purpose and its works are
as broad as human charity and as free
from all partisan suggestion as the sym
pathy which Lincoln always manifested
for the world's downtrodden and op
pressed. 'This Institution has 600 acres of
very fine land, and several buildings
erected thereon. The purpose ia to give
the boys and girls of that entire- section
not only a literary education, but prac
tical and technical education as well.
And in this connection the authorities
are struggling to get in a position where
they can offer to every boy and girl
an opportunity to secure an education.
Applause for Rabbi Wise.
From the New York American.
Rabbi Stephen Wise Is one of the citi
zens of whom New York has reason, to
be proud. And Rabbi Wise makes good
his claim to fearless cltiienlihip when
he protests this servile and truckling
tribute which so-Called eminent cltlsens.
Including It justices of the supreme
court, are falling over themselves to pay
to the great king of all tha grafters and
political tricksters, whose reign has
made Tammany the kingdom of graft
' Ths mere , fact, that Richard Croker
has absented himself over seas for a
season of enjoyment of the riches of his
Tammany regime does not blind the eyes
of decent people to all the thing that
Richard Croker stood for and lived for
when be wai at home in thai wigwam,
and absence doesnot purge him of the
disreputable political memories twhieh
cling to his name. ' 'v
It would be bad- ehoitsh If the'Tam.
mnnv khuk Hlonr. "liiir Tint" n'nrt '"Little
OREGON SIDELIGHTS.
. I
Eugene spent $327,000 in , on year
lor paving. a
Near beer Is now the paramount Issue
In rendieton. , ' "
Gradually towns are finding out, that
gooa paving; pays. ., . ..
Medford liquor dealers want to pay
$800 license to dg business.
Deer axe becoming quite numerous in
the, yonna valley. tuamatn county.
TTnvtns rtepMeit to risve. the kind Of
pavement is the problem at The Dalles.
There is a - TjrosDect that Klamath
Falls will have a modern first class hos
pital. - -
Ths North . Bend Harbor claims tha
tnere is a coal mine to De opened up
m tne center or mat city.
ITnlnn onrtntv continues to heln 4SUD-
ply the demand for good horses and the
prices received are remunerative, jsour
hundred dollars per span is a common
El if h teen carloads of stock were
ahlnnnri from Wallowa county this week
over xne new raiiroaa, nine ir jsmw
. . . . ,, . j . .
nrlM. five from L,ostine ana tour rrom
Wallowa, says tha Enterprise News-
Kecora. - ;
Several nrch&rdists have Informed tne
Eugene Register that their crop or sp
ues this year- nas. oeen seriously in
iirmt bv tha use nf the Swift arsenate
of lead spray used as a preventive of
the ravages of the codlln moth. Some
varieties of apples were not thus af
fected. 9
An KntornrliA man recently sold a
140 fte tract for the sum of $2000.
The purchaser expended about $250 for
the securing of water rights, and now
has sold 82.8 acres of the same tract
for $2500. He also bought a small tract
near Enterprise at over $1000 an acre.
a
(in xvtiieh road vou mav between La
Grande and Cove and you will not pass
more than 10 or la nouses, a distance
of 16 miles, says the Observer, the
holdings running from 160 to several
thousand acres. What a change will
take place along this route when this
land is irrigated. -
MnmhfleM Sun: Soma SO ex&ert saw
mill operators arrived on the last Break
water from Minneapolis and about 40
men from Portland and vicinity came
down on the Alliance Tuesday trom
Portland. They are to be engaged In
the C. a. Smith mill, which Is to start
running night and day shortly.
From all Indications, northern Lake
county will be the recipient of one of
the largest booms in the way of new
settlers and other good things next year
6f any county In the state
says the Silver Lake Leader. Paisley,
Summer Lake, and Silver Lak precinct,
which embraces one half of Lake coun
ty Is going to be strictly in It from 1909
rorwara. '
T.a nrande Observer: The first real
step toward the goal that means tripled
population of the city of La Grande,
tripled and even quadrupled wealth lu
tne valley, tue iirsi step mat mj mi
breaking up of , large land holdings
through the semi-arid ectlons of Grand
Konile valley ana. suDsmuiing ior me
diocre wheat fields, money making or
chards all within a brief period of
time was taken when Engineer PIckler
and his assistants commenced the sur
vey of the big water ditch.
Mitchell Sentinel: Sam Nelson Is a
most generous-hearted man. Some tlms
ago he delivered a load of wood at our
office. Of course he did not calculate
on the slxe of our stove when he was
sawing the wood, but we find most of
It out of proportion, about 11 inches
longer than the stove will allow. But
we have - got onto a new Idea. The
stovepipe runs straight up from the
stove and by splitting the wood fine
enough-. It can be dropped through from
the top of the pipe into the stove which
works to perfection.
no matter whether1 they have money or
not. if they are willing to work. Already
they are giving several boys and girls
who are too poor to pay their way the
advantage of this working opportunity.
Many are nowworking on the farm dur
ing the summer, and soma all the year
out of school hours, and accept credit on
the books as compensation thereof. Not
only on the farm, but where buildings
are constructed out of donations to the
institution, many boys work as mechan
ics under a skilled foreman, and thus are
credited on their tuition and mainte
nance. In fact, Lincoln Memorial uni
versity is covering the field ot scientific
farming and various branches of me
chanical work in which the boys are
trained. It trains the girls in domestic
science and trains them in the discharge
of household duties, in return for which
they receive credit.
"In a wider field, Lincoln Memorial
has connection with a splendid medical
college and a training school for nurses.
Many girls are working their way
through this splendid institution in ac
quiring, first, a literary education and
proficient training In domestic science
and household work, and then advancing
on until they are trained nurses; they
enter the world's work prepared to
serve an indispensable function and to
earn an Independent support as well.
"It Is impossible to traverse within
the brief compass of a letter like this a
Just or even approximate statement of
the Lincoln Memorial university. It Is
struggling to succeed and has succeeded
to an extent that "commends the manage
ment to the thoughtful consideration of
all. It seeks to educate and uplift those
who are willing to cojn their own labor
into better citizenship. It points the
way to every real and earnest seekes
after truth. The opportunity thus of
fered' is' meeting with a response be
yond the financial ability of the in
stitution to accommodate. , Only funds
are needed to carry the work forward.
The result of the work already done at
Lincoln Memorial university is amply
sufficient to entitle it to the unstinted
encouragement of all. A work so well
begun should not be suffered to abate
for the lack of proper support" !
should get on their marrow bones of
homage to the returning chief of the
gang and fete him in suppers and adu
late him In song and story.
But when men who occupy at least
stations of eminent respectability, and
carrying representative charaoter In
public position, fall Into line behind
this new and well timed movement to
revive Tammany's waning Influence
through Richard Croker's prestige of
baneful leadership, then - it Is, indeed,
time that decent New York should awake
to tha facts. These ovations to Croker
mean the indorsement , of Tammany,
Which is inseparable from Croker, and
put a premium, upon Crokerlstn in the
mind of the young New Yorker who
notes the bouquets and hears the trib
utes and reads the names of the eulo
gists, and Views ths event as a civic
crown upon the brow of the most con
scienceless political trickster and grafter
Of his generation. , . . ....
! Nothing more timely has been, spokeji
since the autumn came to Gotham thnn
tlie Warnins: proi-ln Imerl before tha Ktt-
Thl REALM
FEMININE,
New Business for Women.,
T
HE adaptability of the American
woman and her ability to create
a business out of. her immediate
surroundings has again been dem
onstrated by a woman in Phila
delphia who has Invented a new occu
pation. .. .. . ..
If it must have a name one might
call It "visiting housekeeper to business
women." - This woman; - left to- find
some means of support for herself and
her four children looked about her and
observed that there were many business
women near her who had no, one . to
leave in charge of their flats and to do
the cleaning and dusting, straightening
up and mending which must be done to
keep a. home homelike and tidy, and
which a woman working by the day
without direction could not do properly.
She at once bearan solicltina orders for
dally work of this kind. As she was
known to be a sood housekeeper and
entirely trustworthy she soon had as
much to do as she could manage, em
ploying a strong woman with her to do
the heavy work.
As soon as her children are off to
school ,in the morning she and her as
sistant put her own rooms straight and
and then begin on the day's work. . She
is aDie to do two riats a day excent on
Monday, when sha does four, as they
are all in the same building with her
own home. Thus by her occupation as
visiting housekeeper she manages to
earn enough to support herself and the
children, and is not obliged to be under
strict restrictions as to her time. Which
sha can arrange a best suits herself.
And she pays this tribute to the busi
ness women by whom she is employed:
"I have found that a woman who draws
alary enough as a business woman to
Keep a riat is business to the ringer
tips. Each week when I enter a flat I
look In a designated place and there 1
find my money."
It Is a Question of whether such an
employment would be possible In a city
the slxe and extent of Portland, and yet
It might serve as a suggestion to some
gin wno wonoers wnat sne can ao to
earn money without going Into a busi
ness office. Many a good housekeeper
Is spoiled that Indifferent stenoeraDhers
and clerks may be made, and both occu
pations suffer thereby.
If a girl or woman who has the
housekeeping Instinct, who really takes
fileasure In putting things straight and
n keeping rooms attractive and neat,
might use her time for the benefit of
other women who are 'now In despair
over the question of how and by whom
to get tne weekly cleaning done, it
would be a great gain to both parties.
Why not vliltlnir housekeepers? And
why not business like arrangements be
tween women wno want work done in
the homes And those who are wllllna to
give a part of their time to such work,
but who would not want to take a po
sition in a' family where such work was
looked upon as menial?
it la one of the possible solutions of
a much vexed question. . For you see
an It is now either thousands of women
must givo all their time to the dally
work in a house, adding sewing to dustlna
and cooking to cleaning and all of this
to baby tending and this to washing
and ironing, thus consuming twelve
hours a day seven days In the week, or
experts must be employed to do this
work In departments.
Community life makes It possible to
have the washing and ironing put out
of the house, for instance. One may
engage; a "woman to come In and do sow
ing; the children may be sent to kinder
garten and the older bnes to school: the
food may largely be bought cooked at
bakeries and delicatessen shops, and so
the tasks of the homekeeper mav be re-'
duced to whatever limit her abilities,
time or disposition may be able to com
pass. Bo the city flat dweller may so
ubdivldo her occupations that little Is
left of all that mountain of work which
her grandmother thnua-ht thn rhlof nH
of woman, and which her sister living
in the country cheerfully accepts and
performs jrfthout help.
She, of course, must accept the op
probrium of moralists who sigh over
her wastefulness and extravagance nn.l
her misuse of her husband's Income
but that she need not be greatly dis
tressed about, so long as her husband
himself Is complacent and so long as
she finds she can use her time and tal
ents to better purpose.
Some Idealists foresee a ntnto At an.
ciety which shall be so perfect a sys
tem of cooperation and -mutual herferi-
cence that every person no matter what
riis nee, color, age, sex or previous con
dition of servitude to the wash tub and
the cooking stove shall be able to do
the thing that he ran do heat and .
celve therefor such eaual ware a
Shall entitle him to the nilnlatmUnr . nf
other citlxens In these lines In whlt-h
ne is not proncient
In this condition it will nnt .
jarily follow that a woman knows how
rare oi a cnua necause she Is
itm IYWtV.a. HAM . 1 . I I
"", uim nni uevomes a
good housekeeper by going through the
marriage ceremonv. if she can keep
books, that she will do; If she can give
f llano lessons, she will do that: If she
s an exDert oak a mnknr aha win m i.A
cake; but whatever she does with all
her talents and to the verv best of her
abilities, that will entitle her to a liv
ing wage.
This Is npt to say that when such a
condition of things com about if It
ever does women will be happior or
mora useful to the community or more
perfect specimens of womanhood than
the present everyday home maker and
housekeeper whose busy hands and
brains find some new occupation everv
hour which must engage her time and
be done with all the ability that she
can muster to the task.
Of that question each woman may
be her own prophet.
But. It Is quite certain that many a
woman who is obliged to be occupied
with business and who must maintain
a home at the same time would be glad
If she could find such a dally house
keeper or visiting attendant as this
bright woman of Philadelphia who has
invented her own business.
at a $
Christmas' Candies.
Bv Lnrena Fran
B'
EFORB you run you must flrat
learn to walk, and the first lesson
the would-be candy maker must
learn Is to make a good, creamy fon
darrt, one that has a very fine texture
and is yet firm enough to hold Its shape
when molded. To obtain such a condi
tion great care must be taken in mixing,
boiling and beating the fondant. A few
simple rules doubtless will be found of
indispensable help to the beginner. To
make good fondant, take one pound of
sugar, one half cupful of hot water and
one half teaspoonful of cream" tartar.
Place these In a (Small agate saucepan
and stir the mixture until tb sugar Is
melted. Then wipe down iihlde of the
saucepan to remove any augar adhering
to it.
Now place the saucepan on the fire
and boll for seven minutes, counting
from the time It begins to boll., Remove
from the fire and If the syrup will spin
a short thread when tried from the fork,
it Is cooked enough. Lt stand In the
saucepan for three minutes, then pour,
onto an oiled platter Let stand until
you can 'bear your finger In It. Then
beat with a fork until white and cream v.
Turn onto your - molding board atid
knead until smooth, a Wrap' in oiled
paper and put away.' well covered, for
24 hours; It Is then ready for use.
This.. mixture Is the T?ase "of more'
than half the candles sold In the shops.
It Is used both as the center, with a
covering of somehttng else,, or as a cov
ering for fruits, nuts and other candles
When you have mastered the fondant
making thoroughly, go to a good candy
hop and select the different kinds you
wish to mnke. Ttake these home and
study them and you will soon succeed -
in copying mem. ,. ti i .
ill-
The WeyerhiuPser comnanv win
cats tlie'r Hs ianih at Klamatlxm for