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V-
When I meet with any that
write obscurely or conferee
confusedly I am apt to sus
pect two things; first, that
such persons do not under
stand themselves; and sec
ondly that they are not
worthy of being understood
by others.--!olt6n.
IP CONGRESS FIGHTS
iN ANT CLASH between congress
and the president over the se
cret service issue, congress is
very ' likely tr retire discom
fited. '. Mr: Roosevelt Is a past
.: master in the game of p'olitlcs. He
plays it with a consummate genius.
He has selected, the battle ground.
He has named the issue and has
chosen the weapons. It congress
takes, up the gauntlet, it will walk
headlong into the presidential trap.
. It is a trap ot fearful and wonder
ful mechanism, and many a congres
sional unit will .emerge from It more
or less .disfigured. . The president
will retire from it as is his wont,
r; a victor, and with the country at
. his back.
The use of the secret service for
spying. on candidates urged by sen
ators and representatives for office
"may be a new enterprise In political
lite. It may be reckoned by the leg
islative branch as an unwarranted
procedure. The manner, however,
In which presidents have been many
times imposed upon is an argument
in favor of it as a justifiable ex
.pedient. A late era of political his
Story in Oregon is a lurid record of
jabuse of the appointment of unfit
men to office, 'brought about by Jm-
proper recommendations. T. Cater
Powell is a living example, and there
tare others. The same, or worse con
ditions have prevailed in every state.
A system in which henchmen are
.named for dirty political work they
.have done or are expected to do
creates such conditions. Nobody
' knows all this better than the mas
terful political genius in the White
'House. A vast mass of evidence in
( point that has come to him through
the regular channels Is doubtless !ri
Jhis hands. Another mass that his
J secret Bervlce men have gathered
S Is declared to also be at his com
mand. At this distance, it seems
4 as if the Washington 6olons will be
wisely discreet if they side step the
pretty little party to which the artist
Jin the White House has Invited
them.
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PIONEERS OP DEVELOPMENT
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R. LOUIS W. HILL, president
of the Great Northern rail
road, and Francis B. Clarke,
president of the North Bank
,'railroad, are considering the estab
lishment Qt a steamship line between
'Portland aid San Francisco, and will
"probably decide in its favor. There
. has long been need of an additional
! line, or at least far more and bet-
,ter, service, between these cities. The
' treatment-of Portland in this re
tepect has been notoriously and al
most Intolerably bad for years, and
a new Hill steamship line will be
welcomed by Portland people almost
as much as. the new North Bank
'railroad line. But beyond the lm-
mediate benefit, there is great valoe
? la the 'fact, of which the establish
ment of this line would furnish ad
ditional and. jemphatie proof, that
this If no longer a one-man region,
in the matter of transportation,
Mr. HU1, passing from a consid
eration of this matter to a broader
and more general view, is reported
as saying: , - "We - pioneer. I We are
. always on the lookout for new terri
tory, and when wa find a promising
.section we build a branch line and
, tan It, We do not deal in lands, but
when we go Into a , , new , section,
knowing It to be good, vwe encour
age people to settle there. ' Look at
vhat has been done." He speaks
truly, and is entirely excusable'' for
t V.o Fclf-rraise. if such It b, . The
H . and prinrJpally the creator of
j- it ral'rckj called.- by his
name, have ever been, developers.
They do not wait for a region to
become well peopled and to offer a
big paying volume of products be
fore building Into it, but satisfying
themselves that it will so produce
they build into it, and carry pro
ducers into it, and so encourage and
In fact create a traffic. They "pio
neer." It Is no empty boast. And
it is one which any man may be
proud to make. As Mr, Hilt says
tersely. "Look at what has been
done." '
.Yes, look at what this pioneering
of the Hills has done in Washing
ton, and clear across to Lake Su
perior. It has added millions of
producers to that region and the re
sultant products to those states.
This pioneering work has never
been done, or at least not for many
years, in Oregon. This is the prin
cipal reason why Orecon has fallen
so far behind Washington in devel
opment. Mr. Harriman has per
sistently refused to do the pioneer
ing work done by Hill. Hence he
cannot say, "Look what has been
done."
But he Is beginning, and is ap
parently In sincere earnest, in in
tending to carry on this work in por
tions of Oregon. But he may find
competition now. "When we find a
promising section we build a branch
line and tap it," says Mr. Hill. He
will find such sections in Oregon,
and big ones, too, and now that he
has a line down the Columbia and
Into Oregon, Hill may rival Harri
man In this work of new construc
tion into long neglected regions.
OREGON PRODUCTS IX 1008
T
HERE HAS BEEN much devel
opment in many ways in Oregon
during the year drawing to a
close, and the prospect indus
trially is bright for the year soon to
begin. Yet production in some im
portant lines has been disappointing.
It is not wise to look exclusively at
the bright side and features of either
Individual, municipal or common
wealth life; disappointments, dis
couragements, afflictions and evils,
while not to be magnified or kept
principally in view, are useful for
reproof, for Instruction and even for
encburagement. They should serve
as promptings to improvement.
Not only have dairy products for
the year been below the normal, but
the same is true of orchard prod
ucts.
A Southern Pacific freight official
is quoted as saying that the fruit
output of the Rogue river valley ad
jacent to Medford is only about 200
carloads this year, against an antici
pated or possible output of 500 car
loads, and -that the yield in the state
at large has been only about half
the normal volume. This was due
principally to unfavorable weather
conditions at certain critical times,
and could not have been pre
vented, but such a partial failure
can be expected only occasionally,
and few if any people are discour
aged. Tens of thousands of trees
are being planted, especially in the
Rogue river valley, and despite the
year'B unfavorable showing Oregon
has fairly begun its march to its
proper destiny, that of being' the
greatest fruit state in the union.
The dairy industry does not pre
sent so favorable an outlook, and
seems not to have so good an ex
cuse, or a reason that can so easily
be dismissed from consideration. It
isn't growing as it ought to, and the
prospects are not bright for Oregon
to become independent in the near
future of eastern importations of
dairy products. The same can be
said of hog products and poultry and
eggs.
These are cases where no persons
in particular can be blamed; it Is a
free country for men to produce
what they please and as little as tbey
please; but The Journal Intends to
continue urging a far greater pro
duction of these things, and the
benefit to the state that will result.
Population Is Increasing; many peo
ple are coming and more will come
from other states, and It Is to be
hoped that a large portion of them
will see the matchless opportunities
in Oregon for the production of milk,
cream, butter, pork, poultry and
eggs and help to lift this state out
of Its position aB an importer of
these products. Otherwise Oregon
will have done very well during 1908
and may confidently expect to do
much better in 1909.
LIBEL
HE INSURRECTO politicians
are insulting the citizenship ot
Umatilla and Wasco counties.
They are publicly urging that
those two counties are a fruitful
field for circulating the perjury pe
titions. It is a claim that a great
body of the citizens of those coun
ties are ready to sign a written re
quest to pledged legislators to pro
fane the truth with a dismal lje. It
is a claim that belies the present
repute and the past record of both
Umatilla and Wasco counties. The
petitions have been ah utter failure
wherever, circulation of them has
been attempted. Men have not only
refused to sign them but have de
clared it an insult to be asked to
sign them. They are petitions that
have been commented upon by every
newspaper of importance In the
United States, and in every instance
they have been condemned as an in
famy unspeakable. - They are con
demned by almost' the unanimous
voice of the state press of "Oregon
as an unthfnkable outrage upon de-
cency. They are excoriated by the
spirit of every pulpit, by the spirit
of every educational institution, by
the spirit of the public school sys
tem, by the spirit of every pure
home, by the spirit of our in
stltutions, by 'the spirit and f unda
mental avowal of every political
party and by the spirit of every
hope of progress and civilization.
Umatilla county is the home of
a splendid school system In which Is
taught that truth Is precious, and
fundamental in an upright life. It is
the home of a state-maintained nor
ma! institution for the education of
teachers for the public Bchools. It
is a county of progress and virtue
with a long list of eminent and hon
orable men. It is a county of splen
did homes and notable families. The
same is true of Wasco. Any an
nouncement that the citizenship of
either is ready to give indorsement
to a plan of perjury, to a plan of
personal program as a substitute for
popular" rule,, to a plan that Is every
where condemned and nowhere ap
proved, is false on its face and an
Insult that the sequel will wipe out.
THE KING
T
HE FARMER is king. His cre
dentials for the title are the
annual report of the secretary
of agriculture. That report Is
another confirmation of the suprem
acy of the man on the land as the su
preme factor in the creation of the
country's wealth. He rolled up a
colossal total of more than seven bil
lion dollars this year. It is the most
extraordinary aggregate in the na
tion's history. In exact figures It
is $7,778,000,000. It is four times
the value of the products of the
mines, Including minerals, oils and
precious metals. He has contributed
42 per cent of all the raw materials
used In all the Industries.
The increase in farm products
over 1907 is $290,000,000 and would
have been much larger but for the
lower price of cotton and hay. The
aggregate is the climax of a suc
cession of years of unprecedented In
crease. It is a 65 per cent Increase
of the total of nine years ago. With
the products of 1899 taken at 100,
the steps by which the present colos
sal aggregate has been reached are
shown, as follows: 1903, at 125;
in 1904, at 131; in 1905, at 134; In
1906, at 143; in 1907, at 159; in
1908, at 165. For ten years the
fafni production has exceeded the
fabulous sum of $60,000,000,000.
The corn crop for the year Is worth
$1,615,000,000, and is an Increase
of 43 per cent over the average for
five years. The cotton crop is one
of the three highest ever produced
and with a value, in spite, of low
prices, next to the highest. The
greatest hay crop in history has been
gathered. Its farm value Is $621,
000,000 or 6 per cent above the five
year average. Wheat is 620,000,000
bushels, or 23 per cent increase in
the ordinary total value. The oats
increase is 10 per cent, barley 23
per cent, rye 17 per cent with sim
ilar increases all along the line.
The story is one of unvarying
growth. It is a marvelous tale of
agricultural achievement. It is
anomalous that in the midst of it
there Bhould be lack of comfort, con
venience and thrift in the country
home, the home of this king in our
wealth production.
CALHOUN
T
HE EYES of the country will
be focused on San Francisco
next month. On the 5th inst.
begins a legal battle that will
be one of the most notable in the
court annals of the coast. It will
be the trial of Patrick Calhoun, a
New York millionaire, for the al
leged offering of a bribe to Super
visor Nichols -46 secure a favorable
report on an overhead trolley fran
chise. The late conviction of Ruef
lends double Interest to the coming
trial of Calhoun. The best legal
talent that money can secure has
been retained for the defense and
the assemblylng of the forces has
begun. With a powerful array of
assistants Francis J. Heney will lead
the attack, and It will be the su
preme test of the widely known pros
ecutor's forensic strength. The busi
ness connections and financial stand
ing of the defendant will add ac
cumulated interest to the proceeding
and give to It a character that did
not attach to the Ruef trials. Fur
ther unusual interest will appear in
the fact that the defendant is a type
of man rarely found in the prisoner's
dock. The procurement of valuable
franchises by the means alleged in
this case are often heralded by ru
mor, but it fs seldom that the big
actor in the game Is brought to the
bar of justice. Here there is such a
man, and confronting him there is a
powerful engine of prosecution and
doubtless a powerful array of evi
dence. These considerations, to
gether wlthVhe consequences that
would flow from- a conviction, will
make the coming legal struggle one
of commanding importance and ex
traordinary interest.
Ex-Sheriff Durbin of Marion
county is in favor of allowing no
private ownership of guns of any
description under any circumstances
whatever. He would have the coun
ty lay in a stock of guns and issue
them only to responsible persons,
for certain uses, who should pay for
a permit to carry them. This plan
la possibly too drastic, and then un
less this were the law everywhere,
people of afly county could, procure
gobs elsewhere. But it Is gratify-
In gly significant that so many peo
ple are considering and discussing
the problem of disarming vicious,
reckless and irresponsible gun toters.
Something should be done In this
direction, and it Is none too early to
add action to talk. ;
After all, one of the stories about
Governor Haskell and Standard Oil,
sprung in the heat of the late cam
paign, is untrue, and has been so
acknowledged by the newspaper that
started It. It was the story with
reference to Governor Haskell and
the Prairie Oil company, and pub
lished in the Guthrie Times. Gov
ernor Haskell brought two liber pro
ceedings and as a result Editor Bene
dict, in a signed article in his paper,
acknowledges that the story is un
true. The libel suits have been dis
missed.
Tkc Club
It 1 no exaggeration to say that the
refusal of the Indianapolis News to
support tho Republican national and
state tickets was a heavy handicap to
the Republican party in Indiana. Bryan
came within 10,000 votes of carrying the
state, while the Democrats succeeded in
winning the. governorship and United
States Benatorahip results for which
Republicans hold the News largely re
sponsible. That the News incurred the
president's deep, displeasure by Its po
litical course needs no proof; that he
was all the angrier because of the
friendship between Vice President Fair
banks and Delavan Smith needs no dem
onstration. Such is the background of
the affair, as probably nine out of ten
Journalists see it. Mr. Smith is not in
the least likely to fall in the esteem of
his neighbors, his friends or the news
paper world because of his sudden ele
vation to the drollest of American con
celts, the Ananias club. Springfield Re
publican. The president's charges of falsehood,
when now applied to any person, do not
have bo much force as they might have
had before he developed the habit of
alleging untruthfulness against men of
high character. What we may
hope for Is that we shall now have
tho full truth In regard to the Panama
canal sale, and also a verification of
the facts about trie oil rrancnise in
Oklahoma in regard to which the presi
dent Is alleged to have overruled the
action of the former Secretary of tbe
nterior, Ethan Allen Hitchcock. Hart
ford Times.
The Portland Postoffice.
From the Salem Journal.
State politics are to be shaken to the
bottom in the controversy over the ap
pointment of John C. Young as postmas
ter at Portland.
Mr. Young Is a poor man with a
large family, lives In Portland and has
several of his children married there,
and all are respectable.
He Is not one of the old first families,
but blew into Oregon from Salt Iake
City about 20 years ago, and has never
stolen anything.
Hence he is highly unfit to hold any
public position. In the eyes ot the old
political machine, if they happen to want
the place.
Above all other sins, he is a friend
of Senator Bourne, a Statement Oner, a
reform Republican, and a man of brains
and ability.
It happens he got the appointment at
the hands of President Roosevelt, and
the machine push senators will fight
his confirmation.
As the United States senator has the
right by courtesy to name the postmas
ter in his home city. Bourne has the
best of it.
It Is to be regretted that one of the
officeholdlng hierarchy cannot have the
Portland postofflcet and that It must
go to one of the plain common people
like Young.
Some mistake about that. A man who
has been in office at least 20 years
should have the place. This passing
such things around to a man who has
not been an officeholder Is a mistake.
However, Young might be honest and
competent. That would go far to pal
liate the offense of naming a people's
champion for postmaster.
The Path of Duty in Oregon.
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
(Rep.)
Not only would the governor of Ore
gon have the, right to refuse to certify
the election of a United States senator
from that state, should the legislature
deliberately disregard and defy the plain
wishes of the people of Oregon, as ex
pressed at the polls, but It would be
his bounden duty to do so.
The obligation in OregCjn is doubly
binding on the executive, and it should
be doubly glnding on the legislature;
for popular selection of a senator in
that state is by legislative authority.
In the first instance: and, besides, the
policy was approved by the people when
it was submitted to them by the legis
lature, and the people have proceeded,
In perfect good faith, to make a selec
tion under it.
What more Is needed to mark out the
clear path of duty of the Oregon legis
lature In the pending caseT What more
Is needed to determine the clear right
of the governor to flatly refuse to cer
tify the election of a senator by the leg
islature, Rhould an election be made In
direct violation of a .legally and conr
stltutionally authorized compact between
the people of Oregon and the legisla
ture of Oregon?
The pledge in Oregon and in other
states where it has been authorized by
the legislature. Is legally, constitution
ally and morally binding in senatorial
elections, and It cannot be honorably
evaded; ff any attempt is made to evade
It In Oregon or elsewhere, the governor
will hold the whip and he should use it
This Date in History.
16R3 Izaak Walton died. Born August
9, 1593.
1789 The first circulating library was
established in Salem, tass.
1796 General "Mad" Anthony Wayne
died In Presque Isle, Pa. Born In East
town, Pa., January 1. 1745,
1835 Patent office and postoffice In
Washington burned.
1846 The first regiment to fight
against Mexico waa organized In Pitts
burg. 1892 Tandall L. Gibson, United States
senator from Louisiana, died "at. Hot
Springs, Ark.
1893 A provincial plebiscite In
Prince Elward Island supported prohibi
tion of the .liquor traffic by an over
whelming majority.
1906 The new law separating church
and state went into force In France.
Mrs. Wood and nine children, th
youngest about 18 months -old, came
her about a year ago from the east,
says The JDsJles Chronicle. Her hus
band died there. ' The eldest boy has
helped support th family by blneklng
shore in this city. The mother and four
"hildreo are sick' In the hoollal. suf
fering' from typhoid fevor. and the
mother may not reoover. The family is
it (tuts ot clothing and the necessaries
cf !"
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
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They can still be bought fairly earljr,
Less lawing rather than more judges.
is needed.
Congressmen are lucky; they are not
nn M hv th rlnv
What Haiti needs is a sauad of first
ciass policemen.
Old girls, there's only two weeks
more of leap year.
Roosevelt will manage to have some
run with congress yet.
a
Big stores are advertising for sales
people, xv o loaiers neea sppiy.
But if a passenger hancs on outside
ana can t enter, now can he pay.
Watch passing- Onoortunltv: seize and
corral ner; yea, she a female.
Taft can srove an alibi as to the
breaking down of that Panama dam.
Bank robbery seems to be about as
safe as burglary and murder In Port
land.
Will Oregon have to offer a bounty or
premium on dairy products, pork and
eggs .'
Have Abruzzi and Miss Elklns van
ished from public view for a few days
at last?
a
It might be a rood idea to send some
Oregon rosea to eastern friends for
Christmas presents.
The house having actually Dassed two
bills, congress Is becoming anxious to
adjourn for the holidays.
What sort of undesirables are those
men who renorted and nubllshed that
accident to the Gatun dam?
5
In golnsr Into the circus business.
John w. Gates only branches out from
Wall street to find suckers.
a
Two Seattle undertakers have filed
bills for burying the same man. The
Seattle spirit is lrrepresslDle.
We will all be dead and let us hope
happy or peaceful before the paving
dispute in Portland is settled.
a . - - .
Now members of the legislature
sho:ld be studying Oregon's needs and
egistation tnercror, and some are.
Mr. Taft says he will drink no more
wine or llouor. but he doesn't order
everybody else to become teetotalers.
a
Seattle is advertising for bids for
1400.000 school bonds. But that la
nothing for a city of 2.79.1,639 Inhabi
tants.
a
An exchange has a long editorial en
titled. "The Issues of 1909." "For
heaven's sake" can't we have a few
minutes' rest from "Issues?"
a
Whatever the neanut nolittclans want.
the people want Inland waterways and
improved rivers and harbors. The peo
ple, not tne politicians, pay.
a
No, Mr. Archbold didn't fix the rail
road rates: the railroads fixed them as
Mr. Archbold ordered. ' Mr. Archbold
w6uld also have made a great lawyer,
a
The Holland government, a dispatch
say. doesn't consider the capture of
a Venezuelan vessel an unfriendly act.
This must be a sample of Dutch hu
mor. a
Among the many bills that the next
two congresses will have to consider,
one of the most Interesting and im
portant will be the Bill who sits over
at the White House.
a a
John D. Rockefeller gave a New Jer
sey waiter a tin of 6 cents and advised
him to put It In a savings bank. The
old man probably considered the advice
of value enough to make a big tip.
FAMOUS GEMS OF PROSE
'Defense of the J ewi"
(From a speech In the English house
of commons, April 17, 1833.)
Sir, It is amusing to compare the man
ner in which the question of Catholic
emancipation was argued formerly by
some gentlemen with the manner In
which the question of Jewish emancl
patlon Is argued by the same gentlemen
now. When the question was about
Catholic emancipation the cry was:
"See how restless, how versatile, how
encroaching, how Insinuating is the
spirit of the church of Rome. See how
her priests compass earth and sea to
make one proselyte, how lndefatlgably
they toil, how attentively they study
the weak and strong parts of every
character, how skillfully they employ
literature, arts, sciences, as engines for
the propagation of their faith. You find
them in every region and under every
disguise, collating manuscripts in the
Bodleian, fixing telescopes In the ob
servatory of Peking, teaching the use
of the plow and the spinning wheel to
the savages of Paraguay. Will you give
power to the members of a church so
busy, so aggressive, so insatiabier
Well, now the question Is about peo
pie who never try to seduce any stranger
to Join them, and who do not wish any
body to be of their faith who Is not also
of their blood. And now you exclaim
"Will you give power to the members
of a sect which remains sullenly apart
from other sects, which does not In
vite, nay, which hardly even admits,
neophytes?"
The honorable member of Oldham tells
us that the Jews are naturally a mean
race, a sordid race, a money getting
race: that they are averse to all honor
able callings; that thejt, neither sow nor
reap; that they have neither flocks nor
herds; that usury Is the only pursuit
for which they are fit; that they are
destltue of all elevated and amiable
sentiments. Such, sir, has In every age
been the reasoning -of bigots. They
never fall to plead In justification of
persecution the vices which persecution
has engendered. England haa been to
the Jews less than half a country; and
we revile them because they do not
feel for England more than a half-patriotism.
We treat them as slaves, and
wonder that they do not regard us as
brethren. We drive them to mean oc
cupations and then reproach them for
not embracing honorable professions. We
long forbade them to possess land; and
we complain that they chiefly occupy
themselves in trade. We shut them out
from all the paths of ambition, and
then we despise them for taking refuge
in avarice. During many ages we have,
in all our dealings with them, abused
our immense superiority of force, and
then we are disgusted because , they
have recourse to that cunning which
I the natural and universal defense of
the weak, against the violence of th
strong. '. .
But were they always a mere money
changing, money getting, money hoard
ing race? Nobody knows better than
myvbonorable friend, th member for th
University of Oxford, that ther is noth
ing In their national character which
unfits them for the highest duties of
citizens. He "knows that, in the infancy
of civilization, when our island". was
as savage as New Guinea, when letters,
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NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS,
6alem and the cowmen - were pleased
with each other.
Biggest holiday trad over, report
many Oregon papers.
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Many new settlers are coming to
Hermlston and ylclnity.
A Lumbermen's Hospital association
haa been formed at Astoria.
Large areas are being planted to
appies on uuicn rial, wasco county.
A Minnesota man has bought 12 acres
ot orcnara land near Asmana ror jauuo
The North Brownsville school dls
trlct has 268 school age children, a gain
in a year oi zs.
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The Alfalfa Meal company . of Echo
nas rented or one man lib acres or. ai
fairs, land at $15 per acre.
The school census of Sugene shows
zsuu or scnooi age, -vmcn gives an eau
matca population oi ii.bou.
Large numbers of agates, soma very
line ones, have lately been captured on
Agate oeacn in curry county,
Many hoars have died around June
tion Cltv. as waa supposed from
cholera, but a . veterinarian says it is
reasies.
A Jasper. Lane county, man has
strawberry patch from whioh himself
and raraiiy are garnering an me ripe,
juicy strawberries tney want to eat.
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The La Orande beet sugar factory
ill prooablT he removed to - ugaen.
Utah, as the company's soil will not
produce sufficiently without irrigation
Since the station at Hermlston was
first opened It has been a continual
urnrlsa to the railroad neonle in the
great amount of freight traffic It has
lurnisnea.
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A carload of Eagle Point Spltzenberg
apples sold on a bad market day ,ln Mew
York for J3.26 a box. Some fancy
Bnltzenberrs have sold as hls-h as 14.50
at Med lord.
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The largest salmon pack made on the
Sluslaw In 16 or 20 years naa just been
comnleted. according to a Florence can
neryman. The pack of the two canneries
win amount to aoout io.uuu cases.
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Grandma Hardman. 85 years of age,
and living near spleer, by tne reeen
birth of a babv daughter to Mrs. Ben
nett of Albanv has reached the dignity
of being a great-great-grandmother, an
honor accorded to but very few per
sons.
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An artesian well has been struck near
Tlmbler, Union county, the water rising
12 reet above tne suriace. ine siriKe
was made in Just nine hours from the
time the drilling was commenced ana
after the well had been put down a dis
tance of 12S reet.
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J. H. Albert of Salem said In the dairy
convention that he came to Ore
gon 40 years ago, from his own choice;
that he expects to stay here 40 years
lonrer. and then. If he likes the country
as well as he does now, he will settle
down and become a permanent citizen
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What is probably the largest tree
ever placed In the waters of the Colum
bia river was hauled out of the woo.
Friday at 8vensen. It waa 128 feet
In length to the first limb. 109 Inches
in dtanseter at tne butt, t9 inches In
diameter at the top- and contained 47
973 feet, board measure.
According to an estimate of a district
freight agent of the Southern Pacific
ine nogue niver vaney anoui Menrord.
Vhlch ships now in a normal year 500
cars of fruit, will shin within five years
at least 5000. cars, over twice the pres
ent outrut or tne entire state, in 10
years shipments from the Medford dls
trlct will total 10.000 cars, based only
upon the orchards now planted or be
ing planted.
By T. B. Macaulay
when scarcely a thatched hut stood on
what was afterwards the site of Rome,
this contemned people had their fenced
cities and cedar palaces, their splendid
temple, their fleets of merchant ships.
their schools of sacred learning, their
great statesmen and soldiers, their nat
ural philosophers, their historians and
their poets. What nation ever contend
ed more manfully against overwhelm
ing odds for Its Independence and relig
ion? What nation ever. In its last agon
ies, gave such signal proofs of what
may be accomplished by a brave de
spair? And if, in the course of many
centuries, the oppressed descendants of
warriors and sages have degenerated
from the qualities of their fathers, if,
while excluded from the blessings of
law, and bowed down under the yoke
of slavery, they have contracted some
of the vices of outlaws and of slaves,
shall we consider this as matter
of reproach to them? Shall we not
rather consider It as matter of
shame and remorse to ourselves? Let
us do justice to them. Let us open
to them the door of the house of com
mons. Let us open to them every ca
reer in which ability and energy can be
displayed. Till we have done this, let
us not presume to say that there Is no
genius among the countrymen of Isaiah,
no heroism among the descendants of
the Maccabees.
John E. PJIIsbury's Birthday.
Captain John E. Plllsbury, chief of
the navigation bureau of the navy de
partment, was born in Lowell, Mass.,
December 15. 1346, and was appointed
to the naval academy In 1862 by Pres
ident Lincoln. He waa at the academy
through all tho days of the civil war,
although he incidentally saw some ac
tive service. Graduating in 1866 he
put m his first and practice cruise on
the old frigate Minnesota. . His first
regular assignment after reaching the
old rank of master was to the Boston
navy yard. In the years that followed
he saw much service on land and sea.
He did much valuable work In the coast
survey service and was stationed at
various ,. times In Asiatic and European
waters. During the Spanish war he
commanded the dynamite cruiser Vesu
vius In 1902 he became a member of
the general board and later was ap
pointed assistant to the chief of the
navigation bureau. In 1905 he was chief
of staff of the North Atlantic fleet.
Early In the present year he became
chief of the navigation bureau. Through
out thenayal service Captain Plllsbury
is recognized as an expert In hydrogra
phlc and geodetic work and much of his
servlc In th navy hag been In these
lines-.
St. Peter's Recall. '
From th Canyon City Eagla
The Oregonian argues that a oroiaiaa
or a broken pledge Is not constitutional.
Walt till the great editor comes up
before fit Peter with this argument
and It is a fair guess to say. that be
will well for a recall tn some of his
terrestrial admonitions. -.
Falls City, ssvs a cnrrpnrnnH..Ht i.
rapidly Improving, business in all lines
Is. expanding:, ant everyone Is -con?-
SR RL ALM
FEMININE.
The Shopping or the. Babies. '
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T A. TIRE in a residence district
In a certain town .recently, the
policeman cam running breath
less at the. first alarm, and to
the crowd of neighbors sympa
thetically wondering if thev could be of
any assistance, he did not hesitate to
ten tne cause of his haste. ,
"I thought that it might be another
case," he said, "of the parents going-'
shopping and leaving- the babies in bed.
If there's any criminal in the city that
I'd like to arrest it's the parent who
will lock the children in tho house and
go on a shopping tour."
His warning ia' worth passing along,
for that just thin thing happens one has
only to glance over the dally papers to
see. It seems almost an incredible
thing that parents will place their chil
dren's lives in Jeopardy with such ap
parent nonchalance, but the fact re
mains that many Innocents ar nightly
plnced at the mercy of a chance breeze
and a gas jet, a wood burning atove, a
kerosene lamp In the flimsy houses that
are the most common kind In. this part
of the country.
And this sort of carelessness is most
apparent at the Christmas time. Busy
fople cannot always get away conven
ently during th day. It is hard work
to shop with the children along, and
mighty hard on the children. The fath
er can not go along to do any of the
shopping expect at, night, and so, rea
soning that '"everybody does it," and
the children Will be all right If they
are in bed, people take the risk and go
off for the shopping tour, always spend
ing twice as much time as they had ex
pected to in the performance.
Ninety times out of a hundred there
Is no accident; the children are all
found asleep when they return, the lamp
did not explode, the curtain did not
blow into the gas, the neighbor's house
did not burn and cremate the babies in
their bed. But that result Is not due
to the wise management of the parents.
It is a gambler's chance with fate If It
be so.
The firemen know that the locked up
house and the crlminallv endangered ba
bies are no myth; the policeman on th
residence beat knows it, and keeps a
sharp lookout for iust this chance:
everybody who reads the papers knows
it, and . yet parents do not seem to
know It.
An instance of the severinr of the
marital tie on such grounds happened
once, and might with good reason hap
pen again. ine taie was voucnea ror
dm one who knew the circumstances. A
mother of a 10-months-old baby was
very fond of the theatre, and chafed at
being always deprived of the pleasure
of attending. As the husband had often
to work late at night he could not go
with her, but she arranged one night
to go with a woman friend, and asked
another neighbor to come to her house
and stay with the child. The neighbor
snld she would, and the mother went
off leaving her baby in his high chair
at the table. Late In the evening the
father came home. He found the little
one asleep, doubled over in Its chair
and half resting upon the dining room
table on which stood a kerosene lamp.
The neighbor had not come. The father
carefully raised th sleeping baby, un
dressed It and went to bed. The next
day he applied for a divorce. Upon the
grounds or the mother's incompetence to
take care of her child he received it.
1 lint that kind of care was worse
than that of a hireling was his Judg
ment, and who shall say that he was
wrong? You cot not tell what will
happen to babies left alone at night.
Anv .hnfjk ltr.a as ,nont(nnn,l IhA
childish curiosity, the attempt even of
the older one of the group to do some
fhtng "grown up," lust to show his re
sponsibility, mav all contribute to an
end which is terrible to contemplate.
In the name of the Innocent bable.1
whose lives are in your keeping, don't
go shopping at night and leave them at
home; take them along or lenve them
with a neighbor, or secure a trust
worthy neighbor before you so. Better
still, arrange to do the shopping in the
morning and have a mutual arrange
ment with some of tho neighbors who
are situated in lust the same way. Let
a mothers', club of neighbors be formed
wunout orricers and dues, and let each
mother have her turn at the shopping
while the babies are cared for and
happy.
Oh it is easy enough to manage it In
sdme other way than at so terrible and
awful a risk to the babies.
Ir Christmas Dresent to one's nbsnnt
friends must be procured at so affright
lnar a cost, how much better to tnlcH a
quiet hour after the little ones are In
bed and write a cordial little Christmas
note, telling ones friends that to nr
down town and buy them something
would have been a. nleasant thinu to An
but that you would not run the, risk of
irnvine inp names aione.
Don t please don't lock the rMMrn
In the house nd go down town to do
Christmas shopping.
Your friends may go without a pres
ent, but you will have your babies.
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Getting In Line.
T the annual meetlngW the Illinois
Federation of WomeSjfl clubs re
cently held at East St. Louis, says
What to Eat, the following resolutions
were adopted:
"Whereas. Thesub)eet of mire tnnA
affects fundamentally the health of the
home and the community; therfore be
It resolved.
"First That we. Illinois clubwomen.
urge the study of mire foods on nil
clubs.
'Second That srtenlal emnhnsfs h
laid upon the read In b- of labels of all
foods and drugs purchased.
inira 'i hat the sale of food ex nosed
on the street or uncovered In the shop
should be prohibited by ordinance.
"Fourth That the sale of unlnsnected
meats be prohibited In our markets.
"firm Tbat all clubs work for a .
ocal market inspector preferably a
woman.
It would seem that the St. LonU
clubwomen have had an eye on Port-
and.
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Cookies Without Eggs.
I
N reading Tho Journal I noticed a
recipe for cookies without eggs.
Will send one which I think is bet
ter. Cookies made after this recipe
will keCD anv lensrth of time If kent
dry.
Cookies Without Ra-srs nni'rnn of
butter or half butter and half lard, one
cup or not water, two cups of sugar,
two teaspoons ful baking powder, flavor
with anything you like, flour to thicken.
Place sugar, butter and hot water in
pan and stir all together until butter
and sugar are melted. Then stir in
flour and baking powder. Add flavor
ing and roll out und bake in a hot oven.
MRS. E. M. J.
Recipes are always welcome when
they are tried and proven. By sending
In your suggestions you may be a great
help to some other reader.
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Fairy Fudge.
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NE pound granulated sugar, half
cupful cream, two tablespoon fn Is
butter, half pound marshmallows.
one tablespoonful . almond extract anil
one cupful almonds, blanched and cut
Into strips. Place the sugar, cream and
butteV In a saucepan and cook to- me
dium, ball stage. Remove from the fire
and . add the marshmallows, cut int
pieces. Cover closely and let stand
Until the - marshmallows are melted,
then add the extract and almonds and
beat until it begins to thicken. Pour
Into shallow greased pans and When
cold cut In squares, , .: :
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Hlllsboro Argus: Ten ' years , will
make a great difference In the apbear
ance of the country adjacent to Port
land.' Dozens of T?brtiand real estate
men are now advertising villa tracts in
this county. andmany more such tracts
will be mapped out and placed upon the