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first sight. 'Tls ye that open
the door and let the stranger
in. Sterne.
A VALUABLE TRIP
F
PORTLAND business men have
returned. They swung around
the circle of Washington cities.
New knowledge, new Ideas and
ew Inspiration are before them,
them. They have contrasted and
compared, and are ready to give
Portland life and industry the ben
efit of their observations. The clam
that never ventures outside its own
hell la always a clam. It never evo-
lutes Into a higher form of life. The
price of change is a horizon widened
by Investigation. The men who shut
themselves up within the gates of
their own city and see nothing to
suggest improvement keep the bars
to progress closed. A man cannot
lift himself by his own bootstraps
To bump against the world, even
that part of it in Wahsington, is to
gather information. The Portlander
who focuses his practiced eye on
Tacoma, Spokane or Seattle, is im
pressed with something here and
there that oufeht to ba adooted In
Portland's commercial, 'industrial or
civic appointments. The business
men who have returned to ua after
whirl through all the Washington
cities are surcharged with enthusi
asm and suggestion for Portland.
They saw civic forms they want In
corporated here. They have climbed
the mountains that bar the way to
Puget Sound from the Inland .Em
pire, and seen the vastness of the
latter region and its accessibility to
Portland. They have swept down
the Columbia gorge by water grade
railroad, and with their own eyes
beheld the accessibility paramount
In which Portland stands to the
gathering products of the great areas
beyond the Cascades. After this trip
" the commercial blood" of Portland
ought not to be impoverished. It
will doubtless pulsate from a more
Vigorous heart beat and flow faster
with an augmented confidence in the
power of Portland and Portlanders.
BREAD-LINE GRADUATES
AMONG the unfortunates in a
Bowery bread-line In New
York recently were 3 9 col
lege graduates. A single
night's search through the Bowery
revealed . 400 such graduates in in
digent circumstances. These epi
sodes have been the occasion of
wide comment throughout the coun
try in which the usual conclusion is
that they demonstrate the failure of
college training. The late.Collis P.
Huntington once startled the coun
try by the blunt declaration that
too much liberal education is being
given the people. In a recent ad
dress, Rabbl Wise of Portland de
clared that through the inefficiency
of students and courses, college
training in sometimes as harmful as
helpful to young men. Dr. Wise
was at the same time emphatic in
urging the efficacy of a sound col
lege education and Is an ardent be
liever In liberal culture.
The Bowery episodes prove noth
ing. It was not -the education that
brought these graduates to the
bread-line. It was rather the lack
of well-rounded education and thor
ough self-discipline. The statement
of Mr. Huntington proves nothing.
It was born of the . arrogance of
wealih, accumulated by fate, chance,
accident and cheating the govern
ment. Everything in a college train
ing is helpful to its possessor. The
social diversions, the ovorzeal In
eports and the recklessness of the
campus, are not parts of the curric
ulum. They are excrescences and
"sometimes abuses of college life and
make an atmosphere antagonistic to
efficient endeavor. But those who
carry them to college and practice
'them there would exemplify them
Just the same in any other sphere,
and probably with less restriction
and more harm. If they become hu
man derelicts as did those in the
Bowery bread-line, it was not the
college, but the individual that did
It. Men 4iave ; weaknesses and the
adolescent is but ' half disciplined.
The Influences that fall around him
under the shadows of the college
are for uplift;' but they cannot up-
, lift a youth that clings to abandon.
The waf;oilrir "WattTP'tifcrii" c0'
Laae training as his capital has a
long start In the race of life. The
same youth without has an awful
handicap in these deadly days of sur
vival of the fittest. Life Is a war
of wits and the keenest mind backed
by the best .disciplined body stands
by far the best show of rounding
out a winner.
Bob Ingersoll once said, that "the
object of all education should be to
increase the usefulness of a man
usefulness to himself andvothers."
He added that "the more real edu
cation the less crime and the more
homes, the fewer prisons." In this
usefulness to himself and to others
the Bowery graduates were lacking,
not from their education, but from
their own weakness. They may
fiave belonged to that school of
graduates who regard work as de
grading and whom an eminent
American has described as "willing
to taint their souls in order to keep
their hands white."
The only moral in it all is that
vast responsibilities rest upoji col
lege faculties. Possibly, wiser ad
ministration in the class rooms and
more careful surveillance of the cam
pus might have trained the Bow
ery graduates for another and bet
ter sphere than the Bowery bread
line. Possibly, a more masterful
leadership and a more serious con
templatlon of their weighty respon
slbilities by college faculties might
save other graduates from other
bread-lines.
PRACTICAL EDUCATION
P'
ROFESSOR CONK LING of the
Ontario public school, says the
Optimist of that town, ' has se
lected as one of the subjects
for discussion and debate among the
students the irrigation question
which is now absorbing the interest
of the people hereabout. The fresh
men of the high school are busy now
on a debate which they are prepar
ing on the subject. They have read
all the material the Optimist office
and various other offices and librar
ies had to offer on the subject, and
the general opinion among the stu
dents Is a healthy reflection of the
sentiment among their elders that
we "must build for the future and
build permanently."
It seems to the Journal that this
is a very good idea on the part of
Professor Conkllng. Our school
children, boys especially, should be
educated along these lines as to
Irrigation, dairying, fruit raising
gardening and all practical things of
outdoor life. These are more valu
able than what they get out of-text
books and the two should go
together.
SECRETARY WILSON AND
WHEAT
N'
OBODY, so far as The Journal
has observed, agrees with Sec
retary of Agriculture Wilson
in his recent wheat estimates.
Mr. George D. Moulton of Rochester,
N. Y., wrote an Interesting letter to
the New York Sun, in part as fol
lows: High prices for wheat threatened
higher prices for flour and so for bread.
In addition to informing the people of
this fact certain newspapers discussed
editorially on the) philosophy of the al
legation that the high price was due
to a nefarious corner In wheat con
trolled by James Patten of Chicago.
That was Important, If true, for no one
enjoys being sandbaggeil and robbed.
Some of us have trouble paying our
rent as It is. The newspapers told us
also that Patten had sold out and pock
eted Jj, 000, 000. We all felt Indignant.
With the news came a drop of 10. cents
a bushel, and every one who owned any
wheat sold out. Then a strange thing
happened. Stealthily, like a thief in
the night, unheralded, unnoted, unex
plained by the press, May wheat creeps
back to $1.29 Vi, a price higher than
that before Patten sold out. We were
Interested to know from a portion or
the press that the former price was the
result of a "corner." Some of us are
now varying to learn from the press
why wheat Is now higher than ever,
with no Patten to lay It a. Is there
no one to tell us; no one, that Is, be
sides J. J. Hill, who said In defiance of
public pother that the price of wheat
was due to a supply and demand law
following a short world's crop? Can
t be Just possible that the hue and
cry against the so-called manipulators
was really due to a failure to under
stand fundamentals In the present situ
ation ?
Mr. Hill was right, and Mr. Wilson
was wrong, all along. The bulls may
have exaggerated the situation a lit
tle, but the fact is that exaggeration
was unnecessary. They simply saw
the fact, and it was open to anybody
to see it. Mr. Wilson must revise
his system of gathering crop statis
tics, or the people will lose faith en
tirely in the information furnished
by his department.
A SPIRIT UNBREAKABLE
T
HE WORLD must marvel at the
vitality of San Francisco. To
a less dauntless people, the
awful cataclysm of April, 19u6.
would have been a discouragement
paramount. Acres and acres of
what was once a proud architecture
and throbbing life, were reduced in
tnree days ot quake and fire to i
chared ruins, covering the ground
almost fathoms dee. Fortunes had
been swept away, and the savings
of lifetimes snufred out in a twink
ling. Thousands upon thousands
were without homes, without money,
without food, and almost naked.
. Three years later, the ruin and
devastation is only a mere memory.
In the catastrophe, 28,000 buildings
and contents were obliterated. To
day 20,477 of them "have been re
placed.1 Many of the old ones were
ancient and unsightly structures.
Most of the new ones are on proud
architectural lines and the destroyed
district is rounding into a literal
city beautiful. In spite of its awful
calamity that caused people every
where to wonder if the city would
not be abandoned, San Francisco has
resumed her position as 1 the me
tropolis of the far west. In the
restoration, $1 42,243,645 has been
expended in building operations. It
is a remarkable achievement ny re
markable men, and a mighty mani
festation of the unbreakable San
Francisco spirit.
HOW MISSISSin-IAN'S WON
HE LORDS of the admiralty
at Washington have been en
lightened as to the deep Inland
water way sentiment in the
south. They denied the request of
patriotic citizens of Mississippi to
permit the battleship Mississippi to
ascend the Mississippi river to Nat
chez to receive a silver service, the
gift of the people of the state. The
denial Implied that the great river
Is unnavigable, and from the flood
of telegrams that began to pour, in
from every state in the south, the
department learned that not merely
a single state, but the whle Missis
sippi valley had been offended. Deep
water associations, river improve
ment societies, dig-her-deep clans,
and prominent citizens descended up
on Washington with the result that
the orders were reversed post haste
and the new battleship is to go to
Natchez, even if she tears the bot
tom out of the river in the attempt.
It was a victory for deepened water
ways, won over an officialdom noted
for obduracy in such matters, and
Is enjoyable in the many sections
that have suffered over much from
similar discriminations.
INCREASING IMMIGRATION
T
HE immigration Into the Pacific
Northwest during the recent
period of reduced rates was
encouragingly large and was
greater, according to figures fur
nished by the railroads, than during
any similar preceding period. And
the most satisfactory feature of it
was that for the first time, probably,
Oregon received more of the immi
grants than Washington, showing
that the advertising done by the
railroads and by communities and
otherwise is bearing fruit, and that
Oregon is at last getting somewhat
of the reputation it deserves.
But large and encouraging as this
influx of new settlers has been, as
compared with former years it is yet
small in proportion to what Oregon,
with Its Immense wealth of natural
but as yet but little developed re
sources deserves. Where a thousand
have come, there should be ten thou
sand in the near future, and the ten
thousand should again be multiplied
into 100,000. For there is room in
Oregon, and there are opportunities,
for millions. Many people, in a sense,
need Oregon, as well as Oregon needs
them.
So the advertising, the publicity
work, should be kept up and in
creased in vigor and scope. Many
other thousands should come this
fall, and still larger numbers next
year, and increasingly from year to
year until Oregon, if she does not
actually overtake Washington In pop
ulation, products and wealth, at least
can show large relative gains. Oregon
and Washington are pretty nearly
equal in resources and opportunities.
with the single exception of rail
roads, and these must come soon. If
Mr. Harriman will not build them.
others will. Let everybody, in what
ever way he can, if In no other way
than writing an occasional letter
back east about Oregon, do what he
can to make a greater and better
state.
ONLY A START MADE YET
T
HE statistics gathered by the
men officially engaged in
stream gauging show that the
Umatilla river as a reclamation
agency is not being used to anything
like the maximum of its possibilities,
says the East Oregonlan. According
to the Information given by the state
engineer it takes in general from
three to four acre feet of stored
water to reclaim an acre of land. So
it is to be seen that through the use
of reservoirs the Umatilla may be
made to irrigate from 125,000 to
IjO.OOO acres of land. At this time
there are about ."i 0,000 acres of land
in the combined projects of the west
end. The river Is capable of reclaim
ing from 75,000 to 100.000 acnes in
addition to that now under ditch.
This is very significant informa
tion, in connection with that gained
In recent years about the immense
value of water upon lands. This work
will he prosecuted, undoubtedly, with
increasing vigor, intelligence and
success, not only in the utilization of
the Umatilla river, but of the Grand
Ronde, Powder river, the Malheur,
the Clackamas, the Rogue and a
hundred other Oregon streams. Truly,
our development Is just beginnJng.
If all the claims of the patentee
are well founded, an invention by a
Salem man will revolutionize the
flax industry in the Willamette val
ley and establish it on a more prof
itable basis. He is Edward Bosse,
who, after a lifetime of patient en
deavor, has evolved an Intricate ma
chine which separates the flax fibre
from the straw and prepares it for
immediate use in making rope and
cordage. The machine has been
many times attempted. 4ut until
Mr. BOBse's triutupb, baabetsu glveu
up as an Impossibility. By its use
four men operating It, can prepare
1300 to 1600 pounds of the fiber In
10 hours, a feature that so reduces
the cost that flax, which makes the
best of all rope, will become rmme
diately available for the purpose.
The cheapening process will have
for Its further consequence a much
larger production of flax on Wil
lamette valley lands on a far more
profitable basis.
The Oregon State Grange adopt
ed resolutions protesting against
the proposed Ashland referendum
of the agricultural college appro
priation. Every voice that has
spoken on the subject, and there
have been many, has been in con
demnation of the Ashland plan. It
is clear that the referendum would
everwhelmingly fail and that no
end would be served other than the
undeserved financial embarrass
ment that would be brought upon a
worthy and most useful institution.
To the average, normal person,
scarcely anything can be regarded or
imagined more foolish than a "buI
cide pact." Still, the world suffers
small loss when two people who are
so foolish as to enter into such a
bargain carry out their mutual in
tent. But where one does so and
the other fails the doubly cowardly
survivor deserves severe and pro
longed punishment, as a warning to
other fractious or fantastic fools.
Letters From trie People
Letters to The Journal should be Written on
one side of the paper only and should be ac
companied vy the name ana auarew i
writer. The name will not be used If the
writer aakx that It be withheld. The Journal
la not to be understood as indorsing the rlewa
or . .ateoienta of correspondents. 1etters should
be tndo as brief aa possible. Those who wish
their letters returned when not used ahould In
close postage.
Correspondents are nouneu mm ,-,.-...
reeding .'".hi words In length may. at uie on
crelion of the editor, be cut down to that limit.
A Place to Locate.
Beaverton, Or., May 14. To the Ed
itor of The Journal Beaverton Is still
on the map but you do not hear very
much abolit It. Why? Because the
newspapers have very little to say about
It. Yet, Beaverton Is one of the best
gardn spots in the whole state of Ore
gon. Beaverton is in a rich and fertile
valley. It has some of the choicest
of beavirdam land to be found any
where. It 1 the gardeners' paradise;
he can raise nearly anything that the
market demands and only eight miles
to market and to the center of the city
of Portland. d
Beaverton has an opening for some
live man to start a fruit cannery here
In this rich fruit district. Also a con
densed milk plant would pay. Why
not, then, come to Beaverton to lo
cate? It Is on the Southern Pacific
and the Oregon Electric railroad. It is
also a fine pleasure ride out from the
city. READER.
Raie the Custom Houses.
Portland, Or., May 14. To the Editor
of The Journal In opening his ad
dress, introducing to congress the bill
to revise the tariff bearing his name,
Sereno Payne, chairman of the com
mittee of ways and means of the house
of representatives, said:
"There Is probably not a single mem
ber within the sound of my voice who
dares to rise In his place and advocate
destruction of the custom house from
turret to foundation stone."
Probably Mr. I'ayne was right; at
least the papers bring us no Intelli
gence that any member did respond to
Mr. Payne's challenge.
In perusing the reports of the pro
ceedings in congress in the present ses
sion, one sighs for the old days when
the Democratic party was represented
by men with red blood In their veins
and spines in their anatomies; men
with convictions and the courage to
maintain them; men like Tom Johnson
of OUlo, Jerry Simpson of Kansas and
Jim Magulrc of California; men who
accepted, and deep down In their hearts,
believed In the Democratic slogan,
Protection is Robbery"; arid spoke and
voted in accordance with that belief.
That slogan was always true, and It
Is us true today as it ever was. The
whole scope, aim and effect of "pro
tection" Is to rob the workers.
When the "Morrill tariff" was being
debated in 1861 (which was the date
when the thieving policy was revived tn
these United States), John Sherman, at
that time a representative from Ohio,
in arguing for the bill said "that the
wjges of labor were too high; that the
manufac turers were at a disadvantage
and that they should have this tariff
protection In order that they might
raise priors and thus recoup themselves
for the high wages paid their help."
There was no pretense at that time that
the tariff was for protection of the
workingman. It was simply a sc-berne
to reduce wages by raising prices and
It worked to perfection and It has been
working to perfection ever since.
Not only have wages tended con
stantly downward since "protection"
was revived, but crime has Increased
110 per centum; pauperism has In
creased 100 per centum; child labor
has increased 200 per centum; suicide
has increased 80 per centum and In
sanity has increased 90 per centum.
Abolish the custom houses? Raze
them from turret to foundation stone?
Yes, Mr. Payne! A thousand times,
Yes: FRED C. DENTON.
Hishop Hcndrix's Birthday.
Bisho) Eugene R. Hendrix of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. South, was
born May 17. 1847, In Fayette, Mo.,
and received his early education In Cen
tral college in his native place." Later
he attended Wesleyan college, Middle
town, Conn., and after graduating from
that institution In 1867 he spent two
years tn the study of theology at the
1nlon Theological seminary. After his
ordination In 1870 he accepted the pas
torate of the churches In Macon and 8t
Joseph, .Mo., officiating until 1878,
when be was elected president of Cen
tral college. In 1886 he was elected to
the bishopric of the Methodist Episco
pal Church. South, and gave up the col
lege presidency. He has made official
visits to Mexico. Brazil. ,China, Japan
and Korea, and founded the mission of
his church In the latter country.
Neatly Put .Together.
From the Delineator.
Little Edwin, In answer to his ques
tion, had been told that God made him.
At his bath the next morning his
mother saw Edwin examining his skin
closely, and looking at his arms and
legs and trying to get ,a glimpse at
his hack in ihe glass. Finally he ald:
'Bnv mnmjt I !oH filmin n acuul lul, Vint
t0 leave ftny, scams." ,
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
Only "three weeks."
Who's going to get Raffles' $500?
It was simply a dellciqus Sunday.
Tax reform is really a great moral
reform. , .
The grange does well to study the
tax problem.
O, but won't the roses bloom now?
W are going to Quit abusing the
weather man.
Now begins another week of the Aid-
rich robbery scheme.
It la nearly the open season for the
eternal vacation question.
The foreign count alwavs exDects the
American girl he marries to count up.
Now cornea the season of drownings.
Everybody should know how to swim.
The warm rain was worth "millions."
sure enough, and more coming. Wea
all rich. w
It may hurt fine clothes to aret wet
a little, but not the person; It does one
good. .
Mr. Taft la & great jollier.- twit he
ought not to appoint a, thief to a re
sponsible office.
That was a blessed, warm, srrowlne
rain yesterday. The Oreron weather
always turns out about right.
San Francisco claims a nnniilatinn of
600.000. Portland will be bigger Hum
San Francisco before all of us are dead.
Roosevelt would no doubt make a fine
mayor of New York. The whole ooun
ta would enjoy seeing him fight the
Tammany tiger.
Senator Beverldge also showed un the
tobacco trust to Mr. Aldrich's annoy
ance. But they are all alike: it Is a
round robin of robbery.
The B's seem to be sroori men tn vnt
for, judging by Beverldge. Burkell, Brls
tow, Brown and Bourne,? In the sen
ate. Cummins, Chamberlain and Dolll-
ver are also in the front ranks, alpha-
uei icaiiy.
Every time the nubile ancreerU In
forgetting May Yohe. she ud and a-ets
married again, remarks the Chicago
Record-Herald. But It Is to be honed
that she will not have any more babies
to desert.
One of Abdul Hamid's sons threatens
to organize a rebellion for the nnrnnun
of rescuing his father. But whv should
man with a fine nkiace. a rvrincelv
allowance and II wives and nothing to
do, want to be rescued?
HapDT. verdant, nrearnant. all the
smiling earth; growing, snroutlnsr hud-
ding, reveling in birth. M,yriad-tongued
the song was. divinely toned ths storv-
as the rain fell softly, 'mid glint of riav-
god'9 glory. Nature's richest alchemy,
for fruitage here she keens; and worits
when she Is ready; If man works or
sleeps.
FAMOUS GEMS OF PROSE
A Sovereign to Her Soldiers By Queen Elizabeth
(Speech on the imminence of English
invasion by the Spanish armada, to the
army of defense In the camp at Til
bury in 1588).
My loving people, we have been per
suaded by some that are careful of
our safety to take heed how we com
mit ourselves to armed multitudes for
fear of treachery.' But I assure you
I do not desire to live to distrust my
faithful and loving people. Let tyrants
fear. I have always so behaved myself
that, under God, I have placed my
chlefest strength and safeguard In the
loyal hearts and good will of my sub
jects. And therefore I am come among
you at this time, not as for any recrea
An Example for Portland.
From the Christian Science Monitor.
There may be a useful hint for other
ambitious American communities in a
passing reference to the restless and
sleepless pursuit of trade which Is car
ried on by the Chicago Association of
Commerce.
Twice within the last year, under the
auspices of that body, delegates com
posed of representative business men of
Chicago, fully equipped and thoroughly
primed for the service In which they
were enlisted, have made at different
times, incursions into the south and
southwest, with results, we are assured,
which have been most gratifying to all
Interests concerned, and particularly to
the mercantile Interests of the city
named.
The northwest is now about to be in
vaded In a like manner. Nine states, at
least, of that Immense and Important
region Nebraska, North Dakota, Wy
oming, Colorado, Montana, Idaho. T'tah,
Oregon and Washington are to be vis
ited, and at every point of 'consequence
along the route the Chicago commer
cial excursionists will stop over long
enough to present to all those who
are to listen the claims of their city as
the great central market of the coun
try. The proposed Itinerary Is regarded as
being the most promising of any so far
undertaken, because throughout a great
part of the territory to be covered Chi
cago, which Is recognized as Its natural
gateway to the east, has already secured
a foothold, and a firm one, .and because
the experience gained In the previous
trade excursion trips will Jje employed
to the best advantage in this.
The presentation of this matter, as
Intimated In the beginning, may prove
of some value to other communities, es
pecially as it illustrates fairly a method
which Chicago has followed pretty
closely from her earliest days.
When she wants anything, she does
not wait for It to come. She goes
after it.
The Mexican Rubber Experiment.
Many people in different parts of
the United States have been Induced to
Invest in the stocks of companies which
expect to- gather rlchps from rubber
plantations in Mexico. William W.
Canada. United States consul at Vera
Cruz, makes the following Interesting
report.
There does not seem to be much out
look for Mexican rubber so long as
present prices prevail. Some favored
places can make a fair profit on their
actual costs, but when rubber falls to
50 cents or less there Is nothing In It
for the stockholders. It Is reported
that within a few years the far east
will have 60.000,000 Para trees produc
ing from one to three pounds each per
annum of rubber superior to the best
Mexican, and If this does not break the
market planting here will continue. It
Is stated on good authority that the
Mexica.i planters get more rubber per
tapping- thatr the Para people and lhat
the tapping coat Is lower per pound of
rubber
iiber produced, but they can' lap only
" " '--i . - '" ' '-'
NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHT .
The authorities of Klamath Falls have
ordered the town cleaned up.
A Monroe roan sold 65 head of atock
sheep for $6.25 per head. Who aays the
farmer Is not prosperous?,
About 800 people are mployed In and
about the- fruit canneries and packing
houses at Milton and Freewater. Thia
is an eloquent Item, If you think It over.
Apricots over an Inch In length are on
exhibit in a Medford real estate office.
Other varieties of fruit nearly as far ad
vanced have been brought In from several
orchards. A Tolo man brought in the
first ripe strawberries f the season. If
the frost has done any damage It is hard
to locate It, says the Tribune.
Drain Nonpareil: The warm rain
showers of the past week have been
worth many thousands of dollars to the
people of this section. One can almost
hear the grain, grass and vegetables
grow. The fruit crop will be unusually
heavy, the late frosts having done very
little damage here
The scarcity and consequent , high
price of potatoes ought to set the farm
ers to thinking as to make preparations
to take care of the crop when It Is
raised, says the Kugene Register. There
Is always good money in the potato and
keeping everlastingly at it will surely
win out.
East Oregonlan: With a rapidity that
Is little less than marvelous the work of
erecting the new woolen mill building In
East Pendleton. Is being rushed to oom-
nlullnn The foundation la nil completed.
tile forms for the walls up and the mold.
ing of the splendidly reonforcea concrete
walls is now in progress.
a
Kalis Cltv correspondent of Dallas
Itemizer: Frank Hubbard ha set the
pace for cleaning up and beautifying our
city. lie has cieanea out tne enure
fence line leading to his residence and
planted it to climbing roses, ana Dy
another season It will be an avenue of
beauty.
A large 'Rhode Island Red capon tak
ing care of a brood of young chickens,
was an attraction in a Hood River show
window last week, says the Glacier.
The bird is an excellent step-mother,
tavlng raised over two dozen chicks last
ear, and taxes me Desi care oi ins
rood, hovering them when necessary,
finding food for them, doing the mother
hen stunt to perfection. -
Trie Rogue River valley Is the banner
fruit section of Oregon, even with but a
small portion of the planted acreage In
hearing. When all becomes productive,
it will' be the banner section of the en
tire northwest, says the Medford Trib
une, which also Itsserts that Rogue
River vallev will this year ship five
times the quantity of fruit shipped by
Hood River.
Astorlan, May 13: It has been con
tended by knowing ones that the Blue
back salmon had been extinguished, not
withstanding many had been turned out
by the various hatcheries. The run this
season proves this not to be true, as
there is an exceptionally large run In
the river at the present time. Reports
from the traps at Chinook are to the
effect tat the traps are doing better
this season than for several past sea
sons. Tuesday two traps averaged over
half a ton each, and nearly every trap
reported from 600 to 1000 pounds, 40
per cent of which were bluebacks.
tion or sport, but being resolved In
the midst of the heat and the battje to
live or die amongst you all: to lay
down for my God, and for my king
dom, and for my people, my honor and
my blood, even in the dust. I know
I have but the body of a weak and
feeble woman; but I have the heart of
a king, and of a king of Knglajid, too;
and think foul scorn that Parma or
Spain, or any prince of Europe, should
dare to Invade the borders of my realm.
To which rather than any dishonor
grow by me, I myself will lake up
arms; 1 myself will be your general.
Judge and rewarder of every one of
your virtues in the field.
once a year, while the Para planter can
Ltap many times in a year. The Mexi
can planter loses, because of his great
er capital invested, more than he gains
in lower Itapping cost, and because he
must have 10 to 20 times as many
trees to produce the same amount of
rubber as the Para planter, so that the
odds are against him, even If he can
produce Mexican trees for half or a
quarter of what the Para tree costs,
which is doubtful.
A Smashing of Tarty Platforms.
From the Chicago Record-Herald.
While the Republican Insurgents are
endeavoring to carry out the pledges
of their party the Democratic Insurgent
are boldly proclaiming their determina
tion tn disregard the platform that was
adopted at Denver. One of the planks
of that platform reads: ''We demand the
immediate repeal of the tariff on pulp,
print paper, lumber, timber and logs
and that these articles be placed upon
the free list." Senator Slmmgjs of
North Carolina, who was a mem
ber" of the committee on resolu
tions, Is now the ardent advocate
of a lumber duty. Senator Bacon
of Georgia has declared that he does
not recognize the platform as binding.
"Party platforms," he says, "are written
In the night In a hurry and mean noth
ing." This agrees pretty well with the In
terpretation put upon them by the Re
publican reactionaries. The purpose of
the platform Is simply to fool the voter.
When that object is accomplished It Is
In order to repudiate the work of the
convention. The method may be the
rather deft one of Senator Aldrlch, who
Insists on a strict construction to suit
himself, or the decidedly crude one of
Senator Bacon, who holds platform and
convention up to contempt and makes
himself contemptible In so doing.
This Date in History.
1 (537 John Wlnthrop was chosen gov
ernor of Massachusetts colony.
1749 Dr. Edward Jenner, Introducer
of vaccination, born. Died January 26
1823.
1837 First number of the Baltimore
"Sun" Issued.
1846 Matamoras evacuated by the
Mexicans.
1861 California legislature pledged
the state to the union.
1863 Grant attacked Pemberton at
Big Black river bridge. In Mississippi.
1877 General Grant and family sailed
from Philadelphia for a tour of, the
world. .
1880 Nashville, Tenn., celebrated the
centennial anniversary of Its settle
ment. The Difference.
From' the Harney Valley News. "
The Portland Journal Is Just- now
exposing The Oregonlan's "teeterboard"
with good effect. The politician who
waa black as satan when his purposes
and alliances did not suit The Ore
gonlan, becomes "Shining as an angel
when the purposes behind him are in
line with The regonlan's wihe.
. '-'. .' '.'''' "'
The REALM
FEMININE.
For a Free Dispensary.
W
ii m the action of the Woman's
elub In heading the subscrip
tion list for a 'free dispen
sary for tubercular patients
rorttand. a nton tw
ward
taken
in this very vital
rI, 2n?n?. the Bent,"i6nt Into actual
Af, .? d V,en put tn h work.
im k " KOod Prospect that this
will be done.
A tremendous amount of agitation is
necessary ' before the common lay mi, d
ltfnJthW S "le ,"n,ple under
lying the modern maiknri. . .
and the simple precautions tt a are nec
essary to keep the disease from spread -
tninsg over anrl ,,ti
cation In the same mni,.
wm.T Pe"l'lp: " these are necessary
before the mass of the people will com
prehend that tuberrulosfs is nuiV,tiX
fl?,e thU And "Pun these two
m"es"t prho3cUia,0n nd t,le ballon
me8mmr y?L a0' a" "very one will re
.loTr. nr8lLn wno had consun,,,
to have iif0 be Per,fe'y harmless
to nave attout, since the disease was
suppoHed to be inherited but nofinfec
; Arid though other members of
the family might sleep in the tarn
a ,"!' ,he cat from the
of.e.,plaV!. or drlnk fr"' the same
cup. the victim was marked for an early
h!rnVe' n human aency could save
But now science has turned us "right
about, face," and we are marching along
under a new plan of action. We are
told that the disease is highly infec
tious, that the patient must be isolated,
must be taught how to protect his fol
lows and to prevent relnoeulatlng him
self, hut that he Is not obliged to give
up and die because the disease has smlt-
ien mm; mat lie can be absolutely cured
and live out his full measure of years.
Truly a revolutionary change. And yet
the knowledge that the disease Is curable
le not going to do much for sufferers
unless it can be applied to their indi
vidual cases, and this Is where the local
needs and the local effort cun come to
gether. The Visiting Nurse association cru
sade last Christmas and the sale of the
holly stamps was a start a good start -"-but
it did not go very far. Altogether
about $1700 was realized and with that
amount of money it was not possible to
do more than the visiting Work and keep
a few patients at the Open Air sanatori
um. 1 he free dispensary which that so
ciety had hoped to establish and for
which there is ao urgent a need had to
be relinquished as a projected plan for
which there was no money in sight.
The tremendous effort put into the
Klrmess, such an effort as people will
perhaps not be organized to make again
for any cause for some years, resulted
In a splendid amount of money for the
Open Air sanatorium. No doubt we all
drew a long breath when it was over and
rested our fagged minds and bodies with
the thought: "Well, here Is ht big pile
ot money. Now we ahull see the tuber
cular work taken care of." But unfor
tunately the Open Air sanatorium was
deeply in debt. The work had been car
ried on at a loss for a long time be
cause It was too vital to give up. When
all the debt Is paid and running ex
penses, which are necessarily very ex
pensive, provided for, and whorl new cot
tages are built to accommodate those
who are imw waiting for adtnisalon,
there will not be much in sight for be
ginning new work.
The legislature at the last session ap
propriated I250U to provide a state Insti
tution where tubercular patients can be
cared for. The oid deaf mute' school out
from the city of Salem is to be reno
vated and put into shape ami a state
work carried on there. This Is of verv
great important? to people from nil
parts of the state who tire still curable
or who know themselves Incurable ami
have no pl;ie In go This important
work has its own field and its own mis
sion. But still there are peonle dving from
consumption right hre In Portland who
might be saved if treatment had been
begun sooner, There, are many people
who ar- In the curable stages for whom
there Is no place where treatment can
be had or where they can he lodged free
And there lire very many patients who
cannot afford to go to the Open Air
sanatorium, who cannot leave home anil
business or families to be I rented at a
state Institution, and yet who can be
saved to useful lives and their dear
ones. If Portland has only a place where
free tieatments can be given and In
struction given in right habits. And this
is the campaign which. Is now , on and
which the Woman's club is heading
When the members call upon you for
your mite to help the good work, don't
be afraid that there is already too much
money going Into tubercular work, but
give something, and the bigger the bet
ter, to help this important local work
along. We very much need a local free
dispensary, and It is to be the privilege
ot each one to give a little money tn
start It There Is very little danger
of their getting too much.
P. . ft
Fruit Sherbets.
LEMON sherbet One and one half
cups sugar. Juice of two lemons.
Mix and add one quart milk. Kioezn
at once.
Grape sherbet One quart of milk,
one pinMl of sugar, one cup of grape
Juice, the Juice of one lemon. Mix and
freeze.
Pineapple sherbet Three cups granu
lated sugar, three cups sweet milk,
three cups cold water, one can of pine
apple or one pineapple picked to shreds
with a fork. Mix all together and freeze
the "same aa Ice cream.
ft ft ft
Little Hint..
B'
KITTLE finger nails should never he
cut until the fingers have been
soaked In warm water or anolntel
with vpsc'ine. To get .your finger nail
In good condition rub a little almond oil
on them each night before going to bd
When velvet has been wet and become
spotted, hold the wrong side over steam
and while it is damp draw the. wrong
side quickly over a warm Iron. It takes
two to do this well one to hold the
Iron bottom up. the secpnd to draw the
velvet across lfe
H
ours an
omes
(Contributed to The Journal by Walt Maaon.
th famous Kansaa poet. Hl proae pnema will
be a regular feature of tbla column lu The
Pally Journal.) ,
Every hour that's gone's a dead one.
and another conies and goes; in the
graveyard of the ages hours will find
their last repose; and the hour that's
come and vanished never can be used
again; you may long to live It over,
but the longing Is In vain. Ijisso. then,
the hour that's with you. ride It till
Its back Is Bore; you can have It 0
minutes 60 minutes, and no more.
Make it earn Its board and lodging,
make It haul your private wain, for
when once It slips Its halter it will
never work again. So the hours llks
spotted ponies trot along in single file,
and we haven't sense to catch them and
to work them for a mile; we Just loaf
Laround and watch them, sitting Idly In
the sun, and the- darkness comes and
finds us with but mighty little done.
(OnyrlffM. l&OB
George Matthew Ada
is
"v1"' vi..g to neaitn and life peo
ple -.-ho are in the first stages of con
ni?"' . Tl!e 8ent'ment is here, the
necessity Is here, the money Is here;
all that is needed Ih tn ir.MUr .v.J .'
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