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THE JOURNAL ' A! INDEPENDENT NKWSPAPEE. o. a. JACKSON.. . Pnhllfber Fobllabed every eTpnlnff ei-pt Snndar) and i rrtrj Snndar morula at The Journal Build- tag. ryth and YamhUl atre..-ta. Portland. Or. Entered at the poatofflca at rrtland. Or., foe tranaralaaloo through ib malla aa aeeond-claaa Biattrr. TELEPHONES MAIN 7173. HOME, A,-60M. All nsrtmMtH reached br theae nuOJti Tell the operator the departmeut you want. FOREIGN ADTEBT1SINO KEPBESENTATI VE. Benlamla ft Kentnx Co.. Brnnslck BuiMinf. KB Fifth Utenue, Near York; 1007-08 Bojee Bnllding. Chicago are word for word as they appear in the Declaration of Independence. Whether or not the Philadelphia dec laration followed the wording of the Mecklenburg declaration is a mooted question that is discussed by various authorities on revolutionary lore. Psychological analysis of the spirit and temper ofthe.time in relation with the prevailing wrongs and con ditions easily explain how widely separated localities should ?mbody a statement of their grievances in the game or very similar phraseol The Join ran I 1 nit rile In l.onfoo. Kwriand. OKy. ine-SDlrlt of rehelllon was 'af the office of The Jirnrnai'a Kngllh repr-1 ,, v, ... (V. ,,, enatiT e. J. nardy & (.. so pieet ariaine in the breasts of the militant atreet. where aubscrlptlon anil adTertisemecra men 01 the time, and it is not BUT in o9 reeeiTea. i i i .. . t . . . ,,. . . , movement should be bq nearly iden tical. Indeed, it is not impossible that as he wrote the document that has become the world's recognized Snhacrlptlon Term b mall or to inr addresa III tna United Stales. Cauada or Mexico: DAILY. On rear 15.00 I Ore month f .BO SUNDAY. On year f2 oo i one month......! statement of the rlgnts of man, Jef- crown. A notable fact Is that many Interest the time of inaction must of the phrases In ' the resolutions I close. Indeed, he is now building to Tillamook, and it is possible that he will yet do something in eastern and central Oregon this year. And it Is unlikely that Mr. Hill would go farther than to make a tentative and temporary "gentlemen's agreement" to give up all Oregon to HaYriman, to build or not as he pleased; since Hill Is already in Portland, with vast interests centered here. So that there may be building in Ore gon soon, by llarrlman, and possi bly by Hill also. But as to freights?-division of traf fic on the policy of charging all if will bear and dividing exorbitant profits, that is something that no body but the insiders know as yet though that such a scheme Is In volved is more than probable. so, all the more need for open rly era and independent electric lines DAILY AND 8I NDAY. flue year $7.50 I One month. .$ .6 There is art unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend hfm,, than to their perfections which please him. --Greville. ferson had before him a copy of the Macklenbnrg pronouncement. For the sake of history of a move ment that has done more for man kind than all other influences save. perhaps, the Christian religion; it is a matter of keen regret that the minutes of the midnight meeting at Charlotte were destroyed by fire In 1800. A WARXIXG IMPROVING THE COWLITZ A' NOTE of warning should be sounded to the Portland elec torate. Issues are pending that vitally concern every resi dent of the city. They are Issues that, were their full Import thor ' oughly understood, would arouse all to absorbing solicitude In what is to be the voting a week from next Monday. Here, for instance, is a proposition to completely change the character of Portland's municipal system by the adoption of a new charter. By the turn of the ballot box that which Is in city government Is to be set aside and another sys tern based on a widely different prin ciple is to be established. It is a transformation from one working plan to another by which the big gest corporation in the state of Ore gon and one of the largest on the Pacific coast is to be overturned and another adopted with a different method of administration conducted -on a widely different principle from that in vogue since the organization of the city.. It is a. change of such Importance and fraught with so much meaning that discussion of it should be on every lip and deep con sideratlon of It in every mind. ' Again, there 1b presented to the electorate the alternative of adopt ing 19 charter changes prepared by a committee of seven and proposed by the city council. Many of the provisions In the 19 charter changes are in direct conflict with the new charter. If one or all these char ter changes should be adopted and at the eame time the new charter should be adopted a distracting pre dicament would be presented. It is a possibility that has led to a great deal of criticism of the city council for thrusting such a problem before the electorate. It has led to ques tionings and conjecture as to why that body did it, with the frequent remark by some that it was done to defeat the commission plan of gov ernment, and by others to confuse the public mind with a hope of dis crediting the electorate's intelli gence. What adds to the menace of the situation is that Instead of de voting Itself to helping the electorate solve the problems thrust upon it, the Oregonlan Is out on a mission of destruction and adding to the con fusion by fiddling away on Its op position to direct legislation. It is a situation that gives serious con cern, to those who have given it thought. To heighten it, there is marked lethargy among voters. Well informed persons are esti mating that not more than 50 per cent of the registered vote will be cast. Private concerns are upper most, anci these vital public matters are being neglected, with a possibil ity that the very undesirable may happen. This Is the note of warn ing that this newspaper, concerned always in the welfare of Portland, utters to the people. Leading busi ness men, professional men, prop erty owners, laboring men, rent pay ers and all others should study the situation and 6hould go to the polls and do a. citizen's full duty in giv ing the city an intelligent verdict. T HERE IS merit In the Insistence by Kelso business men that Portland should give them moral aid in their' effort to se cure federal improvement of the Cowlitz river. Kelso is Portland territory, and in aiding Kelso Port land helps herself. Within a radius of three miles of Kelso there are 13 mills, turning out daily 100,000 feet of lumber and 750,000 shingles with an aggregate tonnage each day of 280 tons. Each year Portland mills bring 120 million feet of logs down the Cowlitz river and up the Colum bia to this city. It is proposed to Improve the Cow litz so that the "river, from its mouth to Kelso, will have a depth of eight feet, from Kelso to Ostrander four feet and to Castlerock two and half feet. The cost will be $66,800, according to a reporfby government engineers submitted October 8, 1908 The recommendation of the engi neers Is for an improvement that will yield four feet of water to Kelso at a cost of $26,000. The Kelso peo ple desire the former improvement and should have Portland support and the influence of the Oregon del egatlon at Washington in securing it. The larger improvement, though its cost is comparatively trifling, would permit schooners to ascend to Kelso and thereby strengthen and develop that point. By helping to build up contiguous territory and by striving always to promote naviga tion of waterways In her vicinity, Portland builds permanently and powerfully for her own supremacy. Razors in the Senate ' COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF vatfl It i a bad road Public opinion as expressed by the press of New York city differs dia metricallv as to the merits of Dis trict Attorney Jefome, who desires a third term of that office. The American Is the most violent in it denunciation of him, while Collier's Weekly sneers at his newspaper op ponents as "the yellow press," that is always On the bad side of every thing. Jerome seems to have "made friends of the mammon of unright eousness, and refuses to criticise, much less prosecute, Ryan and other great franchise. grabbers and monop olists, yet besides these he has many friends who assert that he has courageously and Impartially done his duty by all, A curiosity of the situation is that he may be nomi nated or indorsed either by Tam many, or by the Republicans, or even by both, or he may receive nomina tion or indorsement from neither, and so run independent, as he did successfully two years ago. RAPID TRANSIT T THE MECKLEXBIRO TIOX DECLARA- 0NE OF (he signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence brought into the public eye by the recent ad dress of President Taft at Charlotte, N. C. was the grandfather of Charles B. Moores of Portland. His name was Alexander, and along with him ; five other Alexanders1, all related, , attached their names to the famous document. The chairman of the meeting was an Alexander, and so was the secretary. The declaration was rebellious to the British crown, and was adopted , and signed at midnight, May 20, 1775, more than a year in advance of the historic Philadelphia declara tlon. The. convention was composed of delegates sent from the various militia companies ' of Mecklenburg county, if which Charlotte Is the county seat.: The resolutions were of almost exactly the same tenor as those of the. Philadelphia J Instru ment, and declared that the people of Mrcklenburg county! "are free 6nd Independent" of the British HERE ' MUST be rapid transit between the two natural divi sions of Portland. Five hours out of every 24 the draw In the steel bridge is open and traf fic blockaded. The delay occurs mostly in the busy hours of the day, when hundreds of pedestrians and scores of cars and vehicles are kept at a standstill. It is a loss of time and waste of endeavor that Portland cannot afford to impose upon her busy population. It affects a dis trict with a population of 100,000 people and for which 30 per cent of the building permits are being is sued. It is a sound health rule to give the blood free flow through the arteries. It Is sound policy to give the pulse bfat of business life unobstructed fl63r through the tran sit channels. The freer this flow the healthier and lustier Portland will be as a city. The Broadway bridge was planned by competent engineers after an exhaustive sur vey of the harbor, a careful study of environments and Intelligent scru tiny of the entire situation. It is a project that appeals to the sound sense of all Portland and one the city cannot afford to reject. To re ject it would be to deliver a blow to Portland's progress and to give ad vantage to Portland's rivals. Ada May Steiwer, whose funeral occurred at Salem today follows to the city of the dead, her mother who was burled at Turner, Marion county, less than a week ago. The mother was a member of a well known pioneer family who settled in Linn county In the late forties, and was, in the ear.ly days of the commonwealth, conspicuous In social circles as the wife of the secretary of Btate. The daughter was one of the gentle women of the state whose sphere as wife, mother and friend, typified all that is noblest and best In American womanhood. She was a member of the graduating class of 1877 at Willamette university, nota ble as one of the largest classes sent out from that pioneer Institution. Such a tangle, 'medley, witches' cauldron whatever term one may choose of accusation, recrimination and alleged crimes of all eorts, run ning from eavesdropping and kid naping to first degree burglary and murder, as bubble and seethe in and around the Calhoun trial in San Francisco, was probably never wit nessed Or heard of before in a court of justice in this country. If only half of the accusations made are true, San Francisco during these transactions would have been a . f it field for the nose, eyes and pen of a -twentieth century Eugene Sue. The criminal mysteries of San Fran cisco, ramifying from this case, would rival "The Mysteries of Paris." From the Congressional Record." ; 'Mr. Bailey The .senator from Utah aid a moment ago to the aenate that the number of -azor making- establish ments had been reduced from 60 qdd 12 years ago to five now. Does the senator from Utah possess the infor mation which will enable htm to tell I no automobiles. mo atxiaie wnai Decamp or tnemr were they abiorbed or did they go Into bankruptcy? Mr. Smoot Mr. President, mnai of them went Into bankruntcv Mr. Bailey Then. Mr. President. It la rather a aurprlslngr circumstance that people manufacturing- an article that can De sold for 40 cents, while the people who use it are compelled to pay i for It, will atlll go Into bankruptcy. I think the American congress will have a difficult task before them if mey undertake to rehabilitate an in SMALL CHANGE What a fierce campaign.. ar Aldrich hasn't tariff-taxed sal- ,ie days that has A STOOd ItllDT ftf tha, a mm, m uwuuucii mj deeply Durieo,. Senator Aldrich speaks of duty. The v. ..v. i.i liii 1 1 ,1 ts uuoiy, a The weather man has been mighty tlngy with his rain thin .nrin. " V - 4, Chicait shop girts have organised the anti-mashera' - association. Vnw ,. b guuu iueat The Medfnrrl Trlhima ii. i . . . - i ..l:: r.r. -V" 1 uuo"f reaiixea only cents for I n-iaiiui or eajem a Muckrake Mn n n nr-Holik Vv, ... u i w . . I Tillf vhv "XlnuiiO " ww.w aw, rr wilu 4.11 n L-DDIumer UIVI i - ' . $3. Men who are familiar with lndim trial conditions in thla country for the past 12 yeara will conclude that the disappearance of those 60 odd estab lishments, pr at least their reduction to five, is explained by the absorption of 62 by the five now existing. That Is not without a parallel. Take, for In- mance. the bagging trust. You might "Women have been treated nicely by the tariff makers in one respect; there a liw UUIJT vu reus. - With a acort oa so of companies foor or.l1 ,n 0rTon. om one ought to strike it before long. . Yes, there are Mr. Kellahef, Mr! Alboe tell us that th. nn,w'nr uZu I and the Prohibition candidate, name dla ul "ioii"u- 1 rnmomher-n TJo, .... o n - -... - 1. 1 1 t i. im puuiaiiBiat one, menis - manufacturing cotton bagging naa oeen reduced and ask for an In crease of duty, but those of ua who happen to be .familiar with that in- nustry know that they were absorbed py a combination and many of their I plants closed. I suspect that is precisely wnai naa nappened here. Mr. uore Mr. President. I mnrolv wihii to suggest to the senator from Texas that this imaginary Invasion of our markets by the Germans. Teutons, Vandals, Ooths and Visigoths has be come so Intense, and the Germans are sq anxious to capture our markets, that j their laborers work for nothing, pay uoumy ior me privilege and shin rtiawrs ships. v "Sppkane demands Justice," says the Spokesman-Review. All rl-hr hnt everybody may not agree with 8pokane as to what justice la. "Half the men I know are lobsters, and the other half, are shrimps," says Mrs. Caroline Chapman Catt. Wavsus pected that ahe had been keeping bad company. An exchange Speaks of "Patten's vlo 4 "l . J10 "victims?" Hadn't he a right lo,know more, or see more clearly, than they? He seems to have done le gitimate trading, and told onlv the truth. OREGOX SIDELIGHTS Hallas'ls to have a garage and auto mobile repair shop. ' Crook county has only two people needing public charity. be made to Iht RE,ALM FOUNINE, ; Continued efforts will strike oil In Polk county. An Evening at Modeling, , YOUNG woman, who was rather at a loss bow to entertain soma guests who were to spend an evening with her, gained inspi ration from a'vlalt tn ' m. lilnic.. Prosbect of a building boom in Madraa I arten, where she saw tha children mmi. this summer, says the Pioneer. I eling in clay. ; ene naa a huge kitchen table brought into th drawing-room, and In deference to tha cook's temper covered it with thick brown paper, fastened, seourely with tacks beneath, the board a. At the place of each guest was put a large lump of well-worked putty and a mall kitchen knife.' In the center of the table was a flat basket filled with pictures of animals, bjrds, fishes and Oopiea of well-known statues. v nen every one was seated, this bas- Christian denomination will build a church in Eugene to cost perhaps 150,000. . - Manv newcomers In Polk -county look ing for land. They got a good tip as to wiiere io iook. A , ISO-acre farm on the Molalla bot toms bought by eastern parties wiu all be set out to peach trees.. over here as ballast on their Because Bacon's acrostic can be found in many places in Shakespeare's plays, it is argued-that he wrote them. By the same test It could be proven that Julius Caesar wrote the Boot of Job, or Tom Lawson "Three Weeks." v Elbert Hubbard says the Catholie he a scherlula nr h.n. -j V TT ()rn-ai oi xj-aai Aurora, jn. x tne Koy- ?hBn?h nt ? i ' anJ a blt- worse croft" town, changed the hour of his inan the Olngley code, aa far as the peo- Sunday service so that his parishioners pie of the land are concerned. It is very could attend the baseball games. There's evident the range of treatment affect- an exhibition of toleration for you. A Boomerang Tariff. From the Astorlan. There is every sign out that the r res ent revision of Jhe federal tariff la to . The new senator from' Illinois. Lorl- mer, has hen somewhat of a boss and Hopkins was. and be - U'..saaloualy in favor of river and harbor Improvement. It is said that the remains of the late George Meredith will be barred from Westminster Abbey. - But that will not THE HARRI MAN-HILL MERGER A S TO the principal visible point of the Harriman-Hill merger, or trade, or whatever It may be called the abandonment of the Harrlman rival line between Portland and Seattle there seems nothing directly to regret about that, as if Hill double tracks his line over the same route, it will be sufficient for awhile. But what does Mr. Hill give Mr. Harriman in exchange for the latter thus keep ing out of Hill's territory? That Is the side of the trade that Is not disclosed, and in which there is sus picion of a menace to Portland and to Oregon. Is Hill also to do no piore building in Oregon, and join with Harriman not only leaving the greater portion of Oregon without railroads, as to themselves, but in preventing any other companies from building? If in his policy of inac tion, except by way of prevention of action by others, Mr. Harriman Is to have an. ally in Mr. Hill, then the trade Is a very bad one for Ore gon, v , tBut The Journal is hopeful that the Hill end of the contract, does not -run that far, or have such a scope. For one thingr even Mr, Harriman must Bee that in his own The United States last year raised 14,000,000 bushels of onions, worth $10,000,000, and the department of agriculture estimates that the value of the 1909 crop will be twice as much. Yet the demand is so great that last vear 1. 400,000 bushels were imported from Bermuda, Spain, Egypt, and the. South Sear islands. The Bermuda onion is milder than ours, but not so good a keeper, and is now being raised with great sue cess in southern California and the southern states. As a rule, onions raised on land adapted to them are a profitable crop. They require rich, soft' soil, of, which much in several parts of Moral: Raise more onions there is Oregon. The Hood River valley wants 1500 Btrawberry pickers. v Many in the aggregate 'are needed around Salem and other valley towns. The work won't la6t long, but an industrious picker can make fair wages, and then he can find pjenty of other work right at hand, among thearm ers, all summer and fall. Here is a hint for any idle young men who are hanging about the pity and can't or don't find anything to do. There's health, plenty of food, fair wages, and steady work, in the country. In the latest case of murder by a revolver, a farmer near Chehalis killing his neighbor, the quarrel was over a picket rope. The rope, or an other one provided by the public, will probably be the proper instru ment to answer the bark of the re volver. If the man had not had a revolver handy he very likely would not have killed his neighbor and be come a candidate for the gallows. . mg tna essential staples Is not to ho altered, except it be by increasing their Cost to the millions nt tk pie and those same people all over the mchw politician, but he is probably country ar. liv.nin. f .L "? ?? out-and-out a corporation tool as tion rapidly and the press Is echoing this conclusion invariably and PVArv- where. The congress has had ita warn ing; from sources that were worth Its while to heed, but there la a rar nt the interests that supercedes what of detract from his greatness as a novelist rear may be felt for the wrath of r,.o- ple outdone and denied. wo firmly believe that is a sharp reduction In the duties on the commoner staples, all of them, there will be a revulsion against the dominant power that will not tie placated for long years to come, and its first and hardest manifestation will come In 1912; we fur ther believe that not even the ehalln- t?'?V ot a R0velt can save the health', high court k .j i.uui, cuiumsie oexeai ana tro- longed retirement. eaneWalw it thai Democrats shall corns up to tha acratoh with this outrage for a slogan and a baslo platform plea. ine cheapening of the non essentials, uch as lead and iron and the ores there f, will have no nalllatlns- nffont mne rrom the national canltol: th nn. pie know what they want, what they ueggeo ior tnese 10 long years, and poet; it will only show the narrow-mindedness of the guardians of that celebrated burial place. ai Get out In It, ana about in it the weather, whatever It be- Get wet in It, don'Kfret in It; it'ajrood medicine, and It's free. XMt winds blow on you. fresh air waves flow on you; there's strength and there's cheer in their sport. Breathe in the balm of them. Imagine no barm of them; they coma straight from some. dav. aomev vear. nernaDS arreriket naiuu ,r Harriman has built all his promised rail-1 without looking, was asked to draw " a roads In Oregon, Salem will hava that j picture from it. The picture drawn was ui.ea as a moaei to copied In putty In a given time. , On another round one figure was set for a common model and the guests were given 20 minutes to develop it in Again, the hostess read aloud the world famous Jabberwocky poem, and each guest was told to reproduce In putty her -conception of the monster. wun jaws that bit. the claws, that catch," that proved so pussllng to Alice of looking glass fame. .-. Prizes were given for each contest Several, Indeed, for the moat original, the most grotesque. These prises con sisted of copies .of famous sculpture books on modeling, a life f Michael Angelo, children's modeling tools, and molding wax, Tha evenlnar waa n. arreai amnaaa .ml it was surprising to see tha work done by men and women who never knew be fore that they had a particle of talent for modeling. In giving such a party, modcllnar wax can be bought in any store where they ell artists' aupplies, but putty Is much cheaper and almost as easy to work with, though the odor ia not pleasant Kindergarten modeling clay could be used with success. The only unpleasantness la tha neces sity for "washing up" but it la safe to predict that the pastime wUl furnish so much amusement that this will be par doned. at K Practical Housekeeping. si A FRACTICAL woman suggests that a I A every housekeeper hang a card on I aV thai wall over tria tnhai with thai following directions plainly written: Remove stains of fresh fruits with boiling water; cocoa and blood, cold water and soap. Red wine and Ink Warm chlorine water. Varnish and oil paints Turpentine and soap. Iron rust and Ink Weak solution of oxalic acid (one teaspoonful to one glass of water.) Coal tar or wagon grease Lard, then soap; wash alternately with wa ter and turpentine. Boil all dainty white clothes In strong pillow cases. This saves much wear and tear, new hotel. ' Certain of the business men of Lake- view promise to have a shipment of 100,000 pounds of wool to enter in the parade at Klamath Kalis on railroad celebration day. w - , An Illinois man has bought a ranch of 202J acres. It miles south of Cor vallis. including 100 bead of cattle, 250 sheep, goats, ranch requlpment, .etc. ior six.buu.- - lie says no win spend $26,000 on improvements.' .: An irrigating system, consisting of eight miles of 12 inch mains, with ft Inch laterals, that will irrigate the entire northwestern part of the valley from Central point to uoia Kay, is rapidly nearing completion. Echo Realster: - Land in the Walla Walla and Milton districts is selling for as high as 1500 an acre, unimproved. Around Echo it will reach the same price in a few years. We have as good climate, as abundant water supply, as near a market and only lack the grown orchards to prove to the settler's sight what can ba done.' Nowhere can It be said that civic pride is more vigorous than in Phoenix, says a correspondent. The mayor, al dermen and all the officials joined hands and, commanded by the city marshal, made war on all garbage of every name and nature. Every street and alley was thoroughly cleaned and carted off out side the rltv limits, now vnoenix look as neat and prim as a school marrtl in a new calico, dress. Correspondence of Grants Pass Cou rier: There is no doubt that Merlin will ship ouf more oeaohes thia year than eyer before. The old apple trea that was planted by the Haines family in 185S and has stood on the commons ever since the railroad was built through town, will have an average crop, al though it stands In one of the most ex posed places. - . ' Brownsville Times: The surrounding country has resources such as few com inanities possess, which, when properly developed, are sufficient to insure the oommercial prosperity of a city many times the present slse of Brownsville. Systematic development of tha agri cultural, manufacturing, fruit growing, stockraislng, dairying, lumbering and mineral resources, will build a model little city here, where thousands more people may be properly taken care of and all be prosperous and contented. Amendments of tne Interstate Commerce Act rom. tne A merican Lumt lumberman , May 22 Various propositions looking to the amendment of the interstate commerce w, some of them to limit the powers what they have ordered through their f th,.Ini?rft5J,Co.,Sm,rM ""n""?!0"' representatlvea; and the turnlnar down ?om to dlatribnts the powers now held of their demand, and the extra burdens By J"",0"? at ,eaM DOa't"' raised against them, will be met with ?.nd. the ffect of the Proced,nK th a reaction that win be stunning and ."lta 808 supreme court on the permanent. Never Waa there a moment Cmmodlttes clause, have aroused among more propitious for a demonstration that 8nlPPer8 a, dema"d th9 ,"t'r8t! me Kepunncan party Is of and for the 7 1 .V people; and if the opportunity is cast f"6", 80 M ? "1 enthen the author- asiue me republicans must reckon pro- J.UUHUI ior mo oiunuer. Woodbnrn. From the Woodburn Indenanitant We still -believe that land in this sec tion, as prophesied, will reach the mar ketable figure of SS00 be distinctly "borne in mind that Wood lty of the commission. On some proposed changes there does not seem to be a unanimity of opinion. For example, some friends of the act believe that an Interstate commerce court of appeals should be created that should have exclusive and final juris diction on questions of law and equity on appeal from the present commission. But there Is a general feeling that what ITLfi k ,. heartf the richest agrl- J ever Is done should strengthen rathef ,ii,7 wona; that the than weaken the regulative agencies of ....i,Mw t-uiiuiiiuuv are nnRiirnaaaad that a total crop failure has never been known; that the mere fact that this sec tion is not visited by cyclones, tornadoes or violent electric storms will be the means of many more homeseekers es caping from regions of destructive and the government, and many fear the ef fect of any division of authority and responsibility. The latter view evidently is taken by the Pacific coast Interests, for on May 10 a meeting of the commer cial bodies was held at Portland, Or., at which the following preambles and res- -thafcde,n. 8irm4; The new cme . buttons were adopted sees tbe beauties of Woodburn and coun try iriDuiary more than does the man who has lived here for years, buf the latter gets back his full appreciation after a visit' outside or at even other points Inside this state. He returns with a clearer vision and more pro nounced" In his opinion that Woodburn ana tne .surrounding country Whereas, There have "appeared Trom time to time in the publlo press Inti mations that the powers of the Inter state Commerce commission should be restricted and the act to regulate com merce amended so as to. limit as well as divide the powers now1 exercised by the Interstate Commerce .commission; stands and, ti.nJ ....A 1. . . 1 .a . I '"u'uerB ve uiem ail; that Whereas, Representatives of variou ua Lii ireimimiice cannot ne mmai nnH 1.1 n .1 n..m. . . . . . - --v...... 1 v uniiiin i.mi uvuiLB u 1 1 in, f auuiu uuasi we nave me SOU, the climate, large In meetlnar' aarsemhlorl thla 10th rlav of l that cn b8 dlvlled for May, 1909, are of the opinion that any homeseekers, a growing city and. -ln Li,.. . t,. -s. addition to four nurseries and a cannery, merce. except to strengthen the same, we have eight or, more small factories would be against the Interests of the In the city with promises of more. So nubile: therefore be It fair and beautiful a city have we that Resolved, That we are opposed to a the number of those who hae sold their I iii.in. r h. - farms and moved to Woodburn to rest now exercised by the . Interstate Com In peace and comfort is constantly being merce commission, and be it further' augmented. Assuredly is this a cltv piv.. That k. of homes and with a. future undimmed. largement of, the powers of said com- I mission, so "as to give said commis sion on complaint ftower and authority From the Eugene Guard. I Pending a hearing to Buspend the op Professor A. R. Sweetser. Btntn hi- eration of an advance in rates when ologlst and head of the biological de- ,n' 8 Jds;ment the interests of - the partment at the university. Is lit the Pub,le will be- promoted by such sus pension, ana De it runner the commission being allowed to do this Whenever in its Judgment the Interests of the public would be promoted -there by. 0 This Idea, it la believed, originated in Oregon and It was embodied in the famous Fulton amendment to th"e.in terstate commerce act. In various forms it ha been before congress and is now pending before the nation's law makers. The American Lumberman has strongly advocated the adoption of such an amendment, believing that it would be In the interests of both the ship pers and the railroads. As the law now stands, an advance can not be pro hibited by the Interstate Commerce commission, except as it is actual tnat is to say, after It has been put Into effect and the damage. If any. To run rod In lace or muslin curtains Just Insert a round hat pin In tne hol low of rod and it will slip right through the hem. To prevent your thread from knot ting when Sewing thread your needle from the end of the thread not Just broken from the spool. A neat and time, saving method for arranging the button box Is to string buttons of the same kind together, en abling one to find tha button wanted without trouble. To recover a parasol cut an exact pat tern from an old cover, using one panel for pattern- t?se white mercerized pon gee, wind all the ribs with white rib bon, stamp a chrysanthemum in each fanel. embroider it with white pearl ustre, put a bow on top and one on the handle, and the result Is a pretty parasol. When traveling a quickly prepared and satisfactory coat or waist hanger is made hy. folding a newspaper a lit tle longer than the shoulder breadth: roll up In a tight roll, tie a piece of cord near each end; tie the two end.-, together to hang It up by; and ollghtlv bend the roll in the middle. Slip the waist over the hanger and hang up. K tt R She Raises Frogs. DOESN'T this remind you of the Vir ginian's story about the frogs, his "Saynt Augustine" and Delmonlco in Owen Wistar's taleT Mrs. jrfiura smith is the only woman on hearing the rate be set aside." the XV?, er ln ",e .ctu"tPriLbabI.y0n ranroaui nave 10 iace fiiBtuming ana costly reclamation claims, which, so far as the shippers are concerned, usu ally cost more to collect than they says an enchant "She raises frogs for San Francisco and los Angeles her farm being midway be- iwrni llltKf? Clues. The Californlans are confirmed frog- amount to; whereas, if the Justice of I S?iera!, DUt. fresh legs were scarce until the advance be upheld try the commis sion that fact might as well have been determined before putting the rate Into effect as la'ter. It baa been the al most universal opinion that the, com mission should have the suggested power to suspend the effectiveness of the rates in cases where there seems to be prima facie evidence that an ad vance would be harmful to public .in terests. One of the above resolutions, how ever, touches on a matter that is prac tically new. so far as general consid eration of it Is concerned-: This is an amendment to the The ante-election ballot on the Madison street bridge is practically unanimous. Push clubs, civic asso ciations, Republican clubs and every other form of local organization are adopting resolutions protesting against - a change of, site and de manding that couBtrfctlon be hast ened. This program is so sane that the eountof the ballot after elec tion -will probably - shoit an over whelming vote in Ita tjavor.. v nridst of a campaign against the hum ble house fly. The grounds on which he attacks the little bussing Insect are those of disease. Before a. .class, of 105 students this week he gave an Illustrated stereoptl- con lecture of the manner in which files spread . disease (pathogenic) Resolved, That we favor an amend ment to said act providing in effect tnat n shall be umawrul for any rail road company to own or control or have any Interest in or agreements with cnmoetitlve water rarrleraj. hv which rates shall be established or con- germs. The fly comes from the 'rolled In any degree by said railroad manure pile, where It Is born and a, companies, and be it further lights to live. Into kitchens, crawling Resolved,' That a copy of these reso- over the food for human beings, and mtions, duly certified by tha secre- over dishes, and even the babies. ary of this meeting, be sent, to the Sometimes tkere will actually be president, to members In congress from thousands of bacteria on a. fly, hidden tne Pacifio coast states represented at in the interstices of Ita legs and wings. h'8 meeting, and to tho secretary of Experiments, definitely prove that the I iao "iiersiaie commerce commission, fly does carry germs and If it comes Transportation committee, chamber in contact with the homes of the dis- of commerce. Portland, Or. . ease germs, the little insect can not Traffic bureau of the Merchants' ex- help but carry them, too. Surprised at Portland. . . From, the Monmouth Herald. A trip to Portland makes one think that this country has' not yet been dis covered :by Columbus. The big build ings tbat are continually being added to the business part of the city, make one a stranger In a strange land, if he does not Visit there more than once, tn six months. Let's wake up to our pos sibllitles and do some tooting : for our part of the state. We have aa good. If not better, land than anywhere else and it Js cheaper. - , . ,.--, - - ; . change, San Francisco, Cal Associated Shippers, Los . Angeles, Cal. ' . , Transportation bureau of the Seattle chamber , of commerce. . , Trafflo association of Tacoma, Wash. Merchants' & Manufacturers' associa tion of Sacramento, Cat -There is one recommendation in the above that nas had almost universal approval on the parti of shippers and has been y advocated by commercial bodies tha country over. This ,ts the enlargement of the power -of tha com mission to Klve it authority On com plaint to suspend the operation of ah advance In rates, pending a hearing; Mfa. Smith took up her frog raising. duo bui ins iuea wnen visiting m Wis consin. On nearly all the small lakes in that state frogs croak by the million. Indians send the legs In bunches to Chicago. Milwaukee, Minneapolis and St. Paul, and the easy profit In the business convinced Mrs. Smith a frog farm would pay In her native slate. "She had no difficulty In renting a watfy waste covering a score of acres. She received a big shipment of frogs from Wisconsin. That was three years ago, and the frogs tok to the California climate as if they hnd never known zero weather tn the north. Now the stock has multiplied so that daily shipments BTO to tne l-hiftf rearnitrants In Ran P,an. act making It un- cisco and Los Angeles, and Mrs. Smith iinaa nerseir within reach of a fortune." Perhaps this contains a hint for some enterprising woman in the northwest. How would It do to combine frogs and cranberries? K It K Chicken With ftice. C'UT .up a chicken, wash, drain and sprinkle with salt Put a big ta blespoonful of butter Into a large iron pot and put in the chicken. Brown on both sides, then add a cup of water, and, when that has coked down, add another until the chicken is very ten der, then cover it with water and add a cup of rice that has been previously soaked. - Cook all together very slowly for a half hour. lawful for a railroad to own, control or have any Interest In or agreements with competitive water -carriers by which rates shall be established or con trolled in any degree by the railroads. Attention has been called to the fact that in many cases, particularly on tho Great Lakes, water competition has been practically nullified, by railroad ownership of steamer lines which con trol dock facilities at certain import ant ports, making It impossible for In dependent carriers to secure adequate facilities for receipt and shipment of freight and especially for the exchange of freight with railroads. While this matter has been discussed . somewhat and the situation has been outlined, it has attracted little public attention.' Presumably the action of tha Port land meeting was based on the theory that If It be unlawful for nnrniioi .h competing railroads to combine as to I (Cosrrtboted to The Journal by Walt Vtaaoa. i. ij. j-""'""-'""". u--i. cumoination van Journal.) euiuusu nisu 119 uniawrui where one of Lady Nicotine the cpmpetlng routes is a water route I wnoie or in part. Tho resolutions are Interesting and may serve to focus public eenttment on certain questions j w.ucii win oe nerora tne nest session of congress. Smoking la w filthy habit, and a big, fat, black .cigar advertises that you're straying Horn the higher life afar. I have walked In summer meadows where the sunbeams flashed and broke, and I never saw the horses or the sheep or cattle smoke; I have watched the birds. This Date in HUtnrr with wonder, when tbe world with dew 1660 King George I of England born Wa" wet- an? 1 never saw a robln Puff" Died Juna 16, 1717? now. ,ng at cigarette; I have fished In many rivers wnen me sucser crop was ripe, ana 1 never saw a catfish pull -1672 Sir Richarrl NMcnll. early colonial governors of New York, died In Ehgland. Born 1624. tT17i1J,rBlnla. mlmia under Major Washington routed a bodv or iv.. and Indians at tho Great Meadows -i!!57itrLck Heny's resolutions against the Stamp Act passed the Vir ginia assembly. Jl8?.8TF,!:8t teimboat on lko Erie. "Walk-ln-tha-Water.,,'launchert . tusai. Rock.-". - " . ' .' 7 v.... , 1862 The gunboat Cincinnati annk h. the Confederate batteries near vicks burg, . 1864-rBattle at Pallas, Ga. .'- ' 1906 The Lewis and Clark exnnslUnn opened at Portland. , ing at a briar pipe. Man's tbe only liv ing creature that parades this vale of tears. Ilka a blooming traction engine, blowing smoke from mouth and ears If Dame Nature had Intended, when she first invented man, that he'd smoxe, ene wouia nave omit him on a widely diffrent plan; she'd have fixed him , with ' a damper and a stovepipe and a grate: he'd have had a smoke consumer that was strictly up to date Therefore, let tha erring mortal put hlg noisome pipe Ja soak ha can al ways get a new one if he feels ha needs ICopyrlcht. 1908. n d e floors liattbew Adams.)