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Sir Isaac Newton "Memoirs." 15 THE MAYOR AXD PUBLIC DOCKS s "HALL THE LAW bo obeyed is tb law made to be enforced against the citizen, and to be In tie campaign, the known fact that the whole assembly scheme is largely for Its benefit and profit, and the proven determination of the elec torate to resist the old game of plun der will be one of the big issues in the election, and It ought to warn any self respecting citizen who hopes for political preferment to beware of the company he shall be found in. ANOTHER SNEEZE F AR DE IT from this newspaper to detract one whit from any meritorious act ever performed by any public official. A fair policy of giving credit when due and censure when necessary should be the only guide for nny newspaper In such matters. This brief preface to remarks that are to follow Is sug gested by the fulwome praise of Mayor Simon In an editorial article In Sunday's Oregonlan. In that ar ticle, we are told that the mnyoralty Is a great office, that It Is a blRger office than the governorship or the Benatorshlp, that Mr. Simon Is won derfully and fearfully fitted for the place, that vice Is under perfect con trol, that the police are more effi cient, that Bull Run water Is purer, and that In spite of the opposition of the Almighty, spring with Its birds and flowers has come back once more to Portland, all due to our own and onllest mayor. We are told that it was our mayor who has brought the new Bull Run pipe line almost alert to deal with suoh' public ser vants, for some more or leBS definite and agreed' spoils or advantage on both sides. This game of swindling the ' public is usually operated through a political machine, thaj as sumes to stand tor high and' sacred party "principles." But this system of plundering the confiding or careless public Is be coming less fashionable or common j than it was some years ago. The people are becoming somewhat more alert and vigilant and less subject to delusion by party pretense, and per haps the sense of duty and civic conscience among public? and - busi ness men is rising gradually toward higher Ideals. Yet the are and will be many cases like those of the Pittsburg boodlers, that everywhere need to be exposed and severely pun lshed. To suppose that It Is a less crime to rob malny than one, or no crime, Is a mistake that demands se vere correction. The man who for a littlo filthy lucre betrays a multi tude of his fellow men who have trusted and honored him Is a scoun drel less deserving of respect or clemency thnn one who picks neighbor's pocket. penc! s, ; and their ' labqr should be J appreciated and rewarded even more than It Is. " , The doctrine that an employer Is not responsible for the criminal' or negligent acts of an employe, acting in the line of his regular; employ ment, and depended pn by people doing business with th -establishment, Is one very properly, rejected as unsound and dangerous In most cases by the courts. It would not do for instance for a banker to escape liability for the acts, ' within the scope of his duties, of a teller. COMMENT ANP NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL CHANGE. AN UNWARRANTED ASSERTION broken by the officials whose tovthe verge ' P,P,n.tfchat 11 w"h! duty It is to enforce it? The attitude of the mayor respect ing public docks makes these ques - tlons ' decidedly pertinent. Law i breaking, by officials sworn to sup who arranged for the projected bridges over the Willamette, that It was he who touched the button and gave Portland all this vast new growth, that it was our mayor and port the' law is but little short of not dv,ne p'ov,den J1 ha? iV? us other and manifold blessings In June 8.' 1907. now' nearly three th y .VT PT years -ago. the people of Portland, verity. After waft ng 30 years for i " . v, , , k. the tall tower to utter one word of -,Mw.fi ir tnr commendation for a public man sltion of municipal docks, and voted "ere, ""enly bursts upon us th s . .r dazzlInAT euloelum. In which their purpose. Since then, not a single eminences point to their prodigy v v v. 1 and exclaim, ' Just watch our Jo- rain n a nutm i x tii iiw i iiiirh in i ,k,u- .w o,, h. iotn man. ePn perform U But, alas and alack for our mayor 1 ,,. In an unguarded moment their era- On more than one occasion, the .v.v . - n inences let the cat out of the bag VUimlUU?! Ul VViXl UJol V.O lino llU v tentlon to the non-action respecting the proposed docks, and urged ac tion. October '11, 1909, a committee from the chamber made an exhaus tive report, urging in the strongest (erms 'that the work of securing property for the docks be commenced at once. The committee consisted of C, F. Adams, A. H. Devers,. S, M. Mears, Herman Wittenberg, C. E Curry. H. M. Unller and C. F. Swig ert and these " Influential citizens - gave cogent and unanswerable rea- : eons for their recommendations. The committee called in person on the mayor, who asTcefl for a report, which was submitted, ,. Still nothing was done. The chamber again took up the matter, and members of the commit tee called a second time on the mayor, but without result. We now have the unusual spectacle of the mayor setting up his will, not only against the law, hut against suostan- tlally the unanimous Judgment of the commercial Interests of this city, by declaring that It is because he Is an assembly man that Mr. Simon Is such a wizard and therein It is made clear to us why it is that, these many months, their eminences have sneezod every time our mayor has taken snuff. N' SECRETARY BA LUNGER M R. VERTREES, Secretary Bal- llnger's attorney, Is natural ly very positive In his state ments concerning his dis tinguished client's entire innocence of any wrongdoing, and In that con nection he Insinuates that the mo tives and conduct of Mr. Pinchot and Mr. Glavis were of an unworthy or blameworthy character, In Imputing wrongdoing to Balllnger. "here are some admitted or undented facts, however, that need not be restated, that render the conduct of Mr. Bal linger with respect to the Cunning ham claims open to grave suspicion of his entire trustworthiness as a servant of the people In a very lm- OW READERS of the morning paper are told that the people of Oregon approve of Represen tatlves Ellis and Hawley's sup port of Cannon and indorsement of Cannonlsm, but such evidence as haB come to light does not sustain this assertion, inquiries instituted by Success magazine, and afterward by the Chicago Tribune, the latter a Republican newspaper, developed the fact that among many citizens questioned, including- Republican editors, a very large majority were opposed - to Cannon as speaker, and to what Is known as Cannonlsm. These queries were made of repre sentative citizens throughout the whole country, Including Oregon, and the responses were overwhelm ingly contradictory of the assertion made by the Oregonlan. It Is not only Democrats but Re publicans who do not approve of the methods or even of the main pur poses of legislation as carried on by Cannon in the house and Aldrlch in the senate, v And the same line of Inquiry developed the further fact that there was a great preponderance of sentiment against the new tariff law, and disappointment with Pres ident Taft for his laudatory approval of It. It may be that In spite of this, Ellis and Hawley, if renom inated, would be reelected, but it is entirely too much to assume that at the present time a majority of the people of Oregon approve their course in the matters mentioned. TANGLEFOOT By M3es Overholt HE DESERVED IT. "hcwdovov "9mn0 "tip. Carelljl Czarchowgolc. Do you know of any. reason why aen tenoo should not be' pronounced upon you?" "There la, If you can t pronounce it any. better than jrou pronounce my name," said the culprit, and he got two extra years juat for that Tha Oregon farmers wer nsver busier man now, nor Happier, . "Clean n" la the unanimous a-ood advice of the country papers. Almost every part of Oregon now eema the best and moat delightful. , It will soon be April-fool day, but for some people any day serves for folly. j. . , "Boosting" has become qulta pro fession, and .la not as easy aa soma, either. Being president la no eaav lob. but no president or tna united states ever re signed. The Initiative Is a good and useful tool if used sparingly, and only in matters or Importance. Tha Lafean apple box bill will no pass. But tha wonder Is that it ever received serious conHlueratlQn. a . ''Cannon shorn" was a frequent head line last weK, but the insurgents seem 10 nave goi no great amount or wool. Straus and Roosevelt were two men well met in Cairo. Each In his way, has done mucn work: to benefit the world, politically and socially. Roosevelt will no doubt speak., well of Taft If he says anything on the sub ject; he could not be expected to admit Jan error of. Judgment 4vtol own rnrt. OREGON SIDELIGHTS., HERO NO. 23,46,789. Shall I tell you a tale of a hero bold. Who worked all day In a factory cold, Along with a thousand other souls. Who punched the clock at the number holes? This, horo's name was common enough, It might suggest that the man was rough, And bad all 'round, but anyway, A hero bold was Kid O'Day. For he was big and brave and strong, And he went his way while he hummed a song. But the boss was cross and the work was hard, And the hours were long and the days were marred By announcements made to the, work ing crowd That no vacations would be allowed. Now Kid O'Day had a handy fist. And it landed hard and never missed. And so one morn when he went to toil, He figured out a scheme to foil The factory boss. When he saw the clock That told Its tale at the workers' knock, He bared his arm for a mighty stroke Portland ta at last making a good big showing in street improvement Let us hop and watch that the work is being done In the best possible manner. There have been less excusable mobs than the one in a California town that roughly handled an evangelist for say ing the women of the place were im moral. Even an evangelist should use his tongue with discretion. There Is talk of a bank being started in wuiamln. Many desirable settlers art attracted to uougiaarxounty. a Record "breaking fruit crop expected in Douglas county, i. '. Albany's first market day, Saturday, was quite a sucoess. tTnlted Evangelical congregation will ouua a cnurcn in tiugene. a For 11 elrht-monthft-otd Digs a Polk county man received Sclo has municipally owned water and light plant, also a successful con densery. a . Lebanon will soon ha on tha S. ' P. main line, and its population is steadily increasing. i . a Central Point people are expected to subscribe liberally to tha Crater Lake road fund. a Ashland wilt hold a special election for the purpose of voting on a trolley line franchise. A Clatson county dairyman will pur chase 100 head of Jersey cows in the Willamette valley. Booth-Keller company is construct ing 'a piece of railroad to Mohawk and -111 use a 200-ton locomotive. a " Improvement' Of rrmrt-! -Saimnn river enables freighters to. haul 1600 pounds Instead of 800 as Ibrmerly. a Jackson and Klamath counties will get many thousands of dollars from a sale of a large amount of timber on government land. Pue to efforts of Albany and Browns ville, a gasoline piotor car service will be established on the Albany Sprlng- rieia brancn or-me ts. jr. "Big Noises" of the Days News Vfio REALM FEMININE 7. rs r. Water-A-Woman's Necessity v.... j HIS Is in all probability the last or the articles that will appear, on the. subject of the greatest IngU convenience about tha farm house. The articles have all been written by country women and this one.1 as have many of the others, places water at me nead of the list , . . . While the teleDhone and the eletrle light havs been made possible in many farm homes, and as conveniences they rank well toward . tha too Of tha list. ' still there can be no doubt that water In, tha kitchen Is tha greatest single convenience that a careful housewife could have. ' Water Is a" necessity in so many of the duties of the wife and mother that it should be kept handy at all times, and if possible, in tha tiouse, where It can be drawn without the labor of carrying It uphill from a spring or drawing It with "tha old oaken bucket" which hangs In so many wells. A PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITY W IT CANNOT WIN I THE PITTSBURG BOODLERS I against the pronounced Instructions portant position. And we do not be- .1.. -i-of- f ih ,itv eve that many people can be led against that official Win which to think that Gifford Pinchot ever he swore to uphold the laws. How entertained any motives or designs long is official defiance of the law to exce wn" ,ne De evea wrre continue? . " yuu.. De not oniy a reaaunauie oui an tin- avoidable conclusion that except for Mr. Glavis" activity, these claims, T IS IMPOSSIBLE for the assem- admittedly fraudulent, in part at bly candidates to win. The as- least, would have been put into the 'sembly is going to "put the possession of the claimants or their 'knife" to Statement No. 1, and backers, with Mr. Ballinger's tacit that will be enough to beat them, if not positive approval Fulton tried that plan and it beat Under all the circumstances, with him for the senatorship. Cake, af- which the public is now sufficiently ter his nomination, straddled State- familiar, many impartial people are . ment No. 1 and was beaten. Every bound to think that Mr. Balllnger omen, every vote, every record and ought not to have accepted the po- every experience is eloquent or tne Bition of secretary of the interior people's opposition to legislative elec- He aDDears to have rendered good tion of senator. Sixty-nine thousand service since the Cunningham claims six hundred and sixty-eight of tnem came t0 jIgntf but hj8 attorney fails at tbe last election votea jo maice fo exniain ftwav several susnicious Statement No. 1 compulsory, and but "coincidences," and he will not prove & nanarui votea against n. ftvery nn,nr blameless hv castlne slurs county in ureguu b PWhnt And filav a. jonty lor tne pian, demonstrating a bitter and almost unanimous opposi tion to legislative election of senator. The single boodling session of 1897, when the house refused to organize and men were bought like sheep to go in or stay out of the house was 40 days of putridity that will never be forgotten, and that will forever be a sufficient example to destroy any scheme or any men who want to go back to such a rotten plan. This is one load every assembly candidate will Ihave to dafry, and there are others equally destructive The crowd of gangsters, hybrid poli ticlans, mongrel bosses, the pie hunt ers, and place seekers that will dan gle at the heels of assembly candi dates will be spectacle enough to beat ' the best man in jthe state if he flies the assembly flag. Every schemer every heeler, every corporation ist, every tax absorber and every whip- persnapper with an itching palm all cohered by the hope of loot and ram pant with the desire for good pick ing of the plucked taxpayers will be vociferous admirers and lieutenants of the assembly standard bearers and it will be a spectacle to give that tired feeling to the respectable citi zens of the state. No man can go out into the Btate at the bead of such a procession and win an election. The taxpayers, business menVJfarmers and other good government citizens do not want this Coxey's army of pelf and Its camp followers to get their haritis into the public affairs of the Btate, and will beat any man who at tempts o' lead them up to the trough. . Nor la any man who is willing to dump such a gang upon the taxpay fra worthr to be governor or to hold ony; other position within the jreo , Wa jtlflC yhe presence 'of this gang T APPEARS that nearly all the members of the Pittsburg legisla tive body have been grafters and boodlers, and the evidence against them is so plain that most of them are confessing the fact. Some months ago there were sim ilar disclosures in that city, but it seems that only a partial roundup of the boodlers was made then.-la the thieving game were not only councilmen and aldermen, but bank ers who Joined in a systematic scheme of fleecing the rest of the people. It is a specimen of "busi ness" allying itself with a political ITH WHETTED appetite and sanguine hopes, fandom awaits the6penTng games tomorrow in the Pacific coast baseball season. Cannon as a czar, Balllnger as an original con servationist, the real origin of pel lagra and the hook worm, RooBe velt as a possibility In 1912, the ex pected tariff war with Canada all these minor questions, like mists be fore the sun will pass out of sight as the eye of the expert gleams with satisfaction at Ryan's curves, Steen's speed, Garrett's strategy and "Bud die" Ryan's homers. Affairs of state and the problems of sociology have their place, but with the loyal fan they are not allowed to monopolize the stage when the curtain goes up for the first game. A cracking good slide by Casey beats the unhorsing of Cannon and as, a capital event aj shutout for the Seals in the opening game would be better than carrying a presidential election. And tomor row; amid fandom, the paramount issue is, not who is going to run congress, but which slabster is going to be the twirler in that opening game. And if, at the end of the sea son. Manager' McCredle brings home the pennant, It will, in the political circles of fandom, be he, and not Theodore Roosevelt, who will be a presidential possibility in 1912. A twist or two and the deed was done; The clock showed twenty after one. On Tuesday morn, two days before He struck the clock. Kid softly swore. He only meant to set it back About a day from its beaten track. But he didn't mourn; he called the crowd Who understood and laughed aloud. And everyone went home that day; For thirty hours they stayed away. , The boss then tried to figure out Just what the trouble all about. He read the clck, but, " he couldn't learn Why the crowd had so much time to burn-, For it ticked away at the same old Kait. . The crowd came back at half past eight And went to work. The boss grew thin Trying to figure where he came in. "Somebody lied," was what he said, And he worried himself clear out of his ' head. . 1 And now today in a padded cell. People hear the poor man yell: "The calendar and time clock, too. Are dirty llara. Say, what are you?" By Herbert Corey. (Copyright. 1910. by Edwin Wildman.) Some of the pomps and glories of this world would make a duck giggle. Take Knipst Henry Hhackleton, explorer, for an example. He put In fifteen months trying to get a touchdown on the South Tole. Learned to eat Manchurian pony on the hoof and liked It. Grew a beurd In which he had to blant toe holds for the raior when he first tried to shave. became so rudely vigorous tha when he ordered tea In the Hotel Cecil on his return to Iondon the head waiter took him for a rich American. "You can h'always tell 'em by reason of the h'alr of 'orrld 'ealth." said that func tionary. Established a place for him self among scientists, although he Is comparatively a mere kid. And what did he get for it all? When King Ed ward had his regular annual birthday, not being able to wet the clock back The Journal has given Mayor Si mon's administration full credit when credit was due, and criticised it when necessary. It did the same with Lane's. The Oregonlan de nounced everything in Lane's admin istration and gives a blanket indorse ment to Simon. Very many of the best acts In Simon's administration are the exact policies that were pur sued by Lane, a fact disclosing that the Oregonlan's vociferous applause of &imon is not an Issue of Portland's welfare, but a boost for the assembly. And struck the dial. The d.'i-tMwirevUecause folks were looking, Shaokleton became a knight. That entities him to pass the porcelain at tea parties, and B-et all guoHled up with a sword that will swing between his logs when he tries to walk. Here's a., husky that can bite an ear off a polar bear, and he drawB a ticket entltllnghlrn to wear a suit of tights like a burly burlesquer. At that it may be that the English have a better line of dope on the proper way to raise polar explorers In cages than we have. Shackleton only got within HI miles of the South Pole and then was forced to beat a retreat because his two companions were un eatable. They had been wearing the same outfit of clothes for three months, according to Sir Hank's story, and it may be they were a bit high. When he got home, he found himself $70,000 in debt for his little saunter, but that has been cleared away for him. And then he won this touching tag of kaighthood and can spend the rest of his life backing friends into club corners and telling 'em , how he did it. Whereas oij tWs side the big wash we burn matches between the toes of our explorers, and - prove con clusively, first that they didn't find it, and second, that if they did- find it they I are no gentlemen. On the whole, the English method is perhaps to be pre ferred, leaves less for the second gener ation to live down. Shackleton rathel knocked the spots off previous Antarctic" explorer with his little Jaunt to the south. He Is young and tender, as explorers go, for he was born In Ireland In November, 1874. But he doesn't look as thoagh he would tear under the wings, for he is a large, angular person, strong as a bull moose and posHessed of violent ideas on the advisability of a crew obeying orders first and writing to the papers about It after they get home. I He Isn't a regular naval officer, for he entered the Merchant Marine when , j he was 16 years old, and his name Is on the naval reserve list, along with the of ! fleers of the English transatlantic lines. Letters From the People A motor car service will be placed on the O. R. & N. road between Pen dleton and Umatilla, as well as on the Alhanv-Snrins-field hranrh of machine that, has become quite com- the s P and presumably this style mon and familiar in American cities. of car w, graduallv come int0 qulte The trouble Is and has long been general use. wherever practicable, that many business and even promt- j tne rallr0!ld8 win substitute elec nent and reputedly respectable and tr-,fUv and KasoMne for coal and honest men have one moral business: cfoQ1T, thc mon tha u standard In dealing with individuals cleaner and more comfortable, and in their private affairs, and an en-; perhapB safer and cheaper. The big tirely different standard if dealing Btoam enginea wil, Dot g0 out of with the public, a whole community, idate for awhJle yet, but they will people In the mass. All such men , become ess 0f a necessity for ordin are at heart and essentially dishn-jary traffic est, and they only maintain t he j " t higher or more correct standard in i They were an important and ad- one case as a matter of policy and j mirable lot of people that gathered throuRh fear of being caught in dia-1 together at Pendleton last week in Donesi. mess, n is saier to swindle a thousand or a million people than to swindle one, and a great many men whom caution restrains from swindling one at a time will cheat and plunder the multitude at every opportunity. And a good many such men go into politics,- get Into coun cils, the legislature, congress and other positions of trusts And. manv who do not are ready and on the Halley's Comet. Portland, March 28. To the Editor of The Journal In Friday's Journal ap pears an alleged refutation of my the ory as to comets tails pointing from the sun in the form of a purported in terview with President Ferrin of Pacific university, in which ne is asserted to have said: "It is difficult to under stand how tne tail can be merely a shadow of the nucleus, or head, since it is plainly luminous, and not dark, and moreover the spectroscope shows that In part at least It shines by its own light. This would not be the case if Mr. Fogle'a theory is correct" In the first aiace I did not say that ruir thenrv In correct, but that ft 1st the best so far advanced by learned men, or Ear,5r ,n hls llfe ne developed a bug on otherwise. Secondly, President Ferrin Polar work- and ln 1903 ne Joined the has evidently become confused ln the 8c0tt expedition- to the south. They reading or understanding of the theory. Bot a "ew ma,rk' but, Shackleton came I advanced the theory of a luminous at-1 home, brokn 'n nea"h- t However, he ima leui lieu iiuiiE9. dl-uu b expeu I nun had failed because that naval officer didn't know hnw to carry food, or what sort of food to carry. He would have needed a pack train of elephants i to transport his air tight victuals, and ele phants get sore footed working over ice." So Shackleton determined to do a littlo exploring along his own lines. He had to go in debt for the expedition, for' he didn't have any government backing to Bpeak, of. But he organ- j Drawn by Igoe. ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON. mosphere surrounding the comet. This being the case it would not be visible to the eye while in the light of the sun, therefore if the nucleus cast a shadow on or through this atmosphere, it would at once become visible to os. just as the phosphorescent glow of the small sea anlmaleulae Is visible only In the darkness, or the glow of decaying wood that we boys calied "foxfire" when we found it at night snd which attracted us to the woodpile with much greater regularity than did the necessity of re plenishing the kitchen woodbox. The curvature of the tail Is easily ac countable as an errect or rerraotion; as to there being more than one tall, there lzed an expedition which was pruvls loned along the lines he had found best He introduced a few vaudeville stunta in polar work, too, -for he car rled a printing press, on which he pub lished the "Antarctic News" In hi permanent camp, and a spike-wheeled automobile to drag sledges loaded with grub over the smooth Ice. In addition he had a bunch of Manchurian ponies, which he used instead of dogs, as pack animals and delicatessen. It is evident enough that his scheme worked, for he got 354 miles nearer the South Pole than any other explorer had ever done. and within 111 miles of the desired goal. Then all he had to do was to get back to his camp, which he did by going without anything to eat for sev eral days, except an undershirt or two, and some similar tasty morsels. After he got back to England be was $70,000 worse off than when he started, but all England chipped in and helped pay that indebtedness off. And now he has be come a knight. Stjll, that knight business can't be considered Indiscretion on Shackle ton's heart. He was away down south or some other Antarctic roam, and could aot know tnat nis name was to figure Hi the court gazette under "S," along with several beer founders and silk .Weavers. But the bee is on him and tie can't shako it off. There ,1s -no Wy of resigning from knighthood, mny more than there Is from chicken pox. King .Edward had a birthday, and he Just had to have some nice, in expensive splurge to mark the occa slon. 'Sir Ernest Hank Shackleton ought to be glad that King Edward isn't twins. 1 , Men and woman In the towns and cities have realised the tremendous forco of the water problem nd have solved it at the cost of millions of dol lars ln some Cases. The home In the city or town without Its hydrant water s tne exception, and In modern and progressive communities the rara ex ceptlon. After tha supply has been brought a doien or fifty miles from tt-tlaurceplpes fcave to be' iaia at tne expense or rag-pi uueit - owner, and additional expense comes ln plumbing and In keeping up the regu lar monthly or quarterly charges made by the municipality or the private water company, ret men In towns ex pect to meet these expenses they can not avoid them. With the water supply comes the bath, hot and cold water ln kitchen and bedroom, the pretty green lawn, the flower bed, the greensward ln the country. Women do not ret these things because they are expensive In the country, because the women don't themselves realize what they are miss- 1 n ir Over in Idaho lives a man who home-Vjll steaded his farm 26 years a so. He was V. poor, had a family to support and was kept busy many years fighting the wolf from the door. On a hillside nearly a quarter of a mile front the house a spring bubbled forth and for many years was the sole source of water supply for man and beast on that hnmestejirl. A man from the city visited him i- I day. Among the duties of the farmeMr alter the visitors arrival was the car rying of a bucket of water to the kitchen. Visitor and farmer went to gether to the spring, filled tha pall, and tmdged up the hill to the house. The visit waa returned by the farmer and his wife, and once ln the city they saw the needless hardship which had been endured for many years. The wife was charmed with the simplicity of the bousehold water system as well as Its utility. The cost of the con venience was figured out, and the city man suggested that a spring might be found that would give "head" enough to furnish the farmer's home' with a similar system. - Marck 29 in History Birthday q( John Tyler Today Is the birthday of John Tyler, attendance at the twelfth annual ses sion of the Inland Empire Teachers association. There were several hun dred of them, and they discussed many subjects, and doubtless parted better prepared :ban when they as sembled to perform their very important-duties. The earnest, con scientious, devoted teachers-are per sons upon whom much of the coun try's weal or woe in the future de ls no dispute on this point, but may we i tne tenth president of the United States, iiul niuiuuit) iut?ae extra- inns 10 a zreaK, Just as sometimes we hear of calves having two tails, yet there is no dis puting the fact that they were born Into the world the same as those with only one tail. I have seen houses apparently several hundred feet high with people walking ln the streets, who appeared to be more than 100 feet tall, yet the- actual people were only ordinary individuals and the houses Just those ordinarily found in country towns. The effect as seen was occasioned by atmospheric con ditions, therefore we may reasonably presume that similar conditidns may ex ist In the atmosphere of a comet and that atmosphere being of the 'most rari fied gas there are apt to be more pe culiar conditions existing than ln our own atmosphere. Perhaps when the earth passes through the tail this summer some mod ern Ben Franklin may be able to catch a small portion of it, and then It can be analyzed and forever set at rest the guesses hazarded by the curious. W. T. rOGLE. The Leaders. From the Woodburn Independent (Rep.) Already we hear of "assembly lead ers." Self-constituted, it Is presumed. , Rospburg Is growing. No doubt of the fact, but it Is not growing fast enough, from the viewpoint of building, to keep up with the demand for homes. says the News. People coming to this city find it difficult to. secure, h'ouses to live in until they can look up a fa vrirable' location and build a home for themselves. one hundred and twenty years ago. Ty ler had shared with William Henry Har rison In the famous "Tippecanoe and Ti ler, Too" campaign and when the presi dent died, one month after being In augurated, Tyler succeded him. Many things of Importance to the country occurred during Tyler's ad ministration. The Ashburton Treaty settled the northern boundary of the United States as far west as the Rocky mountains. The Dorr Rebellion ln Rhode Island grew out of the desire of the people for universal suffrage. A tele hgraph line was built between Washing ton and Baltimore and the first message was sent in 1844. Texas gained its in dependence and was annexed . to the United 8tates three days before" Tyler's term expired, and Florida and Iowa were also admitted to the Union. John Tyler was born In 1790 and was the ,son of distinguished' Virginia par ents. He became a member of the Vir ginia legislature when only 21 years. of ago and was elected to congress when hd was 26. He was governor of his suite and United States senator, which seat he resigned after serving nine, years, because he was nX willing to expunge the resolution of censure of President Jackson, as the legislature of his state had instructed "him to do. In 1835 he was put forward by some of the Democratic states as a candidate for , the vice-presidency," but was de featl He was nominated for the same position on the Whig ticket, with Har rison for-the head of-the ticket, in 1839,1 and tnls time he was elected. lie was a man of brilliant attainments and of independent character. His ac ceptance of the nomination on the Whig ticKet, ana nis succession to the presi dency because of his nomination, placed Turn in a raise position, as most of his political career had been spent ln the ardent advocacy of the principles of the Democratic party. At the close of his administration he retired to private life, from which he emerged in the winter of 1861. He was president of the so-called "Peae Con vention" held in Washington, and was one of the committed who, in April fol lowing, transferred the control of all the military forces of Virginia to the confederate government. He took an active part on the side of the confeder acy and was regarded with the, office of senator in the confederate congress at Richmond. He was acting ln that ca pacity when he died, at Richmond, on the 18th of January, 1862. President Tyler narrowly escaped death at the time of the explosion of the great gun, the Peacemaker; In February, 1844, with a party of about 100, he made an excursion down the Potonac ln a war vessel. The company included, beside the president hjs cab inet, itiithy members pf congress with tbelr families and the former Queen of the White House, Dolly Madison. The object of the trip was to witness the working of the great gun, which threw a 226-pound ball. The gun exploded on the return trip, killing Mr. Upshur, sec retary of state: Mr. Gilmer, secretary of the navy, . nd Mr.' Gardner, whose daughter Was soon to become the, wife or president Tyler. The president had a narrow escape, having been playfully called below by Miss" Gardner a moment before., the explosidn-'took place; A week later the farmer and his hired man were plowing a "dead fur row far up along the hillside. A line of gaaV pipe lay beside the long used path. The furrow was plowed deep, leading from the house to a spring further up the hillside than that which had been used so long. The furrow was cleaned out, the high places lowered, and the pipe placed in the bottom of it. Then a horse was hitched to either end of part of a rail- , road iron used as a scraper to replace the earth in the furrow without hard labor. In two days the pipe was laid and water was running through It. A hydrant was placed close to the kitchen door. Within a week the pipe line had been extended to the barn, where a hydrant was placed for use in watering the stock to save the unnec essary travel which had been kept up in all the years before. A month later a tinner was placing a tank on a hlgtt knoll near the house, while a bath tub was being set In the "spare bedroom." It 'was not Intended to pipe the house for hot water, but so successful had the venture been that before the Job was finished the order was given to pluitib the "bathroom" and place a boiler above the stove. And the ex pense it had not been one-half that paid for the similar service enjoyed by the man in the city. In level districts this system Is not possible, but ln Oregon and ln 'Wash ington thousands of springs effer Just such possibilities as the one mentioned. The hard labor of placing the system counted with the exnenae have much to do wittl maintaining the old dray- dr horse method of carrying water on thousands of farms. By exercising bit of "horse sense" both of these ob stacles can be overcome largely, ana the toil of after years reduced much more than can be estimated by one who has not "gone through the mill." K K It To Clean Cut Glass. UT gjass looks clearest when washed in tepid water' and brushed with a dry bristle brush. A crystal polish increases the brilliancy of old pieces. Do not put milk Into cut glass goblets. Milk clouds glass bo that Its original brilliancy cannot be restored. R K R Something Good. TiAKE veal or meat, boil till tender s and mince with onion, parsley, one egg, cracker; make a paste same as for noodles; roll and cut size of sau cer; spread with mince meat and roll. Cook 20 minutes ln meat stock and serve with chili gravy with a grated cheese and olives. - Spring Is Coming (Contributed to loe Journal by Walt Maeou, the f&moua Kansm poet Hla prose-pocma are a regular feature of thia column ln Tha Dallr Journal.) The time's at hand when I will take" my trusty spade and garden-rake, and wear old clothes, and fuss around af planting doodads ln. the ground. I'll plant a lot of cabbage seeds, and when they grow they'll turn out Weeds; I'll make a frame of wire and twine, on which, may grow the carrot vine, and tinker round at building screens, to shield my growing can of beans. And neighbors' hens will come and scratch the stuffing from my garden patch, and. hungry cows with wooden horns will spoil my bed of barleycorns, and mangy ' dogs and one-eyed cats-wiy ruin all my marrowfats, and snakeVanB skunks and . goats and owls, and toadsVanfl bats and; guinea-fowls will make my1-yard their , place of rest, and knock the whole thing gauey wst. Ana l win cuss my neigh bor when he fails to chain hla sorreT hen; And he will shoot my .buggy horso, Decause it ate nis patch of gorse; we'll , all be pulling hair and ears, and every-, one will be ln tears; and .when the copa have run us in, the Judge wlll'murmur: "What sin, that neighbors come to such a pass, for ten cents' worth of garden sass!" . ' ' J , Gaorge Uattfcaw Adams, M2ftlaV UHu i