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T T T I in: OliCGON DAILY, JOURNAL, FCr.TLAIJD, I'IDAY E JOURNAL 'AH i.V'i:rESPEST NEWSPAPER. i S. JACKSON'.... .Publisher r;:M;.-ho4 awry errntrff er"T Snitfay) nd fwrf KiirJur m,r-.:lnit it The Joun-nl Balld- k,r, Ftnb and Yaqitiill trt. Portland, or. Cutrrri at the jxwtofflea at Portland. Or., for trsnsratssioo tiirooza tha mail! a aecaod-clam Butter. , . lELEPHONES U!n T1T3: Horn. A-05l. All dinnrtmpTitt mgM -ltr then nnmbara, Tell th operator what opartnint you want. FOKE1GN ADVERTISING BKPBESENTATI VE, PeTiJamfn A KrntDor Oo., Burnawlck BnlMIn. ?5 Fifth oreiine, .," Jorki J0O7-OS. Boyca f obscrlptlon i- nca bf aiall or to any adJreaa b Ui United Etatn. Canada or Ataxies DAILT. ' Oca tut ..fS.OO 1 On month f .00 SUNDAY. On year. ..$2.50 I One month. ....... I .25 DAILY AND SUNDAY. Pn ear....'....T.M t On month....'.... .09 One ' thorn- of experience ' Is worth a whole wilderness .of warning. James Russell Lowell. CAUGHT tS T1TE ACT C, AUGIIT WITH the goods on, the 1 tall, tower admits that It Jug . gled registration figures In Multnomah county. It attempts to excuse Itself on the threadbare statement that its "copyist made an error." But It Joggled the figures in Benton county, as a dispatch else where in this paper shows. Did Its '"copyist make an error", as to Ben ton? It juggled the figures In every county in the state,, except ; Baker, and Its misstatements of figures ran from hundreds to thousands in each. It was on these Juggles and false figures that it declares "Democrats are liars and perjurers.' Who is the . liar the copyist? -. . r ' - ; RESTORE THE CLUB HQMB' A LL PORTLAND keenly -regrets the misfortune that overtook many as -a result , of 'Wednes- day night's fire. The list of losses is large, and In many caaas ; there is little or no insurance. It is a situation that calls out the earnest sympathy of all. A very regrettable loss . is that which has befallen Multnomah Ama teur Athletic club. The clubhouse and costly ; stadium, the ' latter of which was but recently Installed, . were totally destroyed," and the in surance, will cover 1)ut' little more . than half the, Joss. ; It. Is a heavy blow , to that organization, and one that . will call for large sacrifices from the membership. -... - -Fortunately, the directorate of the .club' is a unit. for the rehabilitation of the clubhouse and club activities. " The loss has only served to make loyalty to the club endeavor the more ' steadfast " So far as known, the quickened impulse of the board of control is fully shaped by the mem bership, and the voice united for re . building on a larger scale than ever. , The effort of the organization to rear1 another establishment on the ashes of the old is one that Portland ... citizens will applaud. Indeed, it la Dne to which they will extend hearty cooperation. The club is an 'estahy lishment that teaches the simple life. It radiates Influences- for clean and correct living. It provides the para phernalia and ' equipment- for. bene ficial "amusement and, eorrect body, building. It is an agency to hold youth aloof from places of vice, fit is a gathering place, and one of the rare ones in which' liquors are not dispensed. It is a place to which many ;yonng" men are drawn who Y have not the habit of frequenting the ' T. M. C. A. In different spheres, the two organizations exert similarly beneficial influences.' "The ashesof the destroyed Multnomah clubhouse and stadium are an appeal to all ".Portland ' for a restored home and renewed endeavor for that excellent i organization. ' " ; . MARJORIE MAim lTf HERE doubtless will be, as there I should be, a very - liberal re- I sponseto the appeal, through a theatrical benefit, for aid for the pretty young vaudeville actress, Marjorie Mahr. 'Caught on a.rallroad trestle last Sunday by a train, one or ner legs was cut orr and the foot of the other leg crushed so that am putation was necessary, One min ute she was blithe, happy, active, Vo latile, full of the enjoyment of life; the- next minute fche lay there crushed, mangled, terribly crippled .for life, bruised, broken, .Bleeding, . llv.e, hut for iRwhilef at least ahe-will need help, arid a 'gobd deal of it. The actor folk, always fpen-hearted and generous, will do their part to help this unfortunate girl, and the public , is .expected to do its part. - ; , Marjorie Mahr was only a vaude ville actress, a chorus girV but she was young, lisome, pretty, merry, and helped a little to "entertain mul- . tltudes of people, "first and last; now, lying in a hospital bed. In this des perate -.condition, a ' disposition j to criticise her calling should be sub- . ordlnated to the spirit of, kindness I that makes all mankind kin, and the 'charity that Christ - taught and ex emplified.' ""-. "A ARE THERE SO MANY PER- f JTRERS? ' t .,'s.r ; :-i'v:' ';iT'. n:j-:j IT MUST 'be delightful to Oregon Democnats to , be exploited, pub licly 1 as TperJ tirers ah dT election fraudlsts. These are sensational headlines ' in the Oregonian; "Elec , tioa frauds' grw state-wide. Demo crats and othirs registering ks Re T,t!tnrr.irTcrrafre:venT:aagtfTaf7! TUV n' fttKate followed by a;$tory to enjfj- the nerifc-noeratS and )ther r lot J.s than lt.erurlns them c'..-!r;. t haa Uen. lal' .nd false ;'u!i. .. - . ave that 'Ore CAN THEY "A! FURTHER Jeadlng purpose of assembly h to eliminate Statement No. 1 from any part or use m Kepubiioan politics. Against all pretended Re- publicans who take Statement No, 1 throughout Oregon the knife will be used with utmost vigor, an the knife to the MIL" Oregonian. Here, then, is the issue. A prime purpose is to throw election of sena- tor.back. .into .tbe legislature. It Is at ;lastr acknowledged. What The Journal pointed out months ago as the secret purpose is openly con fessed, The Journal's predictions as to what would happen have come to pass. Those who are following the assembly scheme are at last let into the secret of ' whither they are being led. They must turn their backs on the people's right to chooqe senator. They must resist the right bf tho. people to choose senator. To. follow the assembly, they must demand that be senator shall be' chosen by the legislature alone. Oregon legislatures have declared for, public" meetings have demanded, and . granges have appealed tor the people's right' to choose senator. Commercial hodies have resolved.for .it, platform, ora tors have appealed for It and -party platforms have proclaimed for it. The voice of demand' for it Toy plat form, press, pulpit and the people has been 'unanimous. . But all this, those who are to follow the assem bly must, repudiate. The order has been made,-- and notice - has been served. , To all purposes, plane and demands for the right, of the people to choose senator, every assemblyite la warned that he must "use the knife with utmost vigor and the knife, to the hilt.", He must argue, for, he must advocate, and hemust deniand that the people give up their right to ' choose and, that the legislature shall elect the senator. ". : j r Many a man .who. has been' dts j posed to look with .some favor on the assembly will be startled at'thl&j new demand. He . will be shocked by the audacity ot the program. He will be stunned by. the lengths to which, as an assemblylte, he will be required to go. . He will be amazed at this public demand that senatorial elections in Oregon shall be thrown j back into the legislature, with all the miscarriages of . legislation, , with all the" disorder at sessions, and all the extravagances in' appropriation that legislative election of senator means. It is a prospect to giye pause to awwrwca imktr uueim'srit v a plan that will cause hundreds who have- been ready - to . follow the- as emhly ' to withdraw' promptly and emphatically from it This declaration by the Oregonian will serve as an eye opener. legis lative election of senator ia the hand maid of the straight ou convention system. If the assembly' is for the one, it is for the other. It haa con- f eased that it is for the one, and may Just as well confess that it is for both. The principle of the one is exactly the-same as the principle gon is a hotbed of election frauds. It is a story as false as are Its own fig ures. , It is printed in the effort to make sentiment for the assembly. The good name of thousands of citi zens -of, the state Is wantonly be smirched in the hope of bolstering up an unpopular assembly scheme. It is a blackguard method of making a bogus argument. for something, for whipjh there is. otherwlse.no argu ment. The .Oregonian .destroys lts own veracity and reduces public con fidence in it byheapirig obloq,uy on a numerous class of honorable citi zens In an effort to gain a temporary political advantage. It heralds to the world that Oregon is the scene of state-wide, election frauds, . when there are no frauds and when the state has been, -until the Oregonian brought forward lta disrupting, dis orderly, and unlawful scheme" an 6r derlyr peaceful anrf highly prosperous commonwealth. It is, indeed, a diuty bird that befouls its own neBt-i They are indeed, patient and long suffer ing Democrats," Prohibltionista, So cialists and others who hear the Ore gonian daily repeat Its calumny that they are perjurers and election fraudlsts. . probably they are com forted by the knowledge that every body knows the Oregonian and pays little attention to Its fool chatter. SELF-APPOINTED DELEGATES FTER .TnREEl . attempts-nine t precinct committeemen got to gether In Union county and elected 30 . delegates, -count 'em, to the state assembly. ' Several of the committeemen are in the dele gation Just as Tom Hislop is on the delegation of .eight and M. O. Bres lin Is on the delegation of nine each appointed in Portland. '.With very few exceptions this is the way dele gates .are appointing" themselves to the assembly all over the stated If there was ever a process' of "self-nomination" arid 'elf-appoInt ment," here it is. jtn five Portland precincts,, seven men appointed; 40 delegates,, each of the five being among the delegates. In preclncfs 1, 2, Z and 4,, Portland, 10 men elected 23 delegates, all bf the 10 sharing In the honors br being In the delega tions. Six men in another precinct appointed themselves and nine others as delegates. j-The, whole . process Is self-nomination 1 and . self-appointment Self-promotion and self-assertion Is the end and all of the busi ness. " All Over the State." Ana men 'declare' ttemsefves elected and avow themselves o be the voice of ' the people. ' The men who are doling this object thatjdJrect primary candidates era self-nominated,: and yet here is self-nomination, self-anpolntment. AFFORD IT? of the other. If managing men pro pose in the legislature to choose the senator, they are also planning to restore conventions and manipulate nominations there. The honeyed word3 In which they now speak of the direct primary are a mere expe dient to keep the- people quiet un til they have worked their game. The confession that It is the assembly's plan to throw the senatorshlp back into the legislature with 40 days and 40 nights of trickery and trades Is eloquent confession that, it Is back to all of the old order that the as sembly leads, and no man need be fooled. " . . " "i It would be a crime against Ore gon for all of these plans to be car ried out. It would be crime against the Republican party of the state for this game to be worked in its name'. It will be loyal and devoted service to his own party for any Republican to. resist this effort to have his party advocate taking choice of senator out of the hands of the people and giving it to the legislature. Tho eloquent voice of Judge Henry McG!nn is both a warning and an appeal to his Re publican brethren. -He is a, man whose Republicanism is sound to the core, whose personal and public in tegrity has , never been questioned and against whom no breath of scan dal has been uttered; and lie said in a speech at the assembly smoker i "You say that you are going to have an assembly. I ask you who will be there, who will compose' It? I will tell you. -The agents of the electric light company will be there. The agents of the street railways and the gas companies and of the predatory trusts and combination and of the big railroad companies -will all have seats." We all know that people used to be bought on the 6treeta for.J2.50 apiece.; -We know that men high In life were engaged in the work. I re member when Larry Sullivan and his shotgun, kept the voters from the polling ' place. ' I : remember - when George H. Williams yr&i not allowed to,, cast his ballot, though he re mained in line during the whole af ternoon.; There never was a time except once when " the eehatorshlp was notput up for barter and sale. know,' because I was there and through it' V remember the time when the Northern Pacific put up 30,000 to .bring about the, election of a United States senator, and when the electric light company put up $18,000 to defeat the Simon faction and' the Simon faction, of which I was one, had $12,000. I could recall many other political, campaigns where the Interests paid our who.e campaign expenses and no man had to put up a cent in his own behalf. It is because of these memories that I am ODTJOsed to the aHRemhlv." It is back to this that1 assembly followers are required to go. It is back to ,thls that Is meant by the Oregonlan's demand, that senators be elected by the legislature. It is back to this that Republicans are asked to commit their party." Can they afford it? .V.-r Vt'Si::-;- and self-election in Its very essence, It; is 'self-nomination, self-appoint ment and self-election, self-promotion and self-assertion boiled "down, heaped :,up and Running over.' It is "representative", assembly . that rep resents nobody but the delegates who nominate, elect and ' ordain them selves as delegates. The very-thing assemblyltes complain of is the very thing in which they are paramount sinners. The. delegates represent no body and nothing but themselves. Their scheme, is the sham of. the cen tury and the Joke of the state. SUGAR TRUST AND FRIAR v,,; '-'LANDS - ITH, REFERENCE to the il legal acquisition of the Phil ippine friar lands by he ' sugar trust, Attorney Gen eral Wlckersham holding in favor of the transaction Representative ; Mar tin' of Coloradd very fully," specific ally and convincingly charges in the New York World that the provision of the organic law of the Philinnlnes 'forbidding the disposal of more than 2500 acres of the public domain to any corporation, was interpreted by Secretary Wlckersham 'as - inapplic able to the frair lands, though there seems to be no sound reason why it should be- so inapplicable; that this was to the benefit of the sugar trust; that the character of the sale of 55 .000 acres of the friar land in the San -..Jose : estate , -was- concealed through the use of a dummy as pur chaser; that, after inquiry began, resort' was had to various shifts 6f evasion and denial; that e'venjf Mr, Wickersham's- opinion was correct, another provision . of the organic law forbids the holding of more than 2500 acres of land by any agricul tural corporation; that this provision is evaded- by the land beingln the names of individuals connected with the . ; sugar: trust and ;; he makes other and .corroborating charges.;; ;' Wlckersham .was a member of 'a law; firm that was attorney for the sugar trust. So was President. Taft's brother. The sugar trust was; very anxious for Taft's election. It has these tens. of thousands of acres of sugar-producing friar lands. obtained apparently; illegally, and for a less price t-han the United States paid for them.' We desire to make no Insin uation. These appear to be the facts. Owing to Mr. Martin's exDOs- ure, 'there is to be an Investigation only both, insurgents and regulars, but Democrats also. ; Rut', some visitor, .horrified, asked him, "you do' not want to see Democrats win?" "Not if the Republicans :dd tlrigM thin sr."; M.pSrirl nnnnavcH Z. , - -AfM.-" a.vwsiw , 4.to, A Ul 117" W ply 111 be a crcr.t dlj.irpolntment to many "Ioadsrs." They want the Re publicans to win regardless fcf whether they do the right thing or the wrong thing. They would not have a Democrat win even if he were by far the better man for the peo ple, and preferred by the people.' Not so Roosevelt. He wishes the Repub licans to win, "if" It is a big, sig nificant, portentous "if.". Letters From tlie People The Majority Ruled. , Parkplace, Or., July 12. To the Edi tor ; of Th Journal I notice Jn this morning' Oregonian an account of the Parkpliwe primary assembly that is rathef misleading. A few of the Repub lican voters of Abernethy4 precinct an swered the call and assembled at the appointed J, place, and the majority were anti-aasemblyltes they alecttftt the delegates to the county assembly. Noth tng wrong at all about majority ruling. We agree with the Oregonian about the worthiness of Captain J.! T. Apperson and W. W. Smith. If Mr, Apperson had ome Into the primary a the law pre BcribcS; we would elect him Judge easily enough, -The day has passed when a few men can bring Republicans Into lino with the party laBh. A REPUBLICAN VOTER. i A Soothing Roosevelt From the New York Evening Post. wo are not in the habit of looking to Senator Carter of Montana for orig inal and suggestive ideas, but a phrase he used on his departure from Oyster Bay yesterday gives, us a wholly hew point of view. Asked what political role he thought Colonel Roosevelt would play In the weeks to come, the senator said he believed it would b that of "a soothing influence.".;1 This is a novelty. Can it be that Roosevelt brought back with rum drowsy syrups of the east and is going to dose his restless party with them? -The Republican children, insurgent and regular, are very nervous and excited, crying in the night and un able to sleep; and Senator Carter's con ception of Colonel Roosevelt is that of a calm and good-natured nurse walking about among the-beds, and hushing the tossing forms to restful slumber. This would certainly.be very different from the "putting to sleep with th : Big Stick, ' which popular tradition has so long associated with Roosevelt If the, Montana senator Is correct, all the stories about Mr. Roosevelt's atti tude that haye been recently current are totally without foundation. He la not fairly aching .to get into the fight Ths terrific energy which has been accumu lating in him unused, like steam in a ship's boilers, is not to be expended upon buffeting his enemies and backing his friends. , He is not counting the days until he can go out and burn up the prairies and make the mountains flow down to meet him. All this is a mistake. It fl-a new Roosevelt that we are to witness; the great party conciliator; the peacemaking go-between of factions; the man who so radiates the modest still ness and humility which become a war rior In time of peace that, a soothing- influence will be felt like balm wherever he passes.-:" -";'-:,'",;" i; ''''. Let -there be-anindrthen,rof all the rumors that Roosevelt means .to make trouble, that he can't keep his hands off, that he is spoiling for a fight, and that If the president will not declare war he win on his own motion as John Hay wrote that he was ready to when PresV dent Harrison would not Begin hostili ties against Chill. Only accept this new theory of the'CoIonel's oonduot. and ev- everythlng Is explained. . But Senator Carter points tha-way to the true explanation., It is not dynamite that, ; Mr- Roosevelt is ladling out at Oyster -, Bay, but soothing syrup. 1 He agrees to speak for Boyerldge merely In order to keep him still. That Is cer tainly a laudable -endeavor. .. ' ; Indeed, the entire procession of Insur gents to. Mr. - Roosevelt's hospitable dwelling, day after day, takes on a new meaning irk the light of Senator Car ters account of, what the colonel is ac tually trying to do. It does seem strange., at first eight that all these men with a grievance against President Taft should go so early and so effu slvely to the man who made them vote for Taft It might appear, suspiciously like the nocking to Absalom of the chll dren of Israel who had controversies or claimsj-and as If we mignt soon hear the cry: "Oh,, that -1 .were mads Judge in the land, that -.every man which hath any suit or cause might come to me, ami I would do him Justice!" But we can see from what takes place that these In ferences are unjust All the Insurgents reach Oyster Bay with set and anxious faces, but -they Invariably come away smiling. - Do you -not see that Senator Carter ; is rlght7 - They hare been "soothed.!'- The lullabies and the sopor ifics' of Sagamore Hlll have done their quieting work. There Is no more talk of a split party, and war to the knife. Calm and . peace have stolen into all hearts, and the erstwhile troubled and inflamed Insurgents take the train for New Jx"ork ''sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trtjst" that all will be for the best In the best of possible parties. Initiative and Referendum Defended. From the-Medford Mail-Tribune, The Oregonlan's hysterics are due to the fact that the people of Oregon are given a chance "to make 8 laws, or to oeieai mem. xnese proposed laws are placed before. tha people upon pe titions for each, signed by from 10,000 to 26,000 legal voters. .They are filed four months- before eleotion, Bach at tracts a large amount ot attention from the press and the advocates and oppon ents are given from now until Novem ber to make' the- publlo familiar with the proposed law and its- merits and demerits.' s' ' In addition, the ...state printer Issues a pamphlet containing arguments for and against each measure, as well as the measure itself, which is sent ' to every registered voter, . thereby giving him ample opportunity to familiarize himself with the law. 'v ..- Given ordinary ' Intelligence ' and ap preciation, even In a slight degree, of the duty and responsibility Of the elec torate, there IS nof reason why any voter should wait until he gets Into the elec tion booth to .determine the fate of these bills. , . - - , 'The legislature of Oregon is In 'ses sion 40 days. Over BOO proposed laws are Introduced for consideration and 'a couple of hundred .new laws passed. All sorts of freak measures beqomo. laws, which the ob sense -of -air the people would snow '.under. "What - "expert knowledge," What "careful "deliberation," - what - "Intelli gent insight", enter Into the considera tion of these 600 bills by the legisla ture! The ordinary, legislator possesses no superior ability to the. ordinary vot er. He simply happens to, be popular personally In his district. If the legis lator can duly weigh and consider J00 proposed laws -In 40 days, wtlh no pre liminary ), enlightenment surely the aver age voter can duly weigh and consider 22 measures in four months. t mt l'ialcW4"nsetnieRts"Mrif ""leglslatUfPS ' are Becurea,-not upon the merits -Of the measures, DUt . through "log rolling1, wherein the fathar of the bill agrees to vote for certain other bills, In exchange for support for ''his own bill A measure plaoed beforetM people jnust stand ui vimk merits. ' ' ',-- f Is easy for corporate or other in- AND SMALL CHANG" t P2 ar ri0"sevelt has not challenged The assemblyltes may warm next November. not b bo Thos fight pictures are said to be not worth seeing, anyhow. The colonel has two shoulders, and ..., umou aim FlOUt, DUl If at first you can't swat the fly, try, try again, and many times try. . - - . .. ." Some day Johnson can't come back; then a whits itan may have a chance. Oh thing Roosevelt ' Is nvr men tioned . for Justlos of , the supreme court . .. , - Yale , spent $105,000 on athletics last year, and then got beat at ' baseball at the end , - - r '-:,'- .'.ri V It those fight pictures, are exhib ited down south they would better be armors-plated. .'". ,-'"'" .C---v. "-f'.;. V:-';"". '.;''"'-.";' ';'' -Bull Run water continues to be one of Portland's : best and most valuable possessions. . . , . '-i... "-,':.-:,: 'v'V'v , s-;v,f", 1 :;-.-i ""'-"' ' A Pennsvlvanla onw unM tnr 7ite That is as much as oma big beef steers bring at retail. - ... t . j "There is this further good thing about Chautauqua assemblies on rarely hears. of rows among them. ',',;' i' . . , . Some London society ' women - are fojng to war snake skins. Why idn't Mother Eve think' of that? ;( t:-:: Nick Longworth may run for gov ernor of Ohia It would be . about as safeto bet on him as it was on Jeffries.- . .,.. .:X sV!i;'..:'-;'SV:'.'l:'''j'' Senator Lodge is a great scholar and statesman, hence we are bound to be lieve him when h says. that. the coat of living is high because prices are up. '.-: ' , -- ( Though rearettlng the losses of in. dlvlduals, and the destruction of other property, 6ne has no occasion to mourn the disappearance of that old Exposi tion, building. . , . - , . --i- ..v--'-:'------ : i A 15-ton shark' was cauaht nesr attle. We expect to see the Tacoma papers, say that he was making for Se attle to go Into business among frater nal associates. , , : t.i. ' . A London maristrate v a. man should set aside one-fifth of his In oomf for his wife. If that were all they had to do, most husbands might save- a, lot of money.,; If Count Zencelin were a vntinr man instead of one 70 years old, he might live to- construct an airship that wouldn't break down befora he had tried it more than two or three times. Pendleton 'East Oreeonlan: Renub- llcan "leaders" complain because Demo crats - have been elected to office in Oregon. Yet the assemblylfes are fast paving the way for the election of an other Democratic governor. , -: -iv'.-' i.-i ''.-.; . :? -iY-'- -; - ' A sailor tvs that feellnar like tak. ing a little walk he went up on the top of Mt .: McKlnlev and found Dr. Cook's tube there. Yet some people will still be skeptical. It Is a-enerallv believed that some, sailors do not al ways confine themselves strictly to ths truth. . "..,-,,-...,, ';.,;.;-,, Rosebura- Review: Sunday's Orea-o. nlan reported the Republican primaries In Roseburg Saturday as beinir larcely attended and. very enthusiastic Local cltisens report Just the reverse, and it is even, said that the number or voters present was smaller than the aggre gate of delegates named for next Sat urday's county assembly. July 15 in History Today !s St Swithin's day the fes tival of Swithin. bishop and patron of Winchester, a city which, even in. the early- day of the Romans in Britain, had attained some, note and is mentioned by Ptolemy- under the name of Venta. The common adage regarding St Swith in, as every one knows, Is to the effect that as It rains or Is fair on this day, there will be' a continuous track of fair or wet. weather for the 40 days en suing:'"' " : - "'': ,'.':';'' : ' "St Swithin's day. if thou dost rain, For 40 days It will remain: j -St Swithin's day, if thou be fair, . For 4a days 'twill rain nae nialr." This old time quatrain originated from the eaves dripping on the saint's tomb and. has been repeated In. a score of different ways. .We find It In Poor Robin's almanao of 1697 In a poem of 20 lines. The poet Gay. also In his "Trivia," recounts th story, but cau tions In finishing: --f "Tf ma anth viiIcai 4atA rlAhftfia ' tftA mltirt- . ' - ', - Nor -Paul nor Swt thin jnfiea , the clouds Swlthln was born In the neighborhood' of Winchester, probably about the year 800..: He became a monk of the old ab bey of Winchester, and gradually rose to be Drior of that community. He seems to have gained the. favor of Eg bert king of Wessex, who Intrusted, hlra with the education of his son and suc cessor, Ethelwulf.-y It ought to be re majkeiL ihatlthough dlstinguilshed. by the prefix "saint,"; Swlthln was never regularly canonized by the pope, a praor tice not introduced till nearly 200 years after his translation, which Is the only ceremony on which he rests his claim to the title. He is thus emphatically what ' Mr Earle call "a home made saJnt"?-r MrvAEarle - btlll further re maYksrifMost .'probablyv'ihe belief In St. Swlthln day Is dlrived from some primeval pagan belief fe-egardlng the me teorologically prophetic character of some day about the sjame period as St, Swithin's,, Such adapjtatlons. It Is well known, were very frequent on the sup planting throughout Europn of heather- flusneM,'-'--poUt1eaV-eeota! or -business, to eontrcj and corrupt a legislature. It la done la every state in ths union. United States senators are elected and special -legislation secured, none of which could .be wrnng from the peoplo who In the mass are honest How of ten are meritorious measures demand ed by the people, killed in legislatures?. How often ' do legislators, puffed up with their little brief authority, imagine themselves superior- to those who elect them, and betray their constituents The Initiative and referendum is an excellent law: Through "it .the people have a chance to secure needed leglsla-. tion which special interests 'defeat In the legislature, such as the good roads bill, and the bill protecting fish in the Rogue river. It also acts as a check upon the actions of the legislature, for any- bill -passed inimical - to the- public welfare can be held, up until approved or killed by ths .people, v . , i . poued- down.' .th Oregonlan's araru- ment is simply that the people of Ore gon- ar fools, incapable of knowlnir what they want, and -that there is as much sense in. submitting proposed laws to a lunatic asylum as to the people, ' Lncky "Golden Rule" Koehler. '- ' From the Detroit Free Press. U 11 The acquittal Of Fred Koehler. Cleve land's "golden rule" chief of police, Is gratifying, or two reasons: 1 It lg vrndrcatlonflTmanfrom'hifaland ers, and' it Is added proof , that ' more than suspicion and calumny (are needed now to drive' an official from public life. xne attack upon Koehler was conduct ed along the- customary lines. A tre mendous fuss was made about him. Ills enemies pieced together shreds of In nuendoes and talked volubly-about Vi9 COMMENT NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Manufacture of brick on a larpe Real has been begun near Tola, Jackson county. A 'Wallowa county cherry tree twin a foot long contained S6 big Royal Anne cnernes. ' Silverton creamery Is turnlnar out lm mense quantities of butter and ice, says me Appeal. Parties purchassd a quarter block in weaiora lor jdo.uuq, ana win erect four story building. Manv narts of Rosebura: appear like a tented city as result of the desire of peopie to sieep outsiae, From one small limb a foot long an Imnaha, Wallowa county, man picked 86 large Koyai Ann cnerrics. - ' . Btanfleld will be shipping more strawberries than Hood River in a few years, thinks the Standard. ',-.''". ' '' .'''..' ' j'f jJ: ;y.'v-f "''.'' Medf oid's nroscerous cnurches 1 re flect the progress of ihe city new ones are planned for five' denominations and tills in wet, wicked Medford, says the Mall-Tribune. In the annolntment of the. new nost- mastefat Lake view an error was made in the name. Fred C. Ahlstrom having been nominated and confirmed, whereas Fred O. Ahlstrom Is the man that should have been appointed. II is said to be a fact that on a great many stems of -oats rn the --country is tn a letter is eieanv aeunea. as. u print ed. Does this mean that Bryan Is to run again? Perhaps hly Bowerman.-- Aioany uemocrat. ur- auncomoe, or Bosh. - Roseburg News: Attorney Albert Abraham left for Salem and Portland last night-., where he will formally launch nls campaign for governor. In terviewed bv a News representative rel ative to his intentions, Mr. Abraham would say nothing further than that he had a surprise in store for the voters or uregon. .. . ''.,;'.'. , . ;. .; A Harney county man, relates the Burns Times-Herald, wallowd nhlr.knn hone and It lodged in his throat He came to Harriman. where a doctor tried to get the bone out was not suc cessful. He succeeded In dislodging If but the bone again lodged ' further down, and so far the doctors at Burns have been unable to get It or dislodge it His physicians have advised him to ro to Portland, where the necessary appliances can br used, but he has not gone. - . ;v;-:';.:.;:; ,:v, ';;''t v;;. i'; Rua-nrta Redstarts No. other valler in the country has a greater supply of water underneath end close to the sur face. As valley farms become, smaller and the production Intensified accord ingly,! irrigation will become general whether by the gravity system or cy wells and pumps. Another decade will find a surprising number' of farmers In this valley operating their own irriga tion nlanta and raisins' double the cron they are now getting and it will be the dawn of the greatest era of pros perity ever known to the valley - farm' ers. ;-.,'-. . .--t..--;.v; v-v ;- .f- ...... a .rt-.PKj-',y!., !.-"- Stanfield Standard; We have taken wood, potatoes, orn, ggs. butter, on. ions, cabbage, chickens, stone, lumber, labor, sand, calico, eauer kraut seeond hand clothln. boots, coon skins, raw- nide, snpBKinsr ouK.mw. coi flit, scrap iron, junk, snoe pegs, cmnquepms, tan bark, flredogs, sorghum seed, broom corn, Jugware and wheatatraw on sub scription and now a man from the Jungles wants to know If we would send tne paper six montns .ior a large owi. We have no precedent for refusing. If we can find a man. who wants the owl-we will accept his offer, Saint S witKin s Day Ism by Christianity. "Many of our pop ular, customs and beliefs can Indeed be only satisfactorily explained by tracing them to such a source. 1 , . i ' Hone, is his ."Everyday Book," quotes an amusing, Instance of a ; lady, a staunch believer in St Swlthln, who, on his dat one year being fine, expressed her belief in an approaching term of fine weather, but-a few drops of rain having fallen In the evening, changed the tune, and maintained that the next six weeks would be wet"" Her predic tion was not accomplished, the weather having been remarkably fine. "No mat ter," she would say, when pressed on the subject "if there has been no rain during the day there certainly has been during the night"- Her opinion of St Swithin's infallibility -was in no wise to be shaken: The same author men tions a pretty saying current, in some parts of the country when rain falls oh St Swithin's day "St Swithin is chris tening the apples" ' After presiding over the see of Win chester for nearly 11 years, the good man departed this life on July I, 862, and through humility requested his body to be buried outside of the cathedral.-"where the feet of the passersby might tread and the rain of heaven fall on this tomb." His wish was carried oufr v and his remains rested on the north ptde of the. church until July 15,' 971, when they were, with great pomp and ceremony.-translated, to-the-tomb within the church and. again In "1094 to. the then new cathedral, where they now remain. On July 18, 1779, General ' Anthony Wayne captured Stony 'Point On this date in 1793 Charlotte Corday assassin ated. Murat while at his bath. It is the date of Napoleon's surrender to England in 18151 It is the birthday of Rembrandt, the1 famous artist (1806), of Clement C. Moore, ' author of "The Night Before Christmas" (1779) ; Thom as' Bullfinch, banker arid author (1793); Cardinal Manning (1808), and Thomas CL Piatt, Republican politician; (1833). certainty ,of proof against 'him.' They didn't accuse him .of being in alliance with the interests," but: that was only because such an allegation wouldn't help theiv ease. Every other one of the usual methods was adopted, and the outcome was pust what it might have been ex pected to be. - The charges were sifted thoroughly and were found to have no foundation outside the. minds of the persons ' who readily entertain V suspi cions. -' v . -;.'. 'if- - -Tr?--:- ''.- ?;7 x -,; i Mr. Koehler. In fact was- muckraked. And he may: thank his lucky stars that the muckrakera waited as long as they did before they went after him. It's not so very long ago that only a charge of irregularity would have been enough to convict him in the publlo mind. . Fortu nately the public mind ia very rapidly regaining Its health these days. , " j; '' ' -The Graduates of Our Schools, t' . From the Boston Globe. ', . Good luck to the happy, care free boy1 and girl graduates of our publlo schools! .As thtey received their wel .earned diplomas j their beaming cotmte'nances gave Joy; to their parents and teachers. The years they have passed in high or grammar schools, ori both, have ' been profitable. , The instruction .received came at a formative period of thlr character ; and -Should bs of special valuet In after years -they , wllr more fuIly-.nnderUad.JthCucara,, and,, thought that have been bestowed on . them by painstaking teachers. They will also more fully appreciate the,. kindness and, sacrifices ,bf parents, ; . v . .,..-.,-,' May miccess and happiness mark their paths through life, and may. they never forget that they are intellectually prod ucts of our publlo schools and may they ul.waj's be .proud of Ju , TANGLEFOOT By Miles Ovcrnott DIARY OF ACS IIEXSTEP. I'm a little Indisposed today. Henri etta has ; returned., She -returned in anger and: a taxi-cab. ' I . was smoking a cigarette in the paVlor with my feet on the piano and a garni' of sol taire on my mind when the holocaust St.rJiclc' wa" PaIa Kreen holocaust with a fist on the end of it Henrietta -would hot have returned, but she fell ' out with her mother-ln-law, V must .have been a hard fall with Henrietta on' the bottom, for she has a black eye on her face and one on her left Arm. Sha shownd , ma - tho bruises with tears in her voice. Hen rietta always wears her tears in her voice. That way her, complexion - ia not Injured when she weeps. She has a good complexion for one so -All. fired homely, but the druggist said it wasn't wash goods.. ' I'm not smoklnar now. ' I'm not slav ing solitaire either, r Henrietta thinks the strain on me Is a little severe. To hear, her talk you would think solitaire is a regular atralner. I've noticed a good many leaks myself. as soon as wa get acquainted again we are going to et alonsr first rate. Henrietta said so. , She has knocked out only three (of my teeth since her re turn. Poor girl, she must have her llt tlfcjoke ones m a while. . s " ' SOME CLASS, BELIEVE) MUH. ' " And there was a trace of tears in her breath," says Robert W. Chambers In the , Saturday Evening Post - .-, " :"" . . ''.''; Onions bring tears. Is it possible that a Chambers heroine would eat onions? A REVISION. ' ' ' - " "Have you pig's feetr inauirsd the patron at ths Greasy Spoon restaurant, as he scanned the blll-oh-falr. "Nope," said the rope haired divinity. I'm wearing a hobbled skirt:, that's why, I walk, that-a-way." v - K; The Winsome mnM now Inraa Tit tnaah Where he must spend his surplus cash. mm ruiieiess iooks sne leads ve way Where cooling soda fountains p4r.v . - The Object of Assembly'. . From the Mdford Mall-Tribune. ' Objections to the proposed Republican assembly come principally from patri etlo Republicans, who fear that the pro posed assembly is only a veiled attack upon ths direct primary law and a move to reestablish a political machine. This fear is well grounded. Ths Port land Oregonian, principal spokesman for the assembly, Is certainly attacking the primary law a well as the Initiative and ref erendum. It openly seeks to reestab lish the political machine in Oregon. It would deny the people the right of se lecting United States senators. ' It goes so far as to declare editorially: "Republicans ox Oregon Intend to re pudiate Statement 1. They Intend to suggest in assembly or convention can didates for ths primary, and will put the knife into each and all who declare for Statement'!.". ';- f'V(.,J ' v., :.,-,:,,;;"; This indicates very clearly the aim and object of the movement The Ore gonian would restore those day? of deadlock legislation and 135,000 "Jack pots' in Oregon, which the direct pri mary. ; through Statement 1 has abol ished. ".''':' ;' "' '- '.' .:.- : With the prospect -of-auch a factional war in the Republican party and the plunging-, of , the knife by -' assembly forces, Democrat and other hopelessly minority parties should do all possible to encourage the assembly. .;' ;,' "Aside from the motive back of the pol iticians promoting the assembly,' the only objection lies in the method of se- lecting Belegates. Many of tho counties will sepd delegations not at all 'repre sentative of the party delegations . which the rank and file have had no voice in -selecting and some of : the delegations, will be named and pledged beforehand, as In the palmy days of. the convention system, '."'".."j: ; " c ?' Assembly indorsement should not nec essarily defeat anyone any. more than It should lect one." The personality of. s the "candidates named will -settle the In-. dorsement by the people. But if the state assembly takes action, as indicated by the .Oregonian, attacking - the direct ; primary law, its nominees, standing upon such a platform, will not command public confidence and will have hard sailing to secure the party nomination at the state primaries., .: ,-. ,. -.14 Rogues' Gallery of Bugs. From the New York MalL Henceforth any strange bug caught loafing around fruit orchards, berry patches or vegetable gardetis In Penn sylvania will be taken to headquarters for examination. It it appears that he s a bug with! no legitimate occupation, ' then the "rogues gallery of bugs" will 1 be consulted to find out whether he is an outlaw. The "rogues' gallery of bugs" ! Is no sham, but real thing, in the Key stone state. It has been complied by the state authorities and contains the name of every rascally bug known In I the commonwealth, - together with his description, haunts and methods of oper ation, as well as full directions for put ting him out of business. 1 Jn addition td this arrangement copies of the black list of bugs will be supplied to farmers, gardeners and others desiring It in on der that every person so minded may set up a iitue "rogues' gallery of bugs" on his own account Evidently the Penn- sylvanlans have decided that the preda tory bug must go, r- --. . - ' ' SceJs of Kmclness (Contrlbntei to Tha Inm-n.i h w.it Him. . tb (anion Kassai DOt. , Ilia nrnaa-nnana ara a regular teatura of tola column la Toe UUr Journal) ,... v. ...-...,, l..,.-.:.', "Then scatter seeds of kindness." I heard a pilgrim sing: -and then, with human j blindness, he scattered t'other thing, j He scattered seeds of sorrow, complaining I at his lot; and they will grow tomorrow, and thrive Where he has wrought How often we have sent it." from thoughtless llos. ""that rnnri And If we only meant It 'twould help ine worm aiong. we arone a noble an them into the weeping' night; we learn our hymns and chant them as cultured parrot might; we , deal., in stately phrases, ana heed not what they mean'" wr"ronm'uthroughw6ray'maies!"anti"' prlfce things,1 for their - sheen; we dish up truth In thimbles', and platitudes in mass; and all is tinkling cymbaia. and all is sounding brass. In careless words we riot, ana lire would be less sore If tongues would Dut be quiet, and let thi heart say more. CnyrrlRM. 1111(1 Uaort ' Matrha