JOURNAL T:rFNrn't newsfapek. .N. .Publisher . pr-ry Tn!nc (Tvt unrtiy and i S n.V m,.rT,,. at T h A JOlimal liUJIU 1 n;s aLil juLla itreett. .I'ortUnd. Or. I t (he rxwtofflc it Portland, Or., fr i ni'iu through tb valla aecond-cl PHONES Main H7S; Hem, " A-51 1 i.'nrtinnt m.xheil br these nurcbera i il tne operator whit dt'rartment ro wnt C!'N- ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE. ! vnln A K-ntnor Co., Buniawick BuiMln. I :, Flfta treoue. New XorkJ 100I-OS Boyc t Gilding, Chicago. eubforlptlon Terms tj mall or to any adlres ui ii, a unitM Klines, cacaaa or aieucut ' DAILY. Cot year..., ..,.5.00 I One month. ....w.t J One rear. ...... $2.50 1 One month....... .8 .2S DAILY AND SCNDAT. ' On rear....... .17.00 I One montn,.......! .85 Triers Is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind; no word ,of genius, to" which the human . heart and soul hare not sooner or later responded. James Russell Low ell. :Vi--:-'..:-.;.,)'-r:i'--: v.u'r- -A THE BOWERMAX STATEMENT IN A PUBLIC statement", Mr. Bow , erman, 3'tssenibly candidate for governor, says that. If elected, he win take no part In any efr fort to 'change the direct primary, or Statement One. ; He doesn't come'in a thousand miles of touching the vital issue" in this campaign. What Is promise in the face of performance? VWhat is the business in which Mr. Bowerman is at this moment engaged? What does his candidacy for governor stand for? What is it but an as- 1 An 4ia ,4f..,t ' VI rli n was the assembly- that - nominated him, the assembly of which he was boss, master and field marshal, but an assault on the direct primary? The very -platform on which he stands Indicts and attacks the direct primary. It says, we have the right "to assemble for : the purpose of adopting a platform, considering the Qtnes8';'mdldateti 3 and -3 making recommendations To the people. This platform plank was adopted by thb assembly and with cheers that shook the building. It was and is a dec laration for assemblies that the pri mary law distinctly forbids. ; It was and Is a'declaration for assemblies lawful. Mr.'-, Bowerman approved that plank, made a speech in the, assem bly accepting the nomlnation'on that plank and today, he stands squarely on that plank and declares positively and' emphatically for assemblies. Af ter his' speech was made", the assem bly . delegates boisterously iang a song Jubilating over the assembly and crowning Bowerman as its big '.Mr. Bowerman, knew at the time that the masses of bis party were bit terly opposed to the assembly.; ,,, The granges everywhere - had denounced it The worklngmeri had denounced it. The press of the state With but few exceptions had" denounced it. Leading men of the party had issued warnings that assemblyism ' would -hrlriB' hnrmnnnn: t ha wVrv Hwf 1M Bowerman; went headlong into the scheme, and was so enerfcetie in the business that he was made skookum chief of the assembly clan. , V, Nor was this the worst, Mr. Bow erman was at that moment acting ; governor of the state. What he did then 'gives us a view of his status as the chief executive. Though" the laws of the state at that moment forbade assemblies,-Acting Governor Bowerman was brigadier of the as sembly. He used the prestige; of his office to promote the assembly. . He used the power of the office to give what he could of respectability to the assembly.' The" legislature had refused to "make It lawful, but as governor of the state, he went into the assembly, made a speech there, accepted a nomination there and did all he could to give the sanction of the law and the sanction of state authority to the J3 assembly. The spectacle that the people saw was the occupant of the high office of governor in collusion with Beach, Cohen and the Big " Business man darins down in the highways and by ways, concoctingan assembly, "fix ing" the ticket and Issuing orders to. the people to vote it- Such was the performance of Mr. Bowerman as acting governor. 3 T It was in such a business that he -used the governorship of the state. What is a better guide than performance? "'" A1TOIOBILfe RACES THERE WAS a big automoWle race in the vicinity of New York Saturday, the prize being -ftvVanderbilt cup. The result was four dead people and 20 more or less seriously injured, t The imme diate relatives and friends will grieve over the dead, and sympathize with the- maimed, but they cannot expect (the rest of the world to Bhed any tears. - - ' . ; Automobile racing has become a mania, with some people; engaging ia it they become for the time crazy, reckless- of consequences; and death and broken limbs and bruised bodies are the result. It Is so in almost every race of th Is kind,, though the race Saturday resulted in'rather more fatalities and casualties than usual. And why is aa. automobile race worth Mle,; except perhaps -to the manufacturer of the winning ma chine? An ; automobile Is .nothing but a machine, . , It has no, iaherent. natural life; -so Teason, ; instinct or SAufclbllityi A horse race la different f in that are competing animals of flush and blood,; nerves, Jlmbs. eyes," , STIB,TVTiaaer&tfnI "e; occa" . .a - .. -h.- iacf r , ao, ana, are cs, eager to wia 83 'their mamrs. ; There is life, comprehension, con-1 FciouB effort, and devotion to duty; and high pride, too, in proved su periority. Hence it is not strange that the higher animal, man, should always delight in a 'good, square horse race. But 'an automobile 3 race a race Between things of steel and leather and wood, fed by malodorous chem icals, things that cannot see or feel sense anything it is a far lower; . pt it srvM ta or grade of sport, make funerals, and 1 mourning, and doctors' and lawyers' fees. Nothing is in vain. -AMERICA'S' GREATEST MAN HE I3RAIN of man Is a queer and wonderful machine.. What is known as the fold of Brocca is at its base. - ', The fold of Brocca la as myste rious as it isf earful and wonderful. Like the records of a phonograph it receives and stores the Impres sions of things. It is there that the. knowledge: of our mother tongue is stored. A man was injured by an umbrella. The in Jury affected " only the lower part of his fold of Brocca. He was a highly educated man. He lost his knowledge of the English language at oncd, but did not lose the knowl ed ge of the few words of French h had learned,, nor hla fairly thorough knowledge ot Greelc The record .of his. mother Ijongue, phono'graphic like in hla fold of . Brocca, was de stroyed. The above are incidents in aq ar gument ' against - immortality by Thomas A. Edison in an article pub lished yesterday in The - Journal. Whether we agree with it or not, the Edison' disquisition is one of the most absorbing and illuminating articles that has recently appeared In print, It takes a position that will be re sent,bywthe 5 great multitude of men. one or the most sacrea nopes that mankind has ia that this world is not all there is to existence. ' The .: wizard s deals engrossingly with psychic phenomena and insists that tje future will rear ; up 5 some man who. will solve the mystery of that unexplained and unsolved mani festation. He asserts that surgeons of the future will go into the open market, tfuy a good kidney and put. it in the place of a diseased one in an Invalid's body," restoring the lat ter to perfect health. Ill or worn out parts of the human body, he as serts, will be replaced by healthy parts much more freely, and effec tively 3 than we dof it now, . and hu man life i f be much i extended. ;-a ,H speculates on the possibility of find ing out the real source of life and throws Illuminating light over the wonderful revelations of the ultra- microBcope. . The interview is an ab sorbing statement' by ,a , wonderful man. ' . , . AX IMPORTAW "CONGRESS HE DRY farming congress meets in Spokane today. It is one ot the most important of the f many "congresses" that meet annually ; Within a comparatively few years, past. It has been learned how to raise fairly good crops on nonirrlgable land where crops weje never raised before, and where no body supposed crops could be raised. A Nebraska farmer experimented on such land, and succeeded, and told others.. They. tried, and succeeded. And so the good gospel of dry farm ing spread westward, until ' thou sands of farmers are' succeeding, by that method in the Dakotas, in Mon tana, in Idaho, in Washington and Oregon, and there are millions of acres yet untllled and apparently bar ren' where other thousands of farm ers will succeed." They cannot raise great crops, as on irrigated land, but by right cultivation and planting they can sustain their families and get ahead. 3 Those who know all " about this method, that is doing an immense amount of good, will be in Spokane this week, and what they say will be of great Interest to thousands of people. Such a "congress'Ms worth while. OUR GROWTH T HE GROWTH of Portland as re flected by increased postal re ceipts, building permits and bank clearings is almost an old story llonth by monthr the forward movement is noted, and each end of 30 days is a new milestone in muni cipal expansion. ; , In the September Just ended, Port land, for the first time in io years, exceeded Seattle, In" postal receipts. The increase wasj $12,130, or 18 per cent, and the. total receipts $78,550. It follows an uninterrupted Increase in postal receipts that has marked the swift enlargement of tte city's fiscal operations. Splendid as was the Increase vlrf building permits in the remarkable month of September last year, the month's total for this year exceeds it by. 8 per cent. ! The item of bank clearings is even more satisfactory, and shows a total increase of 28Vi per cent ' Thus, again and again, we have the story of the passing of the old Portland and the building of 3 the new; " The village forms and Tillage customs are passing and the new city is only to be thought of on the broad lines and big facts of a greater Port' land. Narrowness of concentiorf of the city'g .lines and affairs is out of place In thesd epoch making days. A strict conservatism should prevail. out there should be breadth of vision to grasp the meaning of events that nn lArW , . X - - , AVI JVUi D IA. A LF" plD8" clean governmeTf our af- lairs and broad nurDosa -in all nr rcerie-sra to be l-.arrr.on-3 ious and fact.orful'ln this, moment of bi city buildln? THE BLUNDER PARAMOUNT E ALL know tow that the holding of : the assemblies was the biggest political blunder ever made in Ore- gon. It was unlawful. It was viola- tivs of good public policy. It was e nS ne Seat body of the peo, tle M not want It was a step in turn a?rae.r inat aiacreaiwa, It was an illegal move to restore' a system ; that is discredited. 1 It was a blunder paramount It was a mis take .that cannot be corrected. 3: By the exigencies of fate the nom inee of the state assembly is a can didate for; governor. It was the re grettable chance of a most unfortu nate accident, lie is Bowerman and Bowerman la assemblyism. J He is as semblylsm ln its worst form. He is the kind of assembly lin .that is worse than conventionism. It was principally Bowerman that brought assemblyism into disrepute. He and his allies, Beach, Cohen and the. Big Business mandarins got in their work and"; packed the assem bly; They Jobbed It They corralled it They plugged it up so tightly that Other candidates than their own couldn't have broken into it with triple tempered drills. They owned it, "They bossed It They ruled it as Piatt ruled and as Tammany Mur phy rules, . i ; - ' The assembly' was to be an open assembly. It was to be representa tive.. It was to be a gentleman's conference, conducted as gentlemen do things. As such it would have been less objectionable. As such It would have been more, respectable and more tolerable. - . . . But Bowerman, Beach and the corporation brigadiers turned it into a boss-ridden, bucketshop, cocked-1 and-pflmed convention. Their blind instinO of bossism, machination and conspiracy kept them from rising to the fact that it was a gentleman's assembly that was to be held. Their greed and their ambitions led them to ; lose all Bight of self-restraint. They saw all the evil possibilities of the plan and plunged in and de bauched it. ' '3;- ' 3. Together they made the assembly a hissing and a by-word. They held precedent conferences and fixed the ticket. They made '3 the proposed open" assembly a worse mongrel than one of Simon's old-time fusion conventions. ," , And, Bowerman, past master in these dark lantern processes, choice of and ally of 'the corporation man darins, political partner of Beach and betraytr of the "open" assembly, is head of the ticket By the strange play of accident, he is, God save the ; mark, skooTtum chief titular head and assembly baron of the pairty of Lincoln. What a blur, what a blot, what) a : blight on the name of a splendid party. And, pitiful beyond compare, this head of the? tjeket is afraid to pro claim that he is an assemblylte. He is afraid to declare that the assem bly is the proper plan of nomInai tlon. Ho is afraid to proclaim that he is proud of the assembly and that he owes his nomination to the as sembly. He dare not go out on the stump and tell the people how he got his nomination, tell them the schemes ,by which he Jobbed the other candidates, tell them the ruses by which he fixed the delegates, and tell them what assemblyism is, as he, Beach and the corporation brigadiers managed it Such is the spectacle. Such is the humiliation assemblyism has brought upon the party. It Is a situation that is to be resented. It: is the blunder paramount In the political history of Oregon. It Is a worse product than one of Simon's old-time fusion conventions. It is a" humilia tion that Republicans do not want repeated, and that they will prevfent by voting against the men and nom inees who committed this unpardon able blunder, i The Employers Association of Portland will almost certainly per ceive, on reflection, that it epoke toohastlly in the message It sent to President Taft There is as yet no evidence that "modern unionism" was any; more: responsible for , the Los Angeles crime than modern mi crobism, holy rollerlsm or Esperanto. True, the, proprietor of the Los An geles Times was an enemy of union ism, and th unions were his enemy, but it does not follow that the unions committed the awful outrage, , or prompted it, or sanctioned It Relig ious fanatics cbmmlt horrible "crimes; shall we therefore lay the blame on religion, on religious organizations? The 'pure milk ordinance la all right or at least It is the best that could .be devised so far for a rery important " and necessary ; purpose and it should be strictly enforced.' If on account of it the dairymen find It -necessary . to raise the price of milk a little -unless there is a com bine-obnoxious to the law consum ers ought , not to complain. , They should remember that the dairyman who furnishes pure, clean milk has a hard task, and Is entitled to liberal profits. . 3 The gainTln bank clearings last week, over the corresponding week last year; was 63.5 per cent. Hello, Seattle, and. San Francisco, and Los Angeles, did you observe that? And nothing .special, doing, last week. either. That's our regular gait these days. Portland -ma hv I . l.r--; dred chances to One that it was tint nwr.in"nntaA t rn,.iv. .i- co(. y.t . ,1 v- I eate bet that if an-exact, full count W could be ruS-i -today, th rc-pult ! would.be many thousands more than the census returns will show. The mining congress recently held In Los Angoles was dominated by Rockefeller and Guggenheim inter ests, and 60 quite naturally it was dead against Plnchot and all his works. Rockefeller and Guggenheim don't like Tinchot a" little, bit. Now it is said that Roosevelt does not like .the "New rYbrk platform, especially the tariff plank. But did he not dominate the convention? And was not that the time and place to make known his objections toUhe platform? ; 1 : Curry County Game Laws. Bandon, Or., Sept 19, 1910. To the Editor of ' The Journal: Through the medium of your paper I would like . to give a few facts concerning- Curry county, the finest hunting and fishing region la Oregon. But It will not be long If ' the publlo opinion of the residents continues unchanged. Curry county Is In southwest Oregon, a county of hills and mountains, in parts of Curry county deer have been killed by the hundreds in the years, gone by, parties killing from 10 to 40 deer on a single bunt Game laws are considered a Joke, where they ate considered at all In Curry county.. 1 t . v i, I ; The editor of the Gold Beach globe, published in Curry, jeers- at the game warden Tor doing his duty end tells bis readers that the game laws are only made for the rod arid- gun clubs- of Portland, , and that the deer belong tp Curry county. . The writer has been, deputy game and, ; forestry' warden In this district nearly two years, and conditions are as stated and worse, and , the writer in conversation with Hon. . George - M. Brown, district attorney for Coo Douglas - and Curry counties, on September ? 12. was Informed by the district attorney that he, the writer, had the! hardest territory In Oregon In which to enforce the game laws. The shQrt-sIghted people In Curry county care not how soon the deer are slaugh tered. " Robert 0. Stevenson, the present Ore gon, game warden, has with the means at hla command accomplished more than any former head of .game workers. He has tried to get men' most suited for this work. , - If" the editor of the Curry county pa per thinks the state game warden - will give him deputy game wardens of his own Choosing he is sadly mistaken, as the state wishes .to preserve'the game for ail the people all the time and not destroy it today and have none tomor row. Respectfully. F. M. 'MORGAN. ; Deputy Game and Forestry Warden, Bandon, Or. " , The West Wind. . West Wind came a-whisnerlnsr. The a-whisperlng to me; "Oh, partner, good old partner, do yon ..mind when vou vera frT When i you rode a hard-mouthed pony, when your roof tree was the eky, And the walls were snowy mountains far away and stem aiul-high? Oh, I didn't want to listen, but the wind woma noi ne sun, And I felt the old-time glampur and, the " half-forgotten thrill - .- . Of a life long passed and done with, and . I muttered: "lxt me be"; But the .West Wind kept arwhispering, a-whlsperlng to me., . The .West Wind came a-whisperlng, i a-whlspering to me: "Oh, partner, gpod old partner though you gain a fatter fee, In your four-walled city office where your very soul ia spent Have .you found -8i full at measure of delight 'and-clean content -As you knew in days aforetime, with your more thanbrother, nal.. When you drove the surging cattle from the roundup to corral, . When your meals were always wel- ' comer ut l muttered: T.et me be"! -, Though the West Wind kept a-whisperlng,' a-whisperlng to me. The , West Wind kept3 a-whlsperlng, - a-whlspering to me; "Oh, partner, good old partner, make a break for liberty! There's a saddle still awaits you, you . will find but little change; For the march of -modern progress1 ' hasn't touched that - good old . range,--. -. .....-.. 4,-,-.-, -- And the sunshine's clear as ever and the air is like the etp - - - Of glass of sparkling water to a dry and dusty lip.". - Ts It still the earner I pondered. "I will go myself and eee!" And that fa what the whisper of the West Wind did to me 1 Benton Braleylnthe Popular Magazine. The Slaughter of the Innocents. ' Hymftn Strunsky In The Christian" ,.. - - - Herald.. ',iJ-..-. Figures do not lie, and those gath ered tell of an Infant mortality that Is as astonishing as It U shocking. Sta tistics issued by the New York Milk commission show that there are In the Island of Manhattan alone 12.E00 babies wjiose mothers, either because of hun ger, weakness, employment or some other equally distressing reason, are unable " to nurse them. Those babies need help. They are sickly, feeble and delicate. Of the 123,433 babies born In New York in 1809, one-eighth died un der' 1 3 months; This slaughter of the innocent reaches fearful proportions during the hot summer months, when,, at times, the death harvest is 8000 per month. ' These were the rigures of July, 1908. , In addition to- the heat Ignorance, poverty and adulterated food contribute to the general distress. Immigrant mothers born and raised, in the pro vinces of sunny Italy, or spacious Rus sia, are at a loss when huddled . to gether 4n .crowded tenements where, in accordance with discoveries made at the recent census as many as ISO persons live Jin one house. - . .. "The report of the tenement house de partment for the quarter ending June ,30 last year, states that , there are In Manhattan 118,211 living rooms in tene ment bouses without adequate light and 88.826 without windows. It is not wise to juggle with figure, but. from what is known of congestion In New York an average of three children for each dark room would, be a conservative es timate, This would force the conclusion that there are today 485,108 children de prived of air and light: In the largest and richest city in America. Adulter ated food is another factor which has to be considered. ' " The Protection of the Panama Canal From the Christian Herald. " With the Panama canal two thirds of the Vay towards completion,' It seems an odd time for some Americans to suddenly bring up the question whether the United States, the country which fureu -1 am -fnm cann ?one by :anal "zone by canal, should vreaty ana is ounaing tne j Letters From tte Peopls aaaaU.vehtgh-4e-enfrtrtiet-; fortifications for its protection. Sev eral foreign nations, whose interests in the matter are entirely selfish, are ob- jectln to the United States preparing COMMENt Alto SMALL CHANga Now for fish etorles. Now watch Bob Glenn Smith run. Fine prospect for the 1911 harvest - Not very long now till Thanksgiving. ' Wet or dry, Oregon towns will grow. ... , It rained; it was high time for it to rain. . - . " Oregon leads the union In progressive politics; . , ,.' .- ... - ;, ;.' - The people will vote the' dock bonds, of course. - We love - the peaches, but O, you winter apples. . . , It's been a long fine summer: don't whine for more. Statement ...No. 1 mint h ntn1tit' and maintained. . . . October seems' disposed to change September's policy. '".:'' "' .'...: i The. people want no more revision of the . tarKf by its friends. s . Representative Hawley yet has Rob ert Glenn Smith to beat Have the assemblyites knivet yet to put lnto Statement No, It ' - -A negro poet baa won success; he has been made a janitor at Harvard, " V Men dont like woman' to wear bobble skirts on the street on a Verv wlndv day. . " . . " i, t " . ) It any New York 'Democrat refuse to vote for Dix "shoot him on the Potw . . ' . '-A prominent Michigan politician is named. Dust Dust ts easily converted into mud. .... . . . .. That Los Anereles woman noliceman -or policewoman needs no club, only an extra hatpin. ; - ' ;-.'"-. ' - ' - - V: , v The "ticket." the "ticket;" some peo ple think a "ticket" is the most imDor- tant thing on esjrth. , "Dr. Cook is renortod tn ha In ihm vicinity of the North Pole again," says an exchange. "Again r There is much larger attendance at all the schools and colleges than last yearpositive proof of rapid growth. i. ' . . . - e ,.e .' The death rati la nnw th lnm In American history, but this does not ap- to tne -regular" Bepubltcan pol tlclans. - . - r . - . - There will be one good thing about aerial battle ships, or war aeroplanes; they won't cost so much to construct or man as Dreadnaughts. There will be a considerable number of assembly and anti-Statement No. 1 members ef , the "next .legis lature," so the , Issue Is not yet fully settled. . - The. Sultari of Suln Is reported as say. ing; "I used to have four wives, but it was jabber, jabber. Jabber, and clothes, clothes, clothes all day long, and O such an expense, so I let three go.-" ..... Two Georgia women sat In a buggy and watched their husbands duel tp the death.. But if their children had been fighting in less than a minute the two women and all the neighbors would have been mixed up in it That's the strange natflte of 'em, remarks an ex. change. s Senator Joe Bailey, rises to remark that he hopes the men responsible for the future of the Democratic party Will behave themselves, remarks an ivex. change. Perhaps the Democratic party will at least have sense and honesty enough to steer clear of any Waters Pierce entanglements. " , 1 October 3 in History Black Hawk, the chief of the Sacs j and Foxes,: was . one of the most ac complished men of his race. ? ?The date of his birth has never been actually ascertained.; but he was well up in years when be started the rebellion in 1820 that bears his name. During that year the , tribe, of which he was a chief, through another chief as nego tiator, sold much of their land to the United States and agreed td move to the west of the Mieslssipni. Black Hawk had not been consulted in the matter and he became very indignant He claimed that foul advantage had been taken of the Indians by the gov- ernmenv ana ne meant to resist In those days fairr and square dealing with the Indians was not to be .seri ously considered, and naturally the av ages went on the warpath, but it waa not long until they were subdued by the- government troops. , Black Hawk and bis followers were driven westward from one stand to an other, until finally the old chief, wear led of fighting," havfng reaeW the Winnebago village of Prairie du Chlen, ne decided to give up the struggle. When -he-delivered "himself "UITto the American' general' the soldiers were seated at a table. They greeted him cordially and asked him If he had any thing to Bay for himself. " The captured chieftain drew himself up to his full height and then spoke in a slow and roajestlo manner: "You have taken me nrlsoner with all my. warriors. . I am much grieved, foil I expected, if I did not defeat you, to nold out much longer and give you more trouble before I surrendered. tried , hard to bring you into ambush; but your general understands Indian fighting. Your bullets flew like birds In the air, and whizzed by our ears like the wind through the trees in win ter. My warriors fell all around me: it began to look dismal. The sun rose dim on us in the morning, and, at night It sunk Into a dark cloud, and looked like a ball of fire. That was the last sun that shone on Black , Hawk. His heart is dead and no longer beats quick In hla bosom. He is now a prisoner to the white man; they' will do with him as they wish," . But he can stand adequate defense, , andt our represnta tlves to the Interparliamentary congress at Brussels have unfortunately played into their hands, they showing an as tonishing .lack of accurate Information when they said that by the treaty with Great Britain, the United States agreed to leave the canal unprotected by fortifications.- Evidently the delgates . were tinder-the impression that the Clayton BulweF'treaty was ratified by this con-gress,-.intead- of the Hay-Pauneefota treaty. :' . ' I ;, ... ,.-UiJ:... The-tlnlted 8tates, by holding the canaL protecting 1t when and where necessary, will do more toward making It of use to all nations than by leaving it as an unprotected prize in the inter national grab bag, and ' we would not be compelled to have such a large naval force, as the .- ships could be moved easily from .coast to coast as' needed We believe in peaceful methods of set tling disputes, but it seems as if the canal would be less likely to be a bone of contention if we protect If so that powers who covet the waterway would find it a difficult piece of our nron- erty to appropriate. In fact, they will should be, so that it can be kept free and open waterway at all times under its-Sole Owner, th United State of America, t ,.-.. '-t , , NEWS IN .BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Fair at La Grande this week. 1 Building improvement ,' continues 'n Newport. , A Newberg drier 'has-Bbout 300 tons of dried prunes. .... Some hogs around Hewnlston are get ting fat on apples. . Vale will soon have a water supply ditch 8000 feet long. . '.'-. . Brownsville high school, will have to hire another teacher, A panther in the South Tualatin re gion has destroyed at least three calyea. It is rumored .that Baker City may have a six story hotel, covering half a block. . , Estacada's school room capacity has been, doubled; six teachers are now em. ployed. , 1 Several "nice residences are being built in the new town of Brogao, Mal heur county., ...... V" "- Enrollment in the Milton public schools is 680, a gain of 126 over this time last, year., .. Enormous crops of hay have been harvested along the, lower. Umatilla river and Butter ereek.' . . , '. -.- -. George W. Doster, an 8-year-old I?u'. gene boy, has shot and killed two big buck deer this fall. One he shot twice, the other only once. ' . , .A Stanfield laborer said he could have hired-to work-for seven different par tics, but still there Is a complaint of no work, says the Standard. . '..' ' V' ; Sheridan Commercial club has proven a great factor in advancing the prog ress of Sheridan and attracting east erners this way, says the Sun. , The fruit driers of George Bacon of Wilbur, Nell McCall of Edenbower, John Baker of Wlnaton and the large tan nery at Cottage Grove have been de stroyed ly fire wtthin the past week, with much loss in buildings and fruit '?,"--,i .r-i - v'.'-.- A Dallas man has been experimenting with raising celery for several years, and this year he had brought to market about 1000 plants. He figures that a six foot space when planted to that vegetable will bring the owner a profit of t ..' .... - , . ".""''.-.;: e ... e : :--it Cottage Grove Commercial club baa carried small advertisements in four of the leading agricultural Journals of the middle west, from which it is receiving a large number of inquiries relative to fruits, dairying and farm lands. Three days' malls brought 52 letters from easterners who asked for Information of one kind or another. ' Yamhill Record; Never mind so much about what the town should do, reason out what you should do yourself and then get busy. Whenever you see a place -where all the citizens are doing their duty there you1 see a progressive town. It is all rlbt to talk about what the town has done or has not done, but what have you done? " v - .... Some of' the most perfect apples grown anywhere are the seedlings to be found frequently on the timbered hills and among the oak grubs, says the Sheridan Sua. P. Mark discovered such a tree this week, hid in a clump of oak trees on the highlands, that at a low estimate has 20 boxes of market able apples without a blemish. The fact that Central Point Is really amounting to something is causing tM "never sweats" to heave deep signs of regret, and the few-remaining foesils in this immediate neighborhood gaze with sable sadness upon the morning light of progress whlrh is Illumining the horizon of the future; remarks the Her ald. The retrograde stands the. rush of rehabilitation about the same as the Siwash stands the ravages of clvlllza tlon. . DeatL of Black Hawk torture, he Is not afraid of death. He Is no coward. Black Hawk is an In. dlan. - " .. v. '-:. "He hastdono nothing for which an Indian need be ashamed. He has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and pappooses, against white men.- who came year after year to cheat him and take away their lands. Black Hawk is a true Indian and disdains to cry Hke woman. He feels for his wife, his children and friends. But he does not care for himself.- " "Farewell, my nation! 7 Black Hawk tried to save you and avenge your wrongs. He drank the blood of some of the whites. He has been taken pris oner, and his 'plans are stopped. He can do ne more. He is near hie end. His sun Is setting, and he will rise no more. Farew,ell to Black Hawk." 1 ? . The general was much Impressed by Black Hawk's, patriotism and sent the noted ' chief to Washington to confer with President Jackson. From there Black Hawk was sent to Norfolk. Bal timore, Philadelphia and New York, where he was amazed and much -flattered ' by the immense .. .crowds . who flocked from all quarters to obtain a view of him. He was finally sent back beyond the Mississippi,, where he was liberated, . j- - -. . ', . ' Black Hawk, the orator and defeated chieftain, died October 8, 1838. Many white as well as Indians assembled at his tepee to pay ; their last respects to the noted red man, and burled him as the Sacs chieftains had always been Interred. This was according to his wish. . - On October 3 the famous treaty of Limerick "was signed in 1891; and the United States treaty with Holland in 1782. today is the birthday of Charles Jared Ingersoll, the statesman and his torian (1782); George Bancroft, histo rian (1800) ; George Ripley, Journalist and critic (1802); - William Gas ton, Massachusetts statesman (1820);! Charles Gordon Ames, .clergyman and author (1828) and Jeannette L; Glider, author (4849,). It Is the date of the death of Robert Barclay, celebrated Scottish Quaker (1890); and "Victor, the French dramatic writer (1846). V- The Crime of Talking Shop. , From' the Atlantfc Monthly. Think how completely uninteresting It would be to have to listen to De mosthenes tell how he won the erown. or Socrates how he felt as th hem lock went down, or Leonldas the story'j or tne aereat tnai made him famous (he was so, laconic talker anyway), or Joan of Arc of those days before Orleans" and ;1n ' Rheims, or no; '-no. That -isn't what-we want " Leave these matters to the professionals In history. Let us hear from Caesar .on woman suffrage, Chaucer on the future of ra-r dlum and. Horatius On bridge. If pos sible let ua round up Xenophon, ; th Bacons, Dante and Buddha, and, be tween sips of out best v tea, engage them in harmless cha anent Lucy Lis some's scandalous elopement with her flanc. Dr. Gerlock's (reported)' atten tions to the widow Btomley, the prob able outcome , of th wonderful serial running in uthe ; Upper Ten Thousand, and the marvels' of the newest moving picture show. By tactful management we ought- to be able to ehdow these antique,, thltikar,..wltU. iome maekv-o contemporary culture.i - , .." ", i , i . - 'in, i ; , .'vy The Coburg log . drive that reached Eugene Saturday consisted of about e.uuu.uuu leer- T A N By Mile, Ovlt FOOLS :F.tVII IN.- ; frma south' uu up n 10,000 fuiwi?l "I want to look at your hats," I aid,; "the kind that Rre now in style, The women's hats with the dew-dads on, the kind that make 'em smile." "Now here's a pippin," replied the clerk,' A "a daisy, a dosy, a dear; There are fourteen kinds of birds on it . and a plume right over tlie ear.' "Well. what fs the price?" I loudly eald.. for I had a hundred or so. And I wanted to show the othsr clerks that I was a man of "dough." "Well, since -it's you and you like the style and I know you're a man ... of taste ).. ,.... ----- - . We'll close the deal up right away,! for . you have no time to waste. The price is nothing, a -bagatelle.-slnoe you have wealth 1n chunks, - I'll let you have this beautiful lid for Just ten thousand plunks!" 'Twas a palace grand where they sold " those hats; 'twas -fashion's loafing . place,-. .- , I should have gone to a loan- shark Joint where I could keep the pace. But we passed, that lid. The next was . made of lace and flowers and s ' buds.' ' ,": - 1 1 'Twas called the Hobble," and made to.- - wear with only the bobblodest duda .-; - . Theirice was, maybe, a thousand les. - - ' but, my purse was much too ellm, I couldn't buy the tiny thread that hung from the ten-foot brim. Though I tried to flee from the wrath to come and go upon the street, The-clerk with thirteen high-brow hate had Cut off all retreat She showed me at least a million lids v -v and the prices made me weep, . And she talked me Into a coward, for I swore they all were cheap, Somehow I managed to reach the door with a wild, unearthly yell, ' : I grabbed my hat and fled the scene: - you eee I wasn't well. , No, I wasnt well: I had a pain; believe , , me, I was ill, . . But I could run; oh, how I ran, no; . stopped for stairs or hill. Till I reached the brink of a cold, damp , stream that was f Orty - fathoms - deep, I threw in that two hundred plunks to show that I wasn't cheap. Now I spend my cash for pork and beanS and women's puffs and rats," But believe trie, Bill,. I never more look at women's hats. " I have had enough of fashion's pace; . I have had my little fling. . BUt even yet 1 think I'd like to price tha . nais next, spring, ' VILB5 VERSE. ' , - -The laundry girls went on a etrike On Friday noon that's what,.,. They followed out the adage: "Strike while the Iron Is hot." ; ' The Honrs of Sleep.' . I From Health.'; ' . There Is an old saying which In It too liberal application has done an in finity off mischief and has prevented a good many people taking the rest that is needful to them: "Nine hours' sleep tre enough, for a fool." That is as mar be, but it is none the less true that many who are. by no means fools feel that they require quite" that time to re cuperate themselves. ' Different contl tutlons require' difcerent amounts . of -sleep.. . What is enough for one person IS totally inadequate for another. We are believers in sleep and pleaty of it and the probabilities are that the orlg- ; lnator of the phrase, "Nine hours sleep are enough for a fool," was a philotyj- : pher and a cynic and erred in making his own frugality in this- respect the standard -for the rest of mankind!. It. will be conceded by all thoughtful per sons that the brain in very young chil dren requires quite 12 hours', sleep, and this period Is shortened gradually until at 14 years of age a boy is found to . need only 10 jiours. . When full grown and in good health a man may find that eight hours are quite sufficient to ren der him thoroughly refreshed and Invig orated; but if he finds, on the other hand, that the period is not sufficient then by all means it he can, let him take more. . ' Unique CWmlnal Law, From tb Chicago Inter-Ocean. Utah i the only state in the Union , where, a man may be shot Instead of hanged for the crime of murder under -the . civil law. ; " ' ' . ... - An adherence to the old scriptural idea . of blood atonement on .the part of the Mormonsj irt Utah has given this state a unique law py .which a man condemned to die for taking th life of another may cKoose between being shot or being hanged. - v p The provision of ths Utah statutes re- gardlng election as, to a criminal's manr ner of death ts as follows: - - - . "The punishmeny of deaths must- be Inflicted by hanging the defendant by . the neck until he Is dead, or, by shoot- , ing him, at his election. ,lt the de fendant neglect. or refuse to make the ejection the court at the ..time of ren dering the sentence must declare the mode and enter the same as a part of this Judgment" Eleven legal executions have taken place in Utah since It was admitted ear a territory in 1850. All of these have been by shooting except" one, since the condemned men on being given their . choice naturally, prefer shooting Lator and Argument (Contributed to The lonmul br Walt Maton. the tamuui KinMi poet, hit pro-poeiui ir, regular let tun t , this , column i. 'Jb Ds!lr joarnal.) ''- ,, .. ' ; I toil with my hoe in , the garden, and talksmlths . come to mp and sayr "Wle' gehts, my dear sir; . Beg your, pardon, but hark while w , talk half a day. The evils confronting this .na. tlon will ewamp us unless we reform and stand up for true .conservation--" then I get impatient and warm. I turn to my holn and'rakln', and soon hav the cockleburrs thinned;, for labor will bring a man bacon, but arguments nothing but wind. .; I ; toil at the saw buok all morning, end epelbinders come to my door, with many a message of warning, and slogans and'plbrochs ga lore. They , talk of the bulwaiks In danger,; they say ; the escutcheons are canned; "your 'vote,'! they declare to me, "stranger, may rescue this perish ing land." -. They talk and they boom and they beller, they yawp .,tijl- each larynx, . ia skinned; ,i but labor means coal in the cellar, and argument's noth ing but wind. I go to the village with butter, and, eggs that; ray fat hens have laid; and statesmen 'come to m and mutter? "The outlook sure makes me afraid! I fear that the eagle is moult ing! The , etar-spanfrled, . banker's i- in hock! This countryTS in for a jolting Unless people list Jq my talk! I shake off th lonir-difltance rlacfter." who In WtransTS'lawbono 'ha'fTr sinned; for la bor means grub and tohacker, andVap. gument's nothing, but wind. " - torTripht, - i8io, fcjr fitorst Mttthtv Adm. 3 S