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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-
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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.,
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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.
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