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,tv..:;nt vEWFTArru. ' .ru'j!I"!ier tt Ti. Journal Bui. i.ll aired . roriland. Or. t 1 "li . 1 it 1h jvmoffiee t Portland, Or., for ... tiirutfch the niU weond-ca I nnF Main. T173: Rnm, A-SOM. t..e operator wbat department you want. .FFGV ADVERTISING RKi RESENTATIVB, , 1r,,l A. f inlnn V Rpiiniwlrk BUllnllMt, ; f. "nnli .. New' Vorkt tool -OS Uoyce J.uUlu:g, Chicago. .. Suhdcrlptton IVrmi by mall or to any ddrM ii U tnlted Blate, t.nd or Mwlco; nlT V . . : . n re ' 1S.0O ON ifumth.. ,..$ -W , .: SONDAV. i ii year...;... .$2.50 I On month......! .28 DAILY AND 8CKDAY. On re. . 17-60 I On month -SB The truest test of civilisation Is not the census, not the size of cities, not the crops; no, but the kind of man the country turn out Emerson. : - ' OUR ABSURD CENSUS - ? -y.7y;.;'-.?: N TIII3 CENSUS business, Port i land is made absuri. We are I told that 1S.000 names hare been ' cut" from the count by the turn cf a wrist. The final aggregate Is not the result of enumeration by - enumerators W Portland, but guess es and estimates by census function aries In .Washington. There Is not a man In the world that Is competent to say that the cut ting of 18,000 names from the ag gregate was done advisedly. ' There Is not a citizen of i Portland but knows that the subtractions are hap hazard and that . the result - cannot "be otherwise than unreliable, The authority for it Is" the investigation by a special agent-sent out from Washington . who conducted his - In quiry ; with,; a small number of, as sistants, and without possible chance I of , accuracy? C . -Instead - of the huh i d reds of enumerators during the- of ; flcial count, there was a mere hand . ful, and on this authority 13,000 names are stricken from the list. It 5s by inch a process that the popula- t Ion of Portland is to' be' designated : fnr a decade' and It Is 'such ah end i that we behold as the fruit of alMhe i bluster, fluster andf fireworks with which the. official census was touted. But the absurdity of the episode .la that Seattle's count stands,. while Portland is cut 13,000. Yet. it is the sajne Seattle;, that;, durlngvthe count visited all ; the : trains and pteamer landings, "gathering upthe: . travelers, and- listing them as resi dents. ; It is the same Seattle that . -aurosted residents of - Portland' and solicited them to be enrolled as den izens of Seattle. It is thejsame Se attle 'that dragnetted the earth a.nd combed the clouds in" a desperate at tempt tox get. on, their lists all the ,;T&pte " that we're i-comlag to-- them - "and then .some? iZykr:;,$ In the Incident," the obvious ques tion 4sr why is Portland singled out - for the slaughter? ' Was there act ual fraud or 'incompetency-in the Portland enumeration, and if so who did It? .i Was. Portland's - 'Count crooked arid;' Seattle's not,, or-, is Portland' merely ,'gattlng the double cross and feettlng lt'good and hard? -.Are these 13,000 names ripped from the roll on Justifiable grounds, or Is It because somebody is out to "get Portland's goat?" w--. -a .The census ccfrael" ad ' the census" MPS . This rltv aslrniT tnr for an enumeration that would enu rraerate. ; It got a deal that in all the annals of census futility, is the most preposterous.. s ' " ' . .THE HIDDEN PERILS . AIR . . OP THE :1 KO COULD READ without deep regret : and sympathy .the . story of Ralph John stone's fall at Denver from the high air? 'The aviator was no apprentice hand,' throwing away his -life la reckless and untried experi jnent . So far had he gone In achiev ing the mastery of the air, that to ascend, to fly, to glide, was an ev ery day task1 for him; .Whatever tense of fear there may be one would think r there must be when for the first time the earth Is left behind and the. airman trusts him self to the, frail structure of the1 aer oplane, -and to the unbroken work ing of her englnethls Ralph John ptone had .long; since left behind, If Indeed It ever touched him. When the 'worst' happened, nd .the", wing tip gave. .way, the map, did "not Idge Ms head, but took every little chance : there might betddfifeatthe,immineut death.-. He ; fought to -the last gasj), its a brave man should.'" - y : The stakes are .terribly high in this race for man's dominion of the air, for, they are counted in men's lives They seem to be cheerfully raid for 5 many stand ready to fill rach vacant ' place. Such' men are the forlorn hope of the . twentieth rentury the. counterpart in science end Invention of the many dead he roes in each great war. ' t 1 As the lists of the dead are added to, you and; I, may,' ask, Is it worth It? - The. average stay-at-home citi zen is no fair judge, in. this great jpsue. - Tife aviator of .today is but .the last of the long series rdating from the time, when ; there was no history but mythswherein man has fought and tconquered - the great rorcea of this world. Land and wa ter have been Subdued, matt has now Jnvaded the air.1 . These victims are -voluntary victims. , They have fallen, tut the fight goes on, Tbe danger ous experiment. "has become the ev- ry day, spectacle. Each accident Jr!nrs with. - It JtheMfion jpLjyoJji,- i uco iu L9 latuie. To the mere observer.lt looks as If rnh of rreir Fafety.lay In t'-.e sti . .. i.'ng and tlo automatic b.-.lr.r.clc5 of tie i;:ehine. Yet tV-o avktors. taught by ' experience, - in sist on the human, not the mechan 4eal ad3ustnKmt-4a-tinie of danger. It looks as if the Ingenuity whlcli has evolved the aeroplane might add , that an agreement la reached where some form of parachute to:open If j by it "Is ordained that stretches in the plane loses its own momentum j 13 important streets shall be deeded and begins to fall. Doubtless this i in" perpetuity to tho O. R. & N., has been tried and laid aside as use-j what Is the position In which the cltjj less. All that 13 left for us Is. to I of Portland Is placed? admire the Courage, and wonder! And In such a negotiation under at the skill that . accepts and, will : in time overcome the risks that now and again prove fatal today. OUR HORDES T' HH JOJMBER' of savings bank depositors In, the country in creased 300,000 i during the past year. In the same period $357,000,000 was-added to the ag gregate of deposits. The figures are. from the annual ireport of the comp troller of the treasury for the year ending June 30, 1910. , ' ffven the high cost of. living has not arrested the drift toward nation al thrift. - An Increase In population doubtless aided In multiplying . the number of depositors An Increase in the number of savings banks un doubtedly contributed to the tame result It Is, likely too that Borne of the Increase came from money that had teen hidden away In old stock ings and other receptacles of fancied safety. k ' . . But In spite of these subtractions, the enlarged deposits and the great er number of, individual depositors are not . without significance. The presence of this increased aggregate of funds drawing a ? email Interest is evidence of a growing pilrpose and greater capacity among the . lowly to make provision against a rainy day. It is omen that in the midst of the pushing apend-thrift crowd of which so much is satd there , is i a - rapt throng of the ; frugal who keep below their Income and save from earnings a small balance " to . play against the uncertain future". ' Three1 ' hundred thousand iadded bank depositors In spite of the extor tionate living cost is a splendid tes timonial ta the resources of . the country.-:- The $35T,000,00 0 : added to the Aggregate of deposits is, t in the '.midst- of this time 'of extraordi nary prices, a splendid evidence of national opportunity. If we could only check the extortions ottrusts and the extortions of governments, there would be a pretty story to tell each year In the increase-in the mounting" balances' of thrifty "peoploT THE ENGLISH WAY . VEN THOUGH the Crlppen trial consumed but four days, the English people are not satisfied ..with .it .. English ;.newspapers are pointing to the morbid crowds in the court room, and to the pres ence of well ' dressed r people who made a-Bor trial, as evidences of impropriety de serving of condemnation. One Jour nal declares the condition to be dis graceful, and others insist that it is to be deplored because it seems to be an Americanizing of the English courts. Throughout the United States, the Crlppen trial was extolled as a model of propriety, and efficiency In the administration of Justice. Scarcely a newspaper In the country denied It self the opportunity, to draw com parisons; between theTEngllsh - and American, methods, and always with applause iorjtha "one '.and censure for the other. . v3 sv;r - v i ;. It was a trial without hypothet ical questions as long as a ' mile track.' It was ' without demurrers, amended complaints, postponements, lunacy ", commissions,' alienists quib bles,: Juggles and the other devices with which we in' America back ped al on Justice. . It was a quiet, business-like Inquiry Into the ; facts for the purpose of determining wheth er1 or; not the prisoner was guilty. with the admission of all the facts of , value In settling that- Issue. It required but four days, and. by the virtue of 1 the English method the truth was as accurately, ascertained as If extended by the American plan to' 40. But. even with all that, the Eng lish public is not satisfied, and cen sure Is being administered to those who conducted the case. n In the ep; laode there is evidence of how Jeal ously and sacredly, the English safe guard their courts. " It is an erjlsode worthy of American contemplation. OUH SUPER CITY HALL , i S THE O, R.' & N. office a sort of super city hall? ; It is recalled t that 2ll the negotiations between the city and the corporation with reference to mutual concession were conducted J In the O. R, & N;' headr quarters. The O. R. & N.. officers Injili-that period of barter and dis cussion did not go to the city hall to deliberate with the city officials. The city authorities went to the O. R. & N. office to deliberate with the O. R. & N. officials. , .. During the. municipal delibera tions at the O: R. & -.N. office, the doors were closed. To the mere matter of the secrecy of the confer ences, there Is probably no objec tion, even though It' Is unusual for a city's public affairs to be -discussed in privates It Is rather the ' tempor ary removal of the seat of govern ment from tbe city hall to the of fice of the corporation that Is called in question. '-Especially Is this true, Blnce within two days, members of the city council have boon summoned to appear Iff-the same august pres ence to explain in advance how they are going to vote . on public, street yacatlona.. and-ahat , are,. tblireg sons therefor. ' What is the sovereignty of the city of Portland that its government is'carted bodily to a railroad office fcr ecu:: ! -r:'i : i : v.. . i t: bearing on tho inMic wc'.r.ive? When it Is In this railroad offica, standing as a sort of super city hall, and not in the -Portland city hall such an environment, how ha3 it fared with the city of Portland? Is npt government In a super city hall of questionable expediency? - A rEXXY PER HE, HUMAN impulse is qulck-J ened by the new spectacle in Chicago., The board of educa tion there Is serving a penny lunch In some of th public schools. It' consists of, a-bowl -of soup- and a plate of bread ' and butter, making, according to the accounts, a whole some midday meal. . The innovation was instituted at the instance of Mrs. Ella' Young, su perintendent of the Chicago schools., There were many- pupils In the schools who were over dull at their books. - Mrs. - Young claimed, that they were hungry. ' There vwe-ski-6lcal lines on their faces that indi cated them to be underfed. Ji l ' r TheChicago Tribune says there are many such pupils In the Chicago publlo schools." ; Mrs. Young Insists that, they could not study because they were thinking about something to eat. The school board yielded to Her recommendatlpns; and installed the, penny lunch: ' ; For the present It Is a mere ex periment A record 'will be kept of the work in the penny, lunch schools and it will be ' compared with, that In the unfed schools. ; All the facts will be' studied, and" If better results appear, the penny lunth will be In stalled" In all the schools la tho poor er districts of the city. " -, The press of the entire country ls commenting.. . on the -Innovation. Some - observers view It -favorably, and others style it a new . step in paternalism. Since the school board is able lo 'supply 'thefobd-; at "the jirlce it receives ahdsince the chll-l dren are hungry ana need the nour ishment,; why Is not the end sought worth the efforj?,; If .helpless pupils sit In school rooms and vainly dream of food, . why should ' there not be somebody, somewhere to supply It at a penny per? 1 1 APPLES 7 i T HAS BEEN stated on apparent ly good authority- that 15 years f ago the . United States produced 1 nearly one" barrel of - apples to each inhabitant of the country. Now the yield is less than a quarter of a barrel to each Inhabitant. ' . . Ko, wonder, ..it this-. Is true, .that there Is a big find 'growing' demand for the, appyv he king of fruits. 4 h Tew industriies faro more Import ant or, (interesting, especially In this part of the world, than apple raising. And Oregon' can become the banner apple state of , the country.- , There is npt only a proper pride to be taken . In this, but there la sure and large profit, too, as hun dreds t items . published In - The Journal from time to time testify. J, : A well cared for tree, on - the right sort of soil, of which there Is an almost unlimited quantity ' In Oregon,- Vlll produce, when six or seven! years old, and -'for .many years thereafter, 25 or, 30 boxes of mer chantable i : apples, worth, net, per haps $1.25 a box. There are about 0, trees to an acre, and any school boy can figure up. the; Income of an orchard. ' ' ' i ' Besides, .a person, does not have to wait seven -or eight years for an Income. - Many trees begin bearing, In this region. In five, or even four, years, and profitable vegetables can be raised in the meantime in the young orchard. . , ; ' Fruitralslng Is already a great, and is to be a far greater Industry In this state and region. , - It Is very , good thing; push it along. .Great Palls prefers a census that Is a census, h Its figures were out, and in a dispatch, the chief com mercial, body of that city conveys greetings to ' Census Commissioner piirand In these words:, "If there were frauds committed in the first taking of the census, here this year, they were committed by your agents without the .knowledge of our people. The . recount of part . of ; the city by your agents was a rank farce, but a fraction ot i the residents belng taken."- Great Palls " demands a re count, and demands that the city, be represented during the process of enumeration to tne ena tnat accur? acy can oe eecurea. , Washington is the fifth Itate to grant full suffrage " to women on equal terms with men. The consti titional amendment for that pur pose was tarried in every county in the state in the late election. Wyom lng enfranchised women In 1869 Colorado in 1893 and Utah and Ida ho in 1896. ' Suffrage for women Was rejected In Oregon, Oklahoma and South Dakota in the late elec tions. , ' . Several carloads of corn-fed, Iowa turkeys are arriving and dealers say they will go to consumers at lower figures than the quotations for the local product, Is the , ' new . Democratic house claiming credit for the fact that this ryear's corn crop is the blggost the country has ever produced? ;.- ; ' New England in Line. ! From the Boston Globe. - Maine truly pointed the way to the rest of the states by Us political over turn hi September, end now, generally f- ll.o overthrow ,ot Vm !' i t;, ; la sweeping: and BipnitVant. torestinir . -to note- that .Js'ow an i.nrly ! It is Kngi.UHl, ! wlilcli la usually, but not a.-curot-ly, i counted ft center of conservatism, is in line with the proertstdve prosiai.i. Of the six New England states three, Mas sachusetts, Connecticut and Maine, will have Pernocratio governors next year, and New Hampshire would have been a fourth state If the Republicans hud not named progressive candidate. Demo cratic congressmen have been elected In Rhode - Island and Connecticut. Ver mont and New Hampshire are the only states In this pRrt of the' country that next year will , hare neither a Demo cratic congressman-nor ..-a Democratic governor. ,, ; : - ' It therefore appears that New Eng land Is in touch with the changing po litical times. The 2d congress will hav eight Democratlo 'congressmen from this section and at least one sen ator. ' In addition nearly alj the win ning Republican congressmen have been elected by such reduced pluralities that the-moral effect of the warning must be far-reaching. Wise Republicans wyi be anxious to - assist in passing any legislation that promises relief from the injustices of the tariff or rrom high prices. . Letters From tlie People AiWomon's Criticism of Women. ' Portland. Nov. 17. To the Editor of The Journal I aee o much .of this whining on the fcart pf 'women, old and young, about tha Ill-manners of men oa street oars that I cannot resist this rebuke. To my notion It is disgraceful I am a woman ana have buiietea tne world with the rest. .1 for one ' am very thankful I have the opportunity, of riding even atandlng, up eo far, la shelter, -for a -nickel, j J Too many of these women tog mem selvee up for a lark, perhape, putting on new shoes No. 8 on No.. B feet go Splashing tip and down streets, flit ting from one department store to an other,, pushing, crowding and snarling, as they go, .every moment auamg to their selfish and. tyrannical dispositions, until hungry and tlxed they g)rab KHrtreet car, and if all seats are taken, scowl at some man who has" quietly settled him self for his home Journey. He is Just as tired from necessity as' she Is from choice. . --'; ?:? y I am not old. I am not young, but If I see an elderly. person, an invalid or a cripple standing, it's a pleasure to me to give. Up my eeat. tr I nave one, to either-man or woman, . It's Just as dis gusting to see frowsy headed, tittering girt seated while an elderly gentleman stands as it la to - see a tired young business man seated (even . reading) while- a middle-aged,- 'grtttehy - bargain hunter hangs to. a strap In front' of I have been' a worker among workers. and I like the idea of taking my cbance along with the rest of the workers, male and female, in getting a seat on street cars, I absolutely refuse to take a la borer's seat which he has been fortun ate enough In getting, just because he Is the mn and I the woman, s These women Oan be jostled and T pushed and shoved in any of .n&lr various pleasures such as satisfying a morbid curiosity at some sordid or sanguinary police court scene, or passing nonsense ana gossip from one to another at a crowded afternoon reception, or in going miles on cars and foot to be able to taste a lit tle peach here, a bite pf doughnut there, a sip oi tea, a cup oi coiiee grao a sample of , this and a bar of that at a pure food show, or, as was said before, by taking advantage of a bargain sale. They seem ' to ': be able to stand It all and even Uk It but, In the ride home they think .llithe -.men .should, ..get ' out and - walk s as - to -eflcommodate them with seats, and comfortable places for their youngsters and bundles. I think It's about time to cut' out this Incon sistency and be lust one woman In a world of women and men. " - MRS. H. I. HUGHES. Do Not Vacate Streets. Portland," Or., Nov. 17. To the Editor of The Journal- One of Franklin's wise sayings was. "If you would know tbe value of money,, go and try to borrow some." ' , , ' We would respectfully commend ihls maxim to the consideration of the city council. - If ,' certain , merabr of 1 the council who seem so willing to vacate the city . streets, , wtu go and try,-to negotiate with Mr. O'Brien, for a few hundred feet of , river front, in r the vi cinity of the steel bridge, for municipal dock purposes and approaches, they will probably- acquire a better idea of the value of that which they are asked to surrender for the benefit of the rail road? company, And especially, now that the city, by the recent ballot has definitely decided ta enter upon a policy of r systematic harbor . improvement With , municipal - docks ' and belt ; line railroad connections, there could cer tainly do no, greater roily than parting with that which in a few years at most me city win ue compelled to repurchase or condemn, at an enormously Increased valuation. - -. , , ' It' is a much safer 'policy. for the city to hold on to the few street ends It still ;owns and T proceed to acquire, either by purchase or ? condemnation proceedings.; whatever ; property rights are necessary- for its bridges and park extensions, than to further Jeopardise Its control of harbor" facilities, which constitutes its greatest commercial asset We sincerely hope the council will not commit the folly of ; parting with, the control of any more of the city streets, especially those-touching the harbor. : rv.::;:;,U.-,.;Gi.'.GARRETSON.'- i ; Mount Scott Water Supply. , To the Editor -of- The JournalI would like to ask through the columns of your paper how .much Monger,, the residents of the Mount Scott district are going to be fleeceo. by the Wood mere -Water eomjany. Is "the" company so" thoroughly "in trenched 1 the council and courts that there Is ho lawful way of making them give value" for money received? The government regulates the measure and weight of food and fuel and the grocer and fuel dealer ore dealt with stren uously when caught defrauding. - .t . This company is defrauding thousands of people dally and we have no way of preventing It " . ' All summer the wa,terwag scarce and the Bull Bun pipe laid at great expense was idle. For the pest three months for' weeks, at a time the force was so low"we had to curry ,our; water from outside faucets, and toilets had to be flushed whenever we could get enough water on hand. A, bath was . a luxury. For a couple of . weeks out of every month we are practically without water half of the time. It Ms shut off with out warning at any moment and many a time we have gone without all day - I offered to pay for value received but was told the only reductions made were in water not ' oash. , The law-abiding citizen's-of this dis trict have been on the verge of mob via. leneebyt their Inability to get Justice In- this 'question. ,t iivvx'.-, . . Th , soliitren ; of ; tne " problem " looks plain to ordinary folks and 'if woman suffrage had carried this year, we would have solved the problem. ,: nrai aimuu i uur uuuiiciiinan ana II !fe'"irt0Our'uriftftewr''6ne jnThia place. This district needs a representa tive who lives out here. ''';, ' Let the city lay mains and connect with the Bull Run pipe.: If they would lar them on the rtreets running north a!.!ri.T, t ) T. -- COMMENT AND SMALL CHANG". , And again the nn shone some, .'The new Dlx-y lanfi New York. The Oyster Bay silence Is terrible. II wpn't be longitill Christmas, either. . Loyalty ls'one of -the prime virtues. Prohibitionists gained some. In spots. Fart of Oregon's hard winter is over. After all, politics Is not quite all of life. .. ' The- women will try again, ' we pre sume. . 1 t ...-' ;tj. . -" ;'v -j'-.'-.; ;fl, ..v-.-v ,.-:. ! Mo.it people are thankful that they are alive. . . - .v . .. n There will "be the. finest roses ever next spring. , ,T . . .. Be cheerful: the sun will go south for s month yet. The rjoonle apnear . to like "our George' pretty. well. - . Here it comes again: .do your Christ mas shopping ..early. . ,- The Ten Commandments Survive all ejections and all storms. Secretary Balllns-er Is crobablv han- py; he ts almost forgotten. : c- - Few thinrs taste better than a fat. well-cooked mallard wild duck. Wall street bet only a million dollars on election. Jlm'Keene could have done that, all by himself, -n v King Alfonso appears to have rone into the discard almost as completely as Castro, Zelaya, and Dr. Cook, Boston Globe: Bacon is so high now that Just a few pounds of it cost as much as a, set of Shakespeare, ' Perhaps that Chinese parliament that is to meet in 1913, will reform the Re publican party of that country. i j , j i ( ' ' The Thanksgiving turkey and .the "X-mas" presents will soon again be "in our midst." - . . - , . . - '. ,). . ' Los Angeles Times! a The olive crop is short In' some sections, but not be cause so many olive branches have been mil to pasaeu oeiween ine various wings of the Republican party, , j , . r ' -"tVe have one president. One vice president and one ex-pvesldent," .remarks tne Bpnngrieia KepuDiican, ana u migni have- addedYou r -vicajrestftentjcror marks the Doston Globe. How -many school boys can name them? . . Novcmljer 19 in History On November 19, 1708, "there, died' in the famous French fortress-prison, the 8ssun,0tte-;''f;,th mo9 mysterious characters reflected in- history who is known as the Man In the Iron' Mask. Notwithstanding all the curiosity and conjecture that have been employed- to ascertain hls'quaUty and pedigree, noth ing authentic has ever been discovered. In ; 1698 he was brought front the Island of St Marguerite by Mons. de St Mars, the newly appointed governor of the Bastille. He waS'attended with the greatest respect, maintained a sump tuous table and had every possible ln dulgence shown him until the time of bis death. - ' The mysterious prisoner, on his re movat tof: the BaStill?, was carried Jn a litter, accompanied by eeyeraUmen on horseback, who had orders to put him to , death if he made the slightest at tempt to show his face or , otherwise discover Tilmself. The mask which he wore entirely oovered hla head Sn4 was so constructed that he could eat with out removing it ' -. The pains taken , la his concealment show that he -was a person of consid erable quality and Importance, .and from the following circumstance it appears singular that be was ;never discovered. Whilst , at St Marguerite he one day wrote something with his knife on' a silver plate, which he threw ; from the window .toward a boat lying near the, tower. A fisherman took up the plate and brought It to the governor, who, with great astonishment asked the ina If he had read 'the writing or shown it to any one, and although the fisher? man answered In the negative, : kept him In confinement" until ho : was per fectly sMlsf led, after which .(he, dis missed Mm,i saying.- Tt Is lucky? for you 'that-ytw can not'.'read.''."'-"'v-"!?' V Immedlateljr after the prisoner's destfl his apparel.- -linen," elothes, mattresses and everything that had been used by him were' burned;' the walls of his r)om were scraped, ' the floor was taken up and every, precaution used that no trace of him might be left behind. ' When he was on the road from St. Marguerite to his last residence, Mons. de St. Mars was overheard to; reply to a question of the prisoner relative to any design against his life: "No, prince, your life j8 in safety; you must only allow your- self to be conducted," ) A prisoner, told M. la Grange Chancel that he was lodged, with "-other prisoners, In ; the room lm.- and south the property, owners on cross streets could save enough In water rent to lay pipes to connect on the cross streets very easily. .Let Mr. Brown have his plant and Pipe - They are of no value to the city and the water Is not fit for consumption, v r Please let the1 r-epi take action at once as we have been . bunkoed , long enough. ' - :& A LONG SUFFERING HOUSEWIFE. Is It' Roosevelt's Funeral? "??T: prom' the "Boston Globe'. " It would, be well not to ' step- up and view the political remains of : Theo dore Roosevelt" until sufficient time has elapsed for the complete demonstration of his political' demise. ' He would not llkeany thing better than to create an unseemly, scene at the burial which his foes are confidently preparing for him. Like Judge Hoar on the day 6f Wen doll Phillips' funeral, there are not a few who are ready to -approve of his funeral. But they must not ' reckon without their corpse. . - Go behind the first superficial view of the returns and where do you find any ,- other r Republican .leader .who fared better than Roosevelt . In the landslide of Tuesday? You find La Follette ' of Wisconsin and a -few others who saved themselves only by outdoing Roosevelt In insurgency. And how largp would lurve been the New Tork . majority against a Sherman Barnes, "Woodruff standpat ticket? Mr, 'Dlx' . majority ,1s , pot very large by the . New York standard of meas urement, for Cleveland had nearly 200,-000-on' a former Democratlo tidal wave and Lvl P- Morton received more than 160,000 oh the Republican tidal wave of ISj4.' Considering the geat elzei of 1894.: Considering the great elae of the electorate, Roosevelt lost the state by much : less than the , Republicans lost New I Tuff a .tat, nf nhln .t. The New York- Times recalls that It was unbelievable in the autumn , that the Republicans of New York could be rallied atid.lt escribes to the ex-president the energy and vitality that were put Into the campaign. . The tide of NEWS IN IE I V r.ao:,' Mr::i.K;TS . . Home fi;e f;".r:n house.! being bunt around thurUan. Corvallls Gazette-Times: Tha Fros bvterian Indies cleared 1 50 on their chicken p'ie dinner last Saturday an-J gave everyone 60 centa' worth, too. That Bend experts to grow some. Is evidenced by the Installation of a huge electric 'lighting,' plant last' week, the first to utilize tlia water power of the Deschutes river, i ;'v .,. . - - .. The volume of business transacted between Madras and Bend has become quite larsc during the past year, and for a letter to consume from four to six days betweon these points Is a great in convenience and also a great handicap to - commercial relations,, remarks the PrlnevlUe Review. ,, Eagle Point correspondence: E. S. Wolf er, . our plumber, Is kept busy all the lime. He Is Just finishing up a Job on tno Sunnysirle and has the work m do for Frank Nichols'-new house, Von der Hellen's new home, Gus Nich ols" home and, In fact, everybody la so busy that we can hardly stop to eat. I noticed when I am traveling that there are new houses going up all. over tbe valley, old ones being repaired and everything looks bright and prosperous. -;': .; V's:Av - :-'i'-:;v--..i '?'".'' ' Stanfleld Standard: ' T. J. : Barrlnger, who came here from Tulare Cal., three years ago and who- was In the bee bust ness there, thinks he can do better here tor the uualltv of the honeyls flner and will go on to. any market at good prices. Mr. Barrlnger had a good crop of honey this year. From 12 stands he obtained -100 gallons of extracted honey and over 4500 pounds of comb .honey and his Increase on bees, was 4000 or 82 Stands.'? -v-v. ,:?- V'-.-'i'fl;i-V': vtv;' game-bld-storyi Lebanon Express! George Wiley, the 17-year-old son of J. M. Wiley, accidentally shot ' hie younger brother. Marvin,- in the face and shoulders with a shotgun last Sat urday,' The boys were out hunting ,and discovered some birds in V thicket of brush. Marvin went around to scare out the birds for George to shoot at and some flew up and George fired at them, thinking 'larvln was not In that direc tion. :Thirteen shot penetrated the younger brother, one shot going within half an inch of his eye and one going entirely through one of bis arms. Gold Hill News: With two bearl killed within five or.Blx miles of the town, a cougar killed on Kanes creek a few miles out, and a deer killed just outside of the town after Jumping a number of fences In passing through the outskirts, the. Gold H1U district has proven in the. hunting- season .Just closed that it is at least on par wi.th the rest of the southern Oregon country as a blK - came recion. . Throuirhout Jacksonj:ouuty. -the . kill was ... bigger. iun -lor . man v yoaFa,- mua uuuiers re port that the deer, have never been more plentiful. - , Man in tlie Iroa.MasV mediately ever this celebrated captive, and found means of" speaking to him by the i-vents of the chimney J but he refused to Inform them wire he -was, alleging that it would cost his own life, as well as the lives of those to . whom the secret might be revealed. -; .Various: have been the individuals supposed to have been the masked pris oner: the Duo de Beaufort the iCount de Vermandols, natural con to Louis XIVH by the Duchess de la Valllere; the Duke of Monmouth, -natural son of Charles II of England; . Gerplamt Magnl minister of the Duke of Modena; the offspring of a secret marriage between Anne of Austria and. Cardinal, Maarin, eto. etc. Voltaire sav that the secret wan known to JkionslenjLde LChamlUard, andihat the son-in-law of that minister conjured him An his' deathbed to tell -the name of the man .With the mask; but he re piled it was a state secret which he had swprnihe would never divulge. 'k The ; supposition' now J generally re ceived is that this unfortunate person was twin brother of Louis XIV, born eight hours after this monarch, and tho unhappy - victim of superstition " and cruelty. ; Louis XIIL being weak enough to glvo credit to the prediction of some impostors, ; that -If the queen should -be delivered of twins, thS kingdom would be involved in - civil war: ordered the birth of this prince to be kept a pro found secret : and had him privately educated In the country aa the Illegiti mate son of a noblemkn; but on the accession-of-Louis XIV the young man gave indlcatl6ns of having discovered his - parentage. His brother being in formed of -"this, ordered him to be Im prisoned for life, and to wear a mask In order, to' prevent his , being recog nised. ,...;,:,:.;,;;;- r,. vNovemberl, Jay's treaty "with Great JJrltain , was signed; the nulll- iiuauun conveniion mi l v-oiumoia, S. Cn in 1832', chloroform was first used as an anaesthetic In 1847. and the Na tlonal Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg was dedicated in .1863. Today is the birthday of Charles I of England (1600) ; George R. Clark, founder of Louisville, Ky. (1 762) ; Bear Admiral John -A. Wins low . (1811):, WUllam C. Endlcot, secre tary of xwar under Cleveland . (1826): James . A. Garfield. twentieth president Of the United states (3831): and Gen eral :Flthugh; Lee (1885), Today is the date of the death of Fltzgreene Hal- ;eck, the poet (1887). i -. . , , popular discontent ran swift and strong, ana no oerenaer or the Republican uartv could stop It. The patent inability of tne ex-presirient to sway the neoole away from their Just chastisement of recreant Republican legislators In Wash ington and at Albany ls a tribute to our institutions ana to the people who up hold them. . - Yet even bis admirers must admit that as a campaigner he did not in hla method of attack imitate his reat nre- doeensor, - Abraham Lincoln, whom ha so onen invoKea as the guiding, gentus oi me new, nationalism. , - , . . 7. . . '' 'i ' ', Election of West. v ' From the Enterprise, News-Record.' It was not a personal triumph for Oswald West, though he is a clean, de serving man with a splendid record of publlo service. - - ; It wae not a personal defeat Of Jay Bowerman, for the most searching; hos tile Inquiry Into his personal charac ter and acts- produced nothing to his discredit ' ,. It - was simply a rebuke 'to the as sembly, an. unfair, illegal attempt to control the people's primary by lka old, familiar caucus methods. ' ' If there had been no' assembly and Jay Bowerman had won In the opeft primary with no chicanery back of It he would today be the governor-olect of Oregon. ' ' ' : A Past-Election Comment; . i From the Hlllsbnro Argus, Assetnblylsm is doad In Oregon and there will be po more state conventions In the state, But let . Mr. Dimlck, and Mr:" Hofer, and Mr.' Abraham,- who worked" so hard for the direct primary. and who When the stress of the fiH.t was "on; deserted, keep out from under fpur years from ;now for if they: come back' and profess allegiance to the dear aid It can-get from a handful of Demo crats, wHl skin air the epidermis from either of the trioK whd tries to run. Douglas, county, na usual, only mnr so, has a big harvest of turkeys. A barber shaved some Russians, . Their breath brought on much dizzi ness... He staggered to -the door and said: lo doing a Kushin' business." FORCE OF HABIT. -The advertising manager's .young ' daughter was developing Into an,arlth- metical prodigy. . . -. , "What's her name?" asked a reporter. vrf , yivuu ,a.uwt , ,: "Quality? Odd name, isn't ltr - . ."Yes; you see "Quality counts. Say, tell us, what would people do if some mean, cruel trust . Would convrtKht th alnhabatf Say, what If they , should steal mr 4 nouns: welt wouldn't . they , be cussed? ' ' Of worse, yea. much worse vett , Just think, if in some campaign year they'd take us by surprisa , Say. it would Btrika us numK : ' I say, If they should quickly eapitmllse our capital n, Would it make Teddy dumbf . . t r : that Imperial edict. The Chink Is full of grins despair, He writhes and rents his curuese hair. xnat is to say. ne rents his hair ' To woman who've bald space to spars. Pcopld Won't Believe TJp Is Down. -. From the Detroit iJews. -An Intelligent publlo cannot be made to believe that up is down. ' . The Re publican party was elected upon a pledge to revise the tariff. Mr., Taft declared that the pledge meant revision down ward, The party assumed the responsi bility of government and- proceeded to frame up a tariff more protective of . private Interests - and more defiant of publlo sentiment than any la the history of this government ; President. Taft. re sorted to special pleas to secure con cessions to publlo sentiment The reac tionaries were. in. the saddle- in - both houses. The dictum of Mr. Cannon and the suggestion of Mr. Aldtlch had power WZPrftyalLAgalnSt. the-people, andlha prealdenU Mr. Tft hAd to resort to es- tremeiineasures to i. bring enough con gressmen into line tc secure a few abate ments from the nchedules of the bosses and the interest.' A ',;"--'-' ' When'it Was ever, many congressmen whd had "gone forth with the plaudits of ; their constituents In ' their" ears sneaked home wilshatned faces, white some: tof the othtls stood nat.V So v o- ient was the execTitlon of certain Con gressmen that herplo measures -wer taken to squarethemr President Taft went on around bt fence repairing, -To - square Congressman Tawney,' who Had 0ce beerf th idol of Minnesota Repxib-. lloana,, he made bis celebrated . Winona speech, commending the, tariff, but as ' soon as the people had a chanco to ex presaj thetf'opinlon of Mr. Tawney. b,p was tirrown on tne political aump, witn many other brilliant discards. " .The peo ple of all the states,' except corrupt and contented Pennsylvania, proceeded to check up their congressmen and senators j j ijiotr vvO vi.u v vjyuouiwn Cannon and Aldrlch- The result Is sonib fearsome rents .In 1 the party phalanx, that a few months ago, was abla-, to , bear down all opposition. ' ' . , The masa of the voters were weu aware of ths fact that ths tariff re . vtelon was a revision upward., instead of downward. Giant industries, whose foremost proprietors declared that they needed no protection, wssa. given addi tional protection. Schedules were cutir ningiy juggiea to mui appareni reauo- 'J., A..., - l . . i tions ana "jokers", were introduced aa the classifications to make ths impost really higher;- -'i'- ' . -.The last congress' at its close had a Republican majority of 44 in ths house and 24 In the senate. The house tn tha next congress will have a large Demo cratic majority, and the senate will Show a serloug weakening of the Republican majority. All the efforts to prove to ths people that the tariff had beea re vised "down," when it had really been revised "up" availed -nothing. The pocketbooks of ths people told them dif ferently, and they voted accordingly. - f 'V- ' ' . Before He Ran for Offlcaj ' Before he ran for office he '' ' -Was happy and contented, toei He swore he'd not an enemy 4 At least not one whose name he knew. He walked the streets with head up high And spoke to every one he met And he was proud, I can't deny That he had nothing to regret ' It pleased hlra, too, to think that none Despised or hated him, and he , Began to think that he was one , - - . AsRured of popularity. ' ' He liked to meet bis fellow men ,' Arid feel that they were friendly to blm; , - He boasted time and time again u sThat nobody was out to o him. ,.. , But since he ran fcr Off toe he ' - Is sadly changed and much distressed. Because his popularity Has undergone the final test ' ' " He's come to See that smiles and cheers The publiofs feelings don't denote, And that the way a man appears -' ' -' . Is not the, way bejs apt to vote, . .. ;..:.r..:.- w." .. ...... ,- . ... . - : 1 It's not the loss Of office that f Is grieving hlra so much today, - tt isn't that he's fallen flat Tliat grllves him.- but I heard hlra say It Is that somewhere In the town Some twenty thousand, more or less, That he thought friends had turned hlra :.- : down, i f ; And who.thev Are Tin fnnnn . . Detroit Free Press.. Tne CJooJ' Worlcman (Contributed to Tbe Jonrnl by Walt Mows, the fiinoun Kiau !. nmM-poems tr a nirulr featunt of tbi column in Hie Daily iuurnal), , . s ( , . I hired a toller whose name was John, to come wth his. weapons and mow my lawn, for long green whisker's Were growing there;, it. badly .needed i sortie, tender care, And John arrived at the break 1 of day, and whittled, grass' in a cheerful way; the Job was fierce,' for the weeds had grown, and the dog had scattered : some chunks of , bone, but John, he labored to beat the. band, and shaved that lawn with a master hand. Ho named his price when the work was o'er, and I gladly coughed up a quarter mora And ;wheneyer j, find that my lawn is due for a good, clean shave or a dry shampoo, I'll' hunt up John, If he's still on earth, ami pay him more than the . Job la worth,- I'll hunt up John If I have to trot from the court house clear to the dumping spot, for he does his work as a workman should, and: doesn't quit till he finds It gooit The streets are: haunted ; by : shiftless again; they say that jobs are as hard to find as pearls of. price in a melon rind; their h(jpes are hazy, their chances rfor most employers, are' hunting John' 1 f H-orKu MutthvT Aflonu. -VftfJk