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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1910. IE JOURNAL AN IXPEPENuKNT NEWSPAPER. JACKSOX... rt ri?f Tin .'fifth and Yamhill arrwta. Portland. Or. r-d .t thi ptwtofflc at PortUiKJ. Or-, fo v;.ion Uiroush tha mailt a wcotxl-claaa PHONES Main. TITS Home, A-tWit. ;i t1.! artmf-nt roaebwl Ky rtta- ontnbera. il iie operator what dtrtaint you want. I.F.rfJV ADVERTISING RKi R --. fifth .wiue. New Xork; 1007-0 Boyc i-iilldlng, Chiracs. ' '""''": s..iir!ntion T-rra r mall or to "f addrea . tb Waited State. Canada or llaxlco: . . E.MLT. .. ,,'0 r, ' n ... ...,.$5.W I One noatb. -SO : .', , . SHKDAI. ' '. ; " : year....,, .$2.50 ! One month.,..... " - , DAILY AND SUNDAY, , i " j-ar........$T.M 1 One month.. t .68 There Is no duty we so much ?, underrate as the duty of being happy. Robert Louis Stevenson. KOIM.inV OP THE MESSAGE . -f HE . president begins . his , raeu ; sage with a statement concern 's ing the arbitration of two ln " ternational disputes, thus' plac 5 ngr the movement for peace between r ations In the forefront in point of 'portance, i "Then follow many hundred words relating to foreign r, Hairs, which though not ' trivial, are of Blight Interest to the average c itizen. . . 'm ' f ' - ' Next he discusses 'the maximum and minimum feature of the tariff law, and especially our tariff rela tions with Canada. He seems to be In favor and hopeful of freer trade with that country, which Is a position that should be . beneficial to both countries. A high tariff wall between the United States and Canada Is International folly.- He urges, a marine mail subsidy, but it is doubtful if such, a law , can get through ; eoiigres3 'this1 winter? it certainly cannot during the next two years thereafter. ;.i'-.:-'"V;,' ?A '""'$ -' f. The president points out -various reductions in expenditures that have been made and orges further economy'.-, and t more businesslike ..meth ods,' especially in the customs , ser vice, which suggestions the country will heartily approve. ' ' : ' v Y The president's comments on th Tayne-Aldrich tariff act are weak and evasive. - Most of the' adverse criticisms of1 that Jaw, he says, are unfounded, and he makes no specif ic recommendations regarding Bched ulos which even . he, admits are ob jectionable, but passes to a lengthy argument In support of the boatd of tariff commissioners, a body hat may do some good work, n can not legislate. There la need of only a '"skeleton army the president .thinks, "with an excess of trained officers," This will please the officers, though they desire a large army so' as to make a showing of having something to do to earn their salaries.- Considerable space Is given to the Panama - canal, which , the president predicts will be completed before January 1, 1915, at a cost not ex ceeding $375,000,000, and he urges its fortification. ' ' . :-'!' The country will be pleased that the president reverted - to the nub ject of reform In Judicial proced ure, under which head he says: "One . great crying need In -: the IThUed.' States Is cheapening the cost of litigation by simplifying Judicial procedure and expediting final Judg ment. - Under present conditions the poor man Is at woeful disadvan tage In a legal contest with a cor poration or a rich opponent The necessity for the reform exists both in United States courts and in all state courts." X He thinks the Unit ed States supreme court itself should ' take the lea 4 in this reform and says ; he ' "cannot conceive of any higher duty that It could perform than In leading, the way to a sim plification of procedure In the Unit ed States courts,'" and, he would al low less opportunity for, appeals. The president' renews his former : recommendations for t an injunction law; advocates postal savings banks; criticises the abuse- of the franking privilege;' advises the ' adoption ' of the parcels post system on rural de ltvery routes; makes no- definite, ap peal for a larger navy, and recom mends recognition of Peary's exploit. , r Reclamation is discussed at con siderable length, and he favors the leasing of coal lands, without ttflu to them being" given to coal mine operators, pointing with approval to the system in' vogue in Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania. He would adopt the same policy with respect to oil, .gas and phosphate lands, , On the subject of water power sites he recommends legislation that will prevent combination of many power sites In few hands, the con trol of 1 which "would ' enable . the holders or owners to'raise the price of power at will within certain sec tions; and the temptatloa , wovldj promptly attract . investors, and the danger of , monopoly and extortion would not be a remot9;one;" and he 6ays it Is the duty of, the gov ernment "to see to It 'that; in the utilization "and development of all this Immense amount of water pow er, conditions shall be imposed that will prevent extortionate, charges, which are the usual accompaniment of monopoly.".,', He thinks that gov ernment control of; water power Rite on public lands does 'not inter fere with the rights of the states. A commission government . for Alaska la rerecommended. The pension abuse is- mildly criticised. grlcuUuTaTFoauctrrlie t ountry are of "stupendous u value" $8,926,000,000, which Is $305, 000,000 larger than last year. More Lf.-.ey needed-to fisht forest fires. He favors a law giving the execu tive power to enforce the 8. hour law as to all government employes, In all cases.. Many hundreds of words are given to District of Co lumbia affairs. ? The president fa ors a law giving the Interstate Com merce commission authority to ascer tain the actual physical value of all railroads. - y ,--, "' K-'i :''' While the message might have been hoiledL down a good deal, It is in the main, one which' the mas3 of American people will approve, ... ; e the DOCKS COMMISSION ' , S FINALLY constituted the pub A ; lie docks commission Is, George i Cornwall,; Ben Selling, Charles i B. Moores, F. W. Mulkey.and H. L. Corbett. It should be able to render the city' of Portland a tran scendent service. It has $2,500,000 at its disposal. For its guidance It has the knowledge that 27,076 Port land citizens participated In the bal- j loting on the docks measure, and! that 18,771 voted for it and but 8305 against. -' The vote was the second one ren dered on the docks issue, a former one standing more than two to one in favor of . public docks. ' Both fol lowed a full and free discussion of the subject, with both sides to the controversy ably presented. This is history from the record, and it means ,that the electorate fully, un derstood ; the; issue and that the citizens of the city. are firmly and overwhelmingly : committed to -? the policy.- ' ' " ; - -s ' , From these facts the members of the commission, will perfectly under stand their duty, and what is expect ed of them,- Under the law by which they are created as a public, body, ; they hare extraordinary functions. Their hands are' free, and their, op portunity for constructive endeavor very great ; , They have unlimited chance to leave the Impress of their intelligence on the city of Portland, and by the 'Character dt the work they may do to identify their names prominently with the history of the dt7V'-'-'f:;vV:i " No public body ' In the . ; state is more hotable. " ftfld ' aobd confronted f with a weightier responsibility. ' Itt is an extraordinary privilege to be a . factor in fashioning the water front' of' a great metropolis.- It comes to few men to be clothed.wlth authority to fix the enduring frame work around which , a great com merce is for all time t) revolve. . It falls to few careers to have placed at their disposal enormous sums of publio money and enormous powers In applying those sums to permanent public appointments The members of -the commission! should, and doubtless do, enter uponj their work with a deep' appreciation of their opportunities and responsi bilities, ' Portland commits a weighty Issue to their keeping. They should build to honor Portland as Portland has honored them. '' ' 1 1 WEIGHED AND FOUND WANTING ffl' ANY members of the present congress will never "come back."'- They are .attending their 'last session. ' 'Among them are most of the leaders . of many' years. The people have re pudiated them, and not without suf ficient cause. They did - not serve the people in many particulars: They yielded on : most occasions to the demands and pressure of special Interests inimical to the public wel fare, and were false to or neglected the -Interests of the mass, the com mon people.' - Like Belshazzer they imagined v themselves securely ' in trenched in place and ' power, what ever .they did or failed to. do, but they have seen the handwriting on the , wall.; The people have said "You have been weighed In the( bal ance and been found .wanting; your power will , be taken from you." And so, on March 4 next,' a larger number of them will perforce 'bid a sad farewell to the halls of congress and the places that have known them so long will know, them no more. . Will the new men that are to take their, places do better? .. Will they be true to the - people? -? Will they serve -with fidelity to the great trust reposed in them? . The coun try will watch to see. .They should have learned a valuable lesson from the November elections, and realize that If they are not an . improvement on, the men they replace; they too will be rejected as soon as the peo ple get an opportunity. For. the people are determined to have bet tr, truer service. . THROWING LIFE LINES ONE OF THE most effective phil anthropies In the country Is the Red Cross stamp sale.. The agency by which it Is carried out is the Visiting Nurse association, and no service is more efficacious. For every dollar's worth of stamps sold, 100-centd worth of aid Is rendered to the needy. The net sale of stamps in Oregon last year was about $8000.,' With it 23 (tuberculous poor were treated .in the Portland Open ' Air sanatorium, and started on the road to recovery. It is a Btqry of 23 human lives lit erally saved, and of 23 human beings restored to useful endeavor. )" - In addition more than 100 tuber culous poor were sought out in their homes,' and given all the relief that science, modern Information and the means at hand would afford. One nurse from the association de voted the whole year- to this labor of deliverance. From the free clinic at"nh'ePeopIeJnBtitute, consump tive patients , were . traced to their homes, and were there instructed In sanitation, were taught the gospel of fresh air and sunlight, were Jo formed in the important lesson of food and treatment, and in many an Instance were rescued from the em brace of . the great white plague and Btarted on the road" to restored vi tality and life. v --.v , ' No charity is more eharitable. No work of, relief does more to relieve. The rescue of the suffering is in this work the safety, of the, healthy, for the malady is infectious. " The whole scheme, ia a' beautiful picture of brotherhood and deliver ance. The Red Cross stamps are life lines 4,thrown to those whb are swiftly drifting beyond the reach of human help. . SMITH OF NEW JERSEY JAMES SMITH JR., a tonltimiW lionalr who served & term in , the United States senate from New Jersey, desires to repre sent that Bta'te, or rather certain manufacturings ' financial and cor poration interests in the senate again. The Democrats have a majority in the legislature, and Smith call him self a Democrat ;lf the newly elected Democratic legislatures should elect men like Smith la New Jersey and McLean in Ohio, they would so displease , and disgust the rank, and file of Demo crats that the election of Democratic legislatures in northern states would be impossible and undesirable' - for many years to come The defeat of the Republican' party In the northern states that have been Republican for a long time was a protest - against the election of Just this type of men to the senate. - Smith is an ultra' reactionary, a thorough machine man, a believer in the efficacy of boodle, an opponent of genuine tariff reform, or any oth er kind of reform, a man in entire sympathy " with Aldrichlsm, and in capable of truly representing the common people of the mosquito ' Governor-elect' Woodrow , Wilson is exercising considerable activity in opposing the ambition of Smith, and it is to be hoped that his great in fluence will be effective. Wilson is himself rather conservative, hut he Is a vastly more desirable type of public man than Smith, and strives consci entiously and patriotically to serve the people. "BACK TO THE SOIL ' THE CENSU8 figures, as far .as reported, seem to show that the .Back-to-the-Soil" slogan has " not as yet been very effective. The tide of movement Is still toward the cities, instead of from them to the country. The cities appear to be growing faster than the country. This is to be regretted, but it should not lead to the discouragement of those who are1 urging most country people to stay there and improve ag ricultural methods, and some city people to get out into the near-by country and produce things from the soil.' . . Notwithstanding the rather disap pointing ' figures, there is ; evidence that there is a considerable "Back-to-the-S6il",- movement, 'or Stlck-to-the-Soil t. sentiment, and ' that this sentiment and movement will grow, and ' become - more apparent in the returns from the next cen sus. ; -i In this portion of the country,, at least, the country seems to be holding its own with the cit ies pretty well, and there are Indica tions that it will develop even more rapidly . than the cities during the next decade.' Many large farms that were poorly tilled have been subdi vided Into small farms and' hun dreds of others will be subjected to the same process during the next few years. ,- Building Jof interurban elec tric lines will also cause an accelera tion of this movement, ' and i rapid development of interurban districts. - The MBac'k-to-the-Soll,;;or;- Stick to-the-Soil campaign should -be-kept up vigorously.- Scarcely anything is more Important for the country than the greater peopling and production of the country. The cities will take care of themselves. lt - will surprise many people to learn . from the census returns that New England "Is gaining faster population than several -of the old er . western ; states. -, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut have made greater gains 20, 28 and 22 per . cent respectively In the past decade than Michigan,' 18 per cent; Missouri. 6; Indiana, 7.3; Ohio, 14,7; and Kansas,;. 16; while. Iowa shows a slight decrease... One reas on la that New England catches a larger proportion ,of immigrants than the western states do. " .' During , November the receipts ' at the federal assay office at Seattle were $1,558,234, an Increase over the corresponding month last year of more than $800,000. The receipts since, the establishment of the of fice up ; to December 1 have aggre gated $3109,049,061, nearly all of which has come from Alaska and the Yukon country. The assay office has handled about 600 tons of gold, and , hundreds of tons will yet come down from the frigid but auriferous north." We, surely. got a. great bar gain In Alaska. Not only is Mr. W. O. Minor of Morrow county to be, congratulated on his success In raising. fine stock, but the people of the state, and of that part of it in particular, are lal- bq to be congratulated on - having so enterprising, progressive and use- ful a citizen, t At: the reeent.live- eral high prizes and sold a large number -ot , young Shorthorn cattle at an average of j$380 a head, one two-year-old heifer bringing $675. This docs much to advertise Oregon favorably, besides putting, well de-j served money In Mr. Minor's pocket I The recent alleged pessimistic ut terance of Mr. Ji J. Hill is depre cated by the banking house of Hen ry Clews & Co., in .its current circu lar, which says it created a much stronger impression than it deserved. It Is admitted that ' Values of all kinds have been Inflated and that the' country is passlngi through a reactionary period, but while ; Wall street feels somewhat depressed, the situation ? Is , improving," and thlng3 are not so bad as Mr. Hill was re ported to have pictured them. ; Chicago teamsters have' struck for ah increase of ' wages from $12 or $15 to $18 a week. The Jatter figure seems not unreasonable. , If a man has a family and has to pay rent he can scarcely procure., the bare necessaries of life for $12 a A Seattle man paid about $300, 000 for an orchard of 237 acres In Rogue River valley, . upwards of $1200 an acre, and presumably got a good bargain.' When money talks thus loudly "It can' be heard away back east to the astonishment of the natives. " ' , Letters Frbm tlie Peopls Deplores Range Wars. Portland. Dec ft. To tb Edttor of Th Journal- The . trouble the ranre Btockmen are bavlngt with the settlers and government In parts of Oregon and Nebraslta Is unnecessary, and shows the need of proper regulation of grazing upon public land. There has been many bloody fights between the. range stock men for possession and, control of cer tain parts of the publio range. ' Fight ing for something that neither had a legal right to. .-- -':" -'--'- -,', During their 'wart their neros or flocks were often badly damaged V If they would stojj and consider the cost they, would look for a cheaper solution of the free range problem. The destruc tion of property, cost of lawsuits, not counting the many murders, is a heavy rent to pay for free grazing. The range stockmen can no , longer - control the free range toy . force, and It a to their Interests, as well as the homesteaders, to have grazing law enacted. -The range should be .leased to the settlers and stockmen, and j the amount to each should be limited, so all who wish and are entitled to a share can get It. . W. K. WHITMOKR t Personal Liberty Ideas. ' - ; . Portland.- Dec J To. the Editor of The Journal-r-I recently read of a sweet young lady; In this city who had taken out for ' herself naturalisation papers, thereby becoming a full fledged Amer ican eittoea, sworn to defend our flag. It was also stated that-she does not car to vote and Is willing to relegate that duty of a true citizen to her broth er. I would like to have It explained how this '.double and m twisted loyalty works,' and where Is the authority for one human being to- tarn his or her Ood given faulties over to another?.. Now, with rae. it' is different Like Saint Paul I was born free. My fore fathers defended .this country against oppression and tyranny with their blood, and If oppression has crept In -and my Inalienable rights have been wrested from me, no one can fill my place, I can only stand on guard the best I can and defend, my fights where I may un til such times "as my brother politician wakes up and restores to me that which was taken from me. - Before the last, election we heard a great deal about ."personal liberty If - , i. .... . i i torfered with a man's or woman's per sonal liberty, forgetting that if it was retained,1 the wife and 'children in the drunkard's ' home were robbed of their personal liberty, and "the greatest good to the largest number," theory, has become a myth, i . s . . But I am a stickler for personal lib erty. I love to breathe the pure air of Heaven in this, my own country, un contamlnated " by any foul air that might prevade the atmosphere. ,1 am passing down the street and Just ahead of me is a creature in the semblance of a man, puffing away at a cigar, and volumes .of smoke are sailing over his shoulder direct to my mouth, eyes, and nostrils,.- and - against my Inclinations and desires,-1 am compened to swallow some of the same before I can get away from it, notwithstanding the fact that scientists tell 'US that nlccotlne is a deadly poison. 1 . ' Again at another time I am passing down , a street on business Intent, and upon reaching a corner I am stopped by-a funeral procession and as I am held there by no desire of my own, the crowd surges around me and I find that a cigarette smoker is stationed at my left hand, a . man with a cigar, on my. right while just in front of me is another ' with a pipe of a thousand smells, 1 while L wedged In as I am by tne crowa, am eompeiiea . to exercise my personal liberty by keeping stin, and swallowing everythrng that eomes my way, well knowing that if - many another woman were In my place she would go home sick, unto death with a raging headache.. We meet them; in the v elevators, also the street" cars, Where there is a good law . prohibiting smoking, but the smoker comes Into a crowded ear. and removes the nlD or cigar from his mouth, but allows it to smoke away as fast as it .can . to the disgiist of the lady next - to him whom I -heard remonstrate with.- him only to be rewarded with'a stare, for la,he not exercising his personal libertyT Again. I kO to church, happy rn the thought that I may worship God ac cording to the dictates of my own con science, where lo,. a man, a stranger, comes along and sits beside me as he has a right to do, for is, he' not exer cising his "personal liberty? Bat oh, poor me,' J forget to count my, blessings and ' am utterly unable j to.; fix iy thoughts upon the God I love, because of the foul breath laden - with the re cently smoked and I come down In my thought from the heights of power to transitory things, and begin " again to wonder' where is my personal liberty? - NEAXi B., JNMAN. ,; 1 ; ;A Curious Episode. 7 " Prom the Detroit Fre Press. ., The Chinese never asked anything of the Christian world but to be left alone. The Christian world came to their coasts with missionaries to convert them and with guns to help along the process of evangelization. j Portugal. Which first arrived,, seized a part of their shore and fortified it, so that the good work could be protected : from Jtlme to i time by military operations.. England, ' offended because the Chinese undertook to ex clude the Indian opium "which was ooja- onlng" their ; peoble, seized Hongkopg.J Germany, having driven the Jesuits out wTitr tiartaitcrr'Tf ngglfi'rriitia,rerg fortuitously killed by the , Boxers, and Germany's Christian indignation flew to arms; a German fleet- and army were dispatched tot the east, snd a goodly portion of the proviaco of Shantung w seized to avenge the deaths of the Jea- COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE ' ' A -message' of 6000 words. Instead of 30,000 would have done as well. -. ... - It is only a revolution that succeeds that is right as the world judges. Drexel's altltlude barometer, like the cost of living, bad to come down. . ,..y r The. cut in meat can be seen in any meat market and also in all kitchens. " Adjournment will be one of the prin cipal featores of congressional action. How many have kept New Year's re solutions so far? We see few bands op. , ' Another Chicago professor has adver tised his silliness; he says women are not. fit to- teach boys. ; vvV;i''':'V ,, vZ-V1,'''.:;"'.:.'...'-':''''',; ' folrmnt -Rnnauvslt will talk m nnKin at New Haven next Tuesday. He could !, :---v'ry:I'?Ji.;-.-i'-V. ,, "i;:.r;ff:'i?''sJ'--' it 1 It ia i difficult matter to get ai the long and short of the long-and-short haul clause of the new law. . in American ipolltic.s. Now "American dollars" are so In Great Britain,. The Journal dManf ' Miuyt.t many of the- subscribers to read the president's message through. , and n won . . Lr the Garden, and now Mary Garden Is being driven out of virtuous Chicago. - A PennaTlvanla. IiisHm tv. Ieroonallr gave a wifebeater a thorough whipping. His salary -should be raised. Also mat! Oi-Hittmoa rMni The poptoffloe and malls will be greatly congested for a, week before Christmas. But the Vtrph TnlcmH..' ",.' 411 be out soon, won't tell whether an ex tra session of congress will be called or nOt..1 ' t V , ..: Blizzard and big snow' all , the way from the Atbintln in ny.b-l. ir.-l mild and comfortable in Oregon, thank A preacher nn thr nnM' k. a church in the country except for the women. No. nor ativ mn i either. T' . r " English eiecUon rumpus. With coffee or beer, he ought to be popular with th There' will an n nnane 1 MnnVa X eulojoee over latpiv df men at this eession." They should L llmleJ A l . . . . w As tor mr rrvn n hm m m . chance at the Christmas bargain wuuum ujosb aiiemoons. . ir he wants anything, he should be on. hand when wie Bium open, v . V,-,;! T ,v-r-;' :- e-W--!-.-'; r- The rreatest Inn t ft . i- the death of members of congress dur- ceased Senator Dolllver, He was greater uiau i uifl viiiers comoined. Colonel Wt(ruin V. At -tr,.. t m . . u uuimuotuum many pert para grap hers and other peo ple by saying that he never used whisky or other liquor as a beveragej only wine and other light drinks, chiefly at Boston Globe: ' Not only will the pro posed -85 per cent advance in freight rates between the Pacific coast - and Boston increase the price of oranges, but It Will also put up the price ,f prunes, V-1 u v.v . t .:. j, : , v v v ,.- . - ' ' Chicago , Record-Herald: . James J. Hill denies that he said a ' panic was coming, and furthermore, he . insists that he sees no present cause for alarm. Some reporter must have eaten too much tnrkav htvI hA Wait 4mihi result. - December 7 m History - Among the, members of the British ' parliament during the rule of Sir Rob ert Walpole was one almost unknown to the greater portion of the people In the United States, but who deserves honor beyond most men of his time, And to whom the people of this country owe a lasting debt of gratitude. His name was James Oglethorpe. He was a sol dier and had fought against the Turks and , in the great Marlborough wars against Louis XIV. Ia advanced life he became the friend-of Dr. Samuel Johnson, who urged him to write some account Of bis adventures. , 1 "1 .know no . one," ; he said, "whoso life would be more interesting; if I were- furnished with materials I should be very glad to write it" ' , Edmund Burke considered htm "a more extraordinary person than any ne had ever read of." John - Wesley "blessed God that ever he was born.' In Oglethorpe's time It was within the power of a creditor to imprison, ac cord! ng to his pleasure, the man who owed him money and was not able to pay it- It was a common circumstance that a man should be imprisoned during a long series of years for a trifling debt Oglethorpe had a friend upon whom this hard fate had fallen.'. His attention was thus painfully called to the cruel ties which were inflicted upon the un fortunate and helpless. He appealed to parliament and after inquiry a partial remedy was obtained. -?--'' ": -;:. ; The prevention from sending debtors to' prison did not alone satisfy him. Liberty was an incomplete gift to men whovhad lost or perhaps had scarcely ever possessed,; the faculty of earning their own maintenance. Oglethorpe de vised how he--might carry these unfop tunates to a new - world, - where, under happier auspices, they might open -a fresh .careerwi.iiw.i With this object in view, he obtAhwtd, on December 7, 1781, from King George IL a charter by which the country be tween the Savannah and the Alatamaha, and stretching westward to the Pacific, was erected into the province of Georgia It was to be a refuge for the deserving poor and next to thorn for Protestants suffering persecution. - Parliament, dur ing the winter that followed, voted $50, 000 in aid of the humane . enterprise, and many benevolent persons were lib eral with, their gifts. , . . . Oglethorpe completed ' his "... arrange ments during, the summer of 1782 and in November the . first exodus of the insolvents took place. Oglethorpe sailed with 120 emigrants, mainly selected from the prlsonspeimueBS, but of good utts ; Wel-Hal-Wel, a Chinese port, Which Jiad been seized by the Japanese, was abandoned when the latter had to give up the fruits of their, victory and England stepped - in and Occupied It In the meantime the good work of evangel ization went on under cover .of European guns and every time a missionary was hurt, some European power levied dam ages upon the helpless Chinese, s And now Portugal, having become a republic, and Imitated ; Germany by hustling the monks and nuns out of her territory, the Portuguese sailors and soldiers of Macao, which they stole from the Chlrtese",ta ff r li We-reroratloircf their own, landed in, the town, occupied the principal square, seduced the garri son to their side, marched--to the con vent and'hustled the nuns out of town, who took refuge in Hongkong, ooercort the governor into granting a number of "' . ' ':". '' '"";. - ".' ; : rv NEWS IN BRIEF . ORIXiON SIDELIGHTS Central Point is growing rapidly. " Medford man sold IS 10-acre tracts in Portland. .-. i- Klamath Falls boasts of being a good show town. ' . ' .j Work is progressing on Ontario's new $100,000 hotel. - . . ., , , . . Klamath valley may also become an apple country. i l ' - Ontario . will vote on a new $ 40,000 high school building. . , i , , A new industry in Lebanon Is a plan ing mill of large capacity, , ' There Is prospect of a 40,000 or 60,000 feet a day sawmill Jn Sclo. The number of visitors this year to Crater Lake was over 6000. , -"''" -i -5'. Eugene's postal receipts Increased 22 per cent in the past year. Klamath Falls will try to .get free mall delivery; ought to have it. Many fruit trees and ' berry plants are-being set out around Falls City. Farmer near Banks sold a dressed hog weighing over 400 pounds for $60.17. Tract of - (00 acres near Willamlna will be subdivided into . small . fruit farms. -- One man win winter 11,00. sheep at Stein's mountain; has bought 400 tons of hay. ... . . , Estate of a fanner near Heltx, who came to this country penniless,' is worth $125,000. - I e - . ' New variety of apple has been pro duced in Benton county called the van derpooL Brownsville commercial club has been sick, but will live and do good work, reports the Times, v.. . t, .."' - h. -r.-,,i'- KU'i--. Canyon City Eagle: There Is only one good piece- of road in the county during the present muddy spell. - That stretch of good road is the 100-yard stretch which was built last fall by the new road machinery. 1 L. A Wright, mayor of TJnlon, has a registered Jersey tow that cost him $160 a little over two years ago.. From this cow's increase Mr. Wright has sold already $325 worth of Stock and has the original cow left. - , Portland parties have a 80-day option on a farm of 1200 acres near Cottage Grove at $65 per acre. It is their in tention, if the deal is consummated, to subdivide this big farm, set it to fruit and sell in five and 10-acre tracts. " Lakeview has the distinction of hav ing more automobiles in proportion to the size of the town than any other place in the United States, so says au tomobile authorities. " Lakeview has about 1000 population and some 40 cars, or acar ror every zoo peopie, .:--''. , .v-.,U - ' There have been 58 residences built In Ontario this year, besides some busi ness buildings, and there are enough more under way. to bring the list up to 60 for the year; ; Most of these homes are modern throughout and ranxe in price from $3000 to $5000 and $8000. The large number of road districts Issuing call for meetings to vdte a spe cial road tax Is evidence that the work begun during the present year will be carried forward in 1811. Those joining in the movement are entitled to credit for their public spirit, says the Hllls boro Independent. "... Pendleton is the most centrally lo cated of all teastern Oregon cities. It has 22 passenger trains running in and out of the city dally and It has hotel and ' restaurant accommodations pos sessed by no other small city in the northwest, says the East Oregonian., Hence Pendleton thinks it has claims on the new asylum. V ' James Oglettorpe repute. ' lie surveyed ; the coasts ; of Georgia and In January - landed and chose a site for the capital of his new state. He pitched his tent where Sav annah now stands and at once proceeded to mark, out the line of streets and squares. Next year the colony was joined by about 100 German Protestants who were then under persecution for their belief. 1 The fame of Oglethorpe's enterprise spread over Europe, t ' An struggling men against whom the bat tle of life when hard looked to Georgia as a land of promise. 4? :- -f-?'-?.4 The progress of the colony was alow. The poor persons, of whom it was originally composed, were honest but Ineffective, and could not -in Georgia, more than In England, find out the way to become self-supporting. With Ogle thorpe there went out on the second expedition John and Charles Wesley. Charles went as -secretary to the gov ernor. John was even then, although a very young man, a preacher of un usual promise. ' He remained two years in Georgia and returned home secretly, owing to dissatisfaction - among ? the colonists, to begin his great career in England. t , . ... Just as -Wesley reached England his fellow laborer, George Whitefleld, sailed for' Georgia, v He met with much great er success. After a time the colony be gan to prosper. ; ,- Oglethorpe ; went to England in 1743 and was never able to return to Georgia owing largely .to the fact that he. had already sacrificed his private means for the welfare of the colonists, " " ' ! . " , ' , Oglethorpe was in effect a philan thropist Renouncing court pleasures and, home comforts, , he devoted his best years to humanity, ' helped the suffer ing and protected the weak. After his retirement from publio life he became known as a patron of learning, and showed himself a modol of courtesy and grace. Hannah" More declared him the most remarkable man of his time. He died in 1786 at the extreme ag of 96. On December 7. Washington delivered his last address to congress in 1796. To day islbe birthday of Hugh McCulloch, secretary of the , treasury , under three presidents (1808); Elizabeth H. Whit tier, poet (1815) James D. Porter, the Tennessee soldier and politician (1828); Everett H. Barney.Mhe American inven tor (1835), and Nancy' A. W. P. Wake field, poet (1836). Today is the date of . the , assassination of Cicero, the Ro man orator . (B. C. 43); Marshal Ney, general under Napoleon (1816); Dr. John Alkin, author (1822), and Abbe Macpher son (1846). extravagant demands,, including the ban lshrgent of the priests and missionaries, and did their pleasure in all respects. And so goes the Human Comedy. A fine conclusion to the, farce- would be the uprising . of the Chinese people against the powers that had . robbed them,the recovery of the coast points which had been stolen, the banishment of the last European from the coast, and the protection of the missionaries, monks and nuns against the people who had sent them there to impose, their religion upon a people who were civi lized when the European nations were cannibals. What a fine Jest it would be to- see -the- Christian missionaries pro tected , by the Chinese government against the persecution of ; the Chris tian powers. Funnier thincs have hap pened in human history, which seems in some respects ' one long and hideous farce. '-- ' ;: i v, -." TANGLEFOOT By Miles Overholt THE SHEEPHERDER. He stood in the street forlorn and alone, And his pale blue eyes were sad, And he mumbled the while in a mournful , tone . ,v . -f ,' Like a mart' demented and mad. His clothes were tattered, his head was bare, His hair was ragged and long. He gazed around with a vacant stare,' - Then mumbled this pitiful song: Tm'a ba-ba-ba, I'm a ba-ba sheep,, , T rolA - a lnnuanma lair - 1 i Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I weep, But I ba-ba-ba my whole-life through, I ba-ba from mom till night! , , I'm the ba-ba man of the ba-ba crew -That's right". He follows the herd on a desert bare, A dreary, lonely trail,-, No human being e'er meets him there And he follows in sun or gale. The mournful cry of the mournful herd , Rings ever in nls ears;. - From month to month he says no word And solitude stunts his years.,, -. For he's the king of a" wild domain As he follows nls mournful flock. He knows no Joy, he knows no pain, - ? And the echoes Jeer and mock 1 When the ba-ba-ba of the ba-ba sheep , Disturbs the desert air, - j . And he hears "Ba-ba t" in his troubled sleep, .-.,.(:,..,. And he. knows naught but despair. - On a sandy knoll he stands awhile And looks across the plain, . Nor -on his face the faintest smile, , And neither a sign of pain. . 'Tis only a listless, lonely life,' And the minutes are much too long. But mingled feelings within him rife Bring forth his pitiful song: .t Tm a ba-ba-bs. rm'a ba-ba sheep,' ' I ba-ba a lonesome lay, , Sometimes I laugh, sometimes a weep, : Sometimes I gambol and play, But I ba-ba-ba my whole life through, I ba-ba from morn till night; , Tm the ba-ba man of the ba-ba crew That's right" , ,i ii i , m i ' .if "2.;,:, Railroads and the Cost of Uying.' From the Philadelphia North American. Here Is something about the cost of living. It is a subject Which concerns all but the Idle rich. For even those so well-to-do that they do not feel the immediate pinch of high prices may be dependent on the common spending pow er for their business prosperity. The cost of living is made up of in- -numerable items. . .When the price of any considerable number of these goes -up, the price of nearly all," the others moves In sympathy. It is the law, of trade, i;," t:" , ;vVV '"""' ' If from any cause whatever, such as Increased freight .rates, the retail mer chant has to pay a fraction of a cent more for cotton goods than he did for merly, he' Is not likely to bear that loss himself. He passes it along to the con sumer. That too, Is the law of trade. To advance goods from 8 to 6 cents is to add 10 per cent to that Item In the cost of Irving.. -': 'J'.- 'i:..'.''.'!,"if . If a merchant finds that the shoes in which he deals -are costing 2 or 8 cents more per pair, he must either bear the loss, which might be very considerable in the course of a year, or else he must pass It along to. the customer. .. If he does pass It along. It becomes at least 10 cents, but more likely 15, as prices in all but the very cheapest. shoes usual ly move in quarter dollars. . . The manufacturer, finding that the merchant has such a large margin of profit proceeds to absorb It f or be knows that he in turn will have to hand it over to the leather trust or some other . combination-' that can make its own terms. '.,- .''.' ' '-.- v ? ' The same rule applies when the price ; of the mechanic's tin dinner pail is In creased, or his hat or broom or kit of mackerel or 'overcoat or wagon-load of lumber for that extension to his house. because of the many children with which ' he has been blest or a high chair for the last baby, the old one having been These Instances illustrate ' In some the price of railroad freight rates con cerns the common man,., the mechanic, ' the clerk, the small merchant, the pro- v fessional man.' And because every . In crease in the cost of living restricts the '' buying power of the publio, these in- , Btances also show how the proposed ad vance in freight rates threatens the manufacturer, the wholesaler and the big retail merchant - , ; hm.mm ' - t ' : 1 111 -I-v;t-..;?f-l:'j! Process . of Kducation, -From the Harney '. Valley News (Rep.) i Word comes from Portland that an organization .has .been started there With the object of educating the people .. about Bourne and" thus encompass his defeat for reelection. This tscertalnly a worthy object and should receive the indorsement of every Republican In the , State who has he party and the inter ests of the state at heart Ontario Argus, So! ,It Is barely 1 possible, friend Argus, that it is the "Jack por poli ticians who will get the "educating" and not the people. The latter seemed dur ing the recent campaign, to be far bet ter and mora reliably ; educated about-.,' Bourne than, the self styled "intelligent leaders" were , . . ., I The work of the 'jack pot" which Is now proposed to be raised by contribu tions from the enemies of Bourne will 1 simply arouse the masses to 'a further and more emphatic "educating" of the v dunder-headed bosses of the Republl- -can machine gang. Bad Breaks (Oontrlbnted to The Journil by WH Mon, th fimoos Kanus poe:. prcwe-poeini ore t rpgnUr (eatur of ibis culamn la Tbe Pall JbBXUl). - : . :r :fy.-r. -it,.,.; 'I've made ' a minion bad mistakes, I've made a million foolish breaks, in this wide world of wonders,; and I ex poet to make some more before I reach that happy shore where no one ever blunders.- And I shall not apologize, 'or squirt the briny from my eyes, or make long explanations; the breaks I made In other days are made their ghosts I shall not raise, td- swell men's tribula tions. Of all the useless things men do. ' W-'a3 I the biamedest is to stand and view the past with grief and.wniling; the future A like a sunlit sea. is wnlflno- ami ,.' 1 and me, so let us both go sailing. The future, like a minstrel gay, is singing " of a pleasant way of scenes and- days beguiling; the . future, like a star-eyed ' maid (mixed metaphors, I am afraid) is beckoning and smiling. The man who ! marks.theJutre'a..cjirvcsW-iretw about uie past, deserves the kicks that he'll be given; he likes to make a friend or woe, .ana so, 'wnerever he by woe bo' will be driven. may ,go, Cop.rrlsht, 1010, 1. ' , ieocst Uattliew Adam.