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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, ', PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY . EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1911. 1 8 THE JOURNAL CZ tL "aCK3QS PnbHahar Tobllibw! every owoltit; lPt.Bnndal, .JS? rtnf (Hindu! tnomlnf at The Journal Build Inc. Vllth ana YtrntSa atraata, fortUad. Or. ' r.t ltd at ttaj roawtflca it Portland. Or., fce . tratHusunloa thfousb taa alla aa aatond-elaaa natter. v' ' .-',-': '.'" ' TEi..FHONES Mala, TITS! Hon; A-SMl. All dapartitietits TMehrd by tbeaa inaninera. " Till th operator what department yoa want. KOl.EIGN ADVERTISING BR. RKSBNTATITE. Benjamin Kentnor .. BranawK Bonj; 825 Hfta a Tail u. New Tori; 10O7-O8 Boyce BuHdlnr. CMeaJM." . ... b ... a. u Aim bAAvAM la tba United Stataa, umaaa or Mexico: - .." BILI. year 15.00 I One month f M 1 ' nrrKI.iT n .... aa.BO I On month I .28 DAILY AND SUNDAY. Om 'rfar .97.60 I Ona month 0 m 1 1 1 The finest qualities , of our na ture, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Thoreau. Ot'B BEST F1TBU0 ASSET ALONG WITH the others. Wood row Wilson, now appearing as one of the most brilliant statesmen "of Ms time, has come, out with an emphatto indorse ment of the Oregon plan of govern ment It Is the latest in a long line ,'In the past ten days, from state capitals here and there throughout , the country, have come plaudits for the system Oregon people have ere ated. Everywhere, the system has been heralded as a model fit for 'copying. It has been the governors of great commonwealths who have given it sanction. It has been to the assembled legislators of great states that the commendatory utter ances have been made, It has been in appeals to these legislators to adopt the plan that these governors have suoken. Every newspaper in the United States that carries news dispatches, Ihas printed the story of each of. these l inAnYaamnnta nt Oregon. Every day since the legislatures began to con vene, the story of well governed Oregon has been carried to every newspaper reader in the country. , The 90,000,000 of people in the na- , muh nave, uuuue iui the story of the great commonwealth of Oregon iterated and reiterated to tHenv Every day in the period, Ore "gdn has been held up by governors us a model state with a splendid gov- fernments whose system .should be adopted everywhere. " Was ever a state so phenomenally commended", and so favorably pro claimed? Was ever a state; 'to wlde- dorsed by so many men in high, eta- uoni Are we nui au . giaa-inai wo Drevented the assembly from de priving ub of bur splendid system of government, a system, that the past few days have shown us, to oe our best public asset? THE HONOR OP THE SENATE SENATOR BEVERIDGE. of the committee which investigated the Lorlmer case, has submitted a minority report recommend ing that the Lorlmer seat be vacated and his election be declared void. Senator Owen of Oklahoma has of fered a resolution of the same tenor. Has the senate a sense of honor? Its every member knows as all the country knows that four Illinois leg islators confessed that they were paid to vote for Lorlmer, and its everyjtnember must believe as all the country believes that if four were bought, others were bought. Every senator knows that the Lorlmer seat Is tainted, and that to admit him is public, confession by the senate before the world that purchase of a seat in that body Is not regard ed as improper by the senate itself. In Great Britain if a single voter is bribed, if a single shilling is un lawfully spent in the election of a member of parliament, he not only loses his seat, but the election is nul lified. Isthe United States senate, by retaining Lorlmer, going to pro claim to the world that Its member ship has none of that keen sense of honor for which the British parlia ment 1b distinguished? Does the body where once sat Benton, Webster, Clay, Calhoun and Bayard assure us that bribery Is permlssable In seek ing a senatorshlp? Must the coun try blush for the honor of the senate? ORGANIZED LD7E FOR THE FARMER THE WORLD'S work for Decem ber pleads for organization of life on the farm that shall par ; allel the advantages of 'organ lzedilife in the town socially, lntel i lectually and along business lines. The writer assumes that all the advantages of the town can be transferred to the farm, an assump i tlon that beyond certain HmltB Is impossible. There are so-called ad vantages of the city that artificial life insists to be essential to the perfect enjoyment of certain classes of our population. f - But the man who has lived in the country knows that life in the open - air, the eights and scenes of country life, the care of garden, stock and poultry yard, and of a growing or chard, the labor of himself and his family adding to the growing value . of their, very own possessions all these together go far to balance the account, - what, th family, saves of this bug" living. Nothing to pay out for but ter and milk, for eggs and poultry, for vegetables and fruit, tor fuel and ater, for rent and not much 'for .taxes. The farmer makes by. saving, i He may not at first 'have much j to sell .whatever it is may be called clear profit'-. And year by year his own well directed labor will add largely to the total. ' , ,. ., . Now add what the farmer may have of the benefits of this "organ :iied life of the city." That means j what he will have when to his pres ' ent possibilities of comfort are added good roads and the parcels post Neighbors, and ever more of them, are coming In day by aay. Country schools for the children lead up to the high schools and the agricultural college. School and grange librar ies will find him books. Home tele phones put him In contact with city and railroad. The same telepohne will call in the doctor, and tell his friends if any one is sick, Cooper ation with his neighbors will open markets for all he Jias to sell. Thinking it over fairly, is not the move to the country desirable even for a novice on the farm? Looking to even a near by future should he not grasp the chance if it comes hia way? , .'..-- THE VALUE OP HTIAN LIFE STRONG POINT was made by Judge Lindsey in his reoent address on the undue value we are apt to attach to property m the scale of comparison with hu man life. The speaker had in view boy life, but his suggestion has even wider application. The New York Independent no tices that of the f 1,122.000.000 authorized by congress in 1909-10 only $15,000,000, or 1.3 per cent of that total, was to" be used for the protection of the public health. Also that the state of New York spends for the protection of game, f Ish and forests about four times as much as for the state health department Unnecessary deaths are classed as those resulting from preventlble dis ease and those from preventlble ac cident. In the statement recently prepared by E.-E. Rlttehhouse, pres ident of th, Provident Savings Life Assurance1 society of New York, on this subject, the facts and figures from all the states in the union are presented.-- Every day In the year American lives are sacrificed to these two causes equal In number to the crews of two battleships. Every three months lives are sacrificed ex ceeding in number the. combined forces of the army and navy of the United States. In this general summary Oregon bears its part Our state has done' much in the past along these lines. So much that the first effort now must be to coordinate, to unify our health and life saving forces. Efficiency is the .first demand in every public office. Everywhere it is being sought by re ducing the numbers but increasing the powers and duties of the selected men In charge. ' . Science is every day bringing to light fresh means for. this protec tion. The ordinary man is advised in language that few understand of the discovery of few enemies to life and health; their names perplex him their existence, plain only to the scientist, he has to take on trust. How shall he satisfy himself which plan to install, which to discard.- The only safe rule, It seems, is to act in the public Interest as the wise man tries to do when he only is con cerned. - In such cases the best expert is consulted, and to the choice . of that expert the man's best thought, based on full inquiry, Is given. On the expert's shoulders rests the re sponsibility for action. But In so grave a matter life and health of our citizens come first the necessary expenditures of pub lic money second. For, If need be, all that a man hath will be given for his life. " RURAL CONDITIONS IN EUROPE WRITING TO the Chicago Record-Herald of the . country near Wittenberg, Germany, Willlani E. Curtis describes almost ideal conditions arising from Improvements that have been much discussed by people of this country. Chief of these improvements are per fect macadamized highways, with foundations of 20 to 24 inches of crushed stone, kept In perfect re pair. When a really good road la built, repairs are made on the prin ciple that "a stitch in time saves nine." The roads are lined on both sides with fruit trees, which belong to owners of the adjacent land. Th-J treeB are .diligently cared for, yield much revenue to the owners, and the fruit is seldom disturbed by the passing public. Respect for law and property rights Is so great that a person would no more pick fruit from a roadside tree than he would go Into a field and carry off a load of grain or hay. , No ground is wasted and all space available is planted to grain or veg etables .and carefully tilled. In one respect, however, Americans would say that these hard working German people are little better than bar barians, for women do the work of the fields and gardens. It will be long before American rural districts are as thoroughly im proved and tilled as those of Eu ropean countries for we lack thei age, and our agricultural spaces are immensely greater. Good roads are the desideratum m&st to be consid ered, at first, but later why might not our country lanes also be lined with trees that would not only give shade bnt fruit? It is in accordance with this idea that Mr. J. D. Cooper oi McMlnnvilla fcaa proposed the planting of lines of, walnut ' trees along the roads leading to. that town. Meanwhile, what Js perhaps even more important, the American peo- pie should gain much, in respect for law and the rights of others, so that roadside fruit .would be practically safe '"from theft ft This Js a feature of education that has not been Im pressively enough taught In this country. , ; " , BEWHISKERKD PARTISANSHIP A DISMAL exhibition of bewhis kered partisanship is seen in the present attitude of Demo- ... .,'IL. i - crauc leaders oi me iuwu leg islature. The standpat and progres sive Republicans are divided in equal factions, and the Democrats hold the balance of power. A senator is to be elected to take" the place of the late Senator Dolliver, and by combining with the progressive Republicans the Democrats could' easily secure the return to the senate of a progres sive Republican. But the Iowa Democrats . are put ting partisanship , above country by holding aloof. They are acting on the supposition that they were elect ed to play the blind partisan rather than serve their state and country. The effect of their policy is obstruc tive and destructive rather than the constructive purposes for which they were sent to Des Moines, ; " Iowa had noble representation at Washington In the late patriotic Senator Dolliver. The Democratic legislators of Iowa are In position to aid in sending to the national capital another of the Dolliver type. It would be a far more commendable action than continued indulgence in an agonizing and mummified parti sanship that is discredited by time, out of joint with patriotism and con demned by reason. Real service to the people Of these United States is not rendered by partisans, but by patriots. THE ELKINS ESTATE IN MAKING HIS will the late Sen ator t Elklns followed only to a comparatively small extent the example of a number of other multimillionaires in tying up most of their estates under trusteeships for long periods of time. He places his large estate In trust for a period of only five years, at the expiration Of which time It is to be divided equally among his seven children. This may not be objectionable, as the adjustment of so large and varied an estate for the purpose of distribution requires, considerable time. But the common practice of making wills that keep immense es tates Intact and provide against their distribution for many years, while legal, is to be looked upon with pub lic disfavor, and should be checked by legislative enactments. Reasons why this is true are readily per ceived. The Elklns family is likely" to be come much richer Boon, for LMrs. Elklns Is a daughter of Henry Gas- saway Davis, also worth many mil lions, and who is in the neighbor hood of 90 years of age. HOPE AHEAD A NEWS ITEM assures us that work is progressing more rap idly on theeoun,ty court house. It contains the further infor mation that 80 men are now em ployed on the structure. The change recalls those other days when four lonely artisans plied their trades on the big structure, and were the only sign that the edifice would be In use by the Judgment day. It recalls those day dreams when those in the courts, of Justice looked out on the unfinished walls and thought of the Christmas days that come and go and of the flowers that bloom and fade. It recalls the days when passersby gazed at the great unfinished work and meditated upon what a long Journey It is from the cradle to the grave, and won dered whether or not Gabriel would blow his trumpet before the new courthouse is ready for occupancy. . If true, how welcome is this change from a working force" of four lone men to a busy contingent of 80. Perhaps, after all, most of us may yet survive to see the new. building finished. SOME 1010 FIGURES AS THE YEAR recently' ended Is viewed in retrospect more in detail, it becomes even clearer that 1910, In a busi ness sense, In point of productive ness and prosperity, was a very good year in this country. Bradstreet's gives many details, of whlcli a few are as follows: Bank clearings were $162,000,000,000, but this enormous total was 1.3 per cent less than In 1909. There was also a large de crease in stock and bond sales, but heavy Increases in exports and lm ports of merchandise, In production of ore and metals', In tonnage trans ported, and in agricultural products. The country's total trade is esti mated at $3,398,000,000, an increase of 6 per cent. All in all, it was a good year, and 1911 starts out with a fair prospect of being even a better one. At least It Is pretty sure to bo so In Oregon, on account of great activ ity in railroad building, and Cer tainly of a far larger increase of homeseekers than in any previous year. WHY NOT MORE HOGS? I HE DALLAS ITEMIZER speaks I hopefully of the time that it thinks will come before long When the. people of that vicinity will not have to lmnort their hne meatr-and when nrgetle money makers w4H see the advantages in hog raising, and it adds: "We have all the advantages nec essary to successfully cope with raisers elsewhere,' and , should get busy, on our farms and grow what is needed to supply our home markets." It is to be" hoped that the predic tion will be fulfilled and that 'many farmers will take advantage of the opportunity offered for more hog raising, not only in Polk county but in almost every other county In Ore gon. That Otegon has so long Im ported great quantities of hog meat butter and eggs, when It could easily produce enough for home consump tion and have a surplus tor profit able export, is not easily understood. This condition of affairs might be expected in a new, raw 'section of the state, or in a range or a big wheat raising region, but Willam ette valley counties have been settled and farmed for 60 or 70 years, and the products are diverse. ; A great deal has been said on this subject, apparently to little purpose, yet it might be well for the state press to keep harping on it In the hope of Inducing desired results in more of these products. Approves Pure MlBc Agitation. Portland, Jan. . To the Editor of The Journal Tour agitation of th milk question ia timely, and I hop you will kwe It up as occasion require. It makes one shudder to think, of drinking or In any way using the milk from a sick cow, to say nothing of its effects upon health. .' Every physiologist knows that while milk Is primarily a secretion. It also may become, and in disease does become, In part at least; ; an., axcret Ion, and therefore too nasty and. Injurious to be used as food. You show m your quotations, from the city officers, that they have the power to prevent the sale of such milk, and these officers ought to be pushed on to take action by pub- llo pressure and would be, but for thu fact that many Intelligent people doubt, If so many cows have pulmonary con sumption. A great many people do not believe in the accuracy and efficacy of the tuberculin test. They think the theory that lies behind It Is erroneous and misleading, and that it has a ten dency to cause the condemnation and destruction of some sf the best cows in the herds. And so, they hesitate to take the action they would if certainly convinced, that the dairymen In the vicinity of Portland , have practloally ruined their herds by bad treatment Let the tests of health or disease of the dairy cows be placed upon the ground of well known physiological laws, and Judged by . common sense, and applied by men of intelligence and public spirit and the reform will aweep forward to good results. Any one competent to be a health officer ought to be able to dis tinguish a sick animal from a well one. on sight and without the application of questionable and theoretical tests. Lot the discussion go on, and let all the matter be brought out It can be done In no other way. LEVI W. MYERS. i m ),i Vancouver, B. C, the City of the Single Tax. . Rev. Professor Anderson Scott, M. A- of Cambridge, writes the following description of Vancouver In the Man chester Guardian: There are nearly a thousand motor cars in Vancouver, and probably not ' a score of private chauffeurs. That gives a measure both of the abundance of mpney and the scarcity, of labor. The labor offices are advertising for labor ers at a wage of 10 shillings per day; and skilled workers in many trades can get more. But it Is the hand-worker and the navy for whom there is a demand. The man with the black coat and the soft hands has no more openings and no better pay (the difference in the oost of living being taken into account) than in the old country. There Is much in the city to remind one of the old country, and not a little to make one envious of the new. Apart from the numerous Orientals, Japanese, Chinese, and Hindus, who are passing sonly along the pavements, there is nothing to distinguish the principal streets from those of a prosperous com mercial' town In England. The public buildings, fine solid structures of gran ite, are designed with an eye to a big future. Their architecture bespeaks taste and skill. The shops offer every kind of necessity and luxury. The cos tumes are those of Bayswater or Ken sington In the height of summer. There Is nothing to suggest youth or crudity except freshness and vigor and hops. And yet Vancouver is hardly ZS years old. In the suburbs one sees the results of what we have been so slow to accept, town planning and municipal enter prise. Though most of the private resi dences are of wood, they are de signed with great taste, set In beauti fully kept gardens, and .approached by boulevards of trees rising from broad ribands of greenest grass. In more outlying suburbs these; elegancies are still in the making; but the Idea is there, and will be carried out with in creasing; success. Homo or tne causes or Vancouver's rapid development and of the optimism of Its Inhabitants are plain to see. Natural advantages, such as few sites can offer. A climate like that of Bourn amouth. with more sunshine and not more heat that Is -oppressive. A salt water inlet from the Pacific which broadens Into a great tidal basin, along the edge of whtch ecean steamers can He and discharge Into railway wagons. Space for this kind of wharfage, which extends for eight or ten miles. Behind the bay a broad slope already dotted with houses, and preparing to receive the overflow from the city. Behind that again ft fine range of mountains rising some 6000 feet from the sea, broken by various canyons, and collect ing delicious water enough for 600,000 people. And all this at the end of 3000 miles of rail which connect the Atlantic with the Pacific, and passes through the great wheat fields of the west When the new transcontinental lines are com plete, and the Panama canal opens a shorter sea route to Europe, Vanoouver, with Its' harbor open all the year, and Its shorter haulage from the prairies, will be a serious rival to the harbors of the east. -, . If one were to ask some of the leaders of local politics what were the further causes of its prosperity, they would at once refer to the "single tax" and the principle of 'taxing unearned increment on land. Vancouver has been working with these partially for the last 15 years, and now has adopted them with out reserve. . All the municipal serv ices, and they are more numerous and better performed than In many isngllsn towns, are supported by the proceeds- of a tax which is called "single" because it Is a tax on land alone, not on the land and buildings. And 'the land is re assessed at short intervals, so that th community loses little time In drawing Its share of the ennanced value -which, according to the theory. 1? largely due to iae growth and energy of me com munlty itself. Other towns have adopted the system wholly or In part. Prince Rupert, the destined terminus of r the"'Grand"TfunkT Pac1flo; ."has adopted it from the beginning, But none of the others ' approaches Van couver In - importance; none is more satisfied with its success, The tax 1 at the rats of 22 mills, which works eut Letters From the People COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE TTnnlai Jo urn it hnrlr to a. small ,T. I tent . - - 'Jerry Rusk has an agricultural aort Of sound, but he Is a lawyer. . ';'''.-'' -t :i .-'-vO.. .. ' a ' V-' ' ;', . The rules committee matter looks different to Champ Clark now. , . , " . Thla Is supposed to be a portion of the predicted hard winter. - , v.,,. "V''---i;v1.,i ':V.h' : J. Pierpont Morgan cam go far toward either producing or stopping a panic. . t. Federal fudges also sometimes dis agree; witnea Judges Gilbert and Han- The wise aviator la the one who quits after making a lot of money and while liv, Springfield, 111., is the latest city to adopt the commission form of govern ment, But nobody can prove positively that Peary did not get to the Pole, ,or there abouts. ....v.' a ; A mere trifle of snow on January 10, for the first time in 'the season, js not so bad. ... . f Between the lords and the anarch ists John Bull is having considerable trouble. ... ,, a Colnlge of half-cents Is proposed. They might eome handy for church col lections, f - t -hX, -i 3 a ..,'-; ' 5 f."" It was to be expected that an Insur rection In Tabasco, Mexico, would be a hot affair. There Is no prospect of the legisla ture revising tna roll of its employw downward.."'"" .. At last we kno-w, If reports are cor rect, what Is the matter with Kansas not enough babies. a a Another sure sign of a war with Ja pan: its government has bought an -unusual quantity of rice. - a a A New York colleee Is to have a department of journalism. But doesn't everyDoay know best how to run a newspaper? - The, 'experimental costal savin era banks have been opened, but most peo- Sle will have no money to put into lem so soon after New Year's. a a Former VloePresIdent Fairbanks says the world Is growing better. Why not? He Is out of office. It will be a little better yet when Jim' Sherman 1s out, too. a . a ... . Tht Seattle Ttmes is giving away coal. This Is charitable, but it is in the nature of news also; It was not known that auoh charity was needed In Seattle. a a Oregon probably i holds the record In the matter of the number of governors within a given space of time. It has had three now in three-days, not count ing Benson. The roll all of the legislature shows that men whoso names begin with let ters low down in the alphabet are not likely to get into that body. The names should be arranged differently. . a Miss Kathertna Elklns will set onlv one-seventh of her late father's 120,- uuu.uuu estate, ana tnat oniy arter live years so perhaps Duke Abrurai's love will cooL But 93,600,000 or so is not to be despised. SEVEN LITERARY PRISONERS Daniel Although to the general reader Daniel Defoe is known almost entirely as the author of . "Robinson Cruspe," to the mors scholarly he Is admired for the thought and biting sarcasm displayed In his essays, pamphlets and satires. It was the writing of one of these pam phlets that caused him his imprison ment Nor did the confines of Newgats stop his versatile pen. It was while deprived of his liberty that he started his famous Review, a periodical paper which extended to nine thick volumes in quarto, and It has been supposed served as the model of the celebrated papers of Steele. It was In prison also that he composed his "Juro Dlvlno." Defoe was destined for the ministry by his parents, and as a merchant in his own inclination. But being unsuc cessful in the latter, he became a vigor ous pamphleteer, offending the ruling powers, thereby reaping a plentiful crop of fines, pillory and prison. ' Dear bought experience finally led him' to abandon politics and take- to the writing of romance, hence, his "Robinson Cru soe." Defoe first called attention to himself as a satirist by his "The True Born Englishman," It was a work in verse and the subject was the .Irony In the objection to William as a foreigner, and the claim for pure English blood In a nation that was crossed with nearly all races of Europe. Defoe was a great ad mirer of William HI, whom he called "the glorious and" immortal king." After the death of the king 'he wrote "The Shortest Way With the Dissenters," which was the cause-of his imprisonment. He was confined for a long time, until at about sixpence In the pound on the capital value of the land. The system Is attracting attention and enquiry from economists and municipal governments all over the continent. The official re ply to enquiries Is that the "Vancouver experiment," which indeed, may no long er be regarded as an experiment at all, has resulted in sucn a rapid upbuild ing of the city that no one, not even the extensive landowner, has any desire to 4-eturn to the Jormer non-progressive scheme of taxation. The benefit to the city is seen in part in the determination of the owners of land to put It to ths best possible Use. Undeterred by the fear that the capital cost of improvements will be come the basis of future assessment, they build with a new freedom! they readily "scrap" old buildings, and al ready much of tho old property in the heart of the city has been replaced by structures of a very different kind. On the other hand, those who are not pre pared to make economic useof their sites are discouraged from "holding them up." Urban land that is unpro ductive to the community soon becomes too expensive for the owner to keep. In some directions the system works In equitably. Churches and charitable ln stltutlons situated In Industrial dis tricts may find their sites assessed on Industrial values when they have no corresponding opportunity of increasing their revenue. If tTiey are not to be driven from such districts, , some modi fication in their favor' will be required. But while It Is difficult to apportion tho credit for- Vancouver's - prosperity I among the various contributing causes, the voice of the local authorities wouia claim a large share for the "single tax" ; . . . , , " , ,l ' 1 " " " ' ,' " ''"c'' . Fall Woman Suffrage In Norway, Saint Nlhal Singh In the . Twentieth Century Magazine. . , . ' Norway - boasts of an, area' pf. only about 125,000 square miles and a popu latlon of but 2,600,000 souls; yet to thts "ttny,m6uhlainous' "land belongs" thecals-' Unction of being the first, and at pres ent the only, country on the facs of the globe enjoying sovereign power, to give woman the full privilege of citizenship. With this , single exception, na other i'i,,kj.,9i - 4 : -1 NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS. : Sugar beets raised in Lane county have tested well. ' ' Spelling bees are popular in Folk oounty this winter. Hlllaboro will build up much this year, says the Argus. - - .- ' Medford will pave nine mors miles this .year, making; 18. Linn county gained 285 school chil dren during the past year, , IT. of O. Glee club made Over 1400 in 1910 for the student body. Much gold is being produced In the region tributary to Cottage Grove. A crop i of oats sown near Sheridan In September was harvested December 29.- . . . . There were 248 marriages and only S2 divorces In Umatilla county last year. - ,. Polk county will get Oil and Dallas wril get paved streets in 1911, predicts the Observer. , , San Francisco woman buys only Cor vallls creamery butter, specially shipped by express. .,; ., ';., a. :';-,t''.;;V Big farm at Macksburg and another near Canby will be put on the mar ket In 10 and 20 acre tracts, reports the Tribune. Southern Oregon newspapers, tail of people lately gathering fresh grapes and raspberries, and digging new sec ond crop potatoes. , a , ( " The Owyhee ditch company in 'Mal heur county is putting in very import ant improvements this year, widening and cleaning the ditch and strengthen ing It at various points. - -' , ' A farmer near Cottage Grove has dis covered strong evidence of oil on' his place and the find is to be. thoroughly analyzed. There is said to be reason to believe oil abounds -iin that section. a . A man from Medford was at Myrtle creek and Missouri bottom trying to buy the Missouri bottom soil to ship to Medford in carload lots for fertilis ing gardens in that city. He met with little success. " , The sale ef tickets at the Newberg Southern Pacific office during the year 1910 amounted to $30,064.27, which was an increase over the sales for 1909 of 13176.86. The total business done at tha office during the year . amounted to $107,138.48. which exceeded the previous year's business by $r,867.7. ' The Eugene Register boasts of roses and chrysanthemums still blooming out In the open; grapes and raspberries, ripe and luscious, still on: the bushes; volunteer second crop new potatoes be ing dug und eaten on Christmas day, with buds swelling and trees leaving out, with lawns as green as during the summer. a a Mrs. J. E. Pogue of Eugene reports as follows: Eggs laid for the entire year, 276; an average uer hen of 182 11-17; number of chickens h atoned, 82; num ber of chickens raised, 69; stock and ers sold, $86.23; stock ana eggs con sumed at home, $33.09; total. $119.32; expense, $47.08; profit, $71.24. per hen for year 1910, 14.26. Profit Defoe. . -' 1 I Queen Anne released him and gave mm material aid. v In speaking of his own misfortunes Defoe says of himself: '."No man has tasted different fortunes . more, , And thirteen times I have been rich and poor." The Defoe pamphlet, which caused the arrest of its author, was Issued at the end of 1602. Thereupon a reward was offered for his apprehension. This was published in The Gasette of January 10, 1603. and described him u "a middle sized man, spare and about 40 years old, of a brown complexion, and dark brown colored hair, but wears a wig a hooked nose, a sharp chin, gray eyes and a large mole near his mouth." '.... Defoe was taken, indicted on February 24, and tried at the July session at Old Bailey. Previous to his imprisonment he was compelled to stand three days In the pillory. So friendly were the ptoplo that they formed a guard around him, covered the pillory with flowers and drank his health. The first num ber of his Review, published in prison, appaared February 17, 1604, , ..at , first weekly, but eventually tri-weekly. Dur ing its appearance he published 80 other works, all of them prepared While he was In chains. After his release he was more , guarded, for he was dependent upon his pen for the support of himself and his family, and to use It against the government was to run tha risk of another Imprisonment, the pillory, and even the gallows. This fear ; led him away from religious and stats papers to romantic writing, giving to the world his immortal "Robinson Crusoe." Tomorrow -Voltaire. part of the world where the female sex has been granted the parliamentary vote be It Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Colorado, or Australia and New Zea land is complete master of its political destiny, but bends its haughty head to some -federal or imperial suzerain. Even Finland, the Only other European coun try besides Norway that has enfran chised its women, is not Its own political master, the yoke of the czar of all the Russ! as pressing heavily on the Finns. The Norwegian women obtained tjie franchise through clever, and capable maneuvering; Early In 1305 the nation came to the, 'parting of the ways, and before proceeding any further it became imperative t'dy decide whether Norway would continue to be governmentally submerged under Sweden or would as sert Its individuality and become the ar biter of its own fate. Before taking the irrevocable step the Storthing (the Norwegian parliament) decided to refer the question to the people at large which at that time still, meant Just the men. AS a result of this referendum about 400,000 men cast ' their ballots; only 1$ of this number declaring them selves still in favor of the existing or der of thlqgs. Now, the far-seeing among the adult women of the country, who had not been consulted in this seri ous matter, saw the opportunity to prove that their sex was awake to tha needs of the people and was anxious to bear Its full share of the national bur den. They therefore ' organized an un official referendum. , Three , hundred thousand women past 1 the twenty-fifth milestone of life voted and every one of them in favpr of absolute freedom, The votes of the women, though un recognized by parliament- could not but confirm the men In their resolution and oonvince them of the patriotism as well as the political sagacity of their worn en folk. Thla statesmanlike move on the part of the women" came at the psycho logical moment, and in a little more than a year the Storthing passed, by a 'combined Conservative and Liberal majority ,of morethan two-thirds...Qj" Its 123 njembera,""" bIlf"giY.lng three fifths of the adult women of the land f uH" citizenship rights the parliament ary vote as well as the right to be elected as a member' of the highest leg islative assembly in the land, " - i ANGLEFOOT1 ByMilesOverholt Ed. Tanglefoot; I see by the papers that ."a mare's nest flas been discovered in the house of lords." Believe me, my addle-pated xtieiiu, a iiiuuao a ' nasi wuuiu . uv , ma cm most valuable" acquisition to the house '1 or loras at tne present writing. Why haven't they .thought of that before? Give me a dozen simple-minded . mice and I care not. who would be a suf fragette. , t , n GUS T. ' Hnmanlty on Wheels. Press Servloe American Red .Cross, i'i I In these strenuous days no one can afford to sit back and wait for business to oome to him. He must go out and hustle for tt This is no less true in humanitarian work than in commercial ventures. The Amerlean Red Cross has always been distinguished by Its enterprise-In making Its efforts to aid humanity of maximum value. As another evidence, of thla activity this association has lately established a first aid to the in jured department through which it hopes' to carry instructions in this Important subject to all parts of the country. In furtherance of this object It has now In operation a first aid car. This carwas donated by the Pullman company and has been fully equipped by the ' Red Cross wtth all sorts of first aid mate rial. It Is in direct charge of Dr. M. Whitfield Glasgow of Birmingham, Ala., who was employed for this special work by the first aid department of the Red Cross. The car was outfitted at the Pullman strops In Buffalo, and is now oh the road in Illinois. Its -work evi dently appeals to the Various .railway officials, as the railways are hauling It free of charge. The car will proceed from place to place, stoppinf at. railway, manufactur ing and mining centers, where the best opportunities present themselves for or ganizing first aid classes. Just as has been (tone by the Red Cross in the mlnA 1 lng field, an attempt will be. made to V interest employers, employes and local physicians alike so that first aid to the injured. Instruction will have general support and countenance after the car has visited a place. Though the Red Cross car is primarily designed for in struction purposes, it will also alwrfys be available when needed for rescue work and care of Injured in case of dis aster, as it Is fully equipped for that purpose. It is, perhaps, not generally realized how large a percentage of deaths are now due to accident. In fact. In certain industries deaths from disease are abso lutely insignificant in numbers as. com-, pared with those from aocldent For example, In the registration area which now Includes about 65 per cent of the population of the United States, the 1909 census statistics charge to accident 67.9 per cent of all deaths among steam rail way employes between the ages of 25 . and 34. The next most hazardous occu pation as shown by these statistics Is that of miners and quarrymen taken to gether, in which accidents are respon sible for 61.8 per cent of all deaths at the same ages. Iron and steel workers have 28.1 per cent, and the rSte for all manufacturing and mechanical pursuits taken together at the same ages Is '21.9 per cent These are the people whom the Red Cross is trying to reach in a practical way by means of its first aid car. ' Government Will Aid Oregon. President Kerr of the Oregon Agricul tural college Is assured by the authori ties at Washington that the support of the federal government will be given to the extension of the agricultural experi mental work In the state of Oregon. Letters and telegrams from Samuel For tler, chief of the bureau of irrigation investigation at Washington, and from Dr. Carlton, state that the appropria tions for the work In Oregon will, in all probability, be passed by congress. The plans for the extension have been presented to the board of regents of the college and have been approved byvliem. The assurances that thetederal goVcrn- nt nnnMta In thla work.'leavea the matter ready for presentation to the state legislature. The state will be asked to provide only one half of the cost of maintenance, and the various localities In Vhich the work, will be car ried on have offered to furnish the land, fences, and other equipment Experiment stations are to be estab lished in central Oregon and southern Oregon, and extensive irrigation experi ments will be carried out In the Willam ette valley. The central Oregon sta tion will be concerned principally with experimental work in dry farming. The southern Oregon, station will take up Investigations In horticulture, dairying, vegetable raising, and other branches of agricultural work. The Irrigation ex periments will be carried on throughout j the Willamette valley ror tne purpose oi determining what can be done to In crease the productivity of this section of the state. v The Yaquina fish hatchery now has about . 6,000,000 eggs and the river is full of fish. Many of these fish seem to be just.iu from the old salt, reports te Toledo Leader. The Salesman (Contributed to Tba Journal by Walt Mnaon, tha famoui Kaiuai po.. i-.t proaa-poemi ara a regular faatura of thla column lu 1U Dull Journal). , Today I want to Jlmpson's store t buy a sugar-coated : pill. , This Mry Jlmpson Is a bore, whose tongue out clacks a coffee mill. All sorts of lan guage then he tossed and bandied In his dismal haunt, for he was bound at any cost to sell me things I didn't wan. "I've 'Just received 1 a splendid line of setting hens and spaniel pups, and "safe ty spoons and binding twine, and bone less prunes and' china cups.'! ."I am," I said, "In frenzied haste, so don't de tain me, I Implore." .But Jlmpson grabbed me - round the waist, and dragged me round his dingy store, and showed me divers kinds of Junk, and k filledme with his prices full, and every- thing 1 saw was punk, and I was mad- der than a bull. I bought an'.Old stuffed crocodile,, for which 1 paid ah Iron yen, the which he added to his. pile, and. smiled and said: ' 'Tray, Come again!" I'll go again when plgs have horns, and not before, you bet your hat; my stately form no more adorns a blamed old roh- bersi"TO0H41Ke--hst1" rve always thought, that morehajits make an error when their goods they flaunt, insisting that thlr introns take a. lot of stuff they do not want. , , coprrttbt, mo, Si, V ah1 Jeorgu Uattbow , Adania. LQjJJkl I'M .ff-Oi IM, ' 1 . f