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THB OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, - MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16 1911. THE JOURNAL A!ffRCDEPESDKNT NEWSPAPER. C. 8. JACKSON... ...Publisher Published ery evnlnf (except Sunday) irfwl fifty runun.T morning at im iuui . In, noli and iamhTll itreeta, PortlaoOr Entered t'-fte pontofflee at Portland. Or., for transmlaalon thronga toe siatis necutd-claM TEI.M'HO.VES WJtfatn T173; Home, A-0oJ i . . . v a .... .Kama nttmhpm Tell the operator what department yoo want. FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESEXTATIVE BoBjamln Kentnor Co., Brumwlok Building , KB Fifth awmie. New l'erk; 1218 People'i tin .Building, Chicago. ' Subacrlptton Term by mill or to any afldreM in tne LBltea Males, t anaaa or mcuco; r DAltT. On year $3.00 One month -BO ; - . HUNDAl. On rear... 12.00 t One month I M ' , . DAILY AND SCNDAY. On year.. $7.60 I One month... f .85 -a Burke said there were three estates lii parliament, but" In the Reporter's Gallery yonder, there eat a fourth estate more Import ant far than they all. Carlyle. A!f ABSURD RECOMMENDATION A' CTINO GOVERNOR BOWER- MAN, retired, wants the Ore gon, conservation commission abolished, and his efforts are seconded' by the. Oregonian. In a message read td the legislature while Senator Ben Selling was acting gov ernor, Mr. Bpwerman stated that 5000 a year was being expended on the Orejron commission. He -said: "The state appropriates $500 for each two vears for forest fire pro tection and $5000 for a like period "for the Oregon conservation com mission. Its policy has fre quently been to enter into contro versy between Tactions in the federal government relative to Oregon re sources and the conservation there of. It has performed little If any real service to the state. I would re spectfully recommend " that the conservation commission he abol ished, and the money heretctore ap propriated to it be demoted to some useful purpose." Mr. Bowerman's information was bad. No sum of $5000 was appro priated for the commission. The amount for the two years was $1000 and 'of this Bum but $565 was ex pended. Second, the money was much bet ter expended than in Mr. Bowerman's famous scheme . of putting Dr. Pla tnondon on a salary of $3000 a year two years before his services were required at the Oregon branch asy lum. , The work of the commission and its predecessor has been of in valuable service to the state. It was to the original commission that Is largely due.the enactment of the Ore gon water code. That achievement and the fruit It has borne is evidence of the field therels for a conserva1 tlon commission in the state. . The work accomplished through me, water coae is aione worm tne cost' of a commission for a century, and there remains other fields for similarly fruitful endeavor by the body. It has limited the franchises on water powers to a period of 40 years and at the end of the time re turns the title to the state instead of allowing it to remaliHhe vested right of a private corporation. If there had been an Oregon conservation commission 20 years ago, the Port land Railway, Light & Power com pany would not now claim owner ship of the Willamette Falls and would not be warning farmers along the river to its source that they must not tafce water from the stream for irrigation purposes if by so doing they reduce the flow of water at the falls, ... The trouble with Oregon has been that it did not have conservation commissions long ago. As 'fruit of the first commission's work under the ! water code, seven new Carey projects of irrigation have been in stituted in eastern Oregon. These involve the ultimate reclamation of 420,000 acres of arid land. They in clude the Lower Powder valley, 60, 00 acres, Jordan valley, 60,000, Warner valley, 100,000, the John Day, 150,000, and others. During the last 10 months of 1909 464 applications for permits to ap propriate water were filed with the state engineer at Salem, all under the new water code. The total cost of the proposed projects is estimated at $30,000,000. Oregon should have nothing but thanks for the work of its conserva tion commissions. The work of the present one as well as that of its predecessor has attracted national at tention, and been the subject of frequent encomium, as well as being a model from which other states have copied. Its present endeavor in striving for dry land farming In eastern Oregon, irrigation In the Wil lamette valley, protection of forests from fire, and other activities for bringing the state's resources Into Utilization, Is a splendid activity. And for the past two years, it cost $565". What a different story from Mr. Bowerman's matchless" scheme of hiring a coBtly asylum superintend ent two years before there is nsvlitm! an (hriHE MARVELOUS progress In I the warfare on disease dur- of the encouraging signs of the times... Tho .death rate has been Vraatlr reduced. Some dispsa ha v5 uuiubi, vutuyietviy uuuquerecl and others are in process of con queKt.. Smallpox, once an annual jscourge that killed thousandSjjs cJd6roTaiiCwMaliHa, that"" less than ft century ago rendered a large proportion! of the population miserable, la scarcely more than rate memory; Yellow fever, that has slain its millions, has been banished from countries that have used slm- pie weapons for its destruttlon. Peo - pie are now: armed against the sec - ond greatest foe to life, typhoid, by the discovery that it is often caused, by impure water, bad milk and the house fly. Already typhoid is de creasing. ' , And now that greatest foe of all, tu berculosjs, Is being systematically and scientifically attacked, and one may safely predict that before the end of this century Its victims will be few This result will be partly Jue to the discovery of the skin-test. -By simply rubbing a little tuberculin into the skin, a reddening Is pro duced which informs the physician of the presence of the disease r.t the earliest stage, long before It has be- come infectious to others, and when a cur is easy. imam mortality in particular nas been greatly reduced, and wijl be more so from year to year, as au thorities, philanthropists and par ents realize the Heedlessness of the slaughter of the Innocents." Just now a new disease, infant paralysis, Is baffling the physicians, but It may be expected that it will, ere long, be brought under subjection. Progress will be made steadily, as. education becomes broader and more practical, and scientific investigation probes deeper and in more directions. Certain rich men are greatly aiding this form of progress by large dona tions for the purpose of Investiga tion and experimentation. Results of these benefactions are already be coming apparent, notably in the dis covery of a specific, that is said to do Its work almost instantaneously, with a disease that has caused more misery to the human race than per haps any other. But more and better than discov eries of new medicines Is the grow ing realization of the people that, ns Dr. Woods Hutchinson has said, "the best medicines are neither physic nor prayer, but food, fresh air, sunshine, pure water, and personal cleanliness. Health has become a moral quostlon. Disease is recognized as a symptom of social injustice." A CASE OP REGULATION THE EFFECT of government reg ulation Is evidenced in the an nual report of the New York public service commission. The report shows how vain and foolish Is the professed consternation of those who claim to see peril to investment in public regulation, a consternation occasionally paraded in Oregon. . Under honest and effective public regulation by the New York commis sion, the profits of the traction com panies in the city were $32,000,000 In 1910, against $24,000,000 in 1909, an increase of 25 per cent. With gas at 80 cents, the;roflts of the gas ; and electric companies mounted to $61,000,000, an increase of 17 per cent Instead of being harmed; the business of the public service corporations , was the most profitable In the history of the city. The story of the commission's ef ficacy is told In its refusal to allow unnecessary Issues of securities.. In 42 months, the corporations made ap plication for the Issue of $361,000, 000 additional securities but were only allowed by the commission to issue $82,000,000. By the refusal, the people of New York are saved from having to pay Interest and div idends on an added $279,000,000 of watered stock. Thus, in the reorgan ization of the Third Avenue elevated, reqtiest was made by the corporation to Issue $68,000,000 of added secur ities, but it was refused. Then re quest was made for authority to Is sue $54,000,000, but even this was denied by ,the commission. Public regulation will not harm le gitimate capital. It cannot afford to harm legitimate capital. Capital Is essential to development, and Is not to be assailed, but must be pro tected in all Its legitimate functions. It is capital and capitalists that are crooked which public regulation In terferes with, and it ought to. HE DIDN'T LIKE OREGON A STATE EXCHANGE credits the following Item to the Gar den City (Kansas) Herald: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schaffer have returned from Oregon where they were lured by the advertisements of the country, but he says he would not trade 20 acres of good old Kansas land for a hundred In Oregon. Talking of Insect pests he says there la a dozen out there to one In Kansas and the life of the farmer Is one continual battle to safe his fruit and crops. It would be interesting to learn wbat part of Oregon Mr. Schaffer visited, what the insect pests were, how long he remained, and how much he looked around; and also what Mr. Schaffer's reputation for truth and veracity is in the com munity where he Is known. But the Inquiries need not be pressed. Where there is one Mr. Schaffer there are 100 men and fam ilies who Judge Oregon fairly, ac knowledge its advantages and oppor tunities. There are some insect pests In the state,, as there are in all states, but Oregon Is about hb ffeel from them as any state. But Mr. Schaffer Is welcome to go back, if he feels like It. He Is prob ably in love with the blizzards that sweep, Kansas in the winter and the sizzards that scorch her in the sum merthough Kansas Is a great and mightily productive that. T1- DISAPPOINTMENT AT KLAMATH T 'N THE. FIRST three days of bus-iinnri InfK rmlv nlnr rlrprmils ,wnra'" J placed in thdjiew postal savings; This cheering statement is attrib ba,nk opened at Klamath Falls ) uted la Representative Foster of January 12. The aggregate of the1 Vermont: ' l -believe that within five deposits war $200, and they ranged years the United States will have ne in amount from $1 to $61.' The sec-' gotlated theatles with France, -Great ond largest deposit was' $60, and others were $3, $5 and similar 7 amounts. Not" dollar was with . drawn from either: of the four hanks j that have for several years been do- irig business at Klamath Falls. Surprise is expressed at Klamath that the amount and number of de posits are not larger. It is urged in explanation that no financial flurry has ever penetrated to Klamath Falls and that the old stocking and tinman , deposits there are. extremely small, due to unusual confidence" in the local banks. But, with the extension of the sys tem, there will be heavy and numer ous deposits in the postal savings in stitutions. In older communities than Klamath Falls a larger percent age of money is in hiding. It Is I largely from the hiding places that the postal savings deposits will be recruited. The smaller interest rate paid by the government will permit the private institutions to still re main strong bidders for business, and the less timid will continue as pat rons of the latter. A virtue of the plan will be the bringing of the hidden money into circulation and an appreciable en largement of the volume of circulat ing medium. In England where the system has been in operation since 1861, the number of depositors in creased from- 7.239,761 in 1897 to 10,692,555 in 1907. There Is now due British postal savings bank de positors $787,500,385, or about one half the total deposits in the sav ings banks of New York state. The British postal banks pay 2 per cent interest while the new Amer ican banks pay but two. THE CHAMBER T IS AGREEABLE news to be as sured that the Portland Chamber of Commerce in Its campaigns is to bo more active than ever. It I seems impossible that its splendid usefulness In the past can be in- creased In the future, but such Is the assurance. The public has never fully com prehended all this most excellent or ganization means to Portland and Oregon. What Is everybody's busi ness is nobody's business and that would be the way with most public matters but, for organizations like the Chamber of Commerce. The alertness, the self sacrifice and the public spirit of Its members steps In wherever the public Interests of the city; or the state are at stake, and throws heavy Influence Into the breach with the Inevitable result that there is promotion of the com monwealth where there would other wise be loss. When Interior points sometimes complain of the alleged selfishness of Portland, it Is without a realiza tion of the great work the Chamber of Commerce is doing for the whole state. Its horizon is not local nor narrowed. Its Influence has been felt In behalf of the welfare of al most every considerable district from Washington to California, and from the Pacific, to the Idaho line. The tons of costly literature that for years It has circulated abroad, and that this year It Is issuing In greater volume than ever, Is for the benefit of all Oregon. It is literature paid for by Portland money and prepared and spread broadcast by Portland men for all the state. The Portland chamber is not only stable and influential, but is broadly progressive. It is vigilant in all that makes for advancement, Is ef fective and devoted in everything di rected at the public good and its present purpose of more vigorous campaigning than ever is good news. Eugene is greatly disappointed over the official census, that gives it a population of only 9009, when It thought It had 12,000, or at least more than 10,000. Quite likely there is ground for complaint, for the num ber of school children, of voters, and of directory names, Indicate that the enumeration is 2000 or more short. But most other cities are similarly disappointed, so Eugene has plenty of company. The fact probably Is that while a small proportion of names were missed, or unjustly ex cluded, estimates were too high, and the real number lies between the ex pectation and the official return. The best thing for all of us cities to do now Is to forget the censuB and see how much and how, well we can grow between now and 1920. Representative McLachlan of Cali fornia presented Saturday a state ment of a man named Heldekoper, who declared that the country Is now practically defenseless and , at the mercy of Germany, Japan or any first class power. The Inference is that It Is necessary for the United States to be as thoroughly prepared for Im mediate war as if it were ope of the European nations. But our situation Is very different. It is a wonder some of these alleged statesmen and professors would not want a com pany of soldiers around their dwell ings or lodgings, and a warship in the nearest creek. Is It possible that they can sleep o'nlghts, for fear of I Germany,- Japan or some other power? The site selected for the new post office, everything considered, is prob ably as satisfactory achoice as could have been made. ' Most people would state, for all! have preferred It built on the pres ent site, but there werfe strong and sufficient reasons against this. We will have to get-used, some years hence, to- going down to the North fn'r nor mf.u n 'i Britain and Japan' providing for the submission of ail differences to the permanent, court of arbitral Justice which we expect to estapusn at Tne Hague." This result wou.14 lack a good deal of completeness, but would be a big beginning. Progress toward an agreement among all the great na tions to forego war must be slow, but it will be sure, .,'. ,,'. . Pennsylvania has recovered about $1,600,000 of $5,000,000 or more out of which the 6tale was swindled, In the construction of Its capltol, and has sent several former state officials and contractors to' prison for short terms which is doing very well, for Pennsylvania. Twice in the course of a statement referring to one made by Butler Ames, who is opposing Senator Lodge, Colonel Roosevelt denounces Ames' statement as an "outrageous falsehood." This has a familiar sound. - ' Fish Peddler Makes Protest, Portland, Or,, Jan. 14. To the Editor of the Journal The council In Us anx iety for the well being of the" citizens of Portland has eliminated one set of business men which is a essential to a certain class of people as the banker are to another kind. By forbidding the peddling of fish, the council not only hurts the men who make a living in this way, but inconveniences 90 per cent of the people who buy of them. In spitj of the theories, there are a good many people who neither have telephones, nor If they had them could use them on account of not being ablo to apeak Eng lish. At the price of fish at present, or In the future, fish markets as such are out of the question,' and -as a Bide line for a meat market are not a success. The writer lived In a city of KOOQ In habitants In which a fish market was tried by all kinds of people for 25 years, and which is without one today, because rent, delivery wagons, telephones, etc., prohibit the maintenance of a market. The consequences are ttiat instead of at least 24 flsheifnan coming there to de-j liver fish and buy their provisions, they ship to Seattle, and the butchers get a supply from there when it is cheap, while as a peddler I made jfood money to support niy family. With all respect for a city council and Its action, when it commences to Injure trade, and buyers es vell as sel lers, without doing a aingle, solitary person benefit, it lacks common sense. A city to be a city must foster every legitimate way of making., a living. Plato's republio is good on paper, but does not work out in reality. A butcher living out In the country came In here this week, ordered a bill of fish, paid for a license, and when told that his llcenso would run out in March withdrew his order, revoked his demand for a license and the people of his town have to be deprived of fish whether they like it or not, as peddling Is also pro hibited. Please order fish dealers out of business in Oregon 'anil send them to Seattle because the people of that city have an idea that business Is a necessity for a city. Before the councilmen pass an ordinance I would suggest to thera to send a committee St three to some of the parties Interested, and see w-hat is the. object of the petitioner. Here is a case: The dealers in Seattle desired to kill a competitor in another city who ould get crabs during the Portland fair, and so had a law passed closing" the season on the sound for three months. The competitors came to Oregon, went to the coast of Oregon, supplied men with boats, nets, bait, etc., and furnished Just about all the crabs that were sold during the fair in Port land. How much did Seattle or the state of Washington lose? Oregon made at lea.it $10,000 a year by a law passed by misinformed councllnien of Seattle. Fair play for all men with favors to wards none. R. Gil, ROY. Better Roads Needed. Tacolt, Wash., Jan. 12. To the Kditor of The Journal Now that the legisla ture is in session, t think there Is no more vital question nor one that con cerns the Interests of the country and state more tnan the road question, we have here in Clarke county, as well ae some other counties near Portland. thousands of acrei of land that are Idle for the want of, roads. I don t think there has ever been anything raised on It except umbrellas and taxes. Every acre lying idle for want of roads is a loss to the county, state and Indi vidual. Thousands of dollars ore spent annually to advertise this country, hut nothing for roads. I am amazed at the backward appearance of everything here, compared with other less favored localities which attained fame -for their fruit. Now take fruit raising, for In stance, as many people know we could excel In most all varieties of fruit. Wo must have roads as well as markets. Scientific fruit raising la not only edu cational but it Is historical. Adsm was considerable of an orchardist himself. When the first fruit convention w:t held in the garden of Eden I think it was Adam who carried off most of the prizes. He seemed to manage the busi ness without any aid from fruit inspect ors, too. ' Now, in view of these facts, it seems to me we have either too much disoua slon and not enough work, or else to-1 much work and not enough discussion. E. J. EOYLR. Woman Suffrage Important. The industrial era for all the ill we say of it, we must say this great good, that it has1 made possible and inevitable the physical, and social, and moral, and intellectual liberation of women. The simplification of home life through in vention and manufacture, the growth of large cities with their popular educa tion, and above all the division of labor, have given her a free place in the active world. This fact is the distinctive fea ture of these ages. To a distant and universal historian historian who writes the lives of the people that change in the position of women will appear, not only the most striking, but the most excellent achievement of ours. For we Will never evolve a heroic race of people on the earth until we give them -a twofold inheritance and tradition of active, intelligent virtue. That we have begun .to do. And no act at the present time can more urge and certify this great step in the history of life than to give it a political expression and guarantee. Citizenship will rouse and educate women, it will develop our ideal of them; therefore, it is a dom inant necessity of advancing civiUratlon that they have ft. Max Eastman In North Amerloan vlleview, - A Century 6f Peace. !. From the World's Work. : The -celebration of anniversaries of battle is eommon, We havev always kepUcnarV'a ,pf wars, lblsjearJ ror exanpie. we fu.hu: ooserve the seml CMitenary Kif Fort Burner. -But it is a new Idea that we should observe a cen tenary of peaets One hundred years ago, come December 24, 1914, we made with" Oreat Britain a treaty which we have kept inviolate iever sine. .lt will Letters From tlie People COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE ' First killing of the wheatcrop. . , , , : Nearly time to predict a flood. ' -wt; ,; .. 'U ' Dr. Plamondorj will have to wait a while, at least. Another holiday Is proposed. There re quite enough now. - -. ? ( , ',?.'... i. V;'t Vs."' '.'''? Another - prominent man has told an "outrageous falsehood." H.is t:J : .",.:,:. -''- ''::.V."i It was only a short mild spell of the eastern style of winter. Postal savings banks should multiply soon, The people need them. The plumbers brightened up a -little but. Jack Frost did them little good. While everything else has gone up, human life is about as cheap as ever. Rats on women's heads are to go, but something worse, if possible, is prob able. - .' '-. . .... ' . ". . . .'. .... .' Now come the senatorial deadlocks. If the people elected directly there would be none of them. , The indications are that .President Taft will not have William J. Bryan ior an opponent in lsiz. Peary gets , the official honors and retirement on a bi salary- but Cook made considerable money v If Lo rimer is turned out. there isn't likely to be any more buying of seats In the senate for a while. Nnw th . ltilature aliould Ket through with its factional fights speed ily, and settle down to business. t The Texas leeislature may Investigate to determine how it was that one Re publican was elected to that body. There are bitterly opposing factions among the woman suffragists also. 'i ney are mucn like men wncn u comes to politics. There is a great amount of kold to be dug Jn Alaska, no doubt, but it Is but n. yjnrn rumpttruu will! ine uiu iu wo got irom Oregon sou. '. "If you are nervous; Just slop 'talk ing," adviser an Italian hefva MpeolHt ist. But most people troubled with nervousness are women. . The weather bureau says the recent cold spell came down from Aluska, but it didn't bring. down any of that Alaska coal, or gold, either, with It. The Sunken Gardens at Pasadena is to have a flock of storks. But this may not result In any Increase In the birth rate of that city and vicinity. The manager of K M. Shepherd's senatorial campaign in New York Is named t), A. Boodle. But nobody as serts that Shepherd or he is ft hoodier. , The coloit.el has been heard from again sufficiently to denounce Butler Ames of Massachusetts as an out rageous liar. The colonel is still him self. frrank Klernan boasts that he has the city In a hole, and can keep it there a Jong time yet, and he seems to be right. This situation Is scarcely less creditable to our judicial system than to Klernan. That rain is worth millions of money to the ranchers of southern California. The good Lord never forgets his own. Los Angeles Times. " No, he always sends sufficient and timely rains to Oregon, while southern California dries up some years. tip at Fielding, Mont, where a pas senger train was snow stalled for four days, the thermometer went down to 68 degrees below zero. The passenjrers were well cared for and (lid not snCfor much, but they would rather have been in Portland. SEVEN FAMOUS OUTLAWS Claude Claude Duval Is another one of the famous highwaymen of song andtstory, whose romantic life has kept his mem ory alive, and whose fame rests hardly less on his gallantry to ladles than on his daring robberies. It Is related of him, Jor Instance, among many similar exploits, that upon one occasion he stopped a coach in which a gentleman and his wife were traveling, with $2000 in cash. The lady, with great presence of mind, began to play oil a flageolet, whereupon she was asked by Duval to dance with him on the roadside turf. Ills -request 'was granted, and while a coranta was solemnly executed, the hus band looked on. Duval then asked the latter to pay for his entertainment, and taking only one fourth of the money, allowed the coach to pass on Its way. His gallantry, notwithstanding, the name of Duval soon beeame a terror to travelers, and large rewards were offered for his capture. Bo hot became the pursuit that ha was compelled to free to France, He only remained away for a short time, and upon his return he was arraigned at the Old Bailey, and being found guilty, he was condemned to death. His prowess, however, had won for him some close Interest among the fair sex, and It is said that many great la dies interceded for his life. But the kind had expressly excluded him from all hopes of pardon, and he was executed bo a good day to mark, the Christmas eve of 1914 the hundredth anniversary of the treaty of Ghent. (This century long peace has not been due merely to lack of occasion to quar rel. There was the Texas question; there was the Oregon boundary and later the Alaskan boundary question; there was the Trent affair, 'and up to this very year the provoking Newfound land fisheries qifestion. Our frontier marches with that of British territory for a distance about equal to the earth's thickness, and as hardy and ad venturous a people as live dwell on either side of the boundary line. It is a memorable object lesson of the possi bility of permanent peace which we shall give the world In the celebration of 1914. American Money In Mexico. From the Mexico Record. Statistics of the state department of the Republic of Mexloo show that nearly a billion dollars of American capital alone is invested south of the Rio Grande. ,T0 be exact, the American in vestment represents $925,000,000 United States currency. These dollars, with other foreign 'cap ital, are working an - industrial and commercial transformation that, is not confined to any particular locality or state, but extends through the whole length and breadth of the land of the Aztecs. ' '.'- In many big1 enterprises American, German and British capital are working side by , side, and. Mexican. capital Is freely Intermingled with . American money in tne operation or mines, man- factaftng-mnT3rT8TrroadflBti(rf)thelt kinds of projects whivh are doing so much toward the development and up building of the'eountry. i American capital Is invested, In the $20,000,000 Iron and steel plant at Mon terey; in coal mines, in sugar factories, NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS. Thief stole some blanket from the city jau in Eugene. - - Real estate sales are quite numer ous around Newberg. Scappoose dairymen ' avoid if- buying millfeed by 'raising kale. 1 ' i . Lane county ducks are' becoming wise; will not fly near the blinds. Big ranch near Caynonvlllo, Douglas county, has been divided into five farms. , , ' The outlook' now is that Falls City will experience the biggest building season since the town started.; r ' . - 'j A chicken plant will be Installed at Myrtle Creek consisting of a Wyan dotte rooster, ' several dozen " thorough bred eggs, an Incubator and a brooder, , . At Eola Thomas W. Brunk, R. Brunk and O. T, Brunk commemorated the anniversary of a New Year's dinner which they hd attended Si years previ ous. - t ... v k... .,..:. , .,... The new year will usher in an era of building activities that will place Forest Grove in the first rank among Oregon cities, as a progressive ' and growing community, says the News. ' Though Weston lost Its normal school its postofflce receipts for December were the largest in volume for any single month sJnce the postofflce was esiaousnea more man iu years ago. Grass- Valley Journal: We j think there would km less pilfering going on in M.oro if certain parties were made to go to work to earn a living. One1 party tost a half-hog. another two sacks' of flour, with complaints still coming In. ' . Everything now indicates that Union will see one of the best years in its history in 1911. The erection of a $50,000 high school building, and the installation of a new lighting and water plant are features that will con tribute largely to the advancement of the city, reports the Republican.. Katactula Progress: There are about 400 men now employed at the River Mill power site. The work Is progress ing very favorably. There are about 18 families who live in temporarily constructed" house and canvas tents. ,Thls with the' offices, warerooms and workshops of the construction company gives the locality a cltyfied appearance. ' The Nehalcm, while one of the most fertile has been one of the most Isolated sections of Oregon. Now, however, an excellent public highway on almost a water level grade Is being built through It, also a telephone line, and It will not be long before every ection of Clat sop county will have not only its per manently improved roads but its tele phone lines as woll. ' i . Pallas Itemler: About a year ago J, M. Brlggs purchased for L60.a poor sow that he thought he would take home and fatten up for their winter's bacon. It was not long until she pre sented him with a litter of pigs, and has since that repeated the dose. .The increase he has disposed of at various limes for a total sum of $230, and it has cost him not to exceed $10 for hor keep, she living on acorns and such except when having her young to feed, when shorts were added to the swill fed. Medford Mall Tribune: The present cold snap end snowstorm Is worth hun dreds of thousands of dollars to the Rogue Rlvi'r valley. Not only dons the heavy srhowfa!! in the mountains insure ample Wftter for placer mining, but it means a good flow of water during the coming season In streams. Apple grow ers have been -praying for cold weather, claiming the records of years show that a fancy apple crop only follows a cold winter and hat frost Is neces sary to drive the sap Into-the soli to Insure flavor and keeping qualities to the apple. . Duval. on January 21, 1670, when he was 37 years of age After his body was cut down It was laid In state at the Tangier Tavern. St. Giles', where It was visited by great crowds of all ranks, amid such unseem ly demonstrations that the Judge com pelled the exhibition to stop. Upon his tombstone In Covent Onrden church was engraved the following: "Here lies Duvat:x Reader, If male thou art, Lood to thy purse; if female, to thy heart." There is no doubt, in spite of the many fictitious stories that have been buy it. printed about the -enchman, that he : He started to build a big grain ele wr..,, rmrtidiinriv Hiicr-PBsf 11I in wlhnlne I vator and to ImpTove the track. A few the favor of women. Otis sneers at the "divers great personages of the femi nine sex that on their knees make sup plication for that insipid highwayman," adding, "it is true he was a man of sin gular parts and learning, only he could neither read nor write." The same characteristics of Duval are also dwelt on strength by Samuel But ler iu th satiric glorification of the highwayman, which he called a Pindaric Ode "To the Happy Memory of the Most Renowned Duval." The only full ac count of his life and adventures was published immediately after his execu tion, and ascribed ;to the pen of William Pope. Tomorrow "Rob Roy." in flour mills, in breweries, In OIL and Americans have taken the lead In the development o the guayule rubber in dustry nd the exploitation of the fiber plants, such as henequen and zapupe. ' Americans run for the government its railways. American stores are eommon sights in every city. There is a great army of American employes in Mexico. American investors In some of the cities own the public utility plants and sys tems, American contractors have constructed many of the larger buildings and find Mexico a, profitable field, putting up in the larger cities' modern steel frame structures, which, have taken the place of the ancient adobe type of buildings. Tolstoy and His Daughter at Work. Jane Addams, in her account In the January McClure's of "A Visit-to Tol stoy," tells how Tolstoy , pnt Into prac tice his belief In "bread labor" ana. the personal effort: 1 - "At the long: dinner table, laid In the garden, were 'the various traveling guests, the grown up daughters and the younger .children with their 'gov erness. The countess presided over the usual European, dinner, ..served by men; but the count - and. the daughter who had worked all day in the fields ate only porridge and black bread, and drank ' only kvass, yrtr fare of the hay making peasants. Of course, we are all 'accustomed to the fact that those who perform the heaviest labor eat the coarsest and simplest fare at the end of the day; but 'it ta not often that we sit at the same table with them, while va niirswH-eji ' pnt thn rnnrn; elttlmt-nta food preparidTiy soine"one".efse's iabor.TnB!'nff?,9flr',iT&e't1n ' an Tolstoy ate his simple supper without remark or, comment upon the food his family -and guests preferred to eat,, as. sumlng that they, as well as he, had TANGLEFOOT By MH OvcrUt . CULLING THE FRUIT. 'Twas years ago down on the farm,. Wjr - uncle said to me: "My son, don't be a false alarm and ' never climb a tree." ' , Now, we were inhe cellar picking over winter f ruT?; , For m- uncle's quite a feller, and he's mighty .hard to suit. So I pared the rotten apples, fearing he would watch my work, . And I said: "To take a nap'll never do; " I mustn't shirk." - Then is when he saw my stuntlet, and - he knocked off work awhile. And he said, "Now. little runtlet," with a knowing, winning, smile: ' "Pass up the bad ones; throw 'em away Take just the best that you get every day. ; If you can't have the best, have the . best that you can; When you're dead you're a corpse rbut live like a man." I watched my uncle's actions and his doings day-by-day, . ' ' And he afways dodged the fractions, and lie uiittw. itiw worm away. There wasn't any worst for him, th best was none loo good, Although his pocketbook was slim, I think he understood That life Is short at any rate, and all we know is this: No matter what may be ofir gait, we're always shy on bliss. And we must build our Joys ourselves, let others take the woe; And when we're laid upon our shelves, we're satisfied to go. So pass up tho bad ones; throw 'em away; Take just tho best 'that you get every day; If you can't have the best, have the oesi inai you 'can, When you're dead you're a corpse, go live like a man. Tho Late Senator ElkliiK. From the Philadelphia Telegraph. The passing of Senator Stephen B. Elklns, of West Virginia, deprives the Old Guurd Republicans of one of their most conspicuous champions, and it reduces the Republican majorty In the senate by two. - Stephen B. Elklns was a remarkable man, a born fighter and frankly favor able to the domination of wealth. Go ing farther west from Missouri in hhi early manhood he made a fortune in Star Route mall contracts and rep resented New Mexico as territorial dele gate in congress. Marrying a daughter of Henry Qassaway Davis, of West Virginia, he migrated to that state, where' he became his father-in-law's po litical opponent. He became secretary 6f .war under Harrison. In time ho went to trie senate, where his audacity, his unequivocal support of special interests and his wealth made him a thiost potential factor. And ond thing may be said to his credit. He was no demagogue. He did not "trim" for popular favor or apologize for any official act of his life. He was a reactionary, and was proud of It. The wealth of the country, he assumed, should control it, and he never for a moment deviated from this principle. In private life Mr. Elklns was a Jovial, magnetic personality, a man who made and held friends in all parties, a delightful companion and raconteur. How Harrlman Got First Railway. From "Masters of Capital In America,'' in McClure's. , One morning In the early '80's, Harrl man walked Into his office, and, with out any previous warning, announced the purchase of his first railroad. , "Where'd yon get the money for Itt" asked his partners. - ''Never mind, I got it," said Harrlman. The road was the Sodus Bay & South ern, running from Lake Ontario to Stanley, N. Y. It was 84 ,mlles long, and owned two crippled locomotives, two passenger cars, and seveh freight cars. "It Isn't even a real good streak of rust," said a man who looked over It for him. Harrlman pulled out his maphe was studying railroad maps even then. "It's got the bent harbor on the lake,' rie saia. me rvimivn,B gut iu months later he disappeared from his office for several days, and returned, with a check for $200,000. He had sold his road to the Pennsylvania railroad. "They had to have It," he said. 'They saw It as soon as I showed It to them. "But I saw it 'first," he added. Mining for Wood. From the London Globe. A curious source of wealth Is reported by the French consul at Mongze, in up per Tonkin. It lies in wood mines. The wood originally was a pine forest, which the earth swallowed in some cataclysm Some of the treea f.re a yard in diame ter. They lie in a slanting direction and in sandy soils, which cover them to a depth of about eight yards. As the top branches are well preserved, It Is thought the geological convulsion which" burled them cannot be -ot very great an tiquity. The wood furnished by these timber mines is imperishable. Apples that would compare well with the Hood River product were raised Hear lone. Morrow county. Tlie Housewife's Song (Onntrlhnted to The Journal by, -Walt Mason, the fflmoua Kanua poet. HU troen pwma are a regular feature of this eolnmii in The Dally Journal). i The housewife sang as' she did her chores, and the music floated around otitdpors. ler voice was far from1 ths Melba class; it would drill a hole through a pane of glass; thfe ' words were fierce and the tune was worse, and she shrieked at the end of every verse, The Judge was passing along that way, as he rode to court on his knee'-sprung bay, and he shook . his head and Ire heaved a sigh; and 'wiped a tear from his good left eye. "When a housewtfe sings, as she works," he said, "then a blessing rests on ber faithful head; for, her husband's kind and her children good, and peace Il lumines her 1 neighborhood. For wives don't sing If their hearts are sore. If sorrow stands in the cottage door." Then the Jurist , thought of bis dwell ing grand, with pomp and rlch'ps on every hand; of the jaded women who languished 'there, and, filled with grumblings the perfumed air. They did .no work and they sang no songs, but wearied him with their social other slSh. an.d wiped a tear from his. jfiruu iiKiii yre. xitQa flJB Old hOrSB siuuiuiou uuu ibji uuwn nat. anil ; na t00 a hea3a Bpolled his hat