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THE OREGON ' DAILY JOURNAL, .PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1911. i X' t ji 1 .1 THE JOURNAL . A WDEPBSDEXT XEWSPAPltR. C-aVlACKaOS PuMltP fiiwwrni errf ermine Wty Rnndar nwrninf at The Journal limia ing, fifth nd Yamhill atrMts, Portland. Or. r - --- 'Entered at the Boatoffle U Portland. Or", for tranamiaaloa through th mails aa aeeood-claaa Hatter. TELEPHONES Mala -TITS; Hnnie. A-006i. , All departroenta reai-hw! If theaa nnmtwrt. . TU tha operator, what dftwrtment yott wut anDpfnv i nitvDTiai Vil PFPRKSEXTATIVE. Bcniamia a Kenrnor Co.. Bninswirn Bniwiin. S23 Fifth-awnue. Nw York; 121 People a G Building, Cblcaito. SubaoHptloo Trrma dt mail or ro n addrwa la the Uultad Sutaa, Canada or Ueilco: DAILY. One rear (5 00 I One month..... ...I .60 SUNDAY. One 7ar fl.50 1 One month 1 .18 DAILY AND SUNDAY. One year $7.80,1 On month $ 5 B- The whole duty of man 1 em braced In tin two principles of abstinence nnj patience; temper ance In prosperity, and patient courage In adversity. Seneca. .B- A TIMELY MESSAGE T HE SPECIAL message of Gover nor West with reference to rnei dairy and food commissioner's office is timely. There ought to be a correction of conditions In that establishment. It 13 not. an la sue of Mr. Bailey, but of Oregon. A public office is not a private i . enap. No example ought to stand in this state In which a public office is ' conducted as a private snap. In any office In which such practices appear, correctives should be applied and conditions be changed. Such is the , meaning of the governor's message. In the case of the dairy and food commissioner, his deputies resigned, charging misapplication of public funds, by their chief. Tlielr state aents are specific There is no way to misunderstand what they mean. There is not a solitary reason for im pugning their motives. The fact that they voluntarily surrendered their positions and their salaries rather - than be parties to current practices in the office Is a perfect guarantee of their good faith. -The public wants effective service and honest service in the dairy and food commissioner's office. It cares nothing aboutv whether Mr. Bailey goes out or remains so long as the office is doing the work set apart i for It to do. Mr. Bailay Is a mere episode beBide the greater issue of making the position he occupies an effective agent for good In the af fairs of the state. The .office was established to pro- mote the dairy Industry and to pro tect the public against adulterated and unwholesome foods.' Is there a man In Oergon who believes the of fice has been conducted in that be half? Is there a man in Oregon who believes that the office Iirs met a J elhgle one of the responsibilities con . flded to it by the state?" If so, why did the deputies in the office resign? What do they assign as a reason for their resignations? The public demands a fair and im partial investigation of . the office. That is what Mr. Bailey himself ought to demand. Is public office In Oregon a private snap or a public trust? EXPERT ROAD BUILDING JI 'HE OPPOSITION being devel- oped in the house at Salem against the highway commis sioner proposed by the Good Roads association bill falls to take account of the experience gained in j other countries in centuries of good road building. - The two European countries that I - have by far the best roads, and the - nest systems or building them and -. caring for them are France and Nor way. In France all roads are built by trained engineers of the govern - went department of Ponts et Chaus- sees (roads and bridges). In Nor way also road building 13 carried on by engineers of the same grade and qualifications as railroad civil ! engineers. In both theso countries i road building is treated as a science. The people would as soon think of omitting to have wagon roads prop erly laid out, with curves and grades defined and adhered to, and con Btruction carefully supervised, as they would of going on to build rail roads without the same provisions. Our need in Oregon is not less but greater than In those older coun tries for roads scientifically planned and built. THE WHEAT OF THE WORLD T HE INTERNATIONAL Institute of Agriculture la coustituted of 47 nations and has headquar ters In Rome, Italy, where the delegates meet. Its functions are to collect from and through the several governments crop statistics from each country, month by month. The ; total acreago of ach, year's crop is recorded with compariFons from pre vious periods, and tho total yield and also the yield per a-re for e,ich of ' the countries reporting is published. 1 Theee figures are tabulated each 'month, and a Crop reporter, other wise called a bulletin of agricultural statistics, is Issued monthly. r..Ll Z a ' Kal"nw Trade outgrew those narrow limits. Grange Of America passed re.?olu-Tho community took up the work StSvl ? Ttr0DK. tPnns thei"" "ie after another' public docks Its scientific Investigations and !r stage was reached when sailing ships valuable publications promiso to Put,and clippers gave place to the great a stop at no olstant day to all dls-l world -traversing steamship lines, ;-Mtrou8t and -demoralizing specula-land the public docks had to keep tion In agricultural products. We raQk with these developments. Now urge our uwrt government to that ! the giants of the ocean are demand 'oniiplcuOus support. of its activities, ling dockage and wharfage. The port w.v vt . mo Ki wi oi agn- publications i , cultural nations. nl w ra mnWi ....... - iiWVror they-were-etarvhig. Herr frasbafia 'i !SrSf? ' earns $8 a week, out of which ho . ; ine wiae spreaa or us regular uul-i No quarter of this world is exerrmt 1 muni nnv tl tn fnlt ' f Intine end nrlni.a among the. farmers of the United States.,,v . a. . 11 . ! " The Canadian department, of ag rlculture has already undertaken to publish this information freely among Canadian farmers. ; 7 , Th increasing support given to this institute Is seen In the facts that In Its first bulletin, Issued In July. 1910, six countries were rep resented; In August, 11; In Septem ber, 14; In October, 22, and In No veraber, 23. Today, it 13 said, all i the treat wheat producing countries . . .nlfl,nw with -roasnnnhl.i " exactness, how they stand as to pos sibilities of export and Import. Thus the speculator, the organiser of cor ners, is deprived of his chief weapon j since knowledge of actual condi tions is being spread: broadcast. The figures as to wheat aro of spe cial interest to Oregon. In the 47 wheat producing countries of the northern hemisphere the acreage in wheat In 1910 is returned at 222, 284,407. -The total production Is placed at 3,165,864,329 bushels. Of these enormous figures the United States is credited with 48,787,226 arres 'and their, production at 691,- ! 573.R3R bushels. The average of the northern hem isphere Is, therefore, 14.2424 bush els per acre. The average of the United States Is 14.1753 per acre. The king of Italy has een .from the first the chief supporter, if not the first moving force, that brought this international institute' into being. lie is a thorough and prac tical agriculturist by general report. A THIRTY FOOT CHANNEL A' S IT PASSED the senate, the rivers and harbors bill carried an appropriation of $520,000 more for the lower Columbia and Willamette than when It passed the house. The added Items are $200,000 in cash and an authoriza tion for the expenditure of an ad ditional $320,000 for two dredges to be employed In maintaining a 30 foot channel from Portland to the sea. Neither item was f,n the rivers and harbors bill when it came, from the house. Shall we now be told that Hawley and Ellis did it. and that the 6regon senators did nothing? It recalls the Willamette locks ap propriation of $300,000 which did not appear In the appropriation bill when It came from the house, but was added In -the senate and then agreed to by the house. It is now regarded as certain that the house will agree to the added $520,000 secured by the Oregon sen ators In aid of a 30 foot channel from Portland to the sea. The pro vision is so meritorious that the house will, hardly reject It. It has the indorsement of the engineers, and the sanction of Bound national policy.' The present action Is of Immense value In that by it the 30 foot chan nel to the sea Is officially recog nized by congress as an authorized project. So recognized it becomes at once and for all time the subject of a settled policy and appropriations will without challenge be provided to keep the improvement moving until there Is a final completion of the plan. This fact makes the late action in the senate an event of first rank importance to the state. The last analysis of economic ocean transportation is the vessel of large tonnage. It is the vessel of this type that will come Into large vogue when the Panama canal opens to commerce. Portland's efficiency as a port will be almost infinitely furthered by a channel that makes It accessible to the biggest ship of any nation, and eminent service in this behalf has been rendered by the senate's late action MORE FREE DOCKS FOR LONDON A NNOUNCEMENT IS made that the port authorities of the an cient city of London will begin at once to spend sums totaling $70,000,000 on improving the docks and harbor facilities, and that the works will take 20 years to complete. The first object Is to deepen to 30 feet the channel of the Thames from the city to the ocean, and to widen that channel to 1000 feet. The avowed purpose is to "prevent Lon don from succumbing to the compe tition of other British and of foreign porta." Now, for the outline of the project three new public docks at Tilbury, opposite Gravesend are to be exca vated. The sizes are to be 65, 128 and 138 acres. Also existing docks are to be enlarged and deepened and the entrances widened. New rail road lines are to bring the ,docks with in easy communication with all parts A passenger stage, like Prina i.ndi efo tw pool, is to be constructed. fh,,B freight and passenger traffio will be amply provided for. Jn the old east as well as in the new west there Is no stopping place In the wonderful growth of com merce in this century, The same methods are In use the world over. In the memory of living men the ships that mado London the biggest and richest port in the world found that fallB to respond falls to the rear. j from this necessity. Big docks, free docks, 'cheap docks, docks reached by abundant railroads, these are the conditions 1 on - which commerce thrives and cities grow. -There is no exemption In this war. Portland has shown her purpose by taking the initial step and It Is the first step that counts. THE INCOME. TAX AMENDMENT 0' NE -RESULT of the political up heaval last year is an Increased prospect of the ratification by the requisite number of 6tatos of the income tax amendtaent Last week the North Carolina senate rat ified the amendment by a vote of 42 to 1, and it Is certain to pass the house. Ohio, that last year rejected the amendment, ratified it this year by an almost unanimous vote. New York may yet reverse its last year's record, when the amendment was re jected by a very narrow margin. Vermont went against the amend ment, but favorable action is expectr ed In Maine, where the legislature is Democratic, and in New Hampshire, where the new progressive governor, Bass, Is strongly in favor of it. The prospect in Massachusetts Is not bright. The waning power of standpatism, as evidenced in the late -election, is the most favorable sign that the necessary 34 states may ratify the amendment. This, with the reversal of former adverse verdicts In several states leads to the belief that the tax ation of Incomes may yet be realized under the federal system. HEAD MEXICAN INSUIIRECTO F' RANCISCO I. MADERO as head of the Mexican revolutionists presents a peculiar spectacle. He is a millionaire many times over, a.:mernber of one of the lead ing families of the country, has re ceived a liberal education ln foreign countries and is noted for philan thropic works. He could have been a governor, but would never actiept office, and has held himself strictly aloof from politics. He is a man of mature age and conservative habits, yet ln this matter he has taken a step that, unless the revolutionists win, means confiscation of his vast property, estrangement from life long friends, persecution of his fam ily and relatives and banishment. imprisonment or execution for him self. And it is said that many other Mexicans of wealth, respectability and more or less distinction are either openly or Becretly giving aid and comfort to the, revolutionists. Credence attaches to this report bo cause It seems Impossible for Diaz, with all his vast and arbitrary power, to put the insurrection down without inviting opposition from various sources. WANING MAN A NATIONAL BANK in New York state has made a woman its cashier. She had been but three years ln the institution, and when the directors looked over the available material for a successor to the late cashier, the . woman was chosen unanimously. Twenty-two thousand women have registered for the recall election at Seattle. With a moral question in volved, women are expected to be a large factor in determining the con test. It is to them that the opposing candidate is making his strongest ap peal. At Tacoma the other day, a Jury of six women heard an assault case in which an 18 year old boy was de fendant They listened attentively through the tedious processes of the trial, and liberated the boy within 15 minutes after they got the issues into their hands. Man has been running things on this planet for a long time, but he is less majestic In his sovereignly than he was before careers began opening up to lovely woman. The Isthmian canal commission calls attention to the increase ln traffic oyer the Panama railroad 6lnce the establishment of the Cali fornia & Atlantic steamship line. The increase in tonage over the road for the month of November over the same month in 1909 was about 14, 000 tons. It is claimed that the im proved steamship service has re sulted in some instances ln trans porting freight more rapidly by the Panama railroad than by the rail roads across the continent. The time of transit is from 20 to 30 days. Facts about the plague ln China are horrifying, and seem anachro nous, since ln most countries such wholesale slaughter would be Impos sible. The "awakening" and pro gress of China, of which much has beon said, have not as yet been suf ficient to arm Its people with the knowledge and other weapons neces sary to the prevention or quick sup pression of the plague, and its vic tims will be legion. But even China, it may be presumed, will before many years be prepared to resist suc cessfully this terrible black scourge. The Vermont legislature will ap parently pass a law 'providing that a jury in a first degree murder case may add the words, "with capital punishment." Otherwise the death penalty will not be imposed. Under the federal criminal codo the provis ion Is reversed; unless a verdict of guilty adds the worts, "but without capital punishment," the person con victed of a capital offense must bo executed. A woman ln ,New York City witb. a baby stole. two cheap articles of Jew elry from a neighbor to buy food, a $10 a month rent Though she 1 ' - ; - . .... ... ' 1. .. . I . pleaded guilty, . the , judge released her: This family may not be able to ' agree that the tlmes; are very pros perous. . Increasing the allowance of the state board of. health Is a case of wise expenditure. Disease is costly, not only,. to those . Immediately af fected but to the public. . Nothing is more important to the whole people than good health, and Intelligent warfare against disease. This money, well expended, will be one "of ' the state's best Investments. ... "j . Letters From tlie Peopls Would Regulate Gear" of Autos. Portland, Or., Jan. 81. To the Editor of The Journal. While all theso good roads bills are belne introduced and the discussion relative to them going , on, will you kindly allow a suggestion In your valuable paper along a Una so far apparently overlooked; at least nothing has been publicly said about it It 4s this: Let soma sincere good roads ad vocate offer a' bill or aVn amendment to one of the good roads bills providing that it shall be a misdemeanor, punish able by a heavy fine and by imprison ment for the ; second offense,' for any one to be found In possession of an auto mobile on any public highway Within the state, geared so it could run more than 20 miles an hour. The reasons for this are obvious and may bo stated in the order of -their Im portance, as apparently viewed by the average taxpayer. First It would save thn roads. This trgument must appeal even to ths auto mobile enthusiasts themsleves, for they are all good roads' advocates, and each is earnest and honest in his belief that It Is to the advantage of every farmer j and taxpayer to l&x himself to provide roads for the Joyrider. It Is well known that as the speed of an automobile, is increased its destructlblltty of roads in creases with an ever Increasing ratio, and this being so, they wauld be saving th roads against themselves and keep ing down the repair bills and taxes i accordingly. But in addition to this may be of fered the old fashioned argument that It would very greatly decrease ths dan ger to human life and limb, besides the danger to horses and vehicles. . It Is still true that there are some horses and vehicles in Oregon that represent a con siderable outlay of money. They still traverse the public hlghways--at least thoso not frequented by automobiles. Good highways, like the Base Line road. are reserved for the autos, and when they can't find farmers' families or driving horses to run down, they smash Into each other occasionally. And, as the suggested law might save the prop. erty as well as life of an autolst. It ought really to have some weight with them. It might be suggested that a law merely prohibiting greater speed than 20 mile an hour would be sufficient, but a moment's consideration shows this to be a mistake. We have stringent laws In the cities requiring slow time and slow turning of corners,, when there are scores of law officers to enforce them, but they are not enforced. Sel dom Is an arrest mado. and when one Is, "Influence" is brought to bear. Can a single Instance, be pointed out where an autolst has been convicted for ruth lessly running down even a child? Of all the harrowing "accidents" of this nqtrure ln Portland and other coast cities, not once has the guilty perpetra tor been meted out full Justice. If any other practice with less business and less paid advertising back of It paused the same loss of llfs and property by pure recklessness. It would be driven from tlie state; but the god of mammon cares not for human life, and auto sales must go on. The few children killed and grown people maimed or murdered are soon forgotten. It Is no use to say either that such a law could not be lnforoed or that It Is not possible. If autolsts want to speed they should provide race tracks, as horsemen do. (They even want their professional races- on the publlo high ways.) Then provision could be made for a machine going to or from a race track under a high gear, but otherwise it should not be allowed. Twenty miles an hour is fast enough for even excep tional cases. An auto at that speed would reach Astoria from Portland as quickly, as the railroad train. And so I say once more, If the autolsts are honest and sincere ln their desire for good roads they will have some of their friends ln the legislature introduce the suggestion here made and show to the people their desire for conservation of the roads when built and their willing ness to share them with the rest of the public , H. A. The State Board of Health. Portland, Feb. l.--To the Editor of The Journal In your Issue of January 81, the board of health Is reported as saying that it "can't protect public health with only $5000 a year to spend." $5000 for the great state of Oregon to devote to the physical welfare of its people for 12 months! A pitiful sum to allow its board of health. And no salaries paid! No wonder typhoid1 flourishes at the state capltol. and ravages the univer sity town, and that the peotile are Ig norant of the simplest methods of fight ing tuberculosis. No wonder the president thinks he will haste to resign. I should think he wouldV and the rest of the board with him. Meanwhile, thousands of dollars are being used to boon the country. It Would seem as though these enthusias tic Oregonlans who are putting up so much money to get people to come; to Oregon, would have pride about these newcomors staying after they got here.. What will UA broad acres and growing towns be ,to them with conditions ini mical to health. For, "what doth It profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his" health? . Anothejr item i the state might with credit to itself iook into.. Why should these men serve the publto without re numeration any more thnn those filling other public offices, for the general good? Doctors the world over are ex pected to give of their time and strength as- no others are, but wouldn't if b Just for some enterprising spirit to suggest that they be paid for their time and labor as well as the mayor .and the sheriff? In the same issue of the thirty-first we lea.ra that a committee of prominent men are going to Salem to "boost" the appointment of an Immigration' agent, and u is proposed to appropriate. 125, 000 to cover the cost of getting -out the necessary literature. Ail this Is good, and may success crown the efforts of the gentlemen going t$. Salem.... Alsoy would it-not be well, to send a delega tion to "boost" the request of the, state board of health 7 , . O. B,' ROBERTSON- The Origin of Champ Clark. The orating atatesmart whci'arlsa in the housa of representatives in the next congress most probably will shout "Mr. Speaker!" at the Unperturbed features P'JwWta haired jna dined to he fat. Before that man was fat and before his hair wa white he was known as Professor John Beau champ dark, president of , Marshall college, v. Wast Virginia, .-the .youngest COMMENT AND S5L1LL CHANGE He could see It yesterday. Winter cam back, but only weakly. - The bin to doubla the Inheritance tax is one of merit ;. , , - . , Cheer upl Every day brings spring and taseball nearer, . . Like other good things, the parol policy may be overdone. What rould society women hav don before "bridge" was Invented. ' Some congressrnen are doubting that President Taft Is a Republican. ... President Selling has t'h Douglas county senator sixed up correctly, ; ' This -Teat famlneless country must always lead in helping victims of fam ine. ' Unfortunately, the p6pl of Idaho cannot exercise th recall on Senator Heyburn. , ".' 7 ' , What a talkfest Wu and the barber topla must have had when the diplomat had queue cut off. " , Some people don't car whether tax is singly, double or multiples only th tariff get to them. Lobbyists cannot be suppressed, and some lobbyists, those who lobby for th people, are desirable. . . K Can't some of th physician In th legislature prescribe some sort of anti toxin for Bournephobia? A law against deficiencies In public expenditures is like building a mud fence against th ocean tide. Every winter, according to aom re ports, the snow is deeper ln th moun tains than it ever was before. To paraphrase slightly a remark of a local contemporary: Great la humbug, and the Oregonian is Its prophet . If not on account of seeing his shadow, the groundhog probably scur ried back to keep his nose from being frost bitten. There Is always a scramble for tho offices at certain- salaries; next a scramble of th officers elected for higher salaries. ' If he should veto the Sullowav pen sion grab ..bill. President Taft will demonstrate the existence of a back bone in his official anatomy. Boston Globe: Abe Hummel ha be come a British subject and w haven't felt such a sense of loss befor sine William Waldorf Autor left us. . Portland is also going to develop very rapidly from now on as a manufactur ing city. Many big factories will be established here within the next year or two. X cruel Chicago ordinance is designed to compel father to work and support or at least help support his wife and children. After awhile married men will hav no rights left The country is obliged to Senator Carter for announcing that h will not become secretary of the Interior If Balltnger should give up the office. To change Balllnger for Carter would b no Improvement " - King George of England easily won his case, against a man who had circu lated a slander about him, and seems to have been entitled to his victory. Time was when a convicted defendant ln such a case would not hav got off with a year's imprisonment Unless conrrress passes some bills be sides appropriation bills, it will have to com back, threatens Senator Brown and other Insurgents. If the standpat ters don't want more trouble next spring and summer, they would better get busy and pass a few laws that the people are demanding. SEVEN NOBLE WOMEN The Mother The mother ln her office holds the key Of the soul; and she it is who stamps the coin Of character, and makes the being who . would be a savage, But for her gentle cares, a Christian man. Old Play. Just aa Washington is inevitably to be knon as the "Father of His Coun try," so the mother of Washington may be appropriately named the "mother of our nation." And that she is worthy of the title, much so as her son 1 of his, was shown in. all the noble deeds of this great American woman. Mary Washington's life was one unbroken series of praiseworthy actions. In the Revolutionary drama, in which She fig ured In many of It arlier scenes, by her noble and inspiring womanhood her example went far towards making and moulding the first chief of our-nation. Mary Washington' whole life was so strikingly grand, ehe was uniformly so gentle, so amiable and 'so dignified, that it would be difficult to fix the eye on any one act mora striking than the rest . The lllustrlou son, naturally, so overshadowing the modest and unas suming mother, that wa ara very prone to forget to give credit to the woman to whom he owed much of his great ness. Always absorbed in the domes tic duties she discharged so faithfully, she made her great' gift to men, and then passed from the stage as-quietly and as modestly a she Bad lived and labored. '.' But Washington never fotgot the real source of his greatness. H wa always remindful of the woman whose virtues had warmed his - own, and had fitted him to become the man of unbending Integrity and heroic courage. Wash ington's father having died. when George was a young man, it fell to the lot of the mother to ' rear her five children with that untiring" hand which guided so many widows through this perilous season. And as the richest reward of a mother's solicitude and toll, she had the happiness of seeing all of her .children- come forward with' a fair promise into life, and lived to witness the noble career of her eldest on, till, by his own rare merits, he wa raised to the head of a nation, and applauded and revered by the whola world. Had Washington failed, tha oau of liberty would have failed also. But thank to the' great mother's teaching, he looked - within when all was dark, took courage and fought on until tha clouds had disappeared and he stood collage president on record, says a writer ln the February .Hampton's Magazine. 1 Johf Beauchamp' Clark was born in Kentucky 81 years ago "come, aext March." "Ho waa trained In the faith of th Disciple' church and the Democratic party and when he wa 22 he went ever Into . Wt ,Vlnrginia to be 'a college president . . . - : xnen xio muvwi ii Missouri.- xne mis sourians refused to believe that a man who wrote his name John Beauchamp Clark was eerious in insisting that it ought to b pronounced John Beechem Clark. The youngest college president- them tha "Beechem," and, therefore his new Missouri neighbor forgot -the "John,'; cut. the "Beau" off his middle name, and plain old Champ Clark jumped Into. Missouri politics. .NEWS IN BRIEF. 6REGON. SIDELIGHTS. Many lambs dying la Lake county. X CoquIII man baaa nw Hupmobil. X Dallas man ha several book more man iuv years oia. Southern Oregon people will soon b planting garden stuff. ; , -...-I. ' '.'.'.'V .. -r Several women are taking th Farm er' course at O, .A. C. . New Baptist church at Cottage Grove will b dedicated Sunday. . - . ' !' Oregon Power company at Dallas, la making extensive improvement. Man In Summer Lake valley has struck artlslan water at 118 feat - ' Crop prospects wer never better at thl time of year in Lane county. What has becom of the smelt T Few have appeared yet in the lower Colum bia. . There are less blind pigs in Albany than aver before, declare the Demo crat Tha immense equipment of the new railroad shop in La Grande has begun to arrive. Winter annlea left hancina- on the trees ln Cottage Grove orchards are not yet frozen. . v.. (Ihhiirar main aoM it K.mnntrta-nM mil. lets, weighting 114 pound, at IS cents a pouno, izd.vz, Eastern Oregon already ha a normal school at Weston, cays th East Ore gonian. "Had." . It should hav said. It was killed. Klamath county timber is dally at tracting tha big men of the United State in tha lumbar business, and it will be only a few years before this Industry wUl be on of th greatest of this section, predict tha Herald. Reporting a revival meeting tha Rosa- burg News says:, Tha cherubic evan gelist tore up the earth from tha start. In repose ha has a mouth like Cupid's" bow, but when ha gets to volleying It la twisted into more shapes than a geometry class can draw In a month. Tha Corvallls Gasette-Tltne 1s like ly to get Its ears alapDed and it hair pulled. It remarks: With such a surfeit of card parties as there seem to be In mis city it is a pity mat some splen did woman of social standing and char acter doe not seek to vary the enter tainment by proposing something that requires tho exercise of mentality and a little energy. Tha oonsus rave Wheeler county a population of only 2484, the least ex cept Curry in Uie state, out the Fossil Journal says: When the railroad comes this way, Wheeler county will double its population in a year. We have ample room for four time as many people as we possess, but wa will not get them until w hav rail road connection. Silver Lake Leader: Twenty year ago there was some excuse ror baa roads. Now the county is out or debt and there is a large balance in the road fund and there la no excuse. A good road is always to be desired, and is a source. of comfort and convenience to every traveler. They attract popula tion, as well as good schools and ohurohes, and improve tha value of property. Pendleton East Oregonian: Not only are former Umatilla county people hav ing crop failures ln Canada but some of them have been frozen in the bliz zards that sweep over tha northwest prairies. The news of the fate of the urosBehemig larnuy snouia De a ter rible warning for others who may be thinking of leaving this section for the frozen northi Had the Grosschemlgs remained unon their Coombs canyon ranch they could have reaped good crops during the past two year and they would not have been frozen to death. of Washington. forth ln the bright sunlight looking over a triumphant Infant nation, which was to become one of the greatest on the globe. How thoroughly typical of the mother was her reception of the news of her son's successful passage of tho Dela ware in the bleak December of 1776. When she came to those portions of the despatches which were panegyrical of her son, she modestly and coolly ob served to tha bearers of the good tid ings, that "George appeared to have de served well of his country for each signal service. But my food sirs," she added, "here is too much flattery: Still George will not forget the lessons I have taught him he will not forget himself, though ha is the subject of so much praise." . Another splendid example of tha type of woman as was tha mother of George Washington, is expressed in the final visit of General Lafayette to pay his respect to her just before starting for his horn ln France, in 1784. Conducted by one of her grandsons, he approached the house., when the young gentleman observed: "There, sir, is my grandmother!" Lafayette beheld working in the gr Mfen, clad in domestic made clothes, and her gray head covered with a plain straw hat the mother of his hero, his friend and a country's preserver! The lady saluted him kindly, observing: "Ah, llarqulsl you see an old woman; but come, I can make you welcome to my poor dwelling without the parade of changing my dress." During tha Interylaw, Lafayette, re ferring to her son, could not withhold his encomiums, which drew from the mother this beautifully simple remark: "I am not surprised at what George has done, for ha waa always a good boy." On the seventh of May,, 1833, the oor nerstona of a fine monument was erect ed over her grave In the cemeterr at Fredericksburg, and General Jackson, then president of the United States, closed his address with the following tribute.' "Fellow cltisens, at your re quest, and ln your name, I now deposit this plate in the spot destined for It; and when the American pilgrim shall, ln after ages, come up to this high and holy place, and lay his hand upon this sacred column, may he recall the vir tues of her who sleep beneath, and de part With. hU. affection purified, and his plejy strengthened, while he in vokes blessings upon tha mother of Washington." Tomorrow Lucretia Mott Famine's Deadly Work In China, Prom the;; Christian Herald, 4 China's famine la spreading. 7 The lat aat cable advices from Peking state' that a thousand people era dying dally ' of starvation . and famine f ev'et , In the three afflicted provinces. There is every likelihood that ' conditions will ' become woria during thd next three jn'onths. The imperial government although doing' Us bast . to belp the' sufferers, finds itself, as In the last famine unable to halt tha migrating multitudes in the flooded see - . . j the Cities) leaving lines, of dead strewn along, the highway. ' Relief committees at Shanghai and Chlnklang1 ara doing good work, but with very limited mean. i ' i ; - - She jot Even " Tax Assessor, . . The United Stat la th only great nation remaining which has not abol ished all 1 personal . property tax law, say A. J. Nock in th American Maga zine, One of his anecdotes la a follows! An Ohio school teaoher had saved $1000 from her earning, arid by advice of a banker friend, Invested it ln a rail road bond paying ; 6 par cent When tha assessor came around she wa quit proud to declare possession of tha bond; eh was a patriotic soul and willing to stand her share, . The local rat wa 8.7 ' per cent She waa a little startled at receiving a tax bill for 857, but confi dent that it waa a mere blunder, ha went to the tax office to, hav it cor rected.. '..'".' ;r': ;...':.'' But to her amaxtment he found that tha bill was correct that aha wa eup posed to pay a tax on her bond of 17 mora thin the, bond had earned.. She' finally gathered her wit together uf flcietttly to ask what on arth was don".1 with all the money. m 'Well, for on thing," the assessor said, urbanely, "we have publio institution to support There, Tor instance" pointing through th open winaow "tner is the poorhouse, a mod el of its kind and a credit to th county. We have to aupport that" "All right." said the teacher, with rising Indignation, "than you can aup pott me in It I bought thl bond to help keep m independent against- tha Uma when I. am past work; but if this 1 what happen, I give yon notice that I am going to sell it forthwith, and blow ln the : money on the one Uma of my Ufa and when I'm through, your model Institution can taka cara of me." She sold her bond, went to Europe, enjoyed herself hugely until tha money' waa tone, and- haa saved nothing alno. TANGLEFOOT By M3e Overtoil , AND THE FULLNESS THEREOF y Daisy Beer 'of Vancouver says Mt Beer drinks too many of 'em, o she wants to tap htm for alimony. Say she never has Mister Beers, but that he . never Mr. Beer say, we're getting, groggy. Pa the seltzer. SOME MORE OF THE SAMB. The child who aska quaatlon vM bothering his grouchy parent a usuaL 'Top," he ald. "doesn't th Bible say that all th ands of tha sea are num bered?" "Yeah," said th parent, a h turned to the sporting page. . . . "Well, then, how .do they put, th numbers onT" But It waa bedtime, anyway, so th parent finished reading' th story about th hope of the white race breaking with the manager without further inter ruption. "I wish I were a postage stamp," ald Hen Peckerum Stung. "'Twould be a chance to get a kind ex pression from your tongue." Science of Railroad Management. Ernest Fool In the American Maga- ine quotes Louis D. Brandels as fol lows: "While the railroads are seeking to increase rates' ln order to. overcom the increase of operating cost, largely due to increased wages, which would amount to a small per oent, there ara immense possibilities of introducing economlea of many times the amount For tha railroads, during tha last 10 years, through the practical elimination of competition and through their In crease beyond the unit of greatest effi ciency, have come to be even less eco nomically operated than before. Tha main economies of operation they have made aro thoso resulting from the lev eling of grades elimination of curves. Introduction of larger cars and engines ln short, lmprevement ln plant They have left' practically unworked tha field of attaining greater efficiency through the new science of mAnngoment a science which In other Industries is already being developed with wonder ful results, a science by which effi ciency of the individual workman is often more than doubled, resulting In both, largely increased compensation to the worker and increased profit to the employer. "I have therefore urged that If the roads need greater Income they should resort to Increase of managerial effi ciency, and that It . would but put a premium on uneconomical management to permit an Increase of rates simply because there appeared to be need of greater Income. This policy is partic ularly dangerous because of the open declaration, of the railroad presidents that the Increases now sought are but tha beginnings 'of demands for still higher rates, and that the community must accustom itself to the Idea that rates generally wyi continue to in crease. 1 "The great fact to remember la thla: The coming science of management, ln this century, marks an advance com parable only to that made by the com ing of the machine in the last" The Asylum "Extravagance. From tha Weston Leader. Quite likely there have been in stances of extravagance ln the conduct of the state insane asylum. In fact, extravagance with publio funds 1 an American custom, and it' would be strange otherwise. The superintendent of the asylum has Incurred the displeas ure of Bowerman, and la now aoorchlng on the legislative grill. Tat it cost Oregon but $18 aaoh per month to main tain Its insane patients. If there is go- - lng to be any material paring, the wrltar will certainly continue to do his beat to keep out of the asylum. Spoiled by the opulence of a country editor's life, ha was never abla to exist on. $18 par month. .. " (OontrltntcJ io The .lonmal by Witt Uaaaa, the (a mom Kaoaga port. Hla proaa-poaaii are a regular (aature of, thla oolumn la Tba Daily Journal). The early bird, so' the sage affirms, Js always catching the choicest worms and this is proof, saya that wis old grouch, that man should hasten to leave his couch, But the richest sleep that a- man can have, the kind that acts as a balm and salvo, is the sleep that comes when he ought to rise if he'd be "healthy,": wealthy and wise.". Whan a man gets tip ere his sleep is ""done, and starts -scratchlng around for mon, he may be flllinghis , coffer, deep, , btlt Jumping gingerl he loses slaepl A yard of slumber is worth more kale than any thing ln this gloomy vale. Let others' rUstle, their vigils keep, whil I'm enjoy lng my morning sleep. . Let others cap ture the festive plunk; I'll- snore a few in; my downy bunk. ,And when I rise,' after sleeping much, I feel Ilk work ing, to beat the Dutch; my head 1 clear and my mind serene, J am hot'-grouohyir' Bage8"boS8ed; their , head are addled, their wires are crossed, and I do not suf fer for early , worm, or boa oonStriotom or toaas or germs. CoiTlKht. lain. iv Ilk jTW v Gaurgt UattlMW Adam. ULAXtXJvtttS Early Birds - (-tif - Y