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THE OREGON DAILY . JOURNAL, ' PORTLAND,
FRIDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY Si, 1911.
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' Don't go through -life looking
for trouble, tor faults, for Jail- ,
urea, for the erook'tha hgfy
and the Reformed; don't see' the
distorted naB-eee tne man tha4
God made. . Just make up- your
mind firmly at ithe very.outeet t
ln,Mfe that you Will t6t criticise
.or corideHitn-othere or' find fault
with tlMJlr mistakes and ahort
comlnga. Prison .Swett Harden.
JONATHAN BOtTUfB
T
HE LATE legislature deemed It
. e-A 1 nAl(Av' irt ;lifnmAi Yrtri Q.
wan Bourns, ; nere was oiuu
led : effort b '.the Bowerman-
Kotti nghamf group to do him ?poij't j
cal harm.,' figuratively; they kicked,
and cuffed; him jj tjiey; hatteredy and
bullied him;' they censured. Land
clubbed Wm. They lost no ppor
tunlty to heap upon him opprobrium,
epithet and Invective, ' ' . "
; In reality-they toelped him' Their
Bourne-mania made them ' "behave
foolishly. : They did exactly the kind
of thing to strengthen Bourne. - -
. About one more legislative session
fwould Insure Bourne's reelection.- A
little mors activity by the Bower
mans, Nottingham! and ' Abrahams,
and It cannot be stopped. '. In any
choice between' them , and Jonathan
Bourne, v most people would take
Bourne hundred times. Their
Attack! and the method of them only
Increase : Bourne standing. j Ene
mies of that kind are a Splendid po
litical 'asset ", t ;:-.fe' ' jg:?
- The people of Oregon did not en
rage to pay the (bllls ot thls' $5,000,-?
000 1 legislative session to have the
time spent In considering Jonathan
Bourn; There was xther and more
pressing business. A growing state
In the very process of transition into
a greater .Oregon made other and
more - important I Issues . that . Mr.
Bourne or any other , mere man.
The affair at 8alem was an issue of
a commonwealth and-legislative re
quirements la its service. But what
ire had was hour ' after hour of the
senate's time devoted to excoriation
of Jonathan Bourne and sneers and
Jeers at the Oregon system,; ;;f ..
This newspaper cares -.' nothing
about Mr. Bo.urnet: It " strenuously
opposed his popular election as sen
ator. But in common fairness, Jon
athan Bourne baa been a consistent
supporter of. government by the cit-,
isen? Instead of government, by the
boss; and ' for , that, la .;. entitled , .to
credit. If the Republicans of Oregon
want another man . f or Benatdr, the
opposition will hkve to have another j
leadership than that which made It
self so conspicuous at Salem. ' .'
ix jrKiifLEnrs tdeb
TN 18H THB platform on which
McKlnley was-elocted '"declared
emphatically for reciprocity. For
. , many jears during : and after
Blaine's, time, .reciprocity was or
thodox Republican , doctrine, In
pushing reciprocity, President Tafjt
Is in perfect accord with tha tradi
tions and pledges of his party' , ",u
BuV at Washington, we have the
spectacle of .the senate in chaos oyer
the policy. ., Appropriations passed
by the house, are In peril of non-ac-Uon'
Jn the. i'senatel ,Thoy, maytDe
beaten by obstructive tactics resort-
4 to in; opposing reciprocity with J
Canada.- A vote on direct election
of senator may go over, for the same
reason. Bo, 'too, there is prof pact
that there may be no" vote on the
Issue of Lorlmer, and no action on
av yi uiimivuk Miaiu wa.au,
' All legislation in the senate, is
uiuubu 11 v . iiBuuuiujui rts Kiannn ill
the president's reciprocity 'policy.-
Chaos reigns, and the dispatches In
sist .that MrTaft will call an -extra
session of congress .to convene March
. 15. leaving to the Democratio house
, .a. paruy cuangea .senate xne
problem of presidential policies.
48uch W the reverence the senate ma
jority is paying to cardinal prlnc'ple'
tn McKUUey Republicanism.
! ,, The spectacle shows how big in
terests that, profit from the tariff
profess one thing and practician-
.11 - ei . .. .
oioer. i ney are ior reciprocity until
reciprocity is 1 possible. . Then they
1 are agains it They fool the farmer
into support of their system. : They
hold blm in line for their huge slices
of protection, taking a dollar of It
for themselves every time they dole
out to him a plugged penny.' 7- .
A LIXilSLATIVELEQACT ,
, a T SALEM THE governor of
A , Oregon is burled under an ava-
Vi aAW A UOUCU S,Ar4 UU,gU
the; iegtslaturejn' the last mo
tnents " of the: late 'session,.; No less
than 2 3 3 measures were plied upon
him by adjournment, and lie had but
five days in which to consider them.
., Many of them are fall -of defects.
Errors-aro unavoidable when hills
are ground through', a session like
laUEae TntTSTTi a miiTraffia are
trivial errors made by clerks, others
are vital to the , llfi of the rneasure
and caused by hurried consideration.
They involve every kind of topic
and set out' regulations for, every
kind of human conduct and legal re-
strictiolaTTIf bey affect social groups
with some opposed and some favor
ing the proposed lWjTh ar tefcl
isianon stretcning aimosxirom in
Occident to the morning star and
from the north -pole to the southern
cross. ; To digest, investigate and
validate or InvAlidate all this wll-(
derness of bills and do it all within
five days was the legacy left to the
governor by the recent session. , :
The state aid bill came to hlnrwlth
a phraseology that made it Inoperative.;-
It was one of the vital meas
ures; of the session and yet Its pas
sage 'was" impotent, . The publicity
'Immigration blip passed without
safeguards for spending the money.
A bill referring to oounty treasur
ers' invalidated indictments In the
Thorburn Ross "case, and was killed
by executive negative. A bill appro
priated 5000 for -fighting bubonlo
plague, but failed' to state who; was
to receive the money. - A bill pro
fessing to fit the' standard of purity
of linseed oil failed to provide what
the standard must be.. : . :
"With 725 bills Introduced and but
40 days for . consideration accuracy
gave way to Inaccuracy and blunders
ran ' riot, Defects stalked through
the lawmaking like death on a white
horse. : Legislating went serenely; on
with the accuracy of a Bcatter gun.
To discover the blunders, to pass
upon the advisability of measures,
to listen to and decide between the
controversies of those urging Or op
posing 'approval of bills, and to do
it all In five - days this was , the
legacy left by the legislature to the
executive department '
And still, they say that only legis
latures should be allowed to legis
late,.; and that the. citizens haven't
time or sense enough to make laws.
THE KAISER AND, SUICIDIl
T
HE GERMAN emperor is noth
ing if not original One of his
officers attempts suicide and
"falls. - Being tried before the
regimental court of honor he is
found guilty of violating hls mili
tary oath. Appeal being taken to
the kaiser he reverses the verdict
saying "lie Jslresponsible only to
God and his conscience, Therefore
his deed can be Judged neither by
regular nor honor, tribunals."
It fwas not so held in the ancient
days. The suicide was tried post
mortem. His act then proved Was
held a crime. : Having passed beyond
the reach of human punishment his
body' was refused Christian burial
and ' was interred at the crossroads
at dead of night Suicide, the word,
is not many centuries old, and came
from'the Prench into . the English
language. . As "self-slaying" it has
lost the force 'of the older word.
"self:mnrder,Jf common also to the
uerman tongue,
; The most precious possession of ft
man is his life. In it the commun
ity and the family have rights and
dutlestof preservation as well as the
man himself So 12 men launch the
life boat in the storm and risk. their
lives to save Cne in desperato peril,
and the stake is worth the effort
Suicide is graduallyr-losing the
horror it" roused : in generations, not
long; passed. Possibly Japanese
classing It as the remedy for dishon
or, and as a means of revenge, have
helped to cheapen It Among white
people the weakening of the force of
the' religious ' command thou shalt
not kill is marked. Civil tribunals,
and not religious. Judge this crime.
But, the decision of the kaiser that
the suicide is responsible only to
God-and his conscience is a Wide de
parture from the well remembered
text "'No man liveth to himself, and
no man dleth to himself." For this
is built Into the very struotnr of the
civilization in which we live,
ramtTURB TONjixmnttEs
ALREADY SEVERAL newspa
Apers have published estimates
or conjectures on the presiden
tial election of 112, including
lists-of probably Republican, Demo
cratio and doubtful states, and this
species of harmless If profitless
amusement will be carried on in
creasingly la the press of the coun
try during the next 20 months.
Most readers would probably be
thankful to be spared recitals of
these conjectures, which at this early
date can be little more .than idle
speculation, but , on -'the other hand
they are to some interesting matter.
.. The new electoral college, if the
membership 1 of . the house be In
creased to 43 9 Will consist of 631
electorsrequlrlng 266 votes to elect.
The Democrats have ' substantial
ground for expecting to carry some
states that they have lost in the last
four presidential elections, and judg
ing by the elections last year It is
not unreasonable- for them to hope
to win a majority of1 the electoral
college. They can win, It is pointed
out by. carrying the solid south and
the same Jour northern states that
Cleveland carried; in 1884 New
York; New Jersey, Connecticut and
Indiana.' Not only, did' these states
elect Democratic governors last year,
but three Of them elected Demooratio
legislatures, as also did Ohio, Maine,
Nebraska, Colorado, ; Montana and
West Virginia. (The solid south, in
cluding West Virginia, Delaware and
Oklahoma, will have 185 votes,' and
with those - of the .' four Cleveland
states the number would be 267, or
one more than enqugh to elect "West
Virginia,' Connecticut and Delaware
are not at all sure to go Democratio
npxt year, but there are the other
states mentioned, some of which may
b regarded bs doubtful. '
In a recent speech President Taft,
alluding to the talk about Canada be
coming part'Ot- this ' country,1 said:
"We have Alaska., we have Porto
RlcoV ' we 7 kave ; the Philippines
heaven knows, we have enough and
before" we look out for other-burdens
and responsibilities, let us show
the world we can i meet , perfectly
those' iri have." He Is quite- right
This nation neither wants Canada,
nor Mexico,, and as soon as is practi
cable would 'do well to get . rid of
the Philippines, f .
lAIUMER'S DEFENSE
ORIMER DENTJED- nsmg any
I money to bribe members of the
I Illinois legislature to vote for
him, or that he had any per
sonal knowledge' of bribery ' in' his
favor,, or that he-organized the com
bination of Republicans and - Demo
crats that elected him denied doing
anything illegal or Improper In con
nection with his election.
Such general and sweeping denial
was expected, if Lorfmer said any
thing at all in his own defense. ., In
deed, it was necessary, ' Merely as a
denial It has no more weight nor
force than an accused . person's for
mal plea of not guilty." . .
Lorimer does more . than deny,
however. He explains, rather plaus
ibly, why some Democrats voted for
him. - They did so solely and purely
because they were his personal
friends. Lorlmer narrates, quite a
"human interest"- story of his boy
hood struggles, a story that appeals
to human sympathies, that arouses
admiration for qualities of the man,
that explains why he became a lead
er and boss of the baser political' ele
ments of a great city; but the story
has really "nothing to dp with the
case." - ." : i" . 5' ' '
And it is not very credible that
all the Democrats who finally voted
for him did so on the ground of per
sonal .friendship and admiration,
when for '.weeks they had not so
voted, and apparently had no notion
of doing so. What caused their per
sonal friendship thus to spring into
remembrance and action after lying
so long dormant? v .
The fact remains that White.
Link,' Beckemeyer and Holtslaw con
fessed before grand Juries that they
were bribed, testified in court that
they received money for their votes,
and named three other members of
the , Illinois legislature as paying
them, the cash. The fact remains
that, bank officials testified in court
and before the grand Juries and sen
ate investigating committee that
sums corresponding to those paid the
bribed legislators were placed on de
posit In, banking Institutions at the
very; time the bribing . was done.
How did it all so happen it Lorlmer
Is not guilty?
WHEN, ANANIASES FIGURE
OW. IS' THE Seattle Chamber
of Commerce to be explained?
Mite in January its orriciai
publication, .sent broadcast
through the" country, greatly under
stated Portland as to bank clearings,
deposits, postofflce receipts , and In
other particulars. ; The press of Port.
land pointed out the glaring under
statements, but here comes " the
monthly magazine of the chamber
with the misrepresentations of Port
land reiterated. What does the
body mean? Is it a chamber of
commerce or a chamber of Ana-
niases?
IfB statement of Portland's post-
office receipts for 1910, set out first
a month ago and now reiterated, is
$818,383.. Portland's actual post-
office receipts for 1910 were $926,-
164. The .Seattle Chamber under
states them, in round . numbers.
$107,000.
Portland's bank clearings - for
1910, were 1517,171,867. The Se
attle : publication places
$428,228,093. In round
Seattle understates them
000."" ' '' -i'
them . at
numbers,
$90,000;
Portland's Dank deposits at the
end of 1910 were $65,000,000. The
Seattle statisticians lop off $22,000,-
000 and give them as $43,000,000
, They also attacked the assessed
valuation of Portland realty. They
gave It at $274,000,000, or $27,000r
000 less than the actual figures.
, What is even worse, they gave the
building permits tor the year at the
correct aggregate of $20,700,000,
but in a footnote deliberately state
that $4,000,000 does not belong in
the total, but is in effect watereds
values, belonging somewhere in
1911, not in 1910. i
The original publication., or, a
month ago could have been error.
Then, the .Seattle, chamber's under
statement of .Portland was explain
able on that hypothesis. But no
such explanation is possible - now,
and we have one more proof that
while figures don't lie, Anahlases do
figure. :. , .
PARCELS POST IN RUSSIA
E'
VEN semi - barbarous Russia
beats, the United States in the
matter of a 'parcels post'. The
post parcels exchanged in Rus
sia are about 10,000,000 a year, of
which ,000,000 come from, or go
abroad The weigot for foreign par.
eels Is limited to 11 Pounds, and the
size to 23k inches each way, or
8 9x8x8 - inches. 1 But packages ; des
tined for the JJnlted States must be
sent to a German port and thence by
express." and are limited to 160 cubic
Inches. But a postal .convention
among European countries allows
Russian, merchants to order many
things from London, Paris, Berlin
and Vienna. - This, however, has no
Immediate .. bearing ; on " the parcels
post question in the United States.
A Moscow merchant tells the
American consul that . he i feared "at
first that: the parcels post would in
Jurenla itrade, on.account of custo
mers dealing dlrecttyii with ? larger
houses in western European capitals,
but "he found that they ordered
through hinv and , he was benefltsd.
Just so it- would work with - the j
smaller merchants in this country; ,
a. ..; . m m 1 .'
tney-eouia supply ana aeuver gooas
to country customers ( better - and
more satisfactorily jian they do
now, and their business would con
sequently grow, , j , - '
Many, people go from this country
to far foreign lands as missionaries,
but missionary or some other sort of
effective work seems to be needed
over in the Sllets region about as
badly as in - darkest heathendom.
It seems to be high time that! the
government or the state authorities
shut oft the supply of whiskey and
guns from the Ignoble red men therf.
Protest From.: an : Unemployed Jlan.
" Portland, Feb. 33-T the Editor of
The JournalLast night 1 read your ar
ticle headed "Sheriff as CluV; Over
Tramps Now," ' Now 1 am an electrical
worker and an experlenoed , motion pic
ture operator, I have ' looked the city
over from ne end , to the ether- for a
position at anything X can set; but, have
been unsuccessful. There la a clause in
this law which says "Every Idle or die
aolute person" shall be subject to arreat;
also It aaya, any one on the streeta Ute
at night or who goes to Bleep out doora
or any place outaide ot a regular lodg
ing la subject to arreat If you go and
beg, you're up againat the law again. .
Now I aak. what Is a man who wants
to work and can't get it going to dot Is
he to a-o and lump off the bridge and
end It all, .or go out on the rookpilet
catft figure out any other place tor
him as It la. - Now I am not an X. W. W.
or anything like that, but an honest
young man who has served hla time In
the United States navy, ana now at ss
years of age I find myself down and
out, through no fault of mine, and Jail
atarlng me la the face because 1 oan't
get work. V .-...:.'.,.... ' , ""- -' ' , .
I heartily support , any law to puniah
able bodied men - who -use-crooked means
of gaining a livelihood, but'! oan't see
why an honeat laboring man ahould be
forced to Buffer for the sins of thieves,
white alavea and the Uke, and I ask you
to publish this if you -wlU and let the
people of Portland? decide what I and
many others In the : aame position are
going to do-Hump 'off tna bridge, or go
to JaiV A HUNGRY MECHANIC.
Living on One Acre of Land.
St Johna, Feb. JU-To the Editor of
The Journal Let me aay to Mr. How
ard Coetner that- his Ignorance of er
latlng conditions In this country la nly
equaled by hla Ignorance of the amount
It takea to ralae -a family of heaity,
healthy youngetere.'-' fv .'"fi
ll this man is iron Missouri, n cn
easily be shown hundreds of traots
about Portland, from a single lot to
two vor three acres, that are bringing to
their owners a snlendld remuneration.
There la nothing more Clearly demon
strated at Portland indeed, all over the
coast country than tola getting back to
the soil and the big results obtained by
this endeavor to get from the earth all
It will produce. -, .
For the laat 80 years X hare known of
Intensive f armlng--thia getting ont onto
an acre or ao of ground. In former
years It waa called "lasy farming" by
envious larve fanners, but ie now known
by a more aclentlflo name.. Colleges
teach It and the state spenda thousands
of dollars a year encouraging email
fanning and showing practically all that
can.be got out of a : small ( patch of
ground. It la the only means of solv
ing the high prloe of living, and oomes
within the reach of altioat every man
If he would but take It up.
The owners of small traots are a con
tented lot and rarely ever express them
selves In the papers, but at Intervals
through the year we read accounts of
things accomplished on a small traot
of land this one from chickens, an
other from fruit and others from, a 'cow
or two; and, although the owners do
not devote all their time to these tracts,
taking a few hours' here and there dur
ing the week, before or after their day's
labor, they .make this a paring side
teaue.
I waa surprised myself at the quick
returns from our own place, acquired
ao reoently from he wild.
Those were facts I stated tn my for
mer letter not theory, but hard facta,
as the groceryman can testify. Our bill
for the month was only an average
amount for a family of seven seven,
understand, not five my .husband,' my
aelf and five children, and to the aver
age man earning It to $3.50 per day It
la as a race for life1, . This la one rea
son the Associated Charities are be
sieged, as aoon as school closes for the
summer, by parents with children, for
Inermits to go to work. That Is one rea
son vne iwiwiH ana aiures nr cruwuea
with children- who ought to be out In
the air and sunshine. , That la one rea
son lines of care come on the father's
face when he Is laid off for .a few days,
or when sickness enters the home, aa
every day so lost is so much checked
from hla Income.; His Is a pull against
a swift current, and " it la only the
bravest that can win out
Suppose, for Instance, some of our
modern chemists suddenly startled the
world with the Intelligence that he oould
take the aoll and by fusing it and con
juring it with other things mould out
apples, atrawberrlea and aU' the frulta
and vegetables known. Wouldn't It be
taken aa a startling discovery T We
Would all , become Interested In making
mud plea again, only in a scientific Way.
What is the difference, then; between
the slow process of planting and gath
ering the fruit T The result la the same,
only the latter; process la so old it has
fallen into dlauae with too great a ma
jority.; of - mankind." -"--.
Take the owner of an acre the one
who has fruit trees bearing, In particu
lar, There are boxes of apples In his
cellar, boxes of winter pears, shelves
containing hundreds of quarts of canned1
fruits, Jellies and Jams, and, potatoes In ,
Letters From tni Pebpli
,Z . a . "ln ww w pay offerea 6000 men-at-tfrma But a knight
for the sugar used In the canning, he v.,-ii" -mf -nd have wa for
ha. sugar ahead for sfmoBt the.whotoi&!'rt2
WMS nvWAVU ca W fJ LJJCfrb , Wlil
carry1 him till fruit season again! The
time he has expended on thla haa heen
a. pleasure, not a toil. If he own a
cow, add to this ISutter and milk. i
.Compare this to 'the man who rents,
to the man who buy, his dapples by the
box, whose frulta and milk are tinned,
who hoards every nickel and often parts
with all but car fare.
' i These men are aa far apart as night
and day. Ton can eee It in tlrelr: faces,
When we" face the Situation sauarelv
vaai elrtM erfn.A .Ua,
rand look at it from all sides, when 1t
oomes down to brass tacks, what are all
these people tolllng'for, anyway these
thousands in the factories, in the noise
and racket of a city, in the crowded
stores and underground shops T Merely
for potatoes, bread and meat and a few
so-called luxuries for the very things
nature ao generously lavishes without
price on the tiller of the soil. . '
Now, Mr. Coatneiv l will i give you
aome pointera One hundred trees' can
be set on an 4HM?: fainting i them 20
feet apart each way.. Ours are set 16
bjmSOMmapv ins a epaee8fr by 1 00
across the back of the lot, leaving i a
space 120 hy 200 for other things. Our
strawberries are planted, among the fruit
trees, aa are alao Hhe blackberries and
raspberries. " ' ! 'y. ;, ;
' 'As-to butter, at the time I wrote we
COMMENT AND-
. ' SMALL CHAKpn y '
Looks like an' extra eesslnn. rinalm
DemooraUo leaders to become serloua
; . -
Siskiyou mountains are a hard ractan
la which to work the world. .
It is believed that 4t would be un
constitutional to enroll any more bills
nOW. . ' ;:,''.' ' " ",..;-. .. '., , .
Moat 'Women. If ther acmUl vnta.
might favor a second choice, or even a
third. i - 1 T
Tea. it la cVrtaln that the lerlelature
has adjourned, all hut , the Journal
darks. . , ' - , . T
Tha weather's f all 'right: it la cool
enough to prevent tha buds from devel
oping too fast. . - j ;
Is Taft after alL to ao down hi his
tory aa one of tha most courageous of
ur preaidentsf "-.,,..
The down-and-out oolltlclans want
any old thing that will weaken or viti
ate the primary law, , v
. The good time coming ia hot so very
4 . MHM. . V. . 1 1 . .
Ar wx-jb uvni lij v vhvuni : ytmjvim mwm
off to begin practice.
( , -
: It is curious that so many people who
go into politics regard It aa a game by
which to humbug the people. ,
' . ....-'."'..". v '-. '::C'r':1-;'',''
' "Don't eat when you are tired." ad
vises a health expert. If they didn't,
many people would starve to death.
Now tha edltora and aome farmers are
getting free garden seeds from the oon
gresamon , wno want vows again' nexi
year.,-...,;.,,,;;.-.-,,....'-";-.
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' Champ Clark might be .the Demo
cratio nominee in 1912. If he can resist
the constant temptation to talk too
much. - , .v-
An egg 400 years old has been pre
sented to the New Tork museum. .Thie
ia believed to beat any cold storage
T. . . . :.A
Chancellor Day says he doesn't on
deratand smoking, and he la therefore
almoat as violently opposed to it aa to
Roosevelt ",-
Postmaster Oeneral Rltohoock seems
n&t to be afraid of magaslne explosions,
leaving worry on that acore to the navy
department . - . B , y-
' While the two were hunting rabbits,
a California woman ahot and killed
her husband. Ouna are bad playthings
for women and children.
It Is said that King George did not
want to proaecute Myllus for libeling
him, but uie queen being consulted, ahe
said. "Let George do It V' and ha did. .
That udgeahlp bill veto waa too bad,
governor; there was such a nice, agree
able, competent lot of Democratio law
yers to select from, and each of whom
had hopea. ; ;.': vj .,;
It ia auggeated that, Judging by
aome of hla recent remark In congress,
Representative Macon of Arkansas
would better be serving In the sewer
department of his "home wwn.
In Vienna a loaf of bread made, of
American flour and aold at the same
price aa In thla country lstwiee as
large aa the American loaf. If the duty
lan't too high, it might pay to import
our bread from Germany,
-
'Who plants a rose bush floea a bit
to make the world more fain to add
mm hMntT to lt face and f rarrance
to its air. He doeth well who planteth
mln unit anv food that JTTOWS, tit
helpa the world to hope and smile who
ptants a. rose..,
SEVEN FAMOUS CHARGES
Ute English
"I swear by our Lord that X do not
wish a man more." This was thef sig
nificant remark made by King Henry
V on the evening before the famous bat
tle of Aglncourt He was aware that
he' was to meet the resistance of an
army four times his .superior In; nam-,
bora When the great differences num
erically of the forces were explained to
him by Sir Walter. Hungerford. who add
ed .that there were 10,000 experienced
archers' In England who would ask noth
ing better than to take part In the bat
tle, Henry replied!. "The number whloh
we have Is the number which God has
willed. These people Jhe Frenoh)
place their confidence In their multi
tude, and I l Him who eo often- gave
the victory to Judas Maccabeus '' "
The battle of Aglncourt wae the de
cisive victory in- the Hundred Years'
war, fought on October 25, 1415,, which
gave the English control of France and
Henry the French throne, the two king
doms being united. It was 50,000
againat 15,000, but the skill of the Eng
lish archers won ; the victory.. The
French army wae routed, with a loss
of 10,000 slain, inoluding many of the
great nobles of the country, and 16,000
prisoners, including .the duke of Or
leans and Marshal Boucloaut, while the
English, it la Bald, lost only 40. '
The night before the battle the Eng
lish spent the time preparing and car
ing for soul and body as well as :they
could When fully prepared for , vic
tory these brave men did not neglect
their eternal aafety and endeavored to
reoonolle themselves with God and man,
confsslng themselves hastily, at least
aU whom the prteet could manage to
deapatoh. There waa complete silence
during all the procedure. . t
On the Fjreneh side It waa Just the
reverse. They busied themselves dub
bing knights. Large fires tn all di
rections enabled the ' enemy to note
everything. The knights did not Bleep
for fear of soiling their armor and
their roistering no doubt told effective
ly against them when the conflict came.
The French, too. "had skilled arch-
I ... atA Vmlflrhtsi In nrrrinv A.
f ea unoihsbtheir front positions
fn the n of battle. The Parisians had
www '
used 11 rolls a month a family ot seven
and, as I know, this is an average.
If you can get along with .two- rolls,
.thafs your business. Tou are a lucky
man. We paid over $2000 for our acre,
and we have never Tegrettfld it - An av
erage family can pay that amount to
the groceryman in the Course of a few
years, and that W the end of It. v Every
dollar . invested ; In a good, productive
place around Portland or any other ooast
city, ia two In your' own pocket the only
way of eating, your candy-nd keeping
It, too. . . -t ' - . , ' ,
- A cow-will fumlsh .half your tlvlhg,
an acre the other half,, and a man' a dally
wasee can- be used for, Other purposes.
; MRS.' BLANK.
Fifty Tears Oregon v " '
' . - From The, Spectator.--f" - '
Former Governor T; T. Geerv has
closed a contract wltb ah eastern- pub
lishing house to place before the- read-
uig vuuuu uuus. n nan -in preparation,
entitled "Fifty Years, in Oregon," Gov
ernor Geer.wlll not only, deal extensive
ly in an interestlrfg way with the strug
gles of the "pioneer settlers, bat he will
trace the progress of this state to its
NEWS IN DRIEEl
OIVGOX SIDELIGHTS , .
' Much building is reported going , on
at.NewporC - : f-
',. ' e . e .:
Florence' Commercial club will issue
advertising pamphlets. '. -r
Man near ; Eugene claims te have
found a tin mine on hla placa. . ' -
v.;-.'-.,, e e ; ..y.
Fruit growers of Douglas county are
trying to form, an organization. .
e ! e .,.:!' 'j :
Big sawmill at Tillamook has started
UP after being idle several months, ' ,
e . ,
Turnip raised near Florence measured
18 inohea one way and 11 the other.
, . ., ... -,e e ' .,: , , - ' : :
v BakerJClty may have the finest hos
pital In the atate outside of. Portland.
, i '.'.- v e .
Spirit of irrigation Is rife in Grants
Pasa and vlolnlty, aays the Courier,
, s e m ' '
.Building the Rogue River Valley rail
road near Grants Pass is actually .un
der way.
',. . .
v Work on preparing the 8000-acre traot
Of land in Linn county for fruit plant
ing will begin next week. . -t
,,,,. v.-.: a.v;;y-vt?s.:-fc
Man "near Nehalero. ; received ' about
125,000 for SO acres, for which, includ
ing stock and utenalla, he paid 17000 aix
yeara age.
. e e . , ,
The coroner's Jury censured severely
the lad whe killed another one while
hunting In Lane county, which waa let
ting him off lightly.. . .
Among other things stolen from the
Lorella, Klamath - oounty, postofflce,
were 6i rabbit scalps. Perhaps tha burg
lar thought they would bring him luck.
'' t,):""U--'ii-t' V-x e v,e ;v''V':
' A. Central Point man has been retained
by a colony of eastern farmers to seek
fos them a suitable traot of from 2000
to tOOO acres In the Rogue river valley.
.,;...; ..-iv..;.!,,-...' e r- e'. :;-r.ii: --v
The Albany Democrat Is i not far
wrong when it "opines" that "Douglas
county will do the state a favor If it
will keep Abraham at home hereafter,"
- Th taxea In Albany are about the
lowest of any of the cities. They are
7 nulla more in Eugene, nearly iwioe
as much In Astoria, more In Medford. in
fact about everywhere else, claims the
Demoorat , --nrv-n -t,
,.; i ? e e y ,''., r
Owing te the close observance of tha
closed season, the deer in the moun
tains around Jacksonville are beoomtng
unusually tame, several of them having
approached almost to the back doors of
a number of ranch huaea. . ,
In one year there has been an Increase
of I100il02.09 in the bank deposits of
Corvallls. With no notloeable tncreaae
in population, thla added wealth muat
come from greater proaperity and enterprise;-
aaya the Gaiette-Ttmea. - The de
posits, now exceed $1,066,000, :
.v '. e e . v
Rev. Herbert , 8, s Johnson, a Baptist
preacher of Boston, son of a former
president of the Univeralty Of Oregon
and a graduate of that institution, wants
"thousands of fine Boston girls" to come
to Oregon. But wouldn't they have a
disastrous effect on our ollmatet . , -
. . .; e ' e - . ' .-i--
The Medford all-Tribune, that, ep.
nosed etrona-lv the Pelrce bill relating to
fishing in Roi
gue river, ia aauanea wun
the modified bill aa passed, and say:
"The fact that 200 families in a sparsely
settled. Inaccessible region, were de
prived of roeana of livelihood and an In
vestment of several hundred thousand
dollars confiscated, convinced the legis
lature that It was Juatlf led, on the
Uve-and-let-live prtnolplea. la modifying
the people a law by giving all partiea a
ahare of what they desired In faot, all
each waa entitled to receive without In
juring the other.' -'-r-;;:-;;::;-;;?--
at Aginbonrt,
times - mere numerous than tha Eng
lish," . - , . . -The
dawn of the famous day found
tha battlefield a slough, following the
terrlflo rains of the night At the de-l
clslve moment for the charge, old Sir
Thomas Erpingham,' who had drawn up
the English army, Salds "Now strike."
a signal which the English" answered by
a. formidable -shout from 10,000 voices,
Much to the astonishment of the Eng
lish when they rushed at the French,
the latter remained motionless. Horses
and knights appeared to be enchanted,
or struck dead in their armor, - The
fact was that ' their large battle steeds,
weighed down with their heavy riders
and, lumbering caparisons, of iron, bad
all their feet completely sunk -In the
deep, wet day. They, were fixed there,
and could only struggle out to crawl
on a few steps at a, walk. Besides the
French were so numerous and so orowd
ed together that they oould not lift their
arms to v strike ther enemies, except
some who were in the front ' 5
t Td arouse these inert masses, the
English-archers rained, with unerasing
shower, 10,000 arrows right' In their
faces. - The awful slaughter, under such
conditions, that followed can easily be
Imagined. The great Frenoh hoet was
entirely at the mercy of. the small army
of archer chargers. Great bodies of men
and horse felt1 and rolled in the mud,
and one may Imagine the fearful panic
that took place In this serried mass.
The English, quitting their fortress of
stakes, . rushed , oh the French to de
molish the mountain of horses and man
mixed together.- ' f ' ' ',
' A small eounter-oharga In this battle,
was that of H Frenoh gentlemen, who
made a dash at the English monarch.
They had sworn, it was said, to die or
to beat his crown off his head One of,
them struck a gem from it and all pat.
lshed. - ' jfiV , ' : V:-
In 1421 the English king and queen
entered Paris as sovereigns, but in a
few months death stopped short the
triumphant ;oareer of. Henry; and. his
aon Henry VI waa proclaimed king
of France as well as of Englaad. ' An
other war shortly followed leading' up
to the, Joan of Aro epiaode In Frenoh
history, which ended In the plaolng of
their own king, Charles VII, , on the
tbrona -. , ' ... j; ,
Tomorrow The
dlers at Quebec. .
Loulsbourg ! Orena-
present position' as a power in the
northwest s He has been a man. behind
the hoe, and he has also been the man
bohlnd Ahe man with the hoe, and la
thoroughly , equipped in ' every, way to
give a good acoount of Oregon, ; His
stoiy should prove worth while. J'
- Prunes and Phrenology-
,"' ' From the Popular Magaalne.
-Charles ' H. Fullaway, ; assistant au-
peiintendent of the division of finance
in the postofflce department was on a
Chesapeake & Ohio railroad train on his
way to Washington from Chicago,' He
got up one morning for breakfast and
in the dlnng car waa delighted to see
that one of the Items on the bill of fare
waa stewed prunea, ftvU 'A!--', 'i
, He looked up to beckon to his, waiter
and tell, him to brmg an order of the
prunes; i But; he did not have ' to give
the order, for the waiter was hurrying
dowft i the aisle , with j-i the 1 saucer of
prtm'whers:y.'''',1;-''1"':'. ."!"";''""'"
: "Uow did you know I wanted prunes r
asked Fullaway, in surprise.
Aw,, I ,knowed lt, said the waiter
EVy man wif a healthy lookln'. haid
eats prunea Besides, I'm t phrenoly-
glBt" - '
VJjiyr Should.Two Men
I Do Work of One?, f
From the Los Angeles Examiner. ' "
White "mice are often kept in cages.
equipped with wheels. . A . mouse runs
into tha Vheel and expends its energy,
in making it go . round and round and
round.. .The mouse does not get any
where, nor accomplish anything by turn
lng the -wheel.' Ail the force It uses ls
wasted, possibly the mouse knows this,';
but:' being a ' prlaoner, It . turns the
wheel for the sake of the exercise It
affords. ' It is hard to believe that were1
the mouse at liberty it would put in .
its time on so foolish a taak.,." ' ,...'.,'.,',
There are many ; people who ' waste -
their force in . h same way as the"
mloe In the cage, only without the earns'
excuse, for these people are not pris
oners. They have the world and all its
works in which to get busy. Sometimes
these people wast the 'energy they pos- -aesa
in the form of money, for money
is but a counter for energy, Neither An'
latent '; or ' active form. Each coin you
control or own is the same as a ware ,
house receipt entitling you to draw i j
specified amount ! from the reserrea
stored up by all human labor.- w
It wlU pain- many ot our , readers !tto
know that we, the people of the city
of Los Angeles, have for many : years
been playing ' the part of the mouse
turning -The wheel, without even - the
shadow of its exouse. We have wasted
our- energy, in- tha - form- of money, tor
the extent of many mlUlens'Of dollars.
We have been running a oounty govern1
ment wheel which serves no useful pur
pose for the city of Los Angeles. Wa
pay out millions of dollars every year
to support a city government whloh does
our work for us, and we pay more mil
lions a year for the support of a county
government to duplicate the work of
the city government And for this long
continued folly we have no exouse, la,
lack of tlmeljt. warning. Twenty years
ago, then Mayor Henry T. Ha sard made
the matter ef consolidation of city and
oounty government the sole theme of
a message to the city council. In that
message, pointing the reason for the
change, he said: : ...,,..:;.-.''
"Under the government now eonstW:
tuted wa are maintaining ia the city one
city and one oounty JaiL with the Jalldr :
and necessary assistants! one olty and ;
one county assessor, with their oorpa
of assistants, maps," assessment books,
of floea, etc.; one' olty and one county-
tax couector, with their Ceputlea and
records one city and one oounty trees
urer, with their bookkeepers and olerkai
one olty and one - oounty auditor, with ,
their deputies and "hooka of aooountt a
board of superrisora and a city coun
cil and the other various deputies and
assistants - necessary- to au ppor tr and
maintain two independent govarqlhents."
Mayor Haiard then urged that there
be no delay,' saying: : " ;v- 'iT;.-.
This la a matter of an oh vital Im
portance to our otty that . I would be
glad to have the preaent admlnlatratloa
bring it before the people In suoh a
way that they will be permitted to ex
press themselves thereon-at an election
to be called under the provlslone of the
law providing for a consolidation."
- The political powers of tha day- were
opposed to the Hasard program, and for
thla reason nothing came of It ' They
cared nothing about having- the expenses
of government deoreaaed. They wanted
them inoreaeed. with predatory tax
eaters in the saddle, the taxpayers did
not have a chance. .-... a . ,
The leak through whloh the tax money ,
haa been pouring; has grown steadily.,
larger year by year sine the Hasard
message. It has coat the oeocle of the
city between, 115,000,000 and f 10,000,000 A
to keep the uselesa .county wheel run- , I
mng in eee two aeoadea , ; : ,,n
.Upon the Loa Angeles delegation: in
the leglalature reata the duty of seeing
to the passage of legislation needed,
opening the way to stop this. wasta of
the people'a money. - i
Tanglefoot
By Miles
- ' .Overhoit .
, ' EARLY SPRING VERSE. .)
Dear Mr. Tanglefoot Kindly. Insert
the following at your regular rates -meter
rates. ..- : -
Now the sad eyed wilted tadpole soft
ly croons hla lullaby, .
And the rumollng In the distanoe tells
-the coming of the fly.
The playful worms are playing atven-
And the festive springtime poet coins a
, list of fancy words .
The subber in the suburbs plaits his
garden in the moon,
While the cow looks on With " favor-
Hear the catfish In the treetops softly
While the advertising calendar decides
to keep a date. ,-, '".-
The summer making swallows, in their
migratory way, ,:,...,. -,-: '
Fill our houses full of bedbugs, then
' pack up and fly away.
The busy ant and -antelope both ante
In the game, ,
And the buaypoliticlaa. takes little
of the eaIi. - .- - .-.. -:
The bumbleberia bumbling as he bunv
blea on the wing,
And everyone'a poetical beoauss, you
know. It's spring. , ,;; W. wr a
A Big Movement-.,.;' 'A' '.'
. : From the Boston Journal. ; fA ;
This movement for the rale of me
people is the biggeat thing in ear na
tional, life today, i Nobody oaa doubt
this who will observe the aotivttleS at'
a score of state capitals where today
the Oregon plan of senatorial election, "
the short ballot the initiative and ret
erendum are being urged with great
popular backing. There is Just as sharp
division in the Demooratio party -over
this set of Issues, as in the Republican.'
Whether- it be , found at work tn one '
party or the other, thla , people's rale
movement cannot be laughed out of
eountananoo. It Is going to win. and the
party which first surrenders to' it will '
won oorvo us imure, r
th famons Kaniu poet. Bis prow-poma ana'-.
Wfolir feature ot this eolama la Xhe PaUr
Joaroal), 1 . , , .
S. ' ' ' V--.-.- .? !..
die day t had to" take a board and 5
fix the roof, which let tn rairfr X sawed '
my fingers off -and roared until , '
Knowing Your Trade -
neighbors had a pain. 1 tried, and tried, ' !
to drive a fiall, v and : every timethel
harnmer missed: I tolled for hours with-' '
out avail I broke my heck and sprained '
my.wrlatl X clawed the Bhlnglea off the 1
roof,: and ) tilled tin amnlrtnv wn :,
tiers, till friends, and neighbors stood J:
aloof, and held their fingers Ovtheirt?
eara. And then1, a - carpenter X Bought-!
of Bawng boarda a trade he makea he" '
fusaed around my. lowly tSt, and had it' $
flxed to- forty shakes.-: ' He' knew i juit vl
howito wield a saw, he knew Just how F
to drive a nail; ha wore a smile, and! ;S
from his aw there came bo languase
rank and stale. And when hls'titti. J
task was done, he came Inside my hum-;
ble homeland said, when, he had got his
mon: "I wish you'd read this little
pome. I dashed 'It off the other night'
when inspiration wanned my heart; f
would. .tniL.1 ..mlght-Alwaya -writer f or
I'm a hoaey-bird on Art." I read two
Unoa; then, th a roar, I tied him In
a sallor'a knot and burled him beneath
th floor of my obscure but happy got--
Cenvrteha,'- loin! br ' 7 ' W ' . !.
Grow llattbew, AOania. Lt7aflU
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