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' it -t ' THE '.OREGON DAILY JOURNAL; 1 PORTLAND. .SATURDAY ; EVENING, NOVEMBER 25. iflU. THE JOURNAL "f a?'- Ajtift'PBPKNDfc'irr NEWSPAPEB. ' a S. -JACKSON. ,. . . ,Publlb Fobllabed evening lexcept Sunday) and rary Bund j morning at T Journal Build- rtlU D ID1CU1 HTHU, rwriionu, u Eatered at the potoffk at Portland. Or.. 1 he trarunTBlratan through the mails u second by Joining bands."" Oncr each week j with approval of that project He the two congregations worship to-, should throw the whole power ot hi gether. Out stations are served In turn by the two ministers. "Denomi national distinctions are made light of. '- The Christian ' verities are en forced In the simplest form. The public schools have many pupils, since the population Is so closely set together on the Irrigated jsnraunra Main ut; iwm, ?"', lowrfo th. - . . An depaxtatiiats nactaad by rows nurnwri. " ui iuo auymsa ui 1 buiiuuib are oec urea. The main point Insisted on by. the fell tb aerator what dp rtment jrouwant. rOHKTflN AnVRRTIKlNn RKPRE8RNTATI VH. - P-nil(mln A Kentrmr To.. Brnruwrtok BnlldlngVI . .. .... ... fcitt ttfth svenne, New York; 1218 People wpuuueu; wno uescrioes tniS Ou Building, Ctai Subsertptlo Tn-nw by mail or t any addreea la LA United SUtea or Mexico. , ";,. - ' DAILY. Out yr. ....... $5.00 I One month.. ''..,,,;','.., ; i .. SON DAY. On year........ $2.80 I Ona month.. , . DAILY AND SUNDAY. ' On year 7.60 On month.. ....$ M .20 .... .68 community in the Indiana Farmer, Is Us naturalness. The people are live and progressive. They owe much to the leadership of a shrewd preacher and a clever principal , of tne public schools. But the real administration behind government reclamation, ' and, as did 1 President Roosevelt in his time, make govern ment reclamation ' one of the para mount policies of the presidential office, ; 'i'Vi"'; 'f ;5v";i,:"'5,:'.'-: . It would be of infinite value to Mr Taft In his claim for a second term, because it Is constructive statesmanship. SMALL CHANGE. F WHAT WE BURN 9 3 The stone that is moving, can !:, ,; gather no moss. For . master and servant oft ., ' , changing is loss. ; ' Tusser. 4 HANGINGS r pS it any less a crime for the state to murder a human being than for an Individual to murder a human being? The Mosaic law says v "thou shalt ,; not kill," It does not Bay "the Individual shall not kill but the state may kill." When ' a man ' commits murder, does it set matters right for the state to commit murder? ' When the state o? Virginia killed Seattle yesterday, and. thereby set 'an example that it Is,, on occasions, proper to commit, murder, did It bring the dead wife back to life? With its bands- covered with Beat tie's Jblood, Is the .state of Virginia a noble' example of civilization, or, has it merely, given one more evidence ot the fact that relics of barbarism are stili with us? v' -., We apologize for our hangings by "claiming that they Btop murders. But they don't ' t We have had hangings in the United States since the nation spring is In the people themselves. "It Is a story of successful farming, by men. who see this meaning of the irrigation ditch, namely, that in the common interest is the source of pri vate wealvbFThe cooperative idea is at the root of their prosperity. The Danes brought It with them. The Americans in Brash have adopt ed it. EXPLANATION WANTED r HE state dairy and food com missioner is to be nominated at the April, primaries, and the Pacific Homestead, a farm pa per at Salem, has a . candidate. It "heartily and enthusiastically" names A. H. Lea. and- says he "pos sesses the qualifications - necessary land desired for the position." At the Same time that it nominates Mr. Lea, the Homestead applauds the administration of J. W, Bailey, the present state dairy- and food commis sioner. It says "We can conscien tiously pay tribute to the present in cumbent for the good he has accom plished during the past twelve years for the .dairy interests in Oregon." The Journal is not Informed as to the qualifications of Mr. Lea. He may. be- an entirely fit person for the position. (What It and thousands of people In Oregon would ' desire to trwsnw J 4-V A wm born,; and we are still killing . . ' a a a t .v.iLea by the. Homestead in the same breath with Us Indorsement of J. W. 24 to 30 people every day in v the year, ; We mra. cpmmltting a murder every hour in the dayevery day In the ;" week and every jweek In the year. i';uHrt:.v!-?i;.f j :. .-, . State ' killings of 'murderers have not stopped the' murders,, . Indeed. ' there is strong reason to believe' that instead of lessening murders, the ex ample of murder set by the state In its public , killings has actually In creased murder, - Why not? Is it not 'natural for the man to reason ' that if the state kills, why shouldn't " the man kill? W:t .,v'-.-T-T"T z.'!', Five sUtes in the United States have no hangings. -The law forbids public , killings. And those states have no 'more murders that do the states that have state executions. In the Swiss cantons which have no cap- ; ltal ."'punishment, not one fourth- as many murders are committed as . in the United States where ihe: gallows and - electric chair are the tools of .- state vengeance. c., ?:,!;x; . .Life is ; mighty cheap in. the United States. "It is held so lirhtly that in 1808. S3 32 persons Skilled themselves. In 1909, 8402 held earthly existence so lightly that they took their, own lives. I Hanging had so little .terrors-that ; Is 1& actually hanged themselves. ' ' Thus in 1909 . there was so little dread " of hanging -.hat more than three persons every day in the year swung themselves up by the nack ad Justing the noose with " their own hands. Death was so little shunned that nearly 24 persons -killed them selves every day n the year. , When life is thus so cheap, what terrors has , the death penalty f or . tv man whose state of mind Is so desperate that he . takes, another man's life? We cling to the plan of state mur ders as punishment for private mur ders merely because they did it in barbarous times and we have not yet become civilized enough to discard it It has only been a little more than 100 year- since so-called civil' lzatlon abandoned the torture of wit nesses. Before the French revolu tion and after it, witnesses were tor tured to make them tell the truth, The tortures made them tell all they knew and much that, they did not know, with the result that many in nocent men were convicted, con- , demned and executed, r If we are going to cling to the hangings, why not. restore the tor turing of witnesses,- the burning of witches and the other barbarities of . a defunct past? A HAPPY COMMUNITY , ftpHE little town of Brush is set In I V valley high up in the Colo J rado Rockies. It is an lrriga- , tion community of small farms, and has a history of twenty years. It was1 origin ally settled by a small colony ; or , Danes, , who have given character and , success to all who have gathered round the first nu cleus. ' -'.v,' . . '. ..; These Danes brought with them the Ideas and methods of their Dan ish national life. They have "a co operative store, a farmers union, and the cooperative' splrit-.',Thetr''.lateBt exploit was to sell potatoes In Den ver at "fifteen .cents, a, bushel above the market, rate through ; the guar antee of description-:' and quality which is evidenced ' by '"the commun ity .seal attached to the potato, sarka., 3. ".r; H & . '.'-:' i V i They have a sanitarium it Brush supported y the Lutheran chiirch; which described as a "model of efficient, mercy.'V':'4 ' "'. v 'rr" """ The 4ouder3hlp of 4 the "town and neighborhood ISTshowa Ja the school and churches. Of churches there are two, MethodlsV' ; and Presbyterian. The pHople admit that there should be buy one, hut they, meet tb eblnti Bailey, mean that Mr. Lea would be the same kind of commissioner that Mr, Bailey hap been?, Is it on the Bailey test of fitness and the Bailey style of conducting public office,, that the Homestead "heartily and enthu siastically" nominates Mr. Lea ? , .tThese are questions' on which the public should be afforded very defi nite and specific Information... Mr. Bailey has not been a good official. For twelve years the office, under his ad ministration, has been a farce, ii nas Deen conauctea m such a fashion that the employes in the of fice could not, conscientiously con tinue n the. work, and resigned their positions and their salaries. f ? .- The;, office, properly . conducted. could be' of great constructive .value fS thesute huV$adIyi c,bhd.utted,,sIt is oi no value to anybody except for the petty salary that the Incumbent draws.,'- Unless occupied by-' a com petent and scrupulously honest man, the office would better be abolished. If;, as the Homestead Implies, the Bailey standard in the office is the correct standard, the sooner the po sition is abolished the better.,- The late house of representatives at Salem voted to remove Mr. Bailey. The , senate . would have done the same thing but for political Intrigue. Yet the Homestead Indorses Mr. Bailey's administration, and In the same breath nominates Mr, Lea. Possibly It does Mr. Lea an injus tice. Possibly Mr, Lea has all neces sary qualifications for a good official. But If he is to accept . the Home stead's nomination, Mr. Lea will be called upon to explain that, if elect ed, he would not be the Bailey kind of public official. THE PRESIDENT'S DUTY REDERICK CpWLES la to de liver. In the Portland public schools a series of lectures on fires. He will discuss before jthe pupils the core of lamps, stoves ana tne nana ling of gas. it is a part of a general movement to reduce the frightful loss of property and life by fires in this country,;. From carelessness and design, we are a nation of incendiarism. We burn up $500,000,000 worth of property every year. Five American fires between 1901 and 1910 de stroyed 2100 lives. Our record in comparison with Eu rope's is a terrible Indictment In 1910, thirteen of the largest cities of Germany sustained a fire loss of only 11,067.205. In only five Amer lean cites, viz., Chicago, Philadel- phia, .Boston, St Louis and San Francisco, the fire loss for the same year - was $14,250,183, or nearly fourteen times as great. 'The ag gregate population of the five Amer ican cities was nearly 100,000 less thanthat of the thirteen German cities. There is authentic announcement that our equipment and methods of fighting fire are far superior to those in Europe. But, in the United States, we. burn every year - half as many buildings as we erect If placed side by Bide, the buildings we burn in a year would line both sides of a street from New York to Chicago. If the people maimed and crippled by fires In a year were stationed along this death avenue there would be one marred sentinel every 1000 feet along the way. If the people killed at fires in a year were placed at regular inter vals along this grim and blackened avenue of destruction, there would be a charred body every three quar ters of a mile. It is high time to be teaching the children something about how to check this frightful toll on American property and life. I many of the selling land owners has been seen In their allowing a large proportion of the sale money, when former" tenants have bought, to re main on long mortgages at $4 per p.mt tntlat ; . ' I . '" ' f fl t. I... Portland and Olpsr Smitn seem to v v"" v4 vuivuv i I1K6 eacn other rirar rtA. is working out exactly as foretold by the chancellor. The number of land owners has Increased by hundreds and thousands, jind the Incubus of the great proprietorwith his un willingness to .himself improve, or to permit his tenants to Improve has been removed. ':': ,-. Comment and news in brief WHY NOT BE SANK ? I T is thirty days until Christmas. For once, can we not all be sane? Why not begin by shopping early? . Why not bestow a Christ mas remembrance on the shop girls by not; working them' to death the last few days before the annual hol iday? K Why, not remember the- street- Letters From tkt People (Osfnmaul ration ant to Tb Janrnil tor pub lira tion In thla department tbould not ice4 800 worda In Jngth and mint b areompaatod oj ue name ana addrrae ot um oar J Knocks ' Portland Booster. Portland. Or., Nov, SI tor of The Journal. Look over the pa pers. I ask why so many clearanoe ales and crowding of gooda before the eyes of the public' It seems as If To, the Edi- Of oonrm th tnnmhnra of h trmt Chlcaa-o "beef truat" are nftaHlmintio The Union Pacific's net lnbome. ae cording- to a recent report, waa lS.el per cent during thh paat year. ; Thla aoeen t iook liae extreme nard-up-nesa, In adopting a resolution against the parcels post, the Trans-MtsslsslDpi con- areas, In session In Kansas City last week, supplied evidence that It was un Jer the thumb of those vampires of Big Business, theexpresa companies. The wool growers must have help or go to the poarhouse," says the OregonU an. Mlahtn't soma of them keep out of the poorhouse by raising hoas, or fruit, or producing butterf A lot of other peo ple want "help," too; want government to make a living far them. . It la un likely, however, that poorhousee will bo troubled with wool growers. ' '.. "y- ft v-.S:. '.o,'.: ,,::;';-:'l;v';''i: The big -money giants who own or cumrui tne rauroaas nave atmarentlT Portland's business men and boosters I conspired to render the Panama canal. have had their Innings. The year now drawing to a close has, been, of all others, a season of boosting, and Strang as It may seem, after the first arrival per the colonist trains the free employ ment agency has been .besieged .by thousands of Idle men and aw tne wnjjn oompietea. as valueless as pos sible tO the DCODle. as a tranimnMninla) freight regulator. They fought the building of the canal for years; now tuw j un uidii rnurmouB ' money power to make it relatively uaeleaa. Tat then are all the time begging for public i iuju tv oa aei aione. . 1 OREGON SIDliLlGHTS. WaranJ-M aasacre From tts Detroit News of . The difference between war and maa- ...... m, Diunorn in vmna have nad tnei? counterpart in Burope, and' may be having their counterpart 1n Africa. The Duke of Alva slaughtered the Bel gians in Antwerp and Brussels," depop ulating those cities. On.tiivii. . i Am. pnus, aeienaer or th faith, rased the German cities and massacred hundred of thousands of the inhabitants. The massacres of Cromwell in Ireland, - the massacre of the Huguenots on St. Bar-, iiiwumew s aay, tne massacreof Glen coe, the Spanish outrages on women of captured Rom, and , the British out rages upon the SDanlsh ani anA thii. The "Woodvill Areus has been cut d.rn t Badajos these are the choloest m . m - ( i t.,, i riowera' nr , MnAmi i VnMini.- . ...... will compensate by becoming ( an all Indeed, It is Impossible to aeparate the Lakevlew is ' realising the need an Improved city lighting service. , Postal aavlng-s bank deposits at Au rora for the first id days of the bank's existence totalled Mfc?Vir ; ;--' . . , v - - i, The Troutdale library has been moved into larger quarters, the rooms Will be deoorated ana electrically lighted. , r..' -,;' - . ;. J i t Rev., CI it . Kline of Band, ha ac cepted a call recently extended by the Baptist congregation at Brownsville. t The Neacarnle road has been sur veyed - from Nelialem to the Clatsop county tin. The heaviest grade is 8 per cent. , , hnm nrtnf mmr. lfora Observer! The youna ladles of Antelope have raised $1603 and are now ready to contract for the building of a nice opera house for that, little city, The Burns .Times-Herald has entered history of , massacre from . th, hiitnn, .. of war. ',.:,-.. !..v,;f. . w-.yn. - It is a grlevou thing to read of th flight of SO.O00 inhabitant from th city of Nanking last week, and of th putting to . death by shot and bayonet of 8000 men, women and children hv city's- charitable institutions ar taxed I o, yes, bo doubt all folk are sinners: as they bav never been before, at this I some old and tough, some just begln- I train was not -able to get, th; season of the year. In the last few weeks these business men and boosters have been junketing over the country forming development leagues. Ha it Come to th time when city men must needs go out Into the country to tell those already there, how to develop ltT Oh me. oh my! What about Portland from th farmers' stand point? I there nothing there to im prover -If you can find in -the United State a oity where the producers are ners. We all need saving, more Or less re-saving every day, I guess. A few seem just about all right; their souls with righteousness alight; while others, mired and steeped in sin, seem bent th devil's praise to win. Between extremes, ten million grades appear; a hundred million shades of goodness, badness, wrongness, Tightness, cleanness, vile ness, darkness, lightness; and who shall draw a certain line, like fence dividing mine and thine, 'twixt good and bad, the 'saved' and 'lost," pick sheep from Kuuin, in suon a nostr no mortal can bled as they ar her, then I hand you I He only, knows, who mad th pigweed" ine ' caxe. TH rirmcr-i -rnerlAnre la t that Portland wants all In sight. How do they do it? Th retailer who buys from a farmer's wagon finds himself out 1ft th cold when he wants some thing from Front street ; The meat vender who hnva aarln lamtia nr nthar meat from the rancher. If he Is found out, get th cold shoulder -from the meat trusts. When a farmer sends 40 its twenty-fifth year and its manager, I the fiendish Manohu soldiers. But th initiation or the war made just , these things inevitable. Th tyrannous Man ohu government having opened the mas sacre, ; w must now , be prepared for Chinese reprisal, when the rebel army finally strike, at Peking, that ancient Portland, exoept those day wnen , the I capital or the Mongolian conqueror. Th Julian Byrd, proudly announcea that It can show a complete . file, without a single lsau missed. - ' - Tillamook Herald: F. D. Small .re, ports that he haa been shipping two and a half tons of salmon dally by train to v Cottar Grove Sentinel: I. A. Ran dall left a radian at th Bentlnel of rio that weighs seven pounds, is a foot in length, 1 J inches In clrcumfer enoe and solid, as cement.- It Is of the winter variety and is a- beautiful spec imen of what Willamette soil will do. 'A' ' S Albany Demoorat: Claud of a Muneha wanXbe worth much.' To be sure. . th Chirfes are more accustomed to ; violent death than w are, death in vast wave of disease, of flood, of famine, of imperial vengeance, of rebellion and mf war. Long centuries -of civilisation have not served to pro tect that fertile and populous land from periodical : epidemic of ' death. The Carneale I nMnai rnrnnATr trhs In ha Hit the -5".iur"e(L '1? f,1' .wtlu-? . I outhern province, have ver been th SSct on north of that oitv When ha victims of th rlohnea of their land. lfferTwirffl Produced a race around, and the thermometer had been OI vmnaman, wjtn a philosophy, aa low as 40 degree below aero. h i rcngiun, an oaucauon, a utern-iura a; expeot to return In th Spring, when It is warmer, and look after hi claim. rev: SEVEN LITERARY -WITS The Earl of Chesterfield. ' Phillip Dormer Stanhope, the fourth iiaW iit riBttffclfl ona, ri the if h. ;empu to'.ell thm S" Tf J car operatives, the letter "carriers and the postal clerks by not waiting Canada, for In Ontario, Canada, agricul one looks that- way. Deliver to the salesman and you have to take his price. H stands In with th meat trusts. There is no competition: It's a onesided deal, with the farmer at the mercy of the meat trusts. May our good father send us alnrle tax. It will help the worker, and kill the bunko man. Th people ar looking to the progressive men. .Can they un ravel this mess, and place us beyond th grasp of greed arid spoliation? The farmer 1 lucky if he get a third of whkt the consumer pays, and this as well as many other evils, comes from the influence of massing wealth, con trolled by the few, to the detriment of the people. My humble opinion Is that If Governor West will work and vote for single tax he won't need to look to Europe to -supply tillers - of the soil. Farming conducted in our country as It has been, will open the door to Canadian produce, and w shall be glad to have it. Finally, you business boosters of Portland look at home, bear In mind that beyond the line there are million of acres of free land. There Is no Asiatic competition there. Big business does not cut much of a flsrure there. Let th progressive 'move on 1f you want this country to hold her own with his mere word of approval, President Taft can strike, the west Umatilla reclamation proj ect Into life. There are few fields in 'which 'the presidential of fice can do so much good as in promoting government ' reclamation of arid lands. . , , It is more practical and of more immediate value to man than the president's excellent scheme of In ternational arbitration. Splendid as would be the -benefits of the latter, they are yet far removed and will be slow of realization. But reclamation Is a sternly utili tarian policy. Even before water reaches the reclaimed lands they be come the sites for homes and a busy population. After it reaches them, sterility is turned Into fertility, the barren ' soil- breaks forth Into lux uriant vegetation, and products grow where none grew before. " Government reclamation is a sane and splendid activity. ... There may be Instances of amall mistakes made in public irrigation works, but they are trivial In .comparison with the blun ders and bankruptcy of many private'- project. ; 'Whlle government projects In Idaho gave lands to the settlers1, at ' 1 4 5 .and ;ven Jess per acre, the cost on one private project In the; "northwest runs as - high as $850 per acre. , . , i ). v . i:; yiTbe; government In its reclamation policy seeks 'no profit on the lands. The whole purpose In the private project is profit. ,The government's purpose Is to give, the watered land to settlers at actual cost.; The pur pose of private promoters "is to sell the land and water to the settler only at a profit, and in. many instances at air the' traffic ' will ; bear. . '-'l "Mr. Taft should authorize the "west Umatilla - project.; The appeal of Governor West in ' behalf, of 5 that project Jias back of It the unlteij de sire Of the whole people' of Oregon. t No" " should "the president stoni until the day before Christmas to buy presents? ' Already, all know about now many remembrances they are going to bestow. Each knows approximately what gifts must be purchased? Why crush the shop girls, why drive the clerks, carmen and Celiverymen into a dreary and sodden Christmas time by postponing purchases until the last mi&ute? Christmas ought to be a Joy, not a time of . hopeless . servitude. It ought to be a pleasure .'or all the world, not merely for half of it. It ought to be a rest time, no'; a mad stampede of rush, crush and de lirium for thousands already over weary. There is more pleasure for. the donor and for the recipient in a Christmas remembrance' if it is not tainted with the heart's Mood of a shop glrL Vhere Is more Joy In the Interchange of gifts if their tour- chase Is not at a terrible cost to those behind the counters, on the delivery wagons and in the general distribu tion service. Why not be generous ly kind to those who must toil, why not give them a gift on Christmas, by shopping early? Why not be thoughtful? Why not be sane, Just this once? THE UNEARNED INCREMENT century. "Lord Hervey say of Chester field that he was "allowed by everybody to have more conversable entertaining table wit than any man of his time; hi propensity to ridicule, In which he in- auigea himself in mnnit numor ana no distinction, and his inexhaustible nlrlta. anil no dlacratlon. nada him ought and feared liked and not liked by most of hi acquaintance, Horace Walpol cites Chesterfield as the "witty earl"; apropos te an anecdote which he relates of an Italian lady, who aid that she was only four-and-twenty; "I suppose," said Lord Chesterfield, "she means four-and-twenty stone.' It was on of the feature of th earl's character to fall at one into the tone of the society into which he hap penata J!)a.JiurcwajDncanhardly lmaa-ln hia beina- "an abaolute pedant.' but such waa actually hia own account of himself; 'TVhen I talked my best I quoted Horace; when I aimed at being facetious I quoted Martial, and When I had a mind to. bo a fin gentleman, I talked Ovid. I war convinced that non but . the aifPtenti . bad common sense; that th classic contained everything that Was either necessary, useful or or namental to men, and I was not even without thought of wearing the toga virills' of the Romans, instead of the ture 1 a century ahead of any thing I vulgar and illiberal dress of the mod- here. If you don't believe me, take an auto ride next summer from Toronto to Chatham. Don't hurry. Ton will en joy the roads and It will open your eyes. THE KNOCKER, T HE rights of the nation in the unearned Increment of value In its lands, as a proper object ot taxation because unearned by the present owners, was claimed in the Lloyd-George budget of 1909 for the English people. All will re member how that budget was fought by the house of lords, and was -carried over their heads after a most strenuous fight. ' Many of the lords threatened to thnow their lands onto the market as a protest against spoliation by -taxation. Calmly Lloyd-George accepted their challenge , and UAMd them go ahead with their selling, as the best thing for the nation, ; The London Chronicle a Liberal newspaper, has been following up all sales of landed estates up to this date since the'lflOi budget was passed. Besides many owners of small es tates who have sold their lands sev enteen or eighteen., lords and other aristocrats have disposed .. of - hold ings. ' The acreage reported totals to about 27,000, ; besides , innumerable small lots near towns. : The sales' that are known' amount to over $5, 820,000 -but the particulars of oth er sales are not reported. ' tv J? The ;' remarkable point Is that a very large proportion of they sales has been made, to the, farming ten ants, who have , thus become their own landldrds.' Alsd many laborers" have 'bought the "cottages and gar dens which they nave occupied for many years, A kindly feature in , . Religion and Advertising, Portland. Or.. Nov. 13. To the Editor of The Journal. Scarcely a day pass I bitter enemies, Dut wnat one is roroea to com to th conclusion that that which was held in th highest veneration and was re garded a absolute truth, is only a myth and a delusion.. And o, too, with respect to Gipsy Smith. For th past two weeks nearly on became accus tomed to seeing th plotur of th great evangelist on poster in front of the church doors, and In th newspaper column of our city, showing him In hi most "striking attitude." while pleading exhortingly for the conversion to Christ But what a shock to one' religious feelings when one has but to turn to the next page In the paper to find the same "striking attitude," the same holy en thusiasm, the scm picture of the de vout Rev. Smith displayed over his own signature testifying to th alleged qualities, of a certain optician or of a pair of spectacles! .What a travesty on religion! . Have they no respect for the intelligence of the reading public at all? Or do they Imagine the publlo Is en tirely ignorant of how such testimonial are being obtained? Please show me the light. Don't let me go away with th idea that Gipsy Smith imposed on the credulity of Port land's citlsens more than he would have dared to to in any other city. GEORGE DELMAR. ' ems." Of course these idea were ex pressed when he was yet a young man. Chesterfield had the honor of having th plan of Johnson's dictionary as cribed to him, but he apparently did not fully appreciate the honor, for he Is said to hay been very rude to th great lexicographer, and -later they became When It was brought to him that Johnson had termed him "a wit among lords," In revenge Ches terfield, in hi Letters, depicted John son, it Is said, in th character of -the "respectable Hottentot Among other thing he observed of th Hottentot "ha throws hi meat any where but down his throat" This being Party Fences. Portland, Or., Nov. 10. To th Ed itor of Th Journal. Kindly Inform m as to ihe law regarding party fence. If I erect a fence between my lot and my neighbor's with C Inch posts must I place th , post wholly , on my side of th line or can I place three inches on my lot and three Inches on my neigh bor' lot? ' In erecting th fence can X go on my neighbor' ground as far aa 1 necessary to dig th hole, paint hi side of fence, etc., or must I stay en tirely on my-own side of line? Finally, can I call on my neighbor to pay half the cost of fence, or must I pay It all? . . . . E. Q. FLETCHER. , (A party fence, In whioh the cost 1 shared by adjoining owners, can only be built by agreement' of the owners. If you cannot agree, you must build th fence entirely on your own land. In erecting it you probably would have a right to go on the adjoining land so far as necessary in th work, being cars fui to cause no damage lit so doing. You "votes for women" question was put entirely to the women it would be ve toed by a big majority, - .r Now, what woman 1 there, who,' It she is willing to admit the condensed truth, ha any respect for a man whom he can. boss? And where is th woman who doesn't enjoy being - ruled by a man? We can't get away from it If w are truly woman; It's our nature, born Into us for a thousand years. But, by being ruled, -understand tne, I don't mean domineered or ordered. It ha been truly said, "The hand that rocks th cradle rules the world," and by that same token woman you will never reform th world at th polls, That's not the plaoe for reform, for "what's born in the bone you can't beat out of the flesh." W wouldn't need reforming If all women would put forth the same effort and give as much time - to the study of prenatal Influence aa some ar now doing for th cause of votes th next generation would make a different his tory. : . ' Gipsy Smith, in a talk to women at th Orpheum, said, "Th influeno of th mother more than anything else, de termine what th ohild I to be." If you can unconsciously put a bunch of grapes, for instanoe, on a child's face as a birth mark, what can't you put consciously in that cniia s brain T . MRS. NINA MARTIN. an art that have endured for oenturle hut navitp m. warllkA tiartnl. ' Tn nnna. quenc of th prollflo nature of their on ana meir race, tney nave neen in captured prise of a succession Of con querors, whose inroad upon them have, with successive floods, helped to keep th population- to It normal million for many hundred years. The great khan of Tartary, Ghengis, who swept on horse out of middle Asia across th steppes of Russia and to th. very gates of Rom itself, was the first to. subjugate the whol ot China propr. Ana tn dominion , or hi euocessor, remarked to Johnson, who waa by no mean pleased ac being Immortalised as th Hottentot "Sir," h answered, "Lord Chesterfield nvr saw m eat in his Ufa" ;. ... - No On, it was generally allowed, had KubUT Kahn, was even f gratr thai, suoh a fore ofJable wit aa Lord Che- that of the Manchurtan tyrant la Pe- terfleld. but while ..the "Graces" wr king today. H ruled, according to ver his them,, h Indulged himself Marco Polo, th Venetian, who pn- wlthout distinction or condratlon In trated overland into China In 1J70, as a numerous sallies. H waa therefor, at potentate of potentate. And many a one sought and feared; liked but not maasacr was eonduoted by hi Tartar loved; neither sex, nor relationship, nor horsemen upon th fertile fields and rank, nor friendship, nor obligation, nor cities' of - southern China. profession, could shield his victim from To be massacred seem to be th fate what Lord Harvey calls "these pointed,!0' Ovwy second generation of peaceful glittering weapons, that seemed to shin Chinamen. Throwing off the Tartar only to a standarbv. but out deen into Y were again nrougnt into sun- thos they touched." enortiy after Lord Chesterfield ar rived in Ireland to take up th lord lleu- jeotlon in modern times by that recent Tartar tribe known -a Manchus, who swooped down from Manchuria in the north with their horses and, by massa-- tenancy of that country, th blshon rf 7"T. Waterford relate that the vice, trees- ntnr.i innnitVnt of China r,ron-r. TireB,-MrriGardinr; s Tnan er good ohar-j Xh0 Manchus evaa'tmposed tipon their acw ana consiasram rortune, waitea Chinese subjects th pig-tail aa a badge upon him on morning, and in a great I of servitude. fright told htm that he waa -assured I And w live to see th day whan the upon good authority that th peopl in I Chines have, by . finally . borrowing tn province of Connaught were actually I aom of that western learning ot wnion rising, unon which the vicerov. lnnk.d I Maroo Polo told Kubla Khan 700 years at hi watch and with great composure ago, gained enough knowledge and self- ' answered him: "It I o'clock and time confidence to throw off the yoke of for them to rise, X believe, therefore, I jaancnu emperor in ream, in that your new la true." I government retaliates with massacr. Twenty years b-rfor h died daf ness J"" K.Z.H,J?9 t nuZ was gradually affecting Chesterfield. "V j"" and to this affliction wa later addd UK?" Till "k" rlr hllnAnaaa hit kt. VI. w JBUk Ul mw " '' ' , .. . j -wu .... tiuo I th north may be about to get hia richly earned reward. Jnatfce na a Slidlnft? Scale. , Prom th Cleveland Plain Dealer, Art Indianapolis judg ha mad pub lic announcement of th method he In tend to employ in dealing with offen der under th automobile statutes and regulation. Hi most Important - In- hi. .nr . . .. . I novauon is urn aeviaeu iu mass in th.s7tB rjrZZZZ. ,r"r""ia lw Punishment for .peeUm, fit th. crime. manner left him only with life;- his last words ("Give Dayrolles a chair") prove that he had neither forgotten his rrjend nor the way to receive him. His famous jest which vn Johnson al lowed to have merit, "Trawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't chooss to have it known," 1 the best description possible of hi humor and condition during th latter part of on th 14th of March, 1771. Next week Seven Famous Romance Tanglefoot By Miles Overholt DINKT LITTLE ESSAYS. ... . t y Punishment In the Schools. ' Portland. Or., Nov. Si. To th Ed ltor of The Journal. There ha been a great dealsald In th papers about child welfare. Do those who ar Inter ested In this movement know that Port land is far behind Boston, in that corn poral punishment is allowed in thV pub lic schools hereT Many year ago whip ping In schools was prohibited in Bos ton,. : ; " , " "'. " ' , - t supposed that Portland courts were probably would have no legal right to I good to children but I am sorry to read go on th neighbor's land to paint th that one judg at least is brutal. A outside of your fence, however.) - That 8Oold Hill Suffragette. ' "Portland, Or.,i Nov. 28. To th Editor of The Journal. -It seem to me that th document sworn to in Gold Hill be fore a notary public by Colonel B, W. Cooper and appearing in Th Journal recently Is worthy of consideration. It seems a certain ' class of people be lieve that' when others fail to agree with them 'It 1 becausf ,of Ignorance, there ar no two ways to 'th argument Mr. and Mr. Cooper have taken an oath to "remove to some state where peopl ' have brains Instead of self willed ignorance," and I think wrought to be willing , td let them depart In peace.' ;j - '.,'" ,-,,. ! j Now, I may not have had as much of an .education , as Colonel Cooper or his wife,, but my bump of self-esteem is developed sufficiently to cause m to believe that I've as much old-fash ioned "horse" sense aa the average per son, and I 'further believe that if th woman , who lone her tmpr to uoh a degree that sh will take a rubber hose to whip a child Is not fit for a teacher. A child is not safe when In th schools of Portland. 1 1 know of a case where a uttie gin stuck a pin In another llttl girl, , who, of course. mad an. exclamation of pain. ,, ;Th teacher punished the uttie girl who wa stuck with th pin simply because she said "Ow," but did not punish th other although she knew th fact. That how th stupldneas of some teaohers. Now, are we to trust our children to such teachers? It Is tim for parents to demand a law prohibiting oorporal pun Ishment In public schools. ' -v.'.v. h : v 'i, "?! A BO8T0NIAN. ; .!"' 1. 1 1 i l l ! I III I I . ,. . ', :vj;:-;',:Vv Conversation. ::..' ;vy.':r'.V.rom Harper's Weekly. ' "I that Carnegi has given , awa another 125.000,000." ' "Is that so? Wh got it?" " -' "Nobody.". , r ' - vW. : Th Piano. (Contributed). ' The piano was invented during th Inquisition period and, it i said, was used with great suocess. Sine the time of temperament and boarding schools its success has been even more pronounoed. .'..'." . . y: '"., Upright piano ar the moat obmmon. They certainly look th part Then there is th grand piano, which 1 a little smaller than a box-car and a lit tle larger , than your pooketbook. Last comes the baby-grand, which made pos sible th carved-lege Joke. Each piano has a very comfortable family of fifty-two whites and thirty six blaoks, all on the front porch. ' it depend largely upon where you draw th color line what sort of muslo you mix. For Instance, when the majors "Oh, well,' said I, you always were ana minor ana nais ana Bnrp sort OI I quiCK at Ilgurcs. lose traca or on another and get to worrying about how to - get back into line it i canea classical, as distin guished from classy, otherwise the gut. terish rag-time. - When the Cat rets out or tn oag ana tne bun-dog chases It, then that's German opera, which looks an awruiiy lot like a pretzel. All. VbllVT IIIUBIO IB DOE muiio. BInce-th Installment plot Was hatched r 1 thirty-five miles an hour will b fined rj S3B and cost, wnu cne aoteotea in tne act of going sixty mile an hour Will be relieved of f 60 and cost, to say nothing of th likelihood of a prison sentence being thrown In for good measure. The judge make publlo la advance his pro gram, so that no one will be surprised. He states that all classes will be treat ed alike except that the joy rider stands In a class by himself, being Intrlnsi cally a-law-breaker the moment he be-' oomes a joy rider, and, therefor . de serving of om additional punitive con sideration. . . Such a statement from a judge should hearten the Indianapolis police who have been endeavoring to cope with th dif ficult automobile problem. Th mag istrate who goes on record thus fully must to save his own faoe, live strictly up to the specifications of his promts. Tne result should be highly feenefiolal. An Eye for Figures. 1 ; From the Baltimore Sun. ' J ' At th Pen and Pencil club In Phil adelphia they war talking about th elevation of the stag. T. A. Daly, the poet, said: , . '.- "The stage needs a llttl elevating. It 1 too material. Over in New Tork the other day I was talking to a man ager when th man Interrupted mo somewhat impatiently. .. .. ; ,. " 'If th playwrights.' h said, 'only knew their business as well aa ja man agers, know ours! Why, this morning, sir, I selected with lnfalllbl Judgment ou cnorus girt in su minute The Ckromc Invalid (Contributed to Tba Journal b Walt Uaaoo. tbe (amoua Kunaaa poet. Hit proee-poem are a regular featura of till j column In Xha pally . Journal.) ;.;'.'?,',,:,.,, ' ',1;.' - i ";.;.:'': f j, t had taken pond of poison, J had pianos have beoom popular playthings. ; tn, 1 or .? a 'ler0. Pro- it usea to d mat oniv avnrv nth., - '- house, had a piano. , Now eVerv 'hou-. .rro.m. ;ng store- flagon I has on. , Tou can't blam them. Self- nfa ?lown l5" 05TX1T XVH?' 1 na 1 ulkeH I defense, says Dootor Cook, 1. th first ab,ut my ymPtom". ! " th -flredl law of nature. t A very few persona get ov c.ra .1lom' An ! MMd to " M UHUICaf .-ij ' .. . ' i ----- ioi-ustju mp. Installment plans were InventAl for Blana wnu" taiaea or my diseases and fear hubby wouldn't b able to find m,r , ' . Z 1 " UL Then my something to worry about You buy a Vric ,rkem,alaiT,.e. . hli my piano for $2 down and M a week. ; Wnen oot'. ,ni h! fa,d: VW,U not 11,ten to your flrt mon.th's bin oomes in you of tfmmyrot you have talked find that your ft a week only interest about mr f Umsnts,-; jrw have brooded on th interest on th principal., Thn I? "rour vln. them llv you lose interest In your Interest and ,n i68uas they've soured your poor vmii, nrinninai and Mn, ii,. i I old brains. I have oome around to cure and a blonds young man with a lisp Jrou,'. and iwlb" "1.1,n1 sald.and h oome around to ask th bos if he will toolt m ,t ih Jinkl and h hauled ,-. uiv vu ui uu xuvu iie maae me aon my raiment and ho chased me out of, doors, and he urged m. with a pltoh fork till I helped him do the chores. All th day he kept me humping and wheji- ' e'er I paused to tell -of my handsome line of symptoms, he would simply glv a yell,- and look round, him for a dornlck; so I learned to hold my peace, Ono upon a tim a man reallv did pay up on a piano on th installment plan. Then h started up an Install ment piano store himself, became a multl-mllltonalr and lived happily aver afterward. , ' A frequent appendage to th nlano U th plana student. It doe not bear da- .uwwi.w, iivni . uui ur.r cio- I . . . . . . . . . . . - i - orlptlon. Thero.ar only two thina-s " "rn" ln a a cure, worse than a piano student. They ar.; "L.h.hT Z , Two piano studenta " ; ; ; ; . orict MLttb.w Adant. 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