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A COUNT WANTED
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iHE west extension of the Uma
tilla project would put 60.000
to 60,000 acres of arid land Into
productivity. Its entire cost Is
estimated at $4,000,000. The ultl
mate cost of the land to th'e settler
Is placed at $80 per acre. Once re
claimed, It would provide homes for
the homeless, lands for the landless
' and Jobs for the jobless.
Forty per cent of the area Is
owned by the government. Twenty
per cent Is the , property of , the
Northern Pacific railroad, and that
company offers to allow the govern
. ment to fix its own price and its own
terms In conveying It to actual set-
tiers, an offer very creditable to that
corporation.-.Trenty-eight per cent
. is !nhufcAtsof the Oregon Land
ft Water company, and there Is a
statement that the Oregon Land &
Water company ia willing to cooper
ate with the government fn further
ing the extension of the project. The
remaining 12 per cent Is under pri
vate ownership.' r-
Here is a splendid opportunity by
a broad policy to make new homes,
new settlers, and new production in
eastern Oregon. Fifty to sixty thou
sand acres of barren land made pro
ductive Is a consequential issue. It
Is an issue worth pressing, because
It is feasible. It la within the regu
latlons of the public reclamation sys-
. tem. It has the approvalof the re
clamation authorities and only
awaits the approval of President. Taft
to become effective.
' For months past denunciation has
been thundered at the Oregon sen
' a tors -ecause this extension has not
' been made. It was' charged that
. they .were responsible for the -delay,
- Mr Bowerman voiced It. ( The Ore
' gonlan proclaimed it. ; Lesser lights
, cuckooed It.
..But, at last, the colored gentleman
- has emerged from the woodpile. The
real opposition is out in the open,
" Settlers on a private project are voic
ing it in resolutions adopted at pub-
tic meetings. ... We have, in fact, the
- unexpected spectacle of an open cam
paign -against extension, of the, Uma
tilla project - It is a campaign in
1 which protests have been sent to the
Oregon delegation, to the secretary
of the interior, and to the president,
i Oregon ought to have this big area
of , barren land under irrigation. As
a matter of, state-wide policy, it
should be pressed to an issue, and at
once. Those who are ? against It
should stand up to be counted.
Those who are for It should stand
' Up to be counted; If representations
are to be -made to the president they
should be made In open dryllght.
The public would like to have an
open statement of his views on the
subject by.W. J. Furnish of the pri
vate project It would like to have
an open statement by ex-Congressman
Ellis,' who was on the house
committee when congress cut out
thaj part of section nine which re
quired all reclamation money raised
In Oregon to be spent In Oregon, it
would like an open statement from
Dr. Henry Waldo Coe, former fac
tor in the private project, and for-
merly much in evidence at the na
tional capital.
SIX DECADES AGO
THEt Rutland Messenger tells of
the pay of teachers in Vermont
68 years ago. It says $18 for
a whole term of three months
was often the pay of men teachers,
and $11 the teaching wage of women.
Of course, the teachers of the
time had free board in the homes of
pupils, usually taking turns of a week
each with the various families. But
even with board added it is difficult
to fancy a grown man on a wage of
25 cents a day, or a woman teacher
on a dally wage of 15 cents.
That was six decades ago. It was
half way from the birth of the Amer
ican republic to the present. It was
In the time of reading, writing, arith
metic and the hazel switch.
It was before football, college yells
end trat ' houses. It was an era of
three months school in a year, when
to read, write and cipher was a fair
education. But 'from such training
came splendid presidents, wise gov
ernors," able r administrators and a
patriotic people. ' ; ; J .
.' However, education is fast becom
ing a ; large 'actors ; In , successful
careers. "The number of the unedu
cated who climb to distinction is on
th'e wane, vTbe percentage : of col
lege graduates listed-In "Who's Who
In America" 1b steadily "mounting.
'-In the 19111 volume seventy-pne.
per cent of those about whom educa
tioual facta are gitenj. have had col
lege training. Fifty eight per cent
are graduates of colleges or schools
of college or university trades, :.. Only
sixteen. per cent ended their educa- the "laws of humanity and there
tlon In high scbols. academies, nor- quirements of the public conscience"
ratals' or seminaries. Only nine per shall prevail,' ' ' j ;
cent who received a common school
education found a place in the book,
If the boys and girls are to have
a fair start, there must be better
schools than those reflected by the
$18 a term for men'and $11 for wo-
men leathers lh Vermont six' decades
ago.
A GHASTLY RECORD
Y
ESTfiRDAY , The Journal print
ed a list of homicides that oc
curred recently In the United
States in a single day.
The dead totaled 37. Thip did
not Include six negroes described as
having been killed "In the last six
days." It did not include other pos-
slble killings that may have escaped
the eye of the press clippings bureau
that made up the list. '
It was a day to think about. It is
the more Impressive becauso it was "tones and other still more danger
not much more of a murderer's day OU8 stones shatter the windows of
than la every day. ; We have killed
as high as 30 people every 24 hours
the whole vear throueh. The av-
erage for 1910, according to the best
statistics, was 24 murders for each
day in the year. x , .
It la a staEreerlns: record. It Is an
average of 115 to the million of pop-
ulatlon, while Italy' Is only 105.
Great -Britain's is 27: France kills
an average of only 19, and Germany
but 13. - "
It yesterday's list as printed, 24 1
of the victims - were . shot. In some or Britain rioatsT or, la It that they
cases the weapon used was not spec- have faith in such a policy of com-
lfied, but it is probable that the pulsion as is the worat and most fu
number actually shot was larger. method of influencing Anglo-
Twenty-four out of 37 shot down in Saxon men? r ;
one day, with a possibility that there
were others, throws some Hsht on 1
why w have ; become a notorious
man-killing nation. We arm every
thug, every murderer, every assassin I Bon no .to force, is the only satis
and every crazy man, supply them factory method of conversion. Up
with ammunition and give them
leave to go out and shoot, slaughter
and Slav. It Is one Influence that
helped to write the ghastly record
printed in yesterday's Journal,
There Is another and an even
deadller Influence. It is the failure cent election by only 1500 votes
of the courts and Juries to convict, when a clear majority of the entire
France, with its record of killing voting population of the state cast
only 18 per million, convicts 70 per their ballots.
cent of its criminals brought to trial. In the English campaign the ten
Germany,' with its record of only 13 tatlve and weakly bill proposed for
per million, convicts 95 per cent, the last session has been abandoned
We, with our record of 115 per mil- by both friends and opponents.
Hon, convict only 1.3 per cent. That bill would have , enfranchised
Is it not an appalling circum-
stance? German courts convict 95
out of every 100 murderers; our
courts convlct'lS out of every 1000
murderers. Is It any wonder that
the list of our killings In one day
numbered 37? Is it any; wonder
that we killed 10,500 persons In
1895, and 10.662 in 1896?
It talli as exactly with what Charles
H. Carey, a lawyer, said to an as
sembly of lawyers, which was:
Under our codes, an elaborate
system" pf technical rules of pleading
has grown up. ' Much time As wasted
upon demurrers and motions which
are filed in nearly every suit. Tech
nlcal rules that confine parties to Sheridan, Wyoming, marked Its en
definlte iraes are obstructions to ul- trance Into three new states. The
tlmate iustice. Courts and lawyers total population of commission gov-
now make Justice a secondary qcn- ernment 'cities then reached 3,500,
sideration. They proceed on the 000.
theory that the rules must be ad- Tne National Short Ballot assocl
hered to, even though the result is ation a6ked the mayors of these 158
to bring Victory to the party who
ought not to win; and they' have
built up fine theories of the law
under which precedent must be fol-
lowed to absurd conclusions.
INVADED TRIPOLI
DRIOU to 1874 the Idea was gen-
erally accepted that once any
portion 01 a roreign country
was invaded the Inhabitants be-
came subjects of the invader, and
had no rights of patriotic reslstence.
But, chiefly among the smaller states
of Europe questions of the privileges dally balances in- bank." In Cherry
of an Invader arose. vale. Kansas, again. "Our floating
The Russltn government proposed
In 1874 a conference on. the rules of
military warfare, which met in Brus-
Bels in July of 1874. The precise
questions were raised that have
sprung from the alleged Italian ex-
cesses in Tripoli.
Russia and Germany proposed to
authorize the general levy of lnhab-
ltants outside the limits of occupied
territory, but within thoso limits
they Insisted on the old rule,
The emaller states refused to
agree, and were supported by France,
Great Britain and Italy." A dead
lock resulted and tho Russo-German
proposal was dropped.
Lord Derby, then the British min
ister, summarized the British policy.
"Above all, hor majesty's govern
ment," said he, "refuses to bo a par
ty to any agreement the effect of
which would be to facilitate regres
sive wars, and to paralyze the patri
otic resistance of an Invaded people."
At The Hague conference of 1899
the question was again raised by
Great Britain in a proposal based on
Lord perby'B ctatement. Again it
was frustrated by the opposition of
Russia and Germany. ' A compro
mise proposal was ultimately accept
ed, containing these expressions,
"The cases not provided for (includ
ing the right of the Invaded popula
tion to take up arms), should. not be
left to the arbitrary Judgment of the
military commanders. .' pop
ulations and . belligerents remain
under the protection and mplre 6f
the principles of international law,
as they result from the usages estab
lished .- between civilized nations,"
from the' laws, of humanity,-and the
requirements -of 'the 'publiOj con
science." r The .: Italian " representa
tives supported the British .proposal.
; The 1 awl. as set forth still stands,
admllUng tie legitimacy of popular
uprisings in occupied territory, and
1 requiring that in their suppression
Reprisals, as distinct from Judic-
flat punishment are forbidden. "The!
violation of the laws of war by one
of the parties cannot 'release the
other from Its , obligation to ob-
serve them," was laid down as a gov-
ernlng principle by the Italian (rep
resentative at the conference of, 1874.
SPREAD OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE
T
WO opposite systems for theniclpal costsno standard basis for
extension of equal suffrage are
In vogue Jn England and In
the United States
In, the older country, strange to
say, the method is by violence,
Doubtless Biblical sanction is relied
on in the text "The Kingdom of
Heaven suffereth violence, and the
violent taketh it by force." The
Lpubllc peace is broken, the right of
Petition to parliament is abused,
Pudiic onices and piricial residences,
tn police forces are defied, the
king's ministers are refused a hear-
la In public meetings. Yet a bill
tor extended suffrage for men is
promised for earfy introduction In
parliament It Is so drawn as to
admit of amendment to include votes
for, women. Is it that; the feminine
leaders in this campaign fear the
decision of that representative body
which Is entrusted with legislation
for the millions over which the flag
opposite methods are pursued In
mesa united btatcs. The-old Quaker
formula runs "let them comei in by
convmcement, and an appeal to rea-
to this date 5,163,473 American cit-
izens are living under the rule of
equal surrrage in six states. In the
modern state of Oklahoma the con-
stltutionai amendment for woman
surrrage railed to carry in the re-
about one million women Who were
taxpayers and property holders.
The new bill, If It passes, will con-
fer the privilege of voting on the
adult females In a population of over
forty millions. The suffragettes are
working under the watchword of all
or nothing. The next three months
will doubtless tell the talel
COMMISSION CITIES REPORT
U'
P to October 1, 158 cities in
the United States had adopted
commission government. In
the previous two months Oma
ha, Nebraska; Gardiner, Maine, and
clue9 10 report on tneir experience,
Tne tone of nearly all was optlmis-
tic. But, very naturally there Is
diversity in this unity. One
feature stands out. The people get
what they desire and want.
Tw0 reports are quoted. In Bur
lington, Iowa, the mayor says; "In
the first three months the city was
placed upon a cash basis, taxation
was equalized and more work ac-
compllshed at less exponse. Mayor
and councllmen devote their entire
time to the city affairs. All bills
discounted and interest received on
debt was $49,000 and warrants were
selling at C9 cents on the dollar and
the city running behind $6000 a
year. After three months under the
commission plan our paper is at
par we have met all expenses and
have a nice balance in the general
fund." And these are typical re
ports.
The example of Des Moldes, a
city of 86,388 people, is fresh in
mind.
There are exceptions to the rule
that commission government 'had
lowered the tax rate and reduced
expenses.. But the root of the matter
In all the reports is that the cities
are now getting the kind of govern
ment they wanted, and show ia pew
kind of personal interest in the re
sults. Another indication is that the
scope and sphere of "municipal gov
ernment Is enlarging. It la out of
the old rut, with the prospect of
stricter honesty and mora thorough
efficiency drawing nearer.
MUNICIPAL ACCOUNT KEEPING
A'
T the International Municipal
congress, held in Chicago In
September, last, the subject of
municipal accounting to pro
mote efficiency was handled by Her
bert R. Sands of Chicago, director
of -the bureau of 'public efficiency.
, American cities of oyer ' 80.000
population pay out annually more
than a: billion dollars. The bonded
debt of the city of New York close
ly approaches , the sum of our na
tional debt.5-That city has on her
payrolls twice as' many employes as
are in ,the -national f service in the
city of Washington.-' The city of
Chicago - disburses b annually .' eight
times as much jiswe paidRussia for
Alaska, ------
.The facts are that so much is a
standard of cost for municipal ex-
pendltures ;, needed .that one .city
pays, ; in .some .. instances,' twice as
much, per yard for a certain kind of
pavement as another.; One city may
pay7 twice as, much for street clean-
ing as another and twice as much
for flushing and cleaning sewers,
The main reason seems to be that
neither city officials nor the public
have adequate information as to act
ual' results and costs, nor can de
termine what the costs should be.
There has been, said this expert,
little or no standardization of mu-
comparison. Thus the mere compar
ison of costs between' cities of the
j same, size, may be, and often Is, mis
leading, In the absence of. evidence
of how the costs in either city were
determined. - .
By way of remedy this suggestion
was made. Let the mayors of the
various cities have ledger accounts
opened at the beginning of the year
with each department ' Let the may
or be debited on each account with
the amount, of the department ap
propriation for the year, and be cred
lted at the end of the year with the
results produced by the several de
partments from the money allowed
them.. If such accounts were set
forth in charts such charts, to be
not only published, but to bo placed
on permanent exhlb!tionat each city
hall then a competition for best re
sults, would be speedily developed.
Just such information is intended
to be secured In the city of San
Francisco by the modern system of
accounting proposed by the commit
tee of accountants appointed by the
Merchants' association.
The plan In question could be
readily adopted In the commission
form of city government now under
discussion nere.
Letters From the People
(Commuulrfttlona aent to 7b Journal for nob
llratlon In thU drpirtnMnt ihould not axeeed
(00 word In lrngth nnd mtt b ejmpanid
or in nam na naarea 01 u nur.
Oregon Man In Nevada.
Ploohe. Nev Nov. J7. To tha Editor
of The Journal Although I seem to bo
far away from tha territory o' tha Ore
gon newspapers, I find a great lntereat
and Inquiry concerning Oregon. Aa your
readers may know, thta la one of the
oldest and licheat stiver campa In Ne
vada. The ore bodies originally dis
covered- by Raymond and Ely ware of
uch fabulous values that the ore waa
carried on the backs of donkeys over
S00 mllea to the smelter at Salt Lake.
Ore under an aaaay of 1200 r ton
could not be transported to profit and
yet so valuable and high trade were
the ores that mora than $30,000,000
were transported In this primitive way
to tha smelters. The dumps of lower
grade orea are still piled mountain high
around the shafts of these early work
lngs, and where I alt writing thla letter,
I can count mora than a soore of such
treasure heaps. Lying Juat In front of
my vision Is dump No. 1 of the Ray
mond & Ely mine; Its assay value la
$8,000,000. One of the peculiar features
of this camp Is the variety of ore de
posits (the. camp, by the way. Is tha
county seat of Lincoln oounty, Ne
vada) gold, stiver, copper, lead, sine,
manganese-umet " I mention man-
?anae and lima because of their value
o the smelters as flux. A few yeara
ago the Salt Lake & Los Angeles rail
road ran a spur from Calient, on their
main line, and while this was a great
advantage of eld Ploche, It failed to
serve the new discoveries across the
mountain, three mllea away, where,
without any question, now can be seen
the.richust developed mine In any camp
In Nevada, but it costs $360 to transport
thla ore by teams to the depot from
the shaft of this mine (the Prlnoe Con
solidated). Bo $7,000,000 of ore values
are now ready ,for shipment when the
railroad Is extended to this mine, which
Is now assured- In the early months of
next year, Thla railroad will not only
serve the Prince Consolidated, but the
Prince Extension, largely owned by
Portland people. Then scratching along
the gentle slopes of the Ploche bills are
the Eastern Prince, the Golden Prince,
the Gold and Silver Prlnoe, the Califor
nia PiocheVthe Centennial and many
more whose names I have forgotten,
but nearly all in position to ship valu
ables manganese ore.
One thing impressing a traveler fa
vorably lB fln 1 meats aerved on
the tables of the hotels. The cattle
are direct off the ranges around Pl
oche, and the meat ia peculiarly sweet
and tender. Ploche has for 26 years
had all her eggs in one basket (mines)
while at her very doors thousands of
acres of the finest valleys of farming
lands have been lying uncultivated.
Not unlll the Ploche ' Commercial
club took up the question of dry
; farming and irrigation by mountain
' reservoirs had many thought it
profitable to attempt farming on
a largo scale. A company of
business .and professional men has
had set aside 6000 acres, and they have
already several hundred acres plowed
ready for next spring sowing. They
are spending $16,000 in improving and
fencing the tract They are acting on
tha advice of the government experts,
who have gone over the land carefully.
This valley, stretches north without a
4reak to Ely, 100 miles sway, and in my
opinion will soon become one of the
garden spots of Nevada. No finer cli
mate can "be found anywhere than at
Ploche, which has an elevation of 6000
feet, never very col in the winter and
never hot In the summer. The soil In
this valley is practically the same as
our eastern Oregon wheat lands, large
ly voloanlo ash, but abundant water
much nearer the surface than in east
ern Oregon, making dry farming much
more certain as. to favorable results.
J. J. WALTER. .
Aid for Indian War Veterans.
Albany, Or., Nov. 80. To the ' Editor
of The Journal. Feeling sure that you
will be willing to devote some of your
valuable space to the cause of the In
dian War veterans of the North Paciflo
coast, I would make an earnest plea In
their behalf. For several yeara I have
contended and still contend that they
are Justly entitled (and also the widows
of veterans) to the same "nge pensions
as are given to Civil War veterans, of
whom I am one, and am a grateful pen
sioner. But from my knowledge of
our Paciflo coast Indian wars, I know
the veterans of those wars endured much
greater hardships tham did I and are
more deserving, and personally, I would
rather have their pensions Increased
than that of my own,, aa seems prob
able In the near future. ;
i II y service as "a volunteer from In
1865 to. In 1866 was mostly rendered
as first lieutenant, serving with a de
tachment of Company B, First Oregon
Infantry guarding the immigrant road
from hostile Indians, . n .the wilds -of
Idaho at Fort v Hall and vicinity. ' This
service, and knowledge of Indian wavs,
prompted , the members of tje Grand
Camp Indian War Veterans at the meet
ing In Portland last June, to elect me
COMMENT AND
:V' v , . . B.MALL, CHANGE. . '
Maybe the big railroad financiers are
"bearing" the Portland dock bond.
' Think what nleasura many neonle
miss by having no physical ailments to
ten auuuh. . ' ..
Portland doesn't need to rely on the
postal savings banks to accept Its im
provemeni oonas as security.
President Mohler of tha W P. &va
Portland Is a wonderful city. Bet he
wishes he was back here to live.
In their story of a hi Wthherv. the
Merrltt brothers, Minnesota pioneers,
tell how pious John X. Rockefeller got
soma of his money.
If Revolutionist Reves should win he
would have revolution on his- hands at
once, same aa Madero. Revolutlng has
become the principal Industry In Mexico.
Some luda-ea and lawyers are advocat
ing more court t, more Judges, more
chances of appeal. England gets along
with a small f traction of the courts.
judges and litigation that encumber tSis
country. , , v ,
V 9
Now nerhaDS little Pu' Tl will be
brought up to be an actor, which If not
entirely desirable Is a lot better than
trying to be emperor over 400,000,000
people, mostly rebels. .
It anneara that some ateamboat men
are Inclined to Infringe upon or partly
nuuiry tne oioaea bridge draws regula
tions to the delay and disadvantage of
jrreat numbers of people. This cannot
be arrowed ; stearrboat ' men haven't ex
clusive rights in this matter.
President Benton, of the University
of Vermont, says: "We have now a
pyramid which nan heightened Itself by
16 years sines the beginning or tne iasx
century. The apex, instead of marking
the age of efficiency at 60 years, now
reaches up ana records it at t years.
- This la not the aare of the
young man, It la the age of tha prepared
man.' .
SEVEN FAMOUS ROMANCES
Waverley.
sir Walter Bcott wrote Waverly be
cause he could not do otherwise. It
was not from- choice that the great
Scotch poet and novelist forsook poetry
for fiction, for during the last 10 years
of the eighteenth century the art of po
etry was at a remarkably low ebb in
Britain, and Scott needed money to re
trieve the considerable sums he lost in
unfortunate commercial adventures.
The publishing business In which
Scott had Invested all of his money
was badly managed by hi" partner, John
Ballantyne. and in May, 1811, he re-
nivaA to dissolve the concern. Then It
was tnat his good friend Constable came
to his rescue, furnishing mm aunioieai
money to continue. But turned his at
tention to literary work along a differ
ent line.
From tha preface to Booirs -wsver-ly,"
the first of his marvelously bril
liant Waverly series, we learn, that
about 1805 he wrote the opening chapt
ers. "Having proceeded," hs says, "aa
far as, I think, the seventh chapter, I
showed my work to a critical friend,
whose onlnlon was unfavorable; and
having then some poetical reputation,
I was unwilling to risk tne aoss oi i uj
attempting a new style of composition.
, therefore, then tnrew asiae iu wr
had commenced, wunout eimer reluct
ance or remonstrance.
When Constable pointed out to Beott
that poetry was unprofitable and that
there was a great demand for fiction,
mu riir while looking Into an eld cab
inet In searob, of some fishing tackle,
his eye chanced to light once mors on
the fragment of "Waverjy." He read
over those Introductory chapters, though
they had been undervalued, ana aeterm-
lned to finish the story.
Early in July. 1814. "Waverly" was
first published In three volumes. The
manuscript was copied by John Ballan-
in r1r that tha printers might
be kept in ignorance of the author. Con
stable offered Scott seven hundred
pounds for- the copywright, but this
sum not being considered quits satis
factory. It was agreed that there should
be an equal division of profits between
Constable and the author.
Immediately after publication doom
commander. ' I am doing au I can to
fulfill their expectations. Mr. W. M.
Ward and othef Indian War veterans
living at Alameda, Cal. have enlisted
the aid Of Honorable Joseph H. Know
land, M. C., seven years In congress from
Alameda, CaL - . - .
He has prltten me hs will do all he
can to securs increased pensions for
Indian Waft veterans. We have f ur
niRh.ri him official documents bearing
Upon ths Cayuse, Yakima and Bogus
River Indian wars. These out. own
rtoiAP-.ttnn can consult In Washington.
He desires to cooperate with the dele
gations in congress from Oregon, Ida
ho nT Washington In particular. We
riasfra every Indian War veteran should
write a personal letter to one or more
members of above delegations eo i
back up their efforts end thus quite
surely win out with the help of a favor
ing Providence.
CTRUS H. WALKER,
Grand Commander Indian War Veterans,
Shower Bath Serves as a Policeman
From the Popular Mechanics Magazine.
An innnlous method of utilising a
fchower bath to prevent bathers from
stealing suits : and towels has ' recently
been put Into effect at the Lincoln Park
publlo bathing . beach, on Chicago's noria
lake shore,.
"When ws first opened the beach,
said President Francis T, Simmons, of
the Lincoln Park board, "many of the
bathers attempted to steal ths suits
and towels provided for them. "They
would skip by the small shower then
used, dress, and then duck out past the
shower with one of our suits and our
towels under their arms. Ws also had
trouble with persons who tried to enter
the lockers by way of the bathers' gate.
That ia the reason for the new shower.
NO one goes through this gat without
getting thoroughly drenched- There
Is only one other way of leaving the
bath house and that requires you' to
turn In your suit and towel. The
shower also requires each bather and
every "sand fly", to wash ths suit before
returning It. J
The American Family. .
By William 8. Rosslter, In, ths Decem
ber Atlantic.
The American people, almost Instlnot
Ively, have turned away from the old
domestic policy. A large family, implies
a home In ths old fashioned sense, but
the urban life of America necessitates
a departure from the boms as thus de
fined. The cramped apartment. , with
those ministering angels, ths Tdtohen
ette. ithe Waker, the laundry man and
delicatessen shop, are not adapted to
numerous children. Children often are
not wanted. , In fact, a' man with a
large family finds It difficult even to
securs living aocomtnodatlona In many
pities. Thus, in great numbers ef com
munities, ths social order has passed
beyond,, theojonvlctlon : thftttJiJare.
family is a normal, and necessary con
dition, and has adapted itself to a scale
of living based n small families, or on
nona at aU.-
NEWS IN . BRIEF
OREGON 8 ID l LIGHTS.
' Hertford 4s installing cluster lights st
a rapid rata, . . ,.
PlnifnrA , fcv ' home talent, waa
treat recently enjoyed by Pallas people.
The Eugene -Register adds a paper
mill to the list of factories that jsugene
should, go after.' ;'r'f? - "I '
The county court of Douglas eounty
proposes to build 'three steel bridges in
that win cost idu.uuu.
A1 21-room hotel is to be built at
ones at Pilot Boole, by J. H. Royer. A
fire repentiy atstroyea tne amy uuioi
in tne town.
Ths"project to be undertaken by the
Horsefly irrigation . aisinci, rmjeimy
formed " In Klamath ooun ty, will , cost
about $700,009, or izs an acre. .
m .
; T?wimnnl Hnokesman: A fall fair and
potato show, for Redmopd la about the
ngni tning-, ana mo prujom im
with favor' among the , farmers and
ranchers, - ' ; ; "
wimth Horald! With the Increase
in the First National, the four banks in
Klamath Falls have a combined cap-
i.-it . , . n eiAAA with AnvirilnAfl
deposits of approximately suu.uuu. ;
Watervllle correspondence Eugene
Reglater: Mr. Hoselth has his drier full
of popcorn.1 which Is a part of thepop
oom raised by Morrow & Son. They
will have some zoo ousneis 01 a co,
Henry Bmlfh, a Polk county farmer,
has on exhibition at Dallas a tomato
weighing 14 pounds and measurrng; 17
inches in circumference, and a head of
cabbage that measures SI Inches across
the leaves. -'
Woodburn Tribune: What has become
of the Woodburn Commercial club? If
the members of that organlatlon were
half as Industrious as tnose or me
Bachelors' club, what a good. thing It
would be for woodburn.
wrote to Mr. Morritt: "Waverly was s
very old attempt of mine to embody
some traits of those characters and
manners peculiar to Scotland, the last
remnants of which vanished during; my
early youth, so that few: r no traces
now remain. I had written a great part
of the first volume, and sketched other
passages, when I mislaid the manu
script, and only found It by merest ac
cident as I was rummaging the draw
ers of an old cabinet, and I took the
fancy of finishing It, which I 'did so
rast that the last two volumes - were
written In three weeks. I had a great
deal of fun In the accomplishing of the
task, though I do not expect It will be
popular in the south, as much of the
humor. If there be any. Is local and
some of It even professional. It has
mads a tery strong impression here
and the good people of Edinburgh are
busied in tracing the author and In
finding out originals for the portraits
it contains. In the first place, they
will probably, find it difficult to con
viot the guilty author, although he Is
far from escaping suspicion.'
When Morritt requested Beott to con
fess the authorship In ths lecond edi
tion he replied: "I Shall nit acknowl
edge 'Waverly;' my thief reason is that
it would prevent me of the pleasure of
writing again."
Edition after edition had to be pub
lished In rapid succession, and the prof
Its amounted to $10,000 within IS
months of tsSue. Before ths book was
published 8cott questioned Ballantyne
as to his hopes ef him as a novelist;
and on ths letter's stating they were
not very high, Scott said. "Well, I do
not see why I should not succeed as
well as other people. At all events,
faint heart never won fair lady 'tis
only trying." The Waverly series and
his other books followed in rapid suc
cession between 1814 and . 182(1, and fie
worked so hard to pay his creditors that
he undermined his health, to. the extent
that he became a hopeless paralytic) un
til his death, which occurred at half
past one o'clock on the list of Septem
ber, 1832.
Tomorrow-Ben Hur.
Extra Judicial Punishment.
From the Pittsburgh Dispatch,
Speaking of unwritten law, there will
be few who will find more than techni
cal fault with the prosecuting officer of
Camden, N. J., In his administration sf
extra judicial punishment in a thorough
ly -deserved case. It seems that a hus
band and father had been three times
befors the prosecutor for neglecting his
family. The prosecutor has won some
local fame as an adjuster of domestlo
discord and a healer of family woes.
Twice he grave the offender another
chance on . ths promise of seeing that
his wife and little ones . were properly
provided for. The third time he was
thrown into jail In the hope that a term
behind the bars would be more persua
sive than ths eloquence of the prose
cutor. But though the prosecutor's patience
had been exhausted, that of the wife
and mother (as la generally the case
even in the most hopeless. Instances)
was Inexhaustible. Bhs pleaded for
another ohanoe, and ths man waa
brought out. He came sullen and de
fiant, and when one of the children ran
to greet him hs pushed It roughly aside.
Ths prosecutor thereupon forgot that he
was an offloer of ths court and remem
bered that hs was a man. " He hustled
the fellow Into an Inner offlos and gave
him ths beating of his Ufa Fists
proved . mors convincing than words or
Jail, and the cowed and submissive sub
ject eagerly promised to make good this
time. Ths prosecutor, combining mercy
with rigor, found him a Job, and the
incident closed with everyone hoping the
lesson would be the last. -
A Neolithic Village.
. From the London Times '
What is thought to be a neollthlo
walled village has been discovered near
the main road between Harrogate and
Bolton abbey,' at a spot a few miles
from Otley, by W. s!orey of Fewston,
member of ths Royal Archaeological so
ciety of Great Britain and Ireland. .,
Ths discovery may be divided Intotwo
parts. In a dell behblnd a hill art
twenty-four stone circles, varying in dia
meter from twenty feet to three feet, the
whole being surrounded by evidences of
a, stone" wall. One of the stone circles
was a well and the two others are in
disputably, iron smelting furnaces. A
number of stone implements, which ex
pert ascribe , to the neollthlo period,
havs been found. , 1 .j - , 1(
On a site above ths village IS a twenty
foot stone circle,- commanding a mag
nlfloent view for mjles down the valley,
and ' evidently at one time used as s
lookout On the other side of the hill
are two stons circles filled with smaller
oircles sbout eighteen Inches In diameter
and two feet deep, containing charcoal,
and two large circular erections sup
posed to hsvs beqn used as a place of
worship and- a crematorium. v r- . .
IB ' Aberdeen ' the I .Won't Work-ers
are opposed by a big organization of
business men which might b Called the
T. S. T.-era Tou Bha'n't Talk.
Tke Newspaper s Part
Front the Detroit' News
Theodore Dreiser, an. American noj
ellst, whose .work Is a protest again!
the conventionalities of fiction on thl
continent, and who would hold ' t
it If
mirror up to life, but bad 'his
book, "Sister Carrie,". Suppressed
his pains. though indeed It was a
a a?
oere and worthy performance, has - tb
to say or American notion and of Ami:
lean newspapers; .,-. '
"Great American novels can't he wrl
ten while we refuse to hear of , wrl
bubs ra m mi ciues loaay exoept
reading in the newspapers and.ths iaa
aslnea. And' let me say for real- wori
ln literature the newspapers and Due
sines are so far ahead or all ths novrf
tnat have been published that thene
no comparison. . For they are . Mfli
drsmatio, true presentations of ths if
tnat is feeing lived today Why'rl
that life be put into our novels T"i
- .remaps Mr. Dreiser's question
do answered by ths simple fact
lurmea Dy tne periodicals need no rt
Ai,nlt..n..a V. U - . 1 i .
the need is not so urgent Ameir
life writes Itself across tha vital (i
pressionaDis page oz the press, tnat l
with nil tta atrlvlrm Ita dvnpn1n.
iciuiuimi6, iim liruKllingl, IIS rej01
". iTiua,' hi cursings ana i
blessings. What novelist can write
story to equal those written In the Bui
tie, ths Mary Chamberlain, the Kelloi
trials? What work of fiction Saa ptl
tray tne career or a carsegie, a MoT
(mat win not even let ths Idas f
finance trip over ths altar cushion w1?m
out etching the detail), of i Rockefellf
of Lorimer, of La Follette or of Room
vslt, as It Is written across the Uvli
page of that real Flying Roll, the m'i
ern newspaper ? ; '::(
Ths newspaper columns are Instlri
with fh drama of ths day, written j the
wfth the nervous fingers ef tratnld oj
servers, attuned to the little cllm&jJ
ana to tne grand climacterics of vv
lifs. Falling as newspaper writers, tb
sometimes talcs to writing ths con. .
tionai six best sellers. No novelist , J
nope to compare in dramatic - combi 1
with ths gamut consummately pu i
by the obscure writers who writ t
the daily page wfth their pens i ' '!
In ths warm red current of life, whi
it neaia ecstatically in ths heart !
drips from wounds, and who put ln H
shadows of ths vibrant ploturs wttbA 'J
Hers a heart- beats In thla aoltmi
there a woman's cry rises from
page. In this corner Is ths Bagrso
of a man's, Joy and another's sorl 1
Hers a man . stands In ths shades
tha gallows a there a woman's cup o'
flows with reunion, or marriage, it rs
be. The river of life la full and J
tlds Is Irresistible. The reader car (
ntr laugn, ns I
cry, hs gnsr, smile with ntiin.
pleasure tat ns cannot step out of
current How cheap and stale in ot
part son, how Idle and filled with a
is the oonveatlohal novel
Tanglefoot
By Miles
Overho','
THE HAIR APPARENT
i ve got a nairy nat ana s rsxiy si
or domes,
My overcoat Is somewhat haJrr. tn
i ve goi some ruzzy wniskerettes th
stand in ruzzv rown.
But the hair upon my head Is gettii
lew.
I find hairs upon my shoulders In tl
early morning iisnt. I
And I find 'em in the buttsr and tli
hrftv1 S 1
And the comb Is overcrowded, black an
brown and aray and white
They are everywhere except upon nt
ntaa.
IT ALL DEPENDS
When you'vs a grouch of monst-O
sue. i
And motes and beams fill up your eye
And you despise the folk you meet
As they trip gaily down the street
fTou find most every other block
tie crowded close with builders' stoc
Tou seek another way about ,
To find they've torn the pavement r
A, blockade adds unto your woes;
And that's the way It always goes
- wnen you've got a groucn.
When you're feeling good ths way
ciear, w
Upon your face broad smiles appear.
Aunougn tna streets are mierea nuu
You amble through with scarce a sC.
Blockades may be botn
But walking's good on
The torn-up streets are
And really little time
Ths folk you meet seem
You have. another point of view-
wnen you re reeling gooo.
' - '"" "t
The Christinas Spirit.
From ths Metropolitan Magazine.
Like thoso who concentrate their re!
Ugion Into 45 passive minutes on Burj
day, there exist some, in a sllgstl
imperfect world, who squeess their be!
nevolence Into being human only rf
the Joyous, In a manner of speakuiif
Tuletlde season. Without going teg
deeply into ths metaphyslos of tii
question, might It not be aa well
spread ths Christmas honey a bit thirl
ner, so as to have a little left for th
rest of the ysarT Ths Christmas spir
is an exoellent tonlo, and guarantee!
under the purs food and drugs act rl
long, long ago, but occasionally it
over-saccbarireroua sweet spirits rt
Christmas should be diluted so as 1
have U months' supply around th
house for emergencies, which, by t
way, occur dally.
Hign Cost of Living'
rnnntrlfoitiMl to Th Journal br Walt LT
th famoui Kns poU 111 proM-poem ar
regular tattur ot uu eoiuma u m uuu
Journal.) , . . . ,
A stately squash grew on a vine thai
hung upon a fence and It was large ari
smooth and fine, and sold for sev(c
cents. The buyer put W In a crate aril
shipped It oft to town; ths rallwai)
CliaraVU IDtt vwiw aw, &iaiilb Aim 17
the money down. Then divers kinds o
middlemen passed that old squasi
alon:, and each one got a rake-off than
in which, they saw no wrong. . The Jol
Der TO (fuuei buiu uil iquiia r.
autumn day, and It was scarred
bruised ana oia. ana tending to aers,.
The farmer man who raised that sqr.f.
to town oams on his wheel; at dKl .
time he said: "B'gosh, I'll havs air.-i'
..... 1,M a. -
square mii du iu v romurnii. , v
sped and ate some squash on tcel ,
then he stood upon his head whA'-'
was told tha .price. "Tour prlc
squashes,' makes me hot!" bs cfty
"your gams is bunlcl I'd sell a wtg-S
load for what you charged ms for .
n..m1.fll. fill. AT,.. . with. . tuMlMM l.. tj
awashr-we're; rlewlng-wlthalarmp-when
ws g,o to, buy a squash, ws hek'tftf"
buy a farm, ' ,
long and wi-
the other tiL-V
merely-crlV I
Is lost. I
friendly, wli
-i I M
ixr wifiii, lift, ui ' m lm 1 IV " ii
avrg JUatuiiw Aiiatss. - XJUS&lJiy'