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Thou wear a lion's hide! doff It
for shame. ...
And hang a calf skin 09 those
recreant limbs.
-'. Shakespeare.
It
OX TRIAL
F it manages to reach an agree
1
ment on the road bills, the har
mony roads committee, will ren
der the .state an Important ser
vice. '....; v. 7
The way to agreement Is by mu
tual concession. . Radicals must not
expect all they would like to have.
uonservauves musi conceae more
than they would naturally grant. It
fa tTtA nnl w4v fr, n BrAAmAnf
The reward for an- agreement Is
a gooa roaas system. mat is some
thing Oregon baa never had. It la
something Oregon cannot afford to
flo without ", .
To be without such a system is to
be a backward state. . Bad roads
are a medium of wastefulness and
loss. 7 It now 7 costs an average of
' over Oregon roads. 7 With, proper
roads, the Joads could be hauled for
nine cents per ton mile.
: A f ffflpAnAa VafnTAnn writ e f
AtiM Ka and wfisl fa la ftm annrmnnd
Toes that somebody has to pay. . It
, la a loss that, In Oregon Is estimated
"at T,000.000 a year. The $2,000,
... 000 thus lost every year, it spent on
, roacui, wouia do a.mitjuiy uuip m
I placing the highways In proper con-
l dltloa. t
Grave pesponsrbtlltles rest on the
harmony committee. Much of the
welfare 'of Oregon Is In its hands.
No body that has assembled In re
' cent years has been In position to
J render .the state a greater- service.
J If It harmonizes the conflicting bills,
provides only for the submission of
- bills that dovetail with each other,
i and gives to them the weight of its
approval. Its band! work is almost
certain to bo approved at the ballot
;box. - - - - -f 7 '
The gentlemen of the harmony
committee are on trial.
MADE IN OREGON
T'
IHE state of Oregon Imported
112,000,000 worth of geolog
ical products last year. These
products were cement, brick.
pottery, -tile, terra 'cotta, building
' stone and other materials from the
ground. "Experts claim that Oregon
could easily haVe ; produced three
. fourths of the $12,000,000 worth of
such products Imported. 7 ;
. The development of Industries
with an output of such products of
fers a splendid field for the employ
ment of labor. It offers' extraordl-
nary opportunity for the Investment
; of capital. It is a splendid means of
caving the freights we pay on Im
ported materials, and Is one un
rivaled means of 7 keeping. OreSoh
money at home.
The money sent out of the state
for geological products last year,
was equal to three fourths the value
of the-wheat produced In the state
'; In 1911. It was four times the value
of all the wool produced In Oregon
and more' than six Umea 'the value
of all the rhops grown in Oregon,. In
i 191 0. !It was more than three
; fourths of the value of all the fruit
I and all the dairy output produced
In Oregon In 1911. . . ; -;
There Is no field that more de
serves attention from Oregon peo
iple. There are1 only three other
'states in the Union In which it has
'. received so little attention. It Is a
far, better endeavor to bring our
r j. i-.. -1 - ... .
f ing than to buy town lots at a small
price and sell them to a neighbor at
a higher price,- It rs a far better ac
tivity than to buy lands for one price,
and 7 after. Injecting " soap-bubble-lvalues
Into them, sell them to dls-
- tant buyers at boom prics..
A way to help the state grow and
enrich Us population, is to . use in
OreKon l the -tbinffs made In Onron.
Another way Is to make in Oreeon
'the things used In Oregon ; not agree ,to the request of the gov
,i It Is the way to employ our labor. I ernment to delay action for. a lim
it is the way to enlarge our payrolls, j Ited t,me and tnat nothing but the
It Is the way to build ud local Indus-'.consent of the employers generally
... - , ' !
. tries. , . v...-. ' . ; ,
. The more we use Oregon-made
goods, the faster we', shall grow and
the richer become. , , . . .
AX INTERESTING EXPERIMENT
T
HE Illinois state agricultural
college has tried out the ex
periment of a dairy farm of
.20 acres. One man was put In
chfirerft and
he has dope all the
. ' :
jnr' work. - '
' The Improvements consisted of a
rouud barn, CO feet .In diameter,
flttod , with stalls for the 'eighteen
llolutfln cows and a team of horses.
Tho whole farm was' devoted to the
ubwn llolstein; cows. ; Their milk,
und tBe calves,, which were sent to
I he butcher at a week old, were the
ri-Htxtw-ftfr-tufoniM: - ' 1 """"
From eight to ton acres were ) members of the government, tnisted
Han ted in corn for silage, and six by both sides, could not have taken
I .: v7 ' "'7-V"'.- "".-'1 (-:;:' '. '
e
a
ruteon to twenty rounds of alfalfa
and forty pounds of silage, with a
small quantity of corn meal. The
cows yielded an average of -4S00
pounds of milk of over three and
The
milk brought $1.50 rer 100 pounds,
sometimes a little more.
The gross return for the year
1911 on the twenty acre farm -was
jisoo. The expense, Including la-
u .
$S30. The net profit on
How do these figures ' compare
wOT;aTwenty-ere-arnv in theWilr
latnettei, valley, where dairying might
be the main feature, the chief profit
maker but where " the milk was
separated on the farm, and the skim
milk used to feed calves and bogs,
and where chickens were kept on a
commercial scale? The Oregon farm
would take the cake on net results,
and to what extent could be made
the subject of an Interesting experi
ment. ' , ' ' -
WISE GAZABOS
S'
OME members of the Republi
can state central committee of
Oregon are wise political gara
bos. At the moment! when
Bwana is'thunderlng from Sagamore
Hill about leaving the Issue to pref
erential primaries, they.are back on
their haunches, ululating -about
"Oregon's fool laws," If Mr. Taft
has friends In Oregon, they ought to
do something to silence the state
committee. - 7 J
The Journal Is not for Mr. Taft
But, In mere fairness, it would "like
to see him saved from crucifixion by
his own friends In Oregon. It must
be without his knowleflgo or con
sent 7 that the gentlemen of the
state committee express convictions
that they could save the nation if it
were not; for "Oregon's fool : laws."
There Is no yell they could raise
that can so blight Mr. Taft's Oregon
prospects. There Is no Issue which
It Is so Important for the welfare of
Mr. Taft to keep In the background.
But there are committeemen who
are Irrepressible. They are not able
to realize that a mere committeeman
is not a vicegerent of national
safety and the sum total of national
wisdom. They seem not to compre
hend as do others that the highest
court tribunal in the world has prac
tlcally held that the laws some Ore
gon committeemen characterize as
"fool" are regular so far as the na
tlonal constitution Is ""concerned, and
not out of harmony with the system
framed by the fathers. 1
- Somebody should jw - Into labor
with the disgruntled committeemen
If they could be Induced to hang
their harps on a weeping willow tree
and forego their public endeavors,
Mr. Taft would fare better in the
April primaries.
THE EXPRESS COMPANIES
S'
ENATOR GARDNER of Maine
has Introduced a bill for taking
over by the government all the
properties and enterprises of
the express companies., The total
cost estimated In the bill Is $39,'
165,819. v-,7V.
In this total is Included $10,877,-
360 for franchises and , good will,
The figures for real property are
$14,932,169, and for equipment, $7,
381,405. 77--7':':-:,7: ' 7:, a 'J .
' One is surprised at their modera
tion In faceof the following facts.
The Adams Express company earned
last year 22.18 , per cent on $12,
000,000. The American . Express
earned 19.29 per cent, and paid 12
per cent on $18,000,000. The
United States . Express company
earned 8.93 per. cent, and paid 6 per
cent on $10,000,000. Our special
friends, the Wells Fargo. Express,
are the noblest Romans of them all.
,The Wells Fargo earned 20.13 per
cent on $24,000,000, which Includes
$16 ,000,00 0 distributed to stock
holders In February, 1911, as a
stock dividend . together with $8,
000,000 In cash.
So that, according to Senator Gard
ner's bill, $39,165,819 is a suitable
purchase price for dividend .earning
stocks - totaling $64,000,000, on
which the public has been paying
dividends averaging 17.63 per cent.
No wonder the parcels post has, a
hard fight . ' : 7 .
BRITISH MIXIMOI WAGE
I
T, Is announced that coal miners
In Britain to the number of 800,
000 will lay down their tools on
Thursday next Then, coal .min
ing in the British islands will abso
lutely stop.- James Haslam, M. P.,
agent of the Derbyshire Miners' as-;
60ctatlon declares that the men will
to a uniform minimum wage will-
prevent the strike. 7
He adds that if it does come at
least ' 800,000 allied workers will
support the miners by aloo striking.
The Interference of the premier,
chancellor, foreign secretaryand
president of the board of trade has
been postponed " until the parties
were ""at a deadlock. It Is under
'stood, that the em nld vera ara tp.hAv
i ' , ' .
to surrender the" principle 'of the
minimum wage and that discussion
as to the exceptions which they still
Insist on is in progress.
Kipling is authority for the say
ing "the luck of the British army."
It looks as if the ministers were re
lying on luck to secure a settlement
at the eleventh hour and bo get the
nation out of the scrape.
VfiJ" "This fileudly -intervention of
t0 t 1 acros EOwa a-alfa. Th
daily ration for 1 he tows average
effect vhea tlia employers and the '
men failed to agree., and the strike (
was first tarcatened, passes under-,
standing. The railroad men's strike
was allowed to go to the point of
war, before Intervention was . had
It is aealn brought out that there
is a third party to these disputes, the !
employers and employed. Whether
by the cessation of necessary work
or by the. stoppage of the circula
tion of the wage fund whether by
the direct injury to families whose
needs accumulate while their incom
ings are stopped. .el ; by Jhe deterior
ation of the characters of idle work
men, no less than by the disar
ran gemen t - an d a rrestf-tradcsTand
inaustrIefr-4Bef f eatest loser is-the
nation, of which both employers and
employed form an Integral- and es
sential part
Yet this, the great third party, is
denred its rights which obviously
are to ascertain by the testimony of
both parties the rights and wrongs
of these disputes, and to throw on
them the full light of publicity the
first element in an Instructed public
opinion. Then, to eliminate the
causes, as far as remedial legislation
can go, .7L u:.: v '''.-...:.r.
Canadian experiance has proven
the efficacy of these tteps. ,
STATE AID-
I
t Is importand for the grange peo
ple to accept the principle of state
aid in road building. It la the
only way .that the great wealth In
large centers of population : can be
given opportunity to pay a Just share
of the cost of road construction.
More than one third of the taxable
wealth of the state is, for. Instance,
In Portland. If state aid be applied
In road building, Portland's great
wealth Will be taxed for building
roads In all parts of the state. It
the principle of state aid be not ap
plied, the great wealth "tf Portland
will only.be taxed for building roads
In Multnomah county. In the latter
event each outside county would
have to bear all the burden of Its
own road building, entirely without
assistance from Portland.
It is only fair that the property
of the state should contribute with
approximate Justice to the common
cost of the public highways.
It Is not falrthat the vast wealth
of Portland, comprising more than
one third of the wealth of the state,
should only be asked to. build roads
In Multnomah county. It is not fair
that less than two thirds of the state
wealth, which la the wealth Outside
of Portland, should be required to
alone pay the cost of all the roads
outside of Multnomah county.
5 In Its last analysis, state aid re
solved Itself simply into a question
of . whether or , not ... Portland shall
help build the Btate roads. Those
who oppose state aid, say no, - .Those
who favor state aid, say yes.
CHIXA, TO DATE
C
HINESE news might as well
take the shape of bulletins on
the health of Yuan Shi Kal
published at least every other
day over the signature of two
reputable physicians at Peking; -of
whom Dr. Morrison, the Times cor
respondent, should be one. When
Yuan got Into peril from the Man
chus six months ago, and was then
Invited to the premiership his ex
cuse for deferring an answer was
that his foot was sick. He made a
gradual recovery, which proceeded
until he had been elected to the pres
idency of the 'great republic of
China," vice Dr. Sun Yat Sen, who
retired In his favor. : But Yuan suf
fered - a relapse when prospects of
trouble In Manchuria became rife.
Then - he telegraphed as lately as
the 17th Instant, to Dr. Wn Ting
fang, at Nanking: ' 7 . . .
I am unable to control the in
volved sltiiatkmTTn China," as I am
suffering from impaired health Now
that the alms of the republicans' have
been attained, I have accomplished
my duty
The post of president of
the republic would only serve to lead
to my ruin. I ask your kind offices
and' Interest with the people of the
country to elect Dr.' Sun Yat Sen, to
whom credit should be given. ; I will
wait here until I am relieved. Then
I will return to my home and resume
my work as a husbandman." .
ctof i-'work as a hos-
bandman" was .evidently too hard
for that lame foot. ' So we hear,
under date of PekingFebruary 25,
that Yuan Is making ""elaborate
preparations for the reception at
Peking of the deputation of repub
licans from Nanking, headed by his
friend "Tang ghjio "Xlr td hotlfy him
of bis election to the presidency of
the republic, whose name Is "The
Great Republic of China." The, In
spired telegram : says "Apparently
the country Is strongly In favor of
Yuan Shi Kal as president."
-" Dr. Sun Yat Sen seemt, the" only
one who knows his own mind and
means what he says. .When he was
chosen as president he made it clear
ly understood that' he 'accepted pro
visionally only. , When ' he found
that the ultimate election of Yuan
was the ; way to secure early
peace, with republican Institutions,
he not'only withdrew In favor of his
rival but pushed his electlqn. No
word has come from him since the
"Impaired health" telegram -was re
ceived.. In dignified silence ha
awaits results.
A year, ago, they .addressed each
other as "Dear Will" and , "Dear
Theodore." Now thejr are opponents
In one of the biggest political scraps
the country has seen. , .
JDift Inle.Kdwla-H awley-leaned
up $15,000,000 on a single railroad
deal. Of course, somebody had to
toot the bill, and a aoarch of the
-V
!ou would
Lisa cost
or living.
It Is said that if you 6wallow a
single 6eed In eating a watermelon
you will have fits. If the statement
ver true, most of the small boys
would have spasms throughout the
good old summer time.
(Coniinunlcntloui wnt to The Jnurnil tor pnb.
II ration la tbt drptrtmDt should sot eici-d
Sih) word la Wngth and must tx roompnled
IT tht nam and aJJrcaa of til (coder.)
Getting a Country Ilome. -
OakGrove. Or , Feb. 23. To tis
Editor or Th-Journal In n idltoHaT
In Tha Journal tt February 21 you dis
cuss the worklngman getting a home
in-the-country. I will say then are
better chances and oprortunltley now
than there were at the time our
fathers came . to this country. - It la
much easier now than It was then.
The only trouble is that the people
nowadays are not willing to put up
with the Inconveniences that our fathers
did As for being well supplied with
food and lumber, do as our fathers did,
build log: houses. How many people
wouLd do as they didT I will try to
srlve you an Idea how my father made
his itsrt ,H came from Germany In
the fifties. He could not speak a word
of English. He worked two years In
Illinois In a livery stable and hotel for
IS per month. Then he came across
the plains with an ox team In 1852,
j;anieiQQregon City and bought halj
section of wild land with what money he
had saved. He built a log house and
barn, got married, then worked in Ore
gon City one summer for Mr. Pope.
He walked six miles from his wild west
home to Oregon City . ey'T morning
with his lunch bucket aqd back home
after his day's work. After that he
stayed at home and worked hard on his
land. This Is how he and mother made
their start. : When they pared potatoes
for cooking they cut out the" eyes for
seed and planted them. "They paid $2 a
bushel for oats' screenings for seed, and
did not get the prices for their pro
duce that the. fanner now gets.- I know
the time when they sold nice fresh
butter for at 7c per pound and eggs
at 10 and 15 cents per dozen. Now the
farmer gets -40 and 60 cents per pound
for butter and 40 to 50 cents per dozen
for eggs. When we children were 8 or
9 years old we did nearly a man's
work. We got up at. 3 and 4 o'clock In
the morning .'and worked .until dark,
and in winter would, dry apples until
12 and 1 o'clock at night. We did not
go to theatres or Ice cream parlors
every evening nor did we get to go to
school much nor sit on patent seats.
What we did learn we had to learn
by hard study and determination. How-'
ever, we succeeded. There are several
advantages now which people did not
have 60 years ago, when there were
wild beasts and Indians to contend with.
Then they had trails " and timber toi
walk through. Now we have roads. In
regard to prices, of land, I do not
think land Is too high tn price when
one figures paying taxes on It 60 years
and selling It for $30 to $100 an acre.
Land can be .had at such prices within
five and -sixmiles - from town, - You
don't want to buy from real estate deal
ers; buy of owners. The reason people
come here and gi back, discouraged Is
because they expect to - find money
growing on trees.- It- will grow on
fruit trees, but you must plant the
trees first Where there la a will there
Is a'way. '.r."sr.
Just to give the former writer and
others an idea how to get a home, I
wiy give them my experience. About
nine years ago I came to Oak Grove
and bought four lots. I had Just $50
to my name. X paid It on the lots and
then I was broke, but was working In
Portland at my trade. In 10 months
I had paid for the lots and had lum
ber on "the ground for. a two room
house, which I built at once, working
lh town every day. I Came out even
ings and worked on the place till dark.
I worked, this way every day and Sun
day for two years, not taking any rest.
I planted trees, grapes and berries the
first year. : The next year we had
berries and vegetables. In three years
we had grapes and cherries and other
fruit We have nine varieties of
grapes, six varieties of cherries, peaches,
prunes, plums and all kinds of fine
berries. Two years ago we sold over
$40 worth of berries, about $50 worth
of eggs, about 10 sacks of potatoes,
and still had all we needed for our
selves.. We have all kinds of roses and
flowers. We did . all, the work ouN
selves and earned every dollar to pay
for the Improvements. No, doubt this
i a tiresome letter to read,! but I hope
the reader will get some Idea, as to how
a poor man or a man with limited
means can still obtain a nice Juicy
Chunk - of ; God's green - earth without
much capital. C. L. VON DERAUE.
Amusements in the Churches
Klamath Falls, Or., Feb. 2 4. To the
Editor of The Journal Tour comments
. Z 2t
providing them with a place where they
cn have amusement, meet, respectable,
clean minded people, with no devices to
Induce them to gamble, booze or other
wise : engage In dissipation, are pert!
nent ,., - ,'... , .-;''r V, -
The difficulty in getting resultshow
ever, appears to me to be due to a situ
ation which is closely paralleled by the
present political condition In this co
Try,
Old political traditions are In the
main
outgrown and the majority of
voters In both the old parties are held
by those traditions rather than by real
convictions. Most thinking men-now
are either conservatives (a better name
than standpatters,! think) or they are
progressives. , It is generally agreed
that political lines will thus be drawn
as soon as tradition loses . its hold
enough to permit the readjustment
In religious beliefs, the : old creeds
have lost their hold on a very large
percentage of churchmen. They do not
even know what the. creed of their
particular denomination ie, nor do they
care very much. This is spoken of as a
decay in religious belief by some who
cling to the old, fearing any change.
do not think so, but look on it as a
change in the manner of looking at
things, practical views taking the place
of . theoretical.
A world wide movement Is on foot to
unite, tho protestant churches. Unless
this movement recognizes the differ
ences between conservatives and pro
gressives ana provides for them, It can
not succeed. Each community will need
one church for one class and one for the
other, If real success is to be attained.
It may be said that these two classes
do live together and work together In
the present churches. They -live to
gether, but it Is rare to see them work
together. In many cases one class tears
down the work the other class is trying
tO tO. r '
in tne instance spoxen or by you
where a minister tried to reach people
by playing pool and billiards with them,
wnne ne nas been retained by say two
thirds of his people, . it Is not at all
probable that vthe other third is recon
ciled to his 'retention. If not they will
drive him away sooner or later. I have
seen it aone more than once. 1
I ' If there were1 unothsf church where
the members generally believed that the
devil lurks In every pack of cards, in the
pockets of the pool table, in the violin
which furnishes the muslo for friends
fTOcesses in the transact
throw 6ome light on the
Letters From tte People
COMMENT AND
S.'.IALL CHANGE.
They're all progressives and Statement
No. 1 men now.
The Industrious, honest poor are de
serving of a better chance.
, The bomeseekers will soon oome
pouring In again. Treat them well.
'
A successful physician may not ad
vertise, but he likes to be advertised
Long time now between holtdays but
there are St Patrick's day and Easter.
War is awfully expensive, but so Is
peace, and constant preparedness - for
war.
' '" . .
Q. men mav not hare Quite
so much advantage at the polls here-
auer.
' e . .
If you " want an . Instance gf great
firogress during the last half century,
ook at American women.
- - t"
- When Teddy speaks, stocks tumble In
Wall street The stock gamblers of
Wall street are the most easily scared
people on earth.
Yesterday it was "General" Gomes;
today It Is "General" Trevlno; tomorrow
it will be ''General" Somebodyelse.
e
We must keep up with other great
nations in navy building, says the presi
dent But many can't see the need of
this. '
Yes. the eosta of the Wilde trial and
of others are far greater than they
should be. Some future generation will
do. thing - differently -
n' t .,, ; .,; - -rrr;77"
Roosevelt seems to think he has coined
a new and wonderful phras "My hat
is in the ring," Its equivalent was old
probably long before he was bdrn.
' e .:-:;'.:'
The crazy ' Mexicans ' are out for a
new , provisional .president every few
days. As soon as one rebel leader wins,
they are up in arms against him and
want some one else. , They are revolu
tlonally Insane., -
Nobody should be allowed to own
hundreds of thousands of acres of land,
but since some do, they are to be com
mended If they divide their great tracts
Into smal) farms and sell them at mod
erate prices and on reasonable terms.
SEVEN FAMOUS AUTHORS AT WORK
Sydney
What would the world be without Its
wits? It might be possible to dispense
with an epic poet or two, and the whole
race of three volume novelists, but
Sheridan and Colman, Charles Lamb
and Douglas Jerrold, Curran and Sydney
Smith what would life be without
these? In this list the last named
coufd be less easily spared. Bydney
Smith is among wits what Horace is
among poets. He was a genial, well
bred, well read man of tho world. His
wit like Voltaire's. Is the wit or every
body; and it is wit than can betjuoted
upon every topic of talk.
Svdnev Rm th. rarely troubled nimseir.
we are told, to think out a subject In
logical form, to think it out, that is,
as a barrister thinks out his brief. He
seized upon its strongest points by a
sort of instinct, upon the striking and
picturesque . points that attract a dull
and clever people alike, and these by
the mere force of wit and imagination
he made his own.- -
Smith's wit was always fresh. It
never smelt of the lamp, like Sheridan's.
xoun always iina me aew on ii.
was said of It. Perhaps now and then
you may detect him reproducing In his
conversation a thought that he had
touched in his correspondence, or work-
in out an idea in one letter that ne
has only half developed in another; but
e-en in cases of this sort, it is suf
ficiently obvious that the thought Is
reproduced generally with such a prolu
sion' of fresh wit and imagery, that It
has all the air of ab original flight of
fancy. ' '
Combining a vivid imagination witn
his brilliant gift of hitting tipon analo
gies, with these high spirits, and his
fluency of expression, Bydney Smith
was as a talker irresistible, and except
Macaulay. ho generally talked every
guest at a table into suence. mm
habit was, as he said, to fire right
across the table, and to talk upon any
subject that happened to be started,
rarely starting anything -of his own.
By the light of Lady Holland's mnts
as to her father's namts, one can pic
ture him at his . fireside galloping
through the pages of a hick quarto in
the course of a morning, or sitting down
at his desk in the evening looking
through his papers and his bills with
the plodding Industry of an attorney s
while they dance, then these conserva
tives could go there ana reel at noma.
Thev are conscientious fn their bellefB
and should not be oompelled to do them
violence. Too many progressives do
not realize the powerful hold which
early teaching has over such minds. It
is a very good thing wnen tnat eany
teaching is right but is apt to be a
great hindrance if that teaching was
mistaken.
There are more people in each genera
tion who regard the spirit of a course
of life, as the true test, Instead of a
rigid following of some letter. The re
ligious conservatives are making a hard
fight to hold their control over all de
nominations; they have means and send
nt rgaptlnrjary llttrytv", evangelists
who assail all who do not speak their
shibboleth as not true believers, and
church members who spend too much
time criticising their neighbors.
As a. consequence- of . these assault
and these criticisms, many people who
can sea no 'more harm In a, game of
whist than In one of flinch or checkers,
are prevented from taking part - in
church .work. -Their standing back In
suoh work adds to the criticism of these
people, for they point to this fact as an
evidence of the evil tendenoy of worldly
amusements as they-term them. As a
matter of fact It Is more usually due to
the critics themselves.
This being true, I repeat that a re
organization of the churches must pro
vide for these two classes, separately,
. . CHURCHMAN.
Not a Bidder for, Gravel Pit.
Portland, Feb. 2.-To the Editor of
The Journal Permit me to correct the
Inference apt to .be drawn from an ar
ticle In Saturday's Journal anent the
Kenton gravel pit. I never . offered
Commissioner Lightner $2000 per acre
or any other sum for the land in ques
tion. . Furthermore, Mr. Lightner never
promised to notify me of the' sale of the
pit Kindly publish this in order to
avoid what I am sure was unintentional
misrepresentation. -
W. K SMITH, JR.
Dogs and Iloosters.
Portland. Ftob, 23. To the Editor of
Tho Journal I should like you to ac
cord me a little space In your valuable
paper- to take up the thought advanced
by ''Fair Play" in your issue of the
20th Iffst, regarding the .dog and chick
en nuisance a subject which has been
given little orno attention heretofore
by our worthy city fathers In their ex
tensive efforts to promote the most
good to the greatest number. No fair
minded person should object to the sup
pression of useless noises, nor tbollm
NEWS IN BRIEF
OIIEGOX fclDULlGI
A rrodure dealer at Prlnevllle
has
adopted the system or handling
Dy weigtit
He pays 11 cents a pounj.
Fred Mang has announced that he
will build at Newport a pleasure hall
and show building with seating capacity
of 1000.
e e
The county clerk of Crook county
took In $6970. JS In fees last year. This
is 50 pr cent above the expenses of
the office. - .
: e '7
Vawter Crawford, proprietor of the
Heppner Gfiette, has bought the Time
of ii M. tthutt Heppner news . will
henceforth t served by the Gaaette-
ximes. .
At a receliV nubllo meetlns- at Mo-
Itlnnville in the interest of McMlnn
vllle college, friends of the institution
subscribed a fund of $1600.
v" '
Woodburn Independent: Bids are be
ing received for the construction of a
tank and tower for-the city water
works, ranging from $4200 to $5500.'
e - ,e ,-.
The Enterprise Record-Chieftain edi
torially compares the cost of living in
Wallowa county with what it costs in
eastern cities, and concludes that
Wallowa has distinctly the best of It
Pendleton East OregohlanV The fine
rains we have been having of late are
food arguments for diversified farming,
his Is too fine a country to be used
for wheat farming only.
Albany Democrat! The 1 new Bt.
Francis hotel has already brought a
good many people here who would not
nave oome otherwise, and has -caused
some to remain longer, a business crea
tor. : , - '
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McMlnnvllle Telephone-Register; The
county - rock orusher is ty be placed In
the quarry at the entrance to Happy
Valley to crush rock to Improve the
road from that point to the power
plant The estimated Improvement will
cost $2000. .
The Dalles Chronicle: Permission
has been granted the Business Men's
association to build a new display build
ing at an advantageous point near the
new O.-W. R. & N. station and facing
the platform. The exhibit here has
been cited to tourists as a model and
the railroad officials in Portland point
to Tho Dalles as the model in this line.
Smith.
clerk and then, by way of variation In
his employment, taking up his pen to
throw off a few pages of "trifling non
sense for Jeffrey. .
Smith wrote with' great rapidity.- No
hesitation, no erasures, no stopping to
consider and round his periods, no writ
ing for effect, but a pouring out of
the fulness of his mind and feelings,
for he was heart and soul In whatever
he undertook. . He could not bear the
trouble of, looking over his manuscript,
but would not Infrequently throw it down
on the table as soon as finished and
say, starting up and addressing ' his
wife: "Kate, do look it over, and put In
dots to the fa and strokes to the fa,"
And his manuscrtpt needcd thla re
vision; tor. with the exception of Jef
frey!! it was probably the worst that
Constable's printers had to puzzle out
for the Edinburgh "Review." He com
pared if himself to the heiroglyphics of
a swarm of ants escaping from an Ink
bottle and walking over the sheet of
paper without wiping their legs; and
when his wife enclosed him an Illegible
passage from one of his letters from
London, containing- directions about the
management of his farm, and asked for
an Interpretation, he simply returned it
with thj explanation that he "must de
cline ever reading his own handwriting
four and twenty hours after writing it"
yet writing, as he generally did, upon
the Impulse of the moment, often at
tempting to do nothing more than to
reflect his . own impressions, no man
ever wrote more consistently, more non
estly, or more courageously.
"Catch me if you . can," he, said, 'In
any one illiberal sentiment or In any
opinion- which I have need to recant;
and that after SO years scribbling upon
all subjects." And Sydney Smith had
reason to think and speak with pride of
his writings from this point , of view.
for, animated as they are by high pur
pose, and illustrating, as they do, in
the most vivid and brilliant form, his
passionate . love of Justice and common
sense, they combine in a rare degree in
their style, English sense, and French
wit and form, with the writings of Jef
frey and Macaulay,' the most character-
lstlo of the contributions to the Edin.
burgh "Review.". - . . ,c..A';
Tomorrow Lord Macaulay.
Inatlon of nuisances. City homes proper
cannot take In conditions that 'rightly
obtain on the farm and be either beau
tiful or satisfactory,.
cnicxons nave never been kept in a
clty-wlthout- annoying somebody; they
nave ever , proven a source of annoy,
ance " to everybody but their owners,
now many neighborhood rows are
traceable to straying chickens and dogsT
The noisy rooster (and every rooster
ts aft noisy and useless bird when kept
other than during the breeding season.
as scientists 4 have proven fully), has
no place even, among- a lew -properly
kept hens on a city lot, only to call
attention to the fact that their owners
ma
tastes and strange ideas Of quietude
and the eternal fitness of things.
To the one person who loves to hear
a rooster's Incessant Growing and a
dog's continual barking, Jt 1 Safe to
say 100 people will attest to the misery
and unrest It causes them. Unneces
sary noises neither benefit anybody or
add to any community's welfare,
' . ' OBSERVER.
Does Not Want Single Tax.
Oregon City. Or., Box 86, R. F. D. 2.
Feb, 22. To the Editor of The Journal-i-
In the dally Journal of the 20th Inst. I
noticed a piece In opposition to Stephen
A. Lowell for United States senator be
cause ho was not a single taxer,. over
the signature of II. D. Wagnon.
Now, I would advise Mr. , Lowell ' to
stick to his present principles. I think
he will get ten votes as an oppoeer of
single tax where he would get one if ho
advocated It We don't want any eln
gle ,tax United States senators, v The
single taxers will take walk up Salt
creek, I .think, after election. If they
poll the 8000 votes that Mr. Wagnon
claims, in Multnomah county, J shall
be greatly surprised, and 8000 votes
would not send Mr. Lowell to congress.
NO, you could not drive the land out
of the counties, like you could the cows,
but you would drive the land hunters
to other counties where the land own
ers did not have to pay all the taxes.
I don't ' believe this (precinct where
live would poll a half dozen votes for
single tax, and I am satisfied that any
man ; that would not vote for single
tax would not vote for a man for United
States senator that favored it I think
Mr, Wagnon better change places with
Mr.. Lowell and let" Mft-faowoll aefaw
teacher and him act as pupil. Don't be
afraid to express your mind fully , on
single tax, Mr, Lowell; hit it Just as
hard as yu can, ybur head is level.
IGEORQE HICINBOTIIAM,
IV
T t T T
hscucrc Hi
W.F. Kirk Lo AnsE.
Wife, sed Fa. do you reemembor V,
other nlte I was reeding you a lot of
good stuff, my new dramatio potni
called Theodore HIT I remember it.
sed Ma, I was trying to fergit it, Ijla
sed, but I shall have to confess that I
reemember it I hope that you are not
going to rub it by reeding moar of It,
sed Ma,.
Well, sed Pa, that was my lntenshun.
but If you feel that you doant want to
know anything about the works of my
men-tallty. Fa sed, we will will let it
go at that, & I will reefraln from reed
ing you a sln,gel line. You are all tha
lime beefing beekaus I do not rite suin-
thtnreetr lte. pr iedT a llien w en i
I pull a masterpiece, you say you doant
want to hear any of it- You give me
pain. Pa sed, I will go & tare the
whole cheese up
Doant do that, deerest, sed Ma. if voa
want to reed it to me & Bobbie, reed it.
Bobbie, sed Ma, go & glj me my smelling
salts & a cold towel for my hed. Yure
father is going to reed sum of his blank
verse.
Then Pa bsegan:
Theedore III Well, FaUtaft, I think lit
tle of fat men.
Save that they be good natured, easy
I'uing,
little prone te kicking out' men's
teeth. -
&
Thin men are snarly, even as thin dogs
That , nap at children dimming hoam
from school. .
While chubby dogs are baying at the
mwo, ... : -
Well,-sed Pa, how do you like that V
I think It is feerce, sed Ma, pleese go
on & let us have the-agony oaver with.
Pa went on:
Falitaft Theedore, there was a time la
distant days
Wen you ft me waa . pals. There was
a time - ,. u
When you waa boosting me for presi
dent Didn't you tell yure peepul I was grate f
Didn't you say I was almost your
xneeaore, i newer ciimoea a Cuban
mil
With ullurd cswalry to save my hldn.
Jt5ui ii you ininn i am not truly-grata,
You ought to aee me In a lower berth!
Theedore III Avauntl Small pity shall
ye find from ma
I am a Warwick. Kings I make at will.
What time I stride through Well street
of a noon, . 1
The bu'ls and bears kowtow to me. their
bane. 1 ...
I -make bears bull me and Z make bulla
'.'tf. . bar f
The weight of all the rage I care te vent
make . .
Husband, sed Ma, husband deer, arenf
you neeriy thru.
Why, sed Pa. doant you like It as far
as I have readT
Yes, sed Ma, I like It that far, all
rite, but arent you neeriy thruf Littel
Bobble is getting awful sleepy ft X
have a pain In my ears. .
All rite, sed Pa, you two are a worse
audience tlfan two reglar actora It is
hard to tell stories to actors, sed Pa,
but it Is harder to read stories to you
ft Bobbie.
Always in Good Humor
t" FIXED.
From Harper's Weekly,
"Has Dinny got a stlddy Job ylt, Mrs.
MulcaHey,' asked Mrs, Brannlgan.
lie has that." said Mra Mulcahey,
'They've elnt him to the pinltlntchery
for twlnty years."
RISINO TO THE OCCASION. '
v From Harper's Weekly. s
"Fifty dollars!" cried 1 Batklns, after
the Judge had named the fine. "Why,
Judge, that's an outrage. X admit I was
going too fast, but fifty dollars"
Them s the riggers," said tho Judge,
eoldly. v '. ', I , '
'All right, I'll pay," said Batklns,
"but I'll tell you right now I'll never
come through this town again.'
"That'sor said the Judga "Wa-al,
by Oorry, I'm sorry. Te'vo been a
good customer. BUI," he added, turning
to the sheriff, "hang crape on tho court-
haouse, will yet This here gentleman's
about to pass oh forever."
" 77 7 ONCE STUNCk
From Cleveland Plata Dealer.
"There was never but one guest at
this here hotel that stung mo while I
was on the Job," tho landlord confided.
"Several have beat us, but not while I
was awake. But, this hero feller cer
tainly got one On me. Say, he's llvin
here yet, an' he ain't never paid me a
cent Why don't I collect his blllt How
can IT. Walt till I tell you.
"He'd been stoppln' hero for near
two months when I approached htm on
the subjeck of gettin' Bomethln'- on ac
count He was cheerful. I was polite.
Finally I got mad and put It up to him
straight. " , 1
"Young man, says L you cant leave .
this hotel till you pay your bill."
" "Will you put that In wrttin' says
he. And before I knowed what I was
doin' I done it"
A sermon is either based oa a text
or a pretext'..-' '
But it takes ajwoman-to.-keep a-
cret she' doesn't know.
Bad luck is often but another name
for poor management- -
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It's easier to get left than to be either
right Or president ''
m m
Soma men give a- dollar with ono
band and grab two with tho other.
Matrimony transforms the poetry jst
I1fn Into an itemized expense account.
(Contributed to Tht Joartial bf Walt Mau,
tha famous Kdm oet. Hit prufe-poemi tr t
regular fctturn of tbli cvluma lu Th Dill
Journal.)
The big campaign got under way
When, ceased tho jrauh of Christmas
shODDlng. and now for many a weary
day the land will ring with Idle yawp
ing. Well make of politicians gods,
and whoop for this and Jeer at that
one, and really It will make no odds If
we elect the lean or fat one. We'll waste
the golden summer T days a-whoopln?
round for -Bob or Billy. . Alas! we are
such all-flred Jays! We are so fatuom
and silly!, It makes no odds to you or
me who wins -and- wears the White
House laurelj let windy- politicians bo,
and plant your onions, beans and sorrel.
Let statesmen rant In frenzied tones
about the way to save this nation,
while we are salting shining boneu
down in the - loan association. - The
more they - save this - weary land,, tho
fiercer grows their Wild endeavor, th
more salvation it will stand, and "so
the lob goes on forever. So let the
jswmTrttrM-prineh!M
the cheap un--weiB.ui Humming, wnue
wa are salting down the wheels for
rainy days that sure are oomlng.
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