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OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, " PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY EVENING, THE JOURNAL;:; AV IVrEt'FXPnNT NEWSPAPER. l.M hsOS Pu!)liher sniv rd H fwr onlrif (wpt Minaiiy; ro T.ir siindur n-'ruirir t Tr, j.'om.i p.i.m- -g, Vifll ani Van-Mil twa. nn'.w. -- ..rtti 3,",KSii . mi-tiT. , 7 1.1 I'PHONKS Min T173; Ilima. A-'jt. All t-rartmeita ivnchfd b.r thea numtwra. THl tbe oppmtur hal department T"" Kt IKK I ON AltVKRriSi.Nu KKFKKSKSTA nVK. IA Fifth arenue. XeJ lork; , . HulMlnf. Chicago, 121 fwple 8itwtptlt.il T-rm by null tiij tdJrwu la tl lotted Sum or Mexico PAII.Y. M IMI,.n..tJ . Itt... ,.,, .69 . SINPAV. One ?r.; 2.5 1 One month I .25 DAILY AND SIXDAT. Oim year . T.W 1 On moult.. ...... I C5 There i no death the thing that we call death Is but another, sadder nam for life. Which U itself an insufficient , nun, ' Faint recognition ot that un- known Life That Power whose shadow Is th universe. R. It. Stoddard. THE SEATTLE ELECTION ip yOTES by women seem to hare 1 been a considerable factor In ' V yesterday's ' Seattle election. 1 According to all accounts, the larger part of the woman. Tote went against Hi GUI, and it wai the cam paigning by the womevthat constl- " tuted one of the most formidable forces against the open-town can didate. . ' "" The latest returns sho r a Tery close Tote, with the chances favor able to Cotterill. The. changes that have taken place in public sentiment .within a few weeks are apparent from the fact that immediately after ' the primaries odds of five to one were offered, by sporting men on Gill 'a election. , . Of course, many women must have voted fof "Gill. But it regains the manifest fact that by fat the greater number of them opposed Gill, and that his overthrow, it later returns show him to be beaten. Is due to women. ' . It is psychological that the pre ' ponderance of women's votes will in evitably take the moral side of all IsBues. It Is women wl suffafmost - in' the excesses before which hus bands, fathers, sons and brothers i fall, and it may be set don as cer tain that their Totes in auch issues wlll-Jte ia-thejr-w&.-d THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYSHIP IT is not the lack of law that makes bad government. ' There are laws enough and some to spare. - Bad government is largely I caused by listless citizens, -As like as not, listlessness will be the cause of a lot of blunders at the April pri- tnaries. There never was1 a better chance. ' ' y--" :, " ' : Here, for instance, is the district - attorney's 1 office. - Six Republicans are contesting for the nomination. . with abundant chance for blunders to be made. . . . . .,. ., Few offices are more important. The power to fumigate Portland lies in the district attorney's hand. Oc cupied by a good official, it Is an office that Bpeaks with authority. It can purify officials by applying the law when they are crooked. It can drive out graft by prosecuting the grafters.', ,' , ; Joseph Polk made St. Louis a clean town, when he was only a . you ngmcttoiMyBrr au-4- took was courage, resolution, vigor and honesty. '.. .1,.. A crooked district attorney will' ; not drive out crooks. Ho is worse than no district attorney. : It Is bet ter to abolish the office than to elect ah Incompetent or a crook. An honest district attorney will go a long way toward making an honest Portland. . A GREAT ; REVOLUTION yOT William III, but George V, , 1X1 will be known in history as I the king of England in '.Those reign the Great Revolution was wrought. This, because in the present reign is being worked out the dominance of men and women as auch' over property by whomsoever owned. The rights of property have lost the stage The owners of property are ranked opposite to the men and women of the British nation, and the human side wins. In 1906 the Liberals came into . power, and - the new England was born. - ... . Asqnith, and Lloyd-George, and Winston Churchill get the credit of launching the new movement. Its foundation was laid in the national consciouEpess, and not in the beliefs of any group of men. When the strikes among the poor workers of London, and the strike of the railroad men for the rights of the poorly paid, shook society, nothing but sympathy for , the strikers was heard from one end of the nation to the other. The whole effort Of the government was direct-; ed to improving the conditfons and having the pay raised of the strikers, with the least possible disturbance of social conditions. If the mini mum. .wage I was not -then admitted into the debate, the reality of it was none the less sought. , In the acceptance by the majority of the natlom of the resolve of the . governmental leaders tjhat, at what- i - v.7'.j i he Pr5Prt-' ttghta of inuiYiuuom, mu social wrongs MtiMitii, AlnciflAn hhrt,.!.! t. j rui" v.oa oii.iuiu.ue rearessea.i J.ij'-.JliWi1. in inntara tl tho woria, or tne gnat revolution. In that great claira-Hhnt tbe na 1 t!cn insists on such readjustment of orial life that the poor, the sick, the maimed, the weak of the people, snail iive, anu hui niiici.v tuan rim- 1 1 1 1 : J 4 J ' tinue to exist- nil the rpfnrms Klnro - - lyUt) nave ueen wrougm. a juigai- ' Mr. Asauith has not yet received ,'hio due for fnrnmlatine the now nro- !gram. He it wss who eaid "prop- erty must be associated in tire mind of the masses of the rple with the ideas of reason and justice." S07 reason and jubilee must needs pre vail, in the mind of the masses, af the people as well as of the rich and well-to-do, of the land owner and the railroad magnate, of the factory owner and the mine operator. So only shall the horrors of Peking and Hankow, of Mexico City, of Russian famines and crushed revolutions, be spared to the people of the United Kingdom. j Only in the willing acceptance of the idea of the great revolution can the British people hope for peace and for prosperity, its issue. ' . THE SALEM TRAGEDY N' 0 tragedy in real life is more pathetic than .that of Mrs. Jel lison and her children at Salem. The struegle with poverty, the four children and the mother sleeping on beds of straw in a tent, the meals of mush and milk without sugar in tro morning, and bread and milk In the evening, touch one of, the most melancholy chords In the gamut of penury. "Woe ia me," wrote the woman in her final letter, scrawled from the depths ot her misery Just before taking the fatarpolsoirwltKwhlch she hurried herself and her four children of twelve, ten, seven and two, out of the world: and "Woe was she," is involuntarily echoed back by all who read the terrible details of want, murder and suicide. Good comes out of most things. Few things in life are without some kind of compensation. It was aw ful for these children and this moth er to be sacrificed, but in the ter rib'e story of . how they lived and died, many a mind will be made more thoughtful of how fares it with those in the tenta and' hovels. A tent without a fire, beds of straw on improvised dry goods boxes, and two scant meals a day, are a . melancholy narrative of hu man existence. ; But It never would have been so, had the people of Salem only known. iotherestroytegfoarhiHmpjehag alon dren, one by one, then closing their eyes and folding their tiny hands over their breasts for the sleep of death, and finally taking her, place between two of them and swallow ing the fatal draught, are the last word iff human wretchedness. But, as we all remember the facts, . we shall be more mindful of "the cots where poor men lie and the chores that poor men do." . FARM ECONOMICS H ALF the writers and talkers about the development of Ore gon by getting people on the land, and inducing them to stay there to work, fail to take to heart the wisdom of C. L. Smith, Oregon-Washlngn Railroad & Nay- igatlpn company man at the Oregon irrigation congress the other day. He said, In effect, that a man suc ceeds who goes on a claim to wprk out a home for himself and his fam ily but . the man fails who tried to "make It easy." :&th,.J on Is ma4e by staying on a farm, big or little, to work not by speculat ing to raise values of the lands and then sell out.. .... , Absolutely true in principle, pro vided good sense Is at the elbow of the man who la buying the land. Sometimes too much is asked of the land. Often no thought la given to the proportion between live and dead capital in buying, nrr to the time it mutt take to make enough of the land remunerative, to bring a re turn from land wbich is neither in crop nor in substantial se when the new owner takes possession Oftentimes a man pays $5000 for a farm of, say, 75 acres, and then finds he has but $1000 left to equip and Improve and put his farm to use. Yet on the use of that $1000 the man and his family must live The man's reasoning was bad. He possessed himself of too much dead capital in partly improved lafid," and has not enough left wherewith to get results Such conditions aro not the land's fault,. nor -yet should they be blamed to, the seller of necessity. It Is the buyer's business' to ako care. The thmking that ke'ips a man out of such . dangers results from the lescons at the farmers' short course or from such a man as C. L. Smith or his like. No new comer, or new buyer, should be too proud to ask and learn. It'Ja the application of the old proverb to cut his coat ac cording to his cloth. The old Oregonian used to buy land until be was Jand poor. His successor sometimes fail to profit by the" lesson. But it Is pretty nearly true that the smaller the area and the higher the farming the more Lproflt the new owner of land makes. TIIE.TJURD- CITY. ., F' i OR several years Chicago and Berlin have been close rivali in the race for rank In popula tion. But the German capital w vv.ut" fo oui.ii AJCi 4111 AJ4U claims a population of 3,50O,00, or onthe third city of the world. I m the latest , census. Paris had B, dun, nop liili.iht iit: "f.rn an- iiexlng .suburbs,, as Berlin has done, , could . eartly retain the position of third city, now claimpd by Berlin. In three generations, Berlin has risen from a provincial '.own of 100,000 to its present position as one of the world's great centers. Swift, however, as is Berlin's growth-, she is still far short of the pace set by New York, which by extension of her limits after the manner of Berlin, ould easily double the jatter's pop ulation. ' . r -TnOMASJLGATCII, N affectionate letter has been sent by his old . students to Thomas M. Gatch, former well known Oregon educator, now a resident of Seattle. The tribute was proposed by Judge N. L. Butler of Portland, at the annual banquet of the Portland Alumni Association of Willamette university, which oc curred in this city last Saturday night. The letter was prepared by Robert A. Miller Charles B. Moores and N. L. Butler, and has been for warded to Dr. Gatch. The career of Dr. Gatch Is closely Interwoven with tbe educational his tory of the Pacific coast. . It is .a Lxareer In which a man of rich men Tal endowments took a book in one hand, and with the other led his 6tudents up the heights of knowl edge and; high ideals. He began his" career as an edu cator in California, in the early 50's, and for about 65 years was a part of the educational life of the coast. He was president of the University of the Pacific at San Jose, and was once, identified with the public schools of Portland. He .was for many years president of Willamette TOlversRy7"andufTng "his adminis tration that institution became the leading educational establishment of the state. From Willamette he went to the University of Oregon as a member of the faculty, and later became president of Blue Mountain university at The Dalles. He was later called to the faculty, and. ulti mately became president, of the University of Washington at Seat tle. In 1897 he returned to Ore gon, to become president of the Ore gon Agricultural college, a position from which he voluntarily retired in 1907 to accept the benefits of the Carnegie foundation.- In the classvroom, in the office of administration, and everywhere, Dr. Gatch has been the embodiment of exalted moral and civic ideals. 1 He has- impressed deeply the life of hundreds of students, and by his the pathway of clean thinking and right living. No career Is more ex alted, no life, work more sweetly or better done. EXCELLENT RECOMMEND A ; TIOXS I M PORT ANT recommendations have been made by the special committee of the official board of the Rivers and Harbors con gress. The committee consists of J. N, Teal, James E. Smith and Fran cis G. Newlands, and its Initial re port has been made. It recommends: That this organization should ad vocate a comprehensive scheme of waterway development of related projects; k That this scheme should Involve and consider all the beneficial uses which the waterway may serve or to which it may be put; That the work of the varioua sci entific services of the government should be co-ordinated; nation should cooperate and act in harmony in all mat ers of common Interest; and That funds should be provided so that work on all approved projects can be carried continuously to com pletion. It Is well known that different de partments of the government fre quently deal with the same public resource with little reference, to co ordination," Waterway improve ment by one. department is made with little or no reference to uses of water in the same stream for re clamation of adjacent lands. It is well known that projects of waterway Improvement have often been undertaken without any gener al plan for their final completion, and their coordination with other systems of Improvement. Projects in waterway and other improvements are frequently handicapped by lack of auffklent funds Jtor.lheiiQijsistent and continuous prosecution of the work . and there is consequent de terioration and delays. -In short, there has been a woeful lack of systematic and businesslike methods in the prosecution of many public works, a fact that has cost heavily among the ma'ny huge un dertakings that the government has constantly in progress. The recommendations of the spe cial committee should reach con gress and other , authorities at Washington, and there . meet with a patient and intelligent consideration, DR. SUN MOVES IIOUSE D R. SUN evidently acts on the ancient whist player's, code, and, when he trumps he trumps high.' To move the whole "of the Chinese republic's Of- ficialSjbag.andLbassagefrom Nan king to Peking, and set up business at the old stand of .the monarchy, re gardless of riots and lootings and wholesale murder, and incendiarism, betokens the eubllmest courage or else foolhardraess to a high 'degree. ' It in, probably, the surest anti dote to the sugo. ted - separation of north and south f tha empireif cuiy VV. is.111 aad I is tabtnt-t and as sembly surylve Mho first few days. It Is noteworthy tliat,if ..the dis- patches are to be trusted, Dr. San does not wait for the republican army, but "takes only a body guard of a couple of thousand veteran troops, besides a handful of detailed guardsmen. One would like to wit ness the entry of Dr. Sun and the ministers and officials of the repub lic, with their guards, Into the an cient capital, where the looters' fires are still burning, and the dased and frightened people will be peep lng through the shutters of their houses at the. strangers from the south.-- -r---- The' move will be Justified In bringing Dr. Sun and his surround ings into direct touch with the lega tions. , The news of progress to wards pacification of the country, or else the story of failure and defeat, will reach the ministers at first hand. If loans are to be made, as they surely "must be, the actual ne gotiators will be in contact, and Yuan Shi Kal and- the Dr. Sun party will present a common front to the proposed lenders. The move now chronicled will mark the turn of a new page in the history of the young republic. ' - T Letters FnJm tLe People (Cotnmunlotloni entto Th Jooroil for ptitv Hc-ttlon In this riepu-tincnt thould not etcwd 3U0 word In Jrogth and out b ircoi led bjr tbe nanie and addrea o( the ttnderSTjl Perverted Use of Militia, Bay City, On. March 4. To tha Edi tor of The Journal Wa have read with horror and regret of the oomhlned po lice and state militia clubbing, wound ing and even killing- men, women and children-la the town ; of - Lawrence, Mass,. Who ara connected -or-ln sympa thy wltli tha textile workers In their flg-ht with the mill ownersor a living wage, mills that declare a dividend of from 10" to 100 per cent on their stock, and pay from 16 to 110 per week for labor '.';.'. . : It Is generally conceded tha a work er, being the head of a family, should with a reasonable effort be able to earn v a Sufficient amount during his years of .toil to comfortably house, feed, clothe and educate his family, and also lay by sufficient to keep them In their declining years. Can it be done on $10 per week in a cltyf Evidently the state militia is either in the pay or under the Influence of tha mill owners. We look upon this perverted use of the militia as a menace to the nation, r Sixty -million:- workers : will soon : see the militia is not being used for a le gitimate purpose and refuse to Join the militia on. account of the disrepute at tached to state forces, thereby leaving the state to its police' and federal forces for protection time of need to repel Invasion or suppress rebellion. " Our state militia has been looked to rWHerncTenrrnrien sol- diery to be depended uppn In time of need, but If Its use Is to continue to be perverted to the starving Into submis sion of women ai4children as well as men lor tne purpose of creating divi dends, Its-decline Is surato-fol: W. B. FLAQO. An Old Veteran of "81 to '85, , Mrs. JSeip Resigns, . Portland, Or., March 6. To the Editor of The Journal I wish my friends to know, also the newspapers, that have taken such kindly Interest in the long looked for decision In the case still pending in the circuit court since June, 1908, against the State Spiritualists' association of Oregon, Incorporated 1902, suit brought by Q. B. Warne of Chicago, 111., to suspend an incorporated body working under the laws of the state of Oregon. ' - After these many years of suffering and suspense, persecution and prosecu tion, I have this day resigned from of fice of president of said association and I refuse longer to bear the torch and gibbet for a pugilistic war cry, waiting for the validity of-Oregon law govern ing incorporated rights. " I should like to add that Mrs. Lucy A. Rose Mallory, the wife of Judge Ruf us Mallory, and the editress of "Tha World's Advanced Thought," has been lour honorary president up to this time. one nai pecn my sieuuiiifci una launiui friend and her beacon light and counsel have led me through every tfialf (MRS.) SOPHIA B. SEIP. . --""- The Boy Scouts. Portland, . March 6. To the Editor of The Journal With regard to the Boy Scouts,, when General Baden Powell says that It Isn't Intended as a military move he is not correct, la my opinion. If It Is not so intended) why is it that there has already been a bill Introduced In congress for the government to give them rifles? And did you ever stop to I think that it makes tramps out of thou sands of boys, no matter how well they are provided for at home? Give a boy, scientific training In tramping as they will get In their "hikes," as they are called, and they will soon learn to like. It and they will soon be "hiking" In twos and threes on their own account, I know by experience, having served over four years In the Civil war, and I know also that war Is all that General BUerinan said it was. ' R. R. BRATTON. .. L- . t'. Who Are "Tax Payers"? Portlaadr-Marcfe-ij-Ju iha JSditor of The Journal Recently-, in an address before the Realty board (I think it was). Judge Charle H. Carey said that I pay no., taxes Jn.. Multnomah county, .The Oregonian and the Spectator rieat that statoment, which conflicts with my shor- tfrs tax receipt for 1911 taxes. . It is true that I pay no dlreot taxes on any. lot or building In Multnomah county; but what of that? Judge Carey knows that a man who pays house rent pays the taxes on the house and lot, but the landlord gets the tax receipt From July 1, 1910, to June 30, 1811, tha 'amount that 1 paid In rent for a house and. lot was exactly 20 per -Cent of the 1910 assessment on the house and lot. Does Judge Carey really, be lieve tha owner Sf that property paid the taxes? Again, Judge Carey knows that groc ers, butchers, merchants of all kinds, gas companies and electric light com panies, figure , taxes into the ' prices charged for goods and service; they get the tax reeolpts, but "the consumer pays the tax." Posslbjy "Judge Carey was excited when he permitted his tongue to slip' into an obvious , misstatement. ,He" knows that men who pay .for food, clothing, shelter and the necessaries and comforts of life cannot escape paying taxes. i .- If Judge Carey is searching the rec ords for persons who do not pay' taxes, except upon what they consume,1 let him look at some ground leases In Portland. For example, the, block of land on which the Olds, Woi-ti-nn & King storo Is built. That bluck of (r-.id, leps than one acre. iiLUa'livr ,ilj.:t!,,Hm at tU of rath iivo e u-jLuiigJ the ground rent I nitres res $30'l0. ' ' . The Jj'-feNeca are now paying $18,000 a year rent for the ground alone, and they COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE. Moving pictures will become a fine adjunct of (school education. Many men don't care who's nominated for preaideut; won't register. Senator Bourne may succeed himself; the Oregonian U abusing him. Colonel YTatteruon is enveloped In a PJ!X0JjjL4dBoirovul eiiencc. Prolonged . strikes, - and - their causes, ought perhaps to be .made crimes. Most young people don't like the farm. Many of them will live to change their mind. : , - - - . Free sugar will cause millions of peo ple to be swet on the Democratic leaders. , One thing that probably hasn't changed mucn In many generations Is courting. - '.- , A dog saved a woman and her chil dren In a house on fire, let soma peo ple "hata all dogs. ' One' must't expect "back to the farm" to be all flowers, fruit and bird songs. There are weeds and work. - v 7 Every additional performance of the militant British suffragettes renders them more unfit for citizenship. - Bryan . differs from many other peo ple who like to talk a great deal; many people like to hear him talk. ' - Massachusetts mill worker are to get a slight Increase of Day. but they can't get back the lost t,lm and other result-. Bill .. . - New York woman suffrage lenders de nounce and tabod the corset, which to a mere man seems to ba another thing to their credit. ... '. . - It 1 alleged that Roosevelt has not kept faith, or his promises, with various people. But doubtless he has anathemas ready for all who say so. ., . The' langthenlng light, tha northing sun. incttnsing warbling morn and eve, proclaim that winter's race Is won, his reign here brief and mild is. done, at which no one will grieve. His dying breath may rudely blow anon while gusty March holda swayy-but vanish frost, and Ice, and snow, spring's smil ing face doth dimely glow, more sweet ly blushing day by day. SEVEN MEN OF Benjamin 'One of the chief characteristics of Benjamin Franklin was his persever ance. When once he had made up his mlnst to aeconpllsh a certain line of work of whatever character, no obstacle was sufficient to turn him from his purpose. Like so many men who have become prominent In our national, history, Franklin was of humble origin. He was a tallow chandler's son, and was born In Boston in 1708. Early in his youth his attention was caught by a pasEgggtrorri the Bible, the words of Solomon, Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men." Franklin took this to heart, and from that time, all through MfeL'he principles of diligence and perseverance In whatever he un dertook marked his actions, and brought success to crown his efforts. Apprenticed to his brother, a, Boston printer, at an early age. Franklin was given the opportunity to indulge In reading, and often eat Up half the night over his books. It was here that he commenced his writing In the form of essays for his brother's paper, which attracted wide attention, although the author was unknown. His brother's.un klndness at length caused him to leave Boston, and he made his way to Phila delphia, where he made his residence during the rest of his HferT" As early, as 1754 Franklin proposed a scheme for the union or" the colonies at a convention In Albany, but It was re jected. He would not- lay hisf plan aside, however, and persisted In it until at length he saw the colonies united and free. " It was the quality of perseverance, together with the great tact which Franklin possessed, which caused him to be chosen to seek aid of France dur ing the Revolution. Congress located about for a man who would not give up until evory effort had been made, and who could. . usa. dlnlomacy ,.iaJJiA at te'nipf." No "one seemed "better fitted' than Franklin, and his success tells how well they chose. When at last the great war was over, the man who had been so active In bringing it about set out to establish the colonies firmly and strongly ih their new position, and kept steadfastly , to his purpose until the mechanism of the agree to pay all taxes and assessments on the land, all taxis on the building and keep tha building Insured for the benefit of the lessor. But like all other merchants, they pass- the taxes on , to their cuBtorhers. 'At the, expiration of the lease the building becomes the property of the owners of the ground I learned to spell many years ago, and the terms of that lease spell "confisca tion" to me. . That block of land was assessed $26, 220 In 1900 and J498.000 in 1910. I won der if Judge Carey believes that the owners of that piece of ground, by their efforts and labor, produce the 1470,780 of Increase In the value of the piece of land an average increase of $47,078 a year for 10 years. Does he really be lieve that the owners are "earning" the J 18,000 a year they "now get for per mitting business men to use that piece of.land. or .hat .they, will , "earn" the average of $31,600 a year they will get during the life of tha 50 year lease? For -permitting merchants, to ; use" a piece of lan d,- less than- one acre,- th e Tanglefoot By Miles Overholt THE HANp SHAKERS. - The ether day a mari came in i He carried quite a life size grin. And then he grafipea my goou ' right hand and squeezed it for Ho seemed bo glad to see my face: He told me so wltn ease ana gTa.ce And everv word ho uttered was embellished with a smile. Then followed-him another guv. ' With .lantern jaw and twinkling eye, Who asked me all about myself, and bragged upon my work He talked to me in gentle tones, Nor tried to borrow twenty bones, - Arid when I trampled on his . corns lie ' smiled Just like .a - "Turk, 'Tm getting popular," I said: "I guess I'm forging right ahead. For people seem so proud of me, I they want tohold my hand." Just then another pilgrim came -And grinned his fae and. spoke my name. Nor didn't try to sell -me forty , i lots of no-good land. . ' V "' .-.-"""'-' '";' ' - '"' . . .V-.'' Alas, my dreams were busted flat; I nulcklv lenrntd where I was at. , ' i !i liUiin ua 'uibb' una eame "back and fi(t!.fl me for :ny vote. So-now, wiibt ?T'cn come in the door, I yell: VWhat are ynu running for" 1 And tlim I beat it frdin the scene e er they Durioin my goaj. NEWS IN BRIEF OKEGOX SIDEUGIl Ilermlston Herald: And now it ls, whose parly vegetnMes will be ready to use first. In many sections they are still shoveling .snow. : Seaside's council has under considera tion a number of public Improvements calculated to make the place still more attractive to tourists. The Baker Democrat Is in, the field eniiy, to bosppak for Baker-the tibnof of ptayinghoFt-to all Fourthrof July celebrants of Baker county this year. The Klamath Falls high school band will make Its initial appearance tomor row In the high Bchool auditorium at Klamath Falls, with a formal concert program, p - Weather Observer Gilmore. of Astoria, reports that the month of February was exceptionally wet, tho total rainfall be ing 10.23 Inches, or t.S inches above the average for the month. , ' Lebanon Express: Mr. and Mrs." De vina are in PortliJnd selecting furniture and carpets for the new Hotel Lebanon. The veteran hotel keeper hopes to throw the doors of the new hostelry open to the publlo about April 1. " -' "The stockholders of "the Chewaucan Mercantile company have taken their store at Paisley out of the receiver's hands by assessing themselves to, tide over the temporary embarrassment. The concern will ba carried forward on an enlarged scale. ' ' McEwen, in the Sumpter valley, at one time a branch railroad's terminus and a lively town, but later reduced to a sidetrack and a section house, t is in process of rehabilitation, due to the growing up of a fine ranching commun ity about it , . - Joseph Herald: As an expert with a rifle Mrs. Joe Taylor has all of the coyote butcbers and crack shots on up per Prairie creek skinned to a frazzle. On flay 'this week she shot a chicken hawk at a distance of over 300 yards the first crack, . . ,. Roseburg Review: An acacia tree, 25 feet high, in full bloom, adorns the yard of T. B. Cannon's home. It con. stttutes an eloquent testimonial of .the mildness of Roseburg climate at this "time of the year, when Jess-favored communities are experiencing the rigors of midwinter, . .The tree originated In Palestine. :-'. 3- '- ,- "' ' . :' fl 1 PERSEVERANCE Franklin. new government was in thorough work ing order. He was largely Instrumental in forming the treaties with Great Brit ain and other powers i which mad tha colonies an Independent nation. The word: of Solomon. Which, Frank lin bad read , when a boy, were' made true In his. case when he became commissioner- to the French court at ..Ver sailles, where he veritably "stood be fore kings." Thus was-the perseverance of this great man rewarded. ' in his life lnTEnacleRia FranMTn was very popular among, the literary men. Who admired him lor- nis easy grace of manner and speech, andl his dogged steadfastness to whatever proj ect he undertook. Lord, Jef fery, in the Edinburgh Re view. . oaid the following tribute to fFanklin: "This self-taught American is the most rational, perhaps, of all philosophers. No Individual ever pos sessed a Juster understanding or., was so seldom obstructed In the use of H by Indolence, enthusiasm or authority. He never suffered himself in conduct to be turned aside by the seductions of Interest or vanity, or to be seared by hesitation or fear, or to be misled by the arts of his adversaries." : ' Tha abilities of Franklin were so vast and so various, he touched human life at so many points, that It would re quire -an elaborate essay to characterize him properly. He was at once philoso pher, statesman, diplomatist, scientific discoverer, Inventor, philanthropist, mor alist and wit. while as a writer of Eng. ltsh he was surpassed by few men f his time. History presents few exam ples of a career starting from such humble beginnings and attaining to such great and enduring splendor. The career of a Napoleon, for example, in comparison with" Franklin's, seems vul gar and trivial. The ceaseless Industry and perseverance of Franklin through out his long life was guided to an ex traordinary degree by :tec.larllghtof reason and inspired by a warm and en th'uslastic desire for the Improvement of mankind.'" It is very difficult to con ceive of anyone being able to accom plish so much on such. varied Jines as Franklin accomplished even during his long lifetime of 84 years. Tomorrow- Admiral Farragut owners ot that block 217 will receive $1,(75,000 in 60 years. The owners did not erect the building, did not produce the land, did not create the Value of the land. Then what are they doing that they are entitled to take an average of $31,500 a year merely for the use of that piece of land? Will Judge Carey ' explain what they are adding to the wealth of the community, and how they are adding it? Now, who are "disturbing business," the men who propose that . the people shall take for their common expenses of government, part or even all of the value that the. people add to. land, or the men who put that value Into their own pockets and shift to tha workers the taxes on . the land? Who are the real "conflscators," the people who take what they, as a community, create, or the men who take what the people create? Is Judge Carey too busy to give an explaBaU6fil'nat ppiaiHSHe'was'lof too busy to make a misstatement, which was, of course, unintentional. pr- G. EGGLESTONT" Gentle Annie (Oo'ntM-lbutPil to The Journal by Walt Masoa, the famoni Kaunas (met. Ilia proae-poemi ara a ri-giilur fttatura of ,tbia column In Tbe Daily Journal.) ' The time approaches, Mr. Man, when you- will take the sprinkling can, and rakeiand cpade and hoe, and blow your- sen ror sucks ot seeds which will pro duce all kinds ot weeds when they begin to grow, it is a strange, noteworthy thing, '-that; with the coming of the spring man .yearns to delve the ground, to labor with the fragrant soil as,Father Adam used to toll, to fuss and potter 'round. He dreams Of finer cabbage heads and cucumbers and onion beds than ever man has seen; and he will raise the finest slaw and j succotash, both boiled and '-rawi that ever wore the green. Experience might teach him that his visions will be broken flat,- his gar den be a fake, that all the harvest he will get will be a rippling rill of sweat, and fifty kinds of ache. But mu. rr. gets his former woes when Gentle Annie comer and bjqws upon her fairy pipe; once more the luscious soli he dir and Lplants again his thingmyjlgs, Ms caull. iiunci mm, ime. ; ve ve civilized the human race until there inruiv i. . LrIiajBnm.e.vai..man,, save mh I . . . ' ""-J sm- m c 1.1. um uiiiiivni man jn thojsprlngUme makes us ache to tlnkerN with the hoe and raka and ra . , ,. ..... . , i spnnKiing can. Coprriflrt, 1911, 'br tieurga Uatthow Adams. r The Strikers' CliilJ s II from vr York Worll Clenu-nce Varvack is a little girl who came to New xork from Lawrence, Mass., with the first "consignment" of strikers' children. She was a little frightened as she waited for soma one to take charge of'her, but she kept her little upper lip very stiff and tried to smile, because she has been tackling the problem of . living ever since she could walk, and has always managed to eet along iomiliow. As liicR had It." alOTgr: came Mrs. . Catherine . Horjfer tf 12S Smith street, Evergreen, L. I., who had sent in her name to take one of the children. - - . Clemence was allotted to her. but as she was starting away she saw another yellow-hairea little girl crying forlornly in the corner, and an inquiry discovered that the woman who had agreed to take Leonle Albers was rejected by the com mittee. . - Mrs. Hopfer. who has seven children of her own to look out for, had not ex pected to take moce than one, but she decided that this small mouth would not gobble up a large portion, so she adopted Leonle too. And the children begged so hard for Alics Herney, a sad, dark eyel Uttle playmate, that Mrs. Hopfer ended by taking the three children out to her little house, and the youngsters con- fessed to a reporter yesterday that they wer naving me time or tneir lives, v We have butter every meaL" Clem ence said Impressively, "and at home wa only have It once in a while. And Mrs. . Hopfer eooks'vegetablesor us, and ons day I had an egg." t . f:. , Clemence has clear blue eyes and hair that escapes In tiny curls arbund her face. She smoothed her dress down primly and folded her hands in her lap like a miniature old woman as she started to tell about her Ufa In Law rence. Clemence Is really very much settled, because she can cook and scrub and wash and iron, and she worked In a candy store in Lawrence for 75 cents - a week between times. "Wa really have it easier than many families in Lawrence," she said, "be-' cause I am the only child. My father makes $7 or $8 a week and my mother makes from $3.50 to $4, and I make ray 1 75 cents. I will be 14 in June and then I will start In the mills myself. I am In the fifth grade In school and I wish that I could go on, but of course It is .- my duty to help papa and mamma as soon as I can.'' ' ' r- "What will you do?" the reporter asked. : v - Well, I will tie the thread onthe bob bins and fill them for the weavers and clean the frames. I am quite big enough to do it, and It Isn't dangerous work, although it is dusty and tha lint from tha thread la hard on some people. The worst thing about it is that you have to stand up all day, but then papa and A mamma have to do that, They never -alt down a minute all day." "Tell ma how you Uva now," Clem ence was asked. "Papa and mamma get up at I o'clock and get their breakfast, and when they " leave at 6:30 they wake me tip. I get my own breakfast; which is coffee and brt&d, and clean uj the house. Thin I go" to scBooT and stay- until 11:30. I hurry to the house of a lady and get dinner for her because aha gives me my dinner for doing that for her. Mam ma takes tha lunch for her and papa, to the mill. After I have my dinner and straighten up tor the lady,' I go back to school. . "When school Is over I go home and buy the' things for supper. I get sup per.. We hav potatoes with the skins on, salt meat, or some other kind of meat, and occcaslonally beans or some thing like that, and when supper ia over I wash the dishes. . Saturdays mamma and I do the washing, ' and let the clothes dry at night Then we iron them Sundays. Mamma and I scrub. I am good at washing. Mamma Irons tha hard things and 1 iron tha rest. . " "Everything costs so much in Law rence; Wa pay $2 a week for our rent, and we have to buy coal for the stove, and sometimes It is so cold that wa have to have a fire all the time we ara at home, which, of course, is very expen sive Meat costs SO centa a pound, and butter $7, and everything else Is very dear. If work was steady it wouldn't be so bad, but almost all last winter papa could only work part time, and ' mamma couldn't get any work at all. It was an awful hardship for ua." ' About her work n tha candy store Clemence said that she minded the proprietor's bab scrubbed the floor and counters, made soda water, sold candy "a'n'a-rBtt--erra Clemence has a big woolly red Tarn Which a woman gave her two years ago for Christmas, and a coat for which her father paid $i.98 two winters ago. In addition, her wardrobe consists of two '" cotton dresses, a flannel petticoat, two suits of cotton underwear and a pair of shoes. Her mother's, she said, was tha same, but she mourned that it was "all old," and neither she nor her mother had any gloves. -,- - - - - - "Don't you ever have any dessert at dinner?" Clemence was asked, and when it was explained to her what that meant she brightened up and said: "Oh, yes; we eet an annlrf nla . from the bakery sometimeB for Sunday?' But when sh Was asked what sort of a Christmas she had, she replied simply, "Why, we didn't have any. Nobody did. The mill was closed that day and it waa very hard for us to lose the money." Clemence has never been to a moving picture show, she doesn't own a doll or sled and never has any time to play, but she is as bright and "cheerful as If she found scrubbing floors and ironing clothes Sunday mornings the most amusing way of passing tha time that has been discovered. "Ob, all the onii dren my aae are in the mills." she said. "and the classes ahove in mm graae are almost deserted." C&MM6'-'trnmTmXly 'eama to America' from Franca two years ago. . "It is much harder here," she said wist- f ulIy,'"although papa was only a weaver '" there. But we had our own Uttle houso and mamma stayed home and took care of it, and 1 didn't have to work nearly so hard. With work so slack w have had to spend almost everything we had saved up in the bank when we were at home in the old country.' Wa never save anything here." . Leonle Alber's family consists of nine persons,, who live in a flva room flat. All of them work- In the mills, except a slater who has a baby two months old, her mother, who does the cooking and housework, and Leonle, who -will start to work in July, wnen she becomes available by law. Her father makes $9 a week and the sisters $5. "Mamma Is very anxious for ma To go to work." Leonle said, "because we need tha money, and I want to become self supporting too. I gueBS I'm big enough not to be a drain any more." "We are bo glad to be able to come here to New York," Ciemenoe explained, .. "because with us away they can fight the strike so much better. Why, there's not food enough for the grown-up peo ple, and when they sea tha children hungry it just takes all the fight and courage out of them, and It makes the. mammas cry all the time.; And we must win the strike If we're going to live -at an." . -r'" - ::. His Punishment, .JrorajthelgenjjjUllaiter- i . , i -h . Neighbor iiow nice and clean you re- P6111 1 suppose grandmama Is atv-ll coming to see you today.- Oh, no, but I've been naughty and I'm always washed for a punishment r t