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THE JOURNAL an im r i-s:"i'EXT newspaper. .roti at Tie Journal Bull.!- i ill ;r?" I'o't'.and. lr- l .,irri at the rwtort! t Portland. Or., f-r t;,r,-. ..Son through the niaiie aeeona 1 1 ! M'MuMiS Main T1T3; Home, MX d.T.rtoicnt reached tT these nnmhere. T.-ll the operator what deparfmrnt yon vnr. rOKKIGN ACVERVISIxa RK! 'KKtiA c. Hri1m!n Kentuor Co.. RrnMwtrk Building, i-i Fifth areniv. New Tork; 121S feuple iH Birtt.Hnsr. CblfdCO. S il-r!rtioB Term by mail or to ar.f address la tie United Statee or Mnlov PAILY. - . One year........S.n i One month ... -30 FrSPAT. . One jeer ti 50 t One rreth. .......a DAILY AD SUNDAY. One year.. $7.50 I On month f 1 A dollar isn't so hard to ret that It ia necessary to harm , anyone In order 4a get it. , , '. Cot trail's Magazine. . i TnE GUILTY BrrCITER BOY T I HE proprietor of "a" leading New York cafe says he makes no profit on the food supplied at dinners or. suppers. He Bays the 6ame Is true of all" other cafe proprietors. The profit la solely on the wines and liquors.- "We expect to lose on the foodstuffs," he said. The New JTorkJWorldJes ailsJJial similar statements were recently made ? by the beef packers. "We make no money on beef," said the trust r men ; "our profits" are solely from the hide and tallow.' : ' After an investigation, a Dakota congressman ' recently declared on the floor of the house that a steer that brought the farmer 75 In his etate, yields upwards of' $2000 when served at dinners and suppers in fashionable cafes. With the packers and cafe propri etors losing money on the meat, and with the farmer getting but $75 for whati the cafe sells for $2000, who Is It that gets the profit It "cannot be the ultimate con sumer at $3 per for a planked steak, .at a swell cafe. It cannot be the re tall meat dealer whose buying price and selling price are fixed by the trust with ample care taken to see that he does not hog the profits. Who Is it then that makes all these profits on meat on which the packers and cafe prcprietorsjose bo heavily T z:.T-:ZZz:ZZ:. Probably It Is the butcher boy. He Is the guilty rascal who ; whistle merrily aa h drives his wagon from door: tooor and absorbs ; all the profits on a nation's meat, while he ruthlessly drives the poor packers for their profits to hides, tallow and tail. " :"t""-"-:.:.:.;:'''Vv There ought to be a congressional investigation." " ' TAINTED NEWS TCORD crime wave In "New In York." Such is the heading IV ?f.an &?lcl( that. 18 be,nS,In fed to the up-state newspa pers of Oregon, and. some of them have fallen into the snare by- giving it publication. .-, s -W-V-X .- . The article prof esses to describe a great 'epidemic of crime that - is sweeping over the imperial city. It refers to successions of desperate I uum-upB.. ana miuaes mysteriously to a. iweniy-nve-uiousana aouar cab robbery in broad daylight. It solemnly ' tells how ld reliable" de- A l . m. . a ' tecuves nave peea cauea into con ference on means to Btem the tide of crime, and are put to their wit end to find ajremedy. '.',', Finally, in the concluding sentences of the article,, it is adroitly and in- Binuatingly explained that the great 1 wave of crime Is the result , of the new Anti-revolver law passed by the New York legislature. That, how- ever, which makes the Incident of real Interest Is that the article is supplied to the newspapers, without money and without price, all ready for publication, by a manufacturer of revolvers and other firearms." H The case is illuminating In that ; It Bhows the Bource of the propa ganda that seeks to perpetuate the revolver. It explains from whom it is, and for what reason, that there comes to us the insistence that we f hall keep our crooks 'armed with re volvers revolvers that annually or phanize 20,000 to 40,000 American children. OREGON TIDE LANDS pHE two recent decisions on title : I to tide lands in Oregon are at- J, tracting much attention, chief ly on questions as to the future or potential -alue of the "properties. - The title to the tide and over flowed lands la Lincoln formerly Benton county in favor of the Cor vallls & Eastern railroad company was upheld by the supreme court, in a suit by the state to , recall the original grant-in aid of the rallroal which opened Yaquina bay to a con nection with the outside world thirty .years, ago,. .. - ; ' : . The more recent decision of Cir cult Judge Jphtt S. Coke sustaining the right of the Port of Coos Bay to the tide lands there for the devei opment of that port covers wider f?un. The essential question ap pears to be whether purchasers from the state of auch tido lands hate ac cWred an absolute title, or one of which they are liable to "be deprived at any subsequent time 'by the use of Bach lands being required for pub ' lie purposes. . . ; Under the ancient law of England the shores between high and low wa ter mark including therein tide and overflowed lands appertained to the king.. But such rights did not from landing and doing business on . w uw.va, wu twuouutnun m piers and wharfs for eucli purposea was also excepted. When after the war of Indepen dence the territorial rights of the English king were absorbed In the United States, and passed to each sovereign state as In turn consti tuted, the royal rights to the fore shore on the ocean and on bays and navigable" waters became the prop erty of each state In whose territory the upland lay. ' But the state could not Invade the inalienable public rights to landing on and to the limited use of the foreshore, especially for the purpose -of connecting navigable -water with the land. Whether, . If Judge Coke's Judg ment covers wider ground ia favor of the public, it will stand In, future decisions remains to be seen. , ; But the right of the state to sell and give title to tide and overflowed lands subject to limited Inalienable public rights has beea repeatedly affirmed. TURN ON TnE LIGHT FEW days ago mill owners granted a five per cent, ad vance in wages to many Law rence strikers. Yesterday's ad vices state that further concessions by the mill owners have resulted In a joaipromlfiftby Jhich It Is expect-, ed that the strike will end Tuesday. Whether or" not the end comes Tuesday, it remains the unalterable fact that within a few days the mill owners have made a complete change of front. Ten days ago they were Inexorable and uncompromising. To day, they are tractable; tuey have made wage advances; and they are making other concessions daily. The change Is the direct result, and Immediately follows, the fierce glare of publicity thrown npon con ditions by the United Press news ser vice. There were conditions at Law rence that could not withstand the "pitiless publicity" that a courage ous news agency threw over them. The mill owners were exploiting, at Lawrence, a "pauper labor" differ ing little from the "pauper labor of Europe." . They had. In fact, drafted bo many pauper laborers from Eu rope that their employes were al most entirely foreign, with a stand ard of living at the lowest level, la borers who were eking out a meagre subsistence on beggar" .wages, and whose demands for an' Increase were resisted by. club and bayonet. '. ; They were conditions that the American people resent; They were conditions that, perpetuated and ex tended, hate a distinct tendency to undermine the republic, and are a direct agency for the ultimate break down of civilization Itself. . As soon as the facts were fear lessly exposed, the country became angered. ' The Washington govern ment was stirred to action. A pre liminary investfiratlftn v, hv con cress ha hflMkcornnlfited. nd a mnr ex- 'v.,. the textile industry Is to be made, as it ought to be. The mill owners have read the omens on the horizon, and the wage advances spurned ten days ago are partly granted today. Such is the fruit of publicity. The safety of the country lies in a truth ful and pitiless publicity. The de- fense agalDBt wrong8 and the redress o grievances lie in ft relentless pub- laxi-mMtv n nnnroheA nrona Keep the light turned on. NATIONAL ARBITRATION W HAT there -was left of the ar- bltratlofl treaties with Eng land . and France after the man-handling of the senate was -contemptuously approved yes- terday afternoon by a vote of 76 to 3. So the treaties, round which so many hopes of International peace centered, may find their appropriate places on the -dust covered shelves of all the foreign offices and may serve for precedents and guide posts as to what the senate of the United States will not allow the nation to do, The amendment of Senator Bacon is remarkable for Betting out a string of exceptions of matters which the treaties should not make arbi trable, every one of which, save pos- sibly the last, are already excluded by any reasonable construction of the language of the treaties. The last words of the Bacon amendment exclude from arbitration, "other purely governmental policy." Prob- ably this was the regular lawyer's plan of throwing in unmeaning words for good weight, and no one thought it worth while to twice kill the slain. Or. somebody might have suggested that acts, not policies, are subjects f qrJiriltration, and that governmental pureriinirarefty is a strange word to apply by way of exclusion when all "policies" are necessarily governmental. The words of article I of-both treaties are "All differences between the high contracting parties relating to international matters In wh ich-i.h e high contractin g p arties are concerned by virtue of a claim of eight made by one against the other, under treaty or otherw and which are Justiciable in their na ture by reason of being susceptible of decision by the application of tiae principles of law or equity." Such differences, so defined and limited, and none other, were to be arbi trated : : '., ,; Having thus tinkered with the scope and subject matter of . the treaties it only remained to excise the powers of the high commission by means of which the treaties were to be operated. This was done by a vote of .'4 2 to 40, and completed the devastation mq rorcDoaruga of the, only Jin g Hsh critics are Justified. They" ap prehended that-' the treaties . would never get safely throsi the senate. Colonel Roosevelt has the satis faction of seeing his campaign against the .treaties succeed on the very grounds of scare-crowing the senate 'exploited by him in his Out look articles.. The voice was the voice of Bacon but the hands were the hands of Roosevelt. A WEIGHTY ISSUE T HE issue before congress is whether that body is to legis late for the people of the United. States, or for the rail roads of the United States? If it exacts high tolls on' domestlo com merce through the Panama canal, it will legislate for the railroads of the United States, and against the American people. If it provides free tolls for American shipping In .the coastwise trade,-it will legislate for the people. There is no other con struction that can be put on euch ac tion as congress may take with refer ence to Panama tolls. About all the competition we have had of late on American waterways and in American coastwise trade Is mythical competition between the railroads and waterway and ocean lines owned or subsidized by the railroads. The history of the Pa cific Mail,, first subsidized and then owned-by-the-Tallroad, la Juavldeaca. Railroad Control of water terminals on the Mississippi is in evidence. Syndicate control of: water ter minals on the great lakes,' as dis closed by the interstate commerce commission, is in evidence. Railroad competition between rail roads and coastwise ocean lines owned by the railroads ia not a com petition that competes. As insisted by J. N. Teal, it is an arrangement that ought not to be permitted. It Is an issue that is one of the most Important before the American peo ple, and that would, if fully under stood, arouse public sentiment to a high pitch. . Congress is now on trial on this Issue. Its action as to free tolls for domestic commerce at Panama will definitely determine whether it Is on the side of the people of the United States, or on the Bide of the railroads of the United States. . Its action will determine whether the Panama canal was built for the American people or for the Ameri can railroads. -- - -- FRUITS OF A DISCOVERY W HEN Lord Lister died the other day the Burgeons of all nations rose up to call him blessed. The people as sented, from general knowledge that the great surgeon had found out how to make operations safe, and that many deaths from accident and mutilation were saved by antiseptic surgery. But fuller knowledge of how far the discovery reached and the scope of ita beneficence Is spread ing fast. ' .. A new book Just published in Lon don by Dr. Saleeby undep the title, Surgery and Society," gives the ma- fority of Its 17 chapters to Llsterism and its effect on modern life. The efficiency of the new treatment is described. It has alleviated k the pains and dangers of motherhood- it has very greatly lessened the mor tality in war it has advanced and aided the surgeon's . work at every point, Yet there is much to be done be fore its - benefits - filter- through - all classes in the community.- The rich and the well-to-do resort to the surgeon's skill whenever necessary. For sufferers In other conditions of life free hospitals and dispensar ies, make splendid provision so far as they go. But Dr. Saleeby points out the limits of their usefulness. In the first place, he says, the provision inadequate. "There are not enough beds and theatres for all tbe patients who need - expert surgical help, nor can there be while the eco nomic basis of the hospital service remains what it is, and while the causes of disease demanding surgi cal; interference persist. It is much more Important that it Is .eft to the ignorant and the uninstructed poor to consult the .surgeon. Popular education has given them no guid ance on sucn matters as to signui- cant symptoms, nor as to the benefi cence of Burgery, nor aa to the con duct of hospitals,- nor as to- the im portance of taking disease in time. So it comes that the finest surgical skill, and the whole apparatus of modertt hospitals are constantly set to futile or semi-fu- tile tasks,' being robbed of all or half their- efficiency - because T they are not employed in time.". In great Britain remedies will be bill.- The, poor will be so insured. the system of supervision will be so complete that they have a doctor to consult even for "merely Busplclous or inconvenient symptoms. Instead of waiting until pain or weakness gets unbearable they will consult a doctor at once. Only surgeons ap- prclate what it means for them selves and their patients that their skill and labor will be at all stages available towards life and health. On the one hand It is predicted that this new system of conserving the healthy strength, and efficiency of a nation will spread over . the world. On the other hand the cry of governmental Interference and -paternalism Is raised, as by the Lords and the Unionist party in England today, and may yet prevail. With five steamers stuck in the ice of Lake Michigan; the first robin probablyprefers to remain south and Petitions are .being circulated for an initiative measure to be voted on for the abolition of the deata penalty ia California. It wlll.be the unusual to see the two states of California and Oregon voting by the same pro cess on this eame measure on the same day. Three to twenty years was the sentence . in Judge Gantenbeln's court for a minister who committed a statutory offense against a girl under sixteen years of ,age. Nobody knows under what hat may stalk a scarlet man. Letters From trie People (OommaDleetloBi tent to Tbe Journal for pob Hretloa la tbti department ehould not exceed 800 word In length and mut be accompanied by the name and addreaa of the aender.) Judge Carey Replies. Portland. March 7. To th Editor of Tha Journal Dr. Eggleaton'a latter In Wedneaday's Journal ahowa that ha ia a typical alngla taier. He remlnda me of a cuttle, flab, which when in danger, resorts to the expedient .Of apewlrig out a Dumle llauid that dsenW colora the water about him ao that ha can make?1 retreat without being Been. Tour cor respondent first mnddlea tha Issue by misstating his opponents position, and then proceeds to obscure it further by a torrent of words that have nothing to do with tha matter, but sound good to him. I said that I .would prefer to trust the judgment, of tha men that have built up our 'community andjwho are experienced and successful men, when it comes to a question of a radical change In our system of taxation, rather than to trust gentlemen, however benevolent their purposes, who have cot yet made good. I said that I had noticed that the solid and level headed men were not alngla taxera, and that most of the agitation in favor of the alngla tax is by men who have no stake in tha com munity, and who, when disaster eomes and property values are destroyed, will be able to slip away and take np some new fad somewhere else. I claimed that a person ought to have a substantial property interest here, before ho offers advice aa to how wa are to tax prop erty. And I had In mind that gentle men, lika Dr. Eggleston (who has migrated to Oregon from Montana lately), should wait awhile,' and get acquainted before trying to run things here. . . ; Thla argument may or may not have been sound. ' All might not agree with roe, and some, like Dr. Eggloston, might protest that a man who owna no taxa ble property and paya no taxes, may be nevertheless wiser and better able to advise than some other persona who Just get grossly rich, without thinking on economlo subjects at all, - Tour correspondent 'does not- meet this Issue, but sidesteps, and says a rent payer la -a taxpayer. That is not true, but worse. It la not tha point The substantial Interest that a man should have la not that of a renter, but of a property holder. A renter la Just aa good aa a property holder for aome pur poses, but he has not the solid and per manent Interest in Oregon and her wel fare. The renter may pull up and move, but the owner haa hia savings Invested in hia property and la vitally interested in all that concerns the property, . in cluding the laws that will affeot Its value. . -. Some other matter are discussed by Dr. Eggleston, but this reply haa already made large demands upon your apace. I will withhold further comment for the time being, but I will ask you to eay to your ' correspondent that I will take pleasure In meeting him In publlo dis cussion of the single tax, If tha time and place can be arranged. I do not claim to know . all about single tax, but I do know that the plan to impose all the taxes on land and to let tha loan sharks, and tha mortgage companies, and the banks, and the bond holders, and the stockholders get on without paying any taxes ia unjust, and Is bound to ruin real property values and bring on such hard times as Ore gon haa never seen oef ore, even when we had publlo soup kitchens and free lodging houses, as we had In the hard times In the nineties. . - CHAS. H. CARET. Oregonian's Report Incorrect. Portland, Or- March .- To the Ed ltor of Tha Journal In regard to the article in Thursday mornlnga Oregon lan, concerning the circulation of J3en ator Bourne's petition, I wish to con tradict the false and greatly exagger ated statements made in the article. Quoting from the Oregonlan: "It is declared -by other circulators, including Edward Ryan, who has circulated a number of petitions during tha present campaign, that one out of every five persona who stopped to sign a petition on the table on which waa tha Bourne petition refused to sign.", , , I can safely say that-during- the time that I was circulating my petition at the courthouse I averaged more than 100 signatures a day, which was con sidered a good average for any peti tion. At that time no circulator secured 1 as high aa 160 signatures to, any certain petition in one day. As to Mr. Ryan's statement, : that one out of every five refused to sign Senator Bourne's peti tion, I wsh to state that it la so greatly exaggerated that it is an absolute false hood. Inasmuch as Mr. Ryan has since circulated a petition for Ben Selling, the reason, for these statements la ob vious.' ' "' '.'"J-v ' V;v-" Furthermore, the article says that the circulator of the Bourn petition also circulated the Cameron and Weinberger petitions. "Aa a matter of fact, this same Mr. Ryan was th"e"c1rculator of Cameron's petition and , Weinberger's petition was handled by Colly Druhot, which again ahowa a misstatement of fact In the Oregonlan article. - ItaJso states that the Bourne circu lator "finished the Cameron and Wein berger' petitions and discontinued his efforts to secure names for tha Bourne petition." The truth of the matter Is, I discontinued my efforts to secure names for the Bourne petition when I received notice from headquarters that I had the required number of signa tures. :. v; . .., ...'..;-.,.: -. By this letter I wish to rectify any false ' impressions which may have arisen from the Oregonian's misrepre sentation of conditions. As Senator Bourne has always upheld the best In terests of the people of this etate, I feel In duty bound to assist, as much aa la In my power. In laying the bare facta before the voters of the state of Oregon. . WILL L TRINE. " Calls Auto" School Fraud. , Portland, March 9. To the Editor of The Journal-In the days of graft and graftera no one ia surprised when be hears of some new scheme; whereby the unsuspecting citizen may be relieved of hia money..' ',v -m On of the methods now being used, apparently with , considerable , success, is the so called automobile schools. These, I believe, are a recent Intro duction,, but there are many of them In the city, at present I will mention one or two as fair examples. flomo time ago I read an advertise ment In one Of the leading dallies which stated that two men were wanted, on the east side, to learn to drive and .re palc. autQiaoUjlea.-.ff ejflg, of an Intml.L tive turn or mind, , 1 investigated and learned through the manager that they were running an 'automobile .school." 1 waa asked to nay ' quite a sum of COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE. The infant Ch'ness republio Is getting its baptism of blood. - There will be keynote speeches every cay now for six months or more. The old Demoprats-reglstering-as-Re-publleans bugaboo has been sprung again. - . The women window smashers of Lon don got off easily two months or less imprisonment. ' Evasion, dissimulation, inslnceritv,' not to say prevarication, characterize Roosevelt's explanations. . -e Justice to all. is Roosevelt's slogan. Anybody can say that; they all do: but how Is it to be brought about? e Roosevelt nartlv wrerVort th a, n t while president; he is now trying to make a thorough finish of the Job. e HOW would soma S-minShlara wfcVaarn two or three times as ntuch like to support a family on 16 or 7 a week? The Colonel faiust hv rmiw mag nified that alleged country ide -and a most unanimous demand Of the peo ple,' ,'- A Women's Ta.ft clnh hnm hun AtffQn lied in California anil in mDr.ftniMn its president the dispatches of course uu vi uescuuo ner gown ana DaL The beet sus-ar nponlv jti1iinrta nt tv. Sugar Trust are howllnsr airalnSt free sugar. There are 1.000,000 sugar con sumers to two or three beet sugar pro ducers. . ; - Th DarroW MM tia hynm. 1n. yolved In such legal technicalities and tangles that none of the lawyers or the Judge knows where he la at. This aoesn t hannen in tha case nf a naar and obscure man. " " ' ". . e A man 'who assumes In Itnnn vi that there are only 469 ultra-fashtonable people In the United States. Let every person of common sense-be thankful there are no more, and hope the number win oecome oeautilully less. This column haa freaiientlv mrt re. marks similar to . these from a higher and more Impressive source, namely, New Tork Supreme Court Justice V, 6. Howard: "There are too many laws, too many courts, too many appeals, too many technicalities. Nobody knows the law, nobody'can know the law. In these daya a law library would fill a barn. Thousands of thick volumes constitute the written law A dozen volumes should suffice. The citizens cannot know the law, the lawyers cannot comnreTiend the law, the Judges cannot Interpret, tha law." SEVEN MEN OF The Puke of The duke of Wellington la the last , of the group of great .men whose names in history are connected with the period of Napoleon,- and one of the greatest- j He owed a. very large part of his suc cess In life to the quality of indomitable perseverance, which he possessed in an unusual degree. . j He was born in 1769. and after be-i ing educated at the military academy at Anglers, entered the army. : Having served for a term In Holland, his ef ficiency gained him tha rank of lieu tenant colonel, and, he was seiit to In dia. An incident of his persistency In all of his undertaking occurred there, which well illustrates tha characteristic In the man. ' He determined that In or der to perform satisfactory service the English soldiers must be fed on Eng lish food, but it seemed Impossible to obtain vany thing but the Indian - fare, But so ceaselessly did he pursue his efforts to get the food he thought best for wis men, that the government at last provided it On reading hia despatches afterward, one of his friends remarked, "it seems . to me that your chief busi ness in India was to procure rice and bullocks." "AndN so it was." answered the' duke, "for If I had rice and bull ocks, I had men; and if I had- men, I could beat jhe enemy." Later Wellington was sent to con duct the campaigns In Spain, and the conditions under which ha labored there called for more perseverance than most men are gifted with. The French troops in the peninsula numbered 800,000, and tha British at no time mora than 60,000 They could depend but-little on their Spanish allies. Handicapped In this manner, and on foreign fields, Welling ton carried hia army through the long campaign, meeting - frequent reverses, compelled to be ever at Buch a great disadvantage, and yet, through his per sistence, he won a glorious success. The aecret of ; thla auccess -was hia constant and unwearying attention . to money for the privilege of attending this "school" and was also assured a remunerative position at the completion at the course. Later, I learned that tha students here spent part of their time sitting by the stove, and the remainder j In - listening to an Instructor whose knowledge of automobiles could be writ ten on a shtet of note paper. Another which I will mentlop Is situated on the west aide. It is run by a smooth tongued Individual with offices in one of the down town build ings. . In this case the victim must pay his money before he Is told where the school is. Thus he ia prevented from changing his mind, as he very probably would do if given a chance-to see the place first I believe there should be some law to regulate this nuisance, for these schools, at least a good part of them, are nothing but frauds. Their only ob ject is to get your money. A "Blue Sky" law such as recently adopted by Kansas might be very ef fective In dealing with these people, EDWIN A. BERRT. Carpenter" H oa Found Work. " Portland, March 6. To the Editor of The Journal I wish to thank you most heartily for your kindness in Inserting my letter of a few days ago appealing to your readers for employment; also for offering to try obtaining work for me on tha new Journal building. ' Tour letter of March 2 waa delayed through the mail and In the meantime I have been fortunate in securing : other em ployment I find it difficult to express fully my appreciation of your kindness. " Any city having a paper that does aa much good aa The Journal ia doing every day haa good reasona to be proud. "CARPENTER." . Taxation of Homesteads. Prtnevllle, Or., March 2.' To the Edi tor of. The Journai.-Please answer through your paper the following ques tions! Can the counties tax homesteads or their ' improvements, and If ao, by what prooeaa of law can ; they collect the taxT - ' ' ' C. E. f .Homesteads are subject-lo tax aa soon as final proof Is made. Improve ments are taxable aa soon as made. Non payment of taxes aubjecta property to tax sale.) - , AS It Appeared to Hubby. . From the Pittsburg Post. . rwhat nflld.youi'ii.wlfa glvyvt for Christmas?" - "It appeared to be a bunch of noth ing HeganUy trimmed inside and out. and hand-painted all around. NEWS IN BRIEF ORLGON SIDELIGHTS Ilillstxiro is to have a paid fire depart ment of 20 members." a a Moro's new city park Is now fenced and tree planting will soon be in prog ress. e Chieflv. on account of nocturnal clam ors produced by high school pupils at The Dalles, Mayor Word has ordered the most rigid enforcement of the cur-' few ordinance. ' Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Malnord and Dr. T. C. Reese of Milton have gone to Fort Rock to locate on government land near there, if it ia what it has been repre sented to be. - The city council of.Roseburg haa di rected the city recorder to issue a call for tentative bids on 20,000 square yards of hard surface pavement, to gether with curbs, grading and drains. Hlllsboro Argus: Those who are en thusiastic over the proposition of a good street fair this fall are intending to get busy early In the summer, and arrange for the best district exhibit ever held In thla section. a . . Silverton Appealr The kind of -weath er experienced east of the Rocky moun tains compared with that enjoyed In the Willamette valley la further proof that this is Cfbd's chosen country and we are to be congratulated for having selected It for & home, 'Banks Herald: The Southern Pacific Is about to establish a freight and tick et agent at Banks, and a box car will be used temporarily, as headquarters. It is believed that as soon as good weather arrives" a passenger and " freight depot will be built. ' - Klamath Falls Typographical union No. 691 haa been chartered. The char ter members are R. Vance Hutchlns, S. C. Gravea, Frank Rlggs, Miss B. Way man, Zeno C. Zimball, Elmer Mills W. F. Rector, William Bowdoin, Nate Otter beln, Archibald T. Tindall and. J. W. Pritchett , ' ' '-.;. Woodburn Independent: Clarence Phil Hps, of Mount Angel, Is making a rec ord as the champion walker of the val ley. He Uvea at Mount Angel and teaches school at North Howell, five miles away, and every day since' his term of school began last fall ha has made that round trip walk of 10 miles, '-v.- e.-- e ': - :',..: vy' Salem Statesman: Great things will be doing along the west side country when the Southern Pacitio oompany s lines In that part of the state- are turned into an electric system. Already the proposed change is causing new depots of modern architecture to be es tablished in the cities from which the principal traffic is to come. PERSEVERANCE Wellington. the minutest details. With the greatest diligence he followed out every matter, eV'en those of leBser importance, which might affect the welfare of. his troops or the conduct of his campaign. The crowning glory of Wellington's career came in hia Belgian campaign In 116. Even the wonderful military genius of Napoleon , was of no avail against the unwearying and constant perseverance of the lesa spectacular Englishmen, aa the battle of Waterloo Droved. ' . ;. ." - Wellington waa not a genius. He did not have a ready wit, hqr did he reason deeply. , Later, when he took up polltl cal life, his Ideas of parliamentary re form proved dismal failures. Ha was not a smooth ' or polished speaker, and he lacked' the vivid Imagination which usually marks a great leader. But he did have what Washington and Crom well also had, and what one writer calls "a gigantlo common sense, rarer t nan genius Itself, but which in truth con stltuted genius of a homely and pe culiar, but not the less high order." In other, words, he could see. In hia own especial province., what shrewder men could not see. And ha possessed -the perseverance, to carry out the plana which he formulated, no matter how difficult and tedious the way might appear."""' ." ,;. ':v".- In 1827 Wellington was tnada com mander-ln-chlef of the- army, and later was also made premier. , His auccess never turned his head, and he always lived In the same, , extremely simple, methodical manner. He waa well liked by the-quen,-who-visited hlra In - hia home, and was much pleased at hia simple mode of Ufa, which he changed not at all on her aecount He died In 1862, mostly from the effects of old age, although his death was the immediate resulWf an epileptlo fit .. . .-v.. .;,-:.:..,'..'., - Next week Seven Famous Sea Fights Tanglefoot By Miles ". Overholt ,,., ,. piONEER. ' The day was warm and sultry. On a bench a loafer sat; His coat waa somewhat rusty' and he wore a last year's hat His hair was gray; he held a can. "Poor guy," l said, said I, "He's Juat .a down-and-outerj 'twould Xbe better if tie d, die." nd then I said: "I'll cheer him up and treat him to a feed." A man could see with half an ey ho was in greatest neea. I flopped myself bemde him and I said: "it a getting hot' Not like it was in fifty-two," he said "Well. I ruess not." He said: ''I crossed the sandy plain when I was but a kid; , X worked for twenty cents a day and board indeed I did. For forty-seven years I starved and worked to eet aome cash: For half a dosen years or more X lived - anon stai nasn. I have no relatives or friends that care . a cuss for me. .-.-.-,-..-.. Vm Just a lonely, worthless guy with chilblains at the knee." '' I found a quarter . handily, prepared to .hand It o'er. . Juat then a workman tumbled off the ninety-second floor. . Of the ekyest of skyscrapers -that was being built nearby. Tha old ' man grasped his can and sighed a double barreled sigh, And said: "Ah, well, it was his fault - no damages for him. . Just leave it to the contractor! ' they can i oeai DUiiaar dim. "Why, do you Tcnbw the builder?" I In auired listlessly. ; ... "Why, yes," he said, 'that pile of ateel is Deing duiu lor met Point cci Parae-raplifl Folly la as plentiful aa wisdom Isn't ... : -- - Industry Is the magnet that atarta things our way, ;. '' ..'.-.' .' ; .., v. ' Even a cat has too much sens to cry ever spilled milk. He laughs at scars who haa nrer ueou iuiiu lur b loan, - History la full of- near great men wno tailed to "come back." A man la foolish to stand In hia own light or hide It under a bushel. The things that do not concern woman ot ten give ner tne moat con cam.. im. i u In. .1. i i ' a .. a .,' . ' :.'.. Many a woroan'a good . Judgment shows up when she leaves it to her husband. The Royal Ccmn-Li:icn s Report By Edward P. E, Troy. It has always been the policy of the government of British Columbia to en courage Industry, thrift and good clti tenship by lightening the burdens of taxation .upon, those who create the wealth of the community, and the in stitutions that tend toward the moral. Intellectual and physical Improvement of the people, - Household furniture Is not taxed, nor Is farm produce or the income from farm, orchard or ranch anywhere within the province. Churches, schools, libra ries, literary and agricultural societies, . orphanages and other charitable insti tutions, are also, free from taxation. Speculation is discouraged' by a tax upon "wild or uncultivated land . or -four per cent of Its value. If a 100 acre tract, "worth 81000, has Improve- -menta put on it equal In value to 12.60 per acre and the value of the land, or 81250, the tax Is reduced from $40 to three-fifths of one per cent, or $13.60. coal lani from which coal is mined in 1 taxed at one per cent of its value, while . coal land not worked is taxed at two . per cent of Its value. ( The tax lawa of the province comprise many statutes providing for exemption .. from taxes, and different rates of taxes on various industries, the purpose being to prevent holding out of use the source of natural wealth. There. are also acts -permitting cities to exempt new Indus- , trie. -from iaxatlon,-and to furnish them - with free water and electricity for a limited term of years. The success of the "Vancouver Exi pertment" of levying taxes on land- values only, followed by ita adoption by Victoria and the other principal cities, caused the appointment of a royal commission to report on a revision of the tax laws to the provincial parlia ment. After holding sessions -in 21 cities, and hearing the testimony of 164 . witnesses, the commission has Just filed its report Tha principle which guided . the Investigation la "that the schema of raising revenue should interfere aa little as possible with the free produc tion, distribution and exchange ot wealth."' .... , :V; The first recommendation la that tha poll tax be abolished. In considering the evidence on this tax. the plea that the individual who pays such a tax gets some advantage forwhich he gives noth. Ing In return Is met by showing that-, "the tact of his presence In the country. and the share he contributes to Its de velopment more than outweighs the value of the wage paid" him. Poll tax becomes unjust, oppressive, and often . accentuates the difference between clasa and class, which on the surface it seems to equalize, It is through this fiction of 'equalization' that, by a curious 'back water of history,' the poll tax has been retained in some parts of the United States, notably California.'" "'It is a no table fact that poll tax haa disappeared from the statute books of all the Cana dian provinces except British Columbia. Its lineal successor la the property tax, of which your commissioners will treat In du -order.", -; i Th commission "recommends strong ly the abolition of the personal lroperty tax, because it "is unsound in princi ple, and acts aa a restraint on trade."' "Aa there Is a lack of uniformity in ' the trades (in the - amount of . stoct,, carried and renewals), there must b also a lack of uniformity in the assess ment" "For the same reason tangible stock pays, the intangible escapes." There is Inherent in the system of tax- trig personal property a distinct Induce--tpent to dishonesty on the part of the possessor."-' "There is -a danger from It of" double taxation." ( Of land, the commission aaya: "It haa been argued as a matter of principle that Improvements on land should be exempt from taxation altogether, and that the basis of valuation for the pur pose of taxation should be reasonable sale price of the land In a state of na- ture." "Further it has been contended that an improved piece of land should be valued for purposes of taxation at the same value aa a similar piece of unimproved land, but that th value of the improvements ought not to be con sidered." Improvements should Include houses, other buildings, fencing, pitting In crops, planting of orchards, draining and Irrigation of land, clearing of tim ber and scrub, laying down In grass or . pasture, and any . other improvements whatever, the benefit of whloh is un exhausted at the time of tha valuation." "It has been urged," aaya the com- ' mission, "that th taxation of Improve ments, like the taxation of personal property, would be a penalisation or thrift and energy, and ought to be abol- - lshed In a community whose chief aims are progress and the development of all kinds Of industry." "Finally It has been maintained that the exemption of Im provements from taxation would more especially relieve the farmers and the agricultural classes generally, who, In the Judgment of your commissioners, should be especially encouraged, the prosperity of no other class being so . essential to the best: interests of the provinc at largaC' -' -'.'.-- v -.."r Tha commissioners then recommend "that there should be no taxation on Improvements." !. Something Wrong. From the Chicago Record-Herald, "Say, come over here, old, man. I want to ask you' something In confi dence. Is there anything peculiar look ing about mer" t ' "No, whyr '" ' , , "That tall, handsome woman Just be- ' yond the punch bowl, asked me a mo-' ment ago whether I . fiddled or played chess.' Flattery ia the lubricant that makes, th whecla . of the aoclal machine re volve. ' Inexpensive Joys 0ontribatpd to Tbe Journal by Walt Maaon, the famutia Kanaaa poet. Ills pruee-piieras are a regular feature of tbla column la The laUr Journal.) ( , It doesn't cost a picayune to hum a blithe and cheerful tune as - you lope down th - road; tho-slgbt-of-you, -so bright and gay, may cheer some pilgrim on hi way and ease hia weary loaJ. It 'doesn't cost a wooden cent to say good morning to the gent you meet up on the walk; and It may bring a pleas ant glow tp some sad heart that grief and woe have made as hard as rock. It : doesn't cost a pewter mark to carrjr light to places dark by wearing cheer ful mien; a happy, bright,contentc I face will be a lamp in any place, and light the darkest scene. It doesn't cost a leather yen to stimulate your fellow men and nerve them for the fray; Just Illustrate your Jinn' belief that Joy's a better thing tfiknr grief, and that th world's O. K. It doesn't coat a bogus crown to be ah asset to your town, and to be known as such; serenely do your datly-ttt-Bd,wJar a brav and hope ful front and you'll accomplish much. Tour Influence for good or bad is great er than you know, my lad. so. u. u hwlselz.weUq't-B-aii..around. r Imr- your roDo, qui always boost this good old globe on which w mortals dwell. PnpyrtgM, 10U, y tteorr title w Adama. . f