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- IE JOURNAL "i v tvrrrrv; tnt NFtvsrArF.it. ....Publisher ert't-r ef.f t The Journal P'il',1- '1 ,,sj -,., r.-rtanV lr. -. .w. .m r Portland. . Uanml.alo tbrousa tht mail . Ttr. i I'HiiVl'J Main T1I3: Hob. A-tft. I rtprt!fPf reached b then namlr .'1 ttf rrtror rMt department Ten "'. i H F I S' A IH K RT1 S I NO, Ji E P B KSK N T A r U t. ri.r,jTT,a A Kcnlanr Co.. Brwt BniM.i. L-: Ktfb inw. Near York; K18 People - PiilUtlne, Oifcaart. ? itwrrlptlon Term by to any Mf Jn lb lnited States or Mexico. .. , ft A IT V ' Cn r tS.Ort Ope Booth ..I -30 ECSPAV. Pus rear.. ..... "l One metfc.. .3 1 PAHA" AND BCNPAT.-.. - One rear.. .$T 50 I On month.., But; thousands die without this ' or that. -.',:V' Die, and endow college or . .eat -'a ; ..:''.'' -.' Pop. i GLORY TO NORWAY ! ir rOW much ot this glory , , is due to Captain Amundsen who led them? How much to his trained and drilled and obedient officers ?.ad men who made, up the force that reached the Booth Pole, entrenched "Tf hind " har riers , of Ice and defended by -, the liurce and bitter winds of the Ant arctic? How mnch Is dne to the old Norwegian stock whence sprang these Bailors an! Tovagerg-wbo bore th" flag of Norway by previously untrodden ways to this castle of tie Ice-god? - V"1 Who has seen these Norwegians at, home in their gray ttone houses by the fjords of the Ncrth Sea coast, who has watched them in thoir fish ing boats laying or drawing their herring nets, ; who has seen their young boys and girls in their toss ing sail boats in a wind, absolutely unafraid, who has walked and hunt- cd with them day in and lay out among the snorrs of the Ugh fields, hut would choose the picked men of this race for the hard and Jong ser vice of the Polar quest? 17 We mark la Amundsen's story the mot'esty and simplicity of his peo ple. The tale reads Ilko one of the old times all but Impersonal In the narrative of the achievement of nu, tuu iuo uui ui jjurtsuuai ieau- ersbip, of the glorification of the ... writer, Js- conspicuonsly- absent. How quietly and how thoroughly were . the preparations made, how well through the long, dark winter each man kept himself occupied, happy and Btrohg. ; , Thus ..when the : breath of spring was In the air all were fit for the hard test.; . , ... ... V; .. . v That false start v in September, when the bluer cold,-70 below jiero caught them when well oni their way, and the dogs began o die off, told the tale. Many a. weak man would have pushed on, and risked all on a rise of temperature to pull them through;: ; But. these strong men turned on their steps and a fresh start. They escaped the nervo racking dangers of the. floes and leads of open water that Peary ' met on the North Pole, journey.; But the glac ier climbs that Amundsen describes must hve supplied all danger and anxiety tb make theirs no pleasure "ip. . ' ; The world con gratclates them one and all, and waits the news that Captain Scott vlll, we earnestly hope, soon send. x - IDEAS FROM MICHIGAN t Y AST spring there was a hitter I strike of the 6000 furniture mt workers of Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was feared that long-lasting ill feeling would result. On the contrary employers and em ployes have come , together tin a new plan which would be patentable If ideas were to be glvcL . public recognition and protection. It is a development of trades-unionism by masters and men, Inde pendently of each other, but oper tlng perpetually for the benefit of . the men. . The manufacturers have associ ated as the' "Furniture Craftsmast ers of Grand Rapids," and the em ployes as the "United Furniture Craftsmen of Grand Rapids." A lodge or branch of not less than 25 raftsmen .is, found Jn each factory, and each of the men pays 50 cents monthly into the lodge treasury. This fund 18 applied to the sick, ac Vident" "and death benefits of the members. I The "Craftemasters con sist of all manufacturers in whose factory a branch of the Craftsmen Is found. -. Each Craftsmaster binds himself to !; pay , monthly into the treasury,;o"f his organization a sum f qual. to the aggregate' of Crafts men's payments. The Craftsmasters' organization agrees that Its funds t hall be- in perpetuity devoted to the benefit of the craftsmen in such ways as t the Craftsmen's organiza tion shall designate. But the pur poses are old age pensions, tempor ary loans to members, and supple menting other benefits to the Crafts men. ( lf-'the 6000 strikers all ,joln this tmron on these conditions a sum of . JT2.P00 a year would result far preater than Is now at the disposal of any tther local organization. So far it Is said to have been en- thuBlaRtlsalJy., taken jup by both Craftsmasters and Crartsmen. Its complete"- consummation was. de wrlhed by the Outlook a couple of ftf ( Us hso a a credit to Grand Ran- ' ' nr. df-tme ..of " the.' ' h6pt tul yctai? t'w s for our Industrial unrest. , t-:..' Micly: it is specially adapted !.) '. tries employing limited num- Whether ' it would servo pn-iallv well in the cae of wide Frread trades wherein hundred- ere emnloved to tens in i Grano! Rapid3 is another question AGAIN MR. HKXRV M" R. CHARLES K. HENRY asaia ; tor? cf well rs! i workmen reiterates his slander of Port-jtrlcts has 'been admitted by the Na land by republishing incorrect j tional Executive of the Miners Fed- .flgures relative' to the rate operation. They reduced the minimum taxation here , and .In Los Angeles, Mr. Henry, proves the falsity of his figures as well as his conclusions by bis latest statements. , " - T v- w.a, v at.. propertj In Portland is assessed nppn a valuation' of 85 per centum of Its true cash value. In the sec ond place he states the Henry build ing and two lots on which it stands are worth only 1400,000 and. offers to sell it for this sum, while the tax able Value, of, the building and ground as assessed, la $238,000. If property in Portland were as sessed at 85 per centum of 4ts cash value, as Mr. Henry asserta.lt Is, the Henry building and lots for pur poses of taxation Bhould bear an as sessment burden of fully,!$340,000. However, this property is relatively fairly assessed, compared to the as sessment of.Bimilar property. -Mr.-Henry asserta that her got his figures from the World Almanac, la the face of the fact that he lives in Portland, is an "npbullder" here, and could have gotten correct fig urea from the assessor's office In the city hall. But Mr. Henry has the almanac habit. In almost' everything he does. He belongs to the reaction ary classhe gathers In all he can and parts with as little as possible. As a public spirited citizen he oc cupies a Year seat; he is prominent with his voice, hut not with his subscriptions to community causes. Mr. .Henry forgets that a few years ago he was "howling against the plutes," as one of hia near friends expresses it, hut , now that he is himself a "plnte," or a mem ber ot that order, he as vociferously howls for them. SUFFRAGETTES IN PRISON I T is of course understood t that these cultivated and Intelligent ladies in London go about throw ing rocks through ; the glass fronts of stores, and through the window glass of private houses, to the tune of ten or fifteen thousand dollars, in order to get locked up and sent to prison. . This lawbreaking is their some what vbarharbus way of enforcing their rights to be admitted to the lawmaking body ot the English peo ple. .::."; ;i:;..'j;... When. they , get their desire the ordinary man would expect them to take their medicine' quietly; and to set the example to the other Inmates of the women's prison at Holloway of orderly, even of ladylike, behav iour. But they , evidently ' assume that the end votes for women -jus tlfies the means, the getting sent to prison by the rock-throwing route. And so, , that special prison rules must he enacted for their benefit. Wherefore, we read on Friday last that by way of rebellion, and of protest against the regulations, .re quiring them to put on prison garb, and do prison work, like the rest of the Inmates, they attacked the matron and her assistants, tear ing all the . clothes off them, then when sent Into the work room and introduced to the sew ing machines they were to .work, they vented their rage on the machines, breaking them in pieces, and wrecking the room generally. Of course the other prisoners were demoralized at once, and the regu lar prison uproar followed at once. A course of dark cells and solitary confinement was the inevitable re sult, which the militant suffragettes and their misguided fellow prison ers must endure, without the sup port of sympathy evoked from pub lication of their sufferings In the dally papers. : , Now It becomes known that, he- sides the parliamentary support of the Lloyd-George group of ministers and of the Liberals following his leading, the entire Labor party had notified the government that the passing of the amendment securing woman suf frage was the condition 7 on which they would sustain the government on any suffrage legislation, male or female. ... FAIR WAGE, FAIR OUTPUT T HERE are one or two points In the coal miners' strike in Eng land which may be noted. . The first is that agreement between the two parties hinges on mutual acceptance of facts as to the conditions of the miners' work In the various coal fields, the profits of the coal operators as affected by the rise or fall of. miners' wages, the average output and earnings per man In the several coal fields. Falling agreement between oper ators and miners on such facts there Is at present In England, no govern ment board, there are no expert in quirers competent and empowered to make, and publish results of such Inquiry. The only force which can be invoked, whenever the facts have been established,:; is that of public opinion. The government, has no power to Intervene to stop the strike I citizen is to register, Recent f Ig or to compel the antagonists tojreach ' ures show 27,000 names on thef reg a peaceful settlement. Yet here is 'istration rolls In .Multnomah county. a private; dispute between capital and labor which Inflicts all the In convenience and disturbance of a war or of an Insurrection. ' It conies back always to the pron- obuiou , mat the pudiic -tne most Interested la also the most' power less to 6top the evil. r ,'- '-' - Now as to the minimum wageThe ".i not been at they have well understood. asked is that wages low', prices' below a shall not fol certain limit. They demand that a sufficient reg ular Income shall be secured for a mining family to maintain a decent standard of life. That euch mini- mum should vary in different dis f scale for the dally wage from $1.S0 j in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire 'to $1.10 in Somerset. The solution that would be fair to both parties'" in this and other labor disputes appears to be that a fair day's wage should te secured by a fair day's work. That being the principle its application cannot be enforced without such' ascertain ment of the facts of labor as was in dicated above. In this, as In all other emergencies, complete knowl edge must precede a satisfactory de cision. . . v. WHITE PHOSPHORUS HITB phosphorus' is used solely In the manufacture of parlor matches. It is cheap and effective slightly more so than any competitive, process. But to the workers it is deadly.-It 13 the direct cause of "phosphorus ne crosis," or "phossy Jaw. It attacks the bones of the jaw and face and destroys them without mercy and inevitabIy-lThe-4ise of it la forbid den by law in Germany, in England and In other European countries; There was Bome excuse for its continuance while the only satis factory competing process involved the use of .patents controlled by the Diamond Match company. But last year, responding to publlo demand the match company threw open these patents to the public. The continued use 1 of white phosphorus is based only on its slightly greater cheap ness. '. ' y' A bill called ; the EscTi hill, Is now before congress, which will kill the use of white phosphorus by Im posing a prohibitive Internal rev enue tax. This bill Is before the ways and means committee ot the house. But It. has been, for some unknown reason,: referred to 'a se cret subcommittee of that body. The same bill died quietly last year, In a subcommittee. The Outlook warns the American people that there is danger this year of a similar expe rience. '; ;, -; .... ", ' ' Pressure should be brought to bear on the congressmen from -Oregon to enlist not only their votes but their interest In support'of. this Esch bill, which will practically ex-J terpate In this country one of - the very worst of preventable -industrial diseases., Last year. The Journal drew attention to this same meas ure;' It Is lamentable to think of those sufferers during the. past year who will lose their lives, after months or years of painful and most distressing disease, because last year the Esch bill died. That 1t should happen again, would be criminal. ' Russia la in similar case, and Russia enly, among the great na tlons save the United States. Is that a pleasant pre-eminence for us? BLAINE AND ROOSEVELT HILE the personality of The odore Roosevelt Is t unlike that of James G. Blaine, there is much similarity in the situation existing In the Repub lican party today and in 1892, when Blaine tried to wrest the nomination from Benjamin Harrison. Pre-conventlon alignments were then much as they are now. Harri son was Intrenched behind the, office-holders of the south, and con trolled the organization In most of the states.7 Harrison had made a creditable president and had Inaug urated useful legislation, but his personality , was alraoBt repellant, so cold was his exterior., The west was largely for Blaine, and no man was able to provoke more unbounded en thusiasm from his admirers. Further analogy la afforded by the relations between Blaine and Harrison on the one hand and Taft and Roosevelt on the other. . Blaine was secretary of state in Harrison's cabinet, remaining there . until . he made up his mind to prevent the re nomlnatlon of his chief. This added to tffe acrimony of the contest, Just as the charge of faithlessness of Roosevelt to Taft Is now being made. It is said Harrison was told by his strongest supporters before the convention met In 1892 that he" could get the nomination, bat could not be elected. The same thing Is being said of Taft now by many pF hla best friends! " !: Is the enth uslasm for Roosevelt to spend Itself In the same harvest of ill-omen that marked the great hurrah for Blaine? DO IT NOW 0" NE cannot rise to the full meas ure of a citizen unless he ex ercises; the privileges and rights of the citizen. The bal lot box, Is . the' place provided where the man with the welfare of his community at heart can make his power felt. The ' average citizen stands Jor right things, and wants honest, capable officials; Just n6w the. concrete duty of the and April i will be the last day, to register The final figures should he nearly twice the number now re corded Amon iB..,xandldat.eg.foroffloe are many who are capable, and many who are unfit.' The primary is the weedlng'tlme, wlyn the weak and unworthy should be-wfeded out. demand of t! W ! There is dancer th r r.i be made in rhoo.ln from a largd list, where organized forces of the office-hungry may overcome the un organized forces of good govern ment. ' No one in good conscience can excuse himself from responsibility for bad results if he falls to do his part. Only a few minutes are re-! quired to register. If you have not yet attended to this duty, tie a rib bon V your finger and keep it there until you register. Letters From tLe People (Oomnmnfra t1on wet to Tb Jonrn! for Tit 11ntlon In tbla dfpartmeot ehoul.l not exewed 8no word In length and nat b accompanied by tb nam and addrtu ot th lender.) Defends Woman Suffrage, Portland. March 8. To the Editor of The Journal It a "ttudy of woman, suf frage" can bring forth no better argu ments against it than those offered to the public by "Mrs. 8ubcrlberM tn The Journal of March 8, the, subject does not deserve the attention given it. For the benefit of those who may possibly attach to the communication too much consideration, I beg leava' to answer. There was really but one so called ar gument, and that long outgrown by pro gresslve men and women. She says, "No intelligent lady would vote.- . I wonder if all men who vote are intelli gent, or If all who do not vote lack good sense? If" the "Intelligence of the men in a community is determined by the number of votes polled, our asylums for the feeble minded should contain more Inmates. Does the author Imag ine that It takes a lifetime to cast a vote,- and that all -the, thinking is dowe at the polls? ' It Is in many cases sad to state. - Does the subscriber think that the woman who neglects her family to play bridge all day and all night would or could care to vote? ; Does the woman who spends all her thought on self adornment strike the subscriber as tha woman who would rare to vote? And If she did vote would that cause the neglect of family cares? How about the woman who hangs over the back fence gossiping while her children run wild. Could the gossiping possibly cause negleci of duties? Would it do any harm If connected thought should occasionally take the place of foolish waste, of time and effort? I do not think the woman who plays cards, gossips, or spends all her time in dress and useless, foolish reading would miss a little time devoted to a sensible consideration of the best way to train her family. And all our laws really tend to that result The family Is the real reason for government. "Mrs. Sub scriber", says, "broaden your minds, mothers, but falls to tell how. I sup pose a little earnest thought and care ful attention to the laws which go to make good citiiens of our 1joys and girls, would do morarto empty the pen- - . . . " i i . I u nemiariea ana reiorm unuuia mu ui this foolishness about women's sphere, and incidentally It might broaden the woman's mind who would Indulge In It By the way.where do "the feminine members of the household belong?" That sentence smacks Of feudal ages, when women had to be protected from marau ders. I wonder If the subscriber would care about . belonging there, or In a harem, or In the cotton fields, or In any of the many places where woman was suMosed to stay where atie beiongea. I think that the woman who Is the test housekeeper will have the most atten tion fo bestow on the vital questions concerning that home, and she won't need to neglect her family, to ride to the polls and back to her home. She concludes by saying that all good, sensible .men will vote against It "I think she is wrong. Nearly all "gooa, nll1hli,,, men will vote for it, They I have long igo admitted that the woman - , - who can be trusted to train weir cnu dren and care for their Interests has brains enough to vote on the laws which she has to Interpret In her fam ily life. An INTERESTED SUBSCRIBER. Women Should Vote. Dallas, Or.. March 9. To the-Editor of The Journal-rl should like to reply to "Mrs. Subscriber's" letter, of March 6, from Buena Vista. ; If Mrs. Subscrib er has made a study of woman suffrage she must know what the women of Se attle have done for -that city. - They re called Gill, who stands for vice and cor ruption, and put in a clean man, and later, when Gill thought to b reelected, the women defeated him. It was while the men alone were doing the voting that Seattle was the worst place in the United States, and It was the women's vote that changed It. - Men' have the money making habit more than women have; and they look at things too , much from the money point of view. Women see things mors from the moral point of view; and wom en's votes are needed as -well as men's. Politics Is , no more a man's business than It is a woman's business. If a woman neglects her home before vot ing, she probably will when she has the privilege of voting, but I see no reason why- she should neglect her home or family more because she, votes, I think that women should read and keep up on current events and the pro gress of the world; and a great many of them do. We live in a progressive age, and women must grow -mentally as well as men. They cannot grow, and do nothing and think about nothing but housework. If women have a hand in making tha laws, they will probably take more Interest In polotlcs and re form,, instead of Interesting themselves In neighborhood gossip. " .: ; , Mrs. Subscriber thinks that no intel ligent woman would vote, but no doubt her idea, and my Idea of an Intelligent woman are different. It seems to me that if any woman does no.t herr.elf want to vote, that is no good reason for her objecting 'to others voting. It Is a tllttle bit like the dog In the manger. .' s MRS. READER. Not Justice. Portland,' Or., March 8. To -the Ed itor of !The Jousnal In this evening's Journal Is published the conviction of a certain "minister of the gospel" who wao starged with a statutory crime on the person of a 16-year-old child. Thin "Reverend gentleman" waa found guilty as Charged by a Jury of good men. This so called minister has been paroled by the judge before whom he was tried and found guilty. Now, why should this "Rev, gentleman" be parolled If ne was guilty of this most dastardly crlm against an innocent child there la no excuse for any Judge to let him go free ana i minic tne punno at large believes that this so called minister of the gos pel should be punished, with hard la bor during the balance of his Ufa. He may then have time to repent for his most awful crime against religion and murai uy, ; i initj man were a poor working1 man he would most likely d now serving on tne rocupn or'worse. D. M. OSULLIVAN. JTj-ecaJiYJi-uTh.-Jo: inland, March 8.To th ar Portland, March 8.To the Editor Of The Journal I not your writing of even date under" the captlonjot "Social ism In Seattle," and as a render of edi torials, I want to compliment you-on COMMENT AND SMALL CHANG C rttrt he' seems to act like cardMate. How long- before Seattle wilt recall jC0UerUI . Kncouraee the children and youth to work in the soil. RoosovHt to Munsey "There is very much to lose." Sure. Probably "Hy" OI11 is not in favor of woman suffrage. I , ! "What's the good of party?" asks'th Oregonlan. Echo answers, ''What?'" Curiously, neither Taft nor Roosevelt have yet bten dcstgnaled as "aged." Whoever succeeds Madero will have a revolution to combat in 15 minutes. "My Dear Mr. Munsev" Muntev Is proprietor of a Btring of trust-supporting papers. Evidently ' Miss ' Kathrrln Klklna doesn't intend to marry uritil she- gets good and ready. ' . . Schmits aoes free rather, remains so. Nobody is surprised; didn't he have a big pile, of loot? John Bull is bavins- a varleitv of bie troubles these days. But he is & rather stout wIbs old body. - Protection doesn't protect the work ers or women and children at Lawrence, Mass. or anywhere else. If the good people of California would move up into Oregon they wouldn't have to pray for rain so often. Gone In poverty and sorrow to her grave, Mrs. Hamilton of Vancouver wtll ufferjrprn, wildcat banklng-na-longerv Governor Wilson never "Mr Desred" Mr. Munsey for a column and a half nor any other ultra-pro-trust publisher. - - - ... v . 8enator Bourne's position on thv-prea-idential question is fair and reasonable: he sticks to the principle of rule by the people. As long as his art treasures ware dutiable, J. P. Morgan would not bring them into the country. What a fine billionaire patriot! Is there some other big property that the steel trust wants to acquire for nothing through a president's" consent to Its violation .of the law? ;'"' v;- ':' No country In which multimillion aires multiply and Working ' men, wo men and children go hungry and cold can very long avoid a cataclysm. ; Seven famous sea fights The Battle In the latter part of the fifteenth century the Turks became a maritime power. They had. conquered the Crime, and were masters Of the Black sea. They had overrun Greece and most of the Islands of the archipelago. They had threatened Venice with their 'fleets and had for a while a foothold in southern Italy.' 'v:!-'- "".;.-..: In 1526 the victory of Mohacs made the. Turks masters of Hungary. They had driven a wedge deep Into Europe, and there was danger that their fleets would soon hold the command of . the Mediterranean. . These fleets were com posed chiefly of large galleys lineal descendants, so to say, ot the ancient triremes'. There was a row of long oars on either side, but sail power had so far developed that there were also one, two, even three tali masts, each crossed by a long yard that carried a i triangular lateen saH. ' In the sixteenth century no part of the Mediterranean was free from- the raids of the Moslem pirates. To their fcnnnr It nlr1 that successive DODes endeavored to arouse the old crusadina spirit, and band civilised and Christian Europe to sweep the Turkish corsairs from the Mediterranean. It was not until the latter part of the century that this warning was heeded. But this only came when Europ found that the Moslem power of tht Mediterranean were found to be com bining their sea forces for a great effort of maritime conquest In 1S71 Sultan Sellm II determined to wrest Cyprus from Venice. When this project be came" known-the combined fleets of Venice. Spain and the Papal States formed an alliance to oppose the pow erful Turkish armada. The allied fleet consisted of about 300 sail, of which 200 were great galleys commanded by Don John of Austria. The Ottoman fleet was of equal strength and was commanded by All Pasha. The en gagement was a desperate and sanguin ary one, resulting in a victory for the Christian fleet The number, of person on board the allied fleets, .soldiers and seamen, were estimated at 80,000, .the soldier not exceeding 80,000. , It was on the 16th of September that the magnificent Christian armament stood ou to sea. Before encountering the Turkish fleet the allies received tidings that Famagosta, the second city of Cyprus, had fallen Into the hands of the enemy, and this under circumstances of th way you handle th situation. This Is the strongest and most intelligent expression I have seen on the subject to date, and I wish every paper In the country would reprint it, and I suggest you mall copies Jo hoth Mr. Roosevelt and the president. , I personally am "a Republican of the dyed In the wool variety but on this particular question I am willing and glad to us "your glasses." L. E, BEEBE. -South America's Prehistoric City. From the Christian Herald. JPeru is a land of contrasts the ever lasting snows that crown the Andes, the sun scorched deserts of th Pacific coast and the dense Impenetrable forest region of the interior on the headwaters of the Amazon a land of great moun tains and deep valleys; a country of di rest poverty, and yet one of the richest of all countires m its untapped mineral wealth. 1 Her the ancient and the modern blend the Indian with his flock of llamas on the lonely -heights of the Andes, the caballero mounted on b's prancing steed, and the electric railway, the latest mode of rapid transit , The unwashed Indian in , his rouKh home spun poncho, thtf proud don of Spanish blood, dressed in the excess of fashion, the low-caste Cholo and the Chinaman and the modern European all mingle in the crowded thoroughfares df Llmfc The famous city of Arequtpa, nestling at the foot of the peak of Mlstl, the wonderful Lake of Tltlcaca, an inland sea embosomed among the Andes, 13, 600 feet high, and the historic city of Cuzco, the Athens of the Incas. are all reached from the port otMollendo. From the archaeologist's viewpoint Cuzco Is a city without an equal In Latin Amer ica, Here the traveler stumble across ruins at every street corner cyclopean fortresses, temples, palaces, , .monuments oriin'"u'nw'rlttea"',hlstory'iid of a peo ple whos sun lias long since set In gloom. There is no finer stone cutting anywhere in tha world than some of the stone work of the Temple of' the Sun and other old building NEWS IN. BRIEF ci:i:go sihlucuts PalUV city fathers arc enns'rWIiig the niHltcr of eiptiloyltig a olty eiisuierr, in view of projected fctrett Improve ments. Th Sllverton, Appfal boasts of the record dav's stamp Kales at the Silver ton postoffiee, which on one clay re cently amounted to $164.39. Baker Democrat: All the lumber .mills in Kaker county will oon be. In full op eration and the payrolls of this industry will be of great magnitude. ' ' A new rook crusher lust purchased bv the county court of Linn county is the largest In use in Linn. It will first be used near , Lebanon, reducing road material. - Hlllsboro's one' publlo watertnn trough disappeared In the course of ra-ent street paving operations, and the Argus enters a plea for the installation of a new one. . .. " Paisley Press: - Nearly 600 seres of government land have been filed on in the last (wo weeks. Most of the en tries are desert claims. At this rate there will soon be little land left for entry near Paisley. , .t HUlsboro Argus: . That fertile basin in the Tualatin valley with Scholia as Its principal trading point, has at last awakened and orrtanlsed a civic body to be known as "The Commercial Club of Portland's Garden, the Tualatin Val- "s'V: .rv.v;., -The first shipment of eggs evr made from Klamath Falls was recorded re cently, when eight cases were expressed to a Portland commission firm. - Klam ath had always been an Importer, and never an exporter of eggs, according to the Pioneer Press. Three small boys have been placed under arrest at Medford for shooting song birds. The complainant Is Miss Alice Hanley, who has a large number of song and game birds domesticated to such an extent that they live In the shrubbery about the house. Port Orford Tribune: Fred Caughell has returned from Portland, where he went with the superintendent of the Hume estate, Mr, Leach, to assist in buylne a large stock of goods for the store at Wedderburn. Their purchasing includes the machinery for a large saw mill. Lebanon Express: The ' Lebanon school board has closed the sale of 118. 000 worth of bonds to Keeler Bros, of Denver. The money wtll be used in pay ing off the floating indebtedness in curred In erecting the hew school build ing. This is in addition to the former bond issue of I1..000. . . .. of Lepanto. unparalleled perfidy and cruelty. ' The fall of Famagosta secured the fall of Cyprus, which thus became incorporated in the Ottomatf empire. - On Sunday, October 7, the armada of the Turks was found and attacked in the Gulf of Lepanto. The terrible naval battle which ensued lasted only four hours, but those were hours of Inde scribable destruction and carnage. It was Indeed a sanguinary battle, sur passing In this particular any sea fight of modern times. Th loss fell mueh the most heavily on the Turks. There Is the usual discrepancy about numbers; but It may be safe to estimate their loss at nearly 25,000 slain and 6000 pris onersWhat brought most pleasure to the hearts "Of the conquerors , was the liberation of 11,000 Christian captives, who had been chained to the oars -on board the Moslem galleys and who nowJ came forth, with tears of joy streaming down their haggard cheeks, to bless their deliverers. : The loss of the allies was compara tively small lees than 8000.- As to the armada of the Turks, It may almost be said to have been annihilated,. Not more than 40 galleys escaped out of 260 which entered into action. The new of th victory of Lepanto caused , a found sensation throughout"- Christen dom. In Venice, which might be said to have gained a new lease of existence from the. result of the battle, the 7th of October was set apart to be observed forever as a national anniversary. "It Is a great error." says . the his torian Prescott "to speak of the victory pf Lepanto a a barren victory, which yielded no fruit to those who gained it. ; True, it did Hot trip the Turks of on Inch of territory, but the loss bf reputation, that tower of strength to the conqueror, was not to be. esti mated." . '.".;" -..'. , Lepanto worthily closed the long his tory of oar-drlven navies. The gal leasses, with their tall masts and great sails, . and . their bristling batteries of cannon, which lay in front of Don Juan's battle line, represented tb new type of ship that was soon to alter th whole aspect of, naval war- So Quickly Cams the change that men who had fought at Lepanto were present, only 17 years later, at another world famed battle (hat was fought under sail, th defeat of Ktng Philip' "Grand Ar mada" In the Narrow Seas of th North, Tomorrow The Spanish Armada. Pointed Paragraphs .'Fair, but false?- blond peruke. Many a tailor's goose lays golden eggs for its owner. . o"y to find fault, when you are looking for trouble. a. .. M. ;- .;,MrVV:. -.. 'And too little "self "confidence" is s disastrous as too much. .. ' He's a poor minister whose voice fills the church and empties the pews. " - -; ' ' : ' 7. ; ' Tha;woman of the hour is the one who says she'll be ready in a mlnut. .' .,.".. , Some . writers have " a , wealth of thought, and they all have a thought of wealth.. . - - Vaulting Ambition. From th Chehalis Nugget Theodore Roosevelt has at last given his official sanction of the use of hia name as a candidate for the presidency onoa more. - In doing so we believe Mr. Roosevelt has lost prestige with the American people, that,whlch It took hlra several years to gain. His vaulting am bition has at last led hlra to repudiate a number of statements he made to the American public which that public took for what they meant. " It is a mere quibble to say that his first term was not a term, for even though he sticceed td a martyred presideht, the fact re mains that he occupied the position the balance of one term apjd a second term., i ne American people are entirely too independent to allow any one man, no matter who or what he is, to hold too much power too long in this, country. It was against Such doctrine that our ;irma intti our rorcitttt-.wagd-neal a.- the precedent laid down by George Washington, the "father Of our country," when he' declared -against more presi dential honors, is and should be Just as binding tcday is ever, and w believe they ar , ., Secretary Y ll.'cti s Record I'rnni ("nllipr's We,.Wly. Tha Florida Everglades affair In th? vdoj-artment of agriculture Is too cliar- tacteristlo of that branch of the gov- ernment. President Taft, In his opinion on tho Wiley investigation of last sum mer, said that reorganisation was need ed. No such reorganization has been mada. The history of the department during the past ton years la a history of scandals, soma of them involving criminal conduct on the part of high officials. A few have led to convto . tlons and a few others to displacements. Others have brought about only ' re newed indorsements. Untrustworthy of- flclala have been retained and defended, Many good men have been, dismissed; others have been persecuted. The pub llo has borne the ultimate burden I" lax administration and wasteful expen diture. : ' ' Ten years ago the management of the bureau of statistics was . charged with garbling official statistics. The facts were brought to the attention of Secretary Wilson. Behind the charges were competent statisticians all over the country, statistical officers In the census bureau, and honest' men !n the grain and cotton . trades. Secretary Wilson accepted the unsupported Jenlal ' of those in charge. At the end of three : years an Investigation by secret" ser vice men revealed illegitimate relations between officials or tne bureau and specu later on the exchan ges,irr wh l-h large sums had been made by suboffl- clais of the department. After year of prosecution, some pleaded guilty and paid fines of 85000 each, among them one of tha chief statistical officers of the bureau, - "Six years ago the pure "food law was' enacted. Since that time there has been a series of attempts, directly aided by Secretary Wilson, to nullify this law; He told California fruit Interests they mignt continue their excessive use ,r . sulphur pending investigations which have not yet been completed. Ho toUl . the saccharine manufacturers the Rem-, sen board of consultatlng scientific ex perts had, been created for the purpose of protecting the interests of manufac turers. He suspended, subject to the advice of his solicitor, more than 630.' prosecutions against presumed violators of the foods and drug act, and thereby rendered useless an expenditure of neat ly 81.SOO.000.- In the whiskey contro versy he - permitted to be oyr ruled again and again the finding of chemists and experts, and the action of the department has finally resulted, even in nullifying the opinion of President Taft hlmstelf. In the Wiley' I case of last summer he gave at least r tacit approval to the report by hi per sonal board, in' which serious charges' were made against Dr, Wiley himself, Dr. H. H. Rusby and others, and backed 1 by an opinion of Attorney Generr." Wlckereham. The report of the per- sonner board, upon which Secretary Wilson'- action was based, was found! upon misuse and misrepresentation of letters. ; . - ;:, v ; . Our readers will remember the feeble part he played in th Balllnger case, . In the Everglades case It, has .boon-' shown that he detached Wtles of so called scientific experts to assist con. gressmen In the holding of so-called' political meetings designed to advance; their own fortunes, paying thes expert out of government funds. He. permitted' the suppression of "a circular retrardlnn tne character of the Everglades, He has maintained upon the roles of th bu reau of statistics, for years at a tlm-, thousand of unnecessary correspond- ents, Interest concerned In the manu facture of whiskey and other product -have constantly , resorted to political pressur to get what they wanted at- tne department, in negotiation with oongresa Secretary Wilson has lent blm self to the use of subterfuges, a nota ble example being seen In th Joker whereby the power of the solicitor's of flee was enormously, extended without knowledge on the part of congress gen erally. .Th department 1 badly organ ized, full Of, incompetence, aublnnt tn political influence, unwilling to enforce pro-ithe pur, ,00d Ja travant. reluct ant to remedy evils. Secretary Wilson has been undisturbed in hi manage ment and has been supplied with ample funds and authority. , He has appointed his principal subordinates and directed their development There is no reason to expect improvement He should go. Tanglefoot By Miles'' Overholt - COST OF LIVING,; , One time I went to a beach resort. , And frolicked with seventeen kind of sport, . Which cost me seventeen dollars a crack. Th which is the reason I hurried back. On tlm I went to a swell cafe. And dined on food In a high brow way; My purse went Into a panlo then? Th food was at and th tip was ten. On tlm I hired an automobile" ' Torrid ten blocks to a noonday meal. I bought the car to pay for the rid. And I traded the car Xor th lunch, be- am only writing thl vers to how How far th edltor"n let me go, And how,-.whin, subjects ar hard to find, He lets me writ Ilk I'd lost my mind. - Friend of ours has a scheme to charge soda fountains at a minimum cost. H would put 'em under th supervision. of 1119 gas company. '.,..4, .... .w a-MMMWMMMMtoMMaM','' .;;-,'''; On a Main Traveled Road. " From Harper's Weekly. Tottleton drew up at the side of the road and accosted a man sitting on top of a load of hay. "I say, colonel," said he, "arw on the right road to Claypool Junction ?- "Ya-as," said the farmer. "How's the road, pretty good?" asked Pottloton. , ' "Fine," said the farmer. ' "We been twenty years wearin' them ruts through." This country has proportionately seven times as many Judges as England, and perhaps not one seventh as much Justice. Abe Attell (Contributed to Th Journal bf Walt Mon, th famom Kanaai poet. Hia pro.poem are a regular feature of thl coluuiu to Tb Dally Journal.) . , : ;'-.: ', , Oh, Abey dear, your ring career, has been a thing of wonder; for years you've wrought and slugged and fought, and records ripped asunder. ;And now Kll bane has made It plain that he can tri umph o'er yourjust take the sack and don't come backl ThlSvAbey, we im plore you I For we are sick of pugs who kick and whine when they arn beaten, and blame defeat to inward heat from things that they have eaten. .."Put out by, chancer they cry, and danco around llko frenzied Gaby; "we lost," they clack, "but we'll come back." Oh please don't do It. Abey! it's tuff and crool to get your grool; no man enjoy 1 ,(' ki..,. v :.. ' ' ujiSJhV.y W''V1A-U.-UUW-WUIXUV - frown; be nut , like tiresome critters reeome crlftera who must explain with might and mal until all Bports are Jaded; tread net their track; O don't come back and keei your rame unraded! Cnrrrlfflrt, 1PU, br . Sb. H lieoa-e U a 1 tliew A da ma. 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