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0 THE vORECON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, ' FKID Y I-VI.ING. C 1913. THEJOURNAL -AI INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPE ' .faMMW rnbllabe nrf TilBf , (exrapt weey) e"4 ' ntif Svodar BwrDlnf t The Journal Bel Id- , , Biwdnr ao4 Yanhlllota.. hntawL O. V liltfed l nMtofnmjit Portias. Or- trMBtMlM Uinxick te valla aa coed claaa .i.t;PlJOMKS Mala TITSi Boata, A-Sl All trta)Hita rrhod br ta nbmk J I all u apt toe wbat awrlml an waat, KUlCItt AbVSKTISIVa REPBESSMTATIVg ;J lik una . K Xerki WS w!ri , I fcubacrlptioa Taraoa tor mall sr' M ear eddraee aa iw VBUM aulas ar UMieoi tuitr yea ess moat ...... J Pa rear ,.;,.,.& f on smth j;;." V" PAH.V AND SUXUAT w, -:,e.r 3F ; Man la very 'wwrn'ky. birth, Vila, repUlev weakaM'vt---'4 Awhile he erawls uport th earth, T . Then hrtnk to earth Matn.lv -RETAIN WltitiOtt'$?; WASHINGTON? yesterday. Senator Chamberlain urged the war department, to continue Major Mclndoe as engineer in Charge of ; theX.CoJumbia improve ' tnent. ' v ':r:i ri-'-H''; .5 The Chamberlain appeal voices the linked desire of the; Pactfic; North west. It . wis the reflected Impulse; of an empire of 300,000 square miles in which it is down grade : all I the cipal Jenkins reports that the work ing students rank 3teh sthojar- $6000 In maintenance of ; the alms house, ' 55000 in .' the-.; water 1 depart merit, $3300 in the assessor's office, and numerous other ' small . savings, the total aggregatmg $60,000 a year. These economies have not been at the expense of efficiency.; The street department is :said to be inr better eonditsan. any time in th city' history.v-Nearly $200)00 wortli of avinir has been done under com mission' rule,, and tbe ' savinir ' was 20,000, or ten per cent.1-; The water department wasmade . self support IngJ The policed besides beintr the Srua.rliAnjl ' inf ' nta?m.i anI rrA h af act ai' street and irarhair inmrinra. 1 trom bt. Kaphae! France, to Bizerta, They: tepott v holes in streets, poor I Tunis,;' 5S8 miles across thp- Mediter- fiaewmucs -ana ail ' pavements which t 1CB ea... ; xe , prosaea re f m eoi-are-inr'need oVwpJ.'.'i!:'frr almost its widest, point. Trenton's ? experience " with ' com-1; t"ght would have ; taken -JUm mission government is,; In ; the bet- Pross the Pacific (Ocean ,a4;the Aleu tere4JtatusJn line with m almost I ?ian Islands, bf across fthe:' Atlantic IN AIR AND SEA IESS than ten years ago. Wilbur W-Wright made . the , first vman jjigni ia ni story. jt was uono at - Kittyr Hawk. North .Caro una, JJecember ifW A' little-more; than four years agb, ifJeriot flew across the English chan nel, a distance of 32 ;niles, of which but 20 miles Was ;ovef wateK-..-'.'"- :. Kecently.fs. Roland . Garros ''Jlew Wry city in which the plsn has Wn ..u- J.1 ' ii iii : ve - : ... . ' " .i-f. LOCA-v; STUDENT? WORKERS t TEFFJURSON VIIIGII school Wu, EFFERSbNillGltrschooBa aents earned $4 during th last v summer vacation. and ; are : now earning $6390 per , month outside; Of -school hours. -1,; ..?A The figures are from f Principal renkins, and include earnings by the classes, which graduated in .February and June,-1913., ifii' 'J$jtii In the February, class there were 9 girls and 14 boys. AH of ther'boys worked at some time during their high ! school 1 course. The averago earning1 capacity per boy during this time was $1200. In other words, the h t,i mnii, f th. rAtnmhia time was i4M. in i Senator Chamberlaltf yepresenttdi -fy:&l6m faring; their liie wishes of m people whose ! an- f?ur K V ?1" . employments , of : m i tries ar iwi x i . Carrying papers-UThe Journal the Oregonian, the -Telegram; clerking P ai a 'a " i in. a naoeraasnery,' in a snoe store, running a printing shop, - One worked in a boiler factory during his odd ; moments, and .another in the harvest fields. . The average scholar ship of this class was "86 per, cent Of this class 33 1-3 per cent entered college. In the June class there were 35 boys knd SS girls. ' Thirty-three of the boys worked in whole or in part j . ... t-tl. i- t - . auring 1 ineir niga . scnooi - course, Twenty-three , of the , 55 . girls k em ployed their, spare time and vaca tion. The average ' earning capacity of the boys - per pupil during, the four years was $735. . In other words, the total amount earned during their high school course was $25725. Th average .' earning capacity of the 25 girls was approximately $300 per' pu pil-Total amount earned, $6900. ,- The employments were - varied, 9 hoys had paper routes, a had done contracting and bridge work, 4 sur veying, 4 farming, 5 clerking in gro cery stores, t in a drug store, 1 in an auto supply bouse, 1 bricklaying, e; wisnes oi a ual oroductions have reached 101 fc'07,000 bushels of wheat 6782,000 bushels of oats, 20,492,000 bushels of barley, and countless other products, lie reflected the common wish of the inhabitants of aa area in which there is 723,000,000,000 feet of stand lag- timber valued at ,$1,150,000,000. I l hese are r resources ot . conse '; Jiuence, even in 4 nation of tremen jious resources.' ? Senator Chamber' ; Jain's errand with the: war depart ment was no ordinary errand. The things that he spoke for were no or ' adinary things. '.'..';. ;'.' i The volume of human welfare con ;tingent on the perfected .navigation hpf thje Columbia is ' enormous. It is seldom that a senator has back of rl'im so much of moment as was re Elected ' in Chamberlain's stand ; for ?he continuous and - most efficient improvement of the Columbia. i ' Other engineers can succeed Ma jor Mclndoe and render excellent service. It is one of the boasts of 3 his country that it has an engineer jrorps that all the world aclcnowl ydges as wonderfullv effective.":'? But no new man 4an forward 'the work io the Columbia as can Major tMdndoe. A new man could jiot Iiave Jhe ; prepartdness. ;;;, He v could not Jiave the enthusiasm. He could not jjossibly. have the f intimate 5 touch svith . things that - Maior " Melntac Jias acquired through four years of devoted and ourooseful endeavor. Senator Chamberlain is right The ar department ought , to continue 'JVIaior Mclndoe in charcr . nf fh Columbia work until a more favor-l ble time for a change. i THE BALKAN SITUATION ULGARIA and Turkey are re- !ac ported-to have' signed a treaty by A which Turkey ;Sjs 'given Adrianople and a portion of hraceawardedvto Bulgaria by - the taeaty o . London.- - The dispatches say the two countries,' recently at S-ar, have ' formed an . alliance, pre ; iumably against;-Greece;: ; ? " I What' will! happen in the "Balkans iiobody knows. : It ' was only yester May that Bulgaria was protesting vig fcrously, against Turkish occupation hi Adrianople. Anything is possible. Servians and Albanians are .already Sighting; wars ; between Greece and ! he 'A.lbaniana ; and . also between ; Jreece fcnd . Tarkey are threatened, j md now there is probability of war , between Turkey and Bulgaria as al Jies against Servia and Greece;, ? ' I Vengeance against her; late allies . s .tbe one passion that rules Bnl- karia, and the Turkish alliance can Iiave no other motive; ! : Turkey i' is fttnbitious to recovet , lost territory; He wishes ' to repossess Salonica. liulgaria wishes to xtend her terri torial limits to iindude Macedonia, Jaken from her as a result of the second war. Is the program Mace yonia for - Bulgaria and for ; Tarkey ' hhaver slle can f reconquer from he Greeks? - , .- .;.;. : Turkish shrewdness is proving ef fective, for . Turkey has a chance to rofit through acquisition of terri ! ory in the event of another W.l XurkeJr ' P'ayins ' bold game vlule turope stands idlyyby afraij uac ucr Birennin as a oearmifc-r , . . : TRENTON" SAVES MONEY" 5 iRENTONlTew. Jersey,;' has bad cummission t, government two years, ; and Mayor . Donnelly says results prove the new sys tem s . superiority: ; ; Both eeonomv jmu , citivicnL-jr ; nave advanced, as Ihown by, art audit 'of- th . rltv'm Vook$ for the last fiscal 'year; the first entire year for which 111 Anii. nision;. could Juatly be, charged with .:reKpotisibiIity.c Vv, f ' T,h cost of 'atfministering overn- lnent was reduced $4377 the commis 4on located 'an' additional 376 per yent ' of taxable f. property! ; the f jrity's 4ent; the tax rate was reduced ' two i ait s on each $100 of 'valuation? x 3 rvcuue deficit of $62,000 was re winced to $12,000, and ai collector of delinquent taxes has added material ly to the amount of back and cur nt taxes paid into the city treasury, t Com mittsion (rovernment has saved rcntoB 10,CO0,a' year .oniadverUS 50P0 in legal fees, $15,000 in ,cost -ot street' improvement. by using Greenland,; Iceland and thr raroej islands stopping ptsces.."'.. f' For the ; fastest-passengerships; to cross trom thf ; Mediterranean from StiZ Raphael to Biserta 5 requires."'. 24 hours. Garroj flew thei distance in less than eight hours. S At fe lvong? Beach,: California re cently, a llubmarine rose; safely and easily- to .the surface ' after having been submerged thirtv-six hours in street- ,.r. ...... 1 selling cattle, 1 in a planing mill, 1 in office ; work,' Snd I in drafting. The employment of ; the ? girls" was ikewise , varied, ; including tutoring, music, teaching, - house work,' paint ing, : embroidery 'office ; and': factory worJk;'5"competitive prize essays, an art scholarship,, and;: 2 scholarships in college work, -' ; ? , ; . ; , ' 'Several of the' boys saved consid erable of their money for the pur pose of making a college education possible. One -young man not only worked his way through high school, but earned sufficient to assist his sister, in gaining a high school educa tion. ; v - :- ;Vh:''. At graduation, 40 of the 90 sisni- fied their intention of going. to col- Of students now at Jefferson, 342 worked during sthe summer, and in the time earned $24,200.40. ; T.be aver age' amount earned ; by ' each ? was $71.06Vr;jf'' "Vy: "t,: "i'': v. One . hundred and forty-four , stu dents now work outside of school hours;" the amount they earn Vtier month is $639.20. : The f amount ' per pupil ia $18.32. , I :;i-;-;v; r 'It The ;; work during ';, vacation, ; In eluded carpentry' contracting, farm ing, surveying,, carrying papers', '., col- i ecting, house cleaning,;: working in 1 factories during' the canning season. teaching music, tutoring. One' ran a dairy; farm,: another was working In planing mill, , another in a boiler shop,'' another painting houses, and several, girl viook- 4 care Of ? young children, some ; played in orthestras earning a weex. r une, was s salesmanlothersi picked, hops, isev eral did : herdngipne . lid: library work,' ne.wBS,n Jbperato'r ih-a moy ing ;;, pict uir , house.. y t S'eye ral boys ushered : m w theatres, : and others were employedin wholesale houses. ; Several. v of;i,tbe- . girls did i'liouse work for trteir.TobmHrtd'board; and this lis ' not tincludedim' figurinar out amounts of money "earned, Inith.' Manual JTraming . Depart ment reports were; received ' from 94 boys.v4 Of these 80 Jid worlc, during tne- summer time, earning a total : of $2708,, or so, average of $79 per boy. The reports show that the majority worked in ,r factories, mills," on ; the firm, and carrying papers; . a . few forked all summer, but the majority worked only part of, the time. p: i Of : the 94 Jwys ' reported, 41 are now working " .after v school hours. The 41 boys earned J17.45 per month per boy; r i $ ; One boy graduated" jast year,! who kept an accurate; record of his ac counts; reported he had earned over $1400 , during ht 4 years, that he at tended,' school I- Of the boys who have gr.aduatedl from the Manual Training Department,' none, has had difficulty in btaininft work. 'and bn quest lor. more boys ftm that de partment. '-f.. '.';.:' .;'. -.; I the, Commercial Pepartmtjit7S thirty feet of water with six men on bbard. . The exploit, wis proof, of the power of mea tp. direct the move ments , of a submirlhes Under ; water for indefinite period3Itf is a near realization of the -vessel in Jules Verne's romance f '.'Twenty Thou sand Leagues; Under the Sea.'V! (! Hie two achievements direct'tho mmd to perils that threaten the ex pensive oreaanought from above anJ beneath - The i sustained Xalr flierht of 558 miles over sea, and the vessel that can quickly sink out of sight and remain in the bowels of the sea for days are steos that mav well (challenge the attention of naval con struction, w . ' l.f. '. . ncaun expr-t an.t insists that ive must use : les t two or three indi yidual;t- tlsncry time ve wal our fact i. l!y and by, to v ash one' face. in" the United 'States will be as perilous, as v ineerisv; a revolution in Mexico. '" 1 v.- Though the reward SIan,amg""for. ioinUm,Z, has , been no as tronomer has 'yet "claimed the $20, 000' fof stalking to a. planet.1 Still many people, not astronomers, have talked to the planets, while leaninf against; a'; lamp f post ;, or telephone poIeC-i;iC:v:i;';::.iu.i.: ' ?;a- - ,',An eastern .clergyman , says; a wo man who wears a slit skirt will never get to Jleaven. 'In Heaven, the same aa on, earth, it isn't the clothe s that mak.th'ei- woman, - the :frpck t hat makes 'the monk or the "frame that makes the1; pistute."" ' ; - ;t lt.is- said that 4000. Mexicans' die apnually rfrom .tarantula" bites. Life isa both tumultuous and? precarious in. Ajexico between. dodging tarantu las. and devolutions. -' A, ftnee il ;.' heinor hnitt - arminri wan;asylum;ej is a prudent move in nrvnt ,! ThW trom ?. carrying the estabhshment PERTINEf.i CO.MMENT AND TiEWS IN BRIEF The ruln7 scream now only arouses mild deriaion. v.. Still the olic pot of thd past amokos miUoaorousy. - , , -x- ., ... . , ,Mliit1rfili..lf,i away sornj darkighti From the People. ANOTHER CENTENARY, T HE railroad locomotive is one hundred years "old, It was1 in 1813 that .-William Hedley, a colliery superintendent, "drove s crude and ponderous' i; thing',- over smooth rails. It pulled eight loaded wagons' at five Iniles an: hour, and the fact was established that sirgfeth wheels -revolving. pn smooth rail have tractive power. Richard; Trevith.iek, the Cornish- i man,' is given credit as inventor . of the locomotive, for in ; 1801 a com mon road locomotive constructed by him carried . the ' first load of pas sengers ever conveyed - by steam. But the .Trevithick locomotive f did not run on smooth rails. ' The: Corr nishman later ' constructed ' engines which : pulley ii carj around circular tracks but it was Hedley who first put .the locomotive to a commercial f- Seventeen years after s; Hedley's demonstration George ' Stephenson's Rocket" made its ; trial trio at -29 miles an hour. V That was September 5, s 1 830, : and that date '; marks the era of modern railroading," Itwas proved that ..locomotives traveling smooth, rails bad tractive power, and could attain speed, but Stephenson and others Succeeded only after, dis couraging experiments to" overcome aiiiicuiues nresentea dv tn ntrin andthe"rails,'-;V.;'? f.s.y u' ;' ;;J ;v.f:'-;r; Some . men now living : were chil dren when the inventors tvere doing their utmost to attain speed. ; Today the complaint Is .again sf ; too IroiicE speed. J . Accidents ? a cebturygo were mere incidents: today they are sedv as - arguments against- the ; very thing men were striving for one bunV IteXloa la Ititi d.orlmnt ahonlil h arrlrtaa aa pi oaa uoa Bf ppi- abould not axef4 800 orda la laoith and nm- ba afointaaleii by tb nam and addrtaa elib aandkr, It, tti .TV f 801 oaaira to UlTa UMuam pua uaucu, sa Mouta aa auw.) HMk-jmIob Ii tka treat, atl reform-r. It ratlanallaua arw-iEins it itoueb. It robi prlnclplaa of aU faUa aauctllr and' throw tb-ia back ou theU reaaonablenaaa. - I( thr bT as it rumianiy eriunaa tiwia oat .f )' .and acta up It ow ooocllMluB ! Uieiratead.'Vwoodrow Wltoon. r , , The Waste . of Drunkenness. j' , Portland. Oct, ' S.To the Editor of The J, Journal I am .always - xreatly pleased with Wjtfr editorials, and am specially; lwprtBsod with your eohctu lon to "A Drunkard's Farm." It U tru that the SaVln;,of even a, fw from Ine briety - Justifies the expenditure of much ;nonev and efXorL , . Let the cov- ernxnent, and - berfaVolen.organlzatlops continue thla work of reform,' ' 't; But whaiean we say about the wia domof jaalnutnJpff 250,000 . drunkard facthriea eroduclns 200.000 drunkarJc evert' yearxfor municipal effort to avwhen he represented the old Colonial 20,000 of them from a drunkard's doom (confederation at the court of Louta XVI What becomea of the other 110,000 and I he wrote a monograph on the subject the women and. children dependent upon! At that early day h perceived that tha inemza iicm rexormatory natnoaa ara i ooiomes viucn naa jusi cainea ineir in- only th ambulance work In the battle dependence had a paramount interest In betweeh humanity and alcohol. Modern any canal which might be excavated on medical science haa tauaht us with, tre the Isthmuav. He foresaw that the con- mendous mphasis that an ounce of pre-lnectlon of the two oceans by canal Was ventloa is' worth a, pound; of cure, Wouiaf Inevitable, and he was solicitous that It not'b'e the narl "of wisdom for us to I ttM-'folohles should ; bo In" nartnersbln cloee the drunkard- ractorieS, out ,orr I witn any sucn enterprise. Even tnen ne the supply of thef-f'wet'' drug store and I was opposed to the Idea of any smile the bootlegger, save -t 2,000,000,000 of I European p6wer -controlling the water- t-casa' -annunuy,? -prevwn tnn i Jr' anwna wis auibuo aaa-racia , fourths of our criminality, one half ofB-f;ffron ws the most Imaglnativa our insanity, so per cent or our munio I siaiesman or ine Kevoiuuinary penoa. Ipal court expense, 68 'per nt of oprtThe colonies bad scaro gained their int police coat, and, what is' far mora im-1 dependence before he pegan to. look for portant,. save these '200,00(rmen and St ward to time .when the new nation least 76,000 woroen irom, lives of 'Shame I would gam possesslorl.pf the -mouth of ana-waste or miman resonrcsT. . i tno -Mississippi ana s iootnoia on tn Are you helping mfl rorUan3rfi"i Pavifie eoast JNsw ork'f - tor once, at leant, tne voters uara wrong ana tne juuges are right. 1 i ... f . a . .. . Hnimible firmness fa a vrr dlffarant inivg i torn jacKassicai ooaunacy. . - tne more tne wiseacres talk about a hereafter, the more we don't know about It took nearlv, six- months in m b tarifi Diii; can a currency bill be paaaea within two months?, IVlun shot fop a vll1fBt. This it n little more humilititlng, though it didn't hurt any mora, than to be shot fr a ..... . . : a, , Row between Imtsnr's afflicted d:iiia-h. ter, recently married and her husband, reporleil. Also, thkt ex-Klne Mnnnpl'H bride won't live with him. The matri monial -a tiaems very hard for the upper cla -!j to navigate..',......-. , ' Engl: 'i papf-r Bays young Ouimet won the tenuis r tiamntonhin because the audience w it .id it, exerted a hypnotio influence upon him. AVhen he goes over to England anl does the same, some other excuse wul doubtless be ready, . -;r;v.,:,:;-;;:..,. . .. , .;.. , '-.Probably iio prercilnir president ever led,' hi 'party majority in cohhi-p"' ae completely, and successfully an Wilnnn has done. ' Ths Deroocraiio niBnitra not only follow his advice vr trttirno. tlons, but do so willingly and . ""it resentment. - - . . . OKUGOX StiJCLlCIITS ' It's all oft with ths doe muzxle at Astoria until nnt summer. The open season for Towner's mouth began day JJftuceue. ItetriMter:, Aviator Steele, Of tnrWhTlld. tuns tat A new Pacific uOant lecura tor distance over the ocean, ana still lives. All of which furnishes fur tner proor mat ui-egon is In many ways a most remaraaoie state, ' - - , , '" -, -J Ths Astoria Budiret.braclnir itself for the Inevitable, "Portland has aiscovered a void mine in one ot htf city parks. Wonder what Seattle will do now? Probably she. will find dia monds growing on , the , shrubbery i in ths suburbs." ; .... - ; -i , .;' , .. "Baker county stone should 'bs used in ths, new federal ' building ' in l-endleton because It is the best atone fn.'l because it Is Eastern Oregon stone," n liow the Bakar ilerald makes prac tical application . of , this -"made. In Oiegon'' thins. , , Ptlli In the rlnfr," though lamentably dlaliKured, is a celebrHted Hood Klver raniiie. The Now tells the nd story thus: "Marlooch, Thll .farroH's fa mous fluhtlng- dog, mef-liiM Waterloo Kiiturdi'v when he tried to tear' a charge of dynamite from ' stump at the) home of Georae P. llltnticock. The doa; lost an eye ami suatalned a broken shoulder In the encounter." Fossil . Journal: ' Jamea CI Kin brought in a two-year-old dreMcd ewe that weaned sou pi.nnrtM. u oltt it at S cents, making; S7.2i, and tne pelt la worth BO centa. When a man can et 87.75 for a two year-old ew. rmefd in bunch grass, it would rm that the slieep buainexa is a lona: "played out" yet Jim not SO cents more for his av from beine1 coma nave, c, ew if h i,ad cared to peddle her nrmind town In ouattara. unrt fnn, ov-nrs more hnd he eold her on t i IN Ei aiLLiu D. u 3 .; JCy I'rcJ. 1.. : 7. ' BALBOA AND THOMAS-JEFEERSON H ' .Front the Oakland Tribune. Four hurfki red years, almost to a day, after Vssco Nonet de Balboa sighted th Paclfio ocean from ths -continental. dl vlds at Panama, a Vessel passed through ths ' canal connecting the two ocean a. Soma hlstoriana-.glvs September ti, 1513, as the dateof Balboa's -Jlscovery Others fix September. 26 as the dayJIf tne latter ds. correct, tne zaur nunareatn anntversary .of Balboa's iUscovsry was commemorated by sending , vessel from ths.. Atlantic to the Pacific through a waterway th , Spanish conquietadbr dreamed should pierce the isthmus. " Bines Balboa's time an interoceanlc canal at Panama has "engrossed the-at tentioa of snglnef rs, ; statesmen, - sclen tista and' merchants. Thomas Jefferson gave the projeoi profound study, and dred years aa JProbably nothing telse Uynifies a century's progress so well as does the locomotive. It serves the present and affords visions' 6f i both oast and uture, American flag on, the shores of ths Paj flftc aj. ths mouth of .ths Columbia, With a prsaclencs almost prophetic Jef ferson dlscsrned evsn before ths federal government was permanently' organise J that a canal at Panama was the key to ths destiny.; of the American . republial 11s perceivea tnat the mputh of the Mis. elsslpplths Pacific coaSt and Panam were- the strateglo points commanding the course of national development 3Rlboa's dream has come ..true, and Jefferson's statfsmanshlp has? been vin dicated. All three of the great stra testa points which Jefferson perceived woul-t ultimately atv commercial end. political control 'job this hemisphere are. in the possession of the United states. Pos session of the mouth of the Misslsslnnt gave us actual possession of ths mouth of the Columbiaconverted aUhadowy claim into a resllty. Tbecanal at Panama ls natural sequence Of this Louisiana Pur chase. The annexation of Texas and the acquisition of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and portions of Colorado and Utah wore a logical consequence of tns acquisition of the Mississippi from its source to its mouth. Having stretched our dominion across the Continent, a eanal at Panama, was necessary to pro tect tne sea approaches on both sldeaw .. Hie American ting waves at Panama; the mouth of the Mississippi and ths mouth of ths Columbia, and the schema or national greatness pictured In Jeffer son's - mind - when the Infant, eolonles were still squabbling over a scheme of government Is realised. . Balboa's title to Immortality .Is acknowledged. but ' the breadth and grasp or Jeff arson's states mapshlp has as yet" received . but tardy taTa4f.alaamtf AM ILTo M v'" tftlu a,,,aiaM -.w' "Vou don't have to be very old to ! a pioneer . la some parts of Oregon," said A. IX. Gardner, the editor and puij' lieher of the Kenuewiek, Raporter,, . "In 1880, and that la only 88 years &SO. asjKfather Jeft Kanaa.8,. for Oregon, ' He settled oh'TiH' CrocTf, hot far from Joseph. ' He took up a homestead there. About 1887 I,': moved to Benton Flat. In those d .; h Wallowa county was still a part of l y Ion county. '-.When Wallowa county created ' there were no towns of sn size; , Joseph wanted to' be th count; seat, so did l,ower Store, .sa WaUowa was called at that time. There was a store at Joseph, it was the upper store and farther down ths valley , was an- ' other,. store,' hence it was called Lower Store. As Joseph and Lower Store could not reconcile thejr differences they com- . promised upon having the county seat ' located midway and located it on Ban ton Flat My father had a preemption claim. ' He platted SO acres of It. - John -Zurcher and K. F. Btnbblcfteld ' also platted part of their holdings. They de cided to call tha town after one of the three men, but not 1 1 able to agree which one of the thtue was entitled to the honor they compromised on Enter prise. My father put up ths first build ing which was uaed as a hotel. I was ' born about Z Q years ago- on our first . farm. . It was a log cabin with puncheon nooFTmd f -ahake roof. .;' I was IS be-. fora I we- c' outtoKlgin and saw for the first time a. train of eara and I can rem. mber what an astonishing sight ,'Stubblefield is a kn business m . Hs had not learned to read nor e when a boy. so be worked till his . children ' had gone to school ' and he learned from them. . Our principle source of revenue whaa. Z was St boy was ths money derived from the baoon ; We put up. Father would, haul a horse wagon load of baewn to' Walla Walla and; sell it for 12H . esats .a pound. Thsegh I live In Kennewlck and am do- v ing well-- hers I sun think Wallowa county one of the most beautiful, and . one of ths richest districts of the west. Wallowa lake and ths mountains that surround it can, not be sxcelled even in 8wltaerland for scenio grandeur. The fish and game, the timber and marble, the building stone, the fruit, and sheep, the oattls and hay, the, wool and min eral of Wallowa county make . It a district of vast, undeveloped raw ma terials, while the rapid streams and tsrfalls will furnish abundant Dower to turn much of it raw materials into tbs fjnlshsd. product v ' , . ..v 'It le splendid district lor a boor man to gat a foothold and get ahead. Men like. Pete. Beaudaln and Jay DoW bin who cams' there with nothing but the : clothes on their backs ar Towr wealthy, and that in anlts of limited education, ; With them and. scores of ; otbersWhoTare well to do thers'lt was seeins: and aelxlnr tha armortunltlua Ithat presented themselves. No, th op pertunities ar not all. gone. . Ther I stm iots of land a Uttls back from the railroad that can be -gotten at a very low price and- It is merely a question of-taklng;hoidvnd holding on," . . . perceive in bim only- tricky and instn cera politician flattering th people and stabbing his tnemlesf with Artfully worded letters, but ha was theJ greatest political genius thla country er pro-. doced. 'n , ; , y -fjd -t't When will press and platform pro- Pacific, He made the bargaSn with Al-J recognition. "Many" jpf his countrymen Claim to an unminaung wono tns 10117 exanaer nunuian wmvn wnmnuea mi of .our present day: methods. "These seat of government at Washington. 4 He things ought yJto have jdone and not to bought the leouisiana territory fronVNa have left th other undone.". - - -- Klon, and sent Lewis and Clark across r;''W vi'S-w-AJDUNBAJt;;. i.thr-cflntinent.'to. taks possession irr the Sea Level tnd rTidei Levels. i'.JUw fit the United- state and plant-to ; VnrfloaiS: C.nf. Jtft. tSlS..Tn tha, Fl-I " itor of Ths Journal What, it any, la thslaki" MnV, W"riBnraai 'anl that Itll 'lhe difference in sea level on the Atlantic telcj,eri .noaid take pains to explain it ana sj-bxixmj siaes 01 me ioiuu : oi I to the little ones and explain to tnem iTil Jesus: Christ meant when b said. L4.IST7 uuVBMUUf ma s.esumu. ewuMW v- 1 mo. 1IT1 .-.fells! I VI tA MfAA; lltltA stim SJiCTffl Sui - ' ''V0 of such, 1 the ferencavA 'Sea vel,; 4 Jerm popularly Blb,0 the 7tSinllmamtXmL frandest and most glorious book in the thrsama meanings th snore scientific ,,. .? tha end. for term "mean sea ivei, Dy wnicn is acs- "tA ;",: -,. tgnated .'that point midway bstweea Sf-vior said whenhe , ,wa mean. hish andlow tldo. So far aa la srth M 7? rtn hou,4 i,t.h.ki. th. 1. a yiiifiM in lawav. but thathis word wouia noruntn ,-...1 7 IZ all tfclna-avwera fulfilled.: 'All th laws llivau' sc 7 rot vsa ! ww iuv wa, sssaj t r - - - - " . . - Isthmus, thouglf the. possibility of dia- of, th woria tor tno goon 01 nuanawu crepshcles ' between -; others . compared 1 are) founded on tne bidis.,? ,m coast -is discussed. :.'; Y EDUCATING WORKERS D worlccd during the,; summeT Tha work included r teaming,-; messenger; office, J railroad tWork, ; carrying pa pers and- driving aif auto truck. The tofal amount earned during the sum mer .Was &mZM present 19 are nuiniuit , aucrcnooi pours, averag ng a month per sttudent. ET&OIT- employers are' work ing along the German contin uation school plan: some' f ea- r al , . . .. . . - .ures 01 , wnicn are proposed for Portland boys and girls engaged in : gainful occupations. I The (Oef. man " plan provides , for' half-days, or full days away from work during the week m order that the boy; may fur ther perfect hiriself through tech nical educion.';:'j-:y'',3i:; i The . plan has . worked so. well in Detroit jthat' twelve manufacturing plants are now sending apprentices to classes, and i thY boys; are -paid full wages during the ;timc they at tend school. O One factory recently asked accommodations for forty, ad ditional students, . and ; arrangements are being made for their- accommo-d-tion. ., . $M3&M?&T. ' Aa automobile manufacturing; com pany has fourteen employes taking a ' two-year, course, the boys being allowed, a half J day ,;'each (.week at the school These boys were elect ed by , ihe merit - system, and it is said they are showing splendid, spirit in making the most of oooortunities offered them; ;;AU, arts good jmechan-! ics, but the company believes the School Instruction "is certain to make them more valuable in (the factor. .Germany has been' forced to utiL ize herlresources in order that .world competition may be:; met : 't Thst netessiiy frrhiished stimutus for:!con tinuation; schools,; but" now; the ' fact is ;recognized ! that, individual devel. opment; is equally -inipoftant with the delopmcnt- ofabor Svingma f The vcontinuation : school ' idea; i 4flfaTKwymith'hm interests.; -f uoys- must be: taught their . trades; JWhy hduld the .em- Cloyer v ssjn that instruction! should , i limited to the shop? X)etroit em. ployers Sre ctnxitrted that both shof and .school instruction Spprehtices will , fetum, .dividends t to- th , em- , It la a. shame tke way the children T. .1 mm mkAHXA W HA mm la I ... kMa-K tins at . th tiraaMnt time. another matter. The Enciiwldpedia Brit-1 Ther ar out en th stteeT, until late at annica , ( jotn iition;f is -ssinonty tor night and sucn language as tney use is ths following statement, contained in awful. It Is a wonder that Ood cToes a-n artlcl discussing th then proposed not send us a little of what h sent to Ds Leassps sea, level eanal: - , ;; s godom and Gomorrah. It 1 no wonder "At certain states 'of - the' tld' ths that Bft many of;, ejjr1 boys and girls go jvvrJiai uiv iwu nmu viuer inaH" i mmnm . Th... aihrtnl h a hidii in avtrv riallyi 4 while at Colon k th - difference homAd if Ah head of th he-us woutd aaT,fl-aVaail httlOrN . BTJIM ' I AfaTa . ajaraa V a 1st t JSaaV I m. . . . - . a , . . l m mors sn Aigh and low water lav not Ujt to the7 llttl one they would "H"" a-naine . aoon get interested' and the whole fmT Quoiau; . a tvvi, aim . viiuca uywanil i.v M, of 19 feet The current thus produced In ths canal would be sufficient to stop navigation;, for a number of hour at each tide; and to obviate this difficulty ily would bs- better for. It. O. 8. THOMAS. Rat .Mystery. It will be necessary either to construct " From th Qmaha World-Herald, unu i .iu z-aaania exiremity or to slop the canal from Colon to Panama." Drinking Cups' in Theatres.' Portland, Or., Oct f.- To the Editor of the Journal: Is there not a law, til in placM Itahabitant f aVsry city .Htupl:,C..Vt al? snoVvthai'tha; average lif of a .rat -ss There ' is '- a mystery ; concerning rats that the public health ..service cannot solve, but It says that, if it could be solved th knowledge would becqm uae- 1U1 IS many aaireotionB...v... ',.!.,..... . .....-;.,... The mystery is; What becomes or tne dead rats? ilt is estimated that there is not' lp ;thl 1 elasst : Th. writer ..saw at a - local play house water - boy refill ftV years. ; According to thatr'here ought to baa found a great number of dr!2k,n,ir. Klm" M0? iPf! la4 rats every month but the fact is . iwocb, , uiaj-. n uwttv m SOODl 1 tt,s train rssts Arab ava rnitnn ; y , U s" ' tWlce aton performance ' If this is Th -public health service in Manflai against h law I will gladly swear out p. 1 undertook to find out what became a warrant for the .artestrot th, man- of the dead rats, It there was only one agement - of , the theatre, y v ; " . v j rat ; to vrwnw of th inhabitants Of it- THEATRE PATRON.- that city there should b a mortality ot (There "IS no law aboitshlnr ths con.00 every month or abontS everyday, mon drtnklna cud. Such nubllo action I The doctors, undertook an investigation, as "haseen taken has bsen through an They say that, though fuel Is very .high orderof the state board of health. Thh n Manila and the population would not order. Issued September? l, 1IUH pro- undertake ,t. burn dead rats. If any were vldesr. -. 1 -i.;; ..''- :;, ..:--.-V:i-". found about the premises they would be "Thatn: and af tehl data ?ie? na. Put in the garbage. can. ; An Inspector son or orportoA jn onarg. or control wf n!" VhifCC7-V "a of any railroad' station or any railroad fY.f?.0. P'.la it n Inr LZn? irltfVXZ', Thty. mad a , sanitary inspection -and ajXi ???"lJ?LiV?J??0lvrv housh - was examined, all furnl- or v spy state eduoationai - institution shall furnish any drlnklnar eun for' mini Itof trte, and rid. such person or eorpora- turo removed, all boxes and barrels were opened and examined, all' wood pile were taken down and replied, all straw tion shall permit on said railroad train and Tilth of every kind was taken to the or -union, r on saiai sieciria car or crematory . apd ; bucned. and although at said .publlo or prlvat school or ald hundrMa of lly rats war found and state-educational institution, or on said killed with dog or ; clubs not a dead public conveyance, the vse of, the core- rat was 'found, , Thy further declare non. urnKip.g cup. -,;'. .; ;..;..,.i.. mat tne sewsrs are ail sanitary 4 with . Theatres ar not mentlonedL pnd there closed traps and rats could not get into does not 'appear In the order any- gen- them. The Manila doctors want to know eral provision that : ould - be held in what becams of the two or three thou. any : wise .to Include , theatres' or any an1 rata; tht shosld die or old other, piaoes of public resort other 'than ,n th clt7 ev, moth andHhor those ? specifically named. J However, "V'u'i ths preamble of the' state board's order -Wher V whn they dfe?; " Contains ,!thstatements .' that ployers.' And just sswe wefe -be eirininsr in I'rin-v feci recuperated 'up Jumps another 1t haa f f a , Pr?Ye beyond doubt jthat thsiusa IZri' Another. Gas- Failure, r , ' ' or the common drinking cup Is roanon-1. f Frdfti th Bt XU1 'TKeplibTroIv 7'TT sJbH'for'th.pread;or many Inf eotlous I ' Of f ioiat Warntnr. has been lasu4 to and,, contagious diseases," and that "thai th people of Kansas to' get ready for atMliShment of ' What i'la':1rnovan - , hia. natural araM ulinrtfiv, V Th... m-.m common drlnklng.cup would I for th Unough gas last winter : i , keep th oeiicniicui vt i puono ncaun.-; r-,.' tlnre going ail, the while, and the sup ' More iViews on Bible "Question. -jr-ortiana, ' uct. ply will be leas this, year, " vry district, in the ponntry whlh 2. To "the Kdttor has had' a 'natural sas Berlod tviil ion The Journal I would like to express with -understanding sympathy toward toy view with regard to; the Bible in the cities of Kansas which are now re schools. ;,.1 think It shsuld ' b ' there, adjusting tholr domestic and business lhat one hour every day should b de- affairs tipon a coal basts,, There have voted to, the reading and teaching of been communities-- Indianapolis was one-wher",lek of foresight ; caused property- owners to build their houses wirn xurnaces, grates and flues specially adapted to" the us of, gas. "When the gas ran out, as it always-finally does, these bouses had practically to. be rebuilt oeiore tney could b . heated.. . . Findlar, Ohio,; one enjoyed: a gas boom which was the wonder of th woMB, ,Th peo pl thotiglft V Cheap. VfueJ would f'eqak their, town a" metroptilia and prtrjected ineir -improvements on a. metropolltan scalbut Findlay is not so big a town today a ItSwas to years ago. It was tha, sariia .old story of diminishing pres sur; anduitimat , lexhausUon. ,of '; th f as SUPPly. .n,;.;:-.. JM'tV' Ki'H : But Wher the people hav had sens to :. regard, (h discovery of gss as a bit of -temporary good hielr such losses and disappointments have beeri avoided. The. return so'coal, with all the labor, dirt and Increased cost involved is not pleasant, even - ia.iuiii i.i h,, gas bas been an Unmixed blessing while it lastel! tV' ,v -.'is U.:"-. ." ,YQUR MONEY; !; By John lli Oskison.-' A "Few .Words.", Prom the Chicago TrfbunV- V The n element lacklng.lo make - tha dementia governlne; in ; certain) -parta of f Vl atk IkMSlf '. ". (aAAnlaialkt a. mm r.L itta .QitWt ' vr a. VUrvfq ffai -. 'WasVafcaae!..'' m. mmM by . th mayor of .Concord diligent . pron,', who' mo.ved.'.tot supply tna lack,., ,-'...; Mm T '! :. 'Mr, thaw." -said thU 'bupyantiurgo- mater, i Hh :; people" "of Concord have been crowding about th 'hbtel , to see you, and I think It would - b a good plan, if.you wduld step out on th,e ve randa to say. some wordat.?. y wiK' t With ths f ew words ' without which fiooceaslpn "it completeVand with which excryt "pemsn is equipped,' the few worJs bf ther so page manuscript' of ex temporaneous' thought (ujkod . away in th inside coat pocket t the wholly un prepared ore ton the few. word of th' prominent ciusen - who finconecleuslv cieara ms turoat very ume he sees more man rive persons gathered in law iui- asaemtiiatsk with the few words wnicn ars bulwarks of ' our ILoertlea. the dementia euld have been.' takablyur . own, wy'th i- '' Up to tho point. at which the nercen- tiv pc.rsonof Concord entered 4 with his suggestion ' Canada.' could reflect that nothing had been left undone In, the do minion which Americana '.would do at home, but this last , touch , ia . "all our own, our inheritance) f rm the days of tns uonoraDi suian t'ogram a . ,; -JjmmJmr. , , , , 'lt.";.. '.v;rS'.'';'fe!i'A Penrose. r !J'! From Harper's- WeeisiyJ Freslflent - Wilson, in his ondunl nt th Mexican crisis, has acted, oniv fnr nm country weitaro ana xor the wel fare of .Mexico. Ho have moat mamhara of congressi. There are aV few excan. tiona, -It la easy to-Understand Senator Ponroa' solomn declarationa of our wiitrwwrbtew; huahua. - If only our tntefterenca could be brought about,,' the administration's tariff and bankinsf rirocrams -wouM -ha indefinitely potponod. Renubllcans of tno t-snrnsei Kiuney .nuve worked Tor this nd. Just as certain poJitlolans interested in perpetuating, slavery secure oue Jingo-Mexican war In 1846, One would xpect aajenator serving what is likely o- prove his last term, to be bent on bettering his unpopular record, rather than on playing pranut politics as of old, but Boles TenroHe IS a Bourbon to I ths bottnm of his licart. ! k man who buy nd -aell- foul-' right) a great Seal of . stock sent for Ms broker in tbe summer of ISIS. He hsnded the broker a list of stocks of 10 big recently created Industrial combl nations, ranging from a machinery man ufacturing company to an. Oil company. 1 .-TCanr yn borrow, these stocksT'f .the ' man asked. That is a question which -must bs . settled by 1 the. man who un- dertakss to sell- Vahort" -that is.vwho'. sells stock, which ' hs -do not own, tit" th hop, of buying it later at a smaller ' a-.aJaaV. f'. .'M V ' . . .I " 'j . . After a llttl investigation, he -broker reporteo tnat n eouia sorrow ail .or tns L0 atocka for delivery pending, tho de cline In,, price lib seller , thought - was coming. - ' --?..;' . .,, '' "Then." said th man. "aell 800 shares each of those le lsua.,,';,'.4,.1.v-,...1.,;. i'XVhy-r asked, the broker. ViTJe.yod bsew anything about these companies!" - ."'ras." , tha.-waa- answered, "I know that they are-all right; that-tbey Jaave rear business, and that eventually they will, grow up to thsir reoent carUtailsa tion. - But also. I know what pTrbe thy have paid for th money they hat ' raised by the sal of preferred, stocks and bonda ; They paid toe high j. prloe, and as soon as th stock is out of th hands of the bankers Who undertook to ' sell It to the public, ther 1 going to be a big slump."? ; i' - v '::.:;;.. 1 , .Within, six month th man tougTit " ' ' back the 8000. shares of stock lis had old ."short," sad hi profits ranged from fio to av a snar. .;, This man' IS not a sneemlator in the Wall 'Street sense. Hs ls a man who A keeps closely.in touch, with th business' of the country. 'l know what money is neing jenironn watcnes panx clear- : ing ..all over-the country; he can find '-f eub.wbovtbe Wen ar behind the big in- - -' dvtrial-eonsoHdaUonai and he know ths competitive companies must work " ' on. a 'reasonably even basis if they arj 2; . to be successful. :. yi, . When those 10oncerns agreed to pay an vcntlnnnllir hlsi r,rim fnr mm.m ' to sustain their business, this man. waa able to foresee th tlm when their earnings would have to , b stretched to "i" corer.;'charges,;'vAnd' ' aa a t matter . of '5.;,? eourss, . when ; that became .known, the market; price ot thelr stock would eo ; down. ; ;..:...":-:i: ;, yyn. s.w.,'.'--v. ."'V. vt -i.-'m.Hi LiOgio and a sound economio sens ar , " the necessary equipment or the man who '-'P -would become a "bear" on tha industrial ... future ef Siiiirici;;.;;, .:; Pointed Paragraphs u : i ' ll ' There are let of J,a!o rans" In tha,' , UUnWIl ,aoe. :.: .'---yM'f", -j - s '' a ::v" V''A AX--m;Wl;.; ,. nd,many'i;..mai'.: indulges'' in; horsxt.i:.. plpy, who doearrt play this raeea - . .r'. . ."l 3, ;.r .'. B ; ,-:';..;J .;1:,.i:-H--;-,':;-.-. K' vWhen a, conceited' youth .get married' . he feels sorry for a Jlot of other girls. ' t i'i'N6,'t' CynthiaX marry1ng:'an' artlV;'er'' t' oulpton ; does fnot ;tnak : en a model ;j .tjwoma8.-yr"bWar feather if some other color is tnor ' faahionablei' ';,.:,';;;;tly;.s;M,i'. ;.. "M,;,. '.. f , ,vA ' K ! I . -v Uvea those who have etitution must obey the law and by U' law ot;timtur,t:?y.'K(f ..'.' -, j, ,. -"...r ''. 'm-t, a ' .1. v.'.f,wr''.':v1 '''.&,,'i...:j;1 !,''k- take agfrl to 'marry X'man; be-v'f ';f Z...Z '" "i soon-oancer. ; then-biam V " him because ho is a pooi provlder. ' 1 1 j"-.- y-".';..'; v ,;';"v'.,'V;";.'' , J'"i) i"') ' -- -. i nui '. even want In , low ner own mind untti n.. . .v. has-chaft'ffed' tt'f5T.,ft,rtvw vtM-- When twd slrla of th,;n.'ji-.. ' Ions and general style of .anhii..i r chums they 'syndicate their1 clothe V i ',' . -v.'.-. v' -,'.. v n rwn,"?fvL i. rae , married man would - bs If , he wm nr,i. aa well satisfied with hl wife as hs Is with himself! - - " When a man marries he i)ta ., solo ng takes phrt in duct and for two or three dnys' thereafter h n,i..i,. life Is Olio grand, sweet song;.'