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ou Save Money. JOB PRINTING Oamodt GET YOUR JOB PRINTING DONE AT THE eadlight Office. When you Want Butter Paper, WE HAVE IN STOCK THE PURE PARCHMENT. Ltiterary Seetion.—Tillamook, Oregon, January 25, 1906 THE STATEHOOD QUESTION. LIKELIHOOD OF THE ADMISSION OF OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY. Dispositlon to Grant Them Statehood Irrespective of Arizona and New Mexico—New Congressional Align ment on Question. of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Difference of opinion does exist as to whether the two territories should be admitted as one state or whether they should be admitted as separate states, but on the main proposition— the preparedness of these two terri tories for statehood—there is little dissenting opinion. In fact, the pre vailing view Is that statehood has already been too long delayed In the case of Oklahoma and Indian Terri tory. It is almost disgraceful, well- informed public men are saying, that these two progressive territories should be held back simply becduse of disagreement as to whether those unprepared territories, Arizona and New Mexico, Bhould be admitted. It is high time, many men declare, for congress to cut loose from tbe Ari zona and New Mexico proposition, no matter what form it may take, and admit Oklahoma and Indian Territory. The assembling of congress will bring new blood in both the House and Senate. There is promise of a long and very important session. New policies are to be discussed and material changes in existing economic conditions are to be proposed. Coming ■pon the eve of a congressional elec tion, tbe session will feel the effects, to a certain extent, of political consid erations. Tbe admission of new states to the Union will be one of the hold-over The Royal Crown of England. questions to occupy the attention of »he new congress. It appears now “Uneasy is the head that wears tbe that there will be a decided shifting crown.” Tbe crown of England is a •f position on tbe statehood problem, costly toy and is better to look upon some new lights having dawned since than to wear. Around the circle there statehood .was discussed at the last are twenty diamonds, worth $7,500 session. * each, two large center diamonds, $10,- It is understood that the committees 000 each; fifty-four smaller ones at the sn territories of both House and Sen angle of the former, $500 each; four ate are inclined to stand by the old crosses, each composed of twenty-five program of creating two states out of the four territories, but it will not be diamonds, $oJ,000; four large dia a surprise if this program fails to monds at the top of the crosses, $20- meet the approval of a majority of tbe 000; twelve diamonds contained in the republican senators and representa fleur-de-lis, $50,000; eighteen smaller tives. Since the question of state ones in same, $10.000; pearls, dia hood for these four southwest terri monds, etc., upon the arches and tories was brought Into congress crosses, $50,000; also one hundred and many senators and representatives forty-one small diamonds, $25,000; have personally Investigated the exist twenty-six diamonds in the upper ing conditions in the territories, and cross, $15,000 and two circles of pearls the result is that public sentiment about the rim, $15,000. Tbe cost of among public men is crystallizing in the precious stones alone is nearly favor of the plan of admitting Okla half a million dollars. homa and Indian Territory to state hood and, if necessary, letting Arizo Here lies my wife’s nearest relative. na and New Mexico wait. There seems to be few dissenting All my tears cannot bring her back. voices against tbe proposed admission, Therefore I weep. THE CHINESE MINISTER’S DAUGHTER. Visitors to the Chinese Legation at Washington have often been attracted to a tiny little figure perched at the head of the grand stairway. It is al ways there when a dinner party is go ing on or when Sir Chengtung Liang Cheng, the Chinese Minister, is giving a reception. It never falls to appear, and the uninitiated have been heard to remark in undertone that it is a queer little figure which guards the head of the stairway. • However, it is a very Animated some body after all, for it is no other than the young daughter of the Minister, Miss Liang, who, though barred through the custom of her country and her youth from taking actual part in these entertainments, is, nevertheless, determined to see as much of them as ■he possibly can. Perhaps her father, the Minister, does not know she is there and perhaps he does, but nobody knows, for no mention of the fact has ever been made to him, and Miss Liang •ontinues to enjoy these many social affairs from afar. This dainty little Chinese maid has been in this country ever elnce her fa ther was delegated to represent his emperor at Washington. She is Just seventeen years old, and until she came to America she did not know what it was to be allowed to go out unat tended. is Over in China the w >men never show their faces on the street, but with the appointment to Washington of Wu Ting Dang, former Chinese Minister, members of the legation, and especially the women, were given greater free dom and now they go about with never • thought as to the propriety of the ex- perlence. At home they would not dare. Society is Is eagerly awaiting the ex pected announcement that Miss Liang will be formally presented this season. She has learned to speak English ex ceedingly well and is a familiar figure in a box at the theatres on Monday nights. When she wishes to go shop ping she does so unhesitatingly, and her carriage is frequently seen stand ing in front of some of the fashionable shops. Fewer girls, especially among those who have not been presented to so ciety, are more popular than this charming daughter of the Chinese Min ister. She has made friends with every girl in Washington society, and her chief delight is to jump in her car riage in the afternoons and drive about, calling on her young American friends. They are all delighted to see her, and no matter what is on the pro gramme it must wait if the attractive little Miss Liang happens to call. She is so piquant, and appreciates an American joke as well ae any of her American associates. Miss Liang is the constant compan ion of her father and accompanies him on all his drives. They are great friends and apparently enjoy every minute of their time together. The Minister is very proud of his daughter’s progress in learning American cus toms. and it is not unlikely that before many more years are past the Chinese Legation will be enjoying even to a greater extent the American freedom in living which makes the assignment of Washington a diplomatic plum for which many hands are always ready. MARK TWAIN AT SEVENTY. THE HUMORIST ENTERTAINS GROUPS OF AUTHORS AT BANQUET. At Three Score and Ten He Is Hale and Hearty—Gives Views on How to I ive— Never Smokes or Drinks While Asleep. Mari Twain, that prince of humor ists haS reached the limitation of life as laid down by the Scriptures—three score years and ten. And yet he is still able to give us gems of humor and wit—such gems as attained fame for him years ago when Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer and Innocents MARK TWAIN, TO-DAY. intend to take any. Exercise is loath some. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; I was always tired. “I have lived a severely moral life. But it would be a mistake for other people to try that, or for me to rec ommend it. Very few would succeed. You have to have a perfectly colossal stock of morals, and you cannot get them on a margin; you have to have the whole thing and put them in your box. Morals are an acquirement—like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis—no man is born with them. I wasn’t myself. I start ed poor. AMERICAN LAND MONOPLY. IS BEINO FOSTE RED BY OCR PRES ENT SYSTEM OF LOOSE LAND LAWS. Homestead Commutation and Desert Land Act, Supposed to Encourage Settlement—Largely Utilized for Land Grabbing. There is a class of people who hava apparently lost sight of the fact that the federal land laws, from the horn* stead law down, and even before tte homestead law, were enacted for th* purpose of fostering the making od homes for the nation; they seem ta think, and it must be contested that they have successfully put into prac tice their belief, that the lAws are ta be construed into passing on the title from the government into. private , hands with absolutely no regard ta homemaking. They argue that whe* the public domain goes into private . ownership it becomes taxable propertMj and this helps the country andj^Bs State, and the question is ignore®^«) to whether men and women go uypVM that land and make homes and reae families. The following part of the report~0F< the Public Lands Commission showe that the commutation clause at pres ent is a farce and that land can be entered under it and almost immedi ately added to already large individual holdings. The Commission rec“ mends that the period of residi be extended from fourteen month, three years and that the residence ba actual and not constructive, as it M at present. With such a law strictly enforced the evils of the commiitar tion clause would be largely obvlateC It Is, however, highly Improbable that if a man actually resided and lift- proved his homestead for three yean Land monopoly is a black cloud of dread from which Ireland Is just emerging, and we applaud England’s act, while we may yet possibly be a little skeptical, in providing a plan whereby free Ireland may uecome a fact. WHAT A STRIKE COST. Yet we ourselves are as rapidly ap proaching land monopoly in America Chicago Obliged to Divert Money as it is possible to do, considering our Needed For Improvements Into vast extent of territory. Land monop Payments For Police Service. oly brings with it more state evils It will never be known definitely than can be recounted in any single just what the recent strike of the article. It retards every internal de teamsters cost the people of Chicago. velopment, it smothers individual ef That the total would run well into fort and enterprise and finally it the millions, however, is a conserva transforms the stem and fiber of the tive estimate, judging from the single individual citizen from that of a sub item of the expense to the municipal stantial, self-reliant supporter of free government to a supine, indifferent ity for extra police protection. Some time ago It was discovered and passionless individual, lacking in that the city could add $5,000,'>00 to mental and moral poise and in those its bonded debt, and the people au sturdy and heroic qualities which thorized an issue of bonds to this have made America the greatest name amount for specific public Improve in history. ments. The end of the teamsters’ strike “Land monopoly, did you say?” found $2,000,000 of these bonds still says the American land grabber. unsold and an emergency strike debt "Why, there is enough land for the of some $365,000. To pay this bill the children of the nation for generations council has retired the $2,000,000 of if not centuries to come. The gov bonds and ordered their reissue in such ernment owns in the West alone near form that they may be used for general ly half a billion acres and how can corporate purposes. there be any land monopoly when this Thus $365,000—or the estimated vait area is always open to free entry cost of lowering the two river tun under our various land laws?” nels—goes to pay extra policemen for Half Billion Acres Remaining. defending the lives of citizens and pro It is true that there are valuable tecting their property while a supine city administration practically gave lands in the West yet remaining open license to the striking teamsters to to entry, or at least land which will make the ordinary business of peace be valuable when it shall have been ful citizens full of turmoil and haz furnished water for irrigation, but what is the general description of this ard. Money that the people Intended to half billion acres yet remaining under go into sorely needed permanent im Uncle Sam’s control? Is it reasonable provements has been diverted to meet to suppose that the shrewd laud oper the cost of lawlessness that never ators, living on the ground, have not should have gone to the extent it did. skimmed the cream of this land, and The cost of this one strike is the are not doing so to-day—the fertile $365,000 the city pays for extra polioe valleys and the rich plains, where service, plus what the countv has to water can be applied—and leaving the pay for special deputy sheriffs, plus great bulk of the land to their pos the loss to merchants, railways, man terity, land composed of mountain ufacturers, etc., in business; plus lost tops and impassable canyon sides wages to the strikers, plus a dozen which will probably forever remain in other items that it would be difficult the hands of the government and at FREDERICK H. NEWELL to enumerate. And this only em least can never support life. Glance braces money cost. It takes no ac at a physical map of Colorado, just Chief Engineer ot the U. 9. Reclamation 8* vice and Member of the Public Lands count of Inconvenience to citizens, of for an instance, and note the vast Commission. assaults oa citizens, of the killing of preponderance of mountains. There would be unwilling to pay $1.25 aa citizens. are many fertile valleys in Colorado, he It Is a tremendously expensive thing for the map is on a much reduced acre for immediate title, when by a» to fight a labor war in a great city. scale, but from its appearance you additional two years’ residence, ha save this amount. would think the entire State was com could The provisions of the desert land posed of nothing but chain upon chain act, and the recommendation for the A Ring for a Throne. and range upon range of untlllable amendment of which is included in the Miss Josephine Strong, who was mountains. following report will be discussed la private secretary at Washington for Denounced by Commission. next week’s article. Congressman Hawley, has a diamond This question of land monopoly in Commutation Clause of the Home- ring that was once owned and worn the West, as it is fostered through the by Louis Phillipe. king of France. stead Act. The ring has a peculiar history. It use of the commutation clause of the In the preceding report a state homestead act and the desert land act will be remembered that Phillipe lived ment was made that our investiga In this country when he was an exile. has been studied by the President’s tions respecting the operations of tbe He lived one winter in Zanesville, Public Lands. Commission, and their commutation clause of the homestead Ohio, and spent another winter with report, the third installment of which law were still in progress. We were not at that time prepared to recom mend its repeal. Investigations car ried on during the past year have convinced us that prompt action should be taken In this direction and that. In the iuterest ot settlement, the commutation clause should be great* ly modified. A careful examination of the dis tricts where the commutation clause Is put to the most use shows th-Ji there has been a rapid Increase of tbe use of this expedient for passing public lands into the hands of cor porations or large landowners. The object of the homestead law was pri marily to give to each citizen, tbe head of n family, an amount of land up to 160 acres, agricultural In char acter so that hotneB would be created in the wilderness. The commutatioe clause, added at a later date, was undoubtely Intended to assist tbe honest settler, but like many other well-intended acts Its original Intent has been gradually perverted until it is apparent that a great part of all commuted homesteads remains unin habited. In other words, under the commutation clause the number of patents furnishes no Index to the number of new homes. A COUPLE OF To prove tills statement It is only necessary to drive through a country * HOMES" IN THE whore the commutation Mau He has WEST. been largely applied. Field after field Is passed without a sign of per manent habitation or Improvemeat other than fences. The homestead - shanties of the commuters may ba Abroad were first given to us. On De cember 5th he was the guest of honor at a dinner in New York, to celebrate his seventieth birthday. The guests were confined closely to writers of Imaginative literature, and about 170 authors were present, nearly hail of them women. Every guest received as a souvenir a bust of Mark Twain, half-life size. Naturally Mr. Clemens was the principal speaker; be took as his text. "How to get to be seventy and not mind it.” E<> said:— “The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation, and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach—unrebuked. You can tell the world bow you got there. It is what they all do. You shall never get tired of telling by whdt delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up to that great place. You will ex plain the process and dwell on the par ticulars with senile rapture. I uave been anxious to explain my own sys tem for a long time, and now at last I have the right. Regularly Irregular. “I have achieved my seventy years In the usual way—by sticking strictly to a scheme of my life which would kill anybody else. It sounds like an ex-1 aggeratlon, but that Is really the com mon rule for attaining to old age. We have no permanent habits until ■we are forty. Then they begin to har den, presently they petrify, then busi ness begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up, and that is one of the main things. I have made It a rule to go to bed when there wasn't anybody left to sit up with, and I have made it a rule to get up when I had to. This has result ed In an unswerving regularity of ir regularity. “In the matter of diet—which is another main thing—I have been per sistently strict in sticking to tbe things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of It myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed It wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at 8 in the morning and no bite nor sup until 7.30 In the evening. “I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking. I do not know just when I began to smoke; I only know that it was in my father’s lifetime, and that I was indiscreet. He passed from this life early in 1847, when I was a shade past eleven; ever since then I have smoked publicly. As an example to others, and not that I care for moder ation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and Gen. Morgan Neville, a rich pioneer never to refrain when awake. and taught the district school. He had “As for drinking, I have no rule word from France that there wa3 a about that. When tbe others drin.. I chance to regain the Bourbon throne like to help; otherwise I remain dry, If he could but get to Paris, but he by bablt and preference. This dry had not money enough for the trip ness does not hurt me, but it could Gen. Neville lent the prince the money easily hurt you, because you are something like $800, and the prince gave in pledge the ring that Miss different You let It alone. Strong now wears. Going to New Or First Standard Oil Trust. leans by boat, Phillips got to France “Since I was seven years old I have and the rest Is history. He regained seldom taken a dose of medicine and his throne and the money lent by Gen have still more seldom needed one. Neville made it possible. The king sent But up to seven I lived exclusively on back the amount of the loan, told thd allopathic medicines. Not that I need general to keep the ring and asked him ed them, for I don't think I did; but it to visit him at the royal palace. The was for economy. My father took a ring is a pear shaped diamond, set in drug store for a debt, and it made cod black enamel and is naturally highly liver oil cheaper than the other break prized. fast foods I was the first Standard Oil Trust. I had ft all. By the time Into the Earth’s Bowels. the drug store was exhausted my health was established, and there has At Bendigo. Australia, there is never been much the matter with me gold mine 3,900 feet deep, or only SO feet short of three-quarters of a mile. stace. "I have never taken any exercise, ex This Is said to be the deepest gold cept sleeping «nd resting, and I never mine in the world. is published in these columns, com ments upon these two land laws. The commutation clause originally provided that after eight months of residence on a homestead claim a man could "commute” by paying to the government $1.25 an acre and get immediate title to bls land. After a number of years of operation it was conceded that thlB clause had opened the door for much land acquirement without settlement, and amid a great blare of trumpets. Congress, In a spasm of virtue, extended the time to fourteen months. What has been the result of this amendment? The op ponents of the repeal of the commuta tion clause have presented specific reasons why this law should not be touched; that the entryman needs to "prove up” and get title to bis land so that he can mortgage his property and with the money buy groceries, tools, etc., with which to work his farm, which may sound well, but the fact seems to remain that tbe great bulk of the commuted homesteads are not to-day homes. (Continued on next Dago.) Do You Use Acetylene? if 80, We Want to Send Yoe A SAMPLE BURNEI We believ»* we hare the very beat and the cheapest line of AcetyL le Burner*. Our aarapi* will show better than we can explain here way It would pay you to use our burners. Write us to-day. mention kind of Gene rator u*ed, encl'>se 8 cents in stamps to ourer j/ostage, and we will send you A Sample Burner W. M. CRANE CGMPANY 1131-3? BROADWAY Room 10 New York, N. T.
