editorial SldeliShtai. tAjid Oberva.tlon on Various" PeopU sxrvd Thinga. Picked Up and! Scribtd Down 'at Odd Time. "' . C C:-11 W JL N: T, ; ' '" : "' ,., -J ; ; aeeaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.eeeeeaeeeee.eeaee., .! V: - - gg O ""O JUf vfe- r::i uiocly checc?. states:.:?. Published every Tuesday and Friday by the CTATXS3CAS rUBUSHZXO COYraXT X. . mw MtlCXB. Wanafec , , T. T. GXaJt, Editor. . stbscxittiox atz& OU TW taaOVSae. flXC JSO .25 us fctx toon to s, la advance 1 Sum noath. in a4vance.. Oasyear, oa UaM.... Ths Statesman tu been eatabllabed to aesrit fifty-two yitfL sad It ba ohm rubecriber who have received It nearly that kmt.taa many vlMbtT read It lor a trwoeratkMi. Bon M the object to bTiBg Ut pepe dintlroed t thm Urn of ilimuo of Ucir subscriptions, for the buneflt of these, and tor other mmm we bareeoncloded to discontinue soberiptiona sly when notified to do to. AH persona Pylg when aubacribng. or payinf la advance. -will bars th benefit of the dollar rate. 'But if tbey Ooaot pay f r oix month, the rata will be $1.25 a year. Hereafter w will aend the paper to ail reapoojdbU peraons who orde- it, tboaxn they mar not send tb money, with the nndenrtaao In g tbetthej are to par IL2S a year, In can they Ut the ubaeriptlon account ran over si tooDthc. la order that there may be no nimn demanding, we will keep this notice ttarrtlng at thia place In the paper. CIRCULATION (SWORNl OVER 4000 "Mr. Speaker Kay" would sound all right in this neck o' the woods. Tbe testimony in the Snoot eaie re veals tbe fact that Apostle 'fcannon and Mis Lillian Hamlin were married at sea, bnt the evidence appears to indi cate that they were never more at sea than right now. A very welldimed and sensible edi torial is -that in the last number of the Willamette Collegian, galling attention to the neglect by the university of at tention to "the twin arts of oratory anl debate," Thi question is tsked: "Does it appear to yon to look-right for Willamette .to excel other colleges in physical feats and drop to t'ne fcot in the character and grade of 'the scholarship of her stndentsl For what purpose was she founded to pu out winning football teams and basket-ball teams? We think not, bnt that while he w justly proud of t'neir great vic tories and glorious records, the secretly laments the dearth of interests taken by ber sons and daughters in oratory and debate." This hits the nail square ly on the head and volumes could not ay more. : It is well enough to acquire a few bruises On the knees and etner unseemly projections of the rnatoroy, for 'the stomach's sake, bnt the devel- . . - V . - t m " . l -i. unurn oi KTrrii unmjm on me prau by other means ibau, football contu sions might come, in splendid play in after life". At least ii. should be worth trying. t ' ' ' ' ' , t - A dispatch 'from Astoria the other day detailed all, about ' bow. Bepresent ative John Hahn is to be - appointed postmaster of that city as a reward for his "unfaltering support" of Senator Fulton during the last senatorial con test. - It will be remembered that llr. Hahn was "elected on an an'ti-Fulton ticket,' in opposition to the regular Re publican nominees, who were outrspok en Fulton men,. and won nia election be e.awe he was directly oppesed to tbe Fulton candidates. But upon the first ballot for United States Senator Hahn sorprised everybody, , or nearly every body, by voting for Fulton, and eon tinned to do so to the tend. But we have always excused Mr. Hahn oa 'the ground that men frequently change their mind on theM ad similar ques tlons without thought of reward. We feel like resenting thin assertion that Mr. Hahn is to get the Astoria postof- fice as a recompense for going back upon the people who elected 'aim. Some men are always so ready to hint that ; promises of office are used to influence votes in Senatorial elections, when there is nothing upon which to base such allegations. Mr. Hahn, in indig nantly rejecting the proffer of foe As toria postoff,iee should go further. He should hunt op the sender of that dis patch, and tell him to bis face that 'ie cannot accept . the position trader the circumstances. 'About a year ago my hair was coming out very fact, so 1 bought a bottla of Ayer's Hair Vigor. It stopped tbo falling and made vr hair grow very rapidly, until now It it 45 inches in lengtn." Mrs. A. Doyistoa, Atchijon, Kant. There's another hunger th:n that of the stomach. Hair hunger, for instance. Hungry hairneeds f ood, needs hair vior Ayer s. This is why we say that Aycr Hair Vigor always restores, color, and tnaies the : hair crow long end iicavy. ttCSaksKnw aa - If your crcrrist cannot sofpty you, send cs one Cuur sad we wiU express yoaabotti. Be sere aad rive tbe name I rtr,Munt nnrvM oluca. Addreee. J.C.aV i-it CO.. Lowil, Maaa. ""assnnsnanassaSsnsnsBnn Ikmg Hair I ii CIGABETTE3 AND TBE EXTORil , SCHOOL . "More ;than thxee-foartia of be bovs committed to the State Beform Hebool are addicted to the use of cigar ettes," says. Superintendent Looney, of that institntioB, In' bin biennial report, which has been made pnblie.: It is almont impossible ; to core them of the longing1 fortobceo. ' If the Legisla ture will pass a stronger measure pro bibiting tbe nale of eneb' stuff to young boys, they will make a long step to ward helping the youth of our atate. . "I cannot too strongly urge some legislation along this line, for we do not need to visit a Reform Sehool to see the effeeta ef cheap cigarettes on the rising generation. The boys who have been in the habit of using them can easily be selected, as they show a listless, aimless manner ; and are dull and lacking in ambition. "Tbe cigarette' ha i more victims than saloons. It gets fast hold on the young before reason and judgment have developed, and insidiously -saps intelligence and vitality before the par ent realizes it; when' the boy reaches manhood he has beeome an irresponsi ble cigarette fiend," " ' f - The above very sensible observations . are taken from the biennial report of the Superintendent of the state Reform School, and areMnl line with what the Statesman has' frequently said on the same subjeet. Nothing is more' debili tating to the system of , boys and men than this, disgusting not to say, de structive, habit. But the singular fea ture of it is that, no'ewitbstanding its evil effect are well and universally understood, boys n ill deliberately con tract it, (even when, as in roost eases, the appetite does not. already exist but requires j encouragement ani stimula tion. : : - The finst incentive , to contract the habit 'is not the satisfaction of a long ing for tobaeeo, but a desire, to be "smart." Larger boys arte sen puf fing the rolled accumulation of myste rious composition, with the acquired and enviable ability to emit an endless volume of smoke from the nose, as well a ihe mouta, and rt is an accomplish ment that the youngster does not pro pose to longer deprive himself of. He intends to be a man, even if it involves the risk of going up in smoke. And it is a step which, nine times out of ten, the beginning but foreshadows the end. Superintendent Looney says, "if the Legislature will, pass a stronger' meas ure prohibiting the sale of aueh -stun to yoongiboya they twiUUmake Jong step towart) helping the youth of . our state, ' But we already have legislation as 'strong'? as it can well be. - It al ready unlawful to sell "such stuff" to boys. jAVbat mors can we; ask f - Since it would seem easier to enforce a mild law. on a given subject, than a stricter one, what will be gained by the enact ment of a "stronger" lawl " We are soon to have another session of the Legislature which , can be de pended upon to enact fully., two .bun dred more laws for a stata that is al ready burdened with enactments Yhat are looked upon as so many, jokes in a vast number of eases. We 'all believe in the enf orrenrent of the laws, nave in instances where they appear to be ill- advised. - -V THE LAND Or "STEADY HABITS.' zWhile indulging in a little reflection and reminiscence an to tbe disposition of the people of Massachusetts to re tain; their Senators and Bepresenta- tives in Congress during 'the terms of their : natural lives, the Washington correspondent of the Boston Transcript has this to say: - ' - " "Massachusetts has now become land of steady habits in reference to its senntorshipa. The writer saw Henry ("abot Lodgn. accompanied by - Senator Hoar, go to the bar of the Senate to take t'.te onth of office for the firet time on inauguration day of 1893. He saw Mr, Lodge accompany MrJFIoar's suc cessor this morning to the same place. It wdl be a great many years, in the ordinary course of events, before an other : Massachusetts Senator is induct ed to office. Both Senators are in the .early fifties, and the life insurance tables would probably saow that their expectation of life, upon which their remaining' in the Senate will probably alone depend, .would give them each considerably more ( than t 20 years of service. Massachusetts is apparent v provided for, in this respect, for many yp?rs to come," ; ''-'-'':- ' But Massachusetts is not alone in tats custom. It has been a generally accepted recognition of public policy throughout the "Sew England states for many 'years,' as,' indeed, in some other sections of "the country.'; When sO'en. Garfield waa transferred from his' dis trict In Ohio to the presidency, at and hi , two' immediate . predecessors had represented it in Congress continuously for 57 years;- . " - i Speaker Cannon first took.bis seat in Congress on March 4, 1873,"-aad 'has served continuorsly since,' save" in the Fifty Second Congress, making falrty years. " Grosvener, of Ohio, has been in Congress without a 1 break since 1885, and nitt of IUinois, since 18-52. These J haTe served the longest terms of the present : members of taw Hptrse Of Kep- resentadves. But the New j England states rarely change . theirSenators. : Piatt of Con necticut took his seat in 1S79 and 'Haw tKe - - Office" Window N7 x w r- ley in the former now being -77 yean of age and tbe . latter IS. : There is no tnooght ef the retirement of -either of them, especially 1 since - thfre ;. is nothing for a Senator from one -of the little, finished " Xew England state to do. ' ; I I Edmunds, of Vermont remainel in the Senate as long as. he careL and upon his resignation, -j Bedfield . Proctor was appeinted to succeed him in 1892, and, of course, will ' be re-elected as long "as he eboosea to serve. Prye, of Maine, after serving twelve years fn the lower House' of Congress, was elect ed to the Senate io sueeeed Blaine ; in 1881, and has since been a member : of that body continuously. - Hia -colleague, Engeno Hale, served ten years in the lower 'House anLwas transferred to the Senate to succeed Hannibal Hamlin, who declined a re-election in 3881, he and hi colleague beginning their Sen atorial service at the same .time,. Fry e is' now 73 years of age and Hale .68. ' ' There" are no political machine, ' ; as such, in t'iie Jv'ew England1 states, save in a few local instances and in a mild form. Public sentiment keeps faithful servant in the public, serriee and dis graceful political squabbles are rarely known." -t ' '). COKVTCT BOAD WOBS. : "Vfoch stresses laid in some quarters oi. the fact that a 'few miles of good roads have been .built by convict labor Tn the immediate vicinity of the peni tentiary and': the i conclusion reacheil that this fact has solvcd4.be feasibility of turning all the convicts out on the roads and- employing them exclusively at that work. . . - But all the - labor done on the roads by convicts so far- has net solved one side of thcf problem. It has solved noth ing save that a convict can handle a pick and shovel, and this was discover ed long ago within the prison walls. The last two state administrations have built five or six miles of road be tween the prison and the Beform School through a heavy gravel bed-where the material scraped ' and thrown ' up has sufficed to make a fairly" good road.. There bas been nothing whatever done on this road except to use plows and scrapers, precisely as the farmers have done on the road from Brooks-io Ger- vais rir from Maeleay. to Anmsville. But suppose ' the convicts had been employed "in building a road , from Sa lem to Cheraawa, where there is not a gravel to be found the entire distance. With the same work done as was put on the Beform .School road we' would simply, have had a dirt road, as good as could be made of dirt, no doubt, but yet merely a dirt Toad. And it is not dirt roads we are after. I-', , , Net a load of gravel or crushed roek ha bnen hauled on the Beform School road, and though it is made through a heavy gravel bed,; it is sadly in need of a coat; of top-dressing, as Governor Chamberlain said in his address before the road convention the other day. The work of the convicts on that road stop ped precisely where the solution of the question as to the feasibility of their employment would have begun. As it is, it has settled nothing save that con victs can Vrork. f Most of the roads in thin country that beeome the worst in the winter are miles, in many instances, scores of miles, v from the nearest point where rock can be obtained. This must be had in enormous quantities when we begin any system of rational road building, and if convicts are to be used in this sor( of work it will involve devising a plan never yet discovered in any state of earing for them en tirely away from all the facilities for their safe keeping provided at the pris on. ; It is, in fact, a serious and great ouestion, not to be settled off band and with word. . i " The fact, that a few convicts have graded a few miles of road through a gravel bed so near the prison that they were returned , to their regular '.eella ev ery night, has bad no bearing whatever on the important question of their gen eral employment in that line. - Tbe fact that a convict can eat one potato in a minute is not conclusive evi dence that be could eat sixty in aa hour. . , ,.." NEWS AW AT FROM HOME. Under. the heading "Should Ask for a New Commission," the Walla, Walla Statesman , expresses its undisguised disgust at what it calls the dilatory tactics of the Oregon state portage eonv mission in tbe; matter of constructing tu portage .road : around the obstruc tions at Celilo. . J y'. That paper is' quite sure the portage commission is actuated by motives not friendly to the shippers of Eastern Oregon and Washington, and i not at all backward in saying so in plain lan guage from day to day. It says: '. "It 1 plain ; that the Oregon I com mission has been from the start under some sinister influence that is oppos ing the building of this formidable competitor to the Ilarriman railway eystenu It is t'ae same influence ap Why, doesn't Smoot Reed, between the lines ami give it up! - - V ' O Mr.; Chadwiek's lawyers "don't know what she will decide." Of course not. Isn't Mrs. Caadwick a woman!- Tae ebanees for Channeey Depew's rel3etion to the Senaielare decidedly ' darker since" ex-Governor Black, has defleiteiy enteral the race against him. - ' -" . O . Of course until the -custom was in augurated of blowing the fire whistle at no way oi anowmg vuru me nuun nrur arrived."' ... i... 'fThe tom-tcms are beating Tom Iawson pn frenzied finance and Tom Watson on frenzied' politics." Globe Democrat. But what about Jo-Jg who is now on exhibition Jo Cannon and Jo Folkf -v . ... O"-- ' ' Ta difficulty about reorgan'zrng the Democrat is partr I to determine how to -proceed to tbe reorganization of tbe rewrganizern, anad whether to first- use a corn sbeller, a r grain T chopper or or dinary dynamite. ' ' . O 1 . IlTTta headlines to - the President's message an Eastern paper says "Eoortti, velt Blazes the Way for Congress," though' it is plain that in some of it he blazes JEway at Congress With nnmis- taiable strennosityj i ; O It is Reported that the Ameer of Af ghanistan has purchased 200 Amer ican sewing machines for the inmates of iiw harem. -But this is probably Ameer trifle in the . aggregate of his household expenses.' ' "This is the time of year when the kid ware to break. Into their banks." Evening Telegram. nd when faey malte the attack in earnest the kids willi probably depend largely upon the eElgjeney of their .Billy's. 1A "Portland paper says trX, Warm Spyings Indian fell ovetr a bluff 60 feet high on a bed of rock, and it hurt oim quite a little. ' ' Surely it eouldn't have hurt him mneh, since if that wasn't a bed of down, -it would beudiBicult to find one. Commenting uporPthe'' atiggestion of the StateanamAthaahe hit. Lou i a Fair had a great deal to - do , with making Missouri Bepublican, the Globe-Democrat aays "some plan should be devised for holding a perpe'mal circus in Mis sissippi." , ? , Eastern papers give an extended ac count or an old duffer living in the mountains of . Pennsylvania at tbe age ofS4 years, who splits wood every day, and who. attributes hia- ability to do so to the tobacco habit. Thus do the evidence against .the . use of tobacco aecnmulate day by day. v - " la a neadline reaching across tbreo columns, the Atlanta Constitution asks "Was Jonah Swallowed by a Whale f " Out this way the opinion is generally entertained that he was, but that after three days, discovering that Jonaa felt quite down in the mouth, the whale re pented and threw up its job. But even this n mere conjecture. ' " G i rls who have a n ot ion of propos ing must make up their minds to do so poa, or be out of order.'" Portland Journal. "This is outrageous, and the girls of Oregon should enter an unani mous protest of indignation against this intimation of the Journal that be cause they have not married during leap year, they are necessarily to be considered out of order.- It is a down right shame. . ..;, . o . i. We confess that , while sitting in dread the oiher night shrinking from the awfnl effects which scene after scene In ."Everyman" waa producing pares tly that made the Oregon railway same influence that has had much to do with the defeat of bills reducing freight rates and railway commission bills st Giympia." , - ;; Bat our Walla Walla contemporary is evidently laboring under that species of mental infliction so lucidly set out by tbe late Boswell G. Horr the 'ain dering burden of " knowing a lot of things that are not eo.1. The Oregon commission bas from tbe ' first been handicapped by the fact that two eon flicting .duties were imposed upon it by the Legislature and the friends of each insisting upon immediate, aeiion. Under toe circumstances the eommis-. sion baa probably done all it eould, and ba moved a rapidly. al the impedi ments it found necessary to : remove woubl permit. 5--. T-t. 3 -l- r -But the child-like earnestness of the Walla Walla paper is shown in the de mand Yhatv "the shippera' of the 5 In land "Empire ahould . petition Governor Chamberlain, of Oregon, .to remove the recreant portage railway commissioners and to appoint new board in sym pathy with the projecL' y1. ? 'The homor of the situatwh beeotnee apparent upon refleeirng that Governor upon tar-audience, were rapidlylWE EXTEND A COKDIA1. iw vlTA- j surrendering to the lesson intended toj be imprveeeti upon ernng "humanity, an-till- Death ; eame" stalking on the stage and, dressed in i . skull and snake-skin legs, . began lecturing-" Everyman " . in aa, address which noon had occasion to use the word rnyther," after which it was" all off "in a, thousand place. When Dcatii on the- at&g aays nyther,', it is timeT for the audience to say sit. -. - , . The" report of the testimony given by Presid.ent "Smitli, of the v. Mormon chnrcn, in the: Smoot tril, says "ba that The mothers of his children, were given him by God, and were; the saints of God. He deplored the mother-in-law joke and said that liia mothers-in-law wero the beat friends he bad worthy of their dau3hccrs."o loribt- he de rived a positive benefit fioni the com bined efforts of a. dozen mothers-in-law to keep him straight, whereas one eouli do nothing but aggravate him. Is" it to be inferrel from tnis, then, that when the average married man falls down.it la through a dearth of motheix-in-lawf If so, think of the exrvtses to be offered for' Adam, who raised Cain probably because he had no mother-in-law at all! It is said that the Crow a Prince Gus tavus Adolphus of Denmark, has "made arrangements to meet Mis Alice Boose velt at the house of Whitelaw Reid in London,, in the spring, for the purpose of offering hitr hand, nd, incidentally, what lie&rt he has in marriage, tt is also' said "tTustavus has been looking for a bride in the eourts of Europe dur ing the past year, but undccessfully." Hvncc, as a last' resort, it is to be in ferred, he will try Miss Alice. It ,1s not claimed that he is in love with hr, nor that he is in love with anyliody. Indeed, he iias nerer se-n Miss Roose velt at all. r He i merely afflicted with that " married feeling and propose to have dons wtih it, if possible. Great ideas these Crown Princes have of the proper bases for matrimonial alliances. President' Roosevelt's special training with the gloves will be of service to him, doubtless, much sooner than. ae at first expected. . . i - - O ' . If ydu -will go into any well-eondaet- ed -Thesiei you will observe that every woman removes ber hat. . Xo better bhaved'audience ever assembles any where than is to be found in all firrit elass' theaters. " No woman ever sits in such a gathering with her head covered with an aggregation of ribbons, vel' veta, feathers and nnnameable fnrbe lows beautiful to look at elsewhere but in public assemblages v oheeurrug the vision of the less fortunate men and suggesting the -desire. to be prepar ed for an immediate alarm of fire. It presents the appeaianee of an audience but half composed, always prepared for the exigencies of a riot or the sudden bbwrt of Gabriel's trumpet, for no wo man would think of meeting that cele brated trumpete'er' without her hat be ine on (and on straight) and the assur- anM that there, was ivi ir:l at fue incet- ing place of her akirt and waint. But why the ehurcbesj abine are -selected, as the place where tinforfwarn.1 "danger seems most expected and the congrega tion must be prepared to vacate, at a moment's-notiee," is not clear. Before Dr. ' Brougher began his lecture to I toe Y. M. C. A. in Sak-m last month be remarked 'that in his church in Port land, the Baptist White Temple, tbe women all removed their hats before tho services becran. At once most of the women present took the 'urnt and their hats off, after which he added "of course it is understood that those who came without t'neir hair being properly dressed, will be ex eused," whereupon the remaining bats were removed. Dr. Brougher has an idea that the e".inreho should not be outdone in the matter of politeness and courtesy by. theater goera, and there are many Salem .churches which might I Chamberlain is himself the chairman of the commission, has approved ell its work, was made a member of it b vir tue of the law which made the aj propria tion, that the othvr membersthe state treasurer and secretary of state, eould remove him or each other as easi! as be eould act upon the advice of the indignant paper at Walla Walla end that as far as the Governor could go in support of Its suggestion I would lie to send in his resignation. , Tue earnestneas of bur Walla -"Walla contemporary is out of all proportion to its fnnd of information. CLASSIFIED ADS .IN STATESMAN . BBXNO . BESULTS. . A -! : j: in '-. y "V- rr with alUXV. ' A correspondent of the . Hood River Glacier signing himself Alex X. Kal.m, is highly indignant at tbe editor of '"t fee Statesman for having said, as be al leges, that Howl Kiver is specially prosperous" for t'ae simple ' fact that ! there a-c nJt foreigaersi lliero." And he proeeel.T to lanttvmc - o wim hereof for having eail that the ignor ant foreigners" a nr the cause of what ever lack f pwgressiwness Ss to he uoticCMl anywhee ia OregoaV.et.:.' Now Mr. Rahmf if ibat ii Wis nauie, is hereby informed that the Xtat'5iu ban several local writers, and wbui. they may have said in the local col umns the editor does not knowj but lie is eertain"tnat no such expression or phrase as " ignmnt foreigner," in that connection has ""at any time ap peared in-the-editorial columns of this paper. '" '-..'..ii "'''; The editor, of .the Statesman ""know from an experience f thirty years ob servation in the Willamette valley that the foreigners have cleared .and put under a Tuigh Mate of cultivation ten times aa much land as has fot-en re claimed by our native liorn citizens. He has the greatest regard for them, has always expressed it, wi shea we bad a great many mote of this class of for eigners, and will present to Mr. llahm, who- becomes the victim to a sort of amalgamation of sarcasm and f aeetia, one years' subscription to any paper be mav choose, if he will find any re f- crcice in the editorial columns of the Statesman to the ignorant foreign element" that bas made Hood River prosperous by its absence. And, besides, as a guarantee of good faith, if Mr. Kahm will come to Salem wo will invite bim io our home and ta ble, that 'he may- see we are not at all stuck up,"- that we live principally on bacon, beans, grauam broad and po tatoes, that we split our own wood and build our own fires, that we are' poorer than a great many foreigner and do not try to appear otherwise, "that we actually live, Charles Wagner's Simple Life, partly because we cannot help ourself, aud that, perhaps, we are not really such a bad fellowJtfter alb. To 1m candid, our ancestors were real for eigne rs, and eoul.f neither read nor write. , AN iiayBACriTCItlSITIONH1?1 Uyag- . Tbe Statesman has no syirfpathy with the 'suggestion made in the late gool roads convention, and we believe em bodied in a resolution, that"-the Legis lature at its coming session pa a law prohibiting the setting out, pi, fires for any purpose, including slasuiagsdu'riag the months of July, August September unl October of next vear. The object in view is to prevent a smoky atmos phere .luring the Lewis and (lark Fair, t hat visitors may be Enabled to see t he country, the mountains and valleys, and get an idea of the character of it in general. The object is perfectly unobjection able, but the means of securing it are not at all tenable and will, it may b S3fely prophesied, not be adopted. If the small farmers in the foothills, and even throughout the valley, are not to be permitted tbe privilege of burning their clearings, there i no use of un dertaking ti.em. Every farmer who has tried to burn a slashing after ht rains have come in earnest knows how utter Iv impossible it is "Jo do . so and the added expense it is to finally dispose of the brush and stumps that cumber the ground." ' .'' . "' There are thousands of small farmers, struggling hard for a living and many of them frequently employ all the win ter months in slashing and grubbing a piece of ground that, though small, means a ' great deal to them. 'And to get the full fruition of their labor, of ten including that of the women ami children, it most be burned while the weather is dry. - . - - , . To make these poor people who are really the bone and sinew of the land, making two blades of grass grow where there was but one before, pay tribute to the sight-seers who come to Oregon next year, would be an act of injustice wholly inexcusable. . A clear atmosphere is greatly to be desired next yeart of all times,' to be sure, but not at such a cost as this. lie sides, if not an acre of slashing were burned in the Willamette valley next year, the smoke would obscure the. mountains when the time of year eomes. just the same. Smoke travels hundreds' of miles, and keeos going. It cannot be'buina Bay N'ewa. semmed in nofkeni out:: ' j - That Spirit of Venture. But whether it can or cannot, ret the j(r Lovelet was seen on the streets farmers who are" engaged in adding to at Grizzly Monday. Willow CVek Cor thelr already small holdings by the respoudence, PrinevilJe Journal. J ak A.ViaaT . ' m ' . . ' ' ' ' - - almost intallibXe rcinedy for Lim'TS. known arid tiz&A h -urnrTH hardest' of hard work, proceed, unmoles. ted with their efforts. Thev cannot af. ford tn pay for the gratification of the sight-seers, and most of them will nev er see the Lewis and CUTk Fair, any way. They will not have the time nor can a great many of them afford it. TROTS IN A CLASS BY HERSELF. U.ia to le regrette.1 f at the rvecut poultry exhibition in this city was not better attended. Thin fine display of uu of t fie most profitable lines of in vestment to be found in any state was jessed ''by '-with no thought ,f atten lance, whib one of our local theatres, i.-xt lKr, was constantly througeil fery night, hundreds standing iu the street' for a-half hour' at a time, wnit iug for a chance to be admitted. fault is found with this, fur the enter tainment to be bad there is Rood, but it would aeem that ot the bun.lrv.U thus wailing there should have been scores desirous of looking at nnd admiring tho exhiriition of poult rjr. Never was a finer 'display of first elas chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, j -.. 1 had in Oregon than Saturday night, yet ir below a sufficient nVf to say .dogs, had in Oregon than that which closed the nroeeeds were amount to pav the expenses of it. Sev eral years ago we bad atrawberry mt poultry rbows which were well atten ded, though, even then, orchestra bad to 1k provided as an inducement to attract the pursuer of pleasure and en tertainment. ." The next time our enterprising -iti-zens attempt to make such a display of that branch of our indastrial invest uients whi.h, as Secretary Wilsou ha recently said, prwluces enough in values each year to pay the interest on the national dvbt, let them hire a couple of brass bands and secure a location a far removed as possible front any other sort of entertainment. For. as against all other varieties of exhibition, the despised, hen is going to be eroiitted to scratch for herself, nt alone! OUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS ENTITLED TO STMPATinr. The" Sunday Portland Journal says the particular Prince Gu?d.iviin wini looks longingly toward Miss- Ali- RooAevelt as a prospective and desira ble bride, was born in 1859, was mar tied in 1S1 and is the happy father of three bognftag boys. AIiki thut hi-t wife, Priheearf . Victoria, uf It.-tlcii, in Againot this specific bit of informs- tion the Oregoniau of yebterdaj the intensely ; ihat'rinioniaUy-iucliiic. Prince is but t"4 years of ag, the sn of tho lrince Itoyal, and, fiiercfore, the heir .rcauiu-tive ..to th-Scaiiili-navan throne. " S., if the Irincf is him"lf as badly mixed as the Portland papers nre :is to his identity, no wender the por f-llfw hai "tried ajl thrf courts of Kurope f.r a wife itHsuccensfully," and is now Uxik iug wit'a a yearning gaz. toward th historic banks of. the b'autiJ!niPtiniirt for a mate to accompany hiirt through 'ihese low groiui'ls of rrow." . In: tbo multitude of 1 tSustavus Adolphus's, this particular royal twion will be "' fortunate if he isn't fiuiilly christened, lVnni. l-foro 4e concludes his flounderingH la the alluring matri monial sea. - (ItaLritra Hi Kmttr& OREGON iOINaS. Ought to Have Gone Fishing. I"aul Chattertoa of liald Mountain was in the city Tuesday. Paul Vie didn't get Ihe " bar. "-Lincoln Count v Lender. Is Onto tbe Situation. Wc hopt that either Senator Miteb.-U or Senator Fulton will 4luring tbe pr " ent session, intro.luce a bill providing for the election of United states Hca ators.by ilirect vote-not necessarily for passage, nn.lcrstand, but as evi dence of g.d faith. Lincoln County Leader. Our Unreliable Highway. Roads getting muddy. Maple Grove Correspondence, Independence ' - hater prise. whit i rviTinaonenreS. Some of the Paradis -y aaw njw we w - pCOJMC ventured hp our way afew di days ago. Wolfer Prari Correspondcnci', Aurora Borealis. 1 A Lucky Editor. The News returns thanks to-'" Graves for a preentatioa Monday fjc nig of tarve fine wild due St.- - T - -1 m '.m MM X k. '! diseases ox txxs inro-t nvpr fnr ftlmcil Q CCIi Eaarstla - A