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February , 117.
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FAILED TO CONSOLIDATE
WOULD TAX THE GOVERNMENT
As is the long established custom the average citizen
is speaking slightingly of the work of the last legislature.
Undoubtedly there was plenty of trifling legislation, there
always is ; but it remains to be seen what really beneficial
work was done, and it is too soon to make any just com
ment as to that. None of us yet know just what has been
done, but as this becomes evident we may find at least
something to commend. It was announced withv some
blare of trumpets that consolidation was to be one of the
big achievements of the session: and it was expected, by
some, that instead of some thirty boards and commissions
there would be abolishing, merging, consolidating and
straight firing that would leave but two or three. Such
was not to be. It remains to be discovered yet whether
there are fewer or more than before the session began.
There were some changes, but a rose, or a board or com
mission would smell as sweet by some other name, and tha
roses surely do. It was found there was no need of con
solidation for the committee had it abundantly demon
strated that without boards and commissions the state
would go straight across lots to everlasting perdition.
Dimick took up the task, smiling like a Vancouver bride
with a new hat, but at the end of the third day his face
was so long he could have eaten his breakfast food out
of an old fashioned churn. So far as the session was con
cerned, he never smiled again, not until the last night, and
not then until the last bill was passed and he had con
solidated his feelings. Then he laughed. He did not
know just what he and the others had done; but he real'
Ized that what he had not done in the way of successful
consolidation would make a large sized volume. It is so
with the general public for it too smiled and was exceed
ing glad when the end came. It was not what had been
done, but like Dimick it realized that nothing more could
be done. However, if any bad bills were passed it can be
safely asserted the public will hear of them, before long.
A CRIME AGAINST THE RACE
The Oregonian contends that the Bean bill is in the
interest of the people of Oregon, especially the hard
'pressed taxpayer. It says among other things: "If the
'act is upheld," that is the act of congress in taking over
j the lands of the Calitoi nia-Oregon grant, "the Bean bill
i will raise the question as to whether the government by
purchase of private lands for other than administrative
or military needs may extinguish it from the tax rolls.
I Nothing is added to the railroad's case now pending.
Nothing is subtracted from it. The Bean bill only as
! serts the fundamental right to tax land held for sale, re
i gardless of the identity of the owner." If this reasoning
is sound why can not the state tax the other government
'lands within its borders? They are held for sale or set
j tlement under conditions which make that settlement a
virtual sale, for the settler agrees to make the land
i productive by the act of taking advantage of the home
stead laws to acquire them, and he generally carries out
this implied contract. In that case the government is
; holding the lands for sale just as a private person would
1 do. If the government cannot take over, or purchase
lands except for administrative or military purposes, how
I did it acquire what is known as the Louisiana purchase?
Suppose a homesteader locates on 160 acres of govern-
: ment land, holds it for a few years, but does not comply
; with the government's requirements and so the land is
1 forfeited, would the government have to pay taxes on
that tract of land? It would seem that it would, if it
would be bound to pay taxes on a larger tract taken back
under similar conditions and circumstances.
This is the package
that holds
ffa& cigarettes
If the prices quoted in yesterday's dispatches are cor
rect, and it is supposed they are, there is abundant ex
cuse for the riots in New York, and the thousands of
women taking part in them were justified in doing so.
Potatoes were priced at ten cents, cabbage at fifteen and
onions at eighteen cents. These prices are far higher
than in Germany, and there is no excuse for them and no
reason either other than the rapaciousness of the dealers.
The paper trust came to time quickly when the federal
government got after it and the various food trusts will
do the same if a vigorous prosecution is started against
them. There is excuse for high prices in Germany and
the countries engaged in war in Europe, the cause being
scarcity, but in this country there is no scarcity. Crops
were short in some, in fact most lines, but there is enough
for all and then some. When it is realized that un
scrupulous dealers dump carloads of foodstuffs into the
lake at Chicago, and destroy it in the same way in most
of the larger cities, no one will blame the women whose
babies are pinched by hunger, with rising up against
their despoilers. Americans are the greatest wasters in
the world, destroying at least one-fourth as much food
materials as they use. In spite of this there has always
been plenty for all, though even when cheap, difficult to
get by the very poorest. But when on top of this national
shil'tlessness is piled wilfull destruction of food while the
poor go hungry, anarchy begins knocking at the nation's
door. It might be a good plan for the general government
to pattern after Oregon and adopt a sterilization law,
making it apply to those who willfully destroyed foodstuffs.
If the fight developed in the legislature is any criter
ion, there is going to be a redhot scrap over the bonding
bill. Senator Pierce asserted he was going home to begin
a campaign against its passage and that he would have
plenty of help. He also asserted the granges, farmers,
and union labor were all against it. Whether he had his
ear to the ground and already heard the rumbling, he
alone knows, but without passing on its merits it can
safely be said that the proposition is one to catch many
who generally can be depended on to vote against bond
issues.
The state house yesterday looked like "the morning
after," all right. There was wreck and litter everywhere.
Papers, bills at last indefinitely postponed, scattered
books and baskets slopping over with discarded matter
made it look like the early morning after a democratic
national convention in a city that had never heard of the
bone dry law. Like the legislators who recently occu
pied it, it will not attract attention for a couple of years.
THE HARDEST JOB
What is the hardest job, you ask the most
excruciating task? Go, ask the sad and
heartsick jay who loses on election day.
You know how bitterly he fought to get
the public snap he sought. For weary
weeks he drilled around, wherever voters
could be found, and handed hot air to the
rubes, and flattered all the hicks and boobs.
He spent much coin he could not spare for
punk cigars and railway fare, and all the
divers odds and ends that statesmen think
will gain them friends. He made a long
and hard campaign; he toiled around in mud and rain,
and talked his tonsils out of whack, and got lumbago in
his back. And when election day was done, he found the
other fellow won. No doubt when he was .all alone, he
filled the air with sob and groan, and cussed the voters, in
despair, as being chumps beyond compare. But on the
street he wore a grin, as though he'd really hate to win.
To try and hide one's grouch and bile, behind a large
three-cornered smile, to spring a laugh when one would
sob that surely is the hardest job !
" &at do (or smokery
what no oilier cigarette has
ever clone for them before
they satisfy
and yet they're MILD
CIGARETTES
SYMPTOMS OF
HER DISEASE ARE
Rurlrnrrt SUaaaIm Nsnrmu.
ness, Dizziness, Faintness, Berlin Claims Many Vessels
irSntfr H in
cine was Taken. Mediterranean
"Tha Chesterfield Blend
f amoiM TurWUh toUeMa
-SAMSOUN I for richn.; CA VALLA for
rom; SMYRNA for sw.etuu; X A NT HI
" rrrnc, combined with th. beet
and yet they're MILD
20 for 10c
nor is there any immc in Lloyd's regis
ter which might bi mistaken for them,
Turkey Stands Pat.
Washington, Feb. 21. The Turkish
government has reaffirmed its pledge
of alliance with Oermany and Austria
Hungary in a successful prosecution , of
the war, Ambassador Klkus cabled the
state department from Constantinople
it was announced today.
While the Ottoman chamber of depu
ties expresses the greatest desire to
''strengthen our good relations in
neutral countries," the foreign policy
will consist in remaining entirely faith
ful to our treaties with our allies,' '
the Klkus cable stated.
This action was taken by the Cham
ber of IVputies when the grand vizier
appeared before that body and asked
for a vote of confidence in the new
cabinet. The request was unanimously
granted.
The slate department in making pub
Ik Ambassador Elkus' message, had no
comment to offer.
Considering Note.
Berlin, via Sayville wireless, Feb. 21.
"The United States note is actually
under careful examination and will be
answered later, ' ' declared the official j
press agency today, regarding the !
memorandum presented to the Vienna'
foreign office by American Ambassador
Penfield, on the submarine questiono.
sH-ttrrnrt and Munish, on or
ders from German army headquarters,
according to German newspapers
ceived here today. The reasons were
sot stated.
One Ship Sunk.
London, Feb. 21. The British steam
er Brigade has been sunk.
The Brigade was a steel screw steam
er of 425 tons, registered at Glasgow
auu ibti property of the Mason Whip
ping company.
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Remove Art Treasures.
The Hague, Feb. 21. Many art
treasures in Alsace and Lorraine have
suddenly been removvd to the German
Why the Journal is popular
It prints the world's news to
day while it's news. ,
SUBMARINE RESULTS ISIUV HI KRAND ANT) 1 WM
iiMntDtcriMATcn HI1!11 HU,,"H
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.SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
Kingfisher, Okla. "For two years I
suffered with a severe female trouble,
was nervous, and
had backache and a
pain in my tide
most of the time.
1 had dizzy spells
and was often so
faint 1 could not
walk across the
floor. The doctor
said I would have to
have an operation.
A friend asked ma
to try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vege
table Comnnund.
After taking ten bottles I am now well
and strong, have no more pain, backache
Of ditxy spells. Everyone tells me
how well I look and I tell them Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, did
it" -Miss Nina SouTHWii-K, R. F. D.
No. 4. Box S3, Kingfisher, Okla.
Every woman who sutlers from female
troubles, nervousness, backache or the
blues should try Lydia E. Pinkham's
egetable Compound as Mrs. South
wick did. or if thav nee.1 fr utoU.
in ragard to any annoying symptom
wrue r.o Lyuia a. t'mKham
Co. (jonfidsntial). Lynn, Mass.
Medicine
Berlin, vis S yville wireless, Feb. 21.
- Sinking in the Mediterranean of "a
crowded Italian transport steamer."
two armed steamers of 3,000 and 4.i00
tons, the Italian steamer Oceana, 4,200
tons, the French steamer Moventaux,
3200 tons and the French sailing ship
Aphrodite, six hundred tons, wus an
nounced in an official press bureau
statement today.
The statement also added:
''Papers observe that real submarine
successes are undoubtedly much larger,
since a majority of the submarines
hsve not yet reported, besides the
paralysis of neutral navigation must be
taken into consideration. "
According to the press bureau, the
two armed steamers were loaded "with
an important cargo for Salonika" and
the French sniliug ship with iron for
Italy.
l.looyd's does not list an Italian
steamship named Oceana, but there is
a steamship Oceania of 4217 tons,
owned by L. Pittalugia. of Genoa,
which may be the one specified in the
Berlin statement.
Neither of the other ships is listed,
CHAPTER (1.111.
As the doctor predicted mother was
very ill. She would lay for hours with
out speaking unless spoken to. then
would smile her answer and drift off
into another long silence. As I sat and
watched her 1 often wondered of what
she was thinking, then one day I asked
her:
"Of your father, dear." she replied
"1 think often of him while lying he.re.
He seems very near."
I could not answer for the sobs iu
my throat but she evidently expected
none, and after a bit went on:
"I have missed him very much, Mil
dred. We were very happy together. I
prav that vou mnv be as happy with
Clifford."
Again I did not reply, but left her
and going into my own room 1 flung
myself ou the bod and cried out my
sorrow and disappointment. There was
but one consoliug thought. Mother did
not know.
Mandy had been right when she
said she was able to nurse mother. In
spite uf her broken arm, which was far
from healed, she waited on her with a
deftness that was remarkable. Mandy
was what Br. Howard called "a born
nurse. ' '
"You can't get them out of training
schools or anywhere else; if nursing
isn't horn in them they are no good!"
he had declared. "I'd rather have
Mandy with her broken arm than any-
A VERY ABLE AID
one else with two good arms. And I
reckon she wouldn't let 'em in any
how!" he ended w ith a laugh
Mrs. Sutton Talks to Mildred.
Elsie had taken Edith for a walk,
Mandy was down to the doctor's ottice
and mother ami I were alone.
"Mildred," mother broke the silence,
"I'm glad to have a chance to talk to
you while we are alone. Tell me child
is all well with you and Clifford?"
then without waiting for aij answer she
went on, " When you were first married,
when Edith was born father and I wor
ried considerably about you. Father es
pecially. You were his favorite child
you know. I told him, and I comforted
him. that as you grew older everything
would work out oil right, that you
would learn to understand each other,
and be happv. It has been so hasn't it
dear child?"
"Yes, mother."
For the first time in my life I de
liberately lied to my mother, and with
out a single qualm of conscience. Why
should she be made unhappy by know
ing the truth. I tried to pat the thought
from me but I we all, knew that she
wouldn 't be with us much longer. Why
should her last days be shadowed by my
sorrows; by learning of my unhappi
ness? "I knew it child," she replied, a hap
py smile parting her lips, "Clifford is
much older than you, but he is kind, and
generous, handsome and distinguished
looking. Most any girl would be proud
of him," and she smiled with a bit of
her old humor.
"I am proud," I answered, "of his
looks," I added in my thoughts.
Elsie's Future Discussed.
"Now that I am satisfied about you,
I waut to talk of Elsie before she re
turns. When 1 am gone, Mildred, I want
Elsie to have a home with you until
she marries which I think won't be
long or for some time at least, I am
very much opposed to a young married
couple having anyone with them until
they have had time to become adjusted,
so I prefer she should go with you in
stead of staying with Zona, especially at
first,"
"But, mother! You" .
"It won't be quite jet, dear, but I
want to talk to you while I can. Don't
cry, Mildred, it is all for the beet. Don't
you think father has been alone long
enough?" she asked whimsically. Then,
"I think Morton Levering cares for
Elsie. If he should want to marry her
it has my approval. He is older, but not
enough to make very much difference;
then Elsie is more mature than either of
you. As to everything else that has
been attended to long ago. It was easv.
I had ouly to divide everything by
three."
Elsie and Edith came in just then and
we talked no more- But mother had
given me a great deal to think about.
(Tomorrow A Wild Bide.)