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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1907-11-26

"0ne thing remember, dear child" |
said gravely, "and that is that love
blazes its own paths and cuts its own
channels. If it be written that you are
for me you will marry me in good
time. Love brooks no interference in
his realm
Her cheeks stormed into color as /
helped her to her feet.
do you see this Lady Washington r.
she demanded. holding the pelargoni-
UNI before me. See, l lay it in the
hollow Of this little big tree. There is
dirt In the hollow. and the pelargoni-
UNI may grow. Coming again, may
find that it has taken root So may |
become your wife. The one is as pos
sible as the other"
So Muriel went back to the east with
her schemes of philanthropy. and 1
stayed in my west to dream and then
to write, but l found that dreaming
had grown to be weary task when
the most beauteous one of them all
was forbidden one, for INhad lost
faith in my own brave avowal of loves
omnipotence.
Nearly year had gone before
visited the Big Tree grove again. l
went alone and took my solitary xyay
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1907-11-26
Tho wisdon, az nornfi

Dorothy does not relish
alone TO 90 to sleep. q
she is tucked
father and
bed after I'D
YES; I'll
dinner digestl
"All right; 4
dinner will did
as down." argi&
Judges Library.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1907-11-26

10 my uream OF Ore
storm had wrought S,
Two or three of the|
fallen, and the swil|
been twisted and br'S
upon the bank, while
ragged angrily by it.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

law was framed. So remarkable has
been the change that it beggars de-
scription, yet the people seem con
tent to endure for the sake of tradi-
tional reminiscences-for there can be
no other reason-the great inconyen-
fence incident to the old and outgrown
constitution.
The question that demands the at
tention of the present session of the
Legislature and one that should be met
is the relief of the Supreme Court.
How this is to be accomplished is a
matter that will require much thought,
but surely some way can be found to
meet this crying necessity.
The proposition to pass a joint reso-
luton submitting the question of a
constitutional amendment increasing
the number of judges from 3 to 5 is a
worthy one, but in that case there is
an element of doubt as to the ultimate
result, since the people to whom the
amendment is to be submitted have, as
past experience shows, a great anti
pathy to tinkering with the constitu-
ton and the amendment idea, however
good, might fail to receive the neces-
sary votes to carry.
Many lawyers advocate the Supreme
Court Commissioner plan. This is a
way out of the dilema and since it has
been found to work we'll in California.
deserves more than passing considera-
ton
The main argument heard against
the commissioner idea is that lawyers
generally would want to have tn
judges hear their cases, and that the
commissioners would have nothing to
do only draw their salaries, while the
judges would have to do all the work
as now.
At any rate relieve the court.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.

The time will probably come when
public ownership of street car lines
will obtain in most cities. The people
don't like to take hold of so big a pro-
ject, and fear that results would not
be satisfactory and so will not take
over the street car systems as long as
service of private corporations is at
all tolerable, but such service in some
cities, notably in Portland, is becom-
ing simply intolerable, and will not al
ways be endured. Besides, the people
are working up to the subject of more
equal taxation, and of the taxation of
franchises of public service corpora
tons somewhere in proportion to their
privileges and enormous incomes, but
it seems impossible to devise any
means to make these companies pay
a just proportion of their taxes, or
any proper percentage of their earn
ings, and if this cannot be done the
people will eventually take a short
cut to solution of the whole matter
by taking and running the railroads
themselves. Their value would be as
certained, and bonds would be issued
for the necessary amount, and the
earnings, even at reduced rates, would
provide for interest on the bonds and
a sinking fund, and also for improve
ments and extensions. What is the use,
people are asking, in giving these
immensely valuable privileges to these
corporations if we cannot get taxes
out of their enormous earnings, and
cannot have decent service for the
public?
The street car monopoly in Portland
CNluChlly dClo OA IAC hC
people be ID" It's service is
abominable, it overworks and under
pays its men and does not employ
men enough to do the work; it en-
ploys in some cases incompetent N en-
because it can get them cheap; it
doesn't supply itself with sufficient
power or enough cars; it pays no at
tention apparently to schedule time
and nobody knows when a car is COM
ing at any point; frequently one may
wait 10 or 20 minutes for a car on a
5-minute line and then the car may
rush past and not allow waiting pas
senger to get on-in brief, it is dis
regardful of the public's requirements
and Indifferent to multitudes of pro-
tests. Public ownership may be the
only remedy, as last resort.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19
THE NEW JUDGE.
At any rate relieve the


Mr.. Justice Eakin the new member
of the Supreme Court was sworn in
at Salem by Chief Justice Moore last
Monday and Immediately took his
place upon the bench.
Judge Eakin is well equipped for the
high Office to which he has been
elevated, and this honorable court
the pride of Oregonians, will continue
in the confidence and generation of
our citizens so long as men of such
profound learning, meritorious worth
and splendid patriotism constitute Ore
CONS chief judicial tribunal.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19
COOLEST IN YEARS.
Icy Grip Holds MISUNDERSTANDING
of Fuel Increases.

Portland, Jan. 15.-With the mer-
curry steadily falling all day Sunday
and Monday and promising to continue
at low point today, Portland is shiv-
ering from the effects OF the severest
cold snap in many years. Between 5
a. m. and 5 p. m. Sunday the tempera-
ture fell Z degrees virtually without a
break. When the weather bureau
closed Sunday night at the latter hour
the thermometer registered IL degrees
above zero and yesterday lowered near
that mark all day. With the fuel
shortage more acute than ever before,
the cold wave could hardly have struck
Portland at a more unfortunate time.
What is true of Portland applies to
nearly every city in the Pacific North
west, as the cold snap is general. At
Vancouver the Columbia river is frozen
over. The Willamette river is full of
running ice and may become blocked at
any time. Navigation on the Column
bia is at standstill.
Many of the lower river boats have
been taken off their runs and from pres
ent indications nothing will move for
several days.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

entitled now to an inning, and to get
a rebate on the money that they have
paid for the benefit of richer people.
Besides the water consumers, and
especially the househOlders, have been
paying for laying mains and laterals
that added hundreds of thousands if
not millions of dollars of value to
lands of persons who paid no more
for water than they did. A large per
centage of the $3.50 month that for
many years the small consumer has
paid has gone to benefit owners of
land, in many cases largely vacant
land, owned in most cases by rich or
well-to-do people, This is O. manifest
injustice, and no time ought to be
lost in correcting it. 1t is true that
the water board has reduced the rate
to 81 a month, but this is still double
what the average house ought 10 lay,
and three times what it ought to have
paid during years past. The PEOPLE
who have been benefited by the in
crease in the value of property they
own by the water system in equity
owe these consumers a lot of back
pay. 1t might not be best TO make
water for domestic use absolutely
free, but it ought to be reduced to so
cents a month. Then make the abut-
ting and adjoining property pay for
new mains and laterals, make the city
and county pay for what water they
use for all public purposes, and then
If the consumers of water for domestic
purposes only cannot get water for
about so cents month, then it is in
order for them to vote for Mr. Wag
nor's proposition to make water en-
tirely free to them. The wonder is
not that such a proposition is made
and strongly supported now, but that
the people have stood the unjust
exactions of the water board so long.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

1t develops that the negro soldier"
who gave offense to two ladies On the
streets of Ell Reno was a Pullman por-
ter, and that the Outrage" lay in the
fact of his momentarily touching one
of them with his hands to keep out of
the mud. In view of this explanation
it would appear to be unnecessary for
an excited populace to shoot up the
barracks or to take any further action
except possibly to call on the Pullman
company to disband it's Oklahoma en-
ployes without honor
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19
Inland Empire Icy.

Spokane, Jan. 15.-The whole Inland
Empire is in the grip of the most severe
cold weather known for decade. At
Pullman the mercury dropped to 18 de-
grees below zero; at Palouse, the mini
mum was IL below zero; Sand Poi at,
Idaho, reports II below; Moscow, Ida
no, witnessed 10 degrees below; North
Yakima reports degrees below, and in
Spokane the lowest mark recorded is
below. In Yakima valley equally cold
weather was experienced seven years
ago, but elsewhere the present cold
snap is the most severe in 10 years.
The unprecedented shortage of fuel
! throughout the Spokane country adds
to the inconvenience of the situation.
Coal is scarce and selling at abnormal
ly high prices. In some districts wood
is fairly plentiful, while in the Big
Bend and Central Washington sections
all fuel is reduced almost to the van
ishing point General suffering is GER
tain to ensue if the temperature does
not rise speedily.
In various sections the railroad COM
panies have notified the coal dealers
that coal cannot be delivered for an in
definite period, and it is announced
that large eonsignments of coal from
Canadian mines to the Inland Empire
points have been diverted by the Cana
dian Pacific railroad to Alberta and
Northwest Territory points where the
weather is exceedingly severe and fuel
is demanded by suffering settlers.
Throughout the Palouse the frost
has damaged deeiduous trees. In or
chards the crackle of bursting fruit
trees is compared to the report of shot
guns.
Stock has not yet suffered, but all
animals are being fed heavy rations
and speedy rise in the price of forage
is predicted. One foot of snow covers
the ground and wheat crops will not be
damaged by frost,
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19
Montana Situation Serious.

Helena, Mont, Jan. 15.-The worst
spell of winter weather experienced in
Montana for many years now prevails
Unusually heavy snow in the northern
part of the state and extremely cold
weather is stopping the operations Of
trains, endangering lives of cattle and
sheep, and even menacing human life
in remote districts. Old stockmen say
the outlook is more serious for their
herds than at any time since the mem.
orable wintre of 1888.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19
Montana Swept by Blizzard.

Butte, Mont, Jan. 49, Dispatches
from throughout the state tell Of biz
zard which appears to have generally
enveloped the state, raging with great
severity in central portions of Mon
tana. For the past 36 hours Fergus
county has been in the throes of biz
zard, the thermometer dropping as low
as 25 below. In Western Montana the
blizzard has apparently subsidized
Eastern Montana sections appear thus
far to have Jared better. On the fiat
below Butte % degrees below zero has
been reported.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19
FREE WATER.

From one point of view it does not
appear right that consumers of water
for household purposes should get it
absolutely free, and a proposition by
itself we think they should not, but
should pay its cost, in proportion to
what they consume. But there are
other considerations that should be
taken in connection. AS it is now
these consumers, in the majority of
cases comparatively poor people, and
renters, have been paying not only in
proportion to what they use but a
good deal more, and they are fairly
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

Tillman is down on the negro race
because God made it black God had
some inscrutable purpose in view, no
doubt in making Tillman a Backyard
and blatherskite.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19
EDITORIAL
TILLMAN's TRADE

Senator Tillman broke out again this
week, after studying a good while how
be could antagonize the president for
what he has said in behalf of the col
ored race and at the same time vent
his own hatred of that race. He
comedies that the president was
wrong in discharging the colored
troops at Brownsville, that it was
wrong to punish men without giving
them a chance to defend themselves
and that the president exceeded his
constitutional authority, but he in
weighs against the policy or practice of
considering or treating colored people
as citizens or persons having equal
rights with whites at ALL The mis-
chief, he says, was begun in the "rec-
ognition" of the negro people by in
viting Booker T. Washington to lunch
con, and was augmented in the presi-
dents declarations that colored men
were entitled to the same privileges
rights and treatment as white people.
This is all wrong, says Tillman. The
negroes should be treated as nothing
but lower beasts and chattels. They
are entitled to education, to opportun-
ity, to encouragement, to any privi-
leges, except such as the superior
race choose to accord them. AS soon
rs they are in anywise recognized"
as worthy of or entitled to equal
rights, they become insolent, and I'M
bearable, a menace to society, and the
result will be amalgamation of the
races and the disappearance or deter
1oration of the caucasian race. The
old question is asked: do you want
your daughter to marry a nigger?"
Tillman asks the pre- sident if he wants
his children to marry negroes. And
all this nonsense because it is pro-
posed to legally recognize negroes as
citizens entitled to equal rights and
privileges under the law with others.
This cry of socity equality and ANAL
gamation is mere rot. Because col
ored man is given the rights of a cit
izen and protected as one it does not
follow that he. expects to marry a
white society belle, nor are white peo-
pie on this account going to rush into
matrimony with colored people.
Tillman says it might have been for
seen what the troops at Brownsville
would do because colored troops had
been criminally disorderly before, but
there is no evidence that they have
been more so, if as much so, as white
troops, who are frequently in trouble
over similar acts of lawlessness, but
are never thus punished. Tillman
acknowledges that he hates a negro,
except as an obsequious, subservient,
underpaid drudge, in effect slave and
so of course he is not competent to
discuss the subject of negroes rights
and wrongs from an impartial point Of
view. Such men are doing what they
can to bring about the race war that
they predict and pretend to deprecate.
But they probably really desire and
are working to bring about race war,
with the purpose of exterminating the
negroes, or so thinning them out and
intimidating them that they will not
dare to attempt self-improvement
again.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19
SUPREME COURT RELIEF.

With each recurring session of the
legislature springs up the agitation
for some measure to give relief to
our worthy and overworked members
of the supreme court.
The state has undergone wonder
full change since the ancient organic
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

Four democratic senators showed
good sense by voting for Mr.. Haines
for president and so preventing delay
and a possible deadlock They are
entitled to the peoples commentator.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

State Printer Dun1way has given
ample proof that he means to do the
square thing, and he will not ask any
more than is reasonably coming to
him.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

Evidently Mr.. Mulkey will be elected
senator for the short term and Mr..
Bourne for the full term next Tues
day.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

Senator Foraker still insists that the
alleged negro criminals were never
given an opportunity to defend them
selves.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

1t would take 40 years instead of
days to study and digest all the bills
that will be introduced.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

There are two sides-or more-to
the railroad commission law, AS pro-
posed by the Portland Chamber of
Commerce.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

The legislature need not think much
Mr.. U'Ren is at Salem.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

The change from Secretary of State
Dunbar to Benson will be agreeable.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

Voting for Bourne will he a bitter
pill for many to swallow, but they
think they have to do it.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

Can't the people be entrusted to
elect railroad commissioners?
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

Mr.. Davey will make a model
speaker
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

The New Age congratulates Speaker
Davey.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

President Haines is the right man
in the right place.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

Perhaps the governor is figuring OF
beating Fulton in 1908.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

OF course the governor wants the
appointment of all the commissions.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

1t is on the whole capable and hon
est legislature.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

Next Tuesday it will be Senator Null
key-but only for little while.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

The governors message was nearly
as long as one of Roosevelt's ANIMALS.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

The legislature can always rely on
Attorney General Crawford's opinions.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

The legislature made good start.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

President Haines will be all right.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1907-03-22
DEATH OF THE 5sTH CONGRESS.
An interesting Letter From Our
Washington Correspondent The
Big Stick Greatly Feared by
Republican Members.
Special cor. Ocala Banner:

Special cor. Ocala Banner:
Washington, d. c.. March Isl
witnessed the death of FIVE congresses
and the death of the fifty-ninth con-
gress was very little different from
those that have preceded il.
II was marked in the early days of
its last session with the same laZi-
ness and disinclination TO work as all
the others and the same rush and mad
scramble 10 push things through. in
the closing hours. And nothing. as has
marked previous congresses of the
republican variety. so much became
the last congress as its death.
AS = friend of mine wrote me not
long ago: Please sent me all the
eulOgies pronounced on dead members
Of congress that you can. There is
nothing | like SO much to read about
as dead congressman" And there is
nothing so interesting 10 the people
and especially to their pochetbooks,
If they did but know it. as a dead re-
publican congress.
The ffty-ninth congress. more than
any other in history, perhaps, passed
more legislation that smacks of pat
ernalism and centralized government,
the trend of the times, made so by
the masterful politicians in the White
House. The president completely
dominated both branches of the con-
gresS and Swayed the members TO his
will in nearly everything he asked
with the exception of a few. and those
he will jam through next winter or
smash the heads of some OF the lead
ers with that big stick. They seem
should be [ do not understand. be-
cause in every instance where the
leaders have taken a determined
stand and told him it would wreck the
party for him to insist on the things
they were Directing 10 he always side
stepped and backed down. just as he
did in the railway rate legislation in
the first session of the last congress
when he sold out to Aldrich and the
railroad magnates let him have their
way and emasculate the bill in their
interest and against those of the peO-
pie.
And yet the people believed the re-
publican stump speakers in the last
campaign when they asserted that
the republican party was responsible
for the greatest piece of Legislation
in history and that Roosevelt was its
father This assertion is idiOtic rot
and yet the people go right on be-
lieving il arA believing the man in
the White He.
The man in the White House is not
a statesman, he is a politician. In
the language of the Hon. John Sharpe
Williams. "he is an Overrated author
and an moderated politician" That
sizes him up exactly and the people Of
this country will sooner or later find
il out. no matter what they believe
at this time. {. y. +.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1907-03-22
Turning Over a New Leaf at 100.

William Ray. who lives al Mechan-
issville. Conn, was one hundred years
Old today. For fOTty-eignt years Ray
was a paper hanger. But he never
earned much money, and after three
quarters of d century, he grew weary
OF the swish, swish" of the paint
brush and scissors snip. snip" 50
he decided to begin life anew, and
in hope OF getting rich quick. he turn
ed to selling liquor without license.
The police battered down the door
OF the old Sentleman's modest little
home Yesterday and found forty men
sitting az small tables or leaning
against a rickety bar. Bottles We're
scattered on the tables. Ray had i27
hard earned dollars in a tin box.
Il am entertaining a few friends.
Ray explained to the police. but,
rudely. they arrested him.
My eyesight is getting little bad.
Ray told the prosecutor Of excise viO-
lations. Il thought | was selling root
beer. not whiskey." Which proves that
age has not withered Rays infinite
variety. But, finally, in d cell, The
centenarian broke down.
Il didn't know they made an Old
man like me take ont license" he
walled. Why. can almost remem-
Der George Washington. and that
ought 10 count for something. -