* * * * * As an evidence of the wide extent of the reform sentiment among Oregon voters of today, one has but to notice how anxiously eager the would-be candidates for Congress are to get into the reform band-wagon. At least two of the Republican aspirants are old-time ring politicians and probably care but little for most of the reforms demanded by the people further than to ride into office on the reform wave. But reform is in the air, gentlemen, and if you keep in the swim you will have to join the throng, and be honest about it, too.—_Scio (Oregon) Santian News._ * * * * * H. H. Rogers of the Standard Oil Company the concrete expression of the rank insolence of a hundred millions of ill-gotten wealth.—_Rush Springs (I. T.) Landmark._ * * * * * All cities which have adopted municipal ownership of their lighting plant are glad they did it, and would not think of going back to private ownership. Why should Grand Island be a back number in the progress of the world?—_Grand Island (Neb.) Democrat_. _His Grudge_ BY TOM P. MORGAN “The Ladies’ Aid Society of the church have undertaken the task of collecting half a mile of pennies,” said the Old Codger’s niece, “for the purpose of sending our pastor on a vacation trip.” “Humph!” answered the veteran, with all the suavity of a hyena. “A row of cents half a mile long,” persisted the lady, “will amount, so Sister Eunice Tubman has figured out, to $420.00, and—” “I don’t care what they amount to!” doggedly declared the venerable curmudgeon. “While I’ve got any sense nobody will get any cents out o’ me for any such purpose! I don’t care a contaminated drat whether ‘our pastor’ stays at home or goes to the Whangdoodle Islands—whatever he does won’t be at my expense, lemme just rise to remark!” “But, Uncle, you know the laborer is worthy of his hire, and—” “Yuss! And the less they labor the higher they want their hire to be! Labor!—_huh!_ If more preachers would—aw, well, I won’t give an inch of that ’ere half mile of cents, and that settles it!” “Why, Uncle, how _can_ you talk so? You are generally ready to give to good causes, and—” “Ah-yah! But _his name is Bertram_!” “To be sure, it is! And he is in every way such a worthy young man, and so intellectual, too! What possible grudge can you have against him?”