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THE MORNING OKEGOXIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1900. Entered at ths Postofflca at Portland. Or. as Second-Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. ty IN VARIABLY IN ADVANCE. "CI (By Mall or Express.) TIATT.V BITSDAT INCLUDED. Twelve months ; 5'S Blx months Three months 2 " One montn Delivered by carrier, per year . Delivered by carrier, per month...... -73 Less time, per week "n Sunday, one year ? ?, Weekly, one year (Issued Thursday)... 150 Sunday and Weekly, one year 8.0O HOW TO REMIT Send postofftce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are. at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. Th s. f iwkwllh Sneclal Aarncy New Tork, rooms 43-50, Tribune building. Chl- - cao. rooms B1U-S12 Tribune building. KEPT ON BALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex, Fostofflce Kewfl Co.. 17h Dearborn street. St. Paul. Mian. N. St. Marie. Commercial Station. IX-nver Hamilton & Kendrlck, H08-B12 Seventeenth street; Pratt Book btore. 1-1 i'lfrecnth street; I. Welnsteln. (oldfield. Nov. Frank Sandstrom. Kansas City. Mo. Klcksecker Cigar Co., Minneapolis M. J. Kavanaugh, DO 6 on to. Third. C leveland, O. James Push aw. 807 Superior Street. New Tork CHy U Jones St Co., Aator House. Oakland. Cal. W. H. Johnston. Four teenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley. Ogden D. L. Boyle. Omaha Barkalow Bros., 1612 Farnam: Mafceath Stationery Co.. i308 Farnam; 246 6omh Fourteenth. Sacramento, Cal. Sacramento News Co., 43 K street. ', . Salt LaJ.e Salt Lake News Co., 77 West Bocond street South Mlas I Levin. 24 Church street. I -on Angeles B. E. Amos, manager seven atreet wagons; Berl News Co, 82a Vi South roadway. ean Diego B. E. Amos. Pasadena, Cal. Berl News Co. Han ianciro Foster A Orear, Ferry ivs Stand: Hotel St. Francis News Stand. Washington, D. C. Ebbitt House, Penn sylvania avenue. PORTtAXD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 180. THE SOCIALISTIC TENDENCY. The nearest object of socialistic ef fort is municipal ownership of public utilities, which In large centers of pop ulation are necessaries such as street car, electric, gas and telephone service. The monopolization of these utilities by private Individuals has wrought the public to high pitch of Indignation In many cities, on account of the grafts practiced -under It. And every Summer, when Ice becomes one of life's neces saries in crowded cities and Its supply Is also a necessary public utility. Its private monopolization, like that of street-cars, lights and telephones, be comes an object of attack. It is easy to see that if the socialistic plan shall ever attain the goal its ad vocates aim at, it must first prove It self fit with public utilities of cities. This it Is doing with conspicuous suc cess in Glasgow, but whether It will soon succeed In American cities on a large scale remains to be proved. If the plan shall not win' its promised good results in these directions. It can not be expected to revolutionize the present social regime. That socialistic theory is working a great change in the American mind, toward municipalization of public utili ties in cities, all observers admit. That practical tests of the theory are Inevi table in the great cities ie evident. And that a test may be made in Portland, as to street-car service, at the expira tion of the existing blanket franchises, more than twenty-six years hence, is altogether probable, If the present trend of the public mind should continue. The tendency of the times is strongly In the direction of public ownership. A census bulletin just issued shows a steady growth In municipal trading In the United States, though with ua It te still far from the dimensions it has at tained in Great Britain. Seattle Is about to submit to the referendum a proposal to trutld a municipal system of street railways. New Tork advances uninterruptedly toward public owner ship of utilities, though thus far the metropolis has not ventured upon mu nicipal management. Chicago Is strug gling in the same direction. The growth or the demand for mu nicipal ownership of monopolistic utili ties In Portland Is probably fully as rapid as in other cities. The blanket franchises which cover the street rail way system have still a long time to run, about twenty-six years. The city may then -acquire the property If It de Fires, though not on' favorable terms. Contrary to the equity of the case, the city must pay a price for the tracks and rolling stock to be fixed by arbltra tion. It would be more Just for all this to revert without payment as part of the fee for the franchise. Still, the po sition of the city will not be without Its advantages when the franchises ex pire, for they both terminate practically at the same time. - Hence, If it should be decided to acquire the property, there would be an opportunity to establish a uniform and harmonious system of operation. Whether the sentiment In favor of municipal ownership -will con tinue to Increase during the next quarter-century te, of course, a question which time alone can answer, but all the signs are that it will. The public shows a disposition to take control of everything that affects its Interests, from the election of United States Senators to the supply of ice. It seems' to be the nature of de mocracy to propagate itself throughout every de-part men tof life, and there Is nothing in sight to stay or modify this Inherent tendency. The movement of the American people toward publio ownership of monopolies Is almost gla cial in its deliberateness. But Its plan Is theoretical and speculative; limitations and checks and lmposslbllites undoubted- win arise in Its progress, so that the preSent Utopian scheme may never be realized. Just now, however, the test is the municipalization of public utilities In cities, and there seems to be no check to this drift. PREYING ON THE PEOPLE'S EARNINGS. Banker Stensland, wrecker of the ruined Chicago bank, the man who made away with the saved mites of 22, 000 poor depositors, is one type of graft ers who are making themselves rich off the small earnings of the humble all over the land, stealing franchises, ab sorbing dead men's estates, robbing life insurance policy-holders and consumers of Ice and gas, grafting from the pub lic for the use of coal and oil and meat supplies, gobbling up the people's bank uunareas 01 otner ways, not through superiority of..lntenigence, as they are wont to believe, but of cunning all the while assuming airs of higher virtue tnd looking down on the small faults snd- vices of the reprobate pool-.1 To tho task of checking this graft In stinct of the ruthless holders of the people's trust the Nation has set itself. Portland has Joined the anfl-graft pro fession, by demanding lower prices for pas, examining into the processes wherein several local wealthy families made millions of dollars out of the sale of car franchises, and by setting up safeguards against the future manipuy lations of predatory sharpers. All of Oregon Is Joining the proces sion, to demand enactment of a bank law which shall safeguard the toilsome earnings of Its citizens. One of the most solemn and sacred trusts is the care of the people's money. A life ex pended in gathering a competence for old age Is worth little or nothing when that competence is taken away. You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life. When you do take the means whereby I live. The people of Oregon have felt the pang that thieving bankers give de positors, by robbing them of their store. Most of the victims have been able to get along in spite of the loss, largely on account of the fertility of Oregon's resources for making money. But some have not and have gone broken to their graves. The living victims can see the picture of distress in Chicago, from the following press description: The bank, which was largely patronised by foreigners of moderate means and- work ing people, had 22.000 depositors, mainly with smart accounts representor the savings of years of toll, and1 the excitement among them la intense. All of the day and tonight they have besieged the closed bank, hoping for a word of cheer. One man, who was the treas urer of a society and had deposited the funds of the society in the bank, dropped dead when ha heard of the failure. Another de positor, believing that his savings of years had been swallowed up, committed suicide. Illinois has a law to protect bank de positors, but It was not enforced. Ore gon has no law to enforce, and here banking rogues can ply their trade without hindrance. Their work is not frequent; but the distress In their wake lasts for years. COjrCERNTNG BOYS. Hard must be the heart which fails to sympathize with the father of the youthful murderer, Reeves. How much blame should Justly mingle with our sympathy la a question which no hu man tribunal Is entirely competent to decide. The father of a motherless boy Is in a position of extreme difficulty at best, and when the eon Is predis posed to vicious ways the case Is al most hopeless. Nor should it be forgot ten that a wifeless man who has to earn his living by daily labor cannot give proper attention to his family at all tunes; during the entire day the youth Is almost of necessity left to his own devices. According to the father Reeves' ac count, he was not neglectful of his parental duties. He seems to have atr tended to his son's habits and reading In something better than a merely cas ual way, and now, In the dire calamity which has befallen, he may fairly claim to be free from serious responsi bility according to the standards which are commonly accepted. The trouble Is that those standards are wrong. The modern parent has ab dicated his authority and is content to be the counsellor of his children. Often he Is less still, and by bis flaccid con nivance at idleness, waywardness and vice becomes an actual accomplice In their ruin. The foolish father who re marked, pointing to a squalling infant in its crib, "There Is the master of this house," was typical of his generation. The baby is master and remains mas ter through boyhood and youth. The comfort, even the health, of parents are needlessly sacrificed to the, whims of children, and the consequence of It all Is not the uprearing of a better gen eration, but of one which In morals and. manners shows too many signs of degeneracy. Kindness and forbearance are essen tial to the healthy nurture of a child. but authority Is also necessary; and If the parent cannot be both kind and firm It will be better for the child If he errs on the side of severity. The ad monitions of a stern parent sometimes lead to a reaction against restraint. This Is admitted. But In the majority of cases there is no such reaction, and, even when it occurs, the power of early habits presently reasserts itself and the youth returns most often to the ways of virtue. On the other hand, the flac cid discipline of the modern home falls to establish habits of rectitude in the young. It Inculcates nothing but the habit of yielding to Impulse. It makes the youth a creature of whim, a peevish and feeble victim to every external In fluence, selfish and unprincipled. Between the youth who has been reared under unbending authority and the one who has never felt the whip and rein, the chances in life are all in favor of the former. The theory that a child's life must be all roses Is dan gerous. Duty Is a difficult path to fol low, and unless the feet are trained to It in youth they will shirk It in later years. Right conduct Is a habit, and, like all habits. It must be learned young or It will never be learned at all. With the parent, whose -way of life is such that he cannot rear his offspring in sound submission to authority and cor rect habits of conduct one must sym pathize, but the sympathy is neces sarily tinged with regret that be ever became a parent. POOR PRUNE MARKET. The frugal housewife, who is obliged to buy closely on all supplies, no doubt will read with pleasure that the Oregon prune crop for 1906 is selling on the 19i-cents-per-pound "base." Accus tomed as she has been to paying from 10 cents to 15 cents per pound for the fruit, the 1 cents per pound certainly has the appearance of being cheap. The prunegrower who has waited- years for his orchard to reach the bearing age and has invested heavily in dryers, spraying topis and other necessary equipment for carrying on the work, also thinks that prices are cheap. Tho grower Is right, tout the house wife is only partly bo. The "base," which is always mentioned in the sell ing price of prunes, is the smaller size of prunes, which sell at the minimum figure. On a 1-cent base large prunes would sell as high as 8 and 3 cents per pound. Even at this figure, how ever, does not account for all of the difference between the price paid the grower and that which the consumer pays. Oregon prunes, "30s to 40s," are quo ted at wholesale in the New York mar ket at 7 cents per pound, and they reach the consumer at from 10 cents to 15 cents per pound. The prune business has become one of the big Industries in this state, as well as In Washington, and the output has reached large pro portions and Is still Increasing. With such a large increase in the output, there must be, of course,-a similar In crease In demand, or congestion and depression follow. Buyers who are quoting. 1-cent base profess to believe that the 1906 crop Is eo far in excess of the demand that nothing but a low fig ure will enable them to move it- Their logic is sound, but it might be advisa ble for some one besides the grower to "cut" something. Perhaps if Oregon prunes could be placed on the Eastern markets at a price in keeping with that paid the growers, there would be a large increase in the consumption, which would be of mutual Interest to the growers, the transportation com pany, the consumer, and about every one except the middlemen, who Just at present do not account for all of the difference between the wholesale price in New York and the maximum price paid the growers. AN AGE OF TRAVEL, There la a popular belief in this coun try that Americans spend more money In travel than any other people in the world. This belief, it seems, Is based on nothing more substantial or reliable than National boastfulness and 111-na tured criticism. Carefully compiled data show that some 250,000 travelers leave the United States In a year for Europe, while 1,200,000 English people go annually to the Continent. Further more, despite the popular idea that the Frerrch are a homekeeping people, the traffic tables show that Paris and Its suburbs send 10,000,000 or 12,000,000 vis itors annually to Germany, Belgium and other Continental states. From all of this it is plain that the people of the United States are not alone in having acquired the "go habit. restlessness is not a condition that Is confined to . the New World, though we are accustomed to consider It a distinct characteristic of Ameri cans. The habit, if guided by prudence in keeping within the means of the in dividual and pursued with the definite purpose of adding to one's legitimate stock of knowledge of men, places and things, is in every way commendable. The man who Never looked beyond his native Tale; Who thought-the visual lias that girt him round The world's extreme; and thought the silver moon No wider than his father's shield. Lived where his lather lived died where he died according to the estimate of the gloom iest of ecclesiastical -poete Lived) happy and died happy and was saved. Such a man might have been a model citizen- for his time and place, but the present day and age will account him as scarcely worth "saving." If contentment and stupidity are to be made synonymous terms, let us, 'by all means, encourage discontent; if restlessness Is synonymous with a de sire to see the world and learn what is In It, let restlessness be hailed as the moving force of progress. Let the schoolteacher be encouraged In the de sire to go abroad, as soon as she can save money to pay the expense of the trip; encourage the schoolboy to look forward to the time when (having, of course, first taken in the wonders of Yellowstone Park and the beauties of the Pacific Slope) he will go abroad to Japan, to China, to" the islands of the sea where education in visible forms awaits him. And the Idle rich the many who travel simply because they have money to spend and do not know what else to do with it let them go abroad uncrltl- cised, because of the money that they leave in foreign parts. They may not learn, in "traveling, the best lessons of travel patience, kindness, gentility, but they will be stupid indeed If they do not find early In the indulgence of the desire to" travel the lesson of their own Insignificance. Travel is the most harmless of their pastimes, though they do thereby sometimes reflect . discredit upon the American name. . Let us not make the mistake of be wailing as wasted the money spent by Americans year after year in European travel, but be assured that returns from the investment have a definite value in our National life. . "WAPATOKS." For the past two years the "high water" which Is expected In the Co lumbia In May or June has not ap peared. The Spring rains and melting snows at the headwaters of the great river and its tributaries usually pro duce a freshet which submerges the low banks and the greater part of the islands scattered along the channel; but last Spring and the year before there was-only a slight rise In the river. Local prophets have hastily Inferred from this variation In the routine of Nature that the climate of the Pacific Coast Is changing and that in the fu ture we shall see no more high water. Like most oracular opinions about cli mate, this conclusion is reached by for getting some facts and ignoring others. The failure of the annual freshet to ap pear for a year or two gives much bet ter reason to expect an extraordinary flood next Spring than to hope that we shall escape altogether. For several seasons before the great rise of 1894, which wrought so much destruction along the Columbia, there had been no high water, and farmers, cherishing the delusive hope that it would never again appear, began to plant the bottom as if It were upland. Many were ruined in consequence, and a large number of rich farms fell into the hands of mort gage companies. . The June rise in the Columbia la a phenomenon which will never cease to recur, though in . exceptional years it may be scarcely noticeable. The anal ogy of the Ohio, the Mississippi, the Po, the Yellow River in .China, and numer ous other great drainage canals of the world, leads to the conclusion that an Increase In the height and destruc tlveness of these floods Is far more likely than a permanent decrease. As the timber is removed from the moun tains ithe snow will melt more rapidly in Spring and the rains will rush more precipitately from the watersheds, with every likelihood of greater destruction from floods. , ' With this prospect ahead It is a com fort to remember that the high water is not an unmlngled evil. It does good as well as harm. Among the benefits which must be set down to its credit Is the annual deposit of a very thin layer of slit on the flood lands, which fertil izes the soil and very gradually raises the level of the surface. Whether the average deposit on the land will keep pace with the expected increase In the height of the freshet Is a question which time must solve; but it Is quite certain that Sauvies' Island and other tracts Which have hitherto been sub ject to the annual flooding are so stilL To believe otherwise is dangerous folly. The failure of the annual rise, to gether with the unusually slight rain fall of the last two or three Summers, has caused some of the lakes on Sau vies' Island and in the bottoms along the Columbia to go dry or to fall very low. --The absence of the , usual' over flow has also prevented the invasion of the carp, which is bo destructive to the wapatoes. Consequently, in those lakes which retain water enough for it, the wapato has again begun to flourish in something like Its original abun dance. In the time of Lewis and Clark the wapato was the principal vegetable food of the Indians from the Sandy (or QuicksandO River to the mouth of the Columbia. It was cooked by boiling, and when thoroughly done was palata ble and nutritious. The dusky queens of aboriginal society gathered the tu bers from the lake beds at all seasons of the year. Whether the braves shunned the work from their natural dislike , to bathing or because they thought it beneath their dignity is not recorded, but It was left entirely to the gentler sex. The art of retrieving the tubers from the sub-aqueous mud was simple, if not beautiful. Each squaw sallied from the 6hore,. suitably clad, conveying herself in a small canoe from which she descended when a good patch was found, and, standing in the water up to her waist if It happened to be deep enough, fished up the wapatoes with her fairy toes. Lewis and Clark saw our primitive society leaders thus interestingly occupied In the middle of Winter, which proves that the sex may be ornamental without ceasing to be useful. The wapato was an article of com merce among the Indians. The "Ne matlnomaos,' who dwelt around the lower waters of the "Walamut," sold of their abundance both to the tribes farther back in the country and to those at the mouth of the Columbia. But in our time the wapato is chiefly Interesting as the chosen food of the wild duck. Its multiplication in the lakes where it flourished In former days will be hailed with rejoicing by the hunters, for it means abundance of game. It means also a less exiguous pocketbook, for during the past few years he who would shoot ducks must first cast his wheat upon the waters with no sparing hand. But farmers need not fear a permanent lessening in the demand for the chief of the cereals through the increase of wapatoes, for the reign of that historic tuber will be brief. The next high water will let In the carp and desolation will again fol low his devouring Jaws. Prohibition Is once more a live polit ical question In Maine, indeed almost the exclusive Issue In the present cam palgn, and the Republican party in that state is committed to It. Still, no small number of Republicans have de clared that they will support the Dem ocratic platform on the question. Among these . Is the Rev. Herbert A. Jump, of the First Congregatlonalist Church in Brunswick. Although no friend of the licensed saloon, this clergyman declares, after thorough per sonal Investigation of the question, that prohibition is still worse. He finds that In the cities and larger towns prohibl tlon Is the promoter of sales of bad liquors for medicine by the drug stores, Boston, he says, is the chief saloon of the State of Maine, and "Portland alone employs ten express companies exclu sively In importing spirituous liquors." Pursuing his Indictment of prohibition, he declares that, banished froVn the streets, the traffic In liquors has taken refuge in the homes. Oregon rough lumber, which sold for 18.50 per thousand feet In the Los An geles market last October, Is now sell ing for $28. Of this advance, $3.50 per thousand feet can be traced to the ves sel-owners, who are profiting to that extent by increased freights. The log ger and stumpage-owner are securing the greater part of the remaining $6 of the advance. In spite of the rapid rise in prices due to the increase In stump- age values and freights, the time is approaching when present prices will seem moderate by comparison with those which will prevail when the small logger and mlllman gives way to the big syndicates. The Walla Walla penitentiary Is turning out 8000 grain, bags per day. and the state is selling them to the farmers at 64 cents each, which is 3 cents less than the market price for Calcutta grain bags. This would be very pleasing to the farmers If there were enough to go round. Unfortu nately, the present capacity of the plant Is insufficient to supply one fourth of the bags needed, and the farmers who are favored with bags at 3 cents less than they are worth in the open market can accept the reduced price of wh;at with a better grace than their neighbors who were not so -fortunate. It is announced that the Czar has sanctioned Baron Loicq de Lobel's scheme for having an American syndi cate build a railroad from New York to St. Petersburg by way of a tunnel under Behrlng Strait. Hasn't the Czar troubles enough of his own? However, It will.be remembered that about three years ago Mr. Jim Ilam Lewis came through Portland as an envoy of the tunnel scheme, Mr. Lewis, if a Rus sian politician, might stiffen the Czar's backbone in other ways also. A Berlin dispatch states that Paul Morton baa departed for Paris for the purpose of attempting to restore the Equitable Life Insurance Company to favor in France. When it Is recalled that "Jimmy" Hyde has been over there for several months In full view of the Frenchmen, the immensity of the task confronting Mr. Morton can be understood. Though a board of directors have de nied to Sarah Bernhardt the Legion of Honor cross, she still remains the fore most actress of the present day and age. After all is said, the world's good opinion Is of greater value than a dec oration. For a man who Is the nephew of his Uncle Shelby, and wlio went to Idaho In the early '80s as a Republican United States Marshal, Senator Dubois is hold ing his own in the limelight. Once more does Tammany Hall figure large in National politics. Boss Mur phy at this writing seems to hold In the hollow of his hand the fate of the Democratic party. Mr Jlontle B. Gwinn, Idaho sheep king, lrrigatloniet and general capital ist, having bought Into a bank and moved to Pendleton, may yet become the Umatilla Moses. When the grist is Oregon land thieves the mills of Uncle Sam grind slow, but they grind exceeding small. And they don't take vacations In dog days. Army etiquette" gives the Captain's horse first whack at the oats. This must be the same thing as "Get to loo ward, d n ye," in the Navy. Perhaps a generous and sympathetic public will pardon a remark concern ing the demand for Just one day of Oregon's other weather. Stensland, the Chicago banker, who looted a million, must be lost In "The Jungle." - LIFE IN THE OREGOJT COUNTRY, Catches Grouse Like Fish. ' La Grande - Ohserver- "I was fishing on the Katherine last week," said a well-known La Grande trout enthusiast, "when I unintention ally violated the game laws." "How did It happen?" asked the Ob server man. Lowering his voice and exacting a prumise not to ten the game warden the enthusiastic fisherman continued: J. was on the North Fork of the Kath erine, a couple of miles above, J. R. Thompson's using grasshoppers for bait and doing pretty well, having about half a basketful, when in making a specially long cast the sun got in my eye and my line went up in the top of a fallen tree. I didn't have time to. cuss before I cot the alsredist 'strike' you can imagine, and a big grouse flew out directly over my bead. It had swallowed my grasshopper and was well hooked. I played that bird In the air fully five minutes oeiore 1 reeled it In." "That was a peculiar accident," re marked -the Observer man. "Yes, the first one was accidental," replied the fisherman, "but it put me wise to a new line of sport and I kept on up the creek for half a mile casting in the trees on tne bank. I only got four more grouse and a chipmunk, and or course I let 'em all go again, but I'm going back soon as the season opens. It beats any trout fishing I ever had." Everybody Worked bat the Cat. Albany Herald. The writer passed a small field of oats lately in which the family were engaged in harvest work after the old time way. The father was cutting the grain with a scythe and cradle. A couple of half-grown girls were raking it up ana with the aid or the mother binding it into sheaves. A bare-footed boy was shocking the oats, while in the shade of a shock reposed the baby guarded by tho dog. It is not often that the present day sees work done in this old way. Modern machinery has changed' the course of agricultural methods, but it is interesting to find one rural family independent of the harvester trust. Better a Shoemaker That Scholar. Seattle News Max Vada Vodansky, 21 years old with a working knowledge of 17 lan guagea, Is today rambling the streets of Seattle in a- desperate condition, looking for a chance to put bis re markable ability to work. He applied to the clerk of Judge Griffin's court for a position as interpreter today and was turned away as the law does not pro vide for such an officer on the regular force of court employes, and as there was no immediate need for such serv ices. "I ought to have spent my time becoming a shoemaker," he said bitter. ly, "if this keeps up much longer there will be one less man in the world." Bathing Rules at ROM-burg. Umpqua Valley News. . These are the days when bathing In the South Umpqua. River here in the city is "all the go." During the day the small boys can be seen splashing around and having a hilarious time some of them wearing bathing suits, others having but slim covering and some few clad in Nature's garment. But at 4 o'clock all who haven't one of the regulation bathing suits must "clear out," for the ladies, girls and men come down to take a swim ajid the small boy is on his good behavior. Postmaster Ballard's Duties In Portland Mllwaukle, Or.. Bee. We have been wondering why C. K. Ballard goes to Portland so much .Last Saturday one of our townsmen thought he would have some fun and followed Mr. Ballard. He was surprised to see him talking to a nice young widow. It looks like the boys will have to get their cow bells and tin cans ready. Recrudescence of Malheur. Baker Democrat. The old camp of Mormon Basin, once famous for Its output of placer gold, is now taking prominence as a quartz producer. Recent developments there border on the sensational. Ore going up to $1000 per ton is not found every day and Is enough to turn one s head. Proof Conclusive. . Eugene Register. It is believed that Adam's apple first originated in Willamette Valley and that this was the real, original garden of Eden. Further proof is the presence of Eve in great numbers. VIEWS OF NEIGHBOR EDITORS. Perk-a-Boo Hint. Aberdeen Bulletin. We cannot, for the life of us, see why the W. C. T. U. should be so fussy over tne matter. Why don't the ladles of that organization fight the devil with his own fire, and themselves em ploy the peek-a-boo outfit that so thor oughly serves the purpose? It's an open game too open, we fear. But what s the use? The ladies of the W. C. T. U., we believe, should not decry those whose coup has thus panned out so well. Let all of Portland's women get In the game. Anyone can buy a peek-a-boo shirtwaist. Jack's Popularity. Condon Times. Jack Kerrigan, the United States Deputy Marshal, who has been serving nearly every other man in Wheeler County with a subpena, and many in Gilliam CouDty, loft for Portland Tues day morning. Mr. Kerrigan thought the people of this section would be glad to see him go and the chances are that he was not mistaken. Yet it must be said to his credit that he has handed out a lot of free passes since he has been around this section of the upper country. ' Fort Walla Walla Domestic Case. Corvallis Times. In the incident. It ia easy to see how, mid the fuss and feathers of military life, official snobbery like that of Cap tain Howard will gTow up and how in its exercise, class distinctions are formed and all manner of Indecencies, injustices and even tragedies are per petrated In tho name of "discipline." No wonder poor Dreyfus had 12 long suffering years wrenched from his life, since armies often have Captain How ards In them. Finish of First Family Grab. La Grande Chronicle. The Oregonlan tells the people how some of the "first families" of Portland have fleeced that city of millions in years gone by, through franchise steals and similar Jobs, and are seeking to hand down the same system to their children. But the people who came West 3ince Oregon was discovered, say no, the first family' graft Is about over. Keep Expositions Going;. Tacoma News. hold a seml-centennlal exposition in , n, c-a.,1& -V.ua annlc. - .Ana 1,11. 1, 1U 1.7Ua,. Why not let Colorado or Utah celebrate In 1910 In order to break the long Jump and fill In the time? Remember, the ex position promoters, the" dog-eating Igorrotes and the whole outfit must live. How They Do It In Crook. Prineville Review. Puter got three years In the Multno mah County Jail; but will someone make a bet that he Isn't on the streets of Portland now, hunting for more suckers? .... MR. BRTAX LIKES THE KING. Enjoyed His Twenty-Minute Conversa tion With Edward VIII. From various London Cable Dispatches. The only note of officialism when King Edward received William J. Bry an at Buckingham Palace was the pres ence of Lord Chancellor Loreburn, rep resenting the House of Lords, and the Speaker of the House of Commons, who stood on a- dais beside the King. Like His Majesty, the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker did not wear uniforms. The King stood on a dais in front of the throne. Ambassador Reld, who was present in the palace while the visitors were in the picture gallery, went to Mr. Bryan with one of the King's equerries and notified the Nebraskan that His Maj esty desired to meet him privately be fore he entered the throne room to receive the other members of the Inter-Parliamentary Council. , Mr. Bryan was escorted by Mr. Reld and the equerry and entered the small audience-room. Mr. Reld presented the Nebraskan to the King, who shook hands warmly. The King and Mr. Bry an chatted for 20 minutes. Mr.. Bryan then Joined the long line of frock coated peacemakers who were wait ing to be presented to His Majesty. As the line of peacemakers passed the dais the King bowed and smiled like an automaton. After the levee tne peacemakers returned to their hotels. Mr. Bryan was asked later concern ing his Impressions of the King. Mr. Bryan declined to discuss the audience, saying it was discourteous. Being pressed, Mr. Bryan said: "My visit to King Edward was purely social. I chatted some 20 minutes with His Majesty. This was my first meet ing with him. When I was In London three years ago the King was absent from the town, so I bad no chance to meet him. "I must say His Majesty was ex tremely agreeable. We discussed a number of subjects, but the principal questions we talked about were the subjects which were debated during the Inter-Parliamentary conference.' His Majesty expressed the warmest sympathy with the objects and pur poses of the conference, which are, of course, peace." When the correspondent asked Mr. Bryan if the subject of the next Pres idential election in the United States of America had been touched upon, Mr. Bryan smilingly said: "That's an unfair question to ask." After Mr. Bryan and bis wife re turned to the Hotel Cecil Mr. Bryan told a friend be was delltrhted by the opportunity to meet the King, and that It was a surprise he had not expected. Mr. Bryan Informed his friend he was pleased and surprised to discover His Majesty so well Informed, not only on world-wide subjects but about Ameri can affairs. Mr. Bryan declined to re port even to bis friend anything the King had said either about the peaoe conference or about American affairs. HARVEST FIELDS WANT NO HOBOS Idle Gentry, Shunned by Farmers, In fests Towns, While Women Work. Helix Herald. Several women in this Inland Em pire are working in the harvest fields, helping to gather the crop, while the streets are lined with big Btout men who claim to be looking for work. They are looking for work, but hoping that they will never come face to face with It. When the harvest began to ripen, a scarcity of harvest hands was freely mentioned and these hobos rushed in. At first they were willing to work for a minimum wage of $1.50 per day, but that soon passed. Thoy have gradually raised. at the rate of 25 cents a Jump from that price to $2.60, and insist upon having fried chickens for dinner and plenty of lager to drink. The farmers have good-naturedly met these ad vance as best they could and would be willing to call the raise if they could be assured of getting a crew that would do the work. From their experi ences to date, though, they are loth even to let one of these "bo's" on the ranch for they feel that people so lost to honor or respect as these people are, "would be a menace to property and life, as well as the sacredneas of home, If even permitted to set foot on the place. The police of Walla Walla have been fufnlshing them beds in the City Jail, but have come to the conclusion tnat they were only harboring men that were not looking for work, so they have adopted the plan of simply tell ing them to "sklddoo." Pendleton is going to do the same thing. All other towns In this Inland "Empire should do so. If the present crop of "bo's" were given the run,, the effects would be instantaneous. There are many men in the crowds that would go to work to earn honest money, that are now counted as hobos because of the company they are with, and that com pany has kept them thinking that the farmers would have to come to any de mands, no mattor how exorbitant, if they would only stand pat. This class is not vicious, but only misled, and would gladly work at the wages of-, fered, only it doesn't want to be laughed at by Its present companions. It would be a favor to them and the farmers, if' the officers would make a clean tip all over the country. Ills Position. New Tork Sun. He was an lionest candidate Who loved the sons of toll. And as he drove his plow they thought His heart was in the soil. RlKht merrily ha cried. "Deal Hawl" And cracked his whip with mirth, While all the nels;hhors marked with pride His eyes tor mother earth. The statesman spoke of politics He waved nle horny hand. With praise of crops and harvest yield. tlB tongua extouea tne jana. Election day then came and went While saddened voters found His only really farmer part His ear was to the around. THE YOUNG MAN IN POLITICS. Have a Fixed Purpose, and Then Carry It Out. (From an address by Sherburn Becker, boy Mayor of Milwaukee.) Make up your mind to be honest and fair, both in business and in politics. Work nine-tenths of the time, and when occasion requires work the other tenth. You can enjoy yourself with hard work if you will but think so. Make up your mind when you accept a public trust that you represent all the people, not only those who have by their votes chosen you as such, but those who have opposed you and who, perhaps, rnsunderstand you and your purposes. Have a platform short and pointed. Be sure it Is right and stand upon It to the end. De not make it com plicated and verDose, for if you do your planks will break and you will find yourself In trouble. Do something all the time, but in your ambition to flo something don't do things that count for naught. Make plans, think of them, and then carry them out. Always keep in mind that you are the servant and not the master, no matter what position you may fill in the serv ice of the public. Do not imagine. If you are elected Mayor, for example, that you own the City Hall. It belongs to all your people, of every color, sex or. condition. Steer clear of classes and take the hand of the masses at all times. Asso ciate with as many good people as you can find. Extend your acquaintance ship every day. Make it a point never to retire for the night without being able to say: "Today 1 have made a, new friend; today has been a success, even though in a minor matter." Never know or recognize the word "fail." Tou will fall, and fail badly sometimes, but pass it up and do it as quickly as you can. Do not hesitate to put the stamp of disapproval upon bad legislation, no matter If it be unani mously passed. as A young man who Is elected Mayor, for example, will meet with many great problems that will at first seem to overwhelm him. Do not worry. "Worry" is a bad disease. JuBt sit down and put on your thinking-cap, and be fore you think many times you will decide to go to that man or to those men In whom you have Implicit confi dence for assistance. Talk things over with them, reach a conclusion and go ahead. Don't you see, young man, that you have learned something when you have done this? Don't you see that you have made progress as a public man? There has grown up In this new Western world a class known as "the idle rich." This Includes a vast array of rich young men who devote their time wholly to pleasure. They produce nothing. They Just live and that is all. I am glad to know, however, that there has been an awakening, princi pally in the East, among this class, and that some of them have begun to feel the very insignificant positions that thoy occupy on earth and that they have de termined to go toi work. There Is no reason in the world why people should not be rich, but every man, no matter how rich, should be a producer of some thing that will be of benefit to his fol lowmcn. The man who tries to live without working and without accomplishing something is a bad example and a menace to society. It Is not a kind father who brings up bis son to live in ldlncss. I feel like warning young men, whether rich or poor, against the dangers of tho fantastic and the ex treme tenets of Socialism. We have a Government that whs founded upon good principles largply by young- men, and while it has often been threatened with destruction It has weathered the storms of over a century. I am not in sympathy with what the press has been pleased to call "parlor Socialism," nror any other kind of Socialism which con templates the utter overthrow of our present form of government. Hone Story Without a Moral. Marlon Cor. Columbus Dispatch. Dr. J. G. Belter received a hurry call, but upon going to tho stable found his horse missing. The doctor then went to the fair grounds, where he arrived In time to see his youthful son, Homer, take the last heat of a free-for-all running dash and win the race. Dr. Bolter's two boy had stolen out the horse and entered It as Dr. 8., a bay gelding. The horse won $50. Searchlight Is on Judge Parker. Kansas City Star. Secretary Taft Is too polite even to In quire when and how Alton Brooks Parker got back Into the game. In the Garden. Milwaukee Sentinel. Come Into the gardon, Maud, Where all was once so fair. Come out and watch me wildly rave And cues and tear my hair It's a! because the neighbor's hens Have raised the dickens there. The flower beds you loved so well Are scratched and been laid low. The pretty pansles that you praised Tou never more will know. And O, dear Maud, just think of how I tolled with rake and hoel There's not a blossom on tha vine. There's not a single pink. And everything we had those hens Have put upon the blink. Please move the gasoline away, Or I shall take a drink. Come look, my dear, on all this truck " We planted with such care; Our radishes and lettuce all Are up and out for fair. Kxcuse me, dear, I want to load ' The shotgun hanging there. Come Into the garden, Maud. And It there by the fence. And I shall hide behind this bush With leaves and branches dense. And then, my dear, I'll make those hens Kesemble thirty eenta. t ' From the Washington Post.