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In Ma annual report Secretary Met calf, of the Department of Commerce and Labor, devotes considerable space to advocacy of the ship-subsidy bill: He used the South American trade aa an introductory topic or dragging this matter Into a report where at the most It should have had but email mention. As with all of the remainder of the eub-eidy-hunters, the Secretary finds fault with our transportation facilities to Couth American ports. Like Secretary Root, who only recently Joined the sub Sidy band, he believes that it Is "abso lutely essential that the means of com munication between the two countries should be improved and Increased, this recommendation applying to mall, pas eenger and freight services." Secre tary Metcalf, however, falls Into a com mon error when he makes the assertion that "We shall look In vain for Euro pean steamship companies to establish 6uch lines." It would be a reflection on the Intelli gence of Mr. Metcalf to Intimate that he did not know that British lines and German lines are now engaged in car rying our malls, passengers and freight to Euorpe at rates so low that even the heavily subsidized mail boats of the American line have great difficulty In competing with them. It would be a still greater insult to the intelligence of the British shipowners to Intimate that they would make any oher than the natural financial distinction between carrying American malls and passen gers and carrying American freight to South America. The navigation com mittee of the New York Chamber of Commerce, composed of gentlemen who are actually engaged In trade with South America, has been investigating the matter of South American trade, and has reached the conclusion that "there Is no lack at present In regular opportunities for the transportation of freight between the United States and the countries of South America." The committee follows up this state ment with the assertion that "competi tion has forced rates to a very low level." It recommends payment of a liberal postal subsidy to a fast passen ger and mall line, but refrains from specifying that this should be an Amer ican line. For the ten months ending November, 1, foreign shipowners dis patched from the port of New York alone for South American ports 170 large freight steamships. They carried freight at lower rates than the Amer icans could carry it In their own ships, and there is no reason on earth to sup pose that they will not carry our mails and passengers at correspondingly low rates. The passenger and mall ship can be built and operated under a for eign flag for much less money than un der the American flag. Just as the freight steamer costs less for construe tlon and operation. In asking for a ship subsidy under the pretext that It is needed to en courage our trade with South Amer ica, Mr. Metcalf merely advances the old argument that the foreigners are doing our carrying trade at such a low figure that we cannot compete with them. They are now giving us an ex cellent freight service, and, unless we pass the iniquitous subsidy bill, they will, whenever the opportunity offers, carry our malls and passengers at lower rates than they can be carried on American vessels, slower and of more expensive build. The Illinois Central Railroad ' has made arrangements with a European steamship line to run steamers direct from Europe to New Orleans for the purpose of bringing In Immigrants who will settle In the South. One of the most noticeable features of the enor mous Immigration that has been com ing. to the United States during the past few years is the tendency of the newcomers to settle at the nearest pos sible locality to the point at which they land. This characteristic of the imm! grants results in an oversupply of white labor around the big cities on the Eastern seaboard, and the usual scare Ity farther west. An equal division of all of the labor now in "the country wcujld go a long ways toward improv- ing conditions both east and west. It will be Interesting to watch the experi ment of the Illinois Central to supplant the black labor of the South with Euro pean immigrants. SANTA CLAUS ADDRESS. Onca upon a time, so the story goes, a little fellow, reared in the belief that Santa Claus was a sure-enough person, was, upon arriving at the ago of reason, disillusioned by his parents. It was a hard blow to his well-founded concep tion of the merry old chap, but he met It braively, as became the little man that he was. Then, after a bit of think ing, he asked: "Have you folks been stringing me about Jesus, too?" ' To his mind all things were frauds. Possibly he has grown. up and holds the Job of making rules and regula tions for the Postofflce Department of thla great land, for some one therein has sent forth officially that, having neither etreet nor Box number, and be ing therefore unknown to carrier and clerk, Mr. Santa Claus Is not a person and must be a fraud and all letters for him go .direct to the official morgue at Washington, whence they will be re turned, long after the time when they could do any good, to the trustful writ ers. To the sorrow of disappointment la' added a smashing of faith. The ruler of the malls says designing persons write these letters In childish language to Impose upon and defraud well - meaning philanthropists. Out upon the idea! As if the man with means to gratify such requests could not discern the honesty of the motive! It has been suggested that in every community are men and women whose hearts .have not been solidified by the setting of the reinforced 'concrete of greed and who would gladly fill the part of dispenser of this bounty and thus confound the Iconoclast at the Na tion's capital. To do so, however, their names must be known, and it will be the mission of newspapers at this time of year to make them known. Let them advise the public that Santa Claus' address is care of Mr. This and That, or Mrs. So and So, and local offi cials our own excellent Mr. John Minto, P. M., for example will, no doubt, cheerfully do the rest and not violate laws and regulations and oath of office in the doing. It Is well to remember that the chil dren of parents able to provide seldom write these letters. Almost always it is the little chap or maiden who must depend on a miracle for an answer. It is well, also, to encourage such faith. i TRAVELING LIBRARIES. The Oregon Library Commission is one of the new departments of state government that seems . to have Justified its existence, by valua ble service rendered to the people. The commission acted upon business principles In the selection of a secre tary, and, instead of following the usual policy of favoring some political friend or some native son or daughter, went East for a person experienced In library work and secured the services of Miss Cornelia Marvin, of Wisconsin. Oregon is comparatively young in li brary work, and quite probably there was no one in this state whose serv ices could have been secured and who was capa,ble of taking leadership and Introducing the most approved methods in library work. At the start Oregon secured the advantage of the experience of other states by employing a trained secretary for the commission. Within a few weeks after the organ ization of the commission an interest had been aroused in the subject of trav eling libraries, with the result that pri vate Individuals furnished the money for the purchase of- thirty-four 11-. brarles of sixty volumes each, and these were sent to small towns and- villages where the people could not afford to own libraries. The thirty-four libraries have been in constant use ever since. The secretary of the commission also aided In arousing Interest In the subject of public libraries, and the effort has resulted in forming the beginnings of several Institutions of this kind. In ad dition to this Miss Marvin, volunteered to aid members of the Legislature in their preparation of bills by supplying them with information regarding the course of legislation on the same sub ject in other states. This was a work which few of the members could do for themselves, for few of them have ac cess to Tecords and a still smaller num ber have the time to gather data de sired. She also prepared and sent out to various parts of the state collections of material for debating societies upon live topics worth the study of wide awake citizens. All this service, so It is reported, has been given upon an ap propriation of $2000 a year. At the time the commission was cre ated there was no general demand for it and no general understanding of the work the commission might be ex pected to perform. The establishment of this one more commission looked like one more burden upon the tax payers for the purpose of providing a sinecure for soma one not capable of earning a living by independent effort It is gratifying, therefore, to find that the expected has not happened and that the money appropriated has been eco nomically expended and with good re turns for It. ECONOMICAL BUT DANGEROUS. Investigation of the recent railroad wreck by which President Spencer, of the Southern Railway, lost his life, seems to have established the fact that he was one of the victims of an eco nomical block system. It Is hardly probable that this is the explanation that will be given out by the railroad company,' hut it seems to be the cor rect one. A curious public, animated with a desire to learn whether or not it Is possible for American railroad ac cidents to be reduced in number, some what proportionately to those occurring on foreign roads, has been Investigat ing the matter and discovered that there are block systems and block sys tems. N- In Europe, where the average speed of passenger trains is faster than it is in America, and serious collisions are rare indeed, the block system Is manip ulated by men stationed In towers on each "block," or section of road, with no duty to perform other than to keep informed on the movements of trains and never to allow a train to enter a block until the man on the next tower signals that the preceding train has cleared the block. This system is. quite expensive to maintain, but it is prac tically infallible unless the men in the tower, fall asleep or die at their posts, and even then accidents are almost im possible. But the Southern Railway, like a great many other roads in this country, has operated under a block system manipulated by 6tatlon agents with whom keeping track of the move ments of trains was only one of many other duties. It worked all right until one of these operators hustled eu train on to the next block without first receiving notice that the preceding train had passed out. A block system of this kind li worse than none, for the reason that it in a large measure relieves the trainmen of a re sponsibility they would be certain to feel if they knew that the safety of their train was to, a greater degree de pendent on their own caution and Judg ment. So far as known the only merit of this telegraphic block system lies In its being cheap. From a purely financial standpoint this might be true, if Its victims were confined to offi cials and employes of the road. But the traveling public that pays the bills and objects to dying In a rail road wreck has rights which must be recognized. It may not be possible, in our present stage of "newness," to throw as many safeguards around trav elers by rail as Is afforded them by the European roads, but there should be an emphatic protest against the kind of economy that is responsible for this lat est wreck, as well as other aerfbus wrecks on American roads. CRIME AND THE FEEBLE-MINDED. t The need of an institution In' Oregon for the care of the feebLe-minded could scarcely he more forcibly Impressed upon the people of this state than It has been by the developments in the Chester Thompson case at Tacoma and the Sidney Sloane case at Spokane. The peeple of the Northwest have had pre sented before them almost daily facts regarding the lives of these two young men which leave no room for doubt that they, should have been kept under close restraint. More than that, it is also clearly .shown that numerous mem bers of their families are of such men tal condition that they should not be permitted to enjoy freedom with liberty to reproduce their kind. Society has not only a right to protect itself, but self-protection is a duty which society cannot, must not, shirk. Evidence of the part heredity has played in form ing the characters of two young men who have committed brutal murders should be sufficient to arouse the people of this state to action with a view to preventing Bimilar deplorable events In Oregon. Every community has Its feeble minded, in varying degrees of mental weakness. , From the apparently harm lees "half-witted" boy or girl that is permitted to live at home and roam the streets to the almost helpless man or woman bordering- upon idiocy there is every stage of mental and moral ir responsibility. Unfortunately, lack of reason is usually accompanied? by over abundance of animal passion, and the tendency of the feeble-minded Is to drift into vice t the sort most dan gerous to society. Unable to -JTelp them selves or to earn a living, they never theless bring into the world children tainted with their depravity, who in turn will perform their part in perpetu ating the species. It Is a revolting sub ject, one that intelligent, virtuous peo ple abhor, and yet it is one that a pro gressive, courageous people cannot neg lect. It Is common knowledge among those who ha.ve Investigated the "sub ject that feeble-minded parents gener ally beget feeble-minded children, while it occasionally occurs that parents of sound mind have feeble-minded chil dren. In a very large percentage of cases the children of feeble-minded par ents are illegitimate. ' If anything were needed In addition to the stories that have come from Tacoma and Spokane tn the last few. days to show the need of at least cus todial care of the feeble-minded, the following statement made a few years ago by an authority upon this subject may be presented: In a certain county in the southern part of Indiana Is a family of sixteen persons, representing three generations.' Twelve of its members are the direct descendants of a feeble-minded blind man and his' feeble minded, partially blind wife. The husband and wife have been inmates of a poorhouse off and on for thirty-five years. Generally Wintering in the institution, they spend the Summer roaming about the country, living in the woods. In unfavorable weather they seek an old hut or rail pen for shelter. They have a feeble-minded daughter who is also partly blind. She has been twice mar ried and has borne two feeble-minded daughtera and three feeble-minded sons. Another feeble-minded and partially blind daughter has spent the greater part of the last twenty-two years in the poorhouse of an adjoining county and has been the mother of four illegitimate children. In this family of sixteen persons, nine are feeble minded (three of these being alsovpartlairy blind) and four are known to be illegiti mate. Society has the right to protect Itself, and, 'in doing so, to go to any extremes and resort to any means that may be necessary to "prevent propagation of feeble-mlndedness. ' BLIZZARDS. To the native Oregonian who has never spent a Winter In the Middle West the dispatches of the last day or two regarding the snow storms in the prairie states are scarcely intelligible. To the mind of the inexperienced' a "blizzard'-' Is merely a snowfall accom panied by a very high wind, and, in fact, driving snow storms are often called blizzards in the states where they occur. But a real blizzard is some thing more than wind and snow. The peculiar characteristic of a blizzard is that the air Is filled with such dense clouds of very fine particles of snow that one cannot breathe. In the ordi nary snow storm th'e flakes are large, and, even though driven by a heavy wind, they do not interfere with breath ing. But in a blizzard the intense cold and tha high wind transform the snow- flakes into a fine dust which fills the air as thoroughly as particles of steam would do. Neither man nor beast can face a blizzard, and there is little relief to be secured by turning from it. Any one who has tried to breathe in a room filled with the dense vapor of escaping steam has a fair conception of the diffi culty of surviving exposure to a bllz zard. ' To people who have never seen the far-famed Winter storms of the Mid dle West it is incredible that a man could be lost in going a hundred feet or so from his house to his barn, but every season there are reports of fatal! ties of exactly that .kind. In an ordi nary snow storm a traveler may see some distance ahead of him; in a bllz zard he can scarcely see as far as he can reach with his arm extended be fore him. The getting lost in walking a short distance is not due so much, how ever, to the inability to see as it Is to the confusing effect of the inability to breathe, and when a person has once lost his presence of mind and has begun to drift before the storm it Is practical ly impossible for him to find his way back. In thepratrie states, fences efe few, and during a storm the roads are a trackless plain. No wonder, then, that farmers frequently stretch wires or nopea from their houses to their barns in order that they may be able to walk in comparative safety from one to the other. It must not be understood that bliz zards of the kind described are of fre quent occurrence. On the contrary, there is seldom more than one in a Winter, and frequently a Winter will pass without even one being experi enced. Many of the severe snow storms are calledf blizzards, but they are not properly so designated. The plainsman, warmly clad, cares as little for a snow storm as an Oregonian. carrying an umbrella, does for a rain, but Oregon has nothing and can have nothing In the way of weather that compares even in the smallest degree with the genuine blizzard. Indiana has nad a sufficiency of mu nicipal ownership, and, at the next ses sion of the Legislature, there will be a practicality unanimous demand for the state to assume control of municipal plants now in the hands of the reform ers. An Indianapolis dispatch says that "in places where municipal own ership has been secured under specious promises by reformers the people have found that the principal object of the reformers was to provide themselves and their friends with fat positions and opportunities to spend money in a man ner that would wreck a private con cern in a month." : Disinterested re formers are becoming rare birds, and, from the returns already in, it begins to look as though Utopia would be the only place where municipal ownership would work out to the complete satis faction of its friends. Yet the same would probably be said of any kind of ownership. v Development of the lumber business is nowhere more noticeable than at the numerous river ports below Portland. At St. Johns, St. Helens. Rainier, Ka lama, Linnton, Stella, Knappton and Astoria are seagoing vessels loading lumber cargoes, while at most of the ports mentioned a rail lumber trade is also handled. The lumber industry, from the time the logger fells the tree until the finished product Is .stowed aboard the vessel, is continually dis bursing money for labor, and it- is on this money that the prosperity of a great many new towns andi cities In the Pacific NorthwesMs largely dependent. The capacity of the lumber fleet load ing on the Columbia and Willamette FJlvers is seldom less than 20,000,000 feet, and it not infrequently reaches 30,000,000 feet. Even in its present pro portions, it is far short of the maximum which will be reached many years hence. A banking law which forbids the loaning of funds to a director of the bank without the consent of a certain number of directors is good, but it would be better to prohibit the loaning of bank funds to a director under any circumstances. When a director' bor rows from his own bank, he is, to some extent, lending to himself. Then there is too much likelihood of other directors approving a bad loan through friend ship or "courtesy." -There is too much opportunity for fraud or bad Judgment In loans to directors of a bank. With bank clearings last week Teach ing a total 'of more Ban $7,000,000 and real estate transfers about $500,000, the financial showing made by Portland is quite satisfactory. If the volume of -real estate business handled during the dullness which is usually noticeable in that line at Christmas time Is an Indi cation, of what is to come after the turn of the year, the ourtook for a general advance in 1907 may be consid ered unusually bright- Emperor William's appointment of Herr Paul, leading cartoonist of S!m- plicleslmus, to be directer of the Berlin Royal Art School should not be con strued Into an act of magnanimity toward a man who has lampooned the Kaiser and his government- Evidently the ruler of Germany used diplomatic means to remove a thorn from his side. "Chisago is to enter on an era of bet ter conditions of travel," Is the optim istic forecast In connection with the lat est movement toward municipal owner ship of streetcar lines in the pork me tropolis. That Is the one point that re formers wish to 6ee proved. If better conditions shall result, then to pri vate ownership everywhere. It is well that a Pacific Coast man has been delegated to inquire Into the car shortage on the Pacific Coast. Com missioner Franklin K. Lane may be depended on to make a thorough Inves tigation. If he has any bias In the matter, it certainly is not against Pa clflo Coast commerce. Oregon's fuel problem is not so bad, after all. People who live in a climate like this, where bedroom windows may be left open all Winter, should spend a month r in Montana, North Dakota or Minnesota if they want to get a thor ough acquaintance with a real fuel problem. - A Milwaukee man who possibly had not heard of Hood River or Old Yamhill stopped at La Grande Friday and be tween trains bought ten cars of Grand Ronde apples. Verily ,ln the matter of fruit Oregon is as broad as she is long. Mr. Daniel McAllen, a man of well known veracity, whose favorite boast has been that" all the cars pass his place, has a chance to come to, the front and show the Mlzurlans Just now. While it first he might have thought si?, the demonstration Saturday night was not in honor of John Barrett's homecoming. "Our Minister's" great event is yet on the calendar. The 3-year-old Massachusetts boy who smokes two packages of tobacco a day will be able in 2006 to tell the inter viewer the secret of his longevity. ' Curiously, the team that won the world's championship was lowest, in batting averages. But the Chicago Americans played ball. I Just now chauffeurs and carriage drivers may properly be designated as prominent and influential citizens. Discomforts are comparative. Even hanging on to a strap has its advan tages over walking. Mrs. Storer asserts she discovered Roosevelt. She certainly lost him. IX THE OREGON COUNTRY. Even Better Than Hood River. Athena Press. Not by any means are all Oregon hens on a strike. Yesterday a farmer residing south of Athena brought to town 23 dozen fresh "ranch" eggs. He received 40 cents per dozen, netting him $3.20. , Umatilla Social Note. Pilot Rock Record. The first Carr to come to town "loaded" enjoys the distinction of being one of the best herders in the county. He is taking; a layoff and In other respects making an effort to overcome the horrors of ennui. Reckoned Without His Hitchcock. Moro Observer. ' When He planted coal in Wyoming for us He expected cars with which to de liver the goods, but He didn't expect any Hitchcocks to tie up the mines, leaving people out in the cold to freeze from want of it. , Nearlnjc the Limit. Wasco News. While the cost of living is at Its height; while prosperity is abroad in the land: while the Hill contractors on the north bank road are paying 12.25 for a day's labor, Mr. Harriman quietly announces reduction of 2 cents per hour to his section bands. Recrulatins Bovine Maneuvers. Coos Bay News. The Coqullle town cow is not to be allowed to roam at large after the first of the year, which is a matter of con gratulation to the editor of the Sentinel, who eays "it will not be necessary to keep your eyes focused to the sidewalk when walking about town." The Difference. Bellingham Herald. Two young men are being tried In this state, orr in Spokane and the other in Tacoma, for murder. The defense of both is insanity. But if an effort had been made to ffave either of them committed to an insane hospital before he became a murderer, it is not unlike ly that a strong effort would have been made to prove that he was per fectly sane. Freak; Advertising;. Walla Walla Statesman. Of all the dare-devil advertising schemes ever tried In Walla Walla the stunt of a local house this morning takes the premium. Beginning at 10:30 o'clock stiver dollars were- given away at the cashier's desk- to everybody presenting 90 cents. The total sum passed over the desk to customers of the store in this manner was over $500 before the hour was up. The window full of extraordi nary one-dollar bargains vanished before the crowd of pushing bargain-hunters this morning with the rapidity of a snowball in the Inferno. Five minutes after the sale begun a few stripped cloak frames were the only things left in the window, which has been the focus of the feminine eyes of Walla Walla for the past three days. Silk skirts, valuable furs and dresses worth from $8 to J?0 each all were carried out for one plunk each. Progress of a Umatilla Courtship. Pilot Rock Record. There lives on a homestead in the vicinity of Pilot Rock a pretty school ma'am, and unlike many others who have made filings on Government land, she does not spend only part of her time on her homestead, but all of her time. She already has a large part of her home stead under cultivation and is in a fair way to make a good living for herself. Among the admirers of the schoolma'am is a sheepherder, who Is an Industrious and well-behaved fellow, hut rather bash ful. He recently borrowed a field-glass from one of Pilot Rock's merchants and in this way has carried . on a one-sided flirtation for several days. As a move in the rights direction he , is quoted as having said "that he hung' on her fence post a quarter of mutton, having killed a sheep for the camp mess, which was accepted, he believes, in good faith, as a few days afterward he found hanging on the name post a dozen dough nuts, which he pronounces the best he ever ate, except those made by mother. I Roosevelt's Appreciation of Bananas. Philadelphia Record.' Jacob Rlis told the other day of Presi dent Roosevelt's jove for detail. "He be came Interested in the inspection of tene ments through one of my hooks." said Mr. Rlis, "and one day called on me. We talked the situation over and then he laid down the law to the factory In spectors in a manner that made their hair stand up on their heads. He was Governor at that time. One tot the in spectors undertook to dispute some of Mr. Roosevelt's statements and the Gov ernor simply overwhelmed him with a mass of data which he had gathered personally. During the talk he told of his experience with a discouraged Italian fruit peddler. He had asked the man how he was prospering. 'Oh,' he said, "what I maka on da peanut I losa on da d n banan'.' That has been a byword with Mr. Roosevelt ever since. When ever he gets in a quandary on a matter of public policy. In which any course he may-take will be found to have some drawback, his intimates are very apt to hear him say: 'What I maka on da pea nut I losa on do d n banan'. " Tillman Wont Cut Out Cussing-. ' Bellalre 0.) Dispatch. ' The trustees of the First Methodist Episcopal Church have canceled the en gagement of Senator Tillman, who was to have delivered, a lecture here soon for the benefit of the church. After his 'Chicago lecture. In which Senator Tillman was "reported to have indulged in. profane language as a re sult of Interruption from the audience, the ' trustees decided to write to the Carolinian for the purpose of exacting a promise that he would not indulge in any vulgarity or profanity. They inti mated that if the promise was not forthcoming they would be compelled to cancel his lecture engagement. Senator Tillman replied that he could make no pledges of the nature asked, as he could not foresee what would occur during the lecture. He was then notified that his place on the church lecture course would be filled by an other. Women Medicos In Paris. Thirty-eight young women have suc cessfully passed the examinations ifor admission as students In the Paris hos pitals. - The Parisian medical students have held a meeting to protest against the admission of so many women, as they say that In a few years Frenchmen will be driven from the ranks of the pro fession If this sort of thing Is kept up. Already there are three women druggists In France, one of whom Is in Paris. Her Faith. Chicago Record-Herald. "While you have faith In me," he said, - "I will have strength to do my best!" ' The blushes on her cheeks were red. The joy was deep within her breast. She pledg-ed him all her faith, and pride Was in her heart, as day by day He pushed the obstacles aside That onca had seemed to bar his way. With many a longing, tender smile She read of triumphs which ho had; Bhe gave him to tha world a while. And heard men praise him and was glad. The geal that in his yputh had seamed So far away was won, and then Another goal beyond him gleamed. Wherefore ha pressed ahead again. .- Through dismal hours she sat alone. Through dismal days she vainly wept And longed to claim as all her own . Him that the world had won and kept. JAP WORKS FOR LESS MONEY. Bnt Americana Should Not Particularly Esteem Hint for That. PORTLAND, Dec- 16. (To the Ed itor.) This Is an open letter to Mr. American! Are you aware that in San Francisco people are fighting the Fed eral Government to secure proper school accommodations for the child ren of American citizens? In every city of the Pacific Coast, Japanese who are over 21 years of age go to both com mon and high Schools without pay, while, the children of,. Americans re siding in suburban tovfcns are compelled to pay tuition. Yet President Roose velt proposes to grant immediately to these yellow sons of Nippon the privi lege of citizenship and ir the same breath refuses it to the" Alaskan pio neer. Stores, restaurants, apartment houses and many other places frequent ed by the public employ the Jap, who in some instances has some virtues as a menial. He has one in particular that looks good to- some so-called Americans he works for less money. We joke about the clannishness of the Scotch and the Welch, but no one thing has done so much for the ma terial advancement of those two na tionalities as that same clannishness. The Ineffable nerve of some of the quo tations from the Japanese press since the beginning of the San Francisco school trouble; their treatment of Americans and other foreigners who engage in business In Japan; the meek and conciliatory remarks of the admin istration newspapers these things grate on my nerves a little. Do you know what you can do, Mr. American, without Inconvenience to yourself? The next time you go Into a restaurant or other -Institution where Asiatic labor Is employed, say some thing like this: "It's 23 for me at this place until you can afford to hire none but Americans." And keep your word wherever possible in this matter. You might get a list of such Institutions as do not employ Asiatic labor. This need cost you nothing, and you need not take part in any race riot or other wise make trouble for yourself. And this is a duty you owe to yourself, not to mention your fellow-Americans. , E. C. ROSE. . Promoted to Medicine Degree. St. Paul Pioneer Press. . Congressman Champ Clark telis a story of a convention in Missouri where one of the candidates for Sheriff was the patri arch who had always voted the Demo cratic ticket and boasted he had never been sick a day in his life. There was considerable opposition to the old man and the orator who presented his name was forced to Ms highest heights of eloquence. "Gentlemen," he shouted, "it is my honor and my pelasure to pre sent to you the name of a man old In years, - but young In spirit, one- who, though approaching the span of life allot ted by the palmist, has never taken a dose of medicine; one who " ''We'll give him a dose today, all right," broke In one of the delegates. They did. Grave Perils of Deer Hunting. New York Evening Post. Seventy-four slain by gunfire is the record of the shooting season, which lasts Just about as long as the football season. Of these victims most were actually shot at, their rustling in the bushes being taken for that of a deer. Hunting for deer must still count as an extra hazard ous pursuit, and the recurrence of these tragedies of the woods year after year suggests that the state mav vet have to institute tests for the use of a gun, as it does for the handling of a motor rar. Meanwhile it cannot be too emphatically said that the sportsman who under any circumstances will shoot at a noise is guilty of criminal carelessness. United States Senate at Prayer. Boston Herald. Every morning when the United States Senate Is In session Dr. Edward Everett Hale Invites the Senators to join him in repeating the Lord's prayer. So far his invitation has fallen upon deaf ears and it is more than suspected that very few of his hearers know the words. When Senator Clark of Montana Is in his seat his high tenor sometimes is heard lisp ing the sacred words. Occasionally the well-known voice of Senator Depew arti culates the prayer very lowly, but even he did not repeat the words yesterday. Knute Nelson's Hps are seen to move In unison with the words of- the chaplain, but If he Is repeating the prayer It is done in a mere mumble. By the Copy Boy. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, dogon wh-.oant I read 2day and not be Bothurd In this way I wunder when they think I find odd moments taw Impruv my mind Its Johnny run and Johnny Jump and here yxing feller Get a hump this otnt no Boys Job that they gave tow me they need a good strong slave Now theres the Boss dont dew a thing but Keep yours truly on the wing hes only Hired here trutrf tew speak tew See I urn three bucks per weelc gwhlsz the way of life is ruff And men is maid of lazy stuff they lay around like rocks and Logs and wurk the Offls boys like dogs en hour ago I started out , tew Reed about kit carson scout But what with Being bothurd so my progress is But painful slow Jtst When he is about tew slay sum Injun I am torn away by rite which I hearby dispute Tew ahute sum copy up tha Chute there alnt no Slmpathy thats sure round Hereabouts with lltterchure And boys pore soles must bear the brunt of work and grow up Ignarunt. LOOKS LIKE A CASE OF ; - Jf UJ WBk I jff jf ''itpj ifflr''8 .riff Prom th Indianapolis Newt STATUS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH French Government Contends It Is a Forelga Corporation. PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 15. (To ' the Editor.) That the Catholic Church is a foreign corporation Is practically the claim of the French government "in its contention with the Vatican. Singularly enough this claim was made in behalf of our Government In Its lawsuit with the Catholic Church for the reservation of Vancouver barracks. The title of the case was: "The Roman Catholic Bishop of Nlsqually vs. John Gibbon and T. M. Anderson." Among other points made for the Government was the contention that the Catholic Church was a foreign corporation and therefore had no right to claim the benefit of the statute giving ' a section of land to missions established among the Infffan tribes. When this point was made. It was looked on simplv as an amusing bit of legal legerdemain. All the lower courts Ignored the conten tion, but in its final decision, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Catholic Church represented by the Bishop of Quebec, who established the mission, was a foreign corporation. The mission in question, known as the mission of St. Jamw, was established at the Hudson Bay port of Vancouver at a time when Great Britain was claiming all of the Oregon country down to the Cali fornia line. Now the Bishop of Rome, as Pope, claims that the title of all Catholic Church property In France should stand recorded as property of the Roman Cath ilic Church, as we say. in fee simple. It is a matter of general Information that after the French Revolution of 1793 the directory confiscated all. church prop erty. Under the concorda it was restored under certain conditions. Since the con corda has been abrogated, the French, government, under its right of eminent domain, claims this property hut pro poses to vest it in religious associations provided they will consent to hold under the government. Under this arrangment. If accepted, a singular thing might happen. The Cath olic congregation of Notre Dame might receive the property as a civil associa tion. Yet in time all the Jews of Paris might join that association and scouring control turn the church into a synagogue. This, of course, is ludicrously improbable! But the Pope vetoes tho proposed ar rangement, on the assumption that the church holds under the higher laws of moral obligation. The French government answers him. by saying that he repre sents a foreign corporation, as our Supreme Court held, inter alia, in tiie mission case referred to. . THE WRONGS OF SIRS. BRADLEY. How Some Women Settle Their Ac counts With Men. PORTLAND. Dec. 15.-(To the Editor.) I write this on behalf of Mrs. Anra M. Bradley, at Washington. D. C, who is to be brought before the criminal courts for the shooting of ex-Senator Brown of Utah. My principal object Is for the benefit of women, in a general way. I wish to show that Mrs. Bradlev. in this, her trying hour, has the true sisterly sympathy of one woman's heart. I think she was more or less Justified In what she has done, though it is a terrible thing to take the life of another. Life is sweet to us all, even In its bitterness. But what are we women to do, where in men often so deliberately wrong us? We may cry out to high heaven, with all the anguish of a wounded soul, for jus tice, but no Justice conies. No doubt there are many who will say that women ouprfit to be strong enough within them selves to protect themselves, which of course is true. But since women are the weaker vessels. Is it not man's place to protect women, by not taking advantage of their weakness? What sort of creatures would we be if our natures would not respond to the gentle caress and tender words of love, or" what- ot least seems to be love? Where would be the finer elements and instincts that are necessary to make up what ils termed a womanly woman? The very things that men most desire in us. are the very things they take the most advantage of. And how are we to re main womanly If we have to forever so aggressively contend with man for Jus tice and to beg that our rights and womanly instincts be not trampled upon? The exasperation of such an unheeded condition is what makes the few women become desperate. And such women will rise up and continue to be more and more numerous, until man becomes will ing to be Just with them, or until these women, through the great necessity, create a Jaw that man can not trample down. And then who will be to blame. I won der, because woman has stepped out of her sphere and become mannish? MRS. J. L. MALTERT. What Heally AVorrles Rockefeller. Pittsburg Dispatch. The newspaper shrinkage of John D. Rockefeller's fortune by 1 -tO.OW.noO does not carry panic to that veteran in the campaigns of acquisition. Ho can stand a good deal of contraction in Btock market valuations and still face a rainy day with equanimity. There Is much more perturbation in the utterances which the Standard's officers are officially emitting as to the need of Its unparalleled organiza tion in meeting the competition of for eign refiners. ' Slump In the ' Price of Wives. Philadelphia Press. There has been a slump in the Zulu matrimonial market. Wives, who for merly cost $10, are now to be had as low as 3.35. TAKE ONE, TAKE ALL