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The Astoiian charges The Oregonlan with "avoiding an open expression as to the validity or constitutionality of the Port of Columbia law." As usual, the paper finds fault with the manner In which this paper has brought the matter before the public, commenting thereort as follows: We say again that The Pregonian has known from the very Inception of the Port of Columbia fraud that it was a trick of the rankest sort; that it has no honest merit Athi law; that It Is full of weaknesses and stands" frtr the last phase of a desperate flht to maintain a false positian; and we shall hold to that theory until the big paper comes to; the front with a detailed, able, plea In Behalf of the measure that was smuggled and browbeaten through the Leg islature of Oregon. The Oregonlan declines such an Invi tation to go on record as an authority on constitutional law, being perfectly willing to leave the matter of the va lidity of the Port of Columbia law to the proper Tiuthorlties. It might not be inopportune, however, at this time again to set forth a few facts regard ing the Port of Columbia law. This measure was drawn up and passed for no other purpose than to lighten the burdens and lessen the delays to which shipping has been subjected at the en trance of the Columbia River. Through the Indifference and lack of interest of the Astoria people, who controlled the service, these burdens had become so onerous that, four years ago, the In ternational Sailing-Ship Owners' Union, an organization controlling four-fifths of the sail tonnage of the world, levied a differential of 30 cents per ton against Portland and in favor of Puget Sound on all grain vessels coming to this port. On demand the Ship Owners' Union supplied the Portland Chamber of Commerce with details of the disa bilities of the port on which the differ ential was based. These disabilities were taken up one by one. and with the single exception of bar pilotage.which is not compulsory on Puget Sound, all were removed without the necessity of special legislation. Free pilotage was demanded by the foreign shipowners as a price for removal of the differential, and free pilotage could be secured in no other way than by wresting the con trol or tne ear service from the little Astoria clique -which for so many years had manipulated it to the advan tage of the pilot ring and to the det riment of the entire Btate, which suf fered by reason of the poor service. The law may have imperfections few laws have not but it was agreed on, after much deliberation by the busi ness men who were paying the frieght nd suffering from the effect of the differential. The Astorlans who pro tested against the passage of the law were repeatedly asked to suggest some other method or other form of legisla tion by which the end sought could be reached: but. if they knew of any bet ter method, they kept it a close secret. This is not a matter which concerns Portland or Astoria alone. It is one in which the entire state is interested, al though Astoria, if the sentiment of the people is voiced by the newspapers, seems to regard the retention of the pilot autocracy as of greater importance than the commercial interests of all the rest of the state. Portland has no "false position" to maintain, but the men who were responsible for the Port of Columbia law will continue their contest until it is possible for shipping to get In and out of the Columbia River with no greater expense and no greater delay than Is experienced at other' ports with which we are compelled to compete. Incidentally Ifmight be said that all obstacles which Astoria can thrust in the way of the accomplish ment of this result will not prevent ultimate success, which, of course, will prove relatively as beneficial to Astoria as to Portland. In arranging for an annual cherry fair the citizens of Salem have very visely thrown open the competition to all comers. This will give the event a wider scope and Interest. Any organi zation holding a competition for prlies offered by it may very properly limit the entries to members of the organiza tion or others they may choose to h3- mlL The Salem fair is the result of the efforts of citizens generally, and the business men will provide the pre miums.' In putting up the prizes and challenging the whole world to come and win them, Salem displays a will ingness to meet all rivals upon an equal footing. The cherry fair should be ' an unqualified success. " CRITICISM WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE. A Minnesota paper rejoices over the fact that an initiative and referendum movement has been nipped in the bud by the Legislature of that state. That the movement was defeated by misrep resentation is quite likely, in view of the fact that the paper says that in Oregon eleven questions were submitted at the last election and all of them carried, showing that the people voted "yes" regardless of the measures pro posed. But we have a recollection that the people voted "no" on woman suf frage, on a local-option law proposed by the saloons, and on a bill for the purchase of a tollroad. The same paper says that sufficient signatures aie easily .obtained to all petitions and that the people of this state enacted two inconsistent ' laws which are both void because of the in consistency. Which, also, is not true. Reference is had to the gross earnings tax bills. That proposed by the Wil lamette Valley Development League did not secure signatures enough, was. not submitted, and therefore did not inter fere with the Grange measures on the same subject. The initiative and refer endum has its faults, but it is not.open to so many criticisms as its opponents in other states would, have the people believe. ROOSEVELT AT EIGHTY-FOUR. When Benjamin Franklin was called the "many-sided Franklin" he was ac corded a title which distinguished him from all other Americans of his own or subsequent times. No other man has arisen with powers and activities so varied as to challenge the right of Franklin to the distinction thus exclu sively conferred upon him. It is not unlikely, however, that if President Roosevelt , should live to the age at tained by Franklin, Si, he will win ac knowledgment for as wide a range of usefulness as that possessed by Frank lin. Roosevelt is not a man made famous by one idea; his work is con fined to no narrow lines. With the pos sible exception of Roosevelt, no Amer ican has so deeply impressed the peo ple of all classes as did Franklin. The "father of American . diplomacy" not only rendered invaluable service to his country, but his teachings exerted a marked influence upon the lives of the people, even to the smallest details of home affairs. He was a leader not only in affairs of state, but also in the for mation of rules of conduct by which men govern their private lives. He was not only a thinker and a teacher, but a practical worker. Roosevelt is all these. Franklin re tired from active work at the age of 82. The estimate of a man's life work can not be made until that work has ended, but if Roosevelt should retain his vigor to a siml'ar age, thirty-three years yet. there can be little doubt that his work will far surpass that of Franklin, not only In importance, but In its varied character. To become great in one field of effort, be it literature, states manship, philosophy, invention or war, is the achievement of few men. To be pre-eminently useful in many fields Is rare indeed. HIGHER EDUCATION FOB THE MASSES. President McFee, of the Montreal (Canada) Technical Institute, has a very high regard for that portion of the educational system of the United States represented by the Colleges of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 'He deeply regrets that Canada does not maintain such institutions, and urges that steps be taken at once toward establishment of a similar department In the educational work 'of the Domin ion. Speaking of his observations while on a visit to the United States, he said In addressing the Canadian Manufacturers' Association: I was surprised while investigating this matter recently In the United States to learn of the very large amounts that they are expending each year upon technical educa tion. In the report of the Commissioner of Education for the year lttOl I find that the lncjme of the technical schools amounted to 7, 050,000. of which the Federal Govern ment at Washington contributed 70 per cent, the state and municipal governments gave I12.5u0.000, while benefactions and fees amounted to $17,5110,000. By this you will see that in the United States the people regard tho training of their working classes as of paramount importance, and tax the country as a whole sufficiently to defray 82 per cent of the necessary outlay. In this we can certainly take a leaf out of their book. Next to our common schools, we of America prize our Agricultural Col leges, as they are called. These insti tutions are designed to give instruction not only in all phases of agriculture and animal industry, but also in min ing, civil engineering, ironworking, draughting, woodwork, and, in fact, nearly all applied sciences. There is no institution except the common school that we guard more jealously than this, lest it drift away from Its original pur pose. We shall prize it the higher after learning of the high regard our neigh bors to the north have for the work we are doing. - THE CATERPILLAR. Reports from the rural districts. indi cate that the caterpillar pest will be prevalent in - Willamette Valley or chards again this year, though proba bly no worse than in the. last year or two. To tho growing crop the cater pillar is not an -eneray unless so nu merous as to strip the trees of foliage; but the danger is that the worms will destroy the fruit buds of the follow ing season and destroy next year's crop. The careful orchardist will there fore give this pest his attention instead of relying upon the fact that the cater pillar disappears after two or three years of ravaging in the orchards. There are several methods of fighting the pest. - any of which are effective. The most common plan is to go through an orchard with pruning-hookg, cut off the ends of branches that have the swarms of caterpillars on them, and either crush the worms or cart them away to a fire. Another method is to go through an orchard with torches such as are carried in parades in polit ical campaigns and hold the torches under the Infested limbs, thereby scorching and killing the pests. Spray ing is the third method, either Paris green or arsenate of lead being used. The latter is probably the most thor ough, method, but also the most expen sive. If an orchardist begins his fight on caterpillars before they have spread over the limbs and foliage, it is not a difficult task to cut them off with prun fng-hooks and kill them. As they are found in clusters, the amount of prun ing ' on each tree is inconsiderable. Apple and pear orchards that have been given the Summer spraying for codling moth are not subject to attacks from the caterpillars, but cherry and prune orchards which are never given a Summer spray and those apple and pear orchards which have been neg lected will be found' to be Infested. The worms are just now beginning to hatch out and this is the best time-to begin war upon them. The sooner the work is commenced the easier it will be. DOLLAR WHEAT. The trend of the stock and wheat markets for the week ending Saturday again brought to mind those ancient aphorisms about the ill wind which brings good to nobody and about meat for one man being poison for another. While the gloom of a falling market hung heavliy over the possessor of stocks and bonds in the grain-carrying railroads, the' men who held wheat or wheat options were experiencing the delightful thrills of . an old-time boom In the wheat market A 7-cent ad vance in less than three days, with the price of wheat almost within reaching distance of the dollar mark. Quite nat urally rejects an abnormal condition in the market. It is the presence of this abnormal condition that has played havoc with the . stock market simultaneously with the infusion of strength In the wheat market. Unfortunately for all branches of finance and trade, these hysterical eruptions in our markets are more pro ductive of evil than of good, and their effects reach far out beyond the zone of the actual holders of wheat and stocks. The American Society of Equity, which for two years has been diligently predicting dollar wheat, is in a fair way to have an opportunity to say "I told you so," although neither the preaching policy nor practice of the society has had the slightest effect in bringing about the present high prices in the cereal. The farmers who have held their wheat are duly jubilant over the situation, as also are the profes sional bears, who devote their energies to depressing stocks on any and all occasions. But behind this comparatively small band of farmers and Board of Trade men who are long on wheat, and behind the bears who are short on stocks, is a vast army of people who share in none of the profits and yet suiter all of the losses. Dollar wheat means a ma terial Increase in the price of bread. and the constrmers of that great staple outnumber the producers of wheat by many millions. The slump in railroad securities, which occurred simultane ously with the advance in wheat, was due o the expected decrease in earn ings. Naturally, with less grain to move, there will be a lessening in the demand for train crews, warehouse men, freight-handlers and all branches of railroad labor. These men, who must seek employment in other lines of in dustry, thus suffer loss of employment in their regular callings, and, as an additional hardship, -experience, from the same cause as that which deprived them of work, an increase in the cost of living. Dollar wheat in a country like the Pacific Northwest would be of inestimable value. It would also prove of the greatest benefit to Canada, the Dakotas, or any other sparsely settled region where the production of the great cereal overshadows all other in dustries. From the National viewpoint, how ever, the permanent maintenance - of the dollar standard for wheat could hardly be accomplished without a com plete revision and readjustment of prices on all other commodities. The effect of this revision would be to leave the situation relatively unchanged, for other commodities would of necessity advance to meet the new standards which would automatically fail into place with dollar wheat. Another fea ture of these spasmodic periods of dol lar wheat which cannot escape atten tion lies in their occurrence only after practically the entire crop has passed from the hands of the consumer. We never have enjoyed and probably never will enjoy a protracted era of dollar wheat until Argentina, India, Russia and other cheap-labor countries cease to Bupply the foreign markets. Pend ing such time it is questionable whether these temporary spasms of high prices are of any tangible benefit to the coun try at large. TROUBLESOME AND UNNECESSARY. Apparently the last Legislature in serted some provisions in the new ini tiative and referendum law that will cause unnecessary inconvenience. For example, it is held by the Attorney General that referendum petitions must be filed by one person, who must be present in the office of the Governor when the separate sheets of the peti tion are detached from copies of the bill and bound together. The law pro vides, in the first place, that petitions may be filed in numbered sections, leaving the impression that separate filings may be made and the whole made one petition when all have been received. But the subsequent require ment that certain proceedings be had in the presence of the Governor and the person filing the petition shows plainly that all the filings must be made by one person, or at least a very small number. It would not be practicable for all persons circulating petitions and sending them in by mail to go af terward in person and see the sheets of signatures detached from the copies of the bill. Neither will it always be convenient for the one person who makes the filing to be present. The. purpose of the law could have been accomplished by providing that any person who filed a section of the petition should have the right to be present if he wished, but not making such, presence necessary. This is the provision of our election laws. A can didate has a right to have a repre sentative present at the counting of ballots, but is not required to do so. But, though this feature of the law may cause some inconvenience and misunderstanding, it does not present a very serious defect. Perhaps this pro vision was intended to be mandatory, but there would seem to be no reason why it should have been so. A PROSPEROUS YEAR. Following a Winter of unusual se verity comes the promise of crops of cereals and of forage plants, and in many sections of fruit, in the greatest abundance. The National Department of Agriculture is in closest touch with every section of the country, and there is not a single discouraging note in the reports that have reached it thus far this Spring. All Indications point to enormous yields in almost every standard crop. There has been a gen eral increase of acreage in the grain sections, and, while- it is yet too early to tell what the Summer will bring in the way of drouth or pests, the farm ers, livestock men and promoters of dairy and poultry interests look for ward confidently to an "early harvest and a plenteous year." With the surplus of the- abundance of several years past Western farmers generally have released their lands from mortgage; many of them have money in the bank, and not a feW have made loans on city property,, entirely reversing the old order of financial re lations between city and country. These conditions existing, it would re quire several consecutive years of crop failure to put farmers in the position of financial embarrassment in which they were when crafty politicians util ized them in producing the People's party some years ago. There is no such disaster as universal crop short age in sight, and certainly no reason to believe that one is impending in the immediate future. As it is -with the agricultural indus try so it is with business and the in dustries that it fosters. Unless ail In dications fail (and there is no reascm to suppose that this will happen), the year 1907 will be added to the list of the fruitful years in the history of the United States which began with the first year of President McKlnley's first term, of office. The industrial promoter is not shirking his duty in these times of prosperity. Certainly the laboring man should be mindful of his oppor tunity, and. Joining prudence with, in dustry, he should turn the present ad vantage to future profit, first of all by securing for himself and family a home the roof-tree of which will go far toward solving the rainy-day prob lem, when in the course of events it is presented to htm. The business Interests with which Mr. C. M. Levey, vice-president of the Northern Pacific, came in touch in the Pacific Northwest, while regretting his departure from the Pacific Coast to a more responsible position at St. Paul, will be pleased to know that they have one more friend at court, where railroad policies are shaped. Lack of personal experience in this field, on the part of the men "higher up," has been responsible for much of the neglect and mismanagement that have created such a strong anti-railroad sentiment in the Pacific Northwest. Portland, Or., and the railroads as well, would be in more comfortable circumstances today if the Wall-street end of the corporations were in closer personal contact with the tollers in the field that is yielding up the big dividends. Bradstreet's reported Portland bank clearings for the week ending iast Fri day $7,143,000. an increase of 40.3 per cent over those for the corresponding week last year. No other city west of the Mississippi River showed such a heavy percentage of increase, and but two cities In the United States exceeded It. The Seattle Trade Register, in a compilation of bank clearings for April,, credits Portland with a gain of 65.6 per cent, Seattle 10.3 per cent, Spokane 45 per cent and Tacoma 25.6 per cent. The same- authority gives Portland's gain for the first four months of 1907 as 48.3 per cent, compared with a gain of 1.8 per cent for Seattle, 40 per cent for Spo kane and 20.7 per cent for Tacoma. Comment is unnecessary where figures speak so plainly. A Seattle dispatch announces that the Centennial Mill Company will in crease the capacity of the Tacoma mill to 4000 'barrels per day, "making it the largest flouring mill on the Coast." A 4000-barrel .mill is a pretty big con cern, but "the largest flouring mill on the Pacific Coast" is still doing business at the old stand in Portland, Or., and is turning out 4500 barrels per day. . The Portland Flouring Mills Company, of this city, was the pioneer in the Oriental flour trade out of tho Pacific Northwest, and has never lost the prestige it gained at ,the beginning. The Department of Agriculture has ruled that under the new pure-food law It is not illegal to use sugar in canning fruits, but that it is unlawful to put sugar in vegetables for the pur pose of misrepresenting their character. The decision is a reasonable one. Put ting sugar in canned fruit deceives no one. Putting it in corn may quite easily make the purchaser believe he is buying sweet corn when he is not. When sugar is put in canned vegeta bles that fact must hereafter be stated on the label. The Gerald C, a useful little coast ing craft, was wrecked in the break ers at the entrance to Nestucca harbor Saturday. The Chinese Junk Whang Ho, strictly ,in the ornamental class, was in the breakers near Peacock Spit the same day, but as only the good die young, the Whang-Ho drifted out of danger and is safe in the harbor at Astoria. Over in Tacoma they are enforcing a law against spitting in streetcars and here in Portland smoking is prohibited. If this movement keeps up, they will soon be enacting ordinances forbidding gentlemen on streetcars to talk about their private affairs in such a loud tone as to be offensive to all other passen gers. Mr. Corey, so it is reported, has given orders that the name of his divorced wife shall not be mentioned in his household. Wonder what he will call her some years hence when he asks St, Peter to send her with even a drop of water to cool his parched tongue. Albany is to have a free public library. Like many other Oregon towns, it should have had one several years ago. Beginnings must be small. but with careful management a library can be secured without the burden being felt by the people. A Clackamas County bridge has stood for thirty-four years. The contractors who built it should be remembered by the erection of a monument on the spot. There are contractors who don't build that kind of bridges. After all is said and done, what benefit to the world would follow dis covery of the North Pole by either Peary or Wellman? The ice trust would likely annex the whole region after being shown the way. Those big freight engines hauling long trains of cars look good to ship pers along the lir:a of the Southern Pacific. The old-fashioned engines of small size were retained too long. Every issue this Spring cf the Coos Bay Harbor, North Bend's excellent weekly, seems to have promotion and publicity In view. And now Senator Foraker will be thankful if he should be allowed to ride on the back seat of the Taf t band wagon. PRIORITY IX FILING PAPERS. Sir. Westbrook Suggests Plan to Help Primary Ballot Reform. PORTLAND, May 12. (To the Edi tor.) In The Oregonian of last Satur day appeared a communication over the name of A. M. Webster, in which he suggests the alternating of the candi dates' names upon our official primary ballots, as a remedy lor the reform so badly desired. The consensus of opin ion must be that his suggestion would not afford the proper relief, because of the extra cost it 'would entail in the printing of .the ballots, the diffi culty of equitably distributing the blocks of tickets, and the ground it would open for fraud for unscrupulous politicians and corrupt political cliques. It seems to me. If we had a law, or an established precedent, by which the position of a candidate's name on the official ballot depended solely upon his tiling; all the papers and petitions re quired by law, as necessary to get his name on the ballot, and let the date and the hour of filing such complete papers indicate the numerical position of the candidate's name upon the bal lot, a solution would be found for the present problem. Thus, if A, B and W were candidates for the same office, and W filed his. complete papers first, let his name appear first upon the .bal lot, and the names of A and B appear in the order in which their complete petitions are filed. If, upon examina tion, the papers of any candidate are found to be incomplete, or fraudulently issued, drop his name until his papers are corrected or completed, and then give him the position, on the ticket following the names of those filing complete petitions preceding the com pletion of his papers. This would place the matter upon a legal custom, following a legal prece dent recognized, and practiced the world over. It would leave the matter solely with candidate, and would be an impetus for him to file complete papers as early as possible, permitting the authorities to make the examina tions necessary and arrange the bal lots for printing, more at their leisure. Those of us whose names commence at the bottom of the alphabet, and who could never get justice from "alpha betical order," I am constrained to be lieve, could find no objection to this arrangement. HENRY S. WESTBROOK. CRY FROM THE NORTH BANK. Complaint That Mall Service Is Still Late From 2 to 34 Hoars. ALTOONA, WasV. May 10. (To the Editor.) Spring has come; the trees, leaves are out; the river is full of shad, and the mail setvlce has again resumed its old schedule any old time from two to 36 hours late. In regard to this chronic complaint about delayed malls, isn't it about time that people on the north bank of the Columbia River, who are now receiving mail at any old time (hat the freight packets jf Jacob Kamrr and the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company see fit to deliver, choula make a request of the proper Government officials for relief? Here on this side of the river from Portland to Astoria, are some 20,000 people who ask and demand better mall service than we are now getting. If the Government spends millions yearly to improve and enlage its rural delivery, surely a demand from 20,000 people along this river will be heard. It is no fault of the transportation companies now operating, that we do not get prompt mail service. I under stand that they receive the princely sum of 116 per day for delivery of mails, and neither they nor any other company can give good service for this beggarly pittance. Let us get up a remonstrance against present condi tions, pray that the Government will ask for bids for delivery of mail on a schedule to vary not more than one or two hours. This will bar the freight packets from bidding, and the contract can be written for a sum that will en able a good fast passenger boat to op erate yearly from Portland to Astoria. Who will start the ball rolling? The Postmasters at each town served should get together, draft petitions, secure signatures thereto, and forward to proper Government officials asking re lief. It will probably cost the Govern ment an extra $20,000 yearly to give -the people on the north bank proper, mail service, but the money could not be expended for any better purpose. J. G. "BAILEY. LIFE IN THE OREGON COUNTRY Taken Aviay From Home. Eugene Journal. The San Francisco Call of April 29 con tains a picture of Marie Ware which does not resemble her in the slightest degree. Malheur Freak. Ontario Argus. County Commissioner Glover has a freak of nature at his stock ranch near Jordan Valley. It is a yearling heifer of the Hereford type, mule-footed in front and cow-footed behind. Doubling Up In Douglas. Drain Nonpareil. We understand that a very nice young lady of Texas will soon lead one of our blushing young men to the matrimonial altar. The Tinpot girls will have to hustle, or all of our young men will be going to Texas for brides. Knocked Out the Ladles, Arlington Record. A number of the housewives of our town were indignant at the water com missioner Monday morning as he turned off the water on Mafn street for a while without giving them warning, which he should have done, as a great many of the ladles were putting out the family wash ing. ' , Senator Foraker Business Son. Washington (D. C.) Times. Joseph Benson Foraker, Jr., is the old est son of the famous Ohio Senator, and remains a bachelor, much to the wonder of many. The younger Foraker is now in the thirties, and he has ever mani fested any desire to mix in politics. A graduate of Cornell and a lawyer, young Foraker baa cared more for business than for law or politics and is Just now vice-president and manager of the great traction system of Cincinnati. He draws four times the salary that his father draws as Senator and has less to worry about. While the young man has in herited much of his father's ability, he has also inherited from the mother's side a vast amount of diplomacy and repose, which fits shim for business rather than for political warfare. He is well known in Washington society and is a frequent visitor during the busy season. Saying Good Night. Houston Post. Within the vestibule he stood. Saying "Good night." Beyond the door's projecting hood The world was white. The hour was late; the moon was high; Her folks in bed. When Reginald uncorked a sigh And sadly said:, "Good night, Misa-- Smlthera." The hour of one disclosed him there. Saying "Good night." A cabman with an owlish fare Was all in sight. No other human forms were nigh; The town was dead. When Reginald uncorked a sigh And sadly said: "Good night. Miss Bmithera." The hour of two revealed him still Saying "Good night." And then her dad with brutal skill , Unslung his right. His spine was bent, his ribs awry. And bruised his head. When Reginald uncorked a sigh And sadly said: "Good gracious! what hit ma?" REINCARCERATION OP JANUARY. Pronounced sin Injustice and Hark Back to Medieval Age. MORO. Or., May 11. (To the Editor.) The editorial in The Oregonian of yester day headed "January." is one which should appeal to every law-abiding. God fearing American citizen. I agree with The Oregonian that the re incarceration of James January, under any pretext, or for any purpose, after his record of 10 years' good citizenship. Is an absolute miscarriage of justice, and one that should awaken the protest of the people of the United States as a whole. The details of the case lead one back to the "Old Forms .of Justice." which are so thrillingly portrayed by the novelist Victor Hugo in his "Les Mis erables" a justice which was fostered by the ancestors of the Honorable Attor ney-General of the United States a Jus tice which must appeal to an enlightened community as "A blot on the es cutcheon" of Judicial procedure, which time can never efface, and which future generations can never respect. Who is there who has read the sad story of the life of Jean Valjean, and who has not asked himself with a start: "Can this really have happened?" then answered his own question with an in credulous smile which branded the story as the vaporizings of the author? The present case, however, will forever put an end to questions of this nature. For it is now answered, not in words, but in deeds, and upon the recommendation of a descendent of one of those same post scribers of Justice, who considered the criminal rather than the crime, but with the difference that the scene is now laid in Christian America.) rather than in me dieval France. While I am not of the opinion that it Is a wise thing for the people to attempt to Interfere with the course of Justice, still it would seem to be the duty and privilege of every American to interfere with the course of injustice, and I con sider it a regrettable fact that Presi dent Roosevelt has allowed himself to be guided entirely by the recommendations of the Attorney-General. I feel that a case where judicial jugglery would ap pear to be so patent, as in the present, when compared with those cited by The Oregonian, in the editorial referred to; should be condemned, both by the news papers and the public, in no uncertain HERBERT S. WARD. Society Girl in Renl Estate. New York World. Miss Mathilde Van Rensselaer has gone to work as a real estate broker. She Is a bud of the proud old family that was powerful on Manhattan Island when New York was the Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam. Her forefathers were great landowners before the first John Jacob Astor began to buy. She Is the daughter of Mrs. Stephen Van Rensselaer, who was Miss Matilda C. Heckscher. They live at the Park avenue Hotel. Miss Van Rensselaer has agreed to begin her business career with the firm of Bloodgood, De Saulles (i Talbot, of Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth street. . . t- c.iu. was a noted college 1-' n . j li. n . , . - . football player. It is believed that the.- extensive acquaintance oi jm.ib Rensselaer in the society set will make her a brilliant success as a real estate broker. Yea, a Big Tree for Kansas. Lawrence Gazette. There is a legend outside of Kansas that there are no trees in this state, or, If any, they are Bcrubs, and will not furnish shade for a yearling calf. The story has just been shattered by the woodmen who were clearing up some land for Ben Wilson, six miles north west of Lawrence. A giant old Cot tonwood was felled, and the log meas ured six feet four inches in diameter. The body of the tree was cut into nine foot logs, and one of them broke down the wagoit -upon which it was loaded. The tree grew near the banks of the Kaw River, and made about 5000 feet of lumber. The chopper got logs ZVi feet in diameter from some of the limbs. Hetty Green Must Now Pay Rent. New York World. Hetty Green will have to pay office rent in future. No provision whatever has been made for her in the new banking home of the Chemical Na tional Bank, Just opened at 270 Broad way. For many years the "richest woman In the world." who is one of the largest stockholders of the bank, had a private office in the aid bank building rent free. She will now have to content herself with sharing the handsome quarters provided for all the women stockholders and depositors on the first floor. Phones Eliminating Grocery Clerks. Chicago Cnronicle. The Mooseup Grocery Company, of Central Village, Conn., has established free telephones in customers' homes, to take the place of clerks. Same Old Circus. Philadelphia Bulletin. The circus tent has gone to smash. But not the circus no. Next vear the same brass band will boom. When comes the three-ring show. The grand parade will pass along With shrill caliope. And beauty ride on prancing steeds. While elephants we'll see. The camel he will hump himself. The tiger loudly roar. There'll be rhtnoeeri and hip popotami galore. There'll be the zebra in his stripes. The gnu and the giraffe. The latter stretching out his neck As though to break in half. The leopard, the hyena too. Of sacred, cows the best. Coyote, kangaroo and elk See posters for the rest. And where the biggest tent is spread. Should ever tumult lag. Will rise the old, familiar cry, "FYesh peanuts; fl-e a bag!" But surest thing of all will be That, on adventure bent. The boy who lacks the price will crawl in underneath the tent. FISHIN' OR -From the Chicago Inter Ocean. WHAT STATE PAPERS ARE SAYING Same Old Daisy. Central Point Herald. Binger is still the same nice old Ore gon daisy as of yore. Mayor Lane and the Mule. Pendleton Tribune. But Harry Lane never seemed to be making such poor headway In his life as when trying to get away from that pursuing donkey. Providence Did It. Canby Tribune. People who are selling their land for double what they paid for it three years ago should be thankful to the kind provi dence that has brought them such good fortune. Speaks for n Place on the Bandwagon. Toledo Leader. Another batch of Oregon editors has sppken through The Oregonian in favor of Roosevelt for a third term. We're not enthusiastic, but we know how to get on to the bandwagon when the time is ripe. - Some Streets In the Metropolis. Eugene Register. - While Portland is growing at a re markable pace its growth wouid be great ly accelerated if civic pride prevailed there to a greater degree than is shown by some of its streets which would be a discredit to the humblest village in. Oregon. Also the Number of Lawbreakers. Corvallis Republican. It would be a good idea to enact and enforce a law prohibiting people from using money they owe other people in putting on style and trying to look aristo cratic. We are sure such a law would greatly decrease the number of dudes and dudlnes. How the Railroad Could Make Money. East Oregonlan. If the 8.000,000 acres of the Southern Pacific' land grant in Oregon were opened to settlement at $2.50 per acre it would give the Southern Pacific something to do in carrying In the flood of homeseekers for the new lands and then would keep the railroad busy forever after in carry ing out the immense store of products grown upon the lands. "Me Sober.. Everybody Else Drunk." Grant County News (John Day). Just because Oregon editors, following their usual custom, told the truth as to the strength of the Roosevelt sentiment in their respective communities, the Baker City Democrat throws a fit. It calls 28 out of the 32 who first answered The Oregonlan letter more contemptible than a whelp cringing before his in furiated master. Like the inebriate of much renown, it swears "all tipsy but me." Easy Money and a Reputation. Toledo Leader. Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, who has been making easy money and some thing in the line of reputation by travel ing over the country and roasting his Republican colleagues, has received a plain and vigorous calling down from Senator Fulton. Itinerant grandstand statesmen of the LaFollette type always find the pointing out of motes in the eyes of public men a very profitable busi ness. The dear people like that sort of entertainment. Sincerity Entitled to Reapert. Albany Herald. It is unfortunate that rumor should connect the name of Professor Kerr, the new president-elect of the Agricultural College, with Mormonlsm. And yet peo ple should not go into hysterics over such a report. Though Professor Kerr may at one time have been a polygamist, and renounced the practice, his profession of sincerity is entitled to respect, and he puts himself In a position, morally, that shields him from stones that may be hurled by a great many persons. Hermann's Falthfnl Friends. Myrtle Point Enterprise. The acquittal of Binger Hermann of the charge of destroying public records as General Land Commissioner came as a welcome relief to his friends in Myrtle Point and somewhat pleasantly surprised many of them, who had hoped for noth ing better than a disagreement of the Jury, with a possible conviction. A num ber were loyal throughout, however, and expected nothing else. The reason for the attitude of the others is to be found In what is now considered the rank preju dice of the Portland papers, who had not only convicted Mr. Hermann on every point, but made It appear that he was almost entitled to a death penalty. One Way to Defeat Railroad Monopoly Jacksonville Times. The railroad company rather has the best of the rate question, and sawmill men have but small hope of relief in event the Southern Pacific raises the tariff on lumber. Of course the inevitable would, soon follow still another upward jump in the price of building material. There is Just one way to defeat the rail road's game, and that Is by building an Independent electric line between - South ern Oregon interior points, and Coos Bay or Crescent City. This will give perma nent relief; but until this section of the country gets such an outlet for the vari ous products the producers will con tinue, as In the long years heretofore, to pay ruinous tribute to the railroad company. Three Years, n Tramp, and a Shirt. Indianapolis News. Three years ago Mrs. Mary Rossiter of Chester, Pa., gave a tramp a shirt, some stockings and 25 cents. She has Just received a check from her bene ficiary for $23. POLITICS?