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Potts Roeder, Tine Beach, Va, W. A. Cosgrore. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, JC1I B, 1807. AS TO WAGE SLAVERY. By a vote almost unanimous at Den ver, the convention of the Western Federation of Labor, concluding Its sit tings yesterday, adopted these resolu tions, to wit: First Ws hold that there la a class strag gle In society and that this struggle la caused by economio conditions. Second We affirm the economic condition of the producer to be that he is exploited of the wealth he produces, being allowed to retain barely sufficient for his neces sities. Third We hold that the elass struggle will continue until the producer is recog nized as the sole master of his product. Fourth We assert that the working class, and it alone, can and must achieve Its own emancipation. Fifth We hold, finally, that an Industrial union and the concerted political action of all wageworkers is the only method of at taining this end. Sixth Therefore, we, the wage slaves em ployed in and around the mines, mills and smelters of the world, have associated In the Western Federation of Miners, Mining Department of the Industrial Workers of the World. The authors of these resolutions fall to do themselves and their cause Jus tice; because, though there Is some truth In what they say. It Is only half truth, or less than that. There Is a question, and always will be, whether the workers are getting all they are entitled to; and this question Is at once the basis of their claims to Increasing wages and of their organization to ob tain them, and likewise of the sympa thy of the general pubyc with their ef forts to get as much as they ought, equitably, to have. But the workers at manual labor are not entitled to the whole product, as these resolutions as sert. A Just proportion Is due to capi tal, to necessary profits and to organ izing skill. Also to provide against the risks inseparable from every business, for study of markets .management of credits, and care of all things. With out the capital the responsibility and necessary management, all labor will be vain. But perhaps the Intimation In the res olutions is that the state will supply the capital, take the risks, do the brain work, look out for the markets and pay the labor. This would be socialism the socialistic state, or industrial de mocracy. However, these resolutions do not say so. The authors have stopped short of the declaratory or de finitive announcement. Socialism doubt less is implied, but is not avowed. For the present we pass over the socialistic phase, to consider what the authors of these resolutions would have, to effect their deliverance from "wage slavery," and how they would obtain It. Few of the employers- of labor make much money. Most make little or none. It is only under favorable circum stances that employers can make money by hiring labor; and to these circumstances must be added In every case ceaseless vigilance and diligence on their part, use of special knowledge and skill, constant study of methods and markets and careful use of credits. Processes are continually changing, and the employer must aiways keep pace with them. Old machinery must give way to new. The element of risk Is one of the constants, which, can be reduced or minimized only by the high est intelligence. Only thus can capital be conserved, business continued and .wages paid. Since these things are so, how can it be maintained that the worker the person who performs the manual lafcor is the sole producer? Wage-capital, of course, is but the accumulation of the necessaries of life. Without wage-capital there could be no wages. Socialism direction of all In dustry by the state would be merely the wage-system disguised; with this disadvantage, that special talent would get no special reward, and excellence therefore could not be expected. But we are dealing with present conditions. .One thousand or ten thousand men, were there no wage-capital, could do nothing. And there must be directing or dominant minds. . It would be so necessarily, even under socialism. We cannot eliminate the man of excep tional ability; or if we could and should, i we should cut the very tap root of hu man progress. It may very well be as serted that labor, in many cases, does not get enough of the product.. Hence the conflict between employers and wage-workers. But that all wealth is due to labor, and therefore to the la borer all wealth Is due," Is a proposi tion of very different kind. Besides, conservation and increase of capital Is indispensable to continuous employ ment of labor. What could it profit the worker in the long Vun to take his wages from the state Instead of a pri vate employer? Were the state the employer it would be wage-slavery in deed. The authors of these resolutions are looking for resources In directions where none ever will be found. It is merely pathetic; and the more pathetic the more considerable the numbers who fasten their faith on the vain wisdom and false philosophy that underlie such assumptions. Some men undoubtedly have derived great advantages from the laws say the beneficiaries of pro tective tariff. Others have had grants of land or franchises; and others again, in absence of law or in defiance of it, have obtained rebates from the rail roads and so made vast fortunes. These are abuses to be checked or corrected, and not repeated. But the fundamental condition as to labor must remain' the same. Wage labor is misnamed wage slavery. Many Indeed work for wages through necessity; but labor is the fun damental condition of human life upon the earth, and the opportunity to get wages Is not a curse, but a boon. The' exception, who do not have to work are too few to be counted in the mass; and if the truth were known it would be found that they are not the happiest of our race. ' TUB .FARCE AT THE HAGUE. (Reports from the peace conference at The Hague continue to fill much space. They are absurd reports, from an ab surd meeting. The strong nations will not disarm; and the weak nations, by talking, will only bring ridicule on themselves. War never can be anything less than war. Its meaning is destruction, deso lation, conquest and death. What's the use of trying to mitigate the horrors of that which is the summation of the series of horrors? But we are contributing a little our- selves:we of the United States to the fartfe. We have Just opened bids for construction of two battleships of the British Dreadnaught type only more powerful. But let us go on let the nations go on playing the game of "faces on each other, and making court sweetmeats of their latent gall. The game, we may suppose, enchants sentimentalists. But it fools nobody who knows. War will not be abolished nor the heathen con verted (here the question arises who the heathen are) by namby-pamby sen timentallsm. - The strong nation will fight, for it has its prestige to maintain; the weak nation, if driven into a corner, will fight, as one frightened out of fear; and "in this mood the dove will peck the estrldge." The Christian religion cannot help, that Is, it hasn't helped, towards peace, these 18 centuries, and no wonder. For Its founder came not to bring peace, but a sword. It Is Summer, and The Hague is a charming Summer resort. They have built out on the' beach, about - three miles from the old city, one of the most charming Summer ocean resorts in the world. Tis a good place to talk peace. Nobody wants to fight there.: The storm-centers are elsewhere. But war is about the only thing that can recall a sensuous and luxurious people to seriousness. War, therefore, Is necessary for rejuvenation of a peo ple, now and again. Nothing else can do It. Nothing else can teach the les son of patriotic self-sacrifice. We can- rot abolish war; but if we could and should, we should perish in our own luxury and rot In our own prosperity. CAS WE ALL LIVE AS LONG The 120 years of Mrs. Mary Ramsey Lemons Wood compose a goodly span. In the year when she was born the Constitutional Convention met and agreed upon those famous compromises which made Federal union possible. Some of the compromises Mrs. Wood has outlived. The one which fastened slavery upon us perished "when she was three-quarters of a century old.. The one which distributed National power between the Union and the states is dying now. Mrs. Wood may live to see the end of its pernicious career. Let us hope she will. In Mrs. Wood's 25th year our second war with England broke out. Her first wedding occurred at about the time when Androw Jackson became President. She was then 43 years old. In the year of Mrs. Wood's emigration from Missouri to Oregon, 1852, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster died. She was. then three-score and five years old, yet it Is said that she mads the Journey on horseback. What woman of these degenerate days could repeat her feat? Her second wedding took place in 1854, the year when Douglas, Lin coln's famous antagonist, forced his ruinous Kansas-Nebraska bill through Congress. At the outbreak of the Civil War Mrs. Wood, was an old woman reckoning age by common standards. but men who were then In their prime now totter decrepit with one foot in the grave and babes born when, she was 75 are verging toward the end of their first half century, while she survives, planning, perhaps, for another decade of vigorous life. To most of us Mrs. Wood seems to be a miracle of longevity. (Her six score years are a marvel. Yet there Is no good reason why thousands of people should not reach her age and surpass it. That so. many .people die at 70 is a sheer waste of life at the period when It ought to be most useful to the world. For anybody to die short of 70 is little less than a crime. Think of the outcry some persons continually make over the paucity of births and contrast it with their silence over the frightful havoc wrought by untimely and need less death. If we lived as long as we could and ought not near so many of us need be born to keep the earth popu lated. Why do we die so young? Because we can't help It? A vaunt. thou pessimist We can help it Most people spend their few and miserable years on earth committing slow suicide. The majority eat themselves to death. Their bodies are animated . sausage skins, which they continually Stuff un til something finally bursts and the dis gusted spirit makes its escape. Those who die of drink, startling as the tee totalers picture their multitude, are comparatively few and If their end is sad the way to it Is Jubilant More die of bad water than of bad whisky and impure air slays more than both together. Why not start an antl- cloaed-wlndow league to keep pace with the Anti-Saloon League and do a great er and more needed work? If Mrs. Wood would set down In writing the rules whereby she has so prolonged her days and publish them we should hall her as a benefactor. Of course there Is no question of whisky or tobacco In her case, but how about buttermilk? Does, she partake copl ously of that medicinal brew as Pro fessor Metchlnkoff advises? How many times does she chew each bite of food? Does Bhe follow Gladstone's rule of 32 chews to a bite or the common American rule of 32 bites to a chew? Does she eat breakfast or go without? All these things it were well to know. What a following Mrs. Wood might attract were she to open a school of health. Does she shun worry as the Christian Scientists advise, or cultivate it as Dr. Woods Hutchinson urges? How much exercise does she take daily and -of what kind? Does she practice Buddhistic breathing? It Is fearful to contemplate her departure from the world with these questions unanswered. But there is one more important still. Would the woman whose photograph has been crowned queen of Oregon have lived out 120 years in any other part of the world? What part have our tranquilizing Winter rains played in prolonging her life? We venture to say that Mrs. Wood Is the best advertisement the climate of Oregon evef had or ever could have. The lethal miasma of Missouri would have cut short her career 50 years ago. had she stayed there. Suppose Instead of coming to Oregon she had gone East in 1852. Pneumonia would have seized upon her like a devouring fire. But she came to Oregon; she breathed the balm of fir forests and dwelt in the serene shadow of evergreen mountains; the life-giving rain instilled Its mystto vir tues into her body and she has lived 120 years. What more Is there to say? What other climate can exhibit such results? HAHRMAX METHODS EC pOTOX BT7ZLD ING. ,. Thousands of people from 'adjoining towns and country have been in Port land for the Fourth of July celebra tion. Many of them have remained for several days. They saw the parade, listened to the patriotic exercises, watched the fireworks, filled the res taurants at meal time, visited the parks and other public -places, and walked the streets by day; but where did they stay at night? No one knows. Of course they could not all be accommodated at the ' Portland hotels, for there wasn't room. The hotel accommodations of the city are altogether too meager for the average dally quota of visitors and tourists. The hotel situation here was never so serious, never so conspicuously and painfully inadequate for the needs of a growing, prosperous and hospitable city. In no other feature of the city's development has it been so wofully behind the times. The leading hotels of Portland are the leading hotels of the past dozen years, with an exception or two. Why Is it? Possible builders of hotels are frightened away, probably, by the periodical announcements of local hotel-owners that they are going to build great additions to their pres ent structures. But they never do, or at least they never have. Regularly, every six months or so, we hear from the enterprising management of the Hotel Portland, for example, that a splendid new annex is about to be erected; but the splendid new annex Is still entirely in the imaginations of, the owners. How much design in .these fake stories has there been to discour age others 'from going into the hotel business here? Meanwhile other cities are building new hotels, and taking care of every body who comes, in good fashion; while in Portland the visitor who arrives on a belated train at night must walk the streets or sleep at the police sta tion, unless he Is lucky. FOREIGN TRADE INCREASING. The foreign trade of the United States continues to grow at a most gratifying pace, and if it is suffering from any lack of transportation facili ties, as Is alleged by the ship-subsidy seekers, the handicap Is not discernible in the official returns. The Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Com merce and Labor has Just Issued a bul letin presenting the figures for the month of May, and also for the eleven months of the fiscal year which ended June 30. In the previous year, for the first time on record, the foreign trade of the country was in excess of $3,000, 000,000. For the first eleven months of the year Just ended the total had reached a figure far enough in excess ot. $3,000,000,000 to make it reasonably certain that the totals for the twelve months will reach three and one-third billions. The increase In exports for the month of May was much less than the in-, crease in imports. This is attributed in part to the big strike, which interfered with the shipping business in New York in May. On this account the ex cess of exports failed to make as good a showing proportionately "with the im ports as in, some of the preceding months. The figures show that while we sold foreign countries merchandise and agricultural products to the extent of $134,728,000, we purchased from the foreign countries goods and various products of t)ie value of $126,611,000. This difference between what we buy and what we sell is commonly known as the balance of trade, and there has always been a tendency to over-estimate the importance of its bearing on the general trade situation. It is, of course, pleasing to reflect that we .are producing so much that the foreigners are our permanent debt ors on this tratje balance sheet It is by no means a certainty, however, that we should be much worse off if we im ported . even greater quantities of for eign products than we now bring In. It might be more to our advantage to receive some of the pay due us for wheat wool, hides, lumber, cotton and other of our great staples in the shape of foreign ships, merchandise and ma terials. Among the , imports for the month of May were "crude materials for use . in manufacturing" to the amount or $27,728,000, while our exports under the same heading for May were but $25,989,000. In this particular branch of Industry the balance of trade appar ently stood against us to the extent of more than $1,000,000. But passing on to the head of "manufactures ready for consumption, " we find that the foreign ers bought from us in May to the ex tent of $37,805,000. There are a great many commodities which we could use in this country to decided advantage in our manufactur ing industries, and some day our polit ical economists will repeal obstructive and restrictive laws and enable our people to Import 'them without paying fabulous duties. Cheap . ships with which to send our iproduets to market are among the trading facilities which should be made available for Ameri cans at as low a cost as they are se cured by the foreigners. Our foreign trade is now well past three billions per year, and it will not be many years before this figure is doubled. The time would be hastened quite materially, however. If we made it easier for our neighbors to do business with us. Vice - President Fairbanks never tasted wine, spirits, beer or any kind of intoxicating liquor In his life.. Yet the Prohibitionists are on his trail. At Seattle they are getting ready to "put it up to him on his approaching visit They will insist on his telling whether he will support National Prohibition, or not. At times he has been guilty though never drinking himself of serving wines at dinners, and the Pro hibitionists of Indiana are now "going for him" because cocktails were handed round at his Roosevelt luncheon at In dianapolls. It seems that our Prohibi tion brethren deem It a special offense on the part of a man who doesn't drink himself to supply drink to others, in any circumstances. Lemonade and buttermilk would perhaps'be condoned; but offer of these beverages wouldn't be likely to Increase the popularity of a. candidate. The notorious Moorish (brigand Rat suli may discover later in the game that in the person of General MacLean the Englishman, he has "caught a Tar tar." While for many years an active participant, in Moorish politics, Mac Lean Is still an Englishman, and "the power -whose flag is never furled" has made a demand that prompt steps be taken for-hls release. Raisuil has been quite successful in his kidnaping game, but has' never before bagged such a -prize as he now holds. Perdlcarls, the alleged American, was a mild, amiable sort of a nonentity, hardly worth fight ing over, so he was ransomed inx order to save trouble; but MaoLean Is a fight ing man and a diplomat of the breed R-hich jiatlons are rather fond of pro tecting. Raisuil, to use an expression of the street, is "up against the real thing now." With noise and bustle, crowded streetcars and sidewalks thronged by eager multitudes; with- processions long-drawn out and lavish pyrotech- nlcal display; with patriotic music and the unfurling of banners the Fougth of July of the year 1907 and of the Inde pendence of the United. States of Amer ica, the 131st, has passed Into history. The records of the day will not be fully made up until the statistician finishes his grewsome account of death and damage, resulting from the careless handling of the elements of noise and explosion that enter so largely into the festivities of the day. The period of tetanus is from one to three weeks; hence this part of the record will be not closed for some days. The horrors of death bv wtHfsl shock are Increased, as far as those who witness it are concerned, when the event occurs hiith above the rrnimil and the body Is restrained bv Its de stroyer from falling: While by com parison with the number of men en gaged in the electrical industry very few come to an end at once so untimely and so horrible as that which overtook Lineman Welsh last Wednesday, such occurrences are common enough to present in the most emphatic way the fact that electrlcitv is a servant that Is constantly on the verge of revolt and one that loses no chance to defy the cunning of Its alleged master. A marriage occurred in this rltv a. few days ago in which the man war 74 and the woman 20 vears nt r A marriage of this kind, being contrary to nature, is void rrom the beginning Of the rjrOmiS of hflnnlnRa an Yi virtue of continuity. Such a marriage mocKs at common sense and is or dained -by folly to become a source of unhapplness. If not of scandal: of 1ea.l- ousy it not of crime. Great Britain has drawn th -nirr line by refusing to admit to the army or navy a youth born of an English mother and a neero fathr TViin mav be all right over In "dear old Lunnon," but If old "Stormalong John" had drawn the color line out in the Far East his troops would have been insufficient in numDer to make even an exciting scrap for Fuzzy Wuzzy with " 'is 'ay rick 'ead of 'air.'" The Moqul Indians are &ld tn ha starting out on the warpath. This is a refreshing ehane-n from tha tuMn. announcement that the Yaqui Indians are off on a killing expedition. If the Moquis are as much like the Yaquls In action as they are In name, a speedy dispatch to the happy hunting grounds should ibe awarded them. Muddy Bar John. a. ITmatnia TnAi.n ana consequently a rree-born Ameri can citizen, absorbed too much liquid patriotism Wednesday and lay down on the railroad track to rest And thus it Is that firewater as well as fireworks makes great inroads on the population Interested in a display of patriotism. Hottest day ever known in Portland was July 4, ' 1866. The few who had thermometers noted a temperature up to and above 100 degrees. Contrast of yesterday with that day was notice able by those who recall that day. July 4, 1866, was high temperature mark. One and another are putting in criti cism of Mr. C. E. S. Wood for his Se attle address. But why pay attention to pretentious Socialism? Men like Mr. Wood are serious or important, only to themselves. Having successfully pulled off an other National holiday, no serious prob lem faces the youth of America until the opening of school two months hence. And now that it's over, let us apply ointment bind up the wounds and for get all about it until the next safe and eane Fourth. Ocean Grove, N. J., has prohibited the sale of chewing gum within the city limits. The moral wave is spread ing. Comlo opera manufacturers lose a big thing when they overlook Raisuil. He certainly ranks' with Robin Hood. Under all the circumstances, failure of the scheduled showers to materialize yesterday will be forgiven. Only a few days left to get the chil dren's clothes patched and the trunks checked for the beach. rare: doccmests sold. Various Prices for Highly Interesting Relics. New York Times,- June 28. The original muster roll of the Sons of Liberty, of New York, the first mil itary organization formed here against the British in the Revolution, fetched $38.50 at the autograph sale by the Merwln-Clayton Company, in East Twentieth street yesterday. A resolution of Congress regarding the clothing of the soldiers in the Revolutionary Army, dated June 19, 1776, and signed by President John Hancock, brought $16. A letter-book of the firm of John De Neuvllle & Co., of Amsterdam, Hoi land, with accounts of supplies for Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, Arthur Lee, and others, 1780-84, isold for $15, A two-page letter of the celebrated French officer, Brigadier-General Du plessls, addressed "A Son Excellence Le General Washington," and dated New York, July 20, 1786. fetched $18. A military pass to West Point signed by George Washington and dated Oc tober 20, 1779, sold for $37.50. A long and interesting letter, writ ten by John Parke Custis, son of Mar tha Washington, addressed to George Washington, and dated Mount Vernon, January 13, 1779, brought $34.50. A folio -letter of Thomas Stone, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, addressed to his brother Walter and dated May 24, 1783, fetched $46. The original autograph draft of letter of President Madison to Gov ernor William Miller of North Caro lina, dated Washington, January 4, 1816, and regarding the war of 1812, sold for $25. . A letter of the Confederate General, Joseph E. Johnston to Lieutenant-Gen-eral Pemberton, In charge of the gar rison in Vicksburg, dated May -17, 1863, and predicting the fall of that city, brought $30. A letter of Charles Dickens to Lord Albert Conyngham. dated Paris, Feb ruary 10, 1847, declining to attend masked ball because he was too busily engaged In writing "Dombey & Son,' sold for $18. An autograph note by President Lin coin, February 11, 1865, fetched $30. The original penciled autograjh note of Charles Sumner to Secretary E. M. Stanton, when President John son was seeking to remove the lat ter "Senate Chamber, 21 February, 1867, (1868?) Stlckl Ever sincerely yours, Charles Sumner" sold for $12.75. It Is described In the catalogue as "the shortest Important letter ever written." A letter of General Jubal A. Early to General William H. Payne, Lynch burg, April 12, 1889, opposing the pro posed appointment as Postmistress of the widow of . "Stonewall' Jackson, brought $3.50. W. ROCKEFELLER AS A HOG. He Isolates an Old Soldier and Refuses Him Hla MalL Chicago Evening Post. It has been told before this hpw wiinam KocKereiier, multi-millionaire, bought all the Adirondack land surround ing the little home of Oliver Lamora, war veteran, and then secured an Injunc tion to ke'ep the old soldier from trespass ing. An appeal from Rockefeller to the mail department at Washington resulted In the removal of the postofflce at which Lamora received his mall to a point well within the millionaire's preserves, and the office was called Bay Pond. The enjoined one could not go for his mall without the certainty of arrest for violating a court order. His pension check was In a Bay Pond postofflce pigeonhole, and Lamora needed, the money. He didn't get it Mr. Rocke feller had no pressing need of money. He couldn't feel for his victim, but finally when Mr. Meyer s mail began to be trou- blesomely burdened with protests from men who could see injustice though it was. hidden under a cash bag. the Postmaster-General acted. He wrote a letter to "Veteran Lamora telling' him that he could go for his mail without fear and Mr. Meyer addressed the letter to the Bay Pond postofflce. Side by side In the pigeonhole with his pension check reposes Mr. Meyer's mis sive to the veteran to come and fear not It is a fine Joke. It is young yet, but it will be grayer with age than is the head of the old soldier before one of Mr. Rockefeller's guards that '" hem In the wilderness homestead of Lamora tell him that he may tread the ground made sacred by Mammon. Mr. Roosevelt is at Oyster Bay, and as yet Mr. Rockefeller has not succeeded in closing the presidential postofflce. It may come to that one of these days. In the meantime Mr. Roosevelt has oppor tunity to mail a letter to his Postmaster- General. The President can say much in a short note. There are Jokes and Jokes. The Roman Catholic Church. New York Evening Post An. open but anonymous letter com posed by five priests has been addressed to the Pope, and has excited some com ment In Rome. They remind Pius X. of his first allocution, in which he called upon the bishops to aid him in ridding the church of "sowers of tares, apostles of monstrous heresies, and rebels." The writers of the letter accept these epi thets for themselves, but rejoin that the Vatican, by its reactionary attitude, has alienated the two great modern forces, science and democracy, which the pro gressive priests had hoped to win to the church. Christianity, they say, has ceased to be a living force; it has become a cold tradition. The church has always checked scientific research and popular liberty. She should bring herself into sympathy with popular ideals. She has pinned her belief to certain stereotyped doctrines. continues this letter, although the body of scholastic teaching Is "but the result of the life of the fundamental dogmas of Christianity as humanity in the different stages of its development has lived them." It seems Indeed as If the Catholio Church were in greater danger from Internal than from external perils. Attacks from with out have left her largely unmoved in the past As a writer in the Journal des Debats points out Catholicism is suf fering from an Inner fermentation, which is causing a fever among the faithful and the priests. It draws the former towards political Socialism, the latter towards a radical philosophy, and thus imperils both discipline and doctrine. Ifew Neighbors. Omaha Bee. Within tha window's scant recess. Behind a Dink geranium newer. She sits and sews, and sews and sits. Prom patient hour to patient- hour. As woman like as marble Is, Or as a lovely death might ba A marble death condemned to make A feint of Ufa perpetually. Wondertnf. 1 watch to pity her; Wandering, i bo my rsuiess waysi Content. I think the untamed thoughts Of free ana solitary nays. Until the mournful dusk begins To drop upon the quiet street. Until, upon the pavement far. There fans the souna or coming iset. A happy, hastening, ardent sound. Tender as the kisses on the air Quick, as if touched by unseen Hps, Blushes the lit tie statue there; And woman ilka as young life is, And woman like ate toy may be. Tender with color, lithe with love. She starts, transfigured gloriously. Superb in one transcendent glanoe Her eyes. I see. are burning black - My little neighbor, smiling, turns. Ana throws my maskea pity back. I wonder," is it worth the while. To sit and sew from hour to houe To sit and sew with eyes of black. Behind a pink geranium flower? GREAT IS THE UNWRITTEN" UW One Phase of lt Operation That Led to Scandal and Death. PORTLAND, Or July 4. (To the Editor.) In a certain town of 1O00 pop ulation or so. back In the States, where the writer knew by name every man, woman and child in the place, appeared one day a fine-looking man and woman, who rented the best furnished apart ments, hanging out a shingle, "Dr. Swell, Dentist." Dignity of manner, ex quisite dress and only the choicest cuts of porterhouse steak characterized the new-comers, who at once made an im pression. The woman. It was known, made occasional purchases at the best store, trading always with the proprie tor, with whom she lingered each time and chatted apart. One day this same merchant was in structed that "the doctor" was to be away a day or two, and coquettlshly in vited by this charming woman to call, which- he did. By natural steps one thing led to another, till, at the right moment, "the doctor," who had been all the while at home, burst from an adjoining room, dancing like a Coman che Indian around the entrapped mer chant revolver In hand, - picking the best place to plant at least five pistol balls in the carcass of the despoller of his home. The wretched victim, peg ging in the extremest agony for his life, was permitted to go on the stipulation that by 12 o'clock next day he should pay as hush money to "the doctor" $2500 cash. Now $2500, 40 years ago, was not al ways lying loose In the till, even of a village merchant. So application was made for the money to a grouchy old money lender of the place, who had grown rich by buying cattle and hogs and selling them on the St. Louis mar ket The cash was ' counted out with the remark by the broker that it was the second $2500 he had loaned that morning for some mysterious purpose. The remark put the last borrower to thinking,, and, getting the name of the other, hunted him up. A comparison of notes showed that both had been caught In the same clever trap one to pay at 10 A. M. and the other at 12. A warrant was procured for "the doc tor" and his partner, which was served after battering down their door by the constable and his posse. The pair was placed on trial, and, inasmuch as no money had been paid, they were al lowed to leave town on the first train. -As might be expected in a little town where everybody knew everybody else, this affair, was soon In everybody's mouth, and so preyed upon the merchant, who had always borne a good name and who had a most excellent family, that he was in less than three months' time in his grave. Publication In the papers of the Inci dent brought to light the fact that this same "doctor" had in a similar melee killed a man In another state, who, in stead of begging, showed fight. "The doctor" and "his wife," It seemed. In the trial swore together, and the other party being dead, the defendant was acquitted by a weeping Jury, pleading the unwrit ten law. ANOTHER PREACHER. THE TESTIMONY OF A NEIGHBOR How One Newspaper Has Bntlt Up a Reputation for Telling; the Troth. Taklma Republic The Oregonian yesterday gave a newspaper correspondent named Neas ley a well-deserved flaying for his tes timony before the Washington State Railroad Commission that lie had been instructed to send The Oregonian a "colored" report of the Colfax hearing, on which work he was employed one day in the absence of The Oregonlan's special staff correspondent As all newspaper men In the North west know, there is not a paper pub lished anywhere in whose editorial rooms more stress is laid upon the ne cessity for securing truthful news re ports than in those of The Oregonian. Tears of honest effort in this direction have given our Portland contemporary a reputation above suspicion in this respect NEWSPAPER WAIFS. Does your .husband want a Job, Mrs. Me GulreT'.' "No; but if you've got one for him I'll make him take it." Judge. "Is he a man who uses good Judgment V "Excellent. But he always puts it to use about a day too late." Milwaukee Sentinel. Slmklne "Are you going to take a vacation this Rummer?" Tlmkine "Yes. I think so. I have almost recovered from the effects of the one I took last Bummer." Chicago Dally Newa Dollv "No. I won't wash' my fac. I "Just hate to wash my face!" Grandma- "Naughty, naughty I When I was a little girl I always washed my face." Dolly "Yes, an' now look at ltl" Cleveland Leader. 'Mrs. De Swell Is the president of the Home for the Aged. I gave her $10 for it today, which I couldn't well afford. "God will re ward you." "He has already. She asked me to luncheon." Harper's Bazar. . Mrs. Smith (decidedly) "My husband and I had a clear understanding while we were engaged. Mr. 6mlth said he wanted a plain deal in marriage." Mrs. Jones (maliciously) "He needn't worry. He got lu" Baltimore American. Prestidigitator "You saw me put your watch in your handkerchief?" Boy on stage "Yes." You can reel it stin m me nananercnier7" Yea" "You can hear it ticking" "Yes. but Yes. but what?" "My watch hasn't been going since I took the works out at school." Punch. Portland la All Right. New York Herald. There is complaint again that Portland does not get in the Eastern newspapers enough." It doesn't seem to occur to such critics that the Eastern newspapers print what they want to print, not what we want printed. Portland Oregonian. Happy is the city which furnishes fewest sensational stories of crime and mlsgovernment to "get in the Eastern IN TRAINING In The Magazine Section of the , SUNDAY OREGONIAN ANTMALD0M: RHYME STORIES FOR CHILDREN A new feature, with colored pictures that every youngster in the Pacific Northwest must enjoy. President Roosevelt dare not question their authen ticity. WHEN STEUNENBERG PRESERVED ORDER Full page of photographs showing the "bullpen" near the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine, where 600 men were confined after the riots in 1899. MAKING A NEW BATTLESHIP OREGON A full page of photographs showing work at the Puget Sound navy-yard on the recon struction of a fighting machine that' nine years ago filled the. world with her fame. "PROUD OF HIS TRIGGER FINGER" Another of Homer Daven port 's powerful cartoons and preachments in which the dis cerning reader can see censure of a distinguished ex-President. INDIANS SPEARING CHINOOK SALMON Copyright full-page photo graph in colors by Benj. Gif ford, of The Dalles, illustrating an industry, as well as a sport, on the .Upper Columbia. "THE HAND THAT . RULES THE WORLD" O. Henry, who is writing the best humorous stuflE ' now pub lished in the United States, de votes the current week to the female lobbyist in Washington, with the customary surprise at the finish. DR. FURNTVALL, PHYSICIAN-DETECTIVE ' No stranger story was ever .written than "The Kleptoma niac" a tale of the theft of a valuable diamond by a most ex traordinary .agency. WIVES OF MEN WHO WANT TO BE PRESIDENT Portraits and pen sketches of five women who have helped to advance their husbands' politi cal fortunes. ACROSS AFRICA IN AN AUTOMOBILE Prank G. Carpenter tells of an 80-mile ride through the farms and deserts of Eastern Tunisia. CLASSICAL OPERA OF THE JAPANESE" Annie Laura Miller describes it. All effort of actors is to suggest ; no realism is ever per mitted on the stage. WHEN FIRST OREGON FOUGHT INDIANS This was 43 years ago. Cyrus H. Walker and William Hilleary contribute historical sketches that will be new to thousands of the present generation of Oregonian readers. papers." Touching the rapid growth and good deeds of Portland, the Her ald is one Eastern paper that from time to time gladly quotes from the columns of the enterprising Oregonian. Claaa tn Botany. Harvard Lampoon. Explain the manner of a plant's breathing. How? Did you ever hear a snore coming from a rosebud? Why cannot a plant's pistil be called a revolver? Do milkweeds grow In pints or quarts, and how are they related to the cowslip? Explain the difference between com mon chlckweed and chlckweed pre ferred. Describe bark of the dogwood. What Is the apple of a potato's eye? From the Washington Star.