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Wheatley; Fairmount Hotel News Stand; Amos News Co.; United News Agents. 11H Eddy street. Oakland, Cal. W. H. Johnson. Fourteenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oakland , News Stand; Hale News Co. (ioldneld, Jiev. Louie Follln; C. E. Hunter. Enreka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. ' PORTLAND, SATl'RDAY, SEPT. 14, 1907. ONE OF HARRI.MAN'S "BAD" TRUSTS. Evidence of unlawful mergers by Harriman is strongest, say advices from Washington, against the combi nation of the Southern Pacific and the Union Pacific. ' But before starting action to break up that merger, Presi . dent Roosevelt will determine whether . it is a "bad" trust. For he has de clared that "good" trusts will not be molested by the big stick. The matter hinges, therefore, on the question whether the union of the two rail lines is beneficent or otherwise in rits effect oh interstate trade. This question will command the President's "attention when he returns to Wash ington next month. Oregon can show the President that he is not dealing with a good trust in this business. It showed that to Franklin K. Lane, member of the In ' terstate Commerce Commission, who conducted a hearing in Portland last January. Abundant evidence to prove that the combination eliminated com- . petition in this state was then ad ' duced. The testimony made plain that impairment of traffic has result ed; that shipments are not so prompt as formerly; that Middle Western traf fic from Oregon is routed over the O. R. & N. instead of the Southern Pacific, and that the managers of the combined roads apportion the busi ness between the two lines; that Mid dle Western railroads, competing with the Southern Pacific, are shut out of the traffic originating on the O. R. & N, and that neither the O. R. & N. nor the Southern Facillc has built new lines because there is no competition between them in this territory. All this was brought out so con vincingly by the testimony in Port land, including that of railroad offi cials themselves, that Commissioner Lane heard less than half the list of summoned witnesses. Finally, after R. B. Miller, general freight agent in Oregon for the O. R. & N. and the Southern Pacific, had testified, C. A. Severance, attorney for the Commis sion, turned to Commissioner Lane and said: -"In view of the admissions of Mr. Miller, it will not be necessary to call any other witnesses. He has admit ted everything we came here to prove." Whereupon the hearing ended. It had gone far enough to show that the merger made worse the car shortage by barring out Middle West competi tors. It revealed that even the water traffic up and down the Willamette River and on the ocean between Port land and San Francisco is affected, since thQBe water lines of the O. R. & N. have ceased to compete with the Southern Pacific rail route. This is the cause of the present high river rates on the Willamette above Port land, against which charges shippers . have protested in vain. Six months later, in July, the Com mission rendered its report on the Harriman monopoly. Its findings ac corded with the evidence obtained at Portland.' "Before the acquisition of its stock by the Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific," said the report, "with its lines of rail and steamships, was engaged in competition with the Union Pacific for traffic going be tween the Atlantic seaboard and. the Pacific seaboard and between the Pa cific seaboard and Oriental ports. Through their several connections by rail these lines were also engaged in competition for traffic from practically all points east of the Missouri River, between the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. . .' . For all this traffic there exists at present no actual com petition between the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific lines." If the people of Oregon are con sulted, they will say very promptly that this merger is not a "good" trust. It is gratifying to them to know that this combination is first to be taken up by the President, of I all those in the Harriman "empire," and that the evidence against it is strongest of any. It will be remem bered that the President has declared himself not hostile toward mergers and pools that benefit the public. In his Memorial day speech at Indianap olis he urged amendment of the law so that "good" pools might be legal ized by the Commission and thus be exempted from the Sherman anti trust act. He said: Subject to first giving to the Government the power of supervision and control, which I have advocated, the law should be amend ed so that the railroads may be permitted and encouraged to make traffic agreements when these are In the interest of the general public as well as of the railroad corporations making them. These agreements should, of course, be made public In the minutest de fall, nnd should be subject to securing the previous assent of the Interstate Commerce Commission. But the Southern Pacific-Union Pa cific merger is not a good trust. The President will not break away from his policy announced at Indianapolis, by whacking it with the big stick. . TAFT AND CANNON. Commenting on Mr. Taft's recent speech in Portland, the Chicago Inter Ocean makes some very exhilarating remarks. Their object is to prove that the Secretary of War Is a wild eyed agitator and to set over against him as a model of serene sapience that beloved son of Illinois, Mr. Joseph G. Cannon. That Mr. Cannon is serene may be admitted. That he is sapient may be believed when it is demonstrated. But to concede the Inter Ocean's protesta tion that "he is a man who has never given any attention to becoming rich," is impossible. . Mr. Cannon is a very wealthy man. Millions to the number which herd under his roof do not accumulate without attention, se vere and prolonged attention. He is a banker, a railroad man, and he has extensive holdings which share in the golden fruitfulness of the DIngley tariff. No wonder his most emphatic political principle is to stand pat. He has things fixed about as he wants them: why change? Were we all as delightfully situated as Mr. Cannon, doubtless we should all participate in his ' imperturbable satisfaction with things as they are. Unhappily, however, the DIngley tariff impoverishes most people instead of swelling their bank accounts. Hence it is more difficult for them to stand pat than it is for the Inter Ocean's Presidential favorite. If every voter were a railroad magnate, like Mr. Cannon, and could share In the pro ceeds of the express and sleeping-car grafts, of course nobody would want those grafts eliminated. Mr. Cannon expresses great timid ity lest Congressional and state regu latlon of railways touch the interest of the stockholders. He knows per fectly well that all the dozens of rate laws lately passed do not take from the stockholders cents where the ex press companies, which are the rail way magnates by another name, take dollars. It provokes an involuntary smile to hear these altruists rave over the rights of the stockholders while they rake in the millions which prop erly belong to the stockholders. The difference between Cannon and. Taft is that the Speaker stands for special privilege while the Secretary stands for a square deal. We rather fancy that the American people are aware of the difference, and that, out side of Illinois, there are precious few of. them who will "turn with quiet confidence to the Hon. Joseph G. Can non." Those who do bestow their confidence In that quarter belong to the class of citizens who like to be bamboozled. THE COUNTY FAIR. The revival of county fairs which is taking place in Oregon this Fall is one of the cheerful signs of the times The reports which come in seem to indicate that they are everywhere un usually interesting. The State Fair at Salem will probably be more attrac tive than ever before. With all its possibilities for good the county fair has not flourished as one could desire of late years in Oregon; perhaps be cause its true method and purpose were overridden by the amusement motive. Amusement has a place at the county fair, but not quite the most important one. Races, balloon ascen sions and vaudeville shows are well enough as subordinate features; but when they become too prominent and crowd everything else Into the back ground they ruin the enterprise. For a fair is not a circus nor can an Amer ican rural community be interested for several successive days in circus frivolities, much as sueh things are enjoyed In their proper place. When the managers of county fairs began to treat the people like a crowd who came there only to be amused and humbugged, their decadence began. Expenses grew, receipts fell off. Debt and insolvency ensued. The revival of rural fairs now so hopefully under way Is coincident with a new recogni tion of their true opportunity and mission. The fair succeeds better this Fall because it better deserves success. What is the true mission of the county fair? Not so much amuse ment, one would think, as recreation. It should afford a restful pause in the year's labors, a few days for leisurely reflection in' harmony with the benign September sunshine. There is nothing frivolous about this first month of Autumn. It is mature, gentle, serious, perhaps, rather than gay, and the mood of the fair should be in keeping with the season. In September the rural community turns from manual labor to the concerns of the intellect and social life. The schools open. Dancing clubs are organized. People have time to pay visits. Who wants to go to a circus when the apples are ripe and the leaves falling? The recreation which the county fair offers should be reflective and so cial, not boisterous. It is a place to meditate upon lost opportunities and new plans, upon the apple trees which were not sprayed and the scrub cows which were not weeded from the herd, as well as upon ways td make' the brain do more work and the muscles less. The farmer's brain is his best friend if he only knew it. The fair gives him leisure to make its acquaint ance. And it gives his wife leisure to renew her girlhood friendships. In the great house at the center of the fairground there ought to be hundreds of chairs where the women can sit and delight their eyes with the currant jelly, the miraculous dahlias and the lovely crazy quilts while they tell old tales to one another and hear new gossip. Ruin stares in the ta.ee that county fair which fails to make ample provision for the women. Better sac rifice the trotting than the exhibit of angel cake. If there is not money enough to erect a grandstand and buy rocking chairs for grandma and her cronies also, let the grandstand go. It will pay better to do it. The county fair may be the best of schools, since it combines teaching with recreation. It rebukes mistakes, stimulates ambition and directs it to practical ends all at the same time. A man learns there to avoid futile ex periments; he is inspired, on the other hand, to try promising ones. . The whole atmosphere of the successful fair is uplifting, j In recent years statesmen have been visiting the fairs, as they used in pio neer times, to evade the political ma chines and meet the people face to face. Only honest men dare do this. No boss can stand the steady gaze of hundreds of clean men day after day. as Governor Hughes has been doing this Fall. When our statesmen be gin this' kind of work, when they have ideas and dare to go to the plain peo ple with them, then the doom of cor rupt government has sounded. Fof the American people are true-hearted and nothing but the right can win their permanent favor. HIGH MII.K r RICES. In explanation of high prices for milk in Portland, the Woodbum Inde pendent says: r Portland must pay more attention to set tling up the farming sections around that city Instead of devoting so much time to the policy of holding every one there, else milk will go higher yet. But Portland Is doing all it can to settle up the farming sections" here and all over Oregon. Its citizens are giving money freely to advertise the farming resources of the whole state. The truth Is, high price of milk comes from big cost of libor, which causes expensive feed prices, and expensive delivery through the city. Workers are Just as scarce in Portland as any where in Oregon. Milk is high priced- all over Ore gon. The Florence West, printed near the ocean In Lane County, says "but ter now brings 75 cents in the local market. The dairymen now receive 32 cents a pound for butter fat." And in Wallowa County, about 500 miles eastward, the Enterprise New Record says butter is 70 cents. Up in Benton County, the Corvallis Times about ten days ago announced that butter fat was 34 cents a pound, or "ten cents a pound higher than at the same date a year ago." In Portland yesterday butter fat was 33 cents a pound and butter 35 Cents a pound, wholesale, or 70 cents a roll. This does not show Portland's prices much in advance of those of its neigh bors. This city is willing that every body take to the country who can. And that is Just what, everybody who can is doing. Potato and apple prices force them to it. DOES PRACTICAL POLITICS PAY? The occasional downfall of men who have devoted their energies to the task of securing public employment is the signal for repeated warnings to young men to avoid the public service as a career. A similar warning is voiced from time to time by persons who visit the Governmental departments at Washington and see there an army of men and women holding positions se cured by them through political in fluence and held under the protection of the civil service. Of the perpetual office-seeker it is said that he spends his time, efforts and money In trying to be a good fellow, never can make as much in office in a legitimate way as he spends in jjolitics, and hence is led to questionable practices and to ultimate disgrace; Of the clerk In the Government service it is said that se curity from discharge and little likeli hood of promotion saps ambition and makes the young man or woman a mere machine listlessly grinding out a minimum of work each day. Those who utter warnings see no attractive or promising future for the man in politics or the public service. In a measure It is true that a de partment clerk loses his Individuality and becomes a mere cog In the wheel, turning in the same place and the same old way year after year. Except in a few rare Instances, there are few men who have risen from the rank of clerks and stenographers to positions of honor and power in the public serv ice. So few are instances of this; kind that, after mentioning one or two names, the list of those who have grown to greatness in the public serv ice would be complete. But this fur nishes no reason why young men and women should be cautioned against entering public employment as clerks. Some one must do the work for the people for the Government. A man of enterprise and ambition could not stand the sameness of the dally rou tine. Those persons whose qualifica tions or inclinations do not fit them for leadership or initiative enterprise very frequently make efficient work ers in subordinate positions. There must be not only leaders, but follow ers those who are willing to take and obey orders. An army of workers at Washington all determined to rise in the ranks would soon become a crowd of dissatisfied and disorganized rivals, working more or less out of harmony. Of course we all look down upon the man who has no ambition to rise, if any such there be, though It is prob able that even the most satisfied and contented desire and hope for some thing better. Yet there must be some who are willing to continue in an em ployment even if they cannot rise, or the army of workers would be fre quently broken. There is no disgrace in doing a clerk's work for a clerk's salary. If the worker feels that to be the limit of his power and the limit of his opportunity. The much-despised department clerk at Washington may be filling exactly the position for which his abilities and his training fit him. He might be a failure in private business; he might be a costly servant of the people if promoted to a super visory position. The man who knows his own qualifications and is willing to occupy a place which he Is competent to fill is much more entitled to credit than the man who tries to force his way into positions requiring skill be yond his powers. Those who have voiced the warn ings against entering the public serv ice have quite likely Jumped at a con clusion not warranted by the facts. They, go through the departments and see hundreds of routine workers apparently satisfied to rise no higher, and they at once declare that public service destroys ambition, hence young men and women should beware the public service. But is it not more probable that the young people who are' thus engaged had no desire for other employment and no talent that would warrant them in seeking posi tions requiring initiative and execu tive ability? If so, then public serv ice did not destroy ambition. The perpetual office-seeker is gen erally deserving of condemnation, for he looks more to the position of power or compensation than to the service he may be able to render in return. He is willing to spend a large sum In order to get the coveted power or seeks the position because it affords a good salary "with nothing to do." In all probability the average department clerk does a reasonable amount of ' work for the pay that is provided, though the folding and unfolding of "red tape" may occupy much of the time for which the Government pays. Except in the case of incompetent rel atives and proteges of high public of ficials, the subordinate in the service usually seeks the kind of employment for which he Is fitted. The perpetual office-seeker cares nothing for fitness or unfitness. Whether the duties be legislative, executive or judicial, if the place can be had, he wants it. He can draw the salary as well as- any one else. Probably the field of politics has been the scene of more failures in life than has any other In proportion to the number of persons participating. Many a prosperous farmer, merchant and professional man has marked the beginning of his downfall when he en tered what he called practical politics. With his farm neglected or his busi ness gone, he lingers along in the hope that some day the party or the people will recognize his claims and give him some position where he can get a lot of pay with little responsibility and less work. Most frequently the party is unappreciative, and with money gone and Individual enterprise dulled he lingers among his friends, a fit subject for sympathy or contempt. For the man who has some partic ular service to render the. public, who stands for something new in govern mental policies or service, and who can offer some reason why he should be placed In a position of influence and trust, there is no ignominy In of fice-seeking. To desire either an of fice of power and emolument or a subordinate position because it aT- fords an opportunity to get something for nothing is as discreditable as to seek undue advantage in any other respect. The man or woman who does a dollar's worth of work for a dollar at Washington is as much entitled to respect as the man who earns a dollar honestly in private employment. He who holds a position and draws a sal ary for work he does not do, merely because he has an uncle or friend who Is a Senator or Congressman, is the one who merits contempt. Of course the Portland Fire Depart ment oueht to have a water tower. It is an essential part of any metropoli tan city's fire-fighting equipment. Probably no other place the size of Portland tries to' get along without a water tower. We have had several fires here lately where its need has been imperatively demonstrated. The Executive Board has several times recommended purchase of a water tower, but it is unable to do anything Vintil the Council shall provide funds The Council has done nothing about it. It should. There might have been action long ago if some energetic Councilman had urged the matter upon the Council. There are plenty of energetic Counctlmen, but there are very few Councilmen who are ener getic when It comes to taking up a recommendation of the Executive Board. However that may be, the city needs a water tower, and the city cannot have it unless the Council makes the appropriation. The Coun cil should do It without delay. Of all the vainglorious creatures who pose for the admiration of their fel lows through the performance of some useless physical feat, the gastronomic braggart is the cheapest and most dis gusting specimen. Now we have one of these human hogs who can eat two or three dozen eggs without stopping again comes one with an appetite who will drink twenty schooners of beer in proof of his porcine pedigree; yet another will eat -a peck of peaches or a fifteen-pound watermelon at a sit ting, and so on. The latest human hog that has posed for admiration for pure, unadulterated gluttony hails from Albany. His proud claim to gluttonous distinction rests upon the record-breaking gastronomic feat of eating a dozen large bananas on a wager, without stopping. Here's hop ing that colic found him and pinched him well before his gluttonous wager was disposed of. The speculation that is indulged in regard to the soul of Madame Blavat sky whither it went and its present whereabouts is as Idle , and vain as such speculations usually are. Mrs. Besant shows commendable reticence in the circumstances, and withal a de gree of common sense quite unlooked for, when she declines to locate the soul of her predecessor, albeit with a knowing wink at the credulous. Let Rockefeller and other human repre sentatives of the porcine species be duly thankful. Madame Besant gra ciously announces that she will not give out any information about the in dividual incarnations that they repre sent though, of course, she knows. By court order, an Oregon City man, defendant in a divorce suit, is forbid den to speak to his wife pending the trial. What a punishment if she had been defendant and the order re versed. The American section of the world's Theosophlcal Society wants to be rid of Mrs. Besant's domination. If it Isn't strong enough to organize a rev olution, it has no right to exist. Crossing the Atlantic on the, Lusi tania presents one distinct advantage over the Kaiser Wilhelm. You can suffer seasickness in the English lan guage. - The Standard Oil could prove Its contempt for that big fine by reduc ing the price of poor man's kerosene or rich man's gasoline, but it won't. Well, Wellman succeeded in reach ing the Pole just about like every other explorer. Though we don't know about Andre. If he were alive, what would Rob ert Fulton say of the Lusitania's per formance? Hail, Lusitania, Queen of the Ocean, all hail! HUMAN LIFE IS LONGER NOW. Our Foremost Pood Authority Telia the Why and Wherefore. Washington (D. C.) Dispatch to the New York Times. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the Bu reau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, and one of the foremost au thorities on purefood In the country, as serts that the average span of human life' is Increasing. , "Vital statistics show that deaths among Infants five years old are not so numerous as they were 25 years ago," he says. "A baby under five years now has about twice the chance of living; that It had- then. People have learned that arti ficial baby foods are not to be compared for the nourishment of babies to natural foods. Mothers are now nursing their own babies to a greater extent than they did some years ago, and are abolishing artificial baby foods. Another factor In prolonging human life Is the check .to the ravages of typhoid fever. So successfully has this dreaded scourge been checked that In Vienna the deaths from typhoid fever do not exceed one in 10C0 annually. In fact, this disease Is almost unknown in that city. Since It is known that typhoid fever is principal iy propagated In water and milk, it is certain that the proper contr61 of these two great supplies will rob typhoid fever Of its principal terrors. "Another factor adding to the length of human life Is the outdoor treatment and segregation . .of consumptives. Scientific investigation has established the fact that tuberculosis is an infectious disease. If the tuberculosis germ can be prevented from entering the lungs, consumption will be destroyed. The segregation of con sumptives, taking the germs out of the street, and open air life of the segregated camp, will save many an invalid from death." 'Progress in surgery, and especially In asepsis and anti-sepsis, is another cause for the prolonging of life. Asepsis, the doctor explained, is the treatment of fresh wounds before germs collect in them, and - anti-sepsis is the treatment of the wounds to destroy the germs after they have collected. Then he continued: 'The deaths from Inflammation and gangrene attending surgical operations are now almost unknown, and thus thou sands of patients are saved. Still another cause for the increasing length of human life Is In the hygienic education manifested not only In the family, but in the common schools, the high schools and the universities." OMITTIXIi "PLEASE" IJT PHOM.tG. Philadelphia Aaka for Elimination on Plea of Savins Time. Chicago Inter Ocean. Philadelphia is In a hurry which is a paradox. The Philadelphia public and the Phila delphia "hello" girls are so much addicted to politeness that the telephone manage ment has requested that some be lopped off by both subscribers and girls. The girls have been instructed and the public requested to dispense with the courteous "please." Perhaps the Quaker city folk will next inaugurate a movement to return to the simplicity of "thee" and "thou" and of sincerely literal speech. The elimination is asked for on the plea of saving time. It has been calculated that politeness consumes In the aggregate such a quantity of time thnt the mil lion or more "pleases" which are dally exchanged over the telephone wires obstruct the dispatch of messages by some hours altogether. "Tis a move in the direction of a fur ther reduction' of life in the great mod ern city to a thing of mechanics, a cur tailment at the behest of business of the few amenities which remain. We express the hope that our local telephone management will not see fit to follow the Philadelphia example. We cherish a fond desire that Chicago, rush and roar and turmoil though she be, will In the future experience a larger prac tice of the small amenities that sweeten human intercourse, that constitute a grace. The PhiladelDhia example Is pernicious Let us in Chicago take a pride in still saying to the telephone girl please. MORE- CARRIERS FOR STATION A. Mr. Myers Points Out Cnuae of De layed Mall Matter. PORTLAND,, Sept. 13. (To the Editor.) Many citizens of the Eighth Ward will be obliged. If The Orego nian will allow them, through its columns, to call the attention of Postmas ter Minto to the Insufficient mail survlce from Station A. The fault is not with carriers personally, or because they are Inefficient, but because there are not enough of them to do the work required of them. People In a large part of the dis trict named get but one delivery a day about two-thirds of the time. The carriers start out so late from the station on their second round, be cause of the great volume of busi ness in the first round, that they are able only to reach a half-rozen blocks before time recalls them, and they leave the remainder of the second round unfinished. Station A needs two more, or per haps three more, carriers, and !t needs them at once. There was to have been a new carrier July 1, but as yet he has not put In an appearance. Will our Postmaster give this his at tention? L. W. MYERS One-Tenth of Panama CnnnI Done.' Minneapolis Tribune. This is considered rather remarkable in view of the fact that August is the culmination of the rainy season, with a rainfall thla year of nearly 12 Inches. The labor' and health problems seem to have been solved by the long and costly preliminary work. More than 30,000 people are now at work on the canal and railway ai.d the strip contains several thousand additional laborers for relief. Sl.:ty three steam shovels are in operation and 34 more are on the way. The death and sick rate is lower than in large American cities and the men are said to be in high spirits. Theee results have not been attained without liberal expenditure of money, '"he total estimated cost of the canal. Including fifty millions of initial cost, is $195,000,000. Of this nearly eighty millions have been actually appro priated and expenditures have created a deficit for the present year. Evi dently the total estimates will have to be revised. Hlghmore, S. D., Gets l'p-to-Date. St. Paul (Minn.) Dispatch. An ordinance In Highmore, S. D., pro hibits all persons from loitering on the steps of public buildings and stores, from eating candy or peanuts in the streets, and from flirting anywhere in public. Handicapped Poesy. The poor' newspaper poet Poor In quality and means. How hs envies his swall brother Who supplies the magazines: The latter has fine drawings Of every scene and place. : The former has the hell box And the regular printer's case. Should he writs an ox-yoke pc . Or apostrophize the stars. A B his yoke must represent. An his Mars; And If perchance his tragic muse Desires to have her say, Tis then he brings the office stock of !! into play. He tries his hand at comedy At bowlegs and knock knees And does his best to picture both with plain ( ) ) . This sort of task to magazine Star poets may seem funny. But not so to the humbler bard He labors for his money. ATTACK FAILS ON MR. ROOSEVELT. w York Audience Approves Sending Warship to Pacillr. Brooklyn Eagle. The campaign against -sending the United States battleships to the Pacific got the horse laugh from the public as represented in a big meeting In Cooper Union last night. The meeting was made the occasion for a scathing denuncia tion of President Roosevelt for sending the battleships to the Pacific, but the attack on the President was met with what seemed like grim humor by the audience. The speaker of the evening was Editor John Brlsben Walker, and when he called for a rising vote condemning Pres ident Roosevelt, Just 14 persons agreed with Mr. Walker. As proof of Roosevelt's Inconsistency as he called It. Mr. Walker quoted from the famous letter which Mr. Roosevelt sent to H. H. Kohlsaat. of the Chicago Times-Herald, from- Oyster Bay, August 7, 1899. In this letter, which has been published many, times since then. Mr. Roosevelt asked for Mr. Kohlsaat s ad vice on two points; one was as to a con templated trip to Minnesota, and the other was a broader question, as to what the Chicago editor thought should be taken up in the way of trust legislation. On the questions in that letter, par ticularly the last one, Mr. Walker waxed eloquent. "No letter ever written by an official of the National Government," said he, snows any such servility as that one. Would Hughes ask such a question? What would you think of him if he did?" These questions Mr. Walker fired ex citedly at his audience, and they were receiver! in sullen silence. With a sud den tack towards popular favor, the lec turer then branched into a eulogy of Governor Hughes. "In Hughes, we have a man," said he, "who is one of the only politicians I ever met, who is above all this business of asking advice of any one; he sees his way, and he does it; he Is not tainted with any desire for th gallery; he is honest and sincere." these sentiments from Mr. Walker urougnt lorm me nrst really sincere ap plause he received. The people clapped and cheered for several seconds after this appreciation of the Governor. Descending again to personalities con cerning President Roosevelt. Mr. Walker said: "He was born without courage, and la continually lauding the quality he had been born without." This statement was greeted with hisses and many people left the hall. "Brave men don't speak of courage." shouted the lecturer at the retreating backs of many of his audience. "Cer tainly he has not moral courage and I don't know about physical. I would to God," said Mr. Walker- earnestly, "that Roosevelt had the courage of Thomas Nast, but he hasn t." "TOO MFCHEE BY AND BV. Mr. Bryan Considered ns the Original Great I'ostposer. New York Mall. "Taft promises to acquire the title of the Great Postponer," says Bryan. If he does It will be another case of a Republican "stealing" the Nebras kans garments. That title belongs to Bryan. His Is a case where the China man's comment on a Western boom town applies "too muchee by and by." In 1896 he postponed the tarllt ques tion until "16 to 1" became a law. In 1898 he postponed his objections to colonial possessions and promoted the ratification of the treaty taking over the Philippines. In 1900 he postponed 16 to 1" in the Interest of the "par amount" issue, "anti-imperialism." In 1904 he postponed his radicalism In the interest of a "safe and sane" presi dential candidate named by Belmont In 1906 he postponed the Inevitable fight against Hearst and his pro gramme of party-wrecking. In 190T he postponed his new-found policy of Government ownership of railroads in the interest of a policy .of Government regulation in which he disbelieves "Ultimate." the word he used then is a great word with Bryan. Somehow he never succeeds in being proximate In the sense of "getting next" to the i"iues. mat Is why the people have twice postponed the grati fication of his life's ambition and are i.it-eriuny preparing to do it again Not yet, nor soon," Is his maxim, and their message to himself. "Thlnita," Certainly, Are "Working."' Springfield (Mass.) Republican A fresh revelation of the South'g tend ency to interpret National and even inter national issues through the distorting me dium of the negro question now comes up in regard to the cruise of the battleship fleet to the Pacific. No one outside of the South would have perceived the connec tion between the negro and the warships' voyage around South America, but the Baltimore Sun shows that such a connec tion exists and that all other considera tions must give way before It. The prac tically solid support of the Southern Senators for the President, In case the cruise Is criticised In Congress next Win ter, is assured, according to Senators Me Enery and Foster of Louisiana, and the Baltimore Sun explains that this Is be cause the Japanese question on the Pa cific Coast Is a race question and that the South favors any measure or demon stration calculated to fortify the posi tion of the white race In America. The Sun, in short, sees in the naval demon stration In the Pacific a virtual threat to Japan, and is prepared to back it up for racial reasons not dissociated rrom tne negro question of the South. This is cer tainly an Interesting development. Seattle Liken an Editorial. SEATTLE, Sept. 13. (To the Editors Congratulations in last Tuesday's Ore gonian over that editorial, "A Great Dif ference." Dean Swift could not have done better. It is so clever that ,1 shall send copies of it to a number of my friends in the East. Would that Seattle had such an editorial writer. SEATTLE READER. Applea. Brooklyn Eagle. Here's one acre in Colorado that has yielded $12,000 worth of apples. That's queer, considering ' that up In Vermont, PA'S PANAMA AND iftTE JANE AWT& T THE IN THE MAGAZINE SECTION OF THE OREGONIAN TOMORROW V ft! SCALING LOGS AT A PORTLAND SAWMILL Full-page illustration in col ors of one phase of a great in dustry. DISPOSING OF A CITY'S GARBAGE Ko more timely topic for Port land than this. William H. Ad ams, himself an engineer,, con tributes an article in which he maintains that modern methods are strictly an engineering prob lem, and points out a woeful waste of fuel under the system in use here. INTO UNKNOWN WILDS OF CLACKAMAS Hazardous and hard trip to Salmon Itiver Falls by an ex ploring party from Portland, who made the first photographs ever secured. SNAPSHOTS OF ODD CIRCUS PEOPLE Page of pictures taken by Oregonmn photographers in that part of the tent the public doesn't see. BOSTONIAN'S STORY OF ASTORIA REGATTA It is not conventional, but a very readable letter by a Har vard graduate to his chum, who knows nothing of the Pacilic Coast. WHEN DECOLLETTE REAPS ITS DANGER HARVEST A woman 's recital of the fash ionable world facing a season right now when low-neck gowns lay the foundation for disease. GREATEST MOHAMME DAN UNIVERSITY Frank G. Carpenter tells of queer studies in a college where teachers work without pay. HOME FOR BUREAU OF AMERICAN REPUELICS Pictures and description of handsome new buildings in Washington where John Barrett will have his offices. where they raise pretty good apples, the money that a farmer gets for an acre of the fruit comes to about 14 cents, and he has to buy the barrels to put it into. A wild rush to Colorado will probably occur as soon as the certified check for $12,000 Is exhibited at the county fair. At 380 Fret Deposit I.Ike Blood. New York Dispatch. Workmen In making soundings for an aqueduct at Peekskill, N. T., at a depth of 380 feet, found a deposit of dark red, thick liquid, resembling blood, which Is being examined by chemists. Nothing like it has ever been seen by the oper ators. The Happy Wind. A hapDy little Southern wind Went wandering away; It was the dearest little wind That ever went astray. It touched the city's ouler edge. Then swiftly turned aside. For it had heard that littls winds Caught by the hot streets died. It went along a country lane. And through the meadows fair. It lifted up a horse's mane. And stirred a baby's hair. It lingered In a quiet place Where tall, fair lilies grow; When noon drew near It crent -and hid Where pines stand in a row. It slept until the shadows turned. Then, dancing, went Its way; No other little wind that blew Had such a pleasant day. Come soon, o happy little wind. And play with us again! You know not half the Joy you brought To weary, tolling m-r.. NINETTE M. LOWATER. ITS VARIOUS USES MEXT 6EA60N? COOK. - . . From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.' TRAMTQRr-IATlOII