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The labor of the men employed In supporting the military power of the conntry Is not lost. On the contrary It is employed to good advantage In many ways; perhaps to the best pos sible' advantage. In the first place it supports vast numbers of persons en s-acred In the nrena.ra.tion of materials. of clothing, arms and provisions; in construction of vessels and ' fortifica tions; in supplying transportation, horses and equipments; In building, arming and manning our ships of war. The military service thus becomes the support of one of the great depart ments of the Industry of the country. It is a department that could not be nut mi V. , , 1ABM n ..nn, . . I. . of correlated interests. There is no mistake more common than the as sumption that everything that is spent for support of the military and naval service of a country is so much wasted. Abandon it, and the num ber of the destitute would, be enor mously increased; because the pay, wages, trade and industry that support great numbers would be cut off. It is useless to say they could go Into other and better business,. Are not other employments crowded already? How many men are employed, and for how. long a period. In the construc tion of a single battle ship? And for general supplies for the needs of the A T m tr anrl Votrff? A n rl l . nnnatnin tlon of land defences? To abolish the Army and Navy would cut off Indus, tries whose value exceeds 300,000,000 a year. The labor so' employed could not be diverted to support of the des titute people of the country, for there would be no way to pay it; and be sides. If it were done, the destitution it would beget would soon be tenfold greater than It Is now. Yet there is still a greater reason. Without utmost "peril the country pould not be left in a- defenceless con dition. Even now, its Army and Navy are smaller than prudence would re quire. If we do not maintain and Increase our means of defence; more loss could be inflicted upon us in three months by an enemy than all th' money we pay for support of. Army and Navy during any generation would sum; .besides loss -of- prestige and national character, deep humiliation, and probably total change of our sys tem of life atod government. The Sooialist scheme, whatever form it takes, always contemplates abolition of the military arm. It is not consistent with the dignity, wel fare or safety of the country. TirE REWARD OF THE PEACEMAKER. "They say" there Is a joke in dip lomatic circles on President Roosevelt. It was his intervention that ended the war between Russia and Japan. Now Japan, though she had" inflicted great losses on Russia, was much nearer the end of her resources, and peace came as a godsend to her. That Russia would have triumphed finally is not doubted by men anywhere who keep In. touch with-the game of nations. But the Czar, having troubles at home, and not being a very warlike charac- ter, accepted the tender of the (rood offices of the United States, and peace was made. Japan thereupon thought very highly of her achievements, and was ready to whip anybody. So they say President Roosevelt Is receiving that -peculiar brand of re ward that is generally the portion of the peacemaker. It was a blunder, these critics hold, when' he Interposed to end the Russo-Japanese war. He would not have done so, they say, had he had an adequate conception of the Japanese character. Had the Presi dent become exceedingly engrossed with some Important question at home at that particular time and. had to forego his role as the. world's leading pacificator, he, would not have to be sending ships to the Pacific and forti fying our non-contiguous' possessions as a warnyig to Japan that we will tolerate no aggressions. Russia In the long run would have probably 'been victorious ' -had she continued the struggle and the little brown men would not now be In a mood where their ambitions endanger the friend ship of their country and the United States. This may be- bante, mostly; but anyhow, It 'Is entertaining. IS IT A DANGERT - The Jewish Chronicle, of London, noting a number of Intermarriages be tween Jews and Christians, and ad vancing its plea for "strengthening the moral and religious , conscience of our people," states what it seems to think a profound and perplexing quan dary, in these words: The Jewish, people are beginning te5 realise that so long ma they, remain dispersed and without territorial foothold the amenities ot modern civilization are a greater danger to their national existence than the confine ment of the ghetto and the barbarities of torch and thumbscrew and pogrom. It is understood, of course, by the general reader, that the national ex istence of the Jewish people, men tioned here, -Is purely an ideal state; maintenance of which, during so long a period. Is among the most striking phenomena of history. v That Israel will ever again be an actual nation, using the term in a "secular sense a nation and state in which the people will be gathered together in their sep arate political sovereignty seems most Improbable of things. But Israel, even in its ancient day, was scarcely a political state. It was a religious body, based on ideals that never can be wrought Into effective political nationality. This Is said with the more confidence, -because they never have been. The Jews, as a people, nowhere contend, for political power. Their national existence Is an imperium in Imperlo, based on their nature a a people, and maintained with a devo tion to ideal conceptions, and to a pride in their history, without a paral lel in all time. ' To one who surveys the history of this people, .It seems improbable that the danger ' t6 it suggested by the London warning is very. real. The in termarriages seem no more frequent than "those of the ancient times, de nounced and deplored by the proph ets. Susceptible as they are, 'equally with others, to the amenities of mod ern civilization, the modern Jews yet everywhere pre-erve their racial In tegrity almost without a break. This, in the main, concerns themselves; for It nowhere Interferes with their duties of citizenship. But even if there were danger of the absorption of the Jews, through the amenities of modern civ ilization, into other races and nations, we can scarcely think that the paper from which we have quoted would welcome continuance ot the persecu tions of the Jews, which have dis graced history and humanity, as la means of fortifying them to resist It. DR, BRYAN'S REMEDIES. The gold standard, we were told, was the scarce and dear dollar. Prices could never rise, but must go on falling, falling. The gold barons woild have all the money. Labor would be enslaved. The workman, or small tradesman, never could own his home. Wages would . fall to the starvation point. Farm . products would bring nothing. On these croals lngs even Oregon came near casting its vote for Bryan. But (he gold standard was upheld; and now what? From', the same sources we hear that high prices are ruining us. Wages are so high that houses can't be. built. All materials have gone to excessive prices. And the cost of living i has increased to such extent that the wages of the workman will not support his family the high wages the employer grum bles about. But perhaps the country Is In pret ty good condition after all and would not care for ','a change," even though employers on the one hand grumble about paying the wage rate, and wage workers on the other hand complain of the high cost of all they must con sume. ' -.. If the gold standard had ruined the country we should have need of Mr. Bryan and his party. But as things are, perhaps we haven't even though there Is a lot of citizens who will be satisfied neither with scarce money nor abundant money, neither with high prices nor wjth low prices, neither with adversity nor prosperity. Whatever the condition. It Is wholly bad, and they wHl commend you to the prescriptions of Dr. Bryan..- THE GCIDE OF COJfDTJCT. What Is to be the guide of our con duct. In matters moral, political and other? Judgment of situations, on their own merits and on high prln clples, as they arise, or mere opposi tion to the course of others who may be disliked, or in whom we may have no confidence? Is It enough, for uss If we find a particular class of persons pursuing a certain course, to take the opposite, without inquiry where it will lead us? To explain what these - Inquiries mean, let us say that shallow people stui attempt to explain that It was right to oppose the gold standard In 1896, because "the Interests" were for it. You are to take an opposite course, then, on any measure, to that taken by "the interests." even if the course they take is altogether right. That the great financial forces of the country did stand together In 1896 to uphold the gold standard, is un doubted. And the great labor forces did the same. Their combination to that end resulted in overwhelming triumph for the gold standard, and there has been unexampled prosperity ever since. Some, however, voted the wrong way, and give the excuse for it that "the interests" were for the gold standard, and it was right, there fore, to go against it. ' He who regulates his conduct on such motives as these acts wlUjout a very shallow person and great simpleton. . I It was right to uphold the gold standard, without regard to any who might be for it or against it. Many of the great lords of finance, right on that question, are wrong now in their opposition to publicity, regulation and control by law of the vast corporate affairs with which they are connected. They did a good thing when they helped, to maintain the gold standard, but are doing bad things when they try to put themselves above the lawi enacted for control,, of corporations and trusts, and for protection of the people. The American citizen, master of a portion of the sovereignty, ought to be a person of discrimination and judgment. But some are not. They will take a stand against what they know to be right, only, because some others whom they suspect or dislike have taken their stand on that side. It isn't the cause they consider, but the supposed motives of its sup porters. It Is the shallowest of all grounds of political or moral action. LIGHT OJT THE JOINT RATE. The wheat growers and Email flour manufacturers of the Inland Empire have been a little slow in understand ing the full meaning of the joint rate . order which the Washington Railroad Commission , has ordered to accommodate the Puget Sound milling trust. It is perhaps better late than never that they should at last show signs of grasping the importance of the order. The .Walla Walla Bulletin, which In the past has been a warm supporter of the Railroad Commission In Its efforts to help out the Puget Sound milling trust, recently re printed from The Oregonian a pro test against the joint rate. Appar ently having no personal knowledge of a matter of such vital Importance , to Walla Walla and the surrounding country, the editor of the Bulletin sub mitted The Oregonian editorial to E. S. Isaacs, manager of the H. P. Isaacs Milling Company, of Walla Walla, who gave tlfe following opinion: Replying to your' Inquiry concerning the correctness of the recent Oregonian edito rial on "Joint Rates," I beg to say that the rate as It now stands is a direct blow and a straight discrimination against the flou milling .industries of Eastern Washington located at points wholly in O. R. & N. terri tory, of which there are a number. I may add that upon the announcement of the new rate the discrimination was so glaring that I at once wrote to the board, calling their attention to the conditions created, and I shall be pleased to advise you later aa to disposition made of the complaint. If the Bulletin and Mr. Isaacs and a few others vitally Interested In the Joint rate had paid more attention to the warnings sounded by-The Oregon ian, the Railroad Cdmmission would have encountered such a protest that the discriminatory rate would never have been ordered In. The strength displayed by ihe Puget Sound combine was so pronounced that there Is small likelihood that the Commission will pay any attention to the belated pro test of Mr. Isaacs. The Washington Railroad Commis sion, in ordering the joint rate, ex cused its action with an allegation that wheat for shipment to Puget Sound commanded higher prices at Interior points than for shipment to Portland. It further alleged that this preferen tial was a permanent condition due to greater competition among Puget Sound buyers. The testimony from which these deductions were drawn was supplied by a self-confessed liar named Nessley and by the Puget Sound millers who desired a "joint rate so that they could secure wheat cheaper than under existing condi tions. The Oregonian has proved time after time, through submission of of ficial figures of unquestionable ac curacy, that Puget Sound is not a better market for wheat than Port land. Some excellent corroborative evidence on this point is found In a Nez Perce, Idaho, dispatch printed In the news columns of yesterday's Ore gonian, as follows: A boost In the price of barley from 85 cents to ft, oats from $1.03 to $1.03. and wheat from 63 cents to 68 cents, is the re sult of operattona of an Independent grain buyer named P. W. Lawrence, who bought farmers' warehouse receipts here today to the amount of 100.000 bushels. The Nez Perce country Is In ex clusively Puget Sound territory. The wheat growers do not suffer from the "lack of competition" whiqh the Washington - Railroad Commission charges against Portland. But here in O. R. & N. territory, where, accord ing to the Railroad Commission there is less competition than there Is In Northern Pacific territory, the farmers have been receiving more than 10 cents per bushel above the price to which the fierce competition of the Puget Sound buyers had forced wheat In the Nez Perce country prior to the arrival of Mr. Lawrence, who we sus pect is a Portland buyer intending to do a little shipping from Puget Sound in opposition to the low-price, combine now so firmly intrenched there. The joint rate .question is now before the cour'tsi and its merits will be decided on stronger and less biased testimony than that which produced the sur prising 'order. The suggestion of the Republican. Civic League that the old crematory of the city be improved and used yet awhile Is probably the best thing for the present that could be adopted. It would make unnecessary for some years a heavy expenditure, which at best would - be largely experimental. Should the city undertake the pur chase of a sitethe erection of a costly plant and a plan for gathering and disposal of the garbage with its own force of men and teams, it would launch upon an undertaking whose cost certainly would outrun all esti mate. At ; this time Portland can hardly wish to be committed to It. Does the city want another big and always Increasing plant to support, and another big and -always increasing pay roll? It seems impossible now, moreover, to decide on a proper site. Wouldn't It be better to fix up the old concern and go on with it? A tourist from the East who has visited the Pacific Coast tells a new fish story. He relates to the Brooklyn Eagle that passengers crossing Salt Lake on the new cut-off amuse them selves by fishing out of the car win dows. He caught some mighty big carp there, he says. Perhaps he shouldn't be blamed for not having remembered that no fish, of any kind, exist in Salt Lake. But that's a minor blemish to the story. Two hundred business men of Seat tle will make a trip to Honolulu on a specially chartered steamship for the purpose of establishing closer business relations with the Hawaiian Islands. They ought to succeed. Port-v judgment. Is land Bent a large delegation of one man down there and as a result' sold several thousand tons of freight and made a fair start In the business. Un fortunately for the permanency of the newly established steamship line, we were too , busy In other directions. Portland is a great town for putting up money for almost any purpose ex cept the establishment of a steamship line to Honolulu or Alaska. As for making a personal visit to our cus tomers, present and prospective, we are too busy. Some day it may be necessary to get a move on. Not yet, but soon: I The Oregonian supposed it to be generally known that it was Bull Run, of Virginia, scene of battles of the Civil War, that supplied the name for the stream from which Portland ob tains Its water. Yet from inquiries constantly made it Is evident there are those who do not know. . The stream was visited by some young men from Portland, at a time when the name Bull Run was in everybody's mouth. The stream may have been seen "by white men before then, but It bore no name, so far as they knew. Nothing more natural in the ciapum stances than that they should call it Bull Run, and Introduce knowledge of it to Portland, as a future source of water supply, under that name'. In San Francisco the contest for control of the government of the city has assumed phases that interest the whole country. It is what Midship man Easy would call "a triangular duel." The party that elected the convicted thief, Schmltz, Is hoping to maintain its hold by election of its candidate, McCarthy. Good citizen ship, fighting for regeneration and re demption of the city, is supporting Taylor. A diversion in favor of Mc Carthy is attempted by the candidacy of Ryari, who runs as a Republican. In any other city the, people in the clrcumstanees existing in San Fran cisco, would come together and elect Taylor. They may possibly in San Francisco. But it seems doubtful. The Northern Pacific has announced that its North Bank road will be completed from Kennewick to Van couver by January 1, 1908, and Into Portland over the new bridges six months later. This will bring the new line into Portland in ample season for handling the 1908 grain crop of the Pacific Northwest. Failure of the Port of Columbia bill to become operative, prevented removal of some of the dis abilities which have hampered Colum bia River shipping, and. In order that we may be prepared for the Increasing business that will follow the opening of the North Bank road, it Is not too early to begin formulating a plan for correcting the evils" v.-hich have given us trouble in the past. Occasionally the divorce courts dis close the story of a wife whose ex travagance brought her husband to poverty. Yet very rarely Is such a story, heard. If all the stories of wastefulness were related it would be found that in a hundred cases the husband has squandered the family income where in one case the wife has thus spent it. Not only from choice but often from necessity, the wife practices the many small econ omies that make possible a scanty saving for a day of adversity The hueteand carries the purse and his are not only the opportunities but the habits that end in poverty. A banker" of New York is quoted as saying this:" "The Clearing House has decreed that persons who buy stock control In banks, put the stocks up as collateral for loans in other banks and borrow the deposits of the banks they and their associates control in order to float their corporation schemes, shall npt do business under Clearing House auspices In this town." This seems to have been that "credit sys tem" which Roosevelt was denounced for knowing nothing about and wick edly helping to destroy. "This upset is all due to one man, who knows nothing about the credit system, which Is the basis of busi ness." Such . 19 the accusation of plungers who have come to grief dur ing the last fortnight. The "one man" ,of course is Roosevelt. The credit sys tem, is all right, when it is right; but when overworked as it has been dur ing the past three years by the plun gers and gamblers, the collapse is In evitable and can't occur too soon. Roosevelt only turned ont the- light. From Governor Vardaman comes the startling prediction that Roosevelt couldn't carry a single precinct in Mississippi., Quite true. The present Jawsmlth's predecessors and fellow citizens fixed the Presidential vote of that state thirty years ago at midnight campaigns with shotguns. Bishop Scadding's the right sort. He believes the best plan to advance Oregon's interests is to1 people the State with more gooij Episcopalians; hence his missionary work on the At lantic seaboard. ' The fuel problem Is becoming com plex Indeed when a logging conipany abandons wood as fuel and adopts oil in its stead. But this is what an As toria logging company has done.' It will sell its wood. When a hunter mistakes a man for a deer and hoots him It might be a good idea for some sensible court to mistake the hunter for a murderer and send him to prlBon for man slaughter. If it be true that misery loves com pany, the riot-ridden people of San Francisco may now find some comfort in the reports of a serious streetcar strike and riot at Yonkers, N. Y. Trains on the North Bank road will be a fine New -Year's gift for Van couver. Still, even so Important an event has its pathetic side; it will set Astoria to crying again. ' Can't some friend of Governor Vardaman do him a genuine service by getting out an injunction against vio lating interstate decency by the. mis use of his tongue? At last the reason is disclosed for Chancellor Day's oft-repeated attacks on the President. ' They were advance advertising for his new book. ' It will be in order for Booker Wash ington to call Governor Vardaman an unveneered savage. ' German royalty must have been taking lessons in morals from Ameri ca!) plutocracy. WHAT THE STATE PRESS SAYS. Giving: sa Editor's Wife the Worst of It Gresham Herald. That was hardly a square deal. County Clerk Fields sneaked up and kissed the bride while the editorial back was turned to see If our better half was watching and then well, it was time to go. That's the way we editors always get the worst of it. Real ed of Spreading: the Light. Irrlgon Irrigator. We believe the time has about ar rived when Instead of sending our money to convert the heathens of the Far East we should with It send mis sionaries to New England to show the Yankees that an acre of Oregon dirt Is worth a whole county of the Massachu setts soil. la the Hands of the Fuel Trust. Echo Register. There are millions upon millions of cords of wood within 20 miles of Port land, much of it along streams and rail roads, and yet the fuel trust, flourishes down there like a green gourd vine, ex acting more for fuel than Is paid in remote and treeless parts of Eastern Oregon. A queer lot of local statesmen in the Rose City. . New York -vs. Irrlffon. Irrigator. A big town! But we would rather subsist on rabbit potple in Irrlgon than dwell at Del's In Gotham. And possibly we know something about It. for we were born and brought up there and spent nearly 30 of our 62 years mighty close to Broadway. Now we live close to the soil, and it beats Broadway to a frazzle. Sorry Days for the Geese. Condon Globe. ' The season for goose shooting on the Columbia is now on and the heights along the river are lined with hunters. Experts claim that there are and will be more geese along the Columbia this year than ever before and it is a com mon thing for a single man to bring in from five to fifteen In a few hours' shooting. Hunters from all over the state are already on the grounds and many are going from Condon. Invading; the Barrlmsa Preserves. Moro Observer. Another Harriman splurge passed up the line Saturday equipped with auto mobiles for crossing the country from Madras to KJamath Falls, with engi neers and surveyors, carrying field in struments and camping- outfits, pre paratory to spying out the strategic points and holding them against the Oregon Trunk Line, the independent railroad announcing its intention to build up Des Chutes River from Its mouth to Madras and on to the Klamath country, yie only railroad that appears to offer a hope of enter ins; the Harriman preserves, as Central Oregon has come to be known. Stage Driver Was Lost. Madras Pioneer. Passengers who left Shaniko on Tuesday evening's Prlnevllle stage, re late an aggravating experience. The driver was a new man, unfamiliar with the roads, and Instead of keeping the Prineville road took the one leading toward Bakeoven. In spite of the pro tests of passengers who were familiar with the route, the driver carried them out on the wrong road 13 miles before he was finally convinced of his mis take. Then he drove back to within about four miles of Shaniko and took the right road, and the stage with Its weary passengers reached Heisler Sta tion, at 5 o'clock In the morning. KING EDWAHD IS GROWING DEAF. Buys American Hearing; Device to Aid Hearing of Himself and Queen. New York Times. Edward .VII of England is growing deaf. This fact recently became known when artificial hearing instruments were shipped to Buckingham Palace, London, by the American Line steamer New York for the use of the King and Queen Alex andra, who has long suffered from deaf ness. The Instruments are the finest and most complete ever made. Last Spring the King and Queen granted an audience to an agent from New York, who demonstrated the utility of a new American device. The demon stration was in every way a success, and a set of specially made instruments was ordered to enable the head of the British Nation and his consort to carry on a conversation in an ordinary tone of voice, which has been difficult. The instruments have been made so as to enable the King and Queen to talk together without the use of a trumpet or horn. The transmitter, or sound concen trator, will be attached to the clothing of the royal couple. In the case of the Queen it will be hidden 4n the folds of her dress, while tnat for the King's use will be hidden from view underneath his coat. The sounds are focused on the concen trator in the same manner that the rays of the sun are focused by means of an ordinary reading glass. At this point of focus Is placed a supersensitive microphone, which , takes up the focused, or magnified, ' sounds and conveys them to the ear by means of a Bmall, silk-covered tinsel cord, through which an electric current is con veyed by a small battery to an earpiece, which Is held to the ear. The batteries are carried In the pocket, being about three Inches high and an inch and a half In diameter. The earpiece is somewhat smaller than the ordinary telephone car piece, but highly sensitized, and can be hidden in the hand. The only visible part of the instrument Is a portion of the silk cord which connects the concentrator with the earpiece. The third instrument contains a double transmitter, for table use. This will be set in the center of the table, covered with cut flowers. Wires will be attached running under the table to the part of the table occupied by the King and Queen. This will enable the conversation between the royal pair and their guests to be conducted without Interruption. A FEW 8QCIBS. Tou say" lie's devoted to music?" "He adores It." "But I never heard him aak her to sing." "Yes. I know. That's because he likes music," Milwaukee Sentinel. First Magnate My doctor advised me to take a trip abroad for my health, but I'm not going. Second Magnate My lawyer gave me tha same advice, and I am going." Judge. "There Is a great deal of injustice In liter ature." "yea," answered Miss Cayenne; "they still insist on putting the name of the author on a book instead ot that, of the man who makes the handsome cover de sign." Washington Star. "I've decided," said Rlter. "to devote my self exclusively hereafter to the writing of poetry." "Glad to hear it," said Krotchett. "Think that's my forte, eh?" Don't know about that, but I do know that I never read poetry." Philadelphia Press. "Life." observed the philosophical boarder, "Is merely a game of chess on a large scale." "Nothing of the aort." protested the newly married boarder. "It's exactly tha contrary. The game of life doesn't really begin until you mate." Chicago Tribune. "Now, Johnny," asked the gentleman who had kindly consented to teach the class, "what does this fascinating story of Jonah and the whale teach us?" "It teaches us," said Johnny, whose father reads practical articles on practical people, "that you can not keep a good man down." Harper's Weekly. Political Issues In Georgia. ." Whitser (Ga.) Courier. The question of who should get the nomination was settled here In this way: We had a big jumping match, and Bill Jones jumped 15 feet and won the nomination for Coroner. THE NEED FOR CHARITY.' Criticism of Other Beliefs Than Oars Rife In the Community. Washington Post. A number of The Post's contemporaries, both secular and religious, are devoting a great deal of their space to criticisms of several bodies of very earnest men and women who profess belief in doctrines which their critics condemn. The con demnation Is, in some instances, extreme ly severe. They seem to think that they prove their own doctrine orthodox "by apostolic blows and knocks." It has been suggested by some of these zealots that there should be a statute enacted by Congress and each of the sev eral State Legislatures for the punish ment of persons who avow their . belief "In things Impossible and altogether shocking to well-regulated minds." Such suggestions are entirely lacking in wis dom. The notion of punishment for a belief, no matter what It may be, betrays Ignorance of the constitutional rights ot citizens. In this country one is permitted to be lieve anything. The law does not under take to regulate or control thought; it deals only with acts. A great variety of opinions, some of them abhorrent to most good citizens, may be safely held and fearlessly uttered by persons who clair to be Christians. But when an opinion fructifies in unlawful acts the law steps In. The same rule applies to politics and sociology. Even anarchistic views may be avowed with Impunity, but when they are reduced to practice, when their fruit age ts in the diabolical shape of assassina tion, the police and the courts will. If pos sible, pass the authors of such deeds along to the executioner. Professors of Christianity, or at any rate of trinltarian Christianity, which term Includes all but a small minority of those who go by the name of Christian, should be guarded in their comments on beliefs of Christian bodies. All of us who belong to any church or sect of trlni tarlans have solemnly declared our belief In at least two miracles, the virgin birth and the resurrection of Christ. Faith, not reason, is the basis of belief in those tenets of orthodox Christianity. Is any one miracle or alleged miracle more wonderful than another? Why should any orthodox Christian, any man who believes In the two tenets cited above, think or speak unkindly of an other Christian who believes In many less miraculous things? It seems to us that there can be no limitation of the power that can perform a single miraculous act. One of the wisest and most learned men of his time, In protesting against forcible action toward Christ and his disciples, said in effect, that if God was withethem man could not prevail against them, but If they had not divine authority their movement would fail. Nothing but divine power can do any thing that natural laws forbid. The power that can. in a single Instance, sus pend natural law, may well be esteemed capable of performing other acts that are said to be performed in these days, but which millions of Christians refuse to be lieve, and at which they are often Inclined to sneer. "Alas for the rarity of Chris tian charity," an increase of which is the world's greatest need at this time. AERIAL LOCOMOTION. Much Has Been Accomplished Con tinual Experiments In Progress. Recent performances with balloons have brought out many incidents In the history of aerial locomotion, The French led the way In this art, beginning more than two centuries ago. The first steps in advance of the drifting balloon, in volving the use of propelling machinery, were also taken by them. 8o much pro gress has been made that the air flyer can now be driven against a wind of less than 11 miles an hour Results still greater are not deemed impossible. The drifting balloon Is of some use, but not very much, except for such utilities as carrying dispatches out of a beleaguered city or obtainment of knowledge of at mospheric conditions at high altitudes. It is said that the highest altitude ever reached In a balloon was 37,000 feet, or seven miles above the earth. Two Eng lishmen, Coxwell and. Glaisher, were the aeronauts, ascending from Wolverhamp ton, England, on September 6, 1862. Both survived, but M. .Tlssander, a French aeronaut, who, with two companions, made a trip through the clouds in April, 1875, was not so fortunate. They reached an altitude of five and one-half miles and only one xt the three survived. The history of ballooning Is filled with such tragic events, the most recent being the death of Andree and his companions In their attempt to voyage through the air to the North Pole. At Napoleon's coronation there was re leased an Immense balloon to which was fastened a crown illuminated by 3000 var iegated lamps. The balloon drifted all the way to Rome, sailing over the dome of St. Peter's and dropping its crown on the tomb of Nero. This awakened Na poleon's superstition and he forbade all reference to the balloon in his presence. RAILROAD RATES IN MEXICO. Changs Must Be Approved by Com mission Before Becoming; Effective. Extract From United States Consular Report. American. Consul W. D. Shaughnessy writes from Aguascalientes . that "the contemplated changes in freight rates, which were to have taken effect on August 9, are still pending, waiting the approval of the Mexican tariff commis sion, as all railroad rates In Mexico must be submitted to the Government before they may go into effect." The consul discusses the present railroad situation In the country as follows: The new classification and freight tariffs were published and distributed, but the many serious objections raised against them have so far prevented their being approved and have been the means of commencing what promises to be a warm controversy between the railroads and the mining and smelting interests. The mineral Interests are foremost In combating the proposed raise in the rates, as they are to be more serlouBly affected than the agricultural and mercantile in terests. In some cases the rates on certain classes of ore have been advanced as high as 169 per cent, while the average increase Is as high as 57 per cent, ac cording to the distance transported. As the greater part of the Mexican mines are of the low rather than of the high grade, the ores now being shipped will not produce enough revenue under the proposed rates to warrant their oper ation. It is estimated that there are and have been for many months 100.000 tons of ore piled up on the railroads awaiting shipment to the smelters, owing to the! inability of the railroads to accommodate the producers of ore. These ores have been mined in view of the present rates, the cost of their production being calcu lated on that basis: therefore, any ln- crease in rates If applied without am ple notice to miners will be unjust and injurious. The First Optimist. New York Sun. Eve was reviewing the situation. "At any rate," she chortled, "1 won't have to guard the name of my dress maker from my dearest friend." Thus indeed did she look on the bright side. Maine Towns Strike Against Meat. Louisville Courier-Journal. In Augusta, Me., and other towns in Kennebec County, the rise in price of meat has caused a revolt, and 1200 people have pledged themselves to ab stain from meat for. 10 days. One Thing and Another MANY years ago the late David P. Thompson was running a compass In that part of Baker County which is now Malheur. The day was hot and traveling through sagebrush Intensified the thirst. After a while they came to a stream and they Just lay down on their stomachs, and drank and absorbed and gurgled.' As he arose Mr., Thompson wiped his mouth and said to the boys: "That's Bully Creek!" and Bully Creek it is to this day. The first member from Malheur, at the session of 18S9, was Hon. H. P. Xapton, who was from Missouri and whose folks "owned niggers, sah, and grew tobacco" before the war. Mr. Napton's postofflce was Bully Creek, and, so the story used to go up there, a young woman back East found the name so distasteful when addressing letters that she persuaded the member from Malheur to have it changed. It became Westfail, after a pioneer of tbe country. The name of the creek was also changed to Alder. Yet it is to this day called Bully and probably always will be, for Bully means something, and the state Is full of Alder Creeks. -Mr. Napton long since movod- to Montana, but seems not to have Joined Mr. McKenna'a esthetic club, for nobody has heard any "kicking" for a change from the Big Hole and Stinking Water people up that way if they -even wished a change. A man signing himself "A Baptist" in a paper at The Dalles, Quoting Dr. Brougber's statement that there are two states through eternity in which souls shall dwell and that animals have souls as well as human beings, asks the doctor to name that In which the hogs, cats and dogs are to exist, as he does not care to associate with such. If the rev erand gentleman has not time for an extended reply he might briefly tell the doubter to go and find out. It is resurrecting a fragrant reminis cence to dig up Mr. McMurray's couplet; nevertheless Roses fragrant, roses rare, Portland rosea everywhere Falls short of the mark. You can't eat 'em. You can't sleep on 'em, for you'll get the rheumatism; you can't sell 'em, for they're "everywhere." All you can do Is to admire 'em and smell 'em. Now, If Mr. McMurray had written: First-class bacon, fat ealt pork. Come to Portland and go to work That would mean something and peo ple wouldn't accuse him of talking shop, for they know he delegates the sale of tickets to his gentlemanly agents. Mr. Sibson should adopt the McMurray lines and by changing "Portland" they would fit as snug as the skin on a snake. Now, while I'm about It, I want to mention Tom Richardson's "Down grade ta Portland." That is all right in a traffic sense, yet it makes a noise like the Agency boys who go down the Malheur to the railroad with a bunch of steers, and after loading it's. "Every son-of-a-gun in the house, come up to the bar." "Down grade" is immoral. The second line of my couplet, changing Portland to Oregon If need be. Is better, and as the award has been made, this is not for competition. Now that the season of fairs is over It Is time to tell the latest. A man went up to a tent where some elk were ex hibited and gazed wistfully. "I'd like awful well to go in there." he said to the barker, "but It would be mean to go in without my family and I can't afford to"pay for my wife and 17 children." "Are all those yours?" gasped the barker, paralyzed for the first time in his career. "Everx one," replied the man. "Here, by thunder, I'll fix It. I'll brins the elk out and let them look at you all." While on the subject, it reminds me. "I don't believe I'll speak to that hate ful Jennie any more. What do you think? She told me today she Just knew I wore a bustle for she sat by mt last Sabbath and she says she stuck me with her hatpin and I never moved. The hate ful thing!" "By the way," said the endman, "can you tell me when a hen Is not a hen?" "No, sir," replied the Interlocutor, "I cannot tell you when a hen is not a hen. Please enlighten the audience as to when a hen Is not a hen." "Why, It's when it's a pullet, sir." (This will not appear in the New York World), Speaking of Senator Bourne's offer, La Grande paper says, "the Oregon Senator is not slow when it comes to getting, next to popular sentiment." He knows how to sit next to the dealer, so to speak. "Harriman," says the Astoria paper, "has bought land here." Sure he didn't buy water for Fish? Any card man can give a Health Board pointers on doing up rats. This is chestnut time and the Hawaiian girls are still with us. W. J. C. Wet Lands of the Country. Springfield (Mass.) Republican, A Southern paper puts a knockout Ques tion in asking: "If the Federal Govern ment puts water on dry land in the far West, why should it not take water off the wet land of the East and South?" The one objection that the arid lands of the West which the Federal government is Irrigating are Federal property, while the swamp lands are now the property of states this objection Is not likely to trouble even the sternest defender of state rights. "A way can probably be found," it Is suggested, "to niake this great public Improvement through the help of the Federal treasury." If one ot the many old ways cannot be made avail able, a new route to the Federal treasury can be discovered. We are a nation ot remarkable explorers In that branch ot self-government. Undoubtedly the swamp lands, drained of their water, would be exceedingly fertile and valuable, anot they would make homes for a large population, The Department of Agriculture, which is ever ready with -the statistics when a new scheme for improvement and money spending is suggested, reports that our 77,000,000 acres of swamp land, reclaimed by drainage, would give fertile 40-acre farms to 1.925.000 families, or in all to 10,000,000 persons. Holland was rescued from the sea by dikes, end now look at Holland. Our swamps along shore from here to Texas cover 10 times the area of Holland, and it is easy figuring that we have 10 Hollands lying under water down the coast. The Neighbors Get Busy. Washington (la.) Democrat. Thursday we borrowed a pair of tin Bhears or snips at George Stewart's hardware store from C. R. Hartman. On the way home to the office, J. W. Patton asked: "Are you going to trim your toe nails?" . Then we- met F. F. Farrlsh. and he remarked: "Going to clip your hair?" And Joe Wolfe, whom we met last, said: "Well, you are go ing to clip "em, are jou?" So every man we met had a suggestion to make, and yet they say your neighbors are not Interested In what you do. All-Alphabet Sentences. A correspondent of the Boston Globe gives the following sentences each of which contain all the letters of the alphabet: The quick brown fox Jumps over the lazy dog. - , Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. John quickly extemporized five tow bags. . John P. Brady gave a black walnut box of quite small size.