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Louis Follln; C. E. Hunter. Eureka, Cnl. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, DEC. 27, 1907. THE "FINANCIAL CLIQUES." A message from London infprms us that "financial London as a whole la beginning to believe that the real moral of the crisis has been lost on America, and It anticipates resump tion of triumphant control of your en terprises by manipulative cliques." It is a reasonable apprehension, but there is ground to believe that the financial cliques will "go broke," nay, that many of them have gone broke already. The difficulty experienced in resumption of business in New York, by this class of people, is an eloquent story. And it is presaging. It is the gang whose operations broke the back of credit and brought on the panic. " It is the gani whose banks or banks to which the gang had access are loaded up with "se curities" of imaginary value, upon which there is no possibility of real ization. The members of the gang are holding on desperately, but they will be forced to liquidate. The "West and South, with the splendid re sources, are prepared to take care of themselves. On the annual report of the Union Pacific, published last week, the New York Evening Post makes this com ment: "History repeats itself, and the annual report of the Union Pacific makes confession, though not very frankly or plainly, of that company's own part in the reckless inflation which finally broke the back of the credit market. Confronted in July, 1906, as all intelligent railway men knew that the industry was con fronted, with heavy demands for new expenditure in the face of a vanish ing demand for new securities, the company was lucky enough to-possess, in cash or in readily convert ible demand loans, no less a sum than $55,968,000. Instead of applying this Burplus to its own urgent needs,-, the management plunged the whole of it into purchase, - at the extravagant prices then prevailing, of stocks in a dozen other railways, some of them situated at the other end of the Con tinent from the Union Pacific's ter ritory." Nor was this all. Continuing the Evening Post says further: "The company then proceeded, within the same six months, to throw $75,725,000 more into similar purchases, raising temporary loans for the purpose. To make these obligations good, this prosperous railway company earn ing, as this week's report sets forth, 17 Per cent on its common stock had to sell its bonds at sacrifice prices, in the face of the gathering financial storm last July, and to the extent of $75,000,000. The annual report at hand this present week confesses that the loss on these $131,693,000 invest ments of Union Pacific funds in Stock Exchange securities, as gauged by comparison of the purchase price with that of June 29, 1907, the end of the fiscal year, was $23,149,000. Since that ' date, the loss has been nearly doubled. Considering what imitators the Union Pacific had, and what use was made of its speculations in pro moting the mad exploits on the Stock Exchange towards the end of 1906, we have in these figures an Instructive chapter in the story of the pnic of 1907.' One would say so. Moreover, we see here all of us what has become of the Immense sums extorted from the traffic of the whole West, includ lng Oregon. This sort of thing has been going on among the whole body of plungers and speculators in New York. They are in the hole a thousand fathoms down. What won der? When will the Union Pacific re cover its squandered resources and be cble to resume its legitimate business of making betterments and extensions? SOME FIGURES TO LOOK AT. In Great Britain the government tax on liquors produced, in the year 1906, $166,161,300. This sum is ex clusive of the municipal taxes, of which we have no recent compila tion. In the United States the general tax on liquors, collected by the United States, amounted during the fiscal year, ended last June, to $208,353, 44S. Municipal taxes on the sale were probably more than double this sum. In both countries the taxes on li quors wer by far the largest of the Items of revenue. Tobacco is an other source of revenue that delights "the committee of ways and means." The duties on tobacco in Great Brit ain last year yielded $66,904,370. In the United States the excise or Inter nal tax on tobacco brought in $51, 811,049. In addition to the great sun., col lected on liquors and on tobacco man ufactured in the United States, many millions more are collected yearly from liquors and tobacco imported from other countries. When our pro hibitionists shall permit no longer the manufacture or importation of li quors, we shall doubtless find new and easy sources of revenue. People take kindly to direct taxes, and will not mind the annual addition of a few hundred millions and loss of employ ment to some hundreds of thousands of persons'. ADMIRAL DEWEY. Yesterday Admiral Dewey rounded out the allotted span of human life." He has numbered his three score years and ten; but by reason of strength, as the good book puts it, he will probably reach four-score and then some-before he takes his depar ture to the world where there are no battle fleets .and no wars. Nor will these latter years of his be full of tribulation, as the sad old writer says they must be. There is every reason to hope that Admiral Dewey's declin ing age will be hale and calm, darken ing gently to the end like a Summer sunset, and lighted by stars long be fore It is wholly night. Surely the American people love nobody better than their grand .old Admiral. To be sure, he has not been without his foibles and we have taken the liberty to smile at them, though the smile was kindly. When he forgot the true sphere of his greatness and played for a moment at being a poli tician the old sea hero was as amus ing as Nelson when he fell in love. But a great man without a foible would not be human, and after all we should not care to have them super human. We like them better with just such reminders of the common clay aa Admiral Dewey has exhibited now and then. What cpuld be more generous than the President's toast to the noble old Admiral? "To the man who has done more for and reflected greater glory on America than any other man now living." Of course the toast must not be taken quite literally what toast can be? There are men now living who have done more for America than Ad miral Dewey. Modestly probably pre vented Mr. Roosevelt from remember ing who one of them was when he made his fine toast for the Admiral. There are men now living who have reflected greater glory on America. One almost fancies that such a man as Andrew D. White will be found to shine with a more brilliant halo when the roll is called up yonder and the rewards of merit come to be appor tioned according to the deeds done in the body. The laurels of war are not the most unfading. Still Admiral Dewey has done his share. He has done much for his country and he has reflected glory upon her, which is more than can be said for some men who occupy a much larger place in the public gaze than our modest sea hero has for soma time past. Here's wishing Admiral Dewey many happy returns of the day. May the glory of his great victory never be forgotten and may the occasion for winning such another one never arise. ARE WE CENTRALIZING? When one of the Justices of' the Supreme Court of the United States condescends to step out of the murky chamber where they rule the Nation without control or appeal, the figure he cuts In the open day differs very little from that of com mon men. Like Justice Brewer, he may" utter dark hints of what his tribunal is likely to do to defend the letter of the Constitution, or he may rail at the President. What Mr. Brewer has done along these lines is very much the same as any man a little light in the upper story and a little vain would do under tempta tion. Or again, the Justices of our highest tribunal may express them selves in wise and statesmanlike speech, as Mr. Harlan did - at his golden wedding festival last Monday. Mr. Harlan's topic was the ever perplexed one of the relations be tween the State and Federal govern ments. He believes strongly in the Infallible excellence of the "dual sys tem" which has made us so much trouble from the beginning of our history and holds that its benefits far outbalance .its inconveniences. It would be interesting to know what statesmen will have to say upon this subject a hundred years from now, when the dual system has borne its inevitable harvest of entanglements in our foreign relations. So long as we were a stay-at-home people our complicated governmental machinery could .produce nothing worse than civil war. Now that we have become a world power with tentacles stretch ing everywhere, it may conceivably create an alliance of the civilized world against us. But all such thoughts aside, it is Interesting to learn that Justice Har lan is not frightened by the so-called "centralization," which is one of the bitterest reproaches made by the plutocrats against the President. He does not believe that it is central ization at all In the true sense of the word. He thinks that ail the Presi dent has done is the mere working out of the inherent meaning of the Constitution and that our developing civilization has made it necessary. Certainly no fair man can say that Mr. Roosevelt has ever sought to diminish the rights of the States or Impair their sovereignty. The truth Is that all recent attacks upon the self-respect and autonomy of the States. have come from the predatory , corporations and have been made through the machinery of the courts. Has Mr. Roosevelt ever annulled a State law at the request of a corpora tion? Has he ever forbidden a State commission to exercise its powers? Has he ever imprisoned the legally elected officers of a State for doing their duty under the law? It has become . habitual with the Federal courts to do all these things. Has Mr. Roosevelt ever Impugned the in telligence and honesty of the State judiciary? The Federal courts do it every time they remove a case from the State courts at the instance of a corporation. . The unavoidable infer ence from such an act is that they do not believe the State judges are learned and impartial enough to try the case justly. When the matter is envisaged fairly and squarely with intent to know the truth and nothing else. Is it the Pres ident or the judiciary that has re cently been Impairing the self-respect and sovereignty of the States? COLLEGE ENTRANCE. The committee on college entrance requirements, which is to meet at Eu gene on January 2 3, seems to be tolerably- representative from one point of view at least. Three denomina tional colleges, the State University and the State Agricultural College are represented on the committee by their presidents. Thus the college interests of the state may look for impartial treatment in the report which is to be presented to the State Teachers' As sociation next July. Very likely all other educational interests will also be treated fairly, for these college presi dents are men of wide outlook and catholic principles; but if the commit tee deals with education as a whole in its h.road relations to life, it will be a pleasant surprise, since none of its members comes either from a normal or a secondary school. Much less have the common schools a voice in its proceedings. The supposition seems to be that all these varied de partments of the educational world can be taken care of by the college presidents better than they could take care of themselves. Perhaps they can. Still it would have been more gracious to have made the committee a little larger and chosen its membership with a lit tle more attention to the Importance and complexity of the problems to be solved. The normal and secondary schools are quite as much Interested in college requirements as the colleges themselves are; ajid, indirectly, the primary schools are more Interested than any of the higher Institutions. Unless college entrance requirements are sheer humbug, they are a peremp tory demand made upon the high schools and academies of the state. In too many instances they are hum bug and nothing more; but the time has probably come in the educational history of Oregon when the colleges are strong enough to give orders to the lower schools and also to enforce them. Such a time comes sooner or later in every state. Apparently our highest Institutions of learning begin to feel their power and they are pre paring to say to those lower down the line, "Thus you must do, or your students cannot enter our doors." This is not necessarily a bad thing, though we cannot help remarking that it is a great deal more important what a student gets after he enters college than what he has when he goes there. Some of the energy which colleges, both- in the East and the West, have spent of late years in dom ineering over the state high schools might have been more usefully con sumed in reforming their own anti quated methods. But let that pass. It is a defensible position, however, that the natural and proper order of things is reversed when the colllege dictates to the secondary school and the secondary school to the grammar school concerning1 subjects to be taught and methods of teaching. The fundamental question to be answered in laying down a course of study arises in the lowest grades of the pri mary schools, and it is propounded by life itself. "What must these chil dren learn in order to become eco nomically independent creatures?" This is the first and foremost educa tional question and it ought to be an swered without cavil or evasion in the child's first school year, while the branches taught in every subsequent year ought to be chosen with direct reference to it. Of course other ques tions must also-be answered, but this one is fundamental, and if anything must be slighted for want of time or money it should not be e economic interest. In other words, the educational problems of the lower schools should be solved by taking into account the child in his relations to life, and with out the slightest regard to what the college does or does not want. It would then be the duty of the college to take the student as he comes from the school and continue the work which. has been begun, carrying it on into nobler realms and wider range3 of thought. . Thus education would cleave to life from beginning to end and we should see results that would make a new era in human history. As things are now conducted, the primary schools take their orders from the high schools, the high schools take theirs from the colleges and the colleges take theirs from a world long dead and gone. The result is an education which has lost its touch with life and which . fails more and more to command the re spect of the young. Of course It will be answered that there were never so many young people in college as now; but this is not very relevant. It has become socially desirable to be a college- graduate. Degrees are 'sought with something of the same ardor as automobiles, and from similar mo tives. Young people who have the economic motive In mind go to tech nical schools, not to college. To this observation the colleges always an swer that they dwell in a realm far, far above the sordid economic motive, and so they do; but the great body of mankind cannot afford to 'in habit that rarefied region; and there fore we say it is wron;. for the col leges to seek to impose their educa tional ideals upon the schools below them, where men who must work for a living ought to begin to learn how to do their work. The ideal college would perhaps have no entrance requirements. It would offer such and such courses of instruction and any person who had the ambition would be welcome to come and follow them. When he had done his best the college would state upon its certificate what that best amounted to. If It were much the college would say so; likewise If it were little. Such credit or discredit honestly given would bear a substan tial value in the world, while the col lege degrees which people now parade are, commonly speaking, purely orna mental, with no vestige of real help fulness. Degrees of all sorts display very open traces of that caste and fetich worship which have always been the twin curses of the world and which perhaps we shall never get en tirely rid of. The effort of the colleges to mold the lower schools after their own anti quated type is directly opposed to the great and wholesome movement to bring the schools of the-" people into Immediate relation with the people's life and work. What could a college do with a youth, who had learned how to plant, nurture crops, manage ani mals, use tools, vote intelligently, serve capably and live uprightly? This is what the lower schools ought to teach a boy; but how would such knowledge and skill fit him for Greek hexameters and Latin grammar? The general readjustment of prices which always follows a financial stringency is already in evidence. Work has commenced on a $3,500,000 hotel In Chicago, and It is announced that. the cost will be $500,000 less thUn It would have been six months ago, this saving being effected through cheaper labor and cheaper building materials. What this means on a permanent investment is easily deter mined by figuring on a six per cent basis, there being a saving of $30,000 per year, or $2500 per month more than would have been possible had the building been erected six months earlier. When the forces now work ing toward this general readjustment of economic conditions settle at the new level there will be a revival on a big scale of railroad work and other Industrial enterprises that are now at a standstill. According to the accepted Idea of prosperity, illustrated by moving pic tures, on the streets everybody wore silk last year. The returns and divi dends of the New Bedford cotton mills tell a story different from that. They -show an average of 13.73 per cent profit on a capital stock of $18, 880,000 against an average rate of 8.92 in 1906, of 6.6 in 1905, and of 5.2 in 1904. Clearly somebody wore cot ton stuffs last year In spite of the rustle of silks on the streets and in the homes. The truth is that the people of the United States were ex ceptionally well clad, whether they wore wool, silk or cotton garments. They had clothes in abundance; the quality was good; the prices were high and the profits of manufactur ers soared. Oregon's members of the United States Senate and House of Repre sentatives must return to this state to register, as required by the election laws. The law should be amended so as to permit any person absent from the state on public duty to register by mail. Provision should also be made for public officials at the state capital to register in their several counties by mall. A citizen elected to office does not lose his legal residence by re moval to the capital. While a gen eral law permitting unlimited regis tration by mall would open the way to frauds, there could be no danger in permitting persons in the public serv ice to register in that manner. The late J. W. French, of The Dalles, was for nearly half a century a powerful factor in the development and upbuilding of that portion of Eastern Oregon in which he settled. Mr. French lived out the allotted span of life, but died too soon to see very much railroad building in the vast empire that stretches away to the south and east of The Dalles; but his enterprise and business ability have left their imprint throughout that country, so that he will have a promi nent place in local history as one of the builders of the commonwealth. Seats In the New York Stock Ex change have advanced from $51,000, while the panic was on, to $63,000. Quite a number of seatholders were so dissatisfied with the show last month that they gave up their seats to their creditors. Now that the bulls and the bears have removed the splints and discarded the crutches, there is prom ise of more life on the stage and seats will again be in demand at -.higher prices. One of the great ocean vessels that docked at New York just before Christmas brought more than 4500 bags of mall containing on an aver age of 5000 letters each, or more than 10,000,000 letters and parcels. This furnishes some idea of the number of Americans who are abroad at this season of the year, and of the loyalty with which their thoughts turn toward home at Christmas time. A New York millionaire has of fered an Ohio town $200,000 to join the ranks of temperance towns, and by a vote of 266 to 188 the offer has been accepted. This is a new phase of the battle against the demon rum. If Andrew Carnegie should adopt the system and become Interested In the work the hopyards and distilleries would have to retire from buslne.f- Imports of walnuts Into the United States last year amounted ot 32,000, 000 pounds. In addition to this, 12, 000,000 pounds were produced In Cal ifornia. There Is apparently room for development of a walnut industry. Greene and Gaynor, who conspired to defraud the Government on con tracts for harbor Improvements, must serve four years in prison and pay fines of half a million. -The big thieves are having their Innings. State Treasurer Steel says he will issue a report of the condition of the public funds every month hereafter. Then he will not be in ignorance of the amount of funds in the banks. Forest fires are raging in Colo rado. If thay just had a natural fire department such as Oregon boasts In the Winter time there would be no great loss of timber. The stage passengers who were stalled in the mountains on the way out from Marshfleld at least had no trouble In finding plenty of Christmas trees. The latest report of progress on the Panama Canal "should silence all carping criticism. WHAT CHANCE HAS MR. BRYAN! Democratic Opinion That He Cannot Do Much Against Republicans. New York Times. Ind. Dem. If Mr. Bryan should be nominated at Denver, he will not find It easy, we do not think he will find it possible, to detach any considerable part of the Re publican vote. In the first place, the Re publican party Is a very well disciplined organization. It loves power. Republi cans vote their party ticket loyally be cause they have been bred to believe that power is safe only in Republican hands. Moreover, the Republicans will not nominate a "reactionary" candidate. There will be no reaction from Mr. Roosevelt's policies so far as they are sound, nor will there be any attempt to undo his work so far as it has promoted the public welfare. Such villainies as Mr. Roosevelt has exposed will not be permitted' to thrive again, abuses he has corrected and malefactors he has brought to' book will find no defenders in the Re publican campaign next year. No can did man denies that Mr. Roosevelt has done good, a great deal of good. Ha might have done more good had he not attempted so much, and his achieve ments would have been more considerable and lasting had he gone about them with less violence of speech and action. From the President's raging and turbu lent methods there will be a reaction, and the country is quite ready for it. The reaction has already come, as Mr. Roose velt very- well understands. A Repub lican candidate, therefore, who stands pledged to confirm and continue all those reforms - undertaken by Mr. Roosevelt which are approved by sober public opin ionand they will be found to be some what less numerous than is popularly supposed will receive, we doubt not, the full vote of his party, and should Mr. Bryan be nominated, in addition thereto the votes of enough sane and sensible Democrats to make his election altogether certain. RagliM Stroiis; Outside of New York. New York Letter to Philadelphia Press. While Governor Hughes is the first choice of New York, he is undoubtedly to be the second choice of other delega tions who at first will be committed to so-called favorite sons. It was only last evening that at a great gathering in New Jersey, in the Oranges, one at which the Governor-elect, Judge Fort, was a guest, there happened to be present a consider able number of republicans who were competent to give judgment upon New Jersey Republican opinion. These all re ported that New Jersey would surely be found marching proudly in the procession that carried the ensign of Governor Hughes. So, also, from New England there come similar reports. On the other hand, Con gressmen will be able to tell their associ ates in Washington that until it is demonstrated in the convention that Gov ernor Hughes cannot be nominated, the New York delegation will have, no alter native choice. If they are compelled to admit the defeat of Governor Hughes for the nomination, they may turn to Secre tary Taft, some of them also looking with high approval upon Pennsylvania's candidate. Senator Knox. Little Girl's Battle With a Buck. Eugene Register. A few days ago a 10-year-old daugh ter of Mr. Beckwith, who lives on Amos Wilkins' place, near Coburg, while In the barn heard the hounds baying, and going to the door saw them drive a fine 2-year-old buck into a fence corner near by, where it turned and went to fighting the dogs. She im mediately got a good-sized club and went to the dogs' assistance and suc ceeded in breaking one of the ani mal's legs and breaking off one horn. The deer started and ran several rods farther, when it was again driven to bay by the dogs, and she renewed the attack. This time the infuriated buck got the better of her, and getting her down went to stamping her with his sharp hoofs. Her screams brought her father with his gun and a well-directed shot ended the deer's career. The little girl was considerably bruised and cut by the animal's stamping, but no serious results are expected. "Punch" on Roosevelt. New York Evening Post. When Mr. Roosevelt became President, the London Punch published a cartoon showing the Rough Rider, alert, in genuous, aspiring, arriving on the scene. The work was so valued by its subject that Mr. Roosevelt was reported to have bought the original drawing. It is doubt ful, however, If he will offer to purchase the full-page picture of "The Stationary Cnusader" in the last number of Punch. It represents a valorous but loquacious knight upon a rocking-horse, waving his sword and calling out, "Follow me! (or 35.000 words to that .effect)." Truth is permitted to the fun maker, though It does not follow that the fun-maker al ways uncovers the truth. But it cannot be denied that the changed attitude of Punch, as respects President Roosevelt, Is symptomatic of a general change. That is to say, enthusiasm is giving place to criticism: the President sees the be ginning of the process by which history will make up Us mind about him. Who Will Take Up the Standard T New York Mail, Rep. There will be 14 months and 20 days more of Theodore Roosevelt as Presi dent. During the next six months and four days the Republican party will be winnowing out the various candidates named to succeed him and concentrat ing on the man who it deems the most available as a standard-bearer, the most efficient and trustworthy as the Na tion's Executive. The bars are down and the boards are clear. The preliminary contest formally inaugurated by the statement of the President and the se lection of June 16 as the date and Chi cago as the place for the Republican National Convention, will be the most open contest that the party has had since Benjamin Harrison was nominat ed In 1888. A FEW SQUIBS. "Wanted By a great and proud pedple. a cheap substitute for wealth, to roll in tem porarily. Life. "I don't see your name In the magazines any more." "No; I had to make a living;, so I'm selling- the magazines on commis sion." Atlanta Constitution. Lawyer (examlng -Juror) "Do you under stand the difference between character and reputation?" Juror "Reputation is the name your neighbors give you; character is the one they take from you." Judge. "The early bird catches the worm," quot ed the Wise Guy. "Yes," assented the simple Mug, "and In these days often has It served piping hot for the breakfast of the late riser." Philadelphia Record. Neighbor And what did the doctor say? Old man 'E said no more medicine, but If ye take a little walk of 'a marnin' on the Common, and get the air, mebbe you'll live to be a oxygenarian. Punch. Chance Acquaintance I suppose you get most of your Jpkes from the monologue men? Jokesmith (smiling) Don't, you think that would be stealing? Chance Acquaintance (In an injured tone) Well, who the deuce do you get them from, anyway? Puck. "Have you read the manuscript of my novel ?" asked the would-be-author. 'Only six chapters." "Well, can you tell how the story's coming out?" "I can tell you It isn't coming out," replied Crlttlck. "How do you mean?" "In book form." Philadelphia Press. George Bruce Cortelyou says the man who says he will resign from the Cabinet Is a liar. The spirit of the statement suggests that he has been associating with Piatt, but the phrasing suggests a Roosevelt influence. Louisville Courier-Journal. HOMESPUN IN CONGRESS. Some Words That Have Been Coined by Congressional Statesmen. New York Sun. Somebody must look after the gen eral health of the English language. Hon. Andrew Carnegie has provided trained nursj3 for its orthography. Here is Hon. Isidor Rayner, of Mary land, saying in the Senate: "That looks very much like the court had never expressed an opinion on the subject that bound them in any way." Mr. Lodge may be said to represent tiie purist an! I-uritan essentially the grammarian's spirit. Even if he had quarreled with Mr. Rayner's numbers we should nt: end as for the Idiom with "like" It is racy of the South and the Southwest. Somewhat as "Father" Taylor, of Boston, said of his son-in-law, we say of "like" in this use that while not a saint, It Is one of the sweetest little sinners in the world. Hon. Benjamin Ryan Tillman often has a homely, Bunyanese, DeCoelan, downright speech that is most attract ive. For instance: "I am trying to clean my own skirts without throwing rocks at any one else." He doesn't mean the everlasting rocks, but pebbles, such a "rock" as David "heaved" at Goliath. To throw "rocks," to "rock" the party ot the sec ond part, was one of the delights of boyhood when Plancus was President. "Rock," In the noun sense at least, covers a wide area. Maine prohibition and the Palmetto dispensary have both been "rocked." Mr. Tillman and the "Yankees" are at one on "rocks." Pos sibly, however, Hon. Shelby Moore Cullom and other Occidentals may have heaved "dornlcks" in boyhood's happy days. Of "rocks" (the noun) in this sense one dictionary says superciliously: "Vulgar, U. S." Another word deposit vault calls It "colloquial, local, U. S." Not too severely local; of larger range, perhaps, than the lexicographer guessed. Colloquial? How damning! What is language for? And "vulgar" is only "common." We congratulate Mr. Tillman on being "colloquial," "vul gar," "local," and "United States." Now Hon. Champ Clark, the Pike County Pitt, hits the celling of the House with his sublime head and says: , "We spent nearly the whole day Jowering about corporations." "Jowerlng!" we thank Missouri for the word. It speaks for itself. It looks like a first cousin of "jawing," a de scendant of "jaw." pr its brother "Jow." One dictionary admits "Jowering" as a noun only: "(Dial, U. S.) a dispute, contention." "Dispute" and "contention" are pale and pasty fellows by the side of "jow ering." Speaker Cannon had a jower ing with the Senate." "Gen. Grosvenor Jowered with his constituents." "Mr. Tillman is a great jowerer." The lan guage is enriched. The pure air of the Ozarks makes the pages of the diction ary flutter. Now that homespun's the only wear, why doesn't Mr. Clark make a whole speech in Missourian? SMALL GARDEN'S GOLDEN HARVEST Great Fruit and Vegetable Yield From Part of Lot at St. John. PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 26. (To the Ed itor.) Allow me to state what we raised this year In a small garden, 74 by 90 feet, in St. John. This garden was a patch of brush, logs, stumps and trees last year. From a little less than one-tenth .of an acre, after home use, we sold 62.65 worth of strawberries. Many customers said they were the best they ever saw in 'any coun try. From a 5-cent package of sweet pea seed, we sold $13.20 worth of flowers, and used a great many at home for bouquets. We have growing about 30 varieties of choice roses for next year, and also have small lots of, many other kinds of flowers. Of vegetables, we harvested 15 bushels of potatoes, mostly early rose, which yielded about three . times more than Burbank or Bouvees for us. Although the seed was small and Inferior, the growth was very large and of fine qual ity. The potatoes were grown between the strawberry rows. Of about two dozen heads of cabbage, some weighed as much as 12 pounds. There were 50 hills of two varieties of sweet corn, a remarkable yield. There were several bushels of beets, and 10 bushels parsnips and carrots, and more turnips than a family could use 15 fine Hubbard squashes the largest weighing 20 pounds; more than one doz n, pumpkins, of two varieties; Summer squashes, two varieties; cucumbers. about two bushels; tomatoes, eight or 10 bushels; beans for home use and sold 5 worth, and peas at five different plant ings. So worth. Lettuce, radishes, spinach, 'rape, dill, celery, cauliflower, rutabaga, asparagus, beets, Thubarb, horseradish and water cress enough of these things for home use and more. Two varieties of black berries, two varieties red raspberries; Burbank's phenomenal red raspberries; Loganberries, two varieties gooseberries; three varieties currants; two varieties grapes, and one bushel hops from two little roots planted In May. Fruit trees: Two apple trees; two plum. one peach, two pear, three cherry, one quince. One swarm of bees, which pro duced 30 pounds of cap honey. On this lot is a small house and one fir tree. Altogether 115 different things grew in this garden, excluding weeds. We have sold J100 wor.th for cash and have a large surplus left. The only fer- tilizer was several loads of coarse stable litter. W. T. BUNNELL. The Third Term Bogie. The Outlook. The Outlook does not agree with Mr. Roosevelt that the custom which limits the President to two terms is a wise one; it does not believe In rotation in office; It sees no reason why the people should not continue to re-elect to office any man whose service satisfies them as long as they are satisfied with that service no adequate reason why a President might not serve his country as long as William Pitt served Great Britain or Bismarck served Germany as Prime Minister. It does not 'believe that there is any darger that a President would be able to re-eleot himself to office If the people did not wish his re-election. This opinion, which this journal expressed when the question of a third term was raised by the propo sal to re-elect General Grant for a third term, we have seen no reason since to think erroneous. Where Hughes Stands. " Brooklyn Eagle. In New York Governor Hughes' atti tude toward the nomination is well understood. It is precisely the same as was his attitude toward the Guberna torial nomination in the Fall of 1906. He was not a candidate for the nomi nation. There was then no organized movement for him. No one was author ized to speak for him. But if there was a genuine demand for his candidacy for the office, then as an American citizen it would be his duty to obey the sum mons. He said so in so many words. He has said the same as to the Presi dential nomination. It is this attitude which is making him strong in other states. It is what is creating senti ment for him which is unsolicited. When Washington can take its eyes off Itself it will begin to appreciate this at its true value. It will not only learn that there is real sentiment for the New York man, but that in such sentiment there is potentiality. WHOUOTLDg BY LILIAN TINGLE. POSSIBLY some Christmas hostess olx today may find amusement and in struction In the following written in the early forties by an experienced enter tainer for the benefit of a beginner in that delicate art. The "Mr. B." re ferred to Is, of course, the writer's ad miring and admired husband. "Mr. B. has also introduced at our table, but only at Christmas, another city custom which the gentlemen seem very much to like; I cannot say so for the ladies. It is what he calls a loving cup; ha has it placrd before him when the cheese is put on. and after filling the glass of the lady on each sVle of him, he rises and drinks to their health and the rest of the company, and then passes it to the gentleman on his left, who, in like manner, fills the glass of the lady on his left, rises, drinks to her health and the company; and thus It goes round the table. "Your husband, my dear Eloise, thought the contents exceedingly good; or, as he expressed It, nectar fit for the gods, and would like to have the receipt. Here It is as Mr. B. prepares it. The cup holds two quarts; he places In It half a teacupful of capillaire; if he has none, 'he uses dissolved lump sugar with a few drops of orange flower water in It; one pint of brown sherry (a footnote states 'With regard to the wine, that is a matter I leave entirely to Mr. B., but his maxim is that "the best is the cheapest" '); one bottle of good Edin burgh ale; mixing all together and a minute before placing on the table adding one bottle of soda water, stirring It well up till it froths. He then grates soma nutmeg on the froth, places a piece of toast in it, and sends it to table with a napkin through the handle of the cup." There are still many households which practice this Christmas ceremony of the loving cup some using Inherited pieces of plate; others, trophies of sport or commerce won by members of the family; but few are as fortunate in their pos sessions as this same "Mrs. B.," who goes on to explain: "I must say, since we have had this, it has produced some most interesting conversation as regard ed the antiquity of. the custom, etc. In addition, Mr. B. bought the cup at a sale, and it is stated to have been drunk out of by King Henry the Eighth; this, of itself. Is a subject of conversation and draws out the talents and conversa tional powers of our guests, and one In which the ladies can join, as there is hardly one of our sex who has not read Miss Strickland's 'Queens of England." " And, naturally, Henry's name would sug gest quite a number! Who reads Miss Strickland's book nowadays, I wonder? A long time ago, when I was a very little girl in the English "North coun trle," bands of children came on Christ mas and New Year's days to sing carols, collect Christmas boxes, and bring "bless ings for New Year." Probably they still do so. The thing that interested me most in those days, and indeed today, was what they called the "Wessel Boo." This was a branch (not a tree, always a branch.) decorated much as ordinary Christmas trees are, but with some spe cial features which the latter have not. Planting themselves on the doorstep, the children chanted (usually in five or six different keys) Our (pronounce In two syllables, "ower") Johnnie Wessel, our Johnnie Wessel 1 Love and joy. Come to you. And to our Wessel Boo. Our Johnnie Wessel. Da capo, until the pennies were pro duced. My infant mind decided that "Johnnie Wessel" had some cryptic connection with the "Wesleyan Chapel" where many of these children went to Sunday school (our own household was a strict "Church of England" one), but later years brought the knowledge that "John nie Wessel" was no allusion to the great and good John Wesley, but was a cor ruption of "Jolly Wassail," and the "boo" was the "wassail bough," with ornaments of forgotten significance de rived from days of heathendom. Every body knows of "wassail" as a traditional part of the old style Christmas cheer. Having always thought, of It as a drink, it was a surprise to me recently to find in a very old book a recipe for "Wassail Bowl," calling for "crumbled cake," cus tard and almonds, as well as wine and spices; and the final remark, "This is in fact just a rich eating posset" which, no doubt, is very clear if you know Just what a "posset" is. The following verses signed by "An other Child" were sent to be read at a recent highly successful children's party, on which occasion they were received with such marked approval that I begged a copy for the benefit of other children, big and little. AN ADVENTURE ON A CUSTARD BHA. Once, when I was in Cookie Land A many miles away. X went to take a sailing trip Upon the Ice Cream Bay. The boat, it was an apple pie. With ginger snaps for sails. But oh! a currant storm arose And cream puffs grew to gales. The sea ran high in Jelly rolls; , The breakers dashed whipped cream Upon the stern rock candy coast 1 thought I'd have to scream. The candy mast fell with a whack; The pie crust cracked In two; The sauce-y waves came rushing in- I thought "What shall I do?" I found a life' preserver then A doughnut fat and round. And stuck my head right through the hole; I knew I'd not be drowned. So then I swam, and swam, and swam. Out in the Custard Sea, Until a "Floating Inland" came Convenient aa could be. And there upon the "dessert" isle I lived six years or more. Until I'd eaten all the place And thought I'd go ashore. So first I ate the Custard Sea. And next the Ice Cream Bay; Then on the sugar sand I crossed. It was the nicest way. Jeff Davis No. 2. Charleston News and Courier. The white people of Arkansas will be Judged by Jeff Davis. They elected him Attorney-General of their state and then they put him In the office of Governor, and now they have sent him to the Unit ed States Senate. They can't blame the ignorant negroes for this, nor can they charge Mr. Davis to the account of the despised Republicans. He Is their rep resentative, and they must be judged by him, and .judged by htm, they must be a very cheap and unworthy people. The most that we can hope for, possibly, la that he will not be charged to the whole South.