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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1909. 8 rOKTLAXn. OREGON. Entei-d si rnrt'iad. Orffon, Postofllca a Eecond-Clats Matter. Bubtcristio Kaleo layarlablr km Adrance. Br Mall ra!1r. Surday Included, one year '5" 21! Dal.y. Supaav tiic:ud-d. si months - taily. Sunday Included, three inontha. .. -J ;j Daily. Sunday .ncluded. one month Dally, without Sunday, ore yr e "V raliy. without Sunday, six months Dally, without S-miay. three m.ntha - Dally, without Sumijy. one month J" Weekly, one year ? Sunday, one year... jY Eur.dajr and weekly, one year w By Carrier.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year JJ Dally. Sunday Included, one month Mow to Raoits Send postofTlce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give potor?lce ad dress In fall. Inciudine ro'jnty and state. I'ostage Rates 10 to 14 paces. 1 cent: 18 to 23 imm't 2 cents: 30 to 40 psses. cents; to 6u paces. 4 csnta Foreign postage double rates. Eastern Business Onlce The 8. C. Reck wVh Special Agency New York, rooms 4S to Tribune building. Cblcaco. rooms 810-311 Tr.rune building POKTLAXD. flATl'RDAY. OCT. t. 1009. MR. TAFTS TOCR. The recently established Presiden tial habit of making a tour through the country now and then has several obvious advantages. It gives the peo ple a chance to exercise their patriot lam, for one thing. The conviction that the United States Is the greatest, richest and happiest nation ' In the world generates a sort of spiritual team in the bosom of the honest cit izen which needs a vent. What better opportunity could he desire than a i Presidential visit with its music, flags and eloquence? We must remember too. that patriotism Is like some other of the fundamental graces. The more of It one pours out the more there Is 'still in the vessel; so that Mr. Taffs presence not only relieves the pressure of pent-up patriotism, but also gen erates a new supply. But, while this is an Important ef fect of a Presidential tour. It Is not the only one. Still more salutary is the opportunity It affords the Nation's chief magistrate to learn what the country thinks of him and his policies. To be sure, he la more likely to hear flattery than candid criticism from those whom he honors with his com pany, but a word or two of genuine frankness can hardly help slipping In once In a while among the smooth felicities. The crowds and shouting cannot be taken at their face value, of course. If they could. Mr. Bryan would have been President three times at least, for none of our public men ever received wilder applause. Still, the people how something of their real thoughts by their demeanor and their presence in great multitudes en ables the President to effect what Is really the main purpose of his tour. It brings him face to face with the voters whom he represents and permits him to tell them directly what he is trying to do. If a President possesses ideas and ambitions, a tour such as Mr. Taft is now making affords an Incompar able occasion to explain them and win the people to favor them. Mr. Taft Is not the first President to avail him self of this admirable methejd, but no. fcody has employed It more elabor ately. " Beginning his tour at Boston In the middle of September, he expatiated upon the necessity for financial re form, predicted good consequences from the currency bill which Mr. Aldrich promises to offer next Winter and declared definitely for a central bank to control the monetary affairs of the country. At Chicago he chose the popular theme . of the law's delay and the remissness 1 of the courts. Here he made the bold statement that our administration of I the criminal law is a disgrace to clv ' llizatlon, an opinion which startled the country, but which no one has the hardihood to dispute. At Winona he took the less tenable ground that the Aldrich-Payne tariff bill Is a model of lawmaking. At Denver he explained and defended the corporation tax, and at Spokane he struck an immensely popular chord by advocating a bond issue to carry out the Federal Irriga tion projects. The proper government , for Alaska,, which he discussed at Seattle, is not a subject which the people at large care much about. They are willing to leave It to Mr. Taft and his advisers. From this sketch It will be seen that the President has ideas on a great variety of living questions and that he does not lack the courage to express them. This will strengthen his hold en the country even when his opinions are not popular. The American voter Is not Intolerant of views contrary to his own, but he detests a public man who has no views at all or who is afraid to express the ones he has. To neither of these accusations Is Mr. Taft liable, and when the people listen to his frank and manly expositions of his sentiments on National affairs, their affections are certain to be won by his courageous cheerfulness. Portland is glad to welcome the President. It trusts that he will take away, whsn he leaves tomorrow night, pleasant memories of his viftt. In common with the rest of the country, Portland likes to hear the voire and see the fare of the President. It likes to hear from him. as the other plaMs do, his plans for making the govern ment better and the people happier. SEATTLE'S BIO KAI R. It seems likely that the Exposition at Seattle will run Its total of paid ad missions up to 2.500,000 In the final two weeks that It Is now entering. The Fair has been a big success. Seattle will reap a rich harvest from It dur ing the next three years, Just as Port-' land did after Its Fair. As an, agency of exploitation nothing Is comparable with an exposition that Is worth see ing. All Oregon was advertised most effectively four years ago. Benefits of the Alaska-Yukon-Paclfic Exposition will not be confined to the 6tate of Washington. Oregon will hare almost equally. For a period of three months, at least 2000- visitors were attracted daily to Portland alone. A very large share of them are now sounding its praises. Attracted by the natural resources and the incompara bly mild climate, thousands of them are already preparing to come here to reside permanently as soon as they can sell out "back home." Most of them are persons of sound character, good education and experience. No Inconsiderable part are men of means. The number of "undesirables" Is neg ligible. Oregon, therefore. Is Indebted to the enterprising men of Seattle for this year's Fair. To have launched an exposition that attracted 2.S00.000 vis itors is an achievement that re-1 fleets credit on Its builders. The men of Seattle are also Indebted to Port land, for its advertising of their city four years ago. WHEAT RATE REDUCTIONS. The Northern Pacific Railroad has agreed to cut grain rates In accord ance with the order of the 'Washing ton Railroad Commission. The Oregon i Railroad Commission has ordered a similar reduction on the O. R. & N. A i rate that Is charged by the Northern I Pacific must necessarily be met 'by the O. R. & X.. independently of any i mandate of the Oregon Railroad Commission. Effective November l therefore, there will be a reduction of from 30 cents to 45 cents per ton oa grain moving out of the interior coun try to Puget Sound and Portland. As the price of wheat to the farmer is based on the Liverpool quotations, less the cost of freight this reduction will all go Into the pockets of the farmers. ,Its import ance can be understood when It Is noted that from the present season s crop, of the - three states, Oregon, Washington and Idaho, there will be an exportable surplus of fully 1,000, 000 tons. Suit for this rate reduction Just granted was begun by farmers in the vicinity of Rltzville, Wash., and their method and the success obtained Is in striking contrast with that of the Farmers' Union, that Joined hands with the citizens of Astoria in an ef fort to Increase the cost of getting wheat to market fully 33 1-3 per cent. The Ritzville farmers. In order to se cure higher prices for their wheat, demanded lower freight rates. The Palouse farmers, with the same end In view, asked that the railroads be compelled to haul their wheat 100 miles farther than was necessary. The result shows due recognition by two Railroad Commissions and the rail roads of economic conditions which warranted the reduction. The result of the Astoria-Farmers' Union move ment will also show recognition of the same conditions. Rate reductions, sometimes forced, sometimes voluntary, have been made at intervals for the past twenty years, and will undoubtedly continue to be made in the future. The building of the North Bank line to Portland has given practically all of the rail lines In the Pacific Northwest a water-level route from the wheat fields to tide water at Portland. This naturally tends to lower the cost of moving the wheat from the farm to shipboard, and the Increasing output will further assist the railroads In reducing the cost of service. The Farmers' Union, which was used to pull the Astoria chestnuts from the Are, will now profit by the rate reduction secured by the Ritzville farmers. If the union were success ful In forcing the railroads to increase the cost of getting wheat to market by the additional unnecessary haul from Portland to Astoria, future rate reductions would be made Impossible owing to the added cost of service. MR. WEH RUNG'S FINANCIAL FINESSE. Once more the Oregon Commission to the Seattle Fair is in print, this time in a wordy opinion of Attorney General Crawford. This authority holds that there are no strings on the Commissioners in any of their official acts, and that they can spend all the money they can get hold of In any manner they choose. The opinion Is written at request of Mr. Wehrung, president and chief fugleman of the board. It Is a waste of time, station ery, gray matter and typewriter rib bon. It was pretty well known at the re cent session of the Legislature Just what this Commission would do, and at first Its request for an addition of 125,000 to the original appropriation of J100.000 was turned down. The board was In rather bad odor finan cially, for the $100,000 fund was nearly exhausted, and at the rate money was being spent there would be very little on hand when the Fair opened. There was a feeling among the legislators that shortage of funds might teach them a lesson, but it would be at the expense of the good name of the state board; so, when the board almost tearfully promised to do better, the matter was reconsidered and the extra 25,000 was granted. It Is about gone and more is needed, so the Attorney-General Is called upon to sanction the efforts of a Commis sion, turned Into a committee on ways and means, to raise more. All he can do is to say they can go ahead under the law creating them, get it and "blow" it In. In a few weeks the Fair will be over and official functions will cease. Then will come the housecfeaning days, and as the Commission "should make a full and complete account of all mon eys received and expended." perhaps the taxpayer who is curious may learn how the money went, and more espe cially whether Mr. Wehrung's stenog rapher ate 150 worth of food per month at the expense of the state, and whether State Senator Bailey's son had to get alone on a meager $25. The Attorney-General's opinion says "should" rather than "must," and Mr. Wehrung can, if he so feels, render a statement something like this: "Dr. to cash received. Cr. by all spent," and laugh. The moral In this matter Is obvious, and need not be recited by saying that there Is never any money coming back to taxpayers, no matter what prom ises spenders of the money may make. ECHO OF THE SIGFX CASE. The Second Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg, taking warning from the Elsie Sigel case, in New York, no longer permits Its young women to teach In the Chinese mission schools that are conducted under its auspices. The result could easily have been foreseen. The Christian religion Its pretty young teachers eliminated speedily lost its attraction for "the heathen Chinee." Highly indignant at the privation, he refuses to have anything more to do with the '" 'Mell can man's" religion. The teachings of Confucius are quite good enough for him. This withdrawal of the Chinese pu pils from the mission has led to the amazing disclosure that previously to the Elsie Sigel murder each China man In attendance upon the mission had for his individual teacher one. of the young girls of the congregation. A hot debate upon the propriety or safety of this plan followed the dis closures in the Sigel case, one faction insisting that the girls, not their teach ings., kept the Chinese in attendance upon the mission the other stoutly averring that the religion held the heathen pupils in thrall. The aban donment of the mission by the Chi nese, upon the withdrawal of their young teachers, has settled the ques tion. , The story of Elsie Sigel, when first told, was amazing, unbelievable. It is amazing still, from the fact that a young and wholly inexperienced girl, at what Is significantly called the "fool age," was abandoned in the name of religion to the wiles of a somewhat cultivated and fairly well-to-do China man. It Is no longer a matter of wonder that she fell under the baleful' spell of his Influence and became en snared in the web that he craftily wove for her unwary feet. Disgust still strives with pity In contemplat ing her .shame and the tragedy in which It was ended. But censure has been turned from her, and now rests primarily upon the emotional mission ary Idea that was worked to its log ical conclusion In her degradation and death. The Pittsburg church, facing its de serted mission rooms, will try, it Is said, to lure the Chinese back again by employing elderly females to teach them. Vain device. The heathen Chinee Is not to be placated in this way. Let not the brethren think It. KSO.VPE FOR THIS CRIMINAL. TOO? The Salem youth who shot a police man on Friday morning seems to have been in the habit of carrying arms and he had probably meditated a good deal on the consequences of such an act be fore he dared to do It. Watching the outcome of criminal trials one after another in the courts, as -bright boys do, he noticed, naturally that murder ers were seldom convicted. More than that. It could not escape his observa tion that even in the rare Instances of conviction the criminal was almost certain to be released by the Supreme Court for some 'trivial technical rea son. The inferences which an intelli gent young man would draw from these facts are perfectly obvious. He would make up his mind that a shot at a policeman Is not only an exciting pastime, but that it is really pretty nearly as safe as a game of marbles. In all probability the young man, who seems to be of the pseudo-cowboy species, had reckoned up the conse quences of homicide in some such way as this and formed a resolution that when the opportunity came he would have the fun of killing his man and run the risk of punishment. To our shame it must be confessed that the risk is trifling. He will be tried, of course, but the trial Is more likely to be a piece of theatrical display than a serious quest for Justice. He may even be convicted, but the chances are a hundred to one that the lawyers or the judge will make some infinitesimal slip In word or gesture which the Supreme Court will seize upoa as an excuse for releasing him. Really If a person en joys killing his fellow men, there Is no very strong reason in our criminal law, as now administered, why he should not do it. THE NAVY'S COAL PROBLEM. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Win'throp is visiting the Pacific Coast In the Interest of his department. While on Puget Sound he made of- flrlal reply to two complaints, regard ing coal for the Navy. The first of these complaints was that annual-pro test against refusal of the Government to use Pacific Coast coal as fuel for war ships. Mr. Wlnthrop, without go ing Into details, insists that coal mined on the Pacific Coast Is not suitable for use in the Navy. In view of the var ious uses to which this Pacific Coast coal Is put, it Is not Improbable that the Secretary may be at least. In part. wrong on this matter. There has always been some4 com plaint over the steaming qualities of the coal mined on the American si&'s of the Canadian line. Vancouver Island coal has proved of sufficient good quality to satisfy the testa of the British navy and might reasonably be expected to be good enough for Amer ican vessels engaged in the same line of service. Coal Just over the line on the American side might be consid ered good navy fuel, but for the in fluence of trust-controlled Eastern coal mines, in deference to which Canadian mines get the American business. On the employment of foreign ships for carrying coal to this Coast, the Judgment of Assistant Secretary Wln throp Is somewhat better than it is on the coal question. He estimates that to ship in American vessels the 170, 000 tons of coal required by the Pacific squadron, would increase the transpor tation cost by $500,000 and that no matter what freight might be paid, not more than one-third of the coal needed could be shipped under the American flag. Even .If the required amount of tonnage for moving coal under the American flag were avail able, it would be a very difficult mat ter to explain to the American tax payers why $500,000. which could so easily be saved, should be paid wealthy shipowners. The Navy Department has for the past two years been chartering large numbers of foreign steamers which are used as colliers by the fleet. . Thsee vessels, without the passage of any special legislation, or the granting of any permit by Congress, are pressed into service in direct conflict with the law which states very explicitly that none but American vessels shall en gage in the carrying trade between two American ports. Having thus contin uously and consistently broken its own laws for the public good. Is there any known obstacle to prevent the Goverrr ment's going a step farther and buy ing a few of these foreign colliers and placing them under the American flag? An American owned fleet of foreign-built vessels, especially in time of war, would have distinct advantages over a chartered fleet. MILK AND THE ( NURSING BOTTLE. We may concede that the milk sup ply of Portland Is not clean, as it should be. But what of the nursing bottle Its rancid rubber nipple and the cloudy, dubious-looking glass tube or syphon through which the milk gurgles on Its way to the baby's stom ach? A woman of philanthopic spirit. who had for some years worked in that tenderest of charities, the Baby I Home, speaking in this connection, said recently: "If you could only see the nursing bottles that frequently ac company the little waifs that are sent to the Baby Home it would be plain that all the Impurities in milk that cause babies to sicken and die are not chargeable to unclean dairies. Those horrid bottles; a foul odor arose from them the moment the baby, that was fed from one of them, was brought Into the room." Needless to say, these nursing bottles were cast aside as too foul to admit of being properly cleansed, before the babies that had been fed from them were taken into the Home. . Here Is an object-lesson in the way babies, are fed by a class of mothers, some of whose infants find their way into charitable institutions and many of whom swell mortality statistics. It would be sad enough and pitiful enough, if this ignorant feeding of in fants were confined to the homes that lie along the lower levels of society or to mothers who, from necessity or In clination, place their infants and young children In charitable institu tions. Unfortunately, this Ignorance rises much higher in the social scale and extends to bottle-fed babies in many pretentious homes. The chief adjunct of mischief in these cases is the device in the bottle which enables the child to take Its food without su pervision of the mother or nurse. It would require constant and even sci entific supervision and care to keep this device of pleasure-loving mothers and lazy nurses sweet and clean. Like part of our milk supply. It is unfit, quite as disgustingly so as Is the milk fresh from the unclean dairy. The correction of this evil lies not with official inspection. It is strictly within the mother's domain. Herein her right, her privilege, her duty, is unquestioned. If from some cause not of her own contriving she Is un able to nourish her infant as provided by nature, she can at least acquaint herself with the hygiene of the nurs ing bottle, use proper vigilance in re gard to the milk supply for her house hold, even to the extent of turning dairy inspector, to this extent, and re fuse to accept milk that Is not deliv ered in bottles. Thus, at the cost of a little time and intelligent. Systematic labor, she can do more than any pub lic milk inspector can do to furnish her baby with pure milk. She can find a clean dairy and patronize it; if there Is any question about purity of the milk, she can learn to sterilize It; find the best method for keeping the nursing bottle sweet, and follow it; discard the nursing bottle that is sup plied with a tube for the culture of the germs of cholera infantum and other infantile disorders due to im proper food and feeding, and inci dentally, leave the congested ranks of the unfit. General Thomas Hubbard, president of the Peary Arctic Club, announces that he has read the records submit ted by Commander Peary and finds in them "much .that Cook has not stated." The Peary president is un doubtedly speaking the truth. The long-range maledictions which Peary has been showering on Cook ever since the Roosevelt got in communication with the United States certainly con tain "much that Cook has not stated," and. Judging by the conduct of the two men, they contain much that Cook never would "utter. The more this question is discussed by Peary and his friends the greater grows the disgust with Peary, and the suspicion that was at first directed against Dr. Cook is gradually drifting towards the man who is making the most noise. A thousand Yellow Newtown apple trees are to be planted near Eugene. About eight years from now results will be shown, equal to those from old and well-known apple districts, pro vided the same modern methods of cultivation are followed. The Willam ette Valley was proved to. be very well adapted to apple-growing sixty years ago. Soil and climate . haven't changed since then, though much progress has been made in the science of horticulture. An Eastern scientist says we are due to tread on the tall of Halley's comet May 28, 1910. It is gratifying to know the "heliocentric conjunction of longitude will produce no fatalities, as the heliocentric latitude will be minus seven minutes. " Note that building permits in Port land for nine months ending Septem ber 30 reached a total of $9,500,000, an increase of nearly $2,000,000 over the corresponding period In 1908. Portland goes ahead fast. "Why should we work Saturday af ternoons?" whimper the official "chair-warmers" at the City Hall. "Because you are paid for it," an swers His Honor the Mayor, and the case is closed. ' Kind Nature came to one's relief in the case of B. F. Tyler, an aged man of Lents, who, sorrowing bitterly over the death of his wife, died suddenly last Thursday, Just two weeks follow ing her demise. The undertakers, in convention, think burial at sea 'barbarous. Cer tainly. It requires no embalming, uo coffin, no hearse, no carriages, no holt in the .ground, and no bill for services rendered. A dozen lawyers, more or less, are hovering over the money of the Speckart heiress, suing and being sued.' "For whersoever'the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered to gether." Oregon's Attorney-General says Oregon's Commission at the Seattle Fair has a right to spend all the money It can get hold of. The opin ion can throw no light On the trouble. Three Presidents while in office hon ored Portland with their presence Hayes. Harrison and Roosevelt. Ex President Grant visited us on his re turn from a tour of the world. Both big league pennants having been won, local fans may now devote themselves exclusively to watching Portland's strenuous struggle for the Pacific Coast streamer. Increase of 24 per cent in the Port land Postoffice receipts, over Septem ber last year, is not to be considered lightly, j In some towns it would start a real estate boom. Pickpockets reap a harvest from such crowds as will congregate to see the President today. Carry only the necessary loose change about you when down town. . Mrs. Waymire has turned up again, it seems, and the ex-Mayor in South ern Oregon. She wants a pardon, and she ought to have it. After all, it is the chauffeur of the Presidential car who carries the dig nity, gravity and glory today. We note the prosperity of the un dertakers from other cities. PEARY'S EGOTISM MAKES ENEMIES Firm am Fatalist In Belief Pole Was to Be, and la, HIsj Own. Correspondence New York World. You need not spend many days with Robert E. Peary to discern that he is still a primeval man In body and im pulse, though equipped with a splendidly trained mind. He has made many ene mies by his -supreme, egotism and his disregard of the finer sensibilities in his references to Dr. Frederick A. Cook. But had he handled Cook any more gently he would not have been Peary, the man who seven times invaded the Arctic seas of Ice and then set out on the eighth and triumphal Journey with the same tremen dous energy and undaunted courage as he displayed on his less successful expedi tions. In his 23-year struggle to attain the topmost floe of the frozen north Peary has driven forward with the fatalistic be lief that he was destined to be the first man to reach the Pole. Today he is Just as certain that he was the first man to gain the Pole as an Eskimo is that walrus meat is the supreme epicurean delight of the universe. If it requires the expenditure of the remainder of his life to prove Cook a falsifier he will devote it to that end. But that is not his expectation. His view of the Cook entanglement waa best re vealed when he said today with a shrug of his huge shoulders: "Ludicrous!" And that is Just how he viewed from the very beginning Dr. Cook's report that he had reached the North Pole. Not that he was Impelled to laugh or merely sneer at Dr. Cook's claims. No more eo than a wolf sneers at a fox before he sets out to devour It. The first news he got of Dr. Cook's achievement, when he received the letter from Captain Walker, of the whaler Morning, at Etah, caused him to forget that the thermometer registered ten minus, and he instantly pulled oft his kool-l-tah (deerskin coat), rolled up his sleeves and went to work. The Idea is fixed in his mind, fast as adamant, that Cook never got there, and so it will remain fixed. This manner of resistless mental poise has made Peary many enemies. He be lieves that he knows the region of eternal Ice as no other man does. He has driven in there so often as to make him feel the ground his own. Three centuries' records of tragedy had no more effect upon this man of iron will and steel-ribbed body than the bones that strew the desert have upon the hardened prospector for gold. Until one meets Peary one has not met the educated and highly strung savage; the man who has drawn Into his system, into his psychology, the supremely prime val suggestions of the unexplored North, where every moment is a battle for ex istence, where every Impulse is to squeeze from nature what she will not yield. Of the lure of the north much has been written; but it was not the lure of 'the North that drew Robert E. Peary eight times above the SOth parallel. That sort of thing will do for another sort of scien tist, who can spend the Arctic night in his Igloo, now reading the dryasdust pages of scientific research and now re lapsing Into Swinburne or Nietzsche. There is absolutely nothing of poetry in Peary. His philosophy is not of the polemic or speculative sort. His mental impulses are iron-bound and steel clamped. His physical Impulses are with in complete control of his mind. NEXT LAND LOTTERY IN DAKOTAS. But Rules and Time of the Chance Game Are Not Yet Announced. Inquiry comes to The Oregonian about opening of the Indian lands in the Dakotas. Dispatches some time ago contained the news that the next big land opening would be of Indian lands In the Dakotas, where some mil lions of acres of land would be avail able for settlers next year. The rules and regulations to govern this opening are not yet announced, however. Prob ably they will be similar to those ob served this year in the opening of the Coeur d'Alene, Spokane and Flathead reservations. It does not appear that there is any special law relative to the opening of Indian lands in the Dakotas. February 8, 1887, there was approved "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the pro tection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and jfor other purposes." which was authorized by the President, "when ever In his opinion any reservation or any part thereof of such Indians is ad vantageous for agricultural and graz ing purposes," to allot certain quanti ties of the lands to the Indians and open the remainder to settlers, after suitable arrangement with the tribe. In the allotment each Indian head of family receives 160 acres, unmarried Indians over 18 years old and orphans under 18 receive 80 acres each, other Indian children 40 acres each. , If the area of the reservation is not sufficient to satisfy such allotments the land shall be allotted pro rata. When the lands are valuable for grazing only the quantity for each allottee shall be doubled. Where treaties require larger allotments the terms of the treaty must be observed. The Indians are per mitted to select their own allotments. One of the statute provisions regulat ing homestead claims is the following: That no patents shall be Issued therefrir except to the person s-j taking the sa-me as and for a homestead, or his heirs, and after the expiration of five years' occupancy thereof as such homestead; and any convey ance of said lands so taken as a homestead, or any contract touching the eame, or Hen thereon, created prior to the date of such patent, shall be null and void. Ownership of North Pole. Springfield Republican. Commander Peary's claim of sov ereignty for the United States over the North Pole and the adjacent region is taken 80 very seriously by the To ronto Mall and Empire that It demands the critical examination of his observa tions and data in order that it may be determined whether he actually reached the Pole. "Exact proofs would not be necessary." it says, "were it not for Peary's claim that he took posses sion of the Pole, and for his offer to transfer It to the Government of the United States. The evidence that the Pole has been reached must be Indis putable, in view of the position Peary has assumed on the question of own ership." Is this the plnhead of a cloud on the international horizon that threatens a storm between the United States and Canada? May we be spared the agony! But why is It that the Canadian paper has no sense of humor? We Shall See. Eugene Register. Now what modern Delilah Is respon sible for Congressman Ellis being shorn of his locks? His wonderful whiskers of 25 years' standing are gone. Is it an omen that his political power is gone? A bad time to change personal appearance is between campaigns. Hon She Knew. Llpptncott's Magazine. The cartoonist's wife was talking to a friend. "I just know Fred didn't want to work at the. office last tiight," she said. "Why, how do you know?" was asked. "Because in his sleep he said, "Well, I'll stay, but I don't want to draw.' " Informal. Life. First Newporter Was it an informal dinner? Second Newporter Very. The flow-1 exs only cost $2500. , f DIRECT PRIMARY RANK DEMAGOGY j Shown to Be the Machine of the Man With the Biggest Sack. Washington (D. C.) Post (Ind.). The craze for .the primary, state wide, gives no evidence of abatement, it is -based on that fundamental fallacy that the people are pure and infallible, and that the majority can do no wrong. It Is a thing of rank demagogy, as all flattery of the people necessarily is a sycophancy, and cowardice is the first born of the sycophant, who is ever a liar. This fanaticism will some time spend its force and vanish, and speed the day. The thing was advanced in the Interest of the poor man. In the philosophy of the demagogue the only privileged characters are those who have more votes than brains, or pelf. Well, what show has a poor man in a state-wide primary? He may be Plato and Burke together, and not appear In the returns, for It Is come to be a settled thing that in a primary the man with the money to estaBlish "headquarters," print and disseminate "literature," send agents hither and thither to organize clubs, distribute badges, hold meetings, purvey bar becues and such things, will come In at the head of the poll in the primary. There Is the case of one of the most distinguished members of the present Congress, who would have attained to this station at least four years earlier had he been possessed of the money to put up the initiation the entrance fee before he could contest in the pri mary. Had there been a convention he would have swept everything be fore him without money and without price. This is ft representative republic in theory, and it is wicked to make of It a democracy. Our people, under our system, choose agents to perform pub lic duties. He that would build a house employs an architect to construct it, and on the same principle the people should enmlov deles-ates to act for t them In the selection of candidates for political preferment. Can anybody say that the republic is better served under the primary system than it was under the old convention practice? He would be a bold man that did so. MARYLAND SMILES ON OREGON. Wants to Know How We Manatee to Grow Our World-Beating Apples. Baltimore American. The finest fruit sold in the big East Coast cities apples, grapes, pears and plums comes from beyond the Rocky Mountains. And in recent years the Pacific Slope States have been supply ing a very large proportion of all the fruit, perhaps one-half that Is sold in the markets along the Atlantic Slope. The Eastern fruit farmer, and the Maryland fruit grower particularly, will do wisely to Inquire into the rea sons of the phenomenal success of the orchardists and vlneyardists of the Far West. It is undoubtedly true that much of the soil west of the Rockies Is peculiar ly adapted to fruit growing, and the sunny . climate undoubtedly gives the beautiful coloring that distinguishes Western fruit. And finally, where irri gation is made use of. growth and de velopment can be better regulated. But the chief reason why fruitgrowing is such a flourishirrg industry in the Far West is that enthusiastic and pains taking effort is put in the business. In Oregon applegrowfs is probably now the chief Industry of the state, and has been made so by the develop ment Df the best market vaiieties and by careful methods In preparing the fruit for market. The lesson which the Western fruit grower is teaching the Eastern horti culturist Is that an orchard must be cared for. It has been too much the custom in the East to stick fruit trees in the ground, and then leave them to struggle for existence with weeds and grass. Many an orchard in Maryland has died in its early youth from neg lect. They believe out In Oregon that an apple tree may be made to live 150 years, but they have found by exper ience that it will die before it is 20 years old If neglected. And in a neg lected orchard or vineyard the fruit is always inferior. Some of the orchards in Oregon are said to yield $200 per acre net profits annually. Maryland grow ers ought to find out how the Ore gonlans get such results. Dishonest Apple Parking. Springfield Republican. The ' Rochester Herald conveys a warning to the apple growers of West ern New York that we hope Is not needed by apple growers In New Eng land. A dispatch from Glasgow to the Toronto Globe complains that Canadian apples are not honestly packed for the British market. The largest dealer in the Scottish city finds that he has to empty every barrel he receives from Canada, owing to the practice of fill ing the bottom and top with fine fruit and the middle with interior graae. The result of this dishonesty Is a scaling of the price of Canadian apples. The Rochester newspaper comments: "We make mention of this because Western New York is bidding lively for the foreign fruit trade. Our apples have a high standing in European mar kets, and it is to be hoped that dis honesty will not jeopardize it. For we may be sure that if our packers prac tice such deceptions, punishment in the way of loss of trade will be sure to follow." In this connection it is worth noting that the professor of pomology at the Massachusetts Agricultural Col lege has made a valuable report to the State Board of Agriculture regarding the growing of apples in New England. With ample detail Professor Sears shows that what is needed to make this Industry successful in the East is the adoption of business methods and the application of the best cultural prin ciples. Fortunately many farms in this state are inclining that way. Fate of the Clermont. Century. The final whereabouts of the historic vessel remains a mystery. It has been asserted that she was finally trans ported as the Henrietta to the Capo Fear River. North Carolina, where Ful ton himself as early as 113 had sug gested the formation of a steam navi gation company. Another authority, Mr. J. Seymour Bullock, states that the boat was broken up when further lm- 1 portant improvements renaerea ner an tiquated shape and construction un equal to the increased traffic upon the river, and. that the "ribs" of the hull were used under the wharf in Jersey City where the Kecor Foundry built monitors during the Civil War. Another Kind of Skeptic. CENTRALIA, Wash., Sept. 30. (To the Editor.) Referring to the Cook Peary controversy could it not be pos sible that this "big noise" was framed up between them before leaving the Arctic region? A CONSTANT READER. Worry On I Atlanta Constitution. In a frenzied hurry from darkness unto dawn : If the world Is worth the worry. Worry on! Worry on! When Fortune does not And you, or, com ing, soon is gone. If you think the jade will mind you, Worry on! Worry on! A bitter drink you're Quaffing while to the darkness drawn; The very stars are laughing: Worry on 1 Worry out Life's SunnySide A tourist went into a pipemakers shop with the Intention of seeing the method of making pipes. The propri etor, who was a Scotchman, had ar rived from Edinburgh a few weeks be fore. When the Philadelphian got In the shop he found only a boy back of the counter, so without any more ado he thus addressed him: "Well, my callant. I'll give you a quarter if you show me how you make your pipes." "I canna mak' a peep, sir," replied the lad. "I ca only mak' a cuddle (donkey)." "A cuddle! What's that, my hin ney?" "It's a short peep," replied the boy, "'sic as men and women smoke oot on. " "I'll give you a quarter if you show me how to make that." "Gie's yer quarter furst," was the reply. The gentleman gave the hoy the quarter and the boy took the long nipe and broke a piece off it, saying: "There, now, sir, that Is the way I mak' cuddles." Philadelphia Times. A Scotchman went to spend a few days in London with his son, who had done exceptionally well in the great metropolis. After their first greetings at Kings Cross station, the young fel low remarked: Feyther, you are not looking weel. Is there anything the matter?" The old man replied: "Aye, lad, I have had quite an accident." "What was that, feyther?" "Mon," he said, "on this Journey frae bonnie Scotland I lost my luggage." 'Dear, dear, that's too bad. 'Oo did it happen?" "Aweel," repdled the Aberdonl.m. "the cork cam oot." London Tit-Bits. "The preacher that married you says you only gave him a dollar." "He ought to be glad I didn't sue him for damages." Judge. "Why did Eve give Adam the apple?" "I suppose she wanted to get rid of the fruit so as to wear the basket for a hat." Illustrated Bits. Tired of hotels, she begged a house of him; He with good nature let her have her whim. And now she cries: "This pretty wed ded bliss Is! Why, I'm the servant cook's the real missis. New York Sun. Mother You have one great fault, Emerson. You won't take "No" for an answer. . Boston Child And yet It was that same trait In father which led you to marry him. Life. - Hard-Featured Woman So you had money once, had you? May I ask you how you made your first thousand dol lars? Tuffold Knutt (.wiping his eye with his coat sleeve) Ma'am, I drempt it! Chicago Tribune. ".n.re all these photographs of fel lows you have been engaged to?" "No. They're the fellows who didn't propose." "What In the world do you want of them ?" "Why, I'm saving them to make a rogues' gallery." Philadelphia Ledger. . "How's yer wheat?" "First rate." "Pigs doin' well?" "Fine." "That puny colt come round all right?" "He sure did." "Glad to hear things is so- likely, BUI. How's your wife?" Pittsburg Post. Tommy Tuff seemed particularly ob tuse that morning-, but "dear teacher" was determined to make him under stand. "You say you own a dog. Tommy?" she said. Then you have a quadruped, don't you see?" "No'm," replied Tommy. "But I explained to you a moment ago that any animal with four legs was a quadruped." "Yes'm, but Buster lost one o hls'n fightln' a trolley car." Catholic Rtand ar Fslih Versus Knowledge. PORTLAND, Sept. 30. (To the Editor ) Mr. C. B. Cline's letter in a recent Issue of The Oregonian Is peculiar and quite interesting, but I think not very con vincing. He says: "Christianity is not a science but a faith," and that "the man who refuses to act upon what he cannot know is Impractical to say the least." It seems according to that logic that one is practical because he relies upon hearsay and faith, and impractical because he relies upon science and dem onstrated farts. According to such idea the Dowloltes. the Mosesites. the Mor monltes and Mohammedans are all prac tical because they all rely upon hearsay and faith. Which shall I follow? The fact that those poor persecuted Jews in Russia prayed, trusted and suf fered is no proof to me that they have the true faith and are practical. Is It to you? The citizen you referred to who sub mitted his person and life to a phy sician's knife, submitted his person and life to that physician's practical knowl edge of the science of the human or ganism, not upon his faith. In these many conflicting forms of faith surely all cannot he right and practical, though they have faith and be sincere. Are you and the Christians of today following His example and teachings? are you sure? I hoar much talk and see many ceremonies. FRANK A. SILLIO. State's Thrifty Inspector. Grants Pass Observer. The criticism of the absurd state fac tory law by the Observer and othr papers accomplished something In tho way of the correction of the abuse. The injustice of ranking little country print ing, offices as factories is continued, hut the tax imposed upon offices of the Ob server class lias been reduced from $o to $2. The Inspector when last here could find nothing to inspect In this office hut the driving belt of the cylinder press, and advised that a railing be put up. When the pressman was consulted, however, he refused to have the railing, because it would rauso some danger where now there is none. Her Winning Ways. Milwaukee Jo.irnal. I met her down by t.i seashore On a sunny day in June: We sat together on tho ba-h. Where the wavelets played a tune. She spoke ahout her mansion And her country plaK; so fair: About her string of servants And conservatories there. She said she kpt three m tor cars. Had a fortune in the barkF. And kept champagne always on tap In gold and Ivory tanks Then she hinted she was sinsie. And my heart Just throbl-ed vlth bliss, And If I'd been worth a million I'd have handed her a kiss. I suspected I could win hr "lwas th one best elianre of life And it I had not bcn hiwied I'd have surely couped a wife. But I could net llns'T longer Pv the sad, roniar.tlc shore; ' I know my ticket would exulre And my dream would soon be o'er; So I packed my tag and r.nggare. Started for my home next day. Left my nillllon-helrr-ss weeping Where the wavelets gayly play. Twas last June that all this happened But don't think that I am sore. For todav I saw that maiden Clerking in a tea-cent store. -'