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8 riTE MORNING OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1909. - ' PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland, Oregon, Poatofflce as Pecor.d-Class Matter. Subscription Kte Invariably in Advance. (By Mall.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year $8.00 Dslly, Sunday Included, aix month.... 4-25 Ially. Sunday Included, three monttis.. 2.25 rally. Sunday Included, one month.... 75 Pally, without Sunday, one year V"0 Daily, without Sunday, six months.... 3-25 Dally, without Sunday, three months... 1.75 Pally, without Sunday, one month 60 "Weekly, one year l.-' Sunday, one year 2.50 Sunday -and weekly, one year 3.30 (By Carrier.) Daily, Sunday included, one year 9.00 Dally. Sunday Included, one month 75 How to Remit send poatofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's rik. Give poatofflce ad dress in full, including county and state. Posture Rate 10 to 14 pases. 1 cent; 10 to 28 paves. 2 cents; 30 to 40 pases. 3 cents; 4-0 to 6" pages, 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. Eastern Business Office The S. C. Beck W'ith Special Agency New York, rooms 4S S0 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510-512 Tribune building. PORTLAND, TtESDAY, NOV. 23, 1909. BANK NOTES AS CURRENCY. Notes in any form (and every form) re simply evidences of debt. They may be convenient substitutes for money, and as such are used. Even when issued by the United States they are promises to pay. Nothing more. Yet multitudes of our people still think a promise to pay, made by the Na tional Government, not only Is good as money, but is money itself. They in sist that notes, which pass as money, ehall be issued by the General Gov ernment, direct from the Treasury; they oppose all bank issues by individ uals or corporations, and, of course, they oppose a central banl; of issue, in which the Government is to be a partner with individuals, even with right of governmental supervision of the whole. We shall have, therefore no central bank of issue, no reorgani zation of our national bank and cur rency system, on principles well estab lished and approved by experience, We are not wise enough. We hav hot yet had panics and financial dis asters enough. We still hold to the Idea that we can control credits and Values, by the votes of the majority ' Therefore we haven't yet had the necessary experience to permit or au thorize a great central bank, like the Bank of France, controlling the issue of notes, having branches all over the country, but maintaining, on the Judg ment of its directors, the issue of Jiotes and providing for their redemp tion. Our people, believing they can regulate, by their votes, the value of money, and calling notes issued by authority of the Government, money will not permit any rational currency or rational banking system to be es tablished in the United States. The fcresent one, wholly IrraUonal, was created and established by the emer gency of conditions produced by the Civil War. It was not established on any scientific principle, but by acci dental circumstances, and the folly of it was overlooked, in the exigency of the times. The country has become used to it. It is a most unscientific and dangerous system; but there is in vincible objection to any change that would put it on a rational basis; lest a central bank, allying the government with plutocracy, should "control the supply of money" and "oppress the people." We shall have, therefore repetitions of panics and financial dis. asters. We have not yet learned the lesson. But we shall learn ' it. Not however, till we shall have' done with our Bournes and Chamberlains and La Follettes and Tillmans, and the whole crowd who are playing to pop ular prejudice and ignorance, yet never trying to Instruct it. These little men, however, have an excuse. They don't know how, and merely wish to hold office. , It Is useless to advocate a choice be tween the Fowler method, which pro poses that the right of issue shall be preserved to the national banks but that their notes shall rest upon their own assets the security of Govern ment bonds being eliminated and the central bank idea of Aldrich and Carr- non. It is useless, we say; because the country -will have neither. Fearing that "the money power" will get some advantage, we shall move along in present ruts, and have more panics and more financial disasters. For no effective reserve, or means of redemp tion, can be provided under this sys tem; and reasonable and scientific at tempt or proposal to provide them would be denounced and rejected as an effort of the money power to rob and enslave the people. It is useless, therefore, to attempt a remedy now for the defects of our banking and currency system. We shall be compelled to blunder along with the system as it is, and to accept the consequences of such financial col lapses as it will, at intervals, necessar ily produce. Sometime we may become wise enough to have a great central bank, with branches all over the coun try, like the Bank of France, whose strength was so great that even the Commune of Paris, in the ascendent in 1871, dared not touch it. But we have not yet had sufficient experience, through financial disaster, to force us to do any rational thing. However, it is sure to come. THE SITUATION IX ENGLAND. Well informed observers do not feel certain by any means that the English House of Commons will come out vic torious from its struggle with the Lords over the revolutionary budget. The British are often spoken of as a thoroughly commercialized people, somewhat thick-witted and devoted soul and body to creature comforts, but at heart they are Idealists. They idolize their nobility. When they come to the critical moment of choice between their own welfare and the dignified prestige of the Lords. It would be just ljke them to rrefer the latter. In fact, at the last bye election the Tories -won, reversing a former Liberal majority. The district was in the slums and was, therefore, pecul iarly subject to aristocratic influence, but for all that, the result is ominous. The Lloyd George budget, which is making a great stir, not only in Eng land, but all the world over, contains a number of radical innovations, but its principal feature of interest Is a tax on land values. Hitherto the British landowners have escaped taxation al most completely, as landowners. The new budget frankly reaches out for a share of the "unearned increment" as it accumulates. Of course, the project is dangerous for the Liberals, since it may lead to their defeat, but it Is a great deal more dangerous for the Tories, br the landowners, because it compels them to fight not only for po litical power, but for their rents, too. The British government feels obliged to build a number of new Dread noughts, and the money to pay for them must come from some source. The landlords wish to raise it by levy ing a tariff on imports. The Liberals would tax land values. The tariff method would throw the burden upon productive Industry. The method of Lloyd George would throw it upon the idlers, who neither toil nor spin. It will be interesting to see which the British voter prefers. Hitherto the landlords have paid nothing on the Increasing values of their land. This could not be tolerated in the United States. NOTES ON PROHIBITION. Any county in Oregon that desires to prohibit sale of liquors may prohibit. Many have done so; but liquors still put in an appearance as in Linn County, and at the tragedy at Lebanon at 2 A. M. Sunday. Nevertheless, prohibition is the voice of Linn County. It is ineffective; but it's the same old story. At Pendleton the Tribune complains that citizens of Pendleton, where li quor is prohibited, go off to Walla Walla, where they tan buy liquor, and that while there they buy other things; and Pendleton loses an enormous trade. Pendleton feels also the loss of revenue from taxation of sale of liquors: and the loss must be made up by other taxes. Next year an effort will be made to carry prohlbtion In Oregon. Many counties and towns and cities will not want it Should it be forced as a state measure, Multnomah County would lose a revenue of $300,000 to $4,00,000 a year, and sale and use of liquors would.be secret, yet not less observ able in their consequences than now. However, the question of taxation and revenue doesn't much affect Ideal prohibitionists; few of whom figure to much extent on the tax rolls. ROGUE RIVER FRUIT. At'the National apple show, in Spo kane, Tronson and Gilbert's Rogue River- Spitzenbergs carried off the world's prize. The Judges were unani mous in their decision, which Is per haps more significant of the merit of the apples than the prize itself Is. At just about the same time a peach or chard of four acres, not far from Ash. land, sold for $8000. that is at the rate of $2000 an acre. In connection with these facts, one Involuntarily thinks of the Rogue River shipment of Cornice pears, in 1907, which sold at auction in New York for $8.10 a box. A fruit growing region which is making a record of this sort "will naturally at tract attention. Men desiring to plant small commercial orchards will In quire for five and ten-acre tracts suit able for fruit-growing and not too far from town to make pleasant homes. Capitalists vlll seek to invest their money in an industry which promises returns so certain and so large. For both the homesoeker and the capitalist opportunities are abundant in the Rogue River Valley. Although apples, peaches, pears and grapes are produced there in a degree of perfec tion which few places can rival, still only a small part of the Jand suitable for orchards has yet been planted. The Rogue River fruit Industry', in spite of the magnificent success it has won, is only In its infancy. Men who go there now and plant orchards, al though the prices they must pay for land may look large, are really taking advantage of pioneer conditions. They are certain not only of heavy profits from their fruit, but also of an enor mous Increment of land values. THE DRYDOCK LEASE. The Port of Portland drydock was built by the taxpayers of this city to protect our shipping interests. When the Port of Portland was empowered with authority and provided with money for construction of the dock. the question of profit from its opera tion was regarded as a secondary feat ure. It was intended that this port should have drydock facilities under direct control of the Port of Portland, In which was vested authority to make any rates that were regarded as neces sary in order to" attract shipping to this port. As a result of tlvese rates no later than last year vessels were brought to this, port from Seattle for repairs in the Port of Portland dry- dock, and a heavy saving effected for the owners. If the statements made In The Oregonian yesterday by Captain Albert Crowe, surveyor for the Board of Marine Underwriters, are correct and they have not been challenged a combine has been effected which In cludes all the drydocks on the Pacific Coast except the Port of Portland docks In this city. This being the situation, ther is in creased reason why Portland should retain control of Its drydock, for It is a necessary factor in any seaport. The Oregonian has for years recognized and declared the injustice Imposed on Portland through Its being obliged to provide all of the money needed for building and maintaining dredges ta be used in deepening a channel through which the products of nearly all of Eastern Washington, Idaho and Ore gon must pass to the sea. The build- ng of the drydock was simply a neces sary continuation or expansion of that policy of making the Columbia River attractive port for shipping, and Portland built the drydock, as she uilt and operated the dredges, be cause It seemed the only method by which It could be secured. Having assumed these burdens, and fully realizing that we must carry them until a sense of duty prompts i the rest of the Northwest, or the Gov ernment,' to aid In the work, there does not seem to be good reason or possible advantage in permitting so Important a part of our port Improve ment plant as the drydock to pass out of our hands. Let us wait until we are ready to abandon the entire work of port improvements. There Is no direct profit discernible from the work of Improving the channel, although the Indirect benefits are satisfactory, and because the drydock falls to prove a remunerative investment is not suffi cient reason for Its being turned over to a private corporation. This objection Is entered without in tending an Inference that the persons who are desirous of leasing the dry dock would establish rates detrimental to the Interest of the port. Quite nat urally their Interests and those of the port would be to a considerable extent mutual: but, after leasing the dock, the Port of Portland would have no right to fix rates to meet emergencies or attract shipping to the river. The drydock does not secure as much busi ness as it can handle, and many of the vessels which dock there never come back the second time. Perhaps a still further reduction in rates might with advantage be made. As pointed out by Captain Crowe, it is in the re pair work that the expense runs up, and it would be advantageous to have more of that workv performed in this city. ' i PROGRESS OF THE CANAL. The country Is neither surprised nor shocked to learn from the Congres sional Report, that it will cost twice as much to finish the Panama Canal as the engineers at first estimated. Now the project is so far along that the true figures may be given. S.till, the canal will be worth all It costs and a great deal more and, large as the bill is likely to be, the country is rich enough to pay it without distress. The average taxpayer will probably make a wish that all the money wrung fronarhim might be as well Invested as that which is put in the Panama Canal. The work itself seems to progress as well as could be expected, taking the great difficulties into account. The original plans for the huge Gatun dam had to be changed after they had been partially completed. The earth un derneath was less stable than the en gineers expected and slips occurred when the weight of the dam was su perimposed. There has been a good deal of unexpected slipping along the Culebra cut, also, so that here and there excavation had to be repeated Naturally, accidents of this sort add to the expense of the canal, but they are bound to occur In a work of such dimensions. The wonder Is that there have not been more. The rising price of labor and materials has also helped expand the cost beyond the first esti mates. Upon the whole, however, the country is satisfied. The work pro gresses swiftly and everybody feels complete confidence in the engineers, both as to competence and integrity. Whatever may,be said of the purchase of the French rights, the actual con struction of the canal has been free from the faintest suspicion of mis management or peculation. When It is finished the American people will be justly proud of the work itself and prouder still of the way it was done. WOMEN IN GAINFUL OCCUPATIONS. Dr. Woods Hutchinson, having run the gamut of health topics, comes now into the labor reasm with a disquisition in the Saturday Evening Post upon woman's work in . the domestic realm and out into the various lines of in dustrial effort which absorbs so much of woman's time, strength and ingenu ity at the present time. He even ven tures to discuss the domestic problem the problem of domestic service as it applies to American women and boldly assumes that there is a reason, and that a grave and sufficient one, for the undeniable antipathy of this contingent of the workaday world to what is known as "general housework" in the homes of others. He cites with all the buoyancy that attends a'new discovery that while in most factories,,, offices and shops the eight or ten-hour day rules, the aver age household day, whether for house keeper or servant, still runs from four teen to sixteen hours a day. It is evi dent from this statement that Dr. Hutchinson Is not an employer of household labor, since In actual life it would be Impossible to keep a house maid over one day who was required to work anything like the, hours that he mentions as belonging to domes tic service. Housewives work these excessively long hours In their own homes, but no woman who works In any capacity for wages would submit to such strenuous hours of labor. His estimate of the labors of the woman who does her own work for economy's sake, in a family of from four to eight people is, however, so true to the actual facts of ages that it is well worth reproducing. He says: The feelinp that the day's work will not be" dene until . the cjock strikes eight, or nire. or ten. and the realization, every day In the week . and every week in the year, that It will Inevitably heirin again at day light on the following morning are always present. The work may be light or It may be heavy, it may be enjoyable and Interest ing, or dull and wearisome to the last de gree, hut It will constitute a first mortgage on all a wom.n s time from tnc moment that she wakes up in the morning until she lies down at night. And the monotony, and what ' is worse to coin a word the "resultlessness" of It! Buying food with which to dirty pots, pans and kettles In the cooking and serving of food, and cleaning pots, pans and kettles In order that they may be ready to get dirty again; washing the breakfast dishes that they may be ready for dinner, and dinner dishes for use at supper, and The supper dishes for break fast again the only change being that gradually dishes enough are broken and new set is bought. Dusting and sweeping and scrubbing and mending from aawn tli dark, with the net result that you are still alive and clothed at the end of the year and none of the family Is dead, or sick or In rags. The view as expressed by Dr. Hutch- Inson that this treadmill, If followed a month by the man of the house, would either drive him crazy or send him to a sanitarium is not an exagger. ated one, except In this sense, that it presupposes that any man would per slst in the test a month unless bound to it by an exalted sense of duty and an unselfish spirit that are not mascu line traits of character. However this may be. It will afford a gleam of com fort to thousands of women to know that their labors in behalf of home and family and the not infrequent visitor are estimated at something like their true value by a man who commnads a weekly hearing of perhaps a million readers. All of this, and much more that is strikingly in point, is supplemented by statistics which show that of all the occupations pursued by women, house hold labors are the most trying upon their vitality, as shown by compara tive data. For example, it is found that the average death rate for all women is 20.1 per thousand, while that of women engaged in gainful occupa tions ranges from 12 per thousand for mill and factory operatives, 10 for dressnlakers and seamstresses, 14 for bookkeepers, copyists and clerks, with the appalinlg pitch of 53.4 for domestic servants! That Is to say. every gain ful occupation In the United , States shows a lower mortality than that of the total number of women of the same age period, with the single excep tion of domestic service. All of this is, however, set aside by the fact that the employment in factories of mar ried women who are bearing and rear ing children is most undesirable from every point of view hygienic, eco nomic and moral, and, it may be added, humane. The remedy for this is, in the estimation of Dr. Hutchin son, a simple one, viz: "Pay the hus band a wage that will enable him ade quately to support his wife and rear his children without the assistance of the wife and mother." This would. Indeed close the account if all hus bands were sober, capable, industrious wage-earners. That through the neg ative of this statement lies the fact that thousands of wives and mothers of young children are forced Into the wage-iearning arena is well known. In this view the "simple remedy" pre scribed becomes too complex for gen eral application, and leaves the ques tion practically where" it was before it was submitted to this discussion. The ' "American visible" supply of wheat, with the smallest total at any corresponding period in the past twelve years, yesterday showed a de crease of nearly 1,000,000 bushels, compared with an Increase of 2,400,000 bushels for the same period last year. The visible supply is now 25,000,000 bushels smaller than last year, al though the crop Is supposed to have been much greater than the crop of 1908. These figures naturally have some effect on the market, but it Is still full early to determine their full significance. The farmers of the coun try have enjoyed several years of high prices and general prosperity, and are in a better position to hold their crops than they have ever been before. They are also pretty well impregnated with the belief that by holding they can force prices to still higher figures. There Is no more interesting commer cial conundrum now awaiting solu tion than the future course of the 'world's wheat market: The death of William J. Hamilton, at his home in Stevenson, Wash., re calls many names and incidents of pioneer life that centered around the Lower Cascades from a third to half a century and more ago. He was born on the donation land claim of his father and mother, Mr. and .Mrs. S. M Hamilton, in the year following the Indian massacre at that pface, with which the name of General Phil Sher Idan is connected. "Strawberry Is land" was the name given to the place by Lewis and Clark, and as the "Ham ilton place"' it was known by all the early steamboat men of the Middle Columbia. His death records the pass lng or the last male member of nis Immediate family. Standard Oil stock suffered a decline of forty points in the New York stock market yesterday, but as it closed at $640 per share bid, there is still am pie room for a further drop of some thing more than $o00 per share be fore it approaches par. Meanwhile the keresone lamp and the gasoline engine are lapping up the great staples that lie behind the quotations in the New York stock market. The decline may cause John D. to cut down the appropriations for hookworms and bookworms, but there will me no ne cessity for his going without a Thanks giving turkey, even should the bears continue their raid on his pet stock. "Strike that school teacher lead as soon as you get this.' There is a 'kil ling,' I feel sure," wrote a faking Se ttle land promoter to one of his Subordinates, after telling him that he had sent his decoy circulars to all of the "school marms" on Grays Harbor. The qualifications which are. required of a good schopl -teacher are not such as tend to make her a good judge of real estate Investments, and when a real estate fakir takes, advantage of the natural desire of the victims to make a good investment and gets hard-earned money without rendering any equivalent, he is certainly entitled to pretty severe punishment. It seems that several Portland mer chants had resolved not to do any more business with the Harriman roads, and had put their purpose or resolution Into practice, during sev eral months. Then the Harriman peo ple resolved that they would deal with other Portland merchants, in prefer ence to those who had boycotted them. Boys, wouldn't you all better get in and play together again? Though there Is shortage of cotton in the crop of this year In several states, the crop of Georgia is very full: and with the enhanced prices it will bring Into the state, they say, some thing like $175,000,000. It is a tre mendous sum of money, and a mighty industry; but Georgia is a great state. Old man Gage will marry again. He has putlived two wives, and perhaps hopes to keep on living. But his in tended has outlasted "one husband and another man who was on the brink of becoming her husband. The race thus far, then, is about even. Prizes have been offered for the best exhibit of dairy products at the dairy men's 'convention in Portland next month. Health officials are perhaps interested to know whether a prize Is included forthe biggest microbe. Maud O'Dell, actress,, has returned to the stage In San Francisco, after less than a year of married bliss. We suppose her husband did not wear enough holes in his socks to keep her busy darning. Passengers of the St. Croix threaten to sue the shipowners for damages. It probably would have been cheaper for the owners had the passengers gone down with the ship. A lawyer at St. John took a bath and received a terrific electric shock that dislocated his shoulder. This Is the worst shock on record from taking a bath. Every victory over Standard Oil thus far has produced an increase In the price of coal oil. We are awaiting the latest victory with breathless expect ancy. Every other great explorer than Dr. Cook has had his proofs and data at hand immediately. Evidently . Dr. Cook Is greater than them all. "The King is dead" already. A Prineville paper says "tracklaying be gins on the Lovett line," meaning the Harriman road, of course.- When a pound of turkey looks like thirty cents it means the birds are roosting altogether too high for com mon domestic economy. A society column may soon be added to some newspapers to tell about the pretty divorce as well as the pretty wedding. Noah had the negative comfort of no forecaster to tell him each day there would be more tomorrow. Chicago expects to eat a million tur keys Thursday.. Those foreigners get naturalized quickly. Chile s hastening to placate us. Chile has not forgotten Bob Evans. WHAT AILS DR. COOK'S PROOFS George Kennan. the Explorer, Asks Why They Are Not Produced. The Outlook, November 20. AU,of this discussion and controvers might have been avoided, if Dr. Coo had turned over to Rector Torp an Professor Stromgren, In Copenhagen, the North Pole diary that he super ficlally exhibited to reporters the nex day after his arrival in New York Instead of doing this, he kept hi diary out of sight in Copenhagen, an told the Danish scientists, who believe and honored him, that he had sent hi books and data directly to America from Greenland, and that he had no origins observations with him. Philip Gfbb in London Chronicle. September 7, 1909 and many other authorities). He after ward gave the impression that he had left indispensable "data with Mr. Whitney in Etah, and this he continued to do until Mr. Whitney came home and asid he knew nothinp about such "data." (W. T. Stead in Review of Re views, October, 1909, p. 314; New York Tribune, September 10.1909, and many other' newspapers). Dr. Cook then fought off all American requests fo proof by saying that the University o Copenhagen had the first claim; that there was no hurry; that it had "neve been custom-ry for explorers to make their full records public In such haste; and that he would submit his proofs to the scientists In Denver as soon as they should "be prepared." (New York Tribune, September 22, 1909, and many other papers). On the 20th of October, nearly seven week's after Dr. Cook's arrival In Den mark, Rector Torp, of the University of Copenhagen cabled him In America as follows: "When will you be able to send the original observations and instruments?' Dr. Cook gave a copy of this cable gram to the reporters in Toledo, Ohio and said to them: "My lecture course will be concluded at Minneapolis on Monday night. After that I will East to prepare the records. I think the proofs will be ready for examina tion In two months, and possibly In half that time." (New York Sun, October 21 1909). When Commander Peary was asked by the National Geographic Society to submit his original records to a. com mittee of scientists, he sent them at once to Washington, and the committee has already examined them and made its report; When Dr. Cook was asked by Rector Torp to forward his original records and observations,' he replied that he would "prepare" them at his earliest convenience, and would prob ably have them ready in a couple of months. In other words, It would take him from one . to two months in the Fall and Winter of 1909 to "prepare astronomical obseravtions and journal entries that he made on the Polar Ice in the Spring of 1908. No wonder Rec tor Torp said pathetically when he re ceived this reply: "We cannot under sand why Dr. Cook cannot send us. before two months have elapsed, the ob. servations he made at the North Pole.' (New York Times, October 16, 1909) Dr. Cook's many admirers may think Arctic explorers always make their astronomical observations and pre pare" their .Polar diaries atter iney get home and finish their lecture tours. but if they will glance through the napes of Nansen, Scott and Shackleton they will learn, perhaps, what the 'original records ' are, and what may ind what may not be done with them. But Dr. Cook himself seems to need a little Instruction. When, on the 16th of October, he was asked by the re porters in New York, "Do you not think that the production of your own diary of the ascent of Mount McKInley would go a long way toward refuting these .charges that have arisen?" he replied. 'No, I do not think so. The book does that, for It contains the complete rec ord. The book is practically a repro duction of the diary, and the record is worked out better than in the diary, and it contains more than does the diary." Doctor, don't you really think that the diary, being the original record of the trip, is better proof than the printed book?" "No, I don't think that it is." t:ew York Times, October 16, 1909). If Dr. Cook has such views as these with regard to original records, there is reason to fear that the "prepared" data and observations which he may some day submit the University of Copenhagen will be no better than cooked strawberries. ' A Democratic Paper on Assembly. Jefferson Review. The Review editor can't see why such roar is made against the idea of an as sembly being held by the Republicans. Not being a Republican, perhaps we are too dense to catch 'on. It is an undoubted fact that the "machine men" will be there in full force, but that cuts no fig ure. If they dictate the nominees for office, the voters are In no way obligated to support them in the primaries. It oc curs to us that this assembly is wanted in order to again get the party organized throughout the state, and it certainly needs it. With 30,000 Republican majority, under existing conditions the Democrats can elect any ofticial upon whom they unite. This suits us all right, and we would rather not see the Republicans get organized again, but we certainly can not blame them for doing so. Now we" expect some fool will accuse the Review of standing in with the machine, but it is not. It has, however, a good many Republican subscribers who favor the assembly, and they have a right to be, heard, and will be if any one of them wants to write an article for publication Soho Square. London Chronicle. Snho' is perhaps the most curiously de rived place name in iLondon. According to Samuel Pegge, the antiquary, Soho Square, which has given a name to the district, was first called Monmouth Square, when the ill-fated Duke of Mon mouth had a house there. Upon the Duke's defeat and execution in 16S5 the square was ordered to be called King's Square, and a statue of King Charles II was set up m the middle of it. But the partisans of the Duke of Monmouth, wish lng to preserve a distant remembrance of their leader, called it Soho Square, from Soho, a hunting cry adopted by the Duke as his watchword at the battle where he was taken prisoner. First EnKlish Chrysanthemum. Westminster Gazette. Flower-lovers may be interested to learn that a flower from the first chrysan themum ever grown in England may still be seen in the herbarium at the British Museum. The plant, one of the small yellow-flowered variety, was intro duced into the Chelsea Botanic Gardens in 1764 by the famous floriculturist Phillip Miller, who himself preserved the speci men now In the museum. The new flow er, however, failed to "catch on." After Miller's death Its culture was neglected. and It Is only within recent years that it has attained its -present enormous pop ularity. Two Great Hymns, Incidents. Kansas City Star. A writer in the Sunday-School Times points out that some of the most import ant events of our lives are Incidental. George Matheson, one evening after a time of great mental suffering, wrote in five minutes a short poem which now is in the hymn-books of the world and known to thousands. Thomas Ken of the Seventeenth century wrote four lines, commencing, "Praise God, from whom all blessings flow," which have been sung as a perpetual hymn of praise ever since. PRISON RECORD MADE DEFENSE Brown & McCabe Have Novpl Plea in Damage Suit. Brown & McCabe. stevedores, put up the novel defense that R. P. Schroeder was arrested ten times in one year and that he has been convicted and served time in the Penitentiary, when his $15. 000 damage suit went to trial in the Circuit Court yesterday morning. Th case was assigned to Judge Gatens. and before noon the jury had been drawn and testimony was being taken. The stevedoring firm alleged that Schroeder'; case was a fake throughout. The man alleged that while working for Brown & McCabe assisting In load ing the steamer Corydon, a rope gav way, precipitating a heavy winch-load of lumber upon him, breaking one leg, and permanently Injuring the other. The loading was being, done at the Inman Poulsen dock. Schroeder charged tha the rope was badly worn, and that Brown & McCabe were responsible. The de fense put up by the stevedoring firm was strengthened by Schroeder's refusal to exhibit his injured limb to the jury. The 12 men were instructed to bring In i sealed verdict if they reached an agree ment last night after retiring for delib era tion. JUDGE'S BROTHER IS WITNESS Parrish Divorce Suit in Circuit Court Is Continued. Because Circuit Judge Gantenbein's brother wojild probably be a witness In the suit of Luella C. Parrish against Edward B. Parrtsh for a divorce, the case, which had been assigned t6 him by Presiding Judge Bronaugh, was con tinued yesterday morning. At first it was to have been assigned to another Judge this morning, but depositions filed by Mrs. Parrish were declared faulty by Judge Bronaugh, and the' case was reset Sor January 18. thereby giving an oppor tunity for new depositions to be taken One' of these depositions was to the effect that Parrish compelled his wife to care for a crazy woman, a Mrs. Web ster. Mrs. Parrish's attorneys said they intended to show by the woman's ram bling, incoherent statements, in a depo sition she made, that she really is crazy. The Parries were married at Albany November. 1878. Mrs. Parrish says Mrs. Webster is her husband's sister, and that he took her from the asylum at Salem and forced his wife to care for the wo man and to submit to many beatings from her and other cruel treatment. WOMAN WILL PLEAD GUILTY Cora Conner to Admit Misdeeds Wltb Rural Carrier, Cora E. Conner, who ran away to Gresham with F. E. Dodge, after the latter had represented himself to be an agent of the Government, and had there by secured more than $500 from O. B. Conner, the woman's husband, will prob ably plead guilty in Circuit Court today. Her intention to do this was announced to Presiding' Judge Bronaugh by Deputy District Attorney Vreeland yesterday morning. - Conner is a rural mailcarrier. His wife had filed on Government land. Dodge, representing himself as a Government agent, said she had perjured herself and that Conner must pay him $500, that she might escape prosecution, and that the woman must leave the country. Dodere returned to Conner subsequently for more money. Conner grew suspicious and, ' upon lnvestigatin, found his wife iving with Dodge in Gresham. They were trapped and arrested on a statu tory charge. Dodge will be prosecuted in the Federal Court for impersonating a United States officer. NOON ESTATE NOW IS SETTLED Final Accounting to Be Heard In Court Next Month. Objections to the final account of the W. C. Noon- estate will be heard In the County Court at 9 A. M., December 28. W. C. Noon, Jr., and T. J. Armstrong. executors, filed their final accounts yes erday morning. All the claims against he estate are reported as paid, with the exception of one held by the heirs. Emily J. Noon, the widow; Viola E. Noon, Alma E. Noon, Ralph A. Noon and Stuart Freeman. The executors say they did not pay this because the heirs objected to the sale of any more real estate. The total amount of the receipts of the execu tors is $132,713.50. The disbursements have been $128,998.8S, leaving a balance f $3714.62 on hand. Soon after Noon died, August 9, 1904, H. M. Cake was appointed as one of the xecutors. as he was named for this ffice in the will. But three years ago e resigned and was paid $1373.20 for is services. The present executors a me $1840.86 as the value of their ervlces. ATTORNEY SUES FOR HIS PAY . M. Esterly Brings Action Against Irrigation Company. Attorney H. M. Esterly brought suit the Circuit Court yesterday against the Columbia Southern Irrigating Com pany to recover $500 for his services in defending the corporation during a suit in the United States Court. When he was employed, says Esterly, the agreement was that he should re ceive $5 a day, and a reasonable sum additional when the case was finally de cided. He tells of making several trips to Salem for the corporation, and of other work which he did, receiving no pay for it. DEVLIN COMPLAINTS STAND Court Declines to Alter Papers in Bank Case. The complaints of Thomas C. Devlin, receiver of the defunct Oregon Trust & Savings Bank, against W. H. Moore and other officials of the bank must stand as they are. according to a decision of Cir- cult Judge Gantenbeln yesterday. Motions on the part of the defendants to strike out parts of two complaints were denied. Sheriff's Office Mourns Deputy. Sheriff Stevens' office will be closed between 9:45 and 10:45 o'clock this morn ing out of respect to the memory of Deputy Sheriff . Sam Wertheimer, who died at his home, 9 Tenth street, at 10:46 P. M. Sunday. The funeral will be held from the home this morning. Complica tions following an operation for cancer of the stomach were the cause of death. Mr. Wertheimer was 49 years old. and had been a deputy under Sheriff Stevens for three years. A floral piece has been contributed by his fellow deputies. Kamm Objetcs in Court. Jacob Kamm's objections to the view ers' report regarding the benefits and damages which would accrue to his prop erty from, an extension of Main street from the west iine of Fourteenth street to the east line of Chapman street are being heard By a Jury In Judge Cleland's department of the Circuit court. The viewers reported to the City Council that Kamm's property would be damaged $26. 675 by the street extension, but that it would also be benefited in a like amount. Kamm wants the city to pay him for the land-needed for the street. FUGITIVE VAGRANT ACCUSED Prisoner Released by Judge Gatens Indicted for Larceny. Frank Watson, alleged bunco artist, said to have departed for parts unknown when released on $100 bail by Circuit Judge Gatens, was indicted by the county grand jury late yesterday afternoon on a charge of larceny from the person. The particular person from whom Wat son is alleged to have stolen is Emery Buren. The alleged theft took place November 6, and Watson is said to have secured $400. The witnesses examined by tha grand jury were E. W. Shepard and G. C. Klingel. The city filed a motion in the Circuit Court yesterday to dismiss Watson's ap peal from the Municipal Court on the vagrancy charge on the ground that It was not taken or perfected in accordance with the law. Regarding this appealed case, over which much criticism towards Judge Gatens has arisen on the part of same officials, who say he exceeded his au thority by reducing Watson's bail from $500 to $100, the Judge called attention yesterday to the fact that Watson's attorneys filed the transcript of appeal of his case from the Municipal Court on the afternoon before the bail reduc tion was requested. Section 336 of the city charter pro vides that any person convicted in this lower court may appeal to the Circuit Court at any time within five days thereafter. Watson's appeal was taken at once. Five other indictments were returned last night with the one against Watson, two being withheld from publication. E. A. McCarthy is alleged to have forged a bank check for $12.S0 on the Merchants' National Bank, passing it on W. M. Knight on June 8. McCarthy Us already In custody, charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. E. R. Steen is accused of assault and battery on Louisa Stoetz, on October 22. Antonio Cuvato is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon on Glacinto Viscioni, on November 14. A not true bill clears Charles A. Burnes and May Burncs of a charge of having stolen $9:! from William Johnson on October IS. A not true bill was also returned against Mrs. Ira E. E. Crosby, who was accused of having stolen a complete bedroom set from W. H. Max well on February 11. WRONG PROPERTY" ATTACHED Sheriff's Sale and Conspiracy Enter Into Land Suit. An attachment of the wrong property, a Sheriff's sale which followed and an alleged conspiracy to defraud him of his property in Portsmouth are the features of a suit which H. G. Sibray brought against George E. and Dora Devereaux, brother and sister, in Circuit Court yes terday morning. Sibray brought suit in May. 1907. two lots were attached, but not pronoriv de scribed, and a new attachment was is sued when the mistake was discovered. This was on June 6. of the same year. Devereaux had in the meantime conveyed the property to his sister for $1. Al though the deed bears the date nf May 22, Sibray says it was not actually exe cuted until June 1. The property was sold by the Sheriff under the second attachment, and the sale confirmed In the Circuit Court in January, 1908. The Devereaux deed is alleged by Sibray to have been given to defeat his Judgment, and he asks that It be set aside and that he be placed in. possession of the real estate. Devereaux Is an architect. His wife brought a divorce suit against him in Circuit Court last week. In which she alleges that the Portsmouth lots are held by his sister in trust for him. The dis position of the Sibray-Devereaux suit will give color to the divorce suit, as a decision that he is the owner of the prop erty will cut Devereaux's wife off with no Interest in It. WALLET CAUSES TniRD SUIT Sirs. McFarland Sues for $20,000 for. False Arrest. Katherine McFarland, the Woodlawn woman who found Mose Bloch's wallet In the Courthouse corridor last Summer, and was arrested for declining to return it because Bloch would not promise to give her the $lQfl reward he had adver tised in the newspapers, brought suit in Circuit Court yesterday to recover $20, 000 damages for false arrest. She also demands $150 for doctor's bills and med icine, as she says she was compelled to expend this amount after Bloch's treatment had made her sick. This Is the third time the Bloch-Mc- Farland fight has been aired in tho courts. After Bloch discovered tho finder of his wallet, which contained notes and checks for several thousand dollars, he had the woman arrested on a charge of theft. Still the woman refused to surrender the wallet, and hid it in tho basement of her house. . Later she re turned it, but sued for recovery of tho reward. The case was tried before Judse Morrow, whose decision was in the wo man's favor. Now Mrs. McFarland comes In for the third time with a hugo amage suit. BIGAMIST WEDS; DESERTS Albeit Nelson Didn't Tell Wife No. 2 He Had Wife No. 1. She didn't know her lover was a mai led man until the fatal knot was tied. On the first day of their honeymoon, however, he told her he had a wife and baby at home, and deserted her. Now she wants a divorce. Her, namo was Miss Eva Slover before she married Albert Nelson. Mrs. Nelson filed her complaint against him in the Circuit Court yes terday morning. The wedding took place at hood River, July 29, this year. Since then she has neither seen nor heard from her bigamous husband. Wife No. 2 says that Miss Lillian Oaks, of Kalama, became wife No. 1 in June, 1907; that she is still living, and never secured a divorce. Wife No. 2 wants to resume her maiden name. Tubers Rotten Is Defense. W. R. Reed Is suing C. H. Poppen hagen before a jury in Judge Ganten bein's department of the Circuit Court to recover $157, $100 of which is alleged to be owing for furniture and $57 for po tatoes. Poppenhagen says he should not be obliged to pay, because the pota s were rotten. The case was appe;ned from the Justice Court, where the ff r dict was for the defendant. Oregon City Pioneer Dies. OREGON CITY, Or., Nov. 22 (Spe cial.) Miss Lydia Carnahan, who died suddenly at the home of her sister. Mrs. M. R. Howell, on Eleventh and Adams streets, Sunday night, was born in Arkansas and crossed the plains when she was 2 years old. The deceased left two sisters, Mrs. M. R. Howell, of this city, and Mrs. Susie Chenoweth. of Port land, and three brothers, Newton L., John R. and Ewing. Mrs. Nora Heiimiinger Dead. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Nov. 22. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Nora Hcmminger, aged 44, died Sunday of heart trouble at the family residence In this city, where she has resided for the last 14 years. Siio was a native of Ireland. The funeral will be held from St. James' Cathedral tomorrow morning. Father Verwilghen conducting the services. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery