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8 THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1909. Htyi (Bwgmnnn PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland. Ore son. Fostoface u Second-Class Matter. Subscription Rates invariably -In Aavanoe. (By Mall.) Zaily. Sunday included, on year. . '. ;.$8-00 Dally. Sunday Included, . six months. 4.23 Daily. (Sunday Included, three months.. 2.25 Daily. Sunday Included, one month.... .75 Dally, without' Sundav. one -rear 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, six months.... 3 25 Dally, without Sunday, three months... 1.75 Daily, without Sunday, one month... . .60 Weekly, .one year 1.50 8unday. one year Z.SO Sunday- nd weekly, one year 50 -.i (By Carrier ! Dally. Sunday Included, one year..... .00 Dally. Sunday Included, one month 75 How to Remit Send postofnce money ""der. express - order or personal check on your" local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postofnce ad dress In full. Including: county and state. Postage Rates 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent: 16 to 28 pages. 2 cents; 30 to 40 pages. 3 cents; 40 to 60 pages. 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. Eastern Bustness Office The 8. C. Beek with Special Arency New York, rooms 48 P0 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510-513 Tribune building PORTLAND, TUESDAY, DEC. 28, 1909. A WORD ABOl'T TEMPTATIOX. The Spokane. .Chronicle say?' -that "the result of the local option elec tion in Walla Walla' Is especially to be regretted, owing to the fact that Whitman College, one of the princi pal educational institutions v of the State of Washington, is located in that city, and its students will be ex posed to the temptations of the sa loons during the next two years." Now, about "the temptations." If any philosopher or if the philoso pher Is to be ruled out If any char latan or quack, can discover a way by which temptation can be resisted or character can be formed, except in the presence of temptation, he will be a world's wonder. The problem was beyond - Omniscience and Omnipo tence. Therefore, the original temp tation, which resulted In the Fall of JMan. . J For this was the only way. It is the only way, to develop human charac ter and responsibility, the only way jto make man man. i Virtue never tan be supported by :keeping man and woman in Igno rance of -vice and excess. There Is no guard to virtue In such ignorance. Knowledge Is power. Knowledge in deed is not virtue, but it is the only road to sure virtue. The existence of alcoholic liquors is a fact. Virtue of sobriety requires that the evil ef fects of abuse of sucn liquors should be known. Such knowledge cannot be gained by effort to banish them from the world, for they cannot be banished: and if they were banished, knowledge of temperance would be lost. Virtue can be strong, virtue in deed is known, only by or through resistance to vice and evil. The pro hibitionist Is no moralist, therefore; though he thinks he is. . Yet sale of liquors is to be taxed and restricted by law, Just as the re lations of the sexes are to be con trolled by law for prevention of abuse and excess. The liquor trade is a great resource of taxation; and It supplies a revenue that no country can afford to lose. As an industry, with large relations to production and to transportation, to labor and ' to business in many lines, to social life and to freedom of action without in fringement on rights of others, it - is an economic matter of the first im portance. It must be dealt with ra tionally; and it never can be dealt with rationally by prohibition, es pecially In any large and active com munity. It is mere provincialism to suppose it can be. Again, aa to temptation. It is the business of man in this world to ed ucate himself and to hold himself above temptation. What Is that alle gory of the subjection of man to temp tation In the garden? What, but the profound turth that character and responsibility, on which everything depends, cannot be formed, cannot ex ist, without the help of some opposite? In most cases, between virtue and vice are thinnest bounds; and virtue Itself turns to vice when misapplied. Even, also, in things evil there is some soul of goodness. Our young people should be taught to be masters of their situation, whatever It may be. Only so can the social organism have any Bolid character. WILL THE CASAL PAY? Friends of the Panama canalwill hardly fall to feel keen disappoint ment over the views of Rear-Admiral Ttobley D. Evans on the effects of the canal, when completed, on the com merce of the United States. These views. while appearing in Hamp ton's Magazine, one of the yellowest of the yellow muck-rakers, come from a man In whom the American people have unquestioned confidence, and his knowledge of the subject is an ex pert's. Admiral Evans, in a business like review of the situation in all Its phases, arrives at the conclusion that the canal, when completed, will be useless for commercial purposes un less It is -made free. First, taking up the sailing vessel, with which we have expected to move such large quanti ties of low-grade freight through the canal. Admiral Evans shows that the time lost by the sailer in the calm belts, which have always existed for several hundred miles out of both the Atlantic and Pacific terminals of the canal, will be so great that the tramp steamer will make short work of the sailer, as was the case when the Suez canal was completed. To quote from Mr. Evans' article: The completion of the canal will be the death sentence to the last line of sailing ships, which have held out until now only because the distances were too long to be covered econom ically by steam vessels requiring con venient coaling ports." Assuming that we are to continue our present handi cap, which forces our shippers to em ploy the highest-priced steamers in the world to carry our freight be tween the two oceans, and that there will be no change in what he terms "our archaic navigation laws," Ad miral Evans says that "the first cost of the ships will be so great, when added to the cost of running, them, plus the canal rates, that water trans portation will not attract capital when opposed to the present completed transcontinental railroads." This handicap, which the ship-subsidy seekers refuse to allow us to over come, might be offset by making the canal' free to all American shipping, but this is ' distinctly prohibited by the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, which de clares that there shall be no dis crimination In the charges against the ships or any nation using the canal. Even were It possible to make Che canal free to American shipping. and exact toll from foreign shipping. Admiral Evans points out that the advantage, even with smaller tolls, would be Insufficient to offset the cheap coal which is found on the Suez route to Australia, New Zealand and , the-Orient. This can . Teadily be understood when it Is recalled that steamers leaving Portland with-wheat for Europe not Infrequently go by way of the Suez, and save enough on coal to pay the J2 per ton canal tolls. In the original estimates on revenues from operating the canal It was fig ured that the $2, 000, 000 per year would be met from the beginning by tolls on shipping passing through the canal. Now, If Admiral Evans is correct In his views, and they are backed up with cold, hard commercial facts, there will be no traffic of conse quence unless the canal is free to all the world. It is also pointed out that the same authorities, who estimated the operating expenses to be $2,000, 000 per year, also originally estimated the cost of the canal at 1200,000,000. Admiral Evans makes the perfectly logical deduction that If the first esti mate on the canal was only half what it will actually cost, the estimate on operating expenses will also show a similar variance. He expresses dis appointment that the direct financial advantages of the canal are not now more clear, but -suggests ' that the ca nal be made afree waterway, and as such come under: the' same head as our river and harbor . Improvement schemes, which are for the general good of all commerce entering or leav ing our ports. 1'OKTI.AMl AND THIS UEWS7rAPER. A paper of Southern Oregon the Medford Mail-Tribune makes this remark: ' The' Oregonlan has become one of .the great papers of the Nation because for years it has had the undivided support of the mercantile Interests of Portland and hence received revenue sufficient to nke It a, powerful factor In the upbuilding of the city and' country. This, indeed, is true. To this day The Oregonlan has this undivided sup port of the mercantile Interests of Portland never so much so -as dur ing this year of 1909. The growth of Its advertising business, as well as of Its circulation this year, surpasses all precedent. That ' It has been "a powerful fac tor," too, "in the upbuilding of the city and country," it is glad to be lieve. The increasing resources of Its business, and the assurance it has of the continuing and growing confidence of the country, will push it to efforts to become more powerful still. To the mercantile -and general busi ness Interests of Portland The Orego nlan desires to tender its acknowl edgements for the recognition it has received at their hands, and for their co-operation In the work of "upbuild ing the city and country." It is a common cause; in which all are to do what they can. The spirit of Port land Is a fine spirit. It is enterpris ing, energetic and works on practical lines. The Oregonian has been with it from the first, and intends not merely to keep pace with It, but to lead to such extent as it may. THE DOUBLE STANDARD OF MORALS, The letter from Dr. H. L. Under wood, of La. Grande, which the reader will And elsewhere today, contains an interesting mixture of truth and error. The letter is written to rebuke The Oregonian for holding that "Nature demands a higher morality in woman than In man." The exact place where Dr. Underwood fancies we committed this bit of turpitude was in an editor ial on the Brokaw divorce trial, print ed a few days ago. As a matter of fact. The Oregonian Is not foolish enough to suppose that "nature" de mands any morality whatever, from either sex. Natural law is such that a given act will be followed by defi nite consequences. For a man these consequences will often be different from what they are for a woman. There is no question of any demand involved. It is a simple matter of cause and effect. Our position is that certain bad habits, like smoking and drinking, are more Injurious to off spring when the mother follows them than they are in the father. We even went so far as to say that no greater calamity could befall the human race than for women to toecome habituated to these vices. The reason is simple enough, but Dr. Underwood seems to have missed it pretty skillfully. "Nothing Is more certain," he remarks, "than that the offspring draws equally upon both parents for its hereditary character istics." We think there are a good many things far more certain. If both parents contributed equally all chil dren would be hermaphrodites. One of them must determine the sex. In all probability each determines par ticular traits, but what proportion comes from one or the other no sound scientist would think of stating dog matically, for, in fact, nobody knows. Mendel's law is not nearly so broadly applicable as Dr. Underwood Imag ines. It has never been proved "that 25 per cent of the offspring In the first generation resemble the father in transmissible traits, 25 per cent the mother and 50 per cent are mixtures." If this were true, heredity would be come a wonderfully simple affair. Mendel's law does not undertake to say what proportion of the offspring will resemble either sire or dam. It fixes the attention upon two trans missible traits only, one of which is "dominant" in a given generation and the other "recessive," or latent. If we select two individual-, of that genera tion, iri-both of whom a particular trait is dominant and another reces sive, of their offspring 25 per cent will exhibit the pure dominant trait and 25 per cent the recessive trait, while in 50 per cent the two traits will be mixed. Thus limited and hedged about, Mendel's law is something very different from Dr. Underwood's sweep ing generalization. Still, it is of great use to breeders even if It fails to satisfy the requirements of imaginative spec ulators. But Mendel's law Is only a side issue. What Dr. Underwood really wishes to say is that the hereditary traits of a child are all conveyed in the germ plasm and that nothing which the mother does afterward can alter them. To this we agree. It follows that the father's influence on the child's, he redity is as strong as the mother's, tak ing one case with another, and that his habits are Just as Injurious as hers, so far as hereditary traits are concerned. But we are not talking about hereditary traits. All that con cerns them becomes sealed and unal terable when the new creature has been generated. Dr. Underwood Is quite right about It. He seems to overlook, however, the important cir cumstance that for some time after ward the' child derives all its subsis tence from the mother's blood. Hence, if she poisons her blood with alcohol or tobacco, she necessarily poisons her unborn infant. To say, as Dr. Under wood does, that during this period "the mother is as powerless as the father to Influence "her unborn child except in so far as she affords it pro tective shelter and nutrition," is to talk nonsense. If she can supply her child nutrition, she can also supply it poison. For the sake of his pa tients, we urge Dr. Underwood to read the great work of Dr. Saleeby on "Parenthood and Race Culture," where he will find this momentous subject adequately discussed. Here we can only touch upon it. The facts being as they are, we must admit that the mother's bad habits injure the offspring much more than the father's, though this is said with the full knowledge that a drinking father poisons the germplasn of which he is the host and in this way dooms his children to epilepsy, insanity and Idiocy. The Oregonian does not wish to encourage anything but good morals In either sex, and it believes the best way to accomplish this purpose- is to set forth the cold facts of life. We add, therefore, that the drinking mother not only poisons the germ plasm, as the father does, but she doubles her crime by feeding the unborn infant poison in. the current of her blood. - PREDERIC REMINGTON. Frederic Remington, who died at Ridgefleld, Conn., Sunday, left no suc cessor in the particular branch of art in which he won lasting fame. He was something more than an artist. He was a historian, whose genius has prepared for posterity more accurate, life-like studies of the men and ani , mals who lived In that now vanished age of romance In the golden west than ever rewarded the efforts of any other artist. The future may bring to the world's notice greater artists than Remington. Some of the followers In his own field show wonderful talent; but, as stated, he will have no suc cessor. The characters of that New West, which gave him Impressions that his matchless genius transformed to canvas, are gone forever. There are no more models of the type which made the Remington pictures famous, and as Remington at the beginning of his career divided honors with no man while he was a part of that new West, his fame is .secure from any work of a similar school that may fol low him. What his work will mean to future generations can be understood when we consider the interest that would now be felt in "Remington" sketches of- the stirring scenes and the "real men" 'who followed Alexander the Great, Caesar and all of the world's greatest through their history-making eras of conquest. Writers who have roamed the plains as cowboys and followed the frontier troops through Indian skirmishes have given us some very accurate pen pictures of the In dian, the cowboy, the frontier soldier, the cavalry horse and the mount of the cowboy and the Indian. These pen pictures, however, all left some thing to the Imagination, but Rem ington's pictures left nothing. There was "character" and "class" in every figure which he drew Into his "mov ing pictures," and they will forever remain an important part of the his tory of the West. ANOTHER PINCHOT MISTAKE. An Olympla dispatch in The Ore gonian yesterday exposed one of the many weak and costly features of the Pinchot policy regarding Government lands. The honesty and sincerity of Mr. Pinchot have never been ques tioned, and for that reason his regu lation of the sale of timber lands, which is proving so highly profitable to speculators and correspondingly unprofitable to the Government, is not -due to his dishonesty, or a share in the wholesale graft that is made possible. The scheme, however, offers a fair example of the entire Pinchot policy, and of the Pinchot character. Like most of the enormously wealthy men who inherited their riches and have never been obliged to mingle with the "common herd," Mr. Pinchot is fully as impractical as he Is well meaning. As a dreamer and a faddist, confining his operations to the environment in which he was raised, Mr. Pinchot is harmless, but when the Government's resources are juggled to suit his strange, views, and thousands of honest settlers become victims of his dreams and fads, he should be relieved of his power. BELGIUM'S TITLED WANTON. Baroness Vaughn is too much for even gay Paris to accept, though it winked at her broadly when she vis ited there In company with the royal roue who lavished upon her, without stint, the money that he wrung from the wretched people of the Congo. It is not likely, however, that this titled wanton .whose liaison with Leopold has been a matter of court scandal in every European capital for several years, who bore him sons upon. whom, with all his power, he could nt confer the title of prince of the realm, and who shamelessly subjected the King's daughters, born of a loyal and virtu ous wife, to open indignities and pub lic humiliation, will, be disturbed by the odium that is attached to her name and station In life. Her chief care will be to secure to herself and her sons the bulk of the fortune left by the King. In this In terest she is likely to become a devout church woman, as without the aid and sanction of the church she can do nothing toward establishing her claims or those of her children to Leopold's millions. Of comparative youth, low origin and imperious will, this titled wanton is likely to be a thorn in the pathway of the royal house of Belgium for many years to come. Verification of the statement, "The evil that men do lives after them," is more than likely to follow the death of Leopold, through the machinations of this woman, and later of her sons now mere Infants the offspring of debauched age and shame less youth, who will through life, be compelled to fight or succumb to the attainder of Illegitimate birth. The body of an Industrial Worker of the World lies in the morgue at San Francisco as a result of the war between the "haves"' and the "have nots." The "haves" in this case owned a saloon, and the Industrial Worker playing the part of the "have-not." refused to pay for liquor which he had secured from the "haves." The re monstrance of the "haves" was met with -a, pistol ball from the "have- not." Then appeared a -hated minion of the law, and on him the "have-not" directed the fire of his revolver. The policeman returned the fire so suc cessfully that the Industrial Worker is now where neither work nor whisky troubles him. This is another argu ment in favor of marching on Spo kane. Drinks are "cash on delivery there. If Finland ever entertained any shadow of doubt about having to dig up that $4,000,000 assessment which Russia recently levied and which the Finns protested against, such doubt may now be wiped off the slate. Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch, second cousin of the Emperor of all the Rus sias, has been appointed to full control of affairs In Finland. For a long time Finland has been enjoying a kind of nominal Independence that tended to destroy all love for the kind of a gov ernment that has made the "Lit tle Father" famous or infamous throughout the world. This half-way Independence developed into some thing bordering on revolution, and Russia has probably decided to send over a ruler who can be depended on to take in all of the slack which the Finns have been given. Unless his tory fails te- repeat in Finland. Nicho las Nicholaievitch may face an era of assassination that will make the San Francisco tong war look like a boys' battle with peashooters. Appraisement of the estate of the late Mrs. William Astor gives values much smaller than the popular esti mate of her wealth. This is a result not unusual in such cases. Wealth estimated by envy or computed by ignorance of values swells and grows by what it feeds on. These estimates usually, are made in figures that mean nothing to the average mind, beyond ai vastness of resources that is incom prehensible. The practical, matter-of-fact appraisers of Mrs. Astor's wealth could find not more than $1,726,187 worth of property belonging to her a considerable sum, it Is true, but one that shrinks into insignificance beside the fortune of the new rich Mrs. Har riman. The fortune of the latter is one of the few that did not shrink In the appraisers' hands. Dr. Wekerle, the Hungarian Pre mier, is building a town near Buda pest for the purpose of affording poor people with cheap rents. Building material and labor must be very cheap In Hungary, to " permit such a rent schedule as he proposes. In his new modern and model town a three-room dwelling. Including "kitchen and of fices," will cost the renter $66.66 per year, and a one-room dwelling, with kitchen and offices, will rent for $34.08 per year. Consideration of these figures may throw some light on the wild desire of the Hungarians, the Poles and all of the rest of the foreign tribes to return to their na tive land and retire as soon as they have accumulated a few hundred dol lars in this country. From East, West, North and South comes the same story of Christmas cheer, Christmas giving, Christmas re joicing. The story' is centuries old. It is- embodied in the simple Christ mas carol that has swelled from tens of thousands of throats: While shepherds watched their flocks by night. All seated on" the sround. The angel of the Lord came down And &-lory shone around. It is the reflection of this glory that illuminates the pages of the Christmas story the glory that shines from good will, from sympathy, from char its', from a desire to promote the hap piness of others. Wheat King McCrosky, of Garfield, Wash., reports conditions in the wheat belt the best in many years. The rainfall was about 25 per cent more than usual, and a fine blanket of snow is now protecting the Fall-sown grain from frost. The 1909 crop of the In land Empire was smaller than early estimates indicated, but present con ditions are for a bumper crop next year. As the outlook is fairly good for high prices, the wheat belt seems to be in for another year of remark able prosperity. . Prophet De Vennis is a fraud, of course. Yet why is he a fraud? He merely predicts the .Second Coming, as thousands have before him and thou sands will, perhaps, after him! All his predecessors have been alike mis taken, but all were not frauds. Then why should De Vennis be laughed at? Rich deposits of molybdenite have been found near Keewagama Lake, North Quebec. The metal is said to be . very rare and valuable. Its name and that of the locality In which it is fpund also offer a "rare" combination of letters. If you are a taxpayer, possibly you have an interest in tonight's school meeting. Though perhaps you are indifferent either to the progress of the schools or the altitude of the tax levy. The identity of the mysterious Mr. Raffles is discovered at last. He is Dr. Cook, the Arctic explorer. Truth will make her way over all obstacles. Crushed to earth, she will rise again. Beyond dispute. Dr. Cook Is entitled to the office of honorary president of the Ananias Club for life. Just now it seems inconvenient for him to serve actively as head of the organization. W. Gould Brokaw, who Is sued by his wife for divorce and alimony, shouldn't have made that part of his j name so conspicuous. We suppose that even If Christmas ould be deferred a week or two, the bargain sales would come afterward just the same. Next time Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives they will think Cannonism too good te lose. . ' If Dr. Cook should visit Monte Carlo he might have to "discover" the South Pole in order to recoup' his losses. The woman in the case of King Leopold is no suffragette, yet see how she has turned things topsy-turvy. These are the days, just before swearing-off time, that some persons think don't count. It is an extraordinary man who can hand the whole world a gold brick. . Now that turkey is wouldn't taste so good. cheaper, it A FAILt'RE OF" ARBITRATION. Experience of Neir Sooth Wales, a ad Return to Old Lea;liilation. Kew York- Tribune. The extraordinary action which has just been taken by .the Legislature of New South Wales for settling the great coal mine 6trike, or for preventing its further extension, would in any case be note worthy for its arbitrary and drastic char acter. . . Australia has for nearly a score of years been a favorite field for all sorts of experiments in social, indus trial and commercial legislation. South Australia began it in 1S91. and Victoria followed in 1896. New South Wales, where the present troubles prevail, adopted in 1901 a well-matured and detailed indus trial arbitration act, the purpose of which was, like that of arbitration treaties among nations, to substitute peaceful means of settling disputes for the costly and often ruinous processes of warfare. Its underlying principle was that a strike or a lockout was a public nuisance and ought to be restrained and suppressed by the state as any other breach of the peace. So a- special eoisrt was created, from which there was no appeal, to hear and determine indtastrial disputes, and it was enacted that any one who, without waiting a reasonable time for reference to the court, or during- the pendency of a case before the court, made, instigated or assisted a strike or lockout, should be deemed guilty of & misdemeanor, pun ishable by a fine of $5000 or by imprison ment for two months. This measure was a failure. The pre siding Judge of the Arbitration Court, after a fair trial, pronounced the law "a riddled hulk" and dissolved the tribunal, declaring that social and economic ques tions were subjects for legislation and not for judicial process. In fact, under that act strikes were more frequent than i ever. So the law was repealed and in its place was enacted an industrial dis putes law, substituting a system of wages boards for the court. But the labor unions with one accord Ignored this law and resorted to the very method of strik ing which it was intended to prevent. Their objections to it were many, and some of them seemed well founded. One was directed against the provision which imposed fines upon officers of unions who did not use "reasonable efforts" to get their members to accept adverse de cisions of wages boards, and another was against the clauses whiqh allowed employers to give the preference to non union labor and at the same time for bade unionists to exercise "their right to say with whom they would work." So the unionists clamored for the repeal of the new law and the re-enactment of the old one against which they had formerly clamored, but which they now promised to respect and to support if it were re established. It will be observed that last week's enactment by the Legislature was in effect a re-enactment of certain clauses of the old law, materially increased in severity. We shall see how It is received. Meantime the net result to date certainly seems to be a pretty complete failure of compulsory industrial arbitration on its chosen trial ground. CHRISTMAS REMITTANCES LARGE. Over 950,000,000 eat From America to the Old Country. Providence Journal. Last year the transatlantic ships bound east at about this season were crowded with home-going steerage passengers. This year their strong boxes are filled with international money orders and other negotiable paper transmitting funds to the relatives of Immigrants. It is esti mated that these Christmas remittances amount in cash to between fifty and sixty millions, to say nothing of merchandise gifts. The New York Postoffice' alone has handled more than seven millions in for eign money orders since the first of the month,, while other agencies have done proportionately as large a business. The total record is believed to be about equal to the highest heretofore. At all events. It is an astonishing demonstration of the thrift of the immigrant, as of his oppor tunities for gain. According to the Postoffice figures. Great Britain is the largest beneficiary from the Christmas money which "Uncle Sam has provided, with Italy a close sec ond, though the business through express companies and banks may establish the Italians in first place. Doubtless some of the money will come back in the form of new immigration. Daddy's Little Joke. New York Press. Passengers on a subway car coming from Brooklyn Sunday afternoon had an experience that first caused frowns and then a laugh. The car was crowded, but, Brooklyn wise, all the women had seats. On the platform was a middle-aged man, appar. ently respectable. On a side seat was a girl in old rose, with cheeks to match. The man on the platform caught her eye for a moment, and threw a frantic kiss. The girl first smiled, then blushed furiously. He threw another, and she turned away a crimsoned face. "That will about do for you." said the big. raw-boned guard. "Go home to your wife. This did not seem to worry the appar ently respectable man, and, catching a glint from the girl's eyes, he threw an other kiss. She turned her face to study carefully a toque hat across the car. At the Manhattan end of the bridge the girl arose to leave the car. The man who was trying to flirt with her also faced the sliding door. By that time all eyes were on the pair, the guard was mad all through, and a oouple of passengers edged dangerously close. The girl in old rose took the arm of the apparently respectable roan, and said In a silvery voice that all could hear: "Oh, papa; how could you?" Then everybody laughed at a joking father and a lovely daughter. Marie Corelll Ag-alnst Suf fraicettea. London Despatch. Marie Coreili's irreconciliable antagon ism to woman suffrage does not prevent her attempting political influence. She has written an address to the electors of the United Kingdom ' assuring them that the very life of England is now in the bal ance. "The empire," she says, "is standing like a victim on the reck of suspense, waiting to be hrled into the devouring waters of Socialism or rescued and led back to the sucrity of home with peace and honor." A Socialist she describes as a sort of male suffragette seeking to up--set the laws of Nature in order that he may assert himself as superior to Nature. "The danger is that in a struggle be tween Nature and her pygmy many things may be lost which will take cen turies to replace and the sacrifice of a splendid history may be made useless at the cost of ruin of thousands. Disloyalty to the throne and constitution has seized a great part of the people." The Lombrase of After Death. Baltimore News. ' Lombroso's skull has just been handed over to Professor Roncoronl, of Parma University, Italy. The famous criminolo gist left directions to Roncoronl, who was one of his pupils, to make a scien tific examination - of his skull and theji to rejoin it to the iody. Lomboroso also directed that when he becomes a skele ton his bones shall be placed in the museum he founded at Turin. Perad-venture. Life. More truth than poetry. Omar, you wrote In that famed verse I'm strongly moved to quote: . "A air perhaps divides the false and true A hair wife fouDd aaon a hosband's coat! IVFLUEXCE OP HEREDITY. A Medical View of FamilT Charaeteria- latlea anal Traits. LA GRANDE, Or.. Dec. 27. (To the Editor.) A paragraph in last Thurs day's Oregonian, apropos of the Brokaw trial, contains so unsound a lesson in deduction that in the interest of truth and morality I wish to correct same. It is an ancient and unscientific error that nature demands a higher morality in woman than in man an error, it must be confessed, often too deeoly cherished in the masculine mind. . Aotning Is more certain in the realm of scientific medicine than the offspring araws equally upon Doth parents for its hereditary characteristics. The mother is as powerless as the father to in fluence her unborn child, except In so fat as she affords it protective shelter and nutrition. Psychic Influences are able to influence its physical develop ment in certain cases, but only through their control of the maternal circula tion, which, of course, may affect the nutrition of the embryo. Of course, the statement that the offspring draws its hereditary charac teristics from both the parents equally is speaking In general terms. Disregarding- the influence of remoter an cestors, the Mendelian law holds good, broadly, for the human race as for the plant world; i. e., that 25 per cent of the offspring in the frist generation resemble the father In stable (trans missable) traits. 25 per cent the mother and 50 per cent are mixtures. There Is altogether too much evi dence in our prisons and epileptrc and Insane asylums of the sad hereditary in fluences of the drunken or criminal father, upon his children, to hold longer to that old superstition as old as bad that It is the sins of the mother only mat are visited upon the children and not those of the fatner. H. L. UNDERWOOD, M. D. ORIGINAL SPELLING OP KLAMATH Mr. Rolnui Explains Why Fremont's Orthography Was Omitted. PORTLAND, :gec. 27. (To the Kd ltor.) I have read with interest the letter of Hon. William M. Colvis- in The Oregonlan of today In relation to the pronunciation of the word for which Klamath County is named. In my ad dress on Oregon counties as written I quoted from John C Fremont's report on his expedition In that part of the country where he says, under date of November 18, 1843, that while the name of the lake and the river are often called Klamet, that he has chosen to write the name Tlamath, according to the -Indian pronunciation. My address on counties contains nearlv 25.000 words. While I furnished the address to The Oregonian it could spare but one page, or say . 6000 words. In con densing this address for publication. the reference to Fremont's spelling of the name was omitted. When this ad dress is published In the Oregon Quar terly it wiu tie in full. It may be of Interest to say that the earliest known spelling of this name I know of Is 'In the manuscript Journal of Peter Skene Ogden of 1826, In the possession of the Hudson's Bav Co pany at its office in London. In this journal the named Is spelled "Clamltte.' This is set forth In my address. According to the United States Bu reau of Ethnology the Klamath In dlans belonged to the Lutuamian tribe, and "they call themselves Eukshiknl or Auksnl, "people of the lake, re ferring to the fact that their principal seats were on Upper Klamath Lake." I am glad to have attention called, as Mr. Colvlg has done, to any omis sions or errors in this address of mine. to me enu mat me tacts may i. known FREDERICK V. HOLM AN. Kew York Clry'a Social Center. New York Globe. Society has ceased to go north. For the first time since 1890, when the calcu lations of the social center of New York were commenced, the center has failed to move toward Albany. This year it is in the same street that it was In last year sixty-second street. The onlv movement that It has made has been along lines of longitude. It has crawled east a few feet, and now hovers about midway be tween Fifth and Madison avenues. Now the social center Is not the general cen ter of population. It is merely the cen ter of population of several thousand fam ilies. It is the center of frills and thrills and furbelows, of mammon and large alimonies, of Dives and sufficency. It is thus more or less interesting. So long as the social center hovers In the neigh bortiood of Sixty-second street the glories of the Great white Way, the enticements of Fifth avenue from the Plaza south, and all the intervening cross-street al lurements will be in no danger of dilu tion. Mrs. GoeleVa BTew Gown. New ' York Press. Mrs. Robert Goelet was greatly admired In a gown she wore to an opera matinee last week. It was made of a curiously dull shade of pink cloth, cut with a round neck, and the rather loose coat was plainly a distinguished relative of the Russian blouse, wh'ch has become so pop ular this season as already to be common The collar was a wide, round, flat piece of embroidery, ricoly worked with gold and edged with fur, and the sleeves were gathered In under cuffs that matched the embroidered collar. The hat was of the palest pink beaver, although the roll where the brim was turned up showed black and was topped by a tall Spanish cockade. A Heavy Train With a Record. Pittsburgh Despatch. By far the heaviest train ever hauled by one locomotive on any railway In the United States, and probably in the world. has been moved over the Pennsylvania railroad, between Altoona and Enola. Re cently, a single locomotive, built at the company's Altoona shops, pulled a train of 105 steel cars, loaded with 15.544 tons of coal, for 127 miles in 7 hours and 12 minutes, or at an average speed of 17.6 miles an hour. The entire train, includ ing engine, weighed 7644 tons, and stretched along the line for 3600 feet. Sweet Uses of Adversity. Li fa You can wear out your old clothes. You are not troubled with visitors. You are not persecuted to stand sponsor. Begging letter writers will let you alone. Impos tors know It Is useless to try to bleed you. You can practice temperance. You are not foolishly flattered. You save many a debt and many a headache. Finally, If you have a friend, you'll find It out- Champion EeK-Eater of Maine. Boston Despatch. Prescott D. -Chadbourne, of ' Limerick, Me., thinks he Is the champion egg-eater of the state. At one sitting he ate 64 eggs, 24 of them boiled and the rest fried. In the loggers' camp where Chadbourne per formed this feat the cook was unable to prepare the eggs fast enough. Melba's Plana for 101O-11. - - Chicago Despatch. Madame Melba is to return to this coun try next season and sing in concert. She will arrive In Halifax in the early autumn and appear in all the principal Canadian cities as far west as the Pacific Coast. She will also sing in some of the cities of this country. A Royal Bfeodleworjc Guild. Queen Victoria of Spain has founded a successful needlework guild in Madrid, which is worked on similar lines to that established by her mother. Princess Hen ry of Battenberg in the Isle of Wight. Ttevr -Vocation for Mrs. Belmont, . Kansas City Star. It is believed Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont will be next starring In "Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl," or "Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Mode' " LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE Johnnie Poe. one of the greatest half backs that Princeton ever boast ed, had a strenuous time in Honduras the other day, but was rescued by an American gunboat. Poe, who was a Gen eral in command of a one-gun battery. struck for the coast when tilings began to look black with peace and-there was little to do. He found the American war vessel and promptly asked for trans portation home. "Sure, ' said the commander. "We 1! be glad to have you. Come aboard when you want- We'll probably lay up here for two or three days." "Thank you, old man," said the former football star, warmly. "I'll be aboard be fore you sail." 'Bring your luggage, said the cap tain, warming. "If it isn't too elaborate 1 11 be glad to give it room." Thank yoii again, said Poe. "I'll sure do that. I have only 54 pieces." "What!" exclaimed the commander, springing from his chair. "I'm not run ning a freighter!" "Oh, well, don't get excited," purred Poe; "my 54 pieces consist of one pair of socks and a pack of playing cards." In a certain town in South Carolina, before the Civil War, there was an old Scotch Covenanter church, the pulpit of which bore a strong resemblance to a flour barrel. It was fastened to the wall and reached by a flight of narrow, wind ing stairs. Among the preachers who occupied the pulpit at different times was one who was noted for the vigor and enthusiasm of his delivery and the extreme energy of his gesticulations. The congregation had often trembled, for his safety as he stamped and pound ed in the old pulpit, but no catastrophe occurred until one day when he bent forward over the edge, and shaking th unstable structure, shouted, "The right eous shall stand, but the wicked shall fall." Before the words were fairly uttered there was a crash, and the old pulpit and its occupant came to the floor, to gether with much dust. The minister picked himself up. and waving off the members of the congrega tion, said drily, "Brethren, I am not in jured, and I don't mind the fall much, but I do hate the connection." Youth's Companion. James R. Keene, apropos of the jump ing contests at the New York horse show, talked about fox hunting. "Hunting," he said, "develops a race of very savage, selfish men. There was, for instance, Jones. "Jones, on a bitter cold day, was riding hard at a brook, when he perceived the head of his dearest friend sticking dis mally out of the icy water. Did Jones go to his friend's assistance? Hot a bit of it. " "Duck, you fool!' he shouted, and Jumped over him." St. Louis Globe Democrat. "No. sir," said the man to the news paper solicitor, "i don't want your paper any longer, nor any other." "But, surely, sir," was the suave reply, "you wish to keep abreast of the news of the day." "Not me no, sir! I want to eat three meals a day. I don't want to read about how my meat is prepared, . nor how the truck gardeners are being exposed for putting artificial colors and preservatives on their vegetables, nor how the fruit is drugged and doped, nor how the milk men never wash their hands and put for maldehyde in the milk, nor how the but ter is really axle-grease, nor how Not a dad gummed newspaper nor maga zine for me! It's hard to do without them, but I, don't Intend to starve to death." Judge. Columbia's Attendance Bests Harvard's. KnoxVille Sentinel. A comparison of the enrollment of stu dents In the larger American universities and colleges shows that Columbia is easily maintaining its recent lead. It now has 6132 students registered, and Harvard only 5558. Harvard shows signs of dropping behind Chicago, which has 5487. Harvard indeed does not want any more students than it now has- Includ ing Summer session registration, the first ten universities show the following regis tration this year and last Fall: 1 r. , v. - 1909- 190s- 1. Columbia ................... 6132 5675 I- S5.rvlrd ES5S 2 ? fhilaBO ...54S7 611 Michigan 625 Slss 6. Cornell' 6028 E7O0 Pnnylvanla 4857 45S5 7. Illinois 4S02 440 S. Minnesota 4351 4607 Wisconsin 4245 3S7S 10. California 4084 3 751 Without the Summer session registra tion the attendance rank of the universi ties is somewhat different. ' Yale drops to eleventh place, Chicago to fifteenth, Princeton to twenty-third. But the dis tinction between the Summer and Win ter sessions is rapidly losing Its impor tance. The Summer session has come to Btay. offering ambitious and poor stu dents .opportunities to cut short their academic years and offering teachers and many others facilities for effective and thorough continuation work. Been Taking; Turns. The Fruit Grower. Mrs. Rogers had the barrel of russet apples placed in the -attic because they were not quite ripe enough to eat and she warned her three boys, whose agfs range from 5 to 11 years, not to touch them. Then, one rainy day. when she sought the attic to get something from a trunk, she came full upon her sons, surrounded by apple cores. At her approach two of the boys drew closer together; but the third, a little distance off, who lay on. his stomach contentedly munching an apple, apparently paid no attention to his mother's entrance. '"Jack! Henry! Willie!" she exclaimed, reproachfully. "What axe you doing? And those apples! Didn't I tell you not to touch them?" "Yes, mamma," replied Jack, the eld est, '"but we're not really eating them: we're acting the Garden of Eden. Willie and I are Adam and Eve. Henry, over " there, is the serpent, trying to lead us to our downfall by showing us how good the apples are." "But," began the mother, as sternly as she was able, "you two must have been eating apples; Henry hasn't done it all. I see as many as ten cores around you." "Oh. yes," returned Willie, the young est, "we've all been taking turns being the serpent." MOTHER GOOSE I P TO NOW. BY WILLIAM HENRY. Little Jack Horner Once tried to corner The market by buying up wheat; The market fell through So Jack got a new Job, that of cleaning the street. Little Bo-Peep has lost much sleep A-flghting for woman's rights; But leave her alone and she'll soon have a home And a hubby to keep in of nights. There was a man in our town A wise old son-of-a-gun; He invented "Referendum" And "Statement Number One." Bye Baby Bunting, Teddy's gone a-hunting, To have a "bully" time, we've heard, . And write about it a dollar a word. m Ding, dong, dole. Cook is in a hole; What put him in? His tale so shoddy; Who helped him out? Nobody; For we don't feel sorry for the poor old man, ' Who never did aught but eat pemmicaa. J.