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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1910)
lOr THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY,' JUNE 7, 1910. V. PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland, Oregon, Postofnce as Second-Class Matter. feubtcrlption Bates In-rariahly In Advance. IBT MAIL). Ially, Sunday included, one year. .... . . .g-8.00 Dally. Sunday Included, six montbi 4 25 Dally, Sunday included, three months... 2.25 Daily. Sunday included, one month...... .75 Daily, without Sunday, one vear. ....... . 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, alx months 3.25 Daily, without Sunday, three months. . . . 1.75 Dally, without Sunday, oife month 60 Weekly, one year 1 .V Sunday, one year...... 2.50 Sunday and weekly, one year 3.50 (By Carrier). Dally, Sunday included, one year 9. no Daily. Sunday included, one month "5 How to Remit Send Postofnce money or der, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postofnce address in lull. Including county and state. Postage Kates 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent; 16 to 28 pages. 2 cents; 30 to 40 pages. 3 cents; 4d to 60 pages. 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. Eastern Business Of flee The S C. Beck wlth Special Agency New York, rooms 48 60 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510 612 Tribune building. PORTXAXD, TUESDAY, JTTNE 7. 1910. FARM OR WI I.DKRX KS S ? The Oregon & California Railroad grabbed millions of acres of land tinder special land grant acts of Con gress, nearly two generations ago. The Weyerhauesers grabbed millions of acres under the infamous lieu land law trod the timber and stone act, through miserable passiveness, if not conniv ance,' of. -Government officials. The Northern Pacific Railroad made off "with great areas -of land by all these methods. Now comes belated "conservation," averring that continued enforcement of the homestead law would continue this system of graft and thievery; that, therefore, the homestead law should be abolished.- This means that the pol'.cy of homestead entry, which has been most successful of all systems of administering the public domain throughout the whole history of this Nation, which has supplied landless citizens with cheap homesteads, and which has started development of the Nation's greatest resources and crea tion of all its present wealth, should be discarded. In accordance with this "reform" 240,000,000 acres of land in the Far West have been withdrawn and re served and much additional land has toeen withheld from entry by illegal regulations. One-third Oregon's area is thus fenced off from settlement. One of the pretexts is that the reserved areas are needed for protection of stream sources; whereas, Willis L. Moore, head of the Weather Bureau, has recently shown in evidence from the Old World and the New that land devoted to agriculture will better con serve rainfall than land devoted to forests. Anybody who imagines payment of $2.50 an aere toy a settler for home stead land in the West too cheap a price and "robbery of the whole peo ple," knows little of the additional big price the settler pays in privation and hardship, toil and poverty. A tamer of wild land is of the salt of the earth; very few men and women have grit and tenacity to make a home in the wilderness; and those few should have every reasonable opportunity a wise Government and a grateful Nation can afford them. First encouragement the Government can offer is that of cheap land. This has been the policy of the Gov ernment for many generations; until now, Pinchotism and false conserva tion virtually abolish the old policy as to vast Western areas, averring that those areas must be held as parks and reserves for the whole people. As if these lands could be put to nobler and better use than home-building and farm-making and crop-raising. This Nation never discovered worthier use of land than that: such use is the foundation of its greatness: every older state In the East and Middle West bears .witness to this fact. Yet many of their inhabitants insist now on tak ing away from states of the Far West the very system of land settlement that has made the older states thrive, these older commonwealths see no vir tue In wilderness within their own borders. They scorn to depopulate their lands and to let forests and wild leasts return to areas now civilized with agriculture. It ought not to be necessary to de fend settlers from the Pinchot indict ment of "Guggenhelmism" and "land thievery." Settlers are not robbers of the public domain; never have been. And If any land-grabbers in guise of homesteaders have made away with land, the Government itself is to blame. Its officials have allowed that practice wherever it has existed, by negligence or incompetency or corrup tion. All the progress this Nation has achieved has come from the individual efforts of its citizens on the public do main. Foremost of these have been homesteaders. Never until now has it been asserted in this country that the Nation should withhold public land from its indi vidual citizens. The Nation could not have grown and prospered under such doctrine. Nor will it turn its remain ing public lands to thrifty account by a system of governmental exploitation and ownership. Such governmental function is opposed by the whole his tory and by the basic principles of this Nation. There is room for proper forest re serves on land best suited for that pur pose; but there is no proper room for reserves on the vast expanses of land that are withheld from homestead uses. FOREST KIRK LOSS. Kvery individual in the State of Ore Bon is interested in preservation of our forests from fires. The lumber Indus try in the state has attained such great proportions that the influence of the money it places in circulation is felt alike in financial, commercial and labor circles. For that reason it is the duty of all Oregonians, whether they are timber-owners or not, to do everything possible to avert the annual destruction of our forest wealth. In the early days of Oregon, when set tlers were few and far between, and timber was plentiful and cheap, there was no great incentive to protect it from conflagrations. With the in creasing value of the timber have come larger risks which naturally call for more stringent precautions. A fire which would sweep out of existence fifteen or twenty solid blocks of the best business houses in Portland would attract attention throughout the United States, and would produce a long and loud outcry from the in surance companies. Yet it does not take very much of a forest, fire to destroy property of greater value than the twenty city blocks. The work of destruction is carried on in the pres ence of but few observers, so that its vastness is not fully appreciated. There is very little standing timber in Ore gon which will not command Jl per thousand. Much of it sells at $2 and some for even higher figures. With quarter sections running as high as 15,000,000 feet, the net loss to the timber-owner by a small fire reaches a large figure. His is the greatest indi vidual loss, but in the aggregate the loss suffered by the transportation companies that carry the product to market and by labor which secures such a large proportion of the cost of converting the raw material into the manufactured product, is many times the original value of the timber. With such a widespread and mutual interest in the protection of our for ests, every individual whose business or pleasure calls for a visit- to the woods should regard it as a solemn duty to exercise every possible precau tion against fire. The Forestry Serv ice, the large timber-owners and even the settlers in timbered districts "Will naturally make it their business to prevent this destruction: but the fish ermen, hunters and others carelessly roaming through the -woods should also be impressed with the importance of extinguishing the last spark before leaving a camp fire and of exercising care in dropping ashes from a pipe or cigar. In a dry season, with an abun dance of inflammable material to feed on, it requires but a small, lapse of vigilance to cause a blaze that may cost millions. ROOHKVKI.T'S FROBLraiS. Whence the extraordir.-ry assump tion on the part of many people that when Colonel Roosevelt returns he will -solve all our political problems? The Roosevelt remedies are always radical and warranted to kill or cure. The fact that the body politic appears to be more than ever in need of dras tic treatment does not necessarily mean that anything was the matter with the old-time Roosevelt policies; only that the patient has suffered a relapse. But. while the country has its prob lems which it is going to lay before the returning Colonel, it may be well to consider also the dilemma of the great physician himself. He returns on June 18. The New York. Legisla ture meets in special session on June 20. He will be called on to settle the direct primary fuss, which has riven the New York Republican party to its foundations. Later he will be asked to indorse or repudiate the Taft Admin istration. If he declines to do either which is likely enough he will never theless be solicited to take part in the New York State Fall campaign and in the Congressional campaign. If Colonel Roosevelt declines to participate in the state campaign, on the high ground that he should not concern himself in local affairs, how can he refuse to permit his mighty voice to be raised in the Congressional fight if he expects to maintain his position as the great National Ref eree? If he is silent, his silence will necessarily be construed as ominous for the Republican party and as an intentional and studied purpose to embarrass the Taft Administration. It will be virtual repudiation. If he speaks, how can he fail as a Republi can speaker or writer' or' oracle to in dorse the Taft Administration ? What ever he does, how can he himself avoid becoming a National issue? The country may have its problems; but think of Roosevelt's. PORTLAND'S REAL ROSE SHOW. The center of attraction this after noon will be the Rose Show at the Armory. It goes without saying that the finest specimens of the finest va rieties grown in Portland will be on exhibition by the thousands. To vis itors who have not seen displays hera in former years, the show will be a revelation. But a much larger and more splen did show is the. rose gardens of Port land. A rose never looks so well as on its own bush. There it can best be studied and admired. Strangers need not inquire for special gardens. Go where you like in the residential sections. West Side or East Side, and you will find them in abundance; not exhibition roses, but millions of blooms that have made Portland famous. We are a hospitable folk in Port land and glad to have visitors enjoy the pleasure of getting close to the queen of flowers. So you need have no hesitancy in asking the names of such blooms as are not familiar to you. This great outdoor show is onen all week from sun-up till dark, and is free to the world. Dnil'MTY PROM FINANCIAL THO( R The Northern Pacific is calling lor bids for construction of the new line from Tacoma to Tenino by way' of Point Defiance. This road is to be built for the purpose of avoiding the heavy grades which make the pres ent route an expensive operating scheme. As the Northern Pacific has used the old line for more than quarter of a century, it can be under stood that Immediate construction of the new line is not an imperative ne cessity. The fact that it is to be built at once is pretty good evidence- that the reported stringency in the Eastern money markets is not to hamper rail road building in the Pacific Northwest. The improvement in the Tacoma line was a project that might have been postponed had the situation been at all serious. There will be no uncertainty about any of the other big railroad projects now under way in the Pacific Northwest. - Both of the lines to Central Oregon have been pushed to a point where abandonment could not toe considered without entailing enormous loss. The same is true of the Harriman line to Tillamook, and, for strategic reasons, the Hill electric line into that coast .territory will naturally toe pushed to completion. It is perhaps fortunate for Oregon that these many and im portant projects were well under way before the present drastic liquidation in railroad securities began. Were it otherwise, it would unquestionably be very difficult, if not impossible, to se cure the necessary funds with which to carry on the work.' That the pres ent disturbance in the Eastern money market is approaching in gravity, in some of its phases, that of 1907, is ap- parent by the continued weakness in stocks. Union Pacific, one of the standards, may be taken as a fair ex ample of what is happening in similar degree all along the line. Prior to Mr. Harriman's death last Fall this stock sold at 1218 per share. Yesterday it dropped to $164, a loss of more than $50 per share. . It was pointed out at the time the stock was soaring above $200 that it could pay profitable dividends on that cost only with cheap money. So long as money w-as obtainable in practically unlimited amounts at 3 per cent, it was not a dif ficult matter to get double par for a stock that was paying 7 per cent divi dends. But, with the increase in oper ating expenses, dividends were threat ened and the uneasy foreign holders began selling more rapidly than the American buyers could absorb the offerings.- Gold exports followed and money rates tightened, forcing American speculators to throw over their hold ings. In such circumstances it will not be easy to secure money for any new railroad plans, and Oregon is for tunate indeed that the many projected lines in this state are so well along toward completion that there is no danger of their being abandoned. Meanwhile new settlers, new capital ists and desirable citizens of every class are flocking into the state in such numbers that there is very remote lia bility of anything like hard times af fecting either the city or state. STUPID STATESMANSHIP. Ignorance is contributed mightily to the specious wisdom of affairs in Ore gon'. Now comes a putative editor of Cottage Grove, saying in the Sentinel, of that city, that the initiative and referendum was adopted by the fram ers of the National Constitution and subsequently by framers of state con stitutions. "The truth is," avers this publicist, "initiative and referendum was good sound doctrine long before some of the doctrines of the self- appointed dictator. The Oregonian, were ever thought of."- The initiative is one thing and the referendum is another, wholly distinct and different. The initiative was not adopted by framers of the National Constitution, but the referendum was, though in altogether different form than the plan now in operation in Oregon. These two systems of legis lation have been combined in one amendment in the Constitution of Oregon. Some citizens, it seems, those who foolishly pose as. the brainiest, think them one and inseparable. The people do not initiate National statutes nor amendments to the Na tional Constitution. Not until recently have they initiated such measures in Oregon. Nor do the people order referendum on statutes or constitu tional amendments of the National Government. Not until recently has this sort of referendum been in prac tice in Oregon. The people do not vote on amendments to the National Constitution: such amendments are ratified by Legislatures or by consti tutional conventions of the states. It has been the common practice, how ever, for the people to ratify by popu lar vote amendments to state consti tutions. This is the utmost referen dum power that electors have been using until recently. - The referendum is a proper system of legislation, provided it is placed beyond reach of minority obstruction ists and spite workers. The initiative may be a proper system, provided agi tators and theorists of fad legislation cannot use it to harry the body politic. In Oregon both the initiative and the referendum have been grossly abused Whenever the initiative and refer endum are used to balk deliberative rpresentative legislation they are in jurious to the interests of the public In most cases where employed in Ore gon they have been put to this use. The Cottage Grove editor poses as an adviser and a leader of public opin ion. But if he has any followers, he is an example of the blind leading the blind. What is needed in political af fairs of Oregon is more sound sense and enlightened information. There are too many benighted brethren pro fessing to know it all. MEDICAL EDUCATION. The opinion expressed in the report of the Carnegie Foundation on medi cal education that we have too many physicians in the United States is probably well grounded. Competition among the doctors is so intense that the ethics of the .profession is often severely strained and it is not always possible to keep the peace between struggling rivals for fame and fees. On the other hand, the further opinion of the Carnegie authorities, that all the superfluous physicians are "ill trained' is probably open to question. It is a matter of common observation that the superfluous physician in a com munity is quite likely to be a better trained man than his more success ful competitor.-' Success often arises from personal qualities which inspire confidence and which may really make a man a better doctor than his more erudite rival, though his opportunities for scientific training may have been much inferior. We are not arguing for unassisted nature as the best and only friend of the sick, but it is a fact which men like those at the head of the Carnegie Foundation are prone to forget that the inborn qualities of a man often count for as much as his education in preparing him - for the medical profession. The report to. which we refer is es pecially severe on those medical schools which make pretensions to an equipment which they do not possess. Extensive laboratories are advertised and teaching facilities are exploited on paper which in reality have no exist ence. Of course it is natural to expect that a school which advertises falsely will teach shiftily and shallowly. But it is well to remember that a school may be small in numbers and not es pecially well endowed, and yet do honest and thorough work as far as it goes. There are many sections of the country which would have no physi cians except those imported from a distance, were it not for small and comparatively poorly equipped- local schools. In spite of their lack of lab oratories, these schools may have fac ulties composed of competent and con scientious teachers whose lectures are well up with the times and who give their students the best there is in sci entific instruction. Later on the grad uates, if they are the right men for their calling, will seek further oppor tunities elsewhere. In fact, ambitious graduates from medical schools in places remote from laboratories and great hospitals almost invariably go to Chicago, New York or some other center of medical research to complete their preparation. It is difficult, however, to under stand how a physician can lay the foundations for his life work properly without access to a hospital during his earliest student years, and no doubt, as the Carnegie report says, medical schools situated where there are no hospitals should be closed or removed to better locations. The training of a physician ought to be as practical as possible. Pure theory is out of place in the sickroom. Between the physi cian who lacks science and the one who lacks practical acquaintance with the structure of the body and the ac- tual symptoms and phenomena of dis ease every wise person would prefer the former. There are many diseases which science can help but little though they yield sometimes quickly enough to the practical arts of the born physician. As to those schools which exist for profit, we do not know that we can join with the Carnegie Foundation in condemning them un reservedly, or at all, for that matter. The laborer is worthy of his hire In the field of medicine as elsewhere, and in those states where no penitent plu tocrat has appeared to endow medical education the schools, so far as we can see, must depend on fees for their sup port. The disgrace of the situation, when there is any, does not depend so much on the money-making proclivi ties of a school as upon its honesty. There is some excuse for the benefi ciaries of Mr. Carnegie doubting whether money can be made honestly, but we are of the opinion that it can, even by a medical faculty. Of course in the end medical education, like all education, must be endowed or it de- generates, but under primitive condi- tions wnen me enaowmeni nas not yet materialized the schools must do the best they can on what they can earn, and if their faculties are fairly consci entious, there is no reason why they should not do pretty well both finan cially and educationally. If all of the adventurers who have led thrilling lives on land and sea could so write that the reading public would be enabled to see the sights and live over the thrilling experiences of the writers, there would . be some in teresting literature. If all of the "hu man interest" writers could experience the thrills and vicissitudes which thousands of unknowns have felt, there would be a similar increase in the list of best sellers. W. S. Porter, better known as "O. Henry," who died in New York last Sunday, was one of those rare geniuses who had lived a stirring life among all classes of ad venturers and soldiers of fortune, and possessed the ability to tell his stories in such a manner that the reader could recognize and appreciate every trait in his interesting characters. whether they rollicked or lamented. None but the hand of a master who had lived close to the subjects he por trayed could ever "write such humorous fiction or make such pathetic pen pic tures as "O. Henry" drew from life. As a short story writer he had few equals in the fields he covered. Another American "soldier of for tune" has fallen into the hands of the Nicaraguan government, while en gaged in the hazardous business of as sisting rebels to overturn that govern ment. The State Department is mak ing inquiries regarding the offense and possible fate of this misguided Ameri. can citizen who intruded where he was not concerned, and will make strong effort to save him from the fate which overwhelmed Groce and Cannon. As the State Department has had news confirming the report of rebel vic tories, the position regarding PIttman, the prisoner whose life is at stake, be comes increasingly critical. It would place the American Government at a disadvantage, if Estrada should suc ceeed in overturning the present gov ernment and establishing a new one immediately after the American Gov ernment had refused to demand a stay of proceedings in the case of Hie man who forfeited his life for the cause of Estrada. The plot thickens down in Califor nia. Now it is Mr. Johnsing and Mr. Little who have fallen out, and the black champion has a new manager. Since this great fistic event first at tracted attention there has been no period when some one of the outfit did not have a "grouch." It would be a grand and perhaps not inappropriate finale if the entire outfit, black, white and "yellow," would settle their dif ferences with a battle royal. The young man Lund, missing from Hoquiam, found dead in San Francisco from inhaling gas, sought the- wrong kind of relief. Friends say his mind was deranged over a love affair. As he was but 20 years old, this is likely. Yet he died as the fool dieth. No woman, young or old, is worth the life of a man. He may sacrifice it in an endeavor to save, but that is different. Twelve of thirteen regular Repub lican candidates have been nominated for Congress in Ohio by direct pri mary. The insurgents are strong on noise, tout shy on votes. However, they are likely to be heard from in November, when they will vote the Democratic ticket. To show how much handsomer Portland has grown since the last Rose Festival, take a look at Sixth and Sev enth streets when the cluster lights are turned on; also at several other streets In the shopping district. Frank Rinaldo, who tried to wreck trains near Portland, hates the human race. Certainly the human race has good reason to punish him. Gentlemen and especially young gentlemen with ladies will remember that women with babies are best en titled to seats in st- etcars. One of those Vanderbilts is going to marry again. Nat Goodwin is a near eligible. Matrimony gets to be a bad habit with some people. Putting out the fire last evening was a contribution by Mr. Chief Campbell and his excellent department for en tertainment of visitors. It will be the part of caution to leave some one at home to guard it against burglars these festival nights. In other days the Federal census was taken in June. Just suppose ; it were so this year. Maybe Jack Johnson will live to re gret swapping horses in the middle of the stream. Even King Solomon had not such Queens as. has Rex Oregonus, nor so many. Philadelphia went Republican. Any other way would be phenomenal. You hear no complaint this year about the paucity of decorations. Let the merrymaking be gentle, but break the head of the hoodlum. Now, you Beavers, please get into first place for this week. IXCOXGRLITJ OP" RAILROAD FIGHT la the Present Injunction, the Gorers mrit la Fadag Both Ways. Brooklyn Eagle. At the instance of the Federal au thorities, a Federal judge has issued an order restraining 24 Western rail roads from making a general advance in freight rates, the Government alleg ing: That the construction and mainte nance of railroads have been encour aged and assisted by the United States; That, but for unlawful combinations, the 24 lines would now be engaged in competition with each other; That they ire trying to monopolize traffic, transportation, trade and com- merce, and ) That the rates they seek to exact are arbitrary, unreasonable and excessive and in restraint of trade. This action on the part of the Gov ernment was taken in response to overtures from a committee represent ing shippers, who protest against any increase as unwarranted and oppres- eive. As a sort of inducement to the court, tue complainant promiscu . ex pedite matters with all possible rapld- lty, which Is to say the Government will file such a certificate as the law provides for, with the result of bring ing about a speedy determination of the Issues in contention. It should be added that this move by the Attorney General was, of course, made with the sanction of the President. Whether the rates which would have otherwise gone Into effect are unrea sonable is a question of fact. The Gov ernment affirms that they are, and the railroads contend that they are not. Meanwhile, it is difficult to imagine how such a question can be determined In a hurry, bristling as it surely will with all sorts of complications. Every Increase, and there are hundreds, if not thousands of them, will, furnish material for discussion, and differences of opinion will persist after the most exhaustive inquiry. In other words, the court will have its hands full. Other phases of the case of the Gov ernment are by no means so -involved. Take, for instance, the matter of com petition. Since the Sherman law was passed, public opinion on that subject has undergone a change. A few years ago competition was called the life of trade, and not many had the hardihood to ray an ugly word about it- Now there .are few who do not realize that many advantages accrue when combi nation is substituted for conflict. Now there are few who do not realize that concert of action is more than likely to benefit all concerned, including the consumer. So, it is a sort of anachronism, after all that has happened, to find the Gov ernment protesting that but for unlaw ful combinations, the defendants would now be competing with each other. plainly inferring that they should be so competing, and that if they were shippers and passengers would have no fault to find. This is turning back the hand of time. It is resurrection. Nor is it necessary to go far in search of proof that the Government itself knows better. For it is now committed to a measure authorizing traffic agree ments. The railroad bill occupying the time and attention of the Senate takes into account the fact that such agreements will be entered Into, whether author ized by law or not. As a matter of fact, the railroads have no alternative. They are among the essentials to economy in administration, and they are not pre ventable. Hence, the Government is willing to permit them conditionally subject to 'the approval of the Inter state Commerce Commission. In short, it is ready to aid and abet combina tions. Mark the incongruity. As complain ant, the Federal authorities go into court alleging that the defendants "did combine, conspire, confederate and agree," and as advocates of the rail road bill these self-same authorities consent that the railroads shall com bine, conspire, confederate and agree with reference to traffic. In court the Governirient draws up a long list of iniquities, to some of which it is ready to give countenance in the Senate. And in the face of all this the railroads are expected to take and to keep their bearings. "They've got the pins set up against us," says the president of one of the lines concerned. He added that while gross receipts were going up, net re ceipts were going down. He asserted his ability to demonstrate beyond the shadow of a doubt that while his com pany was taking in more money, it was making less, and that at prevailing rates it was impossible for the com pany to maintain a proper standard of efficiency. He continued: The shipper who have attended meetings to protest against the advance have no per sonal knowledge of the subject. They have been deceived by the ringleaders, who have distorted the facta and ava juggled with the figure?. If they will take the trouble to as certain the truth, the deception will become ap parent. There is- no chance for juggling with figures or for deception on the railroad side. Every item of our business Is spread before the world. Our officea are full of Govern ment Inspectors to see that all income and outgo are pioper and are properly accounted for. Our gross earnings are increasing, but our net income Is declining. Who among the shippers would view such a state of things- in hla own business with equanimity? ' For .what the Government' is doing there is the authority of law. The rail roads have not been illegally enjoined. They have no alternative but.-to- fight it- out in court - and to- grin and bear the conditions created there by-:an en ergetic Attorney-General. The same thing is true , of business - generally, which need not look to' Washington for encouragement it almost seems as though -nothing but a panic would sat isfy the head of the law department. Law has been known to score a tri umph of that sort. -. Colled Sprins;a for Resiliency. ' London Telegraph. A Glasgow, Scotland, streetcar corn any is trying out wheels in which the rims are separated from the centers by a number of coiled springs to afford re siliency. Crasy Tboua-bta. Boston Transcript. Unmendaable when once broken the silence. Something beyond the jeweler's art the setting of the sun. Girls who carry watches in their belts are guilty of waistlng their time. A woman's eyebrows aren't always as black as they are painted. It is said that the weather bureau is located in the guessed chamber. To succeed in bis business the farmer needs to be sharp as a raiser. "Everything haa its drawbacks," said the motorist as his car was being towed back to town by an old nag.. ONE OLD STORY RETOI.n. The Englishman We Tinned Where He Should Have Canned. W are eating what strawberrries we can. and what we can't eat we can. Which Is a good many. Salem Statesman. The original story is old, but there are many new-comers in Oregon to whom it is new. An Englishman touring the States visited an Oregon- farm where there was a great quantity of fruit. "And what do ye do with all of it?" he asked the hostess. "Oh,' she replied, "we eat what we can and can what we can't.' "Aw, yes, I see." A few months later he was telling a crowd at home. ' I hejarrf a rnnH nnA wbn T Di' a i t-i America last Summer. I was at a ranch where they had more fruit "than they couia use. o I So I asked the woman what she did with it all, ye know. 'Oh," says she, 'we eat what we can and tin the rest. Haw! Haw! Haw! Don't ye see the joke? Well, ye will yet. It was two weeks before I did." Plagiarising; Students. Chicago Record-Herald. The coming of the commencement sea son, with its obligatory crop of essays. poems and orations, prompts a word of warning to. graduating students on the tubject of plagiarism. When the desire for literary fame is in the air, the appro priation of others work may come as strong temptation: and often the job is done with such utter simplicity of mind that detection is almost certain to fol low. The strain of temptation is still stronger on students who are under de finite obligation to make suitable contri butions to class day programmes. But to win a literary reputation early and then to find one's self unable to live up to it 'Is an embarrassment, .even a calam ity. If this is true of a reputation rest ing upon a real basis, it is doubly true of one resting on a false-basis. There are many things that the world needs from , graduating students more than It needs "literature." The last risk that a young man should run is the risk of being detected In fraud from the prompt ings of a desire for literary fame. Memorial to Thomu Paine. New York World. The Thomas Paine Museum opened re cently is appropriately placed in New Ro chelle. There New York State gave Paine 227 acres for his services to our young Nation and there for a. time he lived. Pennsylvania voted Paine money and so did Congress. The men of his day did not thus reward him for nothing. They knew how he had helped the cause by writing "Common Sense" and "The Crisis" pam phlet. Long after, he got into disfavor by publicly expressing in "The -Age of Reason" agnostic views such as are now, and were then, common, but not always uttered. Like Franklin, Jefferson and other pub lic men of his time. Paine had practical gifts. He invented an iron bridge which was praised on two-continents. A Bohe mian, careless of habits, reputation and associates, he spoke truth as he knew it, espoused justice as he saw it and effect ively devoted his genius to the cause of freedom. Mrs. Roosevelt's Comeliness. "London Truth. Mrs. Roosevelt wears wonderfully well. One could not guess from her appearance that she will next year be entitled to silver wedding presents and congratula tion. Her eldest son is to be married on her return to the States. Her appear ance is extremely agreeable. What is so remarkable in her face is its exceptionij capacity to show pleasure in lighting up. The features are of regular proportion and well modeled and bear out her claim of French ancestry Huguenot, by the way. The deep commissures are distinct ly French and may be thought to denote a sense of the ridiculous finer than that of the ex-President. Her comeliness is refined. - New Movement In Teaching. Brooklyn Eagle. The movement to make the high schools practical in their teaching Is good so far as it goes, but what is needed is a series of high schools which will not try to fit for college at all, but in which each prin cipal will be permitted to make his course flexible, so as to adapt it to the needs of the actual children in his care. The at tempt to adapt teaching to an abstract child, who shall be the same in Brook lyn, in Cleveland, or In Chicago, so that students from all those cities may enter the same colleges on equal terms, can never be anything but a makeshift. Luxuries Must Be Paid For. Lowell Courier-Citizen. It will apparently be a billion-dollar session of Congress in spite of the well meant efforts of President Taft and a few other statesmen for economy. The ap propriation might he kept under that amount if the 50 millions for rivers and harbors and the 20 millions for public buildings were vetoed. But we can't have dreadnoughts and other costly lux uries without paying for them. Appro priations might be reduced by a better system of making them, but Congress is very slow about providing a better system. Conserving Exhaust Steam. Indianapolis News. Because the practice of conducting the exhaust steam from locomotive air pumps through the stack creates a draft that burns an unnecessary amount of coal when locomotives are not running, sev eral railroad companies are providing a separate exhaust outlet for it- Water and Coal Dust. London Tit-Bits. To prevent explosions of coal dust in mines, experiments are under way in Germany in which water is pumped into borings under pressure. It thus is forced into fissures and, after it is pumped out,' the coal can be broken down with picks without blasting. Rescue Helmet in Mines. Indianapolis News. In a new helmet rescue apparatus adopted In the Pennsylvania anthracite region, the wearer is supplied with -oxygen from tanks in the usual way and, in addition, his exhaled breath is purified by potash cartridges so it may be in haled again. A Curb on Joyriders. Baltimore American. A new York company maintaining a burglar alarm system for business build ings, now installs in garages apparatus which registers in its office the leaving and returning time of automobiles to pre vent their use without their owners' con sent. W hen Kissing? Halts Trains. Life. "1 see they have -stopped kissing at railway stations in France because it delays the trains." . "Um. When it comes to kissing one's best girl good-by, what Is a railway sys tem, any way r So Foolish. Pittsburg Post. "She is neglecting her game of bridge dreadfully." "Why is she doing that?" ' "Some silly excuse. Says the children need her, I believe." Fuel Oil for Emergencies. London Tit-Bits. The British admiralty has decided that each warship shall carry several hundred tons of fuel oil to serve as an auxiliary to its coal supply. LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE -an elderly man. much excited, rushed into the office of the census chief on Broadway a few days ago and demanded that the young man at the gate direct him to the office of Chief Falck. "I must see him. said the old man. "I have been sitting up night after night for montn, out Bis men have not called to question me." The office boy gave the visitor a seat and darted to the office of the chief. Mr. raick rushed out. "What is your business, my good sir?" said he. "1 am a night watchman," said the old man, "and you had better hurry up and have one of youw men take my census. I'm getting mighty tired and need sleep." New York Globe. ' Henry James does not agree with Colo nel Roosevelt on the question of large families. Small families, such as prevail in France, indicate, to Mr. James' mind. Intelligence and progress, while large lam. ilies indicate the reverse. "Large families are so embarrassing, too," said Mr. James, on his last Ameri can visit. "I once knew a man named Thompson who had 14 children. Thomp soon agreed, one Spring holiday, to take his children to the seashore for the week end. "They set off, reached the station, got their tickets nd were about to board the train when Thompson was roughly col lared ' by a policeman. " 'Here, wot 'a' you bin a-doin of V the policeman growled fiercely. " 'Me? Nothing. Why ?' stammered Thompson. The policeman waved his truncheon to ward the Thompson family. " Then wot the bloody blazes. ha hissed, 'is this here crowd a-follerin' ye, fur?" " Minneapolis Journal. A fashionable painter, noted for his pro lific output, was discussing at a studio tea in New York a recent scandal in the pic ture trade. "Look here, old man," said G. Innls Kerr, the etcher, "do you paint all your own pictures?" "I do," the other answered hotly, "and with my own hands, too." "And what do you pay your hands? Mr. Kerr inquired. "I'm thinking of start ing an art factory myself." "Washington Star. A small boy of Washington Square, brought up by a fire-eating father to bate anything connected with England or the English, was consigned recently to eat dinner in the kitchen with his nurse, while the family entertained a genuine M. P. in, the dining-room. The grown-ups' meal had come to that "twehty-mlnutes-past" stage where conversation halts direfully, when a childish treble fell upon the dumb waiter shaft from the kitchen. This was what the astonished M. P. heard: Fe. fl. fo. fum, 1 smell the blood of an Engllshmun. New York Sun. c A Wall-street broker haa a boy who stutters badly. One day a neighbor want ed to send a note across the city and bor rowed George to carry it for him. The trip was a long one and the boy was gone quite three hours. When he returned the broker asked him how much he had charged for his services. "F-ff-ff-fi-f l-fifteen c-c-c-cents!" was the gasping reply. "Oh, pshaw! why didn't you make it a quarter?" "I-I-I-I c-c-c-could-ould-couldn't s-s-say it," replied George, sadly. Metropolitan Magazine. Pointed Paragraphs. Chicago News. An honest painter is always true his colors. It isn't scandal until people begin to to talk about it. It is reasonably safe to judge a man by the friends he hasn't. There isn't much sweetness in the smile that won't come off. . A girl who begins by fooling hef) mother may end by fooling her husband. It doesn't improve the morals of a caterpillar to turn over a new leaf. You would do much better than the other fellow if you had his chance so you think. Some people' have as much faith in weather reports as they have in patent--medicine testimonials. Wise is the woman who knows how to manage a husband, but wiser is she who knows how to manage without one- Benefits of the Farm Garden. Philadelphia Inquirer. A striking case in which the benefits derived from the farm gardens are shown is that of a Germantown widow who haa supported herself and six children since the death of her husband last year and has supplied her table almost entirely from the truck she herself has raised. , There are many other similar cases,, 'and it is said that the Vacant Lots Culti vation Society, which is responsible for the distribution of these little "farms," is very" much gratified with the results obtained. More lots are needed, how ever, and this Is a charity that must appeal to everyone. It is to be hoped that the scope of the work may be broadened to the extent the society wishes. Increased Price of Fan, Weekly Consular and Trade Reports. . A few examples given by a Winnipeg authority on the subject show how the prices have soared during the last few years. The figures quoted are the aver age for raw skins as sold to collectors by trappers: 1304. Muskrat t .11 Skunk 70 Red fox 2.00 Mink 1,75 Lynx 3.00 Wolf LoO Weasel 10 Badger 50 1910. X .70 3.00 6.09 8.00 30.00 4.00 .60 3.00 Reflections of a Bachelor. New York Press. A loud voice goes a long ways in mak ing some people think that back of it is a large brain. If a woman doesn't look her best when she studies herself in the mirror, she knows it is lying. A woman seems to think the pleasanter she is to the postman the more letters he onght to bring her. A man seems to be able to get ahead in the world much faster with good man ners than with good morals. Some people are so anxious to be fooled that if nobody else will do it to them they will do it themselves. Recognizing Real Talent. Chicago Tribune. The readers of the pink sheet were dis cussing David's exploit in putting an end to the career of Goliath. "Of course, that doesn't land him in the heavyweight pugilist class," they said, "but it qualifies him as a slab ar. tist in any major league baseball club." For in every age of the world, be it observed, your true fan has been prompt to recognize real talent. Standing on Their Record. Cedar Rapids (la.) Republican. Searles Granite Company, 516 Third ave nue, have just sold a monument for the late lamented Mayor John T. Carmody, which will be one of the finest in Oak Hill Cemetery. Listen: He is the 25th one of the ex Mayors whom we have done work for. Comment is unnecessary. Into Other Gnesslag Business. Chicago Record-Herald. We move that the astronomers go back to the . business of trying to find out whether Mars is inhabited.