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8 THE MORNING OKEGONIAX, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1910. rORTtAXD. OREGON. Entered at Portland, Oregon, postofflce aa Eecond-Claas Matter. Subscription Rates Invariably in Advance. (BT MAIL). Dally. Sunday included, one year. ...... -?-!2 Daily, Sunday Included, six months. Daily, Sunday included, three months... 2.25 pally. Sunday Included, one month -J Iaily. without Sunday, one year g- Cai.y, without Sunday, six months ... B-J Bally, without Sunday, three months.... Daily, without Sunday, one month. Weekly, one year J 5? Sunday, one year 2 J Sunday and weekly, one year 3-50 (Br Carrier). Daily, Sunday Included, one year Daily, Sunday included, one month-..-. How to Remit Send Postofflce money or der, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the ender'i risk. Give postofflce address In Cull, including county and state. . Postage Rates 10 to 14 pages. 1 eentj 16 to 28 pages. 2 cents: 80 to 40 pages, 3 cents; 40 to Oo pages. 4 cents. Foreign postage double rat. Eastern Business OfBce The S. C. Beck with Special Agency New York, rooms 48 60 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510 612 Trlbunn building. rOBTLAAU, SATURDAY, JTJXE 25. 1810. THE CITY'S DEAL, WITH THE O. R. N. There Is no cause for uproar about vacation of certain street, ends in East Portland, in favor of the O. R. & N.'s proposed freight depot. The city is not giving away land for nothing. It la obtaining valuable privileges in re turn, including rights of way for vari ous municipal improvements, sixty-five acres of park land in South Portland and most important of all land for the proposed Broadway bridge. The public is not victimized nor "sold out" in this deal. The city is making concessions to. the railroad and obtaining in return concessions very much needed for municipal pur poses. One of the important improvements to come from this agreement is estab lishment of a freight depot on the East Side, between Burnside .bridge and the new railroad bridge at Oregon street. This depot will be valuable to East Side business interests. It will stimu late growth of trade on that side of the river and efTect large saving of money to shippers. Business men have petitioned city authorities to vacate river ends of certain streets in that district, so that the railroad may build this freight depot. These street ends are unused by the public; the railroad owns the contigu ous blocks of land and therefore is the only individual that can put ' the dis trict to any use; the public owns the right only of traveling the street ends, to and from the railroad's land and never can put the street area to any other use. Besides, the public will be more benefited from a freight depot there than from any other kind of improvement. The basis of the city's needs in these . negotiations is right of way for Broad way bridge. If the truth were fully known about the motives of certain agitators on the nast Side who are clamoring against the agreement with the railroad, it would probably be seen that such noisy citizens want no Broadway bridge, and that they are trying to force some arrangement for benefit of their 16ts on or near Holla day avenue. It should be understood that rejec tion of this agreement will further de lay Broadway bridge with another liti gation, tie-up; also that such course will delay the freight depot which the East Side needs. Agitators, selfish lot-owners and demagogic politicians are trying to stir up public passion over this matter. But it should be borne in mind that the ' city is getting valuable conces-t sions on its side and that it U mak ing no free gift of city property to the railroad. No need of hysteria or highfalutin. This business will be decided in ac cordance with sanity and reason. COAL FOR PACIFIC FLEET. "Were the department compelled to Bhip coal only in American bottoms, It would soon be forced practically to abolish the Pacific fleet, or the ap propriation for this purpose would Boon be exliausted," says Secretary Meyer, of the Navy Department, in reply to the protest of Representative Humphrey against the employment of foreign ships as colliers. While it is largely a' matter of indifference with the Pacific Coast shippers and tax. payers what flag carries the business bo long as there is always plenty of tonnage available at reasonable rates. the language of the Secretary suggests an opportunity for economy in an other direction. He expresses the be lief that there will be an Increasing use of oil for fuel in the Navy, and as the Pacific coast is the center of the fuel oil industry, the fuel problem for all vessels on the Pacific Ocean be comes easy of solution. ; The use of oil will not only obviate the necessity of abandoning the Pa cific fleet, as intimated by Secretary Meyer, 'but it might also be the means of bringing around to this coast much greater number of vessels of the Navy. It is freely admitted by the closest students of political economy that the Pacific will be the scene of the world's next great naval battle it is on the Pacific that the United States should now make Its most 1m posing snowing as a naval power. Even if there is not a general substi tution of oil for coal as a fuel, there will never be any abandonment of the necessary warships by reason of in ability to secure ships to carry the coal around from the Atlantic. Brit ish Columbia, Alaska and Puget Sound have great deposits of coal which are well adapted" to-, the demands of the Navy and which are .used byforeIgir naval vessels with' good results. The attention f the Government has frequently been called to this fact but the Navy department has been very slow about taking advantage o the availability of this coal. That it has not been . forgotten, however. apparent from Secretary Meyer's state ment that the department contem plates further testing of 'the Pacific Coast coals next Fall in one or more of the large armored cruisers now. on the Pacific Coast." It may seem strange that tests of this nature have not been made in the past, for had they been made it is not Improbable that the American vessels could have used the coal with as good results as have been secured by the vessels of other nations. It is fortu nate for the country that th Navy Department stands pat and refuses to listen to the clamor of those who are . demanding the exclusion of foreign tonnage from the coal-carrying busi ness of the Government, but the Navy Department has never yet advanced a good reason why Pacific coast coal should not be used, and the freight saved, nor why oil-burning plants have not been installed on vessels making; their headquarters on the Pacific coast. MISO'DERSTOOD M'CARTHT. Mayor McCarthy, of San Francisco, in a letter printed elsewhere, complains of the alleged inaccuracy of the report on his celebrated Chicago interview, and also expresses dissatisfaction with the 6tyle of writing followed by The Oregonian in commenting on his re marks. Accompanying the Mayors protest is a clipping from the San Francisco Examiner which the Mayor informs us "correctly quotes me." When questioned by the Examiner re porter as to his attitude on the prize fighting matter, according to the clip ping, the Mayor "bluntly refused to state his views, though in conversation with a committee from the Hotelmens Association during the afternoon he stated that he was heartily in favor of drawing people to this city, though the means of attraction might not meet with the favor of a certain class of citizens." When the fight project was first dis cussed in San Francisco, Professor Herget, better known as the prize fighter "Young Mitchell," and the member of Mayor McCarthy's official family who seems to toe running the prizefighting end of the administra tion, was quite freely quoted as saying that the only reason for opposition to prizefighting was "a moral one." Of course the Mayor and "Young Mitch ell" are no panderers to the.moral ele ment. In his indifference to the wishes of "a certain class of citizens" who do not care for the kind of advertising which law-breaking bruisers can give a city, and in "Professor" H.erget's in ability to see why the fight should not be held so long as the only objection to it was based on strictly "moral" grounds, the Mayor may find some reason for a possible misinterpretation or even misquotation of his remarks. It is unfortunate and regrettable that a man like Mayor - McCarthy should be so sadly misunderstood. It will be remembered that one of Mc Carthy's campaign promises was that he would make San Francisco the Paris of America." Of course, the Mayor meant that he intended to In troduce in the mismanaged politician- ridden Bay City some of those admir able methods by which the laws of the French capital are administered more economically, directly and sim ply than in any other Old-World city. He intended no doubt to reproduce some of those famous fountains that have made the Place de la Concorde, the Theater Francals and the Place de la St. Michel famous wherever art and beauty are appreciated. The promise also ' included must have intended to provide an annual salon exhibition similar to that which makes the Grand Palais the artistic event of the year in the other Paris. The glories and beauties of the Pan theon and the Tuileries and the won derful art galleries of the Luxem bourg and the Louvre were all to find flattering reflection in the Bay City. But there is another kind of Paris where all the instincts of morality and decency are as dead as the con sciences of some of Mayor McCarthy's official family. With the news of Mc Carthy's election, harpies of both sexes and all ages and colors swooped down on San Francisco from all quarters of the globe. Because the harpies misunderstood McCarthy, .San Francisco is today as "wide open" as it was tn the palmiest days of the Schmitz regime." Because It is wide open and disgraceful, the head of the city government, unless he carefully edits his. interviews, will always be In danger of saying wihat he thinks, instead of something that would be more discreet and would sound better. t AS TO PUBLIC DOCKS. Public docks in European ports af ford no valid argument for public docks in Portland or other American cities. Government and management are al together different. It would be as reasonable to argue for European style of government in place of our own American. The difference is that lnOld World ports commerce and docks and other utilities are controlled by the few who know best how to conduct them for the public interest. But here in Port land docks would be controlled by manhood suffrage; they would be sub' ject to unreasoning popular demands and to labor agitation. When a great work is undertaken in Holland it is not submitted to initiative and refer endum of uninformed voters; it is de- igned by engineers and approved by proper officials and then put thruogh regardless of "push clubs" or labor unions. The great American voter, however, thinks he knows it all, and is deter mined to run things his way, regard less of utility or cost or debt. That is the reason public docks have added enormously to the debt of the City of New York and are a growing burden. Conducted as they are, they cannot be made to pay. In Baltimore, the con ditions may be somewhat more favor, able, because the docks are not man aged at the behest of high-priced la bor; the working hands are cheap, labor negroes. , In our country It has been a doc trine hitherto accepted as sound that government should never be extended over subjects of ordinary business. If despotism ruled this country as in. some of the nations of Europe,' then government here might successfully en gage in various affairs as it does there but American systems social, polit ical, commercial ana labor are wholly unsuitable for these tasks com pared with the systems of the . Old World. Management of public utili ties there would not be tolerated here In the Old World government par ticipates largely in ownership and op eration of railroads and ocean ships in America not at all. Nor could gov ernment successfully engage in such activities in America, under its nolit- ical and labor system. Everything our government undertakes it manages in wasteful end improvident manner. Even civil .affairs in this country are administered in improvident and prof ligate style. 'Government ownership in this country, of the means of Indus. try, transportation and navigation would certainly run into every variety or extravagance, abuse and corruption Public docks or wharves irt Port land would be no exception to this certain result. They are "loaded' with debt, taxes,' politics and abuse They would always be a burden to tax payers, and a constantly growing one If Portland is to enter the dock Luzi ness, it will be obliged to do. so on very large scale and to provide wharf facilities for a large number of ship pers who now are content with their own wharves. ' If the little steamboat J company which Is striving to obtain a landing place for,ts boat, the J. N. Teal, at public expense, would build Its own wharf, all the clamor for public dqcks would subside and the public would be freed from this menace of debt, taxes and politics. A VINDICATION'. The collapse of the charges against Chief of Police Frederick Kohler, of Cleveland, causes one to ask himself how they could have originated. There were more than 23 different accusa tions running from technical "immor ality" to drunkenness, and now an im partial civil service, commission has found them all false Z not malicious. The motive which induced a group of enemies'to assail him so furiously on grounds so "untenable must have been exceedingly powerful. The accounts are not full enough to enable one to peak upon the subject -..1th certainty, but it is possible to make some close guesses. For one thing, Mr. Kohler has labored actively to break up the alliance which formerly existed in Cleveland between the police force and numerous f-rms of vice. The of ficials had a regular license system. as they hav$ in many other cities, for houses of bad repute, Sunday liquor selling, gambling and worse things. The license fees went, not to the city treasury, but to the pockets of the police force. , When Mr. Kohler broke vp the sys tem he deprived the officers of a big sum of easy money. Naturally they did not submit to lose it peaceably. They had enjoyed it so long that tl-e graft seemed perfectly legitimate to them, and since thj onl" way to re tain it was to depose Kohler- and put some more pliable chief in his place, they proceeded to attack -him. Inas much as no truthful charges could be brought against him, the next best thing was to cook up false ones, and this . they seem to have been ready enough to do. The incident Is notewothy because iwe are not accustomed to such con spiracies In this country. In romj parts of the world it is fairly cor non to try to ruin a man by .deliberate calumny, but fortunately we have not seen much of it here. False reports and malicious rumors are pretty com mon about everybody in public life, but usually they evaporate before they come to an investigation. Few slan derers have the courage to face their own fictions. It may be hoped that the boldness of the Cleveland conspir ators Is an isolated phenomenon which will not be repeated for a great while, there or in any other city. the cost orr ravDfo. So far ' as the tariff !s concerned. the majority report of the Senate com mittee, appointed to investigate the cost of living makes little pretense of being a scientific document, ---it is frankly partisan and will be so ac. cepted by the country. As everybody expected, the majority of the commit tee comes to . the conclusion that the tariff does not increase the prices of commodities. At present we wish to make only a single remark upon this point. If the tariff does not increase the cost of commodities then it fails of Its fundamental purpose, which is to raise' wages. The only way to pro vide the means for raising wages is to raise the selling price of products. If, therefore, the tariff has not raised the price of food, clothing and other nec essaries of life, it might as well be repealed so far as its effect upon wages is concerned. If it has no ef fect upon wages, what imaginable ex cuse is there for a protective tariff? Upon other points the committee speaks with more freedom from bias and consequently with more authority. Whatever the effect of the tariff may have been, there is no doubt that manj other causes have contributed to make living expensive and the increase of population is among them. The committee states this proposi tion a little differently. It says that the "demand for farm products and food has increased." Evidently prices need not have increased on this ac count ir production had kept pace with population, but It has not. As the committee states in other para graphs, productive labor has been largely diverted from the growing of food to other industries, .while at the same time the fertility of the soil has diminished. A double cause -Seems therefore to have been in operation to make the food supply fall off rela tively to those who must consume it. Just what the effect of .this has act ually been is not by any means clear, however. It is easy to exaggerate the diminution of food production which has followed upon the desertion of the farms 'by the laboring population. New machinery has largely . supplied their place and in some instances more than supplied it. It is quite likely that me chanical inventions have upon the whole prevented any notable decrease of food production from this cause but the loss of the fertility of the soil is a very different matter. Exhaustion of . the soil has caused crops to fall off in the United States from the first settlement of the coun try. j'or many years trie loss was more than compensated by opening up new farming areas. There was a period, In fact, during which the food supply gcew faster than the popula tion. Prices of corn, wheat and pork In the West xwent down disastrously and the richer the soil the farmer pos sessed the worse he was off econom ically, for he had c. larger unavailable surplus on his hands. One of the prime causes of the early immigration to Oregon was the hope jf finding new markets for farm products across the Pacific. Now all this has changed The only lands left in the United States available for new farms must be tilled at great expense, and exper ience shows that, while they are ex ceedingly productive, yet the crops are neither abundant nor cheap enough to bring down the general cost of food In spite of the productiveness of the Oregon apple orchards, for instance the price of that staple rises steadily in the markets of the world. The Senate committee remarks that the price of food is increased by the cost of fertilizers. This is in general dubious statement. Fertilizers prop erly applied do not raise prices, bu rather tend to lower them, since they increase the product out of all prc- portion to what they cost. Still, be tween lands which produce abundant ly without fertilizers and those to which potash and nitrates must be applied, of course crops from the lat ter are the more expensive. The only hope of cheap food we have in this country lies in intensive 1 farming, which means farming with heavy fer tilization and active culture. There is no other way to restore the lost fer tility of the soil, but fortunately that way is effective. Whether we shall ever return to the point, through sci J entific effort," where cheap food can be produced coincidently with good returns to. the farmer is an interest ing question. In general we must agree with the committee that the- basic item in the cost of living is the cost of food. When food i3 dear labor must be dear, and expensive labor means high prices for everything under heaven, or else it means minimum profits for -the cap italist. While we wait for cheap and abundant food; possibly we shall be compelled to choose between an un derpaid and degraded laboring popu lation on the one hand and vanishing returns to productive capital on the other. John H. McGraw, iwho died in Seattle- Thursday, was driving a horsecar In San Francisco when he first came to the Pacific Coast about thirty years ago. He afterwards became Governor of Washington and one of the most prominent men in the political and business life of the Evergreen State, Not all of the horsecar drivers, or other men engaged in earning a live lihood in similar occupations at the present time, will become Governors, but all over this broad land there are hundreds and thousands of poor but honest, hardworking young men who are doing no better today than the late John H. McGraw was doing when he first came to the Pacific Coast, but who, like McGraw, will later receive their reward of fame and fortune. It is needless to add, however, that they will have no time to waste In bewail ing their hard fate and complaining that there is nd longer a chance for a poor man. How the mighty have fallen! There's John L. Sullivan, who has disinterred himself for the occasion and is making an effort to call on James J. Jeffries, only to be refused admittance by the ex-bank clerk who ended the Sullivan glory and prestige with a stiff punch at New Orleans many years ago. The interference of Mr. Corbett raises a point in prizering etiquette as to how far an ex-champion can go in his pub licly expressed criticism and still re tain the invaluable privilege of pub licly greeting the person criticised. Why should John L., the ancient "has been," be denied the privilege of bask ing for a few moments in the reflected glory of Champion Jeffries, simply be cause he had expressed the opinion that the coming fight is a "fake," a frame-up," and a few other kinds of crooked performance ? Something like 3500 fraternal insur ance societies have been organized in the United States and Canada since 1859. Of these, but 550 are now in existence: Every community has wit nessed the uprising and downfall of one or more of these "fraternals" un der high-sounding titles, suggestive of protection and safety. Their business methods were at fault or their risks too great. An effort is being made under the direction of the National Association of Insurance Commission ers to agree upon some measure that will - provide for the preservation of these organizations and the fulfillment of their pledges. Go-as-you-please methods are not to be trusted in busi nesscertainly not in the insurance business, as has been fully demonstrat ed within recent years. It is likely that the entering classes at the Eastern colleges next Fall will be larger than ever before. Most of the new freshmen desire a college edu cation . merely for its social value Their acquaintances have a degree, can patter a few Latin phrases and wear a Greek-letter badge. Hence they must do the same. But there are a great many freshmen who believe a college education will, enable them to make an easy and genteel living. These young men will graduate into the "educated proletariat" and furnish leaders for the ever-increasing army of discontent. You wouldn't call it a short walk from the Skidmore fountain, at First and Ankeny streets, to the corner of Thirteenth and Morrison; yet when the late Frank Dekum built hi3 rest dence on the block where the Klaw & Erlanger theater is to be erected, Port land's only playhouse was the old New Market, now almost the very outer edge of the wholesale district. In the past thirty years the city's amusement center also has changed several times, Tickets on Zeppelin's airship, the Deutschland, will be placed on sale in New York. Considering the experi ence that Zeppelin has had with his airships in the past, it might be well for the purchasers of tickets to insist that rain checks be issued in case the ship does not sail when the New Yorkers get over there. Even a New Yorker would not want to loaf around Dusseldorf and Baden for six months waiting for the airship to start. Examining a charge of dynamite that was slow in exploding Thursday cost' a Cowlitz County man his life. That feature is one of the mysteries of this explosive. Men who handle it have been taught time and again les sons of care tey fatalities, but every man has ideas of his own until some day something happens. It is the part of wisdom when a shot Is unrespon eive to knock off work and call it i day. Judge Gatens yesterday granted di vorce to a woman who said her hus band iwas occupied at "nothing" when they were married, four years ago. It took her a long time to learn she was not getting much. Among the stanch supporters of Pinchot's policy of conservation Is King Weyerhaeuser, who is now In specting his Pacific Coast domain. The exhaustive report of the Senate committee gives many reasons for the high cost of living. One remedy (not given) in brief Is: Eat less. Dr. Roland D. Grant, of old-time fame, Is to talk tomorrow night on "Modern Mistakes In Religion." He knows them. Of course Porter Charlton is of un sound mind. Otherwise he would have stopped short of killing his wife. No- man - need fear incurring his wife's jealousy if he- kisses a woman 85 years old. Building three modern theaters Is only a small part of Portland's activi ties. Yesterday was national bathing day in Mexico and the streams ran darkly. Hawley scores in the Siletz home stead struggle. REMEDY FOR MIXORITY RULE. It la Party Assembly and Is Sorely deeded to Aid Primaries. Salem Statesman. Something ought to be done, else the primary law will make a rule of minori ties instead of majorities. So far as the parties are concerned, or at least the Republican party, there has already come about a rule of minorities. The mass meetings in the Marion County precincts will be held on Satur day, July 2, the county assembly on the following Saturday, July 9, and the state assembly is set for July 23. This is the plan. Can there be any valid objection to it? Could you. Mr. Reader, evolve a better plan? If not, it is your duty as a Republican, if you are a member of that party, to participate in the mass meeting in your precinct. Every Republican should join In carrying out the present plan, for mass meetings In the precincts, county assemblies and a state assembly. And, while there is no law or rule that can compel any member of the party to vote in the direct primary for the nominees of the assemblies, nor at the November election for those nominated at the direct primaries, it would seem the part of -wisdom and good cltlaen ehlp for the members of the Republican party to be loyal throughout the pres ent programme; loyal to this plan until some better one, if there is a better one, may be put forward. cvrssrsa tricks of- democrats. They Bowl A fro in ft t Assembly in Order to Confuse Republicans. Dallas Observer. Assertions that the purpose of the proposed assembly is to destroy the direct primary law are unworthy of serious notice. The purpose of the Re publican assembly Is to preserve the Republican party. Meetings such as the Republicans of Oregon are planning to hold cannot act in other than an advisory capacity, so far as the selec tion of candidates Is concerned. The final decision as to the fitness of can didates for the various offices will rest with the individual voter when he en ters the voting booth at the primary election in Sepember. No Republican, no matter how strongly he may believe in the right eousness of the direct primary, need fear that he will be taking any step to discredit or nullify a single provision of the existing primary law by parti cipating in the assembly or the pre cinct primaries preceding it. The di rect primary is not in peril. The Dem ocratic newspapers that are howling so loudly against the Republican assem bly, . pretending to believe that the de struction of the primary law Is im minent, know full well that it is the prospect of another Democratic victory in a Republican state that is in danger just at this time. One cannot blame the minority party for resorting to cunning methods to disrupt.and scatter the forces of the majority, but the Re publicans of Oregon are less sagacious than we thinK they are If they are go ing to allow the game to be continued. AROUND THE WORLD IX 37 DAYS. Faster Trains In Russia Shorten the Trip by 24 Hours. New York Times. Another hitch has been taken in the tightening girdle of the earth, and the effect is to bring China and Japan one day nearer for he who Journeys thither by way of London, Paris and the Siberi an Railroad. The 24 hours have been clipped from the railroad schedule between Moscow and Vladlvostock in Russia by doing away with tedious watts at several principal junction points. Under the new schedule a tourist who leaves London on Monday may reach Yokohama on the second Monday fol lowing, or at Shanghai! on the second Wednesday, 14 and 16 days, respec tively. For the globe trotter wishing to keep right on going west, the new schedule enables him to catch the fast Canadian Pacific steamship leaving Yokohama Tuesday. Thus In 26 days one may journey from London to "Vancouver via Vladlvostock, and may complete the circling of the globe in 37 days, less than half of Phineas Fogg's 80-day record. The through train will run only once a week under the new schedule, having been arranged especially to lure tour ists to travel by the overland route. APARTMENTS 1 5,000 A. FLOOR. Corner Fifth Avenue and Fifty-Third Street Site of Edifice. New York Herald. One of the finest apartment-houses of Its type will be erected at the southeast corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-third street, and four dwellings will be demolished to make room for the new Improvement. The plot, which was purchased in 1907 by Edward Holbrook, president of the Gorham Manufacturing Company, from Harry J. Luce, of Acker, Merral & Condit, contains about 8500 square feet and has an avenue frontage of 60 feet and is 125 feet on the street. The property, which is known as 687, 669 and 671 Fifth avenue, and 2 East Fifty-third street, will be Improved with a 12-story apartment-house con taining accommodations for one family on a floor, and will be ready for occu pancy on September 1, 1911. The ten tatlve rentals will be $15,000 a floor. Mr. Hill's Unhappy Metaphor. New York Times. J. J. Hill's warnings of possible financial and commercial depression are worth heeding. But we wish he would not advise us to lay up for a "rainy day." A drought would suit his meta phorlcal purpose just as well. The mention of rain Just now Is exception ally irritating. We fancy it tends to lessen the weight of Mr. Hill's other wise reasonable If somewhat pessimis tic argument. He will be understood Just as well next time If he says "drought." The word has a good sound. A drought, nowadays, would have something of the charm of novelty. Commencements and Common Sense. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The frilless commencement, like the horseless carriage and the wireless telegram, seems at first to be a con tradiction In terms. But so many girls have already declared against flowers and finery that before very long Amerl can commencements will really becom affairs of significance and dignity rather than mere exhibitions of costly raiment. . All Modern Improvements. Everybody's Magazine. At a meeting of the lodge in a 'way back village a member suggested that cuspidors be secured. I move, Mr. .president," said an ever-ready member, "that the executive committee be empowered to employ two competent cuspidors to serve durln the ensuing year." Making Beads Out of Rose Petals, PORTLAND, June 23. (To the Ed itor.) Will you" kindly give instruc tions In your column how to make beads out of the rose petals? E. A. i We do not know, nor have we been able to learn of any one who does know. Weather Poem. Boston Herald. A wet May Makea lota o hay. A wet June Is out o' tune. A wet July Gee! We'd all die. MXJCFFEY'S SCHOOL: READERS. They Helped to Form the Literary Taste of Western Schoolboys. New York World. When in 1S36 a young Cincinnati publishing house offered William H. McGuffey $1000 to complete a set of four school readers,' not even the imagina tion of an H. O. Wells could have fore seen in the transaction the basis of a reputation which might eventually en shrine the compiler in New York's Hall f Fame. McGuffey as a professor at Miami and president of Ohio University had more than a local renown as an educator. But it is for his "readers that the public remembers him. They helped to form the literary taste f two generations of Western school boys, and the length of time they re- lsted the composition of the new wares seductively offered to scnooi boards by enterprising publishers tes tifies to their quality. An alert in- vestlftator of literary origins might trace to them some of the sources of the Indiana school of authorship. Cer tainly the McGuffey "eclectic" series contained an amount of good English rose and verse which it would be dif ficult to match in equal compass in modern hand-books of literature and half-hours with the best authors. The actual work of their compilation was done by W. H. McGuffey's younger brother. Alexander, a youth of 20. In an interview not long before his death In 1891 Alexander McGuffey said: 'My brother was very busy, and, as had an abundance of time on my hands, he agreed to undertake the work with the understanding that the burden f it was to come upon me, I working under his supervision. The readers were to be published under his name In order to give them prestige. The firm agreed to this arrangement, so they rought over a great load of old school readers from which, as from other and higher sources. I was to make selec tions. The work took all my spare time during the Winter of 1838 and half of 1837." The McGuffey readers have been Im proved" upon to meet more modern educational demands. There is now dialect verse for the pupil, Whltcomb Rlxey, Eugene Field, scientific extracts. etc., but there was much good litera ture in the old readers for parents as well as children. SWIMMING-HOLE CONSERVATION Unless Government Acts People Will Lose Lavatory Use of Streams. Chicago Inter Ocean. A dispatch from Washington says that the Department of Justice Is investigat ing what is commonly known as the bath. ing trust. The Attorney-General says tnat ne win announce later whether the inquiries be ing made by special agents of the depart ment are found to warrant further pro ceedings. This information suggests a new argu ment for conservation. With the suspi cion that a. bathtub trust Is about to get complete control of the people s natns, the duty of the Government becomes plain. Let it at once tiroceed to marie out ana withdraw all swimming holes on publio lands from entry; also all small lakes, bayous, fjords" and other Inlets, bays. creeks, etc., that could be used for bath ing Durnoses. Let it also reserve to the public a rignt to pass over all lands sold on the borders of navigable lakes and streams down to the water, when accompanied by a oatn. Ing suit or other evidences of a bona-fide intention to bathe. Let it at once bring whatever official pressure it can to bear on those who have alreadv homesteaded or otherwise ac- ouired Dubllc lands to concede to the pub lie an easement entitling it to use an places suitable for bathing which may lie within the boundaries tnereor. In this way the people will not only be protected against the inroads of any pos sible bathtub trust, but they will also se cure for themselves and their descend ants the privilege of open-air bathing for all time to come. Stranee. passing strange, that no one has yet called attention to the wasteful and extravagant Governmental method of dealing with our National "fewimming. holes: Strange that neither a Wisconsin statesman .nor a 10-cent magazine nas arisen to denounce, our National lack of foresight! And even stranger than this the fact that no statistician has figured in elo quent totals the National supply of swimming-holes and the Intolerably brief time in which they will be exhausted unless something is done and done quickly. However, as we said. It is not too' late The investigation of the bathtub trust has called attention to the whole subject. All that is necessary Is for the Govern ment to act with patriotism, promptness and energy, and the thing is done. Nevr Kind of Farm. American Educational Review. The Artcraft Institute of Chicago which since 1900 has taught more than 600 unskilled women home and art oc cupations that have enabled them to be come self-supporting, is preparing to enlarge its scope by establishing an educational farm. The Artcraft Insti tute is an educational combination of school, club and workshop, reaching from the home to the business world. Just About the Same. Philadelphia Inquirer. We suppose that In spite of all the efforts making. all over the country for a sane celebration there will be just about' the usual number of deaths and accidents' this Fourth, about enough casualties to make a very respectable bloody battlefield. Have you a boy to sacrifice, or even a finger to offer on the altar of senseless noise? Even Poetry Mtldewa. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. A little shower now and then is pleas. ing to all sorts of men, but when rains 'most every day there is the very deuce to pay. If New York Times. If Mr. Roosevelt is willing, we think the country would, be glad to engage for a time in constructive wort The Difference. Charleston News and Courier. A correspondent wishes to know what is the difference between Brya and Harmon. A nomination. Will Make History. Houston Post. T. R.'s real fun will begin when h comes to Texas to write the history of the state. The Message of a Rose. A white rose in a tiny vase With slender hand and gentle grace. Upon tne oaken stand was et On that glad night when first we met. At every call the rose was there, ' No other rose the place did share. Twas there in purest softest white And made the evening doubly orlght. i Very beautiful was that rose. Most graceful was the maiden's pose, "Your hand," 1 said, "before we part," She emlled, "Yea more." I said, "your heart." When I returned to know my fate. My yearning heart lmpasslonate. Two white roses upon the stand Told the story of "heart and hand.' That white rose In the tiny vase ' Grown to two in the selfsame place, I cannot, no. would not forget Memory holds it sacred yet. 1 1 O. love, fragrant, sweetest flower Born to bloom in a timely hour. Love standi the test of Winter frost. From faithful hearts is never lost. "When the summons hall call above One of these souls long wed In love. The fragrant message of the rose "Will the lingering one compose, 1DNX1S ALOXZO WAT TEE 3. DIDNT SAY IT, SAYS M'CARTHT. San Francisco's Mayor Now Repudiates' ChicaKO Interview. SAN FRANCISCO, June 21. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian of June 17th appears a published statement predicated upon the assumption that Mayor P. H. McCarthy of this city gave an interview, while passing through Chicago, in refer ence to the Johnson-Jeffries boxing con test t be held in this city, etc. Passing over the flights of rhetoric which are essayed in this article with but indifferent success, I beg leave to In form you. as I have notified the press in general, upon learning of this purported interview, that the same never took place. " A group of newspaper men visited me on the train, just before I left Chicago en ro.ute West, and while . I was engaged in conversation with four prominent and highly respectable citizens of that city. Many questions were put to me in the presence of these gentlemen, and I- ex plained that I had resolved before leav- ing Indianapolis to issue no interview whatever in reference to any municipal matters In San Francisco, and that I therefore wished to be excused from mak ing a statement unless the same per- . tained to the Panama-Pacific Exposition or the question of San Francisco's water supply. Upon learning at Omaha of the publication of an alleged interview I In- tantly repudiated the same and referred. for my proof, to the Chicago citizens who now gladly bear witness to the falsity of the statement circulated by the Associat ed Press. While I believe It to be not only the privilege but the duty of any newspaper to criticise public officials and public in stitutions, I believe also that the same should be done in a fair and decent man ner, and that no Journal that lays claim. to an honorable reputation should foist upon its readers a lengthy and untrue ef fusion because such journal individually dislikes the cause which & particular pub lic servant might be representing. I enclose herewith a clipping taken from one of our local newspapers, which', in contrast with your own publication, correctly quotes me. I likewise hand you a copy of a letter received by me today from a well-known philanthropist, which will throw further light upon the irresponsibility of the Associated Press: Yours very respectfully, P. H. MCCARTHY, Mayor of the City, and County of Sam Francisco. The enclosed letter to which Mayor Mc Carthy refers is as follows: OSSINING, N. Y., June 15. 1910. To the Hon. Mayor McCarthy, San Francisco, California. Dear Sir: Your last and high ly valued communication received. I was considerably annoyed by the Associated Press quoting me aa saying the Coast cities were a condensation of human suf fering, particularly San Francisco and Seattle. I did not say that. I did say that the Western cities had their segre- ' gatlons of condensed human suffering, but not nearly so In evidence as In many of the Eastern cities. I did find churcnes. missions, the associated charities, and all private institutions (while they may do much) absolute failures In banishing this . specter of human suffering from the streets. I was so kindly treated and with so much courtesy and respect I would be an lngrate not to be just. The Western cities appeal to me very forcibly from a, commercial view. Bright, active, ener- . getlc cities, their institutions for the ad vancement of learning exceptionally line, and the spirit among the great-hearted. deep-thinking people for reform ana moral uplift and its growth of man's in humanity to man impressed me most forcibly. I rejoice to know San Francisco is going to have Its municipal Dunning, and I believe that California will even tually have its state labor colonics, i almost believe the West is going to Ipad in these great reforms. I at least f"el confident they will do their share. Very sincerely yours, (Signed) EDWIN A. BROWN. About Business. Hartford Courant. "How's your business these days?" "Well. I tell you I don't like this d d Interference by Congress with the great railroad interests." "I know, but what I asked you was . how about your own business was." "Why. look at the stock market. Did.. you ever see values dwindle away as they have been doing lately: "Yes, but that wasn't what I asked about. It was your own business that I wanted to know of." "I tell you what. The prospect is far from reassuring. The talk of the rail road people, all the gossip that comes out of the Wall-street offices, every thing one hears, is discouraging." "But you haven't answered my ques tion. How about your business for 1910? Has it been up to the average and met your expectations?" "Oh, as to that, so far this is the biggest year we ever had. I've got nothing to complain of myself. Things have been coming my way, all right, up to the present time. But d n this Interference with the railroads; lt'a knocking business sky-high." The above is by no means an Imag inary sketch. People whose business ls running along splendidly have caught the Wall-street pessimism and are groaning over a prosperity that a few years ago they would not have believed possible. It's just as well to be con tented as to grumble. The Bride and the Graduate. Philadelphia Inquirer. Mabel, we decline to state whether, In our opinion, the June bride or the June graduate has the best of the sit uation, although our convictions on the subject, not for publication, are very positive. It's none of our funeral in either case. An Old Friend. Cleveland Leader. Maybelle See the beautiful engage ment ring Jack gave me last night. Estelle Gee! Has that Just got around to you? Left Tfo Clew. . Topeka Capital. Among other things. Bjornstjerne BJornson died without leaving any clew to the pronunciation of his name. HER GRADUATION DAY". I imagine I can see her as she stands in " white arrviy. , . With friends and ojassmates around her on her graduation day: See! She stands with hand extended to reeei the long-sought prize. ii. And a look of joy and sadness seem to mingle Of Joy" because t he prize is won, and fairly it was earned, Obstacles are overcome, hard lessons nav been: learned. But a look of sadness too has come net i i r, .A i. t- n t r And closed will be the old books, o'er which she used to pore: But soon her face Is bright again, she s ready for life's work. Though hard tasks lie before her from them she'll never shirk. .. Some one has said "Life 1" a school. hard lessons we must learn, When duty stands before us, and from pleas ure we miut turn. But how great will be the reward, if we faithfully do our part; And victory will be ours if we educate the Some day we expect to "finish." in this great School of Life, , . When problems have been solved and we r tired of pin and strife. And our sols cry out for freedom from Life school to that above. Where the atmosphere la pure and the great est teacher. Love. Surrounded by friends and classmates and robed in white array, Methlnks I can see ber again on the great "Commencement Day." She Is clothed in robes of righteousness, wrought by the Master's hand Without this robe of purity no one can before Him stand, . . - , ' The reward "Well done." is heard, she takee up the "higher life." No tears are seen, no sorow felt. nd noth- JUS know, of strife. ..BBOWKia... . I