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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1910)
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MfT. . IUI0. tAIJIOR.M. AM TKK riSAL It Is sixty yearn today since Cali fornia waa admitted l. the Union. Kln' that time the history of the rommonwrtlth h.w hrcn rot lc.s ro mantic than before, but in a different way. In the old d.ia California was a. land of great proprietor. They held their vast estate tinder Spanish grants and ruled over their swarm of tenants and peons with despotic ay. Tho young men were rider, and fighters. The maidens passed their nulh In latticed m-clu-don and nly saw the pageants of the numerous (au-t days tinder the supervision of strict ilii.nna-. The daughter of a Mdalcri was worshipped like a t- rres irUI K'ld.less by the bold sons of the territorial mainuti "leaning from their saddle t a'alleros boid and fleet plucked for her the buried thicken from Iv-neuth their mu.-t.mg' feet." Chivalry flourished. In those days of old knights werft bold and barons held their sway. The Catholic missions owned broad trnets of land which they had made to bloom by the labor of the Indians. Timbers were carried cores of miles on the should-rs of the c.itives to build the mission houses and ancient streams were diverted to water the vineyards. Then came the revolt from Spain Rnd the cot'icntion of the mission property under the relcn of Mexican liberty." The priests had taught the Indians to work, but they hud not abused them. The tribes Increased us long as the mission flourished. Very likely there never have been any Indians on the continent who enjoyed I'fe so thoroughly its the California tribes did under the benign sway of the priests. Afcer the confiscation they plm-d away until now there is hardly a relic of them left. Their pitiful story may he read by the curious In Helen lunt Jackson's book". The hL-tory of California, as a part of tiie bunting world of civilization, datea from the discovery of gold In IMS. It would be d'fficult to paral lel the tremendous rush of adventur ers to the Pacific coast which began as soon as the marvelous news was known beyond the mountains. From a seeming desert populated only by the littlo groups gathered about the missions ami scattered haciendas. California became In three or four ears a white man's land with a pop ultlllon gathered from every stato in the Tnlon. Orderly government de veloped almost as rapidly as the pop ulation Increased. At firt the des peradoes whom the wealth of the mines attracted seemed likely to cre ate a reisn of terror, hut the genius of Americans for self-government soon showed Itself and the spirit ot an archy Twas effectually cowed. In I85 the last of the famous vigilance com mittees hanged half a dozen tough, characters with terrific deliberation, and no new lesson has ever been need ed. The question of oriental Immi gration provoked some little disorder for a time, but the nnti-Chlnese dis turbances differed radically from the w1'd turbulence of the d:is of '49. The men who opposed Oriental Im migration were fighting for a princi ple. They dreaded the idea of admit ting to this country a class of immi grants who In the nature of things must remain permanently servile. Tlmo has demonstrated the righteous ness of their stand and in the whole country few people can now be found who advocate unrestricted Immigra tion from Asia. N Since the admission of California to the l"nion the growth of the state has been more like a tale from the Ara bian Nights than sober fact. The con irurt'on of the two great railroads brought on the era of mammoth wheat fields, which the lamented Frank Xorris dej-crlbed In "The Octo pus." with an amaalng creation of weajtb. Irrigation has changed many of the vast estates of those days Into fruit farms tilled scientifically by a race of thoroughly educated horticul turists. Once California was known to the world as the land of gold. Now It is the land not only of the wealth, which is mined, but of the orange, the grape and the sovereign apple. V'hen the Easterner or the Kuropean hears the word "fruit" he thinks of California. Now here dors the sun im part to the swelling globes such a di vine color. Nowhere does the earth pour forth her bounty In such variety and abundance. There is less historic authority than one could wish for eayirg that the seat of the Garden of Eden was somewhere neiir Los An jreles. but it is safe to assert that if the blessed abode of our first parents wa! not situated in that happi.t of earthlv regians It ought to have been. California has alua been famed for her Initiative. She never has lost anything for lack of daring and en ergy. What other state ever ventured for any cause as she has to win the Panama Kxposition? The Legislature has voted J5.00O.000 without the quiver of an eyelash. The City of San Francisco makes a noble second with I7.S00.000 more, besides $5.000.. 000 to be raised by tax levy, or $12, 500.000 in all for the city. This is the turn which the golden state will offer Congress to prove her right to the, great historic exposition. San Francisco is the only suitable site for It. The Panama Canal concerns the entira country intimately. Properly managed, it will revolutionize our tcm of transportation and make an epoch in the history of commerce. But it will affect the Pacific Coast more nearly than any other section of the fnioii. The aspect of the country east of the Mississippi wf!l not be altered much by tho effect of the Canal, but hero It will build cities and people em pire. To celebrate its completion an vw here but in San Francisco would show contempt for the eternal fitness of things. I1RI-OSK Of PRIMARY I-AW. The Orearonlan again call attention of the 5000 Democrats in Multnomah County who have fraudulently and criminally registered as Republicans, and to the unknown number of Demo crats throughout the state who have likewise perjured themselvea in order to participate In the family affairs of the opposing party, to the following preamble of the primary law ot Oregon; t rder our form of government, political partita air usrful and neccaaary at tna prr.ni tuna. It u necessary tor tha puouc !fara an 1 ai.tr ty that every practical suai amy shall ta frovldod by law to assure tha peopia . ner..lly aa well as tha members of the several parllea.- that political parties shall be falrlv. freely and honetiy conduct art. In appcaranco aa well aa In fact. Tha m-thod ! naming candidates for elective public ofTicea by political parties and volun tary pol'ilcal oriranlaatlona la the bst plan naoi-a .luul.rteu and c.rniy cltls'ns fro i"m th. . l.ctra may cnwx - , of m tin" i. -i'ia iiiwj v --- t -Aisrnniinl of OUT our our irmmrni. ......... ... rrnninii. . stale oy us :ociirs nu nw .h a political party oy "a memo.-.. fully baaed on the me general principles. Kverr political parly sum! every voluntary political arganlaatloa haa lha earn, right to be trorte.t the ujlerfereoee of per-ona who ace M Identlned with It aa Ma kM' aa pnbllcly avoe.l members, lha tna tnnninwBl of the state baa la protect Itself from the Interference of persons who are n" known and regi-tered aa He electors. It la aa great a wrong to the people, aa well as to tne m.mbere of a political party, for one who la not known to be one of lis membera l. vote or take any part at any election or other proceedings. of such political parly, as It Is t'T one who Is not a QUallned and reg istered elector to rote at any state election or take any part to the business of the state. Kvery politloal pfrty and voluntary political nrinlailoo la rightfully entitled to the sole an. I ricluslve ue of every word of lla f t-lal name. The people of the .late and the members of every political party and vol untary political orirunliatlon are rUhtfullv entitled to know thai every person wliw effcr. lo lake any part In the alTiiIra or bu.l ne. of any political party or yoluntarjr po litical organisation In the slate ! In gooa falih m member of each party. . . 1 he purpose of this law Is belter to secure an.l to preserve the rights of po"cl ..n.l xolunmry political orwanliallnna. and Of their members an.l candidates, and e-.pcclall of the rights aboe slated. This Is a clear, precise and forceful vindication of the right of parties to organize and maintain themselves un der the primary law. yet many Demo crats look upon registration not as a dutv for good, but aa an opportunity for hartn. If the law falls to prevent and correct the very abuses Its pre amble so distinctly deflnea and con demns. It has certainly proved defec tive In that particular; and the origi nal framers and present ardent sup porters of the law ought to be the first to realize and acknowledge its shortcomings, and move to correct th. m. No one can be Justly criticised or attacked as an enemy of the pri mary law whf suggests or proposes a remedy for protecting It from sys tematic violation. I.KFAT JtlVn-AM AFFAIR. The attendance at the Portland Live stock Show yesterday was In keeping with the quality of the entertainment offered. The livestock exhibit hn sel di!fii been equalled west of the Kocky Mountains and the dally racing card is the best ever put up on a Western track. These two features alone war rant a largo attendance. If the crowd for the remaining two days of tho meeting la approximately as large aa that which was present yesterday, there can no longer be any question about the permanency of this great meeting, which means so much for Portland and the Pacific Northwest. Yet Portland, in spite of Its good turnout yesterday. Is far behind the much smaller city of Vancouver. B. C. w hich, with a poorer stock exhibit, poorer races and nothing to compare with the Portland entertainment, turned 'out an Blendanee of 30.000 on a single day. Oood support w 111 make this Portland meeting the greatest livestock event in all the West, and every possible assistance should be given the management. IKKMANT ;HA1S iRAlr. The Washington State Railroad and Grain Commission has decided to make permanent the present grades of wheat, oats, barley and other grains "unless unforeseen contingencies should arise." These grades will be known as the Washington state grades and an attempt will be made to give them standing In the world s markets. The Washington grain commission has been established more than a dozen years, and thus far it has failed to ac complish anything of special value to the grain trade or the grain growers. That "the new plan of making the grades permanent will be more useful than the present system of making the grades adaptable to the quality of the grain harvested is hardly probable. There Is such a wide difference in the quality of the grain harvested one year, compared with that which is harvested another, that It will be a very difficult matter to make the standard of weight, color and general quality, for one year fit another. The Portland Chamber of Commerce has for years established the grain standard on which the wheat crop of Oregon, Washington and Idaho Is sold In the foreign markets. This standard Is made up to conform with the qual ity of the crop available each year. There are years when exceptionally favorable weather will result In a crop that will average fifty-nine pounds all through the territory for which the grades will be established. When we can put out a stamlard of fifty-nine pounds for No. 1 wheat, the foreign buyer is naturally Impressed with the quality of the wheat and we should secure the full benefit, not only in the way of price, but In the reputa tion that would follow the marketing of a crop on a f ifty-nine-pound basis. The present Washington standard Is fifty-eight pounds per bushel, and from reports this may be sufficiently high for the Washington crop. But the foreign buyer does not recognize state lines in purchasing Walla Walla wheat, or bluestem wheat grown In the Pacific Northwest, and there are years w hen Oregon and Idaho produce a crop of heavy wheat of sufficient proportions to grade up the light wheat of Washington to a fifty-nine-pound standard. The Portland Cham ber of Commerce, by making an ex tensive selection from all portions of the Tacific Northwest. has always sent to the foreign markets fair sam ples on which tho wheat crop of the three states could be sold to the best advantage. There have been seasons when hot winds and dry weather cut down the quality as well as the yield to a point where fifty-eight pounds was too heavy for an average, and there have been other years when no difficulty was found in marketing nearly all of the wheat on a fifty-nlne-potind standard. This history will be repeated, and It Is hardly probable that the attempt THE MOItXIXG OREGOXIA of the Washington commission to es tablish a permanent grade on wheat will prove any more of a success than Its previous attempts to make the for eign buyers accept the Washington standard as having any value for cither buyer or seller. MOVING TOWARD FP-AC'E. It la Idle to deny that the wish for universal peace Is becoming a more potent force In the arfalrs of the world every day. Men are not becom ing more cowardly or more fond of ease than they were, but they see more clearly the cruelty and the w-aste of war and they are seeking for a way to make it Impossible. The Ideal Is still a long way off. but It comes nearer every day. When nations first began to arbitrate their difficulties half a century or more ago, people were amased to see how easily trou bles could be settkid by reason which had formerly required the arbitra ment of bloody wars. P.ut arbitration remained for a long time unsystem atic. It had no settled abode, no code to direct Its course. Then came the peace conferences at The Hague and through them ar bitration has acquired tho status of a settled method. It is housed in a noble palace and provided with a bench .of able Jurists. Not many centuries ago war was the principal business of the nations. Now most of them would be ashamed to fight unless driven to it by grievous wrong for which no re dress could be obtained peaceably. Universal peace is not likely to come through any agreement to dis arm. The nations will never disband their armies and dismantle their fleets, but it is conceivable that within a few years the process of increasing arma ments will come to an end. The gov ernments of Europe and America will find the everlasting military competi tion too expensive to be borne and they may come to some amicable agreement which will make limitation possible. ' The airship will have its Influence upon warlike preparation, and so will the revolt against militar ism, but how it will all turn out nobodv can foresee. Kngland and the United States have always been the I foremost promoters of peace, not so much by their words as by their con duct. They began the settlement of disputes by arbitration. They have now submitted the ancient fisheries wrangle to the international court and It has been fairly decided. Thus the good example is set and who can doubt that it will be followed by all the other nations? WHAT KltillTS ARK IX DAXOEK? The Eugene Guard Is "in favor. of the direct primary principle and op posed to the assembly plan of nomi nating candidates simply because it believes the- people want to choose their own candidates, and. If so, cer tainly, should have the opportunity." This is the kind of stuff that is going the rounds of all the "independent" newspapers that never support any other than Democratic candidates. It is part of the persistent and reprehen sible Democratic effort to create the impression among the voters that mere is a conflict between the assem bly and the primary. There is no conflict. There- can be no conflict. The primary is here to stay. There Is no plan anywhere to attack It or repeal It. or destroy it. for it would fail utterly, if undertaken. The as assembly is a device formulated to work in harmony with the primary, and to give the proper and lawful purposes of Republicans, or any oth ers, a method and vehicle for organ ized party action and expression. The Eugene Democratic paper says the people should have the opportu nity to choose their own candidates. Certainly they should have: and they have. On September 24 there ara to be primaries held throughout Oregon, and the people will there do exactly as they please. Will the Guard tell how they may not do as they please? Or will it say how the assembly has In any way or In the slightest meas ure withdrawn from them the right or privilege of making their own nom inations, assembly, anti-assembly, or otherwise ? Objection to assombly or the right of assembly under the primary law is denial of tho right of concerted action toy Republicans or by Democrats. Yet we see concerted action everywhere among opponents of assembly, w ho are putting up slates and tickets of their own, and are calling on Democrats, Statement Oners and all the disgrun tled and dissatisfied elements of the Republican party to support them. The very word anti-assembly implies defi nite and organized action. Yet they roar at the assembly people for the very "crime" they themselves commit ted In every county In Oregon! The only difference Is that the assembly supporters have tried to fool nobody. Their opponents arc trying to fool everybody. KTIIJ. BRKAbJXO HWORIW. With the single exception of At lanta. Ga.. Portland led all other cities In its class In the United States in the percentage of gain in bank clear ings for the eight months ending Sep tember 1. This is the best showing ever made by the Oregon metropolis, and has lifted this city from twenty tlfth place for August last year to twenty-second place this year, there being but twenty-one' other cities in the United States with a larger volumo of bank clearings. The gain is all the mora remarkable when compared with other Coast cities. During August Se attle dropped back from sixteenth place last year to nineteenth place this year. These figures, which are shown in the current number of the New York Financial and Commercial Chronicle, include the returns or Aug ust, for the last week in August and for eight months. For all three peri ods Portland shows the same relative gain over last year, thus proving that the advanco is permanent and steady and not spasmodic. The figures of the Chronicle present the clearings of nearly 150 American cities by groups, and they show that the Pacific group leads all others in volume and percentage of gains, with Portland In advance of all other Pa cific Coast cities. Kven In the small cities, outsido of its class, Portland's percentage of gain was beaten by but five: Jacksonville, Austin, Sioux Falls, Fresno and Oakland, and the com bined clearings of theso five cities for the eight months were but $288,000. 000. compared with 1334.807,447 for Portland. Atlanta, the only city of its class that exceeded Portland in per centage of gain, returned clearings of S3?S,2S9.426, its lead over Portland being comparatively insignificant. All of the cities included in the Pa cific Coast group, with the exception of Helena and Bait Lake, made gains FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER . i Aiht mnniha thn nearest ap proach to this city being Los Angeles with 21.4 per ,cent Increase, aim oan Francisco with 21.3 per cent gain. Se attle had a gain of 10.5 per cent. That this splendid record which Portland is making will be maintained is a cer tainty, for the first month of Septem ber has opened up with gains iuny equal to those of the preceding eight months, and business in every line is. making a better showing than for the same months last year. Wheat, oats, hops, barley and fruit are now pouring their millions into the channels of trade and the year 1910 will mark a high water mark for prosperity in Portland. Portland is this year secur ing some wonderful advertising. None of it is more effective or valuable than that which is presented each month by the bank clearings figures of the New York papers. Mr. Tom Lawson is not the only Bostonlan who has been "seeing things." Mr. W. S. Ayer, a Boston business man, announces that he has just received from the spirit world, wherever that may be, a communica tion from the late Professor William James, of Harvard. Mr. James in forms his worldly brother that he has "awakened to a life far beyond my highest conception, while a denizen of earth." The recipient of this message is certain that when the late Professor James becomes better acquainted with his surroundings, he will be able to supply further details regarding the next world. The success of Mr. Law son has always had a tendency to con vince one that Boston was a nice easy place to find gold-brick purchasers, and this testimony of a business man regarding communication with the next world, shows that there are still a few credulous individuals in a re ceptive mood. Portland building permits for Sep tember are running along at an aver age of about 350.000 per day. N'o permits for big buildings have been taken out for a few days, although a number are pending. The most grati fying feature of the building move ment, which shows no signs of de creasing, is the large number of per mits taken out for private residences for Portland home-builders. Permits yesterday, for instance, included eight een dwellings with valuations running from $1000 to $6000 each. This is a class of building that spells prosperity, for. despite the large number of new structures that have been erected within the past two years, there is still an unsatisfied demand for good houses and the number of home-owners is increasing more rapidly than ever be fore. The suggestion of a subway to re lieve the congested traffic of lower Washington street may be in advance of, the resources of the present time. But that this will be the solution of the question within a few years, there Is little reason to doubt. It is a safe prediction that Portland will seek re lief through subway and elevated trains much earlier in its history than did New York, for the simple reason that these devices for the furtherance of traffic have been tried and found effective for the relief of the equally narrow streets of a much greater city. Of course some people will believe that the late Professor James, of Har vard, really sent a message from spirit land to his friends on earth, as is re ported from Boston, and no one can gainsay the heavenly conditions he describes. But if the devotees of this cult would convince people of its merit, let them produce a message from some famous immortal in "the other place." who, like the rich man therein, will send a "C. Q. D." for water and other refreshments. The merit of the assembly is to be judged by the character of its rec ommendations. If they are good, the voters at the primary should adopt them. If they are bad, the voter should reject them. Y"et any recom mendation made by a body of 1200 well-known men in a state assembly or several hundred men In a county assembly is entitled to the presump tion that It is good. It seems that there are still some cities sufficiently backward to permit the sacred high school fraternities to exist. The news that the one which adorns Logansport, Indiana, has just murdered a girl by throwing her from a streetcar during the "Initiation" ceremonies may possibly cause the most sluggish intelligence to discern the true significance of these evil societies. Mr. Roosevelt's refusal to meet the fragrant Lorimer at dinner Is war ranted by exalted authority. Two or three years ago President Hadley, of Yale, announced that the way to chas ten the rule of predatory' wealth was to cut it socially. He preached a good deal belter than he practiced, but the lesson of the sermon is as salutary as It ever was. It is existing In hard luck to be born a baby and have to go into a home to be fed by measurement, and it is much harder to undergo a change of diet upon a change of masters, and survive. This, the most helpless of mammals, must not be the subject of whims and vagaries. The Sheriffs of Malheur and Har ney are hotfoot after the men in the old line of industry. Their activity Is mad necessary by the lack of handy timber In that region. As a feature for the next general holiday which comes along late in November, how would it do for the contractors on Hawthorne bridge to finish that structure? It begins to appear the only way Mr. Taft can rise above "the most popular man in the party" is by avia tion. Then let insurgency stand from under. Next Monday also will be Labor Day for a regiment of teachers. And you'll hardly call it a holiday for 30, 000 able-bodied youngsters. 3 San Francisco, pre-eminent In earthquakes, fires, graft, wickedness and Chinatowns, will break all rec ords in world's fairs. Despairing of a' noiseless as well as smokeless powder, the lower house of Texas would repeal the fourteenth amendment. - Xow, in the name of all the gods at once, was ever man so great as Pinchot? The Beavers are playing some ball. 9, 1910. DRIVES OVT AFTER 12 TEARS ear-at-Hand Example of Injustice by Forest Bureaucracy. Grays Harbor Washingtonian. nicnuraired with his uneven fight against the peculiar methods of the ex treme conservationists in tne iorest service, Mr. Kirkpatrick. who for the nast 12 years has been homesteaaing m Uie Quinlault country, and who eight T,w,e,.ha ao-o was ejected from tne nome he had made by rangers, will soon leave for the East. The story of Mr. Kirkpatrick's strug gle to make a home for himself and family is one of the most remarkable chapters In Western contemporary nis tory. Coming to the Grays Harbor country over a dozen years ago, Mr. Kirkpatrick looked over the then vir gin land thoroughly, and finally con cluded to homestead on a tract of land in the Quiniault region. His homesite was practically inaccessible then and he cut a trail to it, and over this labori ously packed In the things that he needed to make a habitation for him self. Year after year he worked, improv ing his chosen bit of land, and finally securing a home that he and iis wife valued above all else in this world, be cause It represented to them years of untiring and faithful effort. On their acreage they raised provisions suffi cient for themselves and their stock, and had enough to spare to offer for sale. And with things in this condi tion, and his home almost ready for final "proof, came orders from a bureau cratic Government in the East for him to vacate. One day there appeared at the Kirk patrick home a forestry official, clothed with due authority of law. This forest ranger told Mr. Kirkpatrick that he was within a forest reserve, and that he would have to get out. He had ap propriated to his own use "valuable timber land." and that was all there was to It. In vain were protests made, in vain were statements of the case sent to Washington the answer was always the same get out. Under protest Mr. Kirkpatrick relin quished his claim to his homestead, and packed his things out. Since then he has been fighting for a reversal of Judgment, and has interested many friends in his case. Now he feels that he has done all that he could, and for a time will go back to his Eastern boy hood home, leaving the matter of his homestead in the hands of those more powerful than himself, in the hope that they may get for him Justice which he could not get himself. TO WRITE OR MOT TO WRITEf Prize - Winning Parody on Hnmlet'a Soliloquy Printed In London. New York Sun. The London Bookman for August pub lishes the prize winner in Its competition for a parody on Hamlet's solioquy ap plicable to literary life. Henry E. Wilkes, who won the award, may in this Instance at any rate give-the affirm ative answer to his parody, "To write or not to write?" To write or not to write, that is the ques tion. Whether 'tis wiser in the mind to stifle The wit of Swift the wisdom of a Plato Or to take pen, the sray coose quill o oruo Street, Through apace and time to wins them. To write, to print. No more: and by a aonnet. say. to win The need of fame, the thousand Jinsllng guineas That fame ia heir to: 'tis a consummation Dvoutoly to be wished. To write, to print: To print, perchance to sail: ay. there s tha For to our hopes what checks, not cheques may come When we have yielded our Immortal scripts Must nlva us r-ause; there's the mischance That maketh hay of all our fondest schemes. For who would bear the sweat end ache oC brain. The scrivener's cramp, the attio s pennrx. The post's expense, the editorial t nanus. The Philiotlno's contumely, and the spurns That soaring itenlus of the cold world takea When he himself might his plain living With "pfain shovel? Who would critics To saH'and wince under their loaded knouts. But that tha hope of Klory after toll. The pilded mountain peak of fame to which All travelers aspire, allures the mlml And mahea us spurn the valley, low and To sca?ethe craggy heights we know not of ? Ambition thus makes scribblers of us all. And thus the ruddy hue of country health Is Jaundiced over with the foes of town. And shillln shockers, tlthlts and review.. With this regard our genius turn awry To win the name of author. Soft sou now! My Lord Barabhas! Hir. In thy Spring lists Be all my works remembered. MRkina- It Easier for he Housewife. Boston Globe. A housekeeping experiment station, where all manner of work and worry saving devices for kitchen and house hold will be thoroughly tried, is to be established under the auspices of the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs. It will be the second station of its kind, the first having been for three years in successful operation in Conectieut. under the man agement of Charles Barnard, a retired playwright, who wrote "The County Fair." 'It is the intention of the New Jersey women to Investigate every sort of con trivance for lessening the burdens of housework. Dish scrapers, pot cleaners, dust rags, suction cleaners, jelly mak ers, dough mixers, tireless cookers, egg poachers and all the thousand and one things of the kind which American in genuity has devteei and put on the market will be put to the severest tests before they are recommended to house wives. It seems like a very sensible and use ful thing to do. For millions of women "the woman question" is largely a ques tion of household work. Whatever makes housework really easier will in Its way be as great a boon to humanity as automobiles or flying machines. Theatricals In Kansas. Osborne (Kan.) Farmer. There will be a sad catastrophe in this town some day. A show will come along and advertise that well-known eld slogan, "money refunded at the door If you are not satisfied." Old Bill Shiftless will he In the crowd and will not like the play. He will step up to the ticket-seller and tell him In plain Knglteh that the ahow is on the bum and damand his money back. The ticket-seller will try to argue him out of it. Bill will insist and finally lose his temper. Then he will slip off his coat and go to bat. He will knock the block off the ticket-seller, and will then hunt up the boss of the show and all the actors. He will make mince meat of the whole bunch and will then demolish the property. The show will be unable to go on to the next stand, and Old BUI will be heralded as the tin conquered hero of the country. We know tills so, because we have heard Old Bill say this very thing. He is tired of the cheap shows that fail to come up to their advertising. Bill knows how a show should be run and isn't slow to express . himself. Bill's experience with the cane rack at the street fairs haa put him wise to every thing In the show business. Courteous Hefort Hurtful. New York World. Governor Harmon calls the Colonel tame: eays he needs ginger. This Is putting the retort courteous where it will hurt. Fancy the feelings of buster publicly proclaimed as a bromide! .'IG. lj Only a Few Kcpubllcnn l'apers Fight ing the Party. Polk County Observer. It is a fact worthy of mention that the number of Republican newspapers in Oregon fighting the assembly is steadily growing less. Prior to the holding of the assembly, a few Re publican papers were hostile to the plan. This condition no longer ex ists. Perusal of our exchanges each week discloses a steadily . diminishing ocDositlon. until today, out of a total of more than 100 Republican papers in the state, scarcely a half rioiten are i fighting the assembly candidates. The cause of this change ot attitude is evident to any thinking mind. In the first place, the editors wiio op posed the assembly at the outset. In the fear that an effort was being made to set aside the primary law. have found that this gathering of Republicans did not take away from the voters of Ore gon a single right or privilege. They further see these assembly candidates going quietly about their business af fairs, leaving tlieir candidacy in' tne hands of the people and willing lo submit to the popular verdict on t..e J4tli- day of September, while a mis cellaneous horde of disgruntled poli ticians and professional pie-hunters, posing as anti-assembly candidates, are running around over the state, engaged in the most unseemly and disgusting scramble for office It has ever been the lot of the Orepon voter to witness. The greater part of this pretended opposition to the assembly is nothing more in reality than a well-laid plan to defeat the Republican party In the state. Awaking to a realization of this fact, these editors are unwilling to lend their influence to the game. Even this earlv In the campaign, opposition to the assembly candidates among Re publican newspapers has almost en tirely disappeared, and it may be con fidently predicted that between now and September 24 the list of papers fighting the assembly will dwindle down to a few Democratic sheets and that precious rair of twins the Port land Journal and Hofers Journal. YOl'XG WOMAN'S QUEER JOURNEY Englrah Girl Goes to Heart of Africa to Put Cross on Grave of Lover. New York Herald. Miss Macleod daughter of Sir Regin ald Macleod. late Registrar-General for England and Wales, and Under-Secretary for Scotland, left England re cently on one of the most mournful and romantic pilgrimages ever under taken by a woman. She is on her way to Central Africa to erect a marble cross on the grave of her dead lover. Lieutenant Boyd Alex ander, who was murdered by a native near Abeshr, April 2. Lieutenant Alexander's body was re covered and burled at Maifoni, a British post near Lake Chad, beside that of his brother. Captain Claud Alexander, who died during the Alex-ander-Go-sling expedition of 1904. The journey to Lake Chad is so ardu ous and hazardous that Alias Macleod s friends made every endeavor to per suade her to abandon her intention. Nothing would move her from her pur pose. She sailed the other day, taking a marble cross with her. Miss Macleod, a granddaughter of the late Karl of Iddieslelgh, Uvea at Vln tors. Maidstone. She met the murdered explorer during one of his holidays In this country. The journey which she has under taken will occupy seven montlis and has never been, accomplished by a white woman. She will travel about 300 miles up the Niger and then 800 miles across one of the wildest districts In Africa. A British official and his wife will accompany her on the greater part of the journey. METEORIC IO!S ARE OF EARTH. More Observations aa l Our Sky Visitor of Last Sunday. PORTLAND, Sept. .8. (To 1he F.di tor.) 1 tiave been reading with much interest the news reports regarding the meteorite which appeared last Sun day. I did not see this one but did a similar one some years ago. In my studies of geology, ores and ore deposits I have necessarily also studied Ihe so-called meteoric ions, and my deductions are that all such me of terrestrial origin, developing under the conditions that originate any other ores. This is most certainly true of the Willamette "meteor" of 20 tons weight, my investigation last Summer showing that this was a huge nugget of metallic Iron ore, dug from the s'o'id formation and out of the vein in place, as can he seen by any mining man who will lake the trouble to go and see. That was a "gold brick" indeed. As to the fiery and noisy bodies like that of Sunday, a little study of the electrical phenomena of the air will account .for all. No solid body will ever strike the earth until the entire universal system goes to pieces. We are ruled by positive and negative laws that both attract and repel the units of the system in such a way that ive all go as one and'eontact is impossible. T. T. RON'SON. (iettiiiK . Drunk la u Prohibition Slate. Springfield Republican. . When Robley D. Evans has anything on his mind that troubles him he has a way of getting the same out of his sys tem in a manner which shows scant consideration for those at the target end of his verbal bombs. Maine's prohibi tion laws have attracted his attention. He Is roported to have said that he has had more trouble with his sailors get ting drunk in the Maine porte than in any other ports in the world, and adds that he has never seen the prohibitory law enforced in Maine. He believes that it is better for the sailor men to have good whisky than a combination of poison and wood alcohol, such as is the blend used down East. Where AVaa Bryan f Atlanta Journal. With Roosevelt in the West the ques tion now arises: Has anybody here seen Bryan? He may have been seen, but he has not been heard from. Modern Advantage. Providence Tribune. The Police Gazette used to advertise Itself by offarlng belts to prizefighters. The Outlook hires a special car for an ex-President. NEWSPAPER WAIFS. "How long do we stsv at Jupiter Junc tion. John" "Twenty minutes, my dear, you won't need your two gowps." St. Louis Star. Small hoy (with dime bank) Pay. Mister, can ve lend me nin.- dollars' worth of ten cent pieces for a second? This darn bank won't open till I get ten dollars In it. Life. Colons! Brown (soliloquising- on his host . Confounded fella pff Klsht and left every time, and made his mcnev in soan. j fa it's It oughtn't to be allowed. Punch. -Sometimes you have to hit a man to makt him Weep quiet, so that you can save him from drowning." "Yes.- replied the abrupt person, "and tho time to do It Is when he first begins to rock the boat." Washington Star. "Kow. my little aon," said Mr. Winks, softly, "you must remember that wherever you go and whatever you do. there ia al ways an eye that is forever fixed upon you. to you know whose eye it is. Bobble?" "Yeth. popper." lisped Bobbie, "Mllhler Roothvelth." Judge- ghe We have been trying our best to in duce more women to Join our Saturday Night Club, but without success. He Wiiat is the Initiation feaT Bhe Two dollars. H -Make it $1.98 and you'll get more new members than you can accommodate. Chi cago News. ASSEMBLY OPPOSITION IS BY Life's Sunny Side The lute Father Ducey was once eagerly sought, while hearing confes sions, by an enterprising reporter for a New York newspaper. There was a long line of penitents in the church and the reporter saw that the only way to get a speedy hearing would be to get a place in the line. At last his turn came. "Father Ducey," he began, "I'm a reporter for the Journal." "My son." Interrupted the cleric, "even that might be forgiven." Success Magazine. The bigness of Texas is evident from a cursory examination of the map. But its .effect upon the people of that state is not generally known. It is about 600 miles from Brownsville, at the bottom of the map, to Dallas, which is several hundred miles from the top of the map. Hence the following conversation in Brownsville recently between two ot the old-time residents: "Where have you been lately, Bob? I ain't seen much of you." "Been on a trip North." "Where'd you go?" "Went to Dallus." "Have a good time?" "N'aw; I never did like them d n Yankees, anyway." Louisville Times. A member of the faculty of a New England university tells of a freshman who was asked by one of the pro fessors whether he had proved a cer tain proposition in Euclid. "Well, sir," responded the freshman, " 'proved' ia a strong word. But I will say thai I have rendered it highly probable" Harper's Weekly. The young Prince Tsai-Tao, during his visit to America, welcomed criti cism of Chinese customs, and retorted politely with counter criticism of tlifl cu-stoms of the United States. The Prince, at a fashionable luncheon in New York, sat beside a lady prom inent ill a rich and rather fast set. "Prince," said the lady. "I think it's dreadful that in China a bride never sees her husband before the wedding day." "Well." said the Prince, with a grin, "here in America you never see him after it." New York Tribune. F. Hopkinson Smith, painter, author, engineer and professional optimist, tell a story showing that Boston boys of the street are like all others. He over heard a conversation between two youngsters selling newspapers. "Say, Harry, w'ah's de he-it way to teach a girl how to swim?" asked the younger one. "Dat's a cinch: First off you puts yer left arm under her waist and you gently takes her left liand " "Come off: she's me sister." "Ah, push her off de dock." Cosmo politan Magazine. It was in the midst of the football season, and the students of Professor Blank's class, well aware that their les son had been neglected, were prepared for reproof, but not tor just the way In which It came. At the end of the hour he slammed down his bonlc on the desk, and ex claimed : "Well, that's the worst recitation T ever listened to! Why. T've actually done nine-tenths of it myself !" Youth's Companion. Denudes of Modern Map. Chicago Evening Post. A map is to a country what a photo graph is to a man. If it looks natural It is not regarded as authentic. On maps all hodies of waler are blue, and some states are pink, while others are yellow, green, mauve, magenta or red. New York is always red and Rhodo Island is green. Massachusetts Is a calm gray and Texas Is a hectic pink. Maps are useful to show children how some place Is bounded. Railroad mans are more Interesting than any other kind. A railroad map can make the .State of Illinois twice as long east to west as it ia north and south, without the slightest inconveni ence. Only on a railroad map may New York, Nashville, Butte and San An tonio be shown upon the same parallel of latitude. Country .eeda Heat. Nashville American. What the country needs Is rest, a. gooil long rest, from political agitation. No man or interest knows what to do, for the agitators may undo everything. The financial world is in a feeling of uncertainty. Commerce and industry languish, and. we a matter of course, the wage-earner suffers. Moving Pictures) of the fw Fight. Washington Herald. If this row between the New York Evening Post and the Colonel lt going to a finish, we hope the moving-picture people will put it on. Knows Trouble. Washington Post. Collector Loeh saw all this harmony coming and thought it wiser to stick to his duties. 1 FEATURES IN THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN PORTLAND'S PROGRESS SINCE JANUARY 1 What, has been done and what is going on in the way of building in the heart of the city, the resi dence sections and the suburbs a wonderful showing for the great est eight months in Portland's his tory. OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS FOR WEAK CHILDREN Combining health with educa tion is one of the newest develop ments in Europe and the United States. It works wonders among the debilitated in physical and spiritual benefit. FROGRESS OF WORK ON THE PANAMA CANAL Vital facts relating to what has been accomplished, the cost, the extent of the colossal undertaking and probable date of completion. UNCLE SAM READY TO HIRE MORE HELP Civil service examinations will be held this month and next for all sorts of positions; what they pey and chances of advance. ORDER EARLY FROM YOUR NEWSDEALER