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TIIE MORXIXO OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1911. rOBTXAXO. OMGOX. CotmO at Partlaad. Orm. rasters a Bae?ad-Cla Matter. MctgilM &mta Invariably Avna BT MAIL) Dattr. Intlir rnrlndad. en year ?i pel'r. smlr Included, itnt :i S!!y. Sunday Included, an month.... r- . . . , n ii a V wa-my. oaa jeer. ....... luaday. oaa year. ........ .'. . auAaajr and, neeklv ana rear. IBT CARRIER) rr!y. "unday Included, ana yaar...... -J Lalljr. Sunday Included, ana month.... Haw ta Kamrt Sead Poatofflca ta order, expreee arder or peraonal ahee year local bank. stamps, coin or aorraoar are at tba Bandar run. OI poetofoe Mdraaa la fait lacludlas aoonly and Feeta Raiaa 10 ta 14 paa. 1 eaot ; 1 la x pa-. 1 caata; au ta v paa. S " H M W pas. casta. l"orla pee.a tlnbit rata. Eaetera Baataaaa OftWa Verree 4k -"" rln .New Tora. Hniuikl bulloiac tJU . atecer balldia. HltUiiD. MO.DAT, JAXCABY SO. U'U o flack ros politics. Th Intimation cornea from 6alra that the pending Investigation of the Stat Insane Asylum will b conducted alone political line. That Is to y on or another faction will attempt to rain soma credit or achieve soma po litical coup over Its adversary in tba procedure. Naturally the people of Oregon will not care to sea an Institution which Is supported from tha public purse pro tected In extravagance or condemned without Just cause. Therefore soma definite Information and not mrre gen. erallty Is expected from the commit tee. It ought to be possible to determine the entire question In short order If the asylum officials hare prepared adequate reports. There are to be had statistics representing tha actual re sults In tha leading Insane hospital of the country. In most cases such reports are Issued quarterly and show tha per capita expense for each gen eral classification so much for food, medicine, clothing, fuel, light, wages In fact, a complet analysis of the running expenses. If the general per capKa cost at Sa lem Is low. It may not mean that tha Institution Is conducted along true lines of economy. Extravagant expen ditures far artrm, furnishings or lux uries may be offset In the general per capita result by comparatively low ex penditures for food, clothing or other necessaries for the patients. The true comparison Is by classifications. A wide divergence of opinion may exist among men not experienced in the treatment of the Insane as to the virtue of this or that equipment. What may appear to ona man as unneces sary luxuries may ba looked upon by another as proper accessories. But the number of cures achieved at tha per capita cost at Salem when compared with results In other Institutions should settle that matter. Without soma tangible returns of that nature higher cost at Salem In comparison with expenditures at other Institutions, If found, may ba chargeabl to extrav agance. Obviously, super-elegant furnishings In tha quarter of asylum physicians could not ba expected to conduce to the cure of patients In tha Institution, but. on tha whole, the question is but little removed from any other business proposition. Justification or blame for conditions found should be a matter almost wholly of comparative figures. If extravagances have been committed tha comparison will show the fact. Tha public and tha Legislature ara entitled to a report which will state tha find ings beyond possibility of political ravU. rgOSTCTtTB GROWTH OT OREGON. President Hill, of tha Great North ern Railway, ta an Interview in this city Saturday, stated that with proper publicity methods Oregon can become tha home of 1.500.000 additional peo ple within tha next ten years. To show that there was nothing unrea sonable la such a prediction, Mr. Hill pointed out that In the last ten years soma Canadian provinces, less favored by nature than Oregon, have advanced In population 700 and 100 per cent. , Reasoning on much the same lines as Mr. II1U. but using different compari sons. Dr. Schafer. head of the history department of the University of Ore gon, predicts a growth so rapid "as to put us near tha 1.600.000 mark by 1J20." Dr. Schafer has Just made an extended trip through tha East and Middle West, and his deductions are Interesting. "W find." said he. "that Ohio mora than doubled her population between 1110 and 1120. and nearly doubled It again Between li:0 and 1S30; that Indiana mora than doubled In tha '10a and fully doubled one mora In tha '40s; that Illi nois nearly doubled In tha 0s; that Iowa mora than trebled In tha '60. and mora than doubled again In the 0s; that Wisconsin. Minnesota and Kansas all had their decade of .. . t I v A mwf h The states mentioned are all good states and In their time provided ex cellent opportunities for the newcom ers. It I a fact, however, that none of those states, when doubling and trebling in population at a period In their history comparing with the com ing decade in Oregon, had as much ta oSer tha newcomer as Is offered him In Oregon. For tha farmer, this state has plenty of land which will produce larger crops than any aver taken from land situated In tha colder re gions of the Middle West. Front dairying In this country tha profits ara beyond tha belief of the dairyman who has followed his calling where sever Winters make feeding necessary six months In tha year. In fruit. Oregon has become world-famous. Wa have tha greatest forests of standing timber that can bo found anywhere, and In ara opportunities and openings far mora plentiful or advantageous than those In tha Middle Western States when they were doubling and trebling their population. Tha views of Mr. Hill regarding tha future of the state ara exceptionally valuable for tha reason that tt Is In no small part due to the millions which his road and his) chief competitor ara spending that this coming development will ba made possible. If Mr. Hill's optimistic predictions for tha next dec ade ara borne out. It I not unreason able to expect Portland to be tha larg est city on tha Pacific Coast In 1920. Thus far this city has secured about ona out of three of tha newcomers In tha state. If wa get only one out of four of tha l.oOO.OOO expected by Mr. Hill, tha population of the city. will be iaxxi4 far past tha (00,000 mark in , Leiir. wlthaut SucdT. one year. j-i' Lai!, without 8-jBdar. f-x month. . ... J-JJ t-llr. Vllhont Sunday, tare manias... I 1 ! y without HuHd. meata.... " rT . f 1320. Wa have grown to a city of mora than 200.000 people with the tributary territory only slightly , scratched over, and with vast regions of richness still untoucnea. oi mucn sentiment is necessary to make an op timist out of an Oregonlan who gives careful consideration to the actual facts regarding the state. MR. AVM179 LITTLE BILL. Representative Am me who owes ' Ms temporary fame to his alphabetical pre-eminence, since his name led nearly all the rest on the Multnomah primary ballot has a little bill at Sa lem to control telegraph, telephone and press associations. It Is the osten sible purpose of Amme to force these concerns to render common service on ! demand to all persons and newspapers j alike. But what is the real purpose of ' this bill? Who is behind It? What i public interest urges It? What public need suggests It? Not any. it is a mere private adventure of unknown persons with unknown inspiration. It Is entitled to no consideration what ever. Tha Amme measure seeks to require all newspapers receiving a press report from any press association to deliver It to any other paper or person on de mand. It would affect not only tha Associated Press, but the United Press, tha Publishers' Press, the Hearst News Service, and every ona of tha Innumerable news agencies which serve the newspaper with news over tha telegraph or telephone wire. Beside, tha Chicago Tribune Press Bureau, for example, serving any Portland newspaper, would have to end It special news or reports to any or every other newspaper. No news caDer here or In Oregon could get ex- ! elusive service of any kind from any source; and exclusive service Its own Individual and special reports of events or occurrences of moment Is above all else desired by newspapers. But, of course, this measure Is mainly and primarily aimed at gen eral news organization like tha Asso ciated Press, or the United Press, though by It term It would include all the special bureau. What of the Associated Press? It Is not a com mon carrier, for It has no privileges of any kind from the public, asks nothing, get nothing, expect noth ing. It operate no telegraph lines. It gets from the telegraph companies no concessions. It pa- the estab lished rates or tolls a all other asso ciations or newspaper pay. It 1 not a monopoly, for It excludes, and seeks to exclude, no nowspaper or other as sociation from purchase of the same service, on tha same term and under the same condition from the tele graph companies. Nor doe the Asso ciated Press sell news. It Is an asso ciation or organisation that exchanges and distributes news among Its mem bers. That Is all. It make no money. It declare no dividends. It ha no capital stock. Its member In com mon pay what the service costs. Furthermore, there Is and can be no monopoly of news, or the control of news sources or agencies. The Asso ciated Press makes its own reports of events, and distributes them to its pa pers. Other association or special agencies do the came thing. How, then, can the Associated Press respond to any and every de mand that omebody or some concern be "taken In"? As well say that tha private reports Dun 4 Co. receive over the wire or through the malls for their own patron be distributed to all alike. Or that the telegraph companies give to any one on demand copies of any telegram coming over their wires. Or that a traveler, or company of trav elers, chartering a special train or car to go across the continent must take along some other traveler, or company of travelers, because ha thus become a "common carrier." He Is not a common carrier. He I a traveler a patron of the railroad, which la the common carrier. So the Associated Press Is the patron of telegraph com panies, which are common carrier. It 1 nothing else. Tha Amme bill Is, of course, absurd. It has not the slightest merit or valid ity. It cannot be enforced, for there la no way to do it. It ought not to be enforced. If It could be. since It pro poses a sheer physical Intrusion Into a volunteer association of newspapers, and say that no newspaper has the right to It own. It would violently take away from the newspaper tha fruit of Its own enterprise. Initiative, skill, intelligence and energy. It would impose conditions as to news paper service that would be Intoler able and Impossible in any business. It Is of course, not to ba believed that tha Legislature will pass such a bill. a srur i n.MrivL There are some troubled souls who look with apprehension upon the split Infinitive which Intruded Itself Into Governor Woodrow Wilson's Inaugu ral address. It is sufficiently awful for any man to writ "to effectually prevent" something or other, but when an ex-college president commits the enormity we may well gasp. Thla la the sentiment of a man who ear nestly discusses the lapse In tha Kan sas City Star. The editor of that learned newspaper take a position somewhat different. He admit that some spilt Infinitives are objection able: "When they are awkward they ought not to ba used," he says. But when they are not awkward why not use them as much as your Indo lent soul desires. This is carrying pragmatism to an extreme which many will think dan gerous. "A long as spilt Infinitive work well they are all Tight." This Is the perilous doctrine of the Kansas City Star. According to that, our language 1 nothing more than a me dium for communicating thought from ona person to another. There Is nothing sacred about It. Its an cient forma and mossy usage deserve no reverence. The mob Is at liberty to make and unmake grammar as it pleasea Appalling as this view of the sub ject appears, there is still some ground for It In fact. The unpleasant truth is that the English language has no grammar. What masquerades In the schools a English grammar is noth ing better than a pale shadow of Latin grammar hashed up for the conveni ence of schoolmasters and the tribu lation of boy and girls. Being meas urably free from declensions and other rubbish our tongue permits the greatest freedom of arrangement. The only Important thing to keep in mind Is clarity of expression. As long as his meaning is evident the writer may snap his fingers at criticism. Custom usually puts the object after the verb, but it may precede. In Tennyson's beautiful line, "Home they brought her warrior dead," everything Is turned topsy-turvy, but It Is English for all that and pretty fins English too. Milton make a terrible Jumble I of his noun and verbs and all the !. nf tha nni-ta of sDeech. but no attentive reader is In doubt about his nunlnr naiiaJlv - Milton does not ' split any infinitives, however, nor does Tennyson, nor Shakespeare, ew writers ever took greater liberties with language than did the bard of Avon, but he respects tha marriage of "to" with the verb. What the usage of centuries has Joined he does not ven ture to put asunder. Milton falls into tautology, he hides his adverbs at Im- ' measurable distances from their J predicates, he elides all but the bones j of his sentences here and there, but ho never split his infinitives. We doubt whether Governor Wood i row Wilson will let his split remain ! when he comes to revise his address. I There Is mora than one sign that it wa written In haste. NO PEACE W1THOCT BBYAS. There will be no "fourth battle" for William Jennings Bryan. At least this Is the promise now. "Fate gen erally has decreed," said his so-called personal representative. Theodore Bell, of California, at the Jackson feast in Baltimore, "that Mr. Bryan shall not be nominated a fourth time and that he shall never be elected President of tha United State." Thus, after bearing the heat and burden of the day of tha Democratlo party during three battles, the Peer loss One is to ba spared the honor of filling the Presidency, and some apos tate brother, like Woodrow Wilson or Harmon, received fcack into the bosom of the party, la to ba tha ruler In the White House. Mr. Bryan never knew before to quit a lost canse, a closed incident or a finished chapter. Not so very long ago he dragged the ghost of free sil ver from the tomb and affrighted his party terribly. . The brethren who dodged the old time Urns or left tha party to Its fate are now exalted. This is Indeed a cruel world. But none of the come back statesmen la yet elected. Broth er Parker did not win. and be it re membered the Peerless One stayed away when Parker ran. And he may stay away when the next one runs. Bryan la "out." out hi spokesman serves notice that no Democrat shall ba elected who Ignores him. This, too. Is "fate," Bryan will not rule. but no Democrat shall rule witnout him. This Is the same old brotherly love talk that ha troubled the party in battles cast. No peace without Bryan. The outlook is ominous. AWT HATE CRATtf STATISTICS. The Farmers Co-Operatlve and Ed ucatlonal Union at Its trl-wtate meet lng at Walla Walla next Friday ant Rnturdav will endeavor to formulate I plan for securing accurate data on th a-ratn erona of the three states. It la proposed. If possible, to compel tha of threshing machines to make accurate return showing the exact amounts threshed. IT a system oi inis kind could be put Into effect through out the United States, It would ma terially reduce the element of specu lation In the grain trade. The Gov ernment's fle-ure on yields are notori ously unreliable as a rule, and In the absence of any other oinciai means oi determining the extent of the crop the mdn trade and the farmer are obliged to accept them for what they ara worth. Tha depondence placed In Govern ment figure a few years ago cost the American farmers many millions be fore Wheat King Patten demonstrated havnnil nil doubt that the private sta tistics he had collected In every state were accurate and that the govern ment figure wer inaccurate. Patten, In possession of the facts regarding the size of the crop, began buying early, but did not succeed In checking the export movement until thla coun try had shipped several million bush els more than could be spared. The result was that prices soared above 11.60 per bushel after the farmer had disposed of most of their crops. With farmers and dealers both In possession of exact knowledge regard ing the slxa of the crop, much of the uncertainty regardmg future price would be removed. The plan suggest ed is a good one, for no farmer would pay for threshing any more wheat than he produced and the thresher man would insist on payment for every tmshel threshed A KXNT SCOOE8TIOS. The current number of tha Medical Record contains an article by Dr. I. I. Nascher. of New York, which dis tils the newest balm for soothing the tender sensibilities of the aged. Ha gives to this new balm not a new name, nor doee he claim for It the dis tinction of a new dlscovory. The pre scription I written In the single word, "Flattery." Dr. Nascher to clearly a student of human nature, as well a of anatomy and materia medlca. In his opinion, derived from this source, old age Is a mental rather than a physical discom fiture, and he lay special stress upon the mental attitude that Is the basis of the'opmplaint. Taking this stand, he warn those who are advancing In year to maintain pride In their per- .n.l annanrance. StOD WOITVlng. Stand erect and look the world squarely In the face. To the relations and friends of the aged he give the advice (sad iv njri4 in many cases) to do all they can. to Impress upon the minds of old people the beller that tney iook young and should be happy and contented Ht-h th favors that the ve?r have be stowed In wisdom, experience and op portunity. "Flatter an old fellow upon hi youthful appearance and activity," say Dr. Nascher, "and you arouse In him a sense of pride in his appearance. Ha will try to appear young, and. by sitting op or standing erect, to show that h Is not as old In feeling as he 1 In years." In proof of the dominion of mind over matter in the realm of age the case Is cited of the old soldier who, tottering along In the ranks on Memo rial day, braces up as he passes the re viewing stand and with head erect, shoulder back and chest thrown out. hi step becomes firmer, his knees limber and he raises his hand in salut ing with a quick and graceful motion that belittles the decrepit appearance of a fow minute before. Most of us have witnessed the change that come over an aged Romeo when he goe courting. Where as, when going abroad a few months before with his aged wife he leaned heavily on his cane, he now walks briskly Into church without its as sistance and, remarried, walks out. Perhaps the same evening he dances with hi bride and In the exuberance of returned youth a purely mental state lifts her bodily oft the floor. Dr. Nascher cites the case of a mta. .minlA. sred reaDectivelv 74 and 70. who danced at tneir goiaen jr, I wedding, being incited thereto by the comment of their friends upon their youthful appearance after fifty year of wedded life. The aged couple, he says, took a new lease of life, he re suming his former vocation of lock smith and she her household duties, although before . the . celebration of their wedding day and the elixir of flattery that it dispensed, they had been content to sit by the'flre waiting solemnly for the end to come.. How cheerful Is this attitude toward age and the aged thus presented by Dr. Nascher by contrast with that of Dr. Osier! How cheerful, even by comparison with that of Longfellow gentlest of men who declares wist fully, but with a sense of deep convic tion, that Whatever poet, orator or ssga May say of It, old asa la still old are. While deep within their conscious ness the aged must accept the poet's estimate as true, they rise in stubborn revolt against that of the pessimistic physician who suggested chloroform at sixty as the proper solution of the age problem, and take new courage from the cheerful doctrine of Dr. Nascher that age is a thing of mental attitude toward life and time, rather than a reality of waning powers. Per haps after alL Ella. Wheeler Wilcox has struck the true chord in the sym phony of life when, confronting Time, she gaily sings: II cannot take my thraa crest Jewel Protn tha crown of life lova. sympathy ana faith; Pot alower by in plucking at his beard) And Brassing as b go a usalesa icytba. Over and above all, the common ex perience and observation of life in dorse the opinion that often the signs of senility, which develop at the age of 60 and even earlier, are due to nsychlo causes, and that everything that can be done ought to be done to pro mote cheerfulness in the aged If they would maintain their health and vig or. In this view the balm of flattery. Judiciously applied may be counted upon as a valuable auxiliary In fight ing the encroachment of age and In rising above the hopeless attitude that Is so apt to fall upon the evening of life. The old year went out with record breaking bank clearings, building per mits and postal receipts. Some of the figures were so great that fears were expressed that the closing spurt might be followed by a less ravoraoie snow ing this year. Fortunately, the fears are proving unfounded, for with the first month of the new year practi cally ended, a healthy gain is shown over the corresponding month of 1910 In both bank clearings and building permits. An equally good showing 1 probable In postal receipts and real estate transfers. Portland has at tained a commercial momentum which will not aoon be checked. The Walla Walla fruitgrowers, af ter Investigating the matter and com paring prices, have rejected the pro posed change from boxes to barrels for packing the low grades of apples. Barrels may be all right for the kind of apples produced In the East, but the handy-sized box in which Western ap ples have become famous has so many points of superiority that It will never be supplanted by the big barrels In which Eastern apple are marketed. Every few years New York is threatened with a shortage of water. That Is where the big city misses a neighborly mountain. The scheme of creation did not contemplate a gre garious people. Science may come to the rescue some 'twentieth-century day with a project to "shock" the salt out of ocean water by means of elec tricity developed from wave power. The earth Is young yet. Sherlock Holmes was a great de tective; so is William J. Burjis, and our own Archie Leonard has BOlved a few mysteries by "deduction," but it would require collaboration on the part of a trio of this kind, and then considerable guessing, to determine why that drunken logger was carrying a polecat around town In a gunny sack Saturday evening. The Chamber of Commerce at King ston, Jamaica, has put in a claim for a 1915 exposition to be held at King ston, coincident with the opening of the Panama Canal. New Orleans is thus provided with a competitor In her own class and can now direct those unkind remarks about earthquakes to a more appropriate locality than the California metropolis. Nat Goodwin denies the jurisdiction of New York courts in his divorce case, on the ground that he and Mrs. Nat are residents of California. Other considerations out of the way, it tt quite appropriate that the , muchly married Nat should be a resident of the orange-blossom state. Tha Naval 'appropriation bill calls for two super-dreadnoughts at ap proximately 112, 000.000 each. By and by the Atlantic may be so con gested with battleships that some of them may of necessity be sent to the Pacific. Being a bishop has been described as a "clane, alsy Job." and it seems to be profitable also, for Bishop Grant, of the African Methodist Church, has left an estate of tlOO.OOO. They are herding cows with airships down In Texas. When they get to ronlnr ateers and branding them in midair they will have a new "round up" feature. An 18-year-old young woman is -u-All advanced In . vears to be subjected to corporal punishment in the Centralla Training ocnooi. r-nrnmander Pearv missed the North Pole about a mile and Dr. Cook re news his fakery. In most cases a miss is a good as a mile. It may often the blow to know that Lord Decies, the "British" officer who is to marry Mis Vivian toum, is an Irishman. The best corner on earth:. Any street corner downtown in r'ortiana ana owned by yourself. Watch the value grow over night. Oscar Hammersteln's wife would leave him. The great impresario Is too busy with business for domesticity. Tt..,- la nfrlMa.1 denial of domestic Infelicity In the Spanish royal family. Depend upon Queen Vic for that. The rockpile Is no place of abode for a man of delicate senal Mimes, either la it a place bard, to avoid. THAT FISH LAW FOR ROGUE RIVER Properties Destroyed Without Advan. tage to Public, la disrated. GRANTS PASS, Or., Jan. 27. (To the Editor.) I read with interest the time ly communication of "Investigator," I writing from Ashland, which appeared ; In The Oregonlan January 28. By all means let us have more light ion this 'Ill-timed and ill-advised legis j lation that has robbed a large number of our industrious and law- abiding cltl- sens of their means of livelihood. Let us put it down at the outset that the taking of salmon, by means of nets or other legal devices for commercial purposes, from the waters of any stream ; flowing Into the Pacific Ocean, from j California to the northern limits of AiasKa, always has been and is now Just as legitimate a business as mak- I lng brick, sawing lumber, or any other of the thousand and one ways that men have of making a living. . Why, then, should the voters of Ore ! gon deny this right to the people in i limited section, along the Rogue River? I Simply because they were either mis , led, or not led at all, but voted "yes' on a proposition concerning the merits of which they were entirely Ignorant. This measure should have been "thrown into the discard" along . with all the county division schemes. It should Interest the voters of Ore gon to know how this measure origi nated. If I am oorrectly Informed, it seems that a time ago some gentlemen from a neighboring village went fish lng in the Rogue River, and, not being very good' fishermen, or, being "out of luck," they caught no fish, and at once raised the hue and cry that there were no fish in the Rogue River, and said that the rascals down at Grants Pass had seined them all out. The rest was easy. With no more foundation in fact than this, petitions were clroulated to bring the matter of closing the Rogue River to a vote of the people of the whole state. Charges were made that the fishermen used nets with smaller mesh than the law allowed, a statement easily refuted by any one who cared to ascertain the facts. Instead of this being true, the Game. Wardens themselves have com pllmented the fishermen on their rigid compliance with the law in all re spects. This measure was carried by a ma jority of 18.816 votes. It Is interesting to observe where these votes came from. We find that 12,824, or more than 75 per cent of them, came from the north' era tier of counties, or those counties bordering along the Columbia River. Is there any significance in this faot? That district is justly proud of her sal mon fishing and canning industry. Should they be permitted selfishly vote another district, lying within the borders of the state, out of the same line of business that they themselves enjoy? Where did the other 8491 votes come from? We find that Jackson County supplied 2607, or more than 76 per cent of these, leaving only 881 votes to come from all the rest of the state. Many votes were cast for the measure on the general theory that it was wise to protect the fish, without knowing that the passage of this act would ren der valueless property representing thousands of dollars invested in a per fectly legitimate business, destroy at one sweep the work of years, besides taking the bread and butter from the mouths of Industrious and hard-woTK' ing men. And all this without one compensating advantage to the people at large. The passage of this law was a gross outrage on the citizens of Josephine and Curry Counties, and should by all means be righted by the present Legis lature enacting a law restoring com merclal fishing, under proper legal re straint, in the waters of Rogue River and tributaries, from Its mouth to Grants Pass. P. T. B. Convict Labor on Roads. OAK GROVE, Or., Jan. 28. To the witter Tha hill now before the Leg islature proposing to employ convicts in the construction OI puDiic nignwaya should be promptly defeated. Wherever employed outside of the penitentiary there would be added expense fitting up uitotiiA mtnrtera for them and also ex tra expense for the increase of guards necessitated by such temporary quar ters; but the increased expense Is the least objection to the proposed legisla tion. It would be an outrage on any civilized community to have the convicts in their characteristic garb employed in th eommunitv where they would be ob- lents of eurlositv to be gazed at by r. non0rViv. T - a influence of such a gang in any locality can be nothing but pernicious. A convict camp would be almost constaniv mrongea vy visi tors unless prohibited by stringent laws. Tii. MmHtft ara from all carts of the state, and there Is scarcely a community where they could be employed oui uai some of them would have there friends or relatives or both. The tendency would be toward humiliation of the conviot and his relatives. Another objection to the proposed bill Is the public transportation uimo w uiota fmm ona Dart of the state to an nth.r Thev of necessity, would be 'manacled and under guard. Any such parading would be detrimental to the nriannai- inrl harmful to the nubile. Give to these unfortunates employment but let it be in some secmaea pmco from the public eye. J. a. jr,nia. m v Japanese Woman a Dentlat la London. New York Herald. London has a Japanese woman den f. nhA aftor hnntTlnar out her shingle. is doing a thriving business. When a visitor called upon ner wo oiner ua.y, with true Oriental courtesy and per i - - ininmotln lrnowledara of an Englishman's ruling passion, she of fered him some nonurnuiu "- "Why have you come here?" she was asked. . "To pull the teeth of England." she replied. "But I pull only very bad teeth. I cure teem ana x navwr tnuno t-. . 1 .1. tth har, " AtiH tha pain, duiuj, - - 1 dainty little lady tapped her head; "the Japanese is clever here," displaying a small, well-shaped, strong hand. "The Englishmen are strong and produce pain, but the Japanese woman is clever and there Is no pain." Then she offered mora tea and a cigarette. Seaport and Porta . of Entry. nj-TT'T ,vn Tan P.H fTn tha VMltor.T x- . Will you be kind enough to tell me through the columns oi im uregoniao Just what is meant by the term "sea port?" For instance. Is Norfolk, Va, which is located a dozen miles up a river, a seaport; and are New Haven. Conri., Mobile. Ala., New Orleans and Seattle seaports, though the last two are many miles from the sea? If New Or leans is a seaport, why not Portland, Or.? Atlases speak "of "ports of entry." la this synonomous with "seaport?" . Lk B. ROGERS. A seaport Is any harbor or town ac cessible to sea-going vessels. A port of entry is a point where foreign goods may be received for import. In this term the word "port" is not used in a nauti cal sense. The United States has ports of entry far inland along the Canadian and Mexican borders. pity tha Poor Smoker. Prom the London Chronicle. There la nothing like getting a clear opinion. As this from the Lancet for smokers: "Smoking ... Is to be deprecated because the pungency of the pyrollgneous products contained in to bacco smoke renders the buccal mucosa insensitive to alimentary stimulation in fact, their effect is to dull or abolish the olfacto-gustatory reflex, thus depriving us of 'appetite Juice.' " So now, then, pity your buccal mucosa and knock out that plpel REFORMATORY WORK I3T PRISONS ; Minister Believe There Is Room for Improvement of Methods. OREGON CITY, Or., Jan. 27. (To the Editor.) In an editorial in this morn ing's issue of The Oregonlan on ."The Reason for Prison and the Gallows," this statement is made: "Reform of the evil doer, while of course desirable, is not Im portant In the large view, nor Is It the first aim of law or Justice." In the same editorial it Is stated that men are hanged or Imprisoned primarily for the protec tion of society. It occurs to me that Just because pris ons and courts are primarily for the pro tection of society the matter of reforma tive methods, and not merely retributive method of dealing with prisoners is a vitally Important matter. If all men who committed crimes against society were sent to prison for life the method of dealing with criminals in the prisons would not be so Important from the standpoint of the protection of society, but since they are sentenced for varying terms and at the expiration of those terms are released again to mingle with their fellow men. It becomes a matter of grave concern to society what the ef fect of their prison life has been upon their character. Under the ordinary Jail and peniten tiary system they come out more skilled in the arts of preying upon society and more desperate in their methods of at tack upon the social order than they were before entering prison. That this Is the fact Is made evident by the prison records which show that fully 65 per cent of released convicts find their way again to prison walla Simply from the standpoint of eclf- protectlon, then. It becomes a matter of grave Importance to society so to order the oonduot of Its prisons that men sent there, particularly those sent for short or Indeterminate term 01 years snail have an opportunity to reform, and not come out worse enemies of society, more degraded and depraved than when they went in. The methods employed by the Elmira Prison in New York are reformatory and as a result of the wise treatment of prisoners sent there the men are given a chance to become men again. Care fully compiled records covering the past 10 years show that not to exceed 15 per cent of the prisoners released arter a term at Elmira find their way back to that or other prisons. If 65 per cent of the men under the old system return to lives of crime and eventually find their way back to prisons, and only 15 or 20 per cent prove to be unreformable under the new "reformatory" methods of treat ment, the conclusion Is quite evident that society should be concerned In the reformation as well as the segregation of the criminal. WILLIAM M. PROCTOR,' Pastor First Congregational Church. Jefferson III Final Choice. Philadelphia Inquirer. Oh, it was a great night for Democracy and a great night for possible Presl-. dents 1 One Congressman gravely wan dered about the big armory, hunting for Governor Harmon. When he found him he ' put his hand on his shoulder and "Governor, I want to see you President of the United States. Call on me for help at any time. I am for you to the limit." Harmon, quite pleased, thanked the generous fellow. Then the Congressman, with owl-like seriousness, hunted up Champ Claxk. "Champ." he said, "it is the dearest wish of my heart to see you President of the onited States. I am working for you to the limit I was Just talking to Harmon about you. He says you are wonderful." . "I'm Just a plain Democrat and cltl- sen of the soil," said Champ, with that splendid modesty for whicn ne is noteo. nti Itnnn hOW I &DDr6Clate YOUT sincere encouragement." The Congressman then wound his way through the throng until he found Sena tor Bailey. "I know," he said, "that vou are not a candidate for President, Senator, but I want to tell you that should you run you can count on my vote." Having given encouragement to all the potential Presidents who were present, the Congressman Joined a group of nr.A4N.iv Wllnnn anthUslaStS and talked about "the dear old doctor: he's got 'em all beat a mile." "If you ask me," said one of the walt- i . rnnorocamitii addressed erS W WUUHI v-w.B.. some of his encouraging remarks, I think you fellows ougnt to nominate uu man 'Jefferson you're all talking about. , . . ..,iaj4 hnmon nature for noth- X Uavcu b niuu.i. . - ing, and from the way they talk I think he's a comer. German Students. New York Sun. rri. ... w .tninnta at the German 111B OUIUUGl U4 universities keeps increasing. In the year of the establishment or tne ucrmnu pire It was 13.000; in this Winter semes ter, including all admitted to lectures. It Is over 60,000, the total of immatrieu lated students being 64,822, of whom 2418 are women. The figures for tne several faculties are: Medicine, U.240; philos ophy, philology and history, 15,525; Math ematics and natural science, 79H; law, 10,899: theology, Protestant, 2535; Catho- 11c 1760, ana aaminisiranun, ... ... .tnli.Tiii dentistry, nhar- omera o - macy. forestry and veterinary science. . .. . , J I . V. aCX a,,l Berlin continues to ieuu dents, followed by Munich, 6906; Leipsic, 4900: Bonn. 3M6; Halle, 2Mb; uresiau, 2464- Freiburg in reisKau, uviu.. gen.' 2233; Strassburg, 2067; Munster.- 2047; Heidelberg, 2008; Marburg, 1931 ; Tubin gen. 1SS3; Jena, 1637: Kiel. 1439; Wurz burg, 1426: Konigsberg, 1380; Glessen, 1249; Erlangen, 1011; Grelfswald, 948. and Ros tock. 816. ' An Emerald Poem. Stanfield Standard. . ... ... nnwinr la the deenest. living green that ever beautified a land scape. When ready to cut, an alfalfa . i ... f t-q ova n t nurnle blos- neia i n-a. . - soma, making the finest bee pasture and honey known. Alfalfa hay Is rich green in color, sweet In taste. It is the staff of life in a barnyard, tiorses worn. . . nt....a fmin nnirv cuwb kivb iuom richest milk, cattle and sheep fatten with only a Htue com, even vs.- h roiLdilv and can be pastured all Summer In a field. For chickens, finely ground alfalfa meal is sold at high prices in the East as an egg-compeums iiunuum. analysis shows aliaua to contain aimi "I. .... .v. . ri1net1hln elements xactiy iwim - o that a ton of the best timothy contains. Alfalfa is so rich that it cannot be cured except In a dry cjimate. In the East the hay musts and spoils In the dampness. rr-h stmnle Life Amid the lee. Robert B. Peary: "The Great White In the morning I was generally the ... ..iron fl rt. and would either OHO W " u-i i. ' - start the alcohol lamp myself or call . v. . mimosa. Our moraine; J13iruj vm . r r - - meal consisted of a lump of pemmlcan. six biscuits, two ounces oi uuitci onu two cups of taa each. As soon as this was finished everything was repacked ..w- -i.a T tViAi rnnil tha oriometar. on tno - - -- ----- aneroid and thermometer, and taking the guidon, whloh has waved and flut tered over the kitchen throughout our hours of rest, from Its place, stepped forward and the next march was com menced. After from four to six hours of marching we would halt for half an hour to eat our simple luncn or pemmi- ... ,ia dnn a rant, and then. can viiu is . " " ... . m-r hmira nf traveling, halt again and repeat the already described route. ' Its Origin. . Harper's Bazaar. Mrs. Howard I wonder who first said I'll eat my hat. Miss Coward Some woman who wanted to avoid paying duty, I fancy. Life's Sunny Side That every American city has customs peculiar to itself is a fact often referred tn 9m, f thm,,W 1- ... X" 1. I j Philadelphia are different in the spirit , of their activities, few have suspected ; that difference was as great as is shown In a recent after-dinner story. It was a beautiful statuesque blonde who had changed her residence from New York to Philadelphia and secured a position as stenographer in the office of a staid, dignified citizen of good old Quaker descent. j she went straight to the desk of tne boss. ; "I presume," she remarked, "that you , begin the day over here the same as they do in New York?" "Oh, yes." replied the boss, without glancing from the letter he was reading. "Well, hurry up and kiss me, then." was the startling rejoinder. "I want to get to work." St. Louis Mirror. At Cumberland, Md., the negro servants as a rule go to their own homes at night. The cook in the family of the Episcopalian clergyman not only does this, but of late has arrived at the rec tory too late to cook breakfast. Hence her mistress lately told her that for each breakfast missed there would be a reduction in her weekly wages. Dinah passively assented to this, but next day the mistress heard the maid next door say to her: "'Pears to me you get to work mighty late." "I gets to work when I get ready," was the reply. "How does you manage about de brekfus?" "Oh, I pays de missus to cook de brek fus." Housekeeping Magazine. a a a Robert S. Johnson, one. of the heads of the Bureau of Fisheries at Washing ton, said at a recent fishermen's d'nner: "Of course, all fishermen exaggerate a little. That is forgiveable on their part. As a man accepts a fisherman's exaggera tion, so you can Judge his character. Take the case of Joe and Jake, two guides at Sunapee, where we've Just suc ceeded in planting the Chinook salmon. A certain Philadelphlan, angling for sal mon In Jake's boat of the Hedgehog, said: 'Jake, a remarkable thing once happened to me here. I lost a pair of scissors out of my flybook in front of Perley Graves' and the next Summer the Summer of '971 caught a large cat fish off Spilt Rock. Tnere seemed to be something hard inside the catfish, so I opened him up. And what do you think I foundr "Well, by crlnus. Jake an swered heartily. 'I'd think it was your scissors you found, but for one little thing.' "What little thing Is that?" the angler asked. 'It's only that,' said Jake, 'there never was a catfish in Lake Suna pee since the world began." Now, that, I think, proves Jake's amiability. The next year, Jake being ill, the Philadel phia angler fished with Joe. He told Joe, of course, the same old story about the scissors and the pike, but when be came to the question, 'And what do you think I found Inside him7 Joe drew In his line abruptly. 'Ye found yer scissors and no lnsides," he snarled. 'Reel In. I'll fish no more with ye!' "Kansas City Star. a a a Senator Depew, at the Lotus Club's re cent dinner in New York In honor of the French Ambassador, M. Jusserand, said, with a smile: "M. Jusserand writes English better than an Englishman, he speaks it better than an American and be uses It better than an Irishman. "I violate, I believe, no confidence when I relate one of M. Jusserands mots. M. Jusserand, at a dinner, sat . . m,mn In tha rjrima of life. II fA. . LU A .1." - -- r- , This matron, putting her hand to ner soft and pretty nair, saiu wim a. mus, none too gay: ... . a "I found four gray hairs In my heaa this morning. ""Madam," said M. jusseranu, as gray hairs can be counted, they don't count. wasn-ngion Comnnnlon for "Now I Lay Me." Leigh Mitchell Hodges In the Phlla-i delphla North American. For years and years and years, than anv nf US MOW allVO can remember, that simplest and sweet est of prayers, "How x ijay ma, no been said by countless thousands of children of all ages. At mother's knee. In the loneliness or hall bedrooms, in the loneliness of lux urywhich is often very lonely! and . ..KiihnnA nf nld aee It is re peated night after night circling this world like a beneaiction ireau wiw. the fragrance of such simple faith as must attend us all. If we are to Journey at all Joyfully. There Is something about it that lends perpetual charm to the words and the thoughts they border on the fabric of our lives; something that links us with dear days or our youngness. aim many a heart has softened at remem brance and repetition of It AnA nnw hull nnma to me from That Man Miller, past master of the art of good printing in the Indian School at Carlisle, a companion prayer for the morning. I do not know who tne author is, out I do know that It is worthy of a place beside "Now I Lay Me," so here it is: Now I prot me up to work, I pray the Lord I may not shirk; If I should die before the night. I pray the Lord my work's all right. : What Nietzsche Thought of Women. Forum. Nietzsche, the German philosopher, has little to say of women. In h's philosophy there is to be no over-woman. "Every thing In woman Is a riddle, he says. And again, "The true man wants two different things danger and diversion. He therefore wants a woman as the most dangerous plaything." In his Wagner book, he puts women in a strange category. In the theater, he declares, "one becomes mob, herd. woman, Pharisee, voting animal, patron. dlot Wagnerian." "As yet" he says. In Zarathustra, "women are incapable of friendship." "In a woman's love," Nietzsche says, "there is unfairness and blindness to all she does not love. And even la woman's enlightened love there are still outbreaks and lightnings." In his Wag ner essay he says: "Woman would like to believe that love can do all. It is a superstition peculiar to herself. Alasi he who knows the heart finds out how poor, helpless, pretentious and liable td error even the best, the deepest love is; how It rather destroys tuan saves." Wn.cs Wtth Money Idle. New York World. The sum of o04,000, earned by conces sions In the Woman's building at the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1S93, 4s still deposited in a Chicago bank. What to do with this money is one of the problems confront ing the board of women managers of the exposition. The board included representatives from every state in the Union. Recently several women Interested in charity worK In Chicago started an inquiry to deter mine whether the fund of 350,000, with the interest, would be available for pres ent day charities. Then It was recalled that the agreement originally had been that this fund must be used for a Na tional charity. There never has been a meeting of the original committee of the board of managers, and without its Indorsement the fund could not be appro-, prlated. A Scientific Theory. From the Pittsburg ost. "Now they claim that the human body contains sulphur." "In what amount?" "Oh, in varying quantities." "Well, that may account for some girl making better matches than others."