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The I'ortland Oreaonlan, In anticipation of the state and Congressional elections to be hM next month, tolls Us readers that It is "nil important at thin moment to convince the plutocratic enemies of the lresldcnt that the c.imtry i with him heart and soul." This Is " hlKitllUant cunsildprlnK the fact that In no .late has the Administration scourge been ' laid inure heavily on the shoulders of dlshon '.. st public ticrvants than In Oregon. Uoston Tiaiifcrlpt. No one in Oregon now dares to say that the President did not do a good thing for Oregon and for the Nation ' w hen he laid the scourge so heavily on ; Oregon. No one here now dares to say opt iily that he Is not with the President ' heart and soul in his persistent ' rastigatiori of dishonest public ser vants. No one in Oregon now aarea tu sh.v that the land-fraud prosecutions, with their calamitous and humiliating results to sundry Oregon public men, ere not inspired by a worthy desire lo punish wrongdoers In high places and to end their wrongdoing. At the time of the recent trials there was .in deed complaint that the President and the Secretary of the Interior had mali cious and improper motives in singling , out for chastisement important and . even distinguished personages in Ore g"n. But such complaints ceased long a ro, for the President "made good." The Boston Transcript, which is an ' important and influential newspaper in a community noted for many virtues, appears to he surprised that there is no ""resentment in Oregon because the scourge has been laid on its shoulders. Why should there be? Does the Re- publican party purpose to take revenge upon the President of the United States because by his fearless course he has sent to jail, or 6tarted on the road to jail, a few of Its so-called leaders? Hoes the Republican party of Oregon desire that the Nation at large should understand that H would prevent, or would have prevented, conviction of the guilty, whether they be Republicans or .Democrats, Socialists or Prohibitionists, or the members of any other party? Did the President of the United States seek to expose colossal land frauds, and to imprison bold land thieves, he cause they were Republicans or because they were not Republicans? Or did he undertake to discharge his duty of cleaning out the public service without the-slightest regard to the prominence and great political influence of the ac cused, and with no care or thought as to the effect of such exposures- on any but the guilty? Of course he did. He laid the scourge on Oregon he- ' cause these iniquities were here, open antl flagitious. The evidence was available, and, more Important than all, there was here a sound public senti ment that would .Insure conviction If the accused deserved to be convicted. Oregon justified the President's confi dence in the probity of Its citizenship by itself declaring that these men were criminals and that they should be pun ished. If the wrong was done in Ore gon, it was righted, so far as it could he. hy Oregon. What, then, are the people going to do in the June election? Are they go ing to advertise to the world at large that they are not with the President when he seeks out against great odds and under many difficulties those pub lic officials who have debauched the public service and stolen the public patrimony? The Transcript makes it clear that, in the opinion of the East, a Democratic victory in June would be a declaration that Oregon is opposed to the President for the particular reason that the President has given unpleasant attention to citizens of this state. It Is not true that Oregon is agalnt the President It is true that nearly every person in Oregon is with the President, or says he is. It is true, too. that the Democratic pretense that Democrats are for Roosevelt Is very well under stood here. Few persons will be misled by it, or inveigled into contributing .In June to a Democratic victory that would everywhere, even here, be hailed as a distinct rebuke to the National Re publican Administration. Tit K PENALTIES OF SCRATCHING. General Klllfeather, the silver . tongued Democratic orator, grew elo quent Friday night in denunciation of Democrats who have refused longer to support George E. Chamberlain for of tice. He pleads for loyal support of the ticket by all members of the party, and uses the name -of Judas Iscariot in chraacterizlng those who prove disloyal. Is this the non-partisanship of which we have heard so much"? Through all these years the Democrats have been arguing that Republicans must not be partisan that they must scratch their ticket and vote for Democrats. "Vote the ticket straight" is all wrong as a Republican argument but when it ap plies to Democrats it is all right Per haps we Republicans shall learn a les son or two from the speeches made by some of the Democratic orators at the rally Friday night. If a Democrat who scratches his ticket is a Judas, what of a Republican who does the same? Democrats want the votes of Repub licans, but have they any respect for the Republican whose vote they get? The Republican who supports Cham berlain gets the glad Democratic hand up to election day, but after th'at he re ceives the grin of contempt which the Democrat feels down in his heart. Leaders of the Democracy are now urg ing loyalty to their ticket, but Is that plea for loyalty more appropriate for Democrats than for Republicans?. , EARTHQUAKE POETRY. "What doctors call the "sequelae" of a disease are oftentimes worse than the disease itself. Scarlet fever counts among its sequelae a disagreeable dis charge from the ears, for example, which only disappears after many years in some cases. Once in a while it re mains with the unhappy patient through life. Calamities In the social and physical world have their sequelae as well as diseases. They drag in their train a long array of exasperating con sequences harder, perhaps, to bear than the original catastrophe. If earth quake, plague and famine could do their deadly work and make an end of it, life would not be so burdensome to those who have been spared. "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well." But it never is done when 'tis done. There is always a disastrous1 series of sequelae to follow. Who shall say whether, the San Francisco earthquake or the poetry it has inspired have wrought more woe in the world? It is a case where the sequelae are certainly as bad as the dis ease, and probably a great deal w orse. At the first Jiews of the earthquake the Pegasus of the Pacific Coast, a fear some' beast even In his moments of quiescence, arched his haughty neck. spread his wings and began to neigh and prance in his state. He longed for some daring rider to come and lead him out of, the stable that he might 'soar. He was eager to pierce the empyrean, to scale the mountains of .immortal song. His dark eye flashed, his proud breast heaved with desire to fly above the Aeonian mount and pursue things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. His desire was gratified In part. Riders were plentiful. They brought the fiery steed out upon the racetrack and took turns at soaring. It they all fell off a long way below the clouds Jt was not their fault; their Intentions, like those of Mr. Perkins, when he absorbed the funds of the New York Life, were ex cellent; and really, according to the decision of the Supreme Court of New York, It is the intention and nothing else that counts. "No matter what you do if your heart be true," as poor Ro sina Vokes used to sing of Captain Kidd, "and his heart was true to Poll"; just as Mr. Perkins' heart was true to his pocketbook and Jerome's to Mr. Perkins. It is no crime to shoot a man, acordlng to this latest legal illumina tion, if you form some pious resolve at the Instant you pull the trigger; and no harm to write earthquake poetry if it is composed 'in a prayerful mood. Home may doubt whether this can be done. Earthquake poetry is in itself a monster of so hideous mien that one might suppose it could not be manufac tured in a prayerful mood, but this is a mistake. ' Even when it begins In de spair and doubt, it always ends in the sweet consolations of faith. Witness the outpouring of the young lady who wrote "San Francisco's Lamentation." In her religion she Is a polytheist, but since she is sincere, that makes no dif ference. According to her inspiration, the earthquake was caused by the "god of earth," who "awakened from a thou sand years of slumber, rubbed his sleepy eyes and ' grumbled, shook his furrowed breast and muttered, 'Hear thy doom, oh, San Francisco.' " Then he proceeded to demolish "the lovely city" for waking him too early in the morning. But this young lady, like all the other earthquake poets, is optim istic. She believes that from the burn ing ruins will rise "a nobler, fairer city," and for security from future seis mic disturbances she advises the inhab itants henceforth "to build upon the .Rock of Ages." If this is not a devout admonition, what is it? The young man whose pent-up emo tions found vent In "The Fall of Frisco" Is also of a deeply neligious turn. "The hand that smote thee," he assures our unlucky neighbors, "was of God," agreeing in this particular with the Rev. Mr. Craln, of Seattle. This rider, as well as the others, found Pegasus a bucking steed and got thrown off be fore he had ridden very far or very high. Still, we should predict that if he practices riding hard and steadily a time may come when he can do a fair stunt. There is in his verse just a hint of the something far more deeply in terfused, a suggestion, a prophecy, of the gift and faculty divine. Listen a moment, if you please, to this: She wan the Paris of the West, Athens and Venice, three' in one; In romance wreathed, by fortune blessed, A peerless queen, she reigned alone. Her gorgeous beauty seen 6y night, her charms divine no tongue might tell: Her Btreets were highways of delight: her hour It came the city fell. It .Is not the capital letters and the rhj"mes alone which distinguish . this from prose. There is a swing and ca dence. There is imagination and some thing which, when the poet has lived longer and knows more, may develop into passion. The verse sings as it limps. Some time it may learn how to sing without limping. Another very fair piece of work is "The Demon of Destruction." The au thor could not write poetry if he lived to be a thousand years old, but in the piece there is a soberness of statement, a careful attention to fact and com mon sense and a veracity of thought which are among the best elements of prose and poetry both. This author tis not afraid of common words. He seems to feel the power of bald, hard fact to compel the emotions and "drag at the heart-strings." A single verse may be given, not because it is poetry, but be cause it would be poetry if only Imag ination had thrown something of its mystic color over the author's daring fidelity to the concrete fact: The bravest men that ever lived the fiery fiend assail; And prayers go up from every heart that t they may now prevail: But handicapped by broken water mains It could not be; Some perished where they bravely fought between the flame and sea. Here is one of the most tragic situa tions In all history a city burning helplessly because the water mains have been broken by the earthquake shock. The author faces it with un flinching courage, but without a parti cle of passion or imagination. The words are those of every-day life, such as Shakespeare and "Wordsworth used; they ought to flame, but they fall cold and dead. The verse Is a body w ithout a soul. Genius is the power which breathes the .breath of life into lan guage and makes it. alive. In all the reams of earthquake poetry which we have read there is plenty of thought, some careful workmanship, here and there a flicker of imagination, but of genius not ' one solitary spark. "Where are the great poets of the next genera tion to come from?. MEMORIAL DAY AND ITS LESSONS. "We take no note of time, save from its loss," said or sung the gloomy au thor of "Night Thoughts." This senti ment is recalled by the coming, but two days hence, of the day dedicated, while yet the memory of the Civil War Was young and its wounds were unhealed. to the memory of its unreturning brave. But yesterday, as it seems, our people went flower-laden to the "cemeteries, and, returning, left the graves of their loved ones sweet with all the flowers of May; and the time for this tender of fering to memory, this tribute to pa triotism, is again at hand, with its warning, to those to whom it appeals in that way, of the rapid flight of the years. The services, or exercises, of Memor ial day in this city the present year will not differ greatly from those of past. years. There will be one notable ex ception that of unveiling the monu merit in the Plaza that has been raised by the people of the state to the mem ory of the dead of the Second Oregon. Completion of this monument marks the fulfillment of the purpose of citi zen's of the state, while j?t the enthu siasm that was created by the war with Spain was unabated, to set in granite the names of the boys who stepped proudly into the ranks when the regi ment marched away, but answered not when the names of the returning host were called. Built by public subscrip tion, this monument belongs to the public. Standing in a place near the center of the city's business, and in a pleasure park withal, it will be viewed by thousands as the years go on and on a fitting tribute to the memory of her young sons who perished through the accidents of war. There will be beyond this little out of the ordinary in the exercises of Me mortal day in this city. In the nature of things there can be but slight if any change in the regular programme. Lessons of patriotism, as is seemly, will be given on the preceding day to the pupils of the public schocls, with the Civil War, its trials and ,ts triumphs. as the subject, by gray-haired veter ans -who still survive the conflict Schoolboys will be exhorted to eulti vate the patriotic spirit, and be ready to respond to military duty when their country calls, and woman's part in war will be detailed to schoolgirls who, it may be hoped, will never be required to practice the precepts given. And through all and in spite of all will run the gala spirit that is the sure accom paniment of crowds, and music, flowers and bright attire, song and- story. Let our people come to the observ ances of Memorial day, not with un abated sadness, but with loyal, grateful thanksgiving. The Nation found Itself face to face with a dire necessity forty five years ago. It met the require ments of this situation . loyally, suffi ciently, through four years of blood and tears. That It was able to do this, even at this bitter cost, is cause for re joicing. Through, all of the eulogies of Memorial day runs this spirit of thankfulness. It rings in the tone of the old soldier as he recounts to the ears of listening boyhood the valor of the charge at Gettysburg, the saving of the Army at Chancellorsville, the stubbornness of the siege of Vicksburg, the triumphs of the march from At lanta, to the sea, the glory of the crowning event at Appomattox. And this is as it should be. The voice of wailing is a monotone that does not reverberate through the years. Hushed let.Jt .be in thanksgiving for . a coun try united, a Nation "saved, a principle of liberty established. And while we remember the dead of the war, let it be with the living principle of gratitude that, since It is appointed to all men once to die, it was given to these to die for their country and be embalmed in her history as patriots who knew their duty and dared to die in its perform- HAHNEMANN'S TEACHINGS. The Oregonian has received a letter from Dr. P. L. McKenzie touching upon certain controverted phases of Hahne mann's theories of disease. Though the subject Is a little abstract, it may be worth while to consider it again with especial reference to what Dr. McKen zie has to say. He objects to The Ore gonian's statement that Hahnemann assumed the disease and its symptoms to be identical, that we cannot know the causes of disease, and that if we could know them the knowledge would be of no advantage to us. To refute our view of the matter Dr. McKenzie quotes a passage from Hahnemann's "Organon of Medicine." We are quite willing to rest the case upon this quo tation, which, we contend, means pre cisely what The Oregonian has said. Here it is as given in Dr. McKenzie's letter: The symptoms "are the out ward, reflected picture of the internal essence of the disease; that is, of the affection of the vital force; and the to tality of these symptoms must be the means whereby the disease can make known what remedy it requires. And thus the totality of the symptoms must be the only thing the physician has to ttfke note of in every case of disease." Here Hahnemann, as quoted, plainly states that the disease itself is an af fection of the "vital force" and that the symptoms are its picture. ' Now all scientists are agreed that there is no 6uch thing as a vital force. It is a chi mera of the imagination, something that never did and never can exist. To say, therefore, that a disease or any thing else is an affection of the vital force is to talk nonsense. There can be no affections of nothingness. Hence, according to Hahnemann, the symptoms of a disease are the outward picture of an inward nothing. This amounts to the assertion that the symptoms are all there is of the disease, just as The Ore gonian stated. Dr. McKenzie does not attempt to controvert our statement that Hahnemann taught the search for the causes of disease to be vain. His Idea that back of the symptoms lay nothing more tangible than an Imaginary meta physical entity of course made such a search ridiculous, Kr would have doae so if it had been true. His whole the ory is of the a priori type, metaphys ical and abstract. It was built up by the fruitless Aristotlelan method of laying down a hypothesis and then tor turing the facts to fit it; whereas all progress in medicine as in other sci ences has been made by the method of Induction. ...... Taking Hahnemann as Dr. McKenzie quotes him, his statements will not bear examination. It is not true, for example, that the symptoms are: the only, or, indeed, the principal, thing that the physician has to take note of in cases of disease. If the symptoms are sufficient to indicate what is to be done, why do physicians make explora tory incisions?- Is.- it -riot a fact-ihat these exploratory incisions often reveal a state of things of which the symp toms gave no hint, or at least only the most remote one? Every physician well knows that there are most danger ous diseases which, have'- np. well-defined, absolutely indicative symptoms. Cancer of the stomach is such a dis ease; arid it is" not the only one. There Is no sure diagnosis of cancer of the stomach; certainly none in' the Initial stages of the disorder. ' There are nu merous other ailments of the' internal organs which cannot be diagnosticated by- symptoms! ' Surgeons have to open the abdomen to find out what is the matter, and- when the cavity is eposed they often discover a condition-of things of which they could obtain no sugges tion whatever from the outward, symp toms. This happens- .every day. No modern physician relies on symptoms to diagnosticate malaria," to. take an other example. The only sure method to discover whether or, not a patient has that disease, is to make a m-lcro.-scopical examination of the blood to de termine if the specific parasite is pres ent. The same may be said of other disorders, of which pernicious anemia Is one. As a matter of fact, the diagnosis of disease, as science progresses, is becom ing less and less a matter of symp toms and more and more a matter of chemical analysis and microscopical examination. Disease may almost be defined as an improper proportionate distribution of the chemical elements of the body. Bright's disease, diabetes, tuberculosis, are diagnosticated in the laboratory; the patient's symptoms play a part -in determining what is the trouble, but it is by no means a decisive part. How, then, can we agree with Hahnemann that the symptoms are the principal or the only. thing the physi cian has to 'attend to? s They are not even the most important thing. . " - I . THE BAILOR' AND THE SHANGKAIER. The British ship Morven arrived on Puget Sound a few days ago under charter to load wheat for the United Kingdom. Sailors are scarce on Puget Sound, and, as soon as the Morven's an chor went down in the harbor of Port Townsend, a delegation from that select organization of shanghaiers who have headquarters at that port of call visited the ship. By the persuasive arguments commonly used by men of this class, they succeeded in inducing most of the crew to go ashore, where, after being properly, "doped," they could be placed on outward-bound vessels. The master of the Morven, appreciating the . fact that each deserter would a few weeks later have to be replaced with a new man whom he would be obliged to pur chase from the Port Townsend dealers, objected to parting with the men. Oral objections failed to prevent the Port Townsend citizens from attempting to remove from the ship numerous able seamen, for which a member of the In ternational Association" of Sailing-Ship Owners had paid liberally in San Fran cisco, and it accordingly became neces sary to adopt more heroic measures. The mate was- provided with a re volver, and used it to such good effect that one of the shanghaiers was fatally wounded and another so badly' Injured that it may be weeks before he can steal another" sailor. " As a reward for his earnest endeavor to protect the in terest of his employers, fne master and mate of the Morven will be arrested, andj if the Victim shtuld, difii. they would be subjected - to great- jtreuble : and ;ex pepse." The incident differs from the ordinary rurr of Puget'SouhS Srrivtghai ing cases only" in' the 'respect-tti.at 'IJie revolvers were actually fired, whereas It is usually unnecessary to use them for other than "bluffing" .purposes. In the case of. the;. Br-itishv ship Scottish Moors, at Port Xownend a few-months ago. It became necessary to use fire arms to prevent the crew from leaving the ship after they had been shang haied aboard. The docility of the hu man chattels in that case fortunately rendered it unnecessary -to. use other than the butt end of the revolver, peace being restored In the good old way with which all "bucko" mates and shanghai ers are familiar. s This little disturbance, on the Mor ven, following so quickly the numer ous minor affairs of this nature, might be expected to open the eyes of the Antediluvian Association of Foreign Sailing-Shlp Owners, which makes a discrimination of 30 cents per ton on grain freights from Portland. The own ers of the ship will be obliged to stand the expense of securing sailors to take the place of those who were taken away at Port Townsend. The master and mate will be arrested and detained, and it is not improbable that civil suits for damages against the vessel will be in stituted. In the case - of the Scottish Moors the loss through delay to ship and cargo amounted to many thousand dollars, and the same is true of a num ber of other association ships which have been detained at the Puget Sound ports this season. In the face of such evidence as this, the question might be asked: "Why does the International As sociation of Sailing-Ship Owners de mand a differential of 30 cents per ton in favor of a port where such expensive abuses exist ,and against. a port where they are unknown?" A reason .for the injustice can,' per haps, be found in the out-of-date busi ness system and lack of knowledge of present conditions in North Pacific ports. An Illustration of the ignorance of the foreigners regarding present con ditions in these ports was shown in a recent article in the New York Sun from the pen of Frank T. Bullen. This writer based his observations regard ing Portland's defects on conditions which existed twenty years ago. The International Association of Saillng Ship Owners base their discrimination against Portland on conditions which existed about ten years ago. Reason ing from these facts, we may expect that in ten or twenty years hence our antiquated friends who control the sail tonnage of the world will right the wrong they are now doing Portland by cutting out the differential, or, if they must make a difference in rates at the two ports, at least place the differential where the abuses which caused it exist .With the merging of the -Cumberland into the older Presbyterian body, the ecclesiastical differences that caused bitter hostility to arise between the dis senters and the loyal adherents of the mother church nearly three-quarters of a century ago have been happily ad- Justed. These differences were never vital, in the sense that they , affected the hope of future happiness and. last ing peace of the contestants. They were of practice rather than creed; of opinion rather than of religious belief; of the carnal mind rather than the spiritual.. Yet they have ore vented fel lowship between these two sects within a sect for the better part of a century. Well indeed may all concerned rejoice in that the old feud, the chief element ln'which was dis'ergf.f views on slav ery, now more than forty years dead. has been wiped out and the breach be tween the two healed. The vital princi ple in religion deals with the present not with the past. If the .injunction "Wisely -improve the present.- it Is time,'.' is "heeded," the dead past will be allowed to bury Its dead and future happiness will be sufficiently assured. A minimum' wage scale of $2.25 per day is'anriouriced at'sonie of the Valley sawmills, arid e'ven at that figure a suf ficient ' immber of employes " is not available. In the long-departed boom days in the Pacific Northwest a mini mum of $2.25 per day might not have proved especially attractive, and to the native Oregonian ft still presents no features of generosity. But to the new arrivals from the East and Middle "West, where wages of'$l to-$1.50 per day are the prevailing rates for common la bor,it is quite alluring, and well it may be, for the purchasing power of a dol lar.ls just as great as it -is east of the Rocky Mountains, where wages are but little- more than half those paid In Ore gon. With such great activity in lum bering and logging, railroad building and other Jindustrial enterprises, the farmer in search of harvest hands sixty days hence will experience more diffl culty than "in any previous season in recent years. The citizens of Rainier who are grieving over the publicity given sun dry recent violent doings there think their town Is neither worse nor better than others in Oregon. We hope it is not worse, and we think it is not better. But the way to improve moral or phys ical conditions anywhere is to be con vinced that a city or town is much worse than it should be. There are some citizens of Rainier who think that there are few places so bad;-and they have been the cause, or rather the oc casion, of all the trouble. It does any community good to be shaken up and to have its eyes opened, and Rainier is no exception. It is at least sensitive to what others say and think, and that -Is a good sign. When Rainier is regener ated, others may profit by its example. And we agree with Rainier that' others perhaps not all others are " not as good as they might be. ' .1 . Great Britain .seems to b; again fac ing serious -.trouble in Africa,. It has become necessary to call on the British regulars to put down -the-Zulu rebel lion, 'which has got beyond control of the colonial forces. The rebellion is led by the wily Bambata, who Is said to be receiving considerable assistance from the Boers. The subjugation of the Zulus is making such slow progress that it is,becoming -quite apparent that England's only hope for' peace -in -the Dark Continent lies In extermination of the original owners of the land. A great many British soldiers made and lost reputations in that far-away, land, and there are still opportunities for oth ers. " " ' ' '".;: In New South Wales the government Is" planning to purchase wire netting to the amount of $5,000,000 to.be sold to farmers upon the deferred payment plan, the wire to be isei in fencing out rabbits, which destroy the crops. Wouldn't it be cheaper for the gov ernment 'to 'secure.a' few Easterfi Ore gon tpy.ojgs ftpd. turr. them 'loose on the- island after enacting, a. law",'pro teoting . them.r iron, slaughter?, But tiirR would be.'only a- questUm-.of . a lew years :wh'erf tiWigorvernirierrt would find it necessary--to- appropriate" 95, OOO.DOtP'for' riyte1 Vcarp bounties.' ,""'.' John , D. ..Rockefeller artd his cohorts had, at-lot of fun running the independ ent ,oil dealers out of such places .as Canton, MarpSiilon and Oberlin; O., until they got up'-against William H. Valley, of Youngstown:; 'They undersold h'im and finally gave oil away by the. barrel and tankload, but still Vahey held on. The dispatches contain no information as to Will lam's nationality, but. it's ten to one he's Irish. Here's to Vahey as the logical candidate for President on the Democratic' ticket. " Vahey and Bryan is the battlecr'y. It is noticed that a group of promi nent business men on Second street have completed arrangements to con vert that thoroughfare into a cabbage farm. East Couch street from Twenty second street east is also lying idle, and might be profitably used for market gardening. The contractors have it all plowed and harrowed; -and it is in ex cellent condition for a nice crop" of on ions. ' . H. M. Street, who prefixes the title of "Rev." and goes about the country lec turing against prohibition, says he was rotten-egged at Olex and that when he met three armed desperadoes who ap proached to attack him out on the plains he knocked two of them down with a rock and the other fled. Good joke on the desperadoes. - Because the scales were alleged to be fifteen pounds out of balance,' the Nel-son-Herrera prizefight did not come off at Los Angeles. That is not all. The scales of Justice down in that part of the country are about 1500 pounds out of balance, or the fight would never have been advertised. 'If the Democratic party is not to be upheld, on its policy and purposes, for the welfare of the country, why are Chamberlain, Gearin, Word and the rest of our Democratic party brethren Democrats and Democratic candidates? At least three important Oregon Democrats have publicly declared over their own signatures that they will not support Governor Chamberlain for re election. They have not been fooled by the non-partisan humbug. The Presbyterian assembly side-steps the debate on the color line and refers it to the session of 1907. The reason, no doubt, is their uncertainty as to wheth er 'the color line is to be drawn in the hereafter. . ' . - . "Party lines should be forgotten," say our Democratic brethren of '"Oregon; That is. Republican party lines. AH they ask of you! is to vote for Demo crats. Mr. Burns begs to assure Mr. Puter of his distinguished consideration, and Mr. Puter ditto for Mr. Burns. It all came about after Puter.was put in jail. The Seattle saloons are .to be. closed, from 1 A. M. to 5 A. M. What in the world are the people of Seattle to do during those four thirsty hours? Honest now, , Governor,--wouldn't a Democratic Legislature suit you nearly as well?.' - . They also had made-in-Oregon weath e'r for' the 'late' made'-in-Oregon fa'ir. ' t- . . THE PESSIMIST. "Just think! - Only SGc for gas." r It is a' pity that Princess Ena and King Alfonso cannot go "to Vancouver and be married'wlthout all this fuss. Speaking of -Vancouver, it is quite a sight to see the mounted police of that place going down the street on a bicycle, followed by his dog. Such as it was, the weather was made In Oregon. ' The Fire Department occupied a strate gic position in the parade. It was placed so that the burning glances directed at the sweet-things following along behind could be cooled down' before they became dangerous. s Quite a number of people regretted the absence in the parade of the usual promi nent citizens in carriages. However, there were the members of the Ad Men's League. They were Just as handsome, and much more intellectual.- A man 'in "Philadelphia has invented an automatic rain alarm. When It begins to rain,, a bell rings, or something like that. A device of this kind may be necessary in Philadelphia, but out here in Oregon we know a rain storm when we see one. and do not need an alarm clock to tell us to get In out of the wet. - Another great genius has invented an artificial fish pond with metallic fish. The noses of the fish are magnetized so that they can be caught with an iron hook This is in New York. Things must be get ting in a bad way in America's metropolis when the disciples of Isaak Walton have to sit around and angle for a castiron fish. Once in awhile a good lie is as refresh ing and Instructive as the truth. An Eastern paper tells of a baby born in the West, of a Hindoo and an American mother. In the morning the baby is pink and rosy,-like his mother; at noon he is "dark and ginger-colored, like his Oriental dad. At night ' he becomes an alabaster white. A baby that can do a stunt like tiat won't have to work when he grows up. Aoan-cra to Correspondents, HrLNRY. "Will you please explain the difference between a Christian Scientist and arMental Scientist?" The difference is largely one of opinion- The, Mental Scientist says that the .Christian Scientist is foolish; and the Christian Scientist says that the other Is as ass. A scientist Is one who says he thinks that they are both right ' . .HARRIET. No,' the "Maid in Oregon" is not a poem by Sam Simpson. .. Milton The poem you sent is very good, but I am'afraid that it is hardly 'within the bounds of poetic license to rhyme "goat" with poet" You might substitute, "know it" for "goat," and make the first two lines read this way: "Know thee, thou immortal bard, oh, Poet!" The- worrd is wearied; tnd thou should know it. Of course, it may alter the meaning of your poem to some extent, but I do not . think that it .would be. noticed. All poets ;do - that. .Flexibility of meaning is.' one.of--t;he distinguishing elements in Joetry. :Jt it- were ' not' for that, it would not be poetry. I-regret to inform yu 't7iat' W"e'do"'n6f pay for poetry. ' '. v. ''---- ' . Motor -'Chauffeur'' is a French word. In America ,lt is. pronounced "shuffer." He Is supposed to be a- regularly employed- mechanic and experienced driv er, but' more often he -is the owner of the car' himself. 'He Is readily distin guished from the rest of the party, as it Is lie who Is seen puttering around the. machinery, cursing fearfully in a low tone, while the others sit at ease -and sing: "Oh,- we won't go home 'till morning." . Biblicus I cannot say that I agree with you entirely in your contention that the second commandment forbids us to pray for things that we will not get. Looking at it from your stand point, it does seem plausible, when a man asks the Lord for some favor that the Lord . does not grant, that he has taken the name of his Lord In vain; ye't'.bfhllcal scholars and theologians have decided that God meant that no .one should ask him to consign some one else to eternal . perdition. You should have addressed your communi cation to the puzzle department. Canis Your story is very interest ing, . but it is too long for insertion here. It certainly shows that animals do think, in spite of the opinion of eminent -naturalists and others. If you will compare any well-bred baby with a pup, you will see that they manifest an intelligence differing only in degree, with long odds in favor of- the pup. As the pair grows" older, sooner or later the baby will learn to talk if it is a girl baby, it will be sooner instead of later while the pup acquires wisdom and grace. Many, animals are capable of coherent and consecutive thought; and . before the millenium comes, the vast majority of human beings will have evolved so. that, they will know as much as a dog. Horatio A clairvoyant is not the blithering idiot , that you seem to thlr.k. The word "clairvoyant" means "clear seeing." Now, clairvoyant one who charges from $1 up for a sitting can see a sucker coming clear down the street. Clairaudience is a super-physical sense of hearing which enables him to tell by the chink of the coin in the victim's pocket, how much money the sucker has; and he soaks him accord ingly. "There" are other clairvoyants, clair voyants who do not charge anything; they are the ones who can show the goods. A conspicuous example, of the last-named seers, was Count Immanuel Swedenborg. He had personal knowl edge of some of the things, the things that are contained in heaven and earth, other than are dreamed of In your phil osophy, Horatio. M. B. WELLS. Blocks of Five" Veterans' Pension. Kansas City Star. Favorable report has been made by the House invalid pension committee upon a -bill to grant General W. W. Dudley, of Indiana, a pension of $100 per month. The beneficiary became widely known in the Presidential cam paign of 1S88. through tire "blocks of five" letter which he wrote. He lost a leg in the Civil W'ar and though he is now practicing law in Washington, D. -C., it-is claimed that he comes un der the head of "totally Incapacitated" and therefore is entitled to the maxi mum pension. LIFE IX .THE OREGO COl'XTRY Spray tbe Cows. N . According to the Myrtle Point Enter prise they are spraying the cows on Coos Bay to increase the flow of milk. Cirowlnjr Tobacco In Idaho. A local tobacco company at Orofino has started HO.000 tobacco plants In hotbeds, which will "be transplanted on 60 acre? this week. The project Includes setting out 50 acres more. Tenderfeet on Coos Bay. North Bend Harbor. Some nalefaces recently from the East have been puttine; up fly screen doors ti their houses. The next thing we know we will be having flics on the bay. Give 'Km the Glad Hand. Drain Nonpareil. Don't freeze out newcomers and capital by making them feel that they are intrud ing upon you and have no business here, simply because you happened to be here tirst. That is the Indian spirit and lic not belong to this age of progress and advancement. Whes Interior OrejKOn Blossoms. Blue Mountain Fiigle. H occurs to those who have "pioneered it" in the Northwest that the great in terior of Oregon will come to the front with greater rapidity than any section 1 the West. It has greater advantages, with less development, than any undo veloped territory of any of the adjoining states. Sex of the Tenpenny Mall Established Myrtle Point Enterprise. Tramps are becoming plentiful in thi neck of the woods. A recent specimen ol the genuine tramp had evidently been a married man in his time, as his pant? were held together with safety-pins. He presented a formidable appearance as be ' approached the back door of the resi dences and asked for a handout. Glnnders In Ynklina. Republic. Glanders has appeared In Yakima and there is considerable excitement amonn the owners of good blooded stock. A team belonging to John Herrington was shot by order of the State Veterinary In spector. This is the first appearance here since some time last Winter, when a number of horses were shot. Glanders is one of the dreaded ailments and is hard to eradicate. The "Sneak" Game. Pendleton Tribune. From Governor down, they (Democrats! are disavowing their party. The reason is simple enough for a schoolboy or a schoolgirl. Chamberlain does not men tion the word Democrat In his entire speechmaklng. He is a Roosevelt Repub lican to beat the band In the campaign, but you know what he is the- rest of the time a dyed-in-the-wool Mississippi Dem ocrat. Read, if you. please, . the Demo cratic posters throughout this county. Not one of them employs the word "Democrat." Not a speech is made In appeal to Democrats to stand by their party, but they all will. The Democratic candidates want the Republicans to be "independent" but the Democrats well, they'll vote straight anyway. Don't you think they are working it pretty hard; in fact, much too hard? Why don't we hear something1 about the "greatness of the good old Demo cratic party"? Why don't they tell us of Jefferson, Grovcr Cleveland and Bryan? Why don't they point with pride to the grand achievements of Democracy and its bright hopes of the future? Why don't they give Republicans some reason for voting except to elect their own men to office, who in grateful appre ciation will undermine the Republican party and lay other stones on the Demo cratlcstructure? Frankly, aren't they taking us for blank fools? They seem to think that we take to new fads like Democrats. We are thought to have itching sore spots and want 'em scratched. Or, perhaps, they think we need Chamberlain's colic cure, or Pierce's' pleasant pelatlves, or Smith's bile beans. Oreiron's Great Claimant. Albany Herald. A mr.n of exceeding modesty is Gov ernor Chamberlain. Whatever in legislation promises to gain popularity he ropes, brands and claims as his own. To this bold roamer over the politi-. cal range everything unguarded is a maverick. Who wrote the ten commandments? Chamberlain. Who discovered America? Chamberlain. Who saved Oregon? Chamberlain. Who is the first, the last, the best, the only, in this new and conglomerate political movement? Chamberlain. Who claims everything good In the work of a Republican Legislature? Chamberlain. Who did everything not so good in the same line? x he Legislature. Who is responsible for the local-option law, the anti-local-option senti ment, the suffrage move, the anti-suffrage movement, prison reform and the water cure as a means of grace to the convict, approval of legislative ac tion and the big stick of the veto power? Chamberlain. According to whom are ' all these -things to be credited to Chamberlain? Chamberlain. What 13 ordinarily the class! fieatlon of a man who claims to have done many things when by reason of his lack of power and opportunity he coul do and did do none of them? With the humbugs. Who Deserves tbe Credit t Arlington Record. Governor Chamberlain takes the credit of the fellow-servant law. This law was introduced by Hansbrough. of Douglas County, a Republican. The bill was prepared before the Legisla ture convened aid before Chamberlain was Inaugurated. He also claims credit for the inheritance tax law. This bill was prepared by Malarkey, of Mult nomah, before Chamberlain was Gov ernor and before he made any recom mendations. The corporation license law was prepared by Eddy, of Tilla mook,' long before Mr. Chamberlain was Governor. All these measures were prepared by Republicans and made Into laws by Republicans without the advice or. consent of the Governor. All the credit he can reasonably take to him self is that he signed them. If he had vetoed them they would most likel have been passed over his veto. Senator Allison Was Unsartln. Washington; D. C, Dispatch. Early in the afternoon it was an nounced that Senator Allison had the President's letter and would read it. Al lison was in his committee-room. One after another eager Senators left the chamber and sought Allison's hermitage to find out about it. "Has he got It?" inquired one Sena tor of another, as the other returned from Allison's room. "He says." responded the other, "that he has be.-n informed he has such a let ter, but he doesn't know of his own knowledge whether he has or no' "