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THE SUNDAY, OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER. .. 25, 1906. SUfa (Dftpnuut subscription rates, invariably in advance, (By Mill.) Dally. Sunday Included. o'-ie year $8 00 tal!y. Sunday Included. six months.... 4.25 .Daily, Sunday Included, three mont'ns.. 2.2S Dally, Sunday Included, one month 75 laliy, without Sunday, one year 8 00 Daily, without Sunday. s'x months 3.25 Dally, without Sunday, three months.. I.TS Dally, without Sunday, one month 60 (Sunday, one year 2-50 Weekly, on year (Issued Thursday)... J-SJ Gunday and Weekly, one year, 3.S0 BT CARRIER. pally. Sunday Included, on year 9.00 Dally. Sunday Included, ona month 75 HOW TO REMIT Send postoftlce money , order, express order or personal check on lour local bank. Stamps, coin or currency re at the sender's risk. Give postoffice ad dress ja tul). Including county and state. POSTAGE KATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postofflca as . 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H Johnson, Four teenth and Franklin streets. N. Wheatley. Ogden D. U Boyle; W. G. Kind. 114 25th street. ' Omaha Eiarkalow Bros., 1612 Farnam. Mageath Stationery Co.. 1308 Farnam; 240 Couth Fourteenth. Sacramento, Cal. Sacramento News Co., 43!) K street. Salt Lake Salt Lake News Co.. 77 West Eecond street South; Rosenfeld 4 Hansen. Los Angeles B. K. Amos, manager seven trcet wagons. Kan Dieo B. E. Amos. Long Beach. Cal. B. E. Amos. Pasadena. Cal. A. F. Horning. San Francisco Foster & Orear. Ferry News Stand; Hotel St. Francis News Stand. Washington. U. C Ebbltt House, Penn sylvania avenue. .. Philadelphia, Pa. Ryan's Theater Ticket Office. rORTI.AND, SUNDAY, NOV. 2.1, 1006. ELECTION OF PORT BOARD. Members of the .Port of Portland Commission should bo elected by direct vote of the people, as are the officers of other departments of government -w hich handle trie, public's tax money. And they should receive compensation for their services. Heretofore, they have- been elected by the Logtslnture, after being choeon by the Legislative delegates from JIultnoniah County. This method has been one of crooked politics. A bops in Portland has dictated the appoint ments at Salem over a telephone wire. Legislators have wrangled over selec tions when they should have devoted their energies to the serioue business tif lawmaking. As one faction has triumphed over another or has had disagreements in 11b own ranks, it hae supplanted of fending members of the Commission with others, until it has become cus tomary, at each wssion at Salem, to 'linker" with the personnel of the body. These fights between sessions of the Legislature have broken out in the Commission Itself. Factions have fought for control. Deals have been made to pot down certain members and to lift up others. Nor does it ap pear that Portland'? channel to the eea is deeper or wider thereby. After each convulsion on the board the public has expected that fighting would oease and that the board would pc-ttle down permanently to business. But trouble has recurred. Even now there are bitter animosities on the Commission and an attempt is to be anade. again to "clean it out" in the Legislature this Winter. The Commission, in the laet fiscal year, handled some $2D0.000. of which more than $200,000 were receipts for the twelvemonth and about $110,000 was raised from taxes. It le therefore one of four largo branches of government in Multnomah, the other? being the county, Ihe city and the schools. The government of the port, unlike -that of the city, the schools and the county, is not chosen by the people.' It Is, Therefore, quite to be expected that the Commission should not respond promptly to demands of the public. An example of thi? was, seen in the un willingness of the Commission to ap prove the Portland & Seattle Railway's bridge plans, below Swan Island, which en overwhelming public demand forced the Commission to approve. Just re cently the Commission sanctioned an extension into the river of the wharves or the Portland Gas Company, Allen Sj, Lewis, J. C. Flanders and the O. R. & N a harbor grab that might have 1een secured by the wharf owners, had not Major Langfltt and then Colonel Jtocsslcr, United States engineers suc cessively in charge of this harbor dis trict, opposed. No branch of government in Oregon, outside of Multnomah County, handles fo much of the people's money, except the State Government. None of the thirty-two other counties collects so much money from the people. Yet the officers of those other governments are elective. The officers of the Port of Portland Commission also should, be chosen by the people, be made amen able to tho public will and' be held re Bponsible to the people, from whose ipockets comes the money which they handle. They should receive compen sation as do members of the county board or the City Council of Portland, so that members of limited mean? can afford to devote time to the public business. Five members would constitute a suf ficiently large board. Like those of the School Board, one could be elected each year, in the successive city and general elections. And the senior mem ber s"hould be ex-officio chairman, so es to avoid wrangling over control. The voters of the Pprt district can make these changes under the initia tive, but the Legislature can make them quicker. The lawmakers for Multnomah County have opportunity to lender a needed public service. ' The "no questions asked" policy of settling criminal affairs Is not only contrary to law but subversive of good government. The victim of petty theft may think the thief sufficiently punished by a return of all or part tf the property stolen, but the com promise i? as wrong and as evil in its Consequences as the compromise with a bank clerk or other trusted employe who gives up the plunder merely be cause he has been caught and can thus avoid the penalty of his crime. The administration of justice in crim inal cases comes within the province of the State and not of the individual, for it is to the State that the individual looks for protection and redress. The civil claim the Injured person has against the wrongdoer is one that may properly be compromised by those di rectly concerned, tuit when the settle ment carries with It an agreement not to proceed criminally, every party to the agreement becomes a party In crime. Vengeance is mine .salth the Law. i THE DIVISIONS OF A PARTY. The New York Times, an independent Democratic newspaper, presents an in teresting analysis of the constituent elements of the Democratic party, which it finds divided into three parts, each of which is hostile to the other two. The Times says, however, that "the aetonishing thing about .It is that this division, which would be fatal to all animal organisms save some of the lower invertebrates, is actually a sign of the party's unconquerable vitality. It is sturdily and belligerently alive in each of the fragments, and they are animated by the common purpbse not to go out of business." . But there .is no probability that they can be got together. The Bryan Democrats form one part. Undoubtedly they constitute the larg est element of the party. But there is a tendency among large bodies of men who have been acting with the party towards more extreme ideas and pur poses than those for which the leader ship of Bryan stands. Hearst has put himself at the head of this body. The Times says: "A man who is able and willing to spend $256,000 in a five weeks' campaign for'lhe Governorship, who is known to have spent other large sums in building up his organization and preparing for the capture of the nom ination, and who, furthermore, spent several hundred thousand dollars for newspaper support of his ambitions, is a pretty formidable antagonist in a faction fight. He cannot be dislodged by conferences and resolutions." The third faction in the party is com posed of Democrats who adhere to the old faith and who may be called "con servative." It includes a large class, which "enforces its will at the polls by voting for Republican candidates against the two false leaders." Divided as it is, therefore, the Times concludes, that "the Democratic party is not in a position to win victories. Indeed it is beyond mortal vision to see how.it is possible for the party to be victorious so long as Mr. Bryan and Mr. 'Hearst continue in the field, each putting his destructive ambition above party interest, party union, and party success.' The conservative Democrats believe these two men to be about equally dangerous; they are equally unacceptable. They will not have them, they will continue to vote for Republic an candidates as a means of baffling and defeating them. The union of the Hearst and Bryan forces would in crease the danger, but it would also' increase the resources of defense. The menace of a Bryan supported by a Hearst would augment the Republican reinforcement from the Democratic camp. The Republicans and the con servative Derrtocrate together consti tute an undoubted majority of the vot ers of the United States. Notwith standing the spread of new and de lusive ideas, we are confident they will be in the majority in 1008." Ul'REU OF ALT, SORTS. "Victories were cheap at the Trans Mississippi Congress in 'Kansas City. Few causes did the congress fail to indorse. Few brows did it leave un laureled. Rivers and harbors were treated most generously. The Father of Waters received a touching recog nition. The foastwise canal for Gal veston was patronized and the harbors of Oregon were commended for im provement. Mr. Root's project to en dow the monopolies with a subsidy and Mr. Bryan's resolution condemning monopolies were hailed with hallelujahs equally vigorous. It is true that Mr. Bryan's resolution was opposed by Mr. John P. Irish, but the silver-tongued son of the Platte will probably take this for an addition al tribute. It only adds brilliancy to his victory and verdure to his laurels The general feeling of peace and joy with which one peruses the proceedings of the congress is somewhat chilled by an apprehension lest so many oppos ing indorsements may neutralize one another. A convention which indorses everything differs only imperceptibly from one which indorses nothing. To approve Mr. Shaw's ship subsidy and Mr. Bryan's anti-monopoly plank si multaneously equals the performance of the Ohio Republican convention which commended Roosevelt and For aker in the same sentence. Such a reconciliation of opposites is truly Hegelian in subtlety, "but it seems shorn of much practical value. The young author whose novel was rejected by fifty-three publishers in swift succession contended with some show, of logic that rejections so nu merous really amounted to a publica tion. Since all the publishers had read the book, or said they had. It had reached a wide and very select- public. Whether the indiscriminate ' indorse ments which the congress so generous ly showered upon all sorts and condi tions of men and upon causes of every color will effect anything more than if it had denounced them all may be doubted; but it showed at least a kind disposition. What is more admirable than kindness? DISPOSAL OF SVRPI.VB WEALTH. Andrew Carnegie appears in the North American Review in a strong argument for the disposal of the sur plus wealth of the individual in bulk sufficient to insure the permanency of the benefaction instead of doling it out piecemeal, so to speak, in small quan tities. He cites in support of his po sition and inferentially at least in sup port of his disbursement of his means tfor the establishment of libraries, the Cooper Institute, from which a' steady stream of benefactions flow to the best portion of the race in New York, among those not possessed of means and compares these with the re sults that would have followed for the good of the masses from an equal sum distributed by Mr. Cooper in his life time in the form of wages the highest form of distribution, since it is for work performed, not for charity be stowed. Much of this sum, Mr. Car negie truly says, if given outright in small quantities, would . have been wasted in the indulgence of appetite, some of it in excess, and he doubts whether the part put to the best use, namely that of adding to the comforts of the home, would have yielded re- eults for the race, as a race at all comparable from those which are flow ing and are to flow from the Cooper Institute from generation to genera tion. ; -. Without deprecating in the least the benefits that a very large number of persons derive from the great benefac tion of Peter Cooper, this last conten tion of Andrew Carnegie may be se riously questioned. That which adds, through the wage-earning power and achievement of the working man, to the comforts of the home that his toil provides for his family, has an in fluence that is far-reaching so far reaching indeed that no estimate pure ly financial can cover it. It means the cultivation of a love for and happiness in home life that is at the base of all civilization, all. growth in grace,, all en during pleasure. The libraries gen erously established and richly endowed by Mr. Carnegfe have . given pleasure of. an individual type to thousands who love books; the amount in aggregate of these -endowments if added day by day .and year By; year to " the wages of men who toil' in the great steel plants, would have blossomed in added pleasures in thousands of homes where in dwell wives and children to share them. A part of the sums thus paid would no doubt have gone to gratify base appetites and desires, but there is Reason to suppose that the larger portion would have multiplied the pleasures that honestly earned com petency brings to American homes. And why should the honestly earned wage or any portion thereof be with held from the earner because, forsooth, he may not spend it to his employer's likng? Mr. Carnegie sees danger, or at best but ' temporary good in allow ing wealth to circulate in small sums among th,e masses, beyond the point somewhat indefinitely designated as a "living wage." Surely no estimate could be more antagonistic to a wire public policy which recognizes individ ual effort in ithe maintenance of the home and the family as the first duty of the American citizen. LEONCAVALLO. In the modern operatic school of Italy three men stand out with a certain prominence. They are Puccini, Mas cagni and Leoncavallo. Of them all Puccini is probably the best' musician, but Mascagni and Leoncavallo have en joyed in their turns a world wide popu larity. Mascagni leaped to fame in 1890 with his Cavalleria Rueticana, an opera in one act whose plot deals with the violent passions of primitive men and whose music is intense, melodra matic and unmelodious. It abounds with harsh dissonances which doubtless add to the fierce expression that the author seeks. The orchestration shows an effort to make the instruments fol low the themes of the play, developing a doufcle drama as Wagner did. one in words and one in musical sounds. The old Italian opera consisted of a series of airs, almoct invariably beau tiful, strung together more or less loosely with recitative. It was an ir rational sort of composition, but it was delightful. The Wagnerians have as sailed its theory, or lack of theory, with complete success and the world will probably see no more of it except in some transient revival of Rigoletto or II Trovatore and their kin. But, as AVebster said of Dartmouth College, there are those that love the old-fashioned Italian opera in" spite of progress. Verdi was its last supreme master, and even he in his later and greater works deserted his original manner and followed the ways of Wag ner. In Aida and Otello he successfully combined the lyric genius of Italy with the dramatic impulse of Northern Europe. The younger Italian composers seek to do the same, but they are not so successful as the veteran who wrote FalstaiT at the age of fourscore. Leon cavallo made his great hit with Pag liacci in 1892. It took- the world by storm, as Cavalleria Rusticana had two years before, and in their essen tial features the two operas resemble each other closely. Even the plots are not dissimilar. In Pagliacci the tale is told of an erring wife and, a venge ful husband. The characters are actors in a company of strolling comedians. Nedda. the wife of Canio, has two lov ers besides her husband. Their names are Tonio. who is -of low degree, and Silvio, who is somewhat higher in man ners and estate. Of the two she pre fers Silvio, as women have since time began. Tonio meditating revenge, overhears their fond vows and brings the jealous husband upon the scene of their sweet endearrrfents, but he ar rives only in time to see Silvio vanish, and with -his efforts to extort a confes sion from his wife the first act ends. The second act involves a dramatic device not unfamiliar to the English dTama. It is a play within a play, such as Shakespeare used in Hamlet and for the same purpose. The mimic play repeats the plot of the real one. As it progresses the passions of the actors gain the upper hand. Play be comes reality and Canio slays his wife upon the stage. Silvio, who is among the spectators, rushes to her . rescue only to share her fate. Such is the tale which Leoncavallo has set to music in Pagliacci. The music partakes of the character of the plot. It is violent, hasty , in movement and somewhat poor in melody. Harsh discords ex press the undisciplined natures of the actors. But the orchestration is skill ful and the opera excites and interests if it does not much instruct. Probably most Americans do not buy opera tickets for the sake of instruction, If they did their purpose would fail for lack of opportunity. In Germany and Italy the inhabitants of cities smaller than Portland enjoy the privilege of hearing the best music frequently and cheaply. In this coun try Mr. McKinley long since taught us the pernicious effect's of cheapness and we continue to heed his lessons. Oppor tunities such as Leoncavallo's vieit are rare and necessarily expensive. The masses are excluded from enjoying his art not only by its cost, but also by the limits of the theater. Moreover, the enjoyment of good music is thin and exiguous unless the ear is hab ituated to it by frequent hearings, Much of the musical enthusiasm even of the well-to-do who can pay the prices of opera' tickets is simulated. This is not said in reproach. The sim ulation is a tribute to art, perhaps the only tribute we can pay in this coun try, but it were a much finer tribute could we in some way establish and support domestic companies of the quality of Leoncavallo's. Why can we not? Why must opera in cities like Portland remain a rare, exceptional, expensive luxury? So long as this is the case the masses must continue to listen to ragtime and to believe that it is really more en joyable than Pagliacci or Rigoletto. In Italy the class of people who here sat isfy their ears with "A Hot Time in the Old Town" know and love the mel odies of. Verdi. We say they are more artistic by nature than the Americans are; and this may be so. But still the enjoyment of art is greatly depend ent upon opportunity and habit. Had our plain people the same access to mu sic and the better drama.,whleh Europe ans enjoy, one cannot-doubt that they would soon appreciate them almost as deeply. It may be gussed that an ex quisite taste for art and music is at least as valuable to a people as cheap novels and yellow journals. Whether an endowed theater would not prove a nobler gift to a town than a library is debatable. We have nothing to say against libraries, but there is much to be 6aid for theatere. It- is not an ig noble wish that sometimes in the fu ture our great givers of money may de flect the tide of their eleemosynary millions from the colleges and IWraries and torn it toward the drama and oth er forms of art, especially music. What a change for the better it would effect in our civilization had we an endowed theater in every city of i the size of Portland? BAR SERVICE, HERE AND ELSEWHERE. In another column this morning the Oregonian notes a number of eases where ships have been delayed and placed in great danger while endeav oring to enter the Straits of Fuca.' At tention is called to these storm delayed vessels, .not for the purpose of cast ing any reflection on the entrance to Puget Sound, but simply to show that the sime conditions which have pre vented vessels entering the Columbia River have also served to keep them out of Puget Sound. There is such a strong northerly current setting toward the west coast of Vancouver Island that vessels approaching the straits exhibit more caution than is necessary when approaching the Columbia River, where the opportunity of working out of a dangerous position is better. At the same time wrecks are much more frequent proportionately near the en trance to the Straits of Fuca than they are at the entrance to the Co lumbia River. In the face of such a showing as is made by the storm-bound fleet that has just entered Puget Sound, it is difficult to understand why foreign shipowners should continue to cite the matter of delays off the mouth of the river as one of the reasons for demanding a differential on freights. The practice of blaming the Columbia River and the Port of Portland for all of the. delays that happen to shipping coming to this port has perhaps become too popular among some of the shipmasters. The pilot service at the mouth of the river has had much to answer for in the past, and the tug service has also come in for its share of the blame, although since the retirement of Cap tain. Bailey, of Puget Sound, there has been small cause for complaint of the tug service and the pilot service has, to a certain extent improved with the tug service. But tugs and pilots alike are unable successfully to - withstand ' the on slaughts of such terrific gales as have swept the Pacific for the past six weeks, and, in the final results of these, unprecedented gales, it will be found that, wherever shipmasters have exercised ordinary judgment,- they have experienced no. worse weather or worse pilotage and tug service off the mouth of the Columbia River than off the Straits of, Fuca. This is a fact which should be impressed upon shipowners and no further en couragement should be offered to enlarge on the alleged disabili ties of the port for the purpose of hiding their own shortcomings.. We can never have the best possible .pilot service so long as the existing system of compulsory pilotage remains or the pilots are not held responsible for their delinquencies. General Manager O'Brien of the O. R. & X. Co., has made a radical improvement in the tugboat service by following the old Flavel precedent of keeping the tugs down near the mouth of the river instead of at Astoria. If he can add to this im provement another strong feature of the Flavel regime and take charge of the pilots, thus bringing the entire bar service under one head and manage ment, the shipowners will have the last vestige of their cause for complaint over the bar service removed. THE FINANCIER OF THE CIVIL WAR. Ellis Paxon Oberholtzer, under the title "Jay Cooke and the Financiers of the Civil War," in the November Century, brings some very interesting facts to view that are not recorded in the battle andi military achievements of those far-away, troublous times. In cidentally he depicts the enormous waste of war, but his primary pur pose is to show- the rare financial skill and sagacity with which the great fin ancier placed the five-twenty and seven-thirty . loans for Secretaries Chase, Fes?enden and McCulIoch which gave Hie thews and sinews of war to the distressed Government. To write the history of wars on their military side is one thing; to write it upon the financial side is quite an other. And when this last is done it will be more clearly understood how much armies and navies depend for the victories that they achieve upon the energy, determination and strategy displayed in assembling the great sums of money needed to 'wage mod ern warfare. The world har-grown 'larger in many ways in forty years, but this does not make the task of Jay Cooke the less gigantic. The Franco-Pruesian war increased the debt of France about a thousand mil lion dollars exclusive of the great in demnity in an equal sum which Bis marck exacted of the prostrate enemy of Germany. French representatives, aghast at the enormous exaction, de clared while negotiations of peace were in progress that the sum demanded exceeded the total amount of money then (1871) in circulation in the entire world. But Bismarck was inexorable and the total cost of the war into which he had teased and. bullied the French' nation was about' $1,850,000,000. According to the figures supplied by the Japanese embassy at Washington Japan spent aBout $650,000,000 in the late war with Russia. The latter na tion added about $1,500,000,000 to her debt as the result of this war, a sum which takes no account of her van ished navy. These sums seem great are great. Both these wars were relatively of short duration, butthe debts incurred shrunk by comparison with the amount added to the American war debt by four years of civil .strife. This enor mous aggregate reached nearly $2,800, 000,000, exclusive of all that could be, and was, obtained by heavy taxation. The record shows that we raised in five years by long loans and virtually without foreign' aid almost as great a sum as Great Britain floated on her credit between the years of 1793 and 1816 the period of her long struggle against Napoleon and her second Amer ican war. Nor was this all. There were the debts of the loyal states and' 1 municipalities as well as a vast amount of obligations that never were paid which represented tbe self-sacrifice of the people of the South to their "ideal. Indeed, it is said that the most care-' and expert of statisticians cannot compute the full money cost of the. Civil War. The vast expenditures made neces sary by the exigencies of war; by our natural unpreparednea? for war; by the haste and consequent waste in get ting troops into the field, could not be met by any methods known to the Government of the United States. The great financial ability of Jay Cooke was called to meet the emergency. He floated the great five-twenty and seven-thirty loans; sold bonds and treas ury notes when the department and the sub-treasuries could not sell them; he surpassed all other bankers and brokers whom the anxious and puzzled secretaries tried, and became known to them as the one man who could draw from the people the great sums ab sorbed daily in conducting the war. After its close he war? the uncom promising foe of repudiation, regarding the debts which he had been Instru mental In distributing among the peo ple as sacred bus!ns6 obligations. He thus became a wholesome Influence in political circles, 'as he had been a powerful factor in financial matters. Viewing his achievement through the light ofethe years its magnitude is more apparent than when it pressed closely upon the sight of a people sad ly dimmed with tears. The record fur nishes a chapter in finance well worth studying, since it produces by shifting the kaleidoscope of events, the cost and wastefulness of war and the financial acumen that is' necessary to carry on war by distributing its enormous bur dens over years of recuperative effort. The personal and family history dis closed in the trial of Sidney S'.oane. the 18-year-old boy who killed his father with an ax at his home in Spo kane several months ago, is at once disgusting and appalling. An effort will be made to prove that the youth was mentally irresponsible, owing to the excessive use of intoxicants by his father for years prior to his birth. If this charge or contention is sJStained by evidence, the young parricide should end his days in an insane asylum rather than upon the scaffold, while the verdict of intelligence in reference to his father will be that, having taken the sword, he perished by the sword. If the city has power to compel own ers of lots and blocks within its limits to construct sidewalks 60 that pedes trians may get to and from their homes and places of business, it should use no discrimination in the exercise of this power. Whether a private citizen own ing a single lot or a real estate com pany owning many blocks is ordered, to lay and maintain a sidewalk abutting upon the premises owned, the order should be obeyed, if not willingly, by compulsion, after the manner desig nated by municipal law. Dr. iosiah Strong, president of the American Institute of Social Service, puts a statement of the loss of life annually incurred in prosecution of our "peaceful industries," in a startling way. He says: "Taking the lowest of our estimates, the total number of casualties suffered by our industrial army in one year is equal to the aver age annual casualties of our Civil War, plus those of the Philippine War, plus those of the Russian, and Japanese War." The official canvass shows that Chi cago did not elect as judge the negro who had unofficially a small plurality. Senator Tillman wasn't allowed to epcak on the race question in Chicago, but he was there long enough, appar ently, 'to introduce a few . South Caro lina methods in counting election re turns. The Oregonian, by turning back over its files, could find many an editorial written twenty to thirty years ago, and even further back, urging purchase by the State of the locki? at Willamette Falls. Somehow- this result has been mighty hard to reach. In our erithusiaom over Oregon ap ples let us not lose sight of the Good Roads movement. Every county that has apples of the "just-as-good" sort should be .building highways "just as good" as crushed rock surfaces can make them. Portland has a lot of Caruso "mash ers," especially cigar store and street qorner "johnnies." who, while not "pinching" their victims, otherwise make themselves a nuisance. Regimen at Kelly's Butte would do them good. Seven men have been brought down by bullets in Marion County in six months. That is a pretty bad record for a county as peaceable as Marion usually is. Three of the victims were peace officers. Now we are getting the clear weather the farmers need lo complete their Fall work. One season with another, the weather man is pretty good to the Oregon agriculturist. Hood River will have another Inning next strawberry time, and the "just as good" claim will go up from oth ers. But let's not borrow trouble. Many persons who have wanted the Gould millions scattered forget that the person who has accomplished more for that end than anybody is Bonf. -.Taspar Jennings Is to have a new trial. Well, don't be too long getting at it. Perhaps there will be another error and another reversal. Of course Caruso's fine is an Insult to a gentleman of his set. Any cur tailment of liberty always encounters opposition. A baby show contest between Hood River and Willamette Valley might be next in order. Here's a tip to Dan Mc Allen. In recent years Thanksgiving has ac quired a new meaning; it marks the end of the college football season. Mr. Harriman this time is on the band wagon of public sentiment, in regard to public ownership. It might have been different with Caruso had he been a Pittsburg mil lionaire. ' Let Boni cheer up. There are more American heiresses. ONE COLUMN OF VERSE. Ballnda to Gentle Jane. Some weeks ago the - Baltimore News printed three verses telling about the adventures of "Gentle Jane, the Auto Fiend,'-' and since then there have been additional verses printed in newspaper in various parts of the country. Some of the .best additions: Gentle Jane whizzed through the town, Running many people down: Still she gave her car but praise. Said: "It has such killing ways!" 1 Carolyn Wells. Gentle Jane raced down a hill In the rain, and had a pill; When she- pulUd herself together. Jane exclaimed: "It'a falling weather!" Ralph A. Lyon. T.ast week Tuesday Gentle Jane . Met a' parsing railroad train; "Good afternoon," she sweetly said. But the blamed train just cut her dead. Yale Record. Rest In peace, poor ill-starred Jane, Tangled In your sprocket chain. She la dead, but up above her Lawyers say ahe- can recover. Houston Post. Scorching down the golden street, Jane strikes every soul she meets: When she "honks" the spirits Jump, Thinking it Is Gabriel's trump. - Cleveland Leader. Man, your wits are all at eea, l' Heaven is not for such as she: Jane went down below and got Hers for scorching, good and hot. Boston Transcript. And the Devil danced to see Jane take hers so merrily; Said: "Glad to board you. gentle soul Tour job Is to shuffle coal." S. P. M. Av Hymn Revised. Life. (A corporation has been formed to bottle and ship water from the river of Jordan for baptismal purposes. ) On Jordan's stormy banks I stand . .And cast a wistful eye Across the stretch of barren sand The stream has pumped dry. A weary pilgrim, here I "wait, My fevered brow to lave But by transcontinental freight They've shipped the bounding wave.. Long time ago I turned my feet Fair Jordan's banks to strike- The river glimmers in the heat. As dusty as a pike. I see across to Canaan's land, Where shovel, scoop and dredge Are loading up the soil and sand And setting fields on edge. On Sinai's mount the drills now hum And blasts till all the air They're quarrying new tablets from The rock formations there. Each hallowed spot that once I dreamed A place serene and dear Is no-w with excavations seamed To make a souvenir. i With Sinai carved in tablets small. And Canaan boxed in pecks. And Jordan held in bottles tall. This thought my soul must vex: t)o we now face the dreadful day. And is it near at hand. When pinners In a hurry may Get their religion canned'.' What Have You Done? S. K. Kiser in Chicago Kecord-Herald. You are going to do great things, you say Bt:t what have you done? You are going to win in a splendid way. As others have won: Tou have plans that when they are. put in foce Will make you sublime; Y'ou have mapped out a glorious upward course But why dun t'you climb? You're not quite najy to start, you say; If you hope to win The tlm to be starting Is now today Don't dally; begin! No man liasrver been ready as yet - Nor ever will be; You way fall ere you reach where your hopes are set But try- it and see. Tou are going to do great things; you say You have splendid plans; Your dreams are of .heights that are far away ; They're a hopeful man's : But the world, when it Judges the as for you. At tho end. my son. Will think not of what you are going to do. But of what you've done. The Miller's Daughter. Alfred Tennyson. It is the miller s daughter. And she is grown so dear, so dear. That I would be the jewel Tiiat trembles at her ear; Tor, hid In ringlets day and night. I'd touch her neck so warm and whlta And I would be the girdle About her dainty, dainty waist. And her heart would beat against ma In sorrow and in rest; -.And I should know If it beat right. I'd clasp it round so close and tight. And 1 would be the necklace. And all day long to fall and riss TTpon her dainty bosom. With her laughter or her sighs: And I would He so light, so light. I scarce should be unclasped at night. The Limit. f Mcl.andburgh Wilson in Llppincotts. Give Copernicus due credit, And a eulogistic toast. For explaining Just the workings Of the planetary host. Give a meed of praise to Newton, As we quaff another cup. For his lucid explanation Why an apple won't fall up. And, r"gardlng definitions For the Ignoiant to hunt, Noah Webster's dictionary Did a modest little stunt. But you realize those sages Had an easy job to swing. When you first explain a ball game To a fluffy sweet young thing. It Slmpllflrn Msltem. Pendleton Tribune. Our evening, contemporary (Pendle ton East Orcgronlan) has discovered that the reports of the Associated Tress are "doctored" by the trusts in order to hamper the alleged "growth of the Government ownership idea." It refers to its reports as "news," in quo tatlon marks. This discovery of our contemporary is so absurd that It is positively amusing. Tho Associated Press reports are taken by all the lead ing papers of the country. Including the Tribune papers of every conceiv able sort of belief on public questions. The claim is too flimsy to discuss. But one good feature of the "discovery" will be to relieve the Portland Journal and a few other Oregon papers of any feeling of envy as to alleged monopoly of the privilege of the A. P. reports. Nobody cares now if The Oregonian does have a monopoly of a thing that no body else wants. And then, besides, there is nothing quite so sour as a really sour grape. Chickens With Horned Heads. Nauvoo (111.) Rustler. A man residing near Mount Sterling is the possessor of a number of freak chickens. The fowls in question are small, weighing when full grown about four pounds, and the peculiar circum stance is that they have two horns which grow on the top of the head and measure from four and one-half to five inches in length. The horns are shaped .the same as those of a goat. Why nature has pro vided them no one has been able to ex-slain. ' THE PESSIMIST. Sir Thomas Lipton says that he is In no hurrj' to be married, but that ha ex pects, when his time conies, that tho Lord will provide him .with a suitable bride. In the meantime, no doubt, he) would appreciate it very much If th Lord would provide him a - yacht that could win the America's cup. Occasionally there is a strong move ment among the Christians throughout the world against any further degrada tion of the guileless Hindoo by selling him factory-made gods. The present agita-" tion followed the discovery that manu facturers in America were selling a su perior god for less money than the) British god factories could turn out. The excitement is peculiarly intense among the orthodox in Enzland , One reproach that has been leveled at Portland is that nothing ever happens here that gives rise to popular excite ment. Portland has been singularly peaceful. Quite, recently, however, all sorts of things1 have been doing, and Portland has been like other cities. Aban doned babies have been left on strangers' y doorsteps; a belligerent harbormaster took a shot at the man In the moon; a number of laborers were seriously In jured during the progress of a recent strike, just like they do in Chicago; and now a lady named Rhude has had her brother-in-law arrested because he was rude. This lady whose name Is spelled Rnuda With a strong Id.-a was imbued That her sister's "hub" Dick fc Was unfaithful and slick, But her attempts to expose him were crude. By phone she did often allude To the doings she claimed to have viewed. But the recalcitrant Dick Quite properly and quick Said to her, you're a meddlesome prud. It was then for a warrant she sued To arrest her brother-in-law rude. He was taken to Jafl But he had his own bail. Oh, the troubles that this lady has brewed! Science Noles. Those Americans who imagine that members of the royal family of lOuropn arc ornamental merely, will be surprised to know that Jhe Princo of Wales is quite an inventive genius. His latest ef fort is a revolving fireplace. A neces sity for the strictest economy on tiie port of the average Brititsh householder fur nished the Inspiration for His Royal High ness' noble conception. Ho graciously conceived the idea that a fire which would warm the dining-room and at the same, or rather previous to that ti-.uc. cook the dinner, would fill a long-felt want in his eminent father's kingdom. In America the same result would he at tained by eating in the kitchen, but in England such an undignified performance would be impossible. Full details as to the workings of the Prince's fireplace are lacking, but it. seems that, in appearance it resembles a storm door. It is mounted on a pivot, and by means of a long handle and a bevel gear the fire is somehow or other transferred from the kitchen range to the dinins-room grate. Difficulties that might rise Trom differences of opinion between the mistress and the cook as to when the lire should he in tho dining room and when in the kitchen ate de viated by placing the handle In ;ha kitchen. The smell of frying beefsteak, 'am an' hopgs and other odors is ex cluded from the dining-room by tne storm door arrangement. Of course, it will be seen that this device is available only in houses where the dining-room and kitchen lie along side each other. Where the kitchen is In the basement and the dining-room is above, two separate tires will be neces sary, but the kitchen fire may be turned into the scullery to cheer the "scullery maid In her work. Tlie Poet's Corner. The Sunday before Thanksgiving Is our annual clearance day for left-over poetry. The following letter from a Teutonic Iricr.d was delayed in transmission, oth erwise it would have appeared at a more fitting time: Dear Pessimist: It looks dat vay to a mann under a, vaggon. HEINltlCH E. His enigmatical sentence doubtless re fers to a poem which he inclosed. Owing to the fact that our staff Interpreter is away on his vacation, we are compelled to print tho poem as it is. This is tho way it looks in manuscript: Ier iSalvashim Off J'ortlund. Jake und Shill went up to IUll "Und say. Jim. say how is it.'" Shpoke slily old Jim: "The sba-nce is slim For Portland bud I'll save it." Dhen Jake ha tooked a tit and shooked TremcnJously mitt lafTter. . He tumbled to his Joke, you know, Und Shill came tumbling after. Answers to Correspondents. HOMKR. "Yoti are always poking fun at other people'3 poetry.. How about that thing you wrote youreclf In last Sun day's paper. It is about as rotten as they make 'em." You are right. Homer, but be calm. All poetry is rotten, particularly tho poetry that I write. .Some day I will wrile a good poem, and then you will be sor.-y that you spoke. I'rinceton. X. J., Oct. I'J, 1 HOC,. Doa r fclir: You slat.- in Th Oregonian of October 7 that people make fun of stu h street naming in our city as results in VI- K,-.sl. Twentv flrst strict north, elc. Woat would thny do in Atlantic illy whero the same prlnclplo gives these combination: North North Car olina aviiue. South North Carolina ave nue. North South Carolina avenue, Soutu South Carolina avenue. The Fast does sur pass us in some things. W. I.. WHITTMCSEY. What would they do? A person who had b.-cn drinking would sign the pledge at once. II. B. "WELLS. InriRtrd Profits. Speaking of the rwent showing of the Pullman Company and the Wells l'argo Kxpress Company's enormous profits, the New York Press Wys: There Is on'y one way to put a stop to this highwayry. and that is to have a valu ation of railroad, express and sleeping-car property by the Government. It is the set tled policy of tho Nation, aa fixed by the United States Supreme Court, that a corpo ration enjoying privileges from Government 'has a right to charge for public service only enough to pay a fair return upon the capital actuallj- Invested. Sleeping-car and express companies, which exist only by favor of Government and of rallroad di rectors who own the majority of their stock, have no right to capitalize their grip upon the public and then force the public to pay enormous dividends on that inflated capital ization. Valuation of the property of these corporations will establish what would be fair rates for the service they give, and then the Government could hold express and sleeping-car charges down. , Aliciu! An Eel Story. Liverpool Post. ' Some Eels are hard to kill. A fisherman of Port Isaac. Cornwall, Kngland, recently cut up a large conger eel he had caught for bait for his lobster pots, and min utes afterward picked up the head to throw it into the sea. The Jaws if the eel's head opened and the fisherman's forefinger was seized between the harp teeth. The finger was badly crushed.