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JPORTLAA'D, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30.
WRONG OX BOTH SIDES.
We shall mention only to condemn the
riotous acts of the Soo laborers. They
have earned the punishment of the law
and they are in a fair way to get it
The way to collect wages or any other
debt in this country is not to organize
mobs and wreck property. They are
wrong:, their conduct Is Indefensible.
And yet the fair-minded man can but
see that all the wrong: Is not on their
side. The dispatches say that this mob
of rioters consists chiefly of ignorant
Italians, Finns, Norwegians and
Frenchmen. It 1s not to be supposed
that they apprehend the majesty of the
law as fully as It Is understood and
venerated by the educated American.
They are ignorant. All they know is
that they were promised wages and the
promise has been broken. The "Wall
street difficulties of Lake Superior Con
solidated are unknown to them. They
are broke. They are hungry. They are
readily Influenced by the hot heads
among them who counsel violent re
venge. If men of wealth and power could
only find it in their hearts to sympa
thize with the poor and helpless; if men
of education could summon up the.
resolution to look at things as they
must appear to the Ignorant foreigner,
unused to our language, our ways and
our fine financial operations, there
"would be less arrogance on the one
hand and Jess bitter resentment on the
other. Perhaps, also, there would be
less putting men to work when there
Is no money on hand to pay them with.
HOW TO SUPPRESS GAMBLING.
District Attorney Jerome, of New
York, has been taking soundings of the
situation since the moral wave brought
in' by Mayor Low's administration sub
Sided, and he is enabled to announce
that the gambling-houses are again
"wide open." A little while ago the
District Attorney , instituted active pro
cedure against the gamblers, broke into
their establishments, scared some of
them out of town and collected from
others large sums in fines, forfeitures
and confiscations. For a time all went
swimmingly. Now he reports that again
the "games are wide open."
This is not an unprecedented experl-.
ence. It is, in fact, so far as American
cities are in general concerned, the rec
ord of, all precedents. Reform ls spas
modic, normal conditions are the con
tinuance of mankind In the Vices which
It craves. The man of 21 who wants
to gamble or get drunk, the woman of
18 who Is unwilling to practice chastity
can rarely be restrained by courts and
policemen for any great length of time.
Sometimes a chagrin at- this spasmodic
system Impels municipal authorities to
adopt a steady policy of stated fines
with modified privileges.
This, however, is not the point of the'
story. "What. is. significant is the con
clusion that District Attorney Jerome
draws from his discovered state of
facts. He is against Mayor Low, but it
does not occur to him to denounce the
Mayor as the author of the gambling
Tevival or call upon all good citizens to
join Tammany Hall as a means of civic
righteousness. He recognizes, instead,
that if gamblers are to be convicted
as well as arrested, his own responsibil
ity in the matter Is not to be evaded.
This, therefore, is what he says:
I have spent tho money I received last In
securing evidence against the gambling
houses and closing them. I have been kept
In touch with the gambling situation, and
know what should be done. I am reliably
Informed that the gambling houses in- Man
hattan are wide open now, and I want to
get the money so that I can go against
these places as I have gone before.
The fact that District Attorney Man
ning has done nothing to suppress gam
bling in Portland, if emphasized, as The
Oregonlan is endeavoring to emphasize
it, will Increase the sense of obligation
to him felt by the gamblers of this city,
and may not be distasteful to him as
he reflects upon the political possibili
ties of future elections. This is unfor
tunate, because we have the right to
look for the Jerome quality in Prose
cuting Attorneys as we look for Seth
Low qualities in Mayors; but it is not
so unfortunate or unfair as is the per
sistence of reformers in ignoring the
District Attorney and putting all re
sponsibility on the Mayor.
The fire that, fed on the tules, dry
grass and hay of Chewaucan Marsh, in
Lake County, in the southeastern part
of this -state, raged fiercely for many
hours last Monday, is the most disas
trous blow that the livestock interests
of that section have suffered for many
years. The nature of the swamp floor,
which is of sod from ten to twelve
Inches in depth, and the growth, dry as
tinder, that covered it, gave both sub
stance and wings to the. fire. The ra
pidity with which the flames spread and
the hold which the Are took upon the
tangled m'at of dry roots which com
posed the sod defied the most heroic
efforts of the farmers and ranchmen to
check Its progress. When it is stated
that thousands of tons of hay were con
sumed with the' standing! growth of" the
great swamp, the extent bf'the disaster
to a section where the Winter is severe
arid cattle-raising, the chief industry
may be understood.
SCARECROWS UNDRESSED. .
We must resist the advances of Rus
sia In China, we are told, because the
humane and progressive spirit?" of the
Dowager Empress must - not be ex
changed for the murderous and con
servative policy of the-Czar. Russian
domination will not increase business,
China will continue to invite the foreign
devil to her domain and give him every
facility for "trade and comfort
This is not the most convincing line
of thought in the "world, but It is a
miracle of logic compared with the view
that the development of Mongolia and
Manchuria by Russian enterprise will
injure the United States by depriving
it of trade it might-otherwise ha"ve had
with these Chinese provinces. It has
been seriously contended that Russia
can ship grain from Odessa to Man.:
churia, 6000 miles more or less, by rail,
and drive out American wheat and flour
going from Portland or Puget Sound in
ocean bottoms direct to Vladivostok or
Port Arthur.
. An Odessa dispatch to the London
Standard, appearing In yesterday's ca
bles, punctures this swollen tire of
Anglo-Japanese concoction. .It' seems
that a conference of Siberian " mer
chants and traders was recently -held
at Tomsk, Siberia, with the object of
developing Russian commerce with
China: The meeting arrived at unsat
isfactory .conclusions, the bulk of the
evidence adduced .proving that 'in the
existing circumstances.it is practically
Impossible for Russian products . and
manufactures to compete successfully
in China against those of Western Eu
rope and the United States. The ad
ministration of the Siberian Railroad
has -declared it impossible, without a
"ruinous loss of revenue, to make any
great reduction in the freight rates.
Another stupendous bugbear has been
the agricultural production of Siberia,
which was about to swamp the farming
industry of the United States. Possibly
this grand catastrophe will be post
poned, for the moment at leastr by an
other report from Askahbud. capital of
Russian Trans-Siberian territory, that
2,000,000 acres of cotton, wheat, barley
and vegetables in that district have
been destroyed by the locusts.
The Oregonlan has never had any pa
tience with the alarm of our Russo
phobists, many of, whose spasms have
been exposed to the public gaze through
Its news columns; and the chief rea
son for its skepticism in this reirard
has been its insurmountable repugnance
to the crazy notion that a teeming Eu
ropean population in North China.
whether agricultural or otherwise,
bodes menace to the industries of the
United States. Precisely this craven
fear of a neighbor's prosperity was cul
tivated in European minds 300 .years
ago against colonization of America.
The sequel has revealed to Europe an
almost limitless market In this hemi
'Sphere for the products- of European
labor, and the development of food
producing areas without which the Eu
rope of today would simply starve to
death. . .
It will be so with China. The
more 'people there are in Siberia and
Manchuria, the . more they raise, the
more they manufacture, just so much
the better for us. They are certain to
spend a dollar somewhere else for
every dollar they take in. A teeming
population In Asia, especially a- flour
eating, cotton-wearing, tool-using, bll
burning population, is just what this
Pacific Coast needs to make It great.
The man who fears to have his neigh
bor prosper lest It injure him; the mer
chant who should pray for disaster to
the farmer, would not be more silly
than the American diplomat who trem
bles lest the Europeanlzation of China,
whether by England, Japan or Russia,
will put the American farmer out of
business. Look back at this assertion
fifty years hence, and see if it wasn't
right'
"THE B ATA VI A SYSTEM."
In conjunction with the opening of
the public schools throughout the. coun
try, and to the ever-recurring question
"What shall be done with the dull pu
pils, to the end that they may be prop
erly advanced, without unduly retard
ing the advancement of the larger num
ber who learn more readily?" the sys
tem that has been working successfully
for several years In Batavla, N. T., Is
claiming the attention of educational
authorities. This system, it is held by
those who have watched Its develop
ment, offers a solution to this, the most
serious problem that the rapid growth
in the public school system of the coun
try has produced.
In the necessarily large classes of
graded schools the task of getting the
whole number of children over a speci
fied ground in each subject, without
having many pupils fall far behind and
miss promotion to the next grade, is
an exceedingly vexatious, not to say
Impossible, one for the teacher. The
system which has been carried into ef
fect by the Superintendent of the Ba
tavla schools Is an exceedingly simple
one. It consists In putting an extra
teacher into a crowded room, "not to
hear classes, but to give personal, indi
vidual instruction to the pupils who are
falling behind."
The experiment, as stated by the Out
look, met with startling and immediate
success in the one room In which' it was
first tried. The teacher soon found that
the weak spots' in her class were be
coming the strong spots. The more
backward children began to Improve In
scholarship with wonderful rapidity,
and before long to catch up with the
brighter ones. In many cases the for
mer were even surpassing the latter, so
that the leaders of the class found It
.all they could do to keep up with the
"dull" scholars. Best of . all, perhaps,
from the standpoint of o'erwearied par
ents, It was found that evening study
was no longer necessary, as all the les
sons were learned to better advantage
in school hours, while better order pre
vailed in the schoolroom and the whole
tone and spirit of the class improved.
Further than this, the regular teacher
was relieved from a tremendous nervous
strain, and was in consequence able to
do better work with the bulk of the
class.
Continuing the story of the experi
ment, the Outlook says: "The trial was
so successful that the system was ex
tended to the other classes and schools
in the town, with equally encouraging
results. There are now seven Individ
ual Instructors employed in the Batavla
schools, one teacher In many cases go
ing from room to room. In some cases,
where the rooms are not overcrowded,
one teacher acts as, both class Instructor
and as Individual instructor. The 'in
dividual teachers are not regarded as
assistants or under-teachers in any
sense, and they receive the same sal
aries as the class teachers of the same
grade. The testimony of teachers, par
ents and scholars Is unanimous that the
'Batavla ssytem Is a success.' Many
authorities on educational subjects' who
have Investigated the Batavla schools
testify that a, revolution, has been ac
complished. One says 'there cannot be
found In America a healthier, happier,
busier lot of pupils than are today In
the public schools of Batavla. Teach
ers are equally "well and happy. The
scheme of individual Instruction is so
simple 1 and practicable that It could
easily be followed In every city in the
country. A prominent ' English edu
cator says: 'These methods will revolu
tionize the schools of England.' "
This system may be commended to
the consideration of the school authori
ties of this city as worthy of 'trial. It
is not necessary In making the test that
additional expense to any appreciable
amount should be incurred. There are
many ambitious young women fresh
from the High School or from other
schools who In the role known as "pupil
teachers" are anxious to keep In touch
with the schools and at the same time
get experience In teaching that will
pave the way for promotion In the
teacher's ranks. Why . not place the
backward pupils In one or more of the
rooms of each building, according to
their number, in charge of one of these
and give this system a trial? A plan
was inaugurated by City Superintend
ent Rlgler looking to the solution of
this problem. It was in the interest of
the bright rather than of the dull pu
pils, and' It has served to complicate
rather than to settle the question. The
Batavla system is simple enough. There
are no doubt a number'of High School
graduates in this city who as "pupil
teachers" would be willing to take up
the work and who would labor earnest
ly and intelligently to make a record
in it
A RIGHTEOUS DECISION.
Tomorrow the three brothers Van
Wormer will be electrocuted at Clinton
prison Dannemora, N. T.f Governor
Odell having firmly refused to interfere
with the sentence of the law. The
youth of- these murderers, despite the
cold-blooded, deliberate cruelty with
which they shot their victim to death,
has been, pleaded in vain with Governor
Odell; he has decided that they are .per
fectly sane, are clearly murderers, and
are not young enough to "plead the
baby act" for an awful crime. The
firmness, of Governor Odell has drawn
forth from Hon. Andrew D. "White, our
late Ambassador to Berlin, a letter of
warm thanks for his "manly, judicious
and patriotic stand." Mr. White refers
to the contemptible condition law and
justice have been brought to in some of
our sister states by the weak or dema
gpglcal or whimsical use of the;pardon
lhg power, and concludes by saying
that '.'mistaken lenity has been one of
the greatest causes of the fearful num
ber of high, crimes during . late years,
and the frequent exercise of the par
doning power has proved to be, not
mercy, but cruelty."
These are words of truth and sober
ness, uttered by a man who In his 72d
year can look back upon a life of varied
experience both as a scholar, a states
man, a legislator and philanthropist
The sober judgment of this eminent
man Is that all convicted murderers
whose sanity Is clear and whose guilt
is fairly established should suffer the
extreme- penalty of the law. The law
Is very humane. It hangs nobody for
homicide committed in hot blood, and
under the names of murder In the sec
ond degree, or manslaughter, any
homicide outside of a cold-blooded, de-.
liberate murderer escapes the death
penalty. This is the law, not only In
America, but in France and Germany,
and even in England no man Is hanged
unless the evidence is clear that the
crime was the result of cool, deliberate
purpose to take life In order to rob or
to satisfy revenge. Homicide wrought
in the heat of passion and conflict is
not punished with death in any civil
ized country in the world. But the de
liberate murderer Is a standing menace
to society as long as he lives; a mur
derer hanged will not murder any more
in this world, but Imprison a murderer
and sooner or later sentimental human
itarians' will obtain his pardon.
- The dread of the gallows is shown by
the vigor with which a cut-throat bat
tles for life and how warmly he wel
comes even the gloomy alternative of
'life1 Imprisonment. Did anybody ever
hear of a convicted murderer who did
not plead for commutation of the death
penalty to life imprisonment, unless it
be In Italy, where the murderer Is not
Executed, but suffers such barbarity in
prisonthat he soon becomes a lunatic,
as did the assassins of the late King
Humbert?. Men face to face with the
gallows anxiously seek for means of
suicide, showlng-that a public. Ignomin
ious death does have something of a
deterrent Influence upon the vilest man.
All murderers should be made to "suffer
the death penalty. The prison of the
grave Is the only one that cannot be
unlocked by the turnkey of the Gov
ernor's pardon. The dead murderer
will never murder again5; he will never
become the parent of a possible brood
of murderers; when he Is dead society
Is safer because one less human tiger
has been hunted to death, and it
breathes freer, even as does a Hindoo
village when a "man-eater" has been
slain.
It is not society's business to reform
human tigers, but to kill them. It is
not society's business to remonstrate
with burglars and pickppekets, but to
send them to the penitentiary. No Jury
pretends to determine the exact degree
of the moral responsibility of muf derers
and burglars for their so-called heredi
tary thirst for crime, any more than
we can determine the exact moral re
sponsibility of the Apache Indian whose
hereditary Impulses led him to torture
helpless women and children horribly to
death. The settler, however, gave the
savage a short shrift and let the sci
entist moon over his "moral responsibil
ity." Government must protect society
against murderers; must hunt them to
death, even as we exterminate animals
and birds of Insatiable predatory in
stincts, and habit The Inexorable law
of moral, social evolution Is only sat
isfied with the survival of the fittest
and society never did stop and never
will' stop to consider the moral weak
ness or mental deformity of the
Apaches of civilization who cut their
neighbor's throat to enjoy his goods.
Governor Odell is right "We wish his
stern sense of executive responsibility
might find Imitators in Oregon, whose"
Governors, both past and present, have
been prone to exercise their preroga
tive of pardon with more zeal than dis
cretion. Governor Chamberlain was
reported the other day as having par
doned out of prison three young mur
derers whose crime was as deliberate
and wanton as" that perpetrated by the
Van Wormers that die tomorrow in the
electrical chair.
The Duke of Richmond, Lennox and,
Gordon, -who died on Sunday last, is
descended from Charles Lennox, first
Duke of. Richmond, who was the son
of King Charles U and Louise de Quer-
ouallles. When the Duchess of Orleans,
the sister of Charles n, visited her
royal brother at London In 1670, she
brought among her attendants, at the
desire of Louis XIV of France, this
Louise de Querouallles, whose beauty
so Impressed the libertine King that he
made her his mistress and created her
Duchess of Portsmouth, and continued
attached to her during his whole life.
The blood of this famous French
woman. flowed in the veins of the great
English orator, Fox and also in the
veins of the famous English General,
Sir Charles Napier, and his brother. Sir
William Napier, whose mother was
Lady Sarah Lennox, daughter of the
Duke of Richmond. The present Duke
of Queensberry Is a descendant of the
Duke of Monmouth, who was the ille
gitimate son of King, Charles U and
Lucy Walters. The Duke of Grafton Is
the descendant of Henry Fltzroy, the
first Duke of Grafton, son of King
Charles II and Barbara Vllllers, Duch
ess of Cleveland. This Duke was killed
at the siege of Limerick. The present
Duke of St Albans is the descendant of
Charles Beauclerk, the first Duke, who
was the son of King Charles II and
Nell Gwynne.
The return of President Roosevelt and
his family to Washington marks the
period of the resumption of official du
ties vwhlch have, as far as possible,
been dropped during the past two
months. The President has no doubt
employed his leisure at Oyster Bay In
preparing hiSs annual message, and is
ready to begin with a clean slate work
upon the problems of government that
await his consideration. Mrs. Roosevelt
still has some weeks of respite from the
more strenuous social duties of her po
sition. These duties are quite as exact
ing, in their way, as are the more seri
ous obligations of official life,, and, in a
way, their acceptable performance is
quite as necessary to the popularity of
the Administration. All Washington Is
glad to welcome the President and his
wife back to the White House, having
with the rest of the world become
weary of the vacation season.
A flower or rose show held at Forest
Grove furnished entertainment of a dis
tinctly "cultured" type to the citizens
of that old university town last week.
Not only so, but the preparations for it
which had .been In progress more or less
intermittently during the entire season
had given healthful, Interesting and de
lightful occupation to the participants.
People of sub-rural communities do well
to encourage exhibits of this kind. So
cially, Industrially and esthetically they
will find it well worth their while. The
study of flowers leads to a knowledge of
their habits and' the possibilities of
their development 'that is full of fre
quent and delightful surprises. To be
able to call the different roses by name
and coax them into their best develop
ment Is an accomplishment of which
the most refined woman might well be
proud.
A remarkable instance of longevity
Is witnessed In the life of Mrs. Mary
Ramsay Wood, of Hillsboro. As at
tested by that most veritable of all wit
nesses, the old family Bible of a past
century, this venerable woman was 116
years old on the 20th of May of the
present year. Feeble In body, she Is by
no means helpless, and her mind Is
clear, especially in regard to events In
the far-away days when she was young.
While such an extreme length of years
is not a hoon to be desired, the man or
woman who, has attained thereto is an
dbject of wonder and of veneration.
Dave Waggoner, of Napavlne, Wash.,
whose name sprang suddenly Into fame
of the kind that no man courts, when
his wife found Convict Merrill's body,
and, upon the strength of the opportu
nity offered for becoming acquainted
with the latter's brother, eloped with
him, wants a divorce from the faithless
Mary. He will probably get it.
ULYSSES IN PARK ROW.
New York Sun.
The "Ulysses" of Stephen Phillips has
put a grievous load upon some of the
Manhattan dramatic critics and proof
readers. The Times speaks learnedly of
"Poreidon" and "Eurypides" and tells us
that "the .circle of Mr. Bhlllips Olympians
had an unmistakable air of the minstrel
show, In which Zeus was the middle man
and Hermes and Aphrodite the end men."
Aphrodite as end man must have been
worth much more than the price of ad
mission. The World, carrying all that weight of
learning lightly as a flower, asserts that
"Ulysses" Is "based upon the story of the
hero of Greek mythology as all the world
knows it from the Odyssy of IJomer."
The learned Theban of the World finds
Miss Rose Coghlan's Penelope "naturally
overmature." How old does he suppose
Penelope was when her husband came
back to Ithaca? Penelope was no chicken
and Telemachus was at least of voting
age.
The eminent Hellenist of the Journal is
severe with the actor who played Anti
nous. "If you ever met Antinous," cries
the Porson of Park Row, "you must
have realized the .fact that he was a
beauty, with the beauty of a Greek god,
clean cut and well chiseled." Apparently
the Park Row Porson holds the interest
ing theory that Antinous ofx Ithaca, the
suitor, was Antinous the Blthynian fa
vorite of the Emperor (Hadrian.
The troubles of the much-enduring
Ulysses' were nothing' to those' whidh Mr.
Phillips has inflicted upon some of the
Manhattan Grecians.
New York: Cows for Tuskegec.
New York Times.
Booker T. Washington has purchased 88
head of cattle from S. R. Bradley, owner
of the famous "White Farm dairy herd,
near Suffern, Rockland County, New York.
Mr. Bradley, who is wealthy, started the
White Farm herd some years ago, and
has since been supplying the market, with
milk that was . absolutely pure. There
was no money in the business forhim,
nor did he expect to make any, his object
being to furnish milk to Ms patrons that
was chemically pure. When he decided to
go out of the business Mr. Washington
heard of his intentions and purchased all
of the cows In the herd but 12, which Mr.
Bradley will retain for his own use. The
cows will be shipped to the. Tuskegee
Institute In Alabama October 1.
SPIRIT OF THE. NORTHWEST PRESS
Apply to the District Attorney.
Woodburn Independent.
The Portland Ministerial Association, In
its efforts to suppress gambling, must
proceed without the aid of Mayor Will
lams. There is a state law. .
Times Files.
Whatcom Reveille. .
The Spokesman-Review la pleased to
note the wonderful prosperity of the Pa
louse country. Yet five or six years ago
the Review was positive that resort to
the peculiar policies advocated: by Mr.
Bryan alone could save the country.
The Horse Before the Cart.
Lane County Leader.
It Is a well-known fact that enforcement
of laws only keeps pace with public senti
ment. Enforcement does not blaze the
way. Rather it follows the trail. When
the people set the pace make the path, as
It were the officers Invariably follow.
They do not lead.
Then They Decline to Support Him.
Colfax Commoner.
Over in King County thej Republicans
have an amusing method of entering can
didiates in the race for United States
Senator. A man announces that "he In
tends to become a candidate. Then his
friends sign a petition asking him to be
come a candidate, and next he issues a
letter thanking them for asking him and
assuring them that he Is' willing.
Aa Much as lor Buffalo.
Tacoma News.
Congress will be asked to appropriate
$2,125,000 for the Lewis and Clark Centen
nial Exposition at Portland. This Is a
larger sum than will be granted, but there
Is no doubt that the Federal Government
will fend substantial aid to the Portland
Fair. At least? as much should be appro
priated as was allowed the Pan-American
Exposition at Buffalo in 1S01.
Yamhill Farmers on Easy Street.
Salem" Statesman.
A retired farmer over at McMlnnville,
who has been In this country since the
earliest settlement and who has had large
experience, said a day or two ago- that
never before has he seen the farmers in
as prosperous condition as now; never be
fore did they have such ready sale for all
their products at good prices, leaving
substantial profits for themselves. He
says all the Yamhill Oounty farmers
have money now.
Chastened, -But Not Humbled,
.Prlneville Journal.
The Deschutes Valley has had another
slap. Hitchcock's National playgrounds
took off a slice the entire length of the
district, and now a lumber syndicate rep
resentative, upon the opening up of al
most the last remaining township, steps
up and, with the politeness of a Chester
field, lays 10,000 acres of scrip upon all the
available timber. But even with the nu
merous bruises which the valley has re
ceived during the past few months, the
day 19 not far distant when it will thrust
Its head above the surface and Indulge
in the last proverbial giggle.
The Hot End for Hermann.
Dalles TimesMountalneer.
This termination of the controversy in
the Lakeview district cannot be consid
ered a victory for anybody, though it is
somewhat of a slam at Hermann, who
was determined to retain Brattain. About
the only Inference that can be drawn is
that the majority of the delegation real
ized that they were jeopardizing their
own interests by standing out for Her
mann's choice, and rather than have the
President take the matter in his own
hands 'and appoint two officials of his
own choice, let Mr. Hermann drop and
recommended men despite his protest.
Mayor Won't Be Stampeded.
Prlneville Review.
The reform movement is about to com
mence In Portland again. Mayor Williams
has seen probably a dozen of these spas
modlc "reform crusades" and immedi
ately after each of them he has seen the
city lapse Into its old habits of vice. It
Is not likely he will listen very atten
tively to the plaints of clergy or laity,
knowing from experience It Is useless In
a place the size of Portland, The Mayor's
shoulders are broad and he will bear up
under all kinds of Imprecations rather
than make himself known as conspicu
ously wanting Jn practical business sense.
Beprin Now for 1005.
Eugene Register.
The Lewis and Clark Fair Commission
announces this early In the day that the
county exhibits made at the State Fair
next year will be purchased by it for
exhibit at the 1905 Fair. This is a timely
warning that should put every county in
the state on its mettle In getting to
gether for the 1904 State Fair the best
possible display of Oregon products. Lane
County should begin laying plans at once
to capture first prize at Salem next year
and carry that honor up to the Lewis and
Clark Exposition, where, with the record
as prize-winner, we can secure a splendid
advertisement of the county.
They Have Sio Such Connection.
Aurora Borealis.
This community has been thoroughly
canvassed by a set of individuals who
claim they are compiling a history of
Oregon for the Lewis and Clark Fair In
Portland. It is the biggest graft that has
been worked here for years. The grafters
soft-soap their victims till they believe
tho world would have gone to the dogs
long ago had It not been for their valuable
services. By this time they are asked to
give a short biography of themselves,
which must, of course, be signed by the
victims as a token of good faith. Later
it develops that they have subscribed for
a book containing their little song, at a
total cost of J18. Those who were talked
Into having their pictures appear, together
with their biographies, were directed to
come to a thirteenth-rate photographer
at Portland, although the same workcould
be done better here at one-fourth the cost,
thus showing that It Is simply a scheme
by Portland grafters and has probably no
connection with the Lewis and Clark Fair
management whatever.
Have Weakened Confidence.
Ashland Tribune.
Tho Ministerial Association of Portland
has weakened the confidence of the peo
ple of the state in the good sense of its
members by Its silly threat to Mayor
Williams, that It will use the religious
press of the country to Injure the Lewis
and Clark Fair enterprise if the Mayor
docs not accede to their demand, that the
system of imposing monthly fines on gam
blers shall cease. It Is understood that
the Mayor takes the ground that It Is not
practicable to suppress gambling abso
lutely; that In spite of ordinances there
will be gambling, and that the gamblers
will bribe the police, and that the hidden
gambling joints will be more harmful
than when allowed to run openly and
subjected to monthly fines. Looking over
the Issues between Mayor Williams and
the Portland Ministerial Association in
every aspect, as we are able to see It
from the newspaper accounts, the one fea
ture, to which we have referred, seems to
indicate that there is a want of "the sav
ing grace of common sense" In the cleri
cal set of Portland, or those who are
delegated to speak for it
An Icehoat for Commercial Use
Detroit Free Press.
Alvln A Southern, of North Lansing,
has Invented an- Iceboat for commercial
use, which he expects to put into commis
sion on Gull Lake, this county, as soon as
Ice forms sufficiently. The boat will carry
passengers regularly about the lake, and
Is now under construction at Lansing.
Southern Is 75 years old. has been an en
thusiastic Ice yachtsman for years, and
thinks he has discovered In pivoted run
ners the secret of easy manipulation of
Iceboats. The boat will carry. a good-slzod
cabin for passengers,.
NEW YARNS ABOUT ROOSEVELT
New York World.
Senator. Shelby Cullom. of Illinois, went
to the White House one day to. see the
President "Who's In there?" he asked of
Captain. Loefller, the doorkeeper.. "Some
body who -was In the Rough Riders,"
Loefller replied. "Oh, well," said Cullom,
as he turned away, '"what chance has a
mere Senator?"
Senator Bard, of California, took a con
stituent to see the President The friend
had. served In the Rough Riders. "Mr.
President" began Bard, "I want to pre
sent my friend" "Why, hello, Jim!" the
President broke In. "How are you?" Then
there was ia ten-minute' talk In which
Bard could take no part As the two men
were leaving, the President exclaimed:
"By the way, Jim, come up to dinner to
night,, and bring Bard with you."
After General Miles made his comment
on the Schley court decision the Presi
dent sent for him. Miles went to the
White House, and the famous colloquy
occurred, wherein the President became
so angry. One part of that conversation
has never, been printed During his rebuke
of Miles the President said excitedly: "I
have teeth! I have ,teeth! I have teeth,
and I can use them." This remark was ac
companied with a demonstration that
proved to everybody that the President
has teeth and that, moreover, the cartoon
ists have not succeeded In making him
think that teeth of his particular kind are
bad thlnes to have.
Edward Lauterbach asked the President
to speak at the laying of the corner
stone of the College of the City of New
York. "What other speakers are there
to be?" the President asked, "Well, ex
Presldent Cleveland Is to" "I cannot ac
cept," snapped the President
Chauncey M. Depew was at the State
Fair In Syracuse when the President
spoke. The crowd called for Depew after
the President had finished. Depew spoke
for 15 minutes and was heartily cheered.
There had been few cheers for the Presi
dent's speech, although plenty for himself.
"I thought I was to be the only sneaker."
f said the President to Lieutenant-Governor
Higgins, as they were leaving the stand.
The President takes more physical exer
cise than any other man in Washington.
His favorite enjoyment is to go horse
back riding and to get somebody to go
with bim. If the friend can't ride very
well, the President Is fond of dropping
back a bit and then riding up at a hard
gallop and shouting, a cowboy ''whoopee!"
at the top of his voice. He does this to
Senator Lodge very often, and Lodge
hangs grimly to the pommel of the saddle
while the President laughs.
The President Is very sensitive to news
paper criticism. He lectures reporters se
verely when they print anything he does
not like. He thinks nothing should be
printed in Administration papers that is
in any way Incompatible with his dignity,
whether the story Is true or not. He has
had two reporters removed from their
assignments within the last two years for
printing things he did not like. He wrote
personal letters to the editors about these
reporters, too, and both of them had
printed true stories. Similarly, the Presi
dent is fond of praise. He likes to read
nice sentiments about himself in the news
papers. He Is not so great a newspaper
reader as President McKInley was, but he
patronizes the press-clipping bureaus and
pores over the clippings every day. Presi
dent Roosevelt is generous with his con
fidences. He will tell his friends anything,
and then bind them not to reveal what he
has said. This makes It Inconvenient
sometimes for newspaper men who go to
see him, for the President tells the same
thing to everybody, and often the story
gets out when the man to whom It was
told originally must hold It In confidence
or break his word.
The President gets angry easily. He
says harsh things to those who run afoul
of him. When he gets excited he can use
triangular words with anybody. When he
isn't excited, his favorite words of em
phasis are "By Godfrey!" and "By Jove!"
The-President Is a very hearty eater. His
appetite is prodigious. He likes a bottle
of white wine with his dinner. He drinks
very little besides that. The President
says he Is "de-light-ed" 50 times a day.
He Is "de-llght-ed" to see you, "de-fight-ed"
to hear you are well, and "de-lighted"
everything else. He uses many su
perlatives. Everything to him is the best
or the worst ever. ?.
Mr. Roosevelt always starts his speeches
the same way. He says: "Ladles and gen
tlemen, and you, Sons of Veterans, or
"you" something else, or "you" thus and
so. He likes to pick out a man in his
audience and talk to him. He did this at
Syracuse when- he opened the state fair,
picking out a Grand Army man and ad
dressing him exclusively for five minutes,
much to the embarrassment of the Grand
Army man. Mr. Roosevelt Is not an at
tractive public speaker. He generally
reads his speeches from printed slips, and
keeps close to the text. He writes and
dictates fluently, and has an especial
fondness for the word "very," which Is
sprinkled through his public addresses
and documents and his private corre
spondence. The President's enthusiasms are violent,
but not long-lived. He always wants to
do everything himself. He takes a hand
In all arrangements and gives orders
about the most trivial affairs. He form
erly had no compunction about saying
things about his enemies. Now he thinks
It is as well to eay nothing if nothing
good can be said. His actions in the last
two years have been mainly directed by
the chart of 1904. He is sharp and stern
with .his subordinates, dictatorial and se
vere. He sometimes makes a joke, but
really has a poor sense of humor. His
jokes are generally sad. Witness the
famous Secretary Shaw Joke, when he
told Shaw during the coal strike settle
ment he would send him "back to de
mines (Des Moines)." Shaw comes from
Iowa, you know. The President lectures
Senators and Representatives at times as
if they were schoqlboys. He calls them
up to the White House and lays down
common statements of fact as If they
were new discoveries by himself. He
thinks in conventional lines, notwith
standing his reputation for originality. He
is platitudinous.
When the President's special train dur
ing his recent tour of the country reached
Nebraska Governor Mickey of that state
joined the party to escort the President
across the state. The President was dc-Hght-ed
to meet the Governor of Ne
braska and asked him about a hundred
questions, political. Industrial, social and
personal, winding up with: "How many
children have you, Governor" "Nine,"
answered Governor Mickey. "You are a
d d good man," exclaimed President
Roosevelt. "You are a better man than
I am. I have had only six." And Gov
ernor Mickey, who is a Methodist elder,
gasped with astonishment.
When Mr. Roosevelt first became Gov
ernor he called all the Albany corre
spondents Into the Executive chamber
and said: I propose to receive you ail
freely and to talk to you very frankly,
but If you ever print anything I say with
out my permission I shall deny it."
"Do.you know Piatt?" asked the Presi
dent of a friend, and meaning the ven
erable and sage Senator from Connecticut.
"I do." said the friend. "Isn't he a bully
old boy?" asked the President, enthusi
astically. .
Once Rich, Now He Is a Bntcher.
Chicago Chronicle.
Formerly worth nearly 51,000,000. Paul
T. Schuster, an 82-year-old German, is
working in th'e City Market of Trenton,
N. J., as a butcher. He says he accu
mulated $500,000 while In the butcher busi
ness in Poughkeepsle and New York City.
He then went to Chicago. Invested the
money In real estate and was wiped out
by the fire of 1871. Then his wife and
two children died, and under the nressure
of his misfortunes he failed in business.
For some months he lived from hand to
mouth ana recently he started to tramn
East-to look up a nephew to. whom he had
formerly loaned money. Two, weeks ago
he reached Trenton and cot his Dresent
job. .
N.0TE AND COMMENT. ,
Iidve in the Leaves.
The limb of a tree as a. resting place
Is something that can't be beat,.
And even a girl may sway with grace
In the airy fairy seat.
For trees that grow at the modern pace
Provide a rest for the feet.
The limb of a tree Is a funny thing,
.And funny the things it sees.
If close to Its bark a- girl should cling.
There comes -before you can sneeze
A broth of a boy, who is having his lllng.
And ready the girl to squeeze.
Concealed in the shelter of fancied leaves.
Canoodle the boy and xnlss;.
It's a glorious chance to garner thi
sheaves
That grow In the fields of bliss
But surely the watchful ear deceives.
Or was It the chirp ot a kiss?
It maketh the jealous heathen rage.
Such unshared-In-Joy to see.
Yet the lovers up in their painted' cage
Are as glad as glad can ber
And who In the world If on the stage
But wouldn't be up a tree?
The Difference.
Some say that Wall street's like1 a girl,
Half-scared of all It sees:
But this is foolish, for we know
That Wall street hates a squeeze.
Mast Be a Duck.
-Reverend Drake preached on his new
charge last Sabbath. We miss him. Pelt la
(III.) Tribune.
Soo. Sault Ste. Marie.
Even the enemies of Parks are keeping
off the grass.
The cigar named after Lou Dillon must
be a two-fer.
The primrose path is all very fine, but
It's full of stumps.
In Belfast, says Bob Gibson, brlck3 are
called Irish confetti.
Jabour, apparently, was unable" to fight
the elements and his elephant
Motorman German's case manifests
anew the cruelty of wanton Fate.
A cuff on the cheek is sure to attract at
tention, and so is one on the arm.
If these dynamite outrages continue,
there will be an explosion in Montana.
The best way, Count Pulaski, to keep lc
good spirits 13 to keep good spirits in you.
Her principal varnish factory having
been burnt, Chicago may now progress to
veneer.
A dramatic critic would be fired from
the union if he didn't spell motive with
an "f."
Forger Burke Is In, but Forger Becker
Is out. "Here we go up, and here we go
down."
The action of "A Royal Family," we
gather from some of tho players, begins
on a Toosday, .
It Is very accommodating on the part
of a lawyer to keep whiskers for his
laundress to pull.
Porto RIcans are crowding the schools.
There's no kick coming, as that's what
the schools are for.
The fSresbytery of New York has a
portable church. What somo people need
Is a portable religion.
Hanna has "nothing to discuss." Many
an arraigned man would like to tell the
Judge the same thing.
In the case of Mrs. May Ramsay Wood,
of Hillsboro, the age of "sweet 16" Is ren
dered especially significant by having 100
prefixed.
"What shall we give -Jack on his birth
day?" asked the wife; "a bicycle?"
"And train him for a scab!" retorted
hubby, who was a plumber.
According to the Pekin (III.) Tribune,
the cold weather is Increasing the num
ber of marriages in Tazewell County.
Apparently the frying pan isn't warm
enough in the Fall.
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those
unheard are sweeter," might have been
said of Chicago, where the Musicians
Union was told to go hang when It re
fused to play with the Marine Band.
Th'e New York Press, having written a
"josh" on the lingo of the diamond, an
Oregon paper solemnly deplores a, half
column deplore that the Press has ceased
to drink at Its own well of pure English
undefiled. Humor Is a dangerous thing.
The Mayor of New York was Invited to
shake for the drinks.
"No use," he replied; "I'm always the
Low man."
When this was reported to Jerome ho
saw that he would be considered JeaIou3
In saying Low was destitute of humor.
Alexander Kindness runs a saloon at
Colfax. On Sunday the Sheriff went there
and placed half a dollar In the dumb
waiter. Back came a pint of whisky. As
it is Illegal to sell lntosslcating liquor on
the Sabbath, the Sheriff arrested the sa
loonkeeper. In other words, Kindness
was pulled for his kindness.
FIEASAXTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
Mesmerist's Wife Carlos! Mesmerist Well,
dear' Mesmerist's Wlfe-r-I wish you would
come here and tell baby ha is asleep., New
Yorker.
"Yes, my husband Is greatly afflicted by In
somnia." "What does he do for It?" "Stays
out until 2 o'clock every morning." Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
"Pleasures," said Uncle Eben, "Is a good
deal like mushrooms. De right kind Is fine, f
but Vou has to be on de lookout foh toad
stools." Washington Star.
"Are the mosquitoes very bad around here?"
"Bad!" echoed the native, derisively. "Mis
ter, did you ever hear of a mosquito being
converted?" Wathington Star.
"I daresay the cost of living has been great
ly reduced in SrtO years." "Oh, yes! In the
nineteenth century, the ancient records tell us,
a simple operation for appendicitis cost $200."
Puck.
Callerton Did vou employ a typewriter to
copy your manuscript? Scribble ton I thought
I did. but on looking over the copy I discov
ered I had employed a typewronger. Cincin
nati Enquirer.
Miss Nancy I wonder why It is that sailors
are such terrible swearers? Cousin' Tom Why.
don't you know? They learn profanity of the
parrots. I thought everybody knew that. Bos
ton Transcript.
"This drama," said the young, author, "is
taken from, the French." "Well." replied the
manager to whom It had been submitted, I
don't believe tho French will ever miss It."
Chicago News.
She (at the review grounds) What an im
posing figure Captain Borrows, has! He Yes;
naturally so. She And why naturally, pray?
He Oh, he's always imposing on his friends.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Do you think those new people will make
good neighbors?" "Oh, delightful! Why, I
can see already that they're going to do enough
scandalous things to keep us In gossip all Win
ter." Chicago Post.
Mary I'm sorry to hear that you've not been
feeling well. What seems to. be the matter?
Jane I suppose I am run down. Why, for the
last , month I haven't "been able to. put any
heart even into my shopping. Brooklyn Ufa,