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Pitts, 1008 Market; Frank Scott. 80 Ellis; N. Wheatley, 83 Stevenson; Hotel St. Francis News Stand. Washington, D. C. Ebbltt House News Stand. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 72-deg.; minimum, 47. Precipitation, none. A TODAY'S WEATHER Increasing cloudiness and cooler; "winds becoming southerly. 1 PORTLAND, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1004. Sea squadron coaled more than once at Jlboutil, and the torpedo-boats o the Baltic fleet are finding convenient shel ter in Cherbourg:. So long as Prance affords. Japan equal facilities there is no legitimate ground for protest. It will fbe remembered in this connection that France refused to allow Admiral Cer vera to coal at Martinique. THE BUGABOO OF "DtPERXALISJI." "Militarism," "executive usurpation," "imperialism," are terms that, for more than one hundred years, have been used by the Democratic party as a chief part of its stock in trade. It was started by Jefferson, who asserted that the Admin istration of 'Washington was "last gal loping into a monarchy," and it has been kept up at recurring periods ever since. Tet the nearest approach we ever had to militarism In government was -under the Administration of An drew Jackson. "When Lincoln was Presi dent this buncombe was the whole am munition and ordnance of the Demo cratic arsenal. Through the war for res toration of the Union we were building up a military system which would de stroy our liberties and forever dominate the country. Later, is was predicted that Grant would perpetuate himself In the Presidency, and empire would follow, after the Roman example, in our un happy country. Roosevelt now, if elected, may be expected to assume the imperial purple. Our retention of the Philippines can have no other effect than to undermine the devotion of our people to republican ideals and give the man on horseback the opportunity which he is undoubtedly seeking. Can it be that there is or ever has been any considerable number of our people who take stuff of this kind serl ously? It is about the rottenest ragout ever served out in our politics. Jeffer son, as the inventor of this dish, did, Indeed, make much profit out of It albeit through vile slander of the men who had served the country on 'the battlefield while he was running away from the enemy in Virginia; for the time was favorable to Jefferson's unscrupulous plan of politics. But It may be doubted whether anybody has been moved since then by the cry of "militarism" and "monarchy." But Jefferson's scheme of politics pro duced immense and lasting evil. It was this scheme of politics that set the Southern States in arms In 1860-6L The basis of Jefferson's scheme was asser tion of sovereignty of individual states. He was afraid of "centralized govern ment." He wrote and caused to be adopted. In Kentucky and "Virginia, the Resolutions of 1798-99, which became the warrant for secession sixty years later. The doctrine was that if a state felt aggrieved at any act of the General Government such state might "Judge for itself, as well of infractions as 'of the mode and measure of redress." It was pretended that this extreme doc trine, on which no government on federated plan could hold together, was necessary for protection of the states and their citizens against "usurpation," supported by "militarism." This doc trine had to be fought out, as it was fought to the death, on the battlefields of the Civil "War. There Is no danger, probably, that the demagogic cry of "militarism," "executive usurpation" and "imperl alism" will do a like mischief again. But it is well to keep in mind the history of what this mis chlevous figment has done, so as to see the better, moreover, how contempti ble the repetition of these inventions is now. There Is no man of sense who doesn't know they are silly even though repeated by the representatives of a great party. JUDGE PARKER'S LOOSE STATEMENTS. It was altogether a. proper thing to take notice, as the Administration has done, of the statements which Judge Parker has repeated, from irresponsible sources, about affairs in the Philippines, and to have refutation of them By Hon. Luke E. "Wright, Civil Governor of the Islands. Judge Parker has been pre sented to the country as a man of Ju dicial mind, carefully trained In weigh ing evidence and factB. But In this case he has accepted and put forth as his own the allegations of an anony mous writer, evidently inflamed to the last degree of personal spite and parti san heat; and he commends this per formance as the work of "a student of conditions In the Islands," whose name is unknown, but whose character and motives may be Judged from the dia tribe which he has produced and which Judge Parker has made his own. It is a lamentable performance. Before the Administration had taken notice of it the press of the country not merely the daily press, but the weekly Journals, whose field is that of careful summary, comment and discussion, on a basis from which partisanship is excluded had dealt with it. Here Is a portion of the comment of The Independent (New York): We regret that Judge Parker has relied upon "a student of conditions" in the Islands (name not given) for a misleading and extremely pessimistic description, some parts of 'which may have been approximately true at the height of the cholera epidemic, but are not at the present time. We regret also that he repeated the grossly Incorrect assertion of his letter of acceptance that the cost of the islands to us has been $650,000,000. He even adds to It the "eocrince of over 200.000 lives." Secretary Tart showed some days ago that the cost, up to May. 1902. had not ex ceeded $188,000,000, and that the annual cost of maintaining the troops there. In excess of the cost of supporting them at home. Is not more than $5,000,000. Criticism even more searching might be made. Not only has Judge Parker expended In the Philippines for his partisan purpose at home 5401,000,000 more than the United States Treasury has paid out or knows anything about, but he has "sacrificed" 77,559 more American soldiers than have been sent to the Philippines altogether, or 194,476 more than the total casualties in the Philippines, including Filipinos reported to the authorities. It Is the first time, we believe, when a candidate for the Presidency has put forth statements so wild. If this Is a specimen of the careful and conserva tive work we are to have in the affairs of Government when Judge Parker shall be President, we shall not know "where we are at" after the first week. It Is unusual for an Administration to notice campaign statements made by the opposition; but in this case It was entirely proper that Judge Parker should be "called down." merits of the forty-cent rate. "We are unable to determine how much of the depression in the lumber business Is due to the rates demanded by the railroads and how much is due to the fact that the woods In "Washington and Oregon are lull of men for whom the railroads built sidetracks free of charge, and. who borrowed money to build, mills, bought their machinery on time, and contract ed for stumpage at nominal rates pay able after the lumber was sold. Our forests are being rapidly despoiled by this latter class of lumber manufac turers, and, if their number were small er, there Xvould be a better demand, and perhaps higher prices. This phase of the matter, however, does not enter Into the question of the propriety of the lumbermen adopting the methods of the ordinary legislative grafter or hold-up artist. SURGEON-FARMING. It Is inconceivable that members of a profession so honored in the world of science, so closely allied to the humani ties and In tender, almost sacred, touch with the direct human need, should be guilty of entering the commission busi ness for the extortion of double fees from the suffering, to the end that doc tors unknown to science and of scant experience may find opportunity to profit at the expense of human misery and even of life itself. Tet we have it upon undoubted authority that this condition of affairs exists, not only in the great competitive centers of popu lation, like Chicago, but to a greater or less extent In our own city. Inquiry has developed this fact, and details are given which cause a shudder of appre hension and astonishment to pervade the community. The surgeon's knife was never before in the history, of surgery used so freely as now. In the hands of the skillful, conscientious surgeon it Is, or may be certainly it often has been a blessing to mankind. On the contrary. If It Is given by means of a commercial trans action into the hands of unskilled, un- ments to be maintained lor an indefi nite period. It is not alone the Ameri can farmer who is profiting by the ac tive bull campaign in the Chicago mar ket, but the foreign grower as well, for under normal conditions It would be im possible for Russia to market such a large amount of wheat without causing a slump In the price. ESOPDS AND MANILA. WHY JAPAN IS VICTORIOUS. That Judge Parker Doesn't Know What He Is Talking About. New York Sun. The report of the American medical offi- - t X- 3 .3 ..... i)aJ . V. n Tnv New yoric SUH. I WI1U uas uuaencu iuiu muuioi iuc ja.- The Memphis Commercial-Appeal anese medical and sanitary measures in (Dem.) refrains from mentioning the military hospitals ct Japan ana in tne names when it discusses imperialism I field In Manchuria goes farther in ac- and the Philippines. It Is supporting counting for the Japanese, victories over JudKe Parker heartllv in his campaign the Russians than has been reached In The Albany (Oregon) Democrat says: for President, and yet it Is moved to say: any comparison of the tactical skill of the "The Republican press and politicians have already counted their chickens. and with the Associated Press back of them, the outside indications may be that way, but during the Cleveland campaigns Just as strong claims were made Just before election, and, you can't most always sometimes tell." The Associated Press has made no predic tions. It Is not "back" of any party. and It serves as many Democratic as Republican newspapers. It has tele graphed the "claim" of each of the party committees, but has shown no bias towards either party. It doesn't telegraph what such newspapers as the New Tork Herald, Sun and "World say, nor any of the "estimates" or opln- ions" from various sources that appear in The Oregonlan. These are all special reports; and The Oregonlan has not al lowed such as it has presented to be one-sided. It has taken them from all sources Republican, Democratic and Independent, These reports seem to show that Roosevelt will be elected. whereof The Oregonlan would be glad. But it would not wish to hold out the Idea that he will be elected. If he Is not to be. For If he Is not to be, it would prefer to know beforehand, and cer tainly would publish all matter It might get that pointed that way. It could find no satisfaction either in deceiving or in being deceived. An Echo (Or.) dispatch notes the sale of several quarter sections of land In that viclinty at 52000 each, an advance of about 600 per cent over the figures ruling four years ago. This rapid in crease is due to the enormous crops of scrupulous men, it may easily be an in- j wheat which were turned oft on the Those distinguished blatherskites who have been a-blatberlng about Filipino Independence and corollary Inanities claim to be helping to elect Judge Parker. Governor Luke E. 'Wright's words carry weight In the South. The Gov ernor Is an old resident of Memphis. The Commercial-Appeal remarks: Governor Wright, who Is on the ground and who knows. Informed this Government that all these declarations were being translated and published In Tagal newspapers, and that they wer having a deluding and deleterious effect on the natives. Now cornea the report that the old agitators and professional patriots who have been In en forced retirement and whose henchmen are tne headhunters and bandits from the mountains and the bolo men from the bamboo thickets In the valley have come forth and purpose holding public independence meetings In Manila. If Judge Parker's figures of the cost of the Philippines are translated, the Filipinos will be In danger of setting an exaggerated value upon themselves. What will be the effect on the Ameri can voters If the Parker campaign blatherskites succeed in "a-blather ing" the Filipinos Into another upris ing? The Memphis idea is given thus If these fiery exhortero arbuse their half- tamed fellows to disorder and rapine by their perfervld utterances, and It the task of gov erning the islands is rendered more difficult and expensive, our home-bred Tagat-Americans will find that they are supporting Judge Parker with a knife. This country la engaged In the eolation of one of the most difficult problems that ever con fronted a civilized people, and It Is bending every energy to solve It wisely. Every word uttered calculated to embarrass It will be re sented by the spirit of the Nation, which stands for "right or wrong; our country. All things considered. It is difficult to say which Is the more admirable the patriotism of the Commercial-Appeal or its delicacy in dealing with the campaign utterances of Mr. Parker. two combatants. The great, the consummate superiority of the Japanese Major Seaman shows to be In their employment of measures for the prevention of disease among their troops. Never in the history of war has a nation approached Japan In the method ical and effectual use of science as an ally in war. The wars waged by the largest and most civilized states of the West bavo been bungling and wasteful and barbarous enterprises as compared with that Japan Is now carrying on. Tho great loss In war, as everybody knows, has always been by disease. Japan, according to Major Seaman, has eliminated disease almost wholly. This war is In a country of which he speaks as "notoriously unhealthy," yet so per fect have been the sanitary precautions NOTE AND COMMENT. Telegrams of Tomorrow. ASTORIA. Or., Oct. 26. Twenty-three fishing-boats were sunk today bythe Baltic fleet, which put In here this af ternoon, mistaking the port for Sai gon. Admiral Jokervensky apologized, saying ho had taken the boats to be hostile torpedo craft. ST. JOHNS, Or., Oct. 26. As the first mate of the drydock was taking a reef in the binnacle during tho first dog watch today he heard a shell whistle past his head. Looking down the river he was horrified to see the Baltic fleet bringing every gun to bear upon him. Hastily taking off his shirt, he waved It In the air as a signal of peace, where upon the ships ceased firing.. Admiral Jokervensky subsequently explained that he mistook the drydock for a Jap anese submarine boat After, asking the mate to point out the shortest road to Vladivostok, the Admiral withdrew his fleet. MORRISON-STREET BRIDGE, Oct. 26. The captain of the bridge reports that the Baltic fleet shelled his con- ntOPOSED LEGISLATIVE HOLD-UP. The Pacific Coast Lumber Manufac turers' Association has placed in circu lation a call for moral support from the lumbermen who are In favor of dragging the "forty-cent-rate" problem into Washington politics. In a circular addressed to the lumber trade, "Victor H. Beckman, secretary, says that as a political measure It will be a winner, "because I have already enough pledges to assure the control of the next Leg islature by the lumbermen. This at tempt to connect local state legislation with the question of interstate rates on lumber comes under the head of de cidedly new business, and it is not en tirely clear that It is a proper matter to be dragged into a political fight which already possesses about all of the unpleasant feature It will stand. If the rates demanded were effective only within the State of Washington the lumbermen could very properly ask for a reduction. They could do for the lumbermen what McCrosky and Ander son did for the wheat farmers pass a maximum-rate bill. But what they are -after Is a forty-cent rate to the Mis souri River. The Oregonlan would like to see them get that rate, or a thirty cent rate, if it could be secured by fair and honorable means. But the advisa bility of dragging the matter Into the Legislature as a club to be used In beat ing the railroads Into line hardly ap peals to the fair-minded man who be lieves in equal Justice for corporations and men. A rate to be paid on lumber which Is hauled through four or five states cannot legally be fixed by the Legislature of any one of these states. To prevent extortion in such cases, the Interstate Commerce Commission was created, and there Is always a remedy In the courts. The courts or the commission are the proper authorities to pass on the merits of this contention, and when the lum bermen Ignore them and adopt the method with which they seem about to experiment, they offer a very plain an swer to the question, "Why are the rail roads always mixed up In Washington politics?" Unfortunately for the people, nearly every Legislature not only In "Washing ton but In other states has a number of bad men who consider their election an official permit to graft. Sometimes their strument of untold torture, unspeakable outrage and criminal waste of life. But a lew days ago a dispatch from Chicago told of the death lp great agony of a woman who had been oper ated upon for some ordinary ill some months before. A post-mortem exam ination revealed the presence In her body of an instrument left there by the surgeon who had performed the opera tion and closed the wound. A case came to the knowledge of the writer a few months ago In this city wherein a patient had been operated upon -by a surgeon evidently unused to such tasks. After months of suffering a yard or more of packing of some sort used In dressing the Incision sloughed off and the patient barely escaped from the surgeon's knife with her life. It would be Interesting to know whether either or both of the surgeons (?) who were guilty of this inexcusable offense against suffering human creatures were "surgeon-farmers," in league with needy practitioners who took this means of increasing an income which they could not legitimately earn. Be this as It may, surgeon-farming is practiced In this city to a greater or less extent, and It is with this fact that we have to deal. Needless to say, our reputable, skillful and prominent sur geons condemn It in unqualified terms. It represents a transaction so con scienceless and so suggestive of the gravestabuses of confidence that it may be properly termed monstrous. Accord ing to the estimate of a physician, and surgeon of high standing both In the ethics and practice of his profession, 25 per cent of all surgical cases sent to this city from outside districts are un der the ban. The State Medical Society an hon ored and honorable body exists, or Is supposed to exist, for a dual purpose. Its prime object is to uphold the dig nlty and honor of a profession that stands for science, for the alleviation of human suffering, for saving and pro longing human life, and for the broad est humanity. It Is not to be supposed that this society Is without means whereby it can compel its members to observe the ethics of the profession and conform to Its rules. It is outspoken against quackery and stern in its de nunciation of quacks. It is supposed to hold the key, under the law, to medical and surgical practice In Oregon. Since prominent members of this society ac knowledge that the grave abuse of sur geon-farmlng exists In this city, is It too much to ask that the State Medical Society take the matter up and proceed to demonstrate Its power to purify the profession of these most conscienceless quacks? If the society has a valid reason lor Its existence beyond its mere routine work, here Is a most excellent oppor tunlty to prove it. This abuse exists. That fact is conceded. It will not suf- fice for physicians of prominence and standing In the community simply to deny all personal knowledge of It or to admit and deplore It. They can know and should know whether the state ment that 25 per cent (or any other proportion) of surgical cases from the outside that are operated upon in this city are or are not farmed out to the lowest bidder. Having specific know! edge In the premises, the unworthy physicians from the outside and the un worthy local surgeons who engage with them In this traffic should be first ex posed and then kicked out of the ranks. If the medical law so valiantly striven light lands this season. The fertility of these lands, when sufficient moisture is in evidence, is simply wonderful, and when irrigation becomes more general on lands of this character 52000 per quarter section will seem much more insignificant than 5300 per quarter sec tion appeared a few years ago. The theory that the climate-is changing and there Is less liability of drouth than In former years Is not substantiated, and, while we may well be" thankful for "light-land years" like the present. It is on Irrigation that we must eventually depend for permanent prosperity In the localities where there Is a deficiency of moisture. The "Oregon," as the famous Colum bia was known when' Bryant delighted the world with his Immortal "Thana- topsis," Is now hearing sounds that are foreign Indeed to "its own dashing." Contractors are at work with drills and powder clearing the Three-Mlle Rapids so that boats can enter the Big Eddy without difficulty. The open-river pro ject seems to have assumed a more def inite shape than ever before, and, un- leas unforeseen obstacles are encoun tered, It will not be many months be fore the magnificent reaches of the Up per Columbia will float large numbers of steamers and barges carrying at l6ast a portion of the vast traffic of the Inland Empire to tidewater over a highway which Is open to all comers. The completion of the canal will not be accomplished for a long time, but the assistance of the Portage Road will be available comparatively soon. AUBURN HAS A REV. MR RADER He Attacked Colorado Women, and Was Called Down. Kansas City Star. AUBURN. N. Y.. Oct. 20. When Wll Ham J. Herblson, a Presbyterian preach er, was quoted here as saying that Den ver women voters came only from the worst districts in the city, rode to the polls In carriages provided by politicians and repeated from four to 20 times, the reverend gentleman had trouble on his hands. The Rev. Anna Shaw, president of the Woman's Suffrage Association, said the statement was untrue. If all the clergymen of this country had the same kind of common sense that saloonkeepers have, the ballot would be in tho hands of their flocks, as today It is In the hands of the saloonkeepers flocks." she said In a meeting of suHra cists, now in session here. "The mis statement by this man is an insult to the women of Denver. Fifty-two per cent or the votes cast in the last Presidential election In Denver were cast by women. This Is about the proportion of men and women citizens. Do all the women of Denver come from the Red Light district? The-minister says1 those women repeated. of the Japanese that "the los3 from pre- nins tower for 20 minutes -today. It is believed the Russians toolC- the bridge for a Japanese warship undergoing re pairs. TILLAMOOK, Or., Oct. 26. Tillamook lighthouse Is a thing of the past. It was blown to pieces "by the Baltic fleet today. Admiral Jokervensky explained that he mistook the light for a Japan ese signal. VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct 28. Halt of this city lies -in ruins as the result of a bombardment by the Baltic fleet, which appeared In the Columbia this morning. Admiral Jokervensky ex tended an apology to the Mayor, ex plaining that he took the city to be Yokohama. On discovering his mis take, the Russian Admiral sailed in the direction of Skamokawa, which he evi dently thinks Is Tokio. CORK, Oct. 26. The Baltic fleet to day opened fire on Ireland. After firing 900 shells, of which three struck the shore, Admiral Jokervensky explained that he mistook the island for a Jap anese cruiser. ventable disease in the first six months of the conflict will be but a fraction of l'per cent." Under such circumstances is it possi ble that Japan can be defeated by an enemy which suffers losses from pre ventable disease equal to those which have been the rule in wars. or. at a low average, of four by disease to one by bullet? A Japanese officer quoted by Major Seaman made no vain boast when he asserted that by this practical elimina tion of disease In a campaign a Japanese army of 600,000 men is mado equal to 2,000,000 Russians. Read Major Seaman's description of the methods first Introduced into war by the Japanese: The medical officer Is omnipresent. You will find him In countless places where In an. Amer ican or British army he has no place. He la as much at the front aa In tte rear. Ha Is with the first screen of scouts with his micro scope and chemicals, testing and labeling 'wells so the army to foUow shall drink no contam inated water. When the scouts reach a town he Immediately Institutes a thorough examinat ion of Its fa.nlts.ry condition, and If contagion or InfecUon Is found he Quarantines and placee a guard around the dangerous district. Notices are posted so tho approaching column Is 'warned and no soldiers are billeted where danger exists. Microscopic blood tests are made In an fever case3, and bacteriological experts, fully equipped, form part of the staff of every di visional headauarters. The medical officer Is also found In camp. lecturing the man on sanitation anil the hun dred and one details of personal hygiene how to cook, to eat, and when not to drink, to bathe, and even to the direction of the paring and cleansing of the finger nails to prevent danger from bacteria. Up to August 1, 8S62 cases had been received at the reserve hospital at Hiroshima, of whom 6638 were wounded. Of the entire number up to that time only 34 had died. Japan is showing to the world of civ ilization for the first time how to wage war under civilized conditions. It has destroyed the great enemy in war, which is not the hostile army, with its engines of slaughter, but the lurking disease which crowds hospitals, embarrasses movements and decimates forces. Looking After Convalescents. Brooklyn Eagle. In looking out for the healing -of pa tients authorities have been too apt to There must be a weak set of men In Den- spend money and use the most scientific ver to allow It." The Seattle Post-lntelllgencer on Sunday contained a half-page illustra tion, reproduced from The Oregonlan, of the Lewis and Clark Exposition buildings and grounds. The friendly attention given to the Fair enterprise by the Seattle paper means much. It appears probable that the Legislature will make an adequate appropriation and that the state will be fully repre sented here in 1905. It cannot well af ford to do otherwise. California mani fests the most lively Interest In the Fair, and Callfornlans and California industries "and California arts will be everywhere in evidence. Idaho, Utah, Montana and other "Western States will not overlook their opportunltlese. Nat urally, "Washington will see to It that it is not absent. No Change Wanted." New York Globe. Oct. IS. SDeakinjr yesterday of the political situ atlon. Judge Herrlck, the Democratic can didate for Governor, said that early in the nresent year he thought President Roosevelt would be nominated and de cisively beaten, adding: But soon after Spring there came a change In the nollUcal atmosphere which no one can explain hut those who bav long ex perience In politics, and probably no one but those can feel. I cannot describe tne cen- satlon, but It was plain that large Interests which had been against the administration bad experienced enough pressure to be turned the other way, and are apparently In favor of another four years of Republican National administration. Andrew Carnegie, as he was boarding a steamer at Liverpool on Saturday to sail for New York, said to a world corre spondent: I hope Roosevelt will win. I intend voting for him and doing all I can to assist him. I am against Jingoism and the policy of ex pansion, but am convinced that Republican rule is best for tho country. American In dustries have prospered so greatly and com' petition la so severe that Industrial Interests need a President who inspires commercial con fidence. Both these utterances say the same thing, though In slightly different ways. The business Interests of tho country have decided, as Judge Herrlck says, "in favor of another four years of Republi can Administration." and they have so decided for the reason given by Mr. Car negie, because they "need a President who inspires commercial confidence." It tileases Judge Herrlck to say mat tney have so decided because "pressure has Judge Parker, In his talk about af fairs in the Philippines, has shown sira ply that he doesn't know what he Is talking about. Till his nomination for luc " , hi 77 , au been applied to them." and he Is careless any attention to public affairs, and the " say that It was applied In the exigencies oi nis present political situ- spring, Qr in advance of Roosevelt's nom ation are so extreme that he takes up ination. What was that "pressure"? Slm- and makes his own the vaporings of an anonymous and Irresponsible corre spondent. Possibly that "student of conditions," in order to get the notori ety- it would afford him, will now make himself known. But perhaps again he may not; for If his name were given the country might explode with laughter. to the further confusion of the Demo cratic campaign managers. dIv a conviction that any change from the Governmental policies oi tne past eight years would cause uncertainty and bring incalculable harm to tne commer cial interests of the land. Even Bets on Hlggins. Special to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat NEW YORK, Oct. 20. For tne nrst time In the campaign, even money was wagered this afternoon in Wall street on the Governorship. Heretofore tne ocia.3 have been against Hlggins. Today a bet of 51000 even on Hlggins was closed by Bunnell & Buchanan with J. Lu ilcuor Now that woman has Invaded so many of the fields formerly sacred to man. It Is interesting to note a man's Una, This bet attracted wide attention triumph in a field usually considered and was looked upon as significant. Was- the exclusive domain of woman. Ver- sermann Bros, bet 5a000 to 52500 witn gll Krell, the baby awarded first prize Marshall Spader & Co. that Roosevelt Will carry new ouio. -"-"w u appliances on the buildings without con sulting the needs of convalescents. Mod ern medicine-' takes into account notonly the body but also the soul and the In timate connection between these. Cheer fulness is a part of the treatment of to day and recovery from ailments I3 not assured when patients can leave their cots. Treatment of convalescents Is a part of the physician s scheme. It 13 rec ognized that views from a window or a hospital looking on blank walls or on dis piriting surroundings affect recovery. Hopefulness Is repressed; gloom is en couraged. Where the Victory Perched. Chicago Tribune. A dispute had arisen in the Ferguson family. Mr. Ferguson wished to Invite Aunt Abigail to come and spend the Winter at his house. His wife objected. 'She's a vinegary old maid," said Mrs. Ferguson, "and I don t want her here. We've got enough to do to support our selves, without having another mouth to feed." T'm able to look out for that. I want you to understand, Laura, that I'm the breadwinner lor tnis iamiiy, ana x say she shall come." 'And I want you to understand, George Fersruson. that 1m tne oreaamaKer xor this family, and I say she shan't!" Aunt Abigail didn't come. The Destroyers. Rudyard Kipling. The strength of twice three thousand horse That seek the single goal; The line that holds the rending course. The hate that swings the whole; The stripped hulls, slinking through the gloom, At tare and gone again : The Brides of Death that wait the groom The Choosers of the Slain 1 Offshore where eea and skyline blend In rain, the daylight dies; The sullen, shouldering swells attend Night and our sacrifice. Adown the e trick en capes no flare No mark on spit or bar- Girdled and desperate we dare The blindfold game or war. Nearer the up-flung beams that spell The oouncll of our foes; Clearer the harking guns that tell Thir scattered flank, to close. Sheer to the trap they crowd their way From porta for this unnarrea. 111 U16 tuuicai u.1. mc tc -j--.- , .1 w Tnn-.1f victims are railroad companies, some- for by physicians and so generously tlon, was brought up entirely under the n get more voteg parker In times Senatorial canaiaates, ana not i enactea oy legislature ui. u aiim 7 care 01 ma imuer, uia mimcx ucms New York State. Quantities 01 itooseveit FRANCE'S NEUTRALITY. While America and Great Britain have more stringent regulations gov erning the use of their ports by bellig erents, France, in permitting the ships of the Baltic squadron to make use of her harbors for coaling purposes, is not violating any recognized principle of in ternational law. In the days of masts and yards coal was of no consequence to navies, and none of the nations had any rules In force regarding it, but dur ing the Civil "War the new condition of things Induced Great Britain to frame regulations on the subject. These rules, which have been adopted by the United States, are that a belligerent's ship of war must obtain permission from the Government before coaling; she must not coal in the port more than once in three months, and must only take on board enough to carry her to the near- worth the effort that It has cost and the contention upon which it is based, it confers this power. The ethics of the profession demand that it be used to purify the profession and make good the contention that the law was de manded In the Interest of suffering hu manity. Russian wheat shipments last week reached a total of 5,376,000 bushels. The week previous" they were 3.S00.000 bush els, and for the weeks ending Septem ber 29 and October 6 they were 5,900.000 and 5,200,000 bushels, respectively. This enormous total of 20,296,000 bushels for the four weeks was more than suffi cient to offset the shortage In ship ments from the United States and to a certain extent explains the Indifference of the European market to the sky- fockety action of the Chicago market So long as record-breaking shipments of wheat continue to pour out of the land of the Czar, there will be small hone of the European buyers advanc ing prices. Russian wheat supplies have always been one of the uncertain factors in the world's wheat market. but they have never before swelled Into v if n-nr nf onmnmira. such oroDortions as they have been iuc aiaic iu nwuj 0- 1 - infrequently they use their position to extort money from the promoters of measures which are solely for the pub lic, and not Individual gain. Now the high-minded members of the Legisla ture who are going to use their position as members to extort from the 'rail roads a forty-cent rate, would naturally object to being called grafters, and yet It is Indistinct to the average, layman how they are to accomplish the end sought unless they follow the methods of the fraternity which bears the odious appellation. These men, and they are some of them good men, are expected to use their votes to get for themselves or their con stituents all that Is possible from the railroads, regardless of the legal as pects of the matter or the Interests of the state as a whole. Representatives Jones, or Smith, or Brown, from east of the Cascade Mountains, may be over at Olympla with a very meritorious measure" to' help out the Agricultural College, build a wagon road over a mountain, or for any other equally worthy object It will jar on his sensi bilities to be Informed that while his measure Is one for the general good of Invalid from the time of his birth. Father Krell Is proud of his" success. and has been describing his methods to a reporter. Despite one man's suc cess In this line. It is not likely that woman will be ousted from this partic ular work by a sudden Inrush of men. Hull, the home port of the fishing fleet fired upon by the. Russian war ships, is the headquarters of the North Sea fishing industry, the most import ant around the British Isles. Some idea of the magnitude of the business may be obtained from the recently published Board of Trade returns for the first six months of 1904, which show the value of the catch for that period to have been 521,121,420. have no international character. They ment, he can secure no support from steadily showing, since the opening of re simply individual methods of com- I the lumbermen unless he agrees to stana In with them and exact a rate wnicn they are apparently unable to secure by lejfal methods. Tie Oregonlan is not passing pa. the plying with the broad obligation of neu trality. Fr&noe does not hold to such strln- navigation last Spring. Not only Is there a large surplus of old-crop wheat coming out of Russia, but the returns from this year's harvest were so large as to make it possible Xor present ship- Judge Parker rebukes Government of- flclals for the part theyseem to be tak ing in politics. He bases all his own hones on the part that Tammany offi cials of New York City are actually taking in his behalf. Everything Is wrong, you know, when "the other fel low" does It. The betting on Roosevelt In New York Is now 10 to 2. That's a straw about the size of the "big stick," A Russian at sea is as dangerous to -noneombtttants as a woman with a brickbat money were offering at the rate of $1000 to J250. Betting In New York. New York Sun, Oct. 20. Four years ago today the betting on the Presidential election was 4 to 1 on Mc- Klnlev. and more money was offered in Wall street at those odds than there were foirara 'nw. nearlv three weeKs heiore the election of November 8. the ouas of fered on Roosevelt are the same. He Talked at Random. St Paul Pioneer Press. Judge Parker picked up a hot penny when he was lnducea to uuce noia 01 the PhlllDDlnes issue. Jde nugnt nave known better and he would have known better If he had known anything about what we have been doing in the Philip pines. Just Punishment. New York Tribune. a violin Dlayer witnessed a lively street- fight In Parfc not long ago, and began to play in order to tsootne tne two com hataiits. It had the opposite effect how ever, for one of the fighters drew a knife and stabbed the vlollnist- No Ambition That Way. Washington Star. "Haven't you any ambition to work as your father did at your age? "Certainly not answered tne gnaea youth. "If I were to work what would have been the use of father's working?" Quiet, and count our laden prey. The convoy and her guard! On shoal with scarce a foot below, TTv-fe and islet throng. Hidden and hushed we watch them throw Their anxious ligbts aiong. Not here, not here, your danger Uea- (Stare hard, O hoodea eyneu Save where the dazed rock-pigeons rise The lit cliffs give no sign. Therefore to break the rest ye seek. The Narrow Seas to clear Hark to the siren's whimpering shriek The driven, death is ceres Isok to your van a league away What midnight terror stays The bulk that checks against the spray Her crackling tops aniaseT Hit. and hard hit! The blow went 'home. The muffled, knocking stroke The- steam that overruns the foam Tha foam that thins to smoke The smoke that clokes the deep aboil The deep that chokes ner tnroes Till, streaked with ash and sleeked with oil, The lukewarm whirlpools close! A shadow down the sickened wave Long since her slayer fled: But hear their chattering Quick-fires rave Astem, abeam, ahead 1 Panic that shells the drifting spar Loud waste with none to check Mad fear that rakes a scornful star Or sweeps a consort's deck! Now, while their silly smoke bangs thick. Now ere their wits they find. Lay In and lance them to the quick Our gallled whales are blind!' . ' Good lack to those that eee the end, . Good-bye to those that drown For each his chance aa chance shall send And God for all! Shut down! The strength of twice three thousand horse That nerve the one cdmmand; The hand that heaves the headlong force. The hate- that backs the hand: The doom-bolt In the; darkness freed. - The mine that splits the main; The white-hct wake, the 'wil&ering speed The CkGcsers of the Slalal The Russian ice-breaker Ermak has left the Baltic fleet andput back to Copenhagen. She won't cut much Ice there. We hope the Russian Admiralty didn't fail to supply Admiral Rojest vensky with a bunch of lithographed apology blanks. Accuracy is a terrible handicap to a man that wants to "view with alarm," as Judge Parker shows by hl3 speech on the Philippines. According to a news agency, says the Kobe Herald, the "Japanese General Is slxno" is distinguishing himself in the war in the Far East In a brief proclamation the lone Proclaimer proclaims that It is proud of its name. Maybe it's a finer name than the lone Iota would have been, but it is not up to Irrigon Oregon Irrigator form. Claude Huston's house Is ready for the coming of Spring birds. He may catch one. Liberty Notes In lone Proclaimer. We've read somewhere that in vain Is the net spread In the sight of an or dinary bird, but Spring birds may be different In the Kobe Herald we notice a let ter written by a Japanese soldier to an English woman in Japan. The writer concludes by saying: Please remember, that though I will die. Nippon Telkoku (Great Japan) should have vic tory and honour. Youth who inrfear death, i HTRO YAMAMOTO. Yamamoto appears to have added a good word to the language by coining the verb "unfear." Now and then it is the observer's de lightful duty to chronicle something new in the way of wedding notices, something different from the stereo typed announcements. Seldom does one come across anything equal to this burst of passionato eloquence from the Tracy City (Tenn.) Times: . Prof. Lewis Rollings and illsa Pearl Cox, after several months of heart-to-heart con versation on the perfumed sweet avenue of love, passed under the roseate. Archway' of Hymen, where soul meets soul on' waves: of ecstatlo feelings. A correspondent writes: In your list of rhymeless words, window was over looked. You mention month as rhyme less. On a wager some years ago a friend of mine made this rhyme; I saw a soldier on & horse; November was tho month: I saw his saber thrown Away and his gun th rown away also. The list given did not purport to con tain all the rhymeless words, but only mentioned a few with the sound of "u" as In but Silver, orange and other words stump the rhymester, try he never so hard. There is one quatrain which has rhymes for both month and orange. It runs: From the Indus to the Bhorecge Came the Rajah In a month, Sating now and then an, orange, Conning all the way his gronth. The Bhorenge, It may be explained Is a river in India, and the grunt h, is an Indian sacred book of some kind. WE3C J. OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. "I could support Parker with a good deal more enthusiasm," said the northern. IUI nols editor, "If his front name was Jollet instead of Alton." Chicago Tribune. "When you say that a thing Is wsll enough as it is,' what do you mean, father? That you thing It ought to be Improved at once, but that you're too lazy to fix It." Brooklyn Life. Aunt Hannah Have you told any one of your engagement to Mr. Sweeter 7 Edith No; I haven't told a soul except Bessie Miller, who thought he was going to ask her. Boston Transcript. McQueery Hasher's comic opera had Its premiere performance last night,- eh? You were there, of course. Crlttlck Ob, yes. Mc Querry "Was any of the music new? Crlt tlck Tea, at one time. Philadelphia Press. HI Tragedy How did you like Iowa? Lowe Comedy 'Well, there was one town there I'll never forget. We were simply carried away with It. "You don't say?" "Yes, a cy clone arrived an hour after we did." Phil adelphia Press. Gwllliams I haven't seen anything In the papers lately about Wedgeley, the great football player of a few seasons ago. Is he dead? E flint Dead! No. He's more terrible than. ever. He drives a racing automobile now. Chicago Tribune. Tramp It Is needless to ask the question, madam. You know what I want Lady Yes, I know what you want badly, but Pve only one bar of soap In the house, and the servant Is using It. Come again some other time. Glasgow News. "What people are always sure of finding the biggest fish near their coast?" "Give it up." "The English, because they caa al ways find Wales." "Oh, pshawf Waia isa't whales." "No, you stupid. But dos't the English always drop their h?" Clevetead Plain Dealer, Jsynlnrimr j&Mel & jheulaji Bed,