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K Cooper Co., 740 Mar ket near Palace Hotel; Foster & Orear, Ferry News Stand; Goldsmith Bros., 236 'Sutter; L, E. Lee, Palace Hotel News Stand;' F. W. Pitts, 100S Market; Frank .Scott, SO Ellis; N. Wheatley. S3 Stevenson; .Hotel St,, Francis News Stand. Washington. D. C. Kbbltjt House News Stand. PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 8, 1904. A MAN'S WONDERFUL TRIUMPH. Notlmuch remains to be said. But this must be said: No man in all the history of American politics has achieved such success as that which has been achieved by Theo dore Roosevelt., "What is the basis of it? To what is it due? To .the fact that the man Is an American. He believes In his country, and it believes in him. He trusts the people and" they trust him. He is the great republican of this day, .and he Is the great-democrat. During more than .fifty years the Democratic party has "Been .nothing- but the embodiment of opposition to progressive Ideas. It allied Itself with the slave propaganda; it pitted itself against the National effort to maintain Union; it has simply been a party of .negation and of opposition, all these years. It wished to repudiate the Na tional debt; it did its utmost to debase the money jf thd country and of com merce; It drew socialistic elements from every quarter into its fold. It made its supreme effort, under the leadership of Bryan, in 1895. It then contended for what its masses desired. And now Parker turned down Bryan is its supreme man. There is no other Democratic leader. This party will identify itself more than ever be fore with the socialistic movement. Bryan will be its leader and prophet Hard fight will be forced by It in -f u ture years; for it will gather into Its ranks the discontented of every sort all who are in debt, all who are hope less, all who desire to revenge them selves on society or on personal or political enemies. This party of the cave of Adullam will be no mean factor. The superb man of this "time- Is Theo dore Roosevelt. His personal and po lltical triumph is unexampled. He. rep resents Ideas, and he marches with them. He stands for and he represents the march of ideas the ideas and pur poses of the American people. He shows what an American can do who stands for. American ideals. This man has caught the imagination of the American people. He is one of them, and they know it. His triumph is the most remarkable thing of our tlmeE. It would take a thousand columns of The Oregonian to tell what it all means and then so wide and varied Is the subject there would be failure. Let Judge Parker pass. He has done what he could, but was only the lnstru ment of others. He is not a man of original force or personality, but a man whom a "machine" -selected to stand for Us purposes. As a private citizen he will be very estimable; and so obliv ion will receive him and absorb him. But the personality of Theodore Roosevelt is the most remarkable of our time. He owes, his success to the peo pie. He belongs to the masses; and the instinct of the people seldom errs. - MRSVMAYBBICK'S MISFORTUNE. A pathetic feature of Mrs. Maybrick's case is the fact that through her con viction and Jong imprisonment her two children a son now 24 and a daughter 18 years old have been entirely estranged from her. They believe her guilty and have not been permitted perhaps have not desired to see her since her commitment to' Woking prison fifteen years ago. Mrs. Maybrick is writing a book, the object of which is to prove her Innocence and thus win back the love and confidence of her children. If -this woman was falsely ac cused, and has been unjustly impris oned all of these years, ehe "has been the. victim of cruel Injustice, the most bitter element of which is the loss, jrac tlcally speaking, of her children. She may win their confidence through the enorr sue is now making, very - few persons who have followed the Incidents of her -trial, including the charge of a Judge whose reason, as she alleges, was even then tottering to its fall, now be lieve that she poisoned her arsenient t ing husband. Her trial was the last c over which Justice Stephen presided, , and he died in a madhouse. These and other points In her favor. h plainly stated, may establish a belief in her Innocence- in the minds of her chll dren, and enlist -their respect and pity. That is about all she can hope to do. however as absolute silence between them and their mother during all ot thejr Impressionable years render the resurrection of tender filial affection for her Improbable, to say the least Her story is an old one. The public generally takes little Interest In Its re hearsal, but many just and generous minds will give enough thought to the matter to hope that If she Is Innocent Mrs. Maybrick will be able to establish that fact in the, minds of her children. CLIMATIC CONSIDERATIONS. It may be doubted whether the timber area Including; brush land of "Western Oregon and "Western "Washington has been much diminished thus far, since the settlement of the country by the whites. Destructive as fires have been at intervals since the whites came. to the country, they were probably more destructive still In the earlier time. In most of the valleys the rank prairie grasses that grew up every year were every year as regularly burned off. Growth of young trees about the edges of the prairies was checked thus, and in many places wholly prevented. The In dians cared nothing about the timber. while the whites from the earliest times have hadmore or less Interest In pre venting Its destruction by fire. All over the valleys the native grasses formed a tough sod, which protected the' soil from "wash." The gullies that one now sees everywhere In the west ern valleys did not exist. In Yamhill and other counties many df them have been cut by the torrents to great depth. Formerly the water ran slowly over the sward and at width along the" swales. and throughout the Summer wild hay could be made of the native grasses everywhere. But when the grass was trodden out and the sod broken the water fell into channels of Increasing depth during every rainy season, and the batiks caving in, immense quanti ties of soil are carried every year to the rivers and down to the sea. Thus the "run-off" to the sea is much more rapid than it was In early times; yet our streams do not fall much lower in Summer, because their sources are in the mountains, where the timber still stands and the undergrowth is yet as dense as ever. In our valleys the water -in -former times escaped mostly by a slow move ment or seepage; whereas now it es capes much more quickly. But -the rainfall with us is usually slow; and it is well known from direct observation that a slowly falling, . prolonged rain, even on the naked soil of steep slopes, is mostly taken up by the soil. On the other hand, a heavy downpour of short duration on the same slope will largely escape as run-off. In the first instance each drop has time to be absorbed by the soil, while in the latter accumula tion of drops is more rapid than the absorption, and the excess moves over the surface to lower elevation. Here is the reason why hay stacks, in the re gion west of the Cascade Range, cannot be built that will Tiot wet through; whereas in other states with more ac tual rainfall, discharged at Intervals, In heavy showers, hay remains uninjured in the stack the year round. In a country like Oregon the forests do not have much effect on rainfall, but profoundly modify the run-off. Because rainfall is most abundant where forests grow, many believe that forests exert an Important Influence on the. amount of precipitation. But with us, precipi tation is controlled by the sea, by air currents and by the mountains. So the forests do not make the rainfall, but the rainfall is the great factor in con trolling the distribution and density of forests. So, on the whole, it may be said that although the forest may have but little effect on the amount of rainfall, its eco nomical importance n regulating the flow of streams is very great. It re tards the torrents, prevents "wash," and allows the rainfall to escape slowly. by seepage, rather than by run-off. A timber area, therefore, when fire is kept out, tends to natural extension. But trees grow so fast in our moist region that the mountains are not likely ever to be denuded; and In any event, fire, escaping control-, will always be mqre destructive than the hand of man. DISCRIMINATING DUTY OBNOXIOUS. It seems to be pretty generally under stood in the East that the forthcoming report of the Mercantile Marine Com mission will advocate the dlscrlmlnat ing duty as an aid to American ship ping. The fact that here in Portland as well as at other places where the com mission held meetings the leading ques tions of Senator Gallinger indicated desire to learn something favorable toward this plan corroborates the be lief that .'it will be- recommended. It is doubtful, however, whether this method of taxing the many for the benefit of the few will meet with any more favor than was extended the iniquitous direct . subsidy scheme. It is ridiculous to pre sume that the foreign nations now en gaged in the ocean carrying trade will calmly submit to this discrimination without attempt at retaliation. Our levy on imported good's brought to this country In foreign ships would be met with a similar levy on American products sent foreign. In other words we would find the trade between the United States and any one foreign country limited to the ships of that na- tion and American .ships. This is.a con dltion" where competition would be practically eliminated and a heavy ad vance in rates would follow immedi ately. The -ugly, snub-nosed, pot-bel lied tramp steamers which roam around the world under British, Dutch, Aus trlan, Norwegian and French flags are the pre-eminent factors in cheap freights. Economical construction, and operation enable these vessels to carry freight at the-lowest possible cost to the producer, but the establishment of a system of discriminating .duties would result.Jn placing this .class . of carriers beyond our reach untTwe would, be at the mercy of an ocean transportation monopoly. ( Under the benign influence of world's competition in ocean transpor tation the foreign commerce of the United States has swelled Into vast pro portions, last year reaching a total of $2,480,000,000. Higher freight rates and restricted shipping facilities, which certainly follow the establishment of a discriminating duty in favor of the few millionaire shipowners, would do "more to cripple this vast and rapidly grow Ing trade than anything else except actual war. There is another very im yportant reason why the proposed plan of a discriminating duty should be re jected, and that is that It would be a direct violation of existing treaties. In the American treaty with Belgium ap pears the following specific clause; Objects of any kind soever Introduced Into the ports of either o the two states under tho flag of the other, -whatever may be their -or igin, and from what country soever the Im portatlon 'thereof may have been made shall not pay other or higher duties nor shall be subjected to other charges or restrictions than they would pay or be subjected to werethey Imported under the National Sag. Clauses of similar import appear in a number of other treaties, and it is ap parent that in order fo -carry out the discriminating duty plan it will be necessary for the United States to can cel all existing treaties which recog nize the rights of the rest of the world in the carrying trade. The discrimi nating duty plan, like the direct sub sidy or any other plan which has yet been admittedly satisfactory to the shipping trust, is only another form of taxing the many for the benefit of the few. If we are too -busy with our men and capital on shore, why engage in a business on the ocean in competition with less-favored people who are will ing to handle bur ocean freight at lower rates than we can move it ourselves? THE ART OF PROPHECY. No hamlet in all the land so small that It does not contain today a man who foretold the' result of the election. Hardly a cityso large that It contains man whose pdiction was wrong. There are some officials, of course, whose, duty It Was to give out esti mates and to make 'em hot enough to tickle the palates of their groundling supporters, and these -oracles of. the Democratic party have nothing to say on the matter now. It was their duty to prophesy and they prophesied, not like Cassandra, Indeed, for the political forecast that did not paint the future in rosy colors would bring its author to his political grave, "unwept, unhonored and -unsung." Jeremiah is an unpopular type, without honor in his own coun try or any other. .The public likes to be fooled, and the wise man Is unfailing in the supply of honeyed assurances. while the spirit of prophecy Is rare. there is an Innate desire in almost every person to be a prophet "Weather proph ets exist the world over. The old in habitant guesses a hard "Winter for twenty years and the twentieth time he hits It off, to his everlasting fame. The errors are forgotten, outshone by the glorious if lonely success. Thousands of prophets are ready to foretell the results of such uncertain things as races, and the astute tipster, by naming a different horse to each client, can always point with pride. Hangers-on of the courts ore always ready to pre dict the verdict of the jury, which is considered by som? observers to be the only uncertainty '.ustly to be compared with the result of a footrace. Other very estimable people can tell the exket hour that one may see- nriveutng like a parched scroll The flaming heavens together roll. In short, the desire to prophesy is universal. Prophecy -offers all the ad vantages of gambling with none of the disadvantages. To succeed Is to gain a feeling of great self-satisfaction and possibly some kudos with one's neigh bors. To fail costs nothing. In one re spect however, the political prophet of today is at a disadvantage compared with his predecessors of old. It was once the essence of the prophetic art to say nothing that could not be inter preted to fit any outcome. Ambiguity was brought to perfection by Apollo. although he lived, unfortunately, too early to be a Democratic leader. The prophet of the campaign Has a weak ness for figures, and these are too obsti nate to permit easy evasion of the re sult Yet the political prophet, it will be seen, nas a long and. illustrious ances try. " The Udman augurs did their best to prophesy as they thought their patrons wished, and were held in high esteem as a consequence. There may De no Latin equivalent for "bull con," that worthy expression from the Amer ican vernacular, but then as now the thing itself was to be had and the Ro man public demanded it just as the American public does today. , IN. NEWFOUNDLAND. The result of the election that took place throughout Newfoundland a week ago was in favor of the continuance" of a separate government for that prov ince. That Is to say, a majority of the people are opposed to the incorporation of Newfoundland In the Canadian Do minion. Although not a large community from the standpoint of population, . this sturdy, storm-swept, fog-enveloped Island Is an important factor In the colonial empire of Great Britain. It is the oldest of all the colonies. Its people take themselves with quiet seriousness on political matters and are averse to change. Sir Robert Bond, the contlnu ance.of whose government Is assured by the result of the late election, is an ardent advocate of the continued polit ical Independence of the Island. In his view It has far" more to lose than to gain by entering the federated union in which all the rest of British North America is included, and in this a -ma jority of the colonists agree with him. They have chosen a Legislature In which this view predominates and set tled the question for a long time to come. The campaign preceding this election was arduous. It extended over many weeks and involved difficulties unknown to sections where transportation faclli ties are. adequate to the necessity of getting, about That the Question was settled' in favor of " the continuance of home rule, so to speak. Is not a matter of surprise. The position of the people of Newfoundland la peculiar. They have few, If any,- Interests in common with the-,people of the mainland. They have little agriculture and practically no manufactures. The population spreads along an. extensive coast line and gets its living from the sea. Fish ing Is the island's chief, and indeed- Its only, industry. To protect this from for elgn. competition which could scarcely fall to prove disastrous, the people must retain control of inshore waters. In other words, deep-sea fishing cannot be carried on without bait, and bait must be obtained inshore under conditions which the home government prescribes and with which outsiders cannot be al lowed to Intermeddle. To pass the jur isdiction over the inshore waters over to Ottawa would be to tempt the Ot tawa government to use Its powers for the general advantage of the Dominion without special reference to the peculiar interests of the people of Newfound land. They do not care to risk a possi ble concession of fishery Drivileires In return for. some commercial equivalent from which they would derive little if any benefit A little world unto them selves, with barely enough and nothing, to spare, these thrifty, hardy fisher-folk cannot be blamed for wishing fo, keep the control of such privileges as they possess In their own hands, to "be con ferred upon others only as they maysee fit to do so. The ballot is supposed to be an Instrument of self-protection and for the advancement of public interests. iThat the voters of Newfondiani re gard it in this light Is shown by the. decision which rules the Dominion of" Canada out of their political life. If they place much of a value on their financial bides, the "Wall-street jackals who are getting ready to kick E. H. fHarrlman under the Impression that he is a dead lion might do well to defer the operation for a time. The' physical condition of Mr. Harriman may not be robust, and the enormous sums of money which he has expended in fur therance of his plans may have caused some strain on his resources, but It is still full'.early to begin kicking him In the belief that he is down. The pres ent Is not the first time thatthls greatest- df .all railroad financiers has been slated for elimination, but he always comes tip smiling. It wilj: require some thing more than a verba blast from tne besmirched house of J-tP.1 jMorgan to wither-up a. railroad wizard like E. H. Harriman, and that very-', remarkable man .has a great many friends In the Pacific .Northwest who will be slow to believe that he is in immediate danger of becoming either a physical or a financial wreck. Mr. 'Harriman, since his personal investigation of Portland and her field of operations, has shown a disposition to aid us In the development of this field, and any abridgment of his powers at this time would indirectly have a bad effect on Portland. The proclamation of Thanksgiving has been issued by the President of the United States In the regular way, and at the usual time. Following an effort led by Mrs. Sarah Jane Hale, of Phil-' adelphia, in the early years of the Civil War, the las.t Thursday In November came to be accepted as Thanksgiving day commonly designated as a day of National Thanksgiving and prayer. The President's proclamation of this ob servance each year applies directly only to the District of Columbia and the ter ritories -of the United States. It Is promptly supplemented by proclama tions of the Governors of the several states, so that the day becomes In real ity a National holiday. It does not re quire a proclamation by the President to show that the American people have very much for which to be thankful. As briefly enumerated in the official document these blessings consist in good crops, general prosperity and peaceful relations with the whole world. Not all of the tide of immigration which is setting from the shores of the Old "World Is flowing to the United States. The Minister of Foreign Affaira at Bneuos Ayres reports the arrival at Argentine ports during the month of October of 18,432 Immigrants. The ma jority of these were from Spain and Italy. The latter country has for many years been a very liberal contributor to the supply of immigrants landing on American shores, but the overflow from Spain's population has usually drifted farther south. Figures on this cmi grant traffic with South America In a measure explain why there are more passenger steamers plying between Eu rope and South America than between the United States and that country It would require the services of a very active and energetic immigration agent to round up in one month 18,432 Ameri cans who would pay their fare to the Argentine Republic. In view of the high price of hay this year, It may be expected h'sCi farmers will put'ln a very much larger acreage of hay crops the coming season. There Is always a tendency to go to extremes, and it will not be surprising if an over supply brings prices down. A year of high prices for potatoes usually results In an overproduction the next year. According to a report from St Pe tersburg, 200,000 Finns will soon be added to the number of American citl zens of foreign birth. Just at this junc ture it would be offensive to ask the Russian government the cause of this wholesale exodus of the Finnish sub jects of the Czar. The menace of "imperialism" is not so serious today. And the "guff" about "militarism" will be laid aside for four years more. But of course that moth eaten banner will be pulled out of the drawer again In 1908, and unfurled as usual. Parker was never meant to be elected. They put him up to keep Hearst from getting it and to keep Bryan from getting it. Thomas E. Watson. "We guess "Watson knew what he was talking about It may now be hoped that Mr. Parker will resume his "calm, judicial mind, that he laid aside during the last week of the campaign for slander of Roose velt and mudsllnging at Congress. No doubt Mr. Bryan will now keep his word, and begin at once his work of bringing hla-party to its principles of 1896 and 1900. The Parker episode was only a plutocratic dream. Douglas, the shoe man, a Democrat, is elected uovernor ot aiassacnusetts. xne Democracy, thus reduced to extremities, ought to be able to extract -53.50 worth of comfort out of this fact Russia is said to owe -'France $1,600, 000,000. The anxiety of France to pre vent the further Involvement of Russia in war is, upon this showing, easily ac counted for. It would seem that Judge Parker, In winding -things up with a whirlwind campaign,. hadimsalPcome slightly tangled up in tne tail of the cyclone. Boss Murphy says he is sorry. "Why shouldn't he be sorry? Tammany cuts little Ice, and Murphy less. In a Na tional election. We have breathing time now to pause and wonder what has, become-of Buffalo Bill and his circus hunt for the Cody bankrobbers. If he had.lt to do over again, we opine that Judge Parker would want the whole question submitted to The Hague tribunal. Of course our friends feel all right about South Carolina and Louisiana. It Is not one-sided thia tiling alto gether. The net result of hte little dash Into National politics seems to be that the Judge is thrown out of a very good job; -If I -was so soon, to be done for. What' was" T ever begun for? Candidate Parker. It all got to- stow that the wbele Nation has an abiding faith In Pre -deat BoostTek: - - WATSON'S LIVELY SPEECH. j (Among the liveliest speeches in the late campaign were those of Populist candidate Tom Watson. They were hot stuff." "Watson's explanation of why Parker was nominated, and what be stood for, made In a speech at Vlr- den. 111., is worth reprinting:) what does Parker stand for? Except an appetite for office, what does he represent? "What will he do that Roosevelt has not done? "What will he leave undone that Roosevelt has done? Where is tho difference be tween Parker and Roosevelt as stated by Parker himdelf? Put It in small change and hand it to me. (Laughter.) "What is it? Don't whitewash me all over with words. Don't cover me up with language. Put It to me straight, right between the eyes. "What is it that Parker wants to do different from what Roose'elt wants to do? You can not state It to save your life. "Wherever In these meetings I have asked a Repub lican what Roosevelt stood for he could tell me. You ask a People's party man what "Watson stands for and he can tell you. You ask a Democrat what Parker stands for and he breaks for the back door. (Laughter.) Talk about tnrow- ing away your vote. If I am right and you believe I am right and you don't vote for me you have thrown away your vote. Parker has not got a ghost of a chance. Why, he does not stand for anything. He never was meant to be elected. They put him up to keep Hearst from getting it and to keep Bryan from getting it (A voice, "That's the Idea.') They put him up not so much to elect him as to keep a real genuine Democrat from being elected. (Applause.) It cost them $8,00p,000 or $10,000,000 to beat Bryan, and they thought it would be oheaper to buy up the delegates and the editors before the nomination than to buy up the peo ple after the nomination; (Laughter.) That is tho case. Your hearts tell you I am right Your Intelligence tells you I am right How else can you explain why It is that there was such a tre mendous battle to get Parker nominat ed and no battle to get him elected? (Laughter.) Did you evr think of that? Ordinarily in politics the skirmish line goes before the convention. It Is the line of battle that Is formed after the convention. This time it was the line of battle that went up to the con vention and it was the skirmish line and a mighty thin one and feeble one, knock-kneed one and small one after the convention. (Laughter and ap plause.) Why? They had got what they wanted. They already had the Republl can party. By nominating Parker they had gagged and tied and delivered the Democratic party. What more did they want? If Parker was defeated Roose velt would keop up the system. If Roosevelt was defeated Parker would keep up the ' system. Both horses hitched to the same wagon going to the same goal to the same destination. It did not matter to them which walked the faster, which pulled the most No matter which of the two became the wheel hor3e. the watron would co where the system wanted and the sys tem would; go in the wagon. Now what? Will you submit to it or will you pro test against it? I for one wish that W. J. Bryan at St Louis, instead of holding out his hands for tho shackles, had unfurled the banner of revolt and called upon the American people to sup port nim. Had he done that all the re form element and all the men who be lieve In Jeffersonlan government would have rallied behind him. He would have been the uncrowned king of the Amer ican Demqcracyj and I believe he would have vanquished Roosevelt De mocracy wants a fighter. Jeffersonlan principles want a champion and Parker Is no tighter. Talk about a man like that whipping. Kooscvelt. Why Roosevelt Is a flcrhter. No matter how wrong he is he Is not afraid. Hie. will fight and all through? his letter of acceptance he defies Par ker with this defies him on that dars him on this and dares him on that and Parker does not take up a single dare (laughter), except that lit tle pension-order No. 78. He says Roose velt Is wrong on that He passed it by executive order and If you will elect him, he (Parker) will do the same thing by act of congress. He says in ef fect Rooseveit did the right thing did. a thing that ought to be done, but Roosevelt did It In an Irregular way and If you will elect me, I will do the same thing, but do it regularly. (Laughter.) All through the letter all through the campaign It looks- a3 it Roosevelt had doubled up his fist and was rubbing It under Parker's, nose. and yet Parker won't fight. Parker won't speak. Parker won't come out Where is his Democracy If he can not proclaim it as Bryan used to o? If he is a Democrat why can not he give his reasons for the faith that is in him. Why can not he meet the people and tell us what his principles are and wherein they differ from Republican principles? A man like that can not whip Roosevelt To whip a man like Roosevelt you have got to go up against him and fight him. and it looks very much to me that Roosevelt could tie his hands behind him and run Parker out of the ring by shining his teeth at him. (Laughter.) What good is this man doing in this campaign? What dpes ne represent? wnom does he represent? wnat does, tie want to do? I will tell you what He holds . the Democratic party still motlonless-noncombative, to keep somebody else from getting into the fight xnat is it - If Parker would como out of my way come down and give me the Dem ocratlc papers that are back of him give me the organization that Is back or him, give me the millions of voters who are Democratic at heart I would show you a fight against Roosevelt (Cheers and applause). For r. also, am a flgbter. Nothing ever yet has been done for the people that was .not done by men who stood by principles and who were willing to work for them and willing, if need be, to die for them. I believe that Bryan could have bolted that convention and defeated Roose velt It may be too late to do it now In this campaign, but if I had the Parker forces I would be willing to try. It may not be too late and I believe that with these men, inspired with the encour agement x nave naa l could sro tin against him with a- fight which, might not whip him, but when he went home his wife would ask him whom he "had been fighting with. (Laughter and cneers.j The Lure' of the Sagebrush. Sam Davis.. In Sunset. Have you ever scented the sage-brush That manUes Nevada's plain? If not you have lived but half your life. And that half lived In yam. No matter where the place or clime That your wandering footsteps stray. Tou will sigh If you know of her velvet fields And their fragrance of leveled- bay. Tou will loiter a while In other lands, When something seems to can. And the lure of the sage-braeh brings you -back. And holds you -within its thrall. Tou -may tread the halls of pleasure Where the lamps of folly shine, 'Mid the sobbing of sensuous music And the flow of forbidden wine. But -when the revel- la over. And the dancers turn to go. You will . long for a draft of the crystal streams That spring from ber peaks of seow. Tou will ask foe a sight of feeetl-lag crags. Wiser tne storm King &eid bi away. Where the sinking sua with Its Vruefc ot Tens tne taie ot tne aying day. And when you &! you tfll wmtt a gnave. , Where the Waafeoe sepfeyr Maws. With the greea of the mtg-rwmk ahw ytw head. What Tun to rtttt Uie'rOtfT' - HR. WARB0N PENSIONS. A Timely and Interesting Contribu tion to Literature of Campaign. Milwaukee Sentinel. One -of the most timely and Interesting contributions to the literature of the pres ent campaign is the article written by Eugene F. Ware, Commissioner of Pen sions, and published in the Chicago Tri- Dune ot uctooer 23, in which he takes oc casion to explain the much-discussed pen sion order No. 78. and defend It from the attacks made upon it by Candidate Parker and his supporters. But the article is much more than an explanation and defense of the pe'nsion order In. question. It Is. In addition, a scholarly tribute to the American, soldier. an analysis or tne fundamental. American idea of pensions, a classification and de ception of the various kinds of pensions and an able justification of the liberal policy pursued by the Government of the LTnlted States toward the men who fought its battles. In describing the several kinds of pen sions. Commissioner Ware says that the age pension, to which order No. 78 ex clusively pertains, rests upon questions of sentiment The disability and service peasjnns are matters of business calcula tion ana computation pure and1 simple. Uncle Sam pay3 so much in dollars and cents for so much disability sustained as a result of so much' service rendered. But In fixing the conditions of the age pen sion such considerations are not taken into account Sentiment determines not only what the reward shay be for the man who gave the best of his earlier years to the defense of his country's honor and integrity when he has reached .the" age of decrepitude, but also what shall be deem ed that age for pensioning purposes. That Commissioner Ware is a philoso pher as well as a poet of no mean order Is evidenced by this neat little reflection on the potency of sentiment: "In this world sentiment must be pro Ided for. It Is potent In war, politics. business and everything else. People who run up against it find it as solid as facts themselves. Sentiment Is the product of imagination and rules the world. Justifying order No. 78, the Commis sloner puts the gist of the matter in the subjoined paragraph: "It has been found by the examination of many thousands of cases that there is carcely a man who has arrived at the age of 62 who cannot show and prove by his neighbors and by medical authority in his neighborhood that he Is one-half unable to earn the kind of -support that he as a soldier Is conceded to have right to. It Is found-that at 65 he Is still further disabled; it is. found that at 68 the disability has been progressing, and at 70 there is not one man out of 1000 of that ago who can earn by manual labor the kind of support he ought to have. Ana yet uuage tramcr taxes me posi tion that it is wrong to grade age pen sions, and declares that if elected ne will revoke order No. 78 and use hl3 best ef forts to persuade Congress to pass an act giving age pensions uniform as to amount and without reference to the presumed desxee of disability. This sounds well. but as he fails to go Into details the vet eran Is left to guess whether the age limit in Mr. Parker's bill would be 62, 72 or possibly S2 years and the amount $12. 55. J6 or even 54 per montfc. Order No. 78 Is specific, and moreover is Droving generally satisfactory; whereas Judge Parker s promise Is vague ana per mits of so great latitude in performance as to render its acceptance unsafe by any friend of the surviving soldiers of the Union. Under it the age limit might be fixed at 102 years and the amount at 50 cents ner month, and still, like the witches' nronhecy to Macbeth, it would prove untrue to the ear, however raise it might be to tno nope. DO WOMEN. CROWD THEM OUT? Male Students In the Co-Educational Schools Are Significantly Fewer Chicaed Chronicle. Evidently Dr. Edmund James does not believe It to be a case of the survival of the fittest when he says the disappearance of men students from the co-educational Institutions in the Mississippi valley may be only a matter of time. In his report to the trustees of North western University, which appeared this week. Dr. James shows the percentage of women in the Evanston school has In creased during the last four years from 46.1 to 56.6. He expalns the fact in the case of thl3 particular university by say- lnrr it is distinctly a literary college and that emphasis is placed on the study of the classics, ancient and modern history, mathematics and pure science subjects which appeal to the women of the country as they become more eaucatea. What is to be done about it? wnat en couragement can be given to young men to attend the higher institutions of learn ing in such numbers that they shall not be overshadowed by the women? Or Is the check to be applied and the number of women to be limited, as was done at Ice land Stanford? How would a broadening of the curriculum affect the result? Cor nell, which is In no danger of a surplus of women students, has made ample prov slon for men by numerous courses in engineering, agricultural and applied science. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology open to both sexes, has but few women students, although the num ber Is-gradually increasing. It is hardly fair or chivalrous to debar women from studing whatever they wish to study simply because men do not like to attend "a female seminary." There ought to be scope enough In the college, as there Is In life, for both men and wo men. That women are crowding Into places hitherto occupied by men does not mean that some law or artinciai iorce should be used to keep them out If they do well In these places they wilt -stay; if not in the very nature of things, they will drop out or be dropped. It certainly Is desirable that men shall havo the opportunities for higher educa tion: that they shall not be crowded out If the courses offered are what they should be how are the young men hin dered in any respect by the number of women? Is it timidity, bashfulness or a sense of inferiority that 'makes men stu dents averse to a preponderance, of women stundchts? "FAIRAND LIBERAL NEWSPAPER" No Opinion or Stand on Any Impor tant Subject.; Roseburg Plalndealer. - In the campaign just drawing to a close there has been in this state an issue sec bnd In importance only to the Preslden tial election. We refer to the question of prohibition, which will be submitted to the voters tomorrow for adoption or re jection. This is a question not of local Importance only, but al3o of county and state interest one which has been debated upon and freely discussed both pro and con. The Plalndealer has endeavored to treat tne1 question from a strictly Inde pendent standpoint recognizing the rights and respecting the opinions of the leadV Ing advocates on both sides of this im portaht question' and has granted both sides fair and equal treatment so far as space In the columns of the paper is con cerned, which has enabled our subscribers to read both sides of the question and intelligently draw their own. conclusions, leaving them free to vote their honest conviction;. This could be the only con stetent and conservative stand of a truly Independent secular newspaper. His Predicament. Atchison Globe. An Atchison man was married in his overalls -the other day. He had better etetbe. but the Sheriff wouldn't let him ge hour after tbe. "Rtfn It on the Man. Atchison Globe. A AtcJiteo wife holds her hubond tt becMiM of the fact that xhi 1 M NOTE AND C0MMJST. ' Transports of Joy. The transport Logan arrived last night. Tho ship was full of pretty girls and eyery- tning was loveiy, jusi psnecwy grana. Manila American, ' Hark upon the air Rings a rousing slagan": J "Come and greet the Fair Landing from the Logan." See. how in a trice Empties every villa; Files like shaken dice . ... - All of white Manila.'- " - Racing for the quay; . ..1"." See how eager each lir' - . Dying for to see -AIL the rosy peaches. . " - Spanish girl is. gay, Dashing senorita, ' Ah. but here today Comes a girl that's sweeter,. . r' Ah, -our lovely Fates, Blushing red- and rosyi-r ... "Breathings of tho "States,"... - Like a Mayday posy. - . - v Dies the rollers crash. Fades the ocean glowing Tankee rivers plash.. Yankee flaw'rs are blowing.. We've got cause to cheer; Tou can bet your.brogans-i- God's Country blossoms here In cargoes like the Logan's The Anti-Cigarette League -is smoking Parker will be a long time In "digging his way out Campaign poets may now Bo back to splitting wood. The tumult and the shouting dle3" thank goodness. j -. - Admiral Parker mistook torpedo-boats for fishing smacks. ' ' Nowadays It's the hand that, rocks, the incubator rules the world. The Wyoming bandits have evidently i gone Into Winter quarters. A New Tork paper runs some stories of the city's "tube" under the caption. "The Sunny Side of the Subway." Wonder which side that is. Chambers' Journal tells "of a Scotch minister who was in need of funds" and thus conveyed his intentions to his con- - congregation: "Weel. friends, -the kirk is urgently in need of siller, and as we have failed to get money honestly, we will have to see what a bazaar can do for us." And it was .a curate, continues the writer, who read in the lesson for the day', "He spoke the word, and cathoppers came, and grasslplllars innumerable." All the sagacity of a literary and debat ing club would bo required ;to answer this riddle from Puck. Once on a time two youths, were suit ors for the hand of a .goba,. beautiful, sensible, bright tactful candid, -soulful. womanly girl. One youth made love. . r The other made money. Puzzle: Which youth . married the, good. beautiful, sensible, bright, tactful,, candid, soulful, womanly girl?- - - y According to the Daily Telegraph,- the persons who expect to be tipped In a London hotel nowadays are: 1 The "head slttlng-robm waiter. ..2 The head; .table d'hote waiter. S The coffee-room- waiter. 4 The smoking-room-waiter, -5 The"had porter. 6 The waiter;-'- 7-rThe chamber maid. S The valet 3-The cloakroom, at tendant 10 The night porter. 'U-The house porter. 12-rThe carriage attendant 13 The. liftman. 14 The cage. . The "lift man" sounds to Portland-ears something like a man with some sort of a job in a mine, but is probably the London trans lation of elevator boy, -while the- "page" has a sort of mediaeval smack that i3 ut terly lacking in "bellboy." St Petersburg Is quite swelled, up be cause two small student row3 were quieted without the shooting of any of the. boys. This would grieve the heart of the editor of the Brutalltarian, a new- English mag azine devoted to the advocacy of "more brutal methods. The editor, who may be a mild and spectacled youth probably Is, judging from other cases wants more flagging introduced to harden the moral fiber of the young. He says the world is too humanitarian and sentimental. There would be an editorial kick, though, if a reader, dissenting frbm the paper's policy, adopted its advice and went after the editor In the good, old brutalltarian way, when he argumentum bacullhum was the main reliance pf the orator. Under the caption of "The Exchange Editor," the New Orleans Times-Democrat runs these lines: Smite him. fight Win. slight him, - Tet he mar forgive 1 V Hit him, twit him, spit hlm,- Anger mar not live! " Jeer him, fleer him, sneer-hlm. - Wrath Is fugiUve. . x '..-.-But never, never, never, . t Till he's looked them o'er; Dare to touch the papers Piled his desk- before! - 'r, - y; He'll the act Yemeinber." ' Ne'er forget the score! Kings, they may be Jealous- . , Of their precedence. Diplomats passed over Take a great offense; S But on that point he stickles With ardor more Intense! To which might be added: . Though the man may Stickle, Klck and, likewise roar. He will find -his papers Tumbled o'er and o'er Missing are' he latest Rest upon the'flor. - WE J. OT OF THE GINGER JAR.- - Little Clara Mother, tell me a fairy- story. Mrs. Gayboy (glancing-at the clock) Walt un til your father comes home, -dear, andhe will tell us both one. Cincinnati. Tribune McFlub Now. what sort of a. chap Is this feUow? Z want to know all about', him. S pinks Well, be weans a celluloid collar and his. McFlub Hold on! That's enough. Houston Chronicle. Him I think a man should marry a girl ho has known from his childhood. Her YeF but If the girl knew a man from childhood she would "probably know better than to marry him. Chicago News. "I cannot understand your indifference,'' fiercely epoke the lovelorn swain. -""rhea you might try running away from "ft"" Teplied the sweet girl, with a signlflca&t: glance- Tat the clock. Philadelphia Inquirer. "A man taken a great deal of risk witea he goes Into politics, doesa't he?" "Yes," .an swered Senator Sorghom. "It's very ach like going over Niagara Falto. Tou doa'twaat to- attempt it unless you have a sooi stout barret." Washington Star. x Mrs. Gotham Don't you -beUrre if a.-- wflsaaa tumble upstairs she will not be aurrM tkat year? Mrs. Desrbora No, L dea't I jtaow a woman In Chicago who can't go of a- pair oC stairs without stumbling half , a ddma tins, and-I've knows her to be married faur times in obo year! To-nkers StateeSMkn. 1 , ' "Maade graduate frsa row esefciar school fest SprteK. didn't efe?" "Tea; W H's gem to tak a. set-sradHU oowae tfck' iFalL" Then site's really otag back U. thV seXooir "Oh. no: st' to B,MftnrM . pw yasct , jw ." CathcMc Standard aM-Ifus.- '