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THE MORNING OKEGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTVBfliBER 20, 1905; Catered t the Potoifle at Portland, Or aa second-dais matter. BUnSCKlTXIOX KATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. iBy atall or Express.) Dafty and Sunday, per year laiy end Sunday, six months 3.00 Xsatty and Sunday, three month .. 33 Dtfty and Seaday. per month Daftr without Sunday, per year oJJ ZaAy without Sunday, six months - a-jjO Jatty without Sunday, three months... 1.8 Ifctr without Sunday, per mouth .03 CwidM. per year "pjjij Sunday. x months Svaday. three months 65 BT CARRIER. Oittr trtthent Sunday, per week .15 Xily. per week. Sunday included TUK "WEEKLY ORBGONIAN. tissued Every Thursday.) Weekly, pec yesr.... ........ 50 Wetty. stx months Weekly, three months 00 HOW TO REMIT Send poitofflce money order. exprees order or personal check, on rur local beak. Stamps, coin or currency e at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The S. C. 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Saet Lakr alt Lake News Co.. 77 "West Xnrd Mrwt South; Xattonat News Agency. Yeaton-MoBe lark, Wyo. Canyon Hotel, LJr Iletr;. Yellowstone Park Asen. tJhC Keaet B. E. Amm. io ITunelKce J. K. Cooper & Co.. 740 Xarkr-T otreet; Goldsmith Bros.. 23 Sutter and Hotel Ht Francis News Stand; L. E. l-. Paler Hotel News Stand: F. "W. Pitt. la Market; Prank Scott. SO Kills; N. Whesuley Movable Nws Stand, earner Mar ket. Mid Xearaey streets; Foster & Orear, Fcrj News Stand. S. Iah, MbR T. Jett Beak & News Ceanaaiiy. fUJ Oltve atreC Wntettacten. 1). C. Kbultt House, rennsyl Mata vo. PORTLAND. WMMNHSDAY, SEPT. 20, 1005. DINOLKY1TE 31 1 ASM A. The tariff revision editorial in the yittlmrg Gnette, upon which comment wk msently made In The Oregonian, has excited attention all over the coun try. The Democratic New York Times Jmk at the idea of the Gazette that the beat and safest revision of the tar ill wW he 'by It friends and not by its issaaltt. The friends of the tariff, says the Times, are those who profit by Its matfest and manifold iniquities, and they will never consent to any revision that diminishes their spoils. It would be oomfortinsr to be able to reply to the Times chat it is misinformed and to assert that the Justice of tariff re form in the Interest of the consumer is acknowledged unanimously by Republi can; hat this cannot be done Just yet. The moraiag' light Is breaking, the 4arkass disappears; but It is not yet tall day. Multitudes of Republicans still amnder In the clouds and mias matic togs of Diqgleyipm, but increas imr throngs come dally under convlc tfaxn of economic sin and emerge into the Mil ltaiii of the truth of tariff re form aad reciprocity. The time is not far off when the epi thet "standpatter" will become a term f reproach, or, perhaps, disgrace, like athrerite. populist. Bryanite. It will in dicate a feeble and disconsolate rem nant left behind as their party ad vances to new ideals and victories. This remnant will consist of those who shut their ears to Instruction and harden their "hearts to admonition. A stiff necked race upon whom facts have no influence and arguments are lost. Let las shout In their ears aain this patent fact: The tariff must and will be re formed. If the Republicans raf use the Uutk. the people will intrust It to the Iemocratsi. IORTINl) DAY. SHPTEMBEK. 30. The Fair management has named Saturday, September M, as Portland day at the Exposition, and the people of the city are to demonstrate whether September M will really be Portland day. To be Portland day, a day worthy of the name, people must attend to a snaa. It wa this spirit that gave Chl cg day a record of 7C1.94S admissions, that rolled a grand total of 404,450 for St. Louts. 16 424 for Buffalo and 98,845 for Omaha. Portland people have to show that the same spirit actuates the citiassts of the Exposition city 'of 1905. Patriotism takes many forms. It is not necessarily associated with hurrah ing for the red, white and blue, or fight ing la the wars. One form bf patriot ism is that which Is manifested when a sreat people stand as one In a matter that concerns the public weal. Port land showed such patriotism when its cltteene subscribed more than $400,000 to launch the Exposition enterprise. The city has shown it since by sup porting the enterprise with great cor diality. The Fair has done much for the city In more than material ways. The crowning test of the depth of ap preciation which Portland people feel is at hand. What are they going to do? ARMY OFFICEItS' PAY. Major-General Corbln gives some very wholesome advice to young Army offi cers In regard to living within their means. While euch advice is applicable to men in all walks of life, it Is partic ularly so to officers in the Army, among whom the temptation to display and to dissipation at cards or wine is greater than to men In civil life. The military man should not only be dlscoaraged in the acquirement of tastes and the indulgence of vices that get him in debt and keep him in debt; he should, in the view of General Cor bln. be subjected to discipline the mo meat he begins to live beyond his means. A rigid enforcement of this principle would relieve the Army of the scandals that attach to it year after year, and It would conduce. In honest. snanly fashion, to the improvement of the service. Let us hope if it is not beyond hope that the advice of the veteran military commander will have due weight with the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, himself an out spoken advocate of the "simple life," to whloh Army officers are exhorted to confine themselves. A few years ago, It will "be remem bered, GencralsCorbln drew uponhim self much criticism by opposing the marriage of young officers In the Army. The basis of this opinion was that the salary pf such an officer Was not suffi cient to enablehlm to maintain a fam ily and keep oii of debt This opinion was held to be based upon the false idea that an Army officer owed It to his position to maintain a' more ex pensive style of living than -his pay wouia Justify. Against It rose the out cryvery properly voiced that a mar ried man did not spend more upon the legitimate needs of a family than a bachelor officer -spent upon his artifi cial wants. Hence, if extravagance and dissipation were to be checked in mili tary circles, it was necessary, not to bar marriage out, but to bowl personal honor and integrity in. General Cor bin seems, upon due deliberation, to have accepted this view, since he says: "The moment an officer Is possessed with an uncontrollable desire for any other than the simple life, he should separate himself from the service and enter the fields from which the material rewards admit of more luxurious liv ing." A good wife being one of the greatest safeguards of the "simple life," it Is not unreasonable to suppose that General Corbln's objection to she marrJajge of young officers has been withdrawn. IDAHO AT WASHINGTON. "The Portland Oregonian better go slow talking about lack of influence of Idaho's Congressional delegation until its editor can make a little better show ing for his own state," remarks the Caldwell (Idaho) News. There are those who think Oregon is just now making the best kind of a show nig for itself. We don't know yet what will happen in Idaho. We do know it has a Repub lican Senator who, by his violent and unreasonable opposition to the Federal forest reserve policy, has "queered" -himself with the National Administra tion. It has a Democratic Senator who has advertised everywhere that Idaho Is In the grip of the Mormon octopus, and that Its political and social life are dominated by a criminal hierarchy of polygamlsts. According to the Dubois gospel, concubinage is the custom and defiance of law the creed of a large and influential portion of Idaho citizenship. According to Heyburn, the President has entered into a conspiracy with a few idealists and -visionaries like Pin chot and Newell to Impoverish and starve the honest homesteader. It Is not Mormonism that worries Dubois; It is what Is going to become of Dubois. It is not the welfare of the settler that "concerns Heyfourn; it Is what is going to become of Heyburn and his friends. The Idaho Mormons are a frugal. In telligent and productive people, and it Is the common testimony of unpreju diced persons that polygamy has ceased. If Dubois and his fellow-agitators thought to require by law any Mormon who in other days had con tracted more than one marriage, and reared several families, to abandon ut terly all the plural wives but the first, and their children, he did not under stand human nature. If Heyburn thought that, by pounding the empty drum of his noisy vocabularj-. he could frighten the National Government into abandonment of a definite, proper "and impartial policy as to forest reserves, he has by this time learned better. Some day Idaho will learn that It Is not wise to send to Washington one Senator with a chip on .his shoulder, loudly daring the President to knock It off; and another who acts like a eow puncher and talks like a schoolboy. CHII.DRBN AND THE LVW. The Child Labor Commission, charged with the special duty of seeing that the child-labor law of the state is enforced, is active in the work. While some, and perhaps all, of the members of the com mission are in favor of the law as It stands, their action Is not governed by personal opinion, but by a high sense of civic duty which gives them no op tion in regard to the enforcement of the law, but bids them look vigilantly to its enforcement, because it is the law and they are its instrument. The 'best way to secure repeal or mod ification of ah undesirable or Impracti cal law Is rigidly and literally to en force It. The brave and far-seeing ex ecutive officer pursues this course, while he who is cowardly, weak or shortsighted helps to put the Injudi cious law to sleep by ignoring its exist ence. In the view of many practical men and women of the business, social and domestic world, the child-labor law now upon our statute-books, in some of its requirements at least, intermeddles with matters that are of private rather than of public concern, usurps the parental prerogative and defeats the very end at which responsible parental effort alms the bringing up of children to habits of Industry. The children of a former generation were brought up in accordance with the view expressed in the declaration that Satan finds eatae mischief etill For idle hands to do. This statement finds verification in every neighborhood during a long vaca tion season, in which large numbers of children are left to their own devices. Great, hulking boys, old enough and strong enough to earn during this period money sufficient to buy their books and much of their clothing for the ensuing school year, roam about In idleness under the restrictions of this law, terrorize small boys, pull down fences, deface buildings, torment -and often torture cats and other weak creatures, and in these and various other ways learn the flr6t lessons in crime. This is a fact so well known that it is not necessary to cite examples in support of it. The great problem in bringing up boys In a city so they will jiot form themselves into predatory "gangs" is that of devising ways and means to keep them busy. This does not mean that drudgery beyond their strength and long hours of labor should be the portion of boys during the vacation season, or at other times, when cir cumstances require that they should engage in remunerative employment. But it does mean that the boy who is employed at work that he is able to do steadily employed when out of school is on the high road to good citizen ship, while his classmate who idles the long vacation period away contracts. In the formative years of character, habits of idleness and irresponsibility that are the arch foes of good citizenship. The chief objection to the child-labor law, and to other laws that seek to control individual action In the ordi nary vocations of life, is that. In the very nature of things, they cannot dis criminate. Here is an Industrious lad who Is anxious, as cited In court the other' day, to earn a few dollars by watering lawns In the Summer time. If Tunder 16 years of age, he would. In performing this simple,- healthful ser- vice, be violating the law, which for bids children up to the age of 16 years to engage In any employment after 6 o'clock In the evening or before 7 o'clock in the morning. This Is. of course, an extreme case, but it Is at least a supposable one, the list of which might be' Indefinitely extended. That the Intent of our child-labor law Is good cannot be disputed; that there is need of a law for the pro tection of" children from mercen ary parents and greedy employers is equally true, while to frame a law that will cover these cases without meddling in the affairs of responsible parents and honorable and just busi ness men is exceedingly difficult. The child-labor law of the state may not be the best that can be enacted. But. such as It Is, It should be enforced, as thereby Its Inconsistencies will be dis closed. Against fthe old-fashioned pre cept that Idleness, not work, is the bane of childhood looking, of course, to the ultimate this law protests. Whether It will make good its conten tion or not, a later generation must decide. TIIE CASE OF MR. SCHURZ. The case of Frank J. Schurz, accused of burglary and held by the court for the action of the grand jury, presents certain points of remarkable Interest. It Is worthy of a more careful stud than such cases usually receive. The burglary, real or imagined, was com mitted by some person who entered the room where Elizabeth Busch and her little sister Freta slept. Freta cried out; Elizabeth "leaped from her bed"; some conversation with the burglar en sued; Elizabeth started to go to her father's room and the burglar fled, leav ing behind him the odor of chloroform. Schurz, who lived next door, is accused of the crime, and his defense is an alibi. The validity of the alibi reposes upon j the metaphysical 'postulate that the same body cannot be in two places at the same time. Schurz attempts to show that when the burglary of which he is accused was com- m4tted he was in bed with his stepson. The criminal, appeared In Elizabeth Bu sen's room, as she says, at MM o'clock in the night. Schurz left his work at 9 o'clock on that night and went home; and his stepson, Daniel, a boy of 14, knows where he was from the moment he entered the house until morning. He ate his supper, chatted a while with Daniel, and then went to bed, lying with his arm under the boy's head. This, It seems, was their habit, and the fact Is Important. For, if Daniel bad only laid his head acci dentally on his stepfather's arm for that one occasion, Schurz might have removed it when he was asleep with out rousing him; but if that was the boy's habitual position in his sleep, the disturbance would have been almost certain to wake him up. Sleeping hab its are as strong as waking ones. Any change in a person's usual position during slumber, even a slight change, will break his rest, and the change which Schurz must have effected to re move Daniel's head from his arm was by no means slight. Add to this the disturbance he could not avoid in get ting out of bed and dressing himself, and It will be seen how extremely un likely it was that he could have done it all without waking the boy. But Dan iel did not waken then, nor during the Interval while Schurz must have been away if he committed the burglary. Now a person in the habit of sleeping with another will almost Invariably waken when his mate leaves the bed. even if his position is not disturbed. All animals are highly sensitive to the absence of their bed companions, and humans as much so as any. The loss of the usual sensations of touch and warmth will be missed In the deepest sleep; the slumber will be broken and consciousness restored. Daniel did not waken, however, while Schurz ' was away; and, more wonderful still, he continued to sleep during the commo tion his stepfather must have made in re-entering the room, undressing, get ting into bed and replacing Daniel's head upon his arm. For when, later In the night, the boy did awaken, he found his head exactly where It was when he feel asleep. All this is impos sible to believe. Either Daniel does not' tell the truth, or Schurz never left the bed after he first lay down that night. He could not have removed the boy's head from his arm, got up and dreseed, remained absent during a certain Inter val, come back, undressed, got back into bed and replaced the head, without rousing Daniel from his sleep. But there is no reason to believe that Daniel Schurz does not tell the truth, and It must be granted, therefore, that his stepfather has established an alibi. Frank J. Schurz could not have been In Elizabeth Busch's room on the night of the alleged burglary. But Elizabeth testified that he was in her room and that she knew his voice and face. Sl.ce it must have been dark, her knowing the burglar's face was an extraordinary circumstance, as she herself must have realized later, for on cross-examination she revised this statement and admit ted that she did not recognize Schurz' features. What the burglar said to her was also remarkable. "Lizzie," his question was, "where Is your father's money?" This is exactly what an Imaginative girl would put into a burg lar's mouth If she were writing a novel, but It is much too ingenuous for fact. By calling her "Lizzie" he betrayed that he was Intimate with the family, which Is the last thing Schurz would have done If he had broken Into his neigh bor's house. He might as wel have said "I am Schurz." If the burglar really had been an Intimate,- he would have done his best to hide the fact. If he had been a stranger, on the other hand. he would not have known that her name was Lizzie. She told the burglar, she testifies. that her fathers money was In the blacksmith shop, but he made np use of the Information. He did not go there to get the money, rie did not try to compel Elizabeth to show him the way to the shop. He fell, It would seem, into a state of profound contemplation. As for Elizabeth, she did not scream o: make any other effort to rouse the neighbors. She deliberated for a time with great calmness. It appears from her testimony, and then started to go to her fathers room. -The burglar made no attempt to hinder her. Of course he did not know where she was going, or what for, but the very fact of her moving at all seemed to scare him and he climbed out of the window and ran away. All this Is Incredible. If the burglar's intention had been to chloro form Elizabeth while she was asleen. he would have run away at once when she Jumped out of bed, "without walling to betray himself by conversation. He would have seen that his plan had failed and his. only object would have been to escape. He could gain nothing by remaining except detection. If Tie had some other Intention, what did he bring the chloroform and open it for, as Elizabeth testifies he did? The key to such mystery as this case Involves lles-iti the purchase by Schurz of lfi cents' worth of chloroform fo kill a cat and doctor a horse. A girl at the age when Imagination Is active and conscience woak learns of this purchase by her next-door neighbor. She dis cusses with her little sister what terri ble things Schurz might "do with his chloroform. In the night following, the little sister rehearses the conversation in a dream and shrieks in, her sleep with fright. Elizabeth, wakened by the shriek, springs out of bed. imagines she sees Schurz before her, and flies in a panic to her father's room. The con versation with the chimerical burglar a literary gift much Inferior to Eitza-beth's-would readily supply as It was needed- to round out the tale. Mr. Schurz is not the first man whore lib erty has been endangered by the too active imagination of a child. Criminal records contain many similar cases, and it is a thought not altogether pleas ant that defense against. such accusa tions Is always difficult and sometimes impossible. The London Morning Post," apropos of the question of public education in England, calls attention to the fact that the English have not yet devised meth ods similar to those In operation in this country for the utilisation of their pub lic libraries as a means of assisting in the educatipn of children. It is pointed out that there is no special room for children to read in at the British Mu seum, and that that vastbulldlng con tains nothing specially adapted for their pleasure or their profit. In the main reading-room the announcement stands that "no person under 21 years of age is admissible except under a special or der from the trustees." and the Post asks the question: What becomes of the children's books that under the statute law of the kingdom have to be sent by their publishers to the mu seum? In contrast to this, nearly all the public libraries of the United States give to every child above a certain age as liberal. an opportunity as is ac corded in his playground or school, and that in this way the library is utilised in a .manner which finds no counterpart in British experiences. President Angell, of the University of Michigan, takes note of the general craze for athletics and declares that It would be impossible and unfair to pre vent students from participating In the craze. No one objects to rational col lege athletics. Reformers protest at the excesses of the games. Profession alism and brutality of football are feat ures that college management can and should eliminate. On the one hand, ex cesses spoil the sport; on the other, they interfere with the educational spirit of the Institutions. Steamship experts figure the cose to the army of Americans who went to Europe last Summer by the New York trans-Atlantic lines at upward of $1S. SM.oM. This sum includes, besides passage money and traveling expenses, the necessary tips on land and sea. If the cost to vacationists taking passage at other ports were estimated, the total would be perhaps 2S per cent more, for travel this year has been heavy beyond all precedent. The country's prosperity is considered responsible for it. The Forestry building at the Exposi tion crounds. at once the wonder and delight of visitors and the pride of citi zens of the Pacific Northwest, together with it ltf comm-isins: two acres of land, very properly becomes the prop erty Qf the City of Portland. The price to be paid is a reasonable one. and the unique structure will remain an object lesson that will give more than a pass ins slimnse of the forest wealth of a wide area, from which the specimens were, here and there, taken. The Prlnevllie press bureau continues to spread Its output through such ave nues as will accept it. First it frames a lot of resolutions denouncing The Oregonian. which it persuades an anonymous "Business Men's League" to adopt; next it prepares and publishes a long and troubled article on The Ore gonian, which it gets a worthy citizen named WurseHer 10 sign. We shall learn from the Federal Court in a few days just how efficient the labors of the Prmeville press bureau are. In the opinion of Dan McAllen, pro moter of the late baby show at the Ex position, he "will never be through with the affah." And he should not be. Proud and grateful mothers by the score and the hundred will and should remember hlnj, and point to" the pretty medals so generously bestowed upon their children a conclusive evidence that he was the right man in the right place on Baby day at the Lewis and Clark Exposition. Establishment of the wool scouring plant in Portland is the beginning of big things in textiles. It will not be many years before this city occupies the same relation to the wool Industry of the country that Grand Rapids does to the manufacture of furniture. This generation has seen only the start. The Drain Normal is running on funds -pledged by local business men to carry on the work. This is as it should be. if the people of Drain want a nor mal school that serves practically their own Interests. There Is- no help like self-help. It is over and above all un friendly criticism. President Harper, of the University of Chicago, has been obliged once more to submit to the surgeon's knife. There is no use concealing the -fact that this useful man is In the shadow. He knows, and his physicians and friends know, that his malady is incurable. The sun made its appearance in Mis souri and lyansas yesterday, after two weeks rain. Meanwhile we are having a genuine Kansas drouth. In Oregon almost all but the grasshoppers and the crop failures. Senator Thomas: C. Piatt, of New York, has,, a National reputation as an "artful dodger." This he Is keeping up by his" successful evasion- of the service of papers in his overdue breach-of-promlse suit. Again Emperor Nicholas comes to the front as promoter of universal peace. No country needs It worse than his own: Blessid are the peacemakers. Mr. Bryan tarries from his trip around the world to attend a Demo cratic State Convention in Nebraska They.haa.to have" a quoranu., '." ; 0REG0N0Z0NE On the Shnstn Route. 4 ' "Are we getting close to Shasta?" Asked the tourist, in dospair;. And the porter then reported: "Don't you feel it in the air?'. But there was no sign of Shasta, And the eager tourist cast a Glance of scorn and tore his hair. "Say. when DO we get the Shasta.?" Asked the angry passongalre. The conductor softly answered: ."Juel as soon as we are there." Then he whizzed and hurtled past- a Mountain rbut It wasn't Shasta, For It had no snowy glare. Then the man. who knew his Shasta Touched the button by his ohalr. And the waiter with the apron Brought a glass of water rare; And the wag remarked: "At lasl a Fellow gets a glimpse of Shasta." And he drank it he was there. No Matches IScqulretl. "How did this terrible forest fire get startod? inquired the tenderfoot from Indiana. "Well, you see," replied the obliging Oregon man. "last week me an' Si Hanks wuz up In the (Mountains on. a huntln trip, an' Si wuz 'bout seven miles from camp an' wanted to light his pipe." "Oh, I see and he tnrew down the lighted match and set the woods afire." "No. you don't see. Jest lemrae tell my story. St wanted te light his pipe. He had put a bunch' of match os in his pocket the night before, Iri the dark. St kep a-congratulatin' himself on harinjc a-plenty of matches, an' he waited till he could git to a nice flat rock where he could set down an' smoke an drink in the Insplrln' scen ery. SI wuz jest as eager for that smoke as a tomcat is for his dinner when he sees a bewl o cream with the klver off. Finally Si' seen a big rock the finest rock for a seat In the hull State of Oregon, and the finest piece o' seenery from .Puget Sound to Mexico. SI set down, pulled out his old pipe an' filled it full o the best tobaeker that grows. Then he reached In his pocket for a match, and fetched out a wooden toothpick. He dove in ag'In an' fetched out another. Then he pulled out the hull bunch o matches an' found they wui nothin' but toothpicks. Nary a match nothin' to eat an' no use for toothpicks an seven miles to camp. An then Si Hanks set the forest afire." "I don't see how he eould do that, if he had no matches," said the dubious tenderfoot. "Ye don't huh?" "I certainly don't." "Well. Si Hanks jest naturally set them woods an re with the llghtnin' of his. wrath." Chicken Soup Lake. The Portland man. the Illlnolsan and the CaMfornhtn were in the smoking com partment of the Pullman, discussing ho tete. The Calif ornian had told some altl tudlnous talcs about the fine service of certain hotels in his state. ."But we shejtldn't boast." he sahl, "for we have such a wonderful state. By the way. do you like chicken soup?" "Do I?" exclaimed both the other pas sengers, in duet time. "Well, I should cackle! Chicken soup for me. and none J other need apply." "Then you ought to come down to my town." said the Callfornhin. "There's- a hotel there the place Is In Mono County where they serve natural chicken soup." "Pardon me. friend." the Illinois man said, "but may I ask what you mean by natural chicken soup?" "I mean just that; in our town wo do not have to kill chickens to make soup. We have a lake, near by. one of our numerous hot springs, that is a very fine substitute for chicken soup. In fact, all you have to do is to sprinkle a little salt and pepper in it and drink It right off. or eat it. whichever to the proper word for the consumption of soup. It is just the right temperature for serving when taken from the lake. Traveling men declare it is much better than the average chick en soup you will get at a hotel." The Portland man looked from the window with a far-away glance in his eyes. But the HHnotean stared steadily at the Californian. and remarked: "I dare say it is better than the average hotel chicken soup; but that Isn't saying much. What I want to know is this: Does your natural soup have any feathers la It?" We men should never be profane. There is no use at all to-cuse When 'round us all ('tis very plain) Are silent swear-words, made for us. We might as well be singing psalms Or telling goody-goody yarns. Since all the mills are full of dams And all our socks are full of darns. P.OBERTUS LOVE. " "Mrs. Wiggs," Author-Banker. North American. "No. indeed, I do not intend to aban don my literary career. It Is true that I am interested In the organization of a, bank, but I shall not let anything inter fere with my writing." In this statement Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice, author of "Mrs. Wlggs of the Cabbage Patch." conveyed pleasure to thousands of her admirers. When the' announcement that Mrs. Bice was going into the banking business was made men. women and even children all over the country felt a pang of re grot, .for they thought that nothing more from her pen would appear to charm the lov ers of delightfully tokl stories. But Mrs. Bice herself bas set their fears at rest. "The enterprise In which I am to be In terested will be a National bank with a capital stock of J20,C0." continued Mrs. Bice. "Associated with me are my hus band. Cale Young Bice: W. O. -Head and L. M. Bice. Just what position. If any, I will hold has not been decided." Naturally. Chicago Tribune. The guide, who was taking a party of American excursionists through the Holy Land, called a halt. "Here." he said, "Is the place where Lot's wife looked back and wag turned into a pillar of salt." "J don't see no evidences of her," ob jected the tall, slender Missourian with the chin board, looking around, search Ingly. The gentleman will remember." re joined the guide, "that the" incident took place thousands, of years ago, and there have been many hard rain storms since then." ' . A Wise Child. t Le Rlrc Nurse The Idea of a -big boy like you making his "nurse pull his boots ,off! What will you do when you are grown 'up and have no nurse? - . Little Boy When I grow up Til be a po liceman, and' all policemen have nurses. NOTABLE PHASEOF PROHIBITION Washington Poet. It Is a rather remarkable fact that, al though the Democracy, as a National or ganization, has Iways been opposed to "sumptuary law's," such as statutory pro hibition of the liquor traffic, the roost and the best kind of prohibition Is now found In the few states that are solidly plan ted In the Democratic columns. The Boston Globe notes with Interest that while Maine is growing more and more uneasy about the system of prohibition, and setting ready for a campaign of resubmission to the people of the whole question, Georgia and South Carolina are earnestly talking pro hibition. The Globe states that already in Georgia 108 counties have no license. 18 ha-e dispensaries, and six have high j urcuac. xnv enors now is, say wrc vriwe. i to hare the Legislature provide a ays- T8" t uflfL -ate optton" undr which the high-license privilege which the six coun ties enjoy would be wiped out. OurBos ton contemporary adds that: In South Carolina there is a reaaarkabla tnovoiaoat to ctaao up the dlea onaarhw. and Sfcaator TUhaan propose to leave the eaea tlon to the Democratic arhaary. The Prohlbl tioRlata In South Carottna. as welt aa la Georgia, are eoaMent that their cause will win If preteatad to the utoole. At the mm time it h curlews that the aa aeaeats at prohibitum la 3iaine ad Kansas, where the syatem ba been bieS, are as "eea Meat that the people are ready to vote agalast a coRtlnuence of the present regime as the Georgian and South CaroirnUa prolUhttJoatota are that their cae needs only to he presented to Sad acceptance at the hands of the people. The Post Is In receipt of a very long and Intensely earnest communication. - f rotn a South Carolina Democrat who. after ap plying to the liquor trade In his state all the epithets that used to be hurled at the rumsellers and their places of business m Maine 9 years ago, closes by quoting this stanza, from a song that was sung at temperance meetings In New nghud by the grandparents of the present genera tion: Tell mm I hat the taw!? Hate Is a fee Me ward; I loathe, ahhorr. ay ry st. Wits, atrona; dlagnsc b stirred When I ee. or hear, or ten Of the dark beverage of hell! State prohibition has scored a record of more than half a century of continuous and conspicuous failure, but Its advocates are undaunted by this experience. As their prospects grow dftrhef year by year, their confidence. In final triumph becomes stronger. At this tune, according to the Boston Herald, the Sheriff's deputies In soma Muine cities are carrying things with a very high hand In their attempts to discover liquor that has been illegally Drought into the state. The Herald re lates: A woman talendlnr to stay through the month of September at a beach rrasrt tot Maine attracted the attention of one of Sher iff FeRneU's lynx-eyed deputies becauee she was carrytoe a heavy trunk. He Ml d It and carted It off to the Sheriff storeroom. There It was opened evidently the woman was not prerent. for the report sajes that the lock was forced and was found to contain only clothes and some package of breakfast food. The owner of the trunk was. of course, de layed by this forced examination of her oas; gage. There should he sonM way to prevent a repetition of such high-handed proceeding. The State of Maine draws a very large amount of money from Summer visitors, and It la questionable whether It can afford to dla coaunode them In thlc way by the 111 -Judged searching- of travelers' baggage. The Post would not recommend so ex treme a remedial measure as the boycott, for that is Justifiable only in desperate cases, but there is no doubt that a little of it. say a, homeopathic dose, would be found wonderfully efficacious- in ridding htdy visitors in Maine of the mortifying annoyance of having their baggage seised .and ransacked by Deputy Sheriffs. HOW TACOMA REGARDS IT Thinks the North Bank Railroad a Benefit All Around. Tacoma Ledger. The construction of this line is. how ever, an open Invasion of the Harrhnan territory, and every effort will be made to block the way by the attempted construc tion of the "Wallula Pacific" In the In terests of the O. K. & N. Tacoma may regard the fight for the possession of the north bank of the Columbia with sat isfaction, as the inevitable outcome will be a new line of direct communication from Tacoma to Southern and Eastern Washington. The Northern Pacific now extends from Tacoma not only to Kalama. but on to Vancouver, and the construc tion of the line connecting Vancouver with AVallula will give Tacoma railroad connections with a belt of country now inaccessible. To be sure. Portland will benefit primarily by the new line, but by no means exclusively, and Tacoma occu pies the strong position on Puget Sound for all traffic by this route to what must be, after all. the great center to which the traffic of "the Pacific Northwest mu gravitate. Portland occupies about the same relation to the Puget Sound cities as Philadelphia does to New York. The Pennsylvania Railroad strikes a seaport at Philadelphia, but its traffic moves on to New York. Another almost absolutely certain result of the construction of the new line along the north bank of the Columbia In- the interest of the Northern Pacific will be the construction of the Harrlman Mite from Portland to Puget Sound. This will bring the O. R. A N. and the Southern Pacific to Tacoma. When the Harrinuut system comes to the Sound the Great Northern will retaliate by going on to Portland, and the extension of the Cana dian Pacific to Seattle. Tacoma and Fort land will inevitably follow. The move just taken by the Northern Pacific seems to lead logically and assuredly to the ex tension of the Portland roede to the Sound cities and the Canadian Pacific ami Great Northern 'to Portland. All of them murt of necessity come to Tacoma. and Tacoma's position as to all the lines com ing from the Columbia River Is, the best on the Sound. The rail haul will' end and the steamship haul begin here. Cotv Londcd With Dj-namiie. North American. Chris Benzpnhower's cow. Liza, of New Castle. Ind.. has a whole field to herself since she ate five or six pounds of dyna mite yesterday. Her owner, who Is a prosperous farmer. beliey.es that she Is about to blow up. and he doesn't want any of the rest of his stock to be Injured by flying fragments of Liza when she explodes. The cow was strolling along the -bank of a. creek, where some men are excavat ing, when she saw the dynamite, tasted it. liked It, and swallowed the entire Vis ible supply. One of the workmen saw the last stick disappearing. He called Lisa "pretty sookle" and "nice ok! so-boes." as a means of keeping her quiet while he led her slowly away from her com panions. It is said that if she bad kicked up her heels or been ' at all boisterous there would have been no further need for blasting at the craek The neighbors are watching Liza from a distance, but the cow, unmindful of her peril. Is alternately browsing and chewing her cud. as though she rather orfjoyed being a bovine firecracker. Looking for a Good Design. Life. First American Alllllonalre What in the world are you going over to see all the English. cathedrals for? Second American Millionaire I'm put ting up an automobile stable, and I'm' looking for something handsome in de sign. Ills Happiest Hour. Echo de Purls. He Do you remember the night I asked you to marry 'me? Shc Yes, dear. , r "For a, whole hour we sat there, and not a word did you speak. Aa, that was .the happiest hour of my lite." BIG TIM'S TAMMANY 'PIGNIC. New York Sun. The campaign will now begin. Tim Sul livan, Big Tim, has had his outing. Five thousand constituents of the Sixt not te mention deadheads, have paid their $3 for an eel breakfast, a beer dinner, the privilege of marching behind the Paul Kelly drum corps and the chance to buck the tiger without annoyance. The func tion, however. lacked the snap and ginger of former years, because it rained, and you can't really enjoy a Tammany out ing la the rain. Big Tim's fleet, the Cygnus and Sirius, were moored at the foot of East Third street at 16 o'clock, when the Ware of oands proclaimed that the chief was com- m He rMje n0 prancing Charger. He M f,. ,tfe wore an tralb) nn frvnt -rrlth ft twni) hfiforfi and- whtft yacntlns caps, marked down to 47 cents, bobbing behind. With the caps went 50P0 T-cent canes. The nagship nred a salute of corks, the faro-dealers and roulette men. the oper ators of bookmakers' wheel and Cali fornia poker, spread their green cloths on beer barrels and got busy. The 5000 stalwarts filed aboard. The flagship toot ed, the longshoremen on the dock raised a cheer and they were off two steamers and 30 games of chance. You rould take your pick. Up in the cabin of the Cygnus Big Tim was sitting in at a game whose limit nearly blew off the roof. Down on the lower deck by the bar the ' ehuck-a-luck dealer refusea no reasonable bet. from a dime up. "Now, gents." he said he was one of those confidential dealers with a. voice like a phonograph getting started "try your chuck-a-luck-a-luck. Two arrows on one number pay double and three triple. You may get 75 cents for your money. Ace, four and five pay. G'wan. that's the ace. Wasthematterwkljou? A quarter for you. sir. and here's where you make your fortunes. Who's the next? In two seconds the' wheel will go round." The hopes of the Democracy fell over one another to ehuck dimes and quarters on the board. . - Over in the corner "bookmaker's wheel," a game like roulette but twice as fast, did a rushing business. By the gangway a man with one eye. which never lost sight of the bank, was deal ing "California, poker" as fast as his fingers could go. This, also, is a quick preposition. They had to be quick about it. because Big Tim had said that no apparatus could be brought ashore, and, as the dealer explained. "California. poker" gives the bank only 15 per cent. On the upper deck a dozen piker games of poker were going on and in the cabin chips were rattling where Big Tim and the. elect were lifting the limit. Of all the celebrities oA board Tom Sharkey alone kept out of games. Tom doesn't believe In gambling for Tom. Ever and anon he went downstairs and buried his face up to the celebrated cauliflower ear in a bootleg of beer. Between times he sat on deck and drew morals from the fate of Jimmy Britt. The fleet was moving meantime and the riverfront was saluting. The tugs all tooted as they passed the flagship, with the banner of the Sullivan Hung to the breeze. Excursion steamers bound up the Sound read the poster of the Sulli van Association and answered with hand kerchiefs. Along the Islands up the river the guards and employes, mindful of their jobs, stood at quarters and sa luted. At Blackwell's Island the guards stood on the breakwater and fired all their spare cartridges into the river. It would have been a great time for a prison break, if the prisoners had only known It. Those who were broke, or those who couldn't get near enough to the games to Invest, rushed to the rails until the steamer sagged. . ' Tbert! was also a rush to the other side, as there has been on all the Col lege Point excursion boats this Summer, to see North Brother Island and the beach where the Slocum grounded. The hand stopped playing at this point, which has also been a custom of this Summer. All the tributes to his popularity did not stir the greatest of the Sulllvana. He was tight In his cabin, bluffing Flor rte with two deuces. The two bands and the Paul Kelly Drum Corps piped the five thousand off the boat and into a procession at Col lege Point and Inte the pavilion where the head waiter was waiting lor tnem with Ifle tip-hungry assistants and bar rels of claim fritters and fried eels. That head waiter is a wonder. He is a cross between a Socialist orator and a bucko mate. Every time he gives an order to his corps he waves both hands like a. pitcher getting up steam, tears out a handful of hair, strains three vocal cords and kicks his nearest Italian assistant. When he grows tired and hot he stoops over a table, lifts g. corner of the cloth and mops his face with it. The Paul Kellys and the remnants of the Monk Eastmans, the Fraternal Or der of Eagles and the plain citizens of the Bowery filled two big dining-rooms. Biscuits were first on the bill of fare. The head waiter shot 5 biscuits at the first table, where sat forty Paul Kellys. They got only half way round. The first In line broke off biscuits In strings and stowed them in their laps, in case of future shortage. One Paul Kelly wrapped up eight biscuits in a handkerchief. 'I paid to come," he said, "and It ain't wort' half the money. Here's where I get back S cents." Fried eels and dam fritters faded away by the barrel. The head waiter had spasms trying to get the coffee down the line fast enough. When he fafled the Monk Eastmans and the Paul Kellys stood on benches and hammered their plates with their knives. Big Tim. over in the corner, began to look worried. The Aead- waiter tore off three more fits and a spasm and relieved the thirst. The dining-room said "Ah!" in chorus and stopped making dough balls out of hot biscuits. Big Tim sighed visibly with relief. It began to rain about this time. The Oxfords and Timothy D. Sullivans, who were going to play a match game of baseball, called It off. The youths who had been tuning up to contest for the beautiful gate and game prizes cut it out and went up stairs to the billiard room, where forty games of- poker opened on the instant. Big Tim sauntered up to a private box in one corner of the room, gathered ten henchmen, and the big game went on all the afternoon. The wet took the starch out of the Paul Kellys. It wilted the remnant of the Monk East mans'. They lay down like lions and lambs in the shadow of a wagon-shed and pitched 'quarters. Everybody In Tammany was there. Senator Fitzgerald was asked to write out a list of the honorables and Judges and commissioners. Beginning with Big Tim and Little Tim and Borough Presi dent Ahearnf he wrote 25 names out of his memory and quit because his hand was tired. -Those are a few that I remember," said Mr. Fitzgerald. It rained .all the evening and the crowd y got home without .a fight. ' At the Market Price. Fllogende Blatter. . "Baron, what did you give your boys for birthday presents?" "Soldiers." " "And yopr daughter?" "I bought'- her one, too--a Lieuten ant." AH She Needed. Translated fori Tales. Old maid dlii I could- be so faith ful if only I had someone to be faith ful to' '