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8 THE MORXTJS'Gr OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1905. Entered at the Postofflce at Portland, Or., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By Mall or Express.) Dally and Sunday, per year .Jj Dally and Sunday, six months o.oo Dally and Sunday, three months Dally and Sunday, per month -ojj Dally without Sunday, per year 7.00 Dally without Sunday, six months 3.00 Dally without Sunday, three months.... Dally without Sunday, per month .03 Sunday, per year Sunday, six months -; Sunday, three months .Oo BY CARRIER. Dally without Sunday, per week 13 Dally, per week. Sunday Included 20 THE WEEKLY OREGONIAN. (Issued Every Thursday.) "Weekly, per year 1.80 Weekly, six months , , " Weekly, three months HOW TO REMIT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local hank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The S. C. BecktvIUi Special Agency New York, rooms 43-50 Tribune building:. 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San Francisco J. 1C Cooper & Co., 740 Market street; Goldsmith Bros.. 230 Sutter and Hotel St. Francis News Stand: L. E. Lee. Palace Hotel News Stand; F. W. Pitts, J008 Market; Frank Scott. SO Ellis; N. Wheatley Movable News .Stand, corner Mar ket and Kearney streets; Foster & Orear, Ferry News Stand. St. Louis. Mo. E. T, Jett Book & News Company. 800 Olive street. Washington, D. C Ebbltt House, Pennsyl vania avenue. PORTLAND, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 10M THE CRISIS OF 1806. Of course the managers of the In surance companies had no right to make contributions from the resources of their companies to "the Republican campaign fund, as the' did in 1896, and have done since. There will be" no con tributions from such sources to any party campaign fund, hereafter. But in fact it was' a terrible crisis for the Insurance companies and for their policy-holders especially in 1896. Had free coinage of silver been car ried, there would have been general ruin; and they who held Insurance poli cies would have felt the catastrophe at Its worst Change of the money basis from gold to silver would have wrecked all insurance companies. It would have ruined their securities and virtu ally destroyed the value of every pol icy. The managers of the Insurance com panies fully realized all this. Neverthe less, they had no right certainly no legal right to. use any part of the funds of the companies, of which they were merely the trustees, to avert It. It was right, as it was necessary, to avert the catastrophe; but the work ought to have been done by individuals, on their own account. Men who saw the danger should have put up their own money. Great numbers did. Trust funds are not to "be used In any Irreg ular way, even for their own preserva tion. The simple truth Is that the country had fallen upon an evil time. Silver had been juggled with till it had be come a terrible danger. Not even the Crisis of secession, rebellion and civil war was so dangerous to the country. It is a terrible thing, when a notion so deceptive, so seductive, so loaded with evil and peril, becomes a national craze. It was a matter of pure eco nomic and historical science; it did not belong at all to the domain of politics. Millions who had no knowledge of the subject, and. other millions whose judg ment was warped by partisanship, con tended for a fallacy that would have brought wreck and ruin. It was in these circumstances that the managers of the insurance companies threw in large sums from the funds of which they were trustees, to avert the danger. There is little wonder they did so; yet all the same they had no proper right to do it. Individuals may. not do with trust funds what they may do with their own. Nevertheless, defeat of Bryan was necessary to the safety of the insurance companies of the country, and of those who held policies in them. And nine-tenths of all who were Inter ested In insurance knew It, and voted accordingly. THE ST. PAUL DISASTER. "No lives lost and property loss cov ered by Insurance" is perhaps the most favorable post-mortem announcement that could be made regarding a ship wreck, and for this reason there is something to be thankful for in con nection with the wreck of the steamer St. Paul. At the same time a disaster of this nature always awakens general regret among the public The St. Paul wasa fine ship, the best that has been on the Portland route since commence ment of the Schwerln regime, and In her brief career on the route she carried thousands of passengers from all parts of the United States. These passengers will read the news of the disaster with a sentimental twinge of regret that such a fine steamer should be pounded into a mass of crumpled steel and tangled wreckage In a few hours. And the loss is never "fully coyered by insurance," If we make a strict in terpretation of the word "loss," for, while the underwriters will pay the owners of the ship and of the cargo, there will still remain- the fact that property valued at several hundred thousand dollars has been wiped out of. existence. The "loss" is there, and, If it nas not already been collected from the insured in heavy premiums, it will be passed on to those yet to Insure. For the owners of the St. Paul, the greatest loss will probabfy be felt. In diversion of business attendant on hav ing the best steamer In the service so suddenly placed out of commission. Following so soon after loss of the El der, it leaves the passenger service of the Harriman coast line in bad shape. Some comfort can be drawn from the situation, however, in the belief that the loas of two boats may at last force the company to build and equip a couple of steamers adequate to the de mands of the trade.' Failure of the Har riman lines to maintain proper facili ties on the PortlandSan Francisco route has been directly responsible for appearance on the route of a lot of an cient craft which were out of date a quarter of a century ago. Nothing that has yet appeared re garding the causes of the wreck would tend to . throw much, If any, of the blame for the disaster on Captain .Clement Randall, who, in spite of his excellent reputation as a skillful navi gator and a good seaman, seems to, be followed by what the sailors term a "hoodoo." Through no apparent fault of his own, three steamers of which he has had command have gone to de struction on the rocks. After it is all over it -Is easy to understand how the following of a different course would have carried the St. Paul clear of there dangerous rocks, but the history of steam navigation is replete with similar disasters, which prove that fog, wind and the baffling tides of the ocean not infrequently prove too strong a com bination to be conquered by thesklll of man. "RUBBING IT IN." The Pendleton Tribune discovers that "The Oregonian and Democratic papers of the state have ungenerously takena. rude delight In 'rubbing' in' the convic tion of J. N. Williamson." The Orego nian has had no occasion to "rub it in" on Mr. Williamson. It has not done so. It would be glad ,to have, the Trib une point to any expression made by The Oregonian before, during or since the recent trials that was not in all respects careful, moderate, temperate and justifiable. The most The Orego nian has at any time said as to Will iamson, Biggs and Gesner was, on the day following their conviction, that "the charges were true. There never was a real doubt in any one's mind that they were true; but there was a serious ques tion as to whether an Oregon Jury could be found that would convict." It point ed out, too, that a Congressman in vio lating laws he had taken a .special oath to uphold must expect to be held to a more strict accountability, even, than a private citizen. The Oregonian said these things because they should have been said. It could do no less. It did no more. It has no malice toward Mr. Williamson, Dr. Gesner or Mr. Biggs. But it could not, would not, by silence or apology, condone their demonstrated offenses. It could and would and should approve whatever makes for proper re spect for and observance of law by any body. But the Tribune cares nothing about law and deplores the conviction of lawbreakers. Listen further to this: How many men all over the West have not taken up land to cell to some one and have not lived a day Upon It. and how many land owners now enjoying the height of prosperity have not secured Utle to their lands In the Mine way? Of course, one will be condemned for defending ouch "law-breaking." but the Government la as guilty of negligence In ad mitting proofs to patent as the men who made the proofs. Then let the Government officers be brought to trial That Is what the Gov ernment Is doing, despite the clamor of little objectors like the Tribune. But the Government did not try and convict these three men for taking up Govern ment land in accordance with "custom," as the Tendleton paper Intimates. Their offense was much greater. They cov eted a great area of Government land. They formulated a plan to secure it unlawfully. They procured a large number of persons to enter upon this land and to swear falsely that their entries were bona fide. It was then their purpose to take over the land that they might thus secure possession of the range. This was something more than "Irregularity" or the mere avoid ance of the strict letter of the law by poor settlers to get a little of the Gov ernment domain for themselves. It was criminal conspiracy, and its purpose was wholesale landgrabblng through fraud and perjury- That is what Will iamson, Gesner and Biggs did. Who shall dare say that the Government should not have made a vigorous effort to stop such colossal theft by the ar rest, trial and conviction of the offend ers? JOINT RATES IX WASHINGTON. The Washington Railroad Commis sion seems to be approaching a crisis, and, according to advices from Olym pla, will next month at Colfax make an effort to demonstrate that there Is 6ome reason other than political for Its existence. Undeterred by failure to find any shippers who would make complaint against the railroads and by refusal of James J. Hill even to talk over matters with the commission. Chairman, Fairchlld Is now about to make a demonstration of his powers by fixing a joint rate of his own accord, or he will at least make the attempt to do so. Mr. Fairchlld and Attorney-General Atkinson have completed a draft and summons of complaint and will hold a meeting at Colfax next month, before which representatives pf all the railroads operating in the State of Washington will be summoned to ap pear. Six months of time and probably one fourth of the $60,000 appropriation have already been wasted since the commis sion came into existence, and the only serious complaint that has' been made came from a patron of an electric rail road which, under the law, was out of the Jurisdiction of the commission. Olympla advices are that the deter mination of Mr. Fairchlld to force the issue with the railroad companies Is "a result of the recent failure of the Rail road Commission to secure a satisfac tory showing or complaint from the coal consumers in Colfax concernnlg the rates on coal from Roslyn to Col fax." It Is not at all clear how Mr. Fairchlld proposes to make a fair ad justment or change In these rates, lf. they are already satisfactory to both coal consumers" and the railroads, there being no other Interested parties to "the question. The failure or refusal of the consum ers to make complaint against the rail roads can hardly be construed in any other manner than to indicate that they are satisfied with existing conditions. On the other hand, no complaint has been made by the railroads. It must be admitted that such a peaceful condi tion of affairs between shippers and railroads is anything but agreeable to a Railroad Commission which came into existence for the purpose of remedying evils which It is now unable to discover. At the same time, the inability of the commission to do any shooting, because of lack of a target. Is not surprising to those who are familiar with the inside history of the Railroad Commission hobby in the Evergreen State. Only a few of the men who have assisted the measure during the many- years re quired for It to reach the statute-books ever expected U to be anything, more than a political machine, and Its failure to -accomplish anything in other direc tions Is not surprising. If Mr. Fairchlld attempts to disturb joint rates without the consent or as sistance of either the shippers or the railroads, he will, in due season, have a practical and perfect knowledge of the uselessness of at least one Railroad Commission. PILOTS AND RIVER ENTRANCE. The master of the British steamship Imaum yesterday cabled his owners in Liverpool that the pilots had warned .him not to attempt to load his vessel deeper than twenty-four feet, under penalty of delay at the bar. This prac tically amounts to official announce ment that twenty-four feet is the ex treme depth between Astoria and the sea, although there is a good twenty-five-foot channel In the river between Portland and Astoria. Under ordinary circumstances Portland would enter no serious objections to a few Ul-blrds fouling their own nest at Astoria, but, unfortunately, it Is not Astoria, but Portland, that has the greatest Interest Jn the depth of water over the bar. It is for this reason that an emphatic pro test is made against this attack on the commercial prestige of the port. Old age and Its attendant timidity Is always entitled to respect, and. If the men who have outlived their useful ness in "the pilot service are no longer capable of doing the work for which the state permits them to charge highly re munerative -rates, they should Immedi ately make, way for young blood. In stead of insisting that smaller ships be provided for them to pilot. This port has grown too great to permit its interests to be jeopardized by the timidity of a few Astoria chair-warmers, and the Inactivity or stupidity of a slumbering Board of Pilot Commission ers. THE TARIFF IN MASSACHUSETTS. The Republicans of Massachusetts In convention at Boston have declared for revision of the tariff. They do not wish it revised in'such a way as to destroy industries or lower wages, so the plat form states, and from this few Ameri cans will dissent, one may hope, what ever party they belong to. If there were the least likelihood that rational revision of the tariff would ruin any worthy Industry or depress the stand ard of living among laborers, we should all Instantly proclaim ourselves stand patters of the standpattest type. But there is no such danger. The only in dustry that tariff revision will Injure Is trust-building. The only wages It will lower are the salaries of trust-promoters. Massachusetts wishes tariff revision for selfish reasons. It Is only the standpatters who are purely unselfish. She wants free hides for Governor Douglas and her other shoe manufac turers; and she wants Canadian lumber and wood pulp admitted without duty because she needs them In the building and paper industries, and also because she desires reciprocity with Canada. By taking Canadian wood pulp and lumber, Massachusetts can sell her neighbors shoes and cotton goods. They will trade with the Yankees if the Yan kees will trade with them; and other wise they won't. If Massachusetts Is selfish in demanding tariff revision, her selfishness Is rational, we must admit, and of that sterling sort which builds up commerce and establishes enduring friendship among the nations. BURNED BUT BETTERED. Not by, but because of. Are, Baltimore Is being beautified, as was, each in its turn, Chicago, Boston and other cities, including those of our own Northwest Spokane and Seattle. Portland, Indeed, has not been without favors of this class from the fire fiend that succeeded in its mission of clearing the way for things better and more sightly. It is, of course, the fireman's duty to put out fires; however unsightly the buildings which it attacks with eager zest to de stroy. But his failure, sometimes, to do this Is to the ultimate good of the city. Chicago dates Its real progress as witnessed in the superior construc tion and architectural beauty of Its buildings from the great Are of 1871, though at the time, as sung by Whit tier Men clasped each other V hands and said. The city of the West Is dead. For a brief space It Is true that hope and endeavor were paralyzed, but they soon rallied, went to work, and the greatness of Chicago was assured. That which is true of Chicago Is true In a greater or lesser degree of other cities Boston, Jacksonville and Port land, Me. all having Increased In wealth and beauty and promise, due to the Improvements made possible by the "clean sweep" of the flames In their older and more unsightly districts. The opportunity of Galveston came. not through fire, but through water, whipped Into fury by a great wind that swept the Gulf of Mexico. The result was not the abandonment of the site of the old city, as afflrst seemed the inevitable consequence, but the con struction of a sea-wall which defends the city against a recurrence of similar disaster, and the building of a "city beautiful" on the site upon which the subsidence of the waves was covered with wreckage and for the time was brooded over by desolation. On the 7th and Sth of February, 1904. the very heart of the City of Baltimore was eaten out by fire, and the horror of the catastrophe Is still fresh In the pub lic mind. More than 2500 buildings were consumed or so wrecked that they had to be razed and the ground cleared of the debris. Seventy-five -blocks were included in the burned district, and the los3 was something like 5100,000,000. Great distress and untold inconvenience followed for a time, but the work of rebuilding was begun at once, and It has never flagged. Extensive systems of municipal Improvements in conjunc tion with private undertakings are be ing carried on; the new" buildings are more substantial than the old, and, when the plans made have been fully carried out, the burned area will have wide and well-paved streets, larger and better sewers and Innumerable advan tages that It formerly lacked. Thus Baltimore has profited by disas ter and turned temporary calamity to permanent advantage. Already $100, 000,000 has been devoted to making good the loss by the fire of twenty months ago, and there Is more to follow. So that, instead of checking the material development of the city, the great fire of February, 1904, has given an Impetus to its progress and an example In American energy, enterprise and cour age to the world. The lesson Is one that cannot fall to be noted by other cities in time of dis aster yetlto come, with good effect. The International Tuberculosis Con gress now In session In Paris has rec ommended the segregation of puplU in the schools on the basis of health. It is believed In this way that children not infected, with the deadly germs of the deadliest of diseases tuberculosis may be protected from contagion. Consump tion, though not actively contagious, is a communicable disease, and dust Is its moat ready carrier. The schoolroom, with. Its dust constantly arising from the shuffling of many feet, presents the most favorable opportunity for com municating the germs of this malady. Recognizing this fa(t, consumptive teachers are no longer employed In the schools. To make this protection more complete Is the object of the segrega tion of pupils according to health. In the overcrowded schoolrooms of the great cities. The suggestion Is Indica tive of the desperation with which sci ence Is fighting the "white plague" and the necessity of bringing every" avail able force to the battle against It, Abigail 'Scott Dunlway, pioneer, long an advocate of woman suffrage in the Pacific Northwest, was duly honored at the Oregon building on the Fair grounds yesterday by many persons who came, extended greetings and passed on, pleased with the opportunity to meet and take her by the hand. The tribute paid to her endeavor was fitting be cause well earned. The active period of this endeavor belongs to a genera tion that Is approaching Its close a period with which memory is still In close touch, and the ruling element of which was strenuousness. Whether recalling her work In the past or the possibilities of Its fruition In the fu ture, Mrs. Dunlway is happy in the knowledge that she is closely Identified with it. and that in its pursuit the best efforts of her best years were spent. J. Scott Harrlsoifp'Government In spector of Surveys, has completed the survey of the Crow Indian Reservation, In Montana. The plats made will. In due time, be filed In the nearest Land Office,' probably that of Billings or For syth, where the drawing will take place. It is likely that the proclamation of the President declaring these lands open for settlement will be made some time next year, when there will be a rush of the land-hungry to secure desirable holdings in the tract. These land open ings are likely to be a feature of the Summer season for some years yet-, as there are still a number of Indian reser vations with land to spare to settlers. The British press has been very friendly to Japan of late, but the white residents of Vancouver, B. C, failed to become hilariously enthusiastic over the recent visit of Baron Komura. The reason for the lack of enthusiasm over the presence In their midst of the dis tinguished Japanese was the fact that Japanese working for SO cents to $1.25 per day have crowded the white work ers out of most of the Canadian saw mills. No attempt has yet been made to restrict the importation of this class of labor, and, now that the war Is over, it is expected that Canada will be over run by the little brown men. Wonderful stories are told of Ore gon's prehistoric hog a grotesque creature the size of a cow. No effort has yet been made to establish Its kin ship with the man who stands on the platform or steps of the street-car and puffs smoke in the face of women seek ing to enter the car Immovable, as though this very democratic vehicle was made for his accommodation and runs for his special benefit. Perhaps, such effort Is held to be unnecessary, since this man advertises his pedigree without the help of the paleontologist or the delving of the antiquary. Pat Crowe probably missed a number of Installments of Tom Lawson's "Fren zied Finance." Otherwise he would not talk so glibly of the ease with which he could kidnap John D. Rocke feller and haul down a $2,000,000 ran som. If Lawson has been telling the truth about the mild-mannered phil anthropist with the tainted money, the result of Pat's kidnaping adventure would undoubtedly have been that John D. would have relieved Pat of his watch, small change and keys, and turned him loose with a warning. No special day has fitted better Into the scheme of the Lewis and Clark Fair than did McLoughlln day. There was in the exercises a flavor of the past that was pleasant and that will linger long with those to whom It came. A name synonymous with the fading splendor of the early days Is that of Dr. John McLoughlln. It should become so fixed by frequent repetition that the memory bells of one generation will ring It out softly to the next, to the end that its sound may never be lost. The Russian army In Manchuria is preparing to go Into Winter quarters. The soldiers will bivouac inpeace, se cure from night surprise by a" vigilant, ever-ready foe. Once they turn in these bearded, burly Muscovites they will be allowed to hibernate In safety until far Into the Spring of another year. It Is no reflection upon their bravery to say that they doubtless face the approach of Winter with thankful ness instead of the dreary apprehension that they felt a year ago. The name of the donor of Hamilton Hall, the new building that has just been completed for Columbia Univer sity, at a cost of $500,000. has never been made public. This was probably not intended as silent rebuke to men whose names are blazoned upon their charities throughout the land, but was merely in response to personal modesty, which Is the prompter of the charity that "vauntcth not Itself and is not puffed up." Elbert Hubbard, of East Aurora fame, has come, spoken and gone, leaving the world with us very much as he found IL Eplgrammatlcal, fantastical, impracti cal, dogmatic earnest, he Is the Elbert Hubbard of the "Philistine," the "Fra Elbertus" of a numerous following. Only this and nothing more. If the ghost of the dunghill fowl is not laid by the lusty challenge of the chanticleers of high degree that is heard at the great poultry show now In progress at the Lewis and Clark Fair, then this fleshless thing of mem ory may be held to out-Banquo Banquo. Senator Piatt's committee to investi gate the cost of public printing will probably contribute to the. general in formation on the subject by finding that printing that costs too much should cost less. The spirits told Captain McMlllen to marry Mrs. Smith and he did so. The Captain knew the spirits said it, be cause Mrs. Smith told him so. 0REG0N0Z0NR At the Poultry Show. Butte BelleFreddy, what are these two birds? Freddy Fresh Why, the sign on the front of the coop says they are Toulouse geese, but I don't believe 1L Butte Belle Why not? Freddy Fresh Because they are both penned up. Natives. Visitor I saw quite a slur on Oregon today. Oregonian Indeed! Where? Visitor Out at the Fair. Advertise ment tacked on fences and buildings out there says. "See the Igorrotes In their original state at the Exposition." First time I knew they were native sons of this state. The Generosity of Woman. The other day an Idaho woman got a butcher knife and tried to carve off a slice of her husband's leg. The husband and one scarcely can blame him took offense at this treatment and left his happy home. Wc are informed by the local newspaper that the wife went to him with tears In her eyes, repenting 'of her attempt to take a slice of hla leg. and "asking him to take her back." Never was the generosity of woman more, touch Ingly illustrated. Study It over. The Only Perfect Man. "No man Is perfect." remarked a gen tleman who was discussing human short comings with a friend. "I beg your pardon, air." said a by stander, "but you are mistaken. May I not have the privilege of proving to you that there Is such a thing as human per fection"? "You may, sir," assented the first speaker, observing that the Interloper was a person of apparent refinement and culture. , "Ah! I thank you," said the latter. "Then I must ask you to lookat me. I, sir, never In my life committed any sort of offense whatever, either against good government or good breeding. I never robbed an Insurance company or took the coppers from a dead man's eyes. I never tortured a cat by tying a tin can to its tall and waiting to see It dance a can can. I never even thought an evil thought. In me, sir, behold what you have denied a perfect man." "I am Indeed glad to meet you," the first speaker said, as soon as he recovered from the shock. "I should like to know you still better. May I ask where you reside"? "Certainly. At present I am a guest in this large brick hotel which we see on our right." "What hotel is that"? Inquired the'other man of his friend as they passed on. "That's the Insane Asylum," was the reply. Ye Pilgrim's Progress. And It came to pass that a Pilgrim from a principality to the Far and Ef fete East Journeyed to the city of Ta coma and hesitated at an Inn, hoping to find Provender and Shelter. "Fine town, Tacoma Is," quoth ye Pil grim, picking up the Goose-Quill with which to sign his name In the Register. "Mighty fine mountain out here, too, this Mount Rainier" "Get out of here"! yelled the Individual yclept Clerk, simultaneously calling for ward tha Grand Bouncer, who bounced the Pilgrim. Thereat the Pilgrim aforesaid was sort chagrined and sick at Spirit. "Where fore"? quoth he. stroking his Long Gray locks. But he wot not wherefore. Enter ing another Inn. he praised Mount Rain ier even more fulsomely than before, and the Individual yclept Clerk summoned a Bouncer who bounced him even more Bounclngly than before. Whereas ye Pilgrim marveled much; and, being now Exceeding Sore, both In body and In spirit, he Betook himself to a Transpor tation Plant and purchased a ticket for Seattle, which Is In the' land of the Pugets. Now In due time the Conductor came around to punch the ticket of ye Pil grim, who opened his mouth and spake: "Wherefore am I Kicked out of these Inns, having faithfully praised your town of Tacoma and your Mount Rainier"? 'That Is Just wherefore. O Pilgrim." quoth the Con, concealing a laugh up his Sleeve- "You are a Tenderfoot, eh? It is behooving unto you to call that moun tain, while In these parts. Mount Ta coma. Savvy?" And ye Pilgrim savvied Verily, and pro ceeded to Seattle, the which he had been Importuned to See through the agency of Sundry Signs at the Portland Exposition, which the same Is holden along the' lake where Is suspended betwixt Heaven and Earth the sign "Watch Tacoma Grow." And having Seen Seattle, more or less, ye Pilgrim sought an Inn- for verily foot alck and Weary Willie was he by this Time. And at the Inn he said: "I have Saw Seattle, and Great Is the aforerald; and truly excellent in the neighboring peak. Mount Tacoma." Whereat the Individual yclept Clerk called two Grand Bouncers, being the Incumbent and his Understudy, who Bounced ye Pilgrim eo that he hit the stone sidewalk Thrice. Thereupon ye Pilgrim took Wise-Counsel with himself, and after writing on a Placard the following message to Pos terity, he Jumped into Puget Sound: "Only a Fool will take the advice of a Con Man." Goodby A Benediction. Gocdby and God bo with you as you go Upon your dally Journeys to and fro: And, may he grant the saving grace of toll That idle ways your spirit may not spoil; And may He give you life's dlvlnest, best Reward an ingle-nook for twilight rest; And may you learn from blosooms and the birds That so your speech be ever kindly words; And so may life be beautiful to you. And love be long, and hearts be fond and true, And eyes that speak to eyes be bonny bright. Till Time shall bid you say. "Good night, good night"! ROBERTUS LOVE. Will Be Cheaper. Philadelphia Press. Life insurance- in some of the Euro pean companies costs just one-half a much as It does In thle couritry. We shall get It much cheaper, however, when the leaks have been stopped and the graft knocked out of some of the big companies. Work In Prospect. Washington Star. "If you keep on." said the credulous layman, "you will find cures for all the diseases that flesh Is heir to. Then what will you do?" "Then," answered the scientist, "we will proceed to seek cures for the new diseases to which our remedies have given rise." OUR WEAKNESSJN CONGRESS. Grant's Pass Observer. After three trials, Congressman Will iamson and his two associates stand con victed before the country of suborning perjury to forward fraudulent land claims. Gesner and Biggs, reckoned as only com mon offenders, will Boon pass out of sight, but with Williamson, holding the high representative position of Represen tative In Congress for half of Oregon, It la different. This man is still Represen tative, and If he chooses can continue to be so until his appeal la decided In the higher courts. Senator Mitchell, as might be expected from his record, seems dis posed to hold his office as long as possi ble, probably for the little money there Is in it, for certainly he cannot imagine that the high position any longer con tributes to his honor. It would be a mis take of Congressman Williamson to fol low the same tactics. These men, found guilty by a Jury of their peers, stand dis graced and can be of no possible service to their constituents In their representa tive positions. To continue to hold offica doubles the betrayal of trust, and It Is not conceivable that a man of honor, even though wrohgly convicted, would wish to maintain a high office which, for the time being, at any rate, he had been convicted of disgracing. Nothing better was ex pected from Mitchell; but even the Jury that convicted Williamson built upon his former good character, and he could now best show that he merits this token of credit by resigning an office which cir cumstances have made it dishonorable for him to hold. Though he may never again be elected as Congressman, he will at least have set a good example, and a needed one. for men holding Important representative positions who fall from grace, and In that way be of real service to his constituents and the country at large. In this connection the Eugene Register says: Now that Mr. Williamson han been con victed, his duty should be clear to him. There Is but one course for him to pursue .under the circumstances resign his seat In Congress immediatelr. That would give ample time for nominating and electing a new Congressman before December. Ore gon's Interests must not be further hazarded by his hanging on any longer. Should hi case be reversed and sent back for trial and Mr. Williamson vindicated, the Interim would he costly to Oregon for his usefulness Is passed, and even It he should be so un wise ai to show up at the capital, he would receive scant consideration. No doubt the Congressman will look upon this matter as calling for such action and will support his reputation as a man of good Judgment by resigning without delay. Street Named "Roosevelt." Pittsburg Despatch. "A prophet Is not without honor save In his own home." This Is true of all prophets except Roosevelt. A street la to be named for him In New York! A Republican Club here has made the de. mand and a hearty non-partisan echo has resounded. The resolution Is as follows: "Whereas, There is a Rue Roosevelt In Brussels, a Roosovelt strasse In Vienna and a prominent street In Paris about to be named in honor of our President; and, whereas hla native city, the city of New York, has no street named in his honor, Roosevelt street on the lower Eastslde having been named a century or so ago In honor of another Roosevelt:; be It Resolved, That the Aldermen from the Thirty-third Aldermanlc District be re quested to introduce at the next reg ular session of the board and urge for passage a resolution calling for the change of the name Roosevelt street to some other appropriate name, and that Seventh avenue be changed in name to 'Roosevelt drive.' in honor of the President of the United States, who has so signally honored this, hla na tive city." Radical Reform Is Needed. , Hillsboro Argus. When a nation loses, through its politi cal representatives. Its fine sense of honor, its citizenship begins to lose a strict sense of Integrity. Make your lit erature clean; exact strict accountability from public officials; instill these doc trines Into youth, with the admonition, scriptural, that It is right to earn their bread by the sweat of their brows, and perhaps we shall have some cessation of crime. Radical work must follow the events of the lost decade or the body polltlc will lose all sense of honor. What with bad literature, thieving statesmen in the offices, and graft In politics from insurance companies "down" to Presiden tial elections. Is it any wonder that a revolution Is needed to effect a better con dition pf affair? "Hence These Tears." Albany Democrat. Wonder If Lawyer Pipes will be able to cry with the effect that characterized the crying of Lawyer Bennett in the Will iamson case. Mr. Bennett Is said to be a consummate tear-shedder, when it comes to the final argument In a cose In which the sympathies of the Jury can be, played upon. Sometimes such stuff has Its effect, but there were too many big, able bodied men In the Williamson jury to al low such n. game to warp them. Nor should such things In any case have any weight In a trial. More than that, a lawyer should be above such things. Law yer Bennett Is an able man, as well as a clean one. but In the Mitchell and Will iamson cases he seems to have made a fool of himself several times. The 3lRn with the Grievance. London World. I suppose that there never was such a flourishing tlmo as the present for men with a grievance. The dally and weekly Journals eagerly welcome letters complaining of the Increase of corpu lence, the pitfalls of the split Infinitive, the prevalence of the red tie among the lower middle-class, the carelessness of the younger generation In dotting its i's. and other equally dreadful abuses which do not matter one way or an other. If one were not an incorrigible optimist one would be Inclined to agree with the writers of these letters, who are for tho most part men of enforced leisure and idle hands, that England Is rapidly about to decline and fall. Tho Pit, and Who Digged It. Weston Leader. The Pendleton Tribune accuses The Ore gonian of persccutlnir Williamson. The Leader has no particular fondness for The Oregonian. but falls to see where he has received anything but a "square deal" at The Oregonlan's hands. It Is not The Oregonlan's fault If the land-fraud testi mony It prints doesn't present the Con gressman beneath a halo of frank and engaging innocence. As for "digging his political grave," Mr. Williamson himself, and not The Oregonian, has had hold of the spade. "Farewclls-to-Summer." Pilgrim for October. (The name given by the mountaineers of North Carolina to the wild aster.) Bright dashes of crimson are gleaming below; The skies overhead are with splendor aglow; While the crlfsnees of Autumn is in the air. And "fareweils-jto-Summer" arc everywhere! In purple and lilac, in yellow and white. They wave us adieu as we pass out of sight; Ah, waking dear memories, softly they tell Their farewells to Summer farewell! fare well! The rose loves the soft Summer sunshine and air. But these patiently wait till Autumn Is here. Then scatter their loveliness where'er they dwell. As their farewell to Summer. Farewell! fare well! The message they give as they nod us good bye Is one they have learned looking up to the sky; Ah! the heart of the hopeful fears not to tell Its Auswell to Summer. Farewell! farewell! IN THE OREGONIAN TOMORROW Additional to the largest and most comprehensive news service of any paper on the Pacific Coast, and the customary departments.- The Sun day Oregonian tomorrow will con tain: HOW TO DETECT EDIBLE MUSHROOMS Now. that field mushrooms are "ripening" and so many people are fond of them, a popular artlcl?. simply written, by a scientist, tell ing how to distinguish poisonous toadstools from the wholesome va riety, la of timely value. Such a contribution comes from Professor Albert R. Sweetzer. State Biologist. University of Oregon. It will be followed by others on the same subject In succeeding issues. DR. JOHN McLOUGHLIN, THE "FATHER OF OREGON" Part of Frederick V. Holman's ad dress delivered on McLoughlln day at the Lewis and Clark Fair. This address Is, In fact, a biography, carefully prepared, exhaustive In Its researches and luminous In showing the character of the man who for 21 years ruled with auto cratic power, yet with kindly spirit, the empire of "Old Oregon." BROKE FUNSTON'S RECORD IN THE PHILIPPINES Frederic J. Haskin writes a thrill ing account of the personal valor of Cary L. Crockett, a Virginian, whose achievement throws Into the shade Funston's capture of Agul naldo. In a jungle fight. Crockett, who Is a descendant of the cele brated "Davy." slew with his own hands II outlaws and rescued his own command from annihilation. This truthful story reads like a romance from the Middle Ages. FIRST ORGANIZED CHURCH CHOIR IN PORTLAND Historical sketch by Marlon Mac Rae of beginnings In choral music In Portland, involving pioneers who became prominent socially and in the material affairs of the back woods town, together with a rare photograph of the first choir formed In the First Congregational Church. TO YOUNG MEN WHO ASPIRE TO LEADERSHIP A non-theological sermon by Dr. Newell Dwight Hill is. pastor of Plymouth Church. Brooklyn, advis ing young men to go Into politics, outlining present-day qualities that make for success, and pointing out the only two causes for failure dishonesty and cowardice. IN THE FOREST PRIMEVAL WITH MOTOR CARS The chronicle of an outing through Maine Into the wilds of Canada, which demonstrated the utility of the auto for camping, hunting and fishing. It will Interest every one who cares for these forms of out door sport. FIRST WALNUT TREES PLANTED IN OREGON Miss Mary S. Barlow contributes a very entertaining sketch detail ing how her father, the late Wil liam Barlow, sent East for tho walnuts and planted the magnifi cent grove at Barlow Station, which every one who has ever made the trip to Salem by rail has ad mired. Interest Is added to tho story by the fact that the famed Barlow form recently passed out of tho hands of the family. ROOSEVELTS CABIN AT THE EXPOSITION Early home of tho President when he lived the life of a cowboy on the Dakota frontier. WONDERFUL RESOURCES OF OREGON COUNTIES Their exhibits at the Exposition show a varied wealth that comes as a surprise to residents of the state and astonishes the Eastern visitors. RICH MINES OF SOUTHERN OREGON Counties which He along the Cali fornia border and the tier to the north show a wonderful mineral wealth. THE WEEK IN REAL ESTATE What the realty transactions show, with an Interesting revelation of what the new flats of Portland show in the way of cosy homes. Good Turn by Bobble Burns. Philadelphia Bulletin. Booth Tarklngton was talking about Burns, whose poetry he admires. "In a beer hall one night." he said. "I saw a bust of Burns. "I turned to a young man and said. 'Who Is thatr " 'Burns,' he answered without hesita tion. " 'And what saia I. 'did Burns do to entitle him to a bust?' " 'Why, he he oh, he died." said tha young man, yawning. "But his companion was a Scot. This Scot, as he filled his whisky glass, sneered and said: " 'Burns death alone wouldn't have sufficed for his commemoration In bronze and marble. Burns was a poet, gentle men. Furthermore, he was a good fellow. Let me toll you something that should endear him to such minds as yours. " 'Once In Dumfries, Burns had the job of gauger. He went about from public house to public-house, seeing that a good, pure grade of whisky was served. And he was supposed, too. to keep his eye open for unlicensed houses to see that no speak-easles, as we call them, flour ished In Dumfries. MAnd did he do It? Did he. Indeed? There's a fond Dumfries tradition that sneaking hurriedly Into the back door of a prosperous speak-easy one afternoon. Burns whispered excitedly to the owner, a widow: Kate, woman, are ye mad? The su pervisor and me will be raldln ye In half an hour." ' " "Broke" His Father's Will. Now here's a pretty story. Young Sam Reyner, son of Jacob Reyner. Pittsburg millionaire, married Nellie Paris, a dancer, and' the elder Reyner cut tho young man off with $20,000 4n his will. After Jacob Reyner's death It was expected that the young man would contest the will. But ho had no thought of it. "What." he said, "try to break my father's will and my mother's heart! Not a bit of It!" Then the dancer-bride ventured a visit to her mother-in-law for the first time. What happened? She straightway won tho old lady's heart and the hearts of all the other relatives by her winsomo ways." And now the mother has set the will aside, and the son and his dancer-bride come In with her to the full enjoyment of the old man's property. "Winsome ways." combined with youth and beauty, like kind hearts, are "more than coronets." Pleasure for a Stingy Man. Philadelphia Record. Harduppe Closeflst likes nothing better than to have some fellow ask him for a loan. Borrowell Ts that so? Harduppe Yes. It gives him so much pleasure to refuse.