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THE MORNING- OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1905. .Entered at the Postoffice at Portland, Or.. ' as second-class matter. SUBSCKU'TJOX KATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By Mall or Express.) Daily and Sunday, per year 9-D Dally and Sunday, six months s.w Dally and Sunday, three months 53 Dally and Sunday, per month Dally without Sunday, per year 7.j0 Dally without Sunday, six months 3.9U Dally without Sunday, trree months...- 1.85 Dally without Sunday, per month...... .Oj" Sunday, per year -;J0 Sunday, six months Sunday, three months Dally without Sunday, per week .15 Dally, per week. Sunday Included .20 THE WEEKLY OREGONIAN. (Issued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per year. - 1-30 Weekly, six months - Weekly, three months.... i.... 50 1IOW TO KEM1T Send postofneo money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency axe at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The 6. C. Beckwltb. Special Agency New York, rooms 43-30 Tribune building. 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Cooper & Co.. 746 Market street; Goldsmith Bros- 230 Sutter and Hotel St. Francis News Stand: L. E. Lee. Palace Hotel News Stand; F. W. Pitts. 1008 Market; Frank Scott. 80 Ellis: N. Whcatley Movable News Stand, corner Mar ket and Kearney streets; Foster & Orear, Ferry News Stand. Washington, D. C. Ebbltt House, Pennsyl vanla avenue. PORTLAND, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1803. DRAGGED INTO THE OPEN. A main purpose of a recent effort of The Oregonian has been to "smoke out" the list of stockholders behind the local organ of plutocracy, which has been posing as champion of anti-monopoly and popular rights. The list Is this, viz: W. M. Ladd, George TV. Bates, A. Li. Mills, T. B. Wilcox, TV. F Burrell, Allen Lewis, Edward Lang, J Couch Flanders. J. C. Ainsworth, J. N. Teal, I. N. Fleischner, A. J. Giesy. C. S. Jack son, Leo Friede, and A Bush, of Salem. This is the first time a full, authentic list has been given. Several of these have taken but small amounts. Ladd has put up most of the money. The paper has been running along in a sneaking manner, under the names of C. S. Jackson and J. F. Carroll. Since a public Interest attaches to a newspa per, the public is fully entitled to know who the publishers of every newspaper are. Only so can the public fairly judge of the newspaper's purposes and mo tives. Anil since this organ of plutocracy has been sailing from the first under false colors, and attacking The Orego nian, its editor and proprietors, for nearly three years, with utmost malig nity and venom, as well as with gross est personalities and misrepresentation for which no provocation whatever was given The Oregonian has had an additional reason for dragging these owners and publishers from their covert Into the open. But the greater reason is that it Is sheer indecency, it is an insult to the public, when a combination represent ing enormous aggregate wealth, and seeking to control elections and officials and direct public policy for profit in franchises, in public works and In "high finance" generally, try to cover their responsibility for the newspaper they publish to support their schemes, by an effort to impose dummies on the public as the actual proprietors. Hence forth the public will have means of judging the real motives of this organ of plutocracy and jobbery in whatever it may attempt. The'hand of the pluto crat will- no longer be concealed. What a marvelous aggregation of the cham pions of popular rights and of the plain people we have hereindeed! In this particular connection Mr. Ladd, more than others, has been epoken of by The Oregonian. because he is. the chief promoter, has supplied most of the money through his bank, is treasurer of the concern, and Is the chief adviser and director with whom the 'dummies constantly confer and from whom they get their main orders. Bonds.ffbf a very large sum, covering part of the money lost, are of record at the County Courthouse, running on In terest payable at the bank of Mr. Ladd. For itself. Hie Oregonian has only to say further that 4t spits contempt upon the purpose and effort which this pluto cratic combination proclaims through its organ, to Injure it, to super sede it, to break it, to degrade it. The business of The Oregonian Publishing Company and this in cludes the business of the Even ing Telegram never was so great as today. Both for subscriptions and advertisements the returns of this year are far in excess of any preceding time in the history of the business. The columns of both papers show what they are doing. Newspapers that represent the people and stand by them have sup port of the people. No organ of plutoc racy, published for selfish interests, ever yet succeeded. The true newspa per must be published for Itself alone We do not expect The Oregonian and. Tne Telegram to oe tne only newspapers published here. We have no right to complain, never did, never shall, when other papers have come, or may come, into the field. In this case The, Oregonian provoked no attack; which, however, began at once and was kept up with extreme viru lence for more than two years, be fore The Oregonian took any notice of it. At last The Oregonian de cidod to bring Into the open the combination behind this effort, and its responsible authors. In doing .so It has exposed some of their schemes against the public, for their own enrichment. Indeed It Is probable that, but for the duty -to do this, It would have continued to pass over In silence, and indefinitely, the vitupera tion of their organ, directed against itself. All Is well, however, since the public has come into possession of In formation on many matters that it was entitled to have, including knowledge of the deal-in street-car franchises, of op erations in water pipe, and of motives for activity in city, county and state elections. It would be a pity. Indeed, if there were no power in Portland that had strength and courage to raise a voice against this .plutocratic rapacity, that plans and plots to absorb the whole business of Portland, and of Oregon, or at least to make the whole business of Portland and of Oregon pay tribute to it. The effort, as every one knows, and too many by experience. Is to permit no one to do business, of any important kind, who does not pay tribute to this rapacity and greed. In every line of business men and women feel the pres sure. And yet the arrogance must be resisted- It devolves on The Oregonian to raise the voice of protest "The com bine" Is In politics as in business; for plutocracy always connects business and politics, and endeavors to make politics and business support each other. A professional morality, that assumes also-the garb of holiness to strike the observer dumb, has been part of the play. But the ordinary game of the ordinary gambler' at whose tables. If you chance to look in, perhaps you may see some of these also carries with It little or nothing of evil, in comparison with the enormous public grafts and multifarious private oppressions that pluck whole communities. Every one in Portland has seen enough during the past few years to know why and how great wealth accumulates so rapidly in a few hands. Development of Oregon has been held back two decades and more by the machinations of this power, which has discouraged and thrown back all pro posals from other quarters to introduce new capital here. Men who would have been Investors have been told, through years and years, that there was money enough here, and that this thing and that thing "wouldn't pay." So the country has been held back- Never till the street franchises could be sold franchises worked up through politics and a pretended unselfish devotion to the rights of the people was any out side capital offered a chance in Port land. But here was a chance at last for a great grab, and greed could realize. The Oregonian has no capital, no power to coerce others, as plutocrats do; and God forbid that it ever should try to use this power. If It supposed it had It. But it has, or believes It has. some courage, some spirit, some power of resistance, and even some power of aggression, In case of need. It has no motives or purposes or aims, beyond those of public Journalism. It is not published as an adjunct of any of the various kinds of large-handed robbery known of late as the operations of high finance. It appeals to the people, and It rests on them. IS PORTLAND THE PLACE? Dr. Edmund J. James was Inaugu rated president of the State University of Illinois last week. His address on that occasion was memorable for a number of reasons. The most striking is its scant allusion to the words or thoughts of other men, living or dead. None of the bright educational lights of the world are quoted or referred to, which may Indicate great Independence of thought In Dr. James, or great nar rowness. Among all the names of fa mous men, whether passed into eter nity or still on earth. Dr. James finds only two worthy of mention in his ad dress, but It Is cheering to observe that he can mention both with praise. The names are Rockefeller and Pearsons, a curious comment on the point, of view of the modern college president. These matters aside. Dr. James has sound no tions of what the State University ought to be and actually is in those states where It has become prosperous and great. It "Is destined to become," he says, "a great group of professional schools preparing Its students for the various occupations of life." Elsewhere In the address Dr. James adds: "The State University which most fully per forms Its function for the American people will stand simply, plainly, un equivocally and uncompromisingly for training for vocation." In these words the president of the University of Illi nois blasphemes two educational fet iches which are idiotic enough to have endured some generations longer. The first fetich is that what is called "cul ture" cannot be obtained from the stud ies which pertain to modern life and fit a man to live and serve his kind in the modern world. Of course, "culture" may be defined without breaking any law as "the knowledge of a few scraps of Latin .and a smattering of Greek paradigms," and in that case It must be admitted that training in science, medi cine, law, agriculture, and so on, do not give culture- Butto define culture in any such manner is a piece of besotted superstition of the sort too prevalent in the educational world, and it is pleasant and hopeful to see a man like Dr. James, who. occupies a commanding position, break" away from it and ex press the pure doctrine of common sense. Education in scientific studies, he asserts, will not only prepare a man for his vocation, but it will also make him liberal and idealistic. In fact, he believes, and his belief is true, that the best part of all the best humanities are to be found in the studies of modern life. The other fetich which .Dr. James blasphemes Is that hoary-headed fraud called "mentaj discipline." If you wish to teach a boy engineering, don't, for heaven's sake, let him learn anything about electricity and steam; teach him Latin. Latin, in some mysterious way, will fertilize his mind and the knowl edge of steam and machinery will spring up of itself like pigweed in a potato patch. The tjest engineers In the world, the ancient Egyptians, never heard of Latin; but your educational theorist Is well fortified against facts. No successful man ever prepared him self for success upon the ridiculous mental discipline theory. Men who have become great have persistently refused to discipline their minds with the studies they hated and as persist ently stuck to the "ones they liked, but In spite of all that the pedagogic moss back will continue to whack at the brains of the world with his . Latin grammar. . Last year in the Portland High School 4S4 students took Latin, while in English literature there were only 259 and In physics 229. Are we bringing up our boys and girls to live in ancient Home or in modern America? Dr. James clearly suggests the great educational and financial economies which necessarily, result from assem bling in one central institution all the technical and scholarly foundations supported by the state. The schools of law and medicine, of applied science. the agricultural college, the normal school for teachers, the classical school, all these, he affirms, should be united in one institution under one governing body and in one plant Oregon, with her feeble Institutions languishing in poverty and neglect here and there at haphazard all over her vast territory. without plan or system, the sport of politicians and maintained by graft may well heed the lesson so clearly and courageously enunciated by this distin guished educationist at the head of the flourishing university of the great State of Illinois. Unite the schools. System atize them in aims, government, curric ulum and ideals. Make the money spent upon them count for all it is worth. Scattered effort is wasted ef fort Effort without system Is wasted. A system supported by graft will necessarily teach graft Figs do not grow on thistles. The University of Idaho, described In the correspondence of The Sunday Ore gonian, is a brilliant example of what can be accomplished under favorable circumstances by concentration of edu cational effort Idaho has her educa tional institutions upon one campus. The school of letters, science, agrlcul ture, applied sciences and mines are all united In one foundatlon,not scattered hither and yon at the dictates of local grafters. Moscow Is not favorably lo cated for a State University, but the policy of concentrated effort has over come the defects of situation, and has resulted, as the correspondent remarks, "in a well-paid and efficient faculty, an enthusiastic and numerous student- body, and a well-balanced and thor ough equipment" Of what state school In Oregon can as much be truthfully said? Of course, with a well-chosen, central location, the State University of Idaho would make a still better show ing. When the people of Oregon waken from the distracted drean which has stood with them for an educational pol icy, it is to be hoped that they will not only unite their Institutions upon one campus and under one management, but that they will carry the reform to its logical outcome and choose the most advantageous situation for the schools. Whether or not Portland is, upon the whole, the best situation should be most carefully weighed and considered. The outcries of local grafters should not be heeded. Temporary advantages or disadvantages should not be heeded. The only question should be, "What Is best for the whole state and for all time?" AN OREGON INSURANCE COMPANY. Life Insurance Is a useful and even necessary modern device for the protec tion of the family and the saving of money for the investor. Properly con ducted, it is a beneficent Institution; Improperly conducted, it is an Immense and dangerous power in the hands of frenzied financiers, who forget the pol icy-holder In their dishonest and greedy endeavor to benefit themselves. No doubt the present agitation will be beneficial in the long run; but that it has put the great companies under sus picion and has practically suspended their efforts tb get new business Is not to be doubted- Meanwhile people need life insurance; but they want to feel sure that it is safe. To meet that need Mr. It. Samuel has organized the Ore gon Life Insurance Company, support ed by abundant local money and credit and founded on conservative and ap proved principles. Judiciously man aged, the new concern will doubtless be of service to many people. That Mr. Samuel knows how to conduct a' life Insurance company, and that he will conduct it on safe and correct lines, his long career as a life Insurance man In Oregon gives ample guaranty. THE FOOL AND HIS GUN. The fool is abroad with his gun, seek ing game and finding men. The dread ful mishap In Tillamook County last Saturday, wherein W. G. Eddy, of Lents, was mistaken for a deer and fa tally shot by his companion. Is the most recent example of lack of caution and good sense In a hunter. Two cases of "mistakes" of the same kind occurred on October 10. One was in Baker County, where a boy was mistaken for a deer and painfully wounded; the other In Lane County, where a man was shot for a bear. It was not that these vic tims of imaginative gunners' aim looked different from other men or were stalk ing game disguised in the skins of ani mals they sought. They simply caused the bushes to rustle In passing through, them and were shot by their excitable and careless companions. The story is an old one, and every year almost every month adds to Its Incidents without producing variety in detail except such as change of name and place furnish. The futility of the attempt to reach things that are In trenched in individual carelessness, im prudence or irresponsibility, by law and penalty, has been fully demonstrated In this matter. The offending gunner is always "so sorry," does all he can to relievo his victim when wounded, mourns, him, sometimes quite frantic ally, when dead, is indeed frequently "prostrated with grief," and is. withal, so sincere in his demonstrations of sor row and regret that any penalty which the law can Inflict is not only superflu ous, but seems an added cruelty. This .man has had his lesson, and will never shoot at a moving bush again; that one will not be deterred by the calamity that has overtaken his brother hunter, even if imprisonment Is added to his punishment Hence, men who go into the woods with guns must take their chances, comforting themselves with the reflection that, after all, rela tively few men who hunt are mistaken for deer or bear and shot down by care less or excitable companions in the bush. GERMAN RETALLVnON. That distinguished army of high-tariff Americans, who, on account of the fos slllzation of their ideas regarding fair play, as applied to commerce, are known as "standpatters," will find much food for thought In the figures on the new German tariff. The German, agrarians have for years protested against the action of the United States In enforcing an almost prohibitory duty against their bulbs, sugar and other products, which the American consumer would like to secure at more reason able prices. But, while the Americans were maintaining this almost Impene trable wall against the products of the Germans, they were also exporting to Germany, practically free of duty, large quantities of wheat, flour, corn and other agricultural products which came into direct competition with those grown in Germany. Had the United States withheld her products from the German market or had we admitted free of duty the prod nets which our consumers needed and the Germans wished to sell, the position of the agrarians would have been less tenable. Our admirable system of pro tectlon, -however, wo'rks with the infal llblllty of the colored man's celebrated coon trap. It catches our 'German friends, and Incidentally the American consumer, "a-comln and a-goln'," and. In order that they may have an oppor tunity at least partially to equalize con ditions, the German government has been forced to heed the clamor of the agrarians, and construct a tariff sched ule which is sufficiently onerous to de light even an American "standpatter," providing it was some other ox that was bout to.be gored. But there were other motives besides the wall of the agrarians which prompted Germany to revise- her tariff schedules. There Is no country on the face of the earth that can continue buying forever unless It has an opportunity to sell something. With the Germans It may be bulbs and sugar and toys, and with the British It may be freight space and passenger accommodation on ocean car riers. If they are successful in selling these commodities, they will have money to purchase our goods. Germany would like to buy our grain, meat oil and other products, but she has an In sufficient amount of gold with which to foot the bills, unless she can sell some thing to us. We have turned a deaf ear to her entreaties to meet on a reciprocal basis, and she Is now about to resort to a policy which. In the end, will result In forcing us to back down from the high and mighty stand we have taken on the tariff question. The advances in the German tariff on American wheat, corn, flour, pork prod ucts and oil are so great as practically to prohibit exportation of those com modities to Germany, unless negotia tions may result In Inducing the Ger-. mans to recede from their present posi tion. Consumption of these articles in this country has not yA. reached a point where we can afford to overlook any outside market In which It Is possible to sell them. Neither has our protected sugar trust reduced the price of that great staple to a figure where our con sumers would object to any further re duction In the price, such as would fol low admission1 of German sugar at a reasonable tariff. The spirit of fair ness has been sadly missing in most of our trade relations, and, now that retri bution has overtaken us In the shape of what Is practically prohibition of trade with Germany, we can lay the blame to no others than our own arrogant "standpatters." A young Texan who found the ennui of New York life palling on him quick ened the pulsebeats of thousands of spectators Sunday by hitching an aero plane to a tugboat and making an aerial flight down the Hudson River. The aeronaut went up something like 300 feet and, after various exciting and uncertain maneuvers, came down with out accident "But I want no more of It" he said: Probably the Texan re members the experience of the young aerial navigator who tried Professor Montgomery's aeroplane In California several weeks since. The machine worked beautifully until something got wrong, and then It turned a number of somersaults and the occupant was dashed to earth and killed. So it is with all airships, and will continue to-be un til we know more about air currents and their whims than we know now. Any airship will work until It won't work; and then the aeronaut needs to find a soft place to alight Water transportation Is the cheapest transportation on earth, and it is this fact alone that gives the tidewater ports prestige over all Inland ports as distributing centers. New testimony to the value of the water routes as makers of rates Is offered by the story from Vancouver, B. C, to the effect that the Blue. Funnel line of steamers, plying between Liverpool and Vancouver, had cut Into the business of the Canadian Pacific to such an extent that the rail road had made a heavy reduction In rates with a view to killing off the water competition. By no other method would it have been possible for Van couver to secure lower rates from the railroad, and so long as steamers wander around the world in quest of cargoes, It will be Impossible for the railroad ever again to restore Its rates to a point above the figure which will be established by the ocean liners. Two of the Panama Canal experts have returned to Washington with re ports that the cost of the canal will be much greater than was expected, and that, under present conditions, the work cannot be completed for many years. Reports of this nature regarding work on the canal and locks at the Cas cades delayed the completion of that important work for many years longer than It would otherwise have been de layed. The same Influences have also had a bad effect on the work at Ce lllo. But the canal at the Cascades was put through and freight rates 'dropped with Its completion. Perhaps the pros pect of something similar happening to freight rates when the Panama Canal Is completed may be a factor in caus ing the present vexatious delays. The Japanese were certainly entitled to all of the glory which they undoubt edly got out of their magnificent marine parade yesterday. It Is difficult to be lieve that this Island power, which less than a generation ago stepped into the ranks of modern civilization, can now mass a fleet of more than 300 war ves sels. No such rapid rise from obscurltv to prominence and power has ever oeen maae oy any other nation, and the success of the Japanese on sea and shore has never been equaled by any other power that ever went forth to battle. If the civilized Jap Is one-half as aggressive in trade pursuits as he 13 in war, there will shortly be some new lines drawn on the commercial map of the world. J. S. .Wilson, who has written to The Oregonian to defend the doctrine of the Trinity, is himself a sad heretic He "confounds the persons" of the Trinity in saying that "it is a word merely used to designate the three-fold aspect or nature of God." Mr. Wilson has no conception of the tremendous mystery he undertakes to defend. He Is himself a Unitarian at any rate he Is not a trinltarlan, and If he escapes damna tion for his heresy he may thank his stars. The directors of the defunct New York bank will pay up the recent short age, no matter how great There are some directors who will hereafter make It their business to direct. Mr. Harrlman Is no doubt pleased to note that nothing has really happened In Oregon during his absence. Evidently the most serious defect In steel pipe for water mains Is that it Is not made at Oswego. The fool and his gun are never part' ed till too late. ' SILHOUETTES The President was. wise In selecting 'possum and yam time for visiting Tua kegee. Reginald Vanderbilt Is tooling horses In the Middle Western horseshows. The mental endowments of present-day Van dcrbllts just about place them In the cab drlver class. The Opportune Gramophone. The chaplain of one of His Majesty's ships was giving a magic lantern lecture, the sub ject of which waa "Scenes From the Bible." He arranged with a sailor who possessed a gramophone to discourse appropriate music between the slides. The An picture shown was Adam and Eve In the Garden of Eden. The sailor cudgeled hia brain, but could think of nothing suitable., "Play up," whispered the chaplain. Suddenly a large Idea struck the Jolly tar, and. to the great consternation of the chaplain and the delight of the audi ence, the gramophone burst forth with the strains of "There's Only One Girl In the World for Me." It would have been equally appropriate If the machine had played "Take Your Clothes and Go." I hope Archbishop Christie will tell the pope how much he missed by not coming over to our Fair. A good woman's love Is the half-way point between earth and heaven. Our old Army friend, Marcus Mayer, has reached the point of recommending a certain patent medicine. Even at that the pills may be better than some of the theatrical attractions Marcus has recom mended. Those French aeronauts who recently traveled at the rate of 73 miles an hour In a balloon at an altitude of 13,000 feet must consider automobile racing mighty tame sport Have you ever noticed how forlorn! straw hats and Ice-cream freezers look this time of year? A celebrity Is one we have heard about but do not know. Another thing this town needs Is a cur few, ordinance for all rounders over 70. The bar pilots say that craft drawing 27 feet can now pass out over the bar. This will enable San ford HIrsch to go to sea without difficulty. a The women suffragists are trying to devise some adequate punishment for Grover Cleveland because he writes "agin 'em." I suggest hitting him on the ankle with a bit of birdseed. The man who must amuse the public has a very sad vocation. HELPFUL HENRY'S HINTS To the Helpless. TO MISS ANGELINE You say In your letter of Inquiry that Harold took ad vantage of the hall being dark to hold both your hands and kiss you last night A young girl cannot be too careful under such conditions. Of course, you could not prevent him from kissing you. but you should have kicked him on the shins real hard. . There Is nothing so effective for bringing a young man out of a trance of that kind as a few well-ad ministered kicks on the shins. Edward W. Bok, In his Cozy Corner Chats With Girls advo cates sticking with a hatpin, but such a procedure Is unnecessarily cruel. and besides it might awaken Father. The best authorities now agree that a kick on the shins or a stiff punch In the slat3 13 better form, and more ladylike. - HIRAM GREEN writes from Eugene to Inquire what a gent should do after being run over by an automobile. Here Is a case that appeals to me In a most un usual way. I have been bumped by them so often myself that I can speak with great feeling of such occurrences. After a number of experiences, I am convinced that the best course to pursue Is to cuss fervently. If you are able, and then limp to-a surgeon's office. Of course, one might arm himself with a blunderbuss and shoot the person with the goggles, but that would be homicide, and only those who own machines are licensed to do such things. AS TO BLEACHING. I have frequent ly been asked to suggest a simple and effective hair bleach. There are many prescriptions to be had, but I have found the following the most satisfactory: Hold your head In a barrel of quick lime for half an hour, and at the end of the treat ment you won't care whether you look like a burlesque actress or the victim of a railroad wreck. HOUSEWIFE. For a recipe for brandy smashes, I would suggest that you cor respond with your local branch of the "W. C T. U., or some representative school of domestic science. BILL J. Of course. If you are married, the case becomes a difficult one. but I would advise you to let the divorce court take Its course. ARTHUR A. GREENE. Counting Apple Seeds. New York Globe and Commercial. Taking Eugene Wood at his word, when in "Back Home" he says he cannot re member what comes after ,plIht, in count of apple seeds, a Bronx "Dally xeaoer supplies me missing numbers as follows: Eight they both love. Nine he comes. Ten he tarries. Eleven he courts. Twelve they marry. Thirteen they quarrel. Fourteen they part Fifteen they die of hmVen v..r But luckily, of course, few apples have mure man 11 seeus. The Unpardonable Sin. She was a college maiden who with learning j . lne ver highest grade In of abstruse philosophy. She solved problems In geometry, knew all about astronomy, and played with trig, onbmetry. so very much knew she. In matters physiological, her brain, ex tremely logical, discerned the psycho logical, the world told how It lives; She was at home In history, could date each church consistory, had studied occult mystery, but she split Infinitives. So the women's clubs rejected her. the editors dissected her. In Boston disin fected her in verbal quarantine. Of snubs she had fatlety, she hated all so ciety, she hadn't any piety, and so she made a scene. That settled her for good and all with those thtt could or would and all reform her as she should and all -he well with her once more. And so with all her learning and her pay chic college yearning all the world to set a-burning, she's In - x department store. Let her awful fate be warning to those In their 'life's fresh morning, when a bright career Is dawning let them strict attention give. They may wisdom men be lending, have a rectitude unbending, but they'll come to no good ending with the spilt Infinitive. ROOSEVELT'S WOLF HUNT IN OKLAHOMA One of the Guides, With His Hands, Catchea a Wolf, Alive Thrusts One Hand in the Animal's Mouth Cunning of the Hunted. Theodore Roosevelt in Scrlbner's Magazine Big wolves are found In both Texas and Oklahoma, but they are rare compared to the coyotes, and they are great wander ers. Alone or In parties of three or four or half a dozen they travel to and fro across the country, often leaving a dis trict at once If they are molested. Coyotes are more or les3 plentiful everywhere throughout the West In thinly settled dis tricts, and they often hang about In the Immediate neighborhood of towns. They do enough damage to make farmers and ranchers kill them whenever the chance offers. But this damage Is not appreciable when compared with the ravages of their grim, big brother, the gray wolf, which, wherever It exists In numbers, la a verit able scourge to the' stockmen. The coursing was done on the flats and great rolling prairies which stretched north from our camp toward the Wichita Mountains and south toward the Red River. There was a certain element of risk in the gallops, because the whole, country was one huge prairie-dog town," the' prairie-dogs being so numerous that the new towns and the abandoned towns were continuous with one another in every direction. Practically every run we had was through these prairie-dog towns, varied occasionally by creeks and washouts. But as we always ran scat tered out. the "wonderfully quick cow ponies, brought up In this country and spending all their time among the prairie- dog towns, were able, even while running at headlong speed to avoid tho holes with a cleverness that was simply marvellous. During our hunt but one horse stepped in a hole; he turned a complete somerset, though neither he nor his rider was hurt Stunted mesquite bushes grew here and there In the grass and there was cactus. In a couple of miles I was close enough to seo what was going on. But one grey hound was left with Abernethy. The coyote was obviously tired, and Aber nethy, with the aid of his perfectly trained horse, was helping the greyhound catch It Twice he headed It. and this enabled me to gain rapidly. They had reached a small unwooded creek by the time I was within 50 yards; the little wolf tried to break back to the left; Abernathy headed It and rode almost over It. and it gave a wicked snap at his foot, cutting the boot Then he wheeled and came toward it; again It galloped back and just as It crossed the creek the greyhound made a rush, pinned it by the hind leg and threw It There was a scuffle, then a yell from the greyhound 'as the wolf bit It At the bite the hound let go and jumped back a few feet, and at the same moment Abernethy, who had ridden his horse right on them as they struggled, leaped off and sprang on top of the wolf. He held the reins of his horse with one hand and thrust the other, with a rapldlty and perclslon even greater than the rapidity of the wolf's snap. Into the wolfs mouth, jamming his hand down crosswise between tho Jaws, seizing the lower jaw and bending It down so that the wolf could not bite him. He had a stout glove on his hand, but this would havo been of no avail, whatever had ho not seized the animal just as he did; that is. behind the canines, while his hand pressed the Hps against the teeth; with his knees he kept the wolf from using its forepaws to break THE TRIP T0LEWIST0N. Great Is Freewater. Pendleton Tribune. Freewater did it up brown. But for fruit, 'flowers, hospitality and advertising Freawater and Freewaterites can't be beat Where the Butter Comes From. Eugene Register. Portland's commercial barons are flirt ing with Idaho's Congressional Represen tatives by attending the big fair at Low Iston. Portland knows which side of her bread Is buttered, and where the butter comes from. Good Thing for Everybody. Cottage Grove Leader. Portland business men are being royally welcomed all along the road to Lewiston. That their trip will be of benefit to Lewis ton, as well as to them, goes without say ing. As business men of various cities be come bette- acquainted, their business re lations and dealing become more certain and of a more permanent growth. What Portland Day Did. Lewiston Tribune. Portland day has achieved the distinc tion of having attracted to the fair grounds of the Lewiston-Clarkston Inter state Fair and Racing Association the largest crowd ever assembled there. The estimate of the fair directors was placed at 10.000, and these figures were realized. The grandstand was sold out early, and It was with difficulty that the visitor could work through the mass of humanity that extended west from the quarter stretch to the Horticultural hall and be yond to the racing stables. The prom inent visitors mixed with the happy throng3, and Governor Chamberlain, of Oregon. Joined with the grandstand In cheering the thrilling finishes that marked every event on the track. Horticultural hall, with Its exhibit, has never received so much attention and so much praise. How to Make Opportunity. Walla Walla "Union- Walla Walla can well profit by the visit of the Portland business men's excursion to this city, not only by getting In closer touch with Portland, but by putting Itself on the aggressive In other fields. This city has business dealings to some extent with surrounding towns. "We do not have a great wholesale trade, but many of the people of the smaller towns of the vicin ity place a large part of their patronage at the hands of Walla Walla merchants. But what trade has come from outside places has been almost unsought. It has 'come because the people thought they could "do better In Walla Walla." If the business men of this city would only do something to bring them In closer touch with nearby towns, not only would their retail trade be increased, but the chances of developing a good wholesale commerce would be far more Immediate. The kind of business push that makes a city la not the kind that waits for ad vantages to be offered and then without any effort accepts'them, but the kind that makes advantages and lets other towns do the accepting. Walla Walla may long wait for opportunities to become an Im portant city. without a single one coming around to hunt her up. But as soon as the city starts out to make Its opportu nities. It will find the material scattered wherever It looks. "Papatheodor." Columbia State. The papers of Chicago are making a great ado over the name of a new Greek politician in that city. His name is James J. Papatheodorokoumountourtourgeototo Ious we do not think we have left out any of the letters that properly belong to this Hellene. The name does not strike us as remarkable. If we break It off after "Papatheodor," it has a familiar Amer ican sound, a household word from Maine to Sequoyah. George Knew His Business. "Now, Mabel." cautioned her mother, "you mustn't sit out on that damp beach tonight without anything around you.' "I won't, mother," promised the dutiful daughter. "George will attend to that, all risht Louisville Courier-Journal. the hold, until it gave up struggling. When he thus leaped on and captured the coyote It was entirely free, the dog having let go of It; and he was obliged to keep hold of the reins of his horse with one hand. I was not 20 yards distant at the time, and as I leaped off the horse he was sitting placidly on the live wolf, his hand between Its jaws, the greyhound standing beside him. and his horse, stand ing by as placid as he was. In a couple of minutes Fortescue and Lambert came up. It was as remarkable a feat of the kind as I have ever seen. These Southern coyotes or prairie wolves are only about one-third the size of the big gray timber wolves of the Northern Rockies. They are too small to meddle with full-grown horses and cat tle, but pick up young calves and kill sheep as well as any small domesticated animal that they can get at The big wolves flee from the neighborhood of anything like close settlements, but coy otes hang around the neighborhood of man much more persistently. They show a fox-like cunning In catching rabbits, prairie-dogs, gophers, and the like. After nightfall they are noisy, and their mel ancholy walling and yelling are familiar sounds to all who pas3 over the plains The young are brought forth in holes in cut banks or similar localities. Within my own experience I have known of the finding of but two families. In one there was "but a single family of five cubs and one old animal, undoubtedly the mother; In the other case there were ten or eleven cubs and two old females which had ap parently shared tho burrow or cave, though living In separate pockets. In neither case was any full-grown male coyote found in the neighborhood; as re gards these particular litters, the father seemingly had nothing to do with taking care of or supporting the family. I um not able to say whether this was acci dental or whether It is a rule that only the mother lives with and takes care of the litter; I have heard contrary state ments about this matter from hunters who should know. Unfortunately I have learned from long experience that It Is only exceptional hunters who can be trusted to give accurate descriptions of Ihe hablty of any beast, save such as are connected with Its chase. Coyotes are sharp, wary, knowing crea tures, and on most occasions take care to keep out of harm's way. m But with all wild animals, it Is a no ticeable fact that a course of contact with man continuing over many gener ations of animal life causes a species so to adapt Itself to Its new surroundings that It can hold Its own far better than formerly. When white men take up a new country, the game, and especially the big game, being entirely unused to contend with the new foe. succumb easily, and are almost completely killed out. If any individuals survive at all, however, the succeeding generations are far more difficult to exterminate than were their ancestors, and they cling much more tenaciously to their old homes. The game to be found in old and long-settled countries, is of course, much more wary and able to take care o'f Itself than the game of an untrodden wilder ness; it Is the wilderness llff, far more than the actual killing of the wilderness game, which tests the ability of the wilderness hunter. : THE GRAFTING TARIFF. Des Moine3 (la.) Register and Leader. The people are aroused by the dis closures of graft In connection with ine Dusmess of Insurance. The graft Ins: of the Insurance officials of "MVtir York and the conspiracy of the Beef! .trust comoined are as Inslc-nlfimnf as stealing- pennies from a baby's tin DanK compared to the graft the tariff has permitted the Steel Trust to enjoy for tho past eight years, and there is not a Congressman from Iowa who does not know It. What are tho sal aries of the McCalls and the Me- Curdys and the Hydes comnared to the organization of the Steel Trust with one billion dollars of stock that rep resents nothing in the world but "cap italized tariff." as Consrressma n Me- Call of Massachusetts properly named it? The sugar tariff was forced into thcl uingiey Dill by tho men whn hi aiv! Havemeyer's bidding over the protest ofj "J nunest itepuoucan in Congress.! -uijie.,nian JtiepDurn Knows this to be true, so does Major Lacey. so does Cap tain Hull, so do Senators Allison and Dol- uver. -rne nonest Renuhllin in gress submitted to the outrage because mey aeuevea tne surar xrhMn be traded off In reciprocal treaties. Bu: they have not been traded off. On the contrary, they stand as Mr. Havemeyei Intended them to stand, to enable thr Sugar Trust to fleece the American sugai consumer. .Ana to add to their potency Cuban raw sugar has been admitted al reaucea cost, witnout the least reductlor to the consumer of rflnpri surar onri v.. Philippines have been almost ruined be cause the admission of their sugar prod uct could not be arranged .on terms satis mciory to tne trust. Now Is the time for Rennhiirana tn J speaking out In meeting, ine Presidenl tumesses xnat ne is barned. But ther will be a Congress some day that a nev Theodore Roosevelt will not be compellei to apologize to when he determines t stand by the rights of the people. This I the year for discussion In Iowa. Let th debate proceed. The more vigorous th ueoaie. tne more intelligent will be th .ittjun wnen tne time for action comes. Consul at Amsterdam. PORTLAND. Oet "1 ,t, ci, Please Inform me whn in tho i Consul to the Netherlands and where hi is locaiea. f. C. HENRECL Frank D. Hill, at Amsterdam. Newspaper Waifs. Bill "Did Phil contribute to th? evenlnRl entertainment?" JIH "No. he went In on xree pass." ionkers Statesman. "They tell me the nobleman that Estell married hasn't any money." "He has $11 or mine. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Insurance Agent "The company T reprd sent has undivided profits of more thai $10,000,000." The Wary One "Directed waiting for the clouds to roll by. ehl Puck. Oilman "Now that you're living In It country don't you miss the early mornlr noise and bustle of the city? Subbuba do if I miss the 6:31 train." Phtladelphf Press. "Mike." said Plodding Pete, "did you hed dat stump speaker say de world owes us ' llvln?" "Yes. but dere's no harder Job tl eart" dan collectln bad debts." washlni ton Star. "What Is alimony, mamma?" asked til little boy of his grass-widow mother, "A3 mony. my son. Is the pin money a worn;! gets after she leaves her husband." Yonkel Statesman. "Can you see anything to commend in thj Insurance director's career?" "Well," al swered the man who tries to be charitabl "he was mighty good to his famlly.'l Washington Star. "What Is your Idea of a true patriot;' true patriot." answered Senator Sorghut "Is a man whose country rewards his serl Ices with a statue Instead of a bank count." Washington Star. Two men were talking about a neighbl who was noted for his "nearness." when oj exclaimed: "Why, he's so all-flred stlnj that he won t laugh at a Joke unless tt'a somebody's else expense I" Brooklyn Life. J Visitor (to farmer's boy In the field)! "Digging potatoes, eh?" Farmer's Boyi "Yep." Visitor "And what do you get digging potatoes?" Farmefn Boy "'Sa.i thin. But I git somethln fer not dlggl em." Visitor "Indeed ? What would yl get for not digging them?" Farmers Boyl "Licked:" Judge.