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Sacramento News Co., -29 K street. $ Salt Lake Salt Lake News Co., 77 West - Becond street South; National News Agency. - Long Beach B. E. Amos. - San Francisco J. K. Cooper & Co.. 740 -.Market street; Goldsmith Bros.. 230 Sutter and Hotel St. Francis News Stand; 1. E. Lee. Palace Hotel News Stand; F. W. Pitts. .. 1008 Market; Frank Scott. 80 Ellis: N Wheatley Movable News Stand, corner Mar 'ket and Kearney streets; Foster & Orcar, Ferry News Stand. v Washington. D. C Ebbltt House, Fennsyl- vanla avenue. rOBTLAND, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28. GOVERNOR. MONTAGUE'S LOGIC. , John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,-Is a lovable young: man with the heart of a turtle dove and the morals of St. Anthony. Those -who question the sincerity of his rellg!ous belief and principles are mis taken. His sincerity Is beyond all doubt. For one thing; unless the news paper reports of young: Rockefeller's sayings- and doings are wrong, his mind Js rather feeble, which often predisposes "a man to the religious life; and his filial devotion looks in the same direction, for the elder Rockefeller is well known to be a man of great piety. All that is -excellent in him his son reverentially imitates; and all that is not excellent -his son discredits. Those who hold that human belief and disbelief are founded upon evidence and depend upon facts are entirely in the wrong. We all be lieve whatever we wish and disbelieve 'whatever we do not wish, without the least reference to mere facts. And therefore with all the notorious proof of Jiis father's piracies before him there t is no doubt in the world that young John Is -entirely honest in believing his sire to be a model of the sweetest Chris tian virtues, and that the misdeeds laid to .his charge are the inventions of pure malice and envy under the inspiration of Satan- It is rather noble of the boy to stand by his father in the face of so much evidence, and it shows that somewhere within that rather mushy anass he calls his mind there Is a good, Bolld piece of grit Many young men who run to Bible classes and that sort of thing are fit for nothing better; though one must always except those who make their living out of It. They are often particularly . shrewd, and might have succeeded In worthier callings If they had been taken jyoung enough. John, or Johnny, as he may be called for distinction from his revered parent, does not follow Bible teaching for his living. His worldly neqds are otherwise provided for. The young- man turns naturally to this form of dissipation as some take to poker 'and others to horseracing. His way of Saving: fun has the merit of not being expensive and the demerit of being ri diculous. A man may bet his last shirt on a horserace and we shall bewail his fqlly, but we never laugh at him. He may stake house, home and reputation on a poker hand and lose; we condemn him with grave bead-wagging:, but also with the secret feeling that If we had been there we should have done the same as he did. But the Bible class habit inevitably provokes a smile. Toung Mr. Rockefeller has Just re newed his sacred intimacy with the studious youth of the Fifth-Avenue Baptist Church after an absence of a year or so .abroad. The occasion was In itself memorable, like the return of St. Paul from a long missionary tour, but Its importance was emphasized by an address from the pastor of the church and one from Governor Montague, -of Virginia. Governor Montague did not apeak upon the negro question. One cannot help wondering how he re frained, considering what the power of babit is, but he had nothing to say about "social equality." the "peril of amalgamation," or any of the other bugaboos of race hatred; he talked, in fact, like an easy, good-natured gentle man, but not by any means like a logi cian. This is the most weights pass age in his discourse: "Citizenship Is founded on patriotism; patriotism on morals, and morals on Christianity." It is beautiful language, but can one believe that Governor Montague had -the remotest notion of what it meant? Probably he boped it did not mean any- Elng, but, astonished as he might be to am the fact, it is fairly bursting with the most portentous significance. For example: Morals, the Governor says, are founded on Christianity. Then no body not a Christian can be moral. Isaiah was not moral, neither was Dan iel. The Emperor Antonine was not moral, though bis meditations has been ,a text-book in ethics for nearly 2000 r yearn Socrates was not moral, neither was "Darwin, nor Herbert Spencer, and either Is Edward Everett Hale, for ;none or these men were or are Chris tians. So far, so good. But patriotism is Jgunded on morals and morals on Chris jUianity; hence patriotism Is founded on ,Thristianlty and none but a Christian can be a patriot This disposes of Ho- ratlus, who kept the bridge, and Leoni das, who died at Thermopylae. Pericles and Epaminondas were not patriots. neither were Harmodius and Aristogel ton. Neither Brutus, who adjudged Tils son to death rather than disobey the jtfa:w, was a patriot, nor Regulus, who adjured his countrymen to return him to the Carthaginians to be slain with torture rather than make an Ignomin ious peace, for none of these was a Christian. The interest of Governor Montague's aphorism increases as we delve, and its consequences grow more startling. Citi zenship Is founded on patriotism, patri otism on -morals, and morals on Chris tianity. Therefore citizenship is found ed on Christianity, and no one who is not a Christian can be a citizen. No Jew can be either a citizen, a moral man or a patriot, according to the Gov ernor's amazing logic All free-thinkers are immoral, traitors to their coun try and aliens. No Unitarian can be a citizen, for we have it very recently and on the highest authority that Uni tarians are not Christians. None of them Is moral, so Governor Montague most plainly implies, and none of them is a patriot. Perhaps the Governor did not mean all this. let us hope he did not. But he most certainly said It. Maybe the next time he addresses a Bible class he will try to put some thought into his remarks as well as to make them beautiful. The thought may seem wasted upon his immediate audi ence; probably it will be wasted upon them. It is hardly conceivable that It makes any difference whether remarks to a Bible class mean anything or noth ing. But if the Governor does put some thought into his next address and makes the thought jibe as closely as may be with common sense, it will save him from the ridicule of that larger world which does not belong to young Mr. Rockefeller's Bible class. If com mon sense seems entirely unattainable, we advise him to stick to the negroes. He may be as silly as he likes upon that theme with the assurance that -the Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., will always, be sillier! ONLY THE GUILTY FEAR TIIE LAW. The "campaign of education" pro ceeds apace. The latest railroad po lemic to come to hand is a volume by Hugo Richard Meyer on "Government Regulation of Railroad Rates." Mr. Meyer happens to be a professor in the University of Chicago, a fact which may or may not have something to do with his ardent advocacy of railroad tyranny. That there are professors in the Standard Oil University who do not feel obliged to defend the practices of their chief benefactor and his fellow- pirates is probably true, but, when such a defense by one of them' actually ap pears, of course all sensible people con sider the source. "What influences have led Mr. Meyer to publish his work at this particular Juncture it is impossible to say, but something has hastened his action. Could the managers of the campaign of education have learned in some way that the book was opposed to the President's plan to regulate rates. and could he have offered an Induce ment" to effect a timely bifth for the volume? Mr. Meyer says, at any rate. that the "book is published before the author has been able to carry out his plans for securing additional Informa tion, for bringing all the statistics down to date, and for a more careful ar rangement of the materials already at hand." Why this haste? Is ammuni tion needed for the anarchistic oppo nents of railroad regulation? Does the rebellion' of the railroads need a scien tific defender? Evidently. The author Indeed "hopes" that the facts he pre sents "may be of service in the pres ent controversy." The argument of the -book is stated in the Introduction. It is against that absurd man of straw which the rail roads have sewed up and stuffed for the purposes of their campaign against the President. Mr. Meyer gravely shows how unwise it would be for the Gov ernment to regulate the entire system of railroad rates a thing nobody has proposed to do. The only thing pro posed is to give the Interstate Com merce Commission power to adjust con troverted rates and put their decision into effect. Somebody must decide upon controverted rates and fix a fair rate when the one in force has been found unjust. Shall it all be left to the rail roads? Are they to be defendant. Judge and Jury all in one? So it seems they have been in the pasU and so they would like to continue, a state of things very pleasant indeed for the railroads. It is nonsense to urge jn this connec tion that most rates are Just. Most men are not murderers, but nobody would think of offering that fact as proof that laws against murder are not needed. The law is wanted to operate upon the comparatively few rates which are not Just. Innocent men do not fear the law, and when a putatlvely innocent man is greatly terrified by it, the fair conclusion is that he is not innocent. It is also nonsense for Mr. Meyer to pretend, as he does, to believe that the prevention of discrimination, rebates and other social crimes among the rail roads would check railroad develop ment. If the railroads are already do ing what is fair and right, a good law such as the President desires will not affect them. Being guilty of no mis deed, they will not be troubled by the law any more than other innocent peo ple are. -If they are not doing what Is fair and right, the law ought to trouble them. YOUTHFUL LAWBREAKERS. The lad Ernest Dubolee, aged 16, who bought tobacco, rolled it into cigarettes and was smoking it when caught by a policeman, was not an innocent baby nor yet an unsophisticated booby who did not know that he was violating the law which forbids minors to do these things. He was simply a willful fellow, determined to smoke at all hazards, and, being caught, was quite ready to shift the responsibility for his infrac tion of law upon the man who sold him the tobacco. The latter was fined $5 for his .part in the transaction, which was proper enough, though, to the hest of his knowledge and belief, he had -not sold the forbidden article to the culprit. This boy was old enough to know bet ter, and did know better, than to do what he did, and a lesson in personal responsibility and respect for law em bodying as severe a penalty as the case allowed should have been given him. Undue leniency in such a case, whether parental or judicial, is a mistake when it misses the opportunity afforded by the culprit himself to fix the idea of personal accountability in his mind. The mother who ties the gate to pre vent her 3-year-old boy from going out side the dooryard to play; the father who locks his 10-year-old boy's bedroom door at night to keep the "little rascal' from slipping out to join "the gang," and the law that visits penalty exclusively upon the vendor of tobacco when the lad is caught smoking in vlo latlon of the statute at 16, are each in turn instrumental in the making of an Irresponsible lad and a lawbreaking man. The seeds of personal account ability cannot be sown too early, and It certainly does not become a hoy, of 16, when caught smoking, or a youth of 19 or 20, when caught drinking, to plead the baby act to escape just penalty. Let the saloon-keeper or the tobacco dealer come in for his just share of the penalty, which, because of his years, should be the heavier share, but do not excuse the lad from blame or punish ment. Teach him rather that he is a responsible being who should not allow himself to be beguiled -by appetite or "any other creature" into breaking the law. 3IAIN SOURCE OF PROSPERITY. Shippers of grain lumber and live stock from Oregon and Washington ports are all clamoring for cars, and, with everything that can be pressed Into service, the railroads are unable to move the freight offering. This re markable evidence of prosperity is not confined to the Pacific Northwest, for from all parts of the United States is heard the same story of freight conges tion and insufficient motive power and rolling stock to handle it A single road in the East has just given orders for 25,000 cars, another for 21,000, and the Harrlman system has orders, including 160 locomotives, for rolling stock which, if coupled -together, would cover a dis tance of "more than fifty miles. Bank clearings, bank .deposits, movement of merchandise and all other trade barom eters Indicate a similar degree of pros perity. In the midst of all of these evidences of prosperity it is more clearly apparent than ever before that Its foundation is, as usual, on the farm. According to Government reports, the value of the wheat, oats, corn and cotton crop of 1904 was, in round numbers, $2,485,315, 000. Estimates for the 1905 crop are not yet completed, but It is a certainty that the value of the "big four" products of the farm will be much greater than last year. In wheat there has been an In crease over last year of at least 150,000, 000 bushels, which Is more than suffi cient to offset a slightly lower price. Even were the net proceeds of the crop no greater than those of last year, the effect of the much larger crop would be .beneficially felt in greatly Increased traffic for the railroads, the mills,, labor and a hundred other attendant indus tries. The enormous demand for lumber is also due in a considerable degree to the big crops and high prices of farm prod ucts. Throughout the East and Middle West, wherever the wave of agricul tural prosperity has rolled, there has sprung up an increased demand for lumber. Farmers have replaced the old barns, houses and fences with new ones. Easy money is always one of the most potent factors In the making of a boom, and It Is the farmers who have made the money market, easy, for they have, within two years, marketed ap proximately $5,000,000,000 worth of prod ucts of the soil. A succession of good crops and good prices has enabled them to pay oft nearly all the mortgages which accumulated during the years of poor crops and low prices, and the money thus released has sought em ployment in other enterprises. To move this enormous amount of wheat, oats, corn and cotton, the railroads have been forced to build and buy much new equipment, to add to their army of employes, and construct new lines of road where the business had outgrown the old facilities. All of this meant more work for the manufacturers of railroad equipment, for the coal miners and for the various other lines through which the money was distributed. The pleasures of prosperity may be tinged slightly with regret that a por tion of It is due to the misfortune of our foreign neighbors, for un questionably some of the ad vance in prices of agricultural products is due to the strained and rup tured political complications which have harassed some of our foreign cus tomers within the past two years. Nothing in the history of the past or In the outlook for the future will war rant the belief that this country will continue to enjoy uninterrupted pros perity forever, but so long as the agri cultural classes continue annually to add such an enormous amount of new wealth to the per capita circulation of the country as they are now doing, "hard times," in the generally accepted sense of the term, will be postponed. RUSSIA'S ROYAL WOMEN. The presentiment of disaster that caused the Czarina of Russia, then Princess Allx of Hesse-Darmstadt, to delay her consent to marry the Czare vitch, now the Emperor Nicholas, seems about to be verified by revolution. A gentle, highly Intelligent young woman, the mother of five children, the young est of whom is the ardently desired heir to the throne, the Empress Is in stress of circumstances that makes her well-remembered reluctance to leave her quiet home in the heart of the Ger man Empire seem prophetic She and her children will not suffer harm, un less all imperial power in Russia should suddenly be overthrown by mob vio lence; but the time seems to be at hand for them to flee from this possibility to the shelter of Copenhagen. For the Dowager Empress, a daugh ter of the Danish King, there is little sympathy among enlightened people. She has become thoroughly imbued with the intolerant spirit of the Roman offs, and is considered an Implacable enemy of the people. Her influence, supposed to be paramount with the Czar, Is all on the side of the aristoc racy arid the priesthood. In the event of revolution and her capture, she would go the way of Marie Antoinette without even the show of a trial. It may be added that she would suffer death much more justly than did the unhappy Queen of the French Revolu tion. "We are fond of the belief that the world has grown in humanity. In jus tice, in sympathy and in all that goes to make up civilization, in a hundred years. Events in Russia within the next few months, possibly in a few days, will do much to verify or disprove this belief. A serious shortage In schoolteachers Is reported In King, Pierce, Skagit, Lewis and other counties of Western Washington. Whether the require ments for teachers are unusually exact ing, the wages offered are inadequate, or the' teaching force has been drawn off by the Increase of industrial oppor tunities for young women, can only be surmised. The report deals with a per plexing fact, and does not discuss the cause. If the shortage Is the result of a concerted movement on the part of public schoolteachers to secure an in crease In their salaries, it will doubtless succeed. School must be kept. The verdict upon that proposition is unani mous. And, whatever the cause of the shortage in schoolma'ams. It must be corrected. A state with a stringent compulsory education law, that cannot supply teachers enough to Instruct the children who are clamoring for school privileges, finds itself in a somewhat embarrassing position. "The fire insurance company," says Mr. Pease, "caused my arrest without so much as consulting my convenience." Rude and inconsiderate. Mr. Pease says he borrowed. $1500 from the com pany last June. He was the company's agent here, and he needed the money, and he had It In his custody, and so he used It borrowed It. he explains. The com pany acknowledges that Mr. Pease had the money, and still has it, so far as any one knows; but they say he stole It. It is all quite puzzling. One would think a gentleman like Mr. Pease ought to know whether he had borrowed money or not; on the other hand, one would also think that a fire Insurance company should know whether It had loaned a lot of money. Of course every body understands that a life insurance company draws fine distinctions be tween borrowing and theft; but this is a fire company. Perhaps it remains for the unfortunate Mr. Pease to be the Tom Lawson of Oregon, and to show that all insurance not all Insurance money looks alike to him. The President's new Civil Service or der merely empowers Cabinet officers to discharge employes in their depart ment who are personally known to them to be incompetent or unfit. Here is the way the Chicago Tribune's Wash ington correspondent explains it: As a matter of fact, the heads of depart ments have always had the right to dhnnU? employes they regarded as Incompetent or un suitable, and the only difference created by Mr. Roosevelt's order la that It will so longer be necessary for Cabinet officers to make elab orate explanations 'to the Civil Service Com mission. That -was obviously an empty cere mony, anyhow, serving no purpose rave that of multiplying the Commission's opportunities of relf-asnertlon. The employe went Jut the Fame, leaving the Commifalonera 'to cackle over tbeincldent In their leisure moments and 10 ceieoraie in ine press ineir lmmovaoie ae termlnatlan to preserve the purity of our In stitutions. The usual howl of anguish, has gone up from the "reformers"' that the Pres ident has ruined the Civil Service; but It is in no great danger not enough, indeed. We always expect something to hap pen when the President starts out any where; and we hope always that It will never happen to him. Not long ago he went down in a submarine boat, and nothing untoward occurred. It is well that the Nation knew nothing about the adventure till it was over, else it would have created greater excitement than It did. Now the President Is on his way on a cruiser up the coast of the United States. He met with an accident going down the Mississippi River, but again there were no casualties, and the Pres ident did not allow his plans to be in terfered with. The people have come to regard Roosevelt as one of those lucky men who can and will take care of themselves under any and all cir cumstances, else the precedent he has now established of a President leav ing the soli of the United States might create uneasiness and dissatisfaction. It would in another. The Canadian Pacific is reported to be engaged in surveying a line to the northern end of Vancouver Island, with a view to shortening the route to Alas ka by more than a day's travel. The construction of such a line would bring in touch with civilization one of the wildest regions In the West." It would also be the means of saving many lives and much shipping property which are now sacrificed In the awful gales that sweep over the west coast of the islands every Winter. The line would possess great attractions from -a scenic standpoint, and It would also give the Canadians quite an advantage over the American lines engaged in the North ern trade, as no road on this side of the line could get so close to Skagway by rail. The statue of Sacajawea will be re moved to a suitable site In the City Park at an early day. While it is not likely that the Indian woman and baby In bronze will ever again have an ova tion like" that' given them on the day of unveiling, the statue, representing a burden-bearer and a pathfinder, with face mutely lifted and arm extended toward the long-sought Western sea, will be seen, appreciated and admired by. tens of thousands as time goes on. Not only an attraction to our beautiful park will this heroic statue of a heroic woman prove to be, but a lesson in pa tience, endurance and helpfulness throughout the coming years. The protected tobacco Interests are reported to have started their cam paign against free trade with the Phil ippines. Secretary Taft returned from our island possessions so thoroughly convinced of the advisability of grant ing free-trade privileges to the Islands that It will require unusual effort on the part of the protected Interests to prevent relief being granted. It Is the knowledge of the gravity of the situa tion that undoubtedly causes the to bacco men to express a willingness to accept wltha good grace 50 per cent reduction instead of taking chances on a harder blow, at their monopoly. The pride of the house of Vande,rbilt received a severe shock when a Paris judge sentenced a grandson of the late William H. to Jail for killing a girl while scorching with an automobile. The judge. In passing sentence, made some caustic remarks about the Amer ican millionaires who came 6ver to Eu rope to scorch and run down the people "as though they were chickens." From the testimony offered. It is quite clear that young Mr. Shepherd was endeav oring to live up to the immortal "pub-lic-be-damned" precept which made his late lamented grandfather famous as long as he lived. The Russian doctors, druggists and lawyers are going on a strike. Now Indeed we know that things are serious in Russia. Fancy the doctors, drug gists and lawyers going on a strike in this country. Everybody might get well and the courts might have to go out of business. It is appalling to think what a colos sal fund of Ignorance President Mc Curdy might have acquired if he bad been paid $500,000 per year. Senator Gorman boldly declares that the negro shan't vote In the South. Well, he don't. Count Witte appears to be able to make peace with everybody but the Russians. Both vessels bad to be beached, but the President didn't. It can't be done. SILHOUETTES They are discussing a successor to Sir Henry Irving. This is to say that I am not for Charles B. Hanford. To bear animosities is to confess de feat. Did you ever stop ' to wonder when John Barrett attends to his. job? Governor William L. Douglas, of Mas sachusetts, has appealed to the President. Not being Informed of the whyforo of the appeal I presume it was to make Alice wear $3.00 shoes. It's an ill wind, etc Seattle gets into the press dispatches because a building over thcro collapsed. The reports call it a skyscraper. Yes a slx-atory building Is considered a skyscraper in Seattle. Prob ably because the hills are so close to the sky. Cheap men seem to have ft mania for getting their pictures In the paper. It's a good idea to hold an annual stock show here. Portland has a lot of fine talent for the swine department. After SO a man loses interest in college yells. T firmly " beliove that skillets have wrought as much misery in this world as whisky. The women are now so busy making Christmas presents that they are over looking some fine morsels of scandal. Sam Elmore, the salmon packer. Is a candidate for Mayor of Astoria. Mr. El moro's experience with fish out of water should have taught him better. "Now Taft Is off for Panama It would appear that he just returned to Washing ton to get his laundry, as he doesn't be lieve in washing dirty linen away from home. Biahop Moore may be right about Gov ernor Herrick of Ohio, but It's ungrateful of him to express himself publicly. Gov ernor Herrick is entitled to the undying gratitude of Portland for his beautiful action in "calling down" the biggest cad In town during his vlBlt here last Sum mer. No man can build a successful career unless he puts self respect In the corner stone. a The receipts of the New Tork subway for the past year were $5,300,000. The cor poration can now afford the luxury of an Investigation. . . A Userul Utility. Little Willie Papa, what Is an Insula tor? Father Bill-Oh, he's a press agent for a corporation. The season la approaching when I al ways find myself wishing that Christmas came only In leap years. The Fund Grows. In answer to Its appeal for aid to assist in the support and maintenance of unfor tunatc millionaires who embarked on the unprofitable American Inn venture, this department is in receipt of many re sponses. LTTTLE TOMMY TOMPKIN3 sends $0.09 which he had saved up to contribute to the missionary fund of hia Sunday school, but. believing that charity begins at home, decides to appropriate it to the F. F. P. benefit fund. MAYOR LANE intimates his readiness to contribute either a letter or a city con tract, whichever this department may se lect, Having seen some of the Mayor's letters, the contract Is preferred. A WIDOW WITH A WOODEN LEG and seven small children contributes a dozen setting hens on the theory that if the widow of Scripture gave her mite she Is able to give many towards so good a cause. Besides, the widow has been pay Ing,rent to the F. F. P. for so many years that It comes natural. THE LOCAL ASSOCIATION OF PAWN BROKERS gives four unredeemed Barrios diamonds, believing that we ought to stand together. MAJOR GULLIVER G. GRISTLEBACK. of the Governor's staff, arises to the oc casion with two pairs of uniform "pants" and a corkscrew. THE SLAPSTICK BROTHERS, vaude ville "artists," contribute the properties used in their burlesque of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," believing that some .of the sufferers may be able to make use of them. A GENIAL AND PROMINENT BRICK LAYER out of the largeness of his bounty promises a weekly contribution of 0.15 per week, and promises to abstain from rushing the can in order that ho may Insure payment. THE MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN'S ADVANCED THOUGHT CLUB pledge tho amount which they contemplated spend ing for bifurcated skirts this Winter, be lieving that It were better for them to go without any than to turn a deaf car to such an appeal. So the fund grows. Remember that any old thing will .be gladly accepted, although money or first mortgages are preferred. LOCAL NEWS ITEMS-Edlted by Jerry Coldwcll Orcgonlan. Oct. 2S. 1350. Georgo F. Long of the Weyerhaeuser lumber syn dicate addressed the Old Settlers meeting yesterday and announced that his com pany will soon erect a large sawmill at St. Johns. Ex-Mator Georob H. Williams Is reported completely recovered from his recent attack of grip. Makaoer Panole of the Marquam an nounces that his cosy little theater will be equipped with a new drop-curtain be fore tho farewell appearance of Mme. Patti In this city next month. The pres cnt curtain has been In use since 15S7. Nothing new In the Insurance Invest! gation In New York. President McCurdy was on the stand again all day yester day, but there were no new developments. It is xjkd'ct. stood that the Columbia Southern will be extended to Bend In the Spring. RecektLiT while excavating near the shores of Puget Sound some workmen found a strange looking arrangement of brass and glass by which the words "Watch Tacoma Grow" appeared. It has been brought to this city and placed in the museum. Colonel L. L. Hawkins is of the opinion that the relic Is an ancient medal, cast at the time of the Japanese Art Exposition held here In 1905, the motto having been the password given Lewis and Clark, the explorers, by Saca jawea. Hard Luck. A happy chap had a snap Living on his father, But father bust, now chappie must - Go to work; "such a deuced bother." ARTHUR A. GREENE. ROOSEVELT WINS TIIE SOUTH Louisville Courier-Journal. Certain puzzle-headed newspapers affect to see in the warm welcome met every where by the President on his journey through the South a variance from the storm of indignation, which followed the Booker Washington incident. Their sur prise, where it happens to be genuine, is the offspring of a literalism equally with out sympathy and Imagination, or else It Is the figment of a sectionalism which has put party spirit before all other con siderations. Bigotry so dense knows not the people of the South. Coming in upon a wave of unexampled popular volition, partly the rebound of ex traordinary conditions, but at the same time an undeniable personal tribute, an other and quite a different Theodore Roosevelt appeared upon the scene. The big stick was laid away; the habiliments of the rough rider were exchanged for more conventional apparel; words were utterco ana engineries were set In motion which gave the people promise of eman cipation from the rapacity of certain ag gregations of capital that had long de fied the law. and finally by an act of dar ing as original as it was felicitous and sustained throughout by unflagging, per sistence and intelligent purpose, this re created Theodore Roosevelt stands forth and arch-angel of peace, bringing upon himself and his country glory unspeak able. These nre simple facts emphasized by their unexpectedness, for they did not spring and could not spring from any log ical deduction, either of personal char acter or of political antecedents. i.'he Theodore Roosevelt who spoke at Richmond of Lee and Jackson, who. standing in tho Confederate capital, under the shadow of sectional battlefields, bravely put sectionalism and partylsm be neath his feet, who tenderly, and In the name of a dead mother, claimed kindred, there Is a gray horse of quite another color. Then and there he touched the button that In an instant thrills as It lights all southern hearts. Then and there he wiped out every old score and opened a - fresh set of books. Who has changed, he or we; what boots It? May be neither, may be just a case of plain old fashioned misunderstanding. . Meanwhile there is no disputing, no re sisting words like these: "Coming today by the statue of Stone wall Jackson. In the city of Loe, I felt what a privilege It is that I. as an Amer ican, possess in claiming that you your selves possess no greater right of kin ship In Lee and Jackson than I have. I can claim to be a middling good Ameri can, because my ancestry Is half South ern and half Northern. I was born In the East and I ha-e lived a good while In the "West, so long, in fact, that I do not admit that any man can be a better Westerner than I am. There was an uncle of mine, now dead, my mother's brother who has always been among all the men I have ever known the man who It seemed to me came nearest to typify ing In the flesh that most beautiful of all characters In fiction. Thackeray's Colonel Newcome my uncle James Dun woody Bulloch, an admiral In the Con federate Navy. In short, gentlemen. I claim to be neither Northerner, nor Southerner, nor Easterner, nor Westerner, nothing but a good American, pure and simple. Next to a man's having worn the blue comes the fact of the man's having worn the gray as entitling him to honor In my sight." In breadth of patriotic spirit and far reaching statesmanlike suggestion, noth ing finer than this was said by Abraham Lincoln. It deserves. Indeed, to be record ed In lettera of gold beside the Gettys burg speech, being at once an echo and confirmation of that Immortal utterance. Breathing such sentiments, bearing such a message Theodore Roosevelt becomes one of us, which. Is only to say that we are all American's, equally proud of a common country, equal heirs of its sub lime traditions, nor less loyal to the flag of the Union because we followed the flag of the Confederacy. The South has wandered 40 years through a wilderness of sectionalism for this vision of the promised land of per fect nationality. It has longed for some messlah of patriotism and brotherhood to rise In the North and to reach out to It the hand of equality having a heart in it. To Theodore Roosevelt this happy lot has fallen; and having fought him like a man the South sends the memory of all frictions to the rear and greets and acclaims him as a kinsman. Though we differ tomorrow;- never again shall there be from us acerbity of thought or speech. Today at least shall be given to the love of God. to the fel lowship of manhood, and to the unity and glory of our country. Let mean and paltry bigots, let glum faced partylsm for a moment stand aside. Room, room alone, whilst the President passes through "the states lately In rebellion" for the grandeur of the Nation and the majesty of the people. Portlnnd and St. Louis. St. Louis Globe-Democrat- Portland was helped materially by St. Louis. Many of the exhibits of the Louisiana purchase exposition were sent direct to the Lewis and Clark Fair. Many persons thought that the nearness in name of the two expositions would Injure the later and smaller one. It had the opposite effect. Instead. A great many very interesting things which ap peared at Portland In the past few months would not have been obtained by that place at all had they not bean already made available at St. Louis. Nevertheless, Portland deserves the con gratulations of the country for the ex tent and general Interest of its Fair. It has gained an advertisement which will be of large value to It and to the Northwest In general In the coming time. WhRt Mr. Powell's Daughter Did. Marshfleld Mall. H. Powell, tenant on Sengstacken's ranch. The Alders, on South inlet, had a tussle with a . bear yesterday, with rather disastrous results to himself. It appears that he bad trapped a black bear, and when he and his daughter went to visit the trap they found the bear with his foot chewed off lying on top of the trap. They supposed that the bear was still fast In the trap, and Miss Powell, having the gun, fired and missed. This angered the bear, and he started for Mr. Powell, got him over a log and commenced chewing his foot. At this juncture the daugh ter seized an x and attacked the bear. She hit him on the head with the ax and stunned htm. then took the gun and shot him dead. . Borrowers or Thieves. They are thieves, that steal your money. Marked by law aa thieves and crooks. Does this fact strike you as funny? TIs your lends that Steal your Books! Many of my books are missing. Oft I've searched each case and rack As a favor grant me this thine . Dear Thief-friend do Bring them Back! Dear Editor The above explains itself. Won't you please print It In large and rlot iously conspicuous type that I may display it from my bookcase door? Others may need it, also. I know I am not the only. MOURNER. Hair-Triggcr Journalism In Benton. Philomath Review. May the good Lord forgive us for the mistakes we make In reporting. We do not publish all we hear, be cause much that we hear is not only of no value, but may be unreliable. Our decisions must be- instantaneous and the elimination of all error is wellnlgh imposlble. We ask your kindly consideration and desire that you call our attention and correction will be made. IN THE OREGONIAN TOMORROW Additional to the fullest and most comprehensive telegraphic scrvico of any Pacific Coast newspaper. The Sunday Orcgonian tomorroWi will contain: CHARLES E. HUGHES; MAN, LAWYER AND MATHEMATICIAN Sketch of the New York attorney who suddenly came into National prominence by his investigation of the methods of big life-insuranco companies in Gotham. Mathemat ics has been his diversion and his work ever since he learned the multiplication tables at his moth er's knee. His capacity for dissect ing complicated figures is simply amazing. Mr. Hughes successful career, based on absolute honesty, ought to be an inspiration for tho youth of the land. PORTLAND WOMEN WHO RIDE WELL Mention of the feminine contingent of the Hunt Club, and othor riders of the fair sex who are olasscd among experts, together with somo striking pictures of their mounts la action and in repose. HALLOWE'EN "HUMOR' ON THE OLD FARM Strickland W. Gilllland contributes . an article in up-to-date slang re calling the outrageous pranks that boys indulged in on the night of October 30. No man who ever spent his boyhood on the farm can reaif these reminiscences with indifference. WANTED : 40,000 ORPHAN BOYS AND GIRLS For evory orphan child in the United States thero are four homes where it will have a welcome. A correspondent writes of orphans home societies in 26 states who find they have an average of tour applications for every chlkl at their disposal. Girls are in far greater demand than boys. ARE ANGELS MASCULINE, FEMININE OR NEUTER? A noted sculptor Is now carving the figures of two angels for the great Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in New York, his ideal be ing feminine. The clergy hold to the musculine ideal, and there has arisen a dispute which opens a problem that a thousand years of art has not solved. THE MAKING OF A SUCCESSFUL HUSBAND In this series. John Sneed takes f or his text. "The Biscuits Mother Used to Make." and he says a lot of homely things that old hou.-e-keepers as well as young ones, to gether with their husbands, will enjoy. THE AMERICAN IN THE PHILIPPINES Frederic J. Haskin chronicles va rious views held by our country men on the chances of business success. The principal trouble so far is that we can't force cake on cornbread customers. SONGS BY FAMOUS WRITERS AND COMPOSERS IN THE NEW METHODIST HYMNAL A committee from the MethodHt Episcopal Church and the M. H. Church South has compiled a new hymnal for the churches of these denominations. which includes many new and beantlfttl composi tions by composers of classical musle, to which poems of well known writers have been set. In eluding such authors as the lato Secretary of State. John Hay. Rud yard Kipling. Harriet Becchcr Stowe. Adeluide Proctor and oth ers. A comparison of the new and old hymnal 13 made, and many of the old-time hymns which have been omitted are mentioned. MULTNOMAH COACH WRITES ON FOOTBALL P. D. Overfleld. the Multnomah football coach, contributes an illus trated article on football. The article is written for the benefit of the spectator, and explains in a careful fashion many of the points in tho game that are difficult to the lay observer of a gridiron con test. HANDSOME HOMES CLIMBING THE HEIGHTS Within the last year a handsome new residence district has ben added to the city. The heights at the head of Johnson street.arc now covered with beautiful homes. This new district is described In an illus trated article. SOCIETY, MUSIC AND DRAMA " News of socioty, music and dram is printed in these departments, to which live pages are devoted. Re views of current theatricals, an nouncements of coming attractions, gossip of the stage, Emllic Frances Bauer's review of New York dra matic events are to be found in ti.e dramatic department. The society department covers weddings, soc-iil happenings, personal notes and an nouncements of future events. Mu sic in Portland and the world at large is fully reviewed on the mubic Iagc. TWO PAGES OF LIVE SPORTING NEWS The Sunday Oregonian prints all the live sporting news of the world, reviewing local and Pacific Coat events- Now that the football sea son has arrived, the games are be ing fully reported and illustrated. Composite Pronoun "Wanted. London Chronicle. The want of a composite pronoun to express both "lie" and "she," and. what Is sometimes more important, to express neither he nor she. must have embar rassed every one at some time or an other. There are ungrammatical waj3 of shelving the difficulty, such as, for In stance, by translating the convenient French "on" as "they," when we really mean one person who may be either masculine or feminine. The lack of a portmanteau word to express both sexes without specifying cither, did not. how ever, trouble the new maid who ap proached her mistress with the ingenious remark: "Please'm, a friend of mine has called and may I ask It to tea?" The Hero AVus Scotch. Exchange. Major-Gcneral "Willie" McBcan, of the British army, who rose from being a private soldier to the command of a division, got his Victoria Cross for kill ing no fewer than 11 mutineers, one after the other, at the storming of Lucknow. Sir R- Garrett. who pinned the. decoration on the hero's breast, made the customary little speech, in the course of which he alluded to the episode as "a good day's work." "Tools, toots, mon." replied Willie, forgetting that he was on parade and perhaps a little piqued at his performance being spoken of as a day's work. "Toots, mon. it did not tak me twenty meen utes." Great Work Yet to Be Done. St. Louis Globe-Domocrat. Oregon's -Exposition Is over, am' it can now devote its time to finding a better grade of congressmen.