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THE HOIttaXG OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1005. Entered at the Postofflce at Portland, Or., as second-clans matter. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. INVARIABLY IX ADVANCE. . (By Mall or Express.) Dally (and Sunday, per year $3.00 Pally and Sunday, six months COO Dally and Sunday, three months &3 Daily and Sunday, per month .85 Daily without Sunday, per year 7.50 Dally without Sunday, six .months.... .. 3.00 Dally without Sunday, three months I.Oj Da.ij without Sunday, per month.. -C5 Sunday, per year 2-52 "Sunday, elx months 1 Sunday, three month 05 Bl' CARRIER. Dally without Sunday, per week 15 Dally, per week, Sunday Included -20 the Weekly oregonian. (Issued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per year .... 1.50 Weekly, six months "Weekly, three months BW HOW TO REMIT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The S. C. Beckwith Special Acency New York, rooms 43-50 Tribune building. 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Cooper & Co., 740 Market street; Goldsmith Bros.. 23C Sutter and Hotel St. Francis News Stand; L. Lee Palaco Hotel News Stand; F. "W. Pitts, 1 i0S Market; Frank Scott, SO Ellis; N. AVl tatley Movable News Stand, corner Mar ke and Kearney streots; Foster & Orear, Ferry News Stand. Washington, D. C. Ebbltt House. Pennsyl nrla avenue. PORTLAND. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 21, RAILROAD ISSUE IN OIUO. Bryan's Commoner rubs the defeat in Ohio into Foraker and the Republican bosses of Ohio. Not denying that a va-r'c-ty of causes, all of their own making, Jed to their defeat, the Commoner brings forward as one potent cause the refusal tf Foraker and the other bosses of the parts to allow the Ohio Republican Convention to approve the policy of President Roosevelt, as to regulation of interstate railway rates. Foraker took open ground against Roosevelt's rf commendations and suggestions, said the Republican party never had de i .ared for regulation of railroad rates. and that the Republican convention of Ohio had distinctly rejected the propo s tlon, which was, in fact, a Demo cratic measure. It it highly probable that this atti tude of the Republicans of Ohio; un der the direction of Foraker, was one if the causes of the defeat. Directors of party policy must keep abreast of the inarch of evonts, or Ihey will "got left," and their party with them. Sec retary Taft. in his speech at Akron, XX, just before the election, set forth the necessity of amendment of the in terstate commerce law, so as to give the Commission power to make rates, to go into effect at once, subject, how eer, to correction through appeal to the courts by the railroads; but Fora krr rombatted this idea, and issued a statement in opposition to it. which ias st-attered over Ohio broadcast by the opposition. Foraker had the matter in such shape that a Republican victory in Ohio would have been construed as a rebuke to the President's rate-making PO.kj, from his own party. It is im possible to say what influence or how l-iUih this refusal of the Republican managers in Ohio to accept and ap prove the rate policy of the Adminis tration had on the election; but the outcome lends probability to the sup position that it was one of the causes of the signal Republican defeaL .H'STiCK FOR THE PHILIPPINES. Speaking before the Kansas City Commercial Club at a banquet com memorating the signing of the John Jiy treaty. Mr. Taft advocated two thanges in our present laws regulating trade with the Philippines. The law restricting the carrying trade between American ports and the Philippines to American vessels after July 1, 190C, he would postpone to 1909. The law re moving 25 per cent of the Dlngley du ties on imports from the islands he would change. His plan is to remove 73 per cent of the duties on tobacco and sugar until 1909. ana after that date gve free trade in everything. By a figure of speech, the trade be tween America and the Philippines is caNed "coastwise trade." One would suppose that if trade ever was carried on the high seas this is, but Mr. Taft does not disturb the fiction. There are not enough American vessels to do the business, and if foreign bottoms are not admitted the trade will go else where That is the simple fact. ' Very likely Mr. Taft hopes by 1909 -to see our coasting fleet employed on this 7000 mile voyage increased enough .to carry the trade. What gain it will be to any body he does nbt point out. The 25 per cent tariff on sugar and tobacco proposed until 1909 is. of course, a oncession to the two trusts. They seem to fear that free trade will en courage sugar and tobacco-growing in the islands, and finally make those" staples cheap to the American con sumer; but Mr. Taft shows by convinc ing statistics that such a calamity Is unl.kely. These two trusts are !ess benevolent than the coffee trust. Con gressman McCIeary. speaking for that philanthropic organization, wants the ar tariff restored on coffee to promote coffee-growing in Porto Rico; while the sugar and tobacco trusts want a h.gh tariff to kill those industries in ..he Philippines. The American con sumer wants no high tariff at all, be cause he has to foot the bills, but he is a poor creature, with no fight in him, and therefore not worth considering. Again comes the statement that the weak and dissipated young King of Spain will find a bride in England. Princess Ena of Battenburg, only daughter of Beatrice,, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, is the bride of this rumor. The young woman, like her cousin, the Czarina of Russia, when her marriage to the Czarovitz Nicholas was proposed, entered strong objection to the alliance, but it seems that she, too, has been forced to yield to the voice of authority and the ex igencies of European politics. His Catholic Majesty, the Spanish King, Is a most childish, unattractive weakling, expert in the low vices of his Spanish ancestry, and without the sturdy vir tues of his mother. Queen Christiana. The Princess Ena is bright, forceful and intelligent, a communicant of the established Church of England, pos sessed of high moral principles and many womanly grades and accomplish ments.. Such a marriage is at once a sacrilege and a sacrifice. Forms can make it legal, but nothing can make it sacred. CONVICTS AND DIAMOND RINGS. No record Is kept at the Oregon State Prison of the valuables taken from prisoners when they enter; but such things are placed In envelopes and locked up, though they do not always stay locked up. Surely, when a prisoner is dls--charged, and asks for his belongings, he ought to be satisfied when he is told that somehow a hole was worn in the envelope and they disappeared. Or, if he is not satisfied a violent assump tion, for whoever heard of a coavlct venturing to tell his keeper that he wasn't altogether happy? he should certainly be when he learns that the warden's son has found his diamond ring and put it away in his pocket for safekeeping. No one, under this per fect system of protecting the rights and property of a friendless convict, will suggest that he might easily be swindled and robbed, and hae no pos sible way of proving that he had any thing worth stealing when he entered prison. Nor will anyone venture to In quire, of course, whether these jail birds may not thus have been robbed for years, past. After a convict left the penitentiary he might complain that he never got back all the authorities took from him when he doffed his civilian clothes, money. Jewels and other trinkets, and assumed the striped garb; but who would believe a convict? Besides, Isn't there an envelope, sealed and marked, to show that the convict's wealth had been carefully laid away? The fact that one envelope had a hole in it simply proves that the envelope was bad, not the system. Diamond rings belonging to coifvicts who have years yet to serve have a way of working holes in such envelopes, falling unno ticed to the floor, being recovered by some lynx-eyed civilian, and then ut terly forgotten. Why should not such a diamond be forgotten? It is of no im portance to the convict, the prison au thorities, or anybody else. ' SOME PRACTICAL ANARCHISTS. It is the dream of the theoretical anarchist that, if there were no gov ernment and not law. the reign of pence on earth and good will to men would at once begin, and we should all live happy forever after. What there is In the facts of past or current history to justify his lovely but deceitful va gary it is hard to imagine. Whenever men have been able to rob, burn and slay with a fair chance of impunity, they have always done so. Whenever Individuals have been able to steal for themselves the fruits of private labor and communal prosperity, they have never failed to steal eagerly, joyously and with loudly applauding consciences. They did It as robber barons-along the medieval Rhine; they did It as tyrants in the Italy of the Rennaissancc; they have done it as conquerors, as legiti mate Kings, as anointed priests; and they are doing It today as corporation magnates In America. Mr. Patterson, Commissioner of Pub lic Works in Chicago, has told an in terviewer some of the ways of doing it In that city; how they undermine the streets with cellars and obstruct them with towers of boxes, with no thought of compensation; how they seize upon public land and hold It against the city. just as the cattle barons have similarly seized thousands of square miles upon the Western plains; how they refuse to defend grade railway crossings with gates, valuing human life as nothing in their greed, like those older pirates who operated on sea, instead of land; and how they steal by the million gal lons the water which the public pays for. Mr, Patterson might have added the well-known fact that this enormous theft of water went on during the heat of Summer, and that the officials knew it was going on and made no effort to stop it, while thousands of inhabitants of Chicago were denied the water they sorely needed for household use. If this is the way the rich and strong treat public rights when law. is merely- despised, what would they do when law did not exist? The theoretical anarchist is a com paratively Innocuous creature. Exept at rare Intervals, sane men- scarcely know of his existence. Wo have-made a great 'commotion over excluding him from America, and our action Is Justi fiable, for, silly as he is, he Is capable of harm sometimes; but Mr. Patterson Is right in saying that the really dan gerous anarchists in this country are the practical ones those men of wealth and corporation magnates who by their deeds proclaim their faith that they are above the law and beyond its con trol. "The corporation domain," says Judge Grosscup, of the United States -Circuit Court of Appeals, "is a region prac tically lawless;" and he goes on to say in his article in the American Illus trated Magazine, that their dealing with the public Is a game of grab. Herr'Most preached lawlessness; our corporations, street railways, gasworks. ngnting companies, practice it. Which is worse? If Herr Most was an anar chist because he preached that law was iniquity and government a curse, what are the magnates of a street railway corporation who poison law at Its sources and graft deadly gangrene on the body politic? If it is a crime to preach that organized .society is a curse, how much greater crime It is by wholesale, robbery under the guise of law to make the preaching true! "The game of grab." as Judge Grosscup well calls the operations by which corporations rob the public of their rights in the highways, goes on everywhere In this Nation. What city, what county, is clean of its pollution today? Take a typical case. Important only because it is typical. At a' recent meeting the County Commissioners of Cowlitz County, Washington, gave away the right to establish telephone lines upon all the roads in the county. They gave it absolutely, without com pensation to the taxpayers who have made the road and paid for the bridges. Not content with robbing the present generation of taxpayers, they gobbed all posterity, for they gave the fran chise to the grantee, his heirs and as signs, which creates a perpetuity so far as words can. The grantee Is not required to pay a cent or do an act toward maintaining the roads, although if he uses his franchise he will become the principal occupier of them. This case is as bad as it can be a perpetual franchise granted without compensa Hon of any sort, with no duties im posed, no regulation of charges, no in timation that the public has any right or interest in the affair; but it Ib no wors than others; It is the common thing; it is the game of grab which the corporations are playing everywhere, and winning by cajolery, bedevllment and corruption of the public servants. Mr. Patterson rails vigorously at these anarchists of wealth. "They defy the law," he says, "ignore It, laugh at it, all with an arrogance that makes my blood boil." Nor does he propose to stop with railing. If . the water thclves and other anarchists do not behave themselves, he is going to ex pose them! That will be a dreadful punishment, and very likely sufficient. but would the Commissioner of Public Works believe it either dreadful or suf ficient In the case of a poor man who had been caught stealing? Why not. just for an experiment, try how it would work to treat these rich and powerful theives exactly the same as If they were not rich and powerful, as if they were poor men In fact? To drag our blasphemous thought Into the full light of day in all its- hldeousness, why not arrest and jail -them? A JTTIV DULCET WORDS. A paper of the State of Washington the Bickelton News publishes this statement, to-wit: It ta well-known fact that The Orrgonlan ha for year been an enemy of John H. Mitchell. . . . It U a wotiOcnowx fact that Harvey TV. Soett. editor of The Oregon Ian. ha for yeans had his eye or a at in the United Slates Senate, and we 4ubt vary much if he would refuse a seat there now. but there hap been one man who has stood in hi way nn4 who has bad more of a heM en the people -f Oregon than has Seeh. and that man was John H. MitchdL We shall not say much about this. But the little we shall say will, we trust, not be misunderstood. It Is admitted that The Orogonlan has been an opponent of John H. Mitchell. Whether It had reason to be, the record may tell. We shall recite no part of that long history! "The plight In which Mr. Mitchell Is In now tells the story. Let that pass. As to Mr. Scott. May he soy a word in these columns on this topic about himself since so many force It on him without appearance oT vanity or ego tism? He never has had a desire to go to the Senate. He has been only half willing to go If the state wanted him. It Is an honorable position though sometimes dishonored In which, as he believes, he might have rendered some service to Oregon and to the country at large, with credit to himself. Had he really wanted it, he would have taken the ordinary' means to come by it, for it was within his reach through out the year 1902, had he done so. He could have had the support of those who elected Mr. Fulton, and of Mr. Fulton himself. In the wrangle of the last night of the session, In February, 1903, at the close of a long struggle, when It was uncertain whether anyone could be elected, he allowed his name to be en tered and voted upon. He did not ex pect election, because he had taken none of the necessary measures to get such a result from an Oregon Legisla ture. He was not disappointed, there fore, and cared nothing about It. It has not been a consuming desire of his life to step down from the editorship of The Oregonian to an ordinary place in the United States Senate. He has seen United States Senators come and go these forty years and more, in Ore gon, and he cannot see that their ca reers have been so Immensely success ful that It should be the greet desire of anyone's life his main ambition, his chief good and final hope to Imi tate them. The editor of this paper Is content with his humbler lot. It suf fices for him to be the one voice or force In the State of Oregon that stirs the pool of thought and action, sets men's minds abroach, awakens Inquiry' on the multitude of subjocts of thought, speculation, history and current af fairsand, of course, provokes opposi tion thereby. Such position Is honor enough. For It appears there are many whose main hope of finding distinction is In carping at or opposing one thing or another they see in The Oregonian. Happiness be with you all, brethren; but this editor does not seek your suf frages for the United States Senate. He is better content as he is and where he is. A TACTFUL MONARCH. The Norwegian people, having chosen a monarchical form of government and elected a King, are wild with Joy at the result of their work. They have no doubt goodreason to be satisfied with both acts. Norway as a republic Is scarcely conceivable to the outside world, and to the world within the con fines of the state, a republic was not desired. When a people get what they want, politically speaking, without other strife than that of tongues, they have Reason to congratulate themselves and one another. This the sturdy Norsemen are doing now with great en thusiasm.' The King chosen, Charles, grandson of Christian of Denmark, and son-in-law of Edward of England, Is a man in close touch with the people and their traditions. His Queen is a grand daughter of the King of Denmark, and, though born and bred in England, she spent much time as child and maiden In the .castle of her grandfather in Co penhagen. Since her marriage eight or ten years ago, she has lived there continuously. The royal pair are first cousins, and bear a strong resemblance to each other. Neither is brilliant, but both are kind, conscientious and tact ful, with the Intellectual balance in favor of the Queen. The new monarch is first of all a man of tact. His talent in this line was strikingly illustrated In the re nunciation of his Danish name, taking in Its place that of. Haakon and giv ing his son the name Olaf. An easier way than this to excite what may be called the barbaric pride of the Nor wegians In the fierce beginnings of their history cannot well be imagined. It Is not conceivable, of course, that the "methods of the Haakons of history will be pursued by the new ruler in the affairs of government, or that the mod ern Prince Olaf will deport himself as did the Olafs of the olden time. Times have changed and people have changed since the period, shadowy even In his tory, when the rulers and Princes-of their names battled with their kinsmen, the Crlks and Harolds and the rest, for supremacy on land and sea. The new Kink Haakon VTI, however, highly gratifies his subjects by taking the title that belonged to monarchs of the strenuous beginnings of their national life, and uses their ancient names of a f naii-wiid fighting race as stepping stones to his popularity. For the rest, the placid, expressionless faces of the royal cousins who are hailed as King and Queen of the reinstated kfigdom of Norway, betoken no desitx more strenuous than the wish to please their subjects and give the country quiet sailing on smooth governmental seas. About thirty babies have been regis tered from Fifth-avenue mansions this year. Ten of them will Inherit a bulk of $35,000,000, and not one will get less than a million- unless their fathers go wrong in stocks or other financial ven tures. The number born to these riches Is unusually large this year, suggest ing the possibility that President Roosevelt's ideas on race suicide have entered homes where they were most needed. The percentage of births on Fifth avenue Is always small. Few rich men who have been married dur ing the past five years have more than one child In the family, while on the East Side, men who make 51.50 a day have a Dowie record of one a year. The extremes In these cases are to be equally deplored as a lack of civic duty and intelligent forethought. The point where the birth of children ceases to be a blessing is very plainly marked in the homes of poverty and wretched ness. The same point among the Idle rich Is not usually discernible until the children attain to the years of a worth less manhood or title-hunting woman hood, when events are apt to dis close it. It seems almost distressing to read of the abandonment or ploughing under of fine-hopflelds which In the past have yielded such handsome revenues to the owners. These reports of an economic process that almost borders on vandal ism are not dissimilar from others which have been heard in the past. History seems to repeat Itself In the hopgrowlng business as well as in other lines, and the present era of low prices and unremunerative efforts of the growers will In time be followed by a return of higher prices,- and another era of Increasing acreage, which in turn will cause low price?. There is no ap parent means for guarding against these occasional periods of depression In the Industry, and the best plan to be followed is for the hopgrower al ways to have an anchor to windward In the- shape of a few .acres of other Products which will find a market at remunerative prices. Another expedition will be dispatched from Victoria for Cocos Island for the purpose of attempting to discover the buried treasure which Is supposed to be there. There has been almost as much money spent in searching for this pot of gold at the end of a South Sea rainbow as was wasted on the Atlantic Coast In a fruitless quest for the hid den spoils of one Captain KIdd. The expedition, which Is now fitting out in Victoria, will be in charge of the same man who captained a similar expedi tion from the British Columbia metrop olis about two years ago. The finan cial backers of the present undertak ing are, with a few exceptions, the same as those who financed the former effort. This would Indicate that at least some of the Canadians are not so ex tremely conservative as wc have been led to believe. Several weeks of dry. sunshiny weather have enabled the Palouse farmers to save the greater part of the wheat that was unthreshed when the rains -of late September and early Oc tober caught It In the shock. This highly favorable climatic condition was the means of returning to the avail able supply In Oregon and Washington more than 500.000 bushels of the cereal which had been stricken from the esti mates as damaged beyond repair. On- account of there being no Eastern de mand, prices this season have been slightly lower than they were a year ago, but the increase In the size of the crop is sufficient to make the net re turns from the entire crop larger lhan those -of the crop of 1904. , Senator Burton Is being tried a sec ond time. The United States Supreme Court "vindicated" him. once because he was charged with taking a bribe In Washington, D. C.. whereas be took it In SL Louis. Burton's chief contention now seems to be that it Is not a crime to be bribed in Missouri. But Joseph W. Folk demonstrated otherwise. Per haps the present Government prosecu tion will get the Jury to "show" Burton. Our friend Wu Ting Cheng raises the cry of China for the Chines, and at the same time complains that the coolies are excluded from this country. We fear that the disingenuous Wu Ting Cheng is like most other pagans, American or Chinese. He wants to go where he will, and keep everybody else but his- countrymen from doing the same thing. The number of new companies being Incorporated In this state does not seem to be lessened any by the corporation tax law. under which the state collects over $100,000 a year in license fees. It will be remembered that opponents of the law declared that Its enactment would drive corporations to other states to do business. President McCurdy assures policy holders that their policies will be paid when due, with all accretions. "Accre tions" Is a good word for him to use. It means thin layers applied one after another and gradually growing thinner and thinner exactly like the dividends of the Mutual Life. "I am In the express business," says Senator Piatt, "and I know nothing about life insurance." Now, th6 insur ance companies know what an error they made when they failed to put Piatt on their board of directors. The express companies are having no trouble. Jack London finds that the law is going to make trouble for Mm because he married too soon after divorce. Too bad. When some men are in a marry ing mood, they aught not to be stopped. President McCurdy cuts off hn!f his salary of $150,000. The policy-holders should not be outdone In generosity. They should whack off the other half. Men do not often "go broke" raising bops, but they sometimes do by specu lating on the hops after they are har vested. The club that made MUwauklc fa mous seems to be the same club that made Portland jealous. SILHOUETTES After all. the worst thing I know about Mayor Lane is that he calls himself "Harry." What we need In this country is more Tammany campaigns so as to get the money in circulation. m m Now that Portland has beaten the com bined Puget Sound ports for the number of wheat ships loaded for the cereal year, will the Puget Sound ports, kindly go away aft and fall through a hatchway. The lovely scrap that would follow a union of all the churches would make a Kilkenny-cat tournament look as repose ful as a flower parade. It Senator Burton isn't soon brought to trial on that boodling charge, the way of all flesh will intervene, and his attorneys, if they are young, may win the case on a pica of corpus delicti. There's one more good thing to be" said of RoosevelL He has demonstrated that he Isn't afraid of assassins. He Is on the friendliest terms with the black hand. - A belt line has many terrors for those members cf the Council who have gotten stuck by pins. The" question. "Who are to be the new plumbing Inspectors?" does not Interest the average housoholder so much as the question. "Will the next Los-islnturc de clare an open season on plumbers?" I am glad t'o loam that a reserve is to be created for Interior Oregon cattlemen. They should have been confined to a res ervation long ago. Jack London is almost as good an ad vertiser as Lydla Plnkham. It would seem to be 'about time for King Charlie of Norway to file a statement of his election expense?. The Dalles is keeping up Its record. The regular fortnightly story of battle. ' murdor and sudden death came from that place yc5trcday. Woman Behind the Baby Carriage. To Silhouette You hav heard of "The Man With the Hoe" and "The Man Behind the Gun" and "The Man Behind the Bar" and a raft of othr men behind all sorts of thins. bt watch out! "The woman behind the baby carrlaee" Is coming to the front, she also want to know why there Is - no room on street-ear platforms for her baby-carriage! Nor laslde the ear either! Now. can't your fertile Imagination suggest some way for. street-car companies to pack these vehicle? The still, small vole of the woman behind the baby carrtaicc Is getting louder, and will, by Spring, likely break Into a positive roar! Now. get busy. BABY BUNTING. Just- who "Baby Bunting" Is I haven't the loayt Idea, and as a rule I don't care for people who volunteer things for this department; but here is an excep tion. I'd like to do something really fine for all the "Baby Buntings" and all the blessed mothers of them. However, the muso Is away dallying in the Grove or Daphne and tho following is tha best I can do. But all tho same here's looking at 'you. Baby Bunting, and the baby carriage and Baby Bunting's mamma: You may write morbid verses To tho man with tho hoc. And ring maudlin songs On the pleasures of woe: You may xpout your heroic Concoming the mon Who gots tho cheap erodit Bocauso the foe ran And boasts of tho glory his courage has won This newspaper hero behind the gun. Then there is the person Bchind.tne bar. His fame is concodod a-ncar and afar: Also there's tho schomor bohlnd the trust Who lands on his foet when the combine goes bust. But since there's no rhymster To oulogize marriage I woulj ramble a bit Of a wee little carriage And tho woman who travels bahind It. It's a frail little cab that baby rides in. But it' carries the hope of the race; And within Its dear precincts Are those who will grace The seats of the mighty And she thinks he is one. This mother who trundlos hor tiny son. There' no place' in the flats For that royal coach When apartments arc wanted The' landlord will broach The subject of babies And give you to know. If you've children to house You had Just as well go And buy you a tent for tha equipage There's no show for tho tot In the buby carriage. The street-cars don't want 'em,. They're too much In the way, " And If the fond mother would go to the play, Sho Is met with the statement "No babies allowed." While evon the church Is a little too proud For mamma and baby, so nowhere in tnc crowd Will find themselves wolcome, that Is truly avowed. But given a cottage away from the ' town There's, a haven for both Where no one dare frown. Where baby's a guest and motherhood's crown ' Is a diadem of highest renown. No Helen of Troy and no goddess 'son Could receive so much homage As the woman who dare Wheel a wee little cab in which baby to bear. ARTHUR A. GREENE. What They Say. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The American and the Englishman say: How do you do? The German: How do you find yourself? The Frenchman: How do you carry yourself? The Italian: How do you stand? The Spaniard: Go with God. senor. The Russian: How do you live on? The Hollander: Have you had a good dinner? The Chinese: Have you eaten your rice? The Egyptian: How do you perspire? The Mohammedan: Peace be with you. The Persian: May thy shadow never grow less. The Burmese rub their noses against each other's check, exclaiming: Give me a smell. Arabs of eminence " kiss each other's fhee and sav: God errant thep hf tnvnr- J and give health to thy family. COLD SPOILEDPRINCE'S DANCE New York Sun. The November weather Is no friend of Anglo-American good feeling. The cold wave which swept In from the Atlantic November 14 nearly spoiled the reception hand dance given by Prince Louis of Bat- tenberg aboard his flagship Drake. And, contrary to expectation. Miss Alice Roose velt did not attend the affair, and. conse quently, did not dance with the Prince. It was no night for a ball under cam-as. The dancing floor, which had been set up between the funnel and the after bridge and over the engine-room, was the only warm place on board. The quarter, deck, which had been roofed over to accommo date the overflow; the barbettes of the big guns, which had been turned Into cozy corners for tcto-a-tetes these were fairly -Arctic. The turn of the weather hurt a very pretty occasion. The flagship had been preparing for this dance ever since it came Into port. The sailors 'had put down their dancing floor over the waist of the vessel. This was canopied over with striped red and whita cam-as in tent effect. The bie 9.2-inch stern eun of th Drako stood in its place in the middle of tne quarter deck. looking rather out o Place. The decorators had tried vice to matcc mat gun look beautiful and frivolous, but gave it up and let It stand tnerc in all Its solemnity. The guests began arriving a little after 9 o'clock. A sqund of 75 policemen under inspector Hogan ko.pt the wharf clear and established lines across the street. The first women to arrive left thfir n.-rar i. the dressing-rooms on the pier, and struck inc icy mast that romped through the trucjw in tne awnings on the quarter deck. They shivered a moment and sent their escorts back for their Wrans Their tric3 to promenade the decks; and. being rtsaurca oy tne orncers that it was warm vr up aDove, cunioed to the ballroom. It was uncomfortable up there: so the wrans came off and were hung on the rails. But no one ventured down on the deck after uiai. an naK-art hour, therefore, that "uur organ to be niled beyond the limit of comfort. The middles, callow youths who danced enthusiastically later In the v.u.,,i,s v.lin 0ls American girls who could look clear over their heads, were ... ..-. uiwi r.ion jacKets. The uncon uuauiiiK cnairs, acting as ushers and rushing refreshments, were in white blouses, with the chevrons picked out In blue, and those straw hats from which the woman's sailor hat takes its jiume. un sucn a plght those straw hats sb snivery effect. m iv ociock. trince Louis, who had otx-n aining on the Umbrla with Lady v"'",,u- pssea aown the quarter-deck with Lady Susan Towsley and took his ""n at tne head of the main gangway tvauuib iu me uancing lloor. The early arrivals wore nil hinin,i the. only warm place above the gun deck. uiuwre oi tne Urake arranged this oj neruing tnc people down the other , . y- xncy shlvorcd on the main deck In bare shoulders and open-fronted waistcoats while they waited their turn to be Introduced. Before th hh f th week New York may lose some of her prominent social lenders through pneumo nia. Lady Susan took her place to the Km uime prince. She Is a typical tall, blonde English lady. She was all In whit except for a bunch of mauve orchids at her belt. She wore a pearl dog collar .i uwraona coronet. It was easy to distinguish the English and the Angloma nlacs. as they approached, from the plain Americans. The English women ourt4fri vr3Ll?vr ns tncy srasped the hands of me r-nnce ana Her Grace. The men made a deep bow and remembered to unsrlovo their hands. The American women slm- pu snooK nnnds with cordiality, and the men made an easy-colnr affair nr if Tho manner of the Prince rather dis- vuurugeu iormniny. He said "Good eve ning" in such a cordial tone that many an ".iivuvau tvuo nnu come prepared to say "I hope Your Grace is well." or some other appropriate romark. sold simply "Good evening" or "How are you?" When rincc Alexander came up In his llttl imusnipmans jacket. Lady Susrin took hrr turn at maklnsr a curtsov. Sh mv. hor train a wide sweep and sank almost 10 one Knee. i ne nrst uance. a waltz spelled "valse." English style, on the programme started without ceremony, just after the Prince began to receive. There were 15 dances on tne programme altogether, all waltzes and two-steps except one lancers, thrown in as the fifth number as a concession to old-fashioned tastes. The floor crowded even at this hour that only the j...ti nu Siuu ineu ii at an. xne guests were coming all the time. Prominent Americans began to arrive. Flair Lieu tenant Sowerby. standing on the s"tairs to tnc left of the Prince, begnn to introduce mom. v nen ne called out a name of more than national fame, the Prince would smile as though to say. "There Is no need of that" August Bolmont and inaries m. Schwab came in close to gother. The Prince smiled on the latter ami said: "Thf? man who makes the steel for the Dattlesnips." Introductions were dispensed wun in tne case or Kear-Admlral Cogh land and Rear-Admiral Evans. rno second waltz was a Jam. In this the British, who seldom do anything so undignified as to reverse, managed tfl snoot mrougn tne spaces and to come off very well. The third dance, a two-step, was a football game, with the American ensigns dropping out fast. The fourth saw only 20 couples on the floor dancing. Charles Schwab, who was looking for some one in the crowd, dubbed it "fat man s misery." All this time most people had been wait ing for two things the arrival of Miss Roosevelt and the Prince's first dance. The question who his partner would, bo had furnished small talk all the evening. When supper time came the Prince' had not danced and Miss Roosevelt had not arrived. At 12:15 the band struck up "The Koast ueef or Old England". and the Prince proceeded In state toward the sup per room, with Mrs. Evans on his arm. Rear-Admiral Evans followed with Lady Susan Towslcy. and after them the guests at the Prince's table in irregular order. Among them were the Consuls of the main foreign powers. Captain Mark Kerr, Miss Crocker, Miss Mary- Harrison, Mrs. Henry T. Scott, of San Francisco; Mrs. Mountford Wilson and Mr. and Mrs. Charles. B. Alexander. The cateror and his assistants had been doing their best, with charcoal braziers and oil stoves, to make the seaward end of the Cunard pier livable. They succeeded pretty well In raising the temperature, but they could not shut out the drafts, and the women supped, for the most part. In their wraps. Even one or two of the men sent for their coats. The Prince did not. He stuck It out. although now and then a shiver ran down his princely spine. The only thing the matter with the Prince's party was the weather. Every man pleased and only the weather was vile. Up to 1:30 o'clock in the morning Miss Roosevelt had not arrived. Health a Public Duty. Saturday Review. There is one general principle running through all the views of doctors in regard to disease. It Is the Importance of check ing the growth of a variety of diseases In the interests of the" physical fitness of the Nation at large, and not merely of the individual. If this Is to be done, many restraints, both legal and social, will have to be submitted to which at present are not Imposed, owing to the lack of an enlightened popular opllnon. Sir James Crichton-Browne Indicated one social restraint when speaking of the evil effects of alcohol. It is much to be wished, he said, that there should grow up one of those conventional understand ings which arc almost more binding than legal enactments, that It is bad form for a y-duth to Indulge In alcohol till he has attained his majority. ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK, His Rugged Honesty His Determi nation to Weed Out Grafters. R. H. Byrd, in Maxwell's Talisman., It has been a bit of surprise to the old "habitants" of the capital city to see the way In which the Secretary of the Interior. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, has made good in his land-fraud prosecutions in the West. It was never supposed a year ago that the Government could secure a convic tion of any Congressman or Senator in Oregon. It was said openly that in at tempting to fasten anything on Repre sentative Williamson the Secretary had been unwisely advised, and was getting himself Into a precipitate hole. In fact. Mr. Hitchcock's enemies seemed to be honestly pleased with the action of his department, believing that he was overreaching himself and that he would become discredited. On the contrary, he has done all that he claimed he would, ami more, pursuing the thieves and grafters with the same relentless spirit of his distinguished ancestor who gained fame at Tlconderora. It has been quite amusing to watch the land-fraud developments In the Interior Department, especially with their refer ence to Secretary Hitchcock as a Cabi net Minister. Mr. Hitchcock was one of President McKlnley's Cabinet, following the resignation of C. H. Bliss, of New York. Mr. Hitchcock soon developed a pen chant for reform In his department real reform which made it hot for the ras cals and. long before Mr. Roosevelt be came President there was talk that Mr. Hitchcock would probably resign as soon as he had finished with certain investi gations being made at that time. Just who was responsible for the start ing of these rumors may not be told. The sources vary, but the rumors never theless have been so constant, or rather so regular at intervals of four or five months, that it has become a huge joke In Washington to hear that a change Is being considered in the Interior Depart ment portfolio. At one time, when the Interior De partment is. for instance, investigating Indian schandals. it may be one class of prominent citizen? who. with the wish father to the thought, hear that Mr. Hitchcock is likely to be succeeded by some one else. At another time the representatives of the cattlemen, whose miles of barbed wire fence arc being cut or removed by orders from the Secretary of the Interior, may be responsible indirectly for a rumor of Mr. Hitchcock's removal, and at all times the land and timber thieves of the far West are ready to fill In a gap when there has been no newspaper c&mment on this subject for a reasonable period. The amount of It Is that the adminis tration cannot get along without Mr. Hitchcock. His rugged honesty and de termination to -weed out the bloodsuck ers and grafters who are despoiling the Nation of Its agricultural lands and its great timber resources have highly com mended themselves to every patriotic man and woman who has followed his course, and while hi. work Is undoubt edly highly satisfactory to the adminis tration and to the President, who has hlmwlf expressed strong views on tins question of land and timber grabbing, even If It should be desired to get rid of Secretary Hitchcock, it would be an ex tremely difficult and undiplomatic move to make. ABOUT THE FALLEN SAINTS Opinion That the Oregonian Has Treated Them Too Gingerly. Marshfield (Coos County) Advertiser The Oregonian. after the many months that have passed since Mitchell. William son and Hermann were brought to light, has at last essayed to say something In regard to these men. The 'article sounds rather weak, and no doubt would never had appeared had it not almost forced Itself upon the editor. Such men. In the capacity of nubile of ficers and servants, who flagrantly sell ineir constituents interests, as was done or attempted to be done by the above- mentioned, need not be handled with gloves. In fact, we consider them greater criminals than a highwayman, who at the point of a revolver holds up a lone stage coach. When such deals are consummated as the above men were connected with, no mercy should be shown, for they art injuring not only the state thev repre sent but also laying the foundation for anarchy. If the controlling- element Is of such cal iber, can wc censure the downtrodden if they retaliate by also taking the law Into their hands and vindicating their Injury? Whenever a Senator or Congressman be comes an "Invalid" and cannot attend to his duty, whenever they become Indiffer ent to their trust and simply Ignore the appeals of their countrymen, they Imme diately become a disgrace to their govern ment and should be caged Instanter. Some of these arc parvenues. Ignorant yet arrogant boors, chance-favored by po litical fortune. Such as these are wholly unsuited for the office they fill, and neith er comprehend their duties nor properly discharge them. Such conditions are de plorable, a National shame, and a dis grace to our Government, and all news papers owe It to their readers to- properly and forcibly expose them. The Oregonian has just discovered that the careers of these men have ended and is gently advising them to resign. We be lieve the people should throw them out ot their office, as was done In the case of the erstwhile Mormon breaker of laws. B. H Roberts. The fact of the matter is thai Roberts was several ship lengths ahead of our own culprits In the scale of hon esty and of upholding our laws. Cornnylius Ha-Hn-Ha-nannlgan. Catholic Standard and Times. Twas the godfather stuttered, or mayhap the priest; But. be that as It may. It is certain, at lea."t. That the wan or the other was surely to blame Fur preslntln the lad the tjuare twlsht to hl name. For there at the chrlst'nln, Wld lv'ry one Hst'nin. Now, didn't his Rlverence. Father O'Flanlgan, "WId nervousness stam rln . Bechune the child's clam'rln. Baptise It "Cornayllus Ha-Ha-Ha-Hannlgant" WId these words from the priest, sure, the cute little rosue Up an stopped his own mouth wld his chubby kithosrue. An the "dimples broke out an prosaded tc chase AH the tears an the frowns from his Innocln face. Far. falx. he was aft her Absorbln the laughter Stuck Into his name by rood Father O'Flan Igan! Now. that's the thruth In It, An so from that minute Shure. lv'ry wan called the lad "Ha-Ha-Ha- Hannlsan." Now. the "Hat Ha! Hal" stuck to him clow as his name. Far the sorra a tear could be drownln thi same. Not a care lver touched him from that bllssic But his gift o the laughther would, drive II away. WId Jokln an chaffln He nlver stopped laushln. Or If he did stop he lmmajlate besan again: An Ivry wan hearln His laughter so cheerln Jtet J'lned In the mirth o youngs "Ha-Ha-Ha- Hannlcan." Shure, the throubles o" life are so palthry an' small Tls a pity wo let thtm disthurb us at all. There Is nlver a care but would rave us ic p ace If we'd only stand up an jlst laugh In ltt face. , Falx. life were a Dleasure IC all had the treasure Conferred so unthlnkln' by Father O'FIannlgan ii an couia dui oorrow That cure-all for sorrow Possissed by "Cornayllus Ha-Ha-Ha-Hannl gan!" v3
