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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!"
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