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Cooper & Co.. 748 Market street; Goldsmith Bros.. 236 Sutter and Hotel St. Francis News Stand; L. i Lee, Palace Hotel News SUnd; . W. Pitta. 1608 Market; Frank Scott, SO. Ellis; N. Wheatley Movable News Stand, corner Mar ket and Kearney streets; Foster & Orear, Ferry News Stand. Washington, . C Ebbttt House. Pennsyl vania avenue.' PORTLAND. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 1. 16S. AS TO FOOTBALL. One of the old sports which America has received from England is football. There is record of .It in the reign of Henry II, first Angevin (Plantagenet) Xing of England, 1154-89. The game probably came into England with the Normans, whose jousts and tourna ments were part of the martial exer cises that held Saxon and Danish Eng land in subjection during several cen turies. A chronicler of the time of Henry II has left a highly Interesting account of these exercises and feats of arms. In London or Just outside the city Smoothfield, -corrupted now into Smlthfield, was the place most commonly used for these tilts and amusements. The account, modernized into Intelligible English, tells us that the sports began with the pastimes- of the boys. Annually on the day which is called Shrove Tuesday, "the youth of the respective schools brought to the masters each' one his fighting cock, and all the morning they were indulged with seeing their cocks fight in the hoolroom." Then, after dinner, "all the youth of the city go into the field, of the suburbs, and address themselves to the famous game of football. The scholars of each school have their pe culiar ball; and the particular trades, most of them, have theirs. The elders of the city, the fathers of the parties, and the rich and wealthy, come to the field on horseback. In order to behold -the exercises of the youth, and in ap pearance are themselves as youthful as the "youngest; their natural heat seem ing to -be revived at the sight of such agility, and in a participation of the diversions of their festive sons." Then every Sunday in Lent there were tour neys on horseback, boating contests in which young fellows often were drowned, and boars, bulls and bears baited with, dogs and hunters. Many were injured or killed, but the sport was great, and so was the cruelty. Of these pastimes and amusements, foot ball, which was as rough -then as it is now, has alone survived. There is a lot of discussion in our day as to football, and how to soften, or refine it. The problem is really im possible. One group of young fellows, all of them spirited, athletic, vigorous and highly trained, goes up against an other group; and in the collision some will be hurt. The object is to win. The flayers spring upon each other with all the force they can command; those who are down, are jumped upon, their skulls crushed and their ribs broken in; and though the rules of the game pro scribe the worst of the brutalities, it Is usually Impossible to decide whether any one has committed "a foul." The spectators can see ilttle of the game; the participants know only that they are in a melee, in which each one is doing his utmost. It is not the -play lo avoid hurting people; the business is to hurt them. There are those who -say the ;game must be reformed. "We do not see how it can be done. The fel lows who go Into the struggle go in to .win. It is. no contest for milksops. Nor vcan .the "dirty work" be abolished. In such a scrimmage no one can -tell any thing about it. Public Opinion, in an article on "The Annual Slaughter on the JSrldlron," says, truly, that one of the worst things in -the frenzied football competition is the hiring of graduate coaches, who are thus practically professionals, at ever increasing salaries. Perhaps the highest-paid coach in the country is "Bill" Held, of Harvard, who is receiving 57000 for his three months' work with the Xootball team a salary at the rate of $38,000 a year, more than any; professor in the university gets, or even President "Eliot. Tost, of Michigan, is reported to receive 55OG0. yearly out of football. It took $4000 a year to tempt Glenn War ner from Carlisle to Ithaca, and Coaches Newton and Bull, of Lafayette and Lehigh, are supposed to get some thing like $3000 each. Chicago is -not far behind in the salary it pays to its coach, Stagg. Another phase of the problem is the professional trainer, such' as "Mike" Murphy, who was tempted away from Yale toy PennsyJ vania iiy an offer of $5006 a year. Such policy ought to bring the game into disrepute; but it may noL It is a game that stirs all the ferocity of ambi tion; and thus far the, colleges and clubs hare felt that they couldn't do without it. We can hardly think the game will ,Je abolished; w are sure it will not be reformed. To reform it would be to cut ot its energy and spirit. As a soft and egu'wlnate ftiM K erer coW c kft. It may, however, yet fail into dfc taver ad dwHietvde, as jousting dose, or the sword pay ef ArtagTJi and "The Three Musketeer." MR. WELCH'S FRANCHISE APPLICATION Mr. A. "Welch, of SeJem, talks as If he means basloeee. Mr. "Welch wants an electric railway franchise in Port land. -He wants it fer a corporation called the Willamette "Valley Traction Company, which, he says, is backed by abundant capital. "He feas given to the public the names of the financiers who are furnishing -the money to his cor poration. He has bought for them a chain of municipal light and power plants in various towns of the Willam ette Valley. It took money to do that. He has acquired right of way for a con siderable part of the proposed railroad from Salem to Portland. It also took money to do that. Now he offers to give to the City ef Portland a bond for $&0,009 that his railroad will be built within two years, and he offers likewise to accept a variety of conditions, de sirable from the city's standpoint. All these things seem to show that Mr. Welch and the Willamette "Valley Traction Company are acting in good faith, and that they are engineering no mere promoter's scheme. On that ac count, therefore, his application is enti tled to serious consideration, and, in some reasoriable form, to favorable con sideration. The Oregonian is not pre pared to say, that Mr. Welch should have a right of way down Front street. It Is, however, willing that the city should come to terms with him on a basis that,hall protect its proper Inter ests and that shall encourage him to complete an enterprise of Importance to Portland and the entire Willamette Vallej'. It seems to The Oregonian that Mr. Welch has manifested towards Portland a commendable spirit of con cession. There ought to be no great difficulty in- finding a way for his rail road into Portland. IN REFLECTIVE MOOD. An advance breath of the holiday sea sona breezy, bracing breath, Inhaled by many with thanksgiving, exhaled with a sense of relief has passed over the Nation. Thanksgiving day has come and gone, and as a people we have entered upon the annual winding up of twelve months of -effort in the business, educational, industrial, scien tific and social world. In the early years of the past century Jane Taylor, an English woman of some repute as a local writer and withal a -woman of keen but rather somber imagination published a little sketch entitled "The Complaint of the Dying Tear." The year represented was "old 1819," and she presented the hoary monarch wrapped in furs and reclining on a couch of withered leaves, -his twelve children passing in solemn review be fore him, and to the" last one, who was to linger with him yet a few days, he thus addressed himself: You, my poor December, dark In your com plexion And cold In your temper, greatly re semble my flrat born, January, with this difference he waa more prone to anticipation, you to reflection. Simple words, nearly a century old, and yet they come to all who have reached the reflective stage of life with the force of a new and real significance. We are wont to tell ourselves and each other that the "world moves"; to prate of what we call "progress" and to point with pride of detail to the great volume wherein Is written the achievements of a century of wonderful development. But, after all, how the feelings and the affairs of men repeat themselves, as they keep step with the march of time! How like the Decem ber portrayed by a writer whose very name has essentially vanished from earth is the December now at hand! "Dark in complexion, cold in temper and given to reflection," was the De cember reviewed by this writer In the name of Time nearly a century ago. What more could be said, and what less, of the December that has come to wind up the affairs of 1905, than was said of December, 1819? Happy are they who bring to the work of posting up the year's records a cheerful spirit and a hopeful one; who with WbitUer, who lived and worked and sang-for nearly a century in strenuous New England: Dimly ue from blessings known Of greater out of eight. And find contentment and peace In the simple adjustment. THE BOYCOTT AND CHINESE TRADE. Howard James, vice-president of the Great Northern Steamship Company, has just returned from the Orient with the welcome news that the boycott against American goods is dying out. According to Mr. James, the financial part of the boycott has been carried on with funds collected in this country for the alleged purpose of assisting chari table projects In the Orient. Instead of the funds being used for the purpose for which they were subscribed, they have been diverted to the use of walking del egates, and it is believed that, with the exhaustion of the funds, there will be resumption of normal business, condi tions. Whatever the power of, the Chi nese might have been in enforcing this boycott, the fact remains that no spe cial effort was made to curtail sales of commodities of which the Chinese rere -particularly in need. . The Department of Commerce and Labor, through its bureau of statistics, makes an interesting showing regard ing our trade with China. Had the Chinese been sincere in their efforts to boycott all American goods, it would have been impossible for the figures of the Government to make such a flatter ing showing. Exports of cotton cloths for the ten months ending October, 1905, were 451,501.271 yards, "compared with 171.116.493 yards for the same period in 1904. This is more than 150,000,000 yards in excess of the largest previous ex ports for a corresponding period. There was some decrease noted In the Octo ber business, as compared with October, 1904, but the Increase over October, 1903, was more than S,ODO,OO0 yards, and more than 10,000,000 yards greater than In October, 1902. Even with the de crease included in exports of flour, which seems to be the principal object of the boycotters' attack, the total value of all exports to China from the United States for the first ten months of the current year were $50,104,767, compared with $39,57,184 for the same period in 1904, which at that time was the best on record. These figures do not include Hong kong shipments, and it is in that port that most of the shrinkage has taken place in flour exports. The figures show a total for the ten months of $2,070,726, compared with $4,063,738 for the same period last year. It is doubt ful If these figures accurately reflect the loss of trade in flow, as it R report ed that some of the extraordinarily heavy stocks imported from the United Statac to the Japan ports lave bn trans-shipped to China. It is quite Ap parent from these figures that as 'yet we h.ve not swffqered very much by the Chinese, lmroott, and, from the heavy lacresse in their purchases of cotton cloths. It is also apparent that the boycott is not hampering them in purchase -of commodities which, they are ana&le to secure elsewhere to as good advantage as in the United States. The threatened competition of the Manchuriaa wheat Aeltfs may eventu ally place the American Hour shipper at a disadvantage, hut it will be some years yet feefore these fields are devel oped sufficiently to supply the Increas ing demands of the Chinese. Until this competition does assume formidable proportions, the United States, which In this -particular case means the Pa cific Coast, will probably continue to ship flour"1 In increasing quantities from year to year, regardless of the attempts of the boycotters. ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION. Mr. Hobert Stein, of the National Bu reau of Statistics, discusses ih a recent number of the Independent a proposed plan for inducing all English diction aries to use the same key to pronuncia tion. Every dictionary must, of course, provide some such key, for English spelling gives no clew-to the pronuncia tion of words in many cases, while In others it not only faHs to guide but It actually misleads. In "lead," the name of a metal, for example, the spelling Is maliciously deceptive, since the same combination of letters exists with a dif ferent pronunciation, while in both the letter "a" is -useless. "Door" hy the side of "tool" is also deceptive, and', as everybody knows, the language Is full of such follies, and worse ones. Not onl7 does the same letter represent dif ferent sounds in the most misleading and lawless way, but a letter which represents now this sound, now that, will be found elsewhere to represent no sound at all. A cursory study of the pages of the Independent, where the article under comment is printed, shows that about one-sixth of the letters used are silent. It is a fair sample of ordinary English prose, and one must conclude from It that probably a sixth of all the time and money consumed in setting up and printing the language is wasted because of silent letters. Since each letter takes room, out of every 600 pages In a book 100 are filled with letters which are use less; and one hour otit of every six spent in reading is squandered In trav ersing space filled with silent letters. A man- who reads two hours a day reads almost exactly a solid month out of every year, or a whole year In twelve. In the course of thirty-six years such a man loses six months out of his Hlfe be cause of silent letters. Sir months are not a great deal, perhaps, but they are worth saving. Queen Elizabeth offered her whole realm forgone minute when she was at the polnt'of death. As things are now, each dictionary Invents and uses a key to 'pronuncia tion different from the others. Webster has one, Worcester another, the Cen tury a third, and so on. The result Is that each key is of restricted utility and none is thoroughly learned by anybodj. There was a time In the Middle West when Webster's key was studied in school and teachers' institutes and com mitted, to memory, as if" It were one of the laws of Nature. This was real growth toward a phonetic spelling, and It went so far that primers began to be printed In the key that Is, with a full panoply of diacritical marks. The matter Is not quite so forward today in Wisconsin, say, and Minnesota, as it was twenty years ago, and the reason lies, very likely, in the fact that Web ster's system of pronunciation signs-is only one out of many and no better than the resL This passing and mis guided effort was a symptom of the thoroughls' healthy enthusiasm which all live teachers feel for an honestly representative spelling of English. Teachers more than anybody else re alize the wicked waste of time and brain Involved In teaching and learning our present anarchical hodge-podge,' half phonetic, half hieroglyphic and wholly senseless. Some of its most treasured enormities are mistakes made by ignorant spellers long ago which our prejudice still conserves like flies In amber. We now try to give these ab surd blunders a fictitious value by say ing that they embody the history of the word; tout the fact Is that they fal sify history. They are incarnate lies. To arrive at a "key to pronunciation which shall be fit for general use. Mr. Stein suggests a conference of all those Interested in phonetics, r the represen tation of sounds by written characters! Let them agree upon a key, he says, and All the dictionaries will adopt It. School children will learn it by heart Primers will be printed In the key spell ing to make learning to read easier, and before you know it English spelling will be on. a rational basis. The prospect Is seductive and may not be entirely fan ciful. There Is nothing sacred about the absurdities of English spelling. At some time and -in some way their doom will come, but Mr. Stein's way may not turn out to be the one predestined. Still it is worth trying. The expenses of his proposed convention will be $10, 000, a modest sum which it ought not to be difficult to raise In these days of exuberant philanthropy. DCSTLESS HIGinVAYS. Devices for creating dustless high ways are not new, nor lacking In inge nuity. Water, at once the most con venient and the most natural agent for this purpose, and the ordinary sprink ling cart, are still In evidence every where, practically speaking, where the comfort of man rises up In protest against the clouds of dust that follow tragic The Increasing size, speed and frsbuencv of motor-ear nnrf tha. nVn 'ity to raise a cloud of dust on a road complicates the problem. The applica tion of water to the surface produces but temporary effect, and oil, tar and their various combinations are too cost ly for general use. These considera tions lead a writer in the Engineering News (New York) to the conclusion that, except for towns and cities and for outside roads cf limited length, the solution of the problem of the dustless highway lies in modifying the shape and construction of the motor-car it self; in other words, remedy must be sought in the dustless motor rather than the dustless highway. It Is probable that these two elements will have to be combined. If the object desired is attained to a satisfactory de gree. It has been demonstrated that a permanent result in treating highways so as to render them -dustless can only be attained by the formation of a waterproof crust to a fair depth, so that the dust-forming materials, upon being agitated -&y the passing motor, cannot work up to the surface. All methods heretofore found offeotive for this pur pose, such as the application of crude petroi&um, of a mixture of petroleum and ammonia, of tar and furnace slag. etc are of limited value, owing to cost. Hence the thought of roadhulldors has turned for relief or help to the con struction of vehicles used In 'touring, in the hope that American Ingenuity will give a motor-car that -will do its work with less of the disturbance that causes dust to rise. In sweeping a room, one sweeper will literally "make the dust fly": another with the same implement will sweep without raising a dust, while a third, making use of a sweeper that controls and carries the dust' away, accom plishes 'the object without discomfort to any one In the room. The dust is there in every case; the" method of con trol is in the handling first by produc ing the minimum of agitation and next by carrying away with the some motion the dust that Is worked up. Of course this simile would only hold good on highways properly constructed and cared for. But. these given, the dust iess motor -would become a valuable auxiliary in solving the problem of the dustless highway. Free trade and free ships Is the rec ommendation of Colonel Clarence N. Edwards, Chief of the Bureau of Insu lar Affairs, in his report on the needs of the Philippines. The recommenda tion coincides so strongly with that of Secretary Taft and many other keen observers of conditions as they exist In the Isla'ids that neither the tariff jtand patters nor the ship-subsidy grafters will fall to take notice. The Philippines are susceptible of great development, and they produce much freight which American consumers would welcome. These consumers do not care to pay ex cessive duties on tha products which are grown under the American flag, and they do not care to pay excessive freight rates, which would be exacted by an American, shipping trust when all competition Jn the carrying trade had been eliminated. If the American con sumer does not pay this Increased cost caused by the tariff and a shipping trust, the Philippine producer must pay It, and an Injustice is worked in either case. For trade purposes, Portland export ers can truthfully say with the Count of Monte Crlsto, "The world Is mine." It has been stated that the sun never sets on the flour sacks which the Port land Flouring Mills Company has strung around the world In the distribu tion of Its flour, and the lumber- manu facturers of this city are close seconds in wide distribution of the products of Portland. The North Pacific Lumber Company yesterday chartered a ship to load a cargo of lumber at this port for Genoa. Ital. Christopher Columbus made Genoa famous by discovering America, and the fact that they are now sending to Portland, Or., to secure a good grade of lumber Indicates that the Intelligence of the Genoese of today Is fully equal to that so ably represent ed by the discoverer of the New World. When the Portland cargo Is discharged at Genoa, the Inhabitants will be more pleased than ever that one of their cit izens discovered America, even though he landed on the wrong side of the country. The loss of life In the three big storms which have hwept over the Great Lakes this season is said to have reached a total of 149. and over 70 ves sels, at an estimated value of $7,000,000. were wrecked. This Is a fearful sacri fice of life and property on Inland wat ers, and is a record which Is seldom equaled on the same area of water on any ocean on the globe. Lake-built craft are seldom constructed with a view to standing the strain to which ocean-going vessels are subjected, and It Is perhaps due to this fact that every Winter witnesses a large number- of shipwrecks, which, in all of their har rowing details, are fully as terrible as those which, take place on the big oceans of the world. A few more storms like the last one. which left such a trail of death and destruction through the Lakes, will force owners to pay more attention to the construction- and equipment of their vessels. Mr. Hani man is breaking Into the public prints with considerable regular ity Just at present, and the skillful work of a most energetic press agent could not improve, on the class of pub licity that Is now being given him. One day It is the building, of a few thou sand miles of new railroad. Next we have the system double-tracked from Dan to Beersheba, and again he orders a few hundred of the largest locomo tives In "the world. The latest story which has trickled out from the inner circles of the Harrlman family council is that he has purchased 7000 new cars for the Southern Pacific and the O. R. & N. The story reads well for the lum bermen and gralnmen, and Mr. Harrl man need not go very far from Oregon to find employment for the most of them. It Is sow up to one James J. Hill to begin letting contracts for some more 100.000-ton ships to carry biscuits to the 400,000,000 hungry Asiatics. The mutineers at Sevastopol have been forced, after terrible slaughter, to surrender to the naval power of the Czar. The wretched survivors have at least this comfort. Their last condition cannot be worse than that frorn -which' they took such desperate chances to es cape. Starved, knouted. oppressed In every way to the limit of human endur ance before the revolt. a worse fate can hardly be In. store for the surviv ors, while the thousands who perished have taken tickets of leave that car ried them at least beyond the diabolism of human tyranny. Senator Fulton proposed a thirty-foot channel for Coos Bay and the Coos Bay Harbor was not pleased. Candi date Tooze came along and proposed a forty-foot channel, and the Harbor Is for him. We tremble to think what will happen to Candidate Tooze when Candidate Huston comes along and digs &. fifty-foot channel. No doubt the passengers on the Ro anpke are enjoying that delightful out ing they are getting at the expense pf the owners in the f orty-five-mil e-per-hour zephyrs off the California coast. Seattle complains that the Corvallis team played brutal football, and used foul tactics. All football Is brutal, much of It Is foul. But Corvallis won. Seattle squeals. Of course. We haven't heard any paean of re joicing from the widows and orphans of the land because Lawson has con trol, or says he "has, of two great In surance companies. SILHOUETTES The greatest hero ta he who speaks the truth and Mvea it. They who live without laughter live the futile life. Call -vice by the name of folly, and the world smk-ks Bood-ha moredly. Call vice by its real name, and up go the hands la holy horror, yet frequently the first estate le worse than the latter. Why Is It men will spend thslr lives trying to divine women "when there are many useful things to do? The easiest road to error Is that of mis understood truth. Wisdom roaketh a healthy soul. Did you ever stop to think what a wrinkled old heart John D. Rockefeller must have? The greatest loss we suffer Is the loss of our Illusions, and not all the experience of ah" the long years can compensate for them. Many women spend so much time try ing to be pretty that they have no time to practice being good. When sorrow reaches that stage where It is able to sit up and take notice, we call It melancholy. Queen Alexandra was SI yesterday, and in commemoration of the event the pa pers ran pictures of a Florodora sextet girl and palmed them off as likenesses of the Queen. Tho Pollco Gazette has become so stu pidly respectable that the pleasure of waiting for "next" at the barber shc-is' not nearly so great as It was a few years ago. Only a very popular person like Presi dent Roosevelt would dare manifest an Interest In a place like Australia. The City Physician has resigned. Mayor Doc Lane might fill the vacancy by ap pointing himself and making Bruin Mayor. "What do you think about T. T. Geers candidacy for Governor?" asked a report er of Henry Ankeny yesterday. "erf.fyfhulGo shrdlu ,b tnvx-dh shr" was the way the paper printed the reply, to avoid trouble with the postal authori ties. A Heal Opry. I'd like to sec the bills put up About that good old show. Where the pesky squire drives the gal Out in the paper snow. Where the folks all dance in the settm room. And that constable feller sings a tune 'Bout a great big hat with a great big brim. That Is bound all 'round with a woolen string. I fergit the name that the opry's called. But It suits me bett'rn them foolish plays About Lord Alphonse and Lady Claire. Fact of matter Is, Shakespeare's tame. And a whole lot of people is jest the same; They don't like Ibsen, and they don't care For a theater play 'less It's got the ways Of the folks we knew In the rood old days. I don't take no stock in these common show?: They don't rouse me up a bit. My money's too good to throw away. And I ain't got time to sit Through two or three hours of social re form. While problems arc solved and we're left forlorn, Or a musical comedy silly skit; But I like to hear the slelghbclls chime And watch the teakettles boil, While the old-fashioned folks have a so ciable time. And virtue wins out and our faces shine. While the one-legged feller sings his song That makes ua happy the whole night long. a The Roosevelts call their country place In Virginia. Plain Dealing. It seems to me that Satisfactory Cooking would be a much more romantic and homelike designation for their manor. "Hurry Up" Tost and his Ann Arbor team seem to be rather a low lot after all. to let a plug outfit like Chicago Uni versity take the game. I have a great curiosity to know wheth er or not the. faculties of our higher edu catlonal Institutions share profits with the poolrooms. Sarah Bernhardt and "Death Valley Scotty" seem to be the railroads' best advertising mediums. The ghost that Is -said to haunt an up town boarding-house Is probably trying to get revenge-on the stewed prunes. The announcement that trains from the East reached Portland on schedule time yesterday should be listed under the head. "Startling If True." Now let us give thanks that the foot ball season Is over. Uncle Joe Cannon seems to have as tight a cinch on his Job as Emperor Bill, of Germany, has on his. When that trolley line Is built to Salem the local street-car companies should be compelled to Interchange courtesies. In this way it will become much easier to transfer prisoners from Jail to the peni tentiary. m Another thing you forgot to give thanks for Is that you don't have to live In Po catcllo, Idaho. ARTHUR A. GREENE. John Bull Learning to Shoot. Exchange. Great plans are being laid In Eng land to make the young men of that island good rifle shots. Many shoot ing clubs are being organized. In this connection the Mayor of Westmin ster has presented to the Westminster employes one of the best-equipped miniature rifle ranges in London. The range Is in the vaults under St. Mar tin's Church. Hacc by Giant Turtles. Exchange. At the zoo in Hamburg are a large num ber of young giant turtles a species that Is dying out, so ruthlessly have they been hunted down. These creatures are often used by children to ride, and sometimes a race is got up. The boys and girls who ride the turtles hold in front of them a bunch of green food al the end of a stick. In order to make the creatures, which are naturally sluggish, move. REFORM INJMMIGRATION Chicago Tribune. The national conference on Immigra tion, to be held in Madison Square Garden. New York, on December 6, 7 aad 8 next, is the result of -a. call is sued by the National Civic Federation of New York, of which August Bel mont Is president, last August. The invitation was. directed to the Gov ernors of all the states in the Union, asking them to send commissioners to New York to talk over the various phases of the subject of immigration. and to arrive at somo decision in re gard to It. In addition to the official commis sioners of the several states scores of others Interested In the question and students of it will attend. Among the latter will be the following: Secretary of War Taft; United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Governor Frank W. Higgles of New York. Governor Charles S. Deneen of Illinois, Governor Joseph W. Folk of Missouri. Andrew Carnegie, Cardinal Gibbons, Seth Low, Dr. Charles W. Eliot, Oscar S. Straus, Cornelius N. Bliss, Government officers connected with immigration work. An interesting feature of tho first day's programme will bo a visit to the United States Immigration station at Ellis Island. Here the delegates will undergo the same character of exami nation as arriving immigrants, and thus enjoy an opportunity of experi encing the process of an alien's en trance Into this country. The arrival, inspection, and disposition of approxi mately 5000 immigrants will also be witnessed, after which Commissioner of Immigration at the Port of Ne-ir York Robert Watchorn will entertain the delegates at a lunchen, at which the menu will be the same class of food as provided for Immigrants. Any topic relating to immigration and its effect upon our National life and industries may be discussed at the conference and some of the leading questions to be answered are as follows: What Is the character of the net in crease In tho population of the United States from immigration? Should existing legislation looking to the elevation of - its character through the exclusion of undesirable elements be extended and made moro effective, and. If so, how? Should there be any change in the system of Inspection, such as having it made at ports of departure, or at the home sources of emigration, or at both? Are .'there any external influences tending to stimulate the volume of Im migration? What are the nature, extent and lo calities of the demands in the United States for more labor? What domestic industries and what labor crafts are most affected by the influx of alien labor, and In what ways? What percentage of European Immi gration remains in the ports of ar rival, such as New York. Boston, Phila delphia and Baltimore? What practical method can bo de vised of distributing Immigration, es pecially for agriculture, to points where it may be needed? What will be the effect of the dis tribution of a large number of immi grants in the South upon the problem of Industrial education and social bet terment of the negro race? Should the exclusion of Chinese coolie labor be made more rigid and should It be extended to Japanese and Corean labor? How shall the admission of exempted classes of Asiatics, such as scholars, merchants, and tourists, be regulated? All of these pertinent questions will be thoroughly discussed, and it is ex pected the proceedings of the confer ence will be of great value to our country. Dean of U. S. Navy. Baltimore Sun. William Mackabce, a native of .Balti more, and the oldest suvivor cf the United States Navy, recently celebrated the lOSd anniversary of his birth In the Naval Home, Gray's Ferry road and FItzwatcr street. Philadelphia, of which he has been an Inmate for 30 years. Mackabee's day was a quiet one. Be yond receiving the congratulations of his mates, as well as of the commandant and his staff, the veteran passed the time un eventfully. He arose as usual at 4:30 o'clock, drew his four ounces of whisky, mixed and drank his toddy and was ready for breakfast. There were flowers at his plate. The dean of the navy and his pipe are Inseparable. He danced a jig the day he was ICO years old, but now he has passed this youthful period and has set tled down to more dignified ways. Mackabee did not forget to give his cus tomary affectionate pat to the little car ronade that rests on the lawn not far from his window, and which is one of the trophies of the Navy In Its early days. In fact. It was captured with the British sloop of war Cyane, In 1S15. by the United States frigate Constitution. It was on this famous old warship that Mackabee made his first appearance as a sailor, Just two years later. At that time Mackabee was but 14 years old. He was born in Baltimore In 1S03. and. like all boys of all periods, he had a longing to follow the sea. Unlike most, he persisted, and It was a proud day for him when he -donned the unirorm ana saw the gold letters forming the word "Con stitution" on the band of his hat. New Political Era in Oregon. Elgin Recorder. Tho old Mitchell machine is broken and there is a new era in view for Ore gon. Honest men with honest pur poses will have a chance to suggest tho management of Oregon. If a man Is caught cheating at cards in his club, he considers it a gentleman's duty to resign, and his name Is stricken from the roll. The three representatives in Congress have been caught and, after a fair and Impartial trial, have not only been found guilty of cheating, but of .stealing even worse than that of be traying the trust and confidence of tho people who had honored them. Tliey are disgraced and have disgraced the state, and the people want them to step aside. The stand taken by the organ ization papers that The Oregonian Is pursuing its enemies and Is going too far. Is lame, indeed. The Oregonian many years ago told of Mitchell, but the voters would not heed. Now they realize that the truth was spoken, and It Is high time to clear away all evi dence, of the corrupt machine that has dominated the politics of the state so many years. Governor Chamberlain in his selection of men to fill the vacan cies could not do worse than has al ready been done by the people of Ore gon. The papers of the state who are In favor of the trio hanging on are still clinging to the old wreck, owing to past favors. The Bible on Football. Argonaut. They RUSH with one accord. Acts. xix:23. "Many shall RUN to and fro." Daniel, aJIr4. That my FOOTSTEPS SLIP not." Psalms. xvll:5. "RUN not to excess." I Peter lv:4. "I will SCATTER them." Jeremiah, xlll: 24. "Thy TACKLING loosed." Isaiah, xxxlli: 23- TOUCH him not." Psalms. clv:32. TRAMPLE them." Isaiah, 1x111:3. Influence. American Illustrated. One splendid rose makes fragrant all the room; The sun'a small disc how many worlds doth light! So may a word through centuries of gloom Ee as a torch by night! IN THE OREGONIAN TOMORROW Additional to the greatest news service of any Pacific Coast news paper and the customary depart ments, the following features: AN, INVINCIBLE FOOTBALL TEAM No, not In Portland: but made up from heroes and' villlans in litera ture. Recall the famous novels you have read and then pick out, from the characters, eleven men who cannot be matched elsewhere in the world for strength, agility, endur ance and the fighting spirit. Such a team has been selected by War , wick J. Price, wljth Sherlock Holmes as coach to fathom the enemy's tricks. CARDINAL GIBBONS ON THE FAULTS OF WOMEN ' A bright woman correspondent con tributes a chat with the head of the Roman Catholic Church in America. He declares race suicide the menace of the country, and be lieves women's clubs are the bane of the home. NORWAY'S ROYAL DANE, THE NEW KING Prince Car! will ascend the throne as Haakon VII. and with him a new dynasty is born. He is a mart of the sea. democratic and popular, but a strict disciplinarian. His human side Is well set forth by a man who knows. Coronation scenes arc graphically described. RARE STAGE JEWELS OWNED BY A PORTLAND ACTRESS Edith Angus has come into posses sion of one of two sets of Oriental jewels which were made after the pattern of a set manufactured for the wife of the Shah of Persia. Marion MacRae describes and F. A. Routledge Illustrates them In charming style. RECOLLECTIONS OF JUDGE GEORGE H. WILLIAMS This distinguished man was the author of the bill through whose workings order was restored in the South after the close of the war. His third paper deals with the start on reconstruction. On this subject Judge Williams is probably better Informed than nny other American. Incidentally, he points a picture of General Robert E. Lee that must provoke admiration. FOUR INTERESTING . NEW MEMBERS At the coming together of Congress next Monday, there will be four newly-elected members, certain to attract more than ordinary atten tion. These are: General J. War ren Kelfer. former Speaker, now an old man: J. Sloat Fossett. the brilliant New Yorker, who narrpw ly escaped the Governorship; Rock wood Hoar, son of the late Senator Hoar, and "Bob" La Follette. of Wisconsin. Their personal side 13 pictured by Paul Danby. THE OREGON CAMERA CLUB'S BEST EXHIBIT Madame von Rydlngsvard, who described the art department at the late Fair In the Sunday Ore gonian. tells what was shown this week at the annual exhibit of the Camera Club, which closes tonight. It Is appreciative and discriminat ing. SOCIETY, MUSIC AND THE DRAMA These three departments contain the review of the week In society, dramatic and musical circles, and are Illustrated with portraits of. prominent persons. Social happen ings and weddings arc described, engagements and coming events announced, plays and musical events reviewed, and coming at tractions presented. Emelle Fran ces Bauer writes the New York letter, which pictures the dramatic; musical and artistic life of the great metropolis. The Washington and San Francisco letters do the same for the National capital and San Francisco metropolis. TWO PAGES OF LIVE SPORTING NEWS The Sunday Oregonian covers the field of sports completely. The As sociated Press brings the news of the world, special correspondents cover the Pacific Coast, and local writers the Portland happenings. Football, baseball, pugilism, the turf, are all represented in this de partment, which never prints less than two pages of live news and often three. SHALL FOOTBALL BE ABOLISHED? The Sunday Oregonian will contain a symposium on football, to which the college presidents of the Pa cific Northwest have been Invited to contribute. Whether tho game Is essentially brutal or whether its objectionable features can be elim inated will be the topic of discus sion. PORTLANDERS BUILD HANDSOME HOMES Portland Is a city of handsome homes. Many have been erected this year on the East Side, and a cluster of these will be pictured In tomorrow's Oregonian. The weekly real estate review covers not only the trend, of the business building movement, but the home bulldlng activity as well. In the Hide and Skin Game. Shoe Retailer. This country is the greatest consumer cf hides and skins In the world. It uses in a year 48.000.000 goatskins, 24.000,000 sheep skins. 16,000.000 hides of all kinds O.OOO.OW calfskins and 2.000.000 other skins. It Im ports all Us goatskins, a total amount of about $25,000,000 worth, and over $10,000,000 worth of hides, and over $17,000,000 worth of other skins; a total of over $30,000,000 worth of hides and skins. Germany Im ports one-third less hides and skins than, does lAls country, and England and France each Import one-half as muclt The Vagabond. Academy. I can not bide the sober town. With decent villa, church and sauare; Nor madam with her stylish srown. Nor master with his Rloasy hair. I cannot bide the sober town. Nor madam with her etyllsh sown. But I would over vale and hill. And draw the breath of distance free. And roam from opal dawn until The twlllcht creeps across the lea. Oh! I would over vale and hill. And sleep In barn or ruln'd mllL For I a vagabond was born. I love to wander far and wide. And seelc out places most forlorn. And evil hills where men have died. For I a vagabond, was born. And love the twlllRht and the morn. I love all wild and woful lands Where I may talk with woods and stream, Or walk on desolate sea sanrfo. And tell the ocean all my dreams. I love all wild and woful lands.. And ocean's dolorous wet sands. I love to watch the sunset die. And hear the large night's solemn vords. And on the moonlit heather lie. And wake to greet the moraine birds. I love to watch the sunset die. And on the moonlit heather He. For oh! I hate the sober town. I hate the villa, church, and eauare. I lone to knock tho houses down. And ruffle master's glossy hair. For. oh! I have the sober town. And madam's modish silken sown. But ah! the country air Is pure. And ah! the country lads are true. And loving comrades they'll endure: They'U stand by me, they'll stand by you. But aht the country air Is nure. And country friendships long endure.