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It may be said with certainty that hut for Alexander Hamilton the United States -would not he the Nation it is today: perhaps no nation at all, but only an assemblage of jealous, petty sovereignties, playing their game against each other. Long since one group or another probably would have asked help from foreign powers, and the entanglement of all with Europe would he extreme. The chief force that made the United States a Nation was Alexander (Hamilton. Of all construct ive statesmen that America has pro duced, he nvas incomparably the great- esL The strength of the Constitution was supplied mainly by him; its weak nesses, resulting in the Civil War, were consequences of the disinclination of the times to follow his suggestions throughout, as to the nature of the government to be created by the Con stitution. He did not succeed in get ting into the Constitution all that he desired, for its strength and perma nence; hut nearly everything that gave it force was his work. After our ex perience of 100 years, this man stands out In the Jgreatness of his character. The anniversary of his birth is now to be observed by innumerable clubs and societies in the United Stales. His fame grows; It dwarfs that of all other statesmen of America. He was but partially understood in his own time, but now is more perfectly understood. His faults .were more apparent to his own times than to ours; for, as a con structive statesman, he was far in ad vance of his times. As a soldier none was more briljiani. and "Washington al ways leaned on his judgment. He was a prodigy of executive aiblHty; as a financier he has had no equal, and his feats with the public credit are among the most remarkable things of history, in this kind. Henvas an orator, thinker and scholar of highest class; a political philosopher of the class of Burke and Montesquieu. What he did in the mak ing of our Government was to give an impulse to a National system, with consolidation as a corrective of the ideas of a loose confederacy. Protec tion, force and energy in the central government; financial stability; reali zation" of the idea of a nation, under a National Government, which now con stitutes the greatness of the United States these -were Hamilton's great legacy to our country. And these ideas have made our country what it is. On this anniversary of his nativity and on succeeding ones there will be eulogies of Hamilton, without end. He not only put into the Constitution the vital forces that have preserved It, but he carried it through before the people and secured its adoption. Acceptance of the Constitution by the State of New York was necessary to Its success; and Hamilton secured its- adoption toy the State of New York, against the power ful influence of Clinton, Burr and the advocates of local sovereignty. It was a tremendous achievement, at the crit ical point of American history. It gave us the' Union and the Constitution, and established the principles that carried the country through the Civil War. The vital energy that Hamilton had Infused into the system gave it the force that has preserved.-it. We underestimate no others when .we exalt Hamilton. We simply. give the supreme statesman his due. v. The faults and fallings of an illus trious man may he passed over in si lence, in consideration of his greatness and of his services to his country and to mankind. There is no human per fection; there are spots even on the sun, and the jay and daw chatter and scream round about the aerie of the eagle. The fame of Hamilton has passed beyond the reach of all detrac- tion. His pre-eminent abilities have obtained recognition not less in the Old World than in the New. He was capa ble of intense and effectual application, as is. abundantly proved toy his public labors. He had a rapidity and clear ness of conception which may not have been equaled. He had an instinct of government that has seldom a'ppeared among men. Talleyrand told George Ticknor that of all the men of whom he had knowledge the greatest were Napoleon, Fox and Hamilton. In his "History of the C6ntituon of the United States," George Ticknor Curtis asks referring1 to Hamilton "Where among all the speculative philosophers In political science whom the -world has seen shall we find a man of greater acuteness of intellect? He had an unerring-perception of the practicable and expedient, which enabled him to serve mankind without attempting to force them to his -own plans and compelling them to his own views." Every thinker In the -political life" of America has paid tribute to the marvelous, powers of his mind. Webster said: "He smote the rock of the National resources and abundant streams of revenue guphed forth. He touched the corpse,. of public credit and it sprang upon its feet." Fisher Ames declared him "the great est statesman of. the Western world." Jefferson paid no tribute to him; he paid none to Jefferson. These two rep resented opposite poles of thought in the philosophy and organization of gov ernment. Jefferson appeared for a time to have carried the day. But not so. Secession and the Civil War were the outcome of Jefferson's principles, and Hamilton has triumphed in the consol idation of the United States. AN UNMUZZLED PULPIT AGAIN. While the question of an unmuzzled pulpit Is claiming attention of the pub lic, it may well cast its glance in direc tion of a modest church building that stands upon the corner of East Fif teenth and Morrison streets and harken to the sounds that issue from thence. The pulpit of this church is occupied nay, more, it is "filled" by Rev. H. C. Shaffer. A few weeks ago this minis ter -proved his quality for boldness In speaking the' truth as he saw it by re quiring a total abstinence pledge from those who sought admission to his church. Opinions differ, of course, as to the necessity or expediency of such a test for church membership; but there is tout one opinion in regard' to the courage of the preacher in requir ing it. Now comes the same man, with Christian deference that borders on meekness, tout with words that cannot be misunderstood, proclaiming that the "revival" meetings that were conducted in this city with such apparent fervor and earnestness- a. year ago were ruled by political qaucus methods. Selfish ness, he affirmed, triumphed in the management of the meetings, the ad vertising was immense, and, consider ing the spiritual ipower on hand, was greatly overdone; slates were in evi dence in the assignments; pastors sat on the platform like a row of Egyptian mummies and prayed 1n turn; and the holy spirit was not given the right of way. This falrjy out-Hubbards Elbert Hub bard for plain speaking, while it is per vaded by a much more reverent spirit than that which is possessed by the re nowned Roycrofter. Whatever else may toe thought of the effort or "open letter" to Dr. Chapman, prince of ma chine revivalists in the United States, which was the form that Dr. Shaffer's presentment took, no one can doubt the courage or the sincerity of the pastor of the United Brethren Church or the fact that his pulpit is an unmuzzled one. EVIDENCE IN REBUTTAL. The point of view always make a vast difference in discussion of any subject in which there are admittedly opposing Interests concerned. For this reason it was but natural to expect that what the lawyers might term "evidence in rebuttal" would toe offered to controvert the statements made by Mr. J. Ogden Armour, who recently presented the Ar mour side of the private-car grievance to the public. As was briefly noted in these columns a few days ago, the reader of Mr. Armour's story could with difficulty avoid the Impression that the late Phil Armour had, toy es tablishment of the private refrigerator car system, proved himself the greatest benefactor of the age. Mr. Armour has not previously figured prominently In the ranks of literature, and this fact may account for the alleged indiffer ence with which he treated some glar ing truths that have repeatedly been set forth by users of his yellow cars. In his article in the Saturday Even ing Post Mr. Armour said that opposi tion to the private-car system came from the commission men, who, until the appearance of the -car. enjoyed su perior facilities for robbing the fruit grower, with but slight chance of de tection. This statement is flatly con tradicted by E. M. Ferguson, president of the Western Fruit Jobbers Associa tion. In his answer to Mr. Armour's contribution to current, literature, Mr. Ferguson emphatically denies that the opposition to the system is centered in the commission men, and. In proof of his denial, mentions the fight that has been made by the California Fruitgrow ers' Exchange, an organization em bracing SO per cent of the fruitgrowers of Southern California. Mr. Ferguson also calls attention to the fact that the Armours, in addition to their business of carriers of fruits and produce, are also in the commission business. Through their possession of practical ly the only facilities for moving fruit and produce, it is quite plain that the Armours would have a tremendous ad vantage over the smaller concerns, which enjoyed no such advantages. The result of such an advantage would' shortly be the gradual elimination of all competition less favorably fortified, and, when all competition is eliminated, the dear people in almost any line of industrial endeavor will hardly fare as well as when there was "a fair field and no favors." Mr. Ferguson also takes exception to the Armour claim for phil anthropy in the way of numerous rate reductions, and in the assumption that we would still be without the refrigerator-car had it not toeen for Armour pere. The world owes much to the Inventor of the refrigerator-car, and incidentally it might toe remembered that Mr. Ar mour was not the Inventor of this great convenience. 'But the world also owes much to Robert Fulton, who built the first steamboat; to George Stephenson, who built the first locomotive; tovWest Inghouse, with his air brake; to Wagner and Pullman, with their sleeping-cars, and to Brush and Edison, with their electrical discoveries. These men will never be forgotten, and will live in his tory as great toenefactors of their race. At the same time, the advantages of the locomotive, the steamboat, the sleeping-car, the air brake and the har nessing of electricity would be greatly reduced lf the operation of these con veniences were confined solely to the original discoverer or promoter, and to the exclusion of thousands and hun dreds of thousands of others who are now enjoying the "benefits conferred on the whole world by these discoveries. Mr. Hammond, of Detroit, is entitled to the highest credit for his invention of the refrigerator-car. The late Phil Armour 1s also entitled to much credit for developing it and bringing it into general use. The world was moving, however, when Hammond invented and Armour manufactured the car. - It has been moving since, and, had neither of these gentlemen ever had "anything to do with the refrigerator-car, It" is folly to presume that it would have re mained unlnvented or undiscovered. Mr. Armour made himself famous and piled up a vast fortune toy means of the refrigerator-car. The car has be-. come a public necessity, and its opera tion should no longer rest with a mo nopoly which Is using it to squeeze the financial life out of all competitors, not only in fields within the province of the refrigerator-car, but in a hundred other lines of Industry into which this "ban dit of trade" has wandered. THE JOKE ON MISSOURI. Nothing so pleasing has occurred In recent years as the gayety of Mr. H. H. Rogers on the witness-stand. Mr. Rog ers answered what he wanted to an swer with Inimitable humor and scln- tlllatlng jocularity, and what he didn't want to answer he didn't answer at all It was a great joke. It was a greater joke when the dipcomflted Attorney General of Missouri undertook to cite Standard Oil's first comedian to the Su preme Court for such action as It may see fit to take. If the Supreme Court of New York should not take the hi larious view of things that so much amused Mr. Rogers and his delighted hearers. It would not toe much of a joke, perhaps; but then few courts have a proper sense of humor. Of course It is different when Standard Oil cracks a joke. The courts of New York appear heretofore to have shown due apprecia tion of the august, solemn and author itative source of such witticisms. It may toe supposed, therefore, that Mr. Rogers thought, or knew, that he took no chance of having his jokes misun derstood in the place where It would do him the greatest possible harm. The style of joke that appeals to the New York judicial mind Mr. Rogers knovrs all atoout. as we have Intimated. The real joke is, however, on Mis souri. There are some statesmen and many plain citizens of that homespun state who fancy that the time has come to amputate the rapacious paws of the oil octopus. They have learned some how that the Standard Oil Company and the Republic OH Company have di vided the -state between themselves for oil purposes, and are charging what they please for oil and oil -products. The Waters-Pierce Oil Company is an other concern that has things all Its own way In Oklahoma, Texas and other states, and Missouri is trying to find out if Waters-Pierce Is not merely an other name for Standard Oil. Of course It Is. Everybody knows it and admits It, except when on the witness-stand. If the Attorney-General of Missouri can demonstrate legally and formally a truth that is known everywhere but In the courts of justice, he can Invoke the anti-trust laws of Missouri and chase the octopus' into the woods of Illinois, or Kansas, or wherever else It may seek refuge. The joke on Missouri Is that It has an Attorney-General who is trying to invoke the machinery of the New York courts to repress the humorous and benevolent disposition of the Standard Oil Company to stamp out op position In Missouri. the Mnr-sunsiDV. bill. The ship-subsidy bill, like a spurious mendicant clad in rags and nursing a self-inflicted wound, appears before us again. Senator Gallinger, who has offi ciated as chief custodian of the fake supplicant for alms for the post two years, opened the debate on the bill 3esterday. If any one expected new arguments, or advancement of new reasons for this tax on all the neonlc Sfor the benefit of a few shipowners, he will be disappointed. "Today alone, of all the nations ambitious for mercantile .expansion. " the United States neglects its ocean shipping," wails Senator Gal linger. Well, what of It? Today alone, "of all the nations ambitious for mer cantile expansion," the United States is showing greater gains in Its foreign trade than ever before In Its history, and we have the fleets of the world struggling against each other in com petition to carry this vast commerce at cheaper rates than ever before quoted. Continuing on the same strain of spe cious argument. Senator Gallinger said: Britain. France. German all make, gettor oun provision by national tnibventtoa for con veying, not nly their mall?, but their mer chandise under their national flags te the a mi tral distant market. This statement shows deliberate mis representation, or gross ignorance, either of which reflects no credit on Senator Gallinger. Britain and Ger many make no provision, by subvention or otherwise, for conveying their mer chandise to "neutral distant markets," or to any other markets. France, with a ship-subsidy system that is the laughing-stock of the world, is paying a subsidy, presumably for the purpose of conveying French merchandise to "distant neutral ports." Unfortunately for France, but fortunately for the rest of the world, these ships seldom carry French merchandise. Instead they sail around the world, either in ballast or carrying freight for other nations than France, at ridiculously low rates. Portland has loaded a dozen of these French subsidized vessels with Oregon wheat for English buyers within the past sixty days. One is now taking ballast here after discharging at Port land a cargo from Southampton, Eng land. She will proceed to the Antipodes in toallast and the French government will pay for the jaunt. As Mr. Gallln ger's tolll is modeled on almost exactly similar lines to the French bill. If it becomes a law the Unlted.States will in due season be paying "a subsidy to wealthy shipowners who will carry freight for other nations not so foolish as to subsidize their own ships. Mr. Gallinger disposes of the contention that. If the foreigners can dothls work more cheaply than we can do It our selves we should let them do It, by stat ing that "this plea is nothing but the fundamental free-trade argument in the most extreme form In which It Is possible to state it." And yet Senator Gallinger asks us to enter into competition with free-trade countries wJthout adopting the meth ods which made those countries great on the high seas. Great Britain and Germany do not pay subsidies to that portion of their merchant marine that handles the bulk of the carrying trade of the world, but they do permit their shipowners to -buy ships wherever they can buy them the cheapest. If Senator Gallinger Is desirous of following the example of the two countries men-' tloned, let him Introduce a free-ship bill and give us an equal show with those countries. Incidentally it may toe well for Senator Gallinger and a number of other Republicans who are riding to a fall to get their cars to the ground and Jlsten to the increasing demand that more attention be paid to the "funda mental free-trade argument." Mr. J. J. Johnson, master of Even ing Star Grange, has elaborated to some extent a plan for farmers to buy by wholesale the domestic supplies con sumed by a number of families. Buy ing in toulk is, as everybody .knows, a. great savins' of expense ia a single family. If such touying could be so sys tematized that a given number of families In any rural neighborhood could enjoy Its privileges, the saving would be well worth while. The lack of cash in hand to buy in bulk is the creaiest obstacle that Mr. Johnson finds in the way of his scheme. This, ' however, he rightly conceives, could be overcome in due time by thrift, and method be thereby encouraged. The country store bill, settled annually or semi-annually. Is. next to the tax bill, the heaviest burden that the farmer and his wife have to carry. It carries and is swelled by the temptation to buy many things that are not necessary, and that could be dispensed with with out special discomfort If the payday was today instead of six months hence. The inauguration of Mr. Johnson's plan would result In considerable "doing without and perhaps some privation of a minor sort In some households for a time, or until the returns of 'the first crop (whether of berries, larger fruits, wheat, hay or hops), came In, but the benefits would outweigh these things first in establishing the "pay-as-you-go" habit, and again by providing funds that would permit buying In bulk the supplies for the ensuing quarter. The method as outlined by Mr. Johnson Is worthy of careful consideration, and this, no doubt. It will receive from the members of Evening Star Grange, who are among the most Intelligent and pro gressive citizens of Multnomah County. Rev. Owen Lovejoy, secretary of the National child labor committee, takes Issue with President Roosevelt over the matter of large families. He asserts that if the men who are working for meager salaries were of a conscientious type they would hesitate at the re sponsibility of bringing into the world a large number of children who must struggle and toll for a bare living, without prospects of advancement. It Is probable that the attitude of Presi dent Roosevelt on this matter has been misunderstood. Large families, where the head of the house Is unable properly to care for them, are. of course, detri mental to the best interests of society. But there Is a large and growing class of people who are able to rear children In good circumstances but who shrink from the responsibility of large families from motives of pure selfishness. This was the class the President had 1n mind when he promulgated his Ideas 'regard ing race suicide. An ordinance now in the hands of the street committee or subcommittee of the City Council, to be reported Fri day, contemplating the introduction of a specific kind of street pavement, dif ferent In name, at least, from any here tofore adopted. It seems to The Ore gonian, should be reported to the Coun cil, if for no other reason than this, .namely, that it proposes a check upon a present monopoly. Such monopoly Is at aM times a burden on the property owner, who, after all. foots the bill. Relief from this sort of monopoly can be had only through fair and complete ly open specification, permitting the greatest latitude in bidding, upon a common basis of comparison. AH hugger-mugger ought to be cut out of this business. Perpetual motion has been discovered again, this time by a Portland Inventor who claims to have invented a pump which, with an expenditure of but fifty horsepower, can generate ieOO horse power. This Is a performance which would make commonpliicu all previous attempts at perpetual motion, and com pared with which the act of a man In lifting himself to a housetop by a pull on his bootstraps is easy. Inventors come and inventors go, but the effort to build a perpetual motion machine which will keep moving goes on for ever, and Mr. Keely. with his motor of a generation ago. was apparently as near the goal of success as any of his followers. Mr. Kelliher, the convicted land-certificate forger, has Just been sentenced to five years In the penitentiary. He, of course, made the customary motion for a new trial, and as he Is said to be a very wealthy man. the carrying out of the sentence will be postponed in definitely. It Is interesting to note, however, that it Is no longer possible for the laws of the state to be openly violated by men who have plenty of money. The conviction of a few of the lawbreakers who have stood high in social and financial circles will have a tendency to clear the moral atmosphere and cause greater respect for the law than has toeen In evidence in the past. The members Vf the late Bcfasco stock company are disposed to find fault with the taste and judgment of the theater-going people of Portland who have failed to take an appreci ative interest In their doings. It Is nothing to feel bad about. The public likes what It likes, and nothing else; and It doesn't always like the same thing two years, or two days. In suc cession. The first duty of actors or others who attempt to cater to the pub lic Is to give the public what It wants; and. when they fall to do It, the failure Is the actors', not the public's. The railroad across Necanlcum di vide is as yet but a rumor. That it will be more than this In the near future there rc many who believe and hope. That when It Is an assured fact It will open up a fine timber area, coal fields that will prove largely productive, a grazing and dairy region unsurpassed In the Northwest, and seaside resorts that will be populous during the Sum mer months, there is no doubt. May the latest rumor In regard to its build ing prove In due time to be a veritable fact. ' A battleship aground In New York harbor? We always said New York was a 'schooner port. The only real harbor In the world Is Puget Sound, where no vessels ever go to the bottom, for the reason that there Is no bottom. Mr. Johns, candidate for Governor, wants "a state hank examiner with plenary power." We know of several places in Oregon where Mr. Johns will not run well. Which is a sufficient rea son why he should jun well elsewhere. H. Humorist Rogers objects to his picture being taken, and breaks up u sitting whenever he sees a photogra pher. Why don't they hold him as they do other malefactors? If Mr. Rogers ever catches Mr. Attorney-General Hadley short on copper, there will he no chance to misunder stand what Rogers has to say. Of course, everybody understands that Dr. Wise wanted -to occupy no free and easyipulplt. THE PESSIMIST. When Henry II. Rogers gets down into Missouri they will show him. John M. Pattlson. Governor of Ohio, reviewed his troops while standing in a glass cage. Nicholas, of Russia, would have needed a bomb-proof safe. Mr. A. P. Smith, of Baker County, writes as follows about his pump: I am now patenting a duplex single-balanced pump, which I claim will pump water to any height without cost. This applies to the larger sized pomps as well as the smaller one. I claim for this pump that I can put up one of S-feet size and pump enough water to a height of 100 feet to develop 4500 horsepower per minute with an expenditure of only 50 horse power, leaving 4150 free of cost. That Is what I call a good pump. It probably works on the same principle as the gas meter. It requires no power to run. New York. Physicians atendlng John A. McCall tonight announced that his condition was much Improved and that, unless unex pected eompJicatlena set In. he would be able to start for Europe In a few days. District Attorney Jerome could start some complications, although not wholly unexpected, that would keep him for a. year or so. Het Springe. S. D. James Long, an Inmate of the State Soldiers' Home, was yesterday ar rested on a charge of assaulting Colonel God dard. commandant of the home, with a piece of lead pipe. Interference by another In mate of the home saved the commandant's life. Tbts Is eald te be Long's second attempt en the life of Colonel Goddard. Home, Sweet Home. The Portland householder who ar gued with the burglar after he was told to keep still is either a good talk er or a good liar. . There are a whole lot of preacher? who ad vocate education as the means of saving touts. They seem to think tha all one needs to do to save a man lsa to educate him. If these men are- right, we may. expect that when we die and apply for admission to Heaven, the first thing Saint Feter will ask v Is at what college we were graduated. I know many Ig norant people who are good Christian and many college graduates wm are In the peni tentiary, and more who o-icht to be. The above from the sermon of an evangelist, who is doing Portland at the present time. Is a good one. It certainly would go hard with a man should he announce to St. Peter that he was a graduate of Annapolis. He would have to take the elevator to the basement. While the talk Is going on about the deadly effects of illuminating gas, it might not be a bad idea to give some hints as to the proper steps to take with the asphyxiated. The gas should be first turned oft to prevent any further waste. An attempt should then be made to ex cite respiration by sprinkling the face of the patient with cold" water and applying to the nostrils something that smells real bad. It is obvious that -gas will not do, as his sense of smell haic already been dulled as re gards that particular odor. A mixture of crude petroleum and tabasco sauce might do. The tabasco sauce adds warmth to the combination, and the smell of the crude oil might revive a sinking memory and by suggestion get him back to the point where he wa when he first smelled the gas. A modification of Schultz's method of resuscitation should be tried it the first attempt falls. The operator, stand's behind the pa tient, where he won't get hit when the patient comes to. He puts a hand under each armpit and holds him off the floor. The whole weight is now allowed to hang from the houldcrs. This lifts the ribs, ex pands the chest and produces inspira tion. If he is not sufficiently inspired, take him down Into the basement ami hold him up before the gas meter. That should arouse him to activity In accordance with the law of sympa thetic vibration. Another method is to pump the gas out through his mouth while fresh air 1st pumped into his nose. While this operation is going on an assistant must wave an unpaid gas bill before his eyes In order to excite his feel ings. If that does not make him mad enough send for the gas inspector. M. B. WELLS. Take Their Wives Along. Kansas City Star. "The .size of America Is changing the habits of traveling salesmen." said John Molloy. chief clerk at the Baltimore, to day. "It Isn't so long ago that a travel ing man would have thought you mad had you asked him why he hudn't brought his wife. But an Increasing number of trav eling men now bring their wives with them on their long trips from East -to West. A man will sometimes be away for eight or ten months at a time, and his home Is Just wherever he happens to be. Hotels provide certain courtesies for the wives and the salesmen aro availing themselves of them In larger numbers every year. Salesmen tell me that they cover their territories more thoroughly as a result of the new custom. They are not so anxious to get back home." Pleasures Various. Harper's Weekly. How different do the peoples of the earth take their pleasures! In a statistical book Just Issued in Madrid It is estimated that for luxuries the Spaniards spend an nually more than JICO.OOO.OCO. Of this sum 523.0CO.KO is for cigarjs and cigarettes, $20. CCO.000 for lottery tickets. J13.yjO.00O for bull fights. $12,500,000 for holiday-making, and. J31.0CO.C0O to settle the wineshop reckon ings. Published statistics concerning the riotous living In Boston show that tho natives of that place are more than ever debuaching themselves with baked beans. A Boston dispatch says: "Lost year they spent on their favorite diet more than the cost of two battleships or J6,SDS,272. Ac cording to the wholesale dealers. '6S.732 Jbarrels were consumed In that period, and the doman'd is Increasing." Small Reason to "Worry. Everybody's Magazine. Every now and then some statistician with too much liver utters figures show ing that the world's coal supply will last only a few hundreds of years. Make It many, many thousands. China has coal to burn: 400.000 squaro miles of coal fields, some say. Japan has plenty more. Rou mania has enough for the Balkan states, if ever they stop burning powder and one another's houses. America's bin will be full for centuries on centuries. Great Britain and Germany will not be coallcss soon. Let us worry about something else. He Notified Em Three Times. Atlanta Constitution. A fourth-class postmaster and he doesn't live in Btliville sent the follow ing to headquarters in Washington: "This will make three times that I've told you I'm laid up with a bad leg, havin" shot myself In the left leg tho one that was wounded In the war while I was tryin to kill a squirrel for my breakfast; and I will not be able to flggcr up my statement till I git well: besides. I don't git much holiday nohow." A PLEA FOREUTHANASIA. The Oregonlan Is in receipt of various documents from Miss Anne S. Hall, of Mount Auburn, Cincinnati. O., in which arguments are made favoring euthanasia, or the application of chloroform to end the sufferings of those suffering from an Incurable disease or fatal injuries. The chief of those documents Is a letter which has caused considerable comment, sent to Miss Hall by Professor Charles Eliot Norton, of Harvard University. The let ter follows: Tou ask me to express my opinion In such form that It may be given to the public con cerning the prolongation of life by medical or surgical science when It can be prolonged only at the cost of misery. I have no objec tion to doing so. The matter has of late acquired new claim for consideration owing to the rapid ad vance In knowledge and In skill alike of physicians and of surgeons and to the appli cation of this Increased knowledge and skill to the lengthening of wretched lives. The principle that it Is a duty to prolong every human life so long" as possible, at whatever cost, has hitherto been generally accepted. Its main support has -been the doctrine of the sacrednesg of human life and this has been reinforced by two practical considera tions of great weight. One. the freedom of physician, surgeon or bystander from all re sponsibility of decision of a question grave In any case, and In which a mistake In judg ment might be severely blameworthy. The other, the natural desire on the part of members of the medical and surgical profes sion to exhibit the resources of their art In .mastering extreme difficulties. The doctrine and the practice have both been pressed too far. There Is no ground in reason to hold every human life as inviolably sacred, and to be preserved, no matter with what results to the Individual or to others. On the contrary, there are lives to which every reasonable consideration urges that the end should be put. Setting aside all doubtful cases, no rightt thinking man would hesitate to give a dose of laudanum sufficient to end suffering and life together, to the victim of an accident, from the torturing effects of which recovery was Impossible, however many hours of misery might be added to conscious life by stimulants or surgical operation. Nor should a reasonable man hesitate to hasten death in the case of a mortal dis ease, such, for example, as cancer when It has reached the stage of Incessant severe pain and when the patient desires to die. The prolongation of life In such a case by whatever means Is mere criminal cruelty. Or take another Instance, that of an old person whose mind has become a chaos of wild Images productive of constant distress, not only to the sufferer but all who love and attend him. The plain duty In such a case is not to prolong, but to shorten life. It Is not to be hoped that a superstltltlon so deeply rooted In tradition as that of the duty of prolong ing life at any cost will readily yield to the. arguments of reason, or the pleadings of compassion, but the discussion of the sub ject in Its various aspects may lead gradu ally to a more enlightened, public opinion and to the consequent relief of much misery. CHARLES ELIOT NORTON. BUILDING UP GREAT SCHOOL How Chicago University Attracts At tention of Thinking World. New York Evening Post. CHICAGO. Jan. 3. University of Chicago athletic authorities made one of the richest kinU nf nrlro nthtofta In the hlstOrV Of "Western athletics yesterday, with the open ing of the Winter quarter. Seven of the most talented men In this section of tho country registered their names as student of the unlvcrslfy. The new acquisitions ar Prince, formerly captain of the . Shattuck Military Academy, who weighs 210 pounds, and Is declared to be a combination of a Slakcr and a Bezdek: Taylor, who weighs "00 pounds, formerly a star all-around ath lete at Des Moines, and Is a fullback strong ly heralded: Maddlgan. the 20:t-pound guard and all-around athlete from Englcwood High School: Moody, a star baseball, foot ball and track man from the University of Maine; Dickinson, a pitcher from Tufts: Comstock a half-mller from rrlnceton. for merly a star at Hyde Park High School, and Rudolph, a pole-vaulter from Crown Point. Ind., an Interscholastlc champion. This Is not a fake or a satire upon American collegiate methods. It is a bona tide Associated Press dispatch received at this office this morning. All loyal Chi cago alumni must now feel their hearts pulsating with Joy. Who longer cares that their president Is ill, or that the Rockefeller Christmas gift was not what It was expected to be? To have a Slaker and Bezbek combined makes up for all that. What's talent In the faculty com pared with talent that weighs 210. 203 and 200 pounds? That's your true way to build up a great university. From Maine to lies JMolnes they come, attracted only by the kinship which ever exists between tal ent and education. Rescue From Odclllsm. New York Sun. Better by all means not to celebrate until the day Is won: but it is always In order to take account of position. Some times there is no Indiscretion In award ing a few medals on the field itself. In a spirit of hopefulness not less than" gratitude, it Is proper to mention the emi nent services recently ' rendered to the cause of honest politics In this state by the following Intcrferers and beautiful lnrfirm'( ha heen: Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, oth erwise known as the President of all the people of all the states; Elihu Root, of New York, whose length of vision enables him unerringly to dis tinguish a henhawk from an eagle; George Bruce Cortelyou, of New York, who is awake most hours of the 21 and rarely talks In his sleep, but has no reason-for apprehension -when that docs oc cur: Frank Wayland Hlgglns, of New York. Governor and grower. It will be observed that the Governor 13 In good company, politically and morally speaking. Indeed. It la probable that po litically and morally speaking he was never before In company so good. A Wise Judge. Lewlston (Me.) Journal. A certain keen observer of the town was discussing several recent events in local politics the other evening. "It all re minds me." said he, "of that story of the la'te Judge Peters. Never heard it? Well, one day the Judge was waited upon by a literary friend of his. " 'Judge. said he. 'I am going to write the history of a certain Maine hostelry, and I want you to subscribe for a copy of the first edition.' " 'What Is the name of the house?' asked the Judge. "His friend told him, first asking him to keep it an absolute secret. " 'And what are you going to put In itr asked the Judge. " 'Everything that ever happened with in thoso four walls answered his friend. "H'm. said the Judge, Til take the whole edition.' " Ballad of the Master. Alice W. Brothcrton In Scrlbncr8. "Who swings along the side of Chepe To seek the Boar's Head, past the marts Where hucksters shout and beldames creep, To dine on beof and gooseberry tarts? His hazel eye swift lightning darts, His doublet's but a dingy robe. His mouth a smile half pensive parts. 'TU Master Shakespeare of the Globe. "Who Joins the motley throngs that sweep Through Paul's Walk ere the full barge starts To traverse Thames his channel deep. Half London on the crowded thwarts? Who to the Southwark side resorts, Southampton. Pembroke, each, ear-lobe Clalmlns In turn with keen retorts? 'Tls Master Shakespeare of tho Globe. "Who makes men's hearts to burn or leap When the Moor's rage his brow distorts. Or Hamlet plots, or Juliet sleeps In Capulet's tomb, or Dromlo smarts? Whom In the Mermaid's foaming quart Doth Raleigh toast, "whose brows englobe Imagination's sailing charts"? 'Tls SCaater Shakespeare of the Globe. Master (there Is hut one) of arts And hearts and parts, men's souls to probe; The king who relgncth In all hearts Is Master Shakespeare of tho Globe. PROFIT ANDTHE CANTEEN. PORTLAND, Jan. 8. (To" the Edi tor.) The voice crying in the wilder ness which signs Itself Roy Smith seems to be off on the wrong foot in Its letter in today's Oregonlan on the canteen question. Smith's . griev ance seems to be that he did not par ticipate In the profits of this iniqui tous business. That Is really too bad, but it is a matter chargeable to his company commander. In my com pany of the Seventeenth Infantry, which served through Cuba and three years in the Philippines, there was a different state of affairs. Of course this matter of company funds Is aside from the real ques tion, but it is just as well that peo ple should "know what the protits of the canteen did do for the soldier. In traveling by rail to and from Cuba and the Philippines, we had. instead of the odious canned corn beef and salmon, canned beans and hardtack, a palatable ration" of smoked - meats, cheese and bread purchased from that fund. In the campaign the company maintained out of the fund a diet kitchen, where wholesome foods were served to men suffering from bowel troubles, thus keeping many men on the line who would have gone to the hospital If they had been kept to tho Government ration. In addition, the general mess was continually helped out with purchases of fresh vegeta bles, oatmeal, milk, eggs, chickens, codfish, macaroni, ham and a dozen other such articles. Furthermore, we purchased from time to time quantities of books and subscribed for newspapers. At one station we erected a bandstand and bought benches, turning the plaza into a pleasant park, where the men sat in the. evening and listened to the band. A dozen other excollent uses might be mentioned to which we put the company fund. The transition from the canteen to the present condition was atriklngly notlceable in the station that we oc cupied at the time the canteen bill passed. Up to that time there had been no liquor sold in the town ex cept by a hotel at the other end of the place, a mile from the quarters. The men drank beer at the canteen under the supervision of the canteen steward, a sergeant, who limited the amount and kept order. But on the day that the canteen went out of business no less than five grogshops were opened around the quarters, where no beer wa3 -sold, but the vilest poison under the guise of whisky. In these places a soldier's credit was al most unlimited, and "he was allowed to drink all he could hold. That payday was a record-breaker for disorder and courts-martial. More men wero In trouble than there had been in a year before, and the sick report al most doubled. Was it a coincidence? The main, question, that of prohibi tion, Is largely one of sentiment, and no profit arises from discussing It. But in the application of the princi ple to this case the W. C. T. U. has followed the- line of least resistance just as law sends the small criminal to jail and collects a full assessment from the small taxpayer. The soldier is no one's constituent in particular. and wns given up, with his compara tively Innocent beer, to the officious ladies as a sop to draw their activities from the real evil. But I am really sorry that the vir tuous Mr. Smith did not have an op portunity to participate in tho profits of this terrible business. SOLDIER. Tone In Tombstone. t Tombstone (Ariz.) Prospector. Every symptom point? to a tendency to spread on style in Tombstone. Among other instances in this direction, the boys bought a pair of beautiful barber-pole suspenders and presented them to tho amiable dispenser who shoves the amber extract of cheerfulness over tho ma hogany of the Parlor saloon. Ho promptly donned the innovation, but claimed that he felt llko he had a fence rail on each shoulder. Then when they became ovcrburdensome he would unbutton them and permit them to dangle in front: but he fin ally got them down fine enough to go to church In. Several old-timers, conspicuously court attendants from tho other end of the county, have fallen Into the habit of wearing boiled shirts, and it looks as if sky-blue overalls might be dis carded as a full-dress costume. Getting "powerful tony" in town nowadays. What Chicago Faces Tell. Loren H. B. Knox in January Atlantic. Chicago's great mission of uplifting the. lower strata of races Is broadly evident In the faces of Its masses. Of course, only by viewing the multi tude as a whole is the effect recogniz able. The observer can know nothing of Individuals, but looking Jnto the coun tenances of hundreds of Teutons, Jews. Celts, Scandinavians and Slavs, the pre vailing typos seen dally on the streets, he discerns the American quality In vary ing degrees creeping In to supplant soma of the more marked native lineament?. A distinguishable homogeneousness Is work ing out of the heterogeneous human com pound. Even two or three years as janitor, teamster, gardener. Junk dealor or hod carrier In a large American city have an effect in moulding away the aboriginal inertness and depression from the fea tures of an alien. What Ills Son Thought of tho "War, Columbus Dispatch. "It was toward the end of the Civil War." said the veteran, nodding reminis cently, "and I was home on furlough. Onn day I happened to be in Cincinnati and was standing In front of a hotel talking with a crowd when the conversation turned to the likelihood of the war end ing soon. The general opinion was that It would be some time before the country was at peace, but finally an old man spoke up and said: My son thinks it will bo all over in a few weeks.' "We all smiled, for I suppose that the rest thought as I did that my son' was in the greatest probability a high private in the rear ranks and knew as much about when an armistice or final peace might come as we did; but finally I asked the old man who his son might be and you can imagine the astonishment of the crowd when this reply came: 'Why, Gen eral Grant.' " NEWSPAPER WAIFS. "If it's a nice day. come and tafc'e me out In your auto, Wednesday." "nut suppose It's not a nice day?" "Come the day before." Cleveland Leader. Jagsby "What shall I take to remove tho redness from my nose, doctor? Take nothing for three months. Two dollars, please. Chi cago Dally News. Maid Please, mum. the baby haa gone and turned the Jug of cream all over me best dress. Mistress Never mind. Bridget; we can usa the condensed milk. Judge. "We have no such statesmanship as flour ished In olden times." "No," answered Sen ator Sorghum: "We have something to do now besides writing piece for sordid publish ers to put Into fifth readers." Washington Star. "Let me congratulate yon on that pleco called the 'Magpie's Nest.' " said the tall gentleman who had been ' sitting In the rear of the hall. "The medley of tongue was wonderful." "That wasn't called a 'Magpie's Nest.' " corrected the phonograph professor. The record was taken at a sewing society meeting In a small town." Chicago Daily News. Tourist What's that crowd down at tho Courthouse? Native Oh! they're tryln tho case o' Sam Johnson, suh. Tourist Sam Johnson? Why. he was the man who was lynched yesterday, wasn't he? Native Taas. suh. but today some o' the boys got to feel in' curious to know whet hah he was Innocent or guilty, suh. Philadelphia. Pres.