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PORTLAND, FRIDAY. JANUARY 12. 106.
' OUR SPORTIVE RULERS.
The logic of the recent speeches upon
the Philippine tariff bill In the House of
Representatives would be a disgrace to
a debating club in a backwoods school
district. Two speakers only. Dalzell
and Grosvenor, have any conception of
the real issue. The others fire at ran
dom into the earth, into the sky. into
each others faces, but never at the
mark. The ancient Spartans used to
keep a public drunkard on a salary for
the boys to look at as a warning. Some
similar moral, or mental, benefit may
result from a study of recent Congres
sional eloquence forand against the
proposed reduction of the tariff upon
imports from the Philippines. The
President's recommendation was to re
duce this tariff to the fourth part of
the sacred Dingley rates on tobacco
and sugar., -with free trade in other
goods, and a bill is now before the
House to that purport.
There are two valid arguments for
the bill. One, that it is simple justice
to the Islanders. We have made them
American subjects against their will.
"We have, as Mr. Dalzell says, "extend
ed to -these people our navigation laws,
our immigration laws and our alien
contract labor laws" all to their dubi
ous advantage. We have imposed upon
them all the burdens of American citi
zenship; we cannot without sheer in
justice withhold from them a fair share
of Its advantages, the greatest of which
would certainly be free trade with the
rest of the Nation. To deny this to
them would toe to repudiate in a man
ner' most brazen and shameless all the
noble professions of high aim and un
selfish purpose which we made at the
outset of ihe Spanish War, and justify
the sneering accusations of hypocrisy
which the French and Germans then
made against us.
The second valid argument for free
trade with the Philippines is constitu
tional. The Constitution of the United
States prescribes free trade between
all parts of the country. It is this pro
vision which has made us a prosperous
nnd homogeneous Nation. Our internal
trade is many times greater than that
with foreign conutrles, and it has al
ways been free to develop according to
the laws of Nature. Any man who,
like Mr. Kiefer of Ohio, ascribes our
prosperity to the Dingley tariff, simply
shows how ignorant he is of the facts
In the case: for enormously the greater
'and more important part of our com
merce has never been subject to the
Dingley tariff, or any other tariff. It
has been carried on under that system
of free trade which Mr. Mahon of
Pennsylvania calls a crime. The pend
Ign bill prbposcs to give the Filipinos
the same right under the Constitution
which the rest of the Nation enjoys,
find it proposes nothing more. Nay. it
gives them Jess; for -this bill throws the
6op of a sugar and -tobacco tariff to
those two trusts a sop utterly wrong
In principle and only thrown because
their inexorable and ravenous greed
lias -power to extort It.
But this sop, one-fourth of the Ding
ley rates, does not satisfy these two
monsters of infamy. Certain other
trust? oppose the bill to admit New
Mexico and Arizona, as a single state,
and these two elements have combined,
each promising to help defeat the bill
obnoxious to the other. Between them
they control so many Republican votes
that the measures may be in -danger,
though both the President and the Re
publican organization favor them.
Hence, when Mr. Kiefer of Ohio, or
Fordney of 'Michigan, declares himself
against the Philippine bill on the
ground of its being Democratic in prln-
ciple, he gives this silly reason only
because he Is ashamed to announce the
real one. The bill is neither Demo
cratic nor Republican: it is American,
and has'been the universal and undevl
atlng American policy ever since the
Constitution was adopted; and Mr. Kie
fer opposes it simply and solely be
cause the sugar trust holds a club over
his head. He is, therefore, cowardly
enough, perhaps, but not so absurd as
he tries to appear.
On the other hand; Mr. Grosvenor of
Ohio was probably more absurd in his
contest of wit with Champ CLark than
he had any wish to be. Clark, a Dem
ocrat, favors the bill because he thinks,
or pretends to think, it a step toward
free trade. It is a step toward domes
tic free trade, but with foreign free
trade it has nothing to do. That is an
other guestion entirely. The Republi
enrjs and Democrats have been at issue
upon the question of free trade with
foreign countries. Free trade between
the parts of this Nation has happily
never been an" Issue in politics, and
never can ibe -under y the Constitution,
proevenor, a. Republican, favored the
bill on the adequate ground of justice
to the Filipinos, but he lacked either
wit or Information to -parry Clark's jeer
that he nvas supporting a Democratic
measure, and in his confusion made the
tactical blunder of rejecting the aid of
Clark and his party men to pass it, aid
likely to be very much needed. "Let
them ride in the Jim Crow car, and not
in the first-class compartment with
me," he exclaimed with almost incon
ceivable folly. "It was worse than a
crime," Talleyrand remarked of a sim
ilar exploit by a politician in his day,
"it. was a mistake."
CONSOLIDATION OF OREGON WATER,
TOWERS.
Announcement in yesterday's Orego
nlan of the success gained by Mr.
Frank L. Brown, of San Francisco, in
financing a huge syndicate to, convert
water power from the Feather River,
California, Into electrical energy, will
seize. the attention of every reader.
That approximately 400,000 horse
power can be obtained from the waters
of one mountain stream by modern
engineering and hydraulics, is an as
tounding proposition. While not many
rivers in Oregon can provide a fall of
2000 feet under conditions permitting a
fall of that height to be utilized, yet
there are numerous waterfalls and cas
cades which will lend themselves to
being flumed, ditched or carried through
pipe and tunnel, to discharge points
where electrical power will be devel
oped. The two electric companies which
have very recently claimed falls on
streams Issuing from Mount Hood, and
by their use to supply power to this
city and neighborhood, are cases in
point. In these only small rivers are
utilized, but immense powers, aggregat
ing something like 140,0J)0 horsepower
for the two companies, are expected to
be developed for sale and use.
In his address at the Oregon Develop
ment League meeting yesterday. Colo
nel John T. Whistler drew attention to
the crying need of Information on the
possibilities of Oregon in this regard.
He supported the view, which The Ore
gonian has consistently maintained,
that Oregon's water powers are her
equivalent for the available coal fields
in various other states, and deserve the
same careful and official investigation
and measurement as are given to the
coal resources of other regions. Fur
ther, that it is absolutely Inconsistent
with the Interests of the state that
claims on water powers should be al
lowed to hold good for an Indefinite
time, undeveloped and unused.
Mr. Brown and his associates seem
to be on the high road to becoming the
"water barons" of California. Such an
enterprise as they are planning, and
are apparently in the way to carry out,
will match any coal combine of Penn
sylvania, and "will be far more secure.
To lead the waters from the mountain
side into lake and reservoir, to regu
late the outpour Into flume and tunnel,
to set In motion turbine and engine, to
use pure water and evolve pure power.
Is a simpler, Jess costly and less dan
gerous pursuit than to open shaft arid
adit, and by human hands delve in the
dark mine.
Our hope in Oregon is that the abun
dance and scope of her water powers
will transcend the ability of any one
syndicate or corporation to impound
and own. '
"NICHOLAS THE IRRESOLUTE."
The Russian budget for 1906 reveals
the total cost to that naliorr of the war
with Japan. The astounding present
ment of an expenditure of $1,050,000,000
is made as the price paid for an un
broken line of defeats on land and sea,
including (the loss of two fine naval
fleets. Never was a dilatory govern
mental policy, total unreadiness for
war. and stupid underestimate of the
resources of an enemy, more dearly
paid for. "Wait," said the Czar and
his ministers, while Japanese diplomats
and statesmen urged upon the attention
of the government points at issue In
the Far East between the two empires,
"there is no hurry about it." And
Japan waited perforce, and while she
waited she built ships, mobilized troops,
trained soldiers and gunners, manufac
tured ammunition, moved and stored
food supplies, negotiated loans and in
every way made herself familiar with
the situation afloat and ashore. Then
one daj in February, 1903. her states
men decided that she had waited long
enough, and without more ado opened
hostilities.
The events that followed are of re
cent history, and with their results
Russia is still striving with bloody,
hands among her own people. With"
them she will strive for years and
years, exacting tithes from her sub
jects (if their plans of revolution fall)
until the last kopek contained in $1,050,
000,000 is wrung from the drudging
peasantry.
Perhaps these plans will not fail,
though at present failure seems to over
shadow them. Count Tolstoi, that won
derful combination of wisdom and im
practicability, thinks it well to warn
the rulers of the empire that, unless
they listen to this last appeal, that the
people are making for life a life that
is worthy of the name th,e time of
their power, of their very existence, is
short. In his latest address to the
Czar, which includes his advisor. Tol
stoi says significantly:
You have tortured the nllrat sufferer -until
he han shown to you his hungry troth. From
the humble huts to the mansion of the -mll-Jlonalre.
from the dull villages to the treat
cities you have everywhere awakened the ven
geance of the people.
The ruler to whom this warning is
given is designated by William T. Stead
as "Nicholas the Irresolute" a man of
good Intentions, not cowardly, but
easily swayed by his advisers; ,a. man
who holds blindly to the doctrine of the
divine right of the Czar, who is pledged
by every instinct of -blood, birth, creed
and environment to autocracy, and who
knows nothing, comparatively, of the
bitter wrongs under which his suffering
subjects writhe and die. "Nicholas the
Irresolute" he has been since he was
called to the throne by the death of
his father a dozen years ago. He has
livad In a state of unpreparedness all
of these years. He is still unprepared
to meet the questions that defeat
abroad, mutiny in his army and' navy
and revolution among his subjects in
the great centers of his empire have
made plain o all the world questions
Involving the simplest rights of the in
dividual, the simplest demands of hu
manity. He is "Nicholas the Irresolute"
still, shut away from his people in his
palace prison, with its quadruple guard
of fierce and bloody Cossacks, putting
his faith in the symbols of ecclesiastl
clsm. blindly believing that peace will
be restored in his empire, but Incapable
of lifting a finger to hasten and Insure
this end. "Nicholas the Irresolute". Jie
will Temain to the last, whiclvln the
view of Count Tolstoi, is no farther
away than a refusal, if It shall come,
to call a national parliament in the
Spring and Indorse its demands for a
recognition of the people's rights in and
through the government.
A FULL ALL TOGETHER.
According to Judge Stephen A. Low
ell, df Pendleton, Oregon has two great
wants, population and transportation.
How to supply them is the great ques
tion before the convention now meet
ing In this city, where the Development
League and the editors will deliberate
jointly and discuss plans for the ad
vancement of the state. What the edi
tors can best do is to promote the spirit
of progress at home and advertise the
advantages of Oregon abroad.
Nothing so hinders the development
of a state as petty jealousies between
different sections combined with that
dislike of outside men and enterprise
which tends to grow up in Isolated com
munities. These evils the rural editors
can fight successfully, and, upon the
whole, their work for broad state pa
triotism, intelligent understanding be
tween different sections and a friendly
feeling toward men from other states
has been admirable. Silly talk about
the "effete East" and equally silly pride
in local Ignorance and backwardness
are passing away In Oregon, and this
progressive change must be credited to
the editors.
The great Willamette Valley Is. com
pared with many less fertile portions of
the world, only partly populated. With
more intelligent division of the land and
better cultivation it would support
many times its present number of In
habitants. Eastern Oregon must wait
for railroads before settler will locate
upon its fertile soil, but railroads must
come In time. Judge Lowell's sketch of
a railroad system with a main line
striking through the state from west
to east and feeders reaching every Im
portant section may seem visionary
just at present, but it is one of those
visions which prove prophetic. The
spirit of persistent and Intelligent en
terprise whlch is now alive in Oregon
will make this and other bright dreams
realities before many years have
passed.
Population and transportation are
Oregon's great needs. Co-operation of
every section and every man in the
state is the way to get them.
THE SUNDAY OREGON! AN.
Among the notable features In The
Sunday Oregonian tomorrow, there will
be: The introductory article by Lin
coln Steffens. who has started to de
mand answers tothe question, "Is Our
Government Ours?" An authentic in
terview with Pope Plus X by James
Gibbons Huneker; the "Roosevelt
Bears," a decidedly novel and fascinat
ing serial story In rhyme for children
and youth; a remarkable letter from
Frederic J. Haskln, now in Ceylon, who
photographed several elephants In the
jungle; a sympathetic letter from Lon
don showing how, under Sir Henry
Campbell-Bannerman, hope for home
rule for Ireland -was never brighter all
these in addition to such a variety of
matter of human interest as must en
lighten and entertain people In every
walk of life.
It may be added a's a plain state
ment of fact, without boast, that no
other newspaper on the Pacific Coast
carries so large, so complete and so ex
pensive a telegraphic report as does
The Sunday Oregonian. Literally, it
covers the world's activities. Eastern
newspapers-If there are such that
surpass this Journal in news service
may be numbered on the fingers of one
hand.
WHEN JANUARY IS WARM.
Next to a cold April, fruitgrowers and
rose fanciers regard a warm January
with greatest apprehension. There Is
nothing in unseasonable weather con
ditions to inspire confidence In an early
harvest and the hopes of a plenteous
year. This is especially true when
balmy (breezes blow out of the south in
January, and the sun, encouraged by
the lengthening daylight, coaxes buds
to expand prematurely. Occasionally,
even In this favored climate, the month
of January fully justifies Its name and
deceives the very elect among the ele
ments of Nature Into too willing re
sponse to his wiles. January has twice
in the past decade played successfully
thls treacherous game upon the vegeta
tion of the Willamette Valley. Febru
ary following in each case with a quick
rebuke that sent the buds to cover af
ter nipping them sharply. No great
damage was done in either case, though
there were no roses In bloom for Deco
ration day cither year (1S9S and 1901) In
consequence of this exchange of compli
ments between the last two months of
Winter, while some of the smaller fruits
were scarce in the markets of early
Summer.
Our present January has thus far
been an ideal Winter month neither
warm nor cold, neither stormy nor
balmy, but Just what January should
be when it casts off the opprobrium of
its name and refuses to be double-faced.
We need Winter weather (of the Ore
gon type), and we have had it. There
is some promise of snow In the air,
and If it comes It will", except for the
temporary discomfort that attends a
snowfall In a moist instead of a freez
ing atmosphere. Be a good thing, though
school children will -be alone In givlpg it
welcome.
Whatever comes, the climate of Ore
gon can be depended upon to bring
abundance to the farmer and prosper
ity to all. It is, furthermore, the part
of loyalty for Oregonlans to refrain
from echoing the silly statement that
reflects disagreeably and unjustly upon
the Oregon climate because during the
Winter season Winter weather prevails.
The "warm January" predicted by the
self-assessed weather-wise has not ma
terialized, and half the month has
passed. The "hard January," meaning
one of frigid temperature and heavy
snows, also predicted, can now at worst
only 'be half realized. In the meantime
the public health is good, trade Is brisk,
stock is wintering .well, merchandise is
moving, the methods of the Portland
Gas Company have been exposed, the
finest poultry showJn the history of the
state Is in progress, a horticultural ex
hibit the like of which nvas literally
never seen before has warmed the
hearts of Oregon apple-growers, real
estate is moving, plumbers are busy
fitting pipes in new buildings, the edi
tors of the country press are with us,
and, literally speaking, "all's well
aboard the. brig." So why worry and
speculate about a warm January, or a
cold February, or any other condition
that is under control. qt .the powers of
the air?
There is probably a connection be
tween the unusual weather that has
prevailed over the eastern half of the
continent this Winter and the extraor-
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dinary succession of hurricanes that
has ravaged the Atlantic One steamer
that came in from Liverpool after fif
teen days reported fourteen days of vio
lent gales the worst weather in the
experience of the officers. During the
storm -of Christmas week one captain
reported the lowest barometer he had
ever' seen on the Atlantic as low as a
typhoon barometer. One remarkable
feature has been the number and mag
nitude of what are popularly called
"tidal" waves, due, evidently, not to
earthquakes, but to the unusual area
and violence of the storms and the con
sequent unstablllty of the ,sea.
The greatest of all illustrated books,
Heber R. Bishop's collection of jades;
after twenty years' work, has just been
completed. Mr. Bishop died two years
ago. The plan of cataloguing his col
lection was his own, and to carry It out
cost JKXT.OOO. It is printed in two vol
umes on the finest quality of linen pa
per. These weigh together 124 pounds,
contain 570 pages, have 150 full-page
illustrations In water colors, etchings
and lithographs, and about 300 pen-and-ink
sketches. Only 100 copies of the
work have been printed, and none are
for sale. They are to be sent to various
libraries In this and other countries, to
the Emperors of Germany, Russia.
Japan and China, to the Queen of Hol
land and the Prince of Wales. The
collection that it represents was left by
Mr. Bishop to the Metropolitan Museum
of Art in New, York City, where it has
been Installed In a special room. It Is
by such means that science becomes In
debted to her- votaries and that the
ever-recurring present reaps a contin
ual harvest from past endeavor.
Commenting on the probable course
of Congress in granting statehood for
Arizona and New Mexico and denying
territorial government for Alaska, the
Chicago Chronicle says: "It is claimed
that there Are now 60.000 white men in
Alaska. The claim may be excessive,
but if there were even half the number
stated and If they were willing as they
are to bear the expense of a terri
torial government, it Is hard to see why
they should be denied the privilege so
long as we accord it to the scattered
miners of Arizona and the halfbreed
sheepherders of New Mexico. The suc
cess achieved In the process of govern
ing Alaska as a sort of satrapy since
the Yukon gold discovery Is not such
as to argue for the continuance of the
system- Alaska ought to be a territory
and not a crown colony."
A memorial to Dr. Harper, late presi
dent of Chicago University, will take
the form of a large university chapel
centrally located on the campus. Plans
prepared by Dr. Harper ftr this audi
torium, when he hoped to live many
years to direct the exercises therein,
will be followed, friends of the lament
ed educator contributing1 the funds. His
most fitting and lasting memorial, how
ever. wlll be the work of the great
educational institution whose founda
tion he laid. We may indeed say with
Whlttier in his grand estimate of the
lifework of Charles Sumner:
The record of the cause he loved
Is the best record of Its friend.
It may strike the public as strange
that the evening newspaper; of the first
families does not join in exposing the
gas company. But the public need not
wonder. Four of the seven directors of
the gas company are stockholders In
the newspaper organ.
Since the revelations about the Port
land Gas Company, we have all been
obliged to revise the old opinion that
hot air Is the cheapest commodity ex
tant. The gas company has taught us
at our expense many things we
never before knew.
Trusted -bankers who forge bonds
ought to leave a memorandum of the
worthless .paper before they commit
suicide. They only add to their In
famy when they leave the holders of
spurious bonds In doubt.
Roosevelt declared months ago that
he would trust Congress to wrestle
with the tariff problem. Well, Congress
has tackled It early In the season, and
reports from the preliminary bouts
make lively reading.
By a Judicious hot-airing of its gas
and watering of Its stock, the Portland
Gas Company may be able to get the
price down to Jl per thousand without
appreciable loss to itself or benefit to
the public
A deadly fear is beginning to per
vade the country 'that when Datto
Bryan comes back he will show many
powerful reasons why we should keep
the Philippines.
BIgelow &. Bowen Is the alliterative
title of a combination that promises to
be remembered as the great American
knockers.
It is surprising to find thRt even the
Farmers and Shippers Congress could
not form a perfect tax code.
Not a Sinner That Time.
From the Richmond and Manchester
News Leader.
She was a thin, narrow, dark visaged
woman with "specs" on, and she car
rled a package -of tracts and leaflets.
which he scattered broadcast among
the sinners in the car.
A man got on carrying a big- water
melon. Out of his pocket protruded a
glass flask wltn a rubber cork. The
woman with the tracts handed one im
mediately to this last passenger.
Thankee," he said; ''comic almanac.
heyr
"No, sir," said the woman firmly. In
a high falsetto voice. "It's to save your
immortal soul. Touch not. taste not,
handle not the wine." nnd she pointed
with a crooked forefinger to the glass
flask protruding from his coat pocket.
"Oh. I see," said the man smiling;
"but this bottle ain't for me, -ma'am."
"'Woe unto him that trlveth his
, neighbor drink. ' quoted the wom
I an fiercely, as she waved a warning
hand high above her head.
; "He ain't eggsactly my neighbor.
it's for the new baby, and wife cai'lates
to bring him up by hanJ."
But the woman w!th the tracts hur
riedly left the car at the -next corner,
followed by the smiles of the passen
gers. Onc Editor's Work.
Exchange.
When Henri Rochefort first published
his Lanterne. once a week, hte articles
were eagerly read all over Europe. To
day his rantlngs are little heeded even
by his followers. One of his admirers
has recently done some .figuring. For
nearly half a century Rochefort has writ
ten nearly every day a newspaper article.
These articles. If reprinted in book form.,
would make a library of at least 359 vol
umes. - .
THE SILVER LINING.
Not long- ago they talked' of Roose
velt's plans and Roosevelt's perils. We
don't hear so much about the perils
as time goes on.
Do you always weigh the cost?
Are you progressing, or going back
ward; or do you think you are stand
ing still?
A ruffled mind makes a restless pil
low. Nearly everybody alive is tickled to
death when he sees a friend In trou
ble, and yet the earth does not become
depopulated.
What?
Most of our misfortunes are more
endurable than the' comments of our
friends upon them.
There are family trees where every
livlng shoot and branch, where every
apriglet, almost, carries the six-ciphered
label of plutocracy. Nevertheless,
in the same longitude and latitude, and
In the same year of our Lord, there
are some of us who do iot envy the
money-bulging bunch. We are con
tent with Glory, Gore and Grub, even
if we are denied a few of the extremi
ties of luxury. John D. you're not so
much. We've got hair on our head,
anyway.
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Celebration is the thief of time.
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It Is more expensive to give than to
receive.
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This sweet, thoughtful girl Is saving
something for a rainy day. It isn't
money; nor Is it an umbrella; it is a
pretty pair of new hose.
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He May I kiss your hand?
She You should have higher aspir
ations. "Ah, sweetest." sighed the young man,
kneeling at the feet of his dearest own,
"dost thou know what of all things Is
nearest my heart?"
"Really. I can't say." she sweetly re
plied; "but in this cold weather 1 should
think it was a flannel shirt."
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The Joke of the season Is on Brooklyn,
where the Munlcipf 1-Owncrship. anti
bossism enthusiasm of the recent elec
tions landed a lot of Inconsequential dum
mies In many public offices, and ludicrous
confusion has ensued. Brooklyn politics
always were an enigma to any sane man.
Queen's County has been the scene of
more fantastic political vagaries than
even Tammany In Manhattan could show.
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Ambition, effort, enterprise, success are
largely states of mind; happiness Is the
united states.
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Hon. Morris Llpsky wants the "sky"
taken off his name., and a Judge refuses
him. saying that the syllable "sky" means
nothing more nor less than "son of," like
the prefix "Mac" in the Scotch, or "O"
in the Irish nomenclature. It Is not a
term or Indication of aught in the way
of reproach. Yet Mr. Llpsky Is not satis
fied. Fitzgerald. FItzroy and a whole
class of honorable and distinguished
names are in the same boat with the
"sky." So are the "bens" and the "aps"
and the "sons' and "sens" and the
"vichs." There is a salience to names
of this sort. They associate and recall
fathers and sons. Compared with mere
local or territorial appellations, however
"aristocratic," they are a superior class.
It Is true that "Llpsky" Is both we'd
known and illustrious. The most famous
of the "skys" that have been, are or
shall be, however, is Slupsky, the Hon.
Abe, of St. Louis. Mo. Pared and peeled
down to "31ups," what would It be but
a derision?
If there are any Lczinskys. Petrovitches
or the like who would like to bo heard
on this subject I wish they would speak
up.
a a
MIm Claudle Saint Aubyn stepped In to
apply;
The manager turned with a look that was
Klad:
His luck had ben good, and with hopes that
were nlgix
He asked her concerning the talent she
had.
"Can you dance, can you act.
or is it a ract
That your voice will put Melba and Eames
to the baa 7
"I've had two divorces." she softly replied.
"And I'll soon have another case up to be
tried." . -.
"EnousB." he declared, when at last he
could speak.
"I'll Rive you a hundred and fifty a week."
a a
Kids.
Tun of "Everybody Work But Father.")
I wonder why some pas have none. -
And others, have so many.
It seems the poor pas have the most.
And rich ones haven't any.
The richest man I know In town
Has Just one small boy only:
But pa. says. Gad! he pities him
In that big house so lonely.
It seems to me 'twould he so nice
If kids all come out even:
And when I asked pa why they don't.
He said. "Be quiet. Stephen!"
Then fa m' lies all'd have, bills like pa.
For uk five kids together.
He says, would bust a cattleman.
We wear out so much leather.
But when the circus comes to town
Pa'a clad he has so many.
Tor .he has more tun takln us
Than If he hadn't any.
My pa says some day that he'll be
Too old to jro on workln'. " . '
And then he hopes that none of us
Our duty will be shlrkln.
Toil bet we won't! We all love,.pa-
But wouldn't it be funnr
To have your father hangtn 'round
And askln' you for money?.
I've 'most a quarter In my bank
To buy a bullet moulder.
But now I think I'll save It up
Tor Pa whn he sets older.
Oysters Near Atlantic City, X. J. .
Philadelphia Record.
A considerable oyster business that peo
ple In the cities don't know or hear about
Is carried on in Barnegat Bay, the prod
uct being disposed of at Atlantic City
and among the farms In the neighbor
ing sections. The oysters are found from
a few miles below Seaside Park all the
way down to the Inlet and south of It.
They are gathered by local oystermen In
small boats and taken to Atlantic City,
or at least as far as one of the numer
ous piers, and there loaded onto other ves
sels, which transship them. -One such
vessel that comes up from Atlantic City
once a week carries about 1SCO bushels
each trip. The oysters are said to be of
good size and excellent quality.
Escapes Through Ink. .
Exchange.
Conger eels hunt for the octopus, and.
when found, proceed to browse on Its
limbs. The octopus tries to hug the slip
pery, slimy .conger tight, but In vain, and.
finding Its limbs growing less, discharges
Its Ink In the face of the foe and. under
cover of the' turbid water, beats a hasty
retreat. It Is to escape the too-pressing
attention of its foes that the octopus pos
sesses the power of changing its color to
correpon4.wlUi that of. Its- surreuadlags.
WHISKY VERSUS BEER. j
Washington Corr. Chicago Journal.
The fact that there has been a break
between the brewers and the whisky men
of tho country has been disclosed since
the question came up of whether there
should be prohibition in Indian territory
after Its admission to the Union.
For many years there was a close alli
ance between these Interests, which sup
posed they had everything In common.
but they have now reached the parting
of the ways, and the feud between them
Is quite bitter. The break has come over
the question of prohibition above re
ferred to;
The brewers are heartily opposed to It,
and have taken a stand with those citi
zens of the territory who hold that pro
hibition is illogical and absurd, and more
over that It doesn't prohibit.
The whisky men, on the other hand, fa
vor prohibition, and, strange as it may
seemt are working side by side with the
good women of the W. C. T. U. and kin
dred bodies.
The reason for this division of opinion
Is not far away. Under any form of pro
hibition it would be very difficult for the
brewers to get their goods Into the new
state, on account of their bulkiness.
Whisky, on the other hand, being smaller
in bulk, and therefore more easily han
dled, would not suffer greatly under a
prohibition law. This . has been ' proved
In the recent history of Iowa, the Da
kotas and Kansas. Moreover, the "boot
leg" business, which would assume large
proportions among a population largely
Indian, would flourish more under prohi
bition than without It.
Since the break has come, the brewers
are considering whether they have not
suffered In reputation during the past
yeara by their close association with the
whisky Interests. Beer contains only a
small percentage of alcohol, from i to 3
per cent, and of itself alone has never
been regarded as a deadly enemy to so
ciety. It Isn't beer that brings 75,000 men
In this country every year to drunkards'
graves. There are certain tonic and food
properties In beer, and the makers are
not backward about letting the public
know of them. The brewers are coming
to the conclusion that their business Is
not a menace to the American home or to
American character, and that the -charges
that are brought with so much force
against whisky cannot be made to stick.
In any large way, against their product.
So from this time on they will go It alone.
The brewers and the whisky men have
spilt over another important question,
that of the canteen. The former are in
favor of the restoration of that adjunct
to army life, while the latter, again join
ing with the good temperance people of
tije country, oppose the restoration. The
reason Is again plain for this difference
of opinion.
In the army canteens only beer and
light wines arc sold, the former In quan
tities many times in excess of the latter.
The canteen within the post inclosurc
means the wiping out 'of vile whisky
"Joints" just outside the inclosure. At
these "Joints" the most villainous whisky
Is sold, yielding a large percentage of
profit, and the sale of beer is very small.
If the canteen were re-established the
whisky men would be robbed of the
trade of almost a thousand low saloons
which line the entrance to army posts
all over the country, while the sale of
beer at the canteen would be very ma
terially increased.
Colonel Clarence A. Edwards, chief of
the bureau of insular affairs of the War
Department, tells an Interesting story
illustrating how the canteen operates to
reauce the sale of whisky In the vicinity
of army posts. Several years ago, before
the canteen was abolished by act of Con-1
gress. he was In charge of an army post
In the Northwest. When he took hold of
It there were upward of 40 low saloon
dives skirting the edge of the military
reservation, along the main road leading
Into It. Colonel Edwards at once estab
lished a canteen, where, under the regu
lations, he arranged for the sale of beer
and light wines to tho enlisted men. At
fonce the business of the grogshops out
side began to decline, and In less than
six months every one of them had gone
out of business. This withdrawal from
the field cut a large hole in the trade of
the wholesale whisky dealers and In
creased the trade 'of the brewers, and
while this was the case the deportment
of the enlisted men was greatly Improved.
There were fewer breaches of discipline,
fewer arrests, and the men. as a whole,
began to save money to send home or put
In bank.
It Is quite likely that an effort will be
made In Congress this Winter to reopen
the canteen question, with a view to re
pealing the present law. When that time
comes the brewers of the country will be
found advocating It, while the whisky
men will be found opposing it and work
in with the temperance people to that
end.
The Importance of the fact that prac
tically every army officer now in the
service, high and low. Is in favor of the
canteen, and that their wives join them
In taking that position. Is beginning to
dawn upon Congress and the country. As
men are able to free themselves from
prejudices they co that It Is very Improb
able that any system can work to the
disadvantage of the enlisted men which
has such Intelligent and disinterested sup
port as that just named.
FAME OF A TjITTLE CITY.
Slonx Falls, S. D., the Mecca of
Enstcrners Seeking; Divorces.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The cold facts are that South Dakota
has too many divorces In proportion to Its
population. With only slightly less than
500.000 people. It has a divorce a day.
Sioux Falls, with Its less than 13,000 popu
lation (called the biggest little city In
the world). Is the metropolis of the state,
and in its courthouse some 150 causes are
begun annually. Few of these are by lo
cal people. The others are attracted
hither by the facility with which divorce
may be obtained, and local lawyers. local
hotels and those the hotel patronizes are
the gainers. For. al though the town is
small when judged by the standard of
Eastern and Middle Western cities. Its
large and extensive ($2.50 to 33.50) hotel,
with a menu good enough for New York,
is constantly crowded, and on Saturday
nights and Sundays It Is packed with
people who would not nearly all be there
except for conditions referred to.
Of course, the presence of divorcees has
made necessary and possible a good ho
tel, and a good hotel Itself draws travel
ing men. So ,the causes are Interacting.
But the primary cause is the ever present
seeker after release from marital tics
that have become a burden.
The conditions are not. according to
court .officials and records, improving. The
fact that they are not getting worse Is
no hopeful sign they are so much worse
already. The act of sneaking to that
state and perjuriously pretending to be
come a citizen Is the perpetration of 'an
open and palpable fraud upon both that
state and upon the Intent and purpose
of the law in whatever state the divorcee
balls from.
South Dakota as a state gains nothing
from It. Some hotel men, some lawyers,
get money out of It. The state gains no
citizens worth mentioning and gains a lot
of notoriety that galls her best people.
The court officials don't like to have It
mentioned to them any .more than they
would like to have you ask them about a
scandal in their own families.
Ho! Silver for Senator Clark.
Exchange.
Senator Clark has bought for J1.730.0CO
the famous Union mine. El Dorado
County, California, for which the Stand
ard OH Company offered $1,250,000 last
Spring. Former owners of the mine lost
the vein after taking out 51.500.000 in
bullion and sold the mine for $1400. The
new owners found the vein again, and
upts date-it has yielded JK.9W.e00.-
SOME THINGS "
IN THE OREGONIAN
TOMORROW
First and best the mo3t compre
hensive telegraphic news' service by
the Associated Press and special
correspondents, of any Pacific Coast
newspaper; then the customary de
partments, and the best features
that can be bousht:
"IS OUR GOVERNMENT OURS?"
BY LINCOLN STEFFENS
Lincoln Steffens, the famous au
thor and writer, begins tomor
row his special- articles for The
Sunday Oregonian. written from
Washington. D. C. Mr. Steffens
goes to Washington In the plain
character of a private citizen to
And out all' he can about the
Government. Those who are ac
quainted with Mr. Steffens
graphic style and fearless Inves
tigations will congratulate The
Sunday Oregonian In adding Mr.
Steffens to Its already large staff
of able, special correspondents.
AN AUDIENCE WITH
POPE PIUS X
James Gibbons Huneker, the noted
author and New York dramatic
critic has written for The Sunday
Oregonian an account of his recent
audience with Pope Pius X. Mr.
Huneker is a brilliant writer and
his personal impressions of the
pope are very entertaining.
AMERICA'S MOST
USEFUL CITIZEN
Next Wednesday the Nation will
celebrate the bi-centenary of Ben
jamin Franklin. In anticipation.
The Sunday Oregonian will give a
nutshell view of his career, his ad
vice to his fellow-countrymen and
the opinion of great men on Frank
lin's worth.
THE ROOSEVELT BEARS"
BOARDING A PULLMAN
The second installment describes a
day brimful of excitement, which
every right-spirited boy and girl
In the country will enjoy. The
bears have a wild ride over moun
tain roads on cowboy horses to
catch their train.
RULERS IN WASHINGTON'S
SOCIAL EMPIRE
Mrs. Roosevelt's realm is divided
Into six principalities, each with a
sovereign. A special correspondent
tells of the Inflexible laws that
govern movements In what Is con
sidered America's highest society.
There are three women besides the
President's wife who are not
obliged to return calls.
THE IMPARTIAL GOD
AND HIS LOVE
For his sermon tomorrow morning
Dr. Newell Dwlght Hillls dis
courses on the subject above quot
ed. In his own lofty, optimistic
spirit, appealing alike to the de
voutly religious believer and the
modern day agnostic.
IRELAND'S DREAM
NEARING REALIZATION
England's new Prime Minister. Sir
Henry Campbell-Bannerman. is the
first man of purely Celtic strain
who ever reached that eminence.
With his accession comes well
founded hope for Home Rule. A
London correspondent describes and
pictures his allies In the cause.
WHERE ELEPHANTS
ARE AT HOME
This Isn't a circus yarn, but a re
markably Interesting story from
Frederick J. Haskin. now In Cey
lon, who sends also some striking
pictures of elephants who posed for
him In tho jungle.
THE MAGNA CHARTA
OF THE UNITED STATES
Thus does Judge George H. Will
iams. In his recollections, designate
the fourteenth amendment to tho
constitution. He himself was the
author of section 2. Everybody
who has access to the Sunday Ore
gonian should read and remember
what this man. who helped to
shape National legislation, ha3 to
say concerning the work of him
self and associates. The calm tone
of his articles commends them to
men of Southern sympathies.
TEA THAT IS PUT
UP IN TABLETS
This l a story, not from China.
but from South Carolina. In our
own land, where the Government
undertook the cultivation of the
plant and Improved on the Chinese
product.
CRATER LAKE UNDER
A COVERING OF SNOW
Some rare photographs of this
greatest of Oregon wonders, taken
while yet the snow lay deep around
Its rim and over Wizard Island.
AUTO THAT TRAVELS
ON ROUGH ICE
i Latest development of the newest
motor, which has been made to
move over frozen lakes at the rate
of 20 miles an hour, Irrespective
of wind.
TWO PAGES OF LIVE
SPORTING NEWS
The sporting department of the
Sunday Oregonian covers happen
ings In all branches of athletics,
amateur and professional. Special
correspondents and the Associated
Pres3 give the news of the world
and local writers cover the happen
ings In Portland. The Sunday Ore
gonian prints more sporting news
than any paper in the Pacific
Northwest.
SOCIETY, MUSIC AND
DRAMATIC REVIEWS
The fullest reviews of the week's
events In society, music and drama
are contained In the Sunday Ore
gonian. and each department Is
always well Illustrated. The
coming of Madame Calve, the
approach of the English grand
opera season, an interview with
Madame Modjeska. announcements
of coming attractions, accounts of
weddings and social happenings
will be found In this section.
CONRIED'S GRAND OPERA
CHORUS ON A STRIKE
Emelle Frances Bauer In her New
York letter -discusses the causes
and effects of the strike of the
Metropolitan Opera-House chorus.
The contention of the young and
old singers is that they cannot live
on $15 a week.
Entertainment for Lord Below Stairs
Tit-Bits.
Lord Newton-Butler has been amusing
his friends by telling the following story:
It was a musical "at home" in Bclgravla
to which he was Invited, and. it beng a
rainy night, he wore a felt hat and a
long waterproof coat over his evening
dress. The family butler opened tbya door
to him. looked puzzled, and then asked:
"Name, please?"
"Lord Newton-Butler," was the reply.
"Oh, Lord Newton's butler are you?
Come along, old chap, and have a drop
of something In the housekeeper's room.
They've got a Job lot up stairs tonight,
and your master ain't come, If you're
looking for him."
"With pleasure," said his lordship, who
spent a chatty .five minutes with the but
ler over a glass of Burton ale. "Much
obliged to you. Im sure; and now I think
I'll go and have a look at the 'Job lot In
the drawing-room."
And, to the butler's .horror, his new ac
quaintance strode up the stairs and was
soon warmly shaking "the " hand or his
hostess. - -