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PORTLAND, WEDNEMUAY. ALIiUST . 1.
TrUKD-TEKM CONTINUENCIEM.
The recent course of events has been
such as to turn the attention of the
public with increasing interest, and
perhaps anxiety, to Mr. Roosevelt'e
Btatement after his election In 190i that
he would not accept a nomination for
another term. What was his motive
fo this statement? Is he In honor
bound to keep the promise which he
then made? Might not circumstances
arise which would bind him In honor to
disregard it? All these questions now
exercise the minde of many people, and
the press grows lively with their dis
cussion. A writer In a late number of
the Saturday livening- Post, a paper
which depends for its readers upon the
classes with very moderate Incomes,
roundly declares that" Mr. Roosevelt has
jio more right to decline to eerve the
country again as President than an or
dinary citizen has to refuse to serve as
a soldier when he is needed. The duty
of the Individual to the Nation is para
mount over his personal inclinations,
and his statements of purpose must be
understood in the light of this higher
obligation. They may be made nuga
tory, therefore, by the course of events,
according to this writer.
The Peoria Herald-Transcript has
made an editorial appeal to Mr. Roose
velt to reconsider his determination and
accept the nomination for a second
elective term; but when this was
clipped and sent hy post to the Presi
dent, his secretary replied that what
had already been said was Irrevocable.
The wording of Mr. Loeb's ' letter so
licits one to indulge in a little casuistry.
Like many texts of Scripture, it needs
Interpretation to be understood aright.
"What Mr. Roosevelt meant was that
his resolution was irrevocable, so far
as his own present purposes go. We
can scarcely suppose he intended to
specify the effect which future events
and the mandate of the American, peo
ple might have upon it. There would
be something grotesquely unpatriotic
in the act of a public man who should
declare that tinder no circumstances
and In no possible contingency would
he ever again serve his country as
President, it is unfair to Mr. Roose
velt to take his words in any such
sense.
As for the third-term bugaboo which
makes such a frightful figure in the
eyes of some, especially of men who are
more or less eager for a first term, we
may Imagine that he is not greatly per
turbed by it. He is not a man who
pays too much attention to fetiches.
Another term for him would not be in
reality a third term; but, even if It
were, what of it? The unwritten law,
so-called, that no President ehall serve
three terms is .purely imaginary. Hith
erto in our history there has been no
warrant for electing the same man
more than twice, but that Is a mere
incident. Were the restrictive custom
older than It is, it must yield to the
welfare of the people. There is noth
ing sacred about customs; their valid
ity depends wholly upon the reasons
which underlie them. When the rea
sons all the custom must cease. The
only sensible ground for- denying a
third term to a good President is the
dread of his founding a dynasty which
was vividly present to the founders of
the Government, but now Is absurd.
The appeal to the custom is made
mostly by men who wish to profit by
it. Against the good of the Nation It
cannot rationally weigh as a feather.
We may safely assume that Mr. Roose
velt declined to think of a third term,
not because he saw anything wrong or
even improper in it, but for two other
reasons which are not difficult to dis
cern. In the first place, we may understand
his statement to be an appeal to the
Nation for fair judgment. He wished
hie acts during his second administra
tion to be looked upon and welched
solely with reference to their intrinsic
merits, and not as parts of a scheme
to win another election. He wished to
forestall that Inveterate cynicism which
denies all disinterested patriotism to
every man who aspires to public office.
Being out of competitive politics, h
might hope that what he did would be
accepted or rejected by his fellow-citizens
for what it was really worth
Having high ideals and great purposes
irt mind, he probably foresaw that he
must win for them a support which
transcended party lines or see them
ruined. Such support might be forth
coming to one who had renounced all
partisan ambition when it would be
withheld from an active candidate.
Thus he may have reasoned, and. If he
did so, he reasoned correctly, as the
event has shown.
Secondly, by hi? statement Mr,
Roosevelt put himself in the advan
tageous position of a man who has
nothing to gain or lose from the favor
of friends or the malice of enemies. It
annihilated at one stroke the reins by
which the boss, the franchise-grabber.
the corporation magnate, direct the
conduct of candidates. By declining to
compete lor another term Mr. Roose
velt emancipated hlmcelf from the
baneful control of those who manipu
late the machinery of politics and be
came a free man. How well he has
used his freedom the history of the last
session of Coigress shows. No man
with selfish interests to eerve could
have done what he did. Only one who
had cut loose from all consideration of
personal consequences could have exer
cised the same resolute courage. He
showed equal contempt for the enmity
of the allied corporations and the fetich
worship of the letter of the Constitu
tion. After that can we still believe
that he would be frightened by the in
terested clamor of the politicians
against a third term?
Circumstances might easily arise
which would make it his imperative
duty ' to accept another nomination.
The subjection of the corporations to
the law which he has begun is not
likely to be finished. within his present
term, and no suitable successor may
appear to finish it. What would hen
be Mr. Roosevelt's duty as a good cit
izen? The unmistakable mandate of
the Republican electorate may retire
all the other candidates for the nomi
nation before the convention meets and
the unanimous choice of the party fix
itself upon Mr. Roosevelt. What then
would be his duty? Must he persist in
an obstinate refusal merely for the
sake of consistency? Consistency has
never figured greatly In the conduct of
men of light and leading, and one may
safely say that it never will. Of all
human obligations, considering the
mutable conditions In which we live.
that to consistency Is the least bind
ing. Yet we are snre Mr. Roosevelt
will never again be a candidate, in the
sense of seeking a nomination; and
probably there will be no unanimous
tender of another nomination to him.
TO JIGGLE WITH THE TARIFF.
This Fall the Democrats undoubtedly
will make an issue on the tariff wher
evier they can; but they will make no
general issue, and will not deal with
the subject In an open and honest way.
In protection districts they will avoid
it, trying to make it appear that they
would not disturb protection if they
could. But in districts whose interests
are not of a kind to receive benefits
from protection they will make vehe
ment attack on the protective policy, in
the effort t gain votes from Republi
cans who think there ought to be tariff
reductions.
The Democratic party . has always
Juggled with the tariff, continually
promising what it never could perform.
never really intended to perform. The
party always has contained a very
strong protection element, to which
concessions have always been neces
sary. But the methods have always
produced lopsided or jughandled tar
iffs, too unfair to be.permitted to stand.
At this time the party would not dare
to put on the free list commodities In
whose production the Southern States,
main reliance for Democratic majori
ties, are deeply concerned. Now the
Juggle is right here: Southern Demo
crats know they have nothing to fear,
and so will stick to the party, while it
makes a pretended campaign in the
Northern States against protection.
Then, should a majority be carried in
Congress, there will be repetition of the
lame and impotent conclusion that was
reached In the Wilson bill, la Cleve
land's time.
But most people have short memo
ries, and Democratic outcry against
protection and promise of tariff reform
Is very likely to attract to the Demo
cratic candidates Republican votes in
many Northern districts. It is un
questionable that the tariff ought to be
reformed in many particulars. But the
Democratic party never will better it.
Should it get the chance to try, it would
make merely another fiasco, because it
couldn't get away from the influence
of its own protective element, could not
deny protection to its people in the
Southern States, and would be as un
able to shake off the powerful trusts
that have their center In the great
Democratic metropolis, as it has been
heretofore.
There will be no reform of the tariff
through the Democratic parly. From
that party no constructive legislation
can be expected. It is a party that has
no unity of purpose, on any subject of
National interest. As a National party
it will declare neither for protection
nor against it. But in districts whete
its candidates think they may gain
votes they will attack protection at
the same time assuring their people in
the South that they will stand by pro
tection for .their sake. Treatment of
the tariff by the Democratic party is
far more indefensible than treatment
of it by the Republican party.
NO JOBS FOR THE FAITHFUL.
No wonder the Jobless patriots of
Mayor Lane's unfed Democratic party
grind their teeth and 'buckle their belts
up tighter; His (Honor, by appealing
the Bruin decision ' to the Supreme
Court, can withhold from the hungry
those 175 Jobs for an Indefinite period
perhaps until the end of his term,
eleven months hence, when they may
ba lost to Republicans for another star
vation period.
"Hard times" have pinched many
worthies of the Jeffersonian brood in
Portland ever since the halcyon days
of Pennoyer. When Lane stepped into
the long-vacant shoes of Pennoyer,
thirteen - months ago, everything was
lovely for the brethren; the political
larder in Lane's charge was full of
good things for keeping together body
and soul of famished patriots, who had
gone hungry, that. the party altar In
the lean days might have savory offer
ings. But the brethren did not get the
plums; instead, the spoils have been
fattening the ribs of strangers, and
they who planted the vineyard are not
eating of the fruit thereof.
Pat Powers would have been super
intendent of the garbage crematory.
and, as he says, was actually promised
that Job; but Lane gave it to a man
unheard of by the- patriots. John La.
mont would have been Police Chief, but
Lane gave that position to Gritz-
macher, whom the high priests of the
faith deny as a member of their shrine.
So it was with the Job of inspector of
detectives and captain of police, which
was awarded to a stranger, "that Phil
ippine Islander," Bruin. And there are
ever so many more fat places occupied
by others than the faithful.
WhaOias Lane done for A. E. Ream
and E. Versteeg? Are the two Foleys
and General Killfeather remembered?
How about "Citizen" Parker and John
B. Ryan? Are L. Wilbelm and Colonel
Burkhart, H. B. Nicholas and Newton
McCoy still on earth?
What has become of Charles Petrain
and G. H. Thomas? Was not Paddy
Maher forgotten? Can anybody tell
what J. T. Milner and Bishop Barkley
are doing? Or Hennessy, Murphy and
S. C. Armitage?
J And now, when Mayor Lane has lo
his power to vacate 175 seats at the pie
counter, through the Bruin decision, he
is going to fight that decision In the
Supreme Court. Is it to toe wondered
at the rage in the Democratic camp?
Would anybody be surprised to see the
faithful who bolted from Sheriff Word
call on the Mayor in bunches of twenty-five?
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
If A. J. Hembree had been convicted
and executed for the murder of his wife
and daughter, he would have been the
third man in recent years to meet that
fate after conviction upon circumstan
tial evidence tooth as to the commission
of the crime and the death of the per
sons alleged to have been, killed. There
was no positive evidence of the death
of the Nesblt woman, for whose killing
Norman Williams was hanged. There
was no positive evidence of the death
of Morgan, for whose killing J. C.
Barnes will hang next month. Neither
is there positive evidence of the death
of Hembree's wife and daughter. In
each case there was very strong cir
cumstantial evidence, and in each case
the killing, if it occurred at , all, was
murder in the first degree. Doubtless
the jury in the Hembree case compro
mised with its own doubts by finding
the man guilty of manslaughter, thus
sending him to the penitentiary in
stead of to the gallows. If it should
afterward be proven that a strange
chain of circumstances had made guilt
appear certain when the defendant was
in fact innocent, the Jury would find
some consolation in the fact that the
convicted man had been merely im
prisoned' instead of being hanged.
But to find a man guilty of man
slaughter in a case of this kind re
quires a plain violation of law. Will
iams, Barnes and Hembree were guilty
of coldblooded murder or they were
not guilty of anything. Yet there has
been nothing tout circumstantial evi
dence to show that their alleged vic
tims are dead, or that,- if dead, they
killed them. Yet there can be no doubt
whatever of the guilt of Williams and
Barnes. What shall be said of the
Hembree case remains to be seen.
MOKE JOINT RATE MISREPRESENTA
TION.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is dis
cussing the Joint-rate matter again,
and displays unusual Ignorance regard
ing the conditions which brought about
the attempt on the part of the Wash
ington commission to make the O. R.
& N. line a feeder of the roads leading
to Puget Sound. In announcing that
the railroads would obey the ruling of
the commission the Seattle paper says:
The new order goes into effect on August 1,
and thereafter the farmers in O. R. & N.
territory will be able to command as high a
price for their wheat as do the farmers who
have access to the roads which terminate on
Puget Sound. Prior to this time, all of their
wheat had to be shipped to Portland, where
it commanded a lower prlfe than at either
Seattle or Tacoma, because vessel-owners
charge a higher freight rate from Portland
than from the Sound. The higher rate has
been charged because of the delays and dan
gers in crossing the Columbia River bar and
In proceeding up the long, shallow and tortu
ous channel to Portland from the eea.
The P. -I. is only partly correct in the
statement that after August 1 "the
farmers in O. R. & N. territory will be
able to command as high a price for
their wheat as do the farmers who have
access to the roads which . terminate on
Puget Sound." If there is any differ
ence In the relative values after the
Inauguration of the Joint rate, the re
adjustment will force the farmer in
what is now good "fighting ground"
for the Puget Sound millers to accept
the lower rate which will follow
elimination of all competition between
the roads and the buyers. The Wash
ington farmer does not dwell in Utopia,
and the millennium has not yet arrived,
consequently the philanthropic Puget
Sound millers did not make the fight
for a Joint rate In order that they could
enjoy the blessed privilege of forcing
prices to a higher level. On the con
trary, they expect to buy cheaper
wheat.'and their expectation will prob
ably be realized, as elimination of
all railroad competition has idealized
conditions for- combinations among the
buyers.
Nothing but dense ignorance or will
ful misrepresentation can account for
the statement that "all of their wheat
had to be shipped to Portland, where it
commanded a lower price than at either
Seattle or Tacoma, because vessel-owners
charge a higher freight rate from
Portland than from Puget Sound."
The differential of Is 3d which
some of. the foreign sailing ship
owners levied against Portland did
not affect more than 30 per cent of the
tonnage used in moving the wheat crop
of the Pacific Northwest. The other
70 per cent was moved In vessels whose
owners were well satisfied to accept the
same rates and in some cases lower
rates from Portland than from Puget
Sound. Incidentally it might be men
tioned that the cheapest wheat-carrier
chartered at a North Pacific port for
more than a year was the British bark
Procyon, which has Just cleared from
Portland with a rate of 23s 9d, which is
approximately 2 cents per bushel less
than the rate fixed by the shipowners
for Puget Sound carriers.
Still greater misrepresentation ap
pears in the statement that "the higher
rate has been charged because of the
delays and dangers in crossing the Co
lumbia River bar and in proceeding up
the long, shallow and tortuous chan
nel to Portland from the sea." The
"higher rate" which Is demanded by
a few antiquated shipowners whose
vessels last season handled less than
one-third of the wheat shipped from
Portland and Puget Sound was due to
conditions which existed many years
ago, when eailor abuses in the port laid
an onerous burden on shipping. These
abuses were abolished three years ago,
and thrive now only on Puget Sound,
where shanghaing and even murder
were not uncommon last season. The
"long, narrow and tortuous channel to
Portland from the sea" Is In sufficient
ly satisfactory shape to admit of 8000
ton steamships loaded to their capacity
steaming from Portland to the high
seas, in less than twelve hours, a per
formance which is impossible from Se
attle or Tacoma.
The advantages of this channel are
such that steamship-owners, after car
rying one cargo from Portland, send
their vessels back here whenever it is
possible to effect a charter for them.
Even, the owners who are responsible
for the grain-ship differential against
Portland have repeatedly since the es
tablishment ot that differential char
tered their vessels to load lumber at
Portland at lower rates than were paid
at the same time by Puget Sound ship
pers. These facts effectually dispose of
any claim that there Is a valid reason
for the existence of a differential on
the grain ships which handle a com
paratively Insignificant portion of the
wheat shipments of the Pacific North
fest. It Would toe Interesting to read
a fair and impartial discussion of the
Joint rate In a Washington paper. Such
an opportunity, however, is hardly pos
sible, for the joint rate is not an im
partial affair.
The trip of the Portland Rowing Club
crew to Massachusetts will be a win
ner even if the tooys should toe so un
fortunate as to toe vanquished in the
races. It will awaken in the magnifi
cent sport an Interest such as no other
move that has yet been made could
accomplish. While keen rivalry In
many .lines of eport has occasionally
left tarnishing marks on it, rowing has
always been kept free from the Influ
ences which might tend to discredit it.
For this reason It is patronized by a
select class of people, and the adver
tisement for Portland in sending a
team from the Pacific to the Atlantic
will be worth many times what it will
cost. The trip will prove a briliant
finale to the victorious engagement at
Nelson, and is certain to cause the
mighty oarsmen of the East to take
notice that there Is such a place on the
map as Portland, Or. The long trip
and the great change of climate may
affect the boys so as to prevent their
winning the race, but the men who de
feat them, if they shall be defeated,
will have decided know-ledge of the fact
that they have been in a race that was
not a walkover.
Through a regrettable and obvious er
ror in an editorial paragraph in yester
day's Oregonian It was made to appear
that a Mr. Paul had been sentenced
to the penitentiary for an alleged at
tack on sailors on the steamer Johan
Poulsen. The error was due to the
writer's haste, the name Paul being
substituted for that of Bock, the person
who was found guilty of the assault
As Mr. Paul has at no time been en
gaged in any unlawful work which
might provoke such criticism, The Ore
gonian regrets exceedingly that his
name was inadvertently used instead of
that of the guilty person. The error oc
curred through one of those unfortu
nate lapses of which newspaper writers
are occasionally guilty, and which al
ways cause more chagrin for the paper
than for the Innocent victim of the mis
take. The City of Portland hardly be
grudges the use of Fourth street by the
Southern Pacific, tout it cannot ap
prove long-continued possession of the
present franchise or permit to the
street. The city should have full power
to regulate the use of the street by the
railroad, and this power can toe re
gained by replacing the existing grant
with a. new one, of limited duration.
Some day the city will probably re
quire the railroad to come Into the city
by another inlet. If this were possible,
now, it would unquestionably be better
for the city.
From the rapid advances of the hop
market and the numerous signs of re
joicing among growers. It may be in
ferred that Oregon is not going out of
the hop business. But surely the dry
county growers don't expect beer to toe
made from their hops? Or have they
entered into a scheme to bring down
two birds with one barrel, by forcing
up the price of bops so that the price
of beer also must go up and there w ill
be less beer-drinking?
All contributors to the popular relief
fund raised toy The Oregonian, and all
other interested persons, may learn
how carefully and systematically the
labor of disbursing the money was
performed, when they read the report
of Auditor Devlin, in today's Oregonian.
The Auditor's report has to do mainly
with the method of keeping the ac
counts, which Mr. Devlin finds was
accurate, thorough and business-like in
all its details.
The county will soon have the rock
pile ready again for inmates of the
County Bastile. It is to be regretted
that Ma Puter and Mrs. Watson toe
long to that elect society of United
States guests who are held above the
humble occupation of breaking stone
within a peaceful stockade, away from
the world's Ignoble strife. Mr. Puter
will be himself again, unsoiled, after
release, with his velvet, moist hands.
Sleuth Kay meets many experiences
in his cat-footed hunt In lodging
houses for midnight "disorderly per
sons." If he had not retreated the
other night on ferreting out a married
couple, he might not now feel so com
fortable. His recent retreat from the
women's lavatory of a prominent hotel
also shows him a detective of good
Judgment and presence of mind.
It is just a year since Peary started
for the North Pole. He has not toeen
heard from, but news is expected early
this Fall. Wouldn't It toe going some
in the way of sensational news if Peary
traveling in old-fashioned style and
Walter Wellman in his airship should
meet somewhere in the "eternal white
silence?
Our interesting contemporary, the
Capital Journal, Is making it lively for
the Southern Pacific because the rail
road has advertised Salem as a place
of only 5000 people. "There are 5000
people connected with the state insti
tutions alone," wrathfully remarks the
Journal. All Salem people?
One German Are Insurance company
refuses to pay because its losses came
"from an overwhelming catastrophe
due to a visitation of Providence."
Small losses not due to the aforesaid
Providence paid cheerfully; large not
at all.
"It is impossible to distinguish the
dollar from the six-Jbit companies," re
marks a fire insurance agent- They
are all dollar companies when it comes
to gathering in premiums, or even a
dollar and a quarter.
Mr. Rockefeller has not "lost faith
in his fellow-man," for "there are more
good men than bad." With just a little
money lift, which Mr. Rockefeller and
other 'benevolent gentlemen haven't yet
got. '
Four Walla Walla society girls will
help father out by going into the har
vest field. Some day those young la
dies will get a chance to do the right
thing by father's four sons-in-law.
The Oregon Supreme Court decision
knocking out the $300 household exemp
tion need not stand long when Clacka
mas County retains a lawgiver of rec
ognized resource.
Mr. Bryan was in Ireland, too, when
he wrote the letter demanding that
National Committeeman Sullivan re
tire. Any one with the name of Sulli
van retire?
THE PRESIDENT PITCHES HAY.
Mr. Rooaevelt'a Agricultural Accom
plishments Surprises a Farmer.
Oyster Bay Dispatch in New York Herald.
President Roosevelt is the most active
member of the East End Summer colony,
and he never tires planning pleasures for
his family or devising ways for healthy
exercise. This was aptly demonstrated
when Noah Seaman, superintendent of
the President's place, and manager of the
farm, said to him this week:
"Mr. President, can you give me a hand
at getting in the hay?"
The President, anticipating some good,
healthy exercise, promptly replied:
"Certainly, Seaman, certainly. When
will you be ready for me?"
"What time will you have lunch. Mr.
President?" asked the head farmer.
"About 1:30," replied the President.
"Make It 3 o'clock," said the superin
tendent. "AH right!" exclaimed the President, "I
will be. on hand."
But rain threatenedand the superintend
ent called the President long before the
appointed hour. He responded promptly,
and was soon In the field, pitchfork in
hand, entering Into the work with great
vigor and casting up big bunches of hay
oa to the wagon.
"It is a great honor to stack hay for the
President of the United States," the man
on the wagon ventured to say.
The President laughingly replied: "I am
sure you could do this work much better
than I am dolnr It, and perhaps I am
able to do my own work a little better
than you could do it. Every man to his
trade."
When the hay wagon was filled the
President, very much to the astonishment
and pleasure of the farmers, followed the
men to lae barn, and, going up Into the
hay mow, received the hay and stowed it
away, trampling It down vigorously. The
perspiration rolled down his face when
be had finished his task, but he was high
ly pleased with his experience and re
quested the superintendent to notify htm
when another field of hay Is to be gar
nered, so that he can be on hand to assist.
Superintendent Seaman says that the
President is the best worker he ever had
in the field.
l.V THE OREGON COUNTRY.
Street Sport In Pendleton.
Tribune.
Two small boyB and their dogs had
a strenuous battle yesterday afternoon
with a large rattlesnake on Johnson
street between Webb and AHa. The
allies finally killed the rattler which
had nine buttons on. Eugene Bickel
and Jimmy Osbourne were the victors.
Bears Made a Monkey of Him.
Lostlne Ledger and Democrat.
John Wilson was held up a tree for
almost an hour, on Sheep Ridge Satur
day morning, by and for the amuse
ment of a bear and her two cubs. He
related his experience as soon as he
came to town, and,6n Sunday morning,
the bear hunters, organized and led by
Normal Winlngs, were on the ridge but
nothing was to be seen of mother
bruin or the babies.
Aurora Pastime
Borealis.
While you are waiting- for the farm
ers to come to town figure this out:
A farmer and his wife desired to weigh
a pig and had no scales. The man
weighed 160 pounds, and his wife 139
pounds. They put a board across a fence
so that when they sat upon each end
of the board it exactly balanced. Then
they exchanged places, the wife tak
ing the pig into her lap, just balanc
ing the board again. How much did the
pig weigh? '
Borrow a Western Horse.
Baker Democrat
Frank Johnson, the sheep man, owns
a magnificent saddle horse which he
keeps in Boise. While over there the
other day, he received a. telegraphic
request from a friend to lend his beau
tiful animal. Spider, to a prominent
General of the United States Army for
use in the coming Army maneuvers,
and Mr. Johnson quickly responded.
Spider will go to Washington, D. C, in
a private car and will be returned at
the close of the Summer to his Boise
home.
Pioneer Mother on a Vacation.
Fossil Journal.
Grandma Huntley and her daughter,
Mrs. Lyle, arrived in Fossil Wednes
day from their home in Forest Grove,
Washington County, en route to Pine
Creek, where they will spend the Bum
mer at the home of her son, Harrison
Huntley. Grandma Huntley is 86 years
of age and crossed the plains In 1851.
She is a pioneer settler of Forest Grove,
as well as of Pine Creek In this county,
being among the first settlers on the
creek. She makes the present change
under the advice of, her physician.
Counterfeit Coins In Church.
New Tork Sun.
Vestrymen in a number of New Tork
churches are complaining of the number
of counterfeit coins found in the collec
tion boxes nowadays. Time was when a
piece of bad money in the contribution box
was a curiosity. Persons who were un
fortunate enough to get stuck with spurU
ous. coins took good care not to pass them
off on the church. Whether they are less
conscientious now or less able to detect
the character of the change they handle
Is a question. Churchmen hesitate to sus
pect the congregation of saving up coun
terfeit dimes, quarters and half-dollars
for the collection plate as the easiest way
to discharging their church duties and aC
the same time getting rid of bad money
but with all their charitable Intentions
there are those counterfeit coins to be ex
plained away somehow.
Anto Routs Amateur Cavalry Force.
Topeka Journal.
Why don't they use automobiles In war?
The Atchison Globe says W. P. Waggener
was out In his machine the other evening
and put a whole company of amateur cav
alry to flight single-handed. The cavalry
was maneuvering, but when the automo
bile ran in among them the horses scat
tered like a flock of birds. A dapper lieu
tenant appeared and began to give orders,
bu just In the midst of them his horse
started and tried to climb a tree.
Haying Time.
Des Moines Capital.
The town Is hot and the stifled street
Now breathes In vain for & waft of air.
The pavement sends back the dazzling heat.
And life droops wilting beneath the glare.
Ann Joined with, tollers and struggling on.
I suffer through the oppressive day;
But my thoughts ain't here; they're on out
beyond
Out on the farm where they're making
hay.
They're all out there In the big west field;
Pa, and the boys, and the hired man.
And the Summer sun's shining close above
"With another tingle for their burn and tan.
Machine's a-hum with the cricket's chirp.
While the green sea falls into heaps of
gray.
It's work that's warm, but It's Tiappy toll
Out on the farm where they're making
hay.
In youthful days I took out the Jug
Of water, cool, to the field below.
The berries grew In the meadow grass
Close by the trail that they used to mow.
And 'sweet the song that the skylark sang'.
And the clover blooms Oh, how sweet were
they!
Say, my heart's out thre if I'cannot be
Out on the farm where they're making
hay.
Tes. not the town In this mid-July.
The slaves of office, and shop, and mart.
Now gasp and sigh for the fresh and cool
That the city walls have so set apart.
But I know a place where the prairie air
Blows across the clover from far away.
Where it's good and hot, but It's good to
Out on the farm where they're making
k bay.
BATTLESHIPS IX COLLISION
Alabama and Illinois Scrape Together
and Suffer Slight Damage.
NEWPORT. R. I., July 31. Rear Ad
miral R. D. Evans, commanding the At
lantic fleet, received reports In detail to
day of a collision which occurred during
a fog last night between the battleships
Alabama and Illinois about eight miles
southeast of Brenton's reef lightship. The
f?ide of the Illinois was scraped by the
bow of the Alabama and several plates
of the forward part of the Alabama were
injured. It Is also thought that one or
more of the six-inch guns on the two
battleships were damaged. Admiral
Evans states that neither ship was In
jured below the water line.
Seaman Corbett, of the Illinois, was so
severely injured by the fall of a lifeboat
davit that it was necessary to amputate
one of Ms legs tonight.
ROOSEVELT'S WORD TO POPE
Sends Message Protestants and Cath
olics Are Alike to Him.
' ROME July 31. The Pope today re
oeived the American pilgrimages conduct,
ed by the Right Rev. Henry Gabriel,
bishop of Ogdensburg, N. Y., and John J.
McGran, of Brooklyn, N. Y. The pontiff,
who is enjoying excellent health, recalled
that immediately after his election the
first pilgrimage he received was composed
of Americans, and was presented by Car
dinal Gibbons.
Bishop Gabriel read an address, in
which he said Catholicism was making
rapid strides In the United States, due
to the complete freedom which the church
enjoyed and the good will of the Ameri
can civil authorities. Bishop Gabriel
quoted President Roosevelt as saying to
him on learning that the bishop waa to
conduct a pilgrimage to Rome:
"Tell the Pope that I send him my pro
found regards. I have tried to treat
Protestants and Catholics alike, as my
latest appointments show. I will try to
perpetuate this policy. This republic will
stand for many a century. I expect that
there will be Catholic Presidents as well
as Protestant." I trust that they all will
treat each other as I have tried to do."
The Pope thanked the bishop most
warmly, expressing hia great love for
the United States, and his very highest
esteem for President Roosevelt. The Pon
tiff also presented the leaders of the pil
grimages with medals, and consented to
be photographed in the group of pil
grims. Northwest Postal Affairs.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, July 31. The following
rural carriers were appointed today:
Oregon Forest Grove, route 2, Fred
W. Milne, carrier; Frank B. Howe, sub
stitute. Washington Goldendale, route 3,
McDonald Pierce, carrier; Ralph Hale,
substitute. Palouse, route 4. Isaac I
Harper, carrier; J. W. Harper, substi
tute. Leander G. Kearns has been appoint
ed Postmaster at Tula, Wash., vice M.
H. Patten, resigned.
Judge Tracey to Be Vice-Governor,
WASHINGTON, July Sl.-Judge James
F. Tracey, of the Philippine Supreme
Court, is expected to succeed General
James F. Smith as Vice-Governor-General
of the Philippines when the latter as
sumes the Governor-Generalship of the
islands In September, according to advices
from Manila. No confirmation can be
Judge Wolverton today reappointed
John Bain, of Salem, and C. C. Bry
ant, of Albany, United States Referees
In Bankruptcy.
Keep Reserve Cable In Seattle.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, July 31. A board of offi
cers, to consist of Lieutenant-Colonel
William Glassford, Signal Corps; Major
Winthrop S. Wood, Quartermaster, and
Major ,Hiram M. Chittenden, Corps of
Engineers, is appointed to meet at
Seattle for the purpose of considering
the matter of constructing a suitable
cable tank In Puget Sound to store re
serve cable.
John D. Reaches Cleveland.
CLEVELAND, July 31. Mr. and Mrs.
John D. Rockefeller reached Cleveland
early today on the Lake Shore Limited.
They were driven directly Co Forest
Hill, their suburban home.
Mr. Rockefeller greeted the newspa
per men who had gathered at the
Union Station most cordially. He said
he was glad to get back to his old
home. "Our stay In Cleveland," con
tinued Mr. Rockefeller, "will last until
Autumn, I hope, until our usual time
for going East in October. It will be
a little shorter than usual owing to
our trip abroad, but we hope ic will
be long enough to enable us to see a
great deal of our friends."
Obtains Its List Cheaply.
NEW YORK, July 31. The Mutual Life
Policy-holders' Association has secured a
copy of the list of the company through
the co-operation of the officials of the
company which made up the Mutual's first
list. It was directed to make six copies
of the typewritten names, but made seven.
The association, therefore, finds Itself in
the same position as the international
committee as regards the names of the
policy-holders at practically no expense.
Chinese Custom-House to Open.
PEKIN, July 31. The Chinese gov
ernment has ordered the Commissioner
of Customs to go to Antung and Ta
tuguao, Manchuria, with the staff and
organize a customs service at both
ports.
" HE'S COMIN',
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ESTHER MITCHELL ARRAIGNED
Pleads Not Guilty to Charge of Mur
dering Brother.
SEATTLE, July 31. Esther Mitchell
pleaded not guilty in the Superior Court
this morning to an Information charging
her with murder in the first degree for
the killing of her brother. George Mitch
ell. The girl demanded that she be given
a trial separate from Mrs. Creffleld, Joint
ly charged with her. The court ordered
that she be given such a trial.
Perry and Fred Mitchell, who were with
their brother George at the time their
sister killed him. have forgiven her and
will aid In her defense.
DOUBLE TRACKING LINE.
Northern Pacific Begins Work on
Montana Division.
BUTTE. Mont., July 31. A Miner dis
patch from Livingston says that work on
the double-tracking of the Northern Pa
cific from Bozeman to Livingston will
commence at once. Contractors A. B.
Cook and F. Delta are now on the ground,
arranging camps.
Double-tracking of the road is due to
the Increased traffic. It having grown to
such proportions that it is reported the
Northern Pacific may double-track its en
tire Montana line, preparatory to such
work through to the Coast.
MONTANA MILL IS BURXED
Plant at Virginia City Valued at
$100,000 Destroyed.
BUTTE, Mont.. July 31. A Miner spe
cial from Virginia City says:
One of the most disastrous fires ever
experienced in the Madison Valley de
stroyed the Hlgbee & Hawkins sawmill.
Two hundred thousand feet of rough lum
ber, 60.000 feet of finished lumber, the ntlttv
bunkhouse, stables and granary contain
ing 10,000 pounds of oats, -were burned. The
loss approximates $100,000, with no Insur
ance. The. firm is one of the oldest In the
state, having been in the business 30 years.
NO QUARREL ABOUT THAW
Prisoner's Wife Says She and His
Mother Are Friends.
NEW YORK, July 31. "I wish you
would deny the stories sent out yesterday
about the falling out between Harry's
mother and myself," said Mrs. Harry K.
Thaw, when she visited the Tombs today
to see her husband. "It Is an Infamous
lie," she continued. "We are the best of
friends, both working for Harry's best in
terest." Mrs. Thaw was then asked about the
report that Thaw and his mother had
disagreed over the method of conducting
his defense. "You may deny that. too. if
you want to," replied Mrs. Thaw, "it is
not true. As far as I know, they are get
ting along famously."
Mrs. Harry K. Thaw was Joined at the
prison by Roarer O'Mara, the Pittsburg de
tective, and the two went together to visit
Thaw. O'Mara said that his work would
keep him in New York for three days.
Three witnesses who offered voluntarily
to tell what they know about the Thaw,
case were examined today by Assistant
District Attorney Garvan. One of them
is said to be a nurse employed in a sani
tarium in this city where Evelyn Nesbit
was a patient, and where both Harry K.
Thaw and Stanford White are said to
have visited her.
NO JUDGE TO SAVE HER.
Russian Refugees Deported Under
Peculiar Circumstances.
CHICAGO. July 31. The absence of four
Federal Judges on their vacations Is prob
ably responsible for the deportation today
of Mrs. Czarne Feiersteln and her 8-year-old
twins to Russia, whence they fled In
terror of the riots less than a year ago.
The three had been admittd to the United
'States on the perjured affidavit of a man,
who claimed Mrs. Feiersteln was his
mother. As soon as the family passed at
Ellis Island, he eloped with the eldest
daughter and disappeared. This left the
mother helpless, and she was traced to
Chicago by the immigration authorities
and arrested.
Then Probation Officer Minnie Jacobs
undertook to find a Federal Judge who
could stay the summary deportation pro
ceedings, a local society having Indicated
Its willingness to give bonds guaranteeing
that Mrs. Feiersteln would not become a
public charge. Courtrooms and chambers
in the Federal building were all closed,
and Miss Jacobs spent yesterday in an
unsuccessful hunt for the absent four at
their homes. An Injunction alone could
stop the authorities.
DIRECT CABLE TO JAPAN.
New Line Via Bonln Opened to the
United States.
TOKIO, Aug. 1. A new telegraphic
cable, via Bonln, which establishes di
rect communication between Japan and
the United States, was opened to the
public today, this being the first meg
sage transmitted over It. The open
ing of the new line is hailed with de
light, as an epoch-making event, which
will strengthen the already deep-rootexl
friendship between the countries thus
connected.
Johnson Contempt Case Up.
CLEVELAND, July 31. The contempt
proceedings brought against Mayor John
son last week were" called before Judge
Kennedy In the Common Fleas Court to
day. BY HECK I "
From the Sew Tork World.