THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, OCTOBER . 15, 1906. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. 7" INVARIABLY IN' ADVANCE, tj Hy Mall or Express.) . rally. Pimilay Included, one year Pally, Sunday lncjund. etx month! 4 Tally, Sunday Included, three "months.. j Iatly, Sunday Included, one month Pally, without Sunday, one year.......... Pally, without Sunday, eix monthT. . . . . 3.- Pally, without Sunday, three months l. Pallv. without Sunday, one month .o" Funday, one year ---" 7.!; Weekly, one year (Issued. Thurswayj Sunday and Weekly, one year . a ou BY CARRIER. PaHy, Sunday Included, one. yfar. 8.00 Dairy, Sunday -Included, one month. . .' HOW TO REMIT Send poetofflce "nny order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, cola or currency are at the sender's rick. Give r.ostoles ad dress In lull, Including- county and state. . . POSTAGE RATXS. Entered at Portland. 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Ouklanil, Cal. W. H. Johnston. Four teenth and Franklin streets, N. Wheatley. Ogden D. L. Boyle; W. Q. Kind. 114 25th street. Omaha Barkalow Bros., 1612 Farnam; Mageath Stationery Co., 1303 Farnam; 40 South Fourteenth. barramento, cal: Sacramento News Co., 439 K street bait Lake Salt Lake News Co., 7T West econd street South; Rosenfeld & Hansen. Eos Angeles B. 15. Amos, manager seven street wagons. San Diego B. E. Amos. ' Eong Bench, Cal. B. E. Amos. Pasadena, Cal. A: F. Horning. ban I-'ranclsco Foster & Orear, Ferry iions Stand;. Hotel St. Francis News Stand. Washington, I. C. Ebbltt House, Penn sylvania avenue. Philadelphia. Pa. Ryan's. Theater Ticket Office. PORTLAND, MONDAY OCT. 15, 1906. democratic orrosmoN 10 hearst. It is noticeable that the most confi dent of Heanet's opponents, those who are surest he will be beaten, are the Democrats who oppose him. What the basis of their confidence is cannot be ascertained till the votes shall have been cast and counted. Democrats op posing Hearst declare that he is no rep resentative, of the. Democratic party, and aseert that the party cannot exist on the principles to which the Hearst campaign plainly tends. All this may be true; and yet Hearst still might be elected. Of course the business and property classes of . the state of New York are not with Hearst. But these are not a majority of the voters; and it remains to be seen whether they can persuade a majority of the voters to turn Hearst down. It is urged that the Democratic party really has no candi date;' for Hearst first obtained an in dependent . .nomination, and then ap pealed to Democrats for support on the ground that in the Interest of the peo ple, party should be set aside. Yet he ought and Obtained, through Murphy, Hie Tammany boss, the form of a Dem ocratic nomination, trusting there might be votes in it. The weak points of his position are the alliance with Murphy, and the virtual supersedure of the Democratic party of the. state by the organization known as the Inde pendence League. Yet this last may be the means of drawing to Hearst a body of Republicans, who, on the sup position that the Democratio party is now down and out, may- vote the Hearst ticket. Whatever the result may prove to be, the greater number of the repre sentative 'Democratic' journals of the state are, however, opposing Hearst; some with a dignified seriousness; others with vitriolic arguments. Neither sort may have much influence on the result; for now and then the masses of the people ignore the ad-rice of ora- t tors and newspapers and indulge them selves in wayward voting. However, it awakens Interest to observe the con fidence of such Democratic papers as the Bropklyn Eagle, and the Worldand Times 'of New York. Evidently they do not believe Hear6t has any chance at all. The Times, however, tells what would happen if he should be elected.' "There would be a sorry disillusionment," it 6ays, in store for those who had voted for him, "for he promises much that is beyond his power and much that would work harm;" and a writer in the World's Work says that what would be expected of him would be so impos sible that "the Hearst myth" worked up by his hired writers, would explode soon after his election. Which is prob ebly true; XiEAKXING ABOUT FRUIT. According to the comments made by visitors to the Hood River fruit fair, Its Is evident that fruit-growers from other parts of the 6tate who spent a day or two in this famous fruit-grow ing community feel -that they- have uearnea mucn tnat will be of aid to them In Improving their own methods of caring for fruit and fruit trees. That much is to be expected. No man of Intelligence and a willingness to iearn can mingle with other men engaged in the same line of work without gath ering some ideas that will be of use to 'him in his own activities. Even the most successful of men fall short of perfection. They learn by their own experience, and, if they are wise, by the experience of others. Rogue Rive growers learned something by visiting Hood River. The growers whose or chards are In this Northern fruit-growing region would, beyond doubt, find a trip to Rogue River a great benefit to them, for there' are a number of progressive and successful orchardists In that part of the state. . But it is needless for farmers or hor ticulturists to go several hundred miles to learn something new and useful con cerning the branch of agriculture in which they are particularly Interested. Frequent visits among the farmers of any community will not only cultivate a better neighborhood feeling but will enable all to improve themselves in their methods of cultivating, gathering and marketing crops. If a neighbor has raised a particularly large crop or one of unusually good quality, it is worth while to find .out how he did It and there is no better Way than to pay" him a friendly call. This would be a farmers' congressmen a small scale but one unsurpassed in value as com- pared with, the cost of attendance. Thus far It has been found Impossible to organize the farmers as the mer chants, manufacturers, and skilled la borers are organized, but it should be possible to bring them into closer rela tions which will encourage them to work together for the common welfare. Oregon apple-growers' and shippers will be interested in the outcome of extensive experiments that are to be conducted during the next twelve months by the Iowa Agricultural -Experiment Station for the purpose of learning the beet methods of keeping apples in cold storage. The experi ments will be made with all the Im portant varieties of apples and will show the varying results obtained with fruit from trees of different 'ages, growing on different soils, cultivated and uncultivated, and picked at dif ferent stages of maturity. It is also intended to ascertain whether apples will keep best in email barrels or large, wrapped or unwrapped, and what ad vantage, if any.-early storage has over late storage. These experiments will require considerable attention and con sequent expense. Trie results will not be entirely applicable as a guide to Oregon growers and packers', for we have here a different cl'mate and dif ferent class of fruit. Still, the facts gleaned by the Iowa Station should be of some aid to Oregon horticulturists. ASTORIA-SEASIDE CANAL PROJECT. The Oregonian pretends to no special knowledge of harbor engineering, but believes the Astoria-Seaside canal pro ject of Eugene Semple's for an arti ficial waterway in and out of the Co lumbia1 river, as described by him In yesterday's paper, is worth serious consideration by those who would have the state of Oregon, or a port district aid in overcoming the bar obstacle. A number of artificial harbors have been created in various parts of the world under conditions possibly as difficult as at the mouth of the Columbia. Mr. Semple has recognized engineer ing ability; he designed the present project for building the Lake Washing ton canal at Seattle and the tide-land fills at that city. His proposed canal is entirely feasible, as authorities will generally admit, for its construction is only "a matter of digging, at a cost which can be very closely estimated. But his plans Include a breakwater, attached to Tillamook Head, necessary to maintain a quiet-water entrance to the canal. That a breakwater could be constructed is quite probable in view of similar achievements else where, one, notably at Cherbourg, France, where a breakwater costing $13,500,000 has made a great port. But It is not known whether the break water at Tillamook head could be con structed for the money that would be within the resources of a port district to pay. Mr. Semple maintains that the cost would not be large and that together with that of the canal, the whole sum would amount to $2,175,300. Dredging at the canal entrance, he ad mits, would be necessary, bat he con tends that tnis is required at other artificial harbors, whether jetties or breakwaters are used. The impracticability of Oregon's ap propriating money for jetty work, ow ing to the great cost and Inter-etate character of that improvement, places on the National Government the duty of deepening the bar by that means. The Semple canal project, if feasible, could be carried out apart from the government jetty project, by private enterprise or other Independent effort. The prospect, almost amounting to certainty, that the Government will not complete the Jetties for a long term of years, makes Imperative that shipping interests do ail that they possibly can by independent effort to . open the mouth of the Columbia River to deep draft vessels. The Semple project is worth study and 6hould not be rejected for preju dice. If feasible, it should be examined as to whether its cost could be con fined to practicable figures. It is not a novelty in engineering science, though the suggestion of it for the mouth of the Columfcia River Is startling. WOMEV IN EDUCATIONAL OFFICES. . The State of Montana, though per sistently refusing to consider the ques tion of full suffrage for women, very liberal when It comes to placing women in authority in educational matters. Lewis and Clark County has, for example, repeatedly elected a woman to the office of County School Superin tendent with advantage to the educa tional interests of the county, including the Capital City, and again the nom inee of the Republican party for that position is a young woman. This nom inee is a native of Montana, a compe tent educator, a graduate of the State Normal, and a student for some time at the Chicago University.. She is said to be "in love with her work," a con dition of mind that Insures success, whatever the undertaking, when joined to special preparation for It. Whatever views men hold upon the question of full political rights for women and upon this question, as is well known, intelligent men differ radi cally in opinion no man who is en titled to be placed in this category doubts the special fitness of educated, practical women for the highest educa tional positions. Our own state, though granting school suffrage to duly quali fied, women, and admitting them to places on district school boards, denies to. them the position of Superintendent of Schools. In the two instances, so far as now recalled, in which women were elected to this position in this state, the choice of the voters was not sustained by constitutional law as In terpreted, and men were made figure heads In the office while the regularly elected superintendents did the work. One of these. Miss Ella C. Sabin, was elected County Superintendent of Lane County in the early seventies, making a very efficient Superintendent of Schools In spite of her handicap, and a decade or more later Mrs. Alice C Gove, a competent educator, was made Superintendent of Schools of Multno mah County. She was the regular nominee of the Republican party and received a substantial- majority of the votes cast at the regular election, but the question of her incompetency, on the ground that she was not a duly qualified elector of the state, was raised. She was forced to resign, and her husband, who did not possess the educational qualifications, nor a tithe of the executive ability that made her management of the school affairs of the county full of promise of excellent re sults, was made the official figurehead of the office. Of course this, was silly, albeit it was and is In accordance with constitutional law. For some reason, possibly known to themselves, or perhaps merely through oversight, "the advocates of woman suffrage In the state have not bent their energies toward the removal of this constitutional provision which ren ders women ineligible to the office, of County and State Superintendent of Schools. Perhaps, being in eager pur suit of the whole loaf, they scorn to ask for this crumb of political equality. Be this as it may, it cannot be doubted that the educational Interests of the state have suffered in times past through this absurd provision. Mon tana, as above noted, is in advance of Oregon in this respect, and has found It to her advantage to- push this ad vance not offensively but energetically and intelligently at the hustings. , GOOD READING. -1 One of those jeremaids over the decay of the love of good literature which so frighten all genuine admirers of Milton, Shakespeare andi the Bible, has just ap peared in the New York Evening Post. The writer begins with a gloomy state ment that the "Pilgrim's Progress" is not read as much nowadays as in the good old times; but he does not stop with this harrowing thought. He grad ually extends the shadow of his doubt over all the great authors and ends with the conclusion that we are a gen eration wholly given up to newspapers and cheap magazines. It may seem, odd that a writer for the newspapers should class the habit of reading them among the vices, but this one does so, and he does it, doubtless, in a lofty spirit of self-sacrifice. Still, if we all lhad followed his advice, none of us would have read his article, and what a store of wisdom would have been wasted. Emerson once advised his readers never to read a book that was not at least a year Old. Suppose the public had' taken him at his word and allowed his books to lie untouched on the counters for- a twelvemonth after they were published. Would, the great philoso pher have been pleased? It may be surmised that the Evening Post admits, at least, one exception to its anathema upon newspapers, though modestly orbids- its mention in the article to which .we have referred. It was once the habit of novelists to give distinction to their work by making their silliest characters great novel readers. Miss Corelli does so still; but most novelists have come to the prac tical conclusion that there la not much to be gained by decrying their own art, or trade, and newspaper writers may sometime learn the same lesson. News papers, magazines and cheap novels do not displace good literature. They have entered an area in the world where formerly nothing at all was read. The man who reads a paper on his way to business would not read Milton if he could not get a paper. He would read morning, and It may be questioned whether his mind would not be occu pied with matters less wholesome than the reports of the baseball game and the political speeches which the paper gives him. Good literature in general is not less read than formerly, but more. And one principal reason for its greater vogue is the habit of reading news papers. This may seem like a paradox, but it is nothing of the kind.. Reading Is a difficult art which It taks a long time and much practice to acquire. It is never learned In school. Pupils ac quire these, at best, a small number of word forms; never enough to make reading easy and pleasant. And to this meager store they would, commonly add nothing afterward if they were not en ticed to the effort by their desire to learn from tffe papers what is going on in the world. We speak now of the ordinary person; of course, there always have been exceptional indi viduals whose eagerness for informa tion has made them expert readers. For ordinary people, -however, the news papers are the great teachers of read ing. Through them the masses acquire their acquaintance with our word forms, and thus fit themselves to at tack the literature of the language. Some of them never do so, but, on the other hand, some pass on through the gates and explore the world of light.- That "The Pilgrim's Progress" is not so much read now, as formerly may be admitted; but the reasons assigned by the Post for the neglect are wholly mistaken. These reasons are, first, the decay of good reading in general, and secondly, the disappearance of the dis tinction between Sunday and secular reading. Neither of these has much weight. "The Pilgrim's Progress" is an intensely Interesting book which would hold its own without difficulty but for one thing. And -this thing ap plies to all the great classics. Children are not longer permitted to have these books as they were written, but only after they have been diluted, emas culated, turned into a thin, watery, gruelly substance "nauseating to the taste and poisonous to the soul. It is related by a citizen of some preten sions to literary taste that he sought through the bookstores of Portland the other day for a copy of "Water Babies," to give to a child. The best Ihe could find was a caricature of Kingsley's beautiful work "adapted1' for children. Who could wonder if good literature were actually hated by men and women whose introduction to it comes through such monstrosities? These adaptations for children resem ble nothing so much as the calves one sees, in the butcher shops with their heads cut off and their hearts tied in with a string- In one lamentable Instance it must be admitted that a great book has failed to hold its own in the reading world. That book is the Bible. All observers are agreed 'that popular knowledge- of the Bible is a thing of the past. College students no longer understand an allusion to the prophets. A quotation from the Psalms in a. newspaper article Is not recognized. All this is bad, for the Bible is the very source and fountain head of English lit erature. It is the great store house, of style. In the Bible -we learn the force and flexibleness of ' our words; we learn how to express time, purpose and consequence. Ignorance of the Bible accounts for much of the flatulent quality of recent literature, and for it the Sunday Schools are almost wholly to blame. Since, for commer cial reasons, they began to teach the Bible in little fragments out of here and there, interest in the greatest of all literature has 6teadily decayed. The Bible is a collection of masterpieces; each, of its books is a work of art. One might as well try to study the Sistine "Madonna by cutting the can vas into square inches and minutely analyzing the pieces week after week as to study the Bible by the modern Sunday School method. The system is false pedagogy. It has produced a generation of men and women to whom the English Bible is an unknown book. Could there be a greater tragedy in the world of literature? . Probably San Francisco will not re vive her vigilance committee. The times are different. Yet the complaint of the law's delay In punishment of crim inals is well founded. Francis J. Heney justly throws much of the blame on judges of the courts, who permit trumped up legal obstacles to Interfere with the course of justice. Special and speedy attention ought to. be given to prosecution of thugs and assassins that infest the stricken city. No technical pleas should be permitted to obstruct trials.. This class of wretches ought literally to be railroaded through. If the. proofs can be made certain, the quicker and faster the better. The methods that would do for the leisurely and orderly city of old are not for present emergencies. The thugs ought to be put through, and those pests of the legal profession, and of society, who try to protect them by technical quibbles and dilatory pleas, , should be required to answer without delay and go to trial at once on the charges against the accused. Heney is right in scoring the Judges and the state's attorneys for delays that encourage repetition of assaults, robberies and murders. "May it please the court, my client is not ready for trial." When is the thug, thief, robber or murderer ever ready far trial? What with Jim Tompkins' prophecy of a hard winter, backed by the irre futable argument of an enormous acorn "crop in the mountains, and a fuel dealers' combine that makes coal a luxury and cordwood an Impossi bility, the thoughtful householder ap proaches winter ' with some anxiety. Fuel dealers cannot be blamed for sharing the fever of gain of which prosperity 'is the germ, that is general throughout the business world, . but it is hard on those who are called upon to assuage it, or feed it, as the case may be. But then we all know that high prices are an accompaniment of prosperity and nobody wants a return of business depression. The burden of hard times is somewhat, more easily carried when prosperity is abroad in the land than when financial depres sion prevails, though why high wages and high prices should be preferred to moderate wages and moderate prices is not quite clear. "Our duty in regard to attendance at church service" was one of the topics discussed at the meeting of the Oregon Christian Endeavor League. As long as church attendance is looked upon as a duty and not ae a privilege, the at tendance will be comparatively small. The best feature of the Christian En deavor work is that the young people enjoy the meetings and need no urging to secure their presence. The Endeavor Societies are today the main reliance of the church. Mr. Heney says that certain San Fran cisco judges are "supported for re-election by every gambler and every pro fessional crook and keeper of dives" in San Francisco. He doesn't indulge in glittering generalities about it, but names names. That is a way Mr. Heney has, and it looks very much like contempt of court. Undoubtedly it is contempt of court. Who wouldn't have contempt for such a court? Having taken possession of the streets of Portland and made enor mous profits out of them, our feudal families now appear to have similar designs on the river flowing through the city. Quite in accord with the thrifty methods of our local plutocracy. Weren't they, or their ancestors, "here first?" What, therefore, can there be that Is not rightfully theirs? Colonel Mann put Tom Watson out of Watson's Magazine . because he. in sisted on .saying unpleasant things about some of the Colonel's friends. The Colonel didn't build up the delecta ble Town Topics by doing business on that system. He confined his un pleasant sayings only to "those un friendly persons who wouldn't come up to the sanctum and settle. - ' The Chicago Americans have already won the baseball championship of the world and . there will be no seventh game; therefore it cannot be played at Seattle, or Spokane, or Fresno, or Pasco, or Puyallup, or Mukilteo, or any other of the enterprising places that offered large purees (of hot air) for the event. "Cold snap in the Northwest" is in recent headlines of many newspapers. Now the only Northwest is the Pacific Northwest. But they meant the upper Mississippi country. It were to be wished that our Eastern, newspaper friends would place the Northwest cor rectly and not locate these "cold snaps" in it. ' " - When farmers bid against each other for the services of laborers, as they are now doing at Hood River, wages are pretty certain to go high enough o make the farmer's profits look small. But if farmers anywhere can afford to pay high wages, the apple-growers of Hood River certainly can. Emperor Wilhelm strenuously objects to the publication of Prince Hohen lohe'e "Recollections," "while your sov ereign Is living." Why didn't they wait till he was dead and then every body would have been satisfied? It is said to be a pity, and pity 'tis 'tis true, that one. can't vote In New York against Hearst . without voting also against the anti-plutocratic move ment, that ought to have a better representative. Arizona wants to come into the Union but doesn't like the shotgun feature of its proposed nuptials with New Mexico. . Yet Seattle and Tacoma came in together, all in one state. Another result of the "year after, the fair" is that the croakers and kickers are all, or nearly all, dead, or other wise silenced. Who would have thought it, two yeaTS ago? ' Bertha Krupp has $100,000,000 and is the happy bride of Lieutenant Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach. Is it worth while to give up all that money for a name like that? Chief of Detectives Bruin is argus eyed. He describes a woman doing a small grocery, swindle as "cross-eyed and bowlegged." This is "out of sight." A man died at Easton, Pa., who had received 1800 paralytic strokes, but Editor Hofer at Salem still has the record for fits. We didn't notice ex-President Palma in the listof "among those present" at the farewell to Secretaries Taft and Bacon. They are calling Moran -of Mas sachusetts the "Little Hearst." Not mor'a that? Cubans have not yet intervened in the South to stop race n-iots. TO REGULATE SWOLLEX FORTUNES Next Cosgrets May Pass Laws Limiting? Accumulations of Wealth. Morrill A. Teague in Rldgeways. President " Roosevelt's annual message to Congress, to be submitted December 3. will contain his arguments in favor of and his demand for the enactment of laws" comprehending thesa two prop ositions: Federal regulation of the active agents of interstate commerce) money in the hands of Its owners. Federal limitation by taxation of the amount of money that may be inherited by any one individual. These two propositions are the quint essence of the most revolutionary eco nomic propaganda ever sponsered by an American in a position of power or in fluence. In the agitation which he ha3 started, and to the success of which he prepares to devote his energies, the President contemplates such an investigation of the ancient doctrine of "private property rights as will, should it pass the courts, leave that doctrine in shreds and tatters; bringing the individual wealth of the country under Government supervision and control. As to the "swqllen fortunes of today," the President will demand full Federal regulation. With the manner which these fortunes may be handed on he is agitating for a limit upon wealth. What the fathers have, they may keep under the Government supervision; but the sums heirs may inherit shall be taxed down to a healthy size. To date the President has gone no farther than to emphasize the fact that the operations of swollen fortunes in connection with interstate trade present a problem so grave that the states can not be trusted to deal with it. It goes beyond all state boundaries. It is a thing in which the Federal Government must deal, and advances the contention that Congress has now under considera 'tion ample authority to regulate the business use of such fortunes. The system in France is simple and con cise. No exemptions are admitted. Against collateral heirs the assessment is from 3 to IShi per cent; from 1 to 2V4 per cent against direct heirs, and from 15 to lSVi per cent against nonrelatlves. The operation of this law produced in France In 1900 9 per cent of the gross revenues of the republic. It is in Great Britain, however, that the scheme of taxing the devolution of property has been most, highly perfected. Against the corpus of an estate there is levied "estate duty," ranging from 1 per cent on values of $500 to $2500 up to 2S per cent for those of $5,000,000 and upwards. This tax produces 19 per cent of the tax revenues of the United Kingdom and 8 per cent of the gross income. In 1896-97 more than 67 estates of a value of more than $2,000,000,000 paid $91,000,000 in in heritance taxes. In our own country. New York in 1900 derived 19 per cent of all tax revenue from the inheritance tax; Pennsylvania 13 per cent, and Illinois, where exemption of up to $20,000 is al lowed, 84. per cent. In these days of swollen fortunes, of gigantic trusts and of the capitalistic menace, it would be strange, would it not, to see the Federal Government assessing Andrew Carnegie, for example, la cent per cent tax for the privilege now un restrainedly enjoyed of permitting the employment of his hundreds of millions in interstate commerce; and it would be stranger still to see the Federal powers saying to the . handful of Rockefeller heirs: "Out of John D. Rockefeller's $800,000,000 you may each have, (say) $10, 000,000. The remainder goes to the Gov ernment." "Wairner's ImpresHlon of Roosevelt. From "My Impressions of America," by Chas. Wagner, author of "The Simple Life." My impression of Mr. Roosevelt was the same first and last, whether I looked at him with my own eyes or felt his In fluence abroad in his country. The people love their President. There is not a royal house even among the old est and those' most worthy of the affec tion of their . subjects which receives so deep and general sympathy as dor- the young Presiaent of the United Stages and his family. He is respected by all ages and all classes; you might think that he was the chief friend of every household. His word has an unprecedented author ity throughout the country; nor is this the effect of a showy and superficial pop ularity, but of a calm and legitimate as cendancy. In the last Presidential cam paign every effort made against him turned to the hurt of his enemies, and since his .triumphant election the justice of his Judgment and his freedom- from all political rancor have won even his op ponents. Everybody knows that he stands for the best of America; that he has sometnmg better than a political policy; that he has an ideal, and that this ideal conforms to the noblest traditions of the Republic, as well as to Its most weighty future interests. The coutnry's destinies are in good hands. Gibson's Definition of "Lady." Philadelphia Bulletin. "I dined with Charles Dana Gibson at Princess' restaurant In London during the season," said a Chicagoan. "The lofty, spacious dining-room was filled with women in pale gowns, their hair uncovered and their arms and necks bare, and though these wqmen were fash ionable, aristocratic, thej smoked cigar ettes with their Coffee as they watched the bioscope pictures that went on at one end of the big room, and as they listened to the singing that went on at the other. "Amid all this feminine smoking we Americans began to discuss and to define the word 'lady.' Was it ladylike to smoke? we asked. Would a lady ever smoke? What was a lady? "I think Mr. Gibson's definition of a lady was the best that was given. " 'A lady,' he said, ignoring the smoke question altogether, 'is a woman who al ways remembers others and never forgets herself.' " A Little Unearned increment. Springfield (Mass.)' Republican. How much the cost was to the present owners of the Hill ore lands, which are now to yield hundreds of millions In roy alties. Is a question Mr. Hill does not answer. "Probably a dollar or so per acre," suggested the Chicago Interviewer, and a vacant look spread over the face of the great business man. RBWSPAPEB WAIFS. Most things -would go -without saying If w would only let them go that way. Philadel phia Record. Conscience, -which makes cowards of -us all. Is being abolished, but the dress coat, which makes waiters of us all, persists. Puck. Wlndig Miggles formerly opposed my views, hut now he agrees with me in everything. Marks How do you account for it? "Windlg Give it up. I'm not sure whether I con vince him or only make him tired. Chicago Daily News. "The early bird catches the worm," said the aphorlst. "Yes," answered the Iconoclast. "But look at the owl. He stays up all night, gets a reputation for wisdom, and never gets shot 'at." Washington Star. "That man Insists on ' tryinsr to be bigger than his party." "Well," answered genator Sorghum, "if he keeps on trying he will prob ably succeed in at least being bigger than what is left of it." Washington Star. Chance Now that your Summer vacation is over, I suppose the principal thlnjr you'll have to save money for is your girl's Christmas present. Bendick Oh, I'll have to buy two this year. Chance Ah! Two girls, eh? Ben dick No: two presents: hers to nie and mine to her. I married her last week. PhiladelDhls, iPreu. rooskVelt will keep chandler Ex-Senator To Hold Office for Six Months Despite Their Dispute. "Washington Dispatch in New York Times. President Roosevelt has Issued an or der continuing the life of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to March 2. 1907. He ' thus will retain . in - office for six months ex-Senator William E. Chand ler, whom he accused last Spring of be ing a malicious liar. The commission was created for two years, with authority in the President to extend its - lif0 six months at a time. Mr. Chandler was placed at the- head of it. The President kept on extending its life every six months, the last ex tension before this one having been given last March. In May Mr. Chandler embarked on his celebrated battle of veracity over the rate bill with the President. It was generally understood at the 'time that Mr. Chandler was taking his official life in his hands, and that the commission's life would probably not be prolonged another six months. The President, how ever, has decided not to visit on Mr. Chandler's official head any wrath he may still cherish against the combative. ex-Senator, and Chandler will keep ric;ht on deciding on such claims as find their way into his placid and musty office. Chandler and the President had been the warmest of personal friends for many years before' the issue of veracity arose between them. Mr. Roosevelt has al ways entertained the highest regard for the ex-Senator and it was always recipro cated. The affair of last May was tile first interruption of their intimacy. Peril ' of Swollen Fortunes. Wall Street Journal "It is our clear duty to see, in the in terests of the people, that there is ade quate supervision and control over the business use of the swollen fortunes of today." President Roosevelt is not the only one who has discovered in great in dividual fortunes a possible peril to American liberties. As long ago as 1S49 Horace Mann, one of the most patriotic and unsellish servants of the people this country has ever produced and to whom It owes in largest measure its present great system of public school education, said: Vast fortunes are misfortunes to the state. They confer irresponsible power; and human naturv except In the rarest instances, has proved incapable of wielding irresponsible power without abuse. The feudalism of capi tal Is not a whit less formidable than the feudalism of force. The millionaire of our (lay is no ' less dangerous to the welfare of the community than was the baronial lord of the Middle Ate. These words are better than anything that has been sai I on the same subject in our own day, l.nd yet many, as they look back upon' the history of the past 57 years, will be apt to regard the fears of Horace Mann as absurd. How small seem the vast fortunes of 1S49 as com pared with the vast fortunes of 1906. Yet the individual fortunes of today are not much greater in proportion to the aggregate wealth of the country than those of 1S49 were to the aggregate wealth of that day. But formidable as appeared to- Mr. Mann the Individual fortunes of 1849, the course of history shows that they did not retard the growth of the country either in liberty or prosperity. In spite of Mr. Mann's assertion that vast fortunes are misfor tunes to the state, the country has made important progress. Jfe Cannon Vs. - Sleep. W. Loifls Post-Dispatch. Uncle Joe Cannon has been telling his Missouri admirers that late to bed and early to rise has been the rule of his life. Uncle Joe scoffs at the old couplet: Early to bed. early to rise. Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. He believes with George Ade that "Early to bed, early to rise, and one meets .few prominent people." He in dorses the theory of Rogers Brothers that "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a good milkman." Uncle Joe has slept little. Like Na-. poleoh, he gets along without it.. Like Casius', he is lean hungry and wakeful, the type of man feared by good politicians like Julius Caesar. He has exploded the Glandstonian theory that eight hours of sleep a day are essential to greatness. For is Uncle Joe not truly great, and is he not the one man in this country for whom' the newspapers waive their strict rules against the printing of those impolite words and ? A Challenge to Millionaires. New York World. Mr. Byran declared in a recent speech that "when a man accepts a position in any great corporation he should be made to know that he will not be permitted to serve in any capacity with the Demo cratic organization or as a Democratic candidate for any public office." Considering what answer might be made to this challenge by the men to whom it applies. Leslie's Weekly finds from the Interstate Commerce Commis sion that about 6,000.000 wage-earners are employed by telephone and telegraph companies, railways of all kinds, light and power concerns, mines and quarries and great manufacturies. If the voters among these should con sider themselves read out of it, what would they do to the Democratic party? If under an acceptance of the public ownership creed they should be formed into a force of political despotism, what would they do to democracy in general? r Comsloa New Yom 4? Tor Lieu.Ten.arvt' Foxy Gvan.d)3as I ti'S 'Jvf : ' r :Wvf : 'i-r Treasurer leawcUf. Tor State Enpinew ' and Surve-yo-r.; TKa Katzen Jammer .Ik FOR GOVERNOR OF THE. I Z.IFE IJT THE OREGON COCXTRY. With a Distinction. Hood River niacier. The difference between New York i sprayed apples and Hood River sprayed 1 Saturday Night in Aurora. Borealis. " Borne of the young fellows who came 1 in from the country and other places to attend the dance last Saturday nish- J tanked up on conversation water ana felt so good that they tried to holler holes in the air. Some Condensed Colic. Condon Tirnes. A cucumber 40 inches loner, grown by Mrs. Lud Smith, of Traillork, is on ex hibition this week at Edgar Moore's store. It was grown from seed sent from South America by George Hardie, and shows tha kind that are grown in that country. Clever AVork' of Seattle Man. Olympia Record. i A elevpr pickpocket robbed a man of $500 while riding In an elevator in Seattle the other day. A thief swift enough to go through a man between jerks in an elevator could come pretty near to stem Ing the dollar signs from a wireless tele gram. Evidently Slander. Eugene Guard. Th mornine- ampr ran a free bread rnnnnn t lr..nl holtarv nnrl flfilmn i that 87 of them were cashed In at tho J bflVerv nevt rinv. Tvidpntlv tho Gil- strap family took advantage of an op portunity that is not likely to be re peated for a long time. Drytovrn Humor. Albany Democrat. One prominent old farmer-this mornins; winked to another prominent old farmer, pointed over his shoulder, and they went down a side street into a barn, back be hind a stall, where farmer number ono took out a flask of whisky, which wna duly sampled with a grin, as they con templated the Joke on a dry town perpe trated after so much trouble. lilaklng Yoni'ulln Grow. Courier. William Helllwell & Son dried SO.O'V) pounds of Tetite and 25.000 pounds of Italian prunes: Harry Richards dried 50, 000 pounds of Italians and 113.000 pounds of Petites; McW. Daugherty dried about 90. 000 pounds, and John J. Davis about 100, f) pounds. This foots up more than M tons of this one product alone, to say notmns of the 50O0 or 6000 boxes of apples that will be shipped within the next montru Figure this out and you find a wonder- fully large income for a community that is yet, in fact, undeveloped. Gettina; It Und. Wallowa Chieftain. Everybody in Enterprise is catching the roller-skate craze. As wo go to press the doctors have been unable to discover any remedy for the rapidly spreading malady, which seizes old and young alike, and is even more con tagious than tho smallpox or the mumps or scarlet fever or the measles or the chicken pox or graybacks. Bare ly enough people of tho city have, escaped the craze to carry on the busi ness of the town, by working short handed, and it is feared that the re-i maining few will fall victims to tho fever before it passes over. - Typical Wentcrn Woman. Pinevllle Journal. Mrs. Lee Wlgle, who lives with her hus-( band, a prosperous cattleman, at the head of Camp Creek, Is deserving of special mention, sav her friends, for the cas with which she can turn from household cares to the hard work of hired men. Mr. Wiprle being away, it devolved upon hi: better half to run the ranch, and she did it, too. The hired men, who perhaps did not take kindly to the change of bosses.' objected to some orders given in regard I to Fall plowing and refused to carry them out. They were promptly llred and thei work finished by Mrs. Wigle herself. Slio! plowed fourteen acres in live days. Desuiesi taking care of her teams and doing the rest of the farm work. Mrs. Wlgle is also , as handy with the rifle as she is skilled! in music and kindred accomplishments. Twenty-two coyotes this Fall testifytoi her unerrine aim. Her varied aecompnsii-J ments do not in the. least detract froir. her many charming womanly qualities. Oregon Country Newspaper. The Hermiston Herald Is the newest, Oregon newspaper kid, printed in the newest town in the Umatilla project. Ir rigation, which does wonders, will mako the Herald grow. Last Tuesday's issue of the West Sida Enterprise, at Independence, was the last by Walter Lyon. Mr. E. Ralston droppec" in from South Dakota, liked the country lax does everv Easterner), asked the prices and closed the bargain. Mr. Lyon made the Enterprise an excellent local paper. Garbed In Gold and Silver. '-: The women of Sumatra wear costly- dresses, many of them being made of pure gold and silver. After tlie metal is mined andsmelted it is formed into a fine wire, which is woven into cloth and after ward used for dresses. Choinal. t90i t- fiecretary . jP 'rt "7v of State.; -' . r-z -4e . i- M y&twjppi WW Hi For ,Combtrolkr) Dr Cap; STATE OF NEW VORK -From. Collier's Weekly. Ml Tor Attorney ' I BM?VB M Ccrtcra.1. I i