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Therefore, in speaking against Social tern, the other -day, at the annual meet ing of the Army of the Tennessee, Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul, fol lowed the uniform teaching of the church; but in speaking of the intent of Socialism as to private property, his statement was unfair, at least by im plication. -.We do not say that Social ism would not, in effect, or virtually, destroy private property; but Social ists do not think so. They maintain the contrary. The archblehop very truly remarks that "stability of possession and the stimulus to. ambition and effort .result ing from it are the vital requisites of progress and civilization"; and his im plication Is that the Socialists direct their attacks against this stability of possession and security of ownership. Now, it ia not our purpose to defend the theories of the Socialists, but we deem it important that the facts should be fairly set forth. Nobody who has kept In touch with the literature of the subject can admit for an Instant that they are opposed to the Institution of private property. All their publicists proclaim the contrary. But we believe they totally mistake the consequences of the purposes they proclaim. They would have the state absorb, control and direct all productive industries and take the profits. The income of the in dividual would consist in or be derived from the wages of his labor, directed by the state. He could make no profits from trade, could promote no product ive industry or receive profits- there from, could have no personal income from land, rent or crops. Such pri vate property the amount would be exceeding; email a's could not be used in trade or production he might have. And, of course, small as that property would be, it would surely and steadily grow smaller, for the stock on hand never- could be fully renewed. The resources of the individual would consist solely In the proceeds' of his la bor. Under these conditions, there can be no private fortunes. All property, except the proceeds of labor, the wages of the Individual, would be absorbed by the state. Doubtless Archbishop Ireland feels justified in saying that the negation of the, idea of private property is here. But it is not the Intent of Socialism. It is a fundamental idea, of Socialism that to every man must be accorded absolutely and undisputedly the whole of what he produces by his labor. This, the Socialists hold, is rightfully his own- private property, and the state is to see that he gets it. The wage phase, then, is to be the basis of Socialism; and all increment of prop erty and prolits of the direction and management of business are to be cut off from the individual. No man is to be a "promoter" for gain. Of course, this would be a revolu tionary change. We think it impossi ble. But each and every Individual may speculate as he pleases on the advisability of the change and its prob able or possible consequences. It is the opinion of The Oregonian that the Socialists themselves have not thought It out. If they had, they could not find such a system adequate to the require ments of a complex civilization. There are tremendous abuses that produce the unrest of the present time. It is universally believed that the prin ciple of private property is grossly at tacked 'or outrageously abused under present arrangements. Who Is it that manipulates the railroads in such a way as to plunder individuals by wholesale and rob them of their busi ness and their fortunes? Who is it that schemes -to deprive the laborers and small householders of the city of ' their savings by subtle wiles and sinu ous devices? Who lies In wait, like a wild beast for-hls prey, to absorb the unearned value of land, and makes wa ter-payers and all labor contribute to enhancement of that value? Who de vises schemes to rob the farmer of his earnings by tariff schedules, by bag trust's by wire, trusts, by machinery trusts, by railroad rebates, by fake oil companies, by every Ingenious device that depraved and prostitute ability can contrive? Is- it the Socialist? We cannot see that Socialism is or can be practicable. But it is part of the attack on vast evils that must be cured or abated. The extreme demands of Socialism will be met, and their causes removed, only by removal of the evils of which Socialists not only, but the whole body of the people, complain. BY. EXPERT AUTHORITY. This, from the organ of the clan that captured and sold the public franchises of Portland, and put the- profits, amounting to J4.000.000, In their pockets, about which the organ . boasted " and shouted when the transaction had been completed and the money success fully raked In. is transferred to the columns of The Oregonian in order that "It may be seen by everybody: AH . the municipal history of America tends to show that private ownership of pub lic utilities Is Inseparable from private own ership of public officers. There may be many exceptionB, but this Is the rule. ' Nobody understands this better than Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, who is both an owner of pub lic utility and an officer, but who does not allow his "private interests to swerve him from his duty to tho public. Ho saya he 1 not fighting for municipal ownership for It self, nor because tho people can thus get better service at less cost, which he asserts they can, but to break up the combination between private ownership and politics. Franchise values, he says, are great prizes hung up, and they corrupt politics, degrade citizenship, and render good municipal gov ernment Impossible. So this is the way those great fran chise values have been gained, and these the consequences, of which so illustrious an example has been pre sented at Portland. As a statement by expert authority, it must be allowed its value. A LETTER OF INQUIRY. Every newspaper has many a queer experience in the way of requests for Information. Among the later requests submitted to The Oregonian is the fol lowing letter from Mr. John W. Mc Connell, Mayville, Or., November 8: Flease send me a list of all the members rf the cabinet, and who is the Speaker of the House of Representatives; who appoints the most Important committees of Congress; who are the most distinguished members of Congress in both parties; the two senators from ' Oregon; the representatives of the congressional districts; the Chief Justice of tho Supreme Court; who the ministers are who represent our country at the capitals of the great nations., state officers tho president of the State Senate and the Speak er of the House; Judges of the Supreme Court; the Judge of the local District Court. Flease send quick as possible. It will be seen that Mr. McConnell desires- a very considerable amount and variety of information. It was. not con venient yesterday to supply It; but The Oregonian wjll turn the labor- over to one of its young men, just as soon as one of them can be spared for a day for the purpose. But it will be a mighty task to name the most distin guished members of Congress In the two parties; and there is danger that this branch of the information will, after all, be unsatisfactory. The breadth of- information desired by Mr. McConnell indicates an inquiring mind! and a pardonable curiosity to know things. PAYING A GROSS EARNINGS TAX. "Telepnone and express "companies, as we surmised, will-meet taxation on gross earnings by raising the rates, and the people will simply have to pay the taxes. The Legislature has had timely warning;, and must- fix maxi mum rates," suggests the Woodburn Independent. Well, the express companies might do as they did during the Spanish War, when they made the shipper pay for the .revenue 6tamp. The assertion that this tax absorbed 50 per cent of their net earnings, which were supposed to be 8 per cent on several millions of capital stock that had so much water therein that there . was dew on the certificates, was, to say the least, amusing. Mr. Harriman controls Wells- Fargo because it pays, and pays big, like all his holdings. Mt. .Gould virtually owns the Pacific, capital ized at $6,000,000 and netting 12 per cent In these very good times, oh an actual, investment that is insignificant. Over at Olympia it is officially stated that the Northern Company's earn ings in Washington the past year ex ceeded its capital stock by $18,000. In view of these facts, the 3 per cent tax on gross, earnings now a law in Oregon will not bankrupt any of them, and the suggestion of the Woodburn paper is timely and of much merit. TNIVERSAL CAR SHORTAGE. Universal prosperity throughout the United States is in no other manner more strikingly illustrated than in the distressing shortage of cars' and mo tive power on the great railroads of the country. . The inability of shippers to get cars, of course causes much unfa vorable comment, and there is always a disposition to blame the railroads for the unpleasant and unprofitable conges tion that accompanies a car shortage. In some cases undoubtedly "bad man agement contributes .to these trade em bargoes, but the present trouble is largely due to the unprecedented wave of prosperity that is sweeping over the land. Traffic charges are based on cost of the road equipment, operating and other expenses, in which an estimated amount of -traffic is to be handled with a given amount of equipment. Quite naturally, it follows that every addi tlonal car and locomotive that can be utilized beyond these estimated equip ment requirements on which rates are based, will show an Increased percent age of profit. In other wrords, the enor mous expense of maintaining tracks. stations, freight-houses and an army of employes up to a certain point is not materially increased by the addition of more cars and locomotives. "While every railroad in the country is proba bly working up to its maximum capa city with its present equipment, those in the West could handle a vast amount of additional rolling stock with only a slight Increase in expense. To this fact is due much of the leniency that is shown the roads during the present congestion. It is quite reasonably assumed by the shippers that the railroads are anxious to earn as much money as possible, and for that reason will endeavor to handle all business that Is offering with as little delay as possible. The "placing by the Harriman system of orders for $2X.000,000 worth of freightcars for 1907 delivery, together with orders by the Hill roads for thousands of cars and hundreds of locomotives, indicates that efforts are being made at least to catch up with this runaway boom in railroad traffic in the West. Where the volume of business at stake reaches such enor mous proportions there is, of course, great difficulty in gauging the exact requirements, and it is not improbable that by the time the roads have loaded up with sufficient rolling stock to take care properly of the business that is offering, the pendulum of prosperity may pause In its upward 6wing and drop back. Fortunately, conditions in the West are such at this time that It will be practically an impossibility to check for any protracted period the output of lumber, grain, fruit, stock and other great staples which are making the Pacific Northwest rich and independ ent, and, before anything like a set back can take place, all of this im mense amount of new equipment that has been ordered to relieve the pres ent congestion will have had an op portunity to make a good showing -on the right side of the ledger and en courage the railroad men to make a little better provision for the next era of good times that will follow the depression due a. few years hence. WESTERN OREGON IRRIGATION. The amount of rainfall with which the Willamette Valley is favored of course gives the agriculturists of that section a decided advantage bver their less fortunate brethren in the semi arid regions east of the Cascade Moun tains. This advantage, however, is not so pronounced or complete as to obvi ate the necessity for still further en hancing the productive powers of the soil. In the old days, (before diversified farming had received much attention from the Willamette "Valley farmers, the land produced but little except wheat. This wa6 an easy crop to raise, and the produdt found a rea,dy market at highly remunerative prices. The competition of wheatgrowers on the cheaper lands east of the Cascade Mountains, as well as in other parts of the world, gradually tout surely forced Willamette Valley farmers to abandon wheatgrowing and take up diversified farming, dairying and fruitgrowing. . Success has followed their efforts in this direction, and the land in the bett portions of the Valley has steadily in creased in value. So pronounced has been this increase that it has become a necessity to improve the methods of farming and work the soil to its maxi mum capacity. Even in a land where moisture is as abundant as it is in the Willamette Valley, the vagaries of na ture at times cause decreased yields of crops which are dependent for beet re sults on an even supply of moisture. It is to remedy this defect, and-bring tue soil of the Willamette Valley up to its maximum producing capacity, that the Government is about to undertake ex perimental irrigation work in a section which has 'long been regarded as Im mune from the ravages caused by Sum mer suns glaring down from cloudless skies through July and August. To produce a fairly good crop of al most any agricultural or horticultural product without the aid of artificial' ir rigation is a distinctive merit- which has made the Willamette Valley fa mous, and it is no reflection on the producing powers of the soil that irri gation is regarded as of great value to the industry. The experience of the ir rigatiohists, wherever they have oper ated, has proven that it is not alone the semi-arid land that makes profita ble response to the addition of water, but most satisfactory returns are re ceived from lands .where what would ordinarily be considered a good crop can be secured Without irrigation. The efforts to establish Irrigation districts in Western Oregon should be encour aged, as' the" results will fully warrant the expenditure. SCHOOL TEACHERS AND FRUIT PESTS. One of the best of many good recom mendations made by Superintendent of Public Instruction Ackerman for the improvement of our public school sys tem is that which relates to introduc tion of . elementary agriculture In the public schools. Mention of this sugges tion has heretofore been made, in these columns, and the subject is again re ferred to for the purpose of calling at t'ention to one particular in which agri cultural instruction may be made of practical value, not only to the indi vidual, but to the state in its commer cial interests. Recent discus3ion of the injury sustained from the ravages of orchard pests reveals an alarming ig norance of or indifference to these menaces to one of our most important industries. A comparatively small pro portion of the farmers of the state know the common enemies of our fruit trees or how to combat them success fully. The suggestion The-Oregonian desires now to make is that, at every teachers' institute, a portion of the time should be 6et apart for instruc tion regarding fruit, pests, so that the public school teachers in turn may be able to instruct the children in ever.y district where fruitgrowing has been undertaken. This is not a difficult mat ter. In any county some intelligent fruitgrower may be found who will gladly attend the institute and deliver two or three talks on fruit pests and remedies therefor. . Carrying with him diseased fruit or limbs of - diseased trees, such a man- could in an hour or two give the- teachers such thorough acquaintance 'with the common pests that his auditors would'have no diffi culty in imparting the same instruc tion to the children. This instruction should be given not only in the com mon school, but in the high school and the university, so that no child who ever went to school in Oregon would be Ignorarit of those enemies of the fruit industry, which must be constantly and intelligently fought, if horticulture Is to survive as a successful occupation. It is a safe assertion that not one teacher in fifty would know San Jose scale if she saw it. The proportion who would know what remedy to apply is still smaller. The children of the public schools study physiology and hygiene through a number of years of the course, learning how food is digested and how it is assimilated, yet they are ignorant of the diseases which tend to destroy some of our most valuable food products. To teach them these lessons of practical value, need not re quire much time, and certainly will not materially diminish their knowledge of other subjects in the course. Bvery high school and college in the state has its class in botany, yet how many of the instructors or students know the appearance of apple anthracnose or pear blight? Why not put the study of botany to some practical use? The Agricultural. College, is already doing a valuable work in dissemina tion of knowledge along the lines sug gested, yet its work is necessarily lim ited. Even in the farmers Institutes the. number of people reached is lim ited, and there the lectures are not Il lustrated 60 as to be intelligible. The Agricultural College sends out bulle tins, as .good as bulletins can be, per haps, but these must always fall short of accomplishing the purpose for which (hey are printed. Half of the farmers do not get them; half who get them do not read them; half who read them do not understand what they read; half who understand do not remember with sufficient accuracy to enable them to mix spray materials after they have lost the bulletins. But it would be different with prac- tical instruction in the schools. With a piece of a diseased tree limb In her hands, a teacher could in half an hour teach half a hundred children the ap pearance of San Jose scale. Different diseases on the trees and on the fruit, at different stages and seasons of the year, could bo taken up as recreation studies, and if the teacher had a fair dcgree'of tact, this would be one of the most interesting features of the school work. With this sort of in struction going on In every schoolroom in the state, it would not be long until every man, woman and child would bo an authority on fruit pests. Not only that, but every young man and young woman would be impressed with the necessity for constant and thor ough effort to eradicatethe pests, with the result that the farmers of the next generation would have orchards and fruit crops so much superior to, those now grown that this generation would be looked back upon with pity for Its ignorance. Let us have practical agri culture in the public schools. The- position of James J. Hill in the commercial and' transportation world gives to his views on reciprocity and free trade a greater value than is cred ited to those of political writers and speakers. Mr. Hill has for years stead ily and consistently asked for the es tablishment of more equitable trade re lations with Canada. If the removal of the tariff, or its reduction, were to bring about the disaster predicted by the confirmed standpatters, the rail roads of the country would be among the greatest sufferers, and Mr. Hill is not courting disaster for his invest ments. Free trade with Canada will, of course, be -opposed by the lumber and coal interests, but the time is ap proaching w;hen increasing numbers of Americans will-"see the light" as Mr. Hill and other American business men now see it. When' that time comes, there will be a removal of the high tariff wall which now shuts us out of Canadian, trade, and we hall have an opportunity to enter a new field stretching from the Canadian line to the Arctic Circle. The Oregonian prints today a news article setting forth the effort, or the purported . effort, of the Land Depart ment of the United States Government to connect Senator Fulton, W. J. Fur nish, J. H. Raley and others with cer tain irregular land transactions in the Umatilla Indian reserve. It is needless to say that The Oregonian has no no tion that these gentlemen, or either of them, have in any way transgressed the laws, or secured from the Govern ment, or from any person, anything whatsoever to which- they were not en titled, or in any other than a proper and lawful manner. Undoubtedly full investigation will give the public the facts and the public should have the facts;, and undoubtedly, too, they will not be found to be in any way-discreditable to Senator Fulton, Mr. Raley or' Mr.' Furnish. A Republican Is to succeed W. A, Clark, of Montana, in the United States Senate. The corruptions of . Clark's first election, are. told with great par ticularity and graphic power, in Mc Clure's Magazine, for November. It is an amazing revelation. The details as to members dealt with and money paid to each, amounting, for direct bribery, to nearly half a million dollars, to gether with the vast fund paid to go betweens, make a story without a par allel. It was simply a sale. . ''"''.. i . . r - - - High license at Chicago brings in larger revenues.- The Tribune of No vember 8- says that the saloon revenue for the past year under the new $1000 li cense plan is $7,292,000, as against $3,729,- 091 for the last year under the smaller license. Out of a total of 7353 saloons in the city, only 122 have failed to se cure a new permit at the higher fig ure. But under the new regulations that threaten revocation of licenses for misdemeanors, there is better order than formerly. The story comes from New Tork that Piatt and Depew will resign their seats in the Senate as soon as the New York Legislature meets. They may possibly, for Piatt still has two years and Depew four years from March next; and by this time they must know they are merely useless lumber in the Senate, and may be willing to give their state a chance. James J. Hill, who knows all about railroads that any man. can know, says that shortage of tracks and terminals is a primary fact underlying shortage of cars. That is, cars can't be moved, unloaded, and loaded again, with suf ficient facility, because terminals and tracks are blockaded. The old saying that "those who dance must pay the fiddler" has acquired re newed point . since the San Francisco disclosures indicate that not only the dancehall people, but everj-one else in the Bay City, has been paying Fiddler Schmitz and his keeper. Ruffian Ruef. Mrs. Donald is a woman of astonish Ing courage. She w'ent through her husband's pockets while lie was look ing. So was the footpad. It is per fectly clear that she has and deserves his (her husband's) unqualified confl dence. . To observe what Seattle is doing in grading ' streets and blocks on her steep hillsides will astonish the be holder. A complete transformation of the site of the town is in progress The heavier grades are all being cut out. Harahan, the new president of the Illinois Central, "began railroad work at twenty-one, as a track laborer. Al most every man eminent in railroad management began at the very bottom, The New York Democratic ' Commit tee will probably delegate the delicate task of reading Pat McCarren out of the Democratic party to Chairman Fingy Conners, who can't read. Mr. Hill war.ts reciprocity with Can ada because it would benefit everybody, It would, including Mr. Hill and. his Tailroads. But probably he hadn't thought of that. It seems Oregon has no copyright on dry spots In wet weather. The Ohio painter who lit a match on his trou sera, which were coated with tar, 1; dying from burns. Republicans of California pledged the enactment of a primary law for nom inations, and the Legislature, in which there is a large Republican majority, will enact it. Bryan, the Cleveland Leader pert! nently says, said just enough for Hears to make it hard for Hearst to bolt Bryan in lSOS HEARST ACCOUNTED FOR, Product of the Peculiar San Francisco I . Conditional In the Seventies. Harpers' Weekly. San Francisco's hoodlums were - a na tural product of an exceptionally adven turous and obstreperous population as sembled and continuing under peculiar conditions. The modern town. began as a port for gold-seekers, and reflected the morals and manners of the mining camps. The scramble for money was in tense, and everything else was subservi ent to it. A sufficient social organisation to pive some security to life and property there had to be, and that was presently secured by whatever means, legal or extra-legal, were necessary. But the com mon means of shaping morals and incul cating deportment were necessarily of slower growth, and Irom 1S1U to 1870 or later, San Francisco was probably the worst city for a boy to grow up in that there was in the United States. j.he same freedom of thought and action and de tachment from ail conventional standards which favored, in some instances, the de velopment of originality of mind, also favored in many instances -gross and la mentable originality-of conduct. The ori ginal hoodlums were the product of that period. They came to early maturity and fame In the early seventies," when boys born and raised In San Francisco began to be biff enough to make trouble. From the same period of ' impaired restraint and Interrupted moral influence dates the interesting Californian who has been run ning tor uovernor or rew torn, xno mental and moral detachment of Mr. Hearst from all standards and types that prevail hereabouts, has long been notice able to observers. In his motives, his purposes and his behavior, he is not like anything that tne state or iNew mrenas produced in a hundred years. If ever. He was born in san j-Tancisco auuut. 1SG4, and no . doubt represents tn peculiar restless and regardless . ac tuations which he imbibed irom his native air and the peculiar envi ronment in. which he grew up. That such a product of the San rTancisco sixties -would De running lor uuvvnui of New York is a most curious example of the tricks that ate may piay. WHAT OREGON PAPF.RS S AY. Moving; the "Previous Question. Portland New Age. Should not the colored voters of Port land ask for a place on the next county ticket? No Cheating; This Time. . Echo Register. The press of Oregon seems -to be al most unanimously opposed to any at tempt to cheat Bourne out of the United States Senatorship. . No more Devil s auc tions are called for in Sail n. For Milt Miller's Monument. Salem Journal. It was his enterprise that brought about the great Introduction of William J. Bryan tn the neonle of Oregon at Lebanon. In many parts of Nebraska they think Leb anon is the capital of Oregon. Putting On Metropolitn Newberg Graphic. Airs. The confusion of tongues at the railroad depot, occasioned by the presence or six expressmen and three hotel-runners, is calculated to cause strangers to imagine they are stepping off the train at a sure- enough metropolis. Pay "What the Constitution Says. Tillamook Headlight. It . is to be hoped that the next state legislature will confine Governor Cham berlain to his constitutional salary. And why not? We don't see why a governor or any other person should be allowed to draw down a salary in excess ot what the constitution allows .them. Now, Then, Altogether. . Pendleton Promoter. Hope a. bit. Get hold with both hands. Then pull. Bury your, hatchet. . Drop your tomahawk. Hide your little ham mer. When a stranger drops in tell him this is the greatest town on earth. It is. Don't get mulish. Don't roast be jolly. Get popular. It's dead easy. . Help your self along. Push your friend with you. Soon you'll have a whole procession. Be a good fellow. Reorganizing- the Union. Woodburn Independent. The Portland exporters recognized the union and all went well. And why should they not have recognized the union? That was a sensible move and should not have been made through coercion. Corpora tions should recognize labor unions and enter into contract with them instead of employes, using the unions, as it were as employment agencies, fully responsible for the future conduct of ' the men se cured through them. This is coming and the sooner it is adopted the better it will be for the corporations. From the Viewpoint Up a Tree. Portland Advocate (colored). And the President has ordered' those brave . and ' courageous soldiers of th Twenty-fifth Infantry dishonorably dis charged from the Army. Every man who is acquainted with the circumstances that led up to the trouble at Brownsville, Tex and if he believes in honesty, fair play and justice, must admit that those sol diers were right In. the stand they have taken, and while the President is pleased to call it a dishonorable discharge, many will call it honorable and true and mar tyrs to the cause of principle and man hood. Though they be discharged, they are not disgraced. Plain Statement Beats "GanV Forest Grove Times. The country showed by Tuesday's elec tions that It still stands by the Repub lican party. In not a single conspicuou place did the opposition win a victory. A few Congressmen in obscure districts were defeated on one side or the other, but personal popularity rather than Na tional issues caused the changes. The Republicans will have a clear majority of about 60 In the next House or Represen tatives. and several Senators will be gained from states that have elected Re publican Legislatures. The Democrats and the opposition have not yet presented any issues that have won the support of the people. A Word For Rogue River. Medford Tribune. The Morning Oregonian is worried be. cause there is an expression extant, "Jus as Good as Hood River." and sometimes used by fruit growers of the Rogue River valley. No need to worry, it won't be long before the expression will be a pas number. It has been used In the past with Rood effect because Hood River firs learned the value of printer's ink and so attained a remunerative reputation Roeue River Valley, however, is fast learning the efficacy of the press agent, and ere long tills yauey win nave reputation to which there can be no comparison, because the valley of Rogue possesses many resources that Hood River cannot produce. Rogue River is ready to drop the expression and with her ow literature and papers to spread ou claims and the goods to back up every assertion, the Rogue will have a posi tion that can't be beat, bar none. A Too Feeble Campaign. Chicago Chronicle. The only manly blow that was struck for Hughes was struck by Secretary Root, speaking for President Roosevelt. .When he delivered that blow the pirate craft shivered from stem to stern. With out that blow all would have been lost and if there had been more like it the result would have been the complete overthrow and destruction of the Hearst propaganda. PUNISHED THE WROXO BOY. Mark Twain Tells How 'His Mother Jumped at Conclusions. From His Autobiography, in the North American Review. My mother had a good deal of trou ble with me. but I think she en3oyed It. She had none at all wiflt my brother Henry, who was two years younger than I, and I think that the unbroken monotony of his goodness and truth fulness and obedience would have been burden to her but for the relief and variety which I furnished in the other direction. I was a tonic. I was valu- ble to her. I never thought of It be fore, but now I. see It. I never knew Henry to do a vicious thing toward me, or toward anyone else but he frequently did righteous ones that cost me as heavily. .It was his duty to re- ort me, when I needed reporting and 1 neglected to do It myself, and he was ery faithful in discharging that duty. He. is "Sid" in "Tom Sawyer." But Sid was not Henry. Henry was a very much finer and better boy than ever Sid was. : It wbs Henry who called my moth er's attention to the fact that tho hread with which she had sewed my ollar together to keep me from going in swimming had changed color. My mother would not have discovered it but for that, and she was manifestly piqued when she recognized that that prominent bit of circumstantial evi dence had escaped her sharp eye. That detail probably added a detail to my punishment. It is human. We gen erally visit our shortcomings on some body else when there is a possible ex cuse for it but no matter, I took it out of Henry. There is always com pensation for such as are unjustly used I often took It out of him sometimes as an advance payment for something which I hadn't yet done. These were occasions when the opportunity was too strong a temptation, and I had to draw on tho future. I did not need to copy this idea from my mother, and probably didn't. Still she wrought upon that principle upon occasion. If the incident of the broken sugar- bowl is in "Tom Sawyer" I clon't re member whether It is or not that Is an example' of It. -Henry never stole sugar. He took it openly from tho bowl. Ifig mother knew he wouldn't take sugar when she wasn't looking, but she had her doubts about me. Not exactly doubts, either. She knew very well I would. One "day when she was not present, Henry took sugar from her prized and precious old English sugar-bowl, which was an heirloom in the family and he managed to break the bowl. It was the first time I had ever had a chance to tell anything on him, and I was inexpressibly glad. I told him I was going to tell on him, but he was not disturbed.. When my mother came in imd saw the bowl lying on the -floor in fragments, she was speechless for , a minute. I allowed that silence to work; I judged it would increase the effect. I was wait ing for her to ask "Who did that?" so that I could fetch out my news. But It was an error of calculation. When she got through with her silence she didn't ask anything about it she merely gave me a crack on the skull with her' thimble that I felt all the way down to my heel. Then I broke out with my injured innocence, expecting to make her very sorry that she had punished the wrong one. I expected her to do' something remorseful and pathetic. I told her that I was not the one it was Henry. But there was no upheaval. She said, without emotion: It's all right. It isn't any matter. You deserve it for something you've done that I didn't know about; and if you haven't done it, why then you de serve it for something that you are going to do, that I shan't hear about." It was not right to give the cat the Pain-Killer"; I realize it now. I would not repeat it in these days. But in those "Tom Sawyer" days it was a great and sincere satisfaction to me to see Peter perform under its influ enceand if actions cl speak as loud as words, he-took as much interest In it as I did. It was a most detestable medicine, Perry Davis' Pain-Killer. Mr. Pavey's negro man, who was a person of good judgment and considerable cu riosity, wanted to sample it, and I let him. It was his opinion that It was made of hell-fire. Those were the cholera days of '49. The people along the Mississippi were paralyzed with fright. Those who could run away, did it. And many died of fright in the flight. Fright killed three persons where the cholera killed one. Those who couldn't flee kept themselves drenched with cholera pre ventives, and 'my mother chose Perry Davis' Pain-Killer for me. She was not distressed about herself. She But avoided that kind of preventive. she made me promise to take a tea spoonful of Pain-Killer every day. Originally it was my Intention to keep the promise, but at that time I didn't know as much about Pain-Killer as I knew after my first experiment with it. She didn't watch Henry's bottle she could trust Henry. But she marked my bottle with a pencil, on the label, every day, and examined it to see if the teaspoonful had been re moved. The floor was not carpeted. It had cracks in it, and I fed the Pain Killer to the cracks with very good results no cholera occurred down be low. ' Remedies For Slippery Sidewalks. PORTLAND, Nov. 11 (To the Editor.) I should like to suggest a remedy for slippery sidewalks. A great many people have been seriously injured by falling on the mud-covered walks at this time of the year. This can easily be prevented by placing a thin coating of fine sand on wooden sidewalks. Cement sidewalks that are worn smooth can be roughened by sprinkling' over them a little acid. ONE OF THE SORE ONES. - A I.IUIe Girl's Lament. J. L. Armor. In Lipplncotfs. They say that sleeping doss may He; But little glrla may not. For whtn I tell tha littlest lib They scold an awful lot. Sometimes I v.-lsh I was a doe So's I could lis a lot: For when I've taken mother's cake I'd rather sleep than not. Then when she'd Bay, "Now, Clementine, Did you do so and so?" I'd close my eyes and snooze a bit And (rrowl out, "No; oh, no!". UNCLE SAM: ' "GET OUT 0' THERE, YE FOOL!" THE HOP INTirSTRV IN F.XGI.AND It Is Declared to Be Absolutely Hope less. Kentish Olwrver. Oct. IS. The following letter appeared in tho London Express of Tuesday: Sir. Beyond all question hop growing as a profitable industry Is dead beyond recall. The hop crop of 1W3. in spite of the fart that stocks were at h bout Jhe lowest ebb ever known, must have re sulted iu a loss to English growers of something approaching a million of money. But growers were told that they were succeeding in "keeping the foreigner out." It wan an expensive way of keep ing him out. and even then it did not succeed, as the table of imports will show. The fact is that the foreisncr al ways docs, and always will, dump his surplus here, irrespective of what tho price may be. Thus, the foreign grower has two markets, and the English grower has only part of one market. Last year the English growth was suf ficient for about l'l months' Hm;!i.h con sumption, and this yo:ir. owing largely to the low prices obtained lust year, the English yield Is only equal to four months' consumption. Thus in the two years we have only produced, at tho outside, IS months' supply. In face of the fart Hint there wn no reserve of stork 12 months aco,-tlieso two years combined clearly ought to be years of exceptional profit to growers, if such years do not yiell a substantial profit, the losses when the position is less favorable to growers must, in future, bo appalling in the extreme. The position of the English hop growing industry Is absolutely hopeless, and grub bing, grubbing, grubbing is the only real and effectual remedy. "Keeping out tho foreigner" is expensive sport, and bene fits no one but the brewer, who can look on and laugh. Prohibitionist's Cows On a Drank. North American. The entire herd of cows on the farm of Georgo P. Schcnck, near Williams Corner, Pa., are sick as the result-of a two-day jag from which they are just recovering. So drunk did tho enws become that they rolled and frolicked on the ground and could not "moo" without hiccoughing. The milk which - the cows have given since they be came intoxicated, in the opinion of Mr. Schenck, who Is a. Prohibitionist, 'is nothing but milk punch." The cows' spree began when they ate a quantity of apple pomace, the residue of cider-making. They stag gered about tho orchard, chasing cacli other and acting like a drunken man. As the cows are recovering, the pe culiar flavor which has characterized the milk given by the herd sinco they ate tho apple pomace is disappearing, and the demand for tho fluid in the neighborhood is becoming less. A Slap at Water Meters. PORTLAND. Nov. 11. (To tho Editor.) Does the Water Board treat its patrons with justice by placing meters in a few houses of the users, while others escape? This added cost or expense to me seems out of place, as I can only see added the, expense of the cost of the meters, the expense of placing them in position, the continued expense of some one to read the meters, and extra clerical force at the office. Why is this money for extra work not placed to better advantage, such as the construction of another pipe lino for Bull Run water? What if a little water is wasted in watering lawns? Should we have an earthquake here a? in San Francisco, would it not be much better to have two separate pipe lines? Maybe one of them would-not be wrecked. The city of Portland Is growing fast,- and more drinking water will be demanded, which, with the present facilities, wo will not be able to supply. N-. M. . Unrest in Good Times. Cleveland Leader. Many Americans are. astonished be cause they see grave discontent in the midst of unprecedented prosperity. They can not understand the unrest of many citizens, native . born and naturalized alike, when the times are better than ever before. It is nothing strange. Hu man ambition feeds on success. The farther from actual want men and wo men get the more they desire. Comfort is conservative, but it Is not an opiate. If It were the world would stagnate when It was best able to undertako and carry out great enterprises. There is never enough prosperity to go around, in the Important sense of approximate equality Our National Hysteria. The New Tork Tribune, quoting the phrase from Dr. Corwin, of the American Association of Railway Surgeons, dis cusses It at length, concluding: A democracy Is a government of common sense or of passion, for they are the only folding Impulses found In humanity as an agsresate. This seems soothlnK But the average American laces the coun try's economic problems with common sene, courage and a healthy confidence that the country can solve them without resort to some socialistic scheme of Industrial con scription, as odious to the average Individu alistic American as would be the European , system of military conscription. Though Dead, He Spoke. Harper's. A Washington, D. C, woman promi nent in the official set of the National capital tells of a function to which, she had invited an attache of one of the legations famous for his extreme politeness. The Invitation was- for mally accepted, but on tho morning of the appointed day she received a note, written by the diplomat's valet, and couched in the following terms: 'Senor Blank regrets much that ha will not be able to attend Mrs. So-anrt-So's reception on the evening of tha 22d instant, as he is dead.". A Double Intender. John George C raudall. in Lippincott's. An automobile tvlth a bursted wheel Went into a garage for quick repairs; And the chauffeur, balked In his projects, talked As a tinker talks when a tinker swears. But the great machine. Full of righteous spleen. And of gratitude by Its cure Inspired, Said at once to each. To the skillful leech And the Hwearlng chauffeur, "You make ma tlrcrt!" From th Cleveland Plain Draler, A -, stflaMaw