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THE MORNING OliEGONIAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1906.
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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1906.
WHY THIS HOTNESS?
Zeal Is properly a characteristic of
church journalism; and all experience
proves how hard it is for zeal, on eccle
siastical subjects, to keep to the strict
and definite line of truth. Men, there
fore, ought always to pardon much to
the zeal of the hot gospeller. Yet it
were to be wished that closer adher
ence to the plain verities might be
observed always than we find in this
statement by our excellent neighbor,
the Catholic Sentinel:
The Oregonian Is pleased to refer to the
public worship of the Catholic Church as
"Incantations." Since the morning paper
blossomed out with multi-colored comic mon
strosities It probably thinks It ought to take
to Itself the other features of the gutter
press.
This, we should say, is not kind. Nor
logical, either; for The Oregonian hae
noticed in "the gutter press," in many
quarters, how deep the solicitude is leet
The Oregonian fall to the level of the
gutter press. But that ten't the sub
ject to be dealt with just now. That
which is immediate is the statement
that The Oregonian has been "pleased
to refer to the public worship of the
Catholic Church as 'incantations." '
Now here is the pafisage from The Ore
gonian. It referred to the shrine at
Lourdes, which under the new law of
France will pass next month, with
other ecclesiastical property, under con
trol of the French government, unless
the provisions of the law as to eepara
tlon of church and state are complied
with:
The government's wisest course is to make
the place a public park, keep the spring
clean so that the foul water will cease to
spread disease, permit all creeds and sects
to perform any incantations they wish In
the grotto, and furnish free bottles to every
body who desires to carry away a portion ot
the sacred flood. The prediction Is hazarded
that under this regime the pilgrimages will
soon cease. The water will presently lose
its virtues, and the place may be disposed
or to some villager for a garden spot. It
will be desirable for that purpose, since the
miraculous spring will afford water for lrrl
gatlnn, if It doeB not dry up.
"Th Incantations of all creeds and
isecte." What is the matter with the
expression? Why is our Catholic friend
so touchy about it? Besides, what is
the matter with the word "incanta
tlon"? The Century Dictionary defines
it as "the art or act of enchanting by
utterance of magical words, with cere
monies supposed to have magica
power; also the formula of words, or
the ceremony employed." Not neces
sarily is incantation a word offensive to
-anybody, nor magical either; though
both have been run, through change of
human customs, into certain side mean
ings, or may be used in certain re
stricted meanings, in which they lose
their dignity, or part of it; but at bot
tom incantation, chant, canticle, en
chantment, are one and the same word
and mean the same thing. And mag
leal has its origin In the Magi, or wise
men of the East the same who came
under guidance of the star to worship
at the Holy Cradle.
NOVEMBER IS NOVEMBER.
November gales oft the Pacific Coast
have been exceedingly strenuous. Dis
aster to vessels has been chronicled in
the loss of two ships and the disappear
ance, with apprehended loss, of a third
On land, accompanied by a deluge of
rain, the loss Is recorded in estimates
that aggregate hundreds of thousands
of dollars in devastated farming lands,
bridges swept away and delayed traffic,
The latter is especially far-reaching.
Owing to the shortage of cans on every
road, transcontinental. Western and
Eastern, there was already a conges
tion of freight at every shipping sta
tion. While every effort will be made
to repair damages to roadbeds and re
build bridges, the added delay in re
ceiving goods and shipping supplies will
be severely felt. Th'is will be especially
true of holiday goods, immense stores
of which are now en route to various
points ot delivery in the Pacific North
west. However, with the abatement of
the storm, every effort will be made to
relieve the congestion in traffic.
The vicissitudes of storm and flood
and fire and earthquake have not been
visited upon this section for man
years. Earthquakes and cyclones are
indeed unknown within the wide limits
. of the Pacific Northwest, while until
now disastrous freshets and high winds
have not visited it for a number of
years. This fact, however, so perverse
is human nature, conduces to impa-
tlence rather than to philosophical ac-
ceptance of conditions incident to the
present'' situation. Reverses that at
orst can only cause temporary incon
venience and lose are likely to be met
by those who have been greatly favored
by fortune with unreasoning complaint
and restivenesa. "We may therefore ex
pect to hear in connection with the loss
and inconvenience suffered by the late
storm cynical references to Oregon's1
rains as an ever-present, climatic con
dition frequently resulting in disaster
to property and congestion of trafnc.
Reasonable people will, however, re
member that November is November,
and find in the balmy breath of our late
gales much lor which to be thankful by
comparison with drifting snows, the
ice-pointed winds which 60 frequently
sweep the East and the Middle West
and Northwest sections at this season.
November is November, even in the
Pacific Northwest, though thie last of
the Autumn months Is with us usually
so bland in demeanor as to make us
forget, his latent possibilities in the
storm-producing line.
MENTAL OBLIQUITIES. -
It is wonderful indeed how many per
sons there are who make it a study to
misquote or misrepresent The Orego-
ian. Here now again is the Salem
Capital Journal. It says The Orego
nian has "turned loose Its columns of
rumors on Senator Fulton," and "heads
up far-fetched innuendoes" against him
with a big line, "Senator Fulton Con
nected with Land Frauds." Now this
is false; The Oregonian has printed no
such headline. It has printed as part
of the news of the day, which could
not toe omitted from its columns, an ac
count of an Investigation by agents of
the Government at Umatilla, with the
tatement that under a bill which Mr.
Fulton caused to be passed through the
Senate it is believed that land frauds
have been committed; and an attempt
would be made to throw eome part of
the responsibility on him. This was the
substance of The Oregonian's reports
from Washington. Editorially, The
Oregonian said the statement, in its
pinion, was utterly unworthy of credit;
and it brought from Washington a spe
cial dispatch which stated that the
report had been submitted to Senator
Fulton, who said the story was a silly
one, without shadow ot foundation.
This The Oregonian accepts and fully
believes, and said so. We can see no
reason why the truth should not be told
when The Oregonian is quoted, except
on the doctrine of the ancient and well
known proverb that nothing is so easy
as lying. Yet, after misrepresenting
what The Oregonian said about Senator
Fulton, complaining falsely that it had
accused him of connection with land
frauds, and ignoring Its declaration
that it could not toe believed that he
had done any wrong In the matter,
this Salem freak says: "The Orego
nian doth protest too much when it
asks its readers to believe in advance
that Jim Raley and Bill Furnish could
not be guilty of any little land trans
action in the Umatilla reservation.'
What obliquities are here revealed!
SOUNDING BRASS.
A day or two after the recent election
Mr. Hearst's New York Evening Jour
nal printed a satirical editorial which
was, after its kind, a masterpiece,
Bristling with points and witty in the
extreme, the article presents an array
of innuendoes and half truths which
exasperate the reader while for the mo
ment they baffle his intelligence. The
idea to be conveyed is that the people
of New York were fools for not electing
Mr. Hearst Governor of the state, and
it is done' with consummate art. But
art may serve evil as well as good. It
may express falsehood as well as truth.
In this case it expresses a falsehood.
The voters of New York were not fools
for rejecting Mr. Hearst. It was one
of the wisest acts which any electorate
ever did.
We do not base this judgment on the
fact that Mr. Hearst is a Democrat or
an Independent. We do not base it
upon the defects of his private charac
ter.- Men of depraved personal habits
have now and then made excellent pub
lic officials, and some of the worst rul
ers whom the world has known -were
exemplary In their private conduct. A
Democratic Governor is not necessarily
bad, nor a Republican good. We be- I
lieve that the election of Mr. Hearst
would have been a public calamity for
a reason entirely unconnected with
these matters. The reason is this: that.
despite all his protestations of devotion
to the public good and despite all his
professed enmity to the spoilers, Mr.
Hearst had deliberately set out to fool
the people. Of the tricks which he de
nounced he was himself guilty. The pi
ratical methods which he proposed to
annihilate were the very ones which he
employed in his own business. But this
is not the whole or the worst of his of
fense. This was insincere, but it .was a
kind of insincerity not uncommon In
politics, and, while it was bad, it was
not lethal.
Mr. Hearst's unpardonable sin was
his effort to convince the people that
his double code of principles is the best
attainable; that all reform is tainted
with deceit and all good rooted in evil.
He affirmed that no striving for higher
things could be more genuine than his
own. But his own was foul with insin
cerity; hence no man was or could be
sincere. This was the lethal principle
in Mr. Hearst's campaign. It was -pessimism
. of the most destructive type.
Nothing can be eo ruinous as the belief
that all pretended good is rotten at the
heart; that all men are living lies and
that all effort must travel in a vicious
circle from evil around to evil. That
this was Mr. Hearst's teaching cannot
be denied. "I am the best there is,"
was his loud and reiterated proclama
tion. When it transpired ,that his prin
ciples were but a pretense and his prac
tice a falsehood, what was left for
those who had believed in him but
utter disheartenment with all efforts
for better things?
Mr. Hearst tried to convince the peo
ple of New York that no man could toe
more sincere than he was and no effort
for reform more genuine than his own.
This, we say, was an effort to fool
them; and it was deception of a sort in
comparably worse than that of a can
didate who merely makes false prom
ises. His Insincerity was of the nihil
istic kind, which teaches that good is
evil and evil the only good. Mr.
Hearst's belief that he could convince
the people of this ruinous falsehood
proved that his contempt for them was
measureless. Their rejection of him
and his teaching proved that his con
tempt was unmerited. The voters of
New York have not "declared for a
continuation of trust government." No
statement could be farther from the
truth. What they did was to reject a
candidate whose practice belied his pro
fessions and elect one whose perform
ance had always exceeded his promises.
The people were confronted with a
difflcultf problem. Between two candi
dates each of whom declared himself a
friend of the public and an enemy to
its foes, they had to decide which was
genuine and which spurious. The elec
tion returns show that the electors
must have pondered the question deep
ly. - Many circumstances perplexed
them. The support of such men as Bel
mont and McCarren was of evil import
for Hughes. What had he done to earn
it? The many open assaults which
Hearst had made upon the piratical
powers seemed to demonstrate that his
professions were genuine. Nevertheless,
Hughes was accepted and Hearst re
jected; and one of the most audacious
and energetic attempts ever maae to
pervert a great ethical uprising to the
ends of unprincipled ambition utterly
failed. Were the voters fools for so de
ciding? Is it folly to prefer the genuine
to the spurious?
GROWTH OF NAVAL ARMAMENT.
Japan now launches the greatest bat
tleship in the world. All results of ex
perience, all modern inventions, are to
be .utilized in her to the utmost It is
said that use has been freely granted
by the British Admiralty of all plans
and results that experience hae ap
proved in the British navy; for Japan
and Great Britain are allies, and do not
anticipate the danger that they will
ever be called to turn tneir guns
against each other. The alliance, how
ever, will terminate In 1917; but it will
be renewed if the interests of the par
ties seem to require it, as doubtless
they will.
So the British Dreadnaught is not to
be the last word in battleships, nor her
American rival, either; for the French
journal Le Yacht believes that battle
ships, are coming which will displace
25,000 to 26,000 tons, and cost from
$12,200,000 to $14,000,000, and that, face
to face with such vessels, the battle
ships of 11,000 to 13,000 tons now in
service will find themselves as hel-pless
as today the small battleships of 4000
to 5000 tons find themselves against
ships of 12,000 to 15,000 tons.
The London Standard tells us that
the position or situation, at the begin
ning of the year 1908, as to first-class
battleships possessed by the three great
maritime nations of Europe, will 'be:
Great Britain, 32 ships carrying 522
guns of all calibers above torpedo de
fense guns; France and Germany, 33
ships and 560 guns. Thie, however,
proves little, as her great superiority in
fhe larger guns secures the fighting su
periority of Great Britain. If armored
cruisers are Included. Great Britain's
strength will be relatively still greater,
Yet it is certain that the energy of Ger
many and of France, unless met by
similar energy in England, will, within
a few years, reduce the disparity or
eliminate it. It is inconceivable, how
ever, that France and Germany should
ever act together. Besides, Japan is
sure to toe a factor, and in a few years
a great one, in naval affairs.
In spite of all theory and all senti
ment and all talk about a universal
eirenicon, or peace compact, prepara
tion for war continues to be the reli
ance for preservation of peace. The
London Standard's writer tells us that
at a recent meeting at Dresden "the
disarmament proposal was simply
laughed at, England being told that
Germany would be quite willing to con
sider it when, andi not until, the Ger
man navy was equal in strength to
our own. Meantime, the cry of the
Fatherland is 'For heaven's sake keep
up your army and build ships, ships
ships.' There Is not much comfort for
the peace-lover here.
And Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans,
of the. United States Navy, tells us that
"at the present time we have nothing
more than a respectable nucleus for a
Navy adequately to represent the
United States. Frankly, we haven't
ships enough; we haven't guns enough;
in fact, we haven't a spare- gun to put
on one of the ships tomorrow in case
one of the guns now in use should be
come disabled." For our own safety
we shall be compelled to build more
naval armament, wnether we like to do
it or not.
RAILROAD AND OTHER WEALTH.
For the timid alarmists who see Or
profess to see in' the increasing ra
pacity of the railroads a possibility of
ultimate absorption of the country toy
these misnamed "common" carriers
some comfort can be found in the cen
sus statistics and in the latest issue of
Poor's Manual. A Washington die
patch in yesterday's Oregonian states
that the Census Bureau hae just given
out figures showing the wealth of the
United States in 1904 to have been $106,-
881,415,009, compared with $88,528,348,798
in 1900, and $65,037,091,197 in 1S90. The
immensity of these figures is such that
It is a difficult matter for the human
mind to grasp their full meaning, tout
taken in connection with the statistics
on railroad valuations, a clearer idea of
their proportions can be secured.
The value of the railroads of the
United States in 1905 as represented toy
their stocks and bonds was $14,563,199.-
931, compared with $10,020,925,215 in 1890,
a gain of approximately 45 per cent in
fifteen years, compared with a gain of
nearly 70 per cent in the total wealth of
the country in fourteen years. In other
words, the general wealth of the coun
try increased more than $41,844,000,000
while the value of the railroads in
creased but $4,542,000,000. An explana
tion of this much smaller increase in
the value of railroads as compared with
other property may toe found in the
railway statistics covering the industry
up to 1905. These statistics show that
the growth since 1890 has been less in
the extension of lines than in the de
velopment of capacity and traffic on
those already built.
Last year there were in operation in
the United States 217,341 miles of road
a gain of less than 50,000 miles since
1890, while in the ten years preceding
1890 more than 70,000 miles had been
added to the 100,000 mark reached in
1881. But it is not alone in the official
figures here quoted thai we find evi
dence that other lines of industrial en
deavor are more than holding their own
with the railroads. In the condensed
tables printed in Poor's Manual for 1906
it is shown that since 1883 the average
rate per ton per mile for freight has
been reduced from 1.224 cents to 0.784
cents, and the rate per passenger per
mile from 2.422 cents to 2.028 cents,
During the same period there was an
increase in the ratio of expenses to
earnings from 63.82 in 1883 to 67.49 in
1905, there being a decline to the latter
figure from 70.43 in 1896 on account of
the unprecedented increase in earnings.
The railroad business is easily the
greatest industry in the United States,
but there is nothing alarming in its pro
portions so long as it supplies increased
facilities and lowering rates, and the
statistics show that other industries de
pendent on it to a certain extent are
increasing in value more rapidly than
the railroads. Both the figures on gen-
eral wealth of the country and of the
railroad business reflect In a striking
manner the wonderful prosperity of the
country and the tremendous amount of
new wealth that is being created each
year.
The three sons of the Count and
Countess de Castellane are the real suf
ferers from the mercenary marriage of
which they are the issue. While the
mother is given the custody of the chil
dren all of whom are of tender years
they are to be given over to their
father, a man of vile habits, two daya
in the week:, one week each at New
Year and Easter, and a month in Sum
mer of each year. During these times
they -will be with their grandmother,
who is a bitter enemy of their mother
and under the influence of their father.
If the Countess succeeds in making
even decent Frenchmen out of her boys
under these conditions, both she and
they will be exceptionally fortunate. A
mother must indeed be of strong char
acter and determined will to counteract
the Influences that will be set at work
against her personality and teachings
in such a case. And the boys in a
perplexing strait betwixt the two will
early learn to go their own way, un
mindful of admonition from either
source, since each will discredit the
other. The case will be one of many
in which, the parents having eaten sour
grapes, the children's teeth will be set
on edge.
Mrs. Margaret Bottome, whose death
occurred at her home In New York City
on November 13, was one of the most
widely and favorably known women in
the United States. As president of the
International Order of the King's
Daughters she exercised a wide and
helpful influence over women in spirit
ual and charitable lines. She was
known also to a large audience to
whom she spoke for many months as
assistant editor of the Ladies' Home
Journal. She was the widow of Rev.
F. Bottome, a writer on religious topics,
and was 79 years old at the time of her
death. Her great age will toe a sur
prise to many, as she appealed to young
women as one of their number through
the close touch of sympathy for all who
were starting out in life, as well as to
those who were bearing the burden and
heat of womanhood's useful and touey
prime.
Holy Rollerism has broken out anew
in Seattle, thus dispelling the hope that
the germs of this loathsome disease had
been Interred with the body of Creffield
and "proving again that emotional folly,
bearing the name of religion, cannot be
stamped out toy slaying the chief dis
seminator of the evil germs. The world
is well rid of Creffield, though a law-
abiding community cannot sanction the
manner of his. taking off, but the break
ing out anew of his outrageous Orgies
In the name of religion proves once
more the truth of the declaration "The
evil that men do lives after them."
There are some people and some Jour
nals which seek Judge Williams for an
opinion to help them out in their
schemes; but when Judge Williams is
a candidate, or offers counsel that runs
against their wishes or prejudices, they
reject him and his counsels together.
and denounce him as just about the
weakest man and the greatest old fool
in the world.
The moral of the Whitney killing is
that home is the only place for the
growing or grown girl to sleep in. She
must toe. where her mother can count
her at bedtime. No matter how fair
and pleasant and plausible are other
places, "there's no place like home,1
and she is up, against desperate chances
elsewhere. i
xne simplified spelling "thru," so
much criticised toy President Wheeler,
Professor Munsterberg and others, hap
pens to obey one of the rules of English
orthoepy which has no exceptions. The
vowel "u" following "r" In a mono
syllable, or an accented syllable, sounds
always like "o ' in "do."
The Germans of Wisconsin propose
to endow a professorship in the State
University as a memorial to Carl
Schurz. He was at one time a regent
of the Wisconsin University, and en
tered public life from that state. Thus
the memorial is peculiarly appropriate.
In order to prove that the newspa
pers have lied about them, Senator and
Mrs. Piatt are going to separate amica
bly. The Senator ought also to bring
the blush of shame to those newspa
pers which have insisted' that he will
not resign.
Mr. Dryden, of New Jersey, the Gib
raltar of Industrial life Insurance, Is not
likely to return to the United States
Senate. If the late elections had ac
complished nothing but thie, all their
expense and trouble would have been
justified.
Passes "don't go" on the Klamath
Lake Railroad. This road is only 32
miles long, but it comes under the in
terstate law because it starts at Thrall,
in California, and ends at Pokegama,
in Oregon.
There is a rumor that Frank C. Baker
offers to give his printing plant at Sa
lem to the state. It is to be hoped that
the state officers will close the deal at
once, before it is everlastingly too late.
Count Bonl denies indignantly that he
ever struck the late Countess, except
for money. Has a French nobleman,
although he has been bought and paid
for, no rights or privileges?
"Silver rises in price. Ah! You see,
Mr. Bryan knew something, after all.
But is this fluctuating stuff wanted as
our basis of money? Besides, it is now
worth but 60 cents on the dollar.
Mr. Ruef and Mayor Schmitz have
been indicted. Heney has so far "made
good." It becomes clearer every day
why Ruef wanted so desperately to be
Prosecuting Attorney.
Count Bonl is to have a voice in the
education of his children. To teach,
them all about that choice alphabet of
"madames," no doubt.
Great are the uses of adversity. What
wouldn't Homer Davenport give to toe
here just now and see Sllverton on the
main line! -
If water rates were Included in the
land tax, would the landlord pay
them? Watch the rent barometer and
see.
Possibly the Panama Canal may solve
the problem as to what to do with our
next ex-President.
'Possibly it will be known some day
as Stranded Oil.
HEARST'S LOVE FOR THE PEOPLE
How It la Shown Im Remarkable
Editorial.
(Under the heading. "No More Politics for
the Present: Let Us Get Back to Other
Things." The New York Evening Journal
prints the following:)
You will be pleased to learn, friendly
reader, that this column of the Evening
Journal will try to forget politics and
politicians for a while.
A majority of the votes, or a major
ity of THE DOLLARS (it seems to be
about the same thing in this happy
land), have declared for a continuation
of Trust government.
We have expressed our opinion as to
the probable result of such a govern
ment. There is nothing to do but look
on, and regretfully see the people
get another lesson.
THEY WILL GET IT.
However, the world will go on. Peo
ple, will want to know how they can
keep from catching cold. We shall tell
them. (Breathe deep and sleep with
open windows, for one thing.)
Mothers, and fathers will want to
send in good advice about how to bring
up boys. We shall print that advice
and stop advising on how to BRING
DOWN PRICES.
We shall return to a study of wom
an's rights' and HATS.
We shall try to interest young men,
women and children in good reading.
We are preparing, and shall issue, a
statement about the importance of
keeping your feet warm in Winter
especially while asleep.
We are going to impress on parents
the folly of interrupting a child's sleep.
THERE IS NOTHING MORE STtfPID
ON EARTH THAN GETTING A CHILD
UP TOO EARLY. That one question
Is more Important than the Trusts. For
It is clear that our problems have got
to be solved by the CHILDREN. Our
grown men won't do it at least not
until they are hungrier than now and
kicked harder and more often than
now.
With the exception of the American
cigar store Indian, the thing that feels
a kick least in this world seems to be
a haughty American CITIZEN. . ,
There are lots of things to talk about
and write about. I
We want to see our readers make
good real estate investments. There
are still thousands of chances in that
direction.
We want to see them practice saving
their money. They are going to NEED
It one of these days, for the Trusts will
be steadily wanting more, and THEY
WILL GET IT. This noble people will
vote to give it to them.
To come back to ordinary editorial
talk makes us feel like Rip "Van Winkle
returning from that famous sleep.
Readers, perhaps, will be kind enough
to write and say what interests them
and what they want discussed in this
newspaper which belongs to them,
it you live in isew loric, or if you
visit the town occasionally, "for to ad
mire and for to see," open your eyes in
the Subway.
Two kinds of cars are run down there
steel cars, fairly safe, and WOODEN
cars, that a little jar would smash.
Make it your business to pick out
and USE the steel cars.
You can tell them from the others
because they have rows of iron bolts
on the outside and on the INSIDE they
are painted green and white.
Those steel cars are not as strong as
they might be, but their strength is in
finitely greater than that .of the dan
gerous wooden cars. In case of col
lision the wooden cars will crumble up
like cheese, acting as 'a sort of safety
brake for the steel cars.
'I his- we have told you before. We
tell you again.
UEI THE STEEL CAR HABIT. You
will soon pick out the steel car auto
matically and AUTOMATICALLY re
fuse to enter the wooden car.
Sooner or later yom are bound to be
in a Subway smash-up, and this piece
of advice may SAVE YOUR LIFE and
make you glad you read the Evening
Journal.
P. S. Some days ago we might have
told you to vote for safe cars in the
Subway to vote to COMPEL THAT
GENTLE ARISTOCRAT. BELMONT, to
use steel cars only.
At present we abandon that kind of
advising, and to our readers we say,
usu THK STEEL CARS. It is bad
enough to let Belmont half suffocate
you. No use in letting him grind you
UP even if he IS an aristocrat and you
only ta reeble-mlnded straphanger.
Uncle Sim to the O. O. P.
W. J. L. in the New York World.
Say. G. O. P.,
Between you and me.
You've got to brace
Or you won't have a place
In the next race.
By gum!
The other eld'i is going some.
And It will get there
For fair
If you don't open your, eyes
And get wise
To the situation.
This nation
Wants a square deal, I
Which It will appeal '
To (he people for, and they
Won't come your way
As long as you line up with money.
As long as you let the great
Exert their might
Agamiit the right.
And doss and legislate.
By srosh! ' .
This Is no josh.
And take It from me
That the G. O. P.
Has got to break the fetters
Of steel and oil and coal
And rail and meat and sugar.
If it would reach the goal
Of any party answ'rlng
A party's highest call
The welfare of the people.
The greatest good for all.
Now, G. O. P., you've got to 1 J
Make gcod in this regard,
Or you will get the lemon.
And get it fierce and hard.
Bee?
That's Me
Talking, and If you ain't a clam
You'll listen to your Uncle Sam.
In After Years.
T. H. Kendall. In Chicago Record-Herald.
Just a little meeting on the street one day.
He sedate and older, she sweet-faced and
gray.
Just a little hand clasp. Just a word or
two,
Just a pair of haxel eyes smiling Into blue.
Just a little low, sweet laugh, more than
half a tear.
And his mind went racing back along with
hers, I fear.
To a little graduate dressed in purest white.
And a little sad goodbye o'er the gate one
night.
And he?
Oh! he recovered and now has children
ten.
And she?
Well, she's been married twice and hopes
to be again.
SHIPS OF THE FIGHTING LINE
Tendency of the Opinion of Experts on
Main Points.
New 'York Herald.
Though the sea powers have been seek
ing many roads to the highest efficiency
sometimes blundering far afield and
sometimes finding fair and true the right
trail the straight path does not seem
so difficult to point out. As in all other
essays, the complex has had to be dealt
with, but now that the Russo-Japanese
WTar has solved some problems, the in
evitable tendency is toward the simple,
and here, if the round-robin experts may
be believed Is what the master battleship
must be:
First Provide a displacement, whether
this be 20,000 or 25,000 tons, in which may
be assembled the greatest concentration
of energies for the sea actions that must
be fought at long ranges. This 13 the
very beginning of wisdom.
Second Remember that each type has
its approximate speed. After action has
been joined superior mobility may or may
not be of value this is disputed but there
Is no question that the possession of
speed in the higher degree permits battle
to be sought or to be declined. It is a
return to the principle of the weather
gauge of the sail period.
Third Install the most effective motive
power. This means turbines instead of
reciprocating engines and the employment
of many small water tube boilers isolated
in separate compartments and so dis
posed below the water line that the
chance of the ship becoming an inert
mass is rendered most remote.
Fourth--3trengthen and simplify the
armament. Ten or 12 of the largest cal
iber guns that can get home at the long
est fighting range and many smaller
pieces, five or six inches in caliber, to
stand off torpedo craft and when the
chance offers wreck superstructures, fur
nish the highest strength and the great
est simplicity.
Fifth Distribute the ammunition sup
ply and provide plenty of storage room.
so that quick firing shall not end in im
potence. Sixth Carry an armor belt around the
ship from the keelson up to the upper
fighting deck, distributing its thickness
so that adequate defense will be afforded
to protect the stability of the ship against
under water or above water attack.
Seventh Provide broadside submerged
torpedo guns not so much for what they
will do but for what they may ertect in
keeping the enemy at the distance where
the big guns count. Finally, do not build
a unit ship. Once a design is accepted,
build a group of four. A division of
homogeneous ships is sure to be superior
to an equal number of individual vessels
when these vary greatly in the essentials
of co-equal attack and defense.
CITY LAND f311 A SQUARE FOOT
Felix Ismail Largest Inillvldunl Buyer
In New York Real Estate.
New York Times.
Felix Isman, of Philadelphia, has
startled the real estate market with
another of his spectacular purchases in
this city, the property being that at
the southeast corner of Fifth avenue and
Forty-second street, T3.3 by 100 feet.
owned by the Columbia bank and the
American Safe Deposit Company.
For this bit of Manhattan island Mr.
Isman paid $1,550,000.
Of the properties which go to make up
the Fifth avenue plot the immediate cor
ner, 23 by 100 feet, on which there is a
seven-story building, is sold by the
American Safe Deposit Company, while
the three adjoining four-story structures,
on a plot 50.3 by 100, known as 495, 497
and 499 Fifth avenue, are held by the
Columbia bank.
The four parcels together have an area
of 7325 square feet, so that the price of
,550,000 figures down to, about $211 a
square foot. This is sf slightly higher
rate than was paid last year for the
New York club property at the south
west corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty
fifth street, although it is said that
$600,000 or $240 a square foot, has since
been offered and refused for another sin
gle corner lot on the avenue between
Thirty-fourth and Forty-second streets.
The Columbia bank has profited hand
somely In the deal with Mr. Isman. It
bought its properties several years ago
before things had happened to 'double
Fifth avenue values, and it is said to
have "cleaned up" almost one-half mil
lion dollars on the entire operation. ,
Forty-second street's growth, from
Times square to the Grand Central sta
tion, has been almost as rapid as that
of Fifth avenue itself within the last
three or four years, and has aided ma
terially In giving extraordinary value to
this property at their point of crossing.
The fact that the new public library is
set back nearly 100 feet from the build
ing line, making Fifth avenue at this
point practically 200 feet wide, has also
given great prominence to the two blocks
from Fortieth to Forty-second street.
In the size of the operations which he
seems ready to take on at one time, Felix
Isman is keeping pace with the large
realty corporations, and easily holds
first place as an Individual speculator.
It is only about six months ago' that he
bought the Stewart building, at Broad
way and Chambers street, for W.ooo.ooo,
and his deals within a year have also
Included the purchase of the Bennett
building, at Fulton and Nassau streets,
and the lease of a largo plot at Broad
way and Thirty-third street.
All Aboard.
Roseburg Spokesman.
It is to be hoped that The Oregonian,
Millard Lownsdale, and the Hood River
"booster" will remember that Douglas
County is still in the land of the living
ana is regdy to get there witn tne fruit
any time.
What Link Got In the Draw.
Drewsey Cor. Valf Oriano.
There was born to the wife of Lincoln
Robbins November 2 twins, girl and boy
weight 6 and 7 pounds. Link is now at
Ontario after freight and does not know
he is father to a pair.
THE LAST,
iwxk&F yIr -Ht kite
nfmirft'J 60000 mlH
PLANS A CITY FOR 5000 BOYS.
Young Wards Will Live' Three Week
Next Summer at Lake Winona.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Boys are to have a city all their own
at Lake Winona, Ind. a community of
5000 persons, ranging in age from 11 to
IT years, organized as a complete mu
nicipality, with wards. City Council,
Mayor and administrative departments.
Such is the plan for a boy Chautauqua
to be associated with the Winona Assem
bly, which has been formed by philan
thropists of that body. The boy city is
to make Its bow to the public during
three weqks in next August.
The movement was started a short time
ago in Indianapolis at a meeting attend
ed by 30 prominent business and pro
fessional men connected with the Winona
Assembly and Winona Technical School.
J. M. Studebaker, of South Bend, is
chairman and Judge Willis Brown, of
the Juvenile Court of Salt Lake City,
director of the venture. The 5000 boys,
who otherwise would spend their vacation
time in sweltering cities, will be taken
to the Indiana lake and taught co-operation
and discipline, together with the
more academic subjects of the lecture
room. There will be eight wards in the boy
city, each one of which will elect a rep
resentative to the City Council. The Coun
cil will meet once or twice a week. A
grocery, a notion and candy store, a soda
water fountain, a' restaurant, a photo
graphic supply shop, etc., are to be owned
and operated by stock companies of boys,
each under the charge of an adult. At
the end of the season the profits will be
distributed as dividends. These various
enterprises will be organized by the man
agement and will be ready for business
the opening day.
Each boy will be expected to provide
his own provisions. He may bring them
with him or buy them at the grocery,
and may eat his meals at the restaurant.
where the prices will be only little mora
than cost. Fuel, laundry and other ne
cessities will be supplied by the manage
ment. The boys will live in tents holding
four and eight occupants. These Mil be
set up by the management without cost
to the boys, the small advance fee
charged each for his three weeks' resi
dence in the city Including his tent, cot.
light, fuel and water. There will be five
permanent buildings in the city, the
assembly hall, general store and supply
house, gymnasium, band-stand and elec
trical and photographic shops.
One of the features will be a telephone
system, by means of which the boys will
be taught the rudiments of telephone en
gineering. This will be an adjunct of
the electrical department,' and the boys
interested in this branch of work can
purchase and install instruments in their
tents at a nominal fee. It is arranged
that the electrical class shall have a
monopoly on the telephones, charging all
others 1 cent for each call. Any abuse
of this monopoly will be threshed out be
fore the City Council to the development
of boy oratory.
All boys who cap own cameras will be
urged to bring them. A camera club will
be organized to hold competitions for
the best pictures. Once a week the best
picture taken during that time will be
shown with a stereopticon. This deparl
ment will be in charge of an experienced
photographer, and suitable dark and
printing-rooms will be provided.
Every boy who possesses a musical in
strument will be expected to bring that
with him also. A boys' band and a boys'
orchestra will be formed out of the
musical talent which the management
expects to discover. A chorus of from
300 to 500 voices also is a probability. This
department probably will be in charge
of Dr. L. P. Christansen, of Salt Lake
City.
A gymnasium will be constructed, with'
the aid of the boys, working under the
direction of expert carpenters. An ath
letic field will be laid out along the lake,
and all kinds of competitions held under
municipal auspices. This department
probably will bo in charge of Professor
George Ehler, formerly physical director
of the Chicago Y. M. C. A. and now
in charge of the physical work of the
Cleveland public schools.
Classes in nature study will be formed,
in which competent men will instruct the
boys in all the interesting lore of trees,
rocks, birds, fish and flowers that are
to be found in and around the lake.
Programmes for further entertainment
and instruction will be framed by the
management of the Winona Assembly.
Judge Brown, the director, will have
charge of the religious work, with Dr.
Shaw, of Indianapolis, as assistant.
Plan to Harness the Mississippi.
North American.
Hugh L. Cooper, the Wall street en
gineer who solved the problem of how to
harness the waters of Niagara and who
drew the plans which make it possible to
accomplish that greatest of all feats in
the line of electrical development, pro
poses to build a dam 6000 feet long across
the Mississippi river at Keokuk at the
foot of what is known as the Dos Moines
Rapids. The great Niagara Falls pro
position was so enormous that for a time
the country laughed and said that it was
not possible to control the mighty forces
there so as to get 200,000 horsepower for
commercial purposes. But when the
world's greatest dam here Is completed,
an Immense powerhouse 1MB feet long
will contain forty-seven immense gen
erators, with a capacity of 45 horse
power each, or a maximum capacity of
211, -"'. to he utilized in operating the in
dustrial wheels in many cities.
Entitled to a Veteran Star.
Independence West Side.
Twenty-seven years continuous reading
of a newspaper Is a pretty good record
but that Is the record of T. B. Huntley
who has read both the West Side Enter
prise and Oi-egonfan for that length of
time. He commenced taking both papers
soon after his arrival here from Califor
nia and has continued without intermis
sion since.
SAD RITES
From the New York World.