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PORTLAND, MONDAY, APRIL 1. 1007.
INNOVATIONS IN A STATE CONSTITU
TION. Oklahoma's constitution contains so
many features entirely new In state
government that the results will be
Hatched with keen Interest by stu
dents of political economy all over the
Union. There are two provisions, re
lating to the administration of Justice,
that will be of particular Interest, for
they have been discussed In many
states, but seldom, if ever, adopted. One
provision authorizes three-fourths of a
Jury to find a verdict In all civil cases
and In all criminal cases Involving an
offense loss than a felony. Under the
common law system of trial by Jury,
adopted by statute In practically all
states, unanimous action is required to
find a verdict. Under such require
ments, one or two men may prevent an
agreement or make an agreement con
ditional upon a compromise In which
the other members of the Jury reluc
tantly concur. The Judgment of one man
Is given as much weight as that of
eleven. A corrupt litigant who can
purchase one Juror Is able to block the
action of eleven others. The prejudice
of one man who may be friendly to one
of the parties Is permitted to stand in
the way of Justice.
The Oklahoma provision Is supported
by sound reason and there can be little
doubt that It will prove satisfactory, in
practice. Very frequently a man who
Is In the wrong in a controversy will
stand trial in the courts because there
Is the chance of winning one Juror out
of twelve and thereby practically win
ning the case. Criminals who are
Clearly guilty fight a case to the end
because they have some hope of pre
venting a verdict of guilty through a
"hung" Jury. The people bear the ex
pense of such litigation while justice is
hindered rather than promoted thereby.
If guilty persons knew that nine out
of twelve men could determine the ver
dict of the Jury, there would be much
less needless litigation. And so of cor
ruption of Juries. One who Is willing
to offer a bribe may find one or two
men on a jury whom ho will dar to
approach, but there is little likelihood
of his finding more. To influence
unduly a Jury in Oklahoma, it will be
necessary to corrupt four men. for nine
can find a verdict. It would be almost
impossible to bribe four men after a
trial has begun, without detection.
The three-fourths will be a protection
to honest litigants, too. in cases where
the panel has been exhausted and the
Jury Is completed from the "bystand
ers." A dishonest litigant, in antici
pation of the regular panel being ex
hausted, will have the courtroom
packed with friends and sympathizers
In the hope that at least one of them
will be draw n and accepted on the jury,
by which means his case may be won.
If nine men could decide the case, the
probability of interruption of justice
by this means would be greatly less
ened. In this country the principle 'of
majority rule gent-rally prevails. There
are many who believe that in trial by
jury a majority of the twelve men. or
seven, should be allowed to govern, but
this Idea has no general support. There
Is little, however, to be said against
the proposition that nine men should
have the power to reach a conclusion.
When the court has power to set aside
a verdict and grant a new trial, there
is small chance for Injustice growing
out of such a plan.
The other provision of the Okla
homa constitution to :: : particular
reference is made above is that de
claring the right of trial by Jury in
all contempt cases where the charge
is the violation of an ordr of injunc-.
tlon or restraint. This is. in effect,
a limitation upon so-called government
by injunction. There will be much
difference of opinion as to the wis
dom of this provision, and yet there is
little likelihood of its being made the
means of hindering Justice. A jury of
twelve men. or. rather, a three-fourths
majority of twelve men, as it will be
In Oklahoma, is not likely to go far
wrong. It Is as reasonable to believe
that a Judge issuing and attempting
to enforce an injunction will be In
error as to believe that the jury will
wrongfully interfere with the enforce
ment of an order justly made.
In ordinary contempt cases, such as
the use. of insulting language toward
the court or disorderly conduct in the
presence of the court, the trial will be
before the Judge, as in the past. But
when a Judge issues an injunction, to
forbid interference with a water right,
or to forbid a threatened injury to
property, for example, any charge that
the defendant violated the injunction
must be tried before a jury. The Judge
will conduct the trial and instruct the
jury as to the law, but it will rest
with the Jury to say whether the de
fendant is guilty. In all ordinary cases,
if the defendant did in fact violate the
order, a jury would find him guilty
without hesitation. In those rare cases
in which a court makes an order that
is manifestly in contravention of com
mon justice, the Jury would have an
opportunity to resort to the "unwrit
ten law" and find the defendant not
guilty, notwithstanding the instruction
of the court. It is remotely possible
that the Jury would interfere with the
administration of justice In some cases,
but it Is no more probable than that
the Judge would make an unjust order.
These two new regulations govern
ing judicial proceedings are yet to be
tested by experience, however, and we
shall not be able to form final judg
ment as to their merits until they have
been tried in actual practice.
II. W. GOODE.
Portland needs the energy and integ
rity and ability of men like Henry W.
Goode. In his unexpected death It
loses a most useful citizen and a valua
ble city-builder. The capacity of men
for well-doing, right-living and accom
plishing large things is limited, when
one comes to make inventory of the
assets in character of a community.
Mr. Goode possessed these capacities
in large measure. They made him chief
of the largest industrial organization
in Portland." They put him at the
head of the object of Portland's
greatest pride the Lewis and
Clark Exposition. They brought to him
wide influence in commercial and
political affairs. v They gave him
the confidence and respect of the
community In a measure surpassed
by no citizen. And they spread
his name through the large industrial
and business centers of the country.
The members of Mr. Goode's family
will always find much In his record to
be proud of and for his children to
emulate.
Mr. Goode took hold of the Lewis and
Clark Fair at a time when many dis
couragements buset it. Mr. Goode en
countered all difficulties with cheerful
ness and resolution, and disposed of
them with success and honor. The
swarms of pessimists who prophesied
dismally of the Exposition (and they
Included Borne of Portland's wealthiest
and foremost men) saw their predic
tions fail, and they came to regard Mr.
Goode with admiration or envy.
On formation of the Portland Rail
way, Light & Power Company, Mr.
Goode was put at its head as presi
dent. His high executive capacity and
his ability to werk In harmony with
the various elemerts of the city marked
him as the proper man for that place.
Although the chief of the largest public-utility
corporation in Oregon and
exposed to criticism of the pub'.ic, as
a man must be in such a place, Mr.
Goode conducted the affairs of his
company in its relations with the peo
ple with unusual skill. He -was liked
by the employes of his company for
his Just treatment of their require
ments and for his fair dealing. If
men like H. W. Goode were in charge
of other public utilities, "the public
would receive a larger share of Jus
tice. Members of Mr. Goode's family will
know that the community feels a
measure of their sorrow. While their
bereavement costs them dear, at the
same time the community has lost
one of its most Important possessions
a man of great efficiency and excep
tional uprightness. Such a life is
worth living in every respect, even
when It is not a long life, as measured
by the years, for Mr. Goode. was only
forty-five years of age. He had al
ready achieved much, but there was
more for him to do.
ADDISON'S VIEW OF LONERGAN.
Though a multitude of discoveries are
made every year in the realm of physi
cal science, there Is nothing new In
metaphysics. Knowledge of the human
mind, of human character, is pretty
much the same today as it was in the
days of Socrates and Plato. We read
with passing Interest the announce
ment that some man has ascertained
the weight of a human soul, but,- as
soon as some new sensation has been
sprung, we forget it. The discovery
will never find Its way into text-books
on mctaphysict. There has been no
material advance in the science of logic
in the last few centuries. Joseph Ad
dison, for example, though not famed
for authoritative exposition of princi
ples of reasoning, was manifestly in
possession of as thorough a knowledge
of logic as any modern writer. Ho
lived two hundred years ago and pub
lished a .newspaper In which his own
opinions and those of his associates
constituted the most interesting fea
tures. A paragraph in one of his essays on
argumentation Indicates that If he had
lived In San Francisco In 1906 instead
of in London in 1706 his knowledge of
human character would have enabled
him to disclose very promptly the ar
guments by which the franchise-seekers
were able to convince the members
of the Board ot. Supervisors. In his
essay, published two centuries ago, he
says :
There Is another way of reasoning which
seldom falls, though it be of a quite dif
ferent nature to that I have last mentioned.
1 mean, convincing a mr.n by ready money,
or, as It Is ordinarily called, bribing a man
to an opinion. This method has olten proved
successful when all others have been made
use of to no purpose. A man who is fur
nished with arguments from the mint
will convince his antagonist much sooner
than one who drawa them from reason and
philosophy. Gold Is a wonderful- clearer of
the understanding; it dissipates every doubt
and scruple in an Instant; accommodates
Itselr to the meanest capacities; silences
the loud and clamorous and brings over the
.most obstinate and inflexible. Philip of
Macedon was a man ot most Invincible rea
son this way. He refuted by It all the
wisdom of Athens, confounded their states
men, struck their orators dumb, and at
length argued them out of their liberties.
In this brief paragraph, first pub
lished two hundred years ago. Addison
faithfully and fully portrayed the char
acter and mental activities of Super
visor Lonergan and his associates, and
the system of logic by which they were
led to the conclusion that certain fran
chises should be granted. Perhaps
Lonergan thought he was telling some
thing new when he explained that he
received a few thousand dollars and
that when he looked at the machinery
of a telephone plant he was convinced
the company ought to be protected.
But, as said before, there is nothing
new in metaphysics. If Mr. Lonergan
had been a student of classic Knglish
literature he might have dismissed the
whole subject by saying to the grand
Jury: "Go and read Addison, and you
will find out how it came about."
XTD FOR MUD-SLINGEBS.
Will there be mud-slinging in the
near-by political campaign in Port-
i land? With half a dozen aspirants
seeking the Mayoralty and uncounted
others seeking seats in the Council;
with minority factions in each party,
possibly bent on defeating the suc
cessful nominee, as they have done
heretofore, and with keen rivalry in
the wards as exhibited in the South
Portland Sixth Ward last week, are
there signs that the patriots are mix
ing the mud, sticky and foul, for a
campaign like that In Chicago, where
issues are forgotten amid the din of
"liar," "thief," "perjurer," "grafter"
and "human polecat?"
The town of Elgin, Or., Is in the
mud-slinging class. It has just fin
ished a city election in which the
patriots indulged in a variety of choice
epithets. "Liar," "scoundrel," "graft
er" are samples of the missiles hurled.
And finally the editor of the Recorder
wound up, after the election, by de
claring: "A man who will make the
assertions referred to, without a true
knowledge of what he is saying, Is not
any part of a man, Is a liar, a scoun
drel and anything a degrading name
can be attached to." And further:
The people of Portland are a lot of
chumps to submit to the exactions and
graft they do. For years they have paid
for and extended municipal waterworks
w-lth heavy tolls levied on the consumers,
while land speculators have made millions
from the Increased values of their lots aris
ing from the extensions.
In Chicago there is a flood of vitu
peration and Billingsgate In the fight
.between Dunne and Busse for Mayor.
Defamatory articles are printed in the
newspapers, chiefly in Hearst's Amer
ican, which is supporting Dunne, the
Democratic candidate, and the Tribune,
which is supporting Busse, Republican.
The Tribune has been making a bitter
fight on Dunne and Hearstlsm. It has
republished Secretary Root's famous
denunciation of Hearst in the New
York campaign for Governor, wherein
Root charged the Hearst method of
journalism with being responsible for
inciting the assassination of McKin
ley. Hearst has retaliated with a suit
for e2.500.000 damages against the Tri
bune. Hearst has published defama
tory articles against Busse, and that
candidate seeks to even up scores by
suing for 1400,000. Meanwhile. the
slinging of mud keeps- up, and all
places are bespattered.
In Portland, one night last week, at
a political gathering, there was a
near approach to mud-slinging between
two candidates for the Council. A
beginning seems to have been fairly
made. Now, if the Democratic friends
and enemies of Mayor Lane shall re
lieve themselves, there may be "some
thing doing."
In the Council there has been an ap
proach to mud-slinging between the
members ot that body and the Mayor.
Perhaps some of that mud can be gath
ered up again and rolled Into a stickier
paste than ever. But it may be said
that mud-sllnglng has two sides, and
either side can throw it. The axiom
that he who lives by the sword shall
die by the sword applies to him who
thinks of furthering his ends by throw
ing mud. Those who throw mud first
usually find that their opponents can do
the same and get Just about even. It
has been the- experience in Portland
that it is better not to begin throw
ing mud. The enemy has retaliated
and bestowed more decorations than
he received.
THE DREAM OF A VISIONARY.
The Philadelphia Inquirer thinks
that the destruction of Helicon Hall
by fire is a sad blow to socialism and
especially to the plans of Upton Sin
clair, who wrote the "Jungle" and who
thought that Utopia was being started
in his retreat. It Is admittted, how
ever, that the project will probably be
revived, "for socialism is persistent in
spots, even If It does not long endure
in any particular spot."
The socialistic experiment Is not new
In this country. It has long been the
darling of the dreamer, the practical
expedient of men who love their fel
lowmen and who still recognize the
fact that this is a world wherein the
question: "What shall we eat and
wherewithal shall we be clothed?" de
mands a specific answer daily.
Brook Farm was the most notable of
many efforts formed upon the higher
socialistic idea, and, after valiant bat
tle, waged In the hope of establishing
this idea upon a living, growing basis,
its building was, like Helicon Hall, de
stroyed by fire. For this undertaking,
formed by George Ripley and partici
pated In by many men whose names
lent dignity and character to the work.
,s well as to the literary and journal
istic moors or the middle period of
the last century in New England, only
the most profound respect is feit by
thoughtful men. Its object, as de
scribed by Ripley, was intended "to in
sure a more natural union between In
tellectual and manual labor than now
exists; to combine the thinker and the
worker, as far as possible, in the same
individual; to guarantee the highest
mental freedom by providing all with
labor suited to their tastes and tal
ents and secure to them the fruits of
their industry; to do away with the
necessity of menial services by open
ing the benefits of education and the
profits of labor to all, thus to prepare
a society of liberal. Intelligent and
cultured persons, whose relations
with each other would permit a more
simple and wholesome life than can
be led amidst the pressure of our com
petitive institutions."
That this was a high Ideal none can
gainsay. But that it contemplated a
world of humanity made to order is
equally apparent. Even the material
wrought upon the best that was at
tracted to this scheme of the idealist
failed to respond fully and persistent
ly to the stimulus applied by Ripley.
And though the association at one time
had seventy members and went Its
quiet way without special incident for
three years. It perished of inanition
and was rejected to the land of
dreams, where it properly belonged.
Hawthorne treated it as a "Blithesdale
Romance;" Emerson characterized it
as "a perpetual picnic, a French rev
olution in the small, an age of reason
in a patty-pan;" Louisa M. Alcott sat
irized it under the title of "Trans
cendental Wiid Oats;" yet all of these,
and others, paid just tribute to its
founder as a man of high ideals and
to the effort as "generous and noble."
The history of this effort and the pa
thos of its failure have saved from
ridicule many another scheme, equally
visionary, but none of them from fail
ure. We can well believe that the
scheme of Upton Sinclair, though more
worldly wise, is foredoomed to failure,
even though under the inspiration of
his influence it may rise for a time
from the ashes that now cover It.
The Commercial and Financial
Chronicle is very much aroused over
an order Issued by Secretary Cortelyou
j Just before be left the office of Post
j master-General directing that "when
the weight of mail is taken on railroad
routes the whole number of days the
j mails are weighed shall be usea as a
aivisor ror ootaining the average
weight per day." The Chronicle thinks
the old practice should be continued.
Under the former practice the malls
were weighed for seven days in a
week, but. six was used as a divisor.
j Thus, if the total weight of mail for
j a week wac forty-two thousand pounds.
using six as a divisor wouidhow that
the railroads carried an average of
seven thousand pounds a day. That
this would be a false showing Is evi
dent, when one multiplies by the num
ber of days In a week. If the roads
carried an average of seven thousand
pounds a day, they carried forty-nine
thousand pounds a week, which is sev
en thousand pounds In excess of the
actual amount. Any schoolboy who
ever studied the computation of aver
ages knows that in order to ascertain
the average amount of mail carried for
a week the total number of days the
mail is weighed should be used as a
divisor. If the total includes the mall
for seven days, seven should certainly
be used as a divisor to determine the
average. Any contention to the con
trary is frivolous.
The people of Portland have reason
to be proud of the successful outcome
of the effort to raise $350,000 for the
erection of a home for the Y. M. C.
A. and Y. W. C. A. There is occasion
for self-congratulation, not only be
cause of the noble purpose for which
the money has been subscribed, but
also because the funds come chiefly
from men and women ot comparatively
small means. The slogan "Everybody
Gives" was taken literally. The
money came largely from the workers
from those who most appreciate the
value of the Wbrk of the Christian As
sociations. While there were a few
large donations from very wealthy peo
ple, the bulk of the building fund will
come from the pockets of small busi
ness men and wage-earners. When
the building shall be completed, there
will be no institution of which the peo
ple of Portland will be more Justly
proud, or which will be more effective
In leading young men and women into
paths of honor and industry.
Emporia, Kan., has been heard
from again, and through William Alien
White, of course. He voices a warn
ing to the Republican Legislature,
which is trying to doctor a direct pri
mary law before passing it. "What is
it that gets into a man when he goes to
Topeka to make him forget his com
mon sense?" he demands to know.
"If the Republican party tries to fool
the people of Kansas by giving them a
direct primary, law with a convention
string to It. the only sufferers will be
the Republican party." And Mr.White
knows what he Is talking about. Judg
ing by the almost universal condemna
tion of State Legislatures throughout
the country, Topeka is not the only
capital in which men have forgotten
their common sense.
A new and very plausible explanation
has been found for the unsettled con
dition of affairs in Wall street. It
seems that in an effort to depict one of
the well-known elements in the char
acter of George Washington, the Gov
ernment had a bronze figure made
showing him kneeling in prayer at "Val
ley Forge. This would have caused no
trouble but for the fact that the bronze
figure was placed near the entrance to
the Sub-Treasury building in New
York. The New York Times says the
thought of prayer in New York finan
cial circles is so repugnant that even
the horses shy at the statue.
In Washington, D. C, there Is a well
authenticated account of a runaway
accident in which the horse demolished
the carriage In front of a doctor's resi
dence, and, upon looking around and
seeing the driver lying helpless In the
debris, walked up the front steps and
pressed the electric button with his
nose till the doctor came, which shows
that, though he had a streak of mean
ness in him, he possessed an unusual
supply of good horse sense.
The assertion, made in high official
circles in London, that "Great Britain,
supported by America, Japan and Italy,
will continue to press the considera
tion of disarmament at the coming
conference at The Hague" Is reassur
ing. It has been supposed that this
subject would be ignored, much to the
regret of the many people of all coun
tries. We see no end to the rivalry
in the building of large and costly
ships.
The Canadian government is discov
ering that over half of its free lands
in the Northwest has passed into the
control of land-grabbers, and not
home-builders. The land-grabber knows
no party, no religion, no country.
Though Secretary Garfield will relax
a little the investigating methods of
Hitchcock, he has nothing to say that
can be of any consolation to timber
land grafters. The guilty still have
reason to tremble.
A New York man fell down an ele
vator shaft ten stories, and suffered
no. other Inconvenience than a fit of
coughing. Here in Oregon they don't
even cough as a result of falling that
distance.
In some states the law prohibits the
giving of tips. But in these days
we are great admirers of the unwrit
ten law, which will likely prevail in
the case of tips.
Some of the women who didn't have
new Easter hats yesterday were not
sorry that rain fell.
And they talk of Foraker for Presi
dent. Does he expect to run against
Bailey, of Texas?
This is the day to keep your tem
per. You'll have plenty of opportu
nity to lose it.
Senator Foraker has appealed to the
people. And his case will be tried on
appeal.
The Italian comet, due the last of
March, failed to butt the earth off the
track-
Anyway. Mount Tabor wfas visible.
if Hood was not.
THE PLAIN TRUTH OF THE MATTER
Respecting; the President In Relation
to Stocks and Money Stringency.
New York Journal of Commerce.
Those financiers and railroad men who
keep reiterating that the President is to
blame for the stock market flurry, or for
what they assume to be the cause of it,
are talking foolishly and will gain nothing
bv such tactics. They attribute last
week's break In stocks and the general
disturbance of the market to the railroad
agitation which they say the President
has fomented. They contend that dis
trust has been produced as to the future
of railroad investments, and this Is why
there Is difficulty in raising capital for
needed extensions and improvements to
Increase their facilities.
The men who talk in that way are
either doing it without sincerity and for
a purpose, or they take a shallow and
superficial view of the situation, which
discredits their fitness for the responsible
positions they hold. If what the Presi
dent has said or done in his battle against
railroad and other corporate abuses has
contributed to a feeling of distrust which
adversely affects the Investment market
the fault lies back of him, for he has
only attacked evils which need to be re
formed, which never would be reformed
without attack, and which If left to
take their course would produce much
worse consequences than any that his
agitation has caused or Is likely to cause.
In this "crusade" he has been doing his
duty as he sees it and as the mass of
the people see it, and he is not in the
least likely to be deterred from persist
ing in it, nor will the people be scared
out of giving him their support, until
these railroad and corporation magnates
make up their minds to "co-operate" with
him by observing the reasonable regula
tion and supervision of lawful authority.
Is the general scarcity of capital the
fault of President Roosevelt? Ib he to
blame for it? Has it been caused by
"hostility to railroads" or agitation for
such regulation as shall correct abuses in
their operation or in their organization
and management? If this has to any ex
tent put the railroads at a disadvantage
In the universal competition for the sup
ply of capital that is to be had, they are
responsible for that, and it would be more
seemly for their officers and the financiers
concerned to admit this, and seek to re
gain confidence by discarding and dis
countenancing the practices which have
caused the agitation and the distrust
and by accepting all the regulation needed
to prevent their continuance or recur
rence, than to take it out in blaming the
President and trying to put the resnonsi
bllitv upon him for the whole financial
situation of the world. If their object is
to produce panic and get their own way
by exciting -groundless fears they will
be disappointed.
RAILROADS AND THE PEOPLE
Vievrs of a Mananer Who Think the
Roads to Blame for Their Troubles.
New York Interview With B. F. Yoakum.
Chairman of the Rock Island. ,
A railroad has no more business to be
at the mercy of stock Jobbers than a sav
ings bank or a life insurance company.
The American railroads are, or should be,
as much a public trust as these insti
tutions. When the public Insists that
they be run honestly they will begin to
fulfill their rightful destiny, and, too,
they will be more prosperous than they
have ever been.
I will be frank. The people are not
without justification In their belief that
the railroads have been systematically
robbing them. It is not altogether fair
to put it just that way; but nevertheless
the public has for years been paying out
a great deal of money for something it
did not always get.
No one is to blame for the present anti
rallroad sentiment but the railroad man.
agers themselves. Now the day of reck
oning has come, and it will prove a bless
ing not only to the natron, but to the
railroads. For, in almost every case
where there have been illegal operations
they have been in the interests, not of the
roads, but of the men who control the
roads. Very often the roads have suffered
heavily; frequently they have been
wrecked.
However, in spite of the present agita
tion and the cry from some quarters that
railroad Interests are in jeopardy from op
pression, I cannot see that any lasting
damage can be done. Wild and ruthless
speculation in the securities of a railroad
company should be made subject to crim
inal prosecution. Stock and bond values
should represent actualities, and not hot
air, though even this condition will adjust
itself in time.
The paramount problem from the stand
point of Government activity is in the
control of rates. With a practical plan
of Federal rate supervision In operation,
most of the other abuses of managerial
power will vanish. Some of them have al
ready disappeared.
I am not in favor of Government owner,
ship of the railroads. I do not believe
that under our existing political system
it is practicable, but I do believe in the
ownership of the railroads by the people.
If every man who held property along
a line of railroad held an interest, how
ever small, if that line, and its control
was in the hands of the men whom It
was built to serve. Instead of the hands
of a clique of manipulators, the railroads
would be run for benefit of a new kind.
Ownership by the people I would couple,
as I have slid, with strict Federal super
vision of rates. No railroad honestly
operated need fear any Federal control
that may be imposed, though under the
present righteous Inflammation of public
opinion they may and do fear state legis
lation. Attack Abuses, Not CapItaL
United States Investor.
There Is no alarming indication of an
ultra-radical spirit throughout the coun
try, and in the main the attacks on capi
tal that are now so frequently complained
of are attacks on the abuses of capital
and of a few capitalists, rather than any
effort to deprive capital of its just dues.
Much of the complaint that is now heard
in some quarters is the result of anxiety
on the part of a limited number of per
sons lest their own doings may be put
on public view in the same way that has
been done in the case of financiers who
have lately been subjects of Inquiry.
Others use this explanation to account
for market movements that are the result
of manipulation and doubtful transactions
or' of public suspicion with reference to
questionable enterprises, rather than of
fear inspired in the minds of Investors
by popular hostility toward capital.
Jenlousy r
Hood Rver Glacier.
The sage of the Wllliamette is heard
once more In the land. Being at a safe
distance from the meeting of the State
Horticultural Society he lifts his voice
above a whisper. It seems that he grows
and ships his best apples in the Winter
and Spring instead of the Summer and
Fall like the ordinary grower. This is
an easy way of raising fruit, but we
doubt if it is very profitable. Other men
have raised things in this way at a
lavish waste of breath and finally dis
covered that nothing was left but a
hoarse voice. It would be tough if the
Claimant of the Willamette, like the man
who was playing poker, would flnally
loee his voice entirely from his continued
murmuring, whether awake or asleep.
"Just as good."
LAST POEM OF THOMAS B. ALDBICH
Tribute to Long-fellow. Read at the
Harvard Celebration.
New York Press.
Somewhere, In desolate, wind-swept space
In Twilight Land. In No Man's Land
Two hurrying shapes met. face to face.
One bade the other stand.
"Who are you?" cried the first, agape.
Shuddering In the gloaming light.
-'I know not." said the second shape;
"1 only died last night."
Tnoinas Bailey Aldrich. who wrote
those lines, died last night.
--ree weeks ago, on last month's
last day, there was published In The
Press the last poem Aldrich wrote.
It was read in Sander's Theater, Cam
bridge, on February 27, in the course
Wot Harvard's celebration of the hund-
retii anniversary ot ljOngteuow s DITTO.
Even then Aldrich lay on a bed of
pain in Massachusetts Homeopathic
Hospital, following an operation it
, was ..oped would prolong his life, and
i it was impossible for him to join his
) university friends in honoring the
more famous poet. Charles T. Cope
land of Harvard read the poem, and
though he seemed Impressed by the
pathos of the circumstances, doubt
less neither he nor those wno heard
htm dreamed it was the scholar-poet's
swan song. Were it not for Aldrich's
almost boyish modesty, it might be
supposed that In writing the lines he
traced his own epitaph, so peculiarly
applicable to himself do parts of the
poem appear. His lines on Longfellow
run:
Above bis grave the grass and snow
Their soft, antlphonal strophes write:
Moonrlsa awn daybreak cdme and go;
SummaWvy Summer on the height
The thruea-sa find melodious breath;
Here kafeVa vagrant Winds that blow
Across tbftorq of- the nisht
WhlspeHHeatli.
They do nJjVRle who leave their thought
lmprlnteron Rome deathless page.
Themselves may pass; the spell they
wrought
Endures on earth from age to age.
And thou whose voice but yesterday
Fell upon charmed listening ears,
Thou shalt not know the touch of years;
Thou holdst time and chance at bay.
Thou livest In thy living word
As when its cadence first was heard.
O Gracious Poet and benign.
Beloved presence! Now, a then.
Thou stanlest by the hearts of men.
Their fireside Joys and griefs are thine;
Thou speakest to them of their dead.
They listen and are comforted.
They break the bread and pour the wine
Ot life with thee, as In those days
Men saw thee passing on the street
Beneath the elms O reverend feet
That walk In far celestial ways!
Senator Brlggs, Fine Amateur Boxer
Washington (D. C.) Herald.
Major Frank O. Brlggs. the new Sena
tor from New Jersey. Is said to be one of
the finest amateur boxers In the United
States. Classmates of his at the West
Point Military Academy say that he held
the charTtpIon-shIp of that institution two
years before he graduated, and neighbors
at Trenton say he has kept in practice
ever since he has been a resident of the
NewJersey capital, it is believed that
the only two men in public life In Wash
ington City who will be able to put the
gloves on with him when he comes here
to live are President Roosevelt and First
Assistant Postmaster-General Frank H.
Hitchcock, both of whom ranked high as
boxers at Harvard, and each of whom,
it is understood, is anxious to have a
bout with the athletic new Senator.
Whether Mr. Hitchcock and the Presi
dent have ever faced each other is not
definitely known, though that there was
much quiet talk of a match between them
about a year ago was a fact that created
great local interest at the time.
Plutocrats' Dollar Grows to $288,000.
New York Sun. '
"A piece of property changed hands
down at Canarsle not so long ago which
attests how values have jumped in this
part of the woods," said a real estate
man. "This was a farm which was bought
from the Indians about 150 years ago for
a demijohn of very bad rum. three empty
bottles and two old plug hats. I think
the original purchase was made by one
Jacob Schenck. When the farm passed
out of the possession of the family not
long ago It brought a few dollars over
J283.O00. A liberal estimate of the cost
would b $1."
Her Cat Better Than Cloek.
Kennebec Journal.
A Brunswick woman received a tele
phone call one morning last week from
a Bath friend, asking her the time of
day. The Brunswick person, surprised,
telephoned back It was 10 A. M., whereat
the Bath person explained that her
clocks were all at 9:30.- which she said
she knew was wrong, as her pet cat had
just washed it face, w:hich It did every
morning at precisely 10. Hereafter the
Bath woman proposes to regulate her
clocks by the cat's ablutions.
All Aboard for the Land of Nod.
Frederick B. Hodglns, In LIpplncott's.
There's a popular train to the Land of Nod
On the Sunset Limited Line;
It's timed to leave as the sun goes down
And the lamps begin to shine.
It Is known on the road as "The Babies'
Own,"
And it gets the right of way;
From dusk to dawn it makes Hb run.
For It seldom runs by day.
It s a "Limited Special For Little Folks,"
With a Buffet Car behind
That carries the things all babies need
In charge of the Dustman kind.
Sugar sticks and griddle cakes.
Plum Jam and cambric tea.
Marmalade and penny buns
Can be had for a nominal fee.
The Dustman rides on the engine's back;
He lives In the big Sand Dome;
He walks through the aisles of the cara at
night
And croons the songs of Home.
He gently scatters the dust that soothes.
Like talcum powder sweet;
Then, when all are asleep, he takes a peep
For something nice to eat.
"Alt aboard for the Land of Nod!
This way. please, for the Sleepers.
Supper Is served In the Buffet Car;
Eat hearty and close your Peepers."
WILL THERE BE ANOTHER "SHOOTING-UP T
I LIFE IX THE OREGON COUNTRY".
Aboriginal Nobility Travels,
Bickleton News.
Plo-Plo-Mox-Mox and his Queen Saca
Jawea passed through Slxprong Monday.
Got 'Em at Church. Maybe.
Coos Bay News.
A man In Canada died the other day at
the age of 114 without having ever bought
an umbrella. But think of the number
he might have borrowed during his life
time. Reminders of Past Orgies.
PrlnevIIle Review.
The semi-annual shipment of beer bot
tles made by one of our liquor houses will
take place tomorrow. About 40 barrels,
each containing approximately seven
dozen bottles, are included.
Probably Hankered for It Raw.
Salem Journal.
So long as eating seems to be the main
object in life at the Indian training
school, it is passing strange that the four
moon-faced beauties, who are something
of epicures themselves, should play
truant.
Towel Next.
Prinevllle Review.
The Review office had Its windows
washed yesterday. This is the first time
such an operation has taken place since
1878, and the editor is now able to sit In
thesofflce chair and see clear across the
street.
Good Name for the Job.
Coos Bay News.
R. D. Hume is preparing to resume the
publication of the Radium. W. A.
Thresher, a late arrival from Las Veg-.is.
N. M., Is to have charge of the office. Mr.
Thresher, besides having had consider
able experience In newspaper work, is
also a lawyer.
Curiosity la Malheur.
Vale Oriano.
It was a sight to be seen, when a Ger
man was In town Saturday displaying
himself on the streets. He looked like
any other German except that he wore
wooden shoes, not the kind the heathen
Chinese wear, but they were the kind
you would make out of regular six by
six timber, and looked a good deal like
miniature boats.
S
The Yamhill Plan.
Newberg Graphic.
A company of half a dozen home-seekers
who landed here a few days ago.
were given special attention by three
Hotel runners In their endeavor to extend
to them the "freedom of the city." on
their way down town, while in the wake
of the company followed seven real es
tate mes, ready to pounce upon the prey
at the earliest possible moment. The
strangers hit the first barber shop on
the street for a shave, apparently prefer
Ing to submit themselves to the tender
mercies of one "artist" at a time.
One More Candidate.
PORTLAND, Or., March 31. (2 the Edl
ter, the Oregonlan.) Deer sur; I want 2
run fer Mayor uv Portland at this kuming
eleckshun. & 1 rite u this letter 2 find
out what I will hav 2 du 2 get thare.
I supoze frum what I hav red about It
that 1 will hav 2 file a petlshun & plat
form. 1 halnt had time 2 rite up a pe
tishun but ml platform iz az toilers:
1. 1 am not In favor uv ennythlng.
2. i am agin everything.
3. 1 am unalterably oppozed 2 enny body
hoo iz in favor uv ennything.
4. I rite theez hear centiments wlthout
no apologies 2 nobody & without the kon
sent uv nobody. I am Independent & not
afrade 2 stand on mi oan platform.
5. I am oppozed 2 the vested interests,
the overkoated interests & the interests
that halnt got on nuthln but thare shurt
tale. I hav got infiooenshul friends hoo
will bak me up in awl I sa. i halnt got
no ax 2 grind. 1 am out fer blud. urcs
truli, BINNACLE JIM.
p. s. Cap. Walrus sez he wants 2 B ml
cheat uv polees. 1 tel him 2 let wel enuf
aloan. he may' tri 2 run again me. if he
duz, doant pay no attenshun 2 him.
B. J.
No Rnllrond Fnvors to Anybody
Minneapolis Journal.
Will not the general public be better
off when there are no special or reduced
rates for anybody? It may be hard on
fairs and conventions and other institu
tions which have long been favored with
special rates, and could not have succeed
ed without them, but there Is nothing
quite so Important in the whole rate re
adjustment business as that common car
riers and public servants shall play no
favorites. There may be no favoritism
In a special reduced rate open -to the pub
lic, but even such a desirable privilege
ought to be weighed carefully as against
the good of an even flat rate for every
body all the time, and no favors, to see
that it is not overestimated.
Mr. Harriman and Court-Plaster.
Washington (D. C.) Herald.
"Mr. Harriman," says the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, "left the White House with
a smile on his face." Surely our es
teemed contemporary did not expect him
to leave with a patch of court-plaster
on it- i
A Welcome Visitor.
Atlanta Constitution.
Up there I see him in the old mulberry
tree.
Last Summer's mockin' bird he's elngln'
right at me!
I think I hear him sayln': "Oh. the Spring
Is goln' to be!
Don't you see the sunshine on the mead-
ows?"
TTp there I see him he's lookln' at his best;
Bright eyes takln' 1 In the world from rosy
ease to west;
Pretty soon you'll see him with the blos
soms at his breast.
When Springtime is sweet along the mead
ows! -From th Wtshinrton Port.