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PORTLAND, SATURDAY, AUG. 10, 1907.
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REMINISCENT AND PROPHETIC.
The Woodbum Independent, taking
not of -what The Oregonlan said the
other day, that when the Republican
politicians of Oregon defeated Furnish
for Governor, out of a mean spirit of
rivalry and resentment, they laid the
foundation for what has since hap
pened and more to come says:
This, in part, is true; but did not the Re
publican leaders, or bosses, strictly speaking,
drive such men as Lowell to the other side
by buying and dictating Furnish's nomina
tion through a convention made possible by
the old, rotten system of politics?
Now, in fact, in that convention one
set of bosses was pitted against an
other, in the usual way. . The rivalry
extended to all parts of the state. One
set had to win in the convention; the
other had to lose, and the set that won
was at least as good as the set that
lost. Furnish had been a Democrat,
but had been acting with the Republi
can party six years. Two years before
he was named for Governor every Re
publican in the state had voted for him
on the Republican electoral ticket. But
when he was nominated for Governor
the politicians of the defeated faction
set uV the cry that he "had been a
Democrat all his life and was not enti
tled to Republican votes"; hence unit
ing their efforts, in all parts of the
state, they defeated him and started
the ball which has been rolling ever
since.
But the assertion that Furnish was
nominated by "buying" and by "dicta
tion," through "a convention made pos
sible Dy the old rotten system of poli
tics" is an unfounded aspersion. In
that convention, or after it, there was
not even an allegation of "buying."
The "dictation" was precisely of the
same kind that the opposite set of
bosses was employing, but didn't suc
ceed with on this occasion though they
had on many former ones.
A word more about "dictation." Four
years later the primary system was
employed. There were many candi
dates. Under the plurality system a
small fraction sufficed to nominate.
Then the- friends and supporters of
the other candidates declared they
wouldn't be "dictated to" by a minor
ity and beat Wlthycombe by ten times
the vote that had beaten Furnish. So
we go gaily on; for the end is not yet.
GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT.
The regularity with which declines in
the wheat market have followed the
advances ordered by the American So
ciety of Equity has caused some amuse
ment among the wheat speculators.
Since the last order requesting farmers
to hold their wheat for a minimum
figure of $1.25 per bushel there has been
a decline of nearly 10 cents per bushel,
and cash wheat In Chicago is now weak
around 87 cents. But while the specu
lative contingent has seen fit to poke
fun at the Society of Equity for a lack
of sagacity In guessing the market, it
is not at all clear that the wise deal
era in options use consistency in whole
sale quantities in the preparation of
their own dreambooks, from which they
evolve bullish or bearish visions as the
case seems to demand. -
The Government crop report, which
appeared yesterday, showed Spring
wheat condition of 79.4 per cent, com
pared with 86.9 per cent for August,
1906, and a ten-year average of 83.4 per
cent. This decline of 7.6 per cent In the
condition of the Spring wheat crop
from that of last year, or of 4 per cent
on the ten-year average, might have
warranted the sharp advance at the
close of the market yesterday, had the
price of wheat been nearer in keeping
with that prevailing In former years.
But while the condition of the grow
ing Spring crop was only 7.5 per cent
below that of last August, the price be
fore the sharp advance of 1 cent at the
-close, was about 16 cents above that of
a corresponding date last year. In ad
dition to this. Winter wheat conditions
were approximately the same as a year
ago. It now seems a certainty that the
crop this year will fall far Bhort of that
of last year, but if the Government's
syatem of percentages can be relied on.
it will hardly be as small as has been
predicted.
If the Invisible supplies of old wheat
still In the country could be accurately
determined, they would probably reveal
a somewhat weaker statistical position
than is forecasted by the percentage
figures on the new crop. The "visible"
this week stands at 48,316,000 bushels,
or approximately 19,000,000 bushels more
than on a corresponding date last year.
With the visible showing such big pro
portions, the "invisible" supply must
also be very large, and it is undoubt
edly from that source that much of the
selling that has recently weakened the
market has come. As has frequently
been noted, we must depend on the
European situation for much of the
strength In American markets.
Within ninety days the coming Ar
gentine crop will begin casting its
shadow before, in the European market.
If it should show promise of something
big, the European buyers might try to
drag along with scanty supplies until
the turn of the year. Wheat may be
forced up ,above the dollar mark again
before that time, but it will require
a more bullish Government report than
that which appeared yesterday to ac
complish the result.
BIO DEMAND FOR MONEY.
The East continues to complain of a
stringent money market, and the effect
of dear money is shown in a general
tendency to throw over stocks which
have been carried for speculative ac
count. This, of course, is distressing to
those who have been sailing too close
to the financial wind, and . naturally
they feel inclined to place. the blame
almost anywhere except on their own
bad Judgment, where it properly be
longs. Threatened prosecution of a
number of financial and industrial lead
ers and the growing popularity of be
laboring the trusts are cited as reasons
for the sharp declines in a number of
prominent railroad and industrial
shares. The course of yesterday's stock
market quite effectually spiked this
gun, which the Wall-street gamblers
have been pointing at the Administra
tion. Among the heavy declines, Cana
dian Pacific, a stock which is not sus
ceptible to American Government In
fluences that are popularly supposed to
affect Wall-street values, like the name
of Abou Ben Adhem, "led all the rest"
with a decline of five points.
This heavy decline in Canadian Pa
cific was not due to the sudden discov
ery that the stock had lessened In value
by reason of any curtailment In the
dividend earning capacity of the road.
It was not due to Government Interfer
ence with the policies of the road. It
was the result of the same influences
that caused the decline In the American
stocks on the preceding day a scarcity
of funds which necessitated sacrifices
being made in order to secure ready
money. The West has not yet felt this
tightening In the money market to the
same extent that it is noticeable in the
East, but there are indications that
easy money at low rates wlll not be
available anywhere in this country, for
the present at least. This is a condi
tion that has been brought about by
the universal prosperity, not only of
this country, but of the whole world.
Here in the west we have been plunging-ahead
in the development of our
timber resources, mines and manufac
turing industries. We have been build
ing irrigating ditches, railroads, cities
and towns, and spending money on a
scale never before seen In this country.
All of these enterprises are perfectly
legitimate, and all will yield good re
turns on the investment. But they have
made a fearful drain on the money re
sources of the country. There are limi
tations to the financial ability of our
largest and strongest financial institu
tions, and now, with wholesale de
mands for funds for all kinds of busi
ness, they are confronted here In the
Pacific Northwest with the necessity of
getting together sufficient money to
move a grain crop which alone will call
for the disbursement of approximately
$50,000,000; this In addition to more mil
lions which will be needed for handling
a record yield of hops and a big crop
of fruit and other farm products.
The farmers have had a number of
good years. In the wheat districts,
where the bulk of the money will be
needed, there Is considerable money
held locally. The effect of this prosper
ity will be to start the money that Is
paid out for wheat to flowing cityward
again for investment. But in the In
terval the demands for crop moving are
bound to exercise more than the usual
strain on the banking resources of the
Pacific Northwest and money will con
tinue tight. No serious inconvenience
Is liable to result, but there may be a
slow movement of grain if.it becomes
necessary for buyers to pay as they go
Instead of putting out millions in ad
vances on wheat, as has been done in
some previous years.
This temporary stringency is one of
the penalties of prosperity, and no part
of the country seems to be immune
from It. Here in the Pacific Northwest,
where such a large proportion of our
products are staples for which the
world is always in the market as a
buyer, we will feel it less than it will be
felt in the East. But we cannot escape
entirely, and for a few months at least
there will be no undue extravagance
in loaning money on easy terms.
SUMMER APPLES.
"Comfort me with apples," sang
Phoebe Cary, who. 111 and homesick in
New York, was haunted by visions of
the orchard that surrounded her child
hood's home in Ohio. In different mood
but with equal fervor, the good house
wives of Portland are crying out for
the comfort that an adequate supply of
Summer apples would give.
"What has become of them?" is
asked "the Early Harvests, and Wax
ens, and Red Junes, and Gravensteins
that were so plentiful in former years?"
To be sure, there are a few apples in
the market great, green, hard, sour
things that do not take kindly to the
process that reduces apples to apple
sauce or furnishes a toothsome dessert
of apple pie or apple dumplings. But
even of these the supply Is not equal
to the demand, if we are to Judge by
the high prices asked for them prices
that are prohibitive where the family
is large and the income moderate.
Summer apples for immediate use;
apples upon which growers save all ex
pense of wrapping and packing; apples
going directly from the trees to mar
ket, why are such apples not in full
supply at this time? It does not re
quire commercial orchards to furnish
this supply, nor yet an Imported army
of hands to pick them, nor extra cars
to carry them to a distant market. The
market is right h,ere, and every thrifty
farmer in the county has, or should
have, his own means of conveyance. He
could market his apples in season,
laugh at car shortage and pocket the
returns from his crOD.
j Summer apples should be so plenti
ful and so reasonable in price, in a
state that boasts the virtues of its soil
and climate In applegrowlng, that every
family could afford the luxury of apple
sauce once a day at- least, at this sea
son. There comes to mind, in this con
nection, a Gravensteln apple tree in a
dooryard in Yamhill County that bore
every year enough apples, at present
retail prices in this city, to pay the ex
penses for the current year of a boy or
girl in college; or to provide school
books, shoes and clothing for a family
of half a dozen; or to pay the taxes on
the farm and cut off a large slice of
the mortgage; or to paint and fix up
the old farmhouse and make it as good
as new. There was no market for the
apples in those days, and after bushels
of them were dried, other bushels were
eaten by the children and yet other
bushels made into apple sauce and ap
ple pies and apple dumplings and apple
jelly. And there was a residue on the
ground.
Think of the small fortunes that a
few such trees in the dooryards of the
farmers of Multnomah County would
bring in through the months of July
and August, when every one has an
appetite for apple sauce and the chil
dren are out of school and could do
the' picking. There would be "comfort"
in Summer apples under these circum
stances not the comfort for which a
homesick invalid longed, but comfort
which comes from money wherewith to
buy books and shoes. Apple-picking Is
work which even the Child Labor Com
mission would approve as healthful and
remunerative.
PARTISAN REGISTRATION. .
The California primary law requires
voters to declare their politics when
they register. The constitutionality of
this requirement was . challenged, but
the Supreme Court of the state has up
held it. Why not? If a man is afraid
to announce his politics, he is more pu
sillanimous than a voter ought to be.
If he is ashamed of his politics, then
the sooner he changes it the better.
Some such provision is necessary,
apparently, to prevent party men from
invading one another's primaries with
sinister intent. Republicans could foist
a weak candidate upon the Democrats,
or the reverse, and thus promote their
chances of success in the following
election. To be sure, It seems to hinder
good citizens of all parties from com
bining to force the nomination of high
class candidates; but they can always
unite on an independent ticket if they
wish; while it compels the voters
within the party to depend on their
own efforts. Instead of aid from with
out, to defeat the rings and rascals.
This Is not a bad idea.
Primaries are altogether party af
fairs. The outsider has no honest con
cern in them. Any law which merely
seeks to secure a strict party vote 'and
exclude intruders is of fair intent and
Infringes upon nobody's rights. The
Oregon law requires voters in primaries
to be registered as to their party mem
bership. This is 'a salutary provision.
RAILROAD PROBLEMS.
There is an article in the August At
lantic by Ray Morris, editor of the
Railroad Gazette, on current transpor
tation problems. Mr. Morris writes
from the point of view of the economic
doctrinaires, a class of men who have
done so much to bring the so-called
science of political economy Into con
tempt and annihilate the possibility of
Its Influencing either legislation or pop
ular thought. Ignoring the patent facts
of human nature, the "economist" of
the orthodox type predicates a passion
less automaton, who has neither heart
nor soul, and proceeds tocamuse himself
by speculating upon what such an indi
vidual would do in the' pursuit of
wealth. Needless to say, he does very
remarkable things, like other fictitious
personages, but his conduct is not espe
cially illuminative of human problems.
Likewise Mr. Morris, vwriting about the
railroads, predicates a railroad com
pany which is solely occupied with the
transportation of freight and passen
gers, which has no disposition to steal
coal or timber lands, to combine with
the trusts, or to build up one patron
and drive anfither out of business; and
with this fanciful ideal in his-mind he
proceeds to criticise the Roosevelt leg
islation, the recent regulative state
laws, reciprocal derruifrEfA and the
proposal to tax the rajnro isujpon their
physical valuation.
Hfrriman is
gef who has
the greatest rallroaV r
ever lived In Amertt-a.
the fact that undehis
Dortatlon svstem orthe
spite of
te trans-
covnitfiy has, to
all intents, broken Tlowrf.'whlle the
slaughter of passengersTsas reached a
figure never before heard of In this
country and unparalleled elsewhere.
But your thorough-going "economist"
never thinks it worth while to take
account of facts, especially such trivial
facts as the life, death or happiness of
human beings. He also thinks that the
states should remit all efforts to compel
the railroads by penalties to furnish
efficient service, because such penalties
diminish the fund which- can be spent
for improvements, conveniently for
getting to Inquire why it was not spent
for improvements before the states be
gan their efforts.
It is notorious that the funds which
the railroads ought to have directed to
the betterment of their service of late
years have been diverted into stock
gambling and worse, particularly by
Mr. Harriman. Entire states have been
left without adequate service, or even
the prospect of it, and the railroad
earnings from their territory have gone
to perfect Mr. Harriman's control of
distant lines and build up that monop
oly which is so admirable in the
eyes of Mr. Morris. Nor would this
pernicious practice have intermitted in
the least without the Intervention of
the law. Mr. Morris complains because
the states assume that bad service is
willful and act accordingly. In view of
the facts, what other assumption could
they possibly make without stultifying
themselves?
It appears to our author to be a
striking, or ridiculous, incongruity that
the states should seek to restrict stock
issues at the same time that they de
mand improved service. He forgets
that current improvement ought In all
conscience to be made out of earnings
before dividends are declared; and that
an issue of stock is proper only when
some great new project is contemplat
ed. But, however that may be, nobody
actually opposes the issue of stock for
Improvements. The trouble is that for
many years now the railroads have
been throwing new stock on the mar
ket, not at all for improvements, but
to acquire funds to control other lines,
to enrich grabbers, and to form an ex
cuse for extortionate rates. Mr. Morris
says that rates are not based upon cap
italization. Of course they ought not
to be, but in saying they are not he
speaks again as an economic doctrin-
alre, and 'brushes aside facts of current
ana common knowledge. He even re
peats the silly chestnut that freight
rates make themselves.
Judge Landls' remarks in the Stand
ard Oil decision would help clear his
mind of this dear delusion. It is made
fairly evident in those lucid sentences
that for at least one railroad and one
favored monopoly rates did not make
themselves, but were made by a most
astute and craffy creator. In every de
cision that has ever been made by the
Federal courts annulling state rate
laws the ground has been that the pro
posed rate did not return a fair profit
upon the capitalization of the road. It
was held that a rate which did not
return such a profit would work confis
cation upon the vested interests of in
nocent stockholders. The same princi
ple was explicitly applied by Master
Masten in his notorious report to Judge
Lacombe In the New York gas case.
He held that gas rates must be high
enough to return a profit upon the en
tire capitalization of the trust, and
even included in that capitalization the
estimated value of franchises which
the trust had obtained by fraud and
swindling, without compensation to the
public. How one envies the serene
peace of mind of the doctrinaire. He
lives in a world where imagination
alone rules and where disagreeable
facts can never intrude.
Mr. Morris remarks that the Roose
velt legislation has had no particular
effect upon the railroads except to in
spire the states to pass their two-cent
fare bills and other measures. If this
is so, then rebates and discriminations
go on now as badly as ever, which we
do not believe. But as to the new state
legislation, if anybody Inspired it, cer
tainly Mr. Roosevelt did not. For was
not his entire campaign an onslaught
upon the sacred rights, of the states?
How, then, could it have incited them,
to exercise those rights? The incentive
must have come rather from those de
voted patriots who were continually
shrieking for state rights while Mr.
Roosevelt was forcing his legislation
through a venal and reluctant Senate.
Chehalls County, Washington, logged
15,000 acres of timber last year. At this
rate of depletion Chehalis forest lands
will be denuded in thirty years. The
situation in Chehalis -County Is not dif
ferent from that in other parts of the
Northwest, and the treeless age,will be
here in many localities, before all of
the present generation have passed on
to the next world. The lumber indus
try is supplying an enormous business
for the, railroads, and is making the
lumbermen and loggers rich while it
lasts, but at the present rate it is rush
ing to the end at a speed that is dis
tressing to those who admire our forest
wealth for something more than its
value in board measure.
The Portland & Asiatic liner Nico
media is going out with only about 3000
tons of freight, although her capacity
is about 7000 tons. Of the cargo aboard
nineteen-twentieths Is of Oregon pro
duction. Of course it is Impossible to
switch a few thousand tons of overland
freight to Portland instead of sending
it on to San Francisco, where Califor
nia freight makes up only about one
twentieth of the cargo for the Far East.
California is the home of Messrs.
Schwerin, Kruttschnltt and Stubbs. By
sending the Portland steamers out light
and the San Francisco steamers full It
is easy to demonstrate to Mr. Harri
man that Portland is not really entitled
to a steamship line.
It is apparent that Chicago will an
nex Northern Indiana. Announcement
that the steel trust has appropriated
$45,000,000, additional to the $65,000,000
already invested there, for building a
model city at Gary, just across the
state line, is susceptible of no other
Interpretation. Perhaps Chicago is
looking ahead to the time when it may
have for its advancement the social and
political Influence of Vice-President
Fairbanks, Senator - Beverldge and
lesser statesmen, or maybe the great,
city of the lakes wishes to shine in the
brilliant light of the Hoosier State's lit
erary stars.
.It remains, however, that no candi
date is under any moral or legal obli
gation to pledge himself to any "state
ment." No law attempts to place him
under such obligation. It merely sug
gests two "statements," either of
which he may take if he shall see fit,
or he may commit himself to none. It
may be taken for granted that if nomi
nated and elected as a Republican he
will vote for a Republican Senator; if
nominated and elected as a Democrat
he will vote for a Democrat. In each
case it may be expected by the constit
uents that the party choice will be ad
hered to.
"Bill Miner," trainrobber and general
hold-up man, is at large again, having
burrowed out of the New Westminster,
B; C, penitentiary. An explanatory
dispatch states that the penitentiary
has been short-handed for some time,
thus making it Comparatively easy for
"Bill" to escape. As Miner has cost
Pacific Coast authorities many thou
sands of dollars in rewards and ex
pense of capture, it might be well when
he is recaptured to take up a collec
tion and employ a guard to look after
him.
There is an increase in values in cer
tain classes of Portland real estate In
the past year that, if not surprising. Is
certainly gratifying when considered In
the aggregate. As there will be no Leg
islature next year to increase official
salaries and state appropriations, pos
sibly the big reduction of the levy that
was scheduled to follow the increased
valuation will materialize.
The deposits in one savings bank in
New York City In July aggregated
$100,000,000. This does not look as if
prosperity is on the wane. It is an in
dex to the savings bank business in
every large city throughout the land.
The reports of these banks will make
interesting reading when the year's
balances are made up.
When a Jury In a Justice's court at
Aberdeen decides that the Sunday law
of Washington State is unconstitu
tional, one cannot help but admire the
legal wisdom of the late Mr. Dogberry.
Still, the sum of $29,240,000 seems a
good deal of money. But in talking of
money in terms of Standard Oil, it is a
rather pitiful amount.
No wonder the bottom dropped out
of the melon market. You can't recon
cile cantaloupes with cold weather con
ditions. The automobile doesn't put the horse
out of business by superseding him in
service, but by scaring him off the
roads.
POET LARIAT'S EFFECTS ARE SOLD I
Goods of Mark Twain's Character Dis
posed of at Auction.
New York Times.
Bargains were obtained at the sale of
the belongings of the late Bloodgood H.
Cutter, the Long Island poet, whom Mark
Twain in his story of "Innocents Abroad"
termed the "Poet Lariat."
No auction sale ever equaled that held
recently In the grove surrounding the
ramshackle and untidy household of the
late Long Island poet. The crescent
paths swinging from the main road were
heavy with dust and crowded with auto
mobiles. The occupants shambled along
in their long linen dusters, and Joined the
motley crew of antique dealers and the
riff-raff of bargain seekers.
There was lively bidding on the skull
of an Indian, and the eyeless configura
tion of bone was bid up until it brought
$3. Two rare and finely chased goblets
of silver were offered, and were bid In
by J. W. Ahles of the New York Prod
uce Exchange for less than the skull
brought.
Artists bought the many costumes that
the poet had collected In his travels, and
one man, presumed to be an emissary
of Mark Twain, bought the cocked hat
and brown coat that Cutter wore when
he was presented to the Czar during the
famous trip of the "Innocents Abroad."
The cocked hat was knocked down for
25 cents and the coat for 75 cents.
Great spreads of canvas covered the
fine old mahogany accumulated by Cut
ter. It required three tents to cover the
bookcases, beds, sideboards, low-boys,"
and other pieces of rare design.
One old woman' from Great Neck wis
after a set of. upper teeth that the "Poet
Lariat" had picked up and added to his
weird collection. She bid them up to
$1.25, but August Brown, of Brooklyn, a
professional dealer in old gold and an
cient teeth, overbid her ana got them for
$1.50.
One woman bia 50 cents for a pair of
old mugs, and found in them a set of
solid sliver spoons of Chinese design, In
laid with jewels.
Mrs. Milton A. Lecluse, of New York,
bought two porcelain vases presented to
Cutter by Americans in Paris when he
made his tour with the "Innocents." She
got them at $10,50 each.
Singleton Mitchell, a farmer of Man
hasset, wanted a bust of William Shake
speare and an old silk hat. Mr. Mitchell
bought the bust and hat for 40 cents.
The sale netted $1550 to the estate.
FILLED THE SULTAN'S TEETH.
American Dentist Operated on Once
Powerful Ruler of Morocco.
Plainfleld. N. J., Dispatch In N. Y. Sun.
Dr. Frank B. Bostwick, son-in-law of
Charles W. Eoff, of Crescent avenue, has
arrived in Plainfleld. He expects to have
a good visit in this country, but he can't
tell how long it will be, for he Is sub
ject to call whenever any member of the
royal family of Morocco is troubled with
the toothache.
Dr. Bostwick's career has been event
ful since he was graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania several years
ago. For awhile he was a dentist at the
court of Spain as assistant to Dr. Flore
stan Aqullar. Then he branched out and
got the Sultan of Morocco on his list of
clients.
Dr. Bostwick said in reference to his
work in Morocco: "The teeth of the
Easterners are hard and as a rule per
fect, so there Is little treatment neces
sary. The Moorish men are great cow
adrs, but the women of the country endure
any amount of pain without a murmur."
While at th Sultan's court Dr. Bost
wick filled several of the Sultan's teeth
and did other dental work for the ruler's
father, his shereef brothers and his
wives. Dr. Bostwick is said to be the
first foreigner not a member of the
court retinue to wear the colors of the
Sultan. As a mark of esteem the Sultan
gave to him a handsome leather Moorish
saddle of excellent workmanship. It is
gold-mounted and beautifully carved, erne
stirrups and bit being of gold. With
It were also presented a gold-mounted
breastplate, a heavy gold collar and a
handsomely embroidered saddle cloth of
the Sultan's own court colors.
- An Auto Hater.
Salem Journal.
Why shouldn't a man carry a gun
and shoot an automobHist who is
skidding over the public highways at
much more than railroad speed. A
man has as much right to defend him
self against a man who attacks him
with an automobile as he has to shoot
a man who is trying to kil him with
a club, and more, too, for the latter
gives him a chance to whale him,
while the other, if he fails to kill, runs
away.
Wettest Spot In Oregon.
Forest Grove Times.
The wettest place on the Pacific
Coast, so far as Oregon. Washington,
or California are concerned is at the
ranch of J. H. Reeher on the head of
Wilson River In Tillamook County.
Here is located a Government station
and it is found that the average rain
fall is 130 inches and some years it
has gone as high as 160 inches. This
is some wet sure.
Bennty Lonsr Lasting;.
Newberg Graphic.
Conditions may have changed in In
diana since the days when we cast
shy glances at the farmer's daughters.
The daughters of the Indiana farmers
looked good to us and we are not. too
old to forget It even at this distance.
The fact is one of them is doing the
cooking at our ranch and she con
tinues to shine In any beauty contest.
Drunken Rooatera and Chickens.
Springfield (Mass.) Dispatch.
Roosters and chickens became intoxi
cated at Canterbury, Conn., from feed
ing on blackberry preserves that had
fermented. ,
NEWSPAPER WAIFS.
"Is Mrs. Wise at home?" inquired Mrs.
Chatters, standing In the shadow of the
doorway.
"I don't know, ma'm," replied the serv
ant, "I can't tell till I get a better look at
ye. If ye've a wart on the side o' your nose,
ma'am, she ain't." Washington (D. C)
Herald.
"Do you think that songs exert a power
ful Influence on human conduct?" Inquired
the man who liked abstruse topics.
"No." answered Miss Cayenne: "look at
the man who will stay out till 2 and 3
o'clock In the morning singing, 'Home,
Sweet Home.'" Washington (D. C.) Star.
They met face to face at a seaside resort.
"Let me see," the young man said, "Miss
er wasn't I engaged to you once?" .
"Twice," answered the young woman,
bowing coldly - and passing on. Chicago
Tribune. f
"He's a mean man. He never buys any
thing for his wife that he doesn't hope to
profit by himself."
"Why, he got her an automobile for her
exclusive use."
"Yes, and he got her life Insured In his
favor at the same time. Cleveland Leader.
"My husband has given me the $50 bonnet
I wanted." said Mrs. Galley.
"The ideal" exclaimed Mrs. Chellus. "He's
awfully Indulgent."
"He usually is Indulgent after he's been'
Indulging. He didn't get home until 3
o'clock this morning." Catholic Standard
and Times.
"Remember," said the sage, "that wisdom
Is better than riches."
"Yes," answered the college professor,
"but these days It Is a good Idea to have a
little of both." Washington (D. C.) Star.
"So you want more wages?" said the war
den of the penitentiary.
"That's what 1 do." answered the cook.
"This talk of punishing trust magnates Is
getting me more nervous every day. If I've
got to learn to cook terrapin and lobster a
la Newberg I want more pay. And what's
more. I want to be called a 'chef.' "
Washington ID. c.) Star.
TAFT CONSIDERED AS A JUDGE.
Earned Reputation of Being; Fearleaa
and Just on Bench.
Review of Reviews.
As a Judge, Taft earned tne reputation
of being fearless and Just, and It was this
reputation which accounts in part for his
popularity in Ohio. He was never afraid
to strike at evil and always ready to ac
cept full responsibility for his Judicial de
cisions and orders. Yet he was as ready
to acknowledge an error on his part, and
a remarkable Instance is recorded where
he actually apologized to a litigant for
uncomplimentary- allusions made from
the bench.
The town of Hartwell, In Hamilton
County, Ohio, became involved In a dis
pute with a railroad company.- There
were writs of injunction and mandamus
and other proceedings sought by the town
authorities or the company. The mayor
of Hartwell turned the hose on workmen
who tried to lay rails at night. When
one aspect of the case was brought be
fore Judge Taft he took occasion to criti
cise the Mayor severely. The Mayor,
willing to be made a victim of the court's
power to punish for contempt, wrote a
letter to Judge Taft complaining bitterly
that the court's reference to himself was
obiter dictum and was entirely outside of
the court's power. The Mayor confi
dently' expected to be haled before the
bar. To his surprise, however, he received
a letter from Judge Taft admitting that
he had gone further than be should In his
comments on the Mayor's attitude and
asking the Mayor, to accept his apology
for what he had said.
. That was Taft all through. Consci
entiously believing originally that It was
his duty to rebuke the Mayor, he saw
the matter In a new light when an argu
ment to Bhow that he was wrong was
presented, and he made haste to correct
the error, and, to emphasize the change
of view, added an apology.
Another instance shows Taft as the em
bodiment of stern justice, knowing his
duty and permitting no Interference with
its fulfillment. An elderly man had been
convicted of pension frauds in Judge
Taft's court. Under the law it was op
tional with the court to impose a sen
tence of imprisonment in a penitentiary
or a Jail. A son of the convicted man
knew Judge Taft and had been on
friendly terms with him. .Presuming on
their friendship, the son saw Judge Taft
privately and proceeded to give reasons
why the father should be sent to Jail,
Instead of the penitentiary. Judge Taft
was angry. In language that left no
doubt as to his state of mind, he told
the son that any repetition of the attempt
to Influence him In a Judicial matter
would result In a term in jail for con
tempt. Crestfallen and humiliated, the
son went away, believing that his father
was certain to get a penitentiary sen
tence. Judge Taft sent the convicted
man to jail. Those who know his peculiar
Judicial fitness do not need to be told
that Taft was not influenced in any way
whatever by the son's plea. He considered
the matter on its merits and declined 'to
allow his mind to be prejudiced against
the father for the son's indiscretion or
in the father's favor by the son's distress.
It was not often that Judge Taft
showed anger, but when he did there was
nothing half-hearted about it. A man
who had heard some luie talk about Taft
came to tell the Judge of it. People were
saying, he asserted, that Taft would not
do full Justice to one side in a pending
case. "You get out of here or I'll throw
you out,"1 he shouted. As a matter of
fact, the case was not before Judge Taft's
court. He hated a meddler. He would
not tolerate a tattler.
"The Devil's XMt to
It Is thirty-five years since the death
of George Henry Miles, sometime protes
sor of literature In Mount St. Mary's
College. Maryland. Frederick B. Miles
has collected in a volume such of his
brother's writings as seemed most worthy
of preservation with the title, "Said the
Rose and Other Lyrics" (Longmans,
Green & Co.), with a- Judicious preface
by Mr. John Chantor C-..ns. who. while
pointing out the debt that Miles owed
to other poets, yet Insists on the real
lndlvldualty that is to be found In his
best passages.
Miles seldom wrote humorous verse,
but "The Devil's Visit to " is worth
quoting:
The Devil told .the damned, one day.
To take some recreation.
For he had a visit of State to pay
To a certain corporation.
So he tucked up his tall and combed his
hair.
And went to a certain town,
And says he. "Mister Mayor, it's pretty clear
That my friend, the Plague, Is coming
here."
"Pretty clear," says the Mayor; "sit
down."
The Devil sat down. "My good sir." says
he. .
"Your Btreets are as dirty as dirty can be."
Here the Mayor gave a wink and said
"Well?"
And the Devil resumed. "Don't disturb the
repose
Of the mud whose aroma Is sweet as the
rose.
And I'll soften your pillow In Hell."
The bargain was struck, and the Devil made
Haste back to his old domain;
While the Mayor, grinning, said, "Tho I'm
half afraid
To stir a scraper or lift a spade
I think I may pray for rain."
Cooper, the Novelist. .
Among the interesting centennial cele
brations of the year is that of the Incor
poration of Cooperstown, N. Y.. which
will properly center around literary exer
cises in honor of James Fennlmore
Cooper, the novelist, who immortalized
the whole Otsego region. The celebration
will take place August 4 to 10. The
memorial exercises will Include addresses
by Bishop Potter, Professor Grander
Matthews and others, poems by Julia
Ward Howe and others, and written
eulogies by Rev. Dr. Edward Everett
Hale. Professor T. R. ounsbury. Ad
miral Dewey and others. One of the fea
tures will be the singing of an original
lyric chorus at Cooper's grave In the
church-yard of little Christ Church,
famed for its beauty and picturesque
surroundings as well as through the fact
that the novelist Bleeps beside it.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
IREIAXT ''SHAKE, OLD MAJI; WE'RE BOTH AGIN THE GOVERNMENT."
IN THE
SUNDAY
OREGONIAN
TOMORROW
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DOWN THE COLUMBIA
ON AN OCEAN LINER
Full-page illustration in col
ors of a Summer outing scene
not far from home.
WITH THE COWBOY
ON THE RANGE
Descriptive article by Arthur
Chapm'an, illustrated, showing
that while some of the romance
is gone, plenty of fascinating
work is still left to do.
TELEPHONING FROM
A MOVING HORSE
John Elfreth Watkins tells of
the latest invention for the Uni
ted States Army in maintain
ing communication.
NEW VIEWS OF
MOUNT JEFFERSON
A page of pictures taken re
cently by the Kiser. Photo Com
pany, during the ascent by the
Mazamas.
DAVENPORT AND HIS
FRIEND, THE DOG
In one of his inimitable ser
mons on Fashion's crime in im
pairing the strength and useful
ness of man's best friend.
STEUNENBERG AND THE
COEUR D'ALENE RIOTS
Bartlert Sinclair, then Audi
tor of Idaho, administered the
government during martial law.
He writes from the official rec
ord some important facts now
made public for the first time.
GREAT AMERICAN
POLITICAL TURNS
Applying the year preceding
the last four National cam
paigns to 1907, Dexter Marshall
6hows how important a part it
cuts in the political fate of men.
COTTON IS KING
IN MODERN EGYPT
Frank 6. Carpenter writes of
crops that are making rich the
farmers in the Valley of tha
Nile.
THE GENTLE GRAFTER,
BY O. HENRY
Jeff and Andy transfer op
erations to Broadway, where in
nocents are plentiful.
CENTENNIAL OF
STEAM NAVIGATION
The United States Govern
ment is making a remarkable
exhibit of early steamship mod
els at Bordeaux.
SMALLEST KINGDOM'
IN THE WORLD
Prince Albert, ruler of Mon
aco, is a power between France
and Germany. His government
is a model.
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