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MR. BONAPARTE'S FXIPPANCT.
The pluotcratic "wrongdoers," to use
Mr. Roosevelt's mild expression, have
hit upon a new -word. It is a moat
comfortable and soothing word, more
pointed than "persecution" and more
plausible than "conspiracy." For a
long time every attempt to bring a
millionaire pirate to justice was "perse
cution." The conviction of Standard
Oil before Judge Iandis was a "con
spiracy." Now all such sacrilegious
infringements upon the divine right of
the confederated plutocrats to rob the
public are consigned to merited dam
nation by the epithet "flippant."
Mr. Roosevelt' is impulsive, head
strong, inconstant, heedless of the
wrathful thunder of Wall street, we are
told; and this is very "bad. But Mr.
Bonaparte is worse. He is flippant.
His flippancy is demonstrated by his
"treatment of the great financial and
industrial interests of the country." He
has caused a few of thee ''interests"
to be prosecuted for 'breaking the law.
Could anything be more outrageous?
Well may infuriated Moneybags call
the Attorney-General -flippant. The
only seemly behavior toward a plun
dering octopus is meek and submissive
reverence. There should foe no protest,
no complaint. Least of . all should
there be such a horrible breach, of de
cency as a prosecution. Flippant, in
deed! We are surprised at the modera
tion of the grabbers. Nobody could
have blamed them if they had called
Mr. Bonaparte blasphemous.
There seems to "be no limit to his in
decency. He has actually said that "a
millionaire who breaks the law ought
to. go to jail." Anarchy rears his crim
son and horrid front In the very De
partment of Justice. The pillars of so
ciety totter. The foundations of "busi
ness" are shaken. The aerial riches of
TVall street collapse like a bladder at
the rate of a billion dollars a week.
"Water flows like the Spring tides of the
ocean from Mr. Harriman's aqueous
commercial enterprises. Stock gam
bling has almost ceased; for the mo
ment, to be profitable. Is it not awful?
To be sure, there are consolations'.
There is plenty more water in the same
old well, and Mr. Harriman has not
forgotten how to use It. The collapsed
"Wall-street bladder can be inflated
again and it will look as huge and solid
as ever. Wall street can create what
it calls "wealth" in endless quanti
ties without the least difficulty' when it
geta ready to do so. "A breath can
make it, as a breath has made." Tha
street will be ready when it has dis
credited Mr. Roosevelt by driving his
Attorney-General out of office; and
when it has frightened small investors
Into selling their stocks for half their
value. The present panic outcry, it
must be remembered, is strictly manu
factured to relieve fools of their securi
ties, with the punishment of the Presi
dent as a side issue.
The most scandalous thing about Mr.
Bonaparte's flippancy is its contagious
ness. Mr. Roosevelt had the disease
first. He has advocated the prosecu
tion of the millionaire lawbreakers In
season and out of season. Apparently
ha Is still far from convalescence, for
he said in his last speech that there
would be "no let-up" to the pursuit of
"business and industrial enterprise";
that Is, th "business" of lawbrcaking
and the "enterprise" of robbery. Mr.
Bonaparte's attack of flippancy is com
paratively light beside Mr. Roose
velt's, and now Mr. Taft has caught it.
At Columbus he said that "prominent
and wealthy lawbreakers ought to be
sent to jail." It paralyzes one'A hand
to write the fearful words, but Mr.
Taft brazenly uttered them In the face
and eyes of astonished heaven. Had
he said that "humble and beggarly
lawbreakers ought to be ent to jail."
we should not repine; but "prominent
and wealthy"! Could anything; be more
flippant?
The swindling plutocracy has shot all
its fiery darts at Mr. Roosevelt only to
see them fall harmless from his shield,
as the fiend Apollyon's fell from Chris
tian. Now it tries a flank attack, hop
ing to discredit the President's policy
by discrediting his Attorney-General,
who executes it. We shall see whether
the American people are blind enough
to permit the game to succeed.
THEIR IH'TV.
' President Moore, of the bankrupt
Oregon Savings & Trust Company, is
reported to be ready to pledge his am
ple private fortune to repayment of
their money to . the 14,000 or more
wronged depositors In his .bank. He
cannot in honor do less; he will scarce
ly be expected to do more. Nor can his
fellow directors and fellow officers
evade, if they would, the direct obli
gation under which they rest to repair
fby every means in their power, every
resource they can command, the injury
they have done to thousands of confid
ing and unsuspecting persons through
their failure to direct the bank's affairs
along safe avenues, so that their money
would be properly protected and se
curely Invested. If there is an impera
tive call on President Moore to ac
knowledge a solemn trust and to dis
charge a great moral debt, so is there
the same clear demand on Director
Lylle and Director Friede. Will you
do it. Mr. Lytla? Will you do It, Mr.
Friede? Or will you, by word or ac
tion, say that we, the captain and prin
cipal officers, have scuttled the ship-1-our
ship and now we purpose to get
away In the ship's boats and leave the
passengers to their fate?
It has been said that a good name is
better than great riches. It is. It Is
Indeed. Others, here in Portland, have
found that out, in much the same cir
cumstances. It is a fine thing, a noble
thing, to requite the faith your fellow
man has in you. Requital is a far better
thing than to hold on to all you have,
and all you can get. and have your
friends, neighbors, fellow-citizens and
clients feel that somehow they have
been ' injured ' and even swindled by
overconfldence in you or belief in your
advertised responsibilities as custodi
ans and trustees of their funds. Does
it mean nothing to be a bank director?
Mr. Lytle, we observe, has lost his
$35,000 bank stock investment. That is
unfortunate, but it was the business
chance he took. The depositors, too,
have lost 'heavily, but not through any
chance they knew they were taking.
They made no investment. They took no
business risks, or they thought they
took none, for Mr. Moore, Mr. Lytle,
Mr. Friede and Mr. Morris assured them
that they were merely putting their
savings in a bank, and a good one. How
much of this money could have been
secured, or kept after. being secured, if
the depositors had known what the
directors, and all of them, knew? No
one will say, we think, that the de
positors were not entitled to know all
about the bank's affairs and its in
vestments. But the depositors did not
know. The directors did.
In the circumstances it is obvious
that Mr. Moore, Mr. Lytle and Mr.
Friede have no honorable alternative
but to see the Oregon Savings Ar'Trust
Company through its difficulties. If
they must employ for that purpose
their private resources, they should
not hesitate. At the worst, it would
be merely financial bankruptcy, though
we think not. Loss of money is perhaps a
serious matter to them; so is loss by them
of public confidence and respect; but a
far more serious matter is the Impov
erishment by and through them and
their agents of hundreds and thousands
of other Portland people. Having made
a grave and costly blunder, the bank's
directors should retrieve it, so far as
they can, by standing the consequences
and by not requiring the blameless
public alone to stand them.
GREAT AMERICAN WATER WATS.
The Century, an established magazine
issued by a fompany which with most
of its publications has earned a reputa
tion for fairness and the intelligent
treatment of topics discussed by its
writers, for August contains a fifteen
page article on "The Waterways of
America." Some features of the arti
cle are Interesting.' but the caption is
misleading in the extreme, and the ar
ticle is a review of "some waterways
of America." An article on "The Cities
of the' United States" which woVld fail
to mention Chicago, St. Louis, Boston
or any other city of equal importance
would be no more incomplete than is
the Century article.
In the entire fifteen pages devoted to
the subject no mention whatever is
made of the Columbia River. Not even
the name of this greatest river in the
West appears. At first glance it might
seem that this failure to mention the
second largest river on the American
Continent in an article discussing "The
Waterways -of America" was an Inten
tional oversight, but as the writer pro
ceeds it becomes unquestionably clear
that it was the result of dense ignor
ance regarding the subject on which
he essayed to write.
This ignorance crops out in the state
ment that "a large share of the last
appropriation by Congress for rivers
and harbors went to Puget Sound, har
bor Improvement being the thing neces
sary in order to reap the benefit of
these natural advantages." The "nat
ural advantages" alluded to are a short
route to the Orient and a good harbor
on Puget Sound, but the writer, having
reached the limit of his knowledge re
garding waterways in the Pacific
Northwest, offers no explanation of
what Is to be accomplished with the
"large share of the last appropriation
by Congress." It was more than 115
years ago that the first American ship
sailed Into the Columbia River, and. on
account of its size and the immense
territory drained by the river and its
tributaries, the stream Is known every
where as one of the great waterways of
the world.
While the Columbia was apparently
too small to attract the notice of the
Century Magazine writer, it is of suffi
cient size to float each year more record-breaking
cargoes of lumber than
are sent seaward from any other
stream on' earth. For the twelve
months ending June 30, 1907. this
business alone reached a total of
27,353,000 feet, of which more than 100.
000,000 feet was shipped foreign: Dur
ing the same period approximately 20,
000,000 bushels of wheat (flour included)
were sent out by water from Portland.
This waterway is of sufficient magni
tude to admit of 10,000-ton steamships
loading to a draft of twenty-five feet
at Portland, more than 100 miles from
the sea, and regular steamboat lines
are operated on the upper reaches of
the river and its tributaries nearly 1000
miles from its mouth, as well as
through most of the intervening dis
tricts. The territory drained by this water
way, which the Century did not men
tion, wlil this year produce more than
one-tenth of all the wheat that will be
grown in the United- States. The same
territory today contains more standing
timber than Is to be found in any simi
lar area In the United States, with the
exception of the territory lying between
this great river and its tributaries and
the coast. It was not tor Improvement
of Puget Sound harbors that a large
share of the last appropriation by Con
gress was made, but for tHIs same Co
lumbia river, and when the work now
provided for by the Government ' is
completed there will be no other water
way in the country with such a large
and rich traffic-producing territory on
which to draw. Perhaps one of the rea
sons why Oregon is not very well
known in the East may be the fact that
many of the writers are quite unfamil
iar with the geography of the United
States.
THE CALAMITY HOWLERS.
The New York Times think.s, or pre
tends to think, that the country. is go
ing to the dogs all on account of Mr.
Roosevelt. Money is dear, says the
Times; the prosperity of the country is
strained; "in Wall street three billions
or more have (been lopped off security
values in the last three weeks." But
Mr. Roosevelt is not Jikely "to be in
fluenced by the menace or presence of
business calamity." He will persevere
In his ruinous policy in spite of every
thing, thinks the Times.
Mr. Roosevelt would be very silly to
be influenced by the calamity howling
of the Times and the convicted corpora
tion magnates. There is no "menace
of business calamity" except in the
heated imaginations of a few Infuri
ated . lawbreakers. Certainly no busi
ness calamity is present. The "three
billions" of loss to Wall-street values
is purely fictitious. The gamblers can
write "values" up or down to suit their
own purposes. Just now It suits them
to try to frighten the President and
the country with the threat of a panic;
so they write stocks down. Presently
they will change tactics and prices will
go up. But all this manipulation does
not affect the actual values of prop
erty a particle; and fortunately the
country knows that it does not.
The only business of which some New
York papers seem to know anything is
stock gambling. Of the great com
merce and traffic upon which the coun
try thrives their ignorance is pitiful.
Agriculture, transportation, manufac
tures, all the real business of the coun
try, are securely prosperous. No ca
lamity exists, none is threatened, none
is possible. Panic talk is partly the
twaddle of imbeciles, partly the crafty
artifice of frightened criminals to head
oft prosecution. Sensible people will
estimate it at Its genuine value, and
that is extremely small.
LAST OF HER RACE.
A dispatch from Melbourne in Tues
day's Oregonlan announced the proba
ble total loss of the American ship
Shenandoah while en route from Balti
more for San Francisco with a cargo
of coal. Although the Shenandoah has
for years been outdated by metal sail
ing ships and by steamers, her passing
will cause keen regret in the old school
of shipmasters, who will remember the
Shenandoah as "the last of her race."
The Shenandoah was -one of a quartet
of Immense sailing ships, all of which
have now been lost, built by the late
Arthur Sewall about seventeen years
ago. These vessels, the Rappahannock,
Roanoke, Susquehanna and Shenan
doah, were immense four-masted
wooden ships, the last of their kind
to be built, and, like every other mari
time production turned out in this
country, the 'finest of their class to be
found anywhere in the world. While
built for carrying big cargoes, they
were also modeled for speed, and with
Immense spreads of canvas they raced
round the world, making faster aver
age passages than were made by any
of the metal ships with which i they
came in competition.
Arthur Sewall, the builder, demon
strated with these vessels and with
the metal ships which followed them
that the Americans could successfully
compete with the foreigners In the
ocean carrying trade, but his subse
quent abandonment of the wooden ship
was also an acknowledgment that the
competition could not be met success
fully with vessels inferior to those with
which they competed. Through all of
the varying stages of the American
merchant marine our builders have
shown their albility to build the fastest
and finest ships afloat. The Dread
naught, the "Flying Cloud, the Young
America and other famous clippers of
the '60s were the fastest ships that ever
floated, and met and vanquished in
speed contests all comers sailing under
foreign flags. The broadJbeamed and
slower-moving wooden ships which fol
lowed them on the stocks at American
yards were likewise superior to the new
type of foreign carriers, and the Sewall
ships of the Shenandoah class marked
the tritfmph of the American ship
builder's art In wooden ships.
But the finest American wooden ship
afloat from a commercial standpoint
was less desirable than some of the
foreign metal ships which Jacked many
of the good points of the Shenandoah.
The business of the world demanded
metal ships, and even Arthur Sewall,
with a strong sentimental regard for
the wooden ship, was obliged to bow to
the inevitable, and he began building
metal ships. The metal ships which
are today carrying the Sewall house
flag Into all of the prominent ports on
earth are, like the old wooden ships of
an earlier day, the finest of their class
afloat, and are a credit to their build
ers and to the flag they fly. But the
doom of the metal sailing ship is at
hand. Our prestige suffered greatly be
cause the foreigners were first in the
field with metal sailing ships. It is
suffering now because the carrying
trade of the world is going over to
steam vessels. To secure and hold any
prestige in the ocean carrying trade we
must keep up with the procession.
Our old-time clippers were the best
of their ' day and age, the modern
wooden ships which followed them en
joyed a similar prestige, and no finer
specimens of marine architecture are
afloat today than the American metal
sailing ships. But they are out of date,
and if we are to continue in the ocean
carrying trade we must secure tramp
steamers. Much of "the poetry and ro
mance of the sea vanished with the
disappearance of the dippers. What
little remains will go with the sailers.
But this is a commercial age, and, to
keerj step with the procession, we must
have steam ocean carriers and we must
have the same opportunity for securing
them that is granted the foreigners
that is, the right to buy in the cheap
est markets. There will be no more
Shenandoahs nor Dreadnaughts, but
with a repeal of our existing absurd
navigation laws there will be a great
expansion of the American merchant
marine.
Commendable indeed is the civic
pride of a group of property-owners
along Fargo street in the Albina dis
trict who have petitioned for the park
ing of several blocks of that thorough
fare. Briefly stated, this improvement
consists of using a part of the street,
say twenty-two to thirty feet, for a
roadway and beautifying the remain
ing borders on either side with grass,
shrubs and flowers, according to the
taste of individual owners of abutting
property, yet following a general plan.
Where this system of parking has been
adopted in Eastern cities, experience
has taught that twenty-four feet is
ample width for driveways in residen
tial districts. Enhanced beauty is the
chief consideration; still there is a
practical side that, appeals to every
taxpayer. The cost of improving the
street Is reduced nearly one-half for all
time; parking the border is a labor of
love involving expense too small to be
considered. About two years ago a
movement was started thus to improve
Fourteenth street, the widest residence
street on the West Side, but it was
balked by excessive conservatism of
large holders of frontage. Should the
public-spirited folk on Fargo street
make good, it will not be surprising if
the reform, like cement sidewalks, be
comes general. There was never a abet
ter time than now to start the 'ball roll
ing. Eight miles an hour is twice as fast
as a brisk walk. A man going at that
gait around a corner is liable to col
lision; so is an automobile, and an
added danger to pedestrians in the case
of the motor-car lies in the fact that at
eight milels an hour its customary
safeguard of racking noise is largely
eliminated. Before the City Council
decides on the details of the ordinance
now under consideration, let each mem
ber stand at any corner on Washington
or Morrison street from Third to Sev
enth between 5 and 6 P. M. as if -waiting
to board a car. He will thus get a
danger viewpoint that doesn't appear
when he is riding with a skillful chauf
feur on a specially prepared tour of
inspection. When you consider that
heavy and light vehicles, automobiles
and men, women and children, as well
as go-carts, must accommodate them
selves to the all too narrow space be
tween the steps of.-a car and the curb,
nothing should move faster than a
walk around congested corners.
Strange indeed are the vagaries of
fate. Ah Chong, the Chinese cook who
sailed and starved witli the gallant De
Long when the Jeanette went on her
last cruise, has been murdered while
following the peaceful life of a miner
in California. Few, if any, men ever
endured greater hardships and lived to
tell the tale than the survivors of the
Jeanette, and Ah Chong, after all that
he had suffered in the frozen north,
was certainly deserving of a better fate
than death at the hands of a thieving
half breed.
The skyrockety advance in the wheat
market on Wednesday was followed
yesterday by a decline which wiped
out most of the gain of the preceding
day. There have been seasons in the
past when wheat scored higher figures
than this season, and there have been
seasons when the price was much
lower. But for violent changes, at fre
quent intervals, the present season is
far and away the most interesting in
recent yaars.
James Hamilton Lewis is over in Gay
Paree, and sends across the ocean his
unqualified approval of President
Roosevelt's attitude toward the trusts.
Of course the effect on Roosevelt's pop
ularity can be minimized if too much
publicity is not given J. Ham's views.
The pink-whiskered statesman long
ago thought out a system by which he
succeeded In securing much that he
wanted by pretending to oppose it.
Mr. Haywood, of Colorado, in a
speech at Chicago expressed great pride
at being termed an "undesirable citi
zen." He refrained from expressing
any feeling of pride over his intimate
acquaintance with one Harry Orchard.
Considering the nature of some evi
dence which was not refuted at, Boise,
it would seem quite appropriate for
Mr. Haywood to withdraw, at least
temporarily, from the limelight.
Suppose" the postofflce had been- sold
out to the corporation which wanted
to buy it last Winter; and suppose the
employes of the corporation had gone
on a sympathetic strike with the, teleg
raphers. The Western Union could not
get its. messages delivered for a 2-cent
stamp If all that had happened. Gov
ernment ownership of some things la
rather convenient after all.
Doubtless our plutocratic first fami
lies will pray that this experience may
be blessed to the poor depositors.
Money is a dangerous possession.
Nothing so imperils one's salvation.
Let the depositors be humbly thankful
that the Lord's anointed stewards have
eased them of a burden which might
have cost them heaven.
Now that we have the official, undis
puted, historical spelling, let every one
remember that our northernmost sub
urb (barring Vancouver) is St. John, not
St. Johns. This rapidly growing, town
is bound to figure largely in future
local activities, and long after-it shall
have been annexed its name will still
be St. John.
That was an Interesting story about
the wife of Cashier Morris repaying
$7000 to the Portland policeman who
had put his wife's money in her hus
band's bank. It may be regarded as
highly fortunate that her husband had
sufficient prudence to direct her to put
her money In a safe bank.
Evolution of sentiment toward what
was once a capital crime west of the'
Mississippi is almost startling. At
Olympla, Wash., this week a convicted
horsethief was pardoned.
Most timely, not to say well-timed,
was the departure of Cashier Morris.
An absent scapegoat can be made to
carry many more sins than one who is
present.
We want no postal savings banks.
They would interfere with private en
terprise the species of enterprise which
the spider practiced upon the fly.
Eighty-cent stock purchased at 95
nets a neat profit for somebody. Per
haps this deal accounts for part of the
WALL STREET'S BAD HYSTERIA.
A Sane and Sober Word Upon the
Mtnatlon.
New York Journal of Commerce.
Tne present Summer has been a season
of pe6ul!ar outbreaks of hysteria. Some
people have got excited over something
they called a "crime wave." Telegraph
operators have been seized by a wild de
sire to flee from their Instruments with
out quite knowing why. N.all street has
had an excess of hysterics because the
stock market seemed to be going to pieces,
and his set up a shrieking and kicking
over the policy of the administration,
which was about to engulf the country in
ruin. But what has the. administration
done to upset the disordered nerves of
Wall street? It is held responsiole for
some legislation of more than a year
ago for the regulation of ral.roads en
gaged in Interstate commerce, which
pretty much everybody regarded as a
good thing after It was accomplished,
md which has certainly 'done no harm
yet and is ..xely to be of much benefit.
A few state Legislatures and govern
ments have h,een up to mischief because
they thought they were following' a
popular, example, but- nothing serious
has come of it yet, and there will be a
settling down to "sober sense eoon.
The Standard Oil Company has been
prosecuted for some of its many offenses
of the past', and one District Judge out
West has pronounced a stunning sen
tence upon It, but he Is not the admin
istration, and whetuer his sentence will
be upheld is still a question for the
answer to which we can afford to wait.
Some prosecutions have been started
against certain trusts charged with ex
isting in defiance of law, and there has
been some foolish talk In high quarters
about appointing receivers for lueir af
fairs, winding them up and distributing
their assets, but nobouy in his senses be
lieves that anything of the kind will be
done. A petition for an injunction against
the American Tobacco .Company does not
disintegrate the industrial fabric of the
country. Why not wait for the courts to
be heard, from? The administration is
not doing and is not likely to do any
thing which the victims of hysteria are
crying out about, and they should take
something soothing and not try to make
an epidemic of their malady.
No doubt the stock market tas been
In a bad way, but these excited people
have done much to put it in its present
condition. By. their own talk and be
havior they have ' largely created the
scare at which they are i.emselves be
coming frightened and which they are
spreading with their -outcries . about the
administration doing it all. If these hys
terical persons would recover their senses
and exercise a little cool Judgment and
self-re9tralnt, they might reassure them
selves that doomsday Is not at hand,
and then they could begin to reassure
other people and get things under con
trol. Neither the -vatlona.- government
nor state governments are bent upon up
setting things, and If they were they
would not be allowed to do it. If there
Is anything like a crisis, at hand it comes
from other causes, and lue way to meet
It is not . to lose your head and scream,
but face it in a business-like way like
sober men. Vall street Is a bad place
for an exhibition of hysterics.
HOW THE PARCELS POST WORKS
It Pleases, a Clilcagoan, Who Alao
Ktnon Honeit People There.
London Dispatch to the Chicago Dally
News.
Arthur Perry Brink of Chicago returned
to London today after a tour of the con
tinent convinced that the American Gov
ernment could conduct a parcels post sys
tem with Immense benefit to the Ameri
can people. "Of course." he said to the
Daily News correspondent this morning,
"the express companies. now making
millions, would lose heavily, but the na
tion would make a corresponding saving.
Furthermore, in my opinion, the service
would be even quicker and more efficient
than it Is at present.
"Throughout Europe I saw the parcels
post In active and satisfactory opera
tion. At all the railway stations there
were In waiting parcels post wagons and
carts and the parcels were handled with
great rapidity. I also saw these ve
hicles at almost every turn In the streets.
Those In charge were smartly dressed,
and moved as if they understood the
value of time. Every kind of parcel Is
carried. Including valises, suit cases and
steamer trunks.
"I left my money belt under the mat
tress of a hotel in Hamburg. The belt
had $200 in it, and 1 telegraphed back from
Berlin for it. The next morning the belt
reached me by registered parcels post.
Although 1 had asked the. proprietor of
the hotel to give the finder $5 If the
money was recovered, not a cent had
been taken out. He prepaid the postage
himself and explained in a letter that he
had given nothing to the chambermaid,
because she had viplated her instructions
by failing to lift the mattress, under
which the proprietor himself had found
the belt Just after I had left. It Is need
less to say that I could not permit such
virtue to go unrewarded." ,
One Slackening; Gold-Prodncer.
While gold output in 9outh Africa In
creases,' another continent is giving a
poor account of itself. This is the "lately
published showing of Australasia for the
five first months of the year:
WW. 1006. 1905.
Fine ozs. Fine ozs. Fine ozs.
Australia l..i:i2.Sfi! 1,440.771 1.408.SO4
New Zealand-.. 1SS.1V1 205.854 11)4. 7U8
Totals 1,521,060 1,840,623 1,663,600
Here is a shrinkage, in values, of $2.
600.000 from 1906, and of nearly J3.000.000
from 1905. Thus far In 1907, Australasia
has exported $16,000,000 less gold than In
the same months of 190$.
From "Dave" to "Theodore.
Boston Herald.
Ezra Meeker, of Puyallup, Wash., who
has been for a year and a half driving an
ox team back over the Oregon trail that
he traveled In the same way 54 years ago.
Is now moving down the east bank of the
Hudson River and means to see the Pres
ident. One of the oxen, named Dave, has
come all the way. It's up to Meeker to
change that ox's name before he reaches
Oyster Bay.
Huabnnd Pawm Marrleae Certificate.
Philadelphia Record,
.vlra. John McVeigh, whose husband
was before a magistrate In Wilmington,
Del., charged with non-support, told the
court that her husband had pawned the
marriage certificate.
There's One Exception.
Kanssi Oty Times.
We praise her doughnuts and her pies.
Her hlsrultn and her cake;
But Where's the man who sighs for pants
Lltfe mother used to make."
She used to take a pair of pa's.
When thry were worn and frayed.
And decorate them with a patch
Of some contrasting shade.
And cut them off about the knees
And take the waist In, too.
And say that they for every day
Were Just the thing for you.
And then she sent you off to school.
And when you didn't no.
She wondered what gnt Into boys
. That they played truant so.
Yes. still we praise her jam. her "Jell,"
Her coffee and her steak.
But Where's the man that sighs for pants
Like mother used to make;
:ets
BY LILIAN TINGLE.
Tomatoes will probably be about their
cheapest this coming week. I am told.
As one man put it. "Folks had better
can them now, or get left." The prices
runs 5 cents to 10 cents per pound, accord
ing to quality. I saw some very good ones
at 75 cents per crate. The tiny "cherry."
"pear" and "plum" tomatoes for preserv
ing are now to be seen. They cost about
3d cents per basket at present, but will
be cheaper later on.
Local peppers are coming in at 15 cents
per pound, or 2 for 25 cents. As Kipling
sings in regard to the construction of
tribal lays, so I believe In the matter of
stuffing green peppers. there are "nine
and sixty ways" of doing It. "and every
single one of them Is right." But occa
sionally one meets with the seventieth.
Egg plant is cheaper 10 cents and 15
cents each; and so is cauliflower. Cauli
flower moulded with egg and cheese,
Breton style, makes a good "meat" sub
stitute dish for Summer. - Celery is about
the same fn price; small bunches 10 cents
each, larger bunches 15 cents or two for
25 cents.
There Is a good supply of cucumbers.
Pickle cucumbers cost about $1.25 for 20
pounds. Okra from California is still in
the market at 25 cents per pound.. Red
cabbage -la now coming in. It makes an
easy and excellent pickle, and there are
several good German dishes notably a1
combination of red cabbage and apples,
which the .American cook might do well
to copy or modify to meet individual
tastes. Summer squash, green corn,
green beans and wax beans are still to
be had. and kohl rabl is coming In at
50 cents per dozen. Grapes are plentiful.
Little Oregon sweet water grapes cost
5 cents per pound; California black grapes
are $1 per crate: Tokay grapes, 75 cents
per basket; Malaga grapes, two pounds
for 26 cents.
Beside the ordinary crab apple, there
are two kinds of Siberian crabs the long
shaped ones and the "cherry" crabs,
both 20 cents per basket. Plums seem
fairly plentiful this week. Blue Damson
plums cost 5 cents per pound, and sev
eral 'Other kinds were shown at about 40
cents per basket. Prunes were 75 cents
to $1 per crate.
Watermelons cost lc to cents per
pound or from 25 cents to $1 each. In
connection with watermelons and certain
waitings about the price of peaches that
1 have been hearing, I am going to be
tray the scheme of a crafty friend of
mine. It la, however, a dodge best kept
hidden from the men folks of the family.
My friend serves her watermelon as what
she calls "natural sherbet;" that is, she
scoops out the red part in spoonfuls and
serves it piled high very high and broad,
too. on glass dishes. Then she takes the
untouched rind, pares off the green part,
and shreds the rest into very thin inch
long pieces. These she boils with a
quantity of shredded peaches and their
kernels, and niakes a peach marmalade
which has on occasion deceived the very
elect. And as long as it is not sold to
trustful neighbors as "pure peach mar
malade," I' don't believe the pure food
law can touch it.
There are some very good peaches in
the market, but the cheaper ones are
mostly over, although I found a few at
75 cents oer crate and no dry rot either.
Generally, however, they were $1.10 to
$1.25 oer crate.
A few .Royal Anne cherries are coming
from the mountains at 20 cents per
pound. Evergreen blackberries cost 10
cents per box; huckleberries, 20 cents
per pound. Bartlett pears were 20
cents to 25 cents per dozen or about $1.75
per box. Apples range from $1.60 to $2.50
per box, according to kind and quality.
I saw some, grown, I think, at Mount
Tabor, at 10 cents per pound each apple
costing Just 10 cents. Fresh grape fruit
is coming In, 15 cents each, or $1.50 per
dozen.
Poultry prices are about the same, with
a slightly lower tendency IS cents and
20 cents per pound for chicken. Large
ducks cost $1.
As for fish, there is a wide choice just
now. including halibut, salmon, sturgeon,
black cod, rock tod, red snapper,
ling cod. sole, croppies, salt water smelt,
salmon trout, mostly running in price
from 15 to 17& cents per pound. I saw
fine rolled sturgeon at 20 cents per pound;
black bass at 25 and 30 cents, and very
large fresh herrings at 10. cents. Shrimps
are plentiful, and so are crawfish. Razor
clams are about 15 cents per dozen.
How 'ot to Sleep.
Puck.
Don't sleep on your left side, for It
causes too great pressure on the heart.
Don't sleep on your right side, for it
Interferes with the' respiration of that
lung.
Don't sleep on your stomach, for that
Interferes with the respiration of both
lungs and makes breathing difficult.
Don't .sleep on your back, for this
method of getting rest is bad for the
nervous system.
Don't sleep sitting In a chair. '
your body falls into an unnatural po
sition and you cannot get the neces
sary relaxation.
Don't sleep standing up, for you may
topple over and crack your skull.
Don't sleep.
Harriman Investment for Union Tactile.
New York Mail.
Last year Harriman bought for the
I'nion Pacific Atchison preferred at 104
and the common at 92. They sold to
day (Thursday) at Si and 82. Balti
more and Ohio he bought at l-'O. It
was 88i today. St. Paul was taken at
162 Vs. compared with the present sel-
'HE'S ON THE WATER WAGON NOW.
IN THE MAGAZINE
SECTION OF THE
SUNDAY
OREGONIAN
TWO DAINTY PEBBLES
ON THE BEACH
Full-page illustration in col
ors of a familiar scene on .the
Oregon coast.
BACKWOODS TREATMENT
OF ACCIDENTS
A page of information that
every hunter ami fisherman
should read and heed and put
awav.for future use.
GERMAN PLAIN FOLK
UNDER CRITICISM
Mrs. Alma A. Rogers of Port
land measures them by the
American standard and finds
they fall verv short.
DEADLY GERMS ON
STREETCAR STRAPS
Dexter Marshall tells of re
cent discoveries bv American
scientists concerning disease- '
breeding bacteria.
SERMON TO DRUNKARDS
BY A DRUNKARD
No conventional preachment,
but the confession of a former
Portlander with a possible cure.
MR. DOOLEY ON THE
SUBJECT OF WORK
A characteristic essay by Fin
ley Peter Dunne on the ethics of
strikes written in a purely non
partisan spirit.
A PAGE OF
GIFFORD'S PICTURES
River and mountain views in
Eastern Oregon from Benjamin
A. Gifford's copyrighted photo
graphs. DAVENPORT PREACHES
AGAINST CRUELTY
A powerful picture that ought
to work a re.form among incon-
siderate human beings who
maim horses.
POPULAR FALLACIES
CONCERNING INDIANS
John Elfreth Watkins writes
from Washington giving facts
and pertinent comment on the
American Red Man.
TO MARK THE GRAVE
OF SACAJAWEA
Monument to be placed over
the remains of the heroine of
the Lewis and Clark expedition.
AMERICANS AT
THE PYRAMIDS
Frank G. Carpenter writes
how our ghoulish archaeologists
are unearthing graves of four
thousand years, ago.
ORDER FROM YOUR NEWS
DEALER TODAY
ling price of 117. Northwestern was
bought at 206. Today it was 1384. Il
linois Central at 17.". acalnst 130 now.,
and New York Central 137V4 or 38 points
higher than this morning's quotation.
On an investment of $131,000,000 there
Is a shrinkage of about 30 per cent.
Money easily made, as it was from
Northern Pacific and Great Northern, is
sometimes reinvested with poor judg
ment. '
, .
Getting Ahead.
Ray Stannard Baker reports in the
American Magazine that he hjas found a
number of fairly well-to-do negroes in
the South. One he writes of started as
a wage-hand, worked hard and stead
ily, saving enough finally to buy a,
mule the negro's first purchase; then
he rented land, and by hard work and
clone calculation made money steadily.
With his first $75 he started out to see
the world, traveling by railroad to
Florida, and finally back home again.
The "moving about" instinct is snong
in ull negroes sometimes to their de--structlon.
Then he bought 100 acres
of land on credit and having good'
crops, paid for it in six or seven years.
Now ho has a comfortable home, he is
out of debt, and has money In the bank,
a painted house, a top buggy and a
cabinet orgjn: These are the values
of his propcrtv:
Hs farm Is worth 2nno
Two mules :ioo
Horse 1WI.
Other equipment
Money in tht bank 100
Total !..$4iM10
-FVnm the Ntr-w York Fti