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Newspaper Page Text8 THE MOBXIKG UKflGOXIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1907. siBSfRirnox rates. i INVARIABLY IX ADVANCE. (By MalL) Bally, Sunday Included, one year $8.00 Dally, Sunday Included, six months.. .. 4.25 Dally, Kundny Included, three montha. . 2.25 Dally, Sunday Included, -.. month 75 Dally, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, six months.... 3.25 Dally, without Sunday, three months.. 1.75 Dally, without Sunday, one month 60 Sunday, one year 2.BO Weekly, one year (Issued Thursday).. 1.50 6unday and "Weokly, one year 3.50 BV CARRIER. Dally, Sunday Included, one year 9.00 Dally, Sunday Included, one month 73 HOW TO REMIT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postoftlce ad dress In full. Including county and state. POSTAGE RATES. Entered at Portland, Oregon, Postofflce as Second-Class Matter. 10 to 14 Pages 1 cent 16 to 28 Pages 2 cents 30 to 4t Pages 3 cents to 00 Pages - 4 cents Foreign postage, double rates. IMPORTANT The postal laws are strict. Newwpapers on which postage is not fully prepaid are not forwarded to destination. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The S. C. Berkwith Special Agency New Tork, rooms 48-50 Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms 510-512 Tribune building. KEPT ON SALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex, Postofflce News Co.. 178 Dearborn st. 6t. Paul, Minn N. St. Marie. Commercial Station. Colorado Springs, Colo. Bell, H. H. Denver Hamilton and Kendrlck. 906-912 Seventeenth street: Pratt Book Store. 1214 Fifteenth street; H. P. Hansen, S. Klce, Geo. Carson. Knnsas City; Mo. Itleksecker Cigar Co., Ninth and Walnut: Toma News Co.; Harvey News Stand. Minneapolis M. J. Cavanaugh. 50 South Third. Cleveland, O James Pushaw, SOT' Su perior street. Wushlngton, W. C. Ebbltt House, Penn sylvania avenue. Philadelphia, Pa. Ryan's Theater Ticket office; Penn News Co. New York City L. Jones ft Co.. Astor House; Broadway Theater News Stand; Ar thur Hotallng "Wagons; Empire News Stand. Atlantic City, N. J. Ell Taylor. Ogden T. L. Boyle, W. Q. Kind, 114 Twenty-fifth street. Omaha; Barkalow Bros., Union Station; Mageath Stationery Co. Des Moines, la- Mose Jacob.. . . Sacramento, Cal. Sacramento News Co., 4.19 K street: Amos News Co. Salt Iake Moon Book A Stationery Co.; Bosenfcld & Hansen; G. W. Jewett. P. O. corner. I.on Angeles B. E. Amos, manager seven street wagons. San Diego B. E. Amos. Long Beach, Cal. B. E. Amos. San Jose. Cal. St. James Hotel News Stand. IVallnn. Tex. Southwestern News Agent. El Paso, Tex. Plaza Book and News Stand. Fort Worth, Tex. 5V Robinson. Amarillo, Tex. Amarlllo Hotel News Stand. New Orleans, I -a. Jones News Co. San Francisco Foster & Crear: - Ferry News Stand; Hotel St. Francis News Stand; L. Parent; N. Wheatley: Falrmount Hotel News Stand; Amos News Co.; United News Agents. 11 Eddy street. Oakland, Cal. W. H. Johnson. Fourteenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oakland News Stand; Hale News Co. Goldfieid, Nev. Louie Follln; C. E. Hunter. Eureka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. 'PORTLAND, SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 1907. MONOPOLY MORALS. The Standard Oil Company and Its parasitic apologists liave maintained the pose of persecuted Innocence won derfully well for a surprisingly long time. In the- entire history of the world there are few cases of- hardy, purposive, profitable hypocrisy so consistent and, upon the whole, so successful as theirs. Years ago, when the first victims of the ruthless Rocke feller methods began to bring their wrongs before the public, we were cau tioned not to believe them. It was incredible, we were assured, that a man like Roi kefeller, a fond husband, a loving father, a pillar in the church, a fountain of charity, .should disre gard the law, override the rights of other men, intrigue, plot, rob and ruin. There must be some mistake. It was our duty to suspend judgment, we were told, until the facts were proved by documents. Very well; the country suspended Judgment and waited. Then Henry D. Lloyd, Miss Ida Tarbell and others began to delve among the documents. They took copies of rebate contracts, read orders to Epies, waded through court records, tracing step by step the monstrous progress of the Octopus through iniquity beyond belief to wealth and power beyond precedent. The results of their work t-e Investi gators published. The country read and marveled. Could such things ac tually have been done In a Christian land, by respectable and pious men,? "No," replied Standard Oil through Its lawyers and hangers-on, "it is all a mistake. All these accusations orig inate in the envy of our rivals. Be lieve nQthing against us until it is proved in court. We are slandered angels. Behold the whiteness of our robes." Many of Lloyd's and Tarbell's accu sations had already been proved in court, but still the Octopus continued its pose of persecuted innocence with fair success. A corps of able attor neys and a flock of learned and rev erend retainers were kept busy manu facturing perjury in defense of Stand ard Oil. The trust was attacked bold ly in Texas, more timidly in Kansas, by a daring State's Attorney in Mis souri; but apparently It suffered little. Driven out of - Texas, it sneaked back under an alias like a pickpocket to a county fair. When the magnates con descended to show themselves in court th-y cowed the prosecuting officers and bullied the judges. They sneer ingly refused to answer questions. They defied legal summons. They were greater than the Nation. The law had become their creature and its machinery worked as they willed. It is Interesting to speculate what the destiny of the Standard Oil Com pany would have been had not Mr. Roosevelt become President. With some l an in the White House who was complaisant under its thumb what might not the trust have done? As the current Investigation in New York shows, it pervaded the country under scores or names, everywhere scheming, plotting, bribing, undermin ing the social structure. It was like a vast cancer eating away tho Nation's vitals. It assuredly controlled the Federal Senate. Probably it controlled the House of Representatives. Many of the lower courts were awed into meek submission. Its grasp was upon the railroads, the minerals, the tim ber, the ships of the country. State Legislatures were mere puppets for it to manipulate. One puts aside with extreme difficulty the belief that, if the Standard Oil Company, with its allied forces, had gone forward un checked a few years longer, it would have transformed the Government into a close oligarchy and made its power perpetual and absolute. Mr. Roosevelt hinted at the same opinion in his Trovincetown speech. In the current investigation the Standard Oil officials, chastened by re cent reverses, have abated something of their old arrogance; but their policy of unblushing, systematic perjury has not altered in the least. None of them know anything whatever about the affairs of their company. Its books are sealed to them; Its records they have never read; they are Ignorant of its transactions. When we come, if we ever do, to sum up the compara tive good and evil of the trust system, we must not forget its putrefying in fluence upon morals. As our monop olies develop, the old-fashioned vir tues and kindliness of life fall more and more into disrepute. In the trust code there is no such thinj as business honor; fairness to a- competitor is dis reputable; manly fighting has given way to stabs in the back. How long will it be before our trust magnates begin to employ poison and hired as sassins to accomplish their ends? The step to this is very short from some of their practices. Truth-telling long ago became contemptible among them. They must hold an t-nnual competition in mendacity with million - dollar prizes to the biggest liar. Nothing else could have vcloped their capacity for prevarication to the pitch it has reached. But of course their sin brings its own punishment.' "The truth itself is not believed from one who often hath deceived." Whether this proverb is altogether true of the trust mag nates or not we are not likely to know, for they will never give us a chance to test it. - , HOW , THE ROGERS METHOD WORKS. A current news paragraph tells a typical- story about Mr. H. H. Rogers. Mr. Rogers, it seems, was engaged in the gentle pastime of taking a walk with a friend. They' came across a fine-looking factory. "There," said Mr. Rogers' friend, "Is an establish ment that I want. I have tried re peatedly to buy it, but the owner re fuses to sell. What would you do in such a caj-?" "I would build an other establishment alongside of it," replied Mr. Rogers, "and drive him out of business." That Is the historic Rogers method. When anybody got in Rogers' way, Rogers started in to kill him off. If lt was a competing oil company, Rogers undersold him until he starved his rival out. If it was a factory, he built another factory just like it in the same field and took away his competi tor's customers. If it was a railroad, and it wouldn't sell to Rogers on his terms, he made the railroad sick by buildirig another railroad. Rogers' method worked successfully for a long time, and made him an enormously rich man. But he has just met with a, slight reverse that has cost him something like $40,000, 000, a neat sum even in these pros perous times. Mr. Rogers conceived the great idea of building a railroad 432-jniles long parallel with the Nor folk &" Western. It may be assumed that he first tried to buy the Norfolk & Western at a figure tl.at would have left its owners no profit, and he failed. Then he started in to make the Nor folk & Western sick. The Norfolk & Western seems yet to be in an entirely healthy condition, but Mr. Rogers is just now slowly recovering from a paralytic stroke brought about . by worry and grief over his vast losses. Mr. Rogers, for the first time in his predatory career now knows how the victims of the Rogers method feel. wire IS ITT The Oregonlan does not aspire to be numbered among the admirers of Car rie Nation. This, doubtless estimable, female exhibits asperities of temper and singularities of conduct which make fondness for her a difficult vir- 1 tue and which blight in their tender bud' the fragrant blooms of admira tion. Among her purpose probably the main one is to advertise herself. and if she does not love a fight for its own sake we are very much mistaken. Very likely she has counted the cost of her public performances and thinks it is not too much to pay for the fun she gets out of them. Police courts, rotten eggs and Jails are the spice of life to Carrie, we suppose. Existence would seem stale, fiat and unprofitable to her without them. Still, she is a human being and en titled to the same elementary rights as the rest of us. It is also to be said that the things she opposes, such as booze, cigarettes and gambling, are not esteemed very highly by decent people anywhere. ' Her methods of attack are spectacular, even unseem ly; but it is' only her methods which need correction. Her purpose, apart from its alloy of vanity, is good. Why, then, are the police so hard upon this woman? Why is she pun ished more severely for a merely for mal, constructive offense, than many of the vilest miscreants are for un speakable crimes? Carrie Nation is to spend seventy-five days in jail in Washington City for making an anti cigarette speech on the street. We imagine that the same court which sentenced her so heavily habitually lets off thugs, hoodlums and panders to vice with ten or twenty days. Is there a fellow feeling between our police machinery and the active ministers of vice? Does Carrie Na tion outrage this sympathy by her boldly outspoken diatribes, and is it in the spirit of revenge that the petty magistrates punish her more severely than they would any one else for an offense ten times as heinous? SENILE DEMENTIA. Supporting what is known as the "Osier doctrine," though without spe cial reference to it, is the annual re port of the Lunacy Commission of Great Britain, which shows first a dis quieting increase in the population of the insane of that kingdom, and fur ther that 38 per cent of last year's fresh cases of lunacy was due to senile dementia. Discussing this phase of the situation, one medical authority expressed the belief that "we live too long for the kind of work we do." It is held that the advanced medical and sanitary knowledge of today keeps 'a multitude of people alive whose minds are practically worn out. The present age demands more brain work and nerve strain than were demanded only a few years ago. There is less and less demand for people who can use only their hands. It is thus that the physical wear and tear have de creased while brain work and the strain on the nervous system have Increased. As a result, the mind dies first and the body zs Kept alive by medical science, thus adding to the list of senile dementia cases in insane asylums. This statement or diagnosis is sub mitted without sir; estion of a rem edy. It is plain that there can be but one remedy,, since medical science is not likely to return upon its traces, and that is the one so bluntly sug gested by Dr. Osier some months ago. As against senile dementia that creeping paralysis of the mind, due, as above held, to the heavy preponder ance of brain work over physical exer tion, the quietus suggested by Dr. Os ier would be vastly preferred by many if not most people. Of all' conditions (except only solitary confinement without work during the effective years of life), that of senile dementia covering a period of driveling years in an insane asylum, is the most dreadful to contemplate. RELLEF'IN THE Ml'Tl'ALS. The success of the six mutual fire insurance companies operating in this state offers excellent encouragement for ultimate release from the grip in which the fire insurance trust is hold ing the people of Oregon. The official figures compiled by Secretary of State Benson show that during the past eleven years the insurance trust has collected in Oregon nearly $9,000,000 more than the amount of losses paid and the total of premiums returned. This enormous amount of money has not only enabled the companies, oper ating with the trust, to realize large profits on its Oregon business, ' but it also enables them to have an excellent representation at Salem whenever any legislation affecting their interest ap pears. -Portland, being the largest city in the state, has, of course, afford ed the richest field for exploitation by the trust. Year after year we have improved our facilities for fire protection. New engines, more hydrants, more firemen, a new flreboat and other equipment have been added. A natural suppo sition might be that, with the contin ued additions of these facilities for fire protection,' some recognition or appre ciation in the way of reduced rates would be noticeable. It is, of course, unnecessary to state -that- losses by fire have been greatly reduced as newer and better equipment . has been added to our facilities for fire fighting. All this, however, has had no effect in reducing premiums, but on the contrary, either by a horizontal advance, such as followed the San Francisco earthquake, or by advances on .special classes of risks, the trust succeeds in extracting proportionately greater net profits than it realized when our sole protection against fire was vested, in an old hand-engine. For many years prior to the San Francisco earthquake and its attend ant conflagration the necessity of ac cumulating a large emergency fund was offered as an excuse for the ex cesslie premiums demanded. But when the "emergency" arose there was no apparent disposition to divert the fat profits of preceding years to meet it. Instead, Portland and all other Oregon policy-holders were forced to pay extra premiums to meet the ab normal losses. The success of the half dozen mutual fire insurance compa nies operating in this state, as shown in detail by figures printed in yester day's Oregonian, is so pronounced and unmistakable that there can be no doubt that a general 'xtension of the system to cover all, or most, classes of risks in the state would result in an enormous annual saving to t'.ie people of the state. As matters now stand, millions-of dollars which the trust is collecting from Oregon policy-holders is sent out of the state. . With a mutual company, policy holders would be provided with insur ance at cost. They would have the satisfaction of knowing that the less ened risk, due to installation of a new engine, or a flreboat, would redound to their profit, and not to that of some non-resident shareholder in an insur ance trust. REVIVAL OF THE WHALING INDUSTRY. There are indications that the whal ing industry of New Bedford will soon be galvanized into life and the "whal ing widow" become once more numer ous in that and other New England fishing harbors. The whaling brig Sullivan recently returned to that har bor, whence she sailed two and a quarter years ago, with 3300 barrels of oil and a commander, who reported that he had never before in his long experience in the whaling business seen so many whales, either in North or South Atlantic waters. His record shows that in five consecutive days the brig captured enough whales for a yield of 375 barrels of oil. Such results are reminders of the days of long ago in which fortunes were accumulated in the whaling in dustry and the hardy and frugal peo--pie of the Massachusetts coast lived and throve as seafaring folk content with their lot in life and accepting its hardships uncomplainingly. The men of this era were born to the sea and the women to the lot of the fish erman's wife. The difficulty in reviv ing the whaling business will be in finding men and women young, vig orous and willing to take the place of this vanished company of sturdy, patient tollers. Certainly from the standpoint of the landlubber there can be a no : -ore unattractive vocation than that which sends the boy to sea at ten or twelve years, and compels the man to leave his home and family two or three years at a time the for mer to return a man "grown out of his mother's knowledge" and the lat ter to find himself a stranger to the children that he left in the cradle and trundlebed. Yet there is a sort of romance con nected with the business; its history has r.iany touches of pathos and heart break, of unrequited toil and bitter hardship, albeit many a fine fortune had its beginnings in the malodorous cargo of a successful three years' whaling cruise in distant waters. And perhaps no greater Joy was ever felt than that of wives and- sweethearts and parent when, after a long cruise, the New Bedford whaling fleet was sighted at the entrance of the harbor. This feature of the whaling industry has passed into the shadowy realm of folk-lore; or, touched by the pen of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and that of other chroniclers of New .England tales, has taken the form of romance or tragedy. Or oftener still has lapsed into silence with the passing of its heroines. It was merely a side issue in a strenuous, profitable industry, and its possible repetition is not taken into account when the prospect ' that the whaling industry will be revived is announced. The basis for this proph ecy is found in the report of the cruise above noted, and the fact that during the first week in September two barks and a schooner bound ror the South Atlantic, where whales are said to be disporting in shoals, sailed from New Bedford. , The appeal made by Mr. A. L. Mills, president : the' Open-Air Sanitarium Board, for public contributions to carry on the work should have weight with humane and philanthropic per sons of the city and state. The work that has been and is being done at this retreat for consumptives is both gen erous and valuable, and it should not be allowed to suffer from lack of funds. Its finances are managed care fully, and no expense is Incurred hat is not for the " betterment of the in stitution and the comfort and care looking to their recovery of the pa tients. Not all who seek the balm of its healing are cured; not all, indeed, are helped, since in pale desperation many seek relief in its treatment who are beyond all earthly aid. But a large proportion of its patients are dis tinctly benefited and many are re turned to their homes and business, to all appearance, at least, cured, and with knowledge that will enable them to keep the destroyer at bay. This is the record this the work. The in stitution ir worthy of adequate 'sup port. Fifteen steamships flying foreign flags are under charter to the United States Government to bring coal from Atlantic Coast ports to the Pacific Coast, and already eight of them have been chartered to carry return cargoes of Oregon grain to Europe. Of course the Government violated the law by chartering these foreign steamers for a coastwise trip, but as money was saved and the Oregon farmers were afforded cheap tonnage for carrying their wheat to market, the transaction was highly beneficial to all concerned. Some day returning reason will force our statesmen to repeal the present idiotic restrictive navigation laws and permit a private citizen to charter tonnage at as low a rate as it is char tered by the Government in violation of a very bad law. It is hard on our reverential ideas of protection and ship-subsidy graft, eut It Is sound business doctrine, and eventually we must adopt it or be left in the race for trade supremacy. The wheat market scored another sensational advance yesterday, not alone in Chicago, but throughout the world's markets. The Indifference of the foreign markets to the decrees of the American Society of Equity was shown in an advance of nearly 3 cents per bushel in the Liverpool and Lon don markets, while in this country, where the Society of Equity is making such strenuous efforts to advance prices, the total gain was a fraction less than 2 cents per bushel. Tho sit uation throughout the world is strong, and if anything serious should happen to the coming Argentine crop within the next sixty days it would be difficult to predict the top figure to be scored. Meanwhile the farmers of the Pacific Northwest are taking no chances on a decline, but are unloading their hold ings to better advantage than in a-ny previous big-crop season on record. The Seattle Socialists, who are so fond of exhibiting their ability as jaw smiths that they are willing to go to jail rather than cease obstructing the streets, should take on a side line of pale pills or some other elixir of life. Then by the payment or a small fee they could carry on their street harangues unmolested. Unfortunately, the accumulation of money by any method seems to be so abhorrent to most of the street-talking Socialists that they can hardly be expected to attempt anything that would bring torth the coin of the realm. Wealth and prosperity to a certain class of Socialists would be as distasteful as they were to the Populists who kept In "the middle of the road" about ten years ago. The rain of the first part of the week proved a blessing to the State Fair. The grounds were In a fine con dition and the cool bracing air made the outing an ideal one for the thou sands who attended, while properly equipped campers, cfter the two first mornings, were as comfortable as they would have been in their own homes. Taken as a whole, the State Fair was a success, and its managers are well entitled to the congratulations that they receive on every hand. The rumor that one Henry McBride, of Seattle, had joined the "Down-and-Out Club" seems to nave been prema ture, and the figure of the ex-Governor is looming large on the political horizon of the Evergreen State. If McBride yields to the demands of his friends and abandons his law practice for another shy at the Governorship, Washington is certain to witness a most spectacular political campaign next year. A single fir tree cut near Raymond, Wash., a few days ago, yielded three logs which scaled nearly 45,000 feet, the market value of the lumber there from being $425. At this rate some of the quarter sections of timber land which have been selling as high as $50 per acre do not appear to have brought exorbitant prices. Cashier Morris has "explained" the Golden Eagle's overdraft. Now, how did It get to be $21,000 without the bank's onsent? Having reached that sum, why didn't the bank write it off instead of waiting for it to grow to $94,000? The docking of the Lusitanla, after her record-breaking run across the Atlantic, was a great occasion in Man hattan, though it is said that "several grown-ups and over a dozen small boys by some oversight missed it. From London comes authentic news that fashionable women will return to the murderous small corset a lament able waste of health for a small waist. With a Grays Harbor schoolteacher breaking his leg at football this week, the season may be said to have start ed in early. : Motto of modern Portland banking: The less character and property a bor rower has, the larger his line of credit. Probably Broadway was as strange a sight to Ezra Meeker and his ox team as they were to Broadway. Be it remembered that for once in many years the weather favored the State Fair. WAS HARRISON A COLD MAXr Two Anecdotes That Show the Late Prdeut' Warm Nature. New York Sun. Washington still remembers Presi dent Harrison In connection with at least two notable' events during his all too brief administration,. When the fire occurred In the residence of his Secretary of the Navy, the Hon. Benja min F. Tracy, Mr. Harrison walked out of his residence, then the executive mansion, now the White F je, alone and Inspired only by a neighbor's pity and aiteclion. He had no secret serivce men with him, ' no janissaries, no marksmen on assorted bicycles. The scorched and tortured' bodies of Mrs. Tracy and her daughter were sent to the White House and the still breath ing form of the Secretary was borne on a litter to the same friendly refuge. Benjamin Harrison walked behind his friend's unconscious form, holding in warm grasp an almost pulseless hand, and passersby at that central point Farragut Park and at mat crowded hour of about 8:30 or 9 A. M., saw the chief executive of the great -t nation in the world stumbling along at the side of a forlorn pageant; with tear stained cheeks and miserable mein. Again, when his Secretary of the Treas ury, Mr. Windom, fell dead at a ban quet in this town, and when President Harrison heard of It through the White House machinery of quick communi cation, he bethought himself this "un emotional" and "unsympathetic" mon ster that the suddenly created widow was one of a merry and hilarious party at one of the Cabinet residences of the day. The hour was late, and the cir cumstances most embarrassing and difficult, but Benjamin Harrison had himself driven to the door oi lue house of gayety, seut in for the bereaved woman, arid while on the way to her desolated home told her the dreadful news as best he could. Without enthusiasm. unemotional, unsympathetic! And all this because he did not wear a pose upon his sleeve and ask the mob to contemplate it. THE LONG "A" IN LVSITANIA. New Ship's Name to Be Pronounced no as to Rhyme With Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Record. The first trip of the Lusitanla has aroused no little discussion as to the pronunciation of the ship's name, many well-versed speakers insisting on giving it the sound of Lusitannla, to rhyme with Britannia. Americans, however, should have no difficulty with this fine old Latin word, as its "a" is sounded like the "a" In "fate," and the name rhymes correctly with our own Pennsylvania. Campania, Lucanla and all other words with the single "n" are similarly pronounced. Lusitanla was a province of ancient Spain, then itself styled Hispania. This province corresponded pretty nearly to modern Portugal, and Is now used. Indeed, as a political synonym of the present Portugal. Lusitanla has long been famous for Its grapes, and readers of Tennyson will recall the poet's use of the name in his "Lyrical Monologue," written at the Cock tavern, his favorite London re treat. The first stanza runs: O plump head waiter at The Coat To which I must resort. How goes the time? 'Tls 5 o'clock. Go fetch a pint of port; But let it not be such as that You sot before chance-comers: But such whose father grape grew fat On Lusltanlan Summers. A knot, or nautical mile, is consider ably more than a land mile; to be ex tct, about 267 yards more, or roughly, every seven knots are equal to almost eight miles. It means that the Lusi tanla has a speed of about 30 miles an hour, and as few of the ordinary suburban trains exceed that rate of speed, It gives a vivid and graphic Idea of the great ship's progress. APPLE PRICES OF LONG AGO. How I). II. Ln-n-nsdule Realised $21 Per Box for Culifornta Shipment. LAFAYETTE, Or., Sept. 18. (To the Editor.) It is interesting, if not very instructive, to follow the successive claims of record prices in the different apple-growing sections of the state, and the comments of The Oregonian upon the recent sale by a Hood River gentleman of a portion of his crop at $8 per box were exceedingly appro priate. The early history of apple growing in Oregon is replete with even higher records than those noted, though it would perhaps be of little moment at this time to cite the many instances. The sale of apples at $8 per box Is a noteworthy event and should be chronicled with pride, but it is by no means a record transaction. All horticulturists in Oregon know of the fabulous prices obtained by the pioneer apple planters. The Llewellings, the Stevenses, the Wallings and many other3 of early fame were the record producers. Three boxes of apples sent to California in the early '53a by D. H. Lownsdale netted him $G3, or $21 per box." It is -a significant fact, that all the apples of pioneer days all these record apples were produced in the Willamette Valley. The Oregon pioneers undertook the planting of ap ples at a very early date and the lus cious quality of their fruit brought them the real "record" prices and their Willamette Valley the name of the "land of big red apples." M. O. LOWXSDALDE. Twin Children Mixed In a Bath. London Mail. An amusing story of the mixing of twin children in a bath, so that their identity became confused, ras told before the magistrates at Chatham, when a man named Philip Barling, of Rainham road, was summoned for not having his child Archie vaccinated. The defendant did not appear, and the proseecuting solicitor said that a letter had been received from the defendant stating that his child was dead. Archie was a twin child, the other being named Cyril. Inquiries were made, and the reg ister f deaths showed that it was Cyril who was dead. The defendant then ex plained that the children got mixed in the bath, and the ribbons tied upon them were changed, but it was really Archie who died and was buried at Maidstone. The bench made an order for the vac cination of Archie. A Matinee Idol In Love. New York Herald. Jean Gerardy, the famous Belgian vio linist, will marry Miss Baba MacQuade, a rich young artist of Australia, noted for her beauty. Gerardy will make a tour in America this season. THE GOLDEN AGE. 'Tls writ in magic pages. 'Tls told by bards and sages. That brighter skies And bluer eyes Were known in vanished ages. 1 The rose it grew no thorn then. Poor man knew not to mourn then. The greed and Crimea Of these dull times To blight -and blast weren't born then. The world was free from error. All things were richer, rarer. From Nature's face Shone forth a grace Diviner far and fairer. The vows of maids were truer: And broken hearts were fewer. All this and more The days of yore Saw when the world was newer. O Time! turn back the hours; Give us again the flowers . That blossomed there In purer air 'Neath other, kinder powers. HARRY MURPHY. THE NATIONAL GUARD. The matter that is just at this time receiving the widest attention among Na tional Guardsmen is. a proposed Nationtl enactment creating a National Reserve ! Army in substitution for the present sys tem of National Guards. The plan is already embodied in a bill for presenta tion to Congress, and is championed by no less a person than the Secretary of War, Mr. Taft. The . change would be a radical one from the present system. The most pro nounced change would be that of putting all members of the reserve army on half pay during time of inactivity, with full pay In time of encampments, camps of Instruction and actual service. At the present time Guardsmen are not liable for Federal duty and cannot be called out of the state in which they are assigned. In order to get a militia or ganization into action against a National enemy It is necessary for each man to volunteer his service and be formally re enlisted. Under the new system the Guardsmen would have to answer the call to arms Just as Imperatively as dees the Regular Army now. The Guard or Reserve Army would be -liable for any and all kinds of service, and at the call of the Federal Government at all times. The plan for providing half pay is gen erally regarded as a logical one. That would make the service more binding. Rules as regards drill attendance could be more rigidly enforced, and the disci pline would be more exacting. In fact the requirements generally could be made stricter for enlisted men and officers alike. At the present time the man who belongs to the National Guard does so at a financial loss to himself. Officers are required to buy their uniforms and equipment, and they are in no way re imbursed for this expenditure, except during service, when they receive reg ular army pay. The enlisted men re ceive their uniforms and equipment, but nothing more. In event of trial for failure to attnd drill they must pay the fine imposed by a delinquency court out of their own pockets. The proposed National Reserve plan was made public by Mr. Taft during a recent visit to Kentucky. He said at the time that he favors this system of building up a National defense, and be lieved it effective and relatively inexpen sive. The National Cuard at present ex ists under the Dick bill, which ceases to be operative about the first of the year, after having been In effect five years. Mr. Taft is quoted in a Wash ington. D. C, interview as havlne- said the National Reserve plan might be sub- ! stiiutea upon the expiration of the Dick bill. The plan is thoroughly favored by lo cal Guardsmen. The showing made by the Oregon in fantry team at the National rifle tourna ment on Lake Erie last month is a mat ter of general felicitation In Guard cir cles. Seventeenth place was a position to be envied when it is considered that there were 48 competing teams, and that every man there was an expert rifleman. Oregon finished ahead of several of the country's crack teams. Members of the team are beginning to drop back home, one at a time. They report that the tournament was one of the most bitterly contested of any yet held. Not a few of the teams were on the range many weeks in advance of the opening of the contests. In this way they were able to study the conditions prevailing on the Ohio range, and it is a matter of record that the knowledge of atmospheric peculiarities in any given vicinity is altogether necessary in suc cessful markmanship over long ranges. ' The Oregonians gt. there about a week before the first event, and put In several days of preliminary practice. The weather conditions were found to be most baffling, seeming to require a whole weather bureau to keep account of the wind and temperature, which changed with every minute. A 6 o'clock wind at one instant and a 10 o'clock wind half a second later was by no means a rare occurrence. Asidefrom taking 17th place In the National match the Roseburg men captured sixth place in the regimental skirmish contest, while the K company men, of Portland, took tenth place in the same competition. Both teams finished ahead of the Regular Army marksmen. ' r?Z?lian Ha,mmon' ' of Eugene, and Captain Hamlin, of Roseburg, have been promoted to the rank of Major, for serv ice with the new Fourth Oregon Infantry. Both officers have had wide military ex perience and are fully qualified to com mand battalions. Captain Hamlin, who is Superintendent of Schools at Rose burg. commanded a company in the Phil ippines during the trouble of 1898 while Captain Hammond was a non-commissioned officer In the First Nebraska Vol unteer Infantry. Company drills have been generally re sumed and good attendance is noted throughout both the Third and Fourth regiments. The Third Infantry is getting ready for quarterly inspection, which occurs on the night of September 26. There will be in spection muster and review. The regi ment will turn out In field uniform. The usual military dance following the cere monies will probably be dispensed with owing to the condition of the ballroom, where a gymnasium is being installed The success of the picked American rifleteam in the competition against Ca nadian and English riflemen for the Palma Trophy, Is a source of great sat isfaction in army and National Guard circles. In connection with the return of the team from the scene of victory the New York World has an amusing' al though not altogether pleasant story of the riflemen's experience In meeting President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. It seems that the President's secretary, Mr. Loeb. was advised to meet the riflemen with autos and convey them to meet the President. Arriving at Oyster Bay, the marksmen found no autos awaiting them and after waiting in vain half an hour for the vehicles to show up, telephoned to Loeb's headquarters only to learn that he had taken the army auto intended for the riflemen and had gone out for a pleasure trip of his own. the World says. Then General Drain, who used to be Adjutant-General over in Washington and is well known among local Guards men, negotiated with haekmen and paid J20 to have the team taken to Sagamore Hill. As their visit had been scheduled and they were late In meeting the Presi dent, the meeting necessarily had to be cut short and all because, as the World says, someone blundered badly. "Bob"1 Evans' New KlKlitlng Mood. N. Y. Dispatch in Phlla. North American. Details of an acrimonious correspond ence between Rear Vdmlral Robley D. Evans, United States Navy, and Barton Myers, a member of the board of gover nors of the Jamestown Exposition, are published in the Army and Navy Journal. Mr. Myers in a letter attacked the Ad miral because a service paper declared the Navy was being used to advertise the exposition for the Benefit of money grabbers. Rear-Admiral Evans then sent to Mr. Myers a note, in which he wanted to know If that gentleman was correctly quoted. Mr. Myers replied to Admiral Evans, saying that he wrote the letter about 2H months ago. The Admiral then landed, but declared Myers was imperti nent. Insolent and promised to deal with him in the future. Onn for His Mother-la-Lsw, Kansas City Dispatch. A man asked the police of Kansas City to allow him to carry a revolver on the ground that his mother-tn-law, who is about to pay him a six months' visit, has "peculiar ways." IN THE MAGAZINE SECTION OF THE OREGONIAN TOMORROW u M . 5 i ftrf tttf -r - --- 1 OFF THE MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER Full page half-tone of a ma rine view, including a vessel at anchor one of the best things ever turned out by the Sunday Oregonian 's art department. PHOTOGRAPHING TOUR OF CLATSOP BEACH One day's work of au ama teur photographer at Seaside, whose results were children just Oregon children of the most interesting sort, at work and play. FRANCIS RICHTER PRAISED BY A MASTER Mrs. Alma A. Rogers writes from Vienna of the blind Port land boy's playing before tLe great Leschetisky a story of large human interest to the average reader, but particularly to lovers of music. "BROKE" AMERICANS GETTING ON IN EUROPE ' Dexter Marshall contributes from Paris a readable tale of how stranded Yankees use their intellect to earn money. BREAKING UP THE "BLACK HAND" Pennsylvania's unique con stabulary the only agency of the law equal to checking this dis reputable band. PROOF OF AN INHABITED MARS Theory that our neighbors on the planet are calling us by wireless, thrills the world of science. EGYPT'S DRY FARMING SECRETS REDISCOVERED And by an American. Camp ell, of Nebraska, is the man. His system promises to re claim millions of acres in arid Oregon. AMERICAN COLLEGE IN UPPER EGYPT Frank Carpenter tells of 700 boys taught by United States professors and forced to play' football. PLANTING JEWS IN A YANKEE CANAAN How persecuted Russians are brought to this country through the Galveston gateway and find useful work. SWINDLERS WORKING WAGE EARNERS Signed article by John Mitch ell, president of the United Mine Workers of America, warning his fellow workers about investing their savings. Order from your news dealer today. WHO IS THIS GREAT POSTI'ONEKr This Administration Has Mode a Rec ord of Doing Thing. New York Evening Post (Dem.). "The Great Postponer" was what Mr. Bryan called Secretary Taft in his Oklahoma City speech. To those wno hold the orthodox view of the present Administration and its activities, the term must seem absurd. It Is famous to the ends of the world for "doing things." for opening the door to Op portunity's knock,' or, if Opportunity fails to knock, running out In the street to collar that abstract personage. Un doubtedly, a good name of this sort Is hard to lose. The President could prob ably sit till the end of his term with folded hands and not lose his popular reputation as a man of action. Taft, who Is his official mouthpiece, is re garded ex officio in the same way. This reputation is borne out by the historical fact that the present Repub lican Administration has never or practically never, advocated the in definite or even long postponement of any issue. Tariff revision, as a Repub lican measure, began to be talked of seriously about 1902 and 903. The "Iowa idea" saw the light at that time. Representative Babcock, Chairman of the Republican Congressional Cam paign Committee, declared In the Spring of 1903 that he rega.ded tne Fifty-eighth Congress the one which was elected In 1902 and convened In the Fall of 1903 as "pledged to a re vision of the tariff." Mr. Baocock was not the official spokesman of the Ad ministration. That title goes with the war portfolio. ' Lltthtnlng Burn Feathers of Geeaa. Kansas City Times. Lightning at Middletown, Mo., killed six big geese, burning the feathers completely from tueir bodies. m i Trouble. A tramp, a jug of liquor. A nook among the has; A harmless combination. On a perfect Summer day. But note the quick transition. To the pit which habit dug: Now the whisky's in the hobo. And the hobo's In the Jug. Lead a. Hand. (PenUeotiai-.