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THE ' MORNING . OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1903.
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your local bank.' stamps, coin or currency
are at the Bonder-. rls. Give poaiofflc ad
dress in lull, including; county and. stats.
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PORTLAND. THURSDAY. JAN. 16, 1908.
NOW BUSINESS, NOT BLUSTER.
Portland Is Portland, not Astoria.
The people of Portland are buUdlng
a city at Portland, not at Astoria. But
they have not the slightest feeling of
opposition to Astoria; no animosity
whatever. They who may want to
build a city at Astoria may build' a
city there; and good luck to them.
Put the people of Portland are build
ing a city here. They have met with
some measure of success. The busi
ness of the great Valley of the Co
lumbia River centers here. It began
sixty years ago. Nature started it.
The growing energy of Portland has
supported and developed It. Portland
takes it upon herself, as a duty, to
increase the effort In this direction,
from year to year. On this basis the
Port of Portland has been created,
and has been pushing- its Work from
year to year. It will push the work
more and more, the stronger the city
grows.
The Oregonian doesn't take it upon
itself to say whether the Daily As
torlan represents Astoria, or not. But
for the present we shall deal with the
subject as if the paper were the rep
resentative' of the city. An article in
full from that paper, "Day of Reprisal
at Hand." appears today on this page
of The Oregonian. A few words may
be said about it.
We may smile at the proposal to
compel Portland to transfer its ener
gies to Astoria and do business there,
and at the covert threat of boycott, if
Portland shall refuse. Without any
purpose or effort to injure Astoria,
Portland will do business in tier own
way. Portland will do business at
Portland. She will transfer her busi
ness neither to Astoria nor to Puget
Sound. It is silly to suppose that she
will think of doing either, Portland
will continue her work on the river
channels; she will take charge rr di
rection of pilotage arl towage on the
rivers and on the bar. She will pur
sue her policy of removing obstacles
to navigation on the river and on the
bar, and Will not ask the help of As
toria, nor even her consent. The new
proposition to be laid before the peo
pie of Portland, by initiative act, is
for Portland alone. Astoria is not in
eluded., It needn't concern her. Port
land simply Intends to do business
herself; but of course without slight
cat animosity towards Astoria. In this
business Portland will not ask for a
single dollar of Astoria's money. The
amount would be too small to be
worth considering anyhow. It would
be a negligible sum.
Portland, as the chief city of the
Columbia Basin, is working out her
own destiny. Astoria may work out
hers. But the threat of "reprisal"
from Astoria Is puerile. Portland
makes no such threat. She accepts
the duty of her position and will per
form It. She will Improve the chan
ncjs and continue the work of !m
provenient. She will push measures
for improvement of pilotage and tow
age to and from the sea. Since As
toria will not help In this business, she
may share the results without cost to
her. and shall be welcome to them.
our people Intend to give Increased
power to the Port of Portland and" re
quire It to do Its work. We shall 'go
to tlfe Legislature for further author
ity and power so as to gain better
timtrol or direction over pilotage and
towage on the bar and river and
shall get It. There has been dawdling
enough with this business. But there
is not the slightest Ill-will towards As
lorla in these purposes. Were the
matter Important enough we should
beg the Astorian to bethink Itself that
blatancy and minatory expressions are
nothing. We are not going to boycott
each other nor maki reprisals on each
other. We are simply going on, each
and , all of us, about our business.
Portland will not quit the ocean.
Portland will not accept the dictum
that business with the ocean shall not
be done above Astoria; yet Portland
concedes, of course, that Astoria and
every other town within reach of the
ocean or from the ocean may do all
the maritime business it can.
BY THEIR FRUIT YE SHALL KNOW
THEM.
The apples exhibited by the State
Horticultural Society reveal the char
acter of the men who produced them.
They are the result of intelligent se
lection, which Is something very dif
ferent from natural selection. Nat
ural selection is a blind, .purposeless
process which ends in the -crab and
thorn. Intelligent selection ends In
the Ortley and Newton, with better
yet to come. It implies, first of all,
Intelligence in the culturist.
Intelligence acting insistently, pa
tiently, relentlessly, has produced the.
Hood River, apple. Given the same
factors elsewhere and they will lead
to similar results. "It is not in our
situation, but in ourselves," that we
send little, wormy, scaly apples to
market instead of that fruit of para
dise to which the Horticultural Soci
ety "awards its prizes.
Horticulture has become an exact
science. Its practice requires a study
as long and thorough as law or medi
cine. Intellectually It Is on a level
with any of the learned professions.
The apple-grower can foretell the se
quence of cause and effect in his or
chard more accurately than the physt-
clan in the hospital. He has com
plex, difficult problems to deal with.
and their solution stimulates all the
faculties of his mind. He is a man of
exact thought, of bold initiative, of
careful experiment. Everybody who
attends the sessions of the Horticul
tural Society remarks upon the keen
eyes, the upright forms, the alert
features, of the members. They are
men of reading; they have exercised
their minds upon large questions;
They have attained great results.
Their product Is not only a material
triumph, inasmuch as it means com
fort and economic independence to
thousands of people, but it is also a
work of art. The Oregon apple Is a
thing of incomparable beauty. There
is no other fruit that begins to rival It
In color, form, fragrance. The men
who eat such fruit ought to derive
from it noble qualities. They ought
to be statesmen and heroes, and we
have no doubt they are.
Intelligence, patience, organization.
These are the watchwords of the fruit
grower. Organization is as important
as either of the others. Every little
group of apple or walnut growers
should band themselves closely to
gether both for offense and defense.
They must wage active war against
the slovenly orchardlst and the preda
tory hordes of pests which he shelters.
They must defend their trees against
an innumerable multitude of visible
and Invisible robbers. Almost as In
teresting as the apples themselves is
the exhibit of implements of warfare
against their enemies. But this war.
like every other, is ineffectual without
organized action. The guerrilla fruit
grower Is as. weak as the guerrilla sol
dier. It is the solid array of the
united army that wins victories.
FAULT IN THE LAWS.
It is undoubtedly true that a large
part of the criticism ' which has been
directed against court decisions re
cently in this and nearly every other
state Is due as much to faulty and an
tiquated statutes as to failure of the
court truly to interpret the laws. In
a great many instances where the
judges have made rulings which
turned guilty men free, the rulings
were strictly within the letter, and
even the spirit of the statutes govern
ing indictments, introduction' of evi
dence and other proceedings at trial
and on appeal. Lawyers search for
nice technicalities and magnify their
Importance. Judges are bound to fol
low the law, and In striving to follow
It strictly they have built up a system
of precedents which make the techni
calities available for defendants who
may have no defense upon the merits
of their cases. The tendency of the
law and df practice is toward greater
technicality rather than toward a
hearing and decision upon the merits.
That this condition has come to ex
ist is unquestionably due to the aver
sion of lawyers to innovations. Law
yers constitute the most effective por
tion of our Legislatures.- Judiciary
committees and committees on revis
ion of laws in the Legislature are
made up entirely of attorneys, and be
fore these committees all bills for the
Improvement of our system of juris
prudence must go. It is in these com
mittees that bills designed to effect
reforms In our practice meet their
death. As an instance of this, let a
case be cited that arose in the last
session of the Oregon Legislature.
Senator Beach Introduced a bill which
had for Its purpose a revision of the
law concerning the duties of the Su
preme Court in deciding appealed
cases. That bill was as follows:
No judgment In any action at law, either
civil or. criminal, shall be reversed; nor shall
any new trial he granted therein, by the Su
preme Court of this elate. unless It shall be
-made to appear to such court.
First That material legal error waa com
mitted by the court from which the appeal
ww taken and that such error was really pre-
Judicial- to a substantial right of the appel
lant; and .
Second That upon the whole case, a pre
sented to the Supreme Court, that court is
satisfied that the Judgment appealed from Is
wrong and that the action ought to have re
sulted In a different Judgment.
On recommendation of the commit
tee on revision of laws the bill was
indefinitely postponed. Possibly the
bill was open to some technical ob
jections. Perhaps It did not entirely
harmonize with some other provisions
of the statutes. But it would seem to
the layman that its purpose was right
and that good would have resulted
from the passage of the bill in sub
stantially the form it was Introduced.
It could have been changed. If neces
sary, to harmonize with other provis
ions, but If It had been passed there is
little doubt that in the future the Su
preme Court would be less bound by
technicalities than it is at present.
As an instance in which the law ne
cessitates dismissal without a hearing
upon the merits may be cited the case
mentioned In these columns Monday,
in which an indictment alleged that a
plaintiff in a divorce suit had made
an affidavit that the complaint wad
true, whereas the evidence offered was
.that he made affidavit that the com
plaint was true as he verily believed.
The evidence was rejected, and pre
sumably the ruling was In accordance
with law. But in a case of that kind,
where the defendant could not pcssi-
bly have been misled as to the charge
against him, it would seem to a" lay
man that, the law should not only per
mit but require an amendment Of the
indictment to correspond with th
facts, and then let the trial proceed
upon the merits. No ' injury to the
rights of the defendant could result
from auch an amendment of an. in
dictment. Where the same act or of
fense is covered by the amended in
dictment as by the one filed in the fir3t
Instance, m and the defendant knows
that It Is the same act, he cannot have
suffered any wrong. His right is to a
trial upon the merits, and this should
be guaranteed him. . Tet if an attempt
should be made to pass a bill in the
Legislature permitting and requiring
an amendment of a defective indict
ment when the defect has been dis
covered, undoubtedly the judiciary
committee in the Legislature would
send It "o Iie raveyaid by Indeftnita
postponement.
In the meantime judges are getting
much of the criticism that should fall
upon our system of laws . governing,
court procedure. .
SIGN THE FKTITION.
The new Port of Portland measure.
for which a referendum petition will
be in circulation today or tomorrow,
is of vital interest to the shipping
prestige of the Columbia River. The
Coming to Portland of the Hill sys
tem and the extension of the Harrl-
man lines to Puget Sound have forced
readjustment of transportation chan
nels throughout the Columbia Basin.
The tonnage coming down through
the Columbia Gorge will be more than
.doubled as soon as 'he North Bank
line is completed into Portland. Ad
justment of conditions which will fol
low this approaching crisis in our
commercial history will be permanent,
or more nearly permanent than any
thing that has been done in the past.
Prior to beginning work on the Co
lumbia bar we were forced to pay for
freight on our wheat to .Europe 10
shillings more than was paid from San
Francisco. As a result, most of the
crop was sent to San -Francisco in
coasters for trans-shipment, and that
which was shipped direct was ! sent
out at very heavy cost to the produc
ers. The heavy differential In favor of
San Francisco, and. the advent of Pu
get Sound in the grain-shipping busi
ness, forced Portland Into activity,
and our present twenty-six-foot chan
nel to the sea is the result. But at
that early period the movements of
trade were unsettled and erratic, and
the clearly ".defined ' grooves ... into
which trade might settle were not ap
parent as they are todty. Now there
Is nothing theoretical about wha may
happen. We are facing a condition
that cannot be evaded, nor can action
with safety be postponed. We must
not only deepen our river to meet the
demands of an increasing commerce,
but we must be in position to afford
shipping the best possible tug and
pilot service at exactly the same cost
at which It can be secured In ports
with 'which we are in competition.- "
The proposed enlargement of the
powers of the Port of Portland will
enable us to accomplish the end
sought, and will also enable us to
maintain our position regardless of
the efforts of competitors. Every
voter In the city should regard it as a
personal duty to sign the petition at
the earliest possible moment. Do
not wait for solicitation of your sig
nature, but go to the nearest place
where a petition Is available and sign,
at once. -
NOT STRICTLY DISINTERESTED.
Commodore Spreckels, owner of a
fleet of high-priced ships' which he
formerly operated on. the Australian
route. Is also owner of the San Fran
cisco Call. His steamers were defi
cient in speed requirements, enori
mously expensive to operate, and were
about as near to being all-around fail
ures as any craft that ever steamed
Into the Pacific. They received a fair
ly liberal mail subsidy from the Gov
ernment, but even with that assistance
could not make expenses on the route
and were withdrawn. These facts may
acctmnt .In part for the consistent at
titude of the Call In demanding a ship
subsidy, although a subsidy that
could make profitable ventures out of
the Spreckels fleet would need be
greater than any yet suggested In re
cent measures before Congress. In
commenting on the nepessity for a
merchant marine In time of war the
Call says:
As things are. when the United States needs
auxiliary ships- we are compelled to charter
foreign bottoms. We could not do that In
time of war. It would be a humiliating con
tingency to see a fleet costing $100,000,000 tied
up and Impossible of mobilization' for want of
the necessary attendance of American col
liers and supply ships. The policy of Great
Britain. Japan and Germany Is widely dif
ferent in this regard and the recent victories
of the two former nations were .largely due
to this foresight.
The Call is correct In stating that
"the policy of Great Britain, Japan
and Germany is widely different In
this regard." Either one or all of .the
countries mentioned would display
no 'hesitancy about going out in the
open market and buying a fleet of col
liers ample for all purposes, and the
patrlotlp citizens who pay the. bills.
Instead of setting up a howl about the
alleged violation of the sacred doctrine
of protection, would welcome the new
purchases under the flag, which they
would henceforth fly.
It is unnecessary for us to borrow
trouble over possible "humiliation" in
time of war through possible lack of
colliers. "In time of war" emergen
cies arise," and in twenty-four hours
the American Government could buy
all the ships needed, because - In
"emergencies" the American Govern
ment Is permitted to exercise the
same degree of business sense that
other governments display both In
war and peace.
This was done to a certain extent
during the late Spanish War. TJnfor
- tunately for the fleet, the Quartermas
ter's Department did not get around to
buying good foreign-built ships until
after it had picked up every. old ma
rine gold brick that our own patriotic!
citizens wanted to foist on the Govern
ment. The foreign vessels bought
during the Spanish War cost less and
were worth more than the American
vessels. Had Mr. Spreckels been per
mitted to build his Sierra, Sonpraa and
Ventura in a foreign yard, and enroll
them under the American flag, they
would undoubtedly be in operation to
day, and his desire for a ship subsidy
would be less pronounced.
Supply and demand In the railroad
world have suffered a reverse, and. In
stead of' a car shortage facing the
Shippers, it is a traffic shortage that is
bothering the railroads. According to
the car service " committee of the
American Railway Association, 206,
800 freight cars are in idleness at the
present time, and the total 'shortage
on all the roads in -the country is but
774 cars. The amount of idle capital
represented by this equipment is more
than $120,000,000.. A protracted sea
son of this car surplus ought to dem
onstrate whether or not there is a
profit, in hauling lumber at 40 cents
per hundred. If the business has been
killed by an exorbitant . freight rate,
the presence of a few thousand idle
cars on the track would soon have the
effect of bringing it back to life. Rail
road men may make mistakes, but as
a rule they hasten to correct them as
soon as they notice a loss of business
on which there is a profit.
That the American people as a
whole wore better clothes and had
more changes of raiment last year
than in any other year in the Nation's
history is fully attested by the reports
of textile industries and of the impor
tation of goods manufactured abroad
during the year. For example, fig
ures compiled by the Silk Association
of America show that the silk imports
for the last three months of this ban
ner year In prosperity amounted ln
valueto a total of $1,970,033 more than
during the corresponding period of
1906. This, in view of the largely in
creased output of American silk mills
and of the fact that cotton fabrics In
unprecedented bulk, manufactured In
close imitation of silks, were sold,
while dainty and high-priced-woolens
and deftly woven mixtures of silks,
woolens and cottons moved quickly
and In large quantities from manufac
turer to consumer through ordinary
proeesses of trade throughout the
year, complete the presentment of an
unusually well-clad people and a year
of unexampled prosperity to laborers,
manufacturers and tradespeople. . ,
In his very interesting annual mes
sage Mayor Wise, of Astoria, points
with pardonable pride to the fact that
in. closing the town to the gamblers.
who formerly robbed the fishermen
undar protection from the law, there
was no sacrifice in city revenues.
Gambling and the dancehall business
had come to be regarded as legitimate
industries in the city by the sea when,
at the beginning of Mayor Wise's sec
ond term, a halt was called and a de
termined and successful effort made to
Improve the moral tone of the city.
Both of these' evils, which had flour-:
ished In Astoria since the earliest. days
of the fishing industries, were ban
ished, and, as the Mayor says in his
message, "the earth has continued to
revolve, the sun has not ceased to
shine, and the City of Astoria still
lives, an independent, prosperous mu
nicipality." There was less crime
and less poverty than when the town
was open, and accordingly less ex
pense to be met, the saving more than
making up for any lost revenues. from
vice.
Professor Paul Milyoukov traveled
5000 miles for the purpose of making
one speech in New York. He an
nounces that all he sought on this
side of the ocean was human sympa
thy. He can get that in almost any
quantity desired, even in hardened
New Tork, providing no attempt is
made to convert It into cash. Unfor
tunately for the oppressed Russians,
human syjnpathy will not ward oft the
bullets, of the soldiers nor provide
much of a fighting fund for ther op
pressed people who would like, to
throw off the yoke.
A Marshfleld man who has been In
dorsed for a Federal position in Idaho
has quit his private employment -in
anticipation of accepting the public
service. Better not be too hasty about
giving up a good job. An Indorsement
by a Congressional delegation isn't
what it used to be.
Recent successful' burglaries and
hold-ups on the Pacific Coast Indicate
an influx of apprentice criminals who
have Invaded this field under the be
lief that the police of every city from
San Diego to Seattle are not to be
feared. This estimate includes Port
land. The President has signed a procla
mation releasing over 130.000 acres of
land from the Blue Mountain forest
reserve. Here is a splendid chance
for some of the people who asserted
that the forest reserve retarded home
building. File early and avoid the
rush.
-San Francisco announces to the
world that she has succeeded in erad
icating the bubonic plague. She Is
still wrestling with Ruef, Schmitz et
al., and the first attempt at fumiga
tion does not appear to have affected
the germs. -
Catching a big thief with the money
in his possession and proving how he
got it lsan Immaterial and Irrelevant
proceeding these days. It is the law,
and not the facts, that determines a
man's innocence. ,.
Top price of creamery butter in Chi
cago, 29 cents; Portland, 37 cents.
Cows in Illinois kept In stables to keep
them warm. Grass green in Oregon.
What's thp matter with Oregon as-a
dairy state? ;
The fruitgrowers who are being en
tertained in Portland are a wise and
useful lot' of grafters. They turn
worthless seedlings into tempting
Spltzenbergs, Newtowns and Bald
wins. A German Count says that Roose
velt caused the panic Quite likely he
thinks that the President was respon-
siDie lor tne ueinze ana Harnman
operations.
. There seem to be points of similar
ity Is the respective careers of Mr.
Cortelyou and the frog which played a
star part In one of the late Mr. Aesop's
fables.
In an Interview ,W. J. Bryan admits
that he is independently-rich. Won
der if he admits jt when the Assessor
comes around.
Mae Wood ought to realize by this
time that her efforts are In vain. She
can't even get top - heads In the news
papers. Japan now faces a crisis In the Cab
inet. How rapidly that Oriental na
tion has become Occldentallzed.
If bribery and extortion and graft
are not crimes, what's the use of
working for a living?
BAT" OP REPRISAL AT ' HAXD."
This la the Peculiar Headline of an
Aatorla Newspaper.
The Daily Astorian.
The Oregonian is onning a campaign
for the resuscitation, or rehabilitation,
or reincarnation (any old term will do)
of the defunct and forgotten "Port of
Columbia" bill, the pet grafting scheme
of the small coterie of shippers in that
city, that was whipsawed through the
Legislature last Winter by tactics that
were as raw as they were nefarious,
and which was later thrown out of the
Supreme Court on the ground of its
rank unconstitutionality; and every
line of that paper's comment on the
bill and. its pretended value to the
metropolis is marked by a desperate
soreness that shows the venomous ran
cor of the defeat that overtook it last
year. It is an undignified and unneces
sary ashow of ill-'temper and spleen, espe
cially on a subject of such frazzled inter
est as the "Port of Columbia" bill.
All Astorians know the nature, and
the animus, of the measure, and were
a solid unit in bringing about its nulli
fication, and will coalesce again to de
feat it, -whatever the limit of savage
fervor wherewith The Oregonian shall
seek to revamp It.
We know it to be the last desperate
piece of chicane to despoil this port and
tne commercial prestige thereof ; - and
if the city of Portland and Its press
ever do any thinking about the value
of the millions of money this city con
tributes annually to the metropolitan
markets, it is time they were reckoning
with the chance of reprisals along this
line, and put a quietus on the . man in
The Oregonian building who has the
ear of its managers; it is time the in
fluence of that great paper was divert
ed from this wretched subterfuge and
used to expedite the real truth of the
commercial situation in the Lower
Columbia, namely, that the shipping is
to be done from here, in the near
future, by both the Hill and the Harrl
man systems, and not from the Sound,
as The Oregonian persists will be the
case. It is very plain that Portland
would rather see the commerce of all
Oregon go to. Puget Sound rather than
to this, the natural, the cheapest, the
most direct and feasible port, the sea
end of the water-level, down-grade
haul from the wheat fields of the In
land Empire; for what The Oregonian
says of Portland must be true, and it
says this thing every day lately.
If the loyalty of Portland to the
State of Oregon is so shallow a thing
that the metropolitan shippers can
bring about the sheer commercial sac
rifice of Astoria (which should, and
would be, Portland's and Oregon's com
mercial right-bower), then Astoria will
quickly ream her own duty to herself
in the matter of her annual outlay in
the markets that are part and parcel
of her undoing. It Is a queer attitude
for the chief city of a great state to
assume, that of being willing to send
millions of commerce out to rival ports
and centers lrr another state rather
than give the benefits to a sister city,
nearby, at home, and directly in line,
and at the natural terminue of that
line, on the easiest conceivable grades,
and known to be the next and rightful
place of commercial importance in the
certain course of development now
pending; It is so queer, indeed, that
Astoria intends to watch closely, and
figure accurately, and govern herself
as comports with her own advantage
and merit' In the case. We have had
about all of this sort of treatment we
can stand.
YOUR CREDIT IS A SHY ASSET
Business Malefactor, product of Care
less Bnslncae Conditions.
New York Journal of Commerce and Com
mercial Bulletin.
A lesson may perhaps be drawn from
the financial experience of 1907, not only
In business prudence and conservatism,
but In business morals. It may be made
to illustrate the homely proyerb, "Honesty
is the beBt policy,' which is not the high
est form of expression, but nevertheless
contains a profound truth. It is a com
monplace nowadays that business is done
mainly on credit, which means that it is
based upon confidence', and the only as
sured ground of confidence is business in
tegrity, which is only another term for
common honesty in the dealings of men
with men.
The fundamental causes of the crisis
through which we have passed in the last
months of the year just gone were econo
mic and due to the impulse of men to be
over-hopeful, to over-calculate and over
do in a time of prosperous activity. This
sanguine spirit, this tendency to plunge
ahead without closely counting cost or
reasoning out results, led to much squan
dering of capital In risky ventures, much
extravagant spending, and the making of
plans and launching into enterprises with
inadequate means and with too - much
dependence upon credit, but the fault in
all this was rather temperamental than
moral.
It Is not the large scale upon which en
terprises have been organized and con
ducted, whether in industrial production
or in transportation and distribution, nor
failures of Judgment in carrying them out
with honest Intent, that fostered distrust
and undermined confidence ; but It was the
unscrupulous greed so often displayed, the
sacrifice of the rights and Interests of
others for their own profit by those In
control, the deceptive schemes, the fraud
ulent operations, the disregard of law and
the wrongs done to the public, that sapped
the foundations of credit. May not an
understanding of the crisis of 1907, a reali
zation of its causes and its consequences,
have the. effect of raising the standard
of integrity in business, of lessening the
abuses from which we have suffered, of
making remedies more effectual and last
ing, and inducing more prudent as well as
more upright methods in the future, and
so avoiding the periodical calamities that
folly and iniquity bring? It will depend
mainly upon the prevailing sentiment of
the community as a whole and that public
opinion upon which the existence and the
effectiveness of sound law depend. While
we assail malefactors of whatever grade
we must remember that they are products
of conditions in which all share and which
all must help to correct.
Was This Bear Ilnnt Really Exciting-?
Chehalis Bee-Nugget.
Last week Ed Jennings and M. J. Gay
nor, two cruisers, had an exciting bear
hunt. The scene of the battle was in the
southwestern part of the county. The big
black bear was first discovered In a tree,
and he slid down part way and entered a
hole. A little later he tried to get out,
hut his head got stuck In the hole, and
the bear could neither go backward nor
forward. In this position he was killed
with a club and a cruiser's ax. When
skinned, the hide measured 6x7 feet, un
stretched. The bear must have weighed
close to 400 pounds.
Count to Marry Denver Helreaa.
Denver Dispatch in New York Tribune.
The engagement of Miss Maud Eaves,
a young Denver heiress, to Count Francis
Emmerich Gyory, of Hungary, Is formally
announced. - The Count is 27 years old. He
has lived in Denver during the last two
.years, representing a Havana tobacco
concern.
Barber Captures Girl and (100,000.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
H. John Walnwrlght. of St. Louis, a
barber, described as "t.ie Adonis of -his
profession," has captured the heart of
Miss Ree W. Duby, of Dixon, IlL, who Is
worth about $100,000.
.A Bet on Bryan. ,
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Courier-Journal bets a half a dol-
1 -rj-w,, will ha t n nTf PmMmi
I fh, TTnirad States, in case the erons are
I bad and the banks continue to hoard
their cash.
STEW WORK FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
With a Few Re marks on the Present
. Day Duties of Parents.
Sacramento Union.
With a confession of belonging to a
past age, -and being unable to keep up
with our progressive times, that dis
tinctly human, able and always valu
able paper. The Portland Oregonian,
half derisively suggests that the school
girls be divided into groups and re
quired -to cook the noonday meal for
all the school children; that the base
ments of school buildings be equipped
for dining-rooms and kitchens, the boys
be required to saw, split and fetch in
the wood and to do the janitor work
and keep the plumbing in repair; this
because mothers of our day are held
to be incompetent to teach the culinary
art, and the fathers equally incom
petent to teach a handicraft to their
sons.
There is more virtue in the sugges
tion of The Oregonian than its recom
mendations would seem to warrant.
Life in this country is not as it was
when our grandfathers . and grand
mothers were fitting their first
progeny for entrance into life. In those
days mothers felt it Incumbent upon
them to teach their daughters the care
of a home, and artisan fathers had the
power to apprentice their sons to
themselves or to some other artisan, in
order that they might learn to be self
respectlngly self-sustaining. Now ' we
have tens of thousands, almost millions,
of mothers in our country whose child
hood was spent where there was little
of housekeeping, and the table was
supplied with the plainest fare that
would sustain life. The power of ap
prenticeship has passed over from
fathers to labor unions that have
sought, by limiting the privilege to the
lowest numbers, to create such an arti
ficial scarcity of skilled labor as
would keep the labor market always
hungry, and. the rate of wages high.
Their predatory employers have taught
them that it is as right to limit the
number of skilled workers arbitrarily
as to limit the product to a starved
market In order that the producer may
obtain all that may be extorted for his
product, as the cotton factories of New
England are now doing.
Whi the father and the mother of
each, family can no longer do, or have
become Indisposed toward doing, the
school must do, or the degradation of
degeneration will be upon the land,
and . the standards of living of our
great, free continent will become those
of Eastern and Southern Europe, where,
beneath an upper crust of wealth and
aristocracy, there seethes and surges a
mighty mass of proletarian poverty,
crime and slime.
Nor Is a substantial midday meal for
the school children an unreasonable
provision! There are few public or
private Bchools in America that do not
contain from few to many students
who come to their work half nour
ished. They may have had some fill
ing that took away the pangs of
hunger, but it was badly cooked, re
fused to be assimilated, and went
through the motions of digestion -only
to leave the victim inert and weakened
in both body and brain.
Germany Is struggling with the
problem in its slow, scientific way.
England has long debated It academic
ally, feeding many, pending the clo
ture of a never-ending discussion of
the wisdom of It. Our own greater
cities of the East find the problem
pressing hard upon them, and if some
keen-eyed inquirer were to make the
rounds of the lower grades in Sacra
mento or Portland Be would discover
enough of wan faces and lack-luster
eyes to assure him that there is more
in the suggestion of at least one well
cooked, substantial meal, to be served
with the lessons at our public schools,
than the half-lronlcal recommendations
pt The Oregonian seem to imply. How
to afford to do It without impoverish
ing the self-dependent spirit of the
parents is the crux of the problem, but
when a'chlld is found to be anemic or
half-starved It Is hard to turn the back
upon it, through fear that if it be fed
there will be others to feed. A trained
nurse system, as an adjunct to the
school system, can do much to alleviate
the sufferings of impoverished child
hood, but it is by no means impossible
that, in all the larger cities, the one
square meal a day, cooked and served
by the school for thl school, may be
come a firmly fixed fact.
WOOD PUL.P AND KEWSPAPERS
Advise Turin Reform and Preserva
tion of American Timber Snpply.
Forestry and Irrigation Magazine.
Another straw is .found In the following
bit of information furnished directly to
this office:
A New England paper, owned by three
men, has been paying an annual dividend
of from $15,000 to $30,000. Print paper has
been costing this firm $1.85 per hundred
pounds. Within recent months the price
of paper began to rise, wnen tne increase
began to look serious, the leading owner
sought out a friend in the paper company
and expostulated. He was told that, for
friendship's sake he would be given some
Inside information in advance, namely,
that the price would soon go still higher
and that he would do well to make a one-
year contract at the existing price, name
ly, $2.50. This he did. and the price after
ward ascended to $3 and $3.25, settling
later at $3.
The increase, however, from $1.85-to $2.50.
which alone, "for friendship's sake," this
firm was required to endure, eut the an
nual dividend of its paper $15,000. Where
the paper would have been but for its
"inside information," may be Inferred.
That newspaper men should be inter
ested in the removal of the duty on wood
pulp is easily understood. The suggestion,
however, that Canadians may put an ex
port duty on spruce is by no means re
assuring.
But, duty or no duty, it must never be
forgotten that Canadian wood supplies,
like American wood supplies, are far from
Inexhaustible. The complete leveling of
the tariff wall between Canada and the
United States, while it would undoubted
ly relieve, in a measure, the wood situa
tion on' this side of the line, ceuld relieve
It but temporarily. Under present policies
of timber slaughter, the Canadian supply
would but disappear the more rapidly,
and the evil day, for a brief space de
ferred, would again dawn. Whatever may
or may not be done with the tariff, one
thine- is r-ertiin: The United States must
adopt, and that speedilf, a rational pol
icy for the conservation ana use. or ner
timber supplies.
Acoustics In Canada.
Victoria Daily Colonist.
Dear Mr. Editor. Whilst grateful for
the very excellent report of our Congre
gational soiree, I beg to call your atten
tion to two errors, natural enough under
the circumstances. The shape of the hall
made It extremely difficult to speak,
much more to be heard distinctly. I
said "Tennyson's River." not Thompson'
River, and suggested as the motto for
the Pan-Anglican Synod, "Cave Canem,"
not Dave Cameron.
(Rev.) THOMAS SOMERVTLLE.
Judge Whips Drunken Foreigner.
Philadelphia Press. '
Justice Joseph Criswell, of Lyndora,
Pa.; used a hickory switch on a drunken
foreigner. In order, he said, "to restore
the circulation, and bring the man to his
senses." -
Janitor's Rlae to School President..
Indianapolis "News. "
J. F. Sharp, of Geary. Okla., has risen
from Janitor of a ward school building
to be president of the Southwest State
Normal School, at Weatherford.
BOO!S
PEOPLE who are still his admiring
readers Insist on applying the nick
name "Dodo" to that versatile nov
elist. E. F. Benson, because about IB
years ago he had the good fortune to
write a delightful story of that name
which has now become almost a classic
in fiction.
"I am trying to live down 'Dodo.' It
was a youthful indiscretion." protests Mr.
Benson, who is an archbishop's son. His
new nove,, "Sheaves,"' is just issued, a
tale of ill-matched love, and it has al
ready caused a good deal of talk. His
hero Is a young English aristocrat with
the world's greatest tenor voice, and the
heroine has written the most successful
play on the London stage.
In the opening, there Is. this thrilling
sentence:
The long and ferocious battle between thoae
desperate wild Indians, Choplmalive and his
squaw, Sltonlm, and the Intrepid trader. Huch
Grainger, had come to an end. and the In
trepid trader lay dead on the hayfleld.
Mr. Benson Introduces two children,
Jim and Daisy, who remind one of the
precious Infants in Sarah Grand's "The
Heavenly Twins." and there are two
others Ambrose and Perpetua, the chil
dren of Canon 'Alington, so named be
cause they were born on the saints' days
named.
As for the matrimonial side of the
question she was 42 and he was 24. and
there you are. Sugar and milk to taste.
Here are three more paragraphs:
It la a great mistake ever to regard the
existence of "If." The future i really a
certain 0 the past: each of us has built his
future, and yet a man or woman la surprised
when he eees it rising up exactly what he
has planned.
When I, which I rare with me, even begin
to think about my latter end, I always get
up and do something. It doesn't matter what
you do. Go and do it before you die. Ani
I supplement that by a small dose of some
kind, because, though death is real, the
thought of It Is almost invariably liver.
.That was what love meant: Just that one
simple fact that to the woman who lovea, her
husband 1 more truly herself than she,.
Dean Hole was not only an eminent
churchman, but a wit and an authority
on roses, and "The Letters of Samuel
Reynolds Hole," edited by George A. B.
Dewer, are filled with most amusing rem
iniscences. Dean Hole will be remem
bered In this country by his lecture tour
of 6000 miles during the year 1S94. when he
earned the money with which he rebuilt
Rochester Cathedral, England. He was
fairly deluged with roses in the East.
Portland had not as yet been named the
Rose City.
"Three new flowers have been named
Dean Hole." he wrote home, "and even .
In smoky Chicago and Pittsburg the gar
deners have met me with bouquets." in
his Chicago lecture he told the story of
the young curate who preached a very
short sermon because the pup at his
lodgings had eaten up half of the manu
script. Several Chicagoans are said to
have waited on the dean afterward to
learn whether some descendants .of that
dog could not be got for. this city, .but he .
told them that England needed them all.
To. a correspondent who waoto to ask
what became of the dog after eating the
sermon. Dean Hole replied:
You will be pleased to hear that when the
dog had Inwardly digested the sermon, which
he had torn, he turned over a new leaf. He
had been sullen and morose, he became a
"very Jolly dog." He had been selfish and
exclusive in his manger, lie generously gave
it up to an aged poodle. He had been noisy
and vulgar, he became a quiet, gentlemanly
dog; he never growled again, and when he
waa bitten he always requested the cur who
had torn hla flesh to be so good, as a par
ticular favor, to bite him again!
. .
In a few days there will be issued Ellen
Glasgow's new novel, "The Ancient
Law," and its scenes are laid in Vir
ginia, Miss Glasgow's native field, where
the hero struggles against the aristocratic
environment in which he finds himself.
Next week, the Harpers promise a vol
ume of Russian memoirs by Prince Serge
Dmitriyevich Urussov, formerly Governor
of Bessarabia. It is announced that
Prince Urussov tells many things that aro
new concerning the present government
and the organized methods of bloodshed
against the Jews. Another new Harper
book is Josephine Daskam Bacon's "Ten
to Seventeen: A Boardlng-School Diary."
-
Juliet Wilbor Tompkins, the magazine
writer, announces her first novel. "Dr.
Ellen," which will be brought out at once,
has its scenes in the California Sierras,
whither Dr. Ellen has gone with her only
sister Ruth, a tender, fascinating young
woman, who is an invalid. Large ad
vance orders for the novel are reported
not only In this country, but also from
Canada and Australia.
.
A-. large number of novels will make
their appearance next month. Among
them Is a new story by William de Mor
gan, author of "Joseph Vance" and
"Alice-for-Short." It has been named
"Somehow Good," and It Is a tale of the
present day, opening with a Btrange hap
pening in London's two-penny tube.
In the MAGAZISB SECTION of the
Sunday Oregonian
CARDINAL GIBBONS
AT SEVENTy-THREE
Personal side of the beloved
prelate, his kindly spirit and his
love of" children, with very latest
photographs.
GIBSON GIRL TO BE
PRESENTED AT COURT
Miss Nora Langhorne, the only
unmarried one of the famed quin
tet, is courted by a Prince.
THE OLD PIONEER AT
HIS EVENING MEAL
Full-page illustration in colors
that will appeal to every Oregon
pioneer and every pioneer's de
scendant. PROM THE SCHOOL
OF EXPERIENCE
JTirst of a new series of humor
ous articles by "Jim Nasinm,"
free and bracing, with just enough
of slang to give them spice.
CURIOUS RACE OF
JAPANESE INDIANS
Annie Laura Miller writes of
aborigines, driven, like onr own,
into uncivilized regions.
LINCOLN APPROVED
"IN GOD WE TRUST"
Story of how in the Civil War
the motto was . placed on Uncle
Sam's coins.
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