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RAILROADS IX EUROPE AND AMERICA
Of many foreign railroads the cap
italisation is largely in excess of that
of the railroads of the United States.
England averages $271,000 a mile,
France $136,000 a mile and Germany
$110,000 a mile, as against $67,000 a
mile in the United States. But, then,
there are railroads in England, France
and Germany, constructed so as to se--cure
greatest possible strength, secur
ity and safety, while in the United
States we lay down parallel rails on
any sort of grades and curves, and
fun trains over them.
It is admitted that our country is
not old enough yet to have its rail
roads throughout of the first class
Not .more than .10 per cent of our
railroads will compare in this respect
with those of England and France.
Only a part of those of Germany are
up to high, requirements.
It Is only in our more densely pop
ulated states, where traffic is greatest,
that we can expect construction and
safety to come up to the English and
French systems. Few of our lines
west of Chicago have double tracks.
Many east of Chicago ' have not.
Curves and grades are not reduced to
lowest possibility, as in Europe.
Ridges are not cut nor valleys filled.
It is an amazing contrast to look over
the railroads of Europe and then over
those of the United States.
Tet this is not said by way of cen
sure of American . roads. Distances
with us. In proportion to hose of
Western Eur"ope, are immense; and
much of our country Is still sparsely
Inhabited and furnishes comparative
ly little traffic. .Rates . with us are
proportionately lower, yet probably
will advance, rather than decline in
many parts of the. country as the
roads are built up to an efficiency and
security corresponding with the roads
of Western Europe. But it is a mis
take to assert that the roads of Amer
ica though they give low rates, when
distance is considered give highest
class of service. In 1 a way, indeed,
they do; for the cars are more sump
tuously furnished and there are more
conveniences; but, there is not more"
speed nor more i safety. Much, in
deed, are the Pennsylvania Limited
and Twentieth Century trains bragged
about, arid justly; but these trains and
their speed are exceptional, and de
mand a clear way, to the delay of oth
ers; and of course their rates are
high. But we have few roads that
can allow as high speed as you find
on th main lines of England, -France,
Germany, Belgium and Holland. The
roads of Italy are not In very good
condition. Tho country mostly is
mountainous and difficult, and state
experimentation with . the railroads
has brought them Into straits from
which 'it will take them a good while
to recover. And besides, the country
Is poor, and less t ratlin is' supplied by
thirty millions of people than by five
millions in the United States. Condi
tions in European countries all fur
nish contrasts to those in America
in railroad service not less than In
.other things.
The United States Court of Appeals
in New York has confirmed the sen
tence, of ten years at hard labor im
posed on Captain Van Schaick, of the
steamer General Slocum, for criminal
negligence in ' connection with the
burning of the- steamer and attend
ant loss of -1000 lives.- That the ven
erable master of the boat was guilty
and should be punished is undoubt
edly Igue. But there are others. The
officers and directors of the Knicker
bocker Steamship Company, owners
of the Slocum, were also to blame,
for the preliminary examination
showed beyond a doubt that, they
knew the boat to be equipped with
rotten hose, "phoney" life preservers
and worthless lifesaving apparatus.
None of these men, all to the greatest
extent responsible for ' the tragedy,
' have been punished," and that- the cap
tain, who simply obeyed their orders,
I should be tfte only one to suffer is not
I at . all creditable to the New York
courts.
RATS.
The knowledge that rats are indus
trious distributers of the plague bids
fair to make the business of catching
them an elegant occupation suitable
for college graduates and decayed
gentlemen. "Why should it not be
mastered by women and add to the
already extensive list of employments
in which the gentler sex may engage
without loss of the bloom of their re
finement? In Chicago rat-catching
gives occupation to a man In nearly
every large business house. The de
partment stores, for example, can no
more get along without Uieir rat
catchers than their detectives and
floor-walkers.
The rat is one of our most insidi
ous foes, and it illustrates the singu
lar Machiavellian quality of his na
ture that for thousands of years he
has been able to pose as a harmless
intruder. He has even been a pet in
some households. Now we are begin
ning to find him out. Whence does
the innocent pig derive his trichina
spiralis? From the rat. Left to him
self, the pig would pass a placid ex
istence in storing up lard and slices
of ham for sandwiches, with no
thought of harming anybody. But
into the Eden of his sty comes that
serpent, the rat, and then there is a
train of woe without end. The pig
eats the rat, and with him his trichina
germs. The man eats the pig and
with him his trichina germs. Then
the germs begin to eat the man and
he perishes in misery.
Rats, too, disseminate cholera. They
first Infect their teeth with-it and then
by their miscellaneous nibbling they
convey it everywhere. There is noth
ing under heaven 'that a rat will not
nibble. The tales of his biting through
water pipes of lead are nothing at all
in comparison with the Eastern story
of one that gnawed his way through a
chilled iron safe- and devoured the
Caliph's title to his throne. ' Fortu-,
nate it Is for the human race that the
rat has been found out. If the dis
covery of his perfidy had been delayed
a few generations more, mankind
would have perished and the rat
would have taken his place as king of
the earth.
OREGON'S BILL OF HEALTH.
" A most suggestive and interesting
report is that of Dr. R. C. Yenney,
secretary of the State Board of
Health. This report is a plain state
ment of facts that must appeal favor
ably to those who are contemplating
a change of location and who justly
estimate health as the greatest of
blessings. It shows that Oregon's
death rate In 1907 was, approximate
ly, nine in every 1000 Inhabitants; that
the state during the period covered
was remarkably free from Infectious
diseases; that contagion existed in
only one county Grant --where, ow
ing to improper methods of handling,
there were 121 cases of smallpox out
of the 317 cases of this disease In the
entire state. Very few fatalities at
tended this disease a fact which is
equally true of the regt of the more
dreaded contagious 'diseases.
Of communicable diseases tubercu
losis led in the number of deaths, one
in ten of the total number In the state
being due to this malady. The effect
of the open-air treatment for this dis
ease was not discussed, but It Is no
doubt true that the number of deaths
was lessened through this treatment.
as provided at the Open-Air Sanitar
ium near this city. The death rate
from typhoid fever was low; the num
ber of cases throughout the state was
558 not a large number considering
the wide area ,covered, but much
larger than it need to have been, had
the sanitary regulations prescribed by
the Board of Health been properly
observed.
Upon the whole, the report is grati
fying as showing the healthfulness of
Oregon's climate and the Intelligent
oversight of sanitary conditions by the
State Board. of Health. - People grow
old and drop out, sicken and die here,
as elsewhere, but proper or even ordi
nary observance of sanitay rules gives
here an assurance of health and the
promise of long life. This is no idle
assertion. It Is supported by the
carefully compiled . figures and facts
presented'by the report to which pub
lic attention Is hereby-directed.
MR. HUMPHREY'S HOBBY.
Congressman Humphrey, .of Seattle,
delivered one of . his characteristic
pleas for a ship subsidy at Detroit last
Saturday. Mr. Humphrey has repeat
ed the gauzy statements of the ship
subsidy meti so often that he is show
ing symptoms of believing them him
self. He makes the deliberate mis
statement thaf there is a greater ton
nage of-foreign trade carried out of
Puget Sound in American vessels than
In- foreign vessels. He also says that
the proposed subsidy .bill "simply
means that our Nation will assist our
merchant marine in the same way
that every - foreign nation assists its
merchant marine.".' Yet Mr. Hum
phrey has been in touch with his sub
ject for a sufficient length of time to
know that, with the - eyeptlon of
France, no other nation is wasting
money o"h ship-subsidy appropriations
for the merchant marine."- : .
The term.. "wasting money" is used
advisedly, for there is more merchant
marina tonnage in the world today
than there Is business for, and no
thoroughly enlightened and up-to-date
nation, would be paying a subsidy
for a service which could be secured
for nothing. But Mr.' Humphrey is
not altogether to blame for these peri
odical flights into the realm of Ac
tion, for we find his sentiments in
dorsed by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
In language fully as extrava
gant as his own.;. In a laudatory edi
torial the P.-I. says:--
It Is time for the National Government to
take hold of tills question with vigor if the
Nation Is to fully realize the possibilities open
to it in foreign fields of trade. Not only in
the- Orient, but in Central and South America
also there are splendid opportunities await
lng this country. But these opportunities can
not be used to advantage unless) the Federal
Oovernment devises some means of building
up the American merchant marine. The for
eign trade of this country will never be what
It ought to be so long as American goods are
shipped abroad in. foreign bottoms.
"Foreign bottoms" are now carry
ing Oregon and Washington products
to the Orient as low as $3' per ton,
while American bottoms in the coast
ing trade are demanding $3 per tion
for transporting freight between Ore
gon and Washington and California
ports, less, than one-fourth the dis
tance. With this $3 rata to the Ori
ent it would be Interesting" to learn
by what pculiar line of reasoning the
P.-I. arrives at the conclusion that we
cannot take advantage of our foreign
trade opportunities, Are we to be
lieve that our trade with the Orient
would be increased by advancing the
rate to a .figure approximating that
now charged by the American vessels
in the coastwise trade? But if we
must have American bottoms in the
foreign trade, let us in reality follow
that portion of Congressman Hum
phrey's suggestion that we "assist our
merchant marine In the same way
that every foreign nation assists Its
merchant marine." -
Give our shipowners the same op
portunities as are enjoyed by those of
foreign nations. It costs $450,000 to
build a 7000-tqn cargo steamer in this
country, while the foreign shipyards
are building them for $200,000, and
every other nation on earth except the
United States permits its shipowners
to buy this cheap tonnage and enroll
It under the national flag. The United
States was forced to buy some of this
cheap tonnage during- the war with
Spaini and it will be forced to do so
again as soon as public opinion be
comes sufficiently aroused aver the
manner in which Goverrfment funds
are being wasted in the charter of for
eign ships to act as tenders 'to the
American fleet of warships. '
American citizens should have the
same rights on the ocean as are en
joyed by foreigners, but they will
never get them, nor will we have a
merchant marine, until our ancient
navigation laws are repealed and .we
are permitted to buy ships at as low
prices as are paid by our competitors.
Where the shipping situation is not
understood, Mr. Humphrey makes a
good plea for the subsidy bill, but it
is not in accordance with the facts.
MR. T A FT AND THE COLORED VOTE.
Weil-Informed observers expect the
Republican party to win the next
Presidential election, but not by an
easy victory. If the wrong man
should be nominated, victory will pass
to the other side. Neither party can
expect to command the allegiance' of
the American electorate by. virtue of
its past history or Its traditional prin
ciples. The voters will be more at
tracted by men and the outlook for
future performance than by the
splendor of abstract theories or the
glories of bygone deeds. They are
more interested in the solution of the
questions which confront this genera
tion than in those which were solved
by their forefathers. Mr. Bryan Is
certain to poll a large vote if he is
nominated, and that he will be nomi
nated is an almost foregone conclu
sion. Whether the Republicans will
choose Mr. Taft -or Governor' Hughe
for their leader is still doubtful,
though the chances are very much in
favor of the former. That they will
reject both these men is unthinkable,
since any other of the prominent can
didates would probably be defeated.
Mr. Cannon, for example, would stand
no chance all in the field against
Nebraska's brilliant son.
The opposing tickets, therefore, are
quite likely, to be headed respectively
by Mr". Taft and Mr. Bryan, and be
tween now and the final action of the
nominating conventions there .will be
a great deal of speculation about their
comparative strength and weakness.
Mr. Bryan will be opposed by the
same faction in .his own partv which
has always fought him, though Its
prestige and numbers are now less
than formerly. The inglorious defeat
of Judge Parker, who was the candi
date of the anti-Bryan faction, dis
credited its judgment in selecting a
leader, while the decay of the silver
issue -permits many, gold-standard
Democrats to vote for Mr. Bryan who
were opposed to bim on principle In'
previous campaigns.. The alleged pop
ular rejection of Mr. Bryan in the
South is mythical. There are a few
newspaper which cry out against
bim, but they have always done so
and their following is negligible. His
prospect of polling virtually a full
party jtote Is as good as any candi
date's and better than mqst. The
really serious danger that 1 menaces
him,- apart from his natural foes, is
the Independence League,, which is as
yet vague and shadowy.
On the other ha.n'd, Mr. Taft is not
wholly free from the danger of revolt
within his party.v The anti-Roosevelt
element, the' reactionaries, will not
support him unless they believe that
the Democratic candidate is a greater
menace than he to their predatory
privileges,, and they may not believe
this of Mr. Bryan. He is untried as
yet n high administrative office and
the unknown Is full of hope. He
might prove to be as wax in their
hands, while they-know very welt that
they cannat manipulate Mr. Taft. A
certain pliability which Mr. Bryan has
habitually, displayed In dealing with
opposition proffers . golden prospects
to the light-fingered plutocrats were
he once established in '', the White
House. Mr. Taft will have also to
reckon with a certain hostility among
the labor unions, which have not for
gotten that he was the inventor of
government by injunction; but it is
not believed that this is a very serious
matter: Laboring men are Incompar
ably more apt to overlook their pri
vate resentment in loyalty to party
than the .plutocrats are. The anger
of the negroes over the Brownsville
affair is more Important. They blame
Mr. Taft; for his part in. the discharge
of the colored troops, and if they
should seek revenge by concerted po
litical action against hjm.they might
possibly compass his defeat. In sev
eral Northern states there are negroes
enough to hold the balance of power
In a close contest, and the ' coming
contest, as we have said. Js likely to
be close. . "
What would the negroes gain were
they to defeat Mr. Taft and make Mr.
Bryan President? They would gain
the dubious satisfaction of defeating
a man who has always been their
friend and throwing victory to their
declared enemy. Mr. Taft had very
little to do with the Brownsville affair.
What little he did was from a sense of
duty, and not from hostility to the ne
groes. As good citizens would they
wish a public . official to violate his
oath of office to protect criminals of
their race? But he may have been
mistaken? Certainly; but at the
worst his mistake was an honest one.
On the other hand, Mr. Bryan Is. an
enthusiastic upholder of the whole
body of Southern anti-negro legisla
tion. By his acts he proclaims his be
lief In negro disfranchisement, in Jim
Crow ordinances. In the chaingang
horrors, in peonage and in the sup
pression of negro schools. At any
rate, all these things are part and par
cel of Southern Democratic orthodoxy,
arid Mr. Bryan has never repudiated
one of them. It is very easy for the
negroes to decide which is the better
friend of their race, Mr. Taft or Mr.
Bryan. Lit them put -the question
plainly to both aspirants, "Are you for
or against Jim Crow- legislation and
negro disfranchisement?" and see
what the answer will be. Is there an
intejligent negro In the country who
does not know that Mr. Bryan would
bp obliged to approve of these barbar
ous measures and that Mr. Taft would
freely and heartily oppose them?
The growing belligerency of the
Germans, as reflected In their remark
able Increase in appropriations for
battleships -and cruisers, has caused
Great Britain to reconsider her deter
mination to build but one Dread
naugbt. The programme has been
changed to include three of the great
fighting1 machines and a corresponding-
lot of smaller vessels, including
twelve torpedo-boats. While this will
hardly bring England up to her favor
ite "two-powers" standard, to which
she has clung so fondly for many
years, it is . thought that It will in
crease her strength to such an extent
that there will be some hesitancy on
the part of any other "two powers"
tackling her Just at present. The
dove of peace has never before wit
nessed such a massing of fighting
ships as each of the world's powers Is
drawing round it, and the bird may
well be excused for frequent fits of
nervousness, for the explosion, when it
does take place, may split the world
asunder.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railroad has established a train serv
ice over its new extension as far west
as Terry, Mont., and Is closing up the
gap between that point and Butte at
the rate of about five miles per day.
The line is expected to be in operation
as far as Butte by May 1, and to the
Pacific Coast a year later. It is not
definitely settled whether the new
transcontinental route will reach
Portland over Its own rails or by a
trackage arrangement with either the
Harriman or the Hill lines. The "Mil
waukee" has secured enough traffic
out of 'Portland territory, howeyer, to
make it a certainty that It will find
some easy route for reaching this city.
With the Canadian Pacific coming
into Portland by way of the Spokane
& International and O. R. & N., the
North Bank line coming direct this
year, and the Milwaukee and "North
Coast" roads due next year, - Port
land's outlook for transportation fa
cilities is bright indeed.
. Portland is showing up with in
creasing prominence on the maritime
map of the world. Reports received
Monday brought news, from Yoko
hama of the sailing for Portland of
the German steamship Numantia.
From Montevideo the British steamer
Glenstrae, en route for Europe with
wheat from Portland, was reported,
and at Port Natal, South Africa, the
steamship Borderer arrived with
wheat from Portland. At Manches
ter, England, the steamship British
Monarch arrived Sunday to discharge
a cargo of wheat loaded at Portland,
and the French bark Vincennes, out
ward bound from this port, passed
Dover, England, yesterday. The
steamship Tiberius, with wheat from
Portland, passed through the Suez
Canal Friday, and' the steamship Au
chencrag, also wheat laden from
Portland, sailed from St. Vincent,
Cape Verde, Islands, on the last lap
of a 13,000-mile voyage to Europe.
The complaint of an official of the
Mount Hood Railway & Power Com
pany about the attitude of Mayor
Lane on franchises to new lines seek
ing entrance to the city contains some
rather serious insinuations. The truth
of the statement that it would 'be bet
ter both for the road and for Porand
if the line came' into the city instead
of halting at the suburbs is .obvious,
and it would seem that there might be
a common ground on which the rail
road company and the city could meet
without Imperiling or abusing' the
rights of either. Portland is forging
ahead at an unprecedented rate, and
any and all additions to our transpor
tation facilities which can be secured
with surrounding.' territory should be
welcomed.
Mr. Thomas Strong, of the City
Board of Charities, has the right idea
anH pursues the right policy, as to
rendering assistance to those In need.
The one way and only true way in
work of this, kind is -to help people
to help themselves. The "hand out"
system, the "potlatch" system, is the
worst possible abuse of charity. It
creates more pauperism always than
it .. relieves.
Addressing- a long article mainly
to The Oregonian, the Salem Journal
remarks: "There are those who say
the Republican party will never get
right till it has had its- drubbing."
But The Oregonian will take no more
drubbings in the name of the Repub
lican party not for a while, anyhow,,
you. may. depend. Of vicarious sacri
fice It has had enough.
Harry Thaw has now nothing to do
(smoking being prohibited at his
present residence) but observe the ef
fects upon hjs fellows of "brain
storms," "stuperous melancholia,"
"dementia Americana" and other dis
orders from which, according - to
learned alienists, he had suffered all
Unknowingly from infancy.
Ii aid 'of the unemployed. Judge
Gantenbein ought to charge an admis
sion fee to -the Waymire trial and
give ho return checks. According to
the press . agents, some of the testi
mony will be well worth the price of
tickets. - .. v . .
Rus'sia has undertaken -to build an
aerial warship. Her bad luck In keep
ing her ships afloat and In service on
the water has, It is thought, instigated
this attempt.-' -' ' ' "
The only way to put the' Goasrn
rrient in the hands of the people is to
get the referendum on decisions of
the Supreme Court.
A new portrait of the sick man of
Europe would be welcome Just now
In American newspaper offices.
A( Callao tomorrow? , It is hard to
realize that Evans is so far along on
his journey. ' ' '
No small number of Oregoniais will
agre that Heney earned the money.
Good morning! Are you going to
ttie Waymire trial?
STUDY OF FRANK H. HITCHCOCK
The Polities! Manager Who la Snins
lnsr Southern Delegates to Taft.
Washington (D. C.) Letter to the Utica
N. Y.) Press.
Frank H. Hitchcock, who Is to under
take the work of swinging the South
ern delegates to Taft, Is a typical in
stance of one class of successful man
in the executive civil service. He was
a clerk in the Department of Agricul
ture a few years Ego, and one day was
told that his services were not needed
longer. It meant hunt a new Job, and
he was telling a fellow clerk that he
did not know where to look.
"Haven't you any Influential friend?"
asked the other clerk.
"I don't know a man in high position
except Mr. Cortelyou," said Hitchcock.
As a result of the talk CortelyOu
was appealed to, and the President
sent word that his secretary's friend
must not be disturbed. From that
time he was known as "Cortel sou's
man," and as such flourished. He was
promoted in the Department of Agri
culture until he became a division
chief. Mr. Cortelyou made him chief
clerk' of the new Department of Com
merce and Labor In 1903, and later took
him to New York as his right-hand
man In the campaign of 1904. He was
made First Assistant Postmaster-General
when Cortelyou became Postmaster-General,
and this Is the posi
tion he resigns to become Taft man
ager in the South,
Mr. Hitchcock is a fiend for work.
He works from 12 to 18 hours a day,
and accomplishes about as much In
that time as an average man of his
position would In eight hours. He
makes work, works around in a circle,
fairly drives stenographers Into in
somnia, and accomplishes little worth
whlie. Yet his reputation as a worker
is sending him South for Taft and may
yet land him in the cabinet." He would
be a good cabinet officer, too, in the
way that Cortelyou is familiar with
every phase of Government adminis--tration,
a good hustler, but a poor
counselor.
Mr. Hitchcock is a Harvard man
from the academic course; six feet two
in height, well proportioned, with a
fine face and a firm jaw-. He has a
WRrm handshake, a charming smile
and a confiding look in his soft blue
eyes that makes you want to buy his
brick without even opening the satchel.
NIGGARDLY POLICY OF OREGON
And the Referendum tq Help It Out.
Walla Walla Union.
The last Oregon Legislature appro
priated $125,000 for the maintenance of the
State University at Eugene, and a ref
erendum hag been called on the appropria
tion, thus tying up the funds of the uni
versity until after the June election.
Heretofore the largest appropriation ever
made for the Oregon University was
$47,500. Even the larger sum seems
ridiculously small in the State of Wash
ington, where the appropriation for the
State University at Seattle averages about
$350,000, and at the last session of the
Legislature was only a little short of
$1,000,000, If we count the appropriation
for new buildings in .conjunction with the
Lake Washington shore lands given to
the Alaska-Yukoh-Paclflc Exposition first
and then the usufruct to the university.
It Is no wonder that Oregon is looked
upon as a mossback state and it is so
far behind Washington In the development
of Its equally rich resources when such
niggardly tactics are used In dealing with
state educational Institutions. If the ref
erendum results in the defeat of the $123.
000 appropriation. 1t will have the effect of
calling a halt on the effort being made
In several states to adopt the Oregon plan
of direct legislation. The Washington
State University would' have been closed
long ago If it had been forced to subsist
on a pittance of $47,500 a year, and even
$125,000 .would have barely kept the institu
tion alive. If Oregon would attract the
best class of immigrants from the East
ern states it should adopt a more liberal
policy toward its educational Institutions.
It is to be hoped for the good name of
the state that the? people will vote over
whelmingly next June for the larger ap
propriation. ELECTION QUESTIONS.
A Variety at Question Asked, Some of
. Them Childish.
LA GRANDE, Or., Feb. 17. (To the
Editor.)-I in-close herewith some ques
tions which the Blue -Mountain Grange,
No. 345." at its last regular meeting direct
ed me to send to The Oregonian. to be
published and answered if you desire.
EDWARD D. JASPER.
Whereas. Blue Mountain Grange has taken
a firm stand In favor of Statement No. 1 ; and
. Whereas. The Oregonian has repeatedly de
nounced Statement No. 1 as a humbugr:
Therefore, we of Blue Mountain Grange
dee-ire to be informed in regard to the fol
lowing; questions:
In what particular or particulars is State
ment No. l a humbug? ,
Docs The" Oregonian object to the method
of nominating United State" Senators under
Statement No. 1, to the method of election
after nomination, or both? Why?
. Does The Oregonian object to the principle
of electing United Htates Senators by direct
vote of the people, to the method of election
tmder statement No. 1. or does It tljlnk the
choice Not the people will not be- the choice of
The Oregonian? .
If It is unwise for the people to choose their'
T'nlted States Senators, why should not the
State Legislatures elect l.'nitod States' repre
sentatives and Congress1 elect our President?
Does The Oregonian think all the Important
men of Oregon are sent to the Legislature?
Has not the election of United States Sena
tors by the Legislature in the past resulted in
unsatisfactory machine politics and boes rule?
Are machine - polltlrW, boss-ism and hide
bound partisanism to be preferred to the sim
ple principle of Justice?
The Oregonian has repeatedly published
Its views about Statement No.' 1 and elec
tion of Senators. It Is unnecessary nOw
to repeat them. Several of the above
questions are merely childish.
A FEW SQUIBS.
"De reason why Mlstah Taft's so popu
lar." said the old darky, "is Jes' becase he's
got so much pusanal magnitude." Life.
"I don't see." remarked .Miss Gddie.
-"why. she . should go and marry that old
man for his money." "Why." asked Miss
Gilday, . "how else could she get it?"
Philadelphia Press.
"v"So you're still hunting work?" Yes, Vr."
answered' Plodding Pete. "Don't ou know
that out "West they are wilting and anxious
to give men employment?" "Sure I do.
Dat's de reason I likes dls territory. Tou
can go on huntin work wldout bein' dls
tdrbed." Washington Star.
"Things look rather run down around
here.-, remarked the man who had returned
after many years to his native village..
"Run -down. I should say so," replied the
friend of, .his youth. "There's an automobile-comes-
through nere about every three min
utes.'; Philadelphia Record.
Lazy Lewis I wuz told dat d farmer wot
Jives -on dat hill paid hjs hands Jist de
same wedder dey worked er not. so I went
an' hired, t' him. Tired Thomas Den yousa
played off sick. I reckon ? I.azy Lewis Tep,
an- ajt de end ov de month I found dat he
never paid nobody nothln' nohow. Chicago
D.atly News. '
By the shivering fits which chill us.
By the feverish hearts which grill us.
By the pains acute which fill us.
By the aches which maul and mill us.
By the quacks who draft and pill us,
By the hydropaths who swill us.
By tha allopaths who bill us,
By the nervous fears which kill us,
Tell us, tell us, wee Bacillus. . .
What, and why, and whence you are!
London World.
HOl'SE FOR ROOSEVELT POLICIES.
But Bills) Will Be Rnnhed to Senate Too
Late to Act on Them.
Washington, D. C, Dispatch to N. Y.
World.
The policy of the House toward the
Issues contained inthe radical message
recently sent in by President Roose
velt has been decisively outlined at a
conference of House leaders. This
conference was participated in by
Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker; John Dal
zell and James S. Sherman, his asso
ciates on the committee- on rules; Se
reno E. Payne, the floor leader; James
A. Tawney, chairman of the appropria
tions committee, and William P. Hep
burn, chairman of the committee on
interstate and foreign commerce. The
House leaders have determined to. save
their own bacon at the expense of the
Senate. They regard the President's
recommendationsas popular with tho
country and do not Intend to take the
burden of killing them. They do not
want these recommendations to be en
acted into law, but they do want to
avoid becoming unpopular with their
own constitutents by rejecting them.
They do not care what becomes of the
Senate, and they are determined to put
them up to that body and let It take
the odium of defeating them.
This .determination, or most of It,
tvas announced In the World of Feb
ruary 4 The conference since held
has been to arrange ways and means
of accomplishing the desired result.
The programme agreed upon by the
House leaders at this conference is as
follows: '
1. Nothing is to be done until the
appropriation bills are well under way.
2. In the closing days of the ses
sion bills are to be brought In from
the proper committees for the enact
ment of all the recommendations in
the message.
3. Very little debate Is to be allowed,
and the bills are to be rushed through
the House. The Senate Is depended
on to kill them. v
4. Lest there should be any slip up
in the programme by which the Sen
ate might be forced into enacting the
bills, the calendar of the Senate is to
be carefully watched, and the bills
are not to be forced through the
House till it is perfectly plain that
the Senate cafendar Is so clogged that
the Senate con Id not pass the bills if
it wanted to.
As a matter of fact there would not
bo the least possibility of the Senate's
passing any such bills, unless the pub
lic pressure were tremendous. Still,
the House leaders, do not intend to
take any chances. They mean to ar
range the passage of the bills through
the House for a date' when, on their
coming up In the Senate, a single Sen
ator could filibuster them out of ex
istence. Then the "Representatives can go out
on the stump and appeal for re-election
as enthusiastic indorsers of the
President's programme. It is the old
game, played a thousand times in
Washington
What effect this will have upon, the
House's Presidential candidate remains
to bo seen. The House is for Cannon.
At present he has lines in the Senate
which are assuring him of Senatorial
support.
FROM REPl'BLICArlT STANDPOINT
The Method of Nomination and of
Election.
Eugene Register.
Oregon Republicanism clamored for
a law that would give Oregon Repub
licans the right to select their own
choice for United States Senator to be
voted for by a Republican Legislature.
A Republican Legislature, acceding to
that request, adopted such a law be
cause Oregon Republicans asked for
It. In other words, the Republican
party of Oregon got what It asked for.
It can now go ahead, select its own
choice for United States Senator and
a Republican Legislature has no other
alternative but to ratify that choice.
There can be no boodling or jobbery
or deadlock over selection of a Repub
lican Senator, no corruption fund can
be used for the Republican party has
spoken, declared" its Senatorial choice
and woe be to that Republican Legis
lator who does not stand by his party's
choice, as made by all the Republican
voters at. the polls.
This being a fact, why should not
every Republican candidate for the
Legislature In the State of Oregon at
the coming election pledge himself to
vote first, last and all the time for
Republican voters' choice for United
States Senator, as expressed by the
Republican voters at the polls. Can he
do otherwise and be true to the law
framed, by the Legislature for that
purpose? Can he be true to his con
stituency which elects him as a Re
pubMcan for that purpose af well as
for all other purposes, for which he is
sent to the Legislature?
And what applies to Republican Leg
islators .applies with equal force to
Democratic Legislators. Then why
this howl about Statement No. 1, a sop
thrown in for convenience, of inde
pendent Legislative candidates who
have no political home? '
KaiiMs Society Note.
Society Column of Bclolt (Kan.) Times.
Mr. and Mrs. George Tennyson, of Min
neapolis, changed cars here this morn
ing for Marysvflle. Mr. Tennyson was
on his way to that place, where liis'pre
liminary trial for the murder of his father
will come up next week.
UNITED STATES AND JAPAN
CARTOON FROM THE i'RKNC'H PUBLICATION, I.E RIRK. SHOWING A
PARISIAN VIEW OF WHAT THE LITTLE JAPS ttOlLI OO TO PRESI
DENT KOQ8ETKLT IN CASE OF A WAR WITH THIS C'OFNTRV.
THH0yS9t0LD
BY LILUN TINGLK.
Every once In a while some energetic
Ladies' Aid Society whirls in and Rots up
a cook-book which is to be the most
novel, helpful ar.d practical thing of the
kind ever published. It is to contain the
united wisdom of all the housekeepers of
the congregation, and its sales are to he
so great that the proceeds should easily
furnish not only new hymn-books, car
pets, interior decorutions and pipeorgan
for the church, but also a trip to the
Holy Land for the pastor. On various
occasions I have even contributed in a
humble way to some of these wonderful
volumes, though I never had a hand in
tjhe real business of collecting advertis
ments, editing or publishing such a work;
but I know a girl who has had some in
teresting experience in that way. There
was to be a bazaar for the church tm
which she belonged, and as she had s
helpful disposition, plenty- of spare time
and no talent for fancy work, she un
dertook the management - of the cook
book. She designed a lovely cover, with
a picturesque figure in a Sou'wester and
the motto: . . 1
"The man at the wheel
Must have a gool meal."
"A very fetching sentiment," she said,
"Every man that sees it will want to buy
that book." Then she wrote a large
number of reply postalcards demanding
recipes and "hints" fjrom all sorts of
people, and took a . lot of youthful' mas
culine advice about how to get advertis
ing. The advertising came easy, she said,
but she did not explain her methods. She
did, however, tell something about the
contrlhutlpns. she received. At first ehe
followed the plan of asking the men of
the congregation to name their favorite
dishes and the women to send in their
favorite recipes. There was a certain
monotony ' about the replies, however.
For Instance, she had 42 recipes for
chocolate cake and 57 for .chicken salad;
and those men who didnt say "a good
beefsteak" or "turkey and cranberry
sauce" were a little Inclined to vagueness.
"A good square meal," "anything my
wife cooks," "anything but liver,'!
"oysters, any old way" were some of tho
replies. One man, with distressing flip
pancy, announced that for a steady diet
he knew of nothing quite equal to cold
boiled cabbage and lard.
'
Several women declared In polite but
unmistakable terms that they did not in
tend to make public the secrets of their
superior kitchens; and many of the best
practical cooks said that they never used
a recipe Just Judgment and the other
special gifts with which providence had
been pleased to endow them. So my
amateur editor had to modify her
methods, and having much tact and per
severance, she eventually got together a
pretty good sort of book; but she said
that she never worked harder in her life
or came near offending more people.
The late Lawrence Hulton was on one
occasion requested to contribute to an
"Author's Recipe Book" which some un
known lady was getting up for some
good .cause. He said that he had no more
idea of cooking than he had of milking
a cow or of harnessing a horse, or of
setting a hen, or of building a dynamo.
He did not even care what was cooked
for him so long as it did not contain
tripe or tomatoes. But here he was asked
to contribute a paper which would be
reproduced in facsimile stating what ho
could prepare most to his liking upon a
kitchen .range or In a chaflng-di.sh, witli
his manner of procedure. This quite
nonplussed him, until he bethought him
self of one particular and peculiar delicacy
in the evolution of which he could safely
trust his reputation as an expert. Tlvse
are his Instructions: "Take a long paper
cutter, attach to the same by means of
rubber bands and securely, an inkcraser;
Insert the Ink eraser firmly into a march
mallow plug, and hold the same over a
student's lamp or etudy fire until the
marsh-mallow begins to sizzle, drops into
the ashes, puts out the light, or burns
your hand. And eat while hot." Curious
ly enough he received no thanks for this
Interesting and Instructive "hint."
One wise old lady's "favorite recipe" for
mince pie iS worth quoting. It was as
follows: "Go round the house and put
in some of everything good in the house;
then go round the house again and put
in some more .of it."
Contrast this with another recipe for
"boarding-house minee pie": "Put s"ni"
sugar and ten raisins into what is loft .f
the hash."