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Amoa, manager five wagons. (.oldftrld. Nev. Louie Follln; C K. Hunter. Eureka. Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. PORTI,ANT, TTESDAY, FEB. 25, 1908. ANALYSIS OF FISH BILLS. Salmon supply of the Columbia River falls off each year, on account of the unchecked greed of the several kinds of gear. The owners of each kind lay the blame on their rivals. Kach. declares that it wants more rigid laws, but every time it advocates riu-asures aimed to repress its rivals and exempt itself from check. This Is the history of salmon legislation for the Columbia River in the Legisla tures of Oregon and Washington; and the spectacle is again renewed in the contest between two rival bills in Ore Son for enactment under the initia tive. One of the bills is proposed by jillnetters at Astoria, who catch about 85 per cent of the annual salmon pack; the other by wheelowners of Wasco County, or The Dalles, who "ateh about 5 per cent. The remain ing 30 per cent is caught by seiners and trapmen of the lower river near Astoria, who are alleged by wheelmen :o be allied with, the gillnetters. Voters of Oregon, therefore, are confronted with two bills, each al leged to contain the remedy for fail ing salmon supply and each opposing the other. Kach measure comes from a fish faction that avers its own method of killing salmon is best for the Industry and other methods worst. Kach faction has harangued the Leg islatures of two states many years without being able to abolish or check Its opponents. Xow they are both haranguing the people. Kach seeks to save for the idie hatcheries the sal mon that the other takes. Here- are the purposes of the rival bills: Astoria bill Abolishes wheels and prohibits fishing (except angling) east of Sandy River, after August 25, 1908. The Dalles bill (1) Prohibits fish ing Jn navigation channels at night, after September 10, 1908; (2)-adds to closed season the months of October and November; (3) prohibits fishing on Columbia River bar; (4) cuts length of nets to 150 fathoms 900 feet and depth to 4 1-6 fathoms 25 feet; (5) prohibits fishing on Sunday. How, now, are voters to choose be tween the two conflicting measures? They cannot do so In justice to gill netters on the one eide and to wheel owners on the other. The Astoria bill abolishes the wheels without placing a single check on the glllnets; The Dalles bill Imposes two drastic re strictions on gillnets prohibiting night fishing In channels and limiting size of nets without touching wheels, except by the closed Sunday. The As toria bill contains a good principle; wheels should be curbed with longer closed season; but the closed season for that class of gear should not be made perpetual. The Dalles bill has good remedies if they were not made so stringent; the closed Sunday In that bill should be enacted; also prohibi tion of fishing oa tha bar. But 'the restriction on the size of glllnets goes too far and the prohibition of night fishing Jn navigation channels Is really a concern of the United States rather than of the State of Oregon. The closing of October and November Is not important. Each bill carries a plain club, intended to smite the rival faction. Both bills are silent on the most im portant element of salmon legislation extension of closed season in months when fish need protection most and when greed of salmon men Is keenest. Those months are the period between April 16 and August 25. That is the time of the best sal mon the salmon -that have made the world-wide reputation of the Colum bia River. In that long period there Is not a single respite for the over hunted fish. The Astoria bill protects them at that time not at all. The Dalles bill establishes only the closed Sunday. It is easy to understand why each faction failed to close a part of that period in its bill; It Is the matter over which they have wrangled most and on which they have defeated all legislation up to this time. Each side is unwilling to cut out the open season most profitable to itself and knows that, if it attempts to cut out that most profitable to its rival, the success of its bill would be seriously Jeopar dized. The Columbia River sadly needs re striction of the several kinds of gear, both In size and in duration of opera tion. Between the closed season of the lower river and that of the upper there should be a difference in beginning and ending of two weeks or there abouts, because of the time taken by salmon to ascend the river.. These several remedies are wholly omitted from the Astoria bill and very unfair ly placed in The Dalles bill. Both bills are silent on the matter most im portant closed season in the fishing period, between April 15 and Au gust 25. Still, a great many people would take pleasure in enactment of . both bills. That result would help the sal mon mightily, IX the Fish Warden at Astoria has decided to enforce the laws hereafter. That would tie up the wheels completely, stop bar fishing, prohibit fishing on Sunday, prevent night fishing in navigation channels and cut down the size of nets. All this would help. And since It has been impossible to enact protecting laws up to this time, perhaps this is the opportunity. SIR ei-iVF.R AND THE SPIRIT WORLD. Were Sir Oliver Lodge to state seri ously that he had mastered the art of transmuting lead Into gold he would be believed. He is a great electrician, a mathematician of original power, and a man who for many years has maintained an unblemished scientific character before the world. Hence the world is ready to believe what ever Sir Oliver Lodge may say upon questions of science. But what he has to say upon the question of com municating with the spirits of the dead is a different matter. Sir Oliver declares that to his knowledge certain departed souls have communicated with living men, and the world merely smiles. It does not believe him. The world remembers satirically how Sir William Crookes, as he began to verge toward the sere and yellow leaf also received communications from the evergreen shore; and how Alfred Russell Wallace in his declin ing years lent himself and his scien tific reputation to bolster up the most distressful frauds. The deplorable fact seems to be that spiritualism ex ercises an unaccountable attraction for great scientists in their" decrepi tude. When their minds have lost that keen, critical edge which enabled them to discriminate accurately be tween fact and fiction and weigh evi dence judicially, they are lamentably prone to fall under the charms of some fat and wily medium who man ages to convince them that she can hold converse with departed souls, and from that time to the end of their lives their usefulness wanes and their scientific reputation wavers. Sir Oliver Lodge's fame is secure. No spiritualistic vagaries can alter the fact that he has made brilliant con tributions to science; but his weakness in yielding to the lure of the spirit istic craze will still be a blot on his career,, and when his biography is written, as it will be, for he is worthy of a place among the Newtons and Huxleys of Great Britain, the author will record with a sigh the story of his transcendental vagaries. Sir Oliver has received no word from the dead, "for the dead know not anything neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that Is done under the sun." FOREIGJJ TRADE J"OR JANUARY. The January report on foreign trade, as compiled by the Bureau of Statistics, is exceptionally interesting at this time, It being the first report of this nature to appear since the recent tra'de crisis was safely passed. The effect of the recent trouble is strik ingly reflected in a decrease of more than $40,000,000 In Imports, as com pared with those for January, 1907, It also explains an increase of $17,- 000,000 in exports, which reached the enormous total of $206,000,000. The "balance of trade,' as shown by these figures, has broken all previous rec ords for a single month, with an ex cess of more than $120,000,000 of ex ports over imports. In -other words, we have, in a single month not- only paid for all of, the goods purchased abroad, but have sent foreign exports of sufficient value more than to pay for all of the gold that was imported to relieve the financial stringency In this country. These new records - are directly traceable to the recent panic for the reason that they disclose retrench ment on the part of our buyers who were importing so heavily a year ago, and they also show an unusual ac tivity on the part of Americans to dispose of the products of which the Europeans stand in need. The very satisfactory ' prices at which all farm products have been selling this season was also an Incentive to a free move ment, so. long as we had anything to sell. There Is, of course, another standpoint from which to view the re markably small Imports. Much of the decline has been In materials used in manufacturing, and this feature, of course, can hardly be regarded as fa vorable, reflecting as It does a decreas ing output of our factories and the at tendant dismissal of employes, whose purchasing power of either foreign or domestic goods is, of course, curtailed by their loss of employment. The record-breaking exports for January materially aided in keeping the totals for the current fiscal year well ahead of those for the same period In the preceding season, and for the seven months ending January 31 they have reached a total of $1,189,197,668, an excess over imports of $431,492,254. It is somewhat sur prising to. note that In spite of the enormous imports of gold made within a few weeks at the close of 1907, the total for -the seven months Is but $36,000,000 greater than for the corresponding period in the preceding season. We have apparently already much more than -paid for all of the gold Imported, and, if our exports continue large and there Is no Increase In Imports, we shall in the near future have more of the yellow metal than can be used to advantage at present Interest rates. It Is questionable whether a glut in the money market is desirable, at a time when public confidence Is in such an unsettled state as trow, but if we can get it at work where it will give employment to labor and produce J something for which there is a "mar ket, we shall soon emerge from the cloud which for a time hung heavy over us. For a beginner of the new year, the January foreign trade report is certainly encouraging, and, if those which follow It are as go"od, there will be a speedy resumption of the inter rupted good times. CLACKAMAS COUNTS. If the plans of the Clackamas County Horticultural Society do not fail in development, the pioneer fruit growing county of the territorial era will have another cannery In opera tion by the time the fruit is ripe. Careful investigation has shown that the fruit area of the region of which Oregon City is the commercial center is sufficient to support and, indeed, that Its Interests demand another cannery. Furthermore, assurance of a market at home for fruits that will not bear the expense of shipping will increase the fruit-producing area of the district contiguous" thereto, as well as the price of fruit lands and rela tively of other lands In the county. Clackamas County Is one of the richest in the entire stat in horticul tural, agricultural and stockralsing and dairying possibilities. Its lands invite settlers In any of these, the basic industries of the state. Well wooded, s-ell watered, of wide area. good soil, mild climate and but sparsely settled, relatively speaking, the 'intending homebuilder ,of the ag ricultural class would have to look far before he could Improve upon the nat ural advantages to be found there. The enterprise of its citizens is speak ing in many ways for the development of Its resources, and in no way more effectively than in directing attention to these advantages. This they have done in recent months through horti cultural and agricultural fairs, rojse shows, stock and dairy exhibits, by strawberries placed upon the Winter market and grapes kept in perfection until Christmas, and by the exhibition of a spirit of neighborllness' that ap peals forcefully to homeseekers. Aided by such agencies, the waste places in Clackamas County should, in the not distant future, be dotted with Homes and add their legitimate quota to the wealth, prosperity and good citizen ship of the state. WONDERFUL REFORM. The logic of Mr- Wagnon's pro posed "tax reform" is astounding. While reading his exposition of It in last Sunday's Oregonian one is amoved to ask himself whether Mr. Wagnon 13 misled by his own fallacies or mere ly hopes to mislead the voters of Ore gon by them. The lure to the farm ers is so obviously deceptive that it is hardly thinkable that many of them will be entrapped. Mr. Wagnon tells them in his letter that they already pay 50 per cent of the state's taxes. Be it so; but how under the shining sun will they be better off when they have to pay 100 per cent? To the or dinary intellect if It seems unjust for the farmers to pay half the taxes of the state it must seem twice as great an injustice to" pay the whole of them. By what queer twist of logic does Mr. Wagnon convince himself that It is equitable to put the whole burden of taxation upon land? He reasons, like the other "single taxers," that land values are subject to a peculiar economic increase which is called the "unearned increment" This increment accrues to the value of land held out of use at exactly the same rate as to land alongside of it which is tilled or built upon; in fact, it is the improvement of neighboring land which enhances the value of idle pieces; the increase comes not at all from the labor or vigilance of the owner, it comes from the labor- of other people. All the owner of un used land has to do is to lie still like a cat at a mousehole or -a -snake in ambush and do nothing; while he waits the toil of his neighbors is con stantly making wealth for him which he realizes in the rising price of his land. Is it right that the possessor of land which is thus held out of use to act as a sponge for the absorption of unearned wealth should be permitted to enjoy the fruits of other men's in dustry? Mr. Wagnon says" ho. Since this increment in land values is cre ated by society it belongs to society, he. reasons, and if justice were done it would be taken over in the form of taxes. Now this is all true; but" It Is no more true of land than It Is of every other form of Investment. All forms of wealth enjoy an unearned Incre ment precisely the same as land, only in some cases it is less obvious. Take the case of horses, which Mr. Wagnon would exempt from taxation. .Eight years ago they were Very cheap and men -who then bought 1200-pound mares for $80 could sell them last year for $150. This increase in value was not due in the slightest degree to any effort on the part of the owner of the horses; it was caused entirely by the enterprise and common advance of, society; the unearned increment on the horses belonged to society just as much, or just as little, as that on the land, and If it is right to take the whole of it by taxation in one case, so it 4s in the other. Mr. Wagnon would also exempt bank stock from taxa tion, and particularly money in the bank. But if there is anything in the world which enjoys an enormous un earned Increment It is bank stock, while that of money Is apt to be still greater. What becomes of the value of the shares, in a little country .bank as the village where it Is situated de velops into a city? They double, quadruple, multiply tenfold in value, and all the owners have to do to real ize the gain is to gather in their sur plus quietly and from time to time' de clare a stock dividend. What banker does not know all about this and what one of them does not smile a compla cent smile as he reads Mr. Wagnon's energetic pleas in his behalf? Do the farmers of Oregon wish to tax them selves still more heavily in order to enlarge the Immunities of the bankers and manufacturing corporations? For years this Nation has been tax ing itself outrageously through the Dingley tariff to build up manufac tures. The manufactures have been built up and now through their com binations Into trusts they rule the country. But Mr. Wagnon is not sat isfied with the dose of class legisla tion and class favoritism which we have already swallowed. He wants us to try the dope In another form. but it Is the same old dope none the less. Of course, exemption from tax- atlon would tempt manufacturers to invest here. Likewise exemption of timber land from taxation would f?mpt men to come in and buy it, and exemption of farms from taxation would give the farmer an easier row to hoe. But the lure which Mr. Wag non holds out to the farmer is not ex emption; it is the delirious joy of pay ing not only his own fair share of the taxes of the state, but also those of everybody else. What does the man who seriously advocates such a propo sition think of the intelligence of the voters? It would be reasonable and just to exempt farm buildings up to a certain value from taxes, and also' the farm er's working tools and stock as well as his family provisions and the seed which he has saved to sow. To tax these things is to violate every princi ple of governmental fairness; nor is it defensible on any ground of sound policy to tax a workman's tools or a professional man's working library. AH these articles ought to be exempt, and a constitutional amendment aim ing at what is soobviously right would not fail to pass, one Imagines;' but to exempt the enormous wealth of the manufacturing corporations, the bankers, the money sharks and the shareholders In all sorts of com panies, is nothing less than an out rage. All property stands alike be fore the state. All is alike protected and all alike enjoys the privilege of absorbing unearned increment. Some is more difficult to tax than the rest,, but that Is no sufficient reason for throwing the whole burden of taxa tion on the land. The only sound reason for exempting anything is the hope that by doing so the working classes may be helped toward eco nomic independence and the distribu tion of wealth be made more equita ble. Property exemption should be distinctly a" protective measure; it should be an effort by the state to maintain the classes which are most valuable to the community in reason able comfort. All other reasons for exempting any particular kind of property are illusory. They will not bear investigation. The annual number of the West Coast Lumberman, published at Ta coma. Is at hand. It is, as usual, a handsome publication and typograph ically "letter-perfect." But Mr. Frank B. Cole, the editor and proprietor, is a humorist. His reputation as such is state-wide, and, to live up to it, Mr. Cole has slightly jeopardized the ac curacy of his otherwise valuable pub lication. For illustration,-, we find un der the heading "Puget Sound Cargo Fleet," Included with vessels from Vancouver, Victoria and Puget Sound ports, the names and amount of cargo of every vessel which loaded-lumber at Portland for a foreign port in 1907. The delicacy of Mr. Cole's humor in submerging the Portland fileet under a Puget Sound heading'can be under stood when it is stated that his own figures show the Tacoma fleet carried but 45,000.000 feet of lumber, while the Portland ships in the tabulated statement are credited with more than 65,000,000 feet. Advances in the wheat market in Europe and in this country yesterday were nearly as sensational as the sharp declines last week. The bullish effect of an increase of more than 4,000,000 bushels in "quantities on passage" was lost sight of in a decrease of nearly 2,000,000 bush els in world's shipments and of 1,169,000 bushels in the American visible supply, Argentine shipments for the fortnight ending last Friday reached a total of 14,000.000 bushels more than one-fourth of the entire amount on passage yesterday. Amer ica was a fairly good second, with shipments in excess of 7,000,000 bush els during the same peroid. The In teresting stage of this great interna tional game will not be reached until the United States suddenly reaches the bottom of the bln-and the task of supplying the world's needs falls for a few weeks on the Argentine alone. Building permits are still making a remarkable showing in Portland. Al though the valuation given seldom represents more than one-half of the actual cost of the building for which they are Issued, they have been run ning from $30,000 to $50,000 per day throughout the month, exclusive of business structures, which, of course, are represented in larger figures. These permits, of values ranging from $1000 to $3000, represent good resi dence structures for a desirable class of citizens. As the steady increase in their number has not been followed by any vacancies in the number al ready built, we have pretty conclusive evidence that the new growth of the city is in response to the needs of the. rapidly increasing number of new ar rivals which have been pouring Into the city as well as to other parts of the state from nearly every other state in the Union. "The bill raises no new Issue, intro duces no new principle," said Senator Gallinger in his eloquent plea for a ship subsidy yesterday. In that re spect the bill bears a striking resem blance to the men who are boosting for it: From its Inception it has been nothing but a plea for legislation which would permit a few to reap exorbitant profits at the expense of the many. Lest there be misunderstanding at the outset, we will remark that Mr. tPRen has submitted his candidacy tnis time to the Republican primary. out ne is careful to have It under stood that he will enthusiastically sup port any Xemocrat who may be the people s choice. Now that Mr. Brownell last year made "three times in cash money what the office of United States Dis trict Attorney Is worth," doubtless he will have some of the pity that Sena tor Fulton lacked when his friends ask him for loans of $300'.' The most unfortunate part' of Na tional prohibition would . be that the Prohibition party Including Brothers Paget, Amos and McKercher would not get the credit of it. Just think of the literary genius that would have been suppressed had Puter been sentenced to hard labor! This thought ought to help out Mc Kinley. Since giving up politics, Mr. Brown ell has become so prosperous that no body now says beer sets him to talk ing. Mr. Brownell may take comfort in the reflection that he isn't running for United States Senator this year. Officer Tom Kay would have been a fit person to arrest Mrs. Waymire for her outrage on the Mayor. CCSHJIAX "ROOTS" FOR HIMSELF He Doesn't Worry, Therefore, About the Next Presidency. Washington Herald.' Representative Cushman, of Washing ton, has discovered a new kind of poll ics. Mr. Cushman has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the Republican nomination for the Presidency, having himself provided the basis for the gos sip by replying when asked for whom' he was "rooting"' In the present canvass, that he was "for" himself. But a few days "ago a member of the press gallery corps who represents a Pa cific Coast paper, wrote to Mr. Cushman and asked him a number of question bearing on his attitude toward the nom ination. The following is a synopsis of the reply which the correspondent yester day received: "There seems to have grown "up in Washington a sort of canned politics, or cold-storage political Interview. A Rep resentative cannot leave the House or his committee-room nowadays without run ning into a reporter, who presents to him a typewritten sheet on which questions like the following appear: " "Who do you favor for the Republi can nomination for President?' . " 'Do you favor Mr. Taft?' " 'Jf not, why not?' " 'If so, to what extent? . -- " 'If you are not for him, for whom are you ? " 'If you are for "whom," why are you for "whom"?' " "Who is your second choice?' " 'Will there be more than one ballot?" " "What are you going to do, and If so, why, and if not, why not?' "I can truthfully say that I admire the enterprise of newspaper managers in keep ing the Presidential contest to the fore. That is part of their business. But so far as I am concerned, I have other things to do. "Neither law, custom nor propriety places upon my plunder shoulders the re sponsibility of seleji.lr.3 the next Presi dential candidate of the Republican par ty. I am not a political boss. One of the reasons why I have been moderately suc cessful in my present position is that I have tried to attend strictly to my own duties and let others attend to theirs. "There are five or six men today In the Republican party who are prominently mentioned for this nomination. Almost any one of them would make a good can didate, and without exception any of them would make a good President." THE DEMAND FOR GOV. HUGHES. Grows Out of His Achievements as Governor. Leslie's Weekly. The New York World says that the State of New York cannot spare Gover nor Hughes that it wants to keep him at Albany for two years more. Instead of letting him go to Washington for four or eight years. Here Is a striking tribute from an able and fair-minded paper be longing to the opposite party. The World says that Hughes has been one oi the best Governors whom New York has ever had. This is high praise, for among New York's Governors have been the two Clintons, Jay, Van Buren, iMarcy, Seward, Morgan, Cleveland, Roosevelt, 'Black and many other illustrious men. It is deserved praise. New York's Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, also eulogize Mr. Hughes: "We have at Al bany as Governor a man to whom the eyes of the whole, people are turned. Gov ernor Hughes has done and is doing his duty, not only as- Governor of the state, but as Governor of the whole people of the state." Because tie Is doing his duty as Governor of the whole people of the state and because he recognizes no party or locality lines In the performance of his work he receives the tributes of honest and' able newspapers and men, regaraiess of party, all over the state and the Na tion. In the entire life of the state, tio executive has received more deserved ap plause from political enemies as well as from friends than has been extended to Governor Hughes. The fact, however, that he Is doing his duty ably, sanely end persistently, with out thinking at all of the Presidential candidacy, has turned the eyes of the country toward Governor Hughes as the right man for the higher office which is to be filled this year. A man who can govern the Empire State, so wisely as Charles E. Hughes has done could meet the most exacting demands of the Presi dency. This sentiment is spreading rapidly throughout the country. Much as many sincere Democrats, like the New York World, would like to see Mr. Hughes serve another term as Governor, there is a strong probability that the peo ple of the country will place him in a higher post in 1908. His speech at the Republican Club is his platform. Make $120,000 From Nothing. Boston Dispatch in New York Tribune. Charles A. Baldwin and W. A. Bald win, brothers, of this city, have made just $126,000. according to all Indications, by their bid on over J4.000.000 worth of the recent issue of New York City bonds at 104 when they did not have a dollar to buy them. With the bid they sent a check for $168,000, guaranteed by the Massachusetts Loan and Guarantee Com pany1, when, as one of the brothers said tonight: "We didn't know how we could raise $10 if we had to." But before the check reached here a New York bond house offered them 107 for their allot ment. With this offer there was no trouble In arranging with a bank to take care of their check. W. A. Baldwin said they would accept the offer of the New York firm. By this they make Just $126,000. Does Primary Law Help the Tonit La Grande Star. One of the faulty features of the primary nominating law is that it doee not give the different sections of the county proportionate representation on the official ballots. Two years ago nearly all the candidates on both the Republican and Democratic tickets were bunched in La Grande or in the Immediate vicinity. At the present time about four out of five of the can didates for office are residents of this city. The people may put up with this thing for another election, but the time will come very soon unless there is a change when a ticket will be put up that will be more scattered geo graphically, and when that time comes the La Grande ticket will be swept off the face of the earth. Mr. Carnegie's "Little Remembrance." Atlanta Dispatch in New York Times. Miss Annie Wallace, of Atlanta, Ga. who is, to be married to Max Franklin Howland, of Boston, will receive $100,000 from Andrew Carnegie as a wedding present. Miss Wallace has been in charge of the Carnegie Library since it was established here, and in that position -I sne was rrequentiy brought in, contact with 'Mr. Carnegie, who became fond of the young woman. When Miss Wallace announced her engagement she received a congratulatory letter from Mr. Carne gie, which closed with the statement that he would send her a "little remembrance" of her wedding. This remembrartce takes the form of $100,000 in Steel Trust winds, which have been deposited with the Home Trust' Company, of Hoboken, N. J., with instructions that the income of $6000 be paid to the Atlanta girl. Love Survives $10,000 Lawsuit. Marinette (Wis.) Dispatch in New York World. MIsb Alvina Ladusier was married In Menominee, Mich., to Julius Behrondt, whom two months ago she sued for $10,000 for breach of promise when he married Miss Catherine Shannon, of this city. Miss Shannon procured a divorce a week after her wedding. NO -NEED FOR THIS LEGISLATION. Huntley Corrupt Practices Bill Com plex, Cumbersome and Unnecessary. Corvallls Gazette. One of the measures to be submitted to the Initiative vote of the electors, next June, is "A law to prevent corrupt practices and limit candidate's election expenses." This Is known as the Huntley bill, and was presented in the last Legislature and defeated In the House. It is a very com plex affair of upwards of 50 sections, some of them very lengthy and Intricate because Involving many minute particu lars. It is a veritable "crazy quilt" piece of proposed legislation. It surely must have been a lot of dul lards who composed the last Legislature since In the space of 90 days they failed to see the merits of this measure. They probably taw: I First That it Is a long, cumbersome 1 affair which prescribes new and unusual duties for State Printer, Secretary of State, city, county and school clerks, auditors, recorders and other public offi cials, and also many perplexing pro visions relating to candidates, their re latives and their friends. Second That it is based on the assump tion that the greater number of voters have their votes for sale, barter and ex change; that to be elected to any Im portant office the candidate Is compelled to make such profligate expenditures that a poor man is debarred from seeking office. This is a false assumption and an Im plied Insult to the honest, patriotic men who constitute at least 88 per cent of Oregon s electors. Why burden our statute-books, already overburdened, with a law so complex as this? We now have all the law necessary to protect voters from interference by any one near to and at the polling place. We have ample laws defining bribery, fraud and other offenses against the purity of the ballot. These laws have been proved efficient and the penalties they prescribe are severe enough to be deterrent. What more is needed? Plainly nothing more. It is scarcely probable that the voters will approve a law which classes every candidate for office among rogues, liars and thieves and the voter himself as a bribe seeker and taker wholly unfitted for American citizenship, This bill is a fair specimen of what visionaries, faddists and vapid eentimen tallsta seek, under the operation of the Initiative to foist on the people in the guise of measures needed for good gov ernment. It is well known that if we would repeal some of our laws and simplify others the cause of Justice and of good government would be distinctly promoted. THE ARMY HIDING TEST. That Adds to the Gaiety of the Na tional Capital-. Washington Dispatch to the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Army officers, fat and lean, young. middle-aged and venerable, are to indulge this year In military riding matinees. A new order granting the warriors behind the desk the further opportunity to be come acquainted with the saddle is to be issued. They will have ample time to prepare for the severe 90-mlle test to which, they will be subjected next Fall. In consequence, there 1b a decided lxiom In the Washington horse market, and tailors are stitching overtime on riding breeches. Out of the 100 revolving chair military heroes who took the recent 15-mile riding test a half-dozen lost their commissions when Jit was found they had forgotten how properly to bestride a horse. Sur vivors of that experience are not to be caught napping when the more severe ordeal Is sprung. So General Bell brought pressure to bear, with the result that the Secretary of War has given permission to department officers to take an hour each afternoon for practice, or one or two afternoons a week, if they prefer. Among the young officers the order is acclaimed with Joy, for it means recrea tion at Government expense. Major Eugene T. Wilson, who Is stationed at the war college, and confesses to nearly 300 pounds, Is not hilarious. Neither are some of the 250-pounders. They are wondering where they can find mounts that will carry them nine miles, let alone 90, without ' caving in. Homicide as Denned. Baltimore Sun. Here are some of the answers made by Chlcagoans who were examined recently as to their eligibility for places on the Chicago police force: Q. What would you do if you saw an excavation in the street? A. Shoot the guy. Q. What is a policeman's duty in pull ing a patrol box? A. Go Into the box and wait for rob bers and murderers. Q. What is meant by city ordinances? A. Keeping the city in order. Q. What is a bail bond? " A. One of his friends plunks down $200 and you let the fellow go. "Define homicide?" was the rock upon which a good many of the embryo police men split. Some of the answers were: Homicide The man who is to be mur dered. Homicide Convicting a man on circum stantial evidence. Homicide A reckless automobile driver who kills people. Found a Mastodon Tooth. Baker City Herald. Yesterday Jim McCord, who is min ing out on Marshall Creek, brought to Baker City a piece of a tooth that evi dently belonged in a mastodon at a time when this section of the country was in the tropical zone. McCord found the tooth while working in the Glea son placers about 36 miles east of Baker, and at a depth of 32 feet. Near the tooth was recently found an $8 gold nugget, but Jim declares that the mastodon tooth had been filled and this nugget was the filling which had dropped out. Traces of ivory can be seen through the por-tion of the tooth, indicating that at one time it was all ivory, but the sands and water have worked changes. The tooth had been broken off and the part Mr. McCord had measured 5by 6 Inches, and weighed about six pounds. Thursday a Buny Time for Her. Baltimore News. Mrs. Dixie Strothers, aged 69, of Greensboro, N. C, has been married three times, each time on Thursday, and each of her four ohildren was born on that day.' Hit Father'. Son. Catholic Standard and Times. Oh, my! oh, my! the years go by Like sheep and dog's are harryln; But late I had a liepln' lad. An now he talks o' marryin! Lord bless me, but he has the strut Of one that's grand an' knows It; No las so rim that looks at him , But likes his cut an' shows It. An' falx, 'twould do your heart good, too. To hear him at the blarney; There's ne'er a la?s that sees him oAs But wears a smile for Barney Our Barney A wistful smile for Barney. Though Cupid lays cute snares these days "When Barney goes phllandeiin'. An' all his traps hold Reese, perhaps None takes this bold young gander In. Ah! none as yet, but there's a net That will, one day or other. An' her rd name to bait the same Is one like me, his mother. Aye! sure as fate, he'll take for mate S-.veet. roguish Nora Kearney. Who meets his wiles with scornful smiles. As once 1 did with Barney , My Barney The father of "our" Barney. WTH H0USCJJ0LDW BT LILIAN' TINGLE. ORE than 40 years ago the follow i I Ing eloquent appeal was written by a well-known culinary critic. Although a loyal American, proud of his country and of his countrywomen, he had a pro found admiration for "the motherly Mrs. John Bull." and a still greater ad miration for her skill In the makings of puddings. He says: "When a being 'noble In reason' has wedded a highly-educated woman from motives of the purest love. It adds to the fervor and depth of his affection to find that the same fair fingers that deftly sweep the harp and mantptr late the piano can also blend harmonious ly the ingredients of a pudding." After dwelling tenderly on his favorite kinds of puddings and theifrespeetive excellences he concludes: "Married ladles who love your lords, give them puddings. Your husbands are driven to 'bitters' by pastry; for some tonic solvent Is absolute ly necessary to enable their stomachs to assimilate the 'leaf cruet' and heavy understratum of what are called "home made pies.' (The phrase, by the way, is a misnomer, for-not a few of them come from the nearest bakery, or, worse still. the corner grocer".) Consider, O matronly beauty ar.d fashion of America, that of outraged digestion come 'peccant humors,' and of these, Irritation and family Jars. It concerns the health of your spouses and your own peace that you cultivate the art of pudding making and Indeed culinary art generally. Crocheting and Afghan knitting are pretty amusements: it is pleasant, no doubt, to spend the forenoon among billowy silks and rippling ribbons at the dry goods stores; and gossiping morning calls are simply de lightful; but, If it Is not asking too much of beings only a little lower than the angels, won't you go occasionally Into the kitchen taking your daughters in your hands and see to the boiling, the baking and the roasting?" . , This appeal Is not entirely out of date in .1908, even tnough "crocheting and Afghan knitting" have lost their former popularity and the glory of the pudding Is obscured by wonderful compounds gen erally misnamed ""desserts." But hear how a Christmas pudding of the '60s once inspired a hungry bard: Orb. from a chaos of gt)od things evolved. Rounded, while plastic in a tightened rag; Globe, whoa creation's not In doubt in volved. Whose mould tod matrix was a pudding bag; No sphere of which astronomy can brag Compares with thine. Perchance the tun may be A world half fire, "half scoria and slag. Or It may not: what is the sun to me Since for my system's center I have theeT Most of the heroines of mld-Vlctorlan Action were capable of making puddings and many of them did so, especially if they belonged to Dickens. Ruth Pinch Is a notable example, and I was delighted some time ago to find a recipe for "Ruth Pinch's celebrated pudding or beefsteak pudding a la Dickens." But when you are told to "substitute six ounces of butter and four eggs" for something in a preceding recipe, and, on looking up that, you are further referred to another one, and Anally told to "see preliminary remarks," your zeal for literary dainties Is likely to suffer some dampening. Per sonally. I don't believe she had a recipe. She probably took "Just about as much as she thought" of each ingredient, and generally had "good luck." - If yon pick tip a cook-book belonging to the palmy days of pudding making you may And something of interest in the titles bestowed upon the various compounds. Of course many of the pud dings are named from some particular ingredient, and many others have place names such as "New York pudding," "Coburg pudding," etc., which seem to hare no special significance. But there are others that make you wonder as to their origin. It seems fitting, for instance, that "Her Majesty's" pudding should have "eight very fresh eggs," while "Prince Albert's pudding" is allowed only "Ave eggs." Let us hope they were at least "sound" If not "very fresh." In regard to the "Publisher's pudding" the remark Is made "this pudding can scarcely be made too rich"; while "The poor author's pudding" and the "curate's pudding," .which follow, are evidently,, with subtle irony, described as "excellent and inexpensive." e There are two "elegant economist's puddings." I should like to meet the "elegant economist." I Judge from her title and recipes that she is a person after my own heart. To the "young wife's pudding" the author adds "we give minute directions for this dish." Don't you wondor why? "The welcome guest's own pudding" is qualified as "light and wholesome." That one can understand; 'but please explain the fitness of the following: "To convert the preceding Into 'Sir Edwin Landseer's pudding' " (does that mean he would or would not be a "welcome guest?"), "ornament the mould tastefully with small leaves of citron rind and split muscatel raisins in a pattern, and strew the intermediate spaces with dried cur rants mingled with candled orange rind shred Bmall." Another thing that rather puzzles me Is "printer's pudding." I always under stood that It was "pi" that they make. Menagerie Modes. New York Times. No woman can be truly smart unless Bhs owns one gown of elephant gray. Fashion Notes. All honor to the pachyderm Tis Fashion s own decree. And woman doth herself array With sweet consistency. If one boast is a goodly thing. She ll utilize "em all., by Jlngl With frork of elephantine hue Her waist, of course, must taoir; The Jeweled lynx that clasp her belt Are quite the current caoer Tls rumored that the'mlghty whale Supplies at least one small detail. The sort white rabbit at her throat. Pierced by tiger eye. Is almost hidden by her coat. Secured along the tly By several frogs and over all A twining boa seems to crawl. Her hair Is coirted with tortolss-shelL Within it lurks a rat; A cygnet on her finger. And an owl upon her hat: A tiny mole upon her face Is never, therefore, out of Dlace. Her shopping bag of lizard skin Was once all cold and clammy; Her hands are cased In yellow gloves That grew upon the chamois. And In her boudoir, negligee, But when, well-groomed, she saunters forta Vpon the promenade 'Tls a "'stupendous ppoetacle" A "dazzling street parade." We wait, involuntarily. To hear the steam calliope. I