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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.
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