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PORTLAND. TUESDAY, MARCH 17. 1B08.
THE NEW ERA IN POLITICS.
It Is rank partisanship for any man
or group of men to try to organize the
Republican party for the coming elec
tion, and we trust such effort if made
by anybody will be met by rhe hos
tility It deserves. It Is thoroughly dis
creditable to attempt party organiza
tion, especially so, if the attempt is
made In the name of the Republican
party. As foretold by The Oregonlan
long? time ago, every attempt to. or
ganize, in any quarter, will be justly
characterized and denounced as the
work of a ring; and any organization
will be a machin. It is time we were
delivered from these sinister assaults
on the rights of the people. A lot of
fellows are declaring their Intention to
be candidates for office, and are push
ing their various organizations for the
purpose of getting their friends out to
the primaries: and then, if they get
the nominations they seek, they will
be all astir and alert, for weeks, to
make their election sure. It is an im
position on the rights of the people,
who want no leaders -and need no
party organization. The Oregonlan,
let it be understood, is firmly resolved
not to join any conspiracy of this kind,
but will help to rebuke it by giving
such encouragement as it can to the
non-partisan organization and effort of
the Democratic party.
After a while there will be a confer
ence of non-partisans in a clubroom
somewhere, for proper denunciation of
the ring and the machine, and a plan
will como forth for a ticket that all
fervent haters of machine politics and
ring rulo will approve; together with
a ticket made up of men and for men
and by men who sincerely detest ring
and machine methods'. Reform Re
publicans will join with non-partisan
Democrats in this endeavor; and the
disinterestedness of It will be attested
hy the fact that the men who have
a real voice in the affair will be but
a dozen or twenty, at most, and too
few. therefore, to be subject to the
Justly odious appellation of being a
ring or machine. Count on The Ore
gonian as a pleader, with the voice of
a trumpet, for this anti-machine or
ganization. You never more will find
this newspaper with any of these Re
publican gangs, or gangs who stand
for organization and success of the
Republican party. That would be ring
politics, which must be detested b'y
every independent citizen and true
patriot. This journal has learned Its
lesson during past years, and is for
party no more. The Chamberlain
method wins Its admiration. If now
our friends in Oregon could just per
suade Mr. Bryan to change his tactics
and run as a non-partisan candidate
for the Presidency! Who will "put it
up to him"? Since Oregon leads alt
reforms, nothing so fit as that this
suggestion should be flashed from Ore
gon. We trust this will obtain the at
tention of Senator Milt Miller, of Linn,
who, we believe, is Justly entitled to
his fame as Mr. Bryan's closest friend
In Oregon. Induce Mr. Bryan to run
as a non-partisan, and we'll all .sup
port him.
The United States has no particular
use for Chinese coolies. The economic
advantage of cheap labor is more than
offset by the detrimental effect that
results from a large population of
aliens who have no Interest In our
welfare or our Institutions beyond the
Interest which enables them to amass
a fortune with greater ease than is
possible In their own country. But
there Is a class of Chinese who are en
titled to admission and to .good treat
ment, and, unfortunately for the con
tinuation of pleasant relations between
this country and both China and Ja
pan, this class is not always accorded
the courtesies that the United States
would demand for its representatives
In Chins. The humiliating experience
of Liang 11a um, Mexican Charge
d'Affaires, while passing through the
United States, is a disgrace to tiis
country, and. If our Immigration srv
ice is not equipped with men compe
tent to tell an educated Chinese Am
bassador from an Ignorant coolie, it is
certainly time for radical reform. ,
' THE CANT OF HYPOCRISY.
The House has passed the bill' to re
quire restoration of the motto "In
God We Trust," on gold and silver
coins. It is mere cant. President
Roosevelt gave excellent and sufficient
reasons for -its removal. But the
Pharisees are always numerous more
numerous now than In the early ages.
The sect Is Immortal. It multiplies as
the spirit of religion declines.
This legend first appeared, as a fad,
upon the copper two-cent issue of
1864. It was put upon the coin as a
sneer at its trifling value as a coin.
But it caught the eye of the Pharisee;
and then, without authority of law,
was placed on silver, gold and nickel
coins. In lieu of the old legend, "E
Pluribus Unum."
As actual religion dies you may de
pend on appearance of this kind of
thing. A Pharisaical bureau for pro
motion of ' mechanical religion and
morality Is maintained steadily at
Washington, for intimidation of Con
gress. President Roosevelt gave the true
reasons why the motto of levity and
hypocrisy should be removed from the
coins. But Congress will restore It;
and every member will, In. private, de
spise himself for doing it. The time
is coming in this country, as It came
in the ancient world, when, as Cicero
tells us, two priests, practicing their
mummeries, couldn't look each other
in the face without laughing. But
what was the fate of vital religion, un
der such conditions? It "needed such
a man as the Nazarene to revive It.
AN INFAMOUS COCRT. '
An awful wrong has been done in
San Francisco. Good men, it seems,
have been accused of corruption and
extortion, have been haled before the
courts and the charges proven. But
the courts declare them not guilty. It
is admitted that Mayor Schmitz took
bribes and that Abe Ruef was his go
between. The two, through extortion,
got many bags of money. They
bought the Supervisors of the city,
who sold the franchises and put the
money received for the sale into their
pockets. It has been proved. No
body denies it. But the Supreme
Court of California declares it was all
right.
Now, our news reports say, there is
a general tendency to accept the de
cision of the Supreme Court, because
of the futility of protest. But what
are the people going to do with that
Supreme Court? Nothing at present;
but If there is any sufficient sense of
honor and honesty left In California,
every member of it will be treated as
a pariah and be consigned to eternal
Infamy. In the days of the, vigilance
committee every one of them would
have swung from an Improvised gal
lows. Modern society has a better way. No
one of those judges ought ever to re
ceive the least notice from any honest
man, but should be ostracized com
pletely, In all social and business life.
And every man, coming into the pres
ence of any one of them, should turn
his back, and keep his hand on such
valuables as he may. have In his
pocket. The people are entitled to
their revenge on judges like these.
THE RETREAT OF CHINA.
Cable advices now Indicate that the
Tatsu Maru affair, which for a time
threatened to embroil Japan and
China, Is a closed Incident. It would
seem from the story of the settlement
of the difficulty that China had reced
ed from the stand originally taken and
made reparation . for seizure of the
Japanese vessel. At a long-range
view, and with the stories of the af
fair from Japanese sources" differing
materially from those from China, it
Is difficult to determine the degree of
provocation for Japan's demands or
for the attendant humiliation- of China
in being obliged to meet them. But
after each of these Oriental powers
has said Its little say and put up the
customary "bluff," It would be ex
tremely difficult for the matter to
drift into actual war without the con
sent of some greater powers that are
"behind the throne" of both China and
Japan.
As was pointed out when this dimin
utive war cloud first appeared on the
political horizon of the Far East, China
was warranted in assuming her some
what haughty air of independence In
asserting her right to stop filibustering;
by almost any means she saw fit to
employ. The China that Japan would
be obliged to right today is vastly dif
ferent from the China that, stagger
ing under the weight of centuries of
superstition and ignorance, fell an
easy victim to the Japanese a dozen
years ago. It was the knowledge of
her new strength that gave China con
fidence In her stand against the' de
mands of Japan, and, had the issue
been one In which these two countries
alone were concerned, the possibility
of such concessions as China has
made would have been remote indeed.
But maintenance of peace In the Far
East has become a matter of interna
tional concern. There are but few
great powers on earth that are not in
terested in continuation of present
peaceful conditions in China and
Japan.
A war between the two countries at
this time would necessitate the addi
tion of enormous burdens to those
under which debt-ridden Japan is al
ready staggering, and It would also re
tard the growth and development of
China in a corresponding degree. . It
might go even farther In the destruc
tion of. the two powers most interested
by leaving them In the position of the
storied Kilkenny cats, for beyond
doubt anything like a prolonged con
flict, which of necessity would have
to be . financed by other countries.
would cause , a general break-up of
territorial lines and jurisdiction. Ger
many, England and the United States
have for the past generation regarded
the Integrity of China as the greatest
principle involx-ed in the political or
commercial policy of the Far East.
and on any question in which the pos
sible dismemberment of the Flowery
Kingdom was Involved, these three
great powers may be expected to stand
together. France, which has been but
mildly committed to this policy, has
already financed Japan nearly, to the
limit of safety, and Russia, since her
recent drubbing for an attempted vio
lation of the open-door policy, 1 in no
mood to aid Japan openly in harassing
China. .
On the surface the cocky Japanese
have apparently gained a slight advan
tage over China In adjustment of the
Tatsu Maru difficulty, but the under
lying causes for this adjustment will
not be found In the Orient, but far
away in lands where dwell worrd pow
ers which, if it became necessary to do
so, could take the belligerent, yellow
nations and knock their heads to
gether until both would cry for quar
ter and promise to be good forever
more. Perhaps the worst feature of
this adjustment which has just been
made in Japan's favor will b an In
creased swelling of the Japanese head.
That affliction, however, will be at
tended to whenever Japan makes her
self particularly obnoxious to a first
class power. 1 ..
GOVERNOR JOHNSON'S FALSE FRIENDS.
To a man of tender heart and sym
pathetic soul the anti-Bryan Demo
cratic papers present a piteous specta
cle. Agreeing only In their hatred of
the eloquent and persevering Nebras
kan, each of them is at. loggerheads
with all the rest about the choice of a
substitute for him. Harper's Weekly
makes an elegant pretense of booming
the pale and spectral Dr. Woodrow
Wilson, of Princeton University, as
Democratic candidate for President,
but this frigid suggestion seems to be
received without much warmth. Dr.
Wilson dines on Greek roots and his
daily recreation la to repeat the bino
mial theorem backward. Think of
such a diaphanous shadow running
for President. . - . - ,
One paper wants Judge Gray. An
other suggests that Mr. Ryan's vener
able assistant, Grover Cleveland, re
enter the turbulent field of Presiden
tial politics. Still another longs to see
Pat McCarren enter the race, and as
sures us that he could carry the solid
South. Very likely he could. Will
some one please mention a Democrat
who -could not? All these are vain
imaginations. But Governor Johnson,
of Minnesota, possesses a little more
substantiality. In addition to the solid
South he could perhaps carry Minne
sota, although that is doubtful. It is
one thing to carry a state when run
ning for Governor and a very different
thing to carry it in a Presidential con
test. One rather inclines to fancy
that, much as the Scandinavians of
Minnesota admire Mr. Johnson,- they
would think long and hard ere they
gave him their votes in preference to
Mr. Taft or any other Republican of
Roosevelt proclivities.
Those 'papers which hold out to Mr.
Johnson the hope that he could carry
Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota
and all the border states are tempting
him to indulge in that prideful spirit
which goeth before a fall. The Gov
ernor of Minnesota Is a man of whom
nothing is known but good. The trou
ble with him Is that to the great ma
jority of the American people he Is
less than a name. They have never
heard of him. Except in a magazine
article or two, and in a few anti-Bryan
newspapers, Mr. Johnson has scarcely
enjoyed National mention. Although
an admirable man and one who is sure
to grow, he Is aa yet but a local char
acter. To the mass of the voters of
his party he is a stranger and it is now
too late 'for them to make his ac
quaintance before the next election.
Mr. Bryan Is the habitual candidate
of the Democratic party, and the only
one who has any chance of nominal
tion. It is- therefore little short of
cruel and willful deception to urge Mr.
Johnson by glowing promises to enter
the field against him. The effort could
only end in loss of his time, money and
lung power, with an after-crop of hard
feeling for the men who induced him
by false allurements to take a hand in
a nopeless game. "
A VANISHED LiXDMARK.
The old home of Dr. P. Prettyman,
at the foot of Mount Tabor, contem
poraneous in architecture with the old
Standard Mill 'building at Milwaukie,
that succumbed to the weight of years
and the stress of flood a few Winters
ago; the S. W. Moss and Dr. Barclay
residences in Oregon City; the old
homes of Captain J. C. Ainsworth,
Captain A'.' F. Hedges and Thomas
Holmes on the hill east of Oregon
City; the Carter house, in Southwest
Portland, and other well-remembered
structures of pioneer name and fame,
is soon to disappear before the march
of progress, as most, if not all, of the
buildings named have done before It.
A quaint, rambling structure, it has
long stood, in Its practically abandoned
age, a monument to the sturdy
strength and determined purpose of its
builder and to the part that he played
in the subjugation of the wilderness.
Hospitality and helpfulness were the
watchwords of the pioneers, and their
primitive dwellings were built in ac
cordance with the purpose that these
words represent. The old Prettyman
house was long the headquarters for
the, preachers who came and went in
pursuit of their calling In the early
days. Denizens of the straggling vil
lage In the woods on the bank of the
Willamette that has since become a
populous, progressive city, hunting
game in the heavy timber and dense
thickets of the East Side, halted there
for shelter from a sudden rain storm
or to appease the sharp demands of
hunger induced by a tramp of hours
through the woods. Neighborhood and
family reunions were held there, for
the house was central, roomy and ad
mirably fitted to the purpose of pio
neer gatherings.
A weird theory that has been
quaintly, almost convincingly, ex
pressed by. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Ward, is that an old house Is as a
phonograph In which the voices of
past occupants and chance guests are
recorded, waiting the touch of a de
vice or emotion subtle enough or
strong enough to awaken them. A
slight stretch of the Imagination sup
plementing this theory would hear be
tween the sounds of the hammer, blow
on blow by which the old house was
razed to the ground, myriads of long
silent voices, resonant with the record
of past struggles and simple triumphs
voices - unrecognized only because
their listeners were not of those to
whom the ton'es were familiar in the
lpng ago.
If it pleases any one to indulge this
weird fancy, let it be with the hope
that. If the ghost of the old house. like
a sentient thing, still hovers around
the spxt that knows the ancient land
mark no more, it is as a serene ele
ment content with the triumphs of a
useful life, forgetful of its disappoint
ments and happily unmindful of the
neglect that has for years been its por
tion. Captain F. H. West, for more than
forty years a resident of the East Side,
became early afflicted with the infirm
ities of age, due to a strenuous life in
his early years on sea and land, and f
had long been regarded as an invalid, j
Hence the announcement of his death j
tauaeu no surprise a Bcuiidiittu in
bearing and address, and a- man use
ful In his day and generation. Captain
West commanded the honor and re
spect of the community in which he
had been a factor for more than two
score years. His death closes a life of
more than ordinary incident and vicis
situde. A member of St. David's
Church during almost the entire
period of its existence. Captain West
will be universally missed and
mourned by the members of that
body. The record of his life la that
of an upright and successful man..
The headquarters of the new reve
nue district has been located at Port
land, notwithstanding most energetic
efforts to confer the honor on Seattle.
This district will Include Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and Alaska, and in
selecting Portland for the headquar
ters the Government has acknowl
edged the commercial supremacy of
this port. This city, through Its posi
tion as the financial headquarters of
the Pacific Northwest, la in a better
position than any other North Pacific
port to handle the business of the Gov
ernment. For that reason this port
will also undoubtedly be chosen tor
the location of the new Subtreasury.
Portland may have been somewhat
slow In the past, but she seems about
to come into her own.
The nomenclature of the wild and
woolly West has always been the
source of great amusement to the ef
fete East.. This trait of the Easterner
is partly explained by the great dif
ference In many of the geographical
names in the East when compared
with those of the West. For example,
we find in yesterday's news columns a
dispatch from "Woods Hole," Mass.,
in which it is stated that the crew of
the steamer Sylvia, which mistook the
"Sow and Pigs" ledge for the "Hen
and Chickens," had ben saved by the
"Cutty Hunk" lifesaving crew. These
names are not regarded as uncommon
by Eastern people, who show signs of
hysterics in attempting to pronounce
Skamokawa, Stillaguamlsh or Mukil
teo. The House of Representatives de
sires to restore the ornamental "In
God We Trust" to the coinage. This
would imply that for some reason-the
House believes it has cause to trust
the Almighty. What can the reason
be? To the casual observer It appears
as if our National Representatives had
extraordinarily good grounds to call
upon the' caves to hide them and the
mountains to . cover them from his
presence. Can their zeal for the motto
be a trick to divert his attention from
other matters which they would rather
he did not ooserve too closely?
Like this season's Eastern millinery.
Spring crime presents startling novel
ties. With intelligence worthy of a
better cause, one man impersonates an
Inspector and robs every letter In a
mail car, while a brute, by blinding!
the treasurer of a theater with am
monia, gets away with the day's re
ceipts. If criminologists could turn
the ingenuity of such men into an hon
est channel, what a service they would
render to the robbers and to society.
Hope Is again being indulged that
leprosy, that creeping, ghastly canker
of the flesh that has for ages been the
despair of medical science, may be
cured. A Swiss machinist is the dis
coverer of the alleged cure, and steps
are being taken to give the treatment,
whatever it is, a trial among the
plague-stricken of the Island of Molo
kai. Skeptical but not without hope,
medical scientists await the result of
this latest experiment.
A daughter of the late Harvey B.
Lord, author of the Illinois Revised
Statutes, Is contesting her father's will
on the ground that it was improperly
drawn. Judging by precedent, the
woman will undoubtedly find courts
where she can get a decision showing
beyond doubt that her father, was in
competent to draw any kind of legal
document. The "law" is full of mys
tery even for those who know some
thing about it. '
Hayti is enjoying another revolu
tion. These little diversions ot the
colored man's Island are usually en
couraged by other nations, since the
fewer Haytians there are in the world
the better. ' But when the game ex
tends to the murder of Frenchmen
there Is danger that Its happy course
may be rudely interrupted. Under the
Monroe Doctrine must we punish
Haytl or let Europe do it?
The regular college bulletin for Pa
cific University, just at hand, shows
notable and substantial progress in
various lines of college effort and
training In that institution. A host of
friends of the university throughout
the Pacific Northwest will welcome
these evidences of prosperity with sin
cere pleasure.
Emma Goldman, the unsexed wind
bag, could be eliminated if her name
ceased to appear In any American
newspaper and nothing published
about her movements. If her name
failed to appear In print, she would
withdraw in disgust to some distant
land. She lives on printer's ink.
Mr. La Follette has had to undergo
great obloquy In his day, but we sup
posed time had assuaged the bitter
ness of his enemies and insured him
from future Indignities. It seems,
however, that this is not so. The Pop
ulists are about to nominate him for
the Presidency.
The Independence League is down
on Bryan and won't support Johnson.
Puzzle: Guess the name of the candi
date the league will support.
Did any one ever know of a time
when the Madison-street bridge was
not In danger? Is It really frail or
only constitutionally timid?
At last accounts Knox, Cannon,
Fairbanks and La Follette were look
ing for booms that have got lost.
Hary Orchard Is now devoting
much! time to religious books. He be
gan too late.
Probably he might not deny today
that his real name is William J.
O'Bryan.
If Orchard wants to die. there
should be no objection from any quar
ter ,
ROADS MAY GETX LAND FREE
Test Snit to Decide Tideland Priv
ileges at Seattle.
OLTMPIA, Wash., March 16. (Special.)
A test suit will be brought in the King
County Superior Court which may re
sult In giving to the Union Pacific and
Milwaukee railroads Seattle tldelands
valued at several million dollars. When
the Seattle tldelands were platted by the
State provision was made for a south
waterway 1000 feet wide. The Hammond
Mill Company, owning frontage on this
waterway, has. with the permission of
the Federal War Department, constructed
a wharf extending out 150 feet over the
waterway to the pier lines. It is gen
erally understood that the Federal au
thorities will grant a similar permit to
other owners of the land along the
waterway. The Union Pacific and Mil
waukee railroads own a large amount of
frontage on the waterway and insist that
if others can encroach with wharves 150
feet on each side of the waterway, the
railroad company should have similar
privileges.
The Attorney-General, after a confer
ence with Land Commissioner Ross, has
decided to bring suit immediately to oust
the Hammond Mill Company from the
waterway, and thus test the question.
If this case goea against the state it
means, of course, that the railroads will
get the right to occupy a strtp of water
way 150 feet wide in front of their front
age and will secure this without ex
pense. CUT HO'? CROP O-VE-THIRD
Oregon Growers to Decide on Prop
osition 9farcn 30.
SALEM, Or., March 16. (Special.)
Secretary Joseph Baumgartner, of the
Oregon branch of the Pacific Coast Hop
growers' Union, has received word that
the California directors will be in Port
land, March 30, for the purpose of con
ferring with Oregon and Washington
directors relative to plans for reducing
the 1808 crop to two-thirds of the crop of
1807. An agreement has been drawn pro
viding for a one-third reduction to be
come effective when 90 per cent of the
growers have signed.
Leaders of the movement in California
do not approve of the plan of a hop
growers' corporation with each grower
owning as many shares as he has acres,
for such an organization would violate
the anti-trust laws.
SALEM MAY GET PAPER MILL
Proposal Made to Council to Make
TJse of City's Water Power.
SALEM. Or., March 16. (Bpecial.) That
there Is good prospect for the establish
ment of a paper mill in Salem was as
serted tonight at a meeting of the City
Council, though the names of the persons
having the project in mind were not
mentioned. The Council had under con
sideration a resolution condemning as a
public nuisance the old mill race in North
Salem, which has not been used for years.
In opposing the resolution. Alderman
Stockton said that he has definite and
reliable information that a plan is on
foot to use the water power for a paper
mill, but that the details cannot yet be
made public. Two other manufacturing
enterprises, one of them a woolen mill,
are figuring on using the power.
RESTORE PRESIDENT'S PICTURE
Astoria Socialists Will Also Decorate
Hall With American , Flag.
ASTORIA, Or.. March 16. (Special.)
The Suomi Temperance Society at its
meeting on Friday evening passed .a
motion directing that President Roose
velt's picture 'be restored to its place on
the wall in the meeting-room, and that
the hall be decorated with American
flags. This is the organization that at a
former meeting passed a motion
instigated by a number of radical Social
ists, to remove the President's picture
from the hall for the alleged reason that
he wag a member of "the liquor party,"
and was thus opposed to the cause of
temperance.
SALOONMEX WIS THE FIGHT
Salem Council Cats License Fee
From $1000 to $700.
SALEM, Or., March 9. (Speoial.) The
liquor-dealers won a victory in the City
Council tonight when an ordinance was
passed reducing the liquor license from
$1000 to fiOO. The ordinance was passed
by a vote of 10 to 2. The license was
raised about a month ago from $300 to
$1000.
An effort to have the union label placed
on all city printing was defeated by a
decisive vote, those opposing a resolu
tion for that purpose saying that the
city should not mix up in labor contro
versies. ASKS SALVE FOR ACHING HEART
Mary. A. Moss Sues Patrick Purcell
for $75,000.
SEATTLE, Wash.. March 16. Special.)
Mrs. Mary A. Moss, who claims that
Patrick Francis Purcell married her un
der the name of Pierce J. Moss, at Bos
ton, October 29, 1895, today dropped her
action against Purcell for divorce and
filed a complaint asking judgment against
him for $75,000 for breach of promise, al
leging that hctiad promised to marry her
after procuring a divorce from his first
wife, but Instead of carrying out his
promise, had married Mrs. Martha A.
T. Van De Vanter, of Georgetown.
Candidates In Old Yamhill.
McMINNVILLE. Or., March 16. (Spe
cial.) John W. Bones, Representative
from this county in the last Legisla
ture, has filed his petition for nomina
tion to succeed himself. Mr. Bones is
a Republican and Ignores Statement No.
1. He is a resident of Sheridan. Mr.
Jones, from Newberg, is the other can
didate for Representative. A. G. Beals
of Tillamook, who was Representative
from his own county and Yamhill joint
ly, last session, will again be a candi
date. Yamhill's Senator holds over,
but it Is understood that W. N. Bar
rett of Washington County, will on a
candidate in the Twenty-fourth Sen
atorial District, comprising Washing
ton, Yamhill, Tillamook and Lincoln.
Ship Officers In Hospital.
ASTORIA. Or., March (Special.)
Two officers of the German steamship
Numantia were taken to the. hospital to
day to be treated for Injuries sustained
by falls, and both 'will be left behind
when the steamship sails for the Orient.
While coming out of his room last night.
Second Officer Peter Jehs, slipped and fell
on the Iron deck. Injuring his spine. This
morning Third Engineer Hayden fell
down the companion way and sustained
a eevere scalp wound back of his left
ear. - It is also feared his skull is frac
tured, but that cannot be determined as
yet.
Electric Line Begun.
EUGENE, Or., March 16. (Special.)
Work and the Eugene-Springfield elec
tric line was started Just beyond Fair
mount this afternoon and will not cease
until the line is completed to Springfield.
The cars will ctoss the track as soon as
the connection is made and service given
to he end of the line.
LINCOLN COUNTY WAKES UP J
- - i
Frnitmen Propose Their Apples
Shall Equal the Best.
TOLEDO, Or., March 16. (Special.) Ths
Lincoln County Fruitgrowers Union held
a large and enthusiastic meeting Friday
at Elk City. The union was addressed
by Hon. C. A. Park, of Salem, member of
the Oregon State Board of Horticulture,
and Professor A. B. Cordley. of the Ore
gon Agricultural College. Both addresses
were on practical lines, were appreciated
and did good. The professor talked on
all the diseases the apple is heir to,
naming the remedy for each. The union
Is doing good work in uniting fruit
growers who are pruning, spraying and
preparing to cultivate their orchards,
thus striving to raise the standard of
Lincoln county's good wormless apples
Into the class of the very best. As one
man puts it: "With a united and per
sistent effort we Intend to shake off the
land of nod' and occupy the high place
in Oregon, to which, by naure, we are
so Justly entitled."
WREAK REVENGE OX FARMERS
Oriental Haters Destroy 400 Fruit
Trees at Yakima.
NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., March 16.
(Special.) Encouraged by whisky
dealers In Wapato, with whom the Jap
anese and Chinese do not trade, hood
lums In that town yeiiterday destroyed
a young orchard of 400 trees because
Japanese and Chinese have been em
ployed there. Threatening notices were
also posted on the premises of the Wa
pato nursery and In other orchards,
threatening the owners In the event
of their continuing to employ Oriental
labor. The orchardlsts have been com
pelled to use the Orientals because the
white men will not work steadily, pre
ferring to lay off so soon aa they have
earned enough to keep them in drink
for a few days. Sheriff Edwards will
take measures for the prevention of
further vandalism and the arrest. If
possible, of those who participated In
the work Sunday.
MARRIED, BUT THEY ELOPE
Each Leaves Behind a Waiting
-Spouse Police at Work.
TACOMA, Wash., March 16. (Special.)
While a trusting and unsuspecting wife
spent her evenings at home alone, her
husband, Leonard J. Gross, better known
as "Link" Gross, spent his evenings with
Mrs. Kate Saul, six years his senior, for
six months, during which time Gross be
came so infatuated with Mrs. Saul that
an elopement was planned. This is the
belief of a deserted husband and wife, and
officers are at work on the case.
On the evening of January 12. while Mrs.
Grose awaited her husband's homecoming,
Gross collected $300 on a team of horses he
had sold and boarded a train for Seattle,
where she was joined by Mrs. Saul, who
had secured about $100 of her husband's
savings. The elopement was not made
public until today.
ELK LODGES ENTER PROTESTS
Object to Negro Order Taking Name
for New Secret Organization.
OLYMPIA, Wash.. March 16. (Special.)
Negroes of Seattle have Incorporated
the Puget Sound lodge. No. 109, Im
poved Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks of the World, and have for
warded the articles to the Secretary of
State for filing. Protests by mail and
wire have been received by the Secre
tary of State from the Grand Exalted
Ruler and other grand officers and from
local members of the B. P. O. E. The
Secretary of State has asked the advice
ot the Attorney-General whether he can
legally refuse to file the papers and the
latter Is waiting for a legal statement
from the officers of the original Elks.
Protest Agaisnt Blasting.
EUGENE, Or.. March 16.-(Special.)-The
residents of West Eugene, near the
end of Skinner's Butte, are preparing to
serve an injunction on the Warren Con
struction Company, restraining them
from blasting for rock. It Is from this
quarry that all the stone has come for
the paving of Eugene's streets, and It
Is considered as good a stone as could
possibly be procured. It Is understood
that the Council will favor a regulation
of the size of the blasts, but will hardly
favor closing the quarry until the two
miles of paving now contracted for Is
completed.
t
Robber Gets $2.4f for His Fun.
SPOKANE. March 16. The train-robber
who overpowered the railway mall
clerks and ransacked the registered
mail on the Great Northern westbound
train early Sunday morning between
Bonners Ferry. Idaho, and Spokane, se
cured only $2.40 for his six hours' work,
according to the statement of the Post
office Inspectors who have spent 'the
past 24 hours checking over the mall.
No trace of the robber has been found.
Dogs and Bike Riders in One Class.
SALEM, Or., March 1&. (Special.)
Dogs and bicycle riders were, in a meas
ure, put in the same class by the City
Council tonight when an ordinance was
passed creating the office of poundmas
ter. The duty of this officeSw111 be to
catch all dogs that run at large without
license tags and arrest all bicycle-riders
who violate the speed regulations. J. C.
Marsh was elected poundmaster.
THE GREEN LITTLE SHAMROCK OF
IRELAND.
There's a dear little plant that grows
in our isle,
' 'Twas St. Patrick himself, sure that
set It;
And the sun on his labors with pleas
ure did smile.
' And with dew from his eye often
wet It.
It thrives through the bog. through the
brake, through the midland:
And he called It the dear little sham
rock of Ireland,
The sweet little shamrock, the dear lit
tle shamrock,.
The sweet little, green little shamrock
of Ireland.
The dear little plant st,lll grows In our
land.
Fresh and fair as the daughters of
Erin.
Whose smiles can bewitch, whose eyes
can command.
In each climate they may appear In;
And shines through the bog, through
the brakes, through the mlreland,
Just like their own dear little sham
rock of Ireland,
The sweet little shamrock, the dear lit
tle shamrock.
The sweet little, green little shamrock
of Ireland.
This dear little plant that springs from
our soil.
When Its three little leaves are ex
tended. Denotes from one stalk we together
should toll,
And ourselves by ourselves be be
friended: And etill through the bog. through the
brake, through the mireland,
From. one root should branch, like
the shamrock of Ireland.
The sweet little shamrock, the dear lit
tle shamrock.
The sweet little, green little shamrock
of Ireland.
"-- Andrew Cherry.
THE DAY WE CELEBRATE
ANCIENT ERIN. :
See, she smiles upon the touchstone on
her distant youth.
Looking down her line of leaders and
of workers for the truth;
When the sun of art and learning yet
was in the Orient:
When the might of Babylonia under
Cyrus' hand was spent:
When the Sphinx's introverted eye
turned fresh from Egypt's guilt:
When the Roman bowed to Athens,
when the Parthenon was built:
When the Macedonian climax closed
the commonwealths of Greece:
When the wrath of Roman manhood
burst on Tarquln for Lucrece;
When the Norman, Teuton. Briton left
I hi primal woodland spring;
When his rule was might and rapine.
and his law a painted king
Then was .rln rich In knowledge, then
from her Ollan'a store.
Conned today by sage and student,
grew her, ancient Mor;
Then were reared her mighty builders.
who made temples to the sun;
There they stand, her old round tow
ers, showing how the work was
done;
Thrice a thousand years upon them,
staining all our later art
Warning ftnprers raised to tell us. we
must build with reverent heart.
CONSTANCY.
(O'Connell's favorite lines.)
Remember thee! yes. while there's life
in this heart
It shall never forg;t, all lorn as thou
art
More dear in thy sorrow, thy gloom and
thy showers.
Than the rest of the world in its sunniest
hours.
Wert thou all that I wish thee, great,
glorious and free.
First flower of the earth and firsl gem
of the sea,
I might hail thee with prouder, . with
happier brow.
But, ohl could I love the more deeply
than now? Thomas Moore.
KOT A
STAR FROM THE FLAG
SHALL FADE.
(A stirring poem of the Civil War.)
Oh. a rare old flag was the flae we bore.
'Twas a bully ould flag, an' nice:
It had stripes In plenty, an' stnrs galore,
Twas the broth of a purty device.
Falx, we carried it South, an' carried it
far.
An' around it our bivouacs made;
And we swore by the shamrock ' that
never a star
From its azure field "should fade. .
Ay. this was the oath, I tall you true.
That was sworn in the souls of out
Boys in Blue.
The fight it grows thick an' our boys
they fall.
An' the 'shells like a banshee scream;
An' the flag It is torn by many a ball.
But to yield we r.ever dream.
Though pierced by bullets, yet still It
bears.
All the stars in its tattered field.
An' again the brigade, like one man,
swears.
"-Not a star from the flag we yield!"
'Twas the deep, hot oath, I tell you true.
That lay close io the hearts of our
Boys in Blue.
Sure, the fight it was wan, after many
a year.
But two-thirds of the boys who bore
That flag from their wives and sweet
hearts dear.
Returned to their homes no more.
They died by the bullet disease had
power.
An' to death they were rudely tossed;
But the thought came warm In their dy
ing hour: .
"Not a star from the flag is lost!"
Then they said their prayers and aves
through.
And like Irishmen died did our Boys
In Blue.
Charles Graham Halpln.
the Lighting race.
(At the special request ot President Rooss
velt this poem, said to be one of ths psr
of the Spanish-American War period, was
read at the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick's
banquet, three years asto In New York Cl'y
It has to do with the blowlne up of ths
warship Maine In Havana Harbor.)
"Read out the names!" and iiurke sat
back.
And Kelly drooped his head.
While Shea they call him Scholar Jack
Went down the list of dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines.
The crews of the jig and yawl.
The bearded man and the lad in his
teens.
Carpenters, coal-passers all.
Then, knocking the ashes from out his
pipe.
Said Burke in an offhand way:
"We're all in that dead man s list, Ly
Crlpe! ,
Kelly and Burke and Shea."
"Well, here's to the Maine, and I'm sorry
for Spain."
Said Kelly, Burke and Shea.
"Wherever there's Kellys, there's
trouble," said Burke,
"Wherever fighting's the game.
Or a spice of danger in grown man's
work."
Said Kelly, "you'll find my name."
"And do we fall short," said Burke,
getting mad.
"Whon It's touch- and go for llfeT'
Said Shea, "It's thirty odd years, bedad.
Since I charged to drum and flfe
Up Marey's Heights, and my old canteen
Stopped a rebel ball on Its way.
There were blossoms of blood on our
sprigs of green
Kelly and Burke and Shea
And the dead didn't brag." "Well, here's
to the flag!"
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
"I wlsht 'twas in Ireland, for there's the
place,"
Said Burke, "that we'd die by right.
In the cradle of our soldier race
After one good stand-up flsht.
My grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill,
And fighting was not his trade;
But his rusty pike s in the cabin still.
With Hessian blood on the .blade."
"Aye, Aye," said Kelly, "the pikes were
great
When the word was, 'clear the way!'
We were thick on the roll In ninety
eight Kelly and Burke and Shea."
"Well, here's to the pike and the sword
and the like,"
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
And Shea, the scholar, with rising Joy,
Said. "We were at RamilUes;
We left our bones at Fontenoy
And up the Pyrenees;
Before Dunkirk, on Landen's plain,
Cremona. Lille and Ghent.
We're all over Austria. France and Spain,
Wherever they pitched a tent.
We died for England from Waterloo
To Egypt and Dargai;
And still there's enough for a corps or
crew,
Kelly and Burke and Shea.
"Well, here is to good honest fighting
blood!"
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
"Oh, the fighting races don't die out.
If they seldom die in bed.
For love is first in their hearts, no
doubt."
Said Burke: then Kelly said:
"When Michael, the Irish Archangel,
stands.
The angel with the sword.
And the battle-dead from a hundred
lands
Are ranged In one big horde.
Our lives, that for Gabriel's trumpet
waits.
Will stretch three feet that .day. ..
From Jehoirhaphat to the Golden Gates
Kelly and Burke and Shea."
"Well, here's thank God for the race and
the sod!" '
flald Kelly and Burke and Shea.
J. I. C. Clark.