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Newspaper Page TextTI'E MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1908. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. ' INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By Mail.) Dally, Sunday Included, one -year. IIM.I1V Kutiriuv Incliirlpo MIX monin " ' 1ml !y. Sunday Included, three months. Dally. Sunday included, one month Ially, without Sunday, one year Tail.- Bitthnnt Btinrfov nIy months . . . a. -a .75 6.00 8. 25 Dally, without Sunday, three months.. I.ij Dally, without Sunday, one month -w Sunday, one year f"t Weekly, one year (Issued Thursday)... J.ou Sunday and weekly, one year S M BY CARRIER. Pally. Sunday included, one year 9.00 Dallv. Sunday Included, one month ?o HOW TO REMIT Send postolllce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postonMce ad dress in talf. Including county and stale. ' POSTAGE RATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postofllce as Second-class Matter. 10 to 14 Pages ... 14 to 28 Pages SO to 44 Pages 4H to AO Paiees . .1 cent . .2 cent ..3 cents . .4 cents Foreign pontage, double rates. IMPORTANT The postal laws are t"et. Newspapers on which postage Is not fully prepaia are not rorwaraea to ueni". EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. ' ' Tile 8. c. Beckwlth Mpecial Agency New York, rooms 4S-50 Tribune building. Cnl-. cago. rooms 510-512 Tribune building. KEPT ON SALE, f'bleairo Auditorium Annex: Postoftlce News Co.. ITS Dearborn street; Empire News Stijnd. Kt. Paul. Minn. N". Ste. Marie. Commer cial Station Colorado Springs. Colo. H. H. Bell. Denver Hamilton & Kendllck. D06-012 Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store, 1214 Fifteenth street; H. P. Hansen. S. Rice. George Carson. Kansas City. Mo. Ricksecker Cigar Co.. Ninth and Walnut; Yoma News Co. Minneapolis M. Cavanaugh. SO South Third. Cincinnati, O. Yoma News Co; Cleveland. O. James Pushaw. 30T Super ior street. Washington. 1). C Ebbitt House. 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Fort Worth. Tex. Southwestern N. and A. Agency. Amarilla, Tex. Timmons & Pope. San Francisco. Foster & Orear; Ferry News Stand; Hotel St. Francis News Stand; 1., Parent; N.. Wheatley; Falrmount Hotel News Stand; Amos News Co.: United Newa Agency. 14 Eddy street; B. E. Amos, man aicer three wagons; Worlds N. S.. 262 A. Sutter street. Oakland, Cal. W. H. Johnson. Fourteenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oakland News Stand; B. E. Amos, manager live wagons; Welllngham. E. G. (...I.llleld, Nev. L,oule Follln. Eureka. Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. I"OKTLA-I. MONDAY. MAY 4. 1908. "THE KNIFE" IV TOUTICS. WhaW-ver doubts or apprehensions there may be among the Kepublicans of Oregon as to the result in the state four weeks hence- have arisen directly from the conduct of Republicans them selves. Through petty enmities and contemptible rivalries they have slain their party in the state. A very large faction for years has been putting the knife Into the vitals of the party their chief motive being that of resent ment because they were not able to control it. This has let Democrats Into leading official positions in the state and given their party a prestige which now enables it to contest hope fully for the United States Senatorship, and encourages the thought and be lief that the.state in November may be thrown to Bryart. It has not boon a contest over prin ciples within the Republican) party. The work of disintegration and demo lition began with the defeat of Fur nish by politicians and their personal adherents, In revenge for what they chose to regard as "Bill's trespass" on their own demesnes. Kurnish had been a Democrat, and this was excuse enough. The real reason was the dis appointed purposes of a faction. The most eminent man of Oregon was JIayor of Portland. He likewise fell a victim; and the next Republican candidate for the office of Governor shared the same fate. So did other Republican candidates for important offices. The plea was entered that in all this there was "no politics," it was no "party matter." It was party sui cide, all the same. But if there is "no party," if there is "no politics," in the chief official positions of the state, there is none in the office of United States Senator, or even of President. It is through par ty and political effort that means are . found of obtaining the leading official positions; and it Is through these po sitions that one political or party pol icy can be enforced, as against any other. Those Republicans, therefore, who have been' so persistently helping Mr. Chamberlain to be Governor have been helping him also to be United States Senator; and they have been making conditions also that may give the electoral vote of the state to Bryan. Kor free and easy movement in poli tics, set agoing, cannot be held as the exclusive prerogative of the faction that habitually appeals to It when things are not to its liking. The habit spreads, and example provokes retal iation. For years the chief feature of Republican politics in Oregon has. been the use of "the knife"; and probably our wieiders of the political bolo will not have done their perfect work till the Republican party is reduced to buch extremity that nobody will wish to contest for the honor of sacrifice to Its war god, upon its altars. To support the argument for "inde pendent" action, regardless of party, it has been persistently asserted that there are no differences now between the parties which should incline the citizen to maintain his old allegiance. If the differences of character and his tory and general tendencies of parties are forgotten or put aside, this may be mainly true. And we are constantly told that all considerations of this character are obsolete; that it is use less to speak of the merits or demerits of one party or another as to matters that have passed into history. Let all that go. But there are some who have been accustomed to think that the his tory of parties throws light on their present character and their present tf ndencies, and therefore on what may be expected of them hereafter. All this, however, is now ruled out. Men flaugh, or gibe, when you talk of it. If, then, the historic courses of our parties are po longer to be a factor or guide for further association and ac tion in and through party; if we are to break with the past wholly and re ject it as any sort of guide for the present and future, there is no need, of course, of maintaining any party under Its old designation, or of calling oneself a Republican or a Democrat. To "vote for the man" means) that you are to put away from you every con sideration except your own private likes or dislikes, or your thought pr judgment as to the efficiency of one candidate or another for the particu lar "work you have marked out for the official, in the position for which he is named. That eliminates from politics all higher or ultimate principle. But it seems to be the order of the day.' It is the rule of materialism and of com-' monplace in politics, to which' all ef forts to maintain honorable and effect ive party organization- have been brought by the sicarii of party faction. The art of slitting political weasands, and of delivering fifth-rib stabs, is hardly yet satisfied with its achieve ments, wonderful as they have been; for perhaps only about one-half the Republicans of Oregon have yet had a hand at it. PARTY PLATFORMS THIS YEAR. What will the party 'platformss this year contain? The Democratic party will wish to escape from its past; the Republican party is likely to dwell very much on its past, and to meet too little the demands of the present time. One thing Is apparent. The Demo cratic party is turning away from its old contention against centralized gov ernment, and is willing to go about as far as the Republican party in asser tion of the right and authority and power of the National Government over all things deemed essential to the public welfare. Thus the old contention of parties over state vs. National authority, and relative rights and powers, has' vir tually been settled in favor of the views of the old Federalists, and against those of Jefferson's State Sov ereignty Democracy. This is the log ical outcome, first, of the Civil War, and next, of the tendency of indus trial and commercial forces toward consolidation. The Democratic party now concedes that the General Government shall do pretty much everything that formerly it held was unconstitutional and whol ly beyond the functions of the central government. It now calls for regula tion of commerce between the states, for improvement of waterways, for regulation and extension of the Na tional banking system, for control of combinations of capital, for pushing schemes for irrigation and reclama tion of lands, and lt'even debates ship subsidies, with some manifestation of disposition to grant them. On the tar iff question it is divided; for many parts of the country it is as earnest in support of protection, at least as a partial system, as Republicans are for support of it as a general system. Between the parties, therefore, we shall have no clean-cut line of divis ion this year. The platforms will be platitudinous one of them talking about the glories of the era of Lin coln, the other about the glories of the era of Jefferson, and either plat form capable of construction one way or another on .most questions of the present time. One thing, however, is very appar ent, namely, the disappearance of the old fear of centralization, and the gen eral triumph of the principles of Ham ilton over those of Jefferson that is, of the idea of one sovereignty over many or instead of many, and consol idation in many ways more firm than even Hamilton could have imagined. A PREDICTION RECALLED. The New York Times reprints from Its issue of June 2, 1856, a real estate article, in which a great future for the City of New York was predicted. It is strange now, yhowever, from the fact that the reality has so enormously exceeded the calculation. The writer said: Plant the point of a pair of dividers on the cupola of the Ulty Hall and draw a olrcle with the outer edge of the Battery for its extent and It will be found to Include within It a section of the island which will be suf ficient for the .business purposes of this metropolis during the next 00i years. Yet this would carry the business section of New York scarcely half way up to Union Square; and the business section in one-tenth of 500 years is now miles above that. Again, verti cal construction has- increased the down-town area three- to five-fold. Who can guess what the achieve ment of Portland will fce in the next fifty years? AH our principal cities o-n the Pacific Coast are sure of a growth corresponding with that of the East and of the Middle West in the former time. The momentum of their growth Is but just now beginning to be observed, in a striking manner. Spe cific prediction is not necessary. For however enthusiastic, it could hardly exceed the mark; more probably would fall below It. Portland may not be come the greatest city in the Pacific States, but it will be great. It is great already. The future of every one of the leading cities of the Pacific Coast it is scarcely possible to overestimate. The 'prediction of the New York Times, flfty'years ago, compared with present realities, may give some idea of what will occur in cities of the Pacific Coast in fifty years the continent to draw upon for boundless production and the ocean for commerce. Moreover, the forces of the present time move events with a rapidity far exceeding that of the movements fifty or even twenty years ago. A MATTER NOT WHOLLY OF FltirRKS. Commissioner Darlington, of the de partment of public health of New York City, reports for the period from Jan-, uary 1 to April 1 of the current year the' lowest death rate ever known in that city for the corresponding quarter of a, year, and the very highest birth rate on record for a like period. Spe cifically, there were 20,309 deaths, or nearly 7000 per month, and more than 200 every day, yet the death rate was only 18.43 for every one thousand of the population. For the past ten years the death rate of the great city for the first quarter of the year ha3 averaged 20.52 to the'thousand. , . The lower rate of the recent period is regarded as specially significant of Improved sanitary conditions over those of past years. Climatic condi tions were similar to those of former years the weather being far from mild and subject to sudden and pro nounced changes. These things being true, the Health Commissioner of New York is justified in "pointing with pride" to the Jower death rate of the present year as shown by the records in his ' office, since it may fairly be attributed to better sanitary conditions of streets and interiors, and the fact that the average family and in-dividual are much better informed in sanitary matters than was the case, a decade ago, and decidedly more careful in the matter of health protection. Another interesting item in this quarterly presentment of vital statis tics of the great city is what the New York Commercial calls the "superb birth rate" for the time covered, 32,655 babies having been born in Greater New York during the period noted, while the average for the past ten years has been about 23,000 quarterly. Still another is the slump in the mar riage market, as shown by only 9557 marriages -for the quarter, against 11, 750 a year ago. The practical eco nomic domestic and semi-scientific in struction in the schools is regarded by the journal quoted as the possible cause of the better sanitary conditions that are plausibly accredited with the decreased death rate, but it is unable to account for the other conditions noted, saying: . What shall we say of the slump In the New York marriage market only &.57 for the quarter as against 11.750 a year ago?' Does the big boom in births discourage people from entering the marriage state? Or do the practical lines of school Instruction above referred to tend to keep the boys' and the girls' fancies away from "thoughts of love" ? Or is it actually happening that an Increasing number of people have not money enough to warrant marrying and as many more haven't the necessary time for it amid the multiplicity of "goings-on" in this town? The sad truth probably is that the increased birth rate has not been sup plied from the homes in which im proved sanitary conditions are found, and that among the 32,655 babies that came wailing into the great city dur ing the past three months there are a large number to whom life will prove anything but a boon to be desired or a matter upon which humanity or the state is to ' be congratulated. An in creased birth rate can be "pointed to with pride" and assessed as "superb" only when it proceeds from awakened civic and parental responsibility a condition which is not by any means assured by mere figures. . FOR MUTUAL ADVANTAGE. In an exceedingly pleasant and har monious meeting at Lewiston Satur day, in honor of the opening of tire new railroad between Riparia and Lewiston, the business men of the two cities pledged mutual assistance in the development of the great empire in which both cities have such a vital in terest. What the completion of that road means to Portland, as well as to Lewiston, cannot easily be compre hended, for the possibilities are too great for the average mind to grasp. We do know, however, that the ener gy and industry that have built two such cities as Lewiston and Clarkston, and within a dozen years have trans formed a desert waste into a vast re gion of wonderfully rich farms and orchards, can show, with the improved opportunities afforded by rapid tran sit to the world's markets, results even more remarkable than those al ready accomplished. "AH roads lead to Portland, whether they come down the Snake,- the Clear water, or from interior points, and in the marvelous development of this country, they will double the popula tion of the metropolis." In such lan guage, Mr. Libby, of Clarkston, at a reception given the Portland visitors, called attention to the impregnable po sition of this port as the great trading center at the foot of the downhill haul to the sea. The loyalty of Lewiston to Portland has never changed. The two cities have had so much in com mon that even the superior facilities which- a railroad to Puget Sound pro videdmany years before the building of the Lewiston-RIparia branch was completed, failed to weaken this loy alty, although through necessity this city lost some of the business. With the newly completed facili ties, all of the business that has been lost wilj be regained, and in addition there will be a phenomenal increase In development following the new lines to and beyond Lewiston. The water lcvl grade is at last to receive its long - overdue recognition, and the roads now built or unde construc tion, with the necessary feeders that must follow, will cause pjractically all of the traffic of the vast' Inland Em pire to gravitate to Portland. The ex cellent reports that are now being re ceived from the bar indicate quite clearly that the jetty is at last mak ing an effective showing, and in a few months the delays to which Portland shipping has at times been subjected will be ended. There is every assur ance that by the beginning of the next shipping season it will be possi ble to get twenty-six-foot vessels in and. out over the bar with no more delay than Is now experienced in get ting them up and down the river. Now that the facilities have been provided for bringing tthe traffic down to tidewater more economically and expeditiously, than it can be brougtit to any other port on the' Pacific Coast, Portland must make it a point to see that no unnecessary charges are levied against the shipping that comes here to meet the traffic at the foot of the water-level grade. We must be In a position to guarantee to ships the.best, possible towage service at no higher rates than are charged at Puget Sound. We must also make our pilotage rates the same as prevail in competitive ports, even though to accomplish this reform it be necessary to repeal the present ancient and unjust compul sory pilotage law, and place the pilots under the jurisdiction of some author ity to correct the abuses in the service which, in the past, have seriously in jured the port. These reforms, how ever, will not be difficult; for Port land and the entire Northwest have labored too long to bring the great traffic of the Inland Empire into the water-level groove, where there is the least resistance, and the business will not be slighted or driven away, now that it is within our grasp. KQUALITV BEFORE THE LAW. A writer in the Saturday Evening Post tells the story of a millionaire's son who embezzled $50,000 of the funds of a trust company in which lie was interested, and who was "let off" at the instance of his father. Three months afterward a collector in the employ of the same concern stole $150 from the money intrusted to him, and he served four years in prison for the crime. Officers charged with the duty of enforcing the law let the greater criminal escape because he had an in fluential father and punished the less er offender without thought of mercy. Thus was the lie put upon the funda mental doctrine that all men are cre ated equal before the law. Thus was the word passed out to young men that if they would commit crimes at all they should commit large ones, for then their chance of escape would be increased. But that policy is not everywhere observed. There are justifications where the greatest effort is. made to convict the greatest criminals and where prosecuting officers do their duty , regardless of persons or in fluences outside the merits of a case. Where statutes are thus fearlessly and impartially enforced, respect for' law is certain to become more general, crimes of this character will decrease, and there will be an absence of that discontent which arises from a sense of injustice imposed under the forms of law. The attitude of the prosecuting offi cer toward a criminal is very likely to be a reflection of the attitude of the people who elect him and keep him in office. If they are willing to con done the offenses of rich offenders while insisting upon the punishment of small violators of the law, it may be expected that the officer will Im bibe the spirit of his surroundings. If the people of a community con tinue to honor and respect a wealthy criminal, if they bow and scrape be fore him, acting as though they thought him a much abused, perse cuted and unfortunate man, what else can be expected than that the prose cuting attorney will treat him In much the same way? If an offender is worthy of the company and confidence of the best people of a community, is he not too good a man to be brought before a jury upon a charge of crime? Practical justice and equality will be attained in our courts when a sense of justice and equality has found a per manent resting-place in the minds and hearts of the people. A slight decrease In the surplus re serves was- shown in the New York bank statement Saturday, due largely to shipments of gold to Europe and the payment of over $3,000,000 Into the Subtreasury. That the financial institutions of the metropolis are still glutted with money is shown by the high percentage of the surplus reserve. The requirements are but 25 per cent, but the clearing-house banks now hold 29.80 per cent, the state banks 27 per cent, and the trust companies 31.83 of their deposits. The clearing-house banks' deposits aggregate $856,926, 500. It is thus apparent that there Is on hand plenty of money. It is also apparent that there are plenty of op portunities for investing it. The one missing link in this chain of favorable features is the confidence of the pub lic. Until that Is re-established, there will be a surplus of capital and labor and good times will be slow in returning. With idle tonnage accumulating in every port on the Pacific Coast and new steam schooners, ordered when the boom in freights was on a few months ago, still being launched, the situation is far from bright for the shipowner. A steel steamer brought from the Great Lakes, and easily worth a year ago $75,000, was sold at Aberdeen at receivers' sale Saturday for $20,000, and a large number of small stockholders have lost heavily. The decline in the lumber business is given as the cause of the trouble, and .if this is true, it will tend to support the contention of the railroads that it is the decline in the lumber business, and not the increase from a forty cent rate, that is causing trouble for so many of the mills. Not one-half of the coastera available for the lum ber trade, can find employment at rates from one-third to one-half those prevailing a year ago. Mr. Armour Is endeavoring to cor ner May wheat because the supply of wheat available for delivery at that time is short. Young Mr. Letter at tempted the feat about ten years ago and the Armour who is now engaged in bulling the price of wheat Is a son of the man who delivered so much wheat to Leiter that he was unable to pay for it, and It cost his father about $10,000,000 to square up the shortage. A similar fate is hardly likely to in terfere with Mr. Armour's corner, for available supplies of wheat are very scanty, and even money cannot buy deliverable wheat if the cereal does not exist in .quantities sufficient to meet the demand. As in the case of the Leiter coup, it Is the farmer, who has actual wheat to sell, who profits by the high prices offered. A great writer on the science of gov ernment warns us not to look too closely into origins. We shall be apt to see things not to our liking. That is why so many didn't like the meth ods of Simon and Matthews, in their respective heydays of political grand eur. It was ring and machine rule. But that kind of thing has been cleaned out by reform; and now we are not going to inquire too narrowly into the manner in which the forty seven delegates for Multnomah to the Republican State Convention were ap pointed, or who appointed them. There is complaint. Indeed, but some people will always be making trouble. If the elector hasn't full knowledge of the initiative and referendum meas ures, or is in doubt about them, he would do well to vote "No." "No" is usually a mighty safe proposition. That is to say, unless the time has come for Oregon to have a universal guffaw of Folly over the uses to which "the new system" is forced by vari ous groups of our population. The Republican State Committee asks the State Convention to send to the National Convention delegates fa vorable to Mr. Taft, and some of the members are said to advise sending Senator Bourne as a delegate, for har mony's sake. If the State Convention should instruct Mr Bourne for Mr. Taft, would that make harmony? Since our Democratic brethren helped so powerfully to nominate the Republican candidates, xwhy in the name of all sincerity don't they turn in and help to elect them? Since we have got the primary law and initiative and referendum, tvhy can't we have fair dealing in politics? Should Mr. Taft be the people's choice for President, we need not ex pect' Democratic Presidential electors to vote for him. Mr. Steel has shared the fortunes of Mr. Ross a long time. Is their part nership yet to continue? Yesterday was one of those wet Sun days, after rainy Easter, but only half wet. OREGON TANGLES ITSELF IP. Remarks on the Pickle Into Wnk'h Out State Haa Got Itself. Washington (D. C.) Post.'' Oregon's attempt to overrule the Constitution of the United States in the matter of electing Senators has run against a formidable political obstacle. Primaries were held in that state the other day, at which the people voted for Republican and Democratic candl-' dates for Senator. H. M. Cake, a Re publican, and Governor Chamberlain, a Democrat, received the highest num ber of votes. The election will take place in June, and the Republican will run against the Democrat. Both are "SUttmcnt No. 1 men" that is, they approve of the Oregon plan of requir ing all candidates for the Legislature to pledge themselves to Statement No. 1, which requires members of the Leg islature to vote for the Senatorial can didate receiving the highest popular vote, whether he be a Republican or a Democrat. Governor Chamberlain is one of the most popular, men in Oregon, and is likely to receive more votes than his opponent. The Legislature, however, is likely to be Republican by a large majority. Foreseeing that party su premacy may be upset by the new fangled Popullstic referendum. Repub licans are now abjectly begging Cham berlain to withdraw, on the ground that Cake received more votes than he at the primaries. But Chamberlain cannot see why he should refuse the Senatorship at the hands of a Repub Mcan Legislature, even if he is a Demo-, crat. The people of Oregon are apparently willing; to have a Republican Legisla ture and Democratic representation in the Senate here. The vote reveals that the people at the primaries look almost entirely to the personality of candi dates, and ignore political policies. The most "magnetic" candidate has the best chance of success. The Portland Ore gonian, gazing over the field, asks with a dazed expression "What was the Republican primary for?" The peo ple of Oregon will hardly be in con dition to answer that question until they have gotten Statement No. 1 out of their system. But some of them are already beginning to wonder whether a mobocracy is all that it seemed. If the Republican majority of that state should find its will on Na tional questions thwarted by a Demo cratic Senator for six years, the lesson may do seme good. SETTLERS OS S. P. RAILROAD LA AD If Latter la Forfeited, ' Saya Writer, Only ( ongmn Can Act. CATLIX, Wash, May 3. (To the Editon) In recent Issues of three newspapers of Portland, a warning ha been sounded to settlers on 'Southern Pacific Railroad lands that it is the intention of the Department of Justice that settlers on the lands shall acquire no prior right to purchase by reason of having settled thereon "prior to final adjudication, and that the Attorney General was expected soon to warn settlers to that effect. This seems strange at least that Congress should pass a resolution au thorizing the Attorney-General to en force the terms of the granting act, and that he should try to prevent the fulfillment iof eaid terms, by warning the settlers off the lands. It is also quite as absurd that the Department of Justice should, let it be known be forehand that it would, if possible, prevent the fulfillment of the terms of the grant, thus proving itself a de partment of injustice. The fart is that, if the lands are for feited. Congress and the Department of the Interior will have the disposition of them, and not the courts, nor the Attorney-General. A few of the settlers may be In duced to abandon their Improvements and quit their claims in disgust, but there will be others ' to take their places. These settlers are hardy pioneers, and, although they may not be compe tent to grace a corporation attorney's office, still they do their own thinking. D. F. HOWARD. "Pretty Woman la the Brat Sauce.'' iNew York Dispatch. Georges August Escoffler is here. He is the world's champion catch-as-cateh-can chef, and the reporters were shocked to hear him attack a great American institu tionpie. He said that pie may be all right for America, but that it wouldn't do for la belle France. A pretty woman sitting opposite a man at dinner is, according to. Escoffler, the best sauce obtainable. "Nozzjng zo mooch to ze appetate adds," said he, "as une belle femme at ze table." Dining, according to the chef, is a fine art. This is what he said about it: "Much can be said of the art of dining. One should e guided not only by in clination, but by taste. One might say there are dishes to' meet every mood. One should not eat everything on a menu that is, begin at the beginning and run through the bill. Use discre tion; use taste. It Is not a true gourmet who will seek to eaf all solely because of the opportunity to do so." lee Water Fights Off Pneumonia. Terre Haute Dispatch to Indianapolis News. Dr. M. R. Combs, one of Terre Haute's best-known physicians. is recovering from pneumonia, and the medical frater nity say that his life was saved by heroic treatment, of which there is no record of a like case. - A freezing water bath was given him at the moment he was thought to be dying to shock the respiratory cen ters and thus restore respiration. Cold water baths in cases . of fever are fre quently administered to lower the tem perature, but Dr. Combs' temperature was normal. He was kept In the bath three hours. The ' death rattle ceased after a short time following the Immer sion and respiration soon became stronger. The entire staff of Union Hospital had been Interested and assisted in the fight for his life when, at the critical stage. Dr. Niblack suggested the Ice water bath. t ' ' Britain Geta Our "Chesapeake Flan. London (Eng.) Dispatch. William Waldorf ABtor has presented to the Royal United Services Museum the flag of the American frigate Chesapeake, captured by the British frigate Shannon June 1, 1813, the bugle on which, accord ing to accepted tradtion. the order for the charge of the Light Brigade was sounded at the "battle of Balaklava, October 25, 1854, and the medals of Trumpet Major Joy, who sounded the charge. This is tantamount to a gift to the nation, as the museum is supported by the state. It will be recalled that the trophies' were sold at auction January 30. and were pur chased by Mr. Partridge, who, it was rumored, was comnussioned by an Ameri can collector. Many regrets were then ex pressed at their supposed loss to Great Britain. Editor Resents Interference. Fort Collins (Colo.) Review. The little fellows keep pecking away at the editor of this paper because he changes his political affiliations when he pleases. We haven't time to notice all of them singly, but some of these days we will take a pot shot at the bunch that will hit every polliwog in the puddle. Jilted Twice, and Marries la Spite. Baltimore News. George Petonak, of Marysville. 111., who bad secured two marriage licenses and been jilted, made sure the third time by taking his sweetheart to the license clerk, and the trio went to the office of a Justice, where they were married. Initiative and Referendum Measures For the information of voters there will be published on this page from day to day brief summaries of the initiative and refer endum measures - to be submitted to the people at the June election, together with a short statement of the arguments for and against, each. NUMBER 7. The measure commonly known as the "Armory bill" and pending before the people for adoption or rejection at the June election, was passed by the last Legislature and the referendum was de manded thereon by petitions circulated by the State Grange. The bill provides an appropriation of $100,000 in four an nual installments of $25,000 each for the purchase of grounds and the construction thereon of armories irf the several cties of the state. Location and construction of armories are to.- be under the control of the State Military Board, and the armories are to be located in cities having military companies. The. 'build ings are to be large enough for the drilling of companies and the proper storing of Government military supplies. Military organizations using the armories, are to pay to the State Treasurer, out of their annual allowance, such rent as the military board may fix. The reasons urged in behalf of this measure were that National Guard com panies are unable In many instances to secure suitable quarters;. that they must pay rent out of proportion to the value of the rooms they occupy; that it is dif ficult to keep military organizations in a state of efficiency for active service without suitable drill-rooms, and that it would be cheaper In the end for the state to save the $5000 rentals now paid and own its armories. It Is said that the) board would locate armories only In cities furnishing sites therefor. Against this bill it is argued that the expenditure of so large' a sum of money is unnecessary; that while some of the companies may have quarters too small for company drills, the rooms will suffice for ordinary needs; that If the state makes this appropriation it will be but the beginning of a movement which will not end until an armory has been built in every town in the state large enough to organize a military company; that appropriations for armories will become, like appropriations for normal schools, the basis for trades in the Legislature; that the military needs of the state do not require any such expenditure as this now proposed. CONDITION OF ALASKAN INDIANS. Dr. Holt Telia of Mission Work There by Preabyterian Church. PORTLAND, May 3. (To the Editor.) I read with much Interest the editorial In yesterday's Oregon fan concerning the Alaskans. There is connected with it the statement concerning missionary, societies that "from some cause these wretched heathen at our very doors; these simple minded, tractable, inoffensive, but shock ingly degraded creatures, the Alaskan Indians, have been overlooked in this zealous search for souls to save and Dodies to rescue." There is more of the same sort. It seems hardly possible that any one in Oregon can be ignorant 'of the facts in this matter. Alaska had no sooner become an American possession than the Presbyterian Church began work for the Alaskans. Any one at all familiar with the late Dr. A. L. Lindsley, so long the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of this city, knows that his church. led by him. began to aid the Alaskans as early as 1878. sending one of the memr bers, Mrs. McFarland, there as a mis' sionary. Today that same church has missions for the Alaskans from Point Barrow to the southeast corner. Including St. Michaels Island. There are schools for the children, in which they are cared for. physically, mentally and spiritually, regular church work for the families, a hospital, and In One place also a trained nurse,, especially to care for the bodies of these unfortunate people. No one will say that, all is done that may be, but not for one moment since we have had any rights er privileges in Alaska has the American church forgotton her responsibility for the Alaskans. Nor is this limited to the Presbyterian Church. I speak of this one because I know some thing of its work. Anyone who attended one of the "all day missionary meetings." to which The Oregonian refers editorially, should know that foreign missions only have a share, a reasonable shae. of the attention of the "all-day missionary meeting" of the churches. But home missions, the great need at our doors, call forth the most earnest efforts, and always have the full sympathy of those who attend the meet ings. The Christian people still have some sense, and some idea of what is due from them to every needy people, and among the best work that the churches are do ing today is the work for native races, those easy victims of the white man's greed and vices. W. S. HOLT. Field Secretary for Home Missions. Kentucklnn Foretell Ilia Death. Maysville. Ky.. Bulletin. A strange story in regard to the recent death of Almanza Byrd at his home near Owlngsvllle, has Just been told by .his family. Byrd was occupying an upstairs room when, one recent morning, he rushed down Into the family room, and. in a very excited manner, told his wife that a voice had said to him: "Byrd, you will die before 12 o'clock today." Mrs. Byrd tried to convince her hus band that it was his Imagination, but he grew more excited, and vehemently pro tested that the voice was real, and its prediction only too true. All that could be done did not calm him, and his agita tion and fear became intense and uncon trollable, and when finally almost ex hausted he lay down and suddenly died, almost without a struggle. It was in the room occupied by Byrd on the morning of his death that he blew out the brains of his son with a load of buckshot two or three years ago. His son had nattered down the door and was advancing on his father with uplifted ax when the fatal shot was fired. A FEW Kql JBH. . Tt was- rush hour in 'the subway. Martin Luther hung wearily from a strap. "Here stand I." he said. "Ood help me, I can do no otherwise." Judge. "What T am after." declared the spoils party candidate. "Is not so much causes as effects." "Whose effects?" shouted a man In the crowd. Baltimore American. Ssmday-school teacher tr your enemy should smite you on one cheek what would you do? Tommy Tuffnut Dat would depend on how big he was. Philadelphia p.ecord. "Don't you consider it honorable to tell a man hl faults to bis face?" queried the youth. "Yes." replied the wise guy. "but 1 consider It safer to tell them to his neigh bor." Chicago Daily News. "Can you tell your present fiance's ring?" Inquired the romantic girl as the doorbell sounded. "Why, certainly." answered her practical friend. "It's the newest of the lot." Louisville Courier-Journal. Professor If you were called in a case where a man had fallen head foremost down a AO-foot mining shaft, what would you advise? Medical student Advise bis friends to fill up the hols and save funeral expenses. Answers. Good ley They're In reduced circum stances, of course, but their family Is a very old one and proud, even tf they have lots of debts. They date back to th.fi earlleRt colonial times Cutting The debts, you mean? I doubt that. Philadelphia Press. "Bljcby Is the man who Invented a lum inous keyhole." "Yea." "It was a failure. Bixby came home from the club at 2 o'clock in the morning, confident that he would bave no trouble in finding the proper place to Insert his latchkey. And. lo! when he looked for the luminous keyhole he saw a whole galaxy of them." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Advertising Talks No. 17 THE GANNON THAT MODERNIZED JAPAN By Herbert Kaufman Business is no longer a rnan-to-man contact, in which the merchant and the patron establish a personal bond, any more than battle is a hand-to-hand grapple where bone and muscle and sinew decide the outcome. Trade as well as war has changed in its as pect both are now fought at long range. .Just as a present-day army of he roes would have no opportunity to display the individual valor of its members, . just so a merchant who counts upon his personal acquaint anceship for success is a relic of the past a business dodo. Japan changed her policy of exclu sion to foreigners after a fleet of warships battered down the Satsuma fortifications. The Samurai, who had hitherto considered their blades and bows good enough, discovered that one cannon was mightier than all the swords in creation if they could not get near enough to use them. Japan profited by the lesson. She did not wait until further ramparts were bat tered to pieces but was satisfied with her one experience and proceeded to modernize her methods. The merchant who doesn't adver tise is pretty much in the same posi tion as that in which Japan stood when her eyes were opened to the fact that times had changed. The long range publicity of a competitor will as surely destroy your business as the cannon of the foreigners crumbled the walls of Satsuma. Unless you take the lesson to heart, unless you realize the importance of advertising, hot only as a means of extending your business but for defending it as well, you must be prepared to face the con sequences of a folly as great as that of a duelist who expects to survive in a contest in which his adversary bears a sword twice the length of his own. Don't think that it's too late to be gin because there are so many stores which have had the advantage of years of cumulative advertising. The city is growing. It will grow even more next year. It needs increased trading facilities just as it's hungry for new neighborhoods. But it will never again support neighborhood stores. Newspaper ad vertising has' eliminated the strength of being locally prominent, and 5-cent streetcar fares have cut out the ad vantage of being "around the cor ner." A store rive miles away can reach out through the columns of the daily newspaper and draw your next door neighbor to its aisles, while you sit by and see the people on your own block enticed away without your be ing able to retaliate or supply new customers to take their place. It is not a question of your ability to stand the cost of advertising but of being able to survive without it. The thing you have to consider is not only an extension of your business but holding what you already have. Advertising is an investment, the cost of w hich is in the same propor tion to its returns as seeds are to tho harvest.' And it is just as preposter ous for you to consider publicity as an expense as it would be for a farmer to hesitate over purchasing a fer tilizer if he discovered that he could profitably increase his crops by em ploying it. 'One Thousand W'ordM Per Minute? Washington, D. C, Herald. Representative Timothy Ansbcrry, of Ohio, can talk at the rate of just about 1000 words a minutitj If you don't be lieve it, look nt the Congressional Record. By talking those 1000 words, more or less, in one minute, Mr. Ans berry , obtains the championship of the House. It was all caused by the Democratic filibuster, because In order to get the 1000 words, more or less, in the Record the words must be spoken. Any one who gets "leave to print" these days get it with an ax. On the day bsfore the conferees reached an agreement on the widows' pension bill there was placed In Mr. Ans berry's hands a 1000-word newspaper article in which it was charged that tho leaders intended to kill the hill. Mr. Ansberry thought he would like to .put this in the Record, as it would do no harm to stir things up a bit. AH of tho time for debate on that day, with the exception of one minute, had been exhausted. By appealing to John Sharp Williams. Mr. Ansberry se cured this minute, although several other Democrats were clamoring for it. As soon as he was recognized. Mr. Ansberry plunged wildly into the rend ing of the 'extract from the paper. Tho official stenographer was able to catch the name of the paper from which he was reading, but from that time until the 60 seconds had expired there was the sound of only one very long word. When the gavel fell Mr. Ansberry had completed the reading of his communica tion, although the official stenographer was not able to catch a single word, and gladly accepted the clipping and in serted It In the Record. The Blowsomlng. Kmlly Wood. Oh', such a darling little breeze Went dancing through our town. He frisked about among the trees And kissed their branches brown. Then evej-y little waiting tree Shuddered In sheer surprise; And turned as white as anything Before our wondering eyes. So now up'on a sea of bloom Our restless town's adrift; White as the foam upon the shore The plum tree blossoms lift. And, where a peach tree 'gainst the white Stands rosily aglow. It's like the opalescent sea When sunset colors show. Now. in the stuffy offices All up the dirty street My little breeze goes wandering Bearing a fragrance sweet. The essence of the fruiting bough And blossoming wood-ways. Of hopes, so shy. they scarce can face Our hurried working days. And all because a careless brceza Went dancing through the town Stopping a bit among the trees To kiss tbeir branches brown.