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l-OKTLAND, SATURDAY. MAY 30, 1908.
I -
"NO POLITICS NO PARTY."
It is curtain that nobody ha3 been
dt.ceived, or can be misled, in least
degree, by the claim that no party is
sues will be at stake in Monday's elec
tion, but that the contest is merely
u ilv.'ice, on personal preferences of
electors, up .between candidates. The
Orcgonian did not believe that, when
it was made the argument for elec
tion of Governor of Oregon and Mayor
of Portland, and Is as far from believ
iiiK It now, when the main question in
volved is the election of Senator and
Representatives in the Congress of the
United States. But the Republicans
of Oregon have not been disposed to
support party. . On the contrary, they
have given the Democrats almost
everything they have claimed. True,
this has not been done by Republicans
out of special good will towards the
Democratic party, but out of fierce
hatred of each other. The Oregonian
discouraged, has submitted, and quit;
but it has not permitted itself to be
fooled by any twaddle about non-par.
tisanship, with a great flood of which
our Democratic oracles have been
deluging the country. The simple
truth is, our Democratic brethren
have not been in position to ply the
argument for party and to profit by it.
Hut they may be soon.
It is the year of a Presidential elec
tion. The National conventions of the
two parties are at hand; and the vote
of Oregon next Monday will carry the
election, for one party or the other, of
one Senator and two Representatives.
Moreover, it will go far in the matter
of Unal decision between the two Na
tional parties In November; for,
though Oregon has small political
strength, its vote every four years
tomes at a time when the result is
observed by the whole country, and
even taken as an indication of the
state or tendency of the whole public
mind. So It will be taken at this time,
s heretofore; only more so perhaps
than ever heretofore. A majority vote
for Chamberlain in Oregon will cause
siti'h elation In the Democratic party
of the United States as it has scarcely
felt before within living recollection
If others don't know what the fruit will
bo of such "non-partisan" triumph
The Oregonian well knows, and It puts
the forecast on record. But It has no
faith In the ability of those who make
appeal to the Republican party of
I Oregon to awaken a sense of loyalty In
It, or to a recollection of Its achleve-
W .....I. i j V. I n f .it V trarflrlrtrta ni nnpnn.aa
Republicans of Oregon bo long have
been voting Democratic to "get even
with each other that the habit has be
come a greater luxury than any regard
for the true ends and objects of party
action could ba. All such listen to the
"non-partisan" twaddle of Democratic)
experts anil many take refuge In It
though none really Is deceived by it.
1' couldn't really deceive the simplest
elmnloton.
It is only for the sake of truth that
The Oregonian speaks truth merely
In the abstract, for It detests the ter.
givorsations of the campaign, yet
knows they will be played to the end
Kor the sake of truth It regrets, too
that the Democratic "non-partisan
pretense has been worked as It has
been, for there ought to be some basi
of truth even In political effort. Still
what can be expected when factiona
differences in one party offer so invit
Ing a field for false pretense on the
oilier?
Tho project of an electric line down
the coast from Astoria is again being
agitated, this time wlin a fair pros
pect for success. Such Ln enterprise
would be a very important factor i
the upbuilding of the second city
tho state. The line would traverse
Iwond
of su
derfully rich country, susceptible
supporting an Immense population.
There is no richer soil in the country
than is found in the bottom lands
long the numerous water courses
which would be followed and crossed
by the line. It would also afford ac
cess to some very large bodies of tim
ber, and as a scenic line for beach vis
itors, would handle immense crowds
during the Summer season. The value
of the electric line as an industrial de-
eloper can hardly be overestimated.
especially when it goes through a
country where five acres of land Will
produce enough to support a good
sized family. Encouragement of en
terprises 8f this nature will prove
much more profitable than idle dreams
regarding great transcontinental lines.
If Astoria makes proper use of the
wonderful resources lying dormant at
her doors, she will soon assume a
prominence which will not warrant
her being slighted by the big rail
roads from the outside world.
, TRIUMPH FOR OCR GEORGE.
Undoubtedly Governor Chamberlain
will attend the Democratic National
Convention. Should the majority of
the electors of Oregon declare for him
next Monday, for the Senate, he will
go "with all-resplendent triumph on
his brow." The least that can be ex
pected of his party at home is to send
him as a delegate. It certainly will.
The ovation he will get at Denver will
dumbrate all the glories of William
Jennings Bryan. Could anything make
Oregon so famous? Perhaps this all
the time has been the subtle and far-
seeing purpose of those Republicans
(so-called) who have been pushing
him on from one triumph to another.
finally to obtain this last "non-partisan"
triumph for the state.
Called to the Senate as a non-par
tisan, by the Republicans of the state,
and walking proudly Into the Demo
cratic National Convention as a dele
gate from Oregon, perhaps to be called
to a place on the ticket as Vice-Presi
dent, with Bryan, his appearance
t Denver would be the most
wonderful and spectacular thing in
politics with which the name of Ore
gon ever has been connected.
But stay! It might lead to greater
glory still. Bryan will have opponents
even enemies in the convention.
Our non-partisan prestidigltateur's en
trance into the convention might start
a furor that would dethrone Bryan, as
Bryan himself in 1896 upset every
thing with his figure of the crown of
thorns and cross of gold; and our
George might walk off with a non
partisan nomination for the Presi
dency from the Democratic National
Convention!
It is yet two days till our election;
and there is yet time to get the whole
idea of these brilliant possibilities be
fore the electorate of Oregon except
that small part of the electorate that
lives away up towards the heads of the
distant hollows, and that still smaller
part that refuses all thought about
politics on Sunday.
A SPIRIT COMMUNICATION.
The Oregonian prints today in an
other column one of those scurrilous
anonymous letters which every news
paper expects to receive when it ex
poses a fraud. This one purports to
come from "A traveler passing through
your city." The traveler may be a
spirit for what we know, but if he is
he belongs to the gang that the Savior
drove into the swine. More likely our
anonymous contributor is one of those
'mediums" who fatten by practicing
imposture upon the credulity of the
poor and ignorant. The manufacture
and sale of the implements of fraud
employed by these depraved wretches
In their exhibitions have become a reg
ular business in many cities. False
hands, faces, robes to aid In deception,
disguises of all sorts for the use of
mediums in "materializing" the spirits
of the dead, can be bought almost
anywhere by those who know the se
crets of the trade.
As for the reading of sealed letters,
it Is the most transparent of all me
diums' deceptions. The trickery em
ployed is so patent that one is amazed
to see any person fooled by it; yet
many are fooled, to the great solace of
the medium's pockets. Of all their
tricks there is not one which has not
been duplicated by Hermann and
other magicians who, in the main, do
them a great deal better than the me.
dlums can with the help of the "spir.
its." If reading sealed letters were a
proof of communication between the
dead and the living, then Hermann
must have been a frightful liar, for,
while he could read such letters more
accurately than most mediums; he de
nied that spirits had anything to do
with it.
It seems to shock our ghost-loving
friend to read that no evidence of
spirit communication exists. If there
Is any we beg of him to trot it out
In the mass of fraud which purports
to be evidence It would be a cheering
spectacle to see something genuine. No
medium was ever investigated by com
petent observers who did not turn out
to be an impostor. If our contributor
knows of a solitary exception to this
statement, he will confer a favor upon
The Oregonian and the public by mak
ing it known.
. F. J. MAXJI.
The pain of loss and of parting in
cldent to death is augmented when the
messenger enters the home unan
nounced and with awful suddenness
executes his command. Still greater
is the shock when a note of tra'gedy
is sounded In connection with his call
and the spent life goes out unattended
by such ministrations as love bestows
upon the dying. It Is thus that the
passing of P. J. Mann at his home in
this city Thursday night was an event
of more than common sorrow to his
wife and produced a profound shock
to his friends and acquaintances
throughout the city. It is not alone
that Portland has lost a useful and
honored citizen in the death of Mr.
Mann that deep regret followed the
announcement of his passing, nor that
sudden death was his portion, but that
the attending circumstances were in
the extreme pitiful and shocking.
P. J. Mann was one of the pioneer
citizens of Portland and one of its most
useful and prominent men.. An en
ergetic, capable and successful busi
ness man, he acquired a fortune from
the endeavor of his earlier years and
had passed the advance stage of old
age in the enjoyment of the fruits of
his labors. He was an old, but, as hu
man life is now reckoned, not an aged
man. and gave promise of attaining to
the four-score years allotted to man
"by reason of strength." He was a
generous man, well known on the lists
of silent philanthropy. Mrs. Mann is
well known In the charitable and phil-
anthropic work of the city, and
her husband upheld her hands
and encouraged her efforts in all
these ways with the large means
at his command. Citizens of the
city that had been Mr. Mann's home
for nearly half a century pay tribute
to the endeavor, the quiet, unostenta
tious life, the usefulness and the be
nevolence of P. J. Mann in the general
expression of sincere regret for his
sudden demise and in deep sympthy
for his suddenly and cruelly bereft
widow.
MEMORIAL DAY.
When Freedom from the mountain height
unfurled her standard to the air.
She tore the azure robe of night and set
the stars of glory there.
But the glory of the stars was tar
nished. With the pure radiance of lib
erty was mingled the lurid glare of
human slavery. The Civil War washed
the flag of the Union in blood for the
second time, cleansed It of the taint
that had impeached the sincerity of
the Revolutionary patriots and dedi
cated it forever to the cause of uni
versal liberty. Today the star-spangled
banner is the sj'mbol of-freedom
not for the Anglo-Saxon peoples alone,
nor for the white race, bu for the
whole human family. It stands con
secrated to an idea and that idea Is
Emancipation. When Lincoln set his
hand to the paper that broke the
chains of the black slaves he gave to
the saints and martyrs who love their
kind a new watchword. It was a dy
namic word resurgent with power and
hope. From that day his immortal
proclamation became one of the char
ters of the City of God on Earth and
Emancipation took its place among
the mighty symbols which nerve the
soldier . to battle and light the fires
In the poet's soul.
Emancipation is dynamic; Freedom
is static. Through Emancipation we
become free. Aged injustice shrinks
from the glory of Its face and dies.
The walls of fortressed wrong crum
ble as it marches through the world.
The dead hand of the past relaxes its
lethal grasp upon us; outworn creeds
shrivel like scrolls and pass away; the
bodies of perished institutions to
which we are chained as living men
to corpses shrink into the grave that
is weary of waiting for them; old tyr
annies grow impotent; old terrors
vanish like nightmares in the dawn.
Emancipation is the battle cry of the
modern world. Philosophers are rea
soning upon it and wondering at Its
mighty meanings. Poets are singing
it. Evangelists are preaching it. The
dramatists who record the living his
tory of their time for future ages to
read make it the inspiration of all he
roism. Setting the negroes free was
but part of Lincoln's task. Before his
work is done he will set the whole
world free.
Robert Ingersoll said of Lincoln
that he was the gentlest memory of
the race. Now Memorial day orators
are saying of him that he was the
freest soul who ever lived. He was
free from hatred and malice and envy
from too much love of life and from
the fear of death. Immortal thoughts
were his daily companions. He dwelt
in the great future with men as they
will be when dreams like his come
true. The soldiers of the Civil War
who are still spared to us bring with
them abundant treasures of memory
from that heroic time when they
fought their battles, but none so pre
cious as the knowledge that they bled
for Lincoln's ideals and as the militant
apostles of his gospel laid the founda
tions of a new and better world. To
have saved the country would have
been enough, but they did more. By
winning the victory for democracy
they saved the world.
They fought for an ideal." For a
ideal their comrades died. The flag
that waved above them was the flag of
freedom. It was the battle cry of free
dom that nerved their hearts at Get
tysburg and Richmond. In those
years the whole country was aflame
with passion for freedom. Since then
almost half a century has passed and
the ambition for wealth, the lust of
power, have seemed to defile the Na
tion, making us forgetful of the higher
alms that Lincoln and his soldiers
fought for. Discouraged Americans
have been heard to say our country
is traveling the weary old road from
democratic freedom down through an.
archy and despotism to final ruin
Some have prophesied that we shall
fall victims to an oligarchy of wealth
and see repeated in the land of Wash
lngton the cruel tyrannies of Carthage
and decadent Rome. But they are
feeble souls who yield thus to despair.
The ideals of Lincoln are not forgot
ten. His unconquerable faith In the
common man has not perished from
the hearts either of our statesmen or
of the common man himself. The
plain American citizen still has the
courage for great emprise. He is
ready as Washington was and Thomas
Paine and Franklin to embark on ex
periments untried before, to set sail
upon unexplored oceans seeking the
fulfillment of hope deferred.
When the Revolultonary fathers
published the Constitution of the
United States the Old World Jeered at
them. Their Utopian vision' would
perish in bloodshed, sneered the feu
dal heritors of immemorial privilege
and when the Civil War broke out the
cynics laughed, thinking their proph
ecy had come true. But they were
mistaken. It had not come true. The
experiment of. the fathers lived and Its
success is a lesson' to this generation
not to fear ideals, not to be afraid to
hope for better things, not to shrink
from the sneers of those who profit
by wrong and therefore wish to make
it perpetual. Through all the ages
the ideal has kept the world worth liv
ing In. It has given men something
to hope for, something to live and fight
and die for. And the progress toward
the ideal that We have made thus far
has been through experiments. Some
of them have failed, some have sue
ceeded. Let us remember the sue
cesses and forget the failures, for if we
cease to experiment we shall cease t
advance. Who wants to see the world
stand still? Who believes that the
human race has gone as far as it can
go? Who would not like to see all
wrongs righted and all miseries cured
The aged heroes whom we greet with
reverential plaudits on Memorial day
lacked not the courage of strenuous
effort and noble sacrifice to make th
earth a better place to live In. Have
we not the manhood to emulate their
glory?
The harvester trust Is In court a
Kansas City, attempting to prove its
innocence. One of the pleas set u
in an effort to succeed in the under
taking is that the price of implement
has not been raised and that prices are
lower than before the comblnatio
was effected,
hardly seems
Even this contention
conclusive. There is
hardly a piece of machinery in use to
day that costs as much to manufacture
as It did years ago, but that does not
justify manufacturers in maintaining
the same high prices as were quoted
before modern Inventions cheapened
the cost of production. The consumer
should receive at least a small por-
on of the benefit, especially when it
considered that this kind, neighborly
trust is selling the Patagonians. Mexi
cans, Japanese and Russians harvest
ing machinery, delivered thousands of
miles away from the factory, at lower
prices than the American farmer can
secure it at the door of the factory.
As often as the annual bulletin and
register of Pacific University is sent
out, the efforts of the educators of
what may be termed the missionary
era to establish an institution of learn
ing In the far Pacific Northwest that
would be worthy of the name of a
niversity are recalled. Familiar to
the few remaining pioneers of the Wil
lamette Valley are the records of the
work of Rev. Harvey Clark, Rev.
George H. Atkinson, Rev. S. H. Marsh,
Rev. Horace Lyman and Mrs. Tabitha
Brown in laying the foundation of Pa
cific University. The story of the
struggles of the school is clqsely inter
woven with the names of these early
workers, and the bulletin sent out af
ter fifty-nine years of steady, strenu-
us endeavor, shows that the builders
laid deep and broad its foundation.
The ideal "small college" is here rep
resented, and it must be gratifying to
every one who is in touch with the
history, the struggles and the aims of
this institution to note the evidences
of recent growth that appear In this
register.
The Seattle Fair project was "roast
ed" in Congress Monday by Mr.' Slay
den, of Texas, who gave as one of the
reasons for his opposition' that the In
ternational Exposition held annually
t San Antonio was supported entirely
by private subscriptions. He further
declared that expositions were merely
transparent efforts to boom real estate
at the expense of the United States.
The argument is not well founded, nor
will the points be well taken. The
country fair at Buncombe Crossing Is
also supported by private subscription.
and it probtably bears the same rela
tion to the San Antonio Exposition
that the latter will, bear to the big
how in Seattle. The Seattle Fair will
be worth all of the money it will cost
if It succeeds only in showing a few
ignoramuses like this Texas long-horn
how little they know about the vast
resources of the North Pacific.
Speakers at the Republican rally on
the East Side. Thursday night, op
posed the candidacy of Thomas O'Day
for the Circuit Court bench on the
ground that he is a Democrat. Just
now, and as things go in Oregon, that
is not a good reason, especially in view
of the nature of the office to which
Judge O'Day aspires. It happens that
Judge O'Day has been an incumbent
of the Multnomah bench for some
months, and has made so satisfactory
a record that there is on the part of
the public a general understanding
and recognition of the excellent char
acter of his services, and among all vot
ers not moved inflexibly by partisanship
common desire that he be elected.
Judge O'Day is a Democrat, to be
sure; but not on the bench. There
he is a capable', enlightened and im
partial judge. That is the reason he
should be kept there.
Too many salmon are taken by all
fishermen, all along the Columbia
River. None of these fishermen is
willing to forbear, but all those on one
part of the river wish to restrain the
others, on other parts of it. The fish
ermen on the lower river take all they
can, and would take every one if they
could; but a few fish do manage to
escape, and then the fishermen on the
lower river complain that those on
the upper river catch as many as they
can of the remainder. Meantime the
fish should be the property of the
whole people, and should be protected
as such. No fishing should be allowed
except under closest restrictions; and
the state should collect a royalty, as
large as possible, on all fish taken.
Even the poor man has no right to
make the property of the state his
plunder or prey.
Portla'nd will, of course, be courte
ous and hospitable to the officers and
men of the visiting war vessels. Any
other cvpurse would be unpardonable;
and no one need have the slightest
fear or alarm that Portland people
and public bodies will offer any slights
or betray any irritation over the fact
that the battleships did not come here.
Portland's guests had nothing to do
with that.
It will take Banker Ross 790 years
In prison to work out his $576,853 fine,
at $2 a day. If he could work it out
in twenty-five years he would have to
serve at t63 a day or $23,074 a year.
It Mr. Ross' friends will resort to the
initiative they may Induce the people
to enact a law enabling bankers to
serve out fines at $63 a day. That Is
not exorbitant for a bank president.
We feel Justified In declaring that
the recent removal of Weather Prophet
Beals to another but not better land
had nothing to do with the gloomy
line of weather he has been passing
out for the past month.
Each rival in the salmon war on the
Columbia River wants the fish that
escapes its particular gear "protected,"
but not the fish that it catches. That
Is the whole secret of the conflict.
If the Southern Pacific train had
broken a wheel, how much sooner
would it have. arrived than the Nelson
automobile?
Strange that, although some of the
candidates are supremely confident,
this does not keep them from being
anxious.
We shall, see next Monday whether
the people can pick out the good-looking
ones as well as they did in the pri
maries. '
The moist weather that saddens the
strawberry man1 and the rosegrower
gladdens the livestock man.
Decoration day comes too soon for
decorating the 4ast resting-place of
political booms in Oregon.
Don't worry; there'll be plenty of
roses. The Lord will provide. '
VICIOISNESS OF RECALL MEASURE
Reason Why Voters Should Snow
This Scheme Under at Election.
SALEM, Or.. May 28. (To the Ed
itor.) The proposed amendment to Ar
ticle II. of the constitution of Oregon,
to be Section 18 thereof, and described
on the official ballot for the coming
June election as Nos. 324 and 325, is
what is known as the Recall- law.
Does this mean reform, or is it vicious?
The proposed act provides that after
any person has actually held office for
eix months, a petition of 25 per centum
of the electors based upon the previous
vote" on Supreme Judge, shall require
a special election for his ret-all from
office and to elect his successor, at
the expense of the state or county,
whether there be any good or suffi
cient reason therefor or not. The law
requires the petition to state reason
for the recall, but fails to prescribe or
limit it to Justifiable reasons. Hence
any old reason Is sufficient to invoke
the recall. If the petition says as a
reason that the official Is a "son-of-a-gun."
this, under the act. Is a suffi
cient reason, and under the law it is
mandatory to call a special election at
the expense of the people to try him
upon the charge before the court of
his country, and if he be again elected
another petition may be tiled agrainst
him demanding his recall, and unless
he resign another election must be
held. When would it all end. and how
much .services would the public get out
of the official while engaged in his
political try-outs?
Then again who would invoke this
recall? Friends? No. Peaceful citi
zens who pay taxes and saw wood?
No. Who, then, would have ue for
this extraordinary remedy? Political
enemies? Perhaps. What about pri
vate vengeance? Now, officials, get
your ears to the ground. Whom do
you fear? Answer: personal enemies
those with a private grudge, and none
other.
Do we want our . constitution so
amended that any person shall be the
judge of the sufficiency of a reason
for demanding a re-election? The
farce would never end. It would rob
Judges of the protection they now have,
to hew to the line and let the chips fall
where they may. Every petition filed
would amount to an accusation of a
crime' against the officer, destroy
ing public faith and credit in him and
would array the people against all
forms of government and officers of
government. District Attorneys might
be prevented from finishing prosecu
tions and this art used to accomplish
that purpose. The Legislature could
effectively be held up in this manner.
Citv Councils could be prevented from
making street improvements by this
act tying them up and repeatedly tying
them up again. County Courts could
be stopped from making road improve
ments and reouired to employ their
whole time In defending their offices.
The proposed act is also vicious. We
would have no constitutional or stable
government or certainty of laws. We
could destroy the old government and
make a new one so quickly that we
would make the Columbians ashamed
of themselves. I hope readers will
look up this act and vote on it ad
visedly. FRANK HOLMES.
INVOKES OREGON PIONEER SPIRIT
Replies to Cyrus II. Walker's Attack
on University Appropriation.
BAKER CITY. Or., May 28. (To the
Editor.) Last Monday's Oregonian con
tained a letter from Cyrus H. Walker
which may fairly cause speculation as to
what real motive actuated the venerable
native son in making a stubborn fight
against state education.
As a young man, he must have lived
among the pioneers of Oregon and had
ample opportunity to appreciate the
wisdom in which they framed that article
of the provisional government: "Religion
morality and knowledge being necessary
to good government and the happiness of
mankind, schools and the means or
education shall be forever encouraged."
Following out the spirit of this declara
tion, the pioneers at once displayed noble
self-sacrifice and even before their farms
had been cleared, established the Salem
Institute and Pacific University.
Instead of keeping their children at
home to help In the farm work, the
pioneers denied themselves that profit
and went to expense of paying help to
keep their children at college. So strong
was the pioneer demand for higher
education, that in time the whole v 11
lamette Valley became dotted with col
leges and in due season an Agricultural
College and a State University were
established to offer further facility for
betterment and education of Oregon's
young men and women.
Now, the peculiar fact appears that Mr.
Walker himself owes a good portion of
his education to the gifts contributed for
the support of these higher schools, he
having been a student at .Pacific in 1R49.
As a true son of the pioneers, as one who
has benefited by their wise support of
learning in all its branches, Mr. Walker
should favor state education: but, by his
antagonism thereto, , he proclaims him
self to be a vicious enemy to the' pioneer
command that the "means of education
shall forever be encouraged," and takes
his place among that ciass of men recog
nized by Solomon as "a generation that
curseth their father and doth not bless
their mother."
Well does Mr. Walker know that should
the referendum against the appropriation
succeed, the State University will
not open its doers this Fall for lack of
finances. He knows that the cause lie
champions will seriously cripple the in
stitution and give Oregon an unfair and
rediculous fame in the Union as a state
which, on the one hand, is ready to
abolish a means of education and, on the
other, committed to the initiative and
"referendum, laws which require the safe
voter to possess a high standard of edu
cation and common sense.
HENRY M'KINNET.
SPIRITS' CERTAINLY THEY
EXIST
This Mi
Knows, for He Has
Seen
-. Them In Ills Mind.
PORTLAND, May 26. (To the Editor.)
In looking over The Oregonian Wed
nesday morning I noticed the sweeping
assertion in one of the editorials: "That
there never has been any evidence of
spirit return or communication."
It is not my purpose to make the
slightest effort to convince you of the
truth of spirit return and communication,
but will just say, while passing on my
way. that In this enlightened age. a man
who will deny the truth of spirit pheno
mena is not entitled to the courtesy of
being called a skepttc. He is just
ignorant. He is one who. having eyes,
sees not, having ears yet hears not.
rfeitHer will he understand.
In trying to convince such a one by
simple argument or otherwise I would be
disobeying the scriptural Injunction
against the casting of pearls.
With the hope that your eyes may be
opened when you have developed or un
folded to the degree that you will under
stand. I remain yours, A Traveler Passing
Through Your City.
Elephant to Walk a Tlarnt Rope.
New York Times.
By and by Bostock may have a pink
rhinoceros that whirls around on a tra
peze by holding the bar in his capa
cious mouth. While waiting to achieve
that wonder of training. Bostock has
gone half way. An elephant that walks
the tightrope is sufficiently strange to
be sure to amaze the crowds in the
Bostock arena at Coney Island. Rlon
dln is the name of the beast. He is 8
years old. and it took a full year's
course in tightrope walking before he
mastered the Intricacies of the act. He
performs eight feet above the stage,
and walks 20 feet. Considering the
size and weight of an elephant, this is
considered a remarkable feat.
HOOD RIVER COUNTY.
The Arcmnest of the Hood River Com.
merclal Club.
The Commercial Club of Hood River
s taking active Interest in the initia
tive measure for creation of Hood
River County. The club submits an
argument which The Oregonian is
asked to print. A summary follows.
The explanation of the act of submis
sion of the measure to the people of
the entire state is that no other meth
od is at present available. It is said
that Wasco County will not now make
serious objection to the division, but
t is believed will vote for it. By The
Dalles Business Men's Association a
resolution In support of the proposi
tion has been adopted and forwarded
to the .Hood River Commercial Club.
Here is an epitome of the statement
of the Hood River Commercial Club:
A county Is a public corporation and it
is apparent that section 2 of article 11 of
the constitution of Oregon, as amended,
reserves to the people the right to create
& county by Initiative vote.
There Is no general law for the creation
of counties now. and no one knows when,
if. ever, there will be one. The facts as to
area, population and assessed valuation
show that we are able to maintain a county
government. Out of a population of about
7&00 the desire of a county for the j-iooa
River country Is earnest and unanimous
with the exception of a small fraction of
one per cent. We are assured by leading
citizens of The Dalles. Dufur and other
portions of "Wasco County that they have
no objections to the creation of Hood River
County as proposed In this bill. More than
400 residents o The Dalles and Dufur have
signed the petitions asking that this bill
be submitted to a vote at the June elec
tion, though 43 names from Dufur were re
ceived too late to be Bled with the Secre
tary of State.
The people of the Hood River country
therefore ask favorable consideration of
the voters of the state upon this bill for
these, among other reasons:
Because the new county will be a great
benefit to the people residing therein and
will facilitate the transaction of their county
business.
Because as the law stands a countv can
not be created by the legislature; ana
finally.
Because the people of The Dalles and the
balance of Wasco County are willing that
Hood River County may be created as pro
vided In this bill.
The assessed valuation In the proposed
Hood River County In 1903 was $908. JKS; In
1906 waa g1.G1R.670. showing a gain In valu
ation from 1903 to 1906 of $710.10-. or about
78 per cent. , The valuation In 1907 was
$2,276,250, a gain over 1906 cf $1,143,530,
or about 70 per cent, showing the propor
tionate Increase in one year from 1006 to
1907 to he almost as great as that In three
years from 1903 to 1906.
The proposed Hood River County has a
population of about 7300; an area of about
500 square miles: and 20 schoolhouses, seven
of which are graded schools, having from
two to eight rooms each and with a $30,000
Ugh school under construction.
There will be left In Wasco County, after
Hood River County Is created, an area of
1646 square miles, a population of 11.5O0,
and a valuation of $5,457,720. thus leaving
it among the largest and strongest counties
of the state.
Japanese National Theater Next.
New York Journal of Commerce.
Tokio is to have Its first modern the
ater, probably under government pat
ronage, in the near future. It will be
built along the latest American and
European lines and will contain all of
the most recent Improvements. Look
ing toward that end, Tamsuke Yoko
kawa, an eminent' Japanese architect,
is here to study our stage, the con
struction of our playhouses, and all the
mysteries of present-day stage-lighting,
costuming and scenic effects.
Mr. Yokokawa, who will remain four
weeks more in this city before going
to Europe to study the theaters of
London, Paris and Berlin, was seen at
the Hotel Majestic, where he Is stop
ping. He said: "The Japanese people
are very anxious to progress in every
way, and they realize that they have
much to learn from America and Eu
rope In the amusement field. We will
soon becin the work on this modern
theater and it is desired that it shall
have every possible advantage. We
do not know whether it will be under
government patronage or a private en
terprise, but it Is considered likely that
it will be a national theater In every
sense of the word."
Jfetr York Ctty'a Automobiles.
New York Herald.
Since 1904 the city of New York has
purchased for the use of its various de
partments the following automobiles:
No. Cost.
Department of street cleaning. 8 $21,714.00
uepartment oi puonc cnaiure. -Board
of Education 1
8,000.00
4.700.00
Fire department 7
Department water supply, gas
and electricity
Police department o
Dock department 2
President borough of Manhat
tan Department of parks
President borough of Brooklyn. 12
President borough of Rich- 1
mond . . . .-. J.
President borough of Queens. . 3
President borough of the Bronx 1
Department of correction .... 1
Department of bridges 4
Department of health ........ 8
Department of finance ......... 5
21,200.00
7.277.00
15,185.00
6,775.60
14.000.00
17.340.00
16,040.00
13.086.90
8,800.00
4,000.00
2.000.00
8,142.00
19.908.00
8.285.00
Totals
.81 $193,003.50
Illustrated Postage Stamps.
Philadelphia" Record.
It is not generally known that the idea
of printing Illustrated postage stamps
originated in Philadelphia. The distinction
of having suggested the illustrated stamps
is claimed by James C. MeCurdy, a mail
Ing clerk, of 911 West Susquehanna ave
nue. Mr. McCurdy outlined his ideas to
-the Postofflce Department as early
1887. A few years later the Columbian ser
ies of illustrated stamps was Issued and
found- such favor that many other series
have followed to commemorate Important
National events. The originator of the
Idea treasures a letter from President
Cleveland's private secretary, who ac
knowledges the receipt of a copy of the
original designs for illustrated postage
stamps and informed the designer that
his suggestions had been referred to the
Postmaster-General, who later acted on
them.
Whistle With Artificial Teeth.
Baltimore News.
Miss Emma Virginia Ice, of Kansas
City, having refused to pay a dentis
on the ground that the teeth she or
dered caused her to whistle when she
talked, the dentist brought suit for his
blU.
Waiting for the Bogle.
By Colonel Thomas Wentworth Htgglnson.
We wait for the bugle. The night dews
are cold:
The liiribs of the soldiers feel jaded and old
The field of our bivouac Is windy and bare
There is lead in our Joints, there Is frost
In our hair:
The future is veiled and its fortunes un
known
As we lie with hushed breath till the bugle
1b blown.
At the sound of the bugle each comrade
win spring.
Like an arrow released from the strain of
the string.
The courage, the Impulse of youth shall
come back
To banish the chill of the drear bivouac
And sorrows and losses and cares fade
away
When that life-giving signal proclaims the
new day.
Though the bivouac of age may put ice in
our veins.
And no fiber of steel in our sinew remains
Though the comrades of yesterday's march
are not nere
And the sunlight seems pale and th
branches ate sere;
Though the sound of our cheering dies down
to a moan.
W shall find our losr youth when the bug!
is blown.
Boors
I
T HAS remained for Albert Schlnz,
professor of French literature in
Bryn Mawr College, to dispel the
mystery which has for years sur
rounded the last days of Guy de Mau
passant, the noted French author and
master of the short story. Up to now,
the subject has been almost a puzzle,
mostly due to the refusal of those in
terested to shed the necessary ligiit.
New Investigation, applied along inde
pendent lines, convinces Professor
Schlnz that It would be incorrect to
account for de Maupassant's insanity
by a single cause, but that on the con
trary, several causes worked together
towards the same fatal end.
As a young man, we arc told, de
Maupassant was of a highly nervous
temperament and was fond of physic
ally and mentally exerting himself to
the utmost. His literary activity was
amazing. But his strength began to
fail, and he sought to regain health
by going into society and by the ex
cessive use of stimulants, such as co
caine, morphine and especially ether.
And there is a hint of a cruel woman
of course who caused him mental
anguish.
De Maupassant began to suffer from,
freaks of the Imagination, such as are
mentioned in one of Poe's sto
ries, or in Musset's "Nvit de
Decembre." It is related on one
occasion, when de Maupassant was
sitting at his table writing a story,
that the door of his room opened, and
that he saw hie own personality sit
down at the table and dictate his
work in better language than that
which he usually used. For 18 months
de Maupassant's reason entirely de
serted him and he was confined in an
asylum In Paris. Death mercifully re
lieved him of his sufferings in 1S33.
Upton Sinclair e grieved because
some one has been unkind enough to
uggest that the author of "The Me
tropolis" cannot be expected to give
truthful picture of society as he
pretends to do in that novel, because
he has never been "in society."
'Must one be a hippopotamus in or
der to write a study of the hippo
potami?" passionately asks Mr. Sinclair.
I was myself brought up in society.
and spent all my early life in its atmos
phere. But I'm not at all proud of It.
Among the Socialists in New York, I
know a man who offered to smuggle
me on board a yacht in Newport, R. I.,
and a manager of theatrical entertain
ments offered to dress me up and take
me Into many Fifth-avenue mansione.
And then I wrote many letters to so
ciety people whom I wished to meet,
outlining my purpose, and in about
three-fourths of the cases I met the .
person I wanted to meet." 1
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In New York City has appeared a
translation of the Talmud, by Dr.
Rodklnson, and about one dozen vol
umes of the aeries have so far been Is
sued.
Four volumes are announced of
Ancient Hebrew Literature." edited
by R. Bruce Taylor, and one notable
feature In the work Is that the text Is
printed without divisions into chapters
and verses, so that the reader may
not stop at one chapter, but take an
edifying dose. The apocrypha Is min
gled with the cannonlcal books.
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Clarence E. Mulford's cowboy story.
'.'The Orphan," was out of print two
weeks after its Initial appearance,, and"
a third edition is announced.
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C. B. Whltford's new book on "Train
ing the Bird Dog," is promised for the
end of this month.
My Auto Book," with text by Walter
Pulitzer, and pictures by H. S. Watson,
Is to be Issued next month.
Winston Churchill's novel, Mr.
Crewe's Career," is on the market. The
Macmlllan Company reportB that the
advance orders have been larger than
for any of Mr. Churcbills previous
books.
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Tho Esperanto News, a semimonthly
newspaper for the propagation of Es
peranto in the United States and Can
ada, has just made its first appearance.
It Is a bright, little affair of eight
pages, written mostly in English. Dr.
Zamenhof, the inventor of the univer
sal language, has favored the magazine
with his best wishes for Its success
"mi deziras la piej bonan sukceson."
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Among the new volumes imported
by Scribner's are "British Socialism,"
by J. Ellis Barker "Tho Russian Court
in the Nineteenth Century," by E. A.
Brayley Hodgetts; "Three Voyages of
a Naturalist," ' by M. J. Nlcoll; "The
Architecture of Greece and Rome," by
William J. Anderson and R. P. Spiers;
Color in the Flower Garden," by Ger
trude Jekyll, and "Modernism: A Rec
ord and Review," by A. Leslie Lllley.
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Meredith Nicholson is the latest
Hoosier novelist to try his hand at
politics. He has announced himself as
a- candidate for State Senator in In
diana. Mr. Nicholson Is a deep-dyed
Bryan man.
Edward C. Booth is a new author
who is to have a novel published in
two weeks. "The Post-Girl" is the
title, and the story Is the love romance
of a Yorkshire musician.
Emery Pottle is on his way to Norway
on a hunt for fiction material. Before
leaving he finished a novel which will
be published this Fall.
s
Rex Beach, Is off once more for
Alaska In search of ' adventure and
more money-making stories like "The
Spoilers" and "The Barrier."
A sort of angler's cyclopedia, "The
Book of Fish and Fishing," by Louis
Rhead, is promised soon. The author,
who is a clever artist, has supplied a
great number of Illustrations and the
United States Bureau of Fisheries has
allowed him to use, for the first time,
48 of its drawings. His new volume
is to be of pocket-size.
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Cale Young Rice's poetic drama.
"Yolanda of Cyprus," which Is to be
played next eeason by Donald Rob
ertson, is being published in a little
volume by itself. It was first printed
In Mr. Rice's book of "Plays and
Lyrics."
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Another of E. Phillips Oppcnheim's
stirring novels, "The Avenger," is an
nounced. Though treading closely on
the heels of "The Great Secret," this
story was written about a year ago.
It Is described as possessing all those
qualities of spirited action, tense situa
tion and satisfying climax for which
Mr. Oppenheim's previous stories have
been distinguished.
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Holman Day is another author who
is lending himself to politics, having
laid aside for the moment the literary
interests attached to the success of
his latest novel "King Spruce." to man
age the campaign of one of the Maine
candidates for Congress. Mr. Day
himself is a candidate to represent Au
burn in the Maine Legislature next
fall.