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PORTLAND, THURSDAY. Al'G. 7. IMS. MB. HIGHE8 AND THE BOSSES. The chances now seem fair that Mr. Hughes will be renominated by the Republican party for Governor of New York. Not that the bosses detest him less warmly than they did a few weeks ago. but ominous thun ders from all arcs of the horizon have warned them that the rejection of Hughes means the defeat of their iiarty. Deeply sunken as New York is in the slough of political corrup tion and popular subserviency to the machine, it has nevertheless a large independent vote which has been its salvation time and again in the past and which, when the pinch comes, the party magnates dare not affront. This vote is for Hughes unanimously and aggressively. If the Governor Is not renominated by the Republicans, then the independents will go over to the Democrats. Thus the state would be lost to the local Republican ticket and in all likelihood to Taft also. The Independents are somewhat vindic tive, and when they undertake to punish a gang of bosses they are apt to make a thorough Job of it. The Evening Post, as well as other New York papers have pointed out that the candidacy of Mr. Hughes has more than local significance. He Is widely known in the West, and wherever he is known he is honored for his ability, his integrity and his independence. Great numbers of citizens west of the Allegha nies expected to vote for him as the Republican presidential candi date. They submitted to the action of the convention which preferrred Mr. Taft without resentment, but they still expect that Mr. Hughes will ultimately appear as the leading fiirure in a National campaign. In "the West he is looked upon as a com ing great man of the Nation who will occupy the stage after Mr. Taft has played his part, and it will not ba taken kindly if the New Tork bosses blight his opportunities by failing to renominate him for Governor. Al ready Mr. Hughes Is a National asset. He does not belong merely to New Tork. The whole country has learned the fine quality of his statesmanship and desires to see him employed In a larger field. In a long letter to the Evening Post Dr. Stephen S. Wise, formerly of Portland, recites .some of the rea sons why the New Tork politicians dislike Mr. Hughes. He is "too inde pendent" for one thing. This means that he has followed his own con science and Judgment In executing the duties of his office and has not been the servile tool of the party bosses. It Is amusing sometimes to see how strenuously the machine calls for "Independence" In legislators and ex ecutives when the people seek to con trol them and what an Iron tyranny they impose on their own account. Mr. Hughes has not submitted to the bosses in a single particular. He has ignored- them whenever he could. When he could not Ignore them he has defied them. More than once, af the Evening Post points out, he has appealed to the people after the ma chine had defeated him In the legis lature and the people have sustained him. The "New York law does not formally admit a referendum except when a new constitution, is to be adopted, but a practical referendum Is permitted, as In all civilized gov ernments, and Mr. Hughes has made excellent use of the privilege. He . has thereby made the people of New York aa efficient factor in their gov ernment and for this the politicians naturally detest him. Their plan is to make the electorate think it is ruling while in reality it Is being ruled and exploited by others. Mr. Hughes la a genuine, old-fashioned American democrat who believes in the common people and has the cour age to put his belief into practice. He belongs to the very beat school of our statesmen who have been first of all honest men, secondly public serv ants and a long way afterwards par tisans. Dr. Wise says that the bosses de test Mr. Hughes in the second place for his puritanism. The simple truth is that he has stood up man fully for the ten commandments. He has done what he could to stop gambling at horse races,- to check thievery by insurance and other cor poration magnates, to end political corruption, and to give honest men a chance to outweigh the vicious at elections. This Is his puritanism and In our opinion he has none too much of it. The belief that a successful politician must be morally putrescent and cater especially to the fetid ele ments of society has prevailed too long. It Is time to end it. One could heartily wish that a great many oth ers among out statesmen would be come infected with Mr. Hughes' puri tanism and take the disease In a se vere form. It would do them a world of good. But the Governor's puri tanism. his democratic principles, his honesty, his courage have all con tributed to make him enemies. For these enemies, as General Bragg said of Cleveland, the Independents love him. but at one time they threatened to eliminate him from New York politics. This wonld have been a National calamity and the people of t would have felt it bitterly. likely that large numbers revolted from the Repub- on that account. . Still have been dissatisfaction. hat the leaders of the I is state of the Union fan ud Jiaii1 their best man would have shaken party confidence and put a terrible weapon Into Mr. Bryan's hands. THK STATE TO BUILD RAILROADS T Of course the state will go slow about accepting Governor Chamber lain's suggestion for a state-built road across Central Oregon or a road built by private capital with state-guaranteed bonds. No doubt It might be possible to amend the constitution un der the Initiative so that the state could embark on railroad schemes, or do a thousand other things now wise ly forbidden by the constitution. It may be an advantage of course to be able to amend the constitution to suit every new notion or fancy br need of the public mind; but it is likewise the chief menace and danger of the Initiative. If the constitution Is In anybody's way, change It. We have no constitution In Oregon guar anteed to last over night. .There have been state-aided and county-aided railways in the past, usually or uniformly with loss or dis aster to the tax-paying public. Uni versal experience is against it. It is bad business and may spell bank ruptcy. If the state builds a railroad across Central Oregon, there will be no argument to advanace against building a railroad to Coos Bay or Tillamook, to Klamath, or to any nook or corner of the state that wants a road and would undoubtedly be benefited by its construction. The suggestion that the legislative power of taxation against the rail roads and railroad property be used as a means of bringing Mr. Harriman to a proper sense of his duty and ac countability to the people of Oregon is Infinitely wiser and more feasible than the scheme for the state to go Into the railroad business. THE XVISANCE STATCTE. No one who read the evidence in the Waymlre case had any doubt that a trap had been laid for the Mayor for purposes which have not been fully disclosed. Whatever one may think of the conduct of the Mayor in playing dangerously near the trap, there can be but one opinion of those .-h thue nnnsnirnd to inlure his good name and destroy his Influence as chief executive of the city. The facts being plain, it would appear to the ordinary citizen that there should be no difficulty about. a prosecution. But there was. We have no statute which expressly makes it a crime for per sons to conspire thus to defame a man, and It was only after extended search for a law under which prose cution could be brought that an in dictment was filed under the provl ainna of that section of the criminal code which provides for the punish ment of any person who shall com mit anv ant a-hlrh "onenlv outrages the public decency and is injurious to public morals. under mis maici munt ih nartlpH were tried and con victed, whereupon they appealed to the Supreme Court. The decision oi that tribunal was rendered Tuesday, affirming the Judgment. The defenses set up in tne supreme Court were purely technical. In the first place, it was contended that the facts alleged did not constitute the crime of outraging public decency and Injuring public morals. And It mOat be admitted that the attdmeys for the defense had about as strong a case as the average case taken up on purely technical grounds. The acts com plained of were not committed pub licly In the sense that a large number of persons witnessed them. Only one or two witnessed them, and the facts became lrtiown Indirectly. It is easy to Imagine that a court which turned Ruef free might have argued that, since the acts were not committed In a public place In view of a large con course of people, they did not outrage public decency. Such would have been an extremely strict and technical construction of the statute and much narrower than the makers of the law Intended. The statute Itself shows that It was designed to cover every Immoral act not otherwise made a crime If it tends to injure public morals. Everyone knows that the conduct of Mrs. Waymlre and her companion, Raddlng, tended to injure public mor als. Had they succeeded In getting free in this case we should very likely have numerous repetitions of the same offense. Moreover, suspicion would rest upon men In high posi tion and there would be contempt for our laws and courts. Scarcely any thing could have Injured public mor als more than to have acts of this kind committed without fear of suc cessful prosecution. And our court, viewing the question broadly, held that the acts charged . in the indict ment came wlthin-the meaning of the statute. The decision Is not only In accordance with the public welfare, but It does no wrong to the defend ants. They had a fair trial upon the merits of their case; A jury found them guilty upon the evidence. They sought to escape through those fine distinctions which lawyers can draw. In affirming the Judgment against them, the Supreme Court was neither technical nor careless of the rights of defendants. The decision is one which it can always follow as a pre cedent. Another question that was raised was whether the Indictment charged two offenses, contrary to the provi sions of the law governing the form of Indictments. In setting forth the facts, the prosecution alleged in con nection with the story of the assault that the door of the Mayor's office was broken in. and It was contended that this alleged the crime of destroy ing property as well as the crime of injuring public morals. One can readily believe that the court which reversed the Standard Oil decision would have found this Indictment fa tally defective In this regard. Our court did not. It ruled that the alle gations regarding the breaking of the door were merely Incidents In. the re lation of the facts making up the crime of outraging public decency and Injuring public morals. The defense In this particular had no merit what ever. If the door had not been bro ken, the defense would have argued therefrom that the acts were not pub lic and did not outrage public de cency. The defense would complain if the facts were alleged or not al leged. So far as the merits were con cerned, they would not be deprived of any rights In either case. The in dictment stated the facts with suffi cient particularity to Inform the de fendants of the crime with which they were charged and to give them an opportunity to. set up whatever defense they, had, .When this lias THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1V0S. been done the accused have been fairly Indicted, and such was the rul ing of the court In this case. Whether Mrs. Wa3-mlre or Raddlng shall be punished Is a matter of Im portance but of infinitely less import ance than whether they shall escape by highly technical defenses. They had a fair trial, everybody knows they did and the court has so declared. The decision is one that not only at tains Justice in this particular case, but that will tend to promote the ad ministration of Justice in subsequent cases. No man can reasonably say that any right was denied the defend ants. The case calls for this com ment because the decision comes at a time when courts are prone to mag nify the importance of technical form to the exclusion of the merits of the case. A FEARFVL EPISODE. With hilarious hops Mr. William . Randolph Hearst has made his final exit from the Iroquois Club of San Francisco. The severance of the ten der bond which united the eminent and multifarious editor to this ortho dox Democratic club was not entirely voluntary on his part, for he was in vited to withdraw. Still it appears that he received the invitation with Joy and obeyed it with a glad noise upon the harp and timbrel. Like Lot and his spouse fleeing from Sodom or the saints of the Lord emerging from doomed Babylon even so did Mr. Hearst gather up his skirts and es cape from the Iroquois Club. ' "Banished from the Iroquois Club?" he cried In frenzied tones as he crosssed the threshold for the last time, "What's banished but set free from daily contact with the things I loathe?" And like Cataline of old he promises the haughty sachems of the club that he will return with a cohort of shapes hot from Tartarus and make them wish they had never done it. Thus Joy and vengeance mingle terribly in his throbbing soul. But to a man less implacable than Mr. Hearst the vengeance he has already had would be ample. The Parthian shot which he fired as he emerged laughing maniacally through that fatal portal did execution enough to satisfy any ordinary thirst for gore. "Aha!" he shrieked in accents wild. "you say I am not a Democrat? What then are you yourselves, ye caitiffs? What kind of Democrats are you? Do you belong to the breed of Bryan or Parker? Are you free silver or Cleveland stock? Are you kin to the heroes of government own ership or to the forlorn and forgot ten champions of the national refer endum?" Pale looks and trembling limbs were left behind as the great founder of the Independence League wended his haughty way down the street. In fearful whispers the question passed from frigid lip to gelid ear, "What kind of Democrats are; we? What is the real meaning of our sa cred party cognomen? Have we any better right than Mr. Hearst to bear that noble title? Is there any such thing as a Democrat after all?" CHEER IT. If people would devote themselves a little more to philosophy and a lit tle less to the pursuit of wealth and worldly pleasure, we should have more happiness in the world, longer lives in which to enjoy it, and fewer suicides. It has seemed of late that almost every trivial misfortune Is oc casion for self-destruction. Any kind of a wrong is sufficient provocation for murder. We worry life away over misha'ps which have no necessary In fluence upon our welfare. A hall storm sweeps across the wheat fields of the Middle West, and the next morning despondent farmers are found hanging around almost every place In trees and barns. A gay young wife tires of the dullness of her husband's companionship and elopes with a livelier man, whereupon two souls must be sent unprepared to Heaven. A thousand and one ills that flesh Is heir to are so magnified when viewed through the small glass of narrowed vision that it seems bet ter to fly to ills we know not of than to bear those we have. ' "There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with," wrote Marcus Aure lius over 1700 years ago, and if mod erns would read more of his wise sayings they would place a more ac curate estimate upon the Importance of events of life. "How very near us stand the two great gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear. Now is not that man a blockhead who lets these mo mentary things make him proud, or uneasy, or sorrowful, as though they could trouble him for long?" And again, "If anything external vexes you, take notice that it Is not the thing which disturbs you but your notion about it, which notion you may dismiss at once If you please." POLAR COMPLEMENTS Would you rather be an old-fashioned wife or a modern, up-to-date soul mate? The question becomes pertinent as we read of the rocky path which some of the poor crea tures have to travel who have united themselves to their soul affinities. There may be a depth of bliss in liv ing with one's true magnetic polar complement which compensates for all the incident hardships, but if Mrs. Ferdinand P. Earle's case Is typical it Is difficult to see where the bliss comes In. Her unhappy time of it in union wtih her affinity almost compels one to think that plain, old style matrimony is preferable to a harmony of souls. Mrs. Earle has lived for about a year with her polar comple ment and her experience seems to look more like a warning than an ex ample to be Imitated. The trouble with these soul har monies is that an occasional discord will creep In. do the best the couple can, and then arises - the perplexing problem of restoring the symphonic accord. Mr. Earle reached this very desirable consummation by beating his Julia over the head with the mop or the frying pan or some such pro vocative of love. Of course harmony is so very sweet and altogether delec table that It is worth the price what ever it costs; but in ordinary matri monial unions It is usually attained without resort to such heroic devices. The humdrum couples of one's ac quaintance manage to love one an other in a quiet way without the aid of the frying pan or any other deadly weapon of persuasion. Their affec tion may not have much of the mag netic polar quality and contains pos sibly-less oi tha .genuine, maul XaruocJ than might be wished; still It serves the purposes of daily -life and stands the strain of fortune's ups and downs better, one would imagine, than the soul throbs do. There will probably be some little difficulty experienced In finding a new relation between men and women that will fully replace love and marriage upon the old plan. Plerpont Morgan, Jr., who owns a house in London, has been writing home telling his fellow-citizens how much better the English capital goes about it in the matter of street Im provements than American cities do. He doesn't growl, but hopes to start a reform. Not long ago he received notice that the street In which his house is situated was about to be im proved, and that the gas, electric, water, telephone, lighting and hy draulic companies had been notified to make alterations and repairs to their mains while the street was open. Furthermore, the officer send ing the notice assured Mr. Morgan that he would be subjected to the minimum of Inconvenience. This London plan offers opportunity to the new Charter Commission of Portland to earn the gratitude of every tax payer. Let a provision be made which shall reverse the present sys tem of a maximum of public annoy ance and a minimum of economy. Hard-surface pavements are being laid In every part of the city. Surely some way can be found to prevent them being torn up every year by corporations that, must put apparatus below, the surface. The suggestion that a new water code should include a provision grant ing to water users the privilege of turning stored water Into a stream, and taking It out again, is a good one. Such a provision was included In the bill for a water code which was de feated by the last legislature. It would hardly be right, however, to provide, as Mr. Huffman proposed in his com munication published In The Orego nlan Tuesday, that a man should have the right to take out of a stream the same number of inches of water he turned In. There is a considerable loss of water by evaporation and sometimes by seepage. The man who turns in water from a private reser voir should bear his part of this loss, and It will not be easy to determine In each particular case what the ex tent of this loss really is. The princi ples of water law are easily deter mined. It is more difficult to put them into practice. In a stream with a good flow of water alll Summer the relative loss of water by seepage would be slight. In a stream nearly dry It would be great. Hood River is to conduct a special school of Instruction in apple packing, so that applegrowers may learn how fruit should be packed to make the best appearance and stand transporta tion with the least injury. The move ment Is a good one and should be taken up elsewhere. Last Winter M. O. Lownsdale gave Illustrated lectures through the Willamette Valley for the purpose of showing how apples should be packed, and much good was ac complished in that way. At the same time, a lecture, even by as practical a man as Lownsdale, cannot make apple-packers. The growers should be given a chance to do the packing themselves under the supervision of an instructor who can point out their mistakes and show how to Improve the pack. So far as it went, Mr. Lowns dale's work was excellent. Willamette Valley growers should induce him to take up the work again and more ex tensively'. Those who do not believe that woman's Inhumanity to woman ex ceeds man's inhumanity to man, in streetcars and elsewhere, should take observations for a few moments in a department store. A woman shopper looks down upon the woman clerk as an inferior, and very often by her language shows the attitude of her mind. The most cruel treatment a woman clerk receives is from her women customers. A man making purchases in the men's department will "jolly" with the clerks and meet them as equals. There is the utmost kindness and consideration. If you do not believe it, watch and see. ."It was not the Standard Oil Com pany of New Jersey but the Standard Oil Company of Indiana that was on trial," explains Federal Judge Baker. The Judge Is fearful that the public doesn't know the difference. It cer tainly doesn't. But the Judge did, and the Standard Oil Company did. That is evidently enough. The Mayor has decided, it seems, not to abolish the tenderloin. Not yet. "Have you lived here all your life?" asked the stranger of the old timer. "Not yet," was the reply. The tenderloin will remain for quite awhile in the not-yet class. That new Alaska wheat doesn't ap pear to be making the hit with the country that Alaska gold made a few years ago. Farmer Adams will have to have a bargain day sale for those $20 per bushel samples and mark them down to 20 cents. Mr. Bryan got a great ovation at his Illinois birthplace from the cus tomary immense crowd. What is wor rying Mr. Bryan is to know if those enthusiastic gatherings are going to vote as they shout. Of course we might not get first class baseball in the Northwest League; but Just think of being in a league where Portland is beaten every other day by a team from a mere San Francisco suburb. Judge Baker might have added when he said that "a corporation has the same rights in his court as an in dividual, no less no more," that of course a great deal often depends on the individual. John D. Rockefeller sent a breezy letter to the American Press Humor ists Association and signed it But that is all he signed and sent. Mr. R. Is an honorary member of the Press Humorists. They played a game of cricket in Australia for the entertainment of "those American sailors. Australia is our friend. The sailors "stood for It." A story comes from Russia that a citizen there ate his wife, brother and four children. Another man inordi nately fond o his family. . GROVER CLEVELAND'S CLIMAX By the Side of Which Rooeevelt'e Per formance Are Stage Play. Harry Thurston Perk in the Forum. Of late years we have become accus tomed to the perpetual presence of the spectacular in our National Govern ment. The events of President Cleve land's second term may be taken as an illustration of the fact that the spec tacular is not by any means the same as the dramatic. Horsebreaking, military revlews, peace conferences like that at Portsmouth, where the diplomatic com edy was all carefully pre-arranged, the swift dispatch of battleships for the benefit of the newspapers all these things matter so little that they will be almost Instantly forgotten. They tickle the fancy of the on lookers for a moment. They fur nish the press with daily gossip. But they are no more truly dramatic than is the transformation scene at the end of a Christmas pantomime. The most breathless moment since the Civil War closed with the death of Lincoln, the most enduring mark which American statesmanship has left on history for the last quarter of a cen tury came when these grimly meas ured sentences were read " out in the Senate chamber: "... It will be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power, as a willful aggression upon its rights and Interests, the ap propriation of (Venezuelan) territory by Great Britain. . . . In making theee recommendations I am fully alive to the responsibility incurred and keenly realize alf the consequences that may follow." President Roosevelt, with all his in stinct for efTect. never attained to so thrllllngly real a climax. The history of his administration will tell how, with a fine Army and a splen did fleet at his command, he did succeed in coercing a small South American republic and In forcing her to yield up a strip of territory to be exploited In American Interests. But It was the quiet, unassuming President in the frock coat a little shiny at the elbows and with trousers a little baggy at the knees who expounded the doc trine jDf Monroe and forced the accept ance of It by what was then, at least, the proudest and apparently most pow erful nation upon earth. And he did It with no bluster, with no trumpetings, but solely by the force of an inflexible will, a spirit that dared everything when he believed that he wae right. From that moment and not from the time of our easy triumph over impotent Spain, wise historians date the sudden leap of the United States to the ac knowledged rank of a great world power. NEW YORK WORLD AND MR. BRYAN The Two, With Democracy, Trying; to Carry Semi-Socialism to an Extreme. New York Tribune. Stripped of its false and mlschlef-breed-Inc alliances, and no lonicer attempting to reconcile. Democracy with seml-Soclalisni, or with paternalistic Populism, or with any other form of crazy radicalism, the Demo cratic party appears to have recovered to a considerable degree from Its lone Infatuation and to be once more In a position to render efficient service to the republic. Without scanning It too closely for imperfections we believe that it deserves encouragement and Is entitled to Democratic sympathy and sup port. The New York World. The party Is stripped of Its alliances through no merit of Mr. Bryan, who did all he could to persuade Watson and Hearst to give him their support. The party is more paternalistic and more committed to centralization than ever before. The Government guaran tee of bank deposits is a new and vic ious piece of paternalism" which Mr. Bryan has made one of the chief party doctrines for this campaign. The fed eral licensing of all trusts controlling mpre than 25 per cent of the plant and output In a given industry Is the vast est project of centralization which any party has ever indorsed. It would ut terly change the conditions under which a large amount of the business of the country is done. and. involving as It does, according to the Democratic platform, the maintenance of uniform prices throughout the country, it would be a step toward the Government reg ulation of the prices of the chief com modities. That would be carrying paternalism, semi-socialism, centralization and crazy radicalism to the extreme, yet it is the way the Democratic party is surely headed. The Democratic platform pro posal to give the Interstate Commerce commission authority to initiate changes in railroad rates is an utterly superfluous step toward further central ization. The declaration against in junctions in labor disputes Is crazy radicalism. It springs from sympathy with the socialistic idea of giving the laboring classes additional opportu nities for the successful earning on of the "class -war." It is needful only to compare this platform with the plat form of the Democratic party before the domination of Mr. Bryan to see how far it has got away from its an cient faith, and with the Populist plat forms of that period to see where the Democracy of today received most of its inspiration. It will doubtless surprise Mr. Bryan himself to learn from "The World" that he is making a fight against Rooseveltlsm. There has been no evi dence hitherto that he knew it, and it Is safe to say that he took some pains to conceal this momentous fact trom the voters of the Middle .est, the bat tleground of the campaign. Hlsb Music Hall Proflta In London. New York Morning Telegraph'. American vaudeville managers will find the balance sheet of the fiscal year's bus iness at the Palace Theater, London, a most interesting document. The net prof Its amount to a. quarter million dollars, which on' an Investment of $460.0CO is a pretty comfortable showing. With true British conservatism, the directors have voted only a 30 per cent dividend, having decided to keep a sub--tDHoi .nm In rrvrvp With J1SO.O0O in the treasury the stockholders have the virtual assurance of e. similar dividend next year if the Palace merely pays oper ating expenses on the season. The London Empire" has in days gone by distributed as high as SO per cent divi dends in a season. However, the capital at that house is only $175,000. At the Palace last year the gross re ceipts were considerably above a half million dollars, and the profits in the gross, including those not distributed, exceeded in amount those ever attained by any other music hall in England, and possible In all Europe. The seemingly unsophisticated Alfred Butt, managing director, at whose econ omy we were wont to poke fun during his visit in America, seems, therefore, to possess the requisite commercial capacity for the position he holds. Tries to Send Live Dost by Mall. Baltimore News. Patients and physicians having com plained of the noise issuing from A par cel postofftce box in front of the City hospital in St. Louis. Investigation showed that an alleged "Joker" had tried to send a live dog by mail. Seven-Foot Man Fears Vncclnatlon.' Philadelphia Record. "Pat" Bane of Greene county. Pa., tallest man in the Union army in the Civil war. measuring 7 feet 4 inches, on being told by the surgeon at the Soldiers' Home at Dayton, Ohio, that he must be vaccinated, disappeared. Eaay to Fors-eti Hard to Remember. Washington Herald. There Is one thing about a name like HUsgen it is Just as easy to forget as it is hard to remember. STARTING AN OPPOSITION PAPER Politicians Often Do It. Only to Suffer Inevitable Looses. ' Eugene Guard. There is talk of a Democratic news paper being established in Eugene to supply the aching void for a party or gan In Lane County. We mention this, not as a matter of news, since few per sons are really Interested in it. and none less concerned than the publisher of The Guard, but that we may use it as the excuse for "talking shop" to our readers. Sometimes we think that pub lishers do not give the public enough real Information concerning their business and for that reason there is a woeful lack of knowledge of the news paper business, or the profejslon of editing and publishing newspapers, when as a matter of fact the newspaper Is really a public institution, dependent upon the public for its support and responsible to the same public for the honesty and Intelligence with which it discharges the duty of newsgatherer and dissemination, which furnishes the topics for nearly ail its editorial ar ticles. Not many readers of newspa pers have any right Idea of the work involved in printing newspapers, the capital invested, the expense of pro duction, the machinery of news gather ing, the source of income, legitimate and Illegitimate; and a discussion of any one of these heads might make a long and interesting article. Politicians with axes to grind, and most of them belong to that class, will frequently get together and talk flippantly of "starting a paper" be cause they cannot dictate the course of an established publication. Most frequently these movements fall through when it comes to actually fi nancing the proposition; sometimes they are carried out with the ifievitable financial loss to the promoters, in a ffeld no larger than that of Lane County, it would cost a considerable sum of money to embark in the news paper business with even a reasonable hope of ultimate success. The Guard is not a large paper, but it represents an investment of not less than $17,000, and it costs $1600 a month to pay ac tual running expenses, under careful and experienced management. When the plant is installed In its new loa tion during the coming Fall, the ad ditions made necessary by growing business, will Increase the Investment to $25,000, and within two years it is quite likely that a new nad faster newspaper press will be a necessity and that will mean $10,000 more added to the outlay. These are facts that are susceptible of proof from books in The Guard's business office, and the pro moters of the new paper may profit by the knowledge if they choose to. They may be enabled thereby to take pencil and paper and figure out the amount of capital necessary to launch their newspaper in this field, already well filled, install a plant that will en able them to meet competition In pro duction and have the resources to pay losses in running expenses until the time comes, if it ever does, when the income Is sufficient of itself to do tht- SPANKING INSPECTOR APPOINTED Lynn, Masa., Police Judge Approves nt Ancient Remedy for Bud Boys). Boston Herald. Patrolman Abraham L. Grover, of the Lynn, Mass., police, has been appointed deputy supervisor of spankings to be given the youth of that city. His duties ha i fnil nt the homes of boys whom the Lynn court has ordered to be spanked and see that the parents carry out the court's orders impartial i,, o'nH with nufftrir-nt visror. Spanking Supervisor Grover's new duties began when he visited me nomei of Edward Malloy, Charles Cody and - . t- 1. . H,. n i'df 1 11 !'(' f street. West Lynn, and watched with a Judicious eye while tneir respective parents carried out orders of Judge Lummus. of the Lynn Police Court. Edward, Charles and John, each of whom is 11 years old, were arraigned in the juvenile session of the Lynn court for stealing apples from the yard of John H. McMahon, who lives near the Codvs, on Cottage street. After finding them guilty, the Judge asked Deputy Chief of Police Bartlett, who represented the prosecution, if he fa; vored putting the boys on probation. The deputy said that he thought they should be punished, so that the example might prevent other boys from stealing fruit. The Judge then said that he thought an old-fashioned spanking would be the best form of punishment, and dele gated Patrolman Grover as a deputy supervisor of sparvklngs. The order of the court was carried out between 7 and 8 o'clock lat even ing. The officer said that the spank ings were in every way a success, and that although the parents carried out their promise in a manner sufficient to satisfy any court. Charles, John and Edward did not whimper. - This is the first time the Lynn court has ever ordered a spanking as a cor rective measure. Fair Lillian Russell Love a Prince. New York Dispatch. Lillian Russell, the actress, had a se cret, but she could not keep it. She had to tell some one. girl like. She has found the real way of prolong ing the youth in her that makes her the envy of ail women who believe that beauty talks, and here it is in her own words: I am in love for the first time in my life, and with a Prince!" She did not blush and polish her tell tale solitaire. She simply got dreamy looking about the eyes and unconsciously played with a gorgeous string of pearls the biggest pearls that ever approached New York harbor. And the pearls were given her by a Greek Prince, who lives in Athens but who eats occasionally in Paris. Lillian Is seriously impressed with his personality, his Greek pronle, and she in tuitively knows that his 35 years of life have not dulled him to a lack of appre ciation of herself. Milwaukee (Wla.) Has Dot Ambulnnce. Milwaukee Sentinel. Milwaukee now claims one of the four canine ambulances in the United States. Dr. E. M. Sullivan, veterinary surEeon, has just purchased a turnout, which for elegance and comfort, surpasses many of the ambulances for human beings. The rls is enameled black with brass trimmings and lamps. Beneath the seat is a medicine chest containing every re storative necessary. The interior is thor oughly padded, and has a stretcher to be used In the case of dags whose condition, is serious, and where more than one is carried on a single trip. With the addition of the ambulance. Dr. Sullivan is now equipped with one of the finest canine hospitals in the city. He has just put in several improvements to his kennels by installing asbestos lining In each compartment. He now has a ward for contagious diseases and a warrt for dogs which are suffering from Summer ailments. For a Wager, Man Swallows Tacks. Baltimore News. John E. Hoyt of Ware. Mass.. at tempting to imitate a circus eater of iron, swallowed tacks on a wager of $100 five months ago. and since then has lost 40 pounds in weight. Surgeons who re moved the tacks say the man will re cover. Nature Freak In a Pljr. New York Press. ' A pig sent in alcohol to Mrs. Helen Busse, of New York, from Berlin, had two bodies, one head, four ears and eight legs, each with a perfect hoof. HOW TO RESTRICT FOREST FIRES Get Rid of the Dead Timber Which Has No Commercial Ynlne. BUNKER HILL SPRINGS. Or., Aug. 24. (To the Editor.) Nearly 20 years ago I camped, with a gmajl party, in the extensive burn at Bunker Hill Springs. 12 miles weet of St. Helens, in Columbia County. One 'of the party never having seen a burning tree, ap plied a lighted match to the decayed saDWood of a monster dead fir tree. from which the bark had slipped. It was an isolated tree, with no others standing nearer than perhaps 100 feet. It was near midday. The sun shone hot, and a light breeze was blowing. In four or ' five minutes the fire hod reached the top of that tall dead tree. Soon the wind began carrying tufts and brands of burning matter to an alarming distance. In less than 15 min utes several other dead trees to the leeward had been fired by the burning brands that sailed so prettily through the air. Here, then, a single brimstone match foolishly applied had started a forest fire that probably killed some green timber within the burn that had escaped in the great conflagration and some later minor fires. After an hour or so the wind died away, and by next morning the fire was confined to a few smoking logs. Few, if any. large live trees had been killed, but most of the growtli of young firs standing In the line of fire were killed. Sev eral of the burning dead firs broke off and fell, those standing being most ly from 50 to 200 feet high. Many of the dead firs biarkened and partially burned in that (ire, and at least one subsequent forest tire, are still stand ing, with tops in most cases broken off. These dead lirs are a constant menace to the living forest, and prevent to a great extent re-foresting. These dead trees have no commercial value. By all means, they should be felled. How this may be done practically and cheaply is the question requiring most attention today. Frank Brown, a farm er and timberman ef wide experience. Is of the opinion that the best results may be had by two men handling -a crosscut saw. He relates that In this month of August a flro In the dead firs to the west of Yankton was making rapid headway toward Brown's barn, and some 30 persons were fighting its approach with buckets of water. Two or three men began falling the dead trees with crosscut saws. It was found that three men falling these trees did more effective service than 30 with buckets and water. In the late 40s I learned the power of backfiring on the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, but successful backfiring in these old dead fir burns is not possi ble. Timber owners and the county and state authorities should give this question unusual attention. The books inform us that when an old forest is destroyed other kinds of trees spring 'up. That may be so in some countries or in isolated Instances, but It is not the rule in Western Ore gon. A few years after a burn young firs cover the ground. The growth is rapid in the sapling age. I meant to have measured the average yearly growth in height, but neglected to do so. After a few years they are called "poles." The outsldes of groves look like a solid wall of green boughs. Get into the grove and one is reminded of being in a circus tent. For two-thirds of the distance up the limbs are dead, and perhaps the lower one-third have mostly dropped off. The next stage of growth is called "Small Piling." Then large piling. Small sawing timber is known as red tir. Up to this stage the rings show rapid growth. In the next 40 or 60 years the yearly rings show less than half the size of red fir growth. Then follows the yellow fir growth, which is very slow, making It difficult to correctly count the rings, many show ing upwards of 400 years The limbs on isolated fir trees do not fall off and will not yield clear merchantable lumber. There is a demand, a market for the product of these yellow firs and they will be sent to the market. The best we can do is to protect the young growth. The yellow fir is doomed. ' Ten generations will pass away before the saplings of today will be ripe for the ax to make clear yellow fir finishing lumber. If we fall to down these old dead trees In the burns, the delay will be so much longer. A word about the waste of timber: All Is being sent to market that can be transported at a profit none will be sent to market at a loss now or ever. Another word about logp;ed-off lands and I will close. It will be to the ad vantage of owners of these lands to dispose of at least part of the holdings in small tracts, 10, 20 and 40 acres, to poor people. Let them build houses in clusters "hamlet" is the English name for such collections of country houses. That is insurance against forest fires to some extent, that of self-protection. It provides for a more steady class of laborers In the timber. There would always be a school, poBtoffloe and store in one of these hamlets. These settlers would benefit themselves, the county and state. W. H. DOLMAN. Bunker Hill Springs. August. 1U08. Irlsh-Indinn Wins lu Oklahoma. Kansas City Star. Owning -hundreds of acres near Russet and fertile lands In the Valley nf the Washita River, lives Mrs. Kate O'Brien. Oklahoma's most successful woman farmer. Mrs. O'Brien manages her farm as actively aa If she were a man. She raises corn, cotton, fruit, berries, and has a hoir ranch, a goose ranch, and many horses, mules and cattle. There is not a finer fruit farm In the state than Mrs. O'Brien's. She has 4ii0 acres in apples, W acres In peaches, and is planning another peach orchard of SO arres. A. railroad running through her farm gives her a shipping station for her fruit. From one acre of strawberries Mrs. O'Brien received $571.50 last year. Mrs. O'Brien is a citizen or ma i iiick- ara.w Nation by blond, lieing one-eighth Indian and seven-eighths Irish. sne nrite clever v and shows a Keen sense of humor In her reminiscences of pioneer days and in licr telling of Indian legends and customs. Connecticut Man Grows New Potato Hartford Conn., Dispatch. Samuel Wilson of Wolcott. Conn., as serts that he Is growing potatoes above and below ground on the same vine, as a result of two years of experimenting. The bush potato is a cross between the Beauty of Hebron and the Delaware potato. Suspended by Ills Torn Two floors. Indianapolis News. . Philip Graesser. aged 19. practicing In a Kvmnasium at Pittsburg, had a curious experience. In hanging hy his toes from bar. the muscles of his feet became rigid, preventing him from falling, and when found was unconscious, a physi cian saying he had been suspended for probably two hours. With Schoolboy Enthiialaam. Baltimore Sun. The New York Republicans are pre pared to shout for Hughes with as much enthusiasm as that of the bcIiooi boy when he hears the after-vacation bell. . Chicken's Peck Drlnss Death. Philadelphia Record. A child of Margaret Keller, of Maltby, Pa., pecked on the check by a chicken. died of blood poisoning. v
