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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.
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