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Newspaper Page Texttttt? vnnYTVfJ ORTlRnXTAV FRTDAT. SEPTEMBER 11, 1908. PORTLAND. OBEOOX. Entrd at Portland. Orsoaw Pooe gacood-Clua Matter. (By Mall) Daily. Bandar tnclndva, ooa rr - Wily. Sunday Included, all month.... frallv. Hunrfav lnrludd. thrn raontM. 2aliy. Sunday Included, oca month-.-' VMlT without Sunday, om yar Pally, without Sunday, aim month..... paUy. without Sunday, thrta month.. laiiy. without Sunday, ona month..... tVaakly, ana yamr. ....... Buaday, ana yar. . . ....-. Sunday and Waakly. ona rar. (By Carriar.) Daily. Sunday lneludad. ana jraar Dally. Sunday latludad. aaa month.... ft C0l 25 1.60 3 6 S.6W 00 .75 Bow to RflraK 8nd postofnc money rdar. axpreaa erdar or personal check on your local bank. Stamp, coin or currency ara at tha Mndef rlak. O'v poatorac aa Araaa In full. Including county and atata. Foxtax Rata jo is 14 pasaa. 1 cant; IS to 2a pacva. a canta; to to 44 pacea canta: 4d to SO paasa. 4 cunt. Foraicu poat doubla rataa Eaatrra Bwam Office The & C. Back witb Spaclal Asency Naw York, roomi 48 60 Trtbuna bniidtns. Chicago, rooma 410-613 Trlb-jna building-. FORTLAND, FRIDAY. SEPT. 11. HXW. STRAIGHTFORWARD POLITICS. Chairman Cake says Taft will be elected. Perhaps. But he will not be elected by men like Mr. Cake, who are electing; Democrats to the United States Senate. There must be something- like consistent and logical ac tion In politics to this extent at least, that a man can't be on both sides of a main question. Ht can't stand at once for both parties for election of a Republican President and a Demo cratic Senator, and have any weight or influence at all. People deride such absurdities. If Chamberlain is to be elected to the Senate. Bryan should have the electoral vote of the state. Converse ly, if Bryan is not to get the electoral vote of the state. Chamberlain should not be Senator. Is Oregon a Demo cratic state? If so, very well. Let Bryan nd Chamberlain have it, for they are entitled to it. On the other hand. Is Oregon a Republican state? Then let us cut out this Juggle, and have decent, honest and straightfor ward politics, so that the elector who casts his vote may know distinctly what he is voting for, what party, what policy, what politics. Every honest man hates "mixers" who have no sure principles men who are working politics as a trade, men of accommodating principles, that Is, of no principles, who, in pur suit of personal ambitions, entangle themselves with "statements," make pacts with men of the opposite party and sell out, betray, or compromise their own associates. Advocacy . of Taft by men who profess to be Repub licans, yet are going to elect Chamber lain, will only produce disgust. This Is the reason why the Bryan pary has hopes of the state. Xo honest man likes to be Juggled with. This Scripture has not been sur passed in truth and pungency yet. this Scripture, to wit: "He that Is not for me is against me. and he that gath ereth not with me scattereth abroad." Men must be on one side or another. The Laodiceans, in religion, long ago were "spewed out." No question also about their being spewed out in politics. cosQmtxsa the air. In their seventeen-year contest with the seemingly unconquerable forces of Jr. the Wright brothers are appar ently at last victorious. The aeroplane records established at Fort Meyer Wednesday quite naturally do not guarantee immediate adoption of the machine as a perfect success in its present form. They have demonstrat ed, however, that It is possible for a machine much heavier than air to rise at the will of man and to be navi gated at a speed of nearly forty miles per hour, at all time under perfect control. Orville Wright's aeroplane, with which he made the record flights Wednesday, weighed more than 1000 pounds, and on one of Its flights It car- . ried the additional weight of two men. . Yet, in apparent defiance of the laws of. gravitation. It arose steadily and was kept afloat In the air without Indi cating any Imperfections In construc tion. The utility of the present machines ' is, of .course, a doubtful quantity, but 'the possibilities for development into a machine of great value, especially In 'war times, -is unquestioned. The se cret of construction has been discov ered, and It Is so thoroughly under- ; stood that all that is necessary is en largement and improvement of the ' present plans. Comparison of an aero- plane with other mechanical construc ; tions or Inventions is, of course, im- possible, but there are certain features ' Involved which do not differ material ' ly from those which are found in the . construction of steamships, locomo ' tlves or other examples of applied power for propulsion purposes. ' The shipbuilder, by careful calcula tion, can determine by the perform : ance of a craft of a given size the ex : act changes that are necessary In or der to make a larger craft travel at a proportionately faster speed or carry . a heavier load. These calculations, traced back to the original starting point, began with the successful con struction of the first steamboat. That craft introduced the basic principle from which all subsequent steam ves sels developed and expanded. The same rule can be applied to the aero plane, and a century hence. In Its probable highly developed stafce. the machine will still be but an Improved model of the aeroplane on which the Wright brothers expended more pains taking effort than has been devoted to any other Invention that the present century has brought forth. The balloon, which In age has sev eral centuries the advantage of the aeroplane, even with its propeller and gasoline engine attachment, has never reached a point of development where It was not at the mercy of the ele ments, and In but slight control of the balloonist. The aeroplane "flies with Its own wings," and Is not dependent on artificial gas to keep it afloat. It has come to stay, and. in view of the accomplishment of the Wright broth ers, as well as other aviators, it Is dif ficult to predict the limits of develop ment and utility that may be reached within the next few years. The Wright brothers have won a lasting place among the world's greatest In ventors, and Incidentally they have brought fame and glory to the land of their birth- Prehistoric man undoubtedly yelled In glee over some of the contests uhiKh were nulled off between his JOad-whea. Xii ,world, .was yu, the stone ax and bludgeon were fa vorite weapons in those days, the spec tators must have received their money's worth whenever the exhibi tions were given. But for all that our twentieth century civilization can still offer interesting entertainment which might have proved not uninteresting to the boys of long ago. For exam ple, the account of the Gans-Nelson glove contest in San Francisco says that "Gans presented a terrible pic ture. His right eye was closed, the left partially so; his lips and nose were badly lacerated, and his face puffed out like an inflated balloon." The Papke-Ketchel mill was also a pleasing affair, for the news dispatches state that "Ketchel presented a terri ble spectacle. Both eyes were swollen Into great black puffs, and completely closed. His lips were swollen. His face was beaten and cut and puffed out of shape" Spectacles of this kind could hardly fall to entertain the grumpiest old sport that ever lived in a cave shortly after the passing of the paleozoic age. TOIOTOI'8 EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY. The Holy Synod of the Russian Church has never forgiven Tolstoi for preaching the doctrines of Jesus. In 1901 It excommunicated him after threatening him for thirty years, and now, when the whole world has Joined in celebrating his 80th anniversary, the priestly hierarchy of his native land forbids the faithful to do him honor. Tolstoi probably comes nearer than any other man now living to the actual realization of the Ideal which Jesus upheld In thought and conduct, and in return for it the church which professes to follow Jesus' precepts re wards him with its curse and seeks to exclude him from the fellowship of human kind. Nor should we forget that in Russia excommunication still means something. In the rest of the world priesthoods may retain their old Inclination to smother progress and persecute the benefactors of the race, but they have lost the power. In Russia they still wield political power. In that unhappy land, blasted by tyr anny and ruled by murder, genius is still at the mercy of superstition and truth must bow to besotted ignorance which invokes the name of heaven to sanctify the deeds of hell. , Tolstoi's 80th birthday has not found him In a Joyous mood. His latest utterance to the Western world, which may well toe his last, is like the moan of a martyr in the flames. It Is printed in fulMn Llttell's Living Age for August 8. Last week's Outlook gives it in synopsis. The old man, after sixty years of public labor for his country and his people, after writ ing books which will never die and thinking thoughts deeper and truer than almost any other teacher in the modern world, finds himself on the verge of the grave proscribed by his monarch, cursed 'by the church and hated by the peasants for whom he has sacrificed wealth, honor and com fort. The Czar threatens him with death, the priests condemn him to everlasting fire, and the peasants throw stones through his (windows. Looking out over Russia, he sees bloodshed, hatred, cruelty, falsehood everywhere. The government upholds its authority by butchering the peo ple. The people, taught the fearful lesson by their rulers, butcher each other. Twenty years ago, says Tol stoi, there was but one executioner in all Russia. Now hungry men are un derbidding each other for the heads man's Job In every town, and legal murder Is lei out by wholesale. He tells how twenty peasants, well dressed in the Czar's uniform and well fed with the Czar's bread, will be lined up In the early morning, facing twenty other peasants gaunt with hunger, their coats in rags, their feet wrapped with withes of twisted straw, and the Czar's twenty at the word of command aim their guns and shoot down the starving twenty; and this is what the Russians call government. It Is going on morning after morning' all over the land.- No such an indictment against a government was ever drawn as this of Tolstoi against the Czar and his au tocracy. The peasants and revolution aries may be guilty of terrible deeds, he says, but the autocracy Is guilty of worse. It has murdered, robbed, tor tured, exiled the saints and blighted the genius of the country, not for the good of the people, but for the sole purpose of perpetuating its own power. That the Czar and his rela tives may live in luxury and perform their daily parts In the pageant of governing, the Russian people must writhe In misery. "I have seen enough of It," cries the old man, "and I hope this letter will cause the Czar to put an end to my life. Let me be hanged or scourged into the grave with my brothers." It Is not pleasant to hear this cry of despair from the most fa mous man in the world. Tolstoi's life has been filled with achievements. He is the greatest novelist, perhaps, who ever lived. His teaching on social subjects has been second in Influence only to the New Testament with this generation.' He has developed a pro found theory of pedagogy and illus trated it by conducting a school for the poor for many years. He has is sued revolutionary teachings upon art and preached the doctrines of primi tive Christianity with the whole world for a congregation. But the only use the church has for him is to doom him to perdition, and, in return for the glory he has brought to Russia, the Czar threatens to put him to death. Tolstoi would "have been hanged years ago were it not that the autocracy stands in fear of the public opinion of the world. Truly there must be some thing wrong with a church which ex communicates a man like Tolstoi, and a government which is guilty of the crimes he charges might easily be made better. In his social theories Tolstoi Is an Individualist. Like the early Christian apostles, he knows nothing of nations and races. His interest is fixed upon the individual man, and he condemns all the Institutions of society which thwart, the happiness or cramp the growth of the unit. Hence he has but scant respect for the church, the state, the army or the courts. In the celebrated "Kreutzer Sonata" he even condemns marriage, and for that rea son Mr. Wanamaker found the book immoral when he was Postmaster General; but It is only the commer cial element in marriage which is re pugnant to Tolstoi. He would dis solve no union which has not been al ready morally dissolved by the decay of affection or poisoned from the out set by bargain and sale. As an indi vidualist Tolstoi is the acknowledged leader of modern thought. Behind hisj. there is. a long array, of famous names. Ibsen, Nietzsche, Carlyle, Spen cer, Kmerson, and many more, but none of them rivaled the genius of the great Russian or wrought with such potency upon the destinies of the world. THE FIFTH-RIB METHOD. 8. When they were at the great "tone which 1" In Glbeon, Amaaa- went before them, and Joab'a garment that he had put on waa girded nnto him, and upon it a girdle with a (word fastened upon hla lolne In tha sheath thereof; and as he went forth It fell out. . And Joab aald to Amaaa. "Art thou In health, my brother?" And Joab took Amaaa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. 1 10. But Amaaa. took no heed to the sword that was In Joab'a hand; so he smote him therewith In the fifth lib, and shed out his -bowels to the ground, and he died. II Samuel zx. There was political trouble in Is rael. Absalom, son of King David, 1y such arts as we see politicians of Ore gon employing to this day, stole the hearts of the people and attempted to supersede the King. But Joab, son of Zerulah, sister of David, a mighty man of arms, was captain of the host; and he hated intriguing politicians, among whom were Ahithophel and Amasa, who were playing both sides, but secretly urging Absalom on. Da vid, who was a father as well as a King, didn't want Absalom, his son, harshly dealt with. But Joab was not a man of gentle measures, and Absa lom was in rebellion. Joab complete ly defeated the adherents of Absalom and slew great numbers of them. 'Ab salom himself, caught by the hair In, a tree under which his mule carried him, was slain by Joab. Among our politicians there are so many who don't read the Bible that we give an outline of the story. Joab forced the King to stop his lamentations for his rebellious and worthless son; but after a little time the King placed Amasa, a political trimmer, in command of his men of arms, superseding Joab. The fifth-rib episode, as related in the passage quoted, followed. It would be accounted murder in our days, tout in practical politics men "of our days "do each other up" Just as effectively, with the gentle Inquiry on their lips, "Art thou In health, my brother?" It Is the smooth question which men of each and every Republican faction of the country are putting to each other, in preparation for delivery of fatal fifth-rib stabs. The primary law is the sword or dagger that does the business. First thing anybody knows he feels his friend's steel in his peri cardium. The method has a soothing effect. It is producing an unparal leled harmony. By way of literary" Illustration let us add a word. "Absalom and Ahitho phel" Is a splendid and wonderful po litical satire by Dryden. By the gen ius of the author political conditions in England about 1680 were assimi lated to those in ancient Israel. The Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of James, was Absalom, Illegitimate son of David; Ahithophel was the Earl of Shaftesbury, and George Vllllers, Duke of . Buckingham, was Zimri. Other characters and actors In Eng lish politics were identified with tur bulent, selfish, treacherous politicians of .Israel scheming rascals who placed their own interest above the welfare of the state. These all were fifth-rib politicians. The poem is long, but all our aspiring politicians ought to read It and get Its great pas sages by heart. What faction will do and what characters-it will develop, they may see in this poem, in all per fection. Our Republican clubs should read and re-read the poem at their meetings, instead of fooling away their time In vapid harangues. - THE GO-AS-YOtJ-FUEASE PRIMARY. This Is from a Seattle dispatch to The Oregonian yesterday: r One surprising feature of the primary election was the small vote cast by the Democrats. From every county comes the report that Democrats participated In the Republican primaries and In doing so un doubtedly they have left themselves In the same class with the Socialists, so far as party organisation Is concerned. Returns at hand Indicate that they will not reach the 10 per cent required by the law to give the right to present themselves on the primary ticket at the next election. ' There you have your direct primary. Democrats abandoned their own party to influence the action of the opposing party in the primary, so that they may have an easy thing in the ensuing elec tion. Many of them no doubt became Republicans for the moment through the entreaty of candidates who needed their votes; tut the bulk of them were Inspired by a purpose to do mischief and to create havoc, confusion, con sternation and dissatisfaction in the party which they have an inveterate desire to humiliate and defeat. So they go to the extreme of committing perjury by swearing they are Republi cans. They are not, never will be, and could not be if they tried. In the last Washington Legislature It was seriously proposed to fix the primary law so that any voter could vote any ticket he pleased without dis closing his party affiliation. It was argued that the secrecy of the ballot was sacred and should be preserved at a primary as at an election. This was Inviting Democrats, or anybody, to vote a Republican ticket, or any ticket. Just as they pleased, without risk or penalty of any kind. The measure was rejected by legislators who properly said that no man who was not a Republican had a right to vote at a Republican primary, and vice versa as to the Democrats. But It might as well have been permitted to go into the law. The whole direct primary scheme' is a go-as-you-please scramble, "fe. hurly-burly, a Jumble, a hodge-podge; and there is no way, ap parently, to prevent the wrong of hav ing one party direct and control the atcion of another through Its opera tion. PTIOT CHARGES TOO HIGH. The Grays Harbor Washingtonian, In reprinting an Oregonian editorial paragraph on the recent mishap to the steamship Mathilda, says that, while the editorial Is m the main correct, the "assumption that the pilotage charges on Grays Harbor are too high Is undoubtedly erroneous." To sub stantiate this statement, the Grays Harbor paper further states: "The pilotage charges here are said by the owners to be the same as they are on the Columbia River for piloting to As toria on the inward trip." While it Is not a pleasant acknowledgment to make. It Is a fact nevertheless that the pilotage charges on the Columbia are too high. They are so much In excess of what the legitimate demands of commerce will stand that. In order honreMrallv to reduce them, the O. R. & . Co, Is at xurt expense. I about i 820,000 per year absorbing a large portion of them In order to prevent ships from going to other ports where the charges are more reasonable.. The Oregonlan's comment on the Grays Harbor situation was suggested by recollection of former troubles on the Columbia River, in which disas ters similar to that which befel the Mathilda were frequently caused by poor pilots. The expensive and un satisfactory tug and pilot service in the early days of Columbia River shipping gave this port a bad name, from which it has not yet fully recov ered, and, if the people of Grays Har bor are wise to the situation, they will take care that the flattering Btart they are now making for seaport honors la "hot marred by imposition of any un necessary handicaps on shipping. "The laborer is worthy of his hire," whether he is piloting ships or hoeing corn, but the value of his labor will be determined by supply and demand, and In the case of the pilots the de mand for their services will be gov erned to a considerable extent by com petition of other ports. As previously stated, it was very poor economy for the master of the Mathilda to employ an incompetent pilot In order to save the extra expense of a good one, but it is very much to the interest of the Grays Harbor people to see that good pilots are available at rates so reason able that they will be preferred to poor ones. Portland and Astoria capitalists every year send to Alaska ships which return in the Fall with full cargoes of salmon, the value of the pack coming into the Columbia from Alaska reach ing large" figures.. The transaction does not seem to be a difficult under taking, and it yields good returns. From this it would seem that it might be possible for this port to become still more interested in the Alaska trade. Our merchants ship to Puget Sound, for trans-shipment to Alaska, large quantities of Oregon products and merchandise which can- be se cured to much better advantage here than elsewhere, and there is no good reason why this port should not toe en gaged In some other branch of the Alaska business than salmon packing. Perhaps some day, when the volume of business handled here does not overtax otlr capacities, we may find the Alaska trade worth cultivating. The Socialists have made emphatic denial of the Gompers charge that capitalists friendly to Taft were pay ing the expenses of the "Red Special" which is to go careening through the country in the Interest of the Social ist party. Perhaps it was Jealousy over the success of the Socialists in raising the wind that inspired the Gompers slander. According to a New York special, it was only "after a run ning "debatd that rocked the building" that Gompers succeeded In wheedling J15 out of the Central Federated Union of Manhattan. Mr. Gompers, by his wild talk- and unwarranted charges, is losing as a labor leader prestige which will not easily be re covered. The Protestants and Catholics, whose bloody wars kept the early population of England down to small proportions, seem o have a willing ness to resume the old methods of conversion tfhlch were used so effec tively several hundred years . ago. London Protestants have asked King Edward to forbid a Catholic procession in London on the ground that it may provoke bloodshed and . rioting. - Re ligious tolerance, like some other British institutions, does not seem to have changed very much In the past few hundred years. Deer in Southern Oregon are report ed to be more numesous this . year than for several . seasons. This is probably due to the fact that it is so unsafe for a man to hunt deer in Southern Oregon. That region has become famous for the nearsighted ness or deerslghtedness of its hunters, and as a result the timid man who is not overinsured keeps out of the woods, There will be fewer headaches in the United States. Mildew in France has cut down the yield of grapes in the champagne district, and there will be 40,000,000 bottles of champagne fewer vthan the average annual out put. The prohibitionists of the United States will point to this as further proof that everything Is coming their way. In a public address Speaker Cannon said that Mr. Bryan had made a mil lion dollars selling wind and ink to the public. , Bryan sayB his present possessions do not exceed the value of 8160,000, and he asks Cannon to tell how much he's got and how he got It. Cannon is supposed to have very little wealth. But perhaps he'll answer. The New Tork minister who was tired of life and committed suicide last week, leaving a note telling his children he was "going to Join moth er," must have been grievously disap pointed when he found he had taken the wrong route. Uncle Joe Cannon will never, no, never, "vote for a law that shall apply to one man and a different law that Bhall apply to another." If we read Uncle Joe's record correctly, he won't let anybody else vote for -it. either. Bankers and other rich men are usually the victims of automobile acci dents, whenever there are victims. That's a trifling compensation for not being a banker or owning an automo bile. Bryan is coming to the Coast later, , perhaps. Hon, Milt Miller says so. But why? Does Hon. Milt need help In carrying Oregon? Impossible. The Democrats are going to concen trate all their efforts on Indiana. However, other states are going to vote aUo In this election. One new feature attaches to the State Fair this year: Portland doesn't have to depend on one transportation line to reach Salem. "Great landslide for Ankeny." cries the Walla Walla Union. The use of "for," it eeems, was not well advised. Really, we ought to be ashamed 'to have to have as many policemen as Seattle has to have. . In the circumstances, Mr. Cosgrove shouldn't complain becaue he was only, second choice, . - THE PRIMARY LAW. It Doea Not Give Expression to the Wtjl of the People. Taklma Republic This paper Is opposed to any amend ment of the primary law. It la In favor of repeal. - As a rule the nominations under the primary law do not express the will of the people. Insofar as the claim is made for the system that it expresses tha popular will, it is more or less of a fraud. In our county, at the election today there are five or six candidates for a single office. It is altogether likely that the Republican . candidate for School Superintendent will be nomi nated by the votes of no more than 25 per cont of the members of the Repub lican party. It Is quite possible that one may be nominated by 15 per cent of the votes cast by the party. . These candidates are all very estimable gen tlemen, but it cannot be said that the one who Is chosen will be the choice of his party. The principle of the rule of the ma jority Is therefore overthrown, and If we were unfortunate enough to have what might be called factional politics in this county, we would find that the majority would not only be unable to rule, but would be helpless before a minority. The old system may have had its faults; Its results were often unsatis factory and disappointing. However, that was not the fault of. the system. It was tha fault of the people them selves, who neglected their duty as cit izens and stayed away from the pri maries. Thus the bosses were enabled to gain complete control of the Repub lican party. 1 The provocation for changing the sys tem in this state was great, but the trouble was not that the system' was wrong, but that the people themselves were to blame for the condition that they found Intolerable. There seems to be one good feature about the new primary law; that Is, that it induces the people to come out on election day and perform the duty they have been negleotlng. Of course It Is possible that this may not be a virtue of the law. It may be due to the fact that the law Is a novelty. The people may be especially Inter ested in the Senatorial fight, or the fight over the Gubernatorial nomina tion, and perhaps there will be a re currence of the apathy that was noticeable while we were proceed ing under the old law. We are of the opinion that the rep resentative system upon which the government of this country is based is sound. We believe that the direct pri mary system contains the germs of thousand evils which have . not been known under the old system; and we think that as they develop the people will agree with us that this new idea is attractive mainly' because it is new. In the end, or after a time, they will go back to the old plan because it Is better. - IJVTELI.BCTUAXITY OK HUGHES How Ha Summed Up Whole Oaxnpalgm Issue In Few Words! New Tork Sun, September 6. In the speech for Taft which the distinguished Governor of New Tork pronounced yesterday In the Ohio cam paign, we find a particularly striking passage: If all that Mr. Bryan has favored during the past 12 years had been enacted into law we should have been overwhelmed with disaster and would regard It as our chief business In tha future to find a way of es cape from the meshes of 111-opnsldered leg islation In which we should have been en tangled. ' It is fortunate for him aa well as for us that he was defeated, and what ever may be his present political potenti ality can .be ascribed to the fact that hither to h has not been permitted to carry out his programme. Mr. Bryan is great only because of what he has been prevented from do ing. This little piece of political char acterization is a thing to admire. It sums up in less than 100 words th main question before the voters. It is delicate in wit, searching in insight, tremendous in significance. The felicity of expression is a measure of the finer qualities of Mr. Hughes' mind. It is masterly. Bryan In X&34. Minneapolis Journal. When Mr. Bryan was notified In 1916 he made his paramount issue the regu lation of department stores; in 1920, he demanded the defeat of the Republi cans because of the miserable way In which they had enforced the smoke or dinance. But in 1924, when a great concourse had gathered In front of Falrvlew, Mr. Bryan tottered out upon the porch and said: "Fellow citizens, the paramount Issue this year is W I am getting to be an old man. I Bhould be putting aside millions for my family faster than I am. I cannot af ford to take the time from my lecture engagements to run for President. The phonographlo business, which I unfor tunately started In 1908, has proved a mistake. The people have been so fa miliarized with my voice, they won't cross the street to hear me at a dollar a throw. I have had to cut rates for the first time in my lecture career. It Is up to you, neighbors and fellow citi zens, to elect me this time. I hereby renew my pledges of 1900, "1908, 1912, 1916 and 1920 not to be a candidate for a second term." With a mighty cheer for the Peerless One, the meeting broke up. - Note At the election In November, 1924, Kermit Roosevelt was elected over Mr. Bryan by an pld-tlme Roose velt majority. Trapping; the Jap. Hobeon's prediction that the Japa nese would enter the country by way of Canada and Mexico and capture Chi cago has not struck terror to the hearts of the Chlcagoan's, as It should have done; but rather has proved a pleasant source of merriment. The Chicago Record-Herald has a front-page car toon showing how the advance of the Japanese is likely to be stopped in the suburbs. First cornea a line of beautl-: ful young women gelling tickets to a concert ("very depleting to war chest"); then a phalanx of real estate agents ' offering choice lots for sale ("Inducing Japs to settle In our beyoo tlful little village"); behind that is a macadamized road with automobiles hidden behind a clump of shrubbery ready to run over the Invaders; and in the background the railroad station has been battened up and the agent, nailing up a sign, "Suburban Service Discontinued," Is remarking gleefully: "How are they going to get downtown now? Huh!" Steals Watch Owner Carried SS Years. New Tork Despatch. C. D. Robinson, whose billiard-room at 598 Broadway, New York, was- dur ing the late forties one of the favorite resorts of the young men of the town, reports to the police that while on a New York Central train from Roches ter he had been robbed of a gold watch whloh. be had -carried for 68 Years. SISTER MUST AID BKomnH ikaus wu w.,.-. Court Orers That Mrs. Falling Help Cornelius Barrett. Cornelius W. Barrett, penniless, Is the brother of Mrs. Xarlfa J. Faling, owner of a large amount of Portland property, including the Swetland build ing, at Fifth and Washington streets. This was the testimony given in the County Court yesterday morning be fore Judge Webster and County Com missioners Lightner and Barnes. As Attorney Strong, counsel for Mrs. Fal ing, had no testimony to contradict It, there will be nothing for the Court to do but fix the amount which Mrs. Fal ing must pay for the support of her brother. Barrett asked only $10 4 month, although his sister's Income Is $1600 monthly. Mrs. Paling's property Is said to be valued at about $500,000. For several years Barrett has asked her to assist him, and has started proceedings sev eral times to compel her to support him. Although a permit was issued last July for him to go to the County Poor Farm, he refused to go. and has since been" living In the cellar at Da vid Kafka's store, at Front and Jeffer son streets. Mr. Kafka said that he knew the Barrett family thirty years ago. and that before Barrett's father died the young man was always recognized as his son. and as a brother of Mrs. Fal ing. Arthur R. Church and Robert D. Church said that Mrs. Barrett had often spoken in their presence of Cor nelius as her son. Barrett said that he was born at Valparaiso, Chile, sixty years ago. He said his sister was born a year before, in London, "and that they played to gether as children. When his father fell ill, he said, she refused to let the younger Barrett see him, and has since denied their relationship. Mrs. Faling' s attorney said that the last word he had from Mrs. Faling was that she was sick In San Fran cisco. She had told him, he said, that she did not know whether or not Bar rett was her brother. Counsel was willing that the court's order provide for a payment of $10 a month, or that If Barrett would consent to live at the County Poor Farm, his client would bear the expense. The court will an nounce the decision this morning. RAILWAY WILL FAIT TAXES Astoria & Columbia Company Aban dons Suit Against Coniity. The Astoria & Columbia River Railroad Company has abandoned its suit against Multnomah County over Its taxes for 1905 and 1906. The 1905 tax amounted to $258, and the 1906 tax to $248. The 1907 tax was paid. It was not the amount, but the principle Involved, against which the railroad company protested. It con tended that Its rolling stock in Aiuic nomah County should not be taxed, be cause It owns no trackage In the county. holding only a lease from the Northern Pacific to run trains from Goble to Port land. The complaint fras thrown out of the State Circuit Court on a demurrer from the county's attorneys, and It has been decided not to contest the matter further. The company will now bo com pelled to pay $671, which includes penalty and Interest of $167. The Bult of the ft R. ft N- Company against the county, contesting the pay ment of its $229,000 taxes, was filed In the Circuit Court yesterday. It Is the con tention of the railroad company that it had but $S66,095 in taxable property, in stead of $16,000,000. the amount of money. noteB and accounts levied on by Assessor Sigler. The road figures that the county only has $9117.46 In taxes coming, and offers to pay this amount. The point raised before the County Board of Equal ization Is again brought forward, thatt the board should have sat In August In stead of In October. It is also oontended by the company that banks, mortgage companies and Individuals should be as sessed for money, notes and accounts If railroads are, and that it has been dis criminated against in this respect. An injunction has been Issued restrain ing the Sheriff temporarily from collect ing the tax. The railroad company gave a $5000 bond. FAILS TO COMPEL PAYMENT O. G. Emig- Must Wait Until $10,262 Notes Fall Due. John P. Sharkey, Joseph M. Healy and the H. W. Lemcke Company will not be compelled at present to pay two notes aggregating $10,262. O. G. Emig, In whose favor the notes are drawn, brought" suit in the Circuit Court to re cover upon them, alleging that the In terest had not been paid. Judge Cleland. before whom the case was tried yester day, directed the Jury to return a verdict for the defendant, because It was shown that the Lemcke company acted in good faith in paying the Interest. This fell due January 27, last. A check was drawn for $160, signed by the H. W. Lemcke Company, but was not Indorsed by Mr. Sharkey, the president. When the cheok was returned the next day the cash was tendered to Mr. Emig. Judge Cleland held that, although the notes called for the payment of the entire amount when the Interest lapsed, there was no cause for suit in the present instance. ARRAIGNED FOR AUTO THEFT Dodd and Wilson to Enter Pleas Sep tember 16. Howard Dodd and W. C. Wilson were arraigned In Justice Olson's court yes terday by Deputy District Attorneys Fitz gerald and Hennessy, and are to enter their pleas September 16. If they plead guilty they will be sentenced, but If pleas of not guilty are entered, they will be bound over to the grand Jury. Dodd, against whom there are two charges, is held under $1000 bond, or $500 cash ball for stealing the automobile of Rudolph Becker,- and under $350 bonds or $160 cash bail for burglarizing Becker's house, and stealing a ring, bracelet and shoes. WJlson, who is held on but one charge, that of assisting In the theft of Becker's automobile, is held at the County Jail under $1000 bonds. He Is a married man, about 26 years old. while Dodd Is 19 years old, and single. Ernest Dlebler, the automobile thief who brought a stolen machine from Chi cago, and who escaped, but was later recaptured, occupies a cell adjacent to that of Dodd and Wilson. : Baker Changes Plea to Guilty. Robert Baker was fined $76 by Judge Gantenbein In the State Circuit Court yesterday afternoon. He changed his plea of not guilty to a statutory charge to one of guilty. Belle Davis was named as co-respondent. The crime was com mitted last February. This Is the case in which Judge Cleland several months ago sustained a demurrer to the in formation on the ground that no crime was charged.. It was necessary to draw a new information. Charges Husband With Jealousy. Charging her husband with Jealousy, Nellie Morris has brought a divorce suit against George G. Morris In the Stats Circuit Court. She desires to resume her maiden name, Hedblom. They were mar ried in Chicago July 18, 1905. Howard Bicknell Found Insane. Howard Bicknell was sent to the asy lum yesterday. The medical examiners found that he Is afflicted with melancholia. Service to Wallowa to Be Inaugu rated September CO. Train service to Wallowa from Elgin. Or., over the new Wallowa extension of the O. R. & N. from Elgin, will be in augurated September 20. Rapid prog ress Is being made by the construction forces in completing the line to that polnf, and the engineering department promises that the first 38 miles of the road will be ready for trains on that date. J. P. O'Brien, general manager of the O. R. & N., left last night in his car, Oregon, for a trip of Inspection over the new road, to see that al Is ready for "the opening. He will go over the new track in his car to Judge of the character of the work and accept It from the contractors. While away he will also inspect the other Oregon lines of O. R. & N. Tariffs have been arranged by the traffic department of the O. R. & N. to and from Wallowa and Intermediate points, which will become effective on September 20. They were prepared some time ago and filed with the Ore gon Railroad Commission, and also the interstate Commerce Commission, as Is required by the Interstate commerce law. This line, which is one of the most Important feeders of the whole O. R. & N. system, has been a long time in building, owing both to the difficult character of the construction and the halt in operations last Fall because of financial conditions. Wallowa is not the ultimate terminus of the extension, which will 'be constructed further to Joseph, a total distance of 64 miles. The estimated cost of the whole exten sion is but little less than $2,000,000.1 OLD DIRECTORS RE-ELECTED Annual Meeting of O. K. & N. Ore gon & Washington Names Of fleers. Yesterday was election day for the Harrlman lines. Stockholders of two companies met In the Wells-Fargo building headquarters and chose direc tors for the coming year. Officers were also elected by one company. The O. R. & N. stockholders re-elected the old directors for the coming 12 months. The annual meeting was post poned two weeks ago until there should be a better representation of the stockholders of the company in the city. Those chosen are: E. H. Harri rilan, R. S. Lovett, Maxwell Evarte, Wil liam D. Cornish, W. L. Bull, of New York, and J. P. O'Brien, R. Blalsdell, H. F. Conner, W. W. Cotton, A. Gavin, W. R. Litzenberg. R. B. Miller, W. l. Skinner, C. G. Sutherland and V. G. Wilson. Unless a special meeting of the direc tors Is called, they will meet on the first Tuesday of next month to choose their officers. E. H. Harrlman will be re-elected president; J. P. O'Brien, vice president and general manager; W. W. Cotton, general counsel, and W. R. Lit zenberg, secretary. The Oregon & Washington, the Union Pacific extension to i'ugct Sound from Portland, held two electlona yesterday. Stockholders met In the directors' room in the Wells-Fargo building and elect ed the following directors: W. W. Cot ton, H. F. Conner, W. D. Skinner. Ralph Blalsdell, W. Robblns.and W. R. Lltzf n berg, all of Portland, and J. D. Farrell, of Seattle. Directors met Immediately after and elected the following officers: Presi dent, W. D. Skinner; vice-president and general manager, J. D. Farrell, Seattle; secretary, W. R. Litzenberg; assistant secretary, Alexander Millar, New York; treasurer, F. V. S. Crosby; assistant treasurer, J. W. Newklrk; general audi tor, Erastus Young, Omaha; auditor, Ralph Blalsdell; chief engineer, H. F. Baldwin; comptroller, William Mahl, New York; counsel, R. S. Lovett, N,w York; general attorney, W. W. Cotton. General Manager Farrell, of Seattle, was in the city to attend the two meet ings. Denver Passenger Agent Here. George Ady, one of the oldest and widest-known passenger agents in the Unlted6tates reached Portland yterday on his way to the coming convention of the American Association of Traveling Passenger Agents, which meets In Seattle , next Monday. Mr. Ady Is general agent of the passenger department of the Har rlman line's in Denver. He had not been in Portland for the past IS years and was very much surprised at the growth of the city. He said he hardly knew the . place. He left last night for Seattle. IN THE MAGAZINE SECTION OF THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN HAREXMAN'S MOUNTAIN HOME IN OREGON How the railroad king took his annual vacation in the Switzer land of North America. AMERICAN GIRLS WHO ARE "NEAR QUEENS" Yankee Princess and Duchesses most of whom have supped sorrow and unhappiness. HIS FIRST-BORN Full-page illustration in coIom of a domestic scene laid in Port land's Chinatown. CAMPAIGN GENERALS . AND THEIR STAFFS Contrasting personalities of the new National chairmen and their subordinates. WORLD-FAMED YANKEE BANKERS J. Pierpont Morgan has plenty of company in Schiff, Stillman, Vanderlip, Belmont, Higginsoa, Mitchell and others.- THE HOTEL CLERK ON THE TURKISH DISORDERS This isn't an erudite essay on political disturbances, but a char acteristic discourse on foreign and American things that need reform. WHEN SWIFTY WAS GOING SOME A little episode in the life of Professor Shorty McCabe's as sistant, by Sewell Ford. ORDER EARLY FROM YOUR NEWSDEALER. )