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PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY. NOV. 4. !
IAFT IS ELEC1T.D.
No man questions or doubts for a
moment that Mr. Bryan has many ex
cellent qualities. He is a good type
of American citizenship; he Is a man
of feeling; his Ideals are high. His
speech at Lincoln on Monday night
was In deep and true pathetic vein.
Jt was the speech of a man conscious
and affirmative as Job of his own In
tegrity. But Mr. Bryan, with all his
excellent qualities, lacks the balance
and judgment necessary in the man
who Is to be President of the United
States. The country knows this, and
therefore It has rejected Mr. Bryan
again.
He is a theorist and a dreamer. He
la an excellent, an almost Incompara
ble, representative of the mind and
heart and soul and purpose of the
country on the sentimental side.
This accounts In no small degree for
the magnitude of the vote he has re
ceived. He has failed, because al
though appreciation of the senti
mental side of human nature is not
wanting he inspires no confidence on
the practical side of business and hu
man life. He has not the Just bal
ance. People are pleased with his
speech and with his manner. These
may be an Inspiration; and inspira
tion always is needed. Tet there is'
another side. Man lives on the earth,
and must live on the earth. He can
not live In the clouds of poetry and
oratory. Herein he finds his Ideals,
but he is a creature of earth, also;
he must work for his. living, and must
maintain the conditions that belong
to the effort and are necessary to it.
Mr. Taft understands these things
as well as Mr. Bryan understands
them. But Mr. Taft Is no cloudland
dreamer. He is a representative of
those who have the inspiration, yet
have at the same time a proper com
prehension of the realities of life.
We live in two worlds. One is
wholly poetic and ideal. The other
is the humdrum world of practical
life and of daily duties. Mr. Br.van
lives in only one of these worlds. He
does not bring them together, so that
the one may be the counterpart of
the other. He does not make them
one. He has received, therefore, the
votes of all who are in his frame of
mind; yet many perhaps do not know
what It Is certainly do not compare
it, or contrast it, with the general
frame or course of things. In practi
cal life; and on the material side of
things, which we are all forced to
meet In all the stages of this our mor
tal life, they are led to think or hope
for resources for themselves where no
resources ever can be found.
It Is a balance of the imaginations
and aspirations of life, with its sober
Judgments. Mr. Bryan and his fol
lowers most of them are devoted
to a single side of it. They want the
tl.lng they Imagine. They think they
may get It. But they never will. It
Is only careful and calculated effort,
with Infinite painstaking and forecast
for tomorrow and next year, that
wins.
The business and Industrial Inter
ests of the country have not wanted
Mr. Bryan. In this statement large
business and small business and
wage workers and people who work
for themselves or do their own work,
are Included. Bryan's appeal to the
country never has stood on grounds
that gober Judgment could approve.
From the mind of the man spring all
flights of fancy, all manner of appeal
tJ discontent and to unrealizable
longings. Tet the force of the appeal
Is so great, and those to whom it Is
addressed are so numerous, that
every political campaign of the kind
is a disturbing factor in the business
of the country. Repeated too often
already, it ought to be repeated
nevermore. It banked on the Solid
South and on the partisanship of the
great City of New York: yet the great
city has failed once more to respond,
tired of the appeal to Irrational poli
cies and politics.
A great, big bluff was put up by
Gompers and through Gompers. On
this the Bryan managers greatly re
lied. But It has been discovered
that the American worklngman Is his
own master and that no one can de
liver his vote. Fervently may we all
hope that with this defeat the effort
to make political campaigns on eco
nomic error may cease-; yet that la
uncertain. "The poetry , of earth Is
never dead," writes the immortal
Keats. Mr. Bryan therefore will
probably be a candidate again in
1912.
The killing of a blue heron, "a bird
that has become very rare and one
that Is very hard to kill," Is proudly
proclaimed by a hunter In the Che
halls River bottoms near Elma, Wash.
The bird was a magnificent specimen
of his fast-vanishing species, meas
uring four feet six and one-malf Inches
from toe to tip of beak, and six feet
two inches from tip to tip of wing.
Shame upon the man who. simply to
gratify the desire to kill, murdered a
lately, harmless and shy creature of
he wild that asks nothing but the
ight to live and perpetuate Its spe
cies! The act is one of pure wanton
vandalism, fr" which suitable pun-
shment should be provided. Such
Denalty might be provided by a law
making it a misdemeanor pumsnuuie
k. line, rtr lmnrinnmfnt or both, for
a man who has been guilty of kill
ing such a oira tor spon u "
caught with a gun in his hands. As
distinguished from the sportsman
who hunts food birds and game in
season, the hunter who prides him
self that, because of his prowess as a
gunner, there is one less blue heron
In the lonely haunts of that fast-disappearing
bird. Is a marauder of the
woods, going about seeking -what
harmless, and to him useless, creat
ures he can kill. The range of the
coyote or the timber wolf is the place
for such a hunter though the
chances are that he would not care
to hunt game that has any means of
self-defense.
THE MAX'S FITNESS.
No man better equipped for the
Presidency than William H. Taft has
ever been elected to tha-t office. His
experience In many of the various de
partments of governmental business
is extensive; the judgment he has
brought to the treatment of all the
affairs he has undertaken has been
excellent. He has shown himself
equal to every position and to every
situation.
The temper and temperament of the
man have been tried and approved.
His judgment never loses Its equi
poise. Employed as he has been dur
ing many years in a great variety of
business, he has acquitted himself
well in all. Nothing ever has been
more unjust than the attack upon
him for his decisions on labor
questions. These decisions are among
the fairest and most enlightened ever
JAllvBriMl nn that rlirHcnlf Sllhlect.
They render Justice to both the parties
in interest, ana protect ine wuimk
people to the full extent of all they
can justly claim. They make the law
for their protection certain, -where It
was uncertain before. Mr. Taft has
a fitness for the Presidency which will
not disappoint the country'- His over
whelming triumph is an acknowledg
ment of his fitness, a recognition such
as is seldom accorded to any man.
THE NEWS OF THE CAMPAIGN.
The Oregonian has the right to say
that it has published the news of the
campaign without favor to any party
or unfairness to any. and has ren
dered the service as fully and faith
fully as any other newspaper In the
United States. It has given even
more space to the utterances of Mr.
Bryan than to those of Mr. Taft;
which came about partly from the
fact that Bryan Is the more volu
ble speaker, and partly from his habit
of furnishing the Associated Press in
advance of his speeches a prepared
outline of his intended remarks. Taft
did comparatively little of this per
haps from the fact that he Is not an
experienced campaigner.
Moreover, The Oregonian has pub
lished, impartially, the announce
ments of the committees of the par
ties and their several "claims," to
gether with reports of their meetings;
It has published as many letters from
supporters of Bryan as from support
ers of Taft, but. of course, could not
afford space to all that have been of
fered it.
This course haa been pursued by
The Oregonian for the double reason
that It is a newspaper for the whole
people, and that It has realized fully
that the campaign was of a nature
that required fullest debate. How
ever, the debate Is not yet over; for
It will continue on innumerable points
till there shall be fuller enlighten
ment .upon them; and till, from the
economic questions debated in the
campaign, everything that was in
troduced merely for partisanship
shall be eliminated. This means, too,
that much of 'the matter we never
shall hear of again.
This newspaper has the one pur
pose and wish of doing its duty to the
public, not only at every Important
crisis, but every day in the year. To
recognition of its success in this pur
pose and effort it believes It may at
tribute the Tact that no other news
paper In the United States, or any
where else, published In the midst of
a population no greater, sells so many
copies or has so many readers.
WOMEN'S AFFAIRS.
Women's affairs seem to be receiv
ing their full due of attention nowa
days. In barbarous countries like
England, where the men try to shun
them, means have been discovered of
recalling the recreants to their neg
lected duties. What member of Par
liament can possibly avoid meditating
by day and dreaming by night over the
wrongs of women since the late per
formances of the zealous and deter
mined suffragettes? In America,
where the men are naturally more
polite, women's affairs receive prop
er consideration without such forcible
stimulus. Our saints and sages turn
quite naturally to the problems of the
eternal feminine; our philosophers
ponder them with uncloyable zest, the
women themselves labor at them wlti
unappeasable enthusiasm. Three news
Items which came over the wires on
the same day illustrate more vividly
than any reflections could the variety
and weight of our National medita
tions on the rights and wrongs of the
fair, the frail and the frantic.
From Philadelphia comes the re
port that a prominent clubwoman has
counseled her emancipated sisters to
acquire the cigarette habit. It would
quiet their nerves, she says, perfume
their breaths and aid digestion. This
sounds dubious, but It may be true,
and if it is, what a world of Innocent
enjoyment it opens up for our wives,
mothers and sweethearts. The tradi
tional Ideal of the mother would be
vastly beautified by a cigarette poised
at a cowboy angle between her lips,
and who would not enjoy his sweet
heart's kisses more If her breath were
perfumed with tobacco? Another
Item reports that Dr. Landrone, of
Los Angeles, has spoken a kind word
for the much-abused corset. His
logic is Ingenious. The muscles of
women's waists have been weakened
by centuries of corsets, and therefore
she must forever continue to wear
them. Thus the learned doctor rea
sons. Personally we have never
heard or known of any woman who
had been wearing corsets or anything
else for centuries; still Dr. Landrone
knows many such, we have no doubt,
and so far as they are concerned his
logic appears to be unimpeachable.
A woman who has been habituated
to corsets for three or four hundred
years must certainly feel wobbly
"without them. If Dr. Landrone means
to imply, however, that weak waists
are inherited, it seems In point to re
mind him that according to the latest
light In biology acquired characteris
tics cannot pass by Inheritance. Hence
the weak muscles of the mother have
no effect whatever upon her daughter
and the need for corsets perishes
with the woman who has formed the
habit of wearing them. If weak -waist
muscles have become hereditary, why
do not boys need corsets as much as
girls? They Inherit as much from
their mothers as they do from their
fathers, and frequently more. We
confess to a rising suspicion that Dr.
Landrone has been talking nonsense
to pander to the depraved tastes of a
fashionable club.
The third item concerns Dr. Anna
Shaw, who is not unknown In this
part of the world. If all tales are
true, she haa been talking treason
against her sex. She has openly de
clared that one of the greatest obsta
cles to women's progress Is their idle
sisters. These female drones are con
sumers, but not producers, says Mrs.
Shaw; they are deprived of all Incen
tive to work with either mind or body.
They are dead lumber In society, and
nothing more. Very likely this is
true, but It is no more true of women
than of men. Idleness in either sex.
In rich or poor, in high or low, Is a
curse both to the idler and to every
body else. Wealth U no more an ex
cuse for parasitism than poverty Is.
An Idle "woman Is no less blame
worthy than an Idle man, and no
more. The plainest truth of experi
ence is that all of us were put here to
work, and the only thing that can ex
cuse, us for Indolence Is illness or
some other like Incapacity. Dr. Anna
Shaw's strictures upon the lazy mem
bers of her sex are richly deserved,
but they would have been more tell
ing if she had applied them to men
also.
SCHOOL BOOKS FOR THE SnWTS.
Mr. Yanckwich's response to The
Oregonlan's comments upon the
"Great Opportunity," which he has
offered, lacks something of the suave
urbanity which might have been ex
pected from one who is In dally and
Intimate communication with the In
habitants of a better world than this.
Do such passions rage in celestial
minds? Mr. Yanckwich even de
scends to the base expedient of a
sneer. He derides The Oregonlan's
modest efforts to elevate the "citi
zens of Oregon," and mocks because
he thinks those well-meant mission
ary labors. did not at once bear abun
dant fruit. Mr. Yanckwich seems to
forget that it is not the fault of the
sower If the good seed he scatters
does not sprout. Soil, heat and mois
ture are essentia to the harvest. The
Oregonian, like a good husbandman,
strews the seed of righteousness and
love, to say nothing of sound politics,
broadcast over the state; but what the
fate of that seed may be In the souls
of the citizens it remains for a higher
power to decide. "Paul planteth and
Apollos watereth," but the increase
depends not on human wisdom.
Though we have little sympathy
with Shylock in general, yet it must
be admitted that he had a shrewd
way of putting his points. His ad
vice to Gratiano would be singularly
opportune for Mr. Yanckwich's con
sideration: "Repair thy wit. good
youth, or it will fall to cureless ruin."
Our legal contributor takes his spirits
very seriously, too seriously, Wfe fear,
to permit him to enjoy the frisky
gambols of the outsider's humor over
the antics, of his airy visitants. Our
Innocent sally about the need for
school-books on the evergreen shore
would not have made Mr. Yanckwich
angry if he had paused to consider
that The Oregonian has no grudge
against the discarnate. It admonishes
them and their earthly allies solely
for their good. The need for school-
books in the bright beyond does not
depend entirely on hearsay, as Mr.
vorw.imHoh intimates in his heated
epistle. It is only too manifest in
every communication which is re
ceived from the spirit world. Did Mr.
Yanckwich himself ever know a spirit
that could speak and write the Eng
lish language correctly 7
lA8T-9FIIiE DRIVING.
The last spike was driven in the
Wallowa extension of the O. R. & N.
near Joseph. Or., Monday, and an
other rich agricultural and stock dis
trict has been added to the trade field
of this- city. Last-spike driving is
gradually becoming more common in
the Pacific Northwest; within the past
to years a number of these interest
ing performances have taken place.
Overshadowing all others in Import
ance, of course, was the ceremony on
the North Bank road at the Cascade
Gorge, when Mr. Hill's new North
Bank road was connected up a few
months ago. Then there was the last
spike driving on the Oregon Electric,
when the two chief cities in Oregon
were Joined with the time-honored
"bands of steel," with side lines and
branches of the system being built so
rapidly that Manager Talbot is unable
to find time to attend all of these in
teresting Industrial functions. '
Another last-spike driving of tre
mendous Importance to Portland was
that which gave Portland direct rail
connection with' Lewiston and the
Idaho country. Pushing down to
meet this extension is a water-level
line along Snake River from Hunt
ington. On feeders north and south
from the new North Eank lines there
will soon be more last-spike driving.
The Oregon Electric, which since its
first appearance in the state has
wasted no time on preliminaries, is
also planning a further invasion of
the forest primeval In the coast re
gions and farther up the Willamette
Valley, while Mr. Harrlman's Tilla
mook line Is now making satisfactory
progress toward the last-spike stage.
Unless there is a disturbance In the
financial situation, it is almost a cer
tainty that active work will be com
menced on a line to Central Oregon at
a very early date and work on the
Coos Bay extension Is also among the
plans for the near future.
These numerous last-spike drivings
that have taken place recently, and
others which are assured in the near
future, mean more for Portland than
is generally appreciated. The new
lines open up territory' which offers
unbounded opportunities for the new
homeseekers and capitalists who are
now rushing into the West. The Pa
cific Northwest Is the last stand for
the homeseeker or industrial devel
oper who seeks an opening In a coun
try that is "new" in every sense of
the word. With such great possibili
ties for development in every direc
tion there has never been a time In
our commercial history when the ne
cessity for mutual co-operation be
tween the railroads and the people
was greater. Every inducement con
sistent with fairness should be offered
the railroads to build into these neg
lected regions. The ancient rule
about first catching the rabbit before
removing its skin might In some cases
be made to apply to the railroads. Ore
gon has not always received fair
treatment from these roads, but for
all that It may be advantageous for
us to make It an object for them to
get Into new regions where they
are sadly needed.
"Tillamook never witnessed such
an enthusiastic gathering as greeted
the first locomotive, said a news re
port announcing the arrival at that
point of a Harriman locomotive sent
round by water for construction
work. "Yes." said a cynical railroad
man, "the enthusiasm of that crowd
will not be exceeded until the railroad
is completed and they meet to de
nounce the road for its alleged exces
sive rates." There may be a modi
cum of truth in that sentiment, but
the railroads and the people of Ore
gon have so much in common that we
ought to get together on a policy of
harmony and fairness that would
bring best results to all concerned.
After we get all of the railroads that
are' needed, there will be no construc
tion work in jeopardy by wrangling
over rates, Bervice and other vexa
tious questions.
It may be admitted that a balky
horse is the most persistently stub
born and aggravating creature with
which man is called upon to deal.
Humanity will not sanction, however,
extreme methods of cruelty as ap
plied to this aggravating creature, but
Insists that patience, kindness and
firmness will In the end win in his
case, where harsh and brutal meas
ures fail. However this may be, no
man will be Justified in this, or any
other civilized community, for cruelty
abusing any animal for any cause
whatever. It Is thus that the prompt
arrest, trial, conviction and penalty
that followed-a flagrant case of abuse
of a balky horse in this city last Mon
day met the approval of all good citi
zens. Civilization of the white ' man Is
making Its presence felt In ancient
China. A Hongkong cable announces
that the Japanese boycott feeling has
become so intense that a secret so
ciety, recently organized, now pledges
itself to give to any man who slits the
ears of a so-called "traitor" the sum
of 115. As high as J200 Is offered for
the slaying of any merchant who
shows a desire to discontinue the boy
cott. This, of course. Is less repre
hensible than the work of the West
ern Federation of Miners, but it is
evidence of a desire on the part of
the Chinese to adopt the methods of
the white nun, and it has already
become necessary to call out the
troops In order to stop the rioting.
A sudden lurch of an electric car
on the Spokane & Inland road threw
a 4-year-old child against an iron car
seat, causing almost Instant death.
The accident Is one that will cause no
surprise to travelers who spend much
of their time on railroad trains, for
on nearly every passenger train In the
country the spectacle of a little child
moving with unsteady footsteps up
and down the aisles Is quite common.
There seems to be no law to. prevent
such negligence on the part of par
ents or guardians of these tots, and It
Is a wonder that fatalities are not
more frequent.
The sudden death from heart fail
ure of Mrs. Dahlquist at her home a
few miles west of this city, marked
the close of a long and useful life. The
event occurred at the age of 88 years
and is said to have been due to the
mischievous pranks of boys, in the
neighborhood on Hallowe'en. Since
Mrs. Dahlquist had been subject to
attacks of heart failure for years and
had outlived her allotted span of life,
her death was probably due to the
gentle call of Nature summoning her
to well-earned rest.
Now speaking of Republican ma
jorities In the various counties of
Oregon, which were canvassed by
Colonel Robert A. Miller, and his
claim of Democratic majorities In
most of them, and comparing the re
sult of the voting with Colonel Mil
ler's estimates, which he assured
everybody were based on his per
sonal observation and knowledge, we
are afraid somebody lied to Colonel
Robert A. Miller.
Mrs. Eddy has purchased an auto
mobile. If she gets the high-speed
habit, which seems to be the natural
accompaniment . of an automobile,
there will be misgivings lest her the
ory of eternal life receive a rude Jolt.
There is reason to fear that a burst of
tire and a skidding machine at a
sixty-mile gait would be attended
with danger even for so well-preserved
an old lady as Mother Eddy.
"Why the Nation Shudders," is the
title of an article In thd Bryan organ.
But the Nation didn't shudder. A
silly Bryan organ shuddered. Let the
shudder continue.
If a man lives eighty years he can
participate in only 15 Presidential
elections. Another fifteenth -part of
life's Joy came and went yesterday.
In order to save time, how will it
do to make a joint celebration of
Taft's election and the completion of
the North Bank road? ,
Now, then, let's all go to work
again and make eatables cheaper and
have prosperity. Never mind the
farmer nor the milkman.
There are many alleged prophets
today, but they didn't speak loud
enough yesterday; at least few per
sons heard them.
After this let no man, however high
his office, boast that he carries the
vote of American union labor In his
pocket.
Again we rise to remark that the
cigar stand "Johnnies" don't always
know how an election Is going to turn
out.
Looking toward a promising liter
ary venture, Mr. Bryan may profitably
begin work today on "My Last Bat
tle." Chairman Mack has ground for a
damage suit against Mr. Gompers for
failure to deliver the goods.
Politics aside, the whole land will
rejoice that the pre-election pause
will not continue another day.
For sale A quantity of green fire.
Or will trade for red fire. Apply to
The Oregonian.
It is again remembered that- you
can't always tell from where you sit.
Portland is sure to be very busy
from now till the close of the year.
Well, good-by, Sammy Gompers.
Take care of yourself.
It was not an election; it was a
slaughter.
Bet on election again, will you?
KEEP OCT WOMEN FROM S1LOONS
Writer Aaka That State law Herniat
ing Evil Be Now Enforced.
PORTLAND. Now. 3. (To the Ed
itor.) Having followed carefully, the
discussion pro and con ag regards the
ordinance to bar out women from sa
loons, and noted the action of the Coun
cllmen In voting down the measure, I
feel that It is time that something should
be done toward educating some of the
Council to higher standards.
Carried to its final analysis, the prin
ciple of who should and who should not
be allowed in a saloon, might well be de
cided that what was bad for women was
bad also for men. as both are made "in the
image of God the all Father." But, look
ing over the present situation, with pub
lic sentiment hardly up to the highest
standard, and taking things as they are
what Is expected of our City Council?
We have become accustomed to the state
ment that "the mothers are to blame
for most of the bad doings of the girls.
But in this statement the fact Is Ignored
that In every city there are scores upon
scores of girls without any mother, or
anv refining Influence of a pure, good
home. Is it not self-evident, then, that
the laws outside the home should reach
and protect all such? Of this there can
be no shadow of doubt. If we cannot keep
both men and women from the baleful
Influence of the saloons, then, by all
means, keep the women out, especially
the young girls who find the way to de
struction all too short through the side
and back entrances of the said saloons.
As the City Council hag not passed the
ordinance that good people think it should
have passed, then let me axamine the al
ready existing laws and demand the en
forcement thereof for instance, a law
passed at the Legislature of 1905. At
that session. Senator Nottingham pre
sented a bill to close the side and back
entrances of saloons and Senator Ma
larkey presented a substitute which
passed and became a law. It Is as fol
lows: "S. B. 267: Any person permitting a
female under 21 years of -age to remain
in or about a place where liquor is soiu.
or selling or giving liquor to such female.
Is subject to a fine of JMO to 1000; pro
vided, that this act shall not apply to a
female accompanied by her husband or
parent, or to any open public restau
rant or dining-room."
What is a state law tor, 11 not to do
enforced? Should not this one be en
forced in Portland? If our state laws are
not to be enforced and allowed to become
dead letters, why go to the expense of
holding a state Legislature? Why not
hoist the red flag of anarchy and be done
with It?
This law Is on our statute books and,
'therefore, we have a right to demand its
enforcement. , We are justly proud of our
beautiful "Hose City" and It Is "up to"
the City Council (composed of men put
in office by the vote of the people, the
male people) to give us a clean, moral
city government which will measure up
to the highest possible standard of city
life, so that we may be able to boast of
a city not only beautiful for surround
ings, location, etc., but also beautiful be
cause of its clean municipal life.
If we cannot get this high standard
from . City Fathers, then let the City
Mothers try, and watch results.
L. H. F. A.
ONLY SHIVERS OF APPREHENSION
"Visions of Dth', Do Not Imply Tele
pathy, But Rnther Momentary Fear.
New York Evening Post
Two "visions of death," reported in
the morning papers, will lead the un
wary to exclaim, "After all, there is
something in these visions and in tel
epathy." The two accounts are worth
quoting in full:
BOSTON, Oct. 21. In a vision Mrs. Lottla
Johneon, of Beachmont last night aaw her
husband, George Johnson, clinging to an
overturned boat In mid-ocean, heard him
cry for help, and finally, with a shriek,
throw up hla hands and sink. With the cr
of her husband ringing in her ears. Mrs.
Johnson awoke and ran screaming to her
mother. Her huaband had started out early
that evening with a friend In a power boat
lor Gloucester. Early this morning the
power boat waa found wrecked on the north
shore, about 25 mllea below Beachmont.
"With ordinary speed the boat would have
reached there about midnight. It waa just
at midnight that Mrs. Johnson had her re
markable vision. Johnson'a body waa picked
up on the shore at noon.
WATERTOWN, N. T.. Oct. 21. Flora
Catlln, 20 years old. working on the Cleve
land farm near here, declared that yester
day while In a deep sleep she heard the voice
of her father, many miles away, call her
In agonized tones and then received a few
hours later a telegram announcing his death
at Cardinal. Canada. The girl's father waa
working In the Canadian town. At an early
hour he waa found unconscious, suffering
from spasms, which lasted until 111 o'clock,
when he died.
As evidence In support of any theory
of telepathy, however, these tales are
of slight value. They would not be
accepted by any trained scientist with
out careful verification and examin
ation of the witnesses. But granted
that Mrs. Johnson and Miss Catlin
are telling what they regard as the
exact truth, there is still the possibility
of an error of memory. Dreams and
visions, as all psychologists agree,, are
often vague and incoherent, and the
corroborative details are supplied, un
consciously, of course, by a sort of
constructive imagination. Nor is it
plain that the moment of death and
of vision are identical. But the simplest
explanation is coincidence. Each
woman may easily have been worried;
each may have imagined the coming
of sudden death in half-a-dozen dif
ferent ways. There are few women
or men who are not disturbed now
and then by the sudden thought,
"What if should be killed by a
trolley, or drowned!" In 99 cases out
of 100 nothing happens, and the shiver
of apprehension is forgotten. But
when something does happen, then the
momentary fear is recalled and un
consciously elaborated into a vision of
death.
New York Wants Tubercular Teacher.
Boston Transcript.
The New York Board of Education is
on an odd quest. It is seeking for
what most school boards avoid, a teach
er who Is under treatment for tubercu
losis. A special school for tuberculous
children has been established on board
an old ferry-boat in the East River.
In attendance it is increasing rapidly.
Naturally the position of teacher is re
garded as undesirable, and so the pros
pect of the consumptive teaching the
consumptives.
Chicken Escapes and Terrier Suffers.
Pittsburg (Pa.) Despatch.
At Altoona, Pa., just as Jacob Akers.
a hotelman, let fall the ax which was
Intended to cut off the head of a hen,
his prize loi terrior sprang at the
chicken and received the blow across
the nose. The terrier Is now disfigured.
. Getting Experience.
Chicago News.
When I was young I had my fling:
I sowed wild oats and little more.
An awful harvest did they bring
A fact it's useless to deplore.
Next time I'd know Just what to do;
I'm sure that I'd have better sense.
It's not all loss; there's profit, too,
I've -gained so much experience.
I marrlea rashly, for my wife
la not what I supposed she'd be.
I've led a dickens of a life.
From care I never have been free.
But still it's useless to repine.
Next time I'll know far better, hence
A certain consolation's mine,
I've gained so much experience.
I had a little, money once.
It's partly lost and partly burned.
But though I may have been a dunce.
Think of the lessons I have learned!
I've boughc It at the highest rate
And yet It's value Is immense
Unless, indeed, it is too late
I've gained so much experience.
ASSERTS HE WAS IX EARNEST.
Mr. Yanckwich Sneers nt The Oreaco
ntan'a Comment on Dlacnrnate Folk.
PORTLAND, Nov. 2. (To the Edi
tor.) I rejoiced in Having had the
opportunity to read "A Great Oppor
tunity" in last Sunday's issue of your
paper. I laughed heartily In perusing
the article, for the reason that I an-
tlcinared an editorial along the lines
of "A Great Opportunity," and my ex- I
pectation became a. realization.
Suppose that it should be within my
knowledge, legal or otherwise, that a
person who does not understand the
first principles of the French lan
guage, should for some reason or
other, have to discourse on French
classics. The very first thought that
would strike my vivid imagination
would be that that person would make
fun of France. Frenchmen and pos
sibly French dependencies. It would
not become me to assume otherwise.
You discourse in your article about
"the profitable lines of trade that may
open up between the carnate and dis
carnate inhabitants of the universe."
That may happen. One can never fore
tell. There may be in the future a
great demand for Oregonian editorials
by the discarnate inhabitants of the
universe and it may also be that the
ethereal citizens, subjects and aliens
of the universe will pay more atten
tion to the advice given In your edi
torials than did the citizens of Oregon
to your editorials before tne last June
election. But this is too remote an
issue to speculate upon; further more,
philosophical speculations on ethereal
bases are of no material benefit.
Your hearsay evidence in regard to
"the lively demand for primers, spell
ing books and elementary school
books of all sorts on the evergreen
shores" Is very Improper and Irrele
vant. The'persons who fuxnlshed you
the evidence must have gone to min
strel shows expecting to hear lectures
on philosophy and they were disap
pointed. They ought to have known
better.
I thank you heartily for volunteer
ing to Investigate my medium and
honestly report the results. The future
will give you credit lor it. I figure
that you will appoint about six Tor
quemados. I trust that the other pub
lications of the city will f.ppoint the
balance of the committee- I assure
you, sir. that I meant every word I
said in my former letter and that I
mean all I say In this. You ought not
doubt It- I am a lawyer and . not an
editor. HARRY YANCKWICH.
AGES OP THE WORLD'S RULERS
Statistical Recalled by President Roose
velt's 50th Birthday.
New York Times.
The 60th birthday of President Roose
velt suggests a glance at the ages of the
principal rulers of the world. The oldest
ruler is, of course, the venerable Em
peror of Austria-Hungary, Francis Jo
seph, who is In his 79tb year having
been born on the 18th of August, 1830.
He Is still active and continues to direct
the somewhat complicated policy of the
dual Empire. This Is the more remark
able on account of the many domestic
troubles he has had with his children,
his nephews, and his wife, who met her
tragic death at Geneva In 1898.
That sturdy old patriot, President
Porflrlo Diaz, of Mexico, runs him a
"close second," having been born on the
15th of September, 1830, and is therefore
only a month younger than the Austrian
Emperor. He was first elected President
in 1876, and, with one short interval, has
been President ever since.
The next in order of age is that some
what erratic gentleman. King Leopold
II of Belgium, who was born on the 9th
of April, 1835, and is now In his 74th
year. Report says that he is still as
srov an ever.
M. Armand Fallieres, the President of
the French Republic, was born on the
6th of November, 1841, and thus heads
by three days King Edward VII of Eng
land, who was born on the 9th of No
vember In the same year. Each is
therefore In his 67th year, and they both
appear to be hale and hearty.
Frederick VIII, King of Denmark, is
the next oldest ruler. He was 66 on the
3d of last June, while our old friend,
Abdul Hamid II, Is only 67. In spite of
the visit of our fleet to Japan It may be
news to many persons that the present
Mikado of Japan Is Mutsuhito, and as
we cannot trace another Mutsuhito, he
Is apparently Mutsuhito I. He Is 56
years of age, having been born on No
vember 3, 1852.
Gustavus V, King of Sweden, was born
on June 16, 1868, and William II, Em
porer of German, on January 27, 1859,
and they are each of them about 50, and
they approach nearest of all to our
President In this respect. The Czar of
Russia is a mere youth, looked at from
the European point of view. He is only
40 and lives in such seclusion that very
little is really known about him.
There remain Victor Emmanuel, King
of Italy, who is 39, which, of course, is
very young for a King, and those
younger rulers. King Alfonso XIII of
Spain, who Is 22. and King Manuel II of
Portugal, who is 19.
New York's Human Typhoid Factory.
Baltimore American.
The New York Health Department
has a puzzle on its hands in the case
of a woman who, without being III
herself, is a perfect human typhoid
germ factory, outbreaks of the fever
following her wherever she goes. She
is not free five successive days from
the accumulation of germs, which ap
pear to use her system as a sort of
operating center and rest cure for
themselves. As an observation field for
medical science, she is not at present
leading a free and merry life, but
households where she was employed as
cook are breathing easier. Human
germ factories are among those none
will object to shutting down.
Boston Girls Wed Ontslde Boston.
Boston Dispatch to New York Times.
There have been about 750 fewer
applications for marriage licenses In
Boston in 1908 than for the same time
last year. The average age of appli
cants Is also greater than 10 years ago.
Last June, the month of weddings,
there was a decided falling off In the
number of marriages, and for October
there has been a decrease of more
than 50,
The number of Boston girls who have
gone to i-rovidence and other places to
wed. however, has been greater this
year than ever before.
Moves All But the Farm.
Baltimore News.
Wilbur Bowsea, living near Pitts
burg, hag constructed a frame house,
built in sections, which he has moved
in a freight car with all his household
goods to Wyoming, where he has ac
quired ownership of 160 acres of land.
Even his cattle were taken along.
Vaaaar Gtri "Blows In" -Fumarea.
Chicago Dispatch.
. Miss Mildred MacCloskey. . recent
graduate of Vassar, at Pittsburg. Pa.,
performed the task of "blowing In" the
last of the group of furnaces of the
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, Lim
ited. The furnace has been Idle for
some months.
Further Reduction of Idle Cars.
Boston Transcript.
There were 413.000 idle freight cars
in April. Now there aie only 100,000,
and the tendency is toward a still fur
ther reduction.
BY JOSEPH M. Qt'ENTIN.
LONDON and also the remainder of
what the English call "the tight lit
tle Isle" ara In a flutter Just now over
the announcement that Queen Alexan
dra is to write a book for the Christmas
trade, so that she can raise money to,
buv Christmas gifts for the poor.
The peoples of old were not more trou
bled when an enemy of an eminent
writer breathed this wish: "Oh, that
mine adversary had written a book!"
For Queen Alexandra is possessed of a
keen sense of humor, bordering on the
sardonic, travels with a camera, delights
in taking snapshots of her friends in an
Innocent but compromising senso, and
showing these said views to her inti
mate friends.
All that is known at present Is that
the Queen has stated she is to publish a
book for the Christmas trade, illustrated
by photographs taken by herself, with
appropriate comment. "Are you to be
In It?" Is often heard these days with
reference to persons to be pictured in
the approaching royal book.
There Is a little Boston boy named
Tommy, aged 6, who wears spectacles
and Is already a discriminating reader
of books. A few evenings ago his moth
er saw him busily occupied with a vol
ume nearly as tall as himself.
"What are you reading, child?" she
asked.
"I'm looking to see If I have been
brought up properly," came the unex
pected answer.
And the young mother saw that the
book in question was entitled, "Rules a
Lady Ought to Know."
The first edition of John Fox, Jr.'s 'The
Trail of the Lonesome Pine" reaches
100,000 copies. It Is a story of love and
fighting In the mountains of Kentucky,
and won unusual attraction as a- aeriaL
Mr. Fox Is better known as the man who
wrote "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom
Come."
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A returned Pacific Coast traveler tells,
this story concerning the spectacular ad
vertising ability of Marts Corelll. "When
visiting Stratford -on-Avon. England, I
saw a crowd swarm near a rather modest-looking
cottage, and supposed at least
that King Edward had come to visit
Shakespeare's town. I asked a native
what the trouble was. and he replied,
with huge disdain: "Why, sir. Miss Ma
rie Corelll is out to take a drive in her
carriage. She gets as big a crowd every
morning. Talk about heroine worship!"
Ernest Thompson Seton's new story,
"Domino Reynard of Goldur Town," the)
history of a 6llver fox, which is to be one
of the fiction features of the Century in
1909, has for its purpose In the author s
own words "to show the man-world how
the fox-world lives and above all to
advertise and emphasize the beautiful
monogamy of the better-class fox."
John Murray announces that he will
publish, over the water, In book form,
the military memoirs of General Kuro
patkin. Some parts of these have al
ready appeared In McClnre'e Magazine,
where they have attracted some atten
tion on account of the inside history
they give of the Russo-Jupanese War.
It seems, however, that the original work
comprised four big volumes, though as
the first two are composed of military
technicalities, they will not be Included
in the English translation.
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The late Miss Charlotte Yonge wrote
a life of G. E. Romanes. Now Mrs.
Romanes has written a memoir of Miss
Yonge. In It she retells the story of
Charlotte Yonge's life with the help of
fresh Information furnished, by many
friends. The book will also have an
appreciation of Miss Yonge by ' Lady
Frederick Cavendish. "The Letters of
a Noblewoman," edited by Miss Mar
garet, will have a double interest for
Ruskin lovers, the noblewoman who
wrote them being Mrs. La Touche, of
Harrlstown. It is said that Mr. Hutton,
of the Spectator described Mrs. La
Touche's letters as "real literature."
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The Duckworths have sent out a cir
cular stating that they have in prep
aration an Important new series of
theological handbooks by eminent
scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.
The general title of the series is
"Studies in Theology" and Its aim is to
bring all the sources of modern learn
ing to the interpretation of the scrip
tures and the problems of faith. Among
the contributors who already stand
pledged to the scheme are Dr. Fair
bairn, principal of Mansfield College,
Oxford; Dr. W. R. Inge, professor of
divinity at Cambridge; Professor Orr,
of Glasgow; Professor Ivrach, of Aber
deen; Dr. Hastings Rachdall, of Oxford;
Dr. Peak, dean of the faculty of theol
ogy at Victoria University, Manchester,
and Dr. E. C. Moore, of Harvard Uni
versity. Quite a distinguished list.
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F. Marion Crawford's new novel,
"The Diva's Ruby," pictures London,
Paris, Venice and Constantinople, and is
the third or a series of novels, being
a sequel to "The Prlma-donna" and
"Fair Margaret." In "The Diva's
Ruby," Van Top says to Margaret:
"They're so deceptive, pianists. Nervous
men are often like that, and most pian
ists are nothing but nerves and hair."
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A new variorum edition of Shakes
peare, edited by Horace Howard Fur
ness, Jr., of Philadelphia, is announced
by the Lippincotts, the first volume is
sued being "The Tragedy of King
Richard the Third.
The youngest newspaper in London,
and also the oldest, is "The London
Gazette." which after an existence
from the year 1665, was only last week
registered as a newspaper, on Its
28.185th issue.
Macauly described the Gazette as
"containing nothing but that which
the Secretary of State wished the na
tion to know." To the death of Queen
Victoria, an event which profoundly
moved the whole world, the paper de
voted only 13 lines. Of the coronation
of King Edward it gave no account
whatever. Once the Gazette did have
a real beat, when, in the Crimean war,
it was the first to publish an Important
item of war news, the result of the
battle of Alma. The Gazette is the
only news Journal to which cabinet
ministers are frequent contributors,
and to which the reigning sovereign
now and then sends paragraphs auth
orized with his own Initials. It is one
of the few papers where original cop
ies are returned to authors with the
proofs.
Duty On Coal and Petroleum,
CORVALLIS, Or., Nov. 3. (To the
Editor.) Will The Oregonian inform m
the amount of duty there la on petro
leum and lt products, also on bituminous
coal? v A. T. a
The duty on coal Is as follows: Bitu
minous, 67 cents per ton. of 2240 pounds;
anthracite, free.
Petroleum, crude or refined, free; pro
vided if Imported from any foreign coun
try that Imposes a duty on petroleum
from the United States, there shall h
collected a duty equal to that Imposed
by said foreign country.
thlcajro Cemetery for Cats and Docs,
Baltimore News.
Mayor Busse, of Chicago, is taking
steps to provide a cemetery near that
city for cats and dogs.