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g , - THE MORNING OREGOXIAX. TUESD ATyOYEMBEIi 17. 1908. . I . . 1 n , .h-ht- rirrc I TIRESOME MA1MA TO GET MONEY ) CHEAPER POSTAGE) IARGER MAILS rOBTULXD. OIUEOOX. Entered at Portland. Or. Fostoaics Second-Class Matter. eubecrtption Bates InYartablr t Advenes. IBT MalL) T!lT. Sunday included, on year......" -J D.l.y. Sunday Included. ..X n""";," ' Dally. Sunday Included, three months.. Daily. Sunday Included, om montn. Daily, without Sunday. on - Daily, without Sunday. x ontb,,-hV" 1 75 Dally, without Sunday, three months.. ? Deny, witnout bunday. on montn..... w Weekly, om year... Sunday, on year M Sunday and Weekly, ona yaar (Br Carrier.) Dally. Sunday Included, one TJ "t, 6raRadnpooDmc;- money tn ;V ",e. 2 cent.; 30 to 4 taea. 1. pages. 4 cent. Forel.il postage .ifh'la.ency-Ncw Yortom 50 Tribune building. Chicago, rooins bj.u--Tribune building. , rORTUCVD. UPPAT. KOV- ' PROMISES AND PLEDGES. Sometimes persons make promises that they must break. Sometimes they give pledges that must be retracted or broken. It Is so In all the relations of life Haste In making 1 promise, want of knowledge of all the. conditions and circumstances, discovery of facts not known before or not sufficiently con sidered, may make withdrawal or can cellation of a promise the-wisest thing and most necessary thing. . . In matters of sentiment this Is uni versal. A woman decides, on careful consideration, to retract her promise of marriage. Sh. has given the sub ject fuller consideration. She has learned things she did not know be fore. Is she to be held to her prom ise and made to endure Ms conse quences? ... Sentiment also predominates In politics. A man gives a pledge of iupport to another. He may find I he i,as made a mUtake. The citizen with draws his promise or pledge of sup port to the candidate for the office. On reflection he decides that he can not vote for him. Who has a right to try to compel him? What compulsion Is there? The elector has an un doubted right to change his mind. So has the member of the Legislature. Of course either Is liable to denunci ation for doing It. But the right to do it exists, and It is indefeasible. A man may promise, under condlUons that exist, or apparently exist, when he makes the promise, to vote for an other for an office. But the conditions change and he refuses so to vote. Then who Is to decide as to the change of conditions? Each man has that light for himself. They say that many thou sands of men of Oregon, and more, who registered as Republicans, and thus were under pledge to vote for Taft. finally voted for Bryan. It is an undoubted fact. Sup pcrters or Bryan boast of It. Then on what ground can they pretend that members of the Legislature, who are unier only a conditional or Implied pledge to vote for Chamberlain for the Senate, are bound, or can be bound, l.-revocably. by it? The Legislature Is to elect. The power is in the Legislature. It is for the elector, whether at the polling place In his ward or precinct, or in his seat in the Legislature, to decide how he ! to vote. If he has made prom ises, in either case, he may be em barrassed by them or may not; he may be criticised, howsoever he may act, and doubtless will be. But the right to decide is his own; the responsibil ity is his own. It will be said, of course, that there Is a difference be cause the member of the Legislature acts in representative capacity. Very well; then in the present case he should cast his vote for Senator for some representative of the party who has Just carried the state by 25,000 majority. Ho will not represent the state unless he shall do so. I A sentimental promise, made by man or woman, under mistaken con ditions. Is voidable always. Even after consequences of serious character have ensued the divorce courts release the parties from the contract. In poll tics there are no hard and fast mar riages. Men change their political views and purposes as often as they like. It has been the chief delight of the managers of the Democratic campaign In Oregon to assert this and boast of It. They have told us that thousands, registered as Republicans, and men who always had been Repub licans, had changed . to Bryan. One would think those who have been mak ing this boast would not be greatly shocked. If members of the Legisla ture, who are no more than indirectly pledged to Chamberlain, at most, Khould now see nt to vote for some Republican for the Senate. THE ARGENTINE'S IVFTJEME. The Chicago wheat market yester day showed the distress signal, and closed nearly a cent lower than on Saturday. In an ordinary market, a loss of a cent means considerable, but .when the .decline leaves the price still well 'above the dollar mark. It is .clear, that there is not very much weakness In the cereal. The Argen tine crop, one of those coming events htoh.casi their shadows before. -seems t.i be the controlling factor in the market at the present time. . With ITtsejit high prices in all of the world's markets, every favorable weather re Vert from the Southern Hemisphere la verked te the limit in this country, in an effort to depress prices here. Per haps the most bearish feature of the weekly statistics which appeared yes '.terday was the American visible, which siiowed an Increase of 1.124.000 bush t C.' compared with a decrease of more than. 1.500.000 bushels -on a corre sponding date a year ago. At its present figure of BO. 500.000 bushels, the American visible Is now S. 000.000 bushels greater than at a eorespondlng date last year, and Is greater than at any previous date since J 900. Quantities on passage for the week ending Saturday were also J. 000, 000 bushels greater than for the same week last year. The only bullish feature In connection with the statis tics was in world's shipments, which were SOO.OOO bushels smaller than for the preceding week, and more than 1.200,000 bushels smaller than for the same date a year ano. But, while the wheat market has its occasional spells of weakness- It has thus far shown surprising rallying strength, and each period of dullness has been followed by strength that always carried the price to higher figures than those from which it started downward. It Is now quite generally admitted that the com ing Argentine crop will not under the most favorable circumstances exceed that which has been coming on the market for the past ten months. The figures on that crop are placed at 147. 009.000 bushels, and the fact that it has been nearly all assimilated by the foreign markets at abnormally high prices, wnne tne Lmrea otmra shlpping'freely from an average crop, is a very high tribute to the Inherent strength of the situation. With the prospective dimensions of the Argentine crop determined, or at least agreed on by those in best posi tion to estimate it, with harvest In a portion of that country less than thirty days distant, and with wheat still sell ing well above a dollar per bushel, it would seem that there are present all of the elements necessary for a sensa tional market, should anything happen to the Argentine crop before it is ready i for shipment. Meanwnue mo J the American crop has been sold at the beet average prices wmi vailed for years, and a favorable sea son for Fall plowing has enabled the American farmers to get in a good acreage with which to supply the de mand which can never be entirely filled by the Argentine crop. PRESAGES OF CHANGE. From the newspapers of Georgia we learn that Taft carried twenty-six of the 146 counties of that state. Bryan's plurality over Taft In the whole state was (In round numbers) 32,000. He had 74,000 votes, Taft 42,000. In 1904 Parker had 88,000 votes. Roosevelt 26.000. Thus the Democrats lost 14, 000. and the Republicans gained 17,000. The negro vote cut no figure. It was practically eliminated. Yet the whites took little interest In the election. The total vote cast for all candidates was 1S3.721. Georgia, however, has a white population of at least 1,600,000, which should have thrown twice as many votes. But Interest in the election was absent, or was shown only In the vote for Taft. On the side of Bryan the voting was listless and Democratic merely from habit. The change of spirit is shown in re marks by the Atlanta Constitution. That Journal has not changed its poll tics; It is still Democratic, and it sup ported Bryan. But It says that on November S "the Southern states be gan the writing of their political inde pendence." It means there is to be more than one party in the South. "What the South needs," says the Constitution, "is a few doubtful states; then it will be In a position to demand and get something." If It is to con tinue solidly Democratic, "It should do so upon the merits of what the oppos ing parties have to offer, and not be cause of ancestral dictation." But It must be understood that such change of attitude or spirit in the South will be dependent on acceptance or recognition by the North of negro disfranchisement In states of the South where the negro population is large. The whites intend to rule, and will not accept dictation from the North on the subject of the negro. On this point we quote a further remark from the Constitution: "At home we shall continue to control our own affairs and, by. white primary system, elimi nate from interference all the negro vote that may survive disfranchise ment." It seems that while some few negroes still vote in the elections, none are permitted to vote at the primaries. Evervthing, thus. Is kept in the hands of the whites; hence the statement that there "remains naught of the once feared substance of social equality and negro domination, or efforts toward them, but a phantom bogie that lacks sufficient form and force to scare a child." The course of things In Missouri is another significant fact. That great state was believed to be sure for Bryan. Most Republicans conceded it. To the surprise of everybody it cast its vote for Taft. Bryan received In Missouri In 1900, 351,922 votes; in 1908 only 345,607. Tet the popula tion of Missouri haa much increased and Taft got this year 347.425 votes, against 314,092 for McKinley, eight years ago. Signs certainly point to change In the South, at last. In a majority of the states of that great section there will, henceforward, be contests be tween the two great parties of the country. THE COJCHODITV-BATB PROBLEM. The advance In commodity rates, which It is reported the railroads will put into effect In a short time, is said to exempt some of the interior points which In the past have been unable to secure any better rate than the through rate plus the local back from the Coast points. This, If true, will be highly injurious to the Jobbing trade of Portland, but it will not be unex pected. The advance in rates, if un reasonable, can probably be success fully resisted before the Interstate Commerce Commission, but the matter of giving the interior points a prefer ential rate is not so easily disposed of. It is this last-mentioned feature of the problem that is supplying consid erable food for thought for a few prominent Jobbers who have built up a fine trade with the interior cities and towns. So long as the railroads secured a stiff rate on the local haul back to the Interior from Portland, they were will ing to haul freight in some Instances directly past the consuming centers in the interior; but the portage road, which does not have to pay either div idends, interest or even operating ex penses, together with the river steam ers connecting therewith, has cut rates on the "back haul" to such an extent that it Is not improbable that the rail roads may find it more profitable to stop the freight at some new distrib uting centers 200 to 400 miles east of Portland and other Coast ports. If the proposed advance in rates Is up held by the Interstate Commerce Cora mlsison as reasonable, the situation will offer an excellent opportunity for demonstrating the value of water com petition. The Coast Jobbing centers will still be In a position to secure a large per centage of their commodities by steamer, but under a preferential rate given the interior cities It is extremely doubtful whether or no$ we could ship very far Inland, even with a boat line supported by popular subscriptions and a portage road maintained by state aid. The future of the Jobbing business of the Coast ports hinges largely on the rallruads. If they de sire to avail themselves of the Inter state commerce ruling of no Jurisdic tion over rates made to meet water competition, they can do so: but if there is more money per ton per mile for them to drop the freight formerly distributed from Portland at some in terior point, they will not haul it to Portland and back. There are, of course, a number of commodities originating close to the Atlantic seaboard which can be brought to Portland by water and shipped a long distance inland before they will encounter any difficulty In the way of preferential rates which might be made by the railroads. The latter will hardly make any rates which are unremunerativa, and In mnv commodities a long water and short rail haul ought to be enough cheaper than a long all-rail haul to enable Coast Jobbers to retain their hold on most of the territory in which they have done business in the past. The situation is interesting and it Is fraught with great possibilities, for on the outcome depends the extent of the "zone" In which the jobbers of the Pa cific Coast can distribute goods brought to Portland by either rail or steamer. The change. If it Is made, will not be effective tintll next year, and by that time there may be a re-establishment of the cordial relations which existed between the railroads and the people when the late C. H. Lewis and other pioneer jobbers of the port were build ing up a magnificent business with the hearty co-operation of the railroads. MORE DELAY. Very likely neither Ruef nor the cohort of grafters to which he belongs were parties to an active conspiracy to kill Mr. Heney; still there is no delay In taking advantage of what they must In their secret hearts look upon as a providential event. Ruefs lawyers have punctually moved for a change of venue on the ground that their lovely client cannot now be tried fairly in San Francisco. This Is of course precisely the move they would have made had Haas been suborned to commit' murder as so many others have been to commit perjury. These lawyers know per fectly well that Rief can get as fair a trial in San Francisco as he can anywhere. Slimy with Infamy as he Is, any jury must be disgusted with his presence, and to weigh the evi dence in his defense fairly would de mand almost superhuman impartiality. No man was ever handled in court with more long-suffering patience than Ruef has been, and no man ever de served consideration less. His trial is a disgrace to California and a scan dal to the Nation. In moving for a change of venue Ruefs lawyers seek delay and noth ing else. They are afraid to face a Jury with the facts in his case be cause they know that upon the facts he would be instantly convicted. Therefore they resort to the Infamous tricks of their trade to pervert the court procedure and paralyze the arm of Justice. Whatever Ruefs guilt may be the moral guilt of his lawyers rivals It. Whatever his offense against the law may be their offense against so ciety Is fully as heinous. TSI AN. Tsri Hsl An, Dowager Empress of China, whose death is Just announced, was one of the most interesting and able women of modern times. The story of her rise from slavery to be ruler of a great empire is probably false, though If it were true it would not be unparalleled. Catharine I of Russia was the daughter of a serf and was reared as a foundling. She was introduced to the path of ambition by being chosen for his mistress by one of Peter the Great's commanders. Afterward she found favor in the eyes of Peter himself and so charmed him that he ended by marrying her and making her his successor. Thus. If Tsi An had begun her career as a slave history would furnish a prece dent for her astonishing fortunes, but she did not. She was the daughter of a Manchurian noble, and having ap peared at court in her girlhood accord ing to the social custom In China, she was chosen by the Emperor Hsien Feng as his fifth wife. This placed her at first far from the head of affairs In the royal family, but her extraordinary ability and her singular .charm so wrought upon the Emperor's heart that he soon promoted her to the sec ond place. The custom of having several wives at the same time is not at all strange in America, though we do not as a rule acknowledge more than one of them, but the promotion of an In ferior wife seems completely foreign to our ideas. Some would even deem it Immoral. So much do Chinese prac tices differ from our own. Had Tsl An been barred from social eminence by he- inferior marriage rank history would have been the poorer by one of the most remarkable careers ever re corded. In the seventh year of her married life her husband died, leav ing her the mother of a 5-year-old son, Tung Chih. The chief wife, who was childless, adopted little Tung Chih, who thus became heir to the throne and the two principal widows of Hslen Chung became his Joint guardians and regents of the realm. This happened a long time ago, back in 1861, when Tsi An was a very young woman. She could not have been much more than 22 years old. Nobody seems to know her precise age. Even Catharine Carl, a great crony of Tsl An, who painted four pictures of her, avoids any exact statement of how old she was. Tung Chih was but a phantom mon arch. At the age of 20 he perished with more or less mystery about his dying bed. Among the great gifts of Tsi An appears to have been a consum mate art In securing the convenient death of anybody who' stood in her way. All through the fifteen years of poor Tung Chlh's reign she and her colleague ruled as regents In perfect harmony. No discord could arise be cause the colleague was absorbed in literary pursuits at which she was an adept, while Tsl An devoted herself to the more masculine pursuit of reigning: At Tung Chih's death the two women adopted another infant, Tsi An's nephew Kwang Hsu, and an other long regency began which only terminated in 1889, when they de livered up to him the reins of power. Kwang Hsu was not a very vigorous personage. He is described as a meek creature. Oriental in his manners and tastes. The astonishing thing about him is the fact that he had progressive Ideas. He realised that China was far behind the rest of the world in civili zation and her terrible defeat by the Japanese In 1894 encouraged him to initiate extensive reforms. One can imagine what a howl this excited in China, the most reactionary country in the world. Kwang Hsu wished to Introduce modern science, build rail roads, and establish schools as the Japanese had done. With shrieks of rage the mossbacks turned to Tsi An, who was In semi-retirement at the time, and she graciously inclined her ear to their petitions. Returning to the palace she skilfully shoved the flaccid Kwang Hsu off the throne and seated herself In his place. The Chi nese described the coup d'etat in their polite way by saying that Tsl An had yielded to the importunities of her nephew and consented to favor him with her matronly counsel. She con tinued to favor him with it up to the day of his death, which occurred at about the same time as her own, nobody knows Just when, for the Chi nese keep their own counsel about such events. It was in 1898 that the aged Dow ager resumed the regency nd Kwang Hsu subsided Into his appropriate place of a shadowy appendage. Under her master hand the projected reforms were blighted and China was urged back into the old ways as far as pos sible. It speaks wonders for Tsi An's ability that with all the resurgent foraes which must be bubbling and seething within the monstrous realm, she was able for more than ten years to control and In a measure suppress them. Now at her death they seem bursting forth everywhere. Tsi An was not only a great monarch, com parable to the most gifted of all the ages, but she was also an exceedingly attractive woman with many accom plishments and subtle charms of per son and manner. Apart from her way ward Inclination toward murder, she had no vices, being a shining contrary to Catharine of Russia In this par ticular. She abhorred opium-smoking, loved literature and cultivated the arts. Tsi An could paint a flower to perfection in the best Chinese man ner. The beautiful big letters in which they delight she could draw so artistically on huge sheets of paper with a paint brush that connoisseurs went into raptures over them, and poetry she could recite by the page. In fact, the dowager herself knew how to build the lofty rhyme. Some of her sonnets are much relished by ce lestial savants and litterateurs, while her mastery of the intricate and diffi cult Chinese prose appears to have been wide and accurate. Tsl An be-. longs among the marvelous half dozen women of whom Elizabeth Tu dor, Lucretia Borgia and Mary de Medici are examples. Wonderfully gifted, without moral sense, cruel and inexorable, some of them have black ened the pages of history with use less crimes, while others have potently contributed to the progress of man kind. The always possible accident In au tomoblling occurred, with deadly ef fect, at Spokane Sunday, when a chauffeur, ignorant of the road he was covering, threw an automobile over a precipitous cliff bordering the Spo kane River. Of the seven occupants of the vehicle, one a young woman suffered injuries that resulted In death In a few hours. A similar accident occurred in San Jose the same day by which six persons were more or less seriously injured. There is no more reason for accidents of this kind with an automobile than with. a carriage drawn by horses. If the same care were exercised by a driver, who was as well skilled in the control of the automobile as is exercised by the man who drives horses, the one vehicle could be kept in the road as well as the other. From acefdents like those above noted one would suppose that the automobile was not a dirigible ma chine, but that once on the road it was not subject to control. The trouble nine times out of ten comes from reckless and Ignorant driving. Men can kill buffalo, but when It comes to rounding up and shipping them from the range, that is quite an other matter. After strenuous - effort for two months the Pablo herd, num bering 250, was got to the shipping point at Ravalli, Mont., when, break ing into a stampede so well remem bered by pioneers who crossed the great plains half a century and more ago, the entire band escaped and is now enjoying the wild hospitality of the Flathead reservation. The ani mals belong to the Canadian govern ment, but when or how the owners are going to transfer their property to the Manitoba or Ontario Range does not yet appear. Buffaloes scorn to be treated as cattle, but if given plenty of room they will take care of them selves as in the old -days when the great plateau was all their own. Edna Clark, the young girl who disappeared from her home In Ala meda, October 27, has been located in Chicago. She has written to her mother giving as a chief reason for her flight from home that It was Irk some and grew to be unbearable, "to tell her mother everything she did." Her mother might have been inju dicious In requiring this, but Judging from the life-long misery that often comes from lack of maternal super vision over wilful, self-sufficient young girls, the fault was one that leans to virtue's side. The utter selfishness of a nature that first scouts maternal counsel and then drops out of the home life leaving the mother a prey to anxiety is easily assessed In this case. There is only one punishment that can cover this offense. If this girl Is ever a mother it will no doubt be made plain to her. There is no possibility of discussing politics on a prinicple or assumption that ignores party obligations. Noth ing can be done in politics except through party. The man who aban dons one party always acts through another. As no man can serve two masters, so no man can act with two political parties, at the same time. Bryan is begged to become a reviv alist. But not for revival of the Democratic party. That party may be revived, but it will be accomplished If at all on the principles that Cleve land boroved from Hamilton, not on the loose slubber inherited from Jef ferson. An Albany editor has gone on his first -vacation in 2 8 years. That's a very good record; but consider the case of -the' late Tsl An, who held down her Job as Empress for forty seven years without a day off. The Supreme Court of the United States has held that there can be no such thing as a traveling boundary between Oregon and Washington. That seems sensible. Bryan Is urged to turn evangelist and convert Taft. Then the story of the fall of man and of the redemption would be established, against all doubt and question. Anyway, 3-year-old Emperor Pu Tl Is not likely to say anything to the newspapers that will precipitate inter national complications. Free trade is always for the man In the next district or in the next state. Protection always for ourselves. The tariff is a local question. "If by any chance," says a Bryan journal, "we should fail in 1912, we hereby give notice that we shall fight 'em In 1916." Ruef now wants a change of venue because "he cannot get Justice in San Francisco." Wrell, he hasn't got it so far. So cheap a fraud! Their man's name for Senator was not even on the primary ballot, THIS IS A FINE PIECE It Relates to President RooeeveK's E aay om Taft 'a KrHRlom, and It Will AnnH Yon. Brooklyn Eagle. A convenient and most necessary man out West wrote a sincerely or strategically ignorant letter to Presi dent Roosevelt, about Mr. Taft's "re ligion." He also rung In remarks about the religion of Mr. Taft's wife and children, remarks which were so ignorant as in themselves to be sus picious. We do not say that no such man exists. Inquiry shows he does. Mr. Roosevelt is too much of an artist to write to a man who has no ex istence. But the man's real or ap parent ignorance is so great that we do not believe it can be natural. It must have been Invented, probably with his consent. fc He started by inquiring whether Mr. Taft was an Unitarian, or an agnostic or an infidel. He feared Mr. Tatt was an infidel, and in case Mr. Taft was either an Unitarian or an agnostic he regetted that Mr. Taft was not a Christian. A finer opening for Mr. Roosevelt could not have been manu factured. The willingness of the hitherto unknown to be made a sound ing board for Mr. Roosevelt's rever berations or a target for Mr. Roose velt's missiles, could not have been ex aggerated, and would not have been believed, had it not been shown when Mr. Roosevelt Jumps all over the lot, he Is picturesque. He is pictur esque today. He dogmatically an nounces that Mr. Taft is neither an infidel whatever that is nor an ag nostic wnatever that is. He then roundly declares that Mr. Taft Is both an Unitarian and a Christian, Just as John Adams and John Quincy Adams and (informally) Abraham Lincoln were, and Just as Edward Everett Hale, the Chaplain of the United States Senate, is! s Then skillfully saying that Mrs. Taft and the Taft children are Prot estant Episcopal folk, as their moth er's parents were, and neither Uni tarians nor Catholics, Mr. Roosevelt wants to know what If they were? and what If Mr. Taft himself were? Whose business is it? The Constitu tion of the United States not only pre scribes no religious tests, but abso lutely forbids any from being made. Mr. Roosevelt, in a general way, shows that he has put men of all sorts of spiritual or historical beliefs in his Cabinet and has found all of them' to be effective and unsectarian public servants, Mr. Bonaparte, a Catholic, and Oscar Straus, by birth a Jew and by religion a Hebrew, berng no ex ception Mr. Roosevelt might have added that he himself, as a Lutheran, Is no exception either. And then the President discourses, by and large, on the whole question, in a roustabout, roundabout and emi nently wholesome way, obtruding a largeness and luminosity ot view which all manly men feel and very few "can didates" overtly and robustly avow, for fear of Injury to their chances by those only entitled to be called men because they are unfeathered bipeds, and allowed to vote. All that Mr. Roosevelt advances on this head is true. Some of it will be regarded as exuberant. A little of it will be recognized as evading the fact that parties have taken the religious predilections or prejudices of voters here and there tentatively and timidly into account. The instances would not have aided Mr. Roosevelt's generali zations and characteristically he threw them out of che window. And at the end it is disclosed that the text of the letter was submitted to Cardinal Gib bons, solely to see If the historical trend of It was right! There Is an art about that equal to the manufac ture or discovery of Mr. Roosevelt's correspondent or to the inoculation of Mr. Roosevelt's correspondent with ex actly the Jackasslcal apprehensions on which Mr. Roosevelt wished publicly and prodigiously to jump. Wisdom aside, necessity aside, judi cial tone aside, the letter is as in spiring and refreshing as a mountain breeze in the face. The descendants of the man to whom the letter Is ad dressed will live to be thankful that their ancestor drew from Mr. Roose velt an eminenee he could neither have created nor inherited but only, so to say, was able to provoke. Around the World for S600. New York Sun. Major George P. Ahern, who has re cently returned to Manila from a trip around the world and across Siberia on the Transslberian railway, published the details of his trip in the Manila Times, and says that the actual cost of the trip Is less than elOO. ' This was his itinerary and its cost: Route Miles. Hours. Fares. To Kobe 2.115 217 X 60.00 Tsurga . HO 7 3.01 Vladivostok 408 40 18.50 Moscow B.L'fil 2K2 1So.:15 Warsaw , M 17 00 Berlin .J.. SfiO 1'J 17.50 Dresden . . . 100 3 212 Prague ISO 3',4 S.50 Vienna ISO 5-75 Munich 20 . 10 7.13 Strasburg 240 7 5.S0 Pans UTO 7 70 London 200 7 10. i New York 8,200 154 100.00 Washington 200 5.50 New Orleans 1.000 3 Ban Francisco 2.500 9 85.00 Manila (via transport) 8,600 720 30.00 Totals ....23,97 1,62a SS84.59 68 days. Official Vote of the States. PORTLAND, Nov. 15. (To the Edi tor.) Would you give the results of Colorado and Kentucky and Oregon for President. Give majorities as near of ficial as possible. Colorado has voted for Bryan, by exactly what pluraliity is not yet as certainable. So has Kentucky. No newspaper of any state, so far as The Oregonlan bas seen and its exchange list covers every state in the Union has given the official popular vote for its state. The official vote for Oregon has not yet been ascertained. Voted For First-degree Murder. GRESHAM. Or., Nov. 15. (To the Editor.) In your issue today in regard to the La Rose murder case, your arti cle says that John Barton, J. M. Bor roughs and myself were voting for ac quittal. From the first to the forty ninth ballot we voted for a verdict of murder In the first degree. E. P. SMITH. Pneumonia Follows Elect I on-Swim. Wilmington (Del.) Dispatch. John Truitt. a hotel clerk, at New castle, Del., wagered a swim in the Dela ware River against $10 that a certain nominee for the Legislature would not be elected, lost it and took the plunge in scanty attire. He now suffers from pneumonia. Feast Off a 56-Pound Honey-Hive. Philadelphia Record. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Creamer, of Ro senhayn. Pa., celebrated the 20th anni versary of their wedding by opening a 50-pound htve of honey and eervinsr their guests with milk and honey. lew York MUHoairee too Bust Ae aulrlnK Wealth to Enjoy It. Mrs. C. N. Williamson, In London Chronicle. When I was in America the other j T . , thai th most misun derstood creature in the world, by the old world, is tne Amencon iiuiiiiii--. The fact is that nobody can possibly understand him himself less than any others perhaps which makes things very awkward for him. Other million aires of other countries are much easier to understand. They are good or they are bad; sometimes very good, or very bad. They can Da nuiiuira uu. ma tures are the exception, whereas they are the rule in America. I am not at all scrry for the American millionaires wives and daughters, or other female belongings, for they have glorious times In life, and the world Is their oyster. But it is not the millionaire's oyster, and if it were, it would be too indigestible tor him to eat That is why I am sorry for him. He has so little for his money. He Is always working to get the oyster, and when it is got, work ing to open it for other peope. It struck mo in comparing other mil lionaires with the American million aires that the others almost all tried to enjoy themselves when they had made their money or inherited it from some one else But the American mil lionaires have never finished making their money, so entirely that they can sit down and be comfortable. They start trusts, and are always exciting themselves by squeezing other trusts or else by having their own squeezed. This is hard on their nerves, and though they are used to it, and hardly notice the effect at. the time, it spoils their digestion. Eventually they arrive at living mostly on "crackers" and milk. If they are -old cheir one pleasure is in collecting beautiful things, but as they never have more than ten minutes at a time to admire their treasures, they can't find much satisfaction even in such an expensive fad, which, after all, is only another development of the tiresome mania for getting getting. TURWIXO ALL WASTE INTO MONEY Source of Increasing Profit In Amer ican Commercial Industries. Wall-Street Journal "Allowing nothing to go to waste that can be turnel Into money." Is the spirit of the commercialism that now rules industrial America. It is tho in ,.i..tiA. ihftt 1 ctimustine scientific research, mechanical invention and money-hungry human endeavor in ev ery field. "We market every part of the hog except the squeal," said the late P. D. Armour to a visitor he was showing about his pork-packing es tablishment, and that, be it noted, was before the day of the phonograph. Mr. Armour was an early starter. A distinct impetus was given the utilization of material long allowed to go to waste, by enforcement of laws for the protection of communities against nuisances. It was the force of public opinion that first compelled the pork packers to invent processes for the conversion of the intolerable refuse of their great abattoirs Into fertilizers and the many other by-products now yielding fat profits, and to create a market foi' them. The same is true of the great oil re fineries of the Standard and other com panies in the petroleum industries. By products, numbering several hundred In all, are the largest profit-makers of the Standard. The premier refining company of the world owes a very con siderable percentage of its enormous wealth to the refusal of the keen smelling public to dwell without pro test in the noxious atmosphere pf the old-time refinery. Having discovered the money there is in by-products, the genius ana cap ital of man has been for years and Is still enlisted in a struggle to extract the ultimate dollar from every de tailed resource of the animal, vege table and mineral kingdoms from air, water, substance. There Is seemingly no limit to the development of the Idea, That Is one of the features" in which America leads. The "Stoughton Bottle." Bostun Globe. Stoughton, not stoatin, bottle is proper. The adage "standing like a stoughton bottle" can be tracked back to early 19th century days. Dr. Stoughton in those times got out a bitters that becam3 famous. The com pound was originally sold In ordinary straight green (probably black) bot tles, duly labeled and the Stoughton bitters bottle became a bar fixture, always standing at the end of the bar. The contents of tho bottle seem to have been gin-steeped tansy to give the un blended whisky of those times a tang. The adage rose from the noticeable position of the bottle on the bar. The Stoughton bottle, however, took another form. Dr. Stoughton had a quick discernment cf the merits of ad vertising. The Presidential campaign of 1840 was on wi'.h Its "log cabin and hard cider" slogan. The glassblowers were requisitioned for imitation log cabins, and the Stoughton bitters in ltd log cabin home held Its own for a score of years afterward. The Stoughton bottle may be con sidered as a square, corrugaetd glass bottle in the shape of a log cabin. - Circus Rider in Plaster Cast. Baltimore News. Incased In a plaster cast which covers all of her body except the neck and head, Minnie Fisher, a circus rider, who was injured in September by being thrown from her horse against a fence, left Ogdensburg, N. Y., for her home in Alabama. Nearly every bone in her body was broken at the time of the ac cident. It will be three months before the plaster can be removed. A Southern Republican Party. Charleston News and Courier. Republicans in ihe North will never construct a party in the South by pur chase. Southern men worth having are, fortunately, not for sale. At least the founders of a party must have hearts and souls; they must not be mere time servers, even if a horde of selfish office-seekers follow later. Walls, Floor and Roof, One Piece. Indianopolis News. The only temple in the world of which the walls, floor and roof are of a single piece' is at Oak Park, Chicago. It is built of reinforced concrete on the Edi3tm plan of continuous material with no seams. The temple belongs to the Unity Congregation, Universalist. Declares Typewritten Sheet Dangerous. Boston Herald. A libel suit brought in the Brooklyn. N. Y., courts Is based on the claim of the plaintiff that the dictation of a slanderous letter to a stenographer, whose duty it was to reproduce it as a typewritten sheet, was equivalent to publishing the letter, and therefore a violation of the law. Starves on (54,000 Annual Income. North American. Joseph Letter, of Chicago, 111., sued for a bill of $416, has a good defense. Owing to losses In the wheat corner and other deals, his income has been reduced to a beggarly J54.000 a year. Three Highwaymen, Guns and 80 Cents Kansas City Times. Three highwaymen, each armed with a revolver, held up R. K. Pooley, of To peka, Kan., and got 80 cents. Roosevelt as Editor. New York Evening Mail. If the "Outlook" reprints poetry, it win nrnhnhlv run Bryant's "Ode to a Frazzled Gentian" pretty soon. Twe-Cent Rate to England Certain to Increase Communications. London Times. Past experiences show that when-, ever postage charges are reduced there follows an enormous Increase 1n the number of communications sent by post. It wu so in the case of most of the colonies, and there is no reason to doubt that the same result will fol low In the case of the United Suites. The postoffice au:corltie, In fact, are looking forward to a substantial growth in bulk of the American malls, and are making arrangements for the necessary additions to the staff of the foreign malls department. The growth of our American corre spondence has been very marked dur ing the last ten years. In the report of the Postmaster-General for 18SS it was stated that during the previous 12 months we sent to the United States 287,000 pounds' weight of letters and postcards, and 2.700,000 pounds of cir culars, book packets and newspapers. We received from the United States 258,000 pounds of letters and postcards and 1,636,000 poun-ls of other commu nications. From the report for 1908, just published, it appears that the fig ures are: Sent to the United States, 473,000 and S.285.000 pounds respective ly; from the United States, 603,000 pounds and 2.419,i00 pounds. Thus it will be seen that the letters and post cards have increased in bulk during the last ten years by about 80 per cent, and that other communication have increased by about 60 per cent. It is rather curious to note also that,whlle ten years ago the English, malls were far more bulky than those which came from America, the reverse is now the case. The penny post may be relied upon to produce even more striking increases in the official figures during the next ten years. Tuberculosis and the Telephone. Current Literature. ' The panic recently created on tke subject of the assumed danger lurk ing In the transmitter of the telephone is not precisely new. It is but the de velopment of a fear which has caused misgiving for some years, as is pointed out by the British Medical Journal. On the supposition, it says, that various germs of disease probably collect la the receiver and transmitter of the In strument, at any rate in public tele phono stations, F,ome medical alarmists have thrown out suggestions that an tiseptics, both In a dry state and in solution, should be applied for the safety of the telephone user. The recent dic tum goes one step further. Inasmuch as it is now an established fact that tubercle bacilli, the casual micro-organisms of consumption, have been found alive and in robust condition in the instrument. It is quite natural, in view of such a find, that a feeling of alarm might seize hold of the more nervous. Democracy and Pumpkin Pies, St Louis Post-Dispatch. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson con tinues his revelations concerning the effect of politics upon crops. "The average weight of pumpkins under Mr. Cleveand," he said, "was 21 pounds and 4 ounces, and their mean capacity was eight pies. This was the lowest mean touched by pumpkins between 1860 and 1908. In the period from 1860 to 1885 the average pumpkin weighed 32 pounds and produced 12 pics. In the period from 1896 to 1908 the mean in creased to 37 pounds and 6 ounces, and the capacity of the pumpkins was 15 pies." The Secretary also said that Repub lican pumpkins were much sweeter than Democratic pumpkins, and that no one ever asked a second piece of pie under a Democratic President. Thieves Get S180 In Old Almanacs. Newark (N. J. ) Despatch. Thieves found In the house of Michael Clark, of Camden, N. J., 1S0 tucked away between the covers of old al manacs. BITS OF PLEASANTRY. HE HADN'T CAUGHT ON -Skipper (to new deckhand, who had neve been to sea before) Let go that for'ard rope. Deckhand makes no sign. Skipper Let go that rope. I sy. Deckhand Is still motionless. Skipper (purple with rage) Why don't you let go that for'ard rope, ye swabr Deckhand (In aggrieved tone) Who's touchln' yer rope? I ain't. London News. . OYSTER SOCIETY It is but seldom, ons imagines, that a good Joke is made abonc an oyster. Edmund Yates, however, in his "Recollections and Experiences," relates one. "I was walking with him one evening from the club." writes Yates, "and passing a fish shop in New street, he noticed two different tubs of oysters, one marked 'is & dozen,' and the other 'Is 3d a dozen." 'How they must hate each other!' said Thack eray." London Chronicle. e SCOTCH THRIFT They sat each at an extreme end of the horsehair sofa. They had; been coortln' now for something like two years, but the wide gap between bed al ways been respectfully preserved. "A penny for your thochts. Sandy," mar mured Maggie, after a silence of an hour and a half. "Weel," replied Sandy, slowly, with sur prising boldness, "tae tell ye the truth, I was Jlst thinkln' how line It wad be if ys were tae gle me a wee bit klssle." "I've nae objection," simpered Maggie, slithering over, and kissed him plumply on the tip of his left ear. Then she 'slithered back. Sandy relapsed into a brown study once more and the clocked ticked 27 minutes. "An" what are ye thinkln' about noo anither, eh?" ' "Nae, nae. lassie: It's malr serious, noo." "Is it. laddie?" asked Maggie, softly. Her heart was going plt-a-pat with expectation. "An' what micht it be?" "I was jlst thinkln'." answered Sandy, "that It was aboot time ye were paying me that penny!" Answers. A NARROW ESCAPK The disputes which old "Square" Bemls was called upon to settle were many and various. He asked no fee. "All I remiire Is that you'll abide by what I say, or you needn't ever come to me again," he told his Bushby clients. "You've helped me out a good many times. Square," said Ephrlam Gregg, on one occasion, "and I look to ye to do It now. BUI Henderson's colt broke loose and got Into my garden yesterday, and between what he's tore up and what he's et. 1 should say 'twould take about Si to cover. Can you get It out of BUI. think?" "Square" Bemls shook his heaa. "Bill's been here before you." he said, gravely, "and I've been- with him to look over the colt. I've advised him not to prose cute unless you tried to. The damages his colt has sustained from your blackberry vines would come to considerably more than $4, Ephralm, but if you insist on- " "I'm not Insisting." broke In Ephralm. "On the whole, Square, some of them squash vines might not have come to much anyway. So we'll Jest let the whole thing go. Youth's Companion. InsworthwOlobserved.ol-ith shrd cmfw shr PARSIMONIOUS "Never mind." tsay the lawyers tothe malefactor of great wealth, after the jury has found him guilty and the Judge has pronounced sentence upon him in scathing words. "Never mind, we can take an appeal In this case, and If ll goes against us In the Court ot Appeals, we can get a writ of error and a habeas corpus and a mandamus and an Injunction and so on, until " "Excuse me, gentlemen," says the male factor of great wealth. "I have concluded to pay my line and serve my sentence, l figure that your fees woul be a sreai deal more than my time and money to pay th penalty are worth." "Stingy!"-hiss the lawyers, filing out and thinking bitter thoughts about the econom ical traits that have enabled their client to build u bis fortune. Chicago Evening i'oat.