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An-j-N.. ork. rooms 4 5.1 Tribune bu ,din. Calcago. rooms olo-.la Trib-tne building r)RTUM. V KIIKSIAY. NOV. 15. JINE I-HRASkS. AND T11E1K INSPIRA TION". Four" nr five pi rsnns. professing to represent th- Oregon State Federation of Labor, yet representing nobody but themselves therefore not necessary to name them lure print a mani festo denouncing The Oregonian be cause it has exposed the bunco game which brings out a Democratic poli tician as trie man whom the Jti pub licans of Oroson are bound, or de clare.! I" b- bound, to elect to the S-nate They talk, w ith all Hie af fectation of Pharisaism, of sense of h-.nor and morality." to which they are supposed to be lost who deny that the result of this bunco game it the true expression of the will of the peo ple of Oregon, who have just thrown IT,. 000 majority against everything that Mr. Chamberlain stands for or represents. These men. iiia-squt radmg as lead ers of a laaor federation, are Demo cratic politicians, who have supported Chamberlain and liryan throughout. Nobody questions their right, as Democrats, or a.- citizens, to support Chamberlain and llryan. But they have no Just right to parade them selves, in this effort, as leaders of the Kri-.it federation of labor, or of any labor organization. These are the persons who, just before the recent election, published their manifesto in behalf of Bryan, and undertook to commit all the members of the labor unions to his support. They even voted i away nionev. belonging to the order, in their effort to beat Taft. They are merely Democratic politicians, operat ing under the mask of a labor organ ization. It is entirely lit and in keeping that they should bo sup porters of the Statement fine bunco finite through "sense of honor and morality." f'.iit the votes of the workingmen of Portland and of Oregon, as well as of the country at large, showed that these pretenders, anil all other pro fessional poIiiiclaiiS operating in the guise of offi- ials of labor unions, spoke for nobody but themselves. The Or.gonian assures ail such that it is not Tiiuctr affected by their "sense of honor and morality." For it knows, and every soul in Oregon knows, that this business, which re mits tn a claim that a party which has a majority of 115. 000 In 100.000 votes. Is bound to elect to the highest political office in the gift of the state a man who incarnates evert thing In politics which Is opposed to that party, is hut a fraud and a bunco gnnie, from Its Inception. and throughout its course, and to the end of It. The "sense of honor and morality" might be more Impressive were it not the custom of frauds of all descriptions to dress themselves up In line phrases. THE nillNDlKV DKriTK. Mr. H. S. Mil'.iiw.in, an excellent authority nnjish. and a man who is in u position to know much about chan nels In the Columbia River, finds fault with the Supreme Court decision on the r-gon-'iish!ngtoti boundary. He also takes The Oregonlan to task for Its editorial comment thereon. In a communication to The Oregoninn, Mr. M.-tiowan Interprets the definition of the boundaries of the state, as given In the Washington State Con stitution, to mean the middle channel instead of the north channel of the Columbia Fliv-'r. He quotes section 1 of article 1:4 of the Constitution, which names these constitutional boundaries as "beginning at a point in the Pacific Ocean one marine league due west of. and opposite the middle of the month of the north ship chan nel of the Columbia lliver. th.nco running easterly to and up the mid dle channel of said river." At this point In his quotation from the constitutional definition of the boundaries. Mr. MotVowan pauses. Had he continued there was neither period, comma or semicolon which bade him pause we should have read: "and. where it is divided by Islands, lip the middle of the widest channel thereof, to where the forty flxth parallel of north latitude crosses said river." etc. IToceoding with his argument. Mr. McGowan says: . orreetty si-ak!ng. S.tnil I--l.uid a as n-t an Km-1. hut a ine:nc s..r.-l I :r lie.t l-e.-am-" det.-.-ln-.l froio .'L.tsop Spit throush a shifting of tho s--'i-.h - tiann. K Wn.1 was -ctua:--,l between the .-u-mh and mid-He ,-lvinri -"-. It a c.-r-' i nil--wl v moved to the n---rth In tr-e direction of the i-re-ioumiating t.-rce from the - Before the surveyors had run that line "to an.l up tiie middle channel" far enough to get fairly Inside the mouth .: the river they encountered this Island, which Mr. McCowan ad mits was detached from Clatsop Spit and must naturally have been on the south side of the main channel. Nothing could be plainer than that this point was one where the chan nel was "divided by islands." K.pially clear is that portion of the definition of the boundary which says that the line running easterlv shall in such cases, follow "up the middle of the widest channel thereof." More than half a century has passed since these boundaries were established, and the building of the jetty wrought great changes at the entrance of tho river. A great many people ran still remem ber, however, that for a long time after Sand Island became detached from Clatsop Spit, as Mr. MclJowan says It was detached, it formed a suf ficient barrier to split the middle channel and the south channel, so that the north thannel was easily dis tinguishable as "the ividest channel thereof." and for that reason it was chosen. It was for a similar reason that a vast area of tide flats and islands lying in Cathlnmet Bay, above As toria, were ail left on the Oregon shore, .instead of In Washington, al though most of them are. In point or distance, much nearer to Washington than to .Oregon. Had the boundary line between the two tates been fixed since the jetty made such remarkable changes at the entrance of the river, it is not improbable that Sand Island might be located In Washington: but the nearest to a fixed tangible bound ary that could be found at that time was the "middle of the widest ctian .ha. M-a frmnoj jifter entering the river. Once fixed with that as I a base, it could not well be changed, ! and the Sunreme Court's affirmation of its permanency will satisfy more people than will object to the deci sion. mok ixtoler.vsce. Soon after the late election was over President Kooseveit took occa sion to express publicly In .his own forcible way the opinion that it is "narrow, unwarranted bigotry" to re fuse to vote for a candidate seeking high office because he belongs to the Church of Kohie. Some of the Prot estant denominations have since found opportunity to say what they think of Mr. Koosevelfs vigorous re mark. The Xew York Lutherans opened the game by observing that Roman Catholics are not fit for high office in this country since -they bor heve church and state ought to be united. Hence, it is not bigotry at all to refuse to vote for a candidate of that faith, they claimed, but sound public policy. Now comes the Xew York Associa tion of Presbyterian Ministers sing ing the same tune. These good brethren are determined to hold the Catholics guilty of everything their creed expresses or implies. Suppose we applied the same rule to the Pres byterians. Their creed Is a pretty fearful affair, and if they were all tarred as black as it might make them they would be unlit not for high office only nut tor civiuzeu souiuiy. Happily, we are none of use quite so bad as our creed. It is almost always viciously unfair to seek to deduce from a man's formal religious profes sions his public or .private character. The fact that some good brethren persist in doing so seems to show that they are determined to verify the truth of the President's severe remark. They will not be satisfied until they have demonstrated beyond a doubt that tjiey actually are 'un warrantable bigots. In spite of the press and the public schools sectarian intolenuice still lingers here and there in the country awaiting an op portunity to rear its head and hiss. As evidence of this The Oregonian prints today a letter from a young man In Springfield, a village almost under the eaves of the State Uni versity. The Intelligent reader will peruse It with a sigh of regret and a pensive inquiry whether, after all, some human beings ever can be civilized. TIIK COl'NTRY UrTJ COMMISSION. It is announced that the Country Life Commission will be tn Portland on December " in pursuit of informa tion concerning rural conditions in this part of the world. Everybody who knows anything about the coun try or country people seems to be in vited to appear before the Commis sion and disgorge h's knowledge. The Oregonian has pried into some bucolic secrets -which it could reveal upon occasion. It may possibly draw the veil from off one or two of them before M.r. Roosevelt's Inquisitors reach Portland. It could tell, for example, of a frightful paucity of pigs in the Willamette Valley which drives city dwellers to the far-away East to buy their hams and bacon. There is a tale of a dearth of hens which one. could also unfold If ho 'were so in clined, and a woeful story of neglected roads. Our store of secrets Is large, but perhaps the most woeful of them all relates to roads. Were it unveiled it would show how the rural popula tion wades and drives and swims through fathomless mud year after year for lack of co-operation and public-spirited intelligence in roadbulld Ing. But the Commislon will find out all these matters for Itself, and many more. If each person does his full duty and tells It everything he knows about country life. IIONT BREAK DOWN IIONKST TRUfE. The public is asked now and again to give alms that may be dispensed to persons who are 1n need, but whose pride prevents them from making known their necessities. It Is a serious thing to break down or undermine an honest pride which is based upon that most dependable of all personal qualities self-respect and respect for the family name and position, however lowly it may be, in the community. If persons thus in need have been overtaken by that arch foe of endeavor, sickness, and are thereby incapacitated for work, assistance In accordance with their needs should be rendered promptly and without ostentation. But If the workers of the family are able-bodied, the only help required Is help to help themselves. Even if the wages are small, as must be the case where a worker has no special vocation and training, the little that they will bring, economically administered, in shelter, warmth, food and clothing will be more fully enjoyed by the family of proper pride and self-respect than would a much greater abundance that came through Thanksgiving appeal or the ordinary dole of charity. It is a serious thing, amounting al most to a crime, and certainly often leading the beneficiary to crime, to replace, through misdirected charity, the spirit of individual independence with the spirit of pauperism. The first dole In such a case will be re ceived with hesitancy .of manner and confusion of face. After a time it will come to be expected, and if not forth coming the individual will feel that he has been slighted, and later on that society Is against him. If the dole continues. It will in time become the dependence of the family. This is the verdict of all experience In charity work. Persons who were loath to accept a Thanksgiving dona tion at first, and drew the basket In side the door precipitately and with confusion. lest neighbors. among whom they had been accustomed to hold up their heads in self-respecting pride, should see. may be and unhap pily often have been coddled by mis taken charity until they stand un blushingly at the window or on the doorstep awaiting ' impatiently the basket laden with the Sunday's dinner that they have come to expect as a Saturday's dispensation of Providence, and to receive as a vested right. It is. of course, the province and the effort of all prudently adminis tered charitable associations to avoid this condition, which Is called out by a too-abounding sympathy. It is not always eay or indeed possible to dis tinguish between the honest" and the dishonest poor the lazy man who avoids work and the man who is will ing to work, but has been unfortu nate in his nuest for labor whereby to live. But there can be no mistake made in the case of persons who, sus tained by proper pride, do not desire to receive alms. Unless, as before said, such people have been stricken with disease, it is an impertinence to offer them money that they have not earned, or Its equivalent In food or clothing. Not only this, it is an as sault upon the sacred citadel over which honest pride stands guard a sentinel which cannot be overcome without working lasting misfortune to the individual and those for whose ex istence and welfare he is directly re sponsible. Help this proud-spirited man to help himself; get or give him work, however small the wage, and he and the woman who shares his pride and self-respect will see to it that the household does not suffer from hun ger, even though turkey and mince pie may not be their portion for Thanksgiving, in so doing help them to maintain, what once destroyed they never will regain, the spirit that is too proud to ask alms. SOME TH.YNril'ORTATlON FALLACIES. In replying to a correspondent who seeks to give upper river improve ments precedence over improvements needed to maintain an unobstructed channel to the sea. The Oregonian yesterday touched only on the main points at Issue. There are a few of the details In which our correspond ent and others equally ignorant of natural conditions may be interested. The Oregonian is asked'to "press the issue for an open river from Revel stoke on the Columbia and the bor ders of Yellowstone on the Snake 1000 miles to the sea via Portland." This The Oregonian is unable to do without appearing ridiculous. The obstructions at Little Dalles and Ket tle Falls, as everyone familiar with the Columbia River knows, are in surmountable, while Priest Rapids. Island Rapids, and a long list of other bad places farther down the liver can be made partly navigable only at enormous expense. Even above Little Dalles, where Captain Leonard White wfth the steamer Korty-Nine began naviga tion 'way back in the "sixties," the current is so swift and the cost of operation so great that the Canadian Pacific, which, controls both rail and water routes in that country, was obliged to parallel the Columbia with a rail line from Northport to Robson, and withdraw expensively operated steamboats. Railroads are not gov erned by sentimental reasons in mak ing these changes. The O. R. & N-, when it paralleled Its Columbia River steamboat line for .economical rea sons alone, withdrew half a dozen of the finest river steamers that have ever run on the upper river. The cost of lake transportation, men tioned by the correspondent, has no bearing whatever on the cost of steamboat transportation on a swift, rocky stream, Impassable all the time at a number of points, and part of the time at others. Lake commerce is carried in 10,000 to 1 5.000-ton steam ships, which secure coal at less than one-fifth the price at which it is ob tainable on the upper Columbia. When New York began work on the Erie Canal, the largest ships In the world could enter her harbor with out difficulty, but there were no rail roads or other means of transporta tion for bringing traffic down from the great lake region. What was more natural than that the attention of the metropolis be turned to in ternal development of her water ways? It should be noted, however, that as soon as that great network of railroads leading down from the lake regions, began doubling and trebling the business of tho port. New York found it necessary to abandon canal work and deepen the harbor to meet the requirements of the increasing size of the vessels. Not until the mighty Ambrose channel. Just completed and ample for the largest ships alloat, was an assured fact, djd the state tako up the matter of widening and deepening the canal. Had New York followed the policy urged on Tho Oregonian of first building the Internal waterways, the traffic would long ago have been diverted to rival ports which could accommodate the big carriers. This is exactly what will happen to the mari time commerce of Portland, if we do not place our channel to the sea In shape to accommodate as large vessels as can enter rival ports. It is useless to bring traffic down the Columbia If it cannot bo economically passed on to sea. AOMIWION TO BML. The other day a luminous edrforial article in the Xew York Sun dis cussed the question of admitting con victed criminals to ball, pending an appeal from the sentence of the trial court. The Sun points out that the common law of England held bail to be a matter of right for accused per sons even in cases of murder and treason. Most of the states of the Union have incorporated the common law Into their jurisprudence and this' provision would naturally be includ ed; but to Insure that accused per sons shall be fairly treated before trial all the states except nine have declared in their Constitutions that bail shall not be denied unless In capital cases. Even In these cases some states do not refuse bail unless "the proof Is evident or tha presump tion great." All this relates to bail before trial and conviction , which, as The Sun justly observes, is a very different matter from hail after conviction. Before the verdict is reached the pris oner is fairly presumed to be Inno cent; afterward. If our judicial pro cedure Is worth anything, the pre sumption ought to be that he is guilty. If a conviction does not at lenst raise a strong, presumption of guilt the American people might very wisely set their wits at work to devise some form of trial that would do so. Why try prisoners at all If the result of the trial and conviction docs not even destroy the legal presumption that the accused is innocent? But unless a man Is presumably innocent, he has no equitable right to bail. It follows, therefore, that admission to bail after conviction in the trial court and while an appeal is pending is not a matter of right, but is a favor which may be granted or not as the judges see fit. At common law convicted prisoners were not admitted to bail in England while an appeal was pending, but Parliament has altered the rule and left the question to the judges' dis cretion. In out Federal courts the practice is similar. The District and Circuit Judges may take bail or re fuse it. as they see fit, while the con victed prisoner prosecutes his appeal. In Oregon the whole subject is strictly regulated by statute and the Consti tution of the state. Before trial a prisoner must be admitted to bail as a matter of right unless he Is charged with treason, murder In any degree or a personal injury to another which would amount, to murder it death should ensue. After conviction of any of these exceptional crimes bail must not be taken while his appeal is pend ing, but in every other case, in the words of the code, "he may be ad mitted to bail as a matter or right" when he has appealed "and when there is a stay of proceedings." This seems to leave the judges little or no discretion. When ball is tendered, even in heinous cases like that of Banker Ross, they would hardly feel free to refuse it. The effect of this statute ia to stigmatize all criminal proceedings in the lower courts as vir tually worthless. It says in substance that a trial and conviction there does not even destroy the presumption of a prisoner's innocence. Senator Flint, of California, yester day, called on the President with a request that the Atlantic battleship fleet be kept on the Pacific, but was again refused. The President said that he saw no reason for diverting the fleet from its course around the world. This seems to be the predom inating sentiment in the East, where tho Importance of the Far Eastern problem is not thoroughly understood. It will probably be impossible for the people of the Pacific Coast to impress upon the Government the necessity for a Pacific fleet until the break-up of China, or further exploitation and conquest on the part of Japan causes a sudden awakening. When we really need a fleet in the Pacific, we will need it so much sooner than It can reach here that serious trouble may result from our negligence. The Saturday Evening Post com plains that the country is corrupting the city. "Upon notice that a valued customer from the sweet-smelling hay belt is coming to town, the Xew Yorker heaves a sigh, drops a tear and lays in a stock of bromides." The country people, thinks the Post, spend the money that supports the gor geous hotels, theaters, bars and brokers' offices. Perhaps so. Certain It Is that the country people furnished the money with which Wall street speculated so rashly last year. If the country districts had kept more of their money at home, there would have been no overspeculation and consequently no panic. The country people will try not to lead the city into such temptations again. Oregon -weather for the- past few days has had a few disagreeable features; but the news from other parts of the country is such that there is still much to be thankful for. A belated and unseasonable tornado tore through Arkansas Monday night, kill ing forty people and destroying more than a score of towns. In Salt Lake streetcar transportation was blocked yesterday, and heavy snow has been falling over a considerable portion of the mountain states. Not the least of the many blessings for which Port land people can give thanks tomorrow is that they live in Oregon. The old seadogs of the Navy, Dewey. Schley and Evans, think the new naval equipment all right. It will be easy, of course, for the muck rakers, new and up to date even in name, to say that tho old men whose lives belong to the past are not quali fied to give an authoritative opinion upon the subject of modern naval equipment. Xevertheless, all loyal citizens will continue to have confi dence in our magnificent fighting fleet, and In the judgment of the grizzled Admirals who have passed their lives on the firing line. It has become proverbial that the' American people get over an election campaign with astonishing rapidity. Men who are engaged In the bitterest kind of a political fight forget their differences within a few days after the ballots are counted. It is not sur prising, then, that after the campaign was over every electoral candidate and every campaign manager in Ore gon forgot to file his statement of campaign expenses. In the case of competition between the Oregon Electric and the Willam ette Kiver steamboats it seems that it was the railroad that compelled the bouts to lower their rates rather than the reverse. Xow if a rate war can be started we may get even lower rates on the Electric. But not until river boats run faster than they ever have in the past. Sangamon County, Illinois, the home of Lincoln, which contains the City of Springfield, gave Taft a ma jority of 1071. Lincoln never could carry the county. It threw its major ity against him in 1S60, and again in 1864. We crucify the great men and afterwards canonize them. Which is to say we are a poor lot, not fit for self-government. Just as always, the old question is still of the utmost importance to several Oregon legislators who prom ised to serve the people's Interest the question who will get from Chamberlain the job of Postmaster, or United States Marshal, or Collector of Customs, or Collector of Internal Revenue. A Republican 25,000 plurality in Oregon is "pledged" to the Democrats to elect the latter's leader United States Senator, and of course it will go hard with them if the Legislature shall consider not the Democrats, but the state's interests that need a Re publican Senator in Washington. It Is too bad that the footpad who shot Dr. Robertson at Salem gave up to the police so easily. It would have been better if he had resisted arrest just enough to afford excuse for Blllng his hide full of lead. A few more . records for quick catches of desperadoes, such as the capture of a footpad at Salem Friday night, and Portland will find it neces sary to import a few policemen from the country districts. Xow that the Empress Dowager of China can no longer strike terror into the hearts of her inquiring sub jects, we suppose they are asking each other the old conundrum. How old was An? In Illinois the vote for Debs (Soc.) was 34,600. of which more than one half was in Chicago. The vote for Chafin (Prohi., was 29 JOSS. It will be found that Taffs popular plurality over Bryan will approximate 1,200,000. This In answer to many queries. ' Wonderful Apple Dlaplnr Cn Me tropolis to Open Its Eyes. New York Telegram. There are apples and apples. New Yorkers who care to see what the lat ter sort look like -would do well to drop into the display rooms of tho Fruit Auction building, at Washing ton and Franklin streets, in the heart of the downtown wholesale fruit dis trict, and look over the several hun dred boxes of apples from the famous Hood River Valley, of Oregon. the greatest apple-producing district of the world, which will continue on ex hibition there today and tomorrow. There have been fine displays of fruit before in the East, but never anything quite like this one, in which more than 60 of the choicest varieties known to the markets of the world and to the human palate are shown side by side in a dazzling array of color, running all the way from rose tint to pure gold. Fruit connoisseurs from all parts of the city and vicinity streamed into the spacious auction rooms yesterday, the first day of the exhibition, and en thusiastically congratulated Messrs. Stelnhardt & Kelly, exporters, of 101 Park place, the min behind the apples, on their having given to 'New York one of the most Interesting education al displays In the history of the fresh fruit markets in this city. Oregon apples began to find their way to New York in commercial quan tities about six years ago. since which time their popularity has increased by leaps and bounds. Realizing that the demand in the East for these apples de luxe would be larger this season than ever before, Joseph H. Stelnhardt went to the far Northwest this Fall and secured for hU firm 250,000 boxes of the finest product of the celebrated Hood River Valley orchards, for sale in the Eastern markets and In Europe. This amount Includes all of the crop harvested by the Hood River Apple Growers' Union, except about 100,100 boxes, which supply the needs of the Pacific Coast and Western markets. The New York firm's purchase com prises, in ail, about 250 carloads of the luscious fruit, about 90 carloads of which have 'already arrived in this city, and the 60 varieties of the tempt ing beauties now on exhibition to the general public here are merely a sam ple of the vast amount of high-class apples from the great orchards of the Northwest, destined for consumption by New Yorkers during the Winter. The total value of the 250.000 boxes coming here is in the neighborhood of J00,000. Just about one-third of the whole 250. U00 boxes is made up of Newtown Pippins and Spitzenbergs. Every one who knows anything at all about ap ples knows that these are two of the most attractive apples known to pomo logists. but tnly he who has' met up with the Oregon-grown Newtowns and Spitzenbergs knows that until he tasted the latter he had as well tasted none at all. Enthusiasts describe their fla vor as being something between that of the old-fashlona-t Wayne County ap ple of childhood's days and the sup posed ambrosial food of the gods. For showlness and all-around beau ty both are among the most splendid of nature's works of art. Of great size, and smooth and wonderful con tour, the pippins are veritable things of beauty, 3liading from a delicate green to a solid yellow, each with one rosy cheek to add to its blandishments. In a word, they are, as they are of ficially called, pippins! And the Spitzenbergs are larger, showier and much more highly devel oped than any Spitzenbergs ever grown In this part of the country. Most of these two varieties, which are about the fanciest shown, will get to the New York consumer at prices ranging from about 75 cents to $1 a dozen. The largest of all the Oregons are the Wolf Rivers, enormous fellows of a rich red color, of which It takes about 27 to 30 to make a bushel or box. They "are very showy, and experts de clare their flavor is that of wine. Tlioy are unfortunately a soft apple and do not keep very well. a Wolf Rivers coming here this year will cost at retail from $3 to $.1.5.) a box. or from about $1.20 to $1.45 a dozen. The smallest of the Oregon ap ples are lady apples, running about BOO to a box. These pretty little apples are used very largely for helping out in the decoration of Christmas trees, etc., and the consumers will pay for them at the rate of about $8 to $10 a box. Among the 60 or so sorts of fruit shown by Messrs. Steinhardt& Kelly are several' varieties which until this year have never been brought East in ccm mercial quantities. One of these va rieties is known as the Gloria Mundl, a large golden apple of the pippin or der, of the color of gold, running about 45 to the bushel. Another Is called the Winter Banana, golden. with red cheeks, also of the pippin family, which is said to have the most delicious fla vor of any apple grown. Some of the other varieties of high-class apples from the tar North west, all of which must be seen to be appreciated, are Russian Reds, Red Cheeks. Ben Davis, Ortleys. egg-shaped and golden yellow; Springdales, Aiken Reds, Blue Pcarmalns, Twenty-Ounce Pippins, Wagners, Starks, Arkansas Blacks. Hyde Kin KB. Belief lowers, Rox bury Russets. Delicious. Ganos. Wine Sap's. Barley Sweets, Neros. Jonathans, Snows. Vandeveres, Lawrences, Kays, Black Twigs, Oregon Reds, Yakimas and Seek No Furthers. "New Yorkers demand the best of everything." declared Mr. Stelnhardt today, waving his arm enthusiastically toward his tiers of wonderful fruit. "They have taken to Oregon apples from the day the iruit first came here, and this display represents the finest lot of apples ever got together for their inspection and for their later consump tion." Glnd Her San Wed Girl Blacksmith. St. Louis Dispatch to the New York World. Miss Minnie Hageman, known as the Girl Blacksmith of St. Louis County, was married at Clayton to Albert H. Smith, a wealthy young man, whose ancestral home is near the blackstnithy of Lawrence Hageman, the bride's father. The couple have gone for a two weeks' tour of the Southwest, and when they return the mother of the bride groom will give theni a big reception. Mrs. Smith, Sr., is highly pleased with the choice made by her son. "Yes," she said, "I have met my new daughter-in-law.' She . is a thorough sportswoman; rides horses at break neck speed, swings a 100-pound ham mer as though it were a hasketball, and is every inch an American girl." The bride is 17 years old. Her ad miring mother-in-law neglected to say that she is a fine shot with almost any style of weapon and has an expert knowledge of the art of blacksmithlng. The neighbors have become accustomed to see her at work in her father's shop, but have never ceased to marvel at the strength and skill she has shown In handling heavy hammers. Fastidious Snake Despises Hair Oil. New York Sun. Curator Ditmars. of the New York Zoological Society, who makes a spe cialty of snakes, wagered that he could put his head In a big snake's mouth, and with a friend entered the den of big snakes and awakened the Ceylon python, whose jaws were pryed open. Dlttmars then put his head in the serp ent's mouth, but the huge jaws never closed. When asked how he had done it, the curator said: "I put oil of bergamot on my hair. The python despises the perfume. That's why he did not close his Jaws." BY ARTHUR A. OREEXE. CM E WHERE is set down in an old book that is still well regarded the apothegm that the one who gives has a better time of It than the one who receives. ' The tex,t may not be quoted just exactly as It was originally written, but the spirit of it never appealed to me quite so strongly as it has since 1 met Dr. D. K. Pearsons, a very old and a : very blessed man who is famed far and I wide as philanthropist extraordinary to ( the smaller colleges of this country, ur. Pearsons has lived in Chicago for a slight matter of 56 years, a bagatelle when one knows that the rare old gen tleman has lived to the verge of his 8!th birthday and promises to abide on the earth he has helped so much for a con siderable span more. I'ntil 19 years ago Dr. Pearsons en gaged himself in making money, which he did by honest methods and application to the day's work, until he had accumu lated scads of it, how much no one seems to know, for he doesn't underscore dol larmarks. but It is pretty generally agreed that he has- given away some thing like $3000,000 and he still has so ;much left that Ids giving hand shows no signs of losing Its cunning. Nineteen years ago. when at the heyday of 70. he concluded that the proverbial "ralny day" bogie had no terrors for him and it was time to play awhile. Since that time he has devoted himself to endowing schools where the youth of the land may acquire the education that was denied him three-quarters of a century ago be cause of his poverty. In the lohhy of the Portland Hotel he sat Monday night with Dr. Ferrin. of Pa cific University, and talked with this chronicler on things as they should be with a few marginal references to a long Jnd useful life. He is an impressive fig ure, is Dr. Pearsons, Inspiring a respect that almost amounts to reverence. Not on account of his age, however, for he carries his years as if they were no heavier than a hand-basket, immaculate in his dress, with an old-fashioned dia mond stu-1 on his white shirt-front, a carefully ironed beK-crowned silk hat. new but of an ancient vogue, tufts of iron gray beard on his strong Jaws and the lines of a good man around his mouth, he suggests nothing more than the giants of literature and other good things who were fellows with Emerson and Edward Everett. It occurred to me that he looks like Oliver Wendell Holmes might if he stepped out of his later pictures. "I'm having fun now." he said, ."just been having fun for 19 years since I quit business. And do you know that the best way to have a good time and to live long and he healthy is to give something to someone else. I don't w-ant to blow, so please touch light on tiie amount of money I have lent to the boys and girls of the country. I don't like to deal in figures and it's always best to scratch the price-mark off before mak ing a present anyhow." Dr. Ferrin volunteered the aside that the aged philanthropist had given .of his bounty to 47 struggling colleges in 24 different states. I thought that was one of the finest things I had ever heard Faid of a rich man. and that this one would not have to squeeze on going through that needle's eye in entering the kingdom of heaven. "Down South." continued Dr. Pear sons, "there are ten schools I have helped, and they are my particular pride: not that they are any more de serving than others that I have given to, but that they needed help so much. It makes me, an old Yankee, who was a personal friend of Daniel Webster and Lincoln, feel mighty fine to go down there among ex -slaveholders and have them call me a good fellow. At Guil ford College, in North Carolina, for in stance.' they are doing wonders. It's a Quaker school and Is loo years old. It has turned out some of the best men in Chicago, although it was not a popular school, because the Friends didn't ap prove of slavery and had to have cour age to run their school among the slave holders. They needed money prctty badly a few years ago; they had got old fashioned and mossgrown, ,and needed waking up, so I gave them some money and helped to wake them up. Now they are educating the children and grand children of the former slaveholders, and are doing fine. "The old ex-slaveholders down there treat me just as well as the Quakers, and the pupils seem to think I'm a nice, friendly old man. even if I am a Yan kee. Yes. I've had lots of fun out of Guilford College. I've never given any thing to colored schools because every body who endows schools gives to them and they don't need it half so much as the poor whites of the South, the moun tain boys and girls. "Another Investment, that I made in 1873, has made me lots of fun. That year I selected seven girls and sent them to Northwestern University be cause they were poor and couldn't go on their own hook. I built four houses and gave them to those girls, and the rent from those houses has kept seven girls in Northwestern continuously ever since. Some of the graduates are now profes sional women, some missionaries and others good, lovely wives and mothers. They are scattered all over the world, but most of them- still write to me oc casionally and I am very much pleased with them. "If I'm a ciank on any subject, it is on oratory, and I keep after these col lege presidents (indicating Dr. Ferrin) to teach the boys how to speak. It doesn't make any difference how much a man knows if his vocal chords won't work above a whisper. If the pupils had their vocal chords and their larynx and lungs trained better and so much attention wasn't paid to their legs, we'd have less football and more learning. I was in the recent Chicago convention and there wasn't a speaker there who could he heard hy more than 1000 out of the 16.000 people who were present. They didn't have a man who could call the roll so he could make himself un derstood. They even thought of sending out to Iowa for DoIIlver. Old Bryan Is the best orator in this country, and he hasn't much competition in that line of business. That's why I want to see more orators. "By the way. young man, the next time you come to interview me, bring some paper and don't write on the back of your best friend's letter. She might not like It." Dr. Pearson returned Monday from spending Sunday at Pacific University, Forest Grove. He said it is going to be a great school soon, that its location Is ideal and that he expected great things of it. I failed to draw him out as to whether he. will Increase his gift of ten years ago to Pacific but the indications are that the great old man will in the near future do something handsome by that institution. He's already given it $:5.000. you know. He Is also proud of Whitman's present and confident of its future. He has already lavishly endowed the big Walla Walla college and it also Is going to get more. Dr. Pearson left Monday night for Los Angeles, traveling entirely alone with an assurance of his ability to look after him self that is splendid to see. He has neither secretary nor man-servant on his trips and his mental and physical virility put to shame those who talk dolefully about "last leaf" when they reach 70 years of age. The impression I will always have of this nonagenarian who smilingly and in unassuming gentleness goes about doing good is that here is one who, though having large possessions, dying sometime, will live again, in the hearts of thous ands of men and women whom he has helped, and tn the Place of Good Spirits who learned that "it is more blessed to give than to receive." BY LILIAN" TIX'U.E. PREPARING a menu for the Thanks giving dinner is in some respects easier and in other respects more difficult than for an ordinary dinner party, big or little. On the one hand, you know that you cannot go far wrong if you stick to the turkey, oysters, celery, cranberries, vegetables, pies, cider, apples and nuts of tradition. On the other hand you probably have a desire to modernize the meal to a certain extent and perhaps o introduce some flavor of novelty in the presentation of the old-time dainties. The dinner must be generous and old fashioned without "stodginess;" and dainty and conformable to present-day tastes and customs, without losing its suggestion of colonial times. Nice bal ance is especially called for in the case of large family gatherings and most espe cially where the hostess is a new-comer in the family and feels that site may bs silently condemned as "too new-fangled in her ways" by the older people, while, the younger ones are kindly but firmly regretting her "hick of style." The wise woman, however, will not trouble too much about such matters: nor will she attempt with only one pair of hands, or with perhaps a single imper fectly trained maid the style of service and the complications of many courses that are suited for other conditions. She will do her planning and marketing early; will save nerve and brain fatigue by the quiet use of pencil and paper: will see that her best linen, glass and china are ready for use and w ill arrange her menu so as to have the least possible number of last-minute things to attend to. Thanksgiving day ought, of course, to be a time of rest and pleasure; but I re member one house-mother who described it as "cooking all forenoon, eating all afternoon, and washing dishes for the rest of tiie dav." I have bren ar.ked to give a few sug gestive menus for dinners of 4. 8 and III persons, respectively. The first supposes "just ourselves." the second is probably a family gathering, and the third a "party." Since more planning is needed for 13 people than for four, perhaps it will be well to begin with the more elaborate menus and give the simpler ones in 11 future article. No. 1 Oyster cocktails Brown bread and butter Bandwichea I'ream of clam aoup OUvce Celery Salmon cutlets or tlmbsles, hollandalM Totato hall Roast turkey, chestnut atuffinf? Cranberry Jelly C.it.l-t ra.ice Ducbewe potatoes Brussels sin-outs buttered Roman punch Apple and celery salad Chee.e etrawa Individual pumpkin pies with v. hipped crc-am-tars. Tuttl fmttl ice Coffee Nuts and raisins No. 2 Grape fruit Oyster soup Hot wafers Celary Individual chicken plea Roast turkev. savory brr-aH dressing Brown gravy Cranberry sauce Glazed sweet potato Celery croquettes CKler Jeily, half froien Lettuce salad, French dresMng Chceee balls Burnt almond ice cream Election caks Kruit Nuts Coftee N' Consomme with chestnut tlmbales Stuffed olives T.' 21 ,-...r. Individual oyster pies or scalloped o5ftr in tinv casseroles U0a.1t turkey, sausate stuffing Brown arnvy Pickled peaches Snow ?tto"e. Cauliflower au .rati- Cranberry punch Lettuce and stuffed celery, mayonnalss Individual Thanksgiving puddinia Frozen sauce Or frozen "plum pudding" In cases Fruit Nut Coffee Here Is a menu for those who may wish for any reason, to avoid the regula tion turkey. Chicken bouillon Celery Pread sticks Olives Fish cutlets, shrimp M"0.. Little - pig, roamed, savory Brown sauce Apple some Mashed potatoes, browned Creamed onions Cider tvappe ovster and celery salad in 1";u...n'(?; Fig and nut Ice cream vlt, ,h. Crackers and Brie or Camembert cheese Coffee RELIGION AND CANDIDATES Should the One Be Associated at AU With the Other f SPRINGFIELD, Or., Nov. 23. (To the Editor.) Noticing lately a letter In The Oregonian signed C X. Smith, and reply thereto in your editorial columns. I think the animadversions of the edi torial are somewhat uncalled for, and also mistaken (somewhat) In theory. Mr. Smith is a respected citizen, resid ing in or near Eugene. The letter re ferred to dealt with the subject of the right of voters (and I presume citizens in general) of passing on the "t5lu opinions or beliefs of candidates for office. It is somewhat surprising to the undersigned that in this free land the right referred to should be questioned. From a conversation with Mr. Smith, I think possibly his position may have been a little misunderstood, however. He states he did not believe in proscrip tion for religious faith or be lef, is tol erant of all opinions, In fact is a liberal and sociable kind of man; but he wishes to reserve the right for all his fellow cltlzens to form their opinions and act accordingly in religious as other quar ters of the circuit, when It comes to the sacred right of the ballot. What would have been thought SO or 70 years ago of a proposition thatthe voter In the booth was to exclude abso lutely from his mind the question of candidate's fitness from a religious standpoint for office? He would pos sibly in some cases nave been run out of town." Is not such notion as that inferred to coming from an official in high position, also prominent members of the press, a suspicious tendency of the times? It is not so many decades ago that a man w ould have even fought at the drop of the hat for his religion, almost, perhaps, as much as for his family Now we seem (or part of us) to be getting on the nincompoop order. Any official, high or low, who advo cates such a doctrine as the one re ferred to should be hung in effigy and then burned. ALBERT G. HOVEY. Goats Loyally Care for Orphan Kid. New York Times. Visitors to the Bronx Zoological Gardens saw a striking example of de motion to duty in the Rocky Mountain oat range, where four male goats B . . - .....in. . uld the mother (OOK lurt.D u...-..-e "-7' , , , . of which died recently. The kid is now nearly six months oia. uwing to ., . . .. . mile, one was in dan- wua naiu.w ...-J - srer of starvation until its older com- pantons took oirgc. f . nnWinn f.f I IS fOOll lects toe uii".--D. - ... each day and places it before the kid. There was a christening in the gar dens, when a number of keepers sol emnly bestowed the name of Bill Taft upon a fat. healthy buffalo calf, born a few days before the recent election. Another calf, slightly older, was named Bill Bryan A FEW SENTENTIOUS BE-MAKKS. An exchange which is very punctllloui sbout giving full credit for clippings ,"1 Its "The Brook" to A. Ter.ny.on. In the -New York "Tribune." Washington Herald. "Count Szechenji'a best man elopei 1" Well what of I', we have trouble enough following the efcapades of the principals In these international weddings w Itliout go ing at length into the doings of the entira bridal party. Chicago Evening Post. The White House l a chill, draughty edi fice, with the plumbing In had repair, and for our part we are glad that no Democrat has beer, ordered to go and live there Richmond Times-Dispatch. They say that "It cost $511,000 fo atop Kaiser wnhelm'a talk." No solf-respectlng woman would even look at a paltry bribe like that. Brooklyn Eagle.