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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.