THE MORNING OKJ'GONIAN. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 11)03.
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OIK MISMANAGED NAVY.
in tho current Issue of Pearson's
-uViue, Hoary Keuterdahl. who
crca't.d such a furor, a year ago by
h " ntie-m of the poor contruct.o.i
of our battleship llee-t. has a n
t, r. -tin? article on the -Navy. In this
artic o Mr. Reutcrdahl lays particu
U s V on the efforts of President
Poos-ve-lt to improve the etlieiency o.
the Xavv. una also exposes the weak
points in the pP.-s.-nt bureau system
it was through tho absurd polio
of the itnor.ua bureaucrats ot. he
department at Washington that I ort
I u d was deprived of a visit from the
Let last Summer, it can cus, ly be un
derstood what a monumental tastt 18
1,,-oro the men who sooner or later
must institute the needed reform in
the svstem. "The Secretary of the
N-vv" avs Mr. Keuteruanl. is
u-Tua'lv a politician, a civilian who
knows no, l.ir.g of ships. The Assist
unl Secretary has in most oases no
knowledge of naval affairs i.h
this admirable talent at the head of
J". Navy, it is easy to understand why
the reform in our naval policy is sadiy
r'' This' bureau system, controlled by
men who are ignorant of the work
which thev are appointed to look al
ter has been responsible lor the waste
of millions. The details of some of
those reckless expenditures, for which
there was no return, are given in full
l.v Mr. lleuterdahl. The Navy-yard
which Senator Gallinger,. the noted
ship-subsidy booster. secured for
PorUinouth. N. H.. co.t $10.000 000
and but one battleship has ever been
docked there. Last year the payroll
at this yard was S7VO.O0O and the
value of the work turned out $400.
000. Senator UalUnger also secured
the building at Portsmouth of one of
the three sailing ships authorized 1:1
l'.Q3 bv Congress. Tilu three vessels
c.'ist jioO.OOo, and have never been
used, for the simple reason that the
sailing ship was obsolete in the Navy
before these vessels were built.
At the Key West sta on there was
expended for labor last year $94,318
tn.i the value of the output was
? 7 62G. The payroll at the New Or
lean naval station last year wa.-i $7S,
274 and the value of the product was
$l04i?. Over $17,000,000 has been
(spent on the Mare Island Navy-yard
and touav it is useless for ships of
deep draft. Mr. lleuterdahl also colls
t.tleiuion to the repairs of useless
v. s-s-ls and the building of new ones
which are out of date before they are
launched. Throughout the article Mr.
Eeuterdahl makes frequent mention
of the efforts of the President to se
cure the much-needed reforms, no
I ss than three messages on the sub
ject having been sent to Congress.
As this article is reinforced with
facts on 1 figures, it will receive a con
sideration that was not shown the
writer's criticism on the ships when
they were en route for'the Pacific. In
tome respects, as has since been
shown, that criticism was warranted,
and this latest expose of the weak
points in the Navy Department will
hardly fail to excite much comment.
I KUAN AND iCBUl'u.VN OKOWTH.
November, the first of the Winter
months, shows Portland building per
mits of nearly $1,00 0,000. Construc
tion work on cither residence or busi
ness building in Winter in" Portland
is of course a much It ss serious prob
lem than It is in localities where ex
tremely cold weather prevents such
work from being carried on to ad
vantage. Put even here it can be
carried on so much more economically
in the Spring. Summer nnd Autumn,
that very little work except that of
::ti tir0'i lit nature is undertaken. It
is the urgency which prompts this
force .1 construction at a season when
weather is generally unfavorable that
( tiers a striking evidence of the phe
nomenal growth of Portland. The
November permits broke ail records
for a corresponding month, but there
is every reason to believe that those
for December, if the Peninsula im
provements are int ljued, will not only
exceed those of any other December
in the history of the port. nt they
will also exceed those of November.
Including the new buildings for
whi h contracts 'nave been let by the
S.vii'ts t-n tin; Peninsula, the Decem
ber permits are already $C00.0OO, with
a number of t.ti-r bi-j projects to be
announced before tiie end of the
month. This Peninsula, project is
jn examp.e of tho manner in
which tiie eiiiiyinir districts are
nil pacinif tribute to Portland,
and sl-.oes the extent to which
this city is J. pendent for her own
prosperity 01 the prosperity of the
adjacent territory. The tivlft plant
Is of course to all intents and pur
poses a I'ur'UnJ institution, and in
due season will be brought into the
city limits. Utit the same prosperous
conditions that are noticeable at
Portland and on the Peninsula are
also In evit!. uce at a l.irire number of
oth.r points. I.innton, a few miles
below the city, has doubled her popu
lation in the past two years an.l is
now growing more rapidly than e-ver.
With completion of the trolley line
in a few weeks, Linnton will be as
close to Portland as John, or a
number of other suburbs.
This suburban proivth which is so
Ik nebcin! to Portland, Is not restricted
by state lines, for across the Colum
bia, only about twenty minutes' ride
by the new North Pank Railroad,
Vancouver is growing .more rapidly
than ever before and the passenger
traffic between the two cities is de
veloping into enormous proportions.
The same is true in degree of Oregon
City and the entire region traversed
bv "the Oregon electric lines. In every
d rection out of Portland there are
m attered a number of new- industries
v ith pay rolls of varying size, and it
i fioiu .theso industries that the
trade of Portland draws heavily. In
the city proper, the dinner-pail bri
gade is larger than ever before, and
is increasing in keeping with every
thing else in the city. On every hand
there are plenty of, prosperity signs
to indicate that in all forms of in
dustrial activity, Portland and the
surrounding erritorv v-ili terminate
the old year with ' record-breaking
business.
TRUNG TO JVSTII Y ?UROKK.
The man who undertakes to justify
the assassination of Attorney Fisher
by Finca is unworthy of living room
in a civilized community. The attempt
to make it appear that Fisher or any
body else persecuted Finch is a friv
olous effort to frame up a defense
which only a weak-minded jury would
consider for an instant. Finch plead
ed guiltv to three charges appearing
in court while drunk, drawing checks
on banks in which he had no money,
and using the notarial seal of an
other. He was certainly guilty, else
he would not have consented to enter
the pie-a. He deserved to be .dis
barred. Fisher did merely his duty
when he brought the disbarment pro
ceedings. So far was Fisher from
desiring to persecute Finch that he
wrote to the supreme judges asking
them to have mercy on Finch, to sus
pend -him instead of disbarring him,
and to give him a chance to reform.
Finch had every reason to feel grate
ful to Fisher for a kindness.
It is not true, as friends of Finch
have said. that tho newspapers
"rubbed it in" when he was sus
pended. Tht-y mentioned the fact as
a matter of news, hut not with undue
prominence or comment. But what
the newspapers may have done af
fords no excuse whatever for the kill
ing of Fisher. The plain fact of the
matter is that Finch had murder in
hi3 heart, bought a revolver, nerved
himself up with a few drinks of
brandy and then in a most cowardly
manner shot his victim in the back.
If there -was ever a premeditated mur
der, this was one. The buying of the
revolver is proof enough of the pre
meditation. The best that can be said
for Finch is that he had crazed him
self with liuuor, and, if that is a de
fense, then we may as well repeal all
laws against murder.
riKK-MIIJv J'ltOBLEM.
The Oregon Statu. Dairymen's Asso
ciation will meet next week. Its
members can tell where to iind pure
milk. A good many of them, how-,
ever, don't know where to find clean
hands, clean pails, clean cans, clean
methods and pure water.
,Milk is generally pure; the poison
is in the water or the cans or on the
hands of the milkmen. Dirty dairy
men, along with the clean, indignant
ly deny that the milk of their cows is
impure. They are right. If cows
could have clean dairyinen, their of
fering would be just as Nature
makes it.
Occasionally an unhealthy or a tlis
eascd cow may give milk for Portland"
consumption; this case, however, is
comparatively rare. It may be doubt
ed that such a cow constitutes a real
menace to human health; this is. a
question in dispute among authorities.
It depends, we imagine, on what the
cow disease is. Put whatever the au
thorities may say, "sick milk" is re
pulsive and the human family is bet
ter off without it. For the man who
pells it there should be severe pun
ishment. The real menace lies in dirty, fetid
barns, noisome manure heaps, un
clean recepcles and contaminated
water. These unsatisfactory condi
tions prevail more or less in every
city's supply. If they were deadly or
as unhealthy as they, are disgusting,
far more persons would be dying or
sick. It is no valid defense of these
conditions, however, to meet pure
mllk crusaders with such objections.
Dairy conditions are unsatisfactory
enough at best, and whatever the best,
they can be improved. All along the
milk route, from the udder to the
family table, milk is besot with filth,
smells and microbes. It will need
long education of all hands along the
route, to preerve Nature's purity and
sweetness.
J.lXlNli WITH (ItOKKIt.
If Richard Croker's visit to New
To had been for social purposes
only, it would have been indelicate in
Dr. Stephen S. Wise to condemn
judges or anybody else for dining with
him. A man may be socially eligible,
as the world goes, who is mo ally cul
pable to the last degree and Judges
cannot fairly be held to a more rig
orous rule in choosing their associates
than other people, perhaps. A nice
sense of propriety would hardly per
mit an upright judge to relish the
company of a man like Croker, but if
he lacks that sense it is his own affair
so long as his decisions arc not af
fected. Put Richard Croker comes to New
York not as a private individual, bent
on seeing his old friends and enjoy
ing their society. He comes as a me
diator to heal the dissensions of the
Democratic party and cement the
power of Tammany Hall over the
eiiy. The judges who dined with him
thereby approved of his mission.
They declared themselves his co
partners in a conspiracy against pub
lic decency. They put themselves on
the side of corrupt politics, probably,
as Dr. Wise said, because they felt
obliged to honor their creator. It was
an amazing spectacle, sad and de
pressing. Still it lias a hopeful side.
One- preacher at least was found to
denounce it.
TKK I'OKT OF TILLAMOOK.
Tillamook will hold ail election next
Monday to vote on the question of en
larging the territory of the Port of
Tillamook, which has been organized
on similar lines to the Port of Port
land. The district originally included
in the Port of Tillamook was some
what restricted, and, as adjoining dis
tricts would participate in any of the
benefits resulting from the work of
the Port of Tillamook, an attempt
will be made to include Hoquarton,
Fairview and South Prairie precincts
in the .district. Tillamook is going
still further in her efforts to secure an
adequate outlet by sea. The Whitney
Lumber Company, one of the largest
timber holders in the county, or even
in the State of Oregon, has at consid
erable expense collected a great vol
ume of data regarding the present and
prospective tratlic resources of the
Tillamook region, and has asked the
assistance of other interested persons
in bringing the matter to the attention
of Congress.
To reinforce the work of the Port
of Tillamook, Representative Hawley
has been asked to introduce a bill in
Congress authorizing the engineers'
department to survey and bring forth
a project for submission to the rivers
and harbors committee. There Is
tributary to the port of Tillamook an
immense body of remarkably valua
ble timber, which, win an improved
harbor, can, to a considerable extent,
seek a market to better advantage by
sea than by land haul. There is. also
a wonderfully rich agricultural coun
try tributary to Tillamook, and all of
it would be benefited by improvement
of Tillamook Bay and entrance from
the ocean. In widening! the scope of
their organiy-ation, so as to take in. as
much as possible of the territory that
will be benefited by the improvement,
the Tillamook people are not only
lightening the burden on Tillamook
proper but they are assuring them
selves of needed support that will
vastly increase the .opportunities for
successful work.
Had the Port of Portland, or an or
ganization for similar purposes, been
able to include in its original plans all
of the territory that has been bene
fited by the expenditures which the
Port of Portland has made, we should
today have a thirty-foot channel at
dead low water to Astoria, and a.
forty-foot channel over the bar. Til
lamook Is starting on right lines, and
if the people in the territory that will
be benefited by the improvements
planned will only do their part, the
city on Hoquarton Slough may yet
become a prominent seaport.
WHAT FIU'JTGROWERS 3IVST KNOW.
It is agreed among fruitgrowers
that one of the greatest needs at the
present time is better methods of
packing fruit and preparing it for the
market. Growers have been taught
how to spray their" trees and keep the
fruit free from pests; but a large por
tion of the crop is placed upon the
market in an unattractive condition,
though free from disease. In every
apple-producing district there should
bo held local meetings for. the pur
pose of giving Instruction in this im
portant matter. Lectures from a plat
form are but little more effective
than pictures and descriptions in a
pamphlet.
What is needed is practical instruc
tion in which the grower himself
packs the boxes of apples under the
supervision of an experienced in
structor, who cm point out his er
rors and show him how to correct
them. It is easy to fill a box with
apples. It is not easy to wrap the
apples smoothly in paper. Neither is
it easy to place them in rows in the
boxes so that tho tiers will just fill
the box crosswise, lengthwise, and
from top to bottom. As every expert
in apple-packing knows, the box
should, bo filled so that when the
cover is pressed down there will be
the requisite amount of "bulge," and
so that no apple in the box is -loose
enough to rattle.
Proper sorting, packing and brand
ing of boxes are among the impor
tant things the. average applegrower
does not know and should know.
"The best way to, learn is to do."
The demonstration train which went
through the Willamette Valley some
weeks ago did good work in showing
growers how to pack apples, yet
merely standing by and watching an
expert do the work is far from suffi
cient. Teaching growers how to pack
will take more time, and this can be
best undertaken at local horticultural
meetings, where the crowd is com
paratively small and where personal
instruction can be given.
SANITARY t'ONl.ITJOXS OX FARMS.
Of the thirteen questions formu
lated for the use of the Commission
on Country Life the eleventh, viz.,
"Are the sanitary conditions of farms
in your ' neighborhood satisfactory?"
is of prime if not paramount import
ance. An idea very generally preva
lent is that country life is without ex
ception a life conducive to health. In
telligent observation proves that
whether this is true or not depends
upon conditions and surroundings.
In the single but all-important matter
of water supply many farmhouses are
so lamentably ill served as to consti
tute a menace to tho health of the"
traveler who chances to tarry in one
of these overs night. Not infre
quently the entire family is subjected,
one after another, to typhoid fever,
and only less frequently to diphtheria,
from quaffing from the old oaken
bucket, that, dripping with coolness
and germs is drawn from the door
yard or farmyard well.
As explained some .weeks ago by
Dr. Woods Hutchinson in an article
published in the Saturday Evening
Post, the man starting out to make
a home on land for farming purposes
proceds at once to. dig two holes the
one shallow, the other deep; the first
is used as a cesspool, the second sup
plies the water for drinking and
household purposes. Naturally the
shallow excavation drains Into 'the
deeper one, and under conditions that
favor the pmseneo of typhoid germs
in the cesspool these are conveyed
to the well.
What happens next has often been
told in farmhouses where ideal condi
tions for health were supposed to pre
vail. One after another of the family
has "come down with typhoid," igno
rant of the source of the disease;
doctors' bills and more than likely
burial expenses have been added to
the family burden; neighbors, coming
in with kind intent to watch with the
sick." have quaffed of water from the
infected well, a:.d an epidemic of ty
phoid has resulted. It is often a mys
tery how the water came to be con
taminated in the first place, but there
is no longer a mystery about the bale
ful effect, though the first cause is
not discoverable.
Sanitation as applied to farmhouses
is indeed a serious problem. Not all
of its features hinge about the water
supply and the disposal of sewage,
though these matters are of first im
portance. Farmhouse' built upon the
ground, with small, low-ceiled sleeping-rooms,
and absolutely without
provision for ventilation, are unfit to
live in. yet they abound. Sallow
faced children issue from tjiem, the
shadow of discontent that was born
upon their faces deepening into dis
gust as the years go on. A glance at
the .mothers explains all. lor what
woman could, with contented mind
and joyful anticipations, of life for
herself and the unborn, bring children
into hopelessly decadent, unhealthful,
unattractive homes?
. The need of rural uplifting is mani
fest in the farmhouse Itself not in
every farmhouse. It is true, but in a
vast number of them. It extends rap
idly to the dooryard and looks in
quiringly into the well;, a few feet
farther, on a little higher ground per
haps, it peeps into an outhouse and
retreats precipitately, holding the
nose: stepping into the cellar or
"roothouse," the Investigator is forced
to retreat before an atmosphere laden
with a musty odor, as of dampness
and decaying vegetation; ori to the
barnyard, if it be the Winter season
In Oregon, and neither water nor
land, but a malodorous quagmire in
which cows stantl, half-knee deep,
waiting to be milked, is encountered.
Let do one euuuuse. however, tlmi.
the.- unsanitary conditions pertain
exclusively to farm life in Oregon or
in the West. The old New England
farms literally reek with them. They
are common indeed in rural and sub
rural life in many sections of the Mid
dle States and the great Middle West.
Improved sanitation in farming dis
tricts everywhere is necessary if the
drift from the country to the city is to
be arrested. If the Commission suc
ceeds in awakening the people of the
rural districts to a realizing sense of
their unsanitary surroundings and in
suggesting some practical and availa
ble means of correcting them it will
have justified its appointment. The
old saying. "The Lord helps those who
help themselves." says the Outlook, is
quite as true of farmers as of any
other group of citizens. In details the
farmer must work out his own salva
tion. An intelligent, self-helpful class,
ready and even anxious to learn as
shown by the eagerness with which
they flock to farmers' institutes "
there is everj- reason to believe that
the farmers throughout the country
will do their full part in furnishing
data to the Commission, whereby a
comprehensive report of the condi
tions that surround country life may
be return'ed.
We hear a great deal about a com
mercial era, but it will be the fault of
the farmer himself if in the era of
growth and expansion upon which the
Nation is now entering, the commer
cial spirit outstrips, in the race for
wealth and National distinction, the
newly awakened spirit of agriculture.
The State Horticultural Socity is a
worthy organization and beyond doubt
is doing a work that is of considerable
commercial value to the state. Never
theless, it would be a bad precedent
for the Legislature to grant its re
quest for an appropriation of $1000 a
year for expenses. We have a State
Horticultural" Commission which
should do all the work in that line
on behalf of the state. The State
Agricultural College sends out lec
turers for horticultural meetings
when desired. If the state should ap
propriate money to aid the Horticul
tural Society, it would soon be asked
to malo an appropriation for the
Hopgrowers' Association, for the
Woolgrowers' Association, for a Lum
bermens' organization, for a Mining
organization and for an unlimited
number of other enterprises entirely
"under private control. It is entirely
proper for public money to be ex
pended in tho legitimate advance
ment of the industrial interests of the
state, but the expenditures should be
by public officials under oath ami
bond to perform their duties faith
fully. As the Emmanuel Movement grows
it necessarily because of more or less
distant kinship comes into contact
with Christian Science. Some sort of
conflict is inevitable. Followers of
Mrs. Eddy's teachings are at variance
with those who believe in Dr. Wor
cester's theories. To the "outsider," lis
tening to arguments from both sides,
discussion has more than momentary
interest. What Christian Scientists
think of the Emmanuel Movement is
pertinent. Alfred Furlow, the one
man committee of the Christian Scien
tists, has prepared such an opinion,
it will be published by The Sunday
Oregonian in three parts, the first to
appear next Sunday. What he says
is commended alike to Christian Sci
entists and the general public. Mr.
Farlow speaks for his church by au
thority. If members of the Legislature have
any spare time during tho preliminary
contest over organization they might
give- soma thought to the subject of
effective banking legislation, so as to
insure dishonest bankers speedy trial,
prompt conviction and imprisonment
commensurate with their offenses. No
honest banker wiJI fear such a law
and therefore will not oppose it. The
banker 'who does fear it gives indis
putable evidence that such a law is
needed.
It will be noted that the brave war
rior niggers of Hayti have several
notable names among them: Hippo
lyte, whose original bearer. Queen of
the Amazons, no doubt would feel
highly honored did she know it;
Alexis, whose legitimate possessor in
Russia is likewise flattered; and Si
mon, whose many famous wearers,
here and elsewhere, will all feel grat
illed. The man who left $500 in a wallet
under his pillow when he went ashore
at Port Townsend recently is a trav
eling agent of a wholesale liquor
house. His absent-mindedness may
perhaps be explained by the possibil
ity that he had during the night been
sampling his own samples.
The chronic weather growler is not
to be daunted by the bright days that
have ushered December in. Though
the mercury has scarcely touched the
freezing point in the most exposed
places, the Yveather has been "too
cold" for him.
The attorney for Mr. Finch .calls the
killing of Mr. Fisher an "unfortunate
occurrence." Murder is always "un
fortunate" for the victim, but the rec
ords show that in far too many cases
it is not very unfortunate for the
murderer. .
The Commission on Country Life
will be able to epitomize its findings
for the uplift in two necessities fit
ness and education. The day Is pass
ing when "anybody can be a farmer."
A Vnan who arises occasionally at 5
says a view of Mount Hood at the be
ginning of dawn reminds him of the
Pyramids, although he has never seen
them.
The Country Life Commission could
find additional facts about farm life
in Oregon up among the folk of the
Molalla or the Santlam or-. Deep
Creek.
, The quickness with which the peo
ple of Hayti have put down their old
government indicates that they don't
even need the initiative and referen
dum. Let a cold snap come and be wel
come. There are pests on the trees
of the man who does not spray that
can be reached no other way.
Edior Geer again has quit newspa
per work. What! does he think Edi
tor Hofer is getting too strong for
Governor?
Dairymen are getting so much for
their milk nowadays that they don't
have to be careful about what's in it.
The Legislature might check the
gun evil by prohibiting hip pockets.
It seems that jail is a safer place
for. xLuurdariii-s than the outside.
REPUBLIC AX PARTY" SI "PREMACT
From 17S to It Rule M ill Be 6S
Y'ear Democratic 06 Years.
C. R. Saunders in Boston Herald.
Now that Taft has been elected, it Is
interesting to note , that, during the
3 24 years terminating in 1913, which
our Government will have existed un
der the Constitution, the supreme ex
ecutive power will have been placed
for 6S years with the Republican party
and its predecessors and for 55 years
with the Democratic party and its pre
decessors. At the close of John Adams' term In
1801, the Federalists, liberal construc
tionists, had held the Presidency for
12 years. For' the ensuing 40 years
the Anti-Federalists, or Democrats,
strict constructionists, were in pos
session of the Government, except for
the four years from 1S23 to 3 S29. when
John Quincy Adams was President.
During the next 20 years, down to the
Civil War, Hie Democratic party car
ried three Presidential elections and
the Whig party two.
The greatest preponderance of Anti
Federalists and Democratic rule was In
ISf.l, at which time the Government
had been for-48 years under such con
trol and only 24 years under Federal
1st and Whig influence.
The Republicans held the Presidency
for 24 years following 1SC1. and by
18S3 jiad re-established the balance
between liberal and strict construc
tionists, each party having held con
trol for 4S years. This balance was
destroyed in favor of the Democrats
by Cleveland's first election, restored
by the election of Harrison, deflected
again In favor of str.ict construction
by Cleveland's second election, anil
again re-established by McKlnley's
first election. By McKTnley's second
election the period in which the liberal
constructionists were in power exceed
ed that of the strict constructionists
for the first time since the balance
was destroyed in favor of the latter
in 1S13.
By the election of Roosevelt and
Taff the period of liberal construction
of the Constitution by the executive
power -will exceed that of strict con
struction of 12 years. During the r2
years succeeding G1 the Republican
party will have been in executive pow
er 44 years and the Domnerntlo party
only eight years. Of tho last 13 Presi
dential elections the Republicans have
won eleven and the Democrats only
two. The following table shows to
the eye the varying struggle between
these two schools of interpretation of
tbo Constitution since tho establish
ment of our present form of govern
ment in 17N9. It also shows that, al
though the first four Democratic Presi
dents were re-elected, no Democratic
President has been re-elected to suc
ceed himself since Jackson, in 1S32.
The figures represent the number of
years 'that each administration held
office:
Fed- Antl
erallst. Fe.l
. Vhis. ci-Hlist
Hep. Dem.
WasIiinKton 8
Adnnis. John 4
J'-fferson S
Mnilison s
Monroe 8
Adams. John Quincy 4
J;l'-ksnn S
Van Btiren 4
llnrrisim and Tyler 4
polk . 4
Tavlor and Fillmore 4
J'ier.e
p.m-hanan
I.ni.oln and Johnson...; S
era nt S
Haves 4
Garrlold nnd Arthur 4
Cleveland 4
Harrison. Benjamin 4
Cleveland 4 4
U-Kinley and Itooitevelt S
Hoosevelt 4 ..
Taft 4
Totals CS 50
J.tW.V 1)S MHMOIKS.
A OooU Man Vluilientnl a Sonrch
Init Invest iutlnn.
Mr. Dooley in the American Magazine.
"Well, llinnissy, th' huprtesion I got
fr'm this here little heart-to-heart was
that nie frind Jawn D. was quite a jolly,
rollickin' old soul. I plunged fr'm thence
into his autybiography an" imnvedjedly
plunged out again. I cannot tell ye all
iv this dashin' story iv adventure. I class
it among th' sr-rent fightin' romances iv
lithrachoor. How he was beset be rivals,
how he pierced wan with a rebate, how
he broke th' law over another's head,
how he leaped through a loophole in a
Supreme Court decision an' was safe f'r
a time; th' great peril lie was in fr'm
f'rgettin' th' combination to his safe;
how .he was threeache rously sthruck
down be Kenesaw M. Landls; how honest
Peter Grosscup com along and lifted th'
fine and carried him iiome an' nursed him
back to life. I'll not tell ye about it. Ye
must read It f'r ye'erself. An' if it's not
too much to ask, read it f'r me too.
"There's wan tiling sure fr'm what I
sec, an' that is that Jawn D. hasn't anny
idee that he iver done wrong to anny
wan. I like that about him. It shows
lie's a human being. Says he: 'Settin'
here, on a rainy day, th' thought comes
over 1110 that I shud put down th' ad
vintures that have befell me, Jawn D.
Rockyfcllar, a cadet iv a noble .Ohio
house, goin' over th' ivints iv a long
life an' describln' episodes that have
made hlsthry in th' kerosene ile busi
ness. It is well that I shud utter me
narrative in the quite iv a counting
house rather thin in th' brawl iv a
coort, with a lawyer waggln' bis finger
undher mo nose. So to begin at th'
beginning. I will skip 40 years an' say
that I have been wrongly blamed.
" 'Not be meself, but be others not so
well informed. If I had been a bad man
wud 1 be surrounded as I am today be
lile an' devoted pardntrs? Manny de
plorable acts have no doubt been done
be overz-alous subordinates. I cannot
excuse these here zealots. All I cud do
was to take thim out Iv th' way iv
temptation an' give some wan else a
chance. I made thim me pardners an'
now mnnny iv thim are on such terms
with United States Sirtitors that they
en n hand thim a little something with
out blushing. It has been a great pleas
ure to me to save theso nien an,' make
thim what they are. They have graj
ated fr'm crime, but I am glad to say
that th' last time I visited th' old col
lege down In Broadway I saw th" grads
mixin' in on th- best iv terms with a
splendid growin' kindergarten.' "
Mr. Tal't'a Progress! vcim-m.
Providence Jorunal.
There is a Cleve-landliko quarfty in the
fPi-esident-elect's reputed attitude. In
deed, it seems reasonable to think that
he will prove to be a President of the
Cleveland rather than the Roosevelt type.
And if he shows the stubborn resistance
in the face of opposition that the last
D8mocratic Executive displayed, he may
wake up some morning to find himself as
popular as Mr. Roosevelt has ever been.
Already he. may count ujton public sym
pathy and applause In his fight with
'Uncle Joe." The Illinois Representative
is not popular, though a certain charitable
view has always been taken of his fail
ings because of the picturesque element
interwoven with them. Nor has the coun
try any liking for the reactionary cronies
he has gathered about hisi. That is why,
whatever the result of the first skirmish
may be, a final victory for the progres
sives under President Taft may be an
ticipated. Value of a Chinese Alliance.
Sacramento Union.
Aside from the great commercial advan
tages that would undeniably result to tho
United States from a closer union with
China, there are more fundamental rea
sons for a better acquaintance with this
great Eastern neighbor. The age of na
tional and racial isolation is nearer ma
turity. To win now the heart and confi
dence of the yellow and diffident by the
Yellow Sea may be worth more to Uncle
Sam than all tho treaties with European
nations his statesmen can write, and
more than all the ships and guns his me
chanics can build.
"EMPIRE BUILDER" JUSTLY
APPLIES TO JAMES J. HILL
Comment on the OpenlnK of tho North
Paper ot the country Mr. 1I1H Place
and for Future Time.
New York Commercial and Financial
Chronicle.
Mall advices bring full accounts of the
noteworthy banquet given by the Port
land (Or.) Commercial Club the early
part of the present month to celebrate
the opening of the Spokane. Fortland Sc
Seattle Railway, and to express appre
ciation of the action of James J. Hill
in building the road. Great enthusiasm
was manifested at the banquet, which
was attended by the higher officials of
both the Northern Pacific nnd the Great
Northern companies. There was one in
cident connected with this dinner and
jollification meeting, for such it was,
which deserves to be put on record. Mr.
Hill was the honored guest of the occa
sion and when he got up to deliver his
address, a most remarkable and signifi
cant demonstration occurred. In order
to show the esteem in which he is held,
and as an expression of the gratitude
which the people of Portland feel In
having been furnished with this unsur
passed rail outlet, a surprise had been
prepared for him. As he rose to his feet
the hall was plunged in momentary
darkness; then in front of him the folds
of an American flag which had bee;i
used as drapery, fell apart and Mr. Hill
beheld, in blazing letters, the expres
sion. "James J. Hill Empire Builder."
Never was there a truer expression than
this, and never was recognition of ser
vices thus rendered more clearly de
served. We think we are entirely within
tho mark when wo say that the. Pacific
Northwest owes more to Mr. Hill than
It does to any human being who ever
lived. It is to the transportation services
furnished as the result of his marvelo:i3
energy and foresight that the phenom
enal growth and development of that part
of .the country must, in great measure,
be ascribed.
But it is not for the. purpose of discuss
ing Mr. llill part in the expansion and
development of the Pacific Northwest
that wo make mention here of the inci
dent referred to. It is rather, to con
trast the altitude of the public .when, in
the first flush of enthusiasm, after ob
taining the much-desired railroad con
nection, and its attitude a littln later,
after It has had enjoyment of the much
sought facilities and forgets that it was
ever without them. We dimly recti 11 the
similar enthusiasm manifested in tiie
twin cities Minneapolis and St. Paul
wiien Mr. Hill completed the extension
of the Great Northern Railway to the
Pacific Coast. The inhabitants of the
two cities were overjoyed at getting a
second lino to the Coast, the Northern
Pacific having been their first line; tin y
could not find words strong enough to
express their admiration and gratitude.
One would have imagined that the whole
subsequent life of the man who, by his
acts, had excited such elation, would be
interpreted in the light of this early
work that the communities along . the
lines of the new system would never har
bor a thought that in tho operation of
his roatls ho would be capable of doing
anything to retard the growth and wel
fare of these communities, hut would al
ways be animated by a desire to promote
them.
Instead of that, only a relatively few
years had elapsed when it see f ed as if
tho various communities served by the
lines of the system looked upon him a:
a public enemy instead of a public bene
factor, anel as if he were now engaged in
the task of destroying what he hud iwe-
EM.MVMEL .10VBMKVI"S I.AMiKU
Inileslrabilily to Have It a Branch of
Church Work.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
It is idle to shut our eyes to the fact
that a large number of those who come to
Dr. Worce.ster's Wednesday night meet
ings think there is more afoot than a euro
of souls. The lame arrive, anel those elis
turbed with real and definite ailments.
The eick man, 'through all tin; iig's. has
'always been ready to try anything, and is
responsive to intimations that a "won
der" may be worked in his beiialf. Dr.
Worcester must be aware that the atten
tion he has attracted is not so much duo
to his moelest claims as to tho belief that
he and his co-workers are performing
miracle--. Thus the Emmanuel move
ment will be under temptation to sliele
away into quackery into religious quae-k-ery,
the worst of all quackeries. Ho
doubtless means to avoid such a result,
but where there is exceptional care to
prevent misconce-plion he may iluscover
that he is merely fostering in a new form
tho degrading medicine man theory of
religion.
Things being as they are, it is doubtful
whether it is desirable to have Eniinan
uelism erected into a recognized branch
of church work. The; church does not
deem it is nneier spe-cial call to emphasize,
tho truths of chemistry. Why should it
plunge into the exploitation of the unex
act and cloudy science that deals with
the relations of the conscious and sub
conscious intelligence? Practitioners of
the new school will not all be as re
strained as Dr. Worcester. In all proba
bility they will be led on. by their z -al
anel Ignorance to imply that they have
found a way to set aside the laws of na
ture, and that under their treatment the
physical ills that are the result of defi
nite and, in most cases," know n causes are
removable by stimulating religious emo
tions. Such methods can do little for
science, and so far as the-y are practiced
will tend to lower the religious Ideal.
When the Cowboy Pony Cough.
De-troit Free Press.
"Hart O. Berg, t lie Wrights' manager,
was talking at Le Mans about the'
Wrights' skill," said a returned tourist.
"Hart tolei me how Wiibur Wright got
rather impatient with the aerial pilots
he was teaching to run bis machine.
"One afternoon, according to Hart, a
French count, U.e most promising of tho
learners, had 1: slipup and fell. No
harm was done anil the count excused
himself on account of the high wind
anel so forth. Wright smiled sarcastic
ally as he overhauled the damaged ma
chine. Hart said it was just like a
tenderfoot he once saw in Texas.
"This tenderfoot thought h" could
ride, and in front of a lot" of cowboys
mounted a pony. The pony threw him.
A cowboy, helping, him up, said:
" 'Hello! What threw you'."
"'What threw me? Why, she bucked
something fearful. Didn't you see her
buck?' cried the tenderfoot.
" 'Buck?' said the cowboy, 'Rats
! She
only coughed.' "
Child's Hoop Tics lu Electric Plant.
Hartford (Conn.) Dispatch.
The municipal electric plant of South
Norwalk. Conn., has been put out of
commission by a child's hoop. The
hoem lodged between two wires of the
service on one of the remote stretches
anel connected the commercial with
the arc current. It burn.d out some of
the machinery at the plant he-sides
crippling the entire service for tho
night. .
Hank Hoad h, the I -'.. ,'ln".-'"'
lu Pacific Northwest M-uti.uent ov
viously built up. The whole machinery
of the state government was turned
against him, and other states along the
route acted as if they too felt they nee.ljtl
protection against his designing schemes,
instead of welcoming him with one-i
arms, as they had before. We know, of
course, that all this did not indicate a
change of heart on the part of tne people,
themselves, who we are sure still regard
him as their stanch fi ienil. but was
simply the work of political adventurei .i,
who hoped in that way to gain cheap
notoriety for themselves. The fact re
mains, however, that ho ami his roads
have been treated differently than 00
foro, and It Is certainly noteworthy that
the great beely of the public should have
tolerateel sue-h a course, even 011 tho
part eif tho politicians.
As far as the inhabitants of Portland
are concerned, they have good reason
for rejoicing. The Spokane.-Portland &
Seattle Hallway provides a water-grada
line along the north bank of the Colum
bia River and fixes tho future of Port
land as a seaport city such as no other
event could. When entirely completed,
the line will extend all the way from
Spokane tet Portland, and comprise over
Hit) miles. The piece of road just opened
extends from Portland to Pasco. Wash..
2H0 miles, where connee-tion is nnuln with
the Northern Pacific Railroad. Hereto
fore. Portland has had to rely enlirc'y
on the line of the Oregon Kailioad .V
Navigation Company along the;' south
bank of the Columbia Kiver. President
Howard Elliott is quoted in The Ore
gonian as saying that ill building and
equipment there is not a better road m
the United States, or, for Hint mailer,
in the whole world. The line will be
callable of handling all traffic for years
to come and will bring passengers into
Spokane within 10 or 12 hours after they
leave Portland. It is being built jointly
by the Northern Pacific nnd the etreit
Northern Railway e-onipanies, and. as in
dicating what a tremendous expeiitlil uro
of money it iu olves. we may note that
up to June ;:o, Jtn.s. the Great Northern
t'ompnny had a.hanec'l no less than ?J1.
S27.fc'l towards its construction, and tho
Northern Pacific, up to the same time,
had advanced J-tl.fiH.KH.i. In other words,
already close to fifty million dollars has
been spe-nt upon the undertaking.
The Portland papers say that tlu
North Bank road, as the new line Is
callorl, marks one 'nf the most notable
achievements in railroad construction in
tho western llaif of the United States.
They also deelare with one accord that
il was Mr. .Hill's trained experience that
suggested the feasibility of sueti a road,
and that it was his Inelomitable energy
that carrietl the enterprise through, for
in the course of only a few mouths nieiret
the whole lino from e-nd to cud will be
completed anel ready for operation. Cer
tainly nt one exct pt a man of the heroic
mental molel and large horizon of Mr.
Hill would have thought of spending ?.U,
Ootl.OiiO In that way. Tbo designation,
"Empire Builder" certainly very fittingly
applies to him. An.l the same may be
said of ail those engageei In large under
takings for the development e.f the coun
try's resources anil to promote e-iviliza-lion
and progress. J. P. Morgan, Ed
ward H. 1 larriman. James J. Hill and
others that might be mentioned are all
"Empire Builders. e If this fact Is no
recognised while these men reintiln alive,
it most assuredly will be after they ara
elead.
HAPS I .M'l.M'.TIli SPMI.I.IYR.
EngliNh Evpcrls Decide tit 'I men More
Hcnsonalile'' Form to Children.
London Dispatch to New York Times.
The object of the newly-formed
English Simplified Spelling Society,
which w is opened the other day in Lon
don under I he Presidency of Professor
Skoal of Cambridge University, was
outlined by the president:
"Phonetic spelling Is certain to e-oine.
in America, where a simplified spell
ing board is working on the same lines
as ourselves, and it would be tllsgrace
ful for Kiiglaiul to be left behind." said
Professor Skeat. "The present move
ment." he continued. "Is really a revi
val e.f one promoted by the philologi
cal Society of l.oneioii, :; years ago,
w hie-il failed for two reasons; First,
that English was not so much studied
then as now. and. second, tiiat the re
formers went a little too fast. The 1 -jf-e:
t of the society Is not at all revo
lutionary. If is simply to bring back
English spelling to a re-asonable con
dition. Anglo-Saxon. I. alia anel every
other European language had a pho
netic basis.
"W'o propose to beiu by setting right
wortls wi.ieh we know for every r-asnii
to he wrong. The word 'debt' is a
good instanee. The 'b' ot-nirs in the
word because selie.lars in the Btth cen
tury hail a mistaken ueuion that It wa.-i
elerived from the I.c tin. whereas it
eame from the French. In the time of
Chaucer the word was spelled -dette,"
and was pronounced as two syllables.
In Elizabeth's day whe-n the final 'e
was eiropped the elouble 't' hoi-umo of
no service, an.l tin- word should right
ly have assumed the form -dot." Again
the letlers 'ea' are only rightly pro
nouuctl in three words in the English
laniicnaire break, great and steak. In
I other words where they occur, as In
head, the a' is re-eiunelanL.
"One; result of the moveme-nt will be
to relie ve the awful burden on school
chiblren, who now have te learn to
spell by sight Instead of by ear. In the
end we hope to reach the stage of pho
netic, spelling. The Idea commonly
held that: phonetic spelling would de
stroy the history of the language Is,
as experts know, a mistaken 0110."
White Lend f'otrt for Negro Boy.
' Baltimore News.
"Joe" I'e.-breeh. aged eight years, of
Youngstown, Ohio. turned "Willie"
Lewi's, a negro boy. while with the aiel
of a can of while lead and a brush.
Face, arms and body were treat.:.!. "I
warned tiie boys to paint me whit""
"Willie" tolel bis mother. "It hurts,
but I want it to stay on. T want to le
while, lik" the rest of the boys." Willi
the aid of gasoline the paint, along
with patches 01 skin, was removed.
Kceoiii.ncr.d-. Nesroen for tfrican Trip.
Washington U- ''.I Dispatch.
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, made a
call of courtesy upon the President
anil wished him pleasure and success
in bis African hunting trip. With a
wink, the Virginia Senator said to
the President:
"I hope vo u will take our colored
brethren with you. where they can re
juvenate themselves in their native
land."
( nut Ion in Tiny.
Oil in State Journal.
"Uncle Joe" Cannon apnears to he fair
ly confident e.f g 'i 1 inr ov r the line, hul
ho probahlv won't risk any forward
passes at this stage of the same.