8 PORTLAXD, OREGON. Entered at Portland. Or.goa. poatofHoa aa Fecond-Oaaa Matter. bubacrlptton Rates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) rally. Sunday Included, one year IS 00 Daily. Sunday Included, six months 4 2S r)a..y. Sunday Included, three months.. 2.25 pe.ly. Sunday Included, one month 73 tauy. without Sunday, one year BOO i'.!.IJ't without Sunday, six months 3.23 iis y, without Sunday., three month... 1.7S I'slly without Sunday, one month CO eekly, one year.'. -. . . 150 Sunday, one year...; ... , fiunday and weekly, one year... i.io (By Carrier.) rlly. Sunday Included, one, year 8.00 Daily. Sunday included, one month..! .7S Mow o Remit Send poutofnce money ZI...Z '"press order or personal check oa 1?! banJc- stmP. coin or currency uress in full. Including county and state. to1!??'? K5,M 1 1 Pages. 1 cent: 16 i 2 cenV: 30 to 44 pages. 3 cents; Soun?. ,ratS.!,M' Foreln !fh",l,.,,"Jnr"" OfficeThe S. C. Beck on t ,vP ai fT-Nw York, rooms 48- T"r,hTunb.Uru,l,dU,'nK!n CbiC'' "O2 rOBTlANB. HT:ireiAY. MAR. SI. 1900. POIJTICAL lAlrriONS AJf" THE PTB- If a body of four hundred men is to be 'elected by the Republican com mittee of Portland for the purpose of suggesting, candidates for nomination at the primary, the first inquiry wUl be R-i to the personality, the char acter, the relations to affairs, the antecedents and present standing of the committee or body of four hundred; and after these matters have been considered, the next thing will be an Inquiry as to the personality and character of the men whom they may name or suggest as candidates for the primary election. That the candidates thus offered may be denominated the . candidates of the Republican party will have no weight whatever, unless their fitness for the places named shall first be rec ognized by the electors. It must be apparent and Indisputable. Of course there is no man against whom some will not urge one objection or another; but petty objection, based on the per sonal feeling of the objector, may not amount to -much. Everything will depend on the general estimate of the candidate's character of his public spirit, his unselfishness, his grasp of affairs and his general reputation. No political hack or professional politician Is wanted. The citizens will not deem It im portant to vote for candidates -so named merely because they are Re publicans, for the Republican party has practically ceased to exist in Ore gon; and even when it was still strong and aggressive, it was not possible to unite it In local elections. It i3 prob able, indeed, that even if the candi date VPFA II T1 J Y. 1 . . ..muiaijio, xi e would lose votes rather than gain them by being known as a Republican candi date, or as tho candidate of the Re publican party. For the animosities of Republican factions never were deeper or deadlier than now; their survival Is apparent on all sides, for revenges are not complete, and every movement in politics adds further exacerbations. Republicans are di vided into factions.' either of which would find Democratic success prefer able to loss of any opportunity for revenge for the past, or to defeat of the hope or prospect of tho opposing faction for the future; and, moreover, the primary law, by stimulation of the hope of every office-seeker, makes an . enemy to the successful man of . his party of every rival candidate and all his friends. Under the present system ...d. uun t vote oecause they want to elect the candidate they vote for, so much as they want to defeat somebody else's candidate who has obtained the primary nomination. It wouldn't matter if the city and state should get the services of best or fit men; but the chances always are that it will not. Nevertheless, effort -ought to be made to secure co-operation of citizens who desire the best obtainable administration. The Ore gonlan is not at all assured, however rVinr tjk v. . . -c.ivc-v ua eiuvamageously I inaae m tne name of the Republican j Party- It will be necessary to await development of events now Just fce ' ginning. Portland ought to have an excellent municipal administration; but there is difficulty in the fact that personal and factional animosities are likely to guide large numbers of its voters as heretofore. Instead of the principle of co-operation for the best omwti ...4 THK DUTY OS COAL. Representative Cushman, of Wash ington, made an eloquent plea for a duty on coal, and it is probably true that a considerable number of his con stituents on Puget Sound are much exercised over the prospect for free coal.- At this distance it is not clear that their fears are welt founded, ac tual transactions in foreign coal within the past year failing to show where any great hardship would be incurred by admission of the much needed fuel. During the past year nearly every tramp steamer loading at an American port on Puget Sound, and many of the regular liners load ing at those ports, steamed over to Comox. on the Canadian shore, to fill their bunkers after completing cargo on Puget Sound. The duty on bituminous coal is 67 cents per ton of 2240 pounds, and, as these steamers required from 600 to 1000 tons for filling their bunkers, it Is easily understood that the saving of rhe duty of 67 cents per ton would be insufficient to offset the time lost and the cost of rllotage and other ex penses. In such circumstances but one conclusion can be reached, and that is that the supply of coal avail able at American ports on Puget Sound was insufficient, or was held at a price far in excess of any differ ence warranted by a duty of 67 cents. Not only do the Puget Sound ports fall to coal the merchant vessels, but even the American- battleships were coaled with a product that was brought from the Atlantic Coast. There is another economic feature of free coal which can hardly fail to appeal to Mr. Cushman's constituents In the eastern part of the state. The heavy Importations of coal from Aus tralia two years ago not only supplied consumers with much-needed fuel at a reasonable price, but the transpor tation of that coal brought to Port land a large fleet of grain vessels which otherwise would have been obliged to come here In ballast. Carrying cargoes both ways, these ships weer enabled to accept very low outward freights on grain, the reduc tion from the average rates of former years being from $1 to $2 per ton, the saving thus effected all going to the producers of the grain, who from a numerical standpoint were more enti tled to consideration than were the few coal mlneowners. Unquestionably the voters In the Immediate vicinity of Mr. Cushman's home will object to free coal, tout the farmers who-desire cheap .fuel and; cheap-, freights will welcome it. SPENDING AND PAY DAY. The General Government is in straits for money, and that Is the reason why troubles arise in the re adjustment of the tariff. Representa tive McCall, of Massachusetts, in a recent speech, said: TV-e have been pa mine, through a wild orgy of extravagance. In which, very much has risen consumed In flreu-orks and fustian, J!-2 Brat hurdens or expense have been unnecessarily fastened upon the country. "fwa "re to have taxation of a sort such as the country has usually known only as a result of war, and the people will have an opportunity of paying the bills. The -remark applies as well to state and municipal as to National affairs. Extravagance never yet failed, to react upon the individual or upon the peo ple betrayed into it; nor can there be a greater mistake than the supposition entertained by many that since they have little or no property directly sub ject to taxation, therefore, extravagant public expenditure cannot injuriously affect them. Excessive -burdens upon property and business, obstruct indus try, raise prices and diminish the re wards of labor. In public expenditure, as in all other concerns, the Judicious course is the middle one. But there is always dan ger of doing too much, rather than too little. It is as easy for a state or nation as for an individual to live too fast and run into debt beyond reason and judgment, It is fine' for a city or state" to have everything it wants at once and without waiting; but that is the road to a result like that de scribed by the Massachusetts Con gressman. -BUSINESS MAN" FOR MAYOK. The business man knows that most of the seekers after places in his es tablishment are unfit. Therefore, he prefers to do hla own seeking, when he engages employes. The business man accepts for a responsible place only a man who has stood the test for efficiency and responsibility, in his own, or some other establishment. He rejects an applicant whose first merits are ability to "mix" or round up votes or "run" with the boys. He rejects the seeker who says he is a business man, but who has nothing but words .to speak for him.. A number of aspirants for Mayor of Portland say they will give the city a business administration. Few of them have ever been able to give their own affairs a business administration. Their appearance is no new spectacle, and their voice Is no new sound. Two years ago all the candidates for office, from Mayor down, stood on "business" platforms, yet the city has not had a business administration. It takes business sense to choose right servants. The plain evidence is that the city voters have not exercised business Judgment in choosing city officeholders. Will they exercise that Judgment this time We shall see. FAIR TAXATION. 1 There- is much truth in President Taft's opinion that the DIngley tariff weighs heavily upon the poor by in creasing the cost of the necessaries of life beyond all reason, while it per mits the rich to evade their proper share of the expenses of government. In the American Magazine for April, Miss Tarbell has cited numerous in stances where, by craft and guile, the schedules were manipulated so "as to burden tho workingman and relieve the wealthy. The schedule for woolen blankets is a case in point among many others which she mentions. On blankets of an inferior grade which are used by people of small means, the duty is almost double that on the more costly ones which millionaires purchase. In speaking for a tariff which shall bear lightly on the neces saries of life and touch more severely upon luxuries, Mr. Taft displays that admirable sense of Justice which has commended him to the confidence of his countrymen in many previous in stances, but it is not so certain that he fully comprehends the stern laws which govern the production of rev enue. A tax on luxuries is paid by the rich who are best able to pay taxes. Such a tax ts,. therefore, more justifiable on ethical grounds than one which falls on the necessities which the poor must buy in order to live. If rich people were so numerous that the treasurv could be supplied fcy taxing their lux uries, everybody of sound Judgment would say lot it be done and remove all duties from the necessaries of life. But, unfortunately,, although we have many millionaires in this country, we have not enough of them to maks such a scheme for raising revenue practicable. A tax on luxuries is us ually very productive as far as it goes, but it does not go nearly far enough. The expenses of the Government can not be met by taxing the luxuries of the rich. The undeniable fact Is that the only sources of tariff revenue which can be depended on in all emer gencies are the necessaries of life, the goods which must be purchased in good times and bad by the masses of the people. This fact is not devoid of a sinister aspect. It reads like a new application of the hard maxim that he who has much shall have more and he who. has little shall lose it, but in solving the problem of raising a rev enue many sinister devices seem to be unavoidable. Mr. Taft is reluctant to see a duty Imposed on tea and coffee. Many kindly persons feel exactly as he does about it. The Oregonian did not favor the coffee tax as it was proposed on fon.er occasions by Mr. McCleary, 6f Minnesota, and others. Considered by themselves, such taxes are singular ly iniquitous, since they take from the masses of the people with a high hand the funds which are used largely to protect the property of the rich. It is possible, however, to Introduce com pensatory measures which shall oper ate to counterbalance the injustice. For a tax on tea and coffee, taken by itself, there would be no defence ex cept the mere fact that it would yield revenue; but if, when this tax were Imposed, certain others were removed, the balance might swing even again. The treasury would toe enriched and the people would not be impoverished. It may as well be admitted frankly that there are a great many duties which Increase the cost of living with out benefitting the Government. All duties on goods which are produced in the United States are of this char acter. They enable the trusts to charge a higher price than would otherwise be possible, but they yield no revenue to the treasury because THE MORNING OR revenue comes only from imports. From such taxes nobody except the trusts receives any benefit, but the trusts are enormously enriched by them. They impose a heavier burden on the. consumer than an honest rev enue tax would, while the only advan tage he obtains from them Is the poor consolation of seeing our millionaires develop into billionaires. There is no reason In the world why these taxes which go into the pockets of the rich and do not benefit the treasury at all should not be removed. They are so .unjust that humanity re volts at them. The best that can be said for them is that they are legalized robbery. Perhaps such robbery is a little preferable to that which the lone highwayman commits at the point of his gun. If It is, well and good. But when one has said thus much for the schedules which plunder the consumer and swell the fortunes of the trusts, he can say no more. Congress, in can celing them, would be doing nothing else than its plain duty to the coun try while, at the same time, it would more than compensate the consumer for the contemplated taxes on tea and coffee. The relief which the con sumer would obtain , by the cessation of the trust extortions would be enor mous. It would be felt in almost every department of life. It would oheapen all sorts of iron ware, build ing materials, fuel, paper, clothing, kitchen utensils, farm machinery, and so on, without end. On the other hand, the tea and coffee taxes would impose a burden which everybody would feel, but, after all, it would be light. In comparison with the heavy weight of the trust extortions it would scarcely be irksome. If at the same time that the breakfast table is taxed by levying duties on tea and coffee, it is also freed from the tribute which it now pays to the trusts. The Oregonian has nothing to say in opposition. The breakfast table is under as much obligation to support the Government as the dinner table or the wheat bin is, but none, of them is ethically bound to. contribute to the support of the millionaire trust magnates. "Tax us when and how you please, to any reasonable extent, for the support of the Government," seems to be the sentiment of the plain citizen Just now, "but pray cease to tax us for the enrichment of the trusts." A PERTINENT EXAMPLE.. The man John Branton, who, fail ing to effect his escape from the Peni tentiary at Salem Monday, took his own life In a most savage manner, was a degenerate of the most hope less and dangerous type. A man whose tendencies were - toward lawlessness, avarice and savagery, he was serving a. term of ten years, nearly half of which had expired, for assault with intent to kill.. Of . his three wives, two died under suspicious circumstances, their lives having been insured for a few hundred dolars In his favor. His brother, Claude Branton, was hanged at Eugene a few years ago, the mur der of which he was convicted hav ing been committed under exception ally brutal circumstances. These two men, known in earlier life as the "Branton boys," cost the taxpayers of Lane County dearly in court expenses, the state at least one worthy citizen and the community some scandal and great unrest. This is the debit side of their life record; the credit side is practically without entry. It were easy to preach a sermon with these lives as the text, but it is useless, since in a general way the re lation of cause to effect in such cases is well understood understood, but for all practcal or remedial purposes ignored. Criminologists of the State of New York some years ago traced the descendants of a reckless and abandoned young woman through three generations, and found that among these descendants were or had been many of the most desperate criminals of the long period covered. Including a number of murderers, rob bers, Burglars and a small army of criminals of the lower class men and women who were at war all along the line with the decencies and wholesome conventions of society. The effort was undertaken for the purpose of showing that it is easier and vastly wiser and cheaper to deal with the question of the multiplication of crim inals by preventive than by remedial measures. The first process can be made absolute while the last Is at best but a series of costly experiments. The subject is one from the con templation of which society naturally shrinks, but with the consequences of which It is constantly- brought face to face in the courts, through the news papers, -in the Jails and penitentiaries. In the Insane asylums and not infre quently at the gallows. Tet as long as It is shunned, we must continue to imprison, if we do not hang, our Tra ceys and Brantons and the increasing horde of criminals of whatever name who are in revolt against the social order under which human life is held sacred and property safe. GRAIN INSPECTION FARCE. State grain inspection in .Washing ton has from its Inception been a farce bo far as It concerned the inter ests of the graingrowers, the buyers, or the consumers. The only people who have profited at all by establish ment of the inspection service were the few politicians who secured hand some salaries at the expense of the growers who paid the fees. The Wash ington Grain Commissioners, after one or two attempts to establish a stand ard at variance with that established by the grain committee of the Port land Chamber of Commerce, aban doned the effort, and for several years have adopted the standards made in Portland and recognized In all of the world's markets. All of Washington's wheat that was exported was bought and sold on this Portland standard: but the Washing ton Commission has continued to col lect from the farmers an annual toll which in the aggregate amounts to many thousands of dollars per year. At the recent session of the Washing ton Legislature a bill was passed mak ing the State Grain Commission a part of the Railroad Commission, and call ing for inspection and weighing of grain in cars before it is turned over to the warehouse companies. In or der to provide additional funds, pre sumably for additional officeholders, the formed Inspection fee of 75 cents per car was advanced to $1.25 for sacked and $1 per car for bulk grain. In amending the bill an error was made and the fee now stands at the old rate on sacked and $1 per car on bulk grain. A Tacoma dispatch in yesterday's Oregonian says that the new law "may tend to send the grain to Portland, where the state does not take a hand in the weighing and in spection of grain." This has been the principal effect of EG ON I AX, WEDNESDAY, the old law, since it was first placed on the statute-books. son the only serious criticism made of n 'Has oeen lor the purpose of ward ing oft repeated attempts on the part of officeseekers to enact a similar law in this state. None of the state-inspected grain in Washington is accept ed by the foreign buyers until the offi cial inspectors for- the Portland Cham ber of Commerce have tested it.' The quality of the wheat, and not a state inspector's certificate, determines the value of the cereal, and, so long as wheat is sold on sample, as it always will be, no difficulty will be encoun tered by the farmer who produces sixty-pound wheat in securing a better price than will be paid the man who grows flfty-eight-pound wheat. The big oats growers in the Duwarn ish country, on Puget Sound, have al ways ignored the State Grain Inspec tors. When Perry Lawrence, the first State Grain Commissioner in Wash ington, attempted to force inspection on them, he was advised by the Attorney-General to abandon the attempt for the reason that the law was so ut terly useless that It was unconstitu tional. Washington wheat in the fu ture will come to Portland in steadily Increasing quantities without the as sistance of a trade-hampering inspec tion farce In Washington; but even that would hardly justify Portland dealers in commending perpetuation of the grain-inspection service in' ter ritory tributary to this city but not under Oregon legal jurisdiction. "With the death of Rev. R. C. Rams by at his home in this city Monday passed a man who for half of a life time, covering a period of four-score and six years, was a prominent figure and factor in the religio-political cir cles of the state. A Methodist min ister by profession, a politician of sturdy aggressiveness by occupation for many years, a temperance advo cate of unyielding purpose, an exam ple of domestic faithfulness, and withal a kind neighbor and friend, Mr. Ramsby was well and widely known and universally 'respected. He was the friend and coadjutor of the late William R. Dunbar, when the latter was the head of the Good Templars" organization in Oregon, and materially assisted in the work of that order. All of this sounds like ancient history, the last line of practically the last chap ter of which appears. in the announce ment of the death of R. C. Ramsby and, his association with the work of an almost forgotten temperance or ganization, to which, thirty r thirty five years ago, a large proportion of the young men and maidens of the state, as well as middle-aged men and women, were members. The law prohibiting importation of smoking opium In this country be comes effective April 1. Such a wide spread demand for this stuff, from which dreams are made, has grown up all over the Pacific Coast that the effect of this new regulation will be awaited with considerable interest. The change will probably be followed by a skyrockety advance in the price of the drug, and, when it is found that there is a demand that will pay any old price asked, there will undoubted ly be a revival of the old smuggling business which flourished prior to re duction of the duty. The Canadian' law prohibiting importation of the drug becomes effective simultaneously with the American law, and the smuggling industry will accordingly be much more hazardous than ever be fore. The new law suggests great op portunities for the California gamblers who are starting a little hell of their own. Just over the Mexican line. 'The smuggler is in many respects a better citizen than the gambler, but they can probably work together to advantage in the field made possible 'by the new law. Now that Mr. James J. Hill, speak ing for himself, and Mr.. J. P. O'Brien, speaking for the Harriman lines, have both denied that there has been any agreement reached in their disputes over North Pacific Coast railroad matters, it would appear . that Louis W. Hill got the wrong impression of what actually happened at , the Cali fornia meeting. As a son of his father, young Mr. Hill shoulders the cares of his position quite gracefully, hut on all matters of importance In connec tion with the Hill roads, the public still has a habit of waiting to hear from Papa Hill before accepting at par value -the statements which the young man makes. Portland would like to see Mr. Hill and Mr. Harri man get closer together on the ter minal question, and the Portland gateway and remain farther apart on some other matteVs. At present, how ever, the dove of peace seems to show no inclination to alight. Too much water in Portland goes where it isn't needed, or where it Is wasted. Meters are said to be curtail ing the waste. There would probably be no scarcity- of water In the high suburbs in Summer if the waste in the low parts of the city were stopped. Some of the actions of Crazy Snake tend to the belief that he has been reading too many yellow-back novels. Only between the pages of such books are to be found Indians of' the type that Craby Snake accepted for. models. - An- Atlantic liner reports sighting the record Iceberg of the season, 300 feet above water. Now if they could run it into cold storage against next July's weather, icebergs would be found of use. If there are to be as many changes in the race for the new Federal Judge ship in Oregon as in the race for other Judgeships, lawyers should be very careful to "land" right with their rec ommendations. Gross earnings of the Bell Tele phone companies in the United States for the year 190 8 reached the pro digious sura of $127,117,200 a gain over the-preceding year of $6,364,000. -A- Portland mercantile concern In creasing its capital stock to three and one-half millions is simply a sign that Portland In a business way is doing pretty well, thank you. Fighting Bob Evans is here on a peaceful errand today. His- fighting days are over; -but it may not be so with Uncle Sam; it may not be so. There are fifteen cars of onions left of last year's- Oregon Crop, Just enough to .add flavor to the needed hash. The butter market is not as strong as usual, neither Is some of the butter, with new grass coming on apace. MARCH 31, 11 BATS OFF IN THE V HITB TEMPLEt No Soon, la the Word Paased iiom tne Line. PORTLAKD, March 30. To the Editor ) It was Sunday morning in the White Temple. Rev. Mr. Moody, for 13 years a missionary in Central Africa, was to deliver the sermon and the auditorium was filled with women and men five women to one man. Dr. Brougher, sit ting ten feet from the missionary, arose to introduce him to the waiting multitude and for some unexplained or, perhaps, unexplanable reason a woman sitting in a front pew changed, her location six inches, whereupon the trouble began. The restless sister had on her head a covering at least 20 inches in diameter, surmounted by plumes and other remains of departed fowls towering in places at least a foot above the main frame work. Of course, this change of position threw out of line the viewpoint of two women who sat Immediately behind her and who had so located themselves that they had peekholes throuch which . to view the speaker. No doubt if Mr. Moodv had risen first all would have been well and the oriRlnal platting of sitters would have worked out. successfully. But Mr. Brougher, as is so characteristic of him! proved himself an innovator, and any auditor naturally wants to see the speaker even though he is as homely as sin. Having secured a new advantage ground the two sisters, who were plainly an noyed at the change of base of the first offender, became reconciled. but this threw two other female pillars of the church out of line, and made necessary a re-locatlon in the third pew. This was followed by an angry commotion, and like the toppling over of a row of domi noes, the flutter of head gear proceeded in regular waves to the rear row of seats 60 feet away excepting when, now and then, the presence of some offenseless man broke the continuity of the pro ceeding through the sheer lack of ability to occuppy space. As the general commotion was at Its height the smile of Dr. Brougher, ac companied by a temporary cessation of his remarks, betrayed his humorous ap preciation of the trouble, but he said nothing. Of course, when a few minutes later the speaker of the occasion arose and stood ten feet to one side, the re arrangement was necessary and it took place always accompanied by an expres sion of disgust on the face of the sister with the thoughtless obstacle in front of her, but wholly Indifferent to the wishes of the helpless victim, or victims, in he rear. It was a pretty sight to the student of human nature and of the excesses of feminine vanity. At the beginning of the evening service. Dr. Brougher remarked that every wo man was expected to remove her hat, if sitting in front of anybody, out of re gard to the suggestion of the golden rule, whereupon one man and woman promptly arose and left the church. And why not? What is a sermon in value In comparison with the satisfaction of showing one's new hat? The minister added that a rule would soon be enforced In his church requiring women to remove their hats during the morning service as well as In the evening, which remark brought forth the most fervent "amen!" of the-hour. Verily, the world moves but at times with exasperating deliberation. LET US PRAT. YANKIJH STORE-FIGHT IN LONDON Mr. Selfridge, of Chicago, Continues Hla Revolution in, Advertising;. London Dispatch to Chicago Record Herald. The first big dry goods store in Lon don, ran on American lines, which was opened by Harry Gordon Selfridge, for merly with Marshall Field & Co. in Chicago, has stirred things up in this metropolis of conservatism. A desper ate fight for existence Is now being made by the rest of London's shop keepers. The new store, in Oxford street; has aroused extraordinary curiosity, with the result that all the long-established and world-famous houses along Oxford street and Regent street have been compelled to get busy in their publicity departments. The "newspapers have been reaping rich harvests from Self ridge's daily page advertisements.- Mr. Selfridge has engaged a score of the most famous black and white artists in England to design cartoons, classi cal in effect, and this dignified method of attracting attention has created quite a sensation. Every West End shop has been com pelled also to resort lavishly to the advertisement columns of the news papers, and it looks as if this pub licity campaign will last many months. ..For London some extraordinary schemes have been devised -to attract customers. When Mr. Selfridge an nounced the opening day the mana gers of other stores found all sorts of excuses for holding celebrations and bargain sales. The biggest effort, per haps, was put forward by Harrod's, in Brompton Road, which has a shopping area of 36 acres. Richard Burbridge, manager and director, arranged that the 60th anniversary of the establish ment of the store should be celebrated during the opening week of Selfridge's. The great bait held out was free daily concerts of a high class. Giant Solons From Pennsylvania. Washington (D. C.) Dispatch. They are calling Dr. Andrew Jackson Barchfeld, of the Thirty-second Pennsyl vania District, who used to be the big gest man in the Pennsylvania delegation, "Shorty" Barchfeld now. "Shorty" is so much above six feet that he makes John Dalzell look like a dwarf beside him but he is now outstripped by two other members of the Pennsylvania delegation. One of them is Representative John K Tener. and the other is Representative Alfred B. Garner, new members. Both of them are taller than Barchfeld, who is himself a giant of the "Cy" Sulloway class. It used to be that everyone In the Keystone State delegation kotowed to Barchfeld. but now they have quit doing it since Tener and Garner came on the scene. Tener used to be one of the crack baseball players of the country, and made a name for himself with the Chicago team. ' Sneakier Cannon's Cold Bath, Dally. Baltimore News. Joseph G. Cannon. Speaker of the House, who is classed as a "reactionary" in the Republican party, takes a reactionary cold bath every morning, and by -that means manages to keep young. The Speaker is 73 years old, but he has' a step as firm and agile as that of a young man. Today he was asked how he man aged to keep young, and It was suggest ed that he must do It by walking a great deal. v. ' "No," said Uncle Joe, "I can walk 20 miles, but I don't do much of it. I take a cold bath every morning and I exercise, with dumb-bells." "Isn't a cold bath a great shock to the system?" he was asked. "Oh, no! It's great when you get the reaction. It keeps me young." Humorom Owl Plays Posanm. Greenwich (Conn.) . Dispatch ' to New York World. Charles T. Hotalfng. tree warden of this town and president of the Connecticut Tree Wardens' Association, says that "as wise as an owl" Is no meaningless figure of speech. While treating a tree recently he found a small hoot owl in a large hole in a dead limb, he says. It was rigid and he made up his mind it was dead. Climbing down the tree with the bird he showed it to a friend. A workman called Mr. Ho taling and he laid the bird on the ground and started away, but the owl didn't lie there an Instant. As soon as it was re leased it was on the wing, it had been "playing 'possum" all the time, Mr. Ho taling says. - . OUR NEW STATESMEN ARE MODEST Consrreaalonal Directory Dissects Sen. nior neuer I Jo nee, and Other. Washington (D. C.) Special to Chicago Tribune. Some of the autobiographies of new members in the Congressional Direct ory are refreshing. Senator Wesley L. Jones of Wash ington, who with Senator Burton of Ohio, wai promoted from the House, pays a warm tribute to his wife, an unusual contribution in official publi cations. - The sketch or Mr. Jones says he "was married to Minda Nelson at Enfield, 111., ... ran or ist. ana wnatever suc cess he has attained is due to her earn- , , thful help and cheerful self-denial. Mr. Jones also unfolds an unusual professional experience "has never acted as attorney for any railroad, tele graph or express company, or for any public-service corporation." , Th House of Representatives of the hixty-first Congress embraces in Its membership the champion legislator in American history, for Edward Thomas Taylor representative at large from Colorado, says of his 12 years' service .. Senate of his state: "Has the reputation of having been the author of more important laws and constitutional amendments than any person that ever sat In any leg islature of any state of the Union dur ing the history of the Government over 40 general statutes and five sep arate constitutional amendments that were adopted by a vote of the people." While serving as postmaster at Car uthersvllle. Representative Crow of Missouri relates that "several times he called the attention ' of Congress to the manner of weighing malls; Con gress finally revised the method. bT U U ""mated that a saving $10,000,000 a year was effected." An Interesting figure in the House is Delegate Cameron of Arizona. Republi can. He defeated veteran Mark Smith last Fall.- whereupon the story went the rounds that this result was a part of a scheme to secure statehood al laying the Republican opposition by the idea that two Republican Senators would be chosen by the new state. But Mr. Cameron has a better claim to fame than any based on politics. He located and built the "Bright Angel" trail into the Grand Canon of Colorado and still maintains it. The baby of the House is Palitte El vins of Missouri, who was. sworn In on the day on which he completed his 31st year. Secretary Dickson of the War De partment makes no reference to his politics in the sketch of himself. The one political fact stated in Secretary MacVeagh's biography is that he was a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in the 90's. HINT OF A DEAL: IN TARIFF BILL Disagreeable Charges Relating fo the Oil Schedule and Beer Tax. Washington (D; C.) Correspondence New York Journal of Commerce. In connection -with the apparent defects of the bill as a - revenue producer, ugly charges are flying about the Capitol. It is alleged that the duty on beer was to have been increased, but that this was refrained from in- return for votes cast on the side of the House organization in the rules fight. One member of the House, who claim? to have been ap proached by representatives of the brew ers, said: "A representative of beer men told me on the eve of the contest over the organization of the House that if Cannon rules should win. the beer tax would be unchanged. If Cannon was de feated, the tax would be put up to $1.50. He wanted me to vote for the old rules. He seemed very positive in his informa tion, and at that time I understood it had been determined to make the tax $1.60. The inference would seem to be Justified that the restoration of the tax to $1 had some relation to the fight over the rules." The Congressmen who made this state ment would not permit the use of his name, but he is said to have made it to a number of members, both Democratic and Republican, and the matter is ex pected to be the subject of further in quiry. The countervailing, duty on petroleum and its products was also the subject of much comment and investigation. Until the very eve of the tariff bill' construc tion it was said with the utmost confi dence that this countervailing duty was removed that is. that petroleum was placed actually on the free list, instead of only nominally. At noon on Tuesday a Western oil man who was in Washington In the effort to get the countervailing duty restored, made the positive statement that the duty had been stricken out and was still out. He regretted the fact on the ground It would be a serious - blow at producers in this country, because it might let in the oil of Russia and Mex ico and Injure the market for that prod uct at home. Bad as it was, however, the oil men said the countervailing duty was re moved. It was expected at that time that the tariff .bill would be- reported within an hour or two. Instead, delay was taken for one day, the bill being held for 24 hours, and when it was reported it contained the provision for the coun tervailing duty. Democrats and a great many Republi cans threatened to insist upon detailed explanations as to when and why these changes were made, charging that both the beer tax and petroleum duty were involved in the deal for support of the Cannon, rules. Of course, there is as yet no positive evidence on any of these points, but the charges are being freely made and are as yet uncontradicted. Nature Faket High Wind and Ducks. Ellersvllle (Mo.) Dispatch to New York World. To doubters of his story, Jules Buer mann, constable of Meramee township, shows his broken 'store window He was sitting, he says, in the front part of his store watching the approach of a storm, in which the wind was blow ing with great force, when he suddenly noticed a flock of ducks blow over the large lake in front of his property The ducks were driven onward' by the fierce gale, and as they neared the Buermann store the constable noticed feathers flying from them. Then there was a crash, and three of the ducks were driven through the front window of the store, falling on the floor al most entirely stripped of their feath eTf v y wth wind. Buermann. said that all he had to do was to draw and cook them. . Buermann found "two more of the Hock of ducks minus their feathers hanging on a barbwlre fence back of his store The ducks had been driven into the fence by the wind and killed. Ambiguity la Danseroua. ' Cleveland Leader. "The simplest proposition," said Sen ator Beveridge. in a recent address, must be set out with the utmost care in the wording, or misunderstanding, dissent, even anger,, may result. "Thus as a train was moving forth from a Cincinnati station a man stuck his head far out of the window. " 'Keep your head in there.', a station attendant shouted in warning, 'or it will be knocked off!' " 'Knocked off!" shouted the passen ger. "Knocked off, eh? Well, it won't be knocked off by anybody the size ef you, you bandy-legged shrimp.' North Dakota's Whlskerleaa Senator. Washington (D. C.) Dispatch. Senatcr Martin H. Johnson, of North Dakota, used to be a member of the House, and wore a copious set of. long black Dundreary whiskers. North Da-' kota wouldn't stand for them, and now he is smooth shaven. . .. EDWARD rtTZGEBALjyg "CENTENARY JEdward Fitzgerald, born March !1."09. ,T,L-I-a. EnHhman of property who? ao-2- '"-I oy translating tho Rubaivat. or quatrains. of tho Perlsan poet Omar i!??LKSm P16 translation la really an orlKlnal Enrllah poem of irreat beauty, tho i.V.1..". 1i2ch ' ,h thouicht being FH ifXfi Th." following extracts inc'.aiio some or the famous passages of the poem:! Now the New Year reviving old desires. The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. Where the white hand of Moses orr the bough , . Puts out, and Jesus from the ground Sus pires. - Iram lndeeri 1 cmr,A .i.w -n 1-: ' " " v . l 1 . n i 1 ins. 1 ' 1 : , And Jamsbyd's sev'n-ring'd cup whei;e no one knows; But stIH a ruby kindles in the vine. And many a garden by the water blows. And David's lips are lockt; but In d?-ine High-piping Pehlevl, with "Wine! Wtne! Wine! Red wine!" the nightingale cries to' the cose That sallow cheek of hers to incarnadine. Come, fill the cup. and In the fire of Spring -Your Winter-garment of repentance iline; The bird of time has but a little w'av" To flutter and the bird is on the wing. Whether at Nalsbapur or Babylon, " Whether the cup with sweet or bitter run, The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. : The leaves of life keep falling one by one. Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say; Yes, but where leaves the rose of yes terday? And this first Summer month "that brings the rose Shall take Jamsbyd and Kalkobad away. Well, let it take them! What have we to do With Kalkobad the Great, or Kalkbosru? Let Zal and Rustum bluster as they will. Or Hatln call to supper heed not you. With me along the strip of herbage strown That Just divides the desert from the sown. Where name of slave and Sultan !s forgot And peace to Mahmud on his golden throne! A book of verses underneath the bough. A Jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness Oh, wilderness were paradise enow! Some for the glories of this world: and some Sigh for the. Propbel's paradise to enme; Ah, take the cash, and let the credit go. Nor heed the rumble of a distant drum! . Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and saint, and beard great argu ment About it and about; but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went. With them the seed of wisdom did I sow. And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the harvest that I reap'd "I came like water, and like wind I go!" Into this universe, and why not knowing Nor whence, Mke water willy-nilly flow ing; And out of It. as wind along the waste, I know not whither, willy-pllly blowing. What, without asking, hither hui.led whence? And, without asking, whither hurried hence! Oh, many a cup of this forblddfen wine Must drown the memory of that inso- lence! Up from earth's center through the . seventh gate I rose, and on the throne of Saturn sate. And many a knot unravel'd by the road; But not the master-knot of human fate. There was the door to which I found no key; There was the veil through which I might not see: Some little talk awhile of me and thee There was and then no more of thee and . me. . a O threats of hell and hopes of paradise; One thing at least is certain this life flies; One thing is certain and. the rest is lies; The flower that once has blown foreves dies. Strange, is it not? that of .the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of darkness through. Not one returns to tell us of the road, Which to discover we must travel, too. The revelations of devout and learn'd Who rose before us, and as prophets burn'd. Are all but stories, which, awoke from sleep They told their comrades, and to sleep return'd. m a We are no other than a moving row Of magio shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the sun-lllumin'd lantern held In midnight by the master of the show; But helpless pieces of the game he plays Upon this chequer-board of nights and days: Hither and thither moves, and checks and slays. And one by one. back In the closet lays. The ball no question makes of Ayes and! Noes, But here or there as strikes the player . goes; And he that toss'd you down into tha field. He knows about it all ho knows ha knows! The moving finger writes; and, having writ. Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line. Nor all your tears wash out a word of it! And that inverted bowl they call the sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd, we live and die. Lift not your hands to It for help for It As impotently moves as ycu or I. Would but some winged angel, ere too late Arrest the yet unfolded roil of fate. And make the stern Recorder other wise Enregister, or quite obliterate! Ah, Love! could you and I with him con spire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire, "Would not we shatter it to bits and then Re-mould it nearer to the heart's desire! Yon rising moon that looks for us again How oft hereafter will she wax and wane; How oft hereafter rising look for us Through this same garden and for one in vain! And when like her, oh Saki, you shall pass Among the guests star-scattered on the grass. And in your Joyous errand reach the . spot Where I made one turn down an empty' r-assl :