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PORTIANQ, TUESDAY. APR1I. 13, 1909.
INITIATIVE AND COXSTITCTIOJ.-AX. COX
VENriOX. There is opposition to th proposal
to hold a constitutional convention, on
the ground, or iwaumptlon, that It la
the suggestion of reactionaries." who
Tvlsh the opportunity to destroy the
initiative and referendum, and the di
rect primary system. If this be the ob
ject, there Is a much simpler and
easier -way. Use of the Initiative can
be made at any time for setting aside
the initiative and referendum and the
direct primary. For such purposes
there is no need at all of the long and
cumbrous methods of a constitutional
convention, whose work, in any event
would necessarily be referred to the
electors for ratification, after all was
done.
There are arguments for and argu
ments against a constitutional con
vention; but this argument that it
ought to be refused because the Intent
is "to use it to wipe out the reforms
that have been secured by the people,"
can have no bearing, either way; be
cause, in the first place, the Initiative
may now be used, directly, to "wipe
out" Its own doubtful achievements
and its own very existence if a ma
jority wish to vote that way;
and second, the results of" the
constitutional convention could not
become effective till after they
had been approved by the popular suf
frage, and If the electors desire to pre
serve these so-oalled reforms, they
would vote down any constitution that
proposed to abolish them. There is
no occasion then for anxiety, one way
or another. A constitutional conven
tion is not necessary to an effort to sot
aside "the new system," nor could a
new constitution that might attempt to
set It aside be adopted, unless the peo
ple wished to get rid of it. Moreover,
if they wish to get rid of It they may
do so through the initiative Itself, in
the very next election, or at any time.
That "the new system" will some
time or other be greatly changed, or
modilled, we fully believe. The Initia
tive is a risky way of making laws,
because the acts proposed can seldom
be understood by the electors, or even
considered by them. It Is the -way to
get faddist, crude, and even injurious,
legislation. After the measure is of
fered there can be no amendment, but
it must go with all its crudities to the
electors, for yea or nay. The referen
dum is not so objectionable; for If the
people do not like the law that has
been enacted they can demand a vote
upon it. and the debate will bring out
the arguments for and against It.
The direct primary system can also
be dealt with at any time by the in
itiative, without the intervention of a
constitutional convention, and can be
repealed or changed by the direct vote
of a majority, at any time. This, we
believe also, will, at one time or an
other, be done; for the direct primary.
In the form in which we have it. makes
unity of action, in and through party
organization, practically impossible; it
produces dissensions among men which
ohscure and even destroy the ordinary
purposes of political association and
cause the objects directly in view to be
lost sight of, or sunk. In personal and
factional contentions; It brings medi
ocre men, entitled to little or no con
sideration, to the front; it leads to re
sults In general directly opposite to
those intended by the majority of the
people, and upsets, consequently, all
definite principles and policies.'
The primary system, in the form in
which we have it. and Indeed in any
of the forms In which it has been at
tempted In uny of the states, leads to
some or all of these consequences. The
criticism, therefore, Is universal, North
anil South. In consequence of the
numerous examples, states which have
not yet employed It are refusing it,
objecting to political chaos: and none
has gone to the length of the methods
employed in Oregon. Division and de
struction of parties, as political agen
cies, are certain consequences fatal,
especially to majority parties: for the
system encourages candidates who
never would be selected under the
representative or convention system, to
come to the front in large numbers;
there will be a bitter fight for the nom
ination to every Important office, gen
erating Irreconcilable animosities;
some one candidate, out of many, ob
taining a plurality upon a small pro
portion of the vote, will claim the nom
ination but the party has been com
pletely divided, great numbers of its
members refuse to support the candi
date, and the main purposes, or poli
cies, for which a party exists or has
reason to exist, are lost completely, in
these immitigable contentions.
It Is not yet. perhaps, that the Initia
tive could bo successfully Invoked for
correction of these evils and their con
sequences. But the time will come
when it can be. It certainly -will come,
because the people will learn, sooner
or later, that It will be Impossible to
achieve anything In a rational way.
through political and party action
the only way results can be attained
under a system that scatters all effort
and .substitutes personal contentions
for the general objects that call for
political organization. The initiative
ultimately will be used to cure the evils
it has created. Including the greatest
of Its evils Itself.
A man who wants to organize his
political party, or help to organize
It. and Is effective in that line. Is a
bad man. A man who has no recog
nizable merits, who can't got on with
his party, or obtain recognition from
the public, turns knocker, strives to
defeat his party, and thus becomes a
good man. Nothing so hateful as tal
ents, that compete with the preten
sions of mediocrity, or so much ad-
mired as talents that distance compe
tition and leave all pretenders behind.
But this last advantage comes to but
few. "It Is as easy." says Swift, "to
get quit of numbers as 6f hell."
BlIXAMETTE H ATER.
There is no need of a panic in Port
land about Willamette River water
we were all brought up on It. It Is
wet as any water, and purer than the
water supplied to most cities. But it
isn't so palatable as Bull Run. and
perhaps not quite so pure. But it's
mighty good water better water than
Cincinnati or St. Louis or Pittsburg or
Philadelphia or Kansas City gets; (
and we are told a lot of people man
age to live In those towns. '
In an isolated community like ours I
we run to notions and cranks and fol- '
lies. The tendency Is apparent in
every direction; In political, econom
ic, religious, Industrial and educational
matters. We haven't experience, but
we have all sorts of loose "advanced
thinking." We shall be wiser later.
Just now the imaginary bugs, bac
teria, bacilli, worms and germs In
lllamette water bother us, or we al
low them to bother us; that Is, we are
creating our own terrors. Bull Run
water Is superior, but Willamette
water will sustain life.
The supply of Philadelphia Is from
the Schuylkill basin, where millions of
people live, and the wash of the basin
pours the drainage into the stream
a stream much smaller than the Wil
lamette. Yet ten times as many peo
ple manage to live there. The water
of the valley of the Schuylkill, includ
ing the supply to the City of Philadel
phia, sustains life. Let Portland,
therefore, . not fall Into a panic. Ex
amples might be had from Pittsburg,
Cincinnati, St. Louis. Memphis, Nash
ville, New Orleans and many another
city. Here at Portland, therefore, let
us not be absurd.
We shall fix up the conduits under
the Willamette right soon. But don't
be afraid of typhoid or other germs.
Many people make their living by
preaching these fears. Besides, as the
Colonel of the regiment shouted, when
the men shrank back under the fire
"Come on, you cowards! Do you ex
pect to live forever?"
SmMil'RXK'3 GENIUS.
Swinburne never was a popular poet,
certainly not in the United States.
While his merits were not without ap
preciation here and his fame was
known ait second hand by everybody,
compared with Longfellow or even
Browning he had but few readers.
Those who speak of him in the casual
way of conversation refer most often
to the wonderful melody of his lan
guage. In the art of weaving words
Into verses which sing themselves he
was a master of masters. Tennyson
undoubtedly knew how to make the
melody and the thought harmonize
more subtly than Swinburne, but he
could not compel the stubborn sounds
of the English language to sing and
dance at his will nearly so potently as
his less gifted fellow-poet. Connected
with Swinburne's memory, too, there Is
a vague suspicion of something risky in
the matter of the marriage relation.
He Is supposed to have taught precepts
more or less demoralizing to the estab
lished order of the family. This may
or may not be true. What a poet, es
pecially a symbolist like Swinburne,
really means in his verse Is not always
obvious to the man on the street. The
gross interpretation of his song Is sel
dom the true one. Like other poets,
Swinburne Is entitled to the highest
meaning his words will bear, not to
the lowest.
But, aside from all this, there were
other aspects of his genius which ought
not to be forgotten, now that he has
gone to that world concerning which
his faith was largely composed of
doubts and unanswerable questions.
One should not overlook the tender
ness of sentiment which appears in
such verses as the three pretty ones on
a baby's hands. "No rosebuds yet by
damn Impearled," he sings, "match
even In loveliest lands, the sweetest
flowers In all the world, a baby's
hands." Nothing could be more ex
quisitely simple and at the same time
more true. Another song which it
would be hard to surpass for genuine
delicacy of sentiment is the "Child
Song" in the "Poems and Ballads"
published In 1878. "What is love worth,
pray." he asks at the end of the first
verse; "is it worth a tear?" At the
end of the second verse he answers
his question most suggestively: "Gold
Is worth but gold; love's worth love."
These charming lines are not excep
tional In Swinburne's poetry. They
breathe the very essence of his genius.
We must remember, too, that he was
a powerful satirist. Not only could he
denounce the Czar of Russia in lines
which fairly blaze with righteous
wrath, but he could touch lightly upon
the sins of a beautiful flirt. "Thou
whose peerless eyes are tearless, and
thy thoughts as cold sweet lilies," he
sings to such a woman, "lips that give
not love shall live not, eyes that meet
not eyes are sterile." Finally let it be
recorded "of Swinburne that he had
one of the noblest faculties of appre
ciation that any man ever possessed.
Nothing delighted him more than to
praise some other man. Americans re
call that he was one of the first to set
something like its true value on the
genius of Walt Whitman, but Victor
Hugo was his idol. It was Hugo whom
he addressed in this way: 'Thou chief
of us and lord, thy song is as a sword,
keen-edged and scented in the blade
from flowers, thou art lord and king."
No poet ever received a nobler tribute
from another than this.
"NOBODY AXED TOU."
A Treekly paper, published at one of
the normal school towns, says: "Well,
we give It up. We have been support
ing our normal school by our dona
tions, but we shall do it no longer. We
are tired of educating teachers for the
schools of the state. We get no sup
port or thanks for It."
Well, brother, who asked you to ed
ucate teachers for the state? Tou
have simply been doing your own local
work, expecting the state to pay for it.
There is no greater humbug than this
notion that the state must educate
teachers. There were good teachers
and good scholars before the discovery
of this fad. And the product was young
people who did something for the
world. A single normal school, at the
Capital, or at the seat of the State
University, to teach something of the
technique of schoolroom work, might
be well enough. Though even that
Isn't important.
Progress In learning lies In the ca
pacity of the learner, not in the teacher
though the teacher Is necessary for
enforcement of regularity In lessons
nor In the name of the school. These
fads, humors, whims and crotchets
run to every excess. But the object in
each of these cases Is to get a local
school at the expense of the state.
THE HEAVY HAND.
Certainly, the Payne tariff bill lays
a heavy hand on food and drink and
raiment. These are the sources of rev
enue. Cut them out, cut them off, put
the goods on the free list, and where
will you get revenue enough for the
demands upon the treasury?
In income tax and inheritance tax?
These sources may well be used, and
should be used. But, pressed to the
limit, these sources of revenue will
soon be exhausted because incomes
and inheritances will diminish, and
the revenues from them -will then di
minish too. Then the sources of sup
ply of wages will be reduced. Besides,
even for the present time, there Is no
way to obtain revenue, sufficient for
the demands of the Government, with
out taxes on food and drink and rai
ment used by the poor and rich; and
of course the masses of the people, be
ing so numerous, pay the larger part
of these taxes.
Taxation of incomes and inheri
tances is right though taxation of in
heritances should be left to the states;
and taxation of property for support of
state and municipal governments is as
right as necessary. But to obtain the
revenue the National Government must
have, the chief resource must be tax
ation of food and drink and raiment
in use by everybody and, therefore,
the many small and even infinitesimal
taxes producing very targe aggregates.
The ideal way would be to eliminate
protection wholly, and enforce taxa
tion simply lor revenue. Then we
should have the direct property tax
for use of the state, and taxation of in
heritances with it; and then for the'
General Government, taxation of in
comes and taxation of food and drink
and raiment. This would be the way
to obtain revenue. Under the present
system or policy, it is a mere juggle.
Each and every interest is trying to get
an advantage, at the expense of the
others.
But if we don't want these taxes, if
the system irks and oppresses us, we
have the remedy of simplifying the
work of the government in all its
forms, cutting down Its functions,
municipal, state and national, and re
verting to the economy and simplicity
of early times. But would that suit or
please any part or class or description
of our people? We trow not. All want
everything from government, but
don't want to pay for It.
THE VOI.TARI VX METHOD.
David Starr Jordan, president of
Stanford, reproduces In a little book,
with some enlargement, an article
which he published in the Popular
Science Monthly in August, 1888. It
is an application of the doctrine and
system of the Octroi In France to Pro
tective Tariff conditions In the United
States. It is a mighty good piece of
satire. The octroi, as everybody
knows, is a governmental grant or
privilege given to some company or
person; especially a trade monopoly
thus oonferred. Notably In France,
and . to an extent In other European
countries, it is a tax levied at the gates
of a city on articles introduced for
consumption. Jordan's little book is
a pretty story, telling how people get
rich by taxing each other. But there
were unprotected industries, and some
how there were persons many of
them who got no profit out of the
system.
The story reminds one of Voltaire's
method of treatment of like ques
tions, of which, however, it is no imi
tation. The advantages obtained by
one class and another are passed on to
the lowliest class, who can pass them
no further.
Two general lessons, writes Dr. Jor
dan in his Introduction, may be drawn
from this record. "The first, that his
tory repeats itself, if it be real history,
not a succession of unrelated incidents.
The second, that the national wealth
may be enhanced by taking money
from the hands of the poor, who waste
it (the reason why they are poor) and
putting it into the hands of the rich
and powerful, who know how to make
money work." Again: "It is a well
attested fact that prosperity will al
ways follow when property can be
transferred in a lawful and orderly
manner from the . many who do not
know what to do with it to the few
who know how to use It."
There is equal mixture of truth and
irony here. For Dr. Jordan is a
fighter against privilege and, for de
mocracy. His idea is that it is not the
function of society to establish eco
nomic government, but to educate the
people. Yet nobody knows better than
he how difficult and arduous the prob
lem is.
MONEY IS CHEAP.
According to a bucolic axiom, "all
signs fall in dry weather." It Is never
very "dry" weather In the New York
stock market, but most of the signs
by which its members are supposed
to govern their actions, have signally
failed within the past three months. A
most notable example of this change
in the Wall-street line of reasoning
was presented last week, when the
Government issued a decidedly bullish
crop report. Poor crops, of course,
mean poor business for the railroads,
and by all the rules of the game there
Bhould have been a heavy slump in
stocks. They did not slump. Quite
the contrary, they Joined hands with
the bounding wheat mscket and
soared up to higher levels. The sur
plus reserve In the New York banks
for the week ending last Saturday
dropped to the lowest figure (with a
single exception) reached In fifteen
months and money still remains a drug
on the market.
A few weeks ago a European de
mand for gold sprang up and we began
shipping liberal consignments by each
6teamer, but with a lowering of the
Bank of England discount rate these
exports ceased and there has been no
Increased activity at home to create a
demand for the idle money. Not only
has England ceased buying gold, but
since the nomination of Mr. Taft the
Europeans have again come Into our
market as heavy buyers of new rail
road securities. With the assurance
that there would be no more of the
bull-ln-t he-china-shop methods of the
previous Administration. London finan
ciers have subscribed heavily to the
new Southern Pacific convertibles, and
are also reported to be in the market
for other new issues of the Harriman
as well as other lines.
This influence, of course, affects
what is known as the non-professional
element in the stock-buying public, and
perhaps accounts for the strength of
stocks in the face of an unfavorable
outlook for traffic, especially on what
are known as the "granger roads."
The public, not caring to loan money
a tno insignificant rates now offered
for either call or time loans, may pre
fer taking a chance In a high-priced
stock market. It is questionable, how
ever, whether this speculation can be
maintained much longer unless the ac
tual business of the country, the manu
facturing, mining and agricultural in
dustries show more signs of improve
ment than are visible at this time.
Cheap money is far from being a bless
ing if it cannot be put to work where
it can earn something for both bor
rower and lender.
Out here In the far Northwest we
are to a considerable extent Immune
from the stagnation that is disturbing
the East, for we suffered less and re
covered sooner from the panic than the
Eastern States. We also have excel
lent prospects for a bumper grain crop.
' present our lumber industry is suf
fering more than anything else, the
uuuetuumy in me jast limiting orders
from that direction to bare necessities
and even these must be sold at prices
which leave little or no profit.
The Legislature of New Vnrt h r-a-
jected the primary law offered by those
who iavorea the Ideas of Governor
Hughes. It proposed the so-called
committee system; but the Legislature
wouldn't have even that. It was a
sort of complex compromise between
different plans. New York now has a
primary law, but it provides for the
election ot delegates to nominating
conventions. The plan proposed by
Governor Hughes would have em
powered party committees to nominate
candidates, to be approved or rejected
by direct primary vote; and the right
of enrolled voters to offer
candidates, by petition, was to be guar
anteed. I tie Hughes plan was quite
like "the assembly plan" in Oregon;
for -which, however, our law does not
directly provide. But in New York
there is determination not to abandon
the convention feature.
That scalawag preacher known as
Rev. G. S. Summers, who iwas arrested
in Douglas County while in charge of a
Methodist church last Summer, and
taken back to Texas for trial on the
charge of obtaining money under false
pretenses, has been acquitted of that
offense, but deserves punishment for a
greater. He deserted a wife and three
children down there and came north
with his pretty organist. Now the
young woman and her child are being
cared for by her parents, and Summers
has the insufferable gall to write to
deluded friends a whining letter tell
ing how much he loves his victim. He
uses all the cant usually employed by
an un whlpt whelp that serves the devil
In the Lord's livery, promising to
marry her as soon as he secures a di
vorce and perhaps return to Oregon.
Oregon has no room for such pups.
The Parliamentary investigating
committee has Just unearthed a big
scandal in the French navy-yards.
One of the new battleships is practi
cally useless and the boilers In another
cannot be used. Such disclosures are
not at all surprising when it is re
called that France is a country which
has been held up by the rich shipown
ers for a subsidy that enables French
vessels to sail round the world in bal
last and still pay a profit. Almost anything-
In the way of fraud, deception
and theft might be expected In a coun
try where such raw grafts as the ship
subsidy steal can . be successfully
worked. It Is somewhat surprising
that the investigating committees
found any boilers in these battleships.
Perhaps they were borrowed for. the
occasion.
England, engrossed in the pleasures
of a bank holiday following Easter,
failed to Inform the rest of the world
how the iwheat market was going yes
terday. Chicago was accordingly
obliged to set the pace, and prices
moved easily up to new records for the
July and September options, with May
again touching the high mark of the
season. As these remarkable prices
still fail to bring out the big stocks
of wheat which the Government found
In farmers hands on March 1, it Is
highly probable that there will be fur
ther advances as soon as Liverpool is
heard from again.
The release from the Penitentiary on
parole of Ernest Lane, who acquired
a most uneviable distinction in the
burglar's profession in Portland as the
"Pink Domino," a few years ago, is an
outrage upon a plundered public. This
fellow served about two years- of a
sentence of fifteen years in prison,
which term was at the time, and in
view of his criminal record, consid
ered quite short enough. The reasons
for the extraordinary leniency shown
by thU parole of an expert In the burg
lar's art are not given.
Uptown banks of New York City
are imposing a charge of Jl a month
on checking accounts of less than $200.
The object is to get rid of the labor
and expense of accounts that can yield
no profit. There is a good deal of de
bate about it whether on the whole
It is the best policy for the banks or
not. To enforce the rule might cause
the loss, at times, of good business.
"All the men who oppose Simon,
who stand for direct primary and op
pose conventions, are endeavoring to
get a convention or assembly, to nomi
nate some other candidate." This Is
the way the statement reads, but It
reads closely like . a puzzle or Juggle,
with strong smell of machine politics
about it.
A Umatilla man says that under the
old bounty law it was common to scalp
coyotes and turn them loose. The
man who scalps a live coyote certainly
earns his money. The new law re
quires the hide as well as the scalp,
and destroys this Industry.
Former Senator Fulton probably "will
not accept the Chinese mission. It Is
a wise decision. A man who can work
in Oregon has nor occasion to bury
himself in China. Better a single year
of Oregon than a cycle of Cathay.
Smoking in a streetcar is less offen
sive than the sickening odor of a
"snipe" which some economical men
carry during the ride.
Gunjlro Aoki and his American wife
have taken up their abode in Seattle.
No need to follow them farther.
Easter passed without even "a trace
of rain." Now for seven successive
bright Sundays.
Welcome the winners (the Beavers,
of course) today.
'ORKS SO -YEARS IN ONES FAMILY.
Fsltlirul Mary Groepan. Domestic, of
South River, X. J.
New Bedford (Mass.) Standard.
All honor to Mrs. Mary Grogan "Big
Mary" of South River. New Jersey!
More famous are Joan of Arc and Moll
Pitcher and Barbara Frletchte and the
other heroines written In history and
sung In verse, but not more deserving
of honor or emulation.
For Mary Grogan, on the 5th of this
month had rounded out 50 years
of continuous service as a domestic in
one family, with never a day oft since
1889 and never a request for a raise in
wages since she went to work for a
100 a year in 1859. No wonder the
woman who employed uer, and the
seven children, 13 grandchildren and
five great-grandchildren who have
come Into the world since Mary Grogan
began her half century of honorable
service are planning a monster celebra
tion, at which the servant shall be mis
tress and the mistresses the servants
and the crowning event of which will
be the voluntary payment to the day's
guest of the raise in pay, with all the
back accumulations, that she never
asked for.
In was April S. 1859, that Mary Gro
gan, with her children. Patsy. Mary and
Bill, went to work for Mrs. Abial Price
on the Price farm, near New Bruns
wick. She had but recently landed at
Castle Garden from the Emerald Isle,
and she was then a red-cheeked, bright
eyed Irish girl. One hundred dollars a
year was the wage for which she
agreed to go to work. Mary's once jet
black hair is touched with, white now,
and her once bonny brow Is bent, but
she Is still hale and hearty, and she
still arises at 6:30 every morning to get
the breakfast for her mistress, who Is
about her own age. and for the other
members of the family whom she has
helped to rear. In 1889 Mary spent a
day off at New Brunswick; prior to
that she made one trip to New Yor.k
during the Civil War. to make inquiries
about her son, who had enlisted as a
drummer boy. Since tue trip to New
Brunswick she has not asked even for
an evening off. All of which constancy
and fidelity are to be reeosrnized hv
the Prices with the biggest kind of a
blow-out that the Price farm has ever
witnessed.
In these days when the servant prob
lem is so vexatious, housekeepers the
land over should join with the Prices
in doing honor to Mary Grogan, whose
example to others should be perpetuat
ed with a monument.
DRY WAVE LESSENS REVENUES.'
New Taxes Moat Take Place of Those
Raised Lately on Liquors.
Washington (D. C.) Post.
. If the "dry" wave continues to gather
volume, our tariff tinkers will have to
revise their estimates on the probable
revenue of the country. A majority of
me oouinern states nave already joined
the prohibition column, and now some
of those In the North are seriously
pointing that way.
In Indiana 62 of the 92 counties of
the state have already gone dry, and It
is oenevea tnat ten or a dozen more
will be added to the . list. Of mn,..
beer and whisky will get Into even dry
counties, one way or another, but the
closing up or a thousand or more sa
loons In one state will materlallv re
duce the amount consumed, and all this
will have its effect on the amount of
revenue raised from the tax on malt
and spirituous liquors. Indiana has
nimerto Been one of the heaviest Inter
nal revenue-producing states of the
Union, standing third or fourth In the
11st. The state has a number of very
large breweries and distilleries, and
voting out of saloons will affect their
sales to a greater or less extent.
Indiana has also been one of the best
customers for Kentucky whisky, and
thus the revenue receipts will be cut in
the latter state. If the "dry" wave
spreads Into other states, the receipts
from Internal revenue may fall far
short of the estimate made bv the wavn
and means committee, and as the
amount of revenue provided by the
Payne bill Is calculated to only meet
the demands of the Government, any
serious falling off In one branch will
mane a hole that will be hard to fill.
Taking everything Into consideration
the path of Congress In providing a
suinciem revenue Is beset with great
difficulties, and It is not beyond the
range of possibilities that If the Payne
bill is enacted into law it will have to
De revised by the end of Its first wr.
If that should' happen, a howl will go
up from all the country, and more than
one politician will be found crying for
rocKs ana mountains to fall on him and
nicle nim from the wrath to come.
Does Harriman Mean Business T
Prlneville Review.
Only familiarity with the lower Des
chutes Canyon causes the writer to
doubt the sincerity of the Harriman
officials when they claim that the
reclamation Service is holding up con
structlon. It Is true that a car started
at Willow Creek would roll by Its
own momentum on an easy water
grade all the way to the Columbia.
But don't forget that steam would be
necessary to haul it back, either loaded
or empty, and that It costs something
to haul a string of empties up a water
grade 110 miles. Here in Crooked Riv
er valley, where we have no railroad
expectations whatever, there Is a bet
ter proposition for a road than down
the deserted Deschutes, for here we
have something doing every mile. There
are wagon roads here, too, and rail
lines, when any are constructed, al
most Invariably follow the wagon road.
The lower Deschutes Canyon consists
of 100 miles of sand and sage, with
no more than stock trails along the
brakes as a means of communication
between far-apart sheep herders. There
never has been the need of a wagon
road there; and while the Harriman
system has our permission to get busy
there, we think it has no Intention of
doing so, and never will have.
Mother, 4- Tears, Has 15 Children,
Chicago Dispatch.
Mother of 15 children, all living, and
only 42 years old at that! This is the
remarkable record outlined by Mrs.
Mary Piepenbrink, who appeared be
fore Ninlan H. Welch, assistant to
Probate Judge Cutting, in regard to
the estate of her late husband, John E.
Piepenbrink. Piepenbrink and his wife
worked together from the time of
their marriage, and by their Joint
savings accumulated a modest estate.
The Road to Cablnteely.
Dora. Slgerson Shorter, In McClure'a.
Oh, the lonely road, the road to Cablnteely.
'Tls there I see a little ghost, and gaily
slngeth aha.
Bhe plucks the swaying cowslip, nor stays
for all my calling.
But flies at my pursuing, who once did
run to me
She once did run to me.
I follow ever eager the dancing shade elu
sive. The phantom feet that leave me so lone
and far behind.
Then cornea her merry laughter like elfln
music chiming.
She cares not for my sorrow, she once to
grief so kind
She was to tears so kind.
Her kiss falls swift and tender on breaking
bud and blossom.
Her flitting fingers touch them,' fair aa
white butterflies;
Her Blender arm enfolds them with soft and
sweet embraces.
Remembered shy caresses she now to me
denies
filie ail to me denies.
On the haunted road, the road to Cablnteelv,
Tia ' there a little dancing ghost her
merry way doth take.
She sings no song of sorrow, nor knows no
pain of weeping.
I would not wish her home again, though
my lone heart should break
Though my poor heart should break.
IMFROVIX6 LOOKS OF" CITIES.
Campaign Profrresaes to Have a Na
tional Clraaluar-Vp Process.
Washington (D. C- Stsr.
If this sentiment In fa-or of city
beauty holds out. and there Is no rea
son why It should not Increase as the
days pass, hundreds of cities now
grimy, littered and ill smelling will
become charming places of abode. Pub
lic health will be better and real estate
values higher. The papers of Birming
ham, Ala., are pressing a civic beauty
campaign. One of them says:
"A city Is kept clean by every man
sweeping In front of his own door. A
city is made beautiful by each man
keeping his home neat and his front
yard In order. Even a rented place is
pretty If the tenant has pride enough
to keep It neat and trim. Where all the
houses and vards on a ir,.i -n
kept that street attracts the attention
of all who pass. It does not take much
.lu.r mucn time to make a place
neat, and the slsrht of i
raises the estimation the public has for
,ne city is doing something
for its parks and for the streets; the
people must do for the -houses. To
have a city beautiful the people who
own houses and the people who rent
houses must take an interest. Atten
tion to aetaus makes beauty."
Mayor Ward of Birmingham and sev
eral hundred of the public-spirited cit
izens of the "iron town" are busy lend
ing encouragement to householders.
The Mayor and his committee, backed
by the press, are urging householders,
manufacturers, warehousemen and oth-
10 Deautiry unsightly walls, chim
neys, sheds, etc.. with vines, to plant
bare- lots and urban fields with grass
and flowers and to decorate house
fronts with window gardens. With the
aim of stimulating property-holders or
tenants, the Mayor has offered a series
of prizes for handsome window flower
boxes and gardens.
Knoxvllle, Tenn., has taken up the
question of Improving Its appearance
and is emulating Birmingham's exam
ple. The Knoxvllle Sentinel says:
"There is hope and joy In flowers
and healing for bruised hearts. Try
them. Plant grass and vines. Why
should there be a bare spot In our city?
Why should a single square yard be
given up to weeds and tin cans'"
St. Joseph. Mo.. WnntR tO tt)lr ,,n Iha
Birmingham plan of prizes for flower
boxes, gardens and the like. The St.
Joseph Gazette says:
"It involves but a small outlay of
money, entirely within the means of
the mass of wage-earners, and the ef
fect of such a movement. If systemat
ically pushed, would be elevating and
gratifying to all who take an Interest
in it. Even If the prizes were only to
or $10 for the most beautiful flower
boxes displayed during the months of
May and June continuously the expense
would depend entirely upon the amount
of individual work and study given to
art, while the home-beaut! fier would
come to feel his reward In the refining
Influence of the flowers. A more at
tractive city and prouder citizenship
should be the logical result."
SHAD SUPPLY OX THE WANE.
How the Problem Is viewed by Experts
on the Atlantic Coast.
Boston Transcript.
In popular estimation the shad is one
of the most delicious of food fishes and
this accounts for its annual decline In
quantity on the Atlantic Coast, though it
is Increasing on the Pacific. It Is In sea
son but a few weeks; it Is mercilessly
caught during that time, and as It Is one
of our National resources, highly deserv
ing of conservation, it would seem highly
appropriate that all states whose streams
the fish enter for spawning purposes
should adopt reasonable measures for its
protection. Two years ago the Legisla
ture of Connecticut, owing to the diminu
tion of the catch in the river which bears
its name, cut down the open season to
the period between May 10 and June 20.
This year before that body bills provid
ing for a longer season have been urged.
If the shad of Northern waters are to
be saved from extinction it must be by
local means. ..The Connecticut Committee
on Fisheries and . Game has asked the
United States Commissioner of Fisheries
why the Government does not distribute
fry in Connecticut waters. His replv Is
that the shad fisheries in Delaware Bay
Chesapeake Bay and Albermarle Sound,
where the bureau maintains hatcheries,
have been so extensively carried on by the
use of pound nets and other devices in
salt and brackish waters that compara
tively few fish arrive at their natural
spawning grounds, and the Bureau Is able
to save so few eggs that it has been
deemed advisable to place such as it -e-cured
In local waters. It Is dependent
upon these hatcheries for the supply of
fry with which to stock the rivers of
New England and other states of the
North.
The discouraging confession is made
that until the states having Jurisdiction
over these waters take uniform action,
or. perhaps better still, turn the whole
business over to the Federal Government,
the shad hatcheries will continue to de
crease. This proposition is put up to the
committee: "If you can stop the catch
of shad In the Connecticut in salt and
brackish waters, and confine the fishing
to the fresh waters where they naturally
spawn, there collecting the eggs of the
ripe ones, the maintenance of the fishery
will be assured. Otherwise you may
look forward to conditions which now
exist In the streams farther south." It
seems to be a question of self-help and
self-preservation. A dozen years ago
50.000.000 pounds of shad were caught on
this coast, but the industry is declining
and will in time cease to be profitable
under the conditions that now exist.
Blames Red Hair for Trouble.
Des Moines, la.. Correspondence. Phila
delphia Record.
Lucy Thompson stood with her red
hair bowed in sorrow before the Police
Judge. They had been talking about
her mother and she was weeping. The
Judge had told her she was one of the
naughtiest girls in Des Moines; that
she was not wanted here, and that she
must leave town. Then raising her
tear-stained face she startled the court
by blaming her auburn locks for all her
naughtiness.
"I would have been a good girl if
my hair had not been red, judge " she
said.
"Do you have any Idea of the humil
iation of brick-red hair??" she con
tinued. "Why, ever since I was a little
baby I've been ashamed of It. The kids
at school used to sneer at It; voung
fellows passed me up for black and
brown and golden-haired girls. Bovs
only liked me when I did naughty
things and I Just had to do them or be
left out in the cold. I am so glad my
mother has left the city. She lives
now down in the southern part of the
state in a little vllllage. There I may
find some one who will not hate me for
my hair.
Judge Stewart looked down upon the
girl's great mass of brick-red tresses
and said:
"Lucy, I have known you for a long
time. I believe you have been a bad
girl and I hope you will try to be good."
Then musingly, he added:
"Do you know, I rather like your
hair. It's red all right, but It Is er-
fine."
Ira's Contribution to the Party.
Point Pleasant (X. J.) Beacon.
A number of young friends of Wil
liam Kennedy gathered at his house
In honor of his 15th birthday anni
versary. A pleasant evening was en
joyed with numerous games and a
few selected pieces which were played
on the graphophone. Delicious re
freshments were served, after which
Ira Thompson fell down into the cel
lar, but fortunately was unhurt-
HFrr-nr kri.ki ha a .. hi v ...
Mrs. Silverman, of evr York, from
Poverty to Minions In is Wars.
New York Press.
Clementine M. Sllvrmn classes with
Hetty Oreen. When Mrs. Silverman's
husband died 1 y:rx ago she was left
with six rhll.iron and a pile of dob's;
today she la a mlllonalre Bevpr.il times
over and one of the largest and most
successful builders In New York. When
Mrs. Green became a widow she was
left with a substantial estate on wht.-h
to rear the pinnacle of her present
wealth. Mrs Silverman started her
business career with an ld.-a as her
single asset. She went out of a small
notion shop, which had been operated
at a loss. Into the real estate business.
She was the first builder in the country
to put bathtubs In tenements, and the
tenants used them for coal.
The woman has a talent for antici
pating Increases In realty vslura. Her
first building venture was In an Isolated
spot on the upper East Side. A factorv
was going up; the Idea came to her
that the men to be employ.-d in the fac
tory would turn naturallv to homes
near by. She bought half a block for
little more than a song, borrowed the
money for that; borrowed every cent
for construction, and a month after the
row of tenements were completed, rent
ed the last flat. She sold the propertv
with a profit of more than $2S.onii.
Since then she has been buylnir. build
ing and selling, always with large
financial rewards.
Mrs. Silverman Is the president of the.
real estate Arm of C M. Silverman Jfc
Son. She manages the companv with
her youngest son. Milton, and In the
last few years the mother and bnv
have built the Clement Court. Rlvthe
bourna. Lorraine, Tuxedo Court and
Ambassador apartment houses in Mad
ison avenue, and the Saguenav. Castle
ton, Briarclifr and Renault Court,
apartment houses In upper Brondwav.
She Is building at One Hundred and
Fortieth street and Broadway. She
was one of the first to see the vast pos
sibilities on the long stretch of Broad
way along the line of the subwav north
of One Hundred and Thlrty-flfth street.
Now she becomes a pioneer In elevated
apartment house construction in The
Bronx, where she is hnildlnc- nt Die
Hundred and Sixty-eighth street and
Boston road.
This is not the end. Mrs. Silverman
has established her two other sons and
her three daughters In the building
business. Moses Crystal, son-in-law
No. 1. Is the president of the Crvstal
Realty Company; Dr. Phil Mclrowltz.
son-in-law No. 2. Is president of the
Jumel Realty Company: Charles Gross,
son-in-law No. 3. is president of the
Times Realty Company. Robert Silver
man, a son, Is head of the Tomahawk
Realty Company, and Arthur Silverman,
the other son, also Is in active harness
as a builder. Mrs. Silverman is the
guiding spirit of all the family corpor
ations. She Is a silver-haired, quiet
spoken little woman, with a love for
ease in living, the opera, and who flits
about the upper part of Manhattan and
the Bronx In her automobile, keeping
watch on realty conditions and pick
ing up corner lots and whole blocks
at bargain prices. Mrs. Silverman's
ruling axiom Is "A contented tenant is
a permanent tenifnt." and she has
proved its value.
College Men as Kewspaper Workers.
Baltimore American.
The modern newspaper has become
an indispensable feature of our dally
life. In its great work of disseminat
ing the news of the world It naturally
exerts a powerful Influence in the
moulding of public opinion. It Is. there
fore, not strange that there has de
veloped a lively public Interest In the
press and Its functions, and that young
men are preparing for Journalism as a
profession. Of the ' many utterances
on the subject none has been more
illuminating and edifying than the lec
tures delivered at Yale by Hart Lyman,
editor-in-chief of the New York Tri
bune. They had. primarily, the seal of
authority upon them, for Mr. Lyman is
one of the country's foremost editors
and speaks from a wealth of valuable
experience. He undertook no defense
of journalism for It needs none but
pointed out the wonderful influence ex
erted by the anonymous articles of edi
tor and reporter that make up the
newspaper, and Invited the college men
to consider it a field worthy the best
brains and manhood that education can
produce. Such scholarly emphasis of the
oportunlty which Journalism offers the
thoughtful, talented and earnest man
was seed sown on fertile soil and sug
gests that colleges and universities
may well lay greater stress on this
field for public service.
Judge Tastes Cheese, for Decision.
Cleveland (O.) Dispatch.
If upon the quality of a piece of cheese
rests the decision of a Judge in a case it
Is up to the court to taste the cheese
before rendering his verdict.
"Surely." answered Justice Terrel.
when such a question presented Itself in
bis court here. Then be bit oft a chunk
of cheese and, after eating it carefully
and pondering for several moments, ho
rendered his decision for the defendant.
The case was that of Jacob Bender,
who sued the Cleveland Cheese Company
for a salary of $25 a week for a period
of five weeks he alleged was due him.
Bender was brought here from Germany
and was said to be an expert cheese
maker. The company averred that Ben
der ruined Sinn worth of cheese for them
and was really of no value to them.
Bender prepared for this statement hy
bringing a piece of cheese into court. He
hnnded it up to the Judte and requested
him to taste it In the presence of the
spectators. But the judicial palate was
not tickled by the morsel so the decision
favored the defendant.
In Good Old Yamhill.
McMinnville Telephone Register.
. One man who had about decided to
sell his home ir. Yamhill County and
move to Portland has decided emphat
ically that if Yamhill is good enough
for strangers It is good enough for
him. His conversion was brought about
by Colonel J. C. Cooper, secretary of
the local development league. He got
Mr. Cooper to prepare a description of
his place for the real estate pcjople tij
use. and after the description was
made out and read to him it sounded
so good without exaggeration that the
man decided he did not want to sell
the place at any price.
SUPPOSEDLY HUMOROUS.
"Why did you marry?" "For sympathy."
"Ild you get what you were after?" "Yes
from my friends." Cleveland Lfiador.
Vlsltoi" How old are you. Waldo? Wal
do Emerson Bostonbeans Ooes the sub
ject really Interest you, madam, or do vou
Introduce it merely as a theme for polite
conversation ? Life.
Recent events at Washington have called
attention to the fact, hitherto overlo,lceii,
that while promising to carry out l he
Roosevelt policies. Mr. Taft did not pleilKe
himself to provlfks stable room for the
Roosevelt hobbles. New Orleans Times
Democrat. "Would you ahoot a man who assailed
your veracity?" "No." answered the peace
ful citizen. "I'd rather take a chancf on
his personal opinion than go before a iurv
wtth a story that might convince the pen'
eral public that he was right. Washington
Star.
Possible Client And ia the district at all
malarial? My husband has told jn to be
careful about that. Agent Kr what is
your husband's business, madam? He 1b a
physician. Hm-m well er truth compels
me to admit, madam, that thepa has btj;n
a good deal of It about here of late years.
Life.
"Yes," he said, thoughtfully, "when I gt
too bumptious and haughty and puft'ed up
with the consciousness that I am a. citizen
of the most progressive Nation that -ver
existed I have an admirable way of bring
ing myself back to earth again." "What do
you do?" "I go to New York and look at
the horse cars." Cleveland Plain lealer.
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