8 THE 3IORX1XG' OREGOXIAX. THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1909. mm PORTLAND. OREGON. .2d at ?olnd. Ortfon. Fostofnca a IteoaA-clMi Matter. nbacrlpttom Btw Iorartably la Adiaae. Br Mall) ?M" un?" Included, on. year is 00 E' funday Included, six month! 4 5 t.1mI" un5!' included. Hire, mouths. I a.23 I.a y. Sunday Included, one month....; tfs .-'" w.,oi" Swr. one year........ 00 Eliv' W,,toui unay- month...... .S Daly, without Sunday, three montha IT? We.kWW',hut 8""l.y on. m?Bt" ..V: io weekly, on. year " , g Sunday, one year 2 SO Sunday and weekly, on. year........" .h (By Carrier.) rjaily. Sunday Included, one year a 00 Haliy. funday Included, on. month..: .IS "iw .!?Rml,,s,nd poatoffica money w P' order or personal check a?." t,h. apa?'co?"or 'curiae? ra in lull. Including county and stale. 0 to 14 pases. 1 cent: 16 Soud?. ?.,..." f po.t; wUhZTrlS"" 0'f-The 8. C. Beck- W)TLAM), THI KMIAY, APRIL 15, 1909. TKJt BROKEN WATER MAIN. The machinery of life has become to complicated and so delicately ad Justed that the Impairment of the smallest part of it is a serious matter An injury to a water main can throw half the population of a great city like Portland into dismay. Life and happi ness iiave come to depend on infinitesi mal circumstances like the continuity rt ui electric wire. Business Is cast into confusion fcy failure of a. tele phone to do Its accustomed won'. Not many years ago every family in the rountry provided Itself with light from lamps. There were no gas mains to rnake trouble, and no gas bills to pay. -No householder worried in those blessed times over electric wires, for there was no electricity. At any rate, there was none which had been har nessed and tamad to human use. A little farther back in the procession of the years each family provided its own water supply from the well in the back yard. It Is wonderful to observe how rapidly during- the last few decades in dividual devices for meeting- the neces sities of existence have 'been replaced by enterprises In which the entire com munity co-operates. Whether the en terprises depend u Don nrlvato nr n,,v. lie capital makes little difference with' ineir underlying-principle. They are co-operative in either case. individual effort has been diverted to other fields, and household wants have bten taken under the care of great corporations, with immeasurable benefit to everybody concerned. The light which we get now Is incompara bly better than the old lamps afforded. The Bull Run . water which municipal enterprise furnishes Is purer and more fc.btinda.nt than the old wells ever gave, and it Is also cheaper. Nobody pays the "Water Board as much for his yearly supply of the clear and spark ling liquid as his family pump used to cost in the good old times, and, grum lle as we may at the gas and electric companies, they give us more for our money than we ever got before they took charge of the problem of Illumi nation for us. . This is not saying, of course, that they might not give us a great deal more still, but it Is well onoe in a while to cease from com plaint and contemplate, in a. spirit of thankfulness, the blessings which we actually enjoy. The -passage of household supplies like water, light and food, under the centrol of great corporations has nro- dnoed remarkable sociological effects wnich. we do not always recognize when we sit down to bewail the fact that water main has -broken or a wire been disconnected. In the first Dince. it hHS made us aJl intimately mprnwni upon tnose delicate me chanical Adjustments which were spoken of a moment ago. The sci ences of electricity, chemistry juid physics have entered Into our datly livea' to a degree which would have heen Inconceivable to our fathers. The equation of -mathematical physics have become the rules by which we live. Machinery moves us. warms us, eats us and sleeps us. Knowing all this, is it not wonderful how slowly and reluctantly the schools have con sented to teach our children the things which they must know about machinery and. Its laws in order to understand the world they live in? "Wheels and currents and physical en ergy manifested "in steam and electric ity are the most Intimate companions of our lives. They are inevitably either our best friends or deadliest foes, and yet the frrca.t majority of our hoja and girls pass ' through school M-itli no knowledge of them which has the slightest value. Another sociological consequence of this dependence on machinery and its laws is a corresponding dependence upon workmen. In the old days, when everybody did everything for himself, it made not much difference to him whether the men with the dinner pails went to their tasks or not. Xow if they do not go. we are neither warmed, fed nor lighted. "We cannot go to business, nor return from it. If the workers refuse to work, the whole world stops moving, and misery very soon shows its dire face around every corner. The more we fall into de pendence on machinery, the more powerful as a factor the worklngman becomes in society. lie is the gnome upon whose good will all our happi ness and comfort depend. Perhaps it Is ' fortunate that, like some other great elemental forces, he is not con scious of his power. But in France he seems to be learning it rather rap Idly. What m-ill be the outcome of those great proletarian movements which Indicate a growing consciousness on the part of labor of Its fundamental Importance In our complicated life pro cesses? Will It grow in kindliness and appreciation of other sides of our common nature as it develops the sense of unity? Thirdly, the corporations, by taking over domestic work like, lighting, "weaving and cleaning, have left vast vacancies In the lives of women who formerly attended to all those matters with more or less fidelity. The conse quence Is that women are compelled to seek new outlets for their super abundant energy, or else pine in con tinuous idleness. Driven by the neces sity to employ their latent powers, they have invaded one field of Industry after another, and will not stop until they ahare men's work In all its do- mains. Thus, the plunge of women into business and the solidarity of orklngmen both flow of neces sity from the co-operative use of ma- hinery by cities and private compa nies. As the . power of the workers for good or evil increases, society, be cause of its delicate adjustments, be comes aver more dependent upon their I'jvaity ana good -win. It Is easier to destroy a. -watch than; a -wheelbarrow. A break in a -water main may set the mind at 'work upon problems which the smooth routine of daily life con ceals rather than suggests, but shun them as we may. they still exist, and time will only make them more in sistent. WAIT rOB SOMKTH1NU IXTtRBSTBG. It fs quite edifying to observe our own Senator Chamberlain denouncing, before such select and distinguished company as the National Democratic Club of New York, the "convention system as & corrupt and unrepresenta tive form of government." Richard Croker, ex-boss of Tammany, and Uharles i . Murphy, boss of Tammany. applauded his sentiments to the echo. of course. -They are firm friends of reform and believe profoundly in the direct primary for Oregon which has given to the Democratic minority in the Senate a great and good man like the new Oregon Senator. Croker and Murphy believe the direct pri mary is doing a most beneficent work, in the South, where it has been so con trived and manipulated as to exclude the Republican party from all partici pation in state affairs. It will have tho support of the Tammany machine for New Tork whenever Murphy,. Croker and their delectable kind see that it may be used to break down and dis integrate the Republican party, and to insure the continued dominance of the Democratic party. But you did not find" Senator Cham berlain, Joining with other Democratic orators in railing against the Payne Aid rich bill. Not he. Just let us wait for him to do and say something on a matter which will really interest his Oregon constituency. WHEAT'S SENSATIONAL TEAR. The wheat markets.'not only in Chi cago which is of course the storm cen ter, but throughout the world, have this season been marked by sensa tional advances. ' For man v wwt much of the . rerrui rlra.rilA Mmnctit n the situation has been attributed- to a corner in Chicago which speculative interests have - been engaged - for months in perfecting. The oft-repeated theory, however, that this alleged corner in Chicago is responsible for the extraordinary strength in the world's wheat markka n-IIl not hur analysis. In Portland, wheat has been a-1 1 1 145 aouve enner. ne iviay or July options in Chicaa-o; and the high price is based) exclusively on short sunnlies and a heavy demand, on the Pacific coast, as a rule Pacific coast prices are based on the Liverpool prices, but for the past three months enneumocs in California, Oregon. Washington and ivtexic nave Deen willing to pay so much more for- wheat than it was worth for shipment that none has gone forward. That there is a similar shortage in wheat in Eastern market penters is quite apparent from the heavy pre mium commanded by the cash article in New Tork, Chicago and Minneap olis. If the alleged corner were as formidable as it is generally reported no such difference could exist in the cash and option prices. In all pre vious corners it has been necessary for the speculator to purchase cash wheat in order to support the price of the op tions, while this season the option mar ket has been self-supporting through out. The European market, after its phenomenal advance of Tuesday, closed a fraction lower yesterday, but until more actual wheat than is now in sight comes to light somewhere it will be impossible to secure much of a re action in the market. For the farm ers who view with broadening smiles the excellent condition of the growing crops in the Pacific .Northwest, these prices are a great boon. To the con sumers who have watched the price of bread ascend with that of wheat the outlook is less roseate. OVR. KIW .CITIZENS. Well-directed effort, liberal advertis ing and low rates by the railroads this Spring have brought about the largest colonist movement to the Pacific that the Pacific Northwest has evex known. Estimating the total for the two months, on the official figures of the Harriman lines for the first thirty days of the movement. It seems probable there will be an actual increase of 40 000 in the population of the three states during March and April. With a corresponding number during the Fall colonist movement, and the nat ural increase during the remainder of the year. It would seem that an in crease of 100,000 In the population of the three states this year would be quite conservative. Portland and Oregon quite naturally receive a larger share of the newcom ers over the Harriman lines than either of the other states, but Wash ington undoubtedly secures more of the colonists who come West bv- the Hill lines. It is particularly gratify ing to note that such an overwhelming proportion of the newcomers are set tling at interior points, and not taking up their residence in the cities. Port land, Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and other Northwestern cities are well in advance of the development of the country on which they mu6t rely for support, and if the country grows and prospers by the efforts of the newcom ers the cities will naturally and al most automatically grow and prosper in keeping therewith. The class of newcomers of which Portland stands in most need is not the kind that come under the colonist rates so much as it is those who come on first-class tickets "in standard Pull mans. To be sure, the two classes must come into the country in (well- balanced ratio. We need more men In the country to produce fruit, vegeta bles," poultry, eggs, dairy products, etc., and in the city we need more capital ists to build factories and aid in the enlistment of a dinner-pail brigade which in turn will widen the demand for the products which the newcomers will soon be marketing. The Pacific Northwest is the last stand for the homeseeker in search of cheap land, with" wood, water and a fine climate attachment. Not all of the thousands now coming into this land will amass fortunes in a few years. None of them will prosper without determined effort and hard work, and some of them will fail here, as they would fall anywhere else" on earth. Each of the newcomers should be careful in selecting his work and in vesting his capital and labor where it is most needed. If a man is a good farmer or could do well raising chick ens or fruit, we do not care to have him crowd into the city and take a position from a clerk, a carpentr or a barber, any one or all of. whom might be of no earthly use on a farm. This great Northwest can - continue -to As similate not only 100,000. but several hundred thousand newcomers annu ally for many years, and the only pos sibility for failure or dissatisfaction lies in the possible unfortunate selec tion of a. trade or profession by some of our new citizens. This problem, however, is less difficult here than elsewhere. in the country, and will ad just "itself naturally as the newness wears off the country. TUB II KBI.VK DIVIDES HONORS. The turbine engine and the recip rocating engine divided honors in the speed and endurance trials of the gov ernment scout cruisers which were concluded, off Rhode Island. Tuesday. The contesting cruisers were the Ches ter, with Parsons turbine engines built In this country, from English plans, the Salem with the Curtis tur bines, planned and built in this country, and the - Birmingham, equipped with the latest type of recip rocating engines. The dimensions of the three vessels are exactly the same, each bas the same boiler capacity, and under normal conditions each is sup posed" 'to -develop the same Indicated horse-power. The twenty-four-hour endurance run "which ended Tuesday, with the Chester victorious, was the third important test to which these cruisers have been subjected. .the result of these contests eeems to have demonstrated quite conclu sively that there is still plenty of op portunity for the old reciprocating en gine, where economy' of fuel and mod erate speed are preferred to high speed said enormous fuel consumption. On the first trials a thousand-mile run at ten-knot speed, and a fifty-hour run at fifteen-knot speed, the reciprocat ing engines of the Birmingham easily maintained the maximum speed at a much smaller coal consumption than either of the turbines could show. Un fortunately for American pride, the British type of turbine on the Chester made a much better showing for econ omy than the American turbine, the only .advantage, if it -could be re garded as of sufficient Importance to be termed an advantage, being a smaller consumption of water by the American turbine. The ten and fifteen-mile tests were so highly favorable to the Birmingham with her reciprocating engines that the dilatory actions of the Government in adopting the new high-speed engines, which are already in actual service in the British, German and French navies, seemed to be fully warranted. The final high-speed test, however, has demonstrated quite conclusively that the smooth-running turbine can stand a speed that- will tear the reciprocating engine to pieces. The latter type of engine still has a wide field of useful ness. "Unless the turbine can be per fected so that it will develop econom ical points in keeping with Its high speed advantages, it will not soon sup plant the reciprocating engine for or dinary work, where economy of fuel is more desired than high speed. That this feature of advantage In the old en gine is fully recognized by those most interested in the new one is apparent In their efforts to produce an engine in which the-best points, of .the two can be combined. Mr. Parsons, inventor of the engines used in the Chester Tuesday, is said to be working on plans for a combina tion of the two engines by which the turbines can take the steam after it has passed through the cylinders of the reciprocating engines. Actual ex periment will be necessary to deter mine the advantage of a "half-breed" engine of this type. Meanwhile, hon ors are easy between the turbine and the reciprocating engine, each stand ing a victor in a particular field of use fulness. THE DISTURBANCE IN TLRK1A". . Perhaps the rejoicings, of the world over the easy -and bloodless revolution in Turkey a few months ago were pre mature. It is seldom that a nation passes from religious and political des potism to a constitutional government without terrible convulsions. -' Usually, also, it requires many years to accom plish the change. When Turkey ac quired what seemed to be a stable con stitution, with hardly any . resistance from the old system of irresponsible personal government which it replaced the world wondered, ' but the facts Were apparently undeniable. Now, however, it is manifest that the reac tionary forces were dormant rather than dead, and. they have begun to show themselves. It cannot be sup posed that the Sultan ever relished changes which . deprived him of so much or his authority, and there is a suspicious friendliness "between hint and the-revolting .troops which indi cates that the ' troubles mean more than a mere r- change . of Ministers. Probably, if the truth were revealed they aim at a total relapse to tho old system which the Young Turk party thought it had abolished forever. Any nation in which the army can control the civil power is in a danger ous condition. This is precisely the case in Turkey. The Ministers have been driven out of office, not at the demand of the people, but by turbu lence among the soldiers. From this fact, we can see how slender the bonds of seeming ' civilization are in that country, and how little stability its new " institutions possess. The mo ment the army begins to dictate to the civil authorities, it is useless to talk of liberty or a constitution. Military powcr by its very nature knows noth ing of constitutions. Friends of lib erty everywhere will be suspicious that the turbulence of the Turkish troops Indicates a purpose on the part of the religious and political reaction aries to regain the power which they j have lost. The events of the next few days ought to show whether the re volt is a mere incident, or something fundamentally important. A pathetic story is told of the death on the leper island of Molokai of Mrs. Walter R. Brinkerhoff. formerly Miss Nellie White, of Winchesdon. Mass., a martyr, it is said, to wifely devotion. Nellie, so runs the story, gave up the pleasures of wealth and social stand ing to marry Walter R. Brinkerhoff and go with him to the leper colony to assist him in oaring for the lepers of Molokai. The young pathologist was devoted to the task of discovering the cause and cure of leprosy, anjl permitted a lovely young girl, with everything to make life enjoyable, to sacrifice her health and by slow and noisome decay her life in her devo tion to him. This is called wifely de votion, and lauded. How would it be to call it husbandly selfishness? "Un der this name would it not fitly 'be denounced as cruel as well as selfish? Should the man have encouraged or even allowed the woman to do this? How could he, dwelling in the' pres ence of a living death, among loath some, rotting creatures, for a mo ment have entertained the Idea of marrying and taking a wife' into such surroundings? Perhaps -it was com mendable for her to sacrifice her life on the altar of wifely devotion, though that may be doubted: but It certainly was not commendable in the husband to permit the needless sacrifice. There is nothing new under the sua. not even foreign invasions. Since John Bull has worked himself into a frenzy of fear over a possible invasion by the Germans, the statisticians and histo rians have been busy establishing precedents. Without going back to within a thousand years of the time when Caesar came over with his in vading party, about 64 B. C, they find that more than fifty invasions have taken place since 1066, when the Nor mans began their conquest. Some of these invasions were small affairs, in which the invaders had a very poor run for their money, but many of them were epoch-marking Incidents. Just what would be the effect of the German invasion should it take place is problematical, but even that might prove as -harmless as some of the old time Invasions which were squelched almost as soon as the Invaders set foot on the tight little isle. The sacred rights of the "peepul" under the direct primary will not be trampled on by any rude investigation of the amount of money Senator Stephenson spent hi landing the peo ple's choice in the United States Sen ate. The witnesses most wanted . to prove that Assemblymen were bought like cattle in a corral have all disap peared, and the special Legislative in vestigating committee is unable to find any of them. - The banker who han dled the funds which were necessary in the purchase of votes for the peo ple's choice is now in Europe, and will probably remain there until the "ma chine politicians." who were unable to defeat the people's choice for United States tjenator, have abandoned their efforts to determine the exact cost of being elected to the Senate un der the direct primary law as It works in Reformer La Kollette's bailiwick. Several women went from Chicago to Washington to protest against the in crease of the tariff on stockings and gloves. When they returned, one of them reported: . Speaker Cannon, when he saw tie. said something- about the price of hats we had on hems about $60. and o why -tot stockings S cents a pair higher than tho 25 cents wo pay now. TTow can you ar gue against things like that? There was no way, of course, to con- vice the Speaker, who insisted on talking of hats when the ladies were there to discuss stockings. It Is pleas ant to observe that there was no con troversy over the low price the women paid for their stockings. "There never was any Harriman Hill feud," repeats Louis Hill, in a St. Paul Interview. The illustrious son of his father is probably using the term feud as it is used in the moon shine districts of the" South. What Louis apparently expects, in case the present terminal and territorial squab ble is not settled, is for the old gen tleman to grab a meat ax and cut Mr. Harriman into thin slices, or," in case Edward H. sees him first, Mr. Hill may be suspended by the whiskers and jabbed with a pitchfork. That might do for a starter for a "feud" worthv the name. In the land of the wooden nutmeg the father of a 17-year-old girl was arrested on complaint of the neighbors because the young woman dons male attire to do farm work. He was re leased when she testified, she wore the clothes for convenience. Will petty courts never learn to keep their hands off the garb of woman? . This girl round what she needed In overalls. just as many fine young women in the Bunchgrass country frequently wear "shaps" when going after the cows and are none the worse for it. J A Des Moines (Iowa ) dispatch -an nounces that "more than 750 Des Moines school children today signed a petition to Theodore Roosevelt asking nim to change his mind, and not kill defenseless animals in Africa." If this petition is. mailed to Oyster Bay and marked "Hold for arrival," it will be fully as effective as though it should be sent direct to Darkest Africa. The trust-baiter did not go to Africa with his elephant guns for the purpose of reading petitions. Over the mountains in Grant county. where a lawyer is upon occasion a proctor in admiralty, a veterinary sur geon the other day dressed the wounds of an ordinary physician who had "met up with a wire fence. This is human Ity, not ethics. Every daV VOll meet th man vVkn makes a minute calculation, for your Denetlt as to how much monev von would have made if you had not made the mistake of failing to buy May wheat three months ago. The long dry spell is over, and oeo- pie who never , missed the water be fore have resumed the pleasant occu pation of talking about the beauties of Bull Run, and letting others drink It. Where was our friend Francis I. McKenna during the trying days of the Bull Run drouth? Good time, wasn't it, to learn to forget the dreadful name. Bull Run? If those university regents had wanted to be real severe, they might have added about three taps on the fingers to those suspended bathtub bing artists. Positive relief to have Bull Run on tap again. Some people now know where to get it if they should ever happen to want it Plunger Patten denies that he has cornered the wheat market. The mar ket must have cornered itself; and that's no dream. Repairing a break In a big pipe is a colossal Job for the Water Board. Raising salaries of favorites is more of a size. Those Stayton robbers seem to be doing a great deal finer Job of run ning than of holding up a bank. Xo one but Dicky Davis and his White Mice (see current fiction) can restore Castro to his throne. These are the Beavers' busy days. Wfri. EVILS OF" 'CONCENTRATION But wtMtt Are the "No-Parttsaaa 5iw Themselves Doing PORTLAND. Or.. April IS. To the Ed itor.) The recent action of the so-called assembly of representative Republicans of Portland in selecting a man for Mayor whose name is to be presented to the people to be voted upon at the primary election, according to law, is denounced by our non-partisan Democratic breth ren as having the dark brown taste of machine polities, than which nothing more wicked can be named in an evident effort to overthrow the will of the people who. by the . way, are to pass upon the matter under every provision of the "Ore gon method." Indeed, there is no other way to proceed, even if political perverts were so inclined. The( choice of the assembly is said to be a tendency toward "concentration." and any movement that has for its pur pose anything like concentration must needs be of the flesh, likewise the devil. And yet the said non-partisan members of the elect have been and are now bend ing every fiber of their physical and men tal energies toward the selection of some man upon whom they may "concentrate" their strength in a "concentrated" oppo sition to the "concentrated" result of the aforesaid wicked assembly whose great sin was Its concentration upon a choice tor Mayor. , The fact is, the whole tendency of gov ernment is toward concentration. In deed, that is the one purpose of govern ment. The selection of public officers begins with a participation by all the people In a primary contest in order that a smaller number miy be chosen who can get together and "concentrate" the'r ef forts. And at the general elections, the final contest, the matter is further "con centrated" until but one out of 100.000 eligible men., for instance, is chosen for the governor of them all. Every successful .effort In human af fairs is the direct, outcome of concen tration, of elimination: It cannot be otherwise. The Master concentrated his working force until of all the multitude he confined his special charge to an even dozen " men. And, dropping at one fell swoop from the sublime to the absurdly ridiculous, the present Mayor of Portland was chosen as a candidate two years ago by the polit ically sanctified non-partisan contin gent of the city by a concentrated agree ment to ignore absolutely the direct pri mary law, and by "collusion," write his name in the ballots on election day. But "concentration," as such, is an abomination having- for its purpose the bolo-thrust into the vitals of the Oregon primary law. It Is likely, however, that this hypo critical cant has had its day In Portland. Its insincerity Is too manifest. Its news paper apostle Invariably makes a howl foe ' non-pairtlsanshlp through repeated declarations that "party" is nothing in governmental affairs, continued with un ceasing activity until the Republicans are sufficiently deceived to Invest in a good sized block of the bogus stock, when it invariably ends up in supporting a Dem ocratic candidate for every important of fice. The doctrine is not to "concentrate" unless you concentrate In its camp, and then concentrate like the devil even though it is for him. PIONEER REPUBLICAN. KILLING A BEAR WITH AXES. Lively Fla-nt by Timber Cruisers Wit It An (fry Bruin. ' Cor. Eugene Guard. On Wednesday, March 31, George Wil loughby and Elmer Lee. Booth-Kelly Company - timber cruisers, while in the ""Woods about four miles west of J. D. Palmers ranch on Brumbaugh Creek, found a hollow log which seemed to be Inhabited. On looking: In. thev fmmrf att- Bruin at home. WlUoughby wanted to leave him alone, but Lee wanted to kill him. Upon careful examination the entrance ao luuna xo De large, as Mr. Bruin could Ret OUt easilV. SO. WilUlltrlihv -. l 1 . V. .- . - n-'-'J " l- 1 1 TVi boar while ta cut . fallen tree, and placing them in such a a.y as paniauy to nil the entrance, he drove some stakes to hold them there and partially fill the two smaller side Two axes, the onlv weighing but one pound each and carried in tl"lir Kolta WAfo maa. , "n.uo ryy 1UI Utat?. Air. Lee opened the fight by jabbing Bruin mo t-v o nn me compass stair. Then a rush was made for the xmiin entrance, where thf r ropAimu' Kinm 1 - . a, uiu rv 1 1 tIll Ltl3 ax. This only angered him and he ran jho uiB leei out tnrougn tne bark and slivers in a way that made his opponents feel anxious. He would gnash his teeth and stir up such a dust they could not see him, and thus the battle went on uimi oruni xnrew nimseir on his back, biting anil olawino- at ,a .mnll . . : - - - - - - - .11., iri.u 11 1 i.T, thrusting his head out far enough that Mr. Lee was able to deal him a blow be tween the ear and eye. sinking the ax to uauwe. muni lurnea, pulling the ax from Lee's hand and landing it in the nest behind the hear thua lavtnv with but one ax and the compass staff to ns'ii near wun. WlUoughby then proposed giving up the battle, but Lee had to have his ax. and uie omy way to get It was to kill Mr Bear, so the fight continued. Bruin get ting more enraged at every turn. Finflllv he St a r-t.i.1 nil on T : . vu a,lu , sstijig the advantasre le.t him rnma until v. well out of the tree, and then called to mo partner, wno was instantly on the spot, and dealt him a blow full in the . .w 1 ' T. rt proved to be one of the largest the tw men had ever seen. Bora on Same Day Mr. Roosevelt. Washington (D. C Herald. Zach G. Thompson, of Philadelphia, who is at the Riggs, tells this story on ex-rreBiQCTi Koosevelt: "While President Roosevelt wn. Ing an open-air reception at Syracuse, -- s. u Fuueu nia way lorward through the crowd and eagerlv grasped his hand. "To'n me war bo'n on the same day, Mistah Roosevelt.' the 9rw enthusiastically said, his shining face cieic irom ear to ear by a grin " 'De-lighted, indeed, to hear it sponded the President, taking a fresh grip on the black hand and laughing heartily. -So you and I were born on the same day? Well, well. "'To" am fo'ty-seven yeahs old, suhr j. am. was me quick answer. " 'An" jo' war bo'n on Octobah 17 1S58?' " 'Yes.' " 'Ya-as. sub.!' then exclaimed the darky, shaking all over with rantn- ya-as. suh. Mr. Roosevelt, yo' an' me is ooie twins: - Clesmlnaj-irp-Stm Campalga. RaJtlmnt-av Knn. The Twentieth Century Club, whose memoersnip e mo races many women ol the well-known families of Washington D. C. has pledged the "co-operation ol members, their friends ind thi- nai.h. bors in picking up the papers in streets and parks near their homes April 15. be ginning at 9 o'clock In the morning. Each member of the club is to head a subcom mittee of women on the block where her nome.is locaiec HARD TO LIVE OX 9SOO ' A YEAR ( That la If You Live lu New Vorfc aid Have m Family. . For the last two years a group of students of social questions in New York has been Investigating the ques tion of whether an income of S00 a year is sufricient to support decently a family consisting of husband, wife and two to tour children. The details of the investigation and conclusions of the investigators are set forth- in a report compiled by Professor Robert C. Cha Pln. who holds the chair of political economy in Beloit College. ' The report has been published by the Russell Sage Foundation, which furnished paid in vestigators for the work. Others con cerned in the inquiry were social-settlement workers, volunteers and trade union members. The report is said to contain the first scientific and philosophical conclusions "et made in this country on the stand ard of living among a large class of urban population. It Is the conclusion of the investigators that J800 the av erage wage earned by the head of families-visited is not enough - to main tain a family of husband, wife and four chtldren as thev, should be maintained. The report even says that 00. while suincient to maintain a physical stand ard, to keep body and soul together, to supply a decent amount of clothing and to provide a roof over the head, will not go" much farther. " , . To quote from the reoorfu conclu sions: 'It may be said that the failure to maintain a normal standard may be uu to causes quite outside of the ca pacity of the Individual breadwinner, or Of 'the economin forces thnr'rlotar- mine the rate of wages. Two of these outside considerations are the presence of too many mouths to be fed and the inaDiiity to make a wise use of the money earned. Overoonulation on the one hand.- improvidence, extravagance and vice on the other, are alleged to explain why so-many families make so poor a snowing on S600 "to S700 a vear. tne results of the investiga tion indicate that, while a. personal fac tor does not operate in the case of every family, both as regards the hab- to in tne tamer and the managing BDiiny 01 tne motner, the limits within which it may affect the actual sum to tal of material comforts that make up the living of the family are set bv social forces. These social forces find expression, on the one side, in the in come which the family receives that is, in tne rate of waa:es received by the father and others who are at woric; on the other side, they are expressed in the prices that have to he nniH tn -At housing, food and the other means of suosistence. The actnal standard that prevails is set primarily, therefore, by the wages paid and the prices charged." Of the 391 families whose horn. stories were recorded. 818 had incomes ranging from JS0O to $1100. The 25 oeiow 60o and the 4S above J1100 are Included, and most of the attention is given to the 318 families within the narrower range. Thirty-eight of the fathers were laborers. 30 were team sters and 66 were garmentworkers. In mese occupations, where it is seldom possiDie tor the father to earn more than $600 or $800 a year, it was found that the children or the mother must work, or lodgurs must be taken, if the family is to enjoy anything beyond bare necessities. Hard times often moan n good deal to the man with a respectable Income. But the burden-comes hardest on these families already close to the border line. Of the 198 Manhattan families who had been a year or more in the same tenement. 102 reported an in crease of rent from 50 cents to $5 a month since 1905. One family on Essex street has been in its present tenement for 10 years. It now pays $23 a month for four rooms, with toilet in apart ment. Two years before the rent-was $18. Twenty-seven per cent of all expendi tures is paid for rent on the average by the eight families with incomes be tween $400 and $500, and 26 per cent by the 17 families with incomes be tween $500 and $600. The 63 families with incomes between $900 and $1000 average only 19 per cent, although pay ing $174 on an average, as compared with $124, the average rent of families In the $400 income group. -V Many bad conditions of crowding were found by the visitors. It appears from the final summary that out of 115 Man hattan families with Incomes between $600 and $800, 71 per cent have no more than three rooms; of the 58 fam ilies in the $S00 group. 48 per cent have not more than three rooms, and the 70 families with incomes between $900 and $1100. 39 per cent live in three rooms or less. Nearly half of the total outlay of the S91 families is for food: $290.10 a year Is the average, amount spent for the $600 families and $451.46 for the $1100 groups. , The sum cf $100 was fixed as a min imum for a family's clothing a family of father, mother and four children. Of the 318 fainiiloa with incomes be tween $600 and $1100. 126, or 40 per cent, report less than the stated amount for clothing. By Incomes, 57 per cent of the families with Incomes of between $600 and $800 are underclad; 32 per cent of those with' incomes of $800 to $900, and 18 per cent of those with in comes between $900 and $1100. Of those with incomes below $600 three-quarters were found underclothed. while only one in two of the families with over $1100 to spend falls in this cate gory. a . 1 The report contains details of ex-, penditure for medical services, insur ance and recreation and amusement. The last named item is very small. To bacco is so generally used that the tab ulators included it as an- established part of expenditures. For the $600 man. $9.40 is . the average annual cost of smoking, and for the man earning $1000 to $1100. it is $16.16. The drink bill is often hidden away under "spending money," but from returns received, $18.06 is the average annual expendi ture for $600 to $900 families. $24.68 for the $900 to $1000 families, and $39.63 for the $1000 to $1100 families. Savings are reported by 15 per cent of the $600 families, by 20 per cent of the $700 families, by 38 per'cent of those with incomes between $S00 and $900. by 23 per cent of those in the $900 group and by 45 per cent of the $1000 families. Married 14 Time. He Wants Another. Baltimore News. Owen Reeves, aged 77 years. o Kansas, known as "Speedy," has been married 14 times, had 14 separations, and is now in the field for the fifteenth Mrs. Reeves. Marries Six Con plea In One Hour. St. Joseph (Mo.) Dispatch. Police Justice Warrenmeyer. of Clay ton. Mo., known as "The Marrying Jus tice." has establiahad a new record by marrying six couples In one-hour. The Houseoleouter. New York Sun. When Axlrll cleans her house We can but vainly yearn That all the wives of men Her xnothoda aweet nils ht learn. She puts a carpet down As t-reen aa heart could wish; she doesn't ask your helo But tells you to so llh. She stirs up clouds of du?t Tet calls you not an oaf. You are not in her way If you but sit and loaf. She -n ashes all the around. With floods she does her best. Yet all she asks of you Is that you sweetly rest. She hanirs her pictures ud Upon the sky to eleam. Yet asks you not to climb. But Just to sit and dream. Life's SunnySide 'AH the latest popular novels!" sanr out the train boy. Then, holding out a copy or -ine uuest of Quesnav" to a prosperous-looking passenger, he urged -VBuy Booth Tarkington'a . latest work. The man looked annoyed. -Xo! I am Booth Tarkington himself." "Then buy a copy of "Three Week " persisted the boy. "You ain't Elinor Glyn. too. are your' Everybody's. Rudyard Kipling visited . a bookseller's shop some time ago. The famous author commenced casually to turn over some books, entering into a conversation with the clerk as he did so. "Is this good?" he asked, suddenly taking up a volume. "I don't know, l"ve not read it,"" replied the bookseller. Kipling frowned. "A bookseller.'" he said, with mock solemnity, "and you don't read your 3wu books?" To which the other answered sharply: "If I were a druggist would you expect me to take my own drugs?" A piece of philosophy which the author of the "Jungle Book" did not venture to discuss. London Echo The porter inserted a fresh boot in the electrical polishing machine. "I'll tell you a funny thing about a widow," he said. "She Is a regular vis itor to our hotel, and she always brings here with her an old pair of hex dead husband's boots. He must have been a whopper, the dead man. His boots are genuine mudscows. "The ' widow is very timid. She Is afraid of being broken in upon by hotel thieves In the dead of night. So every mornlng she pots befor her door, besida herpwu dirty boots, the boots of the departed. She thinks th?y scare ort thieves. "" New Orleans Tims-Democrat. Mrs. Ryetop Now, ttiar's the.t Judson Tassel. He's a likely looking chap, but he's been call'ng on Nancy Squires for nine years and he hasn't proposed yet. Mrs. Hardapple (sarcastically) Oh, giva the boy a chance. Cynthia. Maybe he"s afraid he'll break the speed laws--mi- cago News. a Tommy Say. Johnny, did you ever think you would like to be a pirate when you became a man? Johnny (contemptuously) I s-hould say not. Pirates are played out. I want to be president of a big trust, or something of that sort Exchange. "You know. Elsie, that ferment" means "to work," " said tho teacher. "Now you may write a sentence on the blackboard containing the word 'ferment.' " After a moment's thought, Elsie wrote as follows: "'In Summer I love to ferment among the flowers in our garden." Chi cago News. Not long airo a young couple entered a railway carriage at Sheffield and w-ere immediately put down as a bridal pair. But they were remarkably self-possessed, and behaved with such sang-froid that the other passengers began to doubt if their first surmise was correct after all. As the train moved out, however, the young man rose to remove his overcoat, and a shower of rice fell out, while the passengers smiled broadly. But even that did not affect the youth, who also smiled, and, turning to his part ner, remarked audibly: "By Jove, May! I've stolen the brida- ( groom's overcoat!" Tatler. ROOSEVELT IN AFRICA Seven Great African Articles by Winston Churchill, in The Sunday Oregonian. Beginning Sunday, April 25, a series ofi. seven African articles will appear in The Sunday Ore goniau. These articles will de scribe the conditions, scenes, ad ventures, perils and bijr-ga.me hunting that will fall to the lot of Roosevelt in Africa, They are by "Wiuston Churchill, Great Britain's Under Secretary of Stale for the Colonies, who traveled and hunted over the. same ground that ex-President Roosevelt will cover before he re turns from the African jungles. Hence these articles teem with the strange situations, the perils and hunting adventures that are in store for our only ex-Pre6ident. Each article will take Colonel Roosevelt through one important stage of his African journey, and every article will be profusely illustrated with 'photographs. Lion hunting, elephant hunting, rhinoceros hunting, hippopotamus bunting, pig-sticking and other forms of African jungle sport will be fully and entertainingly de scribed. BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE SEVEN ARTICLES: April 25 The Wonderful Uganda Railroad Trip, from the seacoast to Nairobi through the heart of the world's greatest natural zoo. How it feels to be charged by a rhinoceros. May 2 Nairobi and the Country Round About, where Roosevelt will live and hunt for six months. Lion hunting, with all the attend ant thrills. May 9 The Journey Along Afri ca's Backbone from Kairobi to Lake Victoria Nyanza, with ad ventures at pig-sticking and in the jungles. May 16 The Deadly but Beauti ful Kingdom of Uganda, where Roosevelt will be in the greatest danger of his life because of the dreaded tsetse-fly. Best account published of this pest and how it is fought. May 23 "On Safari" Through the Heart of the Jungle. Experi ences and adventures that will befall Roosevelt when he leaves the railroad and makes across country with his train of porters. "Human interest" in every line. May 30 Hunting Elephants, the White Rhino, and the hippopota mus along the White Kile. A wonderful chapter of hunting ad ventures. June 7 Down the White Nile to Civilization Again. An account of river travel in Africa's heart, which brings out vividly the big game hunting and the perils that will be Roosevelt's to the very last day of his year in Africa's heart.