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KmTLAJfO. FRIDAY. APRIL 16, 1900.
THE GLASS REVKRSAL.
Laurels bud ranidlv on th. iD..i
brows of the California Judges. By
Ordering a new trial for Louis Glass,
who -was convicted of bribing Loner
ran, they have not only sustained to
the full the reputation which they ac
quired in their dealings with Ruef and
riohmitz. but they have actually en
hanced It. an achievement which one
would have deemed impossible. Men
who can intensify the odor of a rotten
KS certainly deserve credit for their
penlus. The grounds which the Cali
fornia Judges have selected as the
formal basis for their predetermined
lecislon are of no consequence. If
these had not been discoverable, they
would doubtless have found others
which would have served the purpose
quite as well. The time has passed
when the Infamous series of decrees
from the superior courts of California
ought to be handled delicately. The
conduct of these unworthy Judges has.
brought so much reproach upon the
administration of the law everywhere,
it has so saturated the public mind
with suspicion of all legal procedure,
that a clear distinction should be
drawn between their willful perver
sion of Justice and the venial folly
which sometimes leads other courts
into a senseless preference of abstract
logic over plain right.
The reversal of the conviction of
Louis Glass Is worse than a mere mis
carriage of Justice such as the people
of Oregon seem llkery to witness in
the Ross citse. However Indefensible
the delay may be In visiting merited
punishment upon the head of that
tried and convicted swindler, it would
be wrong to suspect our local Judges
of taking orders from anybody in the
premises. The procrastination arises
elm ply from the bad habits which be
long to all courts apparently, even
when they are purest. But with the
California tribunals there is a very
- different state of things. Every sign
point to the conclusion that in their
systematic reversal of the convictions
of the San Francisco bribers and bood
lerB the Judges are obeying orders
which they have received from a su
perior power and to which they hum
bly bow their dishonored heads. To
make the distinction clearer between
the abortion of Justice which has hap
pened in the Glass case and the ordi
nary miscarriages which irritate the
public, let us recall the way our local
courts dealt with a controversy be
tween a real estate broker and his
principal recently. At the principal's
request, the broker borrowed a sum of
money for his use, sending to Europe
to obtain it. This, of course, caused a
few days' delay. In that interval the
principal had managed to make other
arrangements, and when the money
arrived he refused to accept it. The
broker sued for his commission. There
was no dispute abovft the facts; but
the principal offered the astounding
defense that the broker had no li
cense. The court decided in favor of
the defendant. This may have been
good law, but It was manifestly an
outrage upon Justice. The broker had
rendered the service to his principal,
and had earned his fee. The ques
tion of his license lay between him
find the city, and properly should have
played no part in the suit. This was
what may be called merely a miscar
riage of Justice, because there was no
possible suspicion of evil influence
from any quarter upon the court. If
the Judge acted foolishly, it was be
cause precedent and the great multi
tude of examples set for him by other
Judges urged him to put aside his
common sense and be foolish. Cor
ruption was out of the question.
Not so with the California courts.
In their handling of the bribery cases
there is every indication of a prear
ranged plan to set the criminals free
et all hazards as fast as they are con
victed. In the Glass case for example,
the reasons assigned for granting him
' cinother trial are almost impudently
j silly. We may believe if we like that
the Judges were too stupid to think of
better ones, or we may believe that
they have become so indurated- to
Phame that they do not care what is
said about them. Persons who have
deliberately adopted vicious courses
; nometim.es lose their sense of shame
entirely after a while.
There is no claim that Glass did not
. bribe Lonergan. Virtually he admits
' his guilt. His whole defense consists
of technicalities which , any respecta
ble court would brush aside Just as
. Judge Lawlor did. Out of the multi
tude of these idle quibbles the appel
late Judges of California have selected
two or three, apparently at random,
and announced them to the public as
their reason for reversing the Jury's
verdict ana giving Glass another trial.
They have done this with the full
' knowledge that he was convicted upon
; abundant evidence, that his trial was
fair in every essential, and that he de
served his punishment. To such a
' pass has California Justice come. The
rest of the country has no right to In-
' terfere in the dismal drama. It can
only look on and wonder. But in the
depths of our grief over California's
shame we can draw from her dilemma
the lesson never to permit our courts
to become the tools of a political ma
chine. If we ever do, we may expect
a repetition of her disgrace to visit us.
Mr. Patten, the Chicago wheat king.
; who began buying May wheat under
31 per bushel and has been buying and
I Belling almost continuously for the
I pest four months, offers a very lucid
; explanation of his success in the state
ment. uii muivmuai living can
keep the price of wheat above the nat
ural level and exist. Those who have
tried it failed. But these are natural
conditions. The population, of the
country has Increased. The supply
has not kept pace with It." Any man
with such a perfect understanding of
the business as is reflected in the lan
guage quoted will hardly get very far
wrong on the market. Unless wheat
stocks are suddenly increased from a
source not now in evidence anywhere
in the world, Mr. Patten's prophecy
that the cereal will go still higher will
be verified. In spite of occasional peri
ods of liquidation, like that of yesterday.
WHAT ARE THEI THERE FORT
It is shocking to find our patient
friend, the Seattle Times, scandalmon
gering the Seattle Fair. Thp terrible
word "scandalmongerlng" Is used ad
visedly, since that is the grave accusa
tion made by the Times against The
Oregonian for printing statements to
the effect that hotels, restaurant-Weepers
and others there are raising prices
in view of the approaching exposition.
The Times of Tuesday has an article
about the advance of rental rates in a
building known as The Tale, wherein
the rent of one Mockley was raised, by
a heartless landlord from $10 to $20
per month. The details of this un
speakable outrage are painful, and will
not be repeated; but they are given In
full by the Times, which is Justly In
dignant. Suffice it to make partial re
port of Mockley's complaint:
The building in which I have my office
la old, unsanitary and ehould, as a matter of
fact, be torn down. And yet they raise
rent on the tenants 100 per cent and ex
pect people to sty that Seattle landlords
are not greedy and that they will not Injure
the fair. They will ruin It If they keep on
as they are doing.
As a real estate man. I constantly near
complaints relative to the manner In which
landlords are endeavoring to extort money
in view of the fair, when any landlord who
has the Interests of the city at heart would
do Just the opposite.
The Tim 6s also quotes the owner of a
building as saying:
If you will make' an investigation you will
find that in nine cases out of ten It is not
owners who are to blame for these radical
rent Increases, but men and women who
obtain leases on buildings used as rooming
houses, restaurants and places of this char
acter and then Juggle with sub-rentals in
order to show enormous profits fo selling
or trading ourposes. These nrn th, real
sons who are giving Seattle a bad name. ,
.truly, these greedy fellows are giv
ing Seattle a bad name. But is the
Times not in danger of running coun
ter to the famous Seattle spirit when
it exposes the rapacity of its land
lords, sub-landlords and other profes
sional gougers, who are preparing to
reap their harvest during the exposi
tion? What are they there for?
WILLAMETTE'S PURE WATER.
Heads of the Water DcnsFtmt
were stupid enough, when Bull Run
was turned on and they didn't know it;
but what are we to sav a himt tv.a A nr.
tors who utter scare talk about pure
iniiamette: liven the fool Chinook
salmon know better than the 1 fn rn s r
medical men; that's why the salmon
are swimming up the Willamette, past
Portland. Little later no salmon will
come UD this river: thv -ct-ui knn
r ' J ..... J II LllO
Willamette Is not. pure as now. The
Tram or the finny tribe will then be up
the Columbia River.
Anybody with an ouno nf e-11mr.t1.nn
ought to know that the water flowing
past Portland at this season comes
from the mountains. Just like Bull
Run. That's what gives the Willam
ette River its strong current and clear
ness. Put Willamette and Ptull T..n
together at this season, and the one is
as ciear as the other. Snows are melt
ing in the Coast Range, the Calapooias
and the Cascades, to supply the
springs that give Willamette River Its
opnng iresnet.
Short while aero most of th Willam
ette volume was wash of farms and
barnyards. Then the water was
muddy and laden with germs. That is
the condition in Autumn, after post
Summer rains. Not so now. "Winter
nas made Its clean-up. There has
been little or no raln-wnh fni- a
month. Undeflled mountains springs
are supplying the Willamette. Chi
nook salmon are wise. At Oregon City
xney are as the sands of the sea for
multitude, sporting in the tvnholdlesa
water. Shortly they will cease going
there. They know why, but not the
doctors. The latter have yet to learn
what humbler folk already know.
At any season, however. Willamette
water would be welcomed by many a
city as a Doon. Yet it should be rightly
niterea by every town that uses it.
Salem water would not make so mn.-ii
discomfort for strangers if it were so
treated. The filtered water in the
Statehouse last Winter Tuna e-ond on A
safe as Bull Run. That was because
me statehouse keeps a inter for drink
ing water. Klght now, however, no
filter could catch tvDhoid
cause typhoid water isn't flowing.
contents or tne Willamette have been
freshened a thousand times bv monn'
tain spring and cataract.
Bull Run is better than Willamette,
of course, and all are glad, It is back.
But when doctors try to work up a
scare about Willamette, the victim Is
tempted to use the "cuss" words with
which Willamette rhymes.
BCIUHNG SHIPS FOR FOREIGNERS.
Consul Van Sant, who represents the
United States at Kingston, Ontario, is
the latest American citizen to present
evidence that punctures the famous
theory that we are unable- to compete
with the foreigners in shipbuilding.
He advises the Department of Com
merce and Labor tha an American
firm has secured the contract to build
a twin-screw river and lake steamer
for the Richelieu & Ontario Naviga
tion Company, of Canada. The vessel
is to ply between Toronto, Kingston
and Thousand Island ports, and Is to
be one of the finest lake craft afloat.
The vessel will fly the British flag and
will enter the service - of a company
which is already operating a number
of American-built vessels, which were
bought in this "country because they
were cheaper and better than the craft
that could be obtained in either Cana
dian or British yards.
Steel, Iron and wood, the three great
staples necessary in construction of a
steamer, can be secured in the United
States at less cost than In any other
country, and the skill of American
workmen is so far superior to that of
the foreigners that It is possible to
compete with the latter on almost any
contract where quality and speed of
construction are factors. Not only
have the American yards turned out
large numbers of vessels to sail under
the British flag on the lakes, but many
of the craft from these yards have
found their way out to the ocean and
around the Horn to the Pacific ports,
where they are handling freight on the
coastwise routes at rates as low as
could be met by foreign-built craft.
Unfortunately for our foreign shipping
trade, these lake-built craft of a size
that can work through the canals to
, deep water are not adapted to the
THE MORXIXCr
deep-water trade, and we are still at
the mercy of the over-protected ship
yards which force Americans to pay
exorbitant prices for American-built
craft, secure in the knowledge that we
are prohibited from following the ex
ample of the British and other pro
gressive maritime nations, which buy
where they can secure the best vessels
ior ine least money.
AN IDLE EVASION.
Instead of concentrating their ener
gies In a straight fight for tariff re
ductions, the Democratic Senators
have made up their minds to push the
Irrelevant and hopeless proposition' of
an income tax. This need surprise
nobody. It is entirely characteristic
of the policy of that headless party.
It is quite expected of the Democrats
to shun every opportunity for real use
fulness which confronts them and
waste their efforts on projects which
offer no prospect of success.. The
only rational conclusion one -can draw
from their resurrection of the income
tax idea is that they wish to avoid
honest discussion of the tariff. .So
many Democrats are at heart protec
tionists and standpatters, while they
profess to be in favor of a lower tar
iff, that It Is Irksome to them to de
bate the question. Continually keep
ing up a hollow show of zeal requires
more effort than they like to expend.
Hence, if they can shunt the. debate
away from the tariff to the vain and
empty discussion of an income tax,
they will be very well pleased indeed.
The, pranks of the Democrats in
both houses of Congress emphasize
the fact that their party is In the last
stages of decay. It has reached the
point of declining vigor, when gar
rulity passes for rational conversation
and childish tricks are imagined to be
manly deeds. No doubt the last Dem
ocratic President who will ever be
elected was Grover Cleveland. It
would not be surprising if the party,
to put the climax to its fatuity,
should nominate Mr. Bryan again In
1912, and continue to nominate him
thereafter until death removes him to
a world where he may some time be
elected. Meanwhile it is entirely prob
able that a third party will replace
the Democrats in the country as an
aotive power for opposition and criti
cism. Such a party is particularly
needed on occasions like the tariff de
bate, when it is important that all
sides of the subject be sincerely dis
cussed. From the Democrats no such
discussion can be looked for. Be
sides trivial party advantages, they are
on the watch - for personal pickings.
To these ends, all that they have to
say will be directed.
HOODLC311SM IN HOLIDAY OBSERV
ANCE. In an article under this head in the
current number of the Forum, Mrs.
Isaac L. Rice deals with the spirit that
runs riot in noise, in confusion, in
crowding and in every sort of excess
that can be construed Into demonstra
tions of Joy on each of the several
yearly holidays in the United States.
There are three occasions, at least, as
pointed out by this writer, when li
cense reigns in this country Fourth
of July, New Years eve and election
day. In the South the boisterous ob
servance of Christmas is equal to that
of any one of the three first named.
The birth of the new year, 1909, was
made the occasion of a burst of "stri
dent hoodlumlsm" never before ap
proached, even in New Tork, the cen
ter and circumference of noisy demon
stration, showing that
spirit upon holiday occasions is a grow
ing one, indicative of further excess
in noisemaking, unless -checked by for
midable means.
Words but feebly convey an idea of
the pandemonium let loose about the
City Hall in New Tork City on that oc
casion, yet reading a description of
this modest riot, fitly designated by a
minister in that city as a "pagan orgy
of the twentieth century," one feels
as if he were subject to bombardment
Hear it:
Above the steady din of booming bells and
shrilling steam whistles ros-. the staccato
clatter ot the mob; drums wore beaten,
rattles and cowbells ware shaken: tin rans
were filled with bricks, or. worse still, with
dynamite; whistles and flsh-homs. some of
tt em four feet long, were blown ; fiendish new
contrivances called musical dlshpans or four
cylinder squawkers, produced hlgh-pitohed
torturing sounds; while, most alanming of
all. sharp reports of pistols or cannon
crackers occasionally rang out above the
shrieks and shouts of the dense crowds
Confetti was thrown in clouds noon the
heads of passers-by. while Chinese snuff
and ticklers menaced their eyes.
Equally senseless are the methods
pursued in celebrating the Fourth of
July methods so demonstrative of li
cense that the hospitals in all the large
cities are crowded for days thereafter
with patients suffering from wounds
caused by pistol shots, giant firecrack
ers and the trampling of unruly
crowds. In New Orleans last year the
birth of Christ was honored so riot
ously that 100 persons were injured
more or less seriously and a week later
the New Tear was rung in with a ve
hemence that sent seventy victims to
the hospital.
Tet this saturnalia is a thing of rela
tively recent years, since all who have
reached middle life can remember
when the chief charm and sole dissi
pation of New Tear's eve consisted in
bell-ringing, with perhaps a little horn
blowing thrown In. Good resolutions
were in order, and cheery, social pleas
ures and decorous feasting abounded
A far cry, indeed, it is -from these
simple observances to the "National
New Tear's debauch which Is a Na
tional disgrace."
But boisterous as is the celebration
that attends the annual turning over of
a leaf in the book of time, it is as a
zephyr compared with a gale beside
the disorder that reigns between the
night of the 3d and the dawn of the
5th of July of each year a period
wherein almost all laws regarding
sa.fe.ty or sanity are inoperative. "A
safe and sane Fourth of July" has
been urged in recent years by the
press, for weeks ' before the celebra
tion, with what futility the records
of disaster on that day 1908 show.
According to the American Medical
Journal, 163 persons were killed and
5460 Injured on that day, while the
lists for the last six celebrations (1903
to 1908 inclusive) show that more than
1800 persons were killed and about
2 8,000 injured. Many of these were
children who were permitted and en
couraged to play with danger.
All .of this and much more is as a
tale that" is told. Its telling seems to
have been wholly without effect,
though what the results would have'
been without the warning that has
been given it is impossible to tell. "Let
us," says the writer quoted, "do' away
with this wretched sham and travesty
of patriotism and substitute for it
something which is beautiful and ra
tional and worthy of those who nvo
J our country." In th meantime, since
O REGOXIAN, FRIDAY,
this "doing away" is not likely to occur
this year, we may look to a more dis
tant future with some hope of emula
tion of Switzerland, which celebrates
Its day of patriotism, August 1, with a
fervor deep and silent, almost stern,
which Is as appealing as It la inspiring.
Before the courts in Seattle appears
a young woman, "refined and pretty,"
it isveaid, asking a divorce from S.
Shimo, a subject of the Emperor of
Japan, whom she married four months
ago. The application for divorce in
this instance should be denied. This
girl, who mav be 'nrpil v ' 1111 wVift
can hardly, in view of her marriage to
a Japanese servant, be said to be "re
I fined," knew, if she knew anything,
I that her marriage to this man was
( revolting to an unerring racial Instinct
uu was witnout reasonable or legiti
mate promise of happiness for herself,
for the man she married and for the
children that might be born to them.
Dull indeed must ner womanly in
stincts and sensibilities have been If
she did not see and feel the incongru
ity and subtle Indecency of the mar
riage relation Into which she entered.
The death at the age of 78 years of
Miss Josephine Wolfe, a wealthy
woman long a resident of Walla Walla,
is announced. A resident of that city
for full half a century, without special
human attachments or interests, and
with no known relatives, this woman
lived her long day and passed on
into the shadow. --The first impulse is
to pity her for, the Joys of life that she
had missed, the companionships of
kindred and the loves of home. But
since she never knew these she could
not miss them in the sense of those
who are bereft. And as, according to
report, she provided in her will a home
for cats and dogs otherwise homeless,
she uncovered in her nature a wom
an's tenderness for helpless, lonely
creatures and gave evidence of the
possession of the true feminine instinct
of love and service.
Judge Bean's appointment to the
new Federal Judgeship will be satis
factory both to the bar and to the pub
lic. It was brought about, ho doubt,
by the general indorsement of the
Judge for the place by the lawyers of
Portland and elsewhere, and by the
necessarily favorable result of what
ever inquiries the President may have
made about him. Judge Bean has had
a long and honorable record on the
bench in Oregon. He is intelligent,
studious and conscientious. There will
be no disposition in Oregon to criticise
the President's choice certainly not
among those who think that long serv
ice on the bench is entitled to con
tinued recognition and reward.
Today, In a New ' Tork court, a
young woman little more than a girl
will stand before the Judge with her
six-months-old child In her arms and
receive sentence for manslaughter, to
which she pleaded guilty, for killing
the doctor in whose office she was em
ployed as nurse. . Her crime, if it was
a crime, left her unborn child father
less, but she did good work in remov
ing the pervert responsible for ' her
condition, thereby saving many girls,
possibly, from .like trouble. There
must be others, too, upon whom the
avenging hand should fall, for this is a
wicked world.
A Belllngham church is in much dis
tress because its pastor is accused of
being a Socialist. Incidentally, his op
ponents allege him to be an opium
fiend and incorrigible flirt. He is also
young and good looking, and has a
purely platonic affection for some of
the members of his choir. To crown
it all, somebody says he stole a bird
dog. This is enough. He should an
swer a hurried "call" elsewhere, where
they are not so particular.
v
If the Pittsburg bakers succeed in
proving that Patten 1b responsible for
the high price of wheat in the East,
they might be able to Inform us who is
responsible for the high prices in Port
land. An advance in wheat and flour
in Portland cannot possibly have any
connection with an advance in Pitts
burg, unless it is a legitimate market
based on the supply and demand In
foreign markets.
The annual Spring massacre of Ar
menians is in progress over in Asia
Minorf In the interest of humanity
ir. general, It would seem proper for
the world's peacemakers to get to
gether and declare a more protracted
close season in which Armenians could
not b, killed. It might also be in the
line of Justice to prolong the season
in which their murderers could be
killed.
A celebration commemorative of the
establishment of the first provisional
government in Oregon Territory will
be held, as for several years past, at.
Champoeg on the second day of May.
The event is worthy of the attention
of new as well as of older citizens of
Oregon, and should be largely at
tended. Fulton refuses the post of Minister
to China. Oregon is good enough
place. But a lot of Fulton's political
enemies, who want him out of the
country, think he ought to accept and
be "honored."
Bull Run water flowed the wrong
way and wasted Into the river. Water
employes evidently need another pay
increase, to make it worth their while
to attend to business.
Tom McCusker is said to be trying to
drum up somebody else for Mayor. He
ought to Improve the quality over that
of the gentlemen he chose last year
for the Legislature.
In Chicago a fireman hid himself
after saving a banker's wife from a
runaway. That fellow couldn't get ten
votes in Portland for Mayor.i
What Is a ten-dollar fine to a man
who owns a flve-thousand-dollar auto
mobile! Judge Van Zante's rates ore
too low altogether.
A Cottage Grove man has Just paid
$10 for enough eggs to go under one
hen. It is no wonder that town has
fine poultry.
Nearly seven inches rain shortage
thus far. Who said the weather Is
worse than it used to be?
Cheer up, you candidates for Fed
eral Judge. There may soon be place
for a third Judge.
Bakers do not soar upward with
the price of flour; they reduce the
size of the loaves.
APRIL 16, 1909.
RODB X10 MILES IN ONE DAT
Or jron Indian Flsrhter Who Bent
Roosevelt's Record on norwback.
TURNER, Or.. April 12. (To the
Editor.) President Roosevelt set the
pace for an Army officer on horseback
at 80 miles ptr day for three ays in
succession; and to demonstrate that It
was not a difficult task, he rode 98
miles with a relay of three or four
horses In one day.
Along. In the '60s there were some
"Rough Riders" among the First Ore
gon Cavalry and Infantry Volunteers,
and an officer or even a private soldier
I who could not average 50 miles per day
on norseDacK Tor a week in succession
was not counted for much. Lieutenant
John F. Noble. First Oregon Cavalry,
wa In command at Fort Walla Walla
in July, 1868. And by his order John T.
Smith, Company F, First Oregon In
fantry, on July 9. 1868, early in the
morning left Walla Walla with dis
patches on horseback and rode through
to Fort Lapwal. Idaho, and delivered
the dispatches to Captain A. W. Waters
Company F. who was In command at
that place at 11 o'clock P. M. Only one
horse was uaed on this trip. After rest
ing 24 hours Mr. Smith started on the
same honse on his return and arrived
at Fort Walla Walla at sunset on July
12, 1866. And the man and horse did
not appear to be any the worse on ac
count of the trip. The distance Is esti
mated to be 110 miles from Walla
Walla to Lapwal.
Mr. Smith 1 living at Seattle. Wash.,
and we hope to hear him tell about
this ride at the reunion of the First
Oregon Cavalry and Infantry Volun
teers to be held at Corvallis. Or., on
9'. 1909- Othen living witnesses
of this ride are J. F. McCoy, of Spokane:
John W. Weger, of kennewlck, and the
writer, who were at Walla Walla at
the time, and W. C. Cuslck, of Union.
O. H. Bylance of Rainier, and D. E.
Junkln. of Shedds, who were at Fort
Lapwal, when John T.- Smith arrived
there. ,
WILLIAM M. HILLBARY.
Adjt. Veterans First Oregon Volunteers.
EASTER BOOS FTXLY 35,000,000.
New Tork Comnmed Thla Orent Quan
tity In Two Days.
New Tork Herald. April 10. -
This is the greatest egg day of all
the year, and the consumption will be
not less than 25,000.000 in the next 48
hours in New Tork city. The egg. em
blem of the season, cf the Easter time,
of the new life of Spring, will be the
great feature in the feasts of today
and tomorrow, and to meet this demand
about 6o.000.000 have come to the me
tropolis this week.
The large supply has brought the
price down a little, and the great ship
ment on the way and busy hens in all
J. eeT-producing sections give
prorBlse of a much greater reduction
within the next fortnight- This is the
month of eggs, and the cold storage
houses are gathering in large quantities
to be held for the highest prices, that
will come when the snow files again.
All of the retail shops will have a
large supply of eggs this morning, that
will be of the 14 varieties known to the
trade, that cost the dealers from 17 to
23 cents a dozon yesterday.
Consumers will be. asked from 28 to
80 cents a dozen for the best eggs that
the market has tj tiler today, but the
usual prices in r.e-arly all of the shops
will be between 22 and 28 cents, and
in most cases, good eggs will be sold
ior 25 rents a dozen.
Need tor Religious Optimism.
PORTLAND, Apr.il 15. (To the Edi-tor-
Your editorial, regarding the
new church. In Thursday morning's Is
sue was thoroughly appreciated by the
writer and I wish to thank you most
heartily for it.
When one stops to think that the
children of eight or more Sunday
schools In this city will be taught the
following question and answer for
their catachism May 2:
iS."?.9". Wnat J, the misery of that estate
wherelnto man fell?
A. All mankind, by their fall, lost com
munion with liod. are under his wrath and
Sy7hi.aJ5? . made liable to all the miseries
S lhl" llte- to death itself, and to the pains
of hell forever.
One realizes the need of a Univer
sale Church with Its optimistic mess
age. This covers only one group of the
orthodox churches out the quarterlies
of the other Sunday schools do not re
veal much greater progress. Do par
ents want their, children to learn such
doctrines that later their intelligence
will revolt from, or don't they care?
E. M. CORRY.
Wine at White Honne Dinners.
Washington (D. C.) Herald.
Apropos of the efforts of the temper
ance women to persuade Mrs. Taft not
to serve wine at the official dinners at
the White House, the following story
concerning the late William M. Evarts
Is resurrected. It will be remembered
that Mr. Evarts was a sort of a master
of ceremonies in President Hayes' ad
ministration, and when Mrs. Hayes was
about to give her first dinner to the
diplomatic corps, Mr. Evarts pleaded
earnestly with her to serve wine, but
Mrs. Hayes was Immovable.
"I think." she said, 'the ministers
will have to make up their minds to be
sociable with water."
Whereupon Mr. Evarts replied: "Mrs.
Hayes, I have never known people to
be sociable with water except In a
bath."
Whether Mrs. Hayes waa shocked or
not is not written; but she carried her
point, and. according to Mr. Evarts at
that historic dinner "water flowed like
champagne."
EnsIIah nictation for Immigrants.
Washington (D. C.) Post.
"Whenever an undesirable immigrant
tries to land In Australia, the immi
gration officials require him to pass a
dictation test in English, and If he
falls he Is turned back," said Donald
Maclntyre, of Sydney, a young man
who has come to America to take a
course in mechanical engineering at
Cornell University. Mr. Maclntyre. who
is at the Shoreham. came to Washing
ton, accompanied by his mother. "Just
to see the Capital."
"This requirement, of course. Is in
line with the policy of Australia to
keep it a white man's country." said
Mr. Maclntyre. "The dictation test con
sists of writing 60 or more words In
English, and if it is not written cor
rectly, the person is deported. De
sirable persons from Europe, of course
and those from America, are not re
quired to pass the dictation test.
Desceods From Mayor to Janitor.
Pittsburg Dispatch to New York World
Edward Means Is no longer Mayor
of the fashionable suburb of Bellevue
but is city Janitor. He sweeps out the"
city building and cleans the cuspidors
in the council chamber. It is all of his
own doing, too. and he admits that
his action was taken because he needed
the money.
As Mayor of the little suburb Means
received a salary of $150 a year. It
wasn't enough to keep the wolf from
the door, and although he liked the
honor, he needed cash. Wednesday
council offered him the Janitorship at
$55 a month. He resigned as Mayor
and took the Job. yr
Let Dr. Morrhoa Amvrrr.
PORTLAND, April 15. (To the Edi
tor.) Will you kindly inform an anx
ious inquirer whether the followers of
Mary Eddy and Alexander Morrison
boiled their dTlnklng water during the
recent trliimnh nf th "RAa. -n...
Vlamette"? and oblige. JAMES JONES.
J DRUNKENNESS AND POLICE COURTS
Ke" Tork Trylna; to Reform Lam That
. Deal With Intoxication.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The State Charities Aid Association,
through its standing committee on hos
pitals, has Issued a pamphlet dealing with
the treatment of public intoxication and
inebriety, as an aid to a better under
standing of the situation that !t is pro
posed to relieve by the passage of the
bills introduced by Senator Agnew on
March 29, and by Assemblyman Bates on
March SO. which provide a plan for more
adequate treatment of persons who are
addicted to tha improper use of stimu
lants. It is generally conceded that the pres
ent method of dealing with offenders Is
unsatisfactory and expensive, and that It
tends rather to degrade than reform the
victims of the drink habit.
Habitual drunkenness Is one of the
largest problems with which the district
committees of the Charity Organization
Society have to deal, as It reduces fam
ilies to destitution, and they thus be
come a burden on the society and similar
institutions. The present law Is sufficient
to secure the. conviction of habitual
drunkenness, but as every commitment
must be made to a penal Institution. It is
of little value, as few families will take
steps to have relatives committed to an
institution of this kind.
A committee was appointed to consider
the question of securing legislation to se
cure the establishment of a state or
county sanitarium for the treatment of
habitual drunkenness, and to empower
magistrates to commit persons to such
a sanitarium. Instead of to a penal Insti
tution. A committee In Boston that investi
gated the matter found that one-eighth
of the expense of the Police Department
In Boston was caused by the arresting
and caring for cases of intoxication. This
estimate, applied to New York, would
mean that $1,750,000 Is expended annually
for this purpose.
. Among the defects of the present sys
tem, according to the committee's report,
are the following:
1. A short sentence accomplishes nothing,
either in reforming th Individual or In pro
tecting society.
I. A. One. If paid, at all. la usually paid
by relatives to save themselves and the per
son arrested from further disgrace. These,
In most Instances, can 111 afford to pay It.
S. An ordinarily self-respecting citizen
who becomes intoxicated, loses, not only his
self-respect, but frequently his employment
by being publicly exposed and brought before
th court, and perhaps sentenced to prison,
to associate with the most vicious type of
criminal classes.
4. There Is no differentiation in the treat
ment of the occasional and the habitual
drunkard.
5. There Is no Institution to which an
Inebriate can be committed for treatment,
and there Is no provision for commitment.
6. The "rounders" in the hospitals, the
police stations, the courts, the prisons and
workhouses are an inevitable consequence of
short-term commitments and petty Ones.
7. Punitive rather than remedial meas
ure are emphasized.
S. The courts are crowded with many
cases that ought never to appear before
them, and casea that require careful atten
tion are hurriedly disposed of. The cass
that properly coma before the,m should not
come repeatedly.
It is proposed to establish a board that
shall have general control of the prob
lem of dealing with public intoxication
and inebriety, and to provide a graded
series of remedies dealing appropriately
with the first offender, the occasional of
fender, the helpless inebriate and the
confirmed inebriate. To release first of
fenders after their case has been investi
gated, without bringing them to court.
To provide a central burenu of records
of persons arrested for public intoxica
tion. In order that the first offender may
be separated from the "rounder." To
provide a hospital and Industrial colony
in which persons may be treated by med
ical authorities, and to provide work for
able-bodied patients.
Many other reforms are proposed that
it is expected will revolutionize the pres
ent methods of caring for the unfortu
nates who are addicted to a too free use
of alcohol, and the State Charities Aid
Association is bending every effort to In
terest the public as well as the legisla
tors in this most Important matter.
EDWARD FITZGERALD.
On What Foundation Standi. ma Vogrua
and Pamct
New York Sun. '
The only criticism we have to make of
Edward Fitzgerald is that he was born
in 1809. year of an epidemic of immortal
ity. Yet. even in this mob of centenaries
we must stick to Old Fltz. the friend
of Thackeray and Tennyson, the fas
tidious and solitary student of Greek and
Spanish, nourished on the best or what
he liked, the whimsical and amiable re
cluse, philosopher and gentleman, thinker
and poet, a character mnro r.-ii,.i
crotchety and engaging than can be
fOtmri In mnat- K . , 1 - -
Some superior persons assure us that
his "translation" from Omar Khayyam
has been so parodied and quoted that
they cannot abide it. It is still good
enough for us. who remember it before
the parodists and worshipers assem
bled. That magnificent metre, made fa
mous long before the original was by
Mr. Swinburne's "Laus Veneris;" that
new version of, the ancient text of mortal
ity; that brother of the author of "Ec
cleslastes." of Horace, of Anacreon, will
stand perhaps for some time yet. with
out any aid of fashion and In spite of
imitators. Happy he who can recall the
hour when Its solemn splendor for its
call to enjoyment Is but a memento morl
was fresh to him.
But Old Kltz is no mere maker of
books. He Is the singular good friend
of many. People like him because he
was so likable, somewhat as they do
Lamb. Think of Old Fltz stumbling over
board with his tall hat on his head and
his pipe In his. mouth and coming up.
hat on. pipe in mouth, unperturbed It
may take a pretty big wave of oblivion
to cover the old fellow up.
America Sella Mills Over the World.
Washington. D. C., Dispatch.
During the last 10 years, the United
States exported tl6.000.000 worth of
condensed milk, according to reports
made by customs officers to the Bureau
of Statistics. Year by year these ex
portatlons have witnessed a remark
able Increase, the high-water mark be
ing reached In 1908. when J2 500 000
worth of milk was exported to all parts
of the world. Oriental and tropical
countries are the chief sections In
which the products of this Industry
are used.
In the last fiscal year Cuba was the
largest purchaser, consuming nearly
U.000.000 worth of milk.
Other countries to which it is dis
tributed in large quantities are Jaoan
Canada. Philippine Islands, China. Met!
ico. British South Africa. Asiatic Rus
sia and Portugese Africa. .
A Lady Killer.
Chicago News.
Philander Weema to women seema
A truly fascinating person
He wears good clothes, as you'd sunnosa
Tet in my case none could be worlTon
Hcum!;M!'' now' " you'll allow.
Should show some charm distinctly fetch-
Etlll. should I say theyd seem that wav
To you. the truth I should be streTchlng.
Toy'd ""r is smile at least should while
,V feasant moment, for you;
But the grimace that splits his face
I must admit, might even bore you
Tie only fair to say his air
To-Jfw1,1,". PPng poor Philander!
With mild abuse some call him -goose!"
Though very likely meaning gander
So why should he. Philander, be
A source of burning admiration?
The women atare and then declare
He Is the pick of all creation.
Thfypass me by, forgetting I
still aim to be attractive, rather
And lay some claim to public fame
A thl same we Philander' fatherl
WILL HOLD CHIUCH IX BALLROOM
Christian Sclentlata Lease Grand Quar
ter In a Xew York Hotel.
New York Times.
Through a contract signed with Fred
Sterry. Jr.. yesterday afternoon, the
Christian Science Church has arranged
to carry on a campaign for recruits
in upper Fifth avenue. For some
months the members of the Christian
Science Church have been In confer
ence with Mr. Sterry about holding
Sunday services in the Hotel .Plaza.
The greatest secrecy has been thrown
around this proposal for several rea
sons. In the first place. It was not
known whether Mrs. Marv Baker G
Eddy, the head of the church, would
approve of having the services in a hotel
or in a room heretofore used almost
wholly for sectarian purposes. Nu
merous letters were exchanged between
the officers of the church in this city
and those at the head of the organi
zation In Boston, and finally Mrs.
Lddy s consent was obtained.
Then the matter was taken up with
the management of the Hotel 'piaza.
ior a while there was some doubt as
to whether the grand ballroom would
be a proper place for holding the ser
vices on account of criticisms that
might arise or be made by the reli
gious bodies, but the conclusion was
reached yesterday and announcement
will be made today, that the ballroom
had been leased for Sundays for a year
to the Scientists, and that commencing
tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, ser
vices will be held in the ballroom, which
seats 800. each Sunday thereafter.
These services, it was learned yes
terday, will be made as attractive as
possible, and a section of the Plaza
Hotel orchestra will furnish the music
to accompany the hymns.
It has also been arranged to have a
number of well-known soloists, both
vocal and instrumental, furnish music
for the services from time to time, and
a1,.'ttrnotive car"pnlgn of education
will he commenced. This campaign has
In view the adding to the ranks of the
Scientists a number of people well
known in society, and the ultimate
building of a Christian Science Church
in the neighborhood of the Plaza when
the term of the lease of the ballroom
expires.
Some of the best-known exponents of
the Christian Science creed will come to
nsslst In the teachings, and everything
possible will be done to add recruits to
the church.
There are now already six Christian
Science churches in the citv, and the
officials feel that they can establish
another one among the more influen
tial people in the Fifth avenue neigh
borhood If the doctrines of tho church
are properly presented to them and are
made attractive, as are Sunday after
noon entertainments In the large hotels
of the city.
Further announcement of the plans
of the Scientists will be made at the
meeting tomorrow afternoon.
IIIHDS AS SCOUTS BEFORE BATTLE
An Incident In the Prussla-Auatrla
War, Kousht In 1SK1.
Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, in
London Saturday Gazette.
During the night. July 2-3. before
the battle of Sadowa. a division com
manded by the Archduke, retreating
before the Prussian army, had biv
ouacked near a town in Bohemia fac
ing north.
At midnight, the Archduke, when
resting in a peasant's cottage, was
awakened by the arrival of a gypsy.
Who Insisted on seeing him personally,
having come to report the advance of
the enemy.
The Archduke, who spoke Rom'anv
fluently, asked: "How do you know?
Our outposts have not reported any
movemen t."
"That. Your Highness. Is because
the enemy is still some way off."
Then how do you know?"
The gypsy, pointing to the dark sky
lighted by the moon, observed: "You
Bee those birds flying over the woods
from north to south?"
"Yes; what of them?"
"Those birds do not fly by night un
less disturbed, and the direction of
their flight indicates that the enemy
la coming this way."
The Archduke put his division under
arms and reinforced the outposts,
which in two hours' time were heavily
attacked:
A. Mooae, Real Man. I Arrested.
New Y'ork Dispatch
"I have Just caught A. Mouse, your
honor," said Policeman Van Cleave,
when he arraigned a husky prisoner
before Magistrate Dooley in a Brook
lyn Police Court.
"What are you bringing it here for?"
asked th busy Judge without looking
up from his papers. "Why don't you
get a cat!"
"But this ain't that kind of a mouse."
said Van Cleave. "This Is a human
Mouse. I arrested him for blocking
traffic on Myrtle avenue."
"A mouse blocking traffic?" mused
the magistrate, glancing at the pris
oner for the first time. "That's a new
one on me. He's a well-fed Mouse, too.
What's your name, voung man?"
"Albert Mouse."
"Where's your nest?"
"No 219 Central avenue."
"Any little mice?"
"Three." laughed the big Mouse.
"Half a hundred angry drivers were
cursing him." said the policeman, "and
when I arrived he was the most fright
ened Mouse you ever saw."
"You may go this time. Mouse," sal.l
Magistrate Dooley. "but avoid such
traps in the future."
Costs Find Substitute for Whisky.
Indianapolis News.
Julio Medonado. owner of a big ha
cienda near Celaya. Guanajuato, Mex
ico, recently acquired a field in whlcn
the owner had grown the marlhunana
plant, from which is distilled a bever
age which Is said to beat America's
cheapest whisky. The owner says his
goats first nibbled at the plants and
later became so fond of the leaves
that now they will eat nothing els-.
They show evidence of Intoxication,
frolicking on the field, have a peculiar
look in the eyes and refuse to lie down
at night.
Sparrow Fight Telephone Linemen.
Baltimore News.
William Dufiie. a telephone llnemnn.
working near Chester. Pa., found th.it
sparrows had built a nest In a switch
box, and when he attempted to open
It the birds attacked him so vigorously
that he found it necessary to cover l,;
face with his arm. while he forced t:..
sparrows from the box with a pair of
pliers, killing several birds.
SIOOO Bill In Church Collection.
Lancaster, Pa., Dispatch.
A $1000 bill waa found in the collec
tion plate of the Roscoe Methodist
Episcopal Church, near Washington.
Pa., last Sunday night, supposed to
have been placed there by mistake.
Somr Weston Thoughts.
Buffalo N". Y.l Express.
He walks and walks and walks and walks
and walks and walka forever;
He lives to walk and lovea to walk and
aeems to tire never;
He hits t lif pace at starting points so
many st.ps a minute;
He spies a town upon the route next mo
ment h Is In It;
He's death on records, death on shoes and
death on those who race him;
He overtakes and passes soon those Tv-bo
would try to pace him.
He serves for comment In the club, for con
stant admiration;
The townsfolk flock to see him pass as
lock they to the station
To see the daily flyer as upon its wv it
thunders.
And all recount what they have heard of
other walking wonders.
And each one In his turn explains the bene
fits of walking
Yet sits about in dead content and takes It
out In talking: . "