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8 THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX. TUESDAY, MAY 11, ,1909. Dj (Dmrtmian PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at rorriand. Oregon, postoffic aa Becond-ClMj Matter. subscription Ktrt Invariably In Advance. (Bjr Mall.) - Cally, Sunday Included, on year IS.OO ta:Iy. Sunday Included, alx months 4 23 gaily. Sunday Included, three month!.. 8.25 IJaily. Sunday Included, one month 75 I.'ally. without Sunday, one year. .. 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, aix months. . 8.25 Dally, without Sunday, three months... 1.T5 Dally, without Sunday, oca month..... -60 Weekly, one year 1.50 Sunday, on year... ISO Sunday and weekly, one year 3 50 (By Carrier.) Dally. Sunday Included., one year-. 4. sVOO pally. Sunday Included, one month... 75 ' Hoer Co Remit Send poutofnce money order, express order or personal check oa your local hank. stamps, coin or currency re at the sender's risk. Give postofAce ad dress In tull. including- county and atata Postage tiatra lu to 14 pases, 1 cent: 16 CO 'Jk rfifs V -na- V 1 tn At - .. - -J -,,. .46 to 60 pages. cents. Foreign soztags Eastern Hunlnras Office The s. C. Beck wlih Special Agency New York, rooms 48 30 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510-513 Tribune building. PORTLAND, TUESDAY. MA V . 11. 1909. THE JiEAR ROAD .TO J V STICK. . . They who contend for the advan tages of protection or their special products by tariff, and they who in sist that commodities of foreign pro duction, of universal use in our coun try, should be admitted free of rtntv In the interest of consumers, are equally in fault. The idea and the purpose of protection should be elimi nated on the one hand, and commodi ties from other countries which will pay a revenue should be taxed on the other.- In other words, don't protect iron and steel and machine-made Roods of various descriptions,- which we, can and do produce here in enormous quantities; for such policy puts money all the time into the pockets of our monopolists. On the other hand, re quire duties to be paid on revenue producing goods, such as sugar, coffee, tea, tobacco, liquors, and various lux uries consumed mainly by the rich or by those able to pay for them. In this way the injustice of the protective .system would be removed, and reve nues would be obtained for the needs of the Government. Then add a graduated income tax. Then we shall have justice for all, and revenue enough. But the first require ment is to give up the idea or policy of protection, which is the mother of all the inequalities of Federal or Na tional taxation. HIGH PRICES INJURIOUS. That the present high price of wheat is not a natural condition and that it is likely to result jn ultimate injury to the growers is the opinion of Charles S. 'Barrett, president of the Farmers' Union, who has issued a call to. the members' of; the .union., to meet at Springfield. Mo., tomorrow to "take such action as will prevent similar conditions in the future." There would probably be less complaint from the farmers over the prevailing -high prices of wheat if they -were better supplied with the valuable cereal themselves. The statement of Secre tary Wilson,' of the Xgricultural De partment, to the contrary notwith standing, there is a smaller amount of wheat In farmers' hands than there has been in many years. The lure of f 1 per bushel and upward early in the season dragged the stocks out of first hands with unusual rapidity. For all that, there is a sound eco nomic principle on which growers may base a protest against abnormally high prices for wheat or any other com modity. The injury resulting from high prices is a matter of record so plain that It cannot be contradicted.. High prices stimulate production and restrict consumption, thus cutting both ways against the price In the future. For example, we find that in 1890, when the American crop fell below 400.000.000 bushels, the price shot up from 78 cents .to $1 per bushel. These prices caused an immense increase In acreage, and a year later we har vested 611,000.000 bushels of wheat, but before it came on the market the price ran up to $1.16 per bushel. The crop of 1892 was less favored by cli matic conditions, but its 516,000,000 bushels were more than 50,000,000 bushels above the average of years previous to 1891. and, piling on top of the record-breaker of 1891. it exerted such pressure on the market that the downward movement continued until the bottom was reached in 1894 with cash wheat in Chicago selling at 50 cents per bushel, and the average price for the entire year 57 H cents. At these prices farmers were as anx ious to limit their acreage as they were to increase it in 1S91. with the natural result that there followed four "lean" vearsl in;. which the crop averaged about 450,000.000 bushels. In the Fall 6f ii897 Joseph Loiter began his fa mous cvner, and by Springtime had worked prices up to $1.87 per bushel. These prices again shortened con sumption and increased production to such an. extent that the American crop in 1898 ran up to 675,000,000 bushels, and the world's crop was 6o0.000.000 bushels greater than its predecessor, and. prices went down with a rush, dropping from n average of 90 cents for .the .entire year 1S98 to 71 cents for 1899 and 70 cents in 1900. Since then ' there has been less variation than before, but low prices have fol lowed the big crops as regularly as the ntght follows the day. This is a market trait that is not confined to wheat nor to any "other agricultural product. When potatoes are $2 per sack there Is an immediate rush to plant them on every available tract, and the increased production is followed by lower prices. The Farm ers' Union may not succeed in formu lating a plan by which this matter can be effectively regulated, but there is certainly room for some improvement in the present system.- 'THE M'UH'UHUN HOME. Loyal Oregonians will be pleased to rote the fact that the old Dr. John McLoughlln home, at Oregon City, is to be moved to a permanent, sightly location, thoroughly repaired and pre served. Of course, due care will be taken that the old manse is not "mod ernized" and thus made valueless as a souvenir of the early settlement of Oregon and as a memorial of the im migrant's friend in the trying days in which travel-worn liomebuilders in the beautiful wilderness, vaguely known east of the Rocky Mountains as1 the Oregon Country, sadly needed friends. The Falls of the Willamette, which the old house, -when removed to its new site, will overlook, are not the falls of Dr. McLaughlin's day; the site of his 'old mill upon their middle verge is occupied by a modern electric light plant; the hills on the west bank of the river have been denuded of trees, but the general contour of the land scape is unchanged and enough of the falls remain, even at the lowest stage of water, to chant a ceaseless requiem to the past. The house will set well Into the rugged line of basalt that mar gins the river on its east bank and when placed will testify to the grati tude of a people whose forebears were given needed succor in the far-away years of the 19th century by the gen ial, courtly man whose last earthly home it was. THE PRIMARY VOTE. In the primary "on Saturday Mr. Simon received more votes than all tho other candidates of both parties for Mayor. Simon's vote was 5608; all others both parties received 5513. Now, when there is an expression at a primary like this, strictly under the I methods and requirements of law, what ground is there to ' impeach either the method or the result? Only about 50 per cent of the actual vote was cast, it is true. But this fact affords no reason whatever to question the Intent of the electorate or the logic of the result; for there is every reason to believe that had the whole vote come out -Simon still would have had a majority; and, moreover, it is the result always that counts, whether the whole electorate votes or not. It is ridiculous, too, to assume that the candidacy of Simon was an attack on the primary law. This primary election, at which he got more votes than all others of aH parties, was the regular, legitimate -and legal primary to which the supporters of the so called assembly ticket conformed' in every particular: The candidates not only conformed strictly to the law, but pledged -themselves to abide the result. Who, then, are the friends of the direct primary? What faction can claim to be more faithful to it than the body of electors who nominate their candidate for Mayor under it by a majority over all the other can didates of both parties? 5 It is assumed, however, that it is wrong to try to guide the primary by suggestion, advice or argument wrong, that is to say, for any except "us." But it is probable that Mr. Mc Cusker and some others will soon be prepared to admit the ineptitude and inconcinnity of this contention. NEW TRADE ROUTE. The Tehuantepec railroad and the American-Hawaiian Steamship Com pany have opened to the world a new trade route that is fraught. with great possibilities. The liner Riverside, Which arrived at Portland yesterday, brought more than 200 tons of Euro pean freight, in addition to about 1000 tons of New York freight. Both the New York and European consign ments came through to' Portland from the originating point, in much less time than was occupied in rail ship ments prior to the opening of the Tehuantepec route. The European freight came through to Portland in about half the time and at a much lower rate than Is required by the steamer route, etther through the Suez or round the Horn and in less than one-fourth the time required to bring, it here by sailing vessel. It-is in both the cost of service and the time saved that the new route ap peals most forcibly to the shippers. Its permanency as a controlling factor in rate making between the Atlantic and the Pacific seaboards and between Europe and the Pacific- Coast, is as sured beyond all doubt. The new route not only enables Pacific Coast shippers to enjoy quick service and low rates on Imports, but it enables salmon, wool, hops and other commodities to reach the European consumers at a saving of time and carrying charges. For more than ten years, ever since the building of immense passenger ships became the craze with the steam ship lines engaged in the New York European trade, it has been an im possibility to secure sufficient freight to fill the enormous holds of these liners, which were run in the pas senger trade. As a result of this ever available surplus of freight space, rates are always at a minimum, and for the greater part of the year freight is carried across the Atlantic at ballast rates. This enables the Portland shipper u land European freight at a point where it can be reached by the American-Hawaiian steamers in express train time, and at a very low cost. The business is still in its infancy, but it is Increasing so rapidly that it is al ready taxing the capacity of the steamers which connect with the Tehuantepec . line, and frequent ad ditions to the line are necessary to enable the service to be maintained. The business has already progressed far enough beyond the experimental stage to attract the closest attention not only of the trans-continental lines, but of the steamship lines which have been entering the North Pacific ports by way of the Suez and by way of the Straits of Magellan. , The . remarkable increase in this business since the first shipments came across the Tehuantepec railroad show quite effectively the impregnable po sition of PortlaneJ and ' other Coast ports as distributing centers. It Would puzzle Mr. Chas. Edward Russell or any other supporters of the Spokane contention, to offer any logical reason why Spokane should have the same rate as Portland on this varied as sortment of commodities, which are landed on Portland; docks .fcom Eu rope and from the Atlantic seaboard at lower cafes than can be quoted by the railroads. - - .-',. .-- - . , THE. RAVENS CAME SOT. . E.. M. Brock, an. aged man, of. Zion City, has been led by chill and' disagreeable-experience to the-conviction that the age of miracles is past, or that the ravens in these days are a neglectful, degenerate- lot. Full of faith. constant in prayer; this erst while believer in the storv of Elijah and the ravens, lay four days and nights under a tree during the late severe storms in which Chicago was alternately drenched and frozen, wait ing for the ravens to come to his re lief with bread in their beaks. Sad to say. he was at length compelled to the above conclusion and, suffering from pneumonia and rheumatism, and nearly starved withal, he allowed himself to be carried to shelter,' warmed and fed. '. Eddyites, with all "their disdain of "matter" and their proclaimed belief in the supremacy of mind under any and all conditions, are not guilty of extremes of folly of this kind. In dividually and collectively they work for and take care to provide them selves with bodily comforts, and strive with the most material of their fellow mortals for money wherewith to pro cure the things that make for physi cal comfort. All of which proves that they are sensible folk who have no intention of going hungry and house less in order to support their denial of tire ' existence of matter. This poor zealot. Brock; is disowned even by the Dowieites for his literal interpreta tion of the tenets of their faith. Of course. Christian Scientists will none of him. All of which goes to show that it is unwise to push the tenets of any faith, in things that cannot: be proved, too far. COMPETITION, REAL AND IMAGINARY It is not at all clear, especially in view of the Supreme Court decision on the Hepburn bill, that Mr. Harri man can be prevented from owning stock in both the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific, provided he se cured the stock legally. Every Amer ican citizen has the right to buy rail road stocks and to own them, and, even if the courts should decide that Mr. Harriman's ownership of both Union Pacific and Southern Pacific stock was a combination in restraint of trade, it would probably be beyond the power of the courts to designate tO'Whom he should sell the offending stock. The chances would, according ly, favor the stock falling into the hands of his friends, and the. control of the policies of the road, which natur ally goes with the ownership of the stock, would, to all intents and pur poses, remain where it is now lodged. In view of this situation, it seems strange that the railroads should at tempt to show that there was any real competition between them. Prior to the construction of the North Bank road Portland enjoyed very little com petition between the railroads. No one seemed to expect that Mr. Harri man, of the Union Pacific, was going to spend any money in running opposi tion to Mr. Harriman, of the South ern Pacific. But since the coming of the North Bank Railroad there has appeared' some real live competition, and as a result we note the announce ment of several new trains which the contesting roads will place on the rival routes out of Portland. No one sup poses that if the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific were the only roads reaching Spokane, as they were the only roads reaching Portland from certain territory, they would be cutting down speed schedules, adding new trains and otherwise making frantic attempts to attract the public atten tion, as they are now doing. These new trains will be of great ad vantage to Portland and to the terri tory served by this city, and, now that Portland passengers can come west on a train that is not the fag end of, a California express, it is not improba ble that the effect of competition will be still further felt in a through serv ice over the Harriman lines equal to any that has been given California cit ies. It is perhaps unfortunate for Mr. Harriman's attorneys, who are at tempting to show that competition ex isted between the two Harriman roads, that this exhibition of real competition should be made simultaneously with the taking of evidence, but it offers an effective illustration. 1 All things considered, it would seem best for Mr. Harriman to abandon the plea that there, was any competition between his two roads in this territory. He may possibly have the right to own stock in both roads, but he must not expect people to believe that such ownership enables him ' to work up bona fide rivalry between the two sys tems. MISSIONARIES AND THE TURK. No sympathy is felt in the civilized world for Abdul Hamid. The con sensus of opinion abroad coincides with that of the revolutionary forces- in Turkey, that Abdul Hamid had reigned too long. Disgruntled, humiliated, he has been forced into prison by the fury of his subjects and he is followed there by- the scorn and the execration of the world. In the meantime, the "massacre zone" presents most ' horrible t scenes of slaughter, rapine. and unbelievable cruelty. As usual, there isi great anx iety felt 'for foreign missionaries in this bloody, tumultuous rfleld, though, as far as reports have been received by the boards that sent these people out to wrestle with what has ugain been proven a hopeless task the Christianizing of the Turk there has as yet been no loss of life among them. Their condition is, however, perilous in the extreme and what little of that which is called "good" has been achieved by these self-sacrificing de voted people, has been swept away in a carnival of blood and outrage. It will probably devolve upon the home Gov ernment of these- missionaries 'to get them out of their present distressing plight, alive if possible, . and in the event of their massacre, to. call the unstable, elusive government at Con stantinople to account. As compared with. the sufferings of the wretched inhabitants of the "mas sacre zone" in Asiatic Turkey at pres ent and within the past fortnight, the sufferings of the people in the "earth quake zone' I Italy but now. may be said to have been insignificant. Said Dr. Edward Young, in Night Thoughts: Volcanos bellow ere they disembogue. Earth trembles ere. her yawning jaws de vour. . , And smoke betrays the- wide-consuming But ruin from man is most concealed when And sends the dreadful tidings In the blow. This estimate fairly designates the difference between terror induced by a convulsion of nature and that pre cipitated by human agency. Certainly, if calamity that destroys life and wrecks the habitations of man has worse or better, the better part in these two recent presentments of hu man misery fell to the lot of the "vic tims of earthquake. The world, full handed, came to the relief of these, while -the sufferings of those in the man-devastated region are practically beyond the reach of human mercy. The immense area of Alaska is shown in a recent statement made by the Bureau of Statistics, to the effect that of the 754,898,000 acres of un reserved, unappropriated land consti tuting the public domain, nearly one half is in that far northern territory. The general idea, conceived from the map of a past era, that "Russian America," as our latest continental ter ritorial acquisition appeared thereon, was a small peninsula in the frojzen zone, still obtains in a considerable degree. At the time of the purchase the price paid trifling in the light of recent discoveries was considered ex orbitant, and the land was thought practically- valueless, owing to the climatic regions of the Arctic Zone. "Seward's folly" it was called, in de rision. Time has shown that the pur chase might well have been called "Seward's foresight," so really great an acquisition has it proved. Though contributing enormously to the wealth of the Nation for, more than a quar ter of a century, its resources are yet unguessed and its vast areas still prac tically unexplored. A chapter in the stagecoach his tory of Southern Oregon was con cluded with the death, a few days ago, at Myrtle Point, Coos County, of James Laird, who, for many years, drove the mail coach between Roseburg and his home town. The mail coach has passed into local history in most sec tions of the state that were covered by it in former years, though it still sur vives, awaiting- the tardy coming of the railroad, An parts of Southern and Southeastern Oregon. The old stage coach went its rough and stormy way, played its important part in civiliza tion and passed on. Its drivers, many of them early old, by reason of ex posure and anxiety, have -mostly answered the final summons of Nature. The few. who remain are on the wait ing list, their work done. American Consul Ivilbur, stationed at Halifax, reports that fishing sup plies to the value.'of $700,000 per year are purchased in the' United States by Canadian fishermen. These supplies include fishing nets, trawl lines, gilling thread, and similar equipment. It is hot at all surprising that the United States should supnly this class of mer chandise to the (lanadians, especially when we remember that, the Canadian government does not levy an excessive duty on the supplies when the Cana dian enters his home port with them. If, however, an American attempts to buy anything in Canada because it is cheaper or . better than something which he can get in this country, he Is promptly brought up with a round tariff turn that prevents the operation being repeated. An over abundance of money, pro duced by . excessive taxation, is a temptation to official extravagance and malfeasance in office. The officials of the late state admin istration of "Washington, quartered at Olympia, seem to have been unable to rise above this temptation. The women close to official life caught the contagion of peculation that ran riot in the capital city and charged fancy prices for their services, as host esses and purveyors of cakes and coffee for official feasts. Disclosures along these lines have already formed a shameful chapter in the. high official life of the state, with the promise of more to follow. This is the effect.. Of ficial extravagance, made possible by excessive taxation, is the cause. The Willamette Valley and a large portion of the Eastern Oregon and Washington- district lying south of Snake River enjoyed a fine rain Sun day and Monday, and there is now suf ficient moisture to carry the grain crops well on .toward harvest. The weather has been unseasonably, cold, but as yet no damage has resulted and conditions' are favorable for a bumper crop throughout the North west. A big grain crop this season will mean more to Portland than at any previpus year in the history of the city, for it will not only handle a larger proportion of the crop than ever before, but the outlook for a continua tion of present high prices Is excellent. Even Hon. Thomas McCusker now is converted to the doctrine, the idea, the fact, that the direct primary,, in the form in which we have it, invites "men of small caliber" to become can didates. That's the way by which Boss McCusker got all his heroes into the last Legislature. It's the way Jon athan Bourne got into the Senate, and was the way to the "Cake walk," which carried Chamberlain into the Senate. It's the opportunity of, "men of small caliber." "I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word." Only this time it isn't the Jew that teaches it. He seldom falls into absurdities. Mulal Hafid is said to have served notice on Spain that if the Rif coun try, in Morocco, is not evacuated by the Spanish, he wilr consider it a dec laration of war. Mulai has been rather successful in whipping a few of his own countrymen, but he might find even poor, old, decrepit Sftain a much more serious proposition to defeat than anything he has yet encountered. If he really means to fight, there will soon be a new Sultan in Morocco. . Fifteen hundred Japanese employed on Honolulu sugar plantations' have struck for higher wages, and it is ex pected that the movement will extend throughout the ishand. This will offer an excuse for the sugar trust to mark up prices as soon as the preserving season begins. If the usual custom is followed, it will probably advance the price without needing the strike for an excuse. Are our special devotees of the di rect primary as a representative move ment likely to get any result more representative than that primary of Saturday last, at which Joseph Simon for Mayor got a clear majority over all' contestants, Republican and Demo cratic? In' the language of Patrick Henry, "What is it that gentlemen wish? Wrhat would they have?" "Mrs. Flossie Moore," of Hamilton fame in the State of Washington, said to a reporter as she passed through Portland on Sunday: "See this arm? Well, I'm a gymnasium athlete, and I want you to know that I have some muscle." The lady ought to have called on Mayor Lane, and doubtless would, had it not been Sunday. Are Mr. Thomas McCusker and State Senator Nottingham trying . to induce State Senator Albee to become "a candidate for Mayor? By what right do they thus infringe' a prerogative of the people, make a candidate and set up a tyranny of bossism, especially after the people have spoken most emphatically in the primary? If the primary Is the people's man date, why v don't all hands. Democrats and all the rest, turn in and support Simon? He has more votes than all the rest together. Infidelity to the sac red principle of the holy primary is shocking.' Shall the people rule? A true "sport" sticks to the rules, even when the game goes against him. Champions of the direct primary, who dislike the people's choice, have a chance to prove themselves. jf i SENATOR AtDRIfH'S WAR' RECORD He Served Three Months In O or Arm y, I nder Distlnscnlshed Officers. Albert L. Suesman in the New York Sun. i Nelson W. Aldrich is all right, and he deserves the nice things said about his army life, but he did not serve nine months, the Tenth Rhode Island was a three ' months regiment. However, if the future Senator had elected to serve as long as that, or longer, his record would have been honorable and worthy, as it has always been since the day nearly 50 years ago when he came a country boy to Providence to seek, his fortune. His upward course was from the start steady and rapid. That he should have mastered the duties of the infantry soldier as few of his comrades did was to be expected of a man of his parts, and it was fortunate or him that three at least of his staff officers were men of exceptional ability. The First Colonel of tlie Tenth was Zenas R. Bliss, then a Captain in the Regular Army, who retired a Marjor General in 1897, being then in' com mand of Fort Sam Houston at San Antonio. He was a brave man and a good soldier, and was severely wounded at the battle of the Wilderness. At the battle of - redericksburg, when in command of the Seventh Rhode Island, a new regiment. Bliss was seen to ad- vance some eight or 10 paces in front of his men while they were under a hot fire and tell them to "dress on the line." As he extended his arm in giv ing the order daylight could be seen through the holes in the cape of his coat where the bullets had passed through it. Bliss was a man of giant stature, and mounted on his great sor rel horse he looked the centaur. The Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sen ator's regiment was James Shaw, Jr., a most gallant soldier, who won the star of a brigadier at the Atormingof Fort Steadman. While he was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Twelfth Rhode Island in 1863 he enjoyed the reputa tion of having no superior in Sturgis' division in the intricacies of brigade drill, this -in yiew of the fact that one of the regiments in the division was the crack Forty-eighth Pennsylvania commanded by the accomplished Henry Pleasants, who originated and carried out the idea of the mine at Petersburg. The Major of Senator Aldrich's regi ment was brave Jacob Babbitt, who later held the same rank in the Seventh Rhode Island and who was mortally wounded at the storming of the heights of Fredericksburg. In the thick of the fight that December after noon Babbitt was seen riding com posedly about smoking a short stemmed black pipe. Mr. Aldrich was in good company while he was performing a soldier's duties. AS IT WAS IN OLD ARKANSAS. Forcible Reminder in the Pastime of Shooting; Neighbor's Chickens - - Chicago News. Opie Reed tells this one: "Old Lem Harkins, of Possum Trot, had come into the County Judge's office. The Judge said: " 'Why, hello, Lem!' " 'Howdy, jedge?' " 'Anything going on over at Possum Trot?' " 'Nuthin' wuth dlvidin'.' " 'That so?' ' " Yeh; nuthin" wuth dividin'.' Then, after a pause: 'Me an' them Hightowehs ain't been gettin' along right good for a spell." " 'No?' " 'Nah, not right good'.' After another long expectoration-unctuated pause the old man leisurely continued: 'Tother night, about chicken-roostin' time, I was a-settin' in th house a-readln" uv my Bible when I heahs some shootin' outsider. Th' ol' woman was out thah a-feedin th' chickens. 1 ain't paid no 'tention t' that thah shootin". Putty soon th' ol' woman comes in, lookin' kind o' pale an' nah vous. " ' "What's th' matteh, ol' woman?" I says. A lot o' them Hightowehs is out thah a-shootin' at me," she says. " 'Now, I don't like that, jedge shootin' 'round about my house an' skeerin up all them chickens when they ' orto be a-goin' t' roost, an' maybe killin' a calf critteh or something So I lays down my Bible an' I goes oveh in th' cohneh an' picks up my Winchesteh an' looks out th' windeh. Thah stands five o' them Hightowehs outside my fence with theh guns. I jes' draps a few bullets amongst 'em an' goes back f my readin'. " 'Next mohnin' I goes out an' looks whah them five Hightowehs had been a-standin", an' they was all gone but fo'. " " x Hen On Top of Pole Lays Eggs. Kennebec (Me.) Journal. Zenas Dudley, of Hampden, has a hen that will lay every day, provided she can lay where she wants to, and that is sitting on top of a pole. The only reason why the hen wishes to perch on the tip end of a pole when laying can be ac counted for only by the fact that she laid her first egg on top of a pole. When she w.as a small pullet she was frightened one day and flew to the top of a tall pole in the yard. The dog kept her there for some time, and during the time she laid her' first egg. Never a time since then has she laid an egg except when she has been on top of some pole. A pole has been set up in the henyard where this hen can make her daily lay ings. A small net bag is placed around the pole to catch the eggs. , What's in a Namet - . Florida Times-Union. Mr. Bryan propounds the momentous question. "Shall the Democratic party, reorganize?" And there is no answer borne on the breezes. But from Minne sota booms another question. ."Shall the Democratic party change its name?" In reply to both at once, let us ask. Why? Were we not organized last year? If so, why do it again? If not, who failed in duty and why?- As to the other, would not a rose by any other name smell just as sweet? Can we win on a name? And if we won as Bonebreaker or Lifecrusher, ' what good would it do to us to the party? A "Local Issue." New York Evening Sun. Mr. Bryan, who has not been elected to any office for years, but has hopes, is writing pieces punching holes In the Republican party for not prohibiting the Hquor traffic. He seems to be barking up the wrong tree. In nearby Omaha his quondam good friend and confident. Jim Dahlman, runs for rum and is re-elected Mayor, but what is Democracy anyway? Like the tariff, it seems to be a local issue. The True Beginning. When Phyllis looks Thro' story books. And skips the early stares,. And. deep Immersed Peruses first The Author's final pages, To see if there The maiden fair Is to the Hero wedded; And if the two . Fond lovers true Escape the Villain dreaded, I'm much inclined No fault to find. And would not criticise her; For it may be Than others she Is infinitely wiser. . For as I read My dally meed Of real-life's endless spinning I .can't deny The marriage tie " the love-tale's true beginning. r John Kendrick Bangs. ANOTHER BID FOR THE SOTTH. President Taft Expected to lraore Politics in Naming; Federal Judges. Washington, D. C, Dispatch to the New York Herald. President Taft's high ideals about the Federal Judiciary and his disposi tion to give only incidental weight to political recommendations in the ap pointment of United, States judges is making trouble -for the men of the Republican organization who are re sponsible for extension and strengthen ing ot the party lines. They -have long considered judiciary appointments a most valuable political asset. t be bestowed upon Repub licans who have either served tne party well or who are highly recom mended by party leaders. Mr. Taft, however, is proceeding with the ut most deliberation. The . whole South, which is inclined to be especially friendly to Air. Taft since he put a white customs collector in the place of the negro Pro-siJent Roosovelt appointed at Charleston, is watching for Mr. Taft's action in re gard to the Federal bench in the J2asi ern District of North Carolina. Judge T. R. Purnell. a Republican appolutjd by President McKinley in 189 a, died during the latter part of the Roosevelt administration. Upon the recommen dation of E. C. Duncan. Republican National committeeman for North Caro lina, H. F. Seawell. a Republican since 1896,' was nominated to succeed him. Senator Simmons, Democrat, of North Carolina, thus far has been successful in preventing the. confirmation of the nomination. The bench, therefore, still remains vacant, and the work of the court is being discharged by the judge in the Western District. v Fully a dozen prominent candidates have come to the front. A delegation which called on President Taft in re gard to the matter several weeks ago was surprised when he told them that he had the names of several Democrats under consideration. He also stated that he would not appoint to the Fed eral bench anywhere any man whose ability or character was seriously questioned by reputable citizens of his district. Mr. Taft held that the Fed eral judges must hav-e and retain the respect of the communities in which they lived. In view of the fact that the President has considered the names of Democrats and his statement that he would name Democrats where fully equipped Republicans could not be found, leads many of the Democrats in North Carolina to hope and believe one of their number will be appointed, and if this is done President Taft's popularity throughout the South is re garded as certain to increase. - HOW A DEATH DEFEATED BLAINE Absence of an Adviser Made Possible the Dr. Burcbard Declaration. Washington, D. C, Dispatch to the Kansas City Star. .... How James G. Blaine might have been saved from the effects of the famous blunder by Dr. Burchard in- the campaign of 1884 is a story revised here by the news of the death in Brook lyn, N. Y-, of Andrew Devine. long a reporter of the House of Representa tives. Devine was a friend of Blaine and was assigned by the Associated Press to travel with him in the cam paign. He supervised Blaine's speeches and would furnish local data and make suggestion for replies to addresses of welcome. - . On the morning the delegation headed by Dr. Burchard called on Blaine, De vine was obliged to go to Brooklyn to attend the funeral of his wife's father. After the funeral,, on returning to New Yorrf to join Blaine at the Fifth Ave nue Hotel, Devine saw an account in the afternoon newspapers of Dr. Burch ard's "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" speech and Blaine's reply -to it, and realized that Blaine had made a fatal error. Upon arrival at the hotel De vine sought Blaine and asked him about the speech, showing him the newspaper account, . "I don't know a thing about it," said Blaine. "Did Burchard Bay that?" Blaine told Devine how he had gone out on the landing of the stairway to see the delegation of ministers, headed by Dr. Burchard. Dr. Burchard, so Blaine said, read his speech in a sing song voice, and Blaine, who was think ing of what he should say in reply, did not pay particular attention to it. Blaine said also that he had been so admirably looked after up to that time by Devine that it never occurred to him that he was likely to make a fatal error in agreeing to what Dr. Burchard had to say, and he had not heard the fatal expression of Dr. Burchard until Devine called his attention to It in the newspapers. "Of course, Mr. Devine," Blaine said, "we know what I would have said had that been -called to my attention." Blaine's friends here say he always attributed his defeat more to Dr. Burchard than to any other cause. A Benefactor of Small Colleges. Milwaukee (Wis.) Sentinel. Twenty years ago Dr. Pearsons, of Chi cago, determined to be his own executor. He selected the small college as the ob ject of his benefactions. In June, 18S9, he gave his first large gift to Beloit Col lege. Since then he has aided 47 col leges in 24 states with gifts ranging from J25.000 to $500,000. All sections of the country have been benefited', more than one-fourth of his gifts going to Southern colleges. He has wisely and thought fully bestowed his benefactions, for the most part, on small colleges in the edu cationally destitute portions of the land. These colleges, too, often have had a desperate fight for life. Denominational schools are too apt to have a precarious, existence. Great institutions of learning today " overshadow the small college and offer attractions to young people that the small college cannot hope to - offer. Yet these colleges play an important part in the educational work of the region in which they are located. Dr. Pearsons has strengthened these colleges and given them a vitality and permanence they could not otherwise have enjoyed. Ann Arbor, Mich., a Lockless Toiyn. Detroit New-Tribune. Ann Arbor Mich., is the most orderly town of its size in the state or country, and this despite the fact that it contains a large university where, according to popular theory, riots and other acts of lawlessness are of almost daily occur rence. Ann Arbor might well be said to be a town without locks. Only a few of the late comers in this town ever secure their doors. In nearly every house in the city it is possible to obtain admission at any hour of the day or night without using a key or climbing the front porch and then raising a window. Only a very small minority of the students lock their rooms at any time. Crooks have a whole some respect for the rooms and posses sions of the "rah-rahs." This respect may be the result of expe ditions in former years against this town. Scarcely ever has a burglar been able to get away with any "swag," 're ceiving, on the contrary, a severe beat ing whenever detected. Harvard Senior Plans a Daily Paper. Boston (Mass.) Dispatch. Harvard's faculty and wealthy gradu ates of the university are warmly sup porting the proposition of Hans Von Kal tenborn. of the senior class, that the col lege establish in Boston a daily morning newspaper that would be printed and ad ministered by the institution as a prac tical school of journalism. Another aim of the proposed paper would be to Uink the university more closely with the ac tual life and every-day problems of the country. It is proposed that the paper be named Veritas. .iPOLEOX'S HORSE. The Staffed Imigr in the Mnsee At Paris. Letter in Washington Post. Who could guess from looking at this little white, stuffed horse that long ago in his lifetime he was the favorite war horse of the great Napoleon Bona parte? As you can see by looking closely, he is smaller than the average horse, and one , would expect a war horse, especially the favorite mount of such a conqueror as Napoleon, to be big and muscular.'- The little white horse has just . been discovered, after having been hidden away for 40 years. It has been placed on exhibition in the Musee de l'Armee In Paris, a famous museum. where thousands of tourists and sightseers will gaze at it. Five years or so ago it was found in a box in an attic in the Louvre. On this box was the' in scription, "A Monsieur de Chef des Musee lmperiaux a Paris. Cheval de Napoleon I, from the Natural History Society. Manchester." (To the chief of the Imperial Museums at Paris.) The papers of the Natural History Society at Manchester were diligently searched, and it was found that the stuffed horse actually belonged to Napoleon and that the, great Emperor of the French frequently rode him. He was an Arab horse named Vizier. If you could get near enough to the horse you would see that there Is a peculiar mark on his left flank. This is the monogram of Napoleon himself, which he had branded on the horse so that everyone who saw the animal would know that he belonged to the Emperor Napoleon, the greatest con queror of history. You might get the idea from this that Napoleon was a fine rider. But as a matter of fact Napoleon was not a good rider and did t not look well on horseback. No doubt if automobiles had been invented in his time he would gladly have ridden in one, instead of using the little stuffed white ' horse whose picture we see. It is said that he used even to fall off his horse oc casionally; so maybe he picked a small steed so that he would not fall far. The next time you see a picture of Napoleon on horseback look closely at the title. You will probably see that it represents the great Emperor at a place where some famous battle was fought, like Waterloo, Jena, Kylau. Austerlitz, Wagram or Frledland. If you will find a book which has a-life of Napoleon and read the story of his many battles and his wonderful career you will find it far more interesting than any fairy story you eyer read. THE WRIGHTS ARE CO.11I.VG HOME Aeroplane Experts Hasten to Confer With United States Government. Baltimore American. Orville and Wilbur Wright, the American- aeronauts, whose achievements with the aeroplane invention have in spired wonder and enthusiastic admira tion in all parts of Europe, are on their homeward voyage. The inventors are under contract with the United States Government to make . further demonstration of the capabilities of their invention at Fort Meyer during the present year. In a recent inter view Wilbur Wright is quoted as say ing: "We anticipate nothing but suc cess when we next appear before the American Government officials." The daily flights conducted at Le Mans and other localities during the period they have been abroad have undoubtedly suggested to them many betterments for their model. ' Some of these im provements have already been applied; the Wright aeroplane which will be used at Fort Myer a few weeks from now will be undoubtedly a more depend able mechanism than that with which. Orville Wright made flights at tne Government reservation last Summer. London has been fairly riotous in its demonstrations in honor of the Ameri can, aeroplanists. The Aeronautical So ciety of Great Britain has conferred upon them its first gold medal. The formalities incident to the bestowal c this distinction, which were carried out at the London Institute of Civil En gineers, were followed by a remark able popular demonstration during which the British not only broke the shell of reserve with which they are usually encrusted, but simply turned themselves loose regardless of conse quences. . The two brothers, according to their custom when their praises are being sounded, took the London ef fusiveness with quiet composure. Gold medals and popular ovations are all well enough, but the aeronauts whose invention has practically solved the problem of navigating the air with out a gas bag are not losing their heads for the business end of the fly ing proposition. They have appointed an agent in Great Britain and have made such arrangements as will pro tect their patents in the British mar ket. Contracts for supplying machines to the British government will depend upon the success of demonstrations yet to be made; but whether they get orders from the government or not, they will manufacture and sell aero planes In the Islands. Advent of Carnsa, a New Tenor. Baltimore News. The newest thing in tenors is Carasa, a Spaniard, who has just been engaged by Hammerstein to come to New York. Carasa is only 22. He is a pupil of Tra badelo, and made his debut in Paris salons only a year or two ago. He is tall and handsome, and he charmed the Paris women so that his praises were sung loudly in the . French capital. He then went on the-operatic stage, and al ready has cultivated a large and varied repertoire. Carasa had been singing in Belgium with great success when he was called to Covent Garden, and there Ham merstein heard him and engaged him for the coming season. To announce himself as "a second Caruso" or as "the coming Caruso" (Carasa was so advertised in Belgium) is to invite very serious com parison. The musical public will be only too delighted to have all the best realized in the case of Carasa, because good tenors are few. Prefers to Remain an Editor. Kansas City Star. A letter written by William Allen White on board the steamer Cretic, which conveyed him and his family to Europe, and which is in possession of the Star, makes quite definite Mr. White's intention' not to yield to the strong desire of a number of his friends in Kansas to go into the next . state campaign as a candidate for Lieutenant-Governor. After the very careful reflection which Mr. White has given to this question he has become pos sessed of the firm conviction that, as a private citizen, with no official obli gations, and as an absolutely free lance, with a newspaper of high rank and In fluence to serve as the vehicle of his views and principles, he can aid the cause of Kansas much more efficiently and with vastly greater satisfaction to himself than In any other way. Woman's "Hair-Rat" Deflects Bullet. Columbus, O., Dispatch. That much ridiculed hirsute adornment of women the rat was responsible for saving the life of Mrs. Anna Fairman. The woman had trouble with her hus band, who threw her on the bed and fired a revolver at her head. She went screaming to the street after the hus band escaped, with ulood flowing down her face. Mrs. Fairman was taken to a hospital, where the surgeons discovered that she bad only a. bad scalp wound.' They declare that the woman's life was saved by the "rat," which deflected tne course of the bullet. .