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Foreign postage double rates F.satera BuMnesa Office The S. C. Berk witn Special AKency New York, rooms 48 pi irlhune building. Chicago, rooms 010-512 Tribune building. PORTLAND. T1HBSDAT, jrLY ft. 1909. BOM7C Of TUF KFITCTS OF OUR "EX rElUMKM." Congress will submit to the country a. proposal for an amendment to the Constitution to authorize an Income tax; but the Senate will decline to sub mit an amendment providing- for elec tion of United States Senators by a di rect vote of the people. About twenty flve states have passed resolutions re questing Conprpss to rail a constitu tional convention for this purpose; but It is hardly probable that two-thirds of the states will Join In this call. The older states in general are less favor able to it than the newer or younger ones. Several times the House of Representatives, taking the initiative, has passed a resolution in favor of an amendment to meet this demand; but the proposition has never been able to command the necessary two-thirds in the Senate. Even if it should pass both houses, there is growing belief that It would not he ratified ty the necessary three-fourths of the states. Submission to the states of any pro posed amendment, by action of Con gress. Ls the simple way to amend the Constitution. Call of the states for a convention opens an elaborate method, not likely to be employed. It Is urged, with good reason, that a convention might be expected to lead to all sorts of embarrassments, by affording op portunity for agitation of socialistic experiments in government, and lead ing perhaps to evils of many kinds. It may be regarded as pretty certain that no convention will be called: since the simpler way of amending the Consti tution is safer, better, more expeditious and less troublesome. But there now seems more doubt than heretofore whether the single proposition for amendment to provide for election of Senators by direct vote will be submitted, or whether, if submitted,-1t would receive the votes pf .three-fourths of . the states. Plainly, the proposition appears to have lost ground, during the last three or four years. In. consequence of experiments and results in Oregon andother states. Manifestly there ls less ftclinatlon to employ the direct initiative In govern ment, less disposition to deprive legis latures of representative functions. It ls known of all men that neither of the present Senators from Oregon was wanted, for the position he holds, by any majority of the electors of the state. The election of each -was ac complished, notoriously by a series of juggles and flim-flam operations. No consideration of the fitness of either, as a representative of the general sen timent and purpose of Oregon, sup plied a controlling motive in the vote they received. Factional contentions, primary quarrels, intrusion of one party Into the affairs of the other, nominations by mere factions of the electorate and resentments thereat, made a farce of the whole business. To suppose or to assume that the great Republican majority of Oregon want ed either Bourne or Chamberlain in the Senate, is ridiculous. Party loyaJty Elected Bourne though it was a nauseous dose, which, Indeed, ought not to have been swallowed, but spewed out of the mouth. There were many candidates, but he received only a meager plurality over the one next higher, got from the back counties, where he had worked up the silver craze when he was a supporter of Bryan; yet he obtained only a small fraction of the vote necessary for the nomination. But party loyalty, then Invoked, gave him in the election a email plurality over nis opponent (Gearin); who, though a Democrat, ought then to have been given the pop ular majority. It was the one blunder of the Republican party of Oregon; and The Oregonian does not try to ex cuse Itself, for Its participation in it. The method which this system brings to the front, ought to have been crushed right then; and Bourne, as the representative of the sort of men it brings to the front, ought to have been rejected with it. But party loyalty gave Bourne a plurality in the general election, over Gearin though Bourne ls no representative at all of Oregon, or of the Republican party of Oregon; and Gearin. if he should be a candi date against Bourne again, would beat Bourne out of sight, regardless of party names. Chamberlain, it may be said, ls a better representative of the political and general sentiment of Oregon than Bourne is; yet except through the jug gles of the primary law and state--ment one, never would have been nor could have been sent to the Senate. Thousands of Republicans voted for him, in protest against the system, yet noping ana expecting the. Legislature to assert its right of representative action. But a lot of ambitious candi dates for the Legislature, who; never otherwise would have been able to ob tain the least cftMderatton. used this method to get primary nominations, to which they were assisted by the Demo cratic vote, hopeless otherwise; and then mainly by the Democratic vote , they were elected to the Legislature, : and held to the promise they had made. Most of them, when called on to keep a promise they never had im aglned they would be required to fulc fill, set up a howl and yell at Salem last Winter which. If not contributing to the gaiety of Oregon, was heard and noted all over the United States. They had to vote for Chamberlain, an extreme Democrat, or the Southern type, for the United States Senate; and few of them had the dignity and fortitude to accept the necessity with out roaring about It. Now these things are marked, all over the United States. It ls observed ' that this' method, in operation, ls not representative, does not bring repre-r sentatlve results,; that, therefore, the claim for It that it conduces" to popular government and gives the peo ple the control of their government, is fallacious and fraudulent. It con vinces those who consider its opera tions and results that representative government ought not to be set aside. In our Southern States the primary and the statement are merely a one party system. Every candidate Is re quired to pledge himself to support the party nominee, whoever he may be. In New York and other states the primary election, under the safe guards of law. Is used to select dele gates to conventions that nominate the candidates. The argument for this fallacy and felly, this method that Juggles with politics and defeats or disappoints the purposes of the people, is that the Legislature can't be trusted with the election of Senators. Then, of course, the Legislature can't be trusted for anything, or with anything. Then let us quit the effort to carry on repre sentative government. Let us admit, once for all, that It's a fraud and a farce and failure. "The Leg islature can be bought," Is the cry. But no Legislature ever was bought unless the people themselves sent to represent them a body of purchasable men. Men of moral Integrity are not so scarce that the people have need to send to represent them a body of pur chasable men. Besides, In all our local affairs. In our Common Councils, In our school boards, where our highest interests are represented, and money Is appropriated without stint, we em ploy the representative system. Is It not as possible to "buy" these repre sentatives of the people as to buy others? What are men talking about? Is representative government a fail ure? No, it is not. If it is, what are we to put in its place? But Oregon's "experiment" has not been lost on the country. It is noted everywhere. It ls a lantern for the country, a beacon light, an excellent pharos; and so far has the little can dle thrown its beams that not a state In our whole system, nor the Congress of all of them, misses the notice, or the rocks here revealed! In large degree here is explanation why in itiative and referendum, the direct pri mary carried to extreme, and election of Senators by direct vote, have less support throughout the United States now than they had a while ago. SUMMER OLOKY IN JILY.: July ls the month of Summer prime and dazzling glory, like' Caesar, whose name it bears. It Is a stern time, when June brides and grooms suffer their first post-honeymoon spat: when, the thornyblackberry follows the scratch less strawberry; when the Dairy and Food Commissioner posts after the cow man whose milk sours over night; when the mother cat deserts her off spring, the mosquitoes Invade the even ing piazza, the cook leaves the hot kitchen for her vacation, the farmer begins the first heavy harvest toll the haying and the householder must stand guard with the hose against brown spots in the lawn. Even though It rain and save sprinkling It will not save the water rent. The month ls hard on family peace. One wakens In the morning to hear Mr.- and Mrs. Sparrow, under the eaves, scolding for dear life. Yet Caesar's month has peace peri ods, like the quiet after noisy Fourth. No matter how warm the sun reaches this Oregon country from the hot plains along Snake River, It always cools oft when It sinks Into the Pacific Ocean at night and then we need a blanket before morning. This is the time when cherries, currants and logan berries are coming to perfection and the savor of these fruits In Winter Jars floats out. of the kitchen. It is Just beginning the season for men and squirrels to show their wisdom, for "he that gathereth In Summer Is a wise son." The seaside and the moun tains, welcome the Julian month be cause It brings the matchmakers for next bridal June. Thus we see that July means Joy t6 the Justice of the Peace and the preacher. It is the season when men have serious Inten tions. Last Spring they were fickle minded. For men. like butterflies. Show not their mealy wins but to the Summer. Mark you, July does not let the di vorce court sit to cut the bonds. It cares not whether the name be Squaw Creek or Lily Creek, It fills them brim full of trout water from the melted bosom of Three Sisters and Mount Hood. Never does it shine so hot but it makes a cool shade and blows upon It with the north wind that trades Arctic cold for equator heat and later on .fetches the aurora borealis to tinge the apples of Hood River and Yakima and Rogue River. We all like July, sweaty, brawny, strenuous, peevish though It be. We all like it so much that never yet have we allowed a poet to sing be tween Its thirty-one dawns and sun sets. When one starts to tune his lyre we say: "Aw, cut It out," for if we care not for Initiative and referen dum and Statement One, why waste time with Homers and Omars? The great Julius could not be honored with grander glories than these of the Ice man period in the Oregon country. A MENTAL PICTURE OF CHAMTLAIN. A mental picture of Lake Champlain as It appeared upon Mitchell's Atlas, an accompaniment and elucidation of the geography of the United Stated, as presented In Mitchell's geography, has doubtless been called up many times within the past few days by elderly persons who were the schoolboys and schoolgirls of sixty years ago. "A narrow bodv "tf wn tpr that frit-wto. - of the boundary between New York and Vermont," answered these pupils of the geography class of the long ago lrum uie iaminar textbook of that day. In response to the stereotyped question, "What and where ls Lake Champlain?" The mental picture that survives to this day a veritable mov ing picture of and from the past shows this lake upon the old atlas, blue In color, between the vivid green of Vermont 'and the bright yellow in which New York was painted, dis tinct and fadeless as are most of the few object-lessons with which the schoolbooks of that time were embel lished. Romance and tradition have busied themselves wfth this beautiful lake in the past, but it ls history, with Its plain, unvarnished tale, that has dealt with It during the past week. The scroll of three centuries rolls back and from out the .storied past step quaint and warlike figures Indians of two vanished tribes, and a white man, the latter one of those who bore to a beautiful but savage wilderness the faint and. far-away message of civil ization and gave to Lake Champlain Its name. Much In the way of detail of that far-away era has become the spoil of time, though history still faithfully preserves the leading Incidents. The name of Samuel Champlain and the results of his explorations have been given to its pages; imagination, hov ering about tradition, supplies the rest; while rising out of it, a pleas ing reality, is the pictured lesson upon the old map In green and blue and yellow tints that conveyed to the chil dren of a past generation a deep and lasting Impression of the location and extent of Lake Champlain. THE SIMPLE REASOX WHY. The reason now, therefore, why new and unusual sources of revenue must be sought," is this, to wit: Prohibitive duties have been insisted upon. In nearly all schedules of commodities, so as to forbid Importation of goods that, under moderate protective duties would, In the aggregate, yield great revenues. Under this system foreign goods are excluded and high prices made at home; while rebates equal to the duties charged are allowed on the imported materials. Most of the great monopo lies of this country are founded in and sustained by this system, which has, in effect, taxed the people hundreds of millions of dollars not to produce rev enue for the Government, but to en rich trade monopolies. Further con sequence is that direct taxes must be resorted to, as a means of making up deficits of revenue. These things are known well enough, they are notorious, indeed; but since there appears to be no remedy, it is perhaps useless to eay anything more about them. A SPECIMEN OUTRAGE. The proposal to increase the duty on thorium nitrate by 120 per cent beau tifully illustrates the sinuosities of Al drlch tariff making. Thorium nitrate ls essential for the manufacture of in candescent gas mantles, which have become a common household necessity. The chemical is not made In this coun try at all except by two or three negli ble firms and by the great Welsbach monopoly. The Welsbach people consume all they make and offer none of it on the market. Hence the com petitors of the Welsbachs in the manu facture of mantles have to Import their thorium nitrate. The present duty upon it is 80 cents a pound, which amounts to $3.20 per thousand man tles. The effect of the duty is to in crease the profits of the AVelsbaehs $3-20 on every thousand mantles and decrease the profits of their competi tors by the same sum. This is evident, since the competitors are compelled to pay the duty, while the Welsbachs make their own thorium nitrate. Clear ly, the duty tends to give the Wels bach people a monopoly of the man tle trade, and such is its purpose, of course. The proposed increase of 120 per cent in the duty would simply give the Welsbachs more than twice as much of the consumers' money as they now extort, while it would cut down the profits of their competitors below the zero point. It would drive all the competing firms out of business. Then the Welsbachs could, and of course would, put up the price of mantles to the notch where It stood before there was any competition. The increase would be some 800 per cent. This they could do because they would have a mondpoly. In this case, as in almost every, other, the effect of the new du ties imposed by the Senate is to de stroy competition and pluck the con sumer bare. But protests to the Al-drich-ridden Senate have been in vain and the 120 per cent increase on thorium nitrate Is embodied In the Al drlch bill among the mass of kindred Infamies. ' WHITE SLAVERY. One may well believe that the so called White Slave traffic is systemat ically pursued in the underworld of so ciety without crediting fully the story which Ella Gingles has related. It seems Improbable In the highest de gree that the gang of ruffians who may have maltreated her at the Wellington Hotel should have left her bound In a bathroom. This was the surest way to bring exposure upon themselves. Still, that the girl was left in the bathroom, bound, and that her con dition when discovered was shockingly pitiful, cannot be denied. The facts of the case have been investigated with more or less pains by capable women of Chicago, who are convinced that Ella told the truth. They can not be accepted as judges who are en tirely free from prejudice, because many good women are predisposed to believe any story which confirms the reality of white slavery outrages, but, on the other hand, they are not with out common sense, and can probably see a thing when it ls plainly before their eyes. ' There must be some way of account ing for Ella's condition when she was found in the bathroom at the Welling ton Hotel. We may suppose. If we like, that she bruised her own body and then managed, in some way, to tie the cords which seemed to bind her. Her only motive for doing such a thing must have been the wish to stir up a sensation or create grounds for ac cusing someone, and it ls possible that for this end she was willing to ln fllct upon herself all the torture which she certainly endured In the course of the night. Conduct of this kind is not without precedent. Self-torture may become a species of .mania and people sometimes mutilate themselves hid eously, even with less motive than Ella Gingles seems to have had. The evi dence does not point, however, to any mental abnormality in this young woman. On the witness stand she ls apparently well controlled, nor does I she exhibit a noticeable wish to wreak vengeance upon any person. The theory that she bound and maltreated herself requires pretty convincing evi dence to sustain it, and, while some thing of the kind may be forthcoming after a time, it has not yet been re ported. It seems just as likely that she told the truth when she accused a gang of ruffians of outraging her with the help of the women who had lured her to the Wellington Hotel. The story, to besure, sounds melo dramatic. As 'Alfred de Vigney re marks. In Cinq Mars, there are some things so horribly cruel that even when we look upon them with our own eyes we cannot credit them. - Still, there is a great deal of .evidence that the half whispered rumors about the white slave traffic have not been exagger ated. Every little while facts come to light which prove that If everything were known, many respectable r.ames would be implicated and abhorrent deeds revealed. Readers will remem ber what was made public In London some years ago when W. T. Stead suffered imprisonment. His only crime was the mention of noble names in connection with the traffic in ririi but apparently his proof was too con clusive for the welfare of the aristoc racy, and he had to bear the penalty of his imprudence. In mitigation of the improbability of Ella Gingles' tale, it must be remembered, also that if she tells the truth, the brutes who mal treated her were drunk and hence as likely as not to leave imprudent traces of their work behind them. A gang of sober ruffians would certainly have unbound her and probably shipped her away to French -Lick Springs or some other resort of that kind. The obscure revelations which ap pear now and then concerning the white slave traffic seem to Implicate the police forces of more than one city. It would be interesting to know just how extensive the relations are be tween the officers of the law and the vicious underworld which subsists on crime. If all the stories are true, there is a regular alliance between some of the ostensible protectors of the public and those who prey upon it. That the New York police receive tribute from Pickpockets, keeners nf vIIa the like, is pretty well established. How mucn rartner does the evil extend? Ella Gingles' testimony has already brought in the name of a notorious Democratic politician. The common belief is that the white slave traffic ls 'i maintained by political influence, brought to bear on the police. Of course, it could not be carried on with out the connivance of those w"ho are charged with the enforcement of law, and humble officials would not dare to tolerate crimes of this character un less they were sure of protection from sources higher up. By one means or another almost every effort to expose the truth about the white slave traffic has been smothered. For reasons which may possibly be entirely credit able to them, the state officals in New York and Chicago have taken no in. terest in investigating it. According to some accounts, they have put ob stacles in the way. Most of what we have learned lately has come through Federal officials in Chicago, who say that they are determined to bring the truth to light if it is possible. With the combined women's societies to aid them, at least a beginning might be made, one would think. Perhaps enough may be revealed to awaken enduring popular Interest and through that compel reluctant public prose cutors to do their duty. If there is a white slave traffic, it is time we knew all about it. How much longer will Christian civilization tolerate even the suspicion of such a crime against hu manity? Another one of those justly cele brated and usually unreliable crop re ports which are issued at great cost by the Government will appear today. This latest effusion from the head quarters of "Tama Jim," the big chief of the Never Resigners, will give the condition of the grain crops on July 1, and also the amount of grain still on hand. This latter feature of the report will be Interesting. If Secre tary Wilson is fair enough to ac knowledge his grotesque and costly error of March 1, the report will show remarkably small stocks on hand. If, however, he desires to cover up his error and continue to mislead the pub lic, these alleged reserves will be quite heavy and will undoubtedly be used to advantage by the market manipula tors who made a 5 -cent per bushel raid on the market when the ridicu lous ' March report . appeared. By making another false showing of big stocks on hand July 1, it might be possible by next month,, when new wheat becomes .plentiful, to confuse the new with the old and thus cover up the abominable work of the ignor ant crop reporters and their chief. ' Professor Willett. of Chicago, now steps into the limelight and invites painful Jabs from the hatpins or sim ilar weapons, by declaring that woman, lovely woman, is "generally responsible for a large part of the evils of life," etc. Taking a fling at our sisters, wives, sweethearts and mothers seems to be a popular form of diversion for many "professors" of late, and their views are prone to ex cite curiosity as to what kind of women these professors have selected in making their studies of the sex. In making an estimate of woman and her worth, the Eleanor Glyns, Anna Goulds, Katherlne Goulds or Carrie Nations of course line up quite favor ably with the Jimmy Hydes, Reggie Vanderbllts and Harry Thaws, but they are not the kind of women that the American man delights to love, cherish and protect, and even obey. Professor Wiliett was undoubtedly talking for publication: The Eugene Register offers this re mark: Charles Earhardt, an ex-convict, pardoned by Chamberlain before relinquishing the Governorship to become United States Sen ator, has Just shot up the town of lone, in Eastern Oregon, wounding; Ave men and holding- the officers at bay for hours with a double-barreled shotgun. This is one ex ample of too free use of the pardoning power. Now of course Chamberlain did not expect this man to become a criminal again. As Governor, he simply hadn't the discernment and firmness neces sary for the position. A Governor should be made of sterner stuff than he was, and less disposed to play poli tics. This last was a thing Chamber lain always had and always will have in view. One of its favorite methods is abuse of mercy and compassion, for the sake of popularity. Dr. Eliot now explains that the con struction of his five-foot library of books was not undertaken by him as a personal exDerlment for his wn cm, faction, but on the contrary was under taken at the request of a publishing house. But that was hardly the reason why he omitted from his list the books which that paper at Pendleton (Ore gon) thlnk3 the greatest books in the world. "An Intemperate eater," says an Al bany editor, "has no right to talk tem perance to the intemperate drinker." No, nor should the Intemperate drinker lecture about Intemperate drinking. They often do, however. The Kaw River again has Its back up, and bleeding Kansas is in trouble. There is no other way for the Kaw River to keep on the maps. Colonel Roosevelt killed another roaring lion "just as the enraged mon ster was about," etc. That's the way he always did kill 'em. The New York Americans have just lost six straight games of baseball. New York, like Portland, is a "jay" town for baseball. Somebody ought to put a water meter on Hole LOOKED FOR WATER LEVEL LIXB First Engineers of the Northern Pacific Sought Easf Grades. EUGENE, Or.. July 6. (To the Edi tor.) I have read with considerable in terest your editorial in today's Issue entitled "Again the Water Grade Level." It appears to me that the early engineers of the Northern Pacific Rail road may have had a better apprecia tion of the advantages of the water grade line than your editorial credits them with. I am led to this belief because I have in my possession a Northern Pacific Railroad map which L. believe to be upwards of 35 years old. It ls undated and bears the Imprint of the National Railway Publication . Company of Philadelphia. I take it to be a promoter's map, de signed for use when Jay Cooke was disposing by popular subscription of the bonds and stock of the first North ern Pacific Railroad Company. It is In Itself quite an interesting document. At the bottom is a profile wherein a comparison of the Northern Pacific line is made with, the Central and Union Pacific line, much to the disadvantage of the latter, as the pr.ofrle of that line snows elevations of 7052 and S235 feet, while the highest elevation on the other line is but 4950. The lengths of these competing lines are not given, but the profile of the Northern Pacific is not more than three-fourths that of the other road. The country, especially adjacent to the Northern Pacific line, is labeled "wheat lands," "grazing lands, "coal," "Timber," "gold," etc.. in a way well calculated to interest a prospective in vestor. As proof that this is an old railroad map, I mention the fact that Bpokane and Tacoma do not appear on it. Bozeman and Missoula are the only towns now of importance that appear along the line. What Is now the Great Northern system appears on this map as the St. Paul & Pacific, a line ex tending from St. Paul to Morris, Minn., a distance of some 150 miles. J. J. Hill, aided by the bank of -Montreal, had not yet bought from the receiver this line w-ith its valuable franchise and land grant. But to come to your water grade Idea. This map exhibits the Northern Pacific Railroad as already built. It shows the line as branching at Missoula, one division crossing the Lolo Pass and by way of Fort Kelly. Lapwai Mission, Lewlston, Old Fort Walla Walla, and the north bank of the Co lumbia, reaching Fort Vancouver. The other turns northward and by the Corrican pass goes to Pend d'Oreille and thence directly to Puget Sound, striking somewhat north of Se attle. This line west of Idaho seems very nearly that afterwards taken by the Great Northern. A line is also shown extending from Fort Vancouver to the Bellingham coal fields with a short branch to Olympla. To my mind this map indicates that the engineers and projectors of the Northern Pacific did appreciate the advantages of the water grade route, and with that end in view planned a road from Missoula tnat struck at once by the shortest route to the Clearwater and kept a water grade to Fort Vancouver. Is it not a fact that the land grant to the Northern Pacific Railroad re quired the line to terminate on Puget Sound? This ls my recollection. It Is my recollection, too, that the term of the land grant was near its expira tion at the time the through line was completed. This I had supposed de termined the building of the northern branch first. The building of the line through the Lolo Pass would seem to have been planned from the very first, but Vlllard had probably all he could do to . get funds for one of these contemplated branches. S. D. ALLEN. AS TO LOCAL THUNDER STORMS Willamette Valley Unusually Free From Electrical Disturbances. ' . . ' " ... ,. aj ine cai- tor.) Will you kindly tell me through The Oregonian If there is any place in Oregon which is absolutely free from thunder storms? T em home, simply to get rid of the East- cm aim iviiaaie western storms and cli matic conditions, which have made a nervous wreck nf tti t va..a v, . i but a short time, and have heard thun- uer ana nave read in your paper of se vere storms at The Dalles, Baker City, and of minor ones nt UMiehnm tt... Stevens, and have been told of others at Newport and in the Willamette Val ley, bo jl am oeginning to think that Ore gon is not free from Hehtnlr.i t t..o- led to believe, but shall depend on what you tell me. JULIA M. KENNEDY. You cannot possibly do better than to stay where you are. Meteorological records do not go back to the period of the earliest white set tlement of the Willamette Valley, and memory is not always reliable; yet The Oregonian ventures the statement that no section of the Willamette Valley has been visited by a real thunder storm as often as once in an average of five years. Those that gather at rare intervals are never so severe as the storms of the Middle West. Statistics are not availa ble, but it ls doubtful whether there have been three cases of deaths by lightning in the Willamette Valley since 1S43. In a general way it may be said that the Willamette Valley is as free from electrical disturbances as any other part of the habitable globe. Telephone Manners. Court Journal. The question of telephone manners and telephone etiquette which has been raised by a discussion in a contemporary is surprising, because it seems to show that even business people admit that there is such a thing as telephone man ners, though they appear to think the code is exhausted when the man at the other end of the wire has waited their convenience. Unfortunately, the tele phone manners that exist are only a relic of the past, and the habitual tele phoner gradually discards small cour tesies. The conversation that begins with the ring of the bell by one party and a sharp "hullo" by the other is necessarily stripped of dignity, while the fact that if the speakers are strangers they will never recognize one another tends to a loss of self-respect. Only the Innately courteous observe telephone manners; the rest of the world lapses into something like prim itive savageness when it uses the la test resource of civilization. Surgrtcal Feat With Chicken Bone. Omaha, Neh., Dispatch. An Interesting surgical feat is report ed from St. Joseph's Hospital in this city, where a portion of the Jaw bone of little Lucretia Norris was removed, and a piece of chicken bone Inserted in place of a diseased portion. An exami nation of the wound, later, showed ad hesion, and the operation was pro nounced a success. The operation was performed a week ago, but was kept a secret. The girl ls 6 years old. and was born with a malformed Jaw. It was to remedy this .that the diseased portion was removed and bone from a chicken Inserted. Too Vaa-ue. Chicago News. Mistress (at the agency) Now, my husband is very particular whom I en gage as a nurse. He wishes me to go into the most minute details about your qualifications. Do you know how to prepare food? Can you sew and mend? Do you mind sitting up late at night? Are you faithful and devoted, and have you a kind, loving disposi tion? Nurse Excuse me. ma'am am I to take care of the baby or your husband? POE'S MEASURE OF HIS WORK. An Interesting Letter to Dr. Snodgraas In Stedinan Library Sale. New York Times. Among the many interesting auto graphs in the library of Edmund C Stedman, which will be sold at Ander son's next season, ls a long letter writ ten by Edgar Allan Poe to Dr. J. E. Snodgrass, one of the editors of the Baltimore Evening Visitor. It is dated Philadelphia.-July 12. 1841, when Poe was editing Graham's Maga zine. He was in receipt of a salary that enabled him, his child-wife, Virginia, and his devoted aunt and mother-in-law, Mrs. Maria Clemm, to live com fortably In "a rose-embowered cottage" in Spring Garden, a quiet suburb of Philadelphia. In the letter Poe says: "You flatter me about 'The Mael strom." It was finished in a hurry, and therefore its conclusion is Imperfect. Upon the whole, it is neither so good nor has it been one-half so popular as the 'Murders in the Rue Morgue.' I nave a paper in the August number which will please you. It ls a long notice of a satire by a quondam Balti morean, L. A. Wilmer. You must get this satire- and read It it is really good, good in the old-fashioned Dryden style. "I have Introduced in this sermon some portion of a review, formerly written by me for the Pittsburg Exam iner, a monthly Journal, which died In the first throes of its existence. It was edited by E. Burke Fisher. Esq., than whom a greater scamp never walked. He wrote to me offering $4 per page for criticisms, promising to put them in as criticisms not editorially. The first thing I saw was one of my arti cles under the editorial head, so altered that I hardly recognized it. and inter larded with all manner of bad English and ridiculous opinion of his own. I believe, however, that the number in which It appeared, being the last kick of the magazine, was never circulated." Poe had made the acquaintance of both Doctor Snodgrass and J. P. Ken nedy, author of "Swallow Barn," while he was living in Baltimore with Mrs. Clemm. One evening, as he was wan dering about the streets of Baltimore, he stopped to read a copy of the Even ing Visitor exposed for sale, and saw the offer in it of $100 for the best original story to be submitted anony mously to that Journal. He made up into a parcel rejected manuscript he had at home and sent it to the office of the Visitor. Soon after ward he received the prize of $100, which had been awarded to him for his story of "The Gold Bug." Wilmer. who was the editor, accepted several other stories from him, and gave him some employment in his of fice. Wilmer afterward related how, after he- and Poe had done their office work, they would walk together into the suburbs, generally accompanied by Virginia Clemm, who would never be left behind. It was soon afterward that Poe mar ried his pretty young cousin. ALL ABOARD' FOR PILL STATION New Elysium Where Walla Walla Smokers Find Relief. Pendleton Tribune. A new town has been located on the lnterurban between Walla Walla and Freewater. Or. It ls called Pill Station. It Is the first stop in Oregon after the Washington state line Is crossed in leav ing Walla Walla. There is a law now in effect in Washington making It an of fense to smoke cigarettes in the State of Washington. Many arrests have been made in Washingfon and the smokers have been fined. The cigarette fiends of Washington living near Walla Walla now all go to Pill Station to roll their makings and to enjoy their smoke. The travel on the interurban between Walla Walla and Pill Station has Increased over 100 per cent since the new law went info effect in Washington. The marriage license law ls also offen sive in Washington and many couples are coming from Walla Walla to Pendleton to get their marriage licenses. The Washington Legislature seems to have been determined to make it unpleasant tor citizens. Tne City of Walla Walla is also attractive to some law-burdened Oregonians. The lnterurban line front Freewater and other Oregon points is heavily patronized by thirsty men who seek the saloons of Walla Walla for their drinks. They are prevented from drinking in their own dry town and they una walla walla a popular retreat. It seems that no legislature can pass taws to suitevery state and Oreeon and Washington Legislatures have been no exceptions. No More Exclusive Cars. New York Paper. The New York subway cars for the exclusive use of women have been dls continued. Thus ends an experiment of which the outcome was wrapped in doubt when it was started some months ago. Logically, from the purely mascu line standpoint, it was Just the thlnar to give women cars for themselves. It seemed to protect them from too clos contract with the rough discomforts of trie rush hours, as well as to give them a self-chaperoned safety. But if is not able that the progressive suffragist lead ers in JNew iork opposed the scheme from its inception. They said that the woman workers of the city did not need or wish to be "babied" in this fashion and declared the plan to be put of keep ing wun an enngntened view of woman hood. It seems now that the suffragists know considerably more about thecase than their opponents, and, as President McAdoo has declined to explain why his plan failed, we should be very much ob liged if they would tell us Just why if all happened as It did. Chinese Tree for California. San Francisco Call. As a result of the labors of trained explorers of the Bureau of Plant In dustry in China the Forest. Service has been furnished with a supply of seeds of the Plstacla chinesis, an Oriental tree resembling somewhat the Cali fornia pepper tree. These seeds were gathered from trees growing in the province of Shantung, China, where some of them have reached large pro portions. A tree standing at the grave of Con fucius has a diameter of over four feet. They are well adapted to dry regions and are very long lived. It is hoped the trees grown from this seed will serve as a stock for the pistachio nut of commerce. The seeds will be planted at the Lytle Creek nursery station In Southern Cali fornia, and if the plantations are suc cessful they will be grown extensively for reforestation purposes. If Omar Were Khayyammina; Now r Old Omar craved a book. Jug. loaf, and Thou," But Omar lived a long, long time ago; t he were here and yearned to claim her now ' He'd need a goodly wad to stand a show. Once maidens may have gladly sat around And listened to men read the pcet's words. May gladly have munched loaves and may have found A sweetness in the twittering of birds. But now the man who deals in tents or wheat Must have a bundle of the good long green, And If his dreams are ever to be sweet He must not fail to own & limousine. It may be that his "Thou" has love for art. To her the Persian's song may seem sub lime. But If he is to win her tender heart He must be spending money all the time. A book of verses underneath the bough?" That would not even win him second place ; A Jug of wine and loaf of bread? His "Thou" Would want hot birds and bottles by the case. S- K. Kaiser In Chicago Record-Herald. Life's Sunny Side Archbishop Patrick J. Ryan, of Phila delphia, ls as famous as he is eloquent as a divine, and many are the stories told of his quick repartee. When Wayne McVeagh, ex-Attorney-General of the United States, was counsel for the Pennsylvania Railroad he called upon the archbishop in company with Mr. Roberts, president of the Pennsylvania system. "Your frrace." said Mr. McVeaeh. "Mr. Roberts, who always travels with hla counsel, will no doubt get you passes over an the railroads in the United States if in return you will get him a pass to paradise." I would do so gladly," flashed the rchbishop, "if it were not for seoarat- Ing him from his counsel." Philadel phia Record. "Doctor, do you ever do anything for charity? I am an awfully poor woman and have heart trouble. Won't you please examine 'my heart with the X ray free of cost?" This plea was made today by a poorly-dressed woman of about 65 yeara old to Dr. George Hermann, of Corry vllle. Happening to look a little lower than the heart he discovered two $20 gold pieces in a chamois bag under the woman's garment. "How is my heart, doctor?" "Your heart is pretty bad." he ejacu lated with a tinge of sarcasm. "Is there any hope for me?" "Not if you keep on this way," he de clared as the third $20 gold piece came into view. "I really mean that you had a bad heart. You lied when you said you were poor. Take that money out of your waist and pay me $5." The woman nearly collapsed, but she took out the $60 in gold and from an other part of her raiment drew out a purse containing bills. Chicago Inter Ocean. "Eddie," said the teacher, "can you give a definition of cursory? The word is generally used in connection with public speaking. For example, we often read that somebody 'made a few cursory remarks." Please write a sen tence containing the word cursory." After a brief struggle Eddie evolved this: "Yesterday my pa helped my ma to hang pictures, and when the ladder fell after pa had climbed to the top of it he bumped his head against the cor ner of the dining-room table and then made a few cursory remarks." Chicago Record -Herald. She was in a very bad temper as she boarded ait Amsterdam-avenue car. Her temper was not improved by the fact that as she drew a qaarter of a dollar from her Jeweled gold purse the coin slipped from her fingers and rolled on the floor of the car. She made no move to recover the money, but when the conductor came in to collect her fare she pointed with the tip of her hand some parasol to the coin. "I dropped my fare," she said snap pishly: "pick it up." The young conductor looked her in the eye for Just a moment and then, stooping, he picked the coin from be tween the slats on the floor covering. Leisurely he took four nickels from his pocket and put them wnere the quar ter had been before. Maybe it was the effort of bending that made his face red. When he straightened up he rang up the fare, turned and sauntered back to the rear platform.. New York Press. "Won't you step up an' Jlne w In a glass o' ginger pop. Si? said Bill Granger, generously, to old Si Hayseed at the crossroads store. "I Just sold a six-weeks-old calf for $9, an I don't mind being a little reckless. What you say to a ginger pop?" "Much obleeged, I'm sure. Bill," said SI. "but the fact is, ginger pop ruther goes to my head, an' I better let it alone." "That sot Well, what do you say to a glass of sody? Like to have you jlne me in something." "Well, Bill, sody sort o' stings my throat an' makes me sneeze. But if you're bound to stand treat you might git ginger pop fer the other boys an'. If it's all the same to you, I'll take 5 cents' wuth o" tenpenny nails. I come In to git a few fer a fence I got to fix. an' if you'd as soon I took the nails as a drink, I'm agreeable." "All right, all right. Si. Anything to keep the baby quiet, as the sayln' is. Here, Mr. Storekeeper, you do Si up 5 cents' wuth o" nails an' take it out of this quarter!" The rich man was enjoying his first cruise on his new yacht- ' Suddenly the captain came aft. Ha looked anxious. "What's the gpod word, captain?" the owner asked. "The barometer is falling rapidly," the skipper nervously answered. "You must have hung It on a loose nail." the owner pleasantly suggested. Cleveland Plaindealer. . General Adalbert R- Bufflngton at a dinner in Madison, N. J., told a number of Civil War stories. "General Mahone," he said, "was very thin. One cold and windy December morning in '64 he was taking a nap in his tent when his old colored servant, 'Uncle Davy,' tiptoed in, and, stumbling in the -darkness, knocked down the General's folding cot and spilled him out on the frozen ground. "General Mahone Jumped up furious ly, seized a scabbard and made for Davy. Davy ran. The General- gave chase. "Uncle Davy tore up hill and down dale till he was pretty well out of breath; then he looked back over his shoulder at his master, who bounded after him on slender limbs, blue and thin, his long white night shirt flut tering in the chill morning. " 'Fo' de lan's sake. Mars' William,' the exhausted Davy yelled, desperately, yo' hain't trustln' yo'se'f in dis wind on dem legs, is yo'?"' Philadelphia Record. Zone Method to Regulate Car Speed. Philadelphia Ledger. Indianapolis is about to introduce a novelty in American municipal prac tice by attempting to regulate the sneed of trains by means of zones. An or dinance has been framed after a con ference In which the Mayor of Indian apolis, the railway officials and the . members of the Indiana Railroad Com mission took part, which provides that the speed limits in three zones which have been established shall be 12 miles an hour in the first district, 25 miles an hour In the second and 40 miles an hour In the remaining portion of the city. It would be a happy thought if zones could be created for the regulation of automobile speed in the city. Cilrl Bitten by Snake, Saves Her Life. Laporte. Ind.. Dispatch. The fact that Miss Sadie Heively, 17 years old, is recovering from a rat tlesnake's bite is due to her own brav ery and presence of mind. When hunt ing wild flowers in the woods she and a girl friend encountered one rattler, which they killed. Then as Miss Heively stooped to gather some more blossoms a second snake coiled about her right arm and sank its fangs into the flesh. Despite the pain she first dispatched the snake, then knotted her handker chief above the wound, made it s tourniquet with a stick and hurried s mile to the nearest doctor, who gave her all the credit for saving her life.