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THE MOItXIXG OREGONIAX, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 6, 1909. PORTLAND. OSKW-i Entered at Portland. Oreson. Postonlcs a Eecond-Claaa Matter. Culwerlatiua Bate Invariably la Advanoe. (Br Mall.) Pally. Sunday Included, one year. I'ii Laliy. Sunday Included. lx month. ..... - liaily. Sunday Included, three month... Dxllv. Sunday Included, one month . Imliy. without Sunday, one year. . ' Irnliy. without Sunday. lx months Pall. without Sunday, three months .ij laily. without Sunday..one month .w Weekly, one year J-JQ' Funday, one year ; 2V Sunday and weekly, on year o" (By Carrir. Dally. Sunday Included, one year. ...... Dally. Sunday Included, one month. . . . . How to Rexntt Send postofrlee money order express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamp, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postofflc ad dress In full. Including county and stats. Foetace Kates 10 to 14 pases. 1 cent: IB to pases, i cenis, av w w v-m-v - " ' 46 to 6U pases. 4 centa. Foreign postas double rates. Eastern Business Office The 8. C. B"-X-wl'h Special Asency New York, rooms s 60 Tribune bulldina. Chicago, rooms 610-011 Tribune building;- m rORTLAND, XDXES1)AI, OCT. 8. 1909. RESORT TO WATER TRANSPORTATION. It will be some weeks before the findings Jn the Spokane rate case shall be announced, but the trend of the evidence and the significant expres sion of Commissioner Prouty, make it almost a certainty that Spokane has suffered overwhelming defeat. It -was bevond the power of the railroads to make seaport rates to a city more than 400 miles from tidewater, and the fail ure of the Spokane attempt' to force them to perform this feat, was not surprising. Insofar as Spokane's loss of the Jobbing zone, that was carved out without regard for the rights of the cities enjoying actual water com petition. Is concerned, no sympathy will be felt for that city in the coming change. But the clamor for even bet ter rates than were enjoyed those which made Spokane invincible in its protected zone attracted National at tention. It was made the subject for numerous muck-raking articles In the yellow magazines in the East and, quite naturally, the Eastern Jobbing interests began to sit up and take no tice. In presenting its case to the public through the newspapers, magazines and tbrrugh the Interstate Commerce Commission, opokane disclosed a pos sible avenue through which the East ern Jobbing Interests might enter the field so long held exclusively by Spo kane. If. as intimated by Commis sioner Prouty, the Commission should regard the present less-than-carload rates as out of proportion to the carload rate, there are great pos sibilities for diverting some of the Job bing trade, held by both Spokane and the Coast points, to Middle Western distributors. If this possible change shall relieve Spokane of a goodly por tion of what Jobbing trade that city has left after the new rates become ef fective, much regret will be felt, even by those wl.o foresaw the consequences and warned Spokane to let well enough alone. If any benefits would inure to the consumer, who in the past has pur chased his goods from men who se cured them through Spokane distrib utors, there "would be no Just ground for criticism, but If the Middle West ern men shall be successful, it will mean nothing advantageous to the con sumer. It will simply mean that 200 or 300 commercial travelers who now live in Spokane and travel for Spokane houses will find their field turned over to the mail-order houses and other Middle Western Jobbers, who, if suc cessful in their present fight, can send a box of groceries or a case of hard ware Into Spokane territory at equal advantage with the Spokane Jobber. While the hearing Just closed re vealed Spokane as very much at the mercy of the railroads on all rail busi ness, it also disclosed the independent position of the Coast terminals with their advantage of water transporta tion and it is to that potent factor that Spokane must now turn for relief. The newspapers which now make a profit by shipping ink to Spokane, by way of that Portland water route, must preach h:t they practice. They must show the people of Spokane the advantages, - alons to the Coast ports through which the traffic must pass, but to the consumers who profit by this low rate, which is made low ex clusively by mea-s of water transpor tation. Everything that will tend to in crease the volume of the water traffic or reduce the rates, should receive at tention. Spokane has wonderful ad vantages in the way of great natural resources, water power, a fine climate and everything needed for the build ing of a great city. For that reason no power on earth can prevent Its be coming great, but Its course In the fu ture must be governed by natural and not artificial conditions. ENDOWMENT OF MINISTERS. The Chicago Record-Herald pub lished a sensible editorial the other day on the advisability of raising a generous endowment "fund for super annuated ministers. This project is execllent so far as it goes, but it does not go far enough. There is no bet ter reason for supporting a preacher decently in old age and decrepitude than there Is In paying him a fair sal ary when he la young and presumably useful. There are a few ministers in rich city churches who receive' ade quate pay for the work they do, but they are fortunate exceptions to a de plorable rule. The great majority have to eke out existence on a bare pittance. Their wives are overworked and their children can be educated only at the cost of terrible sacrifices. The number of congregations who try to pay aheir pastors by lotteries, sociables, grab-bags and amateur the atricals is astonishingly large. A bank account and a prompt check at the end of the quarter are something these excellent but unthrifty saints have never dreamed of. The conse quences fall on the preacher who has to take half his salary In pumpkins and cordwood and wait for the re mainder until he meets his debtors In heaven. With facta like this staring us in the face, what Is the use of ask ing why bright young men do not en ter the ministry? The average preacher enjoys k-ss financail security than any other spe cies of professional man. Not only is his salary absurdly inadequate and tar dily paid, but often his livelihood Is at the mercy of a shrewish clique of women whose tongues can thrust him into poverty any day. Security of po sition and better pay for ministers are two conditions precedent which must b fulfilled before the Protestant church can hope to flourish as they might. When a congregation has once engaged a fas tor it ought to keep him. It ought not to dismiss him for trivial and fanciful causes, as Is often done. It is flagrantly wicked to turn him adrift for the offense of growing old. There la nothing more beautiful than an aged minister, peacefully marching through the land of Beulah among a congregation whom he has christened, married and comforted for half a cen tury. His prayers are worth forty barrels of a younger man's pyrotech nical sermons. If there is a sin which the Lord cannot forgive. It Is the exile of such a man from his pulpit to make room for some hyacinthlne youth, fresh from the seminary. We sadly need a Rockefeller to endow our pul pits and with the endowment the con dition should be coupled that the in cumbent is to hold his position during good behavior. WASHINGTON'S CONGRESSIONAL EIGHT Attorney Ellis, of Tacoma, in sec onding the nomination of Ernest Lis ter, of Tacoma, as opposing candidate to Judge McCredie in the Congres sional race, said: "The lines are squarely drawn. It Is Grays Harbor and Puget Sound against the Co lumbia River." This has the true old "village days" rlug to It, and is a slogan that .would have been very pleasing in Tacoma twenty five years ago. It Is questionable, how ever, whether Mr. Ellis is speaking for all of Tacoma and Puget Sound, and all of Grays Harbor, or only for some disgruntled narrow-minded poli tician. It would be a severe shock to the friends of Ernest Lister to learn that he indorsed any such sentiment as is now expressed by some of his fool friends. Both Judge McCredie and Mr. Lister are clean, well-balanced, energetic men, in the prime of life, and both a credit to the great and growing state which either would honor in Congress. Everything else being equal, there are hundreds of personal friends of both men who might find it difficult to choose between them In the struggl for the honor they now seek. But in print of usefulness to the state, as representatives at Washington, all semblance of equality between the two men is eliminated by closely drawn party lines. Mr. McCredie is a mem ber of the party In power, the party which is in control of legislation. Be ing with that party and of that party, he will be received at Washington with open arms. The country is now under a Republican administration and will remain so. for at least the full term for which the late Congress man Cushman's successor will be elected. Even were Judge McCredie's mental and moral qualifications for the place inferior to those of Mr. Lis ter, which they are not, he would still be, under existing conditions, a much more valuable representative at Wash ington than any member of the mi nority party, no matter what the per eonal merits of the latter might be. It may be news to the narrow minded Mr. Ellis, of Tacoma, to learn that this drawing of lines "against the Columbia River" is no longer the pop ular pastime it was once regarded in the State of Washington. The shore line of that mighty stream which has cut 'water-level grades for traffic from all parts of the Pa cific Northwest is more than twice as long as the State of Wash ington as It la in any other state, and its Influence on the commercial, social and political life of Washington is steadily increasing. Any Individual or any newspaper that can find no bet ter excuse for opposing a candidate than that which is being employed by Judge McCredie's opponents, can hardly expect to effect great changes In the results. Portland men have in vested several millions in Tacoma en terprises, but this fact does not dis qualify them from holding office in Portland. Within the past year or two Moritz Thomsen, of Seattle, and T. L. Greenough, of Spokane, have in vested millions In Portland enterprises but If either of those men were to ap pear as candidates for office In their home city, these strictly legitimate business ventures would in no way prove .disadvantageous, to their po litical prospects. It is full time for a cessation of this petty, narrow village bickering and Jealousy between different parts of the same state, or between two states so closely Identified as Washington is with Oregon. What is wanted at Washington is good representatives of the Pacific Northwest, working to gether in full sympathy with the Ad ministration. APPLE GROWING, OI.D AND NEW. The apple fair, to be held In Albany during the last week in the present month, will prove of great advantage to amateur Trultgrowers in the Wil lamette Valley, of whom there Is a large and constantly increasing num ber. Time was when all that was necessary to grow the fines, apples in Western Oregon was to clear and plow the land Intended for orchard, having, of course, given intelligent car- t Its locatl n: select the fruit varieties pre ferred, and properly plant the trees. This, with perhaps a cro; of peas or beans bet- een trees for a few years, insuring reasonable cultivation, was all tl.at was necessary to start an orchard and bring it, in a few years, into abundant bearing. There are some distant localities in the state which pests have not yet invaded and where the old conditions prevail. But they will not long enjoy this Isolation. An orchard planted about 1856, -i a northern slope of a farm In Yamhill Cunty, produced for many years such Spitzen bergs and Baldwins and Yellow Bellfiowers and other well chosen var ieties, for a family orchard, as have been unexcelled to this day. The products of this orchard, as the years went on. rotted upon the ground, lit erally by the ton. There were no markets for the green fruit, no facil ities for drying and but little market for dried apples, as every thrifty housewife dried her own home supply on strings depending from the kitchen rafters. But the trees grew and flour ished and bore year after year heavy crops of unblemished apples, as fine as the finest of today. irinaiiv the old orchard fell upon evil days. Commerce set this way, bringing orchard pests that found in the old trees friendly lodgment. Ap ple culture, owing to a stinted market, had never been profitable. Scraggy and moss-grown, the trees became a blot upon the landscape. Many of the trees contended for years against storms and pests and neglect and bore some fruit, but at last they became utterly worthless and the first era In apple growing in the Willamette Valley came to an inglorious end. But old things have passed' away. Apple-growing, stimulated by strong demand, has taken a new lease of life. While old conditions of easy culture, promiscuous selection, riot ous abundance and unblemished fruit have passed away, so also have the conditions that allowed the finest ap ples to rot upon the ground by the ton and the orchards to fall into de cay. We have the pests, but we also have the market. To learn 'how to fight pests successfully is to cater with profit, . To promote this knowledge, lectures will be given at the Albany Apple Fair, In which various matters. Inci dent to successful apple growing, will be presented. The apples on exhi bition will serve to illustrate these lectures. There "ill be an address on "Sprays and Spraying," one on "Pruning and Grafting," and one upon the "General Management of the Or chard," all of which will tend to maLe practical apple-growers out of the amateurs who listen to them. This fair should be well attended. No doubt It will be. With others of its Kind it will form an index to the new era in apple-growing in the Willamette Val ley, the results of which will be both gratifying and profitable. YOUNG ME VERS INNOCENT? Already a lawyer has figured out that George Meyers, the adolescent ornament cf Salem, who killed Police man Eckhart, cannot be convicted of murder. In this view, Eckhart, not being armed with a warrant for ar rest of Meyers, seized the young man contrary to law and paid the penalty for so doing with his own life. It is plain, therefore, that usual technicali ties and quibbles will Intervene to save the slayer's neck from the gallows or his worthless person from long incar nation. Such obstacles to Justice have saved many a murderer, a considerable num ber of them in Oregon. If. their suc cess in defeating the law Is sufficient precedent, for this new case, there Is no room in the world why Meyers should be fleeing through the moun tain wilderness in these October storms. He might Just as well sleep in a feather bed in his father's house as to camp in the dews and damps of the primeval forest, for, according to high legal authority, he has committed no crime. To be sure, he shot a police man, but It appears that he had a perfect right to do so. This is a lovely legal loophole. It is a pity that no way can be found to-communicate this glad intelligence to Meyers. Think of the weary miles of flight" the knowledge would save him, to say nothing of cold and hun ger and a possible attack of pneu monia. If he only understood how in nocent he is, he would naturally sur render to the authorities, receive his immunity bath and resume the normal routine of his valuable existence. This would also greatly simplify matters for the Marlon County authorities. It is distressing to reflect upon the tribula tion they are needlessly undergoing, in pursuit of an innocent man. Accord ing to the reports, their sufferings, as they scour the wilderness In their au tomobiles, are something frightful. It is sad to think of so much heroism being squandered. Even if they should catch Meyers, the courts may let him go again, and who will be the better for all the pother? Of course the of ficers will get their fees. They always do. We shall all want to see what suc cess the prosecuting officers will have in this new cause of Justice. The laws, the courts and the lawyers will be on trial, as well as the slayer. DR. COOK'S ARTFUL CLIMAX. It turns out that Dr. Cook was wiser hn Vii rritics Thev complained be cause he did not publish the climax of his story at the beginning, out in sav ing it for the end, he has injured no body, while he has provided an agree able entertainment for millions of readers. The evidence he gives of having reached the Pole Is Just as valid now i-s it was two or three weeks ago, while the expectation of it has maintained a steady interest in his story. We must remember that Dr. Cook IS a poor man. He has no gov ernment salary to depend upon, like Peary, and in making his way to rec ognition he has to fight not only the malignant calumnies of his rival, but also the snobbish partisanship of the Army and Navy. We can only praise him, therefore, for making all he could financially out of his narrative and for using legiti mate literary art to keep the public interest la 1: alive. If he were a Gov ernment official, drawing an easy sal ary, we might expect him to ignore all such base things as money, but with a poor man who must earn his bread, the case is clearly different. CHOLERA IN' RUSSIA. The news that cholera Is again rag ing In Russia is not unexpected. The disease has been endemic throughout the empire ever since the close of the Japanese war, with a fearful outburst of epidemic virulence at least once a year. The people are too Ignorant and miserable to cope with the disease, and the government Is too busy otherwise to pay much attention to their health. Nicholas and his relations cannot be expected to worry over the cholera so long as it spares their own precious lives. ' The men and women who might have aided the Russian people to meet the epidemic have been thoroughly weeded out by Nicholas and his minis ters. Some of them are rotting in the dungeons he maintains for the benefit of his poets, physicians and scholars. Some are slowly perishing In Siberia. Some have been hanged after suffering Inhuman tortures. Deprived of their natural friends and helpers and at the mercy of an Inhuman government, the Russian people are dying In swarms. Very likely those who succumb to the cholera are enviable. Their fate Is a happy one in comparison with what the living must experience in that land of horrors, but what shall we say of a government whose misrule is so abom inable that it makes disease a godsend and death a blessed release? END OF AN UNSEEMLY DISPUTE. The famous statue of General Fran cis E. Spinner, made at a cost of over $20,000 and originally intended for a place on the Government grounds in Washington, will find a permanent and appropriate place In a public park in Herkimer, New York, where General Spinner was born. This decision, reached through a compromise engi neered hv the daughters of the Ameri can Revolution, during the past Sum mer, ended one of the most Interest ing controversies in American history over honors to the memory of a dis tinguished public servant. General Spinner's service in Government finance was universally recognized. But opposition to the Installment of Vita nrnriiA on National territory de veloped almost from the first day that women employes in the Treasury De partment started the subscription to raise, money for the memorial. Ad mirers of Secretary Chase stoutly affirmed that he was the first head of the Treasury to employ women, thus controverting the claim upon which the admirers of General Spinner start ed out to perpetuate his memory in heroic bronze. Acrimonious wrangles, covering a period of several years, have charac terized this contention over honors, to an honorable and efficient public serv ice. The contention that the execu tive head of a Government depart ment is not entitled to the distinction of a memorial statue on Government grounds, entered into this discussion and increased Its scope, though the controversy was primarily based upon the first-named contention, How ever, all's well that ends well, and this famous memorial to General Spinner will serenely face the home of his birth .amid surroundings that were congenial to him in life. The record of General Spinner, as an efficient public servant, who gave the best that was in him to the discharge of public duty, is found in the archives of the Treasury Department in Washington, where there is no question of its right to stand. One reason why Spokane has been so sadly deceived in its losing fight for terminal rates. Is the continual misrepresentation of actual conditions by the Spokane papers. In a news item printed In Sunday's Review, it is as serted that discrimination against Spo kane in freight rates on steel will cost the Old National Bank Building Com pany $22,360 more for steel than it would cost on the coast. This Is fol lowed by the statement that "Water competition does not affect this struc tural steel shipment, because no build ing company would wait while Its steel was being carried around Cape Horn." The steel used In the Meier & Frank's new building In this city, a larger amount than will be used In the Spo kane building, was all brought to Port land by water from the Atlantic sea board via the Tehuan tepee route, and some of the deliveries were made in 24 days after the steel left New York, which Is better than the usual all-rail time. Even at the low rail rate to Portland, complained of by Spokane, the railroads were unable to get any of this business, because the water carriers underbid them. "Words and pictures cannot ade quately describe the maddening in fluence of this sameness of polar glit ter, combined with bitter winds, ex treme cold and an overworked body," says Dr. Cook, in one of his Interest ing letters, describing the toilsome Journey beyond the point where man had ever trod before. But the daring doctor found words In plenty to de scribe the various stages of that won derful Journey, and he strung these words together with the hand of a master. Even the skeptics, or the most biased friends of Peary, will be obliged to admit that If Dr. Cook did not reach the North Pole, he has all writers, ancient or modern, badly distanced describing something not ac tually seen. Not the least of the very strong evidence to support Dr. Cook's claim, is the wonderful story which h Is now giving to the world. If It is fiction, It certainly has a more truth ful ring than any fiction that has ever before given the world entertainment and absorbing interest. A Helena, Montana, dispatch an nounces that James J. Hill declared the agricultural and horticultural dis play at the Montana state fair the best he had ever seen. If there has ever been a fair held west of the Missouri River common points attended by Mr. Hill, in whicB he failed to make a sim ilar statement, particulars, giving time and place, should be forthcoming im mediately. The public ,1s always in terested when Mr. Hill says something new, and the only new thing which he could say about any exhibit at any fair in his territory, would be that the ex hibit was not the best that he had ever seen. A wonderfully fine poli tician was spoiled to make a great railroad man out of James J. Hill. Doesn't it look rather queer that the only health official In the state, out of the many that draw pay from the public treasury, who is making -any effort to enforce the law and prosecute offenders Is attacked by all the others at once? If there is any virtue in en forcement of the law, where is the merit of Oregon's host of disease chasing idlers? Wouldn't they better devote their time, , that taxpayers pay for, to ferreting out offenders against the health laws, than to howl ing at the Dairy and Food Commis sioner? At least, they ought first to "go and jget a reputation." The deluded young wife, told of yes terday in the Police Court report, who n.i h nrtmrose path for diver sion during her husband's necessary absence, will have all eternity for re flection. The ways of the strait and narrow path may at times be hard and grinding, but the ways of the trans gressor are adamantine. The Multnomah Athletic , Club's swimming instructor proposes a swim ming tournament in the Willamette River for Christmas day. We move to amend by inserting in place of Decem ber 25, the Fourth of July. Western Canada purposes holding an exposition in 1912. Oregon will be there, with Its versatile and veteran commissioners, maybe. And then again, maybe no'. Of course, Taft noticed the dif ference when he reached Sacramento. In Oregon, no crowd would be so dis courteous as to drown a speaker's voice. This man Bryan, now en route to Seattle, whom George Thomas wants to bring to Portland, might profitably use the code word "Resurgam." How times change! In Harry Tracy's day, deputies didn't chase murderers in Oregon wilds with auto mobiles. Now watch the school book pub lishers snatch parts of Cook's splendid narrative for the fourth and fifth read- With the facts now accessible, Kip ling can add to his fame by putting Cook into a virile poem. Taxes now delinquent. Better pay np so that all our officials may draw their salaries. RAILWAY WRECKS FEWER IN V. 9. Better Maugement and Apparatus Re duce Number of Fatalities. v New York Times. It was thought cause for wonder and congratulation when the Pennsylvania Railway reported that It completed the calendar year 1908 without killing a single passenger. But now several railways re port a similar record for the. fiscal year ended with July. The Northwestern, the Rock Island, the Burlington and the Atchison carried 70,000,000 passengers during their latest reported year without a single fatality chargeable to any fault of either of them. The Erie, not to be outdone, claims a clean score for the 125,000.000 passengers It has carried in five years. Probably it can never be claimed for the entire country that in a year not a single passenger was killed on any railway, as was recently claimed for England, but there Is certainly a marked gain, and the aggregate passenger traffic of the roads above named bears a fair relation to the volume of British travel. The remarkable thing about these later records is that they are reported by Western railways. The Eastern roads run over roadbeds consolidated by gen erations of travel, whereas passengers over the Western roads can sometimes look out of the window and see the newly constructed roadbed quiver like Jelly, while occasionally a dislodged stone or two, or a cartload of sand, will roll down the embankments with apparently nothing to prevent the rest of the "fill" collapsing beneath the train. Besides, the Western roads are in constant process of growth and reconstruction, and ordinary traffic Is disorganized by work trains. Thousands of miles are single track, and the .signal systems are comparatively crude, although Improv ing wonderfully fast. These deficiencies of the apparatus add to the credit of the administrations, unless the happy result is to be credited to good luck. But while the railway record is thus improving, the death rate as a whole is hardly bet tered. The automobile accidents keep the totals good, or perhaps, if it were possible to aggregate them all. the transportation deaths might even appear to bo growing. LIKENING PYGMIES TO GIANTS. Bryan and Bailey Don't Equal toe Statnre of Lincoln and Douglas. New York Sun. Our solemn contemporary of New Orleans, the venerable Times-Democrat, discusses gravely and at some length the matter of the. proposed debate be tween William J. Bryan, of .Nebraska, and Senator Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas. It considers in a Judicial frame of mind the nice, question of whether this hypothetical meeting is justly compar able with a certain contest of words which took place some years ago in Illinois between one Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas. The conclusion laboriously reached is that the comparison is not "appropriate for several reasons." The chief of the dif ferences ferreted out are thus stated: In the first place Lincoln and Douglas had a personal liking each for the other, though they were political enimles. Mr. Bryan, on the other hand, does not admire Mr. Bailey, and the Texan has anv but a friendly per sonal (eeling for the Nebraskan. Each has warm, even bitter, partisans In Texas, and the dispute promises to be memorable in that state. The Texas press Is generally championing one man or the other, and the Texas editors show some bitterness In ex pressing their opinions All this may be admirable and true. But It occurs to us that the Times Democrat might have hunted less and found one obvious distinction which renders the comparison not only inap propriate, but a few other things as well. We refer to the undoubted stature of the giants of 1858 and to the puniness of the Nebraska-Texas con testants of today. Tastes differ, but we should have as soon thought of comparing a Texas oil gusher to the Mississippi as Senator Bailey to Senator Douglas; and to express the distance separating the other two debaters, we confess our Inability to state the mat ter with either elegance or entire ade quacy. Indignities In Cnstonu Search. New York Post. Mr. Loeb's defense of what the Sun aptly terms his "undressing brigade" will satisfy nobody outside of official circles. If, as he alleges, his victims "seemed to enjoy" the operation of be ing stripped by customs inspectors, they are taking a curious way of expressing their thanks. In other words. Mr. Loeb would have it that the legal proceedings started are In the nature of blackmail or strike-suits. We believe nothing of the kind, and earnestly hope that the matter wll be fought through to. the highest court of the land. For we can not imagine that such a search on mere suspicion is legal. We all know what an outcry there would be in this city if the police, because they had re ceived an accusing letter, calmly took a respectable woman off the streets and subjected her to a similar search in a station-house. What becomes of our boasted personal liberty? What of the rights of innocent persons? The per formance of Mr. Loeb's men would be disgraceful to the country's good nami If there were unquestioned authority in law. As it is. It becomes a public scan dal, to bo endured only because it is bound to be most useful in awakening people to the barbaric character of our tariff laws, and particularly of the per- i v..vr0-A nrnvlslnn. At oreaent Mr, Duiit.i iaeaua - - - Loeb is an excellent ally of the free traders. An Unkind Question. New York Herald. Mrs. Annie Besant says that she is a reincarnation of both Hypatla and Giordano Bruno. She remembers every day of the existence of both. Obviously her duty Is to write their autobiogra phies. Providence Journal. Hope no one will be unkind enough to ask her what she knows about Ananias and Sapphlra. 1 If Hudson Were Alive. New York Past. The Chicago Inter Ocean thinks that if Hudson were to appear in New York today he would be confronted with: "How do we know you discovered the Hudson? Prove it!" But he could point triumphantly to his Half Moon anchored in the stream. Another Inspector Needed f Eugene Register. A J-year-old child drowned in a washtub at Roseburg. Is there no way to curb this criminal carelessness of parents? . A Matter of FTlgrht. Cleveland (O.) Plain-Dealer. "Come, fly with me." he Whispered low; "Be mine, be mine while life endures!" ""But first." she said, "I want to know What make of aeroplane is yours?" 800 Years Ago. New York World. When Henry Hudson sailed across The fearsome salty waste And found the stream that bears his name, I wonder did he haste Back to his own dear native land To tell the people there What he had done, and if they smiled And murmured. "That's hot air." I wonder if when he arrived In that dear native land. If folks turned out to honor nhn And If they played a band And wreathed red roses round his head. Or if. Instead of cheers. He ran into an awful frost Of unbelieving sneers. Or did they say, "Produoe tha proofs That Is, Hen. If you can. Oh, We forgot to tell you that A man named Verraszano Claims ho was flrst to reach that ptaosa" I'll bet that's what they did. And that when Henry raged about. They simply laughed, "Doa't kiuV . , SPIRIT OF FRANCE IN SPALV. Disorders Caused by Anarchistic As saults Upon Church and King. Prom a Roquetas, Spain, letter to the America, published In New York. Doubtless the events of the past few days in Spain have been published in the secular press. Spanish affairs, when of a sensational nature, are not slow in reaching London and New York. The lo cal coloring and exaggeration Which are generally added make It difficult for Eng lish and American Catholics to under stand things as they really are. Hence, a clear account of the trouble in Spain may be of interest. That the existing government in Spain Is Catholic is beyond question. Maura, the leader of the Ministry, has always shown himself a practical Catholic, ready to defend the interests of the church. That Spain has advanced materially by leaps and bounds under Maura's administra tion is evident to any one who has watched closely the couree of events dur ing the past few years. Maura has made personal, material sacrifices for the good of Spain. His government has been honest. It has been too honest for the Liberals and Republicans, who have found themselves lacking in government funds during the past few years. True. Maura has not received the support of the Carlist and Integrlst parties, both strongly Catholic. The first withholds its support principally out of loyalty to the. cause of the Carlists. The Integrlsts question the sincerity of the Catholicity of the present government. Their duties to church and Spain were lately defined by Pope Pius X. Neither, however, is connected 'with the present disturbance. It is the Liberals and the Republicans that are giving trouble. The Liberals oppose the government on principle. They want to be In power; thev do not relish being "outs." The Re publicans of Spain are a dangerous ele ment. . They are opposed to church and king. France is their model government. Their hatred of religion Is even greater than their hatred for the king. For the most part they draw their recruits from the slums, from workmen of an irre ligious, discontented class. Their leaders are unscrupulous and full of hatred lor the Jesuits and religious orders, which they know are the guardians of Christian education in Spain. Calumny is their favorite weapon. They work, upon the credulity of the ignorant, blaming the government and the religious orders for everything that goes wrong. It is the Republicans, grown strong by the secret aid of former Liberal governments, and the discontent following the Cuban and Philippine wars, who have been waiting for an occasion for an outbreak against the government and religion. The occa sion came with the trouble at Melllla. The Moors of the Riff countiy made a murderous assault upon Spanish work men. The Spanish commander at Melllla took prompt action and fired upon the Moors. A war Is the result. Attack after attack has been made against the Spanish position. Senor Maura, declare lng that Spain desired neither war nor conquest, was forced to send thousands of soldiers to Africa to meet the fanati cal attacks of the Increasing army of the Moors. The trouble came unfortunately at an inopportune moment. The new conscripts were not perfectly trained; tho government was forced to call upon the Bnma nf these bad married since leaving the .army. Now came the chance for the Republican leaders to play to the gallery. The fierce attacks of the Moors at Melllla and tne aeatns oi Span ish soldiers were heralded in the Republl- i uhiroi Tiross. "What barbarity to tear these soldiers from the arms or their wives and send them to tne Dattie field of Africa to die! Where Is the honor of Spain if they must die?" "The war is to protect the interests of the rich, not the Interests of the poor." "Away with the religious! Down with the monarchy!" see The irreligious, anarchistic spirit broke loose, especially in Barcelona, the great commercial city of Spain. The Repub licans and their friends, the Socialists and Anarchists, to show their love and loyalty to Spain, stormed the convents of unpro tected nuns and hurled themselves against the doors of those angelic comforters of the aged and dying the Little Sisters of the Poor. Nothing was too sacred for their sacrilegious desecration. Churches, even that grand old monument, Santa Maria del Mar, were attacked and at tempts made to burn them to the ground. A Marist brother was brutally murdered and others of his community wounded. Martial law was declared. Troops were hurried to Barcelona as fast as several destroyed bridges, torn up rails and cut wires, would permit. The Btreets of Barcelona were quickly sprinkled with sand, that omnlous warning of the artil lery. The murderous mobs were cleared away with cannon. The dead and dying were gathered up and all warned to re main at home. e In some other parts of Spain there have been outbreaks. The Government seems now to have the situation well in hand. In Valencia a leader of the Republicans has been lodged in Jail for exciting rebel lion. What will be the end of It all? So far It Is an attack upon religion and order masked under the cloak of opposition to the war. The Republicans are not storm ing the Government Barracks but the convents and monasteries. It Is less dan gerous. One word in conclusion. Spain Is a Catholic nation. There can be no doubt of that. These men, who are a minority, and who are bringing disgrace upon their country and would efface even the past glorious history or Spain must not be thought to be Catholics. They are neither Catholic nor Protestant, but are plain enemies of all religion and morality. In a word, the present outbreak Is the spirit of France working southward. Injecting Religion Into" Public Schools. Portland Spectator. One can hardly credit the report that says the president of the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church in a speech delivered In this city urged her hearers to use every ef fort to prevent Roman Catholics from becoming teachers In our public schools. And yet that is what Mrs. George O. Robinson did. Here Is a part of her speech: Whatever you do don't abandon the neld to the enemy. Remember that In the proper education of the children lies the strength of this great country. Keep Roman Catholic teachers out of the public schools at all haz ards the Importance of vigilance In this re spect cannot be overestimated. What a pitiably illiberal suggestion that is, and in its contemplation how remote one feels from the spirit of the thought of "Peace on earth, good will toward men." It is unfortunate that no one among Mrs. Robinson's hearers arose to protest against the utterance of such a creed In Portland, where in our social, business and educational relations we are broad enough to take no count of the religious beliefs of our fellows. It is pleasant to learn that Mrs. Rob inson does not voice the sentiments of many Methodists. A majority of the ministers of the church for which she presumes to speak repudiate her opin ions. Portland is. happily, the last place In the country In which Mrs. Robinson or anyone else can start a religious war; the city is too representative of the broad and liberal West for that. m Foolish Pairs. A pair In a hammock Attempted to kiss And in less than a Jiffy Syracuse Herald. A pair out canoeing To change seats essayed. And these are the bubbles o o o o o o o o That sinking, they made. r Boston Transcript, j Life's Sunny Side Blobbs Guzzler opened six bottles of wine last night. Slobbs He's a corker. Blobbs-r-I should say he was an uncorker. Philadelphia Record. Wlggs Who was the best man at Henpecke's wedding? Wagg I rather Imagine Mrs. Henpecke was. Exchange. Jack She asked me what color halr I liked best. Estelle (Spitefully) That's Just Ilka Maud: she's always so anxious to please. Boston Transcript. "An explorer certainly ought to acquire enough material for a lecture." "That's my wife's aim when she ex- . plores my pockets." Kansas City Jour nal. as "Say. pop, what's civil service?" "Eh? It's an act governing the service In the department, the customs, the pos tal, the government printing " "But, dad, what does it mean?" "Mean? It means where a busy man rushes into the postoffice to buy come stamps falls in line, waits an hour and twenty minutes before reaching the win dow then after tendering a hundred dollar bill, hears the tallow-faced clerk murmur pleasantly: " 'Wholesale stamps at the next win dow, please.' " Bohemian. . Teacher What do you mean by the "quick and the dead?" Boy Well, the quick get out of the way of tho motor cars, and the dead don't. Lipplncott's. "What Is literature?" said the person who tries to start arguments. "Literature," answered the man at the typewriter, "Is something to put around advertisements so that they can be more effectively displayed." Washington (D. C.) Star. Teacher Johnny, what Is the meaning of the word "procrastinate?" Pupil To put off. Teacher Right. Use it in an original sense. Pupil The brakeman procrastinated the tramp from the train. Cleveland Leader. An old negro preacher in Kentucky was dilating upon events in the Bible which had a zoological trend. He described tne Deluge and how all the animals, two by two, went into the Ark and were saved. Then he discussed the Incident of Jonah and the whalf. Balaam's ass. and finally the exploit of Daniel, who entered the den of ravening lions and emerged un harmed. His auditors had listened with interest, and some of them semed to have their doubts as to the authenticity of tho tales. Finally, one of the younger negroes rose up and Inquired. "Say, pahson. wuz dem lions Jest like the kind we has now?" "Cose not. cose not." retorted the preacher. Irritated at having his dis course interrupted. "Dey was B. C meaning befo circuses." The explanation was sufficient and sat isfactory. Buffalo (N. Y.) Commercial. "We have reversed the ordinary laws of nature." said a witty United States senator, speaking of himself and an almost preternaturally dignified colleague. "Blank has risen by his gravity; I have Bunk by my levity." Youth's Companion. "What is your principal object, any how," asked the visiting foreigner, "in building that Panama canal?" "Well," answered the native, "we have an idea it will limit the size of future battleships." Chicago Tribune. "My boy." said the head of the firm, "I've noticed that you have a great head for figures, although you don't seem to be able to spell or write at all. How does It happen?" "I studied 'rlthmetlc," replied the office boy, " 'cause I wanted to know how to figure de batln' averages." Chicago Record-Herald. as An old gentleman was playing with his little granddaughter one day, when sne noticed that most of his hair was missing. "Granpa," she queried earnestly, "why don't you wear a switch ?" Chicago News. "What do you find the hardest work connected with farming?" Collecting a board bill from you city chaps when It's due." New York World. "Do you keep up your automoiule all Winter?" "No it's all I can do to keep up the payments on it." Philadelphia Ledger. GOVERNMENT AT ALL HOURS. A New Hubit In This Country and Too Much of It. New York World. It was once held by many Americans that the world was too much governed, yet no country with which they were familiar was incessantly subjected to agitation of governmental questions. Everything came in its season. There was a time for soed and there was a. time for harvest. Men toiled and women spun for long periods without a thought of government. But for eight years this country has been ad dressed almost incessantly on-the state of the Union. The recesses of Con gress are short. The vacations of the President are few and brief. We thus have a phase of too much government which was not contemplat ed a century ago. It is government morning, noon and night; Spring, Sum mer, Autumn and Winter. There is government not at the capital alone, but at bathing beaches, water tanks, irrigation dams and Mormon temples. A progressive people must find time for something besides government. Those whose duty it Is to govern might make greater headway if they would take this fact seriously to heart. Another Proof for Cook. W. L. McCarty in New York Herald. Who discovered the North Pole and proof ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 QRSTUVWXYZ 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 NORTH POLE 14 16 18 20 8 16 15 12 6 123 FREDERICK COOK 6 18 5 4 5 18 9 3 11 3 15 15 11123 A Question From Crook. prlneville Review. If prohibition Is such a success In T7--na ,.-1. th- dlne-biistert blank 13 Aaiiaao, n j ..... 0 it that the women are continually talking temperance? There are no saloons in the state, a drink may not W nii.nliaen In O A rtl FStrtTP. and even uo iu. vu."-u ... r. . yet there appears to be a large, promis ing ana pronxaoie neia ior icraiii lecturers there. Bid for a New County Seat. Stanf ield Standard. Rmoll fapmn nre wanted in Umatilla rnnntv. There are trolng to be thou sands of them in a few years more, but by that time Umatilla county win oe divided. Most of them will be In Roose velt County. America's Enviable rlace. PORTLAND. Or., Oct. 5. (To the Editor.) Do you know that the United States has the rest of the world going south? We are the only people who can stand on our own possessions and point to any other country as being due south- J. A. C