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raRTLAXD. WETWESTAAT, OCT. OS, WOO.
WATER COMPETITTOX Df PRACTICE.
Every inland city, which has been
contending for terminal rates since
the present agitation began, has dis
played a' deal re to belittle the import
ance of water transportation between
the two coasts of the United States,
(jpokane. Salt Lake, Reno and all
other Jobbing cities, inaccessible to
water carriers, have professed to be
lieve that the importance of this greet
regulator of railroad rates had been
overestimated. For this reason, a re
cert report issued by the Bureau of
Statistics of the Department of Com
merce and Labor is of exceptional in
terest. This report shows that there
was transported by the Isthmus of
Panama and the Isthmus of Tehuan
tepec in 1908 nearly J50,000,000 worth
of merchandise bound to and from
the Atlantic and Pacific porta. The
remarkable growth of the business is
ehown in the Tehuantepec figures,
which increased from about 125,000,
00 in 1907 to 138,000,000 in 1908.
As the business for 1909 is taxing
the facilities of the steamships that
handle it, the showing this year will
undoubtedly be much more favorable
than that of last year. Sugar, bound
from Honolulu to the Atlantic sea
board, was the most important cargo,
handled on the Tehuantepec route,
but the importations of merchandise
by that route at San Francisco, Port
land and Puget Sound, reached the
enormous total of $14,000,000, while
the merchandise imports at these ports
by way of the Panama route brought
the grand total up to $16,500,000.
These imports, averaging nearly
41,400,000 per month, through the en
tire year, were all distributed from the
coast ports, at prices which would
Jiave been impossible had they been
obliged to stand the burden of high
rail rates across the continent.
On account of the great activity of
the Government in constructing the
Panama Canal, the rail line across
the Isthmus of Panama was unable
to handle as much commercial busi
ness as It has handled at times in the
past, but everything that was carried
toy that line took a rate from the At
lantic ports of origin to the Pacific
distributing centers of exactly 60 per
cent of the rail toll for the same
service. The growth of business on
the Tehuantepec line has been phe
nomenal, for it is but little over two
years since the present service was
inaugurated, and at times during that
period, through rates from the At
lantic seaboard have been less than
half the rates charged by the rail
roads. Not only has the Tehuantepec route
given the Pacific Coast tremendous
reductions in rates, but the time made
from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific
ports by this new route, has been
shortened to but little more than
three weeks. While the present vol
ume of business, as reflected In the
Government figures Is enormous, it
will seem small Indeed by com
parison with the immense traffic that
will pass from ocean to ocean, as
soon as the Panama Cans is com
pleted. Water competition is already
the predominating factor In rate
making on transcontinental business,
and a few years hence its Importance
will be still more forcibly felt.
MISTAKEN ZEAL.
Mr. Frederick W. Peabody is a
beautiful specimen of the type of men
who are impermeable to the lessons
of experience. If he were capable of
learning from the vicissitudes of other
men, who have assailed religious sects,
he would understand that no belief
was ever shaken by proving it false.
Of course, Mr. Peabody did not prove
that Christian Science was false. Far
from it. Vituperation is not evidence.
But even' if he had demonstrated that
Mrs. Eddy's teachings are mistaken
and her followers blindly credulous
of falsehood, he would not have ef
fected the slightest result.
Religious beliefs are not overthrown
by direct assault. Creeds) have some
times been undermined by the general
progress of intelligence. The discov
eries of natural science have made it
Impossible for an informed person to
believe today a number of tenets which
our fathers held sacred. Literature
has also made some impression upon
the great fortress of credulity, not by
direct assault, but by circuitous ap
peals to reason. Byron says of Gib
bon that he sapped "a solemn creed
with solemn success."
It is probably true that Gibbon did
appreciably impair the solidity of cer
tain bulwarks of belief, but he
did not do it by ranting and
raving. His advances upon the
citadel were serpentine. He was
perhaps more Jesuitical in his siege
than the Jesuits themselves have ever
been In their defense. If the gre-t
historian had descended to calumniate
the bishops of the early church as Mr.
Peabody calumniates Mrs. Eddy, he
would only have fanned the flames of
faith in the hearts of their modern
converts. It Is quite likely that Mr.
Pea body's ungenerous rage has made
every Christian Scientist In Portland
more zealous than ever before. The
leaders of that thriving new cult ought
to thank him for his efforts.
Knowing what we do of the history
of persecution, it is amusing to read
of the language which Mr. Peabody
permits himself to use on the polem
ical platform. When, foaming at the
mouth, he calls Mrs. Eddy an "im
postor," a "liar," a "maniac," and so
on, one cannot help remembering that
the same epithets were applied to
Jesus and his Apostles. When he calls
Christian Science "a skin game,
.worked for an inner circle of graft--era."
we are reminded of the gross
slanders circulated about the early
Christians. They were accused of
mure :... babes to drink the warm
Mood. It was reDorted that they often
blew out the lights at their agape,
or lovefeasts, and Indulged in pro
miscuous obscenity. It would be easy
to give a. dozen similar examples If
it were worth while.- Certainly it
wuld have entertained a satirist to
sea the complacent group of ministers
on Mr. Peabody's platform applaud
his slanderous tales about Mrs. Eddy,
regardless of the much worse stories
that were told about the founders of
their own faith.
Another apt parallel occurs in this
connection. The Campbellltes, or Dis
ciples, who are Just now celebrating
their first centennial, went through
very much such a struggle for exist
ence as the Christian Scientists are
experiencing. When they began to
preach in a new town, all the, minis
ters assailed them- with ferocious
wrath. The same calumnies were
heaped upon them which Mr. Peabody
applies to the Christian Scientists. If
envy and hatred could have killed
them, the followers of Campbell would
have been dead long ago, but as a mat
ter of fact, their sect Is perhaps the
most liourlshing In the country. It
has lived down persecution and been
accepted as a limb of the true church.
This is as It should be. There
should be complete liberty for every
body of believers to worship as they
like and to propagate their faith in
peace. Two much verity in the
religious world would bode ill to un
believers who are also entitled
to full liberty. The "simple fact
is that we must learn to tol
erate one another's creeds or lack of
creeds. Most people have mastered
the lesson already, but occasionally
a man like Mr. Peabody shows by his
conduct that his education in this
particular has been neglected. The
defect Is a sad one. It not only causes
thin rl lawver to- exDress himself
like a barbarian, but it makes him
ridiculous.
MB. BRYAJf'8 LECTCRB.
It would not be easy to estimate
just how much of the charm of Mr.
Brj-an's oratory arises from its shal
lowness. No doubt the charm exists
and, of course, the shallowness, is evi
dent, but is the latter the only source
of the former? Probably not. Very
likely Mr. Bryan is not admired be
cause he talks nonsense, but In spite
of it. Those witless platitudes he ut
ters so profusely, those sloppy appeals
to sentimental religiosity, those trite
repetitions of bald axioms would not
enchant Mr. Bryan's audiences with
out the powerful attraction of his mel
lifluous voice and graceful gestures.
It is not what he says that fascinates,
but the way he says it. Probably his
hearers would have gone home in rap
tures If he had merely recited "Mary
Had a Little Lamb," he would have
done it so superbly.
What he did recite at Taylor-street
Church was about on the moral level
with that lovely poem and logically
far inferior to it. Read the following
sentences carefully and a good . taste
of Mr. Bryan's reasoning will be ob
tained: "How much money can a man
rightly earn from society? Not more
than he honestly- earns. When he
takes more he is receiving more than
he actually earns and is stealing." -
The Infantile tone of this is in
finitely pathetic. When a man takes
more than he can get honestly, he
takes some of it dishonestly. Amazing
conclusion. Admirable originality.
But it seems to be Mr. Bryan's aptness
for this sort of thing which makes him
popular. He never had an original
thought in his head. He never carried
out an independent train of reasoning
from sound premises to a correct con
clusion. A voice, a few gestures, a fine
presence, in a little while it will be the
same as If Mr. Bryan had never lived.
He will run for oblivion much better
than he ever did for President,
VNOOXFLETED POI.E CONQUEST.
The North Pole controversy Contin
ues to rage with a uegree of heat en
tirely out of keeping with the sub
ject nder discussion. Dr. Cook, ry
emulating the example of Brer Rab
bit, who, according to the fable, "Jes
kep o t saying nothin," has added to
tha ranks of those who have faith in
his achievement. Meanwhile friends
of Peary still rally around the ban
ner of their chieftain. Between the
two camp of Intense partisans are
many persons who are not entirely
satisfied with the reports of either
of the men. The New York Evening
Post, f-r example, questions the ac
curacy of Dr. Cook's observations as
he neared thu Pole, and -aggests that
"It would certainly be no discourtesy
to the University of Copenhagen for
Dr. Cook, without revealing a Jot or
tittle of his actual recorded observa
tions, to make a simple statement as
to the methods employed by him in
determining 'local noon' not, indeed,
at the Pole, but near the Pole; or, in
his own way, to state what means he
employed, to determine his longitude
with reasonable accuracy."
Out of all this doubt and faith,
praise and censure, is discernible a
growing belief that the . possibilities
of the North Pole as a field for ex
ploitation have not yet been exhausted.
There still remains an opening for an
explorer who will go to the front with
equipment and witnesses sufficient
to back up the story he brings
home. So far as the tangible evi
dence and apparent ' proof are con
cerned, Dr. Cook Would seem to
have at least a shade the better of
the controversy. He was accom
panied by two Eskimos, who, while
"short" on technical and scientific
knowledge of Pole hunting, were
"long" on actual knowledge of the
adjacent territory leading up to the
Pole.
The testimony of these men, fg
norant though they may be, ought to
strike a favorable balance with that
pf the one lone negro, who was the
only companion with whom Peary
would share the honors of Pole dis
covery. It is not in evidence that
this negro had any greater scientific
knowledge than Cook's Eskimos
and it will hardly be denied that their
environment gave the Eskimos in
other respects a decided advantage
over the negro.
The annals of Cocos Island treasure
hunting tell of an expedition which
set sail from the Columbia River
many years agor in charge of some
ancient mariners with failing eyesight.
They picked their course southward
on the map, until they were supposed
to be right on top . of the island of
gold, but were unable to find It. After
days of beating around in the vicinity
where the map showed the island
should be, a closer scrutiny of the
chart disclosed that a flyspeck on
the paper had been mistaken for the
treasure island. There are no flies
on the North Pole, but there remains
a possibility that both Cook and Peary
may have laid a course that missed
the actual location of the Pile by a
few miles. For that reason, there
still remains an opportunity for Wal
ter Wellman and his gas bag or some
other gas bag to discover the North
Pole and bring back the unquestion
able evidence of the discovery.
A SAD WASTE.
Charles W. Morse emerges from the
United States Circuit Court of Ap
peals comparatively immaculate. Only
ten of the fifty-three Indictments
agatnrt him were sustained. The forty
three others were thrown out. In
these days, a high financier smirched
with only ten indictments looks
whiter than snow. Mr. Morse
d.es not seem to have lost his
poise -r.hcn he learned that his
innocence has been proclaimed by
the court, or rather that he had been
proclaimed forty-three-fifty-thirds in
nocent and but a ;altry ten-flfty-thirds
guilty. "He took the decision
calmly," we read. His self-control
must be something marvelous. How
could he help dancing for Joy as Chris
tian did in the Pilgrim's Progress when
his big bundle of sins was finally un
strapped from his back and rolled
down into the ditch?
Slight and trivial as the bunch of
ten indictments is, still it may pos
sibly . equire Mr. Morse to spend fif
teen years In prison "at hard labor."
Imaglna'lon easily pictures the kind
of "hird labor" which awaits him in
the remote contingency of a final sen
tence after the apparently Intermin
able series of appeals Is done with. We
h- -s seen other Imprisoned financiers
tolling al their tasks and it is impos
sible to weep very bitterly over them.
What does excite our sympathy is the
pathetic fact that Mr. Morse should
be imprisoned at all. He wishes to go
on rebulldln, his fortune. Why not
let him do so? Why shut any thief up
iij J. il and thus put it out of the
question for him to pursue his voca
tion? Think of the wealth Mr. J.
Thorburn Ross might amass if he
were freed from Impertinent legal
persecution. It is really a terrible
waste to srclude these geniuses of fi
nance from active life. We know
from their past how useful their fu
ture would be. Surely It is little
short of a crime to cut them off in the
full bloom of their philanthropic pow
ers. RACE ENMITY AT MARSHFIELD.
The negro woman of Marshfleld who
refuses to allow her children to at
tend a separate school for colored chil
dren, which the school board saw fit
to establish In that town, is to be dis
ciplined. She has been cited to appear
before a local magistrate to show cause
for her insubordination. So far as
known, her refusal is based upon the
fact that one lone, inoffensive, man
nerly little Chinese boy goes to the
colored children's school. "White as
sociates for her children or none" is
the motto of this Ignorant and highly
indignant colored woman.
The folly of the school board in
setting apart a building and teacher
for the few colored children of the
Marshfleld district is matched by the
resistance of this colored woman.
Acquiescence in the matter is in the
interest of her children, since an at
tempt to force them, upon the com
panionship of white children who have
been aroused to repudiate them, can
only result in petty persecution at the
hands of those most conscienceless
of all oppressors school children be
tween the age of spanking and that of
reason.
School directors are wise, who let
sleeping dogs He, especially if they lie
upon the maternal door mat. There
can hardly, be said to be a demand for
a separate school for colored chil
dren, where there is but one family of
negro children and one lone little
Chinese boy. The case is one wherein
the supply was ordered in advance of
demand. There is no doubt, however,
that the' demand for a separate school
is now active in Marshfleld. It has
been created by the order of the school
board and by its reflex action upon
those aristocrats of America, the chil
dren of the public schools.
REFRESHING MARRIAGE RECORD.
Dr. Luther Dyott, pastor of the First
Congregational Church of this city,
comes forward with a refreshing esti
mate. He has been In the ministry
about eighteen years, during which
period he has married approximately
thirty couples a year, or a grand total
of 540. As far as he knows, not one
of these married pairs has ever been
divorced, nor, as far as he knows, has
any one of these marriages produced
unhappiness.
This is Indeed a record as gratifying
as it is unusual. We all hope that the
frets, in each and every one of the
cases cited, will bear out the good
brother's assumption that the 1080
men and women Joined together in
marriage by him "were happy ever af T
ter."
There are flaws in his assumption. It
is true, and the method by which he
secured the results that he cites could
hardly be practiced by all ministers
and magistrates without detriment to
the public morals, since he asserts that
he has resolutely refused to m,arry
persons whom he deemed unfit. The
statement 19, however, an Interesting
one, and ill a degree refreshing.- Let
it pass, therefore, without critical an
alysis. TOWNS THAT WERE.
North Taklma Is planning to cele
brate the twenty-fifth anniversary of
its municipal organization this Fall,
at some date not yet fixed. Among
the features of the celebration Is to be
a grand barbecue, on a half-holiday
designated for that purpose, followed
by an evening meeting devoted to ad
dresses on the early history of the
city.
The announcement recalls the cir
cumstances, now a quarter of a cen
tury old, which caused the town
known as Taklma City in former days
since known as "Old Yakima" to
be abandoned. It was out off' by the
railroad and left stranded, so to speak,
in the beautiful hills a few miles from
the site of the present city. ' Many pro
tests of injuctlce, plaints of disaster
and forebodings of ruin met this ac
tion of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company in thus laying out a city
to suit its convenience, causing the
theoretical, -and later the literal,
abandonment of the old pioneer to .
All was in aln, however, and a few
months , later saw the old town on
wheels, facing toward the site of the
new. The thriving little City of North
Yakima, its substantial business block 3,
its commodious schoolhouses and
churches and Its many beautiful homes
a veritable gem in a beautiful valley
attest, at the distance of a quarter
of a century, the needless anxiety that
attended the transition from the stage
coach to the railroad, the vexatious
feature of which, was the abandon
ment of "Taklma City for North Yak
ima. Another town, that has served its
day and purpose and Is now to be
abandoned, is the picturesque and in
cluded little village of Kamela, up in
the Blue Mountains. This was a town
built and inhabited almost exclusively
by employes in the engineer service
of the Oregon Short Line and O. R.
& N. From this point these men were
drilled in mountain service on these
lines. There they made their homes
and here lived, at first from necessity,
after from choice, throughout the year.
Here, in the Summer time they had
for neighbors a multitude of campers
from the lowlands.
This mountam erie for trainmen
and their families will now.be aband
oned, the relay crews being sent to
La Grande and Gibbon, on the west
slope of the Blue Mountains.
" The passing- of this mountain .vil
lage, like that of many a mining town
in the great Inland Empire, is an in
cident in the development of the West,
at the bidding of which towns havo
sprung up In a night and, their pur
pose accomplished, have been de
serted, perhaps razed, in a day.
Miss Mateel Howe, for some years
a most enthusiastic boomer for Port
land and an exceptionally clever and
entertaining writer, has transferred
her affections from Portland to At
chison, Kansas, and In the Globe of
that city asserts "There are no real
Autumns put on the far Western
coast. There are no perfect Indian
Summers out there." She also says
that we are provincial, and that our
fruit is not equal to that raised "in
Kansas." This gentle roast appeared
in the Atchison Globe October 7. A
Kansas City dispatch on October 12
says "A temperature of 28 degrees
above zero prevailed this morning
over all of Kansas." After Miss
Howe enjoys a few of those "perfect
Indian Summer" days with the .tem
perature a few degrees below the
freezing point, she may recall with
a twinge of regret the October days
such as Portland is now enjoying.
Mr. Patten, of Chicago, who was
roundly denounced by local granges
in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere
for his wheat manipulations last year,
has resumed his former tactics. Not
only has he been forcing the price
up in Chicago, but he has actually in
vaded the Pacific Northwest and is
said to be paying the farmers so much
more for their wheat than it will
command in the Coast markets, that
they are selling to him. Of course
there is no reason why this sinful
specula-tor should pay these prices for
wheat, for the great and good Secre
tary Wilson is as positive as ever that
there Is more wheat in the country
than will be needed. For all that,
there has been no evidence as yet
that any of the farmers who deplore
the methods of Mr. Patten have re
fused to sell him wheat at prices a
few cents above the market.
'Rah for the navy. It has been
somewhat slow in coming to the front
with a competent successor for "Sailor
Tom" Sharkey, who followed his fistic
prowess with a move from before
the mast to behind the bar of a Bow
ery saloon. Now comes "Gunboat"
Smith (a name to conjure .with) and
in a friendly little bout with Mlstah
Johnslng, the champion of the world,
sends the black man to the floor with
out any difficulty. We are said to be
sadly in need of competent men in
the navy, but it does seem a waste of
good material to leave Gunboat Smith,
swabbing the decks and cleaning the
cuspidors for the officers' mess, at a
time when a son of Ham is wearing
the championship belt. If Mr. Smith
of the U. S. N. can continue In the
good work, it might be more appro
priate to rechrlsten him "Battleship"
Smith.
A new variety of disaster, that waits
upon the vogue of the automobile, was
disclosed in a terrible explosion of
sewer gas In New York the other day.
Manhole covers were blown high in
the air and a square mile of city terri
tory, was shaken by the blast. The
explanation of the explosion is that it
was caused by sewer gas mixed with
the waste of gasoline vapor from the
many garages in the vicinity. A care
less smoker with his discarded match
was the final link in the chain that led
to the explosion, and the resultant
damage, amounting to $10,000. Of
course such waste of money and men
ace to life as this were impossible in
the good old days in which "Lucifer
matches," gasoline sewers and auto
mobiles were unknown.
It Is useless to attempt to thresh out
In detail the charge that the Oregon
appropriation for the A.-Y.-P. fair has
been wasted. This much is true: The
money has been- spent with a free
hand and is practically ail gone with
little to show for it.
Perhaps there is more wisdom than
appears In the purpose of the Police
Commissioner of Spokane to establish
a sar.lUiry city jail, with baths and
safety razors. Hobo hieroglyphics will
give the warning within a radius of
many miles.
Every available man In and around
Canon City, Colo., has been drafted to
save the apple crop from freezing.
Contrast that situation with Oregon's
ani say which state you would
choose for profitable horticulture.
If Greater New York's campaign is
to be fought ont oh the present purely
personal basis, we may expect mighty
interesting reading before the end of
the mon.lv
In the athletic word, the Bellingham
girl's beating the record for long-distance
throwing is important; to ordi
nary persons the query presents itself,
did the ball go where she aimed it?
And now the Nevada, . California &
Oregon Railroad announces that it
will extend its line to Lakeview, Or.
Can no one stop this invasion of Ore
gon? Mayor Simon having set the pattern,
suppose the County Commissioners
also decide on a smaller levy for next
year.
Minister Crane lost his official head
for the same fault that affected the
historic parrot.
COLONIAL, AID TO GREAT BRITAIN
Will Canada, South Africa and Aus
tralia Create Second Sea Power?
Toronto Globe.
In the first of a series of articles
an expert writer is contributing to
the Westminster Gazette on the work
of the conference on imperial defense
he deals with the significance of the
contributions to be made by three
dominions Canada, South Africa and
Australia to the naval defense of the
empire. That significance he defines
to be "the transference of the warden
ship of the Pacific to the people of
the three great commonwealths, and
the establishment outside of Europe
of a second center of sea power; it
will still be left to the mother country
to maintain the two-power standard
navy against Europe." He suggests
the possibility of a financial contribu
tion from the Indian Empire, and by
its help the' establishment of "a second
two-power standard in non-European
waters, capable of dealing with possi
ble future problems of Imperial defense,
which tho old formula against Europe
was never designed to meet."
In this connection the writer calls
attention to Premier Asqulth's an
nouncement that the Pacific Is to be
come a training ground for "the
nascent navies of the outer empire."
One effect of the recent "scare" in
Great Britain is an almost- total ab
sence of British, cruisers from the Pa
cific; this Is 'now to be corrected by
sending out three squadrons of cruisers,
which may easily "be spared from the
home fleet for some time to come, and
will serve a highly useful purpose as
nuclei for the growing fleets of the
three dominions. Their function, in the
event of an outbreak of war, would
be to protect commerce on the trade
routes of the Pacific and Indian oceans
from the enemy's "commerce destroy
ers." It should be noted that many
of the fast liners of the North German
Lloyd and the Hamburg-American lines
are potential cruisers, carrying their
armaments on board, and that in the
absence of "commerce protectors" a
great deal of harm might be done be
fore cruisers could be sent from home
to the places where they were needed.
For some years .to come Japan will
probably be an ally' of Great Britain,
and China and the United States are
likely to remain friendly. The policing
of the Pacific is therefore almost cer
tain not to be for a good while either
burdensome or expensive. This will
enable the dominions to become ac
customed to the ideal which they are
expected to keep in view, and to pre
pare to realize it wfhout financially
embarrassing themselves. In view of
this contemplated - development "the
first result of the imperial defense
conference is to make it possible, by
taking the over-sea dominions into
partnership, to reaffirm it against all
comers In the not very distant future."
WHO PAYS MOTHER'S WAGES t
Only Member of Family Who elther
Drawn Pay Nor Complain.
Chicago Journal.
Father complains of high prices and
hard work. The boys protest that their
weekly pay isn't enough to contribute
anything to the support of home. The
girl who works finds her salary too small
to buy the ribbons and theater tickets she
considers essential to her email existence.
But good old mother never says a word.
Father and the boys and the girls do all
the complaining. Mother does the real
hustling for the entire family. Before fa
ther Is out of bed in the morning, mother
is busy getting his breakfast. Then she
routs out the boys and starts them oft to
work. After she serves breakfast to the
girl who doen't have to be at her post
until 9 o'clock, she has time for a hasty
bite herself.
Making tho beds, sweeping, dusting,
washing, ironing, sewing, marketing and
cooking keep mother pretty busy most of
the daytime. After her family enjoy the
evening meal it is mother who clears the
table and washes the difihes. Then, while
father spends the evening with his cronies
at the district political quarters, the
boys spend their dimes at some roller rink
or cheap dance and the girls occupy gal
lery seata at the neighboring theater,
mother darns stockings for an hour or
so to rest herself.
Yet mother is the only one of the fam
ily who doesn't draw a regular salary,
and, if she is like a good many mothers,
she hardly ever knows the pleasure of
spending a dollar on herself. If father
and the boys and girls had to hire a
housekeeper they would be obliged to
pay her. Why not be fair and pay
mother a little something every week for
her own use? Who pays mother's wages
in your family?
Limits to Frank: Speech.
New York Evening Post.
Frankness of speech is the rule laid
down for himself by Mr. Taft, and frank
ness of speech is what he is reported to
have enjoined upon Mr. Crane when the
latter took his first lesson upon how to
behave In China. What Mr. Crane is
said to have overlooked is that wearing
your heart on your sleeve needs a pretty
stout Iteart and a strong arm. Mr. Taft,
for instance, blurts out things, but Mr.
Taft has his immense good nature and
a wide confidence In the honesty of his
intentions, to help him carry off tactless
ness and indiscretion; and as it Is, he has
undoubtedly regretted things he said, and
caused his friends to regret. Mr. Roose
velt had the gift of frank speech; but
he had also the gift of being frank on
undeniable truths or, on vastly popular
prejudices. A diplomat bound for the
dusty arena of Chinese international
politics might very well make up his
mind to be straightforward and above
board and all that without finding it
necessary to call the British. Ambassador
"Old Sport," or put his boots on the
Regent's peacock table.
Hard Winter Ahead.
Oklahoma Oklahoman.
Squire Brown is predicting a hard
Winter that will arrive early and re
main long. Says the squire:
"Have ye noticed how the blackbirds
are already gatherin' in big flocks and
palaverln' in the stubble? They are
gittin' ready to vamose. It's an indica
tion that cold weather is comln' early.
Keep an eye on the dogs and see 'em
buryin' more bones than usual. Then
take a squint at the corn. Every ear
has grown long whiskers, and that's a
sure sign. Perhaps you've also noticed
that the sunflowers bloomed early.
That means an early frost. The ap
ple trees have yielded a poor crop, and
that means they're storin' up- all their
sap and energy agin' a hard spell of
Winter. Now's the time for the wise
gazabo to lay in a supply of fuel an'
chuck."
Lysander's Boomerang.
Atchison Globe.
They are telling a great joke on
Lysander John Appleton. Mr. Appleton
writes a very poor hand, and recently
wrote an angry letter to his wife's
brother, asking him to pay what he
owed him or be sued. The brother
palled in all the handwriting experts in
his neighborhood and they deciphered
the letter to be an Invitation to the
brother and family to come for an ex
tended visit, and five of them arrived
today.
Might Help Some.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
"In Shakespearian days they used to
label the scenery. They hung out
placards stating that 'This is a Wood'
or 'This is a Castle.' We don't need
to do mat now."
"Still, we might use the scheme to
advantage. It would help sometimes
to see an alleged Thespian bearing the
legend 'This is an Acto- "
POLAR OBSERVATIONS DIFFICULT
InatrumeaU and Record of Cook and
Peary Need Sbarp Scrutiny.
New York Tribune.
The assertions of two American ex
plorers have led the technical press to
discuss the methods by which a properly
qualified person can determine when he
has reached the North Pole. The ap
paratus required includes a chronometer,
either a surveyors theodolite or a navi
gator's sextant, and in regions where the
true "horizon cannot b4 depended on a
device known a, in artificial horizon. Ac
cording to "Nature," the theodo
lite is likely to give better' re
sults than the, pocket sextant,
which has sometimes been used in
emergencies. There is also said to be a
difference in the trustworthiness of arti
ficial horizons.
An explorer, like a ship captain, ascer- J
... 1,1. IntlfuJ. K, Clicitl V tVlA '
height of some celestial object above the
horizon. When an observation of the
sun at sea is prevented by cloudiness for
several days certain stars can be utilized
if the officers of the vessel know how to
employ them. At the season when the
highest latitudes have been attained In
the Arctic and Anarctlc regions, however,
stars have been rendered invisible by
daylight. Under such circumstances the
sun must be the chief reliance, but com
putations based on observations of the
sun depend largely upon Its height.
"Nature" insists that altitudes of less
than 25 or 30 degrees are unsatisfactory.
Inasmuch as Shackleton was able to
make his most important observations in
Summer, he was fortunate enough to find
the sun at a considerable elevation. On
one occasion his measurement gave a
height of 25 degrees and 33 minutes, and
there seems to be no question that the
calculations which fixed his latitude at
that time at S7:22 were fairly accurate.
It Is pointed out. however, that on April
6. the day on which Peary says he
reached the Pole, the sun would be only
a trilie nfore than 6 degrees above the
horizon, and that on April 21, the date
given by Cook for the same achieve
ment, it would have an elevation of be
tween 11 and 12 degrees. So great is
the Illusion due to atmospheric refrac
tion at these low levels and so uncertain
Is the amount of correction required for
them that they are not likely to furnish
an exact result.
These and other difficulties besetting
the attempt to ascertain one's position
in the vicinity of the Pole emphasize the
wisdom of reserving judgment regard
ing the claims of both Cook and Peary
until their Instruments and records have
been examined by disinterested experts.
An additional circumstance which ought
to increase the willingness of the ex
plorers to submit to the test may be
found in a recent statement of 'The
Saturday Review," of London. That
periodical affirms that Shackleton's story
was privately subjected to the severest
tests before any important honors were
conferred on him. These tests, including
scrutiny of his records, resulted in estab
lishing . the accuracy of his report. Is
there any better reason for accepting
Peary's and Cook's announcements with
out verification than there was for hur
riedly conceding Shackleton's claims?
"Haloing the Maine" Again.
Philadelphia Press.
If the Cuban government Is disposed to
remove the wreck of the Maine from
Havana harbor it is not likely that any
objection will come from 'this country.
Our Government has declined to under
take the Job, and it is reported that an
enterprising Argentine firm has sub
mitted a proposal to Cuba for the re
moval of that obstruction at the ex
pense of the insular treasury.
One reason -advanced why the United
States Government should not raise the
wreck of the Maine is that it Is no con
cern of ours, as the wreck Is valueless,
and if It interferes with the movement
of ships in Havana harbor it is a mat
ter for the Cuban, not the American,
government.
Irrespective of whose business it Is,
the American people would like to see
that wreck raised and the bodies of the
first American victims of our misunder
standing with Spain given a Christian
burial. The old wreck, whose rusting
beams are a resting place for carrion
birds in Havana harbor, is a reproach
to this country. It is an American war
ship that lies thare, neglected and aban
doned. For the benefit of the harbor Cuba
Bhould remove the wreck, and if it does
not. for the credit of this country, our
own Government should raise It and
bury Its dead sailors. If enterprising
men of Argentina are, indeed, seeking
the contract to clear away the wreck of'
the Maine, may success attend their
efforts.
Smallest Engine In the World.
Answers.
Tiny Tim Is the name of the smallest
engine in the world. It is made of gold
and steel, and is so small that a common
house fly seems large in comparison. It
weighs just four'gralns complete, which
is the weight of an ordinary match. It
takes over 100 such engines to weight one
ounce, almost 2000 to weigh a pound, and
more than 3,000,000 to weigh a ton.
The engine bed and stand are of gold.
The shaft runs in hardened and ground
steel bearings inserted In the gold bed.
These bearings are counter-bored from
the Inside to form a self-oiling bearing.
The fly wheel has a steel center and
aims, with a gold rim, ana me complete
wheel weighs one grain.
m.. ..n-j- t. cool with nrtnconal
Xlltt tj iiuuci u - -
base, highly polished. The stroke is 1-32
of an inch: bore, 3-1W or an men. sev
enteen pieces are used In the construc
tion of this engine.
The speed of the engine is 6000 revolu
tions a minute. When running 100 a
second no motion is visible to the eye,
but it makes a noise like the noise of a
mosquito. The horsepower is 1-49,000 of
1-horsepower.
Compressed air is used to run it: and it
may be of interest to note that the
amount required to make It hum can
easily be borne on the eyeball without
winking.
Uniformity In Street Eleetrollera.
PORTLAND, Oct. 12. (To the Editor.)
For a shining example of "infinite va
riety," the electroliers of the Portland
business center are to be commended.
Even a casual observer cannot fail to
note that the appearance of another
shape of electrolier means a new design
and that some of them are hideous in
the extreme. If we do not want our city
to present the appearance of an unpleas
ant nightmare by day or a phantasmagoria
by night it is high time to call a halt and
pay some regard to the laws of uni
formity. Visitors from other Pacific
Coast cities where more care and artistic
sense have been exercised, cannot fail to
laugh consumedly and make "light" of
our efforts when they behold the result.
Let us have a blending of uniformity and
artistic effects or else go home In the
dark. A. NEALE.
Hope.
You are hoping, hoping, hoping
So am I:
We may both go blindly groping
Till we die:
Though we ceaselessly must strive.
Though we never quite arrive,"
We are keeping hope ailve,
Wet or dry.
You are trying, tryingtrying,
Day by day.
To clear every cause for sighing
From your way;
I am trying daily, too,
Irving to possess what few.
Though their best they bravely do,
Ever may.
Tou are dreaming, dreaming, dreaming
So am I;
We may both go vainly scheming
Till we die;
We may never reach the shore
That 1b strewn with precious. ore;
But if men might hops no more
Who would trjr J
Life's Sunny Side
"He's as cross as a bear with a sore
"""Now, look here, kid! Who ever saw
a bear with a sore head?"
"You ought to see pa when ma hits
him with the rolling pin." Baltimore
American.
Railway Conductor (to man smok
ing;) You can't smoke.
Smoker So my friends say.
Conductor But you mustn't smoke.
Smoker So my doctor says.
Conductor Sir, you shan't smoke.
Smoker so my wife says. London
Punch.
A You seem to have pretty bad luck
with your cooks.
B Yes, the first stayed only three
days, and tho second I cant get rid
of. Fliegende Blaetter.
A Newark. N. J., woman who lives in
an apartment-house changed her Ice
man not long ago, and the next. day
the youth who drove the team for the
new man put the piece of ice on the
dumbwaiter In the basement to be
hoisted up. She pulled away.
"Heavens!" she exclaimed. Tht
new iceman certainly gives good
weight!" ' . . .
After much effort she got the dumb
waiter up to the kitchen level. To her
amazement there was a email boy
sitting upon the Ice. With what little
breath she had left, she demanded:
"What in the world did you make
me pull you up here for?"
"Why," replied the youngster, I
thonght maybe the cake would be too
heavy for you to lift, so I came up to
help you off with it. Llppincott's.
.iu- ha- clous little
ieacner w n a itn'iis - -
stories in natural history, and she
asked if any one could tell her what a
groundhog was. Cp went a little hand
waving frantically.
"Well, Carl, you may tell us what a
groundhog is."
"Please, ma'am, It's sausage." Every
body's. The women of the Yankee States
may think that they are clever
at driving bargains, but the claim
is made that in Guthrie, Oklahoma,
lives a woman without a parallel
for commercial wit. Several months
ago she entered a large department
store in New York City to buy a yard
of silk, which the clerk told her would
cost her 35 cents. Her purchase left a
remnant of one and one-half yards.
The clerk suggested that she buy the
remnant.
"What will you take for It? asked
the Guthrie woman.
"Twenty cents, madam," replied the
clerk politely.
"Well, -I'll take it, but you can keep
the yard you've just torn off."
The clerk was staggered for a mo
ment, but, appreciating the humor of
the proposal, smilingly made the ex
change. Not the least merit of this
story is that it is true. Lutheran Ob
server. "Father," asked the small boy of an
editor, "is Jupiter inhabited:" "I don't
know, my son," was the truthful
answer. Presently he was Interrupted
again. "Father, are thre any sea
serpents?" "I don't know, my son." The
little tellow was manifestly Aast down,
but presently rallied and again ap
proached the great source of informa
tion. "Father, what does the North
Pole look like?" But, alas! again the
answer, "I don't know, my son." At
last, in desperation, ho Inquired, with
withering emphasis: "Father, how did
you get to be an editor?" Zlon's Her
ald. s
Senator Tillman was praising the
humor of a Republican Congressman.
"His humor, however," he concluded,
"is rather grim. I told him the other
day about a mutual acquaintance who
had died, a man he had never liked.
" 'And his wife is dead, too,' I said.
"He hiniBelf died on Monday. His wife
died two days later. The papers didn't
say what killed her.'
" 'She was tickled to death, I guess,
said the Congressman, grimly." Phila
delphia Record.
ovr Listen to Alaska.
Springfield Republican.
The President's idea of a suitable
government for Alaska seems to be the
product of his experience in govern
ing the Philippine Islands; that is to
say, he proposes the creation of a body
like the Philippine Commission, and
thereby he staggers the free and equal
American spirit which is to be found
well represented among Alaska's white
Inhabitants. The Alaskans want a ter
ritorial government like Arizona's or
New Mexico's. Mr. Taft, however, sees
in them an unfitness for self-government
which may require several gen
erations for its eradication. There
promises to bo somewhat of a contest
before Alaska will accept the status of
a "colonial possession."
, Brave Girl.
Smithneld Cor. Junction City Times.
As the Bailey children were going to
school Tuesday, they met a bad steer
in the road. It knocked Leslie over and
started to tramp him when Clara ran
In and lilt It across the eye with some
books she had, and it took after her
but she got over the fence. Neither ona
was hurt.
A Llun County Philosopher.
Brownsville Times.
How often we hear the cry of un
clean politics. Few people Btop to
think that politics are Just as clean as
the people make them no more, no
less.
Making; Sure.
Puck.
Minister And the child's name,
madam?
Mother (firmly) Name him Fred
erick Robert Cook Peary Smith. I'm
not going to take any chances.
Only a Few More Left.
Columbus tOhio) Dispatch.
Mr. Bryan should take note of the
prediction by Mrs. Belmont that "we
shall have a woman President within
20 years.'- That leaves to Mr. Bryan
not more than four more chances.
Burred.
"Did you ever take a joy ride?"
"Never. I don't drink a drop."
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
To Keep Ilia Head Warm.
Kansas City Times.
We're for Cook, but why will he wear
a derby hat!
Tillamook.
John D. Edwards in Tillamook Herald
In the ancient time in the Oregon Slate
Ere the white man sealed the Indians' fate.
When the beautiful land with Its valleys so
fair
Was the home of the redskin, beaver ana
tear;
Era the willow-lined banks of the Kelches
segan
To echo the tread of civilized man;
When the sounds that were echoed o'er
hilltop and dell.
Were the screams of the wild birds and the
Indian's yell;
Ere Tillamook Bay with its waters so strong.
Bent a listening ear to the water wheel's
song;
When Nature was wild and white men few.
And the commerce was plied in a cedar
canoe;
Blnce the time when these things began
to first disappear '
And the hoe and the ax of the bold pioneer
Took the place of the arrow and quiver and
spear.
Wa cannot vet reckon our fortieth year.
Indian BameJ-CHiC-A-CHIC. '