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8 .THE MORNING' OgEGOXIAN. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1909. PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postofflce as Second-Class Matter. Subscription Hatrs Invariably In Advance. . (By Mall.) Dally. Sunday included, one year $8.00 Dally. Sunday Included, six months . 4.25 Dally, Sunday included, three months.. 2.23 Dally, Sunday Included, one month 75 Dally, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, six months '3.23 Dally, without Sunday, three months... 1.75 Daily, without Sunday, one month 60 Weekly, one year 1.50 Funday, one year . 2.50 Sunday and weekly, one year 3.50 (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday included, ' one year..... .00 Dally. Sunday Included, one month 75 How to Remit Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency sre at the sender's risk. Give postofnce ad dress In full. Including county and state. Postage Rate 10 to 14 pases. 1 cent; 18 to 28 pages. 2 cents; 30 to 40 pages, 3 cent; 40 to tiO pages. 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. Eastern Business Office The S. C. Beck with Special Agency New York, rooms 48 50 Tribune hulldinc. Chicago, rooms 510-512 Tribune building. PORTLAND THVRSDAY. DEC. t. 1009. WHY SOME OF OIK PEOPXK HAVE GONE TO CANADA. Testerday, readers of The Oregonian were informed by a letter written by a Socialist agitator of Portland (Mr. II. D. Wagnon) that "land monopoly In Eastern Oregon is stifling "all kinds of business In that part of the state"; that "land monopoly has closed about 60 school districts in the wheat sec tion"; that "o.ur people are going to Manitoba to get rid 'of land mon opoly"; that "the British colony of New Zealand has the single tax In force," and "the Province of Mani toba, In Canada, the place that took 70,000 good Yankee farmers from us this year and will take more next year, has the same." The evils of land mo nopoly to us, and the beauties of so called single tax elsewhere, are thus sung, if not explained. '' All this Is in cidental to the exclusive, information that Premier Asquith, Chancellor Lloyd-George, British statesmen, ' are now contending for "the single tax" in their country, as the hope of Britain and the true policy of regeneration of the world. The amount of misinformation con veyed -by these remarks is vast and varied. Indeed. Nevertheless, Just a few plain statements will suffice to expose and refute it. During the last few years many peo ple have moved from the United States into the western provinces of Canada. Not a few have gone from Oregon. Now, why have they gone? Not on account of land monoply here; for they, owned lands here, which they sold for high prices, to go to Mani toba and Alberta, where they could get free lands in large bodies for grow ing wheat. They learned they could make more money there, growing wheat on larger areas of free lands, or lands obtainable merely at nomi nal prices, than they could make on their smaller tracts in Oregon. Hence they sold out here at high prices to neighbors who bought, with Intention or growing wheat on a large and therefore profitable scale. In fact, the people who have left us have gone, not to escape land monopoly here, but to' establish land monopoly there. They could get twenty to eighty dol lars an acre for their small tracts here, and then have money to tock great wheat farms in Canada,' and push wheat-growing on an extended scale, on lands which the government of the Dominion Is virtually giving away. It was to Improve their condition that our people sold out their lands in Oregon pulled up stakes, as the old expression ran and went to Can ada. There the conditions were more primitive still, than the conditions in Oregon. They wished to make money, to own land and grow wheat for the world's market on better basis than here. No use to talk to them. They have supposed they know their busi ness best. No use to declaim against the Canadian Government. It wants the vast vacant territory of Canada nettled. Our Socialists, though, who hang around the towns and cities and howl about land monopoly, never will occupy or Improve the land either In Canada or in Oregon. .Your true and genuine agitator never will grow wheat. It is regrettable, of course, to see our people selling out their small hold ings in our states, to go to Canada. We not only lose them and lose their capital and Industry, but we find our own lands passing Into the hands of large owners, who buy for extensive wheat-growing, But who Is to bo' blamed for it? Should the state for-" bid the small owner to sell and move to Canada? Should it forbid the buy er to purchase and make great-wheat-flelds? Wheat-growing on an extended scale Is necessary for profit and for supply of the market. Our people who go to Canada go there for that very purpose. They who buy the lands here and . annex them to their own are' actuated by that very same purpose.' People who talk of land monoply in' connection with these transactions have only the haziest notion of what they are talking about. And only the haziest notion of what they mean when they talk about single land tax. Men are said to go to Canada to es cape land monopoly and to enjoy the blessings of the single tax; when, in Tact, land monopoly, for themselves, is the very object for which they go to Canada; and, moreover, neither in Canada, nor in New Zealand, nor any where lse, are all the taxes thrown upon the land.- Oregon, in fact, comes as near single land tax'as any country in the world, since three-quarters .of all the taxes we pay are borne directly by the land. New Zealand is said to have single land tax. But the land tax in New Zealand produces less than 400,000 per annum, out of a total revenue of i", 323, 570. But there is a theory of the land tax of New Zealand that pleases our half-baked economists, who don't understand it, but who are always singing praises of it. It is a theory perfectly unworkable here; it has no relation to actual industry or practical affairs. It holds about the same place in the minds of these peo ple as the fourth dimension. But of course it is enough to be an "agitator," without knowing what you are talking about. You perhaps are a better agi tator for that reason. At any rate, it produces a confidence not to be abashed by reason or facts. , From Cleveland, O., comes another of those periodical stories of a. plot to assassinate John D. Rockefeller. There Is, of course, always the possi bility of an Insane man killing some one, but Just why anyone who was even half way aane -would wish to cut short the life of this old money-grabber Is not easily discernible. The business that has piled up the Rocke feller fortune Is In such shape that the death of the master-mind wou,ld have no greater 'effect on It than was felt with the passing of the late H. H. Rogers, for many years the brains of the company. .Mr. Rockefeller should be permitted to live. There Is still time before old Father Time, with his crude mowing-machine, gathers him In, for the circulation of more of his oil-tainted millions In distrcts oth er than where the hookworm and the bookworm thrive. . ATTACKING THE LiW, ' It Is quite the fashion now, when a criminal has been brought to bar, for his. lawyers to put the law on trial in the. hope that their client may thus escape justice. The more evident his guilt is, the more they are tempted to resort to this trick. That it succeeds so often is one among the many lam entable flaws In our, criminal ad ministration. In the case of Hamil ton, the defaulting militia officer, the State of Washington has been obliged not only to prove the "young man's guilt, but also to go back into history and prove that the law he is tried un der was enacted with correct formali ties. This is scandalous. It ought not to be possible for an accused per son thus to shuffle the cards and put society on the. defensive. The. only question before the court durlng'his trial should be that of his innocence or guilt. Trivial slips of . the, pen in the indictment are of no consequence. Informalities in the grand Jury room ought not to we'igh an atom. Whether a statute was enacted with correct for malities or not is no business of the prisoner's. These tricks which lawyers play with the law might possibly be par doned If their only consequence was the escape of thieves and murderers from Justice. But they have other consequences and worse ones. They bring the courts into, disrespect. They teach the public to look upon the ad- ministration of justice as nothing bet ter than a crooked game, where the most tricky and unscrupulous player Is sure to win. They raise the fearful question whether or not we have such a thing as law In this country. What Is the basis of civil order when any and every statute is liable to be nulli fied to suit the convenience of litigants or criminals? What power of self protection has society when its courts can be used by thieves and murder ers as weapons against the law itself? If we dread anarchy in the United States, have we not good reason for it, in view of the state of our criminal procedure? STOVAINE. Stovaine, the new anesthetic of which such wonders are told, slipped inconspicuously into the medical liter ature of the United States in 1907 un der the modest name of dimethyla minobenzqylpentanol. It also goes by the engaging alias of ethyldimethyla mlnopentanolbenzoyl, which sounds and looks to us a -good deal mor po etical than Its other name. Either one of them is linked sweetness drawn out to a length which to the unlearned may appear repellent,' but it is well not to be frightened, for stovaine is likely to play a noble part in the alle viation of suffering, and we ought to learn how to speak of it with seemly respect. It is one of those complex carbon compounds , which- modern chemists construct in their laboratories as by-products in their quest for the secret of life. To the eye stovaine consists of small, glistening scales which are easy to dis solve in either water or alcohol. It is not administered to the patient by breathing, like chloroform and ether, but by injection with a hypodermic syringe. Somewhat like cocaine, it is a local, not a general, anesthetic, but its effect is much more extensive than that of the former drug. It is under stood also that stovaine produces anes thesia Ijy deadening the nervgus sys tem,' while cocaine merely contracts the blood vessels in the mucous mem brane. When first employed by sur geons' stovaine was deemed dangerous because it lowers the heart's action. Dean Jonnesco, of the University of Bucharest, has shown how to meet this difficulty. He combines with the sto vaine a quantity of strychnine which stimulates the heart. Thus he obtains anesthesia with no danger to the patient.- fince sensation is suspended only locally, the person operated on may .watch the surgeon at work if he wishes,' and discuss with him the chances of life and death.' To some this might be a satisfaction.. Stovaine is said to leave no unpleas ant after effects. . The patient recovers from it promptly without nausea. Whether it is likely to enslave the will, like cocaine, and make a ne.w race of drug fiends, remains to be seen. The chances are that something of the sort will ensue, for there ,are few blessings which do not entail a curse in one form or another. . SUGAR TRUST INVESTIGATION Washington dispatches say that President Taft 'proposes in. his forth coming message to handle the sugar scandal without gloves. This public rebuke, taken as a reflection of the Administration attitude toward the sugar thieves will, of course, have an effect, but nothing short of a search ing, thorough Congressional Investiga tion will quell the rising indignation and resentment of the public. This Investigation, which must be ordered, should probe the matter to the bot tom. It should take up all the details of that alleged "settlement" by which the Government accepted $2,000,000 as payment for. $30,000,000, alleged to be stolen. It should go farther up than the dock employes and p'etty in spectors who aided in the stealing. It should determine why Richard Parr, the Treasury agent who discovered much of the rascality , of the sugar trust, was shifted from. New York without apparent reason. It should go back to the time when Appraiser Wakeman, of the Port of New York, was removed, after he had laid before the Treasury Department complete evidence of the bribery by the sugar trust of dock employes. The New York Sun recently printed a full page article, giving, names, dates and other particulars of this most gigantic' steal. No words were minced by the Sun, and the "direct charges of brib ery, robbery, blackmailing and gen eral corruption .were couched in such plain, jpnmistakable terms that dam ages and imprisonment for-libel would be inevitable were the charges not for tified by the - facts. After this Con gressional investigation shalt be con cluded, there should be no attempt to use the whitewash brush, but Instead some means should be found for bring ing such corporations as the sugar trust under stricter control. Wholesale thievery, such as that of which the sugar trust now stands con victed, is. doing more to promote -the cause of Socialism and anarchy than all other agencies combined. : Our in iquitous' tariff, which legalizes the wholesale plundering of the public by a few enormously rich" trusts, certain ly permitted the sugar trust to steal enough, and still keep within thje lim its of the law, without the necessity of such disgraceful robbery as is now coming to light in New York. Some j comfort can be found, however, in- the belief that the scandal is so dis gustingly rotten that it may result in Congress -placing a bullring in the nose of some of these great trusts, and keeping them under proper control. President Taft cannot recommend too strongly a remedy of this nature. ' " ..- THE COUNTRY SAIXHJN. ' . The Demon Rum received ,'a body-r blow in the Palouse wheat belt in the State of Washington Tuesday, nearly every town of importance in Whitman County voting "dry." Some of these towns were already in the dry col umn, and Tuesday's election Is simply a redndorsement of the policy approved a year ago. The workers In the cause of temperance are no doubt Jubilant over their success, and, of course, had some part in bringing it about. For all that, the principlfe involved was more economic than moral. In the small city or town through the Inland Empire wheat belt saloon patronage Is drawn largely from farm labor, which drifts into town on rainy days and holidays, or before and after har vest. Aside from this, a remaining source of revenue is the "town drunkards," who are, of course, more conspicuous 'In a small city or town than in a large one. There are a few transients, and an occasional purchaser of a bot tle, who contribute slightly to the rev enues of the country saloon, but the bulk of the support is drawn from the two-classes named. Regarding the first-mentioned class of whisky drink ers, the farmers are' not deeply con cerned over the moral aspects of the question, but when the ripened grain is left standing in the field because most of he harvesting crew is in town on a prolonged drunk, which is limited only by the amount they have to spend, the farmer is. ready to-vote early and often to abolish the cause of his trouble. In the small city or town, the av erage citizen who in ordinary circum stances would be perfectly willing that his neighbor should- eat and , drink whatever and whenever he saw fit, ob jects to having hiswife, daughter or slsten elbowed off the sidewalk - by some drunken farmhand who has come in for a spree. He also objects to the necessary contribution for tak ing care of the family of .the town drunkard who spends all of his money for liquor. In the large cities, there will always be found a few first-class saloons, where drunken men or minors cannot buy liquor. In the country town such places are rare, and -the greedy ten dency of the liquor-sellers to get the last possible cent out of a victim pro duces the sentiment that finds reflec tion in Tuesday's election returns in the Palouse wheat, belt:- Up to date, the saloon men themselves are many laps ahead of the Prohibitionists in promoting the cause of temperance. FTNCHOTIZED . SECRETARY WILSON. - Between a millionattfe faddist and dreamer like PInchot arid . a narrow minded, strictly provincial egotist like Secretary Wilson, '"late of the cross roads postofflce at Tama, Iowa, there Is not very much to choose when the Issue at stake Is the great public .do main. So far as the report, of Secre tary Wilson relates to the forest re serve policy, the Pinchot dictation shows so strongly that it has the 'ap pearance of a case of the tail wagging the dog. The- annual report, a e;um mary of which appeared in yesterday's Oregonian, contains some good sug gestions, notably in regard to dry farming, but throughout the document there are continual outcropplngs of Ignorance or rather negligence of the great features Involved. In no other part of the United States has the forest reserve policy been so thoroughly "Flnchotized"' as in Ore gon and Washington. In these two states lies a greater acreage of first classtimber and agricultural land with drawn from settlement than can be found in any slmifar area in the United States. The restoration of even a few of the many million acres of these lands for the use of bona fide settlers would be of immense economic value, not only to these two states, but to the Nation, which no longer has suf ficient first-class land for all the de serving citizens who seek it. Secretary Wilson is oblivious of the Importance of placing this land at the disposal of settlers who would develop it, and complacently announces that no lands now embraced in the forest reserves will .be restored to tfye public domain. Explanatory of the means by which he arrived at that conclusion, hfe says that "To satisfy mj'self on the ground as to the facts, I made personal. In vestigation of these matters during the past Summer in Idaho and Wyo ming." Viewed from the Tama Junc tion standpoint, It may be perfectly logical and fair to determine the' pol icy regarding the marvelously rich lands of Oregon and Washington by the alkali flats and sand dunes of the cactus belt, but the logic which prompts it will not appeal to the peo ple who are endeavoring to make homes in the great West. Calling attention to. the fact that there are, exclusive . of Alaska, 400, 000,000,000 feet of timber In the re serves, Secretary Wilson proudly re marks that "it would take 900 years at the present rate of cutting to exhaust this supply, if no new timber were grown in the meantime." No men tion is mad of the much more im portant fact that a great many billions of feet of this timber Is now fully rfpe and rapidly losing Its. value. In sev eral centuries less than 900 years the value of the timber lost in this way, unless some use can be made of it, will reach a fabulous sum. One point ,is made quite clear in the report of Secretary Wilson, and this is that his knowledge of the forest reserve prob lem is on a par with that he exhibits in discussing the country's wheat crop. The Portland . father who spirited his son outof the state to prevent his arrest for a petty offense, is laying the foundation for quite a structure of trouble and heartache In the years to come. -The offense for which the boy's appearance was wanted by the Juvenile Court was throwing stones not a serious matter, and one that the proper kind of a father could easily prevent. By thus aiding his son to escape from any penalty or re proof, either by the Juvenile Court or from himself, this father is plac ing the seal of commendation on the conduct of his wayward son. Small infractions of the Jaw increase the ease with which more serious offenses can .be committed, and with parental encouragement in his petty violations Of the law, the youngster may reason ably be expected to drift on down the steps which lead to the penitentiary and sometimes to the gallows. Noting the criticism against the col leges, that they give too. much atten tion to athletic games, the Corvallis Times, speaking for the Oregon Agri cultural College, remarks: , It is evident that hoth The Oregonian and the colleges have a duty'to perform if we are to have enlarged brows rather than enlarged muscles. The Oregonian cannot cut out certain news because the people want It, and other papers will give it; one college cannot cut out certain features at tractive to students, because the .other col leges and universities will retain them. A condition, not a theory, confronts both The Oregonian and the colleges. These seem to be very sound re marks. That there Is, in the newspa per business, a discreditable feature. The Oregonian long has been willing to acknowledge. As a fact, no ser monr oration, or essay, however, mighty or profound, could obtain as many readers as - the details of the Johnson-Jeffries prizefight- even at our seats of learning, Corvallis and Eugene. So, of course, the colleges, in their work, must offer "features at tractive to students." - So the colored preacher, who was treasurer of Jiis church, and had lost the money at seven-up, had.the.excu.se, "Bredren, we's all pore critters, and de game was mighty deludln." . The Clatsop County Court will, at its next meeting,, ask for bids -for construction of a bridge near the mouth of Elk Creek.. This structure when completed will form another link in the first-class highway which eventually will enable pleasure-seekers to travel from Seaside to Nehalem and Tillamook over the finest scenic route In all the West. The Tillamook County officials are already, working up from the south on Necarnie Moun tain, and a few years hence, when in creased railroad facilities have drawn thousands of pleasure-seekers to the beach resorts north and south of Ne carnie Mountain, there will be an im mense Summer travel over the route from both north and south. .-' When the population of the adjacent terri tory is considered, the wonders and beauties -of the Oregon bea'ch resorts are How known and appreciated by a very -small number of people. Two swindlers, who fleeced Investors In Mexico mining stocks out of $150, 000, were sentenced at New York Tuesday to two" and a half years' im prisonment in the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga. Assuming that the sharp ers made an. equal division of the money. their.net earnings for the term of imprisonment will average $30,000 per . year apiece. As It does not re quire a crook of exceptional ability to sell anything from green goods to gold bricks to the New Yorkers, it would seem that the punishment would hardly fit the crime, and the mining stock sellers have been rather overpaid -lor , the chance which they took. Assurance of nothing worse .than J a two-and-a-half-year sentence for a $150,000 swindle would result in a wholesale Increase in the number of crooks of this class. - The women . of North Yakima have enlisted in. a war against unsightly billboards, unclean streets and the lit ter of vacant lots. There is a wide field for woman's work outside of the home and the bridge club. Men have protested against unsightly billboards, unclean streets and other delinquencies in municipal housekeeping, at Inter vals for years, without avail. A well organized crusade against these things conducted by 'women who are expert housekeepers and masterful house cleaners ought to- produce satisfactory results. - Mrs. Hannahl M. Mulllneaux, a min ister of the Congregational Church, has proffered a solution of the ques tion, "How to get more ministers," that if accepted by. the governing bodies of the various churches would certainly prove effective. It Is simple and to the point. "Admit women to the pulpit," he says, "and the scarcity of ministers will disappear." The sug gestion was met by the brethren of the Eighteenth" Triennial Convention of Congregational churches in Chicago a few days ago by profound silence. - ' . ' There ought to "be" a special course in every law school to teach the deli cate and . difficult art of drawing an Indictment. ' It is marvelous how few, seem-competent to do the job accept ably. One would .have thought it a comparatively ' easy matter to tell ex actly what misdeed the Oregon Trust officials had committed, but apparent ly It could not be done. The first -discovery the lawyers make when the case comes into court is that "the In dictments are entirely insufficient-.." An Oklahoma "woman who suspect ed her husband of infidelity put a pis tol in a' pocket and went out to hunt for him. She . found him joy-riding with another woman, and.. after giving him a brief season to repent or to re turn to her, she opened fire on him. The Oklahoma method might occa sionally be Introduced elsewhere with satisfactory results. If the conservative, Lords of Eng land have broken the constitution by trying to amend the budget,' they have followed ancient precedent. No oli garchy has ever hesitated to break any constitution or law which stood in the way of its privileges. Lawyers of that class, who live by defeating the law, in the interest of criminals and wrong-doers, always wish .the Supreme Court to "reopen cases. ' 1 - . ' " ' One promoter offers $125,000 for the Johnson-Jeffries fight. Virtue con tinues to be its own reward. It' is a comfort to reflect that if there is to be another November like it, it wjlf .not be this year. Boss Ruef" cannot see as well as he did; but San . Francisco can see a great. deal better. ' 1 OPPOSES "THE Bl'DCBT." Present English Ministry la Undermin ing; Constitutional Government. London Cable, Nov. ZS. ' . A. V. Dicey, the eminent professor of English ' constitutional law at Oxford, contributes a remarkable letter to this morning's London Times. Describing himself as an old-fashioned Liberal, Pro fessor Dicey says: "To many the firm conviction that the policy of the Ministry is lowering the tone of our public life and degrading our whole system of popular government af fords a weighty reason, for supporting the Lords in the battle of the budget. The Peers' are resisting, not the people, but the usurpation of a parliamentary majority. In such a conflict, the House of Lords has more than once scored an undoubted triumph." Professor Dicey holds that the Minis ters who profess to be .special .friends of the people are Imperiling the success of popular government in England. "The vice of the day." he says,- "is the cor ruption of the classes. This vice is not unknown to the -French Republic, is spreading throughout some of ous. most prosperous colonies, is recognized and deplored by every patriotic, citizen of America subject to the machine and- to the baneful authority of the boss. i ' "At this moment nearly all the English party leaders I cannot confine ray cen sure to only party alone impress upon the electors that the class which has ob tained predominant authority should use its powers so as to gain from the re sources of the state the maximum of material comfort for its members, but no Ministry has ever gone so far in this di rection as has the present Cabinet. "The very name of poor man's budget' betrays a policy of, corruption. Taxes are raised, not for 'the benefit of this class or that class, but for service of the nation. This is a doctrine to which the honesty and good sense of Englishmen generally has given hearty assent. "Thirty-six years have passed since Gladstone, followed at once 'by Disraeli, proffered to the middle classes the relief of an abolished income tax. The politi cal morality of that time was shocked. The electors of England declined to ac cept an. advantage which looked, at any rate, like a bribe. . . "Will the democracy of 1909 exhibit as high a public spirit as the middle classes of 1S74? One thing is certain: the cor rupted democracy will certainly not ful fill the hopes of those old-fashioned Lib erals who, like myself, have believed in the benefits to be derived from, popular government." ' ARRAY OF OLD-GUARD PAPERS... Pennsylvania Leads All States In Pub lications More Than 100 Years Old. ' Atchison Globe. Eighty-two newspapers constitute the Century Club of American Newspapers this year, that number having survived & century or move of publicatioa. . All but on of these are situated in states east of the Mississippi River, the St. Louis Republic, which attained the-' cen tury mark last year, being -the single exception. It is a curious fact that the very oldest of these publications is to day one of the most noted and pros perous publications of the world, the Saturday Evening Post, of Philadelphia. This paper traces its existence back in an unbroken line to Benjamin ' Frank lin's Weekly, Gazette, established in Phil adelphia in 1728. The name was changed to the Saturday Evening Post early in the last century. Philadelphia is also the home of the oldest daily newspaper in the country, the Philadelphia North American, which, like the Post, had its beginning with Kranklin in 1728. It branched out and became a daily, how ever, in 1771, or four years before the be gining of the Revolution. Pennsylvania leads all' other states in the -number of publications more than a century old, having 19 in ,that class, while New York is second with 15. Ohio has nine publications more than a century old: Massachusetts, 7: New Hampshire, 6; Connecticut, Virginia and New Jersey; 4 each; Maryland and Vermont, 3 each; Maine, 2, and Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Rhode Island, South -.Carolina, Tennessee and Missourio, 1 each. Of the New York City dailies, three the Commercial, Globe and Evening Post are in the century-old class, the latter, established in 1795, being the oldest and the only one dating back to the eighteenth ' entury. The first newspaper, established in. the United States was the Boston Postboy, in 1690, followed by the Boston Publick Occur rences, In 1699. Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, boasts the first newspaper, the Frankfort Jour nal, established in 1615. Antwerp,. Bel gUim, had a newspaper the following year, and the first English newspaper was the London Weekly JCews, estab lished in 1622. These are the dates of the origin of newspapers - in the western world, although Chinese authorities claim the Tsing-pao, ori Peking News) has been published continuously for 1400 years. "Sure Cure" for Cold In the Read. Leslie's Weekly. ", A Paris physician. P. L. Romme. has recently announced a new -cure for a cold in the head. This bothersome old opponent of, peace and sleep has met its Waterloo. In reality. Dr. Romme's cure is said to have been discovered 150 years ago by an English doctor named Williams, well known at the close of the 18th century. The remedy Is simplicity itself. All' one has to do is to abstain from all liquids during a period of 24 o 48 hours, starting from the moment the sufrerer feels , the first irritating ' symp toms of a "cold In the head." Bread, fish, vegetables, "white" meat and pud ding may be eaten,, but beverages should be taken In very small quantities a spoonful of tea, coffee or milk in the morning, and a small glass of water be fore going to bed-Kr, if possible, not taken at all. It is not necessary to re main at home. The dry cure, e in fact, is more rapid and complete it the sufferer breathes In the open air.. Dr. -Steinberg, a Viennese authority, has modernized it by forbidding soup, and even the small quantity of tea. or milk of Dr. Williams' system. But he allows a small glass of wine and water during the day. May Be a Lending Issue. New York Commercial. Congress will unquestionably be called upon to amend the Sherman law, the "anti-trust'" act of 1890, as a direct conse quence of this actfon by the Missouri Circuit Court of Appeals: the issue, in deed, may easily become the leading one of the coming ."long . session," beside which "currency reform," conservation of natural resources, waterways Improve ment, ship subsidies and tariff tinkering would shrink Into comparative lnsignirfT cance. There are men and Interests of great commercial and political influence that want to see the, law modified, broad ened, made much more specific in its definitions and its inhibitions, and there are others who demand that it shail.be made even more drastic than it how is; but both Congressional and popular-sentiment are In general much more liberal on the subject than it was two, four or six years ago; and tills holds out a hope that the law will be liberalized, if amend ed at all. , The Cost of Living;. ' McTjand-hurgh Wilson in the New York Sun When from the Garden Paradise Our father Adam fell He didn't bring down everything And pity 'tis to tell One things continues always up , The c. O. I' Though Newton's law of gravity . The apple's course could spell. . , He never figured out a scheme Which could explain as well '' Just why we always see go up The C. O. L. -. We know not what the next world holds When Hounds this mortal knell; ' One thing we feel a certainty Wherever we may dwell. Though -we go down, that won't affect '," The C. O. U . . ... more: apples are: eatev xow Jealona of Oregea Orchard Soeeeues, Eastern Growers Enter Business, New York Times. ' ( . Lovers of apples must be prepared to pay. good prices for their favorite fruit this Winter. Already the small house holder is paying IS cents a quart for ordi nal cooking apples, such as Greenings and Baldwins.- Purchased in these small measures, the barrel which the grocer buy 8 for $4 and $5 from the commission dealers sejls to the consumer for1 $14.40. "There Is no reason why so' high a. price should be fixed on ordinary cooking apples," said -a large dealer yesterday. "The consumer -ought not to pay more than .10 .cents 'a Quart. But if the grocer canget 15 cents of course he will do it, and later -In the. season he may get 20 cents.". ' The apple crop of the present year is not only about 3,000,000. barrels below the IMS erop, but it Is also poorer in quality, the estimated 1909 crop being put at 22. 723.000 barrels. There, will be enough of the poorer sort to go around, but those big, luscious, highly colored varieties, such as the Spitzenburgs, Jonathans, Kings and Wlnesaps from the Hood River Valley, Oregon,, and other famous orchard centers of the Far West, will be scarcer this year and the prices for the largest and best are likely to advance with the approach of Thanksgiving and Christmas. In the fancy fruit stores fancy Kings and Spitzenburgs are selling at the rate of two for a quarter, while a still larger variety, known as the mountain apple, not so good to eat, but which makes a most effective table display, sells for 25 cents or more. Easterners are becoming acquainted with two . comparatively new varieties which are said to have made many con verts to the Apple Consumers' League, an unofficial organization composed of those who agree to eat at least two ap ples a day. These are the Delicious and the Winter Banana. In color they are a rich yellow, and the banana apple has also a ilush of pink. They come from Colorado and the apple districts of the far Northwest, and are scarce enough to sell readily for 10 cents apiece. "People are eating more apple's every year," said H. W. Collingwood, editor of the Rural New Yorker. Sosne of the finest apples in the world are raised in New York State, and there is a farm in the Champlain district which, from a run-down farm five years ago, has been developed into a 100-acre orchard of Greenings, and every barrel this year has been bought at fancy prices. - The Eastern farmer Is Just beginning to appreciate the value of his apple crop. "There is more mbney In It, If properly done, than almost anything else that the farmer can get from the soil," said. Ed ward M. Loomis. of 95 Barclay street. "About 15 y;ars ago the United States was producing 25,000,000 barrels of apples a year. They came chiefly from the East ern farmers. So little value was attached to the fruit that the orchards were neg leoted. If the farmer got $1 a barrel he thought he was doing well. The develop ment of the big Western orchards with their finely packed fruit in boxes, has revolutionized the apple trade and greatly extended the demand for this healthiest of all fruits. Appje orchards will be the salvation of hundreds of abandoned farms." AEROPLAKES LIKELY TO BE CHEAP Manufacturers Are Quoting Prices For Kext Year's Delivery. Kansas City Journal. Within the past few weeks - adver tisements have appeared. in several American magazines exploiting the ad vantages of a certain make ofaero plane and seeking public patronage for a large stock of these machines which are ready for prompt delivery. In one of these advertisements we read that "the operation of an aero plane, readily handled by the ama teur, is now" an accomplished fact." We are likewise reminded that 'in the number of aeroplanes already pur chased Europe is far in advance of America, and that the same was true of the automobile during the introduc tory period. The American manufac turers make a special inducement to those purchasing : aeroplanes for de livery after -January 1, next. Every aeroplane of this make "is demon strated in fllght'before delivery to the purchaser." ' From all this we may fairly conclude that the flying ma chine has emerged from the purely ex perimental stage into more or less stable practicability. Trade has been so brisk.that prices have been definitely fixed for several makes. In- the lists the Wrights, Vol sins and Levasseurs (Antlonettes) cost about $5000 each, but with a. tendency to become cheaper. Bleriots are being sold at $2400 and Sanfos-Dumonts at only $1500. All of the French factories report good business, and no one ex pects that prices of any of the makes will go higher. On the contrary, every maker expects to see prices fall ma terially. It will be sean, therefore, that aeroplanlng- is not destined to be an expensive sport. Of course the risks to machines are considerably greater than to automobiles. - When an aeroplane falls or crashes Into a fence it is usually demolished. But the ex perts say that the art of aviation is easily learned and that serious acci dents will be few In comparison with the casualties attributable to automo biles. ' ' On to the Job. Tit-Bits. The consul in London of a continen tal kingdom was Informed by his gov ernment that one of his countrywomen, supposed to be living in Great Britain, had been left $1,000,000 of money. Af ter' . ad vertlsing without result, he ap plied" to the police and a smart young detective was set to worlc. When 'a few weeks had gone by his chief asked him how he was going on. "I've found the lady, sir." "Good! Where is she?" "At my place. I got married to her yesterday." And He Never AVore a Xecktle. Springfield Republican. Robert L. McCormick, president of the largest bank in Tacoma, the big gest individual stockholder In a great lumber company in the state of Wash ington, and Republican National .Com, mitteeman, desires to succeed Senator Piles. Mr. McCormick, who is 62 years old. prides himself on being a self-made man who has never worn a necktie". , j is i Mr. Roosevelt's Possibilities. Providence Journal. A rumor that Mr. Roosevelt will be a candidate for the governorship of New York, suggests that perhaps he aspires through that channel to become Presi dent of the United States some day. WHEN 1AT1IEB FILKS HIS SAW. (In response to recent request for this poem It' . is sent to The Oregonian by Mrs. Scott tiwetlnnd. Vancouver, Wash.) When father starts- to file his saw. As oft he has to do, -There La a rueh for other spheres. Until he gets all through. iMy ma. she goea across the street, Altho' it's cold and raw; And sister takes her sewing out When father files his saw. The cat jumps off the kitchen mat Seta -up a dismal wail. And poon" 'he follows all the rest With flutterings- in. his paw; For naught can stand that awful oltch When father files his saw.s - When father files, his w It seems A''though my time was near; And when he ays "Young man, sit still," " Life holds me nothing dear. 1 wish he were a minister Or counsellor at law. Or something else, so he'd ne'er have To file- another saw. SOW THIS IS BREEZY. The Socialistic Ora-an on the Anarchism tie Colonel. - ' Portland Daily. News. It was on Sunday afternoon that "our glorious patriot, of frequently mentioned memory. Colonel Charles Erskine Scott Wood, before a crowd of the proletariat, brandished aloft two fat handa-and in clarion, guees'they ' were clarion, tones shouted: "I am an anarchist. I will, wade through blood to free those unhappy 'martyrs to a slavish capitalistic system who are bull penned in Spokane for daring to demand the -right of free speach." That was a part. of what Colonel Charles Erskine Scott Wood said. His rumpled hair bristled at the thought of monopoly, his wide bU93um heaved witli great heaves for the down-trodden, his large Jove-like eyes shot fiery darts of divine wrath; and the proletariat cried and 'cheered and basked in the refulgent glory of this Ajax who defied the lightning of mo nopoly. , . , That was on Sunday afternoon. And tills mornine. Tiiis morning a scant 4 hours latpr. Colonel Charles Erpktne Scott Wood ap" peared in the Circuit Court for the Port of Portland defending that august body of political 'capitalists in their attempt to wrest the dry dock from public -control and hand 't over to the coast dock trtist. the head of which Is W. H. Corbettllke- wise head of t WIllaiTiAttA Tivin Wortta and something of a competitor himself in the dock and ahlp business. What, did Charles Erskine Scott do that? He sure did. What, this apostle of hteianity, this fighter for labor, this giant who is above all trammels of contention and boldly names himself anarchist, would he defend what organized labor within the last week -has damned most ) heartily ? And again, we weep to remark that he did. Those who have followed the meander lngs of Charles Erskine Scott Wood will remember the brotherly love he bears for the Corbetts and the Ladds, whoso at torney he is, and the gas company, whose attorneyj he also is, and other high-toned gentlemen, and these men will not wonder that Charles Erskine Scott Wood wan dered lno court this morning and de fended a grabbing graft for the benefit of one of the big men who enabled him to make a livlnsr. But what does the proletariat think about It? How about those Sunday cheers? Who said hypocrite? ' Maybe you would like to know who constitutes this Port of Portland that Is so eager to hand over public property to private. Interest. Here Is the list: C. K. Swlgert, head of the Pacific Bridge Company. . - C. F. Adams, head of the gas company. J. C. Ainsworth. leading banker. W. D. Wheelwright, lumher magnate, and one of the higher-ups always on the Job . P. L. Willis, politician and capitalist, fortune secured by buying and eellins of tax titles. John Driscill, just plain politician. A. L. Pease, who generally, is not pres ent, and who doesn't count when he Is. That Is the crowd that wants the dry dock handed over to Corbett, and that is the crowd Charles Erskine Scott Wood is defending in "court. v "I am an anarchist." Oh no, ydu are not. Charlie, you are a four-flusher, and everybody knows it. , A Drink In Gothenburg. ' Chicago Daily News. From Gothenblrjr. - Sweden, a corre spondent writes: "The difficulties under which wine and spirit merchants labor uuwauays nciw may jung1-1' nuiii 1113 following incident: When I went to buy a bottle of whisky the other day I was told: 'We are not allowed to sell wine or spirits over the counter.' 'What in the world do you mean?' I asked. V0 It must be ordered in advance.' 'But I want the whisky at once!' "The assistant meditated and then said: 'If you go across the street and telephone to us from the cigar shop, we can supr ply you.' I telephoned, and five minutes later j. nan me wiiibrv. j. weiiL njr an-. other bottle the next day and found that the regulations had become more strin gent! Although I had ordered it by tele phone. I was not .allowed' to take it home myself! "I expostulated, and the wine merchant said: .'But if your son here with -you will accept sixpence for delivering -the bottle at your house, I could let you have the whisky at once." My son had no objec tion." ' Out of the Mouths of Babes. Chicago News. It bad been raining all day. and fin ally little T-rola. asked, "Mamma,' when God gets all the juice squeezed out of a cloud what does he do with It?" Small Elmer was playing with his mother's opera glasses. Happening- tQ look at he,r through the big end. he exclaimed, "Oh, mamma, you are so far away you look like a distant rel ative!" It was little Eva's first day at school, and upon her return home she was asked how she liked her teacher. "Oh, I like her, all right, replied Eva, "but I' don't think she knows so very much. She don't do anything but ask questions." ' ' Tommy, aged 5, had asked his mother for a second piece of pie at dinner. "When I was -your size," said his father, reprovingly, "ray mother allowed me to have only oae piece of pie." low, "aren't you glad you board with us now?" Passing of C D d. Chicago Evening Post. In the wrecking of the Puritan of the Graham & Morton line there was dis closed a bit of news which had been concealed from the public. The signal for "help" In the wireless codes Is no longer the famous C D Q. but S 5 S. This change, the wireless telegraph companies say, they were forced to make through the abuse of the C D Q signal by amateurs who practically appropriated it for thcil own . amuse ment. Laws governing- the use- of wireless telegraph are long overdue In view of the mischievous interference v witli commercial systems by amateurs. When a code signal upon which Uvea and property depend Is . exposed to abuse, the need for Goverhment inter ference becomes apparent. Melba's First Triumph. Melba's first public appearance was made at the age of 6, when she sang "Comin' Thro' the Rye" at a school con cert. She was eager to hear what her playfellows, and one in particular, thought of. her triumph. After many indirect attempts to introauce tne sud-. ject, Nellie at length found herself unable to wait .longer, and exclaimed excitedly: "But the concert, the con cert! I sang last night and was en cored." And she looked with Interest In the face of her friend, who answered witherlngly: )"Yes, Nellie Mitchell, and I could see your garters." - - v Give Them a Trial First. ' New Haven Palladium. - - Harvard professor says the ten com mandments need revision. . Let's give them a fair trial first. .- - Judge. iv. Maid of Athens, ere we part. Never mind about my heart. Give, oh give me back the ring And each fair, expensive thing That I sent you, and each note Which tn those dead days I wrote They are what the jury eays Indicate the damages!